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

jomar said:
didn't the funny haired singer get with Jennifer Aniston largely due to this album?
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And Courtney Cox. As well as a murders row of other Hollywood talent.

I really don't like the album all that much, personally. And the nerds who get hot and bothered a la Barry Jive like they're back in the record store circa '93 is funny. The Eagles are pretty much the only band I still do that with. Justifiably.

 
This is the only album from CC that I enjoy. The rest for me was extremely meh and never ever captured this albums vibe. 

Good album. But I can't take his voice past this album. 

Saw them live two times. Sucked both times. First time was when they first hit the scene with their debut album. Just atrocious. The second time was opening for Live. They sucked even more....just not my cup of tea at all.

But yet.....that first album has some outstanding songs. Just the whole vibe of that album. Magical sessions.....never to be captured again.

 
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Apple Jack said:
And Courtney Cox. As well as a murders row of other Hollywood talent.

I really don't like the album all that much, personally. And the nerds who get hot and bothered a la Barry Jive like they're back in the record store circa '93 is funny. The Eagles are pretty much the only band I still do that with. Justifiably.
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Discussed in Holiday in Spain.

We got airplane rides 
We got California drowning out the window side 
We've got big black cars 
And we got stories how we slept with all the 
Movie stars

 
SWC said:
i like counting crows they are one of the new bands that i like i really like and espeshully this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80mVCVPUl4c and also its uncool to tell someone who they should and should not like for music brohans just live and let live and dont be that guy take that to the bank bromigos 
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I agree with my broheem the SWCer on this.  Music is highly personal and I'll never think my personal taste in music is anything more meaningful than a fart in the wind.  My personal experience with this Counting Crows record was memorable.  I bought it shortly after it came out based on what I heard on the radio.  I had the cd playing in my car for a couple days.  At a gas station one day, having listened a couple times through, I ejected it and tossed it in the garbage can.  At that moment I was so fed up with that record I wanted it completely gone from my life.  I know I was extremely stoned at the time.  A few months later my girlfriend found the empty case in my car and asked me to put it on.  I was pretty embarrassed to have to tell her the story, as I am telling it again today.

 
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tommyboy said:
i saw him in 92-94  not sure exact date but toured with Pearl Jam.  He headlined, PJ was the warm up act, and they were already stars themselves.    It was outdoors probably 20-30,000 people in Portland.   He played his older heavier stuff with his Crazy Horse band.   It was interesting for sure, he was a dang madman on his guitar and they thumped.   I enjoyed it but honestly i think i'd like to also have seen him play an accoustic show in a smaller venue just to appreciate how truly musically gifted he is.
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The Farm Aid show in Louisville had about the same number of attendees - it was an outdoor arena as well. 

At my show, he went acoustic - with little accompaniment for most of it. 

I loved it, of course, but, I woulda liked more ripping electric. 

Ha! Perhaps, we could swap shows - PJ is F'n awesome as an opening! 

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I'm with the SWC'er, Henry Ford, and Cletius on this, too. I just vocalized my own personal subjective displeasure with the album. That doesn't mean I think any less of yon and yons tastes. Peace.  

 
I’m not a big fan of most of the CC catalogue but Mr. Jones is a fantastic song that I still sing along to every time I hear it. It takes me right back to 5th-6th grade.

 
Apple Jack said:
And Courtney Cox. As well as a murders row of other Hollywood talent.

I really don't like the album all that much, personally. And the nerds who get hot and bothered a la Barry Jive like they're back in the record store circa '93 is funny. The Eagles are pretty much the only band I still do that with. Justifiably.
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:lmao: I like the Eagles. ####er.  

 
Apple Jack said:
And Courtney Cox. As well as a murders row of other Hollywood talent.

I really don't like the album all that much, personally. And the nerds who get hot and bothered a la Barry Jive like they're back in the record store circa '93 is funny. The Eagles are pretty much the only band I still do that with. Justifiably.
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Emmy Rossum is on that list as well, apparently. :wub:    This guy has done well. :lol:

Not a fan of this band's music, however. 

 
Saw Neil Young once back in the day probably just about 30 years ago now give or take. Actually saw is the wrong word...I heard NY.  It was at the Saratoga performing arts center (SPAC) which is a cool place to see a concert, outdoor amphitheater with lawn seats, but it is also inside of the Saratoga State Park so if you know the park there were a few places you could park your car and hear the shows for free. I knew of NY but wasn't a fan or anything... Was more into heavy music back then. Anyway was with a couple of buddies, pickup truck, 1/4 keg of beer.  Neil comes on does the first set solo, acoustic. Was like camping but with NY playing around the campfire, music coming through the woods of the park. 2nd half out come the electric geetars and Crazy Horse. Been a fan ever since.

 
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Van Morrison- Astral Weeks (1968)

Astral Weeks

Beside You 

Sweet Thing 

Cyprus Avenue

The Way Young Lovers Do

Madame George

Ballerina 

Slim Slow Slider 

This is one of the few albums on this list that I can never just listen to my favorite one or two songs; if I am going to venture into the slipstream, I need to hear the whole record from start to finish. 

Moondance is a marvelous collection of pop songs, one of the greatest ever for that matter. Astral Weeks is something else entirely. There are times, such as during the opening bars of “Sweet Thing” or the middle of the title song that I think that this might be the most sublime music I have ever heard that isn’t classical. It’s simply that amazing. 

 
I recently read a book about the creation of this album, along with all the other crazy stuff going on in Boston at the same time, Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968. 

Not only is it about Van Morrison and the creative process that led to this and some of his other work (e.g., "Brown-Eyed Girl" was originally Brown-Skinned Girl but got changed by the producer at the last minute), but also has Timothy Leary's acid stuff at Harvard, the Velvet Underground getting big in Boston before they caught on in NYC, James Brown's concert at the Boston Garden on the night MLK was shot and the crazy way they got it televised and helped stave off rioting. If you like the album that much, you would probably like the book too. 

 
I like some Van Morrison songs, but have never had the urge to check out any of his albums in full.  Based on the songs I've heard, I doubt it would be anything that would stick with me.  I am good with what I have by him already. 

 
Ghost Rider said:
I like some Van Morrison songs, but have never had the urge to check out any of his albums in full.  Based on the songs I've heard, I doubt it would be anything that would stick with me.  I am good with what I have by him already. 
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You are missing out. Astral Weeks is entirely unlike any other pop/rock/folk/jazz album. 

 
The very definition of "Album". You don't just listen to one song. There is no "one song" to listen to anyway. No Brown Eyed Girl here, no Moondance, no Domino. Etc.

Fantastic record.

 
An oldie, but a goodie:

Lester Bangs on Astral Weeks

I knew St. Dominic's Preview before Astral Weeks, so I was familiar with his mystical, imagery-laced side from Listen to the Lion and Almost Independence Day. But it laid me out. From the first notes of the bass in the opening track on my first listen. Such an intoxicating record. And really good for weekend early mornings. Can't pick a favorite.

 
Apple Jack said:
An oldie, but a goodie:

Lester Bangs on Astral Weeks

I knew St. Dominic's Preview before Astral Weeks, so I was familiar with his mystical, imagery-laced side from Listen to the Lion and Almost Independence Day. But it laid me out. From the first notes of the bass in the opening track on my first listen. Such an intoxicating record. And really good for weekend early mornings. Can't pick a favorite.
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I’m not even sure what album to compare it too. It’s so unique.

 
I've never liked Van Morrison. I have moderately enjoyed a few of his songs, but that was it. I have a deep personal connection to "Brown-Eyed Girl" but always preferred the punk version.

But I like to broaden my musical horizons and after so many grown men waxed orgasmic over Astral Weeks I gave it a listen.

Herb's Review That Nobody Wanted or Asked For: This album sucks, just like the rest of VM's catalog.

Sorry, I don't usually post in this thread unless I love the record of the day, as it's not that fun for someone to trash something that you love, but I couldn't resist. I have a visceral dislike of  this artist's music. And voice. And similarity in name to Morissey, who I also detest as an artist. And person.

 
So dig the way the bass comes in at the beginning of Sweet Thing. That guy was the MVP of those sessions. The "de facto bandleader" who says Van never bothered to introduce himself. :lmao:

 
Astral Weeks isn't my favorite Van album, but I still think it's great. I like to hear it when I'm in a mellow mood. "Madame George" is my favorite track on the album.

 
The Sting- Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1974) 

Solace

 The Entertainer

Easy Winners 

Hooker’s Hooker

Luther

Pineapple Rag

The Entertainer

The Glove 

Little Girl

Pineapple Rag

Merry Go Round Music 

Solace

The Entertainer

George Roy Hill, the director of The Sting starring Robert Redford and Paul Newman, hired Marvin Hamlisch to provide a score suitable to this tale of Depression era grifters. Hamlisch in turn came up with an extraordinary idea: why not use the ragtime music of Scott Joplin, even though it was from a different, earlier era? 

The rest is history. This is one of the most famous movie soundtrack albums of all time, with Joplin’s songs having been rediscovered by the public. The music is instantly recognizable, starting with “The Entertainer”, which thanks to this record must have been learned by every kid in America whose parents forced him or her to take beginning piano lessons. “Solace”, “Easy Winners”, “Pineapple Rag”- all classic works, never performed better. 

 
It works really well in the film, but I remember that when it started getting radio airplay, it got old really fast.

 
Genesis-Abacab (1981) 

Abacab 

No Reply At All 

Me And Sarah Jane

Keep It Dark

Dodo/Lurker

Who Dunnit?

Man on The Corner

Like It Or Not

Another Record

Genesis is basically 3 different bands: the progressive rock band led by Peter Gabriel, the hard rock band led by Phil Collins, and lastly the syrupy soft rock band led by Phil Collins. For now we’ll discuss the middle, hard rock version. We’ll eventually get to the progressive Peter Gabriel version later on. The last version is best forgotten. 

Anyhow Abacab is great hard rock of the early 80s, particularly the opening song, “No Reply At All” and “Man On the Corner”, probably my favorite Genesis song. But the whole album jams.  

 
I was never a big Genesis fan but for some reason I've been exploring a lot of their catalogue on Amazon recently, the Gabriel stuff as well as the more poppy Collins era and I have to say it's good stuff. These guys were great musicians even after they stopped their progressive/art phase. This is a really rockin' record.

 
Abacab is my jam, the whole album but specifically the first 4 tunes.  Anyone have any other late 70s early 80s albums that sound like this?  Music and production are the ####### bomb. 

 
 I was a big early fan of the Gabriel stuff. But probably the most unsung member in the band was Steve Hackett. The world loves to do the Gabriel vs Collins aspect - but to me Steve Hackett sitting there and playing these lush guitar parts, adding in the 12 string to the mix made me listen. He  bridges the sound between Trick of the Tail and Lamb - so that the band continues without missing Gabriel all that much - the sound to me is still there. .After he leaves it is culminated when we get to Abacab and  of course the whole rest of the world starts to listen and never contemplated the sonics he provided - this stuff just turns into mass produced "hit making" from here.

 
Abacab is easily my favorite Genesis album. Love the entire thing, but the title track really stands out as a great piece of work. Never get tired of that song 

 
timschochet said:
The Sting- Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1974) 

Solace

 The Entertainer

Easy Winners 

Hooker’s Hooker

Luther

Pineapple Rag

The Entertainer

The Glove 

Little Girl

Pineapple Rag

Merry Go Round Music 

Solace

The Entertainer

George Roy Hill, the director of The Sting starring Robert Redford and Paul Newman, hired Marvin Hamlisch to provide a score suitable to this tale of Depression era grifters. Hamlisch in turn came up with an extraordinary idea: why not use the ragtime music of Scott Joplin, even though it was from a different, earlier era? 

The rest is history. This is one of the most famous movie soundtrack albums of all time, with Joplin’s songs having been rediscovered by the public. The music is instantly recognizable, starting with “The Entertainer”, which thanks to this record must have been learned by every kid in America whose parents forced him or her to take beginning piano lessons. “Solace”, “Easy Winners”, “Pineapple Rag”- all classic works, never performed better. 
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I own this on vinyl. Great soundtrack. 

 
Bizarre choice for Genesis, considering this isn't even considered their best album of the 80's (that would be Duke). 

Oh, and Genesis was never a hard rock band.  NEVER. 

 
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