Album For Today

[SHAUN I]

On another forum I visit, there is a thread called "Album For Today" it's a great thread for finding new & recommended albums (Not new in the just released sense, but new to me) from artists I have listened to a little over the years, and also bands/artists whose music I've never heard, and from old classics to new stuff. I thought it might be a good idea to start a similar thread here, just post an album you'd recommend that you've listened to today.

Can - Flow Motion

[pete c]

Okay Shaun, I'll bite.

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[aspwatterson]

:m16:

Andi

[SHAUN I]

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I have this, great album, great recommendation Pete, I also love Salty Heaven.

[pete c]

I don't have Salty Heaven but do have

Riverside
Acoustic Motorbike
Turf
Tribe
Innocence
Eleven Songs

and would recommend them all.

Today I have been mostly enjoying this

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[SHAUN I]

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[pete c]

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singalongascientology day!

[Steve_Pitts]

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I'd second that recommendation, although it might be worth pointing out that it was released on this side of the pond under the band name 'Poet and the Roots' rather than using LKJ's own name - both the vinyl and CD versions that I have use that name and it is still for sale that way

For myself I'd like to recommend another alter ego release:

http://pitts-is.me.uk//images/Chips%20From%20The%20Chocolate%20Fireball%20%28An% 20Anthology%29.jpg

The Dukes were actually XTC in disguise, and this is a slight cheat because 'Chips From A Chocolate Fireball' is actually a compilation, being an amalgam of both the 25 O'Clock EP and the Psonic Psunspot LP

[Dr_Doom_The_Optimist]

This is really buttering my muffins at the moment, from 1975.

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[pete c]

y,know, Adam, I never realised that was you, duh!

Was listening to 'Burlington Road' last week and enjoying it too!

Today: "Removal Music" by friendly Liverpool retro-futurists Mashemon

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[Dr_Doom_The_Optimist]

You never realised *what* was me!?

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[pete c]

That.
















:wink:

[pete c]

I never realised "Dr Doom the Optimist" was you.

[Dr_Doom_The_Optimist]

Oh I see. Well, yes, this is me!

[SHAUN I]

Live at the 1979 Havana Jazz Festival, with guitar legend John McLaughlin and Miles Davis drummer Tony Williams, also Jaco Pastorius on bass. If you like The Mahavishnu Orchestra and jazz fusion, then you'll love this. :m8:

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[Bob Jacobs]

Having completed my marathon audition of all the Richard Thompson on my iPod, I'm now embarking on the even larger collection of John Martyn, in alphabetic order of album, so we started with the 4CD box set, "Ain't No Saint", carried on with "And.", continued with "BBC Radio One Live" and I've now nearly finished "Best of". I expect it will be "Best of the Rest" next, followed by "Bless The Weather". Perhaps the Harpers will get the treatment next :m8: Were I to interrupt this sequence, it could conceivably be with some of the albums mentioned heretofore in this thread. I haven't got that particular Luka Bloom album but do have most of his others mentioned earlier.

Good thread, Shaun. My first visit to the forum for ages...

Bob

[Travellerman]

Enjoy the John Martyn, I came in late on that one but there are some fabulous songs. Bless the Weather and Ain't No Saint are definite highlights :D

[SHAUN I]

Went to see Spirit live at the Cambridge Corn Exchange in the 80's, they were the support for Wishbone Ash, crazy days! :sifone:

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[Bob Jacobs]

I'd have loved to have seen Spirit. I remember turning on to them in about 1976 and subsequently acquired a best of album.

Update on my John Martyn marathon: I've just gone through The Hidden Years and am now on In Session - superb mid 70s BBC stuff, soon to be followed by Inside Out - more of the same! :-)

Glorious Fool followed by Grace & Danger was good too ...

Bob

[SHAUN I]

A great acoustic guitarist with a unique style.

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[SHAUN I]

Been listening to Andy Robert's excellent 1970 album Home Grown this evening!

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[Bob Jacobs]

Is that "our" Andy Roberts or the one that played on Roy's albums (looking at the date, I think I guess the answer)? Update on the John Martyn marathon... I'm nearing the end of the marathon, with The Tumbler now. I'm still convinced that the best versions of various classic Solid Air and Bless The Weather tracks I've heard are on the Titanic Town soundtrack. The production seems clearer on this album than on either the original BTW and SA CDs or the remastered versions. Looking forward to hearing my latest downloads from Joe Bonamassa and Jackie Leven :-)

Bob

[SteveT]

Jackie Leven is a great story teller, both in song and on stage. Well worth seeking out live if you get the oppurtunity.

[scotpaulabear]

It's a "Who Killed Amanda Palmer" kinda morning... :biggrin:

[Dr_Doom_The_Optimist]

Is that "our" Andy Roberts or the one that played on Roy's albums (looking at the date, I think I guess the answer)?

It's the one that played with Roy (and Richard Thompson I think).

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[SHAUN I]

Andy Roberts on here is the guy that played with Roy..

[aspwatterson]

Andy Roberts on here is the guy that played with Roy..

Thought as much but still

A still loveable guy

[SHAUN I]

And another great musician's musician, I would also recommend Urban Cowboy.

[aspwatterson]

This month PR has a CD album of some psychedelic delicacies to titillate our soundbuds [might stick it up as a Vine if anyone appreciates my exertions]. Some quite strange stuff there which I'm still trying to open my mind to....


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[Bob Jacobs]

Well I'm blowed :-)

[SHAUN I]

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[SteveT]

Haha - eat your heart out Craig Mclachlen (sp?).

[SHAUN I]

Been listening to some Neil Young today, it's been a while, plus some Bert Jansch classics, had the house to myself this afternoon, a perfect opportunity on a wet November Sunday to just relax and catch up on some old favourites, I must be getting old, I'm sure I would have enjoyed a very different Sunday 20 years ago!

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[Johnbarkeriom]

One of my favourite albums ever there Shaun

I dug out Handmade Life by Chris Wood this weekend and was reminded what an amazing songwriter he is. It is well worth getting as I am sure all Roy fans will appreciate the quality of the writing and many similar themes to Roy such as injustice, growing up during the war, gardening (!) and a real swipe at capitalism in the excellent 'The Grand Correction'
http://www.chriswoodmusic.co.uk/itemdetails.php?itemId=21

[SHAUN I]

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[SHAUN I]

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[Nigels]

Here's one for the list;
Michael Hedges - Aerial Boundaries.
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