What are you listening to right now?
- bambooneedle
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- Otis Westinghouse
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Tom Waits - Closing Time. Bit early in the day, but it's great to listen to. Impressive trajectory, instead of starting out radical and ending up bland, Tom started out sounding quite conventional, and now just sounds mental. A great body of work.
There's more to life than books, you know, but not much more
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Otis, Nic Harcourt did a great interview with Ry Cooder yesterday on KCRW's "Morning Becomes Eclectic", along with selections from the album. You can view it here (scroll down to "Recent Programs"):Otis Westinghouse wrote:Chavez Ravine - Ry Cooder. It's a great LP. Long and expansive, but stuffed with great music and sounds.
http://kcrw.org/show/mb
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Wow , the Clean! All the way from Dunedin to Liverpool eh? Do you have any of the Chills or the Verlaines as well Plaything?
I was listening to David Kilgours latest "Frozen Orange" just yesterday.
Tally ho tallly ho!
- ah it updates - or else Im having "Clean" hallucinations - which isnt beyone the realms of possibility at all at all.
I was listening to David Kilgours latest "Frozen Orange" just yesterday.
Tally ho tallly ho!
- ah it updates - or else Im having "Clean" hallucinations - which isnt beyone the realms of possibility at all at all.
echos myron like a siren
with endurance like the liberty bell
and he tells you of the dreamers
but he's cracked up like the road
and he'd like to lift us up, but we're a very heavy load
with endurance like the liberty bell
and he tells you of the dreamers
but he's cracked up like the road
and he'd like to lift us up, but we're a very heavy load
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I Still Miss Someone - Johnny Cash
Now Dusty Springfield - No Easy Way Down - what a terrific song!
Now "Needle Time" (the Clarksdale Sessions version). Love this verse:
I've got this suitcase of phony wisdom to dispense
These twenty-seven or so years
You'd think I (would have) made them some cents
Now they want me fingerprinted
Like I was smuggling drugs
While the government does deals with the most convenient thugs
audioscrobbler down this weekend for maintenance!
Now Dusty Springfield - No Easy Way Down - what a terrific song!
Now "Needle Time" (the Clarksdale Sessions version). Love this verse:
I've got this suitcase of phony wisdom to dispense
These twenty-seven or so years
You'd think I (would have) made them some cents
Now they want me fingerprinted
Like I was smuggling drugs
While the government does deals with the most convenient thugs
audioscrobbler down this weekend for maintenance!
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- bambooneedle
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SMM - Ben Lee is a current darling of the Australian music scene, along with Missy Higgins. Catch My Disease is currently getting loads of airplay. He first appeared when he was about 15 I think, and he's surely got the smarts and talent to be around for a long while if he wanted to. I'm very impressed with how he handles his celebrity, and I think that album title suitably reflects his postmoderny carefree yet switched on sort of attitude. Extra points to him also for being Costello-aware, he once recorded Girls Talk for a b-side.
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Dimanche A Bamako - a terrific new album by Amadou & Mariam, a blind couple from Mali. Little bits of R&B, Afro-funk, street sounds - great, joyous music, with the occasional political edge. "Sénégal Fast Food" and "Politic Amagni" are probably my favorite cuts.
I know some people are allergic to the entire notion of "World Music", but those who are are missing out on some great stuff. Albums like this, Tinariwen's Amassakoul and the two Ghana Soundz '70s compilations deserve a much wider audience. So do groups like Ojos De Brujo from Spain, who use traditional sounds (in their case, flamenco) in a new way.
I know some people are allergic to the entire notion of "World Music", but those who are are missing out on some great stuff. Albums like this, Tinariwen's Amassakoul and the two Ghana Soundz '70s compilations deserve a much wider audience. So do groups like Ojos De Brujo from Spain, who use traditional sounds (in their case, flamenco) in a new way.
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yep , its a real beauty Vez.
at the moment Richard Thompsons dulcet tones are telling me once again the story of Red Molly and the Vincent 52 - which always brings a little tear to these hard old eyes when James dies at the end.
"He reached for her hand and he slipped her the keys
He said I've got no further use for these
I see angels on Ariels in leather and chrome
Swooping down from heaven to carry me home
And he gave her one last kiss and died
And he gave her his Vincent to ride"
at the moment Richard Thompsons dulcet tones are telling me once again the story of Red Molly and the Vincent 52 - which always brings a little tear to these hard old eyes when James dies at the end.
"He reached for her hand and he slipped her the keys
He said I've got no further use for these
I see angels on Ariels in leather and chrome
Swooping down from heaven to carry me home
And he gave her one last kiss and died
And he gave her his Vincent to ride"
echos myron like a siren
with endurance like the liberty bell
and he tells you of the dreamers
but he's cracked up like the road
and he'd like to lift us up, but we're a very heavy load
with endurance like the liberty bell
and he tells you of the dreamers
but he's cracked up like the road
and he'd like to lift us up, but we're a very heavy load