What Are You Listening To?

[Music Head]

from my library (vinyl)



Keep promising myself to get the other 2, which I still don't have. I have heard them, but I don't own them. Shame on me! An artist who had to have left us way too early in 1974, at the tender age of 26. An apparent prescription drug overdose. This is his second album. I think I saw a complete recap in our Beginners Guide....forum. Helping out on a few tracks here Richard Thompson and John Cale (love Paris 1919). Never a better mix of strings/horns and acoustic guitar. A few of these tracks here, with headphones on and eyes closed, I can just melt away to another world, like my friend Tiggi was talking about somewhere. Even the instrumentals. Of course that first Introduction thing, I don't have time to melt, at 1:31. Never highly promoted this album failed to touch the charts here.

I LIKE THIS ALBUM

Worst Track - Introduction

Best Track - One Of These Things First

I could have been a sailor, could have been a cook
A real live lover, could have been a book.
I could have been a signpost, could have been a clock
As simple as a kettle, steady as a rock.
I could be
Here and now
I would be, I should be
But how?
I could have been
One of these things first
I could have been
One of these things first.

I could have been your pillar, could have been your door
I could have stayed beside you, could have stayed for more.
Could have been your statue, could have been your friend,
A whole long lifetime could have been the end.
I could be yours so true
I would be, I should be through and through
I could have been
One of these things first
I could have been
One of these things first.

I could have been a whistle, could have been a flute
A real live giver, could have been a boot.
I could have been a signpost, could have been a clock
As simple as a kettle, steady as a rock.
I could be even here
I would be, I should be so near
I could have been
One of these things first
I could have been
One of these things first.

1) Introduction - *
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFAqPn0jgEc
2) Hazey Jane II - ***
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSZ9oX0rLgg
3) At The Chime Of A City Clock - **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4Va1xJUjC0
4) One Of These Things First - ***
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSlh8u8Nrig
5) Hazey Jane I - **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ze5Bktb2jiQ
6) Bryter Layter - **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCzWZnArm9E
7) Fly - **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc3wrbkTh8I
8) Poor Boy - ***
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzFN-ngn7WQ
9) Northern Sky - ***
video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDf6ycid0xY
10) Sunday - *
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dma_9fVeh8Y

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

Grade - 2.3