| The Band – Chest Fever Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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As robbie robertson is well quoted on this, it's a work lyric that never got finished - and why would you bother, given the wonderful sound of it! That organ, the urgent harmonies. The break in the middle is astounding, and that guitar figure playing against it...what an outrageous bunch of talent. |
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| The Band – Whispering Pines Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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A beautiful song; somehow even more beautiful the further we get from it. As sid griffin noted in his book on the basement tapes, robbie robertson and richard manuel created a remarkable handful of gems together before richard lost the plot. Robbie wrote the lyrics, and i can only imagine he would have died and gone to heaven to be given a melody like that! |
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| Moby Grape – Naked, If I Want To Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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Short, charming bit of doggerel to finish side one. I always thought they were singing - can i buy an amplifier, on trial... I don't know who played most of the acoustc on this album, but their lovely, decorative little lines now flow helplessly out of me. |
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| Moby Grape – Hey Grandma Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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Wobbly, rocking guitar lick to push this one off the starting blocks - opening track to the best rock 'n roll album of 1967. Never knew what the lyrics were til now - cough syrup and a hedgerow wine...! There is something enchantingly fresh about that line. |
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| Moby Grape – 8:05 Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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Killer acoustic part on the opening of this countrified gem. Who's playing it? On the compilation 'vintage grape' you can hear them curse how difficult it is to play. |
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| Moby Grape – Someday Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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Beautiful song - never really cared to analyse it, so much as be swept away by it; a lovely mesh of harmonies and guitars. When Bob Moseley comes in solo at the end, I could die right there. A breath-taking gem from an album full of them. |
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| Buffalo Springfield – Broken Arrow Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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18 years of american dream - i'd guess this is the period between the end of ww2 and jfk's assassination, which prefigures the beautifully written last verse - his funeral. The indian appearing at the end of each verse is yr typical neil image - symbolising a lost state, abandoned hope, dead dream...etc. |
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