In your CD player
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Jenny Wren / Summer of '59 - Paul McCartney 7" vinyl single. 2005. Ahhh, I just needed a break from the Phil Collins/Genesis week on my stereo. Not that I always make a note of every record I play in this thread but "Summer of '59" is exclusive to this release. Well, so far...
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Hot Town - Flim & the BB's
Jimmy Johnson formerly played bass for the BB's ... now plays bass for James Taylor -
Woman In Chains ~ Tears For Fears
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Invisible Touch - Genesis LP. 1986. Catchy enough but yet another record I remember being played a lot in the mid-80s but not necessarily by me. It's odd that the same band (0nly with different bandleader) that define some of the best of progressive rock also defines the 80's.
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...But Seriously - Phil Collins LP. 1989. The last record in my Phil Collins in the 80s project. It is also the newest Collins/Genesis record I've bought so far. In the 90s I mostly went back to the 70s and collected all their early progressive rock albums of 1970-74 on CD. "...But Seriously" is also kind of back to a more organic sound again with horns and drums and less synthesized music. Not bad quite good actually but not a record I've played a lot.
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Os Mutantes - Os Mutantes 1968. Brazilian psychedelia. I don't know much else about the band than this album, their debut. It's a record you check out because you have heard so much about it. It's recognized among psychedelic minds. It is reputedly a Brazilian tropicalia band, desrcibed as (from Wikipedia: Tropicália, also known as Tropicalismo, is a Brazilian artistic movement that arose in the late 1960s. It encompassed art forms such as theatre, poetry, and music. The movement was characterized by a combination of the popular and the avant-garde, as well as a fusion of traditional Brazilian culture with foreign influences. Cool music. Well worth a
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So - Peter Gabriel LP. 1986. Since I've been in this going through Phil Collins in the 80s (smash hit after smash hit) mood lately in my record collection, I decided to play Peter Gabriel's smash hit 80s album "So" as well. Not only did they come from the same band but but they have similarities as well, even the sound of their voice. But where Phil Collins is pop/rock is often Peter Gabriel pop-art and art-rock. I think you can trace it back to "Selling England By the Pound" (1973) by Genesis where Phil Collins sings the beautiful but straightforward ballad "More Fool Me". Peter Gabriel is the more original music maker, but I think both have strong identities where you easily recognise a Peter Gabriel recording as well as a Phil Collins one. It's not like Collins "sold out" to have all these hits in the 80s. His type of catchy songs fit perfectly into the period.
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^ Love Peter's... In Your Eyes GENESIS was such a phenomenal band! Am listening to...2 Hours of Celtic Music Simply, Love It!!!
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SurSteven:
^ Love Peter's... In Your Eyes GENESIS was such a phenomenal band! Am listening to...2 Hours of Celtic Music Simply, Love It!!!
I agree about Genesis. You gotta love them. I just sat down wondering what to play on my stereo, but now I have an idea--
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Nursery Cryme - Genesis Original release 1971. Definitive edition remaster 1994 CD. Not sure if I would say it's their best, they would refine their sound on further albums but it might be my favorite. Including the epic "The Musical Box".
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Tripping the Live Fantastic - Paul McCartney LP. 1990. Side Four at the moment. I came to think of "My Brave Face" and then I thought about a live version and remembered "Tripping the Live Fantastic". A much played live album in my collection. Especially when it came out. There's nothing from Oslo here, I think it was the first concert on the 1989-90 world tour and the band was perhaps a bit raw yet. Hey, it was great concert, his first in ten years and things to prove...
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I Need Your Love Tonight - Elvis takes 1 to 7
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Flying Teapot - Gong 2005 remaster. 1973 original release. Radio Gnome Invisible Part 1. (Of three, including "Angel's Egg" and "You"). This is fun music to my ears, coming from Planet Gong, an outer space, deep in the head.
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Tripping Up The Live - Sgt. Pepper's portion (6.23 minutes)
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Angel's Egg - Gong Digital remaster 2004. Original release 1973. Radio Gnome Invisible Part II. Perhaps the most spacey and out there of the trilogy. Anyway with sections that sounds like local bar music and what would be called World Music in the 90s's. These records was supposedly not a commercial success when they came out in 1973-74. I don't think it's difficult music but they are a bit like books where you have to sink into the theme and go with it like a trip or it will pass you by.
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James Taylor - Before This World (cd) and the dvd sold as a package one at a time, that is
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Talk is Cheap - Keith Richards LP. 1988. On The Rolling Stones albums have Keith Richards his Ringo number or two. On "Talk is Cheap" he is the lead singer. One understands perfectly well why Mick Jagger is the lead singer of the Stones and Richards is the lead guitarist and background singer, but he still has a likeable singing voice to my ears. The sound fits his person, no affectation. And he has made an album with "Talk is Cheap" that is more consistant than many Stones albums. There is no adapting to the latest sounds of (80s) studio production to find. It's a groove, made by a band of musicians that he can call friends. Blues, rockabilly, rock&roll. Keith Richards is like Lou Reed. The more laidback it gets the more it rocks. It starts with the James Brown funky "Big Enough". And big enough it is.
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Tears for fears
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Call Me Back Again - studio & live versions (Wings Over America)
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Other lives