What Are You Listening To?

My favorite from his folk years….

The cover is him and his then girlfriend Suze Rotolo walking around the village in NYC…if they didn’t get married it was close…. The breakup chronicled on Ballad in Plain D…..by all accounts she - and her family- had a big influence on Bob who kind of transormed from a bit of a Midwestern country bumpkin to a man of letters within a year or two…

Fun fact: stereo (more sky) and mono (more road) LP covers cropped pic differently…

Starsky wrote:


My favorite from his folk years….

The cover is him and his then girlfriend Suze Rotolo walking around the village in NYC….by all accounts she - and her family- had a big influence on Bob who kind of transormed from a bit of a Midwestern country bumpkin to a man of letters within a year or two…

Fun fact: stereo (more sky) and mono (more road) LP covers cropped pic differently…

10,000

Dylan has some duds but I like this one….

His first…original six eye mono…record stiffed…not too many of these around ( even less of the stereo variant)


Fun fact: picture is reversed

Burning Brides - Fall of the Plastic Empire

man did i dig them at the beginning of the century

on to the second major label for burning brides - leave no ashes

Heart Full Of Black the lead trick on this is seriously killer, shame the  video uploaded is so pixelated… 


https://youtu.be/sgwwEk9_BdY

per the wikipedia there were two indie albums next, the main members got married had two children and then got divorced…

Stereolab - Switched On

TIL that the Jews even controlled  the Clash!

https://consequence.net/2021/12/dave-grohl-covers-the-clash-train-in-vain/

Xenobot-hatch wrote:
TIL that the Jews even controlled  the Clash!

https://consequence.net/2021/12/dave-grohl-covers-the-clash-train-in-vain/

BTW, this version sucks, but I still learned something irrespective of it's lameness

The Split Squad - Another Cinderella

https://thesplitsquad.bandcamp.com/album/another-cinderella

holy supergroup batman

this description cracks me up

America's least famous Supergroup! Keith Streng (The Fleshtones), Eddie Munoz (The Plimsouls), Clem burke (Blondie), Michael Giblin (Cherry Twister), and Josh Kantor (The Baseball Project).

Big Dumb Rock! The way God intended…

and of course this notion that rock is dead is preposterous

That type of statement means nothing unless you define “rock” and “dead”

speaking of supergroups

The Mighty Soulmates - Vol. 1

recorded in 1993 but never released and now out on streaming.. the group consists of

André Cymone (original bass player with the artist known as Prince), Mic Murphy (renowned as the co-creator and member of The System and The Jack Sass Band),  St. Paul Peterson (keyboardist in The Time and lead singer in Prince’s group The Family), and Gardner Cole (writer, producer and musician, best known for his work with Madonna),

Finally found a nice used copy…this must have sold little in US cause it’s first time I seen a copy out in the wild

Many years ago I heard about the connection between Nick and Alex Harvey

https://www.theredhandfiles.com/are-we-doomed/

Starsky wrote:
Many years ago I heard about the connection between Nick and Alex Harvey

whoa…

Nick Cave: Fuck! I’ve never seenthat! My first band was basically an Alex Harvey cover band.

He's not wrong, after watching that I see where he gets his inspiration more than anyone else

Alex Harvey sounds like Bon Scott! And definitely AC/DC overtones

A lot of similarities between Bon Scott and Alex both late bloomers to rock… both from Scotland

I get the visceral charge one gets from new just released music but if something is new to me it’s new even if it came out in 1973! And I love exploring the connections…the history…how it all ties together

As far as Nick… some lyrical similarities in the types of songs… you can draw a line from Harvey–to Cave’s treatment of disturbing subject matter such as in I let love in

I love pigpen


This is like the first gd box set..
They got dozens after

Starsky wrote:

The black album?