Re: Earl Slick - Lost & Found (1975)

by Nightjar Sat May 07, 2022 8:13 pm

I like the echo on his vocals.

by SiberianPrincess’sMidriff Sat May 07, 2022 8:13 pm

Last one, Ain't Too High a Price

by Nightjar Sat May 07, 2022 8:13 pm

Starting off like Ackadacka.

by Nightjar Sat May 07, 2022 8:13 pm

Before going all Iko Iko.

by Nightjar Sat May 07, 2022 8:15 pm

It's a shame the album didn't have a better singer.

He's very much a one trick, David Coverdale-esque pony.

by Nightjar Sat May 07, 2022 8:15 pm

Panic in Detroit...

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Sat May 07, 2022 8:16 pm

It is over.

It was just people playing the things you're supposed to play on this kind of album.

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

by Nightjar Sat May 07, 2022 8:16 pm

I feel quite worn out now.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Sat May 07, 2022 8:17 pm

I shall give it 2 stars for its lack of ideas and lack of identity.

by Nightjar Sat May 07, 2022 8:17 pm

We should'f done Chris Bell.

It would've been more melodic and power-poppy.

by SiberianPrincess’sMidriff Sat May 07, 2022 8:19 pm

Oh, it's over.

by SiberianPrincess’sMidriff Sat May 07, 2022 8:20 pm

Nightjar wrote:It's a shame the album didn't have a better singer.

He's very much a one trick, David Coverdale-esque pony.

And someone to cut the songs out, repeat the good bits and less ideas jammed in everywhere. Maybe the songs would be more memorable.

Is this fair for an album that wasn't released at the time? I don't know, it's getting 2 little stars though.

by Nightjar Sat May 07, 2022 8:25 pm

Despite it's numerous faults, I kind of like that album, although it certainly wouldn't demand repeat listens.

There are some kernels of good stuff in it that suggest that Slick was more imaginative and complex than even he probably thought he was.

Unfortunately he always seemed to fall back into the macho 'guitar hero' role he clearly has always been desperate to maintain and project.

Really, in all honesty, only "Glass Scaffold" stood out and benefitted from some (relatively) pared back production.

Perhaps if they'd had a better singer, better production at the time (it's was only remastered properly in 1998) and it hadn't been a low-key vanity project recorded as an afterthought between Bovvie album sessions it might've been a more coherent and special work.

by Nightjar Sat May 07, 2022 8:26 pm

I will be overly kind kind on account of your combined starry n*ggardlinesses.

by Nightjar Sat May 07, 2022 8:28 pm

SiberianPrincess’sMidriff wrote:
Nightjar wrote:It's a shame the album didn't have a better singer.

He's very much a one trick, David Coverdale-esque pony.

And someone to cut the songs out, repeat the good bits and less ideas jammed in everywhere. Maybe the songs would be more memorable.

Is this fair for an album that wasn't released at the time? I don't know, it's getting 2 little stars though.

Sung by Bovvie and complete with 1975 peak-analogue production "Glass Scaffold" could definitely have made Young Americans.

It'd've'd've'd definitely been better than that cover of "Across teh Universe".

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