I just happen to be working from home today and The Zombies are in The Hub with George Lamb on BBC 6Music (the best show on the best radio station in the UK, if not the world).
http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/shows/georgelamb/
They have done a very stripped down version of Time of the Season which is kinda cool but loses something without the breathy accompaniment. They are now doing a version of She's Not There.
Apparently Paul Weller's favourite album is Odessey and Oracle and Fleet Foxes based their whole sound on The Zombies. Which is very interesting and makes me feel bad for not enjoying it when we listened a couple of weeks ago. But this adds more weight to the fact that we really need to track down the original album to forge a proper opinion.
Stephen and I are big fans of Fleet Foxes, and saw them at End of the Road festival this year, so it would be good to cross reference.
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Thursday, 8 October 2009
Tuesday, 29 September 2009
Week 5 - Graceland by Paul Simon
Hi again,
Yes we are still slightly behind with our reviews of classic albums ever since we went off to End of the Road festival. Yes it took a while to return back to our usual selves, by which time it was also time to get back to work and as such, the whole thing fell off the radar a little. Our sincere apologies.
Week 5 we were treated to an absolute classic album in Graceland by Paul Simon. This is actually one of my all time favourite albums because I remember it from when I was younger and think I revisited it a few times as I grew up.
As such I actually really enjoyed listening to it again and there were a few tracks that I didn't really remember, especially the opening track, The Boy in the Bubble which sounded much darker than I remembered.
I also really enjoyed Gumboots and the really great observational lyrics from Monsieur Simon.
Stephen enjoyed Diamonds on the Soles of her Shoes and we both found that Call Me Al made us both particularly happy.
I think it just falls into that category of almost 100% perfect pop songs which include a really healthy dose of slightly dark or questionable lyrics and upbeat music. It's also impossible to listen to it without thinking of the video with Chevvy Chase, which is very funny.
The album in all brightened up a particularly rubbish day at work for me.
Sam 8/10
Stephen 7.5/10 (but only gave it so little because he liked Johnny Cash much better)
This week we are into week 6, that's Odessey and Oracle by The Zombies (Time of the Season? Bring it on!)
Yes we are still slightly behind with our reviews of classic albums ever since we went off to End of the Road festival. Yes it took a while to return back to our usual selves, by which time it was also time to get back to work and as such, the whole thing fell off the radar a little. Our sincere apologies.
Week 5 we were treated to an absolute classic album in Graceland by Paul Simon. This is actually one of my all time favourite albums because I remember it from when I was younger and think I revisited it a few times as I grew up.
As such I actually really enjoyed listening to it again and there were a few tracks that I didn't really remember, especially the opening track, The Boy in the Bubble which sounded much darker than I remembered.
I also really enjoyed Gumboots and the really great observational lyrics from Monsieur Simon.
Stephen enjoyed Diamonds on the Soles of her Shoes and we both found that Call Me Al made us both particularly happy.
I think it just falls into that category of almost 100% perfect pop songs which include a really healthy dose of slightly dark or questionable lyrics and upbeat music. It's also impossible to listen to it without thinking of the video with Chevvy Chase, which is very funny.
The album in all brightened up a particularly rubbish day at work for me.
Sam 8/10
Stephen 7.5/10 (but only gave it so little because he liked Johnny Cash much better)
This week we are into week 6, that's Odessey and Oracle by The Zombies (Time of the Season? Bring it on!)
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