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Post by Charlie O. on Feb 17, 2024 14:13:44 GMT
Fair enough. I quite like the arrangements myself, particularly on the Neil Young song (by Jimmy Giuffre, if I remember right).
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Post by neige on Feb 18, 2024 12:24:32 GMT
The first two IF albums are fantastic. Yep, agree. Thirded.
I like them a goof deal more than all the American brass rock bands, actually
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Post by loveless on Feb 19, 2024 14:48:11 GMT
I like the calliope at the end just fine.
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Post by davey on Feb 19, 2024 15:36:03 GMT
I’m not sure I can muster a critical appraisal. I was three years old when it was released. It’s one of the deepest-down-the-memory-hole songs I can recall. Musically and lyrically, it was accessible to my child-brain. It was a nursery rhyme. Being asked to judge its value is like being asked to give a critical opinion on Hickory, Dickory Dock. Kinda beside the point. Just listened again…and I want to expand on this. The thing about listening to music as a child is that you’re either in the position of piecing together the-history-of-it-all (if you even think that way), or you accept the first things you hear as a kind of generic true north. This was a weird record to start life off with. It’s such a random amalgamation of musical signifiers all tossed in a blender together. It simultaneously operates on ‘high school jazz band’ logic, with some Vegas lounge thrown in, with a kind of completely bogus evocation of psychedelia inexplicably dropped right into the middle. Then there’s the whole layer of pre-pop musical Americana that that high-school jazz band is toying with. But if you don’t know any of this, you can just take the whole thing at face value. That’s what I did. You could have convinced me then that this record was ‘important’ - and that it’s lyrics and its performance has something crucial to teach me about life. Imagine waking up one day to the recognition that there’s absolutely nothing there at the center of the thing. |
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Post by quaco on Feb 19, 2024 16:40:28 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: Ah the Naumburg Bandshell, as seen on Cellophane Symphony, Best of Herman's Hermits, the "Mind Games" video, and pics of the Dead, Sinatra, etc. |
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