The SUBSIM Music Thread

[Eichhörnchen]

Some of you WILL wake up tomorrow morning with this in your head

[fumo30]

Joe South - Games People Play

[Kaye T. Bai]

Originally Posted by Eichhörnchen

Thanks, Kaye... that's fine now

Bitte schön!

[Jimbuna]

[fumo30]

INFINITY - SAPPHIRE




KURT SAVOY - SILBANDO RITMO

[Jimbuna]

[propbeanie]

Michael Bublé!
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but Eichhörnchen...
... that is one ugly duck, sir!

[Eichhörnchen]

Don't let him hear you say that...

[Jimbuna]

[fumo30]

John Fahey - Wine and Roses

[Eichhörnchen]

This was the album unlike any other at the time; recorded, so it's said, on a hand-held tape recorder in the audience. I loved this LP, and I've no idea where it went...



"Go get me a double Pernod!"

[vienna]

Originally Posted by Eichhörnchen

This was the album unlike any other at the time; recorded, so it's said, on a hand-held tape recorder in the audience. I loved this LP, and I've no idea where it went...



"Go get me a double Pernod!"

Truly a great album, even if only half of the original Velvets are in this iteration of VU; Mo Tucker and John Cale are missing, having left the band earlier; this record was pretty much the end of the VU since Lou reed left shortly afterward and a version of the VU without any of the original members tried to make go of it, but failed miserably. The VU reunited in the mid-90s for a very brief time and released a live album and video of a very impressive live show the performed in Paris:





The VU unfortunately broke up again shortly after this performance and, although the band members would work on each others' solo projects, they never again performed as a whole either live or in the studio. The VU were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1996 not long after original member and multi-instrumentalist Sterling Morrison passed away. The remain members performed a song written to commemorate Morrison's passing:









Truly one of the most influential band of musicians from the 60s, whose reach was far, far beyond what most people know. Their stripped down, direct sound would lay the ground work for all who would follow; they were, indeed, Rock & Roll:













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[Eichhörnchen]

I think my copy of "Max's" went the same way as "Loaded" and the others... loaned to a guy who was too 'cool' to return them. It was not cool at all to loan them...

[vienna]

Originally Posted by Eichhörnchen

I think my copy of "Max's" went the same way as "Loaded" and the others... loaned to a guy who was too 'cool' to return them. It was not cool at all to loan them...

I feel your pain. I've also had "loaned" records, tapes and CDs disappear forever, prime reason I don't lend them anymore. It is a blessing YT and other such media sites exist so I can find those long lost treasures again. I used to watch some of the TV ads for oldie song compilations and wish I still had some of those songs again. For those I can't find because I lent well but not wisely, well, I do have those voodoo dolls available...

The Velvet Underground posting reminded me of a bit of a demented VU recording of a piece written by Lou Reed and spoken by John Cale, The Gift. When I first hear it nearly 50 years ago, I became fascinated by the track and played it over and over again (a miracle I didn't become an axe murderer). There is something, not only in thebizarreness of the story, but in the production f the track, placing the entire backing track on one channel and the 'vocal' entirely on the other, almost in juxtaposition:






...time for my meds...








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[Eichhörnchen]

What a blast! I haven't heard that for about 37 years, but I remember it like yesterday... even anticipating the "plonk" of the metal-cutters Poor Waldo! I'm guessing it was on one of my 'lost' albums? I had them all, so which one?

But I'd forgotten about the incongruity of Cale's Welsh accent on this.