Whenever "Jerry Was a Racecar Driver" plays in the car, I lose my gourd after "...GO!"
Who doesn't?!
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Agree! That was a great show. Also was at Beacon their last show there 10/28/14 4hrs of ABB bliss an unforgettable night, don't go a week without playing them.That really was a fantastic show. I didn’t get a CD for some reason, so I was happy to see it pop up on Spotify.
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I was fortunate enough to see them 10 or so times, including one of their final shows at the Beacon Theater in 2014. I had tickets to see the MSG show in March 2020, but I bailed at the last minute due to COVID fears. My friend went and never got sick. I still think it was the right call.
As for At Fillmore East, I think it might very well be the greatest love album of all-time. 1971 and 1991 really were outstanding years for music.
There are some dynamite albums from this 1991 list. U2, Public Enemy, Pearl Jam, Peppers, Nirvana, Soundgarden, Temple of the Dog, Guns n Roses all put out phenomenal albums that year, but the 1971 list has been circling social media and was the first thing I thought of when I saw this thread. I was 2 years-old in 1971, and I can't even imagine albums of this quality coming out week after week after week.
I always thought the two album thing was gimmicky, too much filler. If they had cut it down to one record it would've been incredible.
I can respect that opinion. I was a "casual" fan of GnR until these albums came out. Some of the spoken word overdubs are out of place and/or forced, (Get in The Ring, Civil War) but for the most part I don't find a lot of skips on either album. Maybe it's because I've listened to them a thousand times. I find a lot of the songs that weren't singles to be my favorites, Bad Obsession, Dead Horse, Breakdown, Pretty Tied Up, Locomotive. Overlooking the Cool Hand Luke quote at the start and the ramblings of some unknown Peruvian guerrilla, Civil War is one of my favorite all time tunes.
That's cool. It's been a long time since I listened to the albums all the way thru. At the time I didn't think the quality from beginning to end came anywhere close to matching Appetite for Destruction.
Maybe not quite to the same degree, but I think the 80s was kind of like this as well.
Hell, in the 60s you had Beatles, Stones, Kinks, Who, Everly Bros, Beach Boys, Righteous Bros, Sinatra, Elvis, all the Motown, some doo-wop hangers on, gospel, Roger Miller, Herb Alpert, The Mike Curb Congregation, bubblegum, Bobby Sherman, Lesley Gore, Englebert Humperdinck, Tom Jones, Cream, Hendrix, Santana, Chicago, and Napoleon XiV. And Cousin Brucie and Murray the K to play all the hits.
We are the same age iirc, which means we grew up with the whole family listening to AM radio, the essence of which the linked Everclear song of the same name manages to capture perfectly imo. And then we saw the birth of album rock and album-rock oriented FM radio in real time. And then we were glued to MTV from its inception, waiting for our favorite videos to be replayed, just like we used to wait for the songs on the AM radio.
Agreed 100%. I was born in '69 and my four siblings are 10-18 years older than me. They had an enormous impact on my musical choices. From classic rock, to Motown, to folk. When kids were bringing Shaun Cassidy and Donna Summer albums into music class, I was bringing in Abbey Road and Low Spark. My older brother still recalls that I used money from my 6th birthday and bummed a ride from him to Caldor to buy Physical Graffiti when it was released. I myself, don't remember that, but I DO recall him getting me KISS: Rock and Roll Over for Christmas in 1976.
Oh ye of little taste.
Urban Outfitters sells them, along with overpriced vinyl.
...as my 17 year-old daughter sits in front of me with her Fleetwood Mac Rumors T-shirt...
He nailed it. Roots, Rock and Reggae all day long...