Day 269: When the rain is blowing in your face and the whole world is on your case...

Album 952/1031

Dagmar Krause - Tank Battles (1988)

All songs composed by Hanns Eisler.

Tank Battles[edit]

1. "The Song of the Whitewash" – 2:07
   • Text: Bertolt Brecht
   • Translation: N. Gould-Verschoyle
2. "(I Read About) Tank Battles" – 1:30
   • Text: Bertolt Brecht
   • Translation: John Willett
3. "You Have to Pay" – 1:43
   • Text: Walter Mehring
   • Translation: Jim Woodland, Malcolm Green
4. "Chanson Allemande" – 1:20
   • Text: Berthold Viertel
   • Translation: Andrew Dodge
5. "The Ballad of the Sackslingers" – 3:24
   • Text: Julian Arendt
   • Translation: Dagmar Krause, Jim Woodland
6. "Mother Beimlein" – 1:16
   • Text: Bertolt Brecht
   • Translation: Lesley Lendrum
7. "The Perhaps Song" – 1:50
   • Text: Bertolt Brecht
   • Translation: Bettina Jonic, Katherine Helm
8. "Lied von der Belebeden Wirkung des Geldes (The Song of the Invigorating Impact of Cash)" – 4:32
   • Text: Bertolt Brecht
9. "Mankind" – 0:59
   • Text: Hanns Eisler
   • Translation: Dagmar Krause, Jim Woodland
10. "Bettelied" – 1:27
    • Text: Bertolt Brecht
11. "Song of a German Mother" – 2:31
    • Text: Bertolt Brecht
    • Translation: Eric Bentley
12. "Change the World – It Needs It" – 2:07
    • Text: Bertolt Brecht
    • Translation: Eric Bentley
13. "Bankenlied (Banking Song)" – 2:59
    • Text: Siegmar Mehring
14. "Legende von der Entstehung des Buches Taoteking (Legend of the Origin of the Book of the Taote King)" – 6:43
    • Text: Bertolt Brecht
15. "Balad of (Bourgoise) Welfare" – 2:53
    • Text: Kurt Tucholsky
    • Translation: Jim Woodland
16. "Mother's Hands" – 2:02
    • Text: Kurt Tucholsky
    • Translation: Malcolm Green
17. "Berlin 1919" – 2:30
    • Text: Anonymous
    • Translation: Eric Bentley
18. "And I Shall Never See Again" – 1:52
    • Text: Bertolt Brecht
    • Translation: Eric Bentley
19. "Genevieve: Ostern ist Ein Ball sur Seine (Genevieve: Easter There is a Ball on the Seine)" – 1:05
    • Text: Bertolt Brecht
20. "The Wise Woman and the Soldier" – 3:43
    • Text: Bertolt Brecht
    • Translation: Eric Bentley
21. "Failure in Loving" – 1:04
    • Text: Heinrich Heine
    • Translation: Eric Bentley
22. "Und Endlich Stirbt" – 1:12
    • Text: Peter Altenberg
23. "The Rat Men – Nightmare" – 1:18
    • Text: Bertolt Brecht
24. "The Homecoming" – 1:34
    • Text: Bertolt Brecht
    • Translation: Eric Bentley
25. "The Trenches" – 3:44
    • Text: Kurt Tucholsky
26. "To a Little Radio" – 1:05
    • Text: Bertolt Brecht

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Battles

Golf's verdict: I do have a bit of a liking for Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's The Threepenny Opera, so I was already half-way convinced by this (as Hans Eisler was a contemporary of Weill's who also worked with Brecht). I suspect it is probably very much an acquired taste...

Máire's verdict: I liked it but overall a bit too avant-garde for me.....

Album 953/1031

Bob Dylan - Time Out of Mind (1997)

All songs written by Bob Dylan.

No. Title Length 1. "Love Sick" 5:21 2. "Dirt Road Blues" 3:36 3. "Standing in the Doorway" 7:43 4. "Million Miles" 5:52 5. "Tryin' to Get to Heaven" 5:21 6. "'Til I Fell in Love with You" 5:17 7. "Not Dark Yet" 6:29 8. "Cold Irons Bound" 7:15 9. "Make You Feel My Love" 3:32 10. "Can't Wait" 5:47 11. "Highlands" 16:31

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Out_of_Mind_(album)

Golf's verdict: HIDDEN GEM! Dylan's best album of the last 30 years. Includes the best (original) version of 'Make You Feel My Love'. I imagine Bob's made $millions from Adele and the many others who have made it a standard since this first appeared.

Máire's verdict: HIDDEN GEM! Definitely a convert. Loved it.

Album 954/1031

Dave Brubeck - Time Out (1959)

All pieces composed by Dave Brubeck, except "Take Five" by Paul Desmond.

Side one

1. "Blue Rondo à la Turk" – 6:44
2. "Strange Meadow Lark" – 7:22
3. "Take Five" – 5:24

Side two

4. "Three to Get Ready" – 5:24
5. "Kathy's Waltz" – 4:48
6. "Everybody's Jumpin'" – 4:23
7. "Pick Up Sticks" – 4:16

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Out_(album)

Golf's verdict: Plenty of familiar tunes on this one, the favourite of film and TV soundtrack supervisors since the 60s. 'Take Five' in particular must have been in about 100.

Máire's verdict: Jazz......

Album 955/1031

Pentangle -  Basket of Light (1969)

All tracks written by Bert Jansch, John Renbourn, Danny Thompson, Terry Cox, and Jacqui McShee, except as noted.

Side one
No.	Title	Lead vocals	Length
1.	"Light Flight"	McShee	3:14
2.	"Once I Had a Sweetheart" (traditional, arranged Jansch/Renbourn/Thompson/Cox/McShee)	McShee	4:37
3.	"Springtime Promises"	Jansch	4:04
4.	"Lyke-Wake Dirge" (traditional, arranged Jansch/Renbourn/Thompson/Cox/McShee)	Renbourn, Cox, and McShee	3:32
5.	"Train Song"	Jansch and McShee	4:43

Side two
No.	Title	Lead vocals	Length
1.	"Hunting Song"	McShee, Jansch, Renbourn, and Cox	6:41
2.	"Sally Go 'Round the Roses" (Lona Stevens, Zell Sanders)	Renbourn and McShee	3:34
3.	"The Cuckoo" (traditional, arranged Jansch/Renbourn/Thompson/Cox/McShee)	McShee	4:26
4.	"House Carpenter" (traditional, arranged Jansch/Renbourn/Thompson/Cox/McShee)	Jansch and McShee	5:27

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basket_of_Light

Golf's verdict: HIDDEN GEM! Fantastic playing from Jansch and company with excellent vocals and harmonies, giving some traditional folk and slightly 60s, psychedelic spin.

Máire's verdict: Wasn’t that bothered 

Album 956/1031

G Love & Special Sauce - G Love & Special Sauce (1994)

1. "The Things That I Used to Do" – 3:35
2. "Blues Music" – 4:17
3. "Garbage Man" – 4:51
4. "Eyes Have Miles" – 5:22
5. "Baby's Got Sauce" – 3:54
6. "Rhyme for the Summertime" – 3:06
7. "Cold Beverage" – 2:33
8. "Fatman" – 4:16
9. "This Ain't Living" – 6:34
10. "Walk to Slide" – 4:28
11. "Shooting Hoops (with Mou Akoon)" – 3:31
12. "Some Peoples Like That" – 4:49
13. "Town to Town" – 3:33
14. "I Love You" – 3:32

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._Love_and_Special_Sauce_(album)

Golf's verdict: Rather fun, in a slightly disposable way.

Máire's verdict: Hmm.....