ITV classic albums.. Band On The Run?
 

Just noticed a new season of classic albums on ITV.. Wings "Band On The Run".. is someone at ITV taking the pee? :confused:

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obviously, it made me turn the telly over anyway.....'American dad' is a lot more entertaining

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Prefer the Doobie Brothers myself:D

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Come on Mancie,ITV n Classic don't fit in the same sentence.;)

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Band On The Run IS a classic and McCartney is a genius musician.

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Just depends on our musical taste;)

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McCartney is a genius..was.. is.. I'l go along with that.. but the album is nowhere close to a classic

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At least we agree on sumat Mancie;)

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Well me 'n ITV think it's a classic.....so there!!

How about A Night At The Opera? (that's not an invitation) no one can disagree with that one being a classic.

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Na never went in for that opera stuff:D:D:D

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ok classic albums.. I'd say
Floyd- Dark Side
Bowie-Aladin
Fleetwood Mac-Rumours
Beatles-Srt Peppers

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I do, I think it's a bag of washing, as is "Band on the Run"...which just goes to show the sheer futility of categorisation like this. One man's classic album is another man's puerile junk! :D

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Here calm down. you lot won last weekend;)

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'ow do, Mancie! Your classic album choices are a bit reactionary, aren't they? I would've thought "Sandinista" or summat by Billy Bragg would've figured in there! ;)

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Nay no.. we are talking "classic"..and I could have squeezed Deep Purlpe in Rock or Master of Reality in there if pushed.:)

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Bet most of that lot are Tories, too!

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Na mate.. no tories there.. maybe abit of lib-dems types lurking..but you just can't trust anyone these days :D

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Classics = Floyd - Dark side of the moon, Wish you were here.

1. Neil Young- Harvest
2. Lou Reed - Transformer.
3. Bowie- Ziggy Stardust
4. Stones- Aftermath, Exile on main Street.

if i carried on until 50, may just squeeze a beatles in.;)

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Transformer is good but only a couple of class tunes on it..I'll hold my hand up to Ziggy ..maybe in front of Aladdin.:mosher:

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Band on the Run is alright... I think it's been given an undeserved mythic greatness with age though, as have the majority of solo-Beatles-members' albums.

These I would regard as the classics of my own collection; the ones that blow my mind on each successive listen, just as much as they did on the first. In no particular order of preference:

Frank Sinatra - In the Wee Small Hours
Otis Redding - Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
The Rolling Stones -Let It Bleed
The Who - Who's Next
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - Born To Run
Dr. Feelgood - Stupidity
Townes Van Zandt - Live at The Old Quarter, Houston, Texas
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
The La's - The La's
Nirvana - Nevermind
Oasis - Definitely Maybe
I Am Kloot - Sky At Night

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One of my favourits is The Best of Eric Clapton

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I reckon the best album Clapton has played on is Disraeli Gears - Cream

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Mancie,
Bloody hell, we both agree on something....next one of us will turn in to either a scum scouser or a socialist:do-one:

I'd like to add
Wish you were here, Pink Floyd
Crime of the century, Supertramp
Bridge of Sighs, Robin Trower
Sweet smell of Success, Jim Capaldi:dflam:

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Emerson Lake & Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery
Genesis - Selling England By The Pound
Yes - Close To The Edge
Vand Der Graff Generator - Pawn Hearts
Marillion - Seasons End


Bit proggy maybe ;) After all, we aren't all fans of 20 min plus tracks and elaborate keyboard solos. But as others have said, what constitutes a so called "classic" album is dependant on your taste.

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What's a "classic album" anyway? Has it got to be from a certain era? Should it be rock or do other genres count? Can you have greatest hits or best of compilations or must it be an album that was made as an album? Must it be an album that most people will have heard of or can it be a total obscurity? ...and if none of the above rules apply, why isn't this thread just called "My favourite albums"?

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To me "Greatest Hits" cannot constitute a Classic Album.:rolleyes:

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Right, so Jaysay's disqualified. Incidentally, does an album have to be pompous, tedious, pretentious, self-indulgent junk to qualify for the term "classic"?...because that's the way it seems after reading this thread....

....IMHO of course! :D

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Reckon the 70's spawned more classic albums than any other decade. Also, judging by the ones mentioned in this thread they are mainly by British artists. My faves include:
Jailbreak - Thin Lizzy
Argus - Wishbone Ash
Songs From The Wood - Jetho Tull
Piece Of Mind - Iron Maiden
Obsession - UFO

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So for Jaysay,
layla and other assorted love songs,
461 ocean boulevard,
slowhand,
money and cigarettes.

Forgot to add
Pros and cons of Hitchiking, Roger Waters
Hotel California, The Eagles
Private Dancer, Tina Turner.

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Is Accyweb a stronghold of prog rock dinosaurs? ;)

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Quite franky steve I like anyting Cream did:mosher:

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Well no Wyn but I do like some tracks by YES and ELP:rolleyes:

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They do say you can get treatment for it these days. ;)

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Could be worse.... Could be Steely Dan... Aja, should be in there... keep taking the tablets...

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....how much longer before "War of the Worlds", "Tubular Bells" and some bog awful Moody Blues "concept" album (take your pick) gets mentioned on this thread? :rolleyes:

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You missed Tommy by The Who:D:D

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...closely followed by Tales From Topographic soddin' Oceans! ;)

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Ya but I see it hasn't helped out mate on another thread who I see is still dedicating videos to himself:rolleyes:

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Ya just mentioned um Wyn:D:p:p:p

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Why does prog rock always come in for so much derision and ridicule? I personally love a good concept album. Could it be that fans of "lesser" forms of music just can't get their heads around the grandiose arrangements and lofty ideas?

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You've omitted "Paranoid" by Black Sabbath wasn't that in the series? (or was that on the BBC series of a similar persuasion?) "Dark Side of the Moon" was one and "Night at the Opera." Queen.:D

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Yeah, I reckon that's it, Steve. Sadly, we just don't possess your sophisticated intellectual capabilties, effectively preventing us from fully appreciating the panoramic musical visions and deep, meaningful lyricism of Jon Anderson and his ilk.

I guess we're just condemned to a lifetime of tedium, listening to our "lesser" forms of music like blues, soul and rock 'n' roll. It's a lousy job, but somebody's got to do it! ;)

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Remember once getting a 'freebie' cassette in Bakerersfield California at a gas station for a full tank of gas/petrol of the Supreme's doing "Surfing songs ' ........ Beach Boys, Jan and Dean , other 'surf sounds'... played the thing continously throgh the desert (it was so bizarre) it disintergrated before we got to the 4 corners, tossed it out of the car window, never been able to find outi if it was ever issued on vynil or CD :D :D

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Never heard of that one, SJ, although I know they appeared in a surf film "Beach Ball" doing a song called "Surfer Boy"...

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Sorry to hear that Wyn, but it is possible to enjoy blues, soul and rock 'n' roll together with Prog Rock, I enjoy all of them and have Robert Johnson, Sam and Dave and others along with Yes. All of it's great music with none better than the other.
BG

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I tend to agree BG the only two genres of music I Dislike are Rap and Punk, I'm easy about most others including Classical, Opera (well light Opera) some blues, country, but I'm mainly a sixties rock fan first and foremost, oh and I even liked them, that's Fourmost and even Them:D:D:D

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I know, I know, but that's no reason why we can't have a bit of lighthearted banter about it. ;)

Now go and light your joss sticks, don your kaftan, sit crosslegged on the floor and listen to "In the Court of the Crimson King", you old hippie! :D

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The problem is Wyn, I sold out and became a Breadhead, heehe.
I tend to prefer Dark Side of the Moon to relax to

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There's nothing I like better than relaxing to Cliff Richards greatest hits:smokin::music8:

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well yer are the same age.:D

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Cheeky git:D

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Hippies always do. It's all about "money" as the Floyd sang. ;)

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To be honest it's my parents who were the hippies, but I dohave money as my ringtone on my phone

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Or Tales From Toby's Graphic Go Kart as Rick Wakeman used to call it!! He hated that album and it's clear to see why. 20-30 minutes of mind blowing material padded out with 40 minutes of crap just to fill the double vinyl format!!

Prog is making a comeback.....It's just that it's not "cool" to call it prog. For example Radiohead and Muse are prog!!

Label it "alternative" and everybody loves it!!

Is it too late for a 66 year old Keith Emerson to fire up the Hammond once again? ;)

Back to the Classic Albums - Steve Hacket's masterful "Voyage Of The Acolyte".