What Are You Listening To? September 2025

[Zeeba Neighba]

U2 - Achtung Baby (1991)

Acclaimed # 82

Not a bad listening day - busy weekend though so music listening may screech to a halt

 

[axolotl]

^^^ Yes, Sacramento. Rare Records is east of the state capitol building by 10 blocks or more.

I once visited it when I had an ALJ hearing in Sacramento, and once when I flew into Sacramento for another hearing in Stockton, which is about an hour south of Sacramento. I wasted at least an hour in the shop each time, but it didn't feel wasted for some reason.

I didn't feel a bit wasted, either. I don't even feel that way now.

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

^^^ Yes, Sacramento. Rare Records is east of the state capitol building by 10 blocks or more.

I once visited it when I had an ALJ hearing in Sacramento, and once when I flew into Sacramento for another hearing in Stockton, which is about an hour south of Sacramento. I wasted at least an hour in the shop each time, but it didn't feel wasted for some reason.

I didn't feel a bit wasted, either. I don't even feel that way now.

Not even Wasted on the Way to the record store

 

[axolotl]

Not even Wasted on the Way to the record store

Good song. Even I understood that reference.

But, most likely, I was actively foraging most deeply for slowcore at the time.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Slowcore/comments/v7apen/slowcore_is_a_damned_genre

ETA: As well as Post-Rock.

 

[Ojai Sam]

Sir Charles Thompson Sextet (1953)

Joe Newman (tp)
Benny Powell (tb)
Pete Brown (as)
Sir Charles Thompson (p)
Gene Ramey (b)
Osie Johnson (d)

Sir Charles Thompson And His Band (1954)

Emmett Berry (tp)
Benny Morton (tb)
Earl Warren (as, scotus)
Coleman Hawkins (ts)
Sir Charles Thompson (p)
Steve Jordan (g)
Aaron Bell (b)
Osie Johnson (d)

Two very different sessions produced by John Hammond for Vanguard. Both are brilliant.

 

[Ojai Sam]

Art Blakey - Blakey (rec. 1955, Verve Elite Edition 1999)

This reissue is notable for including two EmArcy 10" LP's from 1955: Blakey and Introducing Joe Gordon with Art on the side.

There are even two more bonus tracks with Blakey from yet another EmArcy album, The Jazz School.

This is how reissues should be done.

 

[axolotl]

Art Blakey - Blakey (rec. 1955, Verve Elite Edition 1999)

This reissue is notable for including two EmArcy 10" LP's from 1955: Blakey and Introducing Joe Gordon with Art on the side.

There are even two more bonus tracks with Blakey from yet another EmArcy album, The Jazz School.

This is how reissues should be done.

I have so much Blakey. Do I need more? Probably.

 

[Ojai Sam]

Various Artists - Les Chansons De Cette Année-Là... 1946 (Forlane comp. 1997)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Teke::Teke - Hagata (2023)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Wednesday - Bleeds (2025)

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

@Unsomnambulist has some creepy album covers lately - scary stuff

As for me
Radiohead - The Bends (1995)

Acclaimed #84
Kind of a creepy album cover here come to think of it

 

[Ojai Sam]

Jeannie Seely - The Seely Style (1966)

Vinyl Spin of the Day.

flisten.

After Jeannie passed away not long ago, I decided to dig into her large catalog. When she appeared on the country music scene, I was more interested in artists with a harder edge like Connie Smith and Norma Jean. As a young performer, Jeannie moved from Pennsylvania to California in search of stardom. After three failed singles for Challenge Records, she moved on to Nashville where Fred Foster of Monument Records, the label of Roy Orbison and other pop artists, signed her and was promptly rewarded with her signature hit "Don't Touch Me".

The low key sound of this single, with its slow tempo and sad, reflective lyrics, was easily identifiable both by Jeannie's world-weary voice and the vibes of the "Yakety Sax" man, Boots Randolph. Fred carried the same sound throughout The Seely Style, Jeannie's first long player. She professed to be single in the liner notes, but half of the dozen songs here were penned by soon-to-be husband Hank Cochran, a hot songwriter at the time. Country albums were notorious for surrounding one or two hit singles with overexposed cover songs, but this album went far into left field with versions of "Yesterday" and "Let It Be Me". With this record, Jeannie gave clear signals that she would be blazing her own trail.

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

The Essential Bessie Smith

Was at the Blues Museum in St. Louis this weekend (which is kind of small and just OK) - may be bluesy as well as jazzy this week. Who knows

 

[axolotl]

Thomas Zehetmair ~ Eugène Ysaÿe: Sonates pour violon solo (2004)

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Oscar Peterson - At the Stratford Shakespearean Festival (1956)

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home (1965)

Acclaimed #85

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Paisiel - s/t (2019)



Avant-Garde Jazz from Portugal. Sax and drums.

 

[Ojai Sam]

Oscar Peterson - At the Stratford Shakespearean Festival (1956)

"Play, music! And you, brides and bridegrooms all,
With measure heap'd in joy, to the measures fall."

-As You Like It

 

[Ojai Sam]

Various Artists - Music For Dancefloors: The Cream Of The KPM Music Green Label Sessions (2000)

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy (1985)