What are you listening to right now?

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 7:54 pm

Are you sure you're listening to that, or reading it to your kids. How do you manage it?

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 10:26 pm

Otis Westinghouse wrote:Are you sure you're listening to that, or reading it to your kids. How do you manage it?

I read them the liner notes.

Terrific album BTW.

LessThanZero · Post by **LessThanZero** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 11:05 pm

Ramona, come closer
Shed softly your
Watery eyes...

bambooneedle · Post by **bambooneedle** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 8:26 am

Sea Change - Beck

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 9:25 am

Listening to Richard Hawley's amazing set on last night's Mark Radcliffe BBC Radio 2 show:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/shows/radcliffe/

Delicious version of "Hotel Room".

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 7:01 pm

Ta, am checking it out.

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 7:05 pm

Otis Westinghouse wrote:Ta, am checking it out.

Broken up with a lot of other nonsense unfortunately - you may need to scroll forward. "Darlin' Wait For Me" is sublime as well.

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 7:13 pm

Hotel Room was fabulous. Great sound. Lovely thick Sheffield accent. I'm not entirely clear if Coles Corner never actually existed, or whether the place in Scarborough he said they used for the cover was an attempt to create. A 23 year old Sheffielder said he'd never heard of it, though I like to think his parents used to meet up there of a Friday night.

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 7:17 pm

Otis Westinghouse wrote:Hotel Room was fabulous. Great sound. Lovely thick Sheffield accent. I'm not entirely clear if Coles Corner never actually existed, or whether the place in Scarborough he said they used for the cover was an attempt to create. A 23 year old Sheffielder said he'd never heard of it, though I like to think his parents used to meet up there of a Friday night.

As I understand it, the place exists, but Coles department store shut down some years ago. I'm not surprised that a 23-year old wouldn't think of it as Coles Corner. Apparently people still meet at that location. In fact, Hawley's playing a gig there sometime in February. For the album cover, they were forced to shoot in Scarborough, since the exterior of the old Coles building looks nothing like it once did.

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 7:28 pm

Gig in a department store sounds original!

LessThanZero · Post by **LessThanZero** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 7:29 pm

Attention looking backward

In a bowl of water wishes with a blue songbird on his

Shoulder who keeps singing over everything

Everything means nothing to me

I picked up the song and found my picture

In the paper the reflection in the water shouted

"are you men still trying to salute

People from a time when he was

Everything he's supposed to be?"

Everything means nothing to me

miss buenos aires · Post by **miss buenos aires** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 9:03 pm

Robbers on High Street--oh wait, now the Clash (Junkie Slip).

King Hoarse · Post by **King Hoarse** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 9:48 pm

Greg Brown In The Hills Of California (Spring & All to be precise)

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 11:15 pm

miss buenos aires · Post by **miss buenos aires** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 3:56 pm

Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes

oily slick · Post by **oily slick** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 4:53 pm

The kids, 5 and 7, have heard the "1" cd in the car and frequently request the "hold your hand song". last night I sat them down in front of the "First US Visit" dvd that came out on the 40th anniversary a couple years back and showed them the Beatles on the ed sullivan show takes for the first time. all my loving, she loves you, twist and shout, please please me, i wanna hold your hand , etc. it freezes monsters still and causes them to request encores.

Extreme Honey · Post by **Extreme Honey** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 11:50 pm

I'm listening to my pretty-recent copy of the remixed and remastered "Plastic Ono Band". Finger Lickin' Good.

pophead2k · Post by **pophead2k** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 10:20 pm

Oh yeah!

so lacklustre · Post by **so lacklustre** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 8:38 am

King Hoarse · Post by **King Hoarse** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 10:55 am

so lacklustre wrote:

I love that one, especially Chip Away Boy.

Me, I'm listening to Acadian Driftwood from

laughingcrow · Post by **laughingcrow** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 1:06 pm

Basil Kirchin's rereleased masterpieces - scores for imaginary films from a brilliant UK record label called Trunk Records.

http://www.trunkrecords.com

invisible Pole · Post by **invisible Pole** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 3:36 pm

LessThanZero · Post by **LessThanZero** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 6:30 pm

Oily, I CAN'T WAIT to have those kind of experiences!

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 9:03 pm

Smoke Gets In your Eyes. From a compilation of 50s number 1s, as done by The Platters. Fabulous song, but I want a more classic 30s version (not necessarily recorded then, but in the simpler style of the times, Platters sound like they're about to burst into Ferry Cross The Mersey on this). Been trying to work out how to play it on the piano with the help of an internet printout. All those 7ths and so forth (F#min 7 to B7, lovely). Can't get it right, and for some reason I just can't get my ear round one bit of the melody, too tricky for me! They don't make 'em like that any more.

Anyone got a good recording of it to recommend? WSS probably has a 10CD box set of Jerome Kern classics with the definitive version on. I have a very clear memory of Bryan Ferry doing it on TOTP in the 70s (from The Bride Stripped Bare?), and my dad came in and insisted he was murdering it. Always quite liked his mannered version.

Mike Boom · Post by **Mike Boom** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 9:33 pm

Ferrys' version is on this - I think its a wonderful version and in fact the whole album is brilliant - has "The In Crowd" and "Help Me Make It Through The Night", easily his best solo record.

A personal favourite.