What Are You Listening To?

[Tiggi]

Figurines - When The Deer Wore Blue



This has been on my buy list for prolly a couple of years, but can't remember the source of the recommendation. Anyway, I had a look at Amazon recently & found this plus another of their CDs on the marketplace, brand new, for a total of £4.36 delivered !!

Danish band with an eclectic writing style. This impressed greatly, and, as ever, I'm left pondering the fate of another talented band floundering in relative obscurity...

[Music Head]

from my library

Syd Barrett - The Madcap Laughs - 1993



This album was a tremendous letdown for me. Just a total mess. I am as respectfull of the legacy of this artist as anyone. But this was just almost total garbage. One of 2 things. Either too many drugs for him or not enough drugs for me.

I do not like this album

Favorite Track - Here I Go

This is a story about a girl that I knew
She didn't like my songs and that made me feel blue
She said a big band is far better than you...

She don't rock'n'roll, she don't like it
She don't do the stroll, well she don't do it right
Well everything's wrong and my patience is gone
When I woke one morning and remembered this song
Kinda catchy

I hope that she will talk to me now and even allow me
To hold her hand and forget that old band

I strolled around to her pad
Her light was off and that's bad
Her sister said that my girl was gone
"But come inside boy, and play, play, play me a song"
I said, "yeah...here i go..."
She's kinda cute don't you know?
That after awhile of seeing her smile I knew we could make it
Make it in style

So now I got all I need
She and I are in love, we've agreed
She likes this song and my others too
So now you see my world is...
Cos of this tune...what a boon this tune!
I tell ya soon we'll be lying in bed, happily wed
And I won't think of that girl and what she said...

1) Terrapin - ** - audio
YouTube - Terrapin - Syd Barrett
2) No Good Trying - ** - audio
YouTube - SYD BARRETT NO GOOD TRYING
3) Love You - * - audio
YouTube - Syd Barrett: "Love You(Take 2)"4/11/69
4) No Man's Land - * - audio
YouTube - Syd Barrett: No Mans Land
5) Dark Globe - * - audio
YouTube - Syd Barrett
6) Here I Go - ** - audio
YouTube - Syd Barrett- Here I Go
7) Octopus - ** - audio
YouTube - octopus - syd barrett
8) Golden Hair - * - audio
YouTube - Golden hair - Syd Barrett
9) Long Gone - ** - audio
YouTube - Syd Barrett - Long Gone
10) She Took A Long Cold Look - ** - audio
YouTube - She took a long cold look - Syd Barrett
11) Feel - **
12) If It's In You - * - audio
YouTube - Track 12- if its in you- the madcap laughs- syd barrett
13) Late Night - ** - audio
YouTube - Syd Barrett Late Night

3's - 0
2's - 8
1's - 5

Rating - 1.6

[Tiggi]

Despite being a hardcore Floyd officianado, I've steered clear of Barrett's solo work due to the generally woeful reviews. Don't want the legacy sullied, maybe...

[Miss Fortune]

Call to Arms - Angels & Airwaves

"When the storm brings rain, snow, fate of all kinds
You can feel most anything
When the day seems to melt, fall flat into night
You can feel most anything
When you can't get up, you gotta get up and try
This is it can you feel me?
When the bombs come down we will make it alive
But only if you wanna believe"

<3

[Iota]

Tomte - So soll es sein

[Miss Fortune]

New Born - Muse

[Music Head]

from my library

Bryan Ferry - In Your Mind - 1977



Roxy Music front man's 4th solo album, and my favorite. The first featuring all original material. Although Roxy had a loyal fan base, it never transferred to Bryan's solo work with this album only charting at #126. True in the U.S. at least, but in the U.K. he had a much more devoted following, with This Is Tomorrow making the top 10. The only let down for me was Rock Of Ages and I think that was just too much emphasis on the the background vocals. The title track blew me away from the start and remains my favorite Bryan Ferry solo work.

I love this album.

Favorite Track - In Your Mind

Hark the frozen chimes of winter
Crystal shimmer in your mind
To the first time when you saw her
You implored her to be kind
In the open fields around you
All before you gone to ground
Both the question and the answer
Deep inside you, you shall find
And while you're strollin through
The summer of your years
Enchanted, in a garden overgrown
Just call me sentimental
Those of you who care
Could find there a lover and a friend.....to the end
And if you're taken by the sprit of your age
No reason to carve a cornerstone
Sway me, trade me
Your philosophy
First you're sowin'
Then you're growin
Then you reap......until you sleep
Will you scale the silver studded mountain
Where contemplation will spring to mind
See the veiled prophet's withered gaze
Reflect the nouvelle-vague
Glazed visions imprisoned in your mind
Unwinding rivers flowing through the meadows
To the sea - paths of glory
Through shifting glades to fall
Present laughter and the memory
Of troubles you have seen
It is written in your mind

1) This Is Tomorrow - *** - live
YouTube - Bryan Ferry - This Is Tomorrow
2) All Night Operator - ** - audio
YouTube - All Night Operator by Bryan Ferry
3) One Kiss - ** - audio
YouTube - Bryan Ferry One Kiss
4) Love Me Madly Again - ** - live
YouTube - BRYAN FERRY - Love Me Madly Again (1977)
5) Tokyo Joe - ** - live
YouTube - 1977??Bryan Ferry???? Tokyo Joe
6) Party Doll - ** - audio
YouTube - Bryan Ferry Party Doll
7) Rock Of Ages - * - audio
YouTube - Bryan Ferry Rock of Ages
8) In Your Mind - *** - live
YouTube - BRYAN FERRY - In Your Mind (1977)

3's - 4
2's - 3
1's - 1

Rating - 2.4

[Iota]

The Rapture - Out of the Races and Onto the Tracks

[Music Head]

listened online

Landon Pigg - The Boy Who Never - 2009



Nashville raised son of a studio musician. One of his songs has appeared on Grey's Anatomy which gained him national attention. Plus gigs on the various late night talk show. My favorite, woe to me, found out it's an AT&T jingle. I'll pretend I didn't know it. Really the only thing that stuck to me. Is that cause it's a damn commercial?

I do not like this album.

Favorite Track - Falling In Love At A Coffee Shop


1) This Far - ** - live
YouTube - Landon Pigg plays "This Far" at John Henry's in Eugene, Oregon
2) A Ghost - * - live
YouTube - Landon Pigg - A Ghost - Bowery Ballroom 10/09/09
3) Blue Skies - ** - live
YouTube - Blue Skies Landon Pigg
4) Falling In Love At A Coffee Shop - ** - video
YouTube - Landon Pigg - "Falling In Love At A Coffee Shop" [music video][url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQO7IUrqXqY][/url]
5) Take A Chance - *
6) The Boy Who Never - *
7) Made For Glory - **
8) Speak To The Keys - *
9) Rooftops - * - live
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5P3Iw8hzUo
10) Look So Tired - **
11) If I'm Saying Nothing - *

3's - 0
2's - 5
1's - 6

Rating - 1.5

[CMB1888]

The Jane Bradfords - Hide from the cold