Then Play Long
April 2, 2013 3:43 AM Subscribe
Marcello Carlin and Lena Friesen review every UK number one album so that you might want to hear it, starting in July 1956 with Frank Sinatra's Songs For Swingin' Lovers (reviewed August 2008) and so far ending up in September 1981 with Genesis' Abacab (March 2013).
I like how he manages to turn his review of "The Official BBC Album of the Royal Wedding" from what would have been my one word review - into nearly 6000 words that don't talk about the music. Its going to take me a while to get back to 1956 at this rate though!
posted by rongorongo at 5:02 AM on April 2, 2013
posted by rongorongo at 5:02 AM on April 2, 2013
Having worked in a record shop that summer, I can confirm that The Official BBC Album of the Royal Wedding was indeed a Thing, and a top-selling Thing at that. Chas and Di were, let's see... about two years too early for the home VHS boom.
posted by Prince Lazy I at 6:46 AM on April 2, 2013
posted by Prince Lazy I at 6:46 AM on April 2, 2013
Damn you, MartinWisse! I've been keeping up with The Play Long and have been meaning to post it here.
Anyway, it's pretty much all great – I particularly recommend Carlin on Creedence's Cosmo's Factory and Friesen on The Pretenders' eponymous debut. Also, the frequent references to Escalator Over The Hill by Carla Bley are like a constant reminder that I really need to hunt that album down.
posted by Len at 10:10 AM on April 2, 2013 [1 favorite]
Anyway, it's pretty much all great – I particularly recommend Carlin on Creedence's Cosmo's Factory and Friesen on The Pretenders' eponymous debut. Also, the frequent references to Escalator Over The Hill by Carla Bley are like a constant reminder that I really need to hunt that album down.
posted by Len at 10:10 AM on April 2, 2013 [1 favorite]
I like that the piece on With The Beatles has a link to the legendary 1963 Times review where William Mann discusses the Aeolian cadences lifted from Mahler's Song of the Earth.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 1:15 PM on April 2, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by ricochet biscuit at 1:15 PM on April 2, 2013 [1 favorite]
Then Play Long is sucking me in worse than TV Tropes. It's a interesting time machine of music and pop culture.
posted by ShakeyJake at 1:49 PM on April 3, 2013
posted by ShakeyJake at 1:49 PM on April 3, 2013
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posted by MartinWisse at 3:46 AM on April 2, 2013