do noise dudes like Traffic?

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I was listening to some earlier.

― gear (gear), Saturday, 22 October 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

can and traffic are one degree separated.

― cutty (mcutt), Saturday, 22 October 2005 19:01 (twenty years ago)

i was listening to the live album welcome to the canteen. so-so on the live mix, but good nonetheless.

― gear (gear), Saturday, 22 October 2005 19:04 (twenty years ago)

Capaldi's a good drummer.

I only have Dear Mr. Fantasy. The playing on it is good, though some of the songs are a little cheesey.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 22 October 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

no, they are teh suck, but I like it when my high heels spark.

― Gee, You Knit? (mookie wilson), Saturday, 22 October 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)

Of course. Traffic totally ruled, first four albums.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Saturday, 22 October 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

do you mean

Heaven is in your mind/Mr. Fantasy
Traffic
Barlycorn
Low Spark

Or are you counting the live ones?

― Keith C (lync0), Saturday, 22 October 2005 19:44 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, no I wasn't counting like Last Exit and things like that. just the studio albums.

I've actually never even heard Last Exit! Crazy, considering how much I love them. I did pick up that later double-lp live thing called On the Road ... Pee-yew! That record is terrible. Winwood seriously sounds either half-asleep or totally smacked out, not in a good way.

But yeah, in high school I used to consider Mr. Fantasy like the greatest psych album ever. up there with Piper in its ability to flip my wig. so I still have huge fondness for the running order of the American version of the album, but nowadays I'd recommend starting with Heaven is in Your Mind the current CD of which I think has everything between the two albums, and of course it includes the mighty "PAPER SUN"

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Saturday, 22 October 2005 22:25 (twenty years ago)

"The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys" by Traffic
In Praise of... The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys by Traffic

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Saturday, 22 October 2005 22:25 (twenty years ago)

The s/t album seems pretty good on the surface but whenever I put it on I get bored with it pretty quickly. It's hard for me to hear his voice and not think "Higher Love." Mr. Fantasy seems cool from what I've heard of it. I don't have a copy though. Can was getting pretty dire around the time they let the Traffic guys in.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Sunday, 23 October 2005 06:15 (twenty years ago)

yeah well you know they saw a chance and took it

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Sunday, 23 October 2005 06:46 (twenty years ago)

wocka wocka

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Sunday, 23 October 2005 06:46 (twenty years ago)

where does a dude start? Hi Heeled Boys?

i don't think i've heard Traffic since highschool (mr barleycorn) and thought they were folk?

― jaxon (jaxon), Monday, 24 October 2005 20:13 (twenty years ago)

Traffic Sound

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Monday, 24 October 2005 20:13 (twenty years ago)

OTM

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 00:11 (twenty years ago)

that's the peruvian psych band, right?

― jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 01:39 (twenty years ago)

Yes

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 03:27 (twenty years ago)

yeah they are great .. but um, Traffic, as mentioned, I'd recommend starting with the recent CD edition of Heaven Is In Your Mind.

It's basically the first album Dear Mr. Fantasy with some singles tracks and soundtrack tracks and stuff added on ... or something like that. man, between US and UK and reissues and etc there were like four different track listings for that first album even BEFORE the recent "expanded" CD reissues. but I *think* that Heaven in Your Mind gets you pretty close to a complete track listing of all that early stuff/

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 03:39 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

anyone heard the new chris wood re-issue that came out? unfinished album recorded in 74 or something; my dad thinks i'd like it because it's kind of "ambient" or whatever...

― winstonian (winston), Friday, 20 February 2009 23:19 (seventeen years ago)

i dig rosko and rebop era can. i've been trying to find more stuff they're on.

i've been meaning to start a thread on them. probably monday

― (jaxon) ( .) ( .) (jaxon), Saturday, 21 February 2009 00:12 (seventeen years ago)

jim capaldi was a pimp

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/55828.jpg

― memo from norv turner (omar little), Saturday, 21 February 2009 00:19 (seventeen years ago)

dave mason/mama cass record is real nice

― velko, Saturday, 21 February 2009 02:25 (seventeen years ago)

never heard that^^

dave mason's first album alone together is great but i kinda hate everything else I've heard by him. my favorite traffic is john barleycorn

― m coleman, Saturday, 21 February 2009 05:52 (seventeen years ago)

dave mason's "it's like you never left" is almost as good as "alone together", i think.

― winstonian (winston), Saturday, 21 February 2009 06:42 (seventeen years ago)

listened to the chris wood "album" this morning; totally rad spacey (early) weather report style jams. it also kinda reminds me of the donald byrd album "electric byrd".. mellow funky rhythms and echoey flute/sax.... i recommend it.

― winstonian (winston), Saturday, 21 February 2009 21:29 (seventeen years ago)

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