What are you listening to and WHY might anyone be interested? (Vol. XIV)
Posted by: Richard Dane on 31 December 2017
On the eve of a new year, it's time for a new thread.
Last year's thread can be found here:
CTRL+Z, Life In 24 Frames.
A really catchy Progressive Pop album! Floyd/Muse/Coldplay influenced. Along the lines of SW, To The Bone, but Very different too. On Tidal.
Things get tough
Brian Wilson, at the Roxy Theatre, WAV CD rip
This album kept me company in the car on a drive in the pouring rain from North Yorkshire to West Yorkshire this evening. So I thought I’d do it the courtesy of listening to CD2 in good sound quality before bed. Brian Wilson in 2000 performing live, his voice was not what it had been, but he knew it and surrounded himself with a hot band and a set of backing volcalists who could both harmonise with him and take over when needed if he faltered. Wilson wrote some of the best pure pop and some of the most beautiful rock ever, and this is a pretty damn good run through some of his best songs, he’s in pretty good voice and the arrangements are lovely.
Remembered that I used to hear this a lot on both the John Peel and Anne Nightingale radio shows.
Gianluigi Mazzorana posted:
Funnily enough I was playing thisa album of Lou's earlier today
Now Playing.......
Bill Morrissey - Standing Eight
Streaming on NAS......... arrived in the mail today, ripped to NAS and now streaming....... I think this is my favorite Bill Morrissey album, love his voice, backup singers, lyrics and music and the first track is fantastic!
Tidal. Ashley McBryde - Girl Going Nowhere Mentioned by Seakayaker in Song/Track of the day.
Hard to believe this is the only album these guys put out - so good.
During my workout, a pity that I missed out so long on these guys....
Nicely refined playing...
John Cougar Mellencamp. Scarecrow. On original vinyl from 1985. Solid American Heartland music. An overall upbeat album yet several tracks, as well as the cover art, identify a sense of the fading American dream from some 30+ years ago.
Molly Hatchet. Flirtin' With Disaster. On original vinyl from 1979. Tight fast hot Southern metal served up with three lead guitars. Music that begs for an accompanying cold beer.
Just given this, their latest album a first listen. Superb, superior folk.
Lovely piece of Bach guitar - Very relaxing
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Playing on Compact disc on the brilliant V.F.M Naxos label
Florilegium: Bolivian Baroque (SACD)
Playing on Compact Disc.Always good hearing some Stevie Nicks 
Now Playing......
Bill Frisell - Selected Recordings Rarum V
Bill Frisell (guitars, banjo, guitar synthesizer), Joe Lovano (tenor saxophone), Billy Drewes (alto Saxophone), Ed Schuller (double bass), Paul Motian (drums), Jan Garbarek (soprano saxophone), Eberhard Weber (bass), Michael DiPasqua (drums), Kenny Wheeler (trumpet, cornet), Joey Baron (drums), Lee Konitz (alto saxophone), Dave Holland (double bass), Paul Bley (piano), John Surman (soprano saxophone), Jamie McCarthy (recorder), Roger Heaton (clarinet), Alexander Balanescu (violin), Martin Allen (vibraphone), John White (piano), and Gavin Bryars (double bass).
Streaming on NAS.......... Spending some time with Bill this morning, love his music!