What are you listening to?

dodgy said:
Bluebriz said:
I've been listening to a bit of Cat Stevens. I think I'm getting old!
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One of our Yanker members (Johnus) once dated Ruth Gordon. She shows her stuff in this clip you probably have seen before. The original Hot Pistol, although not so nice in Rosemary's Baby.

See that? You ain't so old after all when compared to some other geezers here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CN4JHP28s4U
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At 38 I kind of imagine I'm averagely aged here...
 
Tito & Tarantula Greatest Hits (chicano rock/stoner rock band from Hollywood, CA).

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Gustav Holst - Suite de Ballet, The Song of the Night, The Wandering Scholar (opera)

Buffalo Springfield - Buffalo Springfield (1966 debut album)

Later on it'll be Webern - Passacaglia, Berg - 3 pieces from Lyric Suite, and 3 pieces for Orchestra; Schoenberg - Variations for Orchestra.

The Incredible String Band - The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter (weird psychedelic folk from 1967).
 
Well gentlemen spent most of the weekend doing sound for the local theater group.
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The final performance commemorating Dr MLK Day was today. Very nice presentation.

It was Ruth Westheimer that I had dated. (Wish).
 

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Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway, 1975 live version.

Purcell - Music for a While. Various songs, arias, and music.

Buffalo Springfield - Greatest hits

Szymanowski - String Quartets No 1 and 2.

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Teena Marie's Last Record - Beautiful

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/teena-maries-last-record-is-beautiful-album-premiere-20130114

Genuine, generous and gifted with a down-to-the-bone level of soul: before there was a Duffy, an Adele or an Amy Winehouse, there was the incomparable Christine Marie Brockert, a.k.a. Teena Marie. A porcelain-complexioned, green-eyed wisp of a woman that drew shock, then lifelong street cred, for her undeniably urban aesthetic, Ms. Marie's sumptuous soprano and her penchant for fiercely funky jams and powerfully passionate ballads cemented her status as an R&B icon. Although she was overlooked and underappreciated by the fickle world of mainstream pop (outside 1984's “Lovergirl”), Teena's fiercely loyal fanbase rewarded her virtuosity with three solidly-selling CDs in the mid and late 2000s (2004's La Dona, 2006's Sapphire and 2009's Congo Square) that retained her reign as soul music royalty. Lady T's untimely passing in late 2010 may have prevented her from riding out that well-deserved second wind into a new millenium, but her fourteenth and final studio CD, Beautiful, highlights her incomparable ease with melding modern trends and classically-arranged narratives to produce sophisticated, yet street-savvy grooves.

As expected, Ms. Marie's signature trill and prolific pen game is prominently displayed: with the exception of a Curtis Mayfield remake, the remaining eleven tracks were written or co-written by the California native and her vocals offer all of the expected trills. “Luv Letter” is a tantalizing throwback to her Motown years, tangy flirtations stretched over a bouncy beat, while “Love Starved” posits her as a woman finally able to feast, rather than nibble at, a full serving of adoration and affection: “Just like honeysuckle sweetness, in a candy store/you're everything I want in a man and so much more/Stop, look, listen to your heart and what it's saying/(that's) the one to walk you down to Lovers Lane.”

When placed alongside 2009's Congo Square, listeners will notice that the texture and subject matter of Beautiful isn't as varied, but that doesn't mean Ms. Marie's adeptness at interpreting multiple genres has dwindled. Ms. Marie's “Maria Bonita (For My Mother)” is a steamy Latin number into which she delves with intricacy and aplomb, and the hip-hop twist served up in “Sweet Tooth,” the first of three tracks that feature her daughter, Alia Rose, sounds as effortless and organic as the sensuality that she serves up in the Quiet-Storm-ready “Wild Horses” and “The Perfect Feeling.” Listening to their other two collaborations, such as the glib re-tooling of “Give Me Your Love” and the undulating, irresistible club cut, “Rare Breed,” have the bittersweet effect of making fans cheer for Alia's well-honed instincts and emerging talents while lamenting further duets between mother and daughter that will never be.

When the light of a superstar dims before its time, it can be hard to cull a final release from what remains that will properly capture their essence, but Beautiful succeeds at doing just that, suspending in time the awe-inspiring range and trailblazing style that enabled the petite powerhouse to stand tall amongst her peers as a triple threat singer, songwriter and instrumentalist. As she crooned in a pair of autobiographical songs within the collection, Teena Marie will forever embody “The Definition of Down” and remain immortalized as a “Rare Breed” in an era that embraced mediocrity and marketing over true musicianship: “I'm a fine-tuned instrument Baby, it's in my DNA” is not just a lyric, it's her lifelong mission statement----and because of that truth, this final studio release from Lady T lives up to its name. Highly Recommended.

By Melody Charles - Soul Tracks
http://www.soultracks.com/review-teena-marie-beautiful
 
Long Road Out Of Eden by The Eagles.......I was lucky enough to see them perform on the Long Road Out Of Eden tour in 2009 and it was one of the best things I've ever seen. They sound exactly the same live as they do on CD. None of this manufactured X factor rubbish :icon_rolleyes:

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