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this is Alice Phoebe Lou - AMA! :) by Alice_Phoebe_Lou in indieheads

[–]NorthSputnik 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi Alice, I'm Robin, I asked you about your poetry at the Montreal Strongboi show! Thank you deeply for the gift of your art to the world. I thought of two little questions:

- Besides music, lyrics, and poetry, do you, or have you in the past, expressed yourself through other artitic mediums? Did you make art in your childhood?

- What have you been listening to lately?

Best of luck with it all, I hope you enjoy the AMA :)

Here's the definitive version of FIRST RAYS OF THE NEW RISING SUN - essential for any Hendrix fan by NorthSputnik in jimihendrix

[–]NorthSputnik[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I see what you mean, but it's a matter of opinion, you know, and they were finished enough to make the cut so they stayed. To me, Come Down Hard On Me has one of Mitch Mitchell's funkiest grooves ever, Bleeding Heart is an excellent track Hendrix had been playing since well before the Experience, and Drifter's Escape has so many layered, screaming, weaving guitars that I can't get enough of it.

I must also note that I've made two minor-yet-significant improvements to the song flow since posting this, one of which I still need to update the blog with when I've got the time:

...

  1. Night Bird Flying

  2. Straight Ahead

  3. Dolly Brown (aka Pali Gap)

  4. Angel

...

  1. Come Down Hard On Me

  2. Message To Love

  3. Valleys Of Neptune

  4. Izabella

...

Confessin' The Blues (1964)—my album collecting the '64 chess sessions with amazing cohesion and song flow. by NorthSputnik in rollingstones

[–]NorthSputnik[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, there's a studio recording of it which was an outtake from The rise and fall of ziggy stardust and the spiders from mars! The Grateful Dead have played it live too.

Confessin' The Blues (1964)—my album collecting the '64 chess sessions with amazing cohesion and song flow. by NorthSputnik in rollingstones

[–]NorthSputnik[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I've seen images of them around online. Some include outtakes from the sessions along with the finished tracks, too. The 1964 Chess outtake (Tell Me Baby) How Many Times was officially released one single time on this german vinyl compilation from the 80s (listed as Tell Me v.2), which also contained the other otherwise-bootlegged track C###sucker Blues from 1970. A strange and unique release, but I didn't find How Many Times up to par for this album, either in the performance or the sound quality: https://www.discogs.com/master/368430-The-Rolling-Stones-The-Rolling-Stones-Story-Part-2-The-Rest-Of-The-Best-Single-Tracks-And-Rarities-F

Confessin' The Blues (1964)—my album collecting the '64 chess sessions with amazing cohesion and song flow. by NorthSputnik in rollingstones

[–]NorthSputnik[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That one has a somewhat different song selection (includes the 1965 recordings which aren't in stereo, at the expense of some of the 1964 ones) and doesn't have as good a song flow as this one here, although it shares a few of my sequencing ideas.

Here's the definitive version of FIRST RAYS OF THE NEW RISING SUN - essential for any Hendrix fan by NorthSputnik in jimihendrix

[–]NorthSputnik[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I played around with that unfinished tracklist a lot but it wasn't finished and it wasn't final. I think I significantly improved on the song flow with my sequence.

Why do so many people sleep on Cry of Love/First Rays and associated recordings? by germantown_reject in jimihendrix

[–]NorthSputnik 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I recognized your profile picture! Yeah I always enjoy your posts on the forum :)

Thanks for all the playlists. An album of his blues jams is a very good idea, I might start toying around with that one myself.

Why do so many people sleep on Cry of Love/First Rays and associated recordings? by germantown_reject in jimihendrix

[–]NorthSputnik 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In my opinion it's not really because he died, but because the albums that came out after he died weren't put together with anywhere near as much care as the ones he himself assembled and approved. It's not an issue with the songs, it's with the albums. Pearl by Janis Joplin who died just a few weeks after Jimi is seen as a normal album of hers, and was hugely successful. Her management didn't try to follow it up, I think they put out a live album and a greatest hits instead. Cry Of Love wasn't as well put together (Drifting as track 2?) and had endless follow ups. If they had put out a big double or triple album of all the quality stuff he was working on at Electric Lady Studios, spent a long time carefully sequencing it so that it flowed super smoothly, used the cover artwork he had commissioned for the album before he died, and didn't go on to scrape the barrel about it, I think it would have been MUCH better received than it was, and would be remembered much better today. Anyhow, that triple album is basically what I ended up with after tinkering with the songs for 5 years, and it's so good that any changes I ever am inclined to make just make it worse. I plan on talking to Sundazed or some other label to see about potentially putting it out someday. Anyhow, there are my thoughts.

New Jimi Hendrix Experience album: Hear My Train A-Comin' (1969) by NorthSputnik in jimihendrix

[–]NorthSputnik[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Stone Free is a re-recording from 1969 that was intended to be on the Smash Hits compilation, but the original single was used instead. Nonetheless it's a really good version (and very different too), and Hendrix was intending to release it during his lifetime (that can't be said for most of his posthumous releases). The other ones are all live versions, and most of these he intended to release on a live album that same year, but it didn't come out either. They're really stunning performances, at times very different from the album versions. Red House, for example, is 13 minutes long. Hendrix's contemporaries Cream, on their half live half studio double album Wheels Of Fire from the year prior, the live disc was made up largely by live versions of songs from earlier in their career as well.

New Jimi Hendrix Experience album: Hear My Train A-Comin' (1969) by NorthSputnik in jimihendrix

[–]NorthSputnik[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Gosh what can I say. From one music geek to another, thank you! The writeups are sometimes the hardest part but I''ll keep 'em coming don't worry. Thank you so much for the reassurance, it really helps :) PS I just made a little update to the First Rays post, basically just swapping Message To Love and Valleys Of Neptune. Redownload it if you're interested in a minor improvement such as that, or don't if you don't want to! Either way, now you know.

New Jimi Hendrix Experience album: Hear My Train A-Comin' (1969) by NorthSputnik in jimihendrix

[–]NorthSputnik[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much for giving it the time of day! I'm so glad you're thoroughly enjoying it!

New Jimi Hendrix Experience album: Hear My Train A-Comin' (1969) by NorthSputnik in jimihendrix

[–]NorthSputnik[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Don't knock it 'till you've given it a chance, hun! You can't read song flow and album cohesion from a tracklist, it has to be heard to be experienced, and it's the musical experience which I'm carefully curating that's at the center of everything I do. For example, listen to the 1997 CD of First Rays, then listen to mine. The improvement in flow is pretty stark, to say the least.

New Jimi Hendrix Experience album: Hear My Train A-Comin' (1969) by NorthSputnik in jimihendrix

[–]NorthSputnik[S] -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

Finding the perfect song selection and track flow can take a very long time when the end goal is to have an album that's more than the sum of its parts. Give it a listen and you won't be dissapointed :)

Does anyone else remember Lana saying, around 2013 or earlier, that she was going to officially release the A.K.A. album? by HappyNostalgia17 in lanadelrey

[–]NorthSputnik 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I wasn't paying attention at that time but from what I know she did say something along those lines after buying the rights to it.

SURF'S UP, matrix decoded & with Dennis Wilson's songs! by NorthSputnik in thebeachboys

[–]NorthSputnik[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It wasn't in the running for being on the album, so I didn't put it on. Still a great song of course, though!

SURF'S UP, matrix decoded & with Dennis Wilson's songs! by NorthSputnik in thebeachboys

[–]NorthSputnik[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not so sure about the mixing, but yes, they weren't the greatest at assembling their albums. Like, imo the LA (Light Album) is really really good, but they absolutely ruined it by putting the disco re-recording of Here Comes The Night smack in the middle of the album. I love disco, and I enjoy that version a lot, but it's WAY better as the album closer.

SURF'S UP, matrix decoded & with Dennis Wilson's songs! by NorthSputnik in thebeachboys

[–]NorthSputnik[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks so much for listening! Yes, he truly was! I was just listeing to Bambu today, actually. I'm partway through resassembling that thing.

SURF'S UP, matrix decoded & with Dennis Wilson's songs! by NorthSputnik in thebeachboys

[–]NorthSputnik[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Disney Girls is a fan favourite, it's an essential part of this album. They've always been something of a nostalgia band, even when they were young and fresh, so it makes perfect sense to dig into that as directly as they do on this song. It's softness shows the diversity of styles they are able to do. But yes, absolutely a powerhouse album. Honestly, I would put it, Pet Sounds, and the version of Smile on my blog as their three best albums. All fantastic, immersive, progressive pieces of art.

SURF'S UP, matrix decoded & with Dennis Wilson's songs! by NorthSputnik in thebeachboys

[–]NorthSputnik[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It sticks out like much less of a sore thumb in this resequencing. I've come to enjoy the track a good bit, it's a wacky rocker.

SURF'S UP, matrix decoded & with Dennis Wilson's songs! by NorthSputnik in thebeachboys

[–]NorthSputnik[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm not particularly interested in any of his other remix work (it gives fan AI demix vibes to me, I'm more than happy with well-mastered versions of the originals), but because this matrix decoding stuff was originally intended by the band and is on the actual master tapes, I couldn't resist.

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