Dave ain't going to like this. Been having a "favourite solo Beatles albums" thang for a few days...
This from Paul. "McCartney" 1970 Love it's raw underproduced sound, in stark contrast to the Phil Spencer wall of sound stuff that was going on elsewhere.
George "All Things Must Pass" 1970 Possibly my favourite of all the solo-Beatles albums. Perhaps could've done with being edited down from a tripple to a double album to make it uber-great, but still some really good tunes on this.
Ringo "Ringo" 1973 OK. Not a lot of competition... Pleasing that all the other Beatles make some contribution to this.
John "Mind Games" 1973 (If John's songs from his 1980 albums "Double Fantasy" and "Milk and Honey" had been separated from Yoko's and placed on an album by themselves, I may have chosen that)
I don't think any capture the youthful chemistry of what they achieved together. I think "I've Got a Feeling" from the Let it Be album is a brilliant example. Paul and John duetting like that. Love it... (Sorry for the slightly below-par audio on this one. Bloody vinyl...)
No need for a link as it's all over the various music channels. Harry Styles "Sign of the times". What a well crafted pop song and the guy can actually sing. Very pleasantly surprised.
No need for a link as it's all over the various music channels.
Harry Styles "Sign of the times". What a well crafted pop song and the guy can actually sing. Very pleasantly surprised.
No need for a link as it's all over the various music channels.
Harry Styles "Sign of the times". What a well crafted pop song and the guy can actually sing. Very pleasantly surprised.
I played this to death in the 90s, and got thoroughly fed up with it. Haven't played it for years. But it's been great listening to it by an open window while I've been working this afternoon.
After being extremely disappointed with Deep Purple's latest outing "inFinite", I went back to their last effort "NowWhat?!". At the time I quite liked it but for some reason has slipped off my play list. I must say I still really like it, very true to traditional DP standards with a moderised twist. It does also have a few short direct references back to previous hay-day material which make it a worthy tribute, post John Lord.
There is something else I'm hearing, especially hints in Don Airey's playing that is reminding of an as yet unidentified source, I'll get it eventually! In summary, their best album in a very long while.
I'm not sure why this isn't a Decoding Society album. Perhaps because their aren't any horns and it's pretty rocky at times, with three gee-tars and two basses.
Anyhoo... Jackson is his usual totally uncategorisable self, bashing the wotsit out of the drums. I saw him once, with Last Exit, back in the 80s. A truly brain and body pummelling event. Fantastic!
Nothing any more on YT :-( But, in case someone puts them back, here's the link.
After being extremely disappointed with Deep Purple's latest outing "inFinite", I went back to their last effort "NowWhat?!". At the time I quite liked it but for some reason has slipped off my play list. I must say I still really like it, very true to traditional DP standards with a moderised twist. It does also have a few short direct references back to previous hay-day material which make it a worthy tribute, post John Lord.
There is something else I'm hearing, especially hints in Don Airey's playing that is reminding of an as yet unidentified source, I'll get it eventually! In summary, their best album in a very long while.
No useful YT links.
Fun fact! Don Airey's wife is called Doris. How rock 'n' roll!
I think he's one of the few artists that sits comfortably in the intersection of mine and your Venn diagram. :-)
Coincidentally, I've just had some Manu Dibango on.
Not exactly the same thing as Fela, but possibly both are covered by the broad brushstroke of "afrobeat".
Hmm. I think there's more overlap than that. Maybe those lines on the Venn diagram are a bit hazy?
Manu Dibango isn't strictly Afrobeat (some people call his music Soul Makossa, after the album and track of the same name) but is in the same geographical and 'dancy African music' bin, I guess.
The Ella and Louis album in hi-res is one of my favourite recordings. Use it a lot when tweaking things in the system, so have listened to it several times while integrating the ribbon tweeters.
I have not tired of this track despite listening to it multiple times.
Absolutely love the song, the lyrics, the sentiment, the performances, the recording.
An absolute bloody bonus to be living in a time when technology can transport the world's best into one's own home at the press of a button. :-)
Hadn't heard that one before. Thanks. I like lots of Tom's stuff.
I can't find a studio version of my favourite of his songs "The Pugilist at 59" on YouTube. It's lyrics are a brilliant evocation of the indignity of ageing. Funny and genuinely sad at the same time.
"A handful of vitamins, drop them on the floor My ex-girlfriends’ are laughin’ from the icebox door I put their photos up there, yeah, we talk all the time But they ain’t talkin’ back now, the pugilist is 59"
"A handful of vitamins, drop them on the floor My ex-girlfriends’ are laughin’ from the icebox door I put their photos up there, yeah, we talk all the time But they ain’t talkin’ back now, the pugilist is 59"
8-X
Great lyrics.
As is his rhyming "water the lawn, trim them old trees" with "prey that your gut don't fall down to your knees."
:-)
From the early 60s - I've seen 1960-63 quoted - it's somewhere between Pepper's technically brilliant West Coast playing of the 50s and his peak of what the alto can do in the 70s/early 80s. Perhaps a great place to start if you're a 50s Pepper fan who still struggles with his love for Coltrane and the avant garde that so let his playing free (in the traditional sense) a decade or so later.
Cowboy with a conscience...
Poet of the human condition...
Proud American...
Academic...
One of the few lyricists whose lyrics sound better if I listen to them. :-)
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Been having a "favourite solo Beatles albums" thang for a few days...
This from Paul.
"McCartney" 1970
Love it's raw underproduced sound, in stark contrast to the Phil Spencer wall of sound stuff that was going on elsewhere.
George
"All Things Must Pass" 1970
Possibly my favourite of all the solo-Beatles albums. Perhaps could've done with being edited down from a tripple to a double album to make it uber-great, but still some really good tunes on this.
Ringo
"Ringo" 1973
OK. Not a lot of competition... Pleasing that all the other Beatles make some contribution to this.
John
"Mind Games" 1973
(If John's songs from his 1980 albums "Double Fantasy" and "Milk and Honey" had been separated from Yoko's and placed on an album by themselves, I may have chosen that)
I don't think any capture the youthful chemistry of what they achieved together. I think "I've Got a Feeling" from the Let it Be album is a brilliant example. Paul and John duetting like that. Love it... (Sorry for the slightly below-par audio on this one. Bloody vinyl...)
So like the Pendle witch trials. Or fascism.
Harry Styles "Sign of the times". What a well crafted pop song and the guy can actually sing. Very pleasantly surprised.
I must say I still really like it, very true to traditional DP standards with a moderised twist. It does also have a few short direct references back to previous hay-day material which make it a worthy tribute, post John Lord.
There is something else I'm hearing, especially hints in Don Airey's playing that is reminding of an as yet unidentified source, I'll get it eventually!
In summary, their best album in a very long while.
No useful YT links.
Thought of Dave for this one!
...more pleasant than a latrine
My ex-girlfriends’ are laughin’ from the icebox door
I put their photos up there, yeah, we talk all the time
But they ain’t talkin’ back now, the pugilist is 59"