Everyone, of course, has heard Time Out, one of the most famous and popular albums ever. They recently turned up additional tapes from those sessions, and here they are...and it's great to hear quite different (and equally great) versions of these classic tunes, plus a few extras.
Well worth your time. And money. Don't forget money.
As you may recall, Rockpile put out a bunch of records during their brief lifespan mostly not under the Rockpile name. Here's one of Edmunds' two.
This starts out with the one-two punch of Girls Talk (Elvis Costello) and Crawling from the Wreckage (Graham Parker) - Edmunds wasn't much of a songwriter, but he was an great interpreter & player.
Lot of those 16mm Brit Vids got drowned out pretty soon by the Major labels realizing MTV was a thing, and starting to give big bucks to Michael Jackson.
I was a PA on a Video for some local jazz/session player/zappa geeks thinking content hungry MTV would lap their video up when the majors announced their big plans in Billboard, which I relayed in a meeting, maybe you ought to enter it in the MTV Video contest instead. They did. They won.
I was going to say that this is awfully close to post-bop for 1970, but then I read that it was recorded in 1967...so maybe not so unusual.
A very good session from McLean, Woody Shaw (trumpet), Jack DeJohnette (drums), Lamont Johnson (piano) and Scott Holt (bass). It's always fun to listen to DeJohnette, especially, go all out swinging (title track) and then pull way back on the next. He knows what to do...
One of the three a-bit-pompous-good mid-period Pink Floyd albums (Dark Side, Wish You Were Here, and this) that are, I think, their creative peak (with WYWH being the best).
Still has Waters' self-pitying, high-school senior concepts, but they hadn't yet gotten ridiculous (hi, the Wall)…and the band is playing great, and collaboratively.
Has some of Gilmour's best work, too…
(My original copy from long, long ago, still perfect.)
There's not much to say about the best concert movie ever made. That's inarguable. (Shut up Last Waltz people; quiet down Gimme Shelter fans.)
The soundtrack (which is, of course, great) was remixed a while ago, and the missing tracks (Cities/I Zimbra) were added back...and now it's been given a deluxe, vinyl-only release.
Look, it's great...even if it should be a gatefold. Get it while you can - it's limited.
Ambition can consume a band, and this sprawling, beautiful pop masterpiece ate Tears for Fears (along with four years, four producers, numerous sidemen [including Phil Collins and Pino Palladino] and a lot of money).
It’d be 15 years before Orzabal and Smith would work together again (on the great Everybody Loves a Happy Ending), so no doubt the process was painful.
Solidly in the power-pop with grungy guitars zone.
Lead singer Eva Hendricks has a very distinctive, did-I-accidentally-play-this-at-45RPM voice that suits the songs, but can take a bit of getting used to.