Non-Classical Music Listening Thread!

[Karl Henning]

I find that I like this better than I remembered:

[SimonNZ]

King Sunny Ade - Juju Music (1982)

[ando]

1983 - The The - Soul Mining
1996 - Trainspotting - OST
2023 - The Smashing Pumpkins - Atum

Enjoyed The The's '93 release, though at the moment I can't place the album title. Played it a lot.

[ando]

Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou self titled or "1st Album" (1974, Albarika Store/Analog Africa)

[KevinP]

Betty Davis Betty Davis (1973, Just Sunshine Records)

funk classic

Great album. Also spun it three or four days ago.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Mon Rivera Y Su Orquesta.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Dire Straits:  Communiqué   

PD

[SimonNZ]

King Sunny Ade - Synchro System (1983)

[Pohjolas Daughter]

An American treasure--Emmylou Harris.  Too many genres/styles to try and "stuff her" into.  Tonight's listening:  "Cowgirl's Prayer".



PD

[SimonNZ]

An American treasure--Emmylou Harris. 

One of those very rare artists where even their least regarded album is still pretty damn fine.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

@San Antone and @SimonNZ

Are you (and others here, please feel free to jump in and add your comments) familiar with the album "Red Dirt Girl"?  It's one of her later ones and also quickly became one of my favorites.  There are a number of songs on this album which I enjoy like "Michelangelo" and "J'ai Fait Tout", but the one that gets to me most is "Red Dirt Girl"...it's very moving (and I wont say more).

PD

p.s.  Just listened to that again tonight.

[SimonNZ]

@San Antone and @SimonNZ

Are you (and others here, please feel free to jump in and add your comments) familiar with the album "Red Dirt Girl"? 

That's actually my favorite album of hers. My favorite track is the opener, "The Pearl". The only track of hers I've played more than that is "Deeper Well" from the Wrecking Ball album.

Along with the tracks you mentioned I also particularly like "Bang The Drum Slowly" and "The Boy From Tupelo", but its a great collection, start to finish.

The one time I've seen her live was in support of the Red Dirt Girl album. It was a great show. The same band that was on the live album Spygirl.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

That's actually my favorite album of hers. My favorite track is the opener, "The Pearl". The only track of hers I've played more than that is "Deeper Well" from the Wrecking Ball album.

Along with the tracks you mentioned I also particularly like "Bang The Drum Slowly" and "The Boy From Tupelo", but its a great collection, start to finish.

The one time I've seen her live was in support of the Red Dirt Girl album. It was a great show. The same band that was on the live album Spygirl.

Boy, I haven't listened to Spygirl (actually, the title is Spyboy--I had to doublecheck myself lol) in ages; I'll have to revisit it soon.  One thing that I noticed years ago, you can definitely tell when Daniel Lanois is (or at least was) involved in producing an album as he brings a particular soundstage to it (I also have the Dylan one that he produced.). 

This is too funny.  I just was interrupted while typing this; a friend of mine called me.  I told him what I had been listening to last night and he told me that he had listened to Wrecking Ball yesterday and we briefly discussed ELH and also the distinctive "imprint" of DL on all of the music that he's produced--you know that it's him.  He mentioned that he (upon watching a certain person's youtube content) found out that besides Dylan's Oh Mercy album that there's another Dylan one which apparently has been released that has tracks that have the DL arrangements of songs removed from the tracks.  I'll have to do some further digging.  Maybe it's Time out of Mind (I don't think that I have that one)?

Cool that you saw her and on the Red Dirt Girl tour.  I've seen her twice:  once at a festival and another time at a concert hall.

PD

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Prompted by your @SimonNZ mentioning of it, I am currently playing Spyboy.  I can't believe that this album is now 25 years old (came out in 1998)!  Where did the time go?  Great live album.  A combo of rockin' tunes, traditional and country.  It includes some of the songs that she's sung with the likes of Gram Parsons.  Some great harmonies too.


Apparently, Spyboy was the name of her band/group that she went on tour with [from the internet].  As an aside, from the booklet:  "Spyboy" (a noun) is a Mardi Gras term for the person who goes ahead of the parade; a street entertainer, jester, troublemaker, scout.

PD

[AnotherSpin]

Boy, I haven't listened to Spygirl (actually, the title is Spyboy--I had to doublecheck myself lol) in ages; I'll have to revisit it soon.  One thing that I noticed years ago, you can definitely tell when Daniel Lanois is (or at least was) involved in producing an album as he brings a particular soundstage to it (I also have the Dylan one that he produced.). 

This is too funny.  I just was interrupted while typing this; a friend of mine called me.  I told him what I had been listening to last night and he told me that he had listened to Wrecking Ball yesterday and we briefly discussed ELH and also the distinctive "imprint" of DL on all of the music that he's produced--you know that it's him.  He mentioned that he (upon watching a certain person's youtube content) found out that besides Dylan's Oh Mercy album that there's another Dylan one which apparently has been released that has tracks that have the DL arrangements of songs removed from the tracks.  I'll have to do some further digging.  Maybe it's Time out of Mind (I don't think that I have that one)?

Cool that you saw her and on the Red Dirt Girl tour.  I've seen her twice:  once at a festival and another time at a concert hall.

PD

Time Out of Mind

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Gillian Welch:  The Harrow and The Harvest

Good music for a cool and rainy day.  *A contemporary singer/songwriter, acoustic, folk style.

*If you've ever watched the Cohen brothers' movie "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou", you'll have heard her sing.



PD

[SimonNZ]

As an aside, from the booklet:  "Spyboy" (a noun) is a Mardi Gras term for the person who goes ahead of the parade; a street entertainer, jester, troublemaker, scout.

Ah, I hadn't made that connection before. Though I did know the term as the scout for the Mardi Gras "Indians", thanks to multi[ple viewings of the tv show Treme.

that there's another Dylan one which apparently has been released that has tracks that have the DL arrangements of songs removed from the tracks.  I'll have to do some further digging.  Maybe it's Time out of Mind (I don't think that I have that one)?

Yeah, that's Time Out Of Mind. Apparently Dylan has been long jealous that Lanois got all the praise for Dylan's most highly regarded album of his later career, that the story is that Lanois "dragged or "coaxed" a great album out of the then sloppy and apathetic Dylan. So far I've refused play the middle-finger-to-Lanois version which is part of the "Fragments" set in the Bootleg Series.

[SimonNZ]

Mitski - The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We (2023)


Wow! From that I'm straight into her previous album from last year:




aaand then her album before that: 2018's much-lauded Be The Cowboy:



oddly each one of these is 32 minutes long

[SimonNZ]

Brian Eno - Before And After Science (1977)

[DavidW]

Wow! From that I'm straight into her previous album from last year:

Oh I actually listened to that one when Qobuz was curating it (and it was on the front page)!  It was pretty good.