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:
On vinyl...
apye! posted:
On vinyl...
Great album, you shoul hear her other album “When The Levee Breaks”
John Tejada joining Reggie Watts or vice versa - resulting in a great collaboration.
Sean Rowe - Madman
Why? SR is a talented chap and I like this very much. That's it.
(1968)
Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
Because I like to trot this out once or twice a year. This and It's a Beautiful Day were the albums that originally led me down the psychedelic and alternative daft stuff route and my luv for this era of West Coast Bay area psyche and of course it's fifty years old this year. 
Original 1992 vinyl LP. It's a bit quiet, as the album is a meaty 56 minutes long (ie 28 mins a side). But not a second is wasted. No wonder this record was such a monster - every track is a banger, as they say, and the whole project has a nice sense of urgency and energy about it.
Skee Mask - Compro, another outstanding record of electronic music with subtle, well worked out, often dark and rather minimalistic but always percussive tracks
Aqueduct Ensemble - like a bridge between electronica, jazz and or classical.
First few songs of Bodega - Endless Scroll. Very promising. Reminds me of the early Pixies energy somehow...
Neil Young - Prairie Wind - original UK vinyl
2 hefty chunks of vinyl, not convinced the SQ is any higher than the cheapo pressing of Harvest I played earlier. Finishing off a Neil Young afternoon with the last of the Harvest trilogy, an album that took time to grow on me, but I now really enjoy. A set of beautiful elegiac songs, tinged with a comparison with post-9/11 America, some absolutely glorious pedal steel underpinning Neil’s vocals.
Freddie Hubbard - Breaking Point
A very good album by Freddie Hubbard. Recorded in 1964.
- Alto Saxophone, Flute – James Spaulding
- Bass – Eddie Khan
- Drums – Joe Chambers
- Piano – Ronnie Mathews
- Trumpet – Freddie Hubbard
Fabulous Psychedelic Rock Tribute by XTC with their side project band The Dukes of Stratosphere - Playing on Vinyl on Virgin Records 1985
Gregory Porter - Take Me To The Alley
Another talented gentleman who is cooler than a very cool thing.
Every interview I have seen, GP comes across as a genuine, modest and really nice bloke. He was asked about the title of this album and he said it relates to when he was a boy and his mum used to take him to a poor part of town where the homeless would hang out and they would take them food. Assuming this is true, and I have no reason to doubt it, shows me where GP's modesty and kindness comes from.
A class act in more ways than one.
Vinyl released 2005 - Newman’s tribute to his old chum Ray Charles. One to have. ????
Jeff Anderson posted:patk posted:
Beach House - Thank Your Lucky Stars
CD (2015) Haven't heard the latest release, "7", but scanned the shelves and found this for listening,
Pat, I thought it was pretty good on my first listen this week. Jeff A
Hi Jeff, thanks for letting me know. Will check it out. Best regards, Pat
Vinyl
Why? It was this or The Beatles Blue hits album. Either way it was down to nostalgia. Anyway, they were pretty good really.
steve
Jeff Anderson posted:
Herbie Hancock - "Quartet" (1982) Herbie Hancock - piano; Tony Williams - drums; Ron Carter - bass; and introducing Wynton Marsalis - trumpet. (Wynton's first solo album had just been released, as well.)
Herbie has the award for the most boring artist I have ever seen live Jeff.
Chvrches - Every Open Eye
CD (2015) Continuing my musical review of 2015. Also wanted to give a listen after getting "Love Is Dead" last week.
The Beatles - Let it Be, mid-70s UK vinyl
The last of my earworms from last week, and the first album I bought at the age of 12, still sounding good after 40+ years and some very ropy turntables. Even falling apart they wrote some classic songs, a level of pop that few bands ever equalled.
Released 2009 - Sounds like it could have been penned out of Brill Building. Fine album ????
Bob Dylan, Bringing it All Back Home, 1980s UK vinyl
About the middle of Dylan’s stream of masterpieces at the start of his career, he took folk electric, and produced a set of wide-ranging songs that included tender love songs, a bitter breakup song, cynical songs that divorced him from the folk-rock protest world, and stream-of-consciousness poems that took pop lyrics to new heights, and made it great to listen to.
Van Morrison - Beautiful Vision , another play after purchasing last weekend.Lovely.