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JimmyMcCullochFan

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Re: Less Famous Album You Like
« Reply #60 on: May 06, 2007, 06:43:33 AM »

Hollywood Dream by Thunderclap Newman




 All these years, and all these accolades later, it still seems incredible that Hollywood Dream meant nothing at the time of its release; that America let it drift no higher than Number 161; that the U.K. did not even give it a hearing. Less than a year before, after all, "Something in the Air" was topping charts and readers' polls alike, and Thunderclap Newman were as close as Christmas to becoming the new Beatles. Instead, they weren't even the new Badfinger, and this exquisite LP withered on the vine. What a difference 20 years make. Reissued in 1991, Hollywood Dream had been utterly transformed by the admiration of so many subsequent listeners, to stand alongside any lost classic you could mention, among the finest albums of its psychedelic generation. "Something in the Air," of course, has never lost its hold on our hearts, but there was so much more to Thunderclap Newman and, across the 12-track original album, and half-a-dozen bonus tracks, the trio's genius is inescapable. For those "in the know," who had treasured their scratchy old Atlantic label vinyl, the real meat lay in the latter, as all three of Thunderclap Newman's original 45's joined their album brethren, together with their non-LP B-sides. "Something in the Air," fussed up for the LP, reverts to its original emphatic punch; "Accidents" is pruned from a shade under ten minutes to a little over three; and the piping "The Reason" (an odd choice for a single in the first place) sounds like a role model for every record Supertramp ever made. The real gem, however, is "Wilhemina," which sounds like a daft piece of rhyming doggerel set to a nursery tune, but also packs one of the most dramatic psych guitar solos this side of your favorite Who record. Producer Pete Townshend must have been astonished. As will you be, too, if all you've ever heard is the hit. So many bands have been hauled out of obscurity to be tagged the greatest secret you've never been told. Thunderclap Newman are one of the few who actually deserve that epithet.


Thunderclap Newman: Speedy Keen (vocals, acoustic guitar, organ, glockenspiel, drums, percussion, congas, tambourine, gong); Jimmy McCulloch (acoustic & electric guitars, maracas, wood blocks); Andy Newman (Bengali flute, tin whistle, oboe, soprano saxophone, piano, glockenspiel). Additional personnel: Chris Morphet (harmonica).

1: Something in the Air
2: Hollywood #1
3: The Reason
4: Open the Door, Homer
5: Look Around
6: Accidents
7: Wild Country
8: When I Think
9: The Old Cornmill
10: I Don't Know
11: Hollywood Dream [Instrumental]
12: Hollywood, No. 2 (2:57)
13: Something in the Air [Single Version]

14: Wilhelmina

15: Accidents [Single Version]

16: I See It All

17: The Reason [Single Version]

18: Stormy Pedtrel


Genres & Styles : AM Pop / Prog-Rock/Art Rock / Psychedelic Pop
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Re: Less Famous Album You Like
« Reply #61 on: May 06, 2007, 09:35:03 AM »

Nice review. You certainly got me interested.
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Re: Less Famous Album You Like
« Reply #62 on: May 07, 2007, 07:26:02 AM »

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Hollywood Dream by Thunderclap Newman


I bought it many years ago because I liked Something In The Air. It didn't grab me at all - SITA for me stood way out over the other tracks. I don't think I listened to it more than once.
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Re: Less Famous Album You Like
« Reply #63 on: May 07, 2007, 02:09:14 PM »

give it another listen and let me know what you think  ;)
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Re: Less Famous Album You Like
« Reply #64 on: July 11, 2007, 01:12:57 AM »

Size Isn't Everything by the Bee Gees. This album peaked at #153 in the U.S. when it was released in 1993. I think it's such a good album, a perfect mixture of ballads, pop tunes, even disco.
Another one is Stevie Wonder's Jungle Fever. A fantastic record.
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Re: Less Famous Album You Like
« Reply #65 on: August 12, 2007, 09:29:31 AM »

Inside Out - John Martyn  1973



Many believe Solid Air to be the ultimate John Martyn album, but for me Inside Out has everything a John Martyn fan could possibly want.

Due to the success of Solid Air the record company threw money at him to record a Solid Air 2, Martyn drank it, smoked it, and snorted it, and produced this early 70's classic, mixing quiet melodic acoustic numbers with folk tinged jazz and out and out improv mayhem. In my top 5 of greatest albums of all time.
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Re: Less Famous Album You Like
« Reply #66 on: August 12, 2007, 04:10:19 PM »

MACCA - PRESS TO PLAY (1986)



This McCartney album is genrally fogotten but i love this album to death! :)
I can understand other people not liking it much but it's one of my ultimate
fav Macca albums & it holds memories for a certain period in my life like
most albums do for people.  :)
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Re: Less Famous Album You Like
« Reply #67 on: September 08, 2007, 03:57:52 PM »

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Press to Play could be a great album, but it was a Top 10 in the UK! It was a 'famous' album!
I thought this thread was for albums that really failed to be succesful.
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Re: Less Famous Album You Like
« Reply #68 on: September 08, 2007, 10:52:13 PM »

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I thought this thread was for albums that really failed to be succesful.

well, i find it one that not a lot of people know about in the macca catalouge.



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Re: Less Famous Album You Like
« Reply #69 on: September 09, 2007, 02:11:04 AM »

Oh, that for sure.
Here in Argentina no one knows anything. The other I asked in a record store: 'Do you have the first Wings album?' And the guy said. 'What you said? Wings?'  >:(
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« Reply #70 on: September 09, 2007, 10:43:58 PM »

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The other I asked in a record store: 'Do you have the first Wings album?' And the guy said. 'What you said? Wings?'  >:(

You should have just said, "y'know, the next Beatles!" ;D :)

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Re: Less Famous Album You Like
« Reply #71 on: September 12, 2007, 12:25:06 AM »

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You should have just said, "y'know, the next Beatles!" ;D :)


Hehe, good one.
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