Al Green - I'm Still in Love with You

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I'm cranking the Al Green lately and feel like polling some of the albums, because music just doesn't get any better does it? Let's celebrate it and the glory of love itt.

https://i.discogs.com/A27sDpLT0dq3c4zOHur6UqrIhkR4BGesPKPZbd_An74/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI2NjM5/MjYtMTQ4NjY2ODM3/MS0zMjE3LmpwZWc.jpeg

Poll Results

OptionVotes
Love and Happiness 9
I'm Still in Love with You 5
Simply Beautiful 5
I'm Glad You're Mine 3
For the Good Times 3
Look What You Done for Me 3
What a Wonderful Thing Love Is 1
One of These Good Old Days 1
Oh, Pretty Woman 0


he/him hoo-hah (map), Friday, 29 November 2024 03:13 (one week ago) link

i'm certain i know what is going to win this, and while it's absolutely the right answer, there are so many jewels here. 'i'm glad you're mine' is soooo joyful, it's just as funky as 'love and happiness' but kind of like the other side of the coin. i float through 'what a wonderful thing love is' every time. i used to kind of pooh-pooh 'oh pretty woman' but his rendition is just sublime isn't it? god what a song. but i think what i'm going to have to vote for is 'one of these good old days' - how it goes from uncertainty to eternal love in 3 minutes, that crescendo and that 'baaaabyyyy' at the end!

he/him hoo-hah (map), Friday, 29 November 2024 03:19 (one week ago) link

the only track here that i want to skip sometimes is 'for the good times' because it's so incredibly sad but of course i always let it play and i never regret it.

he/him hoo-hah (map), Friday, 29 November 2024 03:25 (one week ago) link

I am voting for the good times. Best version of a great song

Heez, Friday, 29 November 2024 04:54 (one week ago) link

"What a Wonderful Thing Love Is", stellar singing, stellar song, climactic in every sense

badder living thru Kemistry (Noodle Vague), Friday, 29 November 2024 06:40 (one week ago) link

“Simply beautiful” is one of the most intimate songs ever made. The soft, spare acoustic guitar and the way Al Green voice is mixed… it sounds like he’s sitting singing next to you. So many artists given the same assignment sound schmaltzy but not Al Green.

Can’t think of many songs that sound as cool and comfortable as this one. It sounds like a massage.

✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 29 November 2024 06:40 (one week ago) link

“Simply beautiful” is one of the most intimate songs ever made. The soft, spare acoustic guitar and the way Al Green voice is mixed… it sounds like he’s sitting singing next to you. So many artists given the same assignment sound schmaltzy but not Al Green.

Can’t think of many songs that sound as cool and comfortable as this one. It sounds like a massage.

✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 29 November 2024 06:40 (one week ago) link

Oops double post

✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 29 November 2024 06:41 (one week ago) link

Going to have to play it to make my mind up.

What a Wonderful Thing Love Is really is something special. Still got the second side to go though!

"One of These Good Old Days" over "Simply Beautiful."

Green sure knew how to sequence albums -- and write good final songs.

the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 29 November 2024 10:29 (one week ago) link

i've been reappreciating the epic god-strong funky driving miracle that is "love and happiness" - all-time guitar riff, all-time vocal performance. i have to move to it even though i've heard it so many times, it's impossible to burn out on? i have a 24-bit 96 khz copy of this album downloaded that i've been listening to and that extra resolution really brings everything to life, every moment is breathtaking.

he/him hoo-hah (map), Friday, 29 November 2024 12:29 (one week ago) link

love is
walking together
talking together
singing together
praying together

he/him hoo-hah (map), Friday, 29 November 2024 12:32 (one week ago) link

'Simply Beautiful' seems so ahead of the game...almost envisions modern r&b...absolutely adore it

X-Prince Protégé (sonnyboy), Friday, 29 November 2024 16:24 (one week ago) link

i'm certain i know what is going to win this

I'm not!

yeah now i don't know - i always thought 'love and happiness' was the favorite. delighted by the love for 'simply beautiful'. and let's not forget 'look what you done for me,' a very fine praise song if i've ever heard one with that gorgeous modulation in the chorus and haunting chord progressions throughout!

he/him hoo-hah (map), Friday, 29 November 2024 17:57 (one week ago) link

My first acquaintance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rITFOx8HW4I

the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 29 November 2024 18:06 (one week ago) link

(xp) Having said that, I'm voting for "Love and Happiness" lol

not sure what i expected from arto lindsay covering al green but that is quite good! xp

he/him hoo-hah (map), Friday, 29 November 2024 19:15 (one week ago) link

“for the good times”. perfect album

brony james (k3vin k.), Saturday, 30 November 2024 16:45 (one week ago) link

“for the good times”. perfect album

brony james (k3vin k.), Saturday, 30 November 2024 16:45 (one week ago) link

“for the good times”. perfect album

brony james (k3vin k.), Saturday, 30 November 2024 16:46 (one week ago) link

Lol I became acquainted with both “erotic city” and “simply beautiful” by the Arto Lindsay cover first.

✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 30 November 2024 17:03 (one week ago) link

Title track definitely, the best cozy smokey sound ever.

brimstead, Saturday, 30 November 2024 18:02 (one week ago) link

This might be 'For the Good Times' but I'm finding it hard not to vote for 'Simply Beautiful'.

I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Monday, 2 December 2024 20:01 (one week ago) link

I absolutely loved Call Me when I heard it for the first time recently. Let's give this one a spin then

imago, Monday, 2 December 2024 20:08 (one week ago) link

Let's give this one a spin then

yep

sleeve, Monday, 2 December 2024 20:14 (one week ago) link

this whole time you were all trying to get me to hear 'destroyer' and 'future island' and you just assumed i had heard al green already I HADNT SOMEHOW

imago, Monday, 2 December 2024 20:25 (one week ago) link

you can only trust yourself and the twelve Al Green albums on the Hi label ;)

sleeve, Monday, 2 December 2024 20:29 (one week ago) link

for real

he/him hoo-hah (map), Monday, 2 December 2024 20:39 (one week ago) link

I have the album, don't know it that well, but I'd be surprised if there's anything better than the title track.

clemenza, Monday, 2 December 2024 20:41 (one week ago) link

THIS HOLIDAY SEASON ilm will be polling EVERY SINGLE ONE of Al Green's Hi albums.

we will go back to the first two and then continue after this one. so many i still haven't heard.

he/him hoo-hah (map), Monday, 2 December 2024 20:46 (one week ago) link

I'd long thought Let's Stay Together was hit-plus-filler. Wow -- I was wrong-o. That back half...

the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 2 December 2024 20:47 (one week ago) link

the thing about most of these albums is they are an embarrassment of stellar material. green has his famous greatest hits compilation that you see in jukeboxes etc but there's just no replacement for having at least a couple of his albums on hand.

i've been listening to this album on repeat during workouts (it's fantastic workout music!) and as much as i love every song here i just keep being blown away by 'love and happiness'.

he/him hoo-hah (map), Monday, 2 December 2024 20:52 (one week ago) link

He's such a great singer, such a great interpreter of songs, that he elevates songs that might be entirely mid if somebody lesser sang them. Makes it hard to point to "filler" when he was in his pomp

badder living thru Kemistry (Noodle Vague), Monday, 2 December 2024 21:00 (one week ago) link

Actually, what's often not mentioned enough is what a fabulous songwriter Green is.

the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 2 December 2024 21:05 (one week ago) link

He wrote or co-wrote most of his material.

the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 2 December 2024 21:05 (one week ago) link

Absolutely, so many great albums.

It's gonna have to be For The Good Times. Wow

imago, Tuesday, 3 December 2024 13:52 (one week ago) link

I've only heard the greatest hits which is a crime, so I'm going to take this opportunity to listen to this whole album.

had the pleasure of seeing Al in 2012 and it was pure joy

her pal Santa falls to the floor (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 3 December 2024 14:49 (one week ago) link

Jumping on the wagon too.

Been interested in Al Green because Xgau loves him so (and if there were no Xgau influence in my life I'd probably never have found Peter Stampfel, and that would be awful) but haven't followed up. Listening to him (knowingly) for the first time ever right now. Even on the opener, I get why you guys emphasize the songwriting -- squint, and put a different arrangement on it, and it could be a Beatles song, couldn't it?

Whoa to the horn lines on Love and Happiness!

TheNuNuNu, Tuesday, 3 December 2024 14:58 (one week ago) link

the drums

the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 3 December 2024 14:58 (one week ago) link

well I'm stressed due to an idiot at work now so I'm putting this on NOW

her pal Santa falls to the floor (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 3 December 2024 14:59 (one week ago) link

I envy anyone who is about to start listening to Al Green's albums for the first time!

always loved how he was the opposite of Lenny Williams and Philip Bailey, both of whom I love, of course. they did the really loud powerful falsetto, but Al kind of perfected the very wispy, restrained falsetto because it suited his music so well.

her pal Santa falls to the floor (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 3 December 2024 15:05 (one week ago) link

This feels very much in the Moondance / Cahoots spectrum of things, but -- I gather -- emerging from a totally different scene?

1972 release date, that checks out.

TheNuNuNu, Tuesday, 3 December 2024 15:07 (one week ago) link

in the Moondance / Cahoots spectrum

Just had a sudden weird flash of Al singing "Last of the Blacksmiths".

Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 3 December 2024 15:39 (one week ago) link

I don't think the album tracks here are as exceptional as they are on the previous and subsequent records, with the exception of "What a Wonderful Thing Love Is". The three hits are excellent and my favourite is "Look What You Done for Me":

a very fine praise song if i've ever heard one with that gorgeous modulation in the chorus and haunting chord progressions throughout!

The whole verse is based on a very simple, almost pastel two-chord progression that gains emotional weight and tension as it's repeated in three different pitches. By the time he gets to the chorus, we've already travelled through a whole landscape of feeling.

Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 4 December 2024 16:49 (six days ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Thursday, 5 December 2024 00:01 (five days ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Friday, 6 December 2024 00:01 (four days ago) link

Ah-men.

the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 December 2024 00:02 (four days ago) link

for me, this record is all about Side A. i voted title track

budo jeru, Friday, 6 December 2024 15:09 (four days ago) link


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