Re: David Crosby ‎– If I Could Only Remember My Name (1971)

by Nightjar Mon Sep 28, 2020 8:59 pm

WhatDoesThisButtonDo? wrote:Please, enough about your promiscuous Mother's friend.

Stop trying to stifle the truth.

You're the one who created the GTOs thread anyway.

Colbert

by Nightjar Mon Sep 28, 2020 9:00 pm

Slowed down Scat singing.

Is Joni nearby?

by Guest Mon Sep 28, 2020 9:00 pm

This albums starting to drift, it's a nice sound, but it getting obvious it's missing something.

Songs.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Mon Sep 28, 2020 9:03 pm

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Mon Sep 28, 2020 9:04 pm

Track 8 - Orleans.

by Guest Mon Sep 28, 2020 9:05 pm

Harmonies.

by Nightjar Mon Sep 28, 2020 9:05 pm

WhatDoesThisButtonDo? wrote:

This albums starting to drift, it's a nice sound, but it getting obvious it's missing something.

Songs.

Crosby is really just a singer.

He needs strong songwriters - visionaries - to bring out the best in his voice.

This is obviously a case of Laurel Canyon superstars dropping by now and then and jamming, but with no clear songwriting leader to make a proper album of it.

by Guest Mon Sep 28, 2020 9:06 pm

This is another T. Rad cover.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Mon Sep 28, 2020 9:07 pm

Track 9 - I'd Swear There Was Somebody Here.

by Nightjar Mon Sep 28, 2020 9:07 pm

He really was an outstanding singer.

He really really needed songwriters and collaborators of repute to help him realise the extent of of his talent.

by Guest Mon Sep 28, 2020 9:08 pm

Getting a bit Tim Buckley.

Or Tim Buckley went a bit Crosby, dunno

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Mon Sep 28, 2020 9:09 pm

It is over.

That was the most boring album I've ever heard. It didn't even try to be interesting.

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

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Mon Sep 28, 2020 9:09 pm

I shall give it 1 star.

by Guest Mon Sep 28, 2020 9:11 pm

Shall I tell you what I though when I first heard the C, S & N album?

I though this was great, like Simon and Garfunkel but with 3 voices blended together, and was even better, Excited

Then on closer inspection, there were no songs there, well there were, but slight ones. It was obvious Neil Young was the talented one, and those other would have made a good backing singers for him.

by Nightjar Mon Sep 28, 2020 9:12 pm

Nightjar wrote:He really was an outstanding singer.

He really really needed songwriters and collaborators of repute to help him realise the extent of of his talent.

He had that in the Byrds and CSN/Y, but beyond that he couldn't function as an artist.

I think the collective - and ultimately destructively hedonistic - community sense was what drove him creatively.

He wasn't in himself a very creative person.

In some respects he wasn't a million miles away from Rod Stewart in that respect.

Rod never let himself go in quite the same spectacular American way however...

by Guest Mon Sep 28, 2020 9:13 pm

That was better than I was expecting, quite like side one, but I expect on repeated listens the lightweighness of the songs will come will gr8. Sorry, grate.

by Nightjar Mon Sep 28, 2020 9:14 pm

The Call of the Wendigo wrote:It is over.

That was the most boring album I've ever heard. It didn't even try to be interesting.

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

Even more boring than the Peter Hammill album from last night? Excited

by Guest Mon Sep 28, 2020 9:17 pm

Apparently I've given this ★★★

dunno

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Mon Sep 28, 2020 9:20 pm

Nightjar wrote:
The Call of the Wendigo wrote:It is over.

That was the most boring album I've ever heard. It didn't even try to be interesting.

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

Even more boring than the Peter Hammill album from last night?

I don't even remember the Peter Hammill one. shifty

by Nightjar Mon Sep 28, 2020 9:21 pm

WhatDoesThisButtonDo? wrote:Apparently I've given this ★★★

That's what I gave it. Sly

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The American Neil Young?