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

Speaking of great covers of Neil Diamond songs, Johnny Cash did "Solitary Man", backed by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Excellent.

 
Pretty sure my mom only listened to Neil Diamond, Barry Manilow, and Christmas albums by Kenny Rogers and the Carpenters until she discovered Mannheim Steamroller Christmas albums. Dad was a high school/middle school band director for 35 years and played weekends in a Top 40 cover band that in his words “suddenly became an oldies band” when they stopped learning new songs. He still plays in a bunch of big band jazz groups in the area.

Needless to say, they divorced by the time I was 10.

Recently I helped him move a ton of CD’s when his cousin who really had Jon other nearby family passed. I was just blindly ripping them into iTunes because there was a ton of Beatles, Beach Boys, etc. in there. Without realizing it, I also imported about 10 Neil Diamond discs and forget to “unstar” them before my phone synced. Now if anybody gets out of line on the car, a quick dose of Neil shuts that nonsense down pronto - kids and wife pop in their earbuds and I’ll periodically belt out a lyric just so they know to keep their earbuds in and leave me alone.

Also also, spent most of my childhood thinking one song was about a denim-wearing pastor.

 
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timschochet said:
This ones for you Shuke : 

Supertramp- Breakfast in America (1979)

Gone Hollywood

The Logical Song

Goodbye Stranger

Breakfast in America

Oh Darling

Take the Long Way Home

Lord Is It Mine

Just Another Nervous Wreck

Casual Conversations

Child of Vision

Take a look at my girlfriend, she’s the only one I got. Not much of a girlfriend, I never seem to get a lot.

This album with an iconic cover featured 4 songs that received heavy radio play on rock stations: the title song, The Logical Song, Goodbye Stranger, and Take the Long Way Home. That’s an astonishing number of hit songs from one record for any band that’s not named the Beatles or Rolling Stones. Supertramp had the catchy hooks for a couple of years there in the late 70s. But once you add “Give a Little Bit” and “Bloody Well Right” to the 4 songs mentioned here you basically have the band’s entire repitoire that’s worth listening to. 
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I love this album. Child of Vision has one of my favorite intros. I also think Lord is It Mine is a great tune.  One of the few albums I'll listen to almost every track.

 
Mrs. Rannous said:
Okay.  I can see that.  He may be related to Father What-A-Waste.
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I have a terrible ear for lyrics. Partly because I tend to pay more attention to any and all instrumentation and even backup singers over lead vocals. Maybe because I have a band director dad and grew up playing trumpet and piano. Partly because I am largely not a “feels” person and one pass through the liner notes on an album and I usually dismissed most lyrics as garbage. Mostly because I just inherently suck at it though with some singers easier to pick out than others.

Back to the topic of Neil: I wouldn’t think to include any of his albums in a “classic” discussion because to me he was just the one concert your mom would actually go to. A huge part of the musical culture at the time, but he’s more of an icon than the product of one or more kickass albums. On the other hand, to even consider him in the vein of this thread, it is fitting that Tim picked a concert set.

 
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Rustoleum said:
I have a terrible ear for lyrics. Partly because I tend to pay more attention to any and all instrumentation and even backup singers over lead vocals. Maybe because I have a band director dad and grew up playing trumpet and piano. Partly because I am largely not a “feels” person and one pass through the liner notes on an album and I usually dismissed most lyrics as garbage. Mostly because I just inherently suck at it though with some singers easier to pick out than others.

Back to the topic of Neil: I wouldn’t think to include any of his albums in a “classic” discussion because to me he was just the one concert your mom would actually go to. A huge part of the musical culture at the time, but held more an icon than the product of oen ro more kickass albums. On the other hand, to even consider him in the vein of this thread, it is fitting that Tim picked a concert set.
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You're lucky he didn't pick Barry Manilow.

(Wait for it.)

 
simey said:
Hot August Night is a great live album. It was on regular rotation on my mom's turntable growing up. I mentioned somewhere in this thread that I saw Neil live back in the late 90s, and he was very entertaining. This live album really captures Neil the showman in his prime. Favorite song on the album is "Cracklin' Rosie."
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I get it, I used to like Blood, Sweat & Tears (the album with Spinnin' Wheel on it) on my parent's stereo.

Simply because it was a break from The New Christy Minstrels.  

 
George Harrison- All Things Must Pass (1970)

I’d Have You Anytime

My Sweet Lord

Wah-Wah

Isn’t It a Pity

What Is Life

If Not For You

Behind That Locked Door

Let It Down

Run of the Mill

I Live For You

Beware of Darkness

Apple Scruffs

Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll)

Awaiting On You All

All Things Must Pass

I Dig Love

Isn’t It a Pity (Version Two)

Hear Me Lord

It’s Johnny’s Birthday

Plug Me In

I Remember Jeep

Thanks for the Pepperoni

Out of the Blue

This triple sided album is probably the best work of all the solo Beatles. It might go down as one of the greatest rock albums ever if not for the last sides which are instrumental- don’t get me wrong, I like them, and the artists involved (Clapton, Bonnie and Delaney, and basically the entire crew of Derek & The Dominoes) were all legendary, but over all it weakens the album, otherwise filled with classic songs. Still a masterpiece. 

 
Not every song is great - but I have always loved this album.  I didn't realize as a kid, which songs were written by which Beatles - getting into my mid-teens, most of them became fairly apparent.  

I loved almost all George songs.  

Geez, this guy's songs are probably top 5 that bring emotion immediately to the surface.  

 
Isn't it a pity is one of the greatest songs of all time. Clapton was doing a killer version in concert a few years ago with Derek Trucks in his band play the slide parts. Such a powerful message.

 
It's funny - one wonders if Harrison would have been anything but a picker if he hadn't been a Beatle, but he became a truly great songwriter once he asserted himself within the unprecedented milieu created by George Martin & Lennon/McCartney. He reminds me of Prince a little because there's always an Easter egg of some kind in even his most pedestrian ventures.

 
Foreigner- Records (1982)

Cold As Ice

Double Vision

Head Games

Waiting For a Girl Like You

Feels Like the First Time

Urgent

Dirty White Boy

Juke Box Hero

Long, Long Way From Home

Hot Blooded

Foreigner was always more of a hits band than an album band, so this collection is for me better than any of their original records. I think they’re an underrated group of performers; always thought so. Smooth, professional, and very good rock and roll. 

 
Foreigner is a band that i loved in HS and college but just doesn't age well IMO. I might leave Juke Box Hero or Long Long Way from home on if they came on now.

That said, i always thought HeadKnocker was one of their underrated songs. 

 
Some of the albums/bands you’re naming now brought back such good high school memories it ain’t even about the music. Foreigner, Supertramp, etc. Good times. 

Admit I can go to a Foreigner concert and know every word. 

 
Foreigner can scratch an irony rock spot for me, I guess. 

I still wouldn't choose it, but I wouldn't gouge my ears out unless it was a deserted island thing and it was on in repetition. Then we might have problems.  

 
Best karaoke I ever saw was at a company Christmas party when the comptroller (who looked like Raj from What's Happenin') got up and belted out Dirty White Boy. 

 
Cheesy McGee said:
Isn't it a pity is one of the greatest songs of all time. Clapton was doing a killer version in concert a few years ago with Derek Trucks in his band play the slide parts. Such a powerful message.
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Tedeschi Trucks Band plays Isn't it a Pity spectacularly - Susan on the vocal is money. https://youtu.be/dCiWE1DUZS8

They also do a great version of Wah-Wah - but don't pull this out too often - Mike Mattison is the lead on this sometimes and with the horn section on it and Derek's slide work it is a really bouncy number https://youtu.be/9U18I2Lo4eY

 
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I missed a great record by an ex-Beatle and come back to find some cheesy pop-rock greatest hits record - guess skipping a day could have dangerous results.

Don't hate Foreigner but they're pretty bland "corporate rock" not really worth discussing in this context.

All Things Must Pass is the best post-Beatles record put out by any of the Fab Four by a pretty substantial margin - and there were some good ones like Imagine, McCartney,  Ringo, Double Fantasy, Venus and Mars, Back to the Egg and Flowers in the Dirt.

 
Foreigner... I like them. Don't love them. Definitely nostalgic. Have one album (4), and would probably grab the greatest hits that you listed here if I saw it in nice condition at the record store. 

Just not much to say about them. Considering all the hits (let's face it, everyone of a certain age knows every song on that greatest hits album), it's almost weird that they aren't more highly regarded.

 
General Malaise said:
If I could go the rest of my life without ever hearing another Foreigner song, I'll consider it a life well lived.
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I thought I was doing a good job of this also. Then a few summers ago the local outdoor fair booked their singer Lou Gramm. I thus got the joy of hearing "dirty white boy" while sitting a mile away on my front porch.

 
Ilov80s said:
So we are on Foreignor now? Can we do some jazz or rap or something good? 
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To be fair, Foreigner were a "classic rock" station staple. Which was another reason, among many this thread has reminded me of, that I avoided classic rock stations growing up.

 
Just some of the albums timmy will never get to:

The Yes Album

Dixie Chicken

Then Play On

Stand!

Genesis Live

Ogden's Nut Gone Flake

John Barleycorn Must Die

Super Session

Axis: Bold As Love

Giant Step/De Old Folks At Home

The Turning Point

Winter In America

Inner Mounting Flame

Gratitude

Blow by Blow

The Original Soundtrack

Mad Dogs & Englishmen

New York Tendaberry

Stand Up

Broken Barricades

Avalon

Chicago Transit Authority

Hejira

i'm tired & angry already

nm

 
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At least one of those albums was going to be chosen pretty shortly. A couple others are under longer term consideration.

A few that you named are among my personal favorites, but I wouldn't consider choosing them here (like Hejira- no regrets, Coyote!)

 
timschochet said:
(like Hejira- no regrets, Coyote!)
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The correct answer was to say you would be posting Shadows & Light - her truly revolutionary live album w Pat Metheny, Jaco & Lyle Mays where Hejira material and other stuff is better covered. That was a test.

Blow by Blow was the one i put in to make you say "hey!"

 
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