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[CRAZY-HORSE]

ROLLING STONES "goat's head soup" cd, 1973

the band's thirteenth of thirty...
all I can say is...same crap,different album...
I do love "Angie" though

I DO NOT LIKE THIS ALBUM

worst track: silver train
best track: Angie 





tracks:

1....dancing with Mr D *
2....100 years ago **
3....coming down again **
4....doo doo doo (heartbreaker) **
5....Angie ***
6....silver train *
7....hide your love *
8....winter *
9....can you hear the music **
10..star star *

3s - 1
2s - 4
1s - 5

rating: 1.6

[CRAZY-HORSE]

WINGS "greatest" 1978, vinyl.

Macca's first post Beatle compilation of hits...
twelve tracks...
could have been a double set with the huge hits he had up to that point...
five of the twelve were single only releases prior to this release so its good to
have them on album instead of trawling through my 7" singles trying to locate them...
album really does show how good a rock/pop writer Paul McCartney was and this album stands
up alongside any Beatle compilation on its own merits...
a superb collection of singles/hits that most artists would be proud to have in an entire career
and not just an eight year period of a 50+ year career..

I LOVE THIS ALBUM

least favourite track: silly love songs
favourite track: mull of Kintyre





tracks:

1....another day **
2....silly love songs **
3....live and let die ***
4....juniors farm ***
5....with a little luck ***
6....band on the run ***
7....uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey ***
8....hi hi hi ***
9....let 'em in **
10..my love ***
11..jet ***
12..mull of Kintyre ***

3s - 9
2s - 3
1s - 0

rating: 2.7

[CRAZY-HORSE]

KISS  "kiss"  cd, 1974:
 
debut set...
classic rock/blues rock...
contains no less than six tracks that are on regular rotation in their
live shows to this day....
album reached #87 US, #82 Canada and #38 New Zealand, the Kiwi's
were with them from day one, and to think that over the last forty years
they have maintained their popularity there and here in Australia more than
in any other country (does that make us great or losers???)…
either way, good solid album, one of the greatest debut sets of all time IMO...
took them another two studio sets and a live set until people really took notice f them though...

I LOVE THIS ALBUM

worst track: love theme from kiss (instrumental)
best track: deuce





tracks:

1....strutter **
2....nothin' to lose ***
3....firehouse ***
4....cold gin ***
5....let me know **
6....kissin' time **
7....deuce ***
8....love theme from kiss (instrumental) *
9....100,000 years ***
10..black diamond ***

3s - 6
2s - 3
1s - 1

rating: 2.5

[Jerome]

Genesis - Seconds Out - one of my other favourite prog rock live albums. The band at their very peak. They made a movie during this tour. https://youtu.be/KX0hmpZRFPM

And something I found on the way - a one-man Genesis. https://youtu.be/-V7Dqf-FQL4

[SteveO]

Thanks J Man ! I really enjoyed Antoine Baril !

[CRAZY-HORSE]

ROLLING STONES "let it bleed" cd, 1969:

the Stones' tenth studio set...
Im starting to think im a sucker for aural punishment...
I guess I am still, but to a point here...
this is album is musically what I call 'dirty', not in the lyrics,
but in the rough and ragged sound of most of it, ie: dirty, not polished...
some real gritty rock and roll on this one...
interesting to note that a year after The Beatles apparently inspired Charlie Manson
and Family with their "white album", The Stones are singing a song about "the boston strangler"
called "midnight rambler"...
apart from that track, which BTW, I absolutely love, it contains one of their best sing-a-long
tunes in "you cant always get what you want"...
love the "country honk" which is a country version of "honky tonk blues" and the cover of the 
Robert Johnson tune "love in vain"
so, only one single released off this one, "live with me", which only ever charted in France, and
I rate it as the worst thing on here...
album was platinum or multi platinum just about everywhere as usual and to surprise you all....

I LIKE THIS ALBUM

worst track: live with me
favourite track: you cant always get what you want





tracks:

1....gimmie shelter **
2....love in vain ***
3....country honk ***
4....live with me *
5....let it bleed **
6....midnight rambler ***
7....you got the silver *
8....monkey man *
9....you cant always get what you want ***

3s - 4
2s - 2
1s - 3

rating: 2.1

[Ruby]

THE WATERBOYS - An Appointment with Mr Yeats


An album inspired by the poetry of W B Yeats who Mike Scott cites as an a large influence. Not your typical Waterboys fare - the essence and words are mostly as Yeats intended I should imagine, but I'm sure there's Scott's own poetic licence along the way! It kinda fits in with the armstice anniversary, what with titles such as "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death", "Politics" and "Let the Earth Bear Witness". Yeats was very active around the time of WWI and held strong political views, but I do not know enough to comment on how those might have informed his work. It's good for me to listen to something that asks questions of me and gets me wondering. I think this is an esoteric, romantic and quite spiritual release, in a way.

Scott is paying homage to Yeats - he's an admirer, so the adaptations are done with respect and a little touch of magic. 

Some tracks in different moods ... 

"Song of Wandering Aengus" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYb-qOKKC0E

"Politics" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9txORqN5wM

and this gorgeous little interlude - less than two minutes long ... co vocals on the album by Katie Kim ...

[CRAZY-HORSE]

JETHRO TULL "war child" cd,1974. #14 UK, #2 US, #9 AU.

a recent convert to all things Ian anderson & Co, and loving almost every minute of it....
this another i bought some time ago,thanks to recommendation from Jerome-Esquire!
this one varies slightly from the the other albums i now own, due simply to the fact that most of these tracks  are relatively short by Tull's standards, most clocking in at just over 4 minutes...
this was originally concieved to be the soundtrack to a movie to be written by Tull, and based around the tracks herewithin.
Anderson had got the actors together,the director and additional script writers and took the idea to Hollywood, apparently the movie moguls wanted him to use American actors, scrpitwriters and also demanded he seek out a competant well known US director, as Anderson puts it in the linnear notes in the cd....he told them to 'shove it',went back to England and gave up on the idea because he wanted to do it his way.
album also contains seven additional tracks that recorded for the album but due to the constraints of vinyl albums they were left in his vaults until he remastered this album!

I LOVE THIS ALBUM

worst track: back door angels
best track: skating away on the thin ice of the new day

tracks:

1. war child ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVn2wbWFz5I audio
2. queen and country ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiatYS2W1gA audio
3. ladies **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnGeSQLBrv4 audio
4. back door angels **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k53DGIb5LA audio
5. sealion ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6mohomQvRo audio
6. skating away on the thin ice of the new day ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTKu-L1b--o audio
7. bungle in the jungle ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw0YKg07Zz0 audio
8. only solitaire ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvH95ALHCYU audio
9. the third hoorah **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HA3M6lNX21U audio
10. two fingers **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTX4cEtMQ0Q audio

3s=6
2s=4
1s=0

rating: 2.6



bonus tracks:

1. warchild waltz *
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh9NtSUMJ0U audio
2. quartet *
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tQ9hWwIyiE audio
3. paradise steakhouse **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pjgxANCuDc audio
4. sealion II **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxVTVvB-vYM audio
5. rainbow blues ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zql2DDldRcg live
6. glory row **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEE2w2PeDqM audio
7. saturation **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXY8UA-mj-M audio

3s=1
2s=4
1s=2

bonus material rating: 2.0

random cd pick today...
I see no reason to change anything from my previous post for the album...

Great album, end of story!

[SteveO]

One of my go to songs ! A beautiful and emotional song from the greatest female rocker because she writes songs and actually plays her Fender !

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Chrissie playing her glittering Fender..a real female rocker and not just a solo singer !

[Jerome]

Magnificent album - recording quality is absolutely superb. And the hardest hitting lyrics I have ever heard. https://youtu.be/mYZWz8OgfeY

Spine-chilling stuff.