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Post by berkley on Sept 12, 2024 0:38:30 GMT -5
I'm listening to the first Johnny Thunders solo album, which I've had on cd for a while but haven't played much until now. One thing I didn't realise is how many big names appeared on this record with him: Paul Cook and Steve Jones from the Sex Pistols, Chrissie Hynde does back-up vocals on one track, and - the biggest surprises to me - Phil Lynott and Steve Marriott!
But that's just an interesting bit of trivia; most importantly, it's a great record that ranks up there with the two Dolls albums (he actually does a really nice solo version of Subway Train on this one) and the first few David Johansen solo albums.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2024 8:26:22 GMT -5
I have a question that goes back to the favorite box sets discussion Slam_Bradley, Confessor, and I engaged in recently, but definitely goes out to anyone interested and with a viewpoint to share. There are some artists where I originally listed to their works more in a greatest hits or box set format, and in some cases I listened to them extensively before buying the original albums. Beatles Red and Blue collections and Led Zeppelin's 1990 box set as examples. It occurred to me that my brain still thinks of the proper "sequence" of songs in some cases more on the greatest hits ordering. Like Zeppelin's "Heartbreaker" must be immediately followed by "Communication Breakdown" even though they were originally on different albums. I can still fully appreciate the original albums of course, but at times, I think I pick my earlier collections to listen to because I still like those specific song orders. Anybody else have preferred "song orders" for certain artists that vary from the original albums? |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Sept 15, 2024 10:37:49 GMT -5
I have a question that goes back to the favorite box sets discussion Slam_Bradley, Confessor, and I engaged in recently, but definitely goes out to anyone interested and with a viewpoint to share. There are some artists where I originally listed to their works more in a greatest hits or box set format, and in some cases I listened to them extensively before buying the original albums. Beatles Red and Blue collections and Led Zeppelin's 1990 box set as examples. It occurred to me that my brain still thinks of the proper "sequence" of songs in some cases more on the greatest hits ordering. Like Zeppelin's "Heartbreaker" must be immediately followed by "Communication Breakdown" even though they were originally on different albums. I can still fully appreciate the original albums of course, but at times, I think I pick my earlier collections to listen to because I still like those specific song orders. Anybody else have preferred "song orders" for certain artists that vary from the original albums? This is definitely the case for me with Chuck Berry. I intuitively think of his songs in terms of The Great Twenty-Eight. Probably the same with Trini Lopez and, to an extent, Roger Miller, as I grew up listening to my Moms greatest hits albums. |
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Post by impulse on Sept 15, 2024 13:57:56 GMT -5
As my kids have gotten older, we've finally gotten past the crap made just for kids and into actual real music. As a result, I'm listening to more newer pop artists than I would on my own, and I have to say, I am liking Olivia Rodrigo a lot more than I would have guessed.
She has her share of sappy sad ballads with that "indie" girl voice where people sing like they both have to hock a loogey and have a very thick lisp, but she has a good bit of uptempo stuff that has a much harder rock edge than I would have expected. There's some 90s vibes, some punky and grungy bits, some folky songs. It's a lot like an older rock band's album used to be in that there's some rockers, some ballads, some folky stuff, some mixes, all on the same album, which I at least don't encounter much these days.
Anyway, it's interesting enough that I figured some of the more musically-inclined folks might appreciate some of it. I'm never mad about more music that sounds like grungy/punky 90s-flavored power pop.
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Post by berkley on Sept 15, 2024 18:06:03 GMT -5
I have a question that goes back to the favorite box sets discussion Slam_Bradley , Confessor , and I engaged in recently, but definitely goes out to anyone interested and with a viewpoint to share. There are some artists where I originally listed to their works more in a greatest hits or box set format, and in some cases I listened to them extensively before buying the original albums. Beatles Red and Blue collections and Led Zeppelin's 1990 box set as examples. It occurred to me that my brain still thinks of the proper "sequence" of songs in some cases more on the greatest hits ordering. Like Zeppelin's "Heartbreaker" must be immediately followed by "Communication Breakdown" even though they were originally on different albums. I can still fully appreciate the original albums of course, but at times, I think I pick my earlier collections to listen to because I still like those specific song orders. Anybody else have preferred "song orders" for certain artists that vary from the original albums? I wouldn't say their songs orders are still preferred by me now, since I haven't owned the compilations for years but the Beatles Red and Blue double albums were like that for me at one time. Maybe the Stones Hot Rocks to a lesser degree. The Abba and Thin Lizzy "Best of" cds might qualify, and I still have those, although I intend to get into the individual albums one of these days in both cases. Squeeze could be another one. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2024 18:06:32 GMT -5
I have a question that goes back to the favorite box sets discussion Slam_Bradley , Confessor , and I engaged in recently, but definitely goes out to anyone interested and with a viewpoint to share. There are some artists where I originally listed to their works more in a greatest hits or box set format, and in some cases I listened to them extensively before buying the original albums. Beatles Red and Blue collections and Led Zeppelin's 1990 box set as examples. It occurred to me that my brain still thinks of the proper "sequence" of songs in some cases more on the greatest hits ordering. Like Zeppelin's "Heartbreaker" must be immediately followed by "Communication Breakdown" even though they were originally on different albums. I can still fully appreciate the original albums of course, but at times, I think I pick my earlier collections to listen to because I still like those specific song orders. Anybody else have preferred "song orders" for certain artists that vary from the original albums? I wouldn't say their songs orders are still preferred by me now, since I haven't owned the compilations for years but the Beatles Red and Blue double albums were like that for me at one time. Maybe the Stones Hot Rocks to a lesser degree. The Abba and Thin Lizzy "Best of" cds might qualify, and I still have those, although I intend to get into the individual albums one of these days in both cases. Squeeze could be another one. Ah, Hot Rocks! That was my Stones collection growing up, didn't even get any of the regular albums until I was much older. Though oddly I don't think the song order stuck with me as much on that one for some reason even though I listened to it tons. |
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Post by berkley on Sept 16, 2024 18:18:31 GMT -5
I wouldn't say their songs orders are still preferred by me now, since I haven't owned the compilations for years but the Beatles Red and Blue double albums were like that for me at one time. Maybe the Stones Hot Rocks to a lesser degree. The Abba and Thin Lizzy "Best of" cds might qualify, and I still have those, although I intend to get into the individual albums one of these days in both cases. Squeeze could be another one. Ah, Hot Rocks! That was my Stones collection growing up, didn't even get any of the regular albums until I was much older. Though oddly I don't think the song order stuck with me as much on that one for some reason even though I listened to it tons. Now that I try to think of it, I find that's the case with me as well. Looking back, I don't think we ever owned the album, but my older brother borrowed it from one of his friends for an extended period of time. And we did start to get a lot of the Stones albums not too many years later, mostly from the Mick Taylor era and onwards. |
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Post by Confessor on Sept 17, 2024 2:07:12 GMT -5
The excellent record shop in the next town to me has a 50% off used vinyl sale today. I think I'm gonna pop along later today and see what treasures I can find.
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Post by commond on Sept 17, 2024 6:05:02 GMT -5
Speaking of record hunting, this is one of my favorite YouTube channels:
I love hearing musicians speak about the music they're into, and I always come away from each video with new finds. Scroll through the videos and you might find some of your favorite artists.
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Post by impulse on Sept 17, 2024 12:18:00 GMT -5
The excellent record shop in the next town to me has a 50% off used vinyl sale today. I think I'm gonna pop along later today and see what treasures I can find. R.I.P. to your wallet in advance. |
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Post by impulse on Sept 17, 2024 12:19:36 GMT -5
I have a question that goes back to the favorite box sets discussion Slam_Bradley, Confessor, and I engaged in recently, but definitely goes out to anyone interested and with a viewpoint to share. There are some artists where I originally listed to their works more in a greatest hits or box set format, and in some cases I listened to them extensively before buying the original albums. Beatles Red and Blue collections and Led Zeppelin's 1990 box set as examples. It occurred to me that my brain still thinks of the proper "sequence" of songs in some cases more on the greatest hits ordering. Like Zeppelin's "Heartbreaker" must be immediately followed by "Communication Breakdown" even though they were originally on different albums. I can still fully appreciate the original albums of course, but at times, I think I pick my earlier collections to listen to because I still like those specific song orders. Anybody else have preferred "song orders" for certain artists that vary from the original albums? Conversely, I feel like one of the biggest bits of musical blue balls I've experienced is hearing Heartbreaker on the radio and it not being IMMEDIATELY followed by Living Living Maid. The betrayal. Also Queen's We Will Rock You and We Are the Champions. Though frankly, I don't listen to any of these much anymore due to how many times I've already heard them. |
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Post by Confessor on Sept 17, 2024 16:09:58 GMT -5
The excellent record shop in the next town to me has a 50% off used vinyl sale today. I think I'm gonna pop along later today and see what treasures I can find. R.I.P. to your wallet in advance. Ha!! You're not kidding. I got some cool stuff, but yeah...I went in the shop with the self-mandated budget of £50 in my mind and ended up spending £100 -- and that was with everything at 50% the listed price. I'm very pleased with my haul though. I'll post what I got in the vinyl collector's thread in the next day or two. |
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Post by Confessor on Sept 17, 2024 16:26:45 GMT -5
Anybody else have preferred "song orders" for certain artists that vary from the original albums? It's not quite what you're asking, I don't think Supercat, but I have a real problem with the track sequencing on Michael Jackson's Thriller, and pretty much have done since the day I got my first copy of it back in 1983. Obviously, as all sensible folk know, it's a tremendous album, with nine awesome tracks that are all killer, no filler. But...those tracks are in a really "clunky" running order that doesn't flow particularly well IMHO. As soon as I got a ghetto blaster twin-tape deck for my birthday in 1986, I was able to connect my record player up to it and compile a cassette with the album arranged in my ideal running order. These days, I have a CD-R compilation of my version of the album and it is still my preferred way to listen to it. Michael and Quincy Jones did a pretty good job, I suppose, but they really shoulda phoned 10-year-old me up in 1982 and got me to sort out the running order for Thriller. Just imagine what a success it might've been if they'd only involved me! 😂 |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Sept 18, 2024 11:57:13 GMT -5
I'm not sure if I've ever shared this here. My middle son made this video in 2010 while we were still deeply enmired in the Forever Wars. The very tired looking soldier at the 1:05 is my oldest son. He was in Korea at the time but served in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Post by commond on Sept 18, 2024 16:13:43 GMT -5
I was never into Maze because I prefer harder funk, but since Frankie Beverly's death, I've been listening to old Maze records and appreciating them more. There's still a heavy R&B influence, but they were funkier than I remembered. Their 80s output is surprisingly solid too.
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