Posted in #np Late Listens

Late Listen: Talk Talk / Laughing Stock

Some 1974 bootleg Miles Davis just seemed to set the table perfectly for Talk Talk tonight in the headphones. Here’s a vinyl rip of Laughing Stock. Come on in.

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Substitute Keith Richards.

If you weren’t into one of the traditional “good luck” New Year’s foods — in my case, black-eyed peas — you don’t have let that put you at a disadvantage for the whole year right off the bat. Just substitute…

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I Hope That All Your Favorite Bands Stay Together.

New Year’s Eve wish from The Middle 8 to you, courtesy of Dawes and this live WFUV performance. The modern “Auld Lang Syne”. Five minutes that get me every time.

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Johnny Cash’s New Year’s Eve PSA

It *could* be just a coincidence that Elvis Costello‘s social media happened to post this video of Johnny Cash covering Costello’s own “The Big Light” the day before New Year’s Eve. But I doubt it.

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