Tao Jones
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12/27/2009 7:51:48 PM
Christmas Albums
hese are what I bought my kids or they bought me. Some very good old albums I never had.
1) Bowie: Low
Wow. What can ya say? Eno and Bowie figured out how to make techno organic before techno even launched. Really a strange and beautiful album, the whole second side has barely any vocals at all. "Sound and Vision" is fun.
2) Graham Nash: Songs for Beginners
I had known about this album since I was 19 since Tom and I used to do "Sleep Song," but I'd never actually heard it. I like this better than most all the CSN output. This is a largely unknown gem. Wen you listen to his harmonies on "Wounded Bird" you realize where the sweet magic resides.
3) Rod Stewart "Never a Dull Moment"
Starting to think this is his best album. Anyway, now we have all his first four, and they are pretty essential if you are a lover of rock from that era. All these albums are...
4) And here's another classic I never had: Working Man's Dead
While there are a couple blues number where Jerry doesn't sing that I could flip past, most of this album is a solid beauty
We also got Diamond Dogs and Rod's first album, but I haven't delved into those enough yet to know much to say other than Rod had a distinctive way of rockin' with the electrics mixing with the acoustics that was just so real it is a marvel how unreal he became,
and bowie's Diamond Dogs is a riff heavy album. I love the title song and Rebel, but I haven't heard the ones I don't know enough to comment yet...
If nothing else, everybody oughta gat Graham Nash- Songs for Beginners
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