Zeeba Neighba
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Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers (1976)
What are you listening to? March 2026
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Zeeba Neighba
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Whaaat?! Am I up to 1974 in my weekly year-by-year playlist listening already
Why it seemed only last week I was at 1973
Plenty of good music
"Get Up, Stand Up"
"Free Bird"
"Band on the Run"
"Midnight Train to Georgia
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
"Piano Man"
"Radar Love"
Dark Side of the Moon
"When Will I See You Again" by The Three Degrees
Houses of the Holy
"La Grange"
Stevie's Innervisions
"Killing Me Softly With His Song"
Springsteen's first two albums
"Kodachrome"
T. Rex's "20th Century Boy"
"Jolene"
"The Way We Were"
Blue Swede's "Hooked On A Feeling"
Al Green's Call Me
"Mind Hames"
Quadrophenia
Billion Dollar Babies
War's The World Is A Ghetto
Roxy's "Do The Strand"
And many, many more...
Why it seemed only last week I was at 1973
Plenty of good music
"Get Up, Stand Up"
"Free Bird"
"Band on the Run"
"Midnight Train to Georgia
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
"Piano Man"
"Radar Love"
Dark Side of the Moon
"When Will I See You Again" by The Three Degrees
Houses of the Holy
"La Grange"
Stevie's Innervisions
"Killing Me Softly With His Song"
Springsteen's first two albums
"Kodachrome"
T. Rex's "20th Century Boy"
"Jolene"
"The Way We Were"
Blue Swede's "Hooked On A Feeling"
Al Green's Call Me
"Mind Hames"
Quadrophenia
Billion Dollar Babies
War's The World Is A Ghetto
Roxy's "Do The Strand"
And many, many more...
Unsomnambulist
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Turn Me On Dead Man - God Bless The Electric Freak (2005)
Unsomnambulist
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Kim Gordon - Play Me (2026)
Unsomnambulist
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Massive Attack - Mezzanine (1998)
Unsomnambulist
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Courtney Love - America's Sweetheart (2004)
Until recently, I was not aware of the existence of this. I think I was better off not knowing.
Until recently, I was not aware of the existence of this. I think I was better off not knowing.
Unsomnambulist
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The Fuzz - s/t (2013)
Unsomnambulist
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I liked it. 3.5 stars.
Ojai Sam
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St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra (Mariss Jansons, cond.) - Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 1 (1999)
This album deserves its place in the 1001 Classical list as the definitive reading of Rachmaninov's First, a work far ahead of its time. The filler piece is Sergei's similarly prophetic salute to jam bands, "I Love The Dead". Oh, wait. That's "Isle of the Dead".
This album deserves its place in the 1001 Classical list as the definitive reading of Rachmaninov's First, a work far ahead of its time. The filler piece is Sergei's similarly prophetic salute to jam bands, "I Love The Dead". Oh, wait. That's "Isle of the Dead".
Zeeba Neighba
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The Irish Rovers - The Unicorn (1967)
A favorite of my dad's.
Which gets more play - The Unicorn or The Velvet Underground & Nico from 1967?
I'll never tell
A favorite of my dad's.
Which gets more play - The Unicorn or The Velvet Underground & Nico from 1967?
I'll never tell
Zeeba Neighba
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Van Morrison & The Chieftains - Irish Heartbeat (1988)
St. Patrick's day snuck up on me quickly this week. Usually I'll celebrate my heritage (as those here know) with a week of Irish music. Today I awoke realizing that I hadn't listening to anything at all - so playing the usual suspects today - Clancy Brothers, Dubliners, Irish Rovers, Chieftains
Nothing bold but all familiar and good
St. Patrick's day snuck up on me quickly this week. Usually I'll celebrate my heritage (as those here know) with a week of Irish music. Today I awoke realizing that I hadn't listening to anything at all - so playing the usual suspects today - Clancy Brothers, Dubliners, Irish Rovers, Chieftains
Nothing bold but all familiar and good
Ojai Sam
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Teal Joy - Ted Steele Presents Miss Teal Joy (Bethlehem 1957, Solid [Japan] 2013)
Someday I'll do a "Great Labels" series for Bethlehem Records. When I do, this one will be at the top of the list. Discogs supplies the following bio for this rather mysterious lady aptly billed "The Oriental Billie Holiday":
Teal Joy was a nightclub singer born Elsie Itashiki in Washington, state. On her first record Ted Steele Presents Miss Teal Joy (1957) she sings in Japanese, Yiddish, Italian, French and Spanish as well as English, which she pulls off well. Three years later in 1960 she released Mood in Mink. She released no other record albums as Teal Joy.
Ted Steele, a second tier band leader who managed to survive the end of the big band era discovered Teal singing in the Bamboo Club in Atlantic City. He brought her to The City and produced this album with three different orchestras to suit her versatility. The results are stunning. Her warm voice wraps itself around a dozen eclectic tunes from torchy jazz to an incendiary take on Rafael Hernández Marín's "El Cumbanchero".
Never a big seller, the original vinyl album is nearly impossible to find in decent condition. So I was overjoyed to learn that it had been reissued in Japan with three alternate takes. Solid Records' "Bethlehem Album Collection" numbers over 150 titles, a richly deserved retrospective for the long dead label.
Someday I'll do a "Great Labels" series for Bethlehem Records. When I do, this one will be at the top of the list. Discogs supplies the following bio for this rather mysterious lady aptly billed "The Oriental Billie Holiday":
Teal Joy was a nightclub singer born Elsie Itashiki in Washington, state. On her first record Ted Steele Presents Miss Teal Joy (1957) she sings in Japanese, Yiddish, Italian, French and Spanish as well as English, which she pulls off well. Three years later in 1960 she released Mood in Mink. She released no other record albums as Teal Joy.
Ted Steele, a second tier band leader who managed to survive the end of the big band era discovered Teal singing in the Bamboo Club in Atlantic City. He brought her to The City and produced this album with three different orchestras to suit her versatility. The results are stunning. Her warm voice wraps itself around a dozen eclectic tunes from torchy jazz to an incendiary take on Rafael Hernández Marín's "El Cumbanchero".
Never a big seller, the original vinyl album is nearly impossible to find in decent condition. So I was overjoyed to learn that it had been reissued in Japan with three alternate takes. Solid Records' "Bethlehem Album Collection" numbers over 150 titles, a richly deserved retrospective for the long dead label.
Zeeba Neighba
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Lankum - The Livelong Day (2019)
Well, I said I was just gonna spin the ol' Irish classics, but decided to break this one out - modern Irish folk
The cover seemed vaguely familiar - thank you last.fm for reminding me I've spun this once before in 2023
Oddly in June (not in March)
Well, I said I was just gonna spin the ol' Irish classics, but decided to break this one out - modern Irish folk
The cover seemed vaguely familiar - thank you last.fm for reminding me I've spun this once before in 2023
Oddly in June (not in March)
Ojai Sam
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Johnny Burnette and the Rock'n Roll Trio - s/t (1956, Bear Family 2014)
Vinyl Spin of the Day.
Sometimes less really is more. Hip-O Select collected all 28 recordings by this seminal rockabilly group in a limited edition double CD package. But my recent return to vinyl led me to wonder what the original 12-track Coral LP sounded like. Good luck. Discogs has 3 copies in dire condition for sale from $2,249.99 to $4,803.08 (an odd price for a US seller). Fortunately, Bear Family Records came to my rescue. The have reproduced the album with direct metal master cut 180 gram virgin vinyl. The sound hearkens back to 1956, no digital enhancement. Even the original liner notes are present. They include the startling revelation that Coral A&R "chief" (their word) Bob Thiele saw the same "pop-potential" for the Burnettes as he did for labelmates Teresa Brewer and The McGuire Sisters. Confusing days indeed for the record biz and those trying to cope with the the post-Elvis apocalypse.
So how was the album? To be honest, this is one of those rare instances where I prefer the comp to the original. In omitting more than half of their output, the LP gives an inadequate view of what this group was really capable of. Yes, some of the omissions were dross but they capture some of the magic missing here. Anyway, early rock and roll was truly a genre for singles, not albums.
on the Sam-O-Meter. Interesting but hardly essential.
Vinyl Spin of the Day.
Sometimes less really is more. Hip-O Select collected all 28 recordings by this seminal rockabilly group in a limited edition double CD package. But my recent return to vinyl led me to wonder what the original 12-track Coral LP sounded like. Good luck. Discogs has 3 copies in dire condition for sale from $2,249.99 to $4,803.08 (an odd price for a US seller). Fortunately, Bear Family Records came to my rescue. The have reproduced the album with direct metal master cut 180 gram virgin vinyl. The sound hearkens back to 1956, no digital enhancement. Even the original liner notes are present. They include the startling revelation that Coral A&R "chief" (their word) Bob Thiele saw the same "pop-potential" for the Burnettes as he did for labelmates Teresa Brewer and The McGuire Sisters. Confusing days indeed for the record biz and those trying to cope with the the post-Elvis apocalypse.
So how was the album? To be honest, this is one of those rare instances where I prefer the comp to the original. In omitting more than half of their output, the LP gives an inadequate view of what this group was really capable of. Yes, some of the omissions were dross but they capture some of the magic missing here. Anyway, early rock and roll was truly a genre for singles, not albums.
on the Sam-O-Meter. Interesting but hardly essential.- Status
