Thread: What are you listening to right now

Last one i promise...and apologies for the nostalgia

...no apologies required: excellent choices...

Lo Fi garage band; The Black Keys.

The trip down the nostalgia lane made me think of some of the blue / jaz i've not listed to in ages; fired up my old Thorens TD166 record deck

Last one, sorry i'll stop hogging. Its been a while since i flipped the select knob on the old Musical Fidelity Amp round to Record

Originally Posted by tomcat

...no apologies required: excellent choices...

Thank you Tom, glad you like them - not an easy choice from that period - Burt Bacharach & David Hal penned sooooo many great songs - want to put in Dusty Springfield - Son Of a Preacher Man but save it for another day eh.

Originally Posted by SKkin

"Wanna get crazy?"

Still one of the better music videos ever made

Shaun Ryder, the Happy Mondays songwriter who immortalised the phrase “You’re twistin’ my melon, man”, has announced a book collecting lyrics from across his four-decade career.
Faber will publish Wrote for Luck in their lyrics collection series, which has also published anthologies of works by Kate Bush, Jarvis Cocker and Pet Shop Boys’ Neil Tennant.
It will feature the lyrics to 30 of Ryder’s songs – among them presumably Step On, the Happy Mondays’ cover of John Kongos’s 1971 single that gave them their first Top 10 hit – accompanied by commentary from the Salford songwriter. Ryder’s insouciant songwriting conveyed a lyrical swagger that prompted the late Factory Records boss Tony Wilson to declare Ryder “on a par with WB Yeats”.


Ryder formed Happy Mondays alongside his brother Paul, Mark Day and Gary Whelan in 1980, with Mark “Bez” Berry and singer Rowetta joining the band later on. Combining the influences of rave culture, funk and psychedelia, they were signed to Factory Records and released their first EP for the label in 1985. They followed the Martin Hannett-produced Bummed (1988) with Pills ’n’ Thrills and Bellyaches in 1990, which was considered a cornerstone of the Madchester movement. The group split in 1993 owing to Ryder’s substance abuse, and Ryder and Bez formed the group Black Grape. Happy Mondays reformed two subsequent times.


The 2002 film 24 Hour Party People covers Ryder’s youth and the group’s ill-fated attempt to record their fourth album – 1992’s Yes Please! – in Barbados with producers Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz of Tom Tom Club and Talking Heads. The trip was designed to get Ryder away from heroin. He ended up taking crack cocaine. When the band ran out of money, they began selling furniture from the studio. Ryder wrote no lyrics on the trip.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/20...-through-faber