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     kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1406 Registered: 05-2005 |
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver. Even better than the debut, not a duff track in sight The Shins - Wincing The Night Away. Still absorbing the subtleties even after 30 or 40 plays. Keith Hudson - Rasta Communication. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 498 Registered: 10-2004 |
Cathal Coughlan - Foburg (still...) The High Llamas - Can Cladders Pylon - Gyrate The Hollies - Misc (still..) Cabaret Voltaire - The Crackdown Jorge Ben - Samba Esquema Novo | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 218 Registered: 09-2006 |
Kurt, I do also remember that "I've Never Been to Me" song (which dates from the same period as the Fogelberg, the early 80s...the very last time I listened to the radio with any regularity). Wikipedia sez the singer was Charlene, it was her only hit (no, really?), and it came out on Motown Records (no comment). The thing I remember most is that Charlene sings exactly like what you'd imagine a particularly dim Playboy Playmate would, perfect for a song that'd make a Playmate cry. If you'd heard any Fogelberg song it'd probably be "Longer," that staple of suburban wedding DJs everywhere. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1019 Registered: 03-2005 |
Jeff's care package of Microdisney tracks. I should have known that the "cherry picking" for "Big Sleeping House" would run just about opposite to what I'd choose. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1251 Registered: 04-2005 |
Britta and Dean - L'Aventura (a real grower) Paul Kelly - Songs from the South Cansei de Ser Sexy (am I the only person here who likes this?) | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1252 Registered: 04-2005 |
Oh, and thanks for the the info on Charlene, Allen. Motown? My god, how far the great had fallen by the '80s. | ||
| Guy Ewald Member Username: Guy_ewald Post Number: 195 Registered: 02-2005 |
The Court & Spark - Hearts The Church - el momento siguiente The Triffids - In the Pines (expanded edition) Dean & Brita - Back Numbers The Byrds - 5D | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 126 Registered: 07-2006 |
great episode of black books where fran's on a date with a guy singing along to "i've never been to me" with his own words.... | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 404 Registered: 08-2006 |
NRP's broadcast of a recent live show by the Arcade Fire. Good stuff, available as a stream or a downloadable MP3. For them's who's interested, it's here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story .php?storyId=7273765 | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1022 Registered: 03-2005 |
Now it's MY turn to wear Andrew's hat. If you tell me Arcade Fire are doing a show in a space where I'll actually get to see them, I'll be the first on the bus to get there. But listen to them at home? Nah. | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 170 Registered: 01-2006 |
Guy, how did you get you hands on the Dean and Britta album 'back Munbers'? it's not out here till Feb 27... | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 171 Registered: 01-2006 |
Back Numbers even... | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1255 Registered: 04-2005 |
For you North American types out there, I just heard that Arcade Fire will be the musical guests on Saturday Night Live this weekend, with Rainn Wilson hosting. Should be good. OK, maybe SNL won't be good, but the musical segments will be. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 581 Registered: 08-2004 |
The Cure - Wild Mood Swings Grinderman - No Pussy Blues Japan - Singles Pet Shop Boys - Disco Tindersticks - Can Our Love... The Byrds - Sweetheart Of The Rodeo The Clash - Combat Rock The Darling Buds - Pop Said... VA - The Mute Years | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1627 Registered: 03-2006 |
Staple Singers - Stax Profiles Eleni Mandell - Miracle of Five Bill Kirchen - King of Dieselbilly Clinic - Visitations The Departed - Soundtrack | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1029 Registered: 03-2005 |
More of Jeff's Microdisney mp3s. At work the iPod shufflied onto a couple tracks from a classic from 1963: Helen Shapiro -- Helen in Nashville. She was 16 years old at the time and was already in her third year of record-making. And she was English. And this album is great. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1278 Registered: 05-2005 |
Bob Dylan Theme time on BBC Radio 6, he neds some Sudafed. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1033 Registered: 03-2005 |
We need to get back on this shorter thread. Right now: Caroline Trettine: Ten Light Years. Spence, this is really something. Thank you very much. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 235 Registered: 09-2006 |
Professor Longhair - The Last Mardi Gras Massive Attack v. Mad Professor: No Protection Spring Heel Jack - 68 Million Shades... Further Along: The Best of them Burrito Fellers | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1258 Registered: 04-2005 |
Cat Power - The Greatest (didn't like it when it came out; liking it more now...but it could have been so much better) The Shins - Wincing the Night Away (finally--more challenging than their first two...seems to gain momentum and quality as it goes on; the first few tracks, I was thinking, "what a letdown") | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 415 Registered: 08-2006 |
Hallelujah Chicken Band - "Take One." A long overdue release of music from Thomas Mapfumo's first band. Great, classic, churning Zimbabwe pop, and highly recommended. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 417 Registered: 08-2006 |
Cookin' up a pot of chili - my local watering hole is having its annual chili cookoff today and I've retired from judging to compete - so it's time for some abstract indie rock! This morning: Sonic Youth - "NY Ghosts and Flowers" Spoon - "Gimme Fiction" Comet Gain - "City Fallen Leaves" Yoko Ono - "Walking on Thin Ice" Pere Ubu - "Cloudland" | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1034 Registered: 03-2005 |
Wow, I haven't heard "Walking on Thin Ice" in two decades. I remember really liking it. Last night I listened to Jimmy Little's "Resonate" and also the last of his trio of modern music collections, "Life's What You Make It." I have to thank Padraig (and somebody else too, but I can't remember who) for making me aware of him because these three albums probably get more consistent play than anything else I've gotten over the past 18 months or so. I closed out the night with Caroline Trettine's "Ten Light Years." Spence needs to get a Paypal or Worldpay account for Oporto Records so that these releases can receive a wider distribution. I think it's a moral imperative that she be heard by more people, but I know it's a pain to ship things and he has so many pots on the stove. | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 27 Registered: 01-2007 |
Caitlin Cary-Begonias Caroline Trettine-four songs from her MySpace sight very good as Randy says -I must get the CD | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1241 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Chills - Soft Bomb. My favourite ever album; but I had not played it in an unusually long time. I played it because my 5-year-old asked me what my favourite album was and then wanted to hear it. To my great delight she loved it. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1415 Registered: 05-2005 |
My 9 year old likes L'il Chris and Queens Greatest Hits. Looks like I have some work to do. Although she does sing along to Candylion by Gruff Rhys, and I Was A Boy At School by Hot Chip when she's in the car with me. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1035 Registered: 03-2005 |
I'd like to have a secret camera posted in your house, Kevin, just to watch your facial expressions as Freddie Mercury & Co. go through their contortions. Just wait til she's a teen and it's time for rebellion. It'll be Beatles all day and all night. Except when she's feeling the urge to blast "Stairway to Heaven" all through the house. I hit up Amoeba this weekend. I picked up the Walker Brothers box. I'd never bothered to get any of their stuff but actually there are some great examples of the developing Scott Walker on here. There's also some pretty ludicrous crap, but it definitely appeals to my completist tendencies. I also picked up a cheap copy of Ron Sexsmith's "Time Being." The guy can just toss off a song like nothing at all and his voice only starts to get on my nerves if I listen to two of his albums in a row. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 584 Registered: 08-2004 |
Billie Ray Martin - Deadline For My Memories The Smiths - Strangeways... The Snake The Cross The Crown - Cotton Teeth VA - Studio One Rub-A-Dub Bright Eyes - Four Winds E.P. Kraftwerk - Radio-Activity | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1636 Registered: 03-2006 |
Love that Sexsmith disc, Randy. | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 4 Registered: 02-2007 |
U guys heard Jon Auer's 'The Year Of Our Demise"? Saw him recently here in Brisbane. Amazing show and songs. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 240 Registered: 09-2006 |
Julee Cruise - Floating Into the Night Double Dee & Steinski - The Adventures of Double Dee & Steinski on the Wheels of Industry Latin Playboys - both albums | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 241 Registered: 09-2006 |
Haven't heard that yet, David, though I'm curious to now that you mention it...weird how I get blase about Seattle musicians sometimes, partly due to the fact that I remember so many of them from the 80s when they were unknowns working in the used record stores around here. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1280 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy glad you like Caroline's 10 LY. It os very good, we are currently trying to see if any one is interested in publishing a retrospective as wel as her new album as we speak, before we can sell anything, will let the baord know when we know. Cheers. PS Been listening to Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel's, Come up and see me. It was played on Radio 2 this morning, and it did make me smile. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1242 Registered: 05-2005 |
God Only Knows. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1243 Registered: 05-2005 |
Shirley by Billy Bragg. Johnny Marr's guitar on it is just sublime. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1244 Registered: 05-2005 |
Grace - Jeff Buckley. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1245 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Waterboys - Fisherman's Blues. All of the above are on a CD I've put together to hand out at my 40th birthday get together on Friday. The 23 tracks are not my favourite 23 tracks ever, but they would all be in the top 200. I culled some tracks from an earlier draft because, well, Husker Du's Something I Learned Today just isn't for everyone. (There's only one other person who will be at the party who would like it at all). | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1246 Registered: 05-2005 |
Amadou & Mariam - Sénégal Fast Food | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1247 Registered: 05-2005 |
Here's the full list ('cos I know you're all hanging out for it...) Pádraig’s 40th 1 Bob Mould - Sunspots 2 The Beatles - Rain 3 The Stone Roses - She Bangs The Drums 4 The Chills - The Male Monster From The Id 5 The Beach Boys - God Only Knows 6 Billy Bragg - Shirley 7 Jeff Buckley - Grace 8 The Waterboys – Fisherman’s Blues 9 Amadou & Mariam - Sénégal Fast Food 10 Sugar - If I Can’t Change Your Mind 11 Pavement - Cut Your Hair 12 The Go-Betweens - Streets Of Your Town 13 The Posies - Solar Sister 14 Lemonheads – Rockin’ Stroll 15 Bike - Take In The Sun 16 Luna - Math Wiz 17 Dinosaur Jr - The Wagon 18 Fatima Mansions - Only Losers Take The Bus 19 Daisy - It Gives Me The Creeps, Baby (Oh Yeah) 20 The Replacements - Skyway 21 Glen Campbell - Wichita Lineman 22 R.E.M. - Perfect Circle The Jam - English Rose (uncredited on the track list because that's how it is on the original release of All Mod Cons. Or, to be more honest, because I forgot to put in onto the first three discs I burned). | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 175 Registered: 01-2006 |
Strange Luna choice there Padraig!! | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 176 Registered: 01-2006 |
I wuold have picked 'Superfreaky Memories' or 'Hello Little One' form Luna's 'Days Of Our Nights' LP over 'Maths Wiz'...it has to be one of the crimes of the 90s and 00s that this band were so overlooked.... | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1282 Registered: 05-2005 |
Right now: Winnebago label mates... http://www.myspace.com/beeandflower Very good stuff, features ol Tommy Wylder from Bad Seeds drumming. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 423 Registered: 08-2006 |
Nce collection, Padraig. And hey, we're the same age, almost. I broke through the 4-0 barrier in September. So happy birthday, pal. I hope the party's great. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1416 Registered: 05-2005 |
Padraig, happy birthday when it comes, Sláinte to you and yours. I would have kept the Husker Du track in, even if just for completeness, you already have a Sugar and Bob Mould track after all. I like the way it gets all mellow at the end, some of my favourite songs of that nature there, Perfect Circle, Skyway and English Rose. Streets of Your Town over Cattle and Cane? Shurely Shome Mishtake  | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 494 Registered: 01-2005 |
I more of an early Luna fan, so i would go with "Anesthesia" or "Bonnie and Clyde". To be quiet honest though, I don't have anything after Penthouse. I suppose I am missing soem great music? | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1646 Registered: 03-2006 |
Spring Awakening - orig. soundtrack My Name Is Earl - soundtrack The Great Lost Kinks Album The Broken West - I Can't Go On, I'll Go On The Sea and Cake - Everybody | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1283 Registered: 05-2005 |
Happy 40th Padraig, life starts tomorrow!!!!!!!!! Funny you mention Blue Aeroplanes, I am playing with them at a party thing for my 40th next year!!!! Nice list too, If I can't change your mind is absolutely timeless... | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1418 Registered: 05-2005 |
Spooky.... Just heard If I Cant Change your Mind on the radio. Spooky because I cant imagine this getting loadsa radio play, and also because I hardly ever listen to the radio but was listening to BBC 6 at work, some people are still about and its a bit early to be playing the new Fall CD!! | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 178 Registered: 01-2006 |
Michael, Luna did stall and falter in places, on albums like Pup Tent and Days of Our Nights though they always turned out somre great tracks on them. I'm a big Luna fan so probably not impartial but Romantica and Rendezvous are very strong albums I think, with Bewitched my favourite. Luna Live is a cracker!! If you wanted to try a post-Penthouse Luna album maybe try Romantica as it is a slight, slight departure in sound from their other records and really good too. And Luna Live is a cracker! | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1264 Registered: 04-2005 |
I've been on a Luna kick recently (and just got tickets to see Dean & Britta live in April), but I have to admit that when you have one Luna album, you kind of have them all--but they're so pleasurable you have to have more than one. But I'd agree with anyone who said they've been patchier since "Penthouse," though the last two were stronger than "Pup Tent" and "Days." "Rendezvous" has some terrible, terrible lyrics (then again, Wareham always was hit-or-miss that way, so it's almost part of his charm--the "Snicker Snack" and "oodles and oodles" lines and such), but the guitar interplay seems to have been taken to a new level--like a slightly more mellow Television. I think it probably was time to pull the plug on Luna, but I'll miss them. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 425 Registered: 08-2006 |
"Penthouse" was such a great, great record - really, maybe in my top five of the '90s - it took me a long time before I could listen to any of the subsequent releases and enjoy them. And since what Kurt said about the have-one-have-them-all thing is kind of true, I more often gravitate to my fave when I need a Luna fix. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1647 Registered: 03-2006 |
I subscribe, too, to the "got one, got 'em all" theory about the Luna...Despite, of course, really enjoying what they do. I'll go one further: I have no trouble picking just one song, one song that's my alltime fave by them hands down, and encompasses, at least in my mind, everything that was great about them: "Sideshow by the Seashore". | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1265 Registered: 04-2005 |
That's the one, LK. That opening guitar riff is amazing, and everything else you want in a Luna song is there. There are many, many others of theirs that stick in my mind, but if you need to represent the band on a comp, there's your song. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 426 Registered: 08-2006 |
Yep, it's a killer. That riff really does sear into your head. Very Verlaine, so it's only natural he appears elsewhere on "Penthouse." | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 179 Registered: 01-2006 |
Kurt I'm jealous of you seeing Dean and Britta live, doubt they'll do much touring in Europe unfortunately. L'Avventura had some good tracks but was a bit patchy, looking forward to hearing their new one. I saw Luna play live twice and while I think Sideshow.... is a great song I just don't get why it's one of their favourite songs...I think one of the tracks from Bewitched might represent them better. As for Dean's lyrics, well what can ya say about someone who rhymes oodles with noodles??!! I like they way do their covers, very faithful to the originals, sometimes it can really work and sometimes not. They do a good version of Jealous Guy with only Dean and a mellotron on the Best Of extras and it sounds great. Anyway enjoy the gig and post a review! | ||
| Guy Ewald Member Username: Guy_ewald Post Number: 197 Registered: 02-2005 |
XY765: Believe it or not, I found a promo copy of Dean & Brita's 'Back Numbers' back in early December... the record companies seem to issue promos months early and since NYC is a media town they make it into the used bins. And it was only $4.99 to boot... they don't generally charge full price when the artwork is truncated (simple one-leaf insert). It's a very satisfying album in its low-key way... strong writing and a lot of variety at work. | ||
| Guy Ewald Member Username: Guy_ewald Post Number: 198 Registered: 02-2005 |
Elf Power - Back to the Web David Thomas & The Foreigners - Bay City You Am I - Convicts Big Youth - Screaming Target (a great reissue with 14 bonus tracks; dub versions and original vocal versions) Roots Man Revival - a comp I put together of reggae toaster singles Townes Van Zandt - The Late Great TVZ Page France - Hello, Dear Wind Words & Music by Bob Dylan - a comp of Dylan 'covers' that I put together... mostly Basement Tapes era tunes. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 244 Registered: 09-2006 |
Hey, you have to admire someone who can hypnotize a pancake - they're damn tricky beasts. There's an odd little problem I have with Luna. If I put one of their records on and make myself concentrate, I love it. But if I let that extra focus drop, my attention often checks out completely...a couple of times I realized that more than two songs had gone by and I couldn't remember a single thing about them. I don't have this problem while listening to any similar dreamily repetitive music, it's just with them. And my pleasure in the music is lessened just a little by having to make that effort. So while I think "Penthouse" is probably the best, the ones that hold me in their groove the most consistently are "Lunapark," "Slide" and "Close Cover While Striking," which is on in the background right now, and is a very charming record. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1284 Registered: 05-2005 |
Currently listening to a great sounding group, Bee and Flower. Which leads to my selfish plug... You can get a comilation featuring yours truly and along with my heroes Go Bees and Roddy here http://www.tonspion.de/mp3compilation.ph p | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 245 Registered: 09-2006 |
Los Lobos - Just Another Band From East L.A. (the compilation, not the original album) The Streets - A Grand Don't Come for Free...a good story well told. And belated wishes on the 40th b'day, Padraig...hope it's treating you well. I remember passing that mark as being not that big a deal at all, certainly nothing like it's portrayed in bad movies. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 427 Registered: 08-2006 |
The Diminisher - "Imaginary Volcano." This one's by a friend of mine and, trying to banish bias, I think it's really remarkable. It sounds a bit like Eno in his more Beatles-inspired moments, or John Cale's poppier moments circa "Fear" or "Slow Dazzle." I'd post a link to some MP3s but it appears, at the moment, the Web site run by his record label isn't responding. I guess things aren't always bunnies and sunshine in indie-land. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1649 Registered: 03-2006 |
I worship Los Lobos, Allen. They seem like the height of cool to me. Not only are they fantastic musicians, but they just don't appear to give a rat's ass, which to my perpetual juvenile delinquent mind, seems really appealing. They are quite the hometown boys made good in certain parts of L.A., too... Rob, speaking of homeboys, whattaya know about Bobby Conn (sp?)...I read something about him that painted him as this classic, lovable Chi-town eccentric.. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 247 Registered: 09-2006 |
I've been on a LL jag recently...the two Latin Playboys albums started me off, and I followed the comp with the colossal "Colossal Head." | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 429 Registered: 08-2006 |
LK, I've seen Bobby Conn a bunch of times and basically think of him as a live act; that is, he's an entertaining performer - very theatrical - but his brand of goth-glam wouldn't seem to be something I'd enjoy on my home stereo. That said, his new CD has been getting pretty positive reviews. Maybe he's made some kind of artistic leap forward. I hope so. Always nice to see the home team do well. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1419 Registered: 05-2005 |
Some stuff I will be listening to in the coming weeks when they are released (in march and april) The first 3 Magazine albums - remastered,extra tracks and mid price. Stand, Fresh and Theres A Riot Going On by Sly and The Family Stone - remastered, not sure about extra tracks. Wonder what TARGO will sound like ,less muddy? Bonus points to the first person who knows the connection between these 2 bands. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1285 Registered: 05-2005 |
Thank you for lettin me be mice elf again! | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1266 Registered: 04-2005 |
Good job, Spence. In our defense, we Yanks were probably all asleep when Kevin posted the question. I have to admit my Magazine albums didn't survive my great record purges of the late '80s. At very least, I'd like to have "The Correct Use of Soap" again, so that's good news about the remasters. And they always had some interesting B-sides, so the extras should be good. And needless to say, the Sly reissues are WAY overdue. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1287 Registered: 05-2005 |
There was great box set out a few years ago Kurt, did you ever see it? i still want all the remasters tho, exciting indeed! | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1420 Registered: 05-2005 |
Correctamundo Spence. I always loved Paul Haigs version of Running Away as well. To my shame, I never heard the original Sly versions of these 2 songs until a good 15 years after I heard the covers. I notice the Devoto solo album Jerky Versions... is also being reissued next week, before the Magazine albums - strange rewriting of history there. Listening to The Stooges comeback album - trashy rock n roll with juvenile lyrics, did we expect anything less? Only time will tell if its a keeper. Peter Bjorn and John - Writers Block. Only had one listen so far but liked it - didnt a few people here rave about it? Not listening to - Arcade Fire - bombastic crap. U2 will need to look out, theres a new stadium act after their crown. Says it all really. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1288 Registered: 05-2005 |
Just over a year ago, Magazine were going to get back together, only with Malcolm Ross on guitar, replacing the legendary John mcGeogh. I was really looking forward to it. I spoke with malcolm when he played guitar for Barry Adamson at a recent Jazz Cafe gig, and he said they were all into it, however Barry was happy to do one offs etc, Devoto wanted to keep the reunion ongoing, and I think as they had differing views on the future of the reunion, sadly, it never happened. Incidentally, Barry played a blinding version of Thank you as an encore, and yes, he was on bass, and blinding he was too. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1267 Registered: 04-2005 |
>>Not listening to - Arcade Fire - bombastic crap. U2 will need to look out, theres a new stadium act after their crown. Says it all really.<< Although The Edge never rocked the hurdy-gurdy quite like the AF do. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1268 Registered: 04-2005 |
Spence, Magazine were never really the same after McGeogh left, were they? They had that live album with Robin Simon from Ultravox, who did a nice job of replicating the original parts, then they got that weird non-rock guy on the final Magazine album, which had very little memorable guitar on it. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1289 Registered: 05-2005 |
Yeah Kurt, irreplaceable, who was it julian mendelson or similar? can't remember. I will bne listening to the following through the course of tomorrow: Momus - Timelord Beth Gibbons and Rustin Man - Out of Season Neil Young - Rust never sleeps Bowie at the Beeb - Best of radio sessions 68-72 Beach Boys - Carland the passions/Holland The Velvets-VU - Phew! | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 180 Registered: 01-2006 |
Yep Kevin I'm guilty of going on about Peter Bjorn & John's Writer's Block, one of my favourite records of last year. Their previous one, Falling Out is also good. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1038 Registered: 03-2005 |
Hooray for Kevin! Bombastic is indeed the word for Arcade Fire. And, yes, the stadium does seem to be their destiny. Concerning Magazine, while I totally love the John McGeogh-era records, I don't remember him doing anything to get excited about after he switched over to back that eye-shadow chick. Bands just run out of creative steam and that's what I think dogged "Magic, Murder and the Weather." And it wasn't a bad album; it just wasn't a great one. If they could have spent another couple years assembling material it probably would have been another great Magazine album. I can't see my way to buying another copy of "Jerky Versions" unless it's got an awful lot of additional stuff. And even then I dunno. Stooges comeback? Really? Is Iggy Pop 75? It sounds like you think it might work, Kevin. I got my long-awaited antho of the Someloves and other miscellaneous Dom Mariami projects. I only heard 4 songs before leaving for lunch but it sounds too by-the-numbers power pop for my taste: drony pseudo-Beatles chord progressions--but very easy ones--and "girl, don't hurt me" lyrics. I think any of us with rudimentary guitar skills could crank out four of those songs a day, with union-prescribed lunch and tea breaks. So I'm disappointed but maybe it'll get better as it goes on. There are two discs to this particular antho. Before the CD arrived in my office mail, the iPod's shuffle tossed up a much more suitable example of pop: Microdisney's "Singer's Hampstead Home." And the ride home in the car gave me the extra tracks on the new "Calenture" disc (if we generously forget "Love the Fever"). The trip back to work promises the first disc from "Lullabies to Violaine." | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 6 Registered: 02-2007 |
Any you guys big Richard Thompson fans? One of best live gigs I've ever seen. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1652 Registered: 03-2006 |
Frank Sinatra - "Vegas". Never get tired of the Chairman and his cuckoo-nutty black magic... The National Lights - "The Dead Will Walk, Dear". An instant mopecore classic. A little bit reminiscent of the Cowboy Junkies' finest moments. Slowwww...with haunting, austere melodies and creepy lyrics. These guys apparently are trying to put the fun back into murder, love and death and largely succeed at it... | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 497 Registered: 01-2005 |
David, I have cd's of all his studio albums with Linda, and a couple without. I bought Shoot Out The Lights in early 1983, and a couple of months later my soon-to-be ex left and filed the divorce papers! I guess that's the old 'art imitating life' thing that I got bit by, even thoug it wasn't my art. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1653 Registered: 03-2006 |
David, just saw your message. I'm a stone(d) fan...was this recent, and was he playing with a band or solo? Thanks for reminding me - he's playing somewhere in my area soon and I need to chase that down. His live shows convert a lot of doubters, I think. Several friends of mine who didn't particularly get him on record were completely gobsmacked upon seeing him live. Something about the shit he does on the guitar just seems to rearrange the very molecules in the air... | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1291 Registered: 05-2005 |
Maximo Park on Radio 6 - Phil Jupitas show. Whilst not being a fan of the new new wave, these guys, write quite intelligent fast pieces of guitar music, I also like the way they have stuck to their northern English accents, rather than American accent, not that I dislke groups who do, its just a refreshing change. Also, just heard a Robyn Hitchcock song So You Think You're In Love, its great, I have never really heard him, but I think I shall explore. My old band years ago got compared to The Soft Boys, his original incarnation, however I to this day have never heard anything by them, anyone else like this fella? Also played The best of MORRISSEY - Suedehead. | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 7 Registered: 02-2007 |
You're right LK, must be seen live to be fully appreciated by the unconverted. Something about the voice too that resonates live, carries loads of attitde/spirit/longing in it. Seems to sit above and beyond the guitar sound, from some other place, mesmerizing, spell-binding at times. Seen him 3 or 4 times but most recently was here in Brisbane over a year ago. Solo. Got most of the albumns, and Linda and Fairport as well. Also saw Teddy T. in December at small venue (only 30 or so crowd) very impressed. Favourite solo RT album? | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 8 Registered: 02-2007 |
Sorry to hear the sad tale Michael. Beware the "break-up" album. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 233 Registered: 04-2005 |
David, Yes, Richard Thompson is an true original. Aside from his guitar playing and songwriting skills, he is a good raconteur too: first heard the story about George Jones and the lawnmower from his lips. Having said that I have lost track of his recorded output, mainly after finding them disappointing after live versions. That Mitchell Froom... Must have seen him some 15 times live: mainly solo, as he tends to play the Edinburgh festival every year solo...but with a band a few times also and in duo with Danny Thompson on bass. One memorable occasion was in the 1980s at a solo performance: Clive Gregson and Christine Collister showed up to guest and then basically half the audience went up to a club to see their show and RT guested with them. At about 3 in the morning the audience were still shouting requests! | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1422 Registered: 05-2005 |
LK - Never one to miss a trick I like the sound of The National Lights and checked Napster and they have it so will download and listen to later. Maybe at work when everybody goes home, doesnt sound like a party classic Will also be listening again to The Stooges, despite the fact this album has been royally panned in the reviews I have read. So far have read three 2 star reviews, and a 1 star review - gulp! Maybe the songs will sound better live, no doubt they will be touring the arse out of them this summer. playing just now - disc 2 of Calenture | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1294 Registered: 05-2005 |
I love Richard T's guitar style more than his voice, I must say. That Fairport guitar style he made was awesome, me and The Blue Aeroplanes, virtually every one of them loved his style, and virtually every one of us has emulated him somewhere along the line. In fact their old guitarist Angelo got me into RT. I always found it funny that Tom Verlaine, said ghe never heard of RT when he first started playing - "yeah right!!!" Sorry, brought it round to YET AGAIN! | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 434 Registered: 08-2006 |
How weird is this? Just the other day on this thread I'm talking up "Imaginary Volcano" by The Diminisher, which was released sometime last fall. Today, it gets a Pitchfork review, a full six months late. If it had been a new release, the coincidence wouldn't seem so striking (no, I am not an assignment editor for the 'Fork). Anyhow: http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/re cord_review/41378/The_Diminisher_Imagina ry_Volcano Oh, and David, count me among the RT fanatics. I even own all his dull recent albums. Anyone who can make it though two discs of "You? Me? Us?" qualifies a partisan in my book. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 253 Registered: 09-2006 |
I first saw him on the solo acoustic tour immortalized on "Small Town Romance," so that album will always hold a special place...that show, plus repeated exposure to "Hand of Kindness" and, believe it or not, "Shoot Out the Lights," converted my girlfriend of the time. We saw him live once more, with band, on the "Across a Crowded Room" tour...I don't believe he had anything to do with our breakup 3 1/2 years later, but we did grow increasingly bemused/semi-annoyed by the never-ending string of "oh cruel woman how could you treat me so" songs... | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1271 Registered: 04-2005 |
Another big RT fan here, David, though I've grown exasperated with his albums of the past 15 years. Rob's "dull recent albums" quote sums it up, though unlike LK, I thought "The Old Kit Bag" was a bit better than usual. (He calls it the "The Old Shit Bag.") He really needs a woman to offset the monotony of his voice. And he has about four different types of songs he writes over and over--not just similar lyrical themes, but song structures, which is odd for someone so musically brilliant. For me, the great Richard and Linda albums are "Pour Down Like Silver" and "Shoot Out the Lights." None of his solo albums are up to that standard, but if I had to pick one, it would be "Hand of Kindness," probably because it's almost a companion piece to "SOTL." "Amnesia" is my favorite of the endless, samey Mitchell Froom-produced albums. But LK and others are right--live he's something else entirely, and he never fails to raise goosebumps with his guitar playing. I wish he would join a band where he was just one of the songwriters and singers, not the primary one. I think he's best heard as part of a team. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 498 Registered: 01-2005 |
Spence, your kidding about Robyn right? If your not, then buy "Underwater Moonlight" by The Soft Boys right now. The nice 2001 2 disc reissue is the one to get. It's a stone classic neo-psychedelic pub rock masterpiece. After that, then it's off to his solo albums and his work with the Egyptians. A lot of it is out of print, but Yep Roc recently annouced it will be reissuing them. So after UM, I would get: 1. I Often Dream Of Trains. 1984 solo album that's got just a ton of cool songs. Not as rocking though as UM. 2. Element of Light. 1986 album with The Egyptians. Nice mixture of rockers and softer songs. Plus it's got the bestever Byrd's song not written by The Byrds, "Airscape". 3. Black Snake Diamond Role. His first solo album from 1981. Some cool leftover SB songs as well some comical songs 4. Fegmania! His 1985 debut with The Egyptians. "My Wife and My Dead Wife" and "The Man With the Light Bulb Head" are higlights. 5. Eye. 1990 solo album break from the The Egyptians. A lot like the songs on I Often deam Of Trains. 6. Globe of Frogs. 1988 Egyptians album that had Peter Buck playing on a couple of songs. The Balloon Man video got a lot of airplay on MTV. That should get you started. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 436 Registered: 08-2006 |
It seems like RT's recent albums - and by recent I guess I mean everything since "Rumour and Sigh" - all have about three really good songs on 'em, a few decent ones and about half that simply fail to register. The only thing from the "recent" period I listen to with any regularity is that "Industry" CD he did with Danny Thompson (no relation). It forced him to get out of that "perfidy of woman" rut, and it's got some really sharp songwriting on it. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 500 Registered: 01-2005 |
The last one I bought was "Rumour and Sigh", that's the one with the Vincent Black Shadow motorcycle song on it, right? Half way to a 1000. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1655 Registered: 03-2006 |
Quoted out of context like that, Kurt, I sound pretty opinionated...ok, never mind I guess that's an accurate impression, but no, that album, "The Old Tit's Bag" didn't do it for me. I've found much more to love on the other solo records. My faves, in order, of his solo era would be: Rumour and Sigh - best songs by a country mile (including my favorite, "I'm Missing the Stew"), inspired singing and playing, though it is longish and has a couple of duff tracks. Amnesia - Pretty much good all the way through. The Froom partnership was firing on all six here...This is sad, but I was seeing a girl of loose (and by loose, I mean "no") morals at the time this came out, who was, what's a nice way to put it, spreading her good will all over town. During one low period, I played her "Turning of the Tide" and told her, that for me, it summed her up. She, clueless ninny, wasn't insulted, was actually flattered because it was such a "jamming" song. He does overdo the perfidy of woman thing, but it does have its place sometimes. Mock Tudor - RT thankfully mixed things up by using a different producer, Rob Schnapf, just when the Froom thing had completely run out of gas. I really like the batch of songs on that record - they're really funny and represent, to me, a lot of the best of what he's capable of...Take "Cooksferry Queen" - that's an hilarious premise and Thompson really sings and plays it like a man possessed, though he plays it twice as fast live... They're all worth having, though. Which reminds me: I'm very fond of the solo live record, "Small Town Romance", too, which I think is back in print (?). Of the records with Linda, "I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight", "Pour Down Like Silver" and "Shoot Out the Lights" are the unassailable trio - just sheer perfection. No home should be without them. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 437 Registered: 08-2006 |
I'd throw "Hokey Pokey" into the Richard/Linda pile, LK. Love that album. And I love the "Turning of the Tide" story. You ever hear Bob Mould's version of it (the song, not the story) on the RT tribute CD? Talk about "jamming." REM doing "Wall of Death" was pretty great, too. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1656 Registered: 03-2006 |
I would, too, Rob. Truth be told, I forgot about it. Though I'd still probaby place it just a hair behind the other three I mentioned. "Hokey Pokey" - the essential ice cream as a metaphor for sex song, eh? Have to pull out that tribute - I have it, but I don't remember Mould's version... | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1274 Registered: 04-2005 |
You know, I just never played "Hokey Pokey" as much as the other classic R&L albums. I guess I like my Thompson in the "doom and gloom from the tomb" style, and the lightweight songs like "Georgie on a Spree" didn't register. Although the album does have two of his all time gloomfests, "Old Man Inside a Young Man" (although I suppose Kev would prefer "Old Man Inside a Really Old Man") and "I'll Regret it All In the Morning." I haven't heard it in ages--I should pull it out. Maybe the happier songs will click now. "Hokey Pokey" is indeed brilliant as both a literal song and slightly racy metaphor. What do you guys think of "First Light" and "Sunnyvista"? I read the RT bio from a decade ago and when you understand the circumstances of their reemergence from the all-Sufi, no-music lifestyle, it's easy to see why those albums were tame musically (although the latter has its moments) and lyrically very morally self-righteous. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 255 Registered: 09-2006 |
I actually enjoy "Sunnyvista" a lot...the more I listen, the more strange, funny stuff I find. Haven't given "First Light" enough of a listen to comment. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 256 Registered: 09-2006 |
Oh, and "A Haert Needs a Home" is one of the most beautiful songs ever written. I'd second the recommendation to give "Hokey Pokey" another go-round. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1277 Registered: 04-2005 |
You know, Allen, I always liked the take of "A Heart Needs a Home" on the "guitar, vocal" album better than the "Hokey Pokey" version. Not sure why. But, yes, it's perhaps RT's most beautiful, moving song. | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 9 Registered: 02-2007 |
Henry the Human Fly is a much underrated album. Bit of a classic actually. Frist Light has Linda in fine voice. My comments earlier about Richard's voice referred to hearing him live. Never as good on album. Fav songs at moment Walkin On A Wire Mingus Eyes From Galway To Graceland Calvary Cross and when I've had a bad day and need to feel the hate, Put It There Pal . Makes me feel better after a while! | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1297 Registered: 05-2005 |
No Michael, Mr Hitchcock has evaded my detection. In many ways I quite liking the fact that there is still someone else to discover, although with my pedigree( Joke! Before you all write in!) you'd of thought he'd have already existed in my record collection. Wilco were like that, i only bought Summerteeth which was the 1st album I got by them in 2004! Then there was the back catalogue and the new stuff to look forward to! At the moment, Randy has sent me some Hotchcock, it sounds like Bowie doing Baal doing Peter Murphy whilst reading a book on Syd Barrett that features the Jazz Butcher | ||
| Guy Ewald Member Username: Guy_ewald Post Number: 200 Registered: 02-2005 |
Regarding Robyn Hitchcock: Don't get the (false) impression that you should draw the line at his 70's and 80's work. He is a wonderfully consistent artist and his recent 'Ole! Tarantula' is an absolute gem of an album; 'Spooked', his album with David Rawlings and Gillian Welsh, was stunning; the variety of production styles on 'Moss Elixer' was wonderful; 'Jewels for Sophia/A Star for Bram' were a wonderful pair in counterpoint... really, the guy is an international treasure. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1042 Registered: 03-2005 |
I sent Spence some tracks from "Trains," "Queen Elvis" and "Ole Tarantula" because I only have those (plus "Perspex Island" which I haven't gotten around to loading into iTunes yet). "Moss Elixir" has been mentioned many times and I hope I remember to get it at some point. Consistency being (I think) one of Robyn's strong/weak points, the variety of production styles will be welcome. Spence I STILL haven't gotten any Wilco and have only heard a tiny handful of their music. I have a built-in distrust of people who get lauded by everyone on the planet. Just a natural contrarian, I suppose. I also haven't heard Baal or Jazz Butcher and I never got into any era of Pink Floyd either so Syd Barrett remains essentially unheard. That's what is so great; there's always somebody out there to discover. | ||
| Guy Ewald Member Username: Guy_ewald Post Number: 201 Registered: 02-2005 |
Regarding Robyn Hitchcock's Moss Elixer: When I say "variety of production styles" what I mean is a variety of instrumental/ensemble approaches... the album flows and hangs together beautifully. There are some songs with a full band plus horns, some that are primarily Robyn with violinist Demi Bonet, some with Robyn alone on an electric guitar... that kind of thing. The more solo-oriented recordings are not stripped-down, there are often overdubs and bg vocals and such. What I like about the album is that he created settings appropriate to the songs rather than letting the production dictate the sound from beginning to end... kind of the opposite of 'Respect." | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1658 Registered: 03-2006 |
Not to harsh your mellows, Allen and Kurt, but "Heart Needs a Home" is actually a paean to the big man upstairs. Which doesn't detract one iota from the song, for me - actually I think it's brilliant that it's designed to work either way. Yais indeed - one of the Dickinator's most beautiful songs...I actually like the "Guitar, vocal" version best. Rob, I pulled that tribute out and the Mould track is indeed jammin', but I still prefer the Thompson version, for its swing and subtlety...I think my favorite cover on that set is Byrne's take on "It's Just the Motion". | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 257 Registered: 09-2006 |
Nah, LK, great art crosses all boundaries...if I can love a song in which Al Green tells his Belle that he wants to marry her but he'll never love her as much as he loves God, "A Heart Needs a Home" goes down just fine. Re: that comp, I also like what the Blind Boys of Alabama did with "Dimming of the Day." Perfect choice. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1659 Registered: 03-2006 |
Too right, man. It's really a good comp - thanks for reminding me, Rob. I'm not, in general, a big fan of tributes, but this one, for one thing, has real "names" on it, not just the usual parade of nobodies you typically find on them. And the 5 Blind Boys...wa wa wee wo! There's singing and there's singing, but those guys can really SING. Nice spartan and felt version of the song we were discussing, too, by LWIII and Shawn Colvin. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 441 Registered: 08-2006 |
I hadn't listened to "Beat the Retreat" in a long time, LK, until this discussion put me in mind of it. I think it's one of the best examples of the genre out there. I also like how June Tabor and Prior/Carthy get two "side" closers apiece. Somehow, it helps mellow the firepower of the bigger-name contributors. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 258 Registered: 09-2006 |
Top news on the Yahoo homepage today: "Some people think the Shins are the best band in the world. Is this hype, or the truth?" In this day and age, still so many people convinced that an opinion can somehow ever transmute into truth...no wonder we're in trouble. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1252 Registered: 05-2005 |
XYZ - Math Wiz is not my favourite Luna song; though it's up there. When I was putting the mix together that was the one I wanted from what was available. I love the line in it "I wrote a speech for my dad, 21 pages long, he twisted the jokes and swallowed the meaning". | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1432 Registered: 05-2005 |
Somehow, I just grudgingly admire Luna, maybe I need to listen more. All the ingredients are there for a band I should admire , but listening to Penthouse today I just couldnt get over the fact that sometimes it just sounds like a homage to the 3rd Velvets album. One track,Lost In Space, even takes the chords to Sweet Jane and just about disguises them to make an original song. Its a similar scenario to how I never felt the same about The Stranglers after I eventually heard The Doors (yes I heard The Stranglers first!!), maybe if I had never heard The Velvets I might have loved Luna. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 504 Registered: 01-2005 |
While I love Moss Elixer, I actually perfer the vinyl Mossy Liquor version better. Plus the fact that it's got one of my favorite Robyn songs on it "Statue With a Walkman". I also perfer the outake album Star For Bram over Jewels For Sophia. I also love the other outake albums, Invisible Hitchcock and You and Oblivion. The Soft Boys album Nextdoorland would have been much better if they included a couple of the better songs from Side Three and dumped Lions and Tigers and La Cheriti. | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 181 Registered: 01-2006 |
kevin I getcha with the whole Luna and VU thing but they are so blatant about it they seem to get away with it. Sterling Morrisson played on Bewitched, they've covered Ride Into The Sun and they suppoerted the VU during the awful mid 90s reunion. The Modern Lovers is one of favourite records of the mid 70s and that has VU written all over it, produced by Cale too. Luna made some duds, wrote some terrible lyrics but they'll alwaus be one of my favourite bands... Padraig, Wilco are starting a tour of Oz in a few months, you should see them live... | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1045 Registered: 03-2005 |
Currently listening to some Wilco tracks sent me by Spence. Wow, they're in a totally different league than Son Volt who I found disappointing (and made me slag off the whole alt-country thing). The non-country elements seem to predominate and--very importantly--they bring in unfamiliar harmonies and sonorities, the keyboard on a couple of these and the octave-higher support vocal on this last song--a very non-country effect that. Not to take anything away from the first Modern Lovers album but I think one of the reasons it is such a favorite is because it had so little competition at the time. The pop/rock music world was an arid wasteland when that album came out. We (well, some of us) clung onto that Modern Lovers album like a life raft. Everything else being made then (except for Kevin's beloved reggae and a few oddities like the Flamin' Groovies) was unrelieved shite. I mean what did we have? Supertramp. Elton John. ELO. Queen. Degenerating Rolling Stones. Paul McCartney. Degenerating Paul Simon. Doobie Brothers. Boston. Led Zeppelin. Deep Purple. Loggins & Messina. Crosby, Stills & Nash. Evil vacuous flabby overpumped undernourished crap, all of it. The punks should have formed firing squads. John Cale's real moment of honor as a producer is the first Stooges album. THAT was something new. | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 182 Registered: 01-2006 |
Good comment bout Cale and the Modern Lovers Randy, didn't he also produce Horses too? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1255 Registered: 05-2005 |
XY765, I saw Wilco in Syney four years ago and was not at all impressed. I really wanted to shout out "Be more pop". There was too much experimentalism for a festival audience. However, this was before the main man sought help for his severe headaches / painkiller addiction. He actually looked sick on stage; but perhaps he was just jetlagged. I might go see them again though. I've been a fan since about six months before the second album came out. A promo of itt came into the radio station I was working at then and I grabbed it. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 506 Registered: 01-2005 |
of montreal coming up next week! Southern Rock which was certainly huge in mid 70's. Allmans, Skynyrd, Charlie Daniels, Marshall Tucker, Black Oak Arkansas, Molly Hatchet, The Outlaws, .38 Special, Wet Willie, etc. I still listen to the Allmans and Tucker. As to my liking the other bands back then, I blame it on too much intake of J&B and Jack Daniels. Just an occasional glass of wine these days though. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 261 Registered: 09-2006 |
I still love the first incarnation of Skynyrd...they could whip up a fierce head of steam, and their lyrics often confounded expectations of what good old boys were supposed to be...not like the current lineup, who seem to just pleased as pie to be George W.'s lapdogs. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1305 Registered: 05-2005 |
Nick Heyward - The man you used to be The Daintees - Boat to Bolivia Spike Priggen - The very thing that you treasure Roxy Music - Flesh and Blood Jeff Tweedy - Sunken Treasure | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 262 Registered: 09-2006 |
The Marvelettes: Deliver - The Singles Tony Williams: Emergency! A nominee for one of the top 5 most annoying album titles ever: "Baby, I'm Bored," by Evan Dando. That's because YOU"RE boring, Ev. Sheesh, I can't think of anyone besides an eternally callow pop singer clinging to 23 with all his might who has TIME to be bored these days... | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1047 Registered: 03-2005 |
At work this afternoon: Microdisney--Love Your Enemies In the car today: Cannanes--Short Poppy Syndrome Currently on the changer is "Spring Hill Fair" with "Five Words" at the time I pulled up to the house. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 509 Registered: 01-2005 |
Allen, I saw Skynyrd back in 1975 just after Ed King left and before Steve Gaines came on board, as they were down to two guitarists. They were the opening act in an all day festival on the field of a football stadium. I remember I was pretty toasted by the time Skynyrd finished their openning act. Ace played next, so I got to see Paul Carrack before he joined Squeeze. It was really hot that day some some drunk folks got into a ketchup and mustand battle with squezze bottles! Yes closed the festival. Hard to believe, but a guy three cubes down from me was also at the fesitval, as I found out a couple of years ago. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 448 Registered: 08-2006 |
I know these have been linked here before, but I figure it's worth doing it again: Some radio station has posted the original acetate mixes of "The Velvet Underground & Nico," some of which are fairly different mixes -or entirely different versions - of songs that ended up on the album. If you're a VU fan and you don't have 'em, well, pig out. http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2007/01/ve lvet_undergro.html | ||
| Guy Ewald Member Username: Guy_ewald Post Number: 203 Registered: 02-2005 |
Michael Bachman wrote: "While I love Moss Elixer, I actually perfer the vinyl Mossy Liquor version better. Plus the fact that it's got one of my favorite Robyn songs on it "Statue With a Walkman". I also perfer the outake album Star For Bram over Jewels For Sophia. I also love the other outake albums, Invisible Hitchcock and You and Oblivion. The Soft Boys album Nextdoorland would have been much better if they included a couple of the better songs from Side Three and dumped Lions and Tigers and La Cheriti." Robyn’s habit of issuing “sister” albums is great for the dedicated fan. I don’t think ‘Mossy Liqueur’ is better than ‘Moss Elixer’, but it is a fine album in its own right and in counterpoint. I kind of agree about ‘A Star For Bram’ though… there are a few songs on ‘Jewels For Sophia’ (the frantic upbeat ones) that I don’t really like. In any event, both albums are essential. I was somewhat disappointed by the Soft Boys reunion album and I’m not sure that any substitutions from ‘Side 3’ would have changed my opinion one way or the other. Even ‘Luxor’ has a counterpart in the Japan-only release of ‘Obliteration Pie.’ It’s not an essential purchase (especially as a pricey import) but it’s an interesting collection. There are eight new songs including an earlier recording of “Briggs.” There are three acoustic re-recordings of songs from his repertoire… not sure why he did that, they aren’t BBC sessions, but they’re enjoyable. Then there’s a cover of ‘Funkytown’ by Lipps Inc and a live version of ‘My Wife’ with a long monologue intro. A mixed bag to be sure. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1309 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Close Lobsters - Foxheads stalk this land. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 505 Registered: 10-2004 |
Stockholm Monsters - Alma Mater REM - Murmur XTC - Skylarking Zombies - misc (thanks to Randy) | ||
| Guy Ewald Member Username: Guy_ewald Post Number: 204 Registered: 02-2005 |
David Kilgour - The Far Now | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 263 Registered: 09-2006 |
John Prine - Lost Dogs & Mixed Blessings The majestic, deeply strange "Lake Marie." "There's roosters laying chickens/and chickens laying eggs/Farm machinery eating up people's arms and legs." Not one song that's even just average. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1662 Registered: 03-2006 |
I am a fan of that record, Allen, and the one immediately before it, "The Missing Years"...Prine seems as at home with the whimsical stuff, like "Sabu Visits the Twin Cities Alone" as he does with the serious as a heart attack stuff like "Sam Stone"... Did you ever hear that all-duets record he did called "In Spite of Ourselves"? Yet another classic. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 264 Registered: 09-2006 |
I was going to mention something about that...how whimsy is one of the most fragile, hardest things to pull off...and he does it so often, with such grace and ease. Definitely love the other two records you mention as well. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 506 Registered: 10-2004 |
Kate Bush - The Dreaming (that and Never Forever have always been my favs...) | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 514 Registered: 01-2005 |
Jeff, I'll echo your thoughts regarding Kate's The Dreaming, it's my favorite of hers as well and Never Forever would rank second. I bought The Dreaming in 1982, and quickly sccopped up her older recordings. NP The Incredible String Band - The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 266 Registered: 09-2006 |
I took a somewhat roundabout path to Kate Bush. I remember first seeing her as a very young, totally unknown statewide guest of "Saturday Night Live." in 1977. At the time she was sort of interesting (and very lovely) but far too strange compared to the kind of music I was listening to at the time. She next popped up for me in 1980 when Pat Fucking Benatar did a cover of "Wuthering Heights." Hated the rendition, loved the song, went and got a copy of "The Kick Inside" and played it incessantly. I was lucky enough to have an import shop in my city , so I snagged "Lionheart" and "Never For Ever" in quick succession and was ready and waiting when "The Dreaming" came out...though it took me a little time to acclimate to it, it eventually became my favorite as well. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1049 Registered: 03-2005 |
Once "Spring Hill Fair" finished in my car, next up came Ed Kuepper's "Serene Machine." This 1993 album has been a bit overlooked by me, mostly because Kuepper cranked out so many albums in the 1990s and I mopped them up too fast to develop proper relationships with some of them. But it has the excellent "Sleepy Head," "Wish You Were Here" and "Sounds Like Mysterious Wind." Kuepper is the all-too-rare example of an excellent player (guitar) who subordinates his playing to the service of the song. And he's an important songwriter, terribly underrated. | ||
| Elizabeth Robinson Member Username: Liz_the_new_listener Post Number: 83 Registered: 10-2006 |
I heard a presentation on National Public Radio today about the settlement of a 'payola' lawsuit by four major American broadcast networks (notably Clear Channel and CBS) out of court. They agreed to pay 12.5 million and provide 4000 hours of free airtime to indie artists. I thought of the American radio diet in the 1980's, and the Minnesota one in particular. Mr. Eason, pray tell, when did you first hear the Go-B's? I remember way too much Duran Duran, Culture Club, Def Leppard and Foreigner back then. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1672 Registered: 03-2006 |
"Traffic & Weather" - Fountains of Wayne "In My Songs" - Gerald Levert "Everybody" - The Sea and Cake | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 454 Registered: 08-2006 |
How's the FOW, LK? I'm a big fan of the last album and have high hopes for this one. So? | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1673 Registered: 03-2006 |
Me too - on the fan of the last record thing...It sounds really good, but may be too poppy, slick and commercial for some on this board. Luckily, I don't give a flying fuck about that sorta thing...Overall, not sure if the songwriting is completely up to that lofty standard set by that last, undeniably great, record...but make no mistake, the whole thing is so incredibly catchy, well-played and sharp, it's a very pleasurable listen... This is pretty clever - the title track describes how the protagonist and his love go together: like traffic and weather. It's sort of their take on "Twin Layers of Lightning", I guess... | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 455 Registered: 08-2006 |
I'm glad to hear it. All the releases I've been looking forward to this year have been, well, a little less eventful than I'd hoped for. I still can't get my head around the Arcade Fire, but it hasn't grabbed me like "Funeral" did. Not to saddle FOW with the weight of lofty expectations, but it'd be nice if they nailed it. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1674 Registered: 03-2006 |
I'll have to get back to you with my definitive review - it takes time for me to decide the ultimate value of different pieces of music...often stuff I go for in a big way turns out not to have staying power and vice versa... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1257 Registered: 05-2005 |
Amadou & Mariam - Dimanche À Bamako. Just copied it for a friend's three-year-old who loves the A&M song I put on a comp for her parents. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1268 Registered: 05-2005 |
Going Somewhere by Colin Hay. Yes, the guy from Men At Work. And it's brilliant. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1269 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Shins - Phantom Limb. It's on a mix CD a friend sent. It's great. I may have to revisit them. Jens Lekman - Black Cab. Same mix CD. Also great. What a terrific mix my mate made. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1270 Registered: 05-2005 |
Marshall Crenshaw - Blues Is King. |