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| From | "Jaimie Vernon" <bullseyecanada@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: Jaimie's Tooth Revisited |
| Date | Wed, 16 May 2007 09:25:59 -0400 |
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At Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 05:56:43 Greg Sager wrote:
>Thanks, Jaimie, for stating so well the outline of an aesthetic that I
>happen to share with you. I, too, get frustrated by Audities pleas of
>"give it a few listens, and it will start to grow on you". Immediacy is
>right up at the top of my musical core values. (In large part that
>explains power pop's appeal to me.) If something doesn't strike my fancy
>within the first play or two, the chances that I'll grow to like it
>somewhere down the road are infinitesimal.
[snip]
You put this into words better than I could have. I've also found things
that I may have liked initially wear off after too many listens. I think the
reason I became enamoured with singles, aside from the fact that I'm a
product of listening to CHUM-AM everyday from 1970 to 1986 (and again
currently as they're only one of two AM stations in Toronto playing classic
gold), is that few artists have ever held my interest consistently for an
entire album. Even my favourite artists have failed to nail more than one or
two complete records over their careers that I can listen to from top to
bottom without skipping over songs. Off the top of my head the few
exceptions are:
McCartney - "Band On The Run", "Venus & Mars", "Back To The Egg"
Alice Cooper - "Love It To Death", "Welcome To My Nightmare"
Bowie - "Ziggy Stardust"
Cheap Trick - the first three, "Dream Police"
Cars - "The Cars", "Candy-O"
ELO - "New World Record", "Out Of The Blue", "Discovery"
The Clash - "The Clash (UK or US)", "London Calling"
999 - "Biggest Prize In Sport"
Jam - "Setting Sons"
KISS - "KISS", "Destroyer", "Rock And Roll Over", "Revenge"
Pink Floyd - "Piper At The Gates Of Dawn", "Dark Side", "The Wall",
"Momentary Lapse Of Reason"
Sugar Ray - "Sugar Ray", "14:59"
Fastball - "All The Pain Money Can Buy", "Keep Your Wig On"
Supertramp - "Crime Of The Century", "Even In The Quietest Moments",
"Breakfast In America"
AC/DC - "Back In Black"
Tears For Fears - first three, "Everybody Loves A Happy Ending"
Klaatu - '3:47 EST', 'Hope'
Alan Parsons - 'I, Robot'
Payolas - "Hammer On A Drum", "No Stranger To Danger"
Eurythmics - "Revenge", "Savage"
Gowan - "Strange Animal", "...But You Can Call Me Larry"
The Alarm - "Eye Of The Hurricane"
Trews - "House Of Ill Fame"
Mike Previti - "Extraordinary"
Paul Hyde - "Living Off The Radar", "Big Book Of Sad Songs"
Styx - "Grand Illusion", "Cornerstone"
Chalk Circle - "The Great Lake", "The Mending Wall"
Maureen Leeson - "aka Moe"
Goddo - "An Act Of Goddo"
Segarini - "Goodbye LA"
Jaimie Vernon,
President, Bullseye Records
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