Tracks:
1. Strange Brew
2. Sunshine Of Your Love
3. World Of Pain
4. Dance The Night Away
5. Blue Condition
6. Tales Of Brave Ulysses
7. SWLABR
8. We're Going Wrong
9. Outside Woman Blues
10. Take It Back
11. Mother's Lament
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DommeDamian
Imperfect, sensitive Aspie with a melody addiction
There’s a small handful of tracks on this album I find to be legitimately good songs and interesting listens. Overall though, I agree.. this is one of the most overrated albums of all time.
The best thing BY FAR about Disraeli Gears is it’s cover. I don’t find the more “experimental” moments on the album to be forward thinking, more so I think they’re painfully behind the curve of what Hendrix and the Velvet Underground and the Beatles were doing that same year (psychedelic or otherwise), and at their worst simply fucking obnoxious. Speaking on straight up “psychedelic” records of the era, I would take The Stones’ Satanic Majesties over Disraeli Gears in a heartbeat. _________________ Attention all planets of the solar federation: We have assumed control.
Pretty much agree. World class playing, some of the best musicians of all time at their peaks. Several incredible cuts. Ok-ish as a full album experience and not nearly as forward thinking as the other legendary groups of the time. _________________ Overall chart Fake overall chart
I suspect a lot of people around here either hate these guys (the YFBS podcasters, not Cream necessarily), or they would if they listened to them. But of course the point I'm trying to make here is that these YFBS guys don't appear to suffer from epilepsy themselves, so there's a slim chance that they listened to the album at least once.
I love how sometimes truly great albums catch the "overrated" bug around here...
Hey, I guess that’s what these forums are for. I’m interested in hearing your take and maybe your perspective can fill in some of the blanks I might have with this album.
I don’t think it’s a terrible record by any means, I just feel like it’s not an album in the conversation for top 200/250 like it is here and other places. _________________ Attention all planets of the solar federation: We have assumed control.
Although not every track is awesome, the four big songs (Tales of Brave Ulysses, Sunshine of Your Love, Strange Brew, and SLAWBR) are so spectacular that I think of it as a great album anyway. How many albums have that many stupendous classics on it? 99% of albums don't even have one song that good.
I love how sometimes truly great albums catch the "overrated" bug around here...
"...No time for pity/For the tree or me..." I mean, that's a terrible lyric, written by Felix Pappilardi's wife and, oops, future murderer, Gail Collins. That whole lyric on that tune, followed by the whispery sort of falsetto vocals of Dance The Night Away, and then Ginger Baker hauling off and singing for no apparent reason for a full three and half minutes....that's half of side one that I'd say is hard to defend.
The high points are really good, though. For me, We're Going Wrong (in spite of the whispery falsetto) is one of those for sure. I don't always love Jack Bruce's songwriting, but that sort of super-dark psychedelia is something I do share his taste for. _________________ I'll love evil-hearted Ada till I die.
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