So what are you listening to?

[David L]

Talking Heads - Remain In Light
Eagles - Hotel California
Fred Wesley and the Horny Horns - A Blow For You, A Toot For Me
Air - Moon Safari

[Fishy]

Todd Rundgren Arena

[pxr5]

The Blue Nile - A Walk Across the Rooftops  a stunning album

[The Picnic Wasp]

The Blue Nile - A Walk Across the Rooftops  a stunning album

Your post immediately reminded me of something I posted earlier about The Blue Nile. Please excuse the indulgence of me re-posting the tale, but I was staggered to notice that that post was from very nearly a year ago. I would have guessed three or four months if pressed. Why is time accelerating?

From the Kiss Studio Albums Thread.

Please excuse this detour. From the 80s onwards I regularly used a hairdresser in Glasgow's west end. Long story short we would exchange gig stories and we had similar tastes in music except he was a massive The Blue Nile fan and would always talk about their recent music. I drifted away to other establishments but went back there just prior to lockdown. He immediately started to tell me his Paul Buchanan tale. Again, keeping this short (it's a Kiss thread) he had a number of coincidental bumps into his hero, in a shop, another quick nod and hello again on the street and if memory serves a brief conversation at a party.

One day Paul popped into the shop to see him and was annoyed when my hairdresser said he had bought tickets for an upcoming TBN concert. At the concert, Paul sought out my mate and his wife and arranged for them to attend a post-gig back stage get together. They were a bit stunned by this so joined the party, had a couple drinks and slipped quietly out.

A while later Paul visited the hairdressers. He asked why he and his wife had left before they got to speak to each other and my pal explained he didn't want to impose or outstay his welcome when there were a number of celebrities around and they felt a bit out of place. Paul said to him, "but you're my friend, they were just guests". He was on cloud nine and no wonder. His hero declaring his friendship for him. The stuff of dreams.

[Thenop]

New the Cure single - Alone. I think I like it, always been partial to the band, not all of it is good but surely Disintegration is a dark masterpiece. Need to hear this a bit more but if this is the direction of the album I am happy (in a dark kind of way, don't want to be to happy when listening to the Cure)

[Nickslikk2112]

Metallica - Master of Puppets
Pink Floyd - The Division Bell

[The Picnic Wasp]

New the Cure single - Alone. I think I like it, always been partial to the band, not all of it is good but surely Disintegration is a dark masterpiece. Need to hear this a bit more but if this is the direction of the album I am happy (in a dark kind of way, don't want to be to happy when listening to the Cure)

Whenever I hear their name I always think back to a time in the nineties sitting in a pub with a couple of mates when a guy I knew less joined us at our table. We talked about music at one point and this guy mentioned The Cure. I harmlessly said in a non aggressive manner that I didn't really like them. He took an obvious and immediate hatred for me and has never tried to be friendly since that afternoon. My feelings about The Cure have changed somewhat since and I now quite enjoy a lot of their material, but I shan't bother telling that geezer.

[Thenop]

New the Cure single - Alone. I think I like it, always been partial to the band, not all of it is good but surely Disintegration is a dark masterpiece. Need to hear this a bit more but if this is the direction of the album I am happy (in a dark kind of way, don't want to be to happy when listening to the Cure)

Whenever I hear their name I always think back to a time in the nineties sitting in a pub with a couple of mates when a guy I knew less joined us at our table. We talked about music at one point and this guy mentioned The Cure. I harmlessly said in a non aggressive manner that I didn't really like them. He took an obvious and immediate hatred for me and has never tried to be friendly since that afternoon. My feelings about The Cure have changed somewhat since and I now quite enjoy a lot of their material, but I shan't bother telling that geezer.

Yes strong opinions were shared in those days..

[Thenop]

Talk Talk - the Colour of Spring, one of those albums that never tire.

[Thenop]

Oliver Nelson - Blues and the Abstract Truth. A top 10 jazz album for me and the opener Stolen Moments is truly magnificent: that harmony between Nelson, Dolphy and Hubbard, each time I listen I hear something new. Of course Bill Evans' piano is magnificent but it's the horns that take it in this piece.

[David L]

Today, I have mostly been listening to:
Styx - Crystal Ball
Styx - Grand Illusion
Kansas - Leftoverture
David Coverdale - Whitesnake
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
Yes - Going For The One

[Fishy]

Utopia RA

[pxr5]

Released today and first listen:

Geordie Greep - The New Sound (LP, 2024)
BC, SPO


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[Nickslikk2112]

Robert Calvert - Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters
David Gilmour - Luck and Strange
Diamond Head - Four Cuts EP

[Nick]

Saints and sinners- Whitesnake