I like very much Bang Bang and Shining Star (sounds a bit like Prince). And the few you cited on Side 1 are good. He was clearly aiming to get American AM radio play....and he succeeded, but not as much as hoped for. Day-in, Day-out rose to about #20 on Billboard, Never Let Me Down got to about #26...not great...but no other subsequent singles made into into the US Top 40 for the rest of his career. Re: his acting...Yeh, not his strong point, but there were a couple of small independent films in the late 90's which were a vast improvment over his early acting in mid-70's.
Agree. This is not his worse album but it is the weakest of his 80’s output. Time will Crawl and Never Let Me Down are very good tunes. Side 1 is stronger than Side 2 definitely. And the Glass Spider Tour was the only time I saw him live. I thought it was a great show.
Time will crawl is a good tune on that lp, I saw Bowie on that tour with Peter Frampton, glass spider worked better on stage than the lp, awesome show. I just bought a red and a blue copy of Tin Machine at the SF Warfield , check it out, I was at that show, I’m lucky I got to see David many times many different style eras.
@@top5records796 Glass spider show was still a bit off like the album tbh but its was theatrical for a bit and that was a bit like scary monsters it was fun. Bowie with Tin Machine was fun, the most raw I’ve ever seen David, a bit rackety but that was fun. I’m daydreaming back atm, I think the Outside tour was cool, way different and a dark favourite. I saw the ones after that as well but I’d have to say David at his best all around in a fan’s perspective of wanting to hear him do all Bowie tunes was the Sound and Vision tour when he played all the old hits and made it feel like he was going to retire after, it was bittersweet and David sounded really good. I would see him in SF bay and travel to Sacramento for more shows, people thought I was crazy att, not so much now. Well worth the fuss!
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I agree with your overall analysis, although I quite like Bang Bang, in the context of the album, not his entire catalogue. The 80s afflicted quite a few long standing artists, such as the Stones. Perhaps it was something in the air (no pun intended and anyway that was from the 90s). I felt the album was very much just something to promote while on tour, although it became the focus of the tour. Maybe he didn't have a lot to say at this moment. I caught the tour too, at Wembley stadium. I still have the program tucked away. It's a very spartan affair compared to what get's printed today.
The ‘80s are indeed a very bizarre period for a lot of artists. I think everything got shook up by MTV. For 1. An artist had to be visually appealing. 2. The song became more important than the album 3. Come up with a song that is wort the $100.000,- budget. The money for the video was also a threshold. As the music, times and mentality was changing so fast, it is hard to come up with your answer to that as an already established artist.
I’ve got 3 Harry Moss pressings and they do sound the best of all the vinyl copies I have. I still enjoy the copy I bought in 1973 just because it was my first and I also like my German Quad version.
In my opinion SINATRA AT THE SANDS is the best live LP he ever released, true SINATRA on stage his voice is perfect his jokes n his storys, can't help but keep listening as often as I can 🎉😂😂❤
My favourites are it's POB / Walls and Bridges / Mind Games / Imagine, now POB is a bit hard to listen, powerful stuff so Walls and Bridges and Mind Games are the ones I play the most the most (along with Shaved Fish)
Ranking Beatles albums is virtually impossible, but I deliberately paused the video after number five with the 'obvious four' still left to rank. I thought seriously for a good five or ten minutes before deciding the ranking would be (from 4 to 1): White Album, Sgt Pepper, Revolver, and Abbey Road...lol. How do we rank Beatles albums? Is it listenability to modern ears? Is it overall cultural significance? Is it 'shock and awe' at the time of release? And what constitutes 'excellence in an album', vs 'excellence in a collection of songs'? On those criteria (respectively), the number one album could potentially have been Abbey Road / Sgt Pepper / Revolver / White Album. And I thought, strategically, that 'listenability' would likely win the day. The White Album has always been a dark horse, always criticized for being a haphazard collection of songs, but so clearly a fireworks display of creativity, combined with brilliant studio excellence (George Martin is never praised enough). So although I thought the White Album might (conventionally) come in as number four, I'm quite happy with it being chosen as number one. 🙂 My only real argument is with Revolver being at number four. To me that album was the single biggest 'giant step' in The Beatles' discography, and for that reason I think it deserved a higher rating. As a teenager in 1966 I remember listening to it for the first time in silent awe, as representing something totally new and game-changing. Subsequent albums were always impressive, but Revolver shocked like no other (maybe it was George Martins's input?). After Revolver, anything could happen. It's hard to hear it that way now, but it still strikes me as pristine, a diamond - actually not all that dissimilar to the White Album in production feel, if perhaps slightly dated in comparison. So, three cheers for the White Album, always underrated, and a dazzling display of The Beatles' prodigious and inexhaustible talent, originality, versatility, and studio discipline. And perhaps it's time for history to start seriously including George Martin as an implicit, if unofficial, Beatle as well. 🙂
Hello there! I prefer this PF ranking compared to the old one I watched of yours which I somehow remember was much more harsh 😅😅😅 The Wall used to be my absolute #1 PF record, but now it’s no longer entering my top 5. I have to say, over the time, I’ve become really tired of Waters’ “endless shouting”. For example, I believe Waters’ best solo work is undoubtedly Is This the Life We Really Want, where Nigel Godrich essentially forced him to be more concrete and shout less. My ranking nowadays would be the following. 1. Wish You Were Here 2. The Dark Side of the Moon 3. Animals 4. Meddle 5. The Division Bell (sorry!) 6. The Wall 7. Atom Heart Mother 8. The Piper at the Gates of Dawn 9. Obscured by Clouds 10. A Saucerful of Secrets 11. A Momentary Lapse of Reason 12. More 13. The Final Cut 14. Ummagumma 15. The Endless River
Thank you, I'm a great fan of this album, too. I think haven't listened to the mono version, but I will try. Sometimes Dylan's voice can be a bit difficult to listen to in this album, especially if I hear the music in the background. My favorite Dylan album is "Another side of Bob Dylan".
The only Mayall album I have is the "Beano" album with Clapton, but it is awesome. (I have a late 70s US reissue that sounds pretty good.) I need to get more of his albums. They are actually rather plentiful and affordable here in the US, so I will make up for lost time. I was streaming A Hard Road earlier and liked it a lot. Definitely an essential artist.
Ranking my own collection: 1. Revolver 2. Rubber Soul 3. Abbey Road 4. White Album 5. Please Please Me 6. Help! 7. Magical Mystery 8. Sgt Pepper 9. Something New 10. With The Beatles 11. Let it Be 12. Yellow Submarine
My Top 5 Compelling Prince Albums Are.... 1. 1999 surprised me with Purple Rain I expected him to blow up so I was happy everyone discovered what I already knew. 2. ATWiAD/Parade era impressed me. 3. Emancipation had everything! 4. Sign O Times was like an encyclopedia of funk 5. One Nite Alone was perfect mood for alone time. Honorable mentions. *Controversy shocked me as a 15yr old in high school it was so cool, and I was too young to appreciate its brilliance at the time. *Lovesexy shows how fearless Prince was to pursue his creative inspiration. * Rainbow Children ( which means totally something different now) Let me know he's still that Guy who could do whatever he wants.
Great review I always loved flowers, for a long time I didn't know it was a compilation I'm from the US they package things differently. Love your review man
Tusk was a combination of 3 separate solo albums put together . Best FM song is of coure Dragonfly written by DANNY KIRWAN and Peter Green .. Making top 5 albums is silly
