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Making my way through GW's list. Lots of great choices. Sour Milk Sea deserved a better fate. Not only did it have George Harrison on lead guitar but Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and Nicky Hopkins for the full on star treatment. Similar to Ringo's It Don't Come Easy two years later. But it was issued in that first batch of Apple releases with Hey Jude and Mary Hopkin's Those Were The Days and never got out of their rain shadow. Paul McCartney borrowed the "get back to where you should be" lyric the next year for the Beatles Get Back ("get back to where you once belonged").

Was drifting off to sleep last night when a YouTube ad of all things caught my attention. It was Willa Ami's "Not A Soldier." Very fresh talent. I think her debut album comes out later this month or next. Maybe worth a listen.
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4/11/2021 8:42 PM
Baseball Reference in Rock Songs

On Billy Joel’s 1978 song Zanzibar from the album 52nd Street he makes 2 sports references. The first is Ali giving away another round and the second is to Pete Rose who he calls a credit to the game.
I guess he would like to take that one back.
4/11/2021 10:32 PM
Posted by thunder1008 on 4/11/2021 8:42:00 PM (view original):
Making my way through GW's list. Lots of great choices. Sour Milk Sea deserved a better fate. Not only did it have George Harrison on lead guitar but Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and Nicky Hopkins for the full on star treatment. Similar to Ringo's It Don't Come Easy two years later. But it was issued in that first batch of Apple releases with Hey Jude and Mary Hopkin's Those Were The Days and never got out of their rain shadow. Paul McCartney borrowed the "get back to where you should be" lyric the next year for the Beatles Get Back ("get back to where you once belonged").

Was drifting off to sleep last night when a YouTube ad of all things caught my attention. It was Willa Ami's "Not A Soldier." Very fresh talent. I think her debut album comes out later this month or next. Maybe worth a listen.
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If I had any dollar bills left, the jukebox no longer accepts quarters, I would've played:

Black Crowes - Hard to Handle
Dido - Everything to Lose (Armin Van Buuren remix)
Stereophonics - T-shirt Sun Tan
Beastie Boys - Brass Monkey
Billy Joel - It's Still Rock and Roll to Me
The Cars - Magic
Grouplove - Tongue Tied
INXS - New Sensation
Incubus - Idiot Box
Portugal the Man - Feel It Still

Maybe next week...
4/12/2021 11:18 AM (edited)
Love the Crowes. Hugely underrated band, sort of a cross between the Stones and the Allman Brothers. Hard to Handle, Jealous Again, Remedy, She Talks to Angels, Oh Sweet Nuthin all great songs. INXS another band that got on the wrong side of elitist rock critics and never received the appreciation they deserved.
4/12/2021 2:43 AM
McCartney 3 has a lot of great music but Paul has finally lost the great voice. There is no more honey in the pipes. It had to happen eventually.
I hope that in the future he gets a fresh new vocalist or his friend and collaborator Elvis Costello.
4/12/2021 4:20 PM
For those that would like to listen to great standards but don’t have Sirius/Xm there are some great internet radio stations that can play on Alexa or Google home.

1. Frank Sinatra Radio - non stop Frank
2. Mostly Sinatra - as titled
3. Crooner Radio - miscellaneous and sometimes rare recordings.

there are others but these are the 3 best IMO.
4/14/2021 4:55 PM
The 1970s Studio Albums of Paul McCartney Ranked
using a 5 star system and ranked in order

1. Band On The Run - 5 Stars - 1973
2. Venus And Mars - 5 Stars - 1974
3. Ram - 5 Stars - 1971
4. McCartney - 5 Stars - 1970
5. Red Rose Speedway - 5 Stars - 1973
6. Back To The Egg - 4.5 Stars - 1979
7. Wings At The Speed Of Sound - 4.5 Stars - 1975
8. London Town - 4.5 Stars - 1978
9. Wild Life - 4 Stars - 1972

there were enough great singles kept off of wild life that could have raised it to a 5 star album easy.
and even with the songs it has with better song order this would have been a solid 4.5 star album. Still it has high highlights and is no shabby album just rushed and a bit ill conceived.

McCartney is simply a masterpiece. One of the most challenging rock albums I love. Like Sandinista in the way it swings back and forth to different kinds of songs yet is always fresh and it is very cohesive.
it goes from the subliminal to the sublime in a wink and the interspersed instrumentals are ragged and joyous. Such an elevating album. Showing independence from The Beatles holistic approach this IS truly the very first Indie album even though many say that about Ram.
4/15/2021 2:37 PM (edited)
Next up is George Harrison Albums of the 1970s Ranked
4/15/2021 7:28 PM
Just listened to "Brainwashed" yesterday. It's excellent.
4/16/2021 9:49 AM
GEORGE HARRISON ALBUMS IN THE 70s
RANKED according to a 5 star rating system

1. All Things Must Pass - 5 Stars - 1970
2. Living in the Material World - 5 Stars - 1973
3. George Harrison - very solid 4.5 Stars - 1979
4. 33 and 1/3 - 4.5 Stars - 1976
5. Extra Texture - 4 Stars - 1975
6. Dark Horse - 3.5 Stars - 1974

The 1979 eponymous named album is gorgeous and is just a notch below 5 stars. 33 and a 1/3 is a solid album just reaching over 4 stars for the extra 1/2.
extra texture is a soul album. It has some great songs but also some blasé songs so it tops out as a solid but flawed album.
Material World is a masterpiece. It is a religious proclamation and a manifesto of the multi dimensional and the other worldly spirit within us and without us.
it is a Beatles New Testament.
4/16/2021 10:07 PM (edited)
Next up is Ringo -
the great - the good - the bad - and the ugly
4/16/2021 10:15 PM
Mccartney has an unbelievable catalogue...By far, the strongest of any solo Beatle...Not too keen on his newest(Mccartney3), and his voice has lost a lot of it’s suppleness and range, but geez-he stills sings more favorably than many of his contemporaries, I.e. Dylan and Springsteen....Harrison, on the other hand, had a whole period (Somewhere In England, 33 1/3, Gone Troppo) where his stuff sounds like hospice music...
4/17/2021 12:55 AM
Hey LewB. I sadly agree about Paul’s voice.
the final strains of the sweetness and honey tone of his voice is gone. It is sad to say but Paul now sounds like Brad of the Crash Test Dummies.
Springsteen actually sounds great and young on the fantastic 2020 Letter To You album.
Now Dylan - yeah it is rough especially if you just awoke from a coma of 20 years but with Dylan it was always more about the words and music and the voice was more of a personality then an instrument so his voice is always interesting. To me it still is and his new enunciations have adapted to the new raspier sound.
it all still works for me because he is after all a bard/poet musician.

I happen to like 33 and a 1/3.... I think it is highly underrated and has it share of great songs a few brilliant.....it got a 4.5 stars rating from me.
4/17/2021 1:59 AM (edited)
Btw I will eventually get to the solo 80s but I have to agree that gone troppo is dreadful.

to Bob - I agree with you about Brainwash and if you have never heard it you must ASAP listen to George’s final recording. The song is Horse to The Water. It was helped along by his son Danni and I think written after the brainwash sessions or at the same time. It is on a compilation album put out by Jools Holland and is really one of George’s greatest. Big and brassy and dramatic it sounds like it could have been from 1970.
4/17/2021 2:12 AM
RINGO STARR ALBUMS OF THE 70s RATED
IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER

1. Sentimental Journey - 3.5 Stars - 1970
this is a very enjoyable easy to listen to album.
believe it or not Ringo did a serious standards album using a bunch of arrangers from Paul to G. Martin to Count Basie and many others well versed in the classics. Done with Ringo warmth and charm the musicianship is top notch....the sound is great and toe tappers ensue. Bobby Darin you could say started out in early pop rock but quickly veered to the standards.
Ringo is probably the first full fledged rock star to do an album of standards. All the songs are good and a few are great all quite enjoyable.Ringo’s voice is in fine form. Far from the embarrassment that malcontent critic John Lennon called it.
I should add that Ringo does all the drumming and percussion and this showcases his versatility.
a la buddy rich he plays in front on a few tracks but his iconic restraint is always evident and he never tries to overtake the song.
4/17/2021 9:31 PM (edited)
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