What are you listening to, right now................
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@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. -
@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.
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@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. -
@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.I'm in the lukewarm club but definitely Bowie esque.
Nice work with "Heroes". So listening to this now:
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God I love a whiney song, she reminds me of Yara Greyjoy -
@R-L said in What are you listening to, right now................:
God I love a whiney song, she reminds me of Yara GreyjoyGod I'm glad I don't menstruate.
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There aren't many sexier songs
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@mariner4life said in What are you listening to, right now................:
There aren't many sexier songs
This would go close
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Haha song or video?
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@mariner4life said in What are you listening to, right now................:
There aren't many sexier songs
PJ Harvey - This Is Love
... is up there, with a similar sentiment in the lyrics
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@mariner4life said in What are you listening to, right now................:
There aren't many sexier songs
It’s a banger alright. I even forgave her for stealing Zeps drumming on this one.
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This is very Spinal Tap, including the "Phonehenge Stage".
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Last night I turned on Sky Arts to see Deep Purple come hell or high water was on. It's a concert/doc from 1993 which was right at the end of the mark II DP. Really great concert and some interesting interviews. Some key points
Gillan looks ridiculously like Bill Murray with long hair
Blackmore really looks like he didn't want to be there. Walks off stage between his solo's quite often
Paice was an utterly ridiculous looking specimen at that point in time.
I had the sound through my 15 year old Bose setup and it was great.
Amazing how much camera technology has changed. The concert looks really really shit from a lighting perspective - but I went to a few back then and they just weren't. So I deduce it must be the camera's!It's really worth a watch if you are into their music.
