Film Noir Buff Style Forum / What Music Are You Listening to at the Moment...[AKA the Music thread]

4F Hepcat · 2012-10-06 23:07:44

sartorialman · 2012-10-07 08:50:32

I usually like Glenn Miller at night.

formby · 2012-10-07 09:42:21

Today, one of my favorite bands...

Led Zeppelin.

Album: Physical Graffiti.

Cut: Trampled underfoot.

This is a live version Earls Court, 1975.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO_EgW1zxWQ

Essential.

fxh · 2012-10-07 10:42:30

Formby - Have you read the new book on Zep by Barney Hoskyns ? I saw it in a late night bookshop last night.

I've not been a Zep fan but Hoskyns "From a Whisper to a Scream: The Great Voices of Popular Music:" is an essential book. His others I have "Say It One Time For The Brokenhearted: Country Soul In The American South" and "Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits" are good too.

So I'd imagine hes put a good effort into the Zep book as well.

fxh · 2012-10-07 10:50:27

Some sense from Barney

"The sad truth is that rock journalism has become little more than a service industry, with scant critical autonomy and even less responsibility to its readers. We have all, in our different ways, colluded with the entertainment machine in its canny efforts to dictate what music sells."

"The music industry's greatest victory has been to make pop music - from boy bands to nu metal - a mere lifestyle choice, a disposable commodity. (...) Little wonder, therefore, that teenagers treat pop music like Coke. Trained to consume and dispose by a cynical, junk-food industry, teens ascribe no real value to the acts whose MP3s they swap so freely."

"More to the point, the experience I had as a teenager or twentysomething can't be matched by my perception of what teenagers or twentysomethings experience today. My end-of-history grieving and false nostalgia is for a time when rock was set apart from - and ostensibly in opposition to - the status quo, and when one had to work quite hard to BE a rock fan. Now everything is available and has no political resonance anymore. Today's young rock fans would rather wear MC5 T-shirts (sponsored by Levi's) as fashion statements than follow bands who really ARE trying to kick out the jams, motherfuckers."

formby · 2012-10-07 10:54:22

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Ed13 · 2012-10-07 21:02:40

Today I got the chance to listen to four tapes I have had sitting around since I received them. My recent laziness had kept me until now from cleaning the heads on my reel to reel.

Kurt Elling's "Flirting with Twilight"

Car Stevens "Tea for the Tillerman"

Ten Years After live unedited Woodstock performance

Art Blakey "Moanin"

I enjoyed it so much I left all my equipment on so I don't waste any time warming up the system tomorrow.

fxh · 2012-10-07 21:30:35

Hepcat and others - headphones - wheres it at?

I haven't been using them for years and the padding has gone on my decent Koss ones and the son has snaffled my old school white huge cups Sennheisers - they are very old a very heavy.

I need to get a pair - with a long lead or an extension.

Wheres the sweet point with sound and comfort and $$?

4F Hepcat · 2012-10-08 00:00:21

These are currently the hippest ones being sold in the Netherlands:

http://www.grado.co.uk/

They are open to ambient sounds i.e. not enclosed, which means you are going to annoy the family and pick-up other sounds, but they will be more comfortable to wear for a long time. I haven't got a pair and I've forgotten the make of mine, but I find headphones not the ideal listening experience.

4F Hepcat · 2012-10-08 00:04:37

Ed13 · 2012-10-08 08:05:56

Patrick · 2012-10-08 11:52:37

4F Hepcat · 2012-10-08 23:25:13

I think Barney makes the common baby-boomer mistake of equating rock music with high art and deep philosophy. There is no value in the acts today, not because rock journalism is crap, but because their music is shallow and middle of the road. Well, some of it, but there is good rock and pop out there, same as it ever was.

Also he makes the nostalgic mistake of myopically arguing that in the past rock music was in opposition to the status quo, was fully politicised and you had to work extremely hard to "BE" a rock fan. Oh really? What utter self centred baby-boomer I BE MINE ego centric bollocks.

The truth is this: for the last 35 years of the 20th century rock and pop music was the most dominant cultural expression of the baby-boomer generation. Now, this age has passed and rock music has lost its position and the baby-boomers are pissed-off and are assigning values and mythic status to the era. One thing that really pisses off baby-boomers is any dissent from the party line that anyone had a good time before rock and roll and about 1957.

4F Hepcat · 2012-10-09 11:42:29

The_Shooman · 2012-10-12 14:53:58

l had to post this. Here is a 17 year old horn virtuoso that is so incredibly brilliant that it is beyond words. l was a state champion at his age and played with the top band in the southern hemisphere, but this guy eats me for lunch and spits me out ten times over. World class playing.

See from 1:09 - 1:45, and then from 3:10 - end. WOW!!! He is so good that he brings tears to my eyes. Freak! How can a 17 year old kid be so fucking good???
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVmp_nNttZw&feature=related

fxh · 2012-10-19 02:38:00

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Kingston1an · 2012-10-19 05:34:58

Old 1970s vinyl from Outlet records of Belfast. They were in some ways similar to reggae albums of that era - the Pama and Trojan stuff. They were cheap. The recording quality was variable in both mono and stereo and the covers were often so bad they were good - terrible line drawings, or cheesy cliches. However some of the tracks were very good indeed for example Sean McGuire and some of the box players who would have been using those marvellous red Paolo Sopranis.

I remember when there used to be shops who only sold Irish music (mostly showbands) in places like Harlesden. All gone now; but the reggae shops remain.

http://www.thesession.org/discussions/display/22802

http://www.irishmusicreview.com/discoutlet.htm

formby · 2012-10-23 15:57:56

Today in me ride...

Jimi Hendrix.

Album: Electric Ladyland.

Cut: Crosstown Traffic.

...any song that uses a crazy assed kazoo is all right with me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUwjyr17l0M

Drum Thunder !!! · 2012-10-23 15:59:21

apparently he used the comb and paper method for that.

Albert · 2012-10-23 18:29:04

German Army Marches

fxh · 2012-10-23 21:01:40

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fxh · 2012-10-23 21:37:48

Kingston1an · 2012-10-24 17:11:31

Kingston1an · 2012-10-24 17:23:41

^ An American in a similar vein at the time was Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes but Parker was a class above them.

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