Post by CountryCrock on Jan 2, 2024 23:49:53 GMT
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IMO, the WORST pre-"Mardi Gras" Creedence song on an album out of all of them (I've got "Rude Awakening No. 2" in queue for an upcoming post to comment on --- which, I think: was intended more as a continuation of the "Willy and the Poor Boys alter-ego concept going Psychedelic" meant to be an in-joke; than it had to do with imitating the Beatles' "Revolution 9"...therefore, I'm not bothered by it).
The biggest problem with "Sailor's Lament" (for me) however; is, that, the affectation is just so stupid while the lyrics are so lazy and uninspired (Kenny Rogers' "The Gambler" it sure *ain't*!).
A funny thing is, though, Fogerty himself is a native of the S.F. Bay Area (obviously, a region with a long-rich seafaring history)...*BUT*: he created such an indelible, pseudo-"Cajun" public persona that, something he (otherwise) could've spun an interesting yarn about (like, for example: SPIRIT's "Silky Sam"...which I absolutely love the funky groove of and, the way it communicates the idea you're actually "watching" a seedy/high-stakes poker game in an almost ethereal setting); both wastes his (own) geographical acumen as well as: it fails to work as what could have possibly been a lyrical "Proud Mary-follow-up-of-sorts" (where; say?: the journeyman/sailor character *could've* turned into a destitute 'neer-do-well...and the song described the plight of his new situation?).
Anyway ---
Here is another (I'd, also, add: flagrant) instance of how the sound quality of a vintage-recorded track DIFFERS FROM FORMAT TO FORMAT DATING BACK TO THE ORIGINAL RELEASE.
The crappy, old Fantasy RCA vinyl (by contrast) of CCR's "PENDULUM": has a sonic "veil" and phasing distortion-artifact, by general consensus, across the lower midband (500Hz-1000Hz). It's one of the reasons, I think, most people do not rate this CCR album as highly as the previous five up to that point. The masses, when it came out, did not feel the first way they'd (commonly) heard it that it had had the same "excitement" as the earlier ones.
WELL: THOSE AUDIBLE PROBLEMS WERE NOT ON THE MASTER SOURCE NOR ON (VINTAGE) HQ COMMERCIAL TAPE DUBS MANUFACTURED FROM THE MASTER SOURCE.
RE: "SAILOR'S LAMENT". The contrasting (original) vinyl makes this song even more intolerable to sit through, because: THE VINYL MASTER BLENDS TOGETHER THE RESONANCE OF THE KEYBOARD OSCILLATION, THE COMPRESSION ON THE DRUMS, AND THE BASS "BLOOM"...INTO ONE, MUDDY-SOUNDING, PHASE-DISTORTED MESS WITH NO SHARP FOCUS SEPARATING ALL THREE DISTINCTIVE PARTS OF THE RHYTHM SECTION. THE TAPE COPY *NEVER* WAS THAT WAY.
You didn't have to wait for the remastering binge of the late-'90s if you already knew where to go for the best long before that.
i.postimg.cc/fbcSv9sC/Polish-20231229-175421098.jpg
i.postimg.cc/FHRQp5QB/Polish-20231231-121659431.jpg
mega.nz/file/Qat0CQbL#Fu1ZSPfzija003ZVpf1weYtsqXY-G0KXZOG7IpQdTA0
IMO, the WORST pre-"Mardi Gras" Creedence song on an album out of all of them (I've got "Rude Awakening No. 2" in queue for an upcoming post to comment on --- which, I think: was intended more as a continuation of the "Willy and the Poor Boys alter-ego concept going Psychedelic" meant to be an in-joke; than it had to do with imitating the Beatles' "Revolution 9"...therefore, I'm not bothered by it).
The biggest problem with "Sailor's Lament" (for me) however; is, that, the affectation is just so stupid while the lyrics are so lazy and uninspired (Kenny Rogers' "The Gambler" it sure *ain't*!).
A funny thing is, though, Fogerty himself is a native of the S.F. Bay Area (obviously, a region with a long-rich seafaring history)...*BUT*: he created such an indelible, pseudo-"Cajun" public persona that, something he (otherwise) could've spun an interesting yarn about (like, for example: SPIRIT's "Silky Sam"...which I absolutely love the funky groove of and, the way it communicates the idea you're actually "watching" a seedy/high-stakes poker game in an almost ethereal setting); both wastes his (own) geographical acumen as well as: it fails to work as what could have possibly been a lyrical "Proud Mary-follow-up-of-sorts" (where; say?: the journeyman/sailor character *could've* turned into a destitute 'neer-do-well...and the song described the plight of his new situation?).
Anyway ---
Here is another (I'd, also, add: flagrant) instance of how the sound quality of a vintage-recorded track DIFFERS FROM FORMAT TO FORMAT DATING BACK TO THE ORIGINAL RELEASE.
The crappy, old Fantasy RCA vinyl (by contrast) of CCR's "PENDULUM": has a sonic "veil" and phasing distortion-artifact, by general consensus, across the lower midband (500Hz-1000Hz). It's one of the reasons, I think, most people do not rate this CCR album as highly as the previous five up to that point. The masses, when it came out, did not feel the first way they'd (commonly) heard it that it had had the same "excitement" as the earlier ones.
WELL: THOSE AUDIBLE PROBLEMS WERE NOT ON THE MASTER SOURCE NOR ON (VINTAGE) HQ COMMERCIAL TAPE DUBS MANUFACTURED FROM THE MASTER SOURCE.
RE: "SAILOR'S LAMENT". The contrasting (original) vinyl makes this song even more intolerable to sit through, because: THE VINYL MASTER BLENDS TOGETHER THE RESONANCE OF THE KEYBOARD OSCILLATION, THE COMPRESSION ON THE DRUMS, AND THE BASS "BLOOM"...INTO ONE, MUDDY-SOUNDING, PHASE-DISTORTED MESS WITH NO SHARP FOCUS SEPARATING ALL THREE DISTINCTIVE PARTS OF THE RHYTHM SECTION. THE TAPE COPY *NEVER* WAS THAT WAY.
You didn't have to wait for the remastering binge of the late-'90s if you already knew where to go for the best long before that.
i.postimg.cc/fbcSv9sC/Polish-20231229-175421098.jpg
i.postimg.cc/FHRQp5QB/Polish-20231231-121659431.jpg