Re: The Bay City Rollers - Ricochet (1981).

by Nightjar Tue Jun 23, 2020 7:37 pm

The Call of the Wendigo wrote:Back to the Wombles.

What, Minuetto Allegretto?

by Nightjar Tue Jun 23, 2020 7:38 pm

ButtonZ doesn't know what he's missing.

ELP eat your hearts out.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Tue Jun 23, 2020 7:38 pm

Hints of the Monkees.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Tue Jun 23, 2020 7:38 pm

Now ELO.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Tue Jun 23, 2020 7:39 pm

Diary of Horace Wimp.

by Nightjar Tue Jun 23, 2020 7:39 pm

Almost Pink Floyd-esque bit.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Tue Jun 23, 2020 7:39 pm

Guitar solo.

by Nightjar Tue Jun 23, 2020 7:40 pm

Going very ELO here.

by Nightjar Tue Jun 23, 2020 7:40 pm

Flashy guitar solo.

by Nightjar Tue Jun 23, 2020 7:40 pm

by Nightjar Tue Jun 23, 2020 7:43 pm

What a...

The Bay City Rollers - Ricochet (1981). - Page 7 Tumblr_penqzihmt41tn7avwo1_1280

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Tue Jun 23, 2020 7:43 pm

It is over.

I think that was the living definition of a middling album, from a band who'd decided that the best way to revive their fortunes in the 1980s was to become a cross between, the Jam, Focus, Toto, Queen, ELO and the Wombles.

In fairness, the time did fly by, listening to it, but I do feel they needed to settle on a genre and stick with it, instead of leaping randomly from style to syle.

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

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Tue Jun 23, 2020 7:43 pm

I shall give it 3 stars.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Tue Jun 23, 2020 7:44 pm

Now I feel guilty because I gave it more than I did Sniff 'n' the Tears. bawl

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Tue Jun 23, 2020 7:45 pm

However, it entertained me more than Sniff 'n' the Tears did, even though all sense says it was worse.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Tue Jun 23, 2020 7:48 pm

I think I may have picked the wrong album. It seems to be their 1979 album, Elevator, that was the critically acclaimed one. bawl

by Nightjar Tue Jun 23, 2020 7:49 pm

I'm giving it three stars simply because it was a morbidly interesting flailing failure (flailure) of musical styles and influences.

They went down with something resembling a fight though.

The video with the actresses was the most intellectually stimulating and subtly erotic thing I've seen in a long while.

Not since I saw the trailer for The Unbearable Lightness of Being have I felt such a profound stirring in my ~~hippopotamus~~ hypothalamus - a surge of roiling subconscious espuma... etc...

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Tue Jun 23, 2020 8:00 pm

The Call of the Wendigo wrote:I think I may have picked the wrong album. It seems to be their 1979 album, Elevator, that was the critically acclaimed one.

I have now listened to 30 seconds of each track on it. It's much more coherent album but, for me, lacks the wayward randomness that made this one gripping.

by Guest Tue Jun 23, 2020 9:33 pm

Easily the best 'New Wave' record we've done.

I'm temped to give it ****…

by Guest Tue Jun 23, 2020 9:37 pm

In fact, I THINK I WILL!!!

Also the name of the group was The Rollers, they changed it when they changed the singer. Colbert

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