Hi Ovi. I really didn't think you'd see it -- what a coincidence. Very cool!
 
What music am I into? Well, in the past few years I've been exploring pop/rock from former Yugoslavia…

https://endlessharmony.boards.net/thread/1171/1980s-pop-yugoslavia

…and from the former Soviet Union:

https://endlessharmony.boards.net/thread/1937/dawn-alyans-1980s-soviet-synthpop

I've also been exploring Sovietwave (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLxj6TbbtDk) and Vaporwave (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaQS379Idss), along with much Baroque music. Plenty to explore then!

As for rap, I still like MF Doom's stuff but Kendrick L is simply too heavy for me! And you? Have you found anything interesting recently?

Take care!

JK 

Very cool, I will check all of these out.

I've been obsessed with the Everly Brothers this year. Seems like a natural progression from The Beach Boys, but I hadn't dug deeper into their stuff before. Incredible music, Heaven on Earth, two voices becoming one.

Other artists that have made a big impression on me in these past years: Big Star, Bjork, Van Morrison, The Monkees, Gene Vincent, X-Ray Spex (easily as good as anything punk), Steely Dan (only heard the first album so far but man, what brilliant song-writing and instrumental precision).
 

Ovi being the fella who tried to kindle my interest in rap and partially succeeded (for a while) -- and who makes cool videos!  

La Mulți Ani!  

Thanks so much buddy! Was checking the forum to find an accurate list of all BBs documentaries and saw this. What a nice surprise! Struggled to remember my login details!

What have you been up to? What music are you into these days?

I just heard that Sony Legacy will release a new vinyl version of "50.000.000 Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong" - the second volume of the "Gold Records" series - in January 2020. So for every collector and everyone who wants to get into Elvis' music, this should be interesting. It's one helluva album!




I Need Your Love Tonight    
Don't    
Wear My Ring Around Your Neck    
My Wish Came True    
I Got Stung    
One Night    
A Big Hunk O' Love    
I Beg Of You    
(Now And Then There's) A Fool Such As I    
Doncha' Think It's Time


IIRC the wrong version of "Doncha' think it's time" was used, which differed from the single version.

I love this album. I Got Stung, One Night and A Big Hunk O' Love are perfect. And placed in succession!

Hi, I made a new one called Summer for those interested!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyJjCd5HwYA&

Hi Ovi. I watched it a couple of days ago but only got round to commenting on it this morning...

I love the pace of both these films. They take their time to say what they want to say. And that's a great quality in my book.

In this one, the scene that keeps coming back to me takes place in the playground, about seven minutes in. One swing stays still while the other with Summer on it swings into view a few times. A magic touch.

Nice work, sir. I look forward to your next outing.    

Thanks so much, buddy! Glad you dug it.

Joni Mitchell - Little Green

Hi, I made a new one called Summer for those interested!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyJjCd5HwYA&

I've become obsessed with Elvis in the last month. I think he was the greatest. Some albums I've been playing:

- Elvis at Sun
- Elvis Presley
- Elvis
- Loving You
- Elvis' Golden Records
- For LP Fans Only
- A Date with Elvis
- Elvis (1968 live album)
- From Elvis in Memphis

Listened to Sly & The Family Stone's Fresh. Sly Stone was fascinating.

[Forever Changes]

I'm back on track now with Forever Changes after half a century of writing it off as the decline that finished Love's career. How foolish can one man be.

Thank you, that person, for making me see sense at last! I'd noticed others raving about it online but had dug my heels in.

For me, side one of Da Capo was their finest (and final) hour. Until last year.

Yeah, been listening to some Love too lately. Forever Changes still holds up as a masterpiece for me. I used to listen to it obsessively in high school, yet the magic is still there. I've just been getting into Four Sail, underrated album. Da Capo rules as well. Still need to hear their debut!

Yeah, that is a tremendous song, isn't it?  That whole album(" The Who By Numbers") is great. I view it as one of their best albums. But it's one of those albums that fans are divided by.

Love that album. Weary and personal, kind of like their Tonight's the Night. I think it's my favorite of theirs besides Quadrophenia and the live stuff.

Checked again in 8 yrs Highway 61 Revisited & again disliked it big time. I believe in Mick Jagger's music taste who stated that "Desolation Row" is his favorite BD song. It's nice but samey, must be shorter at least by 90%. Still find BD's voice really ear-attacking. Shoulda purposely change voice, adopt different voice. Singing is akin to, in a way, acting.

I actually love Dylan's voice on High 61 Revisited. Nobody could've sang Ballad of a Thin Man quite like that. Perfect intonation on the "...do you, Mr. Jones?" part.

This lullaby came to mind during today's evening walk. I like the sentiment. I remember hearing this album on breakfast radio before heading off to work in early 1974, the year I chose to move to the Netherlands.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Frj2CLGldC4

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forever_Young_(Bob_Dylan_song)

I love that album. Pretty underrated I think. Some of the songs foreshadow the confessional direction he would take with Blood on the Tracks (Going, Going, Gone, Dirge, Wedding Song). Yet while Blood has always felt a bit too FM-friendly to me in places, the sound of Waves is just excellent, with The Band's homespun rawness in full display.

I frankly, being different language speaker perhaps, don't get the phrase "dark times". People use it frequently everywhere, it puzzles what precisely they mean by it.

A period when things are not going so good.

I must've listened to Van Halen's debut about 10-15 times. Still think only 2 songs are really great.

Also, AC/DC's Back in Black and Highway to Hell, Joni Mitchell's Blue, Beck's Sea Change, Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks (except for 3-4 songs that I think really are masterpieces), Yes' Fragile (I acknowledge the talent, just not my thing) and all Smiths albums.

Damn, I love Van Halen now. And Blue, Blood on the Tracks, and Fragile. Sea Change is all right.

I saw Trout Mask Replica mentioned in this topic, and I gotta say I loved that album right from the first listen. I think it's beautiful in its craziness, it always makes me smile. And has helped me through dark times.

Blondie also had two disco masterpieces, Heart of Glass and Atomic. The latter in particular feels like pure ecstasy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa911_8TP2s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbDdMqE49SA

Good call, Ovi. I'm not the world's biggest ABBA fan but I'm the first to admit that quality-wise their stuff is absolutely top-notch.

"Voulez Vous" is cool but for me ABBA is "Dancing Queen" (and "Dancing Queen" is ABBA): 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFrGuyw1V8s

Yes! Incredible song. I'm also a huge fan of Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEjLoHdbVeE

Coltrane's My Favorite Things, the greatest piece of music ever put on tape:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWG2dsXV5HI

No mention of ABBA yet?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za05HBtGsgU

Love pretty much all albums until Waters left. Couldn't bring myself to listen to The Endless River yet...

I'm in the minority but I always loved Queen's disco record, Hot Space. These two tracks in particular I think are disco perfection. Can't sit down while I play them:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17x989t-a0Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ-hNCUthiU

NOLA BB Fan, have you seen the movie Wall-E? I highly recommend it...probably the best Pixar movie I've ever seen.

Coco!

Chic!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1qQ1SKNlgY

Anyhoo, didn't like the album. Zero favorites. It may be single such album by Paul. Can you say the same about any Beatle/ Paul?

My two least favorite Paul solo albums are Pipes Of Peace (1983) and Kisses On The Bottom (2012). I can't really say that I like either album nor are any of the songs a favorite of mine.

My Valentine was a beautiful song. I like New too, good pop album.

The film is available on HBO Go (at least it was about two months ago when I watched it).

Love all those you mentioned. Take Me to Your Leader may just have DOOM's best beats. Although I wish he would rap more on it - he's probably my favorite MC when things like flow, delivery and lyrics are considered. For Public Enemy I think I'll always go with It Takes a Nation... which I feel has their strongest songs, even though Fear is kind of a bigger album in scope. If I have one minor complaint about Enemy it would be that Chuck D, while a great lyricist, kind of falls short as a rapper for me. I think his rhymes are kind of rudimentary and rarely keep me interested. Maybe he thought that was necessary for the message to be properly understood, but I'd much rather listen to Rakim out of his contemporaries (even Ice Cube) who runs circles around Chuck. Not to mention the 90s rappers who took MC-ing to a new level.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sulaqzO0ICk