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It's a brave man who has a comb over when sitting in front of the trumpets.

Did Rufus Wainwright record his Judy Garland tribute in Soweto?

It was in English as I recall...

We're not in Afrikaansas any more, Toto.

I recently bought Stockhausen's
Elektronische Musik mit Tonszenen vom Freitag Aus LICHT, but only liked one track . I can't believe I paid good money for this.

Monday

Back In The USSR - Beatles - What else is on the White Album?

Tuesday

I Need To Know - Tom Petty - Talk on the street says you might go solo...

Wednesday

Wreck Of The Hesperus - Procol Harum - Kitchen sink orchestration

Thursday

Kentucky Woman - Deep Purple - Reached the top 20 in Oz - long may it stay there.

# 5 Revolution 9?

Glen, you can't be serious about the White Album?

(:-o

DC

#5

Happiness is a Warm Rocky Raccoon

>8-D

The Duchess of Kirkcaldy...

Why Don't we do it in Dear Prudence.

#7 Steady DC - The White Album divides opinion, but this is the first time I've heard it suggested there is only one good track - definitely on the wind up.

For me, it's their best, including Revolution 9, which I've actually grown fond of.

On my old Vinyl it began with the McCartney acoustic 'can you take me back where I came from?' but on the CD tracks, that's tagged onto the end of Cry Baby Cry.

Most Odd.

My usual list will follow, but Tuesday's theme made me instantly think of:
"Something to talk about" by Bonnie Raitt; and
"I heard it through the grapevine" - Marvin Gaye

Joe
Linlithgow

#4

That's funny, the Easybeats' cover Freitag auf Meiner Meinung as a huge hit.

The White Album is a sprawling piece of self indulgence with only brief flashes of the brilliance of Revolver, where there is continual invention and hardly a wasted note. They did not redeem themselves until Abbey Road and by then it was too late.

#14

I have to agree with Glen on this one (generally). Revolver is sheer genius - the White Album is too long and has too much cack on it that wouldn't have seen the light of day at the time had it been any other band. I DO like Revolution 9 though... :-)

#11

Don't worry, I've been on this blog too long to be taken in. You have to read between the lines at times Henri.

Glenn baited us, I re-baited back. Some are taken in. Others join on the "band"wagon. Glenn has since.....

Ach, what's the point...???




Mother Nature's Son is one of my all time favourites.

BTW, #9, the spelling of the Lang Toun on the original lyrics sheet (which I have in pristine condition) is different from the sign at the 30mph limit.

DC

monday one trick pony's

Album.....Fallen / Evanescence
Track.....My Immortal

I bought this album as soon as I heard My Immortal. It was stunningly beautiful and haunting.

The rest of the album wasn't.

How they sneaked this in amongst all the goth rock on there......

Tuesday tittle tattle

Stupefaction / Graham Parker & the Rumour
Talk of the Town / Jack Johnson
Whispering Grass / Windsor Davies & Don Estelle
Pillow Talk/ Sylvia
Informer / Snow

If you pick whispering Grass, play it for all the bloggers
(copyright DC)

Wednesday Big Band

Bohemian Rhapsody / Ford Kiernan
The Best is yet to come / Diana Krall and Tony Bennett

Thu
Em as a young teenager I was a bit of a glam rocker even though I was the last in the class to be allowed to get platforms. What were they all about. Absolutely useless when it came to the playtime footie. Anyway a few years later and there we were in the QM in glasgow yooni as a faded glamrock star trying to make a comeback played the Christmas all nighter. And when he sang 'Do you wanna touch me' there was a highly inebriated paolopablo up the front with his hands out shouting 'Yeah'.

Ugh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hello, hope all are well.

Monday:

Toni Childs - Dont Walk Away (from Union)

Beloui Some - Imagination (from Belouis Some)

Edie Brickell & New Bohenmians - What I Am (from Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars)

Tuesday:

Dave Edmunds - Girls Talk

Radiohead - Stop Whispering

Wed:

Southside Johnny with Tom Waits and La Bambas Big Band - Walk Away

Buster Poindexter - Hot, Hot, Hot

The theme for Thursday is quite difficult as some of the acts you liked, were then embarrassed about, it is a funny thing but you start being sympathetic for again! There are also lots that you want to desperately hang on to as being ok! I have concluded that my muiscal taste has always been excellent (!!!!) and can only offer the following:


Showaddywaddy - Sweet Sweet Music (but with a bit of distance Trocadero was not a bad album.....maybe)

21 Actually Cut The Crap is the most dissapointing album of all time. Preceded by a great tour and an outstanding single.

The Clash - This Is England

Hey Norrie, welcome back!

Hope all is well

DC

I'm really struggling with Thursday as a theme too... I am sure I can remember something if I try harder!

MONDAY

After the sheer brilliance of 'Goodbye Yellow Brick Road' and 'Captain Fantastic & The Brown Dirt Cowboy', 'Rock of the Westies' was a huge disappointment. Only one track stands out for me.

'Dan Dare (Pilot of the Future)' - Elton John

TUESDAY

Massive support for joe-k-brown's suggestion;

'Something To Talk About' - Bonnie Raitt ~ (see #12)

'Gossip' - Michael Marra

WEDNESDAY

Let's hear it for the Welsh!

'Baby, It's Cold Outside' - Tom Jones & Cerys Matthews

For oor Glen...

>8-D

#28

The biggest mismatch since Ronnie Wood and Ekaterina Ivanova

THURSDAY

I recall being in a pub when Boy George and Culture Club appeared on Top of the Pops for the very first time.

Many male drinkers commented on what they would like to do to and/or with the lead singer.

Someone pointed out that the lead singer was, in fact, a man.

No-one believed him.









Whit a Riddy!

And that was your last ever night in the Bricklayer's Arms

After extensive research, I've come up with a song that applies to all the excellent themes this week.

The song is Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps by Splodgenessabounds.

Monday

There was only one song of note on their album, Splodgenessabounds, and that was Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps Please.

Tuesday

The song was clearly recorded in a pub and gossip is an important part of pub culture.

Wednesday

Wednesday's theme is essentially asking for suggestions from jazz singers and jazz bands. Jazz is often improvisational and it's clear that Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps Please is highly improvisational and is actually jazz crooning and not punk.

Thursday

I'm DEEPLY embarrassed that I liked this song when I was a teenager.

#32

Personally I liked Michael Booth's Talking Bum, especially as there was a guy at school by that name...

Heard the first half of the show last night and found it very imaginative. Until I get a chance to listen again the provision of a playlist would give me an idea if the second half was as creative as the first :-)


Dereliction of duty Miss B. What was it? Heavy Date? Late Night Shopping?
Rushing away to pick up the kids from theme school?

#33, you knew Talking Bum?

Monday

Hate to Say I Told You So - The Hives. A majestic single from a pretty forgettable album, Veni Vidi Vicious.

BTW, I didnt know Paul Gambacinni played the trombone.
He is a good chum of DLT I believe....

#14/15

Well, with respect, that's an easier view to be drawn to, viewed from 2009, with a complete cannon of work to reveiw - and a finite history.

But I can't remember anyone having anything other than total respect for it when it was released in 1968 - except perhaps, the 'original' fans of the fab four, like my sister, who saw them in the Odeon but never bought anything after Help! - but they didn't care for 'Revolver' either.

It's possible to see some of it as self-indulgent now, but at the time, the White album was pretty groundbreaking in that, armed with their own label (another innovation) they showed that the 'formula/limitation' of both studio and vinyl needn't be adhered to. Much more than Sgt Pepper, I think,(which sounds dated by comparison), The White Album invented 'adult pop' or 'rock' - a term I never encountered before 1968.

Even if you think that by comparison with 'Revolver' it not as tight, then, I think that's it's point - the effortless range of musical style and contrasting content is a showcase for Albert Goldman's observation that by the time the Beatles returned from Hamburg they were a 'human jukebox'. The 'indulgence' allowed the four parts of the one personality to begin to become four persoanlities and I think without that breathing space, we'd have missed out on much that's valuable, I think.

To be fair 'Blonde on Blonde' did it first (I Think) but - in removing the constraint of studio time and vinyl's limited capacity, admittedly occasionally a bit indulgently, the White Album is probably the pivot upon what happened between 68- 77 sits - a lot of what followed, followed form here.You can argue about whether that's a good thing or not, but much that we enjoyed at the time (and possibly feel embarrassed about now) would equally not have seen the light of day but for the White Album - but I'm glad that it did.

A pre White Album comprised of about 12/13 tracks: One of these was sung by Ringo. One was sung (occasionally composed) by George (Harrisongs).

I don't know if this has been done before - I've never tried it - but here's a small challenge for this blog - there are 30 tracks on The White Album: accepting the constrints above - what would your White Album include - and in what order?

I've had a quick go, and found it very difficult to get down to 13 tracks - presently I'm stuck at 22 - which it kinda suggests it's an exceptionally brilliant album - but when I pair it down to 13 - I shall publish and be damned.


regardez vous

Henri

PS welcome back Norrie.

#33. I think I knew that guy as well. His brother was called 'Bigg' and his sister was called, for some reason, 'Biggah.' I think he had an uncle, a professional footballer; opposing fans called him 'Spotty.' And his aunt's name was something like 'Total.'

#14
ok glen reel them in now

#38

Norrie,

From where would I find the time? I'm not even sure that I understand the challenge.

P.S. Why are you talking to yourself? I thought that was DC's area of expertise.

>8-D

#41 Cheeky git....... Mind you, given the requests I've put in to the show over the past three weeks, you'd think I would have got a mention at least :-(

Henri (forI have it on good account that he is not Norrie) is quite right about the merits of the White Album. This has always been one of my favourites. Indeed, if I had to take one album only to my desert island, I would find it difficult to choose between the White Album and Floyd's The Wall.

But hey, I'm talking to myself again...





The Invisible Man

#38 Nothing much to do (other than enjoying the White Album as I type...) so here we go (in order):

Mother Natures Son
Helter Skelter
I'm so tired / Blackbird / Piggies (have to be kept together)
While my guitar gently weeps
Birthday
Everybody's got something to hide except me and my monkey
Back in the USSR
Yer Blues
Rocky Racoon
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
Revolution 1
Long Long Long

DC

Well, here we go:

Side 1

1 - Back In the USSR
2 - Dear Prudence
3 - Happiness Is A Warm Gun
4 - Helter Skelter
5 - Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkee
6 - Yer Blues

Side 2

7 - I'm So Tired
8 - Blackbird
9 - Piggies
10- I Will
11 -Sexy Sadie
12 -Cry Baby Cry
13 -Good Night

I'm crushed at some of the things I've had to leave out: to my astonishment, Martha, which I love: - because I had to get Ringo in.

DC: you've missed Ringo's number, and you've got 14.

See -it is a great album, if it's difficult for me to cut it to 13, it would be hell if you wrote the songs left out.

regardez vous

Henri

regardez vous

Henri

DC you've got 14

Henri, in modern times, they would have run my three tracks together and called it " Perils of farm life" or something like that. I make it 12.

How could you miss "Mother Natures Son"? Although not my favourite Beatles track, it's certainly in my top 20 all artists all time best!

Or indeed "While my guitar..."???

DC

Busy blog this week.........

One-track CDs

There's a story in your voice - from Delivery man by Elvis Costello
If you see her, say hello - from Blood on the Tracks by Dylan
End of the Road - from Cooleyhighharmony by Boyz11Men

Gossip, rumour and tittle tattle

First can I second Norrie's great suggestions (welcome back), and thank SG for endorsing Bonnie Raitt

Also:
Second hand news - Fleetood Mac (from Rumours!)
A good heart- Feargal Sharkey (first line fits)
Desperado - Eagles (freedom.....that' just some people talkin')

Big band

You don't have to say you love me - Dusty Springfield
Fly me to the moon - Sinatra
I just don't know what to do - Dionne Warwick
Candyman - Christina Aguilera
Mack the knife - Louis Armstrong
Manhattan - Ella Fitzgerald
Someone to watch over me - Linda Ronstadt & Nelson Riddle
Your heart is as black as night - Melody Gardot

Thursday - to follow

Have a good weekend all

Joe
Linlithgow

Side 1
1. Back in the U.S.S.R.
2. Dear Prudence
3. Martha My Dear
4. Happiness Is a Warm Gun
5. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
6. Revolution (single version)

Side 2
1. Birthday
2. Sexy Sadie
3. I'm So Tired
4. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
5. Blackbird
6. Hey Jude

#14 Glen Miller is right.

1. Savoy Truffle

2. I'm So Tired

3. While My Guitar Gently Weeps

4. Happiness Is A Warm Gun

5. Piggies

6. Back In The USSR

7. Long Long Long

#47 I'll just step over here and avoid this cunning trap.

There are not enough good songs on this double album to fill the flip side of a single album.

This is great fun....what next how to make Sandinista a good double, great single lp?

#45 - Well, if I was to concede to Glen's viewpoint,at all,it would be on the subject of 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps' - unsurprisingly George opted for the style of the times- prominent lead guitar work (Clapton, I believe) and turned a beautiful song into the triumph of style over substance - droning and moaning on for longer than required towards the end - so I found it easier to leave out than some others.

The acoustic version with the George Martin string section, found on the Love album, let's us hear the song in all it's simplistic beauty - it also allows us to hear the delicacy in George's voice which is drowned out on the White album and spares us all that groaning towards the end.

But then, Canny Marra includes it as one of only seven worthwhile tracks, three of them Harrisongs, no Ringo.

Mother Nature's Son - well, you have to leave something out.

regardez youse

Henri

Monday - 'One Track' Albums

Roise Vela - 'Zazu' - contains the outstanding 'Magic Smile'

The guys from Steely Dan were involved with this,doubtless because Rosie Vela was a Vogue cover model who wanted to be a chanter. Dougie Donnelly played 'Magic Smile' on his breakfast show in 1986 and predicted great things for the beautiful Rosie. Seduced by the cover photograph and the single, I purchased Zazu.*

'Magic Smile' turned out to be the only bit of magic on it.It was duff and sank without trace. She later turned up as Jeff Lynne's lover and backing singer. All this can be witnessed on You Tube.

I'm sure Shenia Twain nicked the intro from Magic Smile as the basis for 'feel like a wummin.'

* potential theme - albums you bought for the cover: I bought 'In the Court of the Crimson King' but fortunately when I played it, I discovered that i liked it.

Ace - 'Five -A - Side' contains the single 'How Long?'

'How Long?' was the only Ace thing about it. After such a fantastic single, the album was a huge disappointment.

Shakespere's Sister - 'Sacred Heart' contains the single 'Your History'

The single was the only good track on the album and turned out to be prophetic.

regardez vous

Henri.

TUESDAY - GOSSIP etc

Our Lips Are Sealed - Fun Boy Three (with Bananarama?)

Hugely underrated - interesting Hindi version too.

hors d'oeuvre

Henri

WEDNESDAY - BIG BAND

The Fever - Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes

Fever - Sarah Vaughn ( really good Verve remix, too)

At Last - Etta James (not much brass, though)

Mack The Knife - Louis Armstrong

Summertime - Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong

I Have Got You Under My Skin - Frank Sinatra ( Nelson Riddle Orchestra)

Ballroom Dancing - Paul McCartney

Candy Man - Christine Alligator

Tuxedo Junction - Manhatten Transfer (this is stunning)

Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby - Dinah Washington

That'll do.

hors d'oeuvre

Henri

Monday - One track Albums - I forgot about (perhaps unsurprisingly)

Paul McCartney - 'Press to Play' contains the track 'Stranglehold'

I heard 'Stranglehold' on the radio - I thought, 'Good, he's back on form'. I was wrong.

regardez vous

Henri

Thursday: Teenage Embarrassments:

This is really tough for the reason that a large part of my teenage years were dominated by prog rock -so although I've got lots of examples there's not much under maybe seven minutes that Bryan& Babs could commit to light entertainment radio. Which three minutes of 'Tales From the Topographic Oceans' can you play (in any circumstance).

The closest I can come is two Moody Blues Albums - 'On The Threshold of a Dream' and 'To Our Childrens Childrens Morons' - which took themselves rather too seriously.

Either 'Never Comes The Day' or 'Watching and Waiting' are good radio tracks - but if stuck, you could always play their hit single 'Question', which most folks would recognise.

Well, that's this weeks suggestions.

regardez vous

Henri

#50 Four. Still no Ringo.

#56 Right enough - four - still no Ringo.

Somebody better remind HH (whoever he is) where his front door is before its too late.




:) (nearly forgot)

Monday

She's a Rainbow - Rolling Stones - Featuring the marvellous Nicky Hopkins.
From the otherwise unplayable Their Satanic Majesties Request - a terrible warning about the effects of drugs.

Mon...

Stevie Wonder ........... "I Aint Gonna Stand For It' from 'Hotter than July' After writing classic after classic Stevie gave up song writing half way through this album, listen closely and you can just about here him saying ahh to hell with it!! (just before Happy Birthday) :-o

Tues...

Bonnie Raitt ................. Something To Talk About
Beatles .......................... Do You Want To Here A Secret?

(Hope i didn't get the QI buzzer here)


Wed...

Tony Bennett ............. The Good Life
Peggy Lee................... The Folks Who Live on the Hill
Bobby Darin .............. Don't Rain On My Parade
Matt Munroe ............. My Kind of Girl
Ella ........................... Manhattan


(Could very well turn out to be my favorite show of the year)


Thur...

Pussycat ............... Mississippi !!!!!

Right i've said it and want to here no more about it..
Hey Paolo i think you can Slosh to this

#56 57

Are we still talking about Ringo?... i thought we'd covered that... :0)

#62 - No , the White Album -see #38 above -

Ahhh The White Album? .... Never really got into The Monkeys










;-)

Mon. SOME TIME IN NEW YORK CITY - John Lennon

Forget it. There are no good tracks on this album. This is an album totally bereft of anything worth listening to. But it's still better than Revolution 9

Sorry, guys. I don't know why I feel so strongly about this. It has touched a nerve but that is no excuse for rudeness.

CM

#66 It should be properly entitled 'two fantastically wealthy/talented/privileged people feel guilty about their success somewhere in New York City'.

Revolution 9, despite the implication of it's title, is, at least, apolitical - this is just a lot of anti establishment, teenage angst/mince to appear cool hip and trendy. He didn't mean a word of it.

I'm not sure what's touched the nerve - this mince, or the idea that this mince is still better than Revolution 9. Anyway,I think you're right - there's not a good track on it. I don't think it's rude to say so.

#65-67

Let me re-direct to the theme

Albums with only one good track

e.g. Imagine - Gimme Some Truth

Monday

When The Levee Breaks - Led Zeppelin - Copy this and use the CD as an ashtray

I never knew that Andre Previn played the trombone. Take a look at the guy to the left of the trombonist in the middle.

The trombonist in the middle might be Peter Sellers.

I AM PLAYING ALL THE RIGHT NOTES!

But not necessarily in the right order...

#68

Interesting choice. I would have gone for 'How Do You Sleep?'

Half of the fun is spotting the references to Macca songs.

# 68/72

Agreed.2nd that - Gimme Some Truth - is the outstanding track.

Everything else is so muted it sounds like it was recorded through a stone wall, terrible recording - but 'Crippled Inside' & 'Jealous Guy' are also good songs.

I liked 'Imagine' at the time but it's got a life of it's own now, I no longer think of it as a song I could have feelings about - a bit like 'Jessica' by the Allman Bros - you can't have a personal attachment, your memory is obliterated by it's utilitarian usage.

The thing with vinyl LP records, one side is almost inevitably better than the other. The side which you perceive as being the 'good' side is played constantly, while the other side is almost totally ignored.

One consequence of this is when you acquire the same album on CD you find yourself listening to tracks that you barely recognise.

Or is it just me?

#74 Nope. I loaded everything onto the ipod, stuck it on shuffle and was astonished at some of the fantastic stuff I owned but had never heard, or completely forgotten about.

Most notably, Family, featuring the singing sheep. It's never been off since.'Glove' from the Bandstand album, truly glorious.

#76 Roger Chapman - every time I hear 'In My Own Time' I just picture a singing sheep. I can't help it.

WEDNESDAY -

' National Express' by The Divine Comedy

WEDNESDAY

'Got To Get You Into My Life' by The Beatles

MONDAY

Atomic Rooster - 'Tomorrow Night' from the album 'Death Walks Behind You'

in fact, death sneaks up on you immediately Tomorrow Night finishes.

#72

The Flux Fiddlers' contribution to How Do You Sleep always reminds me of the incidental music in westerns when thousands of Indians appear on the skyline.

#80

Tomorrow Night would be good to hear. I bought the compilation Assortment and it's the only good track on that, too.

The La's album (their grocer's apostrophe) must be another contender for Monday.

MONDAY

Captain Beefheart 'Bluejeans & Moonbeams' from the Album of the same name.

Quite incredibly beautiful track.

Melodic and most unlike Captain Beefheart.

Unfortunately, the rest of it is unmelodious and exactly like Captain Beefheart.

#82

I was going to suggest but Hot Rats is saved by CB's Willie the Pimp.

#83

well.. it's your/Joe's theme (and a great one) so I wouldn't let CB's Willie The Pimp stand in the way of FZ's Peaches En Regalia getting an airing - it's a truly fantastic piece of music..

I used to imagine it must have been composed during a traffic jam.

WEDNESDAY

Peter Skellern - 'You're a Lady'

It's a big band - the Grimethorpe Colliery Band, outstanding.

(Martha My Dear and Macca's Wunderlust fall into the same category)

#83, #84

I love Peaches - brilliant track. It's also quite fun to cast around for the many covers that have been done. Try it!

Monday - Lonely Album Tracks:

Don't Dither Do It - Steve Hillage
(from Open)

Ride My See-Saw - The Moody Blues
(from In Search Of The Lost Chord)

Up All Night - Take That
(from The Circus)

Silver Machine - Hawkwind
(from Bring Me The Head Of Yuri Gagarin)

Welcome ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ - Peters & Lee
(from We Can Make It)

Tuesday - Gossip, Rumour & Tittle-Tattle:
Whispering Grass - Windsor Davies, Don Estelle
Second Hand News - Fleetwood Mac
I Heard It Through The Grapevine - The Slits
Don't Tell Me Your Troubles - Ray Charles
Don't Ask Me Questions - Graham Parker & The Rumour

Monday Jewels in the Rough:

* Wild World - Cat Stephens (Tea for the Tillerman) - not that the rest is rubbish, but this track stands so *far* out that it might as well be.
* Rainbow Chaser - Nirvana (Travelling on a Cloud). No, not *that* Nirvana, the *other* one.
* The Hedgehog's Song - The Incredible String Band (The 5000 Spirits Or The Layers Of The Onion). Rest of the album is hippy noodling, but this makes me laugh every time I hear it. Total listens to this track: 53. To the rest of the album's tracks: 15 total.
* Tiger Phone Card - Dengue Fever (Venus on Earth) - again, not a *bad* album, but this track stands out a million miles. Go on, and tell me I'm wrong.

OK, let's play The White Album Game

Let's lose the pastiches:
* Back in the USSR
* Ob-la-di Ob-la-da
* Rocky Racoon
* Honey Pie
as they're the warm up exercises to get you in the songwriting mood

and the soundtrack experiments & generally self-indulgent:
* Wild Honey Pie
* Revolution 9
* Glass Onion
they're the warmup exercises for recording techniques


and the stuff that just doesn't make the cut
* Why Don't We Do It in the Road - I love it, but it's a warm up, clearing your throat track
* I Will - there are a bunch of these Paul tracks here: great workmanship craft, but not special
* Mother Nature's Son
* Long Long Long
* Don't Pass Me By
* Birthday - about 2 albums late for this style
* Sexy Sadie

So my final track list
1) Dear Prudence
2) While My Guitar Gently Weeps (better produced)
3) Happiness is a Warm Gun (Even though it's about 3 songs stuck together)
4) I'm So Tired
5) Blackbird
6) Piggies
7) Julia
8) Yer Blues
9) Everybody's Got Something to Hide except for me & my monkey
10) Helter Skelter
11) Revolution 1 (a great counterpoint to the single version)
12) The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill
13) Good Night

Martha, my dear; don't be a cry baby (cry)

Have a Savoy Truffle...

>8-D

#74

It's just you, though the best tracks tended to be at the beginning to make an impression on potential buyers in listening booths.

#88

If we're going to have Grapevine let's have the Creedence version.

#89-90

I know a lot of fancy dancers.

#6 #7 #11 #14 #15 #16 #38 #42 #43 #44 #45 #47 #48 #50 etc etc etc
As churchill himself might have put it....
Never has so much words been written by so many bloggers to so few albums. ie one.



Talking of editing down albums
Back in the day Bat out of hell used to annoy me. It was 48 mins long. I could never decide which part of which song to omit so I could fit it on one side of a C90 to play in the car:-)





Another for gossip night
I Heard it through the Grapevine / Average White Band

My list for this week:

Wednesday - "Tusk" Fleetwood Mac

DC

#93 Oh Yes! (Churchill)

I once had a bit of tape that was unfinished and decided that i could get Neil Young's 'Till The Morning Comes' on it - I was fortunate that my turntable glided between 33.3 and 45, so that i could make the track faster as the tape ran out. With almost any other artist, this would have been a disaster, but in Neil Young's case, the faster the track got, the more I liked it - of course,it made no difference to the vocal delivery.

The White Album debate was just a spontaneous thing but I found it quite a revelation and was chuffed that having put the idea forward, so many joined in. Captain Ramius has it about right,I think, quite logical.


Another for Monday

Living Colour: 'Love Rears Up It's Ugly Head' from the album 'Time's Up'
(it should have been)

#95
Ugly Head was pretty decent but can't comment on rest of album cos I ain't heard it unless 'Type' was on it.





another for gossip night
I Heard it through the grapevine / Kaiser chiefs

#93 you are right - really interesting and exciting thread.

#93

My first copy of the White Album was supplied on reel to reel tape by a friend at the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ (I'm sure it wouldn't happen now). He had already picked out the best tracks and changed the running order within a few days of release. That could account for my view of it now.

#58 some people do not have the luxury of being able to walk out of what is effectively the front door whenever they choose!

And like you I must not forget :o)

#61
Saw an interview with the female bits of Pussycat in one of these channel 4 100 greatest something or others. They have not aged well.


Another one for gossip night

I heard it through the grapevine / Gladys Knight & the Pips