What are you listening to? (V)Music 

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Filled up on more Roberta Flack FLACs as I promised to do above.

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And of course I can't listen to First Take's opener "Compared To What" without spinning up Les McCann, Eddie Harris and Benny Bailey's spirited reading of the song at the Montreux Jazz Festival on June 21, 1969.


(BTW lyrics like "The President, he's got his war/Folks don't know just what it's for" just sound soooo dated and out of place in 2026. Not... ;))
 
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Stevie Wonder- Superstition
 
The Rolling Stones just released this brand new banger 25 minutes ago. Can't believe they are still making music this good at their age; must've sold their souls to you know who, LOL!

 

I'm giving their first two albums a go. Unfortunately, according to Peter Beckett the second one drops the yacht rock angle for a harder edged sound so they could have some songs with which to support Eric Clapton on tour so I don't know whether I'll like it as much.

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J.C. Crowley looks hilarious on the debut cover. Were I into anonymised profile pictures I'd definitely consider using his.

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[EDIT] Added interview link.
 
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Popped further down the rabbit hole for Beckett's two albums with as bassist for short-lived progtastic band Paladin which (like Osibisa earlier) also employed the services of Roger Dean to design the artwork on their second and final release Charge!.

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Tonic - Thick


Quite the vocal hook that's been repeating through my head since my workout this morning.
 
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The Recess Monkeys - My Girl

 
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The Recess Monkeys - My Girl

I couldn't quite make out Rick's melody so I looked up the original by Chilliwack.

Beginning to think the Recess Monkeys' version is better.

 
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More Kurt Vile.

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An epic and fiery song for battle.
 
Nick Rattigan seems pretty good from the couple of seconds I sampled but he has a lot of albums which I have no time to catch up on at the moment. Emeka Oxbon's LP is sadly too rare to be available for streaming or download and I may make mp3s from the YouTube video. Project Blue sadly only release on vinyl which is a shame as that Teddy Robin & The Playboys opener sounds like a real banger.
 
Project Blue sadly only release on vinyl which is a shame as that Teddy Robin & The Playboys opener sounds like a real banger.
Fortunately I was able to locate this comprehensive 2008 compilation which covers all four of the Hong Kong garage rockers' releases 9n Diamond from 1967-1968.

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