The erudite 'What Have You Been Listening To?' thread, empty of invective

[JDaniel]

Currently listening to a new piece of vinyl I picked up today - Chester & Lester/Chet Atkins & Les Paul. Just an outstanding album from 1976. This is like a live studio jam sessions with these two legends.

Other listens this week:
Larry Coryell - Improvisation from Rock to Jazz (on vinyl)

Dickey Betts - Atlanta Burning Down (vinyl)

Fleetwood Mac - Mystery to Me (1973 vinyl)

KEXPMF's Indie Comp - awesome comp. I actually like 15 of the 19 tracks (a high percentage for any comp). My favorite tracks are from Some Girls, The Getaway People, Gomez, Fatboy Slim, Moby, and Orbit. The only ones that didn't do it for me were the Harvey Danger, Fancey, and Burden Brothers tracks. Thanks KEXPMF for the comp.

Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - Hearts of Oak (Slosh introduced me to them a few years back)

Dave Matthews - Everyday

Rickie Lee Jones - The Evening of My Best Day

Bob Dylan - The Basement Tapes

Nanci Griffith - There's a Light Beyond These Woods

Damien Rice - O

Jerry Garcia & David Grisman

That's all my small brain can remember.

JD

[nobody]

Just wanna chime in in agreement about the Chester & Lester record, great stuff from a coupla all time greats. I'll havta pull that one out sometime soon.

[Mr MidFi]

Not enough time (unfortunately) for a substantial post right now...but I had to give a public shout out to Slosh for his awesome end-of-year comp. Well done, Patrick, and thank you!

[Ex Lion Tamer]

Just wanna chime in in agreement about the Chester & Lester record, great stuff from a coupla all time greats. I'll havta pull that one out sometime soon.

Same here...This is a great record with a fun, loosy-goosy feel that is smile-inducing from beginning to end. Guarantee it makes an appearance in my Turesday post next week.

[Dave_G]

Well let me think. I haven't really been in a music listening mood of late, but I have listened to a little bit of music.

I played the first ELP title, pretty good, I guess.

Uriah Heep - Different World - kind of a "regular" rock recording, I guess, nothing on this one that hasn't been done before.

Queensryche - Q2K - it's alright, not a very inspired sound tho.

Steve Hackett - Please Don't Touch - this is an excellent piece of toonage. I especially like the toons with Steve Walsh on lead vocal.

Kansas - Kansas. The new remaster. This is a very very good record, the music is unique, what a band, what songwriting, and so on. The remastering job, however, isn't one of those knock you out versions, it's subtle at best.

Queensryche - EMPIRE (DCC gold cd) - this is hard rock hi-fi nirvana. The words on this one take new meaning for me now since I no longer have a female in my life. And as I listen to more and more rock recordings, you know, there are a lot of songs written about failed relationships. I can now relate, and it sucks to now all of a sudden be able to relate what these people have penned over the years, whereas before I never really gave it a whole lot of thought.

IQ - Dark Matter. I like this one but for some reason it has yet to really knock me out like Seventh House and Subterenea do.

Camel - Rajaz - the more I listen to this the more I like it.

The new Ayreon. Growing on me, could step up to be one of my new fave releases for this year after many more listens.

I am waiting for my Rick Derringer cd to be delivered (ebay), my 3 pack of STARZ lp's (ebay), and Steinhardt/Moon (ebay).

Dave