What are you listening to and WHY might anyone be interested? (Vol. XII)
Posted by: Richard Dane on 01 January 2016
2016 has arrived today, so time to start this thread afresh.
Last year's thread (and links to previous years) can be found here;
Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Armed Forces
On Vinyl
Five Live Yardbirds. Sonny Boy Williamson & the Yardbirds.
Recorded live at the Marquee, 1964, Recorded live at the Crawdaddy Club, 1963,
with Mr. Clapton doing his thing on each occasion.
Some might say they're a bit dated now, but here's where it all started for UK blues.
Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes
Stunning album.....On Vinyl. Half-Speed master cut at Abbey Road Studios by Miles Showell.
Looking for musical inspiration and found this album coming up quite a few times in this thread. I've not listened to it for some time and i'd forgotten how good it is.
Morcheeba - Big Calm
Mal Waldron
All 3 were this afternoons jazz discs.
Sting - "The Dream Of The Blue Turtles" (1985)
Them - Them. The Animals - The Complete Animals.
Featuring Van the Man. Featuring, of course, Eric Burton.
Some more early British R 'n B..................and why not?
Peter Hammill / Gary Lucas - Other World
On Vinyl
Long time no ear, as Van Gogh may have said. Flac via Audirvana/Hugo
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers - The Beano album. The Rolling Stones - 1st album.
Bit of an R 'n B nostalgia fest here this evening, what with The Yardbirds, Them and The Animals, earlier..............so, ending the evening with these two........................and why not? 
On vinyl...
Sounding rather good...on vinyl.
Robert Plant. Dreamland. On CD from 2002. I like all Plant's solo work which to me has been increasingly progressive, continually drawing on varied musical fusions. I find an overriding tension and pensive nature to the music on this album as a whole, Engaging from that standpoint yet it has a sonic stridency that begins to play a bit long over its length. Would love to hear the vinyl version of this loudness-mastered CD.
(2012)
A bit of psych raga and fuzzy stoner rock to start the day.
dave marshall posted:Five Live Yardbirds. Sonny Boy Williamson & the Yardbirds.
Recorded live at the Marquee, 1964, Recorded live at the Crawdaddy Club, 1963,
with Mr. Clapton doing his thing on each occasion.
Some might say they're a bit dated now, but here's where it all started for UK blues.
Ah...nostalgia! I still have my old vinyl copies of these, and the cover of Five Live Yardbirds is a bit tatty. Of course by the time the one with SB Williamson came out, Clapton had left which is why the Yardbirds photo on the cover shows Jeff Beck!
Clive