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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3054 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Church - Starfish (remastered 2 disc version - third time I've bought this album) L.J. Hill - Namoi Mud (he has an Irish grandfather and Cherokee and Aboriginal parents, which, along with a comparison to Kev Carmody, was enough to make me want to buy it) The Microphones - Live in Kyoto and Nagoya Cam Butler - Go Slow Jay Farrar - ThirdShiftGrottoSlack EP Jackson Browne - Lawyers In Love The Earlies - These Were The Earlies Love And Rockets - Seventh Dream Of Teenage Heaven Waco Brothers - Electric Waco Chair Snowdogs - Deep Cuts, Fast Remedies The last eight were 99c each and in three of the cases I have no idea what they sound like, but I figured I'd give them a shot at that price. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1602 Registered: 09-2006 |
Can only speak for the Waco Bros. album, but it's one of the best of theirs...nice find. | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 102 Registered: 11-2007 |
John Martyn - Solid Air Deluxe 2CD R.E.M. - Reckoning Deluxe 2CD Sarah Blasko - As Day Follows Night The XX - XX Julian Plenty - Debut Album Portugal, The Man - The Satanic Satanist 2CD Rue Royale - Rue Royale | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 371 Registered: 10-2008 |
andreas, the xx album is a real grower. it just washed over me the first few times i heard it, but its very subtle and the tunes really start to make an impression after repeated plays. i keep reading comparisons with young marble giants but they were much looser and mor diy than the xx. if they progess in the right way they could be a band worth keeping an eye on. | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 105 Registered: 11-2007 |
kevin, I really love this album after the first listen. YMG came in my mind when I heared the songs as well. They were one of my favourites in the 80's and they way are singing is similiar - not the production... Why XX decided to make "Basic Space" the single is something I cannot understand at the moment. It is not a typical single track for me. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 766 Registered: 04-2006 |
yes, xx sounds exciting. ymg? yes, andreas. and the one or other song reminds me also a bit on the fabulous 'black box recorder'. especially on their first record 'england made me'. | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 106 Registered: 11-2007 |
andreas, what is black box recorder like. don't know them. will have a look for the england made me record... | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 372 Registered: 10-2008 |
Padraig, maybe you know this already but black box recorder was a group which included Luke Haines from The Auteurs. I think they may have had a female vocalist mind you, rather than Luke Haines singing. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3058 Registered: 05-2005 |
The BBR question was from Andreas Severins Kevin! I have some of their stuff and like it. I preferred his work with The Auteurs and The Baader Meinhof Complex though. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3059 Registered: 05-2005 |
Allen, thanks for the heads up. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 154 Registered: 08-2005 |
Had a buying spree last week, if 3 CDs constitutes a spree! God Help The Girl - Stuart Murdoch Basket of Light - The Pentangle Live at the BBC - House of Love I'm keeping right up to date with my musical tastes... | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2097 Registered: 03-2005 |
On the coffee table at this time (hence, recently purchased and not yet filed away in the shelves): David McComb--Setting You Free The Gaylads--Fire & Rain Bettye LaVette--Do Your Duty Leslie Kong's Connection Vol. 2 David Bowie--The Deram Anthology Esther Phillips--Alone Again, Naturally The Trojan Rocksteady Box Set The Drones--Havilah, Gala Mill and also Wait Long by the River Pete Astor--Submarine | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1605 Registered: 09-2006 |
Charlie Parker - Ken Burns Jazz compilation The Essential Michael Jackson An Horse - Rearrange Beds (a fast grower) Billboard Top Hits 1984 | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 374 Registered: 10-2008 |
richmond fontaine - we used to think the river...... this 8th album could be their best(i only have this and the last 3), getting seriously well reviewed. i reckon folks on here would like it, frank is the only other person on here i have heard speak about them Rustie - Something in the Buckie does not compute. compilation of Rustie singles - seriously funky f~cked up dance music. Cold Cave - Love Comes Close. glad i bought this when i did on their own label, looks like they wont be pressing any more as Matador records have jumped on it but wont release it till november. sounds like new order colliding with lcd soundsystem,with vocals similar to that bloke from magnetic fields - but with a far more diy type production. sleeper hit of the year. the feelies - only life derrick may - the innovator. like it says on the tin, old skool detroit techno radiohead - kid a. dug this out because i read the pitchfork review of the 2009 re-release today. they gave it a 10/10. i fully expect this to be their album of the decade when they announce the results next month as part of the PK2 thingy they are running just now. http://pitchfork.com/p2k | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3069 Registered: 05-2005 |
David Sylvian - Everything And Nothing (great, double best of CD - which I got for $3!) V/A - The Birth Of Rock 'n' Roll (two disc comp, including the first rock 'n' roll record, Rocket 88 by Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats, with Ike Turner on vocals) Tex Perkins - Songs From My Black Cattle Dog (a best of compilation) Lift To Experience - The Texas Jerusalem Crossroads (got it for $10) Field Music - Tones Of Town British Sea Power - Man Of Aran (it includes a DVD of the film, which I've never previously seen) | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 108 Registered: 11-2007 |
Just ordered the Radiohead Special Editions 2CD + DVD for 12,99 GBP each only at www.cdwow.com! Also ordered the new Prefab Sprout. Now costs for p&p! And it works... | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3317 Registered: 05-2005 |
Nice one Simon! | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 549 Registered: 05-2005 |
Are You Experienced? Led Zep 4 Woonona Industrial Cooperative Society | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 445 Registered: 01-2007 |
The Richmond Fontaine has never done much on this message board but there songs are great; lyrical, melodic. I love the way Willy Vautlin (?) does his talking narrative. This latest ism ore accessible than previous with a more of a band feel. I love it | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1583 Registered: 01-2005 |
Jeff Beck - Performing This Week...Live at Ronnie Scotts Sophie Milman - Take Love Easy Russian born jazz singer currently living in Canada. Not only does she have a very decent jazz voice, but she also has a couple other assets: http://cstore.weamea.com/store1/discs/im ages/20090507/00/042cd9dd2c3b4b878ec01c8 dce29680e.jpg | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3080 Registered: 05-2005 |
Yes, beguiling eyes. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 381 Registered: 10-2008 |
yo la tengo - popular songs cold cave - love comes cold f.u.s.e - dimension/intrusion | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3090 Registered: 05-2005 |
7 Worlds Collide - The Sun Came Out Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs - Under The Covers Vol 2 | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1589 Registered: 01-2005 |
Son Volt - American Central Dust Patty Griffin - Impossible Dream Eric Clapton/Steve Winwood - Live from Madison Garden and some jazz: Freddie Hubbard - Blue Spirits Andrew Hill - Andrew!!! Jackie Ryan - Doozy Hilary Kole - Haunted Heart | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3095 Registered: 05-2005 |
Ted Hawkins - The Next Hundred Years The Hellacopters - Rock & Roll Is Dead Bodies Of Water - A Certain Feeling | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3118 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms & The Good Earth arrived today. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 178 Registered: 03-2007 |
Thieves Like Us - Play Music Here We Go Magic - Here We go Magic Existensminimum - O.K. Boys Hello Saferide - More Modern Short Stories Jonathan Johansson - En Hand I Himlen Cats On Fire - Our Temperance Movement Gersey - No Satellites The Orbweavers - Graphite & Diamonds Bachelorette - My Electric Family | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1615 Registered: 01-2005 |
I Often Dream Of Trains (Live) - Robyn Hitchcock DVD/cd | ||
| Charles Coy Member Username: Coy Post Number: 154 Registered: 10-2006 |
Calexico- Garden Ruin Calexico- Carried to Dust Sarah Blasko- 'as day follows night' Revisited Waterboys- 'This is the Sea' | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 186 Registered: 03-2007 |
Decoder Ring - They Blind The Stars And The Wild Team Prop - Small Craft Rough Sea Lawrence Arabia - Chant Darling Pie Warmer - The Fearsome Feeling The Brunettes - The Red Rollerskates E.P. ( thanks to Lawrence.) Mum Smokes - Easy & House Music ( Two Disc Set ) A Sunny Day In Glasgow - Scribble Mural Comic Journal A Sunny Day In Glasgow - Ashes Grammar | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1623 Registered: 01-2005 |
Catching up on some missed classics I never owned: Bjork - Post Sly and the Family Stone - There's A Riot Goin' On Dillard & Clark - The Fantastic Expedition of D & C Guided By Voices - Bee Thousand Serge Ganisbourg - Histoire de Melody Nelson (extra tracks) | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1665 Registered: 09-2006 |
How are you liking that Sly, Michael? That's one that sounds like a different record to me every time I play it. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1624 Registered: 01-2005 |
Allen, it hasn't arrived yet! I'll let you know what I think of it when I give it a spin or two. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 316 Registered: 10-2006 |
Country Life Siren Flesh & Blood Manifesto Avalon Viva RM RM live at the Apollo 6pm Vozero 801 Live (last three by Phil Manzanera) Bit of a Roxy thing going at the moment... | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1632 Registered: 01-2005 |
Radiohead - Kid A Tom Waits - Mule Variations Bud Powell - Live in Geneva Art Blakey - 1958 Paris Olympia (live) Bobby Hutcherson - The Kicker | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3163 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Cult - Love, 2 CD remaster. Played the first disc yesterday. After thinking the first song sounded a bit weird my ears got used to it and I thought it sounded great, very clear. This often happens to me with a very good remastering job. Tim Finn - North, South, East, West. Two disc anthology. Have you got it Geoff? | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 568 Registered: 05-2005 |
Tum Fun Tum Fun. I really think his muse abandoned him about 30 years ago(!) but I think his song on "The Sun Came Out" is one of the best on the album. I got the album with Persuasion on it when it came out and was bitterly disappointed. I don't know whether you heard him on 702 last week(?) Padraig - abyssmal - I had to turn it off it was so embarrassing - he couldn't sing to save his life. Bring on his brothers new album in January! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3176 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Gothic Archies - The Tragic Treasury: Songs From A Series Of Unfortunate Events Giant Drag - Hearts And Unicorns Got them for $10 each yesterday, at Warriewood, way out on the Northern Beaches, on the way back from climbing to the Palm Beach lighthouse (which most of you will have seen in the opening credits of Home & Away at some point!). | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1686 Registered: 09-2006 |
Hope you enjoy that GA album, Padraig. It's one of my very favorite Stephen Merritt albums...certainly the funniest. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3177 Registered: 05-2005 |
I did Allen! I didn't really listen to the lyrics as I was listening, but I had read some of them beforehand and they were pretty funny alright. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3178 Registered: 05-2005 |
Geoff, disc 1 of the Tim Finn comp is great. Most of disc 2 is very good too, but it does taper off a bit towards the end. Die hard fans might hate the re-recorded tracks (I think there are eight of them) but I liked them (and didn't know the originals in half the cases anyway). | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 570 Registered: 05-2005 |
If I see it cheap at JB in a month or so (highly likely) I might give it a whirl Padraig. COVER YOUR EYES KEVIN - READ NO FURTHER FOR YOUR OWN SANITY!!!!!! The new Crowdies one is apparently out in January though! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3180 Registered: 05-2005 |
I think it was $22 Geoff, which is pretty cheap for a two disc set. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 712 Registered: 07-2006 |
i got my steve mcqueen 2cd edition today. it was kind of nice only having it on vinyl all this time, but it did bring a whopping grin to the face when it arrived today. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3183 Registered: 05-2005 |
The second disc is stunning Joe. It's heartbreaking at times hearing those songs of a young man re-interpreted by the same man in middle age. It completely changes the meanings of some of the songs. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 715 Registered: 07-2006 |
it's all i can think about today! which doesn't help i'm currently working in deceased estates almost soley. plus, everyone's talking about emos (thank you, australian tabloid press), which is making me want to openly and spectacularly self-harm more than ever. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1775 Registered: 10-2004 |
I have found two cool record shops here in Paris. In one, I got the Passage's "For All and None," *still sealed* (!) on vinyl, and at another shop I got the first pressing 7" (with cooler cover art) of "The Swimmer" by the Passions, and a minty copy of "Thank You" by the Pale Fountains, also 7". | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2161 Registered: 03-2005 |
Jeff, you are getting really good use out of your stay there. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3381 Registered: 05-2005 |
Nice to see you picking up some nice european releases there jeff! I don;t buy that many cd's, but tonite picked up some bargins: mogwai the hawk is howling Ł1.99 Wild beasts - Limbo panto Ł4.99 Paul Weller 22 dreams Ł2.99 Skids - Saints are coming best of Ł2.99 Lilac Time - The Runout Groove Ł2.99 and Kings of Convenience - declaration of Dependance Ł9.99 All from this cheap shop that actually hada Paul Haig section rammed full of releases!!!! | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 193 Registered: 03-2007 |
Benni Hemm Hemm - Benni Hemm Hemm Benni Hemm Hemm - Kajak Butcher The Bar - Sleep At Your Own Speed Couch - Figur 5 Electric President - Sleep Well It's A Musical - The Music Makes Me Sick Ms. John Soda - Notes And The Like Radical Face - Ghost Sin Fang Bous - Clangour The Go Find - Stars On The Wall The Year Of - Slow Days All released on the Morr Music label based in Berlin, Germany. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3202 Registered: 05-2005 |
C'mon Hugh, you're just making those names up, surely? | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2164 Registered: 03-2005 |
Doubt Hugh at your peril Padraig. Again and again he's turned me on to excellent things well below the radar. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 194 Registered: 03-2007 |
Padraig, listening to 'Clangour' by Sin Fang Bous' as I type. :-) German label but the artists/bands are from all over the place ( Germany, U.K., U.S.A., Iceland, Sweden, Belgium & Denmark.) A wonderful little label both musically and artistically. I think I have at least one title by every artist/band who records for them. www.morrmusic.com | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1651 Registered: 01-2005 |
Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker Bjork - Vespertine Untrue - Burial Gene Clark - Echoes James Moody - 4A | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2166 Registered: 03-2005 |
So you got Echoes, Michael. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3206 Registered: 05-2005 |
I got Echoes too! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2168 Registered: 03-2005 |
The title song--Echoes--has long been one of my very favorite Gene Clark songs, with its Leon Russell arrangement and even that damn off-pitch guitar. I assumed that the lyrics were fanciful poetry but it turns out that the song depicts very concrete scenes and specific persons from the mid-60s Sunset Strip scene. It's an amazing piece of work. The Byrds really lost out when they let him go. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1652 Registered: 01-2005 |
Yes, I did buy Echoes after enjoying my recently purchased Dillard and Clark 2fer as well as Roadmaster. I bought No Other and White Light a few years ago. I can't comment on Echoes as well as Vespertine, Burial, and Heartbreaker as they haven't arrived yet. | ||
| peter ward Member Username: Peter_ward Post Number: 99 Registered: 06-2005 |
Fans of Gene Clarke might be interested to hear Soulsaver's (featuring Mark Lanegan on vocals)epic take of his track "Some Misunderstanding" off their new album. Purist's might hate it but I'm loving it. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1656 Registered: 01-2005 |
Beck - Sea Change Radiohead - Amnesiac Charley Parker and Dizzy Gillespie - Bird & Diz Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers - The Big Beat Cedar Walton - Voices Deep Within | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 580 Registered: 05-2005 |
You seem to be buying a lot of the albums that I consider to be the best of the decade Michael! How did you find Vespertine? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3222 Registered: 05-2005 |
It was between Velvet Underground and Violent Femmes in the Rock/Pop section Geoff. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1660 Registered: 01-2005 |
Geoff, Yes, I've been using your best of the decade post as a buying guide for the albums I've missed these last 10 years. I'm listening to Vespertine right now and I'm enthralled to say the least! It's almost like she used Kate Bush's The Sensual World as a launching point and reached a higher plain then even Kate could ever reach. I might rate it higer then Debut and Post. I'll get her 1997 album Homogenic album next. Strange, I bought The Sugarcubes "Life's Too Good" in 1988 when it was first released and waited another 20 years before I bought anything else by her, which was Debut. Maybe I'll check out the second and third Sugarcubes albums as well. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3226 Registered: 05-2005 |
My gag would have been far funnier if Vespertine was a band (as I thought) rather than Bjork's album (cringe - sorry Geoff). | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 717 Registered: 07-2006 |
michael, get your hands on homogenic pronto. i'm not so much of a bjork fiend, but that record is absolutely essential and one of my all time favourites. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1664 Registered: 01-2005 |
joe, Done! Bjork - Homogenic The Doves - The Last Broadcast Tom Waits - Bone Machine Steve Earle - Transcendental Blues James Moody & Hank Jones - Our Delight | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3263 Registered: 05-2005 |
Two tribute albums to raise money for worthy causes: Stroke: Songs For Chris Knox Ciao My Shining Star: The Songs of Mark Mulcahy Plus Live At The Olympia: R.E.M. Mister Pop: The Clean Other recent purchases include Animal Collective and Empire Of The Sun. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1688 Registered: 01-2005 |
Replacements - Let It Be (Rhino reissue w.extra tracks) Replacements - Tim (Rhino reissue w.extra tracks) Arcade Fire - Neon Bible | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1442 Registered: 08-2006 |
That's an impressive haul, Michael. Enjoy. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1689 Registered: 01-2005 |
Rob, Yes, I have enjoyed all three so far. I said that I would buy the 'Mats - Let It Be reissue before I would buy the Beatles reissue of the same name (or any other of the Beatles reissues for that matter), and I kept my word. | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 619 Registered: 05-2005 |
My sister has been raving about that Empire of the Sun thing with a bit of "hey, I know what's really hip" thrown in for good measure. I feel like saying, yeah, I saw Luke Steele YEARS ago in a WOLLONGONG PUB when he was in a MUCH better band called the Sleepy Jackson SIS! Now wth that chip on my shoulder I can hardly ask her what it's like can I? What IS it like Padraig?? | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 274 Registered: 02-2007 |
Do the Sleepy Jackson exist anymore Geoff? | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2205 Registered: 03-2005 |
Geoff, I love the fact that you have a sister you can have that sort of argument with. My sister is a Christian home-schooling mom. Sleepy Jackson is one of those groups I haven't gotten around to hearing yet, like the Cruel Sea. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3297 Registered: 05-2005 |
They sound exactly like MGMT Geoff. But better, in my opinion. It's electronic pop, but done better than most do it. I interviewed Luke Steele seven years ago. I found him just as strange as everyone else ever has. A very talented man though. I've just posted that interview up at www.myspace.com/padraigcollins | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3298 Registered: 05-2005 |
Yesterday: Jellyfish - Best Lewis Taylor - Lewis Taylor Various - On-U Sound Crash, mixed by Adrian Sherwood (does this get Kevin's approval?) Steve Wynn & The Miracle 3 - Static Transmission (2 disc version) Radiohead - Kid A (really. I've never owned this record before. I'm a very late convert to Radiohead. But now I'm a true believer) | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 275 Registered: 02-2007 |
Sandinista! - The Clash What an album. Sprawling, reggae/rap/rock/dub animal! | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 620 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy, YOU NEED TO GET THE SLEEPY JACKSON ALBUM PRONTO!!!!! One of the best Australian guitar pop albums ever(???). I guess they don't exist anymore, David, but I think he will "reform" them when he feels like doing that sort of stuff again. Just picked up the first 2 Sara Blasko ones and the rereleased Black Swan. I originally downloaded that last one from iTunes but it never sat with me that well (just like the original). | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 530 Registered: 10-2008 |
not really heard much sherwood stuff padraig , have heard that some of the on- u sound stuff is good though | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 200 Registered: 03-2007 |
Geoff, am I correct in assuming that you are referring to 'Lovers' and not 'Personality ( One Was A Spider, One Was A Bird )?' | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3301 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy, their EPs are even better. Let Your Love Be Love is brilliant. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2206 Registered: 03-2005 |
Hugh, in his wonderful generosity, just sent me a nice 7 song sample, from 2 EPs and one LP. Yes Hugh "Good Dancers" is extremely ELO! On first listen the tracks that appealed the most was were "This Day" from "Let Your Love be Love" and "Rain Falls For Wind" which is frankly fantastic. | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 277 Registered: 02-2007 |
Rain Falls For Wind is one of my favs. Randy, Personality is a bold attempt at intricate and complex melodies that although (IMHO) doesnt quite work for the whole album is nevertheless breathtaking in its effort. (not pretentious!) Not sure if the voice is good enough to sustain for the whole 13 songs. Lovers is warmer and friendly like a hug while Personality is more like a volvanic pop orgasm! | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 278 Registered: 02-2007 |
That should say volcanic obviously! | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1727 Registered: 01-2005 |
Replacements - Pleased to Meet Me (Rhino reissue w.extra tracks) Bobby Hutcherson - Happenings Steve Earle - Jerusalem Kate and Anna McGarrigle - Dancer with Bruised Knees Rosanne Cash - The List Patty Griffin - Downtown Church | ||
| Charles Coy Member Username: Coy Post Number: 173 Registered: 10-2006 |
..a thank you to Padraig, that Sleepy Jackson album is a creeper, thankfully I have it now, I appreciated the interview with Luke Steele, forgive the late reference, had a fair bit on of late...Cheers, Charles.. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3371 Registered: 05-2005 |
You're very welcome Charles! I haven't fallen off the edge of the planet by the way. I'm at home in Ireland for a trip. I've bought many, many CDs in the fabulous Rough Trade shop in Brick Lane, London, elsewhere in London and also in Ireland. Details some other time! | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 770 Registered: 04-2006 |
Midlake - The Courage of Others this sounds like an english folk band. i like that. | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 636 Registered: 05-2005 |
Have Midlake progressed from sounding like Supertramp Andreas? | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 772 Registered: 04-2006 |
yes, they moved forward into the back. or so. this album is not spectacular. reduction. flutes instead of synthesizers, no ''rockers''. no roscoe or young bride. just can talk about my first impressions, and , yes, the songs creep into my mind. kind of sublimeness. some critics say it sounds like fairport convention, some compared it with the sound of the strawbs (btw: strawbs' from the witchwood is a great album!). for sure you can hear excerpts of all that stuff (and more) if you want. for the moment i like it, that's all. | ||
| Charles Coy Member Username: Coy Post Number: 174 Registered: 10-2006 |
Enjoy Padraig, I'm in London in May, straight to Brick Lane and West End, Sister Ray if I recall..like to know what you find.. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2250 Registered: 03-2005 |
I haven't kept track of the last 20 that I've bought. Those on the coffee table--which means most recently purchased and not yet filed--reflect a recent drift back into the depths of Australiana, no doubt partly inspired by reacquainting myself with a seldom-played antho of the quite-good-when-he-puts-his-mind-to-it Normie Rowe: The Loved Ones--Magic Box The Moffs--The Collection MPD Limited--Legendary Go!! Recordings Sleepy Jackson: Let Your Love Be Love Lovers Come to This Personality and one vintage Kiwi artist: Dinah Lee--The Viking Recordings 1964-1967 Steaming my way from Michigan is an official (!) copy of the Chills' Secret Box. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1753 Registered: 09-2006 |
Wow, didja order it online, or buy it from a private seller? | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2251 Registered: 03-2005 |
Ebay, Allen, from a private seller. And, no, it's not cheap. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1457 Registered: 08-2006 |
Whew, I bet not, Randy. Probably more than Martin Phillips himself made last year : ) | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 291 Registered: 02-2007 |
Mawkin:Causley - the awkward recruit Wonderful trd folk from somewhere in england. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1733 Registered: 01-2005 |
Echo and The Bunneyman - Ocean Rain (2004 reissue with extra tracks) Bob's Yur Uncle - Another Side of Bob Dylan Art Pepper - Art Pepper Meets The Rythym Section Shelly Manne & His Men - Complete Live at The Black Hawk Now playing: The Dream Syndicate - Days of Wine and Roses | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 989 Registered: 08-2004 |
Prince - Lovesexy Lloyd Cole - Easy Pieces Farse - Means To An End Primitive Radio Gods - Rocket Leonard Cohen - The Future Bomb The Bass - Into The Dragon OMD - Best Of... Vampire Weekend - ST Wild Beasts - 2 Dancers | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1735 Registered: 01-2005 |
For some reason I stopped buying any Prince albums after I bought Dirty Mind and 1999, and I've got them both on vinyl and CD. I might have Purple Rain on vinyl now that I think of it. I do have the VHS copy of the movie, which I probably haven't played since Reagan was in office. Maybe I was pissed off that he broomed the Revolution. The Wendy and Lisa album from 1990, Eroica, is a pretty decent album which I listen to once a year or so. Speaking of Eroica, Eroica Reisling from Washington state has been one of my favorite wines for the last 5 years! The quality is there year after year. http://www.ste-michelle.com/wines/eroica /release/280 | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1460 Registered: 08-2006 |
No "Sign O' the Times," Michael? I have stupid amount of Prince, and if I had to give 'em all away that's the one I'd keep. Or maybe "Dirty Mind." | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 212 Registered: 03-2007 |
First Aid Kit - The Black And The Blue First Aid Kit - Drunken Trees Album and e.p. from a Swedish folk duo comprised of sisters Klara and Johanna Soderberg who are only 16 and 19 years of age. Gorgeous voices and lovely harmonies. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1740 Registered: 01-2005 |
Rob, No "Sign O' the Times". I know it gets a lot of props as perhaps being his best. I just kind of stopped listening to Prince, King Creole and The Coconuts and The Time (and I was a huge fan of all three around 1982-84) post Purple Rain and fell deep into college rock of REM, Let's Active, The 'mats, Richard and Linda Thompson and all the Paisley Underground bands and their offshoots plus discovering Robyn Hitchcock (1985). That Wendy and Lisa album (Eroica) caught me by surprize though in 1990 as I had totally given up on all the Prince crowd. Maybe I'll check out Sign “O” the Times one of these days. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 567 Registered: 10-2008 |
Four Tet - There is love in you Dancehall 2 - The Rise of Jamaican Dancehall Culture Leonard "Santic" Chin Productions- Harder Shade of Black (comp featuring augustus pablo, gregory isaacs, horace andy, king tubby) Junior Murvin - Police and Thieves Deluxe 2 CD reissue Pantha Du Prince - Black Noise. The first great Berlin techno album of the year (features panda bear from animal collective on vocals on one track) Vampire Weekend - Contra. The pop album to beat this year. Spoon - Transference Hot Chip - One Life Stand. Martyn - Fabric 50. Dubstep mix album. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 992 Registered: 08-2004 |
I don't think Sign O' The Times is all that it's cracked up to be. Some great moments, 'Starfish & Coffee' is sublime genius ridiculous pop-skillery. Ruby Cruiser - 12 Short Stories VA - Substitute - The Songs Of The Who Nizlopi - Half These Songs Are About You Tom Baxter - Feather & Stone Grace Jones - Warm Leatherette Richard Hawley - Truelove's Gutter Mazzy Star - Among My Swan Indian Ink - Meanwhile Back In Communist Russia Madness - It's Madness Too The Glove - Blue Sunshine | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1744 Registered: 01-2005 |
Jerry, It's been years since I've listened to any of my Mazzy Star albums. I'll have to rectify that soon. Do you have any of Hope's solo albums? I don't. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 996 Registered: 08-2004 |
No. All I have is AMS now, to go with So Tonight... Which is a beaut imho. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1761 Registered: 09-2006 |
As I've gone into at far too much length here, I've had a bit of a falling out with Prince after being a huge fan for years. Still love me some Kid Creole/August Darnell though...for the superhot, sophisticated grooves and songwriting, and because the Kid is a construction, a deliberate parody of an egotistical bullshit artist, so transparent one could never think for a second that Darnell shares his ideas. Whereas Prince believes his own jiveass bullshit through and through. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1746 Registered: 01-2005 |
Allen, Yes! What was up with that whole TAFKAP thing anyway? Same for Bono and his Fly and Mephisto alter egos. I just didn't get it and tuned them both out. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2257 Registered: 03-2005 |
Wasn't the Prince thing the result of a legal fight with his label? I seem to recall that he didn't want to work with the label any longer but they wouldn't release him so he came up with the idea of working under another name. Maybe I got that wrong. I'm not a Prince fan. His juvenile sex obsession was boring and the only album that I remember pretty much liking is "Dirty Mind." | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1747 Registered: 01-2005 |
I liked about half the cuts from 1999, so my liking of Prince didn't go much beyond the views expressed by Randy. I never owned the album Controversy that was released between Dirty Mind and 1999. I heard it a few times and thought it wasn't nearly as good as Dirty Mind. | ||
| peter ward Member Username: Peter_ward Post Number: 110 Registered: 06-2005 |
Kevin, are you enjoying the new Fourtet? It's the best thing he's done since "Rounds" to these ears and that was probably my favourite album of the decade. Hope I'll enjoy this one for as long. Also picked up the new Spoon, Eels, White Rabbits, Hot Chip and Beach House. A good start to the year musically. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 568 Registered: 10-2008 |
peter, yep enjoying fourtet. probably most played album of the last month or so, and love cry is the song to beat this year i reckon. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3373 Registered: 05-2005 |
OK, deep breath, here's what came back with me from my trip home to Ireland and London: Taken By Trees - Sweet Child O' Mine (single) Laura Veirs - Carbon Glacier Feist - Let It Die Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest (2 CD Rough Trade version) The Horrors - Primary Colours (2 CD Rough Trade version) The Wedding Present - El Rey Chris Rea - The Return Of The Fabulous Hofner Bluenotes (2 record, 3 CD box set) Roddy Frame - Western Skies Stone Roses - The Complete Stone Roses Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Raising Sand The Coral - Singles Collection John Spillane - More Irish Songs We Learned In School The Kinks - The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society Various - The Departed soundtrack Howlin Rain - Magnificent Fiend Primal Scream - Beautiful Future The Gutter Twins - Saturnalia Echo & The Bunnymen - Ocean Rain (25th anniversary edition) The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem - The Very Best Of The xx - The xx (2 CD Rough Trade version) Paul Weller - Paul Weller (deluxe edition) The Leisure Society - Sleeper (3 CD Rough Trade version) The Dubliners - A Time To Remember Ronny Drew - The Best Of The Maccabees - Wall Of Arms The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age Of The Understatement Madness - The Liberty Of Norton Folgate The Cribs - Ignore The Ignorant Memory Tapes - Rough Trade EP White Denim - Rough Trade mix SheKeepsBees - Minisink Hotel Atlas Sound - Rough Trade EP Good Shoes - Ambulance EP Arctic Monkeys - Huumbug Various - A Bugged Out Mix By Hot Chip Vampire Weekend - Contra Massive Attack - Heligoland Seasick Steve - ... Songs For Elizabeth Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca (2 CD Rough Trade version) Morrissey - The HMV Parlophone Singles '88-'95 (3 CD box set) Various - Mute Audio Documents (10 CD box set) The Best - You Just Can't Beat It Kraftwerk - Computer World (remaster) As you can see from the numerous mentions of Rough Trade versions, I spent a lovely couple of hours in their fantastic Brick Lane shop. The coffee and hot chocolate there was very good too. We went for a great meal in a nearby Bangladeshi restaurant afterwards too! | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 640 Registered: 05-2005 |
F#!K!!!!!!!!!! They must love you Padraig when they see you walk in!!!!! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2259 Registered: 03-2005 |
Padraig! You are not permitted to buy another CD until you listen to each and every one of those! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3374 Registered: 05-2005 |
Geoff, they do! Randy, I'm on it. You're right. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 213 Registered: 03-2007 |
Padraig, Is your 'Sweet Child O' Mine' single by Taken By Trees on cd or vinyl? The song does not appear on either of her albums and I have been unable to track down a cd copy. There is a used vinyl copy for sale on AmazonCom for the bargain price of US$69.99. Last records bought but still to arrive :- Go Find - Everbody Knows It's Gonna Happen Only Not Tonight Seabear - While The Fire Dies Seabear - We Built A Fire Frida Hyvonen - Silence Is Wild | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3375 Registered: 05-2005 |
Hugh, it is on CD but it's a promo. I'd never even heard of Taken By Trees but the woman in Rough Trade took a shine to my daughter and put a few extra CDs for free into my bag for her, one of which was Sweet Child O' Mine. I'm beginning to realise from what you and a cousin of mine have said that I have a very rare thing indeed. And it cost nothing! I've sent you an email by the way... | ||
| Lewisdhead Member Username: Lewisdhead Post Number: 56 Registered: 01-2007 |
Taken By Trees is the ex singer with The Concretes. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 214 Registered: 03-2007 |
Padraig, as mentioned by Lewisdhead, Taken By Trees is Victoria Bergsman who was an original member of The Concretes who formed in Stockholm, Sweden, in the mid 1990's. She recorded a couple of albums and some eps with the band before leaving for a solo career. She has since released two albums ( Open Field; East Of Eden ) on Rough Trade Records under the name Taken By Trees. I am beginning to think that 'Sweet Child O' Mine' was perhaps only issued as a download and that vinyl and cd copies which exist are all promos so you may indeed have an extremely rare disc. I have replied to your e-mail. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1748 Registered: 01-2005 |
Kate and Anna McGarrigle - French Record The rest are all classic 1950's and early 60's jazz excepting for Time for Tyner, which was released in 1968: Art Blakey - Mosaic Miles Davis - Kind of Blue (Legacy double disc version) Freddie Hubbard - Hub Cap Colman Hawkins - The Hawk Flies High Dakota Staton - The Late, Late Show McCoy Tyner - Time for Tyner Oscar Peterson - The Sound Of The Trio Sonny Clark - Sonny's Crib Curtis Fuller - Blues-ette Grachan Moncur III - Evolution | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 1003 Registered: 08-2004 |
Oneness Of JuJu - Space Jungle Luv Queens Of The Stone Age - Lullabies To Paralyze Creedence - Chronicles Attica Blues - Test Don't Tesr Little Blues - Angels, Horses & Pirates Hawkwind - Live & Rare Junior Cottonmouth - Bespoke TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain Elliot Smith - XO The Blue Nile - Peace At Last | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2277 Registered: 03-2005 |
Antony & the Johnsons--s/t Antony & the Johnson--I am a Bird Now The Atlantics--Complete CBS Recordings Vols. 1 & 2 The Atlantics with Johnny Rebb--Legendary JRA/Ramrod sessions Compiletely Bats Chills--Secret Box Dik Dik--Flashback Collection David Kilgour & the Heavy Eights David Kilgour--Frozen Orange Mina--Love Box Ornella Vanoni--Tutto Vanoni | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 349 Registered: 10-2006 |
bleu petrole l'imprudence fantaisie militaire chatterton osez josephine live at olympia (dvd) - alain bashung louise attaque comme on a dit - louise attaque manitoba ne repond plus platinum collection la mort d'orion - gérard manset les promesses - debout sur le zinc pollen – pulstar au-délŕ du délire - ange la clé des songes - pentacle | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 779 Registered: 04-2006 |
joanna newsom - have one on me (triple vinyl in a beautiful box) art blakey - moanin' (double 45 stereo version) cannonball adderley - somethin' else (double 45 stereo version) john coltrane - crescent ( org edition 2x45) all three kings of convenience albums (vinyl) eight old sun ra albums on his own saturn label (vinyl) kammerflimmer kollektief - wildling (vinyl) johnny cash - american vi: ain't no grave (vinyl) pharaoh sanders - black unity (vinyl) alice coltrane - huntington ashram monastery (vinyl) motorpsycho - heavy metal fruit (triple vinyl) jack rose - luck in the valley (vinyl, nice cover, made in old-style tip-on jacket with a hand-pasted letterpressed cover) | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 780 Registered: 04-2006 |
michael, just read your list and tok notice that you bought time for tyner. it's great, isn't it? mccoy tyner is one of my favourite musicians and most of his work is worth to buy. cheers, andreas | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 781 Registered: 04-2006 |
'took' notice, not 'tok' notice.... | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1768 Registered: 01-2005 |
Andreas, Yes I am enjoying Time for Tyner very much.I've bought a dozen jazz albums in the last year that Bobby Hutcherson played on. I never cared for vibe players before but Bobby has been a revilation. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3474 Registered: 05-2005 |
Last week: C.W. Stoneking - Jungle Blues Basement Jaxx - Zephyr Today: The Pigs - The Pigs Minus 5 - In Rock The Micronauts - Damaging Consent & A Remixes Retrospective V/A - Folk Is Not A Four Letter Word Richard Butler - Richard Butler V/A - World Shut Your Mouth soundtrack Bell X1 - Blue Lights On The Runway Peter Koppes - Misty Heights & Cloudy Memories 1987 - 2002 David Byrne - Lead Us Not Into Temptation | ||
| peter ward Member Username: Peter_ward Post Number: 114 Registered: 06-2005 |
An Oxfam store in Tavistock, Devon: John Martyn - Solid Air (original pressing) Dory Previn - Mythical kings and Iguanas The Blue Nile - A Walk across the rooftops (with bonus 12" of Tinsletown In The Rain) The The - Infected Marianne Faithful - Strange Weather Blondie - Denis 12" (A gift for Mrs of same name!) All vinyl, might have bought more but the shower passed. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1774 Registered: 01-2005 |
Devo - Freedom Of Choice (2009 Deluxe remastered Edition) Ultravox - Vienna (Remastered Definitive Edition) Thomas Dolby - The Golden Age Of Wireless (Remastered & Expanded including bonus DVD) I never invested in cd versions of Freedom of Choice or Vienna, so now that they have been remastered I fiqured it's the perfect time to step up to the pump. I'm also exited about the remastered & expanded Wireless, which will be replacing my bare bones 80's cd. Word of the day: bamboozle. For some reason the folks from the sub-continent of India as well as those that have left India for America and other shores love to use the world bamboozle as well as bamboozled and bamboozlement. | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 252 Registered: 05-2005 |
The records shops are closing one after the others here...So HMV and Rough Trade are my new friends now... John Grant - Queen of Denmark (Deluxe edition). From Denton, friend with Midlake..After all the things I've read, it must be something great. I've also bought the ticket for the concert. Tracey Thorne - new album pre-ordered. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1775 Registered: 01-2005 |
TROU, I just ordered a Criterion DVD of the 1960 film Le Trou, the final film by Jacques Becker. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3535 Registered: 05-2005 |
Pavement - Quarantine the Past Gorillaz - Plastic Beach Bob Dylan - Tell Tale Signs: the Bootleg Series Vol. 8 Various Artists - Folkways: A Vision Shared - A Tribute to Woody Guthrie & Leadbelly Johnny Cash - American VI: Ain't No Grave Fugazi - In on the Kill Taker Fugazi - Red Medicine Blur - Parklife The Rolling Stone - Exile on Main Street (Deluxe Edition) Colin Hay - Company of Strangers AC/DC - Back in Black AC/DC - Iron Man 2 soundtrack The Beastie Boys - The Sounds of Science Paul Weller - Heavy Soul Paul Weller - Live Wood Paul Weller - Heliocentric Paul Weller - Days Of Speed Paul Weller - Illumination Paul Weller - Wake Up The Nation (double CD version) Madness - 7 Paul Westerberg - Folker The Chieftains - San Patricio Free Energy - Stuck On Nothing Hunters & Collectors - Horn Of Plenty (14 CD, 2 DVD box set) Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures Various Artists - Fantastic Mr. Fox soundtrack | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1804 Registered: 09-2006 |
That last album is a charming little item. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1784 Registered: 01-2005 |
As was the movie. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 362 Registered: 10-2006 |
Great film, Le Trou! Prison flicks almost always work, and this is no exception. Based on his own experience, I think, and written by Jose Giovanni, who went on to write and direct some excellent tough French noirs during the 60s. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1787 Registered: 01-2005 |
Stuart, Jose Giovanni wrote two other masterfull French noirs that were turned into Serie Noire(French film noirs); Melville's "Le Deuxičme Souffle" and Claude Sautet's "Classe tous risque". Both star Lino Ventura and are available on Criterion Collection DVD's and are equal to "Le Trou". You should read Jean-Pierre Melville: An American in Paris (Paperback) by Ginette Vincendeau. I got my copy from amazon.com and I can't fathom a better book on French film noirs, aka Serie Noire. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 363 Registered: 10-2006 |
Another Giovanni film with Ventura is "Dernier domicile connu" where he is teamed rather deliciously with a young Marlene Jobert. I saw it late one night in a washed out print with a wonkily off-key soundtrack...a lot of TV transmitted French films seem to go this way. But I can watch Ventura in almost anything. I certainly should read the Melville book, Michael. But we're on the wrong thread for this, aren't we?? |