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Solid Air V Inside Out
Posted by carabara on 5 October 2011 - 10:36pm.
To take a leaf from Formbymans post... what would the massive choose between these two John Martyn albums. Both released in the same year, both similar in tone but the latter, in my opinion, darker in mood, more expressive,honest, intimate and sincere ( for want of a better word ). Solid Air is the classic but Inside Out is Martyn holding a mirror up to his life, following his muse and influences and bearing his soul. Fine Lines, Make No Mistake, Ways To Cry , So Much In Love With You....all sublime and the better of Solid Air in my opinion.
Anyone care to comment?
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I had this very debate
not that long ago with a friend (not a contributor around these parts).
He's and Inside Out man. I think it came down to his preference for the extra bit of fretboard wizardry especially on Outside In versus my preference for Solid Air's overall coherence and lyricism.
But the margins are very thin which ever way you look at it.
Anyway let's have a listen to Fine Lines
Both
Solid Air is a perfect 3am masterpiece of smoky, soul-roped,small hours reverie but most of all it has the tunes, all the tunes. Inside-Out has grown on me over the years after, at first, finding it a not so great and rather difficult follow up. But dats it with Martyn all his music works eventually, if you give it the time
Here is the master at work
Inside Out
just makes it. A little riskier, perhaps?
Ooh - good one!
Probably Solid Air - more coherent I think.
And yet Inside Out has one of my favourite tracks of all time - the utterly, stupendously wonderful Fine Lines (which gets played at my funeral!)
Sadly, it also has the godawful caterwauling of Eibhli Ghail Chiuin Ni Chearbhail, which always requires skipping, so I'll go for Solid Air - and Go Down Easy makes life feel pretty worthwhile.
Inside Out.......
.... for Outside In! Masterpiece!
.... and another one with Alan Thompson et al....
Grace and Danger is better
Grace and Danger is better than both
You may well be right!
Often overlooked. Possibly the most honest, painful, break up album ever.
For the most part
Grace and Danger is a superb album. It does however include the egregiously self indulgent Johnny Too Bad which really drags it down in my estimation.
it has some great tunes
but for me the instrumentation/production leaves it "of its era"
I think that and 'bless the
I think that and 'bless the weather' are his best albums.
Inside Out
probably gets played more here...
The guitar work is generally more edgy...
I particularly like 'Beverley', 'Make No Mistake' and 'Ways to Cry' back to back..
Inside Out
Double post
oh... and 'Outside In' of course
One World
is the one for me.
White man does reggae tinged album superbly well shocker.