What are you listening to right now?

[paul_5]

No Doubt’s “Rock Steady” album. Some great input from Sly & Robbie and Prince on this one.

[Marvin]

Doves - Compulsion. 

I think the bass playing by Jimi Goodwin on this is just brilliant 

 

[Doctor J]

Doves - Some Cities

I picked up the new one on Saturday but haven’t listened to it yet. 
 

 

[TheMaartian]

22 hours ago, stewblack said:

Thanks to Rick Beato I find myself listening to "Relaxin' with the Miles Davis Quintet". 

This might not sound particularly momentous to you, but for a man weaned on glam, woken up by punk, shaken by ska and only lately soothed by soul, it is a huge step. 

 

I accidentally stumbled into the first of two Miles Davis shows at the Plugged Nickel in Chicago just before Xmas '65. I was looking for a blues show, but saw a big line of peeps, and went for it. What a way to get introduced to jazz!

[Nail Soup]

23 hours ago, Graham said:

Mastodon - Remission

Made me think of this...... a song featuring the word 'mastodon' (I guess there are not many)... and it has two basses so ideal for basschat 😀

The Stranglers "Dead Los Angeles"

 

 

[meterman]

22 minutes ago, Nail Soup said:

Made me think of this...... a song featuring the word 'mastodon' (I guess there are not many)... and it has two basses so ideal for basschat 😀

The Stranglers "Dead Los Angeles"

 

 

"The Raven" 🖤👍

[Oxnard Montalvo]

Music For An Infinite Universe by 65daysofstatic. An epic, emotional album that I never wait very long to listen to again.

[Richard R]

23 hours ago, stewblack said:

Thanks to Rick Beato I find myself listening to "Relaxin' with the Miles Davis Quintet". 

This might not sound particularly momentous to you, but for a man weaned on glam, woken up by punk, shaken by ska and only lately soothed by soul, it is a huge step. 

 

Are you yet to be persuaded by prog?

[Frank Blank]

1 minute ago, Richard R said:

Are you yet to be persuaded by prog?

Or distracted by dubstep?

[Richard R]

1 hour ago, TheMaartian said:

I accidentally stumbled into the first of two Miles Davis shows at the Plugged Nickel in Chicago just before Xmas '65. I was looking for a blues show, but saw a big line of peeps, and went for it. What a way to get introduced to jazz!

That's a great story!  I bought Kind of Blue in early 2001 and played it to death. Then started working though Miles' earlier work, then to Bit  ches Brew, and still finding new albums and things.

Off to play Big Fun now 🙂

 

 

Edited September 22, 2020 by Richard R
Rude filter will not let me include the plural of the noun for a female dog in the album title, hence the spa ces.

[stewblack]

7 minutes ago, Richard R said:

Are you yet to be persuaded by prog?

I flirted with it but the closest I got was rolled by rock and moved by metal, although not for long.

[Frank Blank]

1 hour ago, Nail Soup said:

Made me think of this...... a song featuring the word 'mastodon' (I guess there are not many)... and it has two basses so ideal for basschat 😀

The Stranglers "Dead Los Angeles"

 

Get in son, my second favourite Stranglers album, what a bass player, what a band, what an album, so much so I struggled to choose my ‘I agree with you’ track...

 

[Richard R]

Surely one flirts with Funk?

[skidder652003]

 

[Stub Mandrel]

Nah... Stew's been Seduced by Skiffle.

[Frank Blank]

7 minutes ago, skidder652003 said:

 

Again! What a band, man...

 

[Mykesbass]

Came across this from Twitter - different from my usual stuff, but love the two voices.

 

[Richard R]

1 hour ago, Stub Mandrel said:

Nah... Stew's been Seduced by Skiffle.

Surely nobody was ever seduced by skiffle?

Though if older BC members have tales of persuading the lasses, to the strains of "My Old Man's a Dustman" on the Dansette, then I stand corrected. And "Diggin' up my Potatoes" was quite raunchy for the time.

 

[stewblack]

Something so sexy in skiffle says I

[TheMaartian]

2 hours ago, Richard R said:

That's a great story!  I bought Kind of Blue in early 2001 and played it to death. Then started working though Miles' earlier work, then to Bit  ches Brew, and still finding new albums and things.

Off to play Big Fun now 🙂

 

 

I've purchased SO many copies of Kind Of Blue over the years. I hope you bought the Columbia/Legacy CK64935 release. It's easily the best sounding of the bunch, and the first (OK, second, but the Mastersound version doesn't have the alternate take of Flamenco Sketches) to correct the speed issue on 3 songs. The tape deck used in their recording was 5% off speed, and those songs were sharp enough to sound in the wrong key.

[Frank Blank]

 

[NancyJohnson]

UFO today.  News of the upcoming Strangers 8CD boxset made my heart jump.  What a band.

[BreadBin]

Anna Meredith.

20 minutes of sheer brilliance.
Exquisite tension, uplifting joy - put a smile on my face, tears in my eyes and hope in my heart.
I could go on, but the video has it all and more.

This is also fabulous.

 

[Richard R]

On 22/09/2020 at 23:20, TheMaartian said:

I hope you bought the Columbia/Legacy CK64935 release

Yes, that's what I bought. I keep thinking I should learn the bass part to So What, but will probably never get round to it 🙄

[Richard R]

10 hours ago, BreadBin said:

I could go on, but the video has it all and more.

 

I have to admit that my reaction to Nautilus (the starting piece) was the same as the drummer in the corner initially adopted. I enjoyed the others though.

Maybe it's just too early in the morning for slow-build tracks 😉