What are you listening to? (V)Music

[TB]

 

[Cap'n Jack]

Desaparecidos - Mañana

 

[UKMikey]

Two mid-period Floyd LPs: Atom Heart Mother and Meddle. I was going to give Ummagumma a go but even the band seem to hate that album.

 

[mellofello9]

 

[Populuxe]

A genuinely funny take on Christmas songs I’d never heard before.

The Twelve Days of Christmas Confusion - Angel City Chorale

 

[UKMikey]

Dutch band The Shocking Blue's second and third albums At Home and Scorpio's Dance.

 

[UKMikey]

Queen - It's A Hard Life. "I think we look more stupid in this video than any other artist has looked in a video" -- Roger Taylor


Also going to give their first two albums a try. It'd "take me all my time and money" to keep up with all the various reissues over the decades but I heard these 2011 40th Anniversary remasters are worth a listen.



[EDIT] Queen I was very good. II side one (or "Side White") was a bit boring but Side Black was more exciting, so I'm gonna plough on through and listen to their next four LPs too.

 

[Chris30]

George Micheal- Last Christmas

 

[UKMikey]

Colonel Abrams - Trapped. I loved Richard Burgess's bassline when I first heard this record in 1984. Then Stock Aitken & Waterman ripped it off for a far worse Rick Astley single and it was forever tainted by association. Pete Waterman said their song only took three minutes to write and they must have all been spent listening to this record.

Just kidding about the taint. I still think this is great. Not kidding about SAW though. They still suck.

 

[Chris30]

George Micheal- Careless Whisper

Are you guys a fan of his music? I can't believe it's been 9 years since he died.

 

[UKMikey]

Colourbox featuring Lorita Grahame - Baby I Love You So. New Musical Express gave this their Single Of The Week when it came out. Not hard to see why, as it's nearly as good as the original and made by white guys on Commodore 64s.

 

[UKMikey]

Christians - Harvest For The World. This Isley Brothers cover is also a Colourbox production and Aardman Animations worked on the video.

 

[Chris30]

Beach Boys- Kokomo

 

[Imbissbrunto]

Romance by Velvet, one of my favorite modern Shoegaze albums!

 

[UKMikey]

I finally opened up a new genre folder on my music drive.

Easy listening.

Inaugural entries are this themed pair from Bert Kaempfert & Sein Orchester from 1962 and 1977:

 

[Chris30]

Elvis Presley- Return To Sender; Heartbreak Hotel

 

[Populuxe]

I finally opened up a new genre folder on my music drive.

Easy listening.

Inaugural entries are this themed pair from Bert Kaempfert & Sein Orkester from 1962 and 1977:

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According to Barenaked Ladies “Bert Kaempfert's got the mad hits you try to match wits you try to hold me, but I bust through”

Where I grew up in a small suburb of Seattle, our town had its own radio station. KASY 1210 AM. It broadcast from 0600 to sunset every day except Christmas Day. My mom would have that station on all day as she did all the cooking and cleaning. I swear I heard that Bert Kaempfert song on it several times. In the ‘70s they switched from easy listening to more singer/songwriter music. In the ‘80s, the owner retired and sold the station to a group that made it the AM companion of an already existing Spanish-language FM station that catered to the large Mexican population out here.

 

[UKMikey]

According to Barenaked Ladies “Bert Kaempfert's got the mad hits you try to match wits you try to hold me, but I bust through”

Where I grew up in a small suburb of Seattle, our town had its own radio station. KASY 1210 AM. It broadcast from 0600 to sunset every day except Christmas Day. My mom would have that station on all day as she did all the cooking and cleaning. I swear I heard that Bert Kaempfert song on it several times. In the ‘70s they switched from easy listening to more singer/songwriter music. In the ‘80s, the owner retired and sold the station to a group that made it the AM companion of an already existing Spanish-language FM station that catered to the large Mexican population out here.

That's a great story.

Never undestimate the power of catchy. As a lover of reggae music, I'm a great fan of Lester Sterling's cover for Coxsone Dodd:

 

[Chris30]

What a blast from the past! One of my favorite video game series for battling/action.

 

[mellofello9]

Gives me chills every time the build blasts through. First time I've seen the live rendition:

 

[Chris30]

Prince- Question Of U

 

[Sprite]

 

[Chris30]

The Chordettes- Mr Sandman

 

[MIE1992]

 

[Jezza819]

 

[Chris30]

 

[Populuxe]

This is incredible. Lil Buck hip hop freestyles “The Swan” accompanied by Yo-Yo Ma.
Lil Buck and Yo-Yo Ma - The Swan

 

[TexRex]

Wrapping up King Crimson's Color Trilogy--so named because of the album cover colors: Discipline (red), Beat (blue), Three of a Perfect Pair (yellow)--featuring my favorite Crimson lineup of Adrian Belew, Robert Fripp, Tony Levin and Bill Bruford.

King Crimson - Sleepless


Will be diving into David Bowie's Berlin Trilogy--it was recorded in Berlin with Brian Eno and Tony Visconti--next with Low, Heroes and Lodger. If I'd been thinking ahead I would have started with Bowie because Lodger also features Adrian Belew, but I wasn't even planning on listening to the three Crimson records until halfway through the first.

 

[Chris30]

Ruelle- Game Of Survival

 

[UKMikey]

Ruts discography: