tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post5495026413482842327..comments2024-02-06T16:17:25.826+00:00Comments on THE GRØNMARK BLOG: Scrub my last music post – 1972 was almost as good as 1971 for albums, even better for singles!Scott Gronmarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15118026157459333174noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-51408686416501658592013-03-09T15:59:30.322+00:002013-03-09T15:59:30.322+00:00I'm keener om Stevie Wonder's later stuff ...I'm keener om Stevie Wonder's later stuff - mind you, no objection to the earlier albums.<br /><br />"Everybody Knows" is the bollocks. Just listened to Goldrush for the first time in years - and I'll admit I'd forgotten how good it was. But Harvest still does it for me. I gave up caring much about lyrics early on, because it would have made 98% of all rock music unlistenable! I particularly remember a line on a Van Morrison number along the lines of "Woman, fetch me down my walking boots" where I was hoping to hear a feminine voice respond with, "Fetch them yourself, you fat little wally". Hippies really were fantastically sexist. (And I realise "There's A World" is also another absolute clunker from Harvest.)<br /><br />Rudngren - too MOR, AOR, tuneful soft-rock for me. I've tried, honestly! "I Saw the Light" and "Wolfman Jack" are good - grant you that. <br /><br />Scott Gronmarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15118026157459333174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-11896545020839786122013-03-03T09:57:08.499+00:002013-03-03T09:57:08.499+00:00An excellent post. I wonder where I put my flares ...An excellent post. I wonder where I put my flares and that tasteful orange shirt with the Harry Hill collar. I'd take issue with the reference to Stevie Wonder. I think 1972 was probably his best year, with Music of My Mind and Talking Book both as fresh as they day I first played them. I don't feel the same about his later stuff. <br /><br />It's odd that Harvest made Neil Young a multi-millionaire when it's an easy listening step backwards from both After the Goldrush and Everybody Knows this is Nowhere. It's probably his most disciplined album but it's his least adventurous and some of the lyrics are hilariously bad. You don"t have to be Germaine Greer to find A Man needs a Maid well dodgy. <br /><br />The serious omission from your list is Todd Rundgren"s Something Anything. The first side is just one great tune after another, melodic, witty, tuneful 70s pop at its best. I still play it, along with the two Stevie albums, Steely Dan and Manassas. There's a great video on You Tube of Stephen Stills rehearsing the band through Bound to Fall. Those boys could play.<br /><br />ex-KCSnoreply@blogger.com