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     kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 145 Registered: 05-2005 |
Time to start a fresh thread methinks Magazine - Rays and Hail (compilation) Tom Verlaine - Tom Verlaine The Fall - A sides 458489 (compilation) Swell Maps - Trip to Marineville | ||
| Peter Azzopardi Member Username: Pete Post Number: 148 Registered: 09-2004 |
Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins - Rabbit Fur Coat Cat Power - The Greatest Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood So nice to be buying new music once more. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 186 Registered: 05-2005 |
At this very moment: Power Of Dreams - 100 Ways To Kill A Love. And suddenly I'm 23 again and it feels great! | ||
| Graham Twyford Member Username: Graham_twyford Post Number: 38 Registered: 05-2005 |
Hey Pádraig - I used to love a Power of Dreams song. I think it was called 'She's Gone' or something like that. Is that on the album? I'd love to hear it again - I never actually bought any of their stuff as I was 16/17 and broke! | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 207 Registered: 05-2005 |
Julian Cope - World Shut Your Mouth Witness - Before the calm McCarthy - I am a wallet Biff Bang Pow - the girl who runs the beat hotel Felt - the Pictorial Jackson Review | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 189 Registered: 05-2005 |
Graham, there's no song called She's Gone but I'm sure it's in one of the lyrics. Their entire first album is about heartbreak. I assume that Craig Walker was making most of it up as he was only 19 at time. That's too young to have through so much turmoil! | ||
| Wilson Davey Member Username: Wilson Post Number: 45 Registered: 05-2005 |
Creation Compilation LP - "It's different for domeheads", The Loft - Up the hill and down the slope 12" was on earlier This all started because my 19 year old daughter is leaving home today and I told her she was born with the John Peel show playing in the background. The tune JP played to open the show ? "Naked as the day you were born" by the Weather Prophets ! | ||
| Wilson Davey Member Username: Wilson Post Number: 46 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kevin, The Fall "A sides" comp is cool. Cruisers, cruisers, CRUISERS ! dang dang DAAANG ! | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 216 Registered: 05-2005 |
Mayflower by The Weather Prophets was a great album, very underrated. I saw them support Go betweens on Tallulah tour, the guitars were very Television. The Rockingbirds were great too. | ||
| jerry hann Member Username: Jerry_h Post Number: 74 Registered: 07-2005 |
As said before The Rockingbirds are the greatest band never to make it in Nashville. Probably because they come from Norwich/London.In fact Alan Tyler the singer had a solo LP a few years ago which was good and has a good website with some of his latest works on, I emailed him a year or so back and was gracious in replying. The eels blinking lIghts and belle and Sebastians latest | ||
| abigail law Member Username: Abigail Post Number: 50 Registered: 06-2005 |
got the neil diamond 12 songs album yesterday - on one listen i kind of liked it but lost interest half way through. i think it has grower potential though. i also dug out bandwagonesque for the first time in years and gave that a spin - still excellent | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 156 Registered: 05-2005 |
aphex twin - chosen lords morrissey - ringleader of the tormentors (both the above were copied to CD by a friend, not released yet) Hip hop essentials Vol 12 drive-by truckers - a blessing and a curse john cale/eno - the wrong way up | ||
| gareth w Member Username: Gareth Post Number: 49 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kevin, what's the Morrissey album like? Thought the single was very poor - morrissey by numbers. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 157 Registered: 05-2005 |
only heard it once so far gareth - sounded pretty lush, strings on some tracks. not a rock n roll album thats for sure. going to play it in the car, always find thats the best way to get to know a knew album quickly because you hear it so often. will post back tomorrow about what i think of it | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 210 Registered: 05-2005 |
gareth , i think i can pass an opinion on the Morrissey album now. there are quite a few big ballads on this, particularly "dear god, please help me" and "life is a pigsty". a few of the tracks have childrens backing vocals, although they dont sing in a cutesy way but in a menacing way that is similar to Another brick in the wall. While clearly not in the class of Vauxhall and I it is probably better than You are the Quarry. a feature of the album is Tony Viscontis production, quite an emphasis on strings, not many up beat songs. Hopefully more listens will reveal this album to be better than I think it is - eg a pedestrian Morrissey by numbers record. If I was marking it in a Pitchfork style I would give it 6.3 out of 10 | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 211 Registered: 05-2005 |
Destroyer - Streethawk: a seduction Drive-by Truckers - A Blessing And A Curse Aphex Twin - Chosen Lords (early candidate for album of the year) Robert Forster - Danger in The Past The Winnebago Orchestra - Motor Cycle Angel (Spence, love that electronic percussive sound right at the start. It reminded me very much of that intro to Scritti's The Sweetest Girl - is it deliberate? Carolines vocals are tremendous by the way) | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 260 Registered: 05-2005 |
Thanks Kev, really appreciate your comment. The rhythm machine sound was a comprimise. We were going to try for a muffled EQ type thing, like on Madonna's last single!! Best way I can describe it! Sorry. But then it took on this slow phased sound, and it felt ok, stops it being too slick a tune. It was the hardest song to produce off the whole album. I am listening to Blue Aeroplanes - Swagger Deluxe CD Blue Aeroplanes - Janice Long session (and didn't get back until 5am!) War of the worlds soundtrack Paul Haig's - Myspace site Shack - Here's Tom with the weather | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 220 Registered: 10-2004 |
Kirsty Maccoll - Kite (not a bad album, with lot's of nice guitar by Johnny Marr all over it) XTC - Apple Venus and Nonsuch Pylon - Chomp Tones on Tail - Pop By the way, Spence - nice list! | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 200 Registered: 04-2005 |
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say... (I gave in to the hype. And so far, I like it--it gets a bit samey at times, but at their best, they're great...especially on "A Certain Romance.") Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth (Found this used a day or two ago--amazingly, I've never owned my own copy. Glad to have it.) Cat Power - The Greatest (I want to dismiss her, but she's always good for two or three tracks on an album that make that impossible.) Note: this was a somewhat gratuitous post, as I really wanted to hit post #200 today. | ||
| jerry hann Member Username: Jerry_h Post Number: 89 Registered: 07-2005 |
Kinks-double compilation-Klassic Kinks. I know I shouldn't buy compilations ( i borke my own rule to buy this)but Its got all the singles on and Its really great! |