Entertainment For Lively Minds
New Macca and Leonard Cohen...
Posted by Formbyman on 30 January 2012 - 10:48am.
... records being streamed on NPR this week - haven't heard the Cohen one yet but had to turn the Macca one off halfway through the first song. The type of album my mother would hear and say "If you can't do it better than Sinatra - don't bother".
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And while you're at it ...
... realise that the title 'Kisses on the Bottom' is hardly going to encourage the punters.
Quite !
Got 4* review in Uncut....I was dubious.
Kisses on the ...
It's too bad he saddled a really elegant record with such a goofy title. Can't help himself, I guess.
Anyway, I've heard it and it's a lovely album. Getting surprisingly good reviews, too. It also got 4 stars from the Times and 4 stars from the Telegraph. My mini review: I wasn't sure what to expect from it but I like what I've heard a lot. He sings here with real emotion. And the musicianship and arrangements are terrific. But then I like standards and I like hearing what different singers can do with those old songs. It's not like this is a major album from him but it's a nice little surprise (for me anyway).
The Laughing Len
sounds really good from the bits I heard. Will have to wait until I go up to London later in the week to get a physical copy
The Macca, nah, its like Rod Stewart's endless covers album, thing is Macca can still write the odd gem or three.
My First Lenny
It occured to me when I saw the stream on NPR last week that I'd never actually heard a full LL album before. I wasn't disappointed. I would guess that anyone that enjoyed The Man In Black's final albums would rather enjoy it too.
The highlight on NPR at the moment has to be the new First Aid Kit album though. The even better news is that it's on EMusic so two fine new Americana albums in a week on Emusic (Gretchen Peters' is the other one).
thanks for the First Aid Kit tip
- was it you who posted a Christmas vid of them about 3 years ago? If so, I owe you a virtual pint. Lovely stuff.
'Kisses on the Bottom'...
How disappointed I was that it didn't contain versions of Love Gun, Lick it Up and I Was Made for Lovin' You.
On that subject....
I genuinely wanted to claim the make up clad rock Gods Kiss as my "artist" on the other thread but thought I might get run out of town.
Too short
I'm only halfway through the Macca album now. I don't think I'll make it to the end. Life's too short. His voice is so weak and he doesn't seem to be adding anything at all to the songs. I really can't see the purpose of this sort of thing. I imagine that it's not even an earner for a lot of the songwriters as surely a lot of them are no longer with us.
I think it would be a better idea to write a load of new songs (or even two or three) and hand them over to someone like Adele to present them as proper pop songs.