Getting geared up to see Stereolab in October... it promises to be an exciting fall, what with Ringo in September (after the bitter disappointment of the tour postponement of this month due to covid... hope they're all okay....)... I have always had mixed feelings about recordings of Prince live... they're often short on substance and long on flash and "put your hands together"-style exhortations... in that respect, the new Prince & the Revolution Live is better than most... the band is super-tight, and Prince avoids his usual modus operandi of treating so many songs as medleys, but there's still the annoyances of having the audience sing as loud as the band (they totally ruin "Purple Rain" for me by singing the ending melody, really loudly, at the beginning of the song... c'mon....) and of Prince doing that annoying, high-pitched "ooh-hoo ooh-hoo" thing he seemed to be so fond of... but the guitar playing is brilliant throughout and we get fully-fleshed versions of every song from Purple Rain...
Playlist 2022-06-27:*Souren Baronian: The Middle Eastern Soul of Carlee Records (discs 1, 2)
*Tim Berne's Snakeoil: The Deceptive 4 (Live) (disc 2) "Spare/Cittá"
*Paul Bley: Annette
*Anthony Braxton: Trillium E (disc 3) "Act 3, Part 1"
*Coheed and Cambria: The Second Stage Turbine Blade
*Coheed and Cambria: In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3
*Rodger Coleman/Sam Byrd: Who Doesn't Fade? "Who Doesn't Fade?"
*John Coltrane: A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle
*Deerhoof: Actually, You Can
*Deerhoof: Devil Kids
*Funkadelic: One Nation Under a Groove: The Mixes
*Jimmy Giuffre: Free Fall
*Julius Hemphill: Dogon A.D.
*Andrew Hill: Mosaic Select (disc 2)
*Irreversible Entanglements: Open the Gates
*Percy Jones/Alex Skolnick/Kenny Grohowski/Tim Motzer: PAKT (disc 1)
*King Crimson: Larks' Tongues in Aspic (2012 Wilson/Fripp mix)
*King Crimson: Starless (disc 18)
*Lata Mangeshkar: The Golden Voice of Lata Mangeshkar
*Myra Melford's Happy Whistlings: 2010-04-09 New Haven CT (CDR) (disc 2)
*Roscoe Mitchell Sound Ensemble: Live in Detroit "Snurdy McGurdy and Her Dancing Shoes/Spirits Among Stones"
*Hank Mobley: The Complete Hank Mobley Blue Note Sessions 1963-70 (disc 6)
*Prince: Prince and the Revolution Live (discs 1, 2)
*Sparks: Propaganda
*Stereolab: Emperor Tomato Ketchup
*Stereolab: Dots and Loops
*Stereolab: Serene Velocity: A Stereolab Anthology
*Sun Ra: Intergalactic Research (The Lost Reels Collection Vol. 2)
*Sunn O))): Kannon
*Cecil Taylor Big Band: 1995-07-03 NYC (CDR) (disc 2)
*Tool: Lateralus
*White Stripes: Elephant
*John Zorn: The Big Gundown
*John Zorn: Bagatelles Vol. 6: Brian Marsella Trio
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