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Reviving forgotten albums Rediscovering the music; Giving the music a second chance
Topic Started: Jan 16 2006, 12:40 PM (1,916 Views)
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Sometime last year, I brought out Roger Waters' album "The Pros and Cons of Hitchiking" and gave it a spin.
It had been quite a while since I last listened to it and after the album finished I wondered why I had not been listening to it more all this time.
Let's talk about once again shining the light on some albums that we have been neglecting. What are some albums/compact discs that you have not listened to for a long while and recently rediscovered?
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I pulled out my Robin Trower " B r i d g e of Sighs" and gave that a listen while transfering it to digital disc. Robin and I do have one thing in common: Some of the Procol Harum stuff is not very good.
There is a scene in "Apocolypse Now" when at first, naturally you think you are hearing a Hendrix song playing but I am thinking it is a bit of a Robin Trower song.
I will be listening to this album again today.
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After completely a recent request on this site to talk about our favorite albums, I again began listening to my favorite Jeff Beck album, Flash.
Man he really cooks on this one. A nice balance of songs with singing and blazing guitar work and instrumentals that just smoke.
Tracks off my vinyl copy of the album like "Ambitious" and "Escape" have lost clarity from playing over and over again so I copied it to digital disc before it becomes unbearable. I will have to search ebay for a true compact disc copy sometime.
This is a great album from a guitar hero; one of my three favorite Yardbirds.
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I recently revived my copy of David Gilmour's "About Face". It has been a while since I listened to the entire album but in 1984 I was all about Dave. "All Lovers Are Deranged" got some airplay back then on the "album oriented rock" radio; even one of the cooler "top 40" stations and his was my first concert.
So I got out "About Face" to make a digital copy and some of the memories came flooding back. A really good album. "Cruise" has always been the oddest track for me. I am sure it is a ballad for his Fender Stratocruiser.
"Until We Sleep", "Murder", "Blue Light", "All Lovers Are Deranged" and "Near The End" have always been my favorites on the album.
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I recently rediscovered Some Time In New York City by John Lennon & Yoko Ono

Plus I think this topic is cool, bump
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I was reminded this week of having a compilation album from Pink Floyd called "Relics". I admit it has been more than a few years since I have listened to this one. Probably since "Shine On" was released actually.
My copy is a Harvest/Capitol early re-issue but is still in very great shape. I removed it from it's protective plastic sleeve, cleaned it will some alcohol and let the black circle spin.
Most of side one is singles from the band's early work; which is part of the reason why I don't listen to this L.P. much. But I was encouraged to listen to a few songs on the record that don't get around much anymore. Namely the song on side two titled, "Biding My Time". What a great song to be sure. Starts off rather peaceful and almost romantic and then builds to a guitar outburst from Mr. Gilmour that would shake the doubts of his most stern critics. Just a fabulous guitar solo and terrific guitar work at the song's end from Davey as well.
Anyone who is a fan of Pink Floyd should really have this record if not for some of the other tracks but definitely for "Biding My Time". I am glad that guy reminded me to give it another listen.
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The Beatles - Abbey Road.

I was surprised at myself for not listening to this album in such a long time. The only reason I did is because I've been really addicted to playing vinyl records rather than CDs, manily because I don't have a convenient CD player. Although I have an Abbey Road LP, it's not in the best condition; it's quite full of surface noise and skips considerably on side one. In spite of this, I decided to play it anyways, and I was glad I did. There were so many great basslines in the songs that I decided to turn the bass up to 1.5 to enhance my listening experience. The whole album, from beginning to end, and in spite of the skips on side one, was absolutely incredible. I was blown away, to say the least. A perfect way for the Beatles to go out.
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Hail To The Theif (The Gloaming.) by Radiohead. I go to homeroom in band every day for two reasons - we're able to listen to our iPods and Jennifer goes there. But the important one (for this post, at least) is the iPod factor. I decided to listen to this album because I know the opening track, "2+2=5" was inspired by 1984, the book I'm reading. And I slowly started to doze off as the album played - and it made it so amazing. The album is so easy to listen to but probably their most haunting record. Thom Yorke cried when he heard the finished version of the song "I Will", and it's truely something. He basically talks the vocal, but the backing vocal is him singing the same thing, only a couple octives higher. And there's a line, "I won't let this happen to my children", that haunts me every time.

Probably my third favourite by the group. Grossly underrated, if Radiohead can have an underrated album.
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Some of the things I rather like about a most of these types of music forums happens when some member forces you to go back and take another listen to an album you have not listened to in awhile. Which of course is also the point of this topic.
Last week I was reminded of a band from Illinois that made it big briefly in the late 1970's called Head East. Their debut album was recorded in like 1974 and a few years later they got a big record contract and released the album in 1978 called, "Flat As A Pancake". Two of the singles from this album , "Never Been Any Reason" and "Love Me Tonight" still get some rotation on album oriented rock and certainly "classic rock" radio stations.
These two songs naturally secure the album's place in my collection but as I listened to the entire album several times over the past weeks, a fondness for a number of other tracks also deepened. In fact almost the entire first side increased it's preferential place in my collective classic album memories.
While I had the record cleaned up and sounding relatively sweet to my ears, I added it to the completed tasks of recording to digital disc.
Another forgotten album rediscovered.
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About 2 months ago, I rediscovered Bridge Over Troubled Water, and man has it been my whore in the worst kind of way
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About 2 months ago, I rediscovered Bridge Over Troubled Water, and man has it been my whore in the worst kind of way

Bridge Over Troubled Water is nobody's whore. The only explanation is you are Bridge Over Troubled Water's whore. :P

As I'm dumping all of my music on my new 30GB iPod, I'm noticing that I have some insane songs that I forgot about, I guess.


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Liar jeff :(
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Just a short post that is somewhat along the lines of the topic.
A few weeks ago, they were showing promotions of some new show and during the spot the Peter Gabriel song "Digging In The Dirt" was featured. I hadn't listened to that song in a while so out comes my "Us" disc and I listen to that song a few times and then the rest of the album.
Jump ahead to today and some other promotion catches my ear when "Funk #49" from The James Gang is featured. I will be listening to that song and others by Joe Walsh off and on today.
See. Sometimes commercials and advertising is effective in forcing you to remember forgotten songs or generate interest at least. I just hope that there were no subliminal(satan)messages(buy more products).
Don't these markers smell great? Now my head is spinning


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That's weird because me and my friend were talking about Joe Walsh and The James Gang today, he was telling me how easy "Funk #49" is.

Sweet tune. D:
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Hail To The Theif (The Gloaming.) by Radiohead. I go to homeroom in band every day for two reasons - we're able to listen to our iPods and Jennifer goes there. But the important one (for this post, at least) is the iPod factor. I decided to listen to this album because I know the opening track, "2+2=5" was inspired by 1984, the book I'm reading. And I slowly started to doze off as the album played - and it made it so amazing. The album is so easy to listen to but probably their most haunting record. Thom Yorke cried when he heard the finished version of the song "I Will", and it's truely something. He basically talks the vocal, but the backing vocal is him singing the same thing, only a couple octives higher. And there's a line, "I won't let this happen to my children", that haunts me every time.

Probably my third favourite by the group. Grossly underrated, if Radiohead can have an underrated album.

Never heard it called underratted before, but it indeed kicks ass. Wolf at the Door, Where You End And I Begin, There There, 2+2=5...some of my favorite songs are on that album.

I have said it before, and I will say it again, best band of my generation.

Dean, have you heard any of there new stuff? They played some of there new stuff at the concert I went to, but there is some other stuff that is incredibly good. I can't wait for there new album.

Check it out man

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Can't wait.
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