Joe South - Games People Play (1969)
Goin' South (starring and directed by Jack Nicholson and co-starring Mary Steenburgen) or all gone (Beautiful) South? ★★★★★ 0% [ 0 ] ★★★★☆ 100% [ 2 ] ★★★☆☆ 0% [ 0 ] ★★☆☆☆ 0% [ 0 ] ★☆☆☆☆ 0% [ 0 ]
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Author Message Nightjar
Posts : 116205Karma : 955Join date : 2018-05-05 Subject: Re: Joe South - Games People Play (1969) Sun Jun 19, 2022 7:31 pm Despite an intriguing intro, it's a bit lacking this one.
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Posts : 151864Karma : 1223Join date : 2018-05-02 Subject: Re: Joe South - Games People Play (1969) Sun Jun 19, 2022 7:31 pm Is the record stuck?
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Posts : 116205Karma : 955Join date : 2018-05-05 Subject: Re: Joe South - Games People Play (1969) Sun Jun 19, 2022 7:32 pm Dramatic key changes.
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Posts : 151864Karma : 1223Join date : 2018-05-02 Subject: Re: Joe South - Games People Play (1969) Sun Jun 19, 2022 7:32 pm Hints of I Who Have Nothing.
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Posts : 116205Karma : 955Join date : 2018-05-05 Subject: Re: Joe South - Games People Play (1969) Sun Jun 19, 2022 7:32 pm This is pretty good. Thus far.
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Nightjar
Posts : 116205Karma : 955Join date : 2018-05-05 Subject: Re: Joe South - Games People Play (1969) Sun Jun 19, 2022 7:33 pm I like this reedy electric organ.
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Posts : 151864Karma : 1223Join date : 2018-05-02 Subject: Re: Joe South - Games People Play (1969) Sun Jun 19, 2022 7:33 pm I don't think the gimmick part's working.
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Posts : 116205Karma : 955Join date : 2018-05-05 Subject: Re: Joe South - Games People Play (1969) Sun Jun 19, 2022 7:34 pm Is this what PJ Proby sounds like? Or am I thinking of Gary Puckett and the Union Gap?
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Posts : 151864Karma : 1223Join date : 2018-05-02 Subject: Re: Joe South - Games People Play (1969) Sun Jun 19, 2022 7:34 pm Last track - These Are Not My People.
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Posts : 116205Karma : 955Join date : 2018-05-05 Subject: Re: Joe South - Games People Play (1969) Sun Jun 19, 2022 7:35 pm Amiable, ambling start.
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Nightjar
Posts : 116205Karma : 955Join date : 2018-05-05 Subject: Re: Joe South - Games People Play (1969) Sun Jun 19, 2022 7:35 pm
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Posts : 116205Karma : 955Join date : 2018-05-05 Subject: Re: Joe South - Games People Play (1969) Sun Jun 19, 2022 7:35 pm It's been a gas, but I think I'll pass...
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Posts : 151864Karma : 1223Join date : 2018-05-02 Subject: Re: Joe South - Games People Play (1969) Sun Jun 19, 2022 7:35 pm Quick burst of Spanish Harlem.
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Posts : 116205Karma : 955Join date : 2018-05-05 Subject: Re: Joe South - Games People Play (1969) Sun Jun 19, 2022 7:36 pm Herb Alpert-stylee trumpet.
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Nightjar
Posts : 116205Karma : 955Join date : 2018-05-05 Subject: Re: Joe South - Games People Play (1969) Sun Jun 19, 2022 7:37 pm FIN
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Posts : 151864Karma : 1223Join date : 2018-05-02 Subject: Re: Joe South - Games People Play (1969) Sun Jun 19, 2022 7:37 pm It is over.
It was a confident and assertive album whose first half was clearly better than its second.
Now to look back at the thread and see what everybody else made of it.
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Posts : 151864Karma : 1223Join date : 2018-05-02 Subject: Re: Joe South - Games People Play (1969) Sun Jun 19, 2022 7:37 pm I shall give it 4 stars.
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Posts : 116205Karma : 955Join date : 2018-05-05 Subject: Re: Joe South - Games People Play (1969) Sun Jun 19, 2022 7:38 pm Ooh, it's coming up to the swanee whistle corkscrew-river jump.
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Posts : 151864Karma : 1223Join date : 2018-05-02 Subject: Re: Joe South - Games People Play (1969) Sun Jun 19, 2022 7:39 pm The Call of the Wendigo wrote: Didn't this used to be a reggae song? It did.
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Posts : 116205Karma : 955Join date : 2018-05-05 Subject: Re: Joe South - Games People Play (1969) Sun Jun 19, 2022 7:42 pm That was pretty engaging and weirdly strange in a very normal, slightly square sort of strangely weird way. It never got dull and a few of the songs actually tried to do things a bit differently, regarding what was ostensibly a country rock album.
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