Entertainment For Lively Minds
Albums You Have Dismissed As Average At Best, But Have Recently Revisited And Realised How Great They Are
Posted by MrRadio on 8 June 2011 - 9:12am.
I have just had my itunes on random and four great tracks came up from albums I had dismissed, so I am going to revisit Piano Man by Billy Joel,22 Dreams by Paul Weller,Try Whistling This by Neil Finn and Shine by Joni Mitchell
Has this happened to you ? If So Which Artists and Which Albums ?
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"Blue Lights On The Runway"
by Bell XI. It seems to these ears to have a strong Talking Heads / David Byrne influence but that is A Jolly Good Thing, All Told. And it's an excellent album.
I realized this a long time ago...
but Pink Floyd's The Final Cut is a fantastic record that sounds better and better as I get older. Maybe the music isn't as strong as on some of their records but it features the finest and most moving lyrics Roger Waters ever wrote. Now you're lost in a haze of alcohol soft middle age..
I agree
I played it as I drove back home from seeing The Wall in Manchester a couple of weeks ago and had forgotten how well it hangs together as an album. I used to just skip to Fletcher Memorial Home for the guitar solo but as a whole album I think it is near perfect.
I am just re-discovering the first two Suede albums via the re-issues - both excellent.
Me Three
I listened to The Final Cut after seeing The Wall recently and agree. I've always felt it's hugely underrated, and in comparison to The Wall it's much more angry, intense, thoughtful. With The Wall it could always be dismissed as rampant rock ego but on TFC, Waters is genuinely howling with horror for what his father died for.
You really can only listen to it once or twice a year though. The stories of how it was recorded are mind-boggling...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Final_Cut_%28album%29
Slanted and Enchanted
by Pavement. Sat unloved and unlistened to on my shelf for many years, then one day I suddenly got it.
Walter Becker's 11 Tracks Of Whack & Circus Money
I ignored his two albums in favour of Steely Dan & Donald Fagan's solo albums. In actual fact, they are equally classy and are actually funnier and sadder than his partner's or the group's.
There are numerous jazz albums I find have hidden depths I hadn't appreciated before - current favourite Ole Coltrane.
Plus, classical music often catches me by surprise. I was sick of Mozart who seemed everywhere. I dug out the Scottish Symphony Orchestra's 38-41 Symphonies and I honestly believe they are a pinnacle of human achievement. The key to listening pleasure is to play them fucking loud not as some kind of background noise on a phone or at a coffee morning.
I just didn't get 11 Tracks of Whack
tried for ages, but no, love all other Dan-related things. If you mean, for the Mozart, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra under Sir Charles Mackerras, then yes, wonderful - the best recordings of these ever made. A tip for anyone about to investigate classical music: you can't go wrong if Mackerras is the conductor. With him, you get the feeling of 'This is how it's meant to go' even if you've known another recording for years.
Ashcroft
Finally sound my copy of Richard Ashcroft's Keys To The World last night and it's a lot better than I remembered. Music Is Power is a great number.