What are you listening to and WHY might anyone be interested? (Vol. XIII)
Posted by: Richard Dane on 01 January 2017
2017 has arrived today, so time to start this thread afresh.
Last year's thread can be found here;
Now Playing.......
Bill Frisell - Works
Bill Frisell (electric and acoustic guitar, guitar synthesizer), Paul Bley (piano), John Surman (soprano saxophone), Joe Lovano (tenor saxophone), Kenny Wheeler (trumpet), Arild Anderson (bass), Marc Johnson (bass), Paul Motion (drums), Peter Erskine (drums), Jerome Harris (electric bass), and Bob Stewart (tuba).
Streaming from TIDAL....... From 1985 a compilation from 6 albums that Bill has performed on the ECM Label.
1. From Paul Bley - Fragments, 2. The Beach & 4 Throughout from Bill Frisell's - In Line, 3. When We Go & 6 Wizard of Odds from Bill Frisell's - Rambler, 5. Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair from Marc Johnson's - Bass Desires, 7. Conception Vessel from Paul Motian's - It Should've Happened a Long Time Ago, and 8. Etude from Paul Motian's Psalm
In the mood to play Roxy's Avalon but ended up here instead.
Avalon part 2 really...
Bryan Ferry - Boys and Girls
Billy Idol - 11 of the Best.
Some really catchy choons from the peroxide sneer himself ................. pop pap, I know, but great fun. 
dave marshall posted:
Billy Idol - 11 of the Best.
Some really catchy choons from the peroxide sneer himself ................. pop pap, I know, but great fun.
Great minds etc. That's on tonights playlist too !
james n posted:dave marshall posted:
Billy Idol - 11 of the Best.
Some really catchy choons from the peroxide sneer himself ................. pop pap, I know, but great fun.
Great minds etc. That's on tonights playlist too !
Sometimes an evening of pure pop seems just perfect ................ might end up playing "Best of Abba" at this rate ......... aargh! 
Funny you should mention Abba ... 
Liza Minnelli - Results (1989) - Vinyl Oxfam £2.99
Loved her voice from Cabaret (1972), so I bought this last week on our visit to see our adorable grandsons and their equally but differently adorable parents. Also got the other two Goldfrapp CDs. Felt Mountain was the previous week and the best.
Results was in fact #6 in UK charts. The Pet Shop Boys produced it, and it really is a foot tapping album with really good arrangements. Her voice seems even deeper than in her Cabaret years. Much as I have enjoyed Goldfrapp, Robert Plant, and others just lately this is in another dimension. It’s also good to be reminded of how good Vinyl sounds.
One side 2 she does a completely different “Twist in my Sobriety”, one of my favourite songs by Tanita Tikaram. There are quite different arrangements of a number of other well known songs such as Rent. Variety is the spice of life.
Phil
Now Playing.....
Bill Frisell Band - Lookout For Hope
Bill Frisell (electric guitar, acoustic guitar, banjo), Hank Roberts (cello, voice), Kermit Driscoll (bass), and Joey Baron (drums)
Streaming on TIDAL...... Sounding mighty fine!
Note on Tidal: Bill Frisell's early work even in its retrospectively rawest form holds all of the values that he has evinced through his entire career. Country and eastern sounds merge with a signature sky church electric approach that is unique unto only himself. Lookout for Hope brands Frisell as a visionary, a virtuoso, and a fusioneer of many sounds that set him far apart from labelmates Pat Metheny, John Abercrombie, and Terje Rypdal. While both Frisell and Rypdal give giant kudos to Jimi Hendrix, there is a sense of peace and serenity that puts soulfulness on a different plane. Cellist Hank Roberts and bassist Kermit Driscoll have much to do with giving Frisell his head, weaving similar silver sounds in and through him. Then add Joey Baron's deft, precise, and colorful drumming to put the exclamation point on Frisell's new approach to improvised music. Where the haunting, ringing, rocking, strident sound of Hendrix is resurrected and modernized during the title selection, "Hang Dog" has the Afro-Asian minimalist resonance of Steve Reich accented in 7/8 time by Frisell's banjo. Nods to Ornette Coleman's puzzle-pieced surety on the peppy head arrangement of "The Animal Race" and the twangy, witty, cartoonish take of Thelonious Monk's "Hackensack" brands Frisell a true maverick and individualist. At its best, east and west merge someplace in between during the memorably beautiful overdubbed and echoing sounds on "Lonesome," while the slight yet sincere expectation evinced on "Animal Prints" is the seamless and alluring alchemy of natural, spiritual, and ethereal. With Lookout for Hope, Bill Frisell is not so much setting trends and fashion as he is establishing a fresh sound, utterly unique from all others, and laying a foundation for many things to come. ~ Michael G. Nastos
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Cheap Trick - In Colour.
Still in a non serious frame of mind, pop pickers ................. catchy choons, singalong choruses, what more could you want?
As a review on The River says, "every home should have one" .................. absolutely. 
1999 - all this talk of ABBA and B idol I had to listen to something a bit more upbeat to bring some sanity back to this place!
Tony2011 posted:
1999 - all this talk of ABBA and B idol I had to listen to something a bit more upbeat to bring some sanity back to this place!
Shurely shome mishtake .............. yon's heavy metal, shir, far too sherious for thish evening. 
dave marshall posted:Tony2011 posted:
1999 - all this talk of ABBA and B idol I had to listen to something a bit more upbeat to bring some sanity back to this place!
Shurely shome mishtake .............. yon's heavy metal, shir, far too sherious for thish evening.
Tony2011 posted:dave marshall posted:Tony2011 posted:
1999 - all this talk of ABBA and B idol I had to listen to something a bit more upbeat to bring some sanity back to this place!
Shurely shome mishtake .............. yon's heavy metal, shir, far too sherious for thish evening.
Just unearthed it, didn't know we had it so that counts as first spin:
The Cars - Greatest Hits.
Last one of the evening, some more pure pop quality ...................... nighty night. 
2017 - Tidal...
Harmony has been restored...
Melissa Etheridge. Yes I Am. On CD from 1993. Good vibe and lots of energy in the music.
