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Mclusky - Mclusky Do Dallas (2002)
What Are You Listening To? December 2023
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Ojai Sam
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My mom usually had really good taste but she grabbed this one at a supermarket cutout bin. I'm surprised she didn't fall asleep on the drive home.
Memorable lyric: "Howdy. Come on in. The coffee pot. Is hot."
Ojai Sam
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Stan Kenton - The Chronological 1952-1953 (Classics 2008)
Zeeb has been featuring a lot of the French Classics label releases over at his cool Penguin Jazz thread. I accumulated a lot of them when they first came out and have been filling them in ever since. I just found this one (a sealed copy, no less), the tenth and final volume of Stan Kenton. It holds some amazing music from Stan's "New Concepts Of Artistry In Rhythm" orchestra that showcased Maynard Ferguson, Lee Konitz, and a gaggle of other superb musicians.
on the Sam-O-Meter.
Zeeb has been featuring a lot of the French Classics label releases over at his cool Penguin Jazz thread. I accumulated a lot of them when they first came out and have been filling them in ever since. I just found this one (a sealed copy, no less), the tenth and final volume of Stan Kenton. It holds some amazing music from Stan's "New Concepts Of Artistry In Rhythm" orchestra that showcased Maynard Ferguson, Lee Konitz, and a gaggle of other superb musicians.
on the Sam-O-Meter.
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Shootin' at some food and up from the ground came ah bubblin' crude.
My mom usually had really good taste but she grabbed this one at a supermarket cutout bin. I'm surprised she didn't fall asleep on the drive home.
Memorable lyric: "Howdy. Come on in. The coffee pot. Is hot."
Ojai Sam
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Buddy was actually a fine dancer years before he moved to the Hills of Bev-er-lee.
axolotl
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Found in the catalogue: What to Do in Orlando Pre-Disney
Nickyboy
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Weeeeell doggies! If that just don't beat all!
Ojai Sam
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Stellio - Integrale Chronologique 1929-1931 (Fremeaux et Associes comp. 1994)
Remember Cole Porter's "Begin The Beguine"?
This is where the beguine began. Stellio, a clarinetist from Martinique, introduced the Caribbean dance craze to Paris at the time of the epic Exposition Coloniale Internationale.
Remember Cole Porter's "Begin The Beguine"?
This is where the beguine began. Stellio, a clarinetist from Martinique, introduced the Caribbean dance craze to Paris at the time of the epic Exposition Coloniale Internationale.
axolotl
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Pearls Before Swine ~ Constructive Melancholy [Compilation] (1999)
"...a scrupulous compilation of the best Tom Rapp songs would be something to have, hold, and love for a lifetime..." ~ Stephen Holden, Rolling Stone
"Tom Rapp basically embodies every positive stereotype I have of a hippy: he is contemplative, literate, folksy, maybe a little radical in his politics, and his worldview is maybe a little untethered from reality. His second LP, Balaklava, which uses the 1854 Charge of the Light Brigade as its stepping off point, is one of the most intriguing (and least dated) anti-war records of the late '60s ("Ring Thing" notwithstanding), and his 1970 composition "The Jeweler" is among the most exquisite, penetrating songs I have ever heard. When Rapp's career began to flag in the mid-'70s he went to law school and became a civil rights lawyer, but he left behind a remarkable body of work." ~ RYM Review
No relation to Zeeba, unless he wants to claim it.
"...a scrupulous compilation of the best Tom Rapp songs would be something to have, hold, and love for a lifetime..." ~ Stephen Holden, Rolling Stone
"Tom Rapp basically embodies every positive stereotype I have of a hippy: he is contemplative, literate, folksy, maybe a little radical in his politics, and his worldview is maybe a little untethered from reality. His second LP, Balaklava, which uses the 1854 Charge of the Light Brigade as its stepping off point, is one of the most intriguing (and least dated) anti-war records of the late '60s ("Ring Thing" notwithstanding), and his 1970 composition "The Jeweler" is among the most exquisite, penetrating songs I have ever heard. When Rapp's career began to flag in the mid-'70s he went to law school and became a civil rights lawyer, but he left behind a remarkable body of work." ~ RYM Review
No relation to Zeeba, unless he wants to claim it.
axolotl
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Passenger ~ Whispers (2014)
There it was, its little cardboard case pushed back somewhere between Ellis Paul and Pearls Before Swine - yes, I now realized that it was misplaced - and I thought, "I have not listened to this in a while; time to remedy that."
Mike Rosenberg of Passenger has a distinctive voice, in kind of a similar way as Tom Rapp of PBS. It seems that some people find it off-putting.
RYM Review:
There it was, its little cardboard case pushed back somewhere between Ellis Paul and Pearls Before Swine - yes, I now realized that it was misplaced - and I thought, "I have not listened to this in a while; time to remedy that."
Mike Rosenberg of Passenger has a distinctive voice, in kind of a similar way as Tom Rapp of PBS. It seems that some people find it off-putting.
RYM Review:
For girls who spell fairies as "faeries", for guys who sit cross-legged on bouncy cushions in Starbucks. Yes, it can get rather shallow having a go at Mike's vocals 24-7-365, at the exact same time because he happens to be one of those direct singer/songwriter types, it is exactly his vocals that come to the forefront, and with these it is where his modus operandi shines brightest, unfortunately through his Kermit's nephew Robin uber-feyness, 'Whipsers' [sic] becomes an all too realistic trope throughout, '27''s constant use of the word 'fuck' being about as effective as listening to a test-tube milkshake of Hugh Grant and some Oxbridge leftie luvvie Monty Python freak getting all sweary. As for pros, well, 'Heart's on Fire' isn't actually a bad thing at all, a rather smart piece of pop-folk, the elegant prose and diction of 'Bullets' easily Mike's best moment, making the frustration of the album's lesser moments all the more infuriating.
*shudders*
*shudders*
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The Kills - God Games (2023)
Ojai Sam
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Vienna Philharmonic (Wilhelm Furtwangler, cond.) - Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 "Pastorale" / Brahms: Haydn Variations (rec. 1943, rel. 1986)
These buoyant pieces recorded in Vienna during late December 1943 belie the dark days suffered by the Austrian capitol at the time. Furtwangler's indomitable spirit infuses these radio broadcast performances.
These buoyant pieces recorded in Vienna during late December 1943 belie the dark days suffered by the Austrian capitol at the time. Furtwangler's indomitable spirit infuses these radio broadcast performances.
Unsomnambulist
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Colour Haze - To The Highest Gods We Know (2014)
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Colour Haze - Sacred (2022)
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