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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4009 Registered: 05-2005 |
Oh Mercy - Great Barrier Grief | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4012 Registered: 05-2005 |
A David McComb-sung song I'd never heard of before finding it in a charity shop today. It's called This Song Can Save You and it's on an album called More Of Her by an Australian band I'd never previously heard of called Four Hours Sleep. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4013 Registered: 05-2005 |
When I First Met You. A second David McComb-sung song on the same album. (His tracks bookend the record). This one is, at least on first listen, the pick of the pair. It sounds like The Triffids. Someone called Rebecca Barnard sings backing vocals on it. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4014 Registered: 05-2005 |
Oops, I spoke too soon in saying I'd never previously heard of Four Hours Sleep... I already have their second album, which followed a decade after this one came out in 1996! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2701 Registered: 03-2005 |
Thanks for sharing them Padraig! Yes, "When I First Met You" is the better one. I'm assuming McComb didn't write these, correct? "This Song Can Save You" seems too clumsy lyrically for McComb. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1348 Registered: 10-2008 |
upside down - the best of the jesus and mary chain 44 songs of pure bubblegum glam sonic mayhem the only band who can sound like the shangri la's backed by an all star band of the ramones,the stooges and the velvets with vocals by marc bolan. with production by phil spector. and thats just in the space of one song! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2702 Registered: 03-2005 |
Dave Graney with the White Buffaloes--My Life on the Plains | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2703 Registered: 03-2005 |
Life -- Apartments With three songs I've not heard before. (All You Wanted, The Shyest Time, Make It Count) I can't believe this was for sale, and cheap! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4016 Registered: 05-2005 |
I also thought the lyrics to that one were too clumsy to be McComb Randy, so I checked the booklet. There are no songwriter credits, so I assume they were just all written by the guy whose band it is. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 325 Registered: 03-2007 |
Padraig, there is an article on Wiki which claims that Bill McDonald, whose band it is, wrote the songs on the first album with Stephen Cummings and that David McComb, Edwyn Collins and several others feature as guest vocalists. I believe McDonald also wrote 11 of the 13 songs on the follow up with Cummings and one with Paul Kelly. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4021 Registered: 05-2005 |
Thanks Hugh. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4022 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Autumn Defense - Once Around. A rather lovely orch pop side project by Wilco's John Stirratt and Pat Sansone. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4023 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Baseball Project - Volume 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails. It's great. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2234 Registered: 01-2005 |
Speaking of baseball..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKzobTlF8 fM | ||
| Shane Greentree Member Username: Realinspectorshane Post Number: 94 Registered: 03-2007 |
Triffids: One Soul Less On Your Fiery List Probably a predictable thing to say, but I prefer the In The Pines-era version to the rewritten version on Calenture. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2705 Registered: 03-2005 |
Weirdly, Shane, I actually prefer the Calenture version! It's not as overblown as some of the other numbers on that album. Though it DOES have that noxious showbizzy little keyboard flourish at the absolute start. Must be Gil Norton's idea. In the case of "Trick of the Light" I find myself listening to the "In the Pines" version much more often even though it's minus a middle 8. | ||
| Shane Greentree Member Username: Realinspectorshane Post Number: 95 Registered: 03-2007 |
Interesting. I guess its just handy that we have multiple versions of these songs to be able to do the compare/contrast stuff. The second disc of Calenture, the expanded In The Pines and the Jack Brabham parts of Come Ride With Me are quite handy for seeing how the tunes evolved. (Funnily enough, seeing Jill/Alsy do Tarrilup Bridge a couple of weeks ago reminded me of the solo demo version on the box set.) | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 756 Registered: 05-2005 |
Depends on the mood for me as to which version is better. At either time I'll argue that the other is a poor take! Anyway. For "the Believers".... "David Neil - The Wilderness years" - Steve Kilbey and Ricky Maymi. Kilbey enchews his normal voice for something higher. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4025 Registered: 05-2005 |
Cut Off Your Hands - Postcard Scenery. (The stupid band name put me off for a long time though) | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2711 Registered: 03-2005 |
The first of my French music purchases have arrived. I am currently listening to Keren Ann's first LP "la biographie de Luka Philipsen." Keren Ann is reliably good. I just finished listening to La Grande Sophie's 2006 album "la Suite." I still think "le Porte-Boneur" is the best of the (now three) albums I have but this one has some good material and the album between them, which I originally slagged off when I bought it, "et si c'etait moi" is better than I recall with the judicious pruning of about 1/3 of the songs including the single "Du Courage." She has a newer album on which she does the arrangements herself and goes for a more acoustic sound. I suspect it'll be the pick of the lot when I get it. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 350 Registered: 05-2005 |
Soft Hearted Scientists - Wandermoon. good reviews coming in for this too http://iheartau.com/2011/07/soft-hearted -scientists-wandermoon/ and in Record Collector and Q Magazine. Hopefully more psych adventurers will catch on to them with this album. | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 199 Registered: 11-2007 |
A link I haven't known before with a lot of superb stuff. Interesting session of for example: Edwyn Collins, Vampire Weekend, Deerhof, Iron & Wine, Van Dyke Parks, Wild Beasts and many, many more. Edwyn Collins' stuff brings tears to the eyes... http://www.daytrotter.com/ | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 466 Registered: 10-2006 |
How come French stuff gets to LA sooner than it does to Italy?? Anyway, I'm listening to the Mam'selle K album, and maybe it's just the skinny girl with guitar thing but it reminds me of Elastica, which isn't bad, a refreshing snap crackle & pop. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4027 Registered: 05-2005 |
The new Panics album! Yay! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4028 Registered: 05-2005 |
Thanks for that link Andreas. Listening to A Girl Like You now. | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 200 Registered: 11-2007 |
I love that "What Presence!" - version, Pádraig! Earlier on when it came out it was not that interesting for me! ...and in the beginning, when he announces the first song - girl like you. I would have loved to see his face when the band starts with falling & laughing ;) How is that panics album? would like to see them play here in europe! | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 201 Registered: 11-2007 |
LIstening to the piano demos to this is the sea - in a special place don't bang the drum ;) | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2239 Registered: 01-2005 |
Kate and Anna McGarrigle - Tell My Sister Up next: Wilco - Summerteeth | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1614 Registered: 08-2006 |
Tell My Sister is quite a package - and quite a bargain. The collection of demos is like a great, lost McGarrigles record. I like. | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 757 Registered: 05-2005 |
Just downloading the new Panics - thanks Padraig, I had forgotten it was being released Friday here. Seems far more "mainstream" - no quiet little ditties or mood pieces. It seems like they are pretty much all mid paced songs. I thought the last last one was a lurch to the mainstream but this is even more so. I guess if you want to keep going on in a small market you have to appeal to a wider audience unfortunately. | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 758 Registered: 05-2005 |
By the way, has anyone here got The Panics doing "Wide Open Road" for Triple J? I wants it! | ||
| Burgers Member Username: Burgers Post Number: 31 Registered: 05-2005 |
It's on soundcloud | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 326 Registered: 03-2007 |
Geoff,order the new album by The Panics from JB Hi-Fi Online and you will receive a signed copy plus a bonus 6 track cd ( Songs From Another Room ) which includes Wide Open Road ( JJJ Like A Version.) | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2712 Registered: 03-2005 |
Does this mean I ordered mine from the wrong source? Grrrr. Geoff, your description sounds depressing. That's the forever problem for Australian bands. Either stay home and blandify or travel continually and still probably half-way starve. I hope the copy I'm getting from Redeye has the additional disc. It's expensive enough. I'm going to have to check out that McGarrigles thing. "Matapedia" was the last proper release they had. If it contains things which should have made up another newer album it will be of real interest to me. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 327 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, I am not sure if the deal is/was exclusive to JB Hi-Fi Online. Check the band's website for details. They have posted a video of the first track from the album ( Majesty ) on the site. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1615 Registered: 08-2006 |
Randy, "Tell My Sister" is basically their first two studio albums (remastered by Joe Boyd), plus demos and some killer unreleaseds from the two sessions. Now, I don't usually buy remasters, but this was just $18 and the demo disc is awesome. As much as I love the first two albums (and I do!) hearing those early songs stripped of studio finery is really cool. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1616 Registered: 08-2006 |
Oh, and I should mention if it's not explicit in my post, this is all old stuff, contemporaneous with the first two albums. Hopefully, some newer stuff will emerge sometime. | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 759 Registered: 05-2005 |
AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHH HHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!! | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 760 Registered: 05-2005 |
Hey I'm liking the boot on the other foot for a change Randy...."It's expensive though". With the Aussie dollar at nearly $1.10 US it's been good to go to Amazon! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2713 Registered: 03-2005 |
Thanks for the info Rob. I have the first two albums but their 70s arrangements put me off them. I should give them another listen and listen through the arrangements for the songs themselves. My favorite albums of theirs are their two last ones (Matapedia and Heartbeats Accelerating) which I think are brilliantly arranged. The demos from the early records might actually suit me better than the finished productions. Unlike you, I'm a big sucker for remastered editions. Geoff, I can't complain as I can get so many not-new releases outrageously cheap and it's mostly not-new releases that I buy at any given moment. But yes, it's a long way from when I was looking at Aussie real estate listings and the rather high prices for inner-city Brisbane houses but could console myself with "well, it's only 75 cents on the dollar." Between our long-term failure to bring down our trade deficit (no, Rob and Michael, I am NOT buying into that bulls#!t about balancing the budget), and the Federal Reserve's so far unsuccessful attempt to shake the Chinese yuan off its peg to the dollar I won't be enjoying that strong US dollar again any time soon. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2714 Registered: 03-2005 |
Kate & Anna McGarrigle. Making good on my promise above. Ah, track 4--"Heart Like a Wheel." THIS is the McGarrigle sisters. Timeless. Beautiful. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2715 Registered: 03-2005 |
Sorry for the monologue of posts. This is definitely a better album than I remember. Probably its only fault is that everyone is younger and what the McGarrigles did was something that improved with age. I'm ticking off the numbers I know I'll be loading onto my iTunes. I wonder if it's the second album that annoyed me because I'm not really finding all that much in the way of stereotypical 70s arrangements on here. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2241 Registered: 01-2005 |
I missed buying the first Kate and Anna album when it was released in 1975. I'm thinking that I bought it in on vinyl in 1983 (the same time I started buying the Richard and Linda Thompson albums), then about 10 years later on CD. The Joe Boyd remasters are very nice. I have yet to dive into the extra cuts on the third disc. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2716 Registered: 03-2005 |
Through my door slot today came Phil Wilson -- God Bless Jim Kennedy. This is Mr. June Brides. Occasionally, I'll type in a search on Amazon for somebody I don't expect to find. Surprise! The band features viola and trumpet. From 2010. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2717 Registered: 03-2005 |
Back to France . . . Francoiz Breut--Vingt a Trente Mille Jours This is somebody Grant McLennan was raving about in his last year or two. I agree on the basis of the two albums of hers that I've had for a couple years. This one is her second album (I believe), from 2001. I'm only on track two but it's sounding REAL good. Stuart and any of the rest of you who aren't put off by non-English songcraft, you can ignore (or not) the other releases I've been reporting on lately as you see fit but this one is mandatory. (On track four--still holding up very well). | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 2145 Registered: 09-2006 |
Randy, the second McGarrigle record isn't that varied instrumentally from the first, so if you enjoyed that one it should be smooth sailing. "Kitty Come Home" (Anna pleading to Kate to leave her miserable situation with Loudon) is one of their most gorgeous tunes ever, and Kate's "Southern Boys" and "Walking Song" are wonderful combinations of acerbity and beauty. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 650 Registered: 04-2005 |
Anne Briggs (run away Kevin , “maids-a-milking alert” !) She seems to have been a crucial link between traditional English folk and the late 60s electric revival. Her first record is mainly acappella traditional songs with a couple of original, one written by her friend and lover Bert Jansch, ‘Go Your Way’. I am not quite sure what I find so enticing in her singing, but based on comments elsewhere I am apparently not the only one hooked. The few 1960s image of her show a rare beauty; Richard Thompson’s stunning “Beeswing” is based on her wild character. “Willie o Winsbury” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAvZrBEkI mw And all you need to know is here http://www.rootsmusic.co.uk/IrishFolktra d&blues%20.htm Whilst on the topic of all things folkie, I recently finished the book ‘Electric Eden’ by Rob Young, which has had a lot of acclaim, but also criticisms for factual errors. When you read that the Robert Flaherty film ‘Man of Aran’ is about Scottish herring fishermen it becomes hard to take it seriously. Surely if you mention a film as a reference the author should have at least seen it; the Aran in question is off the coast of Ireland (not to be confused with Arran off the coast of Scotland) and the scenes in the film depict shark-hunting! | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 651 Registered: 04-2005 |
Randy, I'll have to dig out that Francoiz Breut CD; I bought it on release, on the strength of 'Si Tu Disais', which was just 2 minutes of distilled breathy gallic genius. I had first heard the song on an "Inrockuptibles" magazine sampler and loved it. But I seem to remember nothing else lived up to that track, so maybe it's time for another listen... | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2719 Registered: 03-2005 |
Andrew, it was the opening track that riveted me on that album but, yes, "Si Tu Disais" clinched the deal. She's fairly diverse so you have to shift mental gears from song to song to a degree. I think she's a major artist. I'm now on to . . . . Francoiz Breut -- A L'aveuglette Which seems to be her newest record though it dates from 2008. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2242 Registered: 01-2005 |
Onto the third disc of Tell My Sister. Also listening to the Deluxe Edition of Fairport Convention - Lief & Liege (2 discs, remastered) | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 328 Registered: 03-2007 |
Possum Moods - Possum Moods Possum Moods - Possum And The Moods Grey Tapes - Grey Tapes Fog And Ocean - Fog And Ocean Long Weekend - All Roads Lead To Roam Australian bands who recorded for the 555 Recordings record label based in Flagstaff, Arizona. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 652 Registered: 04-2005 |
Michael, Are there interesting things on the extras disc of 'Leige & Lief'? It is incredible to think that the group had already released 2 magnificient records in 1969, gone through a dreadful road accident in which they had lost their drummer, and then managed to pull it all together for this landmark recording. Randy, Please report back on "A l'aveuglette" ! | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2243 Registered: 01-2005 |
Andrew, I'll be listening to the DE extra disc of "L&L" today. The first disc is a big improvement in sound over my first generation Leige CD. I didn't get the original remaster that came out last decade, so I can't compare the two remasters. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 653 Registered: 04-2005 |
Listening to something extremely frustrating ! I imagine a lot of you know the Velvet Underground "Live 69" recording, and a mighty fine live record it is too. I had downloaded a bootleg called 'Matrix sampler', which turns out to be mainly 2 minute snippets of other songs not on the official release. But sourced from the original 4 track tapes captured by the club owner. Apparently the official recording was from quickly mixed down 2 tracks (full story is here www.richieunterberger.com/vuexc10.html). The quality of these sample tracks is stunning; find it at http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.co m/page/2 and suffer like me. Lou's intro is worth the price of admission alone; who ever said that this man has no sense of humour ? Frannkly people lets get our priorities right! Never mind trying to stop the world economy slipping into chaos, how do we get these recordings released properly ? | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1355 Registered: 10-2008 |
cheers andrew, great spot! | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 2146 Registered: 09-2006 |
Agreed, thanks Andrew! Looks like some other pretty nifty stuff on the Doom & Gloom site as well. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 2147 Registered: 09-2006 |
Go-Bees - J-Files Rachel Worth radio show from 2000. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1356 Registered: 10-2008 |
drive by truckers - ugly buildings, whores and politicians(greatest hits 1998-2009) every one a winner,apart from "let there be rock", a eulogy to lynerd skynerd, molly hatchet, acdc and ozzy osbourne which is spinal tap-esque in its "rawk" awfulness. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2721 Registered: 03-2005 |
The iPod tossed up "Always" as I drove home from work. I thought "wow, I need to pull out 'Adventure' and give it a new listen because this is much better than I remember. My impression that it lacked that crystalline two-guitar interplay of 'Marquee Moon' is obviously wrong." And it was live, to boot. The band was on fire. Then I got home and couldn't find it on "Adventure." Because it's a Tom Verlaine solo performance that somebody sent to me at some unknown point probably long ago. Well, thanks to whoever you are. That was brilliant. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1357 Registered: 10-2008 |
Mu moneys on Guy sending you it Randy. Advenyure is a great album, it just suffers unfairly because it didnt quite live up to the genius of Marquee Moon. By most other albums of that era its in a different league. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2722 Registered: 03-2005 |
Listening to the Panics' new album for the third time. I figured Geoff's comments upthread would be accurate and, yes, they are. The first song "Majesty" is proper quality Panics once it becomes clear that it's not a disco track. The second song has already won the honor of being omitted from my upload to iTunes. It's not a bad song, but the arrangement is just too generic with a sound that will reappear again and again on this album. I am particularly hostile to the clunketa clunketa piano that makes me think of John Lennon's keyboard banging circa 1969 or so. This same song could be given a stripped-down arrangement ala "Crack in the Wall" and it would be fine. Here it's just bloated and not worth the time. "Low on Your Supply" is not a whole lot different than "Endless Road" but it does seem to be a better song. In any case, it survives the cut and goes onto the iPod database. "Creatures" has that bland sort of sound typical of the peak commercial-era Fleetwood Mac. Which means I don't have much enthusiasm for it. Ok, my breakfast companion has arrived. I'll continue on this later. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2248 Registered: 01-2005 |
Once Peter Green left and then Danny Kirwan subsequently got the boot a few years later, I stopped liking FM for the most part. Tusk has got some great cuts though. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 2148 Registered: 09-2006 |
I'm happy to admit to liking FM in most of their incarnations, though not every album. Favorites: Fleetwood Mac Then Play On Kiln House Bare Trees Mystery to Me Fleetwood Mac (Lindsey & Stevie) Rumours Tusk Past Tango in the Night I have very little knowledge and very little interest. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4032 Registered: 05-2005 |
So far I am much preferring the bonus disc with the Panics album to the record itself. Not a good sign when four of the five songs on the bonus disc are covers. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4033 Registered: 05-2005 |
Paul Weller - Starlite. Just downloaded it from iTunes. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4036 Registered: 05-2005 |
And the Drop Out Orchestra Remix of Starlite is even better. Makes it sound like a 70s soul classic. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1359 Registered: 10-2008 |
at the risk of upsetting people here, i'm sorry, but i have absolutely no interest in the new album by the panics. if this album is thought to be a disapointment to the fans amongst you god knows what i would think of it as i didnt much rate the earlier stuff! i have slowly but surely had to admit to myself that antipideon music and me just dont get along and god knows i have tried, searching out recommendations that i have heard people raving about on here but i just dont get it in the main, and i know its my fault(if thats the right phrase!),because people on here do have fantastic taste in other types of music. i guess i will just have to be content to marvel at the genius of early go-betweens, roberts solo albums, nick cave and his various incarnations, the chills, the saints and the triffids. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 351 Registered: 05-2005 |
Andy Gill review for Soft Hearted Scientists from Independent http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entert ainment/music/reviews/album-soft-hearted -scientists-wandermoon-the-hip-replaceme nt-2331838.html | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2723 Registered: 03-2005 |
Kevin, there's no way you'd upset me with that comment. I'd be truly surprised if you rated the Panics. They're too conventional in conception for what you generally like. Their appeal for me has been a bit of that lonely je ne sais qua that the better Aussie artists have. The new album has shed rather a lot of that and dialed in blandness. Actually I'm surprised that you rate the Triffids. RIght now, the Ups and Downs' "Sleepless" on the turntable. Decidedly too conventional for you, Kevin. Borderline too conventional for me but they have some real purty numbers on there. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 352 Registered: 05-2005 |
Blue Aeroplanes - Anti-Gravity | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4037 Registered: 05-2005 |
I move that Kevin be investigated by the House un-Australian Activities Committee, which I chair. If found guilty, the punishment is having to listen to 16 Lovers Lane 16 times in a row, followed by a day Skippy re-runs. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4038 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy, there's a new, and brilliant, Ups & Downs compilation just out. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4039 Registered: 05-2005 |
It is all of the Sleepless mini-album, plus singles, EP tracks and one unreleased song. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 332 Registered: 03-2007 |
Padraig, it is up for pre-order at AmazonCo for Ł27.99 and AmazonCom for US$35.49!!!!! Purchasing it from JB Hi-Fi Online would cost me AU$24.99 plus shipping ( somewhere in the region of Ł22.00.) The only time I purchase music by Australian artists/bands these days is when the titles are released on European/U.S.A. labels. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2724 Registered: 03-2005 |
Hugh, you are always more resourceful than I. My usual sources gave me big zeros. Right now, Dominique a--La memoire neuve. I noticed that Dominique a is a big figure behind Francoiz Breut's records. It's sounding good so far. He's apparently more arty and challenging on newer material, having taken a lot of inspiration from Alain Bashung's most Scott Walkeresque album "l'imprudence." | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 468 Registered: 10-2006 |
Yeah, I wouldn't want to listen to too much stuff inspired by L'imprudence, that's a hard one that is. Just ordered Dominique's Remué album to see what he's like, comes recommended by Bashung fans, along with other artistes like Daniel Darc, Brigitte Fontaine, Arthur H, Katerine, Jean Louis Murat, Cali, Soan... I suppose Andrew must know all these folk? Listening to the first Breut album now, jolly slow, listenable, not really a highly distinctive voice though. | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 763 Registered: 05-2005 |
WHOAH!!!!!!!!!!!! Sleepless!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have got the fan site anthology of course from about 10 years ago but that was all done from crummy records with the occasional scratch (in the wrong place) This is VERY GOOD NEWS. Thank you Padraig! | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 764 Registered: 05-2005 |
Trouble is Padraig....WHERE???????????? Post the link here. The only thing I can find is a New Jersey band called saves the day with an album called ups and downs - this is not them obviously. | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 765 Registered: 05-2005 |
It's called: Out of the Darkness - Sleepless, Singles & Other Stories. Not easy to find if you just type in Ups and Downs! For those of you who like early Church, Felt and The Byrds. Haven't found the track listing but you can bet Cabin Fever and Gangway will be on it. The first time I heard them play Gangway (and I was a rabid Ups and Downser) the crowd yelled for more between all the other songs and so they played it again! Apparently Mushroom records dropped them because "it wasn't commercial enough". This stuff is platinum!!!!!! | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 766 Registered: 05-2005 |
Now I'm really frothing at the mouth...THEY'RE TOURING!!!!!!!! Anandale Hotel 10th September. Randy, you may want to purchase another ticket to Oz...The Moffs are also touring and are on the same bill as Ups and Downs in Victoria somewhere! I'm dusting off the winklepickers, the stovepipes and the purple paisly shirt!!!! | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 767 Registered: 05-2005 |
Ok - no Gangway! I'll post it to you if you want it! The track listing is as below. I would say that Neverending is the 2nd version that was going to be on the Mushroom ep rather than the acoustic version on the flip of The Perfect Crime. 1. Sleepless 2. The Living Kind 3. Heart 4. Alarming Situations 5. Solitary Man 6. Where Is The Sun 7. Travelling 8. In The Shadows 9. The Perfect Crime 10. Lit By The Fuse 11. Moments Away 12. Always 13. Never Ending 14. Karma 15. Jack (What The Hell Does That Mean?) 16. Awesome 17. Safer (Remix) 18. Untie Ian 19. Out Of The Darkness 20. Living Inside My Head | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 333 Registered: 03-2007 |
Geoff, here you go. http://www.feelpresents.com/products-pag e/cd-purchase/new-ups-downs-out-of-the-d arkness/ | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 334 Registered: 03-2007 |
Geoff, your last entry was not showing when I posted the link. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2726 Registered: 03-2005 |
Geoff, do you mean some obscure place in Victoria called Melbourne? They're both appearing at a place called the Corner on October 8. My expectation is that the Moffs would be WAY too loud for the survival of the ears of this middle-ager here. Sounds fun though. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2727 Registered: 03-2005 |
Geoff, you sent me Gangway long ago. The iPod pitched it to me in the car a few months ago. So I'm all set on that one. It does seem odd to leave it off the comp. I do NOT have "Cabin Fever." | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 203 Registered: 11-2007 |
Hey Guys! This label is amazing! I can highly recommend the Lighthouse Keepers!! They are touring as well... Why can't I be there ;( | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 1074 Registered: 08-2004 |
Sly & The Family Stone - Dance To The Music The Sugarcubes - Stick Around For Joy Suicide - The 1st Rehearsal Tapes Talking Heads - More Songs... David Bowie - Heathen The Libertines - Up The Bracket | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4042 Registered: 05-2005 |
Geoff, JB and Red Eye are both selling it. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4043 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Ska-Core The Devil And More EP | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1362 Registered: 10-2008 |
stephen malkmus and the jicks - mirror traffic. his best album in 15 years - thankfully concise, and lacking the turgid jams of previous solo efforts. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1363 Registered: 10-2008 |
here is old friend of this board alfred soto publishing his thoughts on the new malkmus album. http://thequietus.com/articles/06862-ste phen-malkmus-mirror-traffic-review sounds like malkmus hasnt been returning his fan boy letters. how else can we explain this attack on what nearly everybody (including myself)considers to be a real return to form. each to their own i guess, but he seems intent on criticizing for the hell of it, eg rather than praise songs that are obvious highlights he just nitpicks over their lyrics. he's so upset he even included at least three factual errors in his review! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2728 Registered: 03-2005 |
Thanks for the link Kevin. I've never heard Pavement or Malkmus but what I get from this review is an oppressive attack on "the aging rocker." Hello, rock is an aged music. Why shouldn't somebody who keeps doing it after youth utilize some of that accumulated experience to try to do a good job with some of the tedious details? Yes, the result has the danger of being too mannered, too self-conscious but I suspect any "aging rocker" worth his or her salt is trying to find that sweet spot between detailed craftsmanship and surprised inspiration. It's an elusive target but one worth reaching for. I have a tendency to favor many artists' earlier work because they're making all sorts of "mistakes" they'll learn not to make in the future and out the window goes a lot of the surprises. But I've run across enough great records done by veterans to keep me looking for more. Let's mention lyrics briefly: with some shining exceptions that prove the rule, generally the obsessions and "insights" of the young writer are jejune; give me the ruminations of the older writer any day. Ok, sorry. Rant over. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1364 Registered: 10-2008 |
"but I suspect any "aging rocker" worth his or her salt is trying to find that sweet spot between detailed craftsmanship and surprised inspiration. It's an elusive target but one worth reaching for" randy, you've nailed it right there. i think malkmus achieves that on this record, i dont think alfred does. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2256 Registered: 01-2005 |
I have only one Pavement album and no solo recordings by M. I will check out Mirror Traffic though. Robyn Hitchcock has found the sweet spot enough for me in the 26 years that I have been a fan of his to always buy any new recording. Some of his output circa 2000-2003 was below par though, but he started getting it back on the 2004 album Spooked and also with The Venus 3 a few years after that. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1368 Registered: 10-2008 |
wild beasts - smother. not played for a month or so, sounds even better after the layoff. one of the albums of the year. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1377 Registered: 10-2008 |
better be quick, 24 hrs only http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_bl og/2011/09/wilco-releases-full-stream-of -new-album-the-whole-love.html http://wilcoworld.net/twlsplash/# | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1378 Registered: 10-2008 |
and they're back! initial thoughts its like someone slashed the ropes that were binding their wrists, or opened a window and let them breathe again. after the disappointments of the last two albums, which to me just sounded like boring trad rock (especailly sky blue sky),this sounds urgent and inventive while still being uniquely wilco. while it has its experimental moments this is the closest they have come to a "pop" album since summerteeth, but thankfully its far from lightweight and sonically it sounds magnificent. immediate highlights - the opening epic track, art of almost. then the single, i might, which sounded thin and weak on the radio, is full of life played back on a decent hifi and has a killer bass line. around the middle mark of the album, and capitol city doesnt sound great on first listen - arrangement wise its not too far from bob dylans latter work! rising red lung is an acoustic based track and works well within the context of the album, by this point they needed to slow it down a bit. the 12 minute closer one sunday morning is a pretty, mid paced shuffle and around the halfway mark you can feel it building and think it'll probably explode in a barrage of nels cline feedback, but it never does. still, not a bad ending. only one listen but i think this one's a keeper, thank god | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4045 Registered: 05-2005 |
Wilco album is winging its way to me from the other side of the world. Right now I'm listening to Pete Townshend's All The Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes, which is as magnificent as it ever was. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1379 Registered: 10-2008 |
"Wilco album is winging its way to me from the other side of the world" padraig, i know you have a head start on most of the rest of the world over there in aus, but i never realised it was 3 weeks :-) have listened to the wilco album three times now and i'm really liking it. the first and last tracks are worth it alone, there are no obvious clunkers (still not really getting capitol city mind you), and its really just the album that wilco should be making in 2011 in my view. over on the wilcoworld message board they appear to be giving it the thumbs up. all superexcited over the opening track art of almost especially. over the 20 pages of the new album thread the concensus seems to be that its a return to form after recent missteps with sky blue sky and wilco the album. all appear agreed that the production is superb, and its a real headphones album (must agree, thats how i listened to it last night), and that the musicianship (esp drums and bass) is stellar. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2259 Registered: 01-2005 |
I'm liking summerteeth after finally procurring a copy last month. Next Wilco purchase will be either Mermaid Ave. II or Being There. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1383 Registered: 10-2008 |
the war on drugs - slave ambient antlers - burst apart patti smith - outside society | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1384 Registered: 10-2008 |
sonic youth - hits are for squares finally released in the uk, came out in the usa about 3 years ago? front loaded to hell, but the latter tracks from the early albums are still pretty good. i have never heard of some of the "stars" who picked tracks for inclusion on the album - david cross, allison anders,dave eggers, portia de rossi, diablo cody - who are these people?! | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 506 Registered: 01-2007 |
WIll be listening to the new Richmond Fontaine on my way down south, also the Go-Team. Also will be listening to the first Big Country album the Crossing for old times sake. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 335 Registered: 03-2007 |
Saint Jude's Infirmary - Happy Healthy Lucky Month Saint Jude's Infirmary - This Has Been The Death Of Us Edinburgh School For The Deaf - New Youth Bible | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 657 Registered: 04-2005 |
Patti Smith live in New York (last night) broadcast on France-Inter this evening. Still as inspirational as ever ! Elle a toujours la pęche ! | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1385 Registered: 10-2008 |
burial - untrue | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 2151 Registered: 09-2006 |
Andrew is that available online to hear? | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 658 Registered: 04-2005 |
Allen, http://www.franceinter.fr/player Normally their programs are available (for a week ?), but this concert does not seem to feature in the listing for the 9th. I noticed that someone had posted the same question as you on their site, so if I see an anwser I'll report back ! I had already got tickets to see her in a small hall in November near Bordeaux; seems to be a reading (from "Just Kids") followed by a concert (the acoustic trio format ?). Have you ever read Nick Hornby's '31 Songs' book? There's 4 pages on seeing her play live in London, which manages to encapsulate perfectly her appeal. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4056 Registered: 05-2005 |
O Emperor - Hither Tither | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4057 Registered: 05-2005 |
Robert Forster - Sympathy For The Devil | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 2154 Registered: 09-2006 |
Andrew, many thanks. Have not read the Hornby, but I believe there was some talk here about her book, which I loved. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4064 Registered: 05-2005 |
Grizzly Bear - Owner Of A Lonely Heart. The Yes classic remade in a Grizzly Bear-stylee. It's brilliant. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2263 Registered: 01-2005 |
Fleetwood Mac - Kiln House Minus the Jeremey Spencer songs, I got to hear the rest of the songs from Kiln House performed live in March of 1971 @ The Eastown Theater in Detroit, MI. Bonus was having Peter Green back in the band filling in for the Children of God abductee (Jeremey Spencer). Christine MacVie has also with the band by then. I don't remeber Bob Welch being on the stage, but then again it was a couple of monthes before the first album (Future Games) featuring him was released. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 2156 Registered: 09-2006 |
Kevin - David Cross was a big part of one of the best sketch comedy shows ever, Mr. Show ( it was on in the late-90's to early-00s and I take every chance I can get to recommend it) and was also in the cult hit show Arrested Development. If his latest book is anything to go by, however, he's turned into an unfunny crank. Allison Anders was part of the same film directing generation that produced Quentin Tarantino, and made the acclaimed "Gas, Food, Lodging" Portia Del Rossi was also on Arrested Development but is probably most famous now for being married to Ellen DeGeneres, a very popular talk show host over here. Diablo Cody is the screenwriter of the film "Juno," for which she won the Academy Award. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1618 Registered: 08-2006 |
Allen, I bow down before your pop-culture knowledge. The only one I know is Dave Eggers, who's a pretty fine author. His novel about Hurricane Katrina, "Zeitoun," is worth reading. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2735 Registered: 03-2005 |
Huon--(sixth album) It figures I'd end up liking this the best of the several Huon releases I have. It's only available on vinyl. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 476 Registered: 10-2006 |
Eggers' What is the what is also an amazing book, really really to be read. Nice to see Grizzly B homaging Yes, especially since Jon Anderson has been left on his lonesome. Their early work still has a lot of fresh beauty to it and the later Magnification album is very good too. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1389 Registered: 10-2008 |
cheers for the info allen and rob, i'm still not much more the wiser though as i've never watched mr show, arrested development or gas,food,lodging, and never read any of eggars books!! i have saw juno though and thought it was a pretty good film. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 2157 Registered: 09-2006 |
As I mentioned above, I never pass up an opportunity  ...if you're able to rent Mr. Show, I have a feeling it'd be up your alley...there's also many clips from it on YouTube. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4068 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kevin, I've heard of all those people - David Cross, Allison Anders, Dave Eggers, Portia de Rossi and Diablo Cody - and have enjoyed at least some work by all of them. I will still bow to Allen as the pop-culture king in these parts though. Oh, and it turns out I was mistaken when I wrote that the "Wilco album is winging its way to me from the other side of the world". Just discovered last night that it's still sitting in my wish list. Will rectify that now. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4069 Registered: 05-2005 |
Right now I'm listening to various Robert Forster rarities (download only singles and compilation tracks). | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4072 Registered: 05-2005 |
And now I'm listening to an acoustic version of What's So Funny 'Bout Peace, Love and Understanding by Nick Lowe. I've never previously noticed how closely the chords resemble those of Sweet Jane. If Lou Reed had a dollar for every time someone 'borrowed' that chord progression... | ||
| Shane Greentree Member Username: Realinspectorshane Post Number: 96 Registered: 03-2007 |
Triffids: The Early Singles & EPs. I've said it before, but huzzah for the Come Ride With Me box. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2738 Registered: 03-2005 |
Agreed, Shane. The cassettes music is astonishing. |