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RE: 70s Rock
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RE: 70s Rock (in reply to Miguel de Maria)
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Miguel, I entirely share your enthusiasm for Sticky Fingers; it's my favorite Stones album and one of my 20 favorite Desert Island Disks (Rock Department/Studio). Virtually every track is a gem. Dave, I agree that there is nothing like Live. Give me Tom Petty's Pack Up the Plantation, or Neil's Live Rust, or Skynyrd's One More From the Road (all Desert Island Disks (Rock Department/Live). Next best thing to being there. At the risk of needlessly prolonging this thread, herewith a list of some songs that my body tells me, via almost 100% thrills, chills, gooseflesh every time I hear them, that I really, really like them. I've noted many times that I cannot distinguish good from bad in the arts--my mind lacks the necessary subtlety--I know only what I like and dislike. My limbic system, though, prompts me immediately every time I hear these-----(not in any order) Gimme Shelter/Stones Wooden Ships/Jefferson Airplane Three Days/Jane's Addiction Night of the Swallow/Kate Bush Little Wing/Derek and the Dominoes St. Charles/Jefferson Starship Go Your Own Way/Fleetwood Mac (Live version from The Dance) Cortez the Killer/Neil Young (Live version from Live Rust) Move With Me/Neneh Cherry Kashmir/Led Zeppelin Fumbling Toward Ecstasy/Sarah Mclachlan (Live version from Mirrorball) The elements that all these songs have in common is length. They are all at least 5 minutes, which allows enough time to establish a powerful sense of mood; to "get into" the song. Some of the songs are marked by particularly plangent guitar work: Little Wing, Cortez the Killer, Wooden Ships. Some by sinuous, ophidian guitar: St. Charles, Fumbling toward Ecstasy, Gimme Shelter. Others by swooping roller-coaster melody: Night of the Swallow, Go Your Own Way. Others just overwhelm: Three Days, Kashmir, for instance. These have all been linked with "cusp" experiences in discussions of the power of art, of our conception of the Sublime. And there are obvious parallels with our (anyway, my) appreciation of cante. Thoughts welcome. runner
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