I know very little of these bands' output, but would have to take Climax Blues Band, if only on the basis of greatly preferring Couldn't Make it Right, which manages to effect a thumping sultriness, to So Into You, in which the sultriness gets bogged down in tedium... one is like stepping out into a humid summer night to cruise singles bars; the other is leaving one's air-conditioned house on a humid summer afternoon to go pick up some things at the local Walmart.
― Dell (Dell), Friday, 8 July 2005 21:00 (eighteen years ago) link
I like that song a lot, but A.R.S. isn't that bad. Their cover of "Spooky" was credible and "Imaginary Lover" has some okay hooks.
I was about to also compliment Atlanta Rhythm Section for "Smoke from a Distant Fire" until I just remembered that it was the Sanford Townsend Band who did that one.
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 8 July 2005 21:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― geyser muffler and a quarter (Dave225), Saturday, 9 July 2005 01:58 (eighteen years ago) link
But I would have rather pitted the Atlanta Rhythm Section against Ozark Mountain Daredevils and the Climax Blues Band against the Little River Band. Those would be tough.
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Saturday, 9 July 2005 02:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― Hydrochloric Shaved Weirds (Bimble...), Saturday, 9 July 2005 03:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Saturday, 9 July 2005 04:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Paul (scifisoul), Saturday, 9 July 2005 05:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Paul (scifisoul), Saturday, 9 July 2005 05:29 (eighteen years ago) link
I just listened to I Love You by Climax Blues Band for the first time after hearing the chorus for years in K-Tel soft rock compilations, etc. I just automatically dismissed it as a piece of kitschy 70s yacht-rock cheese.
But no. It is a fucking brilliant song.
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 27 May 2016 19:06 (seven years ago) link
the early CBB albums rule so hard and are nothing like what they would become. which is kinda the standard progression when talking about brit blues rock bands. though many of them got more interesting when they lost their purity streaks a la Chicken Shack and Groundhogs, CBB, in my opinion, were better earlier. Plays On is great, but A Lot Of Bottle is seriously one of my fave rock records of the 70's.
so dope:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9ZtsQxOJi8
― scott seward, Friday, 27 May 2016 19:37 (seven years ago) link
love so much:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUiEwtNuIJM
― scott seward, Friday, 27 May 2016 19:43 (seven years ago) link
it's like a 3 dollar record in a used record store too. might even find it in a dollar bin.
― scott seward, Friday, 27 May 2016 19:44 (seven years ago) link
now, did they ever make an album as great as Imagination Lady by Chicken Shack or Saturday Morning Pictures by Stray? no, they didn't. but they were a seriously groovy band from 1969 to 1972.
the later albums and singles are fun though. "Couldn't Get It Right" will always be 70's gold. i like any song that reminds me of 10cc and Squeeze simultaneously.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVEf77ymDbQ
― scott seward, Friday, 27 May 2016 19:51 (seven years ago) link
came across "Couldn't Get It Right" thanks to a shared spotify playlist from my brother (who had discovered it from his Discover list). And it is indeed '70s gold.
― veggie sticks potato snacks (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 22 July 2016 18:32 (seven years ago) link
ARS loses big-time points for the horrid "I'm Not Gonna Let It Bother Me Tonight,"
this is no joke
what a buzzkill of a track 2!
― j., Saturday, 27 June 2020 04:38 (three years ago) link
track 3 does them no favors either, what terrible sequencing
― j., Saturday, 27 June 2020 04:44 (three years ago) link