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Classic Album Discussion Thread: The Kinks-Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Pt. 1 (1 Viewer)

Was fortunate to discover these guys around Regatta De Blanc timeframe and got to see them in some smaller venues before they exploded. Great live shows that I was glad to experience (passed on the reunion tour due to this).

Likely due to oversaturation/slicker production, it is not my favorite of theirs. To me, a bit more obvious they were not functioning as a working band than prior material. That being said, still a great album with multiple classics. EBYT always reminds me of my mom, who has passed. At that time, I was always cranking tunes at home and she would pop her head in when she liked a tune. Before leaving for college, made a mixed tape with that, REM, Bowie, Go-Gos, U2, Peter Gabriel among others. Mostly hits, but not many women pushing 50 listening to that type of stuff at that time.

 
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Sullie said:
I would add that I always felt as great as Sting was on vocals and bass, Andy and Stuart were absolutely incredible in their own way, both (to me) extremely underrated.
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Copeland was definitely the best player in the band.  Summers was definitely underrated, and Sting's bass work was always good, but Copeland was an absolute beast on the skins.  

 
Though it's not even my favorite Police album (GitM), it was tied as the first record I ever owned (got this and Thriller as a b-day gift), and 35 years later I would still put this in my Top 10 - 20. 

 
Tim, you were prescient. The Police were huge for me in Jr. High and High School, but this album is one of my least favorites. I can't pick a favorite out of Zenyatta Mondatta, Outlandos D'Amour or Regatta de Blanc but they are all head and shoulders above Synchronicity. The synth pop keyboard sound just ruins it for me. 

 
David Bowie- Hunky Dory (1971)

Changes

Oh You Pretty Things

Eight Line Poem

Life On Mars? 

Kooks

Quicksand

Fill Your Heart

Andy Warhol

Song for Bob Dylan

 Queen #####

The Bewlay Brothers

I always have trouble deciding whether this is the single best Bowie album vs Ziggy Stardust (and yes I know he has some other great albums as well which we may get to later.) 

The way I view it is: Ziggy Stardust is the better overall concept, but this album has stronger individual songs (just barely.) In fact, this record may just have the strongest collection of songs in any album we have reviewed so far, period. I challenge anybody to beat “Changes”, “Oh You Pretty Things”, “Life On Mars?”, “Quicksand”, “Andy Warhol”, “Song for Bob Dylan”, “Kooks”, and “Queen #####”. That’s an INCREDIBLE run of absolute brilliance. I don’t think the Beatles or Zeppelin or the Stones or Who beat it, not on a single sided record anyhow. 

I think 100 years from now they may still be talking about this record; it’s a work of art. 

 
I was never a fan of The Police but admittedly only heard what was played on the radio. Never heard of Mother, so just gave it a listen...I love it! Now that would have intrigued me to listen to more had I heard it back then.

 
Not a factor that comes up much in today's music, but one thing about Synchronicity is that the opening ~20 sec of the record (Synchronicity I) are awesome. I love the way the song builds from the piano, then adding in the rest of the instruments leading into Sting's vocals. If you are a fogey like me, you can just imagine the sound of the crackle of the needle on the record, when you have it on 11, leading into the song. :wub: :pickle: :headbang:

 
As hard it is to believe, I heard Quicksand on the radio recently. THAT threw me, as I have never heard it on the radio before. It's not exactly a go to staple from the Bowie repertoire. I had to double check to make sure it wasn't my music player, but it actually was on regular radio. Mind blown.

 
Hunk Dory is kind of spotty for me.  It has some really great songs, some of Bowie's best ever, but it also has, for me, some total throwaways.  IMO, it's nowhere near Ziggy Stardust, Low or Blackstar. 

 
There may be other Bowie albums I like more (Ziggy, for example), but “Life On Mars?” IMO is right up there among his best tunes.

 
Tom Petty- Full Moon Fever (1989) 

Free Fallin’

I Won’t Back Down

Love Is a Long Road

A Face In the Crowd

Runnin’ Down a Dream

Feel a Whole Lot Better

Yer So Bad

Depending On You 

The Apartment Song

Alright For Now

A Mind With a Heart of Its Own

Zombie Zoo

Petty released this as a solo album without the Heartbreakers, but all of them contributed to it, particularly Mike Campbell. The record was produced by fellow Traveling Wilbury Jeff Lynne who co-wrote some of the songs, and it has his feel on the sound. But it’s mostly vintage Tom Petty, singing some of his most classic material and selling a zillion copies. What’s not to like? 

 
I remember being in high school and everybody going to see this tour. That's my memory. I'm the same as Smails. Only familiar with the hits. Wish I had something more intelligent to say.  

eta* I did, however, own Southern Accents because of Don't Come Around Here No More and that video. Quite the Alice in Wonderland thing going on in that one.  

 
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My 19 year old self was pulled over for speeding twice while listening to this album and to Runnin' Down a Dream in particular.  I promised myself I would fast forward when that song came on in the future.

This is the only Petty album I have  listened to thoroughly and enjoyed it quite a bit.  Also saw him live during that tour (Lenny Kravitz opened) which I enjoyed even though I only new that album and some of his earlier hits.  Certainly a classic album.

 
I was barely a teenager, but for some reason it was one of the cassettes I owned, so I listed to it often and most of the way through. Solid stuff. 

 
I liked Petty and this album some when it came out.   I probably didn't buy it until 2000 or something.   As I matured, I liked his work more and more.   Only when he passed did I realize how much of his work I had collected and how much I listened to it.   This is a really fine album.  Free Fallin and Runnin Down a Dream are classics.  I'm going to listen to this on my flight home today.  

 
Had this on cassette first and a few years later got the CD too.  The CD only has an interlude between 6th and 7th song where Tom speaks and says this is the point where those who have the album on tape or record would have to stand up (or sit down) and flip the cassette (or record).  And now we'll continue with side 2.  Good for a laugh.

My second favorite Petty album behind Damn the Torpedoes.  The classics are solid, though Free Fallin' can be overplayed a bit.  Really like Zombie Zoo and Apartment Song as good side 2 material that is overlooked.

 
Solid record. Always loved Runnin’ Down a Dream, but never cared for Free Fallin’.  I remember seeing them play A Face in the Crowd on Letterman and loving that one. Wildflowers stands alone as his best, but this one is good. 

 
I like Hunky Dory a lot. The 70s was a great decade for David Bowie music . "Life On Mars" is my favorite track.

Full Moon Fever is a great album, and I like all the songs on it. "Love Is a Long Road" is my favorite song off the album. Every year at Merlefest, The Waybacks have their annual Hillside Album Hour on Saturday. They have a guest singer(s) and play the album in it's entirety. They also weave snippets of songs during some songs from Artists that died during that past year. It is always a secret what the album will be. This year the album was Full Moon Fever by TP. Here is a video of "Runnin' Down a Dream" at the Hillside Album Hour. Last year was the festival's 30th anniversary, and the album was Sgt. Peppers (which was also it's 30th anniversary).

 
timschochet said:
The way I view it is: Ziggy Stardust is the better overall concept, but this album has stronger individual songs (just barely.) In fact, this record may just have the strongest collection of songs in any album we have reviewed so far, period. I challenge anybody to beat “Changes”, “Oh You Pretty Things”, “Life On Mars?”, “Quicksand”, “Andy Warhol”, “Song for Bob Dylan”, “Kooks”, and “Queen #####”. That’s an INCREDIBLE run of absolute brilliance. I don’t think the Beatles or Zeppelin or the Stones or Who beat it, not on a single sided record anyhow. 

I think 100 years from now they may still be talking about this record; it’s a work of art. 
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Agree with all of this. One of my Top 10 albums of all-time. Love it. Quicksand is my favorite song, but there really isn't a bad song.

 
I like Full Moon Fever but it's far from my favorite Petty record (wouldn't crack my top 10) - it was his biggest commercial success though so good for him.

I still can't get over his death yet.

 
The recent Petty "American Treasure" box set is worth a listen for fans.  It's mostly outtakes, live tracks and alternate versions so it's more interesting than essential.  63 songs is a lot of Petty to consume in one sitting.

 
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The recent Petty "American Treasure" box set is worth a listen for fans.  It's mostly outtakes, live tracks and alternate versions so it's more interesting than essential.  63 songs is a lot of Petty to consume in one sitting.
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This is good to hear....will be looking into it 

full moon fever is an almost perfect album. Listened to this all summer when I was a young adult, in fact my mom used to ask if I was headed out to the zombie zoo  

 
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Nick Drake- Pink Moon (1972) 

Pink Moon

Place to Be

Road 

Which I Will

Horn 

Things Behind the Sun

Know 

Parasite

Free Ride

Harvest Breed

From the Morning 

I had never heard of Nick Drake until this album was mentioned in this forum during one of our beloved music drafts. Then I listened to it and fell in love. The music is so stark, minimalist (mostly Drake and his guitar) and dark, signaling his demise into the abyss- and yet so lovely as well. 

Decades  after his death, Pink Moon is finally being recognized as what it clearly is: one of the greatest records of the 1970s and a classic of the singer-songwriter era. 

 
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Nick Drake- Pink Moon (1972) 

Pink Moon

Place to Be

Road 

Which I Will

Horn 

Things Behind the Sun

Know 

Parasite

Free Ride

Harvest Breed

From the Morning 

I had never heard of Nick Drake until this album was mentioned in this forum during one of our beloved music drafts. Then I listened to it and fell in love. The music is so stark, minimalist (mostly Drake and his guitar) and dark, signaling his demise into the abyss- and yet so lovely as well. 

Decades  after his death, Pink Moon is finally being recognized as what it clearly is: one of the greatest records of the 1970s and a classic of the singer-songwriter era. 
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There you go.

I prefer Five Leaves Left in terms of ranking his (three) records, but you can't go wrong with this one.  The starkness moves me.

 
Love Pink Moon as well as the other two of Drake’s albums.

Not exactly party music unless you’re a Goth, but so melodic and haunting. Such a tragedy that he died so young, but left a great legacy.

 
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Love Pink Moon as well as the other two of Drake’s albums.

Not exactly party music unless you’re a Goth, but so melodic and haunting. Such a tragedy that he died so young, but left a great legacy.
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and one of those situations where he died considering himself a failure, totally unaware of the incredible legacy he had actually left behind.

 
I know people love his other two albums but other than a song or two I can’t seem to get into them. Too much orchestration...

 
Pink Moon is a great album to kick back and relax to. He recorded the album during two late night sessions. The music really seems to tap into the soul of Drake. "Things Behind the Sun" is my favorite track on the album. "From the Morning" is the last song on the album, and the lyrics from it that say and now we rise, and we are everywhere were put on the back of his tombstone by his parents. He was a talented young man whose life ended too soon.

 
Learned about Nick Drake via Wilco and Beck mentioning him. Definitely hear the influence on Beck's Sea Change/Morning Phases albums. The opening 3 songs are perfect and favor Parasite as well. My favorite of his three albums, as I agree with Tim on the overorchestration on some of the first two records. But that is nitpicking...for those who have not heard, you are in for a treat. Believe Richard Thompson and some of Fairport Convention backed him parts of the first two records, in case there are any fans of either out there who are not familiar.

 
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Favorite Drake song: Cello Song from Five Leaves Left. The conga player on this (Rocky Dijon) also played congas on "Sympathy For The Devil" among other Stones tunes (and other artists).

 
Galileo said:
Who?
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Nick Drake. If you like 70s singer songwriter stuff of aughts lofi scene, check out Pink Moon. It's a beautiful album and without a doubt one of the best of the 70s.

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I know people love his other two albums but other than a song or two I can’t seem to get into them. Too much orchestration...
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I like them but I do agree that the quieter Pink Moon is superior and much of it is the reason you gave. 

 
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