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Where would you look? I’m thinking there might be some Black Friday deals on the horizon.
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7 hours ago, casapete said:
From the album 'Hackney Diamonds', and featuring Paul McCartney on bass.
I read they had recorded 23 tracks so there is more to come and there's another with Paul. I also read that Ringo might also be involved in some way.
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@nekomatic I've got a couple of albums with her playing alongside the great saxophonist Andy Sheppard.
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I'm not going to draw any firm conclusions about the new Blur album after only a couple of days listening. Most of the tracks feel to me like tracks at the back end of an album AFTER you've heard the best 5-6 tracks - more like the embers of a late night camp fire on a beach... no graffiti aerosol cans exploding in the fire. Like new shoes - takes a while to wear them in.
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Orwell's 1984 audiobook read by Peter Capaldi - he's a good choice what with his great diction, gravitas and a mix of panic, menace and barely contained resentment in his voice.
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@Frank Blank - well that's debate to be had - in a pub one night myself and a mate were trying to decide on the best opening 4 bars of any piece of music - Beethoven's 5th tied with Ticket To Ride I think. I still rate Complete Control as one of the best singles of all time - I used to slap it on almost every Friday after finishing lectures at uni.
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On 27/08/2023 at 15:31, Frank Blank said:
This made me listen to Nine Horses again...
That is an interesting album - a rich complex sound - not that I was expecting Billy Bragg or anything. Glad you mentioned it.
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Out takes with Elvis invariably cracking up laughing - from an era when almost everything was done in one take. I have the vinyl packed away in a box in the garage but was nice to finally find it again.
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On 05/08/2023 at 16:09, BigRedX said:
This is right up my Straße!
I had no idea he had died!
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4 hours ago, RikiB said:
Oh yeah we could’ve just sent him money doh.
oh well it’s set up now and I’ll share it with my friends as £5 here and there will add up.
if you guys could do the same .
I stuck some pennies in fwiw.
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I use the free Bitwarden - to generate, store and automatically paste in passwords - it works across Windows, Android, iOs. I have changed mine just for the sheer hell of it. As @velvetkevorkian suggested - it's worth checking https://haveibeenpwned.com/ - it's very possible the same username and password have been harvested from another site that he was using.
The question that has to be asked is - has BC been hacked (unlikely as only one incident [so far]) - this is why maintaining sites (as I've found) can be a PITA - you have to keep on top of security updates and sometimes the updates don't always work out. Worse than that - depending on how extensive the site security patch is - any hand crafted changes to the code have to be redone - it's not always simple and problem free.
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Who do these guys think they are?
This is who - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.E.O._(band)
and pretty damn good imho.
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A great collection of well crafted songs. I know of Rob Aldridge from the criminally under-rated Umajets - he died at the back end of 2021 - he was about 58 I think. His fb page has some nice videos of him playing acoustically for 30-60mins just for the joy of pleasing his fans - I always think you can appreciate the guitar work more when it’s stripped back to one guitar and vocals.
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@Barking Spiders When I see Simple Minds mentioned I think of the great early John Peel sessions and also about the time they headlined the Leeds and Reading - I went to the Leeds gig - not specifically for them - there were just so many good bands on the bill that year - standouts were All About Eve, Martin Stephenson and the Dainties, The Levellers (I think) - it was a great day. Before SM came on there was a short video promoting the work of Amnesty International - it featured someone being held in a squalid cell, horrible food being shoved under the door, being hosed down with cold water and shouted at in strange unfamiliar language then… a letter is slid under the door of his cell… and some wag in the crowd shouted “It’s your poll tax!”
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I don't think I've mentioned it here before or seen it mentioned either but there's a site I use for discovering music and books - GNOD - Global Network of Discovery - a site - one of several interesting sites set up by Marek Gibney - some of his projects have been short lived by GNOD has been running for a good few years.
Go to gnod.com and scroll down to the music section - you can try both alternative ways to explore or discover new music that you might like based on you entering the name of a band or artist. I've been listening to piano jazz and be-bop - Bill Evans and Vince Gauraldi - if I choose the
music-map.com option and enter Bill Evans I see this map:-
Interesting eh?
So this led me to look for Sonny Clark and I must have a listen to Oscar Peterson - I already know Ron Carter and Cannonball Adderley.
If you go down the other route and choose the https://www.gnoosic.com/ link - you get to enter 3 bands/artists and then you get a set of suggestions - the names you enter helps to grow the dataset.
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4 hours ago, Linus27 said:
Love it, Bill Evans is incredible.
I read his wiki page today... his death was described as the "longest suicide in history" - tragic! Weirdly, someone has Bill Evans as their specialist subject tonight on Mastermind... better check that wiki page again.
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This is pretty easy listening... Vince Guaraldi Trio (he did the music for Charlie Brown)
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Really nice Christmas/Winter vibe to some of this album Bear (2022)
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This is a really good album - as usual a stream of quirky, weird narrative songs and a voice that reminds me at times of John Martyn.
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Found some mp3 hidden away somwhere weird on my HD - might have been an accidental drag & drop.
Also quite taken with another (Gary) NumanI watched the Sky Arts doc on him (again) - his wife - lovely as she might be - did seem to me to have the quirks of a coke user - brushing the end of her nose with her hand a lot. What I loved about the doc was his 3 girls - they are so supportive of his music - two of them sometimes appear on stage with him to help out with backing vocals - you could see that great bond between him and his girls.
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I first heard of Haroula Rose as she was as support act for Neil Finn so - that's a recommendation in itself for me. I listened to this album more than any the year after it came out. I just thought about it again after not listening for a long time.
What are you listening to right now?
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