Today, I have mostly been listening to ...

Bucket

Listened to a lot of ELO tonight. What a band.

I know it's a cliche to say this as it's the one everyone knows, but "Mr Blue Sky" really is a corker isn't it. My favourite, though, is "Sweet Talkin' Woman", which I first heard in the car at the age of about six or seven... or "Telephone Line", or "Livin' Thing". Brilliant.

Freebird

Bucket said:

Listened to a lot of ELO tonight. What a band.

I know it's a cliche to say this as it's the one everyone knows, but "Mr Blue Sky" really is a corker isn't it. My favourite, though, is "Sweet Talkin' Woman", which I first heard in the car at the age of about six or seven... or "Telephone Line", or "Livin' Thing". Brilliant.

richardhomer

^ There was a BBC4 documentary on about Jeff Lynne a couple of years ago. I was amazed by the guy's musicality. I was also amazed by his guitar collection...

For a man so gifted he came across as remarkably lacking in ego.

If you haven't seen it, I'm sure it'll be on YT - it's really worth seeing.

EricTheWeary

RocknRollDave

EricTheWeary said:

Is that your band, Eric......?

EricTheWeary

RocknRollDave said:

EricTheWeary said:

Is that your band, Eric......?

if only we were that good! I was looking for versions of this song ( Keith Richards one is good) and stumbled across this. At first you think it's going to be a car crash and then it's actually pretty good. Although what a worship band are doing playing that is beyond me. :o3

RocknRollDave

Maybe it's a rastafarian church..?

EricTheWeary

It has a loosely anti religious sentiment so in any church it would seem surprising, and I'm not 100% convinced any of those are rastas.

freakboy1610

This last week or two I have been loving the new LP by Cracker, Berkeley to Bakersfield. They rose, phoenix like, from the ashes of Camper Van Beethoven (another firm favourite) in the early 90's and have put out some great LP's somewhat sporadically ever since. I saw them in 93 (or possibly 94?) at the Camden Underworld when their classic album Kerosene Hat was out. At that point the recently ex-Pixie David Lovering was on drums. Anyway this new record is a double album. Disc 1 was recorded by the original lineup, recording together for the first time in 20 years. Disc 2 reflects the more country side of the band and features the new lineup, David Lowery and Johnny Hickman being the only constant members. Well worth £12!

not_the_dj

Nice one /\ @freakboy1610

I saw them open for Counting Crows in Wolverhampton when Kerosene Hat came out, still play that album pretty regularly.

JAYJO

freakboy1610 said:

This last week or two I have been loving the new LP by Cracker, Berkeley to Bakersfield. They rose, phoenix like, from the ashes of Camper Van Beethoven (another firm favourite) in the early 90's and have put out some great LP's somewhat sporadically ever since. I saw them in 93 (or possibly 94?) at the Camden Underworld when their classic album Kerosene Hat was out. At that point the recently ex-Pixie David Lovering was on drums. Anyway this new record is a double album. Disc 1 was recorded by the original lineup, recording together for the first time in 20 years. Disc 2 reflects the more country side of the band and features the new lineup, David Lowery and Johnny Hickman being the only constant members. Well worth £12!

Enjoyed that cheers, reminds me of  The Travelling Wilburys.

Lev

I have recently fallen under the 'Big Wreck' spell, can't stop listening to them

robwright

Luke Jackson - Misspent History (and he is only 19!!!! The bastard!!!!)

d8m

Hootsmon

steven wilsons...the raven that widnae sing for nae c*nt.....I think it's called

ThePrettyDamned

John Fru binge. 

bingefeller

This amazing Taylor Swift acoustic mash up.  It's very cleverly done:

Nunogilberto

Yesterday I had the first Queen and Paul Rodgers live album on in the car. I saw them live on that tour and bought the album at the time. Now that the dust has settled and the years have passed, I think he was largely unsuited to Queen, despite sounding decent on one or two songs...

Grunfeld

@d8m ; Metric have done some great songs.  That's one of them.  Really like this one too cos I love guitar playing which does this sort of thing:
Metric, "Breathing Underwater"   PS Anyone have any idea what guitar he's playing?

bingefeller

Charlie Sexton  - Beat's So Lonely.  His voice is really incredible, especially considering he was 16 / 17 when he sang this: