Author Topic: Today I am Listening To... (Read 768670 times)

fd3 · « **Reply #5600 on:** 12 August, 2021, 12:22:02 am »

Based on my previous outburst, I'm listening to a bootleg copy of what may well be "Leon" by Bowie.

ravenbait · « **Reply #5601 on:** 12 August, 2021, 05:46:25 pm »

Sumer Is Icumen In (The Pagan Sound Of British And Irish Folk 1966-75). A three disc compilation from Grapefruit that contains a few tracks I already have (Magnet's Corn Rigs is an example, Steeleye Span is well represented, there's some Fairport, Pentangle, Incredible String Band) and a whole bunch I don't. Well. Didn't. It's basically Acid Folk meets Folk Horror with that very British 70s sensibility that could be found underpinning many a pagan moot well into the late nineties. I ordered it from Red Cherry Records, as the MP3 version on Amazon doesn't have the full track listing -- clearly copyright issues prevented them releasing some of the tracks in digital format. I wouldn't have bothered with the MP3 version, although you can find it on Spotify or Amazon Unlimited if you have either of those.

Sam

fd3 · « **Reply #5602 on:** 12 August, 2021, 07:39:54 pm »

Brian Boru by Alan Stivell - not by choice, my wife got hold of the ipod (in bluetooth mode) and changed tracks on me.
It's a bit dated.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #5603 on:** 12 August, 2021, 10:44:25 pm »

DJ Random is determined to make me listen to Iron Butterfly today. There are only so many live versions of “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” one can take in a day, and I think I've exceeded the limit.

CrazyEnglishTriathlete · « **Reply #5604 on:** 19 August, 2021, 02:24:02 pm »

Erkki Melartin - the solo piano works - by the incomparable Maria Lettberg. There are hours of them, which are keeping my sanity whilst I try to fill in the gaps in an internal audit file that needs to be closed out.

Legs · « **Reply #5605 on:** 26 August, 2021, 03:04:02 pm »

Genesis. I'm super-excited about seeing them in Manchester next month. Trying to teach myself how to love some of their proggy 70s stuff, with limited success. I keep coming back to some of the classic album tracks from the 80s and 90s like The Brazilian, Fading Lights, Home By The Sea and Dreaming While You Sleep, though.

L CC · « **Reply #5606 on:** 26 August, 2021, 09:15:23 pm »

Quote from: Legs on 26 August, 2021, 03:04:02 pm

Genesis. I'm super-excited about seeing them in Manchester next month. Trying to teach myself how to love some of their proggy 70s stuff, with limited success. I keep coming back to some of the classic album tracks from the 80s and 90s like The Brazilian, Fading Lights, Home By The Sea and Dreaming While You Sleep, though.

Mr Smith's no1 son is cheffing for them. Mr Smith is very looking forward to a freebie ticket at Newcastle. As he said to the lad "don't bother with one for fboab. I don't think she'll develop a prog interest by then"

Pingu · « **Reply #5607 on:** 26 August, 2021, 09:51:52 pm »

Is Peter Gabriel back with them then?

Legs · « **Reply #5608 on:** 27 August, 2021, 08:54:14 am »

Quote from: Pingu on 26 August, 2021, 09:51:52 pm

Is Peter Gabriel back with them then?

Nah, I think the line-up is Collins/Banks/Rutherford/Collins/Stuermer.

Pingu · « **Reply #5609 on:** 27 August, 2021, 09:11:00 am »

Then I'm guessing there won't be much prog?

Legs · « **Reply #5610 on:** 27 August, 2021, 10:08:26 am »

I dunno, on their 2007 tour they did In The Cage, Carpet Crawlers, I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe) and Firth of Fifth... But I suspect there will be quite a bias towards material from the '83 album, Invisible Touch and We Can't Dance.

fd3 · « **Reply #5611 on:** 06 September, 2021, 10:31:57 pm »

The Associates - Affectionate Punch
The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour

I may have to come to terms with not having a place for any more new (to me) music.

pcolbeck · « **Reply #5612 on:** 11 September, 2021, 09:05:51 pm »

Sheryl Crow live on Radio 2.

"If it makes you happy" is a completely different song live shorn of the production gloss of the single. Much much better and quite bitter.

fd3 · « **Reply #5613 on:** 13 September, 2021, 06:41:51 pm »

Sheryl Crow? We can never be friends.

Wire 154; liked it much more than Pink Flag or Chairs Missing. Their latest album is really quite accessible.

pcolbeck · « **Reply #5614 on:** 14 September, 2021, 08:40:43 am »

Quote from: fd3 on 13 September, 2021, 06:41:51 pm

Sheryl Crow? We can never be friends.

Yeh, I don't really l like her records either but whenever she pops up live or singing with someone else she's brilliant. Probably those years working as a backing singer.

fd3 · « **Reply #5615 on:** 23 September, 2021, 09:22:58 pm »

Moar Wire.
How does one properly appraise a “new to you” band that has spanned 3-4 genres and has over a dozen albums? I have been reading through a thread about their albums on stevehoffmanforums and following their discography on YouTube as I go.

Pingu · « **Reply #5616 on:** 24 September, 2021, 12:11:44 am »

Quote from: fd3 on 23 September, 2021, 09:22:58 pm

...How does one properly appraise a “new to you” band that has spanned 3-4 genres and has over a dozen albums?...

It's new to you. That is all.

fd3 · « **Reply #5617 on:** 24 September, 2021, 05:04:50 pm »

Yeahbut, is it worth listening to? Do you decide based on one album? Two? Three?

rogerzilla · « **Reply #5618 on:** 25 September, 2021, 07:58:44 pm »

Level 42 - It's Over, an uncommonly good (and very sad) song with absolutely no slap bass in it.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #5619 on:** 30 September, 2021, 08:28:41 pm »

Discovered this via Ajax third kit and I love it:
https://youtu.be/1Sw2JJ5nSbM

No, I'm not jersey guy!

Tim Hall · « **Reply #5620 on:** 14 October, 2021, 04:08:27 pm »

Nobody's Hero by SLF on 6 Music. Well done that Lammo.

rafletcher · « **Reply #5621 on:** 15 October, 2021, 09:49:31 pm »

On a BBC 4 documentary, Bille Holliday singing Strange Fruit. Wow.

fd3 · « **Reply #5622 on:** 29 October, 2021, 11:34:51 am »

^ Biggest artist in the world, still had to use the servants' entrance in Southern States. My first hearing of that song was the cover by S&tB, a point of discussion these days I suppose.

Listened to "Beyond Now" by Donny McCaslin (the band that did Blackstar with Bowie), a couple Bowie covers and some tracks that sound like Bowie/NiN played by a Jazz ensemble.

Paul · « **Reply #5623 on:** 29 October, 2021, 10:40:22 pm »

The BBC have just, on their Great Guitars Riffs (BBC4), followed ACDC’s Rock and Roll Damnation with The Smith’s Hand in Glove.
The change was so abrupt I have whiplash!

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #5624 on:** 10 November, 2021, 11:46:58 pm »

Sons Of Alpha Centauri. A band whose gigging history makes Half Man Half Biscuit look like workaholics. Instrumental (apart from their most recent offering, “Push”) space rock/stoner rock.