flatfourfan
Peace Sells - Megadeth
Ray
I ordered this a while back and never unpacked the thing I dont know why. So just now I unpacked it and listening now.... right now...
Lethe
At the Gates- Terminal Spirit Disease
This album still kills any new metal coming out nowadays...
BMU
Lethe wrote
At the Gates- Terminal Spirit Disease
This album still kills any new metal coming out nowadays...
Ah man I love that album. I picked it up in '94 on a whim just when it was released 'cos the cover looked cool, had never heard of ATG before. They blew me away.
The ferocious speed, riffing & vocals with the counterpoint harmonies...magic. I still revisit it every few months.
lindsmuse
1349 - 'Demonoir' and Guy Buttery 'Songs from the Cane Fields'.
make-and-do
The Clash - The Story of The Clash [1988]
Pixies - Bossanova [1990]
Talk Talk - Spirit Of Eden [1988] [a very underrated and overlooked 80's band, very moody album]
Atlas Sound - Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel [2008]
flatfourfan
Queens of the Stone Age - they say I ain't worth a dollar, but I feel like a millionare
I now feel in the mood for some guy in a taxi to just try and cut me off this afternoon on the way home.
Bob-Dubery
A recorded BBC radio documentary on the life of music of the late Sandy Denny.
Fascinating stuff. The presenter is Bob Harris. The "cast" includes Joe Boyd, Dave Pegg, Simon Nicol, Dave Cousins, Robert Plant and Maddy Prior.
Also Linda Nijlands (who I've seen performing) who struck me as verging on thinking that she was channelling Sandy (when I saw her in 2008 she did a set entirely of songs written by or associated with Sandy).
It's respectful and on topic. Some very thoughtful contributions as well. A nice passage that has Jerry Donohue discussing how singers always lose the innocence in their vocals - except, he says, for Sandy. Interesting to hear the recollections of people working with her for the first time - they all remarked on her control and her timing.
Maddy Prior talked about the lot of a female solo artist in the 60s. I love a lot of music from the 60s and I think that in terms of creativity it was a very special time, but I'm not sure it was big deal socially and especially so for women. Also, Prior says, management was different in those days. Not much in the way of personal support, just "here's these gigs that have been booked - go and play them." (this ties in with Joe Boyd's own telling of his management of Nick Drake, somebody who was fundamentally unsuited to life on the road). Prior also talked about the dilemma of the performer - how you simultaneously want to be loved by the audience but fear their rejection or indifference. These sorts of things open it up from being just about Sandy Denny to a wider focus on the 60s and the industry in general.
Robert Plant talked about the thing that I think gets overlooked - how young they were. Plant at the age of 22 had two massive hit albums under his belt and was working on Led Zeppelin's 3rd album. This was in 1970 when he and Denny were voted best male and best female vocalist in Britain. Sandy Denny would have been a year older, and already had 6 albums and several tours under her belt and was building a new band at the start of a solo career.
Jack-Flash-Jr
X-rated Bob wrote
A recorded BBC radio documentary on the life of music of the late Sandy Denny.
Fascinating stuff. The presenter is Bob Harris. The "cast" includes Joe Boyd, Dave Pegg, Simon Nicol, Dave Cousins, Robert Plant and Maddy Prior.
Also Linda Nijlands (who I've seen performing) who struck me as verging on thinking that she was channelling Sandy (when I saw her in 2008 she did a set entirely of songs written by or associated with Sandy).
It's respectful and on topic. Some very thoughtful contributions as well. A nice passage that has Jerry Donohue discussing how singers always lose the innocence in their vocals - except, he says, for Sandy. Interesting to hear the recollections of people working with her for the first time - they all remarked on her control and her timing.
Maddy Prior talked about the lot of a female solo artist in the 60s. I love a lot of music from the 60s and I think that in terms of creativity it was a very special time, but I'm not sure it was big deal socially and especially so for women. Also, Prior says, management was different in those days. Not much in the way of personal support, just "here's these gigs that have been booked - go and play them." (this ties in with Joe Boyd's own telling of his management of Nick Drake, somebody who was fundamentally unsuited to life on the road). Prior also talked about the dilemma of the performer - how you simultaneously want to be loved by the audience but fear their rejection or indifference. These sorts of things open it up from being just about Sandy Denny to a wider focus on the 60s and the industry in general.
Robert Plant talked about the thing that I think gets overlooked - how young they were. Plant at the age of 22 had two massive hit albums under his belt and was working on Led Zeppelin's 3rd album. This was in 1970 when he and Denny were voted best male and best female vocalist in Britain. Sandy Denny would have been a year older, and already had 6 albums and several tours under her belt and was building a new band at the start of a solo career.
Sandy Denny and Merry Clayton were responsible for taking good songs and pushing them into the stratosphere! There's an 8 or so disc Sandy Denny collection floating around...
Bob-Dubery
Jack Flash Jr wrote
Sandy Denny and Merry Clayton were responsible for taking good songs and pushing them into the stratosphere! There's an 8 or so disc Sandy Denny collection floating around...
Sandy was a very good songwriter in her own right, but a superb interpretative singer as well. I wonder if I still have that clip of her doing Buddy Holly's "Learning The Game". I always have to choke back a sob when I hear Sandy singing "Farewell, Farewell" on Fairport's
Liege and Lief album - a heartbreaking performance.
I got a two disc compilation a while back (which I must drag out) and I've got three or four Fairport albums with her singing. Oh... and a live set. Turned out to be the very last concert she gave (nobody knew at the time of the recording).
giggsy
Flaws by Bombay Bicycle Club
make-and-do
Apart from my annoying busybody neighbour drilling holes in his apartment wall (again) to probably mount more kitsch paintings, I'm trying to listen to :
Explosions in the Sky - How Strange, Innocence [2005]
Tortoise - TNT [1998]
The National - High Violet [2010]
Appleseed Cast - Sagarmatha [2009]
giggsy
Jawbreaker - Dear You. Awesome stuff! :bopping:
BMU
Nevermore, Obsidian Conspiracy. Oh the production, the very fine production. Dammit Andy Sneap!
AC/DC, Who Made Who soundtrack. Loving the guitar tones.
It's an interesting comparison: Nevermore, tonnes of gain, super slick smooth modern sound. AC/DC, not much gain at all, super RUDE organic sound. Both great.
Explorerlover
Iron Horse - The Four Horsemen...
Metallica on a Banjo....Oooooooh YEEEEAAAH!!!!
giggsy
Bon Iver - Live at the Riverside Theater
21Fretter
Protest the Hero - Divinity Within
Squonk
Lee Ritenour - Alive in LA
I just love Lee's guitar playing, he knows just what to say and he does it well.
I brushed him off when I first started listening to Jazz/Fusion, I suppose I was looking for Malmsteen type of playing.
He has such a great touch and tones. Always fitting into the song rather than trying to show all his chops off.
Great musicians on the album as well
Melvin Davis
Sonny Emory
Bill Evans
Barnaby Finch
Alan Pasqua
Have a go, you never know!
Bob-Dubery
Richard Thompson Band - Two Letter Words
Fab live set (apparently one show) from 1994. Two for the price of one here because Danny Thompson (no relation) is in the band in great form.
Also been listening to Elvis Costello and the Attractions, Bill Frisell and Martin Carthy
Ray
Squonk wrote
Lee Ritenour - Alive in LA
I just love Lee's guitar playing, he knows just what to say and he does it well.
I brushed him off when I first started listening to Jazz/Fusion, I suppose I was looking for Malmsteen type of playing.
He has such a great touch and tones. Always fitting into the song rather than trying to show all his chops off.
Great musicians on the album as well
Melvin Davis
Sonny Emory
Bill Evans
Barnaby Finch
Alan Pasqua
Have a go, you never know!
I ordered 6 string theory the other day and I'm not that happy with it.
