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Thank you Martin, and I'll have a splendid jacket next time your at a sailing fair in France please!!!
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« Reply #21 on: August 21, 2010, 10:48:09 AM » |
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Just been playing disc number 032 of 500. Arrived in the post this morning and I love it. Don't expect the country sound of the "original" MSC, it has the feel of the more recent Iain material and it's brilliant  I'd love to see the band touring.....please? |
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« Reply #22 on: August 21, 2010, 08:21:44 PM » |
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I got the new MSC and really love it -classy is a good description. Mellow, slightly jazzy and laid back. I put it on at work (Working on a very stressful software project at the moment) and it chilled me out no end. I'm going to be playing this a lot.
As for the magazine issue - I don't mind. 10 pounds for a CD is nothing, really - I can go up to my local deli and spend 10 pounds on a coffee, a baguette and sausage roll. If anything, CDs are cheap considering how much time, effort and money it costs to make the music!
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« Reply #23 on: August 21, 2010, 08:27:07 PM » |
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So...and I know this is a stupid question...what makes this a MSC album as opposed to a (seemingly, very good...afraid I haven't got it yet) Iain Matthews album?
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« Reply #24 on: August 21, 2010, 08:44:47 PM » |
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So...and I know this is a stupid question...what makes this a MSC album as opposed to a (seemingly, very good...afraid I haven't got it yet) Iain Matthews album?
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« Reply #25 on: August 22, 2010, 08:33:37 PM » |
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Listened to this when I first got it and to be honest not over impressed. But, gave it another listen this morning and it fits the laid back Sunday morning vibe perfectly. Definitely an album to lay back and listen to, not have on in the background.
Can't quite make up my mind on the new version of Woodstock and on some tracks the piano is a bit to high in the mix for me.
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« Reply #26 on: August 23, 2010, 10:34:11 AM » |
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So...and I know this is a stupid question...what makes this a MSC album as opposed to a (seemingly, very good...afraid I haven't got it yet) Iain Matthews album?
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« Reply #27 on: December 12, 2010, 02:50:47 PM » |
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According to Iain on his site this album is "creating quite a buzz" but I can't find much of a review online other than, well, here. I have decided to not be the completist anymore I once was, so I am picking my CD choices more selectively these days. Now this one has not been on the top of my to-buy list not because I don't think it's good - Iain usually is - but because I really question why it has to bear this name 40 years after the event with no clear connection with it other than Iain.
MSC is 1970, it's been a closed book for a whopping 40 years, let it lie. Or would this really boast sales due to the nostalgia factor? This I doubt, but what do I know.
Had there been any other link with the original MSC (as in the case with the revived Plainsong which was mainly a Matthews/Roberts collaboration in 1972 as it was in the 90s) I'd have been more understanding. Now, I am quite cautious.
Iain Matthews split from Matthews Southern Comfort. He formed Plainsong then went solo, (obviously) taking the Matthews bit from the MSC brand name. The rest soldiered on as Southern Comfort, as far as I know 2(?) albums worth without a lot of success. And now, Matthews suddenly is also Southern Comfort again just like that. Hm.
I know, no one else but Iain Matthews can take this band name, as it bears his name, but Matthews Southern Comfort has a 1970 ring to it and implies ... well, lotsa long hair, just-after-Woodstock festivals, a 1970 countryrock sound and that Gordon Huntley steel guitar. That's all gone.
So what's MSC 2010 has to offer that justifies it taking this 1970 name? Am I just a grump?
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« Reply #28 on: December 12, 2010, 05:33:38 PM » |
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Well, I like it. Especially the re-working of Woodstock.
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« Reply #29 on: December 13, 2010, 11:49:23 AM » |
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Well, I'm not going to get into the discussion of why he chose to realise it as 'Matthews Southern Comfort' after all these years, but the album is excellent, and the reworking of 'Woodstock' could give our Fairport chums a few pointers about how, if you're going to re-record old material, to do it differently, but still brilliantly...
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