I forgot how great The ******* was!!
Posted by: RICHYH on 07 January 2004
No matter how much you like a band/album I have found you go through fazes of playing them, maybe sometimes 5/10 years apart. I have been through, say Beatles spurges 3 or 4 times, when you can't believe how good they were and you forget the brilliance of an LP then play it over and over for a couple of months in amazement.
Over the past couple of weeks this has happened with The Doors - LA Woman, wow its fantastic and I'd forgotten it. Got to be one of the greatest ever made.
Anyone else got some?
Posted on: 07 January 2004 by BLT
Yes - I've just re-bought Doolittle on CD, I just can't believe how good this album is, I haven't heard any new albums this good for some time.
Other favourites that I keep re-discovering are;
Spirit - The Twelve Dreams of Doctor Sardonicus
Hawkwind - Levitation
Stanley Clarke - Schooldays
Spinal Tap - The Black Album
Posted on: 07 January 2004 by count.d
LA Woman is one of the best albums of all time. I stop myself playing it on purpose, so I won't get bored of it. One of my demonstration albums.
I bought all four of the DCC vinyl releases which are superb.
The best cd's are the "Complete Studio Recordings" boxset. Mastered beautifully from the original master tapes.
Posted on: 07 January 2004 by John C
The Door's are the ultimate 22 year old white boy wet dream half baked blues-lite. God the songs are long and trite when you have to hear them as an adult. Good for a few bars of nostalgia in the pub though.
John
Posted on: 07 January 2004 by Wolf
I was a Beatles fanatic as friends and family would say back in the late 60s. Many years of almost poverty then a flush of cash in my late 40s I buy a Naim gear and buy some old Beatles stuff and wow, what a rush. Sent my niece Yellow Submarine for Christmas but played it before it was in the mail and they really did something to those tracks. Incredible detail and music. Hope she catches on. But then she's only 13.
glenn
Life is analogue
Posted on: 08 January 2004 by RICHYH
Countd. I have the DCC Lps also, they are worth every penny. Brilliant.
Posted on: 08 January 2004 by John C
Sorry just kidding chaps, just kidding.
John
Posted on: 08 January 2004 by Rasher
John C, I have to agree with you. I could never understand the dark brooding Jim Morrison when he's got that bloke playing nursery style happy tunes on the organ in the background.
Posted on: 08 January 2004 by matthewr
The Doors are the classic VIth Form (or High School Senior) band when you go through a phase of doing things that you think make you deeply cool and unique but in retrospect just made you look twattish (reading "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" in the common room, affecting an unfocsued middle distance gaze when people in authority are speaking, smoking dope, etc).
Fortunately its all over quickly and you can get off to University and have your No-One Understands Me Like Morrissey phase.
Matthew
Posted on: 09 January 2004 by BigH47
I still love the Doors and fortunately never went through a Morrisey/Smiths phase.
A couple of weeks ago bought 20th anniversary "In Rock" by Deep Purple I don't think there is any recording left on my vinyl
Howard
Posted on: 11 January 2004 by RICHYH
this week its been:-
The Jam- Setting Sons
And Talking Heads -77
Totally amazing.
Posted on: 11 January 2004 by John C
Off The Wall, better even than Thriller that was to follow, a thumping hellacious funk masterwork.
John
Posted on: 11 January 2004 by NaimDropper
Another vote for 12 Dreams... I get that one out every couple of years and crank it up!
David
Posted on: 12 January 2004 by MichaelC
Clive Gregson & Christine Collister - Mischief
Playing this for the first time in I do not know how many years and rather enjoying it. Quite laid back perfect for a late evening.
Mike
Posted on: 20 January 2004 by Lo Fi Si
Wah! Haven’t played this for yonks and only dug it out because Sly Sports used “Story of the Blues” for the Chelsea Birmingham game. I really had forgotten how good it was, and how mad Wylie is.
Simon
Posted on: 20 January 2004 by Rasher
Stone Temple Pilots, and amazingly I find I don't have any of their stuff anymore! I think I had it all on cassette (remember those? - they came after 8 track cartridges.
Must go get a few of their albums on CD - I need to hear Plush.
Posted on: 22 January 2004 by Willito
In loading up my Ipod, I re-discovered Husker Du's Warehouse Songs and Stories. Absolutely fantastic, anticipating much of what the Pixie's and others would do. Bob Mould's ear for melody is fantastic, even when it's cloaked under a wall of guitar noise.
Posted on: 26 January 2004 by sean
For me it's Zappa. Listen for too long and he ends up doing my head in. Rediscovered I get knocked out by what a genius he was. Even thinking about it now I can hear opening bars from ' and hear him coming in with "dreamed I was an eskimo" and you know you are off on a ride again. Great.
Sean.
