What Are You Listening To?

[Tiggi]

Bill Nelson - Blue Moons & Laughing Guitars



Bill Nelson used to be the main man in odd UK 70s rock band Be Bop Deluxe, before embarking on a career path of soundscapey instrumental music.

This album consists of the home demos Nelson made in preparation for forming another rock band. The band never came to fruition, so the tapes have been released as they are.

Interesting, but fairly light Alt Rock.

[CMB1888]

(going to see him next week!)

Saw him last night - he was great!

[Music Head]

from my library

Bryan Ferry - Let's Stick Together - 1976



Granted most of the material is not alt, but Bryan has always been for me. Roxy Music wasn't enough for Bryan. He needed side projects. This was his third effort consisting mostly of covers and Roxy remakes. The album reached #160 on the charts, with the single Heart On My Sleeve reaching #86. It's obvious Ferry considered himself a song stylist, as he did a lot of covers on his early solo material. Back then Bryan Ferry was one of those artists that could probably have released an album of farts and I would have bought it. This isn't necessarily an album of farts, but did consist of a lot of gas. Remakes aren't really my thing. No problem re-doing the Roxy Stuff, but Beatles, stay away.

I like this album.

Favorite Track - Sea Breezes

I´ve been thinking
now for a long time
How to go my own separate way
It´s a shame to
think about yesterday,
It's a shame
Now that we are lonely
Life seems to get hard
Alone what a word - lonely
Alone it makes me cry
Thought-train set in motion
Wheels in and around
Express our emotion
Tracks up, then it cracks down
We´ve been running
round in our present state
Hoping help would come from above
But even angels there make
the same mistakes
In love


1) Let's Stick Together - ** - live
YouTube - Bryan Ferry - Let's Stick Together (Live)
2) Casanova - ** - live
YouTube - Casanova
3) Sea Breezes - *** - audio
YouTube - Bryan Ferry Sea Breezes
4) Shame Shame Shame - ** - live
YouTube - BRYAN FERRY Shame Shame Shame - Live in Concert 1977
5) 2HB - ** - audio
YouTube - Bryan Ferry 2HB
6) The Price Of Love - ** - live
YouTube - BRYAN FERRY Price of Love - Live 1977
7) Chance Meeting - *** - live
YouTube - Bryan Ferry Chance Meeting
8) It's Only Love - * - audio
YouTube - Bryan Ferry It's Only Love
9) You Go To My Head - ** - video
YouTube - Roxy Music Bryan Ferry "you go to my head"
10) Re-Make / Re-Model - * - audio
YouTube - Bryan Ferry Re-Make/Re-Model
11) Heart On My Sleeve - ** - audio
YouTube - Bryan Ferry Heart on My Sleeve

3's - 2
2's - 7
1's - 2

Rating - 2.0

[Tiggi]

Timbuk 3 - Edge of Allegiance



Another album I haven't listened to for some considerable time.

Husband & wife duo who specialised in sharp sardonic songs about life, ecology, politics, the universe, & everything. Lots of acoustic guitars, some atmospheric harmonica, and well-programmed drum machines.

Worth checking out...

[Music Head]

from my library

Nick Lowe And His Cowboy Outfit - The Rose Of England - 1985



Not much cowboy about this effort. Sure, the rockabilly roots are evident but cowboy?. The band tag comes from the previous album title but was dropped after this one, Lowe's seventh. No singles charted here and the album reached #119. Indoor Fireworks is a beautiful song, but after all, that belongs to Elvis. My album has a different cover and sequence but the tracks remain the same. Maybe it's a U.S./U.K. thing. My cover is the one pictured in track #6. Neither cover is very appealing.

I like this album.

Favorite Track - The Rose Of England

Taking nothing but his daddy's old bone-grip knife
He traded but a little for the wayward life
A faint heart never won fair hand
So says the Rose of England

From high on a hill came the clarion call
To gain young men, come one, come all
Make muster 'gainst the foreign hand
That's raised to the Rose of England

For her feckless boys she did weep and wail
Saying, Lord have mercy where did I fail?
Out of my belly, the pick up a gun
And fall for the Rose of England

God knows it's a cold outside
It's a fire by day and a freeze at night
I know it's a hell out there
How loud the mouth when the heart don't care

He's damned if he don't, and damned if he do
He'd die if he ever found out we knew
Hot potato, drop it and run
Far from the Rose of England


1) I Knew The Bride (When She Use To Rock And Roll) - *** - live
YouTube - Nick Lowe Dave Edmunds Rockpile I KNEW THE BRIDE
2) She Don't Love Nobody - ** - audio
YouTube - Nick Lowe - She Don't Love Nobody
3) 7 Nights To Rock - ** - audio
YouTube - Nick Lowe 7 Nights to Rock (audio)
4) Long Walk Back - * - audio
YouTube - Nick Lowe And His Cowboy Outfit - Long Walk Back
5) The Rose Of England - *** - live
YouTube - Nick Lowe THE ROSE OF ENGLAND
6) Lucky Dog - ** - audio
YouTube - LUCKY DOG - Nick Lowe (1985)
7) Darlin' Angel Eyes - **
8) Indoor Fireworks - ** - audio
YouTube - Nick Lowe Indoor Fireworks (audio) elvis costello
9) (Hope To God) I'm Right - **
10) I Can Be The One You Love - ***
11) Everyone - **
12) Bobo Ska Diddle Daddle - * - live
YouTube - Nick Lowe live @ Warner Brothers (1/4)

3's - 3
2's - 7
1's - 2

Rating - 2.1

[CMB1888]

My ipod on shuffle - so last 5 were

Delorenos - The Rules
Arctic Monkeys - From the Ritz to the Rubble
Bullet For My Valentine - The Poison
Goo Goo Dolls - Tucked Away
Patsy Cline - Crazy

Best one ? Can't choose between the Arctic Monkeys track and Patsy.........

[JonG]

Devendra Banhart - Baby from the Baby EP [Warner Bros, 2009]

The first single from his new album What Will We Be.

[CMB1888]

Devendra Banhart - Baby from the Baby EP [Warner Bros, 2009]

The first single from his new album What Will We Be.

He's all over the place at the moment - the power of marketing will probably compel me to give this a listen though I quite like him in any case.

[JonG]

He's all over the place at the moment - the power of marketing will probably compel me to give this a listen though I quite like him in any case.

Huh, I haven't noticed. I just like his previous album and I found this single out there in the ether.

[fireshadow4126]

Im listening 2 "You're Failure Is My Revenge" by The Unseen