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The Blue Aeroplanes' "Warhol's Fifteen", a collection from their 1980s recordings. Bought their stuff in Jeanette's shop in the Arcade back then, James pointing out that they had a dancer on the credits. Didn't come over well on record, though I mind going to see them once and realising the bloke flailing about at the front was indeed the dancer. That was one of the gigs where they brought everyone who'd ever played guitar with them on to the stage. 10 guitarists thrashing away, memorable but terrible.
Love the new Stones album, best thing they've done in about 30 years.
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just listening to Neon Waltz - Heavy Heartless (Stroma School House Session) what a great recording
Hope they make a great success they should do
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Going back to the 1980's here with Rush and 'Signals'.
https://youtu.be/oyx4s69qRXM
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Tonight revisiting some Steve Earle, Cooperhead Row, one of his best
Well my name's John Lee Pettimore
Same as my daddy and his daddy before
You hardly ever saw Grandaddy down here
He only came to town about twice a year
He'd buy a hundred pounds of yeast and some copper line
Everybody knew that he made moonshine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvaEJzoaYZk
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Have you heard his new album, "So you wanna be an outlaw"? It's pretty good. Also listening to Can, "Tago Mago" last night, barking mad (them, not me, honest).
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I hadn't heard he had a new release till now, downloaded "So you wanna be an Outlaw" tonight and think this is something I will be listening to more than a few times. Thanks for the tip.
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Tonight is a night for deep thoughts and long thoughts, extra measures.
and the Man in Black, Johnny Cash.
Well you may throw your rock and hide your hand
Workin' in the dark against your fellow man
But as sure as God made black and white
What's done in the dark will be brought to the light
https://youtu.be/eJlN9jdQFSc?list=RDeJlN9jdQFSc
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Apart from Neon Waltz...quick plug for 'e locals...George Thorogood has a new album out called "Party of One". After about 200 years on the road with the Destroyers, it's his first solo album. There's no great change of direction (George hasn't gone hip-hop or avant-garde on us),it's still in the blues/rock vein, but he seems to be enjoying himself and it certainly has a fresher feel than some of his recent albums.
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Listening to old Husker Du albums after hearing Grant Hart the drummer had died.Saw them once, must have been '85 or so, one of the best gigs I've been at.
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Enrique Iglesias - SUBEME LA RADIO
Lovely beautiful Melodious
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Taylor Swift - …Ready For It?
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The new Robert Plant album and, very different indeed, the new Julie Fowlis one.
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Listening to The Dream Syndicate's "Days of Wine and Roses" from 1982 along with a live album from the same period, reissued as "The Day Before Wine and Roses" (bet a lot of thought went into that title). The live versions are very different from the studio ones, very intense. There's also a bit where the singer asks someone to escort his drunk and heckling ex from the building, but no album's perfect.
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The Skids, Scared to Dance, reissued with a live recording from 1978.
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How about The war on Drugs .... an ocean between the waves
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The Who, Live at the Fillmore East, 1968.
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Charles Lloyd and Lucinda Williams, Vanishing Gardens cd. Jazz sax and a country-ish singer doesn't look like a good idea, but it works really well.
Also heard Mike Peters of The Alarm do an acoustic set in a music shop in Edinburgh on Monday. Never a huge fan in the 80s, but he was in good form and the new Alarm album's pretty sound.
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This Mortal Coil's first album, It'll End In Tears. Odd sort of a band, as far as I can mind they only really existed in the studio and were made up of musicians on the 4AD label. Their cover of Song to the Siren still gets me after 35 years.
And yet another live Neil Young album, Songs For Judy, recordings from a 1976 US tour. He's someone that could do with some quality-control, especially some of his more recent stuff, but this is him on top form.
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Do any of you listen or watch Radio paradise on the net ? I think it is a good alternative to regular radio...
whats your views?
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Listening to the Long Ryders, "Psychedelic Country Soul". It's their first since 1987 and well worth the wait. Didn't Sid Griffin the singer play the Pentland, back when Wildcat was putting on gigs?
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The new Dylan album. Have listened to it a few times and like it, not sure how it compares to his other stuff yet.
One of the few good points about living in the Deep South is that music shops are open again. Edinburgh's lost a few over the last couple of years: Coda (retired), Record Shak (passed away), Hogshead (closed, but now selling online) and now Unknown Pleasures (not reopening after lockdown but staying online
). There are still a few open for old fools like me who don't stream or buy on the internet, but who knows for how long?
I still miss Shearer's in the Arcade!
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am now listening to Post Modern Jukebox a Great Idea
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The first LP by Lyonesse, from 1974, replacing one lost many moons ago. They were a French/Swiss/ English folk band who had a couple of albums out with different line-ups before they all went on to do their own things.
30-odd years later I ran into the fiddle-player at Celtic Connections and mentioned my dad and I had found their first 2 LPs in the Music Shop in Thurso. He went outside, and I could see him on his mobile: he came back in and said he'd been on the phone to his wife and she thought that might have been all they'd sold in Scotland.