What are you listening to?

[Aussiemike]

I'm a rock and roll guy all the way, but can appreciate good music! I'm not above enjoying some Chet Atkins or Les Paul with wife Mary. Check out the Chet Atkins, Mark Knopfler album ,more then a few years back , awesome! But give me Jeff Beck every time! Live @ Ronnie Scotts with your country men Tal Wilkenfeld, she's phenomenal!!!

Wow rj I looked up Tal Wilkenfeld she has played with some legends, even Herby Hancock if I could have a dollar for how many times I played "rock it" over and over in the 80s Embarrassed I have not heard of her but I am not up with much music past the 1990s I will listen to her asap thanks.

 

[Timbo]

Louis Prima of late, his jazzy stuff.

 

[user 6310]

Louis Prima of late, his jazzy stuff.

A great entertainer!!!

 

[Zeno Marx]

Throwing Muses - In a Doghouse (early collection)

I first came across this group with the great and seminal Lonely is an Eyesore 4AD compilation. Their track is really interesting and stands out amongst a more post-punk and "gothy" lineup. It's dark in its own right, but it is high energy in a truly frenzied way. If you've ever seen, or read, an interview with Kristin Hersh, the main songwriter and vocals/guitarist, you're aware of how odd she is. A genuine artist who is not entirely mentally well and is merely tethered to the ground like a hot air balloon. And she can write an album in a couple days, like a Woodie Guthrie type, which is also an appropriate comparison because her style is folky in indie rock form (also a bit like Neil Young in that particular way). Albums with 40 songs and probably had another 40 that someone else made her cut, because she has better things to do than kill her own tracks...just keeps writing songs. And when her songs get really angry, while they're still clearly feminine, the anger is palpable. Pissed off punk kids can often only dream of being that successful with expressing their anger. She went solo after being with the same band members for decades, and even her new work is interesting and worth hearing. She's been doing this since 1981.

 

[Quickhatch]

I've been going through Mose Allison's back catalogue and have scored a couple of his early and late 60's LPs. Pipe smoking music for sure.

 

[Aussiemike]

I've been going through Mose Allison's back catalogue and have scored a couple of his early and late 60's LPs. Pipe smoking music for sure.

Nice Quickie, inspired me to listen to and put on TV while I was pottering around doing some work around home (house work) loving it. mm not the house work

Mose Allison - Essential Jazz Legends (Full Album / Album complet)​

Then a bit of the ;

The Doobie Brothers Top 20 Songs Greatest Hits- The Doobie Brothers Best Songs Playlist​

love em!

 

[user 6310]

Always up for some Steely Dan!

 

[Gaius Marius]

I'm working my way through a few old time radio programs at the moment.
1: Ranger Bill, a western-ish adventure program with mild christian overtones in which the people of a forestry service help people. Good story writing, exceptional for a program with one shot stories unrelated to one another with kids as the intended audience.
2: Changdu the Magician, another adventure program for younger people which centers around a family's search for their missing father figure which spans from the Near East to India and has themes of indian mysticism, magic, bad guys, and the like.
3: The Bob Hope Program, a real icon as I understand. I remember seeing Bob Hope on television as a very young boy which means he was popular for quite a long time. He's an entertaining guy with a show full of music. He brings guests on the show and does some amusing light banter.
4: Abbot and Costello, a comedy program starring a duo who might have the best chemistry i've heard. They're great.

Somehow, I have made it my goal to listen through every single radio program surviving. I've gotten through dosens of shows. I'm might be the only person my age to be into old time radio. I download and archive every radio program I can find from its inception to around the late 60's.

Not smoking at this hour, only in the very early mornings.

 

[Gaius Marius]

Franz Von Suppe Light Cavalry Overture which will be followed by It's Good to Have You Home Again by The Satisfiers.
So much good music on this earth.

 

[Eutychus]

I'm working my way through a few old time radio programs at the moment.
1: Ranger Bill, a western-ish adventure program with mild christian overtones in which the people of a forestry service help people. Good story writing, exceptional for a program with one shot stories unrelated to one another with kids as the intended audience.
2: Changdu the Magician, another adventure program for younger people which centers around a family's search for their missing father figure which spans from the Near East to India and has themes of indian mysticism, magic, bad guys, and the like.
3: The Bob Hope Program, a real icon as I understand. I remember seeing Bob Hope on television as a very young boy which means he was popular for quite a long time. He's an entertaining guy with a show full of music. He brings guests on the show and does some amusing light banter.
4: Abbot and Costello, a comedy program starring a duo who might have the best chemistry i've heard. They're great.

Somehow, I have made it my goal to listen through every single radio program surviving. I've gotten through dosens of shows. I'm might be the only person my age to be into old time radio. I download and archive every radio program I can find from its inception to around the late 60's.

Not smoking at this hour, only in the very early mornings.

I don't know your age, but there are a few OTR fans here, including me and @JimInks. Favorites of mine include "Vic and Sade", "The Jack Benny Show", and "The Fred Allen Show."

 

[Gaius Marius]

I don't know your age, but there are a few OTR fans here, including me and @JimInks. Favorites of mine include "Vic and Sade", "The Jack Benny Show", and "The Fred Allen Show."

I'm glad to hear other people here like the same things that I do- in addition to pipe smoking!
Both Vic and Sade and The Fred Allen Show are new to me. I'll find them and put them in line to be listened through. I'm twenty nine, one of the younger users here I gather.
This morning I'm listening to more Changdu the Magician.
I really enjoy OTR. Most content in the modern day is written to appeal to a very broad, usually international audience which limits its impact. After all, a suit that fits everybody okay fits nobody perfectly. Most OTR seems to have been written to appeal to white Americans, a much smaller target audience, although I'd bet everybody could find something to enjoy.

 

[Aussiemike]

Listening to this old beaut, bringing some great memories back from around the time it came out.

 

[user 6310]

"Devil Inside" terrific group!!! Not to old to listen to Deep Purple ,Machine Head, not a bad track on that whole album, "Lazy , Space Truckin and of course, Smoke on the Water!" And one of my all time favorites, Cheap Thrills Big Brouther and the Holding Co. with Janis Joplin, "Summertime ," Ball and Chain! THEY don't make em like that any more eh?

 

[Gaius Marius]

I finished up the last of the two decades worth of episodes of Chandu the Magician, once sponsored by the now rare White King Soap. The series had its inception in the very early 1930s and was much better in those earlier days when compared the the late 40s remake. The earlier show was entertaining, being an adventure full of mystery and mysticism that spans from Beverly Hills CA to Budapest and Cairo. It had elements stressing the importance of family and the value of mental fortitude and the belief in good. The original series was worth listening through, though not amazing.
The remake saw all reoccurring and core characters other than Chandu himself including his family, and the main antagonist not written out of the show, but suddenly left unmentioned, abandoned. This marked the transition of the program from an adventure-mystery show to a crime drama in which Chandu fills of role of a cop or government agent with magic powers which are used seldom if ever. The show also became vaguely political and with the benefit of hindsight, one can infer that some aspects of the show were intended to shape public opinion around certain events in the real world. This took me out of the make believe fantasy a good radio show can foster. On the very last episode of the series, they attempted to revert the show to one about the supernatural and mystery but clearly is was too little too late.
Unless you have a goal of listening to ALL radio programs produced in that era like I have, Chandu the Magician is one you could probably skip and not miss a whole lot.

 

[Aussiemike]

I did a bit of cleaning up the garage and found an old cd player that still had a NAT KING COLE L-O-V-E, CD still in it, so I have been listening to it for prob the first time in 20 odd years sweet surprise

 

[user 6310]

Nat King Cole Trio.... Very COOL!

 

[Eutychus]

Nat King Cole Trio.... Very COOL!

Love NKC, but especially the Trio years.

 

[Aussiemike]

In the mood for some country music listening to slim dusty and Lee Kernaghan not a huge fan but like his song of when the Japs bombed up north.

 

[RudyN]

oops! posted in wrong thread.

 

[Aussiemike]

A bit of old reminiscing Back in Black ac/dc CDs