iPod II--The Albums

[Bob Duncan]

vaulter83 wrote:
>I can't believe nobody has mentioned Johnny Cash. I would have to take "Live at Folsom Prison" I think.

It was on my list posted earlier. In fact, Cash was well-represented in the other music list, too.
And for the record, "Boy Named Sue" is not on that particular album (it's on the San Quentin album).

Although Cash covered Leonard Cohen's "Bird On A Wire" on "American Recordings", there have been no reported suicides after listening to it.

[Guest]

Yeah, but "Bird On A Wire" isn't on the "Songs" album, it's on the much more upbeat "Songs From A Room" collection. Who could get depressed with such uplifting lyrics as these:

<<Like a bird on the wire,
like a drunk in a midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free.
Like a worm on a hook,
like a knight from some old fashioned book
I have saved all my ribbons for thee.
If I, if I have been unkind,
I hope that you can just let it go by.
If I, if I have been untrue
I hope you know it was never to you.

Like a baby, stillborn,
like a beast with his horn
I have torn everyone who reached out for me.
But I swear by this song
and by all that I have done wrong
I will make it all up to thee.
I saw a beggar leaning on his wooden crutch,
he said to me, "You must not ask for so much."
And a pretty woman leaning in her darkened door,
she cried to me, "Hey, why not ask for more?"

Oh like a bird on the wire,
like a drunk in a midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free. >>

Whew! I feel better already!

[MJD]

>>I give up, who was the "Long Cool Woman In A Black Dress"?

Who was BB
>King's guitar(s) named after?

Lucille. He damn near lost his guitar in a fire caused by two guys fighting who knocked over a kerosene lamp. He found out later that they were fighting over a woman named Lucille. Probably just left Kenny. Who is Carrie-Anne about? Still no answer.

[Guest]

B B King's guitar was named after Chuck Berry's car.

[gh]

Man, much as I have loved these two musical interludes, I gotta get back to cranking out the February issue for you guys! No more from me!

But in passing I have to mention one final music-related thing. Maybe this is old news to some, but was driving my wife's car today and discovered that on certain FM stations, the digital readout not only gives the frequency of the station, but also gives the call-letters, then the name of the artist playing, then the name of the song! Very handy when you're going nuts trying to figure out what the name of that moldy oldie is that they're playing. Good thing our desert island iPods all come with that feature!

[MJD]

>B B King's guitar was named after Chuck Berry's car.

Ok malmo. Who's right?

[Guest]

1. The Doors- First Album

2. Neil Young- Everybody Knows this is nowhere

3. Eagles -Desperado

4. Townes Van Zandt- Rain on a Conga Drum

5. Tom petty- The album with Runnin down a dream

6. Rolling Stones- Get Yer Ya-Ya's out

7. Led Zeppelin- 4

8. Bob Dylan- Blood on the Tracks

9. Mozart- Piano Concerto's

10. Velvet Underground- the one with Heroin on it

[Guest]

>>B B King's guitar was named after Chuck Berry's car.

Ok malmo. Who's
>right?

Gee, MJD, you know the answer to your qyestion.

[hammer forever]

I have the Tower of Power album on which Bruce Conte is a musician- We Came To Play..

How about other top ten albums with drug users/dealers??

[Guest]

>I have the Tower of Power album on which Bruce Conte is a musician- We Came To
>Play..

Was the tag line?..."But wanted to make sure we won"

[Guest]

Bruce Conte is Victor (the dealer) Conte's brother. Believe Bruce was on many albums, Victor only one. Is he on the one you have, or is it just Bruce?

[Olegi2]

Haven't been marooned on a desert island but have lived in the Libyan desert for a coupla years with and old windup gramophone (phongraph?)
and about six 78s. Artie Shaw Gramercy 5(Summit ridge drive, Gloomy Sunday) Harry James(Trumpet Blues and Cantabile) Benny Goodman(can't remember) Knew every note and drumbeat. Sharpening needles was a problem.

[Guest]

what's good about the beattles?

[Guest]

"what's good about the beattles?"

Never heard of them. But there's a similarly named group, The Beatles, that dominated the years 64-70, because they crafted simple melodies and added some technical touches, which resulted in pop songs with universal appeal.

[MJD]

>"what's good about the beattles?"

Never heard of them. But there's a
>similarly named group, The Beatles, that dominated the years 64-70, because
>they crafted simple melodies and added some technical touches, which resulted
>in pop songs with universal appeal.

Don't even really consider myself a major fan and I have 230 tracks by them-probably more than double anyone else.

[Guest]

As a huge fan, I realized one day that I became a teenager the year they came to America, they split up when I turned 20 and John Lennon was killed on my 30th birthday. Is it any wonder that I was forever transformed by their music?

[MJD]

>As a huge fan, I realized one day that I became a teenager the year they came
>to America, they split up when I turned 20 and John Lennon was killed on my
>30th birthday. Is it any wonder that I was forever transformed by their music?

I was standing in the same spot in the same bar when I heard about Lennon and Elvis. I'm told that the 20 somethings know where they were when Cobain finished off his multi year suicide(not unlike Elvis I suppose).

[Guest]

I was in Kobenhavn when Elvis died (my 1st Euro T&F trip, E Cup, W Cup). When people discovered we were American, they gave us lost of sympathy. I didn't much care, I was more of a Little Richard and Chuck Berry fan. Actually, then I was listening mostly to Dylan and classical.

[Guest]

Dylan IS classical!

[Guest]

Yo! And I may need to modify my album list. I am listening to disc 2 of the 1st Dylan bootleg series and I might want to give up Blonde on Blonde. It has versions of BoB things e.g. Subterrian Homesick Blues which are slightly different from the original (20 years of schooling and they put you on the dayshift). Any list has pitfalls, and the beauty of this thread is that you can change your mind.

[MJD]

>Yo! And I may need to modify my album list. I am listening to disc 2 of the
>1st Dylan bootleg series and I might want to give up Blonde on Blonde. It has
>versions of BoB things e.g. Subterrian Homesick Blues which are slightly
>different from the original

Here is someone who didn't even like the original:


"In the rock world, this studious argument has been parlayed into the notion of "selling out." Following this logic, Bob Dylan cashed in his credibility when he moved away from "protest music" and began moaning about the idiosyncratically personal on such albums as "Blonde on Blonde,""

http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20 ... 006099.asp

[Guest]

okay, what the hell is good about The Beatles?

bad vocals skills, simple lyrics......

[tafnut]

My dearest flipper,
Beauty being in the eye of the beholder, try not to feel so aggrieved that you cannot fathom their appeal. Perhaps they do not sing to you. But rest assured that they sing to millions, nay hundreds of millions of other commonfolk, and we are all better off for their melodies. Music, like most art, cannot be explained, only appreciated. Because you cannot appreciate them does not malign your aesthetic sense. Nor does our love of them demean ours.
Here's a Beatles lyric to muse on:
"All you need is love."

[MJD]

>>I have the Tower of Power album on which Bruce Conte is a musician- We Came
>To
>Play..

Was the tag line?..."But wanted to make sure we won"

Two real life songs by them:
Back on the Streets Again
Soul Vaccination

Another musical project Victor was involved in:

Pure Food & Drug Act

[Guest]

>okay, what the hell is good about The Beatles?

bad vocals skills, simple
>lyrics......

Simple lyrics?

Picture yourself in a boat on a river,
With tangerine trees and marmalade skies
Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly,
A girl with kaleidoscope eyes.
Cellophane flowers of yellow and green,
Towering over your head.
Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes,
And she’s gone.
Lucy in the sky with diamonds.
Follow her down to a bridge by a fountain
Where rocking horse people eat marshmellow pies,
Everyone smiles as you drift past the flowers,
That grow so incredibly high.
Newspaper taxis appear on the shore,
Waiting to take you away.
Climb in the back with your head in the clouds,
And you’re gone.
Lucy in the sky with diamonds,
Picture yourself on a train in a station,
With plasticine porters with looking glass ties,
Suddenly someone is there at the turnstyle,
The girl with the kaleidoscope eyes.

[tafnut]

Beautiful as the lyrics are, Lennon - despite later demurrals - was writing about an LSD trip, so perhaps that was not their finest hour. Here's another:

Elenor Rigby (Lennon/McCartney)

Ah, look at all the lonely people
Ah, look at all the lonely people

Eleanor Rigby picks up the rice in the church where a wedding has been
Lives in a dream
Waits at the window, wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door
Who is it for?

All the lonely people
Where do they all come from ?
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong ?

Father McKenzie writing the words of a sermon that no one will hear
No one comes near.
Look at him working. Darning his socks in the night when there's nobody there
What does he care?

All the lonely people
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong?

Eleanor Rigby died in the church and was buried along with her name
Nobody came
Father McKenzie wiping the dirt from his hands as he walks from the grave
No one was saved

All the lonely people
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong?

[tandfman]

>okay, what the hell is good about The Beatles?
bad vocals skills, simple lyrics......<

but the best popular music that has been written by anyone in the past 50 years. Nobody has equalled the sophistication of their music and the instrumentation that they brought to their recordings. Next to them, almost all rock music pales. They brought popular music to a new plane. Alas, they not proven to be the progenitors of a new generation of musicians. If you look carefully at the melodies and harmonies of what has followed them, you find few who ever approached their level of achievement and none who ever did so consistently.

[MJD]

>Gotta delurk for a shot at this one.

Nirvana -- Nevermind

It has already started. Cobain died on April 5, 1994 and this month's Spin devotes about half the mag to him because of the upcoming 10 year anniversary. I'm told that people of a certain vintage can tell you where they were and what they were doing on that date. tandfman, if you're out there, my guess is that you can't. Neither can I...

[abinferno]

That's funny, should we feel sorry for him or something?

[MJD]

>That's funny, should we feel sorry for him or something?

tandfman or Cobain? Quite frankly, knowing where you were on the day he died should not be something you should be admitting to anyone.

[d_austin]

This post is really by way of a response to Garry Hill's "unfortunate names" post:

> This belongs on the iPod thread, but now that I think of it, I once had a vinyl by a Dick Hymans titled something like "Electric Eclectic"; one of the first exponents of the Moog, and early synthesizer. Very new-age like, even though it dated to the early '70s.

And of course even the casual Beatles fan will know that 'Abbey Road', recorded on the cusp of the 1970s, is full of synthesizer. I think it puts the album at slightly higher risk of becoming a period piece, as compared to their lovely jangly guitar work of the mid-1960s -- mbeep beep yeah! So, a blasphemous thought: did the Beatles break up just in time?

For compliance purposes, here is my list, in order of when they pop into my head, limit one album per artist.

1. Beatles - Revolver (Love them all, but Pepper too melancholy; Abbey Road--Lennon was right--too rock-opera-ish; White Album, too solo)
2. Elvis Costello - Get Happy!!
3. Beck - Mutations
4. Liz Phair - Whip Smart
5. Dylan & the Band - Before the Flood
6. Glenn Gould - Bach Italian Concerto
7. Dave Brubeck Quartet - Jazz Impressions of the USA
8. Graham Parker - Squeezing Out Sparks
9. The OC - Mix 1
10. Brian Wilson - Smile

[gh]

Not sure if my post was referencing this (which I had forgotten existed!) or iPod I, our longest thread ever. (thanks mjd)

[guru]

>iPod I, our longest thread ever.


Only because we don't have Renato Canova worshippers here.

[MJD]

Did this just get moved from the current board? Only reason I ask is that the "latest post" time is out of order now(won't be anymore though).

[guru]

>the "latest post" time is out of order now


And that really drives you nuts, doesn't it?