The Album Review Club - Week #147 - (page 1942) - Blonde On Blonde - Bob Dylan

This album started nicely with Slowly Falling and I loved the second track If You Want Me. I think Marketa has a great voice. This song could easily make it on to my soppy playlist next time I do one.

So far so good, but then the totally pointless 50 second hoover man song which must have accompanied a great scene in the film but is totally superfluous here and kinda spoiled the mood, like the first little cloud over a budding romance, if you'll excuse the rather obvious and painful analogy re an album that charts a new relationship. It's a shame because those first two tracks had me thinking this might be, the one...

Sadly it peaked early. There were some nice enough songs to follow but I'm not sold on Glen's voice. It's OK when he doesn't overdo it but the couple of tracks where he's injecting "emotion" are pretty awful.

Nothing stood out as the album progressed. Even Marketa's lovely voice couldn't rescue The Hill, the only chance she has to showcase her talents. I'm minded though to explore further if she has any solo work.

A couple of songs a bit lyrically trite and towards the end I'm knowing this relationship is going nowhere but I didn't want to be the one to end it. Thankfully it reached it's own conclusion and we both kind of left with our dignity intact. The memories would have been better if I'd left it as a one night stand...

Enough of that. Overall, a couple of songs apart was OK but not memorable. It's a 5 from me.
 
Bill Walker said:
I disagree, I think there is nice background music like at a dinner party or gathering, or Sunday morning while you're doing other shit.
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Sure, Any music can be background music. I doubt many musicias set out to create music that would serve as just uninvolved uncapturing secondary noise that you don't really need to get engrossed by, is where I was maybe coming from. I suppose I listen to most of my music while working so technically it is all 'background'. But I very much take it in, whereas the term (to me) suggests detachment, something bland that can fill a space without distraction. That's just how I always read it. Take your point, different instances.
 
Coatigan said:
I doubt many musicias set out to create music that would serve as just uninvolved uncapturing secondary noise that you don't really need to get engrossed by,
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A tenner on the fact that when @FogBlueInSanFran wakes up, he'll say something about Brian Eno's Music for Airports in relation to this. :)
 
Bill Walker said:
Yes
I agree
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I actually had Cat Stevens in my top ten vocalists in the pop/rock era as his song writing credentials of course are first rate but his vocals IMO are underrated.

if we had a top 10 singer songwriters category I would have to think long and hard to leave him out.

Ahead of his time IMO without an overreaching political and religious message despite his faith and change of faith as he said shopping around for the best insurance policy.

Where do the Children Play now without their iphone.
 
journolud said:
This album started nicely with Slowly Falling and I loved the second track If You Want Me. I think Marketa has a great voice. This song could easily make it on to my soppy playlist next time I do one.

So far so good, but then the totally pointless 50 second hoover man song which must have accompanied a great scene in the film but is totally superfluous here and kinda spoiled the mood, like the first little cloud over a budding romance, if you'll excuse the rather obvious and painful analogy re an album that charts a new relationship. It's a shame because those first two tracks had me thinking this might be, the one...

Sadly it peaked early. There were some nice enough songs to follow but I'm not sold on Glen's voice. It's OK when he doesn't overdo it but the couple of tracks where he's injecting "emotion" are pretty awful.

Nothing stood out as the album progressed. Even Marketa's lovely voice couldn't rescue The Hill, the only chance she has to showcase her talents. I'm minded though to explore further if she has any solo work.

A couple of songs a bit lyrically trite and towards the end I'm knowing this relationship is going nowhere but I didn't want to be the one to end it. Thankfully it reached it's own conclusion and we both kind of left with our dignity intact. The memories would have been better if I'd left it as a one night stand...

Enough of that. Overall, a couple of songs apart was OK but not memorable. It's a 5 from me.
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She did a couple of solo albums Muna and Anar.
 
RobMCFC said:
A tenner on the fact that when @FogBlueInSanFran wakes up, he'll say something about Brian Eno's Music for Airports in relation to this. :)
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Ha. Goes for all his ambients, but M4A is the flagship. Actually I tend to listen to him on planes as opposed to in airports while working — ideal for drowning out the sound of shrieking babies and talkative seat mates, his “Another Green World” (not actually an ambient) being a regular choice.
 
Coatigan said:
Sure, Any music can be background music. I doubt many musicias set out to create music that would serve as just uninvolved uncapturing secondary noise that you don't really need to get engrossed by, is where I was maybe coming from. I suppose I listen to most of my music while working so technically it is all 'background'. But I very much take it in, whereas the term (to me) suggests detachment, something bland that can fill a space without distraction. That's just how I always read it. Take your point, different instances.
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People have different descriptions of what background music is. Mine is that if it was playing in the background, i wouldn't turn it off....but equally, it could stop and I might not notice straight away!
1 or 2 albums on here, have been in this category for me, and this is another, so a 4 for me.
 
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