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Post by Ginnie on Dec 15, 2007 18:31:21 GMT -4
Ps. Anyone with any evidence of good music and or movies give me a pointer please.Brian Eno - Hear Come the Warm Jets (1973) Sensational Alex Harvey Band - The Impossible Dream (1973) Roxy Music - Stranded (1973) The Stooges - Raw Power (1973) The New York Dolls - The New York Dolls (1973) movies:Papillion (1973) Badlands (1973) The Last Detail (1973) Mean Streets (1973) I guess it was a good year... It looks like we have similar taste in music and movies additions I’d make are (more or less in my order of preference): Albums: Billion Dollar Babies and Holy Muscle of Love by Alice Cooper Goat’s Head Soup by the Stones Berlin by Lou Reed Headhunters by Herbie Hancock Greeting by Asbury Park. N.J. by Bruce Springsteen Aerosmith Movies: Sleeper The Adventures of Rabbi Jacob (French) Serpico The Sting The Exorcist American Graffiti Cleopatra Jones Berlin? I love that album. Is there any song spookier than "The Kids"? Muscle of Love? Not for me, get Killer or Love it to Death instead. Billion Dollar Babies is great though. Goats Head Soup? Nope. Exile on Main Street, Beggars Banquet, Sticky Fingers and Let it Bleed are much better. Plus a lot of their early ones. I've never seen Cleopatra Jones. Sleeper is funnier than heck. Didn't like The Sting. The Adventures of Rabbi Jacob - never seen it.
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Post by 3onthetree on Dec 15, 2007 20:59:17 GMT -4
What's going on here were all movies made in 1973? The Exorcist, American Graffiti, Serpico and all the same year tricky Dickie killed the Bretton Woods system. Talk about conspiracies, this ones Gold baby.
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Post by Ginnie on Dec 15, 2007 21:24:07 GMT -4
Oh, lenbrazil, just noticed that all your music and movies were made in 1973 also! (I think) How about # A Wizard, A True Star - Todd Rundgren # Aladdin Sane - David Bowie # Band On The Run - Paul McCartney and Wings # Brain Salad Surgery - Emerson, Lake & Palmer # The Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd # Genesis Live - Genesis # Houses of the Holy - Led Zeppelin # Made in Japan - Deep Purple # Preservation: Act 1 - The Kinks # Razamanaz - Nazareth # Sabbath Bloody Sabbath - Black Sabbath # Tales from Topographic Oceans - Yes # Time Fades Away - Neil Young # Tres Hombres - ZZ Top I remember buying most of those albums!
Do listen to 'Dead Finks Don't Talk" by Brian Eno off the Here Come the Warm Jets album if you get the chance.
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Post by Ginnie on Dec 15, 2007 22:07:22 GMT -4
What's going on here were all movies made in 1973? The Exorcist, American Graffiti, Serpico and all the same year tricky Dickie killed the Bretton Woods system. Talk about conspiracies, this ones Gold baby. Aha! So you don't know about the 1973 Conspiracy? Its the greatest one of them all .... ;D
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Post by Jason on Dec 16, 2007 0:46:43 GMT -4
A lot of great things came about in 1973. I know, since I was born in that year.
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Post by Ginnie on Dec 16, 2007 0:56:18 GMT -4
A lot of great things came about in 1973. I know, since I was born in that year. Really? You're just a pup! And what role in the conspiracy do you have? Distraction? ;D I first smoked pot in 1973. Before you call me a druggie, let it be known that I haven't touched it in twenty years. Except for once. Put me to sleep in ten minutes. This was at about 9:00 at a New Years Eve party. Woke up at six in the morning. Never again!
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Post by PhantomWolf on Dec 16, 2007 16:45:11 GMT -4
The only interesting things about gold is that it is rather hard to oxidise, so it's generally found in it's metal form and that it is yellow in colour. In itself it has no value other than what people are willing to pay for it. That's what came to my mind too. I recall a video describing galvanic corrosion in relation to outboard engines, and mentioning that gold is not very active. It quickly added that it wouldn't be practical to make a lower gear unit out of gold, and then went on to describe the use of sacrafial anodes. The four basics of why it become valuable is that it is found in metal form, it is uncommon, that it is yellow and shiney, and that it is soft. Because it was already in metal form and not oxidised it was easy to locate it. Fine some yellow metallic flakes or a nuget and there's your gold, no need to heat it and mess about with oxides to make the stuff. Secondly it's uncommoness means that you couldn't just walk down the beach and pick it up, you had to work for it. The colour and shininess meant that it was useful for adorments as it gave some colour to them, as did copper another metal that was highly prized early on. Finally the ability to work it easily meant that those making the items could shape the metal with little effort and no need for casting, they could just beat it into the correct shape. Thus it was used for jewelry, and because it didn't oxidise, like copper, it would retain it's colour and prettiness. But in the end, it was given a value for no other reason that people like it's colour and shineiness, and today with other metals availible, such as Platinum, that weren't during ancient history, gold is losing some ground.
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Post by lenbrazil on Dec 16, 2007 18:27:40 GMT -4
Yes that and his eponymisly titled first one are IMO his best solo album. It and Alice Cooper’s best albums (Love It to Death - (1971), Killer - (1971) , School's Out - (1972) and Billion Dollar Babies - (1973)) were produced by Bob Ezrin, indeed it was his work on those records that earned him his reputation as a top flight producer. According to a story I heard they got the kids to cry by telling them the mothers had left them there and they would never see them again. I guess your right I put it at the top because it was easier to put both Alice Cooper LP’s together still it had a couple of good songs No not one of their best but still a great record and one of the better albuns that year It’s a “Blacksplotion” classic It’s a 70’s (obviously) French slapstick classic along the lines ones that were latter made into inferior Hollywood versions such as the “The Toy” “La Cage aux Folles” and the “Tall Blonde Man” movies Oh, lenbrazil, just noticed that all your music and movies were made in 1973 also! (I think) How about # A Wizard, A True Star - Todd Rundgren # Aladdin Sane - David Bowie # Band On The Run - Paul McCartney and Wings # Brain Salad Surgery - Emerson, Lake & Palmer # The Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd # Genesis Live - Genesis # Houses of the Holy - Led Zeppelin # Made in Japan - Deep Purple # Preservation: Act 1 - The Kinks # Razamanaz - Nazareth # Sabbath Bloody Sabbath - Black Sabbath # Tales from Topographic Oceans - Yes # Time Fades Away - Neil Young # Tres Hombres - ZZ Top I remember buying most of those albums! Do listen to 'Dead Finks Don't Talk" by Brian Eno off the Here Come the Warm Jets album if you get the chance. Our musical tates might bw more divergent than I though from seeing your short list A Wizard, A True Star - Todd Rundgren # Aladdin Sane - David Bowie Brain Salad Surgery - Emerson, Lake & Palmer Genesis Live – Genesis Tales from Topographic Oceans – YesI never got into Progresive Rock or Bowie very much, though I like Ziggy Stardust and some songs from his other albums. I put Eno, Fripp any Roxy Music in a different category. # The Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd I prefer their Syd Barrett era stuff. # Made in Japan - Deep Purple I like some of their stuff but was never a huge fan, I’m not familiar with this album # Houses of the Holy - Led ZeppelinI was never a Led Zep fan though I like some of their harder rocking classics like Communications Breakdown Preservation: Act 1 - The KinksI love the Kinks including a lot of their 70’s stuff but I’m not familiar with this album Sabbath Bloody Sabbath - Black SabbathI prefer their earlier albums # Time Fades Away - Neil Young I like Neil Young when he rocks out, I don’t think I’ve ever heard this album. # Tres Hombres - ZZ TopI like this one too. My top albums of 1973 in approximate order of preference Raw Power – Iggy and the Stooges The New York Dolls Billion Dollar Babies – Alice Cooper Berlin-Lou Reed Goat Head’s Soup –The (Rolling) Stones Headhunters - Herbie Hancock Greeting by Asbury Park. N.J. - Bruce Springsteen Brian Eno - Hear Come the Warm Jets Roxy Music - Stranded Aerosmith Holy Muscle of Love - Alice Cooper Tres Hombres - ZZ Top
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Post by Ginnie on Dec 16, 2007 19:15:44 GMT -4
Time Fades Away is a live album by Neil. "Don't Be Denied" is the standout. BTW this album has never been released on CD yet.
So you are aware of Here Come the Warm Jets! Such a great album (I keep plugging it).
The first three Roxy Music albums are excellent. Goes downhill from there. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, suffers a bit from the synth, but has a couple of truly great numbers. Way better than Vol IV before it. Master of Reality remains my favourite.
In the seventies I was the only one I know who listened to Roxy, the Dolls, Stooges and Lou Reed. After listening to 'Search and Destroy', the punk invasion sounded almost polite! I wondered what all the fuss was about with the Pistols, but rock sure needed a kick in the butt to return to its primitiveness. Prog rock and Top 40 turned rock into syrupy sweetness. Genesis, ELP, Yes and a few other prog bands were great but then came the pretenders who couldn't compose or play their instruments as good as the genre demanded. How many bands besides ELP could ever attempt Pictures at an Exhibition? Oh, put King Crimson in with the good ones too. Robert Fripp may well be the most influential guitarist that hardly anyone knows about. And since this thread is getting hijacked by this topic, I'll start a thread...
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Post by Ginnie on Dec 16, 2007 19:41:04 GMT -4
According to a story I heard they got the kids to cry by telling them the mothers had left them there and they would never see them again. Yep, sounds like Lou. My wife can't listen to that song, indeed probably any mother couldn't. Ezrin really loaded that album with the best studio musicians available, and the production is a bit 'big', but thankfully the songwriting skills of Lou overcomes it. The album version was great with the inserting lyrics booklet, nicely calligraphied (?). The CD version just doesn't do it justice. And his lyrics are killer: They're taking her children away because they said she was not a good mother They're taking her children away because she was making it with sisters and brothers And everyone else, all of the others like cheap officers who would stand there and flirt in front of me
They're taking her children away because they said she was not a good mother They're taking her children away because of the things that they heard she had done The black Air Force sergeant was not the first one and all of the drugs she took, every one, every one...
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Post by gillianren on Dec 17, 2007 0:29:58 GMT -4
The ancient Egyptians considered silver more valuable than gold, because silver is less frequently found in nugget form. Since you have to work harder for it, it's worth more, right?
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Post by PhantomWolf on Dec 17, 2007 16:01:36 GMT -4
The ancient Egyptians considered silver more valuable than gold, because silver is less frequently found in nugget form. Since you have to work harder for it, it's worth more, right? Yup. The Inca's were in a gold rich country, it was "everywhere." Consequently they didn't value it very much, and really couldn't understand why the Spainards were so interested in what to them was a common metal. Pity it cost them their lives in the end.
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Post by lenbrazil on Dec 17, 2007 22:06:59 GMT -4
Actually I think that was Ezrin's doing but I doubt Lou would have objected!
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