December 11, 2019 Playlist

"Joy Of A Toy" by Kevin Ayers (1969)
CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK
Kevin Ayers "Joy Of A Toy"  1969 (UK) 
The original bass player of The Soft Machine, Kevin Ayers only made one album with that group before moving on to a solo career of legendary obscurity. Joy Of A Toy was his debut after leaving The Soft Machine, and features all the members of that band playing in supporting roles. I first heard his name attached to a notoriously hip live album in collaboration with those popular mainstream artists Nico, Eno & John Cale. I kid; actually Ayers was pretty popular in his native England, often compared to Syd Barrett (whom he also collaborated with). Ayers was actually the headliner at that aforementioned cult-supergroup concert, though he is probably not as known as those other three outside of England. A writer of weird but catchy songs who played several instruments and had a unique deep, mumbly singing voice, Ayers passed away in 2013.
(N) = New Release
   
Artist Song Album Year Country
The WhoOverture / It's A BoyTommy1969UK
The WhoYoung Man Blues (Mose Allison - live)Live At Leeds1970UK
The Who I Don't Wanna Get WiseWHO (N)2019 (Polydor)UK
Neil Young & Crazy Horse Help Me Lose My MindColorado (N)2019 (Reprise)Canada/USA
Neil Young & Stray Gators Lookout Joe (live)Tuscaloosa (N)1973 (2019 Reprise)Canada/USA
 
 
Guided By Voices The Very SecondSweating The Plague (N)2019 (GBV Inc.)USA
Guerilla Toss PlantsWhat Would The Odd Do? EP (N)2019 (NNA)USA
Ariel Pink House Of YesterdayOdditties Sodomies Vol. 2 (N)rec. 1996-2003 (2019 Mexican Summer)USA
DJ Shadow IntersectionalityOur Pathetic Age (N)2019 (Mass Appeal)USA
Dempagumi.inc Girametasu Dempa StarsWareware Wa Dempagumi.inc Da (N)
("We Are Dempagumi.inc")		2019 (Toy's Factory)Japan
88Kasyo Junrei M.O.8single (N)2019 (PPR)Japan
   
 
Kevin AyersStop This Train (Again Doing It)Joy Of A Toy
 CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK		1969UK
Kevin AyersOleh Oleh Bandu BandongJoy Of A Toy
 CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK		1969UK
Kevin AyersAll This Crazy Gift Of TimeJoy Of A Toy
 CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK		1969UK
The Soft MachineWe Did It Again
   / Plus Belle Qu'une Poubelle
   / Why Are We Sleeping?		The Soft Machine1968UK
   
 
ORB Stonefruit I, II, IIIThe Space Between (N)2019 (Flightless)Australia
Boris EVOLLOVE & EVOL (N)2019 (Third Man)Japan
Sheep Fiends The Greatest Piece Of TechnologyQuadrofiendia (N)2019 (self release)USA
Emerson Lake & PalmerTake A PebbleEmerson Lake & Palmer1971UK
   
 
Fairport ConventionThe Time Is Near
   / Dream Song
   / Wake Up, John		Babbacome Lee1971UK
GenesisUnquiet Slumbers For The Sleepers...In That Quiet Earth
   / Afterglow		Wind And Wuthering1977UK
RushLa Villa StrangiatoHemispheres1978Canada
   
 
Swans Amnesialeaving meaning. (N)2019 (Young God/Mute)USA
      
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