Go On Then, What Are You Kistening To

[Shake me up Judy]

Oh, Joni....don't get me started. Agree with that Quilp. Her 1980's albums were late blooms (There's yer poetry again see ?) in a wonderful career. I also love the double live recording with orchestra that she did. Her original version of Woodstock is one of the greatest songs ever written and performed. A eulogy to a generation.

[Shake me up Judy]

Is this beautiful or what....?

[Mr. Sausages]

On ‎23‎/‎11‎/‎2017 at 11:18 AM, Chinahand said:

The lyrics ...

"Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone"

... have been in the borderlands between conscious and sub-conscious for the last few days.

Isn't the brain a wonderful thing.

Joni Mitchell never lies.

[woolley]

Heard this for the first time in donkey's years on Radio Caroline during the week. Good tune. Think I prefer it to the more frequently heard and similar WOLD.

 

[woolley]

If you appreciate music in general from the past 60 years and don't mind a very wide, eclectic selection rather than the heavily formatted "standard" stations that play the same stuff repeatedly, the old lady is definitely worth a listen. www.radiocaroline.co.uk    and click on the main album channel. 

Be warned though, you will hear a lot of unfamiliar stuff. I tend to think of it a bit like a Radio 3 of the modern era.

 

Edited February 11, 2018 by woolley

[quilp]

Halfway through a bottle of Jameson's and the forlorn melancholia of Chet Baker's doleful horn softly colours the wee hours. 'Let's Get Lost' - soulful stuff. Nothing 'manufactured' about the recordings of the era, it went down in half a dozen takes, as it was. 2 mics over the kit, one on the kick, separate mics for everyone else, early experimental stereo, dry as a bone mix. Proper woody ring to the double-tracked piano.

Yeah.

[doc.fixit]

.........wow quilp old chap, very lyrical/nostalgic/romantic.............what a lovely sepia picture you paint..........hope you have recovered from the moran....

[quilp]

'moran?'

Carried on listening till the very wee hours, three fingers left in the bottle and me not a drinker! Got a wobble on this morning. Good though. 

[Chinahand]

Hope you’re not Almost Blue Quilp. 

 

[quilp]

Nice one China. Old Chet, a tortured soul, wracked, yet somehow inspired by heroin addiction. He couldn't pay his dealers in Paris so they knocked his teeth out meaning he had to learn to play that horn all over again.

Almost blue but not quite... 

[doc.fixit]

5 hours ago, quilp said:

'moran?'

Carried on listening till the very wee hours, three fingers left in the bottle and me not a drinker! Got a wobble on this morning. Good though. 

...........probably spelled it wrong, meaning a fierce cold/flu/ ailment.............

[quilp]

Getting there, doc.

[Shake me up Judy]

If you can get hold of a copy I'd highly recommend Chet's last live concert recording. I think it was in Copenhagen or perhaps Germany, but with his last puff he seemed to find even more beauty in the material he'd made his own. Same with some of his contemporaries: Stan Getz, Gerry Mulligan, Art Pepper; who made some of their finest recordings towards the end when their health was shot.  

[thebees]

The people at this party are rubbish but the music is great (if you were a 1990's raver). 

[guzzi]

NWA. Researching a holiday this summer and my niece's insistence that she has to have a picture in Compton. I'm not encouraged, NWA don't really sell the place.

Edited February 18, 2018 by guzzi