What are you listening to? (V)Music

[05XR8]

I wish I knew anyone else with the same music tastes when I was eighteen. I was into The Smiths and Cocteau Twins while everybody else I knew was into U2 and Dire Straits.

Thanks for the recommendation. I don't think this show was ever broadcast this side of the pond. Co-host Jools Holland had a long running show on BBC2 but minus the all-star house band.

Fortunately crosscurrentjazz on YouTube has preserved a number of episodes for future generations (or until Broadway Video's lawyers catch up to them). I'll be getting onto these immediately.

I was in the middle keeping the peace with my friends. Either side didn't understand why the other listened to each other's noise. Run DMC and Doug E Fresh & Slick Rick's The Show, funnily enough, aided my friends in crossing over to the others preferred music.

My Dad was a party DJ. Mainly spinning rhythm & blues, soul, disco and country(!), but one of my uncles got many of us young family members into jazz.
My brother's car was the only one in the projects blasting Children of Sanchez!

 

[CTznOfTime]

Sorry for going mainstream here.

While everyone has been going crazy for her, and while I do recognize she has some vocal talents and gift, I have been quite neutral about Lady Gaga for all this time, but her latest albums drop has some good stuff that I honestly cannot ignore.

Most particularly for me this bonus track at the end takes the cake and is, to me, by far the best, one of her best work:

So simple yet so effective, easily turned to 11:

 

[Cap'n Jack]

Operation Ivy - Unity

 

[Sonygamer455]

Willie Nelson - Roll Me Up.

 

[UKMikey]

LaBelle's 1974 album Nightbirds