Today I am Listening To...

[rogerzilla]

LOL at the guitarist, who looks like Mervyn King's assistant.  Looks like a self-built Strat as it has no name on the headstock.

[Illegal Combat Ant]

Listening (and watching) this excellent <a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/zZaiB9jYCxI&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/zZaiB9jYCxI&rel=1</a> of the Men without Hats video to 'Safety Dance'

I've been giggling like a six year old all day.

[Illegal Combat Ant]

<a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/x182kz" target="_blank">http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/x182kz</a> All because of some new advert for some horrible sickly sweet linctus that used to aid recovery.

[Doosh]

The Walkmen - Lisbon

[nicknack]

An evening of Brian Eno.

'Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)' at the mo.

[Gus]

Red Hot Chili Peppers - I'm with you 

[Biggsy]

Very strange:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/5aqKA_2UUy4&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/5aqKA_2UUy4&rel=1</a>

[David Martin]

Madness NW5 (from The Liberty of Norton Folgate)

[LindaG]

http://youtu.be/HqViJyweNV0

Beautiful.  What would it be like, to make art like this?  But thank God, someone does.

[Peter]

http://youtu.be/HqViJyweNV0

Beautiful.  What would it be like, to make art like this?  But thank God, someone does.

I love their stuff, especially Bright Lights Tonight and Dimming Of The Day.  Not so thrilled by Linda singing You Raise Me Up - not her but the song is so derivative: the "You Raise Me Up" phrase is identical to Danny Boy but noone has acknowledged this.

Do you like Kate and Anna McGarrigle?

[LindaG]

http://youtu.be/HqViJyweNV0

Beautiful.  What would it be like, to make art like this?  But thank God, someone does.

I love their stuff, especially Bright Lights Tonight and Dimming Of The Day.  Not so thrilled by Linda singing You Raise Me Up - not her but the song is so derivative: the "You Raise Me Up" phrase is identical to Danny Boy but noone has acknowledged this.

Do you like Kate and Anna McGarrigle?

I'm afraid I've never heard of them.

[Phil]

I'm on a Bellowhead kick tonight. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBE5ovRJQn8

[RJ]

http://youtu.be/HqViJyweNV0

Beautiful.  What would it be like, to make art like this?  But thank God, someone does.

I love their stuff, especially Bright Lights Tonight and Dimming Of The Day.  Not so thrilled by Linda singing You Raise Me Up - not her but the song is so derivative: the "You Raise Me Up" phrase is identical to Danny Boy but noone has acknowledged this.

Do you like Kate and Anna McGarrigle?

This isn't bad either:  <a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/payivmhyrII&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/payivmhyrII&rel=1</a>

[LindaG]

I love their stuff, especially ... Dimming Of The Day. 

Peter, I only heard of Richard and Linda recently.  I think Bunbury and Deano are fans, and I kind of followed their lead.

I just looked this up.  Oh dear.  It's really very good, isn't it.

[LindaG]

This isn't bad either:  <a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/payivmhyrII&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/payivmhyrII&rel=1</a>

You're not wrong.

[Peter]

Linda, if you like Richard and Linda's harmony singing, then you must hear "I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight".  You must also listen to Kate and Anna McGarrigle, probably their eponymous first album.  But do it sitting down: if it's poignancy + harmony singing you like, then you might actually faint!

[LindaG]

So much music in the world.  Crusty needs to go back to work soon so I can waste my days off on the computer again 

[LindaG]

Linda, if you like Richard and Linda's harmony singing, then you must hear "I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight".  You must also listen to Kate and Anna McGarrigle, probably their eponymous first album.  But do it sitting down: if it's poignancy + harmony singing you like, then you might actually faint!

I've dipped into Kate and Anna, and TBH their voices don't do a lot for me.  However, the music I like best has often left me cold at first then with perserverance proved to be a (lifelong) keeper.  So I haven't given up on them.

Thanks for the tips.

[Peter]

Fair enough, Linda, that's what makes the world go round!  To be fair to K & A, most of the Youtube stuff is live performance from relatively recently when their voices have got a little shriller.  Also Kate was very ill of a particularly horrible kind of total body cancer towards the end of her life.  If you haven't heard it, try the "Go Leave" clip, it's about her break up with Louden Wainwright (she was Rufus's mother).  If you have heard that, then I'm sorry to have gone on about it again!

All the best,

Peter

[woollypigs]

Started with Dr. Jeckyll and Dr. Hyde with their Genius Rap. Which have a sample from the group called Tom Tom Club, whom at first I couldn't remember who they were. So after some wiki'ing around I found out they started as a side project to Talking Heads. So much for listening to 80's old school rap.

[Andrij]

The Gabrieli Consort and assorted soloists performing Mendelssohn's Elijah.  The volume may be turned up a bit higher than absolutely necessary, but I'm enjoying it too much to care what others think.  Besides, it's much more preferable to the noise that comes drifting in off the street.

[perpetual dan]

Recorded spaghetti western orchestra prom. Made me smile, lovely theramin playing.

[interzen]

Various bits of fractally generated ambient/drone music - sort-of kind-of like Brian Eno's past experiments in 'generative' music with a side order of added overall strangeness. Not unpleasant to listen to by any means, but 'interesting' even given my rather wide tastes in sounds.

[Doosh]

Bowie - Hunky Dory
Lennon - Plastic Ono Band

[interzen]

The Tragically Hip¹ - have started with their first EP, which I discovered courtesy of a Canadian I worked with at university, and I'm about halfway through their discography now. I'd quite forgotten how good they are.

¹- The other good band to come out of Canada