What are you listening to? 2022

I listened to this Elton John album, Regimental Sgt. Zippo, recorded in 1967/68 and then shelved until it was released for record store day last year. Some of it is just demo-level early Elton (albeit well-produced demos) but elsewhere it's a hippy-dippy pop-psych record, with nods to Sgt. Pepper and Odessy and Oracle.

I also listened to Dr. John's 1978 City Lights.

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never listened to this, or any of my axiom/laswell collection, on headphones until tonight.
yeah, a very different experience.

everything I can find by the Cabs (Japanese band)

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3rd lp by Australian punk group. Here moving over to a more r'n'b influenced sound complete with horn section. The band is more under the influence of Ed Kuepper the guitarist for this one lp. & here the lp is augmented by one outtake and the notorious Paddington Town Hall set from before the band left Australia.
Lyricism is pretty good existential stuff ad Bailey's voice is really ratty possibly most emphatically on the bonus track which otherwise sounds like it could be Pretty Things mid 60s influenced. Have wondered if it might have been covered by anybody cos I think it's a good song.
Picked this out of the 4cd All Times Through Paradise box and I think I wasn't overly familiar with it beforehand. Growing on me totally.
Thought it was probably easier to read to etc. First 2 possibly a bit too upbeat. Then I find out Paddington set has Kuepper's guitar reduced to a corrosive scorch and is extremely visceral. Nights in Venice is so energetic it reminds me of MC5's Black To Comm.
Good lp from a great box.
Find it funny that the one member of the original band who looks most like an unrepentant neanderthal long haired rocker Kym Bradshaw left to form a mod band with some members of a band they had had as support on tours they'd done. Not sure if that had sunk in before and I had forgotten about it or what. Small Hours wound up on Mod's Mayday '79 one of the big Mod Revival lps.

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Improvisational RIO band at the time I love them most, around 1975. here with Robert Wyatt guesting on a few tracks.
First few tracks are the more songform tracks with recognisable tunes and things I think. may be a couple of others dropped in a bit later in the set. Do absolutely love Fred Frith's guitar and the oboe of Lindsay Cooper.
Have loved this era since getting Concerts way back. Probablyu should be much mire familiar with the live box set since I've had it since i was released. Anyway getting more familiar now.

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1981 dub set from Reggae producer. Horror fetish extends a bit beyond the titles. Roots Radics are really heavy which is just what one wants really innit.
This contrasts good with the others. Great lp. Think I need to find some more of his.
Got this from Dub Vendor on Ladbroke grove not sure how long back.

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I haven't thought about Lambchop in years. Cool.

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Hawkwind Live 1982

weird how sonically cleaned up and un-hairy they get in the 80s

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Californian trio with some direct connections to Mike Stax of Ugly Things fame. I think it was a video of their shared Bo Diddley fixation band that turned me onto them initially that or one of the wild live videos by the band themselves. One where the guitarist shows the extension of the guitar technique possible for a frenetically dancing maniac. Amazing that he could play coherent guitar at the same time.
This studio lp which was teh first I could get my hands on after hoping i mighty be able to get hold of something longer than a single by them. The freneticism is still there but you can hear a lot more detail and influences in there too. I'm struggling to find out what they all are by ear. I know straight off that vocally and guitar there is a lot of MC5 in there, even if it is a solo guitar not a duo. THink I'm also hearing Paul Revere and the Raiders and some other US garage stuff, a bit of UK mid 60s mod/freakbeat ala Small Faces/Who and some lesser knowns and some heavier stuff from the turn of the 70s. The band themselves cite some more black influences like James Brown, Little Richard, they're definitely into Bo Diddley too.
I am hearing some poppy influences but delivered with a lot more impact and momentum.
Great band, look like tehy must be manic live and they have a new lp out this year which I just found out about. Maybe i need to find the Ugly Things that came out before teh current one cos it disappeared into a pile of stuff and didn't get fully read. Must be a review of the lp somewhere in one of this year's editions unless they got excluded for being current.

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Disc 2 of this mainly cos i just read I Am Damo Suzuki and need to tidy up to find my other Can cds. BUt this has been pretty interesting not sure how much i have played this set through so having a week where I keep it on the 3 changer is good. Has some interesting stuff on .
Not sure if its the setting i have the player on but Malcolm Mooney's vocals on the first couple of tracks here seem to be oddly buried until the spoken word track. Damo comes in and sings a 16 minute Spoon which is great as are the other tracks with him on.
Deeply psychedelic music and certainly taken as an influence as such whatever the intentionality of the band members and i would think the space being explored would almost inevitably be psychedelic whether it involved drug ingestion or not. & I did hear the band were more druggy than I had once thought.
Getting images of vast landscapes and really loving the textures of the instruments.
Anyway great band, one my brother introduced me to as I was first discovering music and have enjoyed ever since. I think I just need to do a major tidy and find the cds I have by them. & get the live ones that came out over the last couple of years which i should have had since release. Not been spending as much money on cds as I was a few years ago.

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Guitar maestro from my dad's tribe teh Luo and it was him that introduced me to the artist by leaving a single with us sometime in the late 70s I think I know I was really discovering it in the early 80s when I was creating mixtapes .
Great infectious rhythms which are danceable but i think quite different to funk . Pretty percussive. I have been lying in bed trying to work out what instruments are playing I think there are 3 guitars, a bass and percussion which I need to look further into. Since it seems to be being played more on a hollow metal pipe than a kit but that could just be the way I'm hearing it. Have wondered if it is a full kit or what.
I also need to work out time signatures cos not sure what this si being played in.
I'm just hearing deceptively simple sounding guitar parts being played jaggedly and not so much entwined as simultaneously. Quite melodic.
I find this pretty psychedelic as well or certainly would be if incorporated into a more rock based sound so have wondered if anybody else has discovered this set and taken any influence from it, I am reminded of things like Television who I was discovering at around teh same time I first heard them also No Wave though this is so much happier and upbeat.
I think this is some of my favourite music ever. So wish there was more of it.
THis was a compilation put out by Sterns Africa 12 years ago. Very recommended.

that D. O. Misiani is on spotify and sounds fantastic. had never heard of him before. thx!

Yeah, thanks for the detailed writeups Steve... I'm looking forward to checking these out... I love that Schizophonics artwork...

THis may be the video I saw. I was trying to work out if there was a 3rd player on taht lp cos I don't think there is a bass credited.
Seemed to be other parts being played than a 2 piece. & I couldn't work out how they would get things to cohere as just guitar and drums.
But definitely a bassist here and in other videos I've seen
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ivory ticklers.
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Solo piano, sounds like jazz at first but everything is composed:

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First disc of this which covers the years up to 1971. BBC sessions from maverick prog related band. I think they were always doing their own thing to some extent. Always had slightly different instrumentation to contemporary bands etc. & always were pretty melancholy and intense.
The 1968 material has more overt soul/r'n'b influences in the keyboards than elsewhere. I still haven't really heard Aerosol Grey Machine so think I really need to remedy that before long. That material doesn't feature David Jackson the winds player who hasn't joined the band yet but is pretty prominent on later stuff. I think he plays the parts or at least in the range that one would expect guitar to play in more normally structured bands. Anyway pretty great stuff,
I haven't really heard covers of material by the band so not sure if this translates to more conventional instrumental lineups easily or not.
Am intrigued though.
THis has a load of versions of songs from the lps in possibly faster recorded versions. I think the process at the BBC was to go in and bash out songs pretty much live but in studio settings but could have that picture wrong. Versions here are pretty great anyway.
& Vedergerge are such a fine band. I'm glad to hear coherent grooves on songs that I had initially heard in less coherent ways on earlier cds. I did enjoy the improvement of the 2005 cd versions to the earlier cds I had. But will probably hear I'm missing something. Just seemed to be getting a more complete picture on them. These were alternative versions to the familiar ones anyway since they were recorded for BBC sessions. There was an earlier BBC session collection called Maida Vale after the BBC studio location that this expanded on but I think this is the most comprehensive they could get with surviving masters. There was an actual live set broadcast in I think 1971 that no longer survives in the archives that is missing but this fills 2cds with pretty classic material. I haven't listened to the 2nd disc in a while but think it should be great. Actually interesting to see how many tracks here are around the 10 minute or plus mark since I'm not sure how easy it is to fit a song that long into a scheduled 2 hour slot, on the other hand it stops you having to cue 2 or 3 more songs I guess.

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Visceral 1982 offering from the Australian band. I think I need to get hold of a remaster cos this is still the 1988 cd printing. Surprised by this still being the main cd version circulating and the remaster was the one done for Rollins label 21361 and then reused by 4AD for a cd taht came free with a vinyl release 12 years later. I'm wondering to what extent the sound picture fills out. It sounds from a podcast interview I heard with Mick Harvey recently as though he is pretty strict on things like how warm the bass sounds on remasters.
Anyway very diverse set of influences. I think the band was getting a reputation for playing blues which may be an element in here but I think is truer of the band Crime & The City Solution in its lineup featuring Rowland S Howard and his brother. Here it is mixed in with a lot of other things, Stooges worship, girl group pop, folk, rock'n'roll, various eras of jazz and whatever Phill Calvert had picked up beats from.
I have wondered recently what time signatures they are playing in for bits of this. Certainly seem to be more complex than the burning intensity and viscerality that hits you might suggest.
There is a story about the cover that turns up in Harvey's interview with Conan Neutron
https://open.spotify.com/episode/7an3th4mfoA3OMqfxH03E5?si=e306bd80e2d04537
unless its the Phill Calvert one i heard within a few days of it
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3Q47KbyasDP0cFv8XXLQdF?si=14f1815c3c004c19
surprised to hear they didn't like the lettering but maybe its not surprising. & I guess I saw the thing asa fait accompli which seems to have a really great synaesthetic relationship with the sound it contains.
So this is a classic recording which could do with a better release, would love to see it come out in a package like the recent Blixa Sounds Gun Club releases, this remastered with a live set from the time as a 2nd disc & expanded liners etc. I've recently been trying to remember what teh booklet that came with the Missing Link box set had in it since i haven't seen it in a couple of decades.
Finding some of the lyricism may be offputting for some. 6" Gold Blade has a backing which verges on pop, I think is based in girl group sounds but heavily amped up, but has a manic lyric about violently killing a girl which would seem problematic right now. It is a song which must have been weird at the time and i think the idea of actually writing things with some structure which one might then try to destroy thoroughly was pretty influential at the time. BUt the sentiment of teh songs is really problematic.
Anyway an lp I love but haven't listened to much recently. I think I must get a better version of it. Cos this stuff is so incredibly good.
Do wish I had got into listening to this 6 months earlier in my teens cos I might have got to see them a few times. I did get to see Nick Cave with the Cavemen in May 84 but the band had a different focus even if they were still playing a few songs written before they split.

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First disc of this set which is the band live in Germany in 1970 and is an expansion of an earlier release. Gets very noisy in places slivers of exquisite keyboard scrape among other textures.
Another set I bought a long time ago and haven't played ina while. I really enjoy this. Probably an era of the band i rate up with the 78-83 deep space funk thing I love though this is more abstract and less groove orientated.
I must have bought this around the time it was released which surprises me. I thought i had bought i earlier in the 90s when I was still based in Dublin,. Looks like the double cd expansion came out in 98 though.
I think I need to listen to the 2nd disc soon anyway which is supposed to be even spacier.
Big band playing discordantly while hitting some grooves but not as deep funk as my favourite period. Great anyway.l

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on the turntable
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in the car
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For a second I thought
FRANZ
LISZT
was going to be an ambient Tom-Tom Club side project.

Yesterday's listening was all prompted by current ILM threads. (This happens a lot, actually.)

Gene Ammons - Brother Jug
Miles Davis - The Man with The Horn
Zappa/Mothers - Uncle Meat

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compilation of pre garage r'n'r guitar by famous raw player. This is a lot of slightly lesser known late 50s/early 60s raunchy numbers put together by Sundazed around the turn of the millennium.
Great stuff and i think should be seen as an archetype for what r'n'r is supposed to be like. primitive, rocking tuneage. I do hear bits of this in later material I enjoy. Keep hearing some influence from this or possibly Davie Allen and the Arrows in the Marquee 84 Black Flag set so I wonder how intentional taht is. part of the melange there anyway. Scientists used to play his Rumble live when they were living in London. Very basic riffs rocked out totally so an influence on more minimal rock. Do love the corrosive guitar against piano or sax here.
Great set and not sure what other sets by him are necessary. The early 70s Shack recordings are also interesting but in a different direction.

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Kissing Spell release of early 70s recordings by Czech underground/psych band seems to have a pretty different tracklisting. Explores the influence of drones, atonality etc in a good way.
I have been neglecting this and shouldn't have been. Pretty great.
I saw a play in London's West End based on their story or at least heavily featuring them around 10 or 15 years ago which was pretty good.
Haven't really heard much of their work outside of this and may need to remedy that.
Has some similarities to things like Amon Duul II, possibly Velvets, Faust and a few others. Riffage is kind of chunky and amateurist.
Lyricism seems to be dadaist and intentionally amateurist too.
Not sure what label is best to pick the band up on either, may be something where money goes more directly to the band.

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a semi decent lp by the renamed Motown band followed by a more classic one. Love child has some really great tracks on it, A GoGo is an lp I should have discovered in my mid teens when I first had the record.
Anyway both seem to be of their time, just seems that Love Child may have had more filler on it than they had earlier in the decade.
The good tracks are pretty great though.
A Go-Go seems to be mainly covers including a Money that's several years after the original works kind of well at this point looking back not sure how anything like this would work at the time. Is it moving forward or looking back. Anyway I think it does hang together quite well as an lp and most of the songs are in decent versions. Also has them doing Lee Hazlewood's These Boots Are Made For Walking.
Another thing that's been sitting on a shelf for way too long and is worth a listen.
I think I may have not listened to it cos I wasn't happy about the politicking within the band and Florence Ballard should have been given more recognition of course.

I used to make mixtapes where i would put Link Wray up against Albert Ayler cos of simnilarities in execution. Starting from apparently familiar simple riffs and getting more frenzied I think I used to bung in some tracks from the canadian avant rock band Fat also because of teh way it sounds like the members of trios were circulating each other in the parts they played. Like you got the feel of something actually spinning in mutual orbit.
Wray seems to kep the same feel on tracks on this Sundazed compi while expanding the group to include a pianist or horn player.
But seems like things are frenziedly spinning around each other.
I think the first Thin Lizzy lp has some of the same feeling in places. There it feels like everybody is playing both lead and rhythm at the same time all the time. Not sure if it keeps the feeling on the next couple of Eric Bell lps. & after that they gain a member.

Fat Hit and Play For You have both been added to Spotify. Would be great if taht meant there was a cd of them around somewhere. I think both were just vinyl when released
https://open.spotify.com/album/2Yff3iRlJcQYO9s9vFSc5w?si=zN-gpeTeSgemXnPglAJxuQ

says it was added in 2015, so wonder if i just didn't look cos I assumed it was so obscure. Looks like it may have been reissued digitally then, do wonder if there was a cd at the time. Not seeing one listed on discogs.

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There are also a lot of good comments and links on the Link Wray and Plastic People threads, the latter recently updated.

About halfway through this (recent release) now, will try to say something adequate later maybe
Lee Scratch Perry: King Scratch---(Musical Masterpieces from the Upsetter Ark-ive)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0mC3F7XVUY

Short-ass trailer but gives a glimpse of the glint.

Here's a track from the comp I just heard, chorus vocal spiraling beauty through my skull w/o losing the point of commentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6iKdV6STK4

Also the way it builds while almost seeming to stay the same

Also never heard anything like this/never heard THIS before, amazing viibe:

Susan Cadogan: Hurt So Good (7" Mix)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHG8uxf6PZs

I'm listening to the 40-track edition on Spotify, also available as download elsewhere.

That Susan Cadogan album is gucking awesome. Nice n Easy is a big fave of mine

Sorry, meant to post that one! Not seeing it as one of the King Scratchofferings on YouTube, but here it is, provided to the 'Tube (by Trojan Records) way before this new comp came out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKv033dmXcE

At that point it was from another comp I'd like to hear

Provided to YouTube by Trojan Records

Do It Baby (aka Nice and Easy) (7" Mix) · Susan Cadogan

Lee ''Scratch'' Perry & Friends - The Black Ark Years (The Jamaican 7"s)

℗ 1974 Trojan Recordings Ltd., a BMG Company

Producer: Lee "Scratch" Perry

https://i.discogs.com/AmTEhSQQp9p1y_bps6zDeLmTMKDNPql_sZswmy0Tq7Y/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTIxMTMy/ODU5LTE2Mzg2MDA3/NDgtNjcxNS5qcGVn.jpeg