What are you listening to right now? (VOL III)

Nostalgia!
Karen singing on the Briks seems to have more fat than usual herself.

Thomas Jefferson's Aeroplane "The Invisible Ocean"



Bill Deasy and Rick Jacques

Tommy Smith - Misty Morning and no time.

Not had this on for ages, might have a Tommy Smith evening, great stuff.

Regards

Nic

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Originally posted by nicnaim:

Tommy Smith - Misty Morning and no time.

Not had this on for ages, might have a Tommy Smith evening, great stuff.

Regards

Nic

Good album Nic - one of my favourites of his. I saw Tommy Smith a few weeks back playing with Arild Andersen in a rather challenging show. Good musician.

Bruford post prog.

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This is a real gem, shame MoFi never issued it on CD but I now have a nice XRCD of it.

I've been thinking about getting the XRCD as well, but found the MFSL vinyl version in a used record shop today-- it sounds excellent!

Bill Deasy "A Different Kind Of Wild"

Lontano,

I knew you had taste

The last time I saw Tommy Smith he was serving drinks during the interval for the tour sponsor at the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool in 1992. The album was:


Fantastic line up:
Tommy Smith
Julian Arguelles
Guy Barker
Mick Huttton
Jason Rebello
Jeremy Stacey

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Originally posted by Lontano:

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Originally posted by nicnaim:

Tommy Smith - Misty Morning and no time.

Not had this on for ages, might have a Tommy Smith evening, great stuff.

Regards

Nic

Good album Nic - one of my favourites of his. I saw Tommy Smith a few weeks back playing with Arild Andersen in a rather challenging show. Good musician.

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Originally posted by nicnaim:
Lontano,

I knew you had taste

The last time I saw Tommy Smith he was serving drinks during the interval for the tour sponsor at the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool in 1992. The album was:


Fantastic line up:
Tommy Smith
Julian Arguelles
Guy Barker
Mick Huttton
Jason Rebello
Jeremy Stacey

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Originally posted by Lontano:

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Originally posted by nicnaim:

Tommy Smith - Misty Morning and no time.

Not had this on for ages, might have a Tommy Smith evening, great stuff.

Regards

Nic

Good album Nic - one of my favourites of his. I saw Tommy Smith a few weeks back playing with Arild Andersen in a rather challenging show. Good musician.

I saw a Tommy Smith Show in Brighton once with Kenny Wheeler and I think Jon Christensen playing in the band . Don't remember when though.

Now I do not have the Paris album but I do like that line up. Jason Rebello was one of my early jazz heroes. Me and the Mrs used to see him alot in the London jazz clubs when he released his first album A Clearer View. Jeremy Stacey was in his band. Rebello then decided to head off to a monastary for some strange reason. He now plays in Stings band and did a jazz album of childrens songs.

Cheers

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Hi George,

How does this compare against Sunhouse?

Denis

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So how do you like Mr Hawley?

Totally inoffensive. I'm quite surprised just how much I enjoyed those 2 albums.Good musicianship,quiet and relaxing. Somewhat different from my normal fare.
John Hiatt also new to me, again pretty good.
Even Isobel Campbell good, but might take a few more listens to get used to Mark Lanegan's voice.

Lambchop "Is A Woman"

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What a fantastic album.

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Still my favourite Genesis.

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Originally posted by Lontano:

Still my favourite Genesis.

As does Jeremy Clarkson of Top Gear fame - liner notes to CD rerelease

Jeremy Clarkson on Selling England by the Pound

Most people imagine life at a public school is a nonstop round of jolly japes, idiotic customs and trying not to be raped, interspersed with lessons on the importance of afternoon tea, and how to wear a top hat properly. This is all wrong. In fact, I spent my entire five years in the public-school system listening to records and trying, until the wee small hours, to figure out what all the lyrics meant. There was much complication and confusion back then. The boy never simply met the girl and fell in love. He always had to be a unicorn first. And so there were hours of fun to be had unravelling it all. And the most fun, without any question or shadow of doubt, came along in 1973. It was called Selling England by the Pound.

“When the sun beats down and I lie on the bench, I can always hear them talk. Me? I’m just a lawn mower. You can tell me by the way I walk.”

What does this mean? Is it a savage indictment of the dehumanisation endemic in a capitalist state? Are we all machines? Lawn mowers? Or is it perhaps an ode to the freedom of the human spirit, a beacon of hope in a depressing world that, on a sunny day, you can let your mind go wherever it pleases; that you can be anyone, anything — a lawn mower, even. Or is it just a big bucket of rubbish?

I listened to Selling England by the Pound so much that, pretty soon, I was word-perfect. Still am, actually. So much so that whenever I hear an advertisement for Tesco, I silently mouth “Tess co-operates”. Even though I still have no clue what that meant, either.

Happily, this weird obsession with the lyrics of early Genesis albums, and Selling England in particular, stood me in good stead three years later, when I took my O-level English literature exam. Because hey, if it’s possible to get a handle on “The Barking Slugs, supersmugs”, then it should also be possible to understand what Portia is on about with her twice-blessed rain dropping gently from heaven. Turned out it was and I got an A.

I never stopped listening to Selling England. Whenever I buy a new car, this is always the album I put into the CD changer and play first. On a recent Top Gear trip to the North Pole, James May and I listened to Genesis every time the cameras were off. And it was like being back at school. As the miles of absolute nothingness crunched by, we’d fill the time by seeing who knew the most lyrics off by heart (me) and what they might have meant (him). Selling England has been the soundtrack of my life. Self-indulgent. Mad. Brilliant. Unfathomable. Prog-rock at its most bonkers. It’s all of those things, but most of all, it’s absolutely bloody brilliant.

Henry Cow -- Unrest (Vinyl)

I have not yet tried Henry Cow. Another to look out for.

Anyway for now, closing the night with Close to the Edge

Elliott Smith - Either/Or