Un-Grateful Thread - What Are You Listening to Instead of the Dead?

Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by Tom H, Sep 24, 2014.

  1. wavethatflag

    wavethatflag God is love, but get it in writing.

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    SF Bay Area
    I have a best of and I Just Can't Stop It (CDs). I had this one on cassette, and also a comp., but those are long gone. Maybe I should have kept my cassettes? Nah.

    There was a sweet box set with all their albums and rarities at Rasputin music on Powell that I would have purchased by now had that store not gone out of business.

    Pete T. covered "Save It For Later," how much more cred does a band need?

    The Specials are coming to Oakland, I saw recently. The Beat were more pop-friendly than this group, and Wakeling has a better voice than anyone in this cast.
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    Last edited: Mar 11, 2018
  2. Jim Walker

    Jim Walker Senior Member

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    southeast porttown
    That box set is a great package and includes a raging show. I've seen where
    The Specials tour around from time to time. They were good but not a
    favorite that I listened to as much.
     
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  3. wavethatflag

    wavethatflag God is love, but get it in writing.

    Location:
    SF Bay Area
    Yeah, I'm not huge into the Specials but I have the above album. "Little Bitch" is the best song on it. "Stupid Marriage" is kind of funny, unless you got married too young. :D
     
  4. Crispy Rob

    Crispy Rob Cat Juggler

    Location:
    Oakland, CA
    The recent MoFi hybrid SACD with the original mix (which I'd never heard before) is highly recommended.
     
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  5. Crispy Rob

    Crispy Rob Cat Juggler

    Location:
    Oakland, CA
    I was there!
     
  6. Crispy Rob

    Crispy Rob Cat Juggler

    Location:
    Oakland, CA
    Bowie's Pinups earlier and now hanging on the back patio with the outdoor speakers for the first time in 2018 (beautiful sunny day here in Oaktown) with Todd Rundgren's Something/Anything for musical company.
     
  7. notesofachord

    notesofachord Riding down the river in an old canoe

    Location:
    Mojave Desert
    "March of the Swivelheads" from Special Beat Service will forever be associated in my head with the famous running home scene from Ferris Bueller's Day Off:

     
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  8. footlooseman

    footlooseman Forum Resident

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  9. budwhite

    budwhite Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

    Location:
    Götaland, Sverige
    That sounds nice. But I have to wait two-three months for it to get warm enough. It's been snowing much of last week. Really good and cold winter for once
     
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  10. Rne

    Rne weltschmerz

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    I don't know if this is exactly what Hendrix had in mind when he was putting the album together, but it's excellent anyway. I've revisiting posthumous albums and I confirmed that 1969-1970 is definitely my favorite phase in Jimi's extremely short career.
     
  11. Rne

    Rne weltschmerz

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    In my opinion, the best studio album by the band.
     
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  12. Dahabenzapple

    Dahabenzapple Forum Resident

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    Quoting my own post about this supposedly “difficult” music to again inform anyone remotely interested in the tenor saxophone that the *great* Rodrigo Amado plays that horn like no one else and his proficiency and energy is positively through the roof. This recording is one of the best places to hear it but one must commit to listen to the whole thing especially since his opening phrases on the first track are extreme to say the least. His playing over the final 20 minutes or so on the last 2 pieces is almost god like.
     
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  13. Jim Walker

    Jim Walker Senior Member

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    southeast porttown
    Yes, that's it! Saw the last part of Ferris... the other day. Just listened to
    Rotating Heads again, which is the original song... hilarious. LOL
     
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  14. Jim Walker

    Jim Walker Senior Member

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    Pinups. How long it has been. Thanks for the reminder. I think a pairing of
    that and the Stones blues album which is still an unopened Christmas gift
    are in order this Friday eve betwixt the March Madness hysteria. I'll hold myself to that... too. Great about your patio/speaker set up. We've had a weather flip this month, with March being blustery cold while Feb was 60-70 degree days everyday.
     
  15. wavethatflag

    wavethatflag God is love, but get it in writing.

    Location:
    SF Bay Area
    Yeah, you have to have both.
     
  16. bzfgt

    bzfgt The Grand High Exalted Mystic Ruler

    Wire Nocturnal Koreans
    Tortoise Millions Now Living Will Never Die
     
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  17. wavethatflag

    wavethatflag God is love, but get it in writing.

    Location:
    SF Bay Area
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    Some goes to women, some goes to Jesus,
    Though I'm absolutely certain both's all right
    But it takes me at least halfway to the label
    'Fore I can even make it through the night
    Well, I think that you're headed for a whole lot of trouble
    Yeah, yeah I think that you're headed for a whole lot of trouble
    Baby yeah, I think that you're headed for some trouble
    If you take your whiskey home
     
  18. Crispy Rob

    Crispy Rob Cat Juggler

    Location:
    Oakland, CA
    Yesterday evening caught The Mermen playing an acquaintances private birthday party at a place just about 5 minutes from my house, Rockridge Improvement Club here in Oaktown. Great instrumental surf rock, it's been about 18 years since last time I saw them but they are still fantastic. Fun instrumental cover of Rockin' in the Free World as the encore. Tonight listening to the 2003 remix of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars from the Five Years vinyl box. First listen to the remix. I have no idea why this exists (except cha-ching, cha-ching, cha-ching), the original album is perfect as it is, and this alternate version isn't really illuminating and is mostly disconcerting. Taking a great album and making it still good, but less interesting, for no real reason... At the least the box still also has the original mix, because this one is pointless.
     
  19. Erik B.

    Erik B. Fight the Power

    New Jimi Hendrix record on purple vinyl from Barnes and Noble
     
  20. Crispy Rob

    Crispy Rob Cat Juggler

    Location:
    Oakland, CA
    We are back to cold and rainy again, but it was nice while it lasted. Supposed to rain pretty much all week, but can't complain given what our northeastern brethren are going through... anyway, patio/speaker was an anomaly for a while, probably won't be for another month or two before that setup gets another airing...
     
  21. Crispy Rob

    Crispy Rob Cat Juggler

    Location:
    Oakland, CA
    I'll add that I have had all of Bowie's early albums for ages, except for Pinups, which I unjustly ignored because I thought I didn't need a covers album. When this box set came out in 2015, I finally heard this one and kicked myself for ignoring it so long. The arrangements are great, Bowie's vocal approach is too, and Ronson just kills it throughout. It turns out it's just as essential (IMHO) as any other Bowie from that period.
     
  22. notesofachord

    notesofachord Riding down the river in an old canoe

    Location:
    Mojave Desert
    Pinups is a great celebration of mid-'60s UK beat music, albeit with an updated Bowie/Ronson '70s sound.

    So much fun!
     
  23. Rne

    Rne weltschmerz

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    More late Hendrix. He looks tired and wanting to be somewhere else on the footage, but he sounds quite powerful when you only listen. Mitchell does some brilliant inspired drumming, and Cox is solid as always.
    In spite of what many people say, not a bad concert at all. In fact, quite memorable, if you ask me.
     
  24. notesofachord

    notesofachord Riding down the river in an old canoe

    Location:
    Mojave Desert
    Groovy sounds from 1960s Peru:

    Traffic Sound - "Yellow Sea Days"
     
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  25. notesofachord

    notesofachord Riding down the river in an old canoe

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    Mojave Desert
    Thought Santana was the only band to blend groovy rock and latin rhythms? Think again.

    Traffic Sound - "Meshkalina'
     

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