Tonight's listen #1:Chicago Transit Authority - Chicago Transit AuthorityThe decision to debut Chicago with a double album was a bold one on both the band's and their label's part. Their incorporation of jazz elements into rock was a fairly novel concept in 1969, having been pioneered a year earlier by Blood, Sweat & Tears, who were in turn inspired by the "brass-rock" sound of the Buckinghams (listen to "Don't You Care" in particular). Going in knowing only the hit singles, I was worried that 76 minutes of jazz-rock would induce horn-section fatigue. However, the arrangements are so intelligent that they never feel overbearing. These guys sounded like old pros from right out the starting gate. While the double-album gambit paid off commercially, I would argue that the affair could have been tightened into a single LP or at least pared down by fifteen minutes. "Free Form Guitar" is little more than Terry Kath making racecar noises for what feels like an eternity, and "Poem 58" and "Liberation" both descend into indulgent wank territory by their halfway point. Of course, that isn't to say there aren't some surefire winners like the anthemic "Someday" or bluesy "South California Purples". If only Chicago had broken up circa 1974...7.3/10https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loY7JnJd5So
Tonight's listen #2:The Blues Spectrum - We Were the Blues SpectrumWhereas most garage bands took their cue from the Beatles or Rolling Stones, the Blues Spectrum heard Chicago and thought, "Hey, we can do that!" Their sole LP (perhaps released after the group's demise based on the title) was privately pressed in some minute quantity in 1970. The whole album has such an unbelievably booming, cavernous, lo-fi sound that the vocals are basically unintelligible. It sounds like a live performance in a high-school gymnasium recorded off a shitty portable AM radio. Unlike Chicago's deft arrangements, the horns here simply blare, but the muffled sound keeps them from being too shrill. The guitar work, while similarly buried, is respectable for a nobody from Pennsylvania. Proceedings consist of three originals and a cover of Chicago's own "This Better End Soon". The main drawback is that all the tracks sound a little samey due to the swampy fidelity. Certainly a unique listening experience, even amidst classic rock's private-press underbelly. Good luck finding a real copy!7.4/10https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ED2GgyNqs_c
>>129907354I just realised that 'bum is album. I'll see my self out
No one wants to see your fat greasy stomach
Hi im here for the fat greasy stomach
>>129907354Based, thanks for taking up my suggestion
this is a weird sex fetish thing and i don't appreciate it.
>>129907354>Chicago gets 7.3>Chicago larp gets 7.4DEVIOUS
>>129907559These threads would get zero replies without a gimmick
>>129907725i don't like gay gimmicks. it's demeaning to the gay community. do better.
Tomorrow I might do a country-rock band about which I hold spicy opinionsSuggestions still welcome, can't guarantee anything but I'll consider them
>>129908257Halsey - Badlands
>>129908279That's basically the opposite of what I'm into
>>129908297Scared you might like it?
>>129908356I checked out one track and didn't like anything about it>Basic pop with no other stylistic influences>Synthesized instruments>That style of singing that every female pop vocalist has used since the early 2010sGenerally I don't listen to anything past the 70's until it tries to sound retro
>>129908428>until*unless
Kath picked up a semi-automatic 9 mm pistol and, leaning back in a chair, said to Johnson: "Don't worry about it ... Look, the clip is not even in it." His last words were, "What do you think I'm gonna do? Blow my brains out?" To calm Johnson's concerns, Kath showed him the empty magazine. Kath then replaced the magazine in the gun, put the gun to his temple and pulled the trigger. Apparently unbeknownst to Kath, the gun had a round in the chamber. He died instantly from the gunshot
gotta admire op's consistency, see the tum every night
>>129907354Took me way too long to notice the album is edited in
>>129907354I nominate (Watch My Moves) by Kurt Vile. It’s an overlong double album but i find the ambling jams and endless guitar layering workouts to be really interesting and unique. He doesnt take himself too seriously lyrically but the music is clearly the product of detail oriented craftsmanship. Id say its a psychedelic version of longform electric neil young mixed with a strung out bob dylan all with the production quality of tom petty. Enjoy
>>129907361That sure is unusual
>>129907559Yeah, I'd like these threads more without those connotations.
Suggestion - No Love Deep Web but make sure you get the original cover.
>>129907354>>129907361By chance, do you like heavy music? I would suggest Discharge's Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing if you like Punk or Manowar's Battle Hymns if you like Metal.
>>129912332heh
>>129907354'bum on the tum in the 'log
