BEST EPISODE OF CLASSIC ALBUMS

The one on The Doors coulda been great but unfortunately becomes unwatchable every time Ray Manzarek is on camera

― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, January 22, 2013 6:02 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Replace 'The Doors' with any artist of your choice and replace 'Ray Manzarek' with everyone's favourite Liam Gallagher lookalike 'David Fricke' and...

Motorhead one is hilarious. Filthy is so weird.

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, January 21, 2013 11:31 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

My favourite part of that is when Fast Eddie is listening to one of his guitar solos...

Guitar solo: *widdlywiddlywiddlywiddlywiddlysqeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee*
Fast Eddie: "I think that's where I fell over..."
Guitar solo: *eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee*
Fast Eddie: "I think I make a recovery soon..."
Guitar solo: *eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewiddlywiddlywiddlywiddly*
Fast Eddie: "Ah, there!"

Aja and The Band are both excellent, the latter helped cement that album as one of my all-time favourites, the level of detail in the playing is incredible.

DSOTM one was great too - I have to say Waters came across worse in the more recent BBC Wish You Were Here documentary, still griping that they should've used his vocals on 'Have a Cigar' instead of Roy Harper's.

Replace 'The Doors' with any artist of your choice and replace 'Ray Manzarek' with everyone's favourite Liam Gallagher lookalike 'David Fricke' and...

From excellent ILM Classic Albums thread In every Classic Album TV/Radio documentary...:

Six words: David Fricke, leather jacket, enormous teeth.

Watched The Band's one yesterday - it's so good. Rick Danko singing Unfaithful Servant!

Six words: David Fricke, leather jacket, enormous teeth.
This guy is all over the Disraeli Gears episode. I had to avert my eyes.

that's de rigeur

But I did listen. Otherwise I would never have known how heavy the riff on "Sunshine Of Your Love" was, that the first time you heard it on the radio and whenever after, you just couldn't resist it.

Motorhead one is hilarious. Filthy is so weird.

It's probably my favourite CA, depending on whether or not I want to hear any studio/tech talk. And 'Ace of Spades' definately does not contain much of that, but it more than makes up for it by including all the other stuff that's cool about being in a band, especially the humour. ("There's nothing scarier than a naked man with a sword and a hard-on." / "These clothes are all rented." / "I am saying 'fuck' enough now?" / etc.)

That crazy lump on the back of his neck! O_O

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYSUFZnhRLU

Not the best episode but a great moment

I think the one I enjoyed the most was the one for Hysteria, funnily enough.

hysteria's so good

The Band one is great, Levon Helm is so delightful throughout.

The Paranoid episode is my hands down favorite

Six words: David Fricke, leather jacket, enormous teeth.
This guy is all over the Disraeli Gears episode. I had to avert my eyes.

― The Teardrop ILXplodes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, January 23, 2013 8:48 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Fricke looks like a Ramone as drawn by Jack Kirby.

Skeletor. crossed with Stephen King.

How do we watch this show nowadays? Are we left with the few of them on youtube or tracking down individual dvds? Were they even all released on dvd?

And then why stop? Recorded music is still popular, when did everyone lose interest in the recording process? So many questions!

I wish Aja was twice as long, not because the album or programme is especially better than the others but I just want to hear B and F talk more about fly by night guitarists, Chuck Rainey and mixing desk mayhem

Lol @ Skeletor King Critic

I was able to find a torrent for the Hysteria one with 2 seeds on it. Not sure if that one is avail legally in the US.

The Hysteria one is hilarious. The straining for significance is just agonizing. The drummer seems determined to live down his past and show he's particularly thoughtful. The singer says "there was this lick floating around and I heard it and thought, yeah, I can add this other part over it" about 3 times.

"Hysteria" unplugged is something no one needs to hear, but the singer and guitarist provide it anyway on dual Hummingbirds

Pet Sounds! Tomorrow night on BBC2.

Okay, so the first season of Classic Albums started airing in 1997, and Rumours was a 20 year old record at that point... it's 2017 now, so where are the documentaries on OK Computer, or Urban Hymns, or Parklife, or Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space, or...

I love you but you don't wannna know me
But I think you're great and I wanna see
I wanna see you
Smile into my face
Oh yeah

These could be the lyrics to the Black Keys' next single and no one would bat an eye

Elton one isn't earthshaking but there's one good knob-twiddle scene within the last ten mins, where they isolate the backing vocals from Candle in the Wind, and it sounds *damn* good in an "Eagles warming up with Seven Bridges Road at the start of the doc" kinda way.

Yes, it was really interesting to learn that Elton would just leave the studio and let the band arrange all the backing vox.

De-lurk to say Steely Dan is the correct answer. Purdie though like. 2 other threads to post on now.

The Stevie ep is better than the Steely ep, fuiud.

Many of these (all of these?) are on Amazon Prime, and I've caught up on some that I'd missed previously back in the days of dvd rental. I've long wondered, though... how in THEE EVERLOVING FUCK did Simply Red's Stars sneak into this series? Maybe it's renowned in the UK*, but Simply Red was dunzo in the US by that time.

*Wikipedia says yes, so I guess I've answered my own question.

cos money was too tight to mention

ha yeah that one threw me for a loop too

Mick Hucknell does not suffer from low self-esteem

watching Goodbye Yellow Brick Road episode now, really enjoying it

love the Elton ep

the rumours ep is really something, there’s not much that the band members weren’t willing to share. gotta reconvene and film a tusk episode haha

there have been a bunch of episodes made since the poll was created, a memorable one was about sabbath’s paranoid. no real earth-shaking revelations, but they make a fun recurring bit out of asking geezer what inspired his lyrics and geezer giving the most deflating, matter-of-fact answer possible.

Does Blowey Hole have one of these?

xp Re: Tusk; this is a similar thing, made for BBC radio in 2012.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01hxpxp

challop: Every album should have a Classic Albums episode.

Like, as soon as you finish an album, you would be contractually mandated to have the producer and the most charismatic band member sit at a mixing desk and solo different parts and talk about how groovy they sound on their own, etc. Etc.

Then you should interview a crack session musician about how his or her part just "came together" on the first take. Preferably Nile Rodgers, but Jim Keltner will do in a pinch.

This should be required even if they did not in fact play on the album.

Do we also need to have a close up of David Fricke's huge teeth?

It's interesting how the episodes reflect the personality of the band as well as the particular album. Upthread someone said that the Steely DAn episode was anal. Well so are Steely Dan. The Motorhead and Fleetwood Mac episodes also give a strong sense of what it would have been like to be in those bands.

last two posts both otm

Hah, yes, David Fricke is required

Also required - totally unexpected appearance from an unrelated musician. I'd forgotten that the Steely Dan episode has Ian Dury in it. Also bonus points if you can get Bono to say how your album has "really influenced" him.

Motorhead episode is such a pisser, i hate that they’re all gone now ;_;

David Fricke really, really looks like a Peter Bagge drawing.

The Dark Side of the Moon episode is worthwhile. Remarkable how well I remember all of the tunes though it's been decades since I listened to the album.

The Elton one had a lot of scenes of producers pulling sliders up and down on the boards, the great heart of any great Classic

There was a show I thought was in this series that covered Anthem of the Sun and possibly the first Grateful Dead lp.

oh right, thought it covered more than one lp its Anthem to Beauty not just American Beauty

This here's a write-in vote for Rio

also liked the catch a fire episode because it was a genuine revelation that the amazing organ and guitar parts of that album came courtesy of cornpone alabamans