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Post by edog40 on Oct 9, 2020 13:14:23 GMT
Anyone want to share an unpopular musical opinion that they have? I'll go first:
Valotte (Julian Lennon) is a better song than Imagine (John Lennon)
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Post by beanguy on Oct 9, 2020 14:37:21 GMT
Micky Dolenz was one of the top ten male vocalists in pop music during the Monkees time period.
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Post by The Ocean on Oct 9, 2020 19:29:29 GMT
Fleetwood Mac after Buckingham & Nicks joined were GREAT, but not as good as they were before they joined. Pre-Buckingham/Nicks Fleetwood Mac wins for me.
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Post by zenman on Oct 9, 2020 19:43:41 GMT
Fleetwood Mac after Buckingham & Nicks joined were GREAT, but not as good as they were before they joined. Pre-Buckingham/Nicks Fleetwood Mac wins for me. Are you talking JUST prior, or all the way back to Peter Green? I would agree that PG's Mac was the best iteration (my favourite, anyway), but I am not fond of the Bob Welch era.
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Post by The Ocean on Oct 9, 2020 19:49:12 GMT
Fleetwood Mac after Buckingham & Nicks joined were GREAT, but not as good as they were before they joined. Pre-Buckingham/Nicks Fleetwood Mac wins for me. Are you talking JUST prior, or all the way back to Peter Green? I would agree that PG's Mac was the best iteration (my favourite, anyway), but I am not fond of the Bob Welch era. I *LOVE* Bare Trees. One of my favorites of theirs. Peter Green's era was the best (Then Play On being what I consider to be their masterpiece), but I really love a lot of Bob Welch-era stuff.
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Post by zenman on Oct 9, 2020 20:54:54 GMT
You'll hate me for this, but I owned and then disposed of ALL my Bob Welch era Fleetwood Mac albums.
PS I agree that Then Play On is the masterpiece.
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Post by The Ocean on Oct 9, 2020 21:25:49 GMT
You'll hate me for this, but I owned and then disposed of ALL my Bob Welch era Fleetwood Mac albums. PS I agree that Then Play On is the masterpiece. No hate at all, ESPECIALLY since you agree about Then Play On haha
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Post by edog40 on Oct 9, 2020 23:26:33 GMT
I like disco. Most of it.
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Post by zenman on Oct 9, 2020 23:39:39 GMT
I like disco. Most of it. So I take it you like Searching for Celine and Going Thru the Motions?
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Post by edog40 on Oct 10, 2020 0:13:42 GMT
I like disco. Most of it. So I take it you like Searching for Celine and Going Thru the Motions? At one time, yes. I’d take Celine over motions any day.
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Post by sirrastus on Oct 10, 2020 0:54:02 GMT
Are you talking JUST prior, or all the way back to Peter Green? I would agree that PG's Mac was the best iteration (my favourite, anyway), but I am not fond of the Bob Welch era. I *LOVE* Bare Trees. One of my favorites of theirs. Peter Green's era was the best (Then Play On being what I consider to be their masterpiece), but I really love a lot of Bob Welch-era stuff. Ditto on Bare Trees.Love the instrumental on it South Side.....
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Post by sirrastus on Oct 10, 2020 0:55:04 GMT
So I take it you like Searching for Celine and Going Thru the Motions? At one time, yes. I’d take Celine over motions any day. I really like both but I consider Motions as the best Phil Spector song Spector never produced.
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Post by The Ocean on Oct 10, 2020 22:35:34 GMT
At one time, yes. I’d take Celine over motions any day. I really like both but I consider Motions as the best Phil Spector song Spector never produced. Hey, they DID produce a cover of Be My Baby during those sessions, after all.
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Post by The Ocean on Oct 10, 2020 22:45:27 GMT
I might be going out on a limb with this one, but I can't stand Jim Morrison. I love Ray and Robby and John, and I think they would have been a dynamic hit with any decent singer/lyricists. I think Morrison hobbled them in the end because they just couldn't make a go of it without him. Yeah, he was a sensation, but his antics and personality made him that, not the actual music. Sandy Pearlman's early BOC lyrics have been described as word salad, well I'd describe Jim Morrison's attempts at poeticism as word vomit. There are very rare songs outside of that first album that I like listening to. His voice is aggravating. I VASTLY prefer BOC's version of Roadhouse Blues because, aside from the fact that it's a well done piece of music in general, it doesn't have Jim Morrison drunkenly doing his version of scatting throughout the middle section. If I actually owned a copy of Morrison Hotel anymore I'd probably throw it out all over again the second I heard that.
I think Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger, and John Densmore were robbed of a much longer musical career because of the shadow Morrison cast. Sure, they all made money and have prestige, but I would have loved to have seen a steady output from the band they could have become throughout the end of the 70's and possibly onward. I'm not saying that I wish they had never hooked up with Jim Morrison per se, because that debut album is still dynamite, but I really wish that they could have continued ever onward with a new singer, like AC/DC or Iron Maiden have successfully done.
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Post by sirrastus on Oct 10, 2020 23:07:23 GMT
I really like both but I consider Motions as the best Phil Spector song Spector never produced. Hey, they DID produce a cover of Be My Baby during those sessions, after all. Yes and played it thru the system as the place was emptying out.I recall hearing it once.
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