Re: Badfinger - Wish You Were Here (1974)

by Guest Sun Feb 02, 2020 9:36 pm

I'm talking a ★ off for this song.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Sun Feb 02, 2020 9:36 pm

Electric joanna.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Sun Feb 02, 2020 9:36 pm

Is this the drummer singing and writing?

by Nightjar Sun Feb 02, 2020 9:37 pm

It's a weaker song, but it's got a Fender Rhodes on it.

And it has a casual confidence about it that puts me at rest. bounce

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Sun Feb 02, 2020 9:38 pm

Last track - Meanwhile Back at the Ranch/Should I Smoke?

by Nightjar Sun Feb 02, 2020 9:38 pm

The Call of the Wendigo wrote:Is this the drummer singing and writing?

It does somehow smack of a minor band member's inp*t.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Sun Feb 02, 2020 9:38 pm

I've heard this one somewhere before.

by Nightjar Sun Feb 02, 2020 9:39 pm

Meanwhile...

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Sun Feb 02, 2020 9:39 pm

It's positively chugging along.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Sun Feb 02, 2020 9:39 pm

by Nightjar Sun Feb 02, 2020 9:39 pm

The Call of the Wendigo wrote:I've heard this one somewhere before.

The previous ten songs?

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Sun Feb 02, 2020 9:40 pm

Shared lead vocals.

by Guest Sun Feb 02, 2020 9:41 pm

That didn't quite work, can they pull it out with the other half of this double bill?

by Nightjar Sun Feb 02, 2020 9:42 pm

So hard to dislike any of these songs.

by Guest Sun Feb 02, 2020 9:43 pm

WhatDoesThisButtonDo? wrote:That didn't quite work, can they pull it out with the other half of this double bill?

Not really.

Well that was, Real Now!

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Sun Feb 02, 2020 9:44 pm

It is over.

That was all fab, filled with energy, choons and great playing, one of the most enervating albums we've done.

Now to look back at the thread and see what everyone else made of it. Excited

by Nightjar Sun Feb 02, 2020 9:44 pm

That was it, no?

Bonus discs are off limits, Shirley?

by Guest Sun Feb 02, 2020 9:45 pm

Hmm.. Game of two halves Trevor, side one, and the first track of side two were great, then a minor short song, which is fine, then ends with a wimper.

Still, it's getting 4★ out of 5. Is one of the better ones we've had so far.

As I say, never heard 'em before, And no where near as B*atles/W*ngish as I expected, although they're obviously fans of P*ul McC*ntney, and that other lot. Gorilla No

Almost like a better post Roy Wood ELO shifty

by Nightjar Sun Feb 02, 2020 9:49 pm

Anyway, despite the many many and ample opportunities to say "this song is a rip off of this or that song" I found the record to be genuinely wonderful, charming, groovy and elegant, loving pastiche of it's influences...

Remember:

Pastiche
Parody
P*ss-take

Different things.

by Nightjar Sun Feb 02, 2020 9:58 pm

Also...

Prattling on.

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