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Grateful Dead and other quality music, Theatre, Cinema, Good Food, Cats, Wild Birds, Mediaeval History, Rugby (particularly Edinburgh).
A new Scot in favour of an Independent Scotland. More likely to post cat pictures than anything else.
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The Tubes: "What Do You Want From Live"
Theatrical Rock, somewhere between, Prog, Punk and Pron (sic), that we at least got to see once live. Joyfully filthy. The RAG doing us proud. Happy Friday in troubled times.
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It feels essential to me, as we're all very much aware of the more consequential things.
And we need the contrasting joy of the trivial.
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My first adult content warning! Because I'm going to add the European version of the cover (not the US version).
UFO: "Force It" (1975), Michael Schenker's second album with the band, but hitting his stride here. One of the foundational albums for me, in the late 1970s.
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I suspect using a food processor speeds stuff up, but I just listen to music and chop.
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That 45 minutes: that's the chopping and adding the veg.
There's also prepping the marinade and chopping the meat then combining them, which is about 20 minutes, and much earlier, around lunchtime.
It's making it sound like a faff, which it really isn't, when you eventually taste the results.
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Ah well. The recipe I've posted involves a solid 45 minutes or so of prep (chopping, then adding, mostly) and then an hour plus of cooking, though I do tend to return to the kitchen to "check the sauce", which involves tasting the broth that develops on top. A lot. 😀
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Fair enough. We're always on the lookout for good curry recipes, hence the question.
Give the Felicity Cloake one that I recommended a go, if you're feeling up for an evening in the kitchen. It was a game changer for us.
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Onto tonight, after the conclusion of the Mudhoney CD.
A change of pace, again, back to 2018 and Yo La Tengo's "There's A Riot Going On".
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Looks good. Got a recipe / recommendations?
I'm going to recommend this one: A Vindaloo, but not as we know it: not necessarily hot, more a sweet and (vinegar) sour, dark, rich dish that we fall back to regularly:
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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Finally: Mudhoney: "Superfuzz Bigmuff (plus early singles)" (1989 or so), grunge with plenty of anger but more humour and less angst than Nirvana. We saw them both live on earlier tours, and reckoned that Mudhoney were better!
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Then, James: "All The Colours Of You" (2021), their COVID Lockdown album. I was particularly keen on the very odd and vivid track "Wherever It Takes Us". I also discovered that several tracks were wrongly labelled when I ripped it!
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A quick round-up of last night, where we managed three albums but I forgot to list them!
First, Abdullah Ibrahim, "Water from an Ancient Well", one of the jazz greats. Hadn't listened to this for a while.
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Thanks - not one of the JC albums that I have!
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Sadly, I think the last one is photoshopped... not blaming you, obviously. Here's why: the sign is in Edinburgh - it's an artwork dating back to 2007-2009.
I had been hoping that Johnny Cash had been to Edinburgh's Gallery Of Modern Art to see it...
www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-arti...
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Lambchop - Democracy (2012), a tour-only CD that we picked up at the time. Kurt and co. toured fairly heavily around this time, so we picked up a lot of these releases. It's been a fair few years since we've seen these guys, sadly.
Via the "Random Album Generator", BTW.
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Joe Zawinul - Zawinul (1970). The epitome of Jazz Fusion. If you've ever liked electric jazz, and wondered where to start, here is a good place. I started off with Zawinul's "Brown Street" (2006), on an overnight transatlantic flight in 2007. Either will do!
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We're now listening to Mogwai's "2018" live album. I forget between Mogwai gigs what an elemental force they are. I mean, I don't really, I KNOW how powerful they are, but when they hit anew after a few years away, and last night was extraordinary/
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So, there's been a bit of a gap. We were out with friends on Friday for a succulent Chinese Meal, then Saturday we saw Chuck Prophet with ¿Qiensave? in Newcastle, then last night we saw Mogwai finish off their European tour in Edinburgh.
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Fooding. Right.
Remind me never to Food.
I'll still eat, of course. That's different.
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Next! John Carpenter's "Lost Themes" (2014), bought after we saw him and his band in 2016. Previously, we had already got the "Assault on Precinct 13" soundtrack.
Mixes rock with classical minimalism and you do get the feel of scenes that this could have soundtracked.
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The original pulp book cover:
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This glorious bit of heavy rock: Raging Slab - "Dynamite Monster Boogie Concert" (1993). Not a live album, but inspired by a pulp book that I'll link to in a moment (1/2)
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A precursor to Led Zeppelin, dominated by Jimmy Page's guitar.
The Yardbirds: Live Yardbirds Featuring Jimmy Page (1968)
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Joyful listen to "Murmur", it's been too long. Onto the next one: Daft Punk - "Random Access Memories" (2013). Listened to a couple of times, then ignored. Why? It's delightful.
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Presumably this means that the Branch Office would try to remove all the off-peak fares and then tell an unhappy nation that expensive peak fares are "equality".
Please don't give them that opportunity.
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Edinburgh Playhouse, with the wonderful bonus of The Blue Aeroplanes supporting.
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Yeah, my stereos are ancient too, but still work and are linked to the computers (which have CD drives) , and everything is then ripped to the NAS which is networked so I can listen around the house.
Sorry about the reply gap, sleep intervened!
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I will not do AI. I'm so angry about a concept where lies are processed as truth. Don't get me into politics!
And the recursive loop annoyed me back when I did listen to Spotify (and still annoys me on YouTube etc.)
I still want to hear new stuff, so I still look around places once in a while.
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I have an aversion to Spotify. I use it occasionally to listen to stuff that I might want to buy, but otherwise, no.
I have Radio Paradise for the "cooking, want a mix" bit of my life.
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Which is just a marketing take... but also a truism, and the internal logic seems true.
As a Business Analyst, I learned process design, which annoyed me endlessly as I could see how so many businesses failed to apply it.
I imagine that being immersed in philosophy does something similar to you.
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And I still listen to a lot of Grateful Dead, and other stuff that either comes to mind, or gets triggered by Radio Paradise.
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For a while, I used the MediaMonkey random track selector to do this - but with ~230k tracks on the NAS, it was too random, and I'm old enough to want albums.
Good on you for thinking of that, I wish I had! The spreadsheet solution only came to me less than a month ago.
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And also this version.
The YouTube video shows the CD cover, with all 4 cover versions. All are excellent. So are the originals, but I would say that.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zW6z...
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It's making me to listen to stuff that I haven't listened to before, or for a while. Sharing it is kind of a diary for me, and hopefully not too much of an annoyance for everyone. Of course it's inevitably biased to my taste in music, but I had a look at your "24 for 2024" posts, and... we align!
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I just refreshed the spreadsheet, and it came up with... REM - "Murmur".
Like Death In Vegas - "Dead Elvis", it's one that I know from end to end. The list that it's choosing from has over 10,200 entries, so I'll take it. But the listening will happen tomorrow.
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Just to fill people in... the RAG = The Random Album Generator. So, we have a lot of albums on CD, ripped to a NAS, so we can play them throughout the house. We also have a spreadsheet the contains a list of our CDs. So I use the RAND() function to select from the list.
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Steve Earle is one of those artists that I have the bad habit of seeing live, then buying the latest album (and maybe some back catalogue as well), then NOT LISTENING TO IT!
The RAG has found Steve Earle: "Washington Square Serenade" (2007) to help rectify that.
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I've already liked the suggestion of Carrot below, but in Discworld, I'd think that the answer would be Vimes. Or maybe Brutha.
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So, the Random Album Generator has picked an old favourite that I know backwards, and love deeply:
Death In Vegas: "Dead Elvis" (1997)
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Parody account. Check the spelling.
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And just time, after the end of the Interpol CD, for the start of another one tonight.
The Jesus And Mary Chain: "Psychocandy Live Barrowlands" (2014).
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That Julian Cope and friends CD was really good, and will get a re-listen at some point. On to:
Interpol: "Marauder" (2016)
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Glad you enjoyed them! Maisie pretends to be put upon, but almost always gets her way. And I managed a relaxed moment with Mabel, so her eyes showed up!
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Yeah, I use Duck Duck Go as well. Pretty close on results, without the metallic aftertaste of regret.
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Deep into the randomness... this is all selected by an Excel random number generator looking at all the albums on the NAS. So:
Julian Cope: Cornucopea (Two South Bank Evenings with Julian Cope) (2000)
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And then... Howe Gelb: "'Sno Angel Like You".
I go back to 1992 for live gigs with Giant Sand. We missed the gig for this tour in 2006 or so, and haven't re-listened since.
This is a good one.
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We have tortie point Ragdoll / Siamese sisters - same litter, brought up together.
Maisie is an easy going, happy-go-lucky cat, albeit her character includes a core of steel (she usually gets her way in the end).
Mabel is 100% Tortie-tude. Almost impossible to photograph as she hates cameras!
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Next up: ZZ Top: "Tres Hombres (1973). Ages since I've listened to it, and even better than I remember.
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Obsolete.