What are you listening to? (V)Music

[UKMikey]

Patrick Bartley - Bohemia After Dark (live at Emmet's Place)



Also this:

 

[Sprite]

Fantastic set by Martina

 

[UKMikey]

Pretenders - Talk Of The Town. This paean to an old toyboy of Chrissie's is a masterpiece, as far as I'm concerned.

 

[Chris30]

I love Aaliyah's music and R&B hits. We miss her. Are you a fan of her music?

 

[Populuxe]

Jean Stanback - If I Ever Needed Love

 

[Chris30]

Michael Jackson- "Dangerous"

 

[UKMikey]

Monty Alexander - Fungii Mama (Bubba's Jazz Restaurant, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, August 6th, 1982)


For what it's worth, I only listened to this track four or five times in a row.

 

[Populuxe]

I don’t think I’ve ever heard of Monty Alexander.

 

[UKMikey]

I don’t think I’ve ever heard of Monty Alexander.

I'd start with Ernest Ranglin's Below The Bassline on which he's a prominent sideman if you're interested.



Still on a classical kick. My SD card's beginning to burst at the seams.

 

[Chris30]

I'm listening to Aaliyah's song, "U Got Nerve"

 

[Chris30]

Pink- "Some Girls"

 

[Imbissbrunto]

The greatest Southern hip hop album of all time imo, just flawless!

 

[UKMikey]

Sergei Rachmaninoff - Chopin/Lizst: Polish Songs (Op. 74), No. 1: The Maiden's Wish. This record has an interesting history.

After fleeing Russia following the 1917 revolution Rachmaninoff was forced to become a concert pianist in order to support his family. He recorded several of his performances as paper rolls which were recently digitised and corrected for physical timing discrepancies by ex-NASA JPL scientist Wayne Stahnke and played on a Bosendorfer electronic reproducing piano to create this CD.

 

[Chris30]

Strange song, been listening to it for 8 months now.

 

[05XR8]

 

[NeweSta]

 

[UKMikey]

Finally got to hear The Smiths' eponymous debut album. The band didn't think it was ready to release but label boss Geoff Travis insisted on putting it out as he'd spent £6,000 of 1984 money on two producers. Unlike the Velvet Underground's White Light, this time the band was right and it's decidedly lacking in jangle compared with the contemporary radio sessions of the time.

I think it's probably best to pretend that their Hatful Of Hollow compilation which contains most of those BBC Peel and Jensen session versions of the same tunes is their "real" first album. Fortunately subsequent discs have a brighter sound thanks to the enlistment of Stephen Street on engineering duties.

Spoiler: source photo

Currently listening to their sophomore release Meat Is Murder which has aged a lot more gracefully.

 

[JK_GT]

 

[TexRex]

Styx - Man In The Wilderness

 

[UKMikey]

Styx - Man In The Wilderness

I know nothing about Styx other than their saccharine pop hits like "Babe" but the first few seconds of this album sound like rocky prog which is right up my alley. It's their breakthrough LP as I understand it and I'll definitely give it a try.

RIP Val Kilmer btw.

Meanwhile, I got hold of another couple of classical albums.

 

[Jezza819]

I know nothing about Styx other than their saccharine pop hits like "Babe" but the first few seconds of this album sound like rocky prog which is right up my alley. It's their breakthrough LP as I understand it and I'll definitely give it a try.

RIP Val Kilmer btw.

My favorite Styx song:

 

[UKMikey]

Thanks, but I'm jumping ship before Cornerstone. Sounds like DeYoung seemed determined to ruin the band for people who liked the first Shaw-era discs. At least I know a lot more about the band now than I did a half hour ago.

A trio of Sal Nistico bebop LPs from the early sixties:

 

[Chris30]

The slow version of this song is 50 times better than the original version. No doubt about that.

 

[Imbissbrunto]

Can‘t go wrong with this album. Absolute classic!

 

[Chris30]

Listening to some of Nelly's old rap songs, he's a legend too.

 

[Spacegoat]

Seems like an appropriate song for the current timeline*.



*And yeah. I basically have only been listening to Faith No More and Deftones for the past almost two months now. I am currently unaware of any other bands or music in general.

 

[UKMikey]

I can't imagine just listening to one band or genre. At least it's probably more interesting than listening to a single song over and over on repeat.

Gonna dip into the back catalogue of Dave Watts' group The Motet. Jazz-funk with the occasional (ok, frequent) Fela Kuti cover version.





[EDIT] Verdict after listening to the first album... it's very well produced and performed but doesn't break any boundaries for me compositionally. I'm sure all the genre-swapping on the fly is fun to listen to live but for home listening I think I'll stick with Ikebe Shakedown.

 

[UKMikey]

Dreadzone's 1995 sophomore release Second Light. I liked their mix of dub and electronic music at the time so this is, largely, a nostalgia listen. Not sure about this 2012 remaster though. Although the band's Greg Roberts liked it, it sounds a bit choked off to me.