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:
The Doors - Morrison Hotel.
The Frapp's Silver Eye - deluxe two-CD edition, with extra tracks/remixes and a guest appearance by the Mode's Dave Gahan.
Streaming from Qobuz, and very good it is.
The Beatles - Beatles For Sale.
First listen of new 2nd hand ripped CD
On CD:
With all the mentions by Kevin W I thought it was time to give Bobbie a listen for the first time ever.
Chris Rea - Wired to the Moon.
I was digging around in my vinyl collection and stumbled on this - FM soundtrack. I've never seen the film, but the soundtrack contains mostly US rock (Steely Dan, Bob Seeger, Boston, Linda Ronstadt, Tom Petty, Joe Walsh etc) and its very good.
This was already in the past a joyful and rhythmic album, it’s just gotten better for me now ...
Carlos Santana - Havana Moon, backed by Booker T ,The Fabulous Thunderbirds and various members of the Santana band.
A bit of a searching album, varying quality...
She has an amazing voice, in the folk rock corner, give a listen, many of you will like it...
I am a fan of him, while some of you might think he has his mannerisms.....
I never owned any Clash contemporaneously and have always avoided Sandinista from my box set due to it having connotations of being a difficult album.
How wrong was I? I decided to give this the proper once over like I would have if I bought it in 1980 and listened 4 times to each album before going on to the next. Well this is certainly a statement on a par with the White Album. Wonderful mix of genres, probably quite risky at the time having disco, dub, gospel along with punk/new wave on the same record.
It’s great to discover such a wonderful album sitting in my collection.
.sjb
Bert Schurink posted:This was already in the past a joyful and rhythmic album, it’s just gotten better for me now ...
A new pressing? 
.sjb
ewemon posted:Stevee_S posted:
(1998)
The Hoax - Humdinger
I was going to play The Floyd's Meddle but these bad British blues rock boys came into my head, Meddle coming up next (possibly)
Edit* Just to add that amongst their other finery the cover of Stevie Wonder's Superstition is totally maxed out and heavy...
Christ you really like them. Still recommend keeping an eye out for their Recession Blues album as it is possibly one of the best British Blues albums of all time IMHO. Lucky I got a copy of the cd before it got deleted.
Delighted to say that I've finally managed to track down the album and really looking forward to hearing it, cheers Ewen. Steve
Paul McCartney - Chaos and Creation in the Backyard, a latter day classic IMHO 
Paul McCartney & Wings - Band on the Run. One of the first albums I bought in my teens. Not listened to this in ages, but I am enjoying it very much. A classic album.
Sloop John B posted:I never owned any Clash contemporaneously and have always avoided Sandinista from my box set due to it having connotations of being a difficult album.
How wrong was I? I decided to give this the proper once over like I would have if I bought it in 1980 and listened 4 times to each album before going on to the next. Well this is certainly a statement on a par with the White Album. Wonderful mix of genres, probably quite risky at the time having disco, dub, gospel along with punk/new wave on the same record.
It’s great to discover such a wonderful album sitting in my collection.
.sjb
Funny, I recently did the same thing. I bought this in 1980 when it came out on vinyl. I only played the first side of LP 1 I think and then put it away. After all these years I gave it an entire listen. I can certainly appreciate it now when I did not back then. The vinyl is in mint condition due to aforementioned lack of use.
George Harrison - Cloud Nine.