Gene Ammons 'Brother Jug'- This is a very funky and groovy record. "Jungle Strut" has some filthy drums.
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers 'Free for All'-Pretty much anything these guys did for a few years especially when Wayne Shorter was in the group is pretty ace. Title track to me is really great and to me sounds to have a bit of a Coltrane influence.
― earlnash, Thursday, 22 September 2022 00:49 (one year ago) link
thank you earl! really love gene whenever i hear him, but so much of his catalogue is in limbo so i didn't know that one. "jungle strut" is indeed pretty badass. bernard purdie as solid as ever.
― ใ๐๐ ๐ ๐ ค ๐ ก ๐ ๐ ๐ๅฝก (Austin), Thursday, 22 September 2022 02:40 (one year ago) link
Just bought The Psychedelic Furs' Mirror Moves. I'd listened to it on Spotify on headphones before and really liked it, but what a gigantic sounding album through the stereo!
― i need to put some clouds behind the reaper (PBKR), Sunday, 2 October 2022 21:05 (one year ago) link
The second side faffs around a bit but the album's a solid compromise brokered between contemporary sounds and Butler's sudden interest in becoming the Bryan Ferry of "Dance Away."
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 2 October 2022 21:11 (one year ago) link
kenny larkin, metaphor
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 28 November 2022 19:29 (one year ago) link
i just am always looking for shimmering jazzy late night techno that sounds exactly like this
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 28 November 2022 19:54 (one year ago) link
What Color Is Love is all time... need to put on Occasional Rain again. His voice is the epitome of comfort/reassurance to me. Love the dude
โ octobeard, Tuesday, September 20, 2022 6:12 PM (two months ago) bookmarkflaglink
A very comforting voice...I always turn to TC when I'm down...
โ henry s, Saturday, 15 May 2010 18:29 (twelve years ago) link
― henry s, Monday, 28 November 2022 22:13 (one year ago) link
would make a cool thread if there isn't one already
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Monday, 28 November 2022 22:16 (one year ago) link
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/A1DXwtBwwuL._SX466_.jpg
how have i never heard this before?!
― ใ๐๐ ๐ ๐ ค ๐ ก ๐ ๐ ๐ๅฝก (Austin), Wednesday, 7 December 2022 19:34 (one year ago) link
what is this record? i have bad eyes and on my mobile phone, lol
― sknybrg, Wednesday, 7 December 2022 19:56 (one year ago) link
The Watts Prophets - Black In A White World
― nickn, Wednesday, 7 December 2022 19:57 (one year ago) link
thanks!
― sknybrg, Wednesday, 7 December 2022 20:23 (one year ago) link
gris gris
suddenly it clicked
― corrs unplugged, Wednesday, 7 December 2022 21:01 (one year ago) link
Workingman's Dead.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 8 December 2022 11:06 (one year ago) link
King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown. Perfect dub!
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 8 December 2022 12:41 (one year ago) link
Itโs a good album, but overall I prefer the one where said rockers are met in a firehouse. Elements of that are haunting psychedelic dub.
― Luna Schlosser, Thursday, 8 December 2022 13:04 (one year ago) link
Oooh, I don't know that one, thanks for the rec!
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 8 December 2022 15:05 (one year ago) link
It's a cliche, but in the wake of Christine McVie's death I have put Rumors back in heavy rotation. It's a near perfect album.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 8 December 2022 15:22 (one year ago) link
It is. I however don't need to play it because my Starbucks has had it on rotation for years, every track except "Oh Daddy."
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 8 December 2022 15:25 (one year ago) link
Haha, another album "ruined" by Starbucks.
The self-titled album is nearly as good, and "Landslide" is imho not only their best song but one of my three or four favorites of all time.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 8 December 2022 15:29 (one year ago) link
The only thing wrong with Rumors is the missing "Silver Springs"
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 8 December 2022 15:36 (one year ago) link
Agreed, that song is next level.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 8 December 2022 15:38 (one year ago) link
Sidebar Starbucks fact: When I worked there, if you ever wanted to put your own CDs on the stereo (instead of Starbucks-approved CDs) it would play them backwards
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 8 December 2022 15:43 (one year ago) link
Like in reverse track order, or โI buried Paulโ backwards?
― Wet Legume (morrisp), Thursday, 8 December 2022 15:56 (one year ago) link
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Graffiti
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 8 December 2022 16:04 (one year ago) link
"I buried Paul", literally-backwards style
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 8 December 2022 16:35 (one year ago) link
surely you mean "turn me on, dead man."
― Thus Sang Freud, Thursday, 8 December 2022 16:54 (one year ago) link
Or "wolf in white van."
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 8 December 2022 16:54 (one year ago) link
have we ever done thread for songs that sound good when played backwards?
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Thursday, 8 December 2022 17:16 (one year ago) link
I didn't realize a CD could be played backwards without a CDJ.
― billstevejim, Thursday, 8 December 2022 18:19 (one year ago) link
I still have fond memories of a set Ken Goldsmith did on WFMU consisting of Rolling Stones songs played backwards.
― o. nate, Thursday, 8 December 2022 18:50 (one year ago) link
Don't own it yet but is Discover America great or what
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Friday, 9 December 2022 16:04 (one year ago) link
The funny thing about it was it still sounded like the Stones. xp
― o. nate, Friday, 9 December 2022 16:38 (one year ago) link
Full House by Fairport Convention. I've loved Unhalfbricking and Liege & Lief for years but never bothered to listen to any other Fairport album, largely due to the absence of Sandy Denny. Only recently did the penny drop that Richard Thompson was still in the band for Full House and indeed assumed greater importance in the line-up. It never scales the heights of Unhalfbricking or Liege & Lief, but "Sloth" is great and the single Now Be Thankful (bonus track on the CD reissue) is superb.
― lord of the rongs (anagram), Friday, 9 December 2022 16:44 (one year ago) link
Madonnaโs Like a Prayer
― Westernยฎ with Bacon Flavor, Friday, 9 December 2022 16:54 (one year ago) link
First 2 Fairport lps are pretty great too if you haven't looked in that direction. I enjoy Judy Dyble both on the s/t and on Trader Horne.Sandy has joined by What We Did On Our Holidays though iain Matthews is still co lead singer. & the North Star Grassman and the Ravens is good for Sandy playing against Richard still. Bits of incidental guitar sound quite Televisiony or vice versa too.
― Stevolende, Friday, 9 December 2022 20:30 (one year ago) link
'sloth' is so good, half of it sounds like television playing a slint song
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Friday, 9 December 2022 20:37 (one year ago) link
The Djangology records with Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grapelli
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 9 December 2022 20:39 (one year ago) link
I confess I've never been that interested in 50s rock and roll so haven't listened to that much of it but I've just listened to the first two Gene Vincent albums, "Bluejean Bop!" and "Gene Vincent & the Blue Caps" and they are fucking great. I can totally see why so many people rate him as the best of the best. Great singer, so charismatic and exciting, and Cliff Gallup's guitar playing is absolutely out of this world, that guy must have blown so many people's minds when they first heard him. Both albums are good all the way through, even the corny old schools ballads are good because Vincent totally sells them, he had a sweet voice when he wanted to.
― Gulf VAR Syndrome (Tom D.), Monday, 19 December 2022 18:13 (one year ago) link
Yeah, there's a reason the Birthday Party covered "Cat Man", he was totally wild out of the gate.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 20 December 2022 20:03 (one year ago) link
Just got a Patsy Cline 3cd that is pretty great. For some reason I didn't really know her work beyond a couple of ubiquitous hits which I like half knew and had heard numerous times without owning. She has an incredible voice for one thing and I'm really enjoying the settings. She has pretty stripped down sound expanded massively by a pedal steel guitar which seems to define the outlines of the sound picture. I heard teh Walking After Midnight here and was reminded of Boces era Mercury Rev by that amorphous envelope of guitar, not sure if I'd map it back though. Did wonder who had picked up on the sound I'm hearing here, I guess Cowboy Junkies possibly but it does just seem like the kind of thing that might describe new sound worlds if listened to on acid or some similar cliche. Not sure what I was expecting, I think I was prompted to finally pick up a set of her stuff by reading about her being friends with Loretta Lynn when I finally picked up a best of her stuff a few weeks ago.She does cover a number of different styles from some overtly country to some stuff thgat might be more pop polus pedal steel and a few tracks of rock and roll. Anyway, got a cheap 3cd so have some stuff to explore.Just wondering how I overlooked her for so long. She's pretty well known so surprised i haven't found a previous point at which I did so. I do enjoy Julie London, Peggy lee, Frank Sinatra and a few other similar era torch singer/crooner types but am loving this. & now wondering on the pedal steel guitar as psychedelic instrument beyond Glenn Ross Campbell, possibly Sneaky Pete Kleinow and the cloud of pedal steel that hovers throughout the Gun Club's Miami played by Mark Tomeo.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 21 December 2022 11:08 (one year ago) link
Psychedelic pedal steel? Red Rhodes on anything he did with Mike Nesmith is your ticket.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 12:53 (one year ago) link
Yeah, should know their work better. Got the classic albums bor whatever box at the start of the year.
Would love to hear what Blixa Bargeld was doing with pedal steel he was apparently studying it just before he apparently gave up playing guitar live. He stepped back from being one of the 2 Neubauten guitarists when Alex hacke became bassist and the new permanent line up stabilised.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 21 December 2022 13:23 (one year ago) link
North Star Grassman and the Ravens is good for Sandy playing against Richard still. Bits of incidental guitar sound quite Televisiony or vice versa too.
The version of "Backwaterside" is very Televisiony/Velvetsy, even reminds me of "How Soon Is Now?"
― fetter, Wednesday, 21 December 2022 13:40 (one year ago) link
Lately, I can't seem to get enough of Skin Tight, Fire, and Honey by the Ohio Players.
― I can't tell if he's trolling or not (ilxor), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 17:21 (one year ago) link
My favourite new-to-me LPs heard in 2022, all have music from the years 1948-1956
Akira Ifukube โ Godzilla OSTArt Blakey โ A Night at BirdlandAstor Piazzolla โ Ses Premiers EnregisrementsBenny More Y Su Banda Giganta โ Grabaciones CompletasBernard Hermann โ The Day The Earth Stood Still OSTBo Diddley โ The Indispensible Bo Diddley, Vol.1Four Freshmen โ Four Freshmen and Five TrombonesFrank Sinatra โ In The Wee Small HoursGlenn Gould โ The Goldberg VariationsJ.J. Johnson with Clifford Brown โ J.J. Johnson with Clifford BrownJackson Do Pandeiro โ Sua Majestade: O Rei Do RitmoJerry Byrd โ Early Country & Hawaiian Steel Guitar ClassicsLes Baxter โ The Exotic Moods of Les BaxterMaria Tanase โ Malediction dโAmourMahalia Jackson โ Gospels, Spirituals & HymnsMaxima Mejia โ Los Grandes Exitos de Maxima MejiaMiles David โ The Complete Blue Note SessionsMoondog โ Moondog & His Honking GeesePeggy Lee โ Black Coffee with Peggy LeeSalum Abdallah & Cuban Marimba โ Ngoma Iko HukuSpeedy West & Jimmy Bryant โ Stratosphere Boogie: The Flaming Guitars of Speedy West & Jimmy BryantStan Kenton โ New Concepts of Artistry in RhythmThelonious Monk โ Genius of Modern Music Vol 1/2Various โ 1950: The Bomb In The Heart of The CenturyVarious โ Africa at 78RPMVarious โ Atlantic Rhythm & Blues 1947-1974Various โ Blowing The Fuse (Series)Various โ Dim Lights, Thick Smoke and Hillbilly Music: Country & Western Hit Parade (Series)Various โ Forgotten Guitars from MozambiqueVarious โ London is the Place For Me: Trinidadian Calypso in London, 1950-1956Various โ Music of the Magindanao in the PhilippinesVarious โ OHM+: The Early Gurus of Electronic MusicVarious โ Township Jazz โnโ JiveVarious โ The Complete Sun SinglesVarious โ The Doo Wop BoxVarious โ The Pigโs Big 78sVarious โ Ultra-Lounge, Vol. 1: Mondo ExoticaYma Sumac โ Mambo!
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Saturday, 31 December 2022 22:32 (one year ago) link
Into New Dimension's self-titled album from 1981 is highly recommended to any Boogie/Modern Funk fiends. Got tipped to it from a Numero newsletter but I don't think they're planning to issue it.
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 25 January 2023 15:55 (one year ago) link
I haven't listened to it in years but John Cale's "Paris 1919" sounding pretty masterful this morning.
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Wednesday, 25 January 2023 16:10 (one year ago) link
bought Never Mind The Bollocks on sunday. have never owned a copy, but did have a tape of the picture disk done by a friend at the time and i rinsed that tape so it was all very familiar.
Universal UMC release, (c)2012, the cover looks green and orange from some angles / in some lights, the more familiar yellow / pink in others.
― koogs, Monday, 30 January 2023 17:10 (one year ago) link
That's really cool! The yellow/pink cover was the UK version, while the pink/green was the US version. I got the US version first and was surprised years later to see the yellow one. Is the cover lenticular, or is it some other printing trick?
― peace, man, Monday, 30 January 2023 18:24 (one year ago) link