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This one is a masterpiece all around. Added bnus that the album looked badass as well.
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Classic Album Discussion Thread: The Kinks-Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Pt. 1 (3 Viewers)
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dkp993
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Uruk-Hai
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I think Bettye LaVette did a cover of "WYWH" a few years ago. She's great, but she ain't Redding.
D_House
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wikkidpissah
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Kind of a "heard it once" or chart-read version, like a lot of old soul covers of Beatle tunes.
rockaction
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rockaction
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Love the title track and Shine On...
wikkidpissah
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Leroy Hoard
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badmojo1006
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HellToupee
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Don’t like Pink Floyd but this is a good album with a great song
2 PF albums before any Bowie , Who , Kinks , Cars,Lizzy,Zevon,U2,Stooges,REM et cetera
I’ve become a curmudgeon
timschochet
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rockaction
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Leroy Hoard
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Speaking of sex pistols, anyone else ever think that KISS's Love Gun was a lame pg ripoff of their name?
zamboni
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I was being facetious, as per my avatar. It’s 1a/1b/1c among Animals, DSOTM and WYWH.
zamboni
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Interesting- never thought of that. Guess it probably couldn’t be though unless Kiss knew about the Pistols very early on - Love Gun was actually released before Bullocks.
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DocHolliday
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Love Pink Floyd and this is probably their greatest work. However, as a fan of more of a straight ahead rock songs, the wall is my favorite PF work.
KarmaPolice
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After a week of 
albums, we are back to some good stuff.
Animals is still my favorite, but Wish is right behind it.
albums, we are back to some good stuff. Animals is still my favorite, but Wish is right behind it.
Eephus
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Wish You Were Here is a proper album. The songs are like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. The simile breaks down a bit because there are only 5 songs (or 12 if you count the parts of Shine separately) but the sum of the album is greater than its parts. There are long static stretches that build tension; trippy headphone effects and no vocals until the 8 1/2 minute mark. Maybe I listen to the wrong music but I don't hear much of those kinds of extreme stereo effects these days. I find that odd because a lot more people listen on headphones now than in 1975.
The original LP packaging was elaborate. It came from the record store in an opaque, midnight blue slipcover with a sticker on the outside identifying what was inside. The outer jacket was wordless but the inner sleeve had lyrics and more photos similar to the cover. There was a real postcard included complete with guides for the address lines. Again the band was nowhere to be seen, not even Gilmour who Mrs. Eephus rates as one of the hottest men in rock.
There are a lot of artists where I vacillate on which album is my favorite but this is my favorite Pink Floyd record 7/24/365..
The original LP packaging was elaborate. It came from the record store in an opaque, midnight blue slipcover with a sticker on the outside identifying what was inside. The outer jacket was wordless but the inner sleeve had lyrics and more photos similar to the cover. There was a real postcard included complete with guides for the address lines. Again the band was nowhere to be seen, not even Gilmour who Mrs. Eephus rates as one of the hottest men in rock.
There are a lot of artists where I vacillate on which album is my favorite but this is my favorite Pink Floyd record 7/24/365..
Leroy Hoard
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Correct but pistols were around since 75 and love gun was released in 77. Just sounds like something gene would do.
zamboni
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zamboni
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I had that one in elementary school.
Rotated between that and this one:
https://goo.gl/images/co8Jp6
rockaction
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I was very much into Kiss at the age of five. You couldn't have been cooler than Ace Frehley.I had that one in elementary school.
Rotated between that and this one:
https://goo.gl/images/co8Jp6
Then, when I was fourteen and even dumber than I was when I was five, I liked Kiss again -- for the music.
DocHolliday
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Kiss love must go in cycles. I was into Kiss when I as about 8, again around 16, then again around 28. I still listen to some Kiss occasionally but cannot imagine ever being into them again.
rockaction
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Yep. I can vouchsafe that. I still like the song "Cold Gin," among others.
Ooh it's cold gin time again/you know you'll always win/cold gin time again/you know it's the only thing -- that keeps us together
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Leroy Hoard
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rockaction
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I think most of the albums have wound up in some sort of digression. But to bring it back on track, Wish You Were Here, both album and song, certainly seem like the most accessible -- to me, anyway -- Pink Floyd music that there is.
Uruk-Hai
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Ghost Rider
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The Wall is what got me into Pink Floyd and was my number 1 album for a long time; I was obsessed with it for years. That said, I barely listen to it anymore, but could turn it on today and still know every little thing about it. That is how ingrained in my head it is.
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wikkidpissah
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Like the NBA thread, the Classic Album thread has become where rock fans go to rag at each other about whatever they want, with timmy throwing a rib roast off the bridge each morning to get the gators twitchin'
rockaction
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You insiders at the NBA thread make it nigh impossible for a mere basketball novice to even hope to keep up.
How the hell do you keep track of contracts like that?
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wikkidpissah
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It became a necessity last summer when Danny Ainge dumped like $3.7MM from his roster to get the deal the Celtics signed with Gordon Hayward to fit under the cap with the price of a large slushie to spare but then, because of lost revenue (caps are strictly based on a % of leaguewide income) from so many short series during the '17 playoffs revised the cap down to where the Celts were three bags of Cheetos over the cap and had to trade one of their best players (Avery Bradley) for a cheaper guy in order to comply. Instantly, everybody had a Sportrac eyeball on their team's sitch. Already it's just a thang.
rockaction
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Because knowing every player on every team and Simmons spazzing about trades is a big thing in that thread you also needed the cap? Sheesh.
eta* I'm just teasing. I dig that thread but don't comment in it.
It's like otb_lifer's Derby thread. Pure awesome -- I just don't get it.
eta* I'm just teasing. I dig that thread but don't comment in it.
It's like otb_lifer's Derby thread. Pure awesome -- I just don't get it.
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timschochet
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Lauryn Hill-The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (1998)
Intro
Lost Ones
Ex-Factor
To Zion (feat. Carlos Santana)
Doo *** (That Thing)
Superstar
Final Hour
When It Hurts so Bad
I Used to Love Him (feat. Mary J. Bligh)
Forgive Them Father
Every Ghetto, Every City
Nothing Even Matters (feat. D’Angelo)
Everything Is Everything
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You
Tell Him
From Itunes: “To understand the significance of The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, it’s important to remember what mainstream hip-hop was like in 1998. Materialism and misogeny were rampant, fanned by music videos that presented women as objects or conquests. Hill’s first solo album provided a sharp counterpoint by projecting the perspective of a young black woman dealing with issues of identity and sexuality.”
Hopefully the hip-hop fans in here can discuss this album in more detail and how important and great it is. I’m not familiar myself with the genre to properly comment, except to note that it’s perhaps the most highly regarded record of the 1990s.
Intro
Lost Ones
Ex-Factor
To Zion (feat. Carlos Santana)
Doo *** (That Thing)
Superstar
Final Hour
When It Hurts so Bad
I Used to Love Him (feat. Mary J. Bligh)
Forgive Them Father
Every Ghetto, Every City
Nothing Even Matters (feat. D’Angelo)
Everything Is Everything
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You
Tell Him
From Itunes: “To understand the significance of The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, it’s important to remember what mainstream hip-hop was like in 1998. Materialism and misogeny were rampant, fanned by music videos that presented women as objects or conquests. Hill’s first solo album provided a sharp counterpoint by projecting the perspective of a young black woman dealing with issues of identity and sexuality.”
Hopefully the hip-hop fans in here can discuss this album in more detail and how important and great it is. I’m not familiar myself with the genre to properly comment, except to note that it’s perhaps the most highly regarded record of the 1990s.
wikkidpissah
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There are a bunch of harshters over there. More than once an entire page of that thread has been notices of posts from folk i've put on 'ignore'
rockaction
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Hopefully the hip-hop fans in here can discuss this album in more detail and how important and great it is. I’m not familiar myself with the genre to properly comment, except to note that it’s perhaps the most highly regarded record of the 1990s. - timschochet
I can. I owned this album immediately upon release because "Doo *** (That Thing)" was getting heavy rotation in a medium that still really drove the industry -- the music video and its golden late nineties age.
Lost Ones is fire. It's about her relationship and fall out with Pras and Wyclef from the Fugees and it spits. It's about greed, commercialism, consumerism, you name it. It's about a sell-out. Dope track.
I'll get to the others later, today we football and pop in sporadically.
Fun Trivia: This is one of the few albums selected by the Library Of Congress to specially maintain and press as an album par excellence. They do about twenty-fifty or so every so often, and this album is among them. It's a Grammy winner, a critical darling, but a lot of it is just flat good. Does it drag? In places. A lot of good and ambitious albums do. But overall, it's a sloppy masterpiece, buoyed by its singles.
I can. I owned this album immediately upon release because "Doo *** (That Thing)" was getting heavy rotation in a medium that still really drove the industry -- the music video and its golden late nineties age.
Lost Ones is fire. It's about her relationship and fall out with Pras and Wyclef from the Fugees and it spits. It's about greed, commercialism, consumerism, you name it. It's about a sell-out. Dope track.
I'll get to the others later, today we football and pop in sporadically.
Fun Trivia: This is one of the few albums selected by the Library Of Congress to specially maintain and press as an album par excellence. They do about twenty-fifty or so every so often, and this album is among them. It's a Grammy winner, a critical darling, but a lot of it is just flat good. Does it drag? In places. A lot of good and ambitious albums do. But overall, it's a sloppy masterpiece, buoyed by its singles.
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rockaction
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wikkidpissah
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was?!?! wtf is was?! now, i was past vital when hiphop blossomed, so i havent held my ear to the ground like i useta, but this is some sad, sad ####. i've heard maybe 3 new rhyming patterns in the last decade, production value is mistook for genius all the frikkin time and every "artist" in the industry has put cash over grow far as i can see. and, of course, great female artists like Hill & Badu fell off from less-than-zero necessity from their 'peers'. Kendrick Lamar???? Run The Jewels???? Cardi FRIKKIN B?????????????????????????????THAT's 30 yrs of culmination? yeah, right...
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