It is my moral and divine obligation to bring this album up once a year. It's been more than that since I've done so here, so the time has come. It's one of my favorite albums (and one of the best pop/rock records of the 70s if you ask me), and I love every song on it. Love the way PT Anderson put Logical Song and Goodbye Stranger to good use in Magnolia.


Goodbye Stranger - peaked #15 in 1979


Take the Long Way Home - peaked #10 in 1979 (solo Roger Hodgson performance clip from 2006)


The Logical Song - peaked #6 in 1979


Breakfast in America - peaked #16 in 1980 (can't recall the name of the group that butchered/sampled this song last year or so)


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Amazing album.

DJ506 said:

Amazing taste you have

Couldn't stop playing it back then.
Still love it after all these years.
I have it in my CD changer and I'm gonna play it now

What happened in 1979? Albums had a totally different sound from just a year before. Was it digital recording? Multitrack studios? Both?

PANDURITO said:

D-d-d-digital
(ring, ring, ring)
1, 2, 3, 5!

You saw my secret message

'Cupids Chokehold' by Gym Class Heros


Above ^ is the abomination. :makesmyearsbleed:


The original is

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Great album, one of the highlights of the late 70's!!





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This is funny because I saw the thread title and thought of you.

Love it!

minneapolisgenius said:

Who else would it be? Others respond, but I'm the only one that brings these suckers up.

RipHer2Shreds said:

What would we do without you here???


Seriously.

minneapolisgenius said:

Likely get some work done?

RipHer2Shreds said:

Work is overrated. You need to devote yourself full time to this place.

I love love love that entire cd from beginning to end

DJ506 said:

I would have a strong tendency to concur.

Ok now you've done it Rip...I've been listening to this non-stop for days now.


it makes me feel like this...

RipHer2Shreds said:

It is my moral and divine obligation to bring this album up once a year. It's been more than that since I've done so here, so the time has come. It's one of my favorite albums (and one of the best pop/rock records of the 70s if you ask me), and I love every song on it. Love the way PT Anderson put Logical Song and Goodbye Stranger to good use in Magnolia.


Goodbye Stranger - peaked #15 in 1979


Take the Long Way Home - peaked #10 in 1979 (solo Roger Hodgson performance clip from 2006)


The Logical Song - peaked #6 in 1979

Breakfast in America - peaked #16 in 1980 (can't recall the name of the group that butchered/sampled this song last year or so)


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I love this album. True, every song is a good one.
I remember when it was released. I didn't get into it until I heard The Logical Song, then realized all these songs I liked were on the same album.
Keep bringing it up once a year. Good stuff.
Thanks for the smile the memories bring.

PANDURITO said:

As far as I know digital recording was just starting at that time and it wasn't widespread until the mid-80s..... Even big artists like Queen resisted recording in digital until the late-80s when the technology was getting better. And bands were recording to 24-track tape already by that time. My guess is that it was just a matter of record producers changing the way instruments sounded by mic-ing them differently, using different types of room ambience and maybe more high-tech studio gear.

Oh, and I love the singles from that album. I'm currently more into vinyl than CDs so I might just buy that album this weekend if I can find it used at a fair price.

this is one of those albums everyone should own... its a classic

I can't get enough of "Child of Vision" right now. The keys/piano!!!

minneapolisgenius said:

Yeah, I love the keys during the last part of that song.