Listening to this now

[henkejs]

19 hours ago, Rain said:

Although, at the end of the day, for me, Beethoven's Late String Quartets represent one of mankind's greatest achievements. I don't know what it is - it just clicks with me.

Yes, and I'd add Beethoven's late piano sonatas. Something almost mystical going on there. . .

[Wibbles]

I really need to listen to more of The Furries.

The problem has been that I thought "Rings Around the World"  was such a masterpiece that anything else was unnecessary. I can see I maybe need to readjust my thinking. 

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2 hours ago, pwalpwal said:

 

Beth Gibbons is such a remarkable singer. I can't imagine her covering "Happy Talk" though.

And somebody should give the violinist a sandwich.

Edited December 30, 2019 by Wibbles

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The Goodies - Funky  ... , oh, that's a different thread.

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I spent Christmas up in Northamptonshire with my family. So for a Cobblers connection, here are three tracks by Northampton bands all featuring David J*:

 

 

 

* and as @craigb knows, Daniel Ash and Kevin Haskins are in two of the bands. Northampton wasn't a very big town at the time.

Edited December 30, 2019 by Wibbles

[Wibbles]

1 hour ago, pwalpwal said:

and david j and kev haskins guest on jazz butcher's (pat fish) second lp, scandal in  bohemia (from which that girlfriend single is from)

David J was in the band, not a guest, for Scandal in Bohemia (that's why I posted Girlfriend). He was still in the band for the recording of S*x and Travel but left a few months after its release in 1985. 

Kevin Haskins does not appear on Scandal in Bohemia but he did provide drums on the single version of Southern Mark Smith and its B side, The Jazz Butcher Meets Count Dracula.

I could go further into excruciating detail ...

Edited December 30, 2019 by Wibbles
It bloody ***** out S*x

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[Notes_Norton]

Guatemala Connection - Hubert Laws

Great flute player and a nice cut from a very good album.

 

[Wibbles]

25 minutes ago, pwalpwal said:

you should consider updating the discogs entry https://www.discogs.com/artist/378507-Pat-Fish

If I was to start correcting everything that's wrong on the internet ...

 

Both the discogs profile and the wiki entry associated the Jazz Butcher with Oxford. He/they may have played their first gig there, but it was definitely a Northampton band.

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I came across this track because David J plays bass on a couple of tracks on the album from which it comes:

 

Edited December 30, 2019 by Wibbles

[Wibbles]

I spent my teen years in rural Northamptonshire, which is when the Jazz Butcher and Bauhaus first came to my attention. The rest of my immediate family live in and around Northampton. But I've been in Reading since I was 19. 

There's not a huge number of prominent artists/bands from Reading, but here's Mike Oldfield ... kind of.

 

[Mesh]

 

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Prokofiev's Symphony #2 in Dm - The Royal Scottish orchestra conducted by Neeme Jarvi

The first heavy metal album? Prokofiev characterized this symphony as a work of "iron and steel". It's not my favorite from him, but it's definitely heavy metal.

 

Edited December 30, 2019 by Notes_Norton

[Mesh]

Breathtaking views from Norway.

 

 

[Notes_Norton]

Highway 61 Revisited - Johnny Winter breathed life and energy into the old Bob Dylan song

 

Edited December 30, 2019 by Notes_Norton

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3 hours ago, Mesh said:

Breathtaking views from Norway.

Vertigo inducing views from Norway.  

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I was too slow to post this one in the Song Association fred, so I'll post it here instead:

 

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From the same session, a rather lovely acoustic cover:

 

[craigb]

9 hours ago, Wibbles said:

If I was to start correcting everything that's wrong on the internet ...

 

Hey, maybe that's your life's calling???  Even better, that would give Strummy something to do too!  (Follow you around and recommend grammar corrections.?)

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I'm busy enough shouting at all the wrong things on TV.