Zeeba Neighba
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Radiohead - In Rainbows (2007)
What Are You Listening To? August 2019
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Old Uncle Toe
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Radiohead - Ok Computer
Old Uncle Toe
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Pink Floyd - Wish I Was Here (1975)
While DSOTM is great, that one's actually my favorite Pink Floyd album, no matter what you title it. A rose is still a rose...
Old Uncle Toe
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Various Artists - Chicago/The Blues/Today!
A cross section of the artists on the Chicago blues scene in the mid '60's. Surprisingly decent fidelity. Even in my crappy computer speakers you can hear the bass guitar.
A cross section of the artists on the Chicago blues scene in the mid '60's. Surprisingly decent fidelity. Even in my crappy computer speakers you can hear the bass guitar.
axolotl
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Lady's got a voice!Cecile McLorin Salvant - For One To Love (2015)
Ojai Sam
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Cat Power - Moon Pix (1998)
flisten
Each Sunday, Pitchfork sends me and a few million of my closest friends a review of one album of lasting significance. Since my sheltered life hasn't exposed me to most of these gems, I've been listening and learning for a few weeks now. Some are not on Spotify but here's my playlist of the ones that are:
Pitchfork sez:
Moon Pix has a wonderful origin tale, one simply too good to miss an opportunity to retell: Chan Marshall was living in a barn with singer-songwriter Bill Callahan in a South Carolina town called Prosperity, on the brink of saying goodbye to music forever—or so she told scores of eager interviewers—when she woke up from a horrible nightmare. “Hell came to get me again,” she told The Fader, attempting to describe the mortal panic in which she awoke. She wrote the songs that night, with visions of spirits pressing the glass. Voilà: Her very own crossroads.
This is the kind of myth that music fans cling to make their treasured albums seem more magical, and sometimes we can use these tales to terrorize their teller. When Moon Pix came out in 1998, the fevered hush of possessive adoration surrounding Chan Marshall was at its peak: This was the era of shows stopping and starting, of her faltering voice and mid-song apologies, of breathless reports of said interruptions showing up in the music press, as if Marshall were a consumptive 19th-century heroine. For her most avid listeners, this was the moment when Chan Marshall’s life and Cat Power’s music swirled together most hypnotically, most dangerously, when one threatened to consume the other.
I haven't listened much to Cat beyond her legendary KCRW show but enjoyed this one a lot.
flisten
Each Sunday, Pitchfork sends me and a few million of my closest friends a review of one album of lasting significance. Since my sheltered life hasn't exposed me to most of these gems, I've been listening and learning for a few weeks now. Some are not on Spotify but here's my playlist of the ones that are:
Pitchfork sez:
Moon Pix has a wonderful origin tale, one simply too good to miss an opportunity to retell: Chan Marshall was living in a barn with singer-songwriter Bill Callahan in a South Carolina town called Prosperity, on the brink of saying goodbye to music forever—or so she told scores of eager interviewers—when she woke up from a horrible nightmare. “Hell came to get me again,” she told The Fader, attempting to describe the mortal panic in which she awoke. She wrote the songs that night, with visions of spirits pressing the glass. Voilà: Her very own crossroads.
This is the kind of myth that music fans cling to make their treasured albums seem more magical, and sometimes we can use these tales to terrorize their teller. When Moon Pix came out in 1998, the fevered hush of possessive adoration surrounding Chan Marshall was at its peak: This was the era of shows stopping and starting, of her faltering voice and mid-song apologies, of breathless reports of said interruptions showing up in the music press, as if Marshall were a consumptive 19th-century heroine. For her most avid listeners, this was the moment when Chan Marshall’s life and Cat Power’s music swirled together most hypnotically, most dangerously, when one threatened to consume the other.
I haven't listened much to Cat beyond her legendary KCRW show but enjoyed this one a lot.
axolotl
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Sime Nugent & the Forefathers ~ More About the Benefits of Hindsight (2002)
I can't say for sure, but this might be be of interest to @Old Uncle Toe
I can't say for sure, but this might be be of interest to @Old Uncle Toe
Zeeba Neighba
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Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (1998)
Unsomnambulist
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Dead Feathers - All Is Lost (2019)
Steve Lehman - Sélébéyone (2016)
FliSteN
I would describe Lehman as a boundary-pushing Jazz saxophonist, with a pinch of avant-garde and a punch of fire. This album is a mix of Jazz, electronic touches, and Senegalese rap. I was intrigued and apprehensive of that description and delayed buying this for a long time. Curiosity finally got the best of me and now I listen for the first time.
As withmany most albums that attempt to mix Jazz+HipHop or Jazz+Electronics, this one suffers from often sounding like an lukewarm Electronic album with half-hearted Jazz additions. Or it swings the other way and sounds like a decent Jazz album with some electronic accompaniment, until the Jazz part fades into the background for too long stretches to become supporting music for the lyrics. It doesn't help that much of the lyrical content here is in a language I don't understand. When the Jazz takes a backseat and the foreign lyrics move to the fore, I feel a lot of meh.
Overall, I like this. Lehman has a lot of solos here that are great. Unfortunately, upon first listen this album as a whole falls into the usual trap of similar albums where I appreciate the attempt far more than I enjoy the results. I think this money would have been better spent on an album of his more devoted to Jazz.
I would describe Lehman as a boundary-pushing Jazz saxophonist, with a pinch of avant-garde and a punch of fire. This album is a mix of Jazz, electronic touches, and Senegalese rap. I was intrigued and apprehensive of that description and delayed buying this for a long time. Curiosity finally got the best of me and now I listen for the first time.
As with
Overall, I like this. Lehman has a lot of solos here that are great. Unfortunately, upon first listen this album as a whole falls into the usual trap of similar albums where I appreciate the attempt far more than I enjoy the results. I think this money would have been better spent on an album of his more devoted to Jazz.
Zeeba Neighba
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Radiohead - The Bends (1995)
Unsomnambulist
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Radiohead - The Bends (1995)
A very conventional album that is loved by some people, who say the experimentation on later albums lost them.
Unsomnambulist
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The Residents - Music To Eat Bricks By (2019)
Zeeba Neighba
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Pixies - Doolittle (1989)
Whenever I post this album, I'm always surprised this one is from 1989. It's a testament to the album that it never sounds dated.
Whenever I post this album, I'm always surprised this one is from 1989. It's a testament to the album that it never sounds dated.
Unsomnambulist
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Pixies - Doolittle (1989)
Whenever I post this album, I'm always surprised this one is from 1989. It's a testament to the album that it never sounds dated.
Gee, I've never heard that sentiment before!
Zeeba Neighba
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Now that you mention it, I remember you saying the same thing....but I think it too!!
Raphael Saadiq - Jimmy Lee (2019)
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8 years between albums is much too long.
8 years between albums is much too long.
Zeeba Neighba
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The Smiths - The Queen is Dead (1986)
Of course this album is great - and although I was not a Smiths fan when many were (high school without a girlfriend), it really has gain more of my appreciation over the past 5 years for some reason.
Must say though - "Some Girls Are Bigger That Others" has to be one of the weakest album closers of a tremendous album ever ("Jungleland", "You Can't Always Get What You Want", or "Day In the Life" it is not)
Of course this album is great - and although I was not a Smiths fan when many were (high school without a girlfriend
), it really has gain more of my appreciation over the past 5 years for some reason.Must say though - "Some Girls Are Bigger That Others" has to be one of the weakest album closers of a tremendous album ever ("Jungleland", "You Can't Always Get What You Want", or "Day In the Life" it is not)
Nickyboy
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Stop being a douche!
Unsomnambulist
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The Cosmic Trip Advisors - Wrong Again, Albert... (2019)
This is supposed to be psych rock, but I hear blues rock. Very well done, with a female vocalist who has a great set of pipes.
This is supposed to be psych rock, but I hear blues rock. Very well done, with a female vocalist who has a great set of pipes.
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