|
|
Post by MartinT on Oct 20, 2021 11:39:00 GMT
One interesting point I keep rediscovering is Matey, who does a superb job in Band XYZ turns out to be rubbish on his solo album and vice versa ...or is just plain variable in output, for instance Sting. |
|
|
|
Post by John on Oct 20, 2021 13:12:29 GMT
Music is a personal experience. I never really expect anyone to like what I like. Sometimes it fun to share music that divides opinon I have a few favourites to share that will certainly do that.
|
|
|
|
Post by petea on Oct 20, 2021 18:14:38 GMT
It doesn't really matter - as long as people give an album a fair go, they can still take something from the listening to it. I've never regretted trying an album, no matter how much I dislike it. Hmm, I wonder if Blurt is on Qobuz - that'll blow the Christmas cobwebs away!  |
|
|
|
Post by MikeMusic on Oct 20, 2021 18:16:22 GMT
Blurt certainly would !
I have
In Berlin
can you believe
|
|
|
|
Post by petea on Oct 20, 2021 18:28:00 GMT
I saw them supporting Ina Dury in Brighton way back. My friend and I were one of the few that didn't walk out!
|
|
|
|
Post by ChrisB on Oct 20, 2021 18:36:23 GMT
A friend of mine was at that Brighton gig and he subsequently bought some of their stuff.
|
|
|
|
Post by MikeMusic on Oct 20, 2021 19:28:32 GMT
Another group John Peel introduced me to
|
|
|
|
Post by petea on Oct 20, 2021 20:31:09 GMT
We seem to have drifted a fair way from Robert Palmer! Sorry, Mike.
That was a damn good concert though and Ian Dury's stage presence was amazing: that strange combination of menace and concert hall cheeky chappy (I saw that mixture only once again in the MC at the first ever German language performance of the play, "Cabaret" in Berlin, performed in a reconstructed cabaret from the era in a tent in a car park!).
And, "My Mother is a Friend of an Enemy of the People" has to be one of the greatest song titles of all time, surely!
|
|
|
|
Post by Slinger on Oct 21, 2021 16:49:21 GMT
Not so keen, Mike. " Love Takes Time" is a decent bit of blue-eyed soul and " Dreams Come True" is fairly musical, but sounds a bit too much like a seventies BBC TV theme. it's actually a bit out of place I think. I know Palmer wrote it, but he doesn't play any instruments on it (he had a stint as rhythm guitarist in Vinegar Joe) judging by the listings I've seen for the album. It sounds like the recording came up a few minutes short so they just slapped it on the end as filler. " Girl U Want" should have been left to Devo. Other than that, nothing moves me to even comment on it. Noisy, trashy, and mired in the nineties, and not the good part.  It hasn't aged well. I'm playing " Sneakin' Sally Through The Alley," now, to cleanse my palate.  |
|
|
|
Post by MikeMusic on Oct 21, 2021 17:58:00 GMT
I still love it ! and everything else he did, except Vinegar Joe oddly enough |
|
