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Post by toomanyhatz on Feb 12, 2024 19:16:12 GMT
I have heard some funny David Clayton-Thomas stories. He's pretty dang blustery - closer to Neil Diamond than the R&B roots he's always claimed - but sometimes it works. This is not one of those times.
"And When I Die" is so ridiculous and over-the-top that I can get behind it in a kitschy way, and the equally blustery "You've Made Me So Very Happy" doesn't pretend to be anything other than schmaltzy. This one sounds a bit smug by comparison.
Gave it a 'benefit of the doubt' middle vote, but definitely closer to shite than height.
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Post by Charlie O. on Feb 12, 2024 19:31:21 GMT
Yeah, If was good. And Jimbo turned me on to The Sons Of Champlin's Loosen Up Naturally, which I enjoyed a lot though it's been many years now since I heard it (and I haven't heard anything else by them that came close).
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Feb 13, 2024 10:46:46 GMT
When I first heard Pearl Jam, my first thought was, “Oh, great, David Clayton Thomas is back.” This album was everywhere when I was a child—not as a teenager, but as a kid. Every home had a copy. Not my friends, though, but their parents — people born in the 1930’s. It was their attempt at being cool, like sideburns and longer hair with “the dry look” hairspray because “ the wet head was dead, “ and sporty denim leisure suits. I don’t know what it was about that album, because the only contemporary companion it was Bridge Over Troubled Water. You certainly didn’t see Lee Zeppelin III or Let It Bleed on top of their Magnavox cabinets. It was the first coffee table rock album. i'm watching all the Mad Men series currently. I'm up to 1969 and Don's wife Megan has a party up in the Hollywood Hills (I think she's meant to be living in Laurel Canyon), it's full of these slightly square but trying to be groovy Hollywood types, and, of course, Blood, Sweat and Tears are the music of choice for people to dance to.
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Feb 13, 2024 10:50:10 GMT
I have heard some funny David Clayton-Thomas stories. He's pretty dang blustery - closer to Neil Diamond than the R&B roots he's always claimed - but sometimes it works. This is not one of those times. "And When I Die" is so ridiculous and over-the-top that I can get behind it in a kitschy way, and the equally blustery "You've Made Me So Very Happy" doesn't pretend to be anything other than schmaltzy. This one sounds a bit smug by comparison. Gave it a 'benefit of the doubt' middle vote, but definitely closer to shite than height. I love 'You Made Me So...'. That horn arrangement has real oomph!
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Bringing ballet to the masses. Sticking to the funk.
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Post by loveless on Feb 13, 2024 11:25:34 GMT
I have heard some funny David Clayton-Thomas stories. FWIW, I'm here for all of 'em.
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Feb 13, 2024 11:36:28 GMT
I'm a Buckinghams man, myself. (No, they didn't have an in-house horn section. But "Kind Of A Drag" hitting #1 kicked off this craze if anything did.) Sure, the James William Guercio through line from the 'Hams to Chicago seems like pretty serious "Oh, good - I see you've got horns" momentum. I seem to remember Carlsson bigging up a concern called If, whom I have some (possibly erroneous) memory of as horn rock. they're kind of Canterbury Soul..They had a great singer. Worth checking out.
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Post by loveless on Feb 13, 2024 11:48:02 GMT
Sadly - and surprisingly - YouTube doesn't have NRBQ's improvised live medley of "Spinning Wheel" and "And When I Die", which you can be sure I would post here otherwise. Who sings lead on this?
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Feb 13, 2024 11:52:55 GMT
There was a song that was supposed to sound like BS&T called Vehicle by a band called Ides Of March that I absolutely loved. That was more streamlined and not multi part jerky like Spinning Wheel. That's a great track. Thread here - preludin.proboards.com/thread/6220/agree-great
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Feb 13, 2024 12:51:46 GMT
I like it quite a bit - it's definitely groovy - but the slight stop-start/jerky nature of the rhythm (DA! DA-DA!) puts me off a bit.
Like Osgood, their 'Lucretia' track is just a bit more likely to make me get out of my chair and pull some shapes.
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Post by fange on Feb 13, 2024 13:07:08 GMT
Yep, Hit! Although definitely overplayed.
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Post by fange on Feb 13, 2024 13:08:10 GMT
The first two IF albums are fantastic. Yep, agree.
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Post by Charlie O. on Feb 13, 2024 16:32:52 GMT
Sadly - and surprisingly - YouTube doesn't have NRBQ's improvised live medley of "Spinning Wheel" and "And When I Die", which you can be sure I would post here otherwise. Who sings lead on this? Terry. (It’s on the Kick Me Hard deluxe CD.)
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Post by Charlie O. on Feb 17, 2024 1:53:01 GMT
Since David Clayton-Thomas is unlikely to come up on the boards again anytime soon, I'm taking the liberty to ask what y'all think of this:
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Post by Charlie O. on Feb 17, 2024 1:56:30 GMT
And/or this:
(a Todd Rundgren song, in case you wondered)
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Post by fange on Feb 17, 2024 7:34:04 GMT
Since David Clayton-Thomas is unlikely to come up on the boards again anytime soon, I'm taking the liberty to ask what y'all think of this: Today's the first time i've heard it, i think, and while i like bits of it the full-on horns/brass arrangement doesn't quite click with me. The lyrics are delivery by him in a quite light, evocative-in-a-wordy way, and the blurts of the trombone and such seem to distract a bit from them. I like the second song a bit more, though it's still a bit too over-cooked with orchestrations; his voice is much more suited to an earthier background, for mine.
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