I bought Tilt by Scott Walker which is a loooong way from his crooning days. Experimental, squeaky gate music (as Ian McMillan calls it). I thought it might be worth sticking on ebay but many have had the same idea.
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I bought Tilt by Scott Walker which is a loooong way from his crooning days. Experimental, squeaky gate music (as Ian McMillan calls it). I thought it might be worth sticking on ebay but many have had the same idea.
Rich kids helped along by daddy's modelling business. Attractive women at gigs = Record contract.
They were just a fairly standard Cars/Velvet Underground rip off, though their most recent album is pretty good. Most of those US post-punk revival acts are pretty over hyped imo, Interpol head and shoulders above the rest of them
Precisely.
The record companies and in particularly the publishers made a lot of money off people like me (and then unbelievably again from some people when CDs came around!!!) so their demise with the arrival of file sharing and now streaming was long over due and to be welcomed.
Tygers Of Pan Tang .....The Cage .......one good song , love potion number nine ......which they didn't even write ....the rest all garbage
Micheal Schenker Group .....Assault Attack .......drivel
Rush after Presto ........kept churning out the albums , the odd good moment but should have knocked it on the head
I once bought a Russ Conway album. I’ll leave it there.
Regatta de Blanc by The Police
What? Bowie, Dylan, Springsteen, John are of no interest? Maybe Abba, but even that is questionable. The first four have been some of THE most influential musicians over the last fifty years. You may as well chuck in The Beatles, the Stones, and Zeppelin, and just ignore everyone.
Some disappointing albums:
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Through the Looking Glass
The Damned - Anything
The Dandy Warhols - Welcome to the Monkey House
The Jam - The Gift
Technical Ecstasy - Sabbath
Be Here Now - Oasis
Tonight - David Bowie
Tin Machine - Tin Machine
Victorialand - Cocteau Twins
Mother Juno - The Gun Club
Most Nick Cave records
Floyd , The Final Cut
Burnt out band
I bought the Hoosiers trick to life, listened to it once and threw it in the bin. absolutely woeful album
Red Hot Chilli Peppers.
I tried to like them but just didn’t happen.
Pretty sure they were devastated :hehe:
Many bands and artists were pressurised by the record labels and/or management to add a 'commercially-sounding' track to their albums and for a single to be marketed - and which resulted in the single being atypical of the music on the rest of the album.
One great example was Elvin Bishop's 'Fooled Around and Fell In Love', a middle-of-the-road pop ditty with a good guitar break in it.
If you buy the album (as I did) you find out that he is more a country bumpkin who is into country music.
It's A Beautiful Day. They're a psychedelic folk rock band formed in San Francisco around 1967 and their music is based around David LaFlamme's violin playing.
They made a brilliant song called White Bird and on the basis of that I bought their debut album, unfortunately the rest of the tracks are dated and rather tedious.
It's a matter of taste but i'll go with my own personal choices
Uriah heep- high and mighty
Genesis- then there were three
Goldie- saturnz return
all of the above i thought were garbage when i bought them but have since thought that they were ok
I've never bought a prog rock album.So if I had.I'd wish I hadn't.
Metal Machine Music , Lou Reed
Straight in the bin , dreadful
To be fair I think he was off his head on heroin , speed and coke
I have loads of krautrock vinyl, which I now find unlistenable. Neu!, Cluster, Amon Duul, Popol Vuh, Ash Ra Tempel, Faust.
I never listen to most of them, but the Sad Skinhead - from Faust VI still gets the occasional outing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtkOXbmuChE
Apparently Joy Division's Ian Curtis genuinely loved Metal Machine Music and played it over and over.
Not sure whether Lou was trying to make an innovative ambient punk noise here or just annoy his record company. At the time RCA were forced to withdraw MMM from shops after matter of weeks.