What are you listening to?

Magenta - Live at Real World CD and DVD - trying not to spot myself in the crowd scenes!

Andy

Back to my top 100 (or so) this week - but lots of meetings so not as many albums. A few movers in my list - not sure when Home's first has slipped down - better have another listen! And I tend to forget how good Meddle is until I listen to it again. For any of you that haven't heard them, give the first Starcastle album a go (Yes/ELP ish) and the Strawbs (Hero & Herione), for rockier stuff try Saigon Kick's first or the Pleasure Bombs

Ten Years After - Recorded Live
Allman Brothers - Live At Filmore East
Pink Floyd - Meddle ~39~
Extreme - Pornograffitti ~71~
Yes - Yes ~74~
Mostly Autumn - Glass Shadows ~75~
Starcastle - Starcastle ~84~
Touchstone - Wintercoast ~87~
Alannah Myles - Alannah Myles ~88~
Kingdom Come - Kingdom Come ~88~
Saigon Kick - Saigon Kick ~91~
Karnataka - Delicate Flame Of Desire ~92~
Whitesnake - 1987 ~93~
Lone Star - Firing On All Six ~93~
Strawbs - Hero And Heroine ~95~
Pleasure Bombs - Days Of Heaven ~99~
Emerson Lake And Palmer - Works Volume 2 ~109~
Aerosmith - Permanent Vacation ~120~
Rick Wakeman - The Six Wives Of Henry VIII ~122~
Home - Home ~130~
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II ~150~
Aerosmith - Pump ~157~
Thunder - Laughing On Judgement Day ~200~

Muse - The Resistance
Muse - Absolution
Kinks - Misfits
Kinks - Preservation II
Small Faces- Small Faces
The Beatles - Abbey Road

Ian Hunters Man overboard, and the new ones from Iron Maiden, Ozzy Osbourne, Robert Plant, Skunk Anansie, Buckcherry and the Black Crowes. I forgot Alter Bridge

Not sure how this happened, but I've been getting in the mood for Chantel's gig tonight by listening to a couple of Sabbath albums. Never Say Die & Heaven And Hell, always been my fave two Sabbath albums. Haven't played them for years, and they sounded great.

Today

Let it Be naked - The Beatles

Quiet week, but started on the live albums!:

Alice Cooper - The Alice Cooper Show
Amon Duul II - Live In London
Allman Brothers - Live At Filmore East
All About Eve - Live In Concert - Glastonbury 89
Aerosmith - Live! Bootleg
Queen - Queen ~96~
Mostly Autumn - For All We Shared ~100~
Deep Purple - Come Taste The Band ~142~
Uriah Heep - Look At Yourself ~205~

Greenslade - Time and tide (over and over)

Latest MA offering GWDH - some great riffs here and there
More Josh & Co than recent MA but with a nice sprinkling of Mr Donockley thrown in
Andy

I've listened to it twice today too. HHmmm. Sort of what I was expecting, but not quite! I was expecting it to be a lot rockier, but it's more indie-rock than classic rock to my mind.

When I heard nearly half of it for the first time on Sunday (live, at Progbury), I found it a lot to take in in one hit (partly cos I wasn't expecting a set of virtually all new material and partly because where i was the sound was a bit unbalanced). So it was hard to say what I thought (even when Bryan asked).

I have to say it's growing... I liked Deep In Borrowdale and Hold the Sun most, live. On the album it's still Deep In Borrowdale, but the title track sounds a lot better now too. I suspect that's familiarity in part. So I'll give it a couple of days and then listen again....

Jethro Tull - Thick as a brick
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Roxy Music - Early Years (compilation)
Curved Air - Reborn (twice!)
Ten Years After - Recorded live
Rory Gallagher - Live in Europe
Rory Gallagher - Stagestruck
Alan Davey - ? (one Chris played!)

listened to all of my Sisters of Mercy collection and some Jump and Roxy Music

Seeing them last week has inspired me to listen to my Wishbone Ash CDs, as well as some more Jump.

3 wonderful 'guitar' albums on heavy rotation in the Rowen household.

Jeff Beck: 'Emotion and Commotion' a control of the instrument like no other. Plus fantastic vocal peformances by Joss Stone and Imelda May

Peter Frampton: 'Fingerprints' totally instrumental and Grammy winner, ace.

Lee Ritenour: 'Six String Theory' which features BB King, George Benson, Slash, John Scofield, Steve Lukather, Vince Gill, Pat Martino, Mike Stern, Neal Schon, Robert Cray, Keb' Mo', Taj Majal, Jonny Lang, Joe Bonamassa, Andy McKee and Guthrie Govan to name but a few. Guitarnirvana!

The new Secrets album - floyd-tastic

I seem to have been working too much recently - getting ready before the great adventure (try listening to the firtst few lines of Deep In Borrowdale!!). But here's my last post in the UK...

Annie Haslam - Under Brazilian Skies
Mostly Autumn - Go Well Diamond Heart
Mostly Autumn - Go Well Diamond Heart (Bonus Disk)
Steve Hackett - Spectral Mornings
Blackmore's Night - Past Times With Good Company
Badger - One Live Badger
Asia - Enso Kai
Barclay James Harvest - Live
Asia - Live At Liverpool Academy
Argent - High Voltage Festival 2010
AC/DC - Live
Blue Oyster Cult - Live 1976
Argent - Encore
Atlantis - Live
Be-Bop Deluxe - Radioland - Radio 1 Live In Concert
Black Sabbath - Death Riders
Blackfoot - Highway Song Live
Blue Horses - The Live Album
Blue Oyster Cult - Extra Terrestrial Live
Almighty - Live From Donington 1992
Ashton And Lord - First Of The Big Bands

Been listening to and watching DVDs of All About Eve, Mostly Autumn and Arena. And listening to Kansas, Joanne Shaw Taylor, Kaipa, Cheap Trick, Jump and The Strawbs.

I think, for the first time in ages (longer ythan I can remember) I have gone virtually a week with no music at all. At least, since being in the US anyway. Listened to the BS Live album on the flight over...

Voodoo Six, Esoterica, Scorpions, Magnum, Karnataka, Ramones and The Secrets.

Finally I'm back! I've ggot some speakers on my laptop - music!!! So this week it's live albums:

Brinsley Schwarz - Greasy Truckers Live At The Roundhouse
Curved Air - Alive 1990
Cheap Trick - At The Budokan
Caravan - Caravan And The New Symphonia
Camel - Greasy Truckers Live At Dingwalls
Bachman Turner Overdrive - Live Live Live
Blue Oyster Cult - On Your Feet Or On Your Knees
Breathing Space - Below The Radar Live
David Bowie - David Live
Colosseum - Live
Commander Cody & Lost Planet Airmen - Live From Deep In The Heart Of Texas
Cream - Live Cream
Cream - Live Cream Vol II
Deep Purple - Nobody's Perfect
Diamond Head - Live At Reading '82
Emerson Lake And Palmer - Live
Blue Oyster Cult - Some Enchanted Evening
Bob Seger And The Silver Bullet Band - Nine Tonight

Twelfth Night - MMX
Touchstone - Wintercoast
Deep Purple - Come Taste The Band (their best studio album)

Hhhmm... Come taste the band is vastly underrated but perhaps there are better ones? Not that they've ever really done a bad album! Anyway, I've been on the live albums again last week:

Deep Purple - Made In Japan ~3~
Genesis - Three Sides Live ~14~
Emerson Lake And Palmer - Then And Now ~15~
Deep Purple - Made In Europe ~16~
Focus - At The Rainbow ~20~
Deep Purple - Deep Purple In Concert ~27~
Global Village Trucking Company - Greasy Truckers Live At Dingwalls ~38~
Deep Purple - Last Concert In Japan ~43~
Emerson Lake And Palmer - American Tour 1972 ~46~
Flower Kings - Alive On Planet Earth ~52~
Eric Clapton - Live In America ~55~
Hawkwind - Live 1979 ~58~
Gathering - How To Measure A Planet ~59~
Golden Earring - Live ~60~
Gillan - Live At Reading 1980 ~66~
Free - Live ~72~
Grand Funk Railroad - Live Album ~82~
Gong - Greasy Truckers Live At Dingwalls ~92~

Loads of stuff by Scorpions, Chickenfoot, Enuff Z Nuff, The Gathering, Pink Floyd, Iron Maiden, Uriah Heep, Rush, Winter in Eden, Breathing Space, The Faces and many others i can't remember.

ColinCamel wrote:

Loads of stuff by Scorpions, Chickenfoot, Enuff Z Nuff, The Gathering, Pink Floyd, Iron Maiden, Uriah Heep, Rush, Winter in Eden, Breathing Space, The Faces and many others i can't remember.

I've wondered about getting the Chickenfoot album - is it actually any good? Did it live up to the hype? In fact, will I like it?

I am listening too the superb live return of Horslips at the o2.Great to hear such music played again.Hope to catch a gig soon.