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pcolbeck · « **Reply #5825 on:** 02 January, 2024, 11:11:00 am »

Olivia Dean

Saw her on Jules's Hootanany, didn't know who she was but what a voice.

https://youtu.be/GCfFxEg8BWo?si=I4vz6dIsOq362Z-j

JefO · « **Reply #5826 on:** 02 January, 2024, 07:36:34 pm »

Variations on a Theme - Andrew Lloyd Webber

Trying to work out the bass line for side two, track one.

Pingu · « **Reply #5827 on:** 03 January, 2024, 12:14:12 am »

One of These Days - Pink Floyd

So spacious on headphones

JefO · « **Reply #5828 on:** 03 January, 2024, 09:15:00 am »

Quote from: Pingu on 03 January, 2024, 12:14:12 am

One of These Days - Pink Floyd

So spacious on headphones

I really love Meddle. Might have to give it another spin later!

IanDG · « **Reply #5829 on:** 19 January, 2024, 10:30:14 pm »

Heavy Weather - Weather Report

(wife's away so playing loud)

JefO · « **Reply #5830 on:** 19 January, 2024, 10:59:18 pm »

Black Night - Deep Purple. It would appear that my brain can translate the sounds, into where my fingers should be, to reproduce the sound on my bass guitar. The main riff all felt natural just playing it, from memory, and consulting t'internet revealed the rest as quite easy to replicate too. Don't get me wrong, I could not play this on stage, but I could probably play along to the record and get 90% right (right notes, right order, not necessarily at the right time!)

Andy W · « **Reply #5831 on:** 20 January, 2024, 12:11:07 am »

The Byrds. 8 Miles High. I love it but it's become an ear worm.

rafletcher · « **Reply #5832 on:** 01 February, 2024, 01:38:35 pm »

Bob Dyan's "Desire" with Scarlet Rivera's violin.

Afasoas · « **Reply #5833 on:** 04 February, 2024, 10:39:53 am »

The Last Dinner Party's 'Preclude to Ecstasy'

I'd forgotten I pre-ordered a signed copy. Nice surprise when it turned up yesterday. Great debut album. They remind me of both Queen and Lana Del Ray.
Also a shame I'd forgotten about the pre-order, as I'd streamed the album 3 times already.

JefO · « **Reply #5834 on:** 04 February, 2024, 12:41:51 pm »

Another ear worm developed Monday, and I ended up downloading the tabs and learning the bass line, then played along to the live version (which unbeknownst to me at the time, is played faster than the studio recording). I was absolutely buzzing with excitement at the time and for a long time afterwards. My wife came in from shopping halfway through the frenzy and (even*) she said it sounded really good.

The track? "On A Rope" by Rocket From The Crypt.

So yesterday during my ride, a CD of RFTC's album "Scream, Dracula, Scream!" dropped onto my doormat, and this morning it got played (without any preconceived expectations that the album would actually be any good (quite the opposite in fact) and to my surprise) it wasn't complete crap, and I enjoyed it. So much so that I played it and listened to it all the way through again!

* she doesn't dish out compliments willingly - least of all to me, and least of all to me when the bass amp is turned on.

Regulator · « **Reply #5835 on:** 16 February, 2024, 02:12:15 pm »

Faouzia... I think she has a stunning voice.

Oh - and a bit of Nana Mouskouri (how's that for a blast from the past).

citoyen · « **Reply #5836 on:** 16 February, 2024, 02:57:07 pm »

New Beth Gibbons. She ate'nt dead.

https://youtu.be/ldrx0eSqV-E?si=Vfcu8uSXi45gKemT

Album coming in May.

Deano · « **Reply #5837 on:** 17 February, 2024, 10:46:59 pm »

Should I ever need walk-on music, it's a toss-up between this and Back in Black, and this edges it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm_9iTKbd2I

rogerzilla · « **Reply #5838 on:** 28 February, 2024, 11:53:18 am »

Blur - Coffee and TV. It's the best Blur song partly because mockney Damon Albarn doesn't sing on it.

Regulator · « **Reply #5839 on:** 28 February, 2024, 02:18:54 pm »

Today has been a Wagner day... I'm doing detailed template work and I find Wagner helps concentrate the mind.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #5840 on:** 28 February, 2024, 04:05:43 pm »

Been seriously earwormed by Popol Vuh's “Take The Tention High”. Nearly eighteen minutes of Krautrock goodness. Yum.

Afasoas · « **Reply #5841 on:** 28 February, 2024, 09:30:50 pm »

Norah Jones released a Record Store Day LP^[1] of collaborations from her 'Playing Along' podcast. Only available through independent record shops.

Managed to procure one, as a gift^[2] for my beloved who is a big fan of Norah.
It's a really nice pressing. A really nice recording. And I find it very hard to disagree with Norah's lush vocals.

[1]: I did find MP3 download version available to buy via the rain forest website, but buying that really didn't seem to be in the spirit of supporting independent record shops. I also don't think MP3 files are much of a gift.
[2]: Technically she doesn't own a record player, so this might not have been the wisest choice of gift. At the moment my only option is to make a minidisc copy until I get the appropriate gubbins for digitising vinyl records.

JefO · « **Reply #5842 on:** 17 March, 2024, 07:46:34 pm »

This weekend I played in their entirety -
Guns N Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Genesis - Duke
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Genesis - Wind and Wuthering
Blondie - Parallel Lines,
Yes - Tormato
Yes - Going For The One

Pingu · « **Reply #5843 on:** 17 March, 2024, 10:15:48 pm »

Hey ho, maybe next weekend will be better

JefO · « **Reply #5844 on:** 18 March, 2024, 01:26:13 pm »

Quote from: Pingu on 17 March, 2024, 10:15:48 pm

Hey ho, maybe next weekend will be better

fd3 · « **Reply #5845 on:** 19 March, 2024, 04:30:32 pm »

Quote from: Pingu on 17 March, 2024, 10:15:48 pm

Hey ho, maybe next weekend will be better

You put it much better than I

JefO · « **Reply #5846 on:** 19 March, 2024, 07:33:04 pm »

Yesterday I listened to Pink Floyd "The Wall".

Today, Blondie "Autoamerican" got a spin.
Had forgotten what diverse styles Blondie recorded, uncharacteristically classy!

About to give the Metallica "Black Album" a quiet run through.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #5847 on:** 22 March, 2024, 12:58:50 pm »

"Voyage Of The Dead Marauder", the latest EP from pirate metal bozos Alestorm. Featuring paeans to piracy in such unlikely locations as Saskatchewan and Uzbekistan. Yarrr!

Regulator · « **Reply #5848 on:** 22 March, 2024, 02:47:43 pm »

The Kingston Trio...

The Merry Minuet always makes me smile.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bp6dsKleGpU

JefO · « **Reply #5849 on:** 22 March, 2024, 08:08:13 pm »

Today in recognition of the 50th anniversary of its release in November this year, I played The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway all the way through, only pausing to change sides/records. How can that be nearly 50???

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