What are you listening to?

[Admiral Yi]

Slade 'Merry Xmas Everybody'   

I like Slade but it's kinda weird watching videos of fat rockers.

[mongers]

Slade 'Merry Xmas Everybody'   

I like Slade but it's kinda weird watching videos of fat rockers.

Hey, what can I say, it was 1970s Britain, people let it all hang-out.

[Eddie Teach]

Mongers is drowning in Christmas spirits.

[mongers]

Kirsty MacColl - 'Days'

[dps]

REO Speedwagon:  "Golden Country".  Been listening to that one a lot since we saw 'em live last year.

[PDH]

Warren Zevon - Lawyers, Guns and Money

[The Minsky Moment]

Herbie Nichols - Complete Blue Note Recordings

Nichols was about the same age as Thelonious Monk - they both played piano, both were highly imaginative had superb compositional skills, harmonic inventiveness (Nichols was a big fan of Bartok).  Both had a hard time gaining an audience.  Their personalities were very different though . . . Monk was eccentric, a larger than life personality.  When audiences finally caught up to the music, Monk became a star, shrewdly using his "mad genius" image to his advantage, parlaying it into a Time magazine cover and long-term recording contracts at majors like Columbia.

Nichols was a very different personality - quiet, intellectual, bookish.  He took gigs with Dixieland bands for the steady paycheck .  Blue Note chief Alfred Lion (who also recorded Monk's early work) was a fan, and gave him a bunch of recording time in a trio arrangement with Art Blakey on drums.  It was a commercial flop, Nichols was just too ahead of his time. It basically ended Nichols own recording career.  He did retain a cult following, which maintained the flame even after Nichols' death in his 40s, resulting in the reissue of almost forgotten Blue Note records decades later.  Now available on the streaming services.

[mongers]

Ian dury and the blockheads - 'hit me with your rhythm stick'

[mongers]

Watching ZZ Top live on The Tube tv series, from I guess around 1983-84.

Three songs, twelve minutes, worth a viewing if it's on youtube.

[mongers]

ZZ Top - 'Sure Got Cold After The Rain Fell'.  (on Rio Grande Mud album)

[Eddie Teach]

The Revivalists- Wish I Knew You

[Admiral Yi]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVME_l4IwII

Why modern pop music sucks.  Actual reasons, not a rant.  The phrase "millenial whoop" alone is worth the price of admission.  A little long winded at the end.

[Savonarola]

Cream – Fresh Cream (1966)

Cream's debut album has its moments; especially "I Feel Free" and it has its duds; notably "Sleepy Time Time."  The main issue with this is Jack Bruce's voice isn't really suited either for the blues or for psychedelia; which is something of a problem for the lead singer in a blues-psychedelia band.  I'm not a fan of "Toad" but otherwise the instrumental work is great; revolutionary for its day, in fact, though it inspired so many other bands that it's hard to hear it as such.

"I Feel Free" was Cream's second single.  The first was "Wrapping Paper," which is Cream's "When I'm Sixty Four."  They would later do "A Muvver's Lament" which is in a similar vein, except this one sounds like it's done in earnest.

[Duque de Bragança]

ZZ Top - 'Sure Got Cold After The Rain Fell'.  (on Rio Grande Mud album)

Pastiched Parodied by Ministry with Rio Grande Blood in 2006. 

[Drakken]

Lazerhawk - Redline.

That album is fuckin' awesome. That is all.