What are you listening to and WHY might anyone be interested? (Vol. XI)

Posted by: Richard Dane on 31 December 2014

On the cusp of 2015, we start a new thread...

Anyway, links:

Volume X: https://forums.naimaudio.com/to...-be-interested-vol-x

Volume IX: https://forums.naimaudio.com/to...16#22826037054683416

Posted on: 03 April 2015 by Stevee_S

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EFSS ~ Night on Ouddorp (2014)

Excellent Berlin school music helping to make Friday good.

Posted on: 03 April 2015 by Kevin-W

I'm in a post-punk/cold wave kinda mood today. On vinyl:

Posted on: 03 April 2015 by hungryhalibut

That's a great record, but what's cold wave? it sounds like a vision of hell where nothing but Coldplay records are played.

Posted on: 03 April 2015 by Christopher_M

Kev,

How different your life might have been if Viv was an Irons fan as well as your muse

Cheers,

Chris

Posted on: 03 April 2015 by Kevin-W

Originally Posted by Hungryhalibut:

That's a great record, but what's cold wave? it sounds like a vision of hell where nothing but Coldplay records are played.

It was a term coined in about 1977 by (IIRC) Sounds magazine to describe, bizarrely, Kraftwerk; and later acts like the Slits, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Throbbing Gristle, Raincoats, Fall, Passage, Joy Division etc. I think the idea was that these acts did not indulge in traditional showbiz tropes, nor did they make any attempt to convey the sort of beery, blokey "authenticity" of pub-rockers and punk.

Posted on: 03 April 2015 by Kevin-W

Originally Posted by Christopher_M:

Kev,

How different your life might have been if Viv was an Irons fan as well as your muse

Cheers,

Chris

Indeed Chris. Not sure that Viv would be the kind of girl to like football though - or indeed any sport.

Posted on: 03 April 2015 by hungryhalibut

That's weird, as a NME indie kid at the time, I totally missed that term. Maybe I just blinked at the wrong moment. It reminds me of The Cure's Jumping Someone Else's Train, and the line 'if there's a wave, I want to be on it'.

Posted on: 03 April 2015 by Kevin-W

UK first press vinyl. One of the great debuts, and probably the best album of its year (1978).

Posted on: 03 April 2015 by hungryhalibut

This certainly ain't the Slits, but I love it. It's a jazz / choral hybrid, which sounds unpromising, but is really excellent.

Posted on: 03 April 2015 by Quad 33

Not played this for a while, It still sounds like a great album to me..... Vinyl

Posted on: 03 April 2015 by dave4jazz

Originally Posted by Bert Schurink:

A fine trio album, in the typical tradition...

One of my favourite Kenny Barron albums.

Dave

Posted on: 03 April 2015 by Stevee_S

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Asura ~ Radio Universe (2014)

"A modern echo to the works of Jean-Michel Jarre, Klaus Schulze and Vangelis floats all over the ten tracks of this galactic journey."

Posted on: 03 April 2015 by Clive B

Despite missing out yet again on another opportunity to buy a Naim Aro, I've still had an enjoyable morning spinning some vinyl from the front end of the alphabet, starting with:

The Beatles - Rubber Soul