What Are You Listening To Now ?

Deadman

mudslide73 said:

Deadman said:

Possibly the best XTC song ever produced? The best song to ever come out of Swindon? Definitely.
https://youtu.be/o1JZCCeVzn0

What a band @deadman - I'd maybe go for No Language in Our Lungs or That’s Really Super, Supergirl this week though.

Great choices mate. The lyrics blow me away on most of these tunes. Music is on another level.

joetele

A perfect, classic album. 

DonnyMac

The always incredible Darrell Scott 

Moominpapa

Tears For Fears - "Everybody Wants To Rule The World"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awoFZaSuko4

Boston - "More Than A Feeling"

what?  don't be a hater - surrender to the pure mid-70s stadium rock cheesy goodness

"I see my Marianne walkin' away"

http://https//www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufQUxoidxkM

 

26.2

This week so far

Radiohead - In Rainbows
Johnny Marr - Playland
Can - Rite Time
Dream Syndicate - Medicine Show and Out of The Grey
V/A - Take Me To The River (Stax and Southern Soul comp) 
Jimi Hendrix - BBC Sessions
Stereolab - Oscillons on the Anti-Sun box

Philly_Q

Golden Void - featuring Isaiah Mitchell of Earthless and (currently, though hopefully not permanently) The Black Crowes...

And now moving on to Ratcity in Blue by The Good Rats.

CHRISB50

Starting the day with my own 80s playlist...

How Soon Is Now? - The Smiths
The Whole of the Moon - The Waterboys
Birdhouse In Your Soul - They Might Be Giants
Girls On Film - Duran Duran
Once In a Lifetime - Talking Heads
Rock the Casbah - The Clash
Boy About Town - The Jam
Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division
Twist of Fate - Olivia Newton John
Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Tears for Fears
Hazy Shade of Winter - The Bangles
Don't You - Simple Minds
She Drives Me Crazy - Fine Young Cannibals
Mystify - INXS
Cuddly Toy - Roachford
All Night Long - Lionel Richie
Time After Time - Cyndi Lauper

Mattharrier

Screaming Trees - Sweet Oblivion. I wasn't into Screaming Trees back in the day; I heard Nearly Lost You on the Singles soundtrack, but nothing else, until about 5 or 6 years ago when I happened to think about them and decide to give them a listen.

Really bloody good. I'm surprised, listening to this album now, that they weren't more successful - I presume they got lost in the crowd at the time (Sweet Oblivion was released in 1992) grunge went mainstream, but they had support from Kurt Cobain and Chris Cornell, and had the exposure of the Singles soundtrack so the elements were there to become huge.

Mark Lanegan's recent death prompted me to give it another listen. At very high volume.

steven70

eoinzy

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TINMAN82

Dan Patlanskys new album is excellent.

EricTheWeary

I watched the Rick Beato interview with Al DiMeola and have been trying to listen to some of his choons. They are very not much me. However, as the only piece by Al that I could have previously named and the one that's seen as his rock anthem ladeez and gentlehumans I give you the quite awesome Race With the Devil on a Spanish Highway (headphones recommended)...




Anthony Jackson adding some serious welly on bass.  



 

Philly_Q

^  I've got an Ai Di Meola live album from the early '80s and a 2-CD Best Of.  I like them, but I think they probably cover all of his material that I'd like, I've no interest in his jazz or world music stuff.

Meanwhile I am listening to Uriah Heep.

EricTheWeary

Philly_Q said:

^  I've got an Ai Di Meola live album from the early '80s and a 2-CD Best Of.  I like them, but I think they probably cover all of his material that I'd like, I've no interest in his jazz or world music stuff.

Meanwhile I am listening to Uriah Heep.

Watching the interview with Beato he does have an amazing technique, he still remains enthusiastic for a wide range of music and seems like a nice, quite down to earth chap. For someone with a career in latin jazz fusion I think I expected someone with a few more airs and graces. But I have put on a few of the things that get mentioned and I'm finding it hard going beyond that brief more rock period.  

Philly_Q

Scorpions - Rock Believer

I thought the Scorpions were going to retire a few years ago, but they've carried on after all... and here we are with a new studio album. 

This time, thank god, they've only collaborated with the dreaded "outside songwriters" on two tracks.  And they've set out to make this album a rocker... to be honest, they struggle to escape from slightly corny, overly-poppy tunes and rarely deliver anything truly heavy.  But even on first listen it's hugely better than the last album.  And Matthias Jabs is on terrific form.

midiman1962

I listened to the second unreleased “Seahorses” album having watched James Hargreaves’s video on the band. A clash of styles with folky vocals fighting against a lot of loud guitar riffs.

26.2

Today:
New Johnny Marr - immense!
The Dream Syndicate - Out of The Grey
Wilco - Kicking Television (Live) 
Joni Mitchell - Blue

Mickeyji

Rickie Lee Jones - Pirates

EricTheWeary

Zodiac Toys. 

It’s the album by the chap from anyone can play guitar. Analogue synths, drum machines and edgy guitar. It’s a bit like a soundtrack from a forgotten 1970s movie or maybe The Cure go surfin. 

Grunfeld

Zodiac Toys

cos of @EricTheWeary up there.

And that short review was promising and pretty spot on.