― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 01:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― anna graham, Tuesday, 24 January 2006 07:38 (eighteen years ago) link
WTF???!!! It's only the pinnacle of English folk rock (Along with No Roses natch)
― stew!, Tuesday, 24 January 2006 09:48 (eighteen years ago) link
Well, that's what they all tell us
― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 10:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― Masked Gazza, Tuesday, 24 January 2006 10:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― clotpoll, Monday, 26 February 2007 22:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Emily Bjurnhjam, Monday, 26 February 2007 23:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 26 February 2007 23:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 00:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― clotpoll, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 01:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― Vornado, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 17:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jazzbo, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 17:58 (seventeen years ago) link
Anyone have anything to say about the new album Sweet Warrior yet?
― Jon Lewis, Thursday, 31 May 2007 15:09 (sixteen years ago) link
The Grizzly Man OST is awesome. My favorite record of 2006.
Also search the DVD of Grizzly Man for the hourlong documentary about the making of the soundtrack.
― Steve Shasta, Thursday, 31 May 2007 15:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Sweet Warrior's very uneven - some great, tense stuff and some goofy awkward old-man bullshit too. I think I liked his last album, the acoustic Front Parlour Ballads, better.
― JoshLove, Thursday, 31 May 2007 15:46 (sixteen years ago) link
So similar hit/miss ratio to Old Kit Bag?
It's on Shout Factory instead of Cooking Vinyl, so I can't cherry pick the good tracks off eMusic this time :(
― Jon Lewis, Thursday, 31 May 2007 16:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Don't think anyone's mentioned 'How Will I ever be Simple Again?' - nearly up there with Beeswing as a late gem
― sonofstan, Thursday, 12 July 2007 21:40 (sixteen years ago) link
i can't get enuf of this man's voice
― Surmounter, Monday, 30 July 2007 20:22 (sixteen years ago) link
Anyone have that huge 5 disc set of odds and ends that came out in the last year or two? I've heard mixed reviews, it seems like you've got to be insanely into RT to want it. I haven't been into his last 10 years, though the 1000 Years Of Popular Music shows were fun.
― Mr. Odd, Monday, 30 July 2007 22:01 (sixteen years ago) link
hey! sweet warrior is good. not very good, just good. the (locally owned and operated) classic rock station in my town plays "'dad's gonna kill me" constantly, which is ballsy and awesome, seeing as it's an explicitly anti-war song.
― Emily Bjurnhjam, Monday, 30 July 2007 23:18 (sixteen years ago) link
xmas present for my uncle, who's into dylan of all ages and early cohen. well he's also into late leonard cohen but i'm just not ready to provoke that.
i love "i want to see the bright lights," but i also think some more solo male rock stuff would be more up his alley -- suggestions?
― Surmounter, Thursday, 20 December 2007 15:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Finally got IWTSTBLT, and I love it. Am most drawn to the first half, which is a bit more pop-oriented in songwriting. I like the second half, but am not so into the folk tropes. Where do I go next? Where can I find more songs like the first four songs on this record?
― G00blar, Monday, 28 April 2008 15:49 (sixteen years ago) link
When I Get to the Border, Calvary Cross, Withered and Died, and title track, btw.
― G00blar, Monday, 28 April 2008 15:50 (sixteen years ago) link
check out the albm R&L put out next, "Pour Down Like Silver." Those are my favorite songs on Bright Lights too, and I like Pour Down Like SIlver even more.
― ian, Monday, 28 April 2008 16:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Awesome, thanks. That would have been my natural thought, save for all the Shoot Out the Lights love above.
― G00blar, Monday, 28 April 2008 16:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Pour Down Like Silver is my favorite Richard (with or without Linda) Thompson album. (Although Hokey Pokey was actually the followup to Bright Lights.) Based on the songs you like, you might prefer Hokey Pokey or Shoot Out the Lights to Pour Down, though.
― The guy who just votes in polls, Monday, 28 April 2008 16:12 (sixteen years ago) link
oops, my bad. hokey pokey is okay too, though. i almost never listen to it for some reason. i picked it up long after i got bright lights & pour down like silver.
― ian, Monday, 28 April 2008 16:18 (sixteen years ago) link
The arrangement+production of Calvary Cross is just killing me right now.
― G00blar, Monday, 28 April 2008 16:18 (sixteen years ago) link
(not a big fan of Shoot Out The Lights, for some reason.)
xp.
You should check out the nearly side-long live version on RT's "(guitar, vocal)" LP of odds n ends. It's some heavy shit.
― ian, Monday, 28 April 2008 16:22 (sixteen years ago) link
Search: see him in concert.
― Rock Hardy, Monday, 28 April 2008 17:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Yes. He's so much better live than on record.
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 28 April 2008 17:53 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah that 14 minute version is impossible. it got tacked on as a bonus track to 'Silver' once, and it's available right now on In Concert November 1975, which also has an 11 minute 'Night Comes In' and the way they start the show by just tearing into 'Bright Lights' is just HELL YES
I think Shoot Out The Lights is a great collection of songs and I wish it hadn't been produced all 1980 adult contemporary. Bright Lights & Silver are my favorites but all of their albums has at least one song you kinda need, even Sunnyvista has "Why Do You Turn Your Back?" Basically where you want to go next is backwards to the Thompson Fairport albums, they're different but you'll like the first three & my favorite song he wrote for them is "Sloth" on Full House.
― Milton Parker, Monday, 28 April 2008 18:04 (sixteen years ago) link
unhalfbricking & what we did on our holiday = unimpeachable classics. i've heard the complaint that liege & leaf is a little bit "too renn faire" but i still dig it.
― ian, Monday, 28 April 2008 18:22 (sixteen years ago) link
Basically where you want to go next is backwards to the Thompson Fairport albums
But aren't these more folky? Or am I wrong?
― G00blar, Monday, 28 April 2008 18:33 (sixteen years ago) link
they're folky, but they also shred. liege & lief and full house are the "folk" albums, but they're extremely electric/fast. the records before that are a bit more rock-folk than folk-rock -- jefferson airplane influence, maybe? all thompson-era fairport records are worth getting though. anyhow, I love richard. was just listening to this guitar lesson he recorded that I guess was released sometime in the 90s. obviously, there's no way i am ever going to sound like him, but it's fun to try out some of his tunings/tricks. and i'll chime in with others' recommendations to see him live -- he is stunning.
― tylerw, Monday, 28 April 2008 18:40 (sixteen years ago) link
yes they are, especially Holidays, but they did it their own way. if you like Bright Lights, you'll like them both if you let them soak in.
I saw the Water CD reissues of Holidays and Unhalfbricking in Amoeba this weekend and wanted to buy them both again
― Milton Parker, Monday, 28 April 2008 18:44 (sixteen years ago) link
are those reissues different from the ryko versions?
― tylerw, Monday, 28 April 2008 18:50 (sixteen years ago) link
bonus tracks rescinded. I never heard them, are they key?
― Milton Parker, Monday, 28 April 2008 18:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Don't remember them being so.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 28 April 2008 18:59 (sixteen years ago) link
if i remember correctly, the bonus trax on those are drawn from other places, like guitar/vocal ... some good stuff, but probably nothing essential.
― tylerw, Monday, 28 April 2008 19:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Of course, Stormy may come along and prove us wrong.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 28 April 2008 19:03 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't recall there being any bonus tracks on the Ryko versions of those albums.
― Alex in SF, Monday, 28 April 2008 19:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Henry The Human Fly is a great record btw, far better than the two albums Thompson released after IWTSTBLT.
― Alex in SF, Monday, 28 April 2008 19:45 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah i think i actually had some island import versions of the fairport stuff -- that's the stuff with the bonus tracks
― tylerw, Monday, 28 April 2008 20:02 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHx8xsp8EMI
― gershy, Tuesday, 29 April 2008 04:31 (fifteen years ago) link
bonus trax are good but dispensable... BBC session covers, mostly.
― sleeve, Tuesday, 29 April 2008 05:46 (fifteen years ago) link
the Unhalfbricking and Liege and Lief extra tracks are really great! Unhalfbricking has two unreleased covers, Dylan + The Byrds, I think - 'Ballad of Easy Rider' and 'Dear Landlord' that are easily as good as their general cover repertoire. Liege and Lief has a huge 10 minute version of 'Quiet Joys of Brotherhood', just Sandy singing over a drone, some violin, quiet drums. One of my favourite, most stretched-out Fairport tracks, in fact.
― derrrick, Wednesday, 30 April 2008 07:33 (fifteen years ago) link
and yeah, those are the Island reissues I have, not Ryko.
His live version of "Can't Win" off Watching the Dark includes some of the most incredible guitar playing I have ever heard.
― Jim, Saturday, 22 August 2009 22:33 (fourteen years ago) link
There's a new RT career-spanning box set out. I already have "Watching The Dark" but it looks like a good set if you don't have much already.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Saturday, 22 August 2009 22:50 (fourteen years ago) link