Best Ever Albums

Re: [Closed] Best of 1974 2AN: Crystals vs. Radio City

Listmeister — Mon, 1 Sep 2014 13:18:45 GMT

Author: Listmeister

Posted: 09/01/2014 17:18

Old man Rivers just stopped rolling along.

Radio City 11-5

Re: [Closed] Best of 1974 2AN: Crystals vs. Radio City

NickVolos — Fri, 29 Aug 2014 22:33:06 GMT

Author: NickVolos

Posted: 08/30/2014 02:33

Easily Radio City.

Re: [Closed] Best of 1974 2AN: Crystals vs. Radio City

Jimmy Dread — Fri, 29 Aug 2014 17:07:15 GMT

Author: Jimmy Dread

Posted: 08/29/2014 21:07

To these ears, Crystals in total unadulterated shit.

Radio City ta.

Re: [Closed] Best of 1974 2AN: Crystals vs. Radio City

WindowAbove — Fri, 29 Aug 2014 13:52:58 GMT

Author: WindowAbove

Posted: 08/29/2014 17:52

Radio City

Re: [Closed] Best of 1974 2AN: Crystals vs. Radio City

Listmeister — Fri, 29 Aug 2014 13:20:07 GMT

Author: Listmeister

Posted: 08/29/2014 17:20

Radio City is fantastic, a distillation of the best of what was on the radio in 1974.

Sorry, Rivers fans, but I just don't get Crystals. It sounds like a soundtrack to a bad movie.

Re: [Closed] Best of 1974 2AN: Crystals vs. Radio City

Anonymous — Thu, 28 Aug 2014 15:55:13 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 08/28/2014 19:55

Crystals. Still love the ride and still don't connect much with Radio City outside of a few tracks.

Re: [Closed] Best of 1974 2AN: Crystals vs. Radio City

meccalecca — Thu, 28 Aug 2014 13:32:29 GMT

Author: meccalecca

Posted: 08/28/2014 17:32

Alex Chilton

Re: [Closed] Best of 1974 2AN: Crystals vs. Radio City

Skinny — Thu, 28 Aug 2014 11:04:12 GMT

Author: Skinny

Posted: 08/28/2014 15:04

Gonna have to go Crystals again. I checked out a couple other '70s albums by Rivers, but they couldn't hold a candle to Crystals. I dunno, something about that album just shimmers. The bass that somehow manages to feel sort of ashy whilst simultaneously sounding like it was recorded in a lake. The aggressive horns that constantly seem happy to clash with each other but never fight the flute for attention. I love Big Star, though admittedly Radio City is my least favourite of their three albums (albeit not by much), but Crystals is my favourite discovery of this tournament, and it gets my vote again here.

[Closed] Best of 1974 2AN: Crystals vs. Radio City

Listmeister — Thu, 28 Aug 2014 10:15:51 GMT

Author: Listmeister

Posted: 08/28/2014 14:15

Skinny wrote:

Went with Crystals, by a whisker. If it had been Burnin' or Catch a Fire it would've been a different story, but Crystals was probably my favourite discovery of this whole tournament (granted I've still got a few left to check out). If anybody would like to recommend me some other Sam Rivers stuff to check out, I'd be very grateful.

sp4cetiger wrote:

I hate to vote against Marley, but Crystals is really a trip.

RepoMan wrote:

Holy shit! What an upset!!! Very exciting. Shows how open-minded this site is to new sounds. 8)

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Crystals by Sam Rivers

RepoMan wrote:

Like most 90s kids, I know this as part of one of the greatest double albums of all time: #1/RadioCity. Back then, my friends and I all had the musical equivalent of ADHD (So much has changed. LOL). Especially at small parties, & bbqs where we’d jockey with each other for what album to throw on next in order to impress each other with our sublime taste. (God knows we weren't impressing the girls.) Unless this was dropped on. Then somehow we’d all sort of forget for the next hour how we really wanted to turn Kid A onto Archers of Loaf while Kid B forgot all about wanting to turn Kid C onto The Grifters. Big Star united all of us in the present. And if you can make a handful of hipsters content all at the same time, well that’s… saying something. In other words, Deepak Chopra & that dude who wrote Where Ever You Go, There You Are can’t touch this shit. LOL.

What’s Going Ahn may be my favorite Big Star song. Unless it’s Morpha Too. Or, I’m in Love with a Girl. Or, .. well you get the point.

O My Soul, Back of a Car, Life is White, Way Out West, She’s A Mover, & September Girls are all pitch perfect power pop. Essential is thrown around way too much. Not here. Easily one of the most essential power pop recordings of all time.

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Radio City by Big Star