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
Volume VIII: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...nt/12970396056050819
Volume VII: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...6878604287751/page/1
Volume VI: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878604097229
Volume V: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878605140495
Volume IV: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878605795042
Volume III: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878607309474
Volume II: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878606245043
Volume I: https://forums.naimaudio.com/di...ent/1566878607464290
Instrumental music - quite good and different from most other examples in this genre...
Some of Schubert's best Lieder for female voice - including the famous Gretchen am Spinnrade where the piano depicts both the spinning wheel and Gretchen's heartbeat, while she loses it thinking about Faust. Bernarda Fink is irresistible in this song (transposed downwards for her mezzo).
EJ
On Vinyl 
Stephen Stills/Manassas. Down The Road. On original vinyl from 1973. Their second and final album, a very talented assemblage of song writers and musicians.
From mIke's aging baby boomer collection.
I recall some tunes from this album sounding awfully like the Beatles and had a heavy radio play.
Listening to the whole album for the first time.
Good God Yoko is horrible.
She is a modern day Florence Jenkins. ( but no even AS good as her! ) :/
CD
Larry,
You seem to be on a Kate Bush bender lately. I don't have any of her music but will have to sample some on the net as we seem to have overlap in musical interests. Cheers!
Joe,
If you haven't seen "KATE BUSH - The Kate Bush Story (2014 BBC Documentary)" I highly recommend it. She is one my of all time favorites. Here is a YouTube link ;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4sLwt8mhZs
Enjoy,
Larry
Lizard
From mIke's aging baby boomer collection.
I recall some tunes from this album sounding awfully like the Beatles and had a heavy radio play.
Listening to the whole album for the first time.
Good God Yoko is horrible.
She is a modern day Florence Jenkins. ( but no even AS good as her! ) :/
I had to Google Florence Jenkins. Now that comparison is saying alot.
One of my favourite piano player is Marian McPartland.
Nothing particularly original but her sassy style gives me a smile. This is a 1953 Rudy Van Gelder engineered Savoy LP.
Surprisingly good sounding live recording from the mid 70s small independent record label.
The tune selection is rather dated now ( Send in the Clowns/Feelings/You are the Sunshine of my Life etc..) but Marian puts in her usual elegant spins that I don't mind listening to them. I much prefer her own original tunes and luckily she plays some of those which are far nicer than most jazz club standard covers.
From mIke's aging baby boomer collection.
I recall some tunes from this album sounding awfully like the Beatles and had a heavy radio play.
Listening to the whole album for the first time.
Good God Yoko is horrible.
She is a modern day Florence Jenkins. ( but no even AS good as her! ) :/
I had to Google Florence Jenkins. Now that comparison is saying alot.
How about Cindy Wilson or Kate Pierson of the B-52s?
From John Lennon (1980) "I was at a dance club one night in Bermuda. I suddenly heard 'Rock Lobster' by the B-52s for the first time. Do you know it? It sounds just like Yoko's music, so I said to meself, 'It's time to get out the old axe and wake the wife up!'"
Read more: http://archive.azcentral.com/t...n.html#ixzz3XAA3d57u
It's interesting that "Wrecking Ball" is such a popularly used musical title. Grace Slick may have been the first? Many have followed. Probably others.
The Miley Cyrus song spawned numerous covers.
Better sound quality than some other recordings from him....
War. Greatest Hits. On vinyl from 1976. Feeling funky.
Melissa Manchester: Melissa 1975 release.
This is a 1980 MOFI everything-is-smoothed-out reissue.This album was immensely popular and contains a hit 'Midnight Blue' but I prefer her later album.
Stephen Stills/Manassas. Down The Road. On original vinyl from 1973. Their second and final album, a very talented assemblage of song writers and musicians.
I agree with that Joe, their first album being their best.
From mIke's aging baby boomer collection.
I recall some tunes from this album sounding awfully like the Beatles and had a heavy radio play.
Listening to the whole album for the first time.
Good God Yoko is horrible.
She is a modern day Florence Jenkins. ( but no even AS good as her! ) :/
I remember back when the album was released we had at least three copies in the house - I bought it, as did both my sisters - and consequently it got a lot of play time, and my eldest sisters boyfriend (soon to become husband) had the cassette in his car so we got used to the flinch of whenever a Yoko track would start. However, as with all these things, the Yoko tracks became a part of the album as a whole, and in latter years I even began to really like a few of them. Every Man Has a Woman Who Loves Him is a highlight, but perhaps mostly for the instrumental rather than the vocal.
Their best I reckon.
G
I've just been listening to the vinyl issue - in rather lurid blue. There's also a further six tracks on a second record (a different shade of sickly blue!) but I have not listened to those yet. The main album sounds very good, but surprisingly, given the emphasis on the collaborative aspect of the record, there are no musician/singer credits. I wonder if they are on the CD release - I would be interested to hear if anyone has that version.
Streaming | CD FLAC rip
Ruby The Hatchet ~ Ouroboros (2012)
A good American band that's new to me, picked up from Bandcamp recommendations a week or so ago (thanks Russell), really enjoying it. I'm getting into female fronted stoner rock.