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Two great tracks by Evan Dando (first a cover of a song by Tarka Cordell) - 2nd brilliant orchestration by Craig Armstrong - makes me realise I my life is richer for having so much great music in it.

I don't know how I got here... but I got here.

@ProfJames Great to see ELO so raw. It's at my uni - about 10 years before I got there. There was a Tears for Fears gig on YT I was at, an outdoor gig 1983 but I couldn't see myself on the video (awful quality) - looks like the original full TFF show has been taken down and chopped up in to individual songs. I've seen a few bands on that same stage though. J Geils, Nick Lowe, Aswad - I wish I'd been around for shows in the 70's Brunel attracted some top bands - early Genesis for one.

This is surpisingly good...wait until you find out who wrote this.

Their 1st album is a little gem, an underappreciated classic imho - all those layers of guitars.

That's a refreshing change. I just read that he wrote 39(!) bassoon conciertos but 2 are unfinished - it's not known exactly why he wrote so many for an unusual instrument. https://www.naxos.com/mainsite/blurbs_reviews.asp?item_code=8.570798&catNum=570798&filetype=About this Recording&language=English#:~:text=These included the bassoon%2C for,of which are seemingly incomplete.

He was keen to mention On Sunset which he said he was very proud of (not heard it) and True Meanings which he never toured.

He was interviewed earlier on today on R5 Live - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000w4c3 I can't stand the toadying interviewer Nihal Arthanayake - "as the voice of a generation..." "as a rock icon..." - you can imagine Weller gritting is teeth but he's got to put the word out. I will be interested to hear it - he's a man of many influences and not afraid to put them in the blender as he sees fit.

Wire were in a niche of their own - looking back on the first 3 albums I feel they appeared in the wrong era but tried to blend in with the punk movement which I never felt they were truly a part of - i know people might disagree. I liked Evan Dando's cover of this:-

@msv At @dannybuoysuggestion a while back I switched from using the free version of LastPass to bitwarden - an open source project; I think it's excellent software - I have it working across Win7, Android and iOs - I find it very easy to use - it generates and saves all the passwords - I think it's far better to use software designed for the purpose than to make up your own system using ad hoc tools. If you have very strong passwords - why change them so regularly? As @adamg67suggests - register your email addresses with Have I Been Pwned - I have 30+ email addresses for my own reasons and all are registered with the site. The level of organisation and effort that goes into hacking is enormous and these guys are skilled and knowledgeable - i wrote advanced real-time embedded control software (and other stuff) for 25 years - (to save my company from being bent over backwards by a software supplier I and another engineer spent 18 months part-time hacking a proprietary database format to get "our" data out that we wanted to use (export) to use with the software design tool that we had designed to replace the software we were using and paying 10k pa for - the software supplier wanted to charge us £30k for software tools to do that) so you see people go to incredible lengths when it is worth it. IMHO l'm afraid that keeping passwords in a text file is something hackers will have been looking at for decades - the days of using passwords you remember have been over for along time.

A lifetime ago I listened to If You Wait a lot - I quite like her voice although I can understand people not liking it (e.g. my wife hated it) but I really can't listen to what sounds to me like poor attempts to reproduce a sweet and sour vibe that Dido and Eminem created with Stan.

Mark Hollis being Paul Weller before Paul Weller discovered how to be Paul Weller ☺️

I had it too. FWIW - changed pw - probably no bad thing. I had no personal info on the site never having really used it to buy or sell anything.g

Rory and his 61' Strat remind me of a photo of a tree that had grown around an abandoned bicycle.What a talent this guy was and by all accounts an incredibly humble, generous and likeable guy. His timing and phrasing are so spot on.

I had a friend that worked for a top hi-fi shop in the 80's and I remember going with him to deliver and set up a system in a small stone barn with 2 floors - it wasn't a huge place - maybe 10m x 5m - he was showing off a pair of Linn Kan speakers - relatively small speakers but able to handle a lot of power. He used a couple of special audiophile vinyl pressings of Police albums - UHQR, heavy weight vinyl and/or half-speed masters - to show off how they handled the incredible punch and dynamics of Copelands percussion and Strings bass - the albums were Zenyatta and Ghost In the Machine - my friend made us all sit and listen in the dark and you could feel the drums and hear the stereoscopic effect so clearly - to this day I can't remember a more outstanding listening experience for volume, clarity and sheer detail (other than Tangerine Dream when I was at the front of the Dominion Theatre for the Logos tour) - the hi-fi system was an expesnsive one but the recordings are incredible.

A solid album for the summer - windows down on the car - layers of guitar parts and harmonies

I guessed as much before I looked her up - I might differ in an opinion about the primary problem but honestly who can say - I spent nearly 3 years in an eating disorders support group (specifically for "carers" of people with eating disorders - not the actual sufferers - they had their own meetings run at the same place) and it was two cases of a daughter (with anorexia) with a heroin addiction and a wife (with anorexia) and an alcohol problem that I found too traumatic to hear about on a regular basis - what I heard at the meetings used to play on my mind too much after the meetings that it actually caused me to stop attending. Good to know she has managed to bounce back and is still making music.

Yes (thereabouts) - it's not as simple as anyone would like it to be - it's a mental illness through and through and a strange one. She is in a small minority who have made a good, possibly very good "recovery" from having been in a really terrible state. She is in a good place now - happy in a long term relationship and in her work , back exercising normally (still likes to run up mountains), eating healthily and working as a hospital doctor - no one would know about the illness to look at her BUT she does have to manage certain things in her life and that will go on for many years I think. Anyone who wants to talk or ask about anorexia can PM me if they like - there is nowhere near enough support available.

I burned the Royal Albert Hall Killers gig to DVD (broadcast on TV a few years ago) - it was a corker. The song works for me. A friend loaned me (gave to me I think!) the latest CD Imploding the Mirage and I agree with him - it's dire - lots of familiar elements but it just doesn't get off the ground for me. I did read that the guitarist Dave Keuning didn't want to spend all his life on tour and wanted more family time - all credit to him imho for that - I think he is still involved with the band but there seems to be a lot more keyboards and electronics and a distinct lack of guitar riffs. Still - they are still one of the most popular live acts around.

The latest Killers album is dire! Can't believe how bad it is.

Having had a daughter who got sucked into the vortex of anorexia - I find this uncomfortable watching - no idea who she is but once you've tried to care and support someone with anorexia you start to see there are many of them around. I'm not complaining in any way about your post though - it's just my reaction - it's a hell of thing for all concerned to get through.

Anouar Brahem, an oud player: one of my favourite musicians - he makes some very atmospheric, at times, meditative, music - this is from 1991 I can recommend Blue Maqams (2017) and The Astounding Eyes of Rita (2009) and many other of his albums.

@meterman @upside downer - clearly I have no wizarding skills - I feel like a right muggle now.

What on earth is going on with that acoustic - it's upside-down and strung normally - I'm really thrown by that. World Party - under-rated and forgotten about.

Also listening to Vivaldi RV807 - only discovered in 2005! Scholars continue to search for and succeed in unearthing long lost scores as many are known of, but are known to be missing. This is not the best audio quality (there are CD quality versions on YT) but it's more entertaining to watch than an album sleeve.Not exactly rock'n'roll but it probably was, in it's own way, back in the day...