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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 718 Registered: 05-2005 |
Regina Spektor's new one Begin To Hope. I like it. A track called On The Radio is the standout so far. Great line about hearing November Rain ("That solo's awful long, but it's got a good refrain" - or words to that affect). | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 114 Registered: 01-2006 |
Kevin, I was listening to It's a Wonderful Life last week too and really enjoyed it. I'm not sure whether I think this is better than Good Morning Spider or not. VivaDixie is his best IMO. If I had a bit more time I'd like to post the tracklisting of the gig on Saturday, I'd say you'd be impressed. Beck - The Information, I think this is a really good record. Luna- Best of and Lunafied (covers) | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 269 Registered: 01-2005 |
The Decemberists - The Crane Wife. I am seeing them on November 7th. I just got It's a Wonderful Life last week, and will listen to it on the way home from work tonight. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 953 Registered: 03-2006 |
The incomparable Sandy Denny - truly no one has ever sounded quite like her, or really, quite as good. A friend burned me a copy of her "Box of Treasure" box set and it is just wonderful. It has about 3 versions of "By the Time It Gets Dark", which the mighty Yo La Tengo have been know to cover. I could listen to "Tam Lin" on an endless loop - it is possibly the only song about fairies and elves that I've ever liked. Yo La Tengo - "I Can Heart the Heart". Speaking of... The Decembrists - "Crane Wife". It is great, Michael, agreed. They put on a great show, too. Solomon Burke - "Nashville". Another incomparable voice...boy he adds a lot of juice and oomph to the songs he covers on it. Tom Waits - "Scarecrows and Hummingbirds" (Bootleg) | ||
| Paul N Member Username: Pauln Post Number: 3 Registered: 10-2006 |
Fox Confessor Brings the Flood – Neko Case Got into this one thanks to the postings on the board. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1012 Registered: 05-2005 |
Clinic - Visitations. Probably their best album, I was always disappointed with their previous albums, they had a good sound but the songwriting wasnt good enough Kode9 and The Spaceape - Memories of The Future. This is the second fantastic album released on the Hyperdub label, the first was Burials eponymous album. Soundwise its a bit like Massive Attacks darker stuff. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 754 Registered: 04-2005 |
TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain Only heard it all the way through once, but there seems to be a lot more going on than with their last album. Could take awhile to absorb, but sounds worth it. Tom Verlaine - Around Found in the used bin...glad I didn't pay full price. Pleasant, but makes his last instrumental album sound like Marquee Moon in comparison. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 837 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kurt, I am after a US Fender Jag, how much could you pick one up for in the STates? Also do you know anywhere it could be customised? Cheers | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 955 Registered: 03-2006 |
Kev, something you might like and hopefully may have heard of: the new one by Califone, "Roots and Crowns". Very good. What can you tell me about the Kooks? Worth checking out or just the latest pop piffle? | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 755 Registered: 04-2005 |
A reissued one, Spence, or an original '60s model? I did a bit of searching and didn't find too many prices, but there's a '62 on this list for $1400 U.S. That sounds about in line with what I've seen in the past for vintage Jags. Fender has its own customization shop, I think...I'm sure that would be costly. I don't have any other recommendations on that. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1016 Registered: 05-2005 |
LK - yep I am all over the Califone, to quote your good self. Kooks - avoid like the plague! | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 840 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kurt a reissue woyuld be fine, apparently the US models are better build than Japanese? Iss it a US Jag Kurt? That works out at about Ł7-800, over here the US Jag costs about Ł1,200 - Ł1,500, quite a saving by the sounds of it!!! | ||
| John B. Member Username: John_b Post Number: 5 Registered: 10-2006 |
She Wants Revenge - debut album Bauhaus/Joy Division/Interpol etc. have done this before but I still like the cd. And the day before yesterday I could actually listen to every Go-Betweens album (in release-date order) because it took me so bloody long to assemble the playmobil hospital for the little one... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 723 Registered: 05-2005 |
Lunafied. The covers disc with the Best of Luna album. | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 115 Registered: 01-2006 |
I'm listening to Lunafied too at the moment Padraig, I have all the stuff from the Best of but was missing about 10 of the tracks from the covers CD. Some great stuff in there, they do a great take on Sweet Child o' Mine, Jealous Guy and Dream Baby Dream by Suicide among others. I've seen them do Indian Summer a few times live and it was laways great. There are still a few covers of theirs not in that CD, dunno why they weren't included. A real shame they split up. Dean & Britta have a new album out in Spring 2007 and a brand new EP relased today called 'Words we used to say' with another 4 cover versions, again a pretty eclectic selction of songs. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 457 Registered: 08-2004 |
Ray Sings Basie Swings. John B, building a hospital is to your credit. Not wishing to get all political on yo' ass. But they're trying to close our's all down because we live in a Tory safe seat. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 848 Registered: 05-2005 |
This Midlake has got me, they are sunnit I really love, I wish I was in em! they'd probably be shit then! LOL! | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 757 Registered: 04-2005 |
Spence, I forgot to include the URL of the Jaguar I found, sorry. But it was apparently a U.S.-made '62, in other words, a vintage instrument. But they're making '62 reissues now as well: http://www.fender.com/products/search.php?partno=0100900800 I downloaded the Fender price list, and if I read it correctly, they're selling the Jag for $900 U.S. Such a deal! | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 960 Registered: 03-2006 |
Gotta give Kev some credit - the new Beck is very good, and has been on heavy rotation round my place. He called that one early. Kevin, we're agreeing on a lot lately - highly disturbing.  You're not doing some kind of Jedi mind trick on me, are you? I warn you - if I quit liking 16 LL, I'm going to have to sue. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 725 Registered: 05-2005 |
XY765, I'm envious you got to see Luna live. I never did. They only played Dublin once while I was there and that was supporting Cracker and I didn't find out about it til after the fact. Did you see them in Dublin or London? I have all the original albums and some singles and EPs by them too, but I think there are probably about 9 or ten cover versions I did not have before. Yeah, there was room on the second disc for at least one more cover version. Does anyone know why the US and UK versions of the Best of Luna had different track listings (US has four tracks not on UK version / UK has five tracks not on US version?) Was it down to who the band being signed to different labels on either side of the Atlantic for some albums? Or do they think Yanks and Poms just have different tastes?! Also, why was nothing from Rendezvous included in the UK version? Copyright issues again? Also, can anyone let me know if the best of Mercury Rev is worth getting? I have all the original albums and several singles, so it looks like there are only maybe seven or eight songs on the second disc I don't have. Is the second disc worth me shelling out for? Are their good sleeve notes? | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1020 Registered: 05-2005 |
LK, we sing from the same hymn sheet more often than not, apart from your preference for female singer songwriters and Marshall Crenshaw I'll just need to convert you to the Dubstep genre which is thankfully still reasonably underground here in the UK. Once (or if)it hits the mainstream its usually curtains for any scene- acts like Kode9 and Burial are fantastic, the best way I can describe it is like a slowed down Aphex Twin crossed with the deepest, darkest, dubbiest side of Massive Attack when Tricky was involved. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 966 Registered: 03-2006 |
Sounds like music you really need the right drugs for! | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 116 Registered: 01-2006 |
Padraig, I saw them in 2002 in Spirit on Abbey St touring Romantica and headlining on their own, and then on their farewell tour in 2005 I went to London to see them play at the ULU when they were touring Rendezvous. Sonic Boom formerly of Spacemen 3 came out and played with them for the last 5 songs. Both great shows, they really are good live, some say better than on disc. I'd recommend their Luna Live CD as well it's great. I think the reason that the US and UK versions of Lunafied were different were beacause Beggars Banquet released the UK version. There are even differences between the Best Ofs in the two releases. The US version included Astronaut from Rendezvous and the UK version didn't, apparently I'd say it was agian due to Copyright issues. Apparently the US version only had Lunafied available as download only. I didn't know they payed Dublin before that and I never heard of Cracker Padraig! | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 849 Registered: 05-2005 |
Beck is great isn't he!? I am quite scared though on his myspace http://www.myspace.com/beck there's a great video and tune, I can't believe how much I resemble the guy for better or for worse, he better start running! When Loser was out a train guard once thought it was me and ran after me proclaiming to all on board that I was Beck and that I was on Top of the pops last night!, Still better than looking like, I dunno, John Prescott, or bill Gates I s'pose! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 734 Registered: 05-2005 |
Cracker were a spin-off from Camper Van Beethoven. Not very good. I would not have been interested in seeing them. It was in 1994. I found out afterwards that Luna had supported them on the UK dates. I don't know for certain that they supported them on the Dublin date though. Yes, I love the Luna live album. I gave it a five star review in The Irish Times at the time. I've posted the review on myspace http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.ListAll&friendID=76050141&MyTo ken=0acbf8d5-2ce6-4f3d-b420-e3521876733bML | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 735 Registered: 05-2005 |
By the way, it was the disc one differences on the Luna best of that I was talking about. As you said, the cover versions are only available on download in the US. | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 118 Registered: 01-2006 |
Good article Padraig, describes Luna's live shows well. Luna Live and Kicking Televison by Wilco are the main live albums I listen to really. One of the Luna covers that didn't make it to Lunafied was their version of the Stones' Waiting on a Friend from the Close Cover Before Striking EP, Neon Lights did for some reason. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 258 Registered: 04-2006 |
listened today to the wonderful world of the beta band and their heroes to zeroes album. what a fantastic band this was. deeply missed. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1026 Registered: 05-2005 |
Vex'd - Degenerate. More fantastic Dubstep Califone - Roots and Crowns. If you like your Americana in a Jeff Tweedy style, rather than Ryan Adams style. John Phillips - The Wolfking of LA. Country the way it should be done | ||
| jerry hann Member Username: Jerry_h Post Number: 281 Registered: 07-2005 |
World Circuit-Presents compilation celebrating 20 years of that label with Ali Farka and my favourite Orchestra Baobab Also Townes Van Zandt- The Late Great Townes VZ, | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 854 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jerry what's your name Jools Holland!? Only joking! TVZ, what a player eh!? Mymate Pete got me into him a couple of years ago, great name too. Well I have dug out the following to psin this evening: Strangelove - Strangelove Monochrome Set - Eligible Bachelors Rolling Stones - Bridges of Babylon Fairport Convention - History of... Neil young - Sleeps with angels Bowie - Young Americans | ||
| jerry hann Member Username: Jerry_h Post Number: 282 Registered: 07-2005 |
No Spence I'm not really coming over all world music my heart is still in the usual indie/post punk/songwriter stuff, but it was only a tenner for a double LP and I do love a bit of African especially the Kora. Yes TVZ is great had an Lp a while ago but just started getting a few more aided by the fact that HMV as selling them at Ł5. Also listening to Beachfield. At work at the moment and pondering the decline and fall of the NHS | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 857 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jerry Beachfield are ace are they not!? Just bought the Beck album, I adore the stickers, the music is really f*ckin@ brilliant too, he is a genius, and how he's still got the funk only knows, the only white man to have it I am afraid... NHS is sad innit, mind you things could always be and most of the time are worse around the world, in the US you have to pay for it, mind you you pay for it in stealth like ways over here and with your health. Beck - Soldier Jane I've stopped play withthe other cd's whilst Beck lights up my life!! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 741 Registered: 05-2005 |
Yes! Waiting on a Friend was the one I was trying to think of when I said they could fit one more on. I actually prefer the Stones' original, but it's a great cover. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 974 Registered: 03-2006 |
Kev, I must commend you, once again, on your excellent taste (not withstanding your not liking MC, and loving the dreaded Sparklehorse)...that Califone is wonderful - reminds me a tiny bit of Midlake in that it's such a perfect blend of organic and synthesized sounds, though it's a bit more avant garde... And that John Phillips disc you mention - in LK's world it holds a place of supreme coolness....I'm surprised that the Randinator isn't all over it! Complete L.A. pop wizardry... Also, the new Pernice Bros. is really emerging as a real stunner...the melodies are back, and the lyrics, lyric-hound that I am, are wonderful...snippets that stand out: "She says what doesn't kill her, only kills her slower" and "Merrily into the abbatoir"...I'm thinking maybe Joe got his mojo back... Aw well, off to go drink more red wine and watch Lost.... | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 263 Registered: 04-2006 |
scritti politti's 'white bread black beer sweetened my way back home from work. | ||
| jerry hann Member Username: Jerry_h Post Number: 285 Registered: 07-2005 |
The new John Peel comp "Right Time Wrong Speed" 1977-1987 CD2 now -Joy Division-Atmosphere also ruts,associates, Steel Pulse, great collection also the Red Guitars,Red Skins and the Mighty Fall | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 19 Registered: 08-2006 |
Played the Blue Nile's "Saturday Night" during a date tonight, which I think is one of the most romantic tunes I've ever heard. It was aces after dinner; she melted. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 983 Registered: 03-2006 |
Hmm, for me, "Tear the Roof off the Sucker" by Parliament usually does the trick, or anything by Tito Puente... Seriously, that's a great record. I don't think they ever matched its greatness again, do you? I do like the other ones, but man, that was the greatest. I finally got around to listening to the Ray Sings, Basie Swings, and who cares if it was cobbled together in a lab someplace, it is brilliant! I didn't think it would work, it sounded like a strange cover choice for Ray, but his version of "Long and Winding Road" is damned moving. Listening to it, it made me want to cry like a little girl...The swing thing intrigues me and, I think it really separates the men from the boys. Brother Ray could definitely swing. | ||
| John B. Member Username: John_b Post Number: 20 Registered: 10-2006 |
Thanks Jerry - that John Peel comp really looks good. Nice to see Wah's Hope on it, although I always have to listen to "You can't put your arm around a memory" before it, just like on the original EP. Isn't it a little strange that "Teenage Kicks" is not on the comp - being the great man's favourite song? Has anyone here read Margrave of the Marshes? I loved it. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 863 Registered: 05-2005 |
jerry saw that peel cd in sainsburys the other eve didnt look at it though, now i must! cheers! | ||
| jerry hann Member Username: Jerry_h Post Number: 287 Registered: 07-2005 |
Any one got the Badly Drawn Boy new one?? Cover looks great and have liked alot of his work but the single seems a bit MOR. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 746 Registered: 05-2005 |
John B., Teenage Kicks is on the previous Peel comp, so I think they are just trying to offer value for money by not repeating tracks. Which is admirable. Speaking of repeated tracks... Right now I'm listening to disc 1 of the three disc Atlantic Gold - 75 soul classics box set. I had 35 of the songs before on other Atlantic comps, but it was well worth the purchase anyway as I bought it today for $10! (4 pounds UK, 6 euro, 7.50 US dollars). Bargain! And it's new too, not second hand. For those of you in Sydney; I got it in Dirt Cheap CDs in Pitt St and they had several copies there. | ||
| John B. Member Username: John_b Post Number: 22 Registered: 10-2006 |
ah, thanks Padraig, thr previous comp passed me by. And yes, no repeat effort needed in that case. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 775 Registered: 04-2005 |
Beck - The Information I've been skeptical about Beck in recent years, but this is sounding like the album of the year to me already. And I take back my negative remarks about Nigel Godrich as a producer; he and Beck have connocted a fascinating, funky sonic stew that goes beyond what Beck has done with the Dust Bros. The Chills - Brave Words (thanks, Hugh) | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 145 Registered: 04-2005 |
Ah, what other message board swings from Tito Puente to 'Margrave of the Marshes' in a couple of postings? It is very bizarre as just this morning I was thinking about going to see Tito Puente with Celia Cruz play in Glasgow at some point in the late 80s. I knew nothing much about them, but what an evening! The rhythms were amazing. The entire Spanish population of the city appeared to be there and the hightlight was when a very cool looking guy leapt up on stage (the roadcrew looked nervous) and danced with Celia. She wore the highest heeled shoes you could imagine, but wove intricate circles around the man. Style. And 'Margrave of the Marshes'. I still find it almost impossible to think of John Peel without tears: I tried to explain to my French partner why it was so upsetting when he died, but to someone who had never grown up with him as a reference point and musical educator it was an impossible task. "So he was a DJ, this man..." she said. Well OK, but not just a DJ. The book is wonderful and it is spooky how you hear his voice when you read it. The half finished by Sheila is not a letdown at all either. A friend bought me a German CD recently 'The Pig's Big 78s', which was an idea that the record company 'Trikont' had discussed with Peel before he died. Shelia finished it off and it is a beautiful artifact with a bewildering eclectic spread of music, all from 78s. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 750 Registered: 05-2005 |
The new Lemonheads album right now. It gets better as it goes on but I'm not too impressed so far. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 269 Registered: 04-2006 |
john fahey - the yellow princess. the beauty of this guitar playing is affecting! bonnie 'prince' billy - the letting go surely one of the highlights of this year! eagle seagull - selftitled first thoughts were 'wow, what a record'. second were 'oh, i don't like it really'. now? fine music. great! | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 270 Registered: 04-2006 |
btw: the decemberists 'crane wife' is not released in europe until now. incomprehensible. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 761 Registered: 05-2005 |
Haven't listened to John Fahey in a while. Must do so soon again. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 273 Registered: 04-2006 |
the black keys - culahoma the black keys playing junior kimbrough songs. great blues, that. but now i have to go the midlake concert. hardin, i surely write a review. maybe tomorrow. padraig, yes john fahey is always worth a listen. but i don't want to bore you all with my fahey-love too much and to often.... | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1006 Registered: 03-2006 |
Have fun, Andreas. Don't drink too much of that good German beer, so you can remember what you saw and tell us all about tomorrow! By the way, I finally picked up the Black Swan (they had it at Amoeba Records. If you ever make it to LA, you have to go there. It is truly mind-boggling) and it is extremely wonderful! | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1048 Registered: 05-2005 |
Yabby You - Deliver Me From My Enemies - the best release on the Blood and Fire reggae reissue label for a good few years. Kode9 and The Spaceape - Memories of The Future - this Dubstep genre is the dogs bollocks. The Chills - Submarine Bells -I dont have to say anything here, do I? | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 788 Registered: 04-2005 |
The Chills - Kaleidoscope World and Brave Words I will overdose on Martin Phillipps soon, but it's nice to finally hear these hard-to-find albums. Patti Smith - Trampin' I missed this when it came out, and just picked it up recently. It's really strong--her best "comeback" album by far, I'd say. | ||
| John B. Member Username: John_b Post Number: 33 Registered: 10-2006 |
Kurt, yes, I quite like Trampin as well, but the standout song - IMO - is definitely Radio Baghdad....more than 20 years after Radio Ethiopia It appears that I have missed something very big by owning no Chills record. The name is familiar, but not the music | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 119 Registered: 01-2006 |
Kurt, I'd say Gone AGin from 1996 is better than Trampin though there is some very good stuff on it. Listened to Gone Again last week and really enjoyed it. The Strokes - Is this it? Sparklehorse - Dreamt for light years.. Spectrum - Highs Lows and Heavenly Blows Spacelines - Sonic SOunds for Subterraneans (Sonic Boom DJ mix) | ||
| John B. Member Username: John_b Post Number: 34 Registered: 10-2006 |
@xy765 - are you on two "S"-weeks? | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 120 Registered: 01-2006 |
sure am John B., next week it's Spiritualized, the Smiths, Spacemen 3, the Sonics and the Specials... | ||
| John B. Member Username: John_b Post Number: 35 Registered: 10-2006 |
excellent choices - and for the following week I recommend The Smashing Pumpkins, Songs: Ohia and Sophia. By the way, has anyone heard the new Sophia album? I have read one review which was quite positive | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 295 Registered: 01-2005 |
Decemberists - The Crane Wife Shawn Colvin - These Four Walls Sparklehorse - It's a Wonderful Like The Rapture - Pieces of the People We Love The Rapture are in town tomorrow night. I believe I'll be there unless the Detroit Tigers win tonight! | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 35 Registered: 08-2006 |
I've been in the mood for off-kilter music lately, so: Captain Beefheart - Shiny Beast Liliput - Liliput Pere Ubu - Dub Housing Sonic Youth - Sister and perhaps the most off-kilter of all... Fleetwood Mac - Tusk | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1022 Registered: 03-2006 |
"It's Not That Funny", which is, of course, very funny, seems to be coming from a very off-kilter place, possibly a psychotic one, too. I love that record. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1055 Registered: 05-2005 |
LK - saw this reviewed in a local paper. Surprised you havent been raving about it, or did I miss it? http://www.amazon.com/Wheels-Gravel-Road-Lucinda-Williams/dp/B000IMUY42/sr=8-1/q id=1161971287/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-4055567-7636047?ie=UTF8&s=music | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1024 Registered: 03-2006 |
Thanks, Kevin. I am, as I've been known to say, all over it. Hadn't gotten around to mentioning that yet - also, I try not to bore my GBs pals with my obsessions, at least not too much. But yeah, I got it and was actually listening to it last night. The girlfriend and I were grilling steaks, so it was great accompaniment to that. The neighbors may not have been enjoying it, but oh well. Isn't that a perfect association? The South and red meat, barbecuing, etc.? It's, of course, great. The obligatory extra disc is a full live show from around the time the original came out, and it's a really nice performance and recording. I'm really glad to get it, because I've downloaded a couple of live shows by her and they all seem to be marred by excessive crowd noise, as though the recordist was standing next to some drunken yayhoo. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1064 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Shins - Wincing the Night Away - more of the same from The Shins, but I think after 4 or 5 listens this might even be better than their last album The Only Ones - Another Girl Another Planet, The Best of... - Finally the cash in comes in the form of yet another Only Ones comp. Cant criticise the music though, it still sounds great. The Fall - Cerebral Caustic - Kurts right, this is actually quite a good Fall album, full of energy which seems to come from Brix. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 61 Registered: 09-2006 |
Regarding "Not that Funny" above..."Fleetwood Mac Live" is a damn patchy album, but the version of that song on there is a must...the psychotic aspects come front and center. Same with "I'm So Afraid." Those two almost make the record worth buying. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 62 Registered: 09-2006 |
In related news, Lindsay Buckingham's new one has been getting some good press...anybody out there heard it (has it even been released yet?)? I thought his last one was just OK, but I like his first two a lot. Probably will see if I can get it from the library... | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 39 Registered: 08-2006 |
I think LK might have it. I'm planning on picking it up. I agree with you, Allen, on the last one, which a lot of Buckingham fans think is his best. Parts of it just got a little too adult-contemporary for my taste. What I've heard from this one sounds a little quirkier. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 807 Registered: 04-2005 |
I don't think you mean me about "Cerebral Caustic," Kev...that one's about 38th on my list of Fall albums I need to buy. So, there's yet another Only Ones comp? Haven't there been several already? I don't know how many times they can repackage the faves off of three studio albums and a handful of singles. The Peel Sessions CD probably is as good of an intro to the band as any comp anyway. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1065 Registered: 05-2005 |
Sorry Kurt, it might have been Jeff that was bigging up Cerebral Caustic, my memory is shot these days. Sony have released this latest Only Ones comp on the back of an advert for a mobile phone network called Vodaphone (are Vodaphone a global company, or just UK, I'm not sure?). Anyway, Another Girl is the backing track to this advert that has been running regularly on UK TV for approx 6 months now. There cannot be anyone in the UK who watches TV that is not familiar with this song now so you cannot blame Sony for this cash in, I would imagine the band are at long last making some dosh. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1032 Registered: 03-2006 |
Yes indeedy, Rob and Al, I have it, it's great, at least in my view. Sounds like you both have enough residual interest to pick it up and decide for yourself. Be forewarned that if you have rigid ideas about the way things should sound, it is drenched in reverb. So if you're particular that way, look out. Doesn't bother me, cuz a) I don't care and b) it adds to the ambience I think he's trying to achieve. Certainly Lindsey knows his way around a recording studio, so I'm sure it's an extremely conscious choice. If nothing else you can marvel at the great fingerpicking style he employs throughout, that causes continual reactions of, "how he get his fingas to do dat?"... | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 40 Registered: 08-2006 |
LK, can't imagine the reverb would bother me - I've always been a big fan of LB's production work in the past. And one of my favorite songs of the last few years is "Bleed to Love Her" from the last Mac CD. I think the fingerwork on that tune is just hypnotic. So yeah, I expect I'll like the new one just fine. I hear he's got one that's more "rock" in the works. I'd like to hear that, too. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1034 Registered: 03-2006 |
Then you probably should rush out and buy it - I think you'd love it. I just listened to it again, and it still sounds like a zillion bucks. It's as though he thought, "screw it, even if it's just me and my acoustic, I'm gonna make this thing sound epic"...The songs too are fantastic - full of those quirky, poppy Lindsey-style hooks. I am, I confess, already a pretty big fan. Amidst all the cheesy pomposity and bad circumstance that was Fleetwood Mac, Lindsey, to me, stood out as an honest, working and gifted musician who was truly following his muse...I liked Stevie Nicks (and the band as a whole),but there was always something almost unbearably pretentious about her...all that gauzy, Welsh witch stuff just totally eluded me. Do like her singin', though. But for me, the greatest moments were always Lindsey's...And, I'm given to understand that, despite the musical and songwriting chops of the others, Lindsey was really pretty much creative director... | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 809 Registered: 04-2005 |
Thanks for explaining about the Only Ones/Vodaphone commerical, Kevin. You're probably right that the members of the band could use the money, except perhaps for John Perry, who's gone on to be a respected music writer (then, again, if he's a writer, he probably DOES need the money). I hope Pete doesn't use his advert money for, um, medicine. I suppose it's beyond hope to think he's ever going to make another comeback. But one can hope. By the way, I know about Vodaphone because they sponsor the Ferrari F1 team, but I honestly have no idea if they have any presence in the States. I may be the last person in the U.S. who doesn't have a cellphone. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 63 Registered: 09-2006 |
Listening to the new Lindsey B. online...digging it so far (sorry, is that slang term in or out this year?) I agree that LB was the most artistically gifted of the three songwriters in that incarnation of FM, and you have to give it up for a guy who was handed a million dollars, charged with the task of producing a followup to one of the company's biggest albums ever and said to himself, "Hmm, let's get a little weird, here..." Pretty much agreed with you on Stevie there, Keith, though sometimes she exceeds herself ("Dreams"), but I've also always loved good old stalwart Christine, each album coming up with a new batch of lovely, melodic tunes about love love love that sound pretty much like the ones on the last album but it doesn't matter. She's the anchor. And I can't end without giving it up for one of the finest, most stalwart rhythm sections in all of rock, Mr. Fleetwood and Mr. Mac(Vie). | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 64 Registered: 09-2006 |
Just now noticed I used the word 'stalwart' twice in the above post. Do I get drummed out of the Critic Wannabe Guild for that? | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1036 Registered: 03-2006 |
I use dig, so...if anyone says it's not "in", we can just say we were being ironic. I have pretty much the same take on FM as you, Allen...I realized after I wrote my last little screed that it might sound like I didn't like 'em, but I do. It's just that Lindsey really stands out for me. And yeah, to come out with Tusk as a followup to Rumours...you gotta hand it to good ole Linds...what an FU to "the Man", whether or not he meant it that way. However you slice it, it took incredible cojones not to just come up with a carbon copy of the previous mega-seller. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 812 Registered: 04-2005 |
True, Allen and LK, "Tusk" was indeed a cheeky and risky followup to "Rumours," but they sure backpedaled afterward and went back to safe, glossy soft rock with "Mirage" or whatever the next album was called. I guess at that point Lindsey decided he'd save his weird stuff for the solo albums. And Stevie and Christine never had any interest in experimentation--musically, anyway. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 42 Registered: 08-2006 |
Kurt: Funny your should mention "Mirage" because I happened to play it for the first time in years the other day. Turns out it's not as commercial or as dull as I'd remembered. Actually, there's some Tusk-esque weirdness tucked in there. Even "Hold Me," which was a hit, has some very interesting and daring production stuff going on. And some of Lindsay's stuff in particular is pretty out there. I'm not saying "Mirage" is a great album, but it wasn't milquetoast either - at least not as milquetoast as I'd remembered. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 66 Registered: 09-2006 |
Agreed, and I'd say the same, with only a few more qualifiers, for their swansong, "Tango in the Night." About an hour after making my last post above I was in a store when "Big Love" came on the radio and I found myself singing and bopping along like mad, so I went home and played it, with the result of one small pleasant surprize after another. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 467 Registered: 08-2004 |
120 Days - 120 Days The Walkmen - Bows & Arrows Klaxons - Xan Valleys EP Lloyd Cole - Rattlesnakes Van Morrison - NY Sessions '67 Joan Baez - A & M Recordings VA - Revolution Rock | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 67 Registered: 09-2006 |
Lefty Frizzell - Look What Thoughts Will Do The Beautiful South - Golddiggas, Headnodders and Pholk Songs The Insect Trust - Hoboken Saturday Night Howard Tate - Get it While You Can | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 47 Registered: 08-2006 |
Whoa, Allen, the Insect Trust. Cool. Very glad they reissued that. As for me: Tom Verlaine: Flashlight Harry Nilsson: Pussy Cats The Coup: Pick a Bigger Weapon Clap Your Hands Say Yeah: s/t Djelimadi Tounkara: Sigui | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 68 Registered: 09-2006 |
Indeed...with new liner notes by R. Xgau, natch. From the fine folks at Collector's Choice, who also brought us the Oh-OK comp. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 48 Registered: 08-2006 |
LOVE the Oh-OK comp, too. I think the aforementioned "Flashlight" might be on Collector's Choice also although I have an older version. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1046 Registered: 03-2006 |
Not exactly new, but newish, I'm enjoying: My Morning Jacket - Okonokos Lambchop - Damaged & Decline of C&W Civilization | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 69 Registered: 09-2006 |
Which Lambchop should I start with? They're very high up on my list of well-regarded bands I've been way too remiss in getting into. | ||
| jerry hann Member Username: Jerry_h Post Number: 291 Registered: 07-2005 |
Allen,I've not got all Lambchop but Nixon is a classic I quite like Is a Woman but that is a real quiet record,the new one is DAmaged I'm really enjoying ( certainly for me one of my Albums of the year). Also listening to the new Ben Folds comp,and the Midlake which is on the rotation. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 283 Registered: 04-2006 |
on the way to work: ja könig ja - ebba does anyone of you guys out there listen to german music except krautrock? john b. do it, for sure. and notwist was mentioned by kurt ( if i remember correctly). ebba, is one of my favourite albums of 2005. just read here: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=107550 721 on the way back home: nina nastasia - on leaving | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1049 Registered: 03-2006 |
Allen, the new one, "Damaged", is really good, but "Nixon" is "the One". | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 285 Registered: 04-2006 |
my favourite lampchop albums are 'jack's tulips' and 'nixon' which reminds me always on curtis mayfield who is one of my soul-gods. but the album works on his own. great, soulful tunes. i never was much into 'is a woman'. a bit to boring. i like the new one a lot more. | ||
| jerry hann Member Username: Jerry_h Post Number: 293 Registered: 07-2005 |
Wilco-Being There also reminds me of the first time I was in the States Lambchop-Damaged The Fall -Grotesque | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 291 Registered: 04-2006 |
reading tony parsons 'stories we could tell' and listening thereby to germfree adolescents of x-ray spex. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 831 Registered: 04-2005 |
Mountain Goats - Tallahassee I'm a latecomer to this group (guy, I guess, is more accurate). What an amazing songwriter! | ||
| Wolfgang Steinhardt Member Username: Berbatov Post Number: 11 Registered: 09-2006 |
Ho! Roady music from Vietnam 2000. A sampler with live recordings from Saigon-buskers, including wonderful kitsch-versions of Ghost riders in the sky and Bonanza, some chinese influenced stuff and so on. I wish these guys would replace the unavoidable El Condor Pasa combos in our planets pedestrian precincts. Andreas, isn't Ja König Ja kind of mellow electropop stuff? As the Residents once said: ignorance of your own culture is not considered cool! But my experience with our locals is that I loose interest very soon, even if I like them at first listening, whether it's Kante, Tomte, Tocotronic, Fink, Zitronen, Delay or the electro-nerds from Cologne. From the postkrauts it's still Fehlfarben and Die Regierung I love, some Flowerpornoes and the mysterious Zen-Faschisten, Superpunk and Aeronauten. Ever heard of Stiller Has from Switzerland or austrian Attwenger? But we shouldn't bore the worldwide community too much - this week I listened for the first time in 25 years to The Slits's Cut and had a lot, lot fun with it. Shame on me, but I'm always glad to discover weird things inside the goldmine called past. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 293 Registered: 04-2006 |
wolfgang, i think we didn't bore the worldwide community with talking about german music. isn't german music not part of the global music? and i know some friends out there listen with joy to 'world music'. there exists some german, austrian or suisse music that is worth to listen to - even if they sang in german. stiller has is unknown to me, but attwenger is more or less familiar to me. they are good, really good. kante's 'zombi' is maybe one of the best musicians music to listen to. tomte is now boring (even when there songs are catchy and 'good', but it's always the same) tocotronic? i loved them when around the time when they started. they were pretty good. now they make music which i would say that it is good music, but they didn't touched my soul. fink never reached my soul. i don't know why, because i like 'country music'. die goldenen zitronen started as as a fun punk thing and i ignored them. now as a 'political' band they are surely relevant, but i didn't listen really to them. jan delay is really good. his searchig for the jan soul rebels album is great. his new one is catchy and funky. didn't own it. the electro nerds from cologne like mouse on mars are good, for sure. but i own only there first release. the notwist are also good. fehlfarben are beside ton steine scherben the most important german band (the krautrock bands must be seen seperately). die regierung, yes! superpunk , aeronauten, flowerpornoes, mysterious zen-faschisten. i know them, but didn't really listen to them. ja könig ja isn't mellow electro pop stuff. ja könig music ja isn't not to describe. their music has several facets. their latest release 'ebba' can stand the comparison with the wonderful music of prefab sprout, for example. i can just say: highly recommended, but you must listen. another german gem is kammerflimmer kollektief. kinda sort of jazz. you can search there: http://www.kammerflimmerkollektief.de/info.de.php last year i bought my new stereo and the loudspeakers mainly because absencen sounded so pretty good thereon. kreidler are favourities, too. eve future and eve future recall are very interesting. michaela melian (of fsk(freiwillige selbstkontrolle, did you americans know them. they made albums with david lowery)fame) made one of my all-time favourite albums called baden-baden. it is techno/house. deep music which catches you. like a maelstrom. fascinating. 'cpt. kirk &' were important for a period in the nineties. especially there split album with 'the more extended versions' called round about wyatt was so fantastic. wyatt cover versions, but not only. monk, cyprus hill. yeah, this cd is great. der plan must be mentioned. they created a wonderful, strange world. and andreas dorau belongs to that wonderful and strange world, too. i think i have to make a short break now.... | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 296 Registered: 04-2006 |
today: josef k. - endless soul and robert wyatt - solar flares burn for you | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 694 Registered: 03-2005 |
Oooh, Hardin, you have a good memory. "Now more than ever." I had my first listen to the copy of Dean Manning's "Diplomatic" I ordered on account of Padraig's favorable review. Very enjoyable on first listen, it seemed vaguely Pernice Bros-esque. I have so far only gotten through the first of the two discs to the Clean's anthology, I guess from "the goldmine called past." I love that expression Wolfgang. I had never heard them before. The Clean are great, a perfect melding of primitiveness and musicality. I guess I will now have to start digging through David Kilgour's catalog. Believe it or not, I don't think I've ever heard the Slits for all their legendary status. It sounds like I should remedy that. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 778 Registered: 05-2005 |
Here is how I reviewed The Slits' Cut rerelease in The Irish Times a few years ago. This and other writing and reviews by me are available at www.myspace.com/padraigcollins The Slits **** Cut Island records First issued in 1979, Cut is one of those albums that, despite being seldom heard, has achieved legendary status. The cover, of the band's three women naked and covered in mud (later to be copied by the all-male Mudhoney), got them an attention that their music rarely did. Formed in 1976, and influenced by punk's 'anyone-can-do-this' aesthetic, they chose not to release an album until they had developed musically. It was worth the wait. As someone who had not heard a note played by The Slits until recently, it is a joy to confirm that it lives up to its legend. The influence of their call-and-response funk-pop-reggae sound on bands like Bow Wow Wow and Adam & The Ants seems so obvious, you wonder why it was never acknowledged. From Instant Hit (which wasn't, but should have been) to the melodic charm of Adventures Close To Home and the inspired, staccato cover of Marvin Gaye's I Heard It Through The Grapevine, this is an album that deserves a far wider audience. www.comnet.ca/~rina/slits.html | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 125 Registered: 01-2006 |
Writer's Block - Peter Bjorn & John...on heavy rotation in the XY HQ.... | ||
| abigail law Member Username: Abigail Post Number: 94 Registered: 06-2005 |
I've been playing the cd86 birth of indie comp for a couple of days now orange juice glasgow school carpenters john phillips the wolf king of la | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 7 Registered: 10-2006 |
Dear God, please wind up this thread. I already have too many CDs, you can't move around the flat without knocking a pile of them over, my wife has already threatened to move out - Hey! More space for CDs! - and now all these suggestions for stuff I've never heard of or forgotten... I had Cut on vinyl, seem to remember it was superb... oh, what the hell. back to my Amazon wish list...and meanwhile I've been listening to Jan Akkerman, still the world's greatest guitarist, and not likely otherwise to get a mention on the GoBs website! | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1087 Registered: 05-2005 |
Cut by The Slits is great. It was produced by the great Dennis Bovell, one of the legends of UK reggae. The sound he got was sensational, Budgies drums in particular sound amazing. I could be wrong, but I'm sure Budgie was an unknown in those days, it was before he was in the Banshees wasnt it? | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 906 Registered: 05-2005 |
Yeah kev Cut was great, i met Dennis Bovell years ago, when he helped Edwyn Collins from Orange Juice out on bass in his group. Lovely fella, great producer too, I think he did post Rip it up production duties for OJ. Budige, you may well be right I think he was on the scene, but unkown musically at the time? What a seminalalbum that was. Gotta admit the sleeve mad a teenage boy blush. Stuart consider this my last post on this thread. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 701 Registered: 03-2005 |
Stuart, I revived our confessional thread about CD collections. Visit it and 'fess up. How many, dude? | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 476 Registered: 08-2004 |
Currently listening to: (while making dinner VA - North By North-West-Liverpool & Manchester Some of these songs I haven't heard for 25+ years. Dalek I Love You, Lori & The Chameleons & Lotus Eaters. Memories. | ||
| Wolfgang Steinhardt Member Username: Berbatov Post Number: 12 Registered: 09-2006 |
Thank you Andreas for that impressing encyclopedian overview, one can feel your heart beating for the music. As I said almost everything you mentioned was fine for me at first, fifth, maybe tenth listening and I know most of the bands you recommend - but what is it that they don't stand the test of time (in my ears...)? I used to love F.S.K. in their Texas-Bohemia research time which led me into a deep trip into american roots music to fill Bear Families pockets with my bucks. A funny coincidence: I stopped listening to them after a gig in Volksbühne around '95 when my pal Hugh was beaten up at Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz and some evil guys stole his bycicle - not that I would blame the band for that but it just happened...twas their switch from tex-czech to house or whatever you call it. I'll give them a new try (would it make sense to put Michaela on the "most beautiful female musician"-thread? and Christa Päffgen too??) And you're right with Der Plan (Geri Reig) and Cpt. Kirk (Stand rotes Madrid and especially Reformhölle). Just forgot to mention them. Back at home I'm gonna knock my own CD-piles down and hope to find Kevin Coynes Dynamite Daze among the ruins... | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 298 Registered: 04-2006 |
today i travelled with john fahey - the great san bernardino birthday party and jolie holland - springtime can kill you but most important: wolfgang, do you live in berlin, too? | ||
| Wolfgang Steinhardt Member Username: Berbatov Post Number: 14 Registered: 09-2006 |
Andreas, should I say unfortunately? - no, I just say: no more. I used to live at Mariannenplatz from '89 to '97, now it's Basel, Switzerland. But I still got a lot of friends there and come to visit from time to time. Miss the pubs, concerts and record shops but living in a smalltown got its advantages as well and with the Alps, France and Italy in reach it's not so bad, a quiet nice old people's home! I'm gonna check out Ja König Ja, versprochen! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 704 Registered: 03-2005 |
When I was in Berlin in summer of '05, it seemed like a great place to set yourself up as an artistic type. I mean specifically the old "East Berlin" where there are lots of great old spaces for semi-cheap and in only semi-renovated condition in places like Prenzlauer Allee as well as the cool Sputnik-era DDR buildings around Karl-Marx Allee, plus a great transit system, a lot of good restaurants and nice people-gathering spaces. It looks to me like Berlin is going to be a truly great city for vibrant contemporary culture, a great alternative to the creativity-killing expense of London or New York or even my town. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 302 Registered: 04-2006 |
wolfgang, schade, das. da hätte man mal das ein oder andere bier zusammen trinken können... but i envy you a little bit. as one who comes from the south of germany (schwaben) and one who loves the alps you have a big advantage. and basel is a nice town, too (o.k. i my last visit of basel was back in 1984, but at this time it was nice). | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 790 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Who's new album Endless Wire. It's their best for 25 years. (I really do like it on first listen though). | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 791 Registered: 05-2005 |
Wilco's A Ghost Is Born and More Like The Moon EPs. Both pretty brilliant. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 303 Registered: 04-2006 |
second attempt (the connection broke down for a while): randy, berlin is surely a attracting city especially artists of all genres live and work in the area you described. the nightlife is great. but -as some of you know from their own experience- if you life and work in a place you often didn't and can't use all the offers. what i really hate is that most concerts begin really late 10:00 to 12:00 p.m. is almost the standard. that is often too late for me. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 792 Registered: 05-2005 |
William Bell, Willie Tee, Willis Jackson, Wilson Pickett (all on Atlantic R&B comps). Yes, I'm going through the Ws on iTunes! | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 20 Registered: 10-2006 |
Going back to Cut, I see on the Archives it was on RF's top ten album list, as was John Phillip's Wolfking of LA, which has just been rereleased with extras etc. Worth having, People of the Board? |