Still working but still got the turntable on!

Got to get out and do some errands but am waiting for the rain to stop.

So next for the conversion programme is a fab album by Elton John. Now I am not a huge EJ fan, these days he's just schoomsy plus I hate the way he sings in that pseudo American accent plus I don't actually like his voice that much. It was much, much better in the early days, softer instead of the 'belter' style he seems to have adpoted recently.

When I say this LP is great, not the whole put some parts are really great and it took me right back to when I use to play it years ago, I have even asterisked the titles which were my fave on the cover. And it's actually those track which have made it onto my ipod today.

There are some real credits on the sleeve, Terry O'Niel did the space agey cover, Tom Robinson co-wrote the sublime [and sad] gay ballad Elton's Song and most of the LP was engineered by James Newton Howard. There are 2 wonderful instrumentals included which is probably why the album was a commercial flop as it is a bit of a midge modge, Carla Etude and Fanfare. God, it was good to hear them again and the well scored song about love gone cold, Nobody Wins.

If you have this LP in your collection, dig it out and have a re-listen. It's worth it.

THE FOX 1981
The Rocket Record Company
SIDE ONE
Breaking Down Barriers*
Heart In The Right Place
Just Like Belgium
Nobody Wins*
Facist Faces
SIDE TWO
Cala Etude*
Fanfare*
Chloe
Heels of the Wind
Elton's Song*
The Fox

* - ipodded.

Could it get any darker? Today I feel I have a real case of SAD syndrome made worse bt the fact that I have probably had one of the best summers of my life. I know it's the seasons and it's the way the planet works and all that stuff but quite frankly I need the sunshine and I need to be outside more than in!

My speed of work today is somewhat in the tortoise realm and to cheer myself up I am ploughing through my old vinyl at the same time.
As I am taking them as they are on the shelf, the next up was Bridge Over Troubled Water by S & G. Found that I had all the tracks on CD anyway so moved on to Wet by Barbra Streisand. Would have skipped over this one but my partner is a big Barbra fan so have converted to vinyl accept for one track which was jumping.

It's a concept album and a fairly contrived and insipid one at that,
The front and back covers has Babs in typical 'wet' poses in the bath, all steam and bubbles with a strategically placed water droplet on the bottom lip of her partially opened lip.

Starts with the self penned Wet which actually is quite good but not a leader track at all. Then a limp rendition of Mercer & Arlen's Come Rain Or Shine which ends with a lot of irritaing and false laughs. Splish Splash is vaguely reminiscent of Status Quo and then we fall into the slushly Bergman and Hamlisch stuff she favoured in the 70's.

The one biggie of course is the duet Enough Is Enough with Donna Summer which still stands up and gets the feet tapping.

Here's the rundown:-
WET CBS Label 1979
SIDE ONE
Wet
Come Rain Or Come Shine
Splish Splash
On rainy Afternoons
SIDE TWO
No More Tears [Enough Is Enough]
Niagra
I Ain't Gonna Cry Tonight
Kiss Me In the Rain