What Are You Listening To?

[Dennie]

This is my last one for the evening....

Avalon

Roxy Music

1982 Warner Bros. Records

Amazon.com essential recording

Hipper students of 1980s pop might pretend that Joy Division and the Smiths had a monopoly on melancholia, but for the older, more suave brooders, nothing could match the stylized desolation of Roxy Music's last album. Avalon was recorded in the wake of the band's hit version of John Lennon's "Jealous Guy." Although that song isn't on Avalon, its tortured shadow looms large over "While My Heart Is Still Beating," the title track, and the unlikely Balearic anthem "More Than This." If time has been kind to Bryan Ferry's crumpled Armani chic, it hasn't exactly been vicious to his back catalog: Avalon sounds even more sumptuous now that the CD age has caught up with Rhett Davis's pristine production. --Peter Paphides All songs written by Bryan Ferry except as noted.

"More Than This" – 4:30
"The Space Between" – 4:30
"Avalon" – 4:16
"India" – 1:44
"While My Heart Is Still Beating" (Ferry/Mackay) – 3:26
"The Main Thing" – 3:54
"Take a Chance with Me" (Ferry/Manzanera) – 4:42
"To Turn You On" – 4:16
"True to Life" – 4:25
"Tara" (Ferry/Mackay) – 1:43

 

[Botch]

Another from my recent mass-order...

 

[Dennie]

The Collection - On My Way, Don't know Where I Goin'-- CD

Paul Simon

2002 Warner Bros. Records

Folk /Rock Icon Paul Simon's Best From His Solo Years!, November 10, 2002
By highway_star (Hallandale, Florida United States) - See all my reviews
(TOP 500 REVIEWER)


This review is from: The Paul Simon Collection: On My Way, Don't Know Where I'm Goin' (Audio CD)

This is an excellent collection of singer/songwriter Paul Simon's hits from his debut solo album simply titled "Paul Simon" (released in 1972) to his "You're The One" cd (released in 2000). In my opinion Simon is one of America's best (if not the best) songwriters ever. Every song has meaning and is sung with emotion. You've got all the hits starting with the catchy "Mother And Child Reunion", "Me And Julio Down By The Schoolyard", the sensative "Something So Right", the humorous "Kodachrome", "Fifty Ways To Leave Your Lover","Still Crazy After All These Years", "Slip Sliddin' Away", "You Can Call Me Al" (remember the great video from MTV's glory days), etc. As a bonus disc you get rare 1973 concert performances of Simon performing several songs in "American Tune" and "Duncan" (New York & London), "Mrs. Robinson" from a 1999 New York City concert, "Bridge Over Troubled Water" from a 2001 New Orleans concert and "The Coast" from a 2002 Montreux, Switzerland concert. This disc has been remastered and the sound quality is nice and crisp compared to other greatest hits cd's I've heard. There's also ten pages of liner notes which gives a brief history of Simon as well as the making of his various l.p.'s. A great cd for those who enjoy 60's and 70's folk rock. Highly recommended!

Track listing

1. Mother and Child Reunion
2. Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard
3. Kodachrome
4. Something So Right
5. Loves Me Like a Rock
6. 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover
7. Still Crazy After All These Years
8. Late in the Evening
9. Slip Slidin' Away
10. Hearts and Bones
11. Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes - (single version)
12. Boy in the Bubble, The - (single version)
13. Graceland
14. You Can Call Me Al
15. Spirit Voices
16. Cool, Cool River, The
17. Adios Hermanos
18. Love
19. Hurricane Eye

 

[Botch]

 

[Dennie]

Changes in Latitudes Changes in Attitudes

Jimmy Buffett

1977 ABC Records

Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes is the breakthrough 1977 album by American popular music singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett. The album, his eighth, remains the best selling album of Buffett's career, and contains his biggest single, "Margaritaville". It was initially released in January 1977 as ABC AB-990 and later rereleased on its successor label, MCA.

Changes was very popular and critically well received and was a transitional album on several levels for Buffett. In a commercial sense, it ushered in Buffett's greatest period of chart and airplay popularity - changing him from an FM cult favorite and minor hitmaker to a top-draw touring artist whose albums sold in the millions, receiving regular AM airplay at the time. Changes would be followed by equally popular and more grandiose expressions of Buffett's "Caribbean Soul" on Son of a Son of a Sailor (1978) and Volcano (1979). All of these albums would combine pop, bar-band rock, country, folk, and reggae influences with the professional production of Norbert Putnam.

1. "Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes" (Buffett) – 3:15
2. "Wonder Why We Ever Go Home" (Buffett) – 3:51
3. "Banana Republics" (Burgh/Goodman/Rothermel) – 5:11
4. "Tampico Trauma" (Buffett) – 4:35
5. "Lovely Cruise" (Johnathan Baham) – 3:54
6. "Margaritaville" (Buffett) – 4:09
7. "In the Shelter" (Buffett) – 4:00
8. "Miss You So Badly" (Buffett/Taylor) – 3:41
9. "Biloxi" (Winchester) – 5:38
10. "Landfall" (Buffett) – 3:14

 

[Dennie]

Inarticulate Speech Of The Heart.

Van Morrison

1983 Warner Bros. Records

Soulful and lilting: my favorite Van Morrison ever, February 21, 2005
By Tana Butler (Soquel, California) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)
This review is from: Inarticulate Speech of the Heart (Audio CD)

This is one of my "ten CDs for a desert island" albums: I've been in love with it since it came out in the mid-Eighties. It's aged well, too. Van definitely explores his mystical side here: he's a strong poet and singer.

Aside from his beautiful vocals, which are masterful as usual, there are several instrumental pieces on this recording. Back-up singers (gorgeous, full-voiced women) supply uncommon depth; the dreamy piano and guitar, breathy saxophone, and delicate bass work make this (honestly) the best "lie in bed all day Sunday with your lover" music I can think of.

It's an exquisite recording. I can't count the number of friends I've gifted with it. It's deep, and it's broad.

To quote him, "I'm just wild about it. I can't live without it" (the inarticulate speech of the heart). Side one

"Higher than the World" – 3:42
"Connswater" – 4:09
"River of Time" – 3:02
"Celtic Swing" – 5:03
"Rave On, John Donne" – 5:12

Side two

"Inarticulate Speech of the Heart No. 1" – 4:53
"Irish Heartbeat" – 4:40
"The Street Only Knew Your Name" – 3:36
"Cry for Home" – 3:44
"Inarticulate Speech of the Heart No. 2" – 3:53
"September Night" – 5:16

9211

 

[Dennie]

City To City

Gerry Rafferty

1978 Capitol Records

Amazon.com
It took Quentin Tarantino's using "Stuck in the Middle with You," the 1973 hit of Gerry Rafferty's former band Stealers Wheel, in Reservoir Dogs to make Rafferty hip again. But City to City, his 1978 solo breakthrough, has long been worth rediscovering--and not just because it contains "Baker Street," one of the biggest and best singles of the 1970s. Rafferty brilliantly modernizes his Scottish folk-rock background on such pop treasures as the churning title track, the minor follow-up hit "Right Down the Line," the bouncing ditty "Mattie's Rag," the enchantingly churchy "Whatever's Written in Your Heart," and others. It's as rewardingly refreshing a change of pace now as it was when it emerged in the midst of the disco era. --Peter Blackstock

"The Ark" – 5:36
"Baker Street" – 6:01
"Right Down the Line" – 4:20
"City to City" – 4:51
"Stealin' Time" – 5:39
"Mattie's Rag" – 3:28
"Whatever's Written in Your Heart" – 6:30
"Home and Dry" – 4:52
"Island" – 5:04
"Waiting for the Day" – 5:26

 

[Flint]

Anyone listen to Martin Mull's albums? I love this stuff:

 

[PaulyT]

Anyone listen to Martin Mull's albums? I love this stuff:

Nope, never heard of him. Willing to try it, any particular album to start with?

 

[Dennie]

Anyone listen to Martin Mull's albums? I love this stuff:

Nope, never heard of him. Willing to try it, any particular album to start with?

You've heard of him, he is the comedian and use to be with Fred Willard.

Remember?

I have not heard much of his work, although I think I may have heard him on one of the late night talk shows, a while back.

Is he a serious musician/singer?

Dennie

 

[PaulyT]

Umm... who's Fred Willard?

 

[topper]

reference Flint's mention of Martin Mull

Man, I haven't heard that name in long time.
I've never had the opportunity to hear any of his albums.

' ' a very funny man!

 

[Dennie]

Whatch you talkin' 'bout Willis.....

You may be too young to remember Martin and Fred.....

Dennie, who is now feeling a little Old... :character-oldtimer:

 

[Dennie]

Greatest Hits 1994 - 2004 -- CD

Terri Clark

2004 Mercury Nashville

Amazon.com

It's unfortunate that Terri Clark gained her highest chart debut with "Girls Lie Too," a hideously cartoonish song that perpetuates stereotypes about the sexes and, by its success, about country music fans. Clark, a Canadian tomboy in a rakish and attitudinal cowboy hat, has always played on her image as an independent female yearning for a relationship as strong as her personality. That worked well on a number of early songs, especially "Better Things to Do" and on the new "One of the Guys." But clearly she's yearned to expand her subject matter, and in recording songs co-written with Kim Richey, Beth Nielsen Chapman, and Mary Chapin Carpenter (a live version of their "No Fear" appears here), she nurtured the questioning side of her inner singer-songwriter. Clark has never really fit any kind of niche, and one suspects she's now caught between trying to stay alive commercially and satisfying herself as an artist. Greatest Hits is a colorful road map to the first 10 years of her journey, even as she seems to be doubling back on certain stretches of that highway. --Alanna Nash

"Better Things to Do" (Terri Clark, Tom Shapiro, Chris Waters) - 3:08
"When Boy Meets Girl" (Clark, Shapiro, Waters) - 3:02
"If I Were You" (Clark) - 3:56
"Poor Poor Pitiful Me" (Warren Zevon) - 3:10
"Emotional Girl" (Rick Bowles, Clark, Waters) - 3:09
"Now That I Found You" (J.D. Martin, Paul Begaud, Vanessa Corish) - 3:39
"You're Easy on the Eyes" (Clark, Shapiro, Waters) - 3:33
"Everytime I Cry" (Bob Regan, Karen Staley) - 3:48
"A Little Gasoline" (Dean Miller, Tammy Rogers) - 3:09
"I Just Wanna Be Mad" (Kelley Lovelace, Lee Thomas Miller) - 3:26
"I Wanna Do It All" (Rick Giles, Gilles Godard, Tim Nichols) - 2:54
"Girls Lie Too" (Connie Harrington, Lovelace, Nichols) - 3:35
"One of the Guys" (Clark, Godard, Nichols) - 3:13
"No Fear (Live)" (Mary Chapin Carpenter, Clark) - 4:08

 

[Flint]

Fernwood tonight:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGlee4kzjjc[/youtube]





This is a classic Martin Mull stand up routine:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM4IqOVv0Hk[/youtube]

 

[Dennie]

21 -- CD

Adele

2011 Columbia Records

21 is the eagerly awaited sophomore album from British singer-songwriter Adele. It’s the follow up to Adele’s critically acclaimed, Grammy award winning debut album 19 (both named after her age at the time the songs were written). Recorded in Malibu and London, 21 offered Adele the opportunity to work with such luminary producers and songwriters as Rick Rubin, Paul Epworth, Ryan Tedder, Dan Wilson and Fraser T. Smith, as well as continuing to work with Francis “Eg” White and Jim Abbiss.

This new collection of songs showcases the growth of this incredible artist, who at the very young age of twenty two, exhibits the poise of a seasoned veteran. Adele’s music takes some new direction while staying true to her signature style. “I discovered lots of artists I'd never heard of, particularly Wanda Jackson, Allison Krauss, Yvonne Fair, Andrew Bird, Neko Case, Lady Antebellum and Steel Drivers who I fell in love with. Then I delved in to more from artists I've loved forever - Mary J. Blige, Kanye West, Elbow, Mos Def, Alanis Morissette, Tom Waits and Sinead O'Connor. There's something in every single one of these artists that have really really inspired 21.”

1. "Rolling in the Deep" Adele Adkins, Paul Epworth Epworth 3:48
2. "Rumour Has It" Adkins, Ryan Tedder Tedder 3:43
3. "Turning Tables" Adkins, Tedder Jim Abbiss 4:10
4. "Don't You Remember" Adkins, Dan Wilson Rick Rubin 4:03
5. "Set Fire to the Rain" Adkins, Fraser T. Smith Smith 4:02
6. "He Won't Go" Adkins, Epworth Rubin 4:38
7. "Take It All" Adkins, Eg White Abbiss 3:48
8. "I'll Be Waiting" Adkins, Epworth Epworth 4:01
9. "One and Only" Adkins, Dan Wilson, Greg Wells Rubin 5:48
10. "Lovesong" Robert Smith, Simon Gallup, Roger O'Donnell, Porl Thompson, Lol Tolhurst, Boris Williams Rubin 5:16
11. "Someone Like You" Adkins, Wilson Wilson, Adkins 4:45

 

[Botch]

Huh, I'm older than all you punks and I didn't recognize them at all...

 

[Dennie]

Huh, I'm older than all you punks and I didn't recognize them at all...

Well, that's 'cause you're really, really old!! :teasing-tease:



Dennie :laughing-rolling:

 

[Botch]

:angry-cussingblack:
<swings walker feebly...>

 

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