| brENsKi 17.06.2014 16:17 |
I'm raising this subject because i think it's something queen never truly managed. The idea is simple open and close your LP with two equally great songs. Here's my own personal faves:- Eagles: Hotel California Opener - Hotel California / Closer - The Last Resort Sabbs - Heaven & Hell Opener - Neon Knights / Closer - Lonely is The Word Boston - Boston Opener - More Than A Feeling / Closer - Let me take You Home Tonight Pink Floyd - Wish you Were Here Opener - SOYCD (i-v) / Closer - SOYCD (vi-ix) Deep Purple - Machine Head Opener - Highway Star / Closer - Space Truckin' Thin Lizzy - Black Rose Opener - Do Anything You Want To do / Closer - Roisin Dubh |
| matt z 18.06.2014 00:32 |
1. Assess the form and type of wrapping (usu. Plastic overwrap) 2. Locate indentation in the wrapping, usually on the right side when looking at the front 3. Insert a fingernail or small sharp object into the plastic carefully avoiding the packaging 4. Unwrap the plastic shrink wrap from off the album (if it folds; if it does not fold you may wish to retain the original shrink wrapped sleeve) 5. Carefully purse the opening section of the album which contains the actual album within. 6. Carefully pinch the inner sleeve (sometimes waxy paper/sometimes an inner plastic sleeve) and album 7. Pull them both out 8.YOU HAVE NOW OPENED THE ALBUM, you may wish to play it or to admire it. Part Two: 1. REVERSE steps #1-8 starting with #8 8. RE- INSERT the album into the sleeve. 7. RE- insert the album/sleeve combination into the purse of the cardboard. 6. Fold the album back together if necessary 5. Shelve it away (hopefully in a Mylar sleeve) 4-1 may be unnecessary, as it may not be in your best interest to reseal an album Also note: Albums can be further arranged according to numerous criteria: alphabetical by title, mass, weight, color, upc code, genre etc. I hope this helps! |
| noorie 18.06.2014 10:36 |
^^^^^ lol! |
| The Real Wizard 18.06.2014 13:56 |
brENsKi wrote: Boston - Boston Opener - More Than A Feeling / Closer - Let me take You Home Tonight Thin Lizzy - Black Rose Opener - Do Anything You Want To do / Closer - Roisin Dubh^ nah, there's no way those closers are better than In The Lap Of The Gods Revisited or My Melancholy Blues. Queen didn't start and end their albums with a bang, like most bands did. They built to peaks and came down from them. Kind of like sex. But yeah - you seriously can't beat Hotel California, Machine Head and Wish You Were Here in that regard. |
| MadTheSwine73 18.06.2014 15:12 |
You'll notice I really like a few artists. Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan: Blowin' In The Wind / I Shall Be Free Bob Dylan - Another Side of Bob Dylan: All I Really Want To Do / It Ain't Me Babe Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home: Subterranean Homesick Blues / It's All Over Now, Baby Blue Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited: Like A Rolling Stone / Desolation Row Bob Dylan - Blonde On Blonde: Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 / Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks: Tangled Up In Blue / Buckets of Rain Bob Dylan - Oh Mercy: Political World / Shooting Star Bob Dylan - Modern Times: Thunder on the Mountain / Ain't Talkin' Bob Dylan - Tempest: Duquesne Whistle / Roll On John Johnny Cash - American IV - The Man Comes Around: The Man Comes Around / We'll Meet Again John Lennon & Yoko Ono - Double Fantasy: (Just Like) Starting Over / Hard Times Are Over John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band: Mother / God The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night: A Hard Day's Night / I'll Be Back The Beatles - Let It Be... Naked: Get Back / Let It Be The Beatles - Please Please Me: I Saw Her Standing There / Twist & Shout The Beatles - Revolver: Taxman / Tomorrow Never Knows John Lennon - Imagine: Imagine / Oh Yoko! Paul McCartney & Wings - Band On The Run: Band On The Run / Nineteen Hundred And Eighty Five Soundtrack - Wonder Boys: Things Have Changed (Bob Dylan) / Philosopher's Stone (Van Morrison) I would have put Dark Side Of The Moon and The Wall, but I think the songs on those albums are more like "Side 1" and "Side 2" of the actual LPs, rather than "Speak to Me/Breathe" and "Brain Damage/Eclipse," so I didn't include them. |
| brENsKi 18.06.2014 16:05 |
The Real Wizard wrote:okay, will concede on the boston one - but no way on Roisin Dubh - it's a really great album closerbrENsKi wrote: Boston - Boston Opener - More Than A Feeling / Closer - Let me take You Home Tonight Thin Lizzy - Black Rose Opener - Do Anything You Want To do / Closer - Roisin Dubh^ nah, there's no way those closers are better than In The Lap Of The Gods Revisited or My Melancholy Blues. Queen didn't start and end their albums with a bang, like most bands did. They built to peaks and came down from them. Kind of like sex. But yeah - you seriously can't beat Hotel California, Machine Head and Wish You Were Here in that regard. as for Last Resort - - top notch. lyrically superior, musically stunning in it's simplicity and so well sung.i honestly don't think there's a finer album closer anywhere - really glad i chose that as the main example now. |
| The Real Wizard 18.06.2014 16:30 |
brENsKi wrote: okay, will concede on the boston one - but no way on Roisin Dubh - it's a really great album closerYeah, it really is. The celtic guitar lines are marvelous ! as for Last Resort - - top notch. lyrically superior, musically stunning in it's simplicity and so well sung.i honestly don't think there's a finer album closer anywhereIt's definitely one of the best rock albums ever. You only hit perfection once, if you're lucky - and this is theirs. |
| Holly2003 18.06.2014 19:35 |
Good topic. Not sure I agree though: Brighton Rock and In the Lap of the Gods Revisited is pretty much perfect. Good call on Thin Lizzy. I'd add Iron Maiden's Powerslave and AC/DC's Let There Be Rock.
brENsKi wrote: I'm raising this subject because i think it's something queen never truly managed. The idea is simple open and close your LP with two equally great songs. Here's my own personal faves:- Eagles: Hotel California Opener - Hotel California / Closer - The Last Resort Sabbs - Heaven & Hell Opener - Neon Knights / Closer - Lonely is The Word Boston - Boston Opener - More Than A Feeling / Closer - Let me take You Home Tonight Pink Floyd - Wish you Were Here Opener - SOYCD (i-v) / Closer - SOYCD (vi-ix) Deep Purple - Machine Head Opener - Highway Star / Closer - Space Truckin' Thin Lizzy - Black Rose Opener - Do Anything You Want To do / Closer - Roisin Dubh |
| musicland munich 18.06.2014 23:22 |
"Innuendo" - "The show must go on" ...never truly managed ? Don't know much about the Thin Lizzy album but for the rest you can have my blessing. |
| The Real Wizard 19.06.2014 02:58 |
musicland munich wrote: "Innuendo" - "The show must go on" ...never truly managed ?^ this. |
| The Real Wizard 19.06.2014 02:59 |
Holly2003 wrote: Good topic. Not sure I agree though: Brighton Rock and In the Lap of the Gods Revisited is pretty much perfect. Good call on Thin Lizzy. I'd add Iron Maiden's Powerslave and AC/DC's Let There Be Rock.Agreed. Sheer Heart Attack is about as perfect as perfect gets. As for AC/DC, I still pick If You Want Blood You Got It. I know it's a live album, but it's the perfect collection of the best and highest energy early AC/DC. |
| brENsKi 19.06.2014 07:22 |
The Real Wizard wrote:No-one outside of queen fans would include BR as a great track.musicland munich wrote: "Innuendo" - "The show must go on" ...never truly managed ?^ this. The only reason i didn't include Innuendo/TSMGO is because as good as the songs are the production on the album is weak...leaving a very "thin" almost hollow feeling for the listener |
| thomasquinn 32989 19.06.2014 07:27 |
Hotel California is a great, great album and it's got a wonderful opener/closer and structure throughout, but I'd like to point out here that I think The Eagles in general are pretty much unrivaled in opening/closing an album. "Desperado", with its "Doolin-Dalton" opener and "Doolin-Dalton/Desperado reprise" closer is a classic inclusio-form, which is stylistically impeccable. Their debut album's Take It Easy / Tryin' opens and closes tastefully, One Of These Nights/I Wish You Peace on "One Of These Nights", also wonderfully thought out. I don't think The Eagles are the best band ever, though I do really like them, but I know of no band that matches them in structuring an album, and especially, closing it. And The Last Resort is one of the finest songs EVER!!! Now that we're on the topic: the line "There is no more new frontier / we have got to make it here" always struck me as being a deliberate double entendre: no more new land to move to, so the literal sense of "new frontier", but also to symbolize the death of the early-to-mid '60s optimism (the idea that America could be fundamentally changed and improved with just a bit of effort from everyone) that was characterized by Kennedy's program, partly continued by Johnson, known as the New Frontier. What do you guys think? Am I over-thinking this, or does it make sense? |
| The Real Wizard 19.06.2014 12:35 |
Wouldn't surprise me if you were right. Good analysis. |
| ITSM 23.06.2014 07:38 |
Innuendo (album) starts and ends well, I think. |