What are you listening to? April 2025

[Unsomnambulist]

Nothing Thrives - Tales Of Disgrace (2024)

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Arrested Development - 3 Years, 5 Months and 2 Days in the Life of... (1992)

 

[Ojai Sam]

Connie Smith - Just For What I Am (Bear Family 2012)

Over the past few months, I've been enjoying Connie's RCA Victor albums as Vinyl Spins of the Day. She recorded for Nipper between 1964 and 1972, notching more than two dozen charting singles and as many albums. The string came to an end with If It Ain't Love and Other Great Dallas Frazier Songs, recorded over in four sessions during April 1972.

Connie would move to Columbia the following January, but before departing she produced another album worth of material in November which Victor never released. The songs were typical for Smith during this phase of her career: covers, gospel, and three by old friend Dallas Frazier. One of them, "Dream Painter", actually charted as a single and did as well as her first Columbia 45. Had this album been released, it would have held its own against her best work on RCA.

We are fortunate that Bear Family collected all of Connie's RCA material in two boxes, including every unreleased song and foreign language version. The second box ends with her long lost work from the fall of 1972, a suitable finale to the most successful period of her long recording career which is still ongoing.

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Blur - Think Tank (2003)

 

[Ojai Sam]

George Strait - Livin' It Up (1990)

Vinyl Spin of the Day.

My, how times have changed. I bought a promo copy of this LP new when it came out. It was cheaper than the CD and I was still buying a lot of vinyl. Today, the CD sells for less than a buck on Discogs. There are 30 copies of the LP available. The price? $37.00 to $105.95.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

The Hard Quartet - s/t (2024)

 

[axolotl]

I am on a new personal laptop. I no longer have my log-in information with RYM.

I will need to find new ways to report what I am listening to, at least until I can figure things out.

At the end of last week and into this week, I listened to the following:


At Swim Two Birds ~ Returning to the Scene of the Crime... (2007)




Ultra Dolphins ~ Mar (2006)

ULTRA DOLPHINS - Mar, by ULTRA DOLPHINS

12 track album

roboticempire.bandcamp.com

Sunset Rubdown ~ Dragonslayer (2009)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

I am on a new personal laptop. I no longer have my log-in information with RYM.

I will need to find new ways to report what I am listening to, at least until I can figure things out.

At the end of last week and into this week, I listened to the following:


At Swim Two Birds ~ Returning to the Scene of the Crime... (2007)

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Ultra Dolphins ~ Mar (2006)

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ULTRA DOLPHINS - Mar, by ULTRA DOLPHINS

12 track album

roboticempire.bandcamp.com

Sunset Rubdown ~ Dragonslayer (2009)

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Just go to login on RYM, provide your email and then click "I forgot my password" so they can send you a reset link.

 

[axolotl]

Just go to login on RYM, provide your email and then click "I forgot my password" so they can send you a reset link.

While this may work for some, I am registered via my company computer, which I no longer have.

Thus, RYM would end up sending a reset link to an email address that is not mine any longer.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

The Effigies - For Ever Grounded (1984)

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Shabazz Palaces - Black Up (2011)

 

[Ojai Sam]

The Rolling Stones - Singles 1963-1965 (Abkco comp. 2004)

Clever idea, this: a 5" by 5" box holding a dozen CD's which replicate the first nine Stones singles plus 3 EP's, all in facsimiles of the original sleeves. I have the actual singles but bought this to get the original Got Live If You Want It! EP. However I found myself waxing more enthusiastic about the concept as I went along, with the color booklet a nice bonus.

 

[axolotl]

You wax enthusiastic about CDs?

 

[axolotl]

RighteousGIRLS ~ gathering blue (2015)

gathering blue, by RighteousGIRLS

13 track album

newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com

gathering blue is the debut album by contemporary music duo RighteousGIRLS (flutist Gina Izzo and pianist Erika Dohi). RighteousGIRLS champions work at the intersection of contemporary classical music and avant-garde jazz, as part of a growing movement to evolve beyond conventional genre boundaries. A highlight is Vijay Iyer's Accumulated Gestures, in a trio setting with Iyer's drummer, Justin Brown. Other guest composer/performers include rising trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire and steel pan player Andy Akiho. Award-winning producer Pascal LeBoeuf contributes the quasi-title track “GIRLS” and a series of interludes throughout. Works by Randy Woolf, Christian Carey, Dave Molk, Mike Perdue, and Jonathan Ragonese round out this provocative release of premiere recordings, all written for RighteousGIRLS.

 

[Nickyboy]

You wax enthusiastic about CDs?

Don't wane on his parade.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Crocodiles - Summer Of Hate (2009)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Momma - Welcome To My Blue Sky (2025)



This has an overwhelming commercial sensibility. It's also really damn good.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Black Country, New Road - Forever Howlong (2025)



NPR music.

 

[axolotl]

Maria Chiara Argirò ~ Forest City (2022)

Forest City, by Maria Chiara Argirò

9 track album

mariachiaramusic.bandcamp.com

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Night Beats - Who Sold My Generation (2016)