What are you listening to and WHY might anyone be interested? (Vol. XIII)

Last sweet tunes before going out to work in the snowy yard:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fl6TAl2dXVc

Vinyl - Remastered 45 RPM

Why: was released exactly 40 years ago today !!!

GraemeH posted:

Enjoying this with my daughter who has good taste! Reminiscing how my best mate and I had Robert & Jimmy come in to the French House in Soho and stand right beside us enjoying a chat & a pint. A polite nod in acknowledgement is all we did...until we got outside and shared a massive OMFG over several more pints!

G

I'm seriously impressed, Graeme!

Chores done and it's now raining so i've got a good excuse to be inside with a beer. 

Starting with this - 

Elbow - Build A Rocket Boys

King Crimson - Islands. On vinyl. Probably my least favourite KC album but it has its' moments.

A + | Tidal

Broken Hopes  by Albion

(2008)

First play of another of Slim68's modern excellent prog-rock recommendations.

RUSH - Hemispheres. Seemed appropriate.

Tuck & Patti.

Patti is a very good singer. Tuck is an outstanding guitar player. The way he accompanies Patti is amazing. He transform his guitar in a complete rhythm section.They complement each other very well.

A + | WAV

(2016)

Not his best and I didn't particularly enjoy it live on tour last year but the sound of that voice makes up for my misgivings.

Now some relaxing jazz.

Stevee_S posted:

A + | WAV

(2016)

Not his best and I didn't particularly enjoy it live on tour last year but the sound of that voice makes up for my misgivings.

If you like his voice, then I can recommend Kevin Mahogany.

Regards,

Jeroen.

Jeroen20 posted:

Stevee_S posted:

A + | WAV

(2016)

Not his best and I didn't particularly enjoy it live on tour last year but the sound of that voice makes up for my misgivings.

If you like his voice, then I can recommend Kevin Mahogany.

Regards,

Jeroen.

Thanks Jeroen I'll give him a try.

Stevee_S posted:

A + | Tidal

(2017)

Excellent metal tinged heavy prog rock, another good find championed here by Slim68. 

Hi Steve, Credit goes to Bert for this one, but yes a great recommendation.

Heaven 17, Not For Public Broadcast, FLAC Download.

Taking me back to my younger years as a New Romantic!!

David Bowie: Hunky Dory (remastered 24/192). A little 'Dave' is always a good thing

A + | WAV

(2000)

No particular reason other than I haven't listened to him in quite a while, its different to what I've been playing recently and its a fine album. 

simon, but not simple posted:

King Crimson - Islands. On vinyl. Probably my least favourite KC album but it has its moments.

I love this album beyond reason. I was visiting London in the winter of 71, I knew it was due out any moment, so I did a tour of all the record stores I found, asking for it. I was accompanied by a girl who looked more bored at every block. In the end, after I got 'Sorry, it's been delayed indefinitely' as an answer by the Nth guy in a small dusty shop, he suddenly took a copy from under the counter and gave it to me.

I was so happy I could have flown back to Torino sitting on the wings, face in the air, total fulfilment.

M

(Of it, Fripp's solo in The sailor's tale was, and perhaps is, my favourite Crimson moment ever.)  

These days:

Chris_M made me know it, and love it. It sounds like it was made by a guy inside a piano factory's carpentry, using what he had found, while building an ancient clock. It has a soothing, evocative quality I know not of any other CD. It is full of noises, but how humanised and musically integrated..

Debut album for this band in 2013 .. reminiscent of Allmann Bros/Lynyrd Skynyrd but with a great sax player .. percussionist Jimmy Carpenter is a star on the album .. well worth a listen

This is a really interesting soundtrack album. Its from a1981 French thriller film directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix. Its one of those amazing films that transcends time. Quirky? Yep. Beautiful? Yep. Strange and surreal? Yep. Touching and haunting? You bet. A key part of the films success is its wonderful soundtrack. Highly recommended and worth seeking out.

England - Garden Shed

If one were to draw a Venn diagram in 1977 of Gentle Giant, Genesis and Yes, I suspect this would sit somewhere in the middle. Their only contemporary album, largely ignored in the teeth of Punk, it's nevertheless a real treat. Largely keyboard driven and centred around two long tracks, it deserves more recognition.

Here's one of those long tracks

Stevee_S posted:

A + | WAV

(2000)

No particular reason other than I haven't listened to him in quite a while, its different to what I've been playing recently and its a fine album. 

saw James Arthur as a support act at the south bank quite a few years back - if my memory serves me right he was being championed by Peter Gabriel .....so another link to his first album...40 years ago?!?