What are you listening to?

[dps]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xxgRUyzgs0

I think Vivid might be one of the most under-rated rock albums of all time.

I think it's a great album, but I'm not sure it's under-rated.  I thought most rock fans consider it a great album.

[garbon]

Gorgon City feat. Vaults - All Four Walls

[The Minsky Moment]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xxgRUyzgs0

I think Vivid might be one of the most under-rated rock albums of all time.

I think it's a great album, but I'm not sure it's under-rated.  I thought most rock fans consider it a great album.

Never really got into Living Color but Vernon Reid can play.  He got in start in the NYC avant jazz fusion scene long ago - did an album with Bill Frisell that was basically the two of them jamming lines in every conceivable genre of music imaginable on various guitar and guitar like instruments (acoustic, electric, synth, banjo, think there was a mandolin in there somewhere), with some tracks featuring liberal use of a dx drum machine.  Magnificently weird album - a true 80s artifact.

[Liep]

Sylvan Esso - What Now

[The Minsky Moment]

YouTube is really a wonderful thing - here's some more early Vernon Reid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZL88zT-LsM 
More 80s goodness.
Band is Ronald Shannon Jackson's Decoding Society which specialized in free funk improvisation.
Watch Reid pick up the banjo about 22 minutes in. 

[Josephus]

Steven Wilson Routine

Listen with this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh5mWzKlhQY

[The Minsky Moment]

The whole Vivid/Vernon Reid thing got me thinking about Ronald Shannon Jackson, and from there to guitarist Sonny Sharrock, like Reid an alumnus of the Decoding Society

Sonny Sharrock - Guitar (guitar duet with himself through magic of overdubbing)
Sonny Sharrock - Ask the Ages (star lineup including former Coltrane bandmates Elvin Jones and Pharoah Sanders)

First track on Ask the Ages has some trademark shrieking sax from Sanders, but much of the rest of the material is pretty approachable for rock/blues fans.

[PDH]

The Clash - Clampdown

[Duque de Bragança]

For Mongers 

Electric Light Orchestra – I'm alive
Xanadu OST

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cj5_vZAidRQ

[mongers]

For Mongers 

Electric Light Orchestra – I'm alive
Xanadu OST

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cj5_vZAidRQ

but still cool.

[CountDeMoney]

For Mongers 

Electric Light Orchestra – I'm alive
Xanadu OST

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cj5_vZAidRQ

When everything was so colorful, feathered and coked to its eyelids.

[mongers]

For Mongers 

Electric Light Orchestra – I'm alive
Xanadu OST

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cj5_vZAidRQ

When everything was so colorful, feathered and coked to its eyelids.

Isn't that the truth. 


edit:
Also just listening to the next track on the from the one I mention below:

Ticket to the Moon
Electric Light Orchestra

Remember the good old 1980's,
When things were so uncomplicated,
I wish I could go back there again
And everything could be the same.

I've got a ticket to the moon
I'll be leaving here any day soon
Yeah, I've got a ticket to the moon
But I'd rather see the sunrise, in your eyes.

Got a ticket to the moon
I'll be rising high above the earth so soon
And the tears I cry might turn into the rain
That gently falls upon your window
You'll never know.

Ticket to the moon
Fly, fly through a troubled sky
Up to a new world shining bright.

Flying high above,
Soaring madly through the mysteries that come,
Wondering sadly if the ways that led me here,
Could turn around and I would see you there,
Standing there

Ticket to the moon
Flight leaves here today from Satellite 2
As the minutes go by, what shall I do,
I paid the fare, what more can I say,
It's just one way.

Ticket to the moon.

[mongers]

Deep Purple - 'Fireball'

ELO - 'Yours truly, 2095'

[The Minsky Moment]

Mosaic Records is experiencing financial distress: http://www.mosaicrecords.com/

A lot of their sets are selling out and it is unclear whether they will fill all backorders.  I just sucked it up and put in a big order for everything still on my wishlist.  May have been too late on the Ahmad Jamal one, which went into backorder between the time I entered the order and it was processed.

Most recently listening to the Henry Threadgill set and the Basie/Lester Young set. 

The Basie-Young stuff is commonly available but the quality of the sound on the Mosaic set is pretty incredible.  Much better than any other version I've heard.

[DontSayBanana]

Dead Kennedys - Holiday in Cambodia. Seemed like a good choice this morning.