What are you listening to right now?

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Who Shot Sam? wrote:So who is better, Duffy or Adele? I saw Adele on Morning Becomes Eclectic and was really taken with her voice (not so wild about the songs).
Haven't heard either LP in full but seen them on the telly and heard the odd track, and of course the big Adele hit about chasing pavements. Adele seems more interesting. Duffy seems a bit like she was put together by a marketing department. Warwick Avenue is pleasant enough, but I hear more pastiche than soul. Both LPs will probably be forgotten alongside the lasting qualities of Back To Black but maybe they'll go onto do some great work whilst Amy implodes. Regina Spektor is in a league of her own compared to these two, and she wasn't signed in response to someone else's success.
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A CD of EC and the Attractions at Shepherds Bush Empire 4th November 1994.

It's worth it for Alison/You Win Again/He'll Have To Go and Rockinghorse Road.
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Revenge songs - Jacob Golden
well worth checking this guy/album out - great collection of songs
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can any of you Spanish speakers tell me what he's singing after 'ahhh ahhh America' ?
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mood swung wrote:can any of you Spanish speakers tell me what he's singing after 'ahhh ahhh America' ?
I would if I could, but it's no longer available!
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Mood, I had a listen to it before but didn't hear anything Spanish. According to this - http://www.seeklyrics.com/lyrics/Ozomat ... erica.html - he's just singing "Ah, eh, ah"

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Jarvis Cocker - Jarvis

This album has been seeping in really well. A lot of it is sparser than Pulp with JC almost talking, which makes JC's favoured ironic phrasing seem pretty dry at first and left me wondering whether it was saying anything much, but then it does.

Eg. of the apparent dryness:

BABY’S COMING BACK TO ME

"Outside there’s children laughing. The radio plays my favourite song. The sun is shining. And Peace broke out in the world & no-one says a cruel word. And Peace is the sweetest sound I’ve ever heard. And baby’s coming back to me. Yes, baby’s coming back to me. Baby’s coming back to me. Baby’s coming home.
She was just sleeping somewhere. Now she’s come back to hold my hand & we go walking. And the years have all melted away. Yeah I remember you like yesterday. And the Summer’s here so say good-bye to rain. And baby’s coming back to me, etc.
I feel like I am surely dreaming: how can things oh-so-quickly change? Well, it’s strange but true - I’m telling you truthfully, see: that baby’s coming back to me, etc. My Baby’s coming home."

I Will Kill Again and a couple of others sound similarly dry at first, leaving you thinking "WTF?" A lot of the time he's funny, as usual, though. He seems to pick on fat people (Fat Children, Big Julie), confuses - "i will kill again"? I couldn't figure out what that possibly specifically meant, if anything... but am satisfied with the ideas it gave me (a lot of it works like that). Also, "everything is gonna be alright" repeated ambiguously at the end - well, before the long pause and hidden track, Cunts Are Still Running The World - that gave it a new spin).

It integrates nicely and does reveal quite a bit to take in, and sounds good - pop elements (not so much 'poppy' but traditionally pop, like Don't Let Him Waste Your Time, that he wrote for Nancy Sinatra) blending with, and working off, some dark atmospherics. Overall pretty thought-provoking and entertaining. Earlier I may have given the impression it's not poignant in comparing it to Pulp but it's not short of poignancy at all.
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A Cole Porter second to Elvis. Under rated compared to van. Good God this guy is alway reinventing hemself and I so admire him.
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Portishead - Third
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These work great alternating on my multidisc cd player -

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Tindersticks - The Hungry Saw

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The Age of the Understatement - The Last Shadow Puppets
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My bad! no embedding allowed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tnr_Xalz3Fs

Apparently, they were on Dancing With The Stars, too. :shock:
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Chet Baker's rather sublime reading of Cole Porter's Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye.
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Heh, I think all I've been listening to lately is Momofuku... I feel a little silly.
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Ron Sexsmith covering Tim Hardin's 'Reason To Believe', which I've also seen Lloyd Cole cover, so a song with a very fine pedigree!
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XTC Apple Vinyls box set - 45RPM singles of all the tracks on the two superb Apple Venus albums. And you people are complaining about having to change four sides of Momofuku!

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The Age of the Understatement - The Last Shadow Puppets
Snap!

I'm enjoying it. Alex Turner has a distinctive voice and musical style. It could definitely pass for being an Arctic Monkeys album.
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Otis Westinghouse wrote:Ron Sexsmith covering Tim Hardin's 'Reason To Believe', which I've also seen Lloyd Cole cover, so a song with a very fine pedigree!
The Braggster has also covered this.
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Sam Cooke: Portrait of a Lifetime

'I got a little red rooster'
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think that you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt
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Lot's or Pearl Jam...it's Friday
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