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@philkindermann I was watching one of #jormakaukonen's quarantine concerts, and he said Grace doesn't own a cell phone. That's pretty wonderful.
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Today’s listening is ‘The Fugitive’, the 1983 album by Tony Banks.
On this, his second solo album, Genesis' main man Tony Banks took the plunge and sung lead vocals throughout, something he apparently was not confident about doing. I think it works OK and, to me, from time to time he sounds quite like John Lennon!
This is a good album, with a healthy dose of Banks’ deceptively dark lyrics and quite ‘poppy’ tunes (for him!).
Daryl Stuermer plays lead guitar.
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Today’s listening is ‘Radio City’, the 1974 album by Big Star.
After their first album sank commercially without a trace, Chris Bell left Big Star, leaving Alex Clinton, Andy Hummel and Jody Stephens to eventually pick up the pieces.
This, their second album, is a little rough around the edges, but still full of good power pop/rock tunes.
Although they didn't last long as a band, their influence was to echo down the years!
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Today’s listening is ‘Old Liquidator’, the 1995 album by The Minus 5.
The members of The Minus 5 vary from album to album and on this outing the band comprised Scott McCaughey, Peter Buck, Ken Stringfellow and Jon Auer.
I have to say that I don’t like this album very much!
Any melodies are interspersed with plonky tuneless piano runs and screeches of guitar in a very discordant way.
They went on to much better things!
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Today’s listening is ‘When You’re A Boy’, the 1991 album by Susanna Hoffs.
Susanna’s first solo album was produced during the dark days of The Great Bangles Interregnum of the 1990’s and is a great, poppy-rock listen.
Mind you, with that voice, she could sing the telephone book and I would be transfixed!
The album title comes from the David Bowie song ‘Boys Keep Swinging’, which she covers on this record.
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Today’s listening is ‘Echoes Of The Dreamtime’, the 2016 album by Miranda Lee Richards.
This is a beautiful album!
Dreamy, folksy Americana, with a dollop of mysticism, all complementing Miranda’s lovely singing voice.
Well worth a listen!
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Today’s listening is ‘Descendant’, the 2024 album by Snowgoose.
Snowgoose are a Scottish contemporary folk-rock band, centered around singer Anna Sheard and guitarist Jim McCulloch.
This, their most recent album, is a very pleasant and tuneful listen, with Anna’s lovely voice to the fore.
Well worth a listen!
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Today’s listening is ‘Ya Nass’, the 2014 album by Yasmine Hamdan.
Yasmine is a Lebanese singer.
I first became aware of her as she has a cameo (as herself, singing in a night-club) in the excellent Vampire film ‘Only Lovers Left Alive’.
There’s something bewitching (not be-vampiring!) about listening to music sung in a language which you don’t understand, especially when it’s sung with such a beautiful voice!
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Today’s listening is ‘Ooh La La’, the 1973 album by The Faces.
A typically ramshackled collection of good time rock ’n’ roll from Rod and the boys.
The original album sleeve must have been expensive to produce!
The front cover incorporates a sliding panel which, when you push down on the top edge, makes the man smile and his eyes move, in a very Terry Gilliam-esque manner!
The sleeve is also a gatefold and a top-loader. My copy is a bit age-mottled, but it still works. -
Today’s listening is ‘Ooh La La’, the 1973 album by The Faces.
A typically ramshackled collection of good time rock ’n’ roll from Rod and the boys.
The original album sleeve must have been expensive to produce!
The front cover incorporates a sliding panel which, when you push down on the top edge, makes the man smile and his eyes move, in a very Terry Gilliam-esque manner!
The sleeve is also a gatefold and a top-loader. My copy is a bit age-mottled, but it still works. -
Today’s listening is ‘Ooh La La’, the 1973 album by The Faces.
A typically ramshackled collection of good time rock ’n’ roll from Rod and the boys.
The original album sleeve must have been expensive to produce!
The front cover incorporates a sliding panel which, when you push down on the top edge, makes the man smile and his eyes move, in a very Terry Gilliam-esque manner!
The sleeve is also a gatefold and a top-loader. My copy is a bit age-mottled, but it still works. -
Today’s listening is ‘Ooh La La’, the 1973 album by The Faces.
A typically ramshackled collection of good time rock ’n’ roll from Rod and the boys.
The original album sleeve must have been expensive to produce!
The front cover incorporates a sliding panel which, when you push down on the top edge, makes the man smile and his eyes move, in a very Terry Gilliam-esque manner!
The sleeve is also a gatefold and a top-loader. My copy is a bit age-mottled, but it still works. -
As it’s my birthday, today’s listening is a special treat: ‘To Shoot Another Day’, the 2024 album by Rosalie Cunningham.
This is a fantastic album and is, I think, Rosalie’s best record to date!
Her unique take on 70’s progressive/baroque rock is quite the thing and sounds a bit like Grace Slick singing with Jethro Tull, with a pinch of The Kinks’ English eccentricity thrown in.
Do your ears a favour and check this album out. Better still, see her fantastic live band!
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Today’s listening is ‘Earth Trip’, the 2021 album by Rose City Band.
This enjoyable album is so laid-back that it is practically horizontal!
It’s a pleasant collection of quite noodly tunes from Ripley Johnson and chums.
‘Psychedelic country rock’, apparently, though I’m not too sure about the psychedelic bit myself.
If you are listening through headphones the urge to fall asleep is hard to resist (not in a bad way!).
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Today’s listening is ‘The Graduate’, the 2009 album by Nerina Pallot.
This is an enjoyable collection of mostly bouncy pop tunes from Mrs Chatterley, with a few piano ballads thrown in for good measure.
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Today’s listening is ‘Jewels For Sophia’, the 1999 album by Robyn Hitchcock.
This is a good album from Mr Hitchcock, with a fuller musical backing than is perhaps typical for his solo work.
The songs were recorded in Los Angeles, Seattle and London with assorted musical pals, in sessions which produced enough tracks for 2 albums, this one and also ‘A Star For Bram’.
The CD has two ‘bonus hidden tracks’ at the end, a fashion the point of which is still beyond me!
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Today’s listening is ‘Jewels For Sophia’, the 1999 album by Robyn Hitchcock.
This is a good album from Mr Hitchcock, with a fuller musical backing than is perhaps typical for his solo work.
The songs were recorded in Los Angeles, Seattle and London with assorted musical pals, in sessions which produced enough tracks for 2 albums, this one and also ‘A Star For Bram’.
The CD has two ‘bonus hidden tracks’ at the end, a fashion the point of which is still beyond me!
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Today’s listening is ‘Jewels For Sophia’, the 1999 album by Robyn Hitchcock.
This is a good album from Mr Hitchcock, with a fuller musical backing than is perhaps typical for his solo work.
The songs were recorded in Los Angeles, Seattle and London with assorted musical pals, in sessions which produced enough tracks for 2 albums, this one and also ‘A Star For Bram’.
The CD has two ‘bonus hidden tracks’ at the end, a fashion the point of which is still beyond me!
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Today’s listening is ‘Jewels For Sophia’, the 1999 album by Robyn Hitchcock.
This is a good album from Mr Hitchcock, with a fuller musical backing than is perhaps typical for his solo work.
The songs were recorded in Los Angeles, Seattle and London with assorted musical pals, in sessions which produced enough tracks for 2 albums, this one and also ‘A Star For Bram’.
The CD has two ‘bonus hidden tracks’ at the end, a fashion the point of which is still beyond me!
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Today’s listening is ‘Jewels For Sophia’, the 1999 album by Robyn Hitchcock.
This is a good album from Mr Hitchcock, with a fuller musical backing than is perhaps typical for his solo work.
The songs were recorded in Los Angeles, Seattle and London with assorted musical pals, in sessions which produced enough tracks for 2 albums, this one and also ‘A Star For Bram’.
The CD has two ‘bonus hidden tracks’ at the end, a fashion the point of which is still beyond me!
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Today’s listening is ‘Whatever Happened To…..Jugula?’, the 1984 album by Roy Harper and Jimmy Page.
“An ordinary man writing songs for ordinary people”..I’m not so sure about that, Roy!
This is definitely an album of 2 sides!
Side 1 is great, with the Harper classics ‘Nineteen Forty-Eightish’ and ‘Hangman’, plus you can tell that the music for the track ‘Hope’ was written by David Gilmour.
Side 2, however, is less than great, although ‘Elizabeth’ has it’s moments.
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Today’s listening is ‘The Spur’, the 2022 album by Joan Shelley.
This is a lovely album of pastoral, modern American singer/songwriter style songs from Joan Shelley.
She has a lovely singing voice and the musical backing is very tastefully done.
My copy also comes on a very pretty ‘seaglass wave’ coloured vinyl!
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Today’s listening is ‘Message From The Country’, the 1971 album by The Move.
This, the final album from The Move, is a great listen and a fine swan-song.
By this point the band comprised just Jeff Lynne, Roy Wood and Bev ‘Basher’ Bevan.
The album was recorded at the same time as they were recording the first Electric Light Orchestra album, which was going to turn out to be a bright future for at least Jeff and Bev!
"Vocals and detectable Midlands Accent: Roy Wood"!
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Today’s listening is ‘Thrashing Through The Passion’, the 2019 album by The Hold Steady.
Another rollicking fast-paced rock album from The Hold Steady, with the usual onslaught of bizarre lyrical tales of a world which you feel quite glad not to be a part of!
How the lead singer Craig Finn manages to remember all the song lyrics for their live shows is beyond me!
“Wherever he goes he always orders the usual,
He likes to see what they’ll bring him” -
Today’s listening is ‘Thrashing Through The Passion’, the 2019 album by The Hold Steady.
Another rollicking fast-paced rock album from The Hold Steady, with the usual onslaught of bizarre lyrical tales of a world which you feel quite glad not to be a part of!
How the lead singer Craig Finn manages to remember all the song lyrics for their live shows is beyond me!
“Wherever he goes he always orders the usual,
He likes to see what they’ll bring him” -
Today’s listening is ‘Thrashing Through The Passion’, the 2019 album by The Hold Steady.
Another rollicking fast-paced rock album from The Hold Steady, with the usual onslaught of bizarre lyrical tales of a world which you feel quite glad not to be a part of!
How the lead singer Craig Finn manages to remember all the song lyrics for their live shows is beyond me!
“Wherever he goes he always orders the usual,
He likes to see what they’ll bring him” -
Today’s listening is ‘Everything’s Different Now’, the 1988 album by ’Til Tuesday.
’Til Tuesday was the band that Aimee Mann was a member of before she embarked on her solo career.
This is a really good album, with nearly all the lyrics and a large chunk of the music being written by Aimee.
It’s mostly upbeat, late 1980’s sound and production gives it the feel of an Aimee Mann solo album that has been treated with Prozac!
Well worth a listen.
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Today’s listening is ‘Invitation’, the 2017 album by Filthy Friends.
Filthy Friends were an indie rock ‘supergroup’ (an over-used term, in my opinion!) from Portland, Oregon, USA.
The band comprised Corin Tucker on lead vocals (Sleater-Kinney), Peter Buck (R.E.M.), Scott McCaughey (The Minus 5 etc), Kurt Bloch (Young Fresh Fellows) and Bill Rieflin (Robyn Hitchcock etc).
This is a pretty fast-paced, out and out guitar rock album.
Worth a listen!
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Today’s listening is ‘Not The Weapon But The Hand’, the 2012 album by Steve Hogarth and Richard Barbieri.
An extra-curricular outing for Mr H and Mr Barbieri on this interesting album which has some good tracks.
The song ‘Only Love Will Make You Free’ appears to be the origin of the ‘F.E.A.R.’ acronym which would subsequently become the title of a Marillion album.
“It’s not the weapon that does the damage,
But in who’s hands it rests”. -
Today’s listening is ‘I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight’, the 1974 album by Richard and Linda Thompson.
Another perfectly wonderful album from Richard and Linda T!
Thoroughly depressing lyrics, as you would expect, but terrific musicianship and, of course, Linda’s beautiful voice!
“There’s nothing at the end of the rainbow,
There’s nothing to grow up for any more”.