“On first listening, Joni Mitchell's 'Court And Spark,' the first truly great pop album of 1974, sounds surprisingly light; by the third or fourth listening, it reveals its underlying tensions.” FirstsLightSoundListeningThirdsCourtAlbumsPopsTensionSparksFourth Author:Jon Landau
“Part of me believes that the completed record is the final measure of a pop musician's accomplishment, just as the completed film is the final measure of a film artist's accomplishments.” BelieveFilmArtistRecordsMusicianFinalsPopsAccomplishmentPop Music Author:Jon Landau
“Bob Dylan was the source of pop music's unpredictability in the Sixties. Never as big a record-seller as commonly imagined, his importance was first aesthetic and social, and then as an influence.” FirstsBigsSocialRecordsInfluenceSourceImportancePopsAestheticBobSixtyDylanPop MusicSellersUnpredictability Author:Jon Landau
“Carole King's second album, 'Tapestry,' has fulfilled the promise of her first and confirmed the fact that she is one of the most creative figures in all of pop music. It is an album of surpassing personal-intimacy and musical accomplishment and a work infused with a sense of artistic purpose. It is also easy to listen to and easy to enjoy.” FirstsFactsPurposeEasyEnjoyCreativeFiguresKingsPromiseMusicalAlbumsPopsArtisticIntimacyAccomplishmentFulfilledPop MusicTapestrySurpassing Book:It's too late to stop now: a rock and roll journal Source: It's too late to stop now: a rock and roll journal
“The title song of David Bowie's 'Young Americans' is one of his handful of classics, a bizarre mixture of social comment, run-on lyric style, English pop and American soul.” SoulRunningYoungSongSocialStylePopsTitlesCommentBizarreMixturesHandfulBowie Author:Jon Landau
