What are you listening to right now #54

Jefferson Airplane - Crown of Creation MFSL CD rip

 

Stealers Wheel - eponymous album, such a pleasant record. Maybe too pleasant.

 

The Durutti Column - Circuses and Bread

 

The Black Keys - El Camino

 

Hot Chip - Positive

(From their new album A Bathful of Ecstasy - first of theirs I’ve bought since 2008....)

 

Be Bop Deluxe - Drastic Plastic

 

Van der Graaf Generator - H to He, Who Am the Only One

 

LaLa Land soundtrack - City of Stars

Last film my wife and I got to see in the cinema (we were both in London for our respective jobs, so had a night together and our daughter stayed with grandparents). It’s soppy, has some jazz in it and was effortlessly acted by the leading pair.

She’s working away in China again this week (3rd week out of the last 5) so I’m missing her....

 

Station To Station - David Bowie L.P.

always pressing my buttons.

 

Bowie - Aladdin Sane L.P. (remaster)

loud music, slow cooking pork belly... a good day.

 

Camel - Mirage (2002 remaster with bonus live tracks)

A dose of cool prog on a warm day

 

I love it when I get home and there's an LP by the door that I'd forgotten I'd ordered ages ago!

Khruangbin - Hasta El Cielo

Remixes and Dub covers of probably my favourite album from last year, on limited yellow vinyl. Sounds pretty good so far.

 

Lambchop: Nixon (on teh vinyls ).

 

had a jethers evening. like many of those who give them the time of day, I like most of the 70s stuff, before Anderson's alien abduction.

all Wilson remasters / remixs (still don't really understand which is which and why!).

my current mid-fi (but vintage!) setup makes most stuff sound pretty much as i'd 'like' it to ... but try as I might to convince myself otherwise faves such as minstrel / songs / heavy horses aren't really cutting it. Just sound a bit dead and contrived. I love Barrie(more)'s drumming, and usually like the 70's studio 'dead' sound, but it's just so 'flat' (and yet a bit harsh too on something like 'Minstrel').

But the earlier stuff on Stand-Up and Benefit ... gosh. Sounding full and live and ... wonderful, basically.
Whatever the reasons for Cornick's ousting, he was a fantastic bass player - contributing so many song-forming bass lines / hooks in an inimitable fashion (Inside is one of my faves - and is centered around his bubbling, utterly original, lines).

 

Kraftwerk - Computer World (original Elektra CD)

 

Midsommar - Original Soundtrack (Bobby Krlic)

Some easy listening, reliving those happy vibes.....

 

Archie Shepp - The Magic of JuJu. Qobuz 16/44 stream

 

Playing this.

Beastie Boys ‎– Licensed To Ill
Label:
Def Jam Recordings ‎– 450062 1
Format:
Vinyl, LP, Album
Country:
UK
Released:
1986
Genre:
Hip Hop

 

Be Bop Deluxe - In Concert October 1976

 

For Duster (The Blues) - Fleetwood Mac Rumours out-take. Not a big fan of later FM, but this is great, sounds like JJ Cale and Leon Russell really ripping it up.