What are you listening to?

[Josephus]

Pink Floyd. Piper at the Gates of Dawn. It's their debut album's 50th anniversary today

[Eddie Teach]

Makes me feel old and I wasn't even around then.

[mongers]

Pink Floyd. Piper at the Gates of Dawn. It's their debut album's 50th anniversary today

Good grief! 

And in tribute I'll play the 'London 1966/67' EP.

[Liep]

Thanks to whoever shared that article about Russian post-punk on Facebook.

ГШ - Получеловек

[Admiral Yi]

Oh yeah, she's one.

Amy Winehouse, arguably of this generation.

[The Minsky Moment]

It's true she's was active in the oughts but it I think it starts to make the point when you need to take two days to come up two examples, and one of them has been dead for 5 years.

[The Minsky Moment]

Esbjoern Svensson Trio - Live in Hamburg

E.S.T. is the poster child for the ECM sound - genre-bending piano trio, Keith Jarrett influence, white, Euro, dreamy evocative sound, use of electronics.  Except I don't think they ever recorded with ECM (good thing as ECM doesn't stream).

As this is live, the band is bereft of their usual studio trickery, which has the positive effect of forcing reliance of one of their greatest strengths - the late Mr. Svensson could just flat out play piano.  There is still gamesmanship here though - on Defintion of a Dog, for example, a hard blues eventually deconstructs into an extended bout of metal-like distorted guitar riffs, until finally resolving back into something vaguely resembling an acoustic piano trio.   

[Eddie Teach]

It's true she's was active in the oughts but it I think it starts to make the point when you need to take two days to come up two examples, and one of them has been dead for 5 years.

I think the main point that makes is that Yi is over 50.

[mongers]

What the DVD of '9012Live', rather good, they rocked more than I remember; I shall revise my opinion of them.   


I was shot in Edmonton, found myself wondering if BB or more likely his parents saw the gig. 

[Savonarola]

The Sonics - Here are the Sonics (1965)

This rocks every bit as loud and every bit as hard as the MC5 or the Stooges, two years before the Stooges were even formed and three years before "Kick out the Jams."  Strychnine is on the 1998 re-release and expansion of "Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era," which is the only thing I've ever heard from them.  The Christmas songs at the end are a little weird, but otherwise this is well worth listening to for fans of the proto-Punk era.

[Eddie Teach]

David Usher- Fast Car
Sammy Kershaw- She Don't Know She's Beautiful
The Weeknd- Starboy
Pink Floyd- Run Like Hell
Blind Melon- No Rain
King Crimson- Pictures of a City
Arcade Fire- We Used to Wait

[garbon]

Kesha - Woman

[Savonarola]

Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home (1965)

I wouldn't be surprised to learn that a young Bruce Springsteen heard the lines "You don't wanna be a bum/you better chew gum" and decided to start writing songs.

This album is a milestone.  Dylan went electric and thereby killed off the early 60s folk revival.  Rock and Roll moved from being children's music to the dominant popular music form among college students and ultimately adults.  Dylan began on the "Rock star" phase of his career; this and the next two albums (Highway 61 Revisited, and Blonde on Blonde) are, in my opinion, his best.

Even without all that, it's still a fantastic album.  Subterranean Homesick Blues and Mr. Tambourine Man alone would be enough to insure this album lives on.

[The Brain]

Kesha - Woman

She dropped the $? This is worse than Alanis cutting her hair.

[garbon]

Kesha - Woman

She dropped the $? This is worse than Alanis cutting her hair.

Yes, her new album now has her name with an 's' as well as isn't all auto-tune pop but actual singing / features two tracks with the Eagles of Death Metal.

Oh and Alanis is a blonde now.