MUSIC THREAD

One more...

"Alive" - Kiss

 

The Neil Young album is actually called "Decade"...and it's a greatest hits collection, so it really doesn't count. And it was a triple album in the vinyl days........

 

Going back into the mists of my youth .... favourite double album was Elton John's "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road".

 

Seriously, I love that album, and the Over My Head song is now my new phone ringer...as well as my new favorite song!

 

Top two double albums...

1. The Clash - London Calling
2. The Who - Quadrophenia

Don't know what number three would be, but it isn't close to one and two...

 

Abe caught many of my faves. One I'll add: Second Winter by Johnny Winter, a double album with only three sides of music. Fourth was blank.

 

Appropos of nothing: I wanted to disown my brother the other day. He told me that "You can't tell me that Big and Rich aren't good." When I told him that I was telling him exactly that, he rolled his eyes and said, "Sorry if it's not deep enough for you or whatever" in a very sarcastic way.

Why are music connossieurs so hated?

 

'Cause we're constantly going around telling people the music they like sucks ass. Maybe not in words, but in actions. I, for example, am always trying to turn off Mariah Carrey or Shania Twain or Train or Black Eyed Peas or Big and Rich when my wife is reaching to crank that stuff up to 11. That irritates her to no end and her music, of course, irritates me to no end. I'm not planning on changing my ways, but I can completely understand why dogging Big and Rich would put a burr in your brother's ass. People like what they like, you know?

 

Oh, for sure. But what are you supposed to do when someone tells you how good something is that you think is total crap? Lie?

 

Hell naw. Keep reachin for the off/seek button and hope one day they'll come around.
Perfect example: A few weeks ago I'm in the car with my parents, my sister and my wife. I've got Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot in the CD player and Jesus, Etc. is on. I reach to turn it off, figuring only my sister and I would care to listen. My mom, who long since turned in her cool card as far as music goes, grabs my arm and is like, 'What are you doing? I love that song!' I was floored. Shortly thereafter we were listening to Rod Stewart's newsest lounge CD, but for a brief moment, I had hope.

 

Sirs, Madames,

I've been listening to a double album of sorts -- Burning Spear's Marcus Garvey and Garvey's Ghost (the former one of reggae's classics and the latter the dub version of the former and remarkably different).

Your 'umble Servant, Ras, etc

 

So I'm taking an 11-hour road trip with 6-year-old daughter and 74-year-old Dad, the uberpatriot, and of course daughter wants me to play the CD that's been spinning non-stop in my player for the last month.

"Daddy, please, please, please play 'Living With War.'"

Crap. What's the old man going to say when daughter starts belting out every word to "Let's Impeach The President." But Dad doesn't raise an eyebrow. In fact, he wants to hear more. And louder, so he can catch the lyrics.

On the ride home, after daughter demands a third spin (and I ain't going to argue), and we all join in to sing the last song, "America the Beautiful," I ask dad if he thinks Neil Young's a subversive.

"Subversive? Why would you say that? They ought to play that in schools."

The more I listen to it, the better it gets. It might be the most patriotic record ever made, and it rocks.