PRODUCER DOES WHAT AGAIN, no. 3. Honestly, I only picked this one off the shelf because it had a blue(ish) cover and I am not above trying “to make a blue row of three” on my Instagram page. Turned it over and by God, Pete Townshend produced it! What the what? Huh. Can’t remember why or when I bought it. Some binge in the eighties and it must have been budget priced and I remember feeling kind of “meh” when I listened to it then, but held onto it like I do. Tonight, though, armed with that producer credit knowledge, I was listening for the Townshend influence *and heard it!* I enjoyed it very much. It’s like an alt-timeline Who album, a world where Keith and Daltrey never existed: but here’s that busy bass and that thin, high Pete-like vocal, and a lot of familiar-ish ideas like the “Can’t Explain” guitar on “Look Around” and experiments like “Accidents” which reminds me of “Street in the City” on the soloTownshend/Ronnie Lane duet album “Rough Mix.” When you flip Thunderclap Newman, track 1 side 2 is “Wild Country” and sounds *just like* a practice track for “Goin’ Mobile.” Huh. Also a lot of Beatle-y touches like now and then big, open-chord-walk-down-chiming guitars you might expect at the end of “Sun King,” and a reprise version of the title track on the second side before a string-heavy dreamy-with-very-tenor-vocal song with an almost-corny piano break in the middle (like the title track reprise segue into “A Day in the Life” on Sgt. Pepper). If you’ve heard a song on this album it’s “Something In The Air,” that last track. It’s a lovely little weird song to wrap up a nice little weird album. #thunderclapnewman #hollywooddream #somethingintheair #petetownshend #producedby #townshend #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylcommunity #vinylfreak #33andathird #33rpm #onmyturntable #ellipticalsoundtrack #treadmillsoundtrack #hoppervinyl #cvhoppervinyl #nowplaying #nowplayingonvinyl (at Noblesville, Indiana) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3leA2NAbWY/?igshid=e2qmdk4jtlu
