Classic albums revisited

[Chobulous]

This was the soundtrack to my teens

[the_magic_rat]

"Surprise, Surprise" is a truly awful song and even more so when you consider what Bruce normally puts out. It's not the only poor song to make it onto an album of his and some others are rightly mentioned above, although it's a very rare event. It's also fair to say that I think Bruce tends to write with live performances in mind and an ear for how things can be done on stage because that really is his forte and I agree, certain songs I hadn't rated suddenly came alive when I heard them played live. "Magic" being one and "Spare Parts" being another. "I Wish I Were Blind" is absolutely amazing played live for the MTV recording for example. I also concur that "Wrecking Ball" is an excellent album, as is "Magic". I've seen him on stage a number of times now down the years and it's the equivalent of a trip to Lourdes for me, as I feel totally uplifted for months afterwards. IMO everyone should try it! (Even dougcollins! )

I've known you for years TG and never realised you were a big Springsteen fan. Rather than doing circuits of the boundary at Belvedere analysing our respective suspect batting techniques we could have been talking Bruce.

[tim_noone]

"Crime of the Century" Now happening......

[Hipper]

When I say I don't like Springsteen people correct me and say 'No, you just don't get it.'

I get it. I don't like it.

I once mentioned I didn't like somebody or other and I was told 'it's an acquired taste'.

[Hipper]

Dire Straits, the first album, came out in 1978. Like many I heard Sultans of Swing on the Charlie Gillett show on Radio London - he seemed to play it every week. What I liked was the neat songs and understated guitar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Ad_J_2l0w

Their next album was OK but after that I thought the songs either contained some catchy riff and banal lyrics or the lyrics were sentimental slop! That first album though.....

[RMutt]

I once mentioned I didn't like somebody or other and I was told 'it's an acquired taste'.

It's an odd thing music taste. I suppose some sort of nature/nurture thing going on. What has surprised me in the past is just how banal some choices have been by (perhaps, so called) intellectual heavy weights on Desert Island Discs.

[Hipper]

Produced by Daniel Lanois, I believe, as was its superb follow-up "Red Dirt Girl"

As someone posted further up the thread, Hampstead would have been all over this thread.

It was. Talented fellow. Here he is playing pedal steel guitar:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJn9TsXgRi8

[Hipper]

It's an odd thing music taste. I suppose some sort of nature/nurture thing going on. What has surprised me in the past is just how banal some choices have been by (perhaps, so called) intellectual heavy weights on Desert Island Discs.

Yes but some is surely sentimental - memories of girl friends, other times etc..

I like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arpidGq8SlA

It reminds of me of working in a toy factory aged 16 in the school summer holidays, fancying some of the older women that worked there! Perhaps the girl on the video is one of them.

[yTib]

tapestry by carole king and live at the regal by b.b. king.

[RMutt]

Yes but some is surely sentimental - memories of girl friends, other times etc..

I like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arpidGq8SlA

It reminds of me of working in a toy factory aged 16 in the school summer holidays, fancying some of the older women that worked there! Perhaps the girl on the video is one of them.

Yes, I appreciate the guests have to have an anecdote to go with the song and that might reduce their choices. I was watching your last video ages before I realised she was on a loop! I suspect you must be about the age that had the best musical experience in my opinion.

[claretonthecoast1882]

Been listening to Liverpool's finest band this afternoon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNy-IZq ... bT1M6magVU

[Hipper]

Yes, I appreciate the guests have to have an anecdote to go with the song and that might reduce their choices. I was watching your last video ages before I realised she was on a loop! I suspect you must be about the age that had the best musical experience in my opinion.

Born 1953. To have taken the best advantage of those late sixties/early seventies I should perhaps have been been born a few years earlier, or been a bit more mature! I was still into singles chart music until 1970 (aged 16/17) when two things happened: I heard Mockingbird by Barclay James Harvest on Alan 'Fluff' Freeman's Pick of the Pops radio show and Woodstock by Matthews Southern Comfort got in the singles charts - in fact number one. I'd also started work so could afford to buy a record player. Those two artists led my way into mainly folk/country type rock and to a lesser extent progressive stuff.

[Quicknick]

Been listening to Liverpool's finest band this afternoon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNy-IZq ... bT1M6magVU

I had a quick look at that. As a side note, the manager of The Farm was Kevin Sampson, now a crime writer of some repute. His second novel [not a crime one], ''Powder'', traced an imaginary band as they made it, then imploded, the powder obviously being cocaine. The cover of that book was very much like the cover of the above album.

[Quicknick]

Born 1953. To have taken the best advantage of those late sixties/early seventies I should perhaps have been been born a few years earlier, or been a bit more mature! I was still into singles chart music until 1970 (aged 16/17) when two things happened: I heard Mockingbird by Barclay James Harvest on Alan 'Fluff' Freeman's Pick of the Pops radio show and Woodstock by Matthews Southern Comfort got in the singles charts - in fact number one. I'd also started work so could afford to buy a record player. Those two artists led my way into mainly folk/country type rock and to a lesser extent progressive stuff.

''Child of the Universe'': a brilliant song on a brilliant album.

[Hipper]

Peter Frampton - Frampton Comes Alive 1976, and its single Show Me The Way:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIRqMTg1GVc

Not my cup of tea but the album sold billions.

Joe Walsh - The Smoker You Drink..... - 1973, Rocky Mountain Way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGHwBoT ... Hy&index=1

The single is a rock classic which probably sold the album. I bought a 45 rpm LP sized single which had a couple of forgettable tracks off the album.

There's a connection between these two songs - what is it?

And look what I found on my internet travels:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_St ... h_Redbeard

I wonder.....

[Steve1956]

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An absolute classic
Double album, and not a bum track on it,very difficult to achieve that.

[RMutt]

Peter Frampton - Frampton Comes Alive 1976, and its single Show Me The Way:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIRqMTg1GVc

Not my cup of tea but the album sold billions.

Joe Walsh - The Smoker You Drink..... - 1973, Rocky Mountain Way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGHwBoT ... Hy&index=1

The single is a rock classic which probably sold the album. I bought a 45 rpm LP sized single which had a couple of forgettable tracks off the album.

There's a connection between these two songs - what is it?

And look what I found on my internet travels:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_St ... h_Redbeard

I wonder.....

Easy, the word Way!

[the_magic_rat]

Peter Frampton - Frampton Comes Alive 1976, and its single Show Me The Way:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIRqMTg1GVc

Not my cup of tea but the album sold billions.

Joe Walsh - The Smoker You Drink..... - 1973, Rocky Mountain Way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGHwBoT ... Hy&index=1

The single is a rock classic which probably sold the album. I bought a 45 rpm LP sized single which had a couple of forgettable tracks off the album.

There's a connection between these two songs - what is it?

And look what I found on my internet travels:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_St ... h_Redbeard

I wonder.....

Hi Hipper,

Would it be that they use the "voice box" ( I'm not sure but I thinK the technical name was a vocoder) to feed the vocals through the guitar amp?
'

[the_magic_rat]

Peter Frampton - Frampton Comes Alive 1976, and its single Show Me The Way:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIRqMTg1GVc

Not my cup of tea but the album sold billions.

Joe Walsh - The Smoker You Drink..... - 1973, Rocky Mountain Way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGHwBoT ... Hy&index=1

The single is a rock classic which probably sold the album. I bought a 45 rpm LP sized single which had a couple of forgettable tracks off the album.

There's a connection between these two songs - what is it?

And look what I found on my internet travels:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_St ... h_Redbeard

I wonder.....

Hi Hipper,

Would it be that they use the "voice box" ( I'm not sure but I thinK the technical name was a vocoder) to feed the vocals through the guitar amp?
'

[Hipper]

Hi Hipper,

Would it be that they use the "voice box" ( I'm not sure but I thinK the technical name was a vocoder) to feed the vocals through the guitar amp?
'

Yes! Or Talk Box.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_box

Pete Drake and his talking pedal steel guitar:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R9an8AU3No

[Goalposts]

Hard to argue with many of the albums above, I sometimes find myself going back to albums that were considered great at the time but then the band maybe drifted, usually hearing a track on radio 6 or Tim burgess revisiting a classic album. So in that vein here are a few Ive revisited in the last few months.

Primal scream - screamadelica. Julian Cope - Jehovah Kill , Can - TAGO MAGO, mercury rev - deserter songs. Depeche mode - Violater , Rory Gallagher - deuce REM -murmur

[Steve1956]

Hard to argue with many of the albums above, I sometimes find myself going back to albums that were considered great at the time but then the band maybe drifted, usually hearing a track on radio 6 or Tim burgess revisiting a classic album. So in that vein here are a few Ive revisited in the last few months.

Primal scream - screamadelica. Julian Cope - Jehovah Kill , Can - TAGO MAGO, mercury rev - deserter songs. Depeche mode - Violater , Rory Gallagher - deuce REM -murmur

Nice to see REM get a mention....every album they made was a Classic.

[tim_noone]

Yes but some is surely sentimental - memories of girl friends, other times etc..

I like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arpidGq8SlA

It reminds of me of working in a toy factory aged 16 in the school summer holidays, fancying some of the older women that worked there! Perhaps the girl on the video is one of them.

I can relate to the Tommy Roe number to... but jessmaine for me by the casuals....

[dougcollins]

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[Dark Cloud]

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Not heard that one Doug. Who's it by??

[Steve1956]

Not heard that one Doug. Who's it by??

You must have heard of "Tony Scholes and the Moderaters" brilliant band

[Steve1956]

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A classic live album Frank Zappa & the Mothers of invention live at Fillmore east...Magnificent

[KateR]

Classic for me, just started listening as I work, memories CTA, Terry Kath was a lot better on that guitar than I remember watching, listening to this now


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oAoSZ2y1cw

[Steve1956]

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An absolute classic


And the albums title track.
https://youtu.be/dpl_8N6647M

[Ptangyangkipperbang]

Another three for me to add
Pick a Dub Keith Hudson
Tighten up Vol.2 Various
Grotesque(after the gramme) The Fall

[The Enclosure]

Cream - Wheels of Fire
Carole King - Tapestry
Cat Stevens - Tea with the Tillerman

[Chobulous]

Cat Stevens - Tea with the Tillerman

I thought Teaser and the Firecat was a better album

[The Enclosure]

I thought Teaser and the Firecat was a better album

Got that album and yes it is also good.

[dermotdermot]

Peter Hammill of Van Der graaf a prog rocker who influenced punk and post punk new wave. He influenced John Lydon, The Cure,Nick Cave,The Fall. Lydons vocal was influenced by Hammill.

What a load of rubbish.

[Steve1956]

Was having a rummage earlier today and came across this long forgotten classic album,is there a better track around than " July Morning "

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[Dazzler]

Not an album I''ve recently "revisited" as I still listen to it pretty regularly.

I was mad for one song when I first heard it and my dad was a bit of a fan of the small faces so he bought me the album Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake

The song was Lazy Sunday

It took me a few more years to appreciate other songs from the album such as Afterglow...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ4KOqY6HEY

[huw.Y.WattfromWare]

Was having a rummage earlier today and came across this long forgotten classic album,is there a better track around than " July Morning "

I’m a fan but don’t know that early album. Sweet Freedom and Fallen Angel amongst my favourites.

[Steve1956]

I’m a fan but don’t know that early album. Sweet Freedom and Fallen Angel amongst my favourites.

The only UH album I ever bought but it was well worth it.

[KateR]

I once mentioned I didn't like somebody or other and I was told 'it's an acquired taste'.

When I started college (a very long time ago) 4 of us shared a house for 2 years, of the 4 only 2 of us had any music beyond the radio, myself and one other, who's record collection consisted of 90+% Bob Dylan, while mine was mainly a collection of various soul artists with a variety of dance/ballards etc.

I really did not like Bob Dylan at all, the songs and especially the voice. However, at the end of 2 years when we went our separate ways I did miss listening/hearing him, consequently went out and bought a "best of". Since then I have added more and he is right up there in artists I like to listen to, I'm not sure if that could be an acquired taste, or some form of subliminal brainwashing, but definitely a 180 degree change of mind.

[Paul Waine]

Past couple of days I've bought and set up Audio-Technica ATLP120XUSB turntable. More than 15 years since I last had something to play my old vinyl on.

Not got into picking out my "classics" just yet. Many of these have also been "bought again" over the years in CD format - but some of the stuff I've got has never made it to be re-published in CD format.

This afternoon I've been listening to Brinsley Schwarz "Please Don't Ever Change" and John James "Morning Brings the Light." Two very different albums - and not going to make my "classics" list.

I'm pretty sure my Ivor Cuttler "Dandruff" has gone to the charity shop. - "When I was little I had a box" and other "poems." Oddly enough, a guest on Desert Island Discs, just a week or so back, picked out an Ivor Cuttler track "Life in a Scottish Sitting Room." Not that I will ever be on DID, but if I was Ivor Cuttler wouldn't be one of my 8 discs - nor if I had 80 to pick, or 800...

Still, I'll be back with my 3 vinyl classics sometime later.

[Paul Waine]

If we're taking strictly vinyl I've recently revisited 'In the Land of Grey and Pink'-Caravan and 'The Court of the Crimson King'- King Crimson in recent days.

Plenty of reference to The Boss. I wonder what fans think of his new album 'Letter to You? For me he's had 3 great albums of the 21st Century, The Rising, Magic, but his latest I think is his best this century. Any Springsteen fans should give it a listen, it's a grower and not a bad track on it.

Caravan have never been off my play list since I was introduced to them in 1973. "For Girls that Grow Plump in the Night" was their "top 20" album late that year. Reference my post above, that'd be among my 8 "desert island" picks.

[Dyched]

When I started college (a very long time ago) 4 of us shared a house for 2 years, of the 4 only 2 of us had any music beyond the radio, myself and one other, who's record collection consisted of 90+% Bob Dylan, while mine was mainly a collection of various soul artists with a variety of dance/ballards etc.

I really did not like Bob Dylan at all, the songs and especially the voice. However, at the end of 2 years when we went our separate ways I did miss listening/hearing him, consequently went out and bought a "best of". Since then I have added more and he is right up there in artists I like to listen to, I'm not sure if that could be an acquired taste, or some form of subliminal brainwashing, but definitely a 180 degree change of mind.

First thing I did 10 years ago (early 20’s) when I started buying vinyl is getting all of Dylans 60’s records. His songs, recordings, voice always sounded a bit fragile, honest and to the point. They’re like a nosey in his diary in a kind of way.

[Chobulous]

The only UH album I ever bought but it was well worth it.

I never had a Uriah Heep album, but I did buy “The Wizard” when it came out in 72. That got it’s fair share of play time.

[Steve1956]

Past couple of days I've bought and set up Audio-Technica ATLP120XUSB turntable. More than 15 years since I last had something to play my old vinyl on.

Not got into picking out my "classics" just yet. Many of these have also been "bought again" over the years in CD format - but some of the stuff I've got has never made it to be re-published in CD format.

This afternoon I've been listening to Brinsley Schwarz "Please Don't Ever Change" and John James "Morning Brings the Light." Two very different albums - and not going to make my "classics" list.

I'm pretty sure my Ivor Cuttler "Dandruff" has gone to the charity shop. - "When I was little I had a box" and other "poems." Oddly enough, a guest on Desert Island Discs, just a week or so back, picked out an Ivor Cuttler track "Life in a Scottish Sitting Room." Not that I will ever be on DID, but if I was Ivor Cuttler wouldn't be one of my 8 discs - nor if I had 80 to pick, or 800...

Still, I'll be back with my 3 vinyl classics sometime later.

I will be very intrested in the three you choose going of what you have already mentioned

[Paul Waine]

I will be very intrested in the three you choose going of what you have already mentioned

Hmm, does my "like" help me not to feel any pressure if I fail to match your expectations?

[Steve1956]

I will let you know Paul

[KateR]

what I've just started listening to, always an acquired taste I thought but very talented and I am foot tapping as I work

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn9IyFL ... b3a4ooAehI

[Steve1956]

what I've just started listening to, always an acquired taste I thought but very talented and I am foot tapping as I work

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn9IyFL ... b3a4ooAehI

Get "Aqualung" on your turntable

[Steve1956]

what I've just started listening to, always an acquired taste I thought but very talented and I am foot tapping as I work

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn9IyFL ... b3a4ooAehI

The most soothing 1 minute 24 seconds music I've ever listened to Kate absolutely beautiful

https://youtu.be/2DBa07sTqJA

[Dyched]

Some old french rock ‘n’ roll.

https://youtu.be/kQ9GMnZM_f4