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pcolbeck · « **Reply #5200 on:** 08 August, 2018, 12:41:25 pm »

A Southern Rock Opera - Drive by Truckers

Excellent concept album based on Lynyrd Skynyrd and racism in the Southern USA in the 70s.
If you like your concept albums to sound like Yes and involve songs about elves then this isn't one for you. Think swampy triple lead guitar and dark lyrics about George Wallace.
IT also has possibly the best song about a teenager desperate to escape a small town since Born to Run in Zip City. Has the same desperation but less of the hope and joy of Spingsteen's song:

Maybe it's the twenty-six mile drive from Zip City to Colbert Heights
Keeps my mind clean
Gets me through the night
Maybe you're just a destination, a place for me to go
Keeps me from having to deal with my seventeen-year-old mind all alone
Keep your drawers on, girl, it ain't worth the fight
By the time you drop them I'll be gone
And you'll be right where they fall the rest of your life

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #5201 on:** 09 August, 2018, 04:19:14 pm »

DJ Random is definitely in a Janis Joplin mood today

Wowbagger · « **Reply #5202 on:** 09 August, 2018, 10:22:31 pm »

J. S. Bach.

T42 · « **Reply #5203 on:** 10 August, 2018, 07:46:43 am »

The Captain Pugwash signature tune, triggered by the kitchen timer and playing inside my head.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #5204 on:** 10 August, 2018, 04:06:17 pm »

These two:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ir6QosIGMY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lv2OHYI6Y4M

Steph · « **Reply #5205 on:** 13 August, 2018, 09:12:57 pm »

R3, Proms. Just started. Sibelius 5. Sighs happily.

Pedaldog. · « **Reply #5206 on:** 19 August, 2018, 01:09:19 am »

Captain Beefheart's "Electricity".
There are times when you need a certain.... "Musical Slap round the head".

andrewc · « **Reply #5207 on:** 19 August, 2018, 10:51:36 pm »

"The Enid" on Youtube. I saw them live back in the 80's at a place called the Bierkeller in Liverpool. They played this .https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NENYunMB8Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdU5MQKDXsk&frags=pl%2Cwn

Deano · « **Reply #5208 on:** 19 August, 2018, 11:06:19 pm »

I went to Deezer to listen to The Weight by The Band.

Its first hit was a 60s compilation, and I gave it a listen.

Jeez, 60s music was terrible. A few gems, but mainly really awful ballads, terrible covers (does anyone want to hear Cilla Black cover You've Lost that Lovin' Feeling?) and Beatles wannabes.

It was like listening to Dave Travis on GNR. But I couldn't stop, cos when it was good, it was amazing.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #5209 on:** 20 August, 2018, 09:43:12 am »

This Unit recommends the compilations Nuggets, Nuggets II and Mindrocker for lesser- (or un-) known 60s tunes.

simonali · « **Reply #5210 on:** 23 August, 2018, 01:34:14 am »

Quote from: pcolbeck on 25 May, 2018, 02:19:06 pm

And today its a woman who in some way reminds me of Nina Simone, Erykah Badu. I'm working my way through all her albums.
Great covers as well. With a definite nod to 70s album art work:

She is very weird!

https://youtu.be/4cfmEgpOOZk

T42 · « **Reply #5211 on:** 25 August, 2018, 04:03:21 pm »

Morgana King

https://youtu.be/Y1VVJ5B5u-c

pcolbeck · « **Reply #5212 on:** 26 August, 2018, 07:39:38 pm »

In the court of the krimson king - King Krimson

Hadn't heard this for ages. I remembered it for the mellatron but hearing it again my god what drumming!

Wowbagger · « **Reply #5213 on:** 26 August, 2018, 08:07:01 pm »

This:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyZ6Bobga2U

D.A.L.E. · « **Reply #5214 on:** 26 August, 2018, 09:32:15 pm »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j58V2vC9EPc

Kim · « **Reply #5215 on:** 03 September, 2018, 08:10:07 pm »

PING! PING! PING! PING! PING! PING! PING! PING! PING! PING!

ElyDave · « **Reply #5216 on:** 07 September, 2018, 02:20:26 pm »

The remastered Led Zep live album The Song Remains the Same; just getting to the end of the 29 minute version of Dazed and Confused.

SWMBO doesn't get rock and roll

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #5217 on:** 17 September, 2018, 04:48:20 am »

Bleak Expectations. Quite amusing in a sub-Goonish kind of way.

Legs · « **Reply #5218 on:** 17 September, 2018, 08:46:49 am »

Cornershop's Handcream for a Generation.

Lessons Learnt From Rocky I To Rocky III is a real classic

pcolbeck · « **Reply #5219 on:** 17 September, 2018, 10:15:14 am »

Can you see - Marshall Tucker Band

Great intro and best use of a flute in a rock song no 2 - Kept of the top spot by something by Jethro Tull

Legs · « **Reply #5220 on:** 17 September, 2018, 11:03:00 am »

Quote from: pcolbeck on 17 September, 2018, 10:15:14 am

Great intro and best use of a flute in a rock song no 2 - Kept of the top spot by something by Jethro Tull

How about Thijs van Leer's flute stylings for Focus?

pcolbeck · « **Reply #5221 on:** 28 September, 2018, 10:31:18 pm »

Mrs P Colbeck put the radio on Radio 2 and its been stuck there all evening. There was a terrible show tunes show but now we have sounds of the 80s and its been mainly good sounds of the 80s. Gloria Estefan Dr Beat anyone ?

pcolbeck · « **Reply #5222 on:** 28 September, 2018, 10:33:49 pm »

Even better the Go Go's-We Got the Beat !

T42 · « **Reply #5223 on:** 30 September, 2018, 03:25:43 pm »

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

pcolbeck · « **Reply #5224 on:** 04 October, 2018, 08:46:02 pm »

Quote from: T42 on 30 September, 2018, 03:25:43 pm

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

Just listened to that on Radio 3 in concert - BBC National Opera of Wales

Always strange to hear a non English orchestra play this probably the most English peace of classical music there is.