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Toni Torino 2299 posts |
Jan 25, 2013, 08:38
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All those late 70s Mod Revival bands - Chords, Secret Affair, The Jam, Purple Hearts etc, who loved The Beatles, The Who, The Kinks, came from Punk/Post Punk, didn't they?
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paradox 1576 posts |
Jan 25, 2013, 08:46
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Kiss 'Rock and Roll Over', 'Dynasty' and 'Unmasked' Dynasty and Unmasked are my "most returned to" KISS period these days. Two really great and very underrated albums, and chocked to the brim with really great songs. File under Pop Rock, but don't let that put anybody off. Interesting that the band dismiss this period as a low in their career. They protest far too much.
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Squid Tempest 8761 posts |
Jan 25, 2013, 09:16
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spencer wrote: FG's my favourite album, full stop. Some people just don't get it, though, as Paradox says.....three stars out of five is two too few. Amazon now give it five, but time was when it was less, and it still gets 3.5/5 on Rate Your Music. As far as I'm concerned it's a masterwork. As for Holger, that album never gets a mention, it's always Movies. I realise availability may be a problem but do recall that it wasn't greeted with the same enthusiasm as its predecessor on release. Sorry, my previous post was a bit snappy! Didn't mean it that way, it's just that sometimes I'm amazed people don't "get" FG. It's easy to forget I've been into it for decades...
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Sin Agog 2253 posts |
Jan 25, 2013, 11:09
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Moon Cat wrote: The thing is , I think the 90's were the last 'decade' and even that, when you look back, seems much more fragile and diaphanous a notion than the '80s' and so on, though time and distance can solidify these things eventually. As media and communication tech has got more expansive and omnipresent, possibly in the most banal of ways, the time we are in, and the (western) cultural pathways seems to have got more fluid and disparate, more thinly spread (although more intense to the individual tapping away!) than in any time before. Perhaps we are so inclined to personalise previous iconic decades with the familiar baggage we attribute to them by reflex almost, that the 'apparent' lack of identity in our own time - apart from the free flow of what we might fondly call the 'digital age', and that's nostalgia born of ten minutes ago - may prove problematic. Perhaps the grand ages of identity are no more. Or, at best, served in bite sized chunks of now. Hehe, I was so zonked last night I tried to read this about six times before throwing in the towel. Now I've had a couple of hours sleep I'll just say- 'Word!' and go off on my merry way. :) And as to second chancers: Amon Duul II's tunarific Vive La Trance is my favourite thing by them. I can't help it... I love their far out jam period well enough, but this is too fun to ignore for me, with Kmaup's most gorge vocals on Jalousi, proto-punk Cockney Rebel-esque cuts like Ladies Mimikry and various other choons (annoying, affected word, but I've typed it now). Also, The Magnetic Fields' gorgeous first two albums, without the dry monotone droney singing of Stephin Merritt completely draining the life out of his own songs, are just Indie music's peak. So many beautiful girl groupy hooks and lo-fi atmosphere- Susan Anway's vocals are as sweet and charming as Merritt's are [to me] buskerly. Never managed to get into anything other than The Wayward Bus and Distant Plastic Trees. And most people seem to stop at The End with Nico...p'raps 'cause the album's called The End 'n' all and films have told us that's where things stop...but my friend played her cover of My Funny Valentine while giving me a lift the other day and we didn't say a word to each other for all 3 minutes 25 seconds of it. Perfect jazzy backing and mournful vocals- and all well after her supposed prime! My Funny Valentine
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Sin Agog 2253 posts |
Jan 25, 2013, 11:11
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Kid Calamity wrote: Blur: 'Modern Life Is Rubbish' Some moments of pure inspiration. A band absolutely at their creative peak, IMO. The more commercially successful albums were still ahead of them, but that was only because by then the masses had caught up with what the hip kids already had seen. I always thought they were totally invoking the Cardiacs on that 'un! Wonder if Albarn ever gave 'em a shout out in an interview.
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Kid Calamity 9043 posts |
Jan 25, 2013, 11:54
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Ah, yes there is a Cardiacs kinda tone going on there.
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spencer 3068 posts |
Jan 25, 2013, 12:54
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S 'ok:). I do remember that the Amazon rating prior to the 2cd issue was a steady three, and my response was somewhere between eh and grrr..it'd be nice to think that folks are gradually coming round. I must admit that I prefer the vinyl sonically. I don't have a working deck and am sure I'd play it more than the current rare spins on cd if this situation was rectified, but it remains close to my heart nonetheless. Yup, an album to inhabit..
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Moon Cat 9577 posts |
Jan 25, 2013, 15:59
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Good album. I think it's become looked on quite favourably as time's gone by. Thought of another (this is def one of those threads where you suddenly go "Oh...and just thought..!") Electronic - Twisted Tenderness. Some great tunes on it and the album where it sounds like Johnny Marr is enjoying playing guitar again.
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Moon Cat 9577 posts |
Edited Jan 25, 2013, 16:46
Jan 25, 2013, 16:45
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paradox wrote: Kiss 'Rock and Roll Over', 'Dynasty' and 'Unmasked' Dynasty and Unmasked are my "most returned to" KISS period these days. Two really great and very underrated albums, and chocked to the brim with really great songs. File under Pop Rock, but don't let that put anybody off. Interesting that the band dismiss this period as a low in their career. They protest far too much. I also have much love for the "Vini Poncia" period. Some brilliant, hookladen and melodic pop-rock that would be praised to high heavens had it been by another band. Yes, it's a shame they themselves are dismissive of it, though "I Was Made For Lovin You" has been in the live set for awhile now. Presumably cos it was a pretty big hit worldwide. And they did "Shandi" and "A World Without Heroes" on that Unplugged album so it seems they haven't totally forsaken some of this stuff. That said, I'm still enjoying the fuck out of the OTTness of 'Monster'. It makes me grin like a loon when I'm in the mood for it!
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jb lamptoast-morsley 2447 posts |
Jan 25, 2013, 19:58
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Yeah, that was the first Blur album i got into, and me and my mates were obsessed about. Then it was a case of going back to Leisure which was ok. And then just as i was leaving school, Park Life came out and was the soundtrack to many summer parties and Blur became the mainstream.
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