What Are You Listening To?

Space wrote:
Am I the last person here to discover the great Avalanches album of 2020?

nope, but i'm a terrible barometer of what folks are and aren't listening to… but thanks for the recommendation, maybe i'll check 'em out.

Just finished listening to the scintillating sound of my car not starting.

At least it’s broken when I don’t really need it.

David Bowie - Tonight

EMI Records 1984

This is way better than I remember.

yeah, was the beginning of the end of his epic run of releases, Blue Jean is a great song tho and didn't realize all the Iggy songs and involvement

Have you heard the demos?

As well as acknowledging that Tonight was not one of his stronger efforts, Bowie would later distance himself from his 1984–1987 period
In 1989 when working with Tin Machine, he described both Tonight and Never Let Me Down as "great material that got simmered down to product level. I really should have not done it quite so studio-ly. I think some of it was a waste of really good songs. You should hear the demos from those two albums. It's night and day by comparison with the finished tracks. There's stuff that I could really kick myself about. When I listen to those demos it's, 'How did it turn out like that?' You should hear "Loving the Alien" on demo. It's wonderful on demo. I promise you! (laughs). But on the album, it's not as wonderful."

Martian-hatch wrote:
yeah, was the beginning of the end of his epic run of releases, Blue Jean is a great song tho and didn't realize all the Iggy songs and involvement

Have you heard the demos?

I have not heard the demos, but I sure would like to. They did a remix of the next album for the last boxset and it allows the songs to just breathe without all the kitchen sink stuff.

Don’t forget Iggy Pop’s Blah blah blah album from 1986

Major Bowie involvement

hutch wrote:
Don’t forget Iggy Pop’s Blah blah blah album from 1986

Major Bowie involvement

Yeah, that album is not horrible either.

rich_WDC wrote:
"Radio Astro" , released last week by Hearty Har (band includes Fogarty's sons) – California psychedelic mixed with some garage and rock.

Checking this at the moment, it's a great listen… thanks for the heads up on it!

Rina Sawayama - SAWAYAMA

got hipped to this from album from last year and wow serious amount of 9/10 star reviews for it…  lots going on here but it works…

kosmo wrote:
Rina Sawayama - SAWAYAMA

yeah, I dig her and was on my best of 2020 list
the STFU! video is great….I really like how she can weave so many styles into one song
Some of it's a little KPOPy for me (even though she is British)

Martian-hatch wrote:

kosmo wrote:
Rina Sawayama - SAWAYAMA

yeah, I dig her and was on my best of 2020 list
the STFU! video is great….I really like how she can weave so many styles into one song
Some of it's a little KPOPy for me (even though she is British)

i'm gonna be that guy so..  actually she's Japanese but living in England…  but yes  she's does meld many stylies easily.. no an expert on JPOP, but the R&B and club beats would be inline with the KPOP style.

she's in the news today because due to her protest they changed the rules of eligibility of the BRIT Awards and Mercury Prize. 

“Starting this year, artists (like me) will be eligible for nominations even without British citizenship. The rules have been broadened to include those who have been a resident of the U.K. for five years.

kosmo wrote:

i'm gonna be that guy so.. 

some Brittney in the mix to with a song like XS

This video/song is great tooBad Friend

The Sugarcubes - Life's Too Good

along the lines of Rina Sawayama debut, this is one of those albums that only youthful exuberance could pull off.. such a wonderful cacophony of styles that just work..

George Harrison All Things Must Pass and Talking Heads- the Name of the Band is…

Morcheeba

Prompted  by a single out today on all the best streaming services

Slowly making headway through the KPM-1000 catalog. There's some fantastic stuff here.

Ash - Meltdown

Lots of opportunities for air drumming on this one

The Beatles - 1

I was reading an oral biography of the Beatles


The early years until the first couple of recording sessions are so interesting to me.. Stu Sutcliffe, Hamburg . Pete Best.Brian Epstein entering pic and turning them from black leather rough boys to suit clad nice guys,etc

I want more so I bought the acclaimed Lewisohn book (first of three expected volumes…takes you through 1962)… I bought the abridged 800 page one.. waiting on it

I just can’t justify spending $150 on the 1700 page unabridged version…1700 pages might be too much

Many years ago I read Phillip Norman’s Shout which is good..gave me the general idea… same as now the part I found fascinating was the early years..the origin story of the phenomenon

Miles Davis Radio on SiriusXM. 

All eras.

Noname's new song