What did you listen to this week?

[El Dingo]

We don't devote enough time in this thread to the new and old stuff DOOM is enjoying.

Since taking a vow of vinyl (at home) I am trying to avoid the lure of MP3s, iTunes and Pandora and listen to an album from start to finish.

I initially bought a copy of Roger Hodgson's (lead singer of Supertramp) "In the Eye of the Storm" at Amoeba for .99 cents. I ended up playing it over and over again as it pressed all the right buttons on the ED music melody test.

I have since bought The Baby's "Union Jack" (remember "Midnight Rendezvous"?), Adrian Belew "Lone Rhino" and Supertramp "Famous Last Words". as used LPs for a couple of bucks.

So - I offer a thread for you to post music that catches your fancy this week (or month).

Right now I'm listening to Genesis "Selling England by the Pound". It's weird reconciling that I like Genesis' MTV stuff as much as their early prog-rock offerings, but "Land of Confusion" is light years better than "Rosanna" so whatever.

If you think something new is great, or something old deserves a re-listen, post it here.

[Drunk Monk]

I'm not hip enough for vinyl and truth be told, I listen to a lot of radio for my 7 hours of weekly commuting. I listen to pop music, rock, classical, & college stations, plus NPR and that Bollywood station. I generally don't listen to music otherwise any more, unless it's live of course.

Last played in the CRVCD player - Lorde: Mellow Drama, MIA: Matangi, Ernest Ranglin: Below the baseline.

[Greg]

I think my music days are behind me. I know of the current hits that are happening on alternative radio, but that's about it. I can talk about Blink-182 and Imagine Dragons, maybe a little Killers for good measure.

The only album I might buy this year, I hear ED screaming already, is the new one by U2. Although the first two singles from the album have left this reviewer cold. The last album I picked up was 'Songs of Innocence'

[Drunk Monk]

Haven't bought music in ages. I trade. I get lots of DVD review copies and I swap them for CDs. 

I was getting all excited to buy Mellow Drama because o wanted to do my part and support Lorde. Then Tara's bf ripped her a copy, which I've permanently borrowed.

[Drunk Monk]

Made me think of u and this thread ED

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[King Bob]

There is something similar with Edison cylinders at UCSB: Cylinder Preservation and you can hear them online.

I went to a party once where a guy pulled out his grandmother's wind-up player and played a couple of her old 78s from the 1920s. The music wasn't that good, but the experience was great.

[Drunk Monk]

3 discs are in the CRVCD queue now.  

Two I just got from a trade so they are fresh to my collection. Those are Bob Marley: The Legend Live (a live show - Santa Barbara 11/25/79 - Trojan issue - I think I already have another version of this show on CD but this one came with a DVD because it was the final live video of one of Bob's concerts.  Still have yet to watch the DVD.  I seldom watch those) & Garcia Live Vol. 2 Greek Theater 8/5/90 (I was at this show - Bela Fleck sits in - perhaps one of you were there two with me?) 

The other one is Holtz: The Planets, London Philharmonic Orch, conducted by Sir George Solti.

[King Bob]

I was there. I think we went together.

[Drunk Monk]

I was thinking it was either you or Legbone. I think ED dropped out of the dead scene by then, yes?

It was a solid show. Only time I ever heard Bela but was impressed. I think his bass player had some odd keyboard bass guitar fusion thing.

[King Bob]

I think we went with Dan Lynn, and JB.

Future Man, the "bass" player called himself but I can't remember what he called his instrument. It was some sort of synth thing. I know you saw Bela Fleck twice because you said that Future Man did the same rap both times. I know I saw him twice. Did we see him as a headliner somewhere? That seems unlikely though. Maybe with David Lindley? Maybe that show on the Eel where David Lindley played with Ry Cooder? I think that was Jerry on the Eel. I'll look at my small pile of ticket stubs, but probably won't come up with anything. I only have a smattering of them.

[Drunk Monk]

How is it your memory is so much sharper than mine on this?  If my memory serves (and it seldom does anymore), you danced with Alice Dee far more often than I did.  

I've totally lost track of Bela, as well as so many of the shows I've been at.  The AFS years were really blurry because I worked a ton of Warfield shows - it was just a few blocks away and they fed me dinner plus a beer afterwards, and I could BART home - not to mention all of those AFS fumes (barge cement, not yeti stank).  My ticket stubs, laminates, and crack-&-peels are my only artifacts of so many nights spent frivolously.  That and posts on this here forum.

[King Bob]

I haven't seen Alice in many years DM, and you have endured much more smoke inhalation than I have. And I've gone straightedge which might help.

[Drunk Monk]

I've gone straightedge which might help.

It's a fair cop but society is to blame.

I might exaggerate my medicated state here for the sake of a better story. But in my defense, there's a lot I work to forget, like living with A nearsighted PPFY and looking uncomfortably like his gf in the dark. Yeah, trying to forget that but the scars remain to remind me...

[Dr. Ivor Yeti]

Honey, I'm home! I forgot my glasses again...!

[Drunk Monk]

Thanks for triggering my PTSD, PPFY.  Now I've got to self-medicate to function again.  I'd go straightedge like KB, but no, nooooo, PPFY just has to yank that chain and pop in that ball gag.  It's a SOMA knickers thing.

But it is a nice segue into my current CRVCD playlist, which is adjusted for the seasons - NOT PUMPKIN SPICE - but Halloween.

Twilight Zone soundtrack by Merl Saunders and the Grateful Dead.  An odd piece of musical fragments, mostly Merl, with a few choice Jerry noodles and some Mickey beam bass drops, weaving in and out of the classic theme, and mostly ending in question marks.  It reminds me a lot of the Resident's Commercial Album because it's got short pieces and they are all over the place.  

Which brings me to my main Halloween tracks - the Residents hold the next two CDs:

Hunters soundtrack - I've never seen this Discovery Channel documentary and the soundtrack is difficult listening.  I should watch it someday, just to get some images to go with this music.  

Stars and Hank Forever - Still one of my all-time favs by the eyeballs and skull.  Taught me to love Hank Williams and John Philip Souza.  A true masterpiece of the Residents.