What Are You Listening To?

[Justin101]

Bringer of Pain (2017)

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Currently on the kitchen stereo as i cook tea.

Stratovarius - A Million Light Years Away



Infinite (2000)

[Susan Foreman]

New Beatles - 'Now And Then'

[SymbioticFunction]

Youtube Goblin concert. Be warned, if you buy the official blu-ray release, it is a BD-R (was a bit disappointing when I received it). I've been told that the dvd is an actual pressed disc. It's a good concert but I never understood why Phenomena clips were shown during the Goblin title track. Would also recommend the Italian Goblin Rebirth dvd that is available (very contraversially I might even prefer that Rebirth gig over this one - heresy I know!).



Whilst quite clearly not in the same league (Simonetti is great but his band can't compete with the original Goblin members), I also found a fairly recent pro shot appearance of Claudio Simonetti's Goblin.

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

New Beatles - 'Now And Then'

I listened to that earlier today and was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the sound, songwriting, and the song.

It's not going to beat A Day in the Life, Eleanor Rigby, or Strawberry Fields Forever to the top of the list of the 'best Beatles songs', but it isn't going to be at the bottom of that list either.

It's one that can be read as a simple love song or, with hindsight, a meditative piece about the friends and musical collaborators that John Lennon knew he would eventually lose.

I'm going to watch the documentary about how it was made and then listen to it more tomorrow, both with speakers and AirPods to appreciate the different aspects of the music and singing.

[Demoncrat]

It reminded me of ELO tbh. I'll get me cloak ....

[SymbioticFunction]

I think Now & Then is better than the Free as a Bird and Real Love tracks from the mid 90's. Whether that's a case of the song writing quality or just the improvements with today's technology, I'm not sure.

[Justin101]

I knew that here was a 'new' Beatles song coming this week, but what's the story behind it? Where did it come from?

[Susan Foreman]

Originally Posted by Justin101

I knew that here was a 'new' Beatles song coming this week, but what's the story behind it? Where did it come from?

It's all down to Peter Jackson!

From Sky News:

"...The track features John Lennon's vocals and George Harrison's guitar playing and was finished by Sir Paul McCartney and Sir Ringo Starr with the help of audio restoration technology, pioneered for film director Peter Jackson, allowing Lennon's original demo to be cleaned up and used.

...After Lennon's murder in 1980 aged 40, his wife Yoko Ono gave the tape [Here And Now] to the rest of the band, along with rough recordings of Free As A Bird and Real Love, which were reworked and released in the mid-1990s.

During this time, the surviving Beatles members - including George Harrison who died in 2001 - also developed Now And Then but did not release it. They blamed the limited technology that caused problems clearly extracting Lennon's vocals.

But new audio restoration technology has allowed Lennon's original demo to be cleaned up and used, alongside Harrison's electric and acoustic guitar recordings for the song from 1995."

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

New music from The Beatles and the Stones, Doctor Who and the Daleks back on the telly.

It's the mid sixties all over again.