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Post by berkley on Dec 3, 2019 18:35:31 GMT -5
Love Nico. Yeah, that first album is very different to her later work and the songs and traditional pop-music arrangements aren't always well-suited to her voice, but I still like it - the very oddness and incongruity of that combination gives it a weird charm of its own.
I also think she one of the most incredibly iconic faces of all time and should have done more film work, if only the right director had come across her.
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Post by Confessor on Dec 3, 2019 19:49:27 GMT -5
I've been aware of some of the bigger radio hits he's had (mostly "Running on Empty" and "Doctor My Eyes") but I didn't really start listening to Jackson Browne until this past week. Those first five albums are pretty solid! You might also want to try Nico's debut album Chelsea Girl circa 1966-67 as it has a number of good songs written by Jackson Browne on it. It's not like later Nico, and it is a very idiosyncratic German accented voice she has. Here's one... I second this recommendation. With both Lou Reed and John Cale playing on it and contributing songs to the album, parts of Chelsea Girl sound like The Velvet Underground & Nico, Volume II.
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Post by berkley on Dec 3, 2019 21:31:14 GMT -5
You might also want to try Nico's debut album Chelsea Girl circa 1966-67 as it has a number of good songs written by Jackson Browne on it. It's not like later Nico, and it is a very idiosyncratic German accented voice she has. Here's one... I second this recommendation. With both Lou Reed and John Cale playing on it and contributing songs to the album, parts of Chelsea Girl sound like The Velvet Underground & Nico, Volume II. Though I like the album we have, I can't help wondering what it might have been if Reed or even more so Cale had been the producer/arranger/musical director (helping choose the material she would cover, etc.). I think those two would have had more of an ear for her sound.
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Post by berkley on Dec 3, 2019 21:33:51 GMT -5
Looking at wiki, I had forgotten how many of the songs on that first record were written by her ex-VU bandmates Reed, Cale, and Sterling Morrison.
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Post by berkley on Dec 3, 2019 23:41:39 GMT -5
Earlier tonight they played this Robert Charlebois song before the hockey game in Montreal, when they had a tribute to former captains of the team, most of those still alive making the trip to appear before the fans:
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Post by Mister Spaceman on Dec 5, 2019 16:35:11 GMT -5
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Post by Batflunkie on Dec 7, 2019 14:55:30 GMT -5
Soma Holiday- Shake Your Molecules
Really good club tune. Kind of like to think of it as a continuation of Thomas Dolby's "She Blinded Me With Science"
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2019 15:08:32 GMT -5
I play this on a weekly basis.
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Post by Duragizer on Dec 8, 2019 6:01:17 GMT -5
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Post by berkley on Dec 8, 2019 12:57:53 GMT -5
I play this on a weekly basis. Interesting - I know Slip Sliding Away and Still Crazy After All these Years as Paul Simon solo songs - were they Simon & Garfunkel songs that Simon re-recorded on his own later or does this album included both S&G and Simon solo hits?
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Post by Confessor on Dec 8, 2019 14:02:50 GMT -5
I play this on a weekly basis. Interesting - I know Slip Sliding Away and Still Crazy After All these Years as Paul Simon solo songs - were they Simon & Garfunkel songs that Simon re-recorded on his own later or does this album included both S&G and Simon solo hits? I was wondering about the inclusion of those two songs as well. But after thinking about it for a moment, I remembered that when Paul & Art played their reunion concert in Central Park in 1981, they did play both of those songs -- although "Still Crazy After All These Years" is still a Paul Simon solo performance, with Garfunkel sitting at the back of the stage. So, I assume that, on that playlist, it's the live versions from The Concert in Central Park double album. Maybe???
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Post by berkley on Dec 8, 2019 17:46:20 GMT -5
And here I thought I was covering all the bases; but no! It never occurred to me that they were Paul Simon solo songs recorded later by a re-united Simon & Garfunkel, even though I was aware of that Central Park concert album they made.
Nice to hear them harmonising on Slip Slidin.
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Post by Rob Allen on Dec 8, 2019 19:11:24 GMT -5
I was at the Simon & Garfunkel concert in Central Park in 1981. One of the cameras that filmed it was on a crane right above my head. It really was awesome. I still have the t-shirt.
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Post by Confessor on Dec 8, 2019 19:12:48 GMT -5
I was at the Simon & Garfunkel concert in Central Park in 1981. One of the cameras that filmed it was on a crane right above my head. It really was awesome. That's really cool, Rob.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2019 10:23:34 GMT -5
I was at the Simon & Garfunkel concert in Central Park in 1981. One of the cameras that filmed it was on a crane right above my head. It really was awesome. I still have the t-shirt. I was there too. I was about 75-100 feet from that Crane and shocked to learn this today and left right after this concert is over and had to go back home to work. Unbelievable!
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