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Wow! I used to have one of those and it was connected from the boot.
Now I'll play from a USB stick mainly in the car or the odd CD occasionally. In fact, good call on that - Rumours would sound great during the summer, along with my favourite summer album: Boston's 'Third Stage'.

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My old Beetle has all the original parts, down to a cassette player lol. So no USB. Not even an AUX point so cant use the iPhone


Yes its definitely a summer album, and one for nice empty roads

I have a tendency to go heavy on the right foot when the music is just right

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Octopus's Garden and then" I want you."
Epitomizes (I think that's right) the Beatles for me.
Three brilliant (and Ringo) song writers and all very different.
As you say they left the best to last ,if you don't count Let it Be.

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Very true mate, but I didn't like the White Album much, although everybody else in the world thinks it was great

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At least 8 of the tracks I don't want to hear ever again.

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Yes, Piggies springs to mind, and Revolution 9, Rocky Raccoon, Bungalow Bill(!) I don't even like Helter Skelter that much either.
Should have been a single album.

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No.27: “The Stranger” by Billy Joel (1977)
Animals, Bat Out Of Hell, Hotel California, Rumours…all albums from 1977 and featured in my last few posts. And there’s another two coming up now, starting with this classic – Billy Joel’s masterpiece (or one of them).
The Stranger was a sort of culmination of years of increasingly good albums appearing from this top end, superior songwriter from Long island, New York. It contains at least two songs which have become so famous that they are part of popular culture, recorded so many times by others: the standards ‘Just The Way You Are’ and ‘She’s Always A Woman’. But it doesn’t end there with the amount of classic songs on this great album: ‘Movin’ Out’, ‘Only The Good Die Young’ and the terrific story about “Brenda & Eddie” and their tale all about their Italian Restaurant (see below).

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No.26: “Low” by David Bowie (1977)
The first album in David Bowie’s so-called “Berlin Trilogy” is the best in my opinion. Bowie was heading towards another change with the excellent Station To Station album of 1976, taking parts of soul, glam and future rumblings of electronic music into its style, but his hook-up with Brian Eno, Tony Visconti and Iggy Pop provided this excursion into a new form of Krautrock (Nom would explain this album better than myself!). Containing the great single ‘Sound And Vision’ and with half the album being filled with some marvellous instrumentals, Low virtually ties for my favourite Bowie album.

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Track listing:
1. "Speed of Life"
2. "Breaking Glass"
3. "What in the World"
4. "Sound and Vision"
5. "Always Crashing in the Same Car"
6. "Be My Wife"
7. "A New Career in a New Town"
8. "Warszawa"
9. "Art Decade"
10. "Weeping Wall"
11. "Subterraneans"

Personnel:
• David Bowie – vocals (2–6, 8, 10–12, 14), saxophones (4, 11), guitar (6, 9–11), pump bass (6), harmonica (7), vibraphone (9–10), xylophone (10), pre-arranged percussion(10), keyboards: ARP synthesiser (1, 10–11), Chamberlin: Credited on the album sleeve notes as "tape horn and brass" (1), "synthetic strings" (1, 4, 9–10), "tape cellos" (5) and "tape sax section" (7), piano (7, 9–11), "instruments" (13)
• Brian Eno – keyboards: Minimoog (2, 8–9), ARP (3, 11), EMS Synthi AKS (listed as "E.M.I.") (3, 5), piano (7–9, 11), Chamberlin (8–9), other synthesisers, vocals (4, 14), guitar treatments (5), synthetics (7), "instruments" (12–13)
• Carlos Alomar – rhythm guitars (1, 3–7, 14), guitar (2)
• Dennis Davis – percussion (1–7, 14)
• George Murray – bass (1–7, 11, 14)
• Ricky Gardiner – rhythm guitar (2), guitar (3–7, 14)
• Roy Young – pianos (1, 3–7, 14), Farfisa organ (3, 5)
• Iggy Pop – backing vocals (3)
• Mary Visconti – backing vocals (4, 14)
• Eduard Meyer – cellos (9)

Produced by Tony Visconti

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And here's Ziggy...

No.25: “(The Rise And Fall Of) Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars” by David Bowie (1972)
The biggest and best album, depending on one’s mood, is the Ziggy Stardust record. This is glam rock at its peak, the record the movement quotes when talking about that colourful and lively genre which lasted all of five years. Giving rise to the Spiders From Mars, a band from Hull featuring Mick Ronson, Woody Woodmansey and Trevor Bolder and spawning a documentary motion picture, this album was fortunate in that it took off due to the recent success of the single ‘Starman’ on Top Of The Pops. Otherwise it was looking like David Bowie was a one-hit wonder with just the novelty hit ‘Space Oddity’ to his name and two excellent previous albums which only resurfaced after the success of Ziggy Stardust. A landmark alum of the era.

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