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David Martin · « **Reply #5000 on:** 15 February, 2017, 08:33:50 pm »

Gottundammerung.. Wagner's ring cycle is all about some git who wouldn't pay the builders for creating a wall whilst doing dodgy deals with a theif from a different land.

Steph · « **Reply #5001 on:** 16 February, 2017, 08:31:36 pm »

Quote from: Riggers on 07 February, 2017, 01:54:29 pm

I'm listening to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=565tXd1UyYI

But be warned! Viewing this might compel you to 'Prancercise', or just be sick.

My eyes! I am reminded of Lamia's sister in Greg Bear's 'Serpent Mage', or TP's 'Witches Abroad' and its ugly sisters. The ones with too many joints in their limbs...

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #5002 on:** 28 February, 2017, 07:03:20 pm »

Thank you DJ Random for playing Sleep's "Dopesmoker" this afternoon. All sixty-three and a half minutes of it. Yes, it is just one track, and not a live recording either.

Ruthie · « **Reply #5003 on:** 01 March, 2017, 06:55:49 pm »

The Maccabees

David Martin · « **Reply #5004 on:** 04 March, 2017, 08:10:05 pm »

voces8 - various choral albums.

andrewc · « **Reply #5005 on:** 06 March, 2017, 09:08:38 pm »

A rather wonderful Mahler box set. £18.99 via https://www.amazon.co.uk/Complete-Mahler-Symphonies-Leonard-Bernstein/dp/B005SJIP1E

Just finished No3 , highly recommended if you like Mahler

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #5006 on:** 18 March, 2017, 08:04:09 pm »

Keef - Crosseyed Heart.

pcolbeck · « **Reply #5007 on:** 19 March, 2017, 11:13:21 am »

Quote from: andrewc on 06 March, 2017, 09:08:38 pm

A rather wonderful Mahler box set. £18.99 via https://www.amazon.co.uk/Complete-Mahler-Symphonies-Leonard-Bernstein/dp/B005SJIP1E

Just finished No3 , highly recommended if you like Mahler

Thanks that looks interesting and cheap. I hadn't really thought about Bernstein for Mahler, all my recordings are Klemperer or Walter.

[EDIT]

Bought it and have listened to the First Symphony - very good.

Riggers · « **Reply #5008 on:** 23 March, 2017, 10:48:11 am »

Michael Nyman's Decay Music

pcolbeck · « **Reply #5009 on:** 30 March, 2017, 04:56:01 pm »

Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood - Crossroads Guitar Festival 2007

Blimey they were on fire for this. Cool backing band as well including Derek Trucks and Doyle Bramhall II.

https://youtu.be/6DYC61HzmtM

Dear Mr. Fantasy play us a tune
Something to make us all happy
Do anything, take us out of this gloom
Sing a song, play guitar, make it snappy

pcolbeck · « **Reply #5010 on:** 31 March, 2017, 12:13:19 pm »

I am about to have a Traffic marathon as Amazon have just delivered a boxed set of five classic Traffic albums, a bargain for £9.99. No it doesn't include "Hole in my shoe" (thank god) but you do get "Dear Mr Fantasy", "John Barlycorn must die" and "The low spark of high heeled boys",

Ham · « **Reply #5011 on:** 31 March, 2017, 03:08:16 pm »

Izo Fitzroy, found first on the Blues Kitchen

dim · « **Reply #5012 on:** 31 March, 2017, 09:21:11 pm »

Stanley Brinks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOIHV8iyzfU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6y1DJ-ysS24

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8unrOg4HquU

dim · « **Reply #5013 on:** 31 March, 2017, 09:46:05 pm »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4Tls9bWwMU

Riggers · « **Reply #5014 on:** 06 April, 2017, 11:34:27 am »

Programme about Edward Thomas. Radio 4 right now!

And the Afternoon Play about him tomorrow afternoon on R4 at 2.30pm.

Paul · « **Reply #5015 on:** 08 April, 2017, 12:51:11 am »

Love: Alone Again Or.

andrewc · « **Reply #5016 on:** 08 April, 2017, 12:57:44 am »

Frak! Midnight Oil are touring, but the only available gig is a Sunday night in That London. That's an expensive evening, ticket, train & hotel

T42 · « **Reply #5017 on:** 20 April, 2017, 11:46:26 am »

In the workshop this morning I got fed up listening to France Info's repetitive pre-election waffle and put Aaron Copland on the mifi**. The left channel had dropped out for some reason but I was using whirry electrics so I decided the one channel would do and bumped up the volume to compensate. About two minutes into Appalachian Spring, the loud bit with triumphant brass and mucho percussion, the missing channel cut in. The shop has concrete walls, roof & floor so the effect was rib-rattling, very like being inside one of the speakers.

But it was bloody wonderful so I left it that way until I needed to think.

** in this case half-buggered 1981 Sony music centre with still-good amp & hefty separate CD deck, playing through speakers with 8" woofers.

sg37409 · « **Reply #5018 on:** 20 April, 2017, 12:08:05 pm »

Quote from: andrewc on 08 April, 2017, 12:57:44 am

Frak! Midnight Oil are touring, but the only available gig is a Sunday night in That London. That's an expensive evening, ticket, train & hotel

Bah. I saw them in Glasgow on the beds are burning tour. It was a fantastic gig. I've often looked to see if they were touring since but never have. No chance I can make that Hammersmith date.

pcolbeck · « **Reply #5019 on:** 21 April, 2017, 05:31:03 pm »

UFO

The bridge between early 70s rock and NWOBHM. Some great songs.

arabella · « **Reply #5020 on:** 24 April, 2017, 09:52:08 pm »

Warsaw Village Band, better known as Kapela ze wsi Warszawa.
You'll probably like it if you like Hawk and a Hacksaw, Gogol Bordello, Taraf de Haidouks and similar.
There's loads on youtube.

Andrij · « **Reply #5021 on:** 25 April, 2017, 09:55:08 am »

Quote from: arabella on 24 April, 2017, 09:52:08 pm

Warsaw Village Band, better known as Kapela ze wsi Warszawa.
You'll probably like it if you like Hawk and a Hacksaw, Gogol Bordello, Taraf de Haidouks and similar.
There's loads on youtube.

Dziękuję bardzo!

Redlight · « **Reply #5022 on:** 25 April, 2017, 10:40:43 am »

The Beach Boys' "Pet Sounds", which comes off the shelf once a year or so. It's not, perhaps, quite the perfect album that it's sometimes made out to be but it's still an impressive recording. I'd love to have heard what Brian Wilson would have done with those arrangements had he been able to hear with both ears and recorded the album in stereo.

Redlight · « **Reply #5023 on:** 01 May, 2017, 04:45:38 pm »

L.P. - Saw her performing (lip-synching, I think) this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn3wJ1_1Zsg a couple of times at the recording of Later last week and the CD dropped through the letterbox while I was off riding the London-Wales-London on Saturday with the damn song going round and round me head as an ear worm for 400km.

Jakob · « **Reply #5024 on:** 03 May, 2017, 10:36:34 pm »

U2. They're doing tour rehearsal in the stadium across the street!