What Are You Listening to? 2020

Napalm Death - Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism

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Patrick Cowley, Some Funkettes: Firmly packed studio rat EP, sassy and fresh from the can, man, mid-to-late 70s queries--fave so far is instrumental version of "I Feel Love," with as much or as prominent organ as synth, maybe 60s garage fave Farfisa, bringing out seedy soulful punky Latin highlights from melody---other fave is finale, "Spiked Punch Dub."

sorry, meant to link, whole thing is here, with much else:
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Also listening to DC->Chicago headz, carried on about it over at Rolling Jazz:

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notes just now, trying to wrap brane around what it just experienced:

Little Richard, Southern Child omg, cert worth mention try to describe finely calibrated sense of pitch, sweetly piercing and sensitive, like Joplin’s "Summertime" all the time while rolling round on the farm vehicles and such, musos no prob as he makes something----something, not nec of nothing but working a few phrases not nec going anywhere but around and around earth and space certainly some robust to muscular phrases, whatever he does with them and voice very clear despite all the screaming he had done press sheet says label was like oh we don’t know about him doing country or was it just that it was so out there how compare to his other new records around then? seemed pretty out there in 70s Hendrix doc Sweet girlish laughter but unsettling as in high school wtf but no complaints after all Out Dec. 4 and always

kid606 - why i love life
kid606 - the soccergirl ep

Zeal & Ardor - Live in London

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have also been digging that theo parrish, tho

I tried with those later Tietchens records and could not hang, should I revisit that?

ymmv, i don't like the kitschy clusteresque early ones. i dig the later ones cos of paucity of rhythm, melody, or even sound. occasional elusive glimmers. nice to work to. i remember γ-Menge, soiree & parergon being slightly more accessible than most of the later stiff, but that is relative blipssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssblip XQXQ nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnblip plongXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
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lol, thank u

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Bonzo Dog Band looks like they should be hanging out with the Magic Band and that dude on Sabbath's Paranoid.

^that reminds me, i once heard it mentioned that stanshall & beefheart were phone buddies... and second quote down: http://www.theillustratedvivianstanshall.com/vivian3.php

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recent spins, last week or so

Sun Ra - Sound Of Joy LP
Matmos - The Civil War LP
Cheap Trick - In Color LP
Elvis Presley - S/T LP
Artie Shaw - The Complete… Vol. VII 2LP
Legendary Pink Dots - Island Of Jewels LP
Sun Ra - The Soul Vibrations Of Man LP
Richard Skelton - Landings (bandcamp)
Cucina Povera - new one (bandcamp)
Kiyohiko Senba & His Haniwa All-Stars LP
The Clash - London Calling 2LP
Brian Eno - Music For Installations 6CD
Amon Duul II - Dance Of The Lemmings 2LP
Pharoah Sanders - Elevation LP
Jonathan Richman - Sa LP
François Bayle - L’Expérience Acoustique 2CD
Nurse With Wound - Trippin’ Musik 2CD
Nurse With Wound - Creakiness And Other Misdemeanors CD
Caetano Veloso - S/T (2nd) LP
75 Dollar Bill - Live At Roulette (bandcamp)

fp'ed you for using Anglocentric title for Amon Duul II ;)

I love Sound of Joy. I'm going to piss off my arsehole neighbour by blasting it out rn ftr.

haha it's the US pressing! what can I say.

my copy of Sound Of Joy is especially treasured as it is not only a sweet Delmark 60's pressing, but also used to belong to the radio station that formed my tastes growing up, 3000 miles away from where I live now and inexplicably found the LP for sale from a guy I've known since he was 7 years old (his parents are some of my best friends) who now collects LPs.

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yeah got taht last month, I think there may have been a sale on it through Dodax.
Interesting yeah.

i love that comp. but honestly i prefer listening to the entirety of Turiya Sings. wish they'd release that as a standalone! for now i just listen to it on youtube

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the tears of LA Rams fans

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That Luaka Alice was my gateway, love it and also subsequent collection of her complete Warner albs.
Kinks covers remind me: did yall see on Rolling Reissues re expanded edition of Lola vs. Powerman and The Money-Go-Round?

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Spiral Galaxy - S/T LP
The Ex - various singles (new and old)
v/a A Woman’s Side Of Love Vol. II 2LP (great country music comp LP series on the Franklin Mint label)
John Coltrane - The Other Village Vanguard Tapes 2LP
Lida Husik - Your Bag LP
Glenn Gould - Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 2 LP
Al Green - Call Me LP
Stevie Wonder - Talking Book LP
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions LP
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bayou Country LP
Popol Vuh - Das Hohelied Salomos LP
Lee Dorsey - Ya-Ya LP
The Cars - Panorama LP
Current 93 - Where The Long Shadows Fall single-sided LP
Current 93 - The Starres Are Marching Sadly Home CD-EP
Grouper - Dream Loss/Alien Observer 2CD

xpost: not my favourite kinks by any means, but totally regret getting rid of my mint copy of lola (previous owner was a certain m4rtin phiIIipps iirc)

like stevo, i've only just picked up a copy of the luaka ac collection recently, so that whole post warners period of her work is new to me: will need to explore some more!

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a personal desert island disc

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xp Multila is the shit

xxp Karl is otm, Turiya Sings is the best of the 4 "devotional" Alice Coltrane releases

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sick album is this.

xxp Karl is otm, Turiya Sings is the best of the 4 "devotional" Alice Coltrane releases

i'm glad you agree! especially because i think i only listened to the other 3 about twice each, whereas i am drawn to Turiya Sings like a moth to a flame. I've youtubed it dozens of times, at least. the comp is great, but it's very much a comp - it jumps from style to style, it's a collection of highlights for sure. but the Turiya Sings cassette is a sustained ~mood~. i have no idea what she is singing about, in specific; i think i may be disrespectful, in some ways, by using it as "work" or "concentration" music. but i can very much see how it could work as devotional music, because whether you like it or not, by 20 minutes in you will be in a more quiet place.

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I bought thsi after seeing a biography of her on teh tv over the summer. Took an age to arrive for soem reason but it is pretty great. Have had it on or them on since thsi sisa 2cd set over the last couple of weeks. First disc has her appearance with hAarry Belafonte at Carnegie Hall or something similar followed by her first 2 US lps. NIce stuff largely in English. She has a voice that rivals Joan baez for purity of tone but I think she has more feeling. Love her voice and the music is pretty decent.
2nd disc hasa lotof music she was recording before she left South Africa and went into Exile for decades. Again pretty great, though seems like a lot of the jazz elements echo music from much earlier I'd connect the horns more to very early US jazz but they may link to something more traditional in South Africa i dunno,
Anyway glad I now have some music by her she is a pretty awesome singer. I should have bought stuff much much earlier

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anothe rinteresting covermount frm Mojo magazine thsi time tracks realted to Radioheads Kid A lp. Quite diverse set of tracks though it does hang together quite well.
Could see somebody stumbling across a set of loose cds in a charity shop somewhere in a few years time and finding a lot of these Mojo related ones and suddenly hearing a lot of great music they didn't have a grounding for.Hope tat ahppens a lot. They dod a good job.
I'm not a big Radiohead fan , saw them once supporting levitation back in like 92 which pretty much dopes it for me.
But this is pretty great anyway.

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listened to the first disc of this for a few days. Takes me back to the too few times i was at the club in the late 80s.
loved dancing to the jazz stuff Peterson was spinning, reconnecting with Eddie Pillar and stuff.
I started hitching the UK following bands around the time so stopped going to this and the |Son of Redneck the country and western club behind Selfridges because i tended to be hundreds of miles away from there.
Found out this set existed last year or earlier this, it has some pretty great stuff on it.
Can see why I liked dancing to Peterson's djing but would like to know what else he was playing at the time.

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Had this in a previous cd form back in th e90s and have meant to replace it for a while .
I think it is jazzier and less avant than i was thinking, still quite abstract and a little abrasive.
Like it I think. not sure how recognisable the standard is on here All the Things You Are.

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looking through these threads from the beginning is always fun. missed that Grand Funk 71 disc, i need to check that out. Love their 1970 live album.

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Gas - Pop
v/a Kankyo Ongaku
Harold Budd - The Plateaux Of Mirror
Zoviet France - Just An Illusion

chillin

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Cam, The Otherside: at first some of it seemed too nice & wholesome for crusty old me, but as I said on Rolling Country: tonight I get it, the sound and the fury and the sweetness and bitterness and been-there insight yaddayaddayadda

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