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     Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2654 Registered: 03-2005 |
I tried to start this new thread the other night and it just disappeared for some reason. On that occasion I was listening to Broadcast's Haha Sound. Tonight it's . . . . Tindersticks--Falling Down a Mountain | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3894 Registered: 05-2005 |
UNKLE - Only The Lonely EP, with vocals by Nick Cave, Liela Moss, Ian Astbury etc. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3901 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Clash Singles Box Set. Some great b-sides I'd never heard before. Also great sleeve notes from many musicians. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2655 Registered: 03-2005 |
Prefab Sprout--Swoon Prefab Sprout--Steve McQueen Broadcast--Haha Sound Oliver Mann--The Possum Wakes at Night | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2656 Registered: 03-2005 |
Following Stuart & Hugh's lead: mickey3d--matador | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 436 Registered: 10-2006 |
On matters French: Tels Alain Bashung – Stuck to my turntable for the last week or so, this respectful and loving hommage from a bunch of French luminaries, some more familiar abroad than others, including Mrs J Depp with hubby, indeed, on instrumental backing for a really lovely rendition of Angora. An excellent selection of songs, bringing out the fact that even without that inimitable voice and style they really are superb compositions. The artists treat them with freshness and originality without mutilating the originals. All in all, a huge treat to foreign Bashung fanatics. The subtitle-less DVD is a challenge and it would it nice to know what happened to the rockabilly-looking Mustang's attempt at La nuit je mens, featured on the DVD but not on the CD. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1231 Registered: 10-2008 |
wild beasts - smother. up till now i have never been a big fan of this band, but i know they have lots of admirers here. whilst not being an admirer there is definitely "something" about them that made me curious enough to check this out. happily for me the more "excitable" of the two vocalists have reigned himself in a bit, as have the band too because a cursory listen suggests most of the songs are mid paced and piano dominated. the drummer is excellent throughout as well, at times reminiscent of steven morris, but again in keeping with the overall mood of the album a bit more restrained than morris is. sounds promising after one spin. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1232 Registered: 10-2008 |
fleet foxes - helplessness blues one of the albums of the year so far. | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 735 Registered: 05-2005 |
Yeah skully. Thoroughly agree. Great stuff again by these guys. Do I hear a bit more branching out in instruments or is it my tinitis again? It seems even more acoustic than the first one, and a little more medieval. Both of which are very healthy by the way! As Molly on Countdown used to say "Do yourself a favour!" (and go and buy it). | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2658 Registered: 03-2005 |
Rick Nelson In Concert I literally haven't heard this record in about 40 years. This is the album that resuscitated his long-moribund career at the end of the 1960s. It's a great example of a very good live album standing in for a studio album. He does three obligatory tunes from his teen heart-throb years but the balance consists of four original songs, three Dylan songs (including "She Belongs to Me," Nelson's first radio hit in more than half a decade when half a decade was a lifetime in pop music), and songs from Tim Hardin, Eric Anderson and Doug Kershaw, all new to Nelson's recorded oeuvre. It's a very nice 8 track recording done at the iconic Troubadour (where the Byrds did their early performances and where I last saw the Go Betweens). Excellent UK reissue label Ace have put the original LP program onto a pair of discs with all of the other performances recorded by the same engineeir and equipment during the same handful of shows from which the album was culled. I'm really looking forward to the omitted numbers because they include a couple more Dylan covers (including "Tonight I'll Be Staying Here with You" from Nashville Skyline), Tim Hardin's "Lady Came from Baltimore" perhaps most familiar to folks on this board from Scott Walker's version, and some of his old numbers which he might have perked up like he did with "I'm Walkin'." He even does Randy Newman's "I Think It's Going to Rain Today." | ||
| Lewisdhead Member Username: Lewisdhead Post Number: 75 Registered: 01-2007 |
The Lost Brothers-Trails of the lonely (Parts I & III) http://www.thelostbrothersband.com/ Charles Douglas - The Lives Of Charles Douglas | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3903 Registered: 05-2005 |
Many, many covers of Wichita Lineman. I didn't know till I read this article http://www.slate.com/id/2291532/ that I wasn't alone in collecting Wichita Lineman covers. Anyone else here do so? | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 2103 Registered: 09-2006 |
The Cars - Move Like This | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 736 Registered: 05-2005 |
Does Rolf Harris do a version Padraig? | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 332 Registered: 05-2005 |
Havent been on the board in a while, looks like Kev has been replaced by an imposter Kev that likes Wild Beasts while I was away. Jeff is wrong about the new High Llamas, it washed over me the first few listens but is actually a great addition to their canon with some lovely songs and textures - it's unlikely to add to their fan base though and they are definitely becoming more of a cult band. Stupendous news is that the Soft Hearted Scientists 'Wandermoon' is finally receiving a release (their last label died in a prolonged manner). It's a wonderful (wanderful?) album and I remain enchanted by and hopelessly in love with the band | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 491 Registered: 01-2007 |
You know just completely obsessed by the Drive-By Truckers at the present not really listening to much else. Did like the new Fleet Foxes but it was quickly upstaged by The Dirty South and the Go Go Boots | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1233 Registered: 10-2008 |
Nice to see you back James, place has been a bit dead for the last month or two, though has picked up again in the last week or so. I was looking back at some old threads last week (albums of the year 2006 etc), and it was frightening to see how many regular posters then no longer post now. Life goes on eh? Have never been keen on the High Llamas, though I noted this one was getting good reviews. Take a tip from Frank, and get yourself immersed in Drive by Truckers, especiallly the run of albums released in the middle of the last decade - can't go wrong. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3907 Registered: 05-2005 |
Not that I know of Geoff! Right now I'm listening to two Wild Beasts tracks kindly sent to me by Kevin. I like them both very much, and am surprised to be saying that as I never much liked anything I'd heard before by them. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2159 Registered: 01-2005 |
Robyn Hitchcock - TROMSŘ, KAPTEIN http://www.robynhitchcock.com/category/n ews/ | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1593 Registered: 08-2006 |
Kate and Anna McGarrigle - Odditties [sic] Terrific, unexpected collection of odds and sods from two musicians I can't get enough of. Haven't gotten the new box containing the first two albums and another CD of b-sides, but I will. In modern popular music, only the Everlys harmonized as well. And they write like no one else. | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 492 Registered: 01-2007 |
Still on the Drive-By Truckers thing, in fact seeing them in Liverpool tomorrow. Not certain what Mrs B will think, been trying to suffuse them in to everyday life for last week.She will probably like Shonna's songs | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 2106 Registered: 09-2006 |
Am eagerly awaiting my copies of both of those items, Rob. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1238 Registered: 10-2008 |
wild beasts - smother. i never thought i would type these words, but this is fantastic,amazing,wonderful!! have been playing it non stop for a week and just gets better and better each time i hear it. any perceived bombast i heard with their previous stuff has been obliterated to make an understated quiet masterpiece. hope this doesn't put anybody off, but this reinvention (or at least how i hear it :-)) is on a radiohead scale for me. i despised radiohead until kid a, and since then they haven't put a foot wrong, apart from hail to the thief which was over long and bloated. wild beasts are the only british band who can now be uttered in the same breath as radiohead. | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 274 Registered: 05-2005 |
Et hop! Ticket for the concert! | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 2202 Registered: 10-2004 |
Listening to Wild Beasts' Smother right now. It's a good album, although I prefer the previous one, Two Dancers. First impressions of Smother are that it is generally slower, hazier, more melancholy. Several songs just seems to kind of drift along. These songs are more about mood and atmosphere, with less emphasis on hooks and melodies. Hayden Thorpe's singing is definitely better than it was back on Limbo Panto. He's reined in the excesses. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1239 Registered: 10-2008 |
jeff, your description is exactly the reason why i find myself loving it, and like myself you might find this album slowly reveals itself to have hidden melodies. i'm still discovering new sounds on my 20th or so listen. i reckon this album will prove to have more substance than their previous work, although i'm sure there will be plenty of their fans already mourning this new direction which is fair enough i guess. listening to lv and joshua idehen - routes. another groundbreaking electronic dance album from this year, in what is already proving to be a stellar year. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 2203 Registered: 10-2004 |
I've given Wild Beasts' Smother a few listens now, and I'm enjoying it. Still prefer Two Dancers given that it has a little more energy and variation in mood. Smother is in some ways a bit like a slowed down, stretched out, stripped back Two Dancers, with more emphasis on atmosphere and mood. Kevin, like you say, there are a lot of nice, subtle, melodic flourishes that aren't always immediately apparent. Things that come out after repeated listens. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1243 Registered: 10-2008 |
the antlers - burst apart my morning jacket - circuital wild beasts - two dancers. i can make a lot more sense of this album now that i am very familiar with the new album. i still find hayden thorpes vocal gymnastics a bit ott for my tastes on some of the songs, tom flemings vocals are preferable over all. its interesting to note that nearly all, if indeed not every review of smother comments on how thorpe has "reigned in" the vocal excesses excellent interview with hayden thorpe in quitus http://thequietus.com/articles/06240-wil d-beasts-interview | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 738 Registered: 05-2005 |
Melanie - Candles in the Rain Traffic(self titled) Traffic - Welcome to the canteen Traffic - Last Exit Feeling alright in fawn brown suede and with a couple of joss sticks...MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN. And yes, Fleet Foxes newy ties in nicely with all this type of stuff. Try it. You might get a contact high! | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 498 Registered: 01-2007 |
Wasn't going to buy much today ( as not really given the new Fleet Foxes much chance) but had to go into the dreaded HMV ( to get my daughter Joseph and his Multicolour etc...for school)and got the new Wild Beasts. About time to move on from the DBT for a short time. Though have ordered Decoration Day on vinyl from Diverse Vinyl in Cardiff. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2165 Registered: 01-2005 |
Geoff, Hard to beat the second Traffic album, the Traffic(self titled) one, but for some reason it gets lost in the shuffle compared to the other great albums of 1968. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1244 Registered: 10-2008 |
frank, dont know if you have any dbt on vinyl? if not you are in for a treat. the vinyl itself is always of the highest quality, as is the gatefold sleeve artwork on all their releases. | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 500 Registered: 01-2007 |
Going to start to get the collection of DBT on vinyl, DD probably mu favourite but it is a hard choose. DD on it's way. Next Brighter than... | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1247 Registered: 10-2008 |
gang gang dance - eye contact. whats all the fuss about this, the reviews make it sound like album of the year material? i've tried, god knows i've tried, but all i hear is some artsy waffle drifting aimlessly in no particular direction, and yet another bloody waily shouty screamy female!! afghan whigs - black love. blast from the past - dulli is one evil sonofabitch!! charlie parker - the essential charlie parker rem - lifes rich pageant. like i've said elsewhere, the beginning of the end. nothing particularly wrong with the songs, but whoever suggested that gehmann fella as a producer needs a kick up the arse!! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3918 Registered: 05-2005 |
Dan Kelly's Dream. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 334 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Weather Prophets - Mayflower gave up on this ever getting a CD reissue and stumped up Ł25 for a japanese CD, sounds great. Penny and the Quarters - You and Me http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjRw9bff1 JA&feature=related got a 7" of this in London yesterday, love it! | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 740 Registered: 05-2005 |
I made up a playlist for my ipod - 60's psychedelia (funnily enough!). It's on shuffle and it's just great. All the B - bands, Donovan, Traffic, Love, Cream (!), Monkees, Jefferson Airplane, etc......ah. Musical home for me. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 2110 Registered: 09-2006 |
Moby - Destroyed Picks up where the last one left off, which means I'm liking it a lot after just one listen | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 2111 Registered: 09-2006 |
Am also enjoying Kate Bush's "Director's Cut," and am happy to hear that she's going back into the studio soon. So in four years we'll have the album... | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1249 Registered: 10-2008 |
thurston moore -demolished thoughts. produced by beck, its excellent. expect to see the word baroque in every review. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2172 Registered: 01-2005 |
Geoff, Check out The Serpent Power! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RX1OuB3W 9o&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7x8Dwthr g0&feature=related | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 503 Registered: 01-2007 |
WIld Beasts just started with that-interesting and enjoyable one of the few bands in UK doing something interesting. Heard a Sydney band on 6music yesterday Cloud Chasing (?) I think, sounded Go-Betweens influenced, any ideas anyone | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 504 Registered: 01-2007 |
Cloud Control | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2663 Registered: 03-2005 |
My copy of the 6-disc box "The Hollies--Clarke, Hicks & Nash Years" dropped through the mail slot today. I have nearly everything on here but there are 8 live songs at the end of the final disc, dating from 1968. They're well recorded on 3 track and they make the point that this band was superb onstage both vocally and instrumentally. That's why I bought this set. They were such a fundamentally unfake band. Nash introduces "King Midas in Reverse" with the comment "we'd like to do a song for you which wasn't too popular with a lot of people. This one's called 'King Midas in Reverse.'" Having said that, during this period they had adopted the controversial practice of playing tapes of orchestral parts in order to bring their stage show sound closer to their then-current studio sound. It's pretty obviously unnecessary on everything except for "Butterfly" which would have required an entire new arrangement as the recording has Nash singing unaccompanied over an orchestral arrangement. Personally, I wish they hadn't brought the tapes onstage but you can bank on it that they thought it was a legitimate solution to not being able to afford an actual orchestra like the Bee Gees used. | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 741 Registered: 05-2005 |
Got the album by Cloud Control, Frank. My nephew (28) gave a burn of it to me with Edwin Sharpe etc. I found both a bit disappointing actually. The Cloud Control stuff is supposedly psychedelic. I really can't hear that. I'm hearing a bit of Mamma and Pappas. Guess I'll have to listen to it again. They got nonimated for Arias - hell, they might have even won for all I know! They come from the BEAUTIFUL Blue Mountains behind Sydney - a bushwalkers paradise. Haven't watched The Serpent Power but thanks for the up Michael! Does anyone have any recommendations as to where to start with Mojave 3? | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 315 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, I placed an order for the six disc box set by The Hollies a few minutes ago. I only own one title by the band ( a two disc set of their Greatest Hits ) so I am going to be hearing a lot of their stuff for the first time in the next few weeks. Stunning value for a set which collects together all the tracks ( 158 in total ) recorded by the group between April, 1963 and October, 1968 ( seven eps; seven albums; hard to find tracks scattered over various releases; previously unissued live material.) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3920 Registered: 05-2005 |
I think the Cloud Control album is very good, and not just because I know the producer. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1250 Registered: 10-2008 |
the thurston moore solo album demolished thoughts is highly recommended to fans of sonic youth/beck. it sounds nothing like sonic youth, every song is acoustic based and drenched in strings. according to the sleevenotes beck does all the production duties and is also credited with "additional arrangements", he also plays synths,bass and does vocals. it sounds to me like his stamp is all over the album, and its all the better for it. one of the albums of the year for sure. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1252 Registered: 10-2008 |
thurston moore album is streaming here http://www.npr.org/2011/05/15/135931474/ first-listen-thurston-moore-demolished-t houghts?ps=mh_frhdl1 | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2664 Registered: 03-2005 |
Hugh, that'll probably give you a lot more than you ever wanted. But buried within their large recorded output are a lot of great tracks, usually their self-penned numbers on single b-sides and LPs. Look for all the things credited to "L. Ransford" and, of course, Clarke/Hicks/Nash. Except for their peak years (1966, 1967) there was always a distinct line between what they did for a-sides and what they did for everything else. Amusingly, I find there are still some rarities not included which I have elsewhere so it doesn't matter for me. And they are strictly for the anoraks like me. The 6CD box is indeed exceptional value for the cash. Possibly too late, the record companies seem to be recognizing that they can't just keep charging giant amounts of money for old recordings that have already been paid for a zillion times over. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 316 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, I liked the majority of the singles the band released in the 1960s but for some reason I never purchased any of their albums at the time. Strange decision as I am as you know a fan of vocal harmony groups ( The Association; The Bee Gees; Free Design etc.) There is probably more than I need or want in this package but the low cost/exceptional value made it a must buy. When I ordered my copy from AmazonCo it was selling for Ł11.99 ( about US$19.00.) I checked back today to see if it had shipped and the price is now Ł16.99 ( about US$28.00.) Currently listing to :- The Gresham Flyers - Sex With Strangers The Gresham Flyers - There's Been A Murder ( EP ) The Gresham Flyers - River Pollution Music The Gresham Flyers - It Doesn't Have To Be About Endings | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 335 Registered: 05-2005 |
Hugh, check out the Feminine Complex http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVL2Ianv0 SM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyN1_V2ea Tc just discovered this album which is amazing,have listened to little else for the last week or so | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 317 Registered: 03-2007 |
Cosmo, I checked them out after seeing your entry in the 'Last 20 Records Bought' thread but they are not for me I am afraid. I much prefer the sunshine/baroque/jazzy sound of the Free Design to the garage/psychedelic/memphis sound of the Feminine Complex. What do you make of the rumours that they are in fact a fictitious group and that the recordings are not vintage but the work of pranksters? Currently listening to :- The Hillfield - It'll Never Be The Same Again The Hillfields - Come Outside ( EP ) | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2665 Registered: 03-2005 |
I suspect the Feminine Complex are bogus. I won't claim to know about everybody from the '60s but a female group that plays its own instruments that had enough of a recorded presence to be remembered by people from the Eastern part of the U.S. is unlikely to have gone unnoticed by me and by every 60s girl rock compiler over the past 4 decades. IMO the recordings are too consistent and smooth in sound to be real although they do a nice job of emulating the sound of high quality 4 track recordings. Low budget people in the U.S. in the '60s usually suffered dodgy sound, relatively seldom enjoying the luxury of a 4 track studio. Plus, it's supposed to have been the '60s: a time when this music was new, and people were trying lots of experiments that misfired. You would not find any act from the era that created nothing but a series of spot-on pop gems. Not even the Rutles or the Stones or the Beach Boys managed that so what are the odds that some unheard-of girl group did so? I traced a few of the comments on youtube by people who claim to have known them way back when. Some looked like they might be legit. Some were clearly fake profiles. In the meantime, here's a REAL all-female group from the U.S. in the '60s who played their own instruments, from Michael Bachman's part of the country. They're well-documented and one or two of their scarce recordings have shown up on garage rock anthologies over the decades: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyGvPqx_6 0E | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3921 Registered: 05-2005 |
Lagwagon - Double Plaidinum | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3924 Registered: 05-2005 |
The La's - There She Goes (John Leckie mix). Nowhere near as good as the version we all know, but the potential is still clearly there. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3925 Registered: 05-2005 |
The La's - There She Goes. Proper version. Ah, that's better. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3926 Registered: 05-2005 |
Andy Taylor - I Might Lie. Duran Duran guitarist goes hard rock in the 80s with a little help from Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols. Really. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2177 Registered: 01-2005 |
All seven of the songs released by The Luv'd Ones plus thirteen demos and live tracks were issued on a 1999 CD that is available but rather pricey: http://www.amazon.com/Truth-Gotta-Stand- Luvd-Ones/dp/B00000IPU4 | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2666 Registered: 03-2005 |
Michael, I first heard "Up Down Sue" on a girl rock comp some unknown number of years ago. When the "Truth Gotta Stand" collection came out I jumped on it. It was not particularly pricey originally. Most--but not all--of the demos are pretty rough sounding but it's a valuable document. They were an interesting band because of how committed Charlotte Vinnedge was. She was without a doubt well ahead of her time in terms of what she was trying to accomplish. She had a hard time putting together female players who would take the mission seriously and as for the audiences, well you can imagine . . . . | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1254 Registered: 10-2008 |
just listened to the cloud release album that was being discussed on here a few days ago. was surprised to discover i recognised a couple of songs (must have been played on bbc6 music), sounds ok as far as inoffensive indie rock goes. vocals, although tuneful are terrible if thats not a contradiction. this is what i term as "polite" music, which i guess means that ultimately its crap and is music for fans of elbow, coldplay and travis! | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1255 Registered: 10-2008 |
junior boys - its all true bon iver - bon iver trojan presents - dancehall wild beasts - smother | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 2113 Registered: 09-2006 |
Hey Rob, how are you liking that "Tell My Sister" bonus disc? It's the loveliest thing I've heard in a long time. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 337 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy, the Revola reissue of the Feminine Complex states that it's session musicians playing on the album not the girls. I dont agree that the sound quality is too good, it sounds perfectly feasible that it was recorded in 1968 to me. Having said all that I dont really care when it was recorded, I just know that I love it | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 338 Registered: 05-2005 |
When I first bought the (amazing) Pisces lost 60s album and put it on in the car I thought that they had given me the wrong CD when the vocal started http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQtAE87T4 9M as it sounded contemporary | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1597 Registered: 08-2006 |
Hey, Allen: I love it. Amazing. Between that Odditties, I've been on a McGarrigles binge lately. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1598 Registered: 08-2006 |
Make that "that AND Odditties." More coffee. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3927 Registered: 05-2005 |
Thurston Moore - Demolished Thoughts | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1263 Registered: 10-2008 |
destroyer - kaputt! this one kind of washed over me when i first got it, played it tonight and sounds excellent. tunes that initially i had written off as unmemorable now sound terrific. dan bejars vocals always sound out of place on new pornographers albums imo, but they come into their own across a whole album. padraig, what you think of thurstons album? beck does a great job on it. i also note with interest he produced the upcoming steven malkmus album - sounds intriguing. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 2116 Registered: 09-2006 |
Neil Young - Live at the Catalyst Club, 1984 For those unfamiliar, Jimmy McDonough sums it up well: In the middle of all his troubles, Young made some of his best music, although few have heard it. Young reunited with Crazy Horse for two nights of live shows in February '84 at a club not far away from his home, the Catalyst in Santa Cruz. Augmented by the crude honking of Ben Keith's saxophone, Young ripped through a string of nasty originals - "Rock Forever," "So Tired," "I Got a Problem," "Violent Side," "Your Love," "Touch the Night," plus a sublimely ridiculous rocker called "Stand by Me" written by bassist Billy Talbot. There were no characters to hide behind here, just 90-mph rock songs with deliriously simple lyrics that verged on a Zen-like beauty. In the past, even on the fast numbers, Crazy Horse had played in hypnotic slow motion - the groove was as good as the pot. But this was all scraping, choppy riffs, and ugly music that could have followed the Ramones or Howlin' Wolf. "Me and my shadow are so in despair / 'Cause we keep hurtin' someone who cares / Everytime we talk about it I break out in cold sweat / There must be some way out of here but I haven't found it yet," Young sings in "I Got a Problem." It was the kind of choked, uneasy voice you can hear late at night on the subway, coming from someone wearing a hospital bracelet. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3936 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Go-Betweens - RIght Here | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1600 Registered: 08-2006 |
Allen, that Neil boot is a stunner. How these songs ended up so sodden and dull on "Landing on Water" is a mystery to me. I will say, however, if I never hear Billy Talbot sing again my quality of life will certainly not suffer. Then again, it does have a kind of classic-rock-meets-Flipper vibe to it. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1275 Registered: 10-2008 |
the wild beasts album just keeps getting better for me, it really is a beautiful album. i [played their debut album the other day, didnt like it at all. i understand that hardcore fans will adore it and maybe hate the new direction. i guess it all depends on the direction the listener is coming to these albums from. from the first minute i heard their stuff on the radio a few years ago i cringed at the histrionics of it all. while acknowledging that this was their early appeal to others, the new stuff just seems more mature musically and they have really grown into their craft. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 447 Registered: 10-2006 |
Christophe Miossec - 1964 Stunner of an album from this very gutteral Breton singer-songwriter, his dry voice pitched against highly melodic songs, lots of what looks like devious wordplay,very nice indeed. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1276 Registered: 10-2008 |
bill callahan - apocalypse. listened to this on mp3 player while out for a walk yesterday, its a great mix for listening to with headphones on. might be his best post smog album. | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 745 Registered: 05-2005 |
Sunflower Stories - Robin Guthrie Just beautiful, gorgeous, etc etc etc | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 277 Registered: 05-2005 |
Lloyd Cole - Broken record. Truly great! | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1281 Registered: 10-2008 |
on a bit of a bill callahan/smog binge at the moment apocalypse, the new one, is a great stripped down velvets goes country style album. a great contrast to its predeccesor, the lush sounding sometimes i wish we were an eagle, which sounded great this sunday morning over breakfast while reading the sunday papers. listening to the last smog album just now, a river aint too much to love, and it is a great listen just before bed. anybody seen him live, i'd love to go to a gig of his? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3943 Registered: 05-2005 |
A concert by Australian band Oh Mercy in the car while returning from Sydney's great light show at Circular Quay. I'm guessing Oh Mercy have a Go-Betweens album or nine in their collection. It was fun to listen to, but pretty shameless in its borrowing from Grant and Robert. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3944 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Oh Mercy concert was on the radio by the way. Triple J's Live At The Wireless. I used to wait with my finger on the pause button every Monday night at 8pm for Live At The Wireless to start when I first arrived in Australia 19 years ago. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 318 Registered: 03-2007 |
Driving Past - Travel | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1288 Registered: 10-2008 |
low - c'mon bill callahan - woke on a whaleheart captain beefheart and the magic band - shiny beast(bat chain puller) | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1291 Registered: 10-2008 |
destroyer - kaputt radiohead - king of limbs augustus pablo presents - rockers international vol2 | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 319 Registered: 03-2007 |
Tugboat - Two Schools Of Thought Tugboat - Rushes ( EP ) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3958 Registered: 05-2005 |
Mussorgsky - The Hut On Fowl's Legs (Baba Yaga) | ||
| Shane Greentree Member Username: Realinspectorshane Post Number: 89 Registered: 03-2007 |
Low: Things We Lost In The Fire | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3966 Registered: 05-2005 |
Blur - Maggie May. Brilliant Rod Stewart cover. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2679 Registered: 03-2005 |
Paradise Motel--Still Life | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 347 Registered: 05-2005 |
the new Vetiver album would appear to be the soundtrack for my summer | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2682 Registered: 03-2005 |
Wild Beasts--Smother | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 2222 Registered: 10-2004 |
You bought Smother, Randy? What do you think of it? | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1307 Registered: 10-2008 |
incredibly enough, given my previous stance on wild beasts, its a potential album of the year jeff!) | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2683 Registered: 03-2005 |
At first listen, I'm wishing for more guitar in the arrangements. Everything seemed too uniform. But that's first listen. I also picked up a bunch of Birthday Party (I only had a single "best of" antho from the 1980s) and "From Her to Eternity." Last night I listened to "Junkyard." It's a really solid, crazy album. So, who influenced who? Laughing Clowns? Birthday Party? | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1308 Registered: 10-2008 |
maybe the lack of guitar is why i am attracted to smother and not the previous two wild beasts albums. i love the understatedness (is that a word? !!)of the arrangements and the subtle keyboard sounds. the last two tracks are immense, i guess from your initial listening you wont like these two in particular randy? i'm still waiting for junkyard to arrive. prayers on fire came today so will listen later on. the compilation album called "hits" (very droll!) came the other day and its been on heavy rotation. its chronological and i am struck by how strong the first few tracks are, the ones lifted from the debut album such as the friend catcher, mr clarinet and nick the stripper. confusingly, for me at least, allmusic state of the debut album "Originally released in 1980 and credited to the Boys Next Door" this compilation is heavily weighted towards junkyard - i counted 8 tracks - while the other albums or eps averaged 3 tracks each. so i guess that means junkyards is the recognised classic? i also sprung for yet another 2 of the cave/bad seeds reissues, kicking against the pricks and the first born is dead. the packaging of all these reissues is seriously impressive (i now have 8 of them), if anybody is swithering over whether to buy them i would say go for it, you want be disappointed, and the dvd's are worth watching too. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1309 Registered: 10-2008 |
my bad, nick the stripper is actually on prayers on fire and not the debut album, as i found out when i just spun prayers on fire. first impressions are that this album is quite a challenging listen, pretty powerful stuff though. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 2223 Registered: 10-2004 |
Randy, as for who influenced who, it's tough to say. Maybe they were all on a similar wavelength. But then when you throw in the Moodists, whose early work was *very* Birthday Party-ish, that further complicates matters. Junkyard is considered a classic, but then so are the Bad Seed and Mutiny EPs, and so is Prayers on Fire. Pretty much everything after their first album has been deemed a classic at some point or other. And the debut is not bad, it's just more conventional and less crazed. As for Smother, I do prefer the more guitar-oriented songs, like "Loop the Loop" and "Bed of Nails," but the album as a whole has certainly grown on me. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2684 Registered: 03-2005 |
Ah, the brilliant Moodists! Every time one of their tracks pops up on my iPod, it's a fantastic occasion. The BP similarity is clear enough but the Moodists also drew from Iggy & the Stooges. That was one serious steamroller band. And whoever recorded them had the most perfect sense of how to use distortion. Kevin, I remember specifically liking the last song on Smother in particular. Obviously I'll be listening again over the next few weeks. My old Missing Link comp of the BP seems to pull nicely from their whole career. Three tracks are from "Prayers on Fire," four are from "Junkyard," one is from the first album ("Friend Catcher"), one from "Hee Haw" and three from singles. Much like my ten year delay between getting the Go Bees' "1978-1990" and finally investigating their albums, I have no explanation for never buying the BP's albums because this Missing Link collection got a lot of play from me and I followed Nick Cave for a pretty long while. Time to unwrap something else here. Ah, the new "From Her to Eternity." This is one of Jeff's favorites. I shall see what I think of it. | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 197 Registered: 11-2007 |
interesting radiohead-stuff: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFTLxkMmY 4M&feature=player_embedded http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8byXSML4 bY To everyone who likes them: Enjoy! | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 2224 Registered: 10-2004 |
Regarding the Moodists - I think all these bands drew a lot from the Stooges. The Birthday Party did a scorching version of "Loose," after all. And Nick Cave's B-day Party-era stage antics were very Iggy-esque. But yes, I have one Moodists record (the one with "Frankie's Negative"), and I like it. It has a great, heavy sound. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1310 Registered: 10-2008 |
i am just listening to two fisted art, a compilation by the moodists on a cd-r that a friend gave me years ago. i cannot remember ever playing it, but listening to it now it sounds quite interesting. i agree jeff, they have a very heavy sound. cant say i'm hearing much of the stooges, but it has a birthday party/early bad seeds vibe to it. and the bass player plays in a similar style to steve hanley from the fall. i have no idea what era this comp covers - 80's i'm guessing. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1312 Registered: 10-2008 |
.... in fact the last couple of songs i am hearing on this moodists comp have a distinctly fall like sound, especially the drumming and the scratchy rhythm guitar. particularly the song called machine machine. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2686 Registered: 03-2005 |
Kevin, I have that comp which is also the ONLY thing I have by the Moodists. (Later Dave Graney releases are much easier to get and I have a number of them too). According to the notes, the earliest track on the first disc (the studio disc) is "Where the Trees Walk Downhill" from 1980. "Dad's Car" and "Gone Dead" date from 1981. "The Disciples Know" dates from 1982. Most of them date from 1984 including the fantastic "Chevrolet Rise" and "Frankie's Negative" and the song you mention, "Machine Machine." The first three on the set (including "Double Life" and "Six Dead Birds") date from 1985. The last song, "Someone's Got to Give" dates from 1986. I don't know if you have the second disc which is all live material from three different dates, in 1983, 1984 and in 1985. I assume that the Moodists took some inspiration from BP, just as the Triffids did BUT I also strongly suspect that BP took some big inspiration from Dave Graney and the Moodists because if you listen to the mediocrity that is Boys Next Door's "Door Door" it is clear that some drastic form of lightning struck these people which surely must have been an outside influence. I don't know what Graney was sounding like in 1979. Maybe somebody who visits this board knows. That would settle it. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2687 Registered: 03-2005 |
Meanwhile, I'm listening to the brilliant "Prayers on Fire" BP album. I haven't heard things like "King Ink" in just about forever. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3977 Registered: 05-2005 |
Sally McLennan, Grant's sister, mentioned The Moodists in her eulogy at Grant's funeral. A newspaper report the next day got it wrong and referred to "The Nudists". Dave Graney has just published a biograpy. I have it but have not read it yet. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2689 Registered: 03-2005 |
Wild Swans--Space Flower It's certainly not the REAL Wild Swans but it's entertaining and the last track gets a good droning groove going. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 2229 Registered: 10-2004 |
I don't even have Space Flower, but I've heard it. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1315 Registered: 10-2008 |
Junkyard is just crazy brilliance from start to finish. How did I miss out on this album at the time? One churlish gripe I have. My version is a remaster which bookends the album with blast off and release the bats, why werent both songs tagged on at the end? Much as blast off is great, I think she's hit is fantastic and should have stayed as the opening track as it was on the original album. Why do record companies do things like that? The opening track is usually a statement from the band and is placed there for a reason. | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 751 Registered: 05-2005 |
Seeker Lover Keeper. Lots of Felt. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2214 Registered: 01-2005 |
Kate Rusby - 10 Stan Getz - Cafe Montmartre | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 752 Registered: 05-2005 |
Always annoyed me that they completely rearrnged the 2 good Psychedelic Furs albums too. I rectified the situation with burns of course. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2216 Registered: 01-2005 |
The VU box Peel Slowly and See had the same bookend problems on the four VU studio albums within. I didn't mind too much at the time though as they sounded better than the earlier CD versions I had. I did buy the subsequent Fully Loaded 2 CD version of Loaded and prefer it to the box bookend problem version in the box. And we are still waiting on a remastered Street Hassle!!! | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 320 Registered: 03-2007 |
The Black Watch - Flowering The Black Watch - Amphetamines The Black Watch - The King Of Good Intentions | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 2135 Registered: 09-2006 |
Jack Frost live in Boston, 1991 | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 323 Registered: 03-2007 |
The Black Watch - Lime Green Girl The Black Watch - Jiggery-Pokery The Black Watch - Very Mary Beth | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3986 Registered: 05-2005 |
Yes - Fly From Here. Against all the odds, it's brilliant. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1325 Registered: 10-2008 |
Tender Prey - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. This is the remastered version that I recently acquired. I must say the sound on this doesnt seem that great compared to the wonderful remastering jobs done on all the other albums. It seems overly harsh and compressed, especially on songs like The Mercy Seat. Randy, you never posted your thoughts on Tender Prey, and has the Wild Beasts album grew on you yet? | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1326 Registered: 10-2008 |
Randy, I meant you never posted your thoughts on From Her To Eternity, not Tender Prey! Its hard to concentrate the mind on these long, boring nightshifts! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3989 Registered: 05-2005 |
Yes - Final Eyes | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2694 Registered: 03-2005 |
Kevin, Eternity has only had one listen and certainly needs more. Superficially, it seems like a very well-recorded bunch of non-songs. It sounds just like the participants describe its formation. I'll see what I think later. Wild Beasts have only had a second listen. I definitely like the last track a lot. The album as a whole still seems rather amorphous to me. Meanwhile, I'm on to Paradise Motel's "I Still Hear Your Voice at Night," their newest release but really their penultimate recorded project at the moment. I really like this band's old-tech-played but modern-conceived music and their reunion has produced a pair of meritorious albums so far. | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 279 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Low Anthem - Smart flesh. After some listens, this is a truly amazing record. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 2243 Registered: 10-2004 |
Yeah, you can't really go into From Her to Eternity expecting proper songs. And it's definitely an album that requires a few listens. The music is very repetitive, scabrous, edgy. It's like taking the Birthday Party, stripping back the arrangements, adopting a Fall-esque affinity for repetition, and plunging it deep in the southern delta swampland. I've always been wowed by Blixa Bargeld's guitar playing on this album. I love the distorted bell-like sounds he creates on "Saint Huck," for example. And there's this weird, bent-sounding, dissonant "chord" he plays only once in "Avalanche" which is just perfect. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 2138 Registered: 09-2006 |
Old 97's - Grand Theatre Vol. 2 | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1329 Registered: 10-2008 |
michael. i played street hassle today. sounded ok apart from the cringing "i wanna be black" | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3992 Registered: 05-2005 |
The tracks from the cassette version of New Order's Substance which didn't fit onto the CD version. Brilliant to hear them again. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2224 Registered: 01-2005 |
Françoise Hardy - La Collection (62-66) Once a year I listen to La Collection stem-to stern, and am blown away by greatness of it. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 2139 Registered: 09-2006 |
Padraig, are those the B-sides and EP tracks from that era? If so, I think they were released over here as a second CD along with Substance, and I'd agree they're a fine bunch of songs. Glad that they're now also available on the Deluxe editions. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1331 Registered: 10-2008 |
rem - the athens demos. from the lifes rich pageant deluxe reissue this is streaming now at spin.com http://www.spin.com/articles/exclusive-a lbum-rems-lifes-rich-pageant the quality of these demos are fantastic, even if songs like i believe have guide vocals with stipe just humming or making noises where words would eventually end up on the finished songs. the version of fall on me is stunning. i notice that the status of my copy of the deluxe reissue is "packing", which hopefully means i receive it in a few days. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1333 Registered: 10-2008 |
yo la tengo - prisoners of love | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3996 Registered: 05-2005 |
I already sent Allen an email about this, but for the rest of you... The two CD version of Substance was released in Europe also, but the two tape version had four or five extra b-sides (depending on which version you got) - Mesh, Dub-vulture, Shellcock, Bizarre Dub Triangle and True Dub - and the unedited 12" version of The Perfect Kiss on the first disc/tape. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substance_1 987 | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2697 Registered: 03-2005 |
I've never been a New Order fan but I did get "Substance." Not surprisingly my favorite tracks are the early ones where they still sound like Joy Division. | ||
| Shane Greentree Member Username: Realinspectorshane Post Number: 92 Registered: 03-2007 |
Today's listening: Dinosaur Jr.: Green Mind Guided By Voices: Bee Thousand The Church: Untitled #23 Triffids: Live at the London School of Economics 27/10/84 Grizzly Bear: Veckatimest | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1337 Registered: 10-2008 |
i love new order all the way from ceremony to the last great album, technique. after that things went a bit off the rails, regret was ok but the album republic was patchy. then came the hiatus which should probably have seen them split up completely, rather than about 6 times before finally(?) whimpering to an end! the run of singles from ceremony to fine time was pretty awesome, so you could argue that substance, which includes every single prior to fine time is all that anybody really needs, unless you are a hard core fan because some of the album tracks are sublime. power corruption and lies, lowlife and technique are almost flawless imo. movement must be one of the few albums ever made where the bonus disc of the latest reissue craps all over the main album 2008 Collector's Edition bonus disc: "Ceremony" "Temptation" (7" version) "In a Lonely Place" "Everything's Gone Green" "Procession" "Cries and Whispers" "Hurt" "Mesh" "Ceremony" (Original version) "Temptation" (12" version) a recent mojo has a great feature on the beginnings of new order from the ashes of joy division. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1609 Registered: 08-2006 |
I'm sure this won't be a majority opinion, but I play Get Ready as much as any New Order I own, and actually like it better than Technique. My favorite's Brotherhood. But I don't know that I'd put Get Ready into any whimpering basket. I think it rocks pretty good. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4003 Registered: 05-2005 |
I'm with you Rob. Get Ready is a brilliant garage rock album. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 2140 Registered: 09-2006 |
I'd agree that the Movement bonus disc trumps the album, though I do still find the album very hypnotic in its own right. I also like the live show from that period they put out on DVD. Also like Get Ready a lot...in fact I'm such a fool for these folks I even (gasp!) enjoy about half of Siren's Call. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 2141 Registered: 09-2006 |
One of the nicest surprises from playing the deluxe editions was how much more I liked Technique. At the time it sounded like a good but patchy letdown, but now it's just exciting and fun from end to end. "Run" is one of their most gorgeous moments. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 648 Registered: 04-2005 |
Just as a public service announcement: this site has great quality sound files of JD/NO to download. I didn't feel too bad in the sense that I have all on vinyl and it saves me the time of ripping it to the computer. I think that EVERYTHING (singles wise)is to be found there... http://neworder-recycle.blogspot.com/ | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1339 Registered: 10-2008 |
padraig, garage rock? not how i remember it. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4004 Registered: 05-2005 |
Listen again Kevin! Andrew, I was afraid to post that link... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4005 Registered: 05-2005 |
(I did email it to a few interested parties though...) | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1340 Registered: 10-2008 |
ahead by wire,from the ideal copy,is the last great new order song ;-) | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 324 Registered: 03-2007 |
Hefner - Breaking God's Heart Hefner - We Love The City Hefner - Dead Media. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 2142 Registered: 09-2006 |
I've been too leery and/or disinterested to try out any of the Bad Lieutenant stuff...has anyone here sampled it? | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2699 Registered: 03-2005 |
All India Radio--Fall | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2229 Registered: 01-2005 |
Rank and File - The Slash Years | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1343 Registered: 10-2008 |
substance by new order has become a bit of a fixture on my cd player since padraig "revived" it. especially disc 2, there are some real gems there, which lets not forget are b-sides. in paricular the atmospheric beauty of in a lonely place, procession (although if i remember rightly it was a double a with everythings gone green when they both initially appeared on 7"), hurt (which sometimes sounds like the best thing they ever did),lonesome tonight(one of their gentlest ever songs), even instrumentals like murder which just oozes menace. then 1963 to round things off perfectly. if only they'd split up after technique their legacy would be untouchable. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2700 Registered: 03-2005 |
Theoretical First Album--Triffids Using most of the pre-Treeless Plain EPs and singles and some other recordings done in a proper studio that showed up on the late cassettes (Grandson of Dungeon Tape in the Triffids box) I came up with my notion of a studio album for the Triffids preceding the great Treeless Plain. The program: 1. I Can't Wait to See Your Gun (Grandson of Dungeon Tape) 2. Snake Pit (EP) 3. Man Who Can (Grandson of DT) 4. This Boy (EP) 5. Place In the Sun (EP) 6. Dead Wind (Grandson of DT) 7. Reverie (EP) 8. Spanish Blue (single) 9. Twisted Brain (single) 10. MGM (Grandson of DT) 11. Bad Timing (EP) 12. Being Driven (EP) 13. Left to Rot (EP) If I left off the EP version of Place in the Sun I still would have a 12 song album but I kept it because I like it every bit as much as I like the later version of Treeless Plain. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4008 Registered: 05-2005 |
I'll make that mix up and try it out Randy. Right now I'm listening to Ride's New Age. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 2143 Registered: 09-2006 |
Agreed, "Lonesome Tonight" is a fine song, though just like "Every Little Counts" they do feel the need to undercut the sweetness with some goofing around...I speak of the part halfway through where Bernard either clears his throat or blows his nose directly into the microphone. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1346 Registered: 10-2008 |
allen, you refer to this :-) "Lonesome Tonight" is known for lead singer Bernard Sumner "hocking a loogie" around the song's four-minute mark" | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 2144 Registered: 09-2006 |
Ah, good to have that cleared up - or out, rather.  |