What are you listening to? January 2018

[axolotl]

The Black Keys - The Big Come Up (2002)

That's the one TBK album that I have on vinyl.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

That's the one TBK album that I have on vinyl.

Does the needle jump out of the groove when certain licks are played?

 

[axolotl]

Does the needle jump out of the groove when certain licks are played?

Nay, verily. Neither Dan nor Patrick would approve of that result.

Dan is the only one who jumps around in concert, for semi-obvious reasons.

 

[Pops]

Frampton's Camel - S/T

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Barbara Manning - 1212 (1997)

 

[Ojai Sam]

Aileen Stanley - Popular 1920's Jazz Vocals (rec. 1924-1930, comp. 2014)

This vaudevillian sold so many discs for the Victor Talking Machine Company that she was known as "The Phonograph Girl". Her winsome coquettish style splits the difference between Fanny Brice and Helen "Betty Boop" Kane.

 

[Ojai Sam]

Spike Jones & His City Slickers - Musical Depreciation Revue: The Anthology (1994)

How can you beat a 2 disc collection assembled by Doctor Demento and Cub "Smokin' In The Boys Room" Koda?

 

[Nickyboy]

Everybody knows that Spike Jones ain't allowed in school.

 

[Old Uncle Toe]

It's good to not be so eclectic once in a while.

 

[lpfreak1170]

Lydia Loveless - Real

 

[JazzyRandy]

Herbie Hancock - Flood - 1975

 

[JazzyRandy]

John Scofield - Country For Old Men 2016

Ostensibly a album of jazz covers of country classics (George Jones, Dolly Parton, Hank Williams, Merle Haggard, Bob Wills, etc) this seems to me to be as much country as jazz. So much so that I can see Jazz purists being disappointed with it, and Country music fans turning it off mid-album. I love it. A wonderful mix!

After following the Jazz Funk of the Headhunters with the Jazz Country of Old Men, I'm thinking it's now time for some Jazz Klezmer. Oh, where to look ...

 

[Unsomnambulist]

The Black Keys - Rubber Factory (2004)

 

[Old Uncle Toe]

I'm not a big country fan, but I don't dislike it. This was a fun listen. I really liked Bury Me (with Maria McKee) and the next track, Guitars, Cadillacs was a standout too. Now I have to listen to some Buck Owens to hear what @Ojai Sam was talking about.

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Mark Lanegan - Bubblegum (2004)

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Spike Jones & His City Slickers - Musical Depreciation Revue: The Anthology (1994)

How can you beat a 2 disc collection assembled by Doctor Demento and Cub "Smokin' In The Boys Room" Koda?

I have that anthology myself (though haven't broken it out in awhile). My dad was a big Spike Jones fan, and I bought this (at the time) only knowing one or two of the songs on the two disc set. Lots of fun surprises.

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

The Shadows - The Shadows (1961)

 

[axolotl]

The Shadows - The Shadows (1961)

Sir, your ways are mysterious and inscrutable.

The only thing I know is that there has to be a list, somewhere.

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Sir, your ways are mysterious and inscrutable.

The only thing I know is that there has to be a list, somewhere.

I didn't realize the Shadows were so out-of-character for me (old music, surf style guitar)

 

[lpfreak1170]

Was: The Dead Milkmen - Bucky Fellini


Now: The Dead Milkmen - Big Lizard In My Backyard