Unsomnambulist
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Death Valley Girls - Under The Spell Of Joy (2020)
What are you listening to? October 2020
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Kendrick Scott Oracle - We Are The Drum (2015)
AllAboutJazz said:
Unsomnambulist
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Øresund Space Collective - Experiments In The Subconscious (2020)
The Headhunters - Return of the Headhunters (1998)
Prince - 1999 (1982)
Prince - The Gold Experience (1998)
Perhaps the single most underrated album in Prince's oeuvre.
Also, an album that could be the basis for an entire concert, as this hits all the different sounds and sub-genres Prince plays in. And hits them well.
Perhaps the single most underrated album in Prince's oeuvre.
Also, an album that could be the basis for an entire concert, as this hits all the different sounds and sub-genres Prince plays in. And hits them well.
Brainstorm - Journey To The Light (1978)
This may not get the credit, but amidst all the glorious 70s Soul and Funk, damn if it doesn't sound like the birth of Acid Jazz. Listening to this sounds like a smorgasbord of Incognito-BrandNewHeavies influences, even down to the multiple lead singers.
EDIT: looking again, I notice the first album's re-release has another listing for $35. A bargain at20 times, uh 10 times, uh twice the, well it's a bargain at that price.
This may not get the credit, but amidst all the glorious 70s Soul and Funk, damn if it doesn't sound like the birth of Acid Jazz. Listening to this sounds like a smorgasbord of Incognito-BrandNewHeavies influences, even down to the multiple lead singers.
BTW, I have the re-released special edition that was released during the great Tabu re-release around 2013 or so. This is Brainstorm's second album. The first, re-released at the same time, is now selling on Amazon for $900+. It's great music and the re-release was well done, with each CD in a jewel-case sized hardback booklike enclosure, with pages for a special write-up of each album. But $900 is a bit much. The third re-release of listed at $51. This one is listed for approximately the original list price of $16. Collectorist activity is so unpredictable and I'm so glad I bought all three not long after they were released.AllMusicGuide said:
EDIT: looking again, I notice the first album's re-release has another listing for $35. A bargain at
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Unsomnambulist
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Ozric Tentacles - Space For The Earth (2020)
Nickyboy
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Ozric Tentacles - Space For The Earth (2020)
Wow! Still around. How is it?
Unsomnambulist
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Well, it's par for course. Noodling, spacey, electronic music. It's pretty good.
Nickyboy
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Good enough for me! Imma give it a listen.
Babyface - Tender Lover (1989)
I'd always listened to a lot of music and loved listening to music. Until I got my first component stereo at the end of the 80s, I could listen only on transistor radios, tape players of varying lowish sound qualities, and automobiles of mostly inferior sound qualities. At this time, I listened to most of my music on cassette tape, and a few vinyls.
That coincided with me starting to buy my first CDs and got my first automobile with a CD player. During the late 80s into the early 90s was when started to listen to music differently. At some point, I added a CD player to that home stereo.
This was one of the first albums in my personal CD era. The production knocked me out. I remember listening to certain snippets repeatedly, like dozens of times over. I probably put as much time into this album as the guys in the production room. Decades later, listening to it continues to put joy in me soul and a smile on my face.
Other standout CDs for me in my Dawn Of Component Stereo era were Sting's Nothing Like The Sun, Jungle Brothers' "Straight Out The Jungle", Anita Baker's "Giving You The Best That I've Got", Sade's "Stronger Than Pride" and EWF's "Touch The World". The last two were part of a album prize package I won from a radio station for being the Nth caller. I remember being ecstatic that I'd won, driving out of town to collect my booty and being hugely disappointed to discover the prize was albums and not cassettes or CDs. This was a few months before I got the component player. I drove home with those ten or so albums sitting in the back seat, pissed off and dejected. I didn't want to buy those albums on other formats because it seemed like a waste of money, but I hated not being able to listen to those albums at all -- they were all albums I wanted to hear. After I got the stereo, I listened them one after the other for weeks on end, slowly mixing cassettes back into the mix.
/okay, that's enough of back down JazzyRandy Lane.
I'd always listened to a lot of music and loved listening to music. Until I got my first component stereo at the end of the 80s, I could listen only on transistor radios, tape players of varying lowish sound qualities, and automobiles of mostly inferior sound qualities. At this time, I listened to most of my music on cassette tape, and a few vinyls.
That coincided with me starting to buy my first CDs and got my first automobile with a CD player. During the late 80s into the early 90s was when started to listen to music differently. At some point, I added a CD player to that home stereo.
This was one of the first albums in my personal CD era. The production knocked me out. I remember listening to certain snippets repeatedly, like dozens of times over. I probably put as much time into this album as the guys in the production room. Decades later, listening to it continues to put joy in me soul and a smile on my face.
Other standout CDs for me in my Dawn Of Component Stereo era were Sting's Nothing Like The Sun, Jungle Brothers' "Straight Out The Jungle", Anita Baker's "Giving You The Best That I've Got", Sade's "Stronger Than Pride" and EWF's "Touch The World". The last two were part of a album prize package I won from a radio station for being the Nth caller. I remember being ecstatic that I'd won, driving out of town to collect my booty and being hugely disappointed to discover the prize was albums and not cassettes or CDs. This was a few months before I got the component player. I drove home with those ten or so albums sitting in the back seat, pissed off and dejected. I didn't want to buy those albums on other formats because it seemed like a waste of money, but I hated not being able to listen to those albums at all -- they were all albums I wanted to hear. After I got the stereo, I listened them one after the other for weeks on end, slowly mixing cassettes back into the mix.
/okay, that's enough of back down JazzyRandy Lane.
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Keith Sweat - Make It Last Forever (1987)
