What are you listening to right now? (VOL I)

Just picked up a copy of this special edition, very impressed - Eno and Lol Hammonds Damage BTW

New jazzy CD from the master who is in Sydney this week for a series of shows with orchestra, Brodsky Quartet, with Steve Nieve.

This is the best compilation of my all time favorite group. I have been a fan since 1964 and had the pleasure of seeing them at the Regal in Chicago when I was a teenager. There is a secret track that is just the vocal track from My Girl

Buddy Guy - Bring 'em in. Blues of the first order. An appropriate tribute to the late Wilson Pickett is Buddy's version of 99 and one half

The Verve - A Northern Soul
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm

Also just heard Richard Ashcroft's latest - It is shockingly bad, not sure what is going on with this guy, but the genius is gone

Early afternnon

mid afternoon

Yesterday last night and this morning.
Martha and the Muffins, thanks to ROTF.
I really had MATM down as a one hit wonder. Although not an album to change your mind about margarine.
It's has spiky new wave, maturing towards the end of the album.
Thought of elastica several times listening to it. also echoes of Television and The Pretenders.
Definitely worth having, highlights for me (apart form echo beach) Insect Love, This is the ice age, Terminal Twilight.

and at the moment my good lady wife is listening to Donal Lunny, with my 3 children gyrating madly in a Celtic dance routine.

alas I must go and put them to bed and leave my wife with Donal Lunny.

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Originally posted by Huwge:
Currently a remastered version of the 3 disc set that was previously the Blanton-Webster years but is now Never No Lament.

At first, I was a little disappointed as the tape hiss was more noticeable and there seemed to be some excessive sibillance, however, some A/B listening (whilst the missus was out) suggests that this is indeed an improvement over the origianl discs. Fabulous music making and a must for anyone interested in Jazz.

rather than sidetrack this thread I've started a new thread
here.

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Originally posted by Sloop John B:
Yesterday last night and this morning.
Martha and the Muffins, thanks to ROTF.
I really had MATM down as a one hit wonder. Although not an album to change your mind about margarine.
It's has spiky new wave, maturing towards the end of the album.
Thought of elastica several times listening to it. also echoes of Television and The Pretenders.
Definitely worth having, highlights for me (apart form echo beach) Insect Love, This is the ice age, Terminal Twilight.

Far Away in Time contains the whole of the very good first album Metro Music and two tracks from the superb This Is the Ice Age. I'm glad you like it - you;ve highlight 3 of my favourite tracks too. And even Mrs Rotf likes Echo Beach

BTW - I have Journey by Donal Lunny on order and am looking forward to it arriving.

I'm torn between this (Kite) and Electric Landlady as to which is Kirsty's best album.

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Originally posted by ROTF:


BTW - I have Journey by Donal Lunny on order and am looking forward to it arriving.

and it won't disappoint.

What is the Christy Moore box set like?
Does it include Planxty and Moving Hearts material or is it all solo Christy. My collection is embarrassingly bare of Christy Moore material

The Who - Madison Square Garden August 3 2002
Just after having listened to the IOW festival
I know which one I'd rather listen to!
ciao

Earwicker,

How 'new' are those recordings and where were they done?

regards, Tam

Tam,

They were recorded between 1997 and 1999 at various venues (Concertgebouw, Royal Festival Hall, The Maltings, Alter Oper). The performaces are stunning, and I am more than happy to put up with a few blemishes. The sound is excellent, with the unfortunate exception of the great B flat sonata - the one recorded in the Royal Festiaval Hall. This performance is probably the most special, but the piano sounds a bit small and distant, and some pillock's digital watch goes off in the opening bars!!

Buy it if you haven't got it.

EW

EW,

Thanks for that. I have just inherited (along with a bunch of other things) his studio recordings of the late sonatas but haven't had a chance to listen to them yet. I saw him last summer at the Edinburgh festival and he was amazing. But you've sold it to me with the knowledge that some of them were recorded in the Maltings (which, as long as the band isn't too big) is about my favourite concert hall and acoustic anywhere.

regards, Tam

The Jedi's Disco Magic!
Middleton's work from '95-98
'May the funk be with you'

The Warriors:
A gospel is a powerful music to lift a tired soul.

This my favorite Carl Anderson recording. He had such a great voice and passion for his music. He was best known for playing Judas in JC Superstar

Julia Fordham - Concrete Love

Vessel - Resist - Expanding records 2005

Bartok - the piano concertos
(Boulez/Zimerman-Andsnes-Grimaud)

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