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hatler · « **Reply #5475 on:** 14 November, 2020, 08:16:31 pm »

The Nick Turner Conspiracy. Angry in Fremantle. Mildly topical.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7OJcUK0qHA

andrewc · « **Reply #5476 on:** 14 November, 2020, 08:58:58 pm »

Coleman Hawkins earlier , now it's Courtney Pine.

Legs · « **Reply #5477 on:** 25 November, 2020, 08:19:47 am »

The 2020 album from Cornershop, England Is A Garden. Thumbs up from here.

CrazyEnglishTriathlete · « **Reply #5478 on:** 28 November, 2020, 10:04:49 pm »

Russian Circles - Live at Dunkfest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qICEymUL0Vo&t=6s

CommuteTooFar · « **Reply #5479 on:** 04 December, 2020, 06:44:11 pm »

Sophie Menter - Concert in a Hungarian Style

Sophie Mentor was a 19th century pianist. She was one of the last Liszt pupils. He encouraged her to compose. She in turn chose Hungarian style to please him. Liszt told Sophie to take it her friend Tchaikovsky for orchestration. So we have a piece of music that is better than the Tchaikovsky concertos and is not Liszt.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #5480 on:** 06 December, 2020, 06:51:13 pm »

DJ Random seems determined to make me listen to “Embryonic Journey” by Hot Tuna today.

Legs · « **Reply #5481 on:** 07 December, 2020, 01:34:28 pm »

Today is five hours of Sufjan Stevens' festive music.

pcolbeck · « **Reply #5482 on:** 10 December, 2020, 07:58:30 am »

"Me & Magdalena" from The Monkee's 2016 album "Good Times!"

Vocals by Mike Nesmith and Micky Dolenz and it's lovely. Ran into this after it was linked in a newspaper article. I might have to try the rest of the album now.

https://youtu.be/FNbNYA_rh_E

woollypigs · « **Reply #5483 on:** 10 December, 2020, 10:12:39 am »

Access Denied by Asian Dub Foundation

https://asiandubfoundation.bandcamp.com/album/access-denied

tiermat · « **Reply #5484 on:** 10 December, 2020, 02:44:03 pm »

Quote from: woollypigs on 10 December, 2020, 10:12:39 am

Access Denied by Asian Dub Foundation

https://asiandubfoundation.bandcamp.com/album/access-denied

Cracking album and one that brought them back onto my radar. They still haven't managed the tour de force that was "Rafi's Revenge" though.

Meanwhile I am listening to a retrospective of 2020 music, all the stuff I "missed". Mostly I can see why I missed it

woollypigs · « **Reply #5485 on:** 10 December, 2020, 03:10:02 pm »

Just got up from the floor, Asian Dub Foundation just retweeted a tweet of mine ?!?!?!

Which makes me happy that I put an extra few coins in the tin when I ordered the CD well the .zip of the album

pcolbeck · « **Reply #5486 on:** 17 December, 2020, 10:31:48 am »

DBT - Quarantine Together

A song for the times.

https://youtu.be/j0D-UghxJU8

woollypigs · « **Reply #5487 on:** 19 December, 2020, 06:24:11 pm »

another (well a collection) song of our times https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Zi0MYQK5k8

tiermat · « **Reply #5488 on:** 22 December, 2020, 02:12:30 pm »

Having just watched "A Fat Wreck", a documentary about Fat Wreck Chords and Fat Mike, I have been listening to some of said label's output. Most surprising track is NoFX vs Frank Turner "Thatcher Fucked the Kids", I love it!

fd3 · « **Reply #5489 on:** 24 December, 2020, 12:41:02 pm »

Bowie’s Gouster. Less eclectic than Young Americans (which it would eventually become). The internet has really helped to explain this period which was a mystery to me when I first bought Young Americans in the early/mid 90s, with no internet to explain to me wtaf was going on.

rafletcher · « **Reply #5490 on:** 24 December, 2020, 12:49:33 pm »

His Bobness' "Desire", whci I realised I hadn't listed to for at least a decade. I do enjoy Scarlet Rivera's violin-ing.

fd3 · « **Reply #5491 on:** 24 December, 2020, 02:16:15 pm »

Interesting how you can have an absolutely awesome album and not listen to it for years - I think it’s down to both not having the time to sit down with an LP like what we did back in the days and having many more albums than what we did back in the days.

nicknack · « **Reply #5492 on:** 24 December, 2020, 02:24:25 pm »

Funke and the Two Tone Baby.
Here he is at one of my favourite boozers doing 'Bella's Kiss' - which seems appropriate for what's coming on Boxing Day.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #5493 on:** 25 December, 2020, 06:19:38 pm »

Long Time Passing. The Kronos Quartet does Pete Seeger. Er, interesting…

fd3 · « **Reply #5494 on:** 28 December, 2020, 12:02:34 pm »

Blackstar by Bowie.
I will be contentious and say that it is his best album.

rogerzilla · « **Reply #5495 on:** 31 December, 2020, 04:55:15 pm »

"Black Man Ray" by China Crisis. What a tune.

fd3 · « **Reply #5496 on:** 08 January, 2021, 06:56:13 pm »

Less favored Bowie albums:
Space Oddity aka David Bowie
The Next Day
... hours

Both of them really rather good.

Happy Bowie Day

CrazyEnglishTriathlete · « **Reply #5497 on:** 12 January, 2021, 10:57:05 pm »

Sorabji, Transcendental Studies 84 - 100, which arrived courtesy of an Amazon elf today. Fredrik Ullen has completed his recording of the 100 Transcendental Studies, by one of the most reclusive and idiosyncratic composers in history. The first set was recorded in 2005 and it has been a 5 year wait since the last. Ullen, a Swedish pianist and neuroscientist, does a remarkable job in turning the incomprehensible into something that merely bewilders my poor brain and transports me to some other world where this bizarre music somehow makes sense. It is brilliantly recorded and produced by BIS, and deserves to be a candidate for the recording project of this century, even if it will never enter the heady heights of the top 1000 albums in classical music.

TheLurker · « **Reply #5498 on:** 16 January, 2021, 08:21:59 am »

UmmaGumma. Which, according to the scribble on the liner, I bought at Sheffield in March 1980.

fd3 · « **Reply #5499 on:** 17 January, 2021, 01:13:48 pm »

So this year I plan to try and listen to more of the music I have on the ipod, as opposed to the same thing again and again.
Breeders - last splash : better than expected, not actually a one hit wonder.
New Model Army - no rest for the wicked : not quite sure what the point of this is. I wasn't into them back in the day so only know them for "Vagabonds" and I don't think I will listen to them again.
PIL - album (live at Brixton) : Strop spitting you London Cunts.
Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars : makes the rest of my record collection shuffle their feet with embarrassment. Most artists would retire after an album like that, how do you do better than this? Potentially top five Bowie material.