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What Are You Listening To? - CRAZY-HORSE - 13-05-2012

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BOB DYLAN "love and theft" cd,2001. #3UK, #5 US, #6 AU.

39 years into a career and 31 studio albums later.....for a guy who cannot sing a note intune is amazing IMO, maybe he should try some of that 'autotune' on his next album LMFAO!
this was my Dylan 'comeback album'...went off him after i got that abysmal 1989 set "down in the groove" with his stupid cover of "lets stick together" and that average single "silvio"....
but this one was a return to some sort of form IMO...
great lyrics, love those smokey,rough edged vocals he got around this time...suits the swing,jazzy overtones and the bluesy rocky type material on here also...
actually scoring a bit better than i thought it would despite two tracks i do not like on here, guess its offset by five i do love...
incidently, this one was released the day of the 9/11 attacks in the US, so i am surprised it sold as well as it did with all the chaos around at the time...

I LIKE THIS ALBUM

worst track: floater
best track: tweedle dum and tweedle de

tracks:

1. tweedle dum and tweedle de ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WP0b7IzWn28 audio
2. mississippi *
3. summer days ***
4. bye and bye **
5. lonesome day blues **
6. floater *
7. high water **
8. moonlight ***
9. honest with me ***
10.po' boy **
11.cry a while ***
12.sugar baby **

3s=5
2s=5
1s=2

rating: 2.3

What Are You Listening To? - Music Head - 13-05-2012

^^
assuming that was the only clip available
seems like I had that problem with another Dylan album
something going on there

What Are You Listening To? - CRAZY-HORSE - 13-05-2012

i actually looked for clips for three other songs and they werent there, then i got sidetracked with breakfast and didnt care to look for the other clips...sorry!

What Are You Listening To? - SteveO - 13-05-2012

A very good album I must say !

What Are You Listening To? - Mrrusty1 - 13-05-2012

Right now I am revisiting Yes tales from topographic oceans
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What Are You Listening To? - Jerome - 14-05-2012

Mrrusty1 Wrote:Right now I am revisiting Yes tales from topographic oceans
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An absolute masterpiece. Nothing like it ever before and nothing like it since.....a unique album.

What Are You Listening To? - Jerome - 15-05-2012

Emerson Lake & Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery

What Are You Listening To? - Music Head - 16-05-2012

from my library (vinyl)

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Can't believe this album went platinum and reached #3 on the chart. I'll take an airplane any day. Grace Slick gets
a total of two lead vocals on here with Marty Balin getting all but one of the rest, and I think he has an awful
voice. The only one worse is drummer John Barbata on the other track. Five of the nine tracks do get a like but
that's not enough to save it. Still, Starship flew higher than airplane, becoming a huge arena rock band of the
70's, so what do I know? This is the groups third album after the evolution. They would evolve yet again to an even
more commercial sound, becoming just Starship. Thank God it finally crashed at warp speed. With Your Love and St.
Charles are showing as singles with the former reaching #12 and my favorite. Terrible lyrics but it sounds good.
I thought Cruisin' was a single also. Not that I care for it that much but it sure was the most memorable on this spin.

I DO NOT LIKE THIS ALBUM

Worst Track - Big City

Best Track - With Your Love

Don't know what's happened to me since I met you
Feel like I'm fallin' in love since I met you
I got to know what you're doin' doin' me with your love
(With your love)
What you're doin' doin' me with your love
(With your love)
What you're doin' doin' me with your love
(With your love)

What you're doin' baby it feels so good, whatever it is
Knew from the start it had to be you
You got my heart, I don't know what I'm gonna do
With your love

Heaven sent me a sign, then sent you
I'm goin' out of my mind since I met you

I got to know what you're doin' doin' me with your love
(With your love)
What you're doin' doin' me with your love
(With your love)
What you're doin' doin' me with your love
(With your love)

What you're doin' baby it feels so good whatever it is
Whatever it is and whatever it's called
I know that it's you, I can't help gettin' involved
With your love

(Baby, sweet baby)
(Take it over)
(With your love)
(With your love)
(With your love)

Whatever you did to me, well ya' sure did it good
My heart's filled with lovin' and I knew that it would
With your love

Don't know what's happened to me since I met you
I feel like I'm fallin' in love since I met you

I've got to know what you're doin' doin' me with your love
(With your love)
What you're doin' doin' me with your love
(With your love)
What you're doin' doin' me with your love
(With your love)

What you're doin' baby it feels so good, whatever it is
Knew from the start it had to be you
You got my heart, I don't know what I'm gonna do
With your love

Sweet baby, sweet baby

Woah, oo-oo, oo-ooo.

1) Cruisin' **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5GciwTCeFw
2) Dance With The Dragon **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJv7D-3N-UE
3) Hot Water **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vakeIi5Dz1I
4) St. Charles *
video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4BxmjFuF_0
5) Song To The Sun *
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYyYDP5zAuU
6) With Your Love **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gyp0f8L5nd4
7) Switchblade **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5cuGSwgzVE
8) Big City *
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YckWUyGFsxU
9) Love Lovely Love *
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vny-vNSbW30

3's - 0
2's - 5
1's - 4

Grade - 1.6

so many albums, so little time

What Are You Listening To? - CRAZY-HORSE - 16-05-2012

QUOTE....i'll take an airplane anyday...UNQUOTE

so come on over man!!!!!


im with you...airplane over starship anyday

What Are You Listening To? - SteveO - 17-05-2012

MIKE BATT - Caravans (1979)

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Jerome recommended this album and I can see why! Mike Batt is a magnificent artist! He was born in Southampton, England and it seems that he garnered huge popularity in South Africa as well as the UK. He is an accomplished composer, producer, arranger, songwriter, vocalist and musician in his own rite. Mike has been involved in 60 albums or so over the past 45 years!

This album which is the Musical Score for the movie Caravans is a joy to listen to. It features Batt's diversity with classical music, traditional folk stylings, Iranian music, avant garde jazz, progressive rock and pop rock. He is accompanied by the infamous London Philharmonic Orchestra. I love this album! An artist to be explored extensively.

Biography from All Music

MIKE BATT

British singer/songwriter, producer, and composer Mike
Batt is a journeyman artist with a long track record of
successful productions that cross from film and
television to musical theater and pop music. Born in 1949
in Southampton, Hampshire, England, Batt was signed to
Liberty/United Artists Records at age 18 and left after
two years to form his own publishing company. Beginning
in 1974, Batt began writing and recording music for the
children's television show and bubblegum pop group the
Wombles, and ultimately scored eight hit singles with the
group. He then went on to write successfully for a bevy
of artists including Steeleye Span, Linda Lewis, Elkie
Brooks, Barbara Dickinson, the Kursaal Flyers, and Art
Garfunkel, with whom he won his second Ivor Novello Award
for 1979's "Bright Eyes" from the animated film Watership
Down.
Batt continued as a solo artist in the '70s, releasing
several albums including 1977's Schizophonia and the 1979
concept album Tarot Suite. However, it was as a writer
that he found his niche, and in 1983 he scored several
Top Ten hits for Cliff Richard, David Essex, and Alvin
Stardust. A year later, Batt made his debut as a
conductor at the Barbican with the London Symphony
Orchestra. Also in 1984, Batt embarked on the first of
his musical theater-inspired endeavors with the album
Snark (also referred to as The Hunting of the Snark). An
all-star cast recording based on the nonsensical poetry
of Lewis Carroll, the album featured John Hurt, Sir John
Gielgud, Roger Daltrey, Julian Lennon, Stéphane Grappelli
and others. Snark would be a continuing project for Batt
as he would return to the material with a live stage
version in 1991.
During the '90s, Batt continued his work in both the
classical and pop worlds by collaborating with several
high-profile artists and ensembles including the London
Philharmonic Orchestra, Finbar Wright, Vanessa-Mae, XTC,
and others. In 1994, he released the solo album
Arabesque. The following year, he received a royal
commission to compose the music for the inauguration of
the Channel Tunnel. Also during this time, he composed
the music for Stephane Grappelli, George Harrison, and
others.
During the '90s, Batt continued his work in both the
classical and pop worlds by collaborating with several
high-profile artists and ensembles including the London
Philharmonic Orchestra, Finbar Wright, Vanessa-Mae, XTC,
and others. In 1994, he released the solo album
Arabesque. The following year, he received a royal
commission to compose the music for the inauguration of
the Channel Tunnel. Also during this time, he composed
the music for the film A Merry War and even re-launched
the Wombles. Batt continued to hone his niche as a man
behind the scenes, developing and guiding the careers of
several acts including the classical-crossover groups
Bond and the Planets, whose 2002 album Classical Graffiti
spent three months at number one on the classical charts.
Batt also helped guide and launch the career of vocalist
Katie Melua, whom he discovered in 2003 while she was
attending the BRIT School for the Performing Arts &
Technology. Beginning with 2003's Call Off the Search,
Batt wrote, co-wrote, and produced three of Melua's
albums, and although he was not the main producer, he did
contribute to Melua's 2010 effort, The House.

Caravans album - Soundtrack for motion picture Caravans

SOUND SAMPLES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpHzzrFWL28 - Theme of Caravans

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCWZX6vhRWk - Caravans on the Move

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4qalhBmzkA - Caravan Song