|   <i>Real short</i> initial comments on Troy's 75/76 | PwrPopGuy
Aug 17, 2002 8:54 AM | | I listened to '75 last night, and '76 is playing as I post this (Symphonic Slam? Never heard of'em- not bad, though). The seque from Dr. Tarr to Art for Art's Sake is excellent. The radio dial switching is very good- where did you get that from? (On the other hand, I can see that it could get fatiguing to listen to on multiple spins.) That Alice Cooper Black Widow song- I thought it could have ended about 2-3 minutes sooner than it did and nothing would have been missed, but individual critiques of these old songs shouldn't, for the most part, be the point of a review of these comps in the first place. These comps, the way you have put them together, represent a trip back to their respective years and I don't imagine anyone here will do a better job, creatively speaking. Nice work! (I'd like to hear more, dude, but I'm sure this is very time-consuming with all the little sound bytes, radio tortures, etc.) |
| Carousel, TVC-15! | PwrPopGuy
Aug 17, 2002 8:59 AM | | "Carousel"- that's from the film Logan's Run, right? What a flashback! And, TVC-15: the last time I heard that was on the 8-track tape I had of Station To Station. :-) |
| Yep | Troy
Aug 17, 2002 9:24 AM | | A segue from Logans Run into that great Bowie song just seemed right somehow.
It's like the segue from "Wind up Workin in a Gas Station" into "Workin at the Carwash". Sometimes the obvious choice is the right one. |
| Station to Station | skewiff
Aug 17, 2002 12:32 PM | | I got these yesterday, they are very creative, albeit strange.
Tvc15 is great, S to S is my fave Bowie album. Good to hear the Tubes-White Punks their first album is really the only one you need(IMO). Listening to '76 as I type very progish, not really my cup of tea ,but it's not offensive, I can handle it.
Oh! by the way what's "Food for Nose" mean?
Logans Run that's Jenny Agutter right. She trips my trigger.
Tony |
| How I did that | Troy
Aug 17, 2002 9:19 AM | | 75 is the weaker of the 2 discs IMO. I just didn't really have enough of the right stuff for it. There's far too much Jethro Tull on there, padding it out. Horrendous year for music.
The cool thing about the Symphonic Slam is that it is generally accredited with being the first use of guitar synths on an album. Note that there are no keyboards on that song. Quite a big and unusual sound for 1975. I also included it because of the use of the word "boogaloo" in the lyrics. No disc from 1975 is complete without some of that.
The radio torture stuff was put together by plugging the tuner and TT into my computer. I then played the radio for about 15 minutes, randomly flipping around as it was "recording" onto my HD. I was LOL as I did this because of the truly strange things I was finding on the air at 10AM on a Saturday. Then I sifted thru about 1000 45s looking for the junk from the correct years which I then recorded chunks of into the HD. Lucky for me I also had a few of these bad songs on CD and a few arrived in the mail from PwrPopGuy too. I then surfed the web looking for soundclips from movies made in those years.
I used some 5 year old sound-editing freeware to clip sections of all these things out and paste them together. Massively time consuming to find the right sections of the songs and mate them with the right 5 seconds of radio flipping (and do you know that I listened to all of "Disco Duck" several times? The things I do for you guys . . .) while still keeping the recording levels even remotely similar. I knocked the radio flipping WAY down because I found them blowing me out of my chair on playback. It was a fun challenge, but I don't plan on doing it again anytime soon.
NP: The Buggles- The Age of Plastic |
| Symphonic Slam, Huh? | BarryL
Aug 17, 2002 8:36 PM | | Hey Troy, your disks arrive, but I won't get a chance to listen until I'm back from a week's vaction. I just wanted to note that I saw Timo and the boys back when this album came out, so it must have been 1976, at Massey Hall in Toronto. It was awesome. It was a sold out show, if I recall, about 2500 seats. This kind of music used to be popular. Too bad it couldn't get airplay today, let a lone an audience outside of one of those prog fests.
BTW, I thought 1975 was a great year for music. |
| Troy, the radio torture alright | DLD
Aug 19, 2002 11:37 AM | | and a fun way to get a taste of radio playlists from the period without subjecting us to the dreck that filled the Top 40 airwaves then. "Bites" of those songs were cool. Even liked a few of them at the time, Dancing Queen, Wildfire, Seventeen, and a few others. DD |
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