Not recognising the cover, or inner sleeve, I had to do a bit of research to find it's by Alice Cooper.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dom66
AoS fulfills the three Reithian principles of information, education and entertainment. :)
Not recognising the cover, or inner sleeve, I had to do a bit of research to find it's by Alice Cooper.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dom66
AoS fulfills the three Reithian principles of information, education and entertainment. :)
"Muscle of Love" was the last album by the Alice Cooper Band before he went 'solo', and the first not to be produced by Bob Ezrin since the non-charting "Easy Action".
I have never owned nor heard this album, though it was released just a few months after "Billion Dollar Babies", one of my favourite albums by anybody. Maybe the packaging put me off, I really can't remember.
Good one Loz - not their best, but good nonetheless. ;)
Definitely my favourite followed closely by Who's Next. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
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Can't remember who posted this one up but thanks for the tip. It's outstanding.
Never heard of it. What kind of music is it? I'm guessing with a name like Nucleus it won't be country & western.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
Jazz funk instrumental.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
Sort of like the soundtrack to an early '70s porno, but better.
Whole album is on Youtube that's where I checked it out.
Well that's annoying. Track 4 of "The Sensual World" flatly refuses to play, no matter what I do. It never used to be like that. Suppose I'll just have to get another. Anyway, time for a best-of, while I think about what to do next.
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Good one Steve. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
You know, as I was playing this I thought "this sounds like something Barry would like, if he asks about it I would recommend"... I should have known you'd already be familiar :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
Just noticed cracked the 5000 posts
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Superb album, with a little bit of Jools Holland at the end :)Quote:
Originally Posted by rmcin626
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Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
Very true Steve
There is a new The The Album out next month, I must say I am tempted.
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Read a review the other day only 6 out of 10 but might still be worth itQuote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
Rage Against The Machine - self-titled debut (1992):
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The cover features Malcolm Browne's Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of Thích Quảng Đức, a Vietnamese Buddhist monk, burning himself to death in Saigon in 1963 in protest of the murder of Buddhists by the regime of the U.S.-backed prime minister Ngô Đ́nh Diệm.
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Wow that came out big. Big Bob.
The Vietnamese like a bit of accents on their names don't they. At first I thought it was muck on my laptop screen :doh:Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
Great album, some quality guitar work.
Nice one, not given that a spin for a long while....Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
That would have been me, glad you liked it :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
Good one Steve! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
Following the playing of 'Shooting Rubber Bands at the Stars' by Mrs. Paul Simon, I though I would pull out another one of her recordings:
Edie Brickell – 'Picture Perfect Morning'
Label: Geffen Records – GED24715
Format: CD, Album
Country: Europe
Released: 1994
Genre: Rock
Style: Folk Rock, Acoustic
Followed by:
U2 – 'The Best Of 1990-2000'
Label: Island Records – 063 362-2, Island Records – CIDU213
Format: CD, Compilation, Special Edition
Country: UK
Released: 2002
Genre: Rock
Style: Pop Rock
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly – 'The Chronicles Of A Bohemian Teenager'
Label: Atlantic – 5051011 5905 2 8
Format: CD, Album
Country: Europe
Released: Sep 18, 2006
Genre: Electronic, Rock
Style: Folk Rock
Picked up in a charity shop. Not sure if I like it sufficiently to keep. Will give it another spin before I decide.
Ryan Adams – 'Ryan Adams'
Label: Pax Americana Record Company – PAX-AM 039, Sony Music – 88875002152, Columbia – 88875002152
Format: CD, Album
Country: Europe
Released: September 5, 2014
Genre: Rock
Style: Alternative Rock
A definite keeper!
Never been a fan of U2. Only song of theirs I ever liked was "Bullet the Blue Sky", and even that wasn't enough to keep me from selling on the only U2 album I ever bought. But that Edie Brickell CD, that's a different matter, I think I'll get that.
Rolling Stones – 'Blue & Lonesome'
Label: Rolling Stones Records – 571 494-2, Polydor – 571 494-2
Format: CD, Album, Digipak, Sony DADC Austria Pressing
Country: Europe
Released: December 2, 2016
Genre: Rock, Blues
Style: Chicago Blues
Even my partner like this (but when it comes to R&B, she's not difficult to please). :)
So to follow:
Elmore James – 'The Sky Is Crying'
Label: Camden – 74321 523762
Format: CD, Compilation
Country: Europe
Released: 1997
Genre: Blues
Style: Delta Blues, Chicago Blues
And finally:
Ry Cooder & V.M. Bhatt – 'A Meeting By The River'
Label: Water Lily Acoustics – WLA-CS-29-CD
Format: CD, Album, Stereo
Country: US
Released: 1993
Genre: Blues, Folk, World, & Country
Style: Hindustani, Fusion, Delta Blues
V. M. Bhatt plays an instrument he calls a "Mohan vīnā": evolved from the slide guitar and resembling the hollow-bodied curved-top jazz guitars of the 1920s which had "f" shaped sound holes. The neck of the Mohan vīnā however has a wooden extension on the top side, adjacent to the fingerboard, onto which are fitted the tuning pegs for the twelve sympathetic strings. These run under, and are parallel to, the three melody and five drone strings. The tuning pegs for the primary eight strings are located conventionally on the head of the instrument. Bhatt's instrument was inspired by the North Indian instrument known as the Vichitra vīnā, which has a wide unfretted neck, two large resonating gourds, six main strings, and twelve sypathetic strings. It id played with plectra fixed to the fingers of one hand and stopped with a glass ball held in the other. Bhatt's Mohan vīnā sounds very similar to that of a sitar.
Clearly this is Ry Cooder's continuing his interest in exploring other musical genres, first started with his Chicken Skin Music in 1976.
I have to say that the recording level on this CD is ridiculously low, to the point I though there was something with my CDP. All of the four track are long; around 10 minutes long.
My partner said she found the CD 'sad', and what with the low recording level, I'm inclined to agree - so back to a charity shop from whence it came!
You've gotta love partners' opinions on certain pieces of music - their descriptors tend to be less forensic than ours, but so often hit the nail on the head :) But then Anita goes and spoils my theory by stating that all Beatles music is cack.
The Handsome Family, Singing Bones
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Following Barry's comments I thought I'd give it another go:
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And it does sound a bit better this time. But the recording doesn't work well with my speakers - not exploiting their qualities, while exposing their flaws. The result is a bit of a noise. I accept this is probably a failing of my speakers rather than the album.
This album is said to be among her most accessible work, and if that is so then I won't be going any further.
Edit: The album finished about ten minutes ago, and it has just started up again! Sleeve says it is called "This Wicked Tongue", and as the CD calls itself a Special Edition this must be a bonus track. Doesn't feel like a bonus to me, more like a punishment for not getting off the sofa quick enough.
Probably didn't help that it followed a Norah Jones CD (which is definitely charity shop bound btw). Polar opposite sound-wise.
Something a bit more mellow now.
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IMHO the earlier the better with PJ, the first three albums were fantastic. I like the stuff she's done with John Parish as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
Good one Dom.
What is it you don't like about the Norah Jones recording Steve? I assume you are referring to her debut album "Come Away with Me".
Perhaps you find it bland 'easy listening' and at odds with your image as a heavy metal, hard rock headbanger? :lol: ;)
I'm the same. I'm an Ed Banga. Norah Jones is too twee for me. But I understand the quality of the production and that for some it would be a reference.
But, music wise, its just not me.
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It's interesting that the Norah Jones debut CD is often to be found in charity shops - along with those by Kate Melua; Duffy; Beverly Knight, and of course Mel C.
Apart from Mel C, whose work is unknown to me, I'm a fairly big fan of the others.
Probably the best place for them IMHO!!! Strange, but I never find much rock music in charity shops!!!! :D :eyebrows:Quote:
Originally Posted by barry
Yes that's what it is (he says, while hiding his collection of Carpenters albums) :D No, the album in question is called 'Feels Like Home', though the one you mention was also there, sandwiched between my Joe Jackson and Grace Jones albums. So that too has been added to my 'bound for the charity shop' pile.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
The vinyl versions come in nice sturdy sleeves, ideal for skinning up on, said no one ever.
So now I own just one Norah Jones song, a duet she did with Ray Charles. I don't mind that.
The Corrs also appear quite a lot in charity shops and car boots.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
You are most welcome to my Beverly Knight CDs Barry. It's not that I don't like her, but I do need to shed some titles that just don't get played. They are:
Who I Am
100%
Prodigal Sista.
I also have a copy of this (double CD - I complained about the quality of this and was sent another, but really this plays fine, just needs a new case)
Highly regarded album.
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Clearly you don’t look in the right charity shops!Quote:
Originally Posted by Us-&-Them
There's not much rock in the ones round here either.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
I'd add 'Lighthouse Family' to the ubiquitous list though.
I beg to differ; I think you'll find i'm right on this one - I go round quite a few charity shops when i'm out and about and you really don't find much rock music in charity shops. What you do find is all the old throw away crap from things like Pop Idol, X-Factor and lots of the "boy band" and "girl band" (using the word "band" very loosely) rubbish that came out in the 90's. It's VERY RARE you see Guns N Roses, ACDC, Metallica, Motorhead, Sabbath, Judas Priest, Foo Fighters, Nirvana, The Cult and so on and so forth............... VERY RARE INDEED!!!! I've always believed quality counts!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
Macca Martin, I'm only about 9 miles from Staffordshire, in fact I was born in Staffordshire (then) but they changed the borders of what denotes Staffordshire and the W. Mids so now I'm in the W. Mids area according to the "so-called" powers that be!! Oh well, I'm from the Midlands and, just like those on TV who keep saying they're proud Yorkshiremen (and women) well, I'm a proud Midlander; be it W. Mids or Stafforshire!!! :thumbsup:
You can find all that "quality" crap in the charity shops in London, if you know where to look.Quote:
Originally Posted by Us-&-Them