Non-Classical Music Listening Thread!

[dtwilbanks]

James Alley Blues


Times right now ain't nothin' like they used to be
Well times right now ain't nothin' like they used to be
You know I'll tell you all the truth, won't you take my word from me

Well I seen better days, but I ain't puttin' up with these
Well I've seen better days, but I ain't puttin' up with these
I had a lot better time with those women down in New Orleans

Well I was born in the country so she thinks I'm easy to lose
Well I was born in the country so she thinks I'm easy to lose
She wants to hitch me to a wagon and drive me like a mule

I bought her a gold ring and I pay the rent
I bought her a gold ring and I pay the rent
She tried to get me to wash her clothes but I got good common sense

Well if you don't want me then why don't you just tell me so?
Well if you don't want me then why don't you just tell me so?
It ain't like I'm a man that ain't got nowhere else to go

I give you sugar for sugar, but all you want is salt for salt
I give you sugar for sugar, but all you want is salt for salt
Well if you can't get along with me, then it's your own fault

Well, you want me to love you, but then you just treat me mean
Yea, you want me to love you, but then you just treat me mean
You're my daily thought and you're my nightly dream

Well, sometimes I think that you're just too sweet to die
Ah, sometimes I think that you're just too sweet to die
And other times I think that you ought to be buried alive

[karlhenning]

Which lines/gestures are you referring to?

Not absolutely sure at this point;  but I think it was Mike Rutherford's guitar work on the opening track, "Behind the Lines."

[Solitary Wanderer]

[Solitary Wanderer]

[Solitary Wanderer]

Disc.2.

[Haffner]

Joe Stump's Reign of Terror "Conquer and Divide"

Joe has a major Ritchie Blackmore fetish. The songs are more Rainbow than Yngwie Malmsteen, but the lead guitar is heavier on Malmsteen by far. Many songs go from near Chopin-esque virtuosity to irritatingly simple chugs that put a stain on the rest. However, Stump is an incredible lead guitar player, often eclipsing prime Yngwie and (Dio-era) Vivian Campbell.

[BachQ]

Joe Stump's Reign of Terror "Conquer and Divide"

I usually reserve that for Sunday morning music ........

[Haffner]

I usually reserve that for Sunday morning music ........

This approach also has manifold benefits. I know from experience  .

[Danny]

Led Zep Houses of the Holy

[Lady Chatterley]

House of the rising sun.Nina Simone.Splendid!

[Kullervo]

I had a disc of this a few years ago, whose mix strangely buried a couple of my favorite lines/gestures, so I let it go.  Now I'm giving the "enhanced CD" reissue a test-drive:

It's their best album after Lamb.

[Lady Chatterley]

Ray Charles and Cleo Laine,Summertime.

[longears]

Cleo Laine!  Had forgotten all about her. 

Listening to Police, Ghost in the Machine.  LP, natch!  Isn't it irritating that classical labels have had the decency to double up 2 LPs on one CD, but most pop stuff is still giving us just the same 30-40 minutes of tracks off the vinyl?

[Solitary Wanderer]

Sinatra's last album for Capitol and its a suprise gem. Recorded in single takes it conveys warmth and depth.

[karlhenning]

It's their best album after Lamb.

In some ways, I like it even better than Lamb.  Very interestingly, in the reissue interviews video, Tony Banks calls Duke his favorite Genesis album, and he says it in a way which makes me believe it.  There's a lot that I like about Lamb, particularly Banks' and Hackett's work;  but after a decade of not listening to any Genesis at all, the albums which my ears were hungriest for were Duke and (not quite so intensely) A Trick of the Tail (I still get chills thinking about the middle section of "Ripples").  Part of the reason is, notwithstanding a lot of great musical material on the earlier albums, I sort of feel that I've had a capacity fill of Gabriel's lyrics/singing.  (I sort of got around that by chancing on Hackett's Genesis Revisited disc, which has very toothsome versions of "Watcher of the Skies," "Firth of Fifth," "Fountain of Salmacis" and "I Know What I Like," for instance.)

Again, in the Duke reissue interviews video, Banks talks about the extended suite of instrumental, and says that they were thinking almost that it might be time to try something on the ambitious order of a "Supper's Ready."  And they shied away from that (he said).  But (similarly to my own admittedly personal semi-aversion to the Lamb), "Supper's Ready" was always a mix for me;  there was a lot of fine musical stuff and great band-music-making, but for me, my ears always discounted on the one hand the "goofy music-hall" material ("Willow Farm" . . . 'dad diddly office' &c.) and the pretensions to quasi-religious apocalyptica -- others may well like those bits, but they aren't quite my thing.  From a sheer instrumental/musical aspect, of course, the great build-up on the "Apocalypse in 9/8 featuring the delicious talents of Gabble Ratchet" or however it's labeled, is certainly a high-point of the band to that time.

[Kullervo]

In some ways, I like it even better than Lamb.  Very interestingly, in the reissue interviews video, Tony Banks calls Duke his favorite Genesis album, and he says it in a way which makes me believe it.  There's a lot that I like about Lamb, particularly Banks' and Hackett's work;  but after a decade of not listening to any Genesis at all, the albums which my ears were hungriest for were Duke and (not quite so intensely) A Trick of the Tail (I still get chills thinking about the middle section of "Ripples").  Part of the reason is, notwithstanding a lot of great musical material on the earlier albums, I sort of feel that I've had a capacity fill of Gabriel's lyrics/singing.  (I sort of got around that by chancing on Hackett's Genesis Revisited disc, which has very toothsome versions of "Watcher of the Skies," "Firth of Fifth," "Fountain of Salmacis" and "I Know What I Like," for instance.)

Again, in the Duke reissue interviews video, Banks talks about the extended suite of instrumental, and says that they were thinking almost that it might be time to try something on the ambitious order of a "Supper's Ready."  And they shied away from that (he said).  But (similarly to my own admittedly personal semi-aversion to the Lamb), "Supper's Ready" was always a mix for me;  there was a lot of fine musical stuff and great band-music-making, but for me, my ears always discounted on the one hand the "goofy music-hall" material ("Willow Farm" . . . 'dad diddly office' &c.) and the pretensions to quasi-religious apocalyptica -- others may well like those bits, but they aren't quite my thing.  From a sheer instrumental/musical aspect, of course, the great build-up on the "Apocalypse in 9/8 featuring the delicious talents of Gabble Ratchet" or however it's labeled, is certainly a high-point of the band to that time.

Actually my favorite Genesis moments are the short little episodes that happen throughout the course of Lamb. Cuckcoo Coccoon is for me a perfect slice of ethereal pop — it's actually one of my favorite songs, period. I know most Genesis fans would scoff at me for preferring such diversions over more "substantial" tracks. Their album side-long tracks have always felt banged-together to me. I don't think that kind of music making works particularly well in a long form, especially when there's no regard for any kind of overall architecture holding it together, but that probably has more to do with what I want from light music, and not so much Genesis's fault.

[George]

Actually my favorite Genesis moments are the short little episodes that happen throughout the course of Lamb.

Yes, like Guide Vocal, my favorite! 

[Solitary Wanderer]

Disc.5.

[Solitary Wanderer]

Disc.1. Live at The Sands November '61

[Solitary Wanderer]

Disc.2. Live at the Sands jan/feb '66