Today, I have mostly been listening to ...

Bucket

This tune again.

Lovely chords, lovely melodies, absolutely lush production with the most beautiful sounding strings... and then this:

"Sometimes at night the darkness and silence weighs on me.

Peace frightens me, perhaps I fear it most of all.

I feel it's only a façade, hiding the face of hell.

I think of what's in store for my children tomorrow.

"The world will be wonderful", they say, but from whose viewpoint?

We need to live in a state of suspended animation, like a work of art.

In a state of enchantment. Detached.

Detached."

Partly the words and partly the context and delivery, but that bit sends all manner of shivers down my spine.

JAYJO

bingefeller said:

Some guy in a chatroom linked me to this:

  I can just hear teenage kicks running through the verse. Probably just me, i do like it though.

Octahedron

New Scorpions album (probably gonna be their last)?

Octahedron

Bucket;523864" said:

I've just got "The Kindness of Strangers" by Spock's Beard... stupid band name but fuck me, they're good. Why's it taken me this long to check them out? This album is brilliant from start to finish.

I have Octane, and Brief Nocturns... (Latest album)! Both cracking. Good old Spock! (RIP Leonard Nimoy)

Cacofonix

http://thetuts.bandcamp.com/album/time-to-move-on

Nunogilberto

UFO - Strangers in the night.

Fazer4

Nunogilberto said:

UFO - Strangers in the night.

One of my all time favourites. The solo on Rock Bottom is just so listenable, and the way it sits against Paul Raymond's keyboards. Truly classic stuff, timeless.

Been listening to a lot of Tracer lately. Seems to me a Telecaster is a slightly unusual choice for a heavy rock band in the classic style, but I like the tone he's getting.

Also starting to hear some of the latest effort from The Hoax in my MP3 mix, and liking it.

EricTheWeary

Cacofonix said:

http://thetuts.bandcamp.com/album/time-to-move-on

I'll have to have a listen. They've been supporting the Selecter and keep appearing in my facebook newsfeed wearing slightly saucy outfits. Apart from being guitar-bass-drums no idea what they sound like yet!

richh

Ludovico Einaudi, Rammstein and various old jump blues stuff...

Not necessarily what I'd ever play on guitar, apart from the jump bluesy stuff.  Don't know about you folks, but it depends very much on my mood.

ToneControl

Buckethead and Physical graffiti remastered

Cacofonix

EricTheWeary said:

Cacofonix said:

http://thetuts.bandcamp.com/album/time-to-move-on

I'll have to have a listen. They've been supporting the Selecter and keep appearing in my facebook newsfeed wearing slightly saucy outfits. Apart from being guitar-bass-drums no idea what they sound like yet!

Great pop punk numbers.  Grungy guitars with pure lyrics.  Refreshing.  It's the selecter feed that put me wise to them.

Cacofonix

double post

ICBM

Bellowhead

Got the most recent album 'Revival', which is very good, up there with Hedonism although not as great as Broadside which remains their best.

If you don't like folk music you may want to avoid them, but on the other hand they're not really folky, even though all the music is traditionally-based, if that makes sense. Well worth a listen if you're at all interested.

They're touring in April, but not playing in Scotland, which is slightly annoying!

'Roll The Woodpile Down' from Broadside

Budgie

Gonna go tmesis mad and say this is abso-feckin-lutely ace... I do like a bit of Sleaford Mods

Paul_C

I've recently been listening to lots and lots of The Decemberists stuff, but today the postie delivered the most recent (2014) Nickel Creek album A Dotted Line.

here are four of the songs played live

koneguitarist

Saw them live at the Fleece in Bristol some years back.... Awesome. If you like them you may like these, playing them on my show this week.

mudslide73

Allman Brothers Band - The Fillmore Concerts. Some lovely stuff - Dickey and Duane in full effect.

Fazer4

Today, I splashed out on a sh*tload of new music; well, I say new, some of it has been around for a while, but I never got around to listening to it, and some I've never heard of.

In the first category:

Steve Vai, Passion & Warfare

Danny Gatton, Unfinished Business

Jeff Beck, Live in Tokyo

Ronnie Earl, Just For Today (Language of the Soul is one of my all-time favourites)

Robin Trower, Go My Way (got the usual best of)

In the latter category:

Paul Gilbert, Fuzz Universe

Erik Mongrain, Fates

Phil Keaggy, 220, and Freehand; Acoustic Sketches II

David Grissom, 10,000ft, and Loud Music

What is this funny piece of wood and wires in my hands? Play it, me? No, no idea how to use it!

   

howard_moon

The joy that is Rory Gallagher started with 1st album then working my way through.

Fazer4

A selection of Rory is always on my playlists