Non-Classical Music Listening Thread!

[drogulus]

    Here are a couple of favorites from PERRO

    David Crosby – guitar, vocals
    Graham Nash – guitar, vocals
    Paul Kantner – guitar, banjo, vocals
    Grace Slick – piano, vocals
    Jorma Kaukonen – lead guitar
    Jack Casady – bass
    Jerry Garcia – guitar, vocals
    Phil Lesh – bass
    Bill Kreutzmann – drums
    Mickey Hart – percussion
    David Freiberg – viola, vocals
    Stephen Barncard - producer, engineer, archivist

[AnotherSpin]

Fabrizio De André's music feels like it has quietly followed me for decades, always lingering just out of reach. But when I return to it, or it finds its way back to me, it's like the reunion of old lovers. The kind of meeting where time slows down, the sunlight filters softly through the shutters, there's no rush, just the steady rhythm of a heart that knows exactly where it belongs.

[AnotherSpin]

[SimonNZ]

Cassandra Jenkins - My Light, My Destroyer (2024)

[71 dB]

SAGITTARIUS - Present Tense

Sunshine/psychedelic pop from 1968.
A unique studio collaboration between super-producers Gary Usher and Curt Boettcher.
I was able to get this on CD. It arrived today. 

YouTube recommended New Order's Substance - how can I say no to that?



My algorithm has such good taste in music.

Nice! I have that twofer CD set. 

[71 dB]

VA - TURN UP THE BASS VOLUME 2

Another CD that arrived today. House, Acid House and Newbeat from 1989. Nostalgic for me, because this was the exciting edgy music when I was in high-school.

[steve ridgway]

VA - TURN UP THE BASS VOLUME 2

Another CD that arrived today. House, Acid House and Newbeat from 1989. Nostalgic for me, because this was the exciting edgy music when I was in high-school.

Yeah, I've recently been listening to stuff like Techno! (The New Dance Sound Of Detroit) from 1988 although the exciting edgy music for me at school was Glam, Art Rock, Punk and New Wave .

[T. D.]

[SimonNZ]

[SimonNZ]

I've had the New Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs since it came out in 2014, but only today learn they put out a cd of a selection of the songs.

Its been a nice evening of listening to a song then pausing to read the notes from the book then moving to the next.

[SimonNZ]

wonderful late 70s madness

[foxandpeng]

Hanging Garden
The Garden

Finnish melodic death/doom. Utter quality.

[Christo]

Hanging Garden
The Garden

Finnish melodic death/doom. Utter quality.

Nice tip: never heard them before, but like them from the start! 

[San Antone]

I've had the New Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs since it came out in 2014, but only today learn they put out a cd of a selection of the songs.

Its been a nice evening of listening to a song then pausing to read the notes from the book then moving to the next.

I'm glad you posted about this - I listened to it today (Spotify) and found it to be really valuable. I am not familiar with the Penguin Book of English Folk Songs, but am familiar with the Childs ballad song collection and have several recordings of those.

My favorite kind of music is what Greil Marcus has called Old, Weird America generally, old time ballads found e.g. on the Harry Smith Anthology of American Folk Music, but also the basis for old time music and by extension bluegrass, and country music.

You probably already know that the Harry Smith Anthology was released in 1952 and was a major influence on the folk revival of the '50s and '60s, and a resource which Bob Dylan used to compile his early repertory and continued to draw on for the rest of his career.

[SimonNZ]

I'm glad you posted about this - I listened to it today (Spotify) and found it to be really valuable. I am not familiar with the Penguin Book of English Folk Songs, but am familiar with the Childs ballad song collection and have several recordings of those.

My favorite kind of music is what Greil Marcus has called Old, Weird America generally, old time ballads found e.g. on the Harry Smith Anthology of American Folk Music, but also the basis for old time music and by extension bluegrass, and country music.

You probably already know that the Harry Smith Anthology was released in 1952 and was a major influence on the folk revival of the '50s and '60s, and a resource which Bob Dylan used to compile his early repertory and continued to draw on for the rest of his career.

I still remember the excitement of learning about the Harry Smith anthology in Greil Marcus' book Invisible Republic (in a chapter called "The Old, Weird America") and rushing out to order the set immediately after.

For a month or longer I'd have five of the six discs on full random play and listened to almost nothing else.




Huh. And just now I learn that the original Penguin Book of English Folk Songs - the one edited by Vaughan Williams - also had an album of selections:

[San Antone]

I still remember the excitement of learning about the Harry Smith anthology in Greil Marcus' book Invisible Republic (in a chapter called "The Old, Weird America") and rushing out to order the set immediately after.

For a month or longer I'd have five of the six discs on full random play and listened to almost nothing else.

The was the book I originally had, but when it was updated and re-issued it was retitled Old, Weird America (which is what is on my Kindle).  When I first bought the book the Basement Tapes were only found as bootleg cassette tapes, which I dutifully bought.  Of course since then, and when the book was reprinted, the multi-CD set official release of all the songs would soon be released.

I consider the Basement Tapes to be if not, among, the best work Bob Dylan and the Band did.

[drogulus]

     The family that slays together

 

[steve ridgway]

Various – The In-Kraut

Genre: Jazz, Rock, Funk / Soul, Pop
Style: Soul-Jazz, Big Band, Pop Rock, Schlager, Easy Listening, Psychedelic Rock, Krautrock, Beat

Kitsch and over the top but rather groovy .

[Iota]

The family that slays together

 

Ha, enjoyed that! As they clearly did too! That boy just seems too young to be able to drum like that!   
 
I saw Deep Purple at the Rainbow Theatre in London when I was thirteen. As a result of that concert they got into the 1974 Guinness Book of records for being the loudest band in the world!

[drogulus]

I saw Deep Purple at the Rainbow Theatre in London when I was thirteen. As a result of that concert they got into the 1974 Guinness Book of records for being the loudest band in the world!

    Blackmore played his Strat though a pair of Marshall Majors (200 watts ea.)