Music Meme

Stu has started a meme on old vinyl that is 30-50 years old. He started with one of my favorites (and one I posess), Fleetwood Mac's Rumours. There were so many good songs on that album that I couldn't pick out a favorite. The Chain featured all the voices of Fleetwood Mac, so that is a good one. So is Gold Dust Woman - but Stevie Nicks has a voice that will just about make any song great.

As far as one of my favorite albums, Boston's self-titled album, from 1976, was awesome. I don't have a scanner big enough to contain the album (plus the album cover is very abused; being scuffed and worn), so I will cheat and use a picture from the internet:

(edited to add an authenic picture of our copy of the Boston album - with, you guessed it, the Fleetwood Mac Rumours album behind it).

The best song, of course, is Foreplay/Long Time - a song that lasted for dang near 8 minutes of enjoyable goodness. Although the words suggest that it should be a sad song (he is leaving: It's been such a long time, I think I should be going . . .), but it doesn't come out as sad. More of a launch into discovery and chasing dreams. There is acknowledgement of pain that it causes them both, but has excitement in seeing what is out there. And, the tune is rocking! Video from YouTube:

Although it could be a product of the fact I was a teenager - and dreams/discovery sound great at that age, I still find it to be one of my favorite songs that was one of the first I put on my Walkman.

Here are Stu's rules for the meme:

Here are the rules. Please join in.
1) Dig out one of your favourite old vinyl LPs, AT LEAST 30 YEARS OLD, and listen to it.
2) Blog a scan/photo of the cover.
3) Write a short review of your favourite track on the LP.
4) Link (if possible) to a YouTube version of the artist(s) performing, preferably of the same vintage.
5) Link to this blog entry. Copy these rules to your blog.
6) Mail me () a permalink to your blog entry that I may link back to you in the comments.
7) Repeat every sunday for the forseeable future :-)



Comments

[Cop Car]

I'm glad to see you pick up Stu's meme, Bogie. My vinyls are much older. I may have heard of your or Stu's music (barely!); but, I wouldn't be able to identify it if you held a gun to my head.

[Ole Phat Stu]

Thanks for joining the meme, bogie.

@CC, cylinders also qualify ;-)