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     skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 432 Registered: 10-2008 |
Shackleton - Three EPs. Like it says on the tin, compilation of 3 EP's by this maverick dubtep/electro producer. I can see this getting played relentlessly for months. Big Star - Radio City remaster. I am slowly coming round to this being their best album - I normally favour No1 Record Daft Punk - Discovery. Dusted this one down after years of neglect. Was curious to hear it again on the back of Pitchfork voting it No3 album of the decade. Its not worth that accolade but it is very very good. Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport. Imagine Kevin Shields if he preferred pulsing electro rather than sonic six string guitar attacks. Boomkat describe it even better as "working between the wide open parameters of noise, post rock and shoegaze techno". Will be in my top 10 for the year. Nine Horses - Snow Borne Sorrow. David Sylvian/Steve Jansen offshoot collaboration from a few years ago - staggeringly good. Broadcast - Noise Made By People. Again inspired by the Pitchfork list. Dr Alimantado - Best Dressed Chicken In Town. In a round about way I dug this out after watching this documentary on Sid Vicious that was on the Sky arts channel. This was a big album with all the punks at the time, when reggae was at its height. The documentary had a strange angle on Sids life and legacy. More than a few people were trying to paint him as a gentle soul and a repressed genius. Others did reflect on the public perception of his lifestyle and did little to dispute it. Contributors doing the "talking head" stuff were Glen Matlock, Steve Severin, Jah Wobble, most of The Damned, Viv Albertine from The Slits, Marco Pironi, and quite a few hangers on from the Sid camp that I'd never heard of. Also included archive interviews on Sid by McLaren, Westwood, Lydon etc that I'd never saw before. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3162 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kevin, I used to present a radio program about classic albums. When we did Big Star there was no question from me or any of the musician/journalist guests that it would be anything other than Radio City. I think it's always been their best. We did, however, play September Gurls on the program too, by way of showing what had come before. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 433 Registered: 10-2008 |
Padraig, its late, ive had a few vinos, but isnt S Gurls on Radio City? | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2141 Registered: 03-2005 |
You're right Kevin. Padraig's having one of those moments that usually happens to me. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2142 Registered: 03-2005 |
Arca--on ne distinguait plus les tetes I've had "Angles" by them for years. This one seems to have vocals on every track. In English. That's a shame. "Angles" was all instrumental and ambient. | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 227 Registered: 05-2005 |
Robert Gomez - Pine sticks and phosphorus. At least 4 songs of the year amongst few weaker ones. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3166 Registered: 05-2005 |
Doh! So that's why we played it! I think we played Thirteen from the first album then! It's certainly one of my favourite ever songs. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 148 Registered: 05-2005 |
The new Bunnymen album 'The Fountain' and it's very poor. The drums sound weedy, the production is horrible, the guitars sound like someone doing a bad impression of someone doing a bad impression of Will Sergeant (with acknowledgement to Andrew Collins). A couple of amusing lyrics aside there is no Mac magic in evidence, even the cover is half arsed. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3361 Registered: 05-2005 |
Yeah Cosmo, jyst heard it on Spotify just incase ther might've been a glimmer, shoulda known, they are NO good without pete and Les, simple, they are too old, Will's unique style has gone along with the voice of Mac, Jeez the opener, Think I need it too, his voice is that rough, it sounds like a guide vocal, not a finished one, and his rhyming since '97 has been awful, truly, truly awful, stop the Bunnymen. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 149 Registered: 05-2005 |
Spence, at least you didnt buy it, I unfortunately did | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1677 Registered: 09-2006 |
The Last Days of Disco - soundtrack Still stuck on this movie for the moment. Could've maybe used a KC song, but I'm not going to argue when it's this well-sequenced and -chosen. A joyous, unstoppable groove...all the way up to the utterly lame remake at the end, which I prefer to believe was forced upon Stillman by some record company guy. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1638 Registered: 01-2005 |
Dillard & Clark twofer. Very tasty. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2146 Registered: 03-2005 |
Kevin, are the Big Star remasters you have bought released by Phantom Sound & Vision? I want to make sure I get the right thing. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1683 Registered: 09-2006 |
Sonny Rollins - Silver City The Dead Weather - Horehound Twin Peaks: Second Season Music and More | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 438 Registered: 10-2008 |
Randy, the writing on the sleeve of the Big Star CDs is ridiculously small. I can see no mention of Phantom S&V, I can however just make out the name Universal, there is also a logo which says Fantasy. The HMV site here in the UK lists it as released on UMC, which I gather stands for Universal Music Catelogue The CD itself has a rather cracking reproduction of the Ardent imprint. | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 454 Registered: 01-2007 |
Thanks Kevin for your recommendations form a week or two ago, in fact have purchased all and really enjoy the Xx ( can't believe I didn't get it sooner it was always on the long list so to speak) The Feelies are excellent both me and the Mrs enjoying that, not got round to the DBT as yet as had a lot to get through. But Thanks. Still enjoying Richmond Fontaine which despite being quite accessible is still a grower. Have dug out my old Big Star cds but not gone for the remasters as yet. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 190 Registered: 03-2007 |
The Ancients - The Ancients The Antlers - In The Attic Of The Universe The Antlers - Hospice | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 439 Registered: 10-2008 |
no problem frank. maybe one day i can recommend some dubstep/techno to you!! | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 767 Registered: 04-2006 |
for example: http://www.myspace.com/deepdarkwoods http://www.myspace.com/mumfordandsons and a lot of soft machine, caravan, yes, wishbone ash waiting for: bigstar box | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3169 Registered: 05-2005 |
Holly Throsby, as I write up an interview I did with her. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3170 Registered: 05-2005 |
Crispin J Glover - Which Way Is Up? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3171 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Feelies - bonus tracks with Crazy Rhythms and The Good Earth re-releases. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 444 Registered: 10-2008 |
The Man Machine (remastered) - Kraftwerk. Christ this sounds amazing. Sometimes you buy these remastered albums and cant tell the difference from the original, but this just sounds lush and deep and crystal clear. My friend tells me he saw an article in which Ralf Hutter said that the sound of these reissues was everything they hoped for, apparently Ralf felt the originals sounded "dusty", whatever that means!! We can only assume he wasnt happy with the sound of the originals. Cant wait to hear the others I bought - Autobahn, Trans Europe Express, Radioactivity and Computer World. Unfortunately there are no sleeve notes with the albums, but each booklet has lots of excellent pictures. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1684 Registered: 09-2006 |
The Blasters - Complete Slash Recordings P.M. Dawn - The Bliss Album Big Stick - Crack Attack/Shoot the President Tshala Muana - Soukous Siren Fairport Convention - Meet on the Ledge: The Classic Years (1967-1975) Was in Best Buy getting a lens cleaner and some CD-Rs, and decided to take a quick browse through their ever-shrinking CD section. Got to the G's and found, no exaggeration, about 50 copies of Guns 'n' Roses' "Chinese Democracy" sitting there. If I were a retailer who had dropped the ball on an exclusive by insufficiently hyping the shit out of it, I don't know if I'd want the visible evidence of it still sitting there nearly a YEAR later. Maybe it's some odd form of penance... | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2147 Registered: 03-2005 |
Visage--s/t Jeez, one of the problems I always had with so-called "dance music" is the moronic single tempo bass drum beat that pounds at the bottom of the mix. It's dance music for people with zero sense of rhythm. Aside from that glaring irritant, the title track is good. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2149 Registered: 03-2005 |
Ok, Visage was decent but this is sounding better . . . Bertrand Burgalat--Meets A.S Dragon | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 445 Registered: 10-2008 |
Flaming Lips - Embryonic. This might be the most compressed album ever, especially the drums which are off the scale for distortion. But.... Strangely it actually seems to fit the songs, most of which also have booming bass. You can never accuse the Lips of not being interesting and even though it could maybe lose about 4 or 5 tracks of the 18 its still one of the best albums of the year. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1639 Registered: 01-2005 |
Kevin, Any updates on the other Kraftwerk reissues? Allen, Do you have The Bridge by Sonny Rollins? It's a must buy if you don't. | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 455 Registered: 01-2007 |
Just bought Trans-Europe Express the remastered version I think they were all out this or even last week in the UK by HMV had all the copies anyway. Kevin if you could recommend some electro/techno I'd be interested. My CD collection is about 1-2 per 100 CDs of elctronica. Enjoying: Bowie's Low particulalry at the moment.As well as Kevins recommendations. The Xx | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3376 Registered: 05-2005 |
I've played all the Kraftwerk remasters over the course of this week on Spotify. Dunno much about the quality of Spotify, but all the albums sound great. That description Kev, that Ralf made, is exactly it for me, its blown away a layer of dust. Whether off the vinyl or the cd releases, it just goes to show how contemporary and timeless they are, this could've been released last week not last century! | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 448 Registered: 10-2008 |
michael, have listened to computer world and trans europe express now. sound quality is excellent and recommend you buy if undecided. frank, try to hear fuck buttons new album called tarot sport, dimension/intrusion by f.u.s.e, aerial by 2562 and great lengths by martyn. also anything from the detroit techno scene from the early 90s is usually great - derrick may, robert hood, juan atkins, model 500, underground resistance, jeff mills. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1685 Registered: 09-2006 |
The Dead Weather - Horehound Thankfully most of Alison Mosshart's tired "ooh-look-out-for-me-I'm-EEEEEEVIL" lyrics are murmured and lost in the mix so that they can be disregarded (and it is nice, and refreshing, to learn via interviews that in her personal life she leaves most of that crap behind her when she leaves the stage), and one can just tune into the exciting and interesting soundscapes Jack White & co. come up with. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1641 Registered: 01-2005 |
On random play on my 5 disc changer this Saturday morning: Japan - Tin Drum Colin Newman - A-Z The Teardrop Explodes - Wilder Peter Gabriel - III (Melting Face) The Soft Boys - Underwater Moonlight Next year we should see a five disc Soft Boys collection on YepRoc! I can't wait for that one!! The Krafwerk and the early Neil Young reissues are on my short list. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3175 Registered: 05-2005 |
We / Know / Where / The / Winter / Goes. Spunk label comp with some new(ish) Aussie bands and the US and Irish bands the label distributes. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1644 Registered: 01-2005 |
I'm enjoy the heck out of these recently purchased classics that I've never owned before: Guided By Voices - Bee Thousand Radiohead - Kid A Bjork - Post Tom Waits - Mule Variations Sly & The Family Stone - There's A Riot Goin' On | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1688 Registered: 09-2006 |
Yo La binge: New Wave Hot Dogs, President Yo La Tengo (a real gem), May I Sing With Me, Painful (another) | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 191 Registered: 03-2007 |
Cosmos - Jar Of Jam Ton Of Bricks. Recently released collaboration between Richard Davies ( The Moles; Cardinal ) and Robert Pollard ( Guided By Voices.) | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3377 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Railway Engineers - Fu*kin noize. No its not a C86 spikey punk group, its the guys on the reail way lines at the back of my house who have been waking us all up at 3 am every morning for the past 3 fu*in weeks!! Aggggghhh!!! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2156 Registered: 03-2005 |
Wow. Richard Davies resurfaces. Maybe the lawyer gig turned sour. I don't think I've ever heard anything by GBV. What do you think of it Hugh? | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 192 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, if people approach it expecting a Richard Davies album then I think they will be disappointed but it is a decent enough record. Fourteen tracks with a running time of only 34 minutes 33 seconds. All the songs are credited to Davies/Pollard with Pollard handling the majority of the lead vocals ( at least ten out of the fourteen tracks.) As far as I am aware, Davies and a few friends created song beds over which Pollard sang his own lyrics and melodies. Davies only sings on four of the tracks. Davies is/has been working again with Eric Matthews and they have recorded four new songs. Unfortunately, I believe there are 'personality issues' so whether or not we ever see the release of a second Cardinal album is anyones guess. Davies has an album due for release early next year ( on Chapter Music, a record label based in Melbourne, Australia and operated by Guy Chapman.) | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 455 Registered: 10-2008 |
played the first 4 or 5 songs of this pollard/davies album. didnt strike me as anything special, but as a fan of gbv and cardinal will play again. must be the season for collaborations - listening to an album by ben gibbard and jay farrar as i type this. its music to accompany a kerouac documentary. i like gibbards stuff with postal service rather than dcfc, and farrar is an under appreciated artist, the stuff on this album ive heard so far is in the alt country vein "In an interview Farrar did with the St. Louis Riverfront Times (via TwentyFourBit), he had to say about the project: “We both wound up in the studio together, just sort of decided to take a step further and record a whole batch of songs. It’s kind of evolved into a real project… It was a great experience working with Ben. I guess because there wasn’t a whole lot of planning that went into the process, I think we both really got a lot from the experience.” | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2157 Registered: 03-2005 |
Hugh, thank you very much for the songs and the info. On first listen "Sudden Storms are Normal" is standing out. The first parts of each verse in "Westward Ho" suggest the Kinks' "Victoria." I was thinking it sounds like something for Geoff until the middle 8. I haven't listened to any of Jay Farrar's work in a long time. I probably should pull out Sebastapol. I remember that being a varied and quite good set. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1689 Registered: 09-2006 |
Santana - Welcome Nile Rodgers - Adventures in the Land of the Good Groove Stereolab - Transient Thingies and Whatzits | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1646 Registered: 01-2005 |
Randy, I like GBV's Bee Thousand that I just bought. It's considered a mid 90's indie touchstone album for many folks from what I've read. That's the only GBV I own. | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 228 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Undertones - Hypnotised Morrissey - The HMV/Parlophone singles 88-95, very good all these b-sides. And one more time Robert Gomez - Pine sticks and phosphorus, my album of the year now. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3191 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Duckworth Lewis Method - The Age of Revolution. What a great pop song. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2162 Registered: 03-2005 |
Dave Graney & the Coral Snakes--Night of the Wolverine | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3192 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Duckworth Lewis Method. The English might have invented cricket, but it took two Irishmen to write a psychedelic, orch pop concept album about it. | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 573 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy, ...huh????? What song sounds like something for me until the middle 8? Please send!!! Your opinions on Ride?????????? I've heard that Duckworth Lewis album is worth pursuing. Who is it again? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3193 Registered: 05-2005 |
Geoff, it's Neil Hannon from Divine Comedy and Thomas Walsh from Pugwash. They met at the wedding of one of the Fr Ted writers! | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 576 Registered: 05-2005 |
Yeah, that's it. A mate of mine is very big on Divine Comedy - probably has everything including concerts(?)- and I saw it at his place and wondered what the heck he was doing with anything related to sport in his house! | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1694 Registered: 09-2006 |
Yo La binge continues, with Summer Sun. I could be wrong, but as I recall, I'm one of the few on the board that likes this album at all. And I often think while playing it that it's my favorite of theirs. Very few groups have made a pastoral album as lovely. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1438 Registered: 08-2006 |
I'm with you, Allen. Definitely in my top two or three Yo La discs. I much prefer it to the better-reviewed "And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out." And I love the opus at the end. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3195 Registered: 05-2005 |
I like Summer Sun too guys! But Painless is my favourite YLT record by a long shot (not coincidentally, it was my first YLT album). Oh, I used to share a house with a Spanish girl in Dublin. She was very amused that there was a band called Yo La Tengo! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3196 Registered: 05-2005 |
Listening to disc 1 of Tim Finn's North, South, East, West Anthology. Kevin wouldn't like it! (Can we abbreviate that to KWLI?) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3197 Registered: 05-2005 |
I meant Painful of course, not Painless. That's a bit of a Freudian slip! | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1695 Registered: 09-2006 |
Agreed, that's a fine piece of work too, Padraig. That was a pivotal one for me...had listened to a couple others of theirs previous to that but was still at the admiring-from-a-distance stage. Painful was the one that made me go "aha..." | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1699 Registered: 09-2006 |
Joni Mitchell - The Complete Geffen Recordings Thought I'd give these another try, unfortunately for me. Even the one interesting album, 1985's "Dog Eat Dog" is often derailed by the self-righteous lyrics, and the song-by-song liner notes confirm that she's only gotten more full of herself since then. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 463 Registered: 10-2008 |
microdisney - everybodys fantastic grant hart - hot wax various artists - steppas delight vol2, dubstep present to future | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 195 Registered: 03-2007 |
El Perro Del Mar - Love Is Not Pop Montt Mardie - Skaizerkite Taken By Trees - East Of Eden Little Big Adventure - The Hateful Eye EP | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2167 Registered: 03-2005 |
Kevin, what do you think of the Grant Hart? I've got his first two records. They're very consistent though separated by something like ten years. Enough so that I might have just bought the first one and skipped out on the second. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 464 Registered: 10-2008 |
randy, only heard grant h once. not too impressed, not a lot of guitars. shouldnt be too hard on him i suppose, its 25 years since he wrote all those power pop punk nuggets. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 466 Registered: 10-2008 |
tricky - maxinquaye. truly timeless classic album. made in 1995 but could've been 2020. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 977 Registered: 08-2004 |
I'd go along with that Kevin. Have you got the new one? If so how's the bonus material? | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 467 Registered: 10-2008 |
jerry - not got the tricky bonus stuff. can i just echo all the praise for painful by yo la tengo. played it twice yesterday. the drones havillah album is unlistenable imo. that singer needs shot to put him out of his misery. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2169 Registered: 03-2005 |
Pacific Street--Pale Fountains It's Friday! | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1777 Registered: 10-2004 |
I was just listening to From Across the Kitchen Table last night. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3208 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kevin, LOL with your take on The Drones singer! He is an acquired taste alright! I love his pure Strine voice though (I wrote vice by mistake first. Perhaps that's more appropriate...). | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3209 Registered: 05-2005 |
Endless Boogie - Smoking Figs In The Yard | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2170 Registered: 03-2005 |
Liddiard sounds like pure Aussie country to me in terms of his voice, even though he also is weirdly suggestive of Van Morrison--somebody I'm not too wild about. He sounds the way I'd imagine a hick on a cattle or sheep station or working in a mine to sound. Maybe it's a pose but he sounds very unaffected to my ears and that fits with his wild unruly music that is country-blues based but takes those forms and screws around with them until it's something more. It's definitely NOT pop music nor is it art music in the usual sense of that term. And it has absolutely the same wild unaffected feel on stage. If there's anything I might end up objecting to it might be that he should wait a little longer between records and cull his material more. It'll be interesting to see if I still like this music 10 years from now. In general I've been more of a British-style folkie or pop fan but there's always been a substrate of blues in my personal musical tastes and the Drones are the only current artist hitting that nerve for me. Most people who mine that seam do so literally and unimaginatively, leaching it of all vitality and I hate their crap. Liddiard adds something to the vernacular. Now reverting to my more usual: Jeff, after leaving my house this morning I plugged in the iPod at work and continued my Paleys concert with "Kitchen Table" including your very welcome vinyl version of the title song. (I forgot to play the vinyl version of "Bicycle Thieves.") Are you still in Paris? Can you now testify that Spence is a real live person? | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1778 Registered: 10-2004 |
Randy, yes, I'm still in Paris until Monday. I'm really not ready to leave. Not that I ever would be ready, but you know.... And yes, Spence really is a living, breathing human. He's also a super friendly guy who's fun to geek out with about music over pints of lager. I snapped a couple photos of us being tourists in London. Fwiw - Kitchen Table songs have been going through my head a lot here. The album seems to fit with Paris, somehow. So, I've fired it up on the iPod a couple times. | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 230 Registered: 05-2005 |
Prefab Sprout - Let's change the world with music. Morrissey - Swords. Marc Almond - Orpheus in exile. Three emblematic voices to enlighten a rainy sunday. All of these records I find very good. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3210 Registered: 05-2005 |
Disc 1 of the Big Star box set. Wonderful stuff. | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 579 Registered: 05-2005 |
Manafon - Intense stuff! Embryonic - Well at least they tried to get the album art looking in the vein of Yoshimi..... Abbey Road and If I only could remember my name - after the "latest" Mojo arrived at the newsagents. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 196 Registered: 03-2007 |
Various Artists - A Number Of Small Things. A collection of singles released on the Morr Music label between 2001 and 2007. Thirty Six tracks in total on two discs. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3212 Registered: 05-2005 |
I just got that Mojo too Geoff! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3213 Registered: 05-2005 |
Big Star box set. I'm amazed by how different some of the tracks on Radio City sound (and I don't mean the alternate versions). There are keyboard lines I never knew were there. On first listen it sounds a bit of a mess on occasion, but I'm sure it will grow on me. The tracks on No 1 Record didn't sound anywhere near as different. I'm wondering in advance if the tracks on 3rd are going to sound even more desolate and bleak. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3214 Registered: 05-2005 |
David Kilgour - The Far Now. I bought it when it came out three years ago but this is the first time I've played it. I wish I'd played it sooner. It's great. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3215 Registered: 05-2005 |
David Kilgour - Orange Feathers, a CD that came with The Far Now. It's four songs from each of his two previous albums and two out takes from The Far Now. It's a fantastic comp. | ||
| peter ward Member Username: Peter_ward Post Number: 101 Registered: 06-2005 |
Atlas Sounds - Logos Fans of Panda Bear's "Person Pich" might enjoy this one for it's hypnotic harmonies and inventiveness, he also appears on one of the tracks. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3216 Registered: 05-2005 |
Beth Orton - Pass In Time | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3217 Registered: 05-2005 |
Disc 2 of the Beth Orton comp and now Verbena's La Musica Negra. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3218 Registered: 05-2005 |
Philadelphia Grand Jury - Hope Is For Hopers. A great, fun, Aussie party record. | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 646 Registered: 01-2006 |
Spiritualized - Anyway That You Want Me 12" remixes Spiritualized - Let It Come Down Flaming Lips - Embryonic Flaming Lips - Clouds Taste Metallic Feist - The Reminder | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3219 Registered: 05-2005 |
Big Star box set. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1780 Registered: 10-2004 |
Julian Cope - Fried Teardrop Explodes - Piano Pere Ubu - Dub Housing Go-Betweens - Liberty Belle Style Council - "Introducing..." EP Biff Bang Pow - Girl Who Runs the Beat Hotel | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 469 Registered: 10-2008 |
warp 10 series - albums celebrating 10 years of warp records released in 1999 "warp 10+1 influences" - compilation of seminal artists who were the founding fathers of electronic music. "warp 10+2 classics" - compilation of seminal warp artists "warp 10+3 remixes" - compilation of seminal warp artists remixed seminal!! | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 197 Registered: 03-2007 |
Various Artists - Blue Skied An' Clear. A Morr Music compilation ( Twenty Eight tracks on a two disc set.) | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1657 Registered: 01-2005 |
Jeff, What does Teardrop Explodes - Piano sound like? | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1781 Registered: 10-2004 |
Michael - Given that Piano culls all or most of the band's pre-Kilimanjaro output, it sounds like gritty, early, lo-fi recordings by a great and quirky band that was just beginning to sort itself out, find its identity. The early singles (that were later re-recorded on Kilimanjaro), sound rough, demo-like, simple, etc... but still good, especially "When I Dream." The b-sides and compilation tracks, like "Camera Camera," have a similarly lo-fi, raw sound with buzzing, cheap 60s-ish organ prevalent in the mix. So, basically, Piano provides a snapshot of the band's rough, early stages. It's good, but probably only essential to hardcore Teardrop fans. I just finished reading Cope's highly entertaining autobiography "Head On," which put me in the mood to hear this stuff. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1659 Registered: 01-2005 |
Jeff, Thanks for the lowdown on Piano. Speaking of Mr. Cope, now playing on random on my five disc changer: Julian Cope - My Nation Underground The Pixies - Surfer Rosa Wire - A Bell Is A Cup.....Until It Is Struck Throwing Muses - House Tornado My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything 1988 was a pretty great year besides 16 Lovers Lane, Daydream Nation, Bug, Idlewild, Tender Prey and Fisherman's Blues! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2171 Registered: 03-2005 |
Jeff's description of the Teardrop Explodes stuff suggests that it might suit me. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1782 Registered: 10-2004 |
Randy, yeah, you might like that one. | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 581 Registered: 05-2005 |
Oh yeah...PIANO! Camera Camera is crazy stuff!!! It has some of the stuff that originally came out on that "To the Shore of Lake Placid" Liverpool scene sampler. I really wish they would put THAT out. I haven't heard it for nearly 2 decades since I don't own a record player anymore. Some GRRREAT stuff on that - The Turquoise Swimming Pools "The Winds" comes to mind. | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 582 Registered: 05-2005 |
And since it's a perfect late spring day here, I've been letting the breeze blow through my hair whilst I sing VERY LOUDLY Monkees as I buzz around town........except at traffic lights! Tallulah is next! Perfect sunny afternoon music - that striped sunlight sound indeed! | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 501 Registered: 04-2005 |
Steve Reich - 6 Pianos Funny how music affects people differently; I find this 22 minute piece quite relaxing, but after about 2 minutes my daughter and partner were telling me to switch it off as it put them on edge. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 503 Registered: 04-2005 |
Lemonheads : It's About Time | ||
| Mark Leydon Member Username: Mark_leydon Post Number: 266 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Feelies - Crazy Rythms More 'of its time' than The Good Earth (which is a genuine timeless classic) - but still a great album. How did I miss this band the first time round! | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 505 Registered: 04-2005 |
Davey Henderson's newish lot "The Sexual Objects' (possibly a slightly dodgy choice of name in this Google-it age) Some ace toons over on their MySpace http://www.myspace.com/thesexualobjectsm usic and a feature in the Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/nov /13/new-band-sexual-objects | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 198 Registered: 03-2007 |
Various Artists - Not Given Lightly. A Morr Music compilation ( A Tribute To The Giant Golden Book of New Zealands Alternative Music Scene.) | ||
| Mark Leydon Member Username: Mark_leydon Post Number: 268 Registered: 05-2005 |
Speaking of 'Not Given Lightly', some of you might be aware that NZ indie pioneer Chris Knox suffered a serious stroke earlier this year. He is out of hospital now and recovering slowly at home. A tribute/benefit album is just about to be released in NZ featuring a stellar cast of artists covering Chris's songs. Includes contributions from Yo La Tengo, Lambchop, Mountain Goats, Bill Callahan as well as other NZ Flying Nun veterans such as The Bats, The Verlaines and The Chills. Sounds like a potentially wonderful album. Here's the full track listing: ‘Stroke – Songs For Chris Knox’ – Track Listing YELLOW DISC Track 1 – Pull Down The Shades – Jay Reatard Track 2 – Rebel – The Checks Track 3 - Ain’t It Nice – The Bleeding Allstars Track 4 – Don’t Catch Fire – Peter Gutteridge Track 5 – Luck Or Loveliness – The Chills Track 6 – Nothing’s Going to Happen – David Kilgour Track 7 – All My Hollowness To You – The Crying Wolfs Track 8 – Beauty – Stephin Merritt Track 9 - Nostalgia’s No Excuse – Portastatic Track 10 – Crush – The Mint Chicks Track 11 – I’ve Left Memories Behind – Jay & Sam Clarkson Track 12 – Burning Blue – Sky Green Leopards Track 13 – The Slide – Shayne Carter Track 14 - Grand Mal – Pumice BONUS TRACK Track 15 – Knoxed Out - Hamish Kilgour BLACK DISC Track 1 – Not Given Lightly – Boh Runga Track 2 – Bodies – Red&Zeke featuring Bill Doss and Neil Cleary. Track 3 – Lapse – Bill Callahan Track 4 – Growth Spurt – Genghis Smith Track 5 – Coloured – Yo La Tengo Track 6 – Dunno Much about Life But I know How To Breathe – AC Newman Track 7 – Glide – Alec Bathgate Track 8 – Inside Story – Don McGlashan Track 9 – The Outer Skin – Sean Donnelly Track 10 – What Goes Up – Lambchop Track 11- Brave – The Mountain Goats Track 12 – Round These Walls – The Tokey Tones (and friends) Track 13 – Just Do It – The Bats Track 14 – My Only Friend – Will Oldham Track 15 – It’s Love – Neil Finn/Liam Finn Track 16 – Becoming Something Other – Jordan Luck Track 17- Driftwood – The Verlaines Track 18 Song of the Tall Poppy – Lou Barlow BONUS TRACKS - Track 19– Napping In Lapland – The Nothing Track 20 – Sunday Song – Tall Dwarfs | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3229 Registered: 05-2005 |
I hadn't heard about that Mark. Thanks for letting us know. I'll be getting that album. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3230 Registered: 05-2005 |
You can get it from here for NZ$19.95 http://www.smokecds.com/cd/45200 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3231 Registered: 05-2005 |
I've ordered it, along with the new Clean album. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 180 Registered: 05-2005 |
wild beasts - limbo,panto (there's some orange juice in there too spence!) roxy music - siren | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 232 Registered: 05-2005 |
Amanda Brown on Myspace. | ||
| Mark Leydon Member Username: Mark_leydon Post Number: 270 Registered: 05-2005 |
Quite a touching 'silent' interview with Chris on NZ TV last night re the album. http://www.3news.co.nz/Musicians-around- the-world-honour-Chris-Knox/tabid/367/ar ticleID/130054/cat/221/Default.aspx | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3233 Registered: 05-2005 |
That is very moving. Thanks for the link Mark. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1670 Registered: 01-2005 |
Recently arrived, and they might end up in my best of the decade list: Radiohead - Amnesiac Beck - Sea Change | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 653 Registered: 01-2006 |
Split 7" on cherry red vinyl of The Wooden Shjips doing an interesting cover of Spacemen 3's I Believe It and on the flip side a demo version of Spacemen 3's Big City. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1672 Registered: 01-2005 |
Cedar Walton - Voices Deep Within Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie - Bird and Diz | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 594 Registered: 05-2005 |
Vampire Weekend ...again after all those lists said it is one of the best of the decade. Yeah - it's a lot better listening to it with 31 C temperatures, 90% humidity, thunderstorms threatening, cicadas chirping and longer hours of sunlight - it's a summer record - I really get it now. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3241 Registered: 05-2005 |
I loved it from the first time I heard it Geoff. I was blown away that a record actually lived up to the hype. I've dug out a Tall Tales & True comp to play later (it was in front of the Talking Heads comp I was looking for!). TT&T are great Aussie summer pop for those that don't know the name. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 507 Registered: 04-2005 |
The Apartments : Apart Didn't make to one of their gigs in the end. Too far away and too much work on to get away mid-week. But from what I can gather from the reports on the net they were excellent. Walsh seems to have a fanatical hardcore following in France and some of the postings are pretty emotional! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3246 Registered: 05-2005 |
Tall Tales And True - That's All Folks! | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 595 Registered: 05-2005 |
Tall Tales and True...now that's a name I haven't heard in a LONG time! I think I've got Trust(?) on a 7 inch single somewhere. Not bad - very '80s Sydney. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3402 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Pastels and tenniscoats - Two Sunsets. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3404 Registered: 05-2005 |
Blue Aeroplanes - tolerance. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 492 Registered: 10-2008 |
King Midas Sound - Waiting for You. Another vehicle for Kevin Martin (aka The Bug) who made one of the great albums of last year, London Zoo. More laid back than The Bug, but very dark, brooding and dubby. On the Hyperdub label which is the dance/dubstep/electro equivalent of the excellent Domino records. late contender for my album of the year | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1677 Registered: 01-2005 |
Doves - The Last Broadcast Sure to be included in my Top 25 for the decade! | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 597 Registered: 05-2005 |
Actually Michael, I've been listening to Lost Souls and now I'm thinking that it's better than the Last Broadcast! Depends on the weather really - Lost Souls for overcast and raining, Last Broadcast for sunnier weather! | ||
| Jonathan Evans Member Username: Jon Post Number: 360 Registered: 04-2005 |
Michael & Geoff It must be Lost Souls.....its always raining in Manchester. Seriously though, I'd probably go for Last Broadcast, but as Geoff says, its always a mood thing. Cheers Jon | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 192 Registered: 05-2005 |
Monochrome Set - Eligible Bachelors, played this last night for the first time in ages and it's such a brilliant album, their strongest by far with not a duff track on it | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 493 Registered: 10-2008 |
"manchester, so much to answer for". y'know i cant even get worked up about dreary stodge like doves, and their kindred spirits elbow. manchester used to produce fantastic bands from the late 70s to the late 80's, but then came simply red, and johnny marr whoring himself as guitarist for hire with chrissie hynde,tom jones and bryan ferry(and even girls aloud ffs). its been downhill since there with crap like m people, and then oasis and their "bigger is better" attitude to making music. no wonder morrissey seems to live anywhere but manchester these days. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3408 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Wolfhounds - Bright and guilty. potent, unique, garge, jazz, raw and as Cosmo woud put it, absolutely fuc*in vital! | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1803 Registered: 10-2004 |
Pixies - Trompe le Monde. I still maintain that this is their best album. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3409 Registered: 05-2005 |
Lou Reed - berlin. love it. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3411 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jeff, I must dig it out Trompe le monde, I don't really know it. My interest started to fade a bit, i;d kinda grew up big time in my late teens with Doolittle, and I found it hard to like much past that, as I adored it so much. I often find myself in this position with most artists to be honest. Of the Pixies sound, Cecelia Ann, Ana and Alison are all real faves, even tho of the coincedental female names! CA and Alison I first heard on The Word programme about 1990, just watching them play these two after one another, so effortlessly and looking understated but at tthe same time with loads of presence lodged in my mind for ever. The vacant menace stare in Frank's eyes as he strums away, a particularly beautiful thing. I'll see if I can trace it down on yoopoobe! | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3412 Registered: 05-2005 |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vre6hdzz_ 4Y Feckin vital!! | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1805 Registered: 10-2004 |
Spence, yeah, Bossa Nova was kind of an iffy album, but it did contain some undeniably great tunes, like Allison. I always saw Trompe le Monde as a return to form. It has the slashing guitars and the focus of Surfer Rosa, coupled with the great pop hooks and sense of melody so prevalent on much of Doolittle. That Word performance is pretty cool, Spence. I'd never seen it before, thanks for the link. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 494 Registered: 10-2008 |
joker - 12" singles compilation. bristol producer joker carries on in the fine tradtion of massive attack and tricky, booming dubstep with funky synths. | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 111 Registered: 11-2007 |
For me the best Pixies albums are Surfer Rosa and Doolittle -but I love all Pixies... Today Gun Club - Miami & The Las Vegas Story Last one I never really recognized before but wonderful garage blues... | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1679 Registered: 01-2005 |
Surfer Rosa by a nose over Doolittle as far as my favorite Pixies. Surfer Rosa, A Bell Is a Cup..by Wire and House Tornado by Throwing Muses were my staples in middle of 1988 before I discovered the Go-Betweens in November. Doves - The Last Broadcast Delgados - The Great Eastern Bjork - Homgenic | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 265 Registered: 02-2007 |
Van Morrison - Common One from 1980. Opening 2 songs Haunts of Ancient Peace and Summertime in England, long (7mins then 15mins!) poetic invitations to some sort of mystical world. Equal parts trancendant and pretentious! Having a Van day. Reading an "unauthorised" (of course) biography and listening to the albumns in order. Quite an interesting exercise. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 196 Registered: 05-2005 |
blondie -blondie (debut) | ||
| Mark Leydon Member Username: Mark_leydon Post Number: 273 Registered: 05-2005 |
Debut self-titled album by Sydney band 'Songs'. Released last week. Album of the year for me. A gorgeous collection of guitar saturated pop by the seriously talented Max Doyle and his three bandmates. Influences include the Flying Nun set (particularly The Bats), The Velvets, The Fall, the Strokes, Sonic Youth - and The Go-Betweens - but all done with their own unique style. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 498 Registered: 10-2008 |
peverelist - jarvik mindstate. another bristolian dancehall maverick, peverelist has a late attempt at making the dubstep/electronic dance album of the year. bristol is once again amongst the most vibrant musical cities on the planet. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3256 Registered: 05-2005 |
David McComb b-sides and the Blackeyed Susans songs he sang. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3257 Registered: 05-2005 |
Also, I bought the Animal Collective album yesterday to see what all the fuss was about. I can see! | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 116 Registered: 11-2007 |
Thank you, Mark for the "Songs" hint. Have their split 7" with the bats and it is great. Ordered the album as a signed copy at JB Hifi online for a special price  Have a nice day, Andreas. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 326 Registered: 10-2006 |
12 moons - Jan Garbarek Going blank again – Ride Siren – Roxy Music Wolfking of LA – John Phillips Les grands succes de Francoise Hardy Rites – Jan Garbarek Satta massagana – Abyssinians Waterpistol – Shack The Evangelist - RF | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2183 Registered: 03-2005 |
I've done a little listening over the long holiday, but not much. Inspired by one of Spence's entries, Wolfhounds--Bright and Guilty this morning: Alain Bashung--Bleu Petrole | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3414 Registered: 05-2005 |
Still great eh Randy!? | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 600 Registered: 05-2005 |
Firstly, as the eminent collector amoungst many here, what is your take on the Animal Collective Padraig? Secondly, oooooh, I see Going Blank Again on Stuarts listening list!!!! Thirdly, talking about shoegazing, I really liked the shoegazer songs on the "Songs" album Mark but the rest is a bit too batty (you can laugh...now) Fourthly, JB supplying to the world - I must get me some shares Andreas! Fifthly, Hologram of Baal (Church)has been playing on my dancette(s) lately, along with the 66-67 5 - Younger than Yesterday, Rubber Soul, Blonde on Blonde, Pet Sounds and Sunshine Superman PLUS the first Panics LP - typical stuff for these parts. Sometimes you just gotta come home musically. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 198 Registered: 05-2005 |
john fogerty - hoodoo (the lost album) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3258 Registered: 05-2005 |
I really like it Geoff. I played it twice on Sunday while reading Saturday's papers. Not album of the year for me (that would be Brisbane band Skinny Jean by country miles), but in the ballpark. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3417 Registered: 05-2005 |
Wolfhounds - Attitude, " I've got this really mashed up Pearl OD05 effects pedal. I rewired it all wrong and it feeds back all the time. It's got a really nice sound." ANDY GOLDING Guitar | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2184 Registered: 03-2005 |
How weird, Spence. My copy of "Blown Away" just arrived and I'm listening to it now. "Rite of Passage" is a great opener. Should I get Attitude? Re "Bright and Guilty" I'm embarrassed to admit that I bought it quite a while ago at the same time as a bunch of other CDs and filed it before hearing it--always a mistake--and, until you mentioned it, totally forgot that I have it. It IS a great album except for my old gripe about having too many tracks (17). Surely not all those songs were on the vinyl version; they add up to 63 minutes! | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3422 Registered: 05-2005 |
no the vinyl was much shorter, you are getting the fans bonuses for sure! Attitude is feckin sharp! | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3423 Registered: 05-2005 |
Andy Golding is a genius guitarist, easily comparable if not better than Thurston or renaldo. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2186 Registered: 03-2005 |
Blown Away certainly impressed me. I really like the way they mess about with the sound of the guitar. And only 27 minutes long. I'll get Attitude. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 200 Registered: 05-2005 |
nada surf - let go | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3262 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Man Machine: Mojo Celebrates The Electronic Revolution | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3426 Registered: 05-2005 |
Nada Surf - Let go! | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 327 Registered: 10-2006 |
Any more feedback on Songs then? Friend of mine is honeymooning in Oz over Christmas, so I thought I'd give her a CD shopping list to take...don't want her to spend all her time hugging koalas on coral reefs etc. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2188 Registered: 03-2005 |
I just came home to find a copy of International Guardians of Rock 'n Roll 1983-1999 on the floor having come through the mail slot. This is a Creation Records sampler and it's what I'll be listening to tonight. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3264 Registered: 05-2005 |
I have that Randy. It's a good compilation. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1714 Registered: 09-2006 |
Otis Redding - Otis Blue (reissue with plenty of good extras) | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 203 Registered: 05-2005 |
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bayou Country | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2189 Registered: 03-2005 |
I already have a lot of what's on it Padraig but I didn't have Slowdive and that's great. The late Jesus & Mary Chain track ("Cracking Up") is surprisingly good. Believe it or not, I've never knowingly heard Oasis. The sample on here ("Wonderwall") is actually pretty good until somewhere around about half-way through when the big-buck mainstream elements start to accumulate and override the elements that attracted me to the first verse. Today "Purveyors of Taste" fell through the mail slot. I didn't know what it would have on it. The only thing I didn't already have is "I Didn't Mean to Hurt You" by Felt. Totally worth the purchase price. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3269 Registered: 05-2005 |
R.E.M. - Live At The Olympia. I played disc 1 last night and it was stunning. God I wish I was at some of those shows. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3270 Registered: 05-2005 |
Spiritualized - Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space [Elvis Version] | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 601 Registered: 05-2005 |
Sara Blasko - As Day Follows Night: Quality stuff. I heard a song of hers on the J's and was going to see her up the road at Bulli about 5 years ago. When I mentioned this to a mate, so vehemently was his put down I never went! What a damn pity!!! Now she's winning awards and stuff and being popular!!!! Closer - Joy Division: So stark still. Wish You Were Here - The FLOYD (!): Some nice riffs but this is where the 70's really begin to get a bad reputation fro overindulgent dross. Aqualung - Jethro Tull(!!): For me this recreates the sound of my oldest sister about to be engaged. Imagine - John Lennon: Classic. Skully - you might even like Gimme some truth! The Coffee Hounds - The Church: Short but good. Beggars Banquet - The STONES (!!!): Great of course...how could it not with Sympathy and Street Fighting?? | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 506 Registered: 10-2008 |
anybody heard this outfit from melbourne. http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/dec /04/eddy-current-supression-ring-primary -colours i listened to one of their albums on napster a few months back, if i remember right it was kinda garage rock, loads of hooks. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 206 Registered: 05-2005 |
the albums on Spotify and they have a MySpace too - punky and hooky and pleasant enough but not about to set the world on fire | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2191 Registered: 03-2005 |
I've only got the first Blasko record Geoff. I gave it one listen, went "OK, stereotypical major label noughties exaggerated female vocal technique . . . Next!" Robert's reviewed her new album. He likes it. He says that her vocal style has become less affected. God, I hope so. The problem is that he falls into that old critic's trap of quoting some of the lyrics and not a single couplet that he quotes is any good. I sure do appreciate her choice of "Hold Your Horses" for the Go Betweens memorial though. I'm still hoping somebody pops up as this era's Betty McQuade. Your mention of Aqualung brings back memories of high school. I remember arguing with this really smart girl who was big on JT that the Moody Blues were better! | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1816 Registered: 10-2004 |
New Order - Power, Corruption, and Lies. Seemed the perfect choice for winding down on this insanely cold evening after a hectic day. Still my favorite New Order album, too. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3431 Registered: 05-2005 |
agree jeff, its the best. | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 602 Registered: 05-2005 |
Someone here was raving about the Eddy Current Suppression ring in the last year here - Mark maybe??? Over to you.... | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1687 Registered: 01-2005 |
Geoff, I though Jethro Tull started to go downhill somewhat with sludgey sounding Aqualung, as I perfer the first three albums (This Was, Stand Up and Benefit). I never bought another Tull album after Aqualung except for the Living In The Past compilation. | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 603 Registered: 05-2005 |
My (now) brother in law had Aqualung and Thick as a Brick - both of which I liked at the time. He also had The Slider and Bolan Boogie too. I think I was about 7 or 8 and I used to dig them out and play them whilst my friends were playing Abba! Meanwhile my other sister was playing Led Zep, Grand Funk Railway, Elton John, Free and Cream. Under her tutelage I graduated to Suzi Quatro! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3274 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Go-Betweens - 1978 - 1990. Inspired by reading about Shields Street somewhere in the past couple of days. | ||
| Mark Leydon Member Username: Mark_leydon Post Number: 274 Registered: 05-2005 |
Hi Geoff - yes it was me raving about Eddy Current Suppression Ring about this time last year. Really like them. Here's what I said in the 'what are you listening to' thread last year: "This Melbourne band provide a superb blast of punkoid energy. Really enjoying their latest album 'Primary Colours' which is chock full of great songs. By all accounts they are one of the best live bands in Australia with a charasmatic frontman. Based on the clips I've seen he has more than a touch of Ian Curtis about him. Looking foward to seeing them next month at the Homebake festival here in Sydney" I caught them in concert about a month later - here's my comment from the 'gigs you been to' hread: "Eddy Current Suppression Ring at the Excelsior Hotel in Sydney last Friday night. This was a 'secret gig' as a warmup for their appearance at the Homebake festival the following day. I found out about at the last moment and just got there as the band came on stage. What a great gig. These guys from Melbourne build up an awesome head of steam live. Their songs are deceptively simple, usually built around retro sounding guitar and bass riffs that become steadily more hypnotic. The vocalist stalks the stage like a man possessed..." | ||
| Mark Leydon Member Username: Mark_leydon Post Number: 275 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy - I'm with you on Sarah Blasko. She's talented and there are some lovely songs on her latest album - but I just cannot get past her extremely affected vocal mannerisms. Some of her phrasing and pronunciations are so weird it's like a Bjork parody. Dunno why so many female artist today feel the need to go 'kooky' in terms of vocal stylings and image. Kate Miller Heidke is another talented local artist who has fallen victim to this. I guess Bjork has a lot to answer for. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3279 Registered: 05-2005 |
I really like that Sarah Blasko record. Some of the pronunciations are a bit weird, but it's hardly in Joanna Newsom territory. I haven't heard Ms Blasko's earlier work; if it leans towards kookie I will continue to avoid it. Her current album really is very good though. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3434 Registered: 05-2005 |
She has a nice style (though its the style of so many cosmpolitan wannabe soulstresses who think they fit into the old 4AD aesthetic but clearly are no where near achieving greatness with their first album let alone never releasing a second as they;re not up to the mark,), but its too brittle sounding (her voice), it needs some barry white bass adding to her body;s EQ! | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1820 Registered: 10-2004 |
Today at work, the theme is jazz classics: Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage John Coltrane - A Love Supreme Bobby Hutcherson - Stick Up | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1719 Registered: 09-2006 |
Nirvana - Live at Reading | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2194 Registered: 03-2005 |
Tender Bruises & Scars -- Kevin Hewick | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 606 Registered: 05-2005 |
Sara Blasko and Beggars Banquet, interspersed with large does of Church (seeing them Saturday). | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3287 Registered: 05-2005 |
Sonny Southon - Falling Through A Cloud. Having played the tape for the first time in a very long time, I think this 1990 album is a lost soul classic. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 525 Registered: 10-2008 |
the stooges - raw power new york dolls - new york dolls suicide - suicide | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2201 Registered: 03-2005 |
Microdisney--Everybody's Fantastic | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3288 Registered: 05-2005 |
Manchester Orchestra - Mean Everything To Nothing | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1822 Registered: 10-2004 |
Hey, did you finally track that one down, Randy? | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2202 Registered: 03-2005 |
I broke down Jeff and paid the $75 I'd been refusing to pay for a couple years when I noticed that some of the others that I already have, like "Clock," are now priced at DOUBLE that! It just arrived in the mail today. It's a nice clean one at least. I'm sure next month Domino will announce their comprehensive Microdisney reissue program. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1823 Registered: 10-2004 |
Well, I must say, you've been very patient! I hope the album holds up for you. To this day it remains in my mental top 3 list. Funny you mention Clock's insanely high price tag - I picked up a copy on CD (just to round out my collection) earlier this year for $5 at Amoeba. I love it when that happens. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 528 Registered: 10-2008 |
I have never paid more than Ł20 for an album, and to the best of my knowledge there are no albums that i still want to hear that i dont have. admittedly some may be cdr copies from friends, or even mp3s but im fine with that. like randy says, somebody like domino will rerelease obscure or out of print stuff eventually and i will then purchase it and finally get my hands on the packaging. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1824 Registered: 10-2004 |
Well, in the case of Microdisney, it's quite possible that said comprehensive reissue series may never see the light of day. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3290 Registered: 05-2005 |
Listening right now to the debut EP by Sydney band Songs. Like the album which followed it,it is also self titled. I really like it. Definitely a big Flying Nun/Go-Betweens/Triffids influence there. Mark, or anyone, it'd driving me mad trying to recall who the singer reminds me of. He sounds exactly like someone else, possibly a Kiwi, but who? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3291 Registered: 05-2005 |
As for paying too much for records... I once paid $40 for Swervedriver's Mezcal Head album. It was remastered and rereleased with extra tracks for half that price about three years later. I always wanted the Feelies albums but only had CDRs (and Time For A Witness on cassette). I'm glad I waited for the re-releases of their first three albums. I also got Time For A Witness on CD this year, but it was cheap, probably in the expectation that it too will eventually be rereleased. Who knows, as Jeff said, if the Microdisney stuff will ever get rereleased though. Their certainly isn't any Feelies-like cult about them. And as for finding bargains, I found David McComb's solo album for $7 in a dusty second hand shop in Auckland in 2002. I kept a tight grip on it as I went through the rest of the shop. I also got a hard to find Pursuit Of Happiness CD that day for $5. I'll miss such shops when they're all gone. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3292 Registered: 05-2005 |
Now listening to El Mopa's The Metal Years. iTunes designates them as rock, possibly due to the misleading album title. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2203 Registered: 03-2005 |
Del Shannon--the Further Adventures of Charles Westover | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 617 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Byrds - The Preflye sessions Shawn Phillips - "Contribution" and "Second contribution" | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 458 Registered: 01-2007 |
Just really listening to Television, just seems so much better than everything else. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1825 Registered: 10-2004 |
Iron Maiden - Killers | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3294 Registered: 05-2005 |
Without You: The Best Of Harry Nilsson | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3295 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Devastations - Yes, U | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3451 Registered: 05-2005 |
Bob Mould - Circle Line. I like to rock out from time to time. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3452 Registered: 05-2005 |
District Line. ;) | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1694 Registered: 01-2005 |
I'll continue Spence's rock out theme: Misson of Burma - That's How I Escaped My Certain Fate | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3299 Registered: 05-2005 |
Domino Christmas Sampler 2009 | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1721 Registered: 09-2006 |
Brinsley Schwarz - Nervous on the Road/The New Favorites of... Another great twofer I forgot to mention. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3302 Registered: 05-2005 |
Word magazine's November CD. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3456 Registered: 05-2005 |
The National - Alligator. Its a freakin great album. Its full of intelligent angst, a rapid musical urgency to cram melody, desire and beauty into each song. I've never actually got over how smiilar the vocalist's voice is to Jim irwin who used to front the great lost Furniture, I'll come to terms with it one day!. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3304 Registered: 05-2005 |
Graeme Downes - Hammers And Anvils. I pulled it out though I was looking for something else in my Flying Nun 100 disc stack holder (the only label to get its own stack holder in my house). It's years since I've played it but in the intervening period I've got over how his voice reminds me of Sting on this record. I can now finally hear the great album it is. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3307 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Beautiful South - Welcome To The Beautiful South. Still a great debut 20 years on. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3310 Registered: 05-2005 |
Steve Wynn & The Miracle 3 - Static Transmission. A truly brilliant record. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 202 Registered: 03-2007 |
Bee Gees - Odessa. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1724 Registered: 09-2006 |
Agreed, Padraig, very much. Made a Big Star compilation for my lovely and amazing wife, who's a huge music fan but had missed out on them...then got the vicarious pleasure of watching her fall in love with the songs. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2208 Registered: 03-2005 |
There's an interesting choice Hugh. The good songs on that album are quite good and the whole was largely overlooked because of the lack of a hit--at least in this country anyway. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 205 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, 'Odessa' has always been my favourite and most played Bee Gees album. If I remember correctly, the 'First Of May' was a hit single here in the U.K. Feeling a little nostalgic today and I am now listening to The Webb Sessions ( A Tramp Shining; The Yard Went On Forever ) by Richard Harris. They sounds as fresh to me today as they did when I first heard them some 40 years ago. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2210 Registered: 03-2005 |
Hugh, "First of May" did nothing here. The album was quite visible in the racks because of the flashy fuzzy red record cover but it ended up in the cut-out bin. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 534 Registered: 10-2008 |
as a youngster, who as part of his rites of passage, listened to many irish rebel albums which obviously mainly concentrated on irelands struugle for freedom against the tyrannous brits :-), i always found it strange that nestled amongst all this rabble rousing on a wolfe tones album was "the first of may". nothing to do with irish nationalism, i guess it was there because may 1st is an important date for socialists? | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 207 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, I have the original vinyl with its faux red velvet cover. It must surely qualify as one of the worst album sleeves of the era. I believe 'First Of May' was the only single released from the album ( 'Lamplight' being the b-side.) I think the release of the album coincided with Robin leaving the group which probably affected sales. Skulldisco, I read somewhere that the Bee Gees song had something to do with Barry's dog. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3458 Registered: 05-2005 |
Michael Head & The Strands - Magical word of The Strands Heard some of it but not all of it. I love it. Thanks jeff. next up... Jorge Ben best of, courtsey of jeff. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2212 Registered: 03-2005 |
After a few days of music silence Teardrop Explodes--Kilimanjaro. I've been meaning to pull out a Teardrop record ever since the start of the Julian Cope thread. I am currently at the part of Robert's book that is about books. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2213 Registered: 03-2005 |
Now Youth Group--Skeleton Jar They still sound like a halfway point between Gaslight Radio and Knievel. I like them better than Knievel but not as much as I like the raggedy-sounding Gaslight Radio when they have their grip on a good song. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3315 Registered: 05-2005 |
Handel - Messiah: For Unto Us A Child Is Born. Interestingly, it was first performed around Easter in a music hall on Fishamble St, Dublin. Fishamble St is right beside Christchurch Cathedral and about 500 metres from St Patrick's Cathedral. The dean of St Patrick's at the time was Gulliver's Travels author Jonathan Swift. At first he refused to allow his choristers to perform music set to sacred text in the secular setting of a music hall. Thankfully, he relented. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3316 Registered: 05-2005 |
Other interesting fact for you non-Irish people, Christchurch and St Patrick's are both Church of Ireland (Anglican). Dublin does not have a Catholic Cathedral! | ||
| Mark Leydon Member Username: Mark_leydon Post Number: 281 Registered: 05-2005 |
Padraig - in answer to your question a few days ago about who the vocalist for Songs (Max Doyle) sounds like : on some songs he is a dead-ringer for Mark E Smith, particularly on the opening track, but on others he puts me in mind of David Kilgour from The Clean. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3317 Registered: 05-2005 |
Yes! I think it's Kilgour he reminds me of. Thanks Mark. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 209 Registered: 03-2007 |
Jona Byron - Extinct Hearts. A seven track mini album with a running time of just over 37 minutes. Released to bridge the gap between his signing for Popboomerang and the release of his debut album in 2010. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3319 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Walls | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2214 Registered: 03-2005 |
Inspired by Cosmo's song of the day entry: Frank Tovey--the Fad Gadget Singles | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1832 Registered: 10-2004 |
Funny, I was just listening to that the other day (prompted by watching the BBC Synth Britannia doc on youtube and wondering why Fad Gadget only got a passing mention). | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 282 Registered: 02-2007 |
Old Ghostrider - Triffids. Treeless Plain kicking off a Triffids Christmas Eve!! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3320 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kraftwerk - Autobahn | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2215 Registered: 03-2005 |
That sounds like a fine Christmas Eve David. | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 283 Registered: 02-2007 |
Yeh Randy, coupla months back got the whole set - Treeless Plain, Beautiful Waste, Born Sandy, In The Pines, Calenture, Black Swan - the Remastred/Repackages Sets. havent had a real opportunity to have a good listen till today. Fantastic songs! | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1835 Registered: 10-2004 |
Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden Motorhead - Overkill Metallica - Kill 'em All Simple Minds - Empires & Dance Go-Betweens - Send Me A Lullaby | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3322 Registered: 05-2005 |
Peter Sarstedt - Where Do You Go To My Lovely? | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2216 Registered: 03-2005 |
I don't think I've ever heard that Padraig. It scares me though. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1726 Registered: 09-2006 |
That's one of just two Sarstedt songs I've ever heard..that one because of it's inclusion in the movie "The Darjeeling Limited," and "Take Off Your Clothes," which I remember from the Dr. Demento radio show many many years ago. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3323 Registered: 05-2005 |
It's a great 60s song Randy. I suppose some would consider it cheesy. Not me though. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3325 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy, I can see what you mean about Where Do You Go To My Lovely scaring you. I've just googled the lyrics. They are as I thought they were, but I'd never just read them before. I always previously heard them in the context of a great melody. My God, what a stalker! The world's first ever stalker guide number 1? The song is on it's way to you. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2218 Registered: 03-2005 |
Thank you very much for it Padraig. It sounds like a European P.F. Sloan song. I only know it from a book of the same title by Fred Dellar. It's one of my favorite reference works for U.K. one (or maybe two) hit wonders from the 60s. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3328 Registered: 05-2005 |
You're welcome Randy! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2222 Registered: 03-2005 |
At the little vinyl-only store in Fresno, CA I picked up a copy of Stevie Wright's "Black Eyed Bruiser." I didn't even know this album existed, a second Vanda/Young project. This is a proper Albert Productions Australian copy (if there was ever anything else). It's at least as good as "Hard Road" and possibly better, essentially mid-70s Easybeats. This same store also tossed up Ups & Downs' "Sleepless" which I'll be playing next. |