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Consecutive Compendium of Culture – Tango, techno, teen pop, terrorcore, thrash metal, thrillers, timba, trad jazz, trance, tribal house, trip hop, tropicalia, turbofolk – tease our tastebuds with top tips from your treasure troves

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The twentieth topic of tabling tempting treats from turntable, theatre, text, talkie – it’s ‘T’ time!

Turner turns my world around

Track 1 – June Tabor – 10, 000 Miles
I love the timbre and austere sound of her voice, it penetrates so deep and scours the soul

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  8. One of the formative albums of my misspent youth.
    Taj Mahal – The Natch’l Blues.
    No guitar pyrotechnics or any flashy stuff, just a really good groove throughout.

  14. T is for Taste. Rory Gallagher playing in a shit-hot trio format, which unfortunately didn’t last very long.
    A very live-sounding album, this one.
    I saw them at the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970. They were absolutely ace!

  19. Thomas Tallis, Fantasia on a Theme by (Vaughan Williams)

    Performed by the BBC Symphony in Gloucester Cathedral where in 1910 the piece was first performed with Vaughan Williams conducting.

    • Beat me to it! This is the version I was going to post – Barbirolli’s 1963 recording with the Sinfonia of London, recorded in the Templar Church. I want this to be playing as I quietly slip away into the great beyond…

  38. Tony Thompson – he only lasted 31 years on the planet and achieved only a little fame. Which is still a little more than most of us. And a sweet voice – with a hint of Smokey R or even Little Willie John

    This a prime piece of Pop new R&B

    I Wanna Love Like That

  40. Tony Thompson – drummer.

    This one achieved a little more fame than the other one and lasted a little longer.

    One half of one of the finest rhythm sections ever.

    Freak Out: Chic

  54. If there’s one thing that all Swedes have in common, it’s the ability to sing at the very least one song by Evert Taube. Even I, who suffers from a near total inability to remember lyrics can do that.
    Here’s “Eldarevalsen” by Taube (where we find out that Newcastle is “dull and ugly”…):

  55. One of my favourite tracks from childhood is “Too Many Mondays” by Barry Mann:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQ0nmZwIJG8
    The odd things you learn on YouTube: this tune was covered by the band Wicked Lester – Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley’s band before they became Kiss – for an unreleased album, and here it is, sounding very weedy (and with poor sound quality):

  61. I love Three Dog Night, and I don’t care who knows it…and not just the “cool” songs by Randy Newman and Laura Nyro, in fact the cheesier the better I say!
    This sort of thing makes me very happy:

    And even this piece of unashamed Camembert – just wallow in it, go on – you know you want to! 🙂

  64. Great “T” albums. A very personal list.

    Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) – Eno
    Talking Book – Stevie Wonder
    Tapestry – Carole King
    Taste – Taste
    Thanks, I’ll Eat It Here – Lowell George
    The Transfiguration Of Blind Joe Death – John Fahey
    The Tubes – The Tubes
    Theatre Royal, Drury Lane – Robert Wyatt
    There Goes Rhymin’ Simon – Paul Simon
    Thick As A Brick – Jethro Tull
    This Is Hip – John Lee Hooker
    This Is The Sea – The Waterboys
    THRAK – King Crimson
    Time (The Revelator) – Gillian Welch
    Time Of The Last Persecution – Bill Fay
    Time Out – Dave Brubeck Quartet
    Together At The Bluebird Café – Steve Earle, Townes Van Zandt & Guy Clark
    Totally Wired: The Rough Trade Anthology – The Fall
    Tracy Chapman – Tracy Chapman
    Translucence – John Foxx & Harold Budd
    Trespass – Genesis
    Trio – Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris
    Triple Echo – Coope, Boyes & Simpson
    Tristeza On Guitar – Baden Powell
    Trojan Box Sets (pretty much all of ’em) – Various
    Troppo – Michael Garrick
    Turn Out The Stars: The Final Village Vanguard Sessions – Bill Evans Trio

    • Tiger Mountain is my favourite Eno album (Here Come The Warm Jets is a close second).
      A fact that I knew, but forgot until you reminded me just then.
      That’s my Saturday night listening sorted

    • 1. Any King Tubby is always welcome, so thanks, Mr Sativum.

      2. Any photo you see of King Tubby, he’s always wearing that horrible plastic ‘crown’. He hated it, apparently, and no wonder.

      3. Someone in Jamaica should erect a statue to Osbourne Ruddock.

      • The Pick A Dub album which as I’m sure you know was a very early Blood & Fire release, has just been reissued. The reissue (which has very limited availability, I suspect there could be licensing issues, so if anyone needs it – and all dub heads do – get in there quick) has the original cover and credits the album as feat. King Tubby & The Barrett Bros. Therefore this track qualifies as a T.

  73. The best 19 minutes ever captured on tape (sadly only 18 of them here) – turn it up to eleven and shake that booty!
    Taj Mahal – “You Ain’t No Street Walker Mama Honey, But I Do Love the Way You Strut Your Stuff” (Live):

  76. Take It Or Leave It
    Part fiction, part documentary, part (something else?) about the early days of Madness.
    Low budget, and it shows in places, but it’s still worth a watch.

  81. As young kids full of optimism and wonder we were treated to T for Thunderbirds.
    As cynical old f*ckers contemptuous of our fellow humans we got T for Team America: World Police..

    • The Third Policeman:

      This benign property of his prose is not, one hopes, to be attributed to the reason noticed by the eccentric du Garbandier, who said ‘the beauty of reading a page of de Selby is that it leads one inescapably to the happy conviction that one is not, of all nincompoops, the greatest’.

  84. I probably used up my Thåström quota on the S thread…but since you liked him @salwarpe, and I found a good video on YT of one of the most magical moments of the gig I saw in August…why not?
    The song is “Fan fan fan” and yes, that man is indeed sawing away at his guitar with a bow:

  85. The Tallest Man On Earth:

    And while we’re on the subject of Swedish guys playing Americana, let’s shoehorn in my favourite Daniel Norgren as well with the track “Though It Aches” (even if his best stuff is on the albums – yes, TWO of them – that he’s released this year):

  90. Got to have some Traffic (my favourite group back then, the Beatles notwithstanding).

    Original recording not available in my territory.

    Traffic – John Barleycorn

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