Post any videos you want relating to the colour of the week. Each week I'll change it to a new one. Acceptable videos are names of songs, albums, bands or artists in which the colour is mentioned, or perhaps referenced.
This week's colour is
RED"Red Light Spells Danger" - Billy Ocean
I mean the whole album, but:
And the beautiful redman:
Been in a bit of a Rush mood so here's a twofer.
The
Red Crayola (a/k/a The
Red Krayola) - Hurricane Fighter Plane
The Kid from Red Bank by Count Basie and his orchestra!
The Shins -
Red Rabbits
Absolutely love this song and its imagery.
Quote from: Guybrush on Jan 22, 2023, 02:44 AMThe Kid from Red Bank by Count Basie and his orchestra!
:love:
The swinging-est band in the land!
"Little Red Corvette" by Prince
"Ride on Red, Ride on" by Rory Gallagher"Hello to the Last Goodbye" by Red Sand
Red Sails In The Sunset - covered by many artists but here by The Beatles, live at the Star-Club, Hamburg, DE (1962)
Howlin' Wolf -
Little Red Rooster
George Harrison (
Wonderwall soundtrack) -
Red Lady Too
Of course! Little
Red Rooster! Why didn't I think of that?!
I found a clip of Helen
Reddy singing in a
red dress, but then decided to go for this Danny Gatton instrumental instead:-
Plus, of course:-
I'm surprised this hasn't been posted yet:
Quote from: Lisnaholic on Jan 24, 2023, 06:13 PMI found a clip of Helen Reddy singing in a red dress
:laughing:
"
I am a scarlet woman, hear me roar...."
Billy Riley -
Red Hot
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfiMjLyNWxea-PSRRvVsvv80NVRIxO5o7
whole lotta red - playboi carti
I would just like to warn that anyone who posts Chris de Burgh's "Lady in Red" will have me to answer to!
Anyway...
Red Sovine - "Phantom 309"Simply Red - "Holding Back the Years"
Red Wanting Blue - "My Name is Death"
Quote from: Trollheart on Jan 25, 2023, 02:38 AMI would just like to warn that anyone who posts Chris de Burgh's "Lady in Red" will have me to answer to!
Warning heeded. I'm sure you'll love this one as an alternative. :D
Robert Wyatt -
Little Red Riding Hood Hit The Road
OK apologies for the absence but I was internet-less since Thursday. Just got back online today.
This week's colour then is
YELLOW"Yellow River" by Christie"Yellow Pearl" by Phil Lynott"Yellow" by Coldplay
A really obvious choice, but nevertheless a good song:
Awesome, this gives me the opportunity to gush about the best Pearl Jam song you've never heard. Originally released only as a b-side to Jeremy (later added in some compilations but who listens to those?) Yellow Ledbetter never actually got its chance in the spotlight (like the also overlooked but awesome for different reasons Dirty Frank). This song is peak Pearl Jam at their absolute best and definitely in my top five Pearl Jam songs, what a fucking banger.
Maybe it's my age or where I live, but I think of "Yellow Ledbetter" as very well known. I do agree that it's one of PJ's best songs though.
It's a good point, checking the plays on spotify it is definitely up there as one of their biggest songs. I must have just missed the discourse (never heard anyone talk about it or heard it on the radio) and then just made the assumption that since it's not on Ten no one really knew of it. Does everyone know and love Dirty Frank too then? I suppose I have never really engaged in Pearl Jam discussions online in general.
I just listened to a little of "Dirty Frank" and I'm not sure I've ever heard it before. It's definitely not one of their most popular songs. I also looked up "Yellow Ledbetter" on Wikipedia and it actually charted when I was in high school, so I guess that's why I think of it as well known.
A couple more obscure tracks, from '68 and '71 respectively.
Thought this would be one of the first to be posted. Oh well. Here it is anyway.
"Big Yellow Taxi" by Joni MitchellReally showing my age now!
"Tie a Yellow Ribbon" by Tony Orlando and DawnCheating a little here but...
"Oh Yeah" by Yello(w) ;)
Quote from: Trollheart on Feb 01, 2023, 01:20 PMCheating a little here but...
"Oh Yeah" by Yello(w) ;)
:laughing: OK, just this once, but try something like that again and I'm reporting you to the guy who opened the threa...oops. Nevermind.
All my go-to choices have been posted already, so I'm down to one more taxi-cab song:
I'm running out of yellow songs. :(
This one came to mind because I seem to recall you're a John Fahey fan (I think!), Lisna.
John Fahey -
The Yellow Princess
You can also do artists.
"Behind the Mask" by Yellow Magic Orchestra
or albums
Yellow Hedgerow Dreamscape by Porcupine Tree
Quote from: ribbons on Feb 02, 2023, 10:47 PMI'm running out of yellow songs. :(
This one came to mind because I seem to recall you're a John Fahey fan (I think!), Lisna.
John Fahey - The Yellow Princess
Thanks, ribbons. That's clever of you! Yes, I'm a fan of Fahey, but more in the past than I am today. I used to have that album and played it many times, but I haven't thought about it in years, which is perhaps my loss.
Here's a remarkably chirpy song from Captain Beefheart that you might enjoy:-
^ Great pick, Lisna - thank you! The Captain's Safe As Milk is one of my favorite albums. :)
Quote from: Trollheart on Feb 03, 2023, 03:27 AMYou can also do artists.
Ah OK - this guy is the first who comes to mind.
Yellowman - Zungguzungguguzungguzeng (
had to copy and paste that title :) )
Quote from: ribbons on Feb 03, 2023, 06:53 PM^ Great pick, Lisna - thank you! The Captain's Safe As Milk is one of my favorite albums. :)
That's you and John Lennon both then, ribbons !! This is JL relaxing at home in 1967, with promo stickers on the cabinets behind him:-
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Quote from: ribbons on Feb 03, 2023, 06:53 PMYellowman - Zungguzungguguzungguzeng (had to copy and paste that title :) )
:laughing: ...and in the end the title didn't help much when I tried to sing along :(
Hey, Trolls, when are you going to change colors? Do you have yellow fever or something? :D
Underrated song on an underrated album by an underrated band:
Quote from: Janszoon on Feb 04, 2023, 04:27 PMUnderrated song on an underrated album by an underrated band:
In my case, you could've swapped "underrated" for "unheard of", Janzsoon. For a song I just listened to with no preconceptions at all, it's pretty good, with a kind of low-key spookiness to it. Nice.
Quote from: Lisnaholic on Feb 04, 2023, 04:21 PMThat's you and John Lennon both then, ribbons !! This is JL relaxing at home in 1967, with promo stickers on the cabinets behind him:-
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Good catch, Lisna - I had forgotten that John had
Safe As Milk stickers on those cabinets. I love the pictures and caricatures on the walls. And in keeping with this thread, I recall reading somewhere that the cushion on John's settee was yellow. :)
That's a detail that not many people know, ribbons! Congratulations on bringing our digression right back to the colour of the week. All we need now is to get TH to include "soft furnishings" in his OP ;)
Quote from: Trollheart on Jan 21, 2023, 08:18 PMAcceptable videos are names of songs, albums, bands or artists in which the colour is mentioned, or perhaps referenced.
Quote from: Lisnaholic on Feb 05, 2023, 12:21 AMThat's a detail that not many people know, ribbons! Congratulations on bringing our digression right back to the colour of the week. All we need now is to get TH to include "soft furnishings" in his OP ;)
Quote from: Trollheart on Jan 21, 2023, 08:18 PMAcceptable videos are names of songs, albums, bands or artists in which the colour is mentioned, or perhaps referenced.
:laughing: :laughing: :laughing: <------- three
yellow laughing smilies for you there, Lisna!
Any new color this week, TH?
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Oh well, it's not as if I don't have a hundred thousand other projects to look after!
Yeah, I've let this one slide. Well, new week, new colour and this time it's
BLUE
"Blue Monday" by New Order"My Old Friend the Blues" by Steve Earle"Electric Blue" by Icehouse
Quote from: Trollheart on Feb 20, 2023, 09:14 PMOh well, it's not as if I don't have a hundred thousand other projects to look after!
You're a workaholic and I've complained about it a million times! Am I supposed to sit alone night after night wondering what color will be next? Where's my rolling pin? ;)
Bob Dylan - Tangled Up In Blue
Um, I sold it to buy drugs. Funny story: turns out you can't buy much with a dollar fifty. Must be why I got a small packet of cleaning powder instead of heroin. Oh well, I guess at least I'll be able to keep my nose clean!
:laughing:
* goes to Ebay to buy new rolling pin *
(In nagging imitation Irish-American brogue): You're goin' ta get it, clean nose 'n' all! And don't even think o' fleein' to the pub!
Hah! Just as well I already am in the pub then, innit?
My aunt used to have a great story about her father, whom she worshipped. She said "Daddy always said, I never raise a hand to a woman. Not as long as I have a good pair of boots on me feet!" :laughing:
Brian Eno - Deep Blue Day
Quote from: Trollheart on Feb 20, 2023, 10:17 PMHah! Just as well I already am in the pub then, innit?
My aunt used to have a great story about her father, whom she worshipped. She said "Daddy always said, I never raise a hand to a woman. Not as long as I have a good pair of boots on me feet!" :laughing:
Is that the same auntie who used to give you McVitie's Jamaica ginger cake with tea? :D
John Lennon - Out The Blue
Curtis Mayfield - We The People Who Are Darker Than Blue
Quote from: ribbons on Feb 20, 2023, 11:45 PMNick Drake - Way To Blue
:love: :love: One for ribbons and one for
Way To Blue.
Plus honourable mention to Mrs. Waffles's Brian Eno track and of course Joni Mitchell.
Lisna, :love::love: to you as well for Van's "Blue Money". And to Mrs. Waffles for her good pick with Eno's "Deep Blue Days".
Cheating a bit here with just a partial band name, but Van's track brought to mind these guys.
Georgie Fame and The Blue Flames - Yeh Yeh
^ I have this song on a Derek Trucks cd, but this version adds about a dozen new dimensions to it.
Quote from: ribbons on Feb 21, 2023, 12:31 AMLisna, :love::love: to you as well for Van's "Blue Money". And to Mrs. Waffles for her good pick with Eno's "Deep Blue Days".
Cheating a bit here with just a partial band name, but Van's track brought to mind these guys.
Thanks, ribbons! Yes, there's something similar about the two songs, isn't there?
Another colour, another Beefheart song:-
Quote from: ribbons on Feb 20, 2023, 11:35 PMQuote from: Trollheart on Feb 20, 2023, 10:17 PMHah! Just as well I already am in the pub then, innit?
My aunt used to have a great story about her father, whom she worshipped. She said "Daddy always said, I never raise a hand to a woman. Not as long as I have a good pair of boots on me feet!" :laughing:
Is that the same auntie who used to give you McVitie's Jamaica ginger cake with tea? :D
It is, yeah. Damn I loved her. Lived to 99, almost made it to the 100. So sadly missed.
The Corrs - When the Stars Go Blue (feat. Bono) (Live in Dublin)
Toli Morilla - Azul Y Gris translate: blue and gray
New week, new colour, and this week we're talkin' about
PINK
Bruce Springsteen - "Pink Cadillac"
Henry Mancini - Theme from "The Pink Panther"
Pink Floyd - "Coming Back to Life"
Okay well this week is gonna be hard!
ORANGE
I can only get two...
"Oranges on Apple Trees" by A-ha
"Everything Turns Grey" by Agent Orange
The Chemical Brothers - Orange Wedge
Not one of my favorite Chem Bros. tracks, but yeah, limited options haha.
Quote from: Trollheart on Mar 06, 2023, 01:29 PMOkay well this week is gonna be hard!
ORANGE
I can only get two...
"Oranges on Apple Trees" by A-ha
Some low-hanging fruit you somehow missed, Trollheart, although the first one you all but cut up and handed to me on a plate:-
Al Stewart instrumental, "Once An Orange", from the album of the same colour:-
Not fruit, and not memorable, is "Orange And Red Beams":-
Off we go again then. Easier this time, the colour is
GREEN
"Green Eyes" by Nick Cave
"This Green and Pleasant Land" by Pendragon
"Fiddler's Green" by The Dubliners
My favorite Jethro Tull album, and one of my favorite songs on it.
In the UK, this was a total smash hit for Tom Jones in 1966:
Tom Jones is typically introduced as "Welsh singer, Tom Jones" and is famous for being the son of a coal miner (whether true or not, who cares). Anyway, I naturally assumed that he was singing about the green green grass of Wales, but learn from wiki that it's an American song:-
Quote"Green, Green Grass of Home", written by Claude "Curly" Putman Jr., and first recorded by singer Johnny Darrell in 1965, is a country song made popular by Porter Wagoner the same year, when it reached No. 4 on the Country chart.[2] It was also recorded by Bobby Bare and by Jerry Lee Lewis, who included it in his album Country Songs for City Folks (later re-issued as All Country). Tom Jones learned the song from Lewis' version and, in 1966, he had a worldwide No. 1 hit with it.
Congrats to songwriter Curly Putman Jr for writing lyrics with such international details; it can apply to any country where grass and oaktrees grow, or where girls are called Mary.
The Green Groves of Erin / The Flowers of Red Hill
by The Bothy Band
Dunlavin Green
by Karan Caseyfrom the album Ships in the Forest 2008
Quote from: Trollheart on Oct 04, 2023, 01:45 AMThanks all: nice to be very slowly edging back in. Up next: Trollheart reviews all the albums from 2023 ah maybe not...
It's good to see you post again, TH! Feel absolutely zero pressure, please, but I thought this Thread Of Many Colours was a really good idea of yours, and it'd be pretty easy to bump. It's a simple idea that threw up some surprises and I know many of us enjoyed contributing to it.
So far, we've done Red, Yellow, Blue, Pink, Orange, and Green, but there are still crayons unused in ribbons' box :-
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Fair enough I guess: as they say, in for a penny, in for three-fiddy!
I'm tempted to go for the darkest colour, but I'm trying to lighten my mood a little if possible, so let's go for
WHITEHey! Where'd THEY come from?
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Oh RIGHT! Halloween is on the way. Of course...
:shycouch:
Well for those who don't remember (or care) you can do songs, albums or artists, please try to keep to a max of three videos per post. The colour can be in the title or just sung about or, you know, whatever. Like this.
"White Wedding" (Billy Idol)
"Nights in White Satin" (Moody Blues)
"White Shadow" (Peter Gabriel)
Quote from: Trollheart on Oct 04, 2023, 07:16 PMFair enough I guess: as they say, in for a penny, in for three-fiddy!
Thanks, Trollheart - and thanks for including an explanation of three-fiddy !
Here's the first song that occurred to me, played here to a promo film of the kind that were used back in 1967. They were mostly made by taking the band to some park or stately mansion in the Home Counties, then filming them, either being moody and enigmatic, or being playful. This particular one is spliced with images of (presumably) the Vietnam War. How edgey is that?!
So nice to see this thread and TH active again - thanks for bumping, Lisna!
Cat Stevens - Into
White I built my house from barley rice,
Green pepper walls and water ice.
Tables of paper wood, windows of light,
And everything emptying into white.
Velvet Underground –
White Light/
White Heat
X –
White Girl
White Denim – A Place To Start
It's along time since I've played any Cat Stevens or Genesis, so thanks for those reminders, Mrs. Waffles and ribbons. I especially enjoyed the Cat Stevens song. :thumb:
Of course! White Light/White Heat ! Another song in the category of "Why didn't I think of that straight away?"
In 1942 this would've been everybody's first choice, I'm sure: a song that had a unique place in the hearts of so many overseas servicemen:-
The White Cliffs of Dover are at the English Channel's narrowest point, and (unlike the rest of the UK) can actually be seen from France on a clear day. Also they sent a message to airmen and soldiers being shipped home from the war, "You're nearly home!", so they were an inspired choice for this song, which has prob reduced more people to tears than any other in recent history.
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Whitesnake - Is This Love ?
Album : The White Room
KLF - 3AM Eternal
Quote from: Mrs. Waffles on Oct 05, 2023, 05:40 AMGenesis - White Mountain
Ah now how did I, the Genesis fanatic, miss that one??? Do we have a banghead icon? Ah, we do. Excellent. OW! :banghead:
Quote from: Lisnaholic on Oct 05, 2023, 04:43 PMIn 1942 this would've been everybody's first choice, I'm sure: a song that had a unique place in the hearts of so many overseas servicemen:-
The White Cliffs of Dover are at the English Channel's narrowest point, and (unlike the rest of the UK) can actually be seen from France on a clear day. Also they sent a message to airmen and soldiers being shipped home from the war, "You're nearly home!", so they were an inspired choice for this song, which has prob reduced more people to tears than any other in recent history.
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Yes and I wrote a short story featuring many aspects of that called "Bluebird Down" if anyone wants to read it hint, hint...
:shycouch:
I was rather proud of it at the time, as it's probably one of the few of my almost 100 short stories which features no fantasty, science fiction or horror element (other than the horror of war I guess). A big achievement for me.
Quote from: Trollheart on Oct 05, 2023, 05:12 PMYes and I wrote a short story featuring many aspects of that called "Bluebird Down" if anyone wants to read it hint, hint...
:shycouch:
I was rather proud of it at the time, as it's probably one of the few of my almost 100 short stories which features no fantasty, science fiction or horror element (other than the horror of war I guess). A big achievement for me.
I'd very much like to read it. :shycouch:
@Lisnaholic, thanks for the snapshot history lesson and map of the White Cliffs. I have some family in the town of Hythe, not far from Dover; and one elderly relative who was evacuated as a child in WWII whose devotion to Vera is second only to the late Queen. :)
Quote from: Trollheart on Oct 05, 2023, 05:12 PMAh now how did I, the Genesis fanatic, miss that one??? Do we have a banghead icon? Ah, we do. Excellent. OW! :banghead:
Haha, when I posted that I realized it'd been too long since I listened to Trespass as a whole. So I put it on while I was dusting the living room furniture and man that album rules. Probably my second or third favorite Genesis album yet sometimes I forget just how good it is.
Average White Band - Pick Up the Pieces
I was going to be a goof and post "Play That Funky Music White Boy", but apparently that song is actually just called "Play That Funky Music", so I went with a different white man funk song, haha.
Quote from: Lisnaholic on Oct 05, 2023, 04:10 PMOf course! White Light/White Heat ! Another song in the category of "Why didn't I think of that straight away?"
^ Well,
this goes into
my category of "Why didn't I think of that straight away?" I am reminded here that Jack Bruce is one of my all-time favorite vocalists and bass players. A musician's musician; and I admire singer-bassists in general as it's somewhat difficult to sing and play bass simultaneously.
***
Fleet Foxes -
White Winter Hymnal
Folky, Rocky and Jazzy. Frazzy.
Michael
White - In The Silence
Quote from: Trollheart on Oct 05, 2023, 05:12 PMYes and I wrote a short story featuring many aspects of that called "Bluebird Down" if anyone wants to read it hint, hint...
:shycouch:
I was rather proud of it at the time, as it's probably one of the few of my almost 100 short stories which features no fantasty, science fiction or horror element (other than the horror of war I guess). A big achievement for me.
Good title, Trollheart! I'd like to read it too, so if you get a PM on the subject, please don't click "Report This Sender" !
Quote from: ribbons on Oct 05, 2023, 06:50 PMI have some family in the town of Hythe, not far from Dover; and one elderly relative who was evacuated as a child in WWII whose devotion to Vera is second only to the late Queen. :)
Thanks, ribbons. I didn't know you had family in England. Hythe is surely a quiet, peaceful place: I don't think I've been there myself, although I once stayed in the nearby town of Rye.
The Fall -
White Lightning
Quote from: Saulaac on Oct 10, 2023, 12:34 AMFolky, Rocky and Jazzy. Frazzy.
Michael White - In The Silence
Nice description, nice track ! He's someone I'll be checking out later. Thanks, Saulaac :thumb:
Haha! I remember that
Pick Up The Pieces song, Mrs. Waffles, and also the band's clever logo.
I feel that someone should be repeatedly, tediously, obsessively repping Captain Beefheart in this colours thread, and it looks like it will have to be me. This time it's one of the Captain's slighter songs, but with something tasty going on with the harmonica part and the wailing outro:-
Quote from: Lisnaholic on Oct 10, 2023, 02:01 AMThanks, ribbons. I didn't know you had family in England. Hythe is surely a quiet, peaceful place: I don't think I've been there myself, although I once stayed in the nearby town of Rye.
Yes Lisna, Hythe is very peaceful – I think all the Cinque Ports are. My second and third cousins live there. Last time we visited Hythe was when my son was a child, and we took a ride on the Romney Hythe & Dymchurch miniature railway, which he was ecstatic about since he was a Thomas the Tank Engine fan at the time. :)
Rye is such a beautiful, historic town. We actually took a day trip there while visiting Hythe – and I loved the architecture and cobbled streets in the town center. I was fangirling over the fact that my hero Paul McCartney's farm was in proximity, in Peasmarsh. Unfortunately, Paul didn't invite me over – but I did get to see a bunch of oast houses (which I have a thing for, for some reason).
Quote from: Lisnaholic on Oct 10, 2023, 03:29 PMNice description, nice track ! He's someone I'll be checking out later. Thanks, Saulaac :thumb:
Haha! I remember that Pick Up The Pieces song, Mrs. Waffles, and also the band's clever logo.
I feel that someone should be repeatedly, tediously, obsessively repping Captain Beefheart in this colours thread, and it looks like it will have to be me. This time it's one of the Captain's slighter songs, but with something tasty going on with the harmonica part and the wailing outro:-
Looks like
@Saulaac is increasing our vocabulary with a snazzy new adjective. 8)
I also love
Pick Up The Pieces.
@Lisnaholic I'm glad you're repping Beefheart and that's a cool track. "
She serves me flowers and yams, and in the night when I'm full she brings me white jam." I was actually thinking of
Safe As Milk throughout the white theme here.
Quote from: SGR on Oct 10, 2023, 02:38 AMThe Fall - White Lightning
I had no idea The Fall covered it! Had to think for a minute before I recognized it. 8)
George's original:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBGjogpjvi0
Quote from: ribbons on Oct 10, 2023, 06:59 PMI had no idea The Fall covered it! Had to think for a minute before I recognized it. 8)
George's original:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBGjogpjvi0
Yup! Mark E Smith was actually a big country fan. Keeping with the theme, here's a Merle Haggard cover The Fall also recorded.
Cool,
@SGR! I actually like that more than Merle's original.
Which reminds me of another *white line* song...
Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel -
White Lines (Don't Do It)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52AyzlxMyts
Quote from: ribbons on Oct 10, 2023, 06:26 PMYes Lisna, Hythe is very peaceful – I think all the Cinque Ports are. My second and third cousins live there. Last time we visited Hythe was when my son was a child, and we took a ride on the Romney Hythe & Dymchurch miniature railway, which he was ecstatic about since he was a Thomas the Tank Engine fan at the time. :)
Rye is such a beautiful, historic town. We actually took a day trip there while visiting Hythe – and I loved the architecture and cobbled streets in the town center. I was fangirling over the fact that my hero Paul McCartney's farm was in proximity, in Peasmarsh. Unfortunately, Paul didn't invite me over – but I did get to see a bunch of oast houses (which I have a thing for, for some reason).
Thanks for sharing those memories of your stay in that area, ribbons! I was only in Rye for a week, during my early teens, but came away very impressed. I also went on that railway, :), and remember the steep old streets of Rye, and the oast houses which are very striking, especially in the setting of those flat marshlands.
Quote from: ribbons on Oct 05, 2023, 07:04 PMFleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal
^ I'm still catching up on all the "White" songs that've been posted here, but I really liked the beautiful choral start to this Fleet Foxes track. :thumb:
And here's an album that can only appear here as an unofficial entry, thanks to the fans who invented its name :-
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I always found it kind of funny when bands drop a self-titled album when they're many albums into their career. I wonder if the Beatles were the first to do that.
I'm sure in the days before Wikipedia and such it was harder to figure out what order a band's records came out in. Like, Motley Crue's self titled album is their sixth, but being a self titled I can see someone getting confused and thinking it's their debut. And then you get stuff like Van Halen III, which did not come out right after II but actually like 20 years later with quite a few albums in between.
Quote from: Lisnaholic on Oct 12, 2023, 03:53 PMThanks for sharing those memories of your stay in that area, ribbons! I was only in Rye for a week, during my early teens, but came away very impressed. I also went on that railway, :), and remember the steep old streets of Rye, and the oast houses which are very striking, especially in the setting of those flat marshlands.
Lisna, thank
you for sharing your memories of Rye! I'm jealous that you stayed there for a week - we were there for only one day. Even so, on leaving Rye I remember wishing to live there if I could (maybe in a converted oast house. :D I love the oasts' conical roofs and the cowls sort of gently bending. I agree that they are stunning on the landscape.).
And you also rode on the adorable mini RH&DR! :D We hopped off at Dungeness and had fish and chips at The Pilot (pub), then spent a while exploring the rocky shingle expanse, the cottages and lighthouse - and the ghostly defunct nuclear power stations.
Quote from: Lisnaholic on Oct 12, 2023, 03:53 PMAnd here's an album that can only appear here in an unofficial capacity, thanks to the fans who invented its name :-
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:D A numbered one, at that! I have a (used) reprint of the White Album, on white vinyl.
On a somewhat related (but equally unofficial) note, I've always liked the concept of Yoko Ono's all-white chess set, titled
Play It By Trust. :)
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Quote from: Mrs. Waffles on Oct 12, 2023, 04:17 PMI always found it kind of funny when bands drop a self-titled album when they're many albums into their career. I wonder if the Beatles were the first to do that.
I'm sure in the days before Wikipedia and such it was harder to figure out what order a band's records came out in. Like, Motley Crue's self titled album is their sixth, but being a self titled I can see someone getting confused and thinking it's their debut. And then you get stuff like Van Halen III, which did not come out right after II but actually like 20 years later with quite a few albums in between.
That's a great question, Mrs. Waffles - I don't know whether The Beatles were the first to do that. ??? The Velvet Underground released a s/t album with their third release; and Fleetwood Mac released a s/t when Buckingham and Nicks joined (and that was fairly far into their discography).
Quote from: Mrs. Waffles on Oct 12, 2023, 04:17 PMI always found it kind of funny when bands drop a self-titled album when they're many albums into their career. I wonder if the Beatles were the first to do that.
I'm sure in the days before Wikipedia and such it was harder to figure out what order a band's records came out in. Like, Motley Crue's self titled album is their sixth, but being a self titled I can see someone getting confused and thinking it's their debut. And then you get stuff like Van Halen III, which did not come out right after II but actually like 20 years later with quite a few albums in between.
^ I've never really thought about that Mrs. Waffles, but now you mention it, I think I mildly disapprove: it seems a little too self-aware or something. I think self-titled albums should be confined to debut albums, where everyone expects them to be - and even then, strictly speaking, it's not a good idea. It gives the impression that the record label is saying, "These guys will only be around for one album, so it doesn't need a proper name." Imagine if that happened in the literary world: Stephen King's first novel, "Stephen King."
Another band who went through a kind of minimalist mid-career identity moment were The Byrds, I believe, who considered but rejected "The Byrds" as the title of their ninth (?)album. They opted for "Untitled" instead, and because I really like the album, I'm going to say that it's an ok title.
Quote from: ribbons on Oct 12, 2023, 06:15 PMLisna, thank you for sharing your memories of Rye! I'm jealous that you stayed there for a week - we were there for only one day. Even so, on leaving Rye I remember wishing to live there if I could (maybe in a converted oast house. :D I love the oasts' conical roofs and the cowls sort of gently bending. I agree that they are stunning on the landscape.).
And you also rode on the adorable mini RH&DR! :D We hopped off at Dungeness and had fish and chips at The Pilot (pub), then spent a while exploring the rocky shingle expanse, the cottages and lighthouse - and the ghostly defunct nuclear power stations.
It sounds like you packed a lot of fun things to do into your one day, ribbons! TBH I don't remember much of what I did there: walked around with my brother a lot, listened to a pirate radio station in the evenings, and hung around in a deserted playground near our guest house. We were both at that particular age: still prepared to go on the swings, but far too grown up to show any genuine enjoyment in doing so. :laughing:
Quote:D A numbered one, at that! I have a (used) reprint of the White Album, on white vinyl.
Not my own copy, ribbons. That white vinyl one must look cool, with presumably the apple label in its centre.
QuoteOn a somewhat related (but equally unofficial) note, I've always liked the concept of Yoko Ono's all-white chess set, titled Play It By Trust. :)
(https://www.ludwigmuseum.hu/system/files/mplus/multimedia/2017/10/Ono_w_Play_f2007.jpg)
^ Never heard of that ! A very clever idea from Yoko. :clap: Thanks for sharing it, ribbons.
Quote from: Lisnaholic on Oct 12, 2023, 06:49 PMIt sounds like you packed a lot of fun things to do into your one day, ribbons! TBH I don't remember much of what I did there: walked around with my brother a lot, listened to a pirate radio station in the evenings, and hung around in a deserted playground near our guest house. We were both at that particular age: still prepared to go on the swings, but far too grown up to show any genuine enjoyment in doing so. :laughing:
We didn't pack all that into one day, Lisna (perish the thought, lol!). We spent the one day in Rye. Otherwise we were based in Hythe for several days, and rode the mini railway from Hythe to Dungeness on one of those days. :) I can just envision you and your brother hanging out in Rye and listening to pirate radio in the evenings - that's a nice mental image (especially to an Anglophile like me). And swings are
always allowed!
Quote from: Lisnaholic on Oct 12, 2023, 06:49 PMNot my own copy, ribbons. That white vinyl one must look cool, with presumably the apple label in its centre.
Actually, my copy has the purple Capital label. I would prefer the Apple - green on one side, cross-section on the other...and I love the look of the apple as it revolves. :)
Quote from: Lisnaholic on Oct 12, 2023, 06:49 PM^ Never heard of that ! A very clever idea from Yoko. :clap: Thanks for sharing it, ribbons.
A game in which there are no winners or losers - only collaborators. ☮
^ Thanks, ribbons :love:
Yes, a pity your album doesn't have the Beatles' original design label.
QuoteA game in which there are no winners or losers - only collaborators. ☮
^ LOL - especially the little emoji that you found from I don't know where !
Quote from: ribbons on Oct 12, 2023, 06:20 PMThat's a great question, Mrs. Waffles - I don't know whether The Beatles were the first to do that. ??? The Velvet Underground released a s/t album with their third release; and Fleetwood Mac released a s/t when Buckingham and Nicks joined (and that was fairly far into their discography).
^ As Fleetwood Mac were reappearing with such a different line-up, I think they were justified in going for a self-titled album, especially as they didn't have the benefit of Mrs. Waffles's presence: if she had been in the recording studio, the album would've been released as "Fleetwood Mac: Hard Reset."
Haha, that or "Fleetwood: Return of the Mac".