Re: The album running-commentary and general listening discussion thread. Part 3!

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I think this is the first album where they used a real orchestra. Before this, it was just three blokes trying to sound like one with multi-tracking.

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I don't need to hear the rest of this.

Nobody's Child, it's not that Nobody's Child is it?

'When they find out out I'm a tim, they look at some other kid and say we'll take him'

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Jeff's clearly determined to get his money's worth this time round.

[Guest]

Err.. no.

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I don't need to hear the rest of this.

Nobody's Child, it's not that Nobody's Child is it?

'When they find out out I'm a tim, they look at some other kid and say we'll take him'

It's not that Nobody's Child.

It's about a pr*stitute.

I think.

[Guest]

I can't work out how this is a concept album.

Mind you that was quite common back then.


Is this Tom Waits on Piano?

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Shock track ending.

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Back into the strings.

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Track 6. Nobody's Child.

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1930s vamping.

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[Guest]

Wait what happened then, it was getting to the end and it went to a Grammerly advert!

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Key change into the piano solo.

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Key change coming out of the piano solo.

[Guest]

Illusions in G Major.

Old Skool Rock n' roll.

With a horn section. And strings. And a weak voice.

[Guest]

Guitar solo!

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Wait what happened then, it was getting to the end and it went to a Grammerly advert!

If it was Mr Kingdom, that's how it ends. In, no doubt, tribute to the end of Abbey Road's Side One.

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Hold on. Nobody's Child just did it too.

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Track 7. Illusions in G Major.

[Guest]

Eldorado/Eldorado Finale.

This sounds, familiar…

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