What are you listening to, right now................

Crucial

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I just put that down to him being a journo.

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A cross-post from another thread announcing the return of The Ultimate Warrior to "The Universe" after 18 insane years lost in the wilderness of "Parts Unknown," here's an epic extended 16-minute version of his awesome theme song. Download for the drive to work.
 
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One youtube commenter -- presumably not the Iceman -- gets straight to the point:
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<div>ONLY COCAINE AND ROIDS, CAN GIVE YOU THE POWER, OF THE ULTIMATE WARRIOR!!!!!!!!!!!. Snoooooorrrrrtt</div>
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And as always, the seminal metal re-mix by Steve Porter -- if you haven't already done so, you need to add that as a staple to your workout music. Hit > play > repeat.
 
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raznomore

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="red terror" data-cid="410456" data-time="1389652006">Marvin couldn't dance, that's true, he was awkward, and in fact for his entire career had stage-fright and was never comfortable performing. But that shyness only made him more sensitive and attractive to the females. The Hairspray cut definitely captures the sound and energy of Gaye/Motown from his early-sixties singles period. 
 
As far as squealing chicks, I love the female shrieks in the live versions of "Distant Lover." Gaye had a few songs he developed over the years that he wanted to be his Big Epic Centrepiece, and for a period in the 70s this was the one. 
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Yip Gaye wanted to be a crooner like Dean Martin or Frank Sinatra and never felt comfortable with Gordy Berry's vision of all singing, all dancing pop sensations. To this day I am happy to listen to. Trouble man from start to finish and tune out. That man ached through his music and will always be my all time favourite vocalist.

red terror

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Is this the funkiest, trippiest, sexiest Divorce Song ever recorded?

red terror

Phil Lynott and Mark Knopfler testify:

Chris B.

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Stumbled across this old Jaapie metal band, "Suck" covering "Season of the Witch". Something for just about everyone in this. I mainly liked the spooky flute intro.

antipodean

Been a long time, but Alice In Chains Dirt is back on my rotation.

mariner4life

Dear English posters
 
A band called The Editors, how do they go? My sister married the drummers brother on the weekend, and over beers i had to admit i had never heard of them (while also telling him that most music made after the late 90s sucks anyway). Anyway, i Youtubed them, and they are alright, not really my bag though. Their wiki page makes it seem like they have done alright. I guess i just want to know how they are received over there?

Luigi

Yeah, not bad M4L. A bit derivative for my taste, but their first album was OK. Haven't heard much about them for a couple of years.

jegga

Really enjoying the stuff on this thread from you guys who know Motown , might try and track down some of those books that have been mentioned.

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Yeah, not bad M4L. A bit derivative for my taste, but their first album was OK. Haven't heard much about them for a couple of years.</blockquote>
 
Ed was pretty laid back for a bloke with a couple of #1 albums and a couple of top 10 singles to his name, which is why their bio took me by surprise

red terror

For long eerie drives in blizzards at nighttime, I've been listening a lot lately to the earliest Coltrane solo records (Coltrane, Soutrane, Blue Train, Lush Life, etc.).
 
Here's a sweet blues with some terrific Trane improv (the famed <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheets_of_sound'>"sheets of sound"</a>).
 
The youtube uploader lists the song as 1964, when it may have been released, but it was recorded in 1958 at the same session that produced "Lush Life" (and appears on the "deluxe" edition of that album as one of the bonus songs). Great value!

Tim

Crucial

I've only just caught up with Paddy McAloon's latest offering under the old band name Prefab Sprout, but this is good.. One of those recordings you want to listen to in high quality just to drink it all in. Lovely production.

Paddy playing every instrument creating and arranging. He's a perfectionist and this is made even more amazing as he suffers terribly from tinitus.

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dK

RIP

red terror

I saw Seeger in 1983. I knew his stuff (as above) but could not fully appreciate it after it being shoved down my throat playing singalong by hippie primary school teachers in early 1970s. (It was him, Cat Stevens, Blowin' in the Wind, Puff the Magic Dragon ... dangerous subversive liberalism as a key component of the Kiwi primary school curriculum!) I saw a great PBS American Masters documentary about him much later and heard the testimonials by Dylan and Springsteen and became a bit more convinced. He's a folkie but If I Had a Hammer is fairly rock and roll, maybe even proto-punk. I'm ashamed to say I was pretty hammered when I saw him, which was probably not the right state of mind to be in, but I was getting ready for Stevie Wonder..

red terror

Pure otherworldly soul.
 
Opening two tracks from Charles Mingus' "Black Saint and the Sinner Lady," (1963). (On the record the two songs segue invisibly, the complete six songs are all one long glorious ballet suite).
 
The liner notes are bizarre, to say the least. Back in the era, Jazz labels (Bluenote, Prestige, Columbia, etc.) would typically recruit an important critic to write long critiques that filled the back cover of a 12-inch record jacket describing in dreary convoluted detail why the record was good or important. (Or, perhaps, small print 1,500-word promotions for the prospective record buyer.) Mingus won't have it, and instead pens his own very long tirade shitting all over music critics (what he calls "bathroom attendants").
 
"This kind of critic-musician man teaches people how to listen to music in new schools and he gets paid to play records to brainwash innocent little people who don't know that if you're going to like something that's beautiful no one can tell you how if it don't just happen. If it doesn't just happen, you're already brainwashed and instead of hiring someone to tell you what's beautiful for you, and you're past five years old, this means you need an analyst, not a public bathroom attendant with dirty faucets, who only knows what's beautiful to him because of his own inadequacies..."
 
And so Mingus, who was an inmate at Bellevue for mental health, does as he says and turns the review slot over to his psychoanalyst. The doc admits astonishment.
 
"I said I thought I was competent enough as a psychologist but that my interest in music was only average and without any technical background."
 
The shrink fulfills the request and reviews the record by analyzing the songs and interprets what Mingus is trying to communicate through his music.
 
Genius.

JK

I usually listen to alot of George FM here in NZ but the other day these dudes pulled up in a matt black van and gave me a bottle opener with 'The Flat....get on it' so naturally in appreciation of the bottle opener I googled it and found out its a radio station. Weak as signal so only available in Auckland (North Shore is best) or online at <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.flatfm.co.nz/'>http://www.flatfm.co.nz/</a> and its surprisingly good. Quite a wide range of music.

Luigi

Waking up with a long forgotten song from my memory banks running through my head is becoming normal as I get older.
 
Here's one I stored in my mind earlier. I saw a band years ago called Bill Malonee and the vigilantes of Love at The Borderline of fond memory in London's West End. Amazing energy for a three piece and some beautifully crafted songs. I think Bill Malonee still tours, but I don't know what happened to the Vigilantes. No matter, Solar System along with Resplendent are a couple of his tracks which I thought were elevated above the general din of Alt Country around at the time.

The Silver Fern

What are you listening to, right now................