What Are You Listening To?

[Jerome]

Neil Young - Harvest - which I believe to be his best album. Every track on this is just magnificent. Lovely to listen to this again - really takes me back to 'teenage-hood'.

[CRAZY-HORSE]

PETER GABRIEL "secret world live" cd, 1994


another from my ex-work colleague's set he gave me.
i own "melt" and "security" on cd and "so" on vinyl so this is a good accompanyment to those.
a double disk set.
not a huge fan of live albums unless the performance is outstanding and this one is.
I LOVE THIS ALBUM

favourite:

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couldnt leave this one out:

[Jerome]

A class act if ever there was one - to all the Megan Thee Stallions and Cardi B's - this is what a class act looks like.

https://youtu.be/p02szEhyPcI

[Ruby]

Thank all the gods for Shawn Phillips. Transcendence – not many could get away with choosing an album title of that name, but yes – that is exactly what it is. Gorgeous, and very much needed at the end of this week! Thank you yet again Jeromeski!   

The whole caboodle ... 

[Jerome]

Pure genius - https://youtu.be/wuMqkzHql0E

[Jerome]

When you're good, you're good.

https://youtu.be/pTVoM6x7tEg

[Jerome]

Just some useless information about 'Transcendence' mentioned a couple of posts above. The artwork was inspired by an incident when Shawn Phillips had really long hair and this became tangled up in the propeller of a small boat. His hair was pulled out at the roots. So the cover is a long-haired 'angel' with his hand on the shoulder of Phillips with much shorter hair. You will also notice the water in the background and the tree with branches like hair strands. All of these elements refer to the boating accident.

[Jerome]

Talent meets intelligence - https://youtu.be/ZdAt3MYNwdo

[CRAZY-HORSE]

LOU REED  "New York"  cd, 1989.

his fifteenth solo album, 
my first and favourite.
his most commercial sounding album
good place to start with him and dont go any further in my experience.
lyrically, the guy is just about in Dylan/Sprinsteen's league,
so observant of life and its trivialities and makes them sound interesting.
has an edge to the sound here.
his best by a country mile IMO
I LOVE THIS ALBUM

not my favourite but lyrics are fitting today:





This is no time for celebration
This is no time for shaking heads
This is no time for backslapping
This is no time for marching bands
This is no time for optimism
This is no time for endless thought
This is no time for my country right or wrong
Remember what that brought
There is no time
There is no time
There is no time
There is no time.

This is no time for congratulations
This is no time to turn your back
This is no time for circumlocution
This is no time for learned speech
This is no time to count your blessings
This is no time for private gain
This is no time to put up or shut up
It won't no time to come back this way again
There is no time
There is no time
There is no time
There is no time.

This is no time to swallow anger
This is no time to ignore hate
This is no time to be acting frivolous
Because the time is getting late
This is no time for private vendettas
This is no time to not know who you are
Self knowledge is a dangerous thing
The freedom of who you are
This is no time to ignore warnings
This is no time to clear the plate
Let's not be sorry after the fact
And let the past become out fate
There is no time
There is no time
There is no time
There is no time.

This is no time to turn away and drink
Or smoke some vials of crack
This is a time to gather force
And take dead aim and attack
This is no time for celebration
This is no time for saluting flags
This is no time for inner searchings
The future is at head
This is no time for phony rhetoric
This is no time for political speech
This is a time for action
Because the future's within reach
This is the time
This is the time
This is the time.

Because there is no time.
There is no time
There is no time
There is no time
There is no time

[Jerome]

So simple and yet so stunning - https://youtu.be/MEO6gYCFbr0