What are you listening to, right now................
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“Pursuit of the Pimpmobile” from the “Truck Turner” (1974) soundtrack. Some very nice footage of the blaxploitation film.
The soundtrack is excellent in it’s own right, but I’ve been listening to the compilation album “Isaac Hayes Instrumentals” a lot lately, it’s an excellent collection that demonstrates what a genius songwriter and arranger he truly was, and I’d recommend to everybody aged 5 to 105..
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@mariner4life said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Are there many other bands who have such a difference between their good (this, nearly all of Smash) and their bad (Get a Job, Fly for a White Guy) that the Offspring.
Oh yes I have very fond memories of seeing them at The Big Day Out in the 90's, a great band.
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A classic from the AOR Disco blog circa 2010.
When it's February and it's cold and pissing down here in the UK, and everyone is banging on about The Horrors and The Maccabees and Lana Del Ray, I like to take myself off to a better place in time: namely, to the summer of 1976 in the American mid-west, sitting in a Ford truck with a crate of beer and a bong, and watching the sun go down while listening to Boston. Best known for the opening track More Than A Feeling, Boston's debut album set the template for the golden age of AOR/Arena Rock in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Due to the visionary studio genius of Tom Scholtz the album sounded at the time like it had arrived from space - and it even had a cover which featured a spaceship which was shaped like an electric guitar. As a kid experiencing Boston for the first time I could barely imagine anything more legendary. And I still can't. So here's one of the highlights from the record, which starts out as an acoustic track with the smoothest harmonies from the late Brad Delp, very much in the tradition of the Californian sound typified by The Eagles and America. But this being Boston the song quickly moves up into full grandiosity, with layer upon layer of twin guitar and hammond organ solos, hand claps and gratuitous drum fills. -
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They were from Chicago, but they weren’t Chicago. They wrote & recorded the best Blood Sweat & Tears song that the Al Kooper-less BS&T never did. Great song, almost fifty years old, gets better with age.
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@Tim said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Marc Jordan (aided by Steve Lukather) demonstrating just how hard smooth music could rock.
Sounds just like the soundtrack for a cheesy "walk along the beach with some chick with big hair" montage from an 80's movie.
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Cover: very much in a country vibe at the moment.
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@Salacious-Crumb said in What are you listening to, right now................:
They were from Chicago, but they weren’t Chicago. They wrote & recorded the best Blood Sweat & Tears song that the Al Kooper-less BS&T never did. Great song, almost fifty years old, gets better with age.
Banger
Next in the mix
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@MN5 said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@JC said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@MN5 Well fuck me, a criticism from MN5. Quelle surpise.
You gave your opinion I gave mine. If you're gonna get all passive aggressive you probably shouldn't post on here.
That’s not remotely passive aggressive. You could call it sardonicism, and you’d deserve it for your habit of constantly showing up to deliver your killer critiques about any music you don’t know anything about. Of which there appears to be a lot.
Calm down. If you’re going to dish it, take it. Otherwise you probably shouldn’t post on here 😉
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@JC said in What are you listening to, right now................:
An underrated song from an underrated band.
If I may.
Excellent guitarist, excellent rhythm section, so so vocalist, some classic numbers.
I want you to want me (live at the Budokan) is on my all time playlist.
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@JC said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@MN5 said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@JC said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@MN5 Well fuck me, a criticism from MN5. Quelle surpise.
You gave your opinion I gave mine. If you're gonna get all passive aggressive you probably shouldn't post on here.
That’s not remotely passive aggressive. You could call it sardonicism, and you’d deserve it for your habit of constantly showing up to deliver your killer critiques about any music you don’t know anything about. Of which there appears to be a lot.
Calm down. If you’re going to dish it, take it. Otherwise you probably shouldn’t post on here 😉
@JC said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@MN5 said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@JC said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@MN5 Well fuck me, a criticism from MN5. Quelle surpise.
You gave your opinion I gave mine. If you're gonna get all passive aggressive you probably shouldn't post on here.
That’s not remotely passive aggressive. You could call it sardonicism, and you’d deserve it for your habit of constantly showing up to deliver your killer critiques about any music you don’t know anything about. Of which there appears to be a lot.
Calm down. If you’re going to dish it, take it. Otherwise you probably shouldn’t post on here 😉
I've seen them live and the old man owned quite a few records so I'd hardly say I know nothing about them. I think they're a pretty decent group but don't get how you say they're "underrated" that's all.
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Where/when/how/why did “underrated band” get translated as “rock gods”? I think we can fairly agree there’s more than a few degrees difference, surely.
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@Salacious-Crumb said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Where/when/how/why did “underrated band” get translated as “rock gods”? I think we can fairly agree there’s more than a few degrees difference, surely.
You’re right but I chose to assume that’s what he meant and got triggered anyway. This thread needs livening up, too much of people posting what they’re listening to and getting no responses or upvotes.
