Hello again....Could you stay a little longer this time :(jonnyone wrote:
Just for old times sake
Thats a great trio there Dermot especially BOCcybot wrote:Some ancient evening is upon me. All vinyl, all nostalgic, all wonderful....
Dermot I'm like a badly tuned radio, fading in and out.cybot wrote:Hello again....Could you stay a little longer this time :(jonnyone wrote:
Just for old times sake
Some Enchanted Evening is good, Dermot, but pales next to BOC's first three studio albums and the live On Your Feet Or On Your Knees. Secret Treaties is their masterpiece. (Imaginos is very good, and worth tracking down.) Career of Evil, Subhuman, Flaming Telepaths and Astronomy are highpoints which they never managed to equal and I've never succeeded in freeing myself from the unique spell that they cast.cybot wrote:Some ancient evening is upon me. All vinyl, all nostalgic, all wonderful....
Have them all Paul :) What I should have said about SEE was the fact that there was only two tracks really worth listening to, namely: an astonishing version of Astronomy with Buck's liquid guitar solo taking me to the heavens and a lovely version of the Animals staple We Gotta Get Out Of This Place....My very first mail order album was the On Your Feet or On Your Knees double which I promptly blurted out to anyone listening was better than Made In Japan!!!! However my very first BÖC Lp was Secret Treaties which I got in a record shop in Drogheda. I loved it to death but I hated the last track on Side One, the Me262 thing. I remember my girlfriend's brother playing the album on the dansette just after I bought it. I was doing something in the adjoining room when this amazing guitar solo from Dominance and Submission suddenly had me runnning frantically into the room to play it back again :) WOW! Hated Imaginos when it came out! Just wasn't the same at all, at all......promptly swapped it, rightly or wrongly...Another goodie is their third live album which even though it's a patchy affair features yet another guitar showcase from Buck to rival Astronomy, Veteran of the Psychic Wars. WOW again!mcq wrote:Some Enchanted Evening is good, Dermot, but pales next to BOC's first three studio albums and the live On Your Feet Or On Your Knees. Secret Treaties is their masterpiece. (Imaginos is very good, and worth tracking down.) Career of Evil, Subhuman, Flaming Telepaths and Astronomy are highpoints which they never managed to equal and I've never succeeded in freeing myself from the unique spell that they cast.cybot wrote:Some ancient evening is upon me. All vinyl, all nostalgic, all wonderful....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xXEtO3bEe0
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"All rites of passage makes us strong" I might just use that as my moniker :) 'Then Came The Last Days Of May' from 'On Your Feet....astonished me the first time I heard it! After all these years I'm still reeling....What a sublime sound/execution. Devastating.....Now that I think of it, it reminded me of the first time I heard the intro. solo from Robbie Kreiger on 'When The Music's Over' - to this day that sound he got still astonishes and no way can I figure out how he did it nor do I care....mcq wrote:Hopefully you've learned to love ME262 by now, Dermot. It's one of those offbeat songs that the early BOC excelled in like 7 Screaming Diz-Busters, Cagey Cretins, Dominance and Submission, I'm On The Lamb But I Ain't No Sheep, and, of course, She's As Beautiful As A Foot.
Speaking of great Buck Dharma solos, his guitar break on the immortal Then Came The Last Days Of May is just sublime.
Agents of Fortune is a good one. It's a perfect example of how to co-opt lighter textures and "poppier", more melodic arrangements into your music without diluting your intensity. The closing trio of songs (Morning Final, Tenderloin and Debbie Denise) are among BOC's best. And The Revenge of Vera Gemini does stick in the mind as well.
A highlight of latterday BOC was the truly bonkers Joan Crawford. Here's the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHzIG_iZRWY
I remember buying Imaginos in the late Eighties and enjoying it, especially in the wake of its immediate predecesser, the dreadful Club Ninja, which is the single worst album I have ever heard. It's worth hunting down Imaginos and listening to it again, Dermot. Too many hired hands though - it would have been good to see the classic BOC lineup record this material. Only Eric Bloom can sing these songs.
And when it comes to music you loved once upon a time, there are no such things as guilty pleasures. To quote Peter Hammill, "all rites of passage make us strong".
