You're hanging out at a friend's house, and as soon as they put this on, you said, "Let Me Roll It" and reached for the gatefold.
The only problem is that a few minutes later one of you starts babbling about “Jet” and doesn’t make any sense whatsoever. A small price to pay, but just pointing it out...
Unfortunately, I don't have the MoFi, but the Wilder remix is excellent, as well as the previous Anesini remix, which is even better for my ears. One of my favorite albums by Miles.
Love Loves To Love Lulu, 1967 Some might think this is lame. Whatever, I love Lulu's voice. Her version of "Morning Dew" is not exactly what we Dead fans are used to, but it's not bad at all.
Most of the MoFi’s use the original mixes (except Kind of Blue, I believe, where the original stereo mix tapes are gone). Another reason they are worth seeking out.
I've had a couple of compilations in heavy rotation recently- The Best of the Gipsy Kings-- I love that guitar sound. Most of the tunes sound similar to me, but my guess is that's more about my unfamiliarity with the music and the foreign language singing than a problem with samey-sounding compositions. I'm going to keep on playing it and allow the subtleties to sink in between my ears. Too fast for me to figure out the guitar licks without putting it into my pitch control CD player, though. Blinding fast, sometimes. All The Best, Glen Campbell-- Just got this one, haven't heard it all the way through. There are a few surprises that I haven't heard, like covers of tunes more associated with Roy Orbison and Elvis Presley. "Galveston", "Witchita Lineman", and "By The Time I Get To Phoenix" are all on here, of course. Some of the best melodies around, but I realized that I have the same problem with those songs that I did when I was fourteen years old: the goopy, string-saturated arrangements are just too much mid-1960s Muzak-y for my taste. All of those songs would have benefited by a more Steve Earle Guitar Town approach, as it were. Also, John Hartford's "Gentle On My Mind" is a better song than "Witchita Lineman", and I'll stand on Jimmy Webb's coffee table in my Teva sandals and tell that to him to his face. With all due respect, of course. "Witchita Lineman" is a superb song, but it just so happens that "Gentle On My Mind" edges it out. Granted, my critical opinion may be informed by the fact that Glen's performance of Hartford's song isn't burdened with a Percy Faith-style string arrangement. All that said, I also realized that I don't have anything against string and horn arrangement for an Americana/country rock tune, per se. At least, not when it's done as well as it is on Campbell's rendition of Webb's "Highwayman". Now that is an arrangement. Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks couldn't have put that one together better. Everything about the string and brass parts propels the narrative. The kicker: matter of fact, despite the fact that Campbell's singing sounds a little brittle to me compared to the traded verses version done by the all-star band of the same name, "Highwayman" is a better tune than either "Witchita Lineman" or "Gentle On My Mind." In my opinion. Until further notice, anyway. Version that I most want to find: the live rendition of "Highwayman" done by the Highwaymen at one of the 1980s Farm Aid concerts, with Campbell included as one of the band members. Complete with a brief but memorable electric guitar solo break by the master.
When you're lost in the rain in Juarez when it's Easter time, too... Sometimes I wonder who that line was meant for, but it is a good line, a masculine line (lol). Michael Bloomfield is ripping blues incandescent here. I wish I had seen him play in the studio during this recording, and I wish he had made it through life a little longer too. Doc and Merle moonshining, mining the best in blues picking... charming tunes that swing in goodness and grace; Gram and the Burritos laying it on the line in an entertaining posthumous batch of songs put together on lp in '76. The Byrds open up this program shuffle with a few Unissued alternative tracks, and close it out with their last incarnation and swan song album as we knew them. Clarence White we hardly knew ya... maybe you're making rain with Bloomfield and Parsons somewheres in the misty hillhops of Juarez. Maybe not...
Good to know. The relatively recent MoFi SACD has become my KoB go to, although I also occasionally spin the 40th anniversary vinyl, which is solid, but not up to par with my father's vinyl copy, which is either an original or an early 1960s reissue, and is the copy I played the first several dozen times I heard the album.
It's a remix from the original 3 track master, played back at the proper speed. The only thing they missed is the Plangent Process.
Ditto the MoFi IIRC. Remixes to resemble the original mix as much as possible, since the master of that mix is lost or too degraded, but they used the master 3 track. Sounds great to my ears.
Easily the best post Beatles record. It's beautifully played. I put it up there with the fabs last years. Definitely better than Let it Be.
