What Are You Listening To?

[Jerome]

Deep Purple - Who Do We Think We Are - have not heard this for years - some classic tracks on this. Good old Rock n Roll.

[CRAZY-HORSE]

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STEPHEN STILLS "thoroughfare gap" vinyl, 1978

album chart action: #83 US.

singles chart action: i cannot locate info on any singles released from the album...

Stephen's fifth studio set as a solo artist...
album opens with,of all things, a disco/dance type song...and my heart sank when i first heard it, i thought he'd gone all "trans" on me like his old sparring partner Neil Young did a couple of years after this one...
thankfully though, the album goes quickly back to his usual folky/bluesy/ familliar style...
unmistakable melodies,riffs and general sounds happening here...
no love tracks on this one yet, but two have possible 'love ratings' happening with more listens from this newly purchased vinyl...
so, apart from that stupid disco track, there are two other i do not like on here, including a cover of Buddy Holly's "not fade away"...

I LIKE THIS ALBUM

worst track: you cant dance alone
best track: midnight rider

tracks:

1. you cant dance alone *
2. thoroughfare gap **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdZgJqVqv3o audio
3. we will go on **
4. beaucoup blues **
5. whats the game *
6. midnight rider **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcYNHt45x20 audio
7. woman lleva **
8. lowdown **
9. not fade away *
10.cant get no booty **

3s=0
2s=7
1s=3

rating: 1.7

[Jerome]

Snow Patrol - Fallen Empires - not bad but nothing really grabs me on this one. I expected more after hearing 'Chasing Cars'. It was not to be. I have a funny feeling they won't be around much longer. Might be wrong but their music is not progressing. They are standing still.

[Jerome]

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STEPHEN STILLS "thoroughfare gap" vinyl, 1978

album chart action: #83 US.

singles chart action: i cannot locate info on any singles released from the album...

Stephen's fifth studio set as a solo artist...
album opens with,of all things, a disco/dance type song...and my heart sank when i first heard it, i thought he'd gone all "trans" on me like his old sparring partner Neil Young did a couple of years after this one...
thankfully though, the album goes quickly back to his usual folky/bluesy/ familliar style...
unmistakable melodies,riffs and general sounds happening here...
no love tracks on this one yet, but two have possible 'love ratings' happening with more listens from this newly purchased vinyl...
so, apart from that stupid disco track, there are two other i do not like on here, including a cover of Buddy Holly's "not fade away"...

I LIKE THIS ALBUM

worst track: you cant dance alone
best track: midnight rider

tracks:

1. you cant dance alone *
2. thoroughfare gap **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdZgJqVqv3o audio
3. we will go on **
4. beaucoup blues **
5. whats the game *
6. midnight rider **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcYNHt45x20 audio
7. woman lleva **
8. lowdown **
9. not fade away *
10.cant get no booty **

3s=0
2s=7
1s=3

rating: 1.7

Did not even know this one existed. You learn something every day.

[SteveO]

Like your picks Crazy mate!

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STEPHEN STILLS "thoroughfare gap" vinyl, 1978

album chart action: #83 US.

singles chart action: i cannot locate info on any singles released from the album...

Stephen's fifth studio set as a solo artist...
album opens with,of all things, a disco/dance type song...and my heart sank when i first heard it, i thought he'd gone all "trans" on me like his old sparring partner Neil Young did a couple of years after this one...
thankfully though, the album goes quickly back to his usual folky/bluesy/ familliar style...
unmistakable melodies,riffs and general sounds happening here...
no love tracks on this one yet, but two have possible 'love ratings' happening with more listens from this newly purchased vinyl...
so, apart from that stupid disco track, there are two other i do not like on here, including a cover of Buddy Holly's "not fade away"...

I LIKE THIS ALBUM

worst track: you cant dance alone
best track: midnight rider

tracks:

1. you cant dance alone *
2. thoroughfare gap **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdZgJqVqv3o audio
3. we will go on **
4. beaucoup blues **
5. whats the game *
6. midnight rider **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcYNHt45x20 audio
7. woman lleva **
8. lowdown **
9. not fade away *
10.cant get no booty **

3s=0
2s=7
1s=3

rating: 1.7

[CRAZY-HORSE]

PAUL McCARTNEY "mccartney II" vinyl,cd,deluxe boxset, 1980

album chart action: UK #1, US #3, AU #4

singles chart action:
"coming up"................#2UK, #2AU, #1US, #1CAN.
"waterfalls".................#9UK, #31AU, #106US.
"temporary secretary"..no chart action.

Paul's twelfth solo set,that is, if you include 1966s"the family way" and 1977s "thrillington" albums...
album was titled "mccartneyII" because like "mccartney"(1970) Macca played all instruments and produced the album himself..
this album really wasnt going to be released initially, but Macca had been playing around in his home studio with new equipment he had installed and made up these songs, one night shortly after Ringo was around their house for dinner and asked Paul if he had any new songs, he played him these tracks off the album and Ringo apparently said "oh, so this is your new album", it was then McCartney thought "well yes i guess it is!"...
this album is quite experimental for the time it was made, tracks like "bogey music","darkroom" and "temporary secretary" were unlike anything else that came before it...even the instrumental tracks "frozen jap" and "front parlour" were early pre-cursors to his avante-guard Fireman albums...
"coming up",well the video anyway, was revolutionary for the time with Macca playing the parts of all the band members in the "plastic mac" band, which again incidently, was another little dig at John Lennon's Plastic Ono Band...so it was tit-for-tat between the pair of them until John's death only a few months later..
strange to note that the "coming up" single was different on its release in the US...those yankees made the "b" side Wings live version the "a" side and relegated the studio version to the "b" side of the single...
theres two little known/forgotten gems on this album also that stand up with the best material he has released in the superb ballad "one of these days" and "summers day song"...
that aside this is a pretty good album by Macca, not his best but almost perfection compared to his more recent outings on cd...

I LIKE THIS ALBUM

worst track: front parlour
best track: one of these days

tracks:

1. coming up ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnHu-WLvY5U vevo video
2. temporary secretary **
3. on the way **
4. waterfalls ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYstxLoOnYA video
5. nobody knows ***
6. front parlour(instrumental) *
7. summer's day song ***
8. frozen jap(instrumental) *
9. bogey music **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Quh_bqa0E9M audio
10.darkroom **
11.one of these days ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBMPqqwNOr4 audio

3s=5
2s=4
1s=2

rating: 2.2

[Jerome]

Rick Wakeman - White Rock II - first one was done in 1976 - the follow up was done in 1998.

[Jerome]

Ian Anderson - Rupi's Dance - a solo album - quite good. Never delivers a bad album.

[Jerome]

Music from the motion picture 'Cal' - Mark Knopfler - very laid back album, which is good because I am rotten with flu at the moment. I hate winter.

[CRAZY-HORSE]

Music from the motion picture 'Cal' - Mark Knopfler - very laid back album, which is good because I am rotten with flu at the moment. I hate winter.

two of the tracks from "cal" were issued on a Dire Straits "b" side from a single off Brothers In Arms...i like them, they are lovely pieces of music IMO
Knopfler is a master of writing instrumentals IMO...
"cal" the movie, saw that one when it came out, very slow,yet good from memory

and...sorry to hear you have flu Jerome,get well soon mate