Comments on: Full Spectrum http://www.danmooney.net/full-spectrum/ Fri, 06 Aug 2010 17:48:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Joe O'B http://www.danmooney.net/full-spectrum/comment-page-1/#comment-272 Joe O'B Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:05:04 +0000 http://www.danmooney.net/?p=778#comment-272 So true- I wish more bands wouldn't worry too much about quality control and get more playful in the studio. "The White Album" has a handful of my least favorite Beatles tunes, but it's my favorite of their albums because of all the variety. I almost can't believe George Martin (or was it George Harrison?) when he said The White Album should have been a single record. Same deal with The Clash's "Sandinista!" - there's some tracks on there I would never want to listen to again, but overall you can practically hear how much fun they're having just playing around in the studio and trying new things. That kind of spirit elevates the mediocre songs to pretty good, and makes the great songs kind of transcendent. Of course, both The Beatles and The Clash self-destructed just a couple years after their Big Experimental Albums...maybe that kind of thing is a harbinger of creative burnout... So true- I wish more bands wouldn’t worry too much about quality control and get more playful in the studio. “The White Album” has a handful of my least favorite Beatles tunes, but it’s my favorite of their albums because of all the variety. I almost can’t believe George Martin (or was it George Harrison?) when he said The White Album should have been a single record.

Same deal with The Clash’s “Sandinista!” – there’s some tracks on there I would never want to listen to again, but overall you can practically hear how much fun they’re having just playing around in the studio and trying new things. That kind of spirit elevates the mediocre songs to pretty good, and makes the great songs kind of transcendent.

Of course, both The Beatles and The Clash self-destructed just a couple years after their Big Experimental Albums…maybe that kind of thing is a harbinger of creative burnout…

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