What are you listening to right now...

Explorerlover · 2009-06-19T11:01:39+00:00

What tune in your playlist/radio are you listening to currently? I'm digging Danzig so far.

Bob-Dubery

Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska.

Squonk

Nick Drake - Way to Blue

Bob-Dubery

Squonk wrote Nick Drake - Way to Blue

The song or the compilation?

Squonk

X-rated Bob wrote
Squonk wrote Nick Drake - Way to Blue
The song or the compilation?

Compilation - it's good stuff

Ray

so i dont know what kind of music it is but it's Shovels and Ropes - O' be Joyful. But I dont care much for genres and things anyway. Chances are if you dig Imelda May then this may curl your toes the good way. But it's not the same kind of music. Well, maybe a bit sort of but not quite or at all. Please explain.

Squonk

Genesis Live '73

I have just read a book on Genesis in their own words and Peter Gabriel and Tony Banks insist that they were never really good musicians but rather good songwriters. But listening to this album proves otherwise. Tony Banks is a great Keyboardist and especially on Mellotron, Phil Collins (as much as I can't stand him), was a decent drummer. Steve Hackett surely must be one of the most underrated Guitarists of his generation!

The ironic thing is that because the songs are complex, to be able to play them you need a high level of musicianship, so Mr Banks and Gabriel I don't quite believe you!

Progressive Rock at it's best - The shortest song is 8 minutes and 14 seconds

Bob-Dubery

Loudon Wainwright III - Career Moves. Great live album, recorded on one night in 1993. I've seen Wainwright live, and I think this album is a pretty good representation of the Wainwright in concert experience - a good mix of guffaws and big emotional punches.

Shows that you don't need lots of chops to be a great performer. Indeed on most of this there isn't even a band - he gets joined by long-time sidekicks Chaim Tannenbaum and David Mansfield for a handful of songs round about the halfway mark.

Opens with "Road Ode", Wainwright's riposte to Willy Nelson's "On the Road Again" and which details the dubious pleasures of life on the road.

Squonk

X-rated Bob wrote Loudon Wainwright III - Career Moves. Great live album, recorded on one night in 1993. I've seen Wainwright live, and I think this album is a pretty good representation of the Wainwright in concert experience - a good mix of guffaws and big emotional punches.

Shows that you don't need lots of chops to be a great performer. Indeed on most of this there isn't even a band - he gets joined by long-time sidekicks Chaim Tannenbaum and David Mansfield for a handful of songs round about the halfway mark.

Opens with "Road Ode", Wainwright's riposte to Willy Nelson's "On the Road Again" and which details the dubious pleasures of life on the road.

Sounds like a must for my collection

Jack-Flash-Jr

Patterson Hood 'Heat Lightning Rumbles in the Distance'... good stuff.

Samples here:
http://www.amazon.com/Heat-Lightning-Rumbles-Distance-Patterson/dp/B008VKO1MY/ref=sr_1_1_digr?ie=UTF8&qid=1360311308&sr=8-1

Psean

Beast: Smoke, Swig, Swear

https://www.facebook.com/BEASTBAND?ref=ts&fref=ts

Edit: Official, legal download here: http://www.bit.ly/WkhXrx

Some more:

Bob-Dubery

Mary Gauthier - Foundling

Musically this is a step forward from her early recorded work. The melodies are better and more varied, the arrangements and the backing players suit the songs better.

Lyrically it's dark, frank and, I hope, cathartic. Not exactly happy, and the heartache put on show is very personal. Not "my baby done left me for another woman" style heartache either.

I like it, but it's not exactly the sun shining upon the flowers whilst the birds gently sing.

Bob-Dubery

Richard Thompson - Electric

Buddy Miller produced this, and he's an inspired choice. He goes for a deliberately lo-fi sound (the sort of thing Joe Henry or T-Bone Burnett might do) and this dirties up the sound a bit, injects a bit of grunge into proceedings, steers the disc away from the shiney but thin sound of recent Thompson discs. Thompson himself is in fine form - his voice seems surer on the high notes, and his playing bears no evidence of the ravages of time (the first album that bore his musical imprint was recorded back in 1967). A lot of noise was made about this disc and the MO - Thompson with his current power trio (Taras Prodaniuk and the fab Michael Jerome). It's not that all the way through, but there are unadulterated power trio tracks and they're some kind of good.

lindsmuse

Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely - not all the tracks as good as the brilliant ones - which there really are some of!

Enjoying the blend of instruments and of the old and new here.

Fav tracks - 'You don't understand me' 'Top yourself'

Malkav

Been getting back into the glitch again, this album didn't fully click with me the first time I heard it but now I honestly think it's on par with their first album, if not in some respects better 8)

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Jack-Flash-Jr

lindsmuse wrote Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely - not all the tracks as good as the brilliant ones - which there really are some of!

Enjoying the blend of instruments and of the old and new here.

Fav tracks - 'You don't understand me' 'Top yourself'

Bob-Dubery

Diana Ross and the Supremes - The Number 1s

Sharp, cool, clever, sophisticated pop music from the Motown system of the 60s. Great arrangements (sometimes with unusual elements like the stamped feet introduction to "Where Did Our Love Go"), great backing from the Motown in-house backing band, Diana Ross's clear, controlled, ice-cool vocals. I think once Ross went solo she lost sight of her strengths and weaknesses, but early on Lamont Dozier or whoever else called the shots matched the song to the voice over and over.

Most of this still sounds good now, and it's easy to see how Ross and Co racked up hit after hit in the 60s, even in the face of the British Invasion acts (in fact they crossed the ocean the other way and were massive in Britain).

Bob-Dubery

X-rated Bob wrote Great arrangements (sometimes with unusual elements like the stamped feet introduction to "Where Did Our Love Go"), great backing from the Motown in-house backing band

James Jamerson! Yowzer!

Explorerlover

Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas "unofficial" sound track.

Stuff from the 40's onwards....

Bob-Dubery

X-rated Bob wrote Most of this still sounds good now, and it's easy to see how Ross and Co racked up hit after hit in the 60s, even in the face of the British Invasion acts (in fact they crossed the ocean the other way and were massive in Britain).

But it runs out of puff as the end of the 60s approaches (the disc is sequenced chronologically) which, I suppose, mirrors the decline of Motown itself as a creative force.

DaFiz

lindsmuse wrote Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely - not all the tracks as good as the brilliant ones - which there really are some of!

Enjoying the blend of instruments and of the old and new here.

Fav tracks - 'You don't understand me' 'Top yourself'

I dig the Carolina Drama ? =

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