As Dean Martin said "It's Frank's world; we just live in it".
The Mafia disagree!
Posts by foxfeeder
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Kind of shot yourself in the foot there with that comment, didn't you? Should have quit while you were behind.
Greater minds than yours - who aren't even self-confessed experts on the subject of Sinatra's music - have already deemed the records I mentioned to be concept albums.
Incidentally, might I suggest that when discussing a subject, it's not the wisest thing to do to proclaim that you don't know what you're talking about and then proceed to grandstand about the very subject about which you've already admitted ignorance. Unless, of course, you don't want anyone to take anything you say seriously in which case, crack on.
No, just being honest. I'd suggest it is wise to let people know when you aren't an expert on something, rather than pretend to be. Better still not to accuse someone of grandstanding, when all they have done is make one very valid point.
Since you always have to have the last word in any argument, (which must be hard work, since you have so many) might I suggest you look up the final word in the OED and just quote that every time you feel the need to.
It's quite funny, isn't it? Liverpudlians are famed for their wit. Yet yours, as displayed in your first and last sentences above, is so cliché and hackneyed, we can almost guess them before you start typing. Sad, really!
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I doubt it. He died in 1998.
Because, of course, I was being serious!
I may not (claim to) be an expert on Frank, have no desire to be, but while I didn't know how many of his albums are "claimed" to be concepts, (I only knew he had done some because I've been told by someone who cares), calling an album of love songs a Concept Album is a bit of a stretch. On that basis, Jason Donovan has probably recorded Concept Albums!
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That explains why Jon Favreau referred to a scene in one of the Star Wars films as a "deep cut" in a recent documentary I watched. Who comes up with these idioms? I'd love to know so I can smack them upside the head as a reminder that the language was working perfectly well before they started dicking about with it.
Well, that figures, resorting to violence, physical or metaphorical, seems like your modus operandi. (That's Latin, I didn't create that one!
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Come Fly With Me, Songs For Swingin' Lovers, A Swingin' Affair, Only The Lonely, In The Wee Small Hours, Where Are You, Come Dance With Me, Great Songs From Great Britain...they're the ones I can quote off the top of my head (a few more than the "one" you suggest!).
Frank Sinatra was the first pop artist to master the art of the concept album and some of those records rank amongst the finest albums of all time.
Well, TBH, he's probably made a few more since I posted that 8 months ago!
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I chose not to click on that spoiler box so I have no idea what you are referring to.
It won't bite!
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We might be... I was trying to keep in the spirit of the spoiler tags used in the earlier post! Next to the opening track on, er, that album, I agree it's by far the best track. It seems to be quite a divisive one though.
OK, I've edited my post too to spoil it, though I do have to wonder, how many people do not click the spoiler box? Frankly, most of this speculation is probably as accurate as
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I'm surprised too, but very pleasantly so. It's always been a favourite of mine and I'm guessing I won't be alone in that even though it seems to me that most fans who know it are at best lukewarm about it. For me, on its parent album it shines out.
But like any band worth their salt they won't, and shouldn't, choose their set based on what some fans' notion of "classics" are. They'll include enough to keep the broader fan base happy and good on them for leaving some space for dusting off less-expected ones.
If we are talking of
it's the best track on the album.
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Indeed, the comments on Stevehoffman etc, seem to like the 5.1. I'd guess most people's 5.1 system is not as good sounding as their Hi-Fi, the cost being generally prohibitive. But hearing it around you is a whole different experience.
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Don't think Seconds Out got the 5.1 treatment.
Lots of stuff on the internet suggests it did, I don't have it myself, but Dr John mentions Rhino, so this must be a USA issue.
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Are you sure they are CD's? There should be 5.1 mix DVD's, as well as CD's.
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I've now started watching Bodies. Like the book wasn't a pleasant read, the show is not a pleasant watch but as you'd expect from JM it's compelling.
I've just finished watching a repeat showing of the TV series Quatermass, known in some territories as The Quatermass Conclusion, written by Quatermass creator Nigel Kneale. I hadn't seen it since it originally aired in 1979. It depicts an England where society has fallen apart and is under military control. A kind of sect of young people who believe they will be taken to another, better planet, are causing trouble. Into the middle of all this the elderly Quatermass (played by John Mills) comes looking for his granddaughter who he fears has fallen in with the 'planet' sect. At a massed gathering of the sect a huge beam of light from the sky apparently fries the youngsters, reducing them to dust - or have they achieved their dream of being transported to another planet?
Although it was quite creaky and clunky as you'd expect from a late 70s series I still found it watchable and liked the bleakness of it. It also took me back to schooldays!
The Quatermass repeat was on Talking Pictures, on Freeview 81. It's become a go-to channel for me, re-showing some classic 70s series such as the original Van Der Valk, Callan, Special Branch, and lesser-remembered ones like Rooms. I'd love it if they showed Moody & Peg or Crown Court. They mainly show films from the 50s-70s.
Moody & Pegg, ah yes, that was a great show. You could try searching YouTube, there's lots of old shows on there, a friends was following the Invaders on there, a few years back, and I watched the whole 4 series of Blake's 7 on there last year.
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Cottage?
Yes, the one TLLDOB was recorded in, as it was that album I was discussing when I referred to it. Read back over the thread, all will become clear. We'd wandered off topic onto production values.
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RIP Steve Priest, the bassist from the band The Sweet dies aged 72.
He was the forefront of glamour with his make up.
Hadn't heard this. Bit of a shock, given his age, not that old these days. The band has a bit of a tragic history, Brian Connoly died very young, and if you saw the documentary about him, he was in very poor health for years. Mick Tucker, the drummer, was actually too good for this band, he'd have been a good fit in Yes, or someone like that, he really was top notch. Died of Leukaemia at around 57. Only Andy Scott left, a local lad to me, from Wrexham. His sister worked for the council there.
Was a fan in the early days, as much for the b-sides as the singles.
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Never heard of this book. May try and find a copy
Burning Shed sell all the On Track books: https://burningshed.com/formats/formats_books
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I assume you know about On Track by Stuart MacFarlane. But it's his personal opinions of each track, not an attempt to link them to the larger society of the time the way Revolution In The Head does.
On Track is a series of books by different authors, detailing the careers of several well known acts, like Gentle Giant, 10cc & Godley& Crème, The Moody Blues and many more. There's an accompanying "On Screen" series like David Tennants Dr Who, Monty Python, etc.
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In fairness, the version of FAS at Knebworth which I taped off the radio, is the best version of the guitar solo I have heard. Yes, it's Daryl, and it's the one time I think he might have topped Steve's version of anything.
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Oh yes. The production on that album has always had some bite to it. John Burns produced it but he also produced Selling England, whose sound I've never liked.
Although I believe CD is vastly superior to vinyl, all things (mastering/compression etc) being equal, the best I have ever heard the album sound is the first time, at a friend's house, his copy on his Pioneer PL12 turntable. There was an "ambience", a quality to the acoustics of the cottage it was recorded in, that was truly startling, and which I've never heard on any copy since. It was like "being there!"
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I'm responding to the above question from this post here, as it seemed more appropriate.
I gather a man has been arrested in connection with these deaths. The day before it happened I'd been on my daily walk, confidently re-tracing a new route but turning up just one different street took me way off course and I ended up walking along Balloan Road where the deaths occurred, in a suburb on the southern edge of the city. It was odd to then see that very spot on the news the following day.
It's apparently the first double killing in Inverrness since 1973. I haven't yet seen any further detail about the circumstances of this recent incident. Neighbours of the two men are very upset, saying they were well-liked locally. An injured woman was also found at the scene. All rather horrible. And to think, as i walked past the house, those men had no idea they only had another 24 hours to live - it makes me shudder.
I picked up on this story on Teletext (I'm one of the last 2 people in the UK using it!
) but after a brief description of early coverage, have seen or heard no more. Bit of a shocker in what is generally a quiet part of the world. Bizarre! -
I don't think the production of any of the albums before SEBTP was very good at all, I guess I was spoiled by the Moodies albums which were earlier yet so much better. the Lamb steps up the production values again massively.
