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[Exe Gesis]

First post-Danzig Misfits album. American Pyscho 1997

I was/am an avid Danzig fan, and only really owned the Misfits albums that he wrote. But sheesh, this one is great. Lot of good to great songs, really not a weak track on there. In fact, the song Hate The Living, Love The Dead is arguably the best song ever, by anyone. Has to be right up there at least.

 

[CliffMcTainshaw]

Rickie Lee Jones with her very first album. Amazingly good.
She was a really wild girl early on and and was in a relationship with Tom Waits for 3 years. Even Waits said he was a bit intimidated by her.
She is a wonderful songwriter and has a way with words. She and Waits both have the ability to convey emotional pictures with their songs.
If you get a chance have a listen to this, her very first, self titled album. Every song on there is a cracker. It is one of the great albums. Jazzy and boppy, every song tells a story that is from her own life and is startlingly good for her very first album. If you listen to this make sure you listen to the lyrics of "Last Chance Texaco". Brilliant lyrics. You think you are listening to a story about a road trip only to realise the song is about something completely different. All metaphors!

 

[Vdubs]

It may have been released in 1972, but is an absolute classic that hasn't aged - Seventh Sojourn by the Moody Blues. Sublime vocals, and exquisite guitar work. If only they made music like this still!



"Despite the presence of a pair of ballads -- one of them ("New Horizons") by Justin Hayward the latter's most romantic number since "Nights in White Satin" -- Seventh Sojourn was notable at the time of its release for showing the hardest-rocking sound this band had ever produced on record. It's all relative, of course, compared to their prior work, but the music is comparatively stripped down here, and on a lot of it Graeme Edge's drumming and John Lodge's bass work comprise a more forceful and assertive rhythm section than they had on earlier records, on numbers such as "Lost in a Lost World," "You and Me," and "I'm Just a Singer (In a Rock & Roll Band)." The latter, authored by Lodge, was -- along with Lodge's "Isn't Life Strange" -- one of two AM radio hits that helped drive the sales of this album, issued in early November of 1972, past all previous levels. Indeed, it was with the release of this album that the Moodies achieved their great commercial success in America and around the world, with a "Grand Tour" that kept them on the road for much of the year that followed. The irony was that it was all about to end for them, for years to come, and the signs of it were all over this record -- Seventh Sojourn took a long time to record, and a lot of the early work on it had to be junked ("Isn't Life Strange" was one of the few early songs to get completed); it was clear to all concerned except the fans that, after six years of hard work in their present configuration, they all needed to stop working with each other for a time, and this was clear in the songs -- many have a downbeat, pensive edge to them, and if they reflected a questioning attitude that had come out on recent albums, the tone of the questioning on songs like "Lost in a Lost World," "You and Me," and "When You're a Free Man" had a darker, more desperate tone. Perhaps the group's mostly youthful, collegiate audience didn't notice at the time because it fit the mood of the times -- the album hit the stores in America the day before Richard Nixon's landslide presidential re-election victory (the culmination of events behind the scenes that would subsequently drive him from office). But the members were not working well together, and this would be the last wholly successful record -- difficult as it was to deliver -- that this lineup of the band would record, as well as the last new work by the group for over five years. And oddly enough, even amid the difficulties in getting it finished, Seventh Sojourn would offer something new in the way of sounds from the group -- Michael Pinder, in particular, introduced a successor to the Mellotron, with which he'd been amazing audiences for six years, in the form of the Chamberlin, which is all over this album."

One of my favourite of all time albums, and I actually have 2 vinyl copies of this for some reason. Great minds think alike?

 

[Vdubs]

Must have heard this song a thousand times and it was on in the record shop the day I bought this album. I had gone in to buy something else, but the quality of this album and song totally distracted and sold me

 

[Vdubs]

Jethro Tull
WARCHILD
This song is a pearler, but I love the whole album.
Still play it now nearly 50 years later

 

[Vdubs]

Two Shoes - Wikipedia

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Brilliant album, combined songwriting talents of Felix Riebl and Harry Angus.
My then 15 yo daughter introduced me to it, and I reluctantly listened to it while driving her to a holiday destination- never gave it back!!
Classics like
Two Shoes



In My Pocket


Miserere


Underrated Aussie band for sure

 

[No eye deer]

Rickie Lee Jones with her very first album. Amazingly good.
She was a really wild girl early on and and was in a relationship with Tom Waits for 3 years. Even Waits said he was a bit intimidated by her.
She is a wonderful songwriter and has a way with words. She and Waits both have the ability to convey emotional pictures with their songs.
If you get a chance have a listen to this, her very first, self titled album. Every song on there is a cracker. It is one of the great albums. Jazzy and boppy, every song tells a story that is from her own life and is startlingly good for her very first album. If you listen to this make sure you listen to the lyrics of "Last Chance Texaco". Brilliant lyrics. You think you are listening to a story about a road trip only to realise the song is about something completely different. All metaphors!

Love this album!
Easy Money is like a dirty sleazy New York Noir movie in a song.

 

[Vdubs]

 

[rank and file]

Two Shoes - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Brilliant album, combined songwriting talents of Felix Riebl and Harry Angus.
My then 15 yo daughter introduced me to it, and I reluctantly listened to it while driving her to a holiday destination- never gave it back!!
Classics like
Two Shoes



In My Pocket


Miserere


Underrated Aussie band for sure

Harry Angus also came up with that Big Big Sound for GWS.

 

[JackFlash]

Space rock meets Monty Python with dark humourous skits in between songs, this is what you call hazardous Rock from the mind of Hawkwind’s erratic Bi-Polar vocalist/lyricist, Robert Calvert. Recorded during his hiatus from the band in early 1974 due to his condition, it's a masterpiece of pulsating rhythms and hysterical vocals as Hawkwind all appear here. (Lemmy is outstanding on this) Basically a Hawkiwnd album, it also features Brian Eno, The Pink Fairies, Viv Stanshall and Arthur Brown as a guest vocalist on one track. It's an album full of songs that are all supremely mental space rockouts of the highest order. It's as mad as hell, but brilliant.

 

[JimmyBC]

Comus - First Utterance (1971) Strange wonderful psych folk masterpiece

 

[Vdubs]

Physical Graffiti - Wikipedia

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An oldie, but an absolute classic vinyl.
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This song has the most amazing riff and gets me every time I hear it

 

[giggler99]

Dirty Honey new Album good old fashion rock n' roll fun

 

[Exe Gesis]

Despite the shame and disgrace of the lead singer, a fantastic band all up....music, lyrics, vocals. Probably the best of their small discography....

 

[Vdubs]

An oldie, 1985, but have rediscovered how insanely talented KATE BUSH was.

Hounds Of Love.​

4 outstanding hit singles plus a complete story; this album is simply brilliant.

 

[catscratchfever]

Brian Eno: Here Come The Warm Jets

 

[CliffMcTainshaw]

The Best of Fourplay. Fourplay are a smooth jazz band with some of the greatest modern day musicians.
With Bob James on keyboards, Lee Ritenour, guitar, Nathan East, bass and Harvey Mason, drums.
Between the Sheets feat. Chaka Khan.

101 Eastbound

Bali Run

 

[giggler99]

Aaron Hentra Project, I was recommended this album by a poster on this board Joey JoJo Shabad who is the artists brother, acoustic folky even some blues thrown in. A great hidden gem listen and enjoy!

 

[Norwegian Blue]

Itchy and the Nits. I saw these gals at a street festival in Marrickville last year and I've been listening to them ever since. They've just released their first album, 15 minutes of stripped down garage pop/punk that I can't stop listening to.

 

[CliffMcTainshaw]

I saw a recommendation for this album in 2009. I found a track on Youtube, had a listen and went out and bought the album. I knew who he was because he had performed with the Allman Brothers aged 11. Derek Trucks is the nephew of drummer Butch Trucks, a founder of the Allman Brothers Band. This album "Already Free" won the 2009 Grammy for the Best Contemporary Blues Album. He's now married to Susan Tedeschi and plays in the Tedeschi Truck Band. Named after Eric Clapton's Band "Derek and the Dominos". After playing with B.B. King, King was heard to remark about Trucks' guitar playing, "That's about as good as I've ever heard it—as good as I've ever heard it, and I mean it". It's a ripper of an album.

 

[Rusty Brookes]

Space rock meets Monty Python with dark humourous skits in between songs, this is what you call hazardous Rock from the mind of Hawkwind’s erratic Bi-Polar vocalist/lyricist, Robert Calvert. Recorded during his hiatus from the band in early 1974 due to his condition, it's a masterpiece of pulsating rhythms and hysterical vocals as Hawkwind all appear here. (Lemmy is outstanding on this) Basically a Hawkiwnd album, it also features Brian Eno, The Pink Fairies, Viv Stanshall and Arthur Brown as a guest vocalist on one track. It's an album full of songs that are all supremely mental space rockouts of the highest order. It's as mad as hell, but brilliant. View attachment 1842890

Freaking awesome record.

 

[superfraser]

Freaking awesome record.

Appreciate you quoting that.

I've never heard of Robert Calvert, but your quote led me to give it a spin.

Great fun! Have had it on repeat for a few days now.

 

[Vdubs]

I play this album every year multiple times. Some 30 yo's ask me what is one album from my era they should listen to, cover to cover, and this is it.
At the Listening Room at Monash Uni 1975, 76, 77, I spent many hours and this beauty was always in demand.

 

[Vdubs]

Another brilliant album that is timeless