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#276295 - 15/05/10 01:19 AM
Re: What are you listening to right now?
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The Eggman
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Roll Away by Back Door Slam. I was given this a while ago but haven't really listened to it properly until just lately. It doesn't set the world alight but it's solid blues-rock and sometimes that's all you need.
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#276322 - 17/05/10 07:09 AM
Re: What are you listening to right now?
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english_bob
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Today I've been messing with my brain with this:
Miles Davis' "electric period" music isn't easy listening, but it's amazing. Heavily influenced by the likes of Hendrix and Sly Stone, it's got dirty funk grooves and lots and lots of guitar (including fantastic funky, Hendrix-influenced playing by John McLaughlin, although not on "Dark Magus", who I'd previously written off as a head-up-@rse fusion noodler). Couple that with the jazzy harmonic complexity of the earlier stuff or the "all the instruments are either a drum or a noise and everybody gets a wah-wah pedal" style of the later recordings and it makes for music that'll make your head nod, even while it's exploding.
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#276352 - 18/05/10 01:17 AM
Re: What are you listening to right now?
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The Eggman
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Miles Davis was a genius and one of my all-time favourites. My love of the guitar in all its forms inevitably led me, via John McLaughlin, to Miles and, inspired by the choice of Dark Magus above I shall be playing this today. This was my introduction and it remains one of my top 10 favourite albums:
Incidentally Bob, I've not come across Dark Magus before. I have On The Corner, which is pretty funky but that's a new one on me. Is it a re-issue or something?
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#276412 - 19/05/10 07:44 AM
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english_bob
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Today I'm having a Radiohead marathon:
...and if you ask me, they've come a long way since "OK Computer" - most of that distance in the direction of "up their own @rseholes". When was the last time they wrote a really great song that was memorable for being a song, not a collection of cool weird noises obscuring the incomprehensible lyrics?
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#276416 - 19/05/10 08:55 AM
Re: What are you listening to right now?
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stickyfiddle
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When was the last time they wrote a really great song that was memorable for being a song, not a collection of cool weird noises obscuring the incomprehensible lyrics?
There there is great. and Nude on InRainbows, tho that was written in 1996...
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#276419 - 19/05/10 09:04 AM
Re: What are you listening to right now?
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english_bob
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There There is a great song. Not sure about the other two, although I found myself thinking that In Rainbows was a step in the direction of tunefulness and lyrics with sentences.
Just found out that there's a new LCD Soundsystem album out- might have to get my hands on that...
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#276451 - 21/05/10 02:32 AM
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english_bob
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Today I'm listening to my swapsies from Not the DJ:
How many albums can you name where you get to track 7 before you hear a song that's not at least a minor classic?
You owe it to yourself to check out John Martyn, and this isn't a bad place to start, it turns out. Odd, effected guitar tones, distinctive foghorn-saxophone-drunk tramp voice, influences from all over the map- folk, reggae, jazz, funk, world music...
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#276487 - 23/05/10 05:00 AM
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The Eggman
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At last a sunny weekend!
A barbecue, some refreshing drinks and something latin and rhythmic is the order of the day. Something along these lines:
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