First off, as it's Ashes season (did I mention that?), I've been listening to the simply delightful Duckworth Lewis Method - Jiggery Pokery and the track below are two personal favourites.
The Duckworth Lewis Method
And then, in somewhat of a departure from my usual tastes, I've been rather enjoying the jazz stylings of Mr Joe Stilgoe . I'll be the first to admit that artists that describe themselves as jazz/swing on MySpace don't normally get that far with me, but (full disclosure alert) Joe is a friend of a friend, and because I'm a nice chap, I bought his album, and listened to it, and really liked it. He's a bit like Jamie Cullum, only with a slightly better voice, and is slightly less of a visually-confusing jazz dwarf. Weird.
Thoughts?
3 comments:
As a fan of Neil Hannon's work with The Divine Comedy, I decided to give The Duckworth Lewis Method album a full, unbiased listen.
Although I found some tracks intruiging, as a non cricket fan, it just didn't click. I'm sure if you have a fondness for the game (as you obviously do!) it must be fantastic, but from a purely musical point of view, I'd have to say I found it disappointing.
An interesting choice, I personally enjoyed the jazz more than Duckworth.
However, I feel your choices do suggest you are:
a) a middle aged man
or b) have a VERY wide range of music tastes and you have simply released unrepresentative a snippet of your collection.
So I would be interested if your catalogue of music contained any 'contemporary' selections.
This revelation may lower the average age that you have selected, based on your last post.....of 43.
Nat, I think I'd probably agree with you. If you don't know who Mr Miandad is, then the track is little more than a pop whimsy - and I think the same probably goes for the album. Certainly, if you don't care about cricket then it's a very disjointed piece of work - it's not really tied together musically. I was a big Divine Comedy fan though, and remain a big cricket fan, so it works for me.
And a big hello to my anonymous friend! I'm glad you enjoyed the jazz - I shall let Joe know. And it's fair to say that the two glimpses I've shared here are not entirely representative of my tastes (particularly the Stilgoe track - as a general rule, I regard jazz as a particularly anti-social form of masturbation). I could dedicate a post to my musical biography, but it would be a very long post, and nobody would bother reading it. Hopefully, as more snippets emerge, the picture will become clearer. A bit like the final puzzle on Catchphrase.
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