Non-Classical Music Listening Thread!

[George]

Just finished ripping the rest of this 9 CD set and look forward to listening to it all week. Great stuff!

[orbital]

Erykah Badu Triple Feature 

[KevinP]

[RussellG]

Man these guys ROCK!!  1973:

[KevinP]

[KevinP]

And now:

[RussellG]

1973

[karlhenning]

I've been listening to this album (whole or in part) for three days, and watched the reissue interviews.  It's grown on me a good deal . . . yet as an album (that mysterious criterion) I cannot quite rank it "up there."  This and ...and then there were three were the iffy considerations in taking up the 1976-1982 box, and they've both justified the move, to my mind.  I was surprised to hear Tony Banks say that this is (may be? I forget quite the form of the linking verb) one of his two favorite Genesis albums (where it did not surprise me at all when he called Duke his overall favorite).  I've even come quite around on "One for the Vine," whose sort-of-allegorical overtones tended to annoy me . . . anyway, how can I argue with a track which has such a magnificent instrumental/ensemble break?

Here's one of those intangibles:  I find myself saddened at the thought of no more Steve Hackett in the reissue interviews, as I've gone through the chronology . . . in some way in which I was not particularly saddened at the conclusion of watching the r. i. for The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway.  Why?  Don't quite know.  I've always felt that the band 'survived' Gabriel's exit fine;  not to say that Hackett's exit was at all a crushing blow, but his guitar feels somehow 'central' to me, in ways that Gabriel's singing/performance does not.

[Bogey]

You know Karl, I want to say that Hackett was still touring with them when I saw the Abacab show.  Hard to remember, but there was another guitarist on the stage and I remember for some reason pointing him out to my dad with Chester and saying that they seem to tour with the band, but are not on all the albums.  I could be wrong though.

[karlhenning]

"Down and Out"

[drogulus]

      It's a 2-for-one! I'll start listening tonite.

     

[George]

[toledobass]

Erykah Badu Triple Feature 

What, no time for this one?



You should pick it up of you don't have it.

Allan

[bwv 1080]

Tabla Beat Science - Palmistry

http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/8l2MhpLoZXM

[karlhenning]

      It's a 2-for-one! I'll start listening tonite.

I had that double back in the day . . . .

[bwv 1080]

Ustad Fateh Ali Khan (born: 1935) is amongst the foremost Khayal vocalists alive today in Pakistan, and the last significant exponent of the Patiala Gharana (stylistic lineage).

(not to be confused with the Qawwali singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan)

http://www.youtube.com/v/jKYfWt7vswk

This is raga bhimpalasi, which uses the dorian mode omitting the 2nd and 6th on ascent with emphasis on the root and 4th

[RussellG]

This album was love at first sight for me (love at the first bar?).  Forget the Ryko.  The first press Japan CP32 CD sounds phenomenal!  Frank Zappa Sheik Yerbouti (1979):

[orbital]

You should pick it up of you don't have it.

Allan

Thanks Allan, I don't. But that won't be the case much longer.

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[Bogey]

On vinyl:

[George]

Sweet cover, Bill!