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07-01-2015, 10:59 PM | #161 (permalink) | |
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07-02-2015, 06:38 AM | #163 (permalink) | |
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But since we're suddenly on the subject of breakup songs, let me derail my own thread further and ask you to listen to the lyric on this song, then tell me if this isn't the most selfish **** you ever heard letting someone down not in the least gently, now that he's had his fun.
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07-02-2015, 01:31 PM | #164 (permalink) |
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As for the album, I'm gonna vote NO. It has "Father and son" on it, but to be fair I don't think one classic song makes an album, and I don't recall anyone ever saying this really influenced their music. Some good songs, but not a classic album for me.
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07-02-2015, 01:42 PM | #165 (permalink) |
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I don't really get the criteria here. It's the best album by a very, very famous musician, I didn't realize we're only going for highly influential stuff. Not that I was necessarily voting yes anyway but I guess I just don't see what's so different about this versus Rumours for example
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07-02-2015, 01:45 PM | #166 (permalink) |
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I think it's all relative. You're going to get a lot of people who KNOW Cat Stevens but couldn't name one of his albums; flip that with Fleetwood Mac. Most people can name Rumours or maybe if they're younger Tango in the Night. There were so many singles and hits and important tracks on Rumours, it couldn't not be a classic, and it was also the classic FM lineup. The thing about our Cat is that he really is known mostly for one, two or three songs, and that's it. I just don't see how this qualifies as a classic album.
But again, it's up to everyone to invent and use their own criteria. I'm not telling you how to vote or how to make up your minds. This is just how I see it for this album.
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07-02-2015, 01:45 PM | #167 (permalink) | |
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07-02-2015, 01:50 PM | #168 (permalink) |
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Well a lot of people would disagree with that
I guess I'll vote no although I do love Tea for the Tillerman
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07-02-2015, 02:17 PM | #169 (permalink) |
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It's not about being best. Black Sabbath got a resounding YES even though a lot of people prefer Paranoid. A band/artiste can have more than one classic album. Would you consider Bad and Thriller both to be classics? It's jsut about whether it deserves to be A classic, not THE classic.
So that's 4-0 for No. One more and I'll call it.
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07-02-2015, 03:52 PM | #170 (permalink) |
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Wild World was about a lover and how their relationship had ended.
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