tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-660808341284783109.post2244573395113986558..comments2024-03-02T07:40:22.786+03:00Comments on Only Solitaire blog: Badfinger: Magic Christian MusicUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-660808341284783109.post-39438878472762354912012-09-07T00:45:21.020+04:002012-09-07T00:45:21.020+04:00George, thanks for this review. I'd spent year...George, thanks for this review. I'd spent years thinking this was a substandard Badfinger album, based on some old review I'd read, but yours inspired me to find "Magic Christian Music" and listen to it. And it's every bit as good as you say—a very worthy addition to the Badfinger catalog. So thanks for keeping up this blog and writing so indefatigably about music!Nancy Carrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11622655838552297555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-660808341284783109.post-29067271612586111332012-08-22T00:54:33.338+04:002012-08-22T00:54:33.338+04:00I'm waiting to see whether you will have a rev...I'm waiting to see whether you will have a review of Straight Up this time around :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-660808341284783109.post-81083533198355536552012-08-21T07:52:55.698+04:002012-08-21T07:52:55.698+04:00Aerosmith are normally regarded as either hard roc...Aerosmith are normally regarded as either hard rock or arena rock. It's actually a hard call, same as with Queen. The most sensible thing to say is maybe that they stand on the line between "hard" and "soft".Jose Parada.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-660808341284783109.post-70600241480639469992012-08-20T01:10:35.139+04:002012-08-20T01:10:35.139+04:00Please read: from the perspective of an old-fashio...Please read: from the perspective of an old-fashioned hardrocker .....MNbnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-660808341284783109.post-42537117497487859012012-08-20T01:08:53.082+04:002012-08-20T01:08:53.082+04:00Oh yeah, I foster that fetish since I listened to ...Oh yeah, I foster that fetish since I listened to Made in Japan for the first time 35 years ago. Btw, I do have a little something against Why didn't Rosemary, but that's not relevant here. Neither is it relevant that it's a different style; thát's something I already mentioned in my third sentence. I didn't argue that DP pioneered power-pop. But there is more between hardrock and softrock I postulate.<br />I guess we have rather different notions of what "hard" and "soft" mean, something I already noticed when reading your reviews of Aerosmith. For now it suffices that for someone who was in hardrock since 1975 Badfinger definitely belongs to the soft camp, even when they play a riff or a solo. Same for Aerosmith.<br />For an old-fashioned hardrocker you are a bit misleading on this point, though I have learned to recognize it. High Tide, they were rocking hard on their debut. Thanks for that one.MNbnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-660808341284783109.post-28234568488389836462012-08-19T04:37:18.156+04:002012-08-19T04:37:18.156+04:00Deep Purple fetish detected.
Nothing against &quo...Deep Purple fetish detected.<br /><br />Nothing against "Why Didn't Rosemary", but it's a blues-rocker that only slightly departs from the likes of 'I'm A Man', and it's in a completely different style (and there's nothing "soft" about it). Deep Purple is a fine band, but power-pop pioneers they were anything but.G. S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/05848634884798924824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-660808341284783109.post-37183552546672852672012-08-18T20:16:01.508+04:002012-08-18T20:16:01.508+04:00Midnight Sun sounds like nothing else in 1970? Ple...Midnight Sun sounds like nothing else in 1970? Please compare Deep Purple's Why didn't Rosemary. The difference is that the first is planted on optimistic pop and the latter on slightly gloomy blues, but both songs refuse tho chose between soft and hard. In DP's case it's mainly thanks to Rod Evans of course. Even entering Ian Gillan and Roger Glover did not immediately force a decision. Try the flopped single Hallelujah.<br />Also remember Rainbow's Black Sheep of the Family, the reason Blackmore left DP.<br />Midnight Sun still is a nice song indeed; I only dispute it's uniqueness.<br /><br />"building up towards ...."<br />Eh no. Carry On is just structured along the stereotypal lines of verse, chorus plus instrumental sections. The two short guitar solo's serve to contrast, they are not the climax of a build-up. That idea stems from Deep Purple's Child in Time of course. The first one, as far as I know, to use folk as the start of a crescendo might very well be Lead Belly in the song Gallows Pole. One of the lamest and most boring attempts stems from Bob Dylan, Seven Curses.<br />Again Carry On is still a very nice song.<br /><br />Based on the few songs I have heard Badfinger deserves your praise indeed. As Jeremy Nicholas (who?) wrote about your compatriots AS Arensky and SE Bortkiewicz (talk about obscurity and oblivion): "Does the only music we appreciate have to be by the great composers who overturned systems, struck out for the unknown and challenged their muse? One hopes not. There must always be a place for those who reflect so elegantly and expertly on what has gone before, rather than shake us by the ears and grab us (sometimes screaming) into the future."<br />Thát's why Badfinger deserves the thumbs up, as long as they pull this off. There is no need for a forced quest for originality.MNbnoreply@blogger.com