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CrazyEnglishTriathlete · « **Reply #5700 on:** 30 April, 2022, 08:28:23 pm »

Joe Satriani: The Elephants of Mars. I like it when the virtuosity is hidden by the music making

pcolbeck · « **Reply #5701 on:** 05 May, 2022, 12:47:40 pm »

Papillon - Lara Fabian

An album that's a diversion into European electronica for the Belgian chanteuse.

Very laid back.

fd3 · « **Reply #5702 on:** 07 May, 2022, 08:02:15 pm »

S&tB - Through the Looking Glass. I overlook it and it is so excellent, there are maybe two songs that haven't been claimed as theirs.

Steph · « **Reply #5703 on:** 21 May, 2022, 08:04:16 am »

Linda Thompson, 'Versatile Heart'. Stunningly beautiful, with contributions from Rufus Wainwright. I adore the song 'Go Home'/

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #5704 on:** 03 June, 2022, 12:22:16 pm »

Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell. Thanks, spesh

Edit: but a demerit for starting "Bean Stew" with seven bloody minutes of silence. Just stop it, Beat Combos

ravenbait · « **Reply #5705 on:** 03 June, 2022, 03:22:15 pm »

Shearwater's entire back catalogue. Only just discovered them thanks to Spotify's "Radio based on a particular song" -- in this case, "Over the Edge It Goes" by AU4.

Sam

rafletcher · « **Reply #5706 on:** 14 June, 2022, 01:23:32 pm »

Goats Head Soup.

citoyen · « **Reply #5707 on:** 03 July, 2022, 02:18:16 pm »

Black midi - Welcome To Hell

https://youtu.be/Efmq_uXt1Rk

Incredible drumming. Makes Keith Moon look a bit tame.

andrewc · « **Reply #5708 on:** 17 August, 2022, 02:24:12 pm »

https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/098519-011-A/cristian-macelaru-conducts-debussy-rachmaninov-and-saint-saens/

Rather nice. Orchestre National de France.

fd3 · « **Reply #5709 on:** 17 August, 2022, 06:49:39 pm »

Bowie

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #5710 on:** 17 August, 2022, 10:18:53 pm »

Re-ripping a bunch of CD's which were originally done at a lower bit rate so's they'd fit on my iPod. Which has led to listening to Monster Magnet.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #5711 on:** 19 August, 2022, 11:24:43 pm »

Disinclined to hobble upstairs with a wounded knee, it is instead Very Metal Night at Larrington Towers. Swedish types Meshuggah are vying for top slot with Canadian outfit Strapping Young Lad. Very noisy. Very fast drumming.

fd3 · « **Reply #5712 on:** 30 August, 2022, 11:47:45 pm »

PIL: The Flowers of Romance.
I had listened to some of their other stuff and started to wonder why I bothered, then remembered this album. Stupid grin on my face, must be their best album by a long long way.

citoyen · « **Reply #5713 on:** 13 September, 2022, 07:51:25 am »

Anyone fancy a bit of trippy krautrock?

Stereolab have recently released another one of their Switched On compilations of singles and rarities. It includes Simple Headphone Mind*, their rather brilliant 1997 collaboration with Nurse With Wound. It also includes the B-side of that single, which is essentially an extended 21-minute version of the same track with extra noodling. And it’s fucking awesome.

https://youtu.be/qgLgQHvhiSs

*Aficionados will note the title is borrowed from a track by Alcatraz from their Vampire State Building LP. If you need any hint as to the influences.

Pingu · « **Reply #5714 on:** 15 September, 2022, 11:17:21 pm »

Wobbler, Nog prog.

CrazyEnglishTriathlete · « **Reply #5715 on:** 26 September, 2022, 01:46:47 pm »

Scriabin's piano sonatas, the Maria Lettberg edition, which I prefer to most for their ability to capture Scriabin's neurotic and surreal synaesthetic sound world. After initial ads they seem to be ad-free too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a46FAc4d2ek

Wowbagger · « **Reply #5716 on:** 30 October, 2022, 09:37:45 pm »

Beethoven, Symphony no 6. Proms 2012. Conducted by Barenboim.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW-7CqxhnAQ&ab_channel=Mandetriens

I do find the Great Man an odd conductor to watch. His movements often seem to bear no relation to the music. There were occasions in the finale when he simply stopped conducting and mopped his brow. It didn't make any difference. No doubt his musicians know him so well it doesn't matter.

matthew · « **Reply #5717 on:** 31 October, 2022, 01:41:45 pm »

The Young'uns - Ballad of Johnny Longstaff

An album of folk ballads based on the life of Johnny Longstaff (b. 1919 in Stockton) present at the Jarrow hunger marches, Battle of Cable Street, Spanish Civil war (British Brigade). Inspired by his aural history recorded and held by the Imperial War Museum after Johnny's descendant approached the group with a synopsis of his life story at a gig.

I heard them on the final day at Greenbelt when we delayed our departure to listen to their set.

rafletcher · « **Reply #5718 on:** 02 November, 2022, 02:00:54 pm »

Garbage - Anthology

pcolbeck · « **Reply #5719 on:** 18 November, 2022, 05:25:04 pm »

Amanda Shire's latest album.

There is a real Burt Bacharach feel about this track:

https://youtu.be/Tat7BrjXZSA

fd3 · « **Reply #5720 on:** 19 November, 2022, 05:11:37 pm »

Alladdin Sane to Ziggy Stardust of Bowie (studio albums, not featuring the Deram stuff). Followed by Tin Machine and the live albums.
The A to Z approach is because of how it stores in my MP3 player. It does mean that I end on Rock n roll suicide” from “Ziggy, the motion picture”, with “this is the last show we will ever do”.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #5721 on:** 19 November, 2022, 11:37:05 pm »

Rachel Podger.

Pingu · « **Reply #5722 on:** 09 December, 2022, 12:32:41 am »

Quote from: citoyen on 13 September, 2022, 07:51:25 am

Anyone fancy a bit of trippy krautrock?

Stereolab have recently released another one of their Switched On compilations of singles and rarities. It includes Simple Headphone Mind*, their rather brilliant 1997 collaboration with Nurse With Wound. It also includes the B-side of that single, which is essentially an extended 21-minute version of the same track with extra noodling. And it’s fucking awesome.

https://youtu.be/qgLgQHvhiSs

*Aficionados will note the title is borrowed from a track by Alcatraz from their Vampire State Building LP. If you need any hint as to the influences.

Uh-oh

Hot Flatus · « **Reply #5723 on:** 16 December, 2022, 08:46:42 pm »

In the car, I eschewed Gardener's Question Time in favour of Leftfield's new album.

Good choice. Its a banger.

Peter · « **Reply #5724 on:** 16 December, 2022, 10:11:49 pm »

A banger in a banger, then?