What are you listening to right now? Pt VI

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

 

[Xtreme]

 

[catscratchfever]

I'm getting ready for Saturday's gig at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl. This track kicks arse!

 

[Norwegian Blue]

I'm off to see Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers tonight, so I'm giving both support acts a listen on Spotify.

total tommy:



Full Flower Moon Band:

 

[Andrewy]

 

[zumahawk]

The Cure- A Fragile Thing.

 

[Plugger35]

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

I never knew that The The's Uncertain Smile was a re-recorded version of this

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

My favourite Faith No More track

 

[Andrewy]

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Ahmad Jamal Trio, Poinciana

 

[Andrewy]

 

[jannissary]

bleak album, but it's fantastic.

 

[CliffMcTainshaw]

Playing for Change, an amazing concept.
"Oye Como Va" with Carlos Santana, Cindy Blackman Santana, Tal Wilkenfeld, Corey Henry, Becky G and so, so many more. I have no idea how they put together so many great artists from all around the world to produce such music. If you haven't heard of Playing for Change, go to YouTube and type in Playing for Change. You'll be amazed at the musicians you will see and the various instruments from around the world.

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[stax on the mull]

One of the early classics from golden age of hip hop was recorded by a 15yo. Edward K. Archer was the youngest of five brothers and the only one of his family born in the US to immigrant working class parents from Jamaica. His mother was pregnant when they arrived and moved to the tough neighborhood of East Flatbush, New York in the 1970's. About 10 blocks down he had cousins who lived across the road from Howie Tee, who had already produced records for other early rap artists, and as a child watching Howie Tee's crew creating mix tapes on the street where they lived, he understood how the process of making a record was within his reach.

Having been given some encouragement to write poetry in elementary school, and familiar from records at home with the vocal style of Jamaican DJ's, by junior high he got into freestyling rhymes and battling other rappers for prestige until he eventually felt confident enough to approach Howie Tee and ask if he could let him rap on his beats. He was signed to Profile records, who had to delay the release of his records while they negotiated a contract for a minor. For "I Got It Made" he took lines from his best braggadocio lyrics that he had written over the years and the video features places in his neighborhood including his high school and some other students.



The name Special Ed was a suggestion from a friend, partly a pun on "special education", although he never had to attend those classes he was wise enough to understand it wasn't just a program for special needs students, but a kind of placement that was given to students who were too difficult for teachers to handle or as he has called it in interviews "a pipeline to prison". He later got into his own difficulties with authorities at school, mainly over truancy and was transferred to different schools and programs, eventually taking an early graduation exam to pass so that he could tour with other hip hop acts.

 

[stax on the mull]

Another golden age classic released in 1989. Starts off as a story song about the day in the life of a student, then ends up as a pro-education message song.

 

[stax on the mull]

Late 90's jazzy hip hop.

All Natural featuring Lone Catalysts = Renaissance

 

[Dixie Flatline]

 

[Dixie Flatline]

 

[stax on the mull]

There's a bit of a 70's/80's FM rock aesthetic about this singer/songwriter Rosali Middleman. Vocals are something like Fleetwood Mac maybe and the band on the louder songs a bit like Crazy Horse.

Relationship songs from female POV. All of her albums are worthwhile.