What are you listening to right now? (VOL II)
Posted by: Adam Meredith on 23 March 2008
Prefab Sprout - Protest Songs
Mark
quote:Originally posted by Lontano:
Oliver - thanks for the good listening session and lunch with Mario. Thoroughly enjoyed the day with the CD shopping as well.
This is good.
Haven't unpacked it yet but will give it a good listen later on.
quote:Originally posted by MilesSmiles:quote:Originally posted by Lontano:
Oliver - thanks for the good listening session and lunch with Mario. Thoroughly enjoyed the day with the CD shopping as well.
This is good.
Haven't unpacked it yet but will give it a good listen later on.
Oliver,
Review from today's English Telegraph paper
Martha Wainwright
I Know You're Married But I've Got Feelings Too
Wainwright proves here that she really has range with her lovely second album. Don't just read trauma into the title - there's breezy wit and raw self-knowledge in there, too.
It opens with a jaunty guitar part, as the singer feels her way out of the cave of infatuation. Then the song intensifies as she recounts meetings with a man whose relationship takes on more weight with each verse. A marriage, a farmhouse, children. But the singer feels her "heart was made for bleeding all over you". She has learned to balance the intensity of her emotion with subtler melodies and gentler arrangements. This is a woman in a coffee shop singing the ache, not a mascara-soaked barfly.
She references "the booze and the smoke and the dope", but intoxication is now recollected in relative tranquillity, allowing the listener to follow her into personal psychological rooms without the awkward feeling that you're taking advantage.
There are pretty guitar pickings, scrawling rock numbers and a skippy, trippy Sixties sound on her cover of Pink Floyd's See Emily Play. There's true love to balance the hurt and anger, and lovely, rich, grown-up songs you'll be delighted you invited home.
quote:Originally posted by MilesSmiles:
- have to check out her earlier recordings as well - Madeleine that is.)
There is one earlier
And one later
Great Jazz Trio - Hank Jones, Richard David, Elvin Jones
quote:Originally posted by Lontano:
Great Jazz Trio - Hank Jones, Richard David, Elvin Jones
I'm envious of the nice Japanese OBI version you picked up there.
(again)All on the Black Stuff
The recent offering from the wonderful 'Over the Rhine' - I really wish they'd do some live gigs 'Over here'.
Lontano,
if I had to stack rank the three ladies 'M' tonight it would be:
1.Madeleine
2.Melody
3.Martha
Cheers ... Oliver
if I had to stack rank the three ladies 'M' tonight it would be:
1.Madeleine
2.Melody
3.Martha
Cheers ... Oliver
quote:Originally posted by Lontano:
This makes for a nice transition:
Hans Theessink and Terry Evans - Visions. Richard Thompson pops up discretely on a couple of tracks as well.
A lovely new discovery thanks to Gramophone
Just getting my fix of some of that ol' fashioned morphine
Then I'll move on to the evil weed
Then I'll move on to the evil weed
Some interesting music there Huw.
Playing this one for Stefan.
Playing this one for Stefan.
The Wallflowers "Red Letter Days"
Really good, Lontano, and I gave it the long treatment.
Oliver - you might like this one then as well
Vinyl
quote:Originally posted by Lontano:
Some interesting music there Huw.
Bouncing about a bit - can't say that I can recommend the Cigar Music disc, but once in a while I find it appealing.
Next up, Daniel Lanois - Acadie
