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

This will get us through the night (tracklist)

dave marshall posted:

   Iggy Pop - Lust For Life.

   Arrived today, (bless The River's Sunday deliveries) ......................... now ripped and streaming ..................... a classic, which should be in  

  everyone's collection.

Is it not?

.sjb

Now Playing........

Mark Knopfler - The Ragpicker's Dream

via CD player.........  Enjoying Mark's music, so spinning another album......toe tapping to the beat and sounding mighty fine!

Keep meaning to go back a bit further and play a few most unfashionable Dire Straits albums - thanks for the slightly related reminder!

Peter

The Jayhawks Anthology - Music From the North Country - I've long been a huge admirer of the Gary Louris and Mark Olson harmonies.  A class act who I think somehow failed to achieve their true potential.  Some cracking albums along the way nonetheless and I should be grateful for these!!

Peter

Drikus posted:

Air - Moon Safari

Stonkingly great album in a chilled out kinda way!!

Peter

Now Playing.......

Mark Knopfler - Sailing to Philadelphia

via CD Player........   continuing the evening with Mark, enjoying the vocals, lyrics, and music!

Courtney Barnett &  Kurt Vile    Lotta Sea Lice

Very good collaboration.

Now Playing.......

Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark

via CD Player........  Switching over to Joni for some mellow tunes on this Sunday evening while preparing dinner......

nigelb posted:

james n posted:

After a good afternoon spent with some fine music following Tracy Thorne  (Tracy Chapman, John Martyn, Judie Tzuke, Dire Straits, Malia & Boris Blank), Richard's post reminded me to give this a spin (albeit the spin of a hard disk rather than vinyl). 

I first came across this album via a review in Hi-Fi News. I'd not heard of Shelby Lynne and the review piqued my interest enough to order it. I must admit to being quite gobsmacked when i first played it, not only for the sublime recording but for her voice and the reworking of some classic songs. Still a favourite today. 

Shelby Lynne - Just a little lovin' 

This album has made a few appearance on here and I gave it a listen via Tidal a while ago. Maybe I wasn't in the mood because I remember thinking 'nice but not wow'. With so much attention today, I thought I would give it another try and it is always a good sign when I discover an album is still in my Tidal queue from my last listen.

Anyway I must be in the right mood today because I have just picked up a copy of this CD from the big river. It just goes to show some albums and artists need a little longer to get under your skin. It reminds me also what a great artist Dusty Springfield was.

Now I must go to the back of my Tidal queue and listen to some stuff again. This could get expensive!

It is a fantastic album and IMHO opinion by a long way her best. 

Played this late last night to remind me of one of Englands best singer songwriters.

Brings back a whole shed load of memories.

David Munyon- Codename Jumper another one of thos albums you haven't played in years.

Think it is due out this week sometime.

Last nights listening

First up this morning 3 trax off this up and coming album due out next month.

Monty Python - Bells of St. Mary

A little late to post on here now - I was listening to this last night, but I try to keep computers/tablets/phones out of the music room when spinning vinyl.  

Anyway, I've been digging back through some of my LPs from the late '70s and early '80s, particularly ska and new wave.  A good number needed a clean but as I always tended to look after my LPs well, they have mostly come up looking as good as new. So, I pulled out A Flock of Seagulls, Gary Newman's Pleasure Principle, ATF, and this one, M's New York, London, Paris, Munich, that took me right back to memories of school and one day hearing a brand new sound.  Heaven knows when I last spun this LP - I was probably still at school!  It was fun though, and some interesting studio effects playing with phasing.  I wonder what happened to them...

Here's a pic of the back of the Lp sleeve, mainly because it's a bit more interesting than the front.

And after this I spun the 12" of After The Fire's Der Kommissar.  This was HUGE in the states around '82/83 and the 12" single was the only way to hear it.  There was also the Falco version out as well.  I bought both, but I think I preferred the ATF version.  Which reminds me, where IS my Falco version..??  

A great fun way to finish the evening.

Finally succumbed to an itch that needed scratching last week and found a cassette deck on Preloved, a Rotel 955AX. One replacement drive belt (Maplins coming up trumps even if it was over a fiver for a rubber band) and a couple of hours 'working from home' on Friday afternoon stripping it down and swapping the belt + a head clean & demag, has seen it back to decent working order.

What's playing now? Radio 1's Saturday Sequence from September 1989 with Roger Scott, and it's magnificent. Not so much for the sound although it is pretty good - the pile of tapes I've kept for the best part of 30 years were recorded off-air via a NAD tuner (4225 iirc) onto a Technics twin tape deck that had optical auto-reverse timer recording onto both tapes sequentially, so 3 hours recording time. That's enough for a lot of what Radio 1 was putting out at the time, away from the daytime output. Roger Scott knew how to do a programme.

So far on this bit of The Sequence we've had Elton, Buddy Holly, Kirsty MacColl, a Radio One news bulletin complete with the stereo news intro and now it's The Stones and an interview with Stephen Tyler from Aerosmith. The first tape out of the box had a snatch of John Peel on there, a clip from Out On Blue 6 that Mark Radcliffe used to do I think on Monday nights, a bit of R Leicester football commentary from Wembley (1993 play-off v Swindon with the two goals that bought it back from a 0-3 deficit to 3-3) and a bit of a Friday Rock Show. There's also a pile of complete Alan Freeman Saturday Rock Shows, but all from the late 80s not the proper 1973-78 version.

This is going to be enjoyable. The plan always was to record stuff not with a view to hearing it back in the car a few days later at a more convenient time, but exactly this - to dig them out many years later in whatever circumstance I might find myself in and hear them properly. Nice when a plan comes together.

Pumarosa - The Witch.

Hypnotic, with grooves and guitars. The song "Priestess" is a minor classic.

Pixx  - The Age of Anxiety

More grooves, slightly fewer guitars than Pumarosa (see above). "I Bow Down" is another minor classic.

The Police - Ghost in the Machine on vinyl.

I remember clearly the first time I heard this album.  It was a cold January in 1982 and some friends and I had taken the bus and gone skiing for the weekend to Waterville Valley.  One friend (lucky so and so) had received a spanking new Walkman 2 and some cassettes for Christmas and had brought the along with him for some tunes while skiing.  He let me listen while we were taking the chair lift.  This album was playing and it totally knocked me sideways. I begged him to borrow it for a couple of runs and he was kind enough to oblige.  I'll never forget that feeling of a crisp but sunny day skiing along while listening to this fabulous album - it was an epiphany. I just had to get myself a Walkman!!  That had to wait until a summer job, so the first thing I got was a vinyl copy of Ghost in the machine from the local Pitchfork records in Concord. That copy somehow never made it back to the UK, so I bought another one on my return.  And that's what I've been playing this morning...

n.b. IIRC the cassette of this actually sounded pretty good.  Way better than usual for a pre-recorded cassette.  I seem to recall it was one of the first to be issued on Chrome tape, but with 120us EQ, so ideal for portables and Walkmen..

I did eventually earn some money over the Summer to buy my own Walkman, although I was swayed by the new WM-7 which came with feather touch top mounted controls, dolby B, AND auto-reverse!! Only downside was the size - a fair bit bigger than the WM2 - and the battery life.  It loved to eat batteries! That served well until replaced by a WM-DC2.

ChrisR_EPL posted:

Finally succumbed to an itch that needed scratching last week and found a cassette deck on Preloved, a Rotel 955AX. One replacement drive belt (Maplins coming up trumps even if it was over a fiver for a rubber band) and a couple of hours 'working from home' on Friday afternoon stripping it down and swapping the belt + a head clean & demag, has seen it back to decent working order.

What's playing now? Radio 1's Saturday Sequence from September 1989 with Roger Scott, and it's magnificent. Not so much for the sound although it is pretty good - the pile of tapes I've kept for the best part of 30 years were recorded off-air via a NAD tuner (4225 iirc) onto a Technics twin tape deck that had optical auto-reverse timer recording onto both tapes sequentially, so 3 hours recording time. That's enough for a lot of what Radio 1 was putting out at the time, away from the daytime output. Roger Scott knew how to do a programme.

So far on this bit of The Sequence we've had Elton, Buddy Holly, Kirsty MacColl, the Radio One news bulletin complete with the stereo news intro and now it's The Stones and an interview with Stephen Tyler from Aerosmith. The first tape out of the box had a snatch of John Peel on there, a clip from Out On Blue 6 that Mark Radcliffe used to do I think on Monday nights, a bit of R Leicester football commentary from Wembley (1993 play-off v Swindon with the two goals that bought it back from a 0-3 deficit to 3-3) and a bit of a Friday Rock Show. There's also a pile of complete Alan Freeman Saturday Rock Shows, but all from the late 80s not the proper 1973-78 version.

This is going to be enjoyable. The plan always was to record stuff not with a view to hearing it back in  the car a few days later at a more convenient time, but exactly this - to dig them out many years in whatever circumstance I might find myself in and hear them properly. Nice when a plan comes together.

Great post, Chris. What a good idea, making yourself a music time capsule complete with all the memories that will go with it now you have finally 'dug it up' you can enjoy all your trips back in time. 

Now Playing.......

Jon Balke - Siwan Nahnou Houm

Jon Balke (keyboards), Mona Boutchebak (vocals), Derya Turkan (kemençe), Helge Norbakken (percussion), Pedram Khavar Zamini (tumbak) - Barokksolistene: Bjarte Eike (violin), Øivind Nussle (violin), Miloš Valent (viola), Per Buhre (viola), Torbjørn Köhl (viola), Judith Maria Blomsterberg (violoncello), Mime Brinkmann (violoncello), Johannes Lundberg (double bass).

via CD player......  Enjoy Jon's albums quite a bit with such a variety of compositions. Love the mix of music crossing cultures in both of his Siwan albums, simply beautiful music. Wonderful way to start the week......

A really nice bit of Vivaldi - Recorder music to get Monday afternoon going - Playing on Compact Disc