What Are You Listening to? 2020

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nerOkq4t9WY

Bstep, Saturday, 3 October 2020 02:50 (three years ago) link

Xxp
thanks Dow. Will look into those.
I have an Extra Golden cd cos the non US half were the same tribe as my Dad I think.
Thank You Very Quickly
Quite enjoyed it at the time I think.think I even gave my brother a copy.

Stevolende, Saturday, 3 October 2020 08:00 (three years ago) link

Went on a big Weather Report binge in last 30 hours or so...

Weather Report- 830 Live
Weather Report- Black Market
Weather Report- Heavy Weather
Weather Report- Mr. Gone
Weather Report- Night Passage
Weather Report- Weather Report (82)

earlnash, Saturday, 3 October 2020 13:26 (three years ago) link

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sleeve, Sunday, 4 October 2020 03:09 (three years ago) link

gd port chester feb 21 '71

no lime tangier, Sunday, 4 October 2020 07:42 (three years ago) link

xps nice, haven't been keeping up with RLW, gotta investigate that

sleeve, Sunday, 4 October 2020 14:46 (three years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cn3kJ5Lqpw

Bstep, Monday, 5 October 2020 23:45 (three years ago) link

Big Star's 1st 2 CD on Ryko

sleeve, Tuesday, 6 October 2020 01:31 (three years ago) link

Abbey Road

“oh that magic feeling, nowhere to go” and the vocal harmonies that follow... always gets me

brimstead, Tuesday, 6 October 2020 04:10 (three years ago) link

I never give you my pillow

brimstead, Tuesday, 6 October 2020 04:12 (three years ago) link

Thelonious Monk Orchestra at Town Hall ('59) - one of his greatest live sets!

calzino, Wednesday, 7 October 2020 19:38 (three years ago) link

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As I said on RT's thread:

Bloody Noses, 6 songs on bandcamp:
This is an all-acoustic EP recorded at home during lockdown.
All instruments played by Richard Thompson, some harmony vocals by Zara Phillips.

"All acoustic" seems to incl. some deft use of pick-ups, something in the recording set-up allowing for some effects I associate more with per se electric guitar on strong closer "What's Up With You?", in which some of the guitars get percussive as hell, also one of 'em's tuning helps, and sounds like might be actual drums on "The Fortress," with Zara Phillips chiming in effectively on the chorus, "You had the whole world, wrapped around your fin-gah," also good on "Survivor."
Fave so far is "She's A Hard Girl To Know," which I had trouble following at first: so many details, scenes in his head, as he creeps through the rooms, putting it all together, maybe. She's still keeping him going, he knows that much.
Tunes are good, and it's all RT as hell, no surprises, but not just killing time either.
Must check some of the other stuff on here as well:
https://richardthompson.bandcamp.com/

dow, Wednesday, 7 October 2020 23:26 (three years ago) link

Virgin Prunes - If I Die, I Die LP

sleeve, Wednesday, 7 October 2020 23:53 (three years ago) link

Was wondering about that, while listening Gavin Friday's tracks on xpost AngelHeaded Hipster. How *is* the LP??

dow, Thursday, 8 October 2020 00:36 (three years ago) link

all time favorite

sleeve, Thursday, 8 October 2020 02:13 (three years ago) link

certainly the most accessible way into their universe, IMO, although I like the raw/weird/wild New Form Of Beauty series even more.

sleeve, Thursday, 8 October 2020 02:14 (three years ago) link

Van Halen - s/t
Minutemen - "Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love"
Big Black - "Kerosene" (London 1987), "Dead Billy" (Peel session)
Monitress - "Instant Entity", "Welcome Away"
Angela Hewitt - Bach: Goldberg Variations

The nexus of the crisis and the origin of storms (Sund4r), Thursday, 8 October 2020 02:38 (three years ago) link

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(lee gamble - koch)

brimstead, Thursday, 8 October 2020 03:48 (three years ago) link

Led Zep - Physical Graffiti
Sabbath - first three albs
Pete Ubu - Dub Housing and New Picnic Time
Rocket from the Tombs - The Day the Earth Met the Rocket from the Tombs.
The Fall - Live at Witch Trials, Dragnet, Perverted by Language, Hex Education Hour
Van Halen - 1984
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
Joni Mitchell - Blue

xyzzzz__, Thursday, 8 October 2020 21:45 (three years ago) link

Oh and:

Throbbing Gristle - 20 Jazz Funk Greats

xyzzzz__, Thursday, 8 October 2020 22:04 (three years ago) link

Anthem of the Sun original mix

Splack Packath (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 8 October 2020 22:53 (three years ago) link

You and xyzzzz are on a classicks roll, smoking gold, roll on. Heard that Anthem original mix recently too, good aint it.
Must check that xxetc. Ferrari, wrote a little bit about one of his back when we were still hearing resentment because France not part of Iraq invasion, so a few implied references here, dang all furriners anyway:

On Luc Ferrari's Les Anecdotiques, voices are talking, frequently in female
and French, beware. (American's also spoken, in Chicago and "dancehall Texas.")
Often near bird-bordered beaches, while engines drive up and away.
Eventually, doors slam and then beat on—doors of a sea tunnel, turns out. Anecdotal,
yas: L.A. swings, as Ferrari intends, in and out of meaning, like a pendulum do.
Worth hearing, at least once. Go listen to your pillow and be glaaad.

dow, Thursday, 8 October 2020 23:53 (three years ago) link

lol yup that sounds like his style all right (Ferrari)

sleeve, Friday, 9 October 2020 00:01 (three years ago) link

It's still worth hearing more than once, duh, but was barely in Voice range at the time, so I was meant to persuade with tourist appeal, and of course at home I'm a tourist, now more than ever.
Only way I got in there was with Toop's Haunted Weather, which incl. some then-rising stara of the artronic margins (names just to drop at the door, because of word limit:
Avantricity's freebirds (Matmos, Autechre, Fennesz, many more) ride the
soundtrack of David Toop's new book,
Haunted Weather: Music, Silence, and Memory.
Right channel clusters, left one cloisters, then they hook up, passing through
each other. In time as well as space, when (b) connects with (a) and (x). Disc
2 is mostly ghostly instruments; Disc 1 is more: for inst., the singing
fry and fray of Alvin Lucier's "Sferics." ("Natural radio-frequency emissions
in the ionosphere, radiated from nearby or distant lightning," Toop notes.)
One Weatherbird's ambushed by street sounds, but they're countered by
visionary description; violence gets safely aestheticized. The artist as museum
guard? Where is she later, when I hear a shovel blade in oily gravel, too near a
hypnotic/hypnotized-sounding muezzin?
Good book too.

dow, Friday, 9 October 2020 00:37 (three years ago) link

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dow, Friday, 9 October 2020 00:47 (three years ago) link

Yow, that Toop CD is extremely expensive on Amazon US now, maybe uploaded somewhere.

dow, Friday, 9 October 2020 00:51 (three years ago) link

fuck Amazon, $20 on Discogs even w/European shipping

https://www.discogs.com/sell/release/292020?ev=rb

sleeve, Friday, 9 October 2020 00:55 (three years ago) link

Awright!

dow, Friday, 9 October 2020 01:07 (three years ago) link

Is there a Tool compiled 2cd per each of his books? Ocurred to me a couple of weeks back that I'd lost track of the books after reading a couple in the 90s.
Also picked up a couple of his compiled cds in I think the Virginia Ambient series that I think Kevin Martin was also compiling for.
Just being further reminded of that by talk of Haunted Weather

Stevolende, Friday, 9 October 2020 07:39 (three years ago) link

That was Toop compiled cds until autocorrect had its wicked way.

Stevolende, Friday, 9 October 2020 07:41 (three years ago) link

You and xyzzzz are on a classicks roll, smoking gold, roll on.

lol, kinda. Actually making my way through the albs -- whereas before I just heard the odd classic track while wondering about or somesuch. Finding Zep a lot of drudgery tbh, enjoying Sabbath a lot more.

But its more like filling in gaps - Pere Ubu beyond Dub Housing. The Fall is re-listening but also had never heard this or that rec from their 'classic' period. 20 Jazz Funk Greats was savage stuff. Gaye and Mitchell were 1 and 2 in the RS best albs of all time.

xyzzzz__, Friday, 9 October 2020 17:09 (three years ago) link

RS Pantheon hype, but they still sound good.
xxxxpost Stevolende, I wish! But looks like Ocean of Sound is his only other book x listening companion so far...

dow, Friday, 9 October 2020 19:16 (three years ago) link

i can hear the heart beating as one, for the millionth time

like a fine wine

president of my cat (Karl Malone), Friday, 9 October 2020 19:16 (three years ago) link


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