For those who are funky and love Motown, Philly, Stax, and jazz funk then John Osbourne on Jazz FM on a Saturday evening is an absolute must. For anyone who hasn't heard this one, it has the capacity to blow away the mind. Love the woodwind instruments on this one.
Better than the original imho, Walk off the Earth are a quirky band who've done all sorts of interesting covers
Talking of covers, I really like this pair of nutjob cellists absolutely ripping it up with their version of AC/DC's Thunderstruck
John Entwistle,the greatest bass guitarist ever IMHO, passed away on this day 15 years ago..He could really make the bass sing, here he is in action...
Music thread. For me, the only Quadraphenia is the original album: Here's the same track. Listen to the music.
In my opinion, Quadraphenia is easily the best thing The Who ever did. Knocks Tommy into a cocked hat. And it's a million miles away from Happy Jack. Whilst the whole album is a gem, Cut My Hair is my favourite track because it ticks a few personal boxes and, for me it shows Townsend at his most song writing complete. And this is so evocative of the time. The Radio 4 news excerpt ending is simply brilliant. It was a complete fiction yet it seems totally authentic:
It's my thread and i'll post what I flippin' well like... Seriously though, like you say it's the same recording, it just happened to be the first one I found. I love the album and I love the film equally, both were a massive part of my late teens..(I became a Mod after watching the film!. happy days..)
Of course you can. It's just you picked a lousy recording.! And the Youtube video/audio of the album is not bad at all [even if it still isn't as good as the original vinyl, which I'm looking at right now] BTW, here's another Cut My Hair. Well Almost, anyway. This is the classic from CSN&Y, from the album Déjà Vu [They will now proceed to entangle the entire area]: Of course, cutting ones hair is a metaphor for conforming.
Kent State University gets mentioned in the worst song [in my opinion] on the classic Beach Boys album Surf's Up. I only add this because most people think TBBs were a surfing group, when really, aside from the The Beatles, there was nobody else doing such advanced stuff. And our Fab Four had gone their separate ways a couple of years earlier. The next post I'll put up the very next track of a ground breaking album. But until then here is Student Demonstration Time:
Student Demonstration Time ended side one of Surf's Up. Then side two began with the most ambitious bit of recording anyone had done up until then, with Feels Flows. The whole of side two is lush and multi layered, as is much of side one. Brian Wilson was using 16 track recording equipment to its limit when other bands where still using 4 track recording. There is tape hiss all over this because 16 tracks results in quite a thin single track. The result is that you end up pushing the emulsion on the tape into tape hiss when things go quiet. But it was worth it. Nowadays it is dead easy with digital, but back in 1971 this was cutting edge. And no trace of a surf board. Just sublime smooth stuff: BTW, this Youtube digital is way worse than the original vinyl. Incidentally, the cover painting is of a famous American sculpture called The End of the Trail.
Talking of protest songs, I came across this recently, it is about the poll tax riots and is a general indictment of Thatcherism in general. The lyrics are just as pertinent today....
Been reading through Rolling Stone Magazine's 100 Greatest Artists list. As you might expect , it is heavily biased towards American artists, but some of the write ups (by other artists) are interesting... http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-artists-of-all-time-19691231
