What are you listening to, right now................
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@Crucial C'mon they only put out 6 albums and you have three as equal #1 COP-OUT!
Setting Sons
All Mod Cons
Sound Affects
This Is The Modern World
In The City
The GiftSetting Sons was released the week I arrived in UK so it is particularly memorable
Although first song I ever heard in Europe on radio was this:
Hardly the best start
Jam must have felt like The Beach Boys Pet Sounds to Beatles Sgt Peppers with SS trumped by London Calling within a month
Lucky enough to catch them both live - but not Fiddlers Dram
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@dogmeat yeah, I just like all three equally for different reasons. If I had to order them though, I agree with your top 3.
Don't think The Gift deserves to be last though. Its a very uneven album with styles jumping around but has more great songs than ITC
Ghosts, Malice, Carnation would all make my best of playlist but only really ITC itself would.
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@Crucial I fucken loathe Malice - hence The Gift coming bottom. I think it's just one of those songs that got done to death on radio and as a result I'm over it.
Strong lyrically though I'll give you that. I find Precious more interesting now as it definitely foreshadows Wellers work with TSC
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Did sumbody say "The Jam"...?
Grand Central Station - "The Jam" (1975)
Oh solikai, I am Wenual, they call me the Wiccan
I am not one of you, I will like to make you one of us
All you have to do is just "wisten" to my "wum"
Then you will know why they call me Wenual
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Hendrix estate is super-stingy with what they permit goin' up on youtube... here's a clip from the Classic Albums "making-of" doc series talkin' about May This Be Love.
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Motorhead just dropped a "new" posthumous LP on Friday, UNDER COVER (with an umlaut over the "O") -- a bunch o' covers by Stones, Ramones, Bowie, Metallica, and a few others, including the Nuge (see below)I think every one of these tracks have already been released on prev albums, so it's not exactly "emptying the vaults" and it's not anything close to being essential, but it is fun.
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Holger's Mother Sky always a fave.
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I have learned that Grant Hart of Husker Du just passed away, too early at 56yo, from cancer. RIP. Let's hope Bob Mould will be a big enough man and pay his respects. (Update: Reading obits it seems that Mould and Hart had patched things up to a degree the past year. Mould posts their last (recent) photo of the two together and Hart is barely recognizable, looks like cancer was ravaging him.)
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Asked about being treated dismissively in Mould’s memoir, Hart said that the book “really sounds like it was written by the President of the Bob Mould Fan Club rather than by Bob Mould.” And: “I think he has burned more bridges than the interstate highway system ever built.” Yet he occasionally let some sorrow over the fissure show: “Bob’s got some hurt to put behind him yet. I think the world of the guy, but he doesn’t even want to talk about the pain that I’ve been able to work out by talking to other people, and if I sincerely wounded him, you know, I’d like that put that right. This is supposed to be the part of a person’s life where they start thinking about how they’ve lived their life, who they’ve touched and who they’ve affected.”
But Hart came off as at least as determined to be forward-facing. “Nobody has ever loved Bob Mould like I have,” he said in a 2013 Facebook chat. “I scaled great heights with him musically. Our admiration for each other, never physical, brought forth a new way of music.” (The “never physical” aside was another confirmation to inquiring minds that Hart, a bisexual, and Mould, a gay man, had never been romantically involved.) “Wouldn’t there be unfair pressure on the two of us if we made music live again?… The reunion fad seems to be energized by mid-life crisis. I am sure Bob would agree with me on this. I would rather have Grant Hart fans coming to my own shows than Hüsker Dü fans… I want people coming that don’t feel like they are settling for something less. My shows are not compromises with the past. My shows are as much about the future as I can make them. And the future is right f—ing now!”
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Husker Du’s Grant Hart: The Sweet-Voiced Grouch at the Heart of One of America’s Greatest Bands
Grant Hart, who died at 56 late Wednesday, brought melody and soulfulness to one of America's most influential rock bands.
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Never much of a New Romantic, but four decades later this still sounds great.
VISAGE / "FADE TO GREY" (1981)
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@bones said in What are you listening to, right now................:
I've only just discovered Prophets of Rage. Behind the times I know but perfect for anyone wanting their Hutt fix.
Bought tickets to their gig later this year - but not expecting much.
The first two sentences of the album review by AVClub are "This album is not good. In point of fact, it is terrible." -
