In your CD player
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Theme from cosmos
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The Drift - Scott Walker
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1987 CD reissue: Red Rose Speedway - Paul McCartney and Wings
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An archival anniversary box set with three LP's, 2 CD's and a DVD. Now playing LP 2B: Stopp! (Siste skive fra graven) - Joachim Nielsen, Jokke & Valentinerne, Jokke med Tourettes
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Paul McCartney at the O2...trying to remember my You Tube password to download songs from it!
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Kontakte - Karlheinz Stockhausen Early electronic music album from 1960. More avant-garde than dance-pop but influential for... such as The Beatles. Think I've read that McCartney?s favorite Stockhausen piece is ?Gesang Der Jünglinge?, but it is not on this unfortunately. I think it's even earlier, 1958 or something. I don't have it in my collection... yet at least.
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Bee Gees' 1st - Bee Gees A 2006 reissue of their 1967 album with mono and stereo versions on disc one and a second disc of previously unissued tracks. Lovely album with baroque arrangements and a psychedelic soundscape. I think they also made some catchy songs in their disco period in the 70s but their 60s sound is a favorite on my stereo.
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The Final Cut - Pink Floyd Pink Floyds' equivalent to "Let It Be". At least when it comes to stories of members who have outgrown each other and can no longer function as a band. It's pretty much a Roger Waters solo album in everything but name and musician credits. But as with "Let It be" I think "The Final Cut" is musically good on its own terms and plays almost like a footnote to the megalomania of "The Wall". Maybe not their best or the most 'Floydian' but still a favorite on my stereo.
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Move Over Darling: The Complete Stiff Recordings - Tracey Ullman All her recordings in one double compilation package. Tracey's 1983 debut album "You Broke My Heart in 17 Places" was most made for fun, she is an actress not an artist. But her 50s-60s girl group parody for the 80s is as fresh and fun thirty years later, I think. The sequel "You Caught Me Out" (1984) is more of the same and almost as good. It was these two she made and one might say that she quit while the going was good and continued with what she really is good at, being a comedienne. A note: Wix is credited with keyboards on "You Caught Me Out".
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12" maxi-single: Hope for the Future - Paul McCartney I have grown to love the main version. It reminds me a bit of "Through Our Love" and "Only Love Remains", the type of epically orchestrated 80s ballads. I also think the Trash rocker mix works surprisingly well. It's got a nice drive. Side B has dance mixes, okay enough but I play Side A most often.
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Soused - Scott Walker + Sunn O))) The lead vocals of Scott Walker with the drone metal band Sunn O))). Dark and experimental as he has been in recent years but with more guitars.
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So Beautiful or So What - Paul Simon Still his most recent studio album from 2011. Maybe not a collection of his most catchy memorable songs but is musically worth a listen. It may take some listens to get into with its intricate detail. "Getting Ready for Christmas Day" is addictive enough from the old master painter. I saw him live with Sting earlier this year and it was a good concert. Many of the same musicians.
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New - Paul McCartney Paul McCartney played in a band called The Beatles (you can read about them here, if you like to know more; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles),,) but this is his "New"est studio album. Pretty good to be music made by a musician.
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2008 reissue with an additional disc: Room to Roam - The Waterboys Mike Scott is a man of scope (and poetry) and "This is the Sea" was huge sounding. Epic songs like "The Whole of the Moon" is a classic in my collection, but my favorite albums by The Waterboys remains the two folk albums "Fisherman's Blues" (198
and especially "Room to Roam" (1990), their most melodic (McCartney-esque) collection of songs.
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Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards - Tom Waits You gotta love Tom Waits. I would think one can distinguish his career into two periods to a certain extent, before and after "Swordfishtrombones" in 1983, where he sort of reinvents himself from a bluesy piano troubadour to something imaginatively between Captain Beefheart and Kurt Weill. "Orphans" is a three disc monster from 2006. Waits the Rocker on "Brawlers" (playing right now)
, the Balladeer on "Bawlers"
and the wild eyed poet? on "Bastards".
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Venus - Shocking Blue
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Thanx for providing so much of your play list, Mr. Ibsen, was interesting--btw, I greatly admire your plays !
Been thinking I want to find that "lesbian" CD I like (LOL) by Emily and Amy of Georgia. Really like that one. Want to hear it again. A poster here once called me a lesbian because I mentioned listening to their albums (laughs).
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Moody blues greatest hits
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Rolling Stones -Ruby Tuesday
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Ringleader of the Tormentors - Morrissey 2006 studio album produced by Tony Visconti who produced many Bowie albums and I think he also did some work on "Band on the Run". Morrissey aren't always musically progressive but he is definetely one of the most challenging lyricists, a freethinker and a poet, and I'm fond of his voice. I like The Smiths, it was one of the great 80s bands, but I also think that his solo career afterwards is well worth a listen.