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@axisus
is it crazy how saying sentences backwards creates backwards sentences saying how crazy it is?
Apart from being mesmerized by the iconic cover and picture of Phil Lynott, the gate fold pics, the Les Pauls (I still want a Brian Robertson's Black Custom LP or to pimp something to match it) has a huge impact on me as a 15yr old.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_and_Dangerous
It made me smile the first time I heard it and it still makes me grin from ear to ear.
It was also the album that taught me How to play Guitar - bending, vibrato, picking out harmony lines, melodic playing, power chords, scales etc and helped my playing enormously
And yes, I love that look of a black LP Custom with cream plastic parts. I'm not sure if that's primarily attributable to Robbo, or to Peter Frampton - it could be both.
I've got a nasty feeling my copy is missing one of the two inner sleeves - it just had a plain white paper one. But I could be mixing it up with somebody else's double live album.
The yard is nothing but a fence, the sun just hurts my eyes...
It really builds on Pavement's style with a really strong selection of songs that's just a bit more cohesive.
Tom Waits - Raindogs (although I listen to Bone Machine, Swordfishtrombones, and various Ribot/Zorn projects just as much)
or (and this came up above)
Radiohead - In Rainbows
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I think that it's interesting that neither of these are the artist's early work.
CTTE is epic, Moving Pictures is superb, although doesn't make my top 5 Rush albums!
I like all of their albums (bar Feedback); probably Grace Under Pressure and Clockwork Angels come next.
My favourite album, which is what the post is about, would probably be The White Stripes - White Blood Cells. There are better albums I'm sure, and in fact I think strangely De Stijl is actually more stylistically my favourite Stripes album, but I think White Blood Cells is where the style, aesthetics, songwriting, performances and production all come together for what is still my favourite band 20 years later.
Obscure lyrics a lot of the time, which I like. The archetypical White Stripes era Jack White guitar tones, basically fuzz or crunch. Catchy songs (Hotel Yorba, Fell in Love with a Girl, Now Mary) as well as more intense efforts (Union Forever, Aluminum). In fact even one of my favourite songs from the follow up Elephant was recorded during the same sort of time as White Blood Cells ( I Just Don't Know What to do with Myself).
I just feel like it is a great collection of everything the band were about, before the bright lights of fame, and it still astounds me (and them!) that a band making such minimal raw songs influenced by country blues on an eight track in their house actually managed to make it.
If nothing else, the lyrics to Little Room are such a great summary of staying grounded:
When you're in your little room, and you're working on something good,
You might have to think of how you got started, sitting in your little room
Love it
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Not a bad track on it and most albums in my experience always have a bad track on them
QOTSA - Songs For The Deaf