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Author: | Aliramone [ Mon Feb 13, 2023 7:18 pm ] |
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Zappa. Roxy and Elsewhere. I may well have said this before but...where to start with Zappa? This was the first album of his I ever heard. 1974. Of course he's so diverse you may love this and hate his other stuff or vice versa but WTF.... The first track (and possibly the second) is about Nixon so I don't get the gorilla bit. Bit of a slow burn this track. This actually isn't the one on the original album. "Interesting nuanced differences" as FZ himself might have said.... For the geeks among you, like me, notice also on 'More Trouble" the drum fill on the 'chorus' appears years later on a Genesis track 'Afterglow' - since it is the same drummer, Chester Thompson who just 'lifted' it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aa1JR-T ... 9qK6A6jUqy |
Author: | Gers [ Tue Feb 14, 2023 6:35 am ] |
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Led Zep III - Led Zeppelin As with AC/DC, why on earth do I like them! The Current Mrs Gers put me on to this. We were up the city years ago, most probably in Our Price or Virgin, me looking at the latest Bad Seeds release. “You should listen to this” she opined, and I did. Everyone knows what Led Zep are about, so there’s little point in me telling you how brilliant they are. The first side is what you’d expect from them. The opening track, Immigrant Song, could be best described as them in microcosm. It’s everything you’d expect, but the second side of this album is the side of them I really like. You could hardly say it’s an album of acoustic ballads, but it’s as close as they get. Best track, That’s The Way https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Kif1gDxG3o |
Author: | SG19 Cowshed Das Boot [ Tue Feb 14, 2023 12:10 pm ] |
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dons50 wrote: Gers wrote: London Calling - The Clash Yep, brilliant album.Man alive… What a record. I was a Clash obsessive when I was young, back in 78/79. Even dressed like them, had a trilby and a trench coat. Bet I looked like a right twat. It’s a strange thought however that no matter how many bands I’ve been in, I’ve never been in a Clash ripoff. I guess you can’t copy genius. Which is what this is. Pick a genre and I’ll bet it’s represented on London Calling. Reggae, check. Rock n roll, check. Jazz, check. Ska, check. They fully accepted their influences, and gave them free rein. They also never looked better as a collective as they did during this period of their existence, and it contains my favourite Clash song… Best track, Rudie Can’t Fail https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm_F3uuHMpE So is Give Em Enough Rope. |
Author: | SG19 Cowshed Das Boot [ Tue Feb 14, 2023 12:11 pm ] |
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It's Alive by Ramones (1979) For me, simply the best live album. Ever. "Hey, we're the Ramones, this one's called Rockaway Beach... One, two, three, four..." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRyjPf3t9l0 |
Author: | Gers [ Wed Feb 15, 2023 6:33 am ] |
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Ill Communication - Beastie Boys This is probably going to be my last regular post on this thread. Coming to the end of albums that I listen to regularly. Therefore… This is their best work by some considerable distance. As usual it’s packed with the most exquisitely picked samples, but there’s more live instruments, which are equally exquisite. They were clever, clever guys, and the interplay between the three of them was never more finely honed as it was on this. I’ve always loved the way they swap vocals between the three of them in one line, Bea… Stie… Boys. They were brilliant at it. Listen to Sure Shot if any further evidence is required of their genius. Sabotage is on this, so it’s going to be difficult to get past that, but the aforementioned Sure Shot and Root Down come pretty close. It’s just a brilliant record, and is one I’ve been listening to regularly since it was released, which to my horror I’ve just discovered was 29 years ago. Fuck I’m old. Best track, Sabotage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WHFTRArC44 |
Author: | Oldfarmdons [ Wed Feb 15, 2023 5:48 pm ] |
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Gers wrote: Led Zep III - Led Zeppelin As with AC/DC, why on earth do I like them! The Current Mrs Gers put me on to this. We were up the city years ago, most probably in Our Price or Virgin, me looking at the latest Bad Seeds release. “You should listen to this” she opined, and I did. Everyone knows what Led Zep are about, so there’s little point in me telling you how brilliant they are. The first side is what you’d expect from them. The opening track, Immigrant Song, could be best described as them in microcosm. It’s everything you’d expect, but the second side of this album is the side of them I really like. You could hardly say it’s an album of acoustic ballads, but it’s as close as they get. Best track, That’s The Way https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Kif1gDxG3o I'd echo that Gers Worth adding a note to put in a word for the Led Zeppelin - BBC sessions album, which is well worth a listen - https://hmv.com/store/music/cd/the-complete-bbc-sessions My copy is about twenty years old and has two discs, where interestingly the version currently in HMV (per the link above) was a third The first comprises recordings made during spring and summer 1969, forward almost a couple of years and the second disc is a recording made in April 1971 as part of John Peel's Rock Hour - with a few words from the man himself before the disk starts with The Immigrant Song - and has a version of That's the Way amongst other goodies Compared with the more involved sounds laid down in albums like Houses of the Holy this feels stripped back, pure almost, the sort of rock and roll you think of being played in smoky pubs or tiny venues - certainly the 1969 recordings I haven't listened to it for a good while - but certainly will over the next few days! |
Author: | Aliramone [ Wed Feb 15, 2023 6:49 pm ] |
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SG19 Cowshed Das Boot wrote: It's Alive by Ramones (1979) For me, simply the best live album. Ever. "Hey, we're the Ramones, this one's called Rockaway Beach... One, two, three, four..." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRyjPf3t9l0 It IS rather jolly! 'Loco Live' isn't actually all that 'live' (lots of shenanigans mixing it out of all recognition as to what the gig sounded like I have read/researched) 'We're Outa Here' - suspicions of same (but still good). CJ subsequently said that although it was 'awesome to play alongside Lemmy' or some such - and who could say otherwise? - he felt the whole gig should not have featured so many 'special guests'. (Dee Dee excepted I would imagine. "It's me, this is the way I am" when he forgets the vocals to 'Love Kills') Greatest Hits Live - rather overproduced? Decent but....a bit too polished. Yeah, I'd def agree with you. All the sophisticated devices for changing stuff weren't really around when IA came out (obvs overdubs were but really what would be the point of it in this instance?) but I think it's a fair record of the gig. And a bl**dy good one. All the early stuff which Johnny rated so highly in his autobiography is there. I'll be honest. I'd like to say 'I was there!!' But I wasn't. (I was when they played The Bowl though!!) (I also have a vinyl copy of Tommy's last gig; May 4th '78 -or I think I have as it's in a sealed wrapper!! Wonder what that's worth...?) |
Author: | Gers [ Fri Feb 17, 2023 6:54 am ] |
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Aliramone wrote: SG19 Cowshed Das Boot wrote: It's Alive by Ramones (1979) For me, simply the best live album. Ever. "Hey, we're the Ramones, this one's called Rockaway Beach... One, two, three, four..." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRyjPf3t9l0 It IS rather jolly! 'Loco Live' isn't actually all that 'live' (lots of shenanigans mixing it out of all recognition as to what the gig sounded like I have read/researched) 'We're Outa Here' - suspicions of same (but still good). CJ subsequently said that although it was 'awesome to play alongside Lemmy' or some such - and who could say otherwise? - he felt the whole gig should not have featured so many 'special guests'. (Dee Dee excepted I would imagine. "It's me, this is the way I am" when he forgets the vocals to 'Love Kills') Greatest Hits Live - rather overproduced? Decent but....a bit too polished. Yeah, I'd def agree with you. All the sophisticated devices for changing stuff weren't really around when IA came out (obvs overdubs were but really what would be the point of it in this instance?) but I think it's a fair record of the gig. And a bl**dy good one. All the early stuff which Johnny rated so highly in his autobiography is there. I'll be honest. I'd like to say 'I was there!!' But I wasn't. (I was when they played The Bowl though!!) (I also have a vinyl copy of Tommy's last gig; May 4th '78 -or I think I have as it's in a sealed wrapper!! Wonder what that's worth...?) My all time favourite live album has to be The Velvet’s 1969: The Velvet Underground Live. It features radical reworking of their most popular tracks, and equally radical versions of some that were still to be recorded for the Loaded album. I’m Waiting For The Man for example is almost country rock, and the What Goes On stretches to almost 9 mins’, and is by far and away the better version. It’s also quite revealing hearing Lou interacting with the audience, something he never did when I saw him live. The playing is quite extraordinary. They’d been on the road for months when this was recorded (straight from the desk on a four track recorder) and were at the top of their game. It’s often said that they never played a song the same way twice, and this album is testament to that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kym3xgrEISA |
Author: | keyser soze [ Fri Feb 17, 2023 9:55 am ] |
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Gers wrote: What Goes On stretches to almost 9 mins’, and is by far and away the better version. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kym3xgrEISA Yep, that's pretty fuckin' awesome. |
Author: | keyser soze [ Fri Feb 17, 2023 10:39 am ] |
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James Brown - Live at the Apollo No, not the latest woke comedy act on the venerable TV show, but a seminal work of art capturing James Brown (and the uncredited Famous Flames) at a point in time, from "Please, Please, Please" to "Night Train", two or three years before "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag" and "I Got You (I Feel Good)". This was recorded in one night in late 1962 (paid for by JB himself I seem to recall) in the Apollo Theatre in Harlem. It's one of several high watermarks in a quite exceptional career. As I was growing up, there was a battered copy in the house, obviously bought by an older sibling (though I never knew, or asked, which one). It's cover, an Impressionist watercolour of the front on the theatre, with the awning declaring "Presents - In Person! The James Brown Show" still takes me back to that small council house, even now. The record was also a little battered but the sound captured on in was wild and that includes the audience! The women were going crazy! James and co. run through a medley of hits, following the standards of the Chitlin' Circuit (a string of entertainment venues featuring comedy and music by, and for, African Americans). And that meant keep it short, keep it moving, keep 'em engaged and give 'em a show they won't forget. Oh boy, does this show deliver! God, I wish I could have been there. Best track? Well, individual tracks isn't the point. The record is only around 30 minutes long and is basically one long medley. And that's perfect. So why not just listen to the whole damn thing? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3hnm4Shybg&list=OLAK5uy_ncWqay8kj4z85sSpuMzIQSLCgOjkpoeEc Updated to add: While you're at it, watch this. James Brown & The Famous Flames, live on the T.A.M.I show 1964. Fuck me! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-E0X2JxCs4 |
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