What Are You Listening To?

[SteveO]

^ Chicago Transit Authority was one of my first vinyl purchases Music Head mate....great album......I also love it!!!!!!

[Mrrusty1]

MH that is an absolutely brilliant classic album and is very treasured in my own collection I lose myself in that music..

from my library (vinyl)



The groups debut album and a must have for any proper history. Still debatable whether the
group started as Chicago or Chicago Transit Authority. Settled by the liner notes for me in
which producer James Guercio introduces them as the latter but ends with "just call them
Chicago". Henceforth that's what they would be known as. If not for the two instrumental tracks
on this double album, it would rate as a masterpiece. One of those the dreadful Free Form
Guitar, which is just distortion to me. Doesn't bring down the seven love tracks though. Makes
it hard to pin down a favorite. One of the first groups, along with BS&T that really got me
into horns being used in rock music. No one does that blend better. Four singles released of
which Beginnings and Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is charted the highest at #7. The
album went to #17 and the following began. That intro to Someday is just fantastic.

I LOVE THIS ALBUM

Worst Track - Free Form Guitar

Best Track - Introduction

1) Introduction ***
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V41bEZPo-J4
2) Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is ***
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uy0ldI_1HA
3) Beginnings **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI5aD6m7ub0
4) Questions 67 And 68 ***
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qupeVLtXWLY
5) Listen ***
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHyBt7Lg5l8
6) Poem 58 **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBk6vZ0tt9U
7) Free Form Guitar *
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU_HGmayd2s
8) South California Purples ***
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4P8QwecQ4A
9) I'm A Man ***
live - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYzxErU-UjY
10) Someday (August 29, 1968) ***
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERVgkQlcw-c
11) Liberation *
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB6XhJfTF3s

Grade - 2.5
allmusic - 2.4

[Mrrusty1]

speed jive don't want to stay alive when you are twenty five.. television man hes crazy sayin we are juvenile delinquent wrecks .. man I need tv when ive got TREX

^^
and gave us the brilliant Ian Hunter

[Mrrusty1]

some more classic Broughton apache/dropout[video=youtube_share;X2RT1vVywTI]http://youtu.be/X2RT1vVywTI[/video]

[Jerome]

Retrospectacle - Supertramp. This band is either loved or loathed. I belong to the former camp. If there is one concert I would have liked to have seen it would have to be Supertramp's 'Paris' album.

[Music Head]

Retrospectacle - Supertramp. This band is either loved or loathed. I belong to the former camp. If there is one concert I would have liked to have seen it would have to be Supertramp's 'Paris' album.

I'm there with ya
Supergroup is what they were
Crime Of The Century is with me on the island
right, bloody well right

[SteveO]

J, I saw them 3 times at their peak but not the Paris Concert!...lol...and what a fantastic live album that is eh? The sound quality is top notch!...do they doctor it up in the studio for a better sound quality or pretty much leave it alone?

Retrospectacle - Supertramp. This band is either loved or loathed. I belong to the former camp. If there is one concert I would have liked to have seen it would have to be Supertramp's 'Paris' album.

[Music Head]

from my library (cd)



Weekly pull from the old cd stack. Still on Dylan, up to his 24th album. Once Again, one
classic track here with Brownsville Girl. Two tracks not worthy of being Dylan tracks. Only
eight tracks in total here leaving five for the ok mark. Probably my second favorite track
here, They Killed Him, I had forgotten it was written by Kris Kristofferson. Seems like that
song could have been built on lyrically. As for the classic track, it doesn't get any better
Dylan for me than that one. Eleven minutes and I still don't want it to end. Co-written with
Sam Shepard. Would be interesting to hear how that collaboration came about, and what
part Mr. Shepard atually played. There are only two songs on this album that are Dylan
originals and one of those gets a do not like grade. Panned by most of the critics on it's
release, the album reached #53 in the states, #35 in the UK and #27 in the land down under.
Not one clip is available on youtube for this album.

I LIKE THIS ALBUM

Worst Track - Maybe Someday

Best Track - Brownsville Girl

1) You Wanna Ramble **
2) They Killed Him **
3) Driftin' Too Far From Shore **
4) Precious Memories **
5) Maybe Someday *
6) Brownsville Girl ***
7) Got My Mind Made Up *
8) Under Your Spell **

Grade - 1.9
allmusic - 1.2

[Jerome]

J, I saw them 3 times at their peak but not the Paris Concert!...lol...and what a fantastic live album that is eh? The sound quality is top notch!...do they doctor it up in the studio for a better sound quality or pretty much leave it alone?

I have to say I envy you. One of the disappointments of my life is not seeing them live. There probably is a bit of doctoring in the studio, but who cares. It a cracker of an album. Not a single bad track. Incidentally so is Retrospectacle. Great value for money. BIA was their big payday but COTC is their artistic zenith.

[Mrrusty1]

[video=youtube_share;fbjRyjqR5eY]http://youtu.be/fbjRyjqR5eY[/video] Arthur Brown nightmare from the crazy world of Arthur brown.. the world needs more people like this