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Post by sneakypete77 on Dec 14, 2019 5:50:23 GMT -5
....but before then, while Will is catching up on his beauty sleep. With a sparkling intro and the odd interjection in the appropriate moments:
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2019 9:31:31 GMT -5
The very last thing I listened to was the CD reissue of Lee Konitz THE REAL LEE KONITZ, originally released on Atlantic Records in 1957.
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Post by Will/P.P. on Dec 14, 2019 10:14:45 GMT -5
....but before then, while Will is catching up on his beauty sleep. With a sparkling intro and the odd interjection in the appropriate moments:
I couldn't get my second video to post! Still learning the new ways Windows 10 changes how I used to do things. Time to check one of my books. Thanks for posting something. I remember this from long ago, but don't own the album. Was this recorded at the Stars and Stripes Vol. 1 sessions? I like it better than many of the ones that made the album. His "Sloop John B." was alright, too.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2019 13:47:03 GMT -5
Q. What am I listening to now?
A. Pacific ocean waves. The best music of all!
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Post by jk on Feb 20, 2020 6:16:42 GMT -5
Last night, while getting my recently reoccupied corner of this forum in some sort of order, I listened to a couple of Jandek songs, starting with "Upon The Grandeur": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jandek
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Post by jk on Mar 14, 2020 10:08:06 GMT -5
I bought this album back in '68 or '69 (probably the latter), played all of it once and just played side one thereafter--until sometime in 2018, when the OP brought it to my attention again. This was, and still is, my favourite song from it: side one, track two--"Cloud Song": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_United_States_of_America_(album)
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Post by jk on May 6, 2020 4:16:40 GMT -5
Heard this great "guilty pleasure" while on holiday. Jon Secada's "Just Another Day" is one of those fairly uncharacteristic songs that has crept into my consciousness at some unspecified moment and occasionally pops out to haunt me. (Another is Double's "The Captain Of Her Heart".) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Secada
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Post by jk on May 13, 2020 4:39:09 GMT -5
I heard this last night while playing a song title game at Hoffman. Glasvegas's "Later...When The TV Turns To Static" has a lovely shoegazey feel to it: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasvegas
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Post by sneakypete77 on May 16, 2020 15:24:27 GMT -5
Way before Liam Gallagher began labouring under the misapprehension that he and Oasis were the true voices of Manchester rock, this guy and his bandmates in the incomparable Stone Roses had beaten him to it by the best part of a decade. This is one of vocalist Ian Brown’s early solo offerings from 2001, moody and atmospheric whilst at the same time eager and catchy, and with a nifty take on lyric composition. Perhaps even more apt in these strange times where we find ourselves.
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Post by jk on May 17, 2020 3:54:21 GMT -5
Way before Liam Gallagher began labouring under the misapprehension that he and Oasis were the true voices of Manchester rock, this guy and his bandmates in the incomparable Stone Roses had beaten him to it by the best part of a decade.
Thanks for that, Peter. Love the Roses' first album (if you ignore the needless swipe at Her Majesty). I was introduced to it (and to dozens of other albums) by Mark Prendergast's wondrous book The Ambient Century: From Mahler to Moby."(Song For My) Sugar Spun Sister" is arguably my favourite track off it. It's one of those songs that sounds as if it's always been there. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stone_Roses_(album)
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Post by sneakypete77 on May 17, 2020 4:44:19 GMT -5
Nice one John, that album matures like a fine wine and a codger like me just can't resist reaching for the old moth-eaten bucket hat and gettin' all wistful for the duration. Although I prefer the Roses to any of his solo efforts I do think that Ian's more forceful vocals on songs like F.E.A.R. contrast nicely with his laid back, almost whispering deliveries on the band tunes. Right now I'm playing the extended version of Fool's Gold and that mesmerising groove from Mani and Reni seems more hypnotic than ever. I'm far too old to do the dance thing, so I'll just indulge in the shoegazing.
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Post by jk on May 17, 2020 11:03:01 GMT -5
Oh yes. I have the long "Fool's Gold" on a lovely comp called Turns into Stone, which I must revisit now I think of it. I won't be doing the dance thing either, in case I trip and fracture an arsebone.
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Post by E on May 17, 2020 12:11:02 GMT -5
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Post by sneakypete77 on May 18, 2020 4:17:53 GMT -5
Ed, thanks for that, just listened to the whole thing on yoochoob and it’s absolutely magnificent. Having been around fans of Prefab Sprout some years ago they always banged on about the synergy between the Sprouts and The Blue Nile, but I neglected to follow up on it. Here, both Paul and Nigel’s voices soar with a winsome purity, and in those moments when Nigel’s singing softens to a breathless style I can definitely see similarities with Paddy Mac’s delivery on Prefab tunes such as Nightingales. The instrumental interludes remind me of the work done by the great Lalo Schifrin, in particular the scores he provided for certain Clint Eastwood movies. This is great stuff.
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Post by sneakypete77 on May 18, 2020 6:01:53 GMT -5
Back in the 70s and 80s for me, the jangliest and most irresistible pop was flowing south from bonnie Scotland. With a pedigree that would probably surprise many, including a stint in an embryonic line-up of the legendary Bay City Rollers (!), these guys were in the vanguard of that movement. From the pen of multi-talented vocalist David Paton, featuring trademark handclaps and distinctive Ian Bairnson guitar licks, simply perfectly crafted pop.
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Post by jk on May 18, 2020 8:19:31 GMT -5
Back in the 70s and 80s for me, the jangliest and most irresistible pop was flowing south from bonnie Scotland. With a pedigree that would probably surprise many, including a stint in an embryonic line-up of the legendary Bay City Rollers (!), these guys were in the vanguard of that movement. From the pen of multi-talented vocalist David Paton, featuring trademark handclaps and distinctive Ian Bairnson guitar licks, simply perfectly crafted pop.
I remember that from way back but never knew who it was. Thanks for identifying it! In the late 1990s I acquired the book shown below from the local library and a whole new world opened up for me. I learned that the Incredible String Band were Scottish and not Cornish (no idea where I got that idea from). I made the acquaintance of Primal Scream, The Shamen and Finitribe and became reacquainted with The Jesus and Mary Chain. So many great bands--Average White Band was another. (The book has since been updated to the present day.) Later I discovered The Beta Band, who no doubt are in the new updated edition. I must confess to preferring the colourful old cover to the new functional one. A great read whatever the case and heartily recommended!
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Post by sneakypete77 on May 18, 2020 10:22:31 GMT -5
And here's Paton, Bairnson and the late greats Eric Woolfson and Chris Rainbow, Scotland's finest. Doesn't get much better than this:
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Post by E on May 19, 2020 10:03:14 GMT -5
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Post by jk on May 27, 2020 11:13:42 GMT -5
I've always had a penchant for songs about loss. There are complete albums on this theme. John Newman's Tribute was written and recorded in the wake of a painful bust-up. The loss reflected in Spiritualized's masterpiece Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space involves band mastermind Jason Pierce and his erstwhile long-time partner keyboardist Kate Radley, who secretly married The Verve's Richard Ashcroft just before the album was recorded--with Radley on keyboards. (That's her speaking the title at the very start.) Pierce insists some songs were already written before the break-up but the sense of loss pervades the album as a whole. LAGWAFIS runs the gamut of emotions from inconsolable sorrow ("Broken Heart") to hysterics ("No God Only Religion") and from substance abuse ("Home Of The Brave") to blind panic ("Cop Shoot Cop"). This is "Cop Shoot Cop", the epic closing track. The hypnotic flow is interrupted by two brief violent instrumental outbursts. A third outburst rages for minutes on end. Curiously it includes a two-fingered piano rendition of (of all things) "God Save The Queen", played, if the liner notes are to be believed, by Dr. John. I can just imagine him asking Spiritualized mastermind Jason Pierce what he should do during the extended freakout and Pierce saying, "Play any ****ing thing. Play the ****ing national anthem for all I care." So he did. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladies_and_Gentlemen_We_Are_Floating_in_Space
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Post by E on May 27, 2020 12:15:42 GMT -5
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Post by filledeplage on May 30, 2020 7:57:25 GMT -5
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Post by Will/P.P. on May 30, 2020 14:50:40 GMT -5
I can't get "Her Town, Too" to play in America.
Here is a rare duet of them doing the song live:
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Post by E on May 30, 2020 15:23:11 GMT -5
Damn. I can't get that one!
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Post by Will/P.P. on May 30, 2020 16:06:08 GMT -5
As James once said, "Somethings Wrong"
Going to try this. Something coming I've
been keeping an eye on. The return of
the Explorers Club:
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Post by Will/P.P. on May 30, 2020 16:11:15 GMT -5
Bought one of those 5 Original Albums sets to get a couple of Astrud's albums I didn't have. This isn't on any of them, but I love it.
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