Lou Reed! Currently filling the gaps in my collection. This week I got: - Coney Island Baby - The Bells - New Sensations - New York
The [English] Beat- just bought the 5CD US box signed by Ranking Roger! The combination of bouncy fun music and the dark streak in Dave Wakeling's lyrics has always intrigued me..........
Oasis. I have a playlist on the iPod of the first 3 albums and the associated b-sides, and that has been getting constant play n the car all week.
I definitely understand the OP's obsession with The Supremes, i love them too. I''ve been obsessed with the artists listed below for quite a while now. Eilen Jewell Lindi Ortega Rosanne Cash John Mellencamp Peggy Lee Marvin Gaye Bobbie Gentry
Oh yeah, apart from Meddle, I'd really overlooked their post-Syd/pre-superstardom period, but there's a lot of great stuff to explore in there, particularly when you tap into some of the "unofficial" recordings. I love the laid back, pastoral ambiance of a lot of this stuff, which stands in stark contrast to more edgy angst that they became so well known for circa The Wall.
''What's Going On'' may be my favorite album, but i dig the earlier stuff as well, especially those great duets with Tammi Terrell.
It's a timeless masterpiece. My favorite album would have to be "I Want You". Wish this was would've made the cut. I do enjoy his 60's material too. (Especially his early Jazz cuts)
I'm currently having two obsessions: polish jazz mainly from the sixties and early seventies like Zibigniew Namyslowski and Krzysztof Komeda; Compass point stuff like Gwen Guthrie and Grace Jones. Just came out of (another) spell of Jazz Funk and Northern Soul mania.
Been on a 50s craze: rockabilly, R&B, gospel, bluegrass, jazz, blues, country, rock and roll, avant garde, etc., The quality is staggering. The production is very dry. The selection is unending. And other than certain pop and rock productions, productions are timeless and clutter free. It is the watershed that 60s music could not have happened without.
After listening to Hepcat for about a month (love that band), it's been The Pretty Things and The Move. With The Kinks sprinkled in for good measure.
WOW, what a great instrumental, thanks! Go figure, I've got the "deluxe" 2-CD versions of "I Want You", "Let's Get It On", "What's Going On" and "Midnight Love" and that instrumental that you posted has somehow always passed my ears? I agree that Marvin was in a really nice groove on that "I Want You" album and when I got that 2-CD deluxe version and found that there was a full version of the song, "I Wanna Be Where You Are", which was originally less than two minutes, including a VERY long fade, I was so very happy. I'd like to think that Marvin was in a good place when he made the "I Want You" album, as I know it always takes me to a good place when I listen to it!
London Grammar - first heard them on Chill radio, then saw their Glasonbury performance on TV. Can't get enough of them now.
Wussy's Left for Dead album. Someone told me I'd like them, and I just hate their name, but I bought this record a few weeks ago, and it's just getting under my skin. If the next album I buy of theirs is half as good as Left for Dead, they'll be my New Favorite Band for awhile.
the sugarplastic: all the albums. i really love the way the guitarists plays. it reminds me at lot with the old xtc records.
Currently in the midst of a Thelonious Monk obsession, something that happens all the time. I'm figuring a few things out on guitar, and spinning my way through all the Columbia albums. And I'm obsessed with my lovely gal Lucinda. . . while not strictly a musical obsession there's music in there too between and amongst us. I'm a lucky man.
