GENERAL: Currently Spinning

[Gee Emm]

Bob Dylan, Modern Times (2006)

This album is a creeper, the more you hear it, the more you like it.

ie if you like Bob.

Very rockabilly feel

[Gee Emm]

Lucinda Williams "West" (2007)

Interesting, not really Country at all.

Much more subtle, more mature.

It takes a cuppla listens. I'm likin'g it.

http://www.lucindawilliams.com/index2.php

[Casanova-OCAU-]

Phoenix - Too Young. One of the very few pop bands I like. Just something about them sounds 'right'. They've just got 'it'.

[davidsss]

Between the Buttons - Rolling Stones on original Decca vinyl. Nice grungy album.

LA Woman - The Doors, great album, it's been way too long.

DS

[Waylander]

Ah Ha Shake Heartbreak - Kings of Leon

Watch these guys they're becoming widely popular now.

Not one for people who try to make out all the lyrics though!

[Grumpy]

A pleasant afternoon of:

Xavier Rudd- 'Solace'.

Manfred Man- 'Best of'. some nice old blues mixed in with the hits. I really like Paul Jones' voice.

[Waylander]

I like Xavier Rudd's 'Solace'- but then again I'm a big fan of anyone I can readily go and see (Xavier is a Geelong boy and plays the surf coast pretty regularly)

[mickj1]

Manfred Man- 'Best of'. some nice old blues mixed in with the hits. I really like Paul Jones' voice.[/b]

Hi

His harp playing isn't to be sneered at either - the combination of his voice and harmonica on MM's Stormy Monday makes it one of the great British homages to American music (IMHO of course :wink:)

Cheers

Mick

[Grumpy]

That track is on this CD and yes! he does a mean Harmonica. When the original band split, some of the members formed a 'blues band' so I suppose blues was never far from their thoughts. In fact I think the band was called the Blues Band.

[kage]

anyone know of L~arc~en~Ciel ? they are great

[mickj1]

That track is on this CD and yes! he does a mean Harmonica. When the original band split, some of the members formed a 'blues band' so I suppose blues was never far from their thoughts. In fact I think the band was called the Blues Band.[/b]

Hi

Yes I bought their first LP -Official Blues Band Bootleg Album - and it's a corker, with some excellent tracks on it - it had Tom McGuinness from Mannfred Mann and Hughie Flint and a couple of others. It came out in about 1979 I think, so it was a while after Paul Jones had left MM - he went on to be in a disastrous/pretentious movie called Privilege I think and had a bit of a solo singing career before forming the Blues Band. Still one of the great British blues voices tho' - up there with Eric Burdon, Zoot Money and Georgie Fame -(Oh & M. Jagger I s'pose).

Cheers

Mick

[Grumpy]

Eric Burdon (one af my favourites from the 60's) and Georgie Fame I know.

Zoot Money??

Did you know Eric Burdon and the Animals played a festival in W.A. recentley?

[mickj1]

Eric Burdon (one af my favourites from the 60's) and Georgie Fame I know.

Zoot Money??

Did you know Eric Burdon and the Animals played a festival in W.A. recentley?[/b]

Hi

Zoot Money was a drinking mate of Burdon et al. He had a group called Zoot Money & the big roll band in the early 60's and did a lot of Ray Charles and James Brown covers - Their best known song was probably Big time operator which was a hit here for Jeff St John and the Id - I suspect the latter may have based their act on Zoot's band.

Yes EB also played down here in Tas and to my shame ( :wub: ) I didn't go, fearing he'd lost his voice (I wanted my memories intact!)- but I was talking to some people recently who did go and they said it was one of the best concerts they've been to .

Cheers

Mick

[Grumpy]

If you keep talking about 60's music I'll never get of this bloody computer.

This is the music of my youth and it is a passion of mine.

I'll talk all day, everyday about the 60's, but I'm sure others would find it boring.

I have that Jeff St John track on a compilation CD.

[Casanova-OCAU-]

Robbie Williams DVD. That guy has a phenomenal voice!

[davidsss]

Just picked up a few records at that shop in Chapel St Balaclava:

Chopin Piano Concerto No 2 - on Heliodor, made by Summit records in Australia. It states it is a 1963 recording originally by Deutsche Grammophon with Stefan Askenase on Piano with the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Leopold Ludwig. $1.99

Mozart: Eine Klein Nachtmusic, Deutsche Grammophon, Berlin Philharmonic, Karajan. $1.99

The Blue Danube: Walzes, Polkas, Other Works by J&J Strauss. Berlin Philharmonic with Karajan on, you guessed it, Deutsche Grammophon. $0.20

Cheap Music by any stretch of the imagination.

I've cleaned them up now I just need to listen to them.

DS

[mickj1]

Hi

I've just been listening to the CDs I mentioned on another thread - Billy Burnette's Memphis in Manhattan recorded on Chesky - it has some great retro rockabilly guitar playing on a few new and some old rock standards - as well as a Bob Dylan tune. - BB is the son of Dorsey Burnette who some (Grumpy?) may remember from the old rocknroll trio with his brother Johnny (who later had hits with dreamin', little boy sad, inter alia). Dorsey also had hits with Tall oak tree and Hey little one.

The other CD is a hybrid SACD by Sara K - Hell or high water - it's a pleasure to listen to on sound quality criteria but a bit dirgey and not what I'd listen to if I wanted to get my spirits lifted!

Cheers

Mick

[Ralph]

Just been revisiting Loreena McKennit's The mask and the Mirror, The Book of Secrets and An Ancient Muse.

RalphH

[Tony C]

Ralf, Great taste. Loreena Mckennett is very easy to listen to. Celtic style with a bit of medieval old world thrown in. Do you listen to things like Secret Garden as well?Tony C

[CAVX]

My MC collection is slowly growing and a recent addition was Linkin Park's Re-animation on DVD-A. I found this very different at first, and it is growing on me, but the GF hates it with a passion She even calls it "nasty music"...

Seal's Greatest Hits 1991 - 2004 on DVD-A is sweet and she approves of that though :wink: I think this has to be one of the best value for money packs too with both the studio and acoustic albums is hi-rez 5.1 surround + video clips (with DD5.1)...

Mark

[RichardN]

My MC collection is slowly growing and a recent addition was Linkin Park's Re-animation on DVD-A. I found this very different at first, and it is growing on me, but the GF hates it with a passion She even calls it "nasty music"...

Seal's Greatest Hits 1991 - 2004 on DVD-A is sweet and she approves of that though :wink: I think this has to be one of the best value for money packs too with both the studio and acoustic albums is hi-rez 5.1 surround + video clips (with DD5.1)...

Mark[/b]

Agree wholeheartedly on the Seal front although I have the red book version and it goes good to, getting a bit of a thrashing at the moment.

Will have to track down the DVD.

[Ralph]

Ralf, Great taste. Loreena Mckennett is very easy to listen to. Celtic style with a bit of medieval old world thrown in. Do you listen to things like Secret Garden as well?Tony C[/b]

I do have one of their Cds - will have to explore further. In a similar vein, I enjoy Eden's Bridge.

RalphH

[Gee Emm]

I spent last night sitting in the dark listening to "trouble and desire" by Doug de Vries & Andrew Pendlebury (all instrumental).

There were times when I actually thought I could see the musicians in the dark.

Great sounstage, very well recorded.

[Drizt]

I spent last night sitting in the dark listening to "trouble and desire" by Doug de Vries & Andrew Pendlebury (all instrumental).

There were times when I actually thought I could see the musicians in the dark.

Great sounstage, very well recorded.[/b]

Yeap, I throw that on occasionally, sounds great.

Thanks for introducing me to that one mate.

What in the system you are listening to them on again ?

[hired goon]

G'day,

Been a while since I dropped anchor in the CurrentlySpinning sea.

Hoist up the mizzenmast lately:

• Emiliana Torrini - "Fisherman's Wife" -- luverly little acoustic CD from Icelandic crooner and occasional Lord Of The Rings soundtrack peddler.
• Sonny Rollins - "Saxaphone Collosus" -- a hard-bop jazz classic, been a while since I listened to this but had it on high rotation lately. Hard to believe it was recorded over 50 years ago ...
• Jeff Pearce - "Lingering Light" -- veers a little close to New Age territory, but this is a nice collection of tracks played just on a Chapman stick (a kinda 10-string guitar thingy that is tapped rather than strummed). Nothing like the virtuosity on display on a Micheal Hedges CD, but lots of slow, spacious sounds.
• Joni Mitchell - "Both Sides Now" -- in which La Mitchell tries her hand as a jazz chanteuse. Mostly standards orchestrated inna Nelson Riddle stylee, although Joni classics "A Case Of You" and "Both Sides Now" are also given the crooner treatment.
• King Crimson - "Red" -- a little bit heavier than most KC releases. I love the title track and "Starless".
• Keith Jarrett - "Solo Concerts: Bremen & Lausanne" -- another "improvised solo piano" concert a la "Koln", but released a few years earlier and just as good IMHO (if not better).

Future cargo:

• Pink Martini - Hey Eugene! -- latest release from cosmopolitan collective, with tracks sung in French, Arabic, Japanese, Russian, Italian and some obscure tongue called English.
• Stars Of The Lid - ... And Their Refinement Of The Decline -- latest double CD of ambient-drone by this duo. It sounds like swelling strings, but is actually produced (mostly) by two guitars. Streaming sound samples here and here.

--Geoff