― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 7 August 2003 18:01 (twenty-two years ago)
― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 7 August 2003 18:02 (twenty-two years ago)
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 7 August 2003 18:05 (twenty-two years ago)
― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 7 August 2003 18:06 (twenty-two years ago)
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 7 August 2003 18:06 (twenty-two years ago)
― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 7 August 2003 18:07 (twenty-two years ago)
― Tom Breihan (Tom Breihan), Thursday, 7 August 2003 18:08 (twenty-two years ago)
― Felcher (Felcher), Thursday, 7 August 2003 18:17 (twenty-two years ago)
― Tom Breihan (Tom Breihan), Thursday, 7 August 2003 18:22 (twenty-two years ago)
― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 7 August 2003 18:23 (twenty-two years ago)
― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Thursday, 7 August 2003 18:23 (twenty-two years ago)
I vote for Red Hot Chili Peppers up through Blood Sugar Sex Magick.
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Thursday, 7 August 2003 18:24 (twenty-two years ago)
― dave q, Thursday, 7 August 2003 18:27 (twenty-two years ago)
― Sean (Sean), Thursday, 7 August 2003 18:29 (twenty-two years ago)
― Tom Breihan (Tom Breihan), Thursday, 7 August 2003 18:31 (twenty-two years ago)
Also, early Poison.
― ham on rye (ham on rye), Thursday, 7 August 2003 18:33 (twenty-two years ago)
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Thursday, 7 August 2003 18:33 (twenty-two years ago)
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Thursday, 7 August 2003 19:00 (twenty-two years ago)
― Sean M (Sean M), Thursday, 7 August 2003 19:03 (twenty-two years ago)
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Thursday, 7 August 2003 19:04 (twenty-two years ago)
― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Thursday, 7 August 2003 19:04 (twenty-two years ago)
― David. (Cozen), Thursday, 7 August 2003 19:08 (twenty-two years ago)
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Thursday, 7 August 2003 19:10 (twenty-two years ago)
― David. (Cozen), Thursday, 7 August 2003 19:14 (twenty-two years ago)
― Haikunym (Haikunym), Thursday, 7 August 2003 19:15 (twenty-two years ago)
― Sam J. (samjeff), Thursday, 7 August 2003 19:19 (twenty-two years ago)
I don't mean to sound like such an old crank. I give everything a chance, honest! But the amount of critical jizzing over something as limp as the NPs ... I mean, I don't think I've read a single negative review of that record. I'd love someone to point me to one! Meanwhile, we have to consider whether or not we should bother listening to old Little Feat records? Whether we need to "revalue" them or something? I mean, I'm sorry ... that first Little Feat record is some of the best, rhythmically inventive, and downright fun rock music I've heard. They did seem to fall off a bit after that, but I've not heard all their records.
I mean, that's kind of part of it .. I haven't heard Waiting For Columbus yet! And I'm 31 - my lifetime isn't getting any longer. I mean, a hijacked plane could fly into my workplace tomorrow, and I'll have died never having heard Waiting For Columbus. So the next time I get a spare $10 in my pocket you better believe I'm going to pick that up before I trifle with something like the New Pornographers.
Also, I've been meaning to post to your Guru Guru thread! I have by no means forgotten ... thing is, I did pick up that Genrich solo thing, and it kind of sucked, but it inspired me to go back and listen to the original records again.. And they've been blowing my mind all over again!! So yeah, I've been meaning to post, but just trying to work up some coherent thoughts about them...
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Thursday, 7 August 2003 19:40 (twenty-two years ago)
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Thursday, 7 August 2003 19:56 (twenty-two years ago)
― Sam J. (samjeff), Thursday, 7 August 2003 20:17 (twenty-two years ago)
― Mark (MarkR), Thursday, 7 August 2003 20:31 (twenty-two years ago)
― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 7 August 2003 20:33 (twenty-two years ago)
― dave q, Thursday, 7 August 2003 20:35 (twenty-two years ago)
― dave q, Thursday, 7 August 2003 20:36 (twenty-two years ago)
― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 7 August 2003 20:42 (twenty-two years ago)
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Thursday, 7 August 2003 20:51 (twenty-two years ago)
The first two Tull records are folk albums! This Was and Stand Up are both woefully underappreciated. "A New Day Yesterday" is gorgeous, "A Song for Jeffrey" bombastic and "For a Thousand Mothers" epic. I always saw them as the midpoint between Fairport Convention and Led Zeppelin (later they went Zep whole hog), especially on those first two discs. I still listen to them all the time. "Look Into the Sun" is so fucking bittersweet it slays me.
After punk, bands like Little Feat (who were really a dance band -- hell I'd even call some of their stuff DISCO) and Traffic (and really, there's only maybe 10 people with better ROCK voices than Winwood) got shafted merely cuz they could be instrumentally virtuous. But while other similar bands seemed to base their identity off their ability to string together eighth notes or some shit, for Traffic and LF I always considered their dexterity to merely be a tool toward good songs, not the point of it.
― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 7 August 2003 20:51 (twenty-two years ago)
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 7 August 2003 20:55 (twenty-two years ago)
― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 7 August 2003 20:56 (twenty-two years ago)
Have Little Feat really been shafted? I suppose they've been victims of post-punk indifference but.... I don't know anyone who would actually denigrate the best of their LPs.
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What about the first two Chicago (Transit Authority) records??
― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 7 August 2003 20:57 (twenty-two years ago)
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 7 August 2003 20:57 (twenty-two years ago)
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― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 7 August 2003 20:57 (twenty-two years ago)
― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 7 August 2003 20:58 (twenty-two years ago)
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 7 August 2003 20:59 (twenty-two years ago)
― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Thursday, 7 August 2003 20:59 (twenty-two years ago)
― dave q, Thursday, 7 August 2003 21:02 (twenty-two years ago)
And yeah, there's no such thing as a good critical reevaluation, cuz that means it gets tossed into the canon, where it's weighed down by the ugly h.c.-phrase: HISTORICAL CONTEXT.
― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 7 August 2003 21:02 (twenty-two years ago)
all need to have respective back catalogues reissued with tons of extras. all hail from an era that the music media forgot.
m.e
― mark e (mark e), Thursday, 7 August 2003 21:05 (twenty-two years ago)
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Thursday, 7 August 2003 21:08 (twenty-two years ago)
all the same, a little more respect for 70s Zappa would be most welcome -- and i think loads of otherwise fine folk with fine taste suffer from the same kneejerk "anti-musical virtuosity" phobia noted upthread. (not coincidentally, ittle feat was formed by a bunch of ex-mothers of inventioners.)
― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 7 August 2003 21:09 (twenty-two years ago)
― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 7 August 2003 21:10 (twenty-two years ago)
― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 7 August 2003 21:11 (twenty-two years ago)
― mark e (mark e), Thursday, 7 August 2003 21:25 (twenty-two years ago)
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Thursday, 7 August 2003 21:52 (twenty-two years ago)
Anyway, Elvis Presley - and rock 'n' roll overall - generally (and correctly) believed to have brought country and r&b elements into pop (as well as forming them into something that had never existed before). But he also helped bring pop into country 'n' r&b (not that that wasn't already underway).
Re-evaluating a genre. Dirty South hip-hop: increasing use of film-soundtrack-type orchestral-like music, so further integrating Euroclassical elements into an African American form.
― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Thursday, 7 August 2003 21:53 (twenty-two years ago)
Content: Yanc3y answered my question about JT's early records!
― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 7 August 2003 21:58 (twenty-two years ago)
― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Thursday, 7 August 2003 22:15 (twenty-two years ago)
― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Friday, 8 August 2003 00:17 (twenty-two years ago)
― amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 8 August 2003 00:26 (twenty-two years ago)
― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Friday, 8 August 2003 00:38 (twenty-two years ago)
― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Friday, 8 August 2003 00:54 (twenty-two years ago)
― dan (dan), Friday, 8 August 2003 05:27 (twenty-two years ago)
― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Friday, 8 August 2003 05:32 (twenty-two years ago)
had no parlor norquasi-operatic stuff;that all came later.
so what cha sayinis that rock only was rev-olutionary
after chuck berrylittle richard, domino,buddy holly too,
that its true geniuswas when elvis sang it likemario lanza?
granted that countryand r&b both done changedbut let's tell the truth
elvis gave no birthhe was rocking the babybut it wasn't his
― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 8 August 2003 05:39 (twenty-two years ago)
― amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 8 August 2003 05:49 (twenty-two years ago)
― Sean (Sean), Friday, 8 August 2003 05:51 (twenty-two years ago)
― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Friday, 8 August 2003 05:52 (twenty-two years ago)
― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Friday, 8 August 2003 05:53 (twenty-two years ago)
"That's All Right, Mama" - Aug 54 I think"Maybellene" - Aug 55 I thinkI think Holly debuted mid-56 (after seeing Elvis live!)
― amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 8 August 2003 05:58 (twenty-two years ago)
for the record, sure,if you're talking 'records' butchuck & penniman
had been playing stufffor so long in hybrid modethat it's all quite moot
(berry's style earned himthe nickname 'the black hillbil-ly in '53)
I was talkin' 'boutjackie brenton, ike turner,and hank williams I
― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 8 August 2003 06:01 (twenty-two years ago)
well, i never listened to any of them until today when i got stuck on a 70s soft rock kick. this shit's actually damn good
― JasonD (JasonD), Friday, 8 August 2003 06:03 (twenty-two years ago)
he didn't think hewas dean martin until wayafter 'rock' was formed
― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 8 August 2003 06:03 (twenty-two years ago)
― JasonD (JasonD), Friday, 8 August 2003 06:04 (twenty-two years ago)
― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 8 August 2003 06:05 (twenty-two years ago)
― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Friday, 8 August 2003 06:05 (twenty-two years ago)
― amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 8 August 2003 06:07 (twenty-two years ago)
and memphis rhythm(which the rat pack could not swing)were as important
he was a mimicof black radio singersas much as the 'pop'
if 'my happiness'had been huge for him then surebut it didn't ROCK
― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 8 August 2003 06:13 (twenty-two years ago)
― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 8 August 2003 06:16 (twenty-two years ago)
― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Friday, 8 August 2003 06:17 (twenty-two years ago)
(hell my wife wrote herharvard thesis on the man,I've done graceland twice)
so yeah I am downwith his funky genre-bend-ing (y'know, at first)
all I was sayingis that there was no 'parlor''quasi-operatic'
style in 'maybelline'or in 'rocket 88','move it on over'
― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 8 August 2003 12:29 (twenty-two years ago)
― CNWB, Friday, 8 August 2003 12:59 (twenty-two years ago)
― Simon H., Friday, 8 August 2003 13:15 (twenty-two years ago)
― dave q, Friday, 8 August 2003 15:27 (twenty-two years ago)
What is the critical line on the connection between prog and disco? Is there one? There should be. I know Chuck Eddy has commented on it a bit.
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 8 August 2003 15:33 (twenty-two years ago)
― sean g, Friday, 8 August 2003 15:52 (twenty-two years ago)
― dave q, Friday, 8 August 2003 15:59 (twenty-two years ago)
― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 9 August 2003 02:37 (twenty-two years ago)
― thomas de'aguirre (biteylove), Saturday, 9 August 2003 12:49 (twenty-two years ago)
― dave q, Saturday, 9 August 2003 17:59 (twenty-two years ago)
Win, though. (And how 'bout the Fire Engines, while we're at it?) No one but no one I knew bought any Win records except me. "You've got the power to generate fear. Wonder how that record holds up?
― M Specktor (M Specktor), Saturday, 9 August 2003 18:03 (twenty-two years ago)