This was the Jethro Tull song that I always liked best https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m__wmsIn99E

My wife is heavily into Genesis but prefers the later material with Phil Collins on vocals, and one of my younger brothers was a big fan of their earlier stuff: he was a drummer, so probably also admired Phil Collins but in his other guise!

Phil Collins' drumming was incredibly intricate on a lot of their music. If you listen to the whole of The Cinema Show you hear just how amazing he was.


It's too bad he can't play any more. He's badly crippled.


Living in the Past is a superb song, and I had forgotten it! Just added it to my playlist.

Willy Deville was an artist much regarded by his peers but did not enjoy as much success as he may have deserved: I love Spanish Stroll, but only recently discovered that he made a solo album accompanied and produced by Mark Knopfler which included a hit song from The Princess Bride https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5LveBIjg3o and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svbv0ArjPGU and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvcYRWzuQKg

I haven't thought of that song for about 45 years or so! But I do remember the music.

My double CD of Fleetwood Mac at the Chess studio in Chicago in 1969 finally arrived (from Germany) and is currently great listening in my car: appropriately enough I found this compilation on Youtube. Enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doyeh2rlMzI


... and some more blues for good measure - Zucchero with John Lee Hooker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRGMLYlXosg

I still have TAAB on vinyl and will give it a spin on this wet day. Aqualung was probably my preference and I think this is a beautiful 89 word piece of poetry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmIbJ81MbKI
Mink Deville I probably have somewhere too, and I know I have this on a bunch of playlists https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBpVkI6d_xI
The driving video is great

Nice mellow stuff from Jethro Tull: I had not heard that extended version before and may get a download of it.

Don't know whether any of you are familiar with Zucchero's great album of collaborations, Zu & Co, of which the above track was one: here is another, this time with B B King https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMZwr5oLOao

Glad you liked it. I do like the extended version but those initial 89 words are awesome.
I have to say not only wasn't I aware of the collaboration, I didn't know the Zu. I will search out some more on the basis of the link.

A couple of tracks to help kick start the week - Junior Walker and the All Stars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Akrcr16whB4 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSosQRiXiPw


...and something cool for later https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlwzpkhmIT8 (their new album is on my Christmas list!)

Very tasty start to the week!

Yes indeed

As I frothed the milk a little for my coffee this morning, I had this going through my head, googled it and found an updated version... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYTHucboV-o and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGJLiBjQksU

Nice one.
I spun some vinyl today and this was one, though not this version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llmSr6Qpjjc
I like these contemporary performances so so many years later.

That's rather lovely. flotsam. I hadn't heard that before.

Ooh, spun some vinyl - respect! What remains of my old vinyl is boxed up in the loft, just about anything worthwhile having long since been replaced by CD and/or digital download ( I still don't like the idea of a subscription music service).

I was not familiar with that band, and the falsetto vocal is a bit of an acquired taste: I have explored their history and music, and I am a little tempted towards House Broken, a live album on DVD/CD from 2015/2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEQL05K1RJ0 (a fairly cheap used copy on eBay in Australia, flotsam may care to note)

as at least one review says, somewhat reminiscent of Mott The Hoople https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MyJHh451Y4

Glad you liked it hagatha.
I have the audio of that album Lex but not the visual. I must check it out.
Megan's Song is another one of theirs I particularly like. Its on that live album and here is the original Maybe its a little more accessible? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZC5iGJwec4
The falsetto reminds me of Antony, aka and the Johnsons. Similarly acquired tastewise perhaps but rather beautiful https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avabPY3XgRc
I confess a Mott the Hoople similarity had never occurred, but probably the only song of theirs I knew was All The Yound Dudes. I could be convinced based on the link.
I don't do subscription either, cd and digital download being my thing, and I probably have most everything digitally that I would listen to on vinyl. But there is something unarguably tactile about the whole playing a record thing, and they still sound better and more real. So even as the salt in the air corrodes the head of my stylus, I refuse to abandon the medium.
Plus there is the whole Kraken thing (not a song) http://www.alchemisthifi.info/ranges/kraken/alchemist_kraken_apd6_integrated_amplifier.htm

Speaking of vinyl, we were playing old Aussie classics the other night, and so here are some you may not know

Probably known for being the music over the top of the best finale to a tv series ever but we loved it before that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkA7xQb6uPk
An epic before there were such things by the lead singer of The Easybeats, this is a live version many years later from that funny shaped house we have here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPveBD6WWXc.
Just an oldie that he still plays live because we won't let him not https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BImWJ0t2Yo
And the best Beatles cover ever (the YouTube poster agrees) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iptr7i7sFkM

All good stuff: I had not heard that song by Badfinger, and I had not realised that Stevie Wright went on to become such a rock icon.

Here is something a little different I stumbled upon yesterday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f5HDjjzwqo (my wife is starting to wonder what I would do without my daily musical fix...)

What an eclectic musician Mr Grohl is

flotsam The Warning opened up for the Foo Fighters last September in Mexico City. I've just spent all morning using this thread as my awesome radio station. What a ton of great links you all have provided here.

Here are some additional links that hopefully you will enjoy:

This is the best cover of a song ever IMO. Written, shot and recorded by three sisters aged 20, 18 and 15 years old in one week https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tKQgesCcTc

Another taste of Liliac https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0cQy1dtGEc

More of The Warning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeIbG8nkOiU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_RB0tRI624
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkAP-ydpTys
They are 17, 15 and 13 years old in this clip. Pau the drummer wrote this song about addiction when she was 13 years old. The level of talent in this band is off the charts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM8KeQ_tNQc

I don't know these guys at all, but it's hard not to like this. I mean, it's really cheesy, what with all the glitter and coloured lights and the whole Manilow thing, but they're really good musicians and he kills the song.



SQF, that's also a new band for me. I'll have a listen to those tracks later.

Very much enjoying The Warning SQF. Seriously talented indeed
And how cool it must have been to open for Foo Fighters!

SQF, glad you are enjoying this thread, and thank you for those links: full-on girl power!


My most recent acquisition was the live album of this concert celebrating Kris Kristofferson https://blackbirdpresents.com/video/life-songs-kris-kristofferson-official-theatrical-trailer/ (cheap used copy on eBay of course ), some great performances including Jennifer Nettles but perhaps only for the country music aficionados.

Picking up the tempo again with the Rolling Stones I have just seen remastered and Super Deluxe versions of Tattoo You: the original album was so insipid I did not buy it (although I have several of the stronger tracks from it), but these options will definitely be on my Christmas list (almost certainly the Super Deluxe version which seems to only be available as a download unless you really push the boat out) https://superdeluxeedition.com/news/the-rolling-stones-tattoo-you-40th-anniversary-reissue/ and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycWsybm9Phc

I have definitely turned into an old fogey. A curmudgeon. An old coot.

I was in the hair salon today for three hours, and they obviously had some Spotify playlist on with big hits of the 2020's and forward, and all I could think for three hours was, "who are these people, and why are they singing this ridiculous music?'

They all sing like hip-hop artists, even if their music is pop, and al of the voices sound the same. I guess Ed Sheeran is a prime example. He's a white boy with flaming red hair and he sings what sounds to my ear like hip-hop, or I guess I would call it "hip-pop."

Anyway, ARRRRRGHHHH!

Back to our regular programming.

... and something differently musical https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQW66vEX3VU