Phil's Vinyl Addiction (by Phil Harland) » Links on music http://www.philipharland.com/VinylAddiction Phil's thoughts and critical commentary on whatever music he is listening to, especially vinyl records. If you're interested in the history of rock and roll or jazz, then you'll find something here. Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:33:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 “Record Club” website http://www.philipharland.com/VinylAddiction/2010/03/31/record-club-website/ http://www.philipharland.com/VinylAddiction/2010/03/31/record-club-website/#comments Wed, 31 Mar 2010 21:24:26 +0000 pharland http://www.philipharland.com/VinylAddiction/?p=79 There’s an interesting site (also a subsite of Beck‘s) devoted to re-performing favourite albums of current musicians called “Record Club“.  What they do is gather together artists from various bands on a day and ask one of them what one of his or her favourite albums is.  Then they perform each and every song from that album together spontaneously while they are taped and video-recorded in just one day.  The site posts the audio and video of each of the songs from each album “tribute” one by one.  They are raw, of course, which is part of the fun.  Spontaneous? Yes.  So far they have Velvet Underground’s, Nico, Leonard Cohen’s Songs of Leonard Cohen, Skip Spence, and INXS’s Kick.

If I were asked what album they should do next, I’d say John Baldry’s It Ain’t Easy (but I won’t be asked;).

This was new to me.

]]> http://www.philipharland.com/VinylAddiction/2010/03/31/record-club-website/feed/ 0 Check out the Vinyl Record Day blogswarm http://www.philipharland.com/VinylAddiction/2008/08/15/check-out-the-vinyl-record-day-blogswarm/ http://www.philipharland.com/VinylAddiction/2008/08/15/check-out-the-vinyl-record-day-blogswarm/#comments Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:33:17 +0000 pharland http://www.philipharland.com/VinylAddiction/?p=54 J.A. Bartlett has put together a great set of links in connection with the Vinyl Record Run Down blogswarm this year.  Check it out here.

I had hoped to participate by writing a post (it’s been a while), but I am bogged down with writing one book and editing another right now.  And I’ve got to get the books done before a new baby arrives in the Fall and the beginning of classes (coming too fast!).  But I’ll be back once again with more posts in the future.

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