All Beatles albums through Revolver original had different tracks in the US and England. The US version usually had 11 and the English version had 14. The current CDs are based on the English albums.
Category: Music
Innervisions was released 45 years ago today
Yacht Rock
Hilarious playlist by Bill Simmons
James Brown’s “Say It Loud, I’m Black and I’m Proud”
Political Science – Randy Newman (1972)
I have posted this before but it seems pertinent after Trump’s attacks on our allies. It was a satire when it was released but it sure sounds like Trump.
Woody Guthrie: Born July 14, 1912
Guthrie wrote and performed lots of great songs including “This Land Is Your Land”.
The Jayhawks
The Jayhawks are a great band from Minnesota. They have just released a new album.
Clifton Chenier
Danny Kirwan
Danny Kirwan, who was in Fleetwood Mac from 1968-1972, died on June 8, 2018.
When their leader, Peter Green, left, Fleetwood Mac regrouped with Kirwan and Jeremy Spencer as songwriters and lead vocalists. This incarnation of Fleetwood Mac made one album, 1970’s excellent Kiln House. It’s very different from their prior blues-based albums or their later hits with Lindsay Buckingham and Stevie Nicks.
I have attached links to three songs from the album. “Earl Gray” is an instrumental written by Kirwan who also is the lead singer on his composition “Tell Me All the Things You Do”. Kirwan is lead singer and co-author of “Station Man”
I saw Fleetwood Mac in late 1971 with a very different lineup. Spencer was gone and Christine McVie and Bob Welch had joined the band. They sounded nothing like the Kiln House band and didn’t play much from that album.
Musical tastes are formed in early adolescence
The article states: “Songs that came out decades earlier are now, on average, most popular among men who were 14 when they were first released. The most important period for men in forming their adult tastes were the ages 13 to 16.
What about women? On average, their favorite songs came out when they were 13. The most important period for women were the ages 11 to 14.”
It also states “For both men and women, their early 20s were half as influential in determining adult musical tastes as their early teens.”
This certainly applies to me. My all-time favorite music is from the 1960s – Dylan, Stones, Beatles, Mothers of Invention, etc.
If I thought a song sucked then, I probably still do. I have expanded my taste and gone back to listen to stuff I ignored like James Brown, Professor Longhair, James Carr, Big Star, and Ann Peebles. I am also knowledgeable now about blues, country, and folk music going back to the 1920s. I thank the great CD reissues for making this music available.
Sad! 