MoeFOH's Album of the Week... Week #33

[MoeFOH]

MoeFOH's Album of the Week 🎶

Same as the movie thread, each week we're going to spotlight an album... be it a classic, new release, hidden gem, or outright turd... and open it for discussion: i.e. post up your favourite tracks, clips, lyrics, experiences if you saw live, etc... or dive deeper and give us a critique on why you think it's great, overrated, or a complete train wreck... And finally score it for us...  

All contributors go into a monthly prize draw for a 3-cigar sampler! 

PM me with suggestions if there's an album you want to nominate for next week's discussion. 

 

Week #33: Cold Fact

Wiki says: 

Cold Fact is the debut album from American singer-songwriter Rodriguez. It was released in the United States on the Sussex label in March 1970. The album sold poorly in the United States, but performed better in South Africa and Australia, with Rodriguez touring Australia in 1979.

In 1971 the album was released in South Africa by A&M Records. In 1976, several thousand copies of Cold Fact were found in a New York warehouse and sold out in Australia in a few weeks. It went to No. 23 on the Australian album charts in 1978, staying on the charts for fifty-five weeks. In 1998 Cold Fact was awarded a platinum disc in South Africa, and was five-times platinum in Australia. Rodriguez has since toured South Africa and Australia with much success, but remained relatively unknown in his native country of the US. This began to change after the reissues of his albums in the US by Light in the Attic Records in 2008 and 2009, and even further in 2012 with the Academy Award winning documentary film Searching for Sugar Man, which soon led to appearances on major American television shows like 60 Minutes and The Late Show with David Letterman.

Cold Fact has sold 201,000 since Nielsen SoundScan started tracking in 1991, 173,000 of those after the film opened, 98,000 in the wake of the Oscar win. Coming from Reality has moved 105,000 albums, 99,000 since the movie hit, 60,000 post-Academy Awards. And the soundtrack album (which was picked up by Sony’s Legacy catalog division) boasts 152,000 in sales

Over to you...

How do you rate it? 🤔

Thoughts, experiences, memories... post em' up! 

Score it out of 10!  

[MoeFOH]

 

[helix]

10 great music and a heart warming story .

[Edicion]

I admit, I first got to know Rodriguez through Searching for Sugar Man (if you haven't watched it... Highly recommend it) and RIP to Malik Bendjelloul.

I also love the sound of his Yamaha guitar , plain and crisp. Simply brilliant. Sugar Man / I Wonder are some amazing songs. 10/10.

[Cigar Surgeon]

I hadn't heard about this artist until Searching for Sugar Man myself. Great album and great story. Probably an 8/10 on the album?

Which reminds me I need to go back and listen to it again.

[Doctorossi]

I've been meaning to check this guy out, but I haven't yet.

 

?/10.

[Ford2112]

I had an ex that was really into him. Probably why I've never tried to listen to it 😆. 

[bassistheplace]

I am ignorant to this. Thanks for turning me on to it

[Ken Gargett]

i was listening to Rodriguez yesterday. listen to him very often. love him. brilliant. saw him twice in Brizzy many many years ago - well, i got to know the security at festival hall (amazing what being nice to people can bring) and they let me in twice - in fairness, i was a broke student. 

back in the last 70s and early to mid 80s, he was massive in australia. you could not go to a party without him being played regularly (especially 'i wonder...' to which the entire party would always stop what they were doing and sing along, but he has better songs). when i went to London to study, i was talking to American friends who were big music fans (one old girlfriend put me onto Jackson Browne) and asked what they thought of him. i was stunned beyond belief no one had heard of him. same when i moved to DC. the doco talks about the rumours - i remember them (remember, no internet in those days). one big one was that he had gone to work for reagan, which seemed very strange. 

some of those lyrics really do sit on aa par with dylan, though obviously the output just a fraction. 

so that doco really resonated with me. i completely understood. great story indeed. 

safe to say, i am a huge fan.