Music Babble

While doing the 20th anniversary relistens to Axis I realized my opinion hadn't changed--I like or love every single track on it except "Little Miss Lover," you guessed it. The biggest highlights for me are "Wait Until Tomorrow" (god that intro!), "Spanish Castle Magic," "If 6 Was 9," "Little Wing" and "Castles Made Of Sand."

I'd heard about Nash and Wood singing before but just now I had to look up what song they were on--yeah, I should have known that wasn't Noel or Mitch singing backup on "You Got Me Floatin'". It never sounded like them!!! Especially since I've been reacquainted with Roy Wood's slightly unpleasant singing voice due to me heavily relistening to the Move's debut album, since I somehow ended up with a 3-CD version for Christmas four months ago with FIFTY TWO BONUS TRACKS GOOD LORD. FIFTY TWO, BEESH.

Okay, most of them aren't that great and they're a lot of redundant stereo mixes and mildly interesting BBC session stuff, they cover "So You Wanna Be A Rock & Roll Star" and "Hey Grandma," two of the better album openers by their contemporaries from the previous year. The 50s pastiche "Don't Hang Up" is the best bonus track though.