Agreed, Love's a strong word but I do like quite a bit of the man's music and hardly find the unplugged album boring...........but to each his own
That's it really. For me Clapton's ideal audience is made up of people in supermarkets, people buying their hot beverages and, most importantly, people in lifts
Yea it’s the interesting part for me too. MoFi is not much without the licenses and they are at the mercy of the labels and bands. It’s why Craft is kinda interesting to me. Concord has been buying up labels and catalogues left and right and I think it’s the way forward. If you control the licensing, you control the supply chain. Concord owns the music rights, and now Craft is becoming an "audiophile" label to press albums Concord has the rights to. They sold 1,000 copies of a $100 1LP within 2 or 3 hours without needing to sell it at wholesale costs. They also have distribution centers in the US and the EU (something I don't know why MoFi never did considering how popular they are in Europe/Asia). With more and more labels pressing AAA titles on their own, why should they give up rights to good titles to MoFi? And especially if they don't start doing more modern titles (even if they have digital masters) they are going to be left behind in the dust.
Like anything, if you fixate on one thing it's going to get old. Pick any band and or group you like, then pick the song that got you into them...........now have it played on a loop for a good while. It may be your favorite band and or group, but it's even going to get old to you.
But...30 year old Nathan might find Weezer Blue album sexy!
He'd think it was like unicorns fucking regular horses at the end of a rainbow and producing half unicorn, half regular horse babies with crazy uni-horse rainbow coloured tails and manes and sexy backs
He'd think it was like unicorns fucking regular horses at the end of a rainbow and producing half unicorn, half regular horse babies with crazy uni-horse rainbow coloured tails and manes and sexy backs
while sniffing a glass of fruit punch mixed from John Coltrane's tears and dragonfruit
Nathan does new Radiohead lyrics vol 1
Honestly, this is one of the reasons I appreciate our forum and members, we're all willing to share good pressing info, not only based on who's pressing it. Without that there would be much more trial and error and a lot of wasted money. I don't mind gambling on a new audiophile pressing if I have just an OG or crate copy, but I really don't want and or need more than a single "good" copy of anything
Yea-- it's awesome to have the folks here who are open and honest about which albums sound good and I would much rather ask people here which pressings of certain albums to buy instead of having to dig through pages upon pages of SHF.Honestly, this is one of the reasons I appreciate our forum and members, we're all willing to share good pressing info, not only based on who's pressing it. Without that there would be much more trial and error and a lot of wasted money. I don't mind gambling on a new audiophile pressing if I have just an OG or crate copy, but I really don't want and or need more than a single "good" copy of anything
I'm glad other companies are stepping up, it helps the overall market.
I'm talking in general, I wasn't taking it as a "Me" thing. Ya, we were talking about the unplugged version and then it spilled into the original and how it got boring after a while. The unplugged version of Layla is my least favorite part of that album, but my point was more to things becoming boring because they've been heard and or "retreaded" so many times.
I can't help but notice I own 8 of the 14 you listed.
While I agree that his years of alcoholism, scary embrace of far-right racism, incredibly broken-person elements are underwhelming to say the least -- I'm also going to say that 461 Ocean, Slowhand, and There's One in Every Crowd have extraordinary moments of musicianship and interpretation of traditional songs -- and that tracks like Wonderful Tonight, Lay Down Sally etc also hold up pretty darn well.