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| May-Cee | May 19 2013, 08:20 PM Post #1 |
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What these six great albums have in common tickles me so much, I thought I'd present it as a wee quiz: The Doors - "Waiting For The Sun" Led Zep - "Houses Of The Holy" Elvis Costello - "Almost Blue" Primal Scream - "Screamadelica" Julian Cope - "World Shut Your Mouth" Gomez - "Bring It On" Any ideas spring to mind? |
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| rumbaba | May 19 2013, 11:41 PM Post #2 |
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Dunno, album covers? |
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| Caro | May 20 2013, 03:21 AM Post #3 |
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I don't know either, but this reminds me of a quiz on our radio once a week. They take three songs and ask for the common factor: it can be as easy as they are all one-hit wonders, or all mention a certain word or phrase or place, or it can be something to do with the music, or perhaps that the drummer was doing the vocals, or the songs were dedicated to specific people, or the song didn't have a chorus. After people have guessed the quiz, they then fill up the hour with other songs featuring that reason. But albums are a bit trickier - they all had the same session musicians? Do you have session musicians with groups, though? They were all put together in some particular fashion? |
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| rumbaba | May 20 2013, 09:29 AM Post #4 |
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I googled this and got a not very convincing answer on another forum. It mentioned Brain Salad Surgery ELP , Led Zep and The doors only, so I still dunno really. Is it that they are named after songs that appeared on a different album? Edited by rumbaba, May 20 2013, 09:30 AM.
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| May-Cee | May 20 2013, 12:13 PM Post #5 |
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You don't sound very confident but you're right! What we think of as the "title tracks" all appeared on later albums; "Houses Of The Holy" on "Physical Graffiti"; etc. |
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| AmosBurke | May 20 2013, 12:20 PM Post #6 |
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Point of order. Screamadelica was an EP track. |
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| May-Cee | May 20 2013, 02:38 PM Post #7 |
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Indeed so, Amos. I think the great "Dixie-Narco" EP (which, as you know, was a sort of companion piece to "Screamadelica") was the last time Primal Scream were Any Good. (I certainly lost interest after that.) |
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| AmosBurke | May 20 2013, 07:02 PM Post #8 |
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Me too! |
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| rumbaba | May 21 2013, 01:27 PM Post #9 |
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Speaking of The Doors, poor Ray has gone now ![]() I first heard Jose Feliciano's version of 'Light my fire' and then was blown away when I heard The Doors version (great organ intro from Ray) - I wonder if he carried an organ-donor card? |
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| May-Cee | May 21 2013, 08:26 PM Post #10 |
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The way that Oliver Stone films the way that Ray came up with that great keyboard riff is especially silly. "You guys take a break - I'll see what I can do..." I was tempted to add a jazz classic to my original list; the only jazz one I can think of that fits the bill - Oliver Nelson - "The Blues And The Abstract Truth" Which features - here we go again! - Eric Dolphy, Freddie Hubbard, Bill Evans... Every time I write about jazz around here, those names keep popping up! |
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| rumbaba | May 21 2013, 09:54 PM Post #11 |
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It didn't strike me at the time I saw him, just how legendary Freddie Hubbard was - it was a Coltrane tribute at The Fairfield Halls Croydon |
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| May-Cee | May 23 2013, 06:28 PM Post #12 |
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Freddie's albums are great in a fairly standard blues-based, bebop style. (Apart from an odd phase where he went a bit psychedelic; a big fave during my Acid Jazz days at Dingwalls.) But I prefer the more interesting albums (Coltrane, Dolphy, Coleman) where he features as a superb sideman. |
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| rumbaba | May 24 2013, 09:01 AM Post #13 |
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I used to regularly go to see jazz at The Fairfields Hall Croydon and The Southbank; Stan Getz, Sonny Rollins, Wynton Marsalis, Courtney Pine, Tommy Smith, Gerry Mulligan, Wayne Shorter, Andy Sheppard - unbelievable really. Jazz was cool for a short while i.e. people thought there was money to be made out of it and there were acts like The Jazz Warriors, Loose Tubes, Andy Sheppard and Courtney Pine and all the guys who came out of The Jazz Warriors and Loose Tubes who looked like they were going to make jazz the next big thing but it just never quite makes it. I've seen some terrific people like Alan Barnes and Mark Lockhart playing for free on the bandstand in The Pantiles. Edited by rumbaba, May 24 2013, 09:02 AM.
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