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Tim Hall · « **Reply #4925 on:** 14 June, 2016, 10:06:38 pm »

Quote from: billplumtree on 14 June, 2016, 07:14:31 pm

Michael Rosen, on R4's My Teenage Diary. Granted, I'm a long-standing fan, but what a lovely bloke. Warm-hearted, intelligent, and hilarious - best thing I've heard for ages, on what can sometimes be a damp squib kinda programme. How could you not love someone who calls his communist father Pater? He'd fit in well here, in fact, with his general excellence, idiosyncratic sense of humour, grammar pedantry, (I'll stop there)

The bit where he related his mother trying to dissuade him from going on a demo was knicker wettingly funny.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #4926 on:** 27 June, 2016, 06:29:01 pm »

Sleep. USAnian stoners from the early 1990s. Think Black Sabbath tribute band but with a singer who makes Ozzy sound like Pavarotti. It's absolutely hysterical but I have an horrible suspcision that they actually meant it.

Their last album was called "Dopesmoker"; the title track is 63 minutes long

Steph · « **Reply #4927 on:** 01 July, 2016, 01:25:38 am »

Preternatural, by Moulettes, followed by Aqualung and Minstrel in the Gallery by Tull.

Riggers · « **Reply #4928 on:** 14 July, 2016, 09:14:55 am »

For the past few days I've been-a-listening to:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gphiFVVtUI&feature=share

A very talented chap is Estas Tonne. Check out his other stuff.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #4929 on:** 16 July, 2016, 07:56:03 pm »

Sonic Death - Early Sonic Youth, 1981-83. If they got a record deal on the back of that then there was even more cocaine floating about the industry than was previously thought possible.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #4930 on:** 24 July, 2016, 09:42:41 pm »

Prom - Ludwig van's Glorious 9th, my droogies!

Jock Stewart · « **Reply #4931 on:** 25 July, 2016, 09:34:25 pm »

Back to The The. Matthew Johnson's got new material brewing. The London East End visionary will soon be hitting the road. Infected and Mind Bomb still send shivers up my spine.

andrewc · « **Reply #4932 on:** 03 August, 2016, 08:55:15 pm »

I needed something to get free postage on an Amazon order. Gidon Kremer playing the Bach Sonataa & Partitas. 2 CD's for £4.99.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #4933 on:** 07 August, 2016, 08:22:35 am »

Beethoven's Waldstein sonata. More than any other Beethoven sonata I have attempted to play, this one has highlighted my utter inadequacy. It is lovely to hear it played properly. I don't know who the pianist is yet.

TheLurker · « **Reply #4934 on:** 07 August, 2016, 12:16:44 pm »

At the moment, The Yardbirds. I shall, if MrsLurker doesn't kill me first*, follow that with some John Mayall.

*You'd think that after nigh on 30 years of blissful *cough* cohabitation with myself that MrsL would have learnt to love such things, but it seems not. Hey ho.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #4935 on:** 09 August, 2016, 06:19:35 pm »

Ludovico Einaudi. An Italian with a melancholic piano.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #4936 on:** 10 August, 2016, 01:59:50 pm »

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 09 August, 2016, 06:19:35 pm

Ludovico Einaudi. An Italian with a melancholic piano.

Edit: He's just cropped up behind Matthew Syed's piece about wiff-waff in the PRC.

andrewc · « **Reply #4937 on:** 13 August, 2016, 10:53:03 pm »

A week or so ago I took delivery of a box set of 50+ mono CD's originally recorded in the mid 40's to mid 50's. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Decca-Sound-Mono-Years-1944-1956/dp/B00QHL0V3C/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1471124757&sr=1-1&keywords=decca+mono

"THE BIRTH OF HI-FI
Today we take high fidelity sound quality for granted, but how did it start? When was the moment when compressed and scratchy sound gave way to natural, realistic sound that captured the whole picture of a performance?
Decca Sound ‘Mono Years’ seeks to answer that question and shows how, 70 years ago, amidst war-time privations, a small team at Decca made technological breakthroughs that brought hi-fi to the world.
This latest cube explores Decca’s earliest high-fidelity history, and restores some restores critically acclaimed albums from ensembles such as the Trio di Trieste, Quintetto Chigiano and Griller Quartet which have not been available since their original LP release more than sixty years ago. An equally impressive array of soloists includes pianists Clifford Curzon, Julius Katchen, Friedrich Gulda and Moura Lypmany and violinists Ruggiero Ricci and Alfredo Campoli. Several generations of cellists are represented with recordings by Pierre Fournier, Maurice Gendron and Zara Nelsova."

I'm now up to disk 12 & so far there hasn't been a duff one. Some familiar tunes but also a lot of stuff I've not heard before. Recommended

Ruthie · « **Reply #4938 on:** 21 August, 2016, 01:02:46 pm »

Wiggins mit Weller on 6 Music

Riggers · « **Reply #4939 on:** 09 September, 2016, 12:58:04 pm »

Currently listening to:

http://www.rainymood.com

Andrij · « **Reply #4940 on:** 09 September, 2016, 07:58:32 pm »

Verdi's Requiem.

I am very tempted to turn it up to 11.

tiermat · « **Reply #4941 on:** 20 September, 2016, 03:06:31 pm »

Opposites - Biffy Clyro

sg37409 · « **Reply #4942 on:** 24 September, 2016, 12:19:34 pm »

levelling the land, got my ticket through for their 25th anniversary tour this week.

CrazyEnglishTriathlete · « **Reply #4943 on:** 25 September, 2016, 06:07:11 pm »

Sorabji - Opus Clavicembalisticum recorded by John Ogden.

Because I am stuck working in a hotel in Sao Paulo and have the time to do so. A remarkable composer and an equally remarkable pianist, a recording after he was recovering from a long mental breakdown and not long before a tragically early death from diabetes complications.

pcolbeck · « **Reply #4944 on:** 26 September, 2016, 10:48:43 am »

Quote from: sg37409 on 24 September, 2016, 12:19:34 pm

levelling the land, got my ticket through for their 25th anniversary tour this week.

Oh heck that makes me feel old.

Nearly as bad as hearing that Primal Scream did the whole of Screamadelica at Glastonbury in 2011 tto celebrate its 20th anniversary and then realizing that I saw them do it at Glastonbury the year it was released ....

Tim Hall · « **Reply #4945 on:** 27 September, 2016, 12:44:39 pm »

The Tom Robinson Band, recorded live at Golders Green Hippodrome in 1978, courtesy of the 6 Music website.

sg37409 · « **Reply #4946 on:** 28 September, 2016, 11:53:04 pm »

Quote from: pcolbeck on 26 September, 2016, 10:48:43 am

Quote from: sg37409 on 24 September, 2016, 12:19:34 pm
levelling the land, got my ticket through for their 25th anniversary tour this week.

Oh heck that makes me feel old.

Same here. We saw them on the original tour, I still remember the digeriedoo (sp ?) solo with the massive bass. Fantastic.

Tonight, Laurie Anderson, Big Science. (on vinyl, bought in the eighties)

Ham · « **Reply #4947 on:** 29 September, 2016, 12:43:41 pm »

Every now and again Youtube "recommendations" throw up something worth listening to: Cream on US TV in 1968 doing Sunshine of your love - It's an excellent version, worth it for Ginger Baker alone

Legs · « **Reply #4948 on:** 29 September, 2016, 02:54:55 pm »

Tom Rush, The Circle Game. Urge For Going seems very apt on a day like today, and the title track always has me close to tears.

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #4949 on:** 30 September, 2016, 11:05:45 am »

For the first time in decades, Marillion's Misplaced Childhood. Bloody hell, it's pretentious.