What are you listening to? May 2018

[Zeeba Neighba]

Starting the day with some 70's Philly soul - first a Spinners comp now on to The O'Jays

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Spock's Beard - Noise Floor (2018)

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros - Streetcore (2003)

I didn't pick in for the 2003 series, but, by gum, I'm listening now

 

[Old Uncle Toe]

I was listening to:

Fitz & the Tantrums - Pickin' Up the Pieces



...while I'm working. It's great music and all, but I just couldn't keep focused on the work. Every other little thing kept creeping into my brain - gotta remember to do this, gotta make that phone call, don't forget to check up on this item for today's deadline...

So I switched to

Debussy Piano Works - Cécile Ousset / Peter Rösel



...and got right in the groove. Works every time.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Mogwai - Mr. Beast (2006)

 

[Ojai Sam]

Au Pairs - Playing With A Different Sex (1981)

Sad to say, I missed post-punk the first time around.

That unhappy fact has a bright side, though: hearing tremendous records like this one for the first time. The Au Pairs were a one-album pony, but what an album! AMG sez:

This is an uncompromising, defiant record: gender roles are turned upside down, as are theories about sex and sexuality, and hetero- and homosexual relationships are put under a microscope. Similarly, the tense political situation in Northern Ireland is harrowingly addressed in "Armagh," which details Tory-sanctioned torture and sexual abuse of wrongly imprisoned Irish women. An unflinching look at the world, Playing with a Different Sex is one of the great, and perhaps forgotten, post-punk records.

on the Sam-O-Meter.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Morpheus - Rabenteuer (1976)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Big Country - The Crossing (1983)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Mogwai - Rave Tapes (2014)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Mogwai - Special Moves (2010)

 

[lpfreak1170]

Richard Hawley - Truelove's Gutter

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Graveyard - Peace (2018)

 

[Ojai Sam]

The Cambridge Singers - There Is Sweet Music (1986)

Gorgeous collection of a cappella choral music from Delius, Vaughan Williams and Britten. Hard to believe these magnificent songs came from the 19th and 20th centuries; they sound much earlier.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros - Streetcore (2003)

I didn't pick in for the 2003 series, but, by gum, I'm listening now

Listening now. I am familiar with Global A Go-Go, but not this.

Edit: er, production and sound quality are not as good as the Clash albums.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Beck - Morning Phase (2014)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

PJ Harvey - Let England Shake (2011)

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Drive-By Truckers - Decoration Day. (2003)


A Memorial (or Decoratiion) Day listen 9and was in contention for my 2003 pick)

 

[JazzyRandy]

Sly and the Family Stone - A Whole New Thing (1967)

 

[JazzyRandy]

Black Art Jazz Collective - Presented by The Side Door Jazz Club (2016)

 

[JazzyRandy]

Wes Montgomery - Smokin' At The Half Note (1965)