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Post by berkley on Jan 21, 2019 3:45:11 GMT -5
I can enjoy Wonderful Tonight for the light-weight pop song it is, but no, it doesn't rank with Clapton's best stuff - though what I think of as his "good" period extends to a substantially later date than Confessor's cut-off. I like the Derek and the Dominoes double album and really most of his solo work up to 461 Ocean Blvd. Even that one isn't a bad record itself but for me it marks his transition to a lighter, more AM-radio-friendly sound that eventually tailed off into pure drivel.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2019 3:49:49 GMT -5
The only Clapton stuff I really listen to anymore are his blues covers, From the Cradle and the two Robert Johnson cover albums he did. He is still a great blues guitarist, but as a songwriter and creator of original material as a solo artist, he has been very hit or miss with me.
-M
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Post by berkley on Jan 21, 2019 12:50:04 GMT -5
Derek and the Dominoes on the Johnny Cash show. To my taste, Clapton still had it at this point in his career:
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Post by Confessor on Jan 21, 2019 13:31:07 GMT -5
Yeah, I think that Derek and the Dominoes was really Clapton's last knockings, in terms of being an important musical voice in rock music. That's a nice cover of a song that was popularised on Buddy Holly's first album, The Chirpin' Crickets.
But you know what though...this clip only gets properly excellent once Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash get involved. That says a lot, I think.
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Post by berkley on Jan 21, 2019 17:03:27 GMT -5
Well, two legends like Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash together would be pretty special in itself. To Clapton's credit, he doesn't sound out of place there, though.
I love Carl Perkins's whole look and style - so much of his time, the 50s-early 60s. He comes across to me as one of these easy-going tough guys, who looks like he just wants to dress nicely and have a good time but is quite capable of wiping the floor with someone if they cross him, and would probably have a smile on his face while he was doing it.
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Post by beccabear67 on Jan 21, 2019 17:51:51 GMT -5
One thing with Clapton is there is a fair amount of variety. I guess my favorites would be the early Yardbirds stuff and the Bluesbreakers, might not be his own favorite though. Carl Perkins, Luther Perkins, J.B. Lenoir, Cliff Gallup, Chuck Berry, Paul Burlison, James Burton, Chet Atkins, Danny Cedrone, (edit to add Link Wray!)... so many great guitarists in the '50s.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jan 21, 2019 20:19:00 GMT -5
I’ve never been good at apologizing for liking sappy love songs.
There I said it.
Alexia will play songs by Air Supply.
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Post by beccabear67 on Jan 21, 2019 23:47:23 GMT -5
I’ve never been good at apologizing for liking sappy love songs. There I said it. Alexia will play songs by Air Supply. "And what's wrong with that? I'd like to know..." - Paul McCartney , Silly Love Songs
I like Air Supply sometimes too! There's something tasty in every kind of junk from an omnivore point of view.
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Post by Confessor on Jan 21, 2019 23:57:19 GMT -5
I’ve never been good at apologizing for liking sappy love songs. There I said it. Alexia will play songs by Air Supply. "And what's wrong with that? I'd like to know..." - Paul McCartney , Silly Love Songs
I like Air Supply sometimes too! There's something tasty in every kind of junk from an omnivore point of view. One of my AOR guilty pleasures is Toto. I've only got their Greatest Hits, mind you. But, on paper, Toto are everything I dislike about mainstream American rock: super-slick, overproduced records; cheesey, overly emotional anthemic vocals; banal lyrics etc. But the reality is that I quite enjoy their hit songs. I also marvel at the lushness of their massed, multi-tracked vocal harmonies from a purely technical, musician's POV. Another reason I secretly quite like them is because records like "Hold the Line", "Rosanna" and "Africa" were always on the radio when I was a kid, so I get a warm, cosy, nostalgic feeling when I hear the band's music.
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Post by berkley on Jan 22, 2019 0:16:01 GMT -5
I like lots of silly love songs, including Air Supply's two big hits, 'All Out of Love' and 'Lost in Love' - but not, I'm sorry to say, McCartney's 'Silly Love Songs'.
I say "sorry", because I am a fan of the artist, both as a solo act and with the Beatles, and I even kind of agree with the sentiment expressed. But it's a terrible song, to my ears. It almost sounds like he's trying to prove the opposite point, that they're really unbearable in their saccharine sappiness.
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Post by berkley on Jan 22, 2019 0:43:10 GMT -5
Toto, I never warmed up to. I think "99" was the only song of theirs I liked a little bit at the time, possibly because it was a bit more low-key than their anthems.
I understand that feeling of nostalgia for things of a certain era, though, even things you never really liked much. I can definitely enjoy listening to some of the music now that I didn't like back then - even Toto, to some extent. Same thing in comics too - lately I've started to find myself willing to read things I passed on at the time, like some of those later Defenders issues or the latter part of Frank Miller's DD.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Jan 22, 2019 3:41:16 GMT -5
I can understand liking sappy love songs, as I enjoy quite a few myself (including McCartney's), but Air Supply? No. Just no. Couldn't stand them back when they were new and popular, still can't stand them today.
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Post by The Captain on Jan 22, 2019 8:44:30 GMT -5
I don't understand the thought process that some school districts (including mine) undertake when deciding on delaying the start time for weather events.
Last evening, our district announced a two-hour delay for this morning, citing temperature forecasts around 3 degrees F at 6:30 AM when the high school kids catch the bus. Sounds reasonable...
...except the temps were expected to be the exact same at 8:30. It's still the same level of cold out there, the buses are still going to have the same issues warming up, etc.
I understand they need to err in the side of caution, but if the decision they make yields absolutely zero benefit, what is the point of it? All it ultimately accomplishes is creating problems for parents who now have to figure out how to make sure their kids are cared for an extra two hours. Not an issue for me, as either my wife or I work from home every day, but for people without that flexibility, without support systems (nearby relatives or neighbors), and/or who work hourly, they are screwed.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jan 22, 2019 10:36:37 GMT -5
"And what's wrong with that? I'd like to know..." - Paul McCartney , Silly Love Songs
I like Air Supply sometimes too! There's something tasty in every kind of junk from an omnivore point of view. One of my AOR guilty pleasures is Toto. I've only got their Greatest Hits, mind you. But, on paper, Toto are everything I dislike about mainstream American rock: super-slick, overproduced records; cheesey, overly emotional anthemic vocals; banal lyrics etc. But the reality is that I quite enjoy their hit songs. I also marvel at the lushness of their massed, multi-tracked vocal harmonies from a purely technical, musician's POV. Another reason I secretly quite like them is because records like "Hold the Line", "Rosanna" and "Africa" were always on the radio when I was a kid, so I get a warm, cosy, nostalgic feeling when I hear the band's music. My middle son had Toto's Africa played for him umpteen hundred times before he went to Benin. To say he loathes that song is a gross understatement.
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Post by The Captain on Jan 22, 2019 11:01:41 GMT -5
One of my AOR guilty pleasures is Toto. I've only got their Greatest Hits, mind you. But, on paper, Toto are everything I dislike about mainstream American rock: super-slick, overproduced records; cheesey, overly emotional anthemic vocals; banal lyrics etc. But the reality is that I quite enjoy their hit songs. I also marvel at the lushness of their massed, multi-tracked vocal harmonies from a purely technical, musician's POV. Another reason I secretly quite like them is because records like "Hold the Line", "Rosanna" and "Africa" were always on the radio when I was a kid, so I get a warm, cosy, nostalgic feeling when I hear the band's music. My middle son had Toto's Africa played for him umpteen hundred times before he went to Benin. To say he loathes that song is a gross understatement. And now Weezer has done a cover (note-for-note, which are the worst kind) of the song, so a whole new generation gets to listen to it over and over again. My older daughter loves it and makes me keep it on the radio when we're in the car, even though I tell her I didn't like it the first time and it hasn't gotten any more palatable in the ensuing 35 years.
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