Lennon and McCartney go head-to-head yet again.
Ram was McCartney’s second solo album, released in 1971, and is a prime example of how popular music, on its release, is adjudged by so many factors other than music. Macca was in disfavour in 1971, regarded, wrongly, as the man who broke up The Beatles and also as the politico-spiritual lightweight of the quartet (Ringo has always been given a pass on these matters!). 50 years later, disconnected from all such blather,
Ram is a jolly thing, scrappy but fun, with an unpretentious thrown-together quality, songs such as lo-fi Beach Boys pastiche “Dear Boy” rubbing up against the entertainingly silly, music hall rockin’ ode to marjuana “Monkberry Moon Delight”. It does, indeed, sound like a man decompressing after the monumental, generational expectations placed on his previous band. In gatefold, it also comes half-speed mastered so sounds great. Lennon’s first solo effort, the
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A house of mirrors can be a fun and terrifying thing. At times, the images can be funny and other times grotesque. It just depends on your mood. The title also reflects
Neil Cowley’s relationship with the piano. Over the years it has been his best friend, and worst enemy. The fun and the painful.
Throughout the album you can hear it be both. There are times when Cowley is gently caressing the keys. On ‘Just Above it All’ the notes gracefully glide from his fingers. The music that underpins this glorious playing is filled with frustrated synth motifs and skittering beats. Despite the ease in which Cowley plays, ‘Just Above it All’ hints that this is not always a symbiotic process. And this is the real joy to the album. Normally we are shown musicians in love with their instrument. They ease the music from it gently or thrash and bash it until it gives them what they need. Here Cowley is show that this isn’t always