What are you listening to? July 2020

[Nickyboy]

Miguelito Valdes - Inolvidables (1968)

Cuban Jazz with a lot of punch. I can't help but picture Ricky Ricardo performing some of this on I Love Lucy. It just sounds so 1950s.

You are not far off. Valdes had a music career that preceded Ricardo and he was one of Cuba's most popular artists with his band El Sonoro de Mancenera. His biggest hit was "Babalu-aye", which Ricardo then took as his own "theme song". I haven't come across one Valdes album that didn't make me want to get up and dance.

 

[JazzyRandy]

Spyro Gyra - Alternating Currents (1985)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Fela Kuti & Roy Ayers - Music Of Many Colours (1980)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Arcade Fire - Neon Bible (2007)

 

[JazzyRandy]

Terence Blanchard - A Tale of God's Will: A Requiem For Katrina (2007)

 

[JazzyRandy]

Lee Morgan - Delightfulee Morgan (1967)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

OHHMS - Close (2020)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Dilly Dally - Heaven (2018)



This is like a cross between Belly and the Smashing Pumpkins, only grungier.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Motorpsycho - The Crucible (2019)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Fela Kuti - He Miss Road (1975)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Motorpsycho - The Tower (2017)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Soft Power - Bucolica (2019)



@axolotl

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Boris - NO (2020)

 

[JazzyRandy]

Miguel - War & Leisure (2017)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Ian McNabb - Head Like A Rock (1994)

 

[Nickyboy]

Ian McNabb - Head Like A Rock (1994)

"You Must be Prepared to Dream" is the most Neil Youngiest song that Neil Young never recorded. Working with Crazy Horse will do that, I suppose. I guess that's why this won a Mercury Award in '94.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

"You Must be Prepared to Dream" is the most Neil Youngiest song that Neil Young never recorded. Working with Crazy Horse will do that, I suppose. I guess that's why this won a Mercury Award in '94.

Yeah, I said to myself that this sounded like Crazy Horse, before I found out it was actually Crazy Horse.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Sly & Robbie & King Tubby - Meet King Tubby (1991)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

The Wailers (feat. U-Roy) - My Cup Runneth Over (2020)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Mekons - Exquisite (2020)



This is very, very good. Even more remarkable that it was recorded in quarantine using smartphones.

EXQUISITE, by Mekons

11 track album

mekorpse.bandcamp.com