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Post by fange on Aug 12, 2021 10:38:23 GMT
A is very pretty in its way, but it doesn't do it for me like most Louis fucking Jordan records.
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Post by bungo the mungo on Aug 12, 2021 11:48:59 GMT
the negativity lal and mike are getting, is mind-boggling.
i feel ashamed for preludin right now.
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Post by blue on Aug 13, 2021 3:24:15 GMT
Scarecrow is a classic and the vocal fits it well. I don't get the mannered criticism of it either, it's not hiding the Yorkshire twang. Top pick, anyway.
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Post by fonz on Aug 13, 2021 6:27:04 GMT
I managed 10 seconds of A. I can listen to LJ all day long. It is that simple. It is that stark.
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Post by clive gash on Aug 13, 2021 8:49:48 GMT
This is turning into the biggest PRELUDIN thrashing ever.
LOL to the SAP who thought balance, proportion and SHEER GOOD TASTE would win out
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2021 9:38:22 GMT
This is turning into the biggest PRELUDIN thrashing ever. Only a five point lead, that's nothing..we've already had ten point victories this year.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Aug 13, 2021 9:44:29 GMT
I'm not generally a fan of trad folk but I certainly preferred it to B which I found very slight.
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Post by oleandermedian on Aug 13, 2021 23:54:09 GMT
A is a deeply, grievously fucked up song. In those days a faulty scarecrow could cost millions!
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Post by neige on Aug 14, 2021 10:12:41 GMT
Bright Phoebus is a masterpiece.
It is most unfortunate for good old Louis (whom I loved dearly since Joe Jackson brought him to my attention 40-odd years ago), but
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Post by rayge on Aug 16, 2021 10:40:55 GMT
Not the first time I've been asked to like something from this album, and I dutifully gave over four minutes of my precious life to it. And I heard a plodding, dreary acoustic guitar and an irritatingly 'authentic' voice intoning a drivellingly inane lyric over it. Emperor's new clothes my arse. NAKED NAKED. My advice - stick fingers in both your ears. RUBBISHE. And if that sounds harsh, be thankful I didn't let hippiedrill loose on it - at least the sound of clanging spittoons would have drowned it out. For fuck's sake. Just put on a hairy jumper, down a warm pint, and FUCK RIGHT OFF.
To be fair, this isn't a particularly distinguished piece of rock and roll - I much prefer Louis's pop/jazz rendering of this from a decade earlier. It is, though, an instructive illustration of how the sax got to be a definitive sound of early rock and roll as so many jazz players in the 1940s' Jacquet howling and screaming school switched over seamlessly. But honestly, three minutes of LJ farting on his deathbed would have trounced the abomination above.
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Post by oh oooh on Aug 16, 2021 10:55:02 GMT
this track from the Watersons album is the highlight and I guess would have won more votes
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Post by clive gash on Aug 17, 2021 21:32:07 GMT
Forget about it Lal/Mike they’ll never understand.
love, nev
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Post by rayge on Aug 18, 2021 10:46:33 GMT
clive gash 9 hippiedrill 11
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Post by clive gash on Aug 18, 2021 11:20:36 GMT
The PRELUDIN flag will fly at half mast today.
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Post by toomanyhatz on Aug 18, 2021 17:22:32 GMT
As much as I hate to agree with Clive (and am happy that he lost and I won, you too Fange! ), this is a real Preludin deaf spot. It's NOT 'traditional' in any respect (other than maybe some of the instruments - and even there it's subversive in the way they use them). Lal (and to a lesser extent, Mike) are oddball singer/songwriters, and are highly underrated, presumably because they were connected with the folk scene - which largely treated them like the oddballs they were - rather than the 'brown sound' of the day. They just didn't do enough acid, I guess. But in any case, take it from me - who probably knows more about the folk scene in the early 70s than most people who actually lived through it. The trad folks did NOT consider them part of their scene. The smarter folks (like Martin Carthy, who married into the Waterson family) got it. The 'traddies' HATED it.
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