Unfashionable - but who cares?

[aMUSEd]

Been getting back into some music I haven't listened to for some time. Managed to get hold of several albums by Heart and Emerson, Lake and Palmer recently so I've been having a nostalgia-fest.

Loving Tarkus right now - great B3 playing by Emerson and vocals by Lake!! And "Still you turn me on" is just wonderful - Greg Lake is one of my alltime favourite male vocalists

I don't like much of the later "pomp-rock" stuff Heart did but their first couple of albums were superb - I like everything off "Dreamboat Annie" and the glorious "Mistral Wind" and a few other tracks on "Dog and Butterfly" are also outstanding (also "Barracuda" rocks!). I got into Heart when I was a teenager as I was into Led Zep and saw Heart's guitarist doing that Jimmy Page bowing thing on his guitar which impressed me at the time. Also I think Anne Wilson's voice is so lovely and warm and comes closer to Karen Carpenter than anyone else at times (yet can also be so "bad" and gutsy).

I don't seem to see much positive written about these bands these days - they seem to be thought of as "cheesy" perhaps - but I don't care and think they deserve a listen. Anyone else like these or got anything they want to confess about so called "unfashionable" music?

[bluedad]

hey, I listened to 'the jackson 5's greatest hits' thohter day.
is there anything more infectiously hooky than
'I want You Back' and "abc"
and keith emerson! in an age of guitar hero worship, he was someone a teenage keyboard player could point to with pride

[bluedad]

hey, I listened to 'the jackson 5's greatest hits'

I didn't really just say that, did i?

[griels]

hey, I listened to 'the jackson 5's greatest hits'

I didn't really just say that, did i?

Yes, and incidentally I think the Jackson 5 were outstanding.. 'ABC' has to be one of the best crafted pop songs of all time..

[ouroboros]

aww, it's alright. Mike really was the real deal for a long time.

For the record, I was listening the pointer sisters the other day and lovin' it

[Lady J]

Its all about Chaka Khan... Space Funk.

[Meffy]

EL&P have always been among my favorites, since I was able to hold a job and buy my own LPs. Heart... didn't hear them until college, where my roommate had several of their albums. He had plenty of Joe Walsh and other great stuff I knew but learned to like better with access to albums. Oh, yes -- Mahavishnu Orchestra too. Other friends turned me on to Tomita, Jeff Beck, Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen, and provided far more Zappa than I realized existed.

Poor Michael Jackson... shame about that "mysterious condition" that turned him from an apparently honest musician into a... erm, let's be charitable and say celebrity.

[Bunnyboy]

hey, I listened to 'the jackson 5's greatest hits' thohter day.
is there anything more infectiously hooky than
'I want You Back' and "abc"
and keith emerson! in an age of guitar hero worship, he was someone a teenage keyboard player could point to with pride

Don't stop 'til you get enough

or is that lil mikey on his own

[spacedad]

i used to have 'tarkus' painted on my haversack at school.
keith was the reason i wanted to play keyboards.i know they're not considered 'cool' but he still played the dirtiest hammond and moog.i think the triple-gatefold-live-album ELP welcome back my friends to the show that never ends,ladies and gentlemen....was the best,though.

[Meffy]

spacedad, that triple LP was one of the first two albums I ever bought in my life. The other was the soundtrack to "2001: A Space Odyssey."

Fashion? Pfft. The fashionable can keep their fashions. I'll keep on loving the music I grew up with -- and learning to enjoy more and more of what's been made since. :-)

[aMUSEd]

i used to have 'tarkus' painted on my haversack at school.
keith was the reason i wanted to play keyboards.i know they're not considered 'cool' but he still played the dirtiest hammond and moog.

Yeah - personally I much prefer Emerson to Wakeman anyday, though I quite like some YES too (also not considered "cool").

If you want to hear great Hammond try "Drum Folk" by Greenslade - another forgotten group from the 70's worth a relisten.

[aMUSEd]

Fashion? Pfft. The fashionable can keep their fashions. I'll keep on loving the music I grew up with -- and learning to enjoy more and more of what's been made since.

I quite agree - the only reason I hadn't listened the E,L&P for a while was I only had their stuff on cassete tape and it was well past it but now I have a few CD's. Same with Heart only I have "Dreamboat Annie" on Vinyl (bought nearly 30 years ago) but now I've got hold of that and "Dog and Butterfly" on CD too. Ann Wilson really has a beautiful voice .

[original flipper]

HI

I had bss - the only one I have now is 'fanfare for the common man' - is that the album title?

They went of at a tangent on that album, but it did it for me at the time.

Flipper.

[j_T]

Hi

I have no problem with being "old fashioned" every now and then.

What a wealth of music at my fingertips: I can listen to everything, from tunes by KVR members (some of them are really great ) to different approaches of home recording (the Recording Project, etc.) to current radio play to the music I grew up with and still like - and to a certain extent still prefer

To be honest I never liked Keith Emerson playing those early synths that much. I'd rather prefer him playing with The Nice. Anyone remember their version of "America"? About the same time: Traffic ("Hole in my shoes", "40,000 Headmen", etc.), Steamhammer, Savoy Brown, Stone The Crows and ... almost got me started

Seems to me that by now pop/roch music has its history and some kind of "classical" department has developed. And there is fun and interesting musical ideas in all of it. As long as you see - or rather listen to - it on its historical background. Or your own historical background

Regards,

Tommy

[aMUSEd]

I'm thinking of looking out some Jethro Tull next I had some records of theirs but lost them ages ago.