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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 955 Registered: 05-2005 |
Time for a new list to benefit those on dial up. Right now I'm listening to an eponymous album by a Swedish surf band called Langhorns. Yes, you read that right - a Swedish surf band. It's great. I picked it up for $2 on my recent sojourn in Melbourne because I liked the cover! It made me wonder if it sounded like what it looked like - a Swedish surf band. It does! (I figured I could spare the $2 even if it sucked). I also have a Croatian surf album called Sonic Bullets, 13 From The Hip. The band is called The Bambi Molesters and features guest performances by Peter Buck, Scott McCaughey, Chris Eckman (Walkabouts), Terry Lee Hale and Eduardo Martinez (Rocket From The Crypt). Can anyone out there shake a stick at my ownership of Swedish and Croatian surf albums? Anyone own a Central African Republic or Tajikistan surf album? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 956 Registered: 05-2005 |
Check the above out at www.langhorns.com www.thebambimolesters.com | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 957 Registered: 05-2005 |
Now listening to The Waterboys' Peace Of Iona from the Universal Hall album. Great song, great album, awesome band. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 958 Registered: 05-2005 |
Now I'm onto The Bambi Molesters. Track 1, Theme From Slaying Beauty, features Buck and McCaughey. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 959 Registered: 05-2005 |
Track 3, Corazon Del Loco Jorge, features Martinez speaking a few lines in Spanish. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 960 Registered: 05-2005 |
Now I'm listening to Smudge's 1992 EP Love Lust And Lemonjuice. Also purchased on my trip to Melbourne. I bought it on cassette when it first came out. Damn how I wish I had not spent so much money on tapes I later replaced with CDs. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 961 Registered: 05-2005 |
Now listening to a song called You And I by New Zealand band Shaky Hands. There's a definite Talking Heads thing going on there, but it's pretty good and shows promise. You can get it free at www.abc.net.au/triplej/listen/mp3s.htm | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 962 Registered: 05-2005 |
Now listening to Tom Sawyer by Canadian prog rockers (and Ayn Rand fans) Rush... Time to get my coat I think. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 964 Registered: 05-2005 |
A cover of Going Blind by a band called Unarmed Enemies. It's sort of poppy electro. And sort of not very good, but interesting. It's at www.unarmedenemies.se | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 965 Registered: 05-2005 |
Now Streets Of Your Town done by French/US band Ivy. Good cover, if pretty straight. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 966 Registered: 05-2005 |
Now Quiet Heart covered by Australian band George. It's a good cover by a very ordinary band. Robert and Grant sing on it along with the brother and sister who are the mainstay of George. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 967 Registered: 05-2005 |
What is good about the George cover is not only that they get Robert and Grant on it, but that they dare do a different take on it. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 968 Registered: 05-2005 |
Fourth Go-Betweens cover! This one is Preston School Of Industry's acoustic take on Make Her Day from a PBS radio session. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 969 Registered: 05-2005 |
14 posts in a row by one person! This really is a conversation with myself! Come on rest of the world, wake up and make a contribution! Kevin, you can even talk about your feelings about Henrik Larsson signing for Manchester Buccaneers if you like. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 492 Registered: 08-2004 |
This couldn't be more exciting! Even if we could hear it too. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1054 Registered: 05-2005 |
This morning Sunday: Simple Minds - New gold Dream. Winnebago Orchestra - Rough mix demos. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Engineer's demo's. (thanks XY!) | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1215 Registered: 05-2005 |
Padraig, much as I loathe Man Utd(well, its more Sir Alex that I loathe!) I am really pleased for Henrik. Just shows you that if you live your life like the consumate professional then good thing will come. Not many people(in fact nobody I reckon) can say they have played for 3 of the biggest clubs in the world - Celtic, Barcelona and now Man Utd. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1005 Registered: 04-2005 |
And you questioned my methods to get to 1,000, Padraig? Surely you were joking about Rush! I didn't know anyone outside of my foolish continent actually listened to them. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1057 Registered: 05-2005 |
its nearly 21.12 here! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 972 Registered: 05-2005 |
No, not kidding about Rush. Not a big fan, but I really like some songs. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 973 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kevin, yes, good point about Henrik and Man U. He will probably get an EPL medal too. | ||
| jerry hann Member Username: Jerry_h Post Number: 329 Registered: 07-2005 |
Tallulah and then Post to Wire by Richmond Fontaine | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 806 Registered: 03-2005 |
Spence, I honor your courageous honesty. I would never let anybody look at my iTunes library because then they'd see how many times I listened to my own songs. Tres embarrassant. I'm listening to "Entomology" just starting "It's Kinda Funny." Superficially the vocalist sounds like the Monochromes' Bid. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 807 Registered: 03-2005 |
Right now I'm listening to The Clean "Anthology," at the moment the first disc with the early stuff from '81. I have made it most of the way through the first 3 songs on "Van Occupanther." Twice. Unfortunately I keep thinking of other things I haven't heard in a while and putting them on instead. I guess that says what "Van Occupanther" does for me. But I promise I'll listen to it all the way through some time. Josef K was(is) magnificent, a reminder for the umpteenth time what a great era the post-punk one was, when people made something new by drawing upon their influences organically like food instead of wearing them like clothes. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1243 Registered: 03-2006 |
Speakin' a clothes them guys was some spiffy dressers! | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 147 Registered: 08-2006 |
Randy, "Vehicle" by The Clean is one of my favorites. I confess to not knowing a lot of their eariler/later output. Good? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 979 Registered: 05-2005 |
Anthology is a great compilation Rob. It's packed full of goodness. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 981 Registered: 05-2005 |
So, is no-one at all impressed with my Swedish and Croatian surf albums? | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1059 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy a man of taste! Its Kinda Funny has a wonderful guitar break, with bothe Haig and Ross deuilling for top spot, ike verlaine/Lloyd or, or, or... | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1013 Registered: 04-2005 |
We are impressed, Padraig. Somebody at work gave me some MP3s of the Bambi Molesters late last year and they sounded pretty good, but I had no idea who was involved in the group. I figured it was just an up-and-coming group with a penchant for tasteless band names. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 496 Registered: 08-2004 |
Swiss surf albums are harder to come by. While everyone is listening to Slade, Mike Oldfield & Greg Lake, VA - A Christmas Gift For You from Phil Spector is on my Dansette. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1063 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Cathode Ray - Myspace site (Paul haig ex josef k's new band) | ||
| Jonathan Evans Member Username: Jon Post Number: 64 Registered: 04-2005 |
I'm off to see Jesse Malin on Thursday, so I'm getting in a bit of research. Good stuff!! Cheers Jon | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1218 Registered: 05-2005 |
isnt he reckoned to be a Ryan Adams wannabe Jon? not much of a thing to be boasting about these days, poor guy  | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1016 Registered: 04-2005 |
Jesse Malin's been around for a long time, much longer than Adams. (Ira Kaplan made reference to a punk band of Malin's being around in the mid-'80s, back when YLT was starting up) Has he turned into an Adams wannabe now? Sad. Why not just go to the source and copy Paul Westerberg directly instead of doing a version of Adams's Westerberg copy? | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1219 Registered: 05-2005 |
Yep Kurt, Adams produced at least one Malin album in the last few years. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 810 Registered: 03-2005 |
Rob, my only exposure to the Clean is this great two disc anthology and the notes are pretty minimal. "Vehicle" seems to be the first album after they revived themselves. There are seven tracks from it on "Anthology." If you like "Vehicle" I think you'll like the whole lot. The earlier recordings are conceptually similar but with more primitive (but entirely listenable) recordings. The later tracks are also good except that I confess I have to skip "Ludwig." Josef K has pride of place in the car's CD changer right now. It knocks me out how they sneak Wigan Casino type soul into their music even using the stupid little synth "phaser gun" sound so beloved of the disco producers to hilarious effect. With some of this I have to think of Orange Juice. But Paul Haig is a lot easier to listen to than Edwyn Collins. I think I might put together a special "scratchy geetar" playlist on iTunes using Josef K, Orange Juice, SMAL, early Fall, early Monochrome Set and I'll have to think about what else. But whatever I use has to have a pop sensibility running through it. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1220 Registered: 05-2005 |
I think you could add Wire and Gang of 4 to that "scratchy geetar" playlist Randy. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 989 Registered: 05-2005 |
Malin's debut solo album , the one Adam's produced, is actually very good. The only problem with it is that the sound is very low on it. I had to boost it on iTunes. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 990 Registered: 05-2005 |
I can't believe I put an apostrophe s in Ryan Adams' name. (That was a correct use of an s' btw!). And I left a gap between album and the apostrophe. Where's my punctuation gone? | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1017 Registered: 04-2005 |
Early Echo and the Bunnymen, Randy? The geetars are pretty scratchy on Crocodiles. A few tracks from the Young Marble Giants album or first Raincoats album might work too. Ah, I love those bands that didn't spend all their time stomping on distortion pedals... | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1250 Registered: 03-2006 |
I have that Malin disc and would second Padraig's recommendation...just because Ryan Adams is involved, it doesn't have to be crap, though that rule will usually serve you in good stead... If I am understanding correctly le genre scratchy, Randy, Talking Heads, from their 2nd album would work quite well for your comp... Such a helpful group. Everybody - Kumbaya, my Lord, Kumbaya... | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 811 Registered: 03-2005 |
I'll have to review my Wire. I tend to think of them as more of a keyboard band, like Magazine. Associates are keyboard-dominated, right? I've never gotten any of their stuff but a few YouTube videos I watched didn't really do much for me. Token keys like the piano on "Your Turn, My Turn" are ok. Gang of 4 are perfect but inconveniently I only have them on vinyl. Perhaps I should mend that. Jeez, another surgical strike to Amoeba. (Maybe this time I'll remember to get the Pernice Bros. album). Kurt I've not heard Young Marble Giants or Raincoats, perhaps some more archeology is called for. I dunno about Echo, not angular or dissonant enough. Part of my idea of this sound is that the bands all seemed to be hearing one thing in their heads while creating something else because that's all they could manage at the time. I love sophisticated ideas in primitive settings. I'm even wondering about something from "Boys Don't Cry." Talking Heads might work if I can accept contaminating my concept with Americans and live through David Byrne's vocals. If I do that I should check early Pere Ubu too. | ||
| Jonathan Evans Member Username: Jon Post Number: 65 Registered: 04-2005 |
Hi All Yes, Jesse Malin is always going to be linked with Ryan Adams. As has been said the first album was RA produced, its still a very good album. I've seen him before, and its a decent gig. Anyway, by now I'm on The Smiths "Singles", which has found its way into the car. Cheers Jon | ||
| Wolfgang Steinhardt Member Username: Berbatov Post Number: 31 Registered: 09-2006 |
Jerry, swiss surf music files under snow-board-music and is a rough mix between "Emotional Hardcore" and Mountain-Ghetto Hip-Hop with swiss lyrics. They can't do real surf because it's too cold for trunks here and the plaster is a serious hindrance for any guitarsolo. In the wintertime the swiss farmers used to built these famous tiny watches with their tiny farmers-hands and I used to get into that tradition this year by fixing my turntable after YEARS, and the first vinyls that made it were I Hope It Lands and Strangers Of The Universe by Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Everything Crash by X-Tal and Duende by Shrimp Boat. Sophisticated ideas in primitive settings (TFUL 282)- well said, Randy - and a great Clinton soundtrack too. I hope it lands again and inspires f.i. Midlake. But - to second Andreas - the new Trail of the Dead is the first listenable Flaming Lips record in years, theres hope. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 346 Registered: 04-2006 |
ah, wolfgang. nice to have one on my side who likes trail of dead. they are a really great band -but to come back to the threads topic- and i listened and enjoyed this piece of music today. he wolfgang, and what are your thoughts about x-tal's 'everything crash'? months ago i listned to this album for the first time since years. and i have to say that my feelings were not very enthusiastic. a lot of that so called indie-stuff of the nineties sounding now boring. i sorted it out. randy, YMG are duty. one of the greatest albums! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 995 Registered: 05-2005 |
I like a lot of Trail Of Dead stuff too. Particularly their Madonna album. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 43 Registered: 07-2006 |
i've been listening to sinead's i do not want... a lot, at work, which probably isn't best suited to the frenzied office setting. i've never bothered with much she did after the record after this. recommendations? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 998 Registered: 05-2005 |
I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got. I haven't got Sinead O'Connor's 2nd album. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 45 Registered: 07-2006 |
that was the second, no? i have am i not your girl...doesn't pack the same punch, but her amazing voice does some of those covers more justice than they probably deserve. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1000 Registered: 05-2005 |
But I do have a perfectly lovely sister called Sinéad. There, that's a nice sentiment for my 1000th post! | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 46 Registered: 07-2006 |
merry 1000 padraig!!! i have four lovely-ish sisters. names not especially noteworthy... | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1224 Registered: 05-2005 |
Well done Padraig, comhghairdeas | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1026 Registered: 04-2005 |
Congrats on the big one-zero-zero-zero, Padraig! Good work. So, five of us have made it to 1,000. Who's next...Randy? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1002 Registered: 05-2005 |
Thanks guys. Yep, my money's on Randy. Joe, I hate to do this to you... but you're young, you'll recover. What I posted above about Sinéad O'Connor was a joke based on the juxtaposition of her second album's title and the fact that I don't own it. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 53 Registered: 07-2006 |
ha - ...thank you! i read that several times and, in spite of my work induced sweaty haze, could not for the life me get it. watch your back, etc. J.xx | ||
| Wolfgang Steinhardt Member Username: Berbatov Post Number: 32 Registered: 09-2006 |
You're not wrong with X-Tal, Andreas - I haven't listened to them for about 10 years or so and I remembered the enthusiastic reviews in the mags at that time when the San Francisco folk scene of the nineties was the next big thing for three weeks or so (Bedlam Rovers et. al. - but I still like Barbara Manning). But that's part of our business, flipping through the collection from time to time and get rid of crap - or in this case (cause it's not really crap either) even the records that are just so lala... But I'm still amazed about TFUL, they make a brilliant melange of almost unlistenable noise and catchy Robert Pollardish melodies and the "melodies" always come around the corner when you think you can't stand that frenzy noise anymore. Recommended and not dated at all. From cacophonia to country: Butch Hancock, Eats Away The Night and Hank McCoy & The Dead Ringers, Mohawk Street. Somebody on a Hancock website quoted: "Who is Butch Hancock? Simply the best songwriter this country has ever produced, and I'll stand on Steve Earle's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that." He might be right. Hank McCoy used to live in Cologne for a couple of years where he wrote a column for a mag about Country & Cooking (Notes from the kitchen or so...)and, as he was from Arkansas, it was a very spicy combination. The last thing I heard was he went back to the States to study and become a lawyer - to abolish the death penalty in the US. Hope he's gonna make it and keeps his golden voice. If anyone knows anything - I'd be curious how he's doing! Funny things come to my mind checking out all those "sleepers" (the turntable broke down in 98 and I was on a CD diet since then). My first GoBees, Liberty Belle, where some bloke painted a huge moustache in Lindy's face and red turbans for the boys (unknown artist, it was used and cheap - cause of the "artwork"), Blonde on Blonde in a self-painted cover cause someone vomited on Bobs face at a party and so on. And -btw - it's amazing to watch the needle plough its way through the grooves of a record after so many years. I felt happy like a boy playing with a train set that sounds (others like to stare at washing machines). Save the vinyl! You see Andreas: the Mustapha project is on it's way! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 815 Registered: 03-2005 |
Wolfgang, sometimes when you and Andreas start talking with each other I feel like a spectator from a parallel universe. WHERE do you find all these exotic artists? I'm furiously taking down notes. The quote about Hancock is very funny and I wouldn't have understood it until just a few months ago. | ||
| Wolfgang Steinhardt Member Username: Berbatov Post Number: 33 Registered: 09-2006 |
Randy, the other way makes sense too - so many names dropped here I've never heard of and maybe never will again. But the funny thing is that all these exotic artists I mentioned above are so genuine American (I was deep into Americana & Country in the nineties, due to a prrretttty girl from Vermont:-) and they live - so to speak - around your corner (I know I'm talking about a country where you may put three or four Europes in the center and there is still enough space for a couple of New Zealands at the edges...)but maybe the gap between LA and SF is bigger than between the two continents. Hancock was a member of the legendary Flatlanders from Lubbock/TX, together with Joe Ely and Jimmie Dale Gilmore and if you're an alternative "countryboy" from Berlin you avoid listening to everything thats suspicious for being redneck like a lot of that Nashville/Grand Ole Opry stuff. There was no Alt-Country as a label at that time, there were the Outlaws and what followed in the tracks of Nelson and Jennings and everything from Austin was just good! TVZ is an old hero from that time as well. The Thinking Fellers were discovered par hasard, I liked the covers and songtitles like "Rampaging Fuckers of Anything on the Crazy Shitting Planet of the Vomit Atmosphere", bought it and liked it. Just so. And Hank McCoy was a local hero in Cologne at that time, played bars, wrote his receipes and was just everybodys darling, blessed with a wonderful voice like a glockenspiel - not artistic in a way like for instance Jeff Buckleys, more like a plain countryboy (I had to think of a John Denver with real songs and a real band). There was a concert with his Dead Ringers in Berlin where maybe 15 people showed up in a room built for about 500 and he filled that space just with his singing, that was so amazing. His records contain more more as less welldone country-music and maybe there are thousands of bands like his in the midwest who play at polka-venues every weekend, but that's probably as exotic in LA as it is here. Loads of old records are waiting to be heard (it's dusty in here) - I recommend everyone to lock his records or CD's for about ten years before listening to them again. Sometimes it's a clash between memories and - ahem - REALITY (X-Tal), sometimes it's just like an almost forgotten part of your life re-discovered. But there will be no way for me to achieve 1000 posts in years, I'd be proud to end up with 50 novels ... | ||
| Wolfgang Steinhardt Member Username: Berbatov Post Number: 34 Registered: 09-2006 |
... but I managed to post the word "fuckers" - no control out there? | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 357 Registered: 04-2006 |
not much to add. wolfgang said it all. and it is a pity that this guy now lives in basel. i am thinking about the reason why country/alt. country was so 'big' in germany in the nineties (you have to narrow it down , because it was a small, clear scene). i have no explanation. maybe it started in the eighties with a band called souled american which played 'country' in a slow manner. they were fantastic and fascinating. but what happened then? why i discovered in the late eighties TVZ? and so on, and so on. wolfgang, any idea? maybe it has something to do with wolfgnag doebeling, the berlin independence days and with a german music mag called spex. but i am not sure. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1266 Registered: 03-2006 |
This song, "Rampaging F*ckers on the Shitting Planet" - a tender love ballad? | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1031 Registered: 04-2005 |
Wolfgang, I can't believe you mentioned X-Tal. I used to live in the San Francisco area and am a big Barbara Manning fan, so I knew of them. Because of that connection, I bought an X-Tal album and, sad to say, I was surprised by how terrible it was--nothing but banal political songs. So they're probably best forgotten. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1226 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Drones - The Gala Mill. Cheers Padraig, the songs are really hitting home now. I wish I could remember who they remind me of, and its not the Nick Cave/B'Day Party similarities mentioned in most of the reviews | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1004 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kevin, your turnabout there has been quite remarkable. Now I'd better go listen to it again! No iPod with me today the battery was v low and I hate when it runs out as you're listening to something. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1273 Registered: 03-2006 |
Sonic Youth - The Destroyed Room I also downloaded a copy of the Drones, based on you guys' discussion, a rave review in one a them British music rags and the way cool cover. It doesn't hurt either that one of the members is a real babe and a half (the ever shallow LK)...but I haven't actually managed to listen to it yet. Details. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1011 Registered: 05-2005 |
How's The Destroyed Room LK? | ||
| Wolfgang Steinhardt Member Username: Berbatov Post Number: 35 Registered: 09-2006 |
LK, the f* song is more about the significance of nightingales tongues in Burmese cooking - the title's just camouflage to mislead blokes like me to buy - and it worked! | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1274 Registered: 03-2006 |
Ah Wolfgang, I figured that might be the case... Padraig, the Destroyed Room is niiiice...but mind, it's B-sides and obscurities, so it's not the non-stop hitfest Rather Ripped was... | ||
| Wolfgang Steinhardt Member Username: Berbatov Post Number: 36 Registered: 09-2006 |
Concerning the C/W boom in last century's Germany: no idea, Andreas. I didn't know you at that time and nobody else but a pal (but he's from North Carolina, not the typical kraut...)shared my dark desires. For me it was more Franz Dobler than Doebeling, FSK and my Vermont cowgirl. And an antiquarian bookseller in Cologne who introduced me to Bear Family by selling me the Jimmie Rogers boxset for (almost) nothing! Too many bricks, too much concrete and asphalt, work and taxes - no wonder you'll start to dream of a bonanza,gunsmoke and tumbleweeds, especially when you're grown up with Bonanza, Gunsmoke and the tumbleweeds at Shilo-Ranch and you start walking like John Wayne at the age of 10 (it didn't work - btw: did John Wayne "sing" - like Jack Palance or Lee Marvin?) Maybe thats it? Oggi la musica: Delmore Brothers & Wayne Raney followed by Django Reinhardt and the Hot Club de France - unbelievable he had a crippled hand! It's swingtime! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1019 Registered: 05-2005 |
Big Wax Hand by Cathal Coughlan. (Thanks Randy). First listen. I like it a lot. I'll buy the album in Ireland in a couple of weeks. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1020 Registered: 05-2005 |
Now I Feel For You by Chaka because it follows the Cathal Coughlan song on iTunes! Cathal segued surprisingly well! I love that about iTunes - the seguing and the occasional surprises about what comes on next. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1021 Registered: 05-2005 |
Now Sweet Bird Of Youth by Spence's bandmate Caroline Trettine. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1022 Registered: 05-2005 |
Sweet Bird Of Youth is quite beautiful btw. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1023 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Greatest by Cat Power. What a song. Keep On The Sunny Side by The Carter Family before that. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1025 Registered: 05-2005 |
Wet Hot American Summer by Craig Wedren. Awesome pop song. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 823 Registered: 03-2005 |
Padraig, are you saying that you are going to go from the Oz summer to the Irish winter? Brave. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1026 Registered: 05-2005 |
Yes, home for Christmas Randy. My first Christmas in Ireland since 2001. My daughter's first trip to Ireland since July 2003. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 499 Registered: 08-2004 |
Thanks for putting me straight, Wolfgang. Never again shall I add a mild stab at humour around here. (until next time) Though the notion of Emo-Hardcore is enough to reduce me to tears for a kick off. New-ish music this week: James - The Best Of... The Lemonheads - The Lemonheads Tindersticks - Tindersticks Weezer - Pinkerton ... and VA - Dr. Marten's Shoe Pie. (strangely a 4ad promo, more floppy fringes than suedeheads) Shrewdly purchased from Oxfam for 99p | ||
| Wolfgang Steinhardt Member Username: Berbatov Post Number: 38 Registered: 09-2006 |
Humour wasn't invented in Switzerland Jerry and as an immigrant to this country I'll have to keep up with local costumes - but seriously this snowboard sound sucks, goddam noise over lovely Heidiland. But to get even more serious I quote this for you and cosmopolite surfcollector Pádraig: "The Hula Hawaiians from Basel landed their first hit in the German speaking region in 1960 with the instrumental Hilo March. Later successes included Hula Moon and Hawaiian Bells. The Hawaiians were four youngsters from Basel, impressed by the success of Holland’s Kilima Hawaiians. The Hula Hawaiians date back to 1945, but in the mid-Fifties, they went on to gain international success, without ever giving up their amateur status. Their repertoire focused on Hawaiian songs, but they also featured pop and jazz numbers. They played innumerable live concerts, made radio and television appearances, as well as many recordings. It all added up to impressive success both at home and abroad." (Bear Family Records). Hope I'll get a swiss passport or at least a decoration for this... | ||
| jerry hann Member Username: Jerry_h Post Number: 334 Registered: 07-2005 |
Went to see Butch Hancock and Jimmy Dale Gilmour the night before my Surgery finals in 1991 great evening not so great the following morning. Butch is the King of Alt country | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 827 Registered: 03-2005 |
The hit and miss nature of my exposure to music is odd. Jimmy Dale Gilmour and Joe Ely are familiar enough names to me (though I've never gotten anything by either) but Butch Hancock just sneaked right on by. More discoveries . . . . The Hula Hawaiians sound like a trip. | ||
| Wolfgang Steinhardt Member Username: Berbatov Post Number: 40 Registered: 09-2006 |
Warning Randy: its a trip on cough syrup and saccharine... But if you're interested in classic stuff and compilations (my majour source for discoveries - before this board :-) I recommend to check out two labels I just love: http://www.trikont.com/ and http://www.bear-family.de/indexframes/in dex_english.htm. You'll have to sell one of your italian sportscars to afford Bear Family Box Sets but they're worth every dime... | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1289 Registered: 03-2006 |
Grinderman - Nick Cave's new "supergroup" outing...It sounds like Nick, after veering into the world of the more sedate and thoughtful, is feeling the need once again to sow some wild oats, to kick out the jams, mf...Veddy interesting, though after one listen, I can't begin to offer a sober, appropriately weighted review...still, at the very least, it's a lot of fun... Micah P. Hinson & the Opera Circuit - beautiful, penetrating and profound. The momentum flags not one whit during this gorgeous record, imaginatively fleshed out with everything but the kitchen sink production that incorporates everything from banjo to a Stax-style horn section... | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1243 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Hold Steady- Boys and Girls In America. What a great post pub record this is, apart from the fact that I have not been to the pub - but I have demolished 5 beers and a large glass of wine To satisfy my maudlin side I have also played Thirteen by Big Star 3 times tonight. This was prompted by watching the film Thumbsucker tonight, which had a soundtrack supplied by Polyphonic Spree and the late great Elliot Smith, who did his own poignant version of Thirteen, After that it was Horace Andy's greatest hits, how annoyed must he be that most people only know his(vastly inferior) stuff with Massive Attack. Then onto the marvellous Hot Chip - my album of the year, which might be a hollow accolade in this most barren of years but so what, it is great. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 186 Registered: 08-2006 |
Man, I can't get that Hold Steady record off my CD player. I know I've flogged it on this board plenty of times, but it's really something else - funny, sad, rocking, pensive, both formal and loose, familiar and unexpected. It's received massive play here on Chicago's Shakespeare Avenue. I also pulled out the Blue Nile's "High." I've always been a big fan of the band, and when it comes to maudlin, well, Randy, I raise a large glass of wine to you! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 831 Registered: 03-2005 |
Wha? How'd I become associated with maudlin? Uh oh, not my music I hope. I guess you mean Kevin. A jaunt in the car got me through the balance of "Van Occupanther." Sorry, I'm just not into Fleetwood Mac. Well, you all warned me, possibly without quite realizing that's what you were doing. Ah, but then the groove of Blue Aeroplanes' "Bop Art" started up and the evening grew brighter . . . . | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1031 Registered: 05-2005 |
Pavement's Pacific Trim EP. Bought it on vinyl when it came out. Now have it digitally. Yay! | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 66 Registered: 07-2006 |
has that pavement ep been compiled with something else? and was there a wowee zowee reissue? i could never track it down and it's the only one i like that much so as to repurchase. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1245 Registered: 05-2005 |
wowee zowee has just been given the double cd remaster job joe | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1076 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy good to see you enjoying Bop Art, have you got Tolerance on the double pack version? Ups is a great track as is Warhols 15. Been playing Mezzanine - Massive Attack. Kev, Horace makes this album along with Liz Fraser. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 187 Registered: 08-2006 |
Hey, Randy, forgive the misattribution above. I know you're a sunshine and flowers kind of guy! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 834 Registered: 03-2005 |
Yeah, all fluffy f'g animals and Hallmark cards. Yes Spence I got the double reissue. The "Tolerance" album offers a great collection of guitar sculptures but I'm still getting familiarized with it. Too many recent acquisitions. For some reason "Bop Art" grabbed me right away on the first listen. Maybe it's all the listening to the Laughing Clowns. "Bop Art" gets an instant groove going and scratches my jumbled memory in the "Remain in Light" and Del Byzantines spots. Wandering around the internet last night when I should have been recording I found the "Forced Exposure" website. My god I could get lost in there forever; it's the under the radar crack den. Does anybody know anything about Fuon? Another David Nichols project. And apparently Crabstick is available if you're willing to buy vinyl. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1033 Registered: 05-2005 |
Joe, the Pacific Trim EP is part of the 2-CD Wowee Zowee Kevin mentioned above. It is available in Australia but I've only seen it in one shop; which was a JB I think. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 67 Registered: 07-2006 |
ist rad...will swing by jb and see if in store. if not, there's always cheap cheap cheap ebay stores. worrying though how those deluxe editions have plummeted in price since their recent release... | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Nemo Post Number: 110 Registered: 07-2005 |
I Was So Unpopular In School And Now They're Giving Me This Beautiful Bicycle & The World According To Pablo - both by Billie The Vision & The Dancers. I love how Sweden keeps churning out these wonderful little indie pop bands. For anyone interested:- http://www.myspace.com/billiethevisionan dthedancers | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 359 Registered: 04-2006 |
bert jansch - santa barbara honeymoon | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1293 Registered: 03-2006 |
Sinatra: Vegas. It is one koo-koo nutty swingin' collection. When you've lived and loved like Frank you've er...really shot the moon! (can never remember quite how that goes)...One clever device he uses for humor is to insert the word "godamn" in random fashion into the time worn lyrics of many of the songs, e.g. "those godamn bells keep ringing!"... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1040 Registered: 05-2005 |
Treeless Plain by The Triffids last night. I see from their website they are releasing remastered versions of In The Pines and Calenture at the end of January. In The Pines is also being remixed. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 838 Registered: 03-2005 |
Yesterday's arrival: Jimmy Little's "Life's What You Make It." His second Brendan Gallagher-produced album, this time covering songs from outside Australia. He does "People Get Ready," the song surest to bring tears to my eyes, "What's So Funny About Peace, Love and Understanding?" and even the Beach Boys' "In My Room." Yeah, he does "One" too. "Treeless Plain" is such a great album collection of songs. It hasn't been remastered has it, Padraig? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1044 Registered: 05-2005 |
No Randy. I don't know if there are any plans to do so either. There seems to be so much Triffids material that a box set would be wonderful (as Donat suggested elsewhere on this board). | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 840 Registered: 03-2005 |
A box would be VERY welcome but I suppose there isn't the market. I'd really like to hear the material from before "Treeless Plain," the stuff they released on cassettes. | ||
| jerry hann Member Username: Jerry_h Post Number: 345 Registered: 07-2005 |
Tom's Bawlers from Orphans in the car. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1048 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Botany Tapes. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 206 Registered: 08-2006 |
Oh, man, Padraig, I just got my hands on a full copy of the Botany Sessions. It's really lovely. Christmas came early this year. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 845 Registered: 03-2005 |
Some people are so gauche with the way they flaunt their good fortune . . . . Rub it in, rub it in. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 208 Registered: 08-2006 |
Randy, you know my e-mail. All I need's an address... | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1313 Registered: 03-2006 |
My new favorite singer is someone named...Bobby Lounge. I'm basing this on one brief mp3 snippet of "Take me back to Abita Springs" from an album called, apparently, "The Night Your Trailer Burned Down" and also perusing his website: http://www.bobbylounge.com/ He seems like some demented cross between Jerry Lee Lewis and Tom Waits... | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 369 Registered: 04-2006 |
tom waits - crazy about my baby. unreleased song from the 7'' enclosed to my copy of orphans. |