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[heeman]

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These are the only 2 Black Crow CD's that I have. Can any of you guys recommend any of their others???

 

[Dennie]

Today's work truck music...

Pet Sounds -- CD

The Beach Boys

1966/1990 Capitol Records

Amazon.com essential recording

If you need some pointy-headed pundit to sell you on the merits of Pet Sounds, your money might be better spent on an ear specialist. Brian Wilson's gift to 20th-century music elevated this pop album into a beguiling musical and emotional cogency that still operates outside pop culture's fickle space-time continuum--and limited critical lexicon. There's never been another record to compare (Rubber Soul, its inspiration, is close; Sgt. Pepper's, its response, misses the point), and certainly no album has been as dissected, overanalyzed, and predigested for public consumption. In 1997 Capitol Records devoted an entire four-disc box set, The Pet Sounds Sessions, to its thorough deconstruction. The techno-marvel centerpiece of that project--the album's first true stereo mix, painstakingly conjured out of multitape session sources by producer-engineer Mark Linett (under Wilson's supervision)--was at once heresy and revelation. Now the label has gratifyingly seen fit to offer both mixes on a single disc (along with alternate versions of "Hang On to Your Ego," the original title of "I Know There's An Answer"), an idea that should please the orthodox and heretics alike. And while the album has always clearly been The Brian Wilson Show featuring the Beach Boys, David Leaf's concise new notes attempt to be more inclusive of a wider band perspective. The result (three of the five band members claim credit for the album title) sometimes resembles Rashomon. If Pet Sounds forever crystallized the band's various creative (in)differences, it also became Wilson's grand karmic joke on his band mates; its burgeoning reputation (Mojo magazine's panel of pop experts once elected it greatest album of all time) guaranteed they would sing its songs--and praises--until the end. And if putting two different versions of the same album on one disc seems like overkill, look at the bright side: it's a perfect excuse to listen to the glorious Pet Sounds twice. --Jerry McCulley

Side one
No. Title Writer(s) Lead Vocals Length
1. "Wouldn't It Be Nice" Brian Wilson/Tony Asher/Mike Love Brian Wilson/Mike Love 2:22
2. "You Still Believe in Me" B. Wilson/Asher B. Wilson 2:30
3. "That's Not Me" B. Wilson/Asher Love 2:27
4. "Don't Talk (Put Your Head on My Shoulder)" B. Wilson/Asher B. Wilson 2:51
5. "I'm Waiting for the Day" B. Wilson/Love B. Wilson 3:03
6. "Let's Go Away for Awhile" B. Wilson instrumental 2:18
7. "Sloop John B" trad. arr. B. Wilson B. Wilson/Love 2:56
Side two
No. Title Writer(s) Lead Vocals Length
1. "God Only Knows" B. Wilson/Asher Carl Wilson 2:49
2. "I Know There's an Answer" B. Wilson/Terry Sachen/Love Love/Al Jardine/B. Wilson 3:08
3. "Here Today" B. Wilson/Asher Love 2:52
4. "I Just Wasn't Made for These Times" B. Wilson/Asher B. Wilson 3:11
5. "Pet Sounds" B. Wilson instrumental 2:20
6. "Caroline, No" B. Wilson/Asher B. Wilson 2:52

 

[Rope]

Steve Miller Blues.

Rope

 

[Dennie]

Steve Miller Blues.

Rope

How do you like it Rope?


Dennie

 

[Rope]

I'm not impressed with the first listen of any album, although, there have been exceptions. This album is ok, but again, that's a first listen. It may "grow" on me and become one of those "can't get enough" albums.

I think you'd have to be a Steve Miller Band fan to appreciate this recording

Rope

 

[Dennie]

I know what you mean about "First Listens". It can be tough to judge an album after the first couple of listens. There are plenty of albums that I didn't like the first couple of times, but when I got it...I got it.

Thanks! I've been "eyeing" that album. Pretty cool cover!


Dennie

 

[Rope]

I know what you mean about "First Listens". It can be tough to judge an album after the first couple of listens. There are plenty of albums that I didn't like the first couple of times, but when I got it...I got it.

Thanks! I've been "eyeing" that album. Pretty cool cover!


Dennie

I hope the Hare gets down safely. :happy-smileygiantred:

Rope

 

[Botch]

I know what you mean about "First Listens". It can be tough to judge an album after the first couple of listens. There are plenty of albums that I didn't like the first couple of times, but when I got it...I got it.

Thanks! I've been "eyeing" that album. Pretty cool cover!


Dennie

I hope the Hare gets down safely. :happy-smileygiantred:

Rope

'specially since that guy doesn't have a hare on his head...

 

[Rope]

Plus, the ladder has no hand-rail. OSHA's gonna get involved if the hare is injured.

Rope

 

[Yesfan70]

I'll have to give that album a listen. I love Miller's stuff.



I know what you all mean about first listens. The new Radiohead is a very hard album for me to get into. I like it much better now than the first time I heard it, but not as well as In Rainbows (album before). That album hooked me on first listen.

 

[Yesfan70]

I just bought Van Halen's first 6 CDs on ebay. $44 for 6 brand new CDs was a deal I couldn't pass up.
It will be a Van Halen week next week :music-rockout:

Remastered? Great deal if they are. I have the VH1, VH2, and 1984 remastered. Still need to get the rest of the 6.

 

[Yesfan70]

I'm not impressed with the first listen of any album, although, there have been exceptions. This album is ok, but again, that's a first listen. It may "grow" on me and become one of those "can't get enough" albums.

I think you'd have to be a Steve Miller Band fan to appreciate this recording

Rope

Well, I just sampled that album on Amazon. Pretty boring on first listen. It's not worth $15 and I bet it's one of those albums you'll get for a $1 in about 4 months.

 

[Dennie]

Elements - The Best of Mike Oldfield -- CD

Mike Oldfield

1993 Virgin US Records

Elements, February 13, 2011
By Spider Monkey (UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Best of Elements (Audio CD)

Elements is probably one of the best places (along with Tubular Bells, of course) to start with Mike Oldfield. This has a great selection of his music over the years up to his Tubular Bells 2 album. You get a fair range of his instrumental stuff, as well as his other songs such as the excellent 'Family Man' which has one of the best Oldfield solos ever, in my opinion. He has always been an original, enigmatic character and this collection goes some way to introducing you to the music of this unique songwriter and musician. Well worth a try.

"Tubular Bells (Opening theme)" – 4:19
"Family Man" (feat. Maggie Reilly) (Tim Cross, Rick Fenn, Mike Frye, Mike Oldfield, Morris Pert, Maggie Reilly) – 3:45
"Moonlight Shadow" (feat. Maggie Reilly) – 3:36
"Heaven's Open" – 4:27
"Five Miles Out" (feat. Maggie Reilly) – 4:15
"To France" (feat. Maggie Reilly) – 4:43
"Foreign Affair" (feat. Maggie Reilly) (Oldfield, Reilly) – 3:54
"In Dulci Jubilo" (Pearsall) – 2:50
"Shadow on the Wall" (feat. Roger Chapman) – 5:07 (12" version)
"Islands" (feat. Bonnie Tyler) – 4:17
"Etude" (Francisco Tárrega) – 3:07
"Sentinel" – 3:56 (Single version)
"Ommadawn (Excerpt)" – 3:38
"Incantations part four (Excerpt)" – 4:39
"Amarok (Excerpt)" – 4:43
"Portsmouth" – 2:00

 

[Dennie]

Are you a Dapper Dan Man?

O Brother, Where Art Thou - Soundtrack -- CD

Various Great Artists

2000 Lost Highway Records

Amazon.com's Best of 2001

The best soundtracks are like movies for the ears, and O Brother, Where Art Thou? joins the likes of Saturday Night Fever and The Harder They Come as cinematic pinnacles of song. The music from the Coen brothers' Depression-era film taps into the source from which the purest strains of country, blues, bluegrass, folk, and gospel music flow. Producer T Bone Burnett enlists the voices of Alison Krauss, Gillian Welch, Emmylou Harris, Ralph Stanley, and kindred spirits for performances of traditional material, in arrangements that are either a cappella or feature bare-bones accompaniment. Highlights range from the aching purity of Krauss's "Down to the River to Pray" to the plainspoken faith of the Whites' "Keep on the Sunny Side" to Stanley's chillingly plaintive "O Death." The album's spiritual centerpiece finds Krauss, Welch, and Harris harmonizing on "Didn't Leave Nobody but the Baby," a gospel lullaby that sounds like a chorus of Appalachian angels. --Don McLeese

1. "Po' Lazarus" traditional James Carter and the Prisoners 4:31
2. "Big Rock Candy Mountain" McClintock Harry McClintock 2:16
3. "You Are My Sunshine" Davis, Mitchell Norman Blake 4:26
4. "Down to the River to Pray" traditional Alison Krauss 2:55
5. "I am a Man of Constant Sorrow" (radio station version) Burnett Soggy Bottom Boys & Dan Tyminski 3:10
6. "Hard Time Killing Floor Blues" James Chris Thomas King 2:42
7. "I am a Man of Constant Sorrow" (instrumental) Burnett Norman Blake 4:28
8. "Keep On the Sunny Side" Blenkhorn, Entwisle The Whites 3:33
9. "I'll Fly Away" Brumley Alison Krauss & Gillian Welch 3:57
10. "Didn't Leave Nobody but the Baby" traditional Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss, Gillian Welch 1:57
11. "In the Highways" Carter Leah, Sarah, and Hannah Peasall 1:35
12. "I Am Weary, Let Me Rest" Roberts The Cox Family 3:13
13. "I am a Man of Constant Sorrow" (instrumental) Burnett John Hartford 2:34
14. "O Death" traditional Ralph Stanley 3:19
15. "In the Jailhouse Now" Blind Blake, Rodgers Soggy Bottom Boys & Tim Blake Nelson 3:34
16. "I am a Man of Constant Sorrow" (with band) Burnett Soggy Bottom Boys & Dan Tyminski 4:16
17. "Indian War Whoop" (instrumental) Hoyt Ming John Hartford 1:30
18. "Lonesome Valley" traditional The Fairfield Four 4:07
19. "Angel Band" traditional The Stanley Brothers 2:15

 

[Dennie]

Country's Leading Ladies -- CD

Various Artists

1993 Warner Special Products

Country's Leading Ladies features ten tracks from several female artists who topped the contemporary country charts in the '90s. Highlights include the original hit versions of Pam Tillis' "Shake the Sugar Tree," Carlene Carter's "I Fell in Love," Holly Dunn's "Golden Years," Suzy Bogguss' "Letting Go," and Tanya Tucker's "Two Sparrows in a Hurricane." This budget-priced disc will appeal to any fan of country-pop. ~ Al Campbell

1. Except for Monday - Lorrie Morgan
2. Shake the Sugar Tree - Pam Tillis
3. Two Sparrows in a Hurricane - Tanya Tucker
4. Born to Run - Emmylou Harris
5. Letting Go - Suzy Bogguss
6. I Fell in Love - Carlene Carter
7. Take It Like a Man - Michelle Wright
8. Lonesome Standard Time - Kathy Mattea
9. Rock Me (In the Cradle of Love) - Deborah Allen
10. Golden Years - Holly Dunn

 

[Dennie]

Today's work truck music....

After The Gold Rush -- CD

Neil Young

1970/1990 Reprise Records

Product Description

Neil Young's third solo album followed his Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young masterpiece Déjà Vu. Top 10 and double platinum, with the Top 40 'Only Love Can Break Your Heart' and his condemnation of racism in 'Southern Man,' 1970's After The Gold Rush has been ranked among the '100 Greatest Albums Of All Time' by both Rolling Stone and Time magazine.

All songs written by Neil Young except as indicated.

"Tell Me Why" – 2:54
"After the Gold Rush" – 3:45
"Only Love Can Break Your Heart" – 3:05
"Southern Man" – 5:31
"Till the Morning Comes" – 1:17
"Oh Lonesome Me" (Don Gibson) – 3:47
"Don't Let It Bring You Down" – 2:56
"Birds" – 2:34
"When You Dance I Can Really Love" – 4:05
"I Believe in You" – 3:24
"Cripple Creek Ferry" – 1:34

 

[Dennie]

Orange Crate Art -- CD

Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks

1995 Warner Bros. Records

Amazon.com

Here is a view of the Golden State through rose-colored glasses that's as effervescent and intoxicating as pink champagne. Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks trade the roles they occupied nearly three decades ago when they collaborated on songs for the Beach Boys' great lost album, Smile. Orange Crate Art was conceived and overseen by Parks, who brought his old boss Wilson aboard chiefly to give voice to Parks's wistful song cycle. Given that much of the album is set in California, who better than favorite son Wilson to sing these songs? But while Wilson's voice initially evokes images of hot rods and surfboards, here he sings of locomotives and steamboats. Parks's California is a state of mind where time is ephemeral. We're brought to a bucolic yesteryear unmarred by violence and poverty. Orange Crate Art is set in "a world apart." A "hobo heart" is carefree rather than desperate. Time is something to be held back. "Everybody must come home" to a town that shuts down by 8 in the evening because "everybody's got things to do." When all is said and done, there's nothing left but doze off to Parks's pop symphonic arrangement of George Gershwin's "Lullaby." --Steven Stolder

All songs by Van Dyke Parks, except where noted.

"Orange Crate Art" – 3:00
"Sail Away" – 5:15
"My Hobo Heart" (Van Dyke Parks, Michael Hazelwood) – 3:16
"Wings Of A Dove" – 3:07
"Palm Tree And Moon" – 4:07
"Summer In Monterey" (Van Dyke Parks, Michael Hazelwood) – 4:14
"San Francisco" – 4:28
"Hold Back Time" – 3:39
"My Jeanine" – 3:13
"Movies Is Magic" – 3:54
"This Town Goes Down At Sunset" (Michael Hazelwood) – 3:21
"Lullaby" (George Gershwin) – 6:06

Orange Crate Art (Warner Bros. 45427) never charted in the US or the UK.

 

[PaulyT]

Huh... I've listened to some John Mayer but just haven't been all that impressed so far. But this one's worth a rental, at least - on my queue.

Pauly - This concert has 3 parts. John first comes out solo. Is then joined by 2 to make up the John Mayer Trio. Then his band comes out to play his most popular stuff. You probably will enjoy it!

Ok finally getting around to watching this (Where The Light Is: John Mayer Live In Los Angeles). Or at least some of it... The first solo acoustic set was ok, though I thought the second guy who came out with the steel guitar was more interesting than John even in the first few notes he played. And WTF is up with the tele-prompter? John can't remember the fuckin' words to his own fuckin' songs?!?!?

Then comes clips of John driving around in his ultra-fancy Mercedes, saying "I like it when fans don't 'get' all of me." Oh boy. <huge roll-eyes smiley here>

Then comes the trio. Not bad. I like the bassist. Drummer is good, though doesn't blow me away.

But damn, John tries SO HARD to sound exactly like SRV, that it just pisses me off! I can't stand it. I'm sorry, his (John's) guitar playing is NOT that interesting. I don't know if he's intentionally doing the SRV thing, but I think he must be - right down to the no-doubt expensive new Strat that like fancy modern jeans has been "distressed" to look old. I had to turn it off, it just made me so mad.

Apologies, if there J.M. fans here. But this really, REALLY rubbed me the wrong way. I'll try to finish the video some other day, to watch the later part with his larger band that heeman mentions. I like John better when he does the "pop" stuff which seems to me to be more honestly in his own voice. But for now I'm going to go read a book!

Ugh.

:eusa-whistle:

 

[Botch]

Paul, I'm not that familiar with SRV, but that's the first time I've heard that comparison. Hmmm...

 

[Rope]

Paul, I'm not that familiar with SRV, but that's the first time I've heard that comparison. Hmmm...

Rope