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Post by Kapitan on Apr 27, 2022 14:27:17 GMT
I'm listening to my 2022 music purchases on shuffle this morning. As much fun as the Beatles rating thread was over the past year and a half, I have to admit it really took up a LOT of my listening time, especially once we got into two albums per week. I wanted to give everything at least two listens, and often did more than that.
That was fun, and I'm more familiar now with all of their catalogs. But it's refreshing to hear more diverse things now rather than Ringo's 75th solo album, autotuned to hell as he covers himself or sings a song about his old songs and old friends.
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Post by Kapitan on May 8, 2022 23:44:56 GMT
One of those songs I hear and think, "how was this not a hit?"
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Post by jk on May 20, 2022 8:46:47 GMT
Lately, at the end of my day, I've been playing a slew of tracks from my current Baroque channel of choice ( here). But at the very end of the day I invariably switch to this recent discovery, "Battleflag" by Lo Fidelity Allstars Ft. Pigeonhed:
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Post by kds on May 20, 2022 12:34:23 GMT
It appears the warm weather is here in Maryland to stay. So, that means it's Buffett season for me.
I'd started to play some of my Buffett playlists. And I've also decided to try to complete my tangible Buffett catalog. So, I'm actually listening to the Riddles in the Sand album on CD. Funnily enough, I'll probably never play the CD again as long as these albums live on Spotify, and Jimmy doesn't pull a Neil Young.
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Post by jk on May 23, 2022 20:36:14 GMT
Curiously, kds, I know absolutely nothing about Jimmy Buffet, apart from his co-authorship of "South American" and something about a pink crustacean. Any tips as to where to start? The composer of this track by Man Jumping used to live just up the road from me in the 1960s. It was in fact he who caused me to change tack and switch wholesale from classical to pop LPs in 1967. The reason? I'd lent him two precious albums of mine and he scratched them both! My next purchase was a Ravi Shankar album and from there I moved on to Pet Sounds and the rest is etc. Anyway, this is "The Wedding", and rather good it is too: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_Jumping
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Post by kds on May 24, 2022 12:34:41 GMT
Curiously, kds , I know absolutely nothing about Jimmy Buffet, apart from his co-authorship of "South American" and something about a pink crustacean. Any tips as to where to start? The composer of this track by Man Jumping used to live just up the road from me in the 1960s. It was in fact he who caused me to change tack and switch wholesale from classical to pop LPs in 1967. The reason? I'd lent him two precious albums of mine and he scratched them both! My next purchase was a Ravi Shankar album and from there I moved on to Pet Sounds and the rest is etc. Anyway, this is "The Wedding", and rather good it is too: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_JumpingI actually just posted a personal Top 50 in a thread that I started about Buffett a few years ago. thebeachboystoday.proboards.com/thread/155/music-gripe-week-wasted-away
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Post by jk on Aug 10, 2022 13:35:29 GMT
Here's an album worth unearthing now and again. To quote its creator (all the way from Scotland) at Smiley where they briefly posted as Tidepool Interlude: "A lot of the ideas in the songs (and the album title...) came, quite evidently, from my love of The Beach Boys (other artists were ripped off in the making of this record too!) … All of the lyrics can be found on the individual Soundcloud tracks." [27 Nov 2019] See the SoundCloud page for further information. soundcloud.com/thevidiprinter/sets/a-teenage-symphony-to-pob
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Post by jk on Aug 17, 2022 19:40:18 GMT
Back in 1977, I was doing menial work at Amsterdam Airport -- I didn't speak the lingo so that’s what you get -- and kept hearing this mournful song blasting out across the hangar. All I could catch of the lyrics was "hurry hurry". In those pre-internet days I came to the curious conclusion that the singer was Boz Scaggs! He was high in the Dutch charts at the time. I knew he had had connections with Steve Miller but people change styles, and he looked pretty natty in a white suit. Forty years on, I scoured the net and very many "hurry hurry"s later discovered that the singer was in fact one Barry Biggs, an utterly new name to me, and that the song was called "Sideshow". And, that it was categorized as reggae! From closer up all those years later, it's still sounds lovely -- and as mournful as ever: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Biggs
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Post by jk on Aug 24, 2022 12:48:10 GMT
One of the soul tracks they played while we were waiting for a concert by Joan As Police Woman to begin (more on that some other time) stood out from the rest because of its quasi-psychedelic ambience. I thought I'd memorize the chorus, which went: "What was I supposed to do / When he disrespected me and he disrespected you." Unfortunately, "disrespected" morphed in my mind into "(was) disrespectful (to)". This was one obstacle when looking it up at home. Another was that the first line (and the title) proved after an hour so to be “What Was I Suppose [sic] To Do"! Performed by Clarence "Patches" Carter, it's the opening track on his 1995 album I Couldn't Refuse: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Carter
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Post by jk on Aug 25, 2022 21:32:10 GMT
All the way from Birmingham (UK), Humantide are Chris Hickling (lead vox and guitar), Martyn Barran (bass), Richard Hickling (guitar and vox) and Ryan Kerley (drums). This is "The Company Whip": www.facebook.com/Humantide/
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Post by jk on Sept 25, 2022 14:13:14 GMT
Trudging through cyberspace the other day I happened across this great digital album by The Majik Rain Orchestra (aka Guillaume from Paris) of blissed-out "feels" and soundscapes geographically located somewhere between Brian country ( Pet Sounds reimagined) and High Llama land: themajikrainorchestra.bandcamp.com/releasesMy favourite, or at least the one that's stuck in my head, is the stamping "Reverberation". The idea is that everything but tracks 6, 7 and 12 will have vocals added in the fullness of time.
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Post by Kapitan on Sept 26, 2022 22:55:06 GMT
This evening I put on Harry Nilsson' great Nilsson Sings Newman. One of my 20-30 favorite albums ever. Great songs. Great singing. Great arrangements and recordings. That's pretty much everything, isn't it?
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Post by Kapitan on Sept 29, 2022 17:35:22 GMT
Maybe it was the country--gorgeous hills and valleys covered in woods and fields, which, this being Amish country, look like something out of the 19th century as often as not--but I was struck by Nick Drake's Bryter Layter as I've never been before. In fact, it's one of those albums I bought about 20 years ago after falling in love with his Pink Moon. It being entirely unlike that, at the time I more or less thought it was cheesy and put it away.
But it's gorgeous. The songs aren't great, but the sounds are. And what really stood out was that the second track (and first proper song), "Hazey Jane II," is almost a template for a certain type of Belle & Sebastian song--in fact, in a sense, the first Belle & Sebastian song, track one from their debut, Tigermilk, "The State I'm In." Something about the basic but pulsing acoustic guitar heartbeat, the soft vocal, the way electric guitar fits in. The horns and winds of Drake throughout that album predict B&S's usage.
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Post by jk on Oct 6, 2022 9:11:58 GMT
There's a line from front man Neil Hannon in The Divine Comedy's "National Express" that is guaranteed to crack you up (you can't miss it). With thanks to sneakypete77 at EH:
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Post by jk on Oct 8, 2022 18:50:47 GMT
Three CDs I've played this week, while (but not because) I had the house to myself, are Underworld's Beaucoup Fish (1999), of which this is the opening track...
…The Avalanches' Since I Left You (2000), of which this is track #10...
…and the posthumous (1994) Dan Hartman comp Keep The Fire Burnin', of which this is the second track, one of Dan's final compositions (R.I.P.):
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