Unsomnambulist
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Cracker - s/t (1992)
What are you listening to? August 2017
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Zeeba Neighba
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Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street (1972)
Listening to my vote for best double album
Listening to my vote for best double album
axolotl
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It's about time you did. I hope you listen to all the things you vote for.Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street (1972)
Listening to my vote for best double album
Zeeba Neighba
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It's about time you did. I hope you listen to all the things you vote for.
But of course
I love the entire album, but perhaps my favorite song on the album (and I'm not sure why it appeals to me the way it does but I've been know to hit replay on the song often) is "Sweet Virginia" - great country song. Love the line "Got to scrape that shit right off your shoes". Keith coming in echoing Mick towards the end is just perfect.
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Petyr - s/t (2017)
axolotl
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I remember my buddy and guitarist-friend Jerry K. singing that part 40 years ago.But of course
I love the entire album, but perhaps my favorite song on the album (and I'm not sure why it appeals to me the way it does but I've been know to hit replay on the song often) is "Sweet Virginia" - great country song. Love the line "Got to scrape that shit right off your shoes". Keith coming in echoing Mick towards the end is just perfect.
This beautifully shambling acoustic jam from Exile on Main Street is another song reflecting the country influence of Gram Parsons, along with the druggy atmosphere at Nellcôte, where it was recorded. It name-checks California wine, alludes to pills ("Drop your reds, drop your greens and blues"), and in what might be the album's most memorable line – "Got to scrape that shit right off your shoes!" – riffs off Richards' slang term for low-grade heroin ("Mexican shoe scrapings"). Taylor's liquid guitar runs make it a candidate for the greatest acoustic song in the Stones catalog.
Zeeba Neighba
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Your spoiler comments are more eloquent that I could put it, but that's exactly how I feel about the song. "No Expectations", "Wild Horses", "Dead Flowers" et. al are all great, but "Sweet Virginia" to me transcends all of them in the Stones country oeuvre
Zeeba Neighba
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Guy Lombardo was on the 40s satellite station the other day, and my thoughts gravitated towards "Auld Lang Syne". Mine is the last generation that could have seen (though very young at the time) Lombardo's band playing "Auld Lang Syne" and comparably Kate Smith singing "God Bless America", the songs to which they were indelibly linked (Lombardo died in early 70s, Smith in 80s). It seems strange to think (though certainly today one can more easily discover past artists more than ever) than very few people in their teens and 20s (or, let's face it, even older) aren't aware of these artists.
Guy Lombardo was on the 40s satellite station the other day, and my thoughts gravitated towards "Auld Lang Syne". Mine is the last generation that could have seen (though very young at the time) Lombardo's band playing "Auld Lang Syne" and comparably Kate Smith singing "God Bless America", the songs to which they were indelibly linked (Lombardo died in early 70s, Smith in 80s). It seems strange to think (though certainly today one can more easily discover past artists more than ever) than very few people in their teens and 20s (or, let's face it, even older) aren't aware of these artists.
Zeeba Neighba
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Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde (1966)
And while I'm on great double albums...
And while I'm on great double albums...
Nickyboy
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Voice of the Flyers.
Ojai Sam
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Good point, Zeeb. Guy and Kate are each remembered, if at all, for just one song. Same with Bing. The sad thing is that Bing and Guy were hit machines in their day, charting dozens of songs over a period of four decades. Sic transit gloria mundi.
axolotl
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Ages and Ages ~ Alright You Restless (2011)
An RYM reviewer says:
Jonathon Richman meets Peter, Paul & Mary meets mid-period Fabs, with a dash of the Violent Femmes.
That's lofty praise. I won't disagree, as I had a similar reaction, mostly from basking in the '60s psychedelicatessen of it all.
Later, the same reviewer mentions Rubber Soul, but my closest referent is actually Revolver's "I Want to Tell You."
An RYM reviewer says:
Jonathon Richman meets Peter, Paul & Mary meets mid-period Fabs, with a dash of the Violent Femmes.
That's lofty praise. I won't disagree, as I had a similar reaction, mostly from basking in the '60s psychedelicatessen of it all.
Later, the same reviewer mentions Rubber Soul, but my closest referent is actually Revolver's "I Want to Tell You."
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Markonomicon
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Didn't know they had a new one out! Sweet!King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Sketches Of Brunswick East (2017)
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It's very jazzy.
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