Non-Classical Music Listening Thread!

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Patsy Cline - Live At The Cimarron Ballroom (rec.1961)

Love Patsy! 

German punk on bandcamp

So, what was the verdict:  good, bad, eh?  If the cover is more interesting than their music, that would not be a good sign.

PD

[T. D.]

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So, what was the verdict:  good, bad, eh?  If the cover is more interesting than their music, that would not be a good sign.

PD

I don't listen to that much punk music...I can generally only listen to a couple of tunes per sitting, because like many classical/jazz listeners I prefer more complex harmonies. 

I'd say it's pretty decent music within the punk genre. Lyrics are given on bandcamp (though I had to go for online translations), and I found them rather witty. Granted, while old I remain sufficiently immature for punkish lyrics to resonate to some degree...

[George]

[SimonNZ]

Heh. My first time hearing this. I had been put off by my respect for the admittedly eccentric Michael Gray and his merciless dismissal of the album/show:

"The dreariest, most contemptible, phony, tawdry piece of product ever issued by a great artist, which manages to omit the TV concert's one fresh and fine performance, 'I Want You', but is otherwise an accurate record of the awfulness of the concert itself, in which the performer who had been so numinously 'unplugged' in the first place ducked the opportunity to use television to perform, solo, some of the ballad and country-blues material from his most recent studio albums, Good as I Been to You and World Gone Wrong. That could have been magical. Instead—instead of seizing this moment and really stepping into the arena—we got the usual greatest hits, wretchedly performed in a phoney construct of a 'live' concert. This is what happens when Bob Dylan capitulates and lets overpaid coke-head executives, lawyers and PRseholes from the Entertainment Industry tell him what to do."

But actually I found much to like and even much to admire. A beautiful "Shooting Star", possibly better than the album version; a perfectly controlled "Desolation Row"; the remarkable vocal performance on "With God On Our Side", delivered with an unusually heart-on-sleeve intensity; the understated Nashville-y dobro and pedal steel sound of the band. Hell, I didn't mind hearing "Rainy Day Women", a song I completely hate. The rest were fine I not as memorable. Only "Like A Rolling Stone" struck me as phoned in.

I only gave it a chance now because it includes a version of his 1962 rarity "John Brown", which I've been a little obsessed with over the last few days after someone played me this live version from 1999:

[George]