What are you listening to right now?

[Reggaebass]

Cruising through Woodford green listening to this

 

[LeftyP]

Despite being a music fan and working in local radio, I do not sit and listen to music very often.  I cannot remember the last time a put a CD on and listened to the whole thing.  I don't have any music or radio playing in the car as I find it too distracting.

 

A few months ago, I put together a playlist on Spotify.  It contains many of the tracks I loved as a teenager back in the 1960s, all played on Radio Caroline (North) via medium wave.  The Beatles rub shoulders with the Beach Boys, Association, Rascals, Mamas & Papas and many other more obscure one hit wonders.  A few days ago, I was relaxing after putting some miles in on my turbo-trainer and listened to my 60s selection.  I was 16 again and a lot fitter.  Sadly, back then, I was also covered in Acne but that's another story!

 

I knew all the words to all the songs while I don't know anything that's in the "Hit Parade" these days.  Oh, for the heady days of Radio Caroline.

[Woodinblack]

4 minutes ago, LeftyP said:

I knew all the words to all the songs while I don't know anything that's in the "Hit Parade" these days.  Oh, for the heady days of Radio Caroline.

 

Even if there was a radio caroline or whatever, it would play the hits of now, not the parents or grandparents generation, and as you said, you don't listen to music so why would it be surprising you don't know anything produced recently

[LeftyP]

2 minutes ago, Woodinblack said:

 

Even if there was a radio caroline or whatever, it would play the hits of now, not the parents or grandparents generation, and as you said, you don't listen to music so why would it be surprising you don't know anything produced recently

I work in local radio and hear the new stuff all the time, which is why I choose not to listen to it at home!

[MothMan]

Geoff Castellucci - Monster Mash

 

 

[Sonic_Groove]

39 minutes ago, MothMan said:

Geoff Castellucci - Monster Mash

Gosh that's even cheesier than the original LOL 😄

Good Fun though 

[Sonic_Groove]

 

[Leonard Smalls]

Funky and shouty!

 

 

[cetera]

Some fantastic power pop from the much missed Will Owsley:

 

 

 

 

 

[MothMan]

Big Bad Voodoo Daddy - Mr. Pinstripe Suit

 

 

[Barking Spiders]

I'm having a bet with myself if any of the BC massive have ever heard of Blue States? They're usually lumped in with the trip hop / downtempo crowd but actually it's more John Barry, Ennio Morricone and 60s spy film themes meet hip hop beats. Check it out 👇

 

 

[Sonic_Groove]

Phil Lesh & Friends ft. Carlos Santana and Warren Haynes - "Fire on The Mountain" Live

 

 

[Grimalkin]

 

[SICbass]

On 22/09/2022 at 13:20, ezbass said:

I follow Rhett Shull on YT and he posted a video about this singer songwriter. I quite like it, Joni Mitchell meets, er, The Meters, maybe? Anyway: Madison Cunningham…

 

 

I've just run into a bunch of her stuff. A great quirky guitar-player and fantastic songwriter...

 

 

Edited October 5, 2022 by SICbass

[Dad3353]

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[Tim2291]

Right now this... However much the sound engineers are paid... they deserve more! How can 3 drummers at once sound this tight!

 

 

[lemonstar]

@Barking Spiders I first came across Blue States watching this... thought it worked brilliantly.

 

[MothMan]

Ram Jam - Black Betty

 

 

[Nail Soup]

4 hours ago, MothMan said:

Ram Jam - Black Betty

 

 

I'd known and loved that song for years, and was amazed to find out it was an old folk song.

[Grimalkin]

 

[DaveFry]

Katie Thiroux playing her own tune " Ray's Kicks " live :

 

 

 

 

And more Ray Brown style :

 

[NancyJohnson]

Having a bit of an early-Queen day.  I couldn't bear them after Jazz.

 

Currently spinning the 'On Air' boxset (the early BBC sessions), which will lead into the early interviews.  I've also just acquired a copy of the News Of The World 40th Anniversary set, so that'll be next.

[Grimalkin]

 

[Reggaebass]

Bit of Trojan today 

 

[NancyJohnson]

I'm currently spinning the expanded version Sound Of White Noise by Anthrax.  I had the original on CD when it first came out, can't say I listened to it more than two or three times, enough to familiarise I suppose.  Couldn't believe it's over 30 years old.

 

At the time I wasn't really taken with it, way to brutal for my otherwise power-pop sensibilities, I haven't listened to it in three decades.  The thing that immediately struck me listening now is how lightweight it seems and how a lot of John Bush's vocals don't seem any more aggressive than (and share similarity to) Gary Cherone of Extreme.  It might be the mastering for Spotify, but it sounds a lot more polished than I remember as well.