Re: Al Green - The Belle Album (1977)

by SiberianPrincess’sMidriff Wed 19 Jan 2022 - 19:36

Gone all quiet. ~~Over there~~

by Nightjar Wed 19 Jan 2022 - 19:37

Al telling everyone to shhh! no no

by SiberianPrincess’sMidriff Wed 19 Jan 2022 - 19:38

Loud again.

by Nightjar Wed 19 Jan 2022 - 19:38

Now, I do love this, but I can see that it's a bit of a filler number.

Like a half-realised slow jam that was added to pad things out.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Wed 19 Jan 2022 - 19:38

It is over.

It was pleasant enough but noticeably devoid of inspiration and direction.

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

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Wed 19 Jan 2022 - 19:39

I shall give it 3 stars.

by SiberianPrincess’sMidriff Wed 19 Jan 2022 - 19:39

Over.

by Nightjar Wed 19 Jan 2022 - 19:40

The Call of the Wendigo wrote:It was pleasant enough but noticeably devoid of inspiration and direction.

Are you dissing The Lord to his face? scared

by Nightjar Wed 19 Jan 2022 - 19:43

Well, that was generally quite sublime.

In truth it never quite lives up to the opening title track and the fact that the Polyphonic Whatchamacallit isn't used again is a shame.

Also, the last track, although dreamily lovely, does run on for too long and seems like a left-over track from 1972.

Still...

You might think that when a musician goes all Goddy and dumps his previous band and production team/sound that'd been his commercial winning formula for more than a decade it'd be a disaster.

But, of course, this is Al Green and this was the '70s. box

by SiberianPrincess’sMidriff Wed 19 Jan 2022 - 19:45

That was alright. Not too soppy. and a lightness of touch that drags it out of the 70s plod-a-phon.

★★★★

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