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culture-shift albums like this (elvis' full-length debut) that came well before my time make me wish i could have experienced what it was like to hear them for the first time back when they came out. it's being generally familiar with the context of the era that elevates relatively straight forward 'rock and roll' records like this since anyone and their mother has heard these songs (or at least the style) perpetuated by countless other bands and artists since. but elvis was one of the first. also, i don't think i've ever actually listened to an elvis studio record until i listened to this. there's a verson of 'i got a woman' here that i'm not sure i knew elvis did but unsurprisingly he nails it, you can just hear the 'cool' this man possessed.
 
I always feel like I'm missing something with Deep Purple. Everyone talks about how they changed the landscape and were important heavy metal pioneers. It just sounds like classic rock. Like Zeppelin is heavier and I wouldn't call them metal either. I guess some of the guitar structures are paving the way but it just doesn't seem like heavy music to me.
 
Beyond that solid middle of the road classic rock. doesn't inspire me to deep dive their catalog. Might turn it up on the radio, definitely not changing the station. solid 3.
 
Lee Newman said:
The album I am listening to this week from the other book is Mose Allison's Allison Wonderland which is a 2 hour 18 minute compilation. What in the flying hell? 47 songs. I like it, but it's all kind of the sameish. After an hour it's all starting to blur together unless there is a cover or something...
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alright, returned to this tonight, I want to comment on it some more:
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Mose Allison - Allison Wonderland: The Mose Allison Anthology

Again. It's long and feels long.

You know that song at the end of Miles Davis's Sorcerer. The one with the School House Rock guy singing off key to a weird upbeat Miles thing. THIS IS AN ENTIRE LIKE THREE HOURS OF THAT*. Furthermore, the allmusic review talks about his lyricism and the variety of tunes. THEY ALL SOUND THE SAME. LIKE ITS ALL THE SAME BEIGE SONG. YOU COULD START IT IN THE MIDDLE OF ANY SONG AND I WOULD THINK IT WAS ANY OTHER SONG.

I can't really speak on the lyricism because the music is boring me to tears. it's like 47 outtakes of Nothing Like You... I get why y'all hate that song now.

This guy might be okay in small doses but this marathon is fatiguing as hell.

*Spotify says it is 2 hours and 18 minutes. Feels like it's a lot longer.
 
Lee Newman said:
alright, returned to this tonight, I want to comment on it some more:
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Mose Allison - Allison Wonderland: The Mose Allison Anthology

Again. It's long and feels long.

You know that song at the end of Miles Davis's Sorcerer. The one with the School House Rock guy singing off key to a weird upbeat Miles thing. THIS IS AN ENTIRE LIKE THREE HOURS OF THAT*. Furthermore, the allmusic review talks about his lyricism and the variety of tunes. THEY ALL SOUND THE SAME. LIKE ITS ALL THE SAME BEIGE SONG. YOU COULD START IT IN THE MIDDLE OF ANY SONG AND I WOULD THINK IT WAS ANY OTHER SONG.

I can't really speak on the lyricism because the music is boring me to tears. it's like 47 outtakes of Nothing Like You... I get why y'all hate that song now.

This guy might be okay in small doses but this marathon is fatiguing as hell.

*Spotify says it is 2 hours and 18 minutes. Feels like it's a lot longer.
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plus look at that mustache. You see a mustache like Ron Swanson (Aka older @TenderLovingKiller®) and you get why he pulls the chicks. You might even be like, hey, I can get down with that. But this guy? No that stache just makes me want to punch him in it. Which would be a weird place to punch somebody.
 
Lee Newman said:
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This is a band I don't really know very well. I'm sure I've listened to Machine Head somewhere along the way and I'm sure a lot of their stuff played on the hard/classic rock stations that I gravitated to during high school. Looking forward to digging a little deeper with this album.
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Check out this album of stoner rock and doom metal bands covering Deep Purple. I like it more than any of their albums because these bands turn it into what I wanted them to be. Otherwise I agree with your take on them 100%.

This series is excellent, btw. First volume is Thin Lizzy, third volume is Judas Priest.

 
I forgot my damn headphones in my office. So I'm listening to this with my phone pressed up against my ear while I'm waiting to board a plane. I look ridiculous, but any excuse to listen to Kid A is worth it. This album bridged a lot of weird music I was into at the time and mainstream radio. At the time it seemed like a shocking reinvention of Radiohead, but now it seems to fit perfectly between Ok Computer and Amnesiac. I've listened to this album a lot in the last year. It's another one that my wife loves, so I can crank it at home. 5/5
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The Real Thing feels dated in the production, for sure. I remember it feeling kinda heavy and almost "thrash"-like in it's sound back in the day, which feels totally wrong today. It has a pretty thin and shallow soundscape with a pretty weak bass to balance the keyboards and guitars.

Some of the songs haven't really aged that well either. Falling to Pieces and From Out of Nowhere (which I really loved back then) aren't that great and are further diminished by Pattons nasal voice on these tracks (a trait he got rid of on later albums). Epic is still a great song, and I'm still baffled at how big of a hit it was back in the day. It is also the only "rap-metal" song on here (and I was always weirded out by that label for the band).

Standout tracks, though, are Surprise! You're Dead! and Zombie Eaters, which both lays the foundations to the more extreme sound they would adopt for Angel Dust.

I realize that I'm less familiar with the last half of the album. I think the explanation for that is that I got this on vinyl in 1989, and I almost always only listened to side A. Side B is weaker, and while I kinda like the weirdness of Woodpecker from Space it is also pretty unlistenable. Their cover of War Pigs doesn't really add anything to the song and feels pretty unnecessary.

In sum, this is an interesting album of you see it as a kind of prelude and commercial springboard to the deranged masterpiece that is Angel Dust.

Score: 3 (or maybe 4) stars

EDIT: Wrong "1001 albums"-thread! Sorry!
 
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This is one of those albums that I don't like as much as you would think given its reputation and it's not that I don't like the band. I love other records by Booker T. This one just doesn't hit as well as others. The title track is ubiquitous and amazing, the rest of the album doesn't quite rise to the occasion in my memory. Will report back if the listen tonight changes anything.
 
Lee Newman said:
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This is one of those albums that I don't like as much as you would think given its reputation and it's not that I don't like the band. I love other records by Booker T. This one just doesn't hit as well as others. The title track is ubiquitous and amazing, the rest of the album doesn't quite rise to the occasion in my memory. Will report back if the listen tonight changes anything.
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I have this really weird relationship with the organ. Sometimes an album, like this one here will play differently on a particular listen. Sometimes this one sounds like circus music. Tonight this was not the case. It's still not my favorite album by them. I'm partial to Hip Hug-Her, Melting Pot and McLemore Avenue. This is the one everyone gravitates to though and I think that has a lot to do with the undeniable strength of the title track. 3 stars
 
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