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The Paul Butterfield Blues Band - 1st album

Let It Bleed - The Rolling Stones

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The most recent post on that thread was almost 3 months ago. I couldn't even find it and it ain't that long.

Let's start fresh for the new year.

OK.  Listening to Dion...Bronx and Blue.   A very, very, fine album.  If it is possible, Dion's vocals are better than ever and there is an ownership of these blues phrasings that is just so natural it's uncanny.

highly recommended ****

Anthony Burr/Charles Curtis - Alvin Lucier

Machinefabriek - Dauw

Harry Nilsson - Nilsson Schmilsson

Miles Davis - Big Fun

"Cold Irons Bound" from Bob Dylan's Tell Tale Signs. Damn, he can still rock! How about a live album of the recent "Neverending Tour"?

A few CDs I got for Christmas I thought I'd share:

A pretty terrific Richard Manuel solo live CD called Whispering Pines. He always reminded me a little bit of Dennis and I love this voice--even in it's smoky form on this 1985 concert.

Oasis' semi-new album. Grand.

U2's Zooropa. Pretty good even though I like their rocking side more than the European sound on this release. "Stay (Faraway So Close!)" rules.

The Ramones It's Alive!. Fitting since it's a New Years Eve show. Love it, Joey was the best!

All the songs i have from 1967. I'm about halfway through.

I have this one too, I even think it's the only officially released Richard Manuel CD. Great stuff.

This one and "Achtung Baby" are my two favourite U2 albums, their last two records bore me to death really. Agree about "Stay (Faraway So Close)", "The Wanderer" with Johnny Cash is also neat.

Zooropa was their last good album...I say, though I haven't heard their last two, actually. Pop was so terrible I couldn't buy another one.

Eels' Electro-Shock Blues

How coincidental! I did as well a few weeks back.

It's probably among my 25-50 favorite albums ever.

I always like Beautiful Freak a lot, liked the experimentation with the use of instruments and samples on some of the tracks. Which was the reason that I got hold of it's follow-up as well when it as released. Had to grow on me though. Still melancholy at times, but in a much more depressing way.

But give it a few turns, and once you've passed the first 3 tracks and still like it, you're a fan for life.

Beautiful Freak is actually probably my second-least favorite Eels album. I love Electro-Shock, Blinking Lights and Daisies. I like Souljacker. Then Beautiful Freak and Shootenanny. (The live stuff and rarities and MC Honky and Levity soundtrack under M.O. Everett I don't really count.)

But it's all really just one big album anyway. You really feel that when watching/listening to him live, or seeing the "Town Hall" stuff, for example. One big album.

Have you got/heard his two solo albums, pre-Eels? Despite a few cool things, they largely suck. It's surprising how bad they are, considering how well they were reviewed and how cool his early arrangements can be. Astounding. But those lyrics! They make a Beach Boys fan shudder.

Played Made in the USA and Jeffery Foskett's Cool and Gone album.

I bought BF when I was in my alternative music-phase (mid-late 90ies). As I said, what got me was the sometimes weird instrumentation. I especially like the more melancholy tracks on that album. The title track, My Beloved Monster (gotta love that base-line, made me wonder at the time if there was a BW-connection), Manchild. For me it was the reason to buy E's follow-up as well. Did I know the guy had gone through some rough times? A world of difference, still somehow it feels like Electro Shock Blues continues where BF ends. When you listen to the closing track on BF, "Manchild", you still here an optimistic E, but that hope turns into desperation and total sadness when you hear the opening lines of "Elizabeth on the Bathroom Floor". Weird.
Took a while to get used to ESB, could be the reason I didn't buy Daisies Of The Galaxy (although I've heard that one is much more optimistic, maybe I should get that one). Less accesible at first, but I appreciate it a lot more now.

Don't know his pree-Eels work, so can't comment on that.

Elvis Presley - Hillcrest Blues  (boot)

and

Jerry Lee Lewis - Sings the country music hall of fame vol.1&2

Forever Nightshade Mary - Latin Playboys (aka Los Lobos)  :afro

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This one really kicks ass !

THE MOVE - Anthology 1966-1972 (4 CD Boxed Set) - great!!

I've been listening to Queen lately for the first time in years. "You Take My Breath Away" has to be one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard. Freddie Mercury was an underrated songwriter, maybe because his abilities as a singer and performer overshadowed his other talents.

He was an amazing songwriter, Amy. Absolutely. And you know what else? A brilliant arranger, too, although by the '80s (according to his own interviews of the time) he got a little bit of latter-day Wilson in him, preferring to drop things that didn't happen quickly. I think the use of technology (which simplified things) coupled with his already enormous success (which made them unnecessary anyway) had a lot to do with that, though.

And me, I'm NOT listening to the Heartless Bastards up coming album because I can't find the blasted disc. Where did it go...?

Are Youtube videos allowed on this section? Well, anyway:

This is a beautiful live rendition of You Take My Breath Away-- his vocal is probably better than on the recording:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJW0-XqlIQ4&feature=PlayList&p=586C851D566628DF&playnext=1&index=1

And then of course the recorded version has the gorgeous harmonies, all Freddie, I believe:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zSzlT5zBXs&feature=related

That's awesome, I've never seen this song live

For all the 80s era Queen video out there, I'd sure love to see some 70s stuff officially released. The clips from circa 75 on the Night at the Opera Classic Albums dvd are wonderful.

Bon Iver, the new EP. Breathtaking, and not a little of BW's genius in there too. Strongly recommended. Takes you back to Smile Smile, without the dope, that is. Angelic harmonizing with self.

Without the dope? What makes you think that. Anyone willing to hole up in a Wisconsin cabin to record must be doing something...

Well, um, he might, um, be an imbiber... do you know what that is, Luther? :police:

Listening to Bil Black Combo - All the hits and more

Next time he's in town I'll ask him. He's here about every 20 minutes. (Or was until he became everybody's darlin'. I suspect he'll be a little more scarce until he's forgotten ... next year.)

"Free Bird" by Lynyrd Skynyrd

R.I.P. Billy Powell  1952-2009

Permanent Waves-Rush.....I am trying to decide if the album is mp3 player worthy.......I don't have a whole lot of storage left on the player...

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Layla - Derek & The Dominos

Louis Prima.

Charlie Rich - Sun Sessions

I am in a Motown mood this morning....
Can't Hurry Love-Supremes
Where Did Our Love Go-Supremes
Baby Love-Supremes
I hear a symphony-Supremes
You Keep me hanging on-Supremes
I cant help myself-4 tops
Reach out I'll be there-4 tops
Baby I need your loving-4 tops

Melody Gardot - Worrisome Heart

She has a terrific voice, I highly recommend.

Lots of Townes Van Zandt for me right now, waiting for the Texas Troubadour box to arrive...

..... and what a gem of a box that is!! Essential.

Steve Earle wasn't kidding when he said that "Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world, and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that."

Stumbled across the film about Townes Van Zandt, "Be Here To Love Me", on cable one time. Very unique individual. "Pancho And Lefty" is one of my favorite Willie Nelson recordings, especially the duet with Bob Dylan.

I'm listening to a few Little Feat LPs. In the fact few weeks I've become a major Lowell George fan. Via VDP, of course,

Nice... I have 'As Time Goes By', a Little Feat collection, almost on constant rotation right now. Their fat, slow shuffles and ballads are just surreal enough to be totally addictive. Great sense of rhythm (Clayton, Payne).

And one of the best slide guitar players of all time...

You mean the live-recording, right? Because the stuio-version was with Merle Haggard

Yeah, the live version with Dylan, although I also like the duet with Merle.

Listening to the Dylan that's on my iTunes (which is kept minimal overall compared to some people's, but I try to keep a lot of space free for byte-hogging recording): it's mostly that great '65-66 run.

Sign o' the Times. Holy crap, what an album!

Fleet Foxes of course.

Also been dipping into The Mark Wirtz Orchestra & Chorus and some Bruce Haack

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M Ward's new Hold Time.

On the subject of the Mark Wirtz Orchestra.  Has anyone heard his version of "I Can Hear Music".  The backing like a cross between the BB's version and a sort of Wall of Sound/early Velvet Underground kinda feel with a Dusty Springfield soundalike on vocals. It's excellent.

Working on a McCartney comp and pulled out Back In The U.S. I don't wanna sound too extremist, but I think Paul's vocal on this live version of "Let Me Roll It" is one of the best of his CAREER!

EDIT: "Jet" rocks too, and I'm actually enjoying "Freedom", much better than the single version, I think...

If you have Ram, make sure you give a few good listens to "Back Seat of My Car." THAT'S an extraordinary song, you can tell Paul was influenced by the BB on that one!

I could talk about Macca all day...

Oh, yeah, that's a great song. I put on Disc 2 of Wingspan the other day, and I was surprised at how many "Brian" influences I heard. Every couple of songs I was saying, "That's so Brian".

In a way, Paul McCartney is like Brian Wilson in interviews. Whenever Paul is asked about his favorite albums/songs, influences, and The Beach Boys, he always gives his stock answer about Pet Sounds. But, he rarely adds anything about BW/BB's other works. I hear a lot of 1967-1972 BW/BB influence on Paul's solo stuff.

Of course, I hope you clue my in when you finish that comp...

Now I'm enjoying Flaming Pie, especially "Young Boy", "The World Tonight", and "Little Willow". Paul sang really well on that album; a lot of diverse songs, too. One of favorite albums.

I like it a lot, too. In fact, it was the album that got me interested in solo McCartney. I was a big Beatles fan, but disliked all the solo stuff I had heard at that point. That turned me on and convinced me to give it (or take) a few chances. I still don't like the majority, but because of Flaming Pie, got things like Ram that I may not have otherwise.

For some reason, I've been reading Wikipedia entries lately; it does give you some interesting antecdotes.... Flaming Pie went to No. 2 on the album charts - kept out of No. 1 by the Spice Girls! Flaming Pie was also nominated for a Grammy as Album Of The Year - won by Bob Dylan's Time Out Of Mind.

I love McCartney...very underrated and overshadowed by the Lennon myth, IMO. I almost think he is better post-Beatles.

I hear a lot of late sixties Beach Boys influence on him too...amoung tons of other influences.

Bossanova by the Pixies.

No "almost" involved for me. While I think Plastic Ono Band and Imagine are the two best Beatle solo albums, it's Ram, George's All Things Must Pass, then a boatload of Paul before you'd get to another John album.

Definitely. But I meant I like paul McCartney's stuff better in the seventies than his stuff in the sixties. It's a statement I'm not one hundred percent convinced of, but I really think that the Beatles breakup, in the end, liberated Paul in a lot of ways...a lot of positive ways. I don't think that any McCartney album approaches the best Beatles albums, however--because of the Beatles' magic blend.

Anyway. NO Depression, Uncle Tupelo.

Oh, I see. I can't say I'd agree with that, then: I prefer Paul's Beatle music to Paul's solo music, on the whole. But I really do think he's gotten a terribly unfair rap overall: he "just" writes catchy pop while Lennon tackled the big issues ... blahblah. I respect a good pop song more than a self-righteous grandstand.

"Biker Like An Icon".....I don't care. I like it.

LOL
We like the same artists, but totally different songs and albums. But Off the Ground had some good moments.

I'm gonna stand by it, McCartney, RAM, Band on the Run Red Rose Speedway, Venus and Mars and London Town are all very good albums. In my opinion, in sum, there are at least as many decent McCartney songs in the seventies as in the sixties and perhaps more. Critics can kill me, but I'm saying it boldly and unequivicably.

He starts getting shaky in the eighties, but what sixties artist didn't?

Lou Reed, aside from Mistrial, was probably more consistent in the 80s than the 70s. But overall, no doubt, the 80s saw a lot of "classic" artists losing their way. It actually makes sense, with the entire recording process so wholly different than the one they came of age withy, not to mention the sudden dominance of visuals because of MTV. And thus (http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drk400/k482/k48270cf3zd.jpg)

The Paul is Live version is many times better, faster and rocks...

"Time And Place" by Lee Moses, it's from 1971, one of the greatest, if not THE greatest soul album ever recorded. Deep, raw soul.

Intense, funky, bluesy and full of emotion. Worthy of the title 'overlooked classic'.

joan of arc
make believe
cap n jazz
the love of everything
lady gaga
dionne warwick

Yes, great version, especially with the guitar solo. "Biker Like An Icon" is an example, to me anyway, why Paul McCartney (like Brian Wilson) is so great. Yeah, it's not the greatest song he ever wrote, but I can't get it out of my head. There's so many hooks in that song. I just keep singing, "She loved her biker like an icon...." Well, not really singing. :-D

Jan Berry - How how I love her

Fucking great song !

"Perfect Day".....Happy 67th Birthday, Lou Reed! 8)

Listening to the Surfin' Safari album. I've been on a big early surf 'n' cars-era BBs kick the past couple of days!

Low Budget......pardon my shows they don't quite fit they're a special offer and they hurt me a bit......


IM ON A LOW BUDGET
WHATS THAT YOU SAY?
IM ON A LOW BUDGET
I THOUGHT YOU SAID THAT!


Music for the times indeed!

"Chelsea Girls" by Nico. I like the haunting sound of this song, but I understand Nico didn't....

http://nico.lyrics.info/chelseagirls.html

I love the Chelsea Girl album and Nico's voice, personally.

I think I like the lyrics as much as the melody. And, of course, the song was written by Lou Reed and Sterling Morrison. Apparently, Nico wanted more guitar and drums - and no flute - on the recording.

Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica

Derek & The Dominos - Layla (album)

iTunes on random: Zappa's "The Grand Wazoo" (the song, not the album) at the moment.

"It's all over" by the Everly Brothers.
Probably one of the best vocal-performances of all time. The middle-eight (or what it's called) sung by, I believe, Phil has to stand almost next to Carl's GOK-vocal in it's beauty and clearness

Madcap Laughs - Syd Barrett

Confessin' The Blues - Little Walter

Shivkumar Sharma - When Time Stood Still (album)

Paul McCartney's "Let Me Roll It" from Back In The U.S.

OK, I'm gonna make one of those "this is the greatest" statements....I can't believe how great Paul's vocal is on this track, and so (relatively) late in his career. It gives me goosebumps when he sings, "I can't tell you how I feel". It's the "I can't" part; where does that come from? From his gut! His soul! When he sings it, you can't tell if he's 20, 30, 40, or 60; it's timeless....

I think it's in the all-time Top 5 Paul McCartney lead vocals. Agree or disagree? Which ones, in your opinion, can top it?

Double post, sorry.

TdHabib, you mentioned "Wanderlust", well, I think the entire Tug Of War album has great vocals; I like that album; takes me back to the great MTV years! And, it's interesting you mentioned "Your Loving Flame" because - it made my compilation!

Now, before I get hammered, this is not a "Greatest Hits" or a "Best Of" compilation. These are my FAVORITE Paul McCartney tracks, songs that I never get tired of hearing, most of them have sentimental value, they remind me of a particular person, place, and time. Obviously, "Band On The Run" is a timeless classic, but, I've heard it a million times and just don't NEED to hear it on a comp in my car. All I have to do is turn on a Classic Rock radio station and it'll be on in ten minutes. Anyway, these are my Paul McCartney FAVORITES, in some lyrical order:

1. Things We Said Today (live Unplugged version - Hello Chaps!)
2. Take It Away (mixed into the ending applause)
3. Junior's Farm
4. Waterfalls (single edit)
5. Young Boy
6. Little Willow
7. The World Tonight
8. Venus And Mars/Rock Show
9. Back In The U.S.S.R. (Back In The U.S.)
10. Let Me Roll It (Back In The U.S.)
11. Biker Like An Icon (Paul Is Live)
12. Your Loving Flame (Back In The U.S.)
13. Getting Closer
14. Maybe I'm Amazed (studio verson)
15. Jet
16. Another Day
17. Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey
18. Rockestra Theme
19. Back Seat Of My Car
20. Nineteen Hundred And Eighty-Five

It's good that you made a favorites comp, I certainly don't need to hear "Live and Let Die" every time I choose Macca, and some very good choices---"Getting Closer"---man it's been a long time since I heard that one. Ever heard "Girls School"? Now that one rocks. Also you're automatically cool for picking "1985".

Yeah. That song wasn't even on the original release of London Town; popped up as a bonus track on the re-issue.

You can't do justice to McCartney with a single disc comp, but, do you want to give it a shot?

I'll give it a shot, I'm not good at sequencing and no it doesn't do justice, but here's 17 favorites some well known some not:

1. Jet
2. Take it Away
3. Listen to What the Man Said
4. Too Many People
5. Girls School (b-side to Mull of Kintyre btw)
6. Let Me Roll It (a live version)
7. Maybe I'm Amazed (Wings over America)
8. Beware My Love (Wings over America)
9. We Got Married (Tripping the Live Fantastic!)
10. Tough on a Tightrope
11. Wanderlust
12. My Love
13. Bluebird
14. Put it There
15. Calico Skies
16. Beautiful Night
17. The medley at the end of Red Rose Speedway

Timed it out at 76 minutes.

I like it - both the selection and the sequence. That version of "We Got Married" (from Tripping The Live Fantastic) is a hidden gem; great guitar work BTW. And "Tough On A Tightrope" - wow! A good comp to put in the car and cruise around on a nice spring day - or night ("Beautiful Night")....

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1. Jailhouse Rock
2. Treat Me Nice
3. I Want to Be Free
4. Don't Leave Me Now
5. Young and Beautiful
6. (You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care
7. Jailhouse Rock [Movie Version]
8. Treat Me Nice [Movie Version]    
9. I Want to Be Free [Movie Version]    
10. Young and Beautiful [Movie Version]
11. Don't Leave Me Now [Alternate Master]
12. Love Me Tender    
13. Poor Boy
14. Let Me
15. We're Gonna Move
16. Love Me Tender [End Title Version]    
17. Let Me [Solo]
18. We're Gonna Move [Take 9 Stereo Version]    
19. Poor Boy [Stereo]    
20. Love Me Tender [Stereo]


It just doesn't get any better. Great sound, great production, great singing & playing, great songwriting. And some very nice bonus-cuts, some in stereo !

Doug Sahm.  Man he left a legacy of truly tasty and satisfying stuff!!!

"Dark Globe" is just an amazing song, so heartfelt.

"Dark Globe" is a good one. But, I think my favorite song from The Madcap Laughs is "Late Night". Syd sounds completely normal on that one. His songwriting and singing on "Late Night" are on a par with Piper At The Gates Of Dawn, I think....

Together Through Life, Dylan.

Lately:

Smiley Smile and Wild Honey
The Look Of Love (Burt Bacharach 3 disc set)
The Millennium
Parachute by The Pretty Things

At this particular moment, Heartless Bastards' album from earlier this year, The Mountain. I prefer their first one, Stairs and Elevators, but this is still good, muscular, bluesy (and on this album, Zeppelin-folky sometimes) rock music. Erika Wennerstrom is great.

33 1/3-George Harrison
Brainwashed-George Harrison (both of these are amazing--just superb)
On an Island-David Gilmour (blue and beautiful in small doses)
Kick Inside-Kate Bush (just getting used to her voice--"Wuthering Heights" is classic)
Everything that Happens will Happen Today-David Byrne and Brian Eno (a new classic)
Ghost in the Machine-The Police (mayhaps a bit patchy, but I love "Invisible Sun")

Ray Charles comp, "The Atlantic Years"

Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden

Aphex Twin - Richard D. James Album

lots and lots of Astor Piazzolla...

Kris Kristofferson has been popping up on TV lately, so I thought I'd give him a good listen. I'm particularly enjoying:

Help Me Make It Through The Night
Sunday Morning Coming Down
This Old Road
A Moment Of Forever (Willie Nelson's version is a classic)
Me And Bobby McGee
Casey's Last Ride

Gosh, I love Kristofferson ! One of the greatest. I might dig out his most recent album, "This old road", when I get home

I've been reading about Kristofferson lately (there was a good article in a recent Rolling Stone), and I read that "This Old Road", the song, was originally recorded for an album in 1986, and re-recorded in 2006. So, I listened to them both. The older version is a little smoother and faster, but I also like the rougher poignancy of the newer version.

Yeah, I agree. His 80s releases sound a little too polished imo. "This old road" (the album", which features some other re-recordings, sounds more down-to-earth and honest....

A nice hot 85 degree day; got out some Willie Nelson, specifically later Willie. Check out:

"Still Is Still Moving To Me"
"A Moment Of Forever"
"Mendocino County Line"
"Gotta Serve Somebody"
"Beer For My Horses" (yes, it rocks!)
"Graceland"
 

Nilsson. And lots of it. Seriously good voice.

Herman Dune "Giant." Still the best album of the past few years that nobody gives a damn about (or never heard to begin with).

I don't know if I'll care about it, but I'll check 'em out.

Great version ! Also his "American tune" from the same album is great

Yep. You can add that to the list, too. That Kristofferson, Cash, Nelson, and outlaw stuff is great summertime music. Songs like "Sunday Morning Coming Sown", "If You've Got The Money I've Got The Time", "Ring Of Fire" and even some of Dylan's country-flavored material sounds good when it's hot and muggy.... :police:

I myself love listening to that stuff throughout the whole year, but yeah, I kinda know what you mean. I guess there's just something about listening to Jennings' "Just to satisfy you" while it's dry and hot outside.

BTW here's some BW and kristofferson. Unfortunately no one seems to have filmed "Fun fun fun" from that same concert:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-TlvBzNHcA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-TlvBzNHcA)

What a great video; I've never seen that. And what a unique pairing with those two old warhorses up there together. Do you think they had a few rough nights in their lifetimes between the two of them....And what a rockin' version of "Me And Bobby McGee"; but Kris could still keep up!

Towns Van Zandt and Doug Sahm.  As for the BBs, Holland.

The new Iron & Wine collection.

Just ordered and received in the mail "The Emitt Rhodes Recordings (1969-1973)": all four of his solo albums on two discs.  Unbelievable stuff.

Also "Give Me Take You" by Duncan Browne.

Both reissues released this year.

Bought the Leonard Cohen Live in London DVD, so I guess that counts. Just wanted to point out the performance of "Suzanne" is astonishing, the look in Cohen's eyes is intense and passionate, his mind is clear and focused. It almost made me cry.

That's great--I didn't know it was out. I've looked (lazily, I admit) for official E. Rhodes albums because I don't like having burned or unbought digital copies of things I like that are commercially released. (I'm a buy it or delete it kind of guy.) You're correct: he was awesome.

"It's As Easy As 1,2,3" - Jan & Dean

I thought it was appropriate for this week; it's a charming little song. Jan Berry, like Brian Wilson, had that romantic innocence and this song is a good example of that. There's a lot going on in this song; and Hal Blaine - whew! 

Today I listened to a Harry Partch collection, Belle & Sebastian's "Fold Your Hands...," a Satie collection, TLOS, the new Iron & Wine collection and the new St. Vincent. I think that's it. But I could be wrong. Nothing really hit the spot: it was just one of those days when a guy wants to peruse.

How'd that get in there? >:D

I really like TLOS. Did since I heard that first live show boot. Liked the demos. Like the album.

See? As I said on Sept. 7 '08.

I believe(d) you, too... :police:

Yeah, that's a great one !
See, one of the many differences in the sound of the Beach Boys and Jan&Dean is the drum sound (interestingly many people think that both acts sound the same). While Brian used them more to accentuate certain parts (hope it's clear what I mean), they are always on the move doing fills and stuff in a Jan Berry-production. I'd say a drummer (Blaine and Earl Palmer) in a Berry-session was probably sweating more than in a Wilson-session

They say it's your BIRTHDAY...Happy BIRTHDAY to you...Paul McCartney!

Been listening a lot to the aforementioned Iron & Wine rarities set, the new St. Vincent album "Actor," the new Eels record "Hombre Lobo," Bob Dylan "Good as I Been To You" and the new Elvis Costello, "Secret, Profane and Sugarcane."

Don't have this one. Do you have a quick sentence or two synopsis?

Sure, how about:

"World Gone Wrong, but a year earlier"?

I am very, very late in getting into Crosby, Stills, Nash (& Young); listening to So Far....

"Coming Down Again" on Goats Head Soup by the Rolling Stones

Thriller.

Off the Wall....Thriller is next.....

Michael Jackson here ...

Love Black or White.

The Mighty Sparrow: Hot and Sweet (1974) produced by Andy Wickham and van Dyke Parks - great modern Calypso songs.

Listening to the new Camera Obscura album, My Maudlin Career....almost sounds like Phil Spector or Brian Wilson produced it!!

I thought that too, I really like the new Camera Obscura. My initial impression was I thought it sounded like Spector producing the Pretenders which about 25 or 27 years ago or so might have been an interesting prospect.

"Riders On The Storm"....Jim Morrison: December 8, 1943 - July 3, 1971

Switched-On Bach II by Wendy Carlos
Bach - Partitas by Glenn Gould

"There's nothing but Bach on this radio..."

Something from God Help the Girl at the moment, though it's on random so something else in a few seconds.

Real Love demo.

"4th Of July" by The Beach Boys, and other fun-in-the-sun favorites!  8)

Sheriff, I know you've started listening to CSNY recently...have you warmed up to "Country Girl" yet? One of my very favorites.

Listening to an upcoming album by one of our own board members. And it's really good stuff. I love when I'm listening to friends' music and don't consider it "good considering this is someone I know," but just that it's good music, period.

Scott 4 - Scott Walker

Yes, I've listened to "Country Girl", but, as you stated correctly, I'm just starting to digest CSN&Y. I like the song, but it's not among my favorites on Deja Vu - yet. I think I prefer "Carry On", "Our House", "Woodstock", and the title track to "Country Girl". But, it's still early.... :)

The Kink Kontroversy - The Kinks

Dylan's Together Through Time. First listen in a couple months, I think. Weeks at least. I definitely don't like it as much as I do his previous two studio albums (and the most recent bootleg series set, for that matter). But there are a couple of real keepers, and even the duds sound good.

Me First and the Gimme Gimmes' cover of Sloop John B!

Listening to "Torturer" by Hotpress for Leopold (http://www.myspace.com/hotpressforleopold).

Awesome local band. Just love that they aren't like every other band out there. Their use of different instruments just works in this really cool way. Can't get enough of them.

Working On The Road by Ten Years After.  I love Cricklewood Green, and Ten Years After in general, but this song is just brilliant.  Maybe not a favorite, not sure, but the "I've got a feeling for home" part is so masterfully done.  It sends me somewhere every time. 

Little Milton - If you talk in your sleep

Very cool version of this Presley-classic

Crowded House - Together Alone

Levon Helm's Electric Dirt. What a fantastic album. I'm only a moderate fan of The Band, having their first three studio albums plus their stuff with Dylan. And while I had his Dirt Farmer album, I can't say I cared much one way or the other about it. But this album is extremely good. Larry Campbell did a great job producing, and Levon's voice is wonderful, reaching that pinnacle of broken beauty that the likes of Waits or modern Dylan inhabit.

And--here and there--is it funky!

The New Pornagraphers "Mass Romantic." I'm only about halfway through it and it's damn good so far!

Just bought the new, long overdue Emitt Rhodes collection: "The Emitt Rhodes Recordings (1969-1973)".

His four solo albums (plus the single "Tame The Lion") on two CDs.

Fantastic stuff.

"Praises" - HumanLab

One of my favorite songs of the summer. It makes me want to lie out in the sun and relax.

Roger The Engineer - The Yardbirds

Barenaked Ladies-Maybe You Should Drive...damn, "Jane" is such a pretty song!

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0IiVZfkts8 I saw this episode and that's how I first heard of him but I like  his other song, Nobody Knows, a lot too

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Hadn't listened to this in years...

The Greening - Sunday afternoon

Bryan Scary and The Shredding Tears- The Flight of The Knife. A+ Harmony driven prog-influenced pop/rock! and it rocks!!! ;D

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 ;D :)

I'm listening to the Kaiser Chiefs but the Greening sounds like them too  ;)

Melody Gardot

CARAVAN: Bling Dog at St. Dunstans'
VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR: The Aerosol grey machine
MOODY BLUES:In search of the lost chord

Bob Dylan's Modern Times. It's starting to grow on me - finally! :)

McCartney's Chaos & Creation in the Backyard, which I had back when it came out, listened a few times and dismissed as too obviously nostalgic and self-imitative. But I'm really enjoying it now. Maybe I'm getting old, either in a good or a bad way. Or maybe I've killed a few more brain cells.

Before this, Living Colour's Stain, McCartney's Memory Almost Full and Elvis Costello's Kojak Variety (all of which I bought used today for a total of about $13).

Nah, genius has a way of surfacing to the top....or, if you give something enough listens... :)

In keeping with McCartney, I don't know if anybody has been watching VH1 Classic, but they've been featuring a lot of Beatles for the past two weeks - movies, documentaries, concerts.

It prompted me to get out a couple of my favorite Beatles' CD's, A Hard Day's Night and Help. Damn, they're so great....

This.

Pistol of Fire  by Kings of Leon

Jonathan Goldman - Crystal Bowls Chakra Chants

and now 2012: Ascension Harmonics by the same guy

this one is actually great, i don't know what to compare it to. it's not new age space/spiritual music or minimalist drone ala la monte young but it's one sustained note, i think a C# that has a constant motion to it, with tibetan bells occasionally gliding across the surface of the overall ocean of the sound

i listen to this more than everything these days. i have an ipod shuffle and before going to sleep i load this track (71 minutes) on it about seven times and then put it on at a low volume. i listen to it before meditating, sometimes during, and after. i sent it to someone i was corresponding with about meditation with a note that "this should set the mood well". it must have scared him because he never spoke about it again. it has a very impersonal sound to it, i guess. it would make a great companion for sensory deprivation activities.

my experience of music is that it is not a harmless entity. when i hear ugly music it's like being in polluted air, i have to get away. i generally don't listen to anything that encodes ignorant feelings into its sound. this particular album gives the impression of being beyond the pure and impure of music. it's not really sit down and listen to this album sort of stuff. it's to help induce a meditative state of mind. it sounds amazing played loud on speakers although i rarely get the chance.

if you listen to it based on my lengthy rambling, i recommend putting it up loud with the bass turned up, lights dimmed or turned off entirely, and with a free 71 minutes. you won't feel the same as when you went into it.

Valerie- Mark Ronson's version revisited

Roger Nichols & The Small Circle of Friends

Simon Bookish.

What am I listening to right now? The voices in my head.  :brian

Julian Casablancas - Phrazes For The Young.  I expected worse when I got it, but I really enjoy Out Of The Blue, Left & Right In The Dark, 11th Dimension, and Glass.  The rest is a miss really, too busy.

Anyone heard Sufjan Steven's The BQE? It's really quite good, if a tad disappointing he's not up to his old prolific standards.... Time to dig out the Christmas album soon as well.

A VERY underrated album. One of my dad's favorite songs was "Wasn't Born To Follow". Since he died, a little less than two months ago, I've been listening to it a lot lately. Other than that, I've been listening to the complete Sylvester Weaver recordings, from 1923 to 1927. He was one of the first people in history to record what has become known today as  blues music. His "Guitar Rag" from 1923 is considered by many to be the first blues song ever recorded.

By the sound of recent interviews, he's not going to be prolific in the near future.

Trout Mask Replica

You read that one he did for Paste? Christ. Far be it from me to dictate what makes Sufjan happy artistically, but i really wanted another States album - it was a really interesting concept and he did it so well. And the ludricousness was sort of the point.

It'd be interesting to see where he goes from here.... if anywhere.

The first time I heard that album it scared the hell out of me.  ;D

I had read about it before having ever heard it, but it still baffled me more than a little upon first listen. It wasn't until I could hear it with anti-Zappa ears (I had heard of it through Frank-based press) that I could truly enjoy it.

Them Crooked Vultures - Scumbag Blues. They've got the full debut album streaming on their youtube channel. I'm really liking what I've heard so far.

I've been listening to The Drums lately, pretty good, not great, but pretty good.  I think given a couple more years they'll be a great band, possibly.  Certainly something to watch anyway.  I Felt Stupid is going to stay stuck in my head for awhile too, I think.  :)

Picked up Paul McCartney's Good Evening New York City CD/DVD from Amazon for only $13.99

Interesting set list with recent stuff  "Highway", "Only Mama Knows", "Dance Tonight", and "Sing The Changes"; some nice album tracks "Flaming Pie", "Calico Skies", and "Mrs. Vanderbilt"; and interesting Beatles' takes on "I'm Down", "I've Got A Feeling", "A Day In The Life", and "Helter Skelter".

Paul's voice has gotten deeper (I think), but he still hits all the notes. And, even though it's live, Paul's bass playing is incredible; Abe's drumming is also a highlight. 33 songs on 2 CD's is quite a deal. I haven't had a chance to screen the DVD yet.

I bet that was a great show, Paul seems have really kept his voice in great shape.  I need to check out that live album.

I've been listening to Wild Beasts latest album, Two Dancers lately, it's really a beautiful album.  Anyone who appreciates great vocals should give them a listen.  I'm thinking of seeing them in MI next Feb, four hour drive but worth it I think. 

The Heavy Blinkers- The Night and I are Still So Young


Recommended by Warnakey. Excellent stuff so far! Very lush and mellow pop heavily influenced by BW.

George Jones - A picture of me without you (album)

Whatever happened to an album for every state?  If that was burning him out, why not just one song per state?

The new Adam Marsland album, Hello Cleveland, and the new Eels album, End Times.

George Jones - Hits I missed.... and one I didn't

Terrible title but a fantastic (!) album. And though I don't like re-recordings, the new version of "He stopped loving her today" (the one he didn't) is very, very good.

Fleetwood Mac - Tango in the Night

Probably one of my very favourite eighties records.

Keaton Simons - Without Your Skin.  Great soulful song, his voice brings chills down my spine.  He's on tour now too.

Get Yer Ya Ya's Out - Rolling Stones

McCartney II

What a beautifully strange album that is....

What am I listening to?
Neil Young, lots of it, things like "Prairie Wind," (since I recently got the Heart of Gold film on DVD--one of the better concert DVDs), "Greendale," "Sleeps with Angels" and "Weld." What a great artist...

Sparks, "Kimono My House" and "Propogranda." Never was all that aware of this group until recently. Love about half of the songs on both of the albums, am working on the other half.

Neko Case, I LOVED "Middle Cyclone" and am trying to get into "Fox Confessor." Much less poppy, but will probably be as satisfying.

Other than that, the old standbys: U2, Elton, XTC, Dennis Wilson. That was today.

IMO those are Sparks' two best albums, and "This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both Of Us" is their best song. They both were big sellers in England, but only had modest success in the U.S. That lineup and sound (heavy guitar and electric piano) was my favorite Sparks period; they never quite revisited it.

I could not believe I had passed them by when I heard "This Town," what a tune!

If you've never heard anything from her first album, The Virginian, try checking that one out. Half of it is old country covers, but WOW!, that voice!

Fox Confessor and her songs with The New Pornographers got me hooked on
Neko Case...I got all her CDs...Her early CDs are mainly ALT-Country heavy
which I like while her last two has her distancing herself from her early roots
and playing more adult alternative music...Which I enjoy too...

MD...

I dug out my old cd of Los Lobos La Pistola y El Corazon. Reminds me of home.

I am listening to:

'The Art Of The Fugue' (J.S. Bach) as performed by pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard (DG), and:
'Nuh Skin Up' by Keith Hudson (very classy roots reggae dub).

Sunday Afternoon and Don't Have the Time by The Greening

http://www.myspace.com/thegreening

Lately, the new Joanna Newsom. Currently, Dylan's Good As I Been To You.

Booker T & The MG's

P.i.L

Pere Ubu

Mariah Carey

Astor Piazzolla - La Camorra

Beach Boys - Sunflower

Roxy Music - Roxy Music

Momus - Don't Stop The Night

...that is a cool selection.

2 new CDs:

Johnny Cash: American Recordings VI: Ain't No Grave

Jimi Hendrix: Valleys of Neptune

How's that for an unlikely duo?  :)

I've been thinking about purchasing both of them. How are they?

It is! I love Don't Stop the Night.

Listening to alot of "sunshine pop" for the past while, particularly compilations.  Some songs of note:  98.6 by Keith (I think I blast this every day on the drive to work), Sandy (Ronny and the Daytonas), Things I'd Like To Say (New Colony Six),  Sun (Margo Guryan), Pink Lemonade (Peppermint Rainbow), What A Groovy Day (Tony Rivers and Harmony Grass), Popsicle (Jan and Dean), Always You (Sundowners) etc....there are many many more. 

I also just played the Millenium album Begin in my car on the way to work the other day after not listening to it for awhile and the production of it just astounds me.  I think it is a brilliant album. 

Ummm...80's Beach Boys.  Rock n Roll To The Rescue, Male Ego, Where I Belong....YEAH!!! lol

Mark

Just spent several hours listening to Tom Waits...the man is a fucking GENIUS.

After someone on the board (cant remember who) recommended Love's 'Forever Changes' in a topic last week I was intrigued enough to go buy a copy.......and I am so glad I did, what a wonderful album! I cannot get enough of it, the blending of folk, mariachi, psychedelia and rock is just brilliant.

Hey Paulos

I just came off of a Love listening frenzy.  I was listening to Forever Changes for like a month straight.  It is a great album.  Check out this awesome performance from Glastonbury 03 with the Stockholm Strings backing them up

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZU7-ZtqPatc

With the news of Alex Chilton's unexpected death on my mind, it's been Best of the Box Tops and the first two Big Star albums tonight.  R.I.P. Alex.

Cheap Trick's first three albums:

Cheap Trick
In Color
Heaven Tonight

The Yellow Balloon's eponymous album and Jan and Dean's Carnival of Sound.

And that groovy Love video... thanks. :)

Beach Boys (of course) - Friends, Deerhoof - (all of their albums), The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat, Cocorosie - Noah's Ark, Nirvana - In Utero.

I'm really liking what the experimental indie scene was up to the last decade. It's really influencing me artistically.

Phil Collins - (Love is like a) HeatWave (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_t4UFRRoc8&fmt=18)

Harry Nilsson - A Little Touch Of Schmilsson in The Night

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9Zsjphc3RI

I love all these old songs, and Gordon Jenkins arranges them so they all flow together with little snippets inbetween - kind of like the Tin Pan Alley concept album!

Besides that, Band on the Run and Ram have been getting a lot of play, as well as just loads of Nilsson. Nilsson Sings Newman might be the greatest album ever made.

Prince's 20Ten atm. Good call on Nilsson Sings Newman, too. I don't call it the best album ever made, but it's really fantastic.

Perhaps a little too much hyperbole on my part, but there is literally one thing wrong with it (the harpsichord on Cowboy is a little too shrill). I also can't think of another album i can play multiple times in a row, whatever that counts for. I mean, the entire thing is perfect at what it's doing.

Hows that Prince? I can't keep up with what he's releasing nowadays....  last thing i got was the decidedly average Planet Earth

Absolutely true. It is a gorgeous, gorgeous album. And when I said I don't agree it isn't the best album, I meant just that literally, without sarcasm or cynicism implied: it's in the conversation for me pretty quickly after "best" album. Maybe in the 5th to 10th range. I love it.[/quote]
I think of Prince in this regard similarly to an Elvis Costello, Frank Zappa, Paul McCartney, Eels, Fiery Furnaces, etc. He puts out a lot of music and it's the listener's problem to work it out from there (as opposed to releasing many truly great, no-filler albums). And this is right in line with that kind of thinking. There are three or four songs on there that I flat-out love, a couple I flat-out hate, and some stuff in the middle. The closer is truly bizarre, with the brilliant/idiotic line that I can only hope is a joke [and in that it's a hidden track, I assume it is]: "From the heart of Minnesota, here come the purple Yoda."

Haha, what an incredible line! So he's getting weirder on this one then? Planet Earth was SO bland, it depressed me. And I don't even know where to start with all this Lotus Flower stuff he did last year.... is it worth picking up?

Artists with huge back catalogues can be the most rewarding - I mean, look at the BB's. I'm currently starting to delve into Macca's 70's albums and am being pleasantly surprised with whatever £2 vinyl i can find at my local charity shops. my latest acqusition, Venus And Mars, is good, if slightly lightweight.

I'm guessing you're into your Nilsson then, Luther? Any other favourites?

Prince: you can find the songs that are worthwhile without buying the album. Macca: Don't miss Red Rose Speedway, as it's under-appreciated. Nilsson: Earlier the better.

Mono version of Their Satanic Majesties Request. Which I think is at least 10 times better than the ham fisted stereo mix.

Bob Dylan's 'Oh Mercy' album. One of his best.

In the past year I've finally begun to be able to tolerate this album, but in terms of "one of his best," that only works for me if you finish the sentence with something like "half of his output" or "15-20 albums."

To each his own. I love the production on the album, and songs like 'Shooting Star' and 'What Good Am I' are some of his best, imo. Granted, 'Disease of Conceit' is one of the worst Bob Dylan songs I've ever heard, so you may have a point  :lol

Anyone here into a group from the sixties called "13th Floor Elevators".?A friend recommended them recently and I must say their second album is probably my all time favourite psychedelic record now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xruN5wQK9s
Circulatory System, BB of the 21st century

I think that's excessive praise. They're not even the Olivia Tremor Control of the 21st century...and they almost literally ARE the Olivia Tremor Control of the 21st century, give or take one Bill Doss. But they do have their moments.

Carpenters - Love Songs

PIL - Flowers of Romance

Merzbow - Japanese Birds Vol. 3

I do love me some Elevators! Have you heard the new Roky Erickson album? A sweet collection of songs, backed up not too intrusively by Okkerill River

Right now, I am listening to 'Precise Modern Lovers Order', a live album by The Modern Lovers, and worrying about the mental state of Jonathan Richman.

I've gone in CD buying overdrive recently. In the last few weeks I have got

Moby Grape - Debut

Sagittarius - Present Tense

Hank Williams - As "Luke the Drifter"

Millennium - Begin

Terry Melcher - Debut

Rising Sons - Collection

Willie Nelson  -Red Headed Stranger

Electric Prunes - Underground

All on heavy rotation.

The s/t is just so incredible it's like a majestic dream symphony. I like OTC a lot but neither OTC album has very good flow, and there are several tracks on each I'm not fond of. I also just outright dislike Will's sound collages, I'm so glad he moved beyond them on the s/t. It's not for everyone I guess but the s/t is an album I get totally lost in, I've loved it since the day it came out. It's my favorite album of the 21st century.

I was surprised how many reviews I came across with similar sentiments. To me, it was just more of the same, and I wasn't that thrilled with the OTC stuff to begin with. I don't see it as advancement or improvement at all. But I'm admittedly a pop-song guy, so I find little or no joy in little purportedly experimental or scenic interludes at all.

No worries. I just love big sounding things, like Wagner, black metal, the Flaming Lips. I guess that's why I love Brian's production so much, I've always thought the Beatles production sounded really thin (no offense to them, The Beatles are great in their own way) and just get a big kick out of how lush and open it is, like a whole universe of music. The Circulatory System lp is just great like that.

Now I'm listening to this though, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2T2KmZdifE&feature=related
Something I think we can both agree on.

I'm listening to the first disk on that massive Creedance Clearwater Revival box for the first time, when they went under the names The Blue Velvets and later The Golliwogs and it's fascinating to hear over the course of 25 tracks them transform from utter garbage to the band that set the world on fire.

Jonathan Richman's "I, Jonathan."

Dude, I love Jonathan Richman. He is a goldmine on youtube, in case you didn't know.... check this out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-r5NkEkaXHQ

Stax-Volt Singles box set.

Of Montreal's Skeletal Lamping.

Les Paul boxset my friend lent me - good god, him and Mary Ford were fantastic! Just sticking it on shuffle and drowning in awesome guitars and harmonies.

Check it - An idiots guide to overdubbing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2FeKf7UUcQ

The Finn Brothers' self-titled album from 1995.

Some early Herman Dune albums, like Turn Off the Light and Switzerland Heritage.

Sweetheart at the Rodeo - The Byrds

Out of the Blue- ELO

Janelle Monae's Archandroid.

Soundtrack to 'Master And Commander' - Christopher Gordon

Big Boi, "Sir Lucious..."

newer band, sound very beach boysey. they have their whole album streaming here: http://nightlands.bandcamp.com/album/forget-the-mantra
it has an awesome cover of Til' I Die that I would say is the best BB cover I've heard.

Right now it's The Byrds Live at The Fillmore 1971, and Untitled.

The new Sufjan Stevens EP, All Delighted People. I'm just not a big fan of his ... but he is clearly a talented guy, promising and pleasant-enough sounding that I keep going back to check out what he does. Every time, I come away feeling a little disappointed. Repeat.

The new Eels, Tomorrow Morning. It sounds like, well, Eels.

The Drums-Let's Go Surfing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeZbbx5SPTs

Leon Ware - "Musical Massage" - classic Motown soul album from the '70s, this guy also produced Marvin Gaye's "I Want you" album.

Nelson Riddle's 'Polka Dots and Moon Beams'

'Love Kraft' by SFA - a fantastic album

Enjoy the Rabbit - Sufjan Stevens

American Trilogy- Elvis

Double Exposure - The Anthology (Salsoul)

KISS, Unmasked.

Of Montreal, False Priest. (To be released Tuesday, it's streaming on NPR's website.)

Portishead's third - "Portishead", very dour and spooky. I thinking I'm going off Portishead now.

Lonnie Johnson - "Steppin' on the Blues" - music for the wee hours...

listen to the band- monkees
magnetic south
loose salute
and the hits just keep on coming
pretty much your standard ranch stash
live at the britt---- all by michael nesmith.... i really like him

And The Hits Just Keep On Comin' is just great, one of my favorite 70s albums!

This time the physical disc.

Arthur Lyman's the Sensual Sounds of Exotica....

Bob Dylan - "Highway 61 Revisited" - stereo remaster. I'm going to buy the mono masters box!

No Love In Your Heart - The Earlies

Ahhhh, I'm still debating. I really want Bringing It All Back Home and Blonde On Blonde in mono, but I don't want to spend $100 to do so. But it would be great to have his whole '62-'68 recordings in mono....very tempting!

geographer -  night winds (acoustic)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-zVy-EzmAw

i love their last ep, so goooood.

Arctic Monkeys - "Humbug" in digi-sleeve. My fave UK band of the past decade.

Between the Buttons. I never listen to Between the Buttons--almost never the Stones at all, in fact, though I have been known to spin Exile a few times a year. One of those great albums that fits into the recent thread about whether we listen to the classics much ... and how I don't. (Speaking of frequent listening and not-classics, I've been loving the new Of Montreal, by the way.)

MOJO freebie CD: "The Dawning of a new Area" - comp of original ska versions of Specials tracks. Some of those MOJO freebies are really excellent while others are complete throwaways.

Oh, I like that one, it's got "Yesterday's Papers" on it, right?

That's the one. And Ruby Tuesday, Let's Spend The Night Together, et al.

Belle & Sebastian, Write About Love.

Is that Belle & Sebastian good? Hope it lives up to The Life Pursuit. Will have to give it a while to buy as I'm absolutely broke  :(

Right now I'm listening to 'Life Is A Problem', an utterly fantastic gospel comp.

I'm only on my first listen (second-to-last song). As of now, I'd say no, it is not as good as TLP. It has its moments, especially when the energy picks up in the middle third or so. But it's a slow starter and apparently a lazy finisher. Kind of an odd sequencing, in my opinion. Anyway, you have some time to save up: it's not out for another 3-4 weeks.

Summer Love Songs, The Beach Boys.

Ahhh, nothing beats that beautiful stereo version of 'Don't Worry Baby'

Sergio Mendes' hip-hop-inspired Black Eyed Peas collaboration, "Timeless", a major success for him.

The Heavy Blinkers: The Night and I are Still Young

Mountain Goats, We Shall All Be Healed.

Gene Chandler - "The Girl Don't Care", a most excellent party album!

The Who Sell Out

did you buy the mono edition?

Burt Bacharach - "At This Time" (Burt's latest solo album)

My mate's pre-reissue vinyl copy of All Things Must Pass - oh my christ, this is gooooooooood.

Just got it on CD yesterday. It's very good indeed.

James Horner - Deep Impact soundtrack

U2 - Zooropa

this is a great album!

Harry Nilsson - Duit On Mon Dei. Just got on vinyl for £3, and am revelling in Van Dyke Park's hammered calypso wall of sound  ;D

Arrows - "A's, B's & Rarities" - this glam band recorded the original version of "I Love Rock'n'Roll", which was later a big hit for Joan Jett & the Blackhearts!

John & Yoko - Double Fantasy (Stripped Down)..... It's on Spotiffy if you're in the British isles.

Kind of interested to hear this, even if the Yoko tunes off it are better....

yessim

I just paid a pretty penny for the "Manson Family Jams" album. Has anyone else ever heard it? Talk about the good, the bad and the ugly all on one record!

Lots of Public Image Ltd., mainly Metal Box and Compact Disc.

Paul McCartney - "Good Evening New York City" 2CD + DVD...

Miles Davis' Porgy & Bess. It's hella good.

I've been listening to a lot of Led Zeppelin lately - I swear they never recorded a bad song....

Even "Hot Dog"?

Phil Collins - We Fly So Close

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1. Pagan Baby
2. Sailor’s Lament
3. Chameleon
4. Have You Ever Seen the Rain?
5. (Wish I Could) Hideaway
6. Born to Move
7. Hey Tonight
8. It’s Just a Thought
9. Molina
10. Rude Awakening, No. 2



For some rerason this band gets quite overlooked on this borad. And this is an album that's also very overlooked. It shows CCR with a new sound compared to their previous albums, while still being very basic. Great stuff. Would be interesting to know what Fogerty had come up with on the next one if he had worked on that as on all the other albums.

By far my favourite CCR album.

That's good to hear.
I also think that this one has the best sound out of all.

The King Of Limbs- Radiohead

Sail Away - Randy Newman

I just bought this album a few weeks ago - incredibly beautiful. I was a little put off by the satire in the title song, but other than that, I find the album to be wonderful.

Old Man is one of the saddest/most beautiful songs I have ever heard.

Funny bit about "Old Man": Newman thought he wasted a very beautiful string arrangement on such a thoroughly depressing song. I can kind of understand that but... the asymmetry between the lyrics and music (not to mention the whole 'writing in characters' thing, of course) is one of the most compelling things about him as an artist! I don't think anyone else could get away with writing a song like "Guilty" or "Suzanne" or "It's Money That I Love".

Every hardcore Beach Boys fan on here has to hear the Surfin Lungs from Italty and Sonic Surf City from Sweden; fantastic bands!!!

The Sweetest (I think that's the title) Bacharach/Elvis Costello
The Byrds' Younger than Yesterday and  Sweetheart of the Rodeo (which I enjoy highly)
Bowie's Hunky Dory
Pink Floyd's Animals and Meddle
Let it Be Naked

George's Cloud 9 is soooooooooooo good, I now see what people were talking about.

Just for Today being the centerpoint of my attention at the moment

Zooropa - U2

I can't really explain why I like this album so much...probably because I grew up listening to it constantly during the mid-90s. I remember listening to it a lot during the 9/11 days. Jesus, was that really 10 years ago? Time flies.

IMO it was U2's last album where they weren't trying to make hits...they were just making music.

And as much as I like their music, it seems to me that Coldplay based most of their songs off of 'The First Time' and 'Dirty Day'.

'The Wanderer' is a great one too - Cash really paints a fantastic picture with that voice.

Chicago at Louisville Convention Center 6-12-1974.

Donovan - Hurdy Gurdy Man (Remaster).

Chicago at Varsity Stadium, Toronto 1972.

Sonic Surf City- great Swedish band that's been around for over 20 years; very eclectic music with a very heavy Beach Boys & Ramones influence.

Surfin' Lungs- Italian band also with a strong Beach Boys/Ramones flavor.

Manges- 'nother great Italian band, one of the greatest pop-punk bands I've ever heard.

Chicago at the Civic Arena in Pittsburgh 10-5-77.

The first 5 Laura Nyro albums. So so so so good.

Penguin Cafe Orchestra

Obsessed for two days straight.

Been spending time with the new Mountain Goats album.

Guitar Noir by the Aqua Velvets

John The Wolfking Of L.A, by John Phillips. Classy 70's country rock, which is my new crack these days.

Beautiful, beautiful album.

Listening to a summer playlist full of Beach Boys, Asteroids Galaxy Tour, Apples in Stereo, Beatles, Byrds, Mamas and the Papas, Bob Dylan, Jack Johnson, T.I., Boston, Armin Van Buuren, U2, Zombies, Zeppelin, Hendrix, Goldfrapp, The Doors....Tis a nice day to relax with some great music.

Gram Parsons - isn't he deceptively amazing? Have been sitting on Return Of The Grevious Angel for months and suddenly it clicked this evening. Fantastic!

darius rucker...he played the paramount theater in my hometown of ashland, ky tonight. i went. 1st time seeing him. was blown away. great singer and show. as some may know, as usual i recorded the show. pretty good recording... :)
listening to it now....esp only want to be with you.
darius threw in some steve miller, hank jr, david allen cole and prince into the setlist.
headphones will be on all night i suspect... :)

A whole lot of Monkees.

Most of this week I've been listening to MEMORIES OF LOVE by Future Bible Heroes, a Magnetic Fields off-shoot. Melodic and sardonic electro-pop. One track, "Real Summer", gently name-drops and chides the Beach Boys for creating an unattainable, perfect version of summer that the real season can't possibly live up to.

Fleet Foxes: Helplessness Blues, I love the track Lorelei.

On a late period Rutles kick- Sgt. Rutter, Tragical History Tour, Let It Rut, Yellow Submarine Sandwich, Shabby Road... Also digging some of Dirk`s Punk Floyd stuff. Those Garcons Du Plage were pretty good, too-I think Stig played drums on a couple of their early 70s records.  :lol :lol :lol

Glen Campbell. Relentlessly. Neighbours must hate me....

Been on a week long Beach Boys binge. Just made a Holland/Carl and the Passions playlist. Been listening to Surfin' USA album constantly.

Listened to the new Coldplay single 'Moving to Mars' - great song. Also been listening the hell out of The Doors lately.

And after a week without my stereo I'm reinstalling it tonight and will crank up Good Timin' - Live at Knebworth.

The Byrds/ Beach Boys was the soundtrack to my beach vacation all last week.

It's not on account of Glen

For new stuff, the new Bon Iver, Okkervil River, Herman Dune albums. Then, 1968 singles for the Record Room poll.

The bacchanalian orgies, opium smoking, gunfights and the pet bear might have something to do with it, sure, but you can't be too sure.  ;D

Just ate dinner feeling incredibly heroic because I'd put on Holst's The Planets, which starts with this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NeQ1h6lzLI

LOVE 'The Planets'! Great suite of music.

I really like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbk71ZQTVPk

ETA: This is the same girl that was singing in the video above. Amazing voice. If she doesn't become a star, there is no justice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BSw5ogsiso

Prokofiev's 5th Symphony.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._5_%28Prokofiev%29 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._5_%28Prokofiev%29)

Edit: added a link for info

the new tribute to buddy holly: RAVE ON BUDDY HOLLY - some neat stuff on there.  8)

Damn right they are! I've always maintained that she, alongside Brian, is one of the true geniuses to have emerged out of the pop mold. Totally idiosyncratic, ecstatic, profound music, such incredible breadth of expression. Gonna put on Eli right now.

Was spinning New York Tendaberry earlier and getting a little bit sad.


Now I am listening to Spiritualized's Let It Come Down, a transcendentally beautiful, powerful album.

I see album cover images are non-PC around here-----pity!

Just been listening to Philosophy of the World by The Shaggs, following a comment in another thread.

If POTW was Zappa's third favourite album, what could nos. 1 and 2 have been? Anybody know? :=|   

Petra Haden Sings The Who Sell Out

I am listening to a compilation of Miriam Makeba songs. I'm not entirely sure of the time frame but I'd have to guess 1950s to '70s? I don't know how I didn't do this sooner though, it's so good!

Carl's Big Chance!!!

What a bitchin' song.

This Song is Over- The Who...............so good! First time I heard it was on Freaks and Geeks, loved it ever since!

Who's Next is one of my favorite albums because of songs like "this song is over" and others on that album that get me pumped up.

Besides Giligan's Island and Happy Days, Freaks and Geeks is my favorite show....so much great music, great script, and great acting.

Love F&G! And Undeclared, and pretty much all of Judd Apatow`s work...including 40 Year Old Virgin, Superbad, Pineapple Express, etc.

Funny this should come up - I'm working my way through the Freaks and Geeks series for the second time.

Also, on topic:

I'm going through a huge Neil Young phase right now. I've always loved the big albums like Goldrush, Everybody Knows, Tonight's The Night, Harvest, Rust Never Sleeps, etc. But I've been exploring some of the lesser knowns and later albums which were hits but that I never heard. I absolutely love American Stars n' Bars - it's a vastly underrated album in the Young discography. I also really like Ragged Glory. I'd love to say I love Trans but I've yet to gain the confidence to get the whole album. Still "Transformer Man" is a great track. And, really, what is most impressive about the guy is his incredible versatility and that he's still producing music that seems true to the artistic vision he had going back to his earliest recordings (which, you can't really say for many artists who came out of the 60s).

Godfrey Daniels 'Take A Sad Song'. Doo-wop covers done by a 'mystery band' in '72 of stuff like Purple Haze, Dance To The Music, Proud Mary.... and two versions of Hey Jude! It is literally my happy place. Horrifyingly out of print, though. Definitely scour ebay for it.