What are you listening to, right now................

pakman

@R-L said in What are you listening to, right now................:

@pakman don't see the appeal but then I'm just jealous of her hair really.

I see you have a little anthem at the moment with your above song... Is it stuck in your head!

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Indeed! Just having a little

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@pakman I've never seen that band before, I know the songs but never expected them to look like that. Nice chilled song.

pakman

@R-L said in What are you listening to, right now................:

@pakman I've never seen that band before, I know the songs but never expected them to look like that. Nice chilled song.

John Lennon had it on his personal jukebox.

Bovidae

@Virgil said in What are you listening to, right now................:

Top Gun has one of the best sound tracks, back in the day 90% of my collection was sound tracks

I added this CD to my collection a few years back. Not specifically for the Berlin track though.

I'll put a plug in for The Lost Boys soundtrack. One of my favourite 1980s teen movies too.

Virgil

Pretty sure I bought it on iTunes ages ago, though I can just as easily play it on Spotify. Might have to do that on the way home later today

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@Bovidae oh yeah the lost boys soundtrack is definitely one of my fave soundtracks

Victor Meldrew

This much talent shouldn't be allowed together for more than a few minutes in case it disturbs the Earth's equIlibrium...

dogmeat

so Paul Weller has become the third artist (after Lennon and McCartney) to have had a UK #1 album in five consecutive decades

Not excited by it TBH but it is an achievement

Crucial

@dogmeat said in What are you listening to, right now................:

so Paul Weller has become the third artist (after Lennon and McCartney) to have had a UK #1 album in five consecutive decades

Not excited by it TBH but it is an achievement

Should have been six decades but the way the record company released stuff in the late seventies early eighties probably scuttled that.
The Jam's contract was an album a year and that didn't change so some releases were single only.
Some quite odd stuff where although album sales momentum was often off the back of hit singles the albums were being released 3 or 4 months after a single release and with no other track hitting the charts.
Hits like Going Underground weren't even attached to an album and That's Entertainment released in the dead zone of January well after fans already had the song on the album released the previous year.
Setting Sons deserved a number one spot in 1979 but beaten out by Greatest Hits albums by Abba, Diana Ross and Rod Stewart in the pre xmas release rush.

I guess the recent number ones gain an advantage of album sales being not what they used to be though.

This latest album On Sunset is one of my favourite releases of recent years though. Takes a few listens but there is some real craft going on there.
Sometimes it is quite interesting to go back over Weller's releases and you find album tracks that didn't catch with you back at the time but seem more relevant now.
One thing is for sure he really absorbs a hell of a lot of music, is always looking ahead and isn't afraid to try things.

dogmeat

@Crucial I've only listened to it once - as I was out walking last night. On first hearing it reminds me a lot of other elder statesmen of the music scene. Superbly crafted, fantastic arrangements, melodically strong but just doesn't grab me. Bit soulless. It has gathered some great reviews though so I'll give it a bit more time.

Crucial

@dogmeat said in What are you listening to, right now................:

@Crucial I've only listened to it once - as I was out walking last night. On first hearing it reminds me a lot of other elder statesmen of the music scene. Superbly crafted, fantastic arrangements, melodically strong but just doesn't grab me. Bit soulless. It has gathered some great reviews though so I'll give it a bit more time.

I agree with that on first listen. As some of the songs were released prior to the album I was also quite ho-hum on it until a few listenings later. I actually find much of it quite soulful, just without the obvious tropes that go along with the description, no overwrought vocals etc.
Most of the reviews I have read have been lukewarm on the track 'Rockets' which is an obvious Bowie homage. I find it quite a stunning song. To take a sound so obviously from one of your musical 'heroes' and make it also obviously your own is quite a feat.

Snowy

@Crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:

@dogmeat said in What are you listening to, right now................:

@Crucial I've only listened to it once - as I was out walking last night. On first hearing it reminds me a lot of other elder statesmen of the music scene. Superbly crafted, fantastic arrangements, melodically strong but just doesn't grab me. Bit soulless. It has gathered some great reviews though so I'll give it a bit more time.

I agree with that on first listen. As some of the songs were released prior to the album I was also quite ho-hum on it until a few listenings later. I actually find much of it quite soulful, just without the obvious tropes that go along with the description, no overwrought vocals etc.
Most of the reviews I have read have been lukewarm on the track 'Rockets' which is an obvious Bowie homage. I find it quite a stunning song. To take a sound so obviously from one of your musical 'heroes' and make it also obviously your own is quite a feat.