This record is this artist's Love Beach

Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by speedracer, Jun 15, 2022.

  1. Oatsdad

    Oatsdad Oat, Biscuits, Abbie & Mitzi: Best Dogs Ever

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    :shrug: Take it however you'd like.
     
  2. dance_hall_keeper

    dance_hall_keeper Forum Resident

    Any admissions from Members who…

    1) followed the dotted line and cut the mask out of the cover? and/or
    2) wore it in public?
     
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  3. DTK

    DTK Forum Resident

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    Tough, not many respected acts have made a transgression like Love Beach where both the music and cover art suggests yacht rock or similar cheesiness.
     
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  4. LandHorses

    LandHorses I contain multitudes

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    I really like the first Bobby & The Midnites record..........the black cat album.

    Their 2nd album........where "I Want To Live In America" is from.......is terrible.

    I don't have this video.....................
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  5. gregorya

    gregorya I approve of this message

    Seems to be an appropriate place to use the following quote:

    "Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You understand it better but the frog dies in the process."

    E.B. White

    :)
     
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  6. NasuTek

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  7. Chemically altered

    Chemically altered Forum Resident

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    I can't agree with Going For The One. The others? Ok.
     
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  8. speedracer

    speedracer Forum Resident Thread Starter

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    lol ! Oh Bobby!
     
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  9. speedracer

    speedracer Forum Resident Thread Starter

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    Every band has its Beach.

    Ok, seriously, you are taking this serious? Never said it was bad. Love every note they ever recorded. I love the record. Puppets fan since 1983, saw them at Satyricon before most ever heard of them, saw them live touring every record thru No Joke. Paid cash for their recent work on physical media, no Spotify. As much a Puppets fan as anyone here. You know the way people act about Beatles and Kiss here? That is how I am about Meat Puppets, with one difference: I can laugh at my bands.

    Speedracer thread. Lighten up.
     
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  10. Gratefully Deadicated

    Gratefully Deadicated Escaping through the lily fields

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    The video is actually from the overseas tour for the first album in '82.
     
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  11. PhoenixWoman

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    I get where you're coming from, but a lot of this is better than average pop of it era IMO. I'm not that offended by prog bands doing pop unless it's bad pop or didn't age well. Now if you'd suggested Big Generator I'd be with you.
     
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  12. PhoenixWoman

    PhoenixWoman Forum Resident

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    The cover art had gone downhill since Duke, but there was at least some pretense of artiness and a handful of nice songs. This looks like bad clip art. And it's better than virtually all of the music on it.
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  13. Billy Infinity

    Billy Infinity Beloved aunt

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    Hmmm. I don’t know about that.

    Even the “Waters can do no wrong, Gilmour kicked my dog” crowd has to admit that Storm hit it out of the park with this one.
     
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  14. speedracer

    speedracer Forum Resident Thread Starter

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    Ok ok, time out. Folks are taking this all too serious. The point here is that every band has its Love Beach, so maybe everyone needs to cut ELP some slack. We may disagree on which record is which band's Beach, but The Beach is an inevitable milestone in the commercial development of a music brand.
     
  15. Hanglow

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    Don't know why 1982 Spinal Tap's Smell The Glove hasn't been mentioned.
     
  16. barryalan

    barryalan Cat in Space

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    Solid Silver - I have mixed feelings about this one, their reunion album, as I had stopped following them after Cippolina had left. He's back here, and it's great to hear his guitar playing again, but so is Valente, who just gets on my nerves.
    The cover looks like it was taken on a yacht though, and they all look pretty tan and healthy here, so I hope they all were having a good time.
     
  17. bRETT

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    If the video's live, it's probably good. I saw the tour, behind the horrible second album, and the band (w/Kenny Gradney & Billy Cobham) gave those songs more than they deserved (but also played the decent stuff from the debut).
     
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  18. fishcane

    fishcane Dirt Farmer

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    The funny thing about Go to Heaven from the OP is that it was making fun of this very topic. They KNEW what they were doing and parodied it. Never trust a prankster
     
  19. Beamish13

    Beamish13 Forum Resident


    There are some really great songs spread across his maligned post-Music for a New Society 80’s records
     
  20. Gratefully Deadicated

    Gratefully Deadicated Escaping through the lily fields

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    It was taped in '82 before Gradney. Alphonso Johnson is still the bassist. The photo on the cover is from a couple of years later.
     
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  21. speedracer

    speedracer Forum Resident Thread Starter

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    I will buy that, am sure a lot of these are tongue in cheek.

    It is a slippery slope:

    “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.” – Kurt Vonnegut
     
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  22. AlienRendel

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    I'm a horse and I don't feel safe.
     
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  23. Brewmeister

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    I was always under the impression that the cover to Go To Heaven was meant to be ironic/tongue in cheeck?
     
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  24. kwadguy

    kwadguy Senior Member

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    As a result, it was easy to Buit As Cut Out. And, yeah, it sucked.
     
  25. zen

    zen Senior Member

    Deep Purple's obvious choice: Slaves and Masters (1990) Would you agree, speedracer?

     
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