In 1975 I wasn't listening to any of this. The glitter ball didn't light up my life. I was carrying
Katy Lied and
The Last Record Album to the kind of parties where we stood around complaining that disco was the death-kn
ell not only of music but civilisation as we knew it. Dumb old me. True, I was on a higher plane. I'd rejected societal norms for a spiritual quest that led to a suburban marriage and a fucking job, and it was only much later I realised what a shitload of dancefloor fun I'd missed out on. And hot chicks, probably.Well, pals, it's never too late to get on down and partayyy. The music is every bit as insanely uplifting as it ever was, and I defy you to be chopfallen of mien with these swell beats rattling yer Realistic™ speakers! You may even find yourself essaying some ill-advised dance moves, perhaps a little booty shaking, so be sure to pull the shades.What's that you ax? My favorite disc from these seventies stunners? Why, today it's Family Reunion by th' O'Jays! A heady mix of Rn'B, funk, disco and soul, all bubbling from the same righteous gospel source. It makes you wonder why anybody bothered to make another record - this, surely, is enough to justify human beings as a noble life form. And show the cover to Wokes who think they invented diversity and inclusivity. And then show 'em the cover to Wake Up Everybody, Melvin Harold And His Blues Notes' stirring call to ecological action, and tell 'em we wus saving the planet before they wus born, th' ingrates.Why not spin these platters when unexpected guests drop by? Say, that's some nerve they got dropping by unexpected, you in your Y-Fronts sucking Easy Cheese out the can! Tell 'em to find their own party!
Want a VIP Pass to th' Disc-O-Foam®? Includes use of members-only restroom! Simply tell everybody what you're listening to these days, music-wise! Maybe it's some obscure indie landfill from the eighties! Maybe it's Free Bird, over and over! It's all good! Share yer pleasure here!
ReplyDeleteAny Norwegian folk music, especially Benedicte Maurseth. Oh, and Kid Koala and Emiliana Torrini.
ReplyDeleteSince reference was made to Little Feat, I'll leave this link here. It's a vinyl rip in FLAC of the "Japanese Girl" album by Akiko Mikado backed by the Feat:
ReplyDeletehttps://timeneedle.blogspot.com/2021/11/akiko-mikado.html
Listening to a lot of Gareth Liddiard (The Drones, Tropical Fuck Storm, and Springtime), as well as Ghosts Outside, the Dennis Bovell dub version of Steve Mason's solo album Boys Outside.
Thanks for the link, Jonder! New one on me!
Delete(and for gawd's sake don't tell him I'm stomping down his batsear hi-res down to 192 ...)
DeleteIf I ratted you out, I'd have to cop to doing the same. Hi fi is wasted on us lo lifes.
DeleteNot a Feat session I'd heard about before. Many, many thanks.
DeleteHoly crap! Never heard Lowell play like that before - have a listen to track two. It's amazing.
DeleteThanks Jonder! I'm the ratfink who called out Farq for smooshing files on another HiRez blog and I'm still flogging myself for that. Mums the word! (I do it too but in the aspirational 320 bits-per-second preferred by the middle class).
DeleteI'm a 320 man myself. Flog away, ya fink.
DeleteAccording to the book "Rock & Roll Doctor": "Japanese experimental pop singer Yano was 21 when in 1976 she recorded this debut album. George and the rest of Little Feat (apart from Payne) play on the five songs of the first side of the album, the 'American Side', while on the second Yano is accompanied by Japanese musicians. One of the 'American' songs, "Kuma (Bear)", is notable for George's credits for guitar, flute... and shakuhachi. The shakuhachi is a traditional flute-like instrument that he learned to play during the 1960's. On all other songs he is credited solely as a guitarist." The book calls Akiko a singer but neglects to mention that she is a pianist (which would explain why Billy Paye sat out the sessions).
Aquarium Drunkard adds that tracks A1-A5 were recorded at Hollywood Sound Studios. "The flipside was laid down back in Tokyo with Haruomi Hosono, Tatsuo Hayashi and Moonriders’ Keiichi Suzuki." And the Needle Time blog (linked above) states that Yano later joined the Yellow Magic Orchestra live band, married Ryuichi Sakamoto, "and eventually went on to release over thirty solo albums, collaborating also with western musicians such as Peter Gabriel and (the British group) Japan."
Over the past few days
ReplyDeleteThe Phil Woods Six - Live From The Showboat
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Stitt & Sonny Rollins - Sonny Side Up
Steve Lacy - The Straight Horn of Steve Lacy
Luther Allison - Luther's Blues
Rickie Lee Jones - Pirates
Kenny Dorham - Afro-Cuban (Rudy Van Gelder Edition)
Rolling Stones - Bastard's Banquet Outtakes 1968 (Bootleg)
Pirates is a thing of beauty, and one of those sophomore albums that betters the artist's debut.
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ReplyDeleteMonaLisa Twin. Uber Talented and young and beautiful.
I can even enjoy their videos.
The stuff they writecis amazing.
I can't say enough about these women...and yes it's a forbidden love Ihave as Iam old enough to be their grandfather...i love themlike daughters!
Sorry. It seems my space bar is not working.
ReplyDeleteAt my age I'm glad that's the only problem Ihave,
john
John, you're not the only one stymied by basic technology. I've always been an eyes-down two-finger keyboard pecker, and every time I look up at the screen I'm horrified by the typos, which are getting more frequent. Even simple comments (such as this) require tweezering at granular level.
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Seems like disco is in the air. Beside listening to Steve Mason & Dennis Bovell - Ghost outside that Sir Jonder turned me on to, I've been hitting the brand-new 3CD disco set Day/Night by Parcels. Talk about boogie down productions, they've got it in spades.
ReplyDeleteSince we now got two recommendations, any of y'all want to post this Ghost Outside thing?
Deletehttps://mega.nz/file/kHwzmYiS#or3s71RssjNKM4gM83h6rNaaGNBU8-ucqd_nA_Fff04
DeleteThanks. Listening to it right now.
DeleteWhat am I listening to? The new Santana (which I rate pretty high, although some have given it a kicking), Delta Sleep "Spring Island", Spirit's "Son Of", and the above-featured blackness dudes.
ReplyDeleteBlessings And Miracles is a nice album.
DeleteIt's been my observation that Rock critics just wanted a rehashed version Abraxas for the last 51 years.
last 5 in order loss leader WARNER # 30
ReplyDeleteLittle Feet let it roll
CCR Mardi Gras
Hawkwind birth of hawkwind
Ten Years After live
(Dead.net) 30 Days of Live Dead (Free Dl's each day of the month of November)
ReplyDeletePaul Weller - Sunset Ep remixes
Bitchin Baja's Sun Ra tribute ("Switched on Ra")
Skyhooks (anything mid 70s from this Aussie group)
Lydia Lunch - The War is Never Over (bandcamp)
Disco, funk and all that groovy stuff was mostly lost on me too back in the 70's. I liked some soul music a bit, but mainly it was Deep Purple, Zep etc etc.
ReplyDeleteNow I'll enjoy most music with few exceptions. I think going to see Prince in 1988 made me realize dance music could really 'rock'.
I've been listening to a lot of the Welsh band Man. They don't seem to get mentioned here, but their albums between 1970 & 1975 are all really great to these ears. I recently discovered a great live recording from 1975, some twangy concise almost country rock to full on jamband psychedelic stuff.
ReplyDeleteAlso the recent Hatfield & The North FoamFeaturette, got me playing them again too.
Man - amazing band. Any wants, let me know.
DeleteOh, and try and listen to the Deke Leonard solo stuff. It's very, very good.
DeleteThanks SteveShark, I've had their vinyl albums for years, but found a 320mp3, 50minute 1975 partial concert from Berkeley that's really interesting and great recording - if you've got the full concert of that I'd be very keen. Not to be confused with the 1976 recording from the same venue.
DeleteI have a 1975 Berkeley show - 6 tracks over about 50 munutes, which sounds as if it's what you have.
DeleteFull 1975 tracklist is as follows.
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Hard Way To Die
Breaking Up Once Again
C'mon
Four Day Louise
You Don't Like Us
Someone Is Calling
Hard Way To LIve
Many Are Called But Few Get Up
Romain
The full show exists, but I can't find it at the moment.
The 1975 Keystone, Berkeley show was issued as a second disc on the Deluxe Edition of "The Welsh Connection." My understanding that has the complete show, and that John Cipollina plays on several songs.
DeleteI didn't think the reissue had the complete show. I'll have a look when I'm near the PC.
DeleteThe 1976 Berkeley show is the one that's been issued as an edited release in its own right. Yes, a full Berkeley show is on the Welsh Connection reissue but it's the full 1976 show.
DeleteAs far as I can ascertain, the 1975 show remains unissued.
Thanks for the info SteveShark & Draftervoi, I'm sure those 50 minutes are not from 76 Welsh Connection lineup, even tho setlist shares many of the same tracks.
DeleteThe 1976 Keystone band is Deke, Mickey, Terry and Ken. The Welsh Connection band is thst band minus Ken, but plus Phil Ryan and John McKenzie.
DeleteThe best I can do re 1975 is here:
http://tela.sugarmegs.org/_asxtela/asxcards/man1975-04-05johncipollina.html
mp3 - purporting to be Berkley 1975 and all in one chunk - here:
https://ia803105.us.archive.org/16/items/man1975-04-05johncipollina/man1975-04-05johncipollina.mp3?cnt=0
Thanks SteveShark, I'll give that a listen tomorrow.
DeleteI've just discovered something else - Man recorded a gig at the same venue in 1973 - they must have really liked the place - and...there were two 1975 Berkeley gigs.
DeleteAll info here.
http://www.manband-archive.com/index.php
Here's Ship Ahoy
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Been listening to the new Van Morrison & Jackson Browne. Neither my choices. And Ian Matthews If You Saw Thru My Eyes.
Thank you for th' O.J.s!
DeleteCurrent faves...
ReplyDeleteHoneycrack - Prozaic
Malford Milligan & the Southern Aces - I Was A Witness
Endless Boogie - Admonitions
Duster Bennett - Out In The Blue
Francis Dunnery - Whole New World Remix
Tears For Fears - The Seeds Of Love DELUXE EDITION
Alvin Youngblood Hart - Start with the Soul
Sanseverino - Excactement
Peasoup, peasoup, peasoup...
ReplyDeleteYo, somebody better call an exorcist, SteveShark is doing that weird thing with his head again and is kind of green in the face...
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbdYmFSfrcU
ReplyDelete= 'ICUROK' Nomi & my own foray into disco waters
& Lou Reed's
= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShWNSHRuvlw
'Disco Mystic'
ge, I was hoping that was going to be a live version, with Lou twisting and frugging to the groovy beat. The Bells one of his finest hours?, well in my house it is.
Delete'the bells' is a curious Lou theme, occurring in other tunes of his, eg
Delete'see the bells up in the sky/somebody cut the string in 2...'
'And all the bells are rolling out for you
And stones are all erupting out for you
And all the cheap bloodsuckers are flying after you'
AND Don Cherry on African hunting guitar and trumpet.
DeleteJust been listening to TSOP by MFSB - that's some very well arranged and played stuff. And when that Hammond just bubbles up and the sax solos, it's a great feeling. Extended version here. Play it loud and give all the shit in your life the finger. It'll help for a few minutes and that has to be a positive.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om_NRyywbr4
Glad you have come around to the glory that is Philly Soul. Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff and Thom Bell were geniuses!! This is a great book about them.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.amazon.com/House-Fire-Rise-Fall-Philadelphia/dp/0195149726/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2S5J56N4WI11B&keywords=a+house+on+fire+the+rise+and+fall+of+philadelphia+soul&qid=1637082073&qsid=141-3840475-9425215&sprefix=a+house+on+fire%2Caps%2C226&sr=8-1&sres=0195149726
Also, I only found out a few years ago that That's The Way Of The World is sort of the soundtrack to a movie, starring EWF and Harvey Keitel. And it's pretty good!
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073703/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_5
Last music played: The Pousette-Dart Band
ReplyDeleteGood lord, whatever next - The Hello People?
DeleteNo, Nolwenn Leroy.
DeleteOhwo!
"Winterness" by the P-D Band is a lovely song. Reminds me of Norma Tanega's cat.
DeleteCurrently listening to "The Chosen Ones" by The Black Sorrows. Van Morrison-ish.
Cheers, Peanuts Molloy.
True dat re: Winterness. "Yaicha" and "Dancer" are also very lovely, and even if it's light listening they have a bunch of more than decent songs.
DeleteNot that I should take any snickering from Mr. "There are no guilty pleasures, just pleasures, here have some Monkees and Archies" seriously...
...while he is listening to freakin' Santana, no less... *shudder*
Post some Pousette, by all means! I'm here to learn.
DeleteHere you go: https://youtu.be/ClMISpbWOdw
DeleteJon's dad, Richard Pousette-Dart, is worth googling as well.
Cheers, Peanuts Molloy.
Not at all what I expected (which was what you might expect from the band name and the whiteface mime). Investigating further.
DeleteVangelis - Juno to Jupiter (nice one, seems like he is going back to his roots)
ReplyDeleteTaylor Swift - Red (Taylor's version) -hey, I have daughters aged 15 and 17!
Ed Sheeran - Equal (this is really awful)
Vijay Iyer, Linda May Han Oh & Tyshawn Sorey - Uneasy .
Al Stewart - Time Passages
Aníbal Troilo & Roberto Grela - Cuarteto Típico (a 62 great tango album)
Van Der Graaf Generator - The Charisma Years (selected hearings -it's a 10 record compilation-)
Misread the VDG as "The Christmas Years".
DeleteThat would be a tricky one for the marketing department.
DeleteThe Iyer is good? I read Richard Williams but am unsure..
DeleteJohn Stewart - Daydream Believer CD
ReplyDeleteLalo Shifrin - Mannix soundtrack
John Barry - Ipcress File soundtrack
Jimmy Nail - Crocodile Shoes CD
*hand raised at back of hall for Mannix*
DeleteI feel you Broseph. I too sacrificed a shit-ton of fun and loads of hot chicks (no doubt) by bucking societal norms and taking a principled stand on important things like musical integrity, though "My War" was in the synth-laden and hair spray 80s. Unfortunately I'm still in suburban hell but maybe I won't notice while shaking my rump to these platters.
ReplyDeleteThat will have to wait however as I have committed myself to listening to the live Tom Petty compilations in their provided track order created by Stinky and shared by Jonder. At least the one's I pressured them into providing!
I wish you joy of them, MrDave.
DeleteHere's them here swellness recordings, as advertised. I apologise for the tardiness but I've been winding the lint out me bellybutton on a fork.
ReplyDeleteStealth Link©
The Crusaders also had butts moving and heads bobbing in 1975 with their Chain Reaction LP:
ReplyDeletehttps://youtu.be/0H-gdisajtg
https://falsememoryfoam.blogspot.com/2020/11/dames-get-funk-outta-your-face-with.html
DeleteLoving the O'Jays, thanks, not my usual listening.
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