[ Closed ] Afterglow (Page 7 of 15)

As do I, very much!

I'm surprised by the negativity here too. but that's the thing with music (or art, wine, women, etc), taste is an individual thing.

Not sure about suffers, but it seems an odd thing (as Glenn describes in the sleeve) that all the music was recorded before he wrote the lyrics, alone, then recorded the vocals.

I can't believe that in the short space of 2 years this band has produced 3 so great yet so different rock albums. I think Afterglow is more of a 'musician's' album, with interesting time changes and jams and the debut album was more generally accessible (and the one most likely to have been enormous in the '70s).

I do want to hear more from them, even if they simply commit to a week every few years for BCC4, 5 and so on. The Beatles only recorded after 1965.  Sure Glenn feels the need to tour, so - tour as Glenn, as Joe does. Do as much BCC as you want in the set, all good.

I want Glenn to remember (quoting his book) "We're in the moment and we love the music. I've been preparing for this moment for a long time". Don't let it go.

Got it yesterday, been listening to it exclusively, absolutely love it. I'm not going to pick a favourite out of the 3 albums because it would bias my own mind when I listen to them, and would close my mind to the level of enjoyment I get when listening to them. My favourite between the first 2 changes constantly anyway so frankly it's futile for me to waste my energy comparing.

Joe sounds pretty burnt out though, not surprising as he's not stopped this year. I think in an ideal world he would have took a break before jumping into this album, but he probably wanted to avoid giving the band ammunition for the argument that he's the one holding the band back from moving forward.
Prefer his tone on the other albums though, and his fingers seem to be just going through the motions on some solos. To re-iterate though, because of Joes usual output it seems we subconsciously hold him to a very high standard, so what I'm really saying is I'm not hearing much in the solos I haven't heard from Joe before. Although the outro jam in common man is fantastic, they should have a 'Too late for the sun' length jam on every album I say!!!

Thoroughly enjoying the songs, just wish things were less 'produced' and more jammed out as far as the songwriting process seems to have went at times. They have enough talent, experience, and natural feel to fire out these songs as quickly as they recorded the songs on the first album, which gave it it's natural greatness, because they didn't question or analyse (or screw around with) what they were firing out.

In summary, more spontaneity please

And there's my subjective, uneducated, and naive observation

Did I mention you? No I don't think I did. It was in response to a post claiming they listened once and won't ever again.

Oh yeah, you are the guy who doesn't consider Cry Freedom a rock song. Just may be a matter of differing opinions here. Some consider AC/DC to be heavy metal for example.

I think you may be right. Also it was a regular thing back in the 70's to leave in little mistakes or flubs. It added to the organic feel of the music.

Thanks.

It's an intentional mistake.
Sounds good. Does it matter?

All Afterglow lyrics are up on Glenn's site.

you guys know how to piss the leader off!!!!!