Posts: 2,223
Threads: 359
Joined: Oct 2009
Which do you prefer.............The polished clever music that came out of America's Brill building and dominated the US charts ............
Or he quaint and often eccentric writings that came from the UK in the sixties
For you is it Carole King , Gerry Goffin , Neil Diamond Neil Sadaka etc
Or
John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ray Davis , Pete Townsend , Donovan , Jagger and Richards?
Take your choice and airs your views.................
Nice to be able to go back to trust and friendship!!!!!!!!!
It's a mixed up sensation this being alive
Oh! it wears a man down into the ground
It's the strangest elation
I can't describe it
Oh it leaves a man weary
It makes a man frown..............................Chris Simpson ( "Mixed Up Sensations" 1975 Martin's Cafe )
Posts: 34,763
Threads: 3,454
Joined: Jul 2010
i will need time to ponder my response as there are ertainly some great writers in your options and to be honest im finding it hard to concentrate at midnight.....but one thing bugs me in your British names list Gryphon and your opening comments....
can Jagger/Richards really be termed "quaint and often eccentric British writers"....? weren't they more "rough and ready" blues rockers?
i would have thought Marriott/Laine fitted better into that catagory?
"BTO....Bachman,Turner,Overweight
They were big in the 70s....for five minutes,on a Saturday,after lunch..." - Me 2014.
Posts: 5,551
Threads: 146
Joined: Jan 2008
Forced to make a choice, I'd pick the Brit school, but I wouldn't be happy not having access to the US stuff from the same period...
"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture"
Unknown
Posts: 2,223
Threads: 359
Joined: Oct 2009
I take the point CH ..................I think that Jagger and Richard could be hard and rough but so could Ray Davis.......................What I felt was that their approach could be quaint in the fact that they wrote to the whims and feelings where as The Brill building approach was a production line, sit at a desk/piano produce a hit by 5.00pm and make it fit "The Kids" and what the adults wanted them to hear..................The UK idea was more freelance and to my mind quaint that they worked at their own pace and wrote about why they felt .........there was no production line of hits ............
Nice to be able to go back to trust and friendship!!!!!!!!!
It's a mixed up sensation this being alive
Oh! it wears a man down into the ground
It's the strangest elation
I can't describe it
Oh it leaves a man weary
It makes a man frown..............................Chris Simpson ( "Mixed Up Sensations" 1975 Martin's Cafe )
Posts: 13,354
Threads: 236
Joined: May 2011
As I mentioned once before, my music collection is probably 60% Brit and 40% Other ( American, Canadian, Irish, Celtic, French,Scandinavian, etc.). I would dare say that a good portion of the American material would be Jazz, Country and Blues and the Master ...Mr.Dylan !!!!
Tiggi or CH mentioned something before regarding British music in that the artists seem to write about their everyday experiences and daily life which makes it very appealing to the common person. I tend to agree with this observation .... see my CT Ward quote, English Tea by Macca ...how common is that !!!!... lol.
The ultimate connection is between a performer and its' audience!
