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

southamptonblue said:
Obviously Coatigan was right ....Google is your friend, didn't realise Eels, the rugby league team always comes up!
Those who have heard it....enjoy reminiscing!
Those who haven't.....hopefully a couple will discover something to add to their collection.......or something they're glad they missed! ;)
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Another 10.
 
mancity1 said:
And you have been doing your best to level the distribution somewhat and I am most interested in your favourite pick from the sixties ( I wonder if some the brigade of tomorrow ( easy clue for you Fog given where you reside ) might come to the fore but another from the 80's wouldn't go astray.
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Sadly I think my next pick will be a 90s one since I haven't done that decade yet. 60s records are tough for me; I can only think of one American band that I truly love from that time frame whose best record was 1970.
 
GoatersLeftShin said:
I was working tonight so put this on the headphones whilst I cracked on with it.

I remember "Novacaine for the soul" and have it on CD single, it's absolutely brilliant. However, for some reason I don't remember the album or any other songs by them. They seemed to be one-hit wonders although I'm sure they released more stuff.

So, the album started with the song I know really well and love. I wasn't looking forward to the rest of it really as surely they'd served the best first! However, what a great album this is. Every song is absolutely The Eels but every song is different too. They probably won't like it, but it reminded me a lot of Beck - Beck can do hip-hop, folk, rock and make it all song absolutely normal that you should rap next to a folk song. Beautiful Freak is an album where you have plenty of different styles and sounds. Some of the songs also had a touch of Elbow about them too.

I really enjoyed listening to this, it just passed me by in the 90s - simply because there was so much going on. However, what a great album this is. It's varied and has plenty of pop sensibility - catchy, quirky and just .... cool! What a great pick and another example of this thread throwing up some great albums that I'd missed.

It's an 8/10 from me!
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Got through about 3/4s of it on the ride home and agree a good portion reminded me of Beck, if Beck were a morose heroin addict as opposed to an ex-Scientology devotee (ALLEGEDLY).

That doesn't mean I'm not enjoying it though!
 
RobMCFC said:
These are short reviews!

I'm taking this as a mark of "10" - I think you did the same for Joni Mitchell.
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Sorry Rob. Joni was a ten. No question.
This as it turns out was a knee jerk nostalgic 10.
I listened this afternoon and I think being objective I may reluctantly downgrade slightly to an 8.

This is an album I learned to love rather than falling in love at first listen. First listen all those years ago drew me in though. I instantly knew this had something different to what was around and it was unapologetic about it’s uniqueness.
It’s like an old friend now.
Made me listen to Hombre Lobo again afterwards. Totally different feel but easily another 9.

Great choice.
 
FogBlueInSanFran said:
Sadly I think my next pick will be a 90s one since I haven't done that decade yet. 60s records are tough for me; I can only think of one American band that I truly love from that time frame whose best record was 1970.
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That's fair enough and CCR as you would have guessed if you have followed are in my top 10 favourite bands of all time but not far behind is Steve Miller as its CCR I assume ( apologies if I am wrong you are referring to ).

I am guessing you have listened to early Steve Miller Band material but if you haven't listened to Children of the Future check it out I think you will like it.

How it took to 2016 for him to be inducted still baffles me but better late than never.
 
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