Complete TV Studio Recordings [Remastered] - Art Pepper Quartet

Advantages: The Doors, with their peculiar style
Disadvantages: None for me

...constantly, he was getting used to alcohol and hash. But this, instead of affect him in a bad way, was making him write his bests poems/songs… another thing is the performance moment, specially in his lasts days. Anyway, the got a contract, they recorded their first album, released it, and hit the jackpot. The Doors had a successful birth. And with their success, they got into studios soon to get ready their next album, that would be as successful as their first one, ‘Strange Days’, but, maybe not as solid as this one… The songs included in this album were penned by The Doors. I mean, there’s not a single member specified as composer, even if a song was penned by one only member by his own, like they did with their first album, and the third, but not the fourth, ‘Soft Parade’, as Morrison didn’t like some of the songs penned by Krieger... Read review

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Advantages: Some good tracks
Disadvantages: See text re comments on packaging, and also for likelihood of its being superseded

.... ‘Flowers’, first released in May 1967 in America and only available as an import in Britain for years, was the last of these transatlantic curiosities. The first three tracks (there are 12 in all), having been singles, are the most familiar. ‘Ruby Tuesday’ remains one of their finest ballads ever, Mick Jagger sounding uncharacteristically subdued, singing to a backing of mainly piano, quavering flutes and drums giving an extra thrust to the chorus. Melanie did an abysmal version in 1970, and Rod Stewart’s 1995 effort was so-so. The original is still far and away the greatest. ‘Have You Seen Your Mother Baby, Standing In The Shadow’, its predecessor, is rather a sonic oddity. According to one story, it was released before the group had completed it, as the record company were in a hurry to put it out... Read review

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Advantages: Wonderful, classic Bowie album
Disadvantages: Song for Bob Dylan

...relationships, got married and fathered a child. He'd run an arts laboratory; been a painter, a mod, a hippie, a singer-songwriter, a mime artist and an inchoate Buddhist monk. He'd made TV commercials and been groomed by his manager as a musical comedy performer as well as making his first film appearance. His third album, The Man Who sold the World, was released early in 1971 and by the time the fourth, Hunky Dory, was released later that year he had all but completed his fifth. Hunky Dory came about, then, in the midst of a period of intense activity and creativity on Bowie's part. It was the first album to bring him serious critical acclaim and the last he would record as a relatively unknown performer, for his next project was to be The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, the album that would set him up for stardom... Read review

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