What Are You Listening To?

[SteveO]

Probably, but I bounced off Ruby's mention of picking up a vinyl copy!...sorry !

^^I’m sure you have élan Mr Music Head. LOL!
Hey CRAZY-HORSE – was oblivious to the new competition, but now it’s a tie! :laugh: Stumbled over a not-too-shabby vinyl copy of album no 7, Break of Dawn today. Amazing how you sometimes get what you wish for! I will be trying out that strategy more often.

[jazzboCR]

Isn't that Bachman-Turner Overweight? << some hefty lads.

[Ruby]

You just couldn't stand I was beating you could you?
fine, I'll go out to the shed and go through those 3500 albums that are in no order

Hilarious! …. And the winner in the ‘Shedloads of Records’ category is none other than the esteemed … the renowned … the king of vinyl … you got it … The Music Head! :clap22:
What’s that you say? Missing? Last seen searching for what???!

[Jerome]

The Doobie Brothers - What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits. This one really takes me back! Love it.

[Music Head]

You just couldn't stand I was beating you could you?
fine, I'll go out to the shed and go through those 3500 albums that are in no order

I'm back
looks like I'll settle for the tie

[jazzboCR]

Oscar Brown Jr. demonstrates some vagaries of life and his reaction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88FdqYkxe1A

[jazzboCR]

looks like I'll settle for the tie

Is one of these the tie you'll settle for? https://www.google.com/search?q=pictures...B492%3B576 or perhaps this tasteful number? https://www.google.com/search?q=pictures...B300%3B300

[Jerome]

Rick Wakeman's 'The Phantom of the Opera'. I am a great fan of Mr Wakeman, and some of the pieces on this I like, but overall it just does not cut it, I prefer his 'Wives', 'Journey' and especially 'White Rock' albums - a musical accompaniment to the Winter Games in Innsbruck in '76.

How to play the Moog synthesizer in one easy lesson - all sounds created on a Minimoog apart from the percussion - http://youtu.be/sRQdSmKMaIk

A different tack but from the same album - absolutely dig this track - http://youtu.be/S6K08PnunvQ

And his finest moment - http://youtu.be/eO0mDPcE35s

[CRAZY-HORSE]

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LYNYRD SKYNYRD "second helping"....vinyl, 1974

career stats:
studio albums.............14
compilation albums......23
singles.......................30

this album: #12 US, #9 CAN
singles:
"dont ask me no questions"..........no chart info
"sweet home alabama"................#8 US, #6 CAN

southern rock/swamp rock outfit's second album....
now, these guys are a strange breed to me, in that i either love or dislike their material...only two other bands come to mind where i can say the same thing,INXS and Midnight Oil, theres no inbetween with any of them for some reason....!
anyway, this one consists of some brilliant guitar laden bluesy chug-along rock riffs,none more so than on their signature tune "sweet home alabama" which opens the album in fine form!
theres a lovely ballad on here, the brilliant "ballad of curtis loew", not sure if Curtis is actually some old blues guy or a ficticious character in the song, but that song is my favourite on here.
for those who dont know, "sweet home alabama" was the Skynyrd's venom spit ained at Neil Young who,according to a lot of Southern folks, put them down in his "alabama" and "southern man" tracks previously...so come the lines..."i heard mr. young talk about us","i heard old neil put us down","i hope neil young will remember,a southern man dont need him 'round"...
all up, a very good album overall....

I LIKE THIS ALBUM

worst track: i need you
best track: the ballad of curtis loew
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeDWNMa1Dl4 audio w/-lyrics

tracks:

1. sweet home alabama ***
2. i need you *
3. dont ask me no questions *
4. workin' for mca *
5. the ballad of curtis loew ***
6. swamp music ***
7. the needle and the spoon ***
8. call me the breeze ***

3s=5
2s=0
1s=3

rating: 2.3

[Jerome]

Thin Lizzy - Johnny the Fox - straight ahead rock n roll - like this album.