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What are you listening to? Part III

I've been listening to Midnight Organ Flight by Frightened Rabbit, just beautiful, haunting, and unfortunately I pulled it out for a listen because of the terrible news that Scott Hutchison, the lead singer/songwriter, took his own life at the age of 36. He struggled with depression, and a listen to just about any of their music gives you an idea of the place he was in.

AustinIllini said:
The new Arctic Monkeys album isn't great
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I love it! Psychedelic, even jazzy, channeling a little Bowie - I actually dig when a band pumps the brakes on an expectation and does something completely different.
 
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AustinIllini said:
The new Arctic Monkeys album isn't great
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Hmm... I liked some of their early stuff so will have to give a listen. I'm not always averse to a band taking a new tack if that's what they've done. Anyway I managed to offend a few neighbors in choosing to play stuff from Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not while I was driving us to some potluck dinner in another township one evening. Have to find out now if they'd like this new album of theirs any better... :p
 
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Mefisto said:
Springsteen is one of those artists that I've been meaning to really get into for the longest time, but at the same time with a catalogue as vast as his it can be a bit of a daunting task to systematically go through the records he's put out. As it stands I only have Nebraska and The Ghost of Tom Joad in my collection, but the rest are something I'm determined to get to at one point or another. Same goes for The Grapes of Wrath.
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If you're really looking to get into some Springsteen, might I suggest you go with his live stuff from times gone by? He is infinitely better live than he is in the studio (and he's really good in the studio). Here's a link to decades worth of live material from the 70's onward. There are many real gems in here.

http://www.ousterhout.net/mp3/bruce.html
[doublepost=1526140898][/doublepost]Listening to some prog from one of my favourite bands. Little jazzy, lotta rock and all prog.

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RootBeerMan said:
If you're really looking to get into some Springsteen, might I suggest you go with his live stuff from times gone by? He is infinitely better live than he is in the studio (and he's really good in the studio). Here's a link to decades worth of live material from the 70's onward. There are many real gems in here.

http://www.ousterhout.net/mp3/bruce.html
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Awesome! Seems like I'll have no shortage of good music to listen to for a while. Much appreciated!
 
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Scepticalscribe said:
Jethro Tull, "We Used To Know", and "Reasons for Waiting".
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Inspired by this, "Aqualung". Next one will be "Thick as a Brick".

Earlier today I had to listen to some older Metallica albums I still have. They played a show in Helsinki yesterday (the last one of the tour), and to say it was great would be an understatement. It was my first time actually seeing them live, but when Lars Ulrich at the end of the show announced that they will be coming back next year I know I'll be there.
 
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I've since graduated to an hour of Simon & Garfunkel - all of the obvious classics (and some of them are still superlative).

Now, I'm listening to Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel "Come Up And See Me - Make Me Smile".
 
Mefisto said:
Inspired by this, "Aqualung". Next one will be "Thick as a Brick".

tl;dr skip to the quote and link.

Earlier today I had to listen to some older Metallica albums I still have. They played a show in Helsinki yesterday (the last one of the tour), and to say it was great would be an understatement. It was my first time actually seeing them live, but when Lars Ulrich at the end of the show announced that they will be coming back next year I know I'll be there.
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Late last year I stumbled on a blowout deal for the deluxe version of this album. While I liked it well enough when I discovered it around 1989, it never stuck. Still, the lure of a 5.1 mix by Steven Wilson (whose done some great stuff with vintage XTC and Tears for Fears, among others) was enough to get me to gamble.

I’ve only listened to it once all the way through but it was better than I remembered. I have yet to closely listen to the bonus tracks. Been holding off on a critical listen until the father of a close friend and I have time to talk about it (on my suggestion, knowing he was into prog rock, she bought him a copy for Xmas). So it sits.

But what gets me to post (he types having buried the lead) is this article I’m excerpting from a few days ago:

MY DAD PAINTED THE ICONIC COVER FOR JETHRO TULL’S ‘AQUALUNG,’ AND IT’S HAUNTED HIM EVER SINCE
His quest to receive proper compensation illuminates the struggle for artists’ rights, and how decades-old grievances become coded into rock and roll mythology.

Sometimes, my father, Burton Silverman, age 89, has trouble remembering certain things. He worries about this. My mother, a psychologist, 79, worries even more, parsing his speech patterns and emails for any clinical signs of cognitive impairment. He always hand waves away these concerns, partly for our benefit and partly because there is little to be done.

But as some details — the name of a former friend, where he last stashed his wallet — seem to fall just beyond his fingertips, dad’s focus has turned towards something less definable: his career. More to the point, the end of a career that has seen him become one of the more prominent realist painters of his time. And yet, for all the artwork he’s created, the accolades and awards, it bothers him, in a way he can’t really express and may not want to recognize, that one of the first lines in his obituary will mention a “throwaway gig,” from the winter of 1970: the artwork for Jethro Tull’s best-known and best-selling album, Aqualung.

Seven million copies of Aqualung have been sold over the last five-odd decades and the cover has become one of the most recognizable in rock and roll history, migrating from vinyl albums to cassettes, CDs, and iTunes art, plus an unending supply of Aqualung-embossed merchandise. But dad’s earnings had a hard cap. In 1971, Terry Ellis, the co-founder of Chrysalis Records, paid him a flat $1,500 fee for the three paintings which would comprise the album’s artwork, consummating the deal with nothing more than a handshake. No written contractual agreement was drawn up, and, much to his eventual dismay, nor was any determination made about future use.
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https://theoutline.com/post/4490/jethro-tull-aqualung-cover-artist-burton-silverman?zd=1&zi=sxzxaepo
 
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IronWaffle said:
Late last year I stumbled on a blowout deal for the deluxe version of this album. While I liked it well enough when I discovered it around 1989, it never stuck. Still, the lure of a 5.1 mix by Steven Wilson (whose done some great stuff with vintage XTC and Tears for Fears, among others) was enough to get me to gamble.

I’ve only listened to it once all the way through but it was better than I remembered. I have yet to closely listen to the bonus tracks. Been holding off on a critical listen until the father of a close friend and I have time to talk about it (on my suggestion, knowing he was into prog rock, she bought him a copy for Xmas). So it sits.

But what gets me to post (he types having buried the lead) is this article I’m excerpting from a few days ago:



https://theoutline.com/post/4490/jethro-tull-aqualung-cover-artist-burton-silverman?zd=1&zi=sxzxaepo
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Wow.

I hadn't known that story - although it is not terribly surprising for the time.

The album cover art is stunning.
 
I hadn’t listened to Arctic Monkeys previously, so I have no expectations or point of reference. But I decided to check out their new album, and I’ve enjoyed it so far.
 
One of my favorite bands and was ecstatic to get there 20th anniversary edition of the album. I have to say I am really digging the new 2017 mixes of the songs! No complaints and I have been listening to it for quite some time now. I am really surprised this band has not caught on more. They have been around for ever and have soooo many good if not great songs. Everyone I have introduced them to have eventually went out and purchased music from their back catalog.

This is one of my favorites off the album.

Guano Apes - Rain (2017 Mix)

 
A few from Link Wray & The Wraymen: Rumble (the piece of music that was played in Pulp Fiction, background music to the scene in the diner where Vincent Vega and Mia Wallace have dinner), Ramble, Jack the Ripper, The Black Widow, The Shadow Knows, Deuces Wild, Ace of Spades and Raw-Hide among others.
 
Listening to "Any Major Coffee Vol. 1" compiled by Any Major Dude at the Any Major Dude With Half A Heart Blog. A coffee themed music compilation, (available for free download PW:amdwhah). He puts out various compilations on a weekly basis and this one is pretty good. Everything from 40's standards to Otis and modern rockers. If you like a variety of music his blog is a must. There are some really deep cuts and the themes are amusing, sometimes. All collections are timed for CD's.

http://www.halfhearteddude.com/?s=coffee


http://www.halfhearteddude.com/
 
A few from The Stranglers, followed by some rather uninhibited Albanian folk music - what is called "Valle Dasmash" - i.e. 'wedding music' - I love it, a little (more than a little) wild and uninhibited and extraordinarily skilful - the mastery of the woodwind instruments is spell-binding.
 
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