New Shit from Old Farts!!!
Here's some first impressions from new albums...by some classic old farts. Well, 2 are reissues, but fuck it!
Ray Davies: Working Man's Cafe (2007) I am VERY impressed!!! This sounds absolutely stone cold classic. Maybe I'm a-hallucinating on raindrops, but man is this the best Ray since the 70s??? Besides being catchy as all fuck, the thing I like about this is Ray isn't forcing his rock. He's letting this flow naturally, and the hooks sink in pulling you onto Ray's boat...I find this much better than last years's Other People's Lives (2006) which was good, but had a bit of that forcedness...all you Ray and Kinks fans (and you should be!) listen to this motherfucker and enjoy!!!
Vanilla Fudge: Out Through the In Door (2007) A cover of Zep songs...in 2007??? By Vanilla fucking Fudge???? Well, I was hoping it would be more over the top, but I guess Zep were already over the top (and over the hills and far away...). The Fudge play it fairly straight, and show they are the best Zep cover band around. Weird...I'm not sure what to make of it...
Kevin Ayers: The Unfairground (2007) This was one of Mole's 2007 favs, so I was looking forward to listening to Mr. Ayer's musical musings. Mole's right. This is excellent! There's a darkness underneath it all that is...ironically...very appealing.
Mott the Hoople: Live Fillmore West 1970 (2006) Mott the Hoople were one of the best live bands of the early 1970s...just listen to any of there increasing number of archival releases for proof...and this baby!!! Listen to Ian Hunter chastise the audience...punk before punk...it sounds like these guys didn't give a shit except for rockin' out, and rockin' out hard. And if the audience didn't want to rock out...well, fuck em!!!!!!!!!
C,S,N & Y: Studio Archives 1970 (2006) A bootleg release. There's lots of neat stuff on this...as usual Neil's is the best. There's absolutely some classic, and I mean classic, dialogue. What a bunch of stoned egocentric hippies! Hilarious. Stills and Crosby all stoned and full of themselves...classic. I won't spoil it for anyone. Worth it for the dialogue alone!
Man...I really can't stand David Crosby!!!
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"Midnight Lady" by Mott in 1971 on Australian TV.
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