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What 🎶music are you listening to at this moment?

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A live version shorter than the album version? I remember them live and they would medley bits of old LZ1 and Yardbirds songs into the middle where the jam was. upwaards beyond ten minutes.

I'm listening to The Yardbirds right now...

 
A radio doc on the Brill Building era reminded me of some of the music, such as:



The great singer-songwriter Laura Nyro started out singing those songs in the NYC subways back then. In 1971, she recorded an album of them. Here's one:


Here's the doc podcast, if you're interested:

Google Podcasts is no longer available

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My wife and I have a tradition of watching our favorite Christmas movie, White Christmas, every year with a full breakfast. So right now I'm listening to this 😍
 
Today I'm listening to this gorgeous vinyl of The Kinks I bought at a local record store last weekend. It's a four sided compilation album. Not really sure if it's a bootleg or not but is a German import so @Olorgando may be interested 😁.
(http://imgur.com/a%2FMntVSEH)
 
Erestor Arcamen said:
Today I'm listening to this gorgeous vinyl of The Kinks I bought at a local record store last weekend. It's a four sided compilation album. Not really sure if it's a bootleg or not but is a German import so @Olorgando may be interested 😁.
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I was interested enough in it perhaps forty years ago to buy it. I have the very two-disk vinyl thingy, "Pop Chronik", licensed by PYE Limited, England, with four additional pages inside with pictures and text (in German). 🤩
 
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I was interested enough in it perhaps forty years ago to buy it. I have the very two-disk vinyl thingy, "Pop Chronik", licensed by PYE Limited, England, with four additional pages inside with pictures and text (in German). 🤩
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That's pretty cool, that sounds like this is the exact same one. I forget that imgur may not work in Germany but this one's in German as well with four artwork pages inside it too.
 
Erestor Arcamen said:
That's pretty cool, that sounds like this is the exact same one. I forget that imgur may not work in Germany but this one's in German as well with four artwork pages inside it too.
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Well, imgur allows a long enough peek at the picture then obscured by that annoying "value your privacy" message that I was sure it's identical, having dug my double LP out of the LP shelves directly to the left of where I peck away at my notebook keyboard. Amazing it is still (or again?) to be had on vinyl!
 

Mine is definitely old. It looks like it's probably from the 70s. The record shop I go to accepts trade-ins and also buys things off of eBay to re-sell and this one's price tag said eBay on it so I think that's where they got it. I've gotten several old/vintage albums there. My favorite one I think is my copy of Pink Floyd's A Saucerful of Secrets. It's from the first pressing in the U.S. and I paid a pretty penny for it but it was worth it to me 😍 . I also have a copy of the Dark Side of the Moon that includes two original posters and stickers that came with it in the 70's that I got there for a really good price. I really need to get these framed...



 
Erestor Arcamen said:
... My favorite one I think is my copy of Pink Floyd's A Saucerful of Secrets. It's from the first pressing in the U.S. and I paid a pretty penny for it but it was worth it to me 😍 ...
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Odd. Just checked my venerable Excel-file against PF's Wiki discography.
I have "Piper" with Sid Barret, then missing "Saucerful", then almost everything from "Ummagumma" to "Animals". Except that between "Atom Heart Mother" and "Meddle", I have an LP called "Relics" - ah, going to the dedicated discography side solves: their second compilation album ...
 
Two of my favorites of the "non-electric" set:

Carole King's "I feel the Earth Move" from her monster 1971 album "Tapestry"


Gordon Lightfoot ...
ouch, ouch, ouch!
Selecting just one song from Carole King's above monster album was bad enough.
Trying the same for Gordon Lightfoot's 1974 monster "Sundown" is just as bad. Reversing the order would be no help whatsoever.
I have the intro (not to say the entire song) of both albums running through my head … *headbang!*
"Seven Island Suite" ...


Two absolute giants …
 
Something from Germany, but as it is instrumental (by two awesome guitarists in duet) no translation problems:

 
Sent me searching for stuff by Flamenco virtuoso Paco De Lucia, unfortunately (one of the immortal trio of "Friday Night In San Francisco" with John McLaughlin and Al Di Meola) ...

There's this "best of" of his on You Tube … just under two hours (I've passed 22 33 minutes of uninterrupted listening, and may actually make it to then end (with the occasional pause)).
May be too much for listening through at one sitting (especially to aspiring guitarists not needing to be demoralized fatally), but awesome, awesome, awesome, awesome ...

 
Neil Innes died today, so I've been listening to some old favorites, and discovering gems that I missed, from his decades of writing deceptively simple songs that somehow managed to simultaneously convey a sense of the absurd, deep meaning, and pathos.


A member of the legendary Bonzo Dog Band, writing many of their songs:

Later writing songs for, and touring with, Monty Python:

Still later, was Ron Nasty, in the Rutles:

And many more.

Neil Innes - How Sweet to be an Idiot

an excerpt from Innes Book of Records
youtu.be

Thanks for the music, and the laughs, Neil. You will be missed.

Neil Innes - Imitation Song by Ron Nasty of the Rutles

Ron Nasty of The Rutles has made one final solo song. Here's a short video of Ron singing it. For more information: www.innesbookofrecords.com
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