But I was a bit sad, and I thought it might cheer me up. Perhaps it will.
I am a bit disappointed with John Cale's Paris 1919 though. He has quite a boring voice.
HMV - top dog for pricing policy.
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 07:24 (seventeen years ago) link
You have let me down here PJ, but most of all you have let yourself down. Still no sign of TCRFOPP opening.
― Dadaismus (Are we in love like I think we be?) (Dada), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 07:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 07:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Are we in love like I think we be?) (Dada), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 08:02 (seventeen years ago) link
Oxford Street is doing this now. The £7 price point is good for reisues e.g Siouxsie remasters. But I notice that the new Can ones were still £16.99 or something obscene. So off to e-bay...
Gram Parsons is a heap of shite - don't bother.
― Dr.C (Dr.C), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 08:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Are we in love like I think we be?) (Dada), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 08:05 (seventeen years ago) link
If you want to start a "Oh Monsier le HMV" thread, go.
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 08:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Are we in love like I think we be?) (Dada), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 08:13 (seventeen years ago) link
i like slide guitars n' shit. i figure if uncut like him SO MUCH there must be something there.
can were £7 in hmv.
― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 08:18 (seventeen years ago) link
On Vinatge Violence I like the extra track that is a viola drone best.
Roughage Crew, you can get a Gram Parsons 2CD compilation with a nice booklet from Monsieur Le Fopp (and other retailers) for £7. I think it is you best bet, as it covers his entire (short) career. I can't remember what it's called - Gilded Cowboy Sinners, or something.
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 08:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 08:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Are we in love like I think we be?) (Dada), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 08:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 08:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Are we in love like I think we be?) (Dada), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 08:43 (seventeen years ago) link
I think ppl are often surprised at just how trad/country Gram Parsons actually sounds, esp. on the solo albs w/ Emmylou Harris. The two Flying Burrito Bros albs have been collected/compiled on various cheapish CD sets, and are prob. the place to start (tho' you can now get the original Gram vocal versions of the re-recorded Byrds tracks on that new 'special edition' of 'Sweetheart of the Rodeo'. The 'Hickory Wind' take is some of Gram's v. finest ever singing - the very definition of blue eyed country soul). To be honest as much as I like or even love Gram Parsons, I don't he ever comes close to matching the country-rock magnificence of Gene Clark circa the Godsin Bros/first Dillard and Clark albs - get those instead!)
Some of the songs on Paris 1919 are magnificent - Sally Timms of the Mekons does a very sweet cover of 'Half Past France' - dunno how anyone can find them 'boring'
― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 08:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Are we in love like I think we be?) (Dada), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 08:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr.C (Dr.C), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 10:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 10:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Are we in love like I think we be?) (Dada), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 10:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 10:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 10:22 (seventeen years ago) link
The Neu! resiisues were cheapish in Selectadisc some time ago. Maybe they still are, although it is Sister Ray now.
BTW, does everyone's Neu! (first one) cut off momentarily during track 2? Or did I get a dud? It ruins my cosmic reverie!
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 10:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 10:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Are we in love like I think we be?) (Dada), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 10:27 (seventeen years ago) link
But the Neu albums are WORTH £13!
― Dr.C (Dr.C), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 10:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 10:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Are we in love like I think we be?) (Dada), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 10:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr.C (Dr.C), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 10:54 (seventeen years ago) link
-- PJ Miller (pjmiller6...) (webmail), Today 11:23 AM. (later) (link)
Yes, this was also on the original albums, apparently on purpose. Some of the bootleg issues of the past corrected this, to Neu's amusement...
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 11:32 (seventeen years ago) link
What a bizarre thing to do.
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 11:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 11:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 11:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 11:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Are we in love like I think we be?) (Dada), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 11:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 11:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― mei (mei), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 12:42 (seventeen years ago) link
Dr C otm re Parsons, totally wretched. If you must buy some country get some George Jones or Merle Haggard first.
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 12:49 (seventeen years ago) link
One of my favourites, I think.
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 12:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 13:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Are we in love like I think we be?) (Dada), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 13:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 13:12 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00005BC89/026-3945335-0330023?v=glance&n=229816
I don't know how much proper country has such blatantly Catholic titles - isn't it mostly Protestant?
The pedal steels sometimes go through fuzz boxes and effects pedals, which doesn't happen in "proper" country. And the drumming is different, I am told.
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 13:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 13:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 13:17 (seventeen years ago) link
oh that sounds nice, i'm warming to it again.
― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 13:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Are we in love like I think we be?) (Dada), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 13:19 (seventeen years ago) link
I went at lunch, they are still cheap - £6.99 each - but they only had 2 and '75, and I'm after the 1st one. Ah well.
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 15:26 (seventeen years ago) link
PJM, remind me to play you "Abilene" by Pete Drake and his Amazing Talking Steel Guitar sometime.
The Gram solo albums sound like country to us because country subsequently changed to sound like the Gram Parsons solo albums, I think. This point is, I suppose, fairly academic since we can only really respond to how they sound to us, but anyway.
― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 15:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 15:39 (seventeen years ago) link
Also George Jones has a song with guitar effects, I think it is for comedy purposes, sort of. I can't remember the title. He leaves off singing and the effects-laden guitar finsihes the line for him.
But yes, the fuzzbox is on the Burrito Brothers' albums (maybe just the first one?) but these tracks are included on the compilation referred to earlier. The effects pedals are quite judicioulsy used, it's not just random pratting about.
And those solo albums have some really beautiful songs, I think.
Meanwhile, I had another listen to Paris 1919, and I still didn't like it very much. Evidence of his voice limitations can be found on the alternate version of Andaluisia, just after the reference to castles and Christians. I suppose that is why they did another version, but it illustrates what I was talking about.
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 20 July 2006 06:58 (seventeen years ago) link