What are you listening to right now? (VOL II)
Posted by: Adam Meredith on 23 March 2008
quote:Originally posted by Jeff Anderson:
James Taylor "Covers"
Terrific album, favorites are Webb's "Wichita Lineman" and Cohen's "Suzanne", love Steve Gadd's drumming and Andrea Zonn's incredible fiddle contributions. If you haven't got it yet, get it !
Agreed, Jeff. Those are my two faves, too. Gadd sounds fantastic, all the musicians are stellar ... Goldings' luminous piano and Landau's shivering guitar. Yo Yo Ma's bittersweet cello on Suzanne, too. I love it that the album was recorded mostly live, with all the musicians playing all at the same time, minimal overdubs.
And Zonn's lovely violin and voice, yes (check out her own wonderful album Love Goes On). The daughter of a former composition professor of mine, I couldn't be prouder than if she were my own daughter.
And, of course, JT ... golden honeyed voice, crystalline guitar, better than ever!
All the best,
Fred
Car music.
The Fall - Imperial Wax Solvent. Not sure how Mark E Smith can still be so angry at his age, but he is hardly likely to ever have an LP of ballads! Great stuff, although not as good as Fall Heads Roll.
Regards
Nic
Regards
Nic
Again.
Kind of Blue
'cos I am
'cos I am
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
1. Sonatine (Adagio) c-Moll WoO 43a 4:28
2. Air ruse Variationen uber ein 5:14
Eussisches Volkslied a-Moll Op.107.7
Thema mit 6 Variationen
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
3. Lied der Miguon a-Moll D 877/4 3:00
Sonate a-Moll D 821 "Arpeggione"
4.Allegro 12:13
5. Adagio 4:02
6. Allegretto 9:38
Vincent Schuster: Drei Bearbeitungen fur Guitarre-Violincello und Guitarre, Wien 1825
Louis Spohr (1784-1859)
7. Tempo di Polacca A-Dur aus seiner Oper Faust 2:58
Berhard Romberg (1767-1841)
8. Adagio E-Dur 2:08
Ukrainisch/Deutsch
9. Moderato a-Moll (Schone Minka) 0:54
Frederic Burgmuller (1806-1874)
10. Nocturne (Andantino) a-Moll/A-Dur 3:22
~<>~
Anyone who has seen Roman Polanski's film, "The Pianist" will be instantly familier with the haunting Schubert Sonate (track 4). If you haven't seen that film, you ought to, it's very good albeit tradgic.
The only shame with this superb "Der Arpeggione" disc is the fairly short total playing time of 48 minutes : (
nymph
Perfect Unpop: Peel Show Hits and Long-Lost Lo-Fi Favourites Vol.1 - 1976-1980, as recommended by Ghettoyout.
Although I already had a number of these on 7 inch, it was definite worth a punt for some of these other old gems. Full track listing below.
Regards
Nic
1. Language School - Tours
2. Whips And Furs - Vibrators
3. Ambition - Subway Sect
4. Final Day - Young Marble Giants
5. Hedi's Head - Kleenex
6. On Me - Bears
7. Whole Wide World - Wreckless Eric
8. Real Shocks - Swell Maps
9. Who Is Innocent - Out (1)
10. Thinking Of The USA - Eater
11. Mary Millington - Disco Zombies
12. White Mice - Mo-Dettes
13. Self Concious Over You - Outcasts (1)
14. Teenage Treats - Wasps (1)
15. Couldn't Believe A Word - 45s (1)
16. This Is Your Life - Glaxo Babies
17. Going Through The Motions - Prefects (1)
18. Radio Wunderbar - Carpettes
19. Bad Hearts - Tights
20. He's Frank (Slight Return) - Monochrome Set
21. It's Obvious - Au Pairs
22. Happy Feeling - Sinatras
23. Brickfield Nights - Boys (1)
24. Flood - Blue Orchids
Although I already had a number of these on 7 inch, it was definite worth a punt for some of these other old gems. Full track listing below.
Regards
Nic
1. Language School - Tours
2. Whips And Furs - Vibrators
3. Ambition - Subway Sect
4. Final Day - Young Marble Giants
5. Hedi's Head - Kleenex
6. On Me - Bears
7. Whole Wide World - Wreckless Eric
8. Real Shocks - Swell Maps
9. Who Is Innocent - Out (1)
10. Thinking Of The USA - Eater
11. Mary Millington - Disco Zombies
12. White Mice - Mo-Dettes
13. Self Concious Over You - Outcasts (1)
14. Teenage Treats - Wasps (1)
15. Couldn't Believe A Word - 45s (1)
16. This Is Your Life - Glaxo Babies
17. Going Through The Motions - Prefects (1)
18. Radio Wunderbar - Carpettes
19. Bad Hearts - Tights
20. He's Frank (Slight Return) - Monochrome Set
21. It's Obvious - Au Pairs
22. Happy Feeling - Sinatras
23. Brickfield Nights - Boys (1)
24. Flood - Blue Orchids
On ECM - Pat Metheny Group - American Garage
"In 1630 a strange disease called “Tarantism” struck Italy. It was attributed to a spider’s bite with alternating symptoms of exaltation and prostration. Tarantella are enchanting songs and dances meant to heal the patient by creating a state of trance."
It works very well too! : )
nymph
quote:Originally posted by von zipper:quote:Originally posted by KeanoKing:quote:Originally posted by von zipper:
Truly wonderful Blues and some excellent production considering the age - the tracks with Sonny Terry are sublime.
Hi Zipper,
Where did you pick up the lightnin CD? He is one of my favourite Bluesmen
ATB
KK
Hey KK,
Got it from Amazon - it's actually a repackaged collection which was previously called 'The Best of Lightning Hopkins' (along with about 30 other CDs with that name!) It focuses on his Prestige recordings from 1960-64, which is my preferred period of his (mostly due to the top notch sound quality of these recordings).The CD was very reasonably priced and came with a free Prestige Blues/Jazz sampler as part of the package for added value! Track listings are as follows;
Disc: 1
1. Back to New Orleans
2. Automobile Blues
3. Pneumonia Blues
4. Mojo Hand
5. Black Cadillac
6. You Is One Black Rat
7. Last Night Blues
8. Blues in the Bottle
9. Walkin' This Road by Myself
10. Got to Move Your Baby
11. Goin' Away
12. Happy Blues for John Glenn
13. Mean Old Frisco
14. Katie Mae
15. I'm a Crawling Black Snake
16. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
Some tracks are re-recordings of earlier pieces from previous lables which he remade for Prestige. All in all an excellent value disc - if you are a big fan you may already have these tracks covered on other releases but I highly recommend it to anyone who has an interest in quality blues/folk and who hasn't yet discovered the wonderful talent that was Lightnin' Hopkins!
Regards
VZ
Thanks VZ, i'll be sure to add that to my basket.
ATB
KK
