John Entwistle - Smash Your Head Against the Wall, Whistle Rymes, and Too Late the Hero If only Hero had the songwriting that Smash and Whistle do. At least it has the best Entwistle bass work of the 3 (Talk Dirty and Dancing Master especially), and Walsh turns in some nice guitar parts.
Greetings & salutations DHeads... Miles Davis - Bitches Brew (1970) My copy is a NM 2 Eye original 1A pressing... If Alice In Wonderland had a acid soundtrack BB would be it... Miles & band took Jazz down (yet again) another unknown avenue thus creating the finest Acid-Jazz in the process... Only this road was inhabited by African haints , ghosts , Shamans & disciples of the Voo-Doo faith , all surrounded by a dark dense swirling mass of psychedelic improvisational sounds... One of the premier psychedelic experiences of my life was seeing Miles , Dead & Mike Bloomfield live in 1970... Anytime I play Live Dead or BB I inherently follow one with the other to jostle my old memory banks back to those wonderful times... Anyway the remixed & remastered editions do absolutely nothing for me , this is music that was meant to sound dark , dense & murky... Nightmares are not bright shiny & oft times easy to define... For me , just like the Stones EOMS , it was/is the sound of BB that hit(s) hardest... Miles & producer Teo Macero intent was to place the listener in the middle of this cacophony of sound & not let them out until the nightmare was complete... While BB would not be my suggestion for a entry point into Miles Davis , it is a record that continues to draw praise from subsequent generations & for good reason... Nothing else in MD cannon sounds quite like BB... I will add being a Deadhead & being accustomed to where the furtherist fringes of music can take the listener made accepting & understanding BB a lot easier in 1970
Bobby Moore & The Rhythm Aces " Searching For My Love " (1966) orig. issued on Chess label in UK, Checker label in U.S. & Canada (link to Discogs page entry) Bobby Moore & The Rhythm Aces - Searching For My Love The late, great Robert Moore, rest his soul ~ one of the all-time greats .. what a voice ! I am listening to the Japan 2014 CD mono remaster
The last few pages are full of good spins, some buried treasure too. Ry Cooder's Long Riders OST is a classic, Leslie West Band, Entwistle's Smash Your Head..., The Moodie's Threshold among many. The Mandolin Orange looks really good, have to check them out. Another quartet, yes, I'm rocking with a workingman's set. The sauna was hot, but this group of records is breaking some hard sweat too. The Lee Clayton record is pretty good, lots of guitar fireworks with a country bent, tho' a strange album cover. Hiatt kicks some serious tail, and one of my favorite Neil titles; the Lobos have always ruled... til they are no more, a band in rare air. A Sobieski, rx-lemon-soda is in tall order here, cheers...
Still Beefheartin', right now I am listening to Don's Birthday Party, a very good live 1981 bootleg (I think it's a bootleg) concert. I can't remember what I have logged or not here, but this time through I've listened to all his regular albums besides Bluejeans and Moonbeams (which is on deck) and several bootlegs. Today I was listening to TMR and halfway through "Ant Man Bee" I suddenly had a strong urge to listen to Wire. This was traumatic due to my neurotic relationship with music--I was planning on just listening to Beefheart today, and worried this would disrupt my Beefheart phase if I switched it up. But I gritted my teeth and listened to Chairs Missing, then picked CB back up with "Orange Claw Hammer" and wound up fairly satisfied with the entire sequence....
Because I like to torture myself - and because it's been stuck in my head for the last week - I'm listening to the Oliver & Company soundtrack. Jeez, I'm pathetic.
I don't know any of her music, but she's mentioned on this forum to the point that curiosity has gotten the best of me and I'm gonna check her out. Any opinions on the recent Remastered box sets? The thread was closed 9 days ago so I can't reply and I don't feel like reading 209 pages
To expand on the Kate Bush post of mine - what's her deal anyways? She's just a singer/songwriter, no? But she's "labeled" often as prog rock as much as I see her labeled as pop/chamber/baroque. I look at some tracklistings and she's got 14 minute songs and 42-minute suites going on. I'm confused-yet-intrigued and I haven't heard a single note yet
It's called art-rock. Pretentious? Sometimes, perhaps. But it can be rewarding if one is in the mood.
Wow, what, who is the New Rider? You know your Beefheart better than I know Beefheart. What is your opinion on Unconditionally Guaranteed! I like his 70's catalog plus Doc at the... lots. Just curious. NP::::: A man who loves Beefheart can still like Secrets, that's a big WOW, but it's just me; it is possible, though /; { lol. But I always loved Robert Palmer, a class act bar none. I bought his Sneakin' Sally Through the Alley in '75 on the recommendation from a dear friend who career-ed with Warner Brothers Music Division in hot'lanta before he sadly passed--Pressure Drop and Double Fun are my other go-to's. When I heard Can We Still Be Friends from Secrets, I thought it was Todd Rundgren, and saw that he wrote it. Closing it out with Sneakin' Sally's ultra funkathon number, Through It All There's You. Then there's the great Little Feat who, by the way, played on Robert Palmer's first two records... Time Loves A Hero, spectacular record... Day at the Races, ohhh yeah. And I'm off to the races... Oku's with my daughter for some sssssushi... Firecracker Roll come on, and a rye Manhatten rx, but I've got a head start on that one. Cheers...
