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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9313 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Beatles - Help! The link album between the pop Beatles and the rock Beatles. And brilliant. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9314 Registered: 05-2005 |
That should read CVII, of course. Never mind. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 637 Registered: 08-2005 |
Kate Bush – The Dreaming and Never for Ever. And I've just found footage of an Ed Kuepper performance from 1989, playing the material I first knew him for, after first seeing him in Sydney in 1988 when he released Everybody's Got To. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD7Sr84c kuQ | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4392 Registered: 03-2005 |
Thanks for the video link Simon. I never saw Ed perform. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9315 Registered: 05-2005 |
The best song to come out of the pandemic so far. https://youtu.be/gJxmW0OUxPE | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1277 Registered: 03-2007 |
Pop Filter - Laughing Falling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnX2U-0z xHo The Ocean Party return as Pop Filter. Their debut album ( Banksia ) will be released on 21 August, 2020, by Spunk Records / Osborne Again / Bobo Integral. | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 489 Registered: 11-2007 |
Wire: Tiny Desk Concert https://www.npr.org/2020/05/27/862374520 /wire-tiny-desk-concert 15 minutes of joy!! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9318 Registered: 05-2005 |
Thanks for the link, Andreas. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 638 Registered: 08-2005 |
Reading the Guardian's coverage of today in parliament (a confederacy of dunces would be too generous a description when the UK is about to reach 40,000 deaths), but I'm buoyed by the gorgeousness of the Chills' Brave Words. Totally sublime music from the 1980s that transcends the term 'pop'. Hey ho, that could be the wine speaking! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4395 Registered: 03-2005 |
Sitting on my back patio resting after a rather tiring day. Following your suggestion Simon I have the Chills going. This is where the back stereo is with the iPod hooked into it. I don’t have “Brave Words” on it so I am substituting the songs from the second disc of the Secret Box which contains cleaner (less reverbed) demo versions of some of the “Brave Words” songs plus other gems like “Raw Shark.” | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4396 Registered: 03-2005 |
Oops, let me correct that. The alternative versions of the “Brave Words” songs on Secret Box are the BBC versions, not demo versions. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9319 Registered: 05-2005 |
Simon, have you seen the Chills film? It’s superb. The extras on the DVD are also very good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1wzffiU dYM | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9320 Registered: 05-2005 |
And this is a nice interview with Martin Phillipps and the film’s director Julia Parnell. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 640 Registered: 08-2005 |
Haven't seen that – I'll search that out. It looks fascinating. And it's hard to believe that I first saw the Chills in the 1980s at Glastonbury. I also saw them twice in 1996 - once at a small venue in north London, possibly the Town and Country Club 2 and at Moles, in Bath, where I live. In London Martin lost his rag badly due to a crackly sound and smashed his lovely blue guitar; I was at the back thinking, it's the lead, it's the lead' (my brother used to do the sound for various local bands). Sure enough, new guitar, same crackles! His rhythm section for that tour was Dave Mattacks on drums and Dave Gregory on Bass. http://www.terrascope.co.uk/MyBackPages/ Chills.htm | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9323 Registered: 05-2005 |
And, of course, I neglected tp put in the second link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqZj-toS ogw | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9324 Registered: 05-2005 |
Simon, that 1996 tour features in the film. You might see yourself in the audience. You will also get a better understanding of his behaviour on that tour. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4397 Registered: 03-2005 |
I'm glad you brought up the subject of the documentary Pádraig, because I forgot about it. I ordered it yesterday after seeing your post. Wasn't 1996 when Martin couldn't get his band into the U.K. due to passport issues? That certainly would have put me in a bad mood however great the two Daves are. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9325 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy and Simon, the two Daves played on the Sunburnt album after the NZ rhythm section was refused entry to the UK. Mattacks and Gregory didn’t tour with The Chills, they just played on the record. The touring bassist was a New Zealander who had previously only played with heavy metal bands. He is interviewed in the documentary and Phillipps talks about why he hired him. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1278 Registered: 03-2007 |
Thousand - Au Paradis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo9NWbig 0aY | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9327 Registered: 05-2005 |
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Sideways To New Italy. Just out today and this is my first play. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9329 Registered: 05-2005 |
Wow, the new RBCF album is great. It’s very poppy, almost to the point of being disco, on first listen. I’m sure it will open up many more vistas on future listens. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1279 Registered: 03-2007 |
Padraig, My copy arrived this morning. Playing now. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1995 Registered: 08-2006 |
Man, it pains me to say this, but I wish I liked the RBGF record more. At the peaks on their previous releases, they sounded like the Feelies as much as the Go-Betweens, the way they'd ride those propulsive beats. I feel like they've shorn off all the edges - the Feelies' punkiness and the Go-Betweens fragility. It seems to occupy a perfectly nice but uninspiring middle. I've played the thing six, seven times and I enjoy it when it's on but I realize, when it's over, I can only remember maybe one song. I hope that changes with time. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9339 Registered: 05-2005 |
Chad’s Tree - Crossing Off The Miles, a double CD collecting their two 1980s albums, singles, b-sides, demos and some live tracks. I bought this when it came out 10 years ago. I’m playing it for the first time today. It’s wonderful. I’m so glad I bought it as it’s very hard to get now (one copy on discogs) and the chances of it ever being reissued on a physical format must be very slim. They were from Perth and The Triffids were early champions of their music. The singer and songwriter is Mark Snarski, his brother Rob, who went on to form The Blackeyed Susans with David McComb, is the guitarist. Mark has a similar baritone voice to Rob, but one that’s more suited to rock music. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4404 Registered: 03-2005 |
It's not hard to get, in the US at least via ebay. Thanks for bringing this up Pádraig. It was obvious to me by the time I was one quarter of the way through the second song posted on discogs that this is a band for me. While I do enjoy some Blackeyed Susans songs, in general I've never been sufficiently keen on them, nor on brother Rob's borderline crooning vocal style. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9340 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Blue Nile - High, new remaster with second disc. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1281 Registered: 03-2007 |
Padraig, I had never heard mention of Chad's Tree before reading your post. I have placed an order for the copy on Discogs. Reading about the band led me to the following who I had never heard of either and who also sound very interesting. Unfortunately, most of their releases are either unavailable or very expensive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDVFgGYe 6LY Currently listening to :- Fiasco - Hold On ( They Say ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1vDJa48 VFU | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9346 Registered: 05-2005 |
Hugh, yes Jackson Code releases are very hard to track down in physical formats, and are not even available, so far as I can see, as downloads or streaming. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1282 Registered: 03-2007 |
Padraig, The one I would really like to source is the two disc compilation 'The Second Greatest Story Ever Told.' Released on the Silk Sheen label who, according to Discogs, only put out eight titles between 1996 and 1998 ( 1 x Alex Chilton; 6 x Go-Betweens; 1 x Jackson Code ) I suspect my chances are zero. Currently listening to :- Waterwalls - Anom https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfhQV6LI 2x0 Waterwalls is Xavier Ridel who is also a member of Fiasco. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9349 Registered: 05-2005 |
David McComb - Love Of Will. It’s been quite a while since I last played it. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9350 Registered: 05-2005 |
I thought my amp was fvcked just now. I couldn't get it to work. Thought it might be the remote. Changed the batteries. No joy. Minor panic stations. A new one would have to be bought. The idea of being without music is hell. Then I saw the plug was loose. The Ramalamas' East Coast Low album never sounded so sweet. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9351 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jae Laffer - The Long Daydream. Just out today. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9352 Registered: 05-2005 |
OK, that’s over already. Eight songs in just under 30 minutes. Short, but great. Randy, you need this one. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1283 Registered: 03-2007 |
Padraig, Seems to be digital download and vinyl only and the vinyl has not yet been released in the U.K. Currently listening to :- Floodlights - From A View https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SytsaNZP jcw Australian band based in Melbourne. Track taken from their debut album which will be released on or around 17th July, 2020. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9354 Registered: 05-2005 |
Hugh, yes, there seems to be no CD. I have a download. I will buy a CD if one comes out. I’ll be very disappointed if there isn’t one - not at Laffer, but at the implication for the future of the music industry. I know lots of indie bands do vinyl/download only (not least because you’ve written here about it), but Laffer is not some indie guy - he has sold a great many CDs, mainly with The Panics, but also with his previous solo album. I love vinyl, and bought some records in recent weeks, but I’ve run out of space. I want this album on CD. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4407 Registered: 03-2005 |
Pádraig, this is an ongoing conversation Hugh and I have. He's much more accepting of downloads. I'll accept vinyl but prefer CD. Download is really something I'm trying to get around wherever possible. There's a new album by Spanish band Como Vivir en el Campo out today, so far only in digital. It's their fourth. I have the two previous ones that I've been able to source in physical form. I'd already have my order in for the new one if there were a physical version. I'm hoping the label decides to do one. But it's pretty hard to deny that download is where everything is going and I can't deny that in the long run it'll be better for the environment. In Laffer's case I'll wait a little bit to see if a CD option appears but otherwise I'll get the vinyl. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4408 Registered: 03-2005 |
In case anybody is curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71WcFlZT hI0 It has more of a laid-back 1969-1971 feel than their previous records but I love their old-fashioned actual group playing actual instruments approach. | ||
| Burgers Member Username: Burgers Post Number: 157 Registered: 05-2005 |
Margaret Glaspy’s newish album Devotion. This isn’t one of the tracks that they’ve been promoting but for me it’s the best of a very good bunch. https://youtu.be/oCC0lniTbV8 | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 491 Registered: 11-2007 |
Vic Godard - Singles Anthology | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9360 Registered: 05-2005 |
Lots of vinyl today; a Five Go Down To The Sea compilation that finally arrived today six weeks after being posted from Dublin, a Joe Strummer 12” and Free Time’s In Search Of Free Time album. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1284 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, El Genio Equivocado have no plans to release the new Como Vivir En El Campo album on CD so it is vinyl and digital download only. However, I have been informed by the label that, if you purchase the vinyl from them, you can request and they will add a Promo CD of the album to the order. Currently listening to :- Camille Benatre - Apres Le Soir https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGuDj9b2 lzU | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4412 Registered: 03-2005 |
Thanks for the information Hugh. I will probably go that route. Unfortunately my string of good fortune buying vinyl ran out yesterday. My copy of Maison Neuve's VIVI album arrived. It looked lovely except when I put it on the turntable it was so badly warped I couldn't play more than the last two songs on each side. I've never encountered a warpage so bad. It's a real shame because on the two songs I could play on each side there was no surface or background noise. It's a very good quality pressing instead of the noisy crappy ones I used to get from France back in the day when vinyl was the norm. This one must have been done in Deutschland or the Czech Republic or wherever else there are still some well maintained precision vinyl pressing plants. In the Covid era mail is being so badly handled and delayed under such weird conditions that it will kill off the commercial viability of vinyl for small cult acts. I assume mine was left in the sun somewhere for at least several days. Including the shipping cost that was an expensive album and it's unplayable. Fortunately I have the download from bandcamp but that's not much of a consolation. It did remind me of a post Pádraig put up a few years ago about his efforts to unwarp a record. I once put a record under a heavy stack of books for a month or so but I've never heard of any method that works. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9363 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy, I’m sorry to hear that happened to your record. I was convinced that after six weeks in the mail, the Five Go Down To The Sea record that arrived yesterday would be warped, but thankfully it was fine. The one that got warped two summers ago in the searing Sydney sun was by Five Go Down’s fellow Corkmen, Microdisney. Even worse, it was The Clock Comes Down The Stairs. Cathal Coughlan wrote part of the sleeve notes for the FGDTTS compilation. He’s also working on a new album with LA-based Irish producer to the stars Jacknife Lee, by the way. Though, given the times we’re living through, who knows when that will see the light of day. It’s astonishing that Coughlan is working with such a high profile producer. Maybe Lee does some pro bono work to atone for working with the likes of Robbie Williams, Pink and One Direction. Lee on working with Coughlan: “He sent me a vocal this morning, and it was outrageous, so funny and caustic and brilliant that I just burst out laughing.” | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9364 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy, I just came across this interview with Cathal Coughlan from 26 years ago https://www.hotpress.com/music/how-the-w est-was-one-416442 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9365 Registered: 05-2005 |
Continuing my lockdown digging out of albums I bought but never played, Them Crooked Vultures’ self-titled and sole album. It came out in 2009 and I bought it then. It’s as good as I’d heard it was at the time, if you like a bit of hard rock, and I do. I came across it the other day while looking for something else (Young Marble Giants, which I didn’t find). | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9368 Registered: 05-2005 |
Augie March - Sunset Studies, the double vinyl version. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9370 Registered: 05-2005 |
Body Corporate - Howlaround. The sole album (from 2008) by this Auckland post punk band. I bought it from a bargain bin in their home town a year ago. This is my first time playing it and it sounds great. It’s a pity the download code that came with the record is 12 years past its use by date ... oh, well. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9372 Registered: 05-2005 |
Orange Humble Band - Sowannadoit. Can’t find a YouTube link, but when I searched for one, this cropped up, which pleased me. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/j un/26/the-orange-humble-band-depressing- beauty-review-power-pop-perfection | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9377 Registered: 05-2005 |
Fontaines D.C. - Dogrel. One of the greatest debuts I've ever heard. Hopefully their soon come second album will live up to it. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9384 Registered: 05-2005 |
Zola Jesus - Versions. It’s wonderful stuff. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9390 Registered: 05-2005 |
Mattiel's covers of gun songs by Beastie Boys and The Clash https://mattiel.bandcamp.com/album/doubl e-cover | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9391 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Pale Fountains - Something On My Mind, a Belgian compilation of their first 12”, an unreleased 7” and a couple of compilation tracks on side 1 and live tracks on side 2. It also comes with a live CD with 19 tracks, including the six from the LP. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9396 Registered: 05-2005 |
Bishop Allen - Lights Out. Indie pop/power pop from Brooklyn. Not reinventing the wheel, but pretty good. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9398 Registered: 05-2005 |
Lots of Yes, while reading an interesting article ranking every studio recording by the band. There are a few rankings I completely disagree with (lower rated songs I would put far higher), but mostly it’s on the money. https://ultimateclassicrock.com/yes-song s-ranked/ | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1770 Registered: 10-2006 |
These lists are great for disagreeing with and most of all sending us back to the music. I read a Dylan song ranking a few weeks back where Idiot Wind was placed something like eight places higher than Tangled up in blue, I was, "Whaaaaaaaat??" and furious for days. I always hope I'll get to see a Jon A version of Yes live one day, even a stripped down band without necessarily all the instrumental fandango, just some of the lovely songs themselves. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9400 Registered: 05-2005 |
Stuart, I get the feeling there will be one final hurrah of a Yes lineup featuring Anderson and Howe, and probably Alan White and Rick Wakeman too. A tour before retirement. I hope so, anyway. Listening to Megan Washington’s There There album on vinyl. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4419 Registered: 03-2005 |
Tompaulin — Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYCRNPFf ovw | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9404 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Church - A Psychedelic Symphony | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9410 Registered: 05-2005 |
Horslips - The Book Of Invasions, A Celtic Symphony. A cross between Irish traditional music and prog rock. I got a 44 years old promo LP copy in Auckland for NZ$10 last August. It sounds brilliant as the shop, Real Groovy, “ultra sonically” cleaned it. Which makes me think that many old records we think are scratched beyond repair might just be very dirty and dusty. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9412 Registered: 05-2005 |
Seth Swirsky - Circles and Squares. I can't remember how I came across him (probably on some blog), but he should be much better known than he is. | ||
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Joel Alme. A new artist to me - reminds me a lot of RF in delivery and lots of others musically. Very good - Swedish chap. Lovely orchestral arrangements and yearning vocals abound in his stuff. This is one example. A real find https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnugSPfC RmQ | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9416 Registered: 05-2005 |
Mr Jukes - God First. A bargain bin lucky dip that has paid off big time. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9417 Registered: 05-2005 |
God First is the band name, btw, I put it the wrong way around above. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1290 Registered: 03-2007 |
Padraig, I think you got it right first time. Mr. Jukes is the solo project of Jack Steadman of the Bombay Bicycle Club. Currently listening to :- The Town And The City - Tompaulin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWNdR0nk 77o | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9418 Registered: 05-2005 |
Thanks, Hugh! I’ll refine it under M. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 642 Registered: 08-2005 |
The Beatles, Revolver. Has there ever been a run of three albums to top Rubber Soul, Revolver and Sergeant Pepper? The correct answer is, of course, no, but perhaps the Beatles were less influential than the Fall. I'm not sure... Either way, Revolver is a work of genius (even if Yellow Submarine is s**t!). It was also the record that was on my turntable when John Lennon was killed. I played it the before I went to bed, to hear about John's death when I woke up. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9421 Registered: 05-2005 |
Simon, I don't remember what I was playing the night before John Lennon was killed (actually, I don't think I owned any records then, so most likely it was Benny Brown on Radio Luxembourg under the covers), but I do recall hearing the shocking news on the 8am radio bulletin before getting the bus to school. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9423 Registered: 05-2005 |
I'm listening to the Botany sessions while reading the PDFs kindly posted by Fred. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9427 Registered: 05-2005 |
Oneness Of Juju - African Rhythms. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9437 Registered: 05-2005 |
Mercury Rev - Hello Blackbird | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 644 Registered: 08-2005 |
Vashti Bunyan – Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind Simply gorgeous 1960s folk? Yes, but somehow much, much more than that. Lovely. Just lovely. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9440 Registered: 05-2005 |
Flower - None Is (But Once Was). Precursor band to Versus, now back again, and it's great. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9442 Registered: 05-2005 |
Mano Negra - Best Of Mano Negra. This is a new purchase and it’s so good I wish I’d investigated them when I first read about them in the 80s. Better very late than never. Their version of Rock Island Line is terrific, as are their owns songs. | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 493 Registered: 11-2007 |
Jetstream Pony - In Love with their s.t. album from the first moment | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 2001 Registered: 08-2006 |
Taylor Swift - folklore. I'm no hater. I think she's a huge talent and, with "Red" at the top of heap, I think she's made some terrific records. But this seems like a bit of a miss. At her best, there's a buoyancy in her music that's missing here. It's interesting, for sure, it's just no fun. Props to the writing, though. Girl can write a lyric, and she rolls out some good ones, as usual. But it sounds like she's going for a Bon Iver thing (he also appears on the record) and, if you ask me, that's shooting too low. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1366 Registered: 04-2005 |
Rob, I've never heard a Taylor Swift song in my life, but your phrase "it's just no fun" made me think of Lisa Hannigan's last record ("At Swim") ! The link being Aaron Dessner of The National, who produced both recordings. I love Hannigans's first 2 records, but "At Swim" is frankly turgid, lacking any vitality. It's as if the artist was told to start acting seriously. It would be interesting to know how much direct influence Dessner has had on these 2 records. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 2002 Registered: 08-2006 |
I love the word "turgid" - extra points! I dunno if I call Swift's record turgid, she has too much character, but it does feel kind of wan, like to just floats by on its conceit. I'd still rate it a B+, just for lyrics and a couple pretty good tunes. I'd be curious if anyone else here gives it a listen and has an opinion. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9443 Registered: 05-2005 |
I'd rather listen to The Turgid Miasma Of Existence by The Celibate Rifles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gEpp78q OVQ&list=OLAK5uy_lTK8Avjp8oXsQp-KTOgK3yj -C6hSSYgmY | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9444 Registered: 05-2005 |
Earlier today I listened to 3Ds' Hellzapoppin for the first time in a very long time. It's just as brilliant as I'd remembered. I bought it shortly after it came out in 1992. It had moved very quickly to the bargain bin in HMV in Sydney. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9446 Registered: 05-2005 |
Fontaines DC - A Hero’s Death. Not as immediate as last year’s debut, It’s quieter and more introspective. I’m halfway through a first play of it and Oh Such A Spring is my favourite song so far. The title track is the only one that sounds like it could have been on the first album. I’ll need a few more plays to digest it properly, but they have definitely not succumbed to a second album slump. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 2003 Registered: 08-2006 |
The exceedingly talented Elizabeth Nelson wrote a rave about the album in today's Pitchfork. If you don't know Elizabeth, she's the force behind the wonderful band The Paranoid Style. If you haven't heard their latest, "A Goddamn Impossible Way of Life," get thee hence. But here's the Fontaines DC review. https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/fon taines-dc-a-heros-death/ | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9449 Registered: 05-2005 |
Rob, I found that review utterly pretentious, especially where it compares the band to “the psychically dislocating poetry of Allen Ginsberg”. If she’s going to compare Fontaines DC to a poet, there are dozens of Irish writers who come infinitely closer to the mark than a pedophilia and pederasty advocate such as Ginsberg. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9450 Registered: 05-2005 |
Charly Bliss - Guppy. I got this from a bargain bin because of the rave reviews on the hype sticker. When I put it on I thought for a millisecond I had the record on at the wrong speed, then I thought, no, it’s a CD, she really does sound like a five-year-old screaming that she doesn’t want to go to bed. It’s unlistenable unless you have an extreme tolerance for very high pitched screaming masquerading as vocals. Woeful crap. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9451 Registered: 05-2005 |
Now I’m cleansing my palate with something completely different; the 1972 baroque pop classic Years by Marc Jonson. I feel better now. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9453 Registered: 05-2005 |
Black Rivers - Black Rivers. It’s the side band of the Williams brothers from Doves and it’s a great record. In fact, I prefer it to a lot of Doves’ music. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1294 Registered: 03-2007 |
Cool Sounds - Sleepers Melbourne indie popsters release a new six track EP which was recorded in a newly built home recording studio during lockdown. Digital release only as far as I can tell. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIphZ9Ov 9IY | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4426 Registered: 03-2005 |
Hugh, it's still so hard to keep track of these folks! I didn't even buy "Sleepers" yet. Instead, surprised that a vinyl of "Dance Moves" is still available I bought that and I bought a CD of "More to Enjoy" which I didn't know anything about. Whew! I'll get the new one as soon as I'm convinced it's only going to be digital. Thanks for the link. This also reminded me to pre-order the Floodlights album. Done! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4427 Registered: 03-2005 |
By the way, in case anyone is shocked by what Pádraig wrote about Allen Ginsberg up above, it was nothing more than the truth. Ginsberg did actually lend at least rhetorical support to an organization that literally promoted pederasty. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1295 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, I have digital downloads of Dance Moves, Cactus Country, More To Enjoy and Sleepers. To the best of my knowledge, the band only release their eps / albums on digital download and vinyl these days so I am surprised you have managed to source a CD copy of 'More To Enjoy.' I contacted the band via Bandcamp at the time of its release and was advised that there would be a CD. I held off for a long time but it never appeared and I eventually purchased a download. Meritorio Records, Osborne Again and Hotel Motel Records only list a vinyl release. Currently listening to :- Tigre Ulli - Noche Azul https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=be2iOs7y PSw | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9455 Registered: 05-2005 |
Ginsberg, if he wasn't a nonce himself, at the very least was nonce-adjacent, just like all those high profile friends of Epstein. Listening to Dean Wareham's Dean Wareham vs. Cheval Sombre. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4428 Registered: 03-2005 |
Hugh, I hope you went to Bandcamp after seeing my post. That's where I found the CD for "More To Enjoy." | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1296 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, It is only available to me on vinyl and digital download ( €15.00 / €10.00 ) from coolsounds1.bandcamp.com. No option to purchase it on CD. Possibly a licensing issue. https://coolsounds1.bandcamp.com/album/m ore-to-enjoy Currently listening to :- Jae Laffer - When The Iron Glows Red | ||
| Burgers Member Username: Burgers Post Number: 164 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Beths - Jump Rope Gazers. It’s very good, better than the first album. Streets ahead of The Stroppies’ recent album. Liz Stokes’ voice reminds me of someone at times. Might be Angie Hart or Mary Wyer. | ||
| Austin Member Username: Bruegelpie Post Number: 213 Registered: 09-2004 |
Hi Burgers, I love the Beth's but I have to say the new album hasn't passed the first one for me (yet), which was one of the best albums I've heard over the last few years. "Out of Sight" is my favorite song thus far, in part because I love the lyric "I keep a flame burning inside / If you need to bum a light." Far from a Flying Nun band, but a fantastic Kiwi export! | ||
| Burgers Member Username: Burgers Post Number: 165 Registered: 05-2005 |
I think there’s 6 great songs on there including Out Of Sight. I particularly like Do You Want Me Now? The first album is also very good. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9460 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Auteurs - After Murder Park. It's the remastered edition, and the new clarity is very noticeable. I've loved this album since it first came out though, so I got this version for the extra tracks mainly. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9463 Registered: 05-2005 |
Gondwanaland - Terra Incognita. I found the tape of this in the garage while looking for something else. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9465 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jamie N Commons - Rumble And Sway EP. He is very talented. It’s surprising he has not yet had a full album out. That says a lot about the state of the music industry, I think. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1297 Registered: 03-2007 |
The Foots - The Foots https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrtEvfA9 3BE&list=PL7xLY2EmUXZuK5g-kYZeIjjYVMDU6q 5SQ&index=21 Melbourne three piece who released a couple of albums on the Lost & Lonesome Recording Co. label between 2000 and 2001. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1298 Registered: 03-2007 |
Las Ligas Menores - Las Ligas Menores https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-kNV6qG dMQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw_rudqn E-s From their debut album which was released back in 2014. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9467 Registered: 05-2005 |
Starless’s self-titled debut. Scottish musicians and singers and the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. I particularly like the songs sung in Gaelic. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9468 Registered: 05-2005 |
Tackhead - The Lost Tapes Vol. One. A prosaic title for a fine compilation. A couple of tracks might have been better staying lost (the endless repetition of a bass riff is not my favourite sound), but mostly it’s very good. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9471 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Dirty Nil - Higher Power. Like their fellow Canucks Japandroids, The Dirty Nil are a duo operating in the louder, faster end of rock. If I was 40 years younger this might be the greatest record I’d ever heard. It’s still great, anyway. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9472 Registered: 05-2005 |
Turns out they’re a three-piece. Ah, well. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4432 Registered: 03-2005 |
Sleepy Township -- All Those Records (Singles and Rarities 1994 - 2000) One of the seemingly zillions of Mia Schoen bands, originally from Perth but mostly associated with Melbourne. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9473 Registered: 05-2005 |
Sloan - 12. A band that consistently hit it out of the park and should be far more acclaimed than they are. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9481 Registered: 05-2005 |
Arthur Russell - Calling Out Of Context, a 2004 compilation of music from the wayward genius who died in 1992. No one used the cello in rock/pop/disco as beautifully as he did. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9482 Registered: 05-2005 |
Bedouine - Bedouine. An album by Syrian-Armenian-American woman Azniv Korkejian. She lives in Los Angeles and its musical history has certainly influenced her sound. Joni Mitchell, in particular, seems to be someone she has listened to a lot. This is a fine record. She had a follow up last year, which I haven’t heard yet. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9483 Registered: 05-2005 |
Music From Jarvis Cocker’s Sunday Service. A brilliant compilation of music played on his BBC show. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 646 Registered: 08-2005 |
Submarine Bells – The Chills One of the classic albums from the 1990s. Hadn't listened to it for a while but it's an absolute blinder. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1299 Registered: 03-2007 |
Pillow Queens - Favourite https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyLuM7rI BsI Dublin based all female foursome. The above is from their State Of The State EP which was released back in 2018. They will release their debut album ( In Waiting ) next month. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvHd0vId 3uo | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4436 Registered: 03-2005 |
MacGuffins, a Melbourne band from the turn of the 1980s to 1990s who sometimes sound like Sneaky Feelings and seldom sound Australian. Roque Ruiz at Cloudberry Records pulls together pretty much everything they've done, especially if you order the mini-CD that contains the songs from their first cassette. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwDAHTRs Vcw | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9486 Registered: 05-2005 |
Bahamas - Bahamas Is Afie. Another recent bargain bin find. And very good it is. Afie Jurvanen is Canadian, but his music skews pretty close to Bill Callahan-style Americana. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9491 Registered: 05-2005 |
Son Lux - Brighter Wounds. Not the kind of thing I play much (glitchy electronica), but it sounds great right now. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1773 Registered: 10-2006 |
Cale & Eno - Wrong way up An album that I've always wanted to get my hands on, just rereleased and expanded and so on. Not arrived yet but looking forward to it. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9492 Registered: 05-2005 |
Stuart, one of the two expansion tracks, Grandfather’s House, is brilliant, though I can see why, for style reasons, it was left off the original release. The other extra track is pretty good too. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1774 Registered: 10-2006 |
Good to know, Pádraig! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9494 Registered: 05-2005 |
Life Without Buildings - Any Other City. I don’t know if they’ve been mentioned here before. If they have, it will probably have been Hugh who did so. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1303 Registered: 03-2007 |
Padraig, This is the first I have heard mention of this little known Scottish band and I like them very much. Copies of Any Other City, Live At The Annandale Hotel and a couple of singles ordered and on route to me. The Harriets - Hopefuls https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoJD02Mx UBI or the live version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSOc3VF0 zGg | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4442 Registered: 03-2005 |
Thanks for that Hugh. The live version is much better. They don't need a band. The funny thing is that I assumed originally that they were Australian. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9498 Registered: 05-2005 |
A 2015 sampler from the Play It Again Sam label. A great compilation. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1778 Registered: 10-2006 |
Sufjan Stevens - Untitled Just under 20 minutes of solo piano music, apparently produced originally for a Natalie Portman short film. Amazingly lovely. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7A2vuUN Rc0 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9501 Registered: 05-2005 |
Black Midi - Schlagenheim. I’ve had this for a while, but this is my first time playing it. I like it a lot. It’s broadly post punk, but the (male) singer sounds like Nina Simone. It’s a quirky mix. I hope they get to make a second album. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9502 Registered: 05-2005 |
The album is streaming here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aF7bJsY s74 | ||
| Burgers Member Username: Burgers Post Number: 167 Registered: 05-2005 |
I’m a big fan of Life Without Buildings although I think some people won’t appreciate Sue Tompkins’ vocal style. I think Annandale in this case is in Sydney rather than the south of Scotland. I recall hearing of a personnel link to Franz Ferdinand but I can’t trace it. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4444 Registered: 03-2005 |
In a certain way, Life Without Buildings reminded me of Shopping when I first tuned in. You just have to settle into Ms. Tompkins and then she's fine. Searching for a copy of the Life Without Buildings studio album led me to a copy here in the States that is probably still a bit pricey by, for example, Hugh's standards but it's acceptable for me. There are quite a few awfully expensive copies on offer. The howler is found on Amazon: a new copy of the CD for $902.81. Why not just price it at six million dollars? The secondhand copies on Amazon start at $170.19. On eBay and discogs the actual going rate for the studio album is about $25 plus shipping. I pulled the only US-sourced one off of discogs for $21 plus shipping. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9503 Registered: 05-2005 |
Songs: Ohia - Didn’t It Rain. A truly brilliant album. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1304 Registered: 03-2007 |
Burgers, My copy of 'Live At The Annandale Hotel' arrived a few days ago and the insert indicates that the show was recorded on 14th December, 2002, at The Annandale Hotel, Sydney, Australia. I must admit that when I first saw mention of 'The Annandale Hotel' I did mistakenly assume it had been recorded in Scotland. Credits are given to Handsome Tours, Trifekta Records, Festival Records and Mushroom Records. A number of bands apparently performed at the venue before Life Without Buildings took to the stage but Sue does not name any of them. The album includes nine of the ten tracks from ' Any Other City' ( dropping Envoys ) and adds three tracks ( Liberty Feelup; Love Trinity; Is Is & The Irs ) that appeared on singles. It is a really well performed and recorded live album and, for anyone interested, it can be purchased for a very attractive price from the Record Label ( Gargleblast Records, Hamilton, Scotland ) via Bandcamp. https://gargleblastrecords.bandcamp.com/ album/live-at-the-annandale-hotel Sue can be found here nowadays :- https://www.themoderninstitute.com/artis ts/sue-tompkins Randy, I paid almost the same as you for a copy of the studio album from a U.K. Discogs Seller. Disc pristine but some wear to the edges of the digipak. The live album gets a big thumbs up from me and is well worth owning. Currently listening to :- Desert Hearts - Let's Get Worse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ylEx0GQ zwQ or the live version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39BE8vyc 5g4 Belfast based four piece who released three excellent albums between 2001 and 2013. |