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True Detective may be over but we're still getting our serial killers fix at our house with Seasons 2 of The Following and the bizarre improbable Hannibal - mostly because Mads Mikkelson is so cool in the title role.
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Oddly this excellent Harvey Mandel two-fer has disappeared from MP3 availability at Amazon where I got it, and I don't see it at Emu eith… -
@Doofy - got that The Chicago Sound album, thank you. And my browsing perambulation led me to my current listen, a Grant Green Trio album recorded around 1961 including Wil…
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Anyone been watching True Detective on HBO? We are insane for this dark twisted show in our house. Matthew McConaughey is amazing, and I even like Woody Harrelson in it.
Finally got the wife interested in Walking Dead, had a bi… -
Good morning, all. Haven't been entirely living under a rock, just a little. Currently listening to a strange combination of two things I like - Bowie and surf music. Kind of digging it.
in What are you listening to right now? (13 Indigenous grandmothers are praying for the planet) Comment by BigD-Bluez March 2014
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Just some annoying eMu happening to report - "new" releases for this week include some 500+ albums on this permutation of the Shanachie/Entertainment One la…
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Worst crap you could imagine department - I have an album, you know vinyl, at home somewhere that is a Japanese sampler - 4 songs were great, some flute, some koto, but the first song on side 2 was also vocal. I kept listening through the seven or …
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@BT - every so often I spin this one for a while - 100 Accordion Jazz Classi…
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I'm really looking forward to the "Home From Flanders' Fields" episode.
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Besides the recent Doctor Who activity (Name of..., Day of...., Time of...), which I have DVR'd because I am not entirely sure I get what's happened yet, what I'm really looking forward to, besides GOT, is Season Two of Orphan Black - April over her…
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@BT - about 12 years ago I got in a cab on a Sunday morning and the cabbie had on a radio show from some college station hosted by Floyd Vivino of all people (remember The Uncle Floyd…Been getting some mileage from the Christmas Box whilst I putter, then later the cooking begins.
This must be a large oops, or the best most rare jazz album in the world.Happy Holidays and a Merry Christmas to all - let me say that while I can, since it's late December and it's feels like flu coming on it must be Christmas. Have a happy everyone.@kargatron, I'll have to take a look at the Roku channel store - ACP is one they carry, and we use Amazon Prime for video also, but I'm not sure what else they have available. …The Big Christmas Box is the perfect album for Amazon Cloud Player via Roku onto the TV - it's on in the living room, you don't really need it blasting through the stereo, it's not taking up space in my computer, I don't have to retrieve it from the…@Craig - now that I've recovered from the seizure that the beginning of that video induced, that was very funny.Didn't "fit" figure prominently in a Monty Python skit? About "your wife"? I'm disappointed as well.
Caught something on Netflix called "The Sweeney" with Ray Winstone - pretty entertaining gritty Brit cop movie. We had seen him in a more r…The new Motorhead album Aftershock - liked it. Of course saying the "new" Motorhead album may seem like a bit of an oxymoron since the bands sound is shall we say consistent but I have to give the love to Lemmy and the boys for being out the…Double disc comp Essential Collection by Omar and the Howlers, a roots-rock/blues band that has been on my horizon for a while - at $6.49 at eMu this collection is fine in my boo…Only have 3 from the Gioia list but there's stuff there I have to follow up on - didn't even know about the Gurf Morlix album, who I like.I'm still a contender....... I only had the patience for four lists but my status as cantankerous musical dinosaur remains untarnished. Were it not for dear Neko Case it would be a shut-out on SPIN and Paste, Stereogum's icons are too damned small …A real find over at eMu actually thanks to the Recommended Albums function - two volumes of the Jeff Beck 1999 Tokyo tour - see the import CD review here - so…@GP - I downloaded the Cello Suites - it is two different downloads to get all six, and Part 1 has one out of order glitch - see reviews - but they sound good, and as I have a fondnes…Caught the season 1 finale Saturday of Orphan Black on BBC-A, on its second run, and the wife and I both really liked this program. Will likely show up on Amazon Prime and Netflix as most BBC shows do.
Looking forward to 11/23 - The…@Doofy - you may be on to a Sanctuary situation there at 7digital, which I'm looking into - so far The Bruce Dickinson 3 disc Alive release is $9.99 there but $18.99 at Amazon. Do…This is an admittedly narrow niche but if you fancy oldie car songs this is quite a collection - blues, R&R, C&W - One For The Road. I don't pay as much attention to com…2 disc set I got at eMu of more obscure soul, really good, South Side of Soul Street, the Minaret Soul Single…