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:
Moderat ii
Vermont
great 3am Album.
Now Playing........
Tomasz Stanko -- New York Quartet - December Avenue
Tomasz Stanko (trumpet), David Virelles (piano), Reuben Rogers (double bass), and Gerald Cleaver (drums).
Streaming on NAS....... Package on the doorstep when I arrived home, ripped December Avenue earlier and now getting a chance to give the album its first spin! I enjoy Tomasz quite a bit........
ewemon posted:
Maybe follow that up with some Floyd Council?
Haim Ronen posted:
Music of my pre-school youth. This along with the "lady in the whipped cream album" got frequent plays by my mother on her Zenith stereo tube console. I enjoyed them then and listening to your links now. Funny thing is I've never thought about playing HA on my own in the interim. I see Whipped Cream in the used bins now and again. I'll have to buy the old LP just to play for nostalgia's sake.
These are my two favorite HA memories from my youth:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6u68NMAI_Js Whipped Cream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Atbs4nDWE_0 Spanish Flea - can't help being reminded of 'The Dating Game' TV show
A decade or so later mom was keeping pace with Chuck Mangione's trumpeting on 'Feels So Good'.
Bob Dylan. Street Legal. On original vinyl from 1978. I have but a dozen or so Dylan albums, so difficult for me to give this perspective in his extensive discography. Wikipedia tells me this was Dylan's best selling album in the UK while being his first album since 1964 to chart outside the US Top 10. Whatever, I enjoy it well enough some 40-years later. A keeper for me.
In similar vein here's another - one I've enjoyed since my student days, in 1969.
Bob Dylan, Nashville Skyline.
Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin - 24/96
Edward
Radiohead, In Rainbows - the super deluxe vinyl/CD/book set that came out - unbelievably - more than a decade ago. Playing this (on vinyl, natch) because an audio engineer acquantaince was raving about the way it was recorded. I think it sounds pretty cool. And I think it may be their best album.
Original UK pressing from 1972. One of THE great voices. The production/recording on these old Philips records are always stunning.
Now Playing.......
Mark Knopfler - Privateering (CD1)
Streaming on NAS........ Arrived yesterday, ripped to NAS and not taking out for first spin. Sounding mighty fine!
On CD:-
ABC - The Lexicon Of Love
(1967)
Vanilla Fudge
Some rather cool and groovy psychedelic covers of various sixties hits.
Just finished.......
Mark Knopfler - Privateering
Streaming on NAS........ Arrived yesterday, ripped to NAS, double CD set was fantastic!
Now Playing........
Tord Gustavsen - Being There
Streaming on TIDAL........ I enjoy Tord quite a bit and his music is perfect background when doing some heads down work, wonderful!
Turn up the heat
(2015)
The Resonance Association - Return From Dreaming
Some rather fine ambient electronic and progressive rock music from this Croydon duo.
Camera Obscura. Desire Lines.
Willie Dixon - Poet Of The Blues.
It's been something of a bluesfest over the last few days, so, for anyone not too familiar with the blues, and unsure where to begin,
give this one a try.
You'll probably have heard most of these before, since Willie Dixon wrote so many songs which went on to become classic hits for
other artists, and he truly was the father of modern blues. IMHO.
Margo Price - All American Made