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What Are You Listening To? - Tiggi - 22-05-2011

^ I'll have a word...

What Are You Listening To? - Tiggi - 26-05-2011

^^ I've had a word. It's all in the hands of the mighty Robbie now...

What Are You Listening To? - SteveO - 26-05-2011

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My Morning Jacket - Okonokos (love those live albums...gets my adrenalin goin' good for an old geezer !)

What Are You Listening To? - Music Head - 27-05-2011

from my library (cd)

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Or as I like to call it, Who Is Sharon Robinson And What Did She Do To Leonard Cohen? On the album cover, full production credit, plays all the instruments, co-writing credit and performs on most of the tracks. Problem with the performing is, unlike previous Cohen albums where the sultry female vocals are the landscape to a portrait of a couple making love, Sharon is usually dueting with Leonard, spoiling the visual of the couple making love. Leonard didn't need duets on a studio album. I think this is my first LC album I did not love. Still a couple of nice tracks in A Thousand Kisses Deep and In My Secret Life. With 5 likeable other tracks and 3 that give me a headache, this is only a mediocre LC album. Sorry, he should have hung it up after this one. Recording that is, not performing. He's a legend, in my own mind, and I'd like to keep it that way. Hey Leonard, you don't have to give away the farm, when you're gettin' the milk for free.

I LIKE THIS ALBUM

Worst Track - The Land Of Plenty

Best Track - A Thousand Kisses Deep

The ponies run, the girls are young,
The odds are there to beat.
You win a while, and then it’s done –
Your little winning streak.
And summoned now to deal
With your invincible defeat,
You live your life as if it’s real,
A Thousand Kisses Deep.

I’m turning tricks, I’m getting fixed,
I’m back on Boogie Street.
You lose your grip, and then you slip
Into the Masterpiece.
And maybe I had miles to drive,
And promises to keep:
You ditch it all to stay alive,
A Thousand Kisses Deep.

And sometimes when the night is slow,
The wretched and the meek,
We gather up our hearts and go,
A Thousand Kisses Deep.

Confined to sex, we pressed against
The limits of the sea:
I saw there were no oceans left
For scavengers like me.
I made it to the forward deck.
I blessed our remnant fleet –
And then consented to be wrecked,
A Thousand Kisses Deep.

I’m turning tricks, I’m getting fixed,
I’m back on Boogie Street.
I guess they won’t exchange the gifts
That you were meant to keep.
And quiet is the thought of you,
The file on you complete,
Except what we forgot to do,
A Thousand Kisses Deep.

And sometimes when the night is slow,
The wretched and the meek,
We gather up our hearts and go,
A Thousand Kisses Deep.

The ponies run, the girls are young,
The odds are there to beat

1) In My Secret Life ***
video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NW7oNpzBSGc
2) A Thousand Kisses Deep ***
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy7ExVdamh0
3) That Don't Make It Junk *
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYmF8AIqR4E
4) Here It Is **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hiEXwyto4k
5) Love Itself **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxyqhyhSEXc
6) By The Rivers Dark **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eA3sBuolUkA
7) Alexandra Leaving *
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j1267BYexc
8) You Have Loved Enough **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlN2NN-mooM
9) Boogie Street **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rswKZ0PNY_0
10) The Land Of Plenty *
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHMxKgNbATo

3's - 2
2's - 5
1's - 3

Grade - 1.9

What Are You Listening To? - Tiggi - 27-05-2011

SteveO Wrote:[Image: 220px-Okonokos.JPG]

My Morning Jacket - Okonokos (love those live albums...gets my adrenalin goin' good for an old geezer !)

Good album, Steve. That was my introduction to MMJ.

What Are You Listening To? - Tiggi - 27-05-2011

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This was a 1990 debut for a side project from Kim Deal (of the Pixies), and Tanya Donnelly (of Throwing Muses).

Definitely contains elements of both bands, which is a good thing, but somehow misses the x-factor of either.

A good album of Alternative Rock songs, but no more. The AllMusic review rates this as better than either the Pixies then-current album Bossanova, or the Muses then-current album Hunkpapa, both of which I'd rate well above this.


AllMusic 4+/5 stars.

What Are You Listening To? - Tiggi - 29-05-2011

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Their second from 1991.

Indie Rock featuring drum machines and liberal use of samples, lyrics heavy with wise-ass puns, but leaving room for some genuinely poignant sentiments, all pumped up with some Punk energy & attitude.

Very good album, and a welcome blast from the past.

Madness didn't make dancey, Punky music, but if they did...


AllMusic 4/5 stars.

What Are You Listening To? - SteveO - 29-05-2011

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Roger Waters - The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking ( like my editing job on the cover ? I didn't know what was acceptable ?)....Tiggi - thanks for your recommendations - my "to listen to" list is endless !

What Are You Listening To? - Tiggi - 29-05-2011

^ Clever edit Steve, but I don't think anyone would have been offended.

And you're absolutely welcome re the recommendations. That's what we love to do...

What Are You Listening To? - Tiggi - 02-06-2011

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Kristin's seventh, from 2003.

This woman can do little wrong for me. The album is one of her acoustic ventures, featuring just voice, acoustic guitar, and the occasional piano. The usual, oblique lyrics blend beautifully with her idiosyncratic guitar style.

KH is never less than interesting...


AllMusic 3/5 stars.