What are we listening to right now..

[JRowland]

 

[Power Pop 23]

The New York Public Library has acquired the archives of Tom Verlaine who died in January 2023.

A NY Times article details the acquisition described as 'shockingly complete' in covering the active years of the band Television.

Not included in the acquisition were 72 amplifiers and 7,000 vacuum tubes.

Tom Verlaine Was a Mystery. His Archives Reveal More of His Story.

The Television frontman died in 2023, leaving behind boxes of music and notebooks that are now headed to the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

www.nytimes.com

 

[Rick63]

 

[JRowland]

 

[JRowland]

 

[olds1959special]

 

[Rick63]

Bonnie Raitt.

 

[Berwhale]

 

[JRowland]

 

[JRowland]

 

[JRowland]

 

[J. Lohmann]

 

[J. Lohmann]

RESPIN

SIDES 3 & 4

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[J. Lohmann]

 

[Brian Hall]

Beyond the Black's new album just released. I bought the download version in flac from Bandcamp.com and I'm listening to it now from my Plex server.

Spotify link to the album:

 

[izeek]

RESPIN

SIDES 3 & 4

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not on that lp but summer madness is m6 absolute no.1 fave.

 

[izeek]

https://tidal.com/browse/track/448849469?u

 

[J. Lohmann]

not on that lp but summer madness is m6 absolute no.1 fave.

Absolutely -- can't understand how they didn't include that here. After all, it was the basis for so many songs, including Fresh Prince and Jazzy Jeff's "Summertime."

There were actually a lot of mistakes by Music on Vinyl here with this collection, and I've expressed it on other forums -- where's "Misled," "Tonight" and "Stone Love"? What about "Hi Di Hi, Hi Di Ho," for that matter? These are some of their BEST songs. Instead of the mostly unrecognizable instrumental funk from their beginnings they included on side one, there could have been many other songs included -- and they even threw on a Spanish version of "Celebration" as the very last track, which was TOTALLY unnecessary.

Another odd inclusion was a weird remix of what is one of the best songs from their Forever album, "Peacemaker" -- the remix here sucks the life out of the song.

I don't understand who made the decisions regarding track selection here, but it clearly wasn't aimed at a U.S. audience (at least from the first LP's perspective); from what I understand, this was a European pressing by Music on Vinyl, so it was probably including what was big over there by the group.

There has been a domestic U.S. vinyl (and CD) release of their Greatest Hits recently, in celebration of their anniversary, and it's a new comp that was put together outside of previous collections that have come and gone, but it's a cheap cash grab with a VERY neutered track listing. SO many great songs are missing, a compromise I guess they had to make because it was a single slab of vinyl.

To this day, the definitive Best Of (IMO) for this seminal act remains this CD, which I own:

However, even THIS is missing "Stone Love," an awesome track off of Forever...I don't know why this never made it to any of their comps.

 

[JRowland]

 

[izeek]

Absolutely -- can't understand how they didn't include that here. After all, it was the basis for so many songs, including Fresh Prince and Jazzy Jeff's "Summertime."

There were actually a lot of mistakes by Music on Vinyl here with this collection, and I've expressed it on other forums -- where's "Misled," "Tonight" and "Stone Love"? What about "Hi Di Hi, Hi Di Ho," for that matter? These are some of their BEST songs. Instead of the mostly unrecognizable instrumental funk from their beginnings they included on side one, there could have been many other songs included -- and they even threw on a Spanish version of "Celebration" as the very last track, which was TOTALLY unnecessary.

Another odd inclusion was a weird remix of what is one of the best songs from their Forever album, "Peacemaker" -- the remix here sucks the life out of the song.

I don't understand who made the decisions regarding track selection here, but it clearly wasn't aimed at a U.S. audience (at least from the first LP's perspective); from what I understand, this was a European pressing by Music on Vinyl, so it was probably including what was big over there by the group.

There has been a domestic U.S. vinyl (and CD) release of their Greatest Hits recently, in celebration of their anniversary, and it's a new comp that was put together outside of previous collections that have come and gone, but it's a cheap cash grab with a VERY neutered track listing. SO many great songs are missing, a compromise I guess they had to make because it was a single slab of vinyl.

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To this day, the definitive Best Of (IMO) for this seminal act remains this CD, which I own:

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However, even THIS is missing "Stone Love," an awesome track off of Forever...I don't know why this never made it to any of their comps.

yea, money-grabbing.