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« Reply #1600 on: October 20, 2024, 11:41:12 AM »




Neil Young’s first, eponymous album. I have never knowingly heard this before.


Much underrated I've always felt - and hugely overshadowed by what followed.  The Loner, The Old Laughing Lady and The Last Trip to Tulsa all stand up to further scrutiny...and much of the rest is decent, I think. Whatdoyareckon?


I liked the first side a great deal. Last Trip to Tulsa, on the other hand, might be one of the worst things I’ve ever heard. Fortunately it was a twofer with Everybody Knows This is Nowhere which - apart from a slightly muddy Running Dry - was quite the palate cleanser. It is quite remarkable how After the Goldrush and Harvest, two of the most anodyne albums in the whole NY canon, were the ones to make his (solo) name. I’m more of a Ditch guy.


Worst things you've ever heard -  Wink Grin now, now.  Interestingly, I share your opinion of Harvest.  I absolutely loathe it (and Harvest Moon).  But see nothing of that at all in After the Goldrish which I think is a stone cold classic.  In general though I like the grungier shite too.  More barn!
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« Reply #1601 on: October 20, 2024, 01:56:00 PM »

Harvest is wonderful. Especially the Nashville cuts. You pair of miserable snobs.   Grin

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« Reply #1602 on: October 20, 2024, 09:31:44 PM »


Harvest is wonderful. Especially the Nashville cuts. You pair of miserable snobs.   Grin

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« Reply #1603 on: October 21, 2024, 07:37:01 AM »

Strange,  Harvest should be so divisive.  Is this  a phenomenon ?  Beefheart fans  for instance (im not one) hated  Bluejeans and Moonbeams. It had actual good tunes on it and might hsve appealed to non beefheartians.  
I recall someone a long time ago telling me Whatevers for Us wad the best Joan Armatrading album. But it was the self titled album that really got her a wider audience.
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« Reply #1604 on: October 21, 2024, 08:43:30 AM »


Strange,  Harvest should be so divisive.


I'll be honest and say I spend several decades thinking I was the only Neil Young fan that didn't have it in their top 3.  Harvest Moon pushed me over the edge though - I think it's a genuinely awful album.  But I am strange so, no offence taken...  Wink Grin
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« Reply #1605 on: October 21, 2024, 09:51:52 AM »

Of course David. At the end of the day it's subjective.

Fwiw, i like Pink Floyd, but i don't  care if i never hear  Dark Side again.
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« Reply #1606 on: October 21, 2024, 08:38:49 PM »

This rather excellent John, Bert & Jacqui recording from '93

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENw3GoCMd2M

Does anybody remember seeing this trio at Broadstairs Folk Festival?  I seem to remember it was in a school or a hall?  I think it would have been sometime around then(ish).  But it would be nice to hone it down exactly.  It was a weird time, I think Jacqui (and maybe Bert) were also doing Pentangle but then this was going on at the same time.  Anyway, it's a great recording.
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« Reply #1607 on: October 24, 2024, 10:43:14 AM »

June Tabor  :   Abyssinians   (Topic LP , 1983).  

I haven't heard every JT  LP,   but this one is still  the best I've heard.
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« Reply #1608 on: October 24, 2024, 05:21:59 PM »


June Tabor  :   Abyssinians   (Topic LP , 1983).  

I haven't heard every JT  LP,   but this one is still  the best I've heard.


Has anyone else noticed that a surprising number of her albums start with the letter A.  Abyssinians, Aleyn, At the Wood's Heart, Ashore, Aqaba, An Echo of Hooves...?  It's almost like it is deliberate!
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« Reply #1609 on: October 24, 2024, 05:38:11 PM »

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« Reply #1610 on: October 24, 2024, 06:45:42 PM »



June Tabor  :   Abyssinians   (Topic LP , 1983).  

I haven't heard every JT  LP,   but this one is still  the best I've heard.


Has anyone else noticed that a surprising number of her albums start with the letter A.  Abyssinians, Aleyn, At the Wood's Heart, Ashore, Aqaba, An Echo of Hooves...?  It's almost like it is deliberate!


I think it is deliberate.  Or someone pointed it out several albums ago and she did it thereafter for fun.  
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« Reply #1611 on: October 24, 2024, 07:16:30 PM »

For quite a while all the Go Betweens elbuns had two L’s in the title.
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« Reply #1612 on: October 24, 2024, 08:15:58 PM »

Listening to "Chris Rea presents The Return of the fabulous Hofner Bluenotes".  a 3CD/ 2 x10" EP boxed set  - affectionate pastiches of 60s guitar combos and their transition into R&B bands.  Picked up today for just £10.  

I'm also becoming quite a fan of Mr Rea's later, blues-steeped albums.
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« Reply #1613 on: October 24, 2024, 08:33:08 PM »


For quite a while all the Go Betweens elbuns had two L’s in the title.


I think they should have made one called Ellbun.

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« Reply #1614 on: October 24, 2024, 08:35:37 PM »



Has anyone else noticed that a surprising number of her albums start with the letter A.  Abyssinians, Aleyn, At the Wood's Heart, Ashore, Aqaba, An Echo of Hooves...?  It's almost like it is deliberate!


I think it is deliberate.  Or someone pointed it out several albums ago and she did it thereafter for fun.  


She's got nothing on UK Subs - they did the entire alphabet.

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« Reply #1615 on: October 24, 2024, 11:19:02 PM »



For quite a while all the Go Betweens elbuns had two L’s in the title.


I think they should have made one called Ellbun.

Jules


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« Reply #1616 on: October 24, 2024, 11:40:39 PM »

Everything Nick Drake ever breathed on.

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« Reply #1617 on: October 25, 2024, 08:35:18 AM »


Everything Nick Drake ever breathed on.

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« Reply #1618 on: October 25, 2024, 09:54:45 AM »



Everything Nick Drake ever breathed on.


In preparation for....?  https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/look-through-time-a-nick-drake-celebration/


No, I almost never go to things anymore.

But I am currently reading the Morton Jack biography.

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« Reply #1619 on: October 25, 2024, 10:04:28 AM »




Everything Nick Drake ever breathed on.


In preparation for....?  https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/look-through-time-a-nick-drake-celebration/


No, I almost never go to things anymore.

But I am currently reading the Morton Jack biography.

Jules


Tis a powerful read, and surely now for all time the definitive biography...
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