What Are You Listening to Now 7.0

[tenyari]

El Amor

A really 'sappy' adorable song about the purity and joy of love.


Se Va

Same singer, a decade later, in a Reggae / Reggaeton song about being just fine after a breakup.

 

[ElectricBlue]

This song just worked its way into a story I'm writing. Is there a sound in the world more perfect than Gram & Emmylou singing harmony?

Possibly Robert Plant and Alison Kraus.

 

[Blind_Justice]

Damn Yankees - s/t (album)

Well, after "High Enough" played for the fifth time this week on my fave rock station, I figured it was about time to listen to the whole album, a mere 32 years after its release. And holy fuck in a can, that's effing awesome! Sure, it's "just" hairspray rock on steroids, but the guys behind DY were among the best songwriters the '80s had seen for that particular style. Most modern rock bands would kill for vocal harmonies like that. Not in one or two songs, but in EVERY FUCKING TRACK!

I'll gladly add that one to my collection. It will receive a TON more spins from now on. Good times, good times!

 

[EarlyMorningLight]

Possibly Robert Plant and Alison Kraus.

Here’s another duo that make it into one of my stories in progress — Alan Sparhawk & Mimi Parker. Robert Plant has covered a couple of their songs.

 

[Haulover]

Deerhoof : Love-Lore

 

[SteelPoint]

 

[Haulover]

Deerhoof : Love-Lore

Weird shit, and very avant garde.

Some of it is pleasant.

Other parts - nails on a chalkboard!

 

[Haulover]

Enslaved : Utgard

 

[Haulover]

Big Big Train : English Electric - Parts one and two

 

[EarlyMorningLight]

Weird shit, and very avant garde.

Some of it is pleasant.

Other parts - nails on a chalkboard!

I love Deerhoof so much, but I have an affinity for the abrasive stuff. Unlike a lot of bands who have been going for so long, they never rest on their laurels, and they’re always actively pushing into new territory, and exploring ideas.

 

[EarlyMorningLight]

The kings and queens of Japanese psych-noise.

Acid Mother’s Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO: Electric Dream Ecstasy

 

[MetaBob]

This song just worked its way into a story I'm writing. Is there a sound in the world more perfect than Gram & Emmylou singing harmony?

Depends on how wasted Gram was. And honestly, that's more of a Chris Hillman song, though anything Emmylou sings on is awful purty. Chris Hillman gives some great background on his career, including meeting and playing with Gram in this video from an appearance at the Library of Congress (the Gram callbacks start at 41:55).

Says a guy who used a Gram Parsons lyric as a payoff in one of his stories.

FWIW, I'm listening to Curtis Fuller's Blues-Ette album tonight.

 

[EarlyMorningLight]

Depends on how wasted Gram was. And honestly, that's more of a Chris Hillman song, though anything Emmylou sings on is awful purty. Chris Hillman gives some great background on his carer, including meeting and playing with Gram in this video from an appearance at the Library of Congress (the Gram callbacks start at 41:55).

Says a guy who used a Gram Parsons lyric as a payoff in one of his stories.

FWIW, I'm listening to Curtis Fuller's Blues-Ette album tonight.

That’s a hell of a place to drop into a story!

And yeah, Gram’s chemical intake was always the caveat.

 

[MillieDynamite]

What About Love, Heart, 19th Nervous Break down, the Stones, Fooled around, and Fell in Love, Elvis (not that one) Bishop, Dan Folgerberg, Make Love Stay, Aretha, What About Love. Okay, do I need to say, Aretha Franklin? I'm goodness gracious. Who wouldn't know who I mean?

 

[MetaBob]

What About Love, Heart, 19th Nervous Break down, the Stones, Fooled around, and Fell in Love, Elvis (not that one) Bishop, Dan Folgerberg, Make Love Stay, Aretha, What About Love. Okay, do I need to say, Aretha Franklin? I'm goodness gracious. Who wouldn't know who I mean?

Gram connections: Heart and Gram (with Emmylou, beautifully) and many others covered Boudleaux Bryant's Love Hurts. Gram covered (sort of, since he cut a version first) Wild Horses from the Stones, and both Aretha and Gram (with Chris Hillman and the Burritos) and jeez, just about everyone, covered Chip Moman's and Dan Penn's Dark End of the Street. "Reetha!" my cousin Lou used to yell from his crib when his Mom spun her records.

 

[MetaBob]

That’s a hell of a place to drop into a story!

Feel free to start at the beginning. 'Course, that's the beginning of Book 2. Book 1 starts here. Book 3 starts right after the previously linked chapter. Book 4 is begun, but is not at the top of my priority list, even though I started it before anything else I'm (supposedly) working on now. Lyrics permeate all.

 

[Haulover]

I love Deerhoof so much, but I have an affinity for the abrasive stuff. Unlike a lot of bands who have been going for so long, they never rest on their laurels, and they’re always actively pushing into new territory, and exploring ideas.

I agree about Deerhoof, and I think I have their whole back catalog. (I'll check) - IIRC, I have:
Friend Opportunity
Apple O'
Green Cosmos
Halfbird
Milk Man
The Runners Four

...and I like all of those.

This new one is actually a bunch of covers but they sure don't sound like the originals. The track listing includes the names of the artists they cover:
Love-Lore 1 (Ornette Coleman, JD Robb, Voivod, Earl Kim)
Love-Lore 2 (Knight Rider, Raymond Scott, Mauricio Kagel, Eddie Grant, Gary Numan)
Love-Lore 3 (Karlheinz Stockhausen, Beach Boys, Star Trek, Pauline Oliveros, Muppet Movie)
Love-Lore 4 (Tenney, Silver Apples, Police, Kraftwerk, Williams, Feldman, Sun
Love-Lore 5 (Velvet Underground, Laurie Anderson)

(That's a pretty eclectic selection!)

 

[EarlyMorningLight]

We’re well overdue for a new Daughters album, but this will have to do in the meantime.

 

[Haulover]

Albion : Broken Hopes

 

[Haulover]

Ellesmere : Wyrd

 

[Haulover]

Porcupine Tree : Stupid Dream

 

[EarlyMorningLight]

Depends on how wasted Gram was. And honestly, that's more of a Chris Hillman song, though anything Emmylou sings on is awful purty. Chris Hillman gives some great background on his career, including meeting and playing with Gram in this video from an appearance at the Library of Congress (the Gram callbacks start at 41:55).

Says a guy who used a Gram Parsons lyric as a payoff in one of his stories.

FWIW, I'm listening to Curtis Fuller's Blues-Ette album tonight.

Update: I’ve also worked Exile on Main Street into this story, and one of the characters is wearing a Replacements shirt. And I’m not even halfway through.

 

[ElectricBlue]

The Church - The Blurred Crusade

Oz acid rock from 1982, so: 40th Anniversary. Faarrrk.

 

[tenyari]

Bachata has to be some of the most 'naturally erotic' music out there. The entire rhythm of the genre just says "lets play":

 

[Jackie.Hikaru]