At the end of the Ed Harris film Pollock (about the "Blue Poles" painter), the music over the titles is Tom Waits' "The World Keeps Turning". Had to get a copy as soon as I could so I downloaded an MP3 from the internet and I love it. Bought a couple of Tom Waits CD's but haven't taken the time to get into them yet....didn't find this track on any in stock locally.

Usual reaction to "TWKT" from other people is along the lines of "Tony, that's awful!!" Mrs M admits it's grown on her.

Definitely one of my favourite tracks.

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I expected to get a "Adrian - what is this $#%&?" from my better half but she actually enjoyed it. His voice does have a certain charm - but like I said, he's not for everyone.

In recent rotation for me have been:

Phil Collins 'Face Value' - Pulled this out over the weekend and 'rediscovered' it. The sound quality was the big surprise and I had forgotten how good the music was;

JJ Cale & Eric Clapton - 'Road to Escondido' - Easy listening & accessible stuff if not too exciting nor particularly well recorded to my ears;

Bebel Gilberto 'Self Titled (I think)' - Quite enjoying it. A bit like Sade on valium in places but a useful Latin alternative to some of the straight female balladeers.

Must admit to listening to the 12th Man in the car..........

Wadiaman

Found this lately:

Phil Spector - Echoes of the 60s

That Righteous Brothers version of You've Lost that Loving Feeling is positively haunting. Nice little sampler this album. Still have some more vinyl to play which I have bought recently, managed to find a mono Beatles for Sale - it's a new pressing but will be interesting in mono.

DS

G'day,

Anyway, I think everyone should have at least one example of every music genre (except maybe rap :biggrin: ) in their collection. This can be my token ambient disc.[/b]

I would say that Sinking Of The Titanic is more in a Riechian minimalist style, but I guess it can work as ambient.

I'm really enjoying the Tom Waits cd. I first heard it at the Osborn GTG and it is great. Tom Waits isn't for everyone though.[/b]

I've played Tom Waits' The Heart Of Saturday Night just this weekend -- his voice is not so growly on this earlier release.

Haven't had a chance to listen to the others in any detail yet (that's why they are 'currently spinning') [/b]

I found that the Echoes compilation is not so great -- songs out of their context seem odd, and the edited version of the song Echoes itself is sacrilege. And are there even any tracks from Animals? Hurrumph.

--Geoff

Chris Rea - platinum collection. picked this up for $9:95

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I can't stop playing this disc. I just finnished playing it again and the missus has asked for it to be played again. WOW! that dosen't happen often.

It really is that good.

I don't have a good track record of others liking my music recommendations but I thought I'd press on anyway.

In my new found interest in listening to music due to the system upgrade I find myself

enjoying "Kurt Elling". (one of the few previous success' in others actually liking my recs.)

A male jazz singer. Chicago based. His a little quirky, does a lot of scatting and improvisation.

I find his early stuff best.

Close your eyes*

This time it's Love.

The Messenger.

Live in Chicago

From Allmusic.com re "Close your eyes"

For his debut recording, Chicago vocalist Elling pushes the envelope, challenging listeners and his musicians with beat poetry, ranting, and his Mark Murphy-ish singing. There's quite a bit of dramatist/actor in Elling, although the romantic in him is also pretty prevalent. Acting much like a tenor saxophonist, Elling can wail and shout, expound on social themes, and scat like a demon. Help from the extraordinary pianist Laurence Hobgood, bassists Eric Hochberg and Rob Amster, and drummer Paul Wertico inspires Elling to even higher plateaus, while tenor saxophone foils Ed Peterson and Von Freeman appear separately on three of the 13 tracks.

Cheers

Body and Soul by Joe Jackson on vinyl. This is a wonderful record and so well recorded.

Vivaldi Four Seasons. Spun this the other day, it's a Deutsche Grammaphone (excuse my spelling) but I had an earlier version years ago which was better, although this is good.

U2 Vertigo Live in Chicago DVD - I like concert footage. City of Blinding Lights is such a good opening song to a concert.

Safe as Milk Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band. Gotta love the Beefheart, this is a great album along with Strictly Personal. Must listen to Trout again soon.

DS

ok not currently spinning, but watchign the schools spectacular on ch2. And there is a 'Julie Goodwin' young operatic singer and boy what a voice what the hell is she doing on a schools spectacular. She jsut finished doing antoehr song, quite amazing. Destined for great things I'd say hopefulyl snapped up by the state opera or whatever. The quality overall of all the performamces are quite amazign really.

ok not currently spinning, but watchign the schools spectacular on ch2. And there is a 'Julie Goodwin' young operatic singer and boy what a voice what the hell is she doing on a schools spectacular. She jsut finished doing antoehr song, quite amazing. Destined for great things I'd say hopefulyl snapped up by the state opera or whatever. The quality overall of all the performamces are quite amazign really.

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lol, im watching that as well - hard to believe (in some cases) they are just school kids!

lol, im watching that as well - hard to believe (in some cases) they are just school kids!

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hehehe watchign a rod stewart concert now, boy hes a top act even though an old codger ! hehe

nice bit of viewing on the abc this afternoon

I was a huge fan of Mr Stewart in the early 70's when he was with the Faces. The album "A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse" is still played regularly at my place. Watched a doco on Ronnie Woods (the Faces and the Rolling Stones) the other night for the second time; that is about his painting, which he does very well and Rod and He were reminiscing about the old days of the mentioned groups, as well as Jeff Beck, Dylan, Drugs, Alcohol, etc . Very interesting indeed, and a great artist to boot. anyone else catch it?

I was a huge fan of Mr Stewart in the early 70's when he was with the Faces. The album "A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse" is still played regularly at my place. Watched a doco on Ronnie Woods (the Faces and the Rolling Stones) the other night for the second time; that is about his painting, which he does very well and Rod and He were reminiscing about the old days of the mentioned groups, as well as Jeff Beck, Dylan, Drugs, Alcohol, etc . Very interesting indeed, and a great artist to boot. anyone else catch it?

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yes the caught the ronnie woods doco, very interesting insight indeed. great concert this one they broadcast on abc today. ended up putting a bid on the dvd on ebay. well weorth getting I think. nice afternoon of music on the abc today. finsihed up by watching jimmy cliff at womad. very relaxign afternoon, nice to be in watching with it drizzly outside.

Sounds wonderfull. Glad you enjoyed your day and the drizzle.

Was the R.S. concert of his hits or the new Swing stuff he's into, along with many others?

G'day,

Revisted on auld friend today: Allman Brothers Band - Live At Fillmore East, a classic live album from 1971 or so. A few shorter bluesy numbers to start with, but then it's straight into extended jams with wailing guitar solos aplenty.

I've got the extended remastered edition which adds some some standard bluesy rockers, but also includes the excellent 33min Mountain Jam that originally appeared on another album. Other highlights include the 13min instrumental In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed, and 23min Whipping Post.

If yer into rockin' blues with plenty o' duelling twin lead guitars, then check it out.

--Geoff

Sounds wonderfull. Glad you enjoyed your day and the drizzle.

Was the R.S. concert of his hits or the new Swing stuff he's into, along with many others?

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was a whole mix of stuff grumpy

heres a track listing

http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/movie/...+Night+Only.htm

Tracks:

1. You Wear It Well

2. Some Guys Have All The Luck/Addicted To Love

3. Handbags And Gladrags

4. Reason to Beleieve

5. Stay With Me

6. Rhythm of My Heart

7. Hot Legs

8. First Cut is the Deepest

9. You're In My Heart

10. They Can't Take That Away From Me

11. Blue Moon

12. What A Wonderful World

13. As Time Goes By

14. For Sentimental Reasons

15. I Don't Want To Talk About It

16. Maggie May/Gasoline Alley

17. Sailing

plenty of old standards there...

I'm currently listening to:

Joe Hisaishi's composition of Princess Mononoke OST.

If you ever get a chance to listen to this CD, you may also like his work on the OSTs for Spirited Away, Castle In The Sky, and Howl's Moving Castle.

I'm also listening to:

Air - Moon Safari

N.E.R.D. - In Search Of...

N.E.R.D. - Fly Or Die

St. Germain - Tourist

Outkast - Speakerboxxx - The Love Below

not spinning again.

but guys there is a great special going on the abc about nick cave. nice music and great insight to the man

This is a great album called Sisters & Brothers. It’s a bit of a mixed bag with some gospel and some blues mixed. Any Eric Bibb fans should take an instant liking to this album.

Really enjoying Eric Bibb so will have to source this one.

Cheers

Guys some disks of Terry's that I was very impressed by:

The National - Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers

http://www.jbhifionline.com.au/music/id/63947

Sol Seppy - Terry thinks this one needs a few plays but it was nice from the get go for me (not sure which album he played)

http://www.solseppy.com/

And the one that he said everyone liked - Semifinalists with their self titled album. This one is a great disk, an odyssey in music.

http://www.amazon.com/Semifinalists/dp/B000E5KJT8

thanks for posting Rod, they'll be ones I'll try and seek out. very unfortunately terry left all his discs back at norpus' when he came over to my place so only got to listen to hte one CD he brought me which I did like quite a few tracks on. So keen to check these out

Here's something out of left field. Not quite as old as the composers Amfibius listens to but definitely antique, if not classical. These songs were written by one writer more than 150 years ago.

A few people have reviewed this album suggesting Stephen Foster's songs have been mutilated. I believe that they have, almost without exception, been interpreted with love and respect by Paul Maro, Yo Yo Ma, Alison kraus, The Duhks, John Prine, Beth Neilson Chapman, Mavis staples and many others.

I'm amazed to realise that this is an album I bought on impuse about 12 months ago and played once before consigning it to the back of the CD cupboard. I now consider it beautifully recorded and genuinely inspiring, uplifting and it just gets more enjoyable with every listen. Mavis Staples version of "Hard Times Come Again No More" is somewhat reminiscent of a track I loved in the 70's....Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway doing "Come ye Disconsolate" - very black, bluesy and extremely melodic and tuneful at the same time.....real feeling music. If it doesn't reach out and grab you by the emotions, you're probably dead!

Anyway, I reckon it's well worth a listen

http://www.amazon.com/Beautiful-Dreamer-So...r/dp/B0002M64Z6

Another one that's getting more than it's share of playtime on my Cd player lately is Mary Gauthier's "Mercy Now" Full of feeling and poetry and a little reminiscent of the spirit of Dylan at his earliest best.

Here's a link to the website, which has more info than I can convey.

http://www.marygauthier.com/

Cheers

Tony

Patty Larkin - Perishable Fruit, Billie Holliday - Songs for distingue lovers, Los Lobos - Neighbourhood, Ry Cooder - Borderline(LP) all seem to be getting a workout here.

Made some new purchases and this is the new 'currently spinning' line-up:

The Audreys - "Between Last Night and Us" - awesome band from SA. They sound a little 'folkie' but some really good easy listening on this album. Track 1 - "You & Steve McQueen" is a real stand out for me!

Bob Evans - "Suburban Songbook" - just listened to him at the Big Day Out and went out and got his album. I was impressed. If he sounds familar it's because he is the frontman for WA act Jebediah (although a little less nasal on this album). Also a little more 'folkie' than my usual tastes - but what can I say, I'm a sucker for a little bit of blues harp in any song.

Snow Patrol - "Eye's Open" and "Final Straw" - I heard a few of their songs on the hottest 100 and wondered why I didn't own any of their stuff. So now I do. Loving them.

Alex Lloyd - "Watching Angels Mend" and "Black the Sun" - I've always liked Lloydeee but never bothered to buy his albums. But for $10 each - those stickers should say "Buy me now - YOU're cheap!". I can't resist a bargain!

The Songs of Tim & Niel Finn - "She will have her way" - great compilation of some of Australia's better female vocalists covering Tim & Niel Finn's songs. What makes it great is the quality of song writing and the (at times) beautiful vocals.

Sorry for the double post - I ran out of room (i think)

INXS - Switch - I like old INXS. Haven't heard enough of new INXS to comment. A few weeks in the car and I'll let you know what I think.

PJ Harvey - "Stories from the city, stories from the sea" - I had this album a fair few moons ago, but a flatmate moved out, and so too did my PJ Harvey album. Saw it cheap and grabbed it. I only really got it for "This mess we're in" - duet with Thom Yorke (did I mention I'm a radiohead fan!!!)

That should keep me busy for a week or two.

Next albums on the Horizon are Goyte's album and Angus and Julia Stones (only got an EP at the moment).