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Post by lonelysummer on Jun 2, 2022 6:42:55 GMT
McCartney lost me after Pipes of Peace and Broad Street. I had great hopes for Press to Play, tried to like it, but never warmed up to it. Flowers in the Dirt was a bit better, but some of the songs I just found annoying and others weak. There was a lot of hype surrounding Flaming Pie, but I didn't like that one, either. And since then it seems each new Macca album is greeted with relentless praise - and then they're quickly forgotten. Uncle Bob lost me with Infidels. That was another seen as a great comeback album; in this case, because it was seen as Bob's return from "born again land". I didn't pick up any more of his albums until I heard "Silvio" on the classic rock station, summer 1988. That was from another unpopular Bob album, Down in the Groove, but I actually found that a welcome return from the overproduction of his mid 80s albums. He lost me again with the Christmas album - the vocals on that are awful, and this is from someone who loves Bob's voice - and the standards albums. Shadows in the Night was nice enough, but I didn't need 4 more albums worth of that stuff.
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Post by kds on Jun 2, 2022 12:27:15 GMT
I see that I cited Sir Paul in this thread a while back. The recently completed Meet the Beatles exercise unfortunately did nothing to change my mind. I'm no huge fan of Chaos and Creation, but I think it's his last album that's even passable.
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Post by lonelysummer on Jun 6, 2022 2:54:19 GMT
I see that I cited Sir Paul in this thread a while back. The recently completed Meet the Beatles exercise unfortunately did nothing to change my mind. I'm no huge fan of Chaos and Creation, but I think it's his last album that's even passable. You're kinder towards him than I am.
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Post by jk on Jun 15, 2022 9:59:59 GMT
I bought every LP by Frank Zappa and the Mothers at the time, up to and including Weasels Ripped My Flesh. The patchy quality of this album rubbed me up the wrong way (however Frank would have explained it); I liked a few tracks ("Directly From My Heart To You", "Oh No", "The Orange County Lumber Truck"), but dipping into LPs was never much fun so I gave up on it pretty quickly. And, I'd heard tracks from the follow-up, Chunga's Revenge, and didn't like a single one.
I only got back into his music after moving to NL, not least thanks to a musician friend who had just about everything FZ had released until then.
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Post by Kapitan on Jun 15, 2022 11:21:22 GMT
I bought every LP by Frank Zappa and the Mothers at the time, up to and including Weasels Ripped My Flesh. The patchy quality of this album rubbed me up the wrong way (however Frank would have explained it); I liked a few tracks ("Directly From My Heart To You", "Oh No", "The Orange County Lumber Truck"), but dipping into LPs was never much fun so I gave up on it pretty quickly. And, I'd heard tracks from the follow-up, Chunga's Revenge, and didn't like a single one. I only got back into his music after moving to NL, not least thanks to a musician friend who had just about everything FZ had released until then. It makes sense to drop off right around then, considering that's right in the midst of one of his major transitional periods. Weasels, I believe, was a compilation of existing live music by the now-disbanded Mothers, and Chunga's is the first appearance of Flo & Eddie, but also has some of the old Hot Rats sessions stuff.
Considering how much his music--and his bands--changed over the years, I suspect if I had been around and trying to follow along, I'd have had a few interruptions in my fandom. I know FZ always spoke as if he held a grudge against people who were disappointed in that late-60s breakup of the Mothers. He always said that first group simply wasn't very good, and limited his composition.
While I like where he landed in the mid-70s in terms of sound and musicians, I didn't really like a lot of the almost cartoonishly juvenile "humor" in the lyrics that really started in the early 70s and continued on his vocal albums until he died. (However, he was so talented, there is almost always something to find in his music to enjoy.)
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Post by kds on Jun 15, 2022 12:23:36 GMT
Granted, I didn't experience much of Springsteen's prime in real time. I was three or four when Born in the USA was released, but I'd always thought of that album as the end of his prime era.
After listening to his later albums on Spotify, I still feel pretty much the same.
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