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Had a road trip to Dartmouth just before Christmas so I took the opportunity to switch out the CDs in the car. This is what's now been in rotation since then:
Led Zeppelin - Box Set Disc 2
Sloan - One Chord to Another
White Stripes - Elephant
Beck - Mellow Gold
Cure - Kiss me, Kiss me, Kiss me
Pure Funk (Various Artists)
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I've been listening to a lot of 60s stuff lately. Right now I'm going through a Byrds phase. Their first half-dozen albums are rarely less than interesting. The one I have on right now is The Notorious Byrd Brothers, whose opening track, the brass-driven "Artificial Energy", just had to have influenced the first Teardrop Explodes album!
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quote:Originally posted by Fanfic Lady: Have fun, Harbi.
I like Simon & Garfunkel a lot, their solo careers not so much, especially not Simon's. I think that, like a lot of rock stars, he lost touch with the everyday world at some point, and his lyrics became patronizing and pretentious. Just my opinion.
FWIW, Art Garfunkel's Scissors Cut is mostly a sweet, unassuming record that probably would've been heavily played on "Adult Contemporary" stations or on VH1 if either had existed at the time. Some of the songs cry out for full-blown cheese-laden arrangements that they sadly didn't get. Which makes sense, given that most or all of them were written by the dude who wrote "MacArthur Park."
Case in point. (The YouTube poster not only gets the title wrong, they attribute it to the wrong LP. "Watermark" isn't bad, but its arrangements sound even more dated now than the SC ones do.)
I'd love to hear this one again. Maybe it's about to cycle around into "so-bad-it's-good" territory, whereupon billions of irony-loving hipsters will pounce on the vinyl version and drive its price up into the triple digits. (Not that anyone should pay that much, but... )
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I missed that one, FL. I knew the poor man was on a slippery slope when he started making records with Amy Grant, though.
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Medusa by Annie Lennox, her version of the clash song Train in Vain is fantastic!
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Love that album, Harbinger. You inspired me to post a Youtube link on the Amazing Covers thread. She also does the most haunting cover of "Whiter Shade of Pale" on Medusa.
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quote:Originally posted by Fanfic Lady: I've been listening to a lot of 60s stuff lately. Right now I'm going through a Byrds phase. Their first half-dozen albums are rarely less than interesting. The one I have on right now is The Notorious Byrd Brothers, whose opening track, the brass-driven "Artificial Energy", just had to have influenced the first Teardrop Explodes album!
The early Byrds albums are terrific! They not only had solid hits but put together nice broad perspective albums. They get tons of praise for their harmonizing--and rightly so--but u think sometimes they're underrated for their talent as musicians beyond that. Great array of instruments, grew lead vocals, the occasional off the beaten path arrangement...all groovy stuff!
From: If you don't want my peaches, honey... | Registered: Sep 2003
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3 days on repeat in the car and it hasn't gotten old yet.
When the kids are in the car though, we're listening to The White Stripes' Icky Thump. My son loves "Conquest", and my daughter likes "Prickly Thorn"
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I'm currently hooked on 3 divas: Rumer, Lana Del Rey & Imelda May. Also recently discovered Dum Dum Girls & Those Darlins, two pop/punk girl bands.
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