fresh is awesome obv
― idyll of october 2009 (k3vin k.), Monday, 19 October 2009 21:29 (fourteen years ago) link
this thread made me go back and listen to those great records by The Cuts - the band that sounds like the stones/big star etc...
i wanna recommend them to this guy who made the list...can you hear me? wherever you are?(though he probably knows bout them anyway)
― Zeno, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 17:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Revive! The Morning record is really nice. The first few things anyway. I should really compile a Spotify list of what’s available here.
― Naive Teen Idol, Wednesday, 13 July 2022 20:42 (one year ago) link
He is absolutely correct that Harry and Aerial Ballet are the two best Nilsson albums because they are, although not in that order.
― everything, Wednesday, 13 July 2022 23:37 (one year ago) link
real gone music is reissuing his #49, owsley.
― Thus Sang Freud, Sunday, 4 June 2023 20:38 (eleven months ago) link
I've never like the Raspberries, and I tried. The opening to "Go All the Way" is awesome - just through cultural osmosis, I already knew it before I even knew the song or who the band was. As soon as I played that record, I thought I was going to love this band, but as soon as that intro's over, it's like a bait-and-switch for some cheeseball crap. I think "Overnight Sensation" is the only track I sort of enjoy, but after dozens of tries, the rest wouldn't take.
― birdistheword, Monday, 5 June 2023 02:45 (eleven months ago) link
*liked
The filler cuts on that first Raspberries record are really appalling, limp countrified soft rock sung by non-Carmen band members. Fresh is better but I haven't heard the next two records.
Interesting that this person ranks the second Left Banke record higher than the first. I wouldn't go that far but it's way more than an afterthought to the first, despite Michael Brown's limited contributions.
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 5 June 2023 03:11 (eleven months ago) link
choosing Birthday from The Association discography is a little wtf
B-b-but the "Everything That Touches You" / "Toymaker" / "Barefoot Gentlemen" sequence is top-shelf syrupy ear candy.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Monday, 5 June 2023 05:10 (eleven months ago) link
you're gonna get syrup with eric carman, no doubt. but "go all the way" is a masterpiece of translation from piano chord inversions into guitar rock -- that long buildup back to the main riff is pure delayed gratification. also, the raspberries "starting over" lp really kicks.
― Thus Sang Freud, Monday, 5 June 2023 10:44 (eleven months ago) link
(xp) Yes, "Birthday" possibly is their best album.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Monday, 5 June 2023 11:06 (eleven months ago) link
"Tonight" and "Ecstasy" are in a similar vein to "Go All the Way" but better.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Monday, 5 June 2023 11:08 (eleven months ago) link
I should really compile a Spotify list of what’s available here.
― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, 5 June 2023 11:51 (eleven months ago) link
One of the records I’ve listened to the most off this, I realize, is the Billy Lyall Solo Casting record which is this kind of offbeat mix of angular Godley and Creme melodies, Stevie Wonder multitracked TONTO-synth harmonies and very zig zaggy string arrangements. Alas it is still not streaming.
― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, 5 June 2023 12:02 (eleven months ago) link
like, the obvious place to go after the "come on -- come on" part is back to the riff, but instead they circle back through the chorus a couple of times, then, *again* not going back to the riff, they do that arpegiated descending thing which is just a masterstroke of diversion, and by the time you've given up, *then* they hit you with the riff. sorry for the xpost, but that thing destroys me.
― Thus Sang Freud, Monday, 5 June 2023 12:37 (eleven months ago) link
Totally agree
― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, 5 June 2023 23:53 (eleven months ago) link