[Lady Jane]

Hauntingly beautiful recommendation and perfect for a lazy Saturday morning.

[Artemis]

Originally Posted by Lady Jane

Hauntingly beautiful recommendation and perfect for a lazy Saturday morning.

"The Rainbow
Talk Talk played their last live show in September 1986. Freed from commercial and creative constraints by the success of The Colour of Spring, they spent most of 1987 in Wessex Studios, making improvised music, throwing in elements of jazz, electronica, classical, folk, blues and prog rock, hyper-aware of the power of silence and hypnotic rhythm. The result, released in 1988, was the dense, elliptical Spirit of Eden, a record with a powerful mystique. Engineer Phill Brown, speaking to the Guardian in 2012, recalled “an endlessly blacked-out studio, an oil projector in the control room, strobe lighting and five 24-track tape-machines synced together. Twelve hours a day in the dark listening to the same six songs for eight months became pretty intense.”
Almost heroically uncommercial, the album horrified EMI, which saw its cash cow wandering over the hill to the abattoir. However, in the three decades since, its status as a post-rock landmark has grown. Selecting individual songs from an album designed as a unified, self-contained world seems almost perverse, but opening track The Rainbow is an imperious primer for the album’s signature blend of abrasive noise and intense beauty; silence, space and squall; and tidal shifts in tone and texture. The Rainbow begins as a muzzy fugue, lowing and keening, like a leviathan shaking itself from the depths, before a fierce guitar riff, slack-tuned drums and piercing harmonica pull it into focus. Lyrically, it hinges on a heinous legal injustice, Hollis intent on sounding “the victim’s song”."

Talk Talk - "I Believe In You" (1988) - timeless & celestial

"[Mark] Hollis and [Tim] Friese-Greene once brought in a 25-person choir to sing over “I Believe in You,” a brittle song touched with icy, crackling electric guitars that Hollis wrote in part about his older brother, the former punk rocker Ed Hollis, and his struggles with addiction. “I’ve seen heroin for myself,” Hollis sings, hugging the words, sounding like the vampiric inverse of Nina Simone. The anemic and honeyed quality of Hollis’ voice defines the sound of Talk Talk and Spirit of Eden, suspended in a fearful tenor octave like he’d drown if he sang any lower. On “I Believe In You,” when he lets the word “spirit” fall thinly out of his mouth, he defines the resonant frequency of a song that could never contain a 25-person choir. By all accounts, the chorus sounded incredible, moving the tea lady who worked at the studio to tears. The next morning, Hollis listened to the playback and told the engineer to erase the chorus completely. It was later replaced by the Choir of Chelmsford Cathedral, six cherubic boy sopranos."
(https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums...pirit-of-eden/)

[Esteban]

Jimi Hendrix (Band of Gypsys) - Machine Gun

[Esteban]

John Mellencamp - R.O.C.K. In The U.S.A.

[NealfromNZ]

Summer sounds down under

[JimmyJazz]

[T0RM3NT]

NF - The Search

[Esteban]

Badfinger - Day after Day

[M5Rick]

From the album Kihnspiracy.

[JimmyJazz]

[Esteban]

Sly & The Family Stone - Thank You

He names his own songs in the lyrics:

"Dance to the music
All night long
Everyday people
Sing a simple song"

"You can make it if you try"

This song really gets me going. Been played here before, will be played again.

[Llarry]

Monkees - Look Out (Here Comes Tomorrow) (1967)

[Llarry]

The Beatles - Words of Love

This song has been in my head for 59 years (and it is most welcome to stay.)

[JimmyJazz]

[M5Rick]

[QUOTE=Llarry;30858327]The Beatles - Words of Love

This song has been in my head for 59 years (and it is most welcome to stay.)



It's probably a good time to say this is arguably my fave from the Fab 4.
The album Beatles 1 is great and should be in everyones collection.

[M5Rick]

There are 27 songs on the album Llarry, the most out of all the Beatles albums as far as I know.
Hey Jude is another well liked one.

[Esteban]

The Staple Singers - I'll Take You There

[Llarry]

Sly & the Family Stone - I Want to Take You Higher

[Esteban]

Originally Posted by Llarry

Sly & the Family Stone - I Want to Take You Higher

Good one, Llarry. Nice to see someone else posting Sly & The Family Stone here.

[Llarry]

This one goes back as far as I can remember; my parents -- both smokers -- sent in proofs of purchase or something and got an LP record from one of the tobacco companies. On it was this Louis Armstrong tune. Many years later I learned that it had been recorded in 1929, during a brief period in which "Satchmo" had a big band. The trumpet work in this recording is incredible. Perhaps 25 years ago, I managed to find this recording on a CD, but 10-15 years ago I mishandled it putting it in or taking it out of the CD player and put a huge scratch in just the track I treasured. The CD is no longer available.

St. Louis Blues

[Esteban]

Originally Posted by Llarry

St. Louis Blues

I played trumpet when I was a teenager and was pretty good. Didn’t stay with it because someone nicked my trumpet from my school locker and that was it for me. Just lost interest after that.

Louis Armstrong was, and still is, one of my idols.

[floridaorange]