Meanwhile... I'm Still Thinking » Roy Wood http://shanefaubert.com/blog It's not just stringing a bunch of notes together, is it? Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:00:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 The Move-Looking On http://shanefaubert.com/blog/2010/02/19/the-move-looking-on/ http://shanefaubert.com/blog/2010/02/19/the-move-looking-on/#comments Fri, 19 Feb 2010 11:00:14 +0000 sfaubert http://shanefaubert.com/blog/?p=1428
  • Lucinda Williams
  • The Who-A Quick One
  • Brian Forden-The Tiller’s Lament
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    This record sounded kinda goofy and aimless to me when I first got it, but it’s one of those albums that gets better every time you hear it.

    I’ve always thought that when a songwriter starts writing about certain subjects (dancing, writers block, the music business, the road, sex on the road, sex in the road, concepts) or is inclined to do tribute-y things it means that they’re beginning to run out of gas. As perfect a song as “Brontosaurus” is, it was very possibly the first sign that Roy Wood was getting tired. He still managed to put out around ten albums worth of stuff in a very short period of time after this before he disappeared into the misty moisty morning of the 80′s.

    Wood is a great, under-appreciated talent who wound up writing a LOT of songs about dancing, but thankfully left the writer’s block songs to Pete Townshend, the concepts to Ray Davies and the tributes to… oh yeah, Eddie and the Falcons. Forgot about that. Still… Roy Wood is a hero, and I miss him.

    Lots of extra tracks, one of which (“Blackberry Way”) might be the best combination of minor key verse and beer-drenched singalong chorus not sung by Mary Hopkin.

    Keepers:

    Turkish Tram Conductor Blues
    What?
    When Alice Comes Back To The Farm
    Brontosaurus
    Wild Tiger Woman
    Omnibus
    Blackberry Way
    Something
    Curly

    Looking On

    Related posts:

    1. Lucinda Williams
    2. The Who-A Quick One
    3. Brian Forden-The Tiller’s Lament

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  • Angelo Badalamenti-Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me Soundtrack
  • Dillard And Clark-Through the Morning Through the Night
  • John Fahey-Days Have Gone By, Vol. 6
    • ]]>     The Move

    Keepers:

    Fire Brigade
    Flowers In The Rain
    I Can Hear The Grass Grow
    Kilroy Was Here
    Mist On A Monday Morning
    Night Of Fear
    Useless Information
    Walk Upon The Water
    Wave Your Flag And Stop The Train

    The Move

    Related posts:

    1. Angelo Badalamenti-Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me Soundtrack
    2. Dillard And Clark-Through the Morning Through the Night
    3. John Fahey-Days Have Gone By, Vol. 6

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