Label: Si-Wan Records (South Korea), SRMWP 1010
Style: Pop Rock
Country: Highland Park, Illinois, U.S. (October 30, 1939)
Time: 46:19
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 287 Mb
Charts: US #32, AUS #46, NLD #39, NOR #22, UK #28.
Paul
Weller had 22 of them. Lennon had a number nine one. McCartney had one
of his mother Mary. David Crosby had one about a ‘Shadow Captain’
leading him astray. Ray Davies didn’t have any and wrote about his
insomnia instead. No, we’re not talking about cakes or gold records here
– we’re talking about dreams, one of the most common and useful
songwriting ideas after love and romance. Grace Slick, she of the
Jefferson Airplane and Starship, isn’t the kind of singer you usually
associate with dreams and imagination (songs about real events and
experiences have always been her strong point) but that's what makes
this surreal, hazy yet bitey album all the more remarkable - easily the
greatest and most essential purchase of her four solo albums. In one way
this is in many ways her least dream-like album of all, full of
stunning insights into her own life with the cold splash of trouble and
tribulation, like the sober morning after an alcoholic binge and as
tough as old boots. And yet there’s a magical, mystical quality to this
album, which sounds – especially on the three-track tone poem on the
second side – like the mystical side that's always been there in the
background of the Airplane/Starship sound breaking through at last. A
neat summation of that twilight time between sleep and awake, 'Dreams'
is a forgotten and neglected work that sounds like the work of Grace's
sub-conscious trying to find the right path and caught between scary
realistic insight and the hazy realisation that there are still things
to do and places to go.
(full version: alansalbumarchives.blogspot.com/2009/08/news-views-and-music-issue-39-grace.html)
01. Dreams (05:08)
02. El Diablo (05:58)
03. Face To The Wind (05:31)
04. Angel Of Night (03:50)
05. Seasons (03:26)
06. Do It The Hard Way (04:59)
07. Full Moon Man (05:07)
08. Let It Go (05:43)
09. Garden Of Man (06:33)
No comments:
Post a Comment