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Originally Posted by Rainard Jalen
Can - Ege Bamyasi
I'm sure there are a ton of reasons why I should like this album, I just can't figure out what they are! Plus, I find the long tracks Pinch and Soup particularly difficult.
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I had trouble with this one, too, until I played it for my girlfriend on a road trip. It took me years to get into, tho has been rewarding since and now I play it often as it is less demanding than the superior TAGO MAGO. Background CAN.
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Originally Posted by sleepy jack
I didn't mean it in a bad way but when you look at the big albums of the 60s are generally British: The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, The Who, Black Sabbath (70s but whatever), etc the amount of American artists who put out albums put on the same pedestal as them isn't as much.
Back to why I like Pet Sounds. It's pretty simple I just think it's a beautiful pop album hah.
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LIVE DEAD, Workingman's Dead, American Beauty
BLUE CHEER - Vincebus Eruptum
"Bless It's Pointed Little Head" by Jefferson Airplane
"Easter Everywhere" by the 13th Floor Elevators
(I'm digging for 'em, I know)
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Originally Posted by Rainard Jalen
Alright, here's one. Somebody help meh out! Sly & The Family Stone - There's A Riot Goin' On: heralded by many as one of the best albums of the 1970s, I don't see how it's even one of the best FUNK albums of the 70s. I'm not even sure it's the best SLY album of the 70s. I've listened to it at least a dozen times. All I took away from it is that:
- it has about 3 very good songs,
- and another 35 or so minutes of what might as well be background music for a bar or a movie, devoid of any real hooks or anything particularly memorable
- the icing on the cake is that all of those non-singles tracks seem like some sort of great shameless drug-infused mess - which was probably never supposed to happen in the first place
So...am I missing something? Enlighten me.
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Amazing record... the tones are unbelievable, analog mess at it's gloriousest... It sounds like it was recorded at home on a 4-track, twenty years before that was in vogue... no compression, all the levels pegged, no gratuitous displays of musicianship... just minimalist groove, raw semi-conscious slurred melody, and attitude so thick you can smell it (real attitude DOESN'T get right in your face... because it doesn't care about your face)