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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3326 Registered: 05-2005 |
Time for a new one. A Vision Shared: A Tribute To Woodie Guthrie And Leadbelly. Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Willie Nelson, Brian Wilson, Fishbone etc doing the covers. I bought it on cassette in a great record shop in Boston in 1989. I went back there in 2000 and it was a photocopy shop. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1727 Registered: 09-2006 |
Haven't listened to that one in years, Padraig...I remember liking it quite a bit. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3331 Registered: 05-2005 |
Radiohead - Amnesiac. I had never heard it before yesterday. I loved it on first listen. It's even better than Kid A. I was expecting something really difficult to listen to given its reputation, but it's not like that at all really. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2227 Registered: 03-2005 |
Normie Rowe & the Playboys--Early Anthology | ||
| Victor Edwin Prose Member Username: Victor_prose Post Number: 51 Registered: 04-2009 |
This xx record (sounds like a cross between Young Marble Giants and Arto Lindsay's cover of "Erotic City") and what little Vic Chesnutt I've been able to get my hands on -- the Sweet Relief II album, Salesman & Bernadette and, most fondly, At the Cut. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 539 Registered: 10-2008 |
Not listening yet, but i will be when its released. Orange Juice - the 80s reissue programme. released on,yep you guessed it, domino records. "the entire recorded output, with plentiful odds and sods" according to the new issue of uncut | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 540 Registered: 10-2008 |
animal collective - fall be kind. 'kin hell, this is even better than the album!! its comforting to know that this band appear to be incapable of selling out, but have achieved the holy grail of being from left field, albeit hugely popular with music fans, but still critical darlings, and utterly brilliant to boot. not on here though it would appear!! ;-) | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 541 Registered: 10-2008 |
retribution gospel choir - 2 second album from low singer alan sparhawk's offshoot band. sounds just like low, but without the divine mimi's vocals. to be honest i thought early low albums were all about mimi, the best female vocalist of her generation by miles. however, on the last few albums sparhawks vocals have been great, he's really grown in confidence. this album sounds like low when they rock out, but for 10 songs instead of maybe 2. its great. uncut magazine compared it to crazy horse!! | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 286 Registered: 02-2007 |
My new year's resolution is to get some animal collective music and see what all the fuss is about skulldisco ok! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2228 Registered: 03-2005 |
I've been avoiding them because I so seldom like any of the artists that the critics get hot for. At least it's a decent name. Nothing wrong with that name at all. I can't say that for most of the recent critics' darlings. I just finished listening to Sleepy Jackson's "Personality." It's overproduced by a country mile but it has its moments. I'm looking forward to getting the first album. I suspect I'll like it better. | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 235 Registered: 05-2005 |
Just come back from the party. The Shins, Chutes to narrow. Nothing better to start 2010. Happy new year to everyone! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2229 Registered: 03-2005 |
Happy New Year Trou. We're still over two hours away from the day change out here in California. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 542 Registered: 10-2008 |
this not meant to be a negative or critical observation, but i get the impression that if animal collective were from brisbane or sydney, rather than being new york based, they might get a lot more love round here! | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1704 Registered: 01-2005 |
Gene Clark - Echoes Tom Waits - Mule Variations Arcade Fire - Neon Bible Spoon - Kill The Moonlight Conmemorativo - A tribute to Gram Parsons (with Vic Chesnut & Bob Mould, The Mekons, Steve Wynn, Uncle Tupelo, Pete Holsapple & Susan Cowsill among others) | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 981 Registered: 08-2004 |
Fanfare Vagabontu - Rabbids Go Home soundtrack (It's a bit Morricone/Bernard Herrmann/Nino Rota) | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1848 Registered: 10-2004 |
Kevin - I can't speak for anyone else, but I could care less about where Animal Collective comes from. The problem, imo, is that they're just merely okay (and sometimes kind of annoying). Just because a band becomes the darlings of the critics, doesn't mean they're actually good. That's something I learned many, many years ago. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 210 Registered: 03-2007 |
Cloud Cult - Lost Songs From The Lost Years. A collection of songs ( recorded between 1994 and 2007 ) which failed to find their way onto any of their six albums. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2230 Registered: 03-2005 |
Kevin, I readily admit that I have a strong bias against Yank music. Much of it is just a little too close to what surrounds me everyday to engage me. Someone writing in "Vagabond Holes" reports that David McComb dismissed Ray Davies' work because it lacked "mystery." I had a great eureka moment there because when it comes to U.S. music I can't get into it unless there is a dimension of mystery. So the music of some of the people listed above by Michael Bachman--Gene Clark, Gram Parsons, even Vic Chesnutt--make the grade for me because their music exudes the complexity of their souls. I don't know what Steve Wynn is doing nowadays but his early Dream Syndicate work falls into that classification also. When it's a British artist, the sheer foreign origin often substitutes for mystery to me which is why I can enjoy Ray Davies' work more than David McComb could, even if I now enjoy it much less than I used to. BUT, having said that, since the late 60s I've had to endure critics oohing and aahing over music I still think is bloated crap and slagging off people whose work I think has been totally vindicated over time. Does that mean I think ALL critics' darlings are overrated? Obviously not; I'm on this board. But an awful lot of their faves can sink to the bottom of the sea as far as I care. So my prejudice against the critics introduces a long delay between my hearing about one of their favorite artists and my actually listening to them. I do have a fetish for Aussie music--guilty as charged, if charged. When it draws upon the friction, interaction, contrast--choose your word, I'm not satisfied with any of my choices--between the vast lonely dry spaces of that continent and the cities which are like isolated outposts the music really works for me. I think it's because I'm a western American, in a heavily populated crust on the edge of a sparsely populated desert. I truly don't understand why my own state doesn't produce music to express that same thing. But I don't love EVERYTHING coming out of Oz. I tried Padraig's recent favorites from Brisbane--Skinny Jean--and just find another Naughties band trying to do 40 things at once and none of them sufficiently well. Aside from me, I don't think there's anybody else on this board who is guilty of what you describe. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 982 Registered: 08-2004 |
This is particularly subjective since listening to a record doesn't have to go along with the geographical knowledge of the band in question. The New York & particularly Brooklyn "scene" which has been pushed for the last few years following on from the 'Canadian alt-rock is great' debacle. Is just as flawed as any other press-led attempt at stirring relevance in a dying art-form. One man's prejudice is another man's love. Hence, Neil Finn is leading the way at present along with the rest of the New Zealand sound, should it be Kiwi Collective. I've tried with AC. Sometime's it just doesn't seem worth the effort. Like banging your ears against a brick wall. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 543 Registered: 10-2008 |
i know what you are saying jeff, however i actually thought for a minute or two about how i worded my post because its open to misinterpretation. my point about AC is that from what i can see they have been critical darlings (especially in the usa)for most of the decade, this press worship has been noticeable for a good few albums now - a glance at loads of year end polls shows that, esp pitchfork. i didnt really care for(and still dont)that "nu folk" or whatever it was called that they were peddling and wrote them off as critics pets with no real substance. however, imo they have had a radiohead style conversion (a band i now really like but loathed with a passion pre kid a) and i now love the "new" AC. this started for me with panda bears solo album, then i liked some of strawberry jam, merryweather and the new ep are just different class to anything that most "indie"(for want of a better term) bands are producing. i presume your point at them being critical darlings doesnt mean good wasnt particularly something you are accusing me of given the obscure shit i listen to !! on the point of where they come from : its just something that i have observed on these pages that intrigues me,that a country like aus or nz which to my mind have a very poor track record for producing music(with some notable obvious exceptions) can find such kudos with some folks here. as i say im not castigating anybody, if anything i think its great that they track down what is basically hard to find stuff. i was just trying to point out, in my usual cumbersome jackboots on way, that music doesnt really have a zipcode, its either good or bad irrespective of geography. (ive just read this back, and the last paragraph still doesnt really convey what i want to say, but sod it, lets put it out there!!) | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 544 Registered: 10-2008 |
actually randy, you've maybe nailed it and i wish i'd read your post before posting my ramble at 05:16pm. its where WE come from geographically that dictates the bands we like or dislike. because i come from an industrialised part of scotland i like electronic/beat driven bass music etc. well its worth thinking about anyway! i've never been close to a desert, even when i went to aus a few years ago it was to lush, tropical cairns. you serious about yourself being the only one "guilty" of aus/nz band fetishism? :-) there are quite a few are there not? | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 545 Registered: 10-2008 |
jerry, i take your point about subjectively listening to a record under most circumstances. but some people on here actively hunt down aus/nz bands in particular just because thats where they come from,well thats how it appears to me anyway. again i stress i am not being critical here. so in the topic under discussion i dont think your point holds up. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2231 Registered: 03-2005 |
That makes sense to me, Kevin. Where we are from, what's our environment, will reflect itself in our musical choices. I was heavy into industrial in the early 90s but that phase eventually passed for me because it's not my true background. I grew up in a racially segregated, economically depressed suburban town surrounded by farmland and scrub. I really do think I'm the only one on here specifically actively hunting down Aussie music. Hugh actively hunts down music from EVERYWHERE to fill his distant Scottish eyrie. (And thank you for Cloud Cult's "Tambourine Man," Hugh). As for the Aussie locals, well, they aren't hunting things down; they're just reporting. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1849 Registered: 10-2004 |
What's funny about my musical tastes is that I see them as being an escape from the dreadful, working class suburb in which I grew up. As a teenager I embraced music that conveyed a kind of atmosphere or mystery, so I could close my eyes and transport myself elsewhere, in a sense. And even when I listened to decidedly non-mysterious punk rock or whatever, that stuff still often reflected a disenchantment (to put it mildly) with those surroundings. So, basically, I loathe any music that in any way evokes the kind of area in which I grew up! | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 546 Registered: 10-2008 |
jeff, thats also true about the escapism i guess. but again, its about where YOU were from and wanted to get away from. most of us here come from widely differing geographical locations which undoubtedly shape what we listen to. some people "champion" their local bands, or in a small country like scotland, scottish bands. i never really identified with that apart from the postcard records scene. even with the cocteau twins, i could never really get into them because i knew them as people just like me,we all had the same mutual friends, people who liked a beer in the local pub etc. they were not some mysterious deep thinkers from a different planet (in liz's case)that the press reported them as. in a way i regret that, i' m sure i would have loved them a lot more had i not known them, daft as that may sound. bloody hell, this is some deep shit for to start the new decade!! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2232 Registered: 03-2005 |
I agree Jeff and that's why I have my default bias against Yank music. (That's also why I've always been fascinated by cars seldom seen here.) But, over the years, I've found that certain basic underlying attributes of my own life have expressed themselves in my musical tastes. I'll almost always like depressive types, for example. The guitar-dominated music is where I started and where I end up. And I really do think there's something to the uneasy contest between human beings and this earth that gets under my skin. I wish I could articulate it competently. For what it's worth I always attribute it to my California upbringing. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 547 Registered: 10-2008 |
randy, thats a great line about humans and the earth. dont beat yourself up about articulating, its as clear as a bell, and something less gifted communicators would probably need paragraphs to convey. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 548 Registered: 10-2008 |
back to the music. having an afternoon/evening of only playing vinyl, assisted by bottles of peroni beer and red wine. mostly 70's reggae (lee perry, johnny clarke, gregory isaacs), maybe its because its pure white outside, ice and snow, and i want to escape to sunnier climes. also played pacific street by pale fountains, in remarkbly good condition seeing as its probably 25 years old. that track "unless" is a bit of a stand out on side 1 because it doesnt have that arthur lee/love vibe about it. it has that unmistakable liverpool 80s sound, but it could have been turned into a "standard" by some "big name" artist such is the quality of the song. | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 236 Registered: 05-2005 |
The new Spoon single : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLHF5VxcE mg&feature=related And the concert in an already nearly full februar! | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 287 Registered: 02-2007 |
Kevin, when I was early 20's living here in Brisbane thats why I got into the GBs and the Saints cos they were from my town. All we had here was music imported from someqwhere else. Shite covers bands, derivitave wanna bees etc and suddenly we had OUR own sound (whatever that was). I think the same with Melbourne scene (Bitrhtday Party, Cave etc) and then connect into something bigger say what was happeneing in UK early 80,s. We werent just colonised politically and economically, we were culturally playing catch up for a while (at least here in Qld with repressive Joh Bjelke Peterson govt). Admittedly many of these bands headed overseas to London for example cos it was hard for em to find that audience here. I know that was 30 yrs ago Kev, but listening to bands that came from the same town as you did brought the world a whole lot closer in that pre-internet age. Not trying to defend all Aust/NZ music here just saying that local music was specially important in that late 70,s or 80/s decade before we got all hooked up. Hey Randy , i agree you articulated the relationship between the listener and his/her geography brilliantly. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1705 Registered: 01-2005 |
Coming from the northern 'burbs of Detroit I certainly had mixed feelings that Grand Funk Railroad, Ted Nugent, semi-native Alice Cooper and eventually even Bob Seger had the big sales fiqures in the seventies while the better local groups (Stooges, MC5, Frost and SRC) imploded before they made it big. Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac was the first band that made me forget the better local bands. I could feel the emotion in the way Peter sang the blues and tuned his strat/bent the strings in such a way that it matched his singing. Gram Parsons's singing and his duets with Emmylou Harris hooked me the first time I plopped Grievous Angel on my turntable back in 1975, but the downside was my churning stomache everytime I heard Nazareth butcher Love Hurts on the radio. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 165 Registered: 08-2005 |
Regina Spektor - just discovered her music during a rare visit to a record shop, Fopp in Bristol. She's great. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3342 Registered: 05-2005 |
Yeasayer - Old Blood | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 217 Registered: 05-2005 |
Donovan - Sunshine Superman LP | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1850 Registered: 10-2004 |
John Coletrane - My Favorite Things McCoy Tyner - The Real McCoy | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3344 Registered: 05-2005 |
Spoon - Transference. As with the Yeasayer album, I have a preview copy of it. Both are excellent. It's a good start to 2010. The Spoon record is out in a couple of weeks, the Yeasayer in a month. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 551 Registered: 10-2008 |
the yeasayer is a bit quirky padraig, but sounds ok. quirky has a habit of turning into annoying i find though | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1740 Registered: 09-2006 |
The Marvelettes - Deliver: The Singles 1961-1971 Alex Chilton - Top 30 Thelonious Monk - Misterioso, Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane, Thelonious Himself, Monk's Dream, Ken Burns Jazz, "That's the Way I Feel Now" - Hal Willner tribute to Monk | ||
| Mark Leydon Member Username: Mark_leydon Post Number: 283 Registered: 05-2005 |
I really like the first Yeasayer album - so looking forward to their new one. Thanks for the tip-off Padraig. | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 624 Registered: 05-2005 |
Anyone heard the new Vampire Weekend? | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 552 Registered: 10-2008 |
have heard it about 4 times geoff. not as immediately (and maddeningly?)catchy as the last one but still brimming with tunes. probably will stand up better for me in the long run. i like what they are trying to do though and reckon if they stay together they could be a great band, just wait till they start shaving properly!! | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1711 Registered: 01-2005 |
Allen, Make sure you get Monk's two early Blue Note albums: The Genuis of Modern Music, volume one and volume two. As much as I love Monk the composer and his playing, Bud Powell is by far my favorite jazz pianist. Bud had real long fingers and used them to strike the keys in traditional and non-traditional methods that were all his own. Here is a live video of Bud from 1962 in Copenhagen showing his amazing fingers blazing away on the 88's on Anthropology: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDfdIf7Yi 8M | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1853 Registered: 10-2004 |
I'm not as familiar with Bud Powell. Kind of a different era, but my favorite jazz pianist these days is McCoy Tyner. The man's playing and compositional skill are pure genius. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1713 Registered: 01-2005 |
Jeff, Bud was sometimes referred to as the Charlie Parker of bebop piano because he could play ultra fast, complicated lines similar to Parker that Monk coudn't. Like Monk though he suffered from mental problems. Bud could barely function performing the day-today tasks and needed a care taker due to the after effects of a split skull from a policemans nightstick. He suffered mind numbing headaches as a result and subsequent multiple shock treatments during stints at various institutions that reduced his capacity to function outside of composing and playing. Bud took to drinking to numb the headaches, but he would be totally drunk after only two glasses of wine. His living companion Buttercup Edwards used to overdoze him with the drug Largactil, taken for the treatment of schizophrenia, and his skills diminished. However he recovered in Paris in the early 1960's thanks to the character you see portrayed in the movie Round Midnight (in real life that person was Francis Paudras). Sax great Dexter Gordon was basically portraying Bud Powell's story in Round Midnight. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2235 Registered: 03-2005 |
Thanks for that link Michael. Bebop is a period I haven't taken the time to explore but always like what I hear when I do. I couldn't help gritting my teeth at a few of the ignorant and even racist remarks people posted though: "they all white people they just didn't get that shit back then" my #@$! The Europeans are the folks who DID get American jazz more than anybody else in that era. Moron. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1854 Registered: 10-2004 |
Wow, that's a harrowing and tragic story. At least he was able to continue functioning as a great musician for a while. I've been on a jazz kick lately so I've been checking out anything I come across that's new to me (particularly from the late 50s - mid 60s). | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2236 Registered: 03-2005 |
I came home to find my copy of Sleepy Jackson's "Lovers" had fallen through the slot in my front door. "Rain Falls for Wind" is one of those records--and I do mean "record" the whole thing, song, arrangement and sound--that is like a mainline hit for me. It's like an especially good probably better-funded early Panics track. Superb. In fact that's what Sleepy Jackson sounds like on this album: the Panics after they'd indulged in a heavy rotation of mid-70s ELO records. Which means VASTLY better than ELO and a little less folk-inflected than the Panics. Thanks, Geoff, for so firmly emphasizing the importance of my picking up some Sleepy Jackson. Thanks, Hugh, for the sampler. And no, Kevin, you won't like this stuff any better than the other Aussie stuff I go gaga over. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1855 Registered: 10-2004 |
I really need to explore bebop more in-depth, as I tend to listen to more post-bop modal jazz. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2237 Registered: 03-2005 |
The bebop I've heard has a nice sexy smoky sound. And it's great in mono. It profits from the advent of magnetic recording tape but doesn't tend to have the dry, clean, clinical sound of the 60s stuff. However, in response to this thread I'm going to pull out my long-neglected copy of "Coltrane --The Classic Quartet." One last comment on Sleepy Jackson: the lyrics should not have been printed because they are not all that terribly good. I do wish more pop artists understood the importance of not printing their lyrics. They're forfeiting the mystery. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1856 Registered: 10-2004 |
Randy, I used to find that if I read lyrics along to the song, it somehow ruined the experience, even if the lyrics were good. That made me kind of anti-printed lyrics. So, yeah, I seldom actually look at printed lyrics unless I'm really curious about something. | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 625 Registered: 05-2005 |
Thanks fro the word on Vampire weekend Skully. I don't know how many second albums that I've bought that are a total waste of time! I TOLD YOU that you would like the Sleepy Jackson Randy! Even though Skully may not like them (although I think he would...if I hadn't recommended it!), I think he might like Luke Steele's next project, Empire of the Sun. Aussie MGMT. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 553 Registered: 10-2008 |
im with jeff on printed lyrics. geoff, please dont think for a minute that anything you (or anybody)recommend would put me off. if that was the case i would never have given radiohead a chance, critical darlings who i dismissed till kid a. damon alburn and blur is another one off the top of my head. i never rated this man and his group, but once he got over the "house in the country" cockney nonsense he showed what a great musician he was and still is - not sure about the chinese opera nonsense mind you!! journos and friends had been banging on about him for years but when he started making what i thought were good records i was onside. animal collective are the most recent example of what i am saying, never liked them till about 2 years ago and they've made about 6 or 7 records. so what i am trying to say is if luke steele makes a record and you praise it from the heavens i will like it if i like it. simple as that. so far he just doesnt cut it for me. i always judge an album on its merits, not on its creators past achievements - see wilco for the reverse of this. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 522 Registered: 04-2005 |
"Best of Al Green", in tribute to Willie Mitchell who has died. http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/jan /06/willie-mitchell-obituary | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1714 Registered: 01-2005 |
Randy, You are spot on concerning the love and respect for the jazz greats that white Europeans had in the 1950's and 60's. Jazz greats Dexter Gordon, Bud Powell, Kenny Clarke and many others relocated to Paris or Copenhagen rather then face the daily racism of the U.S. at that point of time. If anyone wants to begin checking out early Bud Powell, I suggest getting The Amazing Bud Powell-Volume 1. It has the warm sound Randy speaks of. http://www.amazon.com/Amazing-Bud-Powell -Vol/dp/B00005LANK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s= music&qid=1262954030&sr=1-1 For Bud Powell with a great stereo sound get Time Waits. http://www.amazon.com/Time-Waits-Amazing -Bud-Powell/dp/B00000K4GM/ref=pd_sim_m_1 0 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3348 Registered: 05-2005 |
Well said Randy about jazz in Europe. US jazz and blues found an audience in Europe in the middle of the last century simply because it was good music. The politics of race played little or no part for a European audience, whereas in their native America it was a significant factor in denying jazz and blues musicians a greater white audience. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3349 Registered: 05-2005 |
Listening to Yeasayer again. They could do an Animal Collective with this (ie critical acclaim and a minor crossover hit). | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3350 Registered: 05-2005 |
Now listening to Spoon again. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1857 Registered: 10-2004 |
Wayne Shorter - Juju God damn, this is a good album! Also listening to some of my Smiths 12"s as I just replaced my stylus, and anyone with those 12"s knows how beautiful they sound. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3351 Registered: 05-2005 |
Andy Bull tracks downloadable once you buy the album. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3354 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Triffids - Wide Open Road. I was at a friend's 40 birthday yesterday and got talking to a guy there who's stepfather was David McComb's godfather. He said he once heard David McComb play Wide Open Road on the family piano. Wow, what I'd give to have heard that. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1716 Registered: 01-2005 |
Jeff, JuJu is my favorite Wayne Shorter album! If you want to check out another album from that era that (like JuJu) includes Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner, I highly recommend Joe Henderson - Inner Urge. http://www.amazon.com/Inner-Urge-Joe-Hen derson/dp/B0002A2VKK/ref=pd_sim_m_17 My highly recommended Dexter Gordon album is Go. http://www.amazon.com/Go-Dexter-Gordon/d p/B00000I8UJ/ref=ntt_mus_ep_dpi_lnk My highly recommended hard bop Art Blakey album is Free for All. http://www.amazon.com/Free-All-Blakey-Ja zz-Messengers/dp/B0002KQNZO/ref=sr_1_1?i e=UTF8&s=music&qid=1263131223&sr=1-1 Enjoy! | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1717 Registered: 01-2005 |
Jeff, Two other highly, highly recommended great jazz albums from the same period that you don't want to be without: Hank Mobley - Soul Station http://www.amazon.com/Soul-Station-Hank- Mobley/dp/B00000I8UI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8& s=music&qid=1263132182&sr=1-1 Tina Brooks - True Blue http://www.amazon.com/True-Blue-Tina-Bro oks/dp/B0007DBJ6O/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=m usic&qid=1263132127&sr=1-5 | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1858 Registered: 10-2004 |
Michael, thanks for the recommendations! I'm always looking for new tips, and these all look highly promising. I was actually about to investigate Hank Mobley and Joe Henderson, so this is timely. And Art Blakey is great, I've been wanting to hear more of his albums. I only know three of Wayne Shorter's albums, but Juju is definitely my favorite so far. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1718 Registered: 01-2005 |
Jeff, no problemo! And that's just five of the great 1950's-60's Blue Note label giants without touching on the other seven Blue Note giants of that era that were session leaders on multiple albums like Jimmy Smith, Bud Powell, Jackie McLean, Herbie Hancock, Horace Silver, Lee Morgan, and Freddie Hubbard! Not to mention the ones just a tick behind them like Grant Green, Bobby Hutcherson and Andrew Hill. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1859 Registered: 10-2004 |
Yeah, Bobby Hutcherson is one of my very favorites, and I really dig Herbie Hancock and Freddie Hubbard, too. My ex is a huge Jimmy Smith fan, as well, so I've heard a bunch of his stuff. This is a fun area to explore. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1719 Registered: 01-2005 |
Jeff, Bobby Hutcherson's Happenings from 1966 is on my short list for my next buy. It's got some nice reviews in Amazon. It's a quartet setting with Herbie Hancock on piano, Bob Cranshaw on bass and Joe Chambers on drums. I already have Bobby's The Kicker, Dialogue and Oblique and love all three of them. Plus Bobby gets mucho bonus points from me for portraying the character Ace in the movie Round Midnight. I'd love to see a Criterion Collection release of Round Midnight! | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1860 Registered: 10-2004 |
I've got to see Round Midnight... At any rate, Michael, if you don't have Bobby Hutcherson's Stick Up, you should get it pronto. It's really good, and it's possibly the hardest swinging album of his career. It's also got my piano fav McCoy Tyner. I don't have Happenings but it's on my list. I got to see Bobby Hutcherson live last year and the show blew me away. I love seeing these old jazz guys who are all pushing 70 play with so much fire and intensity. And Bobby was simply amazing to watch and hear live. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 523 Registered: 04-2005 |
Bertrand Tavernier's "Round Midnight" is simply wonderful. Dexter Gordon is excellent in the lead role and apparently had a major hand in developing the script. The scene after his character's death when the fan (François Cluzet) and his daughter are watching his home movie footage never fails to get the tears flowing! And Martin Scorsese appears in an over-the-top cameo too. According to Wikipedia: "An episode of 'The Simpsons' titled 'Round Springfield' is a homage to the film" Any reports ?! | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1720 Registered: 01-2005 |
Round Midnight trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yTX5NOtw Dg | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 461 Registered: 01-2007 |
I've seen Round Midknight many times but not for over a decade now, even had the music on cassette, lovely lovely film. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 524 Registered: 04-2005 |
I had forgotten how Dexter Gordon's voice makes Tom Waits sound like a soprano's. Now that is what I call gravelly cool for you ! | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 288 Registered: 02-2007 |
Kate Bush - Aerial What an interesting album. Only just bought it. 1 listen so far, and fell in love with it straight away! | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 239 Registered: 05-2005 |
Nada Surf - Lucky They will release a cover album this year. And there will be a Go-betweens song on it! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3355 Registered: 05-2005 |
Bluejuice - Head Of The Hawk | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 557 Registered: 10-2008 |
aaaaaaarrrgghhhh!! http://pitchfork.com/news/37562-joanna-n ewsom-album-confirmed/ | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1862 Registered: 10-2004 |
That's a bummer. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3358 Registered: 05-2005 |
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggg ggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! I don't know what's more disturbing; this or Liverpool losing to Reading. The Newsom I think. | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 627 Registered: 05-2005 |
So I guess I should give the Newsom gig in January a miss at the local Anita's Theatre? Or will I actually like it????? Be kind. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 221 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kaleidoscopin': Exploring by the Wondermints (collection of b-sides and rarities) | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1865 Registered: 10-2004 |
Geoff, if you like harp-led folksy neo-hippie claptrap played by a wannabe-mystical wood nymph who sings in a super whiny Betty Boop/senile old lady voice, you'll dig the Newsom show just fine. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 561 Registered: 10-2008 |
geoff, jeff was being kind. she's even worse than that description sounds. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1866 Registered: 10-2004 |
Yeah, Kevin's right. I've had migraines that were more pleasant than Joanna Newsom's music. | ||
| Mark Leydon Member Username: Mark_leydon Post Number: 284 Registered: 05-2005 |
Quote from today's Sydney Morning Herald : She has a voice like Lisa Simpson. Love your description Jeff. I'm gonna use that.. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2240 Registered: 03-2005 |
The Moffs--The Collection. Geoff is to blame for this but it only needs to have five decent tracks to accompany the glorious "Another Day in the Sun" and I'll be happy. The write-ups on Amazon say they morphed into prog-rock. "Prog-rock" is the single worst thing you can be in the world according to Randy Adams. I haven't heard Joanna Newsom. Jeff's description conjures memories of the drecky stuff the hippy types in Fresno listened to during the years 1969-1971. In fact it makes me think of a girl I knew back then named Brenda B______. She was a skinny dishwater blond, slack-jawed and looked 15 years older than she was. As a personality she was a total cipher and always around. I was writing songs back then too and kept threatening to write a song called "It's Only Brenda" in which the hook line would be "You better watch out! . . . It's only Brenda." Sorry for that story! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3360 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jeff, I literally laughed out loud at your description of Ms Newsom. Then I laughed even louder at the idea of having migraines more pleasant than her music. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3361 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy, I think you secretly fancied Brenda. Just admit it. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3364 Registered: 05-2005 |
Flying Nun 25th Anniversary Boxset (Disc 1) | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2241 Registered: 03-2005 |
This Moffs set isn't bad at all. Their version of prog-rock runs along the lines of a MORE bucktoothed Hawkwind. A good thing, IMO. Stoner music for sure. I certainly get my five other good tracks to go with "Another Day in the Sun." But I do have to be in the mood for long. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 224 Registered: 05-2005 |
Rain Parade - Crashing Dream Fieldmice - Snowball Love - Love Lost | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1867 Registered: 10-2004 |
Art Blakey - Free For All (I can't believe how seriously HARD this record is, particularly the first song!) Joe Henderson - Inner Urge Wayne Shorter - Soothsayer | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3367 Registered: 05-2005 |
Quasi - Laissez Les Bon Temps Rouller | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3368 Registered: 05-2005 |
Dirty Projectors - Emblem Of The World | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2242 Registered: 03-2005 |
The Servants--Reserved | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1723 Registered: 01-2005 |
Ms. Newsom gets all these major kudos yet one could argue that her song Sprout and The Bean is just a copy of (The Shaggs) My Pal Foot Foot sans drums and with a harp, what gives? | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1741 Registered: 09-2006 |
Black Box Recorder - Passionoia Sounded disappointing at the time, but much better now, if still not quite as bright as its predecessors. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1742 Registered: 09-2006 |
Tom Verlaine - s/t and Dreamtime | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 124 Registered: 11-2007 |
Stephan Duffy & The Lilac Time - Memory & Desire Never heard anything by Lilac Time before, but just hearing the first 5 songs I must say that this must have been a fault! This is a must buy! | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 983 Registered: 08-2004 |
Leonard Cohen - The Future Wild Beasts - Two Dancers Vampire Weekend - s/t Lloyd Cole & The Commotions - Easy Pieces Bomb The Bass - Into The Dragon O.M.D. - The Best Of... U2 - War | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2244 Registered: 03-2005 |
In honor of Kate I'm listening to her and Anna's final (as far as I know) studio album "Matapedia." This is also the first album of theirs that I ever heard and, for me, it's still their best. I assumed that they'd eventually come up with another one after a decade or so. The title song has consistently reduced me to tears since I first heard it and it certainly did it again tonight. This could only be written by an older person, a middle-aged memory of first love triggered by the reincarnation some of us experience through offspring. It's not necessary to have children for this song to resonate. All you need is a certain number of years and a certain number of people lost to you. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1744 Registered: 09-2006 |
Randy, they did one album since then, the one I've got on right now, "The McGarrigle Hour." It's them plus a bunch of family (Loudon, Rufus, Martha, etc.) and friends (including Emmylou Harris) singing a bunch of old and new songs just gorgeously. I'd highly recommend it. They also did a Christmas record, which I haven't heard. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1745 Registered: 09-2006 |
Am now on to "Dancer With Bruised Knees," my favorite of their albums. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 228 Registered: 05-2005 |
Laura Veirs - July Flame | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1451 Registered: 08-2006 |
I played the McGarrigles' "Heartbeats Accelerating" last night. Used to feel kind of tepid about this one since it's more produced than the McGarrigles records I'd heard before. But it sounded great last night, and "I Eat Dinner" is a killer. And Randy, "The McGarrigle Hour" is worth getting. Nice stuff, very homey. Loudon starts it off with a great version of his song "School Days." | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1746 Registered: 09-2006 |
Haven't spent much time with "Heartbeats..." actually, though I'm keen to do so now. Speaking of Christmas records, Bob Dylan's new album finally came in at the library last night. I was thinking it'd probably be good mostly for the novelty and for a few chuckles, and though it's definitely funny, it's not cheap snark funny...it's funny when and how he wants it to be (try the zydeco "Must Be Santa", or the CD booklet, which has a painting of a classic New England winter scene on the front and Betty Page in an extremely sexy Santa outfit on the back). I liked it a lot, actually, and it may be sacrilege to some, but I enjoy his old worn-out floorboard of a voice in this context more than I have on his last three or four albums - "I'll Be Home For Christmas" could've been written for him. Not to mention that (talk about your Christmas miracles) he displays what sounds an awful lot like actual sincerity, untainted by irony or distance, for minutes at a time. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1873 Registered: 10-2004 |
Lee Morgan - Search for the New Land Wayne Shorter - Adam's Apple Felt - Strange Idols Pattern Wolfgang Press - Standing Up Straight | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 128 Registered: 11-2007 |
Ben Watt - North Marine Drive Comsat Angels - Waiting for a Miracle O Level - 1977-1980 - A Day In The Life Of Gilbert And George Sad Lovers & Giants - E-Mail From Eternity | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 229 Registered: 05-2005 |
Gun Club - Pastoral hide and seek | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1874 Registered: 10-2004 |
Andreas - nice to know I'm not the only one who listens to Sad Lovers and Giants on this board. I don't know about you, but I absolutely love them. | ||
| Jonathan Evans Member Username: Jon Post Number: 367 Registered: 04-2005 |
The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs Seeing them in Manchester next month, so I've got a bit of homework to do. Cheers Jon | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1453 Registered: 08-2006 |
Have fun with that one, Jon. Be sure to hear their last record, "Distortion," as well. They're terrific live. I guarantee a good time. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1875 Registered: 10-2004 |
Bobby Hutcherson - Patterns | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 632 Registered: 05-2005 |
So are you bathed in the light of One Million Years past Randy? I LOVE 60's Donovan so it sounds like I might like Ms Newsom tonight. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1726 Registered: 01-2005 |
On random play: Kate and Anna McGarrigle - eponymous debut album Johnny Cash - American Recordings Emmylou Harris - Cimarron Steve Earle - Transcendental Blues Sarah Harmer - You Were Here | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 129 Registered: 11-2007 |
Jeff, when I hear a song like Imagination .... I love Sad Lovers. When I was in my late teens my first live concert has been The Jam and Stiff Little Fingers in Dortmund, Westfalenhalle 3. It must have been late novembre or early decembre 1980. Having had this as the first concert you must get into indie music and nothing else. It is a pity that there was no internet at that time. I hadn't seen Go-Betweens, Orange Juice or Aztec Camera that early because I didn't find out about their german concerts. My first Go-Betweens concert was in 1989 when they started for R.E.M. They had blown me away. As a student I traded with records - bought 12"es cheaply in record & tape exchange in London and sold rare german wire 7"es and other german stuff that I could buy for 2 german mark (about one euro  That was the time where I found out how interesting all the 7"es were. For that reason I nowadays have a collection of 7"es like not too many people around, ...and Sad Lovers - Imagination ep is still one of my favourites | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2246 Registered: 03-2005 |
Geoff, I still haven't read the fat book that comes with "The Collection" but I keep thinking of surf-rock when I listen to the Moffs. They seem like a psychedelic version of the Atlantics. | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 240 Registered: 05-2005 |
Spoon - Transference, verrry good. Can't wait for the concert in Koln. Vampire WE - | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1455 Registered: 08-2006 |
I, too, am spending time with the new Spoon and Vampire Weekend. After a couple spins, I'm liking them both, although the Spoon seems a little more obtuse than some of their recent stuff. Not saying that's a bad thing, just that I don't have a handle on it yet. Also: Brad Paisley's "American Saturday Night," which I picked up after it made both Christgau's best of '09 and best of the decade lists. Pure Nashville glitz, but pumped up with some killer country/pop songcraft. It reminds me most of a country "Born in the USA" - polished within an inch of its life, but the songs are good enough and pro enough and catchy enough the slick production is actually an asset. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1456 Registered: 08-2006 |
Played a little Pavement last night and woke up to see this: http://pitchfork.com/news/37675-pavement -comp-tracklist-revealed/ Pretty good track list, I gotta say. The rarities/B-sides they chose are excellent, not simply bait for old fans, and there's a good mix of "hits" and deep album cuts. I take back my earlier comment: This is an excellent place to start for anyone who's not so familiar with the band. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1749 Registered: 09-2006 |
Interesting...I may just compile and burn my own copy to see how that sequence sounds. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2248 Registered: 03-2005 |
MPD Limited--The Legendary Go!! Recordings Dinah Lee--The Viking Recordings 1964-1967 | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2249 Registered: 03-2005 |
Hey, the artwork on the MPD Limited antho on Sydney's Canetoad Records is created to one "Geoff Holmes." Coincidenza, or do you have a sideline Geoff? | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 634 Registered: 05-2005 |
No. Not me neither. I'm also not the heavily tattooed lead guitarist from "X" either. | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 635 Registered: 05-2005 |
Oh, and I'm listening to: the first Buffalo Springfield (sounds like pre flyte Byrds) Magical Mystery Tour (first day back at work after a long glorious summer holiday) Obscured by Clouds. Who me, retro?????? Don't worry, next is Dirty Projectors and Yeasayer! |