So, this bloke J J Cale.

fob

ICBM said:

Pick an album, any album. They all sound exactly the same.

i.e.  Great

Phil_aka_Pip

menamestom said:

Phil_aka_Pip said:

"Music" that just chugs along with no real excitement, no key changes, very little harmonic progression even. Clapton's most boring work was JJ Cale covers, and the first Dire Straits album, well, I ask you. Compared to the others (especially the epically brilliant Love Over Gold) it's a total yawn.

If you want to hear lots of key changes and harmonic progression hang around lifts and supermarkets;) 

or just get into some decent prog rock

ICBM

fob said:

ICBM said:

Pick an album, any album. They all sound exactly the same.

i.e.  Great

I had about half a dozen of them. The first I got was Travel-Log - I think just because it was the current one when I first discovered him - and it was my favourite, I don't know whether just for that reason or because it's actually the best.

After that I found it progressively more difficult to listen to yet another album with the exact same mix of same-rhythm, same-tempo, same-arrangement, same-sounding songs - there were even corresponding slightly-different songs on each album.

In the end I got bored with him and gave them all away.

BigLicks67

Phil_aka_Pip said:

menamestom said:

Phil_aka_Pip said:

"Music" that just chugs along with no real excitement, no key changes, very little harmonic progression even. Clapton's most boring work was JJ Cale covers, and the first Dire Straits album, well, I ask you. Compared to the others (especially the epically brilliant Love Over Gold) it's a total yawn.

If you want to hear lots of key changes and harmonic progression hang around lifts and supermarkets;) 

or just get into some decent prog rock

Isn't that a contradiction in terms. ☺

Phil_aka_Pip

BigLicks67 said:

Phil_aka_Pip said:

menamestom said:

Phil_aka_Pip said:

"Music" that just chugs along with no real excitement, no key changes, very little harmonic progression even. Clapton's most boring work was JJ Cale covers, and the first Dire Straits album, well, I ask you. Compared to the others (especially the epically brilliant Love Over Gold) it's a total yawn.

If you want to hear lots of key changes and harmonic progression hang around lifts and supermarkets;) 

or just get into some decent prog rock

Isn't that a contradiction in terms. ☺

Not if your favourite examples of the genre include Focus, and Camel.

menamestom

Phil_aka_Pip said:

decent prog rock

Oxymoron:- a combination of contradictory or incongruous words (such as cruel kindness); broadly : something (such as a concept) that is made up of contradictory or incongruous elements e.g. 'decent prog rock'

Phil_aka_Pip

mate, I know what oxymoron means and you couldn't be more wrong in using the word the way you did!

telehack

The only one I have is Travel-Log. I'm not even sure why I bought it, but I really like it. It's a great album if you're in a certain mood.

victorludorum

It sounds to me like maybe a Greatest Hits is the way to go on this one.

ToneControl

ICBM said:

Pick an album, any album. They all sound exactly the same.

not like any other artist then?

Chalky

Terry Wogan once played Cale's "Closer To You" on his morning show after the 9am watershed and expressed his enjoyment of the line "I wish I was your underwear, hanging round your waist, Every time you shake that thing I'd get a little taste".

Almost swerved across the M4 when Tel said it!

Winny_Pooh

Such disdain in this thread... yet I never see posts on this forum on how utterly shite a band Muse are

pmbomb

ICBM said:

Pick an album, any album. They all sound exactly the same.

don't fix what ain't broke.

OP, JJ's consistency of part of how he was, it's like reading a long novel not a magazine, it takes time.

I really like J Cale Live (2001).

pmbomb

Phil_aka_Pip said:

yawn ...

but in a good way.

pmbomb

thing about JJ is, he's like a sculptor not a painter - his genius is in taking away what's not needed. what's left is essential.

he's in my top 5, which is odd because I mostly like hard crunch rock.

tone1

I love JJ Cale but I can understand that sometimes you need to be in the right frame of mind to listen to a lot of him... I bought the tribute album ‘the breeze’ which was lots of artists doing his tunes

victorludorum

Winny_Pooh said:

Such disdain in this thread... yet I never see posts on this forum on how utterly shite a band Muse are

My next post will be about Gary Glitter's catalogue I think. A much easier process...

Phil_aka_Pip

ToneControl said:

ICBM said:

Pick an album, any album. They all sound exactly the same.

not like any other artist then?

No, not really. With other acts you can tell the difference between their albums even if you're not familiar enough to say which is which. But trust me, once you've heard one JJ Cale song you've heard 'em all and you'll wish you hadn't heard the first one

Winny_Pooh

Phil_aka_Pip said:

ToneControl said:

ICBM said:

Pick an album, any album. They all sound exactly the same.

not like any other artist then?

No, not really. With other acts you can tell the difference between their albums even if you're not familiar enough to say which is which. But trust me, once you've heard one JJ Cale song you've heard 'em all and you'll wish you hadn't heard the first one

Much like your conversational stye then. 

richardhomer

So someone who’s interested in JJ Cale posts asking for recommendations from people who are familiar with his work. 

What’s the point of those who don’t ‘get’ his music contributing at all? Why not start a thread of your own called ‘The isn’t JJ Cale Shite’ thread, or something similar?

Still - heartening to see tFBers with the taste, intelligence and sensitivity to appreciate him....