― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 21:08 (twenty years ago) link
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 21:16 (twenty years ago) link
― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 21:20 (twenty years ago) link
I totally loved "Tie Dye to the Highway" at the time (Grade 6/7). I really liked "Hurting Kind" too. I also remember "Liar's Dance" being good. Some of the rest too. I remember writing a review of Manic Nirvana for a Gr 7 English assignment and saying that it was pretty good but leaves the listener wanting a little more.
I think the coolest thing about his 80s solo career was how he reinvented his persona as this button-down shirt-wearing English gentleman artiste, sort of a hippie Peter Gabriel.
"Tall Cool One" was great, WTF? Or at least I thought so then. "Ship of Fools" too. I don't remember that album as well.
Yeah, "In the Mood" is good.
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 22:03 (twenty years ago) link
and yes, some of his solo stuff is pretty good ... i always liked "in the mood," "little by little," and "heaven knows" (though the lyrics are sorta c-grade bryan ferry [OF ALL PEOPLE FOR MR. DOES-ANYONE-REMEMBER-LAUGHTER TO TRY TO IMITATE COULD YOU SEE THE FAVOR BEING RECIPROCATED?!]). the honeydrippers "sea of love" remake is silly, but it lead me to the original version so it's all good in the end (plus the video was prime mid-eighties cheese and the chick therein looked like a high-school teacher i really crushed on big time).
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 6 November 2003 05:20 (twenty years ago) link
― Sean (Sean), Thursday, 6 November 2003 22:23 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 6 November 2003 22:25 (twenty years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 7 November 2003 01:46 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.borntoboogie.net/Images/premiere/tv_robplant_rolan.jpg
(That's Tony Visconti and Rolan Bolan, Marc's son, on either side of him at an event for the Born to Boogie DVD.)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 15 May 2005 21:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 15 May 2005 21:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― Al (sitcom), Monday, 16 May 2005 00:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 16 May 2005 01:34 (eighteen years ago) link
An unmentioned song I still go back to: the beautiful synth ballad "Thru With The Two Step" from Principle of Moments. Man, I wish he'd locked into that sound/vibe and just stayed there....
― Dr. Gene Scott (shinybeast), Monday, 16 May 2005 05:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 16 May 2005 06:24 (eighteen years ago) link
I like Robert Plant's first three records (the Robbie Blunt trilogy) a lot, and appreciate the effort on Plant's part to make them NOT sound like Zeppelin. Which would've been a mistake, considering how his voice has deteriorated over the years - couldn't hit the high notes anymore. His next few weren't very good at all, although sampling the Beastie Boys was a clever move. "Calling To You" and "Tie Die On The Highway" were pretty spacey. (Incidentally, what the heck was up with those ultra-arcane song titles, anyway? Were they dope-inspired? pulled at random out of a hat? i-ching toss-results? or just inside jokes? Dunno; but one of the few that made sense: "Mystery Title"!
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 16 May 2005 06:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 16 May 2005 12:32 (eighteen years ago) link
He has since irritatingly renounced said efforts, alas.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 16 May 2005 13:33 (eighteen years ago) link
Actually I didn't even know there was one!
I have to say I kinda regret not getting The Principle of Moments back when I heard "Big Log" and "In the Mood" on the radio in upstate New York -- both reasonably big hits and spun quite a bit. I was 12 then and had I picked up the album and really gotten into it, it would have been interesting to see how I viewed Led Zep and much else in retrospect.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 16 May 2005 13:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sundar (sundar), Monday, 16 May 2005 14:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr. Gene Scott (shinybeast), Monday, 16 May 2005 14:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Monday, 16 May 2005 19:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 16 May 2005 19:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 16 May 2005 19:11 (eighteen years ago) link
I think Zeppelin's cover art is/was unfairly derided...most of it is really good. Obv. it was Page (the former art student), who was in charge of hiring Hipgnosis.
― Dr. Gene Scott (shinybeast), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 04:04 (eighteen years ago) link
One of the Hipgnosis guys (most likely Storm Thorgerson) proposed artwork for Houses Of The Holy with a picture of a tennis match on the cover. When asked what it meant, he said "Don't you get it? Racket!" and that was the end of that.
― Deluxe (Damian), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 10:45 (eighteen years ago) link
Funny that PIL ended up doing Kashmir live
I saw them do as their opening number on the Album tour....only the band played it before Lydon took the stage (releaving him of the burden of singing it).
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 11:07 (eighteen years ago) link
I can't belive how many times I've heard the latest single in the last six weeks; it's not something that would make me search out this album, but the one acoustic track I did hear was surprisingly good. How many songs on the album are like that?
― Vic Funk, Tuesday, 17 May 2005 11:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 12:41 (eighteen years ago) link
Oh, the pumping irony.
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 19:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 19:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 19:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 19:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 19:32 (eighteen years ago) link
100 Best Album Covers
If these are the 100 best, rock and roll is a very boring beast.
I recieved this book as a gift a few years ago, and man, is it pretentious and dull. Here is 2% of the list:http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000025NCI.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00004YS2O.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
That's right. Yer lookin' at TWO OF THE ONE-HUNDRED BEST ALBUM COVERS OF ALL TIME.
Some of the list is some of the hundred best, but there's a lot of stinkers in there, too. I would only suggest reading this at the bookstore while waiting for your mate to finish shopping.
(I would've put this on another thread, but A.) Storm Thorgerson's name has already been dropped in here like he was Candyman and B.) This is an Alex in NYC thread, so album cover talk shouldn't be discouraged.)
Take a wild guess which LZ cover they liked the best?
http://www.starland.com/sf-sc/sf01/images/Monolith/Monolith.jpg
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 19:39 (eighteen years ago) link
Funny that PIL ended up doing Kashmir liveSomeone, somewhere HAS to have a copy of this...?
― Dr. Gene Scott (shinybeast), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 21:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 18:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rick Massimo (Rick Massimo), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 19:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 20:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Monday, 18 July 2005 02:44 (eighteen years ago) link
I'll have more to write when I've absorbed it, but this proves that the man was NOT coasting (I checked this album's sales, just as a by-the-way; it's his lowest-selling '80s album, and the Zep fans didn't forgive him until he made Now & Zen.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 21:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 21:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 22:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Zwan (miccio), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 22:55 (eighteen years ago) link
Not sure about BAD - quite possible, given the man's eclectic tastes. One of his main inspirations around this time was Peter Gabriel.
― Deluxe (Damian), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 23:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 23:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Monday, 29 May 2006 19:52 (seventeen years ago) link
a shame that there was no Youtube when i originally posted in this thread, about how 80s cheesy the video for "sea of love" is. here it is, in all of its Zorba-the-Greek/Frank-Zappa-lookalike-standing-around-a-xylophone-and-wearing-a-speedo glory:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9-026ZCKR8
― there can be only but steam that smells of shit and weaklingness (Eisbaer), Friday, 19 February 2010 05:27 (fourteen years ago) link
hey so fate of nations is actually an outstanding fucking record just fyi
― Twink Will Ferrell (J0hn D.), Friday, 2 April 2010 14:41 (thirteen years ago) link
I liked "29 Palms" at the time. There aren't many Plant solo moments I haven't enjoyed, actually.
― filling the medicare donut hole with the semen of liberal (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 2 April 2010 14:42 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah it's like even the ones that don't seem good at the time come to sound pretty awesome if you just set 'em aside to ripen
― Twink Will Ferrell (J0hn D.), Friday, 2 April 2010 14:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Big Log is the biggest WTf moment of the past few weeks. Guitarist tone is so awful, his pull-offs amateur. Whole song sounds like some lounge effort. Drums and pads are almost modern sounding. "...and the coming of night time" ok
― calstars, Friday, 1 March 2013 02:42 (eleven years ago) link
http://consequenceofsound.net/2015/03/robert-plant-teams-with-pixies-for-north-american-tour/
― how's life, Monday, 16 March 2015 16:59 (nine years ago) link
I think "Lullaby and... the Ceaseless Roar" is as good of an album I would expect or want from Robert Plant on the 21st Century.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 7 July 2017 23:40 (six years ago) link
Yep!
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 8 July 2017 00:26 (six years ago) link
solid perce
― mookieproof, Saturday, 8 July 2017 01:25 (six years ago) link
anyone listening to his podcast? it's kind of nice. He's all over the place but enjoyable to listen to.
Also learned that Richie Hayward played on Shaken n Stirred, now I have to go listen to that one
― calstars, Thursday, 11 July 2019 01:36 (four years ago) link
Robert Plant and Phil Collins backstage at Madison Square Garden, NYC during Plant's 1983 'Principle of Moments' tour pic.twitter.com/7vrEJWZ5ta— Barney Hurley (@barneyhurley1) May 2, 2021
― calstars, Monday, 3 May 2021 03:04 (two years ago) link
boss business
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 3 May 2021 03:05 (two years ago) link
“The break is in 7/8”
― calstars, Monday, 3 May 2021 03:16 (two years ago) link
"Lighten up, baby, I'm in love with you!"
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 3 May 2021 09:33 (two years ago) link
you were pumping iron while i was pumping irony
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 21 June 2023 03:11 (nine months ago) link
Heaven knows!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 21 June 2023 03:13 (nine months ago) link