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#3226 Re: What Are You Listening To Right This Minute?

Posted: Fri Jun 21, 2019 7:31 pm
by Ant
Tangerine dream - optical race

#3227 Re: What Are You Listening To Right This Minute?

Posted: Fri Jun 21, 2019 9:11 pm
by Dave the bass
Nick wrote: Thu Jun 20, 2019 8:23 pm Yep, its good isn’t it.
Is that the live recording album you played at Owster's that had a version of 'Use Me' on it?

#3228 Re: What Are You Listening To Right This Minute?

Posted: Fri Jun 21, 2019 10:30 pm
by Shaman
Ry Cooder-Chicken Skin Music

#3229 Re: What Are You Listening To Right This Minute?

Posted: Sat Jun 22, 2019 10:50 am
by Nick
Dave the bass wrote: Fri Jun 21, 2019 9:11 pm
Nick wrote: Thu Jun 20, 2019 8:23 pm Yep, its good isn’t it.
Is that the live recording album you played at Owster's that had a version of 'Use Me' on it?
Yes.

#3230 Re: What Are You Listening To Right This Minute?

Posted: Sat Jun 22, 2019 8:30 pm
by Dave the bass
Nick wrote: Sat Jun 22, 2019 10:50 am Yes.
Ta, in that case then I want this.

#3231 Re: What Are You Listening To Right This Minute?

Posted: Sat Jun 22, 2019 9:57 pm
by The Stratmangler
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#3232 Re: What Are You Listening To Right This Minute?

Posted: Sat Jun 22, 2019 10:31 pm
by The Stratmangler
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#3233 Re: What Are You Listening To Right This Minute?

Posted: Sat Jun 22, 2019 11:42 pm
by Nick
Just found another version


#3234 Re: What Are You Listening To Right This Minute?

Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2019 4:40 pm
by Cressy Snr
Just watched Katie Puckrick, on BBC4 do two excellent programmes exploring the Yacht Rock genre, which of course didn’t exist until some guys coined the phrase around 2005 and started collating together all the West Coast smooth AOR sounds from around 1975-1985.
Great stuff from Steely Dan, The Eagles, America, Bread, The Doobie Brothers, Robbie Dupree, Kenny Loggins, Hall & Oates, Christopher Cross et al.
Completely uncool, but at my age I couldn’t care less.

“Him, him, him,
What’s she gonna do about him,
She’s gonna have to do without him,
Or do without me, me, me,
No-one gets to get it for free,
It’s me or it’s him.” (Rupert Holmes)

Forgot what a good record that was.
With “Him” Rupert Holmes just about makes up for his monumentally awful “Pina Colada Song” :shock:

#3235 Re: What Are You Listening To Right This Minute?

Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2019 5:31 pm
by Nick
West Coast smooth AOR sounds
Ignoring the fact that Steely Dan were about as much a New York band as you could get. :-)

#3236 Re: What Are You Listening To Right This Minute?

Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2019 6:48 pm
by IslandPink
Well done, Steve - I found out something there, too !

#3237 Re: What Are You Listening To Right This Minute?

Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2019 11:47 pm
by The Stratmangler
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#3238 Re: What Are You Listening To Right This Minute?

Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2019 11:53 am
by Cressy Snr
Didier Malherbe & Eric Löhrer - “Nuit D’Ombrelle”

Didier’s funny pipe thing and Löhrer’s acoustic guitar are the only instrumentation, as they wander through a nice selection of jazz standards.

Relax man. :flower:

#3239 Re: What Are You Listening To Right This Minute?

Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2019 3:02 pm
by Cressy Snr
The Delfonics eponymous debut album, from 1969, including “Didn’t I Blow Your Mind This Time” and “When You Get Right Down To It”

This was arguably the first tentative emergence of the “Philadelphia sound”, with close harmonies, electric sitar, strings, brass and producer Thom Bell at the controls.

Decried by the black music press at the time as “aural wallpaper” in comparison to the tough, political funk of Sly & The Family Stone et al, it was not until three years later that the Philly sound began to gain traction on both sides of the pond and the rest, as they say is history. “Didn’t I Blow Your Mind This Time” shot into the pop charts in 1975, six years after it was first released.

Jeez, this original LP I have on the Bell label, is now 50 years old. Who knows where the time goes?

#3240 Re: What Are You Listening To Right This Minute?

Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2019 8:03 pm
by Ant
Caught the end of Michael kiwanuka's set at glasto last night, went back and watched it through today and have bought both his albums off the back of it.
Brilliant soul