Friday, April 18, 2025

That's What I Call Top One Hundred Greatest Jazzrock Iconic Classics You Must Hear Before You Die Of All Time - Ranked! Dept.

Elegant, sophisticated, beautiful - but enough about me!

 

In what is certain to become a much-loved regliar FoamFeature™, we ax celebrity FaceTik® influencers and TubeTweet™ unboxers to introduce wupes share their favorite jazzrock album! To get this series off to a "dope" start, here's P'Tui Klikbyte [below left - Ed.] with her wupes their very special choice of our-type musical innertainmink!


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P'TK
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There seems to be a problem wupes issue with the video clip wupes footage content, so here's ihatemyselfandiwantodie666 [below left - Ed.] to keep it slay!


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i [nasal whine with upspeaking] So I'm like in a bad place right now? Aaaannnd I just like wanted to share what it's like? To be a nonbinary ADHD trans kelp mentor into consensual self-harm and -

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It's a damn shame that technical problems wupes issues prevented the Young Generation from adding their valuable insight to this forum! So here's my authoritative critical take on this unfeasibly swell long-playing LP album!

It's a jazzrock truism that - 

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24 comments:

  1. Fun fact: Yngwie Malmsteen was nine years old when he got the call from Cobham to play guitar on this album! He later went on to front hard rock legends the Deaf Leopards!

    Any other fun facts you'd like to share?

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  2. The liver is a muscle, not an organ.

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    1. Keef keeps his in top condition with regular workouts.

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    2. billy cobham's work on miles' jack johnson was my favorite miles's set."dreams" his work with the becker brothers was excellent as well
      tony williams' work with miles was also great his solo lifetime albums stay on my short list

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    3. Keef keeps his in the fridge by the clotted cream, taking it only when necessary

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  3. In 1967 Mike Ratledge from The Soft Machine married the singer and actress Marsha Hunt, they split up shortly after. Hunt said the key to a happy marriage was to “separate immediately”.
    Marsha Hunt is also the mother to one of Mick Jaggers eight known children.

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    1. Marsha also wore an unforgettable top singing (I think) Wheel On Fire (or was it Gilded Splinters?) on Top Of The Pops, which showed her underboobs (as I believe they are called). No boy knew these even existed at the time. I was struck mute for days.

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    2. Wow, I couldn’t find Marsh Hunt from Tops Of The Pops on Yewchewb, but these two might raise the blood pressure.

      Walk On Gilded Splinters - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OD-e7Ofklno
      Desdemona - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3LXJqGAhPw

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  4. NOW WE'RE TALKING! I LOVE jazz rock, jazz fusion, jazz funk, and all spaces in-between. To those who say it's widdle and noodle, I quietly say: "go fuck yourself, cube". Newbies can start with Herbie Hancock (85 today) and the more than essential "Headhunters". You don't dig it? We can never be friends.

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    1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m3qOD-hhrQ&t=1021s

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    2. "never," he notes grimly, is a long tine, Mr. Grimsdale

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    3. Headhunters is on the prestigious Perfect X list. Jazzrockfusion is far from noodling twaddle - that's the blind alley jazz players found themselves in before they discovered rock.

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  5. if you hold an AK-47 to your shoulder like you see'm do in films and on the olde tv set and pull the trigger, it'll knock you flat on your ass and leave an impressive bruise. True fact; best kind.

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  6. From 1973, astonishingly, when rock had just about played itself out - a surprisingly melodic live-in-the-studio album full of excitement that took everyone by surprise. Christgau, typically, missed the fun - and the point - entirely, sneering that it was "gimmicky" (?) but everyone else loved it.

    https://workupload.com/file/5XaLgyuZjr2

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    1. Christgau thinks he's hip, but like Lester Bangs, is a secret po-jama person.

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    2. “Definition of rock journalism: People who can't write, doing interviews with people who can't think, in order to prepare articles for people who can't read.”
      - Randy Vanwarmer

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  7. Somehow I have reached 2025 without having ever heard this!? Many thanks.
    Brian

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    1. You're welcome - if you haven't heard Crosswinds you're in for a treat!

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  8. Billham Cobly followed up in '74 with the beautiful Crosswinds (another Perfect X), and Total Eclipse in '75. After that, it's a bit of a blur, but these first three albums are constants.

    Crosswinds/Total Eclipse:

    https://workupload.com/file/hTAZ4BEkAyn

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    1. I'll give these a listen as well. Thanks!

      Brian

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  9. It's been years since I heard the wonderful 'Crosswinds' so am looking forward, thanks. IIRC Spectrum was a bit manic/ADHD by comparison.

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    1. Absolutely. I love Crosswinds, can listen at any time. Hits a mood like no other album that I'm aware of. But Spectrum was the sharp kick up the arse that jazz needed at the time, a kind of punkier Mahavishnu. With tunes. Getting Tommy Bolin [17 - Ed.] was a great gesture and a wild ride - his string breaks! he doesn't care! Total Eclipse is in third place, with its nothing-to-see-here drum solo and darkening of mood, but Cobly's compositions are knotty and weirdly beautiful. It's interesting (to me, anyway) that from here on his sleeve artwork gets formulaic and banal, and there's a sense of that in the music, too.

      Crosswinds, though ... ooh.

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  10. Fun Fact: It's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide!

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