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What's blasting in your headphones?
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If it's annoying to put this stuff here...I can start a "What's blasting on your turntable" thread... 
Completely revelling in this full live performance of Genesis playing The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway on tour in 1975. This is included in the 50th anniversary Lamb box set, and is issued in its complete form for the first time ever.
This is Peter Gabriel's last album/tour with the band before Phil Collins stepped out from behind the drums and took over lead vocals. Phil's drumming is at its apex between '74 and '77, I'd say, and his playing on this live recording is complete fire. This music has a far less pastoral, British sensibility to it than the previous Genesis records...it bristles with a weird, surreal hard edge... almost punk rock in places. You can totally hear where Gabriel is heading in his solo career from some of this music. Sonic joy.
Completely revelling in this full live performance of Genesis playing The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway on tour in 1975. This is included in the 50th anniversary Lamb box set, and is issued in its complete form for the first time ever.
This is Peter Gabriel's last album/tour with the band before Phil Collins stepped out from behind the drums and took over lead vocals. Phil's drumming is at its apex between '74 and '77, I'd say, and his playing on this live recording is complete fire. This music has a far less pastoral, British sensibility to it than the previous Genesis records...it bristles with a weird, surreal hard edge... almost punk rock in places. You can totally hear where Gabriel is heading in his solo career from some of this music. Sonic joy.
A classic…
Checking these guys out - they seem promising...
GIGANTIC Beatles fanatics have had critical things to say about the 2025 Anthology releases (film and CD/vinyl box sets), particularly the newly added (since the original 1995 release) Anthology 4 collection. I adore the Anthology...and was a little bit disappointed that the documentary was re-edited, seemingly to make the story move a bit faster. Quite a few music performances were cut out of the new version of the film...but I guess a thing from '95 was so much before the world of Youtube that it was the only place to find those performances ...and now it no longer is. Which I get...but I'm glad I have the old DVDs kicking around somewhere...
The critique of the Anotholgy 4 set is that it is really just a collection of rarities that now exist in other places, like the deluxe boxes of Sgt. Pepper, Revolver and others. I get that for those who've collected every single release...but I don't have any of the deluxe releases other than Pepper, (which is awesome), so it's all good by me. And for god sake, it's the damn Beatles!! I am currently listening to Lennon trying to work his way through Julia...and it is so beautiful...
GIGANTIC Beatles fanatics have had critical things to say about the 2025 Anthology releases (film and CD/vinyl box sets), particularly the newly added (since the original 1995 release) Anthology 4 collection. I adore the Anthology...and was a little bit disappointed that the documentary was re-edited, seemingly to make the story move a bit faster. Quite a few music performances were cut out of the new version of the film...but I guess a thing from '95 was so much before the world of Youtube that it was the only place to find those performances ...and now it no longer is. Which I get...but I'm glad I have the old DVDs kicking around somewhere...
The critique of the Anotholgy 4 set is that it is really just a collection of rarities that now exist in other places, like the deluxe boxes of Sgt. Pepper, Revolver and others. I get that for those who've collected every single release...but I don't have any of the deluxe releases other than Pepper, (which is awesome), so it's all good by me. And for god sake, it's the damn Beatles!! I am currently listening to Lennon trying to work his way through Julia...and it is so beautiful...
Inspired by a recent journal entry of @MarkB , I decided to pull out some Pink Floyd.
I know there are some who find The Final Cut to be an inferior album...and I think there is some truth to it being a bit more like a solo Roger Waters record than a Floyd record - although Dave Gilmour plays some astonishingly fresh and cool solos on it. I am not always in the mood for the darker Pink Floyd stuff - of which this certainly falls under the umbrella of - but once in a while it hits me just right. This record is one I find pretty moving in parts, and in this time of war a good meditation on the costs of such endeavours...
I know there are some who find The Final Cut to be an inferior album...and I think there is some truth to it being a bit more like a solo Roger Waters record than a Floyd record - although Dave Gilmour plays some astonishingly fresh and cool solos on it. I am not always in the mood for the darker Pink Floyd stuff - of which this certainly falls under the umbrella of - but once in a while it hits me just right. This record is one I find pretty moving in parts, and in this time of war a good meditation on the costs of such endeavours...
This is the soundtrack from Questlove's Oscar winning 2021 documentary....Staples Singers, Gladys Knight, BB King, Nina Simone, Sly & The Family Stone...it is, as the kids say, the s**t.
Ooh! I need to check that out! My dad got me hooked on all the great music out of the Motown and Stax labels.
It's a remarkable film, Mark. It was a music festival over I think 5 or 6 weekends in Harlem, NY in the summer of '69 (overlapping Woodstock, actually). It was filmed for television with multiple cameras but never aired. Questlove and others worked for a few years to put it back together into a film. There are some unbelievable performances in the film. Highly, highly recommended.
Upon release, lots of folks were perplexed and disappointed by this, Robbie Robertson's debut solo album. People were maybe expecting an organic, woodsy sounding album with lots of acoustic instruments and down-home warmth - in essence, a Band album. He really zagged when people expected a zig. In any case, I adore this album (and I am a big fan of The Band) - it is a unique listen, with lots of top notch guest musicians (including Peter Gabriel, U2, a couple members of The Band and the mighty, virtuosic Manu Katche on drums...). I even love Robbie's voice on this album - gruff, squashed and full of hard earned wisdom. A classic.
