What rock music are you listening to? Non-Jazz, Non-Classical.

[ghost of miles]

This album, which came out just a little over a year ago, was a godsend for me. I’m a longtime fan of early Oasis (the first three albums and assorted b-sides, definitely the band’s “imperial phase,” as the saying goes) and the Stone Roses, so hearing Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher and Roses guitarist John Squire together is a joy. 

 

[BFrank]

On 4/5/2025 at 11:03 AM, Aggie87 said:

Well, I like it when I listen to it, but after it's over there's not much I recall musically.  A few bits and pieces recall earlier SW music, even a little earlier PT.   It's pleasant enough, and better than the last one  (Harmony Codex) IMO.  I've probably spun it 5-6 times now since it came out, maybe it will grow on me more over time.

I'm still more a PT fan than a SW fan, though I'll always give him credit for exploring and not sitting still.

OK - Thanks!

On 4/5/2025 at 3:20 PM, ghost of miles said:

This album, which came out just a little over a year ago, was a godsend for me. I’m a longtime fan of early Oasis (the first three albums and assorted b-sides, definitely the band’s “imperial phase,” as the saying goes) and the Stone Roses, so hearing Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher and Roses guitarist John Squire together is a joy. 

 

I really wanted to like this, but I listened to it a few times and was disappointed. Maybe I'll give it another shot.

[mikeweil]

Listened through a selection of Steely Dan, from this box set, as I have an opportunity to play a gig or two with a Steely Dan cover band in October. 

[HutchFan]

35 minutes ago, mikeweil said:

Listened through a selection of Steely Dan, from this box set, as I have an opportunity to play a gig or two with a Steely Dan cover band in October. 

Fun!   

 

[JSngry]

Get your Steve Gadd chops together!

[mikeweil]

I'm not the drummer. I will be the percussionist. Playing Victor Feldman's conga licks on "Do It Again".

[gvopedz]

Anoushka

 

[JSngry]

 

[danasgoodstuff]

Fleetwood Mac, Mission Bell, same song but so different - a whole different world really

Donnie Brooks

[jlhoots]

Exploding Trees & Airplane Screams: Patterson Hood

[danasgoodstuff]

 

Breaking rocks in the hot sun...

[JSngry]

 

[JSngry]

 

Weirder than weird...

[Kevin Bresnahan]

David Binney - In The Arms Of Light (Diese Onze) Ambient stuff that I like to veg out to on occasion.

[BFrank]

Haven't listened to this in a long time. Ex-Beefheart musicians, with Sam Galpin on vocals (sort of a cross between Beefheart and Lowell George). Mallard released 2 albums in the mid-70s. Worth tracking down!

[JSngry]

Not cheap, LOUD 

[JSngry]

 

[BFrank]

[Aggie87]

11 hours ago, BFrank said:

I wish this had resulted in a full-blown, ongoing Japan reunion.  

 

np:  Cowboy Junkies - Songs of the Recollection

[jazzbo]

Yes “Tales of Topographic Oceans” Atlantic 2 LP, LP 1

I have a long history with this 2 LP set. I was in a band with a great guitar player that I had spent a year beforehand just jamming with and helping him work out his original songs and favorite covers. We were blues guys who had that as our bedrock, but when he launched the band he wanted to branch out into more rock territory. Before he had urged me into a Mitch Mitchell style, and I had been practicing to Kenny Clarke and Jack DeJohnette drumming and shifted some of that into my “style.” All of a sudden he asked me to study this Yes release because he thought he and I both needed to “reign in our busy playing” and he also liked how Alan White had a bit more of a laid back “feel” and how he structured the drum patterns for each segment of these long full-side recordings. I liked Yes, but I was mourning the departure of Bill Buford, and I didn’t “get” what my friend was after for a while. I made tapes of the four sides here and did practice to them, and listen to them over and over and then tried a new approach in practices and what I thought was not a great idea at first became a good thing for us.

And then the bass player quit. The first bass player that quit. It seemed with this band every time we would get “there” and get a gig someone LEFT. Sigh. That was a long time ago!

My vinyl playback is the best it’s ever been and I’m enjoying revisiting this music and hearing it so well reproduced.

[JSngry]

16 minutes ago, jazzbo said:

Yes “Tales of Topographic Oceans” Atlantic 2 LP, LP 1

I have a long history with this 2 LP set. I was in a band with a great guitar player that I had spent a year beforehand just jamming with and helping him work out his original songs and favorite covers. We were blues guys who had that as our bedrock, but when he launched the band he wanted to branch out into more rock territory. Before he had urged me into a Mitch Mitchell style, and I had been practicing to Kenny Clarke and Jack DeJohnette drumming and shifted some of that into my “style.” All of a sudden he asked me to study this Yes release because he thought he and I both needed to “reign in our busy playing” and he also liked how Alan White had a bit more of a laid back “feel” and how he structured the drum patterns for each segment of these long full-side recordings. I liked Yes, but I was mourning the departure of Bill Buford, and I didn’t “get” what my friend was after for a while. I made tapes of the four sides here and did practice to them, and listen to them over and over and then tried a new approach in practices and what I thought was not a great idea at first became a good thing for us.

And then the bass player quit. The first bass player that quit. It seemed with this band every time we would get “there” and get a gig someone LEFT. Sigh. That was a long time ago!

My vinyl playback is the best it’s ever been and I’m enjoying revisiting this music and hearing it so well reproduced.

Waaaaay back in the day, this was the one Yes record that I really dug.

Come to find out that today it's the one OG Yes record that people hate.

Go figure that.

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Yes' Topographic Oceans was never a favorite of mine but it's been many decades since I've heard it. Back in those days, "Fragile" & "Yessongs" got onto the turntable quite a bit, with "Yessongs" being a sort of a live "Greatest Hits" package.

[JSngry]

I forgot about Relayer. I recall liking that one too. But that was it.

[Dub Modal]

6 minutes ago, JSngry said:

I forgot about Relayer. I recall liking that one too. But that was it.

Patrick Moraz on that one, added something beneficial imo