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Joe Morris
Old Love
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 Posted - 15/08/2024 : 20:19:22
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BLAST FROM THE PAST DEPT.! Forever Changes review (Village Voice? ) (Christgau
Don't usually like Christgau's reviews, but he has a point about one of Arthurs lyrics! and the Steely Dan reference is UPROARIOUS:
Love: Forever Changes [Columbia, 1967]
"Art-rock," sneers my wife, who's never heard it before. "Movie music," Greil Marcus recalls fondly. "I just played it this week," R. Meltzer tells me--and then places its release in early 1968 because it came out the day before a well-remembered abortion. All wrong. It came out November 1967, and neither art-rock nor movie music, no matter how fondly recalled, will permit a song that begins with an elegantly enunciated "Oh, the snot has caked against my pants/It has turned into crystal." Arthur Lee was always too oblique for his own good. Here he counterposes a background-music feel and a delightful panoply of studio effects against his own winning skepticism and the incipient Jaggerishness of his pseudo-Johnny Mathis vocals. Perhaps because it retains so much humor, his battle cry--"We're all normal and we want our freedom"--hasn't dated, the melodies really hang in there, and only Steely Dan has ever attempted a record so simultaneously MOR and anti-MOR. A- |
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lemonade kid
Old Love
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Posted - 17/08/2024 : 17:29:33
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Originally posted by Joe Morris
BLAST FROM THE PAST DEPT.! Forever Changes review (Village Voice? ) (Christgau
Don't usually like Christgau's reviews, but he has a point about one of Arthurs lyrics! and the Steely Dan reference is UPROARIOUS:
Love: Forever Changes [Columbia, 1967]
"Art-rock," sneers my wife, who's never heard it before. "Movie music," Greil Marcus recalls fondly. "I just played it this week," R. Meltzer tells me--and then places its release in early 1968 because it came out the day before a well-remembered abortion. All wrong. It came out November 1967, and neither art-rock nor movie music, no matter how fondly recalled, will permit a song that begins with an elegantly enunciated "Oh, the snot has caked against my pants/It has turned into crystal." Arthur Lee was always too oblique for his own good. Here he counterposes a background-music feel and a delightful panoply of studio effects against his own winning skepticism and the incipient Jaggerishness of his pseudo-Johnny Mathis vocals. Perhaps because it retains so much humor, his battle cry--"We're all normal and we want our freedom"--hasn't dated, the melodies really hang in there, and only Steely Dan has ever attempted a record so simultaneously MOR and anti-MOR. A-
Good review from Christgau, who I almost always disagree with, especially when he trashes a favorite album as if he has never bothered to listen to it.
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The actual writing of a song usually comes in the form of a realisation.
I can't contrive a song. – GENE CLARK
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Joe Morris
Old Love
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Posted - 14/09/2024 : 21:50:24
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he preferred the second side of Da Capo!
his favorite Love side seems to have been side 1 of False Start.. |
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