smoe.org mailing lists
ivan@stellysee.de
| From | ronald and karen sanchez <eldeluxe@mcn.net> |
| Subject | Re: Gene Clark's No Other |
| Date | Fri, 22 Aug 2003 10:49:15 -0600 |
[Part 1 text/plain us-ascii (2.2 kilobytes)]
(View Text in a separate window)
No Other fits in a special category for me. I got this when it originally came out. The
thing was, I was working on the radio at the time. I used to shuffle through hundreds of
records to take home to listen to... and pay rent. A few albums like No Other, The River
by Terry Reid, The Byrds reunion.... and a couple of others were just so much better
than the rest. I might agree none of these are hit your over the head amazing. They just
settle in and stick around. I couldn't imagine not having these, thought I suppose I
don't listen to any of them every day. I probably have favorite tracks on all these sort
of albums that I listen to most.
I'm glad to see these things getting reissued and introduced to a new audience. Now I
have to watch people debate their worth. Thirty years after the fact they may not bowl
over the new listener.
Pete Townshend talks about "A Day Of Silence". If you know this song you might know what
I mean. These records are the ones I listen to when I want to clear my head. I suppose
that's a foreign concept these days. I don't need to analyze them and fit them on a
list, or compare them to Pet Sounds.
I figure anyone one born after 1970 should line their collections up in chronological
order, in proper "High Fidelity" fashion, and start from the beginning. A lot of things
would make a lot more sense. You might start chucking things out, and then you would see
the major holes in the time line.
Now I've got to go organize my radio show for this afternoon. It's more of a puzzle
these days, as one of the channels on the board is bust, so there is only one turntable.
Do you know how hard that can be? My Sonny Boy Williamson set seems to be impossible.
Rock A Hula
RS
MBaroneO@aol.com wrote:
> >>
>
> Hey! I remembered not liking No Other very much. It just seemed to
> cluttered and stylistic for Gene....but when I saw the new reissue I picked it up and
> it seems to me that I had totally missed the point. From the lp cover to the
> instrumentation it is a really unique lp and now I am loving it.
> MB
-- Ronald Sanchez
Director Of A&R
Career Records
www.CareerRecords.com
The Donovan's Brain Web Site
www.Donovans-Brain.com
For assistance, please contact
the smoe.org administrators.