Inspired by a not completely original idea that we saw somewhere else, we bought ‘1001 Albums: You Must Hear Before You Die’ and are working through it with the help of Spotify, a random number generator to choose the page and a coin toss if 2 albums on a page.

Rules: Must listen to at least 3 tracks before skipping and album is only skipped if we BOTH agree. We’ll catalogue what we listen to, what we think of it (Rubbish/Indifferent/Good/Excellent) and whether we’d listen to it again.

Simple.

Sunday, 1 November 2009

189 - Alexander Spence - Oar



Year:  1968
Verdict:  Good then Indifferent
Comments:  Listened to half of album.  Started off good, then became depressing and dull.  Then again, what would you expect from an album written by someone in a mental asylum.  Fairly interesting bluesy, trippy, country album - definitely sounds like the late 60s.  The first track, 'Little Hands' was ace.
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2 comments:

  1. Unknown1 November 2009 at 18:26

    While your review of the release presented is accurate, it fails to mention that the latter portion of the album is comprised of bonus material that was never intended to be on the album, thus misrepresenting 'Skip' Spence's brilliant vision

    Love Chad

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  2. Kate and Jamie2 November 2009 at 07:16

    Good point. So that would explain why the first half was good and the second half was dull.

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