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And inspired by a collection of Stax soul records he had bought.One of his best LPs.
All of those albums, up to Blood and Chocolate where brilliant with hardly any duff tracks from start to finish. Afterwards he was no longer a savant, he became too erudite and everything was studied and he lost his instinct. Still good for one or two tracks, interesting collaboration with Macca, but the consistency was gone. 45 I think stands up to that period, She, one or two others you can dig deep to find. Maybe The Juliet Letters, but the rest just don't stand up as classic albums.All of Costello's albums up to Imperial Bedroom and later albums like King of America and Blood and Chocolate are essential IMHO.
Costello is a bit of a touchstone for me, like The Beatles, in that if someone says they're crap then I quickly come to the opinion that they don't know anything about pop music.And inspired by a collection of Stax soul records he had bought.
All of those albums, up to Blood and Chocolate where brilliant with hardly any duff tracks from start to finish. Afterwards he was no longer a savant, he became too erudite and everything was studied and he lost his instinct. Still good for one or two tracks, interesting collaboration with Macca, but the consistency was gone. 45 I think stands up to that period, She, one or two others you can dig deep to find. Maybe The Juliet Letters, but the rest just don't stand up as classic albums.
Dylan LPs were great up to and including ‘Desire’. ‘Basement Tapes’ and live LPs included.Costello is a bit of a touchstone for me, like The Beatles, in that if someone says they're crap then I quickly come to the opinion that they don't know anything about pop music.
However, I'm aware that this 'logic' can be turned against me because I think that Dylan and The Beach Boys are crap.
So there you have it!!! LOL.
...oh! and don't get me on about recorded Jazz......which is fucking dreadful!!! Has there ever been a song title more apt for an opening track of an album than that of Miles Davis' Kind of Blue?
Let the pile-on commence!!!
I don't consider Holiday, Smith, Vaughn, et al Jazz, even though I know technically it is. What I dislike is the instrumental stuff especially post-WWII recorded stuff. Dreadful.Recorded jazz King Oliver and Bessie Smith are fine.
Also Billie Holiday recordings of the thirties and forties before her voice got raspy. Count Basie is fine too. Not keen on modern jazz though.
Kind of Blue, is the most urbane album of recorded music of all time.Costello is a bit of a touchstone for me, like The Beatles, in that if someone says they're crap then I quickly come to the opinion that they don't know anything about pop music.
However, I'm aware that this 'logic' can be turned against me because I think that Dylan and The Beach Boys are crap.
So there you have it!!! LOL.
...oh! and don't get me on about recorded Jazz......which is fucking dreadful!!! Has there ever been a song title more apt for an opening track of an album than that of Miles Davis' Kind of Blue?
Let the pile-on commence!!!
You missed out:Recorded jazz King Oliver and Bessie Smith are fine.
Also Billie Holiday recordings of the thirties and forties before her voice got raspy. Count Basie is fine too. Not keen on modern jazz though.
I don't consider Holiday, Smith, Vaughn, et al Jazz, even though I know technically it is. What I dislike is the instrumental stuff especially post-WWII recorded stuff. Dreadful.
Live Jazz is a bit more tolerable.
Kind of Blue, is the most urbane album of recorded music of all time.
The first track is of course, So What. There's no Kind of Blue on the album. Side 2 opens with All Blues which is magnificent.
You missed out:
There's fantastic stuff you're missing out on there, but I do believe your basing your musical prejudices on badly recorded bebop, such as:
As opposed to this:
That genre was the zeitgeist of the times before Muddy Waters, Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly and The Beatles took us to the Promised Land.I know the opening track of Kind of Blue is called So What. That was my point, it perfectly sums up the genre
Let It Be: Have we passed the golden era of the rock ‘n’ roll memoir? | Alexander Larman | The Critic Magazine
We were informed last week, with all of the self-effacing modesty of Moses bringing down the Ten Commandments from Mount Sinai, that Paul McCartney will be releasing a new book this November.thecritic.co.uk
The Letter used to be constantly on the radio. Not sure what happened to them later. Last item seems to be a follow up band.
Oh you are a worry.Costello is a bit of a touchstone for me, like The Beatles, in that if someone says they're crap then I quickly come to the opinion that they don't know anything about pop music.
However, I'm aware that this 'logic' can be turned against me because I think that Dylan and The Beach Boys are crap.
So there you have it!!! LOL.
...oh! and don't get me on about recorded Jazz......which is fucking dreadful!!! Has there ever been a song title more apt for an opening track of an album than that of Miles Davis' Kind of Blue?
Let the pile-on commence!!!
Not much impact here in Oz for the MozThat genre was the zeitgeist of the times before Muddy Waters, Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly and The Beatles took us to the Promised Land.
The new book is about Macca's lyric writing. So I would expect stuff on the craft of his writing and zero stuff about taking LSD in 1966 unless it was directly related to the writing and composing of that specific song.
The Morrissey autobiography is very good and recommended.
Morrissey's music remains, likeable from tough working class pubs in the north of England to surfing bars in Ipanema, a musical icon who resonates from Manchester to Sao Paolo, Mexico City and beyond.
I get a laugh out of the interviews where Mark E Smith , who knew him back when, always would say “Hello Stephen” whenever he met him knowing the Moz hated to be called Stephen.Not much impact here in Oz for the Moz
The Smiths had a huge following in the Oz 1980s alternative scene. Every sad goth had a Meat Is Murder tshirt. I don’t think Morrissey inspired too many local musicians but Marr’s jangley guitar riffs definitely inspired a slew of indiepop badms fromThe Triffids to The Church. After about 1992 no one cared about Morrissey or his old band.Not much impact here in Oz for the Moz
I get a laugh out of the interviews where Mark E Smith , who knew him back when, always would say “Hello Stephen” whenever he met him knowing the Moz hated to be called Stephen.
Chuckles...Oh you are a worry.
Tony Wilson use to always call him Stephen too.I get a laugh out of the interviews where Mark E Smith , who knew him back when, always would say “Hello Stephen” whenever he met him knowing the Moz hated to be called Stephen.
The thing with Morrissey, he has got less melodic over the years. Not everyone's cup of tea that. Lyrically as great as ever. Always good for a few interesting tracks per album. By contrast, Marr's stuff has been very pedestrian and lack lustre. His last album started to go somewhere a couple of tracks in.The Smiths had a huge following in the Oz 1980s alternative scene. Every sad goth had a Meat Is Murder tshirt. I don’t think Morrissey inspired too many local musicians but Marr’s jangley guitar riffs definitely inspired a slew of indiepop badms fromThe Triffids to The Church. After about 1992 no one cared about Morrissey or his old band.
Ha! My favorite quote from that Ian Curtis biopic that came out about 12 years ago was when he turned to Hook in a moment of self-reflection and said: ‘well at least we’re not the fookin’ Fall!’
As one of the comments states ''He looks like Jimmy Saville''.He’s looking very old.