Weekly Music Trading Post

[stellarparadize]

Well id love it if someone who knew my music tastes picked an album that they felt would be right down my street of course, but what i actually like about this thread is recieving something that might not strictly be my cup of tea.

That album certainly wasn't but i liked it.

[Bobita]

Top stuff :thurab:

Here's who we've got so far...

Bulldog
NuraberNineDream
Rickenbacker
Anteater
Lateralus
Abdullah424
Duga

Anyone else? If you want in, don't forget this one's theme; upbeat albums - albums with an uplifting, chirpy kinda vibe.

I'll get at least one of my reviews done if I'm not out tonight. I probably will be though, so expect something from me by Sunday at the latest.

[monkeylovespeanuts]

Soooo I take you're in?

[mikeymagic]

Ok, Stone BirRAB is in too.

[passenbij]

I'm in for the next one! 'Cause I haven't gotten anything for this one yet... So yeah count me in!

[ashok N]

from NuraberNineDream (2. album)

Bobby Jameson - Color Him In (1967)

Unlike The Mandrake Memorial, Bobby Jameson's album 'Color Him In' was hard for me to get into. It's a collection of thirteen pretty simple, typical 60s pop songs with lavish arrangements, female background vocals and with a bit of soul. NuraberNine offered me this album with a beautiful song 'See Dawn'. It is by far the best song on the album and it's quite difficult for me to explain what makes it a standout, what clicked there. Maybe it's the overall clearness of a simple pop melody, not muddled by sometimes too erabellished arrangements, that gives this song a necessary directness. Backing vocals are very subtle and non intrusive and they add to the overall sprawling feel of the song.

Upon closer listening, the other songs started to get a bit more personality and to open up for me, like 'Jamie', Know Yourself', 'Candy Colored Dragon', 'Windows and Doors', 'The New Age', 'Vietnam'. I felt that songs with the least soul influence actually work the best. Jameson's voice is much more enjoyable when he sings those simple melodies than when he attempts to do soul. 'Know Yourself' and 'Candy Colored Dragon' are quite a bit sugarcoated, but strangely, that makes them more charming.

It actually hit me right there that this typical product of its time has the ability, just because of that, to transport you, like in a time machine, straight to the 60s. You can almost smell and taste these idealized times. If you submit yourself to the charm, be it sometimes cheesy, this album can be pretty enjoyable. Now I understand much more clearly why NuraberNine likes it so much.

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Coolness.

I'll get a link your way in the next day or so man.

[Igor The Clown]

Count me in, I'm down to take another stab at the weekly trading post

[iheartbooks]

either or, doesn't necessarily have to be a rock opera, any genre of music can tell a story (even instrumental if you're imaginative enough).