What albums did you listen to today?...continued

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Beach Boys | Friends
Beach Boys | 20/20 (I find the Beach Boys very fascinating as a study in musical development, not just of the band as a whole but of individuals within the band, especially the Wilson brothers)
Reynols | Polos Mosco (file under truly weird outsider South American music)
Chris Squire | Fish Out of Water (first listen in many years to this wonderful solo album. a great companion to the 70s Yes albums, and of equal quality)
Big Dipper | Supercluster: The Big Dipper Anthology (continuing this 3 disc set from earlier this week. New to this early alt-rock band but man, practically every song has a cool hook, riff, or something to set it apart. It rocks, too)

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HolyMoly Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Retired Admin Joined: April 01 2009 Location: Atlanta Status: Offline Points: 26133	Post Options Post Reply Quote HolyMoly Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: March 06 2019 at 19:48
	Beach Boys \| Friends Beach Boys \| 20/20 (I find the Beach Boys very fascinating as a study in musical development, not just of the band as a whole but of individuals within the band, especially the Wilson brothers) Reynols \| Polos Mosco (file under truly weird outsider South American music) Chris Squire \| Fish Out of Water (first listen in many years to this wonderful solo album. a great companion to the 70s Yes albums, and of equal quality) Big Dipper \| Supercluster: The Big Dipper Anthology (continuing this 3 disc set from earlier this week. New to this early alt-rock band but man, practically every song has a cool hook, riff, or something to set it apart. It rocks, too)
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	ELO - Balance of Power REM - Murmur


HolyMoly Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Retired Admin Joined: April 01 2009 Location: Atlanta Status: Offline Points: 26133	Post Options Post Reply Quote HolyMoly Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: March 07 2019 at 18:21
	^^ I was pleasantly surprised by Balance of Power. Quite a good synth-based ELO record. Added it to my collection just a couple of years ago.
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	^ Yeah. I'm not a huge ELO guy, generally, but I can enjoy all of their albums. Discovery, Time, Balance...I like them all. Surprisingly, the REM left me pretty unaffected.


HolyMoly Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Retired Admin Joined: April 01 2009 Location: Atlanta Status: Offline Points: 26133	Post Options Post Reply Quote HolyMoly Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: March 07 2019 at 20:46
	Early REM can take some time to grow on you. I burned out on them years ago, but if not for them, I never would have gotten to see the Minutemen! :D Silver Apples \| Decatur Daevid Allen & Kramer \| Who’s Afraid? Soft Machine \| Fourth Women \| s/t Women \| Public Strain Daevid Allen \| Banana Moon The Flaming Lips \| Oczy Mlody
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	Another hometown band. San Pedro cultivates creativity.
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Finnforest Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: February 03 2007 Location: . Status: Offline Points: 16913	Post Options Post Reply Quote Finnforest Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: March 08 2019 at 17:20
	The Cars - live Houston 1984 Hall and Oates - Whole Oats Hall and Oates - War Babies Wow, what a difference between the first HO album and War Babies. The latter is pretty wild stuff courtesy of Todd Rundgren producing, I'd imagine. The debut is sweet but just a bit undercooked.


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	^ Todd played lead guitar and I think other Utopia types were involved. Daryl Hall always had an experimental urge in him, so most of the songs and ideas on that album were his. Todd just encouraged it, though he took the hit when the album was a commercial failure. Oates wasn’t all that comfortable with that direction anyway, so they returned to a more pop/soul approach from then on. I think Abandoned Luncheonette is the peak of the early H&O. Very much a 50/50 creative effort from the duo, with someof the strongest songs from each individually and together (“She’s Gone” being the best example of a successful collaboration).
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HolyMoly Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Retired Admin Joined: April 01 2009 Location: Atlanta Status: Offline Points: 26133	Post Options Post Reply Quote HolyMoly Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: March 08 2019 at 20:23
	Spirit \| Clear Frank Turner \| Love, Ire and Song Ultimate Spinach \| Behold and See Belle and Sebastian \| Boy with the Arab Strap Thrilled Skinny \| They Said We Wouldn’t But We Did Edited by HolyMoly - March 09 2019 at 09:04
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	Karfagen - Echoes from Within Dragon Island On the Raw - Climbing the Air Both excellent albums, each in its own way. Though I do like the latter slightly more because it's funkier.
	"I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future." - Dan Quayle Reach out as forward tastes begin to enter you...

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	^^^ yeah, i read that it probably should have been called a Rundgren album with HO guesting on vox. decent though. i've heard luncheonette, but i plan to hit a few more of those i have not heard.


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	Pink Floyd - The Wall One of my favs Edited by GreysOlive - March 10 2019 at 10:30

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	^ Agree with you. Great album, though usually I listen to the early stuff these days. Goodbye Blue Sky one of my faves. Edited by Finnforest - March 09 2019 at 16:43


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	Goodbye Blue Sky is lovely. Not to dis Roger, but it’s almost hard to believe he wrote that melody/harmony himself.
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	Tim Buckley \| s/t Tim Buckley \| Goodbye and Hello Jefferson Airplane \| Bark Grateful Dead/John Oswald \| Grayfolded Adrian Belew \| Op Zop Too Wah Found that Belew album just today. I failed to buy it when it came out and it seemed to disappear from all the stores after that, so I was excited to see it again. Kind of an expansive effort, showing all he can do - pop stuff and weird stuff side by side.
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	Saw Adrian at one of those shows back then, at First Ave. Same with Steve Howe. It was cool to see some of the big in smaller clubs. Though I could have lived without Steve singing "Heat of the Moment" by himself, no backup or accompaniment. Watched some of Nick Mason's new "pre-Meddle" band on YT....they sounded really good! I'd rather see that show than Roger, in a heartbeat. Their set list was amazing....they did Vegetable Man even


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	^ I am finding myself more attracted to the early Floyd these days as well. More interesting to me. I can’t say I am real familiar with H&O much other than the hits. Past few days Mott the Hoople-The Hoople Neal Morse Band-Great Adventure Mountain-Mystic Fire Clutch-Robot Hive Exodus Claypool Lennon Delirium -Monolith of Phobos On AXS tv Yes -Live at Apollo (with Anderson Waksman & Rabin. (Enjoyed it)


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	^ It's great stuff. Very moody but energetic. It's escapism for my mind from things that make me anxious. ZZ Top - Fandango The Cars - Door to Door The Cars - Move Like This Meatloaf - Bad Attitude Wilson - Insurgentes I haven't heard D to D in three decades and had never heard Move Like This. I enjoy both, but then I am a certified Cars fan. DtoD is similar to Heartbeat City with just a bit less in the tank. Basically, these two albums are really more pop albums than rock. Move Like This I found surprisingly good for a Cars album made in 2011 and without Ben Orr, whose voice I enjoy more than Ocasek. But they made a good record. But my verdict on the Cars personally are the the first four are the primo while the later stuff is merely good pop music. Steve, remember Slade's Run Runaway? Stumbled on that video yesterday and remembered how it came out of nowhere for about 10 days, was all over radio/mtv and then vanished. Just one of those time transport musical memories.


HolyMoly Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Retired Admin Joined: April 01 2009 Location: Atlanta Status: Offline Points: 26133	Post Options Post Reply Quote HolyMoly Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: March 10 2019 at 20:52
	I do remember that Slade hit! In fact, I bought that record back then (don’t have it now), and there was another tune on it I also heard on the radio, a power ballad called My Oh My. Wow, blast from the past. Re the Cars, I still haven’t heard Door to Door but I do have Move Like This - about as good as one could reasonably expect from an Orr-less Cars album in 2011. Agree the first 4 are the real goods. In fact, Candy-O was the first album I ever bought on CD - they were among my fav bands in the early-mid 80s. Today: Kantner/Slick/Freiberg \| Baron von Tollbooth & the Chrome Nun The Voidz \| Virtue The Clash \| Sandinista BBC Concert Orchestra \| Zappa: The 200 Motels Suites (from Youtube) The Rascals \| Search and Nearness The Damned \| Phantasmagoria Zappa/Mothers \| Road Tapes Venue #1: Kaerrisdale Arena, Vancouver BC, 25 October 1968
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Finnforest Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: February 03 2007 Location: . Status: Offline Points: 16913	Post Options Post Reply Quote Finnforest Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: March 10 2019 at 21:19
	^ How did they get the sound they had on that first album? They're all good, but that first album has an edge to, like a rough exterior to the sound that just reminds me of a leather jacket. Sort of a tough, punchy sound that slowly went away despite later albums still being good. So good. Thanks for giving me a reason to spin Candy again....in honor of your first CD. I think, if memory serves, my first CD was Dog and Butterfly.