Cloudland Blue Quartet - Morphinecodex
Various Composers - 50 Best Chamber Music
Weather Report - Tale Spinnin'
Weather Report - Forecast : Tomorrow
Weather Report - Weather Report (1982)
Musica Solare - Musik Für Johann Wilhelm Von Der Pfalz
Marc Almond - Stardom Road
Maintz - Edition Zeitgenössische Musik: Philipp Maintz
Concentus Musicus Wien - Komödiantische Musik des Barock
Alice Cooper - The Life And Crimes Of Alice Cooper
Elvis Presley - Elvis Presley
Miles Davis - The Complete Birth Of The Cool
Count Basie - The Complete Atomic Basie
Thelonious Monk - Thelonious Monk Box Set
Dave Brubeck - Time Out
Cat Stevens - Teaser And The Firecat
Mott the Hoople - Brain Capers
Various - 100 Huge Hits Of Reggae
Sweet - Ballroom Blitz
Darrell Banks - Open the Door to Your Heart (Single)
Soft Cell - The Hits (1)
Soft Cell - Say Hello To Soft Cell
The Move - Message from the Country
Mott the Hoople - Mott the Hoople
Japan - Gentlemen Take Polaroids
Andy MacKay - In Search Of Eddie Riff
Barry White - The Collection
Belinda Carlisle - Live Your Life Be Free
Ringo Starr - The Beatles Solo Singles 1969-1975
The Blue Nile - Rarities 1984-1996
Paul McCartney - Ram
John Lennon - Walls And Bridges
George Harrison - The Best Of George Harrison
Brian Eno - Another Day on Earth
Can - Future Days
CCS - A's B's And Rarities
Chicago - Chicago V
Various - Ronco's 20 Star Tracks Vol 1
A large playlist today but, to be honest, the majority of the titles, certainly post the first nine listed, received plays for just one or two tracks...
Early doors though, as I made yet another futile attempt to tidy stuff up, Weather Report was very much enjoyed...
And the whole of these three albums were aired - they popped through the letter box today...
Yum...
Elsewhere, despite trying very hard indeed to think of one, I do not think I've seen a worse film than the one we watched today - "The Darjeeling Limited"...
In the evening, Anne was off to Zumba while I continued with some kind of random listening...
Meanwhile, here are some stats re my weekly playlists, my having uploaded 50 of these now so far this year...
I have featured over 1,350 tracks by around 750 different artists or composers, of whom around 500 have been featured only once...
100 have been featured 3 or more times with fewer than 40 breaching a total of 5 appearances...
Rather inevitably, since this is my blog and these are my playlist selections, Cloudland Blue Quartet tops the list of appearances by a country mile, with a whopping 61...
Second equal are my all time faves Alice Cooper and King Crimson with 21 each, followed closely by David Bowie on 19...
Next, J S Bach with 12 appearances, who just pipped prog rockers Yes who are on 11 and fave jazzers, The Bad Plus, on 9...
It seems my bias has filtered through as the next four, all on 8 plays are Gentle Giant, Brian Eno and the rather less fashionable Tangerine Dream and Uriah Heep...
On 7 we have the unlikely pairing of Elvis Presley and Schubert along with two of my bands Capital Models and Creek - nothing like blowing your own trumpet...
On 6, my dearly departed old chum James Jamieson (pretty good going considering he only ever recorded one LP) is in good company with Paul McCartney, Pink Floyd, The Velvet Underground, fave Italian songstress Laura Pausini, new discovery Priscilla Ahn and classical composers Hindemith, Scelsi and Max Richter...
Finally, 14 artists or composers have managed 5 appearances each so far - these include relatively recent discoveries Badbadnotgood, Max Jury, The Samuel Jackson Five and Thomas Köner, old stalwarts Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music (five apiece), Isaac Hayes, Jethro Tull, John Cale, Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel and best Canadian band ever, Rheostatics - with classical representation from Beethoven, Shostakovich and Feldman...
So there you have it...
Oh, also tried to recreate this various artists LP on the Ronco label, which I used to own in the early 70s...
Much of the music is "not great"...
This is how I waste my time...
Anyway, lights out...
Highlight of the Day : New music...
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