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

Lot of Zappa being played tonight, so I might as well join in.

I have huge reservations about his music, which is nowhere near as clever as it thinks it is (and often quite tiresome, particularly later on) but there are bits that I do like, and this, his first album, is one of them. This vinyl version is from 1985, on his own Zappa Records:

Van Morrison  - Moondance

Paul McCartney

RAM - Qobuz Streaming

Edward

Sunday evening blues (even though it's Monday) from Imelda May - Life. Love. Flesh. Blood.

Surprised we don't see it here more often. Mybe I'm not looking hard enough though.

ted_p posted:

Paul McCartney

RAM - Qobuz Streaming

Edward

Cracking choice Ted, this album gets regular spins in our household."Monkberry Moon Delight" always puts a smile on my face 

Alan

This excellent 2014 soul / blues album on vinyl. 

A Mini album by Garage Psych band The Fuzztones from 1985 - Playing on Vinyl

Dave Holland Quartet ‘Conference of the Birds’.

Whatever Dave & Co sprinkled in the bird seed certainly perked them up... Sublime and slightly barmy. 

1979 - UK first pressing...

The Steve Miller Band  - Let Your Hair Down

The new one just released from this marvelous series...

ALANP posted:

Simply Red  - Blue , a well recorded affair with  slightly more of a reggae influence .Not the original band by now but not too bad

Simply Red - a band I haven't listened to in a while. Must correct that soon.

  Otis Redding - Otis Blue.

  Continuing the nostalgia fest chez Dave .................... and they don't come much better than this.

From 1992, on vinyl, a hugely influential electronic music compilation from the fine folk at Warp Records:

So after some blues the Steve Miller way I've gone back to an original, Howlin' Wolf  - The Collection a fairly decent 18 track comp on Universal that covers Mr Burnett's better known songs.

Alan

  The Blues A Musical Journey.

  I mentioned this a couple of weeks ago, and it really is worth getting hold of if you've any interest in the blues.

  It's a seven DVD boxset which charts the history of the genre, and I'm presently watching / listening to the "Red White & Blue" one,

  all about the '60's UK blues explosion, with performances from Van the Man, Ton Jones, Chris Farlowe and others, a real spine

  tingling nostalgia fest for me.

  Best of all, it's available for peanuts over on The River .................. highly recommended. 

MDS posted:

ALANP posted:

Simply Red  - Blue , a well recorded affair with  slightly more of a reggae influence .Not the original band by now but not too bad

Simply Red - a band I haven't listened to in a while. Must correct that soon.

I still enjoy the debut Picture Book and think that it still sounds fresh today.Have all the albums but they were far superior when they were a band and not just Mick Hucknall and some hired hands; but some great music along the way

dave marshall posted:

  The Blues A Musical Journey.

  I mentioned this a couple of weeks ago, and it really is worth getting hold of if you've any interest in the blues.

  It's a seven DVD boxset which charts the history of the genre, and I'm presently watching / listening to the "Red White & Blue" one,

  all about the '60's UK blues explosion, with performances from Van the Man, Ton Jones, Chris Farlowe and others, a real spine

  tingling nostalgia fest for me.

  Best of all, it's available for peanuts over on The River .................. highly recommended. 

Dave, yes I've been meaning to pick this up.I have a bootleg DVD of a Clapton concert from his Only The Blues tour that Scorsese filmed for the project ,but for whatever reason it didn't make the cut?

ALANP posted:

dave marshall posted:

  The Blues A Musical Journey.

  I mentioned this a couple of weeks ago, and it really is worth getting hold of if you've any interest in the blues.

  It's a seven DVD boxset which charts the history of the genre, and I'm presently watching / listening to the "Red White & Blue" one,

  all about the '60's UK blues explosion, with performances from Van the Man, Ton Jones, Chris Farlowe and others, a real spine

  tingling nostalgia fest for me.

  Best of all, it's available for peanuts over on The River .................. highly recommended. 

Dave, yes I've been meaning to pick this up.I have a bootleg DVD of a Clapton concert from his Only The Blues tour that Scorsese filmed for the project ,but for whatever reason it didn't make the cut?

Hi Alan,

Doh, that's me on a mission now, to try and track down that bootleg ............. the fun never ends. 

These two aren't bad though ..............

  Eric Clapton - Blues.                                                                                        Eric Clapton - Strictly The Blues.

  A double album, with the second one containing live                              Choons from Eric, Jimmy Page, The Yardbirds and John Mayall.

  perfomances from Eric.                 

  And they say that nostalgia ain't what it used to be! 

Yosi Horikawa - Vapor

Absolutely unique style Japanese ambient music with outstanding SQ. Headphones highly recommended.

Continuing my Motown listening.