That crazy lump on the back of his neck! O_O
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 16:40 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYSUFZnhRLU
Not the best episode but a great moment
― remove butt (abanana), Saturday, 11 June 2016 12:36 (seven years ago) link
I think the one I enjoyed the most was the one for Hysteria, funnily enough.
― the hair - it's lost its energy (Turrican), Saturday, 11 June 2016 12:40 (seven years ago) link
hysteria's so good
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 11 June 2016 20:25 (seven years ago) link
The Band one is great, Levon Helm is so delightful throughout.
― a poon shaped mule (voodoo chili), Saturday, 11 June 2016 21:33 (seven years ago) link
The Paranoid episode is my hands down favorite
― Taking dumps on a person's car is something children do (Sparkle Motion), Saturday, 11 June 2016 22:38 (seven years ago) link
Six words: David Fricke, leather jacket, enormous teeth.This guy is all over the Disraeli Gears episode. I had to avert my eyes.
― The Teardrop ILXplodes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, January 23, 2013 8:48 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Fricke looks like a Ramone as drawn by Jack Kirby.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 11 June 2016 23:33 (seven years ago) link
Skeletor. crossed with Stephen King.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 12 June 2016 00:00 (seven years ago) link
How do we watch this show nowadays? Are we left with the few of them on youtube or tracking down individual dvds? Were they even all released on dvd?
And then why stop? Recorded music is still popular, when did everyone lose interest in the recording process? So many questions!
― it's sort of a layered stunt (sheesh), Sunday, 12 June 2016 00:39 (seven years ago) link
I wish Aja was twice as long, not because the album or programme is especially better than the others but I just want to hear B and F talk more about fly by night guitarists, Chuck Rainey and mixing desk mayhem
― Master of Treacle, Sunday, 12 June 2016 00:52 (seven years ago) link
Lol @ Skeletor King Critic
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 12 June 2016 01:59 (seven years ago) link
I was able to find a torrent for the Hysteria one with 2 seeds on it. Not sure if that one is avail legally in the US.
― calstars, Sunday, 12 June 2016 02:04 (seven years ago) link
The Hysteria one is hilarious. The straining for significance is just agonizing. The drummer seems determined to live down his past and show he's particularly thoughtful. The singer says "there was this lick floating around and I heard it and thought, yeah, I can add this other part over it" about 3 times.
― calstars, Sunday, 12 June 2016 18:19 (seven years ago) link
"Hysteria" unplugged is something no one needs to hear, but the singer and guitarist provide it anyway on dual Hummingbirds
― calstars, Sunday, 12 June 2016 18:20 (seven years ago) link
Pet Sounds! Tomorrow night on BBC2.
― piscesx, Saturday, 23 July 2016 13:02 (seven years ago) link
Okay, so the first season of Classic Albums started airing in 1997, and Rumours was a 20 year old record at that point... it's 2017 now, so where are the documentaries on OK Computer, or Urban Hymns, or Parklife, or Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space, or...
― Coolio Iglesias (Turrican), Tuesday, 14 March 2017 13:31 (seven years ago) link
I love you but you don't wannna know me But I think you're great and I wanna see I wanna see you Smile into my face Oh yeah
These could be the lyrics to the Black Keys' next single and no one would bat an eye
― Wimmels, Tuesday, 14 March 2017 14:37 (seven years ago) link
Elton one isn't earthshaking but there's one good knob-twiddle scene within the last ten mins, where they isolate the backing vocals from Candle in the Wind, and it sounds *damn* good in an "Eagles warming up with Seven Bridges Road at the start of the doc" kinda way.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 28 November 2020 01:36 (three years ago) link
Yes, it was really interesting to learn that Elton would just leave the studio and let the band arrange all the backing vox.
― Hideous Lump, Saturday, 28 November 2020 03:48 (three years ago) link
De-lurk to say Steely Dan is the correct answer. Purdie though like. 2 other threads to post on now.
― Alternative Ulsterbus, Saturday, 28 November 2020 04:04 (three years ago) link
The Stevie ep is better than the Steely ep, fuiud.
― On average, this critic grades 8.3 points lower than other critics (Eric H.), Saturday, 28 November 2020 04:15 (three years ago) link
Many of these (all of these?) are on Amazon Prime, and I've caught up on some that I'd missed previously back in the days of dvd rental. I've long wondered, though... how in THEE EVERLOVING FUCK did Simply Red's Stars sneak into this series? Maybe it's renowned in the UK*, but Simply Red was dunzo in the US by that time.
*Wikipedia says yes, so I guess I've answered my own question.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 28 November 2020 05:00 (three years ago) link
cos money was too tight to mention
― Alternative Ulsterbus, Saturday, 28 November 2020 05:09 (three years ago) link
ha yeah that one threw me for a loop tooMick Hucknell does not suffer from low self-esteemwatching Goodbye Yellow Brick Road episode now, really enjoying it
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 28 November 2020 05:10 (three years ago) link
love the Elton ep
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 28 November 2020 07:07 (three years ago) link
the rumours ep is really something, there’s not much that the band members weren’t willing to share. gotta reconvene and film a tusk episode haha
there have been a bunch of episodes made since the poll was created, a memorable one was about sabbath’s paranoid. no real earth-shaking revelations, but they make a fun recurring bit out of asking geezer what inspired his lyrics and geezer giving the most deflating, matter-of-fact answer possible.
― la table sur la table (voodoo chili), Saturday, 28 November 2020 13:25 (three years ago) link
Does Blowey Hole have one of these?
― calstars, Saturday, 28 November 2020 13:46 (three years ago) link
xp Re: Tusk; this is a similar thing, made for BBC radio in 2012.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01hxpxp
― piscesx, Saturday, 28 November 2020 13:58 (three years ago) link
challop: Every album should have a Classic Albums episode.
Like, as soon as you finish an album, you would be contractually mandated to have the producer and the most charismatic band member sit at a mixing desk and solo different parts and talk about how groovy they sound on their own, etc. Etc.
Then you should interview a crack session musician about how his or her part just "came together" on the first take. Preferably Nile Rodgers, but Jim Keltner will do in a pinch.
This should be required even if they did not in fact play on the album.
― release the krakpots (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 28 November 2020 14:03 (three years ago) link
Do we also need to have a close up of David Fricke's huge teeth?
It's interesting how the episodes reflect the personality of the band as well as the particular album. Upthread someone said that the Steely DAn episode was anal. Well so are Steely Dan. The Motorhead and Fleetwood Mac episodes also give a strong sense of what it would have been like to be in those bands.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Saturday, 28 November 2020 14:22 (three years ago) link
last two posts both otm
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 28 November 2020 15:29 (three years ago) link
Hah, yes, David Fricke is required
― release the krakpots (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 28 November 2020 15:54 (three years ago) link
Also required - totally unexpected appearance from an unrelated musician. I'd forgotten that the Steely Dan episode has Ian Dury in it. Also bonus points if you can get Bono to say how your album has "really influenced" him.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Saturday, 28 November 2020 16:01 (three years ago) link
Motorhead episode is such a pisser, i hate that they’re all gone now ;_;
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 28 November 2020 16:51 (three years ago) link
David Fricke really, really looks like a Peter Bagge drawing.
― Maresn3st, Saturday, 28 November 2020 17:04 (three years ago) link
The Dark Side of the Moon episode is worthwhile. Remarkable how well I remember all of the tunes though it's been decades since I listened to the album.
― that's not my post, Sunday, 29 November 2020 03:50 (three years ago) link
The Elton one had a lot of scenes of producers pulling sliders up and down on the boards, the great heart of any great Classic
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 29 November 2020 03:51 (three years ago) link
There was a show I thought was in this series that covered Anthem of the Sun and possibly the first Grateful Dead lp.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 29 November 2020 17:40 (three years ago) link
oh right, thought it covered more than one lp its Anthem to Beauty not just American Beauty
― Stevolende, Sunday, 29 November 2020 17:43 (three years ago) link
This here's a write-in vote for Rio
― Soz (Not Soz) (Vast Halo), Sunday, 29 November 2020 17:58 (three years ago) link
also liked the catch a fire episode because it was a genuine revelation that the amazing organ and guitar parts of that album came courtesy of cornpone alabamans
― la table sur la table (voodoo chili), Sunday, 29 November 2020 20:24 (three years ago) link
Which is the one that has the guy from Disturbed in it? Was he in the Songs from the Big Chair doc? (Was that Classic Albums canon or just some doc?) Anyway, I know Disturbed covered Tears for Fears, but no one cares what that guy has to say about it.
Some of the lesser ones, like the Judas Priest one, still have great stuff in it, like the revelation the album was recorded in Ringo's house and whichever song sounded like it had a marching army in it, that was just them rattling his silverware drawer.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 29 November 2020 21:34 (three years ago) link
Just watched Transformer, Key of Life, Catch a Fire, and So episodes recently. Transformer's highlight was of course the Herbie Flowers bassline, which I had seen years ago and didn't realize was from this show. Key of Life could have been twice as long- maddeningly, it spends more time showing the reassembled band standing around than playing. The behind the boards stuff was some of the best of any of the episodes I've seen so far.
― justice 4 CCR (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 30 November 2020 19:09 (three years ago) link
whichever song sounded like it had a marching army in it, that was just them rattling his silverware drawer.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, November 29, 2020 3:34 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
one of my favorite details from classic albums! i think it was "metal gods"?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 30 November 2020 19:12 (three years ago) link
Transformer's highlight was of course the Herbie Flowers bassline, which I had seen years ago and didn't realize was from this show.
The parts where they get Lou to sing the songs with acoustic guitar are absolutely hilarious, Lou can't get anything right - the singing, the phrasing, the timing, the guitar playing, the words.
― Wouldn't disgrace a Michael Jackson (Tom D.), Saturday, 31 July 2021 19:53 (two years ago) link
/pvmic
― Two Severins Clash (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 31 July 2021 19:54 (two years ago) link
Look, how can you blame him? With all the time he no doubt spent practicing the Tai Chi he probably had next to nothing left to work on that other kind of thing.
― Two Severins Clash (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 31 July 2021 19:56 (two years ago) link
The three that I've liked most are The Band (probably my favorite), Steely Dan's Aja and maybe John Lennon's Plastic Ono Band.
Plastic Ono Band has the obvious disadvantage of Lennon being gone, but there's a lot of little things they do very well, like Ringo's role in album (with Voorman emphasizing "Ringo has taste, that's why he's a great drummer" and even Ringo dropping his usual aw-shucks modesty to show that he knows exactly what he's doing behind the kit). The most priceless info IMHO is when Arthur Janov explains how Lennon came up with "God is a concept by which we measure our pain."
As much as I enjoy Aja, it's not among my very favorite Steely Dan albums but Fagen and Becker are hilarious (not a given - their liner notes' attempt at humor usually fell flat) and thanks to the way Aja was made, there's plenty of good material for a doc. The “Deacon Blues” exchange was probably the funniest moment for me of any Classic Albums episode: “Those were the days when I was singing like Jerry Lewis. Remember that?” “Yes, that was a very fertile period for you.”
― birdistheword, Sunday, 1 August 2021 00:12 (two years ago) link
Thought the Suede episode was amazing, especially seeing as I never liked Coming Up much after the giddy heights of the Bernard Butler era. Made me have a bit of a rethink all round.
― piscesx, Sunday, 1 August 2021 10:14 (two years ago) link
I think I've only ever seen the one about Peter Gabriel's So (unless that wasn't actually this series?)
― StanM, Sunday, 1 August 2021 10:26 (two years ago) link