'Marquee Moon' LP is overrated

er, "Little Johnny Jewel" as bonus track?

um ok.

'elevation' messes with my head every time, the jarring guitar 'thrang' after "come go to my head" - always sounds like there's a scratch on the record somehow.

Fade is on the LP and the 12" single.

Ending is on all CDs.

like "cha-cha-cha"

or with a big explosion?

unless it literally ends with a whimper.

But, there was the one time you expect it to fade and it doesn't, to a rousing crescendo, and the Moebius strip finally ends (it ran from 1977 to 1993 or thereabouts)

09:38: vocals come back in

i take your point, the fade isn't a bad idea. i don't really mind that much though -- not enough to spunk for the remaster just yet anyway.

i was a fool not to listen to this whole album after 'marquee moon' took hold

cool thread title

and yes you were but i'm glad you came around

This is basically the Beatles' "Taxman" extended to album-length.

'torn curtain' is kind of a drag tho

The Blow Up vs. Live at the Waldorf?

I'd personally go with the Waldorf set. It's vastly better recorded, and while the Blow Up might have slightly more firey playing, the sound is distant to the point that it blunts the impact of the music.

'torn curtain' is kind of a drag tho

― j., Sunday, April 6, 2014 8:10 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

00.00: song starts
08:43: spacey bit starts
09:17: spacey bit ends
09:18: drums come back in
09:31: guitars come back in
09:38: vocals come back in
10:28: end chord struck
10:40: song ends

― benrique (Enrique), Tuesday, October 17, 2006 7:04 PM (7 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i will always love the two nerd free birds they wrote but man i just never really dig this band. (crit bands i have tried hard to love and can't love: young marble giants, the saints, television. there are others.)

still, loving two songs by a band ain't bad. that's two more than the the cruzados or phil 'n' the blanks.

Wow...that's the first time I've seen Phil 'n' the Blanks mentioned since I picked up a copy of the Illinois Entertainer in 1987!

i don't own a single record by any of those CBgb art dudes. no hell, no t.v., no patti, no ramones, no heads. i do own a tuff darts album though. if they count. (those guys are easy to sell though which is why i never keep them. if i get the first ramones album in i play it once before i put it in the store.)

( i lied. i play "loudmouth" and then i put it out in the store.)

skot obv that oughta be 'freenerds'

kinda feel like the freenerds are t.v. urtexts that cause all their other songs to be ones in which you hear fragments and reflections of t.h.e. freenerd

wait through like respites so you can bear to ascend m.m. again

Lol I was wondering what "nerd-free birds" were

that would be skynyrd themselves i presume

The Blow Up vs. Live at the Waldorf?

― Mark, Sunday, April 6, 2014 3:17 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'd personally go with the Waldorf set. It's vastly better recorded, and while the Blow Up might have slightly more firey playing, the sound is distant to the point that it blunts the impact of the music.

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, April 6, 2014 6:49 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I really like Live at the Waldorf as an Adventure apologist because I feel like that shows that Adventure could have been nearly as classic as MM if not for such thin, brittle production, the Adventure tunes on there really shine IMO

both the blow up and waldorf are fantastic, but yeah, the waldorf is way better sound quality wise -- and it's pretty much the only document of the band that sounds that good. whenever I put it on after listening to hundreds of shitty audience tapes it's almost like a different band altogether. last time i listened to it what stood out the most is just how amazing the ficca/smith rhythm section is/was.

Live at the Waldorf

fuckin Rhino Handmade, grrrr

Live at the Old Waldorf from Amazon:

Audio CD, Limited Edition (2003) $165.00 $105.99

that's the one thing i ever got at Record Store Day that I really covet, the vinyl

man, that's dumb that the CD costs so much. every home should have one.
bugged the producer of those reissues on twitter a few weeks ago, asking if he found any other pro recordings of Television and he said he didn't :'(

it's $55 on Discogs but still, blah

xp

OP here and in the interest of full disclosure I was smoking crack in 2002