― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 26 November 2004 17:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!st, Friday, 26 November 2004 20:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― fancybill, Friday, 26 November 2004 23:12 (nineteen years ago) link
Lots of comments here on the Jackson songs recorded by Nico on Chelsea Girls, plus Meltzer's comments on Jackson's early songs. There was a double LP acetate album produced in '67 as a songwriting demo album. Jackson has never released the stuff, but it has been bootlegged as the Nina Demos. I think Meltzer's comments are a little over the top--there's a saccharine element to some of these songs--but I swear there are like fifteen or more songs on the thing that are as good as those three songs on Chelsea Girls.
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 31 January 2005 19:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 31 January 2005 19:20 (nineteen years ago) link
Steve Noonan's Elektra album is worth hearing. Meltzer has some things about it in Aesthetics of Rock.
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 31 January 2005 19:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 05:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Baaderonixxxorzh (Fabfunk), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 07:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 12:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 16:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 16:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 16:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 16:17 (eighteen years ago) link
i must say: alex, you've outdone yourself
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 16:36 (eighteen years ago) link
i dunno, his sense of humor seems really academic and leaden to me. i say this as a pretty big fan of his first 2 1/2 records.
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 16:39 (eighteen years ago) link
I also love his "Mae Jean Goes to Hollywood," done brilliantly by the Byrds...and I just heard a good version of it by Johnny Darrell, on this Raven Byrds-associated song comp called "Byrd Parts 2."
I mean, I think that's his best song ever.
Overall, though, not someone I go back to. I kinda think "Running on Empty" album is all right. He was on the road and all. I share Alex's wish to consign the Eagles to some eternal hell, though--even though I admit to liking "Take It to the Limit" and sort of halfway respecting some of what they did otherwise, like "Life in the Fast Lane," which is, uh, really well performed and recorded...
― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 16:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 27 May 2005 17:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Friday, 27 May 2005 17:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Mad Puffin, Friday, 27 May 2005 17:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 27 May 2005 17:39 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 27 May 2005 17:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 27 May 2005 18:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 27 May 2005 18:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 27 May 2005 19:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 27 May 2005 22:46 (eighteen years ago) link
The other day I had a sudden, intense need to hear "Tender Is the Night" and "The Pretender" and maybe also "Rock Me on the Water" and even "Lawyers in Love." Just for grins I thought maybe I also needed "Running on Empty" as well.
Holy moley. The dude is catching some very specific range of Boomer middle-aged melancholy that I'm going to find irresistible for a week and then put back on the shelf for another couple decades, but don't harsh my mellow just yet.
I never want to hear "Doctor My Eyes" again but there are a few lyrics of his that I absolutely need to have exist. God sends his spaceships to America. I want to know what became of the changes we waited for love to bring. Looking into their eyes I see them running too. Tender are the hunters. Just make sure you've got it all set to go before you come for my piano.
The production values show some of the worst late-70s excess and bigness/slickness, but then he mostly stick to recognizable, basically timeless rock instrumentation--few synth drums, few sax solos--and it has some agreeable white-t-shirt purity to it. His voice can be too earnest and a bit laconic, but at the same time, the way he sings "the benediction of the neon light" and "now we've got all this room, we've even got the moon" charm me.
― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 01:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 02:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― prince rupert, Tuesday, 24 January 2006 02:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― stockholm cindy (winter version) (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 02:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 03:28 (eighteen years ago) link
just yesterday a friend tried to convince me that Jackson Browne is better than Tom Petty. i wasn't having it, but i need to hear more browne
― jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 06:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― retrogurl, Tuesday, 24 January 2006 07:49 (eighteen years ago) link
But yeah, "Tender Is The Night" is prolly my POO...
― rogermexico (rogermexico), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 19:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 19:27 (eighteen years ago) link
the albums are pretty uniformly excellent in my opinion all the way up through The Pretender
― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 20:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 21:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 21:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 01:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 05:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― derrick (derrick), Sunday, 22 October 2006 20:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Sunday, 22 October 2006 21:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Sunday, 22 October 2006 22:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Sunday, 22 October 2006 22:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― derrick (derrick), Sunday, 22 October 2006 23:04 (seventeen years ago) link
However, Springsteen's Tunnel of Love is his only album to approach the delicate filigrees of "In the Shape of a Heart."
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Sunday, 22 October 2006 23:20 (seventeen years ago) link
Solo Acoustic is utterly wonderful - the live version of "Looking East" is terrific, the solo acoustic "These Days" is great, there really isn't an off moment in the set.
― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Monday, 23 October 2006 00:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Monday, 23 October 2006 00:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Monday, 23 October 2006 01:06 (seventeen years ago) link
It's just the cultural version of false memory syndrome, where everything in the past blurs into a fuzz of vague meta-nostalgia.
"Yes, I was born in 1975. Whenever I listen to Billy Joel's 'Keeping the Faith' or Paul Simon's 'Late in the Evening,' I am reminded of how much we enjoyed Sen-Sen mints and the many street-corner doo-wop groups in my neighborhood, and how the cars all had big fins on them. Then we'd go down to the diner, to see if the Fonz was there. Man, that Cuban Missile Crisis sure was something, wasn't it?"
― coolgnoscenti (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 7 May 2023 22:52 (ten months ago) link
still not sure who started the fire tho
― coolgnoscenti (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 7 May 2023 22:53 (ten months ago) link
After all, it was you and me.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 7 May 2023 23:06 (ten months ago) link
lol
I am reliably informed that you can't start a fire without a spark
― coolgnoscenti (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 7 May 2023 23:25 (ten months ago) link
he's very likeable in the eagles doc
taught glenn frey how to write songs (indirectly, frey was living in the apartment above browne, would wake up to the sound of browne's piano through the floor, listening to browne playing the same verse over and over, 20 times, until he had it down)
― corrs unplugged, Monday, 8 May 2023 07:39 (ten months ago) link
will i ever be able to hear "fountain of sorrow" without bursting into tears
― ivy., Wednesday, 30 August 2023 15:25 (six months ago) link
you've had to hide sometimes, but now you're all right
thats a great song. lady of the well is the jb track that currently gets me.
― nobody respects the chair (Spottie), Thursday, 31 August 2023 00:03 (six months ago) link
gets me absolutely every time
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, 31 August 2023 01:37 (six months ago) link
It's a good song.
I can still be undone by "Rock Me on the Water," or even "Tender is the Night."
― Pontius Pilates (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 31 August 2023 02:40 (six months ago) link