Whats on your turntable tonight?

Steely Dan / Can’t Buy A Thrill
1972 ABC

This checks the boxes that Bare Trees missed

@bslon, @faustuss, great respect for your taste and i’m almost always on board with your picks, but you lost me with the doors’ "soft parade", which i’ve always regarded as the least of their records, mainly because the  title track is terrible + the lyrics to otherwise very tuneful songs like "tell all the people" and "wishful sinful" seem horribly underbaked/sophmoric. for me the doors recorded legacy had the odd arc of starting out great, gradually dipping in quality, then rebounding and finishing with a bang--sort of a reverse v shaped-graph.

I heard this Canadian Duo on Pandora, ordered LP We Fall In

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I could count the words I could understand on one hand, It sucks. 

I'm gonna have my wife and another friend listen, see if I went deaf overnight, then complain like hell.

@loomisjohnson I’m glad to see that you’re still around.
Your comments on Soft Parade are shared by many who feel it was The Doors’ weakest effort…even though it had 4 singles. But that led to criticism of them going “mainstream”. The horrors! 😁
I like their first 4 albums best, and this one for the strings and horns. And I could listen to “Wishful Sinful” all day long.
What also figures in is I (we) played it a lot back in the day, and the people in those memories hold a special place in my heart. That’s a big reason I love playing these old records, they can bring a wonderful feeling.
Take care and Happy Trails brother!
 

you can sorta tell when robbie krieger wrote the lyrics--they tend towards the generic, while morrison's stuff may be pretentious as hell but did have an artsy edge.

in other news, my current raves are:

steve earle, "transcendental blues"--the breadth of this record is actually pretty impressive--he goes from country to hard rock to pyschedelia to irish folk without sounding incoherent. he's also not as bad a singer as he says he is.

cotton mather, "kontiki"--smarter than your average power pop band--the principla might be the best lyricist in the genre. they're oft likened to squeeze, but i hear a lot of early john lennon (most of these would have fit comfortably on rubber soul). "spin my wheels" is as purty a weepy ballad as you'll hear.