tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4866391505956532442.post4966503669570458852..comments2024-03-27T07:51:05.367-07:00Comments on R S Crabb Presents Record World : Week In Review: Tanking Ratings,Best Ever, Pet Sounds R S Crabbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11763473179086750283noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4866391505956532442.post-67393833573024220992016-10-18T16:47:25.640-07:002016-10-18T16:47:25.640-07:00Just think what a better album pet sounds would be...Just think what a better album pet sounds would be if they cut out the dog barks and instrumentals and ended the album with good vibrations instead.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17508388270082893510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4866391505956532442.post-47952781892561784672016-10-18T16:43:17.702-07:002016-10-18T16:43:17.702-07:00Sgt pepper was the first Beatles album that was th...Sgt pepper was the first Beatles album that was the same in UK as in us. Revolver was the last one where they tampered with the songs.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17508388270082893510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4866391505956532442.post-59443203038669836322016-08-13T11:46:42.123-07:002016-08-13T11:46:42.123-07:00I posted that link Best Ever Albums.. For I know t...I posted that link Best Ever Albums.. For I know that I will forget them. ;) R S Crabbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11763473179086750283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4866391505956532442.post-49717940604525537542016-08-13T11:33:13.604-07:002016-08-13T11:33:13.604-07:00Hi Crabby -- "Best Ever Albums" looks li...Hi Crabby -- "Best Ever Albums" looks like a cool site. I was intrigued enough to register and join. I even tried -- several times -- to submit a Strange Top 10 to them. Which went OK, until they ran into album titles they didn't recognize, and then their system locked up. Repeatedly. So. I'm sure there are less complicated ways to make a "compare favorites lists" site work -- since criticizing each other's musical taste is one of the major joys in life. But they'd have to be less OCD than this site. Getting around the site is a bitch. There are easier ways to do this -- Mark Prindle made it work for years and his site sure wasn't fancy. Maybe "cool-looking" is the last thing a site like this needs. Anyway, thanx for the tip and I might even visit them again ... for something.... Though any site that thinks DARK SIDE OF THE MOON was the best album of the '70s needs to get jolted around a little....<br />TADhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13853931230081777310noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4866391505956532442.post-24487515651182255232016-08-12T00:03:12.059-07:002016-08-12T00:03:12.059-07:00Hi Tad
As always your more than welcome to chime ...Hi Tad<br /><br />As always your more than welcome to chime in. Second opinions do count.<br /><br />Not familiar with Trombone Dixie, my version has both mono and stereo versions of P.S and after I heard one version, I am not tempted to compare notes. Side 1 does drag but the second more than makes it up-not a bad song at all. I have given 5 stars or A pluses to some albums that grab my attention but even the masterpiece albums might have a subpar song to chose from. Alan Parsons gave a nice mix to Dark Side Of The Moon to make it a five star album, but in my book it's a B album. I can live without it. For an A plus album like Piper At The Gates Of Dawn, it's crackpot and original nature makes me like that one the best. For Fleetwood Mac, I'd go with Then Play On, more than Rumours but Rumours is a masterpiece. Sgt Pepper same thing but who in their rightful mind would consider The Randy Cliffs Trixie's Trailer Sales to be a masterpiece outside of me? Nobody else in this world.<br /><br />That said, Pet Sounds deserves mention for a masterpiece, although I know you'll play your copy more than I will. The jury is still out if Smile would have eclipsed Pet Sounds had it come out, my guess would be Smile would have been better. In the long run, 20/20 would get more plays on my player, even as scrapings from Smile, to me it's a bit more consistent. <br /><br />Cheers! R S Crabbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11763473179086750283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4866391505956532442.post-31346936652469004482016-08-11T12:45:40.995-07:002016-08-11T12:45:40.995-07:00Hey Crabby -- I agree you have to kind of cast you...Hey Crabby -- I agree you have to kind of cast your mind back to a more innocent time to love all of PET SOUNDS, but I heard it at an impressionable age (just after high school) when I was naive and full of starry-eyed questions about the future.<br />PS is mushy and romantic and sentimental, and that's OK with me. I love it, but I also think it drags some on Side 1. It sure ain't perfect (what album is? DARK SIDE? RUMOURS? ABBEY ROAD? REVOLVER? SGT. PEPPER?? WHITE ALBUM??? No!), but I love it for the high points. For me, those are: God Only Knows, Here Today, I Just Wasn't Made for These Times, Sloop John B, Let's Go Away for Awhile, I Know There's an Answer. All the vocals are gorgeous, and the playing is amazing.<br />Wouldn't it be Nice? Well, OK, if I have to. The flow of most of the rest of it I'm OK with, though I got little use for "That's Not Me" or "Don't Talk" or "I'm Waiting for the Day." Not fully convinced about "Caroline No" as a closer -- I woulda used "Wasn't Made for These Times" or "Let's Go Away for Awhile" -- but then the album woulda sold LESS. DO love that barking-dogs-and-train tag at the end, though.<br />On the CD version I've got, you also get the bonus track "Trombone Dixie," which I think is great. I can't imagine Brian being so busy making new music that he could somehow FORGET this piece. Apparently Brian turned it into some other BB's song MUCH later. But I think it's cool with the chimes and the sly trombones on the choruses.<br />Yeah, I think SMILE's better, but it's a bigger canvas and all the mystery and the waiting somehow made it even HUGER, though I loved the box set a few years back. But that's a whole different sort of project, which maybe Brian couldn't quite grab hold of, though I think what we got is pretty great.<br />Thanx as always for the chance to blab about all this....<br />TADhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13853931230081777310noreply@blogger.com