Big Al

Hey Jim, whattya think about Rosemary Clooney’s Love album, in the context of Only the Lonely? You used Rosie’s “How Will I Remember You” on your BFT, and I remember your discussion about that song, how she just got IN to that song. I’ve tried to get that CD, but just can’t bring myself to get it, cuz I’m afraid I’ll never listen to it; music THAT intense, that deeply felt, I’m almost frightened to listen to. It just feels like I’m intruding on a moment of genuine loneliness and despair. Same goes for Only the Lonely. This is not to say I find these albums or this music inferior in any way. I’m just too chickenshit to confront it on its own terms!

Talk about a hard choice! I’m in total agreement with catesta on this one! I voted for swingers. That said, however, Sinatra’s version of “What’s New” from OTL is THE definitive version. That song..... man, I can’t even put into words how blue that song makes me feel. (We need a "blue" frownie!)

PM sent re: Pres & Teddy

Maybe he just prefers the sounds of silence......

Note to Joe G: Picked up Wes Montgomery's Impressions: The Verve Jazz Sides with all that Half Note stuff. Youse is right: that stuff is da SHIZNIT!!!

Maybe they got the wrong tapes; perhaps they got Texas's tapes by mistake and vice versa. That's usually the kind of garbage we Texans are subjected to on a regular basis.

I dunno.... my dad never listened to much jazz when I was growing up, but he sure was all excited when I dug out his Blakey album that has since sent me into my love affair with the music!

Yeah, I only got to catch glimpses of it; this was a night where my son was struggling with homework. Ah well, at least the DVD won't have anything bleeped out!

It’s being shown tonight down here. I’ve already reserved the TV for this one!

(Intone voice of Beaky Buzzard): Ahhhhh, yup, yup, yup, yup!

Jim, what kinda guitar is he holding there? It looks like the same kind Doug Raney used on Blues on a Par, and I love the sound of the guitar on that one!

Ah, yes ... I could never quite be sure if Byrne was dancing or just having some kind of seizure in that. Maybe yer thinking of "Once in a Lifetime?" None of the band appears in the video for "C&P." And as long as we're talking about Chess boxes, a big for the Chuck Berry box. All the evidence you need to prove that he was the real King of Rock & Roll. And another vote for Cash Unearthed; at least for the first three discs (now that disc four is available separately).

While doing an entirely unrelated search on AMG, there was a blurb on the homepage about Charlie Haden’s new album, Land of the Sun. The AMG review was the usual over-the-top praise by Thom Jurek, so I didn’t pay that part of it much attention. But the lineup and the concept looked intriguing. The Verve site has sound clips, and they were very nice! So I decided to do some more searching into other Haden projects of the last few years, and AMG tends to be quite unforgiving of Haden’s work in the last decade or so, including Nocturne which, as it turns out, inspired the latest album. So now I’m wondering: is this latest album more of the same? And is that a good thing? Or is AMG (for once) right about Haden’s solo projects of the last decade or so? At first, I thought it was just AMG not wanting to give any weight to an artist who truly follows his own muse; but then I started listening to sound clips from these album. They may be on to something, if these clips are any indication. What do you all think?

I hear ya, and I can’t wait for those, although to be sure I’m only gonna get Fear of Music and Remain in Light, the only two Heads albums for which every song is a winner for me! The box has everything else I need by TH!

Yep.

Yeah, that packaging is atrocious. This is one of those rare instances where the music more than makes up for the horrible packaging (and in this case, that’s saying a lot). Me, I just took the four discs and put ‘em in separate jewel cases. Can’t believe I forgot to mention that DVD. If only MTV were always this creative! The video for “Crosseyed and Painless,” which I’d never seen (much less knew it existed) is a hoot!

Thanks!

Yup, definitely -- the recent purple-velvet Hendrix box is really a winner!!! As a long-time Hendrix fan (by my senior year in high-school, circa-1987, I had something like 40 or nearly 50 Hendrix LP's, including plenty of bootlegs), I have to say that this box set includes most of the very best tracks from many of those bootlegs. I can't tell you how many crappy-sounding double-LP Hendrix boots I bought (sometimes for up to $40, which wasn't cheap for somebody in high-school), that only had like one track each that was really worth having (a some particular tune Jimi only played once or twice, ever!!). And now I've got this wonderful box set that collects up nearly all of those must-have-tracks, and presents them in wonderful sound too. Best rock box-set I've ever encountered. What's the name of this box? Or is it just simply The Jimi Hendrix Experience? Don’t mean to sound cynical, but aren’t there quite a few Hendrix boxes?

It’s all part of Townshend’s plan to remix, repackage, and reissue the same damn music for eternities to come. I’m sure there will, eventually, be four-disc repackages of all of the Who’s albums. I can just see it now: the Ultimate Deluxe Edition of Who’s Next, with two full discs of unreleased demos, studio chatter/brawls, tracks containing nothing but the lone synthesizer tracks, tracks containing nothing but Moon’s drums, Entwistle’s bass, Townshend’s guitar, Daltrey’s vocals, etc etc ad nauseaum. Plus an unlisted track containing the sound of the band pissing on that concrete block! Oh yeah, and the actual album will be remixed, so that it’s different from the previous issue and different from the original LP. AGAIN!!!

No kiddin'? IMO, the sound is outta this world, especially compared to the older CD issues. Heck, I’d even go so far as to say that the box sounds better than some of the old LPs! I don't doubt that someone griped about the sound not being pristine, but then I always figured that was part of CCR’s charm: loud, grungy, & gritty!

The Creedence box. Not only because it's Creedence Clearwater Revival, but also because disc two contains all of the first album and Bayou Country (which sounds fantastic B2B); disc three contains all of Green River and Willy and the Poorboys (which, IMHO, is about as potent a 1-2-punch of perfect rock&roll as there ever was); and disc four contains all of Cosmo's Factory and all the important songs from Pendulum. Rock & roll has never been as perfect as it was when these guys played it. The Talking Heads box Once in a Lifetime. I don't know if it necessarily contains all of their "best" songs, but this is the only comprehensive box that I've heard that has every single one of my favorite songs by the band in question!

Dave Brubeck Quartet Jazz at the College of the Pacific ~ FTB-3223-2 ~ $14.98 Vince Guaraldi Trio A Boy Named Charlie Brown ~ FTB-8430-2 ~ $14.98 Joe Pass Blues for Fred ~ PATB-2310-931-2 ~ $14.98 Miles Davis Collectors' Items ~ PRTB-7044-2 ~ $14.98 Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers Ugetsu ~ RITB-9464-2 ~ $14.98 Coleman Hawkins ~ The Hawk Flies High ~ RITB-233-2 ~ $14.98 Street date 9/28/04 ---------------- I'm particularly psyched about the Blakey. The current OJC issue of this sounds horrible to these ears, and I've been hoping this would get the upgrade. The title track is nothing if it can't come exploding outta the speakers! Also looking forward to the Hawk disc, too. I've never heard that one, but the lineup looks nice!

me too! Me three!

OLAP didn't make much of an impression on me. It doesn't compare to MS, which could've easily been referred to as Unity, The Sequel.

Yeah! After I started the thread, I did a general web search and found the page for the Cobb's Groove disc. After listening to some clips, it sounds like Cobb hasn't lost anything in the last few decades; this is one I've GOT to get!