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First it was the latest from The Who, then all last week it's been the new Crazy Horse on high rotation and now a good friend tells me I need to listen to the new Van Morrison, someone I've always admired, but not ever been close with.

She was right, this is possibly the most beautiful track I've heard all year...

 
The rabbi said:
I have always liked music from....lets say, my era. But it is even better if a Cats player is one of the front men of the band.

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Yea..I like Mozart too....
 

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Rounding out the year with an old love, to where he began, thanks to the new 5-disc set Conversation Piece, covering Bowie's musical output for 1969.

And what a glorious set this is, laying the somewhat iffy groundwork Bowie made to get to his first album. It all sounds great, especially the Hutchinson demos. And who knew one needed three versions of When I'm Five in their life. Naturally, the material here varies, as Bowie wore his inspirations like clear-through raincoats at the start - Dylan here, Anthony Newley there, Brit-beat, duff-folk, etc.

Unlike most re-issues that throw in a pointless, updated album remix, the work Visconti has done here with the Bowie/Space Oddity album is superb. For those not interested in the whole set, I can highly recommend adding the single LP release to the collection. The new mix of Space Oddity is fab-u-lous...




Also, unlike most sets like this, the large, hard-back book here is eye-watering beautiful, full of text and photos tripping you back to a very special time.
 
James1970 said:
Slowly working through the new Abbey Road bonanza...to these ears, it's still a somewhat over-rated set of songs and like millions of others, including Ringo, John and George, the inclusion of that song of Paul's still grates. Sadly, we get another version of it - Take 12 - on the first CD of 'Sessions' but wisely, it's been placed last, so we can stop the CD easily enough.

The new Giles remix is all a little blah, and the blu-ray is pointless for those of us without need for 5.1 ATMOS surround-sound nonsense.

Which leaves the two CDs of session material...leaving Maxwell alone - and yes, we could have had George and Isn't It a Pity on this album ffs - this is glorious stuff. One can only join the chorus of reviews - it really is like sitting in the studio as four guys on the other side of the glass simply 'play'.

It's all highlights - Paul's demo for Come and Get It, the studio demo for Something; a startling take of Sun King (that both pays loving tribute to the original Albatross and pre-dates the sound of Pink Floyd, 10CC and Brian Eno/Roxy just around the corner) melting into Mean Mr. Mustard; Paul instructing John to hold it back a bit on guitar - 'you're giving away all your best bits' - before the band runs through She Came in Through... - a version that may just be better than the finished track; and a 'trial edit' of The Long One which is simply genius and why for many, this work is held so high.

Feelings felt during the initial run-though of The White Album archive return - a simple longing for loved ones no longer around who would have loved to have heard this stuff, especially Paul's take on Golden Slumbers, his voice cracking, knowing the end has come.

The sessions end with the instrumental brass and string arrangements for Something, Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight - and again, it's a genius way to bring this to a close, our senses hugged by melodies as if sent from the heavens. Surprisingly, there's no box of Abbey Road tissues, which are needed at various points.

"Oh, that magic feeling - nowhere to go..."

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Disclaimer: the following does not discount the pioneering self-songwriting, production, or arranging by the Fabs. It just ignores them for the time being :)
The Beatles were the first music I really listened to. I had the British import early albums rather than the US ones. I even had a 3 disc Hamburg set. They were good...for a pop band. But they could rock when they wanted to, just listened to outtakes etc. So many of their songs, particularly McCartney's were vaudevillian fluff. The AR song that shall not be named is a good example. Even the LIB movie showed how much time was wasted on such pap. They were so much better than that, witness the jams on the movie and IMO the best post WA recording; the In the End jam. I think the WA was stuffed with a lot of filler as well, including Lennon indulgences. So disappointing to the rockers they occasionally produced in the later albums. I think they were stuck a bit by internal politics and a formula about how many songs each could contribute. and their actual quality be damned.
They are always compared to the Stones. They Stones earned their bones as blues purists. Sure they had their pop period, but fortunately for us they went back to their roots post Satanic Majesties. The Beatles started well in Liverpool being rockers, but I think Hamburg and the pressure to play any damn thing to fill the time slot influenced their sensibilities. It made them a pop band IMO. Granted, the Beatles didn't survive the 70s when the Stones really found their Greatest Rock n Roll Band sound.
The Beatles could effortlessly rock as a band. The best Beatles to me will always be symbolized by songs like I Saw Her Standing There, Paperback Writer, Revolution, Birthday, etc.
Of some of their ballads were pretty damn good too :)
 
another criminally underappreciated songwriter. really WTF would Bon Jovi be considered for the RnR HoF when guys like this have been putting out much more inventive stuff. Great music and amazing lyrics.




and of course


this was a great album, Hindu Love Gods. Zevon went into a studio with the guys from REM
 
my favourite band going at the moment right now - arctic monkeys. alex turner is the best lyricist in popular music right now.

the only song writer that could have pulled off, even attempted, 'tranquility base hotel and casino'.

the whole album is a mind blower. funny, oblique, odd and a complete stylistic shift from the riff heavy 'AM'. songs from the point of view of various weridos living and working in a futuristic resort on the moon.




the whole album takes a little while to 'get', and its not perfect, but i cannot turn it off now. dissonant poetry for a dissonant time. turner is the ray davies of the modern day, but better.

"Technological advances
Really bloody get me in the mood
Pull me in close on a crisp eve, baby
Kiss me underneath the moon's side boob"
 
For the Yugo folk down there in G-Town




NO political messages here... just cool tunes ;)
 
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