What are you listening to?

[Norgy]

No, I am not depressed. At all. 

[mongers]

Plastic Bertrand - 'Ca Plane Pour Moi'

 

[mongers]

Is this the only music video to feature a cinema organ?

[mongers]

'Achillies' Last Stand' off of 'Prescence' - I thought this was the bee's knees as a teenager. 

[The Minsky Moment]

Just learned that Sonos Radio has a station sponsored by Impulse Records (best known for recording the Coltranes, Ray Charles, Quincy Jones; more recently for the Sons of Kemet's quirky "Your Queen is a Reptile").

Kareem Abdul Jabbar curates and provides the commentary.  May have to move him up a slot in the NBA GOAT rankings.

[Josquius]

Pulp are releasing a new album

Sounds alright.

[mongers]

Watched it as a kid.
...

Duque, I randomly came across this Top of the Pops from 1981, which amongst the usual pop stuff, had performance from:
Saxon
Graham Bonnet
Public Image ltd
Gillan
Hazel O'Connor.

I think some of those are 'up your street'?   

programme link here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b071gx24

[Duque de Bragança]

Interesting, though Saxon has always had that retro vibe. Maybe not in 1981, but then I was really too young. 

[mongers]

Interesting, though Saxon has always had that retro vibe. Maybe not in 1981, but then I was really too young. 

Yeah I was only slightly too young to see them in they hay day, but by the mid/late 80s there was a shedload of bands to follow instead. 

[Savonarola]

Eric Clapton - 461 Ocean Boulevard (1974)

Clapton's first studio album in four years (since Layla and Other Love Songs) and the first since getting clean.  I think the problem with the album, and much of the problem with Clapton's blues career is summed up by his positively upbeat version of "Motherless Children."  Clapton is a phenomenal guitarist, one of the greatest of his generation, but he really wasn't a blues man.  I know he loves the blues, but he doesn't have the voice for it and maybe not the vibe? attitude?  something just doesn't gel.  I think his rock or psychedelia phases were much better.

I prefer the Wailers version, but "I Shot the Sheriff" is a fine remake.