The first one with Roy Wood is a good album, for the most part, although the instrumentals are weaker IMHO (someone on here will say 'they are the best things they ever did'...I don't personally...
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The first one with Roy Wood is a good album, for the most part, although the instrumentals are weaker IMHO (someone on here will say 'they are the best things they ever did'...I don't personally...
For me A New World Record and Out Of The Blue represent their/Lynne's artistic peak. I slightly lean to preferring the former, because it's a tighter, leaner record. But there's not that much filler...
^Really it is solo material yes- not much like the old ELO sound. But TBH that album felt like offcuts from the previous one Alone In The Universe, which I thought was a better effort. I wish he'd...
Lynne's comeback has been very well received in the UK- big shows at festivals, Wembley Arena etc. But in the US, I don't know. I know the last album From Out Of Nowhere greatly underperformed in the...
That's one I watched a while ago and thought it was great.
^'The Rain Song', 'In The Light', 'Four Sticks'. I'd argue for 'The Song Remains The Same' as well. There's several really.
Yeah that one has undeniably dated. I like 'Heaven Knows' and 'Ship...
Well yes, but he had a broader base than that. Outrider is not terrible or anything; it doesn't move the dial either way. It's fairly conservative really.
With The Firm's debut I only like a...
^Some good material, but the Steve Albini mix is so dull. I assume Plant was behind this choice; I wish someone else had mixed it.
The best thing post-Zeppelin that Page did without Plant was...
Yeah they obviously put in the work in rehearsing for that 2007 show. The previous 80s reunions had been pretty shambolic.
Sometimes with reunions, once is enough. When Cream went on tour, the old...
...Out Door has indicators of the sort of direction they'd have gone in during the 80s. Maybe Pictures At Eleven is a good guide as well.
They were 'revolving door' bands from very early on,...
Sorry but there's nothing as bad/dumb as ''Love Beach'/'Taste Of My Love' on Cured.
Indeed- I don't think it is even that badly regarded? A few of the other songs are nice enough like 'Hope I...
^I sort of like Cured for what it is. It's not as good as the ones before, but there's nothing disastrous on it IMHO. (Highly Strung probably has lower lows, in fact.)
They could have called Love...
I find I like it better live than on the record. That goes for the 1977 live versions (with synth instead of that electric piano sound) and that Australian one they did with the orchestra.
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It's definitely not, agreed, but who was expecting that at such a late stage. I appreciated that he'd done a new rock album with some compositional meat to get to grips with. And there's some good...
Palmer unfortunately had much the same sound on that Albert Hall live album. I'm not a fan.
The only substantial work I'm aware of by any of the three after the 90s is the Keith Emerson Band...
^RE; Black Moon. The title track, 'Changing States' and 'Close To Home' are my favourite tracks on it. TBH other than 'Romeo And Juliet' which is a very rote 'rocking the classics' job, there's...
^I'm glad To The Power Of Three is better thought of than this or ...Hot Seat. It's one of those albums which sometimes got the 'worst album ever' treatment on here. I found a cheap second hand CD...
^Sky do the 'rocking the classics' thing to an extent, and had considerable success in the late 70s. But Sky's approach was much lighter musically than ELP's. They had that 'middlebrow' crossover...
My main issue with Black Moon relates to Palmer; the drum sound and the more basic style of playing. (Well, and Lake's changed vocals.) It's not a bad album on the whole, though. I play it reasonably...
There's a few songs on To The Power Of Three I genuinely like, although the production and Palmer's drum sound have aged less than gracefully.
I don't necessarily mind a shift towards a...
UK's Danger Money is more the sort of sound I feel that ELP should have had in the late 70s than Love Beach.
I guess there's a question over whether this album would be quite so disliked without...
Emerson got something out of it (that sound on the intro of 'Pirates' and later on 'The Score' is neat) but it's somewhat thin. I vastly prefer the instruments Emerson used in the 60s and earlier...
Thanks. I can't imagine anyone was clamouring for anything from either album.
It's a good track. Another 'rocking the classics' job, but it's fine. There's nothing else on it as good....
^Agreed. Both are dud albums. Actually as a side discussion, was anything from either of these albums ever played live by ELP? Love Beach wasn't toured and they basically fell apart in its wake. But...
The first few songs on here are all lousy. They had a few very well-written 'commercial' tracks in the past ('Lucky Man', 'From The Beginning', 'Still...You Turn Me On'). They could have easily made...
Those extra tracks were added to a CD version in The Complete Studio Recordings box, which I don't have. It should absolutely have had 'Hey Hey...' and 'Baby...' originally. The latter was an outtake...
Guitar Noir and Darktown are also very good albums, but they are older so I didn't really mention them. The latter has one of my favourite of his instrumentals- 'Twice Around The Sun'.
The...
'The Crunge', the rhythm track is fantastic but the goofiness ('where's that confounded bridge') and that synth...less so. Then again I quite like 'D'Yer Maker' which most people don't.
Plant...
I enjoy To Watch The Storms and Wild Orchids very much. Lots to like on these for me. Out Of The Tunnel's Mouth, a little less so. The first few tracks are excellent. On some of the others, it's...
Agreed. By their standards these are thin gruel. Not disastrous, just fairly ordinary. It's telling that none of these were ever played live, that I know of. Something like 'In The Light' was quite...
All three of those 1979 tracks are better than the likes of 'South Bound Saurez' (the most forgettable Zeppelin track IMHO) and 'Hot Dog'. But particularly 'Wearing And Tearing', which is a great...
I actually think the moment might have passed for them. If it was going to happen, it would have been when they (or who's left) 'reformed' in the 2000s. They were nominated and passed over in 2021/2....
Most of the good rock was done before I was born so it doesn't apply to me.
I like rock pretty much from its inception (say somewhere in the 50s) and follow the various twists and turns it took...
It's very US-centric. As a result, important and popular UK bands like T.Rex have not been inducted. Nor have Humble Pie, who were actually far bigger in the US. I prefer The Small Faces/Faces but...
The last one I watched was Uriah Heep's Acoustically Driven which I had not seen in years. Recorded live around 2000 or so, I still really like this. The set interestingly shies away from hits, for...
^Sonny and Cher and the latter's early solo hits I can handle. Those later 'comeback' hits of hers? Not so much.
I don't really see how several on that list get in ahead of- say- Iron Maiden....
A very MOR list. With a few exceptions, this is easily the poorest crop they've had.
Anyone heard that Audible Slayers thing? Reviews have been...mixed.
I heard yesterday that there is to be a Wynonna Earp TV movie as well.
Indeed, it wasn't anyone's finest moment- including Palmer.
But a festival for a band's first gig in 12 years (or whatever) was obviously not ideal. I suppose Emerson/Lake's duo shows were the...
^Yeah I wish he'd use the touring band on the albums. Even just a proper drummer would help!
The earlier Alone In The Universe had far better songs IMHO.
RE; The Flower Kings. Indeed- there's...
Mercifully, perhaps, as that one didn't really do it for me. A very 'by the numbers' effort. And another CD that sounds bad IMHO.
^Same with the final High Voltage reunion in 2010 really. Just bad timing. Maybe in the early-mid 2000s, it probably would have been better. The three of them were all gigging fairly regularly...
I like 'Talkin' Bout', 'Desda La Vida', 'Runaway' (straight-up AOR, but good on those terms), 'You Do Or You Don't' and 'On Our Way Home'. Most of those- except 'Runaway'- have enough of Emerson's...
It's the heavy reverb more than anything. Powell thankfully kept away from syn-drums, as far as I remember. And Lake sounded good on ELPowell, far better than on the 90s albums. Listen to something...
There's some confusion (at least on my part) over what the first pop/rock CD was. I guess we're talking 1981/2. I've seen it claimed for The Bee Gees' Living Eyes, ABBA's The Visitors and Billy...
I very much agree with this. I can't really comment on many recent releases, but I believe it. Really crap mastering is (sadly) not a particularly new trend. I was glad to see the Parlogram Auctions...
Well, this is the thing. It's a fair bet that a used CD kept in good condition (and not one of those bronzed 'PDO UK' discs) will play as well now as it ever did. One of the few physical formats you...
I've always found this to be the weakest part of the suite TBH. The first two parts really have some of the old magic for me, and this...doesn't.
The first CDs had very good sound, but some had very poor packaging.
The 'definitive remasters' don't always have quite so good sound- particularly on the earlier albums- but aren't bad and are...
A sad loss for sure.
Wings Of Heaven was their biggest hit album in the UK. There's a few very commercial songs on it (and I guess that worked for them), but also some great tracks like 'Days Of...
Shane is a classic. I watched another (colour) Alan Ladd one called Whispering Smith a while back which was pretty decent, though hardly in Shane's league. I keep meaning to watch some of those Film...
Bloat was always one of the drawbacks with CD length. It wasn't any fault of the format itself, but the fact that artists could now do longer one-disc albums as a matter of course. So they did, for...
Definitely. I thought she gave a terrific performance in Mr. Smith...and not unpleasing to the eye.
I have a lot of time for Cooper but my main knowledge of his work comes down to his Westerns, which I should remedy. I saw an early one of his last year, The Plainsman, with Jean Arthur. He was Wild...
Indeed but even then, it's a funny thing. With acts who did loads of singles/non-album tracks, CD made it easier to get them all in one place than it would have been before.
I'm an Elvis fan, but...
It goes back to the 'fetishisation' again. Most major releases come out on the format, but they are not necessarily selling, as you say. There's some albums which sell like hot cakes and paper over...
This is the thing.
The la-la-land pricing was once confined to Record Store Day, but it now seems to be everywhere.
^It's the US which is the outlier in that regard, as far as I'm aware.
I've rekindled my love of Westerns over the last year or so. Of those, I can't get away from nominating High Noon in relation to this thread. Just a terrific film all round. (I'm a big fan of...
I think there's a place for record and CD. But I am pretty disgusted in the major label greed going on with the former. See this article which outlines this.
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