On The Corner and parts of other 70s electric Miles.
― Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 28 January 2011 00:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Inspiration Information is so good.
― Rocker Brian (Abbbottt), Friday, 28 January 2011 00:08 (thirteen years ago) link
honestly the other stuff that's closest is Sly's other productions/singles from the time - Little Sister, 6iX, Joe Hicks
― ex-heroin addict tricycle (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 28 January 2011 00:11 (thirteen years ago) link
on the corner seems way too aggro too
― smang a goon (get it on) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 28 January 2011 00:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Inspiration Information is awesome.
― i guess you are the fattest and the ugliest (Matt P), Friday, 28 January 2011 00:14 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah I agree (will chime in here that imho McLaughlin appears to bite the riff from Funkadelic's Super Stupid throughout OTC tho lol)
― ex-heroin addict tricycle (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 28 January 2011 00:21 (thirteen years ago) link
also the anecdote about Sly telling Miles not to "play any of that voodoo shit" on his organs kinda sums up the differences
Point taken re:Miles, but there's gotta be some 70s fusion in the same vein, no? (And if so, what is it?)
― Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 28 January 2011 01:40 (thirteen years ago) link
On the same tip, Eugene MacDaniels' Headless Heroes... comes close, but once again too aggro.
― Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 28 January 2011 01:41 (thirteen years ago) link
I almost want to suggest stuff like Cloak and Dagger or Blackboard Jungle Dub. Not as bleak though
Deep and weird and funky though, for sure
― last night a Drugs A. Money saved my life (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 28 January 2011 01:46 (thirteen years ago) link
On the Beach/Tonight's the Night wd be the white-rock equivalents
― last night a Drugs A. Money saved my life (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 28 January 2011 01:49 (thirteen years ago) link
i never liked runnin away? surprised its a popular one. love spaced cowboy. on the beach otm
― plax (ico), Friday, 28 January 2011 01:55 (thirteen years ago) link
"I almost want to suggest stuff like Cloak and Dagger or Blackboard Jungle Dub. Not as bleak though"
Roast Fish Collie Weed & Corn Bread is probably the best Perry example since it's sort of prefigures him falling apart as well, although the album is more weird than it is bleak, I guess.
Surprised no one has mentioned the obvious (since critics compared the two constantly when it came out): Maxinquaye.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Friday, 28 January 2011 02:35 (thirteen years ago) link
"Just Like a Baby" makes me squirm it's so intense
― J0hn D., Monday, June 23, 2008 6:04 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
^^^^^
― marcos, Friday, 19 December 2014 01:20 (nine years ago) link
Spaced Cowboy fucking rules. It's not the best on this, but it was robbed.
― Spacemoth, Friday, 19 December 2014 01:36 (nine years ago) link
also Brave and Strong is really good too. Runnin' Away is brutal lyrically but I feel like naming it as the best song on this album is kind of strange... it's not like the rest of the album. It feels less claustrophobic. It acts as a repreive from the sly's private hell that crystalizes social problems.
This is one of the best albums ever btw.
― Spacemoth, Friday, 19 December 2014 01:44 (nine years ago) link
(sorry for writing such a shitty explanation for this album. i was trying to talk about how it is political but also fundamentally about isolation)
― Spacemoth, Friday, 19 December 2014 01:45 (nine years ago) link
"just like a baby" was the first song on this record i really got, it sounded like the most lonely and tense thing in the world
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Friday, 19 December 2014 02:09 (nine years ago) link
The little guitar phrase on Thank You For Talkin' To Me Africa, the way it pulls back and then suddenly fly at you face, man.
― man alive, Friday, 19 December 2014 03:16 (nine years ago) link
It is a wonderous mystery to me what the guitars are doing on that track and how they sound like they do
― man alive, Friday, 19 December 2014 03:17 (nine years ago) link
Best album of the Seventies and it’s not close
― thewufs, Sunday, 29 March 2020 05:06 (four years ago) link
Where is the love for “Poet”? Always my go-to on this record (even when he’s singing about Shaun Ryder)
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Sunday, 29 March 2020 05:43 (four years ago) link
Truly a great and cohesive album, I usually listen to in its entirety. It's always made a much bigger impact that way - every track gains something within the complete context.
― birdistheword, Sunday, 29 March 2020 17:01 (four years ago) link
'Just Like a Baby' was my entry point.
― coco vide (pomenitul), Sunday, 29 March 2020 17:04 (four years ago) link
Before my time here, but "Family Affair" easily--one of the most complicated, unsettling songs of the decade.
― clemenza, Sunday, 29 March 2020 17:10 (four years ago) link
I agree, Poet & Just Like a Baby are my #1 & 2 on this, one of my favorite albums by anyone ever.
― justice 4 CCR (Sparkle Motion), Sunday, 29 March 2020 17:43 (four years ago) link