CRAZY-HORSE Wrote:

ROGER WATERS "amused to death" cd,1992...#21 US, #8 UK

concept album from Waters, but arent they all???
this one is all about "western society and the influence of tv and the mass media to control people and information"...are you listneing Mr.Murdoch?
nothing on here that stands up against his best works, but still okay IMO....
its a bit confusing in places, a bit annoying also with all the sound-bytes and samples which constantly pop up throughout...
not keen on the female backing vocals neither, they just dont fit the project IMO...
i think Waters started believing the myth that he is "mr.concept" with this one and was trying to be too clever for his own good.
maybe Jerome could confirm or deny this but....i read somewhere that the bassline on "what god wants pt.I" is actually the bassline from "another brick in the wall" played backwards?????

I LIKE THIS ALBUM

worst track: the ballad of bill hubbard
best track: late home tonight pt.I
song that sums up the album: what God wants pt.I

tracks:

1. the ballad of bill hubbard *
2. what god wants pt.I **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1qmOGAaI7c video
3. perfect sense pt.I *
4. perfect sense pt.II **
5. the bravery of being out of range **
6. late home tonight pt.I **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5at_009TDg audio
7. late home tonight pt.II **
8. too much rope **
9. what god wants pt.II **
10.what god wants pt.III **
11.watching tv **
12.three wishes **
13.its a miracle **
14.amused to death **

3s=0
2s=12
1s=2

rating: 1.8 or 6/10

CRAZY-HORSE Wrote:

ROBERT JOHNSON "king of the delta blues:the complete recordings" cd, 1997

Robert lived a mere 27 years, but in that time influenced every other blues guy that came after and rock and rollers like Keith Richards and Eric Clapton so that makes him the 'godfather of the blues" IMO...
little is known about his life, no-one can pinpoint his exact birthdate,his schooling or his life in general, it is believed that he actually 'sold his soul' to the Devil in the mid 1930s in order to get fame...and once he got that fame he died, which bviously added fuel to the sold his soul myth...
anyway, this album contains twenty-four tracks recorded between 1936-37, the sound has not been remastered here but obviously been recorded straight from the original masters, leaving it authentic, the problem with that is that the music sounds distant,hollow,without equalization and 'old'...
look, im not a fan of the blues, but this guy isnt too bad IMO,
i am not scoring each song on their individual merit as i feel this would do incredible injustice to the album, but as a retrospective look back at what the blues was and should be this is a great example of that genre...

from the album:

crossroad blues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd60nI4sa9A audio

malted milk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH_O7LnSghE audio

hellhound on my trail
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8TA32FKdhk audio