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  1. 47 minutes ago, casapete said:

    Latest release from Bruce Springsteen, reunited with The E Street Band. Nothing groundbreaking but I still love it!

     

    i wasn't won over by Western Stars and soon stopped playing it. It has decent enough reviews - maybe I need to give it another go - wouldn't be the first time I ended up rediscovering an album after switching off from it too soon. This sounds oh-so-familiar but... that's OK. I was never a fan but was never negative about him for any reason - I was just listening to other stuff but I was won over when he played Glasto. 

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  2. Blue is one colour I generally dislike quite a lot TBH - I never chose it for anything, e.g. paint in the house - HOWEVER - I think LPB looks great on a bass - no idea why. 
    One I liked the look of is this custom (Moniker) Zuma Yonit Spiegelman had made - I think the maple and white colours set it off nicely:-

     

  3. On 05/09/2020 at 15:38, Stub Mandrel said:

    I'm sure they were p-laying Starless in Morrisons the other day - unless someone has sampled it heavily for a pop song...

    That would be surprising but truth is sometimes stranger than fiction... for instance. on the wiki page for The Scaffold song "Lilly The Pink" I was looking at today (long story how I came to be on this page) it says:-
    "Backing vocalists on the recording included Graham Nash (of The Hollies), Elton John (then Reg Dwight), and Tim Rice while Jack Bruce (of Cream) played the bass guitar"

    So... you could be right I guess.

     

  4. I've faintly heard of Bevis Frond but I'll have to look them up on YT. Hearing about an unfamiliar band and the endless search for new music made me think of a website I haven't been on in a while; it's an odd site created by a guy I've followed for a while - he's done some interesting projects/website - some of which he has decided to close to avoid having to maintain them so he can focus on new projects - I constantly forget the name of this site - it's www.gnod.com ( I think that's General Network of Discovery or something to that effect) - it's really a jump off point for several "discovery" sites that all use the same underlying  technology - sites for discovering music, authors/books, artists -

    for the music site - one part - Project 1 (https://www.gnoosic.com/) relies on users entering the names of several bands that they like - it then makes recommendations based on bands/artists submitted by other users.

    The other part of the site - Project 2 (https://www.music-map.com/) simply enables you to enter the name of a band/artist and it displays a map - with the names of other bands/artists clustered around the one you enter - proximity should give some indication of how strongly they are linked by users liking the same bands.

    He also made the product comparison sites:
    https://www.productchart.com/

    FYI The creator of these sites is https://twitter.com/marekgibney

    I've been listening to some King Crimson on YT and was surprised and incredibly impressed to hear a live version of Starless from 2016! It has not lost any of it's emotional strength - it's still an incredible piece imho.

     

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  5. 19 hours ago, Baloney Balderdash said:

    First time I heard it too, just before I posted it, and Low happens to be one of my absolute favorite bands, if not single most favorite band of all.

    My favorite albums with them is without competition the hat-trick they made in the late 90's/early 00's with "Secret Name", "Things We Lost in the Fire" and "Trust", together with their debut album "I Could Live in Hope" from 1994, as well as their most recent one, "Double Negative" from 2018.

    All those 5 albums are genuine equally great master pieces as far as I am concerned, though Low never really made an album that wasn't at least just good, and at least still had a few truly great songs on it.

    Even if "Double Negative" in some aspects is radically different from what could be considered classic Low, though in other aspects unmistakably still very Low, I absolutely love it to pieces, in my opinion that album is fully up there on level, or even perhaps slightly above, the other albums that I personally consider true Low master piece classics.

    To me it was like "Ones and Sixes", which is a great album as well, if though not quite on the same level of greatness as the 5 personal favorites I mentioned, was kind of a come back turning point for Low, after, in my opinion, a couple of weaker albums, here I am thinking "C'mon" and "The Invisible Way", that while not exactly bad albums, and while they did still feature a few truly great songs, for me was far from the usual amazingly high Low standards, to the point where I began to be concerned that they might have lost their magic touch.  

    These 2 songs are some of my personal favorites from "Double Negative", and 2 out of many many of my absolute all time favorite Low songs:

     

    Interesting to see how you see the lie of the land. I've really struggled with "Double Negative" - I got to like Drums & Guns after initially not liking it - but DN - in isolation some instrumental parts are haunting - it's just the bad impression the 1st track in particular (and the 2nd) make on me - I honestly thought I had a faulty CD on first listening - that harsh gravelly distorted sound and other similar studio effects that appear at intervals are not pleasant to listen to on earbuds/headphones - I have no idea what they were thinking - if some of these treatments could be removed I'd be interested in listening to the songs underneath more. I like the darkness, the space, the harmonies, the slow pace and the emotional graveside gravity in what they do - the first album is probably the one I've played most.

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  6. 33 minutes ago, hiram.k.hackenbacker said:

    Yes, Gail has been discussed many times here, I think that OP popped up in a thread about SBL most recently.

    Anyhoo, I need no excuse to further discuss her work. IMHO, the version below is the de facto version of Under Pressure where she completely rips the song a new one.

    Here’s a video of her song Magical which she wrote about Bowie. Just beautiful and has some great backstage clips.

    .....and finally and predictably my Marilyn-a-like which I use in ChangesTwoBowie.

     

    Great to see and hear this - I didn't know anything about this.

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  7. 31 minutes ago, Old Man Riva said:

    A ‘new’ ‘old’ Stones track - coming out as part of the repackaged Goats Head Soup album.

    Love it..!

     

    One of my favourite, if not, my favourite Stones albums - in a way, I think Angie didn't do the album any favours - sometimes I think the album is overshadowed by that one track. I like the loose, hazy, summery vibe to the rest of the album.

  8. On 30/06/2020 at 16:54, SpondonBassed said:

    Seriously though, I thought Murder Most Foul was a poor attempt to recreate Hurricane.

    Although I like some of his stuff, Hurricane being the main one, I'm not a fan

    There is a very good BBC Sounds podcast about the Hurricane story - well worth checking out imho.

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  9. On 30/06/2020 at 17:46, ricksterphil said:

    Mate of mine has the new Dylan album and waxes lyrical about it.

    He's also a massive Tom Waits fan (my mate, not BD)

    I have tried to give Dylan the listening time he's due but I just can't get on board with him - I've been listening to this album over and over hoping it would be better than the JFK track - some of the lyrics are just too lame - there are some that have a bit of chemistry in them - I just feel he's not making any effort with the structure of his songs, the melodies - it seems to me he's just going with his thousand year old voice and a monologue and hoping that is enough to win people over. On this showing I really don't think he *currently* can hold a candle to Tom Waits who also has that lived-like-a-drunken-hobo voice in addition to great story telling, wit, imagination and imagery in his songwriting. 

  10. @kevin_lindsay @TheMaartian @Stub Mandrel

    Seeing as it got mentioned here I've also listened to that Numan Savage album - it's dystopian as I'd expect but it hangs together like a film score - quite surprised and impressed with it - even if his vocals have been tapered with (and I don't know how much) they sound pretty good to me. I was more of a John Foxx fan tbh but this is a strong album. I saw him (+full band) with his daughter (on TV) singing a while back - I reckon this might have been the album he was playing from. 

    I've picked up more ideas for great music to listen to on this forum than anywhere else I can think of.

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