Spinning Today - What Are You Listening To Right Now? (Part 3)

A – 'Hi-Fi Serious'

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Label: London Records – 0927-44776-2
Format: CD, Album
Country: Europe
Released: March 4, 2002
Genre: Rock
Style: Alternative Rock, Grunge

Picked this up in a charity shop for 50p, 'on spec'. The only group I know with the name "A"; and easy to file away in my collection - it would be the very first!

Sadly however, it's not really to my taste, so back to the charity shop it goes.



So for a complete change:

Bob Dylan – 'Desire'

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Label: CBS – CBS 86003, CBS – S 86003, CBS – PC 33893, CBS – 86003
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
Country: UK
Released: January 5, 1976
Genre: Rock
Style: Blues Rock, Folk Rock


And finally a recording which, IMO, a copy should reside in everyone's collection:

U2 – 'The Joshua Tree'

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Label: Island Records – CID U2 6, Island Records – CID U26
Format: CD, Album, Disctec
Country: UK
Released: March 9, 1987
Genre: Rock
Style: Pop Rock

Reuniting Jean-Benoît Dunckel with Nicholas Godin for their latest (last?) album:

Air - Le voyage dans la lune (2012)

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Interesting back story to this one - a soundtrack to an originally silent movie from 1905- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_voy...a_lune_(album) - but equally great as an album in its own right. I think it's going to become an Air evening... :)

Nice - I bought "Desire" when it first came out in the mid-70s, and really liked it. It has been on my to-buy list for ages now, I really need to get round to it. But it might have to be vinyl, for nostalgia reasons.

"Joshua Tree" on the other hand - I've never been a fan of U2 really, but thought this album might be an exception. Turns out I only liked "Bullet the Blue Sky". So I tried without success to sell it at a car boot sale. Fortunately it was one of the albums that disappeared from my collection in the early 90s.

Bono reminded me of the "Zed" character from the Police Academy films, sort of put me off U2.

https://youtu.be/GbURJaV_iYQ

Having watched the Syd Barret retrospective the other day, it was good to play 'Piper' last night.
Hopefully manage to get 'A Saucerful of secrets' in tonight...
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Air - Premiers Symptômes (1997)

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Debut EP from the French duo formerly mentioned. 5 tracks plus 2 bonus. Do you ever play a record and think "that was so good I'm going to play it again"? No, me neither, but I did with this! (Steve, (Pigmy Pony) if you haven't got this, get onto Music Magpie now! - CD only £2.74 but only one left!)

Is that a 'best of' collection?

Was the Syd Barret retrospective you mention shown on Sky Arts? What did you think of it? To me, it came across as a near hagiography.

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Originally Posted by Alex_UK

Air - Premiers Symptômes (1997)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...t%C3%B4mes.png

Debut EP from the French duo formerly mentioned. 5 tracks plus 2 bonus. Do you ever play a record and think "that was so good I'm going to play it again"? No, me neither, but I did with this! (Steve, (Pigmy Pony) if you haven't got this, get onto Music Magpie now! - CD only £2.74 but only one left!)

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Yes - on a number of occasions; but it rarely sounds quite as good on second listening.

Alex - is there a danger of you becoming an "Air Head"? :lol:

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Originally Posted by Barry

Alex - is there a danger of you becoming an "Air Head"? :lol:

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I think that happened a long time ago Barry! :lol:

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Originally Posted by Barry

Is that a 'best of' collection?

Was the Syd Barret retrospective you mention shown on Sky Arts? What did you think of it? To me, it came across as a near hagiography.

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It's a re-release of 'Piper at the gates of dawn' and 'Saucerfull of secrets' packaged up as a double album. I bought it back in the early eighties or thereabouts.

Yes, I was in two minds about the programme, good to hear the music snippets though, I have Syd's two albums (also paired up as a double set) which I've played fairly recently, but haven't played the two Floyd ones for donkeys years, so it was a good prompt to fish them out for a hearing.

The All Seeing I - Pickled Eggs & Sherbert (1999)

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Their one and only album - eclectic electronica bringing in several acts from their home city of Sheffield (Tony Christie, Phil Oakey, Jarvis Cocker.)