What Are You Listening To?

[Jerome]

Listening to TAAB2 - this one is growing on me.

[Jerome]

Next up is Jon & Vangelis's 'Chronicles' - love this album. Heavily synth based 'pop' songs. An unorthodox union but it works for me. Very well too!

[CRAZY-HORSE]

on Southside Johnny album.....

listened to your favourite track, it was okay,same old-same old 'white boy,blue eyed soul/funk' from the early 1980s,wasnt really my thing back then(well it was for about 5minutes,then it wore thin pretty quick)

[CRAZY-HORSE]

ROBERT PLANT & ALISON KRAUSS "raising sand" cd,2007

probably as an unlikely pairing as you would expect to get, but whatever, it works beautifully IMO...
i could have put this one in country,jazz or here, i opted for here for all the Plant fans among us...
a covers album happening here...but not a straight covers collection, they have re-worked these old songs into something totally new that sits alongside their personalities perfectly,
in fact , when i got this i didnt even know a lot of these were covers, so i guess i have ignorance on my side here also...
T-Bone Burnett(elvis costello's producer) takes the reigns on this one and lends a hand on guitar also, and he does a wonderful job twiddling the knobs IMO, the whole thing sounds fresh and alive...
a very,very good album that continues to grow on me everytime i hear it, so it should get a love rating next time round...

I LIKE THIS ALBUM

worst track: sister rosetta goes before us
best track: rich woman

tracks:

1. rich woman ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9ZvU5fEA3s live on 'later with jools'
2. killing the blues **
3. sister rosetta goes before us *
4. polly come home **
5. gone gone gone **
6. through the morning,through the night **
7. please read the letter ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxmTIONiqPQ live
8. trampled rose ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7a85yBt4Wk audio
9. fortune teller **
10.stick with me baby ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqXftmr0VqM live
11.nothing **
12.let your loss be your lesson ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKqERfuNlX8 audio
13.your long journey **

3s=5
2s=7
1s=1

rating: 2.3 or 7.6/10

[Jerome]

ROBERT PLANT & ALISON KRAUSS "raising sand" cd,2007

probably as an unlikely pairing as you would expect to get, but whatever, it works beautifully IMO...
i could have put this one in country,jazz or here, i opted for here for all the Plant fans among us...
a covers album happening here...but not a straight covers collection, they have re-worked these old songs into something totally new that sits alongside their personalities perfectly,
in fact , when i got this i didnt even know a lot of these were covers, so i guess i have ignorance on my side here also...
T-Bone Burnett(elvis costello's producer) takes the reigns on this one and lends a hand on guitar also, and he does a wonderful job twiddling the knobs IMO, the whole thing sounds fresh and alive...
a very,very good album that continues to grow on me everytime i hear it, so it should get a love rating next time round...

I LIKE THIS ALBUM

worst track: sister rosetta goes before us
best track: rich woman

tracks:

1. rich woman ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9ZvU5fEA3s live on 'later with jools'
2. killing the blues **
3. sister rosetta goes before us *
4. polly come home **
5. gone gone gone **
6. through the morning,through the night **
7. please read the letter ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxmTIONiqPQ live
8. trampled rose ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7a85yBt4Wk audio
9. fortune teller **
10.stick with me baby ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqXftmr0VqM live
11.nothing **
12.let your loss be your lesson ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKqERfuNlX8 audio
13.your long journey **

3s=5
2s=7
1s=1

rating: 2.3 or 7.6/10

Great album! The whole thing just works. Growing on me as well.

[Music Head]

from my library (vinyl)



The groups debut album. I thought the name of the album was One, as that is on the cover, but
it says self titled album. I have a few of their albums and it is rare that I find a great
track that wasn't a single. So the singles only band tag sticks with me. There is nothing on
this album that I love and four that are bad. Not even the big hit One does it for me. It's not
even my favorite as that goes to the cover of Try A Little Tenderness which fared almost as
well as Otis Reddings version three years earlier. I didn't remember that Harry Nilsson wrote
One. It says that the track was not even on the original release of this album but included on
later ones. I guess I have a later one. I always thought zero would be the loneliest number but
we're all entitled to our opinions. The album reached #11 in the US.

I DO NOT LIKE THIS ALBUM

Worst Track - It's For You

Best Track - Try A Little Tenderness

1) One **
live - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiKcd7yPLdU
2) Nobody *
3) Heaven Is In Your Mind **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rx58LJ1LfuA
4) It's For You *
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zr7NOTYbPeU
5) Let Me Go *
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c9TCBV08Rk
6) Chest Fever **
7) Find Someone To Love *
8) Bet No One Ever Hurt This Bad **
9) Don't Make Promises **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwuwrFiiozA
10) The Loner **
11) Try A Little Tenderness **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQnBKm2L8_g

Grade - 1.6
allmusic - 2.7

[Isaac Hamlin]

Fever by Taddy Porter my friend introduced me to them and i have been hooked ever since check them out!

http://www.vevo.com/watch/taddy-porter/f...B8W1300100

[CRAZY-HORSE]

Back to Ten Years After. ...I have their "cricklewood green" album...love that one!

[mikpop93]

Save You - Simple Plan

[Music Head]

from my library (vinyl)



Good thing I didn't start with this second album as my introduction to Sparks, or I may not
have gone any further. Luckily my first purchase was the next one, Kimono My House, which I
fell in love with. Went back and got this much later, and it had to be a let down. Even now
nothing grabs me and there are five tracks that are really bad. Though I don't love it, I am
amazed by the ingenuity put into Do Re Mi. Yes The Sound Of Music song. Not my favorite though,
that goes to Girl From Germany, which was the lone single. This album did not chart at the time
but a tour of England following it's release got the band a cult following there, giving them
the impetus to make it their home base for years to come and it still has the bands loyalist
fans. I remain the bands loyalist american fan.

I DO NOT LIKE THIS ALBUM

Worst Track - Batteries Not Included

Best Track - Girl From Germany

1) Girl From Germany **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-iTFLM0oPA
2) Beaver O'Lindy **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c6fN_Uniak
3) Nothing Is Sacred *
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AM3DoPlb0hI
4) Here Comes Bob **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8rDSrIUWuE
5) Moon Over Kentucky *
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnqzRyOLwM4
6) Do Re Mi **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HG3ihjb7fBY
7) Angus Desire *
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCds02iKCus
8) Underground **
9) The Louvre *
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8h21jDVHJKI
10) Batteries Not Included *
11) Whippings And Apologies **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLAaAjEPIwA

Grade - 1.5
allmusic - 2.7