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Post by jk on Apr 27, 2024 14:26:41 GMT
Your mother would know:
- We're Only in It for the Money (1968) - Cruising with Ruben & the Jets (1968) - Uncle Meat (1969) - Burnt Weeny Sandwich (1970)
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Post by Kapitan on Apr 27, 2024 14:32:03 GMT
Your mother would know: - We're Only in It for the Money (1968) - Cruising with Ruben & the Jets (1968) - Uncle Meat (1969) - Burnt Weeny Sandwich (1970) While two of my top few FZ/M albums (WOIIFTM and UM) are in there and a third (BWS) is one I really like, I'm afraid I don't like Cruising with... at all. Its cartoonishness just rubs me the wrong way. Frank's expressions of love for jazz and doo-wop were so bizarre: he always acted like he didn't care, like it was all one, big joke. But he obviously loved those forms, as everyone who played with him said.
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Post by jk on Apr 27, 2024 17:18:51 GMT
Your mother would know: - We're Only in It for the Money (1968) - Cruising with Ruben & the Jets (1968) - Uncle Meat (1969) - Burnt Weeny Sandwich (1970) While two of my top few FZ/M albums (WOIIFTM and UM) are in there and a third (BWS) is one I really like, I'm afraid I don't like Cruising with... at all. Its cartoonishness just rubs me the wrong way. Frank's expressions of love for jazz and doo-wop were so bizarre: he always acted like he didn't care, like it was all one, big joke. But he obviously loved those forms, as everyone who played with him said. It's clear Frank loved doo wop. I think in the case of jazz, like me he hadn't been bitten by the jazz bug and simply didn't understand it. But I'm sure he was in awe -- and maybe more than a little jealous -- of some of the extraordinary jazz musicians under his wing:
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Post by lonelysummer on Apr 28, 2024 5:18:02 GMT
I don't have a list yet, but I'm sure it's gotta include some Tull, some Sabbath, some Skynyrd, some Floyd, some Stones, some Zeppelin. But I do have a story. I worked at Tower Records back in the days when dinosaurs walked the earth. Guys would be in the store, trying to find some Tull, some Zeppelin, some Skynyrd. "I looked all through the T's and I didn't see Jethro Tull! I looked all through the S's and I didn't see Lynyrd Skynyrd!" Second comment: I was one of those workers that was so anal, when things got slow, I would go through the CD bins, and organize certain collections in the order of release.
Question: where does Taylor Swift fit in the 4 album run? Do re-records count?
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Post by Kapitan on Apr 28, 2024 12:52:22 GMT
Question: where does Taylor Swift fit in the 4 album run? Do re-records count? I wouldn't think re-records count. As for Swift's best 4-album run ... I personally don't think she had that long a run of great records. I'm not familiar with her early, country records. I think Red and 1989 are very good, but then I don't like the two that followed. Then I like the two 2020 indie pop-folk albums, but not really the new one (from what I've heard). That said, I'm guessing big fans of hers would say the hard part is narrowing it down to just a four-album streak, similar to how I feel about the Queen and Zeppelin discographies.
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Post by jk on Apr 30, 2024 8:31:10 GMT
In some cases a five-album run is easier. Take The Police and Talk Talk, with five superb if often vastly different albums apiece.
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Post by Kapitan on Apr 30, 2024 10:36:01 GMT
In some cases a five-album run is easier. Take The Police and Talk Talk, with five superb if often vastly different albums apiece. I'm not sure I can think of any beyond the two I mentioned before--Zeppelin and Queen--where there are five albums I think are all excellent without any letdown in there somewhere. But I do think of some where giving myself five allows for the three or four best albums (with a relative clunker in the middle ... usually not a clunker, just maybe something a little below the peaks). For me, that Springsteen example above is a good representation of this. Prince might be another.
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Post by kds on Apr 30, 2024 13:33:07 GMT
Expanded to a five album run, I could possibly think of Queen, The Beatles, Floyd, Black Sabbath, and Iron Maiden.
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