What are you listening to?

[Savonarola]

Yeah, that was great.  But next time could you not put the year of the Album.  It is a bit jarring to think about how old I, um I mean, it is.

 

That doesn't really bother until albums released after I graduated from college.  The Eminem Show can't really be over twenty years old and the Battle of Britpop couldn't really have happened nearly thirty years ago, right?

[The Minsky Moment]

Herbie Hancock - Headhunters (1973)

It's the second-best Herbie Hancock album of 1973 (after Sextent) but obviously a lot more commercially successful.
I don't think its aged very well.

[Savonarola]

David Bowie - Pinups (1973)

The last hurrah for The Spiders From Mars, but unfortunately the weakest studio album of Bowie's 70s era work (I prefer it to "David Live").  Bowie did a number of covers over his career, but an album of covers just didn't work out.  The only song that's better than the original is "Sorrow" (originally by the Merseys.)  He deserves credit for trying to do something different with "See Emily Play," but it's just not very good.  The other songs are very much like the originals.  It's not bad, but as compared to his other work from the era it's a disappointment.

[Josquius]

Last night I saw Pom Poko live.
They're a Norwegian indie, post punk, grungy shoe gazy sort of set up with a female vocalist.
They're unflashy but musically solid.


The support was some Brighton band called Congratulations who were... Different. Front woman isn't a looker but good performance. Beth Ditto meets Kate Jackson vibes. Decent band.