Music. What are you listening to right now?

[Taffycat]

Avalon by Roxy music was the first true multichannel recording there was and when the multichannel format was finally issued on SACD's this album went on to become one of the top sounding albums audiophiles swore by.

HD 720p version of Avalon, Enjoy!

Very interesting factoids Quad - that has always been one of my (many) favouritesongs, I enjoyed this video a lot.

@ Evan...yours is a hoot! (Or should that be a honk ) Clever.

 

[crazylegs]

Avalon by Roxy music was the first true multichannel recording there was and when the multichannel format was finally issued on SACD's this album went on to become one of the top sounding albums audiophiles swore by.

HD 720p version of Avalon, Enjoy!

What a superb track that is, always loved the backing singer with her super high vocals...Just brilliant!

 

[floppybootstomp]

Hmm. Roxy Music, when they first appeared, were a bit ground breaking. They flew against the hippy trend and managed to conjure up this feeling of decadence, avant-garde and art deco all at the same time. A breath of fresh air in a market swamped with clones.

The first four albums were brilliant though the 4th, 'Country Life' gave hints of what was to follow.

What followed was, to my mind, pure blandness compared to the former output. Bryan Ferry as Tony Bennet, lounge lizard and crooner. To my mind they lost all credibility and became just another pop band riding on the success of their earlier albums.

The rot set in when Byron Ferrari (that's the name the NME gave him when he got boring) sacked Eno. Mr Ferry has admitted in recent interviews that sacking Eno was a mistake and he gave the band an edge which they lost.

As nice as Avalon is for me it's just too safe and boring to appeal, the first four albums, however, will remain favourites of mine until I shuffle off this mortal coil.

A final footnote, In the early seventies I was DJ-ing at a local club. Sometimes the promoter would put bands on, I worked with, amongst others, UFO, Stackridge and the Climax Blues Band. One day Tony Gooch, the poromoter, told me he'd turned down a band who the agency said were going to make it big but he told them 'I've never heard of them'.

Nor had I but Tony Gooch turned down Roxy Music and a couple of weeks later Virginia Plain was released. Doh.

 

[Quadophile]

A final footnote, In the early seventies I was DJ-ing at a local club. Sometimes the promoter would put bands on, I worked with, amongst others, UFO, Stackridge and the Climax Blues Band. One day Tony Gooch, the poromoter, told me he'd turned down a band who the agency said were going to make it big but he told them 'I've never heard of them'.

Nor had I but Tony Gooch turned down Roxy Music and a couple of weeks later Virginia Plain was released. Doh.

Mr Flops that was a very interesting story! What a promoter

 

[Urmas]

What followed was, to my mind, pure blandness

True. But... those times were hard on one's ears. To wit:

My sincere apologies -- nostalgia can be a lethal weapon at times.

But... remember this?

 

[bootneck02]

What a varied and interesting life you have led floppy with your journalistic background and wonderful turn of phrase you should write a book it would be a best seller (and I am not taking the proverbial)

 

[Anon_F]

Listening to Planet Rock on DAB radio.

 

[nivrip]

I'm listening to The Glory of Gershwin.

It's an album of Gershwin numbers recorded by more recent singers such as Elton John, Lisa Stansfield, Sting, Sinead O'Connor, Cher and Meatloaf plus many others. Wonderful stuff - I really love the music of Gershwin.

I'm going to London on Tuesday to a show called Strictly Gershwin at the Coliseum. Think I might enjoy it.

 

[floppybootstomp]

Listening to Planet Rock on DAB radio.

So am I Too lazy to put any other music on, making a 20 volt PSU for a valve headphone amp I ordered a few days ago.

Dry County by Bon Jovi playing atm, Bon Jovi ok but truth be told they only ever made one good tune - Runaway. Now that rocked

Been cooped up over a hot soldering iron and a hand drill all day so going for a stroll down to M & S by the Cutty Sark for to buy some red vino.

 

[floppybootstomp]

Gershwin is good

What a varied and interesting life you have led floppy with your journalistic background and wonderful turn of phrase you should write a book it would be a best seller (and I am not taking the proverbial)

Mebbe, mebbe, but there's folk who have led far more interesting lives than I. The club I mentioned may be known to you, it's The Falcon pub, opposite Falconwood railway station just where the main A2 goes from six lane to 2 lane as it becomes The Rochester Way. It is now one those ubiquitous Harvester restaurants.

Played every Friday and lots of Saturdays there for more than two years and was spoilt rotten

 

[floppybootstomp]

Urmas: Erm, interesting display of music there

Perhaps you should stop drinking the pints of Harpic and change to something a little milder, like, perhaps, liquid insect repellant. Much easier on the tonsils

 

[Urmas]

... Harpic...

Heavens, no! I go by Hoffmann's Drops.




So you didn't like that particular bit of Memory Lane? Well... who on earth did? But I felt it to be my duty to make that post -- I mean... I mean... consider the "or else factor" here...

[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]David’s watch was not working. He remembered passing a little shop with clocks and watches in the window, so he took the watch in for repair.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]"Can I help you?" asked the man behind the counter.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]"I want this watch repaired," said David.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]"I'm sorry. I don't repair watches."[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]"Well, how much for a new one then?" asked David.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]"I don't sell watches."[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]"You don't sell watches?"[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]"No, I don't sell watches."[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]"Clocks, you sell clocks then? How much for a clock?"[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]"I don't sell clocks."[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]David was getting exasperated. "You don't sell watches, you don't sell clocks?"[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]"No, I’m a mohel," replied the man.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]"Then why do you have all those clocks and watches in the window?"[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]"If you were a mohel, tell me, what would you put in your window?"[/FONT]

 

[Quadophile]

One of my favourites!

Here are a few superb tracks from a great album, this album is pure audiophile grade with dynamics that can pull your knickers down. I give this album five stars as I owned it and have been listening to it since mid 90's.

From the same album but original piano roll by Gershwin himself

Here is a great Gershwin song covered by Diana Krall accompanied by some of the best jazz musicians of today, John Clayton (bass), Jeff Hamilton (drums), Paulinho Da Costa (percussions) Anthony Wilson (guitar) Johmn Pisano (guitar), Klaus Ogermann (conductor) Ms Krall on Piano.

 

[bootneck02]

Ahh Gershwin, real music

 

[floppybootstomp]

A school I do work in in SE London has a seperate theatre building, I replaced the Soundcraft mixing desk in there recently. Last time I was there, in the reception area they have a big Gershwin display so I would assume the school have recently staged a musical in the theatre centred around Gershwin.

Which probably means the kids entered into it voluntarily and may even apreciate Gershwin. So, you peeps who love to growl, kids nowadays ain't all hip-hop and innit, good music never dies.

Now then, that's put me in the mood for Cemetary Gates by Pantera

 

[muckshifter]

... that's put me in the mood for Cemetary Gates by Pantera

 

[Taffycat]

Here are a few superb tracks from a great album, this album is pure audiophile grade with dynamics that can pull your knickers down.

Enjoyed all of those... although I took the precaution of having a safety-pin handy, just in case!!

And for the edification of Sir Flopps and Mr. Mucks ...

[Youtube]WyczwqRD2NI[/Youtube]

 

[crazylegs]

Been listening to Evanescence

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[Youtube]3YxaaGgTQYM&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL[/Youtube]

[Youtube]CdhqVtpR2ts&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL[/Youtube]

 

[floppybootstomp]

Did you know Evanescence are all church going Christians? Now there's a thing. I have their first album, tasty bird on vocals but they never really clicked 100% with me.

Right now I'm listening to Hawkwind, live, Stonehenge Festival 1984, from a double vinyl album I picked up in Greenwich Market today for a fiver.

 

[Urmas]

The food was hot. And limp. The soup was thin. The rice clumped, the vegetables sagged. The pork was undercooked. "You like this?" I asked him.

"Yeah, it's great. They don't use any MSG either."

"You need to try some of Mama's cooking someday," I told him.

"What's the difference?"

"Same as between Debbie Gibson and Judy Henske."

"Which is Debbie Gibson?"

"This stuff."

"Oh. He took a deep mouthful of the food, chewed it experimentally. "So who's Judy Henske?" he asked.

______________________________________


...He started tentatively, getting the feel of the controls—the way you're supposed to. He gave it too much gas coming out and the Plymouth got sideways on the dirt. The kid didn't panic, just turned the wheel in the direction of the skid and powered right out.

"Wow! This bad boy's got some juice!"

"All right, don't get us arrested now."

"I'm okay," the kid said, leaning into a curve. "Where do we go now?"

"We're done for tonight," I told him. "Just head on back."

The Plymouth reached the main road. The kid gave it the gun, the torque jamming him back against the seat. He adjusted his posture, a grin slashing across his face.

"Okay if I take the long way?" he asked.

I nodded. The kid pulled off the highway, found a twisting piece of two-lane blacktop. he kicked on the high beams, drew a breath when he saw they were hot enough to remove paint...

He had the Plymouth wailing by then, flitting over the surface of the blacktop. We might as well have been in the West Virginia mountains with a trunk of white lightning. I reached into the glove compartment, popped a cassette into the slot, turned it on. "Dark Angel" throbbed through the speakers, darker than the night outside, with more hormones than the monster engine.

"Jesus!" the kid yelled. "What's that?"

"That's Judy Henske, kid."

He gunned the Plymouth around a long sweeper leading back to the highway, a huge grin plastered across his face, Henske's sex-barbed blues driving right along with him.

"I gotta try some of that Chinese food." he said.

—excerpted from pages 78, 81-82 of the Vintage edition of Down In The Zero, by Andrew Vachss ©1994.