A #CheeseAlert apology to start. All Christmas music is tripe. This includes both the sickly pop songs we are battered with in all public places for at least two months before the big day (I'd be mightily relieved if I could be spared ever hearing The Fairytale of New York again, or anything by Slade or Wizard), and Christmas Carols with their piercing singing and questionable lyrics (give me ...
Showing posts with label 17. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 17. Show all posts
Sunday, 31 December 2017
Log #66 - Christmas Cheese and Real Drugs
December 31, 2017
17, felice brothers, john grant, logs, richard hawley, war on drugs
Sunday, 24 December 2017
Log #65 - Richard Hawley's Dark and Brooding Masterpiece
December 24, 2017
17, felice brothers, logs, nick cave, richard hawley, tim buckley
One of the joys of writing this blog are the unexpected rediscoveries of artists in my collection. Playing his classic Coles Corner album a month ago led me to expand my Richard Hawley catalogue with two more purchases both featured at the top of my 6 cd changer this week.
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1. Richard Hawley - Standing at the Sky's Edge
2. Richard Hawley - Truelove's Gutter
3. Tim Buckley ...
Sunday, 17 December 2017
Log #64 - A Brave and Exciting Departure
December 17, 2017
17, felice brothers, gong, logs, nick cave, richard hawley, tim buckley
Regular fans of Richard Hawley, the easy listening crooner, should be wary of his Standing at the Sky's Edge album. However I expect this album of heavy psychedelic trippy rock (don't you just love that cover?) will have won Hawley many new fans and the less sensitive of his existing fans would have nevertheless grown appreciative of this temporary transformation, it being underpinned fundamentally ...
Sunday, 10 December 2017
Log #63 - Happy, Sad, Silly
December 10, 2017
17, beck, felice brothers, gong, logs, nick cave, tim buckley
Two brand new 6cd blog virgins this week with new entries from Gong and Tim Buckley. We've doubled down on Nick Cave, Beck's consistent showing continues, and there's a welcome return for probably the greatest live band on Earth!
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1. Beck - Guero
2. The Felice Brothers - The Felice Brothers
3. Tim Buckley - Happy Sad
4. Gong - The Best Of
5. Nick Cave - The Lyre of Orpheus
6. Nick Cave ...
Sunday, 19 November 2017
Log #60 - Can Anyone Be Bothered To Listen To Yes?
November 19, 2017
17, 4hero, charles mingus, green on red, hidden orchestra, logs, scott and maria, yes
Two new entries this week - Green on Red and Yes.
I first heard Green on Red when a music journalist (it may have been someone like Andy Kershaw or Mark Ellen) played some to Neil Young who mistook them for Crazy Horse. That was enough to warrant further investigation - I obtained No Free Lunch which was their album at the time. Actually had it on cassette and the majority of one side was taken ...
Sunday, 12 November 2017
Log #59 - Ah Um... Old Skool Jazz to Nu
November 12, 2017
17, 4hero, beck, charles mingus, hidden orchestra, lenny kravitz, little feat, logs
1. Lenny Kravitz - Let Love Rule
2. Little Feat - Feats Don't Fail Me Now
3. 4Hero - Creating Patterns
4. Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
5. Hidden Orchestra - Archipelago
6. Beck - Sea Change
I seem to remember when Lenny Kravitz appeared on the scene he was hailed, like Prince, as a new Hendrix? He had the looks, the guitar and the girlfriend. This didn't last long. Barely ...
Sunday, 5 November 2017
Log #58 - Soft Supreme
November 05, 2017
17, bob holroyd, john coltrane, logs, rolling stones, soft machine, sufjan stevens, whitesnake
Soft Machine! What's that all about then? I don't really know. I don't think many people do to be fair. They didn't make big waves in the mainstream world of rock to be honest, remaining firmly "underground" through their late 60s / early 70s heyday.
I remember they were something to do with the so called "Canterbury Scene" that spawned other fringe proggers like Caravan and Gong. In fact the ...
Tuesday, 31 October 2017
Log #57 - Very Famous Jazz, Little Known Harp and Unknown Guitar
October 31, 2017
17, david goodrich, john coltrane, logs, luc vanlaere, miles davis
Bitches Brew is a grower of course. Still quite hard to get into after a couple of weeks of sporadic playing (that's me, as well as Miles Davis!).
The next two jazz standards in the list are a lot more accessible. Many hold up these albums as the pinnacle for their respective artists Miles Davis and John Coltrane. Both use simple repetitive bass lines to underpin relatively modest (certainly ...
Sunday, 15 October 2017
Log #55 - A Whitest Boy Alive Retrospective and More Love For (Very) Early Tangerine Dream
October 15, 2017
17, logs, tangerine dream, whitest boy alive
1. Tangerine Dream - The Essential
2. Tangerine Dream - Force Majeure
3. Tangerine Dream - Cyclone
4. Tangerine Dream - Phaedra
5. The Whitest Boy Alive - Rules
6. The Whitest Boy Alive - Dreams
Following my year end review a couple of posts ago I was drawn like a magnet to my Whitest Boy Alive albums. A retrospective is perhaps an overstatement considering ...
Sunday, 1 October 2017
Log #53 - Tangerine Dream were no Satsuma Nightmare
October 01, 2017
17, bob marley, eilen jewell, james morrison, kanye west, logs, neil young, tangerine dream
Firstly I offer a thank you to all my readers as my blog enters it's second year. I hope some of you have stumbled across something of interest and discovered some new music. In listening to my music and writing these pieces I have both discovered new things and rediscovered old too! The list below is an example of that - I had never heard any Kanye West before last week (apart from a car crash ...
Sunday, 24 September 2017
Log #52 - So This Is, or Was, Kanye!
September 24, 2017
17, bob marley, eilen jewell, james morrison, kanye west, logs, neil young, ryan adams
If you had told me I'd have a Kanye West album in my logs this year I wouldn't have believed you. But here I am at week #52 and courtesy of a bargain bucket charity purchase (along with the James Morrison one listed below) I find myself the proud owner of Late Registration. My daughter tells me it's an early one and consequently probably quite good, and she is right, it's quite good in a rappy, ...
Sunday, 17 September 2017
Log #51 - Golden American Boy
September 17, 2017
17, jethro tull, josh t pearson, logs, neil young, ryan adams, st germain, wilco
What of Ryan Adams? This album is lengthy! In old money it's definitely a double. 17 tracks clocking up a total of 75 minutes. Is it a great double album, or filler? It's hard to tell. And that's part of the problem. It's almost too much to take in. I think perhaps two albums would have been better. It's like he's tried to cram everything in all in one go, from mournful ballads to full on rockers. ...
Sunday, 10 September 2017
Log #50 - Some of Neil Young's Greatest Acoustic Numbers Together at Last
September 10, 2017
17, afro celts, cat stevens, lambchop, logs, neil young, quantic, steely dan
1. Afro Celts Sound System- I
2. Quantic - The 5th Exotic
3. Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps
4. Lambchop - Nixon
5. Steely Dan - Aja
6. Cat Stevens - Icon
News of two musical deaths have reached 6 Album Sunday HQ this week: Walter Becker from Steely Dan and Holger Czukay of Can. Surviving founder member Donald Fagen of Steely Dan has committed to continuing and has ...
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