What are you listening to now? Page 1,006
Quote: George Kaplan @ August 13 2013, 3:06 PM BSTNice and soothing. Was feeling a bit stressed.
John Lee Hooker with Ry Cooder, live.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRCnLb4A4QM
Not the best audio, buzz in the background, but still cool.
Wow. That was a gas. Really loved it. Thanks GK.
While Grant Shapps MP, aka Michael Green and Sebastian Fox, had a very real talent for reinvention, it was his cousin Mick Jones who displayed the vision that would eventually make him the country's Prime Minister:
Big Audio Dynamite - Rush
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h8zs898lr4
(on vevo)
Quote: Horseradish @ August 13 2013, 2:36 PM BSTThat Bowie track is fascinating. Hadn't heard it before. It says "original version". The official lyric says "The boys in the clothes shop sold me curry for a pound" but I think in your link it is "The poet and the blow job sold me curry for a pound". Could be why I've never heard it on the radio.
Surely that was originally on the Bowie Deram album pre all the stuff that went to RCA starting with Space Oddity.
Quote: Chappers @ August 13 2013, 8:32 PM BSTSurely that was originally on the Bowie Deram album pre all the stuff that went to RCA starting with Space Oddity.
Yes you are no doubt right chappers.
Quote: Gordon Bennett @ August 11 2013, 5:57 PM BSTSwitzerland:
"Day Off" by Martin Schenkel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTO2mKNR46Y
"Change Your Heart" by Phebus http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqOpIKOiflM
"Vicious Games" by Yello: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaSIZaQs-5I
Germany:
"After Laughter Comes Tears" by The Robocop Kraus http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7dgH3FmCBE
"Eintragung Ins Nichts" by Blumfeld http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFaZDAo4X7w
"Love Is Twisted And Strange" by The Rambling Wheels http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiChGCKHF4E
Gordon - Just got to these. All interesting to hear. You have the opportunity to have a different perspective from the Brits living where you do. Of the six, I would take the Blumfeld again. Yello had some chart success in the UK. To be viewed as serious innovators or rather gimmick? I can never tell. Do you have an opinion?
Have read up on Martin Schenkel. Like the Charlatans' drummer, a brain tumour - at 34. How sad. A friend of mine died of one too at 40. Weirdly, among all the other stuff going on in the records of rather differing styles by the Robocop Kraus and the Rambling Wheels, I heard little phrases of just one song. This one:
Cud - Rich and Strange
Willie & Laura Mae Jones - Tony Joe White
Quote: Horseradish @ August 13 2013, 10:44 PM BSTOf the six, I would take the Blumfeld again. Yello had some chart success in the UK. To be viewed as serious innovators or rather gimmick? I can never tell. Do you have an opinion?
I'm not Yello's biggest fan...but that's most probably because I'm not that into experimental (and yet catchy) dance/electronic music. But they had some big hits and most of them I do like but I don't enjoy their albums as much. Musical innovators? Maybe...but I think Kraftwerk laid the groundwork, so Yello's art didn't come out of nothing. it's their attitude what's even more interesting than their music. They never considered themselves as rock stars...more as a loose art project, cool and cynical, with their tongues firmly in cheek. Dieter Meier, the "singer", is an interesting guy. Apart from his role in Yello, he's a political activist, a performance artist, he paints, he's an actor...a jack of all trades.
I like Blumfeld too. They started as a weird indie band, more in line with Sonic Youth's work with lots of feedback an atonal music but became more an more sonically conventional. In their last years of existence they created this immaculate, perfectly crafted pop music. Strongly recommended: the album "Testament der Angst".
Robocop Kraus sound as if the members listened to a lot of XTC and Talking Heads records. And that is not a bad thing.
Quote: Gordon Bennett @ August 14 2013, 11:20 AM BSTI'm not Yello's biggest fan...but that's most probably because I'm not that into experimental (and yet catchy) dance/electronic music. But they had some big hits and most of them I do like but I don't enjoy their albums as much. Musical innovators? Maybe...but I think Kraftwerk laid the groundwork, so Yello's art didn't come out of nothing. it's their attitude what's even more interesting than their music. They never considered themselves as rock stars...more as a loose art project, cool and cynical, with their tongues firmly in cheek. Dieter Meier, the "singer", is an interesting guy. Apart from his role in Yello, he's a political activist, a performance artist, he paints, he's an actor...a jack of all trades.
I like Blumfeld too. They started as a weird indie band, more in line with Sonic Youth's work with lots of feedback an atonal music but became more an more sonically conventional. In their last years of existence they created this immaculate, perfectly crafted pop music. Strongly recommended: the album "Testament der Angst".
They remained a left wing indie band with intelligent lyrics...but even if you don't understand the words the music is still wonderful.
Robocop Kraus sound as if the members listened to a lot of XTC and Talking Heads records. And that is not a bad thing.
Interesting.
(I've got an O'level in German so I could pick out words)
Saw Kraftwerk at Benicassim in the early 2000s. Very good.
Couldn't hear Bright Side of the Road, Ventura Highway or anything else in Morrisons today. Loads of pesky kids shouting and tearing about. They should be writing their own Top 40s as I was doing at the age of 4.
And where on earth is their sense of melodic harmony?
Neu! - Isi
Quote: Horseradish @ August 14 2013, 11:59 AM BSTNeu! - Isi
I have their first two albums.
Quote: Gordon Bennett @ August 14 2013, 1:01 PM BSTI have their first two albums.
One of their albums is difficult but I can't remember which.
King Kurt - Destination Zululand
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wt4Zhdoj65o
Carter USM - Sheriff Fatman*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfxCGg4hIJQ
(* I woz there)
Quote: Gordon Bennett @ August 14 2013, 11:20 AM BSTI'm not Yello's biggest fan...but that's most probably because I'm not that into experimental (and yet catchy) dance/electronic music. But they had some big hits and most of them I do like but I don't enjoy their albums as much. Musical innovators? Maybe...but I think Kraftwerk laid the groundwork, so Yello's art didn't come out of nothing. it's their attitude what's even more interesting than their music. They never considered themselves as rock stars...more as a loose art project, cool and cynical, with their tongues firmly in cheek. Dieter Meier, the "singer", is an interesting guy. Apart from his role in Yello, he's a political activist, a performance artist, he paints, he's an actor...a jack of all trades.
.. and also international Golfer for Switzerland.
I've got several Yello albums but I do think the compilation 1980-85 a new mix in one go is a great collection.
This whole Yello talk made me remember I quite liked this more recent song of theirs:
Planet Dada
Never heard that before. Remember hearing about the lengths Boris Blank would go to to get the right sock full of custard sound for a certain track.
Quote: Chappers @ August 14 2013, 9:47 PM BSTNever heard that before. Remember hearing about the lengths Boris Blank would go to to get the right sock full of custard sound for a certain track.
It's better than a jelly in one ear and blancmange in another.
Osibisa - Sunshine Day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtcF5ZSmEDo
............an ideal trifle for something of the night.
Quote: Horseradish @ August 14 2013, 11:39 PM BSTIt's better than a jelly in one ear and blancmange in another.
Osibisa - Sunshine Day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtcF5ZSmEDo
............an ideal trifle for something of the night.
Got the first Osibisa album with the Roger Dean gatefold sleeve.