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Post by davey on Feb 25, 2023 0:19:52 GMT
You’d think from this thread that there was no stadium rock in 1976.
Don’t Fear the Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Feb 25, 2023 8:30:13 GMT
Wonder why it took so long for it to be released as a single in Britain.
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Post by rayge on Feb 25, 2023 10:01:38 GMT
Wonder why it took so long for it to be released as a single in Britain. It didn't. An edited version, without the guitar solo, to fit on on a 45rpm single, was the first single off the album everywhere, and it tanked in the UK. The full version was released on 12" and 7" & CD single in 1978, and that was the one that made the charts here.
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Feb 25, 2023 10:07:22 GMT
Wonder why it took so long for it to be released as a single in Britain. It didn't. An edited version, without the guitar solo, to fit on on a 45rpm single, was the first single off the album everywhere, and it tanked in the UK. The full version was released on 12" and 7" & CD single in 1978, and that was the one that made the charts here. CD single in 78? Surely not.
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Post by rayge on Feb 25, 2023 10:23:38 GMT
It didn't. An edited version, without the guitar solo, to fit on on a 45rpm single, was the first single off the album everywhere, and it tanked in the UK. The full version was released on 12" and 7" & CD single in 1978, and that was the one that made the charts here. CD single in 78? Surely not. Yeah, probably not. Brain fart on my part, should have had a '(?)' after that. Deffo a 12" reissue, though, some of my pals had it - I had already bought Agents of Fortune, partly because I was already 'into' BOC and partly because of the Patti Smith involvement.
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Feb 25, 2023 10:37:15 GMT
It's one of those songs I heavily associate with 1978, a year I have a nostalgic love for because it was the first year I really took an interest in contemporary music and this was one of the tracks from that year ( although as you say, it wasn't really from that year) that really captured my attention. In my head it was a big hit, but it actually only got to 16.
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Post by riggers on Feb 25, 2023 12:05:55 GMT
1976
A lot of the prime movers have already been selected. (I would have gone for 'Station to Station' but probably wouldn't have written about it as eloquently as Dougie has..)
So, it'll have to be this. An important and GREAT single, that still sound fantastic these days.
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Post by fearlessfreap on Feb 25, 2023 14:06:38 GMT
Can't fault the picks so far, but I'm afraid I'm going to have to go with The Residents again. Arguably the greatest cover version ever released, if it counts as a cover. To think that punk was in its infancy and seen as shocking, as this absolute monstrosity of a track was released. It takes the vague rebellious angst of The Stones and twists it into a horrific sociopathic monologue, and transforms that thin guitar motif into a squall of off-key noise. That guitar solo is as horrifying and visceral as any giallo; the vocals scrape the eardrums raw. It's one of those tracks that stands alone in pop music history, before Satisfaction, pop music was this, now it can do anything it fucking wants to. I love this- vocals are the missing link between black metal and Popeye, and Snakefinger’s solo is the guitar equivalent of Eno’s Editions Of You synth work.
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Post by loveless on Feb 25, 2023 20:07:52 GMT
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Things have changed.
After a couple of days with the Colombian drug lord and his undeniable period vibe, I've pivoted pretty firmly to an even more stubbornly Bicentennial energy. A very sunny and innocent vibe, made all the more impressive by our knowledge of just how experienced Sebastian must have been by then. I have it on good authority that this one pays his bills to this very day.
Welcome back, John.
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Feb 25, 2023 20:15:48 GMT
I didn't expect you to pick a Columbian drug lord JSJ!
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Post by loveless on Feb 25, 2023 20:29:12 GMT
I didn't expect you to pick a Columbian drug lord JSJ! It was too good to be true.
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Feb 28, 2023 7:01:13 GMT
1977
Time for 1977. Adam's choice is one of the greatest singles from any year.
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Post by toomanyhatz on Feb 28, 2023 7:28:46 GMT
Oh, we're doing 1977 now? Easy peasy.
Not the title track, as tempting as that may be. This has split my head in two on hearing like no other piece of music has done before or sense. That rather forceful main riff. The weird scale that runs through it. And his usual strangled voice is used to advantage, with truly great phrasing. Their entire trick bag in under 5 minutes. And everything's so neatly in place you don't notice just how busy the rhythm section is being. It's not a groove, it's a sprint. And it still takes my breath away every single time.
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Post by rayge on Feb 28, 2023 8:41:25 GMT
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Feb 28, 2023 10:33:12 GMT
1977
There are certain songs you always associate with people or moments in your life. Whenever I hear Like A Hurricane I'm always taken back to being 16 years old and obsessing over a red headed lass called Hazel who was in the year above me at school. One of those really Heavy teenage crushes that never came to anything even though sadly I tell she was into me (she once squeezed my arse in the lunch queue but I was so paralysed with fear I couldn't do anything). Eventually my mates found out I was obsessed with her after I drunkenly revealed it and for about the next 6 months whenever she appeared in the vicinity, which seemed to happen a lot, my mates would take the piss and threaten to say something which I found absolutely excruciatingly embarrassing. Red faced, sweating palms, the lot. I mean, at that point in your life a girl you are really into who is also a whole YEAR older than you (she had boyfriends in their 20s so she was clearly sexually active too) wasn't really a girl at all I guess which made the whole damn thing even more intolerable: a woman, an angel, a dream, something unobtainable and almost tormenting you with her otherness lol.
I am just a dreamer but you are just a dream
I only have to therefore hear the impossibly sad but beautiful guitar intro to be transported back somehow yet of course the songs romantic melancholy is ageless and universal whilst Young's soloing is my favourite on any song. Just this titanic eruption of feeling and imagination, heavy on feeling and inspiration that you cannot help but get sucked into completely for the entirety of its 8 minutes. Which is the point of course because you are lost in its whirlpool just like Young is. There may be many superior technical guitar players but when he is producing transcendent magic like this there is really nobody better.
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