Listening to.......

[davidmjs]

Fields :   Contrasts  (Esoteric  CD, 2015).

People might like this because it's a Crimson related thing. I just got it because I rather like their sole  self titled album.
Contrasts comprises unreleased stuff.  Polite,
keyboard based prog.
 

I don't know why but I just laughed out loud at "polite"...

Never heard of them...but Sid Smith rates them I see... genuinely worth a listen?

[Alan2]

I think so yes. The debut is the better album.  You can get both in a box from Cherry Red.

[GubGub (Al)]

A Winter Union Live In Concert, picked up on the recent Bandcamp Friday.

I love that album, not least of all because I was at that show and it was wonderful. Really looking forward to seeing them next week.

[Alan2]

Dave Cousins :  The Boy in the Sailor Suit  (2005 CD, Esoteric 2020 remaster).

This is a great solo effort from our Strawbs front man.

[GubGub (Al)]

I managed to lay my hands on a cheap copy (vinyl) of A Christmas Present from The Albion Band. This is the Cathy Le Surf line up so not my favourite era but I am enjoying it so far, despite the occasional crackle. Much more ambitious than the modern Christmas Band material.

[PaulT]

the cds which came with the new Crim box set. amazing stuff but especially love the live in Rio tracks with the audience sindgalong
I've not watched the film yet. that'll have to wait for when the present mMs C goes out

The film is excellent - funny, moving, informative; the shorts and trailers are also well worth watching.  I'll be watching & listening in 5.1 tomorrow when MrsPT goes out. She's not a Crim fan. At all...

[Will S]

I managed to lay my hands on a cheap copy (vinyl) of A Christmas Present from The Albion Band. This is the Cathy Le Surf line up so not my favourite era but I am enjoying it so far, despite the occasional crackle. Much more ambitious than the modern Christmas Band material.

I have had that album for years, but still put it on most years, though it's my digitised copy of the LP now. There's a live album from the same line-up that came out on CD some years back too.

[GubGub (Al)]

I managed to lay my hands on a cheap copy (vinyl) of A Christmas Present from The Albion Band. This is the Cathy Le Surf line up so not my favourite era but I am enjoying it so far, despite the occasional crackle. Much more ambitious than the modern Christmas Band material.

I have had that album for years, but still put it on most years, though it's my digitised copy of the LP now. There's a live album from the same line-up that came out on CD some years back too.

Yes I have had the live album since it came out but have never much liked it. As I say, not my favourite period of the Albions. I like the studio album though.

Today I have mostly been listening to The McGarrigle Christmas Hour.

[Will S]

I'm working my way through the Free Reed Midwinter box in the run-up to Christmas

[Poor Will (Bill)]

Joshua Burnell “Flowers Where The Horses Sleep”
After the announcement that he will be playing Cropredy, just reminding myself how good he is.
I think he will gain a lot of new fans.

[Nick Reg]

You ask Alexa to play Merry Hell and you get bellowhead . For Cliffs sake!

[Bridgwit (Bridget)]

You ask Alexa to play Merry Hell and you get bellowhead . For Cliffs sake!

That has amused me

I’m listening to an awful singer at an awful Xmas do. This is a low point in a week of highs. Que sera sera!

[Alan2]

David Bowie  :  Blackstar   (Sony CD, 2015).

I'm not the world's greatest Bowie fan - the early albums suit me. A friend left me this and it's my first hearing of it. My listening experience was much affected by both his death and the space between now and 1972, when I bought Zigyy Stardust.  The last whole Bowie album I heard was  Diamond Dogs.  I never got fully aboard the Bowie bus.

[davidmjs]

David Bowie  :  Blackstar   (Sony CD, 2015).

I'm not the world's greatest Bowie fan - the early albums suit me. A friend left me this and it's my first hearing of it. My listening experience was much affected by both his death and the space between now and 1972, when I bought Zigyy Stardust.  The last whole Bowie album I heard was  Diamond Dogs.  I never got fully aboard the Bowie bus.

I'm not a Bowie fan at all.  My regular listening doesn't go far beyond the Berlin trilogy and Scary Monsters (which I love) but I think The Next Day and Blackstar are fantastic works probably with more connections to the latter works of Scott Walker (?) than much that came before for Bowie.  There's a dissertation in there somewhere...

[Alan2]

David Bowie  :  Blackstar   (Sony CD, 2015).

I'm not the world's greatest Bowie fan - the early albums suit me. A friend left me this and it's my first hearing of it. My listening experience was much affected by both his death and the space between now and 1972, when I bought Zigyy Stardust.  The last whole Bowie album I heard was  Diamond Dogs.  I never got fully aboard the Bowie bus.

I'm not a Bowie fan at all.  My regular listening doesn't go far beyond the Berlin trilogy and Scary Monsters (which I love) but I think The Next Day and Blackstar are fantastic works probably with more connections to the latter works of Scott Walker (?) than much that came before for Bowie.  There's a dissertation in there somewhere...

Yes, I can hear that. A darkness and grandeur.

[GubGub (Al)]

David Bowie  :  Blackstar   (Sony CD, 2015).

I'm not the world's greatest Bowie fan - the early albums suit me. A friend left me this and it's my first hearing of it. My listening experience was much affected by both his death and the space between now and 1972, when I bought Zigyy Stardust.  The last whole Bowie album I heard was  Diamond Dogs.  I never got fully aboard the Bowie bus.

I'm not a Bowie fan at all.  My regular listening doesn't go far beyond the Berlin trilogy and Scary Monsters (which I love) but I think The Next Day and Blackstar are fantastic works probably with more connections to the latter works of Scott Walker (?) than much that came before for Bowie.  There's a dissertation in there somewhere...

When I first listened to Blackstar, the day before Bowie died, there had been a lot of reviews talking about the jazz elements of the album and I was expecting possibly not to like it very much but I immediately felt that there was a diect line to Blackstar from the Berlin albums and I loved it straight away. Still do.

I saw somebody commenting the other day that they did not really like the album because there are no tunes on it. Are they nuts? I couldn't get I Can't Give Everything Away out of my head for days after first hearing it.

[davidmjs]

David Bowie  :  Blackstar   (Sony CD, 2015).

I'm not the world's greatest Bowie fan - the early albums suit me. A friend left me this and it's my first hearing of it. My listening experience was much affected by both his death and the space between now and 1972, when I bought Zigyy Stardust.  The last whole Bowie album I heard was  Diamond Dogs.  I never got fully aboard the Bowie bus.

I'm not a Bowie fan at all.  My regular listening doesn't go far beyond the Berlin trilogy and Scary Monsters (which I love) but I think The Next Day and Blackstar are fantastic works probably with more connections to the latter works of Scott Walker (?) than much that came before for Bowie.  There's a dissertation in there somewhere...

When I first listened to Blackstar, the day before Bowie died, there had been a lot of reviews talking about the jazz elements of the album and I was expecting possibly not to like it very much but I immediately felt that there was a diect line to Blackstar from the Berlin albums and I loved it straight away. Still do.

I saw somebody commenting the other day that they did not really like the album because there are no tunes on it. Are they nuts? I couldn't get I Can't Give Everything Away out of my head for days after first hearing it.

So true.  I too listened to it on release day (probably the first Bowie album I'd ever done that to) and loved it.  Was so strange to have that experience and then have the death announcement immediately after.

[Alan2]

Hudson Ford :  The A&M Albums  (Caroline 3CD box, 2017).

[Andy]

Terry Hall - Home.

[Nick Reg]

Runrig - The cutter & The Clan
Chris Difford - The Last Temptation of Chris
Headsticks - Flatline Town EP