Listening To...

I just wrote a long Listening To post but FYWP ate it.

Here's the short version:

  • Beatles - Live At The Hollywood Bowl. Beatles live in 1964-65, in front of four trillion screaming girls! More fun than the BBC sessions or the final 'rooftop' concert-ish thing. Faster, more raw, fun! 4 things!
  • Norah Jones - Day Break. She goes back to the sound that made her a coffeehousehold name - that warm and fuzzy jazz/pop/country sound. Good, if not quite as catchy as Come Away With Me. 3 things!
  • Steady Holiday - Under The Influence. Dreamy, sad and sweet with whispered vocals and spacey guitars. Somehow finds a place between early Portishead and late Blonde Redhead - spacey and chilly yet delicate and intimate. 4 things!
  • The Pretty Things - The Pretty Things. Do you need more rough and raw early rock in your life? Think Elvis was too hammy and the early Stones were too wimpy? This is the band for you! 3 things!

You?

3 thoughts on “Listening To...

  1. Jewish Steel

    Revisiting The Libertines’ Up The Bracket. I really get a bellyful of trash rock around here. That’s what Central Illinois likes. I prefer something more imaginative generally. There is a certain formalism to trash rock too. After a while I just can’t get excited about the Spirit of 1977. And celebrating your dissolute lifestyle. Yawn. But this band’s got great guitars! Good words too.

  2. Rob Caldecott

    Bon Iver’s new record, 22 A Million, is superb. I highly recommend it.

    I’m still listening to the latest Radiohead album. Ful Stop is my track of the year.

    I also keep an eye on the Amazon bargains so have scored some old Police, Specials, Madness and PJ Harvey albums recently. Oh and the Blues Brothers movie soundtrack: £1.99, how could I refuse?

    I just wish there were more hours in the day to listen to all this stuff: and I try very hard to listen to music at every opportunity!

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