What Are You Listening to? 2020

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Just got a physical copy of this which was reissued in 2001. I have the cds either side of this already. & at least one Trad Gras Och Steinar. NOt sure why its taken me so long to get this other than having other things i wanted. THink I had soundfiles for it at some times anyay.

last couple of days

1-16:
Rolling Stones- Live in Texas 78
Tangerine Dream- Encore
Faces, the- First Step
Rolling Stones- Live in Texas 78
Trower, Robin- Caravan to Midnight
Walsh, Joe- So What
Motorhead- Overkill

1-17:
Trouble- Trouble
Trouble- Trouble
AC/DC- Flick of the Switch
Uriah Heep- Sweet Freedom
Dylan, Bob- Highway 61 Revisited
Funkadelic- Hardcore Jollies

Trouble - Trouble does kind of demand repeated listening

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( https://madlib.bandcamp.com/album/the-professionals-instrumental )

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I've been on a calypso kick this week. Looked up info on Mighty Sparrow's "Robbery with a V", discovered that it was indeed a dis track aimed at another musician, that musician being called Mighty Dougla. youtube comments on dougla's songs are all from his relatives looking up his music.

Basehead. Dunno why it isn’t on spotify. So searched for it in the attic.

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V3. Dug up old records. Found this and a slew of others.

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this was the real bomb today tho:
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the 2cd remaster of this, I think I've mainly been half asleep when I've heard this version and had it on pretty quiet but these remasters seem to sound pretty great.
Keep wondering if Neubauten were fans of thsi record as well as early pink Floyd. Need to look up the Maoist perpetual village.
Anyway deep sace funky rocky stuff with ambient touches in places. Great great stuff.

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2nd lp by great mancunian band. Showing some prog roots but helping invent post-punk. NOt sure what direct influence they had but would like to find out if anything showing their influence was as inventive as them.
Barry Adamson went onto various incarjnations of teh Bad Seeds and his own solo stuff is great.
John McGeoch went onto the Banshees and then a later, quite good version of P.I.L. in the late 80s. Shame he died so young.
I found this at the bottom of a pile fo stuff while tidying up last year still in th package it came in. Which is a major oversight. Should be way more familiar with the band.

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focus more on the backing band than their main singer. THough he does feature.
I think I'm hearing things I'm more used to being Public Enemy samples featuring prominently.
Great set but I think I need to check chronology of things I'm hearing.
Picked this up from Honest John's recently and should have been much longer ago. Do love a bitta JB.

The first time I heard "The Grunt" my mind was blown (I was familiar with the PE sample for a long time before that)

down with flu so lay in bed and listened through these like 3 times in a row

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pretty necessary contemporary garage psych rock with some pretty frantic guitar.
Mike Stax of Ugly Things appears on backing vocals . He has a Bo Diddley tribute band with the guitarist, or did.

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so faqr have listened through the 2nd disc the one that's All Of Us and contemporary singles and outtakes.
Glad to find this isn't the mono/stereo set taht i thought it was for a while cos I don't rally want to listen to the same lp twice in a row.
About time i got the 60s stuff in full have enjoyed this band for a few decades.

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I hadn't heard this before today and possibly only picked it up to complete the set of lps.
It's pretty interesting though. Different to Daevid Allen era anyway. Atmospheric mainly instrumental material.
Wort6h hearing, but I think the 2cds may be limited editions so may be necessary to grab them soon if you want one.

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Naum Gabo Fyei 12"

Weird slo-mo techno that sounds kinda like an 80s remix of Kraftwerk played at 16 rpm

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Pharoah Sanders, Bill Laswell - With a Heartbeat
i am loving this world jazz album which actually has a thumping heart that is integrated into laswell's bass play. a real trip. great line-up too. pharoah and bill plus trilok gurtu (tabla), nicky skopelitos (sitar & guitar), graham haynes (cornet) and jeff bova (keyboards).

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the 2nd cd, the bsides one. Covers quit ea bit of ground including one track the Action covered in "I Love You (Yeah), a cover of Wade in The Water and up Up and Away which is better known by the 5th Dimension amids about an hour and a quarter of soul as it developed overthe 60s.
Noice

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Scandinavian droneadelia , lovely. I assume the first side of the record was short songs and the 2nd side is 2 long ones. Pretty good throughout . & about time i had a physical copy of this. Since I've had the lps either side by the related combos for the last couple of decades.

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do think this is pretty phenomally good. Interesting mix of pop-garage like a remains/Cryan Shames, a bit of MC5 and probably a bit of the Ramones alongside the snarling frenetic guitar which i think the band should be famous for.
Have been wanting something by this bunch for ages. So glad to get this. I think there was a cd of the previous lp so will try to get hold of that.
THink its inventive enough and energetic enough to stand on its own so would recommend it to people who like anything in that area.

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maloya beats make my brain feel funny tbh

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Terry Allen and the Panhandle Mystery Band - Just Like Moby Dick

First favourite record of 2020.

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One of my neighbors who produces avant garde theater recently threw out a bunch of promos from a Dutch hip-hop label called Off Da Dome Wreckords, a number of which are apparently soundtracks from musicals by a theater company called Made In Da Shade. A bunch of different vocalists and lyricists are featured, but it sounds like the same group of people produced most of this stuff.

It's alternative hip-hop and some vaguely R&B songs, mostly in English but occasionally in Dutch, all pretty DIY and all very Y2K. There's an interesting mix of live instrumentation, including acoustic drums, loops and homegrown samples. But the most surprising element is the guitar textures, with a number of tracks featuring prominent use of the Digitech Space Station pedal- a multi-fx from the late 90's with novelty 'alien' presets and a synth string pad sound that's mostly associated with shoegaze bands (think Slowdive's 'Souvlaki Space Station').

My favorite so far is the soundtrack to a musical called V.O.O.D.O. but one of the other releases came in a numbered, screen printed LP sleeve and contained a splatter painting on cardboard, but no LP. Instead, there was a label sampler CD inside.

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lool I forgot about the space station!!! WANT

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New Order - Blue Monday. Hoping the ex doesnt come to pick up his records. Lol

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^This is fantastic. A less proggy Weather Report (circa Sweetnighter); like getting into a warm jazz-funk bath.

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pretty much been all Coil all the time in my truck for commuting

listening to Sun Ra at home cuz of the listening thread

checked out Cat Power's Wanderer, wish I had heard it before that poll

also went through three Franco Battiato albums, Clic was my favorite, some real fine whacked Euro weirdness there in the Marcoeur/Comelade/Tazartes vein

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Bruce Haack - Captain Entropy (1983)
familiar kids topics like the inevitable heat death of the universe

actually 1973

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I slept on this one for a long time, it was the last proper Earth album lacking in my collection. I know it's always been sort of the outlier, but as a big stoner rock guy I can dig it. One of my favorite Hendrix covers and I usually really don't like Hendrix covers.

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great hillbilly blues stuff. I think he was another artist taht learnt from a black source or rather had a black mentor. & then went off and had his own apparently original take on things but it definitely sounds like structure is similar to blues recordings i know from the time. Recordings are from late 20s.
Also sounds like this echoes in material I know from the 60s. I think I first heard about him in the words of a Gun Club article from around 1983. Whoever wrote that seemed to fill about half the article with names of blues and hillbilly artists that I always meant to track down and only picked up a handfull of.
Also I picked up the Rough Guide to JImmie Rodgers over Xmas which came with a bonus disc of early country stuff including a track by Hutchison that was pretty haunting.
Anyway good stuff, I missed this when it was widely available but found a good price on Discogs. THink it was close to current list when other prices were rising though.

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Rocksteady artist. I think I knew his work mainly in terms of covers by the 2 tone era artists. I know a couple of Specials and a Beat here at least.
Set is also interesting because of some of the work he covers here. The Stones' Salt of The Earth, Donovan's There Is A Mountain, a few country things and the Beatles' Come Together.
NIce compilation anyway. I was thinking the current Trojan Best ofs were repackagings of the Sanctuary era Trojan 2cds but this doesn't seem to be tracklisted chronologically which those did seem to be.
Good stuff though.

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latest cover mounted cd from Greek psychedelic fanzine. Not consciously taken in the contents though. THink i've been nodding off as the disc before on my 3changer has been playing since I normally play this in bed.
Have heard some heavy fuzzy distortion and shoegazey tunefulness though. Must hear.

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THis arrived yesterday so I haven't really had a chance to hear it. Only found out about its existence over Xmas and had been wondering what exactly had been being played down at the club this partially represents. Wish I d got down there a lot more in the late 80s I think it coincided with the time i started hitching widely so both this club and the Son Of redneck country place behind Selfridges became things i was only at a few times instead of absolutely regularly.
Did love the sounds though.
& thought it a great coincidence taht when i went out looking for some decent music while having a pint yesterday I chanced on somebody djing some stuff that overlapped with this.

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Dj assault.
Jim White
Nikka Costa
Beastie Boys
Nada Surf

2-14:
Dale, Dick- Calling Up Spirits
Mingus, Charles- Cumbia and Jazz Fusion
Cave, Nick- Dig Lazarus Dig
Black Crowes- Lions
Mingus, Charles- A Modern Jazz Symposium of Music & Poetry
Cave, Nick- Grinderman

2-15: (so far)
Guy, Buddy- Feels Like Rain
Foghat- In the Mood for Something Rude
Cave, Nick- Grinderman
Accept- Balls to the Wall
Big Chief- Face

Santana - third album

George shearing - you’re gearing George shearing

blue oyster cult - on your feet or on your knees

Beatles - buncha stuff

you’re hearing George, not gearing him

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you get a lot of crushed red velvet

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David Nance - Staunch Honey

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Rhucle - Fantastic Garden CASS

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the cd that also has propeller on it

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Groovy baby.

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insanely huge (270 minutes) cassette culture compilation

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the (alleged) 8-track cartridge mix of Bull of the Woods

oooh

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Eternal Champion - Ravening Iron

xp I wish Wehowsky was on Bandcamp, that looks cool

surely time to lock thread and go all 2021 ?

The gai abides

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lol oops

Ha, nice--was just listening to Lifes Rich Pageant IN THE FUTURE