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

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)

Yes "Fragile" for me. I always knew that's something I should be listening to and bought the cassette. It took years to sink in. Still have much Yes to discover.

It was a game time decision, but I started the session off this afternoon with Patricia Barber/Nightclub (red book).   I bought that one back in the '90s shortly after I bought Cafe Blue (even though, at the time, I wasn't grabbed by Cafe Blue).  I won't say that I just came around to liking Nightclub this afternoon, I listened to it a few years ago and decided that there was more to it than I originally thought, but today I decided that I liked Nightclub even more than that.  The vocal is very palpable in between the speakers and the instrumental work in the sound stage is very good.

@grislybutter: RAM is my favorite of McCartney’s early albums, though I also like his s/t solo debut. I have never heard anything post-Band On The Run, so my opinion is of questionable value. I did get the Wings Wild Life album when it was released, but didn’t think much of it and didn’t keep it. YouTube video maker (and Beatle fanatic) Norman Maslov ("Mazzy") has been raving about the album, so I recently found myself a used copy cheap to try again.

I realize I’m very alone in this, but John Lennon is the only Beatle whose solo albums I own none of. Sorry, I just don’t care for him on his own (or with Yoko, of course ).

My favorite post-Beatle work of any of them are The Traveling Wilbury albums.