Bear with me here, I've got almost 3 weeks of catching up to post about. I'm caught up to the MSG album now, so by this weekend, my goal is to be fully caught up, and stay current (no promises though!). Going all the way back to
No Heavy Petting...
I am 'not getting it'. Is it because I didn't hear them in my youth, my later 'rock' era, or....because I'm just too old to appreciate them and find them 'simple'?
Please don't castigate, just trying to be honest.
Me too ... kinda. And in the hopes of not creating massive blocks of quotes, I'm just gonna refer to specific comments from now on.
Tim ... "It's always a kind of crapshoot with these things, right? I mean, people have spent their whole lives listening to bands like Bad Company, Cheap Trick, Blue Oyster Cult. For me, that band is UFO."
Gord - “Our youth and teen years are indelible when it comes to forging our musical lives and DNA.“
Absolutely... and UFO was completely off my radar. I may have heard some of the "hits", but it wasn't until about 5-6 years ago that (because of DTF) I got Strangers. Up until this thread, that had been the extent of my exposure to UFO. Discovering classic era bands nowadays is absolutely a crapshoot - some leave a big impact, some fall flat. For the first few albums, UFO was somewhere closer to the 'falling flat' end of the spectrum for me.
Tim - "TAC “Have you Seen Me Lately Jane....WTF??”. This comment coming from a guy whose soul is filled with UFO. Now imagine a guy like me, hearing almost all of UFO for the first time ever in 2020. I wouldn’t say I’m “WTF” over what I’m hearing (up to No Heavy Petting), but there isn’t much that’s putting a spring in my step.
Tonight Tonight, French Kisses, and Reasons Love were the standouts for me.
On With the Action .. man, I'm just not 'getting' the love for this. At. All. It’s definitely a plodder (I think it was Gregg that said that, and I’d never use that word as a term of endearment.