Listening Chain Challenge
Posted by: GraemeH on 08 December 2013
Let's see if this works:
I'm listening to the album Above. The challenge is to suggest the next album you will listen to which has a link to it. The link must be described by you and can be as obvious (eg. same artist - potentially boring) or as un-obvious (some hitherto unknown/unexpected connection - potentially interesting), or as oblique as you like.
Points for the most unexpected/clever/funny connections.
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Have a good day start !
Anyway, we all know "Major Tom's a junkie".
Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers, Live at Max's Kansas City
Now this is morning wake up music ! Thanks for reminding me.
Pink Floyd, A Momentary Lapse of Reason.
Too easy. Both LPs contain same song title "Learning to Fly".
But it doesn't have to be difficult, Joe !
Thanks to both for these choices. These are special albums to me and I played AMLOR yesterday evening.
I was never really a fan of anyone, bare some very few exceptions. Tom Petty is one of them. I played Full Moon Fever so many times that I couldn't believe it when Into the Great Wide Open came out and it happened to be as great an album as the previous one was.
I remember exactly where I was when I heard Signs of Life/Learning to Fly for the very first time. It was an exclusive preview on a French radio program late at night, and I stayed awake just for that. I was too young for The Wall at the time of its release, and The Final Cut had been, well, a bit difficult. AMLOR quickly appeared to me as a Gilmour solo album (I was playing About Face quite a bit), but they toured it so it gave me the opportunity to see them live with all the great songs and the crazy gimmicks.
Good memories. 
Because of the beds.
The English Patient OST
Midnight Oil at the peak of their powers. I listened to these anthems over and over, almost as much as Tom Petty (I Won't Back Down, Free Falling). They just captured the times with so much power and conviction. Where are the modern-day equivalents ?
(EDIT : You beat me to it Maurice, same link !)
From Gabriel Yared's wonderful soundtrack for the English Patient, it's a small hop to Anouar Brahem and his Astrakan Café. If you like oud (and the English Patient would indicate that) here is an album that will draw you in and transport you to another world, inside the minds of the first humans who put fingers to strings.
Yes, Iike Anouar Brahem very much.
My first encounter with oud:
Rabih Abou-Khalil, The Sultan's Picnic
Although I have many more, this remains my favourite album from Rabih.
Yes, great album that m0omo0. Although I remain undecided whether Bukra is not better still? 
From The Sultan's Picnic to Sultans of Swing.
Sorry to keep bringing it back to rock but that's about the only music I know.
Linked to the sultans
..obvious...
Sorry to keep bringing it back to rock but that's about the only music I know.
Since when is Dire Straits rock, Joe ? 
Sorry, Robbie. No class.
Motörhead, Overkill
Not clear how Motorhead or Over Kill links to Robbie, but Bush's "Machinehead" can be found on Sixteen Stone.
Impeach My Bush
Dédé Fortin, of the Colocs. It didn't end well for him unfortunately. The film is well worth watching, and listening to of course. The animated black and white sketching that opens the film, and illustrates the story of Belzébuth the cat, is a true work of art.
Dédé committed suicide by hara kiri. He had talked about it in the words to Belzébuth, but nobody realized that it was autobiographical until after the fact.
Des kilomètres, des kilomètres, soif dans la gorge, mal dans les pattes
Surtout, surtout ne pas penser sinon mon coeur arrête de battre
Chu pris en feu, j'me sens renaître, je cours plus vite qu'le désespoir
J'crie au secours de tout mon être que j'ai peur de jamais revoir
Je sens, je sens des ailes pousser, sur mes épaules et dans mon dos
Métamorphose je t'attendais, moé c'est pu moé c'est un oiseau
Je vais enfin pouvoir m'enfuir exactement comme dans mon plan
Y m'reste juste cinq secondes à vivre, j'ai déjà perdu trop de sang