Author Topic: Today I am Listening To... (Read 777789 times)

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #5100 on:** 06 October, 2017, 02:47:41 pm »

Luciferian Towers, the latest offering from Godspeed You! Black Emperor. It's rather good.

Quisling · « **Reply #5101 on:** 14 October, 2017, 12:18:53 pm »

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 06 October, 2017, 02:47:41 pm

Luciferian Towers, the latest offering from Godspeed You! Black Emperor. It's rather good.

Me too! Anthem for no state part III is totally awesome. Tippity top notch.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #5102 on:** 14 October, 2017, 12:29:32 pm »

Apropos GY!BE, two thumbs up to Don at Constellation Records in Montréal for sorting out the problem with online ordering and including a handwritten note with the CD. You don't get that from Beardy Branson.

ian · « **Reply #5103 on:** 14 October, 2017, 10:26:54 pm »

Daughter's A Hole in the Earth. Makes me tingle in all the good places.

(In other news, I'm starting to like the new Taylor Swift stuff. I know you were all concerned about this.)

sg37409 · « **Reply #5104 on:** 19 October, 2017, 10:55:35 pm »

The new Robert Plant is brilliant. I didn't have high hopes after Lullaby and the ceaseless bore, but Carry Fire is right up my street, with plenty of eastern and african influences. I didn't bother getting a ticket to see him in glasgow next month, that was a mistake.

Also really liking Justin Adams (guitarist from robert plants' space shifters) new album, Ribbons.

Steph · « **Reply #5105 on:** 19 October, 2017, 11:32:08 pm »

Gone back a few years, and doing the 'M and B's on my CD rack. Bruckner 3, 4 and 8, Brahms 4 and Mahler 5 and 10.

pcolbeck · « **Reply #5106 on:** 20 October, 2017, 08:54:26 am »

Quote from: sg37409 on 19 October, 2017, 10:55:35 pm

The new Robert Plant is brilliant. I didn't have high hopes after Lullaby and the ceaseless bore, but Carry Fire is right up my street, with plenty of eastern and african influences. I didn't bother getting a ticket to see him in glasgow next month, that was a mistake.

That's one of the reasons I like Plant, he keeps changing it round and trying different things. Some work some don't but at least its interesting. A lot of people become their own tribute band but not Percy.

pcolbeck · « **Reply #5107 on:** 20 October, 2017, 09:30:31 am »

Mazzy Star

https://youtu.be/SiO_7LhPZFM

beautiful but I might have to switch to something more up tempo to get the Friday work out of the door.

menthel · « **Reply #5108 on:** 20 October, 2017, 09:43:28 am »

New Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn. Tis very good.

PaulF · « **Reply #5109 on:** 20 October, 2017, 09:58:45 am »

Eastpointers - saw them last night in a village hall a few miles away. Great Celtic band from PEI, they're touring the UK at the moment, in Manchester tonight. If that's your thing try to go to see them.

@menthel if Bela Fleck's your thing you might enjoy them.

menthel · « **Reply #5110 on:** 20 October, 2017, 10:08:40 am »

Quote from: PaulF on 20 October, 2017, 09:58:45 am

Eastpointers - saw them last night in a village hall a few miles away. Great Celtic band from PEI, they're touring the UK at the moment, in Manchester tonight. If that's your thing try to go to see them.

@menthel if Bela Fleck's your thing you might enjoy them.

I will give them a listen!

Steph · « **Reply #5111 on:** 20 October, 2017, 12:48:57 pm »

Quote from: pcolbeck on 20 October, 2017, 09:30:31 am

Mazzy Star

https://youtu.be/SiO_7LhPZFM

beautiful but I might have to switch to something more up tempo to get the Friday work out of the door.

That is one of my all-time favourites. Sandoval's voice is just so vulnerable.
In another take on their music, this one is a song that sums up an awful lot of alcohol-related experiences of my youth: The limping, stumbling guitar is perfection.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OicEoJwJYMk

PaulF · « **Reply #5112 on:** 29 October, 2017, 11:17:21 am »

Bluegrass covers of Radiohead songs.

Steph · « **Reply #5113 on:** 30 October, 2017, 07:36:29 pm »

The wonderful, the amazing John Kirkpatrick. As English as an English thing. 'Blue Balloon', including the lovely little love song Laundroloverette, and 'Black against the snow'.

Steph · « **Reply #5114 on:** 07 November, 2017, 09:26:39 pm »

Radio 3 and a performance of Shostakovitch's 6th. I had almost forgotten how wonderfully bleak the opening movement is; reminds me of Sibelius' 4th.

Jack Standish · « **Reply #5115 on:** 08 November, 2017, 06:48:53 am »

Refreshing my memory of the loudest band in the world - Manowar.

Riggers · « **Reply #5116 on:** 10 November, 2017, 11:37:26 am »

The John Lewis advert* song – The Beatle's Golden Slumbers song, sung by Guy Garvey from Elbow. What a group!

* £7m apparently to make!

pcolbeck · « **Reply #5117 on:** 10 November, 2017, 01:09:49 pm »

Quote from: Riggers on 10 November, 2017, 11:37:26 am

* £7m apparently to make!

One wonders if discounting all their stock to a total of £7m would work just as well.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #5118 on:** 12 November, 2017, 09:21:21 pm »

Volume 13 of His Bobness' "Bootleg Series". Do not be fooled by the reviews; Bob's gospel period was mostly dire.

PaulF · « **Reply #5119 on:** 12 November, 2017, 09:27:29 pm »

Only mostly?

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #5120 on:** 13 November, 2017, 07:38:34 am »

With the exception of his recentish covers albums, which are uniformly dreadful, even the least well-received Bob album has one or two decent tracks on it. But even the live recordings from this era are a bit suspect; things "Like A Rolling Stone" doesn't need include backing singers.

T42 · « **Reply #5121 on:** 13 November, 2017, 08:04:07 am »

There are bad times just around the corner, running in my cerebral hifi. Strikes me that, with a few minor tweaks, it might be re-issued as "The Brexit Song".

Legs · « **Reply #5122 on:** 14 November, 2017, 09:27:10 am »

Quote from: T42 on 13 November, 2017, 08:04:07 am

There are bad times just around the corner, running in my cerebral hifi. Strikes me that, with a few minor tweaks, it might be re-issued as "The Brexit Song".

Maybe this is a suitable antidote? (Also, Dennis DeYoung is the greatest rock balladeer of all time - at least on a par with Messrs Bulsara, Dwight and Barrett - and this is one of his very best.)

Peter · « **Reply #5123 on:** 14 November, 2017, 12:25:38 pm »

I'd never heard of Styx (I'm not American), so I looked them up. Here is what they (or a Styx acolyte) say about themselves on Wikipedia:-

"They are best known for melding the style of pop rock and hard rock with the power of a hard-rock guitar balanced with acoustic guitar, synthesizers mixed with acoustic piano, upbeat tracks with power ballads, and incorporating elements of international musical theatre."

Snappy, no? Another way of saying, "We are not particularly distinctive." And so it proved on listening, to me at any rate! Very competent and a good live act, obviously, but anything less like their name, it's hard to imagine!

Legs · « **Reply #5124 on:** 14 November, 2017, 03:52:21 pm »

Styx is a band of two halves, really - the moderately-hard rock act that Tommy Shaw and James Young wanted to pursue, and the purveyors of power ballads as exemplified by Babe, Come Sail Away and The Best Of Times. They had 'artistic differences' in the 80s which resulted in something of a schism. I'd definitely agree that the rock ballads are not very Stygian!