Classic albums : The Band - The Band, zaterdag NED-3

Zaterdag, 21:25 - 22:25 in Classic Albums:

Serie documentaires over pop- en rockalbums. The Band - The Band: The Band (1969) is de tweede en meest succesvolle plaat van de gelijknamige 'band'.

The Band peaked at #9 on Billboard's Pop Albums chart. In 2000, it recharted on Billboard's Internet Albums chart, peaking at #10. The singles "Rag Mama Rag" and "Up on Cripple Creek" peaked on the Pop Singles chart at #57 and #25 respectively.

The album includes many of The Band's best-known and critically acclaimed songs, including "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down", which Rolling Stone named the 245th greatest song of all time (in the updated version, it was the 249th greatest song of all time). In 2003, the album was ranked number 45 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. In 1998 Q magazine readers voted The Band the 76th greatest album of all time. TIME magazine included it in their unranked 2006 list of the 100 greatest albums. Robert Christgau, having been disappointed with their debut, had expected to dislike the record, and even planned a column for The Village Voice to castigate their followup. Upon hearing the record, however, he declared it better than Abbey Road, which had been released four days following, writing The Band's LP is an "A-plus record if I've ever rated one."

According to the liner notes to the 2000 reissue of "The Band" by Rob Bowman, the album, "The Band", has been viewed as a concept album, with the songs focusing on people, places and traditions associated with an older version of Americana.

Thus, the songs on this album draw from historic themes for "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" , "King Harvest (Has Surely Come)" and Richard Manuel's "Jawbone" (which was composed in the unusual 6/4 time signature.)

The album was reissued in 2009 by Audio Fidelity as a limited edition gold CD. Remastered for the first time on CD from the original master tapes (which Capitol evidently no longer possesses), the album also included a single b-side "Get Up Jake" as a bonus track. Originally slated for the album "Get Up Jake" was dropped from the original album line-up at the last minute because the band felt it was too similar to another track on the album.

In 2009, the album was preserved into the National Recording Registry because the album was "culturally, historically, or aesthetically important, and/or informs or reflects life in the United States."

Ik heb hun drie dubbel afscheidsalbum The Last Waltz.

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Op zaterdag 24 maart 2012 11:19 schreef methodmich het volgende:
Die is ook erg goed tong, met vele goede gastbijdragen. Maar bij mij is het een dubbelaar trouwens.

Zeker, die gasten maken het extra mooi. Neil Young en Neil Diamond b.v.

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Op zondag 25 maart 2012 00:35 schreef Piebe het volgende:
Had hem al eens gezien op Belgie.
Gasten hebben toch nog wel aardig een stempel gedrukt.

Robbie

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