3-LockBox
04-04-2008, 08:01 AM
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I was rummaging through some old junk a few months ago and ran across an old tape case...quite a few good memories in it, but over all, quite a few, "what was I thinking" moments as well, like Quiet Riot - III, Ratt - Invasion Of Your Privacy, Judas Preist - Turbo, Asia - Alpha, GTR...and then there it was, my tape copy of Steve Miller's Abracadabra; a 'shark jumper' of an album if there ever was one. I actually only have a tape player in one of my vehicles, so I played it in total privacy. It woulda made a decent enough Paul McCartney album actually. Funny thing, I bought this tape a couple of years after I bought the LP, so it wasn't like I hated it, but after I started visiting Miller's older albums, I realized he had lost it on this thing. After owning Miller's Greatest Hits 74-78 (who didn't own that one) I decided to buy his album propers upon a recommendation from one of my new Navy buddies. So I bought The Joker, Fly Like An Eagle, Swingtown; I already had Circle Of Love on vinyl, but bought it on tape, and to complete the set, bought Abracadabra.
To be honest, some of the tracks on Abracadabra weren't half-bad, if someone else had done them. Some 25 years after the fact, its easy to hear why this album never made it past the title track; Miller only wrote two of these tracks (the title track and the self-plagerizing Give it Up). The rest of the tunes were written by his band members, and with a more believable performance by Miller, maybe they'd have seen more success, but Miller performs these songs like he knew he was smoking a turd. At least he was able to retire off the title track, being it was the biggest selling single of all time, until it was supplanted one year later, by Michael Jackson's Thriller.
Of course this is all subjective, and relative; most older Miller fans believe he jumped the shark with the Joker.
Anyone else have a favorite artist 'jump the shark'?
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I was rummaging through some old junk a few months ago and ran across an old tape case...quite a few good memories in it, but over all, quite a few, "what was I thinking" moments as well, like Quiet Riot - III, Ratt - Invasion Of Your Privacy, Judas Preist - Turbo, Asia - Alpha, GTR...and then there it was, my tape copy of Steve Miller's Abracadabra; a 'shark jumper' of an album if there ever was one. I actually only have a tape player in one of my vehicles, so I played it in total privacy. It woulda made a decent enough Paul McCartney album actually. Funny thing, I bought this tape a couple of years after I bought the LP, so it wasn't like I hated it, but after I started visiting Miller's older albums, I realized he had lost it on this thing. After owning Miller's Greatest Hits 74-78 (who didn't own that one) I decided to buy his album propers upon a recommendation from one of my new Navy buddies. So I bought The Joker, Fly Like An Eagle, Swingtown; I already had Circle Of Love on vinyl, but bought it on tape, and to complete the set, bought Abracadabra.
To be honest, some of the tracks on Abracadabra weren't half-bad, if someone else had done them. Some 25 years after the fact, its easy to hear why this album never made it past the title track; Miller only wrote two of these tracks (the title track and the self-plagerizing Give it Up). The rest of the tunes were written by his band members, and with a more believable performance by Miller, maybe they'd have seen more success, but Miller performs these songs like he knew he was smoking a turd. At least he was able to retire off the title track, being it was the biggest selling single of all time, until it was supplanted one year later, by Michael Jackson's Thriller.
Of course this is all subjective, and relative; most older Miller fans believe he jumped the shark with the Joker.
Anyone else have a favorite artist 'jump the shark'?
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