What Are You Listening To?

[Jerome]

This one is firmly stuck in my head this morning - https://youtu.be/PH0K6ojmGZA

[Jerome]

Feeling down and dirty - feeling kind of mean - don't have a clue what this is about but it has such a great groove - https://youtu.be/oxKCPjcvbys

[Ruby]

Al Stewart – Orange



Wouldn’t be on my list of favourite Als, but that’s in no way a scathing indictment – it’s perfectly listenable with some shining moments . Tim Renwick plays on the album, as does Rick Wakeman.

Two tracks that stand out on here for me – the instrumental "Once an Orange, Always an Orange" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SR22J9j6Etc … 

and “The News From Spain” … 

[Jerome]

Just love this track. https://youtu.be/R_wO9z5lBCM

[Jerome]

An amazing voice - https://youtu.be/hFL4GS0Sn7Q

[Ruby]

Eric Clapton - 461 Ocean Boulevard



Have not listened to this album in forever. Still holds up IMHO - 45 years later! Mainly covers, Clapton alone wrote two tracks on the album ("Give Me Strength" and "Let it Grow", co-wrote another, "Get Ready", and then reinvented/rearranged other people's stuff plus one trad. His second album, put together after a three year haze involving nasty substances. Does anyone not own a copy of this?? 

Today, my picks are "Please Be With Me" ... beautiful song written by Charles Scott Boyer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wql_WN7zgc

"Let it Grow" which is a perennial favourite ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXDf9UwHGF4

... and the superbly funky groove of "Get Ready", co-written with Yvonne Elliman who also sings on it ... 

[CRAZY-HORSE]

THE KINKS "the village green preservation society"  cd,  1968

the band's sixth studio album, and a little fact I find hard to believe,
their last charting album in their homeland according to Wiki...
album charted a lowly #47 in the UK, but failed to chart anywhere else...
over the decades it has become their biggest seller though...
a concept album with Davies looking back on his childhood over fifteen tracks...
album was intended to be a double album but their record label refused to allow
it, thus five tracks ended up being left off it...
those tracks: Autumn almanac, Susannah's Still Alive, Days. Wonderboy, Mr Pleasant...
Damn, can you imagine how good this one would have been with those songs included!!!!…
anyway,
the album was released the same week as "the white album", which was always going to overshadow 
everything released at the same time...
Townshend calls the album "Davies' masterpiece", I would have agreed if those other tracks were on it...
still, a great album in its own right...

I LOVE THIS ALBUM:

worst track: phenomenal cat
favourite track:  the village green preservation society





tracks:

1....the village green preservation society ***
2....do you remember Walter? ***
3....picture book ***
4....Johnny Thunder **
5....last of the steam powered trains ***
6....big sky **
7....sitting by the riverside **
8....animal farm **
9....village green **
10..starstruck ***
11..phenomenal cat **
12..all of my friends were there **
13..wicked Annabella **
14..Monica **
15..people take pictures of each other **

3s - 6
2s - 9
1s - 0

rating:  2.4

[Jerome]

Camel - probably my favourite track by the band - https://youtu.be/UN0x-0tsiBg 
A lesson on how to make a guitar talk.

[Music Head]

^^
and before I started rolling my own
they were my brand of smoke

[Jerome]

Why can't people write like this anymore? https://youtu.be/p4zR9r9olOg

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Magnificent - https://youtu.be/St6jyEFe5WM