Re: The album running-commentary and general listening discussion thread.

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Ooh yes. So do I.

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In the meantime, I'm about to do Gerry Rafferty's Can I Haz My Money Back? from 1972.

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Track 1 - Half a Chance/Where i Belong.

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Piano.

Now it's all gone oompah poompah, like a cross between Admiral Halsey and everything Pilot ever recorded.

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Supertramp style sax bit.

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Gerry Rafferty had terrible album covers. It's like they were designed to put you off buying the album.

The one for Snakes and Ladders is the stuff of nightmares.

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We need a thread, "Album covers that put you off buying the album."

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We're into the second half of the mini-medley.

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This bit sounds like 10 CC.

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And a lot like one of those tracks that litter YouTube, the ones Paul McCartney never got round to actually releasing.

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Track 2 - Don't Count Me Out.

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He's been listening to The Band.

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"And if you tell me that I drink too much and it's going to be the death of me."

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Track 3 - One Drink Down.

I think I'm spotting a trend.

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"He was married in haste to a woman unchaste."

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I've heard this one before.

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I'm in.

This is how I'd imagine those Top of the Pops albums would sound like. If they were doing a forgotten Wings Single.

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The thing that strikes me about this album is how it's free of the horrible over-production that robbed his later albums of all vitality.

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