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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3633 Registered: 05-2005 |
Best Coast. Great record. | ||
| Lewisdhead Member Username: Lewisdhead Post Number: 62 Registered: 01-2007 |
John Grant-Queen of Denmark Deer Tick-Black Dirt Sessions Teenage Fanclub-Shadows Ariel Pink-Before Today | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2439 Registered: 03-2005 |
Momus--The Little Red Songbook Ludus -- Pickpocket/Danger Came Smiling | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 170 Registered: 11-2007 |
Teenage Fanclub-Shadows Ariel Pink-Before Today Bombay Bicycle Club-Flaws Au Pairs-Anthology | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2440 Registered: 03-2005 |
It has arrived: Cathal Coughlan--Rancho Tetrahedron This first song, Shipman Memorial, is sooo Microdisney. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1865 Registered: 09-2006 |
Far Out Corporation - s/t Grant's Intermission disc. Pure gorgeousness with a side of melancholy. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 320 Registered: 05-2005 |
Tame Impala - Innerspeaker this is glorious stuff , blowing my mind and my eardrums | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 696 Registered: 05-2005 |
That good Cosmo? I have been thinking about buying this but wanted a second opinion. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 321 Registered: 05-2005 |
Geoff, it's out there man! I listened to it right through twice yesterday loving it then put on the headphones and the stereo phasing increased the pleasure. It's big and 60s sounding and reminds me of Dungen (do you know them?) but with more hooks. | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 698 Registered: 05-2005 |
Yeah, I heard some of the songs on the myspace page and it had me smiling...VERY 60's! Cosmo, you've given me YET ANOTHER band to investigate - I've never heard of Dungen! Thanks for the up! | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 699 Registered: 05-2005 |
Oh and repeatedly listening to the first self titled Icicle Works on BLOODY TAPE...AAARRRRGGGHH!. I've ordered the 3 cd edition along with "Third Eye" by Monsoon (which is now called "Monsoon featuring Sheila Chandra"). Both I remember at the time were a bit "just O.K - should have been much better". Considering how much I am enjoying the Icicle works, and that I don't have a record player AND can't find my tape of "Third Eye", I'm betting it won't be money wasted though. Sheila Chandra was one of those great female 80's voices (like Liz Fraser and Ofra Houza) that I always meant to persue further. What is her other stuff like? Steve Kilbey raves about it. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 789 Registered: 10-2008 |
I read a review of Tame Impala which compared them to an Australian version of Cream and Hendrix, but with a 2010 attitude. I also noticed that the new issue of Uncut awarded it the debut album of the month award (4stars) and talks of the album being "blissfully groovy psych,cooked up on the beaches of western australia", there are references to Ok Computer, shoegazing dreaminess, Roxy Music and drums which recall sampling by DJ Shadow. Vocally the singer is compared to George Harrison - oh well;-) I listened to it via Napster, sounded intriguing and will give it another listen. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 791 Registered: 10-2008 |
Some reviews of Tame Impala's album. References now include the Stone Roses and Nuggets compilations. One things for sure, nobody thinks this band is original :-) I notice its produced by Dave Fridmann, and with that in mind I can hear echoes of early Flaming Lips. I love the last line of the NME review - "catch them on the Old Grey Whistle Test soon". Listening to it again just now, I quite like it, surprising given the alleged influences. http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/aug /20/tame-impala-innerspeaker-cd-review http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/1427 9-innerspeaker/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/2z6m http://www.nme.com/reviews/tame-impala/1 1501 | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2447 Registered: 03-2005 |
I've never actually heard any Icicle Works recordings. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2448 Registered: 03-2005 |
Oh, and last night I listened to Cathal's new album again. I stand by my original description: more polished than "Foburg" but retaining some of the theatricality. Definitely a healthy dollop of later Microdisney aesthetics stirred in. While songs like "Ophelia Crescent," "Epiphany Season" and "Big Wax Hand" will remain favorites I'm pretty sure I'll end up liking "Rancho Tetrahedron" better than "Foburg." The references to southern California places in "Terylene Ghosts" is weird to have on a Cathal Coughlan record. It's very hard to envision Cathal in San Diego except perhaps as the protagonist in an extremely dark comedy. Which I suppose is what he is. It's not exactly Tangiers is it? I keep thinking of "Sun." And all of this is just to tease you Jeff. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 792 Registered: 10-2008 |
Listening to Scary Monsters again today I still cant see why this album gets linked to the new wave/post punk scene that was current at the time. I am really struggling to see any similarity so I thought I would see if Simon Reynolds referenced it in his post punk book Rip It Up. Nothing. References to Low, Heroes and Lodger, even bloody Lets Dance!! | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 274 Registered: 03-2007 |
No-Man - All The Blue Changes ( An Anthology 1988 - 2003 ) A two disc set, the opening tracks are interesting covers of 'Pink Moon' by Nick Drake and 'Colour' by Donovan. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2449 Registered: 03-2005 |
Let's Go Naked--Insides | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 2040 Registered: 10-2004 |
I think it's easy to see how Scary Monsters, particularly side 1, gets liked to the new wave/post punk scene of its time. Very angular, quirky, yet still poppy stuff. Randy - stop! My copy still hasn't arrived yet! | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 323 Registered: 05-2005 |
Dave Fridmann mixed the Tame Impala album Kev, he didnt produce it and I think it would have sounded alot different if he had. | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 700 Registered: 05-2005 |
Check out "Bird's Fly(Whisper to a scream)" and "Love is a Wonderful Colour" on YouTube. GLORIOUS chorus in "Love..."! I'm buying that Tame Impala tomorrow after work. Those reviews were pretty positive. Looks like ANOTHER great band from Perth to join the Triffids and the Panics for me. | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 701 Registered: 05-2005 |
Sorry, that first bit was for Randy. Worth checking out. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3638 Registered: 05-2005 |
Rsndy, Cathal Coughlan's wife is American. I'm assuming she's from SoCal and that he's spent enough time there to write about it. Maybe he should get back with Sean O'Hagan and write the great west coast pop album they are capable of. We can but dream. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1871 Registered: 09-2006 |
Heaven and Hell - the Best of the Mekons | ||
| Shane Greentree Member Username: Realinspectorshane Post Number: 38 Registered: 03-2007 |
Liam Finn/Eliza-Jane Barnes: Champagne In Seashells Darren Hanlon: Hello Stranger Doors: Live At The Matrix Jack Bruce: Harmony Row Derek and the Dominos: Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs My Bloody Valentine: Glider Elliott Smith: Roman Candle | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3642 Registered: 05-2005 |
Gwenmars - Driving A Million. A lost almost classic from 2001. | ||
| Shane Greentree Member Username: Realinspectorshane Post Number: 41 Registered: 03-2007 |
Split Enz: Beginning Of The Enz Triffids: Live at the London School of Economics The Who: Live At Leeds | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1919 Registered: 01-2005 |
Luna - Penthouse Thomas Dolby - The Flat Earth | ||
| Shane Greentree Member Username: Realinspectorshane Post Number: 42 Registered: 03-2007 |
Kings X: Gretchen Goes To Nebraska XTC: Skylarking (good album, but listening to it reminded me that I really prefer Drums & Wires and Black Sea.) The Church: Hindsight 1980-1987 | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 326 Registered: 05-2005 |
Dungen- Skitt I Allt | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1920 Registered: 01-2005 |
Echo & The Bunnymen - Live At The Royal Albert Hall(19/7/83) | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 375 Registered: 10-2006 |
McCartney - Paul's leap of joy for freedom, a sort of unplugged, DIY, book-slapping doodle of an album which sounds very fresh today, with a few lovely songs, some joky bits and pieces, and a few surprisingly compelling instrumentals. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 583 Registered: 04-2005 |
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew Hmmm. Depending on my mood either the worst self-indulgent doodling ever (in fact exactly the model for why people say that they hate jazz) or a stunning bubbling maelstrom of sound. Maybe I prefer a little more 'cohesion' in my jazz ? "Right Off" from his next album "Jack Johnson" remains my fave from this period. It has an unbelievable bravado and swagger. I remember the story of Miles Davis being asked by a snooty (white) woman why he was present at a reception at the White House; "I changed the face of popular music 3 times" he replied. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 2043 Registered: 10-2004 |
Andrew, to this day I can't get into Bitches Brew or anything from that era. Self-indulgent doodling to these ears, as is much of his mid-60s output as well. I definitely need more cohesion in my jazz, but then not *too* much! | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 795 Registered: 10-2008 |
deerhunter - microcastle lightnin hopkins - his blues carl craig - landcruising television - marquee moon tame impala -innerspeaker | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3643 Registered: 05-2005 |
Alonewalk, the brilliant new album from Dave Couse. Features a guest vocal from someone dear to a few of us around here. Check your email Jeff, Kevin and Randy. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 798 Registered: 10-2008 |
altar eagle - mechanical gardens. retro new wave synth ala the passage, thomas leer etc, but much much harder edge. this pair have obviously been influenced by techno, something the early synth bands were denied. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2455 Registered: 03-2005 |
Sweatshop Union--local.604 | ||
| Shane Greentree Member Username: Realinspectorshane Post Number: 44 Registered: 03-2007 |
Jeff, have you tried In A Silent Way? I can't call that one 'self-indulgent doodling' at all. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 814 Registered: 10-2008 |
magazine - touch and go compilation david bowie - aladdin sane tom waits - bone machine culture - africa stand alone | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1934 Registered: 01-2005 |
Jeff and Shane, I've got a dozen Miles Davis albums on cd from 1950's The Birth of The Cool to 1961's Someday My Prince Will Come. The only album of his that I have after that is Bitches Brew, which I'm not a fan of. However I would like to explore some of the mid mid 1960's albums by the Miles Davis Quintet witch featured Wayne Shorter. I'm a huge Wayne Shorter fan, especially his albums from the same time period like "JuJu", Night Dreamer" and "Speak No Evil". | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 276 Registered: 03-2007 |
The Green Pajamas - Strung Behind The Sun The Green Pajamas - All Clues Lead To Megan's Bed | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2471 Registered: 03-2005 |
Just a Taste--A Summershine Records Compilation. Recommended by Hugh. All Aussie, and quite lovely so far. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 174 Registered: 08-2005 |
The Chills - Submarine Bells and The Secret Box. Great stuff. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 785 Registered: 04-2006 |
la vampires meets zola jesus did not bought really much new albums this year. six songs ep on vinyl. haunting music. sounds like a mixture of 'the cocteau twins', the wonderful 'colourbox' and 'mark stewart & mafia'. in some way a fascinating, droning flush. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU5OgfLVC jA&feature=related cheers, andreas | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 786 Registered: 04-2006 |
the first posting (padraig's) mentions best coast. i ordered la vampires meets zola jesus in good old england and they included a three song promo cd by best coast. yeah. like that, too. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 824 Registered: 10-2008 |
Robert Plant - Band of Joy. I have never bought a record with Robert Plant on it in my life, but this is excellent. There's even 2 songs written by Low on the album. His versions are good, but not a patch on the originals Grinderman - Grinderman 2. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 787 Registered: 04-2006 |
kevin, this is unbelievable. not even physical graffiti? but more unbelievable is that you bought this album. never mind. richard thompson's new album dream attic is better than i expected. i would say it is one that is worth to buy and have pleasure by listening to some beautiful thompson songs. and by the way: like the electric stuff more than the acoustic (despite the fact that his playing on the acoustic is excellent). | ||
| Shane Greentree Member Username: Realinspectorshane Post Number: 61 Registered: 03-2007 |
Wilco/Billy Bragg: Mermaid Avenue Vol. 1 and 2 Dirty Three: Ocean Songs Allman Brothers Band: Allman Brothers Band Allman Brothers Band: Idlewind South Pink Floyd: Dark Side Of The Moon David Byrne/Brian Eno: Everything That Happens Will Happen Today | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 837 Registered: 10-2008 |
andreas, never bought a heavy rock album ever. i once did a trade when i was 14 with a guy at school. he gave me an album by rainbow(cant remember what i gave him), i couldnt listen to it. it was awful. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 838 Registered: 10-2008 |
or maybe it was deep purple, either way it was shit! | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 2063 Registered: 10-2004 |
Algebra Suicide - everything. Such a cool band, and I only just found out about them. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3662 Registered: 05-2005 |
Summer Cats - Songs For Tuesdays. Picked it up in the bargain bin in Rocking Horse in Brisbane last weekend purely because it mentioned The Go-Betweens in the blurb from the store. For once, the comparison holds water. They're a Melbourne band. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 790 Registered: 04-2006 |
oh, come on kevin, deep purple was not bad. one of the first albums i bought was 'made in japan' and 'burn'. i loved them as a kid. for a while and sometimes again. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 791 Registered: 04-2006 |
junip - fields (reminds me on david kitt's the big romance album) neil young - le noise (as nearly every time over the last twenty years when good old neil released a new album i really can't say 'wow, what a great record'. ambivalent, but at least much better than fork in the road) david sylvian - sleepwalkers (if you like david sylvian you can do anything wrong with this compilation of songs he did with others on their albums) sufjan stevens - the age of adz (the whole album as a stream until its release) http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story .php?storyId=130049247 | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 839 Registered: 10-2008 |
andreas, i like le noise. its something a bit different from what he's done in the last deade or so. sleepwalkers is excellent, really varied stuff. sufjan i havent heard yet. he's done a lot of interesting stuff but the buzz i've heard suggests this album is a bit of a letdown. cabaret voltaire - loads of albums (code, microphonies, red mecca, the sound of sheffield). tricky - mixed race roots manuva meets wrong tom - duppy writer deerhunter - halcyon digest the posies - blood/candy johnny osbourne - fally lover | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 793 Registered: 04-2006 |
kevin, i listened 2/3 of the stream yesterday and i liked what i heard. after a long sufjan abstinence (didn't bought anything since illinois) this could be an album of him which i will buy. maybe. now i have the joy to listen to the new edwyn collins album 'losing sleep'. the man is in good form, really. o.k. i am a fan, but i am objective enough that i noticed that the album before wasn't really good (despite the fact that the songs were all written and recorded before his stroke). therefore, i would say that this is a classic edwyn collins album and listening to it makes me really happy. | ||
| Mark Leydon Member Username: Mark_leydon Post Number: 312 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kevin - what's your verdict on the new Deerhunter? I thought their last album Microcastles was terrific - and they were also one of the best live bands I've seen in recent years. So I've got high hopes for Halycon Digest (which is out here next week). Tell me it's brilliant! | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 844 Registered: 10-2008 |
its brilliant mark. i'm listening to it just now on headphones and it sounds terrific. the first song, earthquake, is a really brave opener. very dreamy, shoegazerish type of blissed out pop. the rest of the album cant quite match it, but every song is a keeper and along with aeriel pink its my american rock album of the year. here's some reviews to whet youre appetite http://boomkat.com/cds/335117-deerhunter -halcyon-digest http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/1468 1-halcyon-digest/ http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/59 87 | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 845 Registered: 10-2008 |
andreas, i'll listen to the sufjan soon but i'm drowning under all the new albums i've bought in the last week, see below deerhunter - halcyon digest no age - everything in between roots manuva meets wrongtom - duppy writer johnny osbourne - reggae legends (4 cd box set) neil young - le noise david sylvian - sleepwalkers shit robot - from the cradle to the rave grinderman - grinderman 2 robert plant - band of joy the fall - bend sinister (finally got on cd) and thats not to mention all the cabaret voltaire stuff i've dug out again!! | ||
| Mark Leydon Member Username: Mark_leydon Post Number: 313 Registered: 05-2005 |
Cheers for the Deerhunters thumbs-up Kev - and the links to the reviews. It's top of my purchase list. I love the Aerial Pink CD as well. Between that, AVI Buffalo and the lastest National album this is already shaping up as a great year for American rock for me. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 795 Registered: 04-2006 |
kevin, you bought twice as much as i bought last week. but the five albums in summary are nearly as much as i bought the rest of the year. and the best: all are great. today: second listening of junip (fields) and david sylvian (sleepwalkers). the first one is uplifting , the second one is feastful. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1889 Registered: 09-2006 |
Am keen to hear the Neil and the Sufjan. Have been notified by the library that the Kraftwerk remastered album box set and the new Arcade Fire are in. | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 477 Registered: 01-2007 |
Just bought the new Neil Young, bit hesitant about it really but last decade of his music has been a let down. Loving: Band of Horses, Grindermen 2, Aerial Pink, LLoyc Cole ( broken record), Gorrilaz, ROberto Plant OK. Have gone back over some Lloyd Cole and especially on some of his songs it could be Robert Singing, never really thought this before. | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 478 Registered: 01-2007 |
Actually that David Grant keeps coming up on shuffle and in short bites sounds good, may be will listen to it all again, it may be like Victoria Sponge in that one slice or even 2 are OK but as a whole just too much | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 479 Registered: 01-2007 |
Should be John Grant | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 848 Registered: 10-2008 |
still on a cabaret voltaire binge - 2x45, the crackdown and red mecca. the clash - sandanista. inspired to dig this out by reading the retrospective piece on the album in uncut magazine. apparently the project started out with the clash wanting to release a single per month(a bit like reggae artists releasing 45's that commented on the current situations in jamaica), but things got off to a shaky start when cbs refused to initially release bankrobber. the clash being the clash then decided to record a triple album. still a very frustrating listen, there's a killer 12 track album there, with another 7 or 8 songs not too shabby. deerhunter - halcyon digest | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 850 Registered: 10-2008 |
forgot to say. mickey gallacher and norman watt-roy from ian dury's blockheads apparently co-wrote several songs on sandanista. watt-roy claiming the bass riff of magnificent 7 being the most notable. gallacher sued unsuccessfully for royalties, watt-roy seemed happy knowing he had wrote a few great tunes. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1891 Registered: 09-2006 |
An idea that gets floated about sprawling albums like Sandinista and especially about Sandinista specifically is that the sprawl is a big part of what it's about, and the less-than-stellar cuts and odd bits just add texture. IMO that idea is bull**** in a fair number of cases, but not in this case. I love settling in to listen to it, and couldn't imagine it any shorter. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 851 Registered: 10-2008 |
i take your point allen, but i dont think the sequencing of the album helps. nobody could ever say this album is front loaded,well not imo anyway(hitsville still makes me cringe,junco partner is ok but not 3rd track material, ivan is terrible,the leader is a track i would drop altogether), and i would say i have cooled my stance on it over the years too!!! listening to it more recently sides 1 and 2 still dont match up to sides 3 and 4 imo, but with this album more than perhaps many others its all about personal tastes and the style of music you prefer. when i first heard this album in 1980 i was massively underwhelmed. then again, apart from reggae i wasnt a lover of any of the myriad other styles of music they covered on the album. now of course, with hindsight, maturity, and now being a lover of those other styles i can finally appreciate the album for the brave, ambitious, multi cultured but ultimately close but no cigar project it was. i'm probably generalising, but at the time of release (and perhaps even now?)i get the impression that this album had a better rep in the states than in the uk(pazz and job album of the year, really??!! - although to be fair 1981 wasnt a great year for albums, certainly compared to the few years preceding it,1979 and 1980(the year it was released in the uk) anyway), possibly because most of the people who bought it there were unaware of the clash in their former incarnation of punk rock whirlwinds, who literally spoke for thousands and thousands of british kids, took up all our causes and sang about them to a backdrop of musical chaos. within 2 or 3 short years they had foresaken us and were playing all this disco,rap,gospel,calypso and blues crap in an effort to coin in loads of yankee dollars. at least thats how it felt at the time although i can see its all bullshit on my part now and the clash were just doing what they had always done and were playing and writing about things they encountered or observed on a daily basis. although now it had an american or global slant and was ultimately stuff that affected all of us. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3670 Registered: 05-2005 |
The great new Harvest Ministers album Strange Love Letter. I've reviewed it here http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/thet icket/2010/1001/1224280038941.html (my first proper record review in eight years!). | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 852 Registered: 10-2008 |
morrissey - bona drag. cabaret voltaire - the sound of sheffield 1978-1982 sufjan stevens - the age of adz. sufjan adds some electronic bibs and bobs to his sound. this one will take a good few plays to sink in. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1957 Registered: 01-2005 |
Sonny Clark - Cool Strttin' Warren Zevon - Sentimental Hygiene The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour (Expanded Deluxe Edition) Errol Garner - Concert By The Sea | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 853 Registered: 10-2008 |
noticed while doing some research on sandinista that there was a 12 track sampler issued at the time of the album, probably sent to radio stations and rock mags http://eil.com/shop/moreinfo.asp?catalog id=99482 got me thinking i would program a single cd/double album sandinista of my own 1.The Magnificent Seven 2.Somebody Got Murdered 3.Rebel Waltz 4.One More Time 5.Police On My Back 6.The Crooked Beat 7.Up In Heaven (Not Only Here) 8.Junco Partner 9.Corner Soul 10.Lightning Strikes (Not Once But Twice) 11.The Equaliser 12.The Call Up 13.Washington Bullets 14.Broadway 15.Kingston Advice 16.Midnight Log 17.Charlie Don't Surf 18.If Music Could Talk | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2478 Registered: 03-2005 |
The Verlaines--Juvenilia and next up: The Jean-Paul Sartre Experience Both came through the slot in the door from the lovely folks at NewZealandCDs. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1892 Registered: 09-2006 |
Even though I like Sandinista! as is, I do also like a good best-of, so I may just take a spin through it to see what I'd put on mine. I do know I love a number of the goofier things on sides 5 & 6, like "Skin I'm In" and the kids singing "Career Opportunities." | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 857 Registered: 10-2008 |
absolutely rocksteady - the uniques. randy, i know you are a big fan of rocksteady/early reggae but cant remember if i have ever heard you talk about the uniques, or their legendary vocalist slim smith. slim is widely acknowledged to be the greatest singer ever to have come out of jamaica and he's been dead for approx 40 years!! if you are interested,this new album is available now from the pressure sound label, my favourite reggae reissue label,it doesnt get released to retailers till 18 oct in the uk and 9th nov in the states http://www.pressure.co.uk/item/PSCD69/ | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2483 Registered: 03-2005 |
Thanks for the heads up, Kevin, because no I haven't heard of the Uniques. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2484 Registered: 03-2005 |
Oh yeah, Kevin, I'm listening to the sample tracks. This is a definite buy. I love the use of the horns on "Stand Up and Fight." That's usually a mark of early rock steady where there's still a bit of ska in there. The vocalist's voice sounds familiar but the name is not ringing a bell. I probably have something by them on a multi-artist anthology somewhere. I hope they managed to pull together recordings from the various producers that they mention in the notes. That's usually the big obstacle on JA anthologies. I'll read liner notes telling me about all these great tracks that are not on the CD I'm listening to because, of course, they didn't get the clearances from the producer. But whatever, I get what I get! | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 858 Registered: 10-2008 |
randy, slim smith recorded solo and with the techniques so i'm sure you have something by him. the sleevenotes give a potted history of the uniques various incarnations and members - names of the quality of ken booth, derrick morgan,lloyd charmers, bb seaton and jimmy riley all passed through the ranks. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1961 Registered: 01-2005 |
John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman Everything But The Girl - Idlewild Sonny Clark - Sonny's Crib The Go-Betweens - 16 LL Til Tuesday - Everything's Different Now Jackie Mclean - Let Freedom Ring | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 800 Registered: 04-2006 |
listening and watching... http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story .php?storyId=130323805 | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 801 Registered: 04-2006 |
michael, do you like the coltrane/hartman album? i never got into this one. i really don't like the singing and the music is a bit to smooth. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 802 Registered: 04-2006 |
sufjan stevens - all delighted people ep listen and enjoy http://sufjanstevens.bandcamp.com/album/ all-delighted-people-ep especially djohariah is great. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 859 Registered: 10-2008 |
oh i forgot to say andreas, i think the new sufjan stevens album is very good. have listened to the stream a few times and have ordered the cd | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1965 Registered: 01-2005 |
Andreas, I find little to dislike about the Coltrane/Hartman album, other then it's short 31 minute length. John's favorite singer was Johnny Hartman, which is why he chose to record an album with him. Most of Coltrane's 1962 and 1963 studio albums (Duke Ellington & John Coltrane, Ballads, John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman) were all more layed back ballad type albums. The 1962 sudio album Coltrane was the exception. Things would change in 1964 though with the release of Crecent and A Love Supreme. Too bad John Coltrane never recorded an album with a female singer. I wonder who he would have picked? I would have thought that Sarah Vaughan and John Coltrane would have made a great album. Sarah's album with trumpet god Clifford Brown was one of her best albums. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1894 Registered: 09-2006 |
Agreed on the Sufjan...great to see him back. In preparation for Neil's new album I've been spinning through some of his, focusing on "lesser" records that I still enjoy a lot, like "Broken Arrow" and "Are You Passionate?" Also giving a few plays to the great "Chrome Dreams (Rust Version)" | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 278 Registered: 03-2007 |
The Bon Scotts - Oddernity. Their debut album released on Popboomerang Records. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 804 Registered: 04-2006 |
Allen, your right. I forgot Chrome Dreams. This is really a gem. Michael, I just have the Ellington/Coltane album, which I like very much. But I can't really get into Ballads and the Hartman albums. I have Crescent in a extemly expensive and limited 2x45rpm version and in a normal version. The 2x45rpm version (from ORG) is outstanding. But my Coltrane audio/high fidelity highlight is another ORG edition: Live atthe Village Vanguard. Sounds like you were sitting directly in front of the band and here - no see (imagination)- them playing. Marvellous. But talking about high end vinyl would be fit more perfect in another topic.... | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 805 Registered: 04-2006 |
listening to: imaginational anthem volume 4 - new possibilities for the fahey/acoustic guitar lover in me. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1966 Registered: 01-2005 |
Andreas, I've got Live at the Village Vanguard via the four disc The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings boxset. The high end vinyl Coltrane sounds very interesting. | ||
| Lewisdhead Member Username: Lewisdhead Post Number: 65 Registered: 01-2007 |
O Emperor-Hither Thither. A band from Waterford Ireland. Great potential IMHO. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfO7TahpC BQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhlXAu3A1 28 | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 863 Registered: 10-2008 |
sufjan stevens - the age of ads. this is really rather good, and i much prefer his new direction to the more folksy sounding stuff he did. bafflingly, its getting pretty average reviews, especially in the uk. even mags like mojo and uncut are not overly praising it, i would have thought this kind of album would be right up their street. the production is amazing, and the arrangements truly stellar. great layered harmonies on some songs as well. easily the most ambitious rock(for want of a better description) album of the year | ||
| Mark Leydon Member Username: Mark_leydon Post Number: 315 Registered: 05-2005 |
Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest A wonderful album. I think it might just have pipped The National's 'High Violet' as my album of the year so far. Covers lots of bases from ethereal soundscapes to a couple of out-and-out pop gems. It really is quite a beautiful album and certainly moves the band up to a whole new level. Highlight for me is the final track 'He Would Have Laughed' - a slowly unfolding seven minute gem. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 397 Registered: 10-2006 |
Hey, I was just logging on to sing a hymn of praise to exactly the same album! really one of the most beautiful things I've heard for ages, deeply absorbing and, as Mark says, with a nice swing between shoegazerish swoon and poppy richness. I haven't figured out the relevance of the terribly sad story about the gay Russian model printed on the sleeve, yet, though. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 281 Registered: 03-2007 |
Warpaint - Exquisite Corpse ( EP ) The band's debut album ( The Fool ) is released by Rough Trade on Monday. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1978 Registered: 01-2005 |
Andreas, The main reason that the John Coltrane "Live at the Village Vanguard" sounds like you are sitting directly in front of the band is because that is were all the recording equipement and mics were for four nights, on a front row table right in front of the band (much to the chagrin of the Vanguards owner who thought that he was losing revenue by not have a table full of paying customers there instead). The four disc boxset has some extensive liner notes. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 881 Registered: 10-2008 |
gregory isaacs - my number one gregory isaacs - extra classic gregory isaacs - the winner, the roots of gregory isaacs gregory isaacs - mr isaacs | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1911 Registered: 09-2006 |
Neil Young - Le Noise Enjoying it quite a bit. Neil Young - Trans (alternate version) Not that much different from the released version - in some ways better, some not. But, being that I'm a real fan of that one, glad to have it around. I'm pretty sure I'm in the minority of caring at all, but the new Arcade Fire still hasn't kicked in for me yet. "Funeral" sounds better than ever with each listen, though. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 890 Registered: 10-2008 |
chris and cosey - heartbeat. this is an amazing album, given to me by a friend who knew i'd been on a cabaret voltaire binge and thought i would like it. i wasnt even aware of its existence, i only vaguely recognised the names in connection with throbbing gristle. throbbing gristle have never made any impression on me, have never bought an album and tbh i have no idea what they even sound like. this chris & cosey album sounds a bit like the early cabs crossed with the later more song based cabs, it works really well | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 2084 Registered: 10-2004 |
I don't own any Chris and Cosey, I'll have to check that out. They had this one semi-hit in the 80s, but that's all I've heard. I do own a throbbing gristle album, but that's quite different stuff. | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 177 Registered: 11-2007 |
@kevin & jeff: a link to a wonderful 12" version of c&c's october (love song) 12". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiXojDkeF 2o&feature=related has nothing to to with throbbing gristle - but what a song. | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 178 Registered: 11-2007 |
Paul Smith - Margins I can't find the clue... | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 893 Registered: 10-2008 |
Roky Erickson with Okkervil River: True Love Cast Out All Evil. Another cracking album given to me by the friend who tipped me off to Chris & Cosey. This is a real revelation to me and absolutely nothing like I expected it to be like, a great "americana" style album which reminds me very much of the excellent album released by Phosphorescent earlier this year. I have heard some stuff by Okkervil River, but next to nothing by Roky, apart from some 13th Floor Elevators stuff that Randy sent me, but it sounded nothing like this!! There is a great insight to the album and how it came about here. http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/1238 40-roky-erickson-with-okkervil-river-tru e-love-cast-out-all-evil | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 894 Registered: 10-2008 |
Also on a bit of a Tom Verlaine binge at the moment. The debut album, Dreamtime, and Cover have all been played so far, next up The Miller's Tale anthology. I was surprised at how great Cover sounded today, most people including myself normally lean towards the first two albums, but I might need to revise that opinion | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3694 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Coves - Walk With Me. It's from the 4 Songs EP. The Coves' main man is Pete Azzopardi, once a regular on this board. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1918 Registered: 09-2006 |
Have always enjoyed Cover a lot - Flash Light even more. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 817 Registered: 04-2006 |
Michael, thanks for that information about the coltrane ''village vanguard'' album. the vinyl -for sure- hasn't that information. maybe i should invest some money for the 4 cd-box set. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2496 Registered: 03-2005 |
Hey, Padraig! Thanks for that heads-up. I'll go hunting, or send Pete a message. | ||
| peter ward Member Username: Peter_ward Post Number: 130 Registered: 06-2005 |
Lots of Scud Mt Boys/Tom Russell/Felice Bros/Springsteen/Waits/Deertick/Phospher escent/Cash whilst crossing Illinois thru Indiana to Ohio...American music never sounded so good, everything seemed to sound just a little bit better than i could remember. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 904 Registered: 10-2008 |
elliott smith - an introduction to... i cant believe anybody here is not familiar with his work, but if there is they should start here. its the sign of a great artist that people are moaning about songs left off this comp, and just drives it home even more what a pity it is he's no longer making music. was the final verdict suicide? it didnt seem to be properly reported, at one point his girlfriend was suspected but i guess that was unproven? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3698 Registered: 05-2005 |
I got the debut Sole Stickers album, We Got All Things That Are Good, in Red Eye the other day after it got a good review in the Sydney Morning Herald. It is even better then the SMH review suggests. I can hear a lot of The Who, Big Star and The Posies in there, but without it being purely derivative. Hearing Big Star and The Posies is no surprise when Jon Auer mixed the Sole Stickers record and also played and sang on it. These guys may just be the coolest Tasmanians since Errol Flynn! |