Album(s) That Took The Longest To Come Around To

AND Shoot Out The Lights is a great sounding recording, a bonus. I regularly use it as one of my demo LP’s.

When I’m in the mood AC/DC, The Band just won’t do. And visa versa. But I am no longer EVER in the mood for Cream. Or The Jimi Hendrix Experience. I saw both live twice, in 1968 and ’69. And The Who twice those same years (performing the A Quick One While He’s Away and Tommy suites). Seeing and hearing The Band on their brown album tour relegated all that to the dust bin of history.

When Paul McCartney starts experimenting and getting lost in the notes and instruments, it gets better with every listen. RAM is the best example...

I had always seen “Shoot Out The Lights” on many greatest albums lists. Got it a couple of years ago at Goodwill for a buck, but I don’t think I’ve given it a proper listen. I’ll do that very soon.

AND Shoot Out The Lights is a great sounding recording, a bonus. I regularly use it as one of my demo LP’s.

@bdp24 ans @nicholsr I hadn’t played mine (red book CD version) since sometime in the early to mid ’90s, and it wasn’t that I disliked it, but it didn’t really grab me by any body parts either. So it went out of sight/out of mind until today.

Maybe I just wasn’t ready for it back then, or what I think is more likely is that my system went through several stages of evolution since the last time I played it, and today I really started to hear how well it truly was done and how good the vocal and instrumental work really was. With that all typed, it is not nearly the best of my best red book stuff, but it is getting up there with the best of the good (if that makes sense). Not everything I am blowing the cobwebs off of and putting in my CDP during this speaker audition/break in sounded as good as Shoot Out The Lights did today. I’ve got a couple of solo Richard Thompson CDs post breakup with Linda that I haven’t listened to much at all since I bought them sometimes in the ’90s (I bought those other two after I bought Shoot Out The Lights for songs I heard on the public radio station I used to listen to) so maybe I’ll put them on the list for tomorrow or the next day or the day after that.

The Isley Brothers was just another band for me but with the advent of streaming they are now in my top 5. I love the stuff from the early 70’s, especially the 3+3 album.

It was also interesting to learn that Jimi Hendrix got his first proper guitar when he was in the 60’s edition of the band. He taught the young kid, Ernie Isley, how to play and man that guy is a great guitarist.

@grissley You should check out some of McCartney’s latest electronic releases (collaborations)