Hopefully results will be more interesting than the Something Else poll.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 15 October 2007 15:00 (sixteen years ago) link
why, what happened there?
― Frogman Henry, Monday, 15 October 2007 15:01 (sixteen years ago) link
There was an obvious frontrunner that won by a landslide.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 15 October 2007 15:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Hard to choose between "Life's Greatest Fool", "Silver Raven", and "From a Silver Phial". I'm going with "Phial".
― o. nate, Monday, 15 October 2007 22:18 (sixteen years ago) link
At the end of the month, Collector's Choice is issuing a 2Cd collection of Clark and Carla Olson in concert. Gene at Mountain Stage, 1988, Gene and Carla in Gene's living room, 1989 and then the two of them at McCabe's. Haven't heard it yet, but I liked parts of "So Rebellious a Lover," so I'm hoping...
― smurfherder, Monday, 15 October 2007 22:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― ILX System, Monday, 15 October 2007 23:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Hmm...it looks like disc 2 of that Collector's Choice set is the same concert that was released in the early '90s as <a href=http://www.amazon.com/Silhouetted-Light-Gene-Clark/dp/B0000076AJ>Silhouetted in Light</a>. I remember downloading it a while back; Gene's solo renditions of "She Don't Care About Time" (similar to the <i>Roadmaster</i> version) and Carla's "Your Fire Burning" are very moving, but I don't generally care for Carla's voice or compositions.
It's a shame <i>Two Sides To Every Story</i> is so hard to come by. In many ways it's a less tortured, more accessible sister album to <i>No Other</i>, and I'm surprised it keeps such a low profile in Gene's discography.
― hawth, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 01:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Judging by the track selection, disc two does seem to be Silhouetted Light with one more track "Here Without You" at the very end.
― smurfherder, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 02:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Wow, this really was a photo finish.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 03:03 (sixteen years ago) link
A sign of thick, even quality all the way through.....
― PhilK, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 13:26 (sixteen years ago) link
Funny you mention that. Collector's Choice was supposed to reissue it earlier this year, but it was pulled at the 11th hour. I think it was because of an unresolved rights issue.
― C. Grisso/McCain, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 14:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Two Sides To Every Story is the prototypical "The longer it's out of print, the more over-praised it becomes" record. Don't get me wrong: it's pretty good -- it periodically wants to go in a sweeping, late-70s MOR direction ("Sister Moon," "Past Addresses," "Hear the Win"). But it's a little too scattershot to be some forgotten masterpiece.
― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 14:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Too bad he didn't get Terry Melcher to pitch in on that one.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 14:55 (sixteen years ago) link
"some misunderstanding" was robbed in this poll
― swvl, Sunday, 17 October 2010 19:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Yes
― kornrulez6969, Sunday, 17 October 2010 19:50 (thirteen years ago) link
such a jam
― bear, bear, bear, Sunday, 17 October 2010 23:27 (thirteen years ago) link
also silver raven with 0..
but strength of strings is the shit tho
― yuoowemeone, Monday, 18 October 2010 00:09 (thirteen years ago) link
For me, it would be a five-way tie between "Silver Raven", "Strength of Strings", "From A Silver Phial", "Some Misunderstanding", and "Lady of the North".
In other words, it's impossible to pick the greatest song from the one album which can truly be described as Cosmic American Music.
― Graveyard Poet, Monday, 25 February 2013 09:55 (eleven years ago) link