What are you listening to? (V)Music 

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TexRex
Kevin Gilbert - Taxi Ride (Jane Siberry cover)


What a gorgeous tune. It's very Blue Nile. KG even sounds a bit like Buchanan when he gets up there. Closing in on 29 years since KG's death at age 29. Middle of next month, anyway.
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I remember him from your Toy Matinee posts. The guy who co-wrote most of Sheryl Crow's first album before she ditched him. Would like to hear Nuts, Bolts and The Shaming Of The True but he's hard to find on streaming services.

I'm still in a classic rock phase and am giving Mott The Hoople's breakthrough album All The Young Dudes a metaphorical spin. Bowie gave it a great production job. Probably gonna check out some of Ian Hunter's solo work with Mick Ronson next.

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UKMikey
I remember him from your Toy Matinee posts. The guy who co-wrote most of Sheryl Crow's first album before she ditched him. Would like to hear Nuts, Bolts and The Shaming Of The True but he's hard to find on streaming services.
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Yeah, there are a few individual tracks from those three here and there but nothing consistent. Sort of lucked out finding that one on Dailymotion and it could disappear.

Thud and No Reasons Given show up in their entirety on Spotify under KG as artist, and Toy Matinee is on there as well under Toy Matinee.

This one's on both the Gentle Giant tribute and Shaming, inspired by a GG track I posted just recently and very much in the theme of the latter album, being about an up-and-coming artist sort of overwhelmed by the vampirism of the industry.

Kevin Gilbert - Suit Fugue
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I still remember hearing about his death on the radio the following day. Toy Matinee had been and still is a firm anchor for my musical tastes.
UKMikey
I'm still in a classic rock phase and am giving Mott The Hoople's breakthrough album All The Young Dudes a metaphorical spin. Bowie gave it a great production job. Probably gonna check out some of Ian Hunter's solo work with Mick Ronson next.

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One of my favorites. Mick Ralphs took "Ready For Love" from that with him to Bad Company. I still hesitate to call Bad Company's version a cover given that the songwriter was a member of the band.
 
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TexRex
Kevin Gilbert - Taxi Ride (Jane Siberry cover)


What a gorgeous tune. It's very Blue Nile. KG even sounds a bit like Buchanan when he gets up there. Closing in on 29 years since KG's death at age 29. Middle of next month, anyway.
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I see what you mean by "It's very Blue Nile". He gives it that same emotional commitment and rawness as Paul Buchanan. I'm sorry to say I never really heard of Kevin Gilbert before now. It looks like I've got a new rabbit hole to dive into.
 
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Populuxe
I see what you mean by "It's very Blue Nile". He gives it that same emotional commitment and rawness as Paul Buchanan. I'm sorry to say I never really heard of Kevin Gilbert before now. It looks like I've got a new rabbit hole to dive into.
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I hope you have better luck than I did finding any of his stuff besides the three albums mentioned above.
 
I've loaded up a couple of Fauré recordings I've owned in various forms since 1988 (in the case of the Requiem) and 2010. The bonus sacred tracks are hearteasingly beautiful and thoroughly recommended by me.

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Back when Jeezy was in his prime. This album contains „Hustlaz Ambition“, which is by far my favorite song by him.

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One of my favorite albums ever. Always makes me feel nostalgic.
 
When you look like the Man and your rep on Earth just passed away



The biatch has a tight grip, of course
 
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Debut album by Glare, one of my favorite modern shoegaze bands. It‘s a great album to listen to on a nice, sunny spring day like today.

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Bankroll Fresh‘s debut album, another one of my all-time favorites. He was one of my favorite rappers and the production on this album is incredible as well. It really is a shame he was killed in 2016.
 
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Populuxe
I'm sorry to say I never really heard of Kevin Gilbert before now. It looks like I've got a new rabbit hole to dive into.
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Yeah he was kind of one of those session musicians who could play anything, write a tune (and boy could he) and put on a show but didn't find more than moderate chart success, his biggest being the eponymous Toy Matinee due in no small part to it having been produced by Bill Bottrell. I only really knew about him from that album until he died, but knew it well enough to know who he was when the news dropped. I knew about a live performance he'd done of Genesis' The Lamb in its entirety but you couldn't get it apart from bootlegged until 20 years later. He was actually picked to sing on what would become Genesis' Calling All Stations, and his manager couldn't reach him to let him know but then found his body. Then I think it was The LA Times that did a piece about him. He introduced Sheryl Crow, whom he'd been dating (after having dated Rosanna Arquette who appeared in a Toy Matinee video which was my introduction to the band, "The Ballad of Jenny Ledge"), to a group of musicians rounded up by Bottrell for jam sessions referred to as the Tuesday Night Music Club and launched her career by pushing her to sing with them. I think all the members in that group had worked with another previously in some capacity (for example Gilbert and Toy Matinee bandmate Brian MacLeod with David Baerwald on the latter's Triage produced by Bottrell, and Baerwald with David Ricketts making up David & David) and, after Crow left, were joined by The Bangles' Susanna Hoffs who just last year released an album from those sessions. It's actually funny because I knew of both Gilbert and Baerwald but didn't know they'd worked together until after Gilbert died.

Toy Matinee - Last Plane Out

Kevin Gilbert - Kashmir (Led Zeppelin cover)


I recommend listening to Toy Matinee all the way through, but do brace yourself for "There Was A Little Boy"--so, so good but a little rough.
 
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This and Carter III were Wayne in his prime, both are absolute classic albums. I still can‘t believe how hard he fell off after these releases. The production is flawless as well!
 
Kool And The Gang- "Fresh"

Always love that song by that band...

Wow, next year this thread will be 20 years old, my how time flies when you're having fun and listening to music.
 

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