The Band - Music from Big Pink
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Free Music Review: Not a Good Effort
Hit: 1 Stars
Is this even music?? Maybe they should have continued backing Dylan. Possibly the worst album I've ever heard. Horrible singing, worse lyrics. Guitar work?? gimme a break. Robbie Robertson.....thief.Free Music Review: UNIQUE PIECE OF WORK
Hit: 5 Stars
The Band was a bad ass bar band to begin with. Then they became a bad ass backing band for Bob Dylan. In 1967 they decided to become a bad ass recording band that went by the name of The Band. Music from the Big Pink was the first album that these guys ever recorded, and it is quite obvious that they deeply engaged themselves in the project.
Now, I will tell you that if you are looking for that bad ass bar band sound this is not your album. That would be the second album simply titled THE BAND. Here, these guys were looking to create a masterpiece for their debut. Well, create it they did.
love,lust,revenge,deception,murder.... vanerial disease, it's all covered in this albums circus(for lack of a better word) environment.
The album is very mellow, soft yet dark. Its really beautiful music, that is WAY more mature than anything else on the rock circuit in 1967. AND THESE WERE CRAZY GUYS MAKING THIS STUFF!
A few of these songs were co-written with Bob Dylan, there are a couple cover tunes, but as an album it is one tight unit. One solid body of work. THINKING MANS MUSIC!
My favorites are The Weight, Chest Fever and The Long Black Veil.
If you are looking for some ecclectic sounds on a very thought provoking piece of work, suprisingly written and performed by wild animals, then this is your disc.
Free Music Review: Classic underground
Hit: 5 Stars
This album came at a time of crisis in this country and held great personal meaning to me. Although very good work, it was not really a commercial song album. It didn't fit the cookie cutter profile of successful pop tunes, which of course made it all the more desirable to me. After all, this was a time of going against the grain, a time of protest against the already established mass conglomerate majority that created the chaos.
24 bit digital remaster means "buy on site to me". I have always been very pleased with this format and the Big Pink continues to please well into the 21st century. All of the instruments and voices can be heard standing out and yet blend together well at the same time achieving a great balance for an overall excellent sound.
I can just picture in my mind these guys living way out in the country dreaming up creative new musical ideas. I don't think I have ever heard anybody use horns that way with a rock band. Robbie Robertson teaches his guitar how to cry (Tears of Rage) through what sounds like a spinning Whurlitzer leslie speaker system. Very cool.
The Weight - A version of this great sounding song was featured in the movie Easy Rider and it often reminds me of life in the sixties. To me, the Weight meant that people want to kill you because you have long hair, listen to rock and roll music, or protest the Vietnam war. I ran into lots of moronic people like that in the sixties. There were people all over America that resembled all too much the idiots who killed Captain America and his friends in Easy Rider. At the tender age of 18, I realized that the world was not a friendly place. I would have to join the march on Washington D.C. to protest the Vietnam war in order to stop the killing, and no one would thank me for it. In fact I would be hated for it. That was the weight to me and on me. So march we did along with millions of other Americans, and it was worth it. We stopped that Vietnam war and the senseless killing of Americans ( 500 Americans were being killed per week). We ended the draft and got the voting age lowered to 18. And so for awhile that weight was lifted and the world became a better place. What was a very sad song became a happy one. Always remember, if you want to get something done, the weight is on you.
Chest fever - Many of my relatives are musicians and they always gave me a hard time about rock and roll. "It's only three chords", would be the complaint. Chest fever starts out with something that sounds like Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, and then effortlessly blends and melts into a slow, smooth, really cool, rock beat. This song proved to me that Rock and Roll could be something more than just three chords and all the nay sayers would have to find some other complaint.
Tears of Rage - Martin Luther King was shot. Bobby Kennedy was shot. George Mcgovern, the peace candidate, was defeated. The Vietnam war raged on like an out of control forest fire. Every time it looked like someone was going to lead us all out of the fire, they were shot or killed, or voted down with dirty tricks. And so, tears of rage, a slow mournful song with everyone continually coming in late. At times it drags and complains like a funeral procession but always with compassion and empathy.
Long Black Veil - This is a creepy song from the grave that I have tried hard to forget but it is so creepy it is hard to forget entirely. Yes it is creative and yes I really wish they had left this song off the album. While this song succeeds lyrically and musically, it is just too creepy for me. Gives me nightmares.
Overall - a five star album and a five star CD. You didn't hear any of this on top 40 radio and that's another reason why I liked it. It was part of the other movement. Very good for those lazy days when you want to take your mind somewhere else. Just look at the album cover. People clowning around reaching over the piano to play it balancing a plant on their head. Are these guys somewhere else or what ? Warning: As in my case, it may make you want to pick up your guitar or turn on your piano. Enjoy !
Free Music Review: great music - ignore the drivelling & pernicious liner notes
Hit: 4 Stars
Tempted to give it 5 stars. Hesitate because it was the first music I ever listened to really intensely (as an adolescent). So I'm not too sure about my ability to listen to it dispassionately.
That said, I think it's great -- even better, in my opinion, than the excellent second (brown) album.
This re-issue, like that of the second album, is marred by amazingly empty and stupid liner notes, which include a lot of really pretentious, self-serving and masturbatory blathering from Robbie Robertson. Ugh.
But the music itself is great! Highly original, soulful, musical, funny. Great musicians, great singing. I love it, & just can't be objective about this one.
Free Music Review: A Mighty and Amazing Record. One of the Best Rock Records
Hit: 5 Stars
"Music From Big Pink" is one of the handful of records that changed everything. The record is amazing by itself, but becomes even more awesome when seen as a two-record effort in tandem with the group's second effort, "The Band."
Normally I don't place reviews on Amazon regarding widely-recognized masterpieces of this sort, because I feel the better-known giants are already well documented. I want to write about this album because I want to stress the influence that it had over other people's music.
Among others, this record was supposedly the immediate progenitor of efforts as diverse as: "Layla and other Assorted Love Songs," "The Beatles" (a.k.a. "The White Album"), "Let It Be," "John Wesley Hardin," "All Things Must Pass," "Eat A Peach," and frankly most of the late 1960s/early 1970 music scene. This record was huge. It really changed what we listened to; and it's influences still can be heard.
A simple way to judge how important "Music From Big Pink" was is to simply examine the huge impact that the album's centerpiece, "The Weight" had. It's on cellular telephone commercials still, and it has been recorded by artists as diverse as: LeAnn Rimes, John Denver, Van Morrison, Matt Nathanson, Aretha Franklin, Duane Allman, Smith, The Staple Singers, George Martin, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Jackie DeShannon, (and many others).
This album never sold the way it should have (yeah, it's sold in the millions, though it should have outsold "Thriller" or "Saturday Night Fever"), but it has cast a shadow that we still see in the music industry.