Great rock and pop albums

[Lateralthinking1]

I've had people banging on the door all week. Please, please, please, they said, can we have numbers 201-250 of your selections which (a) make us all question what we mean by pop and rock music and (b) would show that you can get up to 250 having different artists each time but without compromising on quality (well not too much). OK, I replied humbly, I know how much it means to every one of you. It will be there on Sunday, I promise. Just don't rush out and buy them all at once:

Billie Holiday - Lady in Satin, Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Up Above My Head, Frank Sinatra - In The Wee Small Hours, Miles Davis - Kind of Blue, The Skatalites - Best Of, Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica, Dusty Springfield - Dusty in Memphis, Jimmy Webb - Tunesmith, Judy Collins - Whales and Nightingales, Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin 4,

Four Tops - Gold, Fairport Convention - Liege and Lief, Dave and Ansel Collins - Double Barrel - Best Of, Wishbone Ash - Argus, Junior Walker and the All Stars - Definitive Collection, Lou Reed - Transformer, Minnie Riperton - Come To My Garden, John Cale -Paris 1919, Can - Ege Bamyasi, Ten CC - How Dare You,

Elvis Costello - My Aim is True, Stiff Little Fingers - Inflammable Material, John Lennon and Yoko Ono - Double Fantasy, Orange Juice - You Can't Hide Your Love Forever, Clannad - Magical Ring, Peter Gabriel - So, U2 - The Joshua Tree, Morrissey - Viva Hate, Will Ackerman - Imaginary Clouds, The Go-Betweens - 16 Lovers Lane,

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Michael Brooks - Mustt Mustt, Animals That Swim - Workshy, Shed Seven - A Maximum High, The Wannadies - Be a Girl, Transglobal Underground - Dream of a 100 Nations, Manic Street Preachers - Everything Must Go, Gorkys Zygotic Mynci - Barafundle, Belle and Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister, Benjamin Biolay - Rose Kennedy, Cathal Coughlan - The Sky's Awful Blue,

Barrence Whitfield and the Savages - Barrence Whitfield and the Savages, Sharon Shannon - Best Of, Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs, Asian Dub Foundation - Community Music, Sigur Ros - Takk, Midlake - The Trials of Van Occupanther, Fat Freddy's Drop - Based on a True Story, Jah Wobble - Chinese Dub, Eli Paperboy Reed - Roll With You, Thea Gilmore - Strange Communion

[Sparafucile]

Hi,
Waka Jawaka was/has been subtitled Hot Rats 2, which has been a source of confusion since it was released. As much as I love Hot Rats, I really prefer The Grand Wazoo from that period of Frank's poodling.

All 3 are available as a 3 disc set: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Threesome-2-...3074149&sr=1-3

[Lateralthinking1]

These two fantastic clips are almost classical music to me. The first in particular has to be one of the finest performances of the last decade in any genre:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX0B9ZpdZEA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3ueIweuUvo

[Lateralthinking1]

Talking of which, that sublime 20 minutes in Nara:

http://www.dylanvideo.com/apps/videos/videos/show/12645132-the-great-music-experience-nara-japan-22-5-94

[Lateralthinking1]

Oh go on then - last one of this ilk and a bit more of a show tune production. Absolutely fantastic song. Brilliant performance and I'm not going to be told otherwise.

Oh yeah, and it's from one of the many areas that Thompson The Terrible has scythed. Cheers mate. The event couldn't have been slaughtered so viciously and inanely by a nicer fella:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHb5ZoyDi-0

[hackneyvi]

Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Up Above My Head ... John Cale -Paris 1919, Can - Ege Bamyasi ... John Lennon and Yoko Ono - Double Fantasy ... Gorkys Zygotic Mynci - Barafundle ... Jah Wobble - Chinese Dub

Ooh! ... Aaah!! (pr. as periodic exclamations of pleasure)

But where, oh!, where are selections 301 to 350?

[Lateralthinking1]

I'm so pleased you asked me that.

[hackneyvi]

Some regulars on my player:

KING CRIMSON IN THE COURT OF THE CRIMSON KING - Music I should know by now and don't
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PETER SKELLERN ASTAIRE - I love Fred Astaire's singing and I was surprised to find when looking into PS that Skellern appears to have written the lyric to One More Kiss, Dear featured in Blade Runner.

BEACH BOYS PET SOUNDS - Always struggled with anything besides the singles.

CARAVAN IN THE LAND OF GREY AND PINK - Not known.

JONI MITCHELL BOTH SIDES NOW - Sometimes eloquent and vigorous (River, A Case of You, California) but sometimes I find JM just too precious to bear (Songs to Ageing Children Come)

DONALD FAGEN THE NIGHTFLY - Also unknown but picked twice (by Bo and Calum) in the first few posts; requires attention!

[johncorrigan]

BEACH BOYS PET SOUNDS - Always struggled with anything besides the singles.

When Pet Sounds came out my pal and I spent the summer singing it - I can still love it at the drop of a hat.

I've been listening a fair bit to Brian Wilson's 'Smile' lately. The Beach Boys were my favourite group in the mid 60s - the first band I saw live (albeit and unknown to me without Brian) - I remember spending the evening trying to work out which one he was.

What makes me sad about Smile is that I think of an LP with Heroes and Villains and Good Vibrations and Surfs Up and Vegetables and a bunch of other songs being released in '67 or '68 with those wonderful Beach Boys' vocals; instead they turned up over the years on anything from 'Wild Honey' to 'Holland' or 'Surf's Up'. The Smile album is well made and enjoyable, but it just leaves me with the question of what might have been had Brian managed to hold it together way back when.

[french frank]

I hardly like to intrude, but would anyone object to my moving this thread to Platform 3? It is coming to rather dominate the speech forum

[Lateralthinking1]

hackneyvi - You have some wide ranging, interesting, choices there. I can't say that I would rave about Skellern generally. There is though an album of original compositions with, I think, the Grimethorpe Colliery Band which is actually very moving. Totally agree on Joni and the Beach Boys.

JC - Thank you for your memories of the Beach Boys. I do agree with everything you say about Smile but would counter-balance it with the positive feelings about the period and ultimate events that marked Brian's recovery and return. Btw, I have got Sunflower and Surf's Up on the one cd and they make for a very strong combination.

frenchfrank - A reasonable request. I will though pm you.

[hackneyvi]

I hardly like to intrude, but would anyone object to my moving this thread to Platform 3? It is coming to rather dominate the speech forum

Ah, I see! I misunderstood the 'General Arts' heading.

Should "What are you reading now" go to P3, too? It surprises me that the entries in that thread can be relatively infrequent when I'd expect the contributors to this board to be reading alot. It might be more used on P3.

[Lateralthinking1]

Hi hackneyvi

I very much like your thread. You will have noticed by the number of my contributions. It has also been popular - 103 posts to date! I do think though that it would be better on Platform 3. It would have a wider audience.

I tend to see "Arts and Ideas" as being mainly for the written and spoken word and the visual arts. While these have a significant following, that isn't huge and the topics can be easily upstaged.

As one of the hosts for A and I, I will continue to try to raise the profile of these areas. Words are not generally the biggest part of programmes on Radio 3 so we start from a smaller "fan base". Sometimes this means that we stop off at other stations but principally for their coverage of drama and literature. As for visual art, I am determined that it should feature but it is not a natural ally of radio. I like a challenge in that way!

So I really hope that you don't mind if we place your thread on Platform 3. It is, as Ian McMillan would say, a pot-pourri. The world is our oyster there. We can move on this thread from Van der Graaf Generator to the Electric Soft Parade and stop off at Van Morrison and Electribe 101 if anyone wants to go there. A message to all - feel free to top up the card and venture.

As for the jazzier and more worldy forms, we already have the places and the more contributors the merrier.

Kind regards, Lat.

[french frank]

Ah, I see! I misunderstood the 'General Arts' heading.

Should "What are you reading now" go to P3, too? It surprises me that the entries in that thread can be relatively infrequent when I'd expect the contributors to this board to be reading alot. It might be more used on P3.

Absolutely no problem with the thread other than that it kept covering up the other A&I threads on the forum view.

The reading thread keeps getting a new lease of life. If people use the What's New? view it doesn't make a lot of difference which forum anything is in. Um, um, um, I used to have a Springfields album. I've just looked it up on Wikipedia specially: it was called Kinda Folksy (1961). Follow that ...!

[hackneyvi]

Hi hackneyvi

I very much like your thread. You will have noticed by the number of my contributions. It has also been popular - 103 posts to date! I do think though that it would be better on Platform 3. It would have a wider audience ...

Kind regards, Lat.

I'd rather expected it to be a 'Thread of Shame' (that's probably why I started it at midnight; closedown here seems to be around 11 pm). But it's yielded some interesting common ground and suggestions (Donald Fagan and Jens Lekman were unknown and I'd forgotten all about Gorky's Zygotic Mynci). I'm still half-heartedly hoping somebody else will list or discover 'Flowers of Romance' but the chances is lookin' slim.