Today, I have mostly been listening to ...

chromatuna

Doing a bit of DIY and playing some random stuff from Spotify... 

Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny - a blast from my teenage past, I find this era of JP far more interesting than post Stained Class stuff but that's just me 

 ...and this evening Eric Clapton - I Still Do - a bit too laid back in places but a fair few decent blush rootsy tunes sprinkled in which grab me and a lovely Band like version of St. Augustine (Dylan)

tone1

After the Tv show thread I've been listening to this

Moss

Moss

mudslide73

I've been listening to this at home this week while restringing my guitars. I inherited this on vinyl and it really shines on my humble setup.

Octahedron

The new Screaming Jets album.

Highly approve of this.

For the road trip home I've got the new Weezer white album

Grunfeld

Utterly hypnotic...
King Creosote, "Ankle Shackles" -- it's 11 minutes long.  I don't suppose any one is going to listen to it but this is a track you put on in the background and maybe you're reading, or drawing, or writing, but then you become absorbed. 

RocknRollDave

Prince's last two albums - HitnRun Phase 1 &2. The second one is the better one, imo

Octahedron

RocknRollDave said:

Prince's last two albums - HitnRun Phase 1 &2. The second one is the better one, imo

What do you think of Prince & 3rdeyegirl ? 

I quite enjoyed listening to that album. 

It was a cool project.  

For me the latest thing has been Weezer's new album. The white album. It's a bit weird. I think the album has a bit too much pop influence. Looking at the lyrics in the album sleeve they sure sound like Rivers Cuomo been smokin' some weird shit!! Especially in "Thank God for Girls" what on earth is he talking about when he's singing about God microwaving Adam on the popcorn setting and something about Adam messing with the bees etc... I just have no idea. 

Still, a good album, but I doubt it'll be one that I play on repeat, unlike Raditude and Everything Will Be Alright in the End. They had this rough patch between Raditude and Everything... where they were a bit shit (Hurley, Death to False Metal, etc) 

mudslide73

Picked this up at a record fair in Wolves today - Master Mudslide got a crash course in why some versions of Led Zeppelin II cost £125. Reliving my youth with this:

fields5069

Octahedron

mudslide73;1089176" said:

Picked this up at a record fair in Wolves today - Master Mudslide got a crash course in why some versions of Led Zeppelin II cost £125. Reliving my youth with this:

Van Halen 2 is fucking awesome.

Good buy!!

DLR era Van Halen is the best.

Flink_Poyd

I never really got into ZZ Top



I have now

dindude

I've been on a bit if a Small Faces and Credance Clearwater trip this morning, great stuff.

Octahedron

Flink_Poyd said:

I never really got into ZZ Top



I have now

La Futura is a fantastic album. Their later stuff is great. If you like La Futura, you should also like Rhythmeen and Mescalero. The only one of their 'late' albums that I don't really like is XXX.

dindude said:

I've been on a bit if a Small Faces and Credance Clearwater trip this morning, great stuff.

Ahh. Creedence. I borrowed "Cosmo's Factory" from the library. Haven't listened to it yet. It's on my to-do list

EricTheWeary

Some live Morrisey stuff. I got fed up after a while but I was suprised how rocky it was, Last of the Famous International Playboys could have passed for Neil Young and Crazy Horse.

mudslide73

Outlanos d'Amour and Regatta de Blanc. I was only really familiar with their singles output... Punk/Reggae/Prog/Pop ahoy.

EricTheWeary

EricTheWeary said:

Some live Morrisey stuff. I got fed up after a while but I was suprised how rocky it was, Last of the Famous International Playboys could have passed for Neil Young and Crazy Horse.

Surely that could pass for a lost NY riff? 

mudslide73 said:

Outlanos d'Amour and Regatta de Blanc. I was only really familiar with their singles output... Punk/Reggae/Prog/Pop ahoy.

I must go back to some of that stuff, my sister had, I think, Outlandos which just seemed amazing to me at the time ( the song about the sex doll on it? Suprised how many of my anecdotes about my adolescence seem to include the phrase 'sex doll' in them).

andyp

Thanks for the recommendation of La Futura! Listened to it this morning and loved it. A bargain at £3.99 on Amazon, so it will be added to my basket the next time I'm ordering something.

I'd written off the more recent ZZ Top stuff, but this is a superb album.

Cheers.

RocknRollDave

I didn't rate La Futura, personally. It felt like a typical modern day Rick Rubin project - i.e. Get a band to do a retread of what they did in the old days. I found Mescalero to be much more interesting, myself, although I know that isn't a popular opinion!

I do quite like the "post heyday" albums to be generally of a pretty good standard.