#NowPlaying #OperaSky Lully, Armide (Herreweghe / Harmonia Mundi) A different universe from the Venice of Monteverdi and Cavalli. There, opera lets desire spill into public life. Armide isn’t libertine drama, it's the absolutist psychology Louis XIV. Even enchantment answers to power.

43/1001: Jacques Brel, Olympia 64 (1964) The only 10" in the book (actually the book references the 1988 15 track CD-only reissue 🤷‍♂️) Released as 'Music For The Millions' in the US/UK. #1001Albums #NowPlaying #VinylSky

#NowPlaying John Blow, Venus & Adonis Philip Pickett & New London Consort L’Oiseau-Lyre (1992) #OperaSky Fun fact: At the original court performance (c. 1683), Mary (Moll) Davis, one of Charles II of England’s mistresses, sang Venus, while her young daughter Mary Tudor was Cupid. Monarchs be wild!

42/1001: The Beatles, A Hard Day's Night (1964) Finally some proper jangly guitar pop! My copy is a German club edition on EMI/Odetta. Same track listing as the UK release though. Avoid the butchered US version. #1001Albums #VinylSky #NowPlaying

41/1001: Stan Getz and João Gilberto, Getz/Gilberto (1963) João could not speak English so Astrud sang that verse on Girl From Ipanema and the rest, as they say, is history. #1001Albums #VinylSky #NowPlaying

#NowPlaying La Calisto (Cavalli, 1651): openly sapphic, lavishly erotic, operating under mythological license - and gloriously beautiful. Early Baroque Venetian opera knew exactly what it was doing. 🎭🔥🌙 #OperaSky René Jacobs and Concerto Vocale for Harmonia Mundi released in 1995

#NowPlaying I Puritani Bellini at the end of bel canto. Puritans, improbably lyrical; even the Roundheads get a tune. Joan Sutherland • Luciano Pavarotti • Richard Bonynge London Symphony Orchestra • Royal Opera House Chorus Decca (rec. Kingsway Hall, London · 1973) #OperaSky

DeMarsico leaving SNY over "creative differences" I wonder what, wait, What?! well then

Back on it: #PowerPopFriday Today's selection: Teenage Fanclub, Bandwagonesque #VinylSky #NowPlaying #PowerPop 🎸🎶"She wears denim wherever she goes / Says she's gonna get some records by the Status Quo Oh yeah..." 👧✨ 👖👖👖

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Trump withdraws Canada's invite to join Board of Peace

40/1001: James Brown, Live at the Apollo (1963) JB paid for the recording out of his own pocket: $5700. 5000 LPs were initially pressed (and 8000 sleeves). It charted for 66 weeks, reaching no. 2 that summer. #1001Albums #VinylSky #NowPlaying

🇬🇱❓️🇮🇸❔️🤷‍♂️ Leavitt denied this, responding to a reporter on X by saying, "No he didn’t," and that the president simply referred to Greenland as "a piece of ice". 😂🤡

Without America, "right now, you'd all be speaking German" Trump tells an audience in Switzerland.

“There is a strong tendency for countries to go along to get along,” he said. “To accommodate. To avoid trouble. To hope that compliance will buy safety. It won’t.” 📣 Say it louder for the Kier Starmers sitting in the back row

BBC News - Carney says old world order 'is not coming back' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... "Middle powers must act together because if we're not at the table, we're on the menu"

#NowPlaying with a side order of whisky Purcell: Dido & Aeneas, Catherine Bott • Emma Kirkby • John Mark Ainsley • David Thomas • Julianne Baird Academy of Ancient Music (Orchestra & Chorus) • Christopher Hogwood Decca (rec. Walthamstow Assembly Hall, London · September 1992) #OperaSky

#NowPlaying Lucia di Lammermoor Joan Sutherland • Luciano Pavarotti • Richard Bonynge Orchestra & Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Decca (rec. Kingsway Hall, London · 1971) Bel canto at full voltage #OperaSky

G-d bless Section 75 of the Consumer Credit Act 1974. Long may they reign

Tired: hating the Dodgers because they spend a lot more money than your team does Wired: hating the Dodgers because their ownernership has financial ties to ICE detention centers sdvoice.info/l-a-dodgers-...

39/1001: Charles Mingus, The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady (1963) Mingus's magnum opus, putatively a suite of dances, recorded for the Impulse label, although my copy is a super-cheapo DOL reissue. #1001Albums #VinylSky #NowPlaying

While on the topic of gigs: the one I've been bragging about for 4 decades - I was at The Smiths final gig at the Brixton Academy, London, Dec 12 1986. No one knew, including the band at the time, that this was going to be it! ( @considermycat.bsky.social did I ever tell you about the time when...🙃)

Post a pic of the venue where you saw your first concert and the band/s.

#NowPlaying Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia Giuseppe Patanè • Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna • Cecilia Bartoli, William Matteuzzi, Leo Nucci, Enrico Fissore, Paata Burchuladze et al. Decca (rec. 1988) #OperaSky 🎶Figaro! Figaro! Figaro!✂️

38/1001: Sam Cooke, Live at the Harlem Square Club (1963) Cooke delivered one of the greatest live albums of all time for RCA, but it wasn't released until 1985 as it wa deemed too raucous for your granny. #1001Albums #VinylSky #NowPlaying

Some real "fuck no we're not travelling back to the US any time soon" family vibes right now. I'm a bit shook by this admission frankly

#NowPlaying Papillon (1973) and thinking about it sideways, less as an escape movie and more as a parable of how colonial carceral systems operate in the Americas. Exile, extraction, discipline, and a delusional fantasy that suffering at the periphery keeps order at the centre. Still true! #FilmSky

R.I.P.

Drunk AF! Happy New Year #muso and #Mets fam from Menthon St Bernard🇫🇷 . The bar guy just name checked Darryl Strawberry. We own this planet. 🍾🥂🏆

All these years, and I only just noticed it's a CARRACK'S original Jools Holland Piano Lock. Anyway, mine's ready.

vibes #MontBlanc

Moon over mountain

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, you'd like to think that, wouldn't you? You've beaten my giant which means you're exceptionally strong so you could have put the poison in your own goblet trusting on your strength to save you so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you.

Merry Christmas! 37/1001: Phil Spector, A Christmas Gift For You (1963) #1001Albums #VinylSky #NowPlaying

How I'm turning up to the Bluesky Christmas party

36/1001: Bob Dylan, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963) Suze Rotolo (pictured with Dylan) inspired the politics. James Dean inspired the cover art. The Village. Jones Street connecting West 4th Street and Bleeker St. #1001Albums #VinylSky #NowPlaying

Me rn without tickets and also not coughing. might as well do my annual towning about before the pub

35/1001: The Beatles, With The Beatles (1963) #1001Albums #VinylSky #NowPlaying

34/1001: Ray Price, Night Life (1962) #1001Albums #VinylSky "Nashville's answer to Sinatra's 'In the Wee Small Hours'". Backed by pedal steel king Buddy Emmons, Johnny Paycheck and Willie Nelson, who Ray later fell out with after Willie shot his rooster. #NowPlaying

33/1001: Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd, Jazz Samba (1962) #1001Albums #VinylSky Opens with Desafinado, a complete car crash on Byrd's opening solo chorus and the form just goes out the window. Kills me every time I hear it. How did this make it on the release even by 1962 standards?! smdh #NowPlaying

32/1001: Booker T. and the MG's, Green Onions (1962) #1001Albums #VinylSky I've got a 'Green Onions' on Atlantic (K40072) which is actually just a 60s compilation & a reissue on Pickwick which looks nothing like 'Green Onions' but is exactly that. It's complicated... #NowPlaying get your mod on 🛵🎹🎯

#NowPlaying Monteverdi: L’incoronazione di Poppea Richard Hickox • City of London Baroque Sinfonia • Arleen Auger, Della Jones, James Bowman, Sarah Leonard, Linda Hirst et al. Virgin Classics (rec. 1988) Empire, ambition, and zero consequences. Plus ça change… 👑 #OperaSky

31/1001: Ray Charles, Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music (1962) #1001Albums #VinylSky #NowPlaying "... if I play it right I just might gain more [fans] than I lose." - Ray Charles, 1962

Warning label needed: Binge-watching Shifty, the latest Adam Curtis documentary, may impair your ability to enjoy “just politics” and dramatically increase your tolerance for Jarvis Cocker monologues. (Can’t stop listening to Pulp. Send help.) #VinylSky

30/1001: Bill Evans Trio, Sunday at the Village Vanguard (1961) #1001Albums #NowPlaying #VinylSky What is the greatest jazz piano trio album of all time and why is it SATVV?

29/1001: Muddy Waters, At Newport (1960) #1001Albums #VinylSky #NowPlaying #PictureDisc Electric blues crossing institutions without asking permission. Iconic record and moment

I'm happy for the Blue Jays. I'm also starting to think the Soto contract was first and foremost just meant to be another addition to Cohen's art collection.

#NowPlaying One-Eyed Jacks (1961) Slim Pickens in the supporting cast - I'm eagerly awaiting him to ride into a scene with a “What in the wide, wide world of sports is a goin’ on here!?” Think I might be disappointed #FilmSky