Kim Fowley
Sunset Boulevard
1978
Kim has always divided opinion.
He's either a fake or a genius.
I fall into the latter camp.
Fowley produced the 9th Helen Reddy album Ear Candy.
Was sad to hear she died last week aged 78.
Jeff Wald, then Reddy's husband and manager said of Fowley:
"He doesn't read a note of music, he doesn't work a dial
in that studio, but he's a catalyst. He worked completely
opposite from any way we've [previously] worked [on Reddy's albums:]
we've always picked the ten songs before we've gone into the studio,
worked on all ten of them [til they're] down perfect
and then recorded them. But it wound up on ['Ear Candy']
that five of the songs were written in the studio.
Helen has always had a writer's block but this time
she wrote or co-wrote five songs. Kim loosened her up
in the studio and he let her take chances."
Anyhow...that's my tribute to Helen Reddy.
This is a classic Fowley album ripped from my own, badly worn, vinyl copy.
Never been released on CD as far as I know.
Essential listening as far as I'm concerned.
Probably 16 year old Dyan Diamond on the title track.
If you play this backwards it is an entirely different song.
Don't believe a word of it, it's a hustle man.
regards
Titus
01 The Top
02 Rubber Rainbow
03 Nightingale
04 Negative
05 In My Garage (best song Bob Dylan never wrote?)
06 Sunset Boulevard
07 North American Man
08 Teenage Death Girl
09 Control
10 Love is a Game (best song Bruce Springsteen never wrote?)
11 Black Camels of Lavender Hill (just Kim/piano...stunning!)
12 Blow up
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