BEST EPISODE OF CLASSIC ALBUMS

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"a night at the opera" for the live footage of freddie singing backing vocals for "'39" dressed in a jester's leotard alone

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I don't think any of the top albums should have beat nirvana.

i for one am not interested of the inner workings of nirvana in the studio, unless it involves jack endino

pff!

I know you voted for Floyd rather than F.Mac, snoball - I only meant I agreed with your assessment of the Motorhead episode. But I phrased it poorly, so that's my fault, and it's all irrelvent now anyways.

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I Netflixed the Zappa episode and just finished watching it. I've four episodes of this series so far and they're all surprisingly good.

About 45 minutes of extras on the FZ DVD also.

I've SEEN four episodes...

just watched the rumours one and it was rad

have there been any more since? it's the AJA one for me all the way. always wonder what the 'other' guitarists make of that bit with PEG on it.

which bit was being linked to from you tube upthread? it's been removed now.

The 'Rio' one is great!

yea i definitely need to see more of these, DLing the Aja one now

The 'Rio' one is great!

^^^^ on this.

Goodbye, Yellow Brick Road was slept on.

Who's Next is awesome, esp for Entwhistle playing the French horn.

Daltrey dissecting/isolating Moon's drumming at 1:34 possibly my favorite moment in the whole series:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLMc6J9h3mU

I enjoyed watching pretty much all of the ones I've seen, but the one that has always stuck in my mind is Hysteria, funnily enough.

I wanted so much to like the Grateful Dead episode but I hate hearing robert hunter talk. HATE. Also when Lesh said something like, 'I wanted it to sound like a thousand lotus petals opening' I shot myself in the face.

Fleetwood Mac was another one. Love that album so much, but as soon as Buckingham pulled the guitar over and started doing eyes-closed, white-man-overbite to his own song I had to bail. And Stevie "it was so haaaard it was like being in the aaaaarmy' like oh spare me you rich assholes

Search: The Band self titled, Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon, The Who Who's Next, Def Leppard Hysteria, Black Sabbath Paranoid...and I thought the Purps one was pretty cool too, when they talked about trying to get back to the sound van from the room they were recording in that massive mansion.

The Sabbath one kept that very cool aura of superstition, care of old Bill I'm sure, you know that whole thing that 'something' happened during the recording of that album where every song just seemed to come together whenever they were the room together.

Priest one is funny mainly just because Halford always sounds like he's reading advertising copy, or something, I don't know what it is about him but I always get the lols whenever he starts talking. 'Heavy metal? Well it's that sound? It's really heavy? And it just really sounds, like metal?" Looool I love him so much.

Motorhead one is hilarious. Filthy is so weird.

Oooh and I love, LOVE the Sex Pistols one. Thought it represented the idea of the sex pistols as a bonafide band really well, or at least what they could have been.

sorry, I'll stop now.

of the more recent stuff Duran's, Peter Gabriel's and Primal Scream's were the best IMO.

i must see that Hysteria one Turrican.

I watched the 'dark side of the moon' one last night and tbh am amazed it got no votes here. it wasn't enlightening or essential, but the interviews (with all four band members, and storm thorgerson and alan parsons) were quite informative, especially in understanding who contributed what.

I slagged the Dark Side one above, but honestly, as I said on another thread, it's worth the price of admission just to hear Rick Wright describe how he thought to put that chord into the spinal column of "Great Gig in the Sky".

wright's interviews were the best bit imo. i had no idea he had such an impact on the album.

neither did waters

The one on The Doors coulda been great but unfortunately becomes unwatchable every time Ray Manzarek is on camera

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ray talking is a dealbreaker

neither did waters

iirc, not only did Wright admit not pulling his weight on subsequent records, but even Gilmour agreed with Waters on this point.

's a pity

But Wish You Were Here is unimaginable without Wright!

surprisingly Waters comes over as a decent chap in the Floyd one iirc. he cuts a chastened, humbled kinda figure, nothing like the obvious total pain in the arse that appears in the studio footage of '.. Pompeii'.

he always comes across as humbled in interviews, but I've also never seen him interviewed in a group

He has since admitted to being in the wrong when Floyd split:

He was right, I was wrong. It was really simple. I thought it should be retired but I was wrong. And I’m perfectly content with what they did. I had problems at the time. I don’t have any problems now.

Ha, that's quite a ways from THAT'S MY PIG UP THERE.

"Yes, Roger, but they're OUR BALLS."

feel like whenever i see waters interviewed, i think "there's a guy who has been through a lot of therapy."

Funny that my wife & I started watching these on netflix, then when I next bought some LPs I purchased the reissues of Paranoid, Nevermind & Dark Side without even thinking- prob my 1, 2 & 3 picks of this series.

THAT'S MY PIG UP THERE

considering a dn change

btw I only just found out that waters is pro-fox hunting and now I'm just like oh god

btw I love how gilmour is basically just a daggy uncle now

The one on The Doors coulda been great but unfortunately becomes unwatchable every time Ray Manzarek is on camera

― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, January 22, 2013 6:02 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Replace 'The Doors' with any artist of your choice and replace 'Ray Manzarek' with everyone's favourite Liam Gallagher lookalike 'David Fricke' and...

Motorhead one is hilarious. Filthy is so weird.

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, January 21, 2013 11:31 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

My favourite part of that is when Fast Eddie is listening to one of his guitar solos...

Guitar solo: *widdlywiddlywiddlywiddlywiddlysqeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee*
Fast Eddie: "I think that's where I fell over..."
Guitar solo: *eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee*
Fast Eddie: "I think I make a recovery soon..."
Guitar solo: *eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewiddlywiddlywiddlywiddly*
Fast Eddie: "Ah, there!"

Aja and The Band are both excellent, the latter helped cement that album as one of my all-time favourites, the level of detail in the playing is incredible.

DSOTM one was great too - I have to say Waters came across worse in the more recent BBC Wish You Were Here documentary, still griping that they should've used his vocals on 'Have a Cigar' instead of Roy Harper's.

Replace 'The Doors' with any artist of your choice and replace 'Ray Manzarek' with everyone's favourite Liam Gallagher lookalike 'David Fricke' and...

From excellent ILM Classic Albums thread In every Classic Album TV/Radio documentary...:

Six words: David Fricke, leather jacket, enormous teeth.

Watched The Band's one yesterday - it's so good. Rick Danko singing Unfaithful Servant!

Six words: David Fricke, leather jacket, enormous teeth.
This guy is all over the Disraeli Gears episode. I had to avert my eyes.

Ha, yes, exactly!

The Bat Out of Hell episode is so great. I could watch Meat Loaf, Steinman and Rundgren talk for hours.

love the opening with jim playing piano in a sick af cape