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Re: Today I am Listening To...
« Reply #5275 on: 13 April, 2019, 11:06:54 am »
Rory Gallagher. Man, he could play.

I saw him at a Kent Custom Bike show.

"Let's have everything louder than everything else!"

Me too Steph. We must have been in the same crowd. That was a long time ago.
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

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Re: Today I am Listening To...
« Reply #5276 on: 25 April, 2019, 03:29:26 pm »
Vltava by Smetana played on the harp by Valérie Milot.

https://youtu.be/TnYCW8eWqQo
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Re: Today I am Listening To...
« Reply #5277 on: 26 April, 2019, 07:47:18 pm »
Vltava by Smetana played on the harp by Valérie Milot.

https://youtu.be/TnYCW8eWqQo

Smetana is great. I love  Má vlast.
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

Re: Today I am Listening To...
« Reply #5278 on: 26 April, 2019, 07:53:56 pm »
Tonight its Grand Funk Railroad "We're an American Band"

They are quite interesting in that they were huge stadium fillers in the 70's, bigger than Aerosmith, Van Halen or any of teh other bands that are still famous but have been just about forgotten now.

Listening to this now I can see why. They fall between two stools, sort of a bit proggy and a bit rock but not a really distinct sound. The songs aren't on the whole memorable either though the musicianship is good. Sort of between the early and the late seventies.

The title track of the album "We're an American Band" is blindingly good though.

https://youtu.be/Zc_JcGuH5Z8
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

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Re: Today I am Listening To...
« Reply #5279 on: 22 May, 2019, 07:28:36 am »
Since Friday, when it was released, "Balance not Symmetry" by Biffy Clyro. A bit of a departure for them as it is a soundtrack album. However it isn't just a commercial cash in album, the film inspired the music and vice versa.

As one review put it, its a return to pre-puzzle Biffy. Fantastic!
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Re: Today I am Listening To...
« Reply #5280 on: 22 May, 2019, 07:53:36 am »
GoT on gits, rather splendid:

https://youtu.be/6i0a7RDPkM8
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Re: Today I am Listening To...
« Reply #5281 on: 11 June, 2019, 10:36:11 am »
Just heard Fauré's choral version of  his Pavane on the car radio. Unfortunately the piano accompanist was a heavyweight boxer on his bran break so the choir was only occasionally audible.  Or maybe the sound guy needed a suppository.
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Re: Today I am Listening To...
« Reply #5282 on: 21 June, 2019, 10:11:08 pm »
Damn.  Flicking through the CD rack I put on Rim Banna's "Revelation Of Ecstasy & Rebellion" ,  that prompted me to Google her & I find that she died last year aged 51. Fuck cancer.


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Re: Today I am Listening To...
« Reply #5283 on: 21 June, 2019, 10:16:35 pm »
What a voice, how sad.
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Re: Today I am Listening To...
« Reply #5284 on: 21 June, 2019, 11:14:50 pm »
French pop music  :sick:

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Love her to bits but....
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Re: Today I am Listening To...
« Reply #5285 on: 24 June, 2019, 09:53:50 pm »
Fanny

https://youtu.be/fWQnCN-MWFg

Never heard of them before today but it seems they were the original all girl rock band. 1970-74. Preceded the Runaways by a fair bit.
Not bad at all.
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

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Re: Today I am Listening To...
« Reply #5286 on: 12 July, 2019, 10:03:44 am »
Liszt orchestral music.  Picked up this 5 volume CD pack on Amazon for £4.99.  Kurt Masur conducting.  Shameful that his Symphonic Poems are hardly ever recorded let alone performed.  Brass sections around the world would be queuing up to thunder audiences with Mazeppa.
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Re: Today I am Listening To...
« Reply #5287 on: 12 July, 2019, 01:38:23 pm »
10,000 Maniacs

Definitely well over a decade since I've had a listen.
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Re: Today I am Listening To...
« Reply #5288 on: 13 July, 2019, 08:21:34 pm »
Deep Purple - Made in Japan.
At max vol. Old Chopsuey AU215 going flat out into a pair of Monitor Audios. Doors and windows wide open. Stuff the neighbours. I have to put up with the rap on one side and the shit R&B on the other.
Best rock album eva!
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Re: Today I am Listening To...
« Reply #5289 on: 13 July, 2019, 10:15:31 pm »
Right now I am listening to Tom Jones performing in, I guess, Eastville Park for Bristol Pride. Ironically events there come in through the window loud and clear but stuff in St Paul's, like Carnival last week, (or say Lakota any night), we don't hear at all despite it being much closer. I'm quite enjoying Tom, I wasn't so keen on Love Saves the Day a couple of months ago.
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Re: Today I am Listening To...
« Reply #5290 on: 13 July, 2019, 10:54:30 pm »
Tom has finished. Sounds like the crowd are bellowing for an encore but I don't think they're going to get one. Apparently he was at the County Ground (cricket stadium) not Eastville.
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Re: Today I am Listening To...
« Reply #5291 on: 14 July, 2019, 12:40:29 pm »
The sound check from some bash over in Lloyd Park.  Highly-educated bunch of soundmans they have over there; this one could count up to seven!
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Re: Today I am Listening To...
« Reply #5292 on: 14 July, 2019, 12:53:37 pm »
Deep Purple - Made in Japan.
At max vol. Old Chopsuey AU215 going flat out into a pair of Monitor Audios. Doors and windows wide open. Stuff the neighbours. I have to put up with the rap on one side and the shit R&B on the other.
Best rock album eva!
I have it on my MP3. Remind me to tell you about chatting to Mr Paice about our ...different experiences of Knebworth. In the meantime,


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Re: Today I am Listening To...
« Reply #5293 on: 14 July, 2019, 09:19:51 pm »
Deep Purple - Made in Japan.
At max vol. Old Chopsuey AU215 going flat out into a pair of Monitor Audios. Doors and windows wide open. Stuff the neighbours. I have to put up with the rap on one side and the shit R&B on the other.
Best rock album eva!

Firat LP I ever got of my own (thanks Aunty Anne). Top rock.
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

Re: Today I am Listening To...
« Reply #5294 on: 15 July, 2019, 09:08:17 pm »
Frightened Rabbit (RIP Scott Hutchison)
The new Biffy Clyro cover of The Modern Leper is a good one, but Scott's solo performance here is brilliant - especially his hilarious audience dialogue at the start:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob3X77TwqEw

Re: Today I am Listening To...
« Reply #5295 on: 01 August, 2019, 11:34:29 am »
Bowie and Tin Machine.  I even enjoyed much of "Tonight".
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Re: Today I am Listening To...
« Reply #5296 on: 03 August, 2019, 07:55:21 pm »
Bach cello suites, played by Paul Tortelier.   a 3LP box set from Oxfam.
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Re: Today I am Listening To...
« Reply #5298 on: 04 August, 2019, 10:59:49 am »
IRTA foreskins, and my mind was truly boggled.

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Re: Today I am Listening To...
« Reply #5299 on: 04 August, 2019, 11:01:01 am »
I think mine just did too.
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