Archive for August, 2009
Listening In: All my friends are boppin’ the blues…
Today I grabbed a 2CD compilation that I haven’t listened to for years for this morning’s listening on the way to the chocolate teapot factory – The Very Best of Sun Rockabilly, which features gems by the likes of Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, early Roy Orbison and Johnny Cash, plus many long-forgotten one-not-quite-hit wonders [...]
Listening In: Streets bloody clean for a change
Just a quick summary, as I’m completing this a day overdue:
The La’s – The La’s
Morton Feldman – Something Wild: Music For Film (Ensemble Recherce on Kairos)
Sibelius 6 (Karajan)
Electrafixion – Electrafixion
Electrafixion – Sister Pain (single – CD2 and CD3 – live, inc Holy Grail)
The Fall – The Infotainment Scan
Morton Feldman – Something Wild: Music For Film [...]Listening In: She dances on the sand…
Today has been less active listening-wise due to a slight crisis at the chocolate teapot factory.
However, in the car on the way in, at an ungodly hour which I never usually see, I listened to (the horror!) Rio by Duran Duran. It’s the first time I’ve heard it in at least ten years, and it’s [...]Listening In – A little boy in Byelostok
A mixed day’s listening today. Prior to departure for the chocolate teapot factory:
Shostakovich Symphony no 13 (Ashkenazy) – mvts III-V
Haydn Symphony no 50
Haydn Symphony no 51 – with its amazing horn part in the slow movement. This must surely have caused hospitalisation of more than one intrepid horn player…In the car:
Kate Bush – Never for [...]
Listening In: It’s in the trees! It’s coming!
In the car on the way to the chocolate teapot factory:
Syd Barrett – Barrett
Kate Bush – The Hounds of LoveWhile at work I had some serious digging to do (running low of raw materials with which to manufacture chocolate teapots) and so got through a reasonable amount of stuff:
Morton Feldman – For Philip Guston – [...]
Listening In: Howling, the pack in formation appear…
Today’s listening has been a little more wide-ranging than yesterday’s:
Lemonheads – It’s a Shame About Ray
The Manhattan Love Suicides – Burnt Out Landscapes – in commemoration of the group’s split. “Clusterfuck” is, without doubt, one of the greatest indie-pop singles of recent years. They’ll be sadly missed, by me at least.
Elliott Carter – String Quartet [...]Listening in: a day late
I didn’t listen to an enormous amount yesterday. I woke to the cheerful sound of the Lemonheads’ It’s a Shame About Ray, and then drove to Great Barr and back accompanied by Syd Barrett’s magnificent solo albums, The Madcap Laughs and Barrett. I tried to listen to some Elliott Carter in the evening but [...]
Listening In: You’re the one that looks delirious
In the car on the way to the chocolate teapot factory this morning, I carried on listening to CD86. I only pressed repeat once after Primal Scream’s Velocity Girl and twice after Anorak City by Another Sunny Day, which is probably something of a record. Whilst at the teapot factory I’ve been listening to:
Nuggets Vol. [...]
Listening In: No Absolution
Today has had a decidedly metallic slant, although I started off with The Libertines’ self-titled second album in the car on the way to the chocolate teapot factory. Arbeit Macht Frei is still one of my favourite sub-one-minute-thirty songs.
Last night, inspired by this Guardian article I downloaded the new Grief No Absolution single/EP combo, Eurostopodus Argus/Crypsis. [...]Listening In
I’ve been quiet lately, as a great deal has been going on. In an effort to start blogging a bit more, and thanks to inspiration from @ViolaMaths’s blog ayearwithmyears.blogspot.com, I thought it might be entertaining – for me at least – to document what I listen to. Today it’s been:
“Oppens Plays Carter” – Ursula Oppens [...]