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

[Barry]

Ryan Adams – 'Demolition'



Label: Lost Highway – 170 333-2
Format: CD, Album
Country: Europe
Released: 2002
Genre: Rock, Folk, World, & Country
Style: Country, Country Rock

[Barry]

Richie Havens – 'Richard P. Havens 1983'



Label: Verve Forecast – SVLP 6014
Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Album, Gatefold
Country: UK
Released: May 1969
Genre: Rock, Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk Rock, Soft Rock, Psychedelic Rock

[Barry]

Dylan Thomas – 'Under Milk Wood'



Label: BBC – 0-563-38860-9
Series: BBC Radio Collection
Format: 2 x CD
Country: UK
Released: 2001
Genre: Non-Music, Stage & Screen
Style: Radioplay

This BBC radio drama of Under Milk Wood is the full version broadcast in 1963, which includes several passages omitted from the first recording in 1954. With his incomparable rich Welsh voice, Richard Burton reads the role that Thomas himself was originally to have played.

The 1954 version is avalable on (Decca) Argo:

Dylan Thomas With Richard Burton – 'Under Milk Wood'



Label: Argo (2) – SW501-2
Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Reissue, Mono
Box Set
Country: UK
Released: January 1954
Genre: Non-Music, Stage & Screen
Style: Radioplay

[Barry]

I'm feeling lazy, and since I have yet to properly file away the following, I'm playing them again:

The New Pornographers – 'Twin Cinema'



Label: Matador – OLE 621-2
Format: CD, Album
Country: UK & Europe
Released: 2005
Genre: Rock
Style: Indie Rock


The Dandy Warhols – 'Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia'



Label: Capitol Records – CDP 7243 8 57787 2 8
Format: CD, Album
Country: US
Released: June 2000
Genre: Rock
Style: Alternative Rock


Steve Winwood – 'Refugees Of The Heart'



Label: Virgin – CDV 2650
Format: CD, Album
Country: UK & Europe
Released: 1990
Genre: Rock, Pop
Style: Pop Rock


Ray Davies – 'Americana'



Label: Legacy – 88875102362
Format: CD, Album
Country: UK & Europe
Released: April 2017
Genre: Rock, Pop, Folk, World, & Country
Style: Country Rock, Pop Rock

[Us-&-Them]

Great live gig from early 80's demonstrating the power of one of my favourite bands!!! Its also available on old VHS tape (not many people can play those anymore) but luckily, you can watch it on You Tube (get the higher res version and the one that's complete and not split into sections - not that many of you will as I get the feeling that there aren't too many hard rock fans on here) !!

[WOStantonCS100]

Picked up that CD up in a charity shop. Couldn't get on with it, I found it too weird - so returned it.

Understandable. I have a friend, fellow respected music aficionado, who still doesn't get on well with all things...Steely. She's trying at the behest of her father (a fan since the start). Not there yet; still trying to like Aja. Some bands/artists are polarizing. Mr. Fagen (with and without the "Dan") has a knack for that from album to album. I like it but I'm an unrepentant music whore. I haven't even binned my copy of Kay Huntington's LP and that record is HORRIFIC!!

[Pigmy Pony]

I'm feeling lazy, and since I have yet to properly file away the following, I'm playing them again:

The New Pornographers – 'Twin Cinema'



Label: Matador – OLE 621-2
Format: CD, Album
Country: UK & Europe
Released: 2005
Genre: Rock
Style: Indie Rock


The Dandy Warhols – 'Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia'



Label: Capitol Records – CDP 7243 8 57787 2 8
Format: CD, Album
Country: US
Released: June 2000
Genre: Rock
Style: Alternative Rock


Steve Winwood – 'Refugees Of The Heart'



Label: Virgin – CDV 2650
Format: CD, Album
Country: UK & Europe
Released: 1990
Genre: Rock, Pop
Style: Pop Rock


Ray Davies – 'Americana'



Label: Legacy – 88875102362
Format: CD, Album
Country: UK & Europe
Released: April 2017
Genre: Rock, Pop, Folk, World, & Country
Style: Country Rock, Pop Rock

interesting selection there Barry. What's the Ray Davies one like?

[Dom66]

[Us-&-Them]

GREAT SEMI PUNK/ROCK ALBUM FROM 1984 BY THE FALLEN ANGELS.

[Barry]

interesting selection there Barry. What's the Ray Davies one like?

Like a lot of my CDs, I picked 'Americana' up in a charity shop. I have always admired Ray Davies's lyrics and their quintessential 'Englishness'.

'Americana' is, to quote the blurb on the cover:

It started as flickering black and white images through an old movie projector. Faces of cowboys and Indians and other superheros of my childhood. The good guys victorious over the dark forces of evil. Then as I grew up, the music took over. Rock, jazz, skiffle, folk, blues and country songs came to liberate me a Londoner growing up in the austerity of post-war Britain. The music gave me the feeling that I could express myself with this new art form called rock and roll. Then, as I toured America with my band, I saw the place first-hand as we experienced the highs and lowsin our turbulent career. Those romanticised images of my childhood were replaced by the real world, as the flickering light of the fantasy turned into the cold light of day.

Americana is not so much about the country or even about the style of the music. It represents hope for a better future as the dream continues along the great highway.

Ray Davies

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/23104-americana/

Not everyone likes it: https://observer.com/2017/05/ray-dav...ricana-review/, but I find it pleasant enough; "pleasant" here being as damming a description as 'anodyne'. I certainly wouldn't pay full price for the CD.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKlM1oKMBq4



https://youtu.be/jKlM1oKMBq4?t=61