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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8648 Registered: 05-2005 |
Dirty Projectors - Lamp Lit Prose | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8650 Registered: 05-2005 |
'Til Tuesday - Coming Up Close: A Retrospective. I had one of their albums on vinyl in the 80s but sold it. I wish I hadn't. What a talent Aimee Mann is. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8652 Registered: 05-2005 |
Chris Barber - Drat That Fratle Rat, an incredible jazz/blues/rock album from 1972 that has never been released on CD. It is featured in the October issue of Mojo. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8653 Registered: 05-2005 |
A Christy Moore selection through my Amazon Alexa thing, having been reminded of him, obliquely, while out for a drive earlier with my daughter and ex. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8657 Registered: 05-2005 |
Damian O'Neill And The Monotones - Refit Revise Reprise. Solo takes on songs he wrote for The Undertones and That Petrol Emotion. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8661 Registered: 05-2005 |
Bike - Take In The Sun (the album) | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3965 Registered: 03-2005 |
Starting last night, some of my own stuff. I literally haven't played guitar much in the past 4 1/2 years which means I've lost my callouses and my muscle memory has gone fuzzy. It's a bad idea to allow that to happen when you've passed 60 but I was so immersed with my move to this funky little compound and my metastasizing job. I have to start with relearning songs that I know I did formerly have the ability to play before I can move forward. It's time to resume writing. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8667 Registered: 05-2005 |
That's good to hear, Randy. Good luck with it. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8668 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God. It has been a very long time since I last played it. An incredible album. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8669 Registered: 05-2005 |
Matthew Sweet - Tomorrow's Daughter. I'd love to see him live again, but the chances of him playing Australia are slim, and, unlike with Microdisney, I'm not going to fly across the world to see him. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8672 Registered: 05-2005 |
A charming REM bootleg from when they performed as Bingo Hand Job at two secret gigs in London in 1991. I got this on double cassette not long after the gig happened. The sound is very good for a bootleg. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1919 Registered: 08-2006 |
"If I Should Fall From Grace With God" is a great album, Padraig. At first, I though it was a disappointment after "Rum, Sodomy and the Lash," which I still think is a tighter and more perfect record. But I listen to "If I Should..." more and I think its imperfectness makes it a little lighter on its feet. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 1249 Registered: 08-2004 |
Love the Pogues up until Strummer came on board. Shane had the words and the ache in his voice. Also the Bingo Hand Job bootleg is astounding and deserves an official release. New this week: The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy - Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury - Feel the need to use the word astounding twice in one post. Heard of this band back in the day but never heard them. Very pointed rap that is takes on race, politics and militarisation. Maybe a bit long but still socially relevant and sounds modern without ever being banal. Pet Shop Boys - Behaviour - Further Listening. First time I've chosen to listen to this record. Being Boring sums it up. Too much of a party hangover record to be fun. 1990 was the year PSB became House Music's UB40. Gorillaz - The Now Now PJ Harvey - Dry Scott Walker - Scott 3 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8675 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Temptations - Greatest Hits. You can keep your anthologies and box sets, this 12-track, 32 minute album is all the temptation I need. It's also Steve Van Zant's favourite ever album, as I've just discovered in Mojo magazine. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8685 Registered: 05-2005 |
The new Chills album, Snow Bound, through Amazon music. Apart from one track it sounded great on first listen. Martin Phillips seems to be confronting his health in the lyrics. There is more his battle with hepatitis c here https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/ce lebrities/92358051/The-Chills-dying-fron tman-Martin-Phillipps-is-given-miracle-r eprieve-from-Hepatitis-C | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3975 Registered: 03-2005 |
Hmm. From Sunburnt to Snow Bound. Thanks for the announcement Padraig. Album ordered. I didn't know about his Hep C but I guess it's not a giant surprise. Wow, he endured the interferon treatment. A friend of mine underwent that. For him it worked but as the article says, its success rate was less than 50%. I remember the treatment was so harsh he was simply nonexistent to us for the whole time. Then the new drug came out maybe a year or two afterwards. Glad the new treatment came in time for Martin. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1924 Registered: 08-2006 |
The new Chills record is terrific. I picked it up when I was in Boston this weekend. I can't tell if it reaches "Silver Bullets," which I think got massively missed and is itself way up there with "Submarine Bells" and "Brave Words" in my estimation. The new one is certainly tons better than "Sunburnt" and probably at least on par with "Soft Bomb." Martin's on roll and his band's the best he's had in forever. This is not end-of-career stuff. This is a guy figuring out what he does best all over again and enjoying the hell out of it. Underestimate it if you will. | ||
| Fred Tadrowski Member Username: Ftadrowski Post Number: 81 Registered: 03-2015 |
While waiting for the New Chills CD to arrive in the mail, I have been listening to the new The Goon Sax CD. I enjoyed their first album, but this one is better. It appears that all three members are writing songs and Riley Jones, their drummer, is also singing more on this album. I usually to do not listen to new rock bands; I have a rule that rock musicians need to be at least 52 years old. That rule changes upward every year. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3977 Registered: 03-2005 |
Thanks for the report Rob. I'm amazed this came along so quietly. I admit that I just assumed there wouldn't be another Chills album for at least a few more years, if at all. But it's amazing it got so far as being in the racks at your record store in Boston and silence. I really wish somebody would invest the cash to completely remix and remaster "Brave Words." It's such a great collection of songs but the sound has always ruined it for me. My last night listen: The Stevens -- Good This is their second album, from 2017, which I just received yesterday. Their first "A History of Hygiene" dates from 2013. The Stevens operate on the theory that you throw out a lot of short songs at the listener and it's up to him or her to sort them out and decide which ones are the best. The first album had 24 songs. "Good" has 18, intended to fit on a vinyl LP. Both albums have programs vastly too busy to absorb in a single sitting. On first listen, "Good" doesn't seem to be as distinctive as "History of Hygiene," but I am always aware of how slow I am to reach my final view of a record and, seriously, with 18 songs there's no way I can say much after one listen. So instead of that I'll post a link to one of my favorites from "Hygiene," the very Clean-ish "Scared of Other Men": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdGaJJxR 0ZA | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8689 Registered: 05-2005 |
Bird Streets - Bird Streets. It's big, power poppy sound is no surprise, given Jason Falkner's involvement. This gets better every time I play it. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8690 Registered: 05-2005 |
Beat Happening - Look Around. A best of, of sorts, that I didn't know existed until I came across in JB Hi-fi. I'm very glad I bought it. My kind of lo-fi - the kind with great pop songs not so far underneath. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8694 Registered: 05-2005 |
Listening to Paul Weller and his band playing live on Chris Evans's BBC radio show. I hope this gets released at some point. Weller is on rare form. It's here, but you have to wade through a lot of crap to get to the bits where Weller is on https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/play/m0000c7 1?eml=2018September28/4434271/6332091&et subid=37135403 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8695 Registered: 05-2005 |
Where The Wild Things Are... A four song split single by Sydney bands The Celibate Rifles (from the northern beaches) and Hard-Ons (a world away in the western suburbs). I bought it on cassette when it came out in 1992 and found a second hand copy on CD (very scratched but plays fine) about 15 years later in a record shop in the Blue Mountains (two hours west of Sydney). Something just made me think of this release and I had to hear it. Mercifully, it took me two seconds to find it, under H, despite The Celibate Rifles being the first track on it. And now I've saved it to the hard drive and it will be on my iPod later. Happy days. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8697 Registered: 05-2005 |
Grant McLennan - Horsebreaker Star (six track promo sampler) | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1097 Registered: 03-2007 |
The Mayfields - Compact & Bijou Candy Opera - Rarities Various Artists - The Sound Of Leamington Spa Volume 9 The latest reissues on Firestation Records | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1098 Registered: 03-2007 |
Les Big Byrd - A Little More Numb https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DuRsMCp koo Based in Stockholm, Sweden, this is a track from their second album 'Iran Iraq IKEA' which will be released in Europe later this month. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3984 Registered: 03-2005 |
Thanks for the Firestation announcement Hugh. I posted my order this morning. Padraig, are split singles an Australian thing? I have a split single by Bridezilla and somebody else and I've seen others. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8700 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy, split singles mostly came from the punk/hardcore scene in Australia, but also America. Any time I read Maximum Rock 'n' Roll magazine there seemed to be a lot of split singles reviewed or advertised. I can't think of any I've got other than the Celibate Rifles/Hard Ons one, but I'm sure I must have some. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3990 Registered: 03-2005 |
My copy of Dominique A's "La Fragilite" showed up yesterday but I had a dinner engagement so I first heard it in the car for the day's commute and then a second time in the house tonight. It's an interesting more organic, "mellow" complement to "Toute Latitude." Between the two you get probably about 1 and 1/2 strong Dom A albums. Not bad at all for one year. I wonder if he was planning this all along. Next up, my Firestation Records shipment. First the Mayfields -- Compact & Bijou. Firestation isn't big on giving you information about them so I can't provide any here other than discogs has three singles for them from 1988 and 1989, plus an EP and described them generically as a "U.K. indie band who formed in late 1987." And now they have a Firestation comp. Perhaps Hugh will know something more about them. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1099 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, I am afraid I know nothing about the band. I only learned of them for the first time when the album appeared for Pre-Order on Firestation Records last month. I searched for information but all I found was the Discogs entry and a brief mention on TweeNet which said they hailed from Salisbury, England. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKzj6D_i EbU | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3991 Registered: 03-2005 |
Thanks, Hugh. I was hoping you might have some magic connection but the news they come from Salisbury is handy. Meanwhile, today I got to the bonus disc which comes with "La Fragilite." It consists of 8 vocal songs with simple but not stark arrangements, all fitting neatly into 22 minutes. It's definitely a much more substantial addition than most of Dom A's extra discs which will often contain mostly instrumental sketches of songs that are on the main album plus the surprise nugget such as "Le Doucer" on the bonus to "Eleor." (I probably misspelled the song title.) I promptly popped the entire string of 8 bonus tracks onto the iPod. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1483 Registered: 10-2006 |
Oh, that's good to know... haven't listened to it yet! Fragilite has been on rotation here and is a sweet mellow listen, though the kind of thing that really begs some work on understanding the lyrics. I'll have to get round to that. Someone noted on Youtube that Dom probably came up with the first track after watching an episode of Game of Thrones... not impossible, I imagine. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1100 Registered: 03-2007 |
The Hi-Life Companion - Our Years In The Wilderness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbpEUmyS tYg I received a very nice e-mail from Mark Freeth shortly after posting about the release of 'Compact & Bijou' by The Mayfields on this forum. He was a member of The Mayfields and his current band is The Hi-Life Companion. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3992 Registered: 03-2005 |
That's really nice Hugh. I am amazed at the giant complement of musicians. True luxury. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1101 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, What is not to like about an 8 / 9 piece indie collective / band. The usual stuff plus violin, cello, trumpet, flugelhorn and flute. Here is another fabulous track from the album. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc8A1DVW OXE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDUActI8 upc | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8708 Registered: 05-2005 |
Current 93 - The Light Is Leaving Us All. I don't think I've ever seen them mentioned here before, but someone must be a fan. I can understand how most people would hate them, but their patented brand of avant folk is to my liking. Just not every day. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1102 Registered: 03-2007 |
Padraig, They have been around for a long time and have a substantial back catalogue. I have three of their releases ( All The Pretty Little Horses; Of Ruine Or Some Blazing Starre; Thunder Perfect Mind ) all of which date from the early / mid 1990s and, while I enjoy some tracks, I find the albums extremely hard work. I think it was the Nick Cave version of 'All The Pretty Little Horses' that introduced me to the band. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajlMZjXz D0Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_TAxgf0 2VY Currently listening to :- Hater - Siesta https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6F0y8VKw 98U | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8710 Registered: 05-2005 |
Thanks Hugh. That Nick Cave collaboration sounds interesting. Right now I'm listening to Hallucinations, a compilation by long forgotten 90s band Permanent Green Light. | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 434 Registered: 02-2007 |
Patty Griffin - downtown church An Horse - Rearrange Beds Dan Wilson - Free Life Tori Amos - Boys For Pele Laura Marling - Alas I Cannot Swim The Avett Brothers - True Sadness Josh Ritter - The Animal Years Fistful of Mercy- As I Call You Down Sean Sennett - This Beautiful Game | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8711 Registered: 05-2005 |
Wire - Silver/Lead. It is truly astonishing that a band more than 40 years into their career can still make records as vital as this. | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 415 Registered: 11-2007 |
Two (in my opinion) wonderful things! 1) a new 7" on Kleine Untergrundschallplatten - a split single incl. Pale Lights  2) a new wonderful band called Culk from Vienna - Begierde/Scham https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpc3wlRE IsQ - Enemy In The Attic - Culk - Deflection https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTOSceuD WbM ...and it shivers!! | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 416 Registered: 11-2007 |
The other band tobight playing a double feature with Culk in munich is also interesting: Juniore - Magnifique https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQoiz1-0 svk | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 417 Registered: 11-2007 |
The other band tobight playing a double feature with Culk in munich is also interesting: Juniore - Magnifique https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQoiz1-0 svk They are from Paris. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8712 Registered: 05-2005 |
Suzanne Vega's self-titled debut. It's been a very long time since I played it. Probably decades. What an opening statement for a musician/songwriter to make. And it hasn't aged a day. There are no 80s production tells on it. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3996 Registered: 03-2005 |
Andreas, Juniore is now on order! They sound like a cooler perhaps more ambient La Femme. Still looking for a source for Culk. They don't come up on discogs or even amazon.de, but I haven't checked bandcamp yet. Padraig, I have a single sole Suzanne Vega album. It might be her debut. It's from 1985. Produced by Lenny Kaye. I also haven't heard it in decades. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1484 Registered: 10-2006 |
Oui, j'en aurai aussi, as they doubtless say in no remote part of rural France. Thanks Andreas! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8716 Registered: 05-2005 |
CMJ New Music Monthly Volume 48, August 1997. I was looking for one particular song, but almost the whole CD is great - My Drug Hell (the song I was looking for), The Geraldine Fibbers, Spiritualized, Echo & The Bunnymen, James McMurtry, Primal Scream, Verbow, Chug, Optiganally Yours and many more. A nice blast from the past. Tower in Dublin used to hold the magazine/CD for me. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8718 Registered: 05-2005 |
Matthew Sweet - 100% Fun, on vinyl. I've loved this album since I first bought it on tape from the bargain bin at Golden Discs on Henry St in Dublin. But it has obviously been quite a while since I played it as I'd forgotten just how brilliant side 2 is. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8722 Registered: 05-2005 |
Queen - Greatest Hits. And I'm loving it. (Am I banned now?) | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1241 Registered: 04-2005 |
Pádraig. If you're not banned you certainly should be. You've got previous form with an openly expressed admiration for the works of Yes. But there you have transgressed unwritten limits of awfulness. You're certainly off my Christmas card list. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8725 Registered: 05-2005 |
Fair enough. I'll get my coat. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1242 Registered: 04-2005 |
PS I was only joking Pádraig | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8726 Registered: 05-2005 |
smiley face emoji | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4003 Registered: 03-2005 |
I have guests coming and needed to file and put away the stacks of newish purchased CDs covering the dining table. Of course I found all sorts of things I'd overlooked. This happens all the time. En Attendant Ana -- Night https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3Ek6WLp 7yM | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4004 Registered: 03-2005 |
Another one which I did listen to once and even popped into itunes for the ipod but really didn't listen to in album form enough times. I'm pretty sure this dates from my late spring Rough Trade East purchases. That's how long things that have nothing to do with food can sit on the dining table if you don't have a partner to keep you in line. Lowtide https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFMwVea4 tjU I really lap up this shoegazy dreampop stuff. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8730 Registered: 05-2005 |
Shame - Songs Of Praise, which just got voted Rough Trade's album of the year. I wouldn't give it album of the year, but it is very, very good. One track sounds like a post punk Triffids. To my ears, anyway. | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 420 Registered: 11-2007 |
The BVs - Every Story is a ghost Story (Single on cloudberry records) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8732 Registered: 05-2005 |
Paddy McAloon - I Trawl The Megahertz. It's a decade, maybe a lot more, since I last played it, but it sounds so familiar, so I must have played it a lot when I got it. It's being rereleased as a Prefab Sprout album, with a different cover, which is what prompted me to play it. I was dreading it was in a box in the garage, but mercifully it was on the shelf between Massive Attack and McCarthy. The CD goes for a lot of money on eBay and the likes. I suspect it still will, given the rerelease is under the band name, not McAloon's. |