What are you listening to right now?

[upsetminded]

The Dilettantes.  It is Joel Gion the tamborine man from Brian Jonestown Massacre...The whole album has a real 60's vibe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8T9Fwx7IY8

[Gritter]

the new robyn hitchcock and the venus 3 album oslo nights

I hadn't seen the video ORH...thanks for posting. I am a huge fan of Robyn and like my other greatest inspiration, Tom Waits, he gets better and better with age!

Here's something old and something new(ish):

First the old: 1988 - Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart - Camper Van Beethoven. A masterpiece - Each song is a gem. Such sentiment in each track without even knowing the words (which are great by the way). I was listening to this when I first started dating my wife and it always takes me back there:

"And this here's a government experiment and we're driving like Hell, to give some cowboys some acid and to stay in motels."

(A lot of Youtubers are covering the Sublime version but the original is by far my favorite)

*it won't play embedded but able to view at youtube.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51PP8TwXrxE

Kind of a lame video, but hey it was the 80's - everyone was making bad videos.

Although my favorite video of all time was from the 80's! My buddy and I saw it in 11th grade and laughed so hard...I hadn't seen it in over 20 years but thanks to youtube I can watch it and laugh just as hard now.

Director to band: simple - just keep your eyes on the camera while you wreck everything!

From 1986 this is Lose Your Love - Blancmange:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N81UChK78WY

Okay, sorry for that tangent...back to what I'm listening to.

Here's the new(ish): 2007 Ongiara - Great Lake Swimmers. Beautifully subtle melancholic sounds. Rural, atmospheric and distincty Canadian...You will "no doubt" here a Neil Young influence.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ6W_cq-zQ0

That's all for now.

Gritter.

[Ted]

The Dilettantes.  It is Joel Gion the tamborine man from Brian Jonestown Massacre...The whole album has a real 60's vibe.

Congratulations to the person who created that advertisement.  I'm going to buy that album.

Vocals kind of reminded me of David Lowery. Then along comes Gritter with his CVB video.  I'm a recent Cracker convert, so I'm completely unfamiliar with Lowery's younger appearance--when he didn't look like Willie Nelson's stunt double.

[tony]

I keep this one on the iPod because it it has such fantastic rhythms but I like to watch the vid every once in a while because it makes me smile.  It says Outkast ft. Scar & Sleepy Brown but I don't hear any Mr. Brown in there.

Outkast ft. Scar & Sleepy Brown (maybe, sure) - Morris Brown


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2_tbDQvKtE

[cuthbert]

When I'm not listening to Bosko's 'Death of the Sun', this week I've also been listening to Guild of Temporal Adventurers with Kendra Smith (of Dream Syndicate & Opal), and digging this song 'Stars Are In Your Eyes' in particular. I was a big fan of Opal, which morphed into Mazzy Star when Kendra left Opal, but somehow I never picked this up until this week.

Not much of video that was posted for it, but it's a great song!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8ZpdpJAkqU

[tony]

Normally, when I post to this thread, it is because I was looking at something on YouTube or I was listening to something and then I went to YouTube to ind a version of it.  On this occasion, I'm glad to say that I wasn't listening to a record or watching YouTube.  I was actually out there in the world that is farther from my computer than the length of my arms and I was watching these two nice gentlemen, Nick Lowe and Ry Cooder, entertaining the paying guests for a couple of hours.

Great gig, glad I went: Nick Lowe and Ry Cooder with the old Eddie Giles number "(I'm a) Losing Boy"  [this clip is from earlier in the year - tonight it was Brisbane, Queensland]


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FexGZjwt8Us

[Ted]

I like these two, and didn't know they were working together.  I'd love to see them.

In my development as a musician and bassist, I reached a fork in the road.  I imagined one road leading to led to Stanley Clarke (virtuosity), the other to Nick Lowe (songwriter).  Nick seemed to be having more fun.

[tony]

He seemed to be having fun tonight.  In fact, from the evidence of the last few albums, he seems to be having a fair bit of fun these days.

There's a nice episode of Live at Daryl's House with him having fun.

[Greeny]

Nick Lowe is awesome - a real inspiration to me. I grew up listen to my dad's cassette copy of 'Labour of Lust', and it still sounds like perfect music and songwriting to this day.

[SdC]

Normally, when I post to this thread, it is because I was looking at something on YouTube or I was listening to something and then I went to YouTube to ind a version of it.  On this occasion, I'm glad to say that I wasn't listening to a record or watching YouTube.  I was actually out there in the world that is farther from my computer than the length of my arms and I was watching these two nice gentlemen, Nick Lowe and Ry Cooder, entertaining the paying guests for a couple of hours.

Great gig, glad I went: Nick Lowe and Ry Cooder with the old Eddie Giles number "(I'm a) Losing Boy"  [this clip is from earlier in the year - tonight it was Brisbane, Queensland]

Yeah I went to that show a couple of months ago in Amsterdam. Cool as can be.