The Band - Music From Big Pink
|
List Price: Our Price: $4.83 You Save: $7.11 (60%) Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Buy Used: from $4.82 (click here) Category: Music CD See more new music releases 
|
|---|
Buy this Music CD at online store in your country
Canadian Music Store
Canadian Music Store
Free Music Notes for Music From Big Pink
Free Music Review: Music From Big Pink
Hit: 5 Stars
I think that the biggest misconception about The Band is that Robbie Robertson is the mastermind behind the whole deal. In truth, many of the members of The Band helped co-write the songs, including stellar performances by Richard Manuel and the often forgotten Levon Helm. Pick up a copy of This Wheel's On Fire, an autobiography by Helm, and you will get more of an insider's look. There is no doubt that Music From Big Pink is a phenomonal album, and that The Band is simply one of the best groups ever comprised. Each individual influence blends with the others to form a truly fresh sound. However, if you want the best of The Band, I suggest you hear them live. I happened to obtain a rare live album from the mid-70s, right before they disbanded, and it is simply my favorite album ever.Free Music Review: Brilliant!
Hit: 5 Stars
The Big Pink is such a soulful album. I read once that Robbie Robertson's influence for The Weight was Bunuel. You can hear the influence on not only The Weight but the entire album. Each tune paints a portrait of a man on the verge of losing his soul. Love and insanity is driving the characters of these songs to the brink of losing their souls. Bunuel's films painted a very similar painting. These songs with their vivid imagery of magicians, cheating spouses,lonesome lovers and just plain desperate men must have been quite revolutionary to fans of psychedelic music back in 1968. The Band didn't need to have wailing guitars or feedback to paint their portrait. They used their sweet soulful harmony to paint their landscapes of lost souls.Free Music Review: Perfect Greyhound soundtrack
Hit: 5 Stars
A friend of mine gave me a tape of this album on a rainy day, back in 1989, just before I took a 6 hour ride on a Greyhound bus across Virginia. I'd heard The Basement Tapes before, but not this album. I put it on, settled into my headphones, listened to it, looked out the window and played it over and over and over for the entire ride. It's the perfect soundtrack for looking out a window watching backroads go by. Over the years, I've grown to enjoy the grooves of their second album more, but this one is trickier and more textural, like a strange friend that you like but only hang out with occasionally. It's also excellent music but far better spokespeople than me have already made that clear.
Free Music Review: "We don't Jam"
Hit: 5 Stars
I have heard Eric Clapton say on several occasions that this is the album that changed his life. Make that two changed lives. The Band has a way of blending all kinds of American musics into seemless masterpieces of poetry. Music from the Big Pink is the Band's perfect expression of this idea. Every song on here is a winner. But to me, the real jems are the upbeat Caledonia Mission and We Can Talk. They just have of way of celebrating music and sounding like it on these songs. Eric Clapton went to see the Band after breaking up with Cream. Robbie Robertson told him that they didn't do jams. Ironically, the Band jam on this album with four minute songs of pure folky bliss.Free Music Review: Essential
Hit: 5 Stars
One of the greats, absolute must have. Also needed to accompany this is Dylan's "Blonde on Blonde" and "The Basement Tapes". Beside these 3 albums the rest seems no more than background noise. Songwriting, singing, musicianship par excellence, how come it has gone so far down in the USA since this? Maybe because these musicians were from Canada in the first place?
PS some of the best tracks on this CD IMHO are those missing from original vinyl - "Yazoo Street Scandal", "Katie's Been Gone", "Long Distance Operator", "Orange Juice Blues" - so even if you have the original vinyl, lucky person, you need this CD too :)