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CrazyEnglishTriathlete

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Re: Today I am Listening To...
« Reply #5425 on: 23 August, 2020, 08:31:28 pm »
Lynne Jackaman (ex St Jude) has finally recorded new material vs Blues Pills (Holy Moly) - first recording without their iconic guitarist Dorian Serriaux.  Neither added much to the world, but I felt that Holy Moly was the Blues Pills back to form.
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Re: Today I am Listening To...
« Reply #5426 on: 24 August, 2020, 08:29:22 am »
Today I am listening to Birds Do It, Bees Do It, Even Little Educated Fleas Do It running round and round inside me 'ead. I don't know where it came from but I wish it would bugger off.  My parents hadn't yet met when that torture device was thrust upon the world.
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CrazyEnglishTriathlete

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Re: Today I am Listening To...
« Reply #5427 on: 03 September, 2020, 10:33:36 pm »
Blue Oyster Cult

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVQ1_sSr2RU

At a drive in show in July this year.  Unstoppable.  And they still rock despite Eric Bloom and Buck Dharma being older than Noah.
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Re: Today I am Listening To...
« Reply #5428 on: 04 September, 2020, 08:02:43 pm »
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000m6s5


Anoushkar Shankar on the Proms.  That would get the gammon foaming at the mouth if they listened to any more than the Last Night.
Not fast & rarely furious

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Re: Today I am Listening To...
« Reply #5429 on: 05 September, 2020, 10:26:10 pm »
I like a bit of chanson and blimey this is good:

https://youtu.be/DjLEVtm00-0

Lara Fabian - Je suis malade (I am sick)
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

Re: Today I am Listening To...
« Reply #5430 on: 07 September, 2020, 04:20:59 pm »
More Lara, possibly the best audience sing along I have ever heard.

https://youtu.be/IYnFwUbC9A8

Apparently she was having a very rough time in her personal life and it had been in the French media. Before this gig in Paris her pianist had secretly suggested to one of her fans that it would be nice if they sang along. Watch the shock in her eyes when they start. The audience also changed the lyrics from "Je t'amine" (I love you) to "On t’aime" (we love you).
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

Wowbagger

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Re: Today I am Listening To...
« Reply #5431 on: 14 September, 2020, 10:50:46 am »
Schubert string quintet in C.
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Re: Today I am Listening To...
« Reply #5432 on: 15 September, 2020, 07:06:32 pm »
Having a bit of a talk-box-fest on the old playlist: Haitian Divorce, Livin’ On A Prayer, Beverley Hills, Show Me The Way...

Re: Today I am Listening To...
« Reply #5433 on: 19 September, 2020, 06:27:45 am »
Open country on R4. With  Claire Balding and Alice Roberts, fascinating.

CrazyEnglishTriathlete

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Re: Today I am Listening To...
« Reply #5434 on: 19 September, 2020, 07:53:57 pm »
The sound of motor engines at 24 heures de Le Mans with my petrol-head son.
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Jaded

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Re: Today I am Listening To...
« Reply #5435 on: 22 September, 2020, 11:01:10 pm »
Public Image.

Getting rid of the Albatross
It is simpler than it looks.

CrazyEnglishTriathlete

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Re: Today I am Listening To...
« Reply #5436 on: 24 September, 2020, 09:24:45 pm »
All Them Witches - Nothing as the Ideal.  I should be working on a last-minute proposal document and have so far written 40 words with 3 typos in 25 minutes.  It is not helping with my productivity but it is sure bending my mind in appropriate directions.  It is a bit like the Doors discovering Hawkwind, bingeing on Pink Floyd and then heading off whatever direction took their fancy.
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Mr Larrington

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Re: Today I am Listening To...
« Reply #5437 on: 24 September, 2020, 10:55:28 pm »
DJ Random is currently belting out a live version of “Brainstorm” from 1978, so that lot ^^^^ might attract some of my attention next week. Ta!
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PaulF

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Re: Today I am Listening To...
« Reply #5438 on: 26 September, 2020, 10:48:12 am »
Sex Bomb by the Red Army Choir

https://youtu.be/MNacQaHJqEs

TheLurker

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Re: Today I am Listening To...
« Reply #5439 on: 26 September, 2020, 12:14:23 pm »
Mozart.  Mass in C minor.  Berlin Phil, under Abbado. With Bonney, Auger, Blochwitz & Holl
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Re: Today I am Listening To...
« Reply #5440 on: 26 September, 2020, 02:04:46 pm »
My new eBay bargain HiFi:

NAD 3130 amp
NAD 5425 CD player
NAD 5120 record deck
KEF Coda III speakers

About £280 for the lot. Sounds brilliant so far (haven't tried the record deck yet).
The CD player was supposed to have a dead display (its easy to replace the small bulb with an LED so I wasn't bothered about that) but it just burst into life all by itself.#
The volume pot on the amp is a tad crackly so I will need to break out the contact cleaner and probably blow out the internals as it looks dusty as hell in there.

For a supposedly 30W amp the 3130 has got some oomph, I cant turn the thing up past about a quarter without it being deafening and those KEF speakers are 8 omh!
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

Steph

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Re: Today I am Listening To...
« Reply #5441 on: 30 September, 2020, 11:13:00 pm »
Tom Waits
Heartattack and Vine

I don't think I will ever tire of this album. Such a wonderful work of art.
Mae angen arnaf i byw, a fe fydda'i

Re: Today I am Listening To...
« Reply #5442 on: 05 October, 2020, 07:40:53 pm »
Bob Seger.  Must have heard Night Moves hundreds of times in my life, but only just realised how awesome a song it is.

CrazyEnglishTriathlete

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Re: Today I am Listening To...
« Reply #5443 on: 07 October, 2020, 09:21:03 pm »
Pendulum

Because.
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Andrij

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Re: Today I am Listening To...
« Reply #5444 on: 08 October, 2020, 09:00:35 am »
;D  Andrij.  I pronounce you Complete and Utter GIT   :thumbsup:

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Re: Today I am Listening To...
« Reply #5445 on: 09 October, 2020, 11:47:57 am »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4POF9AQKQk

Anna von Hausswolf.  partly because of the mesmerising video that accompanies the music and opens out the imagination without ever giving any answers.  A pipe organ as you have never heard it before and yet making the instrument relevant for vast new genres of music.
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Re: Today I am Listening To...
« Reply #5446 on: 09 October, 2020, 02:54:09 pm »
Starcrawler

Grunge rock. Ridiculously young band, good sound.
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Re: Today I am Listening To...
« Reply #5447 on: 11 October, 2020, 07:42:39 pm »
Yussef Dayes & Alfa Mist: Love is the Message

Got here via Yussef Kamaal, Black Focus.

Re: Today I am Listening To...
« Reply #5448 on: 18 October, 2020, 10:07:15 pm »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4POF9AQKQk

Anna von Hausswolf.  partly because of the mesmerising video that accompanies the music and opens out the imagination without ever giving any answers.  A pipe organ as you have never heard it before and yet making the instrument relevant for vast new genres of music.

Most of the images in the video come from "Sacro Bosco," the 16th century Gardens of Bomarzo in Italy.  The garden was her inspiration for All Thoughts Fly, the album that this track comes from.  "The organ on All Thoughts Fly is situated in Gothenburg and is a Swedish replica of the Arp Schnitger organ in Germany. It is the largest organ tuned in Quarter-comma meantone temperament in the world. With its four manuals, one pedal and 54 stops, it was built as part of a ten-year research project reconstructing 17th Century North German organ building craft."

It's a really good album and certainly puts the Goth in Gothenburg...

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Re: Today I am Listening To...
« Reply #5449 on: 18 October, 2020, 10:48:56 pm »
Roaring Jack.  Australia's answer to The Pogues.
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