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1001 Albums you must hear before you die: The Kinks' Village Green Preservation Society
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Zaz
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11/7/07 7:02pm
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RE: 1001 Albums you must hear before you die: Jimi Hendrix's Axis: Bold as Love
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I'll have to look for that one.
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Rogue1-and-a-half
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12/7/07 11:31am
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RE: 1001 Albums you must hear before you die: Jimi Hendrix's Axis: Bold as Love
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I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You (1967) - Aretha Franklin
Tracks:
1. Respect
2. Drown in My Own Tears
3. I Never Loved a Man (the Way I Love You)
4. Soul Serenade
5. Don't Let Me Lose This Dream
6. Baby, Baby, Baby
7. Dr. Feelgood (Love is a Serious Business)
8. Good Times
9. Do Right Woman, Do Right Man
10. Save Me
11. A Change is Gonna Come
My thoughts:
This is a great album by any reasonable standard. Respect and the title track are the most famous, but Soul Serenade is pleading, Baby, Baby, Baby is pure sexual longing, Change is Gonna Come is pure gospel inspiration and Do Right Woman is soul singing at its absolute pinaccle.
Five star, essential album.
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Zaz
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12/7/07 12:02pm
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RE: 1001 Albums you must hear before you die: Aretha Franklin's I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love Y
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I think Franklin sang gospel at her father's church; great album.
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TheBoogieMan
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12/8/07 4:09am
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RE: 1001 Albums you must hear before you die: Aretha Franklin's I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love Y
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Zaz posted:
...you have to wonder if it's still available.
It is, I have it on CD. It's very good, and an extremely good example of its times. But it isn't compelling, and it won't make you love Indian music if you don't already.
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Rogue1-and-a-half
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4/11 11:25am
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RE: 1001 Albums you must hear before you die: Aretha Franklin's I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love Y
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Beggars Banquet (1968) - The Rolling Stones
Tracks:
1. Sympathy for the Devil
2. No Expectations
3. Dear Doctor
4. Parachute Woman
5. Jigsaw Puzzle
6. Street Fighting Man
7. Prodigal Son
8. Stray Cat Blues
9. Factory Girl
10. Salt of the Earth
My thoughts:
This isn't on the upper tier of Stones' work; it isn't up with Sticky Fingers, Let It Bleed, Some Girls, etc. But it is a great album; and some of the songs here are among their best ever. Sympathy for the Devil is quite possibly their greatest moment (along with about a hundred other songs that are 'possibly their greatest moment,' you get my drift?) and Prodigal Son finds them mining the folk gospel riff and doing it brilliantly. Stray Cat Blues is a brutal ode to groupies and Salt of the Earth is a great closer. Some of the other songs are less memorable, but this is still a great album.
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DT421
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4/11 12:29pm
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RE: 1001 Albums you must hear before you die: The Rolling Stones' Beggars Banquet
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Great album. This was the first Stones album to break them away from being Beatle clones. Up until this album, everything they did was in response to what the Beatles were doing and those 'responses' were usually just copying what they did. With Beggars, the Stones finally started down their own path, doing their own thing and to hell with what anybody else was doing. Great stuff.
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Street Fightin' Man is an especially awesome R and R song. 
Ev'rywhere I hear the sound of marching, charging feet, boy
'Cause summer's here and the time is right for fighting
in the street boy
But what can a poor boy do except to sing for a
Rock'N'Roll Band 'cause in sleepy London Town
There's just no place for Street Fighting Man! No!
Hey! Think the time is right for a Palace Revolution
But where I live the game to play is Compromise Solution!
Well then what can a poor boy do except to sing for a
Rock'N'Roll Band 'cause in sleepy London Town
There's just no place for Street Fighting Man! No!
Hey! Said my name is called Disturbance
I'll shout and scream, I'll kill the King I'll rail at all his servants
Well then what can a poor boy do except to sing for a
Rock'N'Roll Band 'cause in sleepy London Town
There's just no place for Street Fighting Man! No!
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"The biggest battles we fight are on the inside."
Nick Nolte in WAY OF THE PEACEFUL WARRIOR
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General Kenobi
Title: Comms Admin
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4/12 8:06am
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RE: 1001 Albums you must hear before you die: The Rolling Stones' Beggars Banquet
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While not quite as strong as the three albums they followed up with, this does have "Sympathy For The Devil", on the short list of greatest rock songs ever.
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Zaz
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Date Posted:
4/28 10:43am
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RE: 1001 Albums you must hear before you die: The Rolling Stones' Beggars Banquet
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The Stones have never much appealed to me, but this album does have some great songs.
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Rogue1-and-a-half
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Traffic (1968) - Traffic
Tracks:
1. You Can All Join In
2. Pearly Queen
3. Don't Be Sad
4. Who Knows What Tomorrow May Bring?
5. Feelin' Alright
6. Vagabond Virgin
7. Forty Thousand Headmen
8. Cryin' to Be Heard
9. No Time to Live
10. Means to an End
Haven't heard this one or anything by this group actually.
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Rogue1-and-a-half
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The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter (1968) - The Incredible String Band
Tracks:
1. Koeeoaddi There
2. The Minotaur's Song
3. Witches Hat
4. A Very Cellular Song
5. Mercy I Cry City
6. Waltz of the New Moon
7. The Water Song
8. Three is a Green Crown
9. Swift is the Wind
10. Nightfall
I just heard this one not that long ago; it instantly shot past every other album I've ever heard (including Britney Spears, Vanilla Ice's heavy metal album and Bruce Willis' R&B debut) to become my pick for worst album of all time.
This is the ugly side of psychedelica, an album of acoustic guitars, piercing flutes, harpsichords and lyrics about stealing the king's ginger while the jester looks away. This is, in my opinion, really unlistenable. That I forced myself to muddle through it twice is testament to my own idiocy and nothing else. If I never hear this sucker again I'll be happy and I must warn you strongly to steer as clear as you can.
The songs range from three minutes (too long) to thirteen minutes (suicide inducing), but there's not a song on here that is even listenable. Awful, awful, awful and the fact that they occasionally make mistakes and pause to search for the right key (note a literal two second pause in the middle of a harpsichord run in Very Cellular Song while which ever of the two nimrods that made up the band who played the harpsichord looked for the right chord).
In other words, this is pure stupidity. Worst album I've heard in a very long time.
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Zaz
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5/3 12:40pm
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I haven't heard of this, and your review suggests I should be grateful. Why did they include it? As a bad example?
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Rogue1-and-a-half
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7/17 2:34pm
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Village Green Preservation Society (1968) - The Kinks
Tracks:
1. The Village Green Preservation Society
2. Do You Remember, Walter?
3. Picture Book
4. Johnny Thunder
5. Last of the Steam-Powered Trains
6. Big Sky
7. Sitting By the Riverside
8. Animal Farm
9. Village Green
10. Star Struck
11. Phenomenal Cat
12. All of My Friends Were There
13. Wicked Annabella
14. Monica
15. People Take Pictures of Each Other
I really loved Face to Face and would like to get into more from the Kinks, but I haven't yet. I've heard Picture Book, probably their most famous after Girl, You Really Got Me, and it is particularly outstanding.
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somethingfamiliar
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Date Posted:
7/17 4:00pm
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RE: 1001 Albums you must hear before you die: The Kinks' Village Green Preservation Society
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One of my favorite albums. Definitely check this one out for some hazy nostalgia and sharp songwriting. The first six and last six tracks are fantastic, as is the contemporary single "Days" included on some CD versions.
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Zaz
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Date Posted:
9/17 10:11pm
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Heard of this group, but none of the songs here.
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