ITT: /mu/ in 1975
My mother will be born in 2 years
my mother is 21 in '75
>>131462831can't believe Ford pardoned Tricky Dick
Olivia Newton-John is hot.
HOLY SHIT
>>131462831here comes da disco
DO A LITTLE DANCE, MAKE A LITTLE LOVEGET DOWN TONIGHT, GET DOWN TONIGHT
My mom is 8People will go to the cinema and become very afraid of sharks after this year, the music sure helped that one
>>131462831Don't go down to New York without a switchblade in your coat. It's dangerous these days.
"You know what this is?" my wife exclaimed when this came on. "This is easy listening versions of 'Pick up the Pieces' and 'Lady Marmalade.'" The disco people seem to like it, but what do they know about anything? If the Red Chinese hordes somehow ever got control of this country, Herbie would have an album titled Quotations From Chairman Mao on shelves in a week, and it would sell. D+
>>131463359Herbie Mann was the lowest buttjazz there ever was.
Fucking cringe.So glad these wannabee Led Zeppellins are gonna die in obscurity
When your jazz-entrepreneur husband buys you Nashville's finest for your 44th birthday, you might start thinking unliberation paid yourself. C-
>>131463211prog really sucks though
What's this? Heavy metal that isn't hard to take? Why, the first side moves along so smartly you could almost mistake it for rock-and-roll. B-
Recently, one of her lilting legions accused us non-lilters of being emotionally deaf. The other possibility is that she's emotionally dumb. C
>>131463440Teresa's continued adventures in country music LARPing. The grade is accurate and this is grim. The token disco attempt on one track is probably the biggest facepalm-inducing moment here.
anyone got Aerosmith tix?
>>131463440honey, if you didn't have your husband's self-owned label you'd be singing at whatever county fair in Indiana Patti Page is currently performing at
>>131463623It's a new dawn for them. This may be good or utterly horrible depending on your opinion.
I resented the patina of cheerfulness on There Goes Rhymin' Simon (1973) because I thought it sold out the terse, evocative candor of Paul Simon (1972). Now I miss its intimations of universality. I hope in 1977 I'm not moved to praise unduly the small, self-involved ironies that define this record at its best ("50 Ways to Leave Your Lover," "You're Kind") without alleviating its lugubriousness ("Night Game," "Silent Eyes"). P.S. As you probably know, Art Garfunkel is back for one number. As you may not have noticed, Simon takes this as a cue to revert to the sophomoricism of "Richard Cory" and "The Sound of Silence"--"a finger on the trigger of a gun" indeed. B
I’m sick to fucking death of the music press fellating Bruce Springsteen.
>>131463675Paul Simon really really sucks.
For four cuts--"Wide Open" and the title cut, surrounded by "I'm Ready" and the instrumental "The Bump" (which more than earns its reprise) they make the case for their funk. I already believed, but found the argument enjoyable, anyway. For the remainder of the album they make the case for their soul. I'd have been more inclined to believe if they hadn't bothered. B
>>131463761>white boy in charge of deciding who is funk
>>131463650is Jill Corey there too? lol.
This is no better than Sweet Baby James (several good songs if you care about James's agonies) or Mudslide Slim (several interesting experiments if you care about James's ideas) and while it is better than Walking Man, so is The Best of the Cowsills. So why then do Taylor's devotees regard this one as a heartwarming comeback? Because his desecration of Marvin Gaye has propelled him into the top ten? Or because they never really cared about his agonies or ideas in the first place? C
>>131463500i always thought of him as a leftist, but in his reviews about female musicians he always comes as a chud
>>131463500"Bobby? Remember me? LOVE ME!!!!"
Put on your neckboots and wade through the slickshit and you may get a kick from the lyrics--these boys like lotsa malaise with their mayonnaise. But in rock and roll the difference between tragedy and soap opera is usually the acting, here so completely immersed in stringing sings that even the aptest phrases are reduced to the clichés they restate. C+
I agree that this is a letdown after Heart Like a Wheel, but I wish someone could tell me why. Maybe the explanations are vague--she's repeating a formula, she's not putting out, etc.--because a singer like Ronstadt, who specializes in interpreting good songs rather than projecting a strong persona, must achieve an ineffable precision to succeed. But maybe it's simpler than that. People say her versions of "Tracks of My Tears" and "Heat Wave" are weak, but they're not--they simply don't match the too familiar originals. "When Will I Be Loved?" and "You're No Good," on the other hand, were great songs half-remembered, kicking off each side of Heart Like a Wheel with a jolt to the memory. And this album could sure use a jolt of something. B
>>131464037I fuckin' hate the Eagles, man.
In which Steve recycles his "Favorite set of changes/Good for a couple of songs." His supporters will find that endearing, I know. They may even dig him copping a lick from Alice Cooper later on in the lyric. But me, I find it pathetic. C-
>>131464151tf is this guy's beef with Stephen Stills?
These boys are learning a trade in record time--even the sludgy numbers get crazy. Too bad the two real whompers are attached to rockstar lyrics, albeit clever ones, because Steve Tyler has a gift for the dirty line as well as the dirty look--anybody who can hook a song called "Adam's Apple" around the phrase "love at first bite" deserves to rehabilitate a blue blues like "Big Ten Inch Record." B+
Abetted by Brian Ahern, who would have been wise to add some Ann Murray schlock, Harris conducts herself with a pristine earnestness that has nothing to do with what is likable about country music and everything to do with what is most suspect in "folk." Presumably Graham Parsons was clever enough to either work around these tendencies or ignore them altogether, but as a solo mannerism it doesn't even ensure clear enunciation. I swear, the chorus of the best song on here sounds like: "I will rub my asshole/In the bosom of Abraham." C
>>131464369>>131463500>Bob versus attractive white woman with an acoustic guitar
>>131464284jealousy
>>131464284Looks like his old high school bullies.
>>131462831the great part about the 70s is that there is absolutely no rap anywhere
Just when you thought there was no such thing as eternal life, I decided to acknowledge this--one of the King's thrice-yearly collections of three (almost) classics and seven (not bad) fillers. Sloppy as always--you want he should be neat? B-
>>131463901>>131464037>the press's busiest music nerd
F
I feel schizy about this record. It rocks with a brutal, uncompromising force that's very impressive--sort of a slicked-down, tightened-up, heavied-out MC5--and the songwriting is much improved from albums one and two. But the lyrics recall the liberal fantasy of rock concert as Nuremberg rally, equating sex with victimization in a display of male supremacism that glints with humor only at its cruelest--song titles like "Room Service" and "Ladies in Waiting." In this context, the band's refusal to bare the faces that lie beneath the clown makeup becomes ominous, which may be just what they intend, though for the worst of reasons. You know damn well that if they didn't have both eyes on maximum commerciality they'd call themselves Blow Job. B
>>131463440this is what happens when your knowledge of country music came from watching Westerns
>>131464828fuck this shitty band
This album is a lot worse than my dispassionate grade would indicate, because, really, don't we all expect better? From The Who, no less? Pete Townshend has more to say about star doubt than John Lennon or David Crosby, but the apercus, namely "Wherever I May Booze" and "Dreaming From The Waist", merely circles the drain. I don't expect the seeker to have the answers, but I do at least expect him to enjoy the question. B
>>131463650I ain't quite dead yet either.
>>131464925this was her last one, she retired after this album. oh well, not exactly a titan of pop or country that's going to be missed much.
Says B.T. as E.J.: "I once wrote such childish words for you." Do they feel guilty about it? Have they put away childish things? What's happening to our children when a concept album about the hard times of a songwriting team hits number one on all charts the week it's released? Does it matter that the five good songs on this one aren't as catchy as the five good songs on the last one? Probably not. B
