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*** 1970's Album Draft - Commentary Thread ***
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Originally posted by senorsheep View PostHe's a weird dude. He's a top notch pop songwriter, but it obviously kills him to be perceived only as a top notch pop songwriter. He desperately wants to be in the Springsteen/ Dylan/ Simon club, but the harder he tries to show he belongs there, the more his talent is exposed. That's just not his wheelhouse - it's too bad he can't be content to be in the Neil Diamond club.
His sensibility was more Tin Pan Alley than Dust Bowl, but he was never content with that for whatever reason. Though the tours with Elton John suggest he got over it at least somewhat.Originally posted by Kevin SeitzerWe pinch ran for Altuve specifically to screw over Mith's fantasy team.
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I think there are parallels in Joel wanting to be Bob Dylan and Kurt Cobain wanting to be Thurston Moore or Black Francis. Both of them paid way, way too much attention to their critics and the hipsters of their day.Originally posted by Kevin SeitzerWe pinch ran for Altuve specifically to screw over Mith's fantasy team.
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"Lowdown" wasn't supposed to be a hit single. It was a B-Side that caught on when a DJ in LA flipped the record over and started playing it. Great accident of history. I LOVE that bass line.
I recently had a dream that "Lowdown" began life as an outtake-worthy blues rocker before being transformed into the slick '70s-ness that it was. I have no idea if it's true, but it would make sense given Scaggs' blues roots. Why I dreamed about that of all things, I have absolutely no idea.
I only know the singles from Silk Degrees so I didn't have the album on my list.Originally posted by Kevin SeitzerWe pinch ran for Altuve specifically to screw over Mith's fantasy team.
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In 2040 or so, do you think our kids will be having drafts of albums from the '10s, '20s, etc.?* Probably not, because that generation doesn't really seem to care about the album as a form of art.
* -- Leave aside the question of whether our kids would be nerdy enough to actually do it.Originally posted by Kevin SeitzerWe pinch ran for Altuve specifically to screw over Mith's fantasy team.
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Originally posted by Friarfan View PostI like Billy Joel.
There, I said it
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Originally posted by Friarfan View PostThere's some fluff on here (Hole in my Life, Born in the 50's, Be My Girl) but the first three songs are classics and it's an overall great record. Surprised it lasted this long...
11.08 Outlandos d'Amor - The Police (1978)"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less."
"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."
"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master - that's all."
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Originally posted by senorsheep View PostHe's a weird dude. He's a top notch pop songwriter, but it obviously kills him to be perceived only as a top notch pop songwriter. He desperately wants to be in the Springsteen/ Dylan/ Simon club, but the harder he tries to show he belongs there, the more his talent is exposed. That's just not his wheelhouse - it's too bad he can't be content to be in the Neil Diamond club.
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Originally posted by senorsheep View PostThe Police have the Rod Stewart problem - Sting's avalanche of future douche-iness buries the great early stuff. Outlandos is my favorite Police record - I was gonna take it this round.
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Great choices in "Silk Degrees" and "Outlandos d'Amour" (yet another punk LP denied me).
I forgot all about Boz in this draft. He's pretty underrated... every time I hear something from one of his lesser-known records, it's always better than what I expected, even the ones after "Silk Degrees".One martini, two martini, three martini, floor.
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Originally posted by senorsheep View PostHe's a weird dude. He's a top notch pop songwriter, but it obviously kills him to be perceived only as a top notch pop songwriter. He desperately wants to be in the Springsteen/ Dylan/ Simon club, but the harder he tries to show he belongs there, the more his talent is exposed. That's just not his wheelhouse - it's too bad he can't be content to be in the Neil Diamond club."You know what's wrong with America? If I lovingly tongue a woman's nipple in a movie, it gets an "NC-17" rating, if I chop it off with a machete, it's an "R". That's what's wrong with America, man...."--Dennis Hopper
"One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real." -- Klaus Kinski
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