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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2018 21:28:18 GMT -5
Ha, ha. Touché, GF. Four albums in a row- Beggars Banquet, Let it Bleed, Sticky Fingers and Exile on Main Street... In my mind the best back to back to back to back music of all time with regard to rock and roll. Notice I don’t say pop, which the Beatles pretty much were except for the White Album and Abbey Road.
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Post by inger on Nov 9, 2018 22:06:09 GMT -5
I thought the Beatles stepped away from pop once they got into LSD...There were still some pop influences at first, but after a while they care do more about the artistry than sales, but the sales continued. At least that’s the way I saw it...
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Post by inger on Nov 9, 2018 22:07:00 GMT -5
Finally, at 64 I’m figuring a lot of things out. Life can be fun, and still be productive... That song’s actually on Sgt Pepper.... LOL... |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2018 22:53:03 GMT -5
I would call Sgt. Peppers the greatest pop album of all time, yeah an artsy pop record, but not rock and roll.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2018 23:05:04 GMT -5
Also, there is a difference between Rock and Rock and Roll. I’m not a big fan of the former, but love the latter. Anthems like Queen stuff, Journey, and tons of others sound almost like marches. Rock and Roll to me comes from a blues based origin and then morphed because of electric instruments and faster riffs. That’s why the Stones and others were so successful in transitioning the genre. Their heroes were Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, Buddy Guy, Elmore James and other blues geniuses. They took their music to another level. Strange that a lot of these bands were British. Shit, I could talk about this all day. Then you guys would be really bored.
Then there’s jazz and the king of cool himself- Mr. Miles Davis ( see image).
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Post by chiyankee on Nov 9, 2018 23:10:41 GMT -5
Ha, ha. Touché, GF. Four albums in a row- Beggars Banquet, Let it Bleed, Sticky Fingers and Exile on Main Street... In my mind the best back to back to back to back music of all time with regard to rock and roll. Notice I don’t say pop, which the Beatles pretty much were except for the White Album and Abbey Road. Easily the best period of the Stones, I even think you could include Goats Head Soup & It's Only Rock n Roll in that group too. Led Zeppelin, II, III, IV, Houses of the Holy & Physical Graffiti - that would be my choice as the greatest string of albums ever released in rock & roll history but the debate of Zep vs Stones will go on forever. |
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Post by chiyankee on Nov 9, 2018 23:24:05 GMT -5
This really is miscellaneous but it isn’t bullshit. The remastered Beatles White Album box set is out today and I’m listening now and it is so fun. If you ever loved this record I recommend giving it a listen. If you never loved this record I honestly don’t know what to tell you. You probably have some other good qualities. Maybe. Isn't it amazing that they keep remastering and repackaging the great music from the 60's & 70's and we keep buying it. |
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Post by inger on Nov 10, 2018 1:11:25 GMT -5
I just found some You Tube videos of former Supertramp lead singer Roger Hodgson performing live that were flat out bitchin’. He sounded great even at his advanced age, and the sax and harmonica players were not missing a beat. Give a listen if you’d like. Color me impressed...Breakfast in America, The Long Way Home, The Logical Song, and more...
Dang. The lyrics for the logical song fit today’s politics just as well as then..,
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Post by Deleted on Nov 10, 2018 2:21:09 GMT -5
I’m with you Chi, except I was always partial to the down and dirty sounds of the Stones. No doubt Page is the superior axeman to either Keith or Woods. I like Jaggers voice better than Plants and Charlie Watts is the fucking business on lids. Both great bands. Great quote I heard at a Zep concert back in ‘80s when people were saying they were past it, “I’d rather see Zep on a bad night then Springsteen on a good one.” The same could be said of the Stones. I saw them in ‘75 in Memphis, ‘78 in LA and in ‘03 here in Singapore. All three Stones shows knocked me out. My Wife admitted to me when we saw them here in ‘03 here that she would leave me for Mick. I told her that was ok cause I’d leave her for Sheryl Crow.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 10, 2018 4:49:09 GMT -5
Just listened to part of the new White album on Spotify. I have to admit, those guys were geniuses. It has early and late takes, acoustic, instrumental versions, banter and a lot more. They worked their butts off and wrote incredible songs, and lived under the microscope for a decade. They were for the most part humble, working class guys with a great sense of humour and grounded. They knew who they were in the grand scheme of things. I was only eight years old when the album came out so it was about ten years after that before I could really appreciate the quality of their collective talent.
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Post by greatfatness on Nov 10, 2018 7:53:24 GMT -5
This really is miscellaneous but it isn’t bullshit. The remastered Beatles White Album box set is out today and I’m listening now and it is so fun. If you ever loved this record I recommend giving it a listen. If you never loved this record I honestly don’t know what to tell you. You probably have some other good qualities. Maybe. Isn't it amazing that they keep remastering and repackaging the great music from the 60's & 70's and we keep buying it. There’s a great article somewhere if I can find it about the emotional and psychological connection you make to music at a certain point of your life. I listen to more new music than old music these days but some records are just a part of who I am now. This is one of them. |
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Post by greatfatness on Nov 10, 2018 7:54:27 GMT -5
Ha, ha. Touché, GF. Four albums in a row- Beggars Banquet, Let it Bleed, Sticky Fingers and Exile on Main Street... In my mind the best back to back to back to back music of all time with regard to rock and roll. Notice I don’t say pop, which the Beatles pretty much were except for the White Album and Abbey Road. You get no argument from me about that. Love those records. Especially Exile, as messed up as it is. |
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Post by chiyankee on Nov 10, 2018 10:07:12 GMT -5
I’m with you Chi, except I was always partial to the down and dirty sounds of the Stones. No doubt Page is the superior axeman to either Keith or Woods. I like Jaggers voice better than Plants and Charlie Watts is the fucking business on lids. Both great bands. Great quote I heard at a Zep concert back in ‘80s when people were saying they were past it, “I’d rather see Zep on a bad night then Springsteen on a good one.” The same could be said of the Stones. I saw them in ‘75 in Memphis, ‘78 in LA and in ‘03 here in Singapore. All three Stones shows knocked me out. My Wife admitted to me when we saw them here in ‘03 here that she would leave me for Mick. I told her that was ok cause I’d leave her for Sheryl Crow. Great post Chuck. I love Mick Taylor era of the Stones, he was a great and underrated guitarist. The only time I've seen the Stones was during their 89 Steel Wheels tour. I took my college girlfriend at the time, since the Stones were her favorite band, man I was in good with her for a long time after that!  I'm too young to ever have seen Zep, although I've seen Plant and the Jason Bonham Experience, that appears that will be the closest I'll ever come to seeing Zeppelin live.  |
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Post by chiyankee on Nov 10, 2018 10:12:01 GMT -5
Isn't it amazing that they keep remastering and repackaging the great music from the 60's & 70's and we keep buying it. There’s a great article somewhere if I can find it about the emotional and psychological connection you make to music at a certain point of your life. I listen to more new music than old music these days but some records are just a part of who I am now. This is one of them. It's true. I own all three CD versions of Led Zep II that have been released and two versions on vinyl, five times I've bought the same album. |
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Post by greatfatness on Nov 10, 2018 10:19:25 GMT -5
There’s a great article somewhere if I can find it about the emotional and psychological connection you make to music at a certain point of your life. I listen to more new music than old music these days but some records are just a part of who I am now. This is one of them. It's true. I own all three CD versions of Led Zep II that have been released and two versions on vinyl, five times I've bought the same album. I’ve purchased so many versions of the Zep stuff. I have the box sets they’ve put out of each record. The Stones Sticky Fingers box that came out a year ago or so wasn’t great also. Had a great copy of Leeds that I previously had on bootleg. Same for the CSN 74 box which is amazing. I know it makes me a dinosaur to even buy physical copies of this stuff anymore but it makes me happy. |
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I'm too young to ever have seen Zep, although I've seen Plant and the Jason Bonham Experience, that appears that will be the closest I'll ever come to seeing Zeppelin live. 