So, what have you been listening to lately?

[Denis]

Currently listening to Goat, a band I had never heard of before today. They are great!

[Pekka]

Eberhard Weber's "Fluid Rustle", "Yellow Fields" and "Silent Feet"
Philip Catherine's "September Man"
Terje Rypdal's "Waves"
1972-75 Jethro Tull plus "Heavy Horses - New Shoes"
Zamla Mammaz Manna's "Familjesprickor" and "Ödet" (a track)
Pat Travers' albums with Mars on bass

[4stringer77]

Interesting band that Goat is. Have to admit I'm slightly disappointed Tom Brady wasn't in the band.

[uwe]

Currently listening to Goat, a band I had never heard of before today. They are great!

What is this, dystopian tribal rock, a new genre? 

[Dave W]

[Stjofön Big]

Here, where I live, Sweden, no-one knows about this guy, B W Stevenson. But in -77 I bougth a vinyl 33 by the man. We be sailin', is the title. Very nice record! Golden voice! Though not heard in my country. So there was none to talk to about the LP, other than guests with big ears.
And then, one day, I read about B W.
In the Bass outpost...
Great place to hang around!

[Dave W]

He had a great voice and he was a very good songwriter too. Gone way too soon.

[patman]

Got "Asleep at the Wheel " on in the office now

[Rob]

[uwe]

A live recording from Steve Harley/Cockney Rebel, circa 1984 in Camden, London ... with most of the backing band looking period-correct like extras from Flock of Seagulls/The Alarm. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7yL50sePv4&list=PL32860BEB824425CB



I like Harley's "pained" and some people might say "affected" singing. This was at the beginning of his comeback for gigs after he had spent much of the late 70ies/early 80ies raising his children.

[Pilgrim]

Was just listening to Emerson, lake & Palmer play the Peter Gunn theme.  Loved it!

[Granny Gremlin]

Rediscovering some of the noisier/sludgier/dronier sounds of my youth on a recent road trip to a recording session:







As well as, just for juxtaposition, the later solo stuff of Lisa Carver (aka Lisa Suckdog):

[uwe]

OMG, "Fan Club" was the first British punk single I ever heard (on the radio), up to then I had only heard and bought The Ramones debut. The Sex Pistols were all over the (English music) papers at that time, but you never got to hear any music from them because notoriety was more important to McLaren than his proteges actually putting something down on vinyl. So I actually heard music by The Damned and The Clash before I finally got to hear Never Mind The Bollocks.

And I remember thinking when I heard that Damned song that Joey Ramone was "somehow the more melodic singer" - no doubt my nasty BOF instincts at work failing to recognize true art!  Vanian was a wonderfully English vaudeville character though. I loved what he did years later to Barry Ryan. And he could sing by then too.



Another thing I remember from the very early Damned was Rat Scabies' (drummer, great name!) snappy answer to an NME scribe questioning his street credibility why he had only a rubber rat and not a real dead one dangling from his drum kit: "A real rat would smell too much. You'd need to change it all the time." 

[uwe]

Listening to the soundtrack CD from Glen Campbell's good-bye movie which features this here:



I know, not real country by the strict definitions of this "Grand Ole Opry of Fora"  at all, but lovely just the same. 

[Highlander]

I listened to the radio on the way home... RESPECT by Aretha was followed by Roam by the B52's... the show's theme was songs with a single word in the title...