nightspore
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Posted: Sep. 17 2010, 05:15 |
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| Quote (New Incantation @ Sep. 17 2010, 02:36) | I was listening to my very old but perfectly playable cassette version of Platinum just last night for perhaps the first time in a couple of years. A very under-rated album and definitely a shift in music form from long instrumentals previously.
When I first listened to "I Got Rhythm" in 79/80 during my radical teen years, I didn't really have much time for it, primarly becuase it was slow, boring and seemed totally out of style with Mike's usual signatures.
But now that I'm a middle-aged git, I have come to appreciate not only the album a whole lot, but also that particular track. It really is an immaculate production... soooo chilled out its positively horizontal! It also captures the imagination and soothes the mind instantly.
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I like Mike's version of IGR, but none of the others I've heard (I dislike Gershwin's music in general). My main gripe about Platinum is that it's incredibly short - Todd Rundgren would have fitted both sides on to one side of an LP. (Speaking of TR he was over here in Western Australia for a concert. Well, a concert of sorts: playing in a park as third-billing behind other people I'd never heard of.)
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