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:
Seasick Steve - Dog House Music.
Raw, stripped back, bare bones blues from Mr. Wold.
On it's release, this album made such a positive impression, amid a sea of over-produced blues mediocrity, ................. blues from
another time, indeed.
49 years ago today this was released.
nickpeacock posted:
Ride On - Wooden Shjips (from ‘V.’)
First listen today to this the new album - this is, for me, the stand-out track, with a mellow but stone-heavy vibe. I love this band.
Yep, I just love this band, Nick, well worth checking out their back catalogue if you haven't already.
Stevee_S posted:nickpeacock posted:
Ride On - Wooden Shjips (from ‘V.’)
First listen today to this the new album - this is, for me, the stand-out track, with a mellow but stone-heavy vibe. I love this band.
Yep, I just love this band, Nick, well worth checking out their back catalogue if you haven't already.
Agreed. Got ‘em all, including both the early compilation CDs. Also a big fan of Ripley’s spin-off, Moon Duo. Already got my tix for Wooden Shjips in London later this year!
Great album especially this song....
Dry The Rain - The Beta Band (from ‘Best Of...’)
One thing - it’s not just because of that bit in ‘High Fidelity ‘, ok?
One of my most fervent hopes as I grow older is that at about 3 minutes into this song I will never stop wanting to jump up and dance around waving my arms singing ‘I will be your light...’
Vermillion - Guillemots (from ‘Walk The River’)
Live at Glastonbury back in the day, this band gave me goosebumps. I think this is by a distance their best album, and there’s something very perfect about this song. A combination of together- and untogetherness that repays multiple listens.
Blood and Fire - Indigo Girls (from album of same name)
Last posting from me this evening before I go deep and zone out.
Is this the ultimate campfire song? A challenge to leave you with...
Ella Fitzgerald - Ella Swings Lightly.
Now playing........
Tord Gustavsen - Being There
Streaming on NAS......... A perfect Trio for the start of this Tuesday evening, cool and relaxing after a pretty much non-stop day...... Tord music works for many moods and is an easy go to since, for me, he always delivers. Love his collection of work.
Alba1320 posted:
"Steeltown" - Big Country (CD)
Nice Alba - the first CD I have bought, quite long ago in the winter 1984/85 ...
nickpeacock posted:Stevee_S posted:nickpeacock posted:
Ride On - Wooden Shjips (from ‘V.’)
First listen today to this the new album - this is, for me, the stand-out track, with a mellow but stone-heavy vibe. I love this band.
Yep, I just love this band, Nick, well worth checking out their back catalogue if you haven't already.
Agreed. Got ‘em all, including both the early compilation CDs. Also a big fan of Ripley’s spin-off, Moon Duo. Already got my tix for Wooden Shjips in London later this year!
Yep, Moon Duo another favourite band of mine at the moment I was gutted when I had (at the last minute) to cancel going to see them in Edinburgh this winter, enjoy the Shjips London gig.
My version is an audio rip off the original Danish TV broadcast
MDS posted:
One Evanescence album led to another........the wick is turned up this evening!
I purchased a copy of this a year or so ago following a number of listings on here. I couldn’t get on with it at the time. I’ll have to give it another try as it might have just been a mood thing.
Another album of the guys, also great....
Gerry Rafferty
City To City - CD Rip
I was trying to decide what album I should start the day with when I saw the post above from Stevee_s and MDS.
Starting with the first of what I regard as the two must have albums from the great man from Paisley.
Edward
Denis Kozhukhin - Ravel & Gershwin piano concertos.
Checking out these jazz inspired classical piano concertos.
Going super ambient with this from Steve Hillage - Playing on Vinyl on Virgin Records 1979
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Roy Haynes Quartet - Out of the afternoon
Out of the Afternoon is a splendid sounding 1962 set from the Roy Haynes Quartet -- which, at the time, consisted of Haynes, Henry Grimes on bass, Tommy Flanagan on piano, and Roland Kirk on saxes, manzello, stritch, and flutes. The album is a delightful mix of techniques in arrangement and performance, with all of the musicians delivering terrific work. Haynes' drumming is absolutely wonderful here, lightly dancing around the other instruments; Flanagan's piano playing is equally light and delicate; Grimes' bass work is outstanding (during "Raoul" you have a chance to hear one of the few bowed bass solos on records of that era); and there's no more to be said about Kirk's sax and flute work that hasn't been said a hundred times, apart from the fact that the flute solos on "Snap Crackle" help this cut emerge as particularly outstanding.