ERIC CLAPTON "unplugged" cd/dvd 1992
one of the MTV series of unplugged sets.
the album that really bought EC back into the spotlight
after a dismal 1980s (like most established artists of the day).
love just about everything on here.
the album is/was the biggest seller of his career clocking in over
26 million sales worldwide to date making it the biggest selling 'live album of all time.
album won six Grammy's all of which were thoroughly deserved.
superb album, superb artist has few peers if any IMO.
I LOVE THIS ALBUM.
favourite
VAN MORRISONÂ "too long in exile" cd, 1993
his twenty-second set.
guest appearances by John Lee Hooker and Georgie Fame.
light, breezy bluesy romp.
good to hear Van sound relaxed (I find him to sound 'forced' on occasion, but not on this one).
up above(previous post), Eric revamped Layla, on this one Van revamps Gloria into a slow groove.
not as good as what EC did but still respectable IMO
I LOVE THIS ALBUM
fave:
^^
great song there Jerome.
great artist also
^^
great track:
not long after the song was released he toured Australia.
basically had a whinge about everything from hotels, weather, food, interviewers etc
so the radio stations blacklisted him for years.
couldn't even request him on the radio.
he toured back in the late nineties and was asked about his attitude many moons previous
he blamed drugs and booze and apologised for his behaviour.
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ERIC CLAPTON "unplugged" cd/dvd 1992
one of the MTV series of unplugged sets.
the album that really bought EC back into the spotlight
after a dismal 1980s (like most established artists of the day).
love just about everything on here.
the album is/was the biggest seller of his career clocking in over
26 million sales worldwide to date making it the biggest selling 'live album of all time.
album won six Grammy's all of which were thoroughly deserved.
superb album, superb artist has few peers if any IMO.
I LOVE THIS ALBUM.
favourite
His best album by a mile.
One of two major pieces of songwriting by Stephen Stills about his love for Judy Collins. Of course it all fell apart but they are now the best of mates. Both say that their relationship was too intense to survive.
There's Suite: Judy Blue Eyes - probably the most obvious and well-known of his songs about her but I prefer this one. Stunning piece. The title says it all.
https://youtu.be/6yc4_25Fjjc
BOB DYLANÂ "highway 61 revisited" cd, 1965
another album played yesterday.
a random pick.
coincidently has the track MH and Jerome mentioned in another thread.
Mr.D goes all electric on us here that's why it not in folk.
loving just about every track on here.
in fact, the album is so good that Like A Rolling Stone almost fades into
obscurity alongside some of the other on here.
Mr.D at his creative peak around this time.
I LOVE THIS ALBUM.
pretty difficult to pick a favourite but this one does stand out to us all on MD:
They're selling postcards of the hanging
They're painting the passports brown
The beauty parlor is filled with sailors
The circus is in town
Here comes the blind commissioner
They've got him in a trance
One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker
The other is in his pants
And the riot squad, they're restless
They need somewhere to go
As lady and I look out tonight, from Desolation Row
Cinderella, she seems so easy
"It takes one to know one," she smiles
And puts her hands in her back pockets, Bette Davis-style
And in comes Romeo, he's moaning
"You Belong to me, I believe"
And someone says, "You're in the wrong place
My friend, you better leave"
And the only sound that's left after the ambulances go
Is Cinderella sweeping up on Desolation Row
Now the moon is almost hidden
The stars are beginning to hide
The fortune telling lady
Has even taken all her things inside
All except for Cain and Abel and the hunchback of Notre Dame
Everybody is making love or else expecting rain
And the good Samaritan, he's dressing
He's getting ready for the show
He's going to the carnival tonight on Desolation Row
Now Ophelia, she's 'neath the window
For her I feel so afraid
On her twenty-second birthday she already is an old maid
To her, death is quite romantic, she wears an iron vest
Her profession's her religion, her sin is her lifelessness
And though her eyes are fixed upon Noah's great rainbow
She spends her time peeking into Desolation Row
Einstein, disguised as Robin Hood
With his memories in a trunk
Passed this way an hour ago with his friend, a jealous monk
He looked so immaculately frightful as he bummed a cigarette
As he went off sniffing drainpipes and reciting the alphabet
Now you would not think to look at him
But he was famous long ago
For playing the electric violin on Desolation Row
Dr. Filth, he keeps his world inside of a leather cup
But all his sexless patients, they're trying to blow it up
Now his nurse, some local loser
She's in charge of the cyanide hole
And she also keeps the cards that read
"Have mercy on his soul"
They all play on the penny whistles, you can hear them blow
If you lean your head out far enough from Desolation Row
Across the street they've nailed the curtains
They're getting ready for the feast
The Phantom of the Opera, a perfect image of a priest
They're spoon-feeding Casanova
To get him to feel more assured
Then they'll kill him with self-confidence
After poisoning him with words
And the Phantom's shouting to skinny girls
"Get outta here if you don't know
Casanova is just being punished for going to Desolation Row"
Now at midnight all the agents and the superhuman crew
Come out and round up everyone that knows more than they do
Then they bring them to the factory
Where the heart-attack machine
Is strapped across their shoulders and then the kerosene
Is brought down from the castles by insurance men who go
Check to see that nobody is escaping to Desolation Row
Praise be to Nero's Neptune, the Titanic sails at dawn
And everybody's shouting, "Which side are you on?"
And Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot fighting in the captain's tower
While calypso singers laugh at them
And fishermen hold flowers
Between the windows of the sea where lovely mermaids flow
And nobody has to think too much about Desolation row
Yes, I received your letter yesterday
About the time the doorknob broke
When you asked me how I was doing
Was that some kind of joke?
All these people that you mention
Yes, I know them, they're quite lame
I had to rearrange their faces
And give them all another name
Right now, I can't read too good
Don't send me no more letters, no
Not unless you mail them from Desolation Row
PAUL McCARTNEY "memory almost full" cd, 2007
thirtieth post Beatle set for Sir Paul.
matches anything from his back catalogue IMO.
theres rock, pop, acoustic, folk, even a power ballad.
lots of reminiscing of days gone by, even one track describing what
he would like on the day he dies (very morbid by his usual happy-go-lucky style).
still sold around a million copies worldwide, not bad for a dude 45 years into his career.
I LOVE THIS ALBUM
lets go for unusually morbid Macca this time round:
At the end of the end
It's the start of a journey
To a much better place
And this wasn't bad
So a much better place
Would have to be special
No need to be sad
On the day that I die I'd like jokes to be told
And stories of old to be rolled out like carpets
That children have played on
And laid on while listening to stories of old
At the end of the end
It's the start of a journey
To a much better place
And a much better place
Would have to be special
No reason to cry
On the day that I die I'd like bells to be rung
And songs that were sung to be hung out like blankets
That lovers have played on
And laid on while listening to songs that were sung
At the end of the end
It's the start of a journey
To a much better place
And a much better place
Would have to be special
No reason to cry
No need to be sad
At the end of the end