The Listening Club - 30th June 2019

Greetings folks,

Hope you're all doing well and good. Still nicely baking here in Amsterdam, and hoping the dryness holds out past next weekend, when we'll be doing our own tent-in-a-field-with-music-and-booze thang. Speaking of which, looks like Glastobury has been going off quite nicely, even though the headliners this year are not really in alignment with my own tastes, there's still been plenty on the live streams to keep us entertained over the weekend, especially Idles on Friday and Lizzo yesterday, which makes us doubly happy as we're seeing her on Tuesday (in a much smaller venue, natch).

Last week in these here environs, @brainspiritus was in the chair, serving up the very Bronze-friendly sounds of Die Happy's 2002 album "Beautiful Morning", which brought out some strong opinions, to say the least. Big thanks to them for the pick, and for sailing the frisb across to @faberfedor, who has this to say by way of introduction...

"I've got a short list of LC selections so my selection critieria is if it fits the times, season, etc. My first selection would have fit well with the season; it being a hot summer with a holiday coming up, the music might be heard at a block party.  Unfortunately prepping the files proved a bit daunting; I need to do a deep dive to figure out how to change some of the m4v tags, if you know what I mean.

The atmosphere for this album, and where I first heard it... 30 years ago?! is a house party after the sun has gone down, filled with drugs, alcohol, and mainstream and counter-culture people all of which, nowadays, would be considered mainstream. I like the album for the sonic textures, lyric topics and the fact that these guys are probably doofuses IRL.

<ChefJohn> Enjoy! </ChefJohn>"

Okaydoke. Direct download is here, and the HearThis stream is below:


See you at 8pm BST (GMT+1).