Curved Air - Second Album
(1971, Warner Bros)
Curved Air - Second Album
(1971, Warner Bros)
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Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music
(1975, RCA) STERLING RL; RCA MASTER REFERENCE promo tag on front cover
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Metallica~ ..And Justice for All
Suicidal Tendencies~ S/ T
Cream~ Disraeli Gears
Eazy- E~ Boys in the Hood EP
Was reading an article on Kate Bush in Mojo magazine and she mentioned a number of artists and their work that intrigued her when she was working on her 1985 album The Hounds of Love. Anyway, I knew of Eberhard Weber from many other albums (Gary Burton and such), but didn't know of his 1979 album Kate Bush mentioned called "Fluid Rustle". It arrived in the mail today from Amazon ... so its on the Big JBLs via the Jolida tube amp ...
Bonnie Herman - Voice
Norma Winstone - Voice
Gary Burton - Vibraharp, Marimba
Bill Frisell - Guitar, Balalaika
Eberhard Weber - Bass, Tarang
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Weber has been/was/is, not sure, house bassist for Manfred Eicher's ECM Records. His work with Ralph Towner there in 1972-74 is still some of my favorite music, ever. Weber is one of the most interesting bassists I have ever heard, along with Jaco. Solstice, ECM 1060, and the somber follow up Sound And Shadow show Weber stretching out in a fantastic quartet. Rounding it out is house drummer Jon Christensen and a very early Jan Garbarek (who has never recorded on any other label). Jan played like a lion in those days. Towner played both guitars and piano on those sides. These days he lets John Taylor handle the piano parts, a reasonable plan given Taylor's genius with the keys, but Ralph is an astonishing piano player in his own right.
Norma Winstone I hear on some of Provovateur Record's titles. She has worked with my fave Maria Pia De Vito there, on a release by Colin Townes, the label's head. Impressive talent, she.
Information is not Knowledge; Knowledge is not Wisdom
Too many audiophiles listen with their eyes instead of their ears
Beatles~ The White Album
Hug your dog.
R.E.M.~ Green
Hug your dog.
Come on - the whole thread is pretty meaningless unless you make
SOME kind of comments about the music itself, good, mediocre, insufferable ...
WHo played on the album, why it matters - SOMETHING.
Just pasting pictures of album art that is hosted on external servers slows the hell out of the whole thread too!
Originally Posted by Nick Danger
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I will be sure to keep that in mind.
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is the eighth studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. Released on 1 June 1967, it was an immediate commercial and critical success, spending 22 weeks at the top of the albums chart in the United Kingdom and 15 weeks at number one in the United States. Time magazine declared it "a historic departure in the progress of music" and the New Statesman praised its elevation of pop to the level of fine art.[1] It won four Grammy Awards in 1968, including Album of the Year, the first rock LP to receive this honour.
In August 1966, the Beatles permanently retired from touring and began a three-month holiday from recording. During a return flight toLondon in November, Paul McCartney had an idea for a song involving an Edwardian era military band that would eventually form the impetus of the Sgt. Pepper concept. Sessions for the Beatles' eighth studio album began on 24 November in Abbey Road Studio Two, with the original intention to record an album of material that was to be thematically linked to their childhoods. Among the first tracks recorded for the project were "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "Penny Lane", but after pressure from EMI the songs were released as adouble A-side single; they were not included on the album.
In February 1967, after recording "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", McCartney suggested that the Beatles should release an entire album that would represent a performance by the fictional Sgt. Pepper band. This alter ego group would give them the freedom to experiment musically. During the recording sessions, the band endeavoured to improve upon the production quality of their prior releases. Knowing they would not have to perform the tracks live, they adopted an experimental approach to composition, writing songs such as "With a Little Help from My Friends", "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" and "A Day in the Life". The producer George Martin's innovative recording of the album included the liberal application of sound shaping signal processing and the use of a 40-piece orchestra performing aleatoric crescendos. Recording was completed on 21 April 1967. The cover, depicting the band posing in front of a tableau of celebrities and historical figures, was designed by the English pop artists Peter Blake and Jann Haworth based on a sketch by McCartney.
Sgt. Pepper is regarded by musicologists as an early concept album that advanced the use of extended form in popular music while continuing the artistic maturation seen on the Beatles' preceding releases. It has been described as one of the first art rock LPs, aiding the development of progressive rock, and credited with marking the beginning of the Album Era. An important work of Britishpsychedelia, the multigenre album incorporates diverse stylistic influences, including vaudeville, circus, music hall, avant-garde, andWestern and Indian classical music. In 2003 the Library of Congress placed Sgt. Pepper in the National Recording Registry, honouring the work as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[2] That same year Rolling Stone magazine ranked it number one in its list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time". As of 2014 it has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling albums in history. Professor Kevin J Dettmar, writing in the Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature, described it as "the most important and influential rock and roll album ever recorded".[3]
Hug your dog.
Also hard to perceive sarcasm through the ether... without loads of emoticons or context/setup which tends to ruin otherwise perfectly good sarcasm.
Btw, I'm a pepper fan now and then... Extra info was interesting.
Mott The Hoople - Brain Capers
(1972, Atlantic) Monarch pressing, AT/GP in the deadwax
strong hard rock stuff. starts off with "Death May Be Your Santa Claus" and keeps going.
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[QUOTE=SpeakerLabFan;367250]Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music
(1975, RCA) STERLING RL; RCA MASTER REFERENCE promo tag on front cover
A good record to blow out cobwebs especially after sitting through a few hour of less than satisfying NFL football. Not unlistenable which is more than I can say for most of side 2 of Live Peace In Toronto.
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Ian Hunter / Mott The Hoople - The Ballad Of Ian Hunter & Mott The Hoople
(1979, CBS) UK pressing
listening to record 1. always enjoy the Bowie produced cover of Sweet Jane.
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Badfinger "Say No More" 1981
Badfinger's final LP. Great songs and energy from original members Tom Evans and Joey Molland with Tony Kaye on keyboards. A must own album for any fans of this phenomenal "Apple" band! Album artwork by Peter Max.
Justin Hayward "Songwriter" 1977 Deram
Debut solo album by Moody Blues member Justin Hayward. At it's best it sounds like some his better Moody Blues compositions and there's very little "filler".
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