What Are You Listening To? September 2025

[Ojai Sam]

Jackson Browne - Standing In The Breach (2014)

Easily the best album from JB since he left Elektra Records in 2002.

 

[axolotl]

Reminder ~ Continuum (2006)

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Sam Cooke - The Man and His Music

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Aretha Franklin - I Never Loved a Man The Way I Love You (1967)

Acclaimed #87

 

[Ojai Sam]

Various Artists - Funky Nassau: The Compass Point Story 1980-1986 (Strut comp. 2008)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Geese - Getting Killed (2025)



Band with Cameron Winter in it.

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Geese - Getting Killed (2025)



Band with Cameron Winter in it.

Geese is the word! It's got move it's got meaning

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Neko Case - Neon Grey Midnight Green (2025)

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique (1989)

Still jumping around with my listening - playlists, even checked out some of those Guardian "Best Duets" songs - but trying to get one of the Penguin Jazz albums daily and one Acclaimed Music list daily (this one is #90)

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Miles Davis - E.S.P. (1965)

 

[Ojai Sam]

Maki - Maki II (1971)

Just like Maki I, only more so.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Cate Le Bon - Michelangelo Dying (2025)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Ciśnienie - (Angry Noises) (2025)



This is excellent post-rock. Recommended to @axolotl.

 

[Ojai Sam]

John Cougar Mellencamp - American Fool (1982)

Another Music Boomerang score. This one wasn't a critical fave when it came out but Johnny's Stones meet Bruce heartland rock has aged a lot better than most of the music from 1982. Men At Work, anyone?

on the Sam-O-Meter.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Robyn Hitchcock - 1967: Vacations In The Past (2024)

 

[axolotl]

Paul Horn & Steven Halpern ~ Connections (1984)

 

[axolotl]

Gustavo Santaolalla ~ Ronroco (1997)

Gustavo Santaolalla's Ronroco (named for the lute-like stringed instrument Santaolalla plays on many of the album's tracks) is 42 minutes of subtle, minimalistic, cerebral, and hypnotic brilliance. Santaolalla's music has added a beautiful texture to many films (like Brokeback Mountain and The Motorcycle Diaries), and he stands out as one of the great living composers. "De Ushuaia a La Quiaca," "Gaucho," and "Iguazú" are especially worthwhile.

 

[axolotl]

Undersea Poem ~ Self-titled (2010)

Undersea Poem — Six Degrees Records

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[axolotl]

Wang Wen - Sweet Home, Go! (2016)



Chinese post-rock. May be of interest to @axolotl if he can track it down.

This. Morning. Very. Nice.

 

[Ojai Sam]

Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - Whipped Cream & Other Delights (1965)

Vinyl Spin of the Day.