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Post by jk on Jan 4, 2021 4:06:48 GMT -5
Today, enjoying: The Byrds - Younger Than YesterdayFreddie Hubbard - Red ClayBeach Boys - Wild Honey (stereo mix on Sunshine Tomorrow) Bill Evans Trio - ExplorationsBillie Holiday - Quintessential Vol. 2Listening to Explorations now (at midnight). Why does jazz sound best late at night, I wonder? I thought "Nardis" sounded familiar! I have it on Mike Stern's 1992 album Standards (and Other Songs): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Stern
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Post by E on Jan 8, 2021 13:11:58 GMT -5
Yep.
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Post by Will/P.P. on Jan 8, 2021 16:23:54 GMT -5
Ed, I can't believe it. We are so many miles apart, but I listened to the Jackson clip of "The Waiting"
this morning, as well. I wrote down the code for another song from Jackson. I'll try to post it today.
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Post by E on Jan 9, 2021 7:51:46 GMT -5
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Post by jk on Jan 19, 2021 5:29:41 GMT -5
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Post by pendlewitch on Jan 23, 2021 9:40:12 GMT -5
I caught some of BBC4's Neil Diamond evening last night. (Almost got me to 1 am awake.)
Neil and Shirley were performing excellently for the song below!
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Post by jk on Jan 23, 2021 13:57:47 GMT -5
I caught some of BBC4's Neil Diamond evening last night. (Almost got me to 1 am awake.)
Neil and Shirley were performing excellently for the song below!
Hi, pw. Very nice too -- duets of this calibre really tend to separate the men/women from the boys/girls.
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Post by jk on Feb 19, 2021 7:52:07 GMT -5
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Post by E on Feb 28, 2021 17:35:45 GMT -5
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Post by sneakypete77 on Mar 13, 2021 8:39:42 GMT -5
We moved house in December '88 and I managed to break the TV in the process. This was on the radio constantly, and like everyone else and his dog I just assumed this was McCartney's yuletide effort, until we bought ourselves a new set for Christmas and saw this on Top Of The Pops:
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Post by jk on Mar 13, 2021 12:17:52 GMT -5
We moved house in December '88 and I managed to break the TV in the process. This was on the radio constantly, and like everyone else and his dog I just assumed this was McCartney's yuletide effort, until we bought ourselves a new set for Christmas and saw this on Top Of The Pops:
Peter, I can see (or rather hear) why everyone would make that mistake! I had that with Jimmy Nail's "Ain't No Doubt" whenever I heard it on the car radio -- it was the Macca-esque "She's lying" that threw me off course. Love, love, love this record, and what a wonderfully cheesy video! (It sticks out a mile that Nail is/was an actor.)
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Post by filledeplage on Mar 14, 2021 8:19:22 GMT -5
Lockdown protest song.
some English subtitles...
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Post by jk on Mar 20, 2021 9:17:56 GMT -5
Here are three great mid-sixties tracks I heard in an episode of The Queen's Gambit last night.
"You're The One" (The Vogues), "Bert's Blues" (Donovan) and "Mexican Highway" (Pedro Gonzales and His Mexican Brass):
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Post by jk on Mar 21, 2021 6:48:15 GMT -5
Three slightly more modern tracks now, this time from the crazy 2016 film Toni Erdmann, which we watched on Belgian TV last night. "Safe & Sound" (Capital Cities; Tommie Sunshine & Live City Remix), "One Thing" (Me & My Toothbrush; Nora En Pure Remix) and "Plainsong" (The Cure):
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Post by jk on Apr 8, 2021 5:26:34 GMT -5
A e s t h e t i c T r i p (Vaporwave Beachwave Aesthetic Mix/Compilation) 2021, uploaded by Retro Player One. I love this stuff:
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Post by jk on Apr 12, 2021 2:29:23 GMT -5
I've been investigating the first of a couple of playlists the uploader describes as "''60s Italian Film Compositions". I was surprised how many tracks were familiar to me from research for my "adult" OST topic. Only a couple have extramusical elements (dialogue and stuff) that point to the film in question. Almost everything else works wonderfully well as music in its own right. Ideal for a late-night listen:
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Post by jk on May 11, 2021 16:33:45 GMT -5
This [was] rather cool, if a little weird. It's "Guru-Vin" from Don Sebesky's kaleidoscopic 1968 album The Distant Galaxy. That's Larry Coryell on electric sitar and vocalist Lois Winter doing what one commentator describes as "pseudo-psychodelic tantric caterwauling". www.discogs.com/Don-Sebesky-The-Distant-Galaxy/release/2909446
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Post by jk on May 22, 2021 5:28:25 GMT -5
I always get back to this album sooner or later -- it's an inevitability. Orange Crate Art is so good! This sublime collaboration between VDP and BDW blurs the rough edges of both -- I find Van Dyke generally quite hard to take, same goes for much of the Big Fella's solo stuff. So for me OCA is the perfect solution.
On "My Hobo Heart", Brian's opening and closing vocal statement and VDP's descending chords never fail to recall the opening of John Lennon's "Bless You". Great minds, no doubt -- with a little help from Stevie Wonder, methinks:
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Post by jasonaustin on May 22, 2021 10:19:01 GMT -5
Well, per my avatar I've been on a huge Brit-rock kick, with Happy Mondays leading the charge.
Although I was around and listening to new music in the nineties, so many of these bands never made much of an impact in America-- and some of the ones that did (Soup Dragons, EMF, Jesus Jones?) are almost like novelty acts compared to the leading lights of that whole scene. So it's been a joy to go back and find groups like Magazine, A Certain Ratio, Suede, Manic Street Preachers, the Damned, the Wedding Present, etc. There's a seemingly never-ending well of great British bands from roughly 1977-2000 that I'm uncovering all the time via sites like Trouser Press, so it's been a very cool period of musical discovery for me.
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Post by jk on May 22, 2021 12:36:40 GMT -5
Well, per my avatar I've been on a huge Brit-rock kick, with Happy Mondays leading the charge. Although I was around and listening to new music in the nineties, so many of these bands never made much of an impact in America-- and some of the ones that did (Soup Dragons, EMF, Jesus Jones?) are almost like novelty acts compared to the leading lights of that whole scene. So it's been a joy to go back and find groups like Magazine, A Certain Ratio, Suede, Manic Street Preachers, the Damned, the Wedding Present, etc. There's a seemingly never-ending well of great British bands from roughly 1977-2000 that I'm uncovering all the time via sites like Trouser Press, so it's been a very cool period of musical discovery for me. Hi Jason. Well, Happy Mondays featured in a very cool film about those years called 24 Hour Party People starring Steve Coogan. It's well worth checking out. Perhaps you know this great if fairly stoned video of them performing "Hallelujah" with, of all people, Kirsty McColl: As someone who cut their musical teeth in the 1960s, I myself have had an awful lot of catching up to do! That said, I can heartily recommend three UK albums very dear to me from the period you mention: The Stone Roses' self-titled debut (1989), Primal Scream's Screamadelica (1991) and Spiritualized's Ladies and Gentleman We Are Floating in Space (1997). Of course, if you're checking out The Damned, feel free to join in the EH topic I began on them a short while back. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24_Hour_Party_People
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Post by jasonaustin on May 23, 2021 14:43:12 GMT -5
Oh yeah, 24 Hour Party People is tops. It was that film that actually got me into the Mondays, vis a vis Tony Wilson's (by way of Coogan's) infatuation with them.
Big fan of the three you mention: Screamadelica, Ladies and Gentlemen and Stone Roses. Throw in Loveless and The Verve's A Storm in Heaven and that might be my five favorite albums of the 1990s.
I'm just familiarizing myself with The Damned right now! I'm working my way through their catalog chronologically and just obtained copies of Strawberries and The Black Album. I'll be sure to chime in once I'm more acquainted with their stuff.
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Post by jk on May 24, 2021 9:43:12 GMT -5
Oh yeah, 24 Hour Party People is tops. It was that film that actually got me into the Mondays, vis a vis Tony Wilson's (by way of Coogan's) infatuation with them. Big fan of the three you mention: Screamadelica, Ladies and Gentlemen and Stone Roses. Throw in Loveless and The Verve's A Storm in Heaven and that might be my five favorite albums of the 1990s. I'm just familiarizing myself with The Damned right now! I'm working my way through their catalog chronologically and just obtained copies of Strawberries and The Black Album. I'll be sure to chime in once I'm more acquainted with their stuff. Slowdive's Souvlaki is another '90s album I love. Highly recommended if you don't know it (or even if you do). Good luck with The Damned!
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Post by jk on Jun 14, 2021 15:07:58 GMT -5
Well I never -- Boy George turns 60 today (with thanks to SJS at BBT for the heads up). This is "Miss Me Blind" from Culture Club's second album Colour by Numbers: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colour_by_Numbers
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Post by jk on Jul 9, 2021 7:06:22 GMT -5
Fingers firmly crossed for Sunday!
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Post by Will/P.P. on Jul 9, 2021 23:59:37 GMT -5
I passed on saying much about the 4th of July Mike's Beach Boys concert. The snippets version from Rockin' with Dan at youtube showed it was a hit and miss night. They sounded good enough, mostly.
I don't have that clip. What I picked up on to explore was: Why did Eichenberger sound worse than I had ever heard him before? AndrewHickey mentioned it... anyway, bad mix or not, Ike was in no mood to sing "Don't Worry Baby". He sounded better near the end of the show on "Kokomo".
Here's Pre-Covid:
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