What are you listening to?

[Allhallowsday]

THE WHO Who's Next

[Arsan444]

One of my old CDs:

[sagebrush]

THE WHO Who's Next

I feel really stupid admitting this, but when I just saw your post, it was the first time in all these years I realized what those guys were doing! Don't know how I never noticed it before...

[Allhallowsday]

THE WHO Who's Next ...

I feel really stupid admitting this, but when I just saw your post, it was the first time in all these years I realized what those guys were doing! Don't know how I never noticed it before...

The band had nothing to do with choosing the cover art...!
I think it's their best album, and the only one I listen to now.

[LawrenceA]

I think it's their best album, and the only one I listen to now.

It's one of my top ten favorite albums by anyone.

[Allhallowsday]

[Allhallowsday]

Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits, Vol. 2

[Andree]

It would be a bit strange if they didn't know a photographer was following them around. The cover actually was planned,
though not everything is as it seemed to be:

The front cover of the album is a photograph, taken at Easington Colliery, of the band apparently having just urinated on a large concrete piling protruding from a slag heap. The decision to shoot the picture came from Entwistle and Moon discussing Stanley Kubrick and the film 2001: A Space Odyssey. According to photographer Ethan Russell, only Townshend actually urinated against the piling, so rainwater was tipped from an empty film canister to achieve the desired effect. The sky in the background was added later by John Kosh , who was the art director, to give the image what Russell called "this other worldly quality." The rear cover shows the band backstage at De Montfort Hall, Leicester, amid a cluttered mess of furniture. In 2003, the television channel VH1 named the cover of Who's Next one of the greatest album covers of all time. {Wiki}

[Allhallowsday]

^Yes, wiki... "they" were on their way to a studio or show; Wiki should also report that at least one band member didn't care for the cover.

[Andree]

I think Wiki does a pretty good job on bands, much better than the old print rock encyclopedias, but they can't have
everything. I guess it's a minor irony that Townshend didn't like the cover when he was the only member who "gave it
his all."

[Allhallowsday]

NICK DRAKE Five Leaves Left

 

[Detective Jim McLeod]

Byrds Mar 1973

A reunion of the five original Byrds but a disappointing album. Gene Clark has the opener "Full Circle" which is OK. McGuinn has the best song "Pretty Mary" a lilting ballad with a small taste of the harmony singing which was the magical part of the group. David Crosby handles Joni Mitchell's "For Free" fairly well. McGuinn has a rocker "Born To Rock N Roll" which sounds more like The Band than the The Byrds. Clark does an OK version of Neil Young's "Cowgirl In The Sand". Hillman has a jaunty country tune 'Borrowing Time" with some mandolin. Crosby has a couple of forgettable ones "Long Live The King" and "Laughing" but he still has a nice voice. It ends with Clark singing another Neil Young song "See The Sky About To Rain" This would be the last time on record the group would be together, it was better than their last two but not up to their standards.

[Cinemaspeak59]

A country & western album by the Fab Four, formerly known as Beatles For Sale

[Allhallowsday]

^ BEATLES FOR SALE is one of my favorites of theirs; even "Mr. Moonlight".

PINK FLOYD Atom Heart Mother

[Andree]

Here's Thompson.