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Two albums presented by Algernon
1971 was arguably the finest year for modern music. These seminal albums released in the first half of 1971 need little in the way of introduction. Enjoy.
What’s going on – Marvin Gaye
Tapesty – Carole King
What’s going on & Tapestry
04 Sunday Jul 2021
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Window Dresser's Arms, Pig & Whistle 
Its a funny thing. I was sitting in a Macca’s carpark the other day, fuelling up to continue the afternoons delivery schedule of food, medicine and other necessaries for our family and designated friends; and our pooch; (she’s got inoperable cancer).
Generally I pick a couple of cd’s to play while I’m driving and that day I had chosen these two albums.
As I was sitting there, listening as the tracks on “What’s Goin’ On” segued into each other, I began to muse on the old “desert island discs” theme.
In my mind I sorted through albums old an new and came to the conclusion that should I ever find myself restricted in what I could listen to, these two albums would be it. I think its their simple humanity. You do have to get up every morning with a smile on your face and show the world all the love in your heart. And people will treat you better.
And now here they are again, and I’m listening, again, and feeling the same emotional responses.
The popular song is a much more powerful thing that its generally given credit for. Imagine.
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Prompts me to think about my desert island discs. Could probably start with maybe 20 and whittle them down. Two sprang to mind straight up – Sgt Peppers and Springsteen’s Born to Run. Joni Mitchell and Simon and Garfunkel, Dylan, Cold Chisel
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“The Long and Winding Road” does it for me. I can’t hear that song and not dissolve into it.
Joni Mitchell has been a perennial therapist;
“His eyes hold Edith. His left hand holds his right.
What can that hand desire, that he grips it so tight….?
The Boss too but somewhat less so, and more bleak,
“Now those memories come back to haunt me
They haunt me like a curse
Is a dream a lie if it don’t come true
Or is it something worse?”
S&G of course, particularly the first two albums.
I could go on; we all could, endlessly, about which song and why, but I think in the end that its not the songs we might all agree on, but rather, the songs we hold alone, or the albums that transport us, instantly, back to a time and place; a feeling and a sense of the moment. That songlist, that soundtrack……
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Tapestry, great album
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Indeed it is. So is what’s going on.
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Never heard it.
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Crikey! They don’t knit pullovers like that any more! THANK GOD! 😀
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I thought the fitted with Tapestry. Yep would you be seen dead in that!
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Too tasteless for tapestries, imho… And no, not if I had any choice in the matter! 😀
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Two biggies and good ones. My favourites include Goanna and Neil Diamond’s Hot August Night. The Prologue always gives me goosebumps.
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Great albums
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