Seeing as everybody is having threads to self-promote, I might as well join in the fun, and keep the good burghers of OTF/WSC updated about new posters on my music blog.

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Going up within an hour: my personal top 10 albums of 1972, with a track from each album.

This follows last week's top 10 albums from 1987 (including the album which is the only thing The Horse and I have ever agreed on against the OTF consensus).

Always good to remind people.

BTW, ms. ursus was especially appreciative of your Bacharach mix.

I will continue to post my mixes on here though (don't know if anyone is actually interested, but I presume some are).

The two latest mixes are Beatles album tracks and b-sides, serving as an adjunct to the red and blue albums. Both mixes (the compilation of which was a collaboration between me and my son) were well received by people who said they had grown tired of all the obvious Beatles tracks.

1962-66
1. P.S. I Love You
2. Do You Want To Know A Secret
3. I Saw Her Standing There
4. It Won't Be Long
5. I'll Get You
6. Tell Me Why
7. This Boy
8. I Wanna Be Your Man
9. I Should Have Known Better
10. If I Fell
11. I Call Your Name
12. I'll Be Back
13. Any Time At All
14. Things We Said Today
15. Baby's In Black
16. I'm A Loser
17. No Reply
18. Every Little Thing
19. I'll Follow The Sun
20. She's A Woman
21. I Need You
22. You're Going To Lose That Girl
23. I'm Down
24. It's Only Love
25. I've Just Seen A Face
26. If I Needed Someone
27. You Won't See Me
28. Think For Yourself
29. Tomorrow Never Knows
30. Rain
31. And Your Bird Can Sing
32. I'm Only Sleeping
33. For No One

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1967-70
1. Getting Better
2. She's Leaving Home
3. Being For The Benefit Of Mr Kite!
4. Baby You're A Rich Man
5. All Together Now
6. Across The Universe (original version)
7. Hey Bulldog
8. Revolution #1
9. Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey
10. Sexy Sadie
11. Dear Prudence
12. Cry Baby Cry
13. Helter Skelter
14. Happiness Is A Warm Gun
15. Long, Long, Long
16. I'm So Tired
17. Don't Let Me Down (alternative version)
18. Two Of Us
19. I've Got A Feeling
20. Dig A Pony
21. Because
22. Oh! Darling
23. Golden Slumbers
24. Carry That Weight
25. The End
26. I Me Mine

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QUOTE:
BTW, ms. ursus was especially appreciative of your Bacharach mix.

I'm really pleased to hear that. That mix was particularly popular, with good reason (props, of course, not due to me but to Mr Bacharach and Mr David. And the interprets of their songs).

And I've been playing your funk mix in the gym for weeks now. Brenda and the Big Dudes - great name, great album cover, fantastic song. It seems to collect all the elements of 80s dance/soul music all together in about 3 minutes.

It is a great song, isn't it? If I was an A&R man, I'd have Girls Aloud or someone like that do a cover.

Anyway, the latest post is a compilation of solo tracks by Beatles members from 1979-72. I'll start a new thread about it, with download link.

QUOTE:
my personal top 10 albums of 1972

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G-Man, you're surely not telling us that John Denver's Rocky Mountain High is a better album than Exile on Main Street?

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Oh no, in the intro I make it quite clear that it's not a Best Of 1972, but the ten albums I enjoy the most, for whatever reason.

By the way, here's the download link for the Brenda (Fassie) & the Big Dudes which jon is bigging up upthread:

Weekend Special.mp3

And a new update just gone up. I'm featuring five blogs, including one by an OTFer (who better fucking update and maintain it now).

Also have a look two posts down. The alt,country and folk-rock gang here might find a couple of useful songs.
http://halfhearteddude.blogspot.com/

New post in the Great Moustaches In Rock series, marvelling at the lipgrowth of John Oates of Hall & Oates. And giving The Quietus another plug.

HERE

"the ten albums I enjoy the most, for whatever reason"

That is 'best of', isn't it? If G-Man enjoys John Denver's album more than the Rolling Stones, then he think it's better, because what's better than enjoyment? It's why all those dull BBC and Q 'best albums ever' lists are so dinosaurish and predictable, because people (readers and hacks alike) probably think they should pick certain classic albums, rather than the ones they actually like.

And what a bunch of tedious cunts the Rolling Stones are. I wouldn't have one of their albums anywhere close to my top 500.

Ha. I take that as a defence of John Denver over the Stones. I reckon Rocky Mountain High is a very good album indeed, once one gets past the idea of John Denver.

I'm not sure that enjoying something more makes that thing necessarily better though. I enjoy listening to JoBoxers' "Just Got Lucky" more than listening to Beethoven's 7th symphony, but I'll cheerfully concede that old Ludwig's composition possibly trumps JoBoxers in the quality stakes.

New post up on Live Aid. A mix of some of the very fucking few musical highlights plus a couple of oddities (Dylan and the craggies fucking up Blowing In The Wind, "The lesson today is how to die!!!!!", Costello getting the crowd to sing instruments).

All that preceded by my critical musings on Live Aid. Which reminds me of the time when SSS and I were comrades-in-arms in our qualified defence of Live Aid.

Post here

Up now is an interview with the singer Jay Brannan. Quite an interesting character: his lyrics are very very overtly written from a gay perspective but he is quite adamant that he does not want to be known as a "gay singer". I applaud that (my question in that regard was leading), but I think the whole notion of gay singers no being "gay singers" is well worth a discussion. I'm thinking of starting a thread on that. When I've cleared my mind of ten-thousand-and-one things.

If my non-review of Brannan's album sounds as though I'm gushing like a little schoolgirl, it's because I think it's entirely gushworthy.

When it comes to non-overtly-gay gay singers, the one who springs to my mind is Dominic Appleton, from Breathless. It was some years after getting into them that I found out he was gay. Besides, it's almost entirely irrelevant, really. Their songs (because of his lyrics) are just entirely about relationships - the gender is never mentioned. But what makes me love Breathless' music is just that they so brilliantly evoke the maelstrom of emotions one experiences in a relationship that verges on the obssessive. Guitars pile up on top of each other until it's like being caught in a blizzard. The fact that Breathless often use two layers of vocals, with guitarist Gary Mundy singing a different set of lines underneath Dominic Appleton's adds to the illusion of disorientation - you can sometimes only grasp the briefest snatches of phrases. Without Dominic Appleton's lyrics, though, I think they could easily be just another guitar band, but with them they're something special. I'll have to put a few tracks up sometime.