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Post by bluemeaniepaul74 on Apr 29, 2013 20:32:49 GMT
I decided a couple of months ago, as a kind of antedote to the terrible terrible music scene we're currently experiencing, that I would study the most recent 'Rolling Stone Magazine 500 Greatest Albums' list and then periodically download the ones I'd never heard before in the hope that it would broaden my musical tastes and perhaps stimulate my mind... and boy has it worked! In the last few weeks I've enjoyed albums from Cat Stevens, Funkadelic, Todd Rundgren, Van Morrison, Cream, Mamas and the Papas, Bowie, James Taylor, Bob Dylan, Miles Davis, Nick Drake, Tom Waites, Jethro Tull, Elton John, Steve Miller Band, Dr John, Simon and Garfunkel and Sam Cooke to name just a fraction of the full list. I wish I'd done it a few years ago as I've been missing out on some seriously good music but at the same time there's some mind blowingly strange stuff on there that I wouldn't subject my Dog to if indeed I had one! Yes I'm talking about you 'Trout Mask Replica' by Captain Beefheart...
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Post by Amadeus on Apr 29, 2013 20:59:12 GMT
Hey, hey! This is interesting. What was your basic musical diet up 'till now? And what specifically are some of the albums that you've discovered and why do you like them? I love talking to people who are discovering neat new stuff.
I can talk about most kinds of music except for a big chunk of top 40 stuff post 1975, which gives me irritable bowel syndrome, otherwise I like mostly anything that's good. Including 'Trout Mask Replica'. Incidentally, I also like a lot of stuff that gives some people cramps, like 'Trout Mask Replica'. But anyway, most of the 'new' stuff you mentioned, I already have an affection for.
So, do tell all.
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Post by ranger on Apr 30, 2013 8:34:46 GMT
Maybe you should list them (if you've got time!).
I've always found that my favourite albums by artists are always lower than their perceived 'classics' in the 'Rawk' critics' (100% men, 95% missed the 50s/60s) opinion, e.g. 'Another Side of Bob Dylan', 'Safe As Milk', 'Please Please Me', 'Out Of Our Heads', 'Nashville Skyline', and that these lists are always compromised because they almost always miss out the most fertile era for pop music, the 50s (ask Paul McCartney), completely.
I also trust that the list includes early compilations of Robert Johnson, Fats Domino, Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf, and representative LPs by the Rock 'n' Rollers (Jerry Lee, Gene Vincent, Chuck Berry, Carl Perkins, Larry Williams etc.....again, ask Paul McCartney) otherwise it's not worth the paper it's written on.
None of those guys.....no Beatles, no Stones, no Dylan.
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Post by Amadeus on Apr 30, 2013 21:16:18 GMT
I'm trying to think of pop albums from the '50's that aren't compilations. These are pop albums from the 50's that I like, off the top of my head: Chuck Berry - After School Session Sinatra - Songs For Swinging Lovers Sinatra - In The Wee Small Hours Elvis Presley - Elvis Presley Elvis Presley - Elvis Elvis Presley - For LP Fans Only Johnny Cash - His Red Hot and Blue Guitar Buddy Holly and his Chirpin' Crickets
These are ones I have. There must be more but I can only think of compilations. The pop currency of the 50's was mainly singles, no?
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Post by ranger on May 1, 2013 7:42:49 GMT
Yep, mainly singles and, of course, prohibitively expensive for a teenager to buy (making them more treasured, more revered and more studied).
From a British perspective (and if you don't mind, I'll knock the Sinatra stuff on the head), there was one Chuck Berry LP released ('One Dozen Berrys'), Carl Perkins (1), Eddie Cochran (1), Johnny Cash (1), Jerry Lee (1), Johnny Burnette & His Rock n' Roll Trio (1), Buddy Holly (2), Little Richard (3), Bill Haley (4?), Gene Vincent (5?) and Elvis (8?).
Quite apart from the musical brilliance on these discs and crucially, their complete lack of pretension, a high number of major players in the 60s would have been on nodding terms with most of them. And, Mick and Keith got talking over an imported Chuck LP under Jagger's arm, and named themselves after a Muddy Waters' LP track.
I can't vouch for America, and I certainly can't vouch for 'Rolling Stone' magazine, but if the Johnny Burnette LP (owned by Lennon) isn't in the 500, disregard the whole poll forthwith!
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