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

Borders Nick posted:

Ry Cooder & Ali Farka Toure - Talking Timbuktu.  Tidal.

 

This is one of those "world music for people who aren't really into world music" records. It's great.

Lucinda Williams - Ghosts of Highway 21.  CD rip.  One of my faves of the year - sounding great.  The guitar interplay on "Can't Close the Door on Love" is super.

A+ | Transcoded DSD

(1992)

1991 German-pressed 2-CD set featuring 31 tracks recorded live between 1968 and 1970 in Los Angeles New York Boston and Copenhagen. Cracking double album with some of the tracks sounding better and more vibrant than the studio recordings, there is also plenty of good material that never made it to the studio albums and its hard to know why... Playing CD 2 of 2.

Seal, WAV CD Rip.

This RIP is from an original release CD and my oh my it sounds GOOD.

U2, The Joshua Tree, WAV Cd Rip.

With all the talk of U2 being in the trade for 40 odd years, I thought I'd give this spin!?! I have always liked this album, Love Bullet in a Blue Sky.

Electric Moon - Lunatics Revenge

Neo-krautrock from Sula Bassana and chums, played quite loud. This is an album of semi-improvised fuzzed out fun. As per...

Bandcamp link

Wolgang Haffner - Kind of Cool.  Cd rip.  Grooves along very nicely indeed ( it's available on Tidal)

This CD whilst cooking supper..

The Dame's Diamond Dogs, extracted from the Who Can I Be Now? box set. Because I fancied some Bowie.

U2  -  "Zooropa"  (1993)

Working my way through the Kinks' mono vinyl box set, and I'm up this, the first of their true masterpieces I guess:

Joe Cocker "Mad Dogs & Englishmen"  (1970)  Leon Russell, Merry Clayton, Rita Coolidge and many more

Slim68 posted:

Seal, WAV CD Rip.

This RIP is from an original release CD and my oh my it sounds GOOD.

His first and in my view still his best.

The Dame's flirtation with plastic soul, immortalised on this game-changing LP (and again from the Who Can I Be Now? box):

Selected track off this one . . . . .

Madredeus: Antologia

Delicious music from Portugal easing us into subzero (F) temperatures.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpvL4KlKbWU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEhwjaWgx9g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHwVkIq0oPU

Rosie Vela - Zazu

One of the most extraordinary one-off albums. A fashion model with no musical track record turns up with a killer set of songs, snags not just Gary Katz as Producer but numbers Messers Becker, Fagen, Derringer, Levin, Keltner amongst her backing band. Then musically disappeared (though she was Jeff Lynne's squeeze for a while and it's rumoured he produced a follow-up album for her...that stunk).

It's a gem, even if you have to forgive somewhat the gated reverb drum track

Kate Bush  -  "50 Words For Snow"  (2011)

It's funny that there's a few Bowie posts tonight, as earlier the Missus and I were playing a few odd tracks in remembrance (with Bing, the Steven Wilson Space Oddity) with this as our favourite version of Under Pressure with the wonderful Gail Ann Dorsey.

Sniffle...

Zaz - Recto Verso. (CD special edition)