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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3580 Registered: 05-2005 |
Surfer Blood - Astro Coast (two disc Rough Trade version) Cabins - Bright Victory Laura Marling - Alas I Cannot Swim Nick Drake - Pink Moon John Fogerty - The Long Road Home The Big Pink - A Brief History Of Love Oasis - Time Flies... 1994-2009 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3581 Registered: 05-2005 |
Boy & Bear - With Emperor Antarctica EP Kate Bush - The Red Shoes | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 675 Registered: 05-2005 |
And I thought I was the only one here without Pink Moon! anyway... When I was born for the 7th time - Cornershop Intriguer - Crowded House. 4 songs coming through so far. "Twice if your lucky" is the best, buoyant, up, guitar pop song since....Even a child! I can even hear a bit of Strangeways Smiths on this - obviously picked up from Johnny Marr. Perfect middle 8. Elephants is as good a closer as People are like suns. A lot of the songs the reviews pick out for special attention are not the stars by a long shot! The Times review said that the songwriting sounds deceptively simple but reveals its complexity on repeated listens - couldn't agree more. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2361 Registered: 03-2005 |
I don't have Pink Moon either. I seem to recall that I had a reason for not buying it but I can't remember what that reason was. But I'm not a purist; my favorite is the album with P.P. Arnold singing backup: Bryter Layter. My latest: Lots of Chris Thomson: Friends Again--Trapped & Unwrapped Bloomsday--Fortuny Bathers--Sweet Deceit, Lagoon Blues, Sunpowder, Kelvingrove Baby and Pandemonia. A huge mass of Francoise Hardy: La Collection 62 - 66 Ma jeunesse fout le camp . . . Comment te dire adieu? Soleil If You Listen (lovely arrangements and some nice song choices but she's better in French and when she does more of her own songs) Et si je m'en vais avant toi Message Personnel Le Danger Then a couple Paradise Motel: Left Over Life to Kill and Flight Paths Currently I have a copy of Paradise Motel's Some Deaths Take Forever heading my way and also a copy of Bobby & Laurie's Exposiac, thanks to Redeye. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 1012 Registered: 08-2004 |
The Shining - True Skies Beta Band - Music/Live Delgado's - Universal Audio Prefab Sprout - From Langley Park To Memphis David Bowie - Tonight Chick Corea - Compact Jazz Wilco - Being There Shakatak - Night Moves Nada Surf - Let Go Robert Johnson - The Legendary Blues Singer Neil Young - After The Goldrush | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 259 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, so it was you who bought it. :-) Latest purchases:- La Collection - Francoise Hardy Mosaic - Love Of Diagrams Devastations/Coal/Yes U - Devastations Be What You Want/Meditations//Axiom/Dimensions - The Lovetones The Lives Of Lee Memorial - Lee Memorial Holding Patterns - Parallel Lions A Careless Lifestyle - Tillmanns The Last Of The Charanguistas - The Epstein | ||
| Shane Greentree Member Username: Realinspectorshane Post Number: 17 Registered: 03-2007 |
The last set of albums I bought makes me sound more indie than I actually am. :p Galaxie 500: Today Galaxie 500: On Fire Triffids: The Black Swan Triffids: Come Ride With Me.... Wide Open Road (deluxe) Magnetic Fields: 69 Love Songs Pavement: Wowee Zowee (expanded) Animal Collective: Merriwether Post Pavillion | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 369 Registered: 10-2006 |
The Francoise Hardy collection suggested by Randy is indeed a lovely package - I've had a few different greatest hits things over the years, but there's a lot of good listening in the lesser known songs too...so what about the later solo stuff, then, Randy? What's to get, what's to ignore? | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 563 Registered: 04-2005 |
And linking Françoise Hardy and Nick Drake... http://ttexshexes.blogspot.com/2009/10/n ick-drakefrancoise-hardy.html | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2362 Registered: 03-2005 |
Thank you for that Andrew. Stuart, as I've commented on here before, the relative consistency of her records is remarkable. If you have enjoyed "La Collection" definitely pick up the next album in her line: "Ma jeunesse fout le camp . . ." from 1967. It's the last of her records with Charles Blackwell doing the arrangements and has a healthy percentage of her original songs including "Voila." Then I recommend "Et si je m'en vais avant toi" from 1972. The arrangements are greatly influenced by both the LA sound and also the British folk boom. Most importantly, all but one of the songs are her originals. The packaging has an amusing series of photos of her in a small room with a typewriter, a guitar and a gradually increasing pile of crumpled paper. Perhaps she was inspired by Nick Drake to make this album of original songs? Moving far forward I also recommend "Le Danger" from 1996. On this one she writes the lyrics but leaves the music to others. It's an electric guitar album. You won't go far astray with any of her records post-"La Collection" through 1972 but some, such as "Comment te dire adieu?" and the English-language "If You Listen", are stingy about original songs and her original songs really do contribute in a big big way to the merit of her oeuvre. I have yet to dig deeper into the later 70s and 80s records. I can say that "Message Personnel" from 1973 reflects the spottiness that I expect when you get into the 70s, when things get slushier but I'll report back to you on the later years . . . well, later! | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 370 Registered: 10-2006 |
Thanks for all this, Randy, though I'm beginning to think you're secretly in the pay of Amazon France... I like the bit in the text about Drake where she modestly says "He would sit in one corner of the studio and would stay there for hours,without saying a word, as if it was enough for him to know that I liked his songs." I think any guy would've happily sat in the corner of a studio just gazing at her... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3587 Registered: 05-2005 |
Bought the new Paradise Motel album today. Better be as good as you guys are making it out... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3589 Registered: 05-2005 |
Also bought the box set of the three Golden Palominos albums today and Sigmatropic's Sixteen Haiku And Other Stories album. I downloaded (paid download I hasten to add) this album a few years back so it's nice to get it on disc. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 262 Registered: 03-2007 |
Padraig, I am still waiting for the new album to arrive. Some samples of their earlier work on route to you. Last album purchased :- Here We Go Magic - Pigeons | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1805 Registered: 01-2005 |
I joined the La Collection club! Latest purchases:- La Collection - Francoise Hardy The Complete Vanguard Studio Recordings - Ian and Sylvia In Our Bedroom After The War - Stars | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3600 Registered: 05-2005 |
Madness - Complete Madness Madness - One Step Beyond (two disc remaster) U2 - The Unforgettable Fire (two disc remaster) Stephen Duff / Lilac Time - Memory & Desire (two disc compilation) Tandy - Did You Think I Was Gone? Tandy - To A Friend Fog - Ditherer Jason Walker - Ceiling Sun Letters Valgeir Sigurosson - Ekvilibrium V/A - Deutsche Elektronische Musik (two disc Krautrock sampler) Riff Random - In Space There Is No Sound Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2373 Registered: 03-2005 |
Michael, the Hardy and Ian and Sylvia boxes are an interesting contrast. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1822 Registered: 01-2005 |
Yes, and I enjoyed them both! Just ordered: Francoise Hardy - Et Si Je M'En Vais Avant Toi Gene Clark & Carla Olson - So Rebellious a Lover [Extra tracks] The National - Alligator Radiohead - Hail To The Thief Keith Jarret & Charlie Haden - Jasmine | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1862 Registered: 01-2005 |
R.E.M. - Fables Of The Reconstruction 25th Anniversary Thomas Dolby - The Flat Earth - Remastered & Expanded The National - High Violet | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 1033 Registered: 08-2004 |
McAlmont & Butler - Bring It Back Modest Mouse - The Fruit That Ate Itself Tahiti 80 - I.S.A.A.C PJ Harvey - Stories From The City... Bob Marley - Keep On Moving & Riding High Animals That Swim - Workshy 10cc - Hits Diana Krall - The Look Of Love Ladyhawke - Ladyhawke | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 315 Registered: 02-2007 |
Gaslight Radio - Good Heavens Mean Times bonnie prince billy - the letting go Paul Dempsey - Everything is True Band of Horses - Infinite Arms Birds of Tokyo - Broken Strings Tour The Beautiful South - Best of Patty Griffin - Children Running Through Icecream Hands - The Good China Karnivool - Sound Awake Linda Thompson - Fashionably Late | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1877 Registered: 01-2005 |
X - Under The Big Black Sun (2001 extra tracks remastered edition) Shirley Horn - Here's To Life Charlie Parker: A Studio Chronicle 1940-1948 [Box set, Original recording remastered] | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3632 Registered: 05-2005 |
Best Coast - Crazy For You (two disc Rough Trade version) Townes Van Zandt - Texas Troubadour (four CD box set) Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound Alejandro Escovedo - An Introduction Warren Zevon - Warren Zevon Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy Warren Zevon - Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School Warren Zevon - Stand in the Fire Warren Zevon - the Envoy Warren Zevon - Mr. Bad Example R.E.M. - Fables Of The Reconstruction (two disc remaster) Ed Kuepper - This Is the Magic Mile (three disc box set) Robert Wyatt - His Greatest Misses Julian Cope - Floored Genius Vol. 2: Best of the BBC Sessions (Expanded Edition) Del Amitri - Lousy With Love Boo Radleys - Giant Steps (3 CD remaster) U2 - The Unforgettable Fire (Remastered - Deluxe Edition) Madness - Complete Madness Madness - One Step Beyond... (30th anniversary deluxe edition) Stephen Duffy - Memory & Desire (two disc best comp) Danny & The Champions Of The World - Streets Of Our Time Hoodoo Gurus - Gorilla Biscuit Blake Babies - Sunburn Buffalo Tom - Big Red Letter Day Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Rapture Various artists - Flaming Groovies (Fire label comp from 1989) Halfway - An Outpost Of Promise Artisan Guns - Hearts EP Artisan Guns - Bird And Bone EP Dave Couse - Alone Walk | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1499 Registered: 08-2006 |
On a bit of a Zevon-palooza, Padraig? | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1897 Registered: 01-2005 |
Padraig, What, no Sentimental Hygiene by Mr. Zevon? I don't own Bad Luck Streak, but I've been meaning to check it out. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3634 Registered: 05-2005 |
I love Warren Zevon lads, and thankfully saw him live twice. But I didn't have many of his albums so, as you can see, I've been rectifying that lately! I definitely have the wonderful Sentimental Hygiene on cassette, but I must get the CD version. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3671 Registered: 05-2005 |
A few more recent purchases (there have been even more than this though...) Various Artists – Fat Possum: Not Same Old Blues Crap Various Artists – Fat Possum: Not Same Old Blues Crap II Loretta Lynn – Van Lear Rose Warren Zevon – Sentimental Hygiene Warren Zevon – My Ride’s Here The Housemartins – Now That's What I Call Quite Good Peter Holsapple & Chris Stamey – Here And Now Jonathan Elias – The Prayer Cycle Alejandro Escovedo – Street Songs of Love Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti – Before Today Tommy Keene – Tommy Keene You Hear Me: A Retrospective 83-2009 Aztec Camera – High Land Hard Rain Aztec Camera – Knife Aztec Camera – Stray Aztec Camera – Dreamland Aztec Camera – Frestonia Fountains of Wayne – Fountains Of Wayne Madness – Wonderful Various Artists – Take Me to the River: a Southern Soul Story 1961-1977 The Waterboys – A Pagan Place Cathal Coughlan – Rancho Tetrahedron Refused – The Shape Of Punk To Come Townes Van Zandt – Texas Troubadour The Gaslight Anthem – The '59 Sound Paul Westerberg – Eventually Single Gun Theory – Like Stars in My Hands | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1956 Registered: 01-2005 |
Cabaret Voltaire - 2x45 Sonny Rollins - Way Out West Rosanne Cash - Balck Cadillac Tragically Hip - Phantom Power Paul Chambers - Bass On Top Ian Tyson - Coboyography Jackie Mclean - Let Freedom Ring Sonny Clark - Leapin' & Lopin' | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2480 Registered: 03-2005 |
I forgot about this thread, right after filing away a giant pile of CDs that had been on the coffee table for weeks. Today's arrivals are: The Verlaines--Juvenilia The Jean-Paul Sartre Experience Before that: The Pioneers--Long Shot V/A--Melody Life/Trojan Sisters And before those: Cathal Coughlan--Rancho Tetrahedron Sophie Hunger--1983 Dan Kelly--Drowning in the Fountain of Youth The Kinks--Village Green Preservation Society (expanded 3 CD version) Lee Memorial--Lives of Lee Memorial Los Bravos--Toda sus Grabaciones (1966 - 1974) Ludus--The Visit/Seduction Ludus--Pickpocket/Danger Came Smiling Momus--the Little Red Songbook Pauline Murray & the Invisible Girls Paul Quinn & the Independent Group--Will I Ever Be Inside of You (scary title!) Shack--HMS Fable V/A--Just a Taste (A Summershine collection) | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1967 Registered: 01-2005 |
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs Stars - Heart Broken Bells - Broken Bells New Pornographers - Together Gene Clark with Carla Olson - In Concert Jackie Mclean - one Step Beyond Sonny Clark - The Sonny Clark Trio Brad Mehldau - Highway Rider | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 279 Registered: 03-2007 |
The Bon Scotts - Oddernity Georgia Fields - Georgia Fields Cats : For : Peru - Attack Of The Pitching Machine Standard Fare - The Noyelle Beat Slow Down Tallahasse - The Beautiful Light Monkey Swallows The Universe - The Bright Carvings One Happy Island - One Happy Island Liars Beware - The Last 24 Hours Falling And Laughing - Bunnyhood The Humms - Lemonland Ace Bushy Striptease - A Little More Suspicion In Our Fairytales Looking Glass - Fish Fowl Flood Kill The Captains - Fun Anxiety The Smittens - The Coolest Thing About Love Nat Johnson & The Figureheads - Roman Radio Most of the above released on the Popboomerang, Odd Box and Thee Sheffield Phonographic Corporation labels. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 860 Registered: 10-2008 |
hugh, you are the only poster on here whose lists normally have me thinking "which is named first, the band or the name of the album?" - because i have rarely if ever heard of any of them, and that is not a criticism obviously!! todays list is a bit of a giveaway, the band names are obviously first, eg the bon scotts. or are they?? :-) | ||
| Lewisdhead Member Username: Lewisdhead Post Number: 64 Registered: 01-2007 |
O Emperor-Hither Thither John Grant-Queen of Denmark The Kinks-Muswell Hillbillies Deer Tick-Black Dirt Sessions Ariel Pink-Before Today Iron And Wine-Our Endless Numbered Days Alchemist Of Pop - Joe Meek Anthology: Dazzling Stranger-Bert Jansch Parallel Lines-Blondie Ruby Suns-Fight Softly Danny&the Champions of The World-Streets of Our Time I Was a King-I Was a King | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 280 Registered: 03-2007 |
Kevin, a lot of the stuff I buy is released in very limited quantities ( sometimes less than 100 copies ) on small independent labels so it is perhaps not surprising that you do not recognise many of the artists/bands. That and the fact that many of them are debut releases. Odd Box Records release eps/albums on cd and handmade CDRs as do some of the other labels I purchase from ( Stolen Recordings etc.) Of the record labels mentioned above, Popboomerang is probably the largest/longest established and yet I think they only press about 500 copies of some new release these days. Band name first in all instances. :-) | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 861 Registered: 10-2008 |
hugh, i dont think i own many handmade records, the first i ever owned was the 7" single "blue boy" by orange juice. it was apparently designed by edwyn and the boys, or maybe they just folded up the sleeve and stuck the record in it!! or it may have been the return of the durutti column album in the sandpaper sleeve, i guess that would class as handmade? it was certainly crude enough. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 2074 Registered: 10-2004 |
Kevin - regarding those original pressings of Return of Durutti Column, those were indeed handmade, by Ian Curtis, as the story goes. Joy Division were employed to help Wilson assemble them, but the rest of the band got wrapped in watching a porno flick, leaving Curtis to put the bulk of them together himself. I've never actually seen one in person, but I'd heard that there was some warping and bubbling due to sloppy gluing of the sandpaper. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 862 Registered: 10-2008 |
yeah jeff, it was certainly no work of art, but cant remember it affecting the sleeve, or indeed the record itself more importantly. i think i've said on here before that my dad was, and still is, no great lover of music. he never talked about it really, and rarely commented on anything i played. in fact i can remember him only ever praising 4 records. they were "the return of the durutti column", "atmosphere" by joy division, "could you be loved" by bob marley, and "i will survive" by gloria gaynor. the first two i played frequently, the second two he must have heard on the radio. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3676 Registered: 05-2005 |
I can never figure out which comes first with Hugh's lists either! But I do know that One Happy Island is the band name. (And the album name). | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3677 Registered: 05-2005 |
Paul Kelly - How To Make Gravy. It's an eight CD and one huge book box set. The book is 500+ pages of Kelly writing about each of the 105 songs which he played in A-Z order over four nights. | ||
| fsh Member Username: Fsh Post Number: 221 Registered: 05-2005 |
That's not a box set, that's a PhD submission. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1979 Registered: 01-2005 |
Drive By Truckers - The Dirty South Night & The City - Charlie Haden/Kenny Barron (live) See You On The Moon - Tift Merritt Finger Poppin' - Horace Silver Oh Little Fire - Sarah Harmer | ||
| Shane Greentree Member Username: Realinspectorshane Post Number: 73 Registered: 03-2007 |
My last buying binge was at the Borders cd clearance sale last month. Prices were so cheap (4 for $30 on everything in store...) I got adventurous... Allman Brothers Band: Allman Brothers Band Allman Brothers Band: Idlewild South Allman Brothers Band: Live at Filmore East The Band: Rock of Ages Betchadupa: Aiming For Your Head Sarah Blasko: As Day Follows Night [+ Live At The Forum] Claire Bowditch & The Feeding Set: What Was Left Claire Bowditch & The Feeding Set: The Moon Looked On [2cd edition] Can: Tago Mago Church: El Momento Descuidado Church: Uninvited Like The Clouds Church: El Momento Siguente Eric Clapton: Eric Clapton [Deluxe Edition] John Coltrane: A Love Supreme Dinosaur Jr: Green Mind Dirty Three: She Has No Strings Apollo Nick Drake: Family Tree Brian Eno & David Byrne: Everything That Happens Will Happen Today Flaming Lips: Embryonic Marvin Gaye: I Want You [Legacy Edition] Grizzly Bear: Veckatimest [2CD] PJ Harvey: Rid Of Me Mercury Rev: Deserters Songs Mercury Rev: All Is Dream Laura Nyro: Live At The Filmore East, May 30, 1971 Gram Parsons: GP/Grievous Angel Queens Of The Stone Age: Songs For The Deaf Lou Reed: Transformer Rolling Stones: Metamorphosis Santana: Santana III (Legacy Edition) Simon & Garfunkel: Bookends Sly and the Family Stone: Dance To The Music Split Enz: Corroboree Split Enz: Conflicting Emotions White Stripes: Icky Thump White Stripes: Under Great White Northern Lights Wings: Band On The Run Stevie Wonder: Talking Book Stevie Wonder: Fufillingness's First Finale | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1980 Registered: 01-2005 |
Shane, The day of the Laura Nyro concert (May 30, 1971) I was at the all day outdoor Detrot Rock and Roll Revival Festival which featured Johnny Winter And, Edgar Winter's White Trash, The Allman Brothers Band, J. Geils, Detroit (with Mitch Ryder and Scott Hunter), Bob Seger, and a half dozen other acts. | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 261 Registered: 05-2005 |
Ian Brown - Music of the spheres - Solarized Wall of Voodoo - Dark continent - Call of the west Charlatans - Who we touch Bernard L'Hoir, 12 escapades pour piano Michael Head - Introducing the strand The Coral - Butterfly House Here we go magic - Pigeons Shack - Waterpistol Czar - Goodbye - Sorry, I made you cry Teenage Fanclub - Shadows Ariel Pink - Haunted grafitti I am Kloot - I am Kloot, B, Natural history | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 330 Registered: 02-2007 |
The Royal Dave Graney Show - The Brother Who Lived Dave Graney and Clare Moore - Keppin' It Unreal | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1984 Registered: 01-2005 |
Cabaret Voltaire - Red Mecca Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career Modest Mouse - Moon & Antartica (10th Anniverary Edition) Kenny Dorham - Afro-Cuban and on DVD: Le Corbeau (The Raven) - Criterion Collection | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3696 Registered: 05-2005 |
Dogs Die in Hot Cars - Please Describe Yourself Steve Winwood - Revolutions The Bats - Daddy's Highway The Bats - Compiletely Bats The Chills - Kaleidoscope World Straitjacket Fits - Done V/A - What Ever I Do It's Right (Flying Nun 2010 Sampler) The Verlaines - You're Just Too Obscure For Me (the last six all ordered directly from the revamped Flying Nun website) Gareth Liddiard - Strange Tourist The Posies - Blood/Candy Those Bastard Souls - Twentieth Century Chemical | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1986 Registered: 01-2005 |
Padraig, Knowing my musical tastes, how essential would The Bats COMPILETELY BATS, DADDY'S HIGHWAY and The Clean's ANTHOLOGY be in my collection? I am thinking about ordering the two remastered Bats CD's from Red Eye Records, and they aren't exactly inexpensive in US funds. Amazon.com has The Clean two disc ANTHOLOGY, so I'm all set there. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2498 Registered: 03-2005 |
Michael, I'd strongly recommend the Clean's anthology. Absolutely, with no hesitation. It's generous in length and spans a very long arc of their career. If there are periods you don't like, there will surely be other periods that you do. I don't think you really need Compiletely Bats unless you become a Bats fan. It's not bad by any means but it's an early odds & sods collection. If you have any Bats album, "Daddy's Highway" is essential. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1989 Registered: 01-2005 |
Randy, Thanks for the recommendations! I saw David Kilgour in concert a few years back along with Augie March at the Crofoot in downtown Pontiac, MI. A great concert it was and David was a very good lead guitar player. I was just at the Crofoot again last Monday night to see Garry Numan on his Pleasue Principal anniversary tour. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 819 Registered: 04-2006 |
some new vinyl: sam prekop - old punch card dustin wong - infinite love white hills - stolen stars left for no one gunn-truscinski duo - sand city and some cd's: brian wilson - reimagines gershwin bob dylan - the bootleg series vol. 9 The witmark demos bob dylan - - in concert brandeis university 1963 wyatt/atzmon/stephen - .. for the ghosts within | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 282 Registered: 03-2007 |
Michael, if you are at all familiar with The Bats and enjoy what you have heard so far then I would suggest that 'Compiletely' is an essential purchase. It is, as Randy has pointed out, an odds and sods collection ( pulling together three eps plus some singles ) but it contains almost all the recordings released by the band prior to their debut album. There are some weak tracks on it but there are also some songs great songs. Parasol Records ( Parasol.com ) are selling the Flying Nun re-issues for US$14.25 although they are not yet listing the two albums by The Bats. I have purchased from them for many years and I am sure they will source them for you if you contact them. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2499 Registered: 03-2005 |
I'm interested in the concept of a re-mastered "Daddy's Highway." The original is hideously compressed and has a frequency range of about 200 cps to maybe 8,000 cps. It's one of the worst-sounding CDs I've got. It would be easy to improve upon but depressing to buy a new one if it has the same wretched sound. IOW, somebody would have to go into the studio with the raw masters and do a much better job than the original; something like what was done with the Triffids' early releases. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 284 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, I think the early work by The Bats and other Flying Nun artists was recorded on fairly basic equipment( probably by people with little experience of recording technology ) so I am not totally convinced that re-mastered versions will sound much better. That said, I will not be upset if I am proven wrong. :-) I am guessing that The Chills albums will follow in due course. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 903 Registered: 10-2008 |
randy, all this talk of the bats had me pull out daddy's highway. to be honest it doesnt sound too bad to me, and my equipment is pretty unforgiving to poorly recorded cd's. mind you, i was about 3/4 through listening to the album when it started skipping like crazy before correcting itself and started playing the last song(made up in blue) - it sounds muddy and horrible!! | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1990 Registered: 01-2005 |
Randy and Hugh, I'm thinking that Padraig bought the October 2010 reissues of Compiletely Bats and Daddy's Highway. Hugh, Thanks for the tip on Parasol Records. I'll contact them. Randy, I would add the double disc Tallulah to the Triffids reissues, as it was also a wondereous remastered job compared to the sound on the two earlier versions I have. Padraig, Am I correct, did you buy the reissues and are they remastered? How do they sound? Or does the reissue of Daddy's Highway still suffer from the compression problem that Randy mentions the original CD has? Or perhaps they still suffer sound-wise due to (as Hugh mentions) the recording equipment that early Flying Nun recordings used and who was turning the knobs or moving the slider bars in the booth? | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 285 Registered: 03-2007 |
Kevin, on its release in 1987, 'Daddy's Highway' only had twelve tracks. Tracks 13 to 17 were added when it was re-released. 'Made Up In Blue' was originally released in 1986 ( on a four track 12 inch single if I remember correctly ) and I believe 'Mad On You' and Trouble In This Town' were recorded at or about the same time. I am sure I read somewhere that 'Calm Before The Storm' and 'Candidate' were recorded for the album but did not make the final cut. Last records bought:- Darren Hanlon - I Will Love You At All 1900s - Return Of The Century Standard Fare - The Noyelle Beat Just Joans - Your Pain Is A Joke Next To Mine ( 3" CDR ) Sunshine Ponies - Mixtapes & Soundtracks | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3699 Registered: 05-2005 |
I did buy what is supposed to be the remastered version but I haven't got round to playing it yet! I'll post here when I do! | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 399 Registered: 10-2006 |
Well I'm glad to say the Paris cd store by karmic coincidence just round the corner from my hotel seemed to be doing healthy business when I was there to pick up: Ryan Bingham, Junky star Aberfeldy, Somewhere to jump from Radiohead, Pablo Honey Hail to the chief Morrissey, Swords Yann Tiersen, Dust Lane Bryan Ferry, Olympia Burning Spear, Chant Down Babylon Gregory Isaacs, Cool Ruler Leo Ferré, 4 CD compilation Veronique Sanson, Les moments importants Alain Bashung, La tournee des grands espaces Confessions publique Novice Play blessures I tried to get some more suggestions for French music out of the staff,but they didn't seem to keen on helping this slightly over-eager foreigner. "Um... Noir desir?" a girl muttered. I couldn't get my high school French round the sentence, "I'd rather not give money to a murderer," so gave up. | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 262 Registered: 05-2005 |
Stuart, you could try Mickey 3D. "Tu vas pas mourir de rire" and "Matador" are both decent albums of them. You should find these easily at bargain price in France. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 401 Registered: 10-2006 |
Thanks trou. What about Joseph d'Anvers? Any good? Rudolphe Burger? All suggestions welcome! | ||
| peter ward Member Username: Peter_ward Post Number: 131 Registered: 06-2005 |
Hi Stuart, chapelier fou - 613 is excellent, it's like an electronica yann T. Also, Think he's based there, Matt Elliot, if you like the music of Beiruit. Try Ground Zero records if you can, great store with helpful, polite staff that accept pigeon French! | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 402 Registered: 10-2006 |
Ground zero was on my list of places to visit, but three days in Paris isn't enough for anything! By the time you've seen two museums, worked out which bistrot to visit, walked 80 kilometres looking at beautiful buildings and women, not been able to resist yet another cool looking wine bar...ah, it was just impossible! | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2005 Registered: 01-2005 |
Televison - Adventure (2003 reissue) The Fall - Perverted By Language (double disc reissue) Charlie Haden & Hank Jones - Steal Away: Spirituals Hymns & Folk Songs Mary Stallings - Live At the Village Vanguard | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3721 Registered: 05-2005 |
Paul Weller - Studio 150 Bonus Tracks EP Yes - Talk Fatima Manions - Only Solutions: Another Revolution EP The Jesus & Mary Chain - Upside Down: The Best Of The Replacements - Don't Tell a Soul: Remastered & Expanded The Replacements - All Shook Down: Remastered & Expanded The Replacements - Let It Be: Remastered/Deluxe Edition Phil Lynott - Yellow Pearl - A Collection Thin Lizzy - Greatest Hits The Pearlfishers - Up With The Larks Girls - Broken Dreams Club EP Pink Floyd - Delicate Sound of Thunder Pink Floyd - A Collection Of Great Dance Songs Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Various Artists - 20 Original Mod Classics The Jam - Sound Affects (Deluxe Edition) The Waterboys - The Secret Life of the Waterboys 1981-1985 The National - High Violet (double CD version) The Roys - EP Various Classical - Intermezzo Dan Zanes - The Welcome Table My Bloody Valentine - Glider EP Jim White - Drill A Hole In That Substrata And Tell Me What You See Screaming Trees - Winter Songs Matthew Sweet - Altered Beast Frente - Accidentally Kelly Street EP V/A - Geffen Rarities Vol. 2 John Lee Hooker - The Healer Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love EP | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2016 Registered: 01-2005 |
Elvis Costello - When I Was Cruel Elizabeth Cook - Welder And on the jazzy side of the street: Horace Silver - Six Pieces Of Silver Kenny Dorham - Quiet Kenny Tommy Flanagan - Beyond The Blue Bird | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2520 Registered: 03-2005 |
It's been a very Jamaican period for me lately: Bangarang--The Best of Stranger Cole 1962-1972 Justin Hinds--Carry Go Bring Come Desmond Dekker--Rudy Got Soul Ken Boothe--A Man and His Hits The Techniques--Little Did You Know Lyn Taitt & the Jets--Hold Me Tight Derrick Morgan--Moon Hop Tommy McCook--Real Cool Slim Smith--Rain from the Skies The Gaylads--Over the Rainbow's End The last two are the class of the bunch for me right now. Kevin pointed me in the direction of Slim Smith. I had a Gaylads album ("Fire & Rain") already but I obviously did not give it a proper listen. I must have been distracted by the front-loading of cover songs on that record--(I really didn't want to hear their take on a James Taylor song or on "By the Time I Get to Phoenix") The Gaylads are all about B.B. Seaton's original songs and the group's faultless world-class pop instincts. It's time for me to start mopping up Gaylads and Conscious Minds recordings. And, Kevin, I think I'm going to spring for the now-expensive deleted Uniques antho on Trojan/Sanctuary. The sound on these reissues has reached a pretty reliably high standard. It's not ALL been Jamaican. Jackie DeShannon--her first LP from 1963, a hootenanny affair with some great interpretations of chestnuts and three covers of songs by that new Dylan guy. Her Kentucky accent is in full glory here. Jackie DeShannon--Me About You/To Be Free. Like everybody else in the 60s, she cranked out two albums a year when she should have done only one. These are two of the relatively minor ones from 1968 and 1970 respectively. Awesome cover of "Bird on a Wire." Jackie DeShannon--the Complete Liberty Singles Vol. 1. Twenty six tracks and we're only up to 1963. Jackie DeShannon--You're the Only Dancer/Quick Touches. The mid-to-late 1970s attack: great voice as always but mucho LA blandness in the arrangements that pretty effectively kills off the songs. Glenn Richards--Glimjack. Randy buys something from 2010! Dean Reed--The Red Elvis! Dean Reed--(Cyrillic title) Dean Reed--Seine Amiga-Erfolge. The Warsaw Pact countries' defector-from-the-U.S. pop star. This guy has a handful of good recordings and an outlandish mass of hilarious/scary stuff. I'm looking for more! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2521 Registered: 03-2005 |
Oops, I got carried away with my blah-blahing and forgot two: Dolly Mixture--Everything and More. A lovely new 3CD package. Simon Dupree & the Big Sound--Part of My Past. They would later morph into Gentle Giant. Here, they are dull and earnest British soul wannabes who thankfully transitioned into entertaining mellotron psychedelia. | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 263 Registered: 05-2005 |
Marc Almond - Variété Chameleons - Strange times Spoon - Telephono / Soft Effect Claudia Brucken - Love and a million other things The Coral -Singles collection I am kloot - Sky at night | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3723 Registered: 05-2005 |
Two more packages arrived in the post today. Stina Nordenstam - And She Closed Her Eyes Joy Division - Heart and Soul box set Sisters Of Mercy - A Slight Case of Overbombing Sisters Of Mercy - Some Girls Wander By Mistake Sisters Of Mercy - First and Last and Always Sisters Of Mercy - Floodland Sisters Of Mercy - Vision Thing Suede - The Best Of Metallica - Garage Inc. The Who - Live At Leeds (double CD edition) Robert Plant - Now and Zen Robert Plant - Band Of Joy Bruce Springsteen - The Promise | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2032 Registered: 01-2005 |
Paul Weller - Wild Wood (Deluxe 2 CD YepRoc edition) Deerhunter - Halycon Digest The Go-Betweens - The Peel Sessions And on the jazzy side... Lee Morgan - Gigolo Kenny Dorham - Round About Midnight At The Cafe Bohemia: Complete [Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered] | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2045 Registered: 01-2005 |
Vampire Weekend - Contra Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More Robert Plant - Band Of Joy And on the jazzy side of the street.... Sonny Rollins - Rollins Plays For Bird Red Garland Trio - Red Garland's Piano Annie Ross - Sings a Song With Mulligan | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1995 Registered: 09-2006 |
Michael, have you had any experience with that Vampire Weekend before buying it? That's one that I fell hard for very quickly and love even more with each listen. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2046 Registered: 01-2005 |
Allen, I've had zippo previous VW experience with the band, or with the car maker! It hasn't arrived as of yet, and I hope to be as impressed as you are. Also just ordered: LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening Caribou - Swim Beach House - Teen Dream Sleigh Bells - Treats Wes Montgomery - Full House | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2098 Registered: 01-2005 |
The Decemberists - The King Id Dead Surfer Blood - Astro Coast On the jazzy side.... Joe Lovano and Us Five - Bird Songs Wes Montgomery and Milt Jackson - Bags Meets Wes Roberta Gambarini - So In Love | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2099 Registered: 01-2005 |
Make that - The King Is Dead! | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 485 Registered: 01-2007 |
I Like the King is Dead not really lied any of their others as too folky | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1118 Registered: 10-2008 |
drive by truckers - go go boots drive by truckers - pizza deliverance radiohead - the king of limbs(digital) broadcast - work and non work gregory isaacs - night nurse, the best of pj harvey - let england shake the fall - wonderful and frightening.. omnibus edition the maytals - monkey man and from the roots twilight singers - dynamite steps moritz von oswald trio - horizontal structures | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2102 Registered: 01-2005 |
Frank, I didn't get their prog rock sounding 2009 release "The Hazards Of Love", but I've got all the others and rate them highly. I'm glad they are exploring new sounds though and will pick up THOL soon. Did you get it and still think it was folky sounding? | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 486 Registered: 01-2007 |
Hi Michael did buy THOL when it came out and again thought it was too folky for me, I quite like folk don't get me wrong but not the reconstitued stuff, so it didn't really pull me in and make me listen again and again to it. I just moved on to something more rewarding for me. But I will dig it out. The new one is more immediate and mainstream in a good way. May be Peter Buck's influence. | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 487 Registered: 01-2007 |
Kevin what do you make of the Go-Go Boots? | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1129 Registered: 10-2008 |
Frank, I prefer it to The Big To Do which was a bit of a disapointment for me, although that album was still pretty good by most other bands standards. This new one has a pretty loose country soul feel which suits them perfectly. As you probably know both albums were spawned from the same sessions, but I cant help thinking they could have released one stonking album rather than spread it thinly (in the case of The Big To Do) over two. The excess tracks from the session could have been used for b-sides and/or an EP. I would rate Go Go Boots 5th in their canon. 1. The Dirty South. 2. Decoration Day. 3. Brighter Than Creations Dark 4. Pizza Deliverance 5. Go Go Boots. 6. Southern Rock Opera 7. A Blessing and a Curse 8 Gangstabilly | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1130 Registered: 10-2008 |
Oops, The Big to Do fits in between 6 and 7. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2104 Registered: 01-2005 |
Frank, I've chatted with said Mr. Peter Buck a couple of times after seeing Robyn Hitchcock and The Venus 3 twice. Nice dude. Robyn and Peter signed a couple of my Robyn Hitchcock and The Egyptian CD inserts after the shows. Peter played on a couple of tracks on the Egyptian albums Globe of Frogs, Queen Elvis and Perspex Island. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 1060 Registered: 08-2004 |
I hated Hazards Of Love, it had a Meatloaf pomposity imo. Just listened to: Leonard Cohen - Live At The Isle Of Wight 1970 R.E.M. - Collapse Into Now - try before you buy here: http://link.brightcove.com/services/play er/bcpid340430035?bctid=803579449001 | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1558 Registered: 08-2006 |
That's pretty much how I'd rank the DBTs, Kev, although I might switch numbers two and three. I play " A Blessing..." quite a bit, maybe the most of any DBTs I own. I like the new one, too, but not as much as the first three on your list. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1131 Registered: 10-2008 |
you are a man of impeccable taste rob!! it can surely only be a matter of time before dbt "crosses over", but in a purely selfish way i hope they dont :-) although if it did happen they seem very very grounded, and i think they are too long in the tooth to let any success spoil them. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1132 Registered: 10-2008 |
what do you think of southern rock opera rob? there are some really good songs on it, but overall its a bit too "rawk" for me |