What Are You Listening To?

[Music Head]

from my library (vinyl)



Complete with real zipper. But it was in the up position. Like the Beatles I love all these early Stones albums.
Six of the ten tracks here hit home for me. Watching them early clips of Mick make it all the better. He does have
them moves like Jagger. Favorite for me here is one of the lesser known, Dead Flowers. A slight country flavor to
it. Worst is the only cover on the album, a Fred McDowell bluesy track, You Gotta Move and the only track I don't
like here. The album was the groups 11th U.S. release and the first on their newly founded Rolling Stones label.
Also the first with Mick Taylor on all tracks. A lot of the songs are actually outtakes from previous sessions for
Let It Bleed. No surprise the album went #1 everywhere. Brown Sugar also going #1 with Wild Horses a #28 here. The
latter written for Susan Boyle I'm sure.

I LOVE THIS ALBUM

Worst Track - You Gotta Move

Best Track - Dead Flowers

Well when you're sitting there in your silk upholstered chair
Talkin' to some rich folk that you know
Well I hope you won't see me in my ragged company
Well, you know I could never be alone

Take me down little Susie, take me down
I know you think you're the queen of the underground
And you can send me dead flowers every morning
Send me dead flowers by the mail
Send me dead flowers to my wedding
And I won't forget to put roses on your grave

Well when you're sitting back in your rose pink Cadillac
Making bets on Kentucky Derby Day
Ah, I'll be in my basement room with a needle and a spoon
And another girl to take my pain away

Take me down little Susie, take me down
I know you think you're the queen of the underground
And you can send me dead flowers every morning
Send me dead flowers by the mail
Send me dead flowers to my wedding
And I won't forget to put roses on your grave

Take me down little Susie, take me down
I know you think you're the queen of the underground
And you can send me dead flowers every morning
Send me dead flowers by the U.S. Mail
Say it with dead flowers in my wedding
And I won't forget to put roses on your grave
No, I won't forget to put roses on your grave

1) Brown Sugar ***
live - Rolling Stones - Brown Sugar - 1971 - Top of The Pops - BBC UK. - YouTube
2) Sway **
audio - The Rolling Stones - Sway - YouTube
3) Wild Horses ***
audio - Rolling Stones-Wild Horses - YouTube
4) Can't You Hear Me Knocking **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ8MvnEVCqM
5) You Gotta Move *
live - Rolling Stones - You Gotta Move - Live '76 Knebworth Fair - YouTube
6) Bitch ***
live - The Rolling Stones - Bitch - YouTube
7) I Got The Blues ***
live - Rolling Stones - I Got The Blues - Live ' 71 London - YouTube
8) Sister Morphine ***
audio - The Rolling Stones - Sister Morphine [HQ] - YouTube
9) Dead Flowers ***
live - Rolling Stones - Dead Flowers (Live 1972) Best Performance - YouTube
10) Moonlight Mile **
audio - The Rolling Stones - Moonlight Mile - YouTube

3's - 6
2's - 3
1's - 1

Grade - 2.5

so many albums, so little time

[CRAZY-HORSE]

Wild Horses would be my favourite track on here,pretty hard to go past that one im affraid!...up there with Angie and Sympathy For The Devil IMO

[Music Head]

from my library (vinyl)



I needed that. Don't find many studio albums coming out this high for me, outside of Beatles, Stones, Dylan, Cohen,
Jones. Close to a perfect album. Having only seven tracks helps that. Love five of them and the other two pass. The
seventeen minute closer seals the deal. Prog rock had arrived. This is the groups second album, trying to follow up
the classic Whiter Shade Of Pale. One of the greats, Robin Trower is on here, listed as Robbie Trower. Settled on
Rambling On as my favorite with Wish Me Well as the least but nothing bad. The album made #24 here with no singles
showing from tracks on my copy. Not sure why but allmusic lists three aditional tracks that are not on my copy. One
of those is Homburg that does show as a single, but I don't have it. Think mine is an original copy, but won't
swear to it. Ok fine I will dammit.

I LOVE THIS ALBUM

Worst Track - Wish Me Well

Best Track - Rambling On

Our local picture house was showing a Batman movie
You see this guy fly up in the sky, thought to myself, 'Why shouldn't I?'
So I bought a pair of wings, went up upon a wall
I was about to jump into the air when a guy from the street called
He said, 'Hey wait a minute! Don't you realize the danger?
What do you think you are, some kind of angel?'

I considered for a minute, realized he spoke the truth.
For the barbells on my eyelids only emphasised my youth
and the sawdust in my plimsolls means the same to him as me
But that's neither here nor further, so I spoke considerately
'Now if you understand just what I'm trying to say,
whatever you do, don't grin, you'll give the game away!'

By now a crowd had gathered and it seemed that all was lost
In the anger of the moment I had diced with death and lost
It seemed to me the time was right so I burst into song
In the anger of the moment the crowd began to sing along
I could not see a way out of this predicament
Just then a breeze came through the trees and up in the air I went

I must have flown a mile, or maybe it was eight
Thought to myself pretty soon I'd hit the Golden Gates
Just then a passing bird for no reason I could see
took a peck at my wings and that was the end of me
I went down, hit the ground faster than the speed of sound
Luckily I broke no bones only tore my underclothes

1) Quite Rightly So ***
audio - Procol Harum - Shine On Brightly - 01 - Quite Rightly So - YouTube
2) Shine On Brightly ***
live - Procol Harum Shine on Brightly - YouTube
3) Skip Softly (My Moonbeams) **
audio - Procol Harum - Shine On Brightly - 03 - Skip Softly (My Moonbeams) - YouTube
4) Wish Me Well **
audio - Procol Harum - Shine On Brightly - 04 - Wish Me Well - YouTube
5) Rambling On ***
audio - Procol Harum - Shine On Brightly - 05 - Rambling On - YouTube
6) Magdalene (My Regal Zonophone) ***
audio - Procol Harum - Shine On Brightly - 06 - Magdalene (My Regal Z - YouTube
7) In Held 'Twas In I ***
audio - Procol Harum:-'In Held 'Twas In I' - YouTube

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

Grade - 2.7

so many albums, so little time

[SteveO]

Actually Beggars Banquet is a long time favorite of mine !

THE ROLLING STONES "beggars banquet" cd,1968.

i cant get no satisfaction from these guys no matter how hard i try....
i have probably 30 of their singles on 7" vinyl, approx eight or nine studio albums and a couple of best of sets on vinyl and cd but i feel as though i am walking the dog everytime i hear the Stones..ie: like picking up a piece of old dog crap!
just cant get into them at all, i admit, i love numerous songs, Angie would almost certainly be in my top 20 favourite singles of all time, and the opening track from this album, Sympathy For The Devil would have to be in my favourite list of album tracks of all time along with Wild Horses, but as an album band these guys just dont cut it for me.
this is their album from 1968....now compare it to The Beatles "white album"...even the few dud tracks on that double album are as good as the good ones on here!

overall, this album is made up of songs with no melody,tune or impassioned vocals and guitar work...its pretty dull, lifeless and boring IMO,like most of the Stones output for the last six decades, just exactly how they became so big is a mystery to me as the talent for writing 'great' songs was few and far between, unlike UK counterparts Small Faces,Who,Kinks,Manfred Mann and obviously The Beatles.

below is a brief description of what i think of the individual tracks on this album....

I LIKE THIS ALBUM(but only just!)

worst track: street fighting man
best track: sympathy for the devil

tracks:

1. sympathy for the devil ***
one of rock music's greatest ever tracks IMO
Rolling Stones - Sympathy for The Devil ( Live 1969 Altamont - YouTube live
2. no expectations **
only the Brian Jones slide guitar work gives this a passing grade IMO
3. dear doctor *
a crappy psuedo-novelty track and album filler!
4. parachute man **
not great but better than most on here IMO
5. jigsaw puzzle *
no tune/melody, no substance in the lyrics neither...absolutely no nothing here at all!
6. street fighting man *
possibly the Stones worst single up until 1984's Undercover Of The Night
7. prodigal son **
reasonable effort in their attempt to cover an old Gospel song
8. stray cat blues *
another album filler IMO,even the guitar solo at the end cant save this one!
9. factory girl **
sort of blues cum folk track,very good effort,works for me.
10.salt of the earth **
half decent "peace" song...their attempt at trying to outdo "all you need is love" IMO

3s=1
2s=5
1s=4

rating: 1.7

[SteveO]

CHRIS SQUIRE - Fish Out of Water (1975)




Another gem from the old vinyl vault ! Yes bassist/vocalist Chris Squire's first solo outing and it's a very good one ! Recorded during the Yes' three year hiatus between Relayer and Going For The One. This album is very close to a Yes album, progressive rock at its' best......which does not degrade it in any way ! Bandmates Bill Bruford on percussion and Patrick Moraz on bass synthesizer/organ add to the Yes sound similarity. Moraz of course replaced keyboard virtuoso Rick Wakeman the year before.

There are seven tracks here all written by Squire. The album still clocks in at over 42 minutes.

Solo releases by Yes mates Jon Anderson, Steve Howe and Wakeman just show us how talented this group was and still is !!!!!!

All Music rating ..... 4.5/5

[Mrrusty1]

I am listening to neil young tonights the night (the live version from live rust) absolutely awesome

[Mrrusty1]

Neil young Live rust

[gater]

Genesis, "Where the Sour Turns to Sweet."
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[Jerome]

Harvest - Neil Young - my favourite of his. So simple, so effective.

[Mrrusty1]

im listening to the live bbc version of joe cocker with a little help from my friends which is the very best version ever in my opinion.