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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... But his music lives on. Dehors Novembre : Un incontournable.
@Joe,
I was just teasing you about Dire Straits being rock, and I thought of something a bit harder. Then the song No Class on Overkill came in relation to Robbie's classy album cover.
@Jan,
Thanks, I didn't know Les Colocs. I'll check that out.
The following band has been reasonably successful here, especially with this fantastic album:
Les Cowboys fringants, La Grand-messe
These Cowboys are also quite fringants. From Chalon sur Saône. I got sucked in by the HDCD logo.
If you see this in a store, one word of advice: RUN.
It's an unmitigated disaster. Listen and cringe.
Here it is. Much better than The Buckaroos, if you're into this kind of stuff, which I must have been. Oh dear.
Well at least I had the listening room to myself
The clue is on the poster. G
From Buddy, to Holly, to Cole. Her version of Don't Smoke in Bed is the definitive one, IMHO.
I never really got into Ry Cooder's Buddy, perhaps the SN2 will reveal its charms.
(Hank Williams was the link I had in mind.......G)
@Joe,
I was just teasing you about Dire Straits being rock,
I assumed as much 
Speaking of the rock genre, this lady is in the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame, though I consider her to be more blues, folk and country than rock. She provides the link to "the game"; her song "Fools Game" is on the LP "Silver Lining"
@Joe,
I was just teasing you about Dire Straits being rock,
I assumed as much
Speaking of the rock genre, this lady is in the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame, though I consider her to be more blues, folk and country than rock. She provides the link to "the game"; her song "Fools Game" is on the LP "Silver Lining"
IMO, the greatest interpreter of other artist music.
The link.
John Raitt, Bonnie's father, was a principal performer in "Carousel". But did you know his grandson and Bonnie's nephew Bay Raitt is a noted character animator who helped bring Gollum to life in the Lord of the Rings Trilogy?
Oh no, I'm leaving my comfort zone of the rock genre 
Oh no, I'm leaving my comfort zone of the rock genre
I can help you here, Joe:
Rhapsody, Symphony of Enchanted Lands, Vol. 2: The Dark Secret
Saroumane is the narrator and sings one song. Not their best album IMHO, but superficially impressive as usual: ambitious storyline, catchy choruses, symphonic orchestra, large choir, guitar and synth pyrotechnics. Even if -- again, as usual -- the lyrics sound as if generated by a computer fed with a limited heroic fantasy lexicon...
I always found them hilarious; the Rondo Veneziano of heavy metal.
(A slight departure from my usual Sunday morning baroque feast. 
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What's opera doc?
One pill makes makes you larger...
Gimme a ticket for an aeroplane
Ain't got time to take a fast train
Lonely days are gone, I'm a-goin' home
My baby, just-a wrote me a letter
From Feels So Right to Trop Sensible, by Zaz.
Andrew Bird's "Oh, The Grandeur". The link is thorazine.
... the wonder drug.