What are you listening to right now ?

[Redrum]

I'm listening to "The Weight" by The Band. It's a classic song that I never get tired of hearing.

+1000

I have to agree. I am a bit ashamed to admit, after decades of listening and singing along, that the lyrics are not "annie" they are "fanny"

If it's available where you live, if you have not seen the streaming special on the band "band of brothers" I highly recommend it. In it Robbie goes into quite a bit of depth about the writing of that song.


Jim

<edit - a good friend named his dog "jack" from that song>

[RonM]

I'm listening to "The Weight" by The Band. It's a classic song that I never get tired of hearing.

Just today I was listening to this song, two versions -- The Band's and Aretha Franklin's, on my "alternate takes" playlist. I've always enjoyed Aretha's version, which was on her Soul '69 album, and featured Duane Allman on slide guitar, produced by Jerry Wexler. It is also on the Duane Allman Anthology.

Ron


Aretha with the album jacket


Aretha, Duane and Jerry Wexler

[RonM]

Just searched my archive, and it seems I have quite a number of covers of The Weight:

The Band twice (original and from The Last Waltz with the Staples)
Dala (Canadian duo, two women)
Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper (instrumental, nice guitar from Bloomfield in the second half of the track)
Rickie Lee Jones
Diana Ross and the Supremes
Aretha Franklin

There are dozens of others, some of which I'd like to hear. The Ventures, for instance.

R.

[castalla]

Free Fallin' - Stevie Nicks

[Grumpy Bob]

Suicide - Surrender. This is a newly released compilation by the proto-synth-punk band Suicide, featuring 16 tracks from throughout their career over two LPs, CD, streaming. Suicide had a really tough time with audiences back in the 1970s (e.g. being bottled on stage supporting The Clash; the famous recoding of them being forced off stage by an irate Belgian audience). I bought their first LP back in about 1978, being intrigued by a review in a HiFi magazine to the effect that "only a poseur could claim to like this"!

Over the years, I have bought most if not all of Suicide's output, so there's little on this magnificent looking compilation that I don't already have, just unreleased versions of two tracks, so I'm unlikely to buy it. But as an introduction to Suicide this would be unparalleled.

Suicide's music veers from the aggressive to to the tender. Dream Baby Dream soundtracks a perfume advert on TV now! How things change from those early reviews...

[slartibartfast]

Suicide - Surrender. This is a newly released compilation by the proto-synth-punk band Suicide, featuring 16 tracks from throughout their career over two LPs, CD, streaming. Suicide had a really tough time with audiences back in the 1970s (e.g. being bottled on stage supporting The Clash; the famous recoding of them being forced off stage by an irate Belgian audience). I bought their first LP back in about 1978, being intrigued by a review in a HiFi magazine to the effect that "only a poseur could claim to like this"!

Over the years, I have bought most if not all of Suicide's output, so there's little on this magnificent looking compilation that I don't already have, just unreleased versions of two tracks, so I'm unlikely to buy it. But as an introduction to Suicide this would be unparalleled.

Suicide's music veers from the aggressive to to the tender. Dream Baby Dream soundtracks a perfume advert on TV now! How things change from those early reviews...

Springsteen also covered Dream Baby Dream.

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[Redrum]

10cc

I tend to do deep dives, I can get stuck focusing on an artist for weeks. This time it's 10cc.

I have always loved this band, very underrated/misunderstood/forgotten, but recently when I had Tidal, I played the 5 disk "Tenology" and quickly went out and added a couple CD's complete the first four (with Godley and Creme) and the first Goldman and Stewart only offering Deceptive Bends. Love them all, but Sheet Music gets played the most.



No front man, four song writers, four excellent vocalists with outstanding harmonies, four multi instrumentalists. Then the writing, the creative side (Godley and Creme) and the more pop side (Stewart and Goldman), splash in some humor, irony, there ya go. Also, with Paul Burgess, they did allot of two percussionist stuff.

Not allot of you tube videos of the original lineup, but the ones there are great.

Back in the late late 70's I had a friend that was a guitarist for a local punk, new wave band, and he once told me that 10cc was his favorite band. I thought "I'm not in love" and thought "that's odd", but came to understand what he was hearing.

Jim

[Grumpy Bob]

Springsteen also covered Dream Baby Dream.

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Yep, I have his version on on of the 10" EP series that came out to celebrate one of Alan Vega's birthdays...

Robert

[Bscott]

Mobile Fidelity Eagles Desperado in DSF. Sounds great!

[w3wilkes]

Kind of been stuck on this album for the last week. I think I bought the vinyl back in about 1972 and then again when it came out on CD. Two of the tracks keep running through my brain, "Stranger in a Strange Land" and "Beware of Darkness".

[castalla]

Florence + The Machine : Dance Fever

Repetitive and pretentious rubbish

... sigh

[linn_tyke]

Florence + The Machine : Dance Fever

Repetitive and pretentious rubbish

... sigh

Agreed. Well past the sell by date!

[Grumpy Bob]

Right now I'm playing Ice Cream Soufi by Portron Portron Lopez, via Qobuz.
New to me, but described on Bandcamp as "Trio de rock beefheartien teinté d'influences afro-électroniques. À leur écoute, on assiste à la déclinaison d'un même esprit tordu doublé d'un son explosif et drolatique. Une liberté héritée du meilleur rock garage et psychédélique, dont ils détournent parfois les poncifs. C'est en deux mots une musique truande et tonique!"

Robert

[slartibartfast]

Right now I'm playing Ice Cream Soufi by Portron Portron Lopez, via Qobuz.
New to me, but described on Bandcamp as "Trio de rock beefheartien teinté d'influences afro-électroniques. À leur écoute, on assiste à la déclinaison d'un même esprit tordu doublé d'un son explosif et drolatique. Une liberté héritée du meilleur rock garage et psychédélique, dont ils détournent parfois les poncifs. C'est en deux mots une musique truande et tonique!"

Robert

How did you find that?

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[Grumpy Bob]

How did you find that?

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It came through as a vinyl release from one of the mail order shops I use, and I looked for it on Qobuz. I can't buy everything I want on vinyl as I would bankrupt myself and run out of space.

Robert