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Post by Sneelock on Oct 4, 2023 16:14:22 GMT
well, it kicks ass all over "long live rock", I'll give you that.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Oct 4, 2023 16:32:27 GMT
It occupies a sweet spot in the Venn diagram of pop and rock where you get a mixture of both. You still have that quality in some of the Lifehouse material but by the time you get to Quadrophenia it’s very much on the rock side.
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Post by adamcoan on Oct 4, 2023 16:51:31 GMT
It doesn't matter how you frame it. They were honestly, pretty limited, good at what they did, agreed. A greatest hits is seriously enough.
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Oct 4, 2023 17:40:47 GMT
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Post by adamcoan on Oct 4, 2023 18:01:59 GMT
Prequel,sequel,expand,strip back and remaster. Present it as the equivalent to a coffee table book and shove in a talking heads doc.
We just knock the pants out of everything. It dilutes and destroys the original. Music,films, everything.
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Post by Sneelock on Oct 4, 2023 18:07:25 GMT
I have zero fucks to give about "Lifehouse". isn't it enough that they whittled it down to what many consider one of the great rock and roll albums? I've had it up to my eyebrows with Lifehouse. it's so weird to see somebody so reliably cashing in on "the one that got away"
I invented the internet! givemeabreak!
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Oct 4, 2023 20:05:27 GMT
It’s a cool title for an album.
It’s easy to laugh but it speaks of a time and ambition that will never return.
Double album! Movie! Soundtrack! Sci-Fi concept! Fucking internet bitches!
Heady days.
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Post by osgood on Oct 4, 2023 20:26:59 GMT
If I had to choose an album to represent my teenage years it'd be Who's Next, even if the only version I could reach for a long time was a censored one without Love Ain't for Keepin' and Won't Get Fooled Again (and a different cover). I still love it. I might play it tomorrow, maybe just the songs that are less ubiquitous.
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Oct 4, 2023 21:33:44 GMT
It’s a cool title for an album. It’s easy to laugh but it speaks of a time and ambition that will never return. Who's Next? It's a boring title. He didn't put much thought into it, did he?
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Post by quaco on Oct 4, 2023 22:02:44 GMT
It doesn't matter how you frame it. They were honestly, pretty limited, good at what they did, agreed. A greatest hits is seriously enough. I wouldn't agree of course, but I am curious what you would include on it?
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Post by Sneelock on Oct 4, 2023 22:53:43 GMT
Boris the Spider!!!!
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Post by Charlie O. on Oct 5, 2023 2:37:27 GMT
By odd coincidence, this clip just popped into my YouTube feed: Mike Vickers (ex-Manfred Mann, and orchestra conductor on The Beatles' "All You Need Is Love") demonstrating the Moog synthesizer. I know Pete didn't use a Moog (or even an ARP) on "Baba O'Riley", but for a few tantalizing seconds that's what it sounds like Mike is about to play here!
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Post by loveless on Oct 5, 2023 11:41:35 GMT
Who's Next. I think Pete's generally still very much plugged into something here. And he's still got Nicky Hopkins!
The New York sessions are horribly lumpy and unfocused for the most part (I like Leslie West just fine, but there's really no room for him in the Who - it's cluttered).
I'm absolutely into the theory of Lifehouse, I admire the ambition, but...if it was gonna happen, it WOULD have happened. Nobody was saying no to Pete in the aftermath of Tommy, and...in the main, barring "Pure and Easy", which 100% belongs on Who's Next, I would argue that Pete and Glyn made the right choices in making "the next great Who album". "My Wife" as stated above provides the PERFECT relief to Pete's bigger statements (see also, "Fiddle About", "Silas Stingy" - I would argue that Quadrophenia suffers for this lack of relief). I could live quite happy without "Love Ain't...' and "Goin' Mobile" (these just seem kind of chintzy..."Love Ain't.." is just too damn blustery). But...I quibble.
"The Song is Over" is Godhead. "Bargain" is a motherfucker (Moonie!). "Behind.." is gorgeous (the backing vocal work is incredibly sweet and tender). And whatever problems anyone might have with "WGFA" (ubiquity is YOUR issue)...well, they sure the fuck aren't issues of merit. I love it to bits. Ditto "Baba" - masterfully arranged (holding out on the guitar as they do).
I've been enjoying the box. Some of the live stuff is transcendent. Pete has his little moments with God onstage a lot during these years, and...the whole band is so in the moment.
I know there's folks who can't abide anything after "Cobwebs and Strange", and...more power to you.
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Post by loveless on Oct 5, 2023 11:53:52 GMT
well, it kicks ass all over "long live rock", I'll give you that. I love 'em both. LLR would have made a far better "between WN and Q single" than some of the one note rejects he tossed out there. To begin an enduring song with the line "I looked under chairs" really takes some doing.
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Post by Sneelock on Oct 5, 2023 15:23:43 GMT
Relay < The Seeker.
Relay > Long Live Rock. I chose this clip over the (pretty good) performance clip mainly because I dig the intro so much. the "Rock is Dead" part of LLR sound more sincere to me than the "long live rock" part. if it's meant to be a "raise your lighter over your head" anthem then back to the drawing board!Hell, I don't know WTF "relay" is about but it choogs along nicely like 'the seeker' does.
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