Micshazam's album and song picks

Trollheart · 09-06-2017, 11:48 AM

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Originally Posted by MicShazam

On my first, and so far only, listen through the whole album, no song struck me as bad, but I know from experience how my perception of albums tend to change with each listen.

It happens. "New Friends Again" on Welcome To the Cruise (terrible sub-disco song that prefaces the wonderful "Stay With Me Till Dawn"), most of Ritmo, "God Only Knows" on Left Hand Talking (sure it's a cover but why does it need to even be there?), "I Can Read Books" off Wonderland, "Racing Against Time " from The Cat is Out....

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Last Friday some friends came by for a night of board games and Judie Tzuke was one of the many artists that made it through my stereo. Some asked who she was when the Sportscar album and the Portfolio compilation album played and seemed to quite like her music. I think her music could appeal to many if only they got exposed to it somehow. I found her myself by nothing by dumb luck, and I was sold immediately.

This has always been my belief too. It's not that her music doesn't or wouldn't appeal to a wider audience, just that most people seem never to have heard of her, or if they had, it's that one song.

~~MicShazam~~ · 09-06-2017, 12:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

It happens. "New Friends Again" on Welcome To the Cruise (terrible sub-disco song that prefaces the wonderful "Stay With Me Till Dawn"), most of Ritmo, "God Only Knows" on Left Hand Talking (sure it's a cover but why does it need to even be there?), "I Can Read Books" off Wonderland, "Racing Against Time " from The Cat is Out....

I still need to familiarize myself with all of her albums. I don't know even the ones I have in and out yet, so giving my full opinion about them will have to wait until somewhere in the future. I never feel comfortable judging an album that I like until I've lived with it for a while. Until then, any opinion I hold might change next week.

Ritmo being bad? Oh dear... I've put it on my wishlist for my birthday in October, so maybe I'll hear for myself soon enough. The only album that let me down so far is Left Hand Talking, but I only heard the whole thing once so I don't know for sure yet... (for the record, I only own Sportscar, I am the Phoenix, Turning Stones, Left Hand Talking and the Portfolio collection, so I haven't quite got by bearing yet. I'm especially interested in hearing all of her debut album, but it will take a while before I find a good copy of it.)

Trollheart · 09-06-2017, 01:06 PM

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Originally Posted by MicShazam

I still need to familiarize myself with all of her albums. I don't know even the ones I have in and out yet, so giving my full opinion about them will have to wait until somewhere in the future. I never feel comfortable judging an album that I like until I've lived with it for a while. Until then, any opinion I hold might change next week.

Ritmo being bad? Oh dear... I've put it on my wishlist for my birthday in October, so maybe I'll hear for myself soon enough. The only album that let me down so far is Left Hand Talking, but I only heard the whole thing once so I don't know for sure yet... (for the record, I only own Sportscar, I am the Phoenix, Turning Stones, Left Hand Talking and the Portfolio collection, so I haven't quite got by bearing yet. I'm especially interested in hearing all of her debut album, but it will take a while before I find a good copy of it.)

It might just be me. I found Ritmo a massive let down, almost her attempt at a full-blown disco/vacuous pop album. Actually, now I look at the tracklisting again it's not so bad. Certainly until halfway into the second side. And it ends well. Maybe I should give it another chance.

Incidentally, if you want digital copies of any of her albums, ie mp3s, let me know and I can post them for you.

~~MicShazam~~ · 09-06-2017, 03:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

It might just be me. I found Ritmo a massive let down, almost her attempt at a full-blown disco/vacuous pop album. Actually, now I look at the tracklisting again it's not so bad. Certainly until halfway into the second side. And it ends well. Maybe I should give it another chance.

Incidentally, if you want digital copies of any of her albums, ie mp3s, let me know and I can post them for you.

The only one it seems like might be really hard to get a CD copy of so far is The Cat is Out. It easily goes for 4x as much on CD as it does on vinyl on amazon.uk, and I don't own a turntable.

In think I can manage Wonderland and Welcome to the Cruise. I did after all get Turning Stones. It was expensive for a while, but I managed to grab a copy when it dropped to something reasonable one day.