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god, I was at the height of my fandom then. My kingdom for a time machine. For them! And me.
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Sadly Jimmy moved The Wild Heart much more towards the pop realm in caring how pop radio would hear and play it (chasing success). Some good songs but many of them watered down. Then, RAL, good grief what happened there Bella Donna was a moment. A quick album before the Mac regrouped. It came at the perfect time when her voice was at her peak and before the drugs completely took over. I love that the Buckingham/Nicks bassist Tom Moncrieff plays on the album's SDMHA. I wonder why Tom's bassist (Ron Blair) did not play on the song. He boycotted the recording LOL? The stories of how Jimmy had to keep his working with Stevie a secret (from Tom) are funny.
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My heart will rise up with the morning sun and the hurt I feel will simply melt away Last edited by Macfan4life; 04-06-2022 at 05:55 AM.. |
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I agree. There's something really genuine about Law and Order compared to Tusk. Tusk to me is a little more forced. It just turns out that his forcing made for a very interesting album.
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LAW AND ORDER sounds like genuine creative play. The songs are goofy and warm and crazy—but this time not in quotation marks. T |
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I'm with latter-day Lindsey on Law and Order, who only put one of its tracks on his Solo Anthology and has dismissed it in some interviews. I just don't like the 1950s vibe. Other than Trouble, his solo legacy track that still gets airplay today, Shadow of the West is pretty and September is solid but a cover.
I love this review quoted on the album's Wikipedia page: Quote:
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Law And Order is a fairly good album but lots of experimentation. Trouble sticks out like a sore thumb. I like Johnny Stew. I love Lindsey songs where he jams his guitar. His playing does not offend me so I love songs like Come, I'm So Afraid Live 1980, Oh Well, Loving Cup, etc.
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I forced it on my "Fleetwood Mac girls" a few years ago(FM pool party weekend), and they fell in love with it. Johnny Stew especially. We'd all crank it up, and STFU through all the grunting in the middle, so we could really get into it. We may also have been drunk, but I digress...
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No doubt L&O becomes more agreeable at bacchanals. But there aren't enough libations and goodwill to make me fall in love with It Was I.
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I think Hurrell also shot the Law and Order cover, and a bunch of his Mirage outtakes are included in the album songbook.
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You haven’t been watching enough of those Fifties concert reunions during PBS pledge break, Joe.
Lindsey was definitely in his doo-wop years, and the phase, which was as big a deal to him as folk, lasted into the early Nineties, with “Surrender the Rain,” “Say We’ll Meet Again,” and “This Nearly Was Mine.” The styles in American pop before it officially became “Early Rock and Roll” must be a childhood nostalgia thing for him, immersed in the vocal stylists and doo-wop groups of the mid and late Fifties—because those styles, personalized, are all over his catalogue. I think it must remind him of days with his dad and brothers, several of whom he lost young. Innocence regained, perhaps (the theme of his first solo album)? But even more than the personal connection is the musical connection: he is fascinated with the many styles of popular music through swing and big band to the small jazz combo sound (“Love from Here, Love from There”) to doo-wop and beyond. What he’s done with all these styles may not be everyone’s cup of tea, but I get a kick out of it — even when he’s deliberately singing like Frankie Lymon or the Jive Bombers.
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moviekinks.blogspot.com Last edited by David; 04-10-2022 at 02:23 PM.. |
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Did you ever notice...
That in addition to the somewhat retro looking album photo (thanks for the trivia, David!), the font on the Mirage cover is in the art deco mode, which is also the style of architecture of the Empire State Building.
And that the pattern of Christine's blouse on the cover consists of musical notes.
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I don't have the proper knowledge or words, but the image itself looks sort of glowy and softened to me, like a hand-coloured daguerrotype or something. Also somewhat retro hairstyles and clothes to some extent. Some elements of the composition as well (the dancing pose, like an old-school debutante ball; and Stevie's pose evokes a classical painting to me, perhaps augmented by the black background).
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You can actually blame Stevie and her own wild heart for the changes on The Wild Heart. She started really pushing back on Jimmy during that album, and wasn't as nervous about 'what if I'm not successful on my own' during the making of WH like she was during making of BD. She was far, far more humble and willing to take others' ideas during BD. Once her ego got all that solo success.....watch out. And her coke intake went up as well. She started leveraging her solo success within FM to get what she wanted and also in her solo career.
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That Law and Order cover photo is one of the best ever taken of Lindsey, in his most gorgeous years.
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