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BBC4 - Albums - Great Album Showdown
alcockell
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Hi folks,
New series striped through till Friday culminating in When Albums Ruled the World - anyone else watching?
New series striped through till Friday culminating in When Albums Ruled the World - anyone else watching?
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He's quite a engaging fellow but get him on the subject of Emerson Lake and Palmer and one would be forgiven for lashing him to Ritchie Blackmore's 4x 12 Marshall stack and pushing it in the Thames.
Oh no, and there's that awful Top Gear git as well.
Time to dig out some neglected music from the dark reaches of my MP3 collection...
Enjoyed the show though. The bird was rather fit as well
Most music programming on the Beeb ends up re-hashing the same old same old. The world doesn’t need any more programmes about or featuring The Beatles or The Rolling Stones or Led Zeppelin or David Bowie or Pink bloody Floyd. It’ll be the same tomorrow with all the most obvious choices on display and in a set of programmes like this where it’s largely down to the personal choice of four different people every time that’s just rather pitiful.
Enjoyed the section on album artwork and can only echo Baker’s “could do a whole programme on this”, and yet....they’re not. :rolleyes:
Agreed. He's a marvellous breath of fresh air.
Also agree about him being better on radio but he's still pretty good on TV - I'll live with his slight discomfort with the medium.
I love discussions like this where people talk for a better understanding of a subject as opposed to being pitched against each other on polarised extremes.
Even Clarkson was bearable.
Add this to the Stuart Maconie's documentary about 1962 and an interesting picture is being built about the changes in recording techniques, production capabilities and differences between then and now.
Yes, some of it can be a bit pretentious but no more than numerous other aspects of our pop culture, sport or social behaviours. Is football, as Shankley said not a question of life or death but far more important than that or 22 blokes chasing a pig's bladder around? On reflection, probably both
Sent Baker a tweet via his 5Live show page but it will probably get merged with, I assume, many others in the BBC machine.
Also love Baker's side kick Danny Kelly on Talksport - broadcasting with brains which creates laughter and new insight while definately getting the gray matter going.
What would you prefer, Straker?
I enjoyed the show well considering it was about Rock and Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath , The Who were the pionners to rock. So they should be shown.
I also agreed with the guests choices as there was some iconic albums amonst them.
If you want watch eclectic or edgy programmes about music don't tune into a nostalgic show about vinyl.
King Crimson (In the court of the crimson king)
joni mitchell(Summer of hissing lawns)
frank zappa (we're only in it for the money and hot rats)
jon hiseman's colisseum (for those about to die, salute you)
rumours (fleetwood mac)
ziggy stardusr (bowie)
sheer heart attack (queen)
dark side of the moon (pink floyd)
london calling (the clash
transformer (lou reed)
crime of the century (supertramp)
physical graffitti (led zeppelin)http://images.digitalspy.co.uk/forum/smilies/smile.gif
a bit patronising to young people tho , I would bet that more 20-somethings have bought a vinyl album in the last year than 50-somethings have .
I read somewhere recently that vinyl sales have gone up massively in the last couple of years .
I thought that too ! :)
Must go and watch the reat, looks like a great nostalgia-fest!
Have just watched on catch up and it really was a nostalgia-fest. Especially the fact that you would sit there with your headphones on and listen to everyone second of every track before turning the record over. These days I'm as guilty as anyone for listening to spotify and skipping songs (sometimes midway through!) What a wonderful programme and I'd never have known it was on if it wasn't for this thread..roll on the next show.
P.S. There really should be an hour long show devoted to the artwork.
Sky Arts recently did an hour on album cover artwork I think.