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Royal Oak
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I'm not sure how I feel about this. I have a problem with "4'33", which IMO is the quintessence of the Emperor's new clothes, is it not?
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Bert Jansch - It Don't Bother Me John Renbourn - Another Monday
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Having just googled "Norwegian Wood Manfred", I have answered my own question in the affirmative.
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Been listening to Tchaikovsky's "Manfred" tonight, and have discovered that the starting riff to Norwegian Wood ("I once had a girl" etc) is a note-for-note lift from a recurring motif from this. Is this well-known?
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A couple of Stephane Grappelli Lps and "Sunday Walk" by Jean-Luc Ponty. Never heard Ponty out of the Zappa band/repertoire.
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Highway 61 Revisited. Big feature in this month's Record Collector about this LP. Not sure I'd agree with calling it the most influential/important/whatever album ever, but I like it.
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Booker T and the MGs - Green Onions. Would sound a lot better without the scratch!
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Listening to singers that can actually sing? Marion Brown - Afternoon of a Georgia Faun [ECM] Fair play, but it sure is his own voice.
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Listening, for the first time ever, to "Blonde On Blonde". Fuck me, what have I been doing for 40 years?
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From the Department of Now I've Seen Everything
Royal Oak replied to Mark Stryker's topic in The Vinyl Frontier
On a similar/not-so-similar note, the Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar has a biography in the offing, 10 copies of which are reported to contain a drop of his blood on a special page. A snip at $75000. -
The Sting appreciation thread - post your favourite recordings here.
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The Woman Chaser - Charles Willeford. An undemanding, enjoyable read.
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Well, I bought it a few weeks ago, after knowing it since the sixties. I wonder if we've caused a surge in sales for this album? Bought mine about 10 years ago! Today received the Randy Weston Mosaic Select.
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Over the past 4 weeks I've been watching "This Is England 86", a mini-series on Channel 4 here in the UK. It finished last night, and I don't think I've ever seen a TV programme so gripping in my life. I've not stopped thinking about it all day.
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That album always reminds me of my dad, who had a copy. As a 7/8 year old, the title always seemed a little strange to me.
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Davy Graham - "Ain't Nobody's Business" and "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright". In fact, pretty much all of Davy Graham's "Folk, Blues and Beyond" album.
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Wilbraham Road, opposite Morrisons. There was a rack full of nice CDs - the owner said he'd recently bought a collection of about 600. The "Collector's" vinyl I only had a skim through.
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Cormack McCarthy's "The Road". What a grim tale (NOT a criticism BTW).
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Went to one of Manchester's few remaining second-hand record shops today, Kingbee Records in Chorlton (you must be familiar with this one Bill). Don Wilkerson "Preach Brother" Jimmy Forrest "Forrest Fire" Duke Pearson "Wahoo"
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Floyd's "Dark Side Of The Moon". My first ever Floyd LP. Enjoying it.
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Thank you Phil. That's a hell of a lot of discussion!
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Stones - Let It Bleed. Felt good to hear this again, reminded me of nice times.
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Thanks for the link, and thanks to others for advice.
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Charlie Parker "Yardbird" EP, bought earlier today. After spending most of the past 4 weeks listening to 60s beat/pop/rock and a lot of "classical" music, it was very refreshing to hear some lo-fi bop.
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Charlie's Wig, Don't Blame Me, Dexterity and Drifting On A Reed.