What Are You Listening To?

[Relaxer]

I've given the new Metallica three straight-thru listens, trying to get it, and I've given up. The first and last songs are great, but literally every song between does nothing for me. Mid-tempo slogs with James Hetfield singing like he really means it and his this incredible wisdom he must impart to us. Thing is, the more he tries to "sing", the less I'm interested.

Liked Death Magnetic much more than this.

[walkie,talkie]

I want, to lick you.

[DeathFromAbove1979]

Whores!

https://whores.bandcamp.com/album/clean

[walkie,talkie]

I thought, at first, you were calling me myself and relaxer, whores . . . which we are.

[DeathFromAbove1979]

I thought, at first, you were calling me myself and relaxer, whores . . . which we are.

I wouldn't slut shame you.

[hutch]

John Hammond- Sooner or Later

Really nice blues...

[walkie,talkie]

Way back, old school rem

It feels like, 80s revolution, up in here.

[hutch]

I love Aznavour but I mean he is one ugly dude eating an apple.. yet in France a sex symbol..

[walkie,talkie]

Your selections are odd, weird, yet . . . interesting.

[hutch]

For all the crap she gets Karen Carpenter's voice is really amazing and she was a drummer!

I saw a documentary about Karen Carpenter on PBS about a year ago...interesting....

Some of the vocal performances are astounding...


That has to be Carol Kaye thumping on the bass..so distinctive... Superstar good lord....

[DeathFromAbove1979]

Calm & Crisis

https://calmandcrisis.bandcamp.com/album/in-a-real-good-place

[dyecraig]

mose allison - mose alive! recorded live the lighthouse in hermosa beach, ca.
atlantic, still in the shrink.

[hutch]

^nice..I like the Atlantic Mose





I'm deathed out for the year.. brought down the shutters on my obituary side business...brevity is all that is left for the dead no matter their distinction...

I think Leonard Cohen is the only lyricist that is on the level of Bob Dylan and I think could be argued better for he was not a lyricist but a poet.... I made a dumb decision not to go see him at MPP but there was some ill begotten logic and reasoning at play..in matters of the heart go with the heart not the mind...

[hutch]

Dire Straits' dark horse... still ignored and unfairly maligned....I think its great....artists spend their whole lives coming up with Record #1 and just as soon as it makes a dent the record company wants to fly you to Nassau to come up with "the follow up"....they often say the second record is the toughest one....the "hype sticker" with its false "Lady Writer" hit sticker tells the story.. no hits here... nothing like Sultans of Swing which had broken the band (How could it not?)...still.. there is a solidity to this record.. its not flashy but if you give it a chance its all here.. it may not scale the heights of the first one.. or Making Movies.. but its a consistently rewarding record.. thank goodness record companies back then gave bands some space to grow and develop...

[hutch]

Al Green (and Willie Mitchell) at his (their) peak  was (were) perfection.....there's a lot to like here... the vocals.. the perfect selection with the covers (Willie Nelson in 1972-73?)...the original songs...Al Jackson on drums! The horns....

Its just so smooth...