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That summarises everything you like best in music
Its pure soul. It completely takes you over. I cant think of anything like it
Extraordinary wall of sound from one of the very very few who could be called a genius. The hypnotic Brazilian backing, the absolute heart rending vocals and lyrics, the crashing crescendos, those horns coming in and out keeping you entranced for 8 mins. Even a cameo from a the great Bobbie Humphrey on flute towards the end. Stevie handles the rolling intensity like no one else.
This piece of brilliance grabs and transports you like very few records can and do
And it follows the gorgeous As on what many think was the finest album anyone has ever made
Good question. Took me a while but it has to be Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen.
Can’t help but stop and turn the radio up as soon as I hear ‘dun, dun-dun-dun’. The thing builds until it feels like it could carry you down the street. It even makes a saxophone sound good.
Would like to see one of he and his band’s famously long live performances. They overran by about 10 minutes at Glastonbury and Michael Eavis said the fine from the local council busybody curtain twitchers was worth every penny or something to that effect.
I suppose I’d have to pick Nutbush City Limits as it was the song playing
when I met my wife in the White Elephant on Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow.
She caught my eye and I asked my mate to dance her friend so I could dance
with her.That was back in 1973. I was 17, although I told her I was 21 (jeez the
problems that caused later) We married 3 years later and that’s been us
for 46 years.Nice choices. I was expecting def leopard or the wurzels here
The other half adores Springsteen. I’m more soul jazz but I get him. Both to run is magnifcent. I love it.
Nutbush is fabulous early funk. Never ages
I see where you’re coming from. Nothing wrong with appreciating class where you see it whilst not necessarily being a fan as such.
Can’t really think of many artists I’m particularly fanatical about to be honest, I like what I like and that’s it. I’ll give most things a chance.
Funny you should mention Def Leppard, I do have a soft spot for Pour Some Sugar on Me, wonderfully daft track.
Impossible to decide.
It depends on my mood and also what period of my life to choose from.
Will follow with interest though with peoples contributions.
Yeah. I never got the rock music thing of hero worship. Middle aged men getting the horn for Ed sheeran or whatever. Soul is devoid of that and more about the label. Philly stax etc
Exception would be the beatles who if anything were underrated. I’m still astonished by their range and creativity over just seven years. Perhaps john Coltrane too who stuns me
If anything the hero’s were the great composers. Back Mozart Beethoven just leave me staggered by their genius. The sophistication of Bach for instance with that multilayered brilliance that can never get repetitive makes modern music look like a chimpanzee thumping an oil drum
Art is like that as well, some of the stuff they used to come out with 3,4,500 years ago is staggering. You can look at some paintings for ages and still keep spotting something you missed. Now it’s Damien Hirst pickling a dead sheep or Tracy bloody Emin throwing used tampons around. **** off.
Do agree about the Beatles, absolute brilliance. You’d struggle to come up with that in 50 years, never mind seven.
Art is but detail can be overrated. Another story. Im not too entranced by Hirst but Emin is wonderful. I adore her stuff and I will say that if you see the Hirst Sheeps and sharks first time they leave quite an impact
A Canaletto will appeal to many because of the serenity and detail but leaves me a little cold. Not many would like Franz Kline abstracts and they seemed a little too basic compared with even Pollock and Twombley at first but when I saw a couple (in the best exhibition of last 10 years imo) I went back and back and back
And thats what its about really. They had an huge impact
https://milenaolesinska77.medium.com/action-painting-franz-kline-516f4275bae8
It’s strange the initial impression you can get about someone. You can make your mind
up in a flash. He/she is off their trolly, it’s bizarre for the sake of being bizarre.
Is that a good thing?Like Richard when I first saw Tracy Emin’s unmade bed I just thought she, and the art
world hierarchy were off their heads. However I saw a documentary where she came
across as incredibly articulate, honest and inciteful. She has had an incredible life,
quite traumatic, which probably explains some of her art work, sculpture and paintings.To be honest I still don’t get the unmade bed, but I do get some of her work, most often
about uncomfortable subjects, abuse, she was abused by her mother and brother, menopause,
her cancer. She is an interesting woman and there’s more to her than meets the eye.Nice to see clive shouting out classical music too, anyone been to the BBC proms? Went a couple of times with a few mates on mushrooms a while back, had an absolute blast.
I’ve been ben but not on mushrooms. Not the last night which is not me but other nights certainly.
It’s good value but Albert hall isn’t a fav venue and murder of like me, vertigo is an issue
But seem some wonderful stuff there and it has its own atmosphere
Bigg.
Tracy can do the most delicate drawings but also extremely vivid. It is one of those artists who’s work you have to see for real given so much of it is textural.
Same does go for hirst but he’s been out of new ideas for far too long
Tracy is brilliant imo
Yeah I don’t think I’d enjoy the last night either, looks like a bit of a cringe fest tbh!
It’s certainly a unique venue, feels like you’ve gone back it time when you’re sat there listening to all that old music, fortunately we sit in the lower section, only £30 for tickets if memory serves me right and you’re right by the stage like you said it’s good value. I’m going to try and go this year havent been in ages, herbal brownies I think will be this years poison for the event.
We did MDMA for it once and I certainly wouldn’t recommend that again lol.
It’s all subjective. A lot of modern art doesn’t do it for me. With film I’m the opposite, not much interest in most of the old stuff. Anyway I digress, more ‘one records’ please as it is a very good question.
I’d agree with Matron that it’s a next to impossible choice, not made any less impossible by my love of a broad range of genres. If forced I’d say that ’60s/’70s Soul is a very close runner-up to Electric Blues at the top of the beautiful and bountiful tree
Taj Mahal’s rendition of Statesboro’ Blues epitomises the latter. The world would be a dull place without the Stratocaster and Telecaster
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