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rogerzilla · « **Reply #800 on:** 17 August, 2009, 08:15:52 pm »

Black Grape - It's Great When You're Straight...Yeah!

Posisbly Shaun Ryder's finest moment, only tarnished by the woeful follow up album.

Tourist Tony · « **Reply #801 on:** 18 August, 2009, 12:20:31 am »

Quote from: spesh on 02 August, 2009, 11:50:36 pm

Grace And Danger - John Martyn

I'd heard the title track on Planet Rock, of all radio stations, and was curious... The obituary in the Times described him as "an electrifying guitarist and singer whose music blurred the boundaries between folk, jazz, rock and blues".

On initial listening, I can see where the author of that comment is coming from. Looks like I'll have to go and get "Solid Air", considered to be the definitive John Martyn album...

I have Solid Air if you want to borrow it. Amazing stuff.
I am having an Oysterband thing still, playing along on mandolin and muted fiddle.
Not at the same time of course.

mark · « **Reply #802 on:** 18 August, 2009, 12:47:24 am »

Woodstock 40 Years On: Back to Yasgur's Farm

A 6 CD set of recordings from the festival, including groups that never got included in the movie or the original album.

Quisling · « **Reply #803 on:** 18 August, 2009, 12:25:05 pm »

the new, "leaked" Radiohead track

YouTube - Radiohead - These Are My Twisted Words

spesh · « **Reply #804 on:** 18 August, 2009, 06:12:46 pm »

Quote from: Tourist Tony on 18 August, 2009, 12:20:31 am

Quote from: spesh on 02 August, 2009, 11:50:36 pm
Grace And Danger - John Martyn

I'd heard the title track on Planet Rock, of all radio stations, and was curious... The obituary in the Times described him as "an electrifying guitarist and singer whose music blurred the boundaries between folk, jazz, rock and blues".

On initial listening, I can see where the author of that comment is coming from. Looks like I'll have to go and get "Solid Air", considered to be the definitive John Martyn album...
I have Solid Air if you want to borrow it. Amazing stuff.
I am having an Oysterband thing still, playing along on mandolin and muted fiddle.
Not at the same time of course.

Thanks for the offer, but I picked up Solid Air the other weekend.

I've been also listening to the Who (Who's Next), ZZ Top (El Loco), and er... White Zombie (Astro-Creep 2000).

From the sublime to the ridiculous...

StuAff · « **Reply #805 on:** 18 August, 2009, 11:09:35 pm »

Quote from: spesh on 18 August, 2009, 06:12:46 pm

Quote from: Tourist Tony on 18 August, 2009, 12:20:31 am
Quote from: spesh on 02 August, 2009, 11:50:36 pm
Grace And Danger - John Martyn

I'd heard the title track on Planet Rock, of all radio stations, and was curious... The obituary in the Times described him as "an electrifying guitarist and singer whose music blurred the boundaries between folk, jazz, rock and blues".

On initial listening, I can see where the author of that comment is coming from. Looks like I'll have to go and get "Solid Air", considered to be the definitive John Martyn album...
I have Solid Air if you want to borrow it. Amazing stuff.
I am having an Oysterband thing still, playing along on mandolin and muted fiddle.
Not at the same time of course.

Thanks for the offer, but I picked up Solid Air the other weekend.

I've been also listening to the Who (Who's Next), ZZ Top (El Loco), and er... White Zombie (Astro-Creep 2000).

From the sublime to the ridiculous...

Sublime, sublime and sublime, surely?

rogerzilla · « **Reply #806 on:** 19 August, 2009, 09:49:25 pm »

Frankie Goes To Hollywood's "War", with Chris Barrie's great Ronald Reagan monologue.

Quote

Man has a sense for the discovery of beauty. How rich is the world for
one who makes use of this discovery. Beauty must have power over man.

After the end of the war, I wanted to devote myself to my thoughts for five to ten years, and to writing them down.

Wars come and go. What remains are only the values of culture.

Then of course there is revolutionary love. Love of comrades fighting for the people, and love of people. Not an abstract people but people one meets and works with. When Che Guevara talked of love being at the center of revolutionary endeavour, he meant both. For people like Che, or George Jackson, or Malcolm X, love was the prime mover of their struggle, and love cost them their lives.

Love, coupled with a man's pride.

Love, coupled with a man's pride.

It's all bollocks, but it's poetry.

spesh · « **Reply #807 on:** 19 August, 2009, 10:16:10 pm »

Quote from: StuAff on 18 August, 2009, 11:09:35 pm

Quote from: spesh on 18 August, 2009, 06:12:46 pm

<snipped to save space>

I've been also listening to the Who (Who's Next), ZZ Top (El Loco), and er... White Zombie (Astro-Creep 2000).

From the sublime to the ridiculous...
Sublime, sublime and sublime, surely?

I was getting in ahead of the music critics.

There are some... interesting... juxtapositions on my CD shelves.

Today's aural assault comes courtesy of:

Accelerated Evolution - the Devin Townsend Band
Mer de Noms - A Perfect Circle

Quisling · « **Reply #808 on:** 20 August, 2009, 01:29:46 am »

Quote from: Quisling on 18 August, 2009, 12:25:05 pm

the new, "leaked" Radiohead track

Edit - now available as a free download from radiohead.com

alan · « **Reply #809 on:** 22 August, 2009, 07:42:26 pm »

U2...loudly

rogerzilla · « **Reply #810 on:** 23 August, 2009, 08:36:46 am »

The Doors - L.A. Woman

Some of it is second-rate blues filler, but it grows on you. I shudder to think how stoned Jim Morrison was when he wrote "The WASP".

alan · « **Reply #811 on:** 30 August, 2009, 07:22:53 pm »

Layla..ol' slow hand
Whiskt in The Jar:Thin Lzzy
Various tracks bt The Shads'
& other tracks with distinctive guitar riffs

Quisling · « **Reply #812 on:** 30 August, 2009, 10:58:59 pm »

Anne-Marie official site on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Videos

She of original Skeletal Family fame is back, and getting ready to gig with one of the Skel's in tow.

Punk is not dead after all.

Spinners · « **Reply #813 on:** 30 August, 2009, 11:03:12 pm »

Parklife - Blur

I didn't bother with them back in 1994 but I picked this one up nice and cheap recently and I'm just loving it, even the two 'interlude' type filler tracks.

alan · « **Reply #814 on:** 31 August, 2009, 09:52:20 am »

Radio 2
It's a Beatle-fest day

HTFB · « **Reply #815 on:** 02 September, 2009, 11:33:27 am »

Pam Ayres on Radio 4 now (11.30 2 September), on the theme of bikes.

clarion · « **Reply #816 on:** 02 September, 2009, 11:34:42 am »

Yes. Me too. I was about to go to the toilet & get a fresh coffee. May have to wait...

Moloko · « **Reply #817 on:** 03 September, 2009, 05:13:51 pm »

I Don't Want To Go To Chelsea. (neither can anyone)

clarion · « **Reply #818 on:** 03 September, 2009, 08:02:45 pm »

Quote from: Sgt Bikeo on 03 September, 2009, 05:13:51 pm

I Don't Want To Go To Chelsea.

I don't, either. But what are you listening to?

Chris S · « **Reply #819 on:** 04 September, 2009, 11:51:48 am »

Aphex Twin. All sorts, but not Milkman or Come to Daddy 'cos they scare me.

microphonie · « **Reply #820 on:** 04 September, 2009, 06:49:22 pm »

Quote from: Chris S on 04 September, 2009, 11:51:48 am

Aphex Twin. All sorts, but not Milkman or Come to Daddy 'cos they scare me.

IIIIIIII Want your soooooooooooouuuuuuuulllllllllllll!

Currently listening to OMD - Dazzle Ships (via Spotify) for the first time in 25yrs or so.

It's really not as weird as I thought it was at the time.

Pneumant · « **Reply #821 on:** 06 September, 2009, 04:36:15 pm »

The Cranberries - No need to argue

Rediscovering old Cd's - this one is rather good, dusted off after many many years unplayed in my collection . Dolores O'Riordan has a great voice.

'Zombie' , 'Empty' and 'Ridiculous Thoughts' are the standout tracks for me

clarion · « **Reply #822 on:** 06 September, 2009, 09:56:22 pm »

Been listening to some Slade this weekend. Mmm yes.

Tewdric · « **Reply #823 on:** 07 September, 2009, 04:18:21 pm »

Beethoven Pionao concerto no.5, on my recently downloaded Linn 24-bit 192 KHz recording of Sir Charles Mackerras and the SCO. It's a superb performance and simply the most astonishing audio quality I've ever heard. Remarkable stuff.

rogerzilla · « **Reply #824 on:** 07 September, 2009, 09:31:07 pm »

The grossly unfashionable, and even hated by the band themselves, "Atom Heart Mother" by Pink Floyd. I like it.

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