dparrott wrote: ↑

23 Mar 2020, 14:47

YES! ^ This is what I wanted on the album, but got some mellow lo-fi biz instead. Thanks Orbit Street would have turned it into a single.

tbh, I cannot hear any difference between this live version and the CD version, except the prod. Set aside that, same song, same thrill.

Ouch. I never quite analysed the riff for Explain ... Here's what I can come up with right now: |---------------------------| |------_--------_-------_---| |-----3-0------3-0---4-4-0--| |-----3-0------3-0---4-4-0--| |---------------------------| |-3-3-------1-1----2--------| I think it should basica...

Another example with this kind of technique would be the riff for On Your Own . Incidentally the first Graham part I ever learnt to play, mooooons ago. |-----7----0---2---------| |--__-7---_0---2---------| |-7878---01----3---------| |--------------4---------| |------------------------| |------------...

Really offhand, the riff for French Song should be: |----------------------| |----------------------| |-----------------_----| |----------------6-4---| |-4-6-6-4-6----6-----6-| |----------------------| Where I indicate a left hand pull-off with the underscore. It's possible that he plays a quick ham...

Personally a bit disappointed after a first listen... I'll give it some more spins.

TracyJosh wrote: ↑

29 Oct 2019, 12:23

MOR really just offers nothing fresh or unique.

The guitar part, maybe?

Never ever would I remove Ernold Same from the The Great Escape ; maybe not the best track, but in my opinion it is the epitome of the spirit of the whole album. Agreed with JackS, I would replace Top Man by Ultranol , and possibly Charmless Man (a bit over the top) by, let's say, St Louis . One thi...

Yes, that was it. I had forgotten the location.

I remember seeing the painting in London some fifteen years ago. It's actually quite small, not much bigger than what you get on the CD cover.

I just listened to the three CD edition, and it's pretty interesting. It's always odd to have new mixes, as you can hear details that were previously not obvious... It kind of changes your approach to the album. The demos and working versions are nice too, with some big revelations ( Something was o...

Talking of mix differences, I only recently noticed how different the orchestral parts were on To The End (album version) and its counterpart with Françoise Hardy singing. Not only the ending of the song: the orchestration on the latter is muuuuuch richer, a whole orchestra playing, whereas the form...

I've always liked Graham's solo work, and I find it very difficult to "rank" his albums. I reckon each of them has its own particularities. Maybe you could group the first four (and still, they're quite different from each other), then you could say Happiness and Love Travels form a pair, then The S...

Bowie has always fascinated me in his way of twisting the harmonic progressions in veeeery weird way, e.g. on Rock 'N' Roll Suicide : the song starts as a basic 4-chord sequence in C, nothing too far-fetched, but then there's this build-up where you don't really understand what's going on, and event...

Grrr. One of the answers is wrong. Or the question is poorly worded. They've actually headlined Glastonbury 3 times, but they've only counted the 2 Main Stage ones. This reminds me of the quiz that was once on the official website (to win the 21 boxset or something), with this question: " Song 2 fe...

I agree that both All The People and Parklive have an apalling sound quality. If my memory serves me well, on the footage of Parklive you can see Alex changing his bass in the middle of one of the first songs (broken string?), and the sound is so muddy it's not even noticeable that the bass has gone...