Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2017 Vol 30

Another eclectic 30 track, 120 minute selection from Mr CBQ. There's a new Alice Cooper LP out, so, of course, that's in; another trawl through 500 years of classical music; jazz from The Bad Plus and connected parties; ambience and strange; Lana Del Rey; live King Crimson; some Eno; and some strange covers, including the loudest ever version of Lucy in the Sky...

Featured recordings:-

10cc - I'm Not In Love: The Essential 10cc

Alice Cooper - Paranormal

Boccherini - Cello Concertos & Sonatas

Brandon Flowers - The Desired Effect

Brian Eno - Thursday Afternoon

BT - This Binary Universe

Byrd - Masses For 3, 4 & 5 Voices

Carter - Oboe Concerto; Penthode etc

David Reilly - Rubinmusik 1977-2017

Dowland - Lacrimae, Or Seaven Teares

Feldman - Music For Cello

Haydn - Doric String Quartet - Wigmore Hall Live

Heinichen - Concerti Grandi

Janacek - Piano Sonata 1.X.1905 -- In The Mists -- On The Overgrown Path Series I

King Crimson - 2017 Tour 

Lana Del Rey - The Singles Collection

Locke - The Broken Consort

Marketa Irglova - Anar

Orrin Evans - Meant To Shine

Roedelius, Chaplin & Heath - Triptych in Blue

She & Him - Volume Two

Stacey Kent - Raconte-Moi...

Strauss, R - Chamber Suites Op 60, Duets, Sextet

The Bad Plus - It's Hard

The Bad Plus - Made Possible

The Flaming Lips - With A Little Help From My Fwends

Various - Lust For Life

Various - The Wire Tapper 33

Hope you (a) enjoy and will (b) pop by for more next week (c) check past editions (d) leave comments and (e) etc etc

Cheers!

Return of the Coop (pt 27)...

Playlist

Vanilla Fudge - Then And Now

Various - Botchit Breaks 2

Lana Del Rey - The Singles Collection

Brian Eno - Thursday Afternoon

Byrd - Masses For 3, 4 & 5 Voices

Dowland - Lacrimae, Or Seaven Teares

Locke - The Broken Consort

Heinichen - Concerti Grandi

Boccherini - Cello Concertos & Sonatas

Haydn - Doric String Quartet - Wigmore Hall Live

Janacek - Piano Sonata 1.X.1905 -- In The Mists -- On The Overgrown Path Series I

Strauss, R - Chamber Suites Op 60, Duets, Sextet

Feldman - Music For Cello

Carter - Oboe Concerto; Penthode etc

King Crimson - 2017 Tour

BT - This Binary Universe

She & Him - Volume Two

Various - The Wire Tapper 33

Marketa Irglova - Anar

Stacey Kent - Raconte-Moi...

The Bad Plus - It's Hard

Orrin Evans - Meant To Shine

The Bad Plus - Made Possible

Madredeus - Capricho Sentimental

Roger Waters - Is This The Life We Really Want?

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Rubinmusik 1977-2017

Brandon Flowers - The Desired Effect

The Flaming Lips - With A Little Help From My Fwends

Various - Lust For Life

Roedelius, Chaplin & Heath - Triptych in Blue

Alice Cooper - Paranormal

New Alice Cooper album was out today so, to Fopp at lunchtime and secured...

There are very few artists whose new LP I will acquire on the day of release...

My biased view is that it rocks and is quite excellent - two tracks added to tomorrow's podcast...

The Coop will bookend the show, notes for which were made for and links recorded for this evening...

Meanwhile, Tiger visited again...

He did not have an ulterior motive...

...other than sourcing some goody drops...

The evening was spent listening to Alice Cooper...

It's what you do when you get a new Alice Cooper LP...

Also, some reading about Glenn Gould...

Let's just throw that in there...

Highlight of the Day : New Alice Cooper album released...

Cheeky wee cat visitors and rare joint listening situations can be good...

Playlist

Santana - Carnaval: The Best Of Santana

King Crimson - 2017 Tour

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - The Emperor

Orion Tango - Orion Tango

The Weeknd - Beauty Behind The Madness

Adele - 25

Marketa Irglova - Anar

She & Him - Volume One

Marketa Irglova - Anar

Stacey Kent - Raconte-Moi...

Byrd - Masses For 3, 4 & 5 Voices

Dowland - Lacrimae, Or Seaven Teares

Locke - The Broken Consort

Heinichen - Concerti Grandi

Boccherini - Cello Concertos & Sonatas

Haydn - Doric String Quartet - Wigmore Hall Live

Janacek - Piano Sonata 1.X.1905 -- In The Mists -- On The Overgrown Path Series I

Strauss, R - Chamber Suites Op 60, Duets, Sextet

Feldman - Music For Cello

Carter - Oboe Concerto; Penthode etc

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Rubinmusik 1977-2017

Brandon Flowers - The Desired Effect

Lana Del Rey - The Singles Collection

A welcome wee visitor this morning...

Tiger the Cat, making himself very much at home....

Nothing to report other than that a trip to the BHF shop resulted in the purchase of three CDs at £2 each - see below...

Cloudy but interesting on the way home...

Listening to the short listed tracks for the podcast as the rain started to pelt down...

Home, just in time to avoid a soaking...

The birds were enjoying their tea as we enjoyed some home made soup...

In the evening, we watched Scotland v Spain in the Women's Euro Championship (Scotland won 1-0 but Spain went through - Scotland needed to win 2-0 - same old story) with the sound down - which is, of course, the best way to watch footie on the TV...

Whilst doing so, we chatted and, in a rare joint listening session, took in today's new acquisitions in the living room, which included about to become pianist in the Bad Plus, Orrin Evan's disc from 2002...

...the second disc by "New Girl" star Zooey Deschanel's She & Him...



...Czech singer-songwriter Marketa Irglova's debut - which, it seems, I must have borrowed from somewhere, as I found it was already on the hard drive when I went to rip it...

...and, finally, this Blue Note disc of American singer Stacey Kent, sung entirely in French - which is probably what makes it good...

Of course these now had to be added to the playlist for this week's podcast and so some juggling of tracks took place...

Late on, two episodes of the previously referred to "New Girl" as it heads to its double episode series conclusion next week - this has been one of its best seasons since it started back in 2011...

Lights out...

Highlight of the Day : Listening to music with Anne...

Compiling and a leaf...

Playlist

Asia - Phoenix

Alice Cooper - Along Came A Spider

Albinoni - 12 Concertos, Op. 10 1-6

Schoenberg - Works For Piano

Dowland - Lacrimae, Or Seaven Teares

Byrd - Masses For 3, 4 & 5 Voices

Heinichen - Concerti Grandi

Adrian Belew - Belew Prints: The Acoustic Adrian Belew Volume Two

Rush - Counterparts

Don Henley - Inside Job

Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - The Quality Of Mercy

King Crimson - Three of a Perfect Pair

Hawkwind - Electric Tepee

Torgeir Waldemar - No Offending Borders

David Bowie - Let's Dance

Thomas Dolby - The Golden Age Of Wireless

David Bowie - David Live

The Clash - Sandinista!

Michael Brook - Hybrid

Moby - Hotel

The Cure - Disintegration

Roxy Music - Heart Still Beating

Laura Pausini - From The Inside

Laurie Anderson - United States Live

James - Millionaires

David Bowie - Heathen

Pet Shop Boys - Nightlife

Kiss - Destroyer

Metheny/Mehldau - Metheny Mehldau

Ladytron - Light & Magic

Bryan Ferry - Dylanesque

The Blue Nile - Peace At Last

Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel II

No-Man - Returning Jesus

Sparks - Hello Young Lovers

Jon Anderson - Olias Of Sunhillow

Spock's Beard - Spock's Beard

Be Bop Deluxe - Drastic Plastic

Scars - Author! Author!

Roger Waters - Radio KAOS

Emerson Lake & Palmer - In The Hot Seat

Pet Shop Boys - Disco

The Bad Plus - It's Hard

Brandon Flowers - The Desired Effect

The Flaming Lips - With A Little Help From My Fwends

Listening today comprised, once again, LPs purchased in year of release - plus classical music over the last 500 years and, in the evening, with Anne out at Zumba, the shortlisted tracks for Saturday's podcast (which I'm now recording as I write this up)....

On the hill, a fine leaf on the way home - which looks its best upside down, it seems...

TV highlight this evening was "The Windsors"...

Lights out...

Highlight of the day : Compiling...

When you think no-one was as daft as you but they were....

Playlist

The Cure - The Cure

Craig Armstrong - Piano Works

Elton John - Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy

Madredeus - Faluas Do Tejo

The Flower Kings - Paradox Hotel

BT - This Binary Universe

More listening to LPs bought in the year of release again today...

On the Twitter, journalist and writer Mark Paytress was posting up old lists of "charts" from the 70's...

So other people did that too?

Here are my top 30 LPs from this week in 1975, Elton John at No 1....

...and (for some reason, just) my top ten singles - Ian Hunter at No 1...

On telly this evening "In The Dark" moved on in an unexpected fashion and is really rather good...

As was, of course, "Holby City", as it took us up to midnight and bedtime...

Highlight of the Day : Looking at my old charts....

Sometimes it is enough that the sky is blue....

Playlist

The Bad Plus - Suspicious Activity?

The Bad Plus - Never Stop

The Bad Plus - Give

The Bad Plus - It's Hard

The Bad Plus - These Are The Vistas (European Edition)

The Bad Plus/Joshua Redman - The Bad Plus Joshua Redman

The Bad Plus - Made Possible

Mark Hollis - Mark Hollis

Jason Falkner - Can You Still Feel ?

King Crimson - The ConstruKction Of Light

Lucy Kaplansky - Every Single Day

Mott The Hoople - All The Young Dudes

Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies

T Rex - Zinc Alloy and the Hidden Riders of Tomorrow

Del Amitri - Can You Do Me Good?

Lasgo - Some Things

Avril Lavigne - Let Go

Alice Peacock - Alice Peacock

Source Direct - Exorcise The Demons

King Crimson - 2017 Tour 

Alice Cooper - The Eyes Of Alice Cooper

A beautiful, Bad Plus-soundtracked morning...

The beast was about its business on Crispycat Hill...

..which included taking photos ofdiscarded  objects on the pavement...

...and unflattering self-portraits...

At lunchtime a walk to the post office to return goosed headphones, already kindly replaced under guarantee...

Home with the weather holding up...

New 20 MPH limit signs are up everywhere and, for the most part being ignored...

Keeps the sign people in business though...

"University Challenge" was good - we weren't quite as on fire as last week but weren't too far behind Trinity College Cambridge who were, in turn, thrashed comprehensively by Bristol...

That was it, I think...

Highlight of the Day : The weather...

Not bad, good...

Playlist

Various - This Is...The Front Line

Alice Cooper - Lace And Whiskey

Roxy Music - Avalon

Adrian Belew - Lone Rhino

Talking Heads - Remain In Light

Bad Company - Straight Shooter

Falco - Nachtflug

Chris Rea - Dancing With Strangers

Television - Adventure

Jon Anderson - Change We Must

Talking Heads - Blind [Single]

Brian Eno - On Land

Scars - Author! Author!

Suzanne Vega - Days of Open Hand

Brian Eno - Music For Films 3

Robert Fripp - November Suite: 1996 Soundscapes - Live at Green Park Station

Brian Eno & Harold Budd - The Pearl

Falco - Emotional

New Order - Movement

Ultravox! - Systems Of Romance

King Crimson - Three of a Perfect Pair

Belinda Carlisle - Real

The Bad Plus - It's Hard

The Bad Plus - Prog

Ornette Coleman - The Complete Science Fiction Sessions

Ark - Burn the Sun

Medal - Drop Your Weapon

Alice Cooper - The Life And Crimes Of Alice Cooper (Rarities)

The Tubes - Young and Rich
The BAd Plus - 2017 Edinburgh Setlist

Up probably too early and listening to music from LPs I bought in the year of release - a new project I've undertaken (in fact doing this has eaten into the time I usually set aside to writing this blog - hence the lack of posts this week - it's next Saturday as I update this)...

In the garden next door, the family who used to live there has been gone for over 10 months - the young guys who live there now do nothing in the garden - hence this left behind plastic thing lies exactly where it was left by a departing child over 44 weeks ago....

Out for brunch to Badger & Co...

...with a lovely lady...

Tasty coffee...

Smashed Avocados and Poached Eggs on toast for her...

Smoked Salmon Scrambled Eggs on Toast for me...

Back home and more identification of LPs bought in the year of release...

Met with Dr Prog at 4 at the new Rose Theatre for a late afternoon/early evening performance by one of my fave groups, The Bad Plus...

90 minutes of excellence - and goodbye to pianist Ethan Iverson, who will leave at the end of 2017...

End of an era - but a new LP with Orrin Evans will be recorded in the autumn for release in Spring 2018...

I look forward to this new beginning...

Home and a relaxing evening, post just too many chips for any normal person to be able to eat, from the local fish and chip emporium...

Some telly, some listening, some compiling of a playlist of the Bad Plus' set and to bed, weekend over...

Highlight of the day : Out for breakfast / The Bad Plus....