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

It's great. You're gonna love it.

I love that mix as much as I love the classic one.

 

Stephen was not very creative at the time of thinking of album titles
This one is his third solo album from 1975.

 

Marvin Gaye is great by the way. I listened a lot to his music about 10 years ago. The classic 60s Motown singles are great of course but his 70s stuff is mind blowing epic

 

Nevermind the Vegas residence... this is great. They could have played the 90s ballads... Big 10 inch is pretty obscure for a telly talkswhow no?

Steven Tyler is still a great lead singer. I don't get how he still has that voice!!?

 

I like the Horns too!

 

It's nice to see they chose that song to play. And, I agree, Tyler's voice sounds surprisingly fine!

 

Merle, from the Bear Family Box set, beautifully rendered and mastered,
along with Neil firing up some country folk sparks himself. Makes
a nice pair. The Hag Box-disc one: studio selections from 1969-71
for this spin. Time Fades Away is one of my favorites, a working man's,
no-nonsense live kicker with an awesome band working it. Audiences
drawn to this tour by his Harvest hits were bewildered and surprised
by the performances, apparently.

Cheers...

 

Two albums from Super 400:
- Blast the Message
- Live 05

 

More red wine and beer music, acting like I'm still up in
those pretty mountains last week in that rarefied air flowing
through my lungs. Coming back down the sea level, throwing
some bands together, old faves: CCR-er great and masterblasters
from the west coast, X (saw them on this tour thankfully) and the
Blasters, smashing atoms and drinking molecules, last but not
least, troubadour Steve Wynn carrying on w/ the old days of wine
and roses, Danny and Dusty, whooping it up it up for a foray into
another lost weekend.

 

After spinning my custom Grateful Dead The Golden Road box best of CDr compilation, I'm enjoying another personal "best of" CDr that I made in the early '00s:

The Byrds - Adventures in Byrdland

1. Nashville West Live at The Fillmore Feb 1969
2. Why stereo 1965 outtake version
3. If You're Gone Turn, Turn, Turn
4. Eight Miles High outtake version
5. Get to You The Notorious Byrd Brothers
6. One Hundred Years from Now Gram Parsons vocal version
7. I Come and Stand at Every Door 5D
8. Draft Morning The Notorious Byrd Brothers
9. You All Look Alike Untitled
10. Time Between Younger Than Yesterday
11. I Knew I'd Want You Mr. Tambourine Man
12. Psychodrama City 5D outtake/bonus track
13. So You Want to Be a Rock and Roll Star Younger Than Yesterday
14. You Ain't Goin' Nowhere Sweetheart of the Rodeo
15. Old Blue Dr. Byrds & Mr. Hyde
16. C.T.A.-102 Younger Than Yesterday
17. Pretty Boy Floyd Live at The Fillmore Feb 1969
18. Drug Store Truck Drivin' Man Live at The Fillmore Feb 1969
19. I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better Mr. Tambourine Man
20. Lady Friend 1967 single (stereo mix)
21. Goin' Back The Notorious Byrd Brothers
22. Tulsa County Blue Ballad of Easy Rider
23. Satisfied Mind Turn Turn Turn
24. Ballad of Easy Rider Ballad of Easy Rider
25. Your Way of Loving Me Dr. Byrds & Mr. Hyde
26. Set You Free This Time Turn Turn Turn
27. Yesterday's Train Untitled
28. The Bells of Rhymney Mr. Tambourine Man

Geez, I can't believe that I fit 28 tracks on a single 80-minute disc.

 

Late 80s saw me burned out on the music I grew up on in the 60s&70s Dylan Hendrix Beatles etc etc (excluding premo Dead)

So the last 30 yrs or so my focus has been almost exclusively on pre-1960 music, Doors s/t (my favorite 60s album) Elvis Costello TYM & premo live Dead (66-79)...

Anyway I could care less if I ever hear a electric bass or 60s guitar god solo again...unless its the Dead or Doors s/t...

I am content listening to tight rhythm section with stand up bass & smoking sax & stellar vocalist especially late 40s - late 50s harmony & Doo-Wop...

Today & tonight I am rocking out to...

The 5 Royales - Sing For You

Fats Domino - Legendary Masters (2LP)

The Drifters featuring Clyde McPhatter - Let The Boogie Woogie Roll (2LP)

The Drifters - Their Greatest Recordings / The Early Years

The Five Keys - Dream On / The Best of The Five Keys / Orig. King Recordings

The Five Keys s/t

All but the Five Keys Dream On are orig or 2nd issue NM pressings...

Dream On is a 28 song comp CD of the Keys entire King Records singles...

The music sounds so good on these records especially sax & bass...

Literally sounds like they are in the room

 

Flying Burrito's classic first album.

 

Now on to my custom comp of The Who:

The Who - Adventures in Whoville

1. I'm One (Quadropenia)
2. Good Lovin' (BBC Sessions)
3. Man with Money (A Quick One outtake)
4. Here 'Tis (The High Numbers)
5. Medac (The Who Sell Out)
6. I'm a Man (My Generation)
7. Fortune Teller (Live at Leeds)
8. Batman (Ready Steady Who EP)
9. Going Mobile (Who's Next)
10. Glow Girl (Odds & Sods)
11. Sparks (Live at Leeds)
12. Melancholia (1968 outtake)
13. Did You Steal My Money? (Face Dances)
14. Someone's Coming (I Can See for Miles b-side)
15. I'm Free (Live at Leeds)
16. Sea and Sand (Quadrophenia)
17. Our Love Was (The Who Sell Out)
18. Imagine a Man (The Who by Numbers)
19. I'm a Sensation (Tommy)
20. Heinz Baked Beans (The Who Sell Out)
21. Whiskey Man (A Quick One)
22. Abbie Hoffman Incident (from Woodstock)
23. Love Ain't for Keeping (NYC electric version w/ Leslie West)
24. It's Not True (My Generation)
25. 905 (Who are You)
26. In the City (I'm a Boy b-side)
27. Is It in My Head? (Quadrophenia)
28. Tommy's Holiday Camp (Live at Leeds)

 

Stereolab - transient random-noise bursts with announcements.

 

Revisiting one of my favorite albums of the late '00s:

The Bees - Octopus

The opening track sounds like Ringo jamming with Leon Russell while listening to Blur:

"Who Cares What the Question Is?"


These guys should've done a lot better, but I guess that a hippie band from the Isle of Wight was not what the music world was begging for in 2007.

 

Another great track from Octopus, surely one of my favorite songs of 2007.

"Got to Let Go"

 

One more. A tight funky groove on this one:

"(This is for the) Better Days"

 

Indeed. I saw the Providence show that tour. It was pretty darn good, to say the least.

 

I wish this lp got more play than it does. Harrison at his peak,
with a few more good records left in him, Dark Horse and Texture
and maybe Thirty Three & 1/3. A few follow ups that serve as
companion morning pieces for today's jigsaw puzzle, closing out
on a Sunday morning favorite from my very early years, centuries
or so ago...

 

I've not seen (or heard) hide no hair of this band. Another Hippie band is always welcome in my reality.