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― Stormy Davis, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 21:08 (seventeen years ago) link
Never properly listened to 'Rocks' until I replayed it today and it just clicked - whatever was going up their nose back them sure did come out in some kick ass songs ...
― BlackIronPrison, Friday, 29 May 2009 20:26 (fourteen years ago) link
might as well
― pax raggetta (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 27 May 2011 20:06 (twelve years ago) link
question: is this thread the origin-point of the intense display of fanship on ILX for 70s Aeromsith?
― pax raggetta (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 27 May 2011 20:07 (twelve years ago) link
those mini guitar solos in "nobody's fault" are so frickin badass.
― 2am chopped top (brimstead), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 10:36 (eleven years ago) link
I just had that going through my head the other day. Which is weird because I've only heard it a few times.
― flared bass (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 10:43 (eleven years ago) link
listening on headphones the other night I discovered all this crazy shit going on just underthe music during "Back in the Saddle". Nice work Jack Douglas.
Back when I used to listen to headphones on a regular basis, this was one of my fave albums to do it with. There's a lot of creepy stuff going on that you miss w/out 'phones, esp. in Saddle, yeah.
There's no other record in their catalog that has a production as murky, as layered, or as rich. I mean murky in a good way, too.
― Doctor Flange, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 13:35 (eleven years ago) link
listening to this right now for 70s rawk poll, Perry's leads (which fade in and out of the mix) sound a little like Fripp on Scary Monsters
― Josh and D.A.M. (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 18:26 (eleven years ago) link
Perry's leads on "Rats in the Cellar", I mean
― Josh and D.A.M. (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 18:30 (eleven years ago) link
ah my favorite thread title
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 18:31 (eleven years ago) link
otm
― Josh and D.A.M. (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 18:31 (eleven years ago) link
okay Nobody's Fault slams
― Josh and D.A.M. (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 18:36 (eleven years ago) link
those little guitar accents in "last child"
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 19:24 (eleven years ago) link
and "rats in the cellar"! all those screaming guitar noises just barely escaping the mix
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 19:30 (eleven years ago) link
Drugs - I knew you'd like it.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 19:30 (eleven years ago) link
note how the drums mutate into a walking fleet of giants at the end of "combination"
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 19:35 (eleven years ago) link
this is the best album ever
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 19:39 (eleven years ago) link
― brimstead, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 19:44 (eleven years ago) link
A reminder: This album more than makes up for 30 years of shit Aerosmith.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 18:10 (nine years ago) link
favorite ilx thread title
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 18:19 (nine years ago) link
I spent most of December listening to "Lick and a Promise."
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 18:20 (nine years ago) link
i'd have said "favorite ilx thread" but the other rocks thread has a lot of incredible posts
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 18:27 (nine years ago) link
yes, this album is some kind of formal breakthrough.
it's a very strange mix of the textures being so shambolic that it feels like it is going to break down into musical chaos at any minute, and yet all the parts are held in what repeated listenings reveal to be a very precise balance. it's kind of perfect example of a certain paradox of hard rock and metal, which is that many of the greatest and most paradigmatic examples of a music whose ethos is all about chaos, haggardness, a kind of studied macho indifference, can in fact be the result of considerable expertise, care, and attention to detail.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Tuesday, 3 November 2015 20:23 (eight years ago) link
^^^^^^^^ hell yeah
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 3 November 2015 20:32 (eight years ago) link
love this album. combination is my jam
― dynamicinterface, Wednesday, 4 November 2015 13:37 (eight years ago) link
ragin'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hplDR4TPGTM
― scott seward, Wednesday, 4 November 2015 15:05 (eight years ago) link
Sick as a dog, um, cat got your tongueSick as a dog, you'll be sorrySick as a dog, 'cause you really ain't so young
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 4 November 2015 15:08 (eight years ago) link
that houston show is just peak awesomeness. those guitars....man oh man. everyone sounds great. punk-dub echo on the vocals sound so cool. epic funky lord of the thighs.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 4 November 2015 15:17 (eight years ago) link
amateurist otm
― brimstead, Wednesday, 4 November 2015 18:48 (eight years ago) link
the guitar solos on "nobody's fault"... hell "nobody's fault" on its own is just ridiculous. and "sick as a dog" is punk as fuck, imo
― brimstead, Wednesday, 4 November 2015 18:50 (eight years ago) link
i think i said this in the other rocks thread but imo you can hear r.e.m. being born in "sick as a dog"
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Wednesday, 4 November 2015 18:53 (eight years ago) link
R.E.M. actually covered 'Toys In The Attic'!
Yeah, this album rules and this band were totally on fire in the '70s... that they didn't end up really getting much commercial success here in the UK until their best years were long behind them will always have me scratching my head.
― Turrican, Wednesday, 4 November 2015 19:10 (eight years ago) link
I think I'm gonna play this album really loudly when I get home today
― sleeve, Wednesday, 4 November 2015 19:16 (eight years ago) link
that houston show made my morning. i was almost late for work. so cool. i never really listen to aerosmith anymore. they are kinda just a part of my dna thanks to years of exposure. my brother worshipped them.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 4 November 2015 19:37 (eight years ago) link
my brother went to this show. it was the rock event of his summer.
http://theconcertdatabase.com/sites/theconcertdatabase.com/files/1978-08-06.jpg
― scott seward, Wednesday, 4 November 2015 19:39 (eight years ago) link
Not cheap!
― Three Word Username, Wednesday, 4 November 2015 19:50 (eight years ago) link
Seriously, I don't see a date on that poster, but that's mid '80s pricing, not '70s pricing. (Woulda been a hell of a show, though.)
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 4 November 2015 20:06 (eight years ago) link
1978
― new noise, Wednesday, 4 November 2015 20:18 (eight years ago) link
yeah, '78. my dad took him. but would my dad take me to see maiden and priest in new haven in 1982? noooooooooo.....
― scott seward, Wednesday, 4 November 2015 20:31 (eight years ago) link
Just lost an evening to that '77 show upthread.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 5 November 2015 08:09 (eight years ago) link
like what IS that thing at the end of "Back in the Saddle"? Apparently a 27-string bass, could just as well be a tuba or an exploding meth lab.
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 28 May 2020 23:55 (three years ago) link