Traffic
Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys
Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys
(1970)

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1wolfy
May 07, 2013 - 16:57
listen closely- one can distinctly hear a pre- echo of the vocals or so it seems.


auram
May 07, 2013 - 16:55
Just sublime!


kelley_eskridge
May 07, 2013 - 16:52
You are playing Low Spark and I am so happy at this moment! LOVE this song.


j1sey
Apr 06, 2013 - 12:59
mellow


freddyb
Mar 06, 2013 - 01:21
Steve Winwood is one of the greats. He wrote amazing songs at the age of 16 in The Spencer Davis Group. Then came Blind Faith, before Traffic. And he continues to produce wonderful music, to this day.


Boy_Wonder
Feb 19, 2013 - 10:22
According to Wikipedia....

Musically, it is noteworthy for its sparse arrangement and slow deliberate pace alternating with a double-time densely layered pop chorus . The verses are in D minor while the choruses modulate to D major . The song is noted for the repeated piano riff in D Minor.

Funny, I always just thought it was a great track!


kurtster
Feb 02, 2013 - 17:30
Perfect ...


WonderLizard
Feb 02, 2013 - 17:30
My only complaint about this song is the keyboard tone Winwood deploys. I don't know what I'd replace it with. Something...that's for sure.


Antigone
Feb 02, 2013 - 17:23
Misterfixit wrote:


Wikipedia has a fine explanation.
creekgirl
Jan 02, 2013 - 09:17
Sublime. Exquisite jazz timing, layers of trance-inducing, sensual rhythm.

I have to believe that as long as there is recognition of quality, there will be generations turned on by this.

Too bad about the epidemic of ADHD in this comment section.





Misterfixit
Jan 02, 2013 - 09:10
coy wrote:
this takes me straight back to the early 70's
powerful
still don't know what the fug it means




Wikipedia has a fine explanation.
Misterfixit
Jan 02, 2013 - 09:09
Ah yes, "the man in the suit".


coy
Jan 02, 2013 - 09:08
this takes me straight back to the early 70's
powerful
still don't know what the fug it means


h8rhater
Jan 02, 2013 - 09:08
johnjconn wrote:


Agree, put this one to pasture, yawn

Pearls cast before swine.


joelbb
Dec 02, 2012 - 00:46
Proclivities wrote:

Bob Dylan had several long tunes as early as Highway 61 Revisited (1965) and even before then, but the first "long" single I can think of came from that album. "Like A Rolling Stone", is over six minutes long and apparently, Columbia was reluctant to release it as a single because of its length. "Desolation Row", from the same album, is over eleven minutes long. As Kurtster mentioned, the album version of The Doors' "Light My Fire" was over seven minutes long, but there were two other, cut-down versions of that tune. There was a "long-radio" version which was about four minutes, and the single (AM radio) version which was less than three minutes long.

One of your proclivities must be poorly researched inaccuracy. Dylan's immediately previous album, "Bringing It All Back Home" (March 1965) featured "Gates of Eden" at 5:44, "Bob Dylan's 115th Dream" at 6:34 and "It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleedin')" at a righteous 7:34. You've just been geezered, Dude.


On_The_Beach
Dec 02, 2012 - 00:26
heliosweb wrote:
Yes, short attention spans, the imperative of instant gratification, inability to sit and just Be, to let something develop and grow on you... it's endemic these days.
Thank god there's still some of us with more patient and attentive minds left...

bump


coy
Aug 29, 2012 - 16:35
not long enough !!
takes me back to 196whatever and big strange changes all around
they were a lighthouse and a beacon for me anyways


johnjconn
Aug 29, 2012 - 16:31
ziakut wrote:

This yawning is contagious! Oh boy when I heard this start my brain went..."Ohhh no!".


Agree, put this one to pasture, yawn


Proclivities
Jul 29, 2012 - 06:33
Sasha2001 wrote:
Can somebody more knowledgable then myself tell me who the first band(s) were to push the envelope with an 8-10 min tune. Was it these guys? Zep? Another words, who was responsible for making the extended jam/drug-induced musical jurney acceptable in rock music?
bachbeet
Jun 27, 2012 - 19:53
Liked Traffic from their very first album, Mr Fantasy. Bought it and Disraeli Gears at the same time.


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