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yeah ...was deep into the VO and diet cokesYou mean Bobby Goldsboro?
yeah ...was deep into the VO and diet cokesYou mean Bobby Goldsboro?
Dont be dissin dokken.....
Patrick Swayze?Tremendous actor too. Has there ever been a better dual threat?
He might be a quadruple threat: Acting, Dancing, Martial Arting and Abs.Patrick Swayze?
My favorite Dokken song is When Heaven Comes Down. Lynch nails it. It is actually cool without a lot of the typical Dokken cheese and is not as wimpy as most Dokken songs.
I will say that the song Heaven Sent has held up extremely well. I am a sucker for 80s music I grew up listening to and that one is a mainstay on my 80s playlist.
Greatest solo album of all time.Stevie Wonder- Innervisions (1973)
I have no problem defending this as the greatest album of the Boomer/Classic Rock era.Stevie Wonder- Innervisions (1973)
Too High
Visions
Living For the City
Golden Lady
Higher Ground
Jesus Children of America
All in Love is Fair
Don’t You Worry ‘Bout a Thing
He’s Misstra Know-It-All
Whole lot of brilliance here. Long before Prince there was Stevie writing, playing nearly every instrument, and producing. Most of his work prior to this album had been focused on questions of romantic love, but here he turns to social issues and politics. The sad part is that most of his lyrics are still relevant. “Living for the City” could just as easily describe the urban plight of many black Americans in 2018 as it did in 1973. “Misstra Know-It-All” a song decrying the presidency of Richard Nixon, could apply as easily our current President. And so on. Wonderful record.
Here's the thing about Stevie Wonder:Wow, some really high praise for Stevie. I've always liked what I've heard from him on the radio but admittedly haven't heard much beyond that. Looks like I'll have to check some out.
?Here's the thing about Stevie Wonder:
He's.....complicated
He had a HOF's worth of hits before he turned 21 (Springsteen - born around the same time - was still busing tables). I'm pretty certain he wrote most of them, but didn't get credit because he was a kid and because Berry Gordy was an ####### who doled out composing credits to his other slaves.
Like a lot of his peers (& there ain't but a few on Stevie's level), he had no filter. He recorded what he wanted to and sometimes that led to schlock (that sold 8 gazillion records).
He got himself locked in on his previous album - Talking Book where he only played the most famous drum intro in rock history on "Superstition"- but this is the record where he turned it loose.
"Living For The City" is the greatest anthem of the '70s - it's not a fairy tale by guys who dropped too many tabs of acid and immersed themselves in Tolkien. This was real life for millions of folks. Stevie's "Voice Of God" vocals after the bridge rank with anything any singer has done, ever.
Every song on this album is layered and brilliant.
Then, he did it again on the next album (after almost getting killed by a tree hitting him in the head) and AGAIN on Songs In The Key Of Life.
Never needed, rarely heeded the hard, bleak, true-to-life & depressive art - not in literature, movies, music, painting. Even within the madness of VanGogh (aside: do NOT let your life go by without seeing a VvG up close, i implore you) the crows and rear views of churches ached for light. I'm at my most commonly American in that way. I want universality, deep feeling, hope, imaginative puzzles & clever answers from the expressive forms of communication.The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967)
I’m not a Nico guy eitherNico was overrated as a singer and didn't belong in the VU. Her songs were the low points of that album, and the live versions of those songs (performed by the later lineups of the group) are much, much better.
She was hot and she had a moody supermodel attitude. Those seem to be the sole reasons why she had any involvement in the music business at all.Nor am I
That is indeed a pretty good song, IMO.Although I must admit that I do have a soft spot in my heart for her 1965 debut single
Gordon Lightfoot. Later on he merged it with another of his early tunes, “Ribbon of Darkness”.That is indeed a pretty good song, IMO.
I Feel Fine is from 1964, not 1966. By 1966, the Beatles were giving us songs like Tomorrow Never Knows and Doctor Robert, both of which were about drugs, nearly a year before the release of the Velvet Underground record.timschochet said:Arguably the most influential rock album of all time. Extraordinary for its era- this album was produced in 1966, and artists back then did not talk about death and drugs, much less the ravages of heroin. While McCartney and Lennon were singing “I’m in love with her and I feel fine”, Lou Reed was feeling “sick and dirty, more dead than alive” while waiting for his dealer.
Several of the songs that Reed sung were written in 64 and 65.I Feel Fine is from 1964, not 1966. By 1966, the Beatles were giving us songs like Tomorrow Never Knows and Doctor Robert, both of which were about drugs, nearly a year before the release of the Velvet Underground record.
If you want to talk this album up, by all means, but let's avoid the revisionist history.
I don't think that is possible.Not sure I know a single song off this album
As always, interesting post. I enjoy the dark as much as the light and I don't think a band ever captured the American underbelly so well. At least for a time when music wasn't really paying attention to it. Music seemed to be the last American art form to really embrace the underbelly of America.Never needed, rarely heeded the hard, bleak, true-to-life & depressive art - not in literature, movies, music, painting. Even within the madness of VanGogh (aside: do NOT let your life go by without seeing a VvG up close, i implore you) the crows and rear views of churches ached for light. I'm at my most commonly American in that way. I want universality, deep feeling, hope, imaginative puzzles & clever answers from the expressive forms of communication.
That said, great articulation is great articulation and this is great articulation.
In what world.If there is one modern popular artist still credited with having great albums, this is probably she. Like some of the other notable singer-songwriters we have already touched upon, Adele’s music seems to be quite personal- and also, I think, timeless. I have a feeling that 40 or 50 years from now, “Rolling In the Deep” and “Someone Like You” will continue to be standards.
Well, let’s start with popularity:In what world.
Adele reminds me, personally & artistically, of the first great singer i ever worked with - Bonnie Raitt.Adele- 21- (2011)
Rolling In the Deep
Rumour Has It
Turning Tables
Don’t You Remember
Set Fire to the Rain
He Won’t Go
Take It All
I’ll Be Waiting
One and Only
Lovesong
Someone Like You
I Found a Boy
If there is one modern popular artist still credited with having great albums, this is probably she. Like some of the other notable singer-songwriters we have already touched upon, Adele’s music seems to be quite personal- and also, I think, timeless. I have a feeling that 40 or 50 years from now, “Rolling In the Deep” and “Someone Like You” will continue to be standards.
Yes. It’s probably the newest album that will be discussed here.I like Adele and especially this album but isn't it kind of new to be in a classic album thread?
So, I guess in the whitest world possible (that article references The Sound of Music sountrack and Taylor Swift as well). She does not get reviewed favorably to Kendrick Lamar, Kanye West, Radiohead, etc, etc, etc...Well, let’s start with popularity:In what world.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKCN0T22BH20151114
But by and large the critics seem to agree. She consistently gets high marks, probably the highest of any current artist.
It is very clear being a huge star isn't something she enjoys. She hates touring, has a lot of anxiety about performing, etc. I wouldn't be surprised if at any point she just outright retired.Adele reminds me, personally & artistically, of the first great singer i ever worked with - Bonnie Raitt.
Keene, NH, Thanksgiving week, i remember, 1973, i think. Cold, rainy night. Band & crew are in the some 3rd floor rooms in the local theater before a show. Folks are chatting, goofing, getting properly loaded. I was essentially in charge, but i'm new and certainly don't feel like it and i really dont know Miss Raitt - who i'd 1st seen in a coffeehouse when i was 16 & adored - all that well, so i'm watching her as she's in & out of the room doing this & that.
The outside wall of the room was actually part of this flume up the building above the marquee. Bonnie, as quiet before a show as she was boisterous after, had found a spot leaning against a wall looking out a window. She seems a little down, i figure i should pep her up since i represent her mgmt, so i saunter over. As i get to her, i see streams of tears coursing down her cheeks.
"You OK?"
Miss Raitt bobs her head toward the window, so i look out and down upon 100 or so people standing in the rain, waiting in line to be let into the theater. Bonnie, daughter of one of Broadway's great stars of the 50s, a showbiz vet with a gold record, is overwhelmed that people would stand in the rain to see li'l ol' her.
I get the same vibe from Adele - an immense strength, a vulnerability she'd really rather not have but can't help herself from and a tendency to groove her work toward what her audience wants more than what her tremendous creative fire can achieve. I hope she's carefully & courageously guided along her path, which i'm kinda not seeing so far.
She's well established as a superstar and the industry has changed so she can now record and perform on her own terms. Some artists need to keep their nose to the grindstone to feed their family (or their addictions) while others are compelled to keep creating (e.g. Prince). Adele could drop "35" in 2023 and then disappear for another decade.It is very clear being a huge star isn't something she enjoys. She hates touring, has a lot of anxiety about performing, etc. I wouldn't be surprised if at any point she just outright retired.