What are you listening to? January 2018

[lpfreak1170]

Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell


First listen...well this is happy.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell


First listen...well this is happy.

Is it slap happy?

 

[Unsomnambulist]

The Brimstone Solar Radiation Band - Solstice (2005)

 

[lpfreak1170]

Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell


First listen...well this is happy.

Is it slap happy?

Nope, just plain ol' happy.
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NL: Joan Shelley - S/T


Wow.

 

[Nickyboy]

That bad, huh?

 

[axolotl]

Geographer ~ Innocent Ghosts (2008)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - Vol 1 (2010)

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

The Beatles - Past Masters, Volume 1

As I typically spin the original British albums, it's good periodically breaking out the early non-LP (in the UK) tracks

 

[JazzyRandy]

Run The Jewels - Run The Jewels 3 (2017)


Whoa! That was doggone good.

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - The Nashville Sound (2017)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Philip Glass - Glassworks (1982)

 

[Ojai Sam]

Skitch also (as I know Sam knows) was more than a bandleader but a conductor replacing Toscanini as NBC's conductor in the 50s (it still seems funny that networks had conductors back in the day) as well as founding Carnegie Hall's New York Pops Orchestra

It was truly a different time. Average folks like my mom loved "light classical" music. Here's an example:

The Melachrino Strings - A Melachrino Concert (1956)

Vinyl Rip of the Day.

Smaller and more focused than 101 Strings, George Melachrino's fearless fiddlers offered up familiar fare such as "Dance Of The Hours" along with Chopin, Schubert and the old burlesque favorite, "Air On A G String".

This album wins the prize for ugliest cover art of 1956 hands down. RCA Victor sure thought so. The identical recording was reissued later the same year with a new catalog number as Those Beautiful Strings:

 

[lpfreak1170]

Jeff Beck - Truth

 

[Pops]

Celeste - Infideles

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Can - Future Days (1973)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Broadcast And The Focus Group - Investigate Witch Cults Of The Radio Age (2009)

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

JS Bach - Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben (Bach Ensemble, Josh Rifkin)

Will be going through this over the weekend but starting with a famous cantata, Herz und Mund... ("Heart and Mouth and Deed and Life"). In the chorale movements, this cantata contains the music that would later by transcribed for the piano in the 1920s by Dame Myra Hess as "Jesu, Joy of Man Desiring"

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Adam & The Ants - Kings of the Wild Frontier (1980)

Wonder if Damon Albarn is a fan of this one. I hear a lot of Blur in here

 

[Pops]

Moraz/Bruford - Music for Piano and Drums

 

[Unsomnambulist]

The Cure - s/t (2004)