Posts by foxfeeder

  • What are you listening to right now?

    Quote from Noni

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    A song written about a mugging on holiday suffered by Eric Stewart and Justin Hayward!

  • Recent Purchases

    A popular thread on the old forum that seems not to have resurfaced...……. Until now!


    I've just preordered Hudson-Ford - Daylight, the final album originally on CBS, now on Esoteric with bonus tracks, essays etc: https://www.amazon.co.uk/DAYLI…=8-2&keywords=hudson+ford - It comes out on 28th August.


    After this, they went on to form punk-spoof band The Monks, and an album called Bad Habits.


    The other recent purchase, which I'm currently listening to disc 5 of, is The Moody Blues - The Polydor Years. Now, while this may have been their worst period, it is still good, and the box set was £80 when released 4 years ago, but is now on Amazon UK for £28 (It was £32 when I bought it a couple of weeks or so back) - For that, you get the 3 albums Other side of Life, Sur La Mer and Keys of the Kingdom, all remastered with bonus tracks (Not available separately YET) and they do sound better. Also a Concert from 1986, and the full Red Rocks concert on CD (I only had the edited one) plus the same on DVD (I had the VHS tape) and the Other Side of Red rocks documentary which I never got round to. The last couple can cost you £28 on their own on Ebay, so all in all, a bargain.

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Polyd…words=moody+blues+polydor

  • Your hero's in movies.

    I forgot one: Paul Kaye! As well as being the brilliant Dennis Pennis, he has been in loads of TV shows and the odd film, and ALWAYS makes it better. Look out for Blackball, 2000 acres of Sky, and A child's Christmas in Wales among many others.

  • Which five bands?

    Quote from martinus

    Alphaville (never would have bought the Forever Young album back then, but it is good)

    I did buy it back then and it is brilliant, particularly the title track, a huge hit all over Europe bar the UK where it didn't chart, yet now it is frequently played on BBC Radio 2. I also got the follow up, Afternoons in Utopia, a concept album loosely based on Einstein's Theory of Relativity. Slight change in personnel and lots of guest musicians, but still very good.

    Interesting titbit: The next album, The Breathtaking Blue, was the fist CD to have the lyrics buried in the CD subcodes, you needed a computer and a CD player with a subcode out (not just digital out) to see them!

  • Your Own Special Way

    Quote from StillCan'tDance

    In what way? To me, it sounds like the most desperate bid for commercial success. Ironic, given Steve's sniping reference to "permissive rather than progressive" music in the liner notes. I guess if your favourite band is Chicago then I can understand the claim of Steve's version being "vastly superior". If not, then I think we can safely dismiss your comment as being simple hyperbole.

    In every way. It has some life in it, which frankly, the original never had. If he was interested in a desperate bid for commercial success, I guess he'd have covered "Spirit in the Sky". Chicago do nothing for me, much like most of your posts, where hyperbole would be preferable to contrived disagreement and confrontation.

  • It

    Side 4 generally runs out of steam, even more noticeable to me as side 3 is my favourite (making me a minority I'm sure), and "It" certainly doesn't turn the heat back up! Not hateable, but not a good ending.

  • Old Classic Music from YouTube

    Quote from CountingOutTime

    I never knew this was The Stone Poneys with Linda Ronstadt. Didn''t know it was her singing either. Always thought it was someone like Lulu or someone else. Great song!


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    And written by Mike Nesmith!

  • Rank the instrumentalists' first/only vocal albums

    Steve just edges it to no 1 for me, yes, his singing is not great, but there are enough (just) good moments, and the single, Hope I don't wake, is a fine effort all round.


    2nd, for me, is Mike. Yes, the vocals are "an acquired taste", but the arrangements are good and the songs are strong.


    3rd is Tony, I'm not convinced his vocals are better than Mike's for the most part, but the songs are variable, and the arrangements at times are bland. He's a good musician, but, like Freddie or Brian in Queen, he needs others to get the best out of him.


    Ant's album I don't know, so can't rank it.

  • How many albums by the same artist re-releases?...........

    Quote from OneForTheVine

    Strangely, I think the only artist where I had every album in multiple formats was/is Led Zeppelin.


    I had all the albums on vinyl, cassette, and CD (the original Atlantic releases, JP's original remastering in the 90s, and the deluxe editions that started coming out 4 - 5 years ago). I even have "How The West Was Won" on BluRay audio now (and it's awesome). 8)


    I missed out on the 8-track tapes (because they completely sucked as a format, and I can't fathom why they ever existed in the first place) and the reel-to-reel tapes (which sounded amazing, but were rare and expensive).

    8 track was originally intended as a car format.


    I have owned all the Moody Blues original 7 albums as: Official cassette, LP, CD, Remastered CD and in the case of DOFP, the new "original mix CD". Same goes for many of their solo albums.