What vinyl are you listening to?

[Freddy58]

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I have heard it, but it was so long ago. I'll have to catch up with this one, cos I DO like Camel

It's OK Freddy, but not their best IMO..

I guess so, otherwise it would have made more of an impression on me. My favs are 'Snowgoose' and 'Breathless'. Lately though I'm really liking 'A Nod And A Wink', especially the tracks 'It's A Boys Life' and 'For Today'.

 

[mikeparker59]

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I have heard it, but it was so long ago. I'll have to catch up with this one, cos I DO like Camel

It's OK Freddy, but not their best IMO..

I guess so, otherwise it would have made more of an impression on me. My favs are 'Snowgoose' and 'Breathless'. Lately though I'm really liking 'A Nod And A Wink', especially the tracks 'It's A Boys Life' and 'For Today'.

Saw them live in the Colston Hall in Bristol when this album came out. I was up in the gods and absolutely hate heights! I was a student at the time in Bath and had to give up food for a week to pay for getting there and the ticket!!

All seems such a long time ago now .... well it was !!!

 

[mikeparker59]

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Anyone else feel his best work came after leaving Genesis? Best are the first 4 self titled albums IMHO. He played Bath Uni when I was there but couldn't get a ticket. I've never been the same since :wall:

 

[Freddy58]

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Anyone else feel his best work came after leaving Genesis? Best are the first 4 self titled albums IMHO

Not sure about that. I do like his solo work, especially the first one, but Gabriel era Genesis takes some beating, imo. Mind you, the two are worlds apart musically, so not easy to compare.

 

[Freddy58]

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I have heard it, but it was so long ago. I'll have to catch up with this one, cos I DO like Camel

It's OK Freddy, but not their best IMO..

I guess so, otherwise it would have made more of an impression on me. My favs are 'Snowgoose' and 'Breathless'. Lately though I'm really liking 'A Nod And A Wink', especially the tracks 'It's A Boys Life' and 'For Today'.

Saw them live in the Colston Hall in Bristol when this album came out. I was up in the gods and absolutely hate heights! I was a student at the time in Bath and had to give up food for a week to pay for getting there and the ticket!!

All seems such a long time ago now .... well it was !!!

There's a 'gods' in the Colston Hall? I've only ever noticed the upper level, not very high

 

[mikeparker59]

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I have heard it, but it was so long ago. I'll have to catch up with this one, cos I DO like Camel

It's OK Freddy, but not their best IMO..

I guess so, otherwise it would have made more of an impression on me. My favs are 'Snowgoose' and 'Breathless'. Lately though I'm really liking 'A Nod And A Wink', especially the tracks 'It's A Boys Life' and 'For Today'.

Saw them live in the Colston Hall in Bristol when this album came out. I was up in the gods and absolutely hate heights! I was a student at the time in Bath and had to give up food for a week to pay for getting there and the ticket!!

All seems such a long time ago now .... well it was !!!

There's a 'gods' in the Colston Hall? I've only ever noticed the upper level, not very high

If I go 2 steps up a ladder I start to feel nauseous, I can't go in the top level of St David's in Cardiff!!!

 

[Charlie Jefferson]

Finished work at midday today, so I took advantage of an empty house and blasted out tracks from the following:

Bend Sinister - The Fall

We Get Requests - Oscar Peterson Trio

The Fat Of The Land - Prodigy

Work And Non-Work - Broadcast

Pale Green Ghosts - John Grant

Ticket To Ride - Carpenters

Guitar & Other Machines - Durutti Column

Flemish Altruism - A Minor Forest

Metal Box - PIL

 

[jamesrfisher]

Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots

 

[Freddy58]

Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots

His new one I believe? How is it?

 

[BIGBERNARDBRESSLAW]

Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots

I don't own many Albarn related records, just a couple of Blur albums, but in my opinion, and it is just my opinion, he is as close to a genius as we have in this country. The quantity, quality, and variety of music that he produces really amazes me, and I'm annoyed at myself for not realising it years ago.

 

[Freddy58]

I don't own many Albarn related records, just a couple of Blur albums, but in my opinion, and it is just my opinion, he is as close to a genius as we have in this country. The quantity, quality, and variety of music that he produces really amazes me, and I'm annoyed at myself for not realising it years ago.

I dunno about genius, but I've recently come to realise that there's something 'going on'

 

[jamesrfisher]

Really enjoying it, different again from him. It's one of the great things about him, as BBB says close to a genius, he doesn't stand still. Thoroughly recommend it, it is not Blur nor Gorillaz. Have all his stuff. My only trouble is will be seeing him headline at Latitude and it's not really a festival headline album, will be interesting what he does, myself and my wife will enjoy it but can see people leaving it after a few songs as they did the Gorillaz set at Glastonbury in 2010 the philistines!

Gorillaz - Plastic Beach

 

[Ravey Gravey Davy]

Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots

I don't own many Albarn related records, just a couple of Blur albums, but in my opinion, and it is just my opinion, he is as close to a genius as we have in this country. The quantity, quality, and variety of music that he produces really amazes me, and I'm annoyed at myself for not realising it years ago.

Amazing how a couple of days reflection can blur your perspective.

 

[Charlie Jefferson]

Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots

I don't own many Albarn related records, just a couple of Blur albums, but in my opinion, and it is just my opinion, he is as close to a genius as we have in this country. The quantity, quality, and variety of music that he produces really amazes me, and I'm annoyed at myself for not realising it years ago.

Mmm, I too own most Blur albums and a few of his post-Blur things, and whilst I admire his reluctance to simply repeat a winning formula, I often find myself uncaptivated by the actual music. The John Dee project, the Monkey Opera thing, the Mali music, the one with Tony Allen on drums and now Everyday Robots - they're all interesting ideas, but his voice and the tunes are all so often so dreary. His performance on Jools Holland this week summed it up for me: worthy but weak. And I usually lean towards dreary and or worthy.

Just my take on things, of course . . .

 

[BIGBERNARDBRESSLAW]

Hey, it's just my opinion.

Name me another British, even world musician and songwriter whose musical output is so varied?

Of course, the consistency isn't always there, but if you put an album together of all the best moments from all of the projects, it would be a long, and wonderful album.

Shall I dare compare him with The Beatles? Why not? The Beatles (for all their classic tunes) churned out so much absolute nonsense, comedy songs, but not only comedy songs, awful comedy songs. Half of the White Album is unlistenable, it's appaling, and to me, unlistenable.

I await the heated responses.

 

[Freddy58]

Hey, it's just my opinion.

Name me another British, even world musician and songwriter whose musical output is so varied?

Of course, the consistency isn't always there, but if you put an album together of all the best moments from all of the projects, it would be a long, and wonderful album.

Shall I dare compare him with The Beatles? Why not? The Beatles (for all their classic tunes) churned out so much absolute nonsense, comedy songs, but not only comedy songs, awful comedy songs. Half of the White Album is unlistenable, it's appaling, and to me, unlistenable.

I await the heated responses.

I don't see the problem. Was anyone criticising your opinion?

 

[BIGBERNARDBRESSLAW]

Hey, it's just my opinion.

Name me another British, even world musician and songwriter whose musical output is so varied?

Of course, the consistency isn't always there, but if you put an album together of all the best moments from all of the projects, it would be a long, and wonderful album.

Shall I dare compare him with The Beatles? Why not? The Beatles (for all their classic tunes) churned out so much absolute nonsense, comedy songs, but not only comedy songs, awful comedy songs. Half of the White Album is unlistenable, it's appaling, and to me, unlistenable.

I await the heated responses.

I don't see the problem. Was anyone criticising your opinion?

I don't think so, and if they were, they're perfectly entitled to their opinion. I'm not a massive fan, honestly, I'm not, but I play guitar, and I used to be in bands and write songs, and I know how difficult it is not to keep repeating yourself, and he doesn't, yet he's so prolific.

I admire him greatly as a fellow musician, and I know the difference between what he is capable of, and what someone like Noel Gallagher is capable of, and they're poles apart.

 

[Freddy58]

I don't think so, and if they were, they're perfectly entitled to their opinion. I'm not a massive fan, honestly, I'm not, but I play guitar, and I used to be in bands and write songs, and I know how difficult it is not to keep repeating yourself, and he doesn't, yet he's so prolific.

I admire him greatly as a fellow musician, and I know the difference between what he is capable of, and what someone like Noel Gallagher is capable of, and they're poles apart.

I can't say I've heard much from Mr Albarn, apart from the Blur hits. TBH, at the time, I didn't like Blur, but somehow they're now growing on me, and I'm discovering that he has at least, some class

 

[Charlie Jefferson]

Hi BBB,

I'll get back to you on other artists as varied as Albarn. If I can think of any that is but for starters, Elvis Costello springs to mind. But yes I completely agree with your central point that Damon Albarn is making, for some,interesting and varied music. On a name-dropping tip, I met him once. Backstage at a 1990s V Festival when I was working on a now defunct and terrible TV show. It was summer of Blur v Oasis or maybe the year after but he was extremely pleasant and erudite.

As for your reference to Noel Gallagher. Yep spot on.

Currently listening to:

Space Age Bachelor Pad Music - Stereolab

 

[BIGBERNARDBRESSLAW]

Check out the guitar player in Blur too, that Graham Coxon is a mean guitarist. Really original.

 

[BIGBERNARDBRESSLAW]

Hi BBB,

I'll get back to you on other artists as varied as Albarn. If I can think of any that is but for starters, Elvis Costello springs to mind.

I know what you're saying with the Costello nomination, but I haven't heard enough of him to either agree or disagree, but my gut tells me that his output is neither as varied, or tuneful.

 

[BIGBERNARDBRESSLAW]

Space Age Bachelor Pad Music - Stereolab

I need more Stereolab,

 

[Charlie Jefferson]

Hi BBB,

I'll get back to you on other artists as varied as Albarn. If I can think of any that is but for starters, Elvis Costello springs to mind.

I know what you're saying with the Costello nomination, but I haven't heard enough of him to either agree or disagree, but my gut tells me that his output is neither as varied, or tuneful.

I'll leave "tuneful" to one side for now. As for varied, I'll throw the following into the ring:

The original run of four new-wave albums, the Beatles-y concept album (Imperial Bedroom), the one with Presley's session band (King Of America), the string quartet album (The Juliette Letters), an opera, a swing jazz LP, an album with Alain Toussiant, the recent one with The Roots, a torch song LP on Deutsche Gramaphon and above all the demented beast that is Blood & Chocolate. Maybe it's simply that I'm more of a Costello fan.

This thread will become something of a deleted scene/paragraph from High Fidelity. Long live music. And debate. And ranting.

 

[Charlie Jefferson]

Space Age Bachelor Pad Music - Stereolab

I need more Stereolab,

They are truly great. When they lock into a groove and or a tune there's nothing quite like it, is there.

 

[BIGBERNARDBRESSLAW]

Hi BBB,

I'll get back to you on other artists as varied as Albarn. If I can think of any that is but for starters, Elvis Costello springs to mind.

I know what you're saying with the Costello nomination, but I haven't heard enough of him to either agree or disagree, but my gut tells me that his output is neither as varied, or tuneful.

I'll leave "tuneful" to one side for now. As for varied, I'll throw the following into the ring:

The original run of four new-wave albums, the Beatles-y concept album (Imperial Bedroom), the one with Presley's session band (King Of America), the string quartet album (The Juliette Letters), an opera, a swing jazz LP, an album with Alain Toussiant, the recent one with The Roots, a torch song LP on Deutsche Gramaphon and above all the demented beast that is Blood & Chocolate. Maybe it's simply that I'm more of a Costello fan.

This thread will become something of a deleted scene/paragraph from High Fidelity. Long live music. And debate. And ranting.

I'm definitely not going to argue with you Charlie, your musical knowledge is much respected in the Bresslaw household, and I can certainly see your point with Mr MacManus (a fellow LFC supporter too).

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