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:
Seemed an appropriate selection given the (welcome) change in the weather here in the UK.
Michael Franks - One bad habit
Nice album with mainly relaxing songs.
Released 2005 - Album number five – Texas Blues From this brilliant box set. ????
ELO - Greatest Hits, an early cd copy with pretty good SQ
hungryhalibut posted:With all the mentions by Kevin W I thought it was time to give Bobbie a listen for the first time ever.
Watcha reckon then?
The recent hot weather has meant a lot more time spent outside than in and not a lot of time spent in the music room.
A very wet Sunday means i've been able to sit down, peruse the forum and (with the Melco back to full health and reloaded) listen to some great music. It's been a bit of a Pink Floyd day, so we've had Animals, The Wall and now this.
Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
I’m listening to this in memory of Tomasz Stanko, a great trumpet player and one of my favourite ECM artists, who died today, aged 76.
Kevin-W posted:hungryhalibut posted:With all the mentions by Kevin W I thought it was time to give Bobbie a listen for the first time ever.
Watcha reckon then?
Very good. It reminded me of Gillian Welch, though of course it’s the other way around time wise. What I found interesting is how the songs are so varied, and how flexible her voice is. I’d of course heard Ode to Billie Joe, though sung by others.
james n posted:The recent hot weather has meant a lot more time spent outside than in and not a lot of time spent in the music room.
A very wet Sunday means i've been able to sit down, peruse the forum and (with the Melco back to full health and reloaded) listen to some great music. It's been a bit of a Pink Floyd day, so we've had Animals, The Wall and now this.
Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
Good prompt, James. Must have a Floyd evening myself very soon. A band that merits a good long and uninterrupted listening session.
Mike - Although i always enjoy 'The Wall' the best experience, apart from seeing them live in 94, was when i had a very bad case of flu back in 2010 ( i suspect to repeat would involve additional 'help'). So bad that it needed a trip to the doctor (and this is from someone who doesn't visit the doctor and hasn't had a day sick in the last 7 years) and a sign off from work for at least a week. Laid out on the sofa, fever at its peak, The Wall took on a whole new experience - 'Comfortably Numb' just made complete sense.
I enjoyed a few days of Pink Floyd on the Hi-Fi and the DVD of the original Edge of Darkness - fantastic stuff. Felt like sh*t otherwise but.... 
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I'm sure after that i started wondering why i had so many Naim boxes but that's another story 
hungryhalibut posted:Very good. It reminded me of Gillian Welch, though of course it’s the other way around time wise. What I found interesting is how the songs are so varied, and how flexible her voice is. I’d of course heard Ode to Billie Joe, though sung by others.
Great to hear! Glad you liked it.
You might enjoy her last album, Patchwork from 1971, which was entirely self-composed and produced (she even did the cover painting) - it's her most varied, eclectic work, drawing on folk, blues, pop, soul, vaudeville, showtunes, country, etc.
Bennie Wallace - Mystic bridge
- Bass – Eddie Gomez
- Drums – Dannie Richmond
- Piano – Chick Corea
- Tenor Saxophone – Bennie Wallace
Really enjoying hearing this again.I have 6 versions of the Four Seasons and from memory this version wasn't a favorite but it's a funny thing memory and ironic as it sounds fabulous both performance and recording wise.Playing on Vinyl on LP12 - Ittok - Decca London Supergold - on the Archiv Label
The Rolling Stones - Undercover, why? ,just watched the Jagger Whistle Test interview from the other evening and this mentioned as its the then current album.
Somewhat melancholy in style but a long-time favourite album of mine.
Original vinyl
Why? Sunday evening sounds.
steve
Missing my old man listening to Cat Stevens. He would love that I have Naim too as he was a big fan. 
Kevin-W posted:hungryhalibut posted:Very good. It reminded me of Gillian Welch, though of course it’s the other way around time wise. What I found interesting is how the songs are so varied, and how flexible her voice is. I’d of course heard Ode to Billie Joe, though sung by others.
Great to hear! Glad you liked it.
You might enjoy her last album, Patchwork from 1971, which was entirely self-composed and produced (she even did the cover painting) - it's her most varied, eclectic work, drawing on folk, blues, pop, soul, vaudeville, showtunes, country, etc.
Think I'm going to have to see what the fuss over Bobbie G is about. I tend to associate her music with a portable Bush radio for some vague reason.
Seems appropriate to listen to this tonight, great album
Queen - The Works
(2006)
The Hoax - Live Forever
A very fine seventy minutes of some of their best live stuff much better described by this Amazonian punter:
"Live albums are frequently a disappointment. Too often they are badly recorded and lacking in the atmosphere they seek to convey. Typically, the Hoax have avoided such pitfalls in this, their farewell gift to us. By recording a whole range of shows and selecting the best moments, they have ensured a consistently high performance quality. They have also managed to capture the cauldron-like hubbub which characterises any Hoax performance. This has the effect of placing you where you'd like to be, i.e. right in the middle of the seething throng, whooping at the emotional moments, clapping the instrumental virtuosity and generally being part of the event. Unlike the type of live album which cheats with overdubs and mixes the applause into the background, "Live Forever" is loud and tough. The applause is deafening ... the Hoax audience gains its revenge at last! You'll find all your favourites in this career-spanning retrospective (for me it's "Bones" and "Groovebreaker", for you it'll be something else). Dunno why there's no hint of a slowie; I was confidently expecting "Don't Shake My Hand". Maybe they didn't capture a perfect recording, or maybe they just wanted their goodbye to be a consistently up-beat affair. As usual, they leave us with a mystery in the form of a hard-to-find secret track. It's an untitled and unreleased piece, played as if it's on the PA as the audience leaves. It sounds absolutely great and whets our appetite for whatever the individual members may do next." - Oliver Gray
MDS posted:Kevin-W posted:hungryhalibut posted:Very good. It reminded me of Gillian Welch, though of course it’s the other way around time wise. What I found interesting is how the songs are so varied, and how flexible her voice is. I’d of course heard Ode to Billie Joe, though sung by others.
Great to hear! Glad you liked it.
You might enjoy her last album, Patchwork from 1971, which was entirely self-composed and produced (she even did the cover painting) - it's her most varied, eclectic work, drawing on folk, blues, pop, soul, vaudeville, showtunes, country, etc.
Think I'm going to have to see what the fuss over Bobbie G is about. I tend to associate her music with a portable Bush radio for some vague reason.
I also wonder what I missed, probably being too young to appreciate her.
Sounds very nice on Qobuz Sublime streaming I must say.
Sacrilege perhaps but in some ways I'm reminded of Swing Out Sister and St Etienne amongst other more recent bands/singers!