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Pádraig Collins
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Post Number: 8445
Registered: 05-2005
Posted on Tuesday, February 20, 2018 - 09:08 am:   

Ride - Keep It Surreal
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Andrew Kerr
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Post Number: 1195
Registered: 04-2005
Posted on Thursday, February 22, 2018 - 10:21 pm:   

Jeanne Moreau - Le Tourbillon de la vie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjJqHF0m b_k

My partner got a box set of all of Truffaut's films as a present, and we are watching them in chronological order...

This song is from his third film "Jules et Jim". I had always believed that it was written for the film, but apparently its composer Serge Rezvani, who plays the guitar and is in the film as Moreau's lover Albert, wrote it some 5 years before for Jeanne Moreau. She had just split up with his best friend.
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Andrew Kerr
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Post Number: 1196
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Posted on Saturday, February 24, 2018 - 03:25 pm:   

Pat Ament - Sometime When I'm Lucky

Once again a wonderful find through the "Doom and Gloom from the Tomb" blog.

https://soundcloud.com/badabingrecords/p at-ament-sometime-when-im-lucky

https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2018/02/21/ song-by-pat-ament-2018-reissue/
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Randy Adams
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Post Number: 3859
Registered: 03-2005
Posted on Saturday, February 24, 2018 - 05:08 pm:   

Interesting Andrew. From 1971. This has got to appeal to Hugh Nimmo. The only thing slightly off-putting for me is the electric piano but the songs are well conceived and there's none of that ersatz country thing so many early 70s singer/songwriters did too much of. An interpreter could take these songs and make them into whatever he or she wanted. I wonder if anybody ever did.

Yay! Real piano on "I Could be You."
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Pádraig Collins
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Post Number: 8458
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Posted on Sunday, February 25, 2018 - 09:48 am:   

Seeming - Holy Fire. New to me, but this has been out since 2015. Buying downloads from Bandcamp has led to many more great discoveries when the labels send recommendations. Anyone else here use Bandcamp? I really like it. It's easy to use, gives multiple choices of download format (from variable bit rate to lossless) and, presumably, gives the bands a better deal than iTunes does.
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Hugh Nimmo
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Username: Hugh_nimmo

Post Number: 1057
Registered: 03-2007
Posted on Sunday, February 25, 2018 - 01:39 pm:   

Randy, I am interested ( thank you Andrew ) but I am being put off by the fact that 'Songs' is only being made available on vinyl and as a digital download. Strange decision as the retrospective ( Time Moved On ) is being made available on CD. There is also a second retrospective ( Draw Near To Me ) which will be available as a free download to purchasers of Songs / Time Moved On. I am waiting to hear what audio file formats 'Draw Near To Me' will be made available in.

LP Tracklist:
A1 Sometime When I'm Lucky
A2 A Gentle Day
A3 The Farewell
A4 Wrong Train Blues
A5 It Would Be You
A6 Wayward
A7 I'm A Lucky Soul
B1 Find Yourself
B2 There's No Hurry
B3 Right Kind Of Lover
B4 Melody Of Numbers
B5 Laurel And Hardy
B6 Concentrating
B7 He Belongs With You

Time Moved On Tracklist:
1. You're the Dream I Had Last Night
2. Take Me Down Your Road
3. Time Moved On
4. Two Whose Hearts Are Young
5. Dark Room All Alone
6. Troubadour
7. Along the Way
8. When You Say Farewell
9. Edith
10. Last Train
11. George Burns Smoked Big Cigars
12. All the Best
13. I Was Young Once
14. Don't Speak

Draw Near To Me Tracklist:
1. This Is What I Feel, About You
2. Don't Come To Me In the Dark
3. Draw Near To Me
4. Will You Walk With Me Tonight?
5. Eva, Our Ever, Our After
6. Stonecutter
7. All of Me
8. Final Flower of the Void
9. I Wish I Knew
10. Lead You Through the Storm
11. Just a Spirit Passing Through
12. Lovely Flaw of Everything
13. I'll Send For You
14. Beauty Is a Lie
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Hugh Nimmo
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Post Number: 1058
Registered: 03-2007
Posted on Sunday, February 25, 2018 - 02:04 pm:   

Padraig, I am a regular user of Bandcamp and have been for several years. It is where I purchase the vast majority of my digital downloads. The site is a haven for artists / bands who do not have recording contracts and who struggle to get their music heard on the radio etc. It allows them to sell their music in whatever format they choose ( CD, Digital Download and Vinyl.)
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Rob Brookman
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Post Number: 1865
Registered: 08-2006
Posted on Sunday, February 25, 2018 - 02:59 pm:   

I'm a Bandcamp guy, too. I use them for both physical and digital whenever possible, especially for artists on small labels. I'm quite familiar with the cut iTunes, Amazon, and their ilk take. Don't get me wrong: I very much appreciate the fact a barely operational label and hardly visible bands can enjoy what amounts to global distribution through those providers. But times have changed and Bandcamp is way friendlier to the artist if the consumer is willing to forgo the one-click purchasing convenience of the big merchants. Plus, if you're a digital geek with lots of hard drive space they have FLACs!

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