so this happened: DON'T FORGET TO REMEMBER: The Official ILM Track-By-Track BEE GEES 1968-1981 Listening Thread
if someone wants to have a go at one of these other options, have at it (or we could re-poll some new options idk)
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 16:15 (four years ago) link
I was generally a little bummed that the Bee Gees thread basically turned into my personal BEEGEESSONGS blog but I do really enjoy these deep-dive, one-track-a-day surveys of widely varied catalogs. I'm not particularly excited about the next tier of winners in the original poll, as most of them don't split the difference quality-wise that made the Elton John, Billy Joel and (to a much lesser extent imo, since it was just an endless tranwreck of awfulness) the Eagles threads the gold standard for this type of thing.
I don't want to run a thread, and I only took up the Bee Gees because it's a catalog I know and love inside out, but I would be bummed if we couldn't come up with another one to do...
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 20:04 (four years ago) link
when I cut off the TMBG poll at their first 21 years, I suggested a listening thread for the subsequent 15 once it was done / They were on hiatus from recording and releasing a new song every week. at one track per day, that'd take up two years, but I'd crunch down jingles & sub-1-minute songs to work through it faster.
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 22:28 (four years ago) link
yr on yr own with that one
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 22:33 (four years ago) link
i’d do the böc one
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 22:37 (four years ago) link
I don't know their catalog at all outside of Godzilla and Don't Fear the Reaper
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 22:41 (four years ago) link
I'd happily participate in a boc one
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 22:43 (four years ago) link
i just did a pretty thorough discography run but stopped short of heaven forbid and curse of the hidden mirror, so there’d even be new stuff for me. hm
idk when should i start a thread? i worry i’ll get bogged down in other work and forget to do it for days/weeks on end but i also can really see myself enjoying the process
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 22:49 (four years ago) link
I would contribute to a böc thread!
― Book Doula (sleeve), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 22:49 (four years ago) link
covering '72 - '88 looks like a decent run
xp
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 22:50 (four years ago) link
approx 100 songs give or take. seems like a fun thing to do every day for 100 days lol
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 23:32 (four years ago) link
having trouble picking a lyric/title
DEATH COMES SWEEPING THROUGH THE HALLWAY LIKE A LADY'S DRESS: the official ilm track-by-track blue öyster cult deep listening thread, 1972-1988
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 23:40 (four years ago) link
Time To Play BOC-Sides
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 23:41 (four years ago) link
lmao
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 23:42 (four years ago) link
If we do BOC, we probably should start with the Stalk-Forrest Group album.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 7 November 2019 18:15 (four years ago) link
my idea was to start with the first böc album and then get to the stalk-forrest group/soft white underbelly to fill in a few days of context before tyranny and mutation unless i hear dramatic objections. not everyone's gonna be immediately enamored with deadhead böc, and it's also stretching it a little to refer to st. cecilia as an album
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 8 November 2019 19:31 (four years ago) link
also chronology is overrated
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 8 November 2019 19:32 (four years ago) link
but i was thinking of starting this on monday
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 8 November 2019 19:33 (four years ago) link
(to my point above, i'm also trying to avoid the redundancy of covering "i'm on the lamb"/"red and the black" three separate times)
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 8 November 2019 19:36 (four years ago) link
Sticking to chronology would mean a bunch of stuff before arriving at the debut, which as you say might not be the best way to start and keep people interested (in addition to St. Cecilia, there's also some audition demos recorded afterwards that were added as bonus tracks to the reissue of the S/T, all in all making for about two weeks of listening before getting to the real albums).
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 8 November 2019 19:45 (four years ago) link
Actually less than two weeks--Those CBS demos are almost all already covered on St. Cecilia.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 8 November 2019 19:49 (four years ago) link
yeah i think i'll introduce the stalk-forrest group during "i'm on the lamb" and then expand further after the s/t's done
cool, can't wait to do this, i'm already writing up the first few tracks
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 8 November 2019 19:50 (four years ago) link
psyched
― Book Doula (sleeve), Friday, 8 November 2019 20:19 (four years ago) link
wgaf about demos, stick to official releases
(full disclosure: I know nothing about the BOC catalog)
― Οὖτις, Friday, 8 November 2019 20:28 (four years ago) link
I own a couple of BOC records I've neglected so this would be kewl
― Simon H., Friday, 8 November 2019 20:41 (four years ago) link
they're the only songs credited to the soft white underbelly. regardless i will not be spending four days on them. maybe one
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 8 November 2019 20:43 (four years ago) link
on a weekend
XP To Shakey: I confused matters by bringing up the CBS demos. The band--when they were the Stalk-Forrest Group--had recorded an album's worth of material (known as St. Cecilia) for Elektra Records in '69-'70. The label dropped them after a failed single, and the rest of the material stayed in the vault for 30 years until Rhino Handmade put it out.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 8 November 2019 20:48 (four years ago) link
Most of those songs also didn't resurface in BÖC's repertoire.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 8 November 2019 20:53 (four years ago) link
so
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 18 December 2019 21:00 (four years ago) link
who's up for Kenny Rogers
― Οὖτις, Monday, 23 March 2020 14:29 (four years ago) link
I'd do Rush or Sly & the Family Stone. Not really in the mood for any of the others tbh.
― coco vide (pomenitul), Monday, 23 March 2020 14:30 (four years ago) link
Sly catalog is pretty small, really.
― Οὖτις, Monday, 23 March 2020 14:34 (four years ago) link
True. I'd still be down, but that's just me.
― coco vide (pomenitul), Monday, 23 March 2020 14:34 (four years ago) link
Sly, defintely.
― Bridge Over Thorley Waters (Tom D.), Monday, 23 March 2020 15:44 (four years ago) link
well that's three of us... is that enough for a quorum? I'd be happy to run it. I guess we'd have to decide whether to include Sly productions/side projects like the Stone Flower records stuff etc.
― Οὖτις, Monday, 23 March 2020 15:52 (four years ago) link
lot of great early stuff worth checking out imo
doesn’t need to be comprehensive, but it would be fun to hear some of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whZ0SCHcb2A
― budo jeru, Monday, 23 March 2020 16:07 (four years ago) link
maybe we should compile a list first
― Οὖτις, Monday, 23 March 2020 16:08 (four years ago) link
I'd never heard of that Stewart Bros track before, for ex., that predates what I thought were his earliest releases
― Οὖτις, Monday, 23 March 2020 16:09 (four years ago) link
sounds good, i’ll put a list together
― budo jeru, Monday, 23 March 2020 16:19 (four years ago) link
Thanks!
― coco vide (pomenitul), Monday, 23 March 2020 16:24 (four years ago) link
I know all the Sly & Family Stone + Stone Flower stuff, but his pre-Family Stone stuff is all over the place
― Οὖτις, Monday, 23 March 2020 16:25 (four years ago) link
so i think this should be sufficient:
stewart four - walking in jesus name 78 (1952)stewart brothers - the rat 45 (1959 **conflicting info here, may not be sly**)
v/a - “sly stone: the doo wop years” (covers most of the rest of the early releases, be sure to OMIT tracks 15-19)
demonstrators - sunset violets 45 (1964)sly stewart - i just learned how to swim 45 (1964)sly - buttermilk 45 (1965)sly - temptation walk 45 (1965)
v/a - “listen to the voices: sly stone in the studio 1965-1970” (i’ll let you decide what’s worth including here: demos, rarities, some non-stone flower productions, the french fries 7” is essential imo)
sprinkle in stone flower releases as you see fit and i think we have a party
― budo jeru, Monday, 23 March 2020 17:08 (four years ago) link
n.b. this isn’t a comprehensive list, or even anything close. just stuff i’ve either enjoyed or always wanted to check out, and think would make a good prelude to the family stone stuff.
― budo jeru, Monday, 23 March 2020 17:11 (four years ago) link
that looks like a solid starting point to me - I'm inclined not to include productions, albeit mostly because including the Beau Brummels doesn't seem apropos lol
― Οὖτις, Monday, 23 March 2020 19:35 (four years ago) link
OK so we're doing this, yeah?
― Οὖτις, Monday, 30 March 2020 14:22 (four years ago) link
Sure, I'm in.
― coco vide (pomenitul), Monday, 30 March 2020 14:24 (four years ago) link
budo, what is this:
demonstrators - sunset violets 45 (1964)
― Οὖτις, Monday, 30 March 2020 14:36 (four years ago) link
I don't have the liner notes to "listen to the voices" does anyone know what years the following tracks are from?
Freddie and the Stone Souls Something About YouFreddie and the Stone Souls SuperfunkSly and the Family Stone Man Does Not LiveSly and the Family Stone Take My Advice
― Οὖτις, Monday, 30 March 2020 15:42 (four years ago) link
sorry that should say “sweet violets” and on second thought i think we can skip that track, demonstrators was a group sly apparently played in
i have no idea about the years on that comp as i just have the files, sorry :/
― budo jeru, Monday, 30 March 2020 17:21 (four years ago) link