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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1066 Registered: 05-2005 |
A double CD comp of Depeche Mode remixes. Singles by Youth Group, Howling Bells and Death Cab For Cutie which I bought for $2 each in Dick Smith's. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1067 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Depeche comp was $10 in one of the $10 shops in Pitt St Sydney. The one that isn't called Dirt Cheap CDs! (Which I've discovered is owned by UK discount chain FOPP btw). | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1323 Registered: 03-2006 |
People have been talking about it a while here, but I just got around to really listening to it: the upcoming Shins album. It is great. Easily their best yet, and it seems almost completely devoid of that whiny, strained-nad style singing...this could be the one - the one that gets 'em out of the OC ghetto and into the bigtime! Also, "A Tragic Treasury" by the Gothic Archies. This, a soundtrack of sorts to Lemony Snicket episodes, is a perfect vehicle for Merritt's droll sensibility and penchant for theatrical, arch rhymes...niiice.... | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 79 Registered: 07-2006 |
i don't have that DM comp, possibly because i'm pissy at myself for laying out for most of their albums over the years....none of which i've ever really cared for, save for the first half or so of black celebration. $10 might be a go however...just to have all of their stupidly fun singles on one disc. i still get a funny feeling whenever i hear blashpemous rumours and everything counts. current listening - blue lines. still hella smooth! | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1100 Registered: 05-2005 |
Played today: Murmer REM (fave track of the day - Perfect Circle - Perfect!) Primary 5 Go! (Ex Teenage Fanclub drummer stunning album) Strangelove - Strangelove Momus - Circus Maximus | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 380 Registered: 04-2006 |
beirut - gulag orkestar and bob dylan's nice, old fashioned modern times album. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 454 Registered: 10-2004 |
Things in heavy rotation these days: Split Enz - Time & Tide: I've only ever liked/known their hits from the early 80s, which to these ears, have always sounded wonderfully catchy. However, the few albums of their's I have always left me cold. My girlfriend was listening to some Neil Finn record (whose solo stuff I really don't care for), which piqued my interest about all the SE stuff I haven't yet heard. Everything I read about Split Enz basically said "Time & Tide is their most amazing album..." So I picked up a copy from the dollar bin, and wow, what a cool, catchy, varied, interesting, and, for the most part, nicely crafted pop album. Sure, sometimes it's a bit cheezy, but for the most part, I'm digging it. *Totally* worth a dollar. Josef K - Young & Stupid (the orig. LP version): kind of my intro to Josef K many, many years ago. Dif Juz - Extractions: I always like listening to this in the winter. Just seems to fit the mood. The Chills - Submarine Bells: I know it's "cooler" to prefer their earlier stuff, but this has always been my favorite Chills album. Monochrome Set - Strange Boutique: I forgot what a good (and fun) record this is. The Easybeats - Misc... (Thanks Randy!) The Go-Betweens - Tallulah: Anyone here like them? | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1118 Registered: 05-2005 |
http://www.myspace.com/jellyfishband Jeff, Monchrome Set SB is fantastic, a massive influence on me, magical guiarist that lester Square! | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 386 Registered: 04-2006 |
i agree. i always liked Monochrome set. despite strange boutiyue is 'classic' my favourite of them is the lost weekend. it's kind of 'easy listening', but beautiful. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1079 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Pogues best of at breakfast this morning. It was time to educate her about her Irish heritage and also to listen to the greatest Christmas song ever. Plus she had just complained that NewsRadio was just "yap, yap, yap". | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1080 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Waterboys' Fishermans Blues disc 2. | ||
| jerry hann Member Username: Jerry_h Post Number: 351 Registered: 07-2005 |
Just received Robert's "Calling from a Country Phone" and I Had a NY Girlfriend", both purchased form amazon 2nd hand for less than Ł2 each bargain can't believe I never got NY Girlfriend before, It is really great.Really made my day driving around the busy Preston traffic on the way to section someone. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 862 Registered: 03-2005 |
Wow, Andreas, you have "Lost Weekend"? I have never been able to locate that. And I seem to be the only person who bothered to buy all of the Monochromes' Mk. II records (with Lester Square again--Spence is right, he's an amazing guitarist who submitted his considerable skill to the service of actual music). The lyrics are silly but I love 'em just the same. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1122 Registered: 05-2005 |
Just listened to a sample of Long Blondes from Rough Trade digital shop I thought it was awful. Sounded like Li Chris, this 12 year old who is great at Lena Lovich impersonations, damn I was hoping they were gonna be great too! Back to the Moodists Myspace page for me then. Oh, just my opinion by the way, no offence to anyone. http://www.myspace.com/moodists | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 863 Registered: 03-2005 |
Damn! Spence, I owe you! I'm still slowly loading things into iTunes trying to avoid overloading with any particular category or artist and I forgot the awesome Moodists. It doesn't get much better than "Chevrolet Rise" or "Double Life" or "Frankie's Negative" or "Six Dead Birds" or . . . . | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1124 Registered: 05-2005 |
Yeah Randy, Moodists were reall class, raw, cool, mean 'n keen!! Mr Graney has one of the best voices I have ever heard, he's in my top 20 all time singers list, he's amazing. He's just so unique, his lyrics are amazing, really mean something. I also loved the DG and the Coral Snakes, esp when they had David from Orange Juice and Malcom from Josef K, they were a top group. Jack O Diamonds was a great song they did, and Little Gary. These two songs were released on a small label called T.IM. in the late eighties who put out a 12 from a band I later joined called Little Red Schoolhouse! | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 387 Registered: 04-2006 |
orphans' 'bawlers' cd. beautiful bert and john - bert and john. beautiful john fahey - red cross. beautiful | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 340 Registered: 01-2005 |
My friend Brian Nupp knows Bid from The Monochrome Set and his new band Scarlett's Well. He played guitar with Bid when SW toured the US last year. Bid also contibuted to Brian's latest LazerLove 5 album! | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 128 Registered: 09-2006 |
I'm in serious infatuation mode with the Gothic Archies' Snicket album right now...it doesn't even feel like I'm missing anything because I've never read the books...this is just a fine bunch of (charming, goofily macabre) songs. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 865 Registered: 03-2005 |
Bee Gees--The Studio Albums 1967-1968 box. Definitely no "cool" value to this but I always had a weakness for the Gibbs' first international era (long before "Jive Talking" and all the rest of that). In spite of being a big Rolling Stones fan at the time, one of the earliest albums I purchased with my very own money was "Idea" in 1968 when I was eleven. That copy survived every successive purge of my record collection until it was finally replaced by a CD. During their period as an actual band with Colin Petersen and Vince Melouney (1967-1969) the Gibb brothers were in their late teens and basically a three-part songwriting collective very busily developing the craft of song. Later on their career developed into something tedious but here it was all about experiment and growth. The box set includes two full CDs of unreleased material, sometimes crap sometimes very illuminating. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1130 Registered: 05-2005 |
Michael I wa awestruck to get an email from BID last year! Really nice man, don't think much of SW though. Shame. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 343 Registered: 01-2005 |
Spence, cool! Next time you send him an e-mail, mention you know someone who knows Brian Nupp. Now Playing: Heliotrope - The Romance of The Rose, Feminine Voices From Medieval Eurpore. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 135 Registered: 09-2006 |
Finally got around to listening to Grandaddy's swansong (we'll see) "Just Like the Fambly Cat." Very nice...my favorite part at the moment is the hidden track, a cover of the coda (!) to ELO's "Shangri-La"...like the original, it fades in when you think the album is over, just like the Beatles song ("Strawberry Fields Forever"? "Rain"? "Helter Skelter"?) that Jeff Lynne nicked it from in the first place...meta meta meta...I used to be bothered by it, but now I just shake my head in wonder. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 515 Registered: 08-2004 |
The Raspberries - Powerpop Vol. 1 - They're a strange bunch this lot, despite some terrible moments of Mcartney-esque balladry blandness. Shortly after they're riffing on The Who/Kinks/Byrds/Led Zep lite moments & the vocals are uncannily similar to Billy Mackenzie. The Decemberists - The Crane Wife - This comes highly recommended on this board & elsewhere. Despite initial fears of a diddly-oirish sound all in all very good. Siouxsie & The Banshees - Join Hands - Near classic. If you like a cup of Goth? Slowdive - Just For A Day - Like MBV in a hammock. Doves - Lost Souls - Solid debut. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 394 Registered: 04-2006 |
air miami - me.me.me. to listen to this record made a lot of fun. still do. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 397 Registered: 04-2006 |
andrew morgan - the misadventures in radiology if you like elliott smith... (i have written this already once) | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 136 Registered: 09-2006 |
Jerry, although I'd say the Raspberries had a couple of good slow ones ("Let's Pretend" and "Overnight Sensation" come to mind) in general I'd most definitely agree with you...I still remember when Eric Carmen's "All by Myself" was huge and how when it'd come on the radio I'd quickly and almost vehemently change the station...Eric, you're all alone for VERY GOOD REASON. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 137 Registered: 09-2006 |
To elaborate, because now I'm all fired up on the subject: when Carmen goes into self-pity mode he sings like his entire nasal cavity is filled with snot from crying so much, but he's such a romantic masochist/fetishist he'll be damned if he's going to blow his nose... | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 516 Registered: 08-2004 |
I know what you mean, Allen. I've read reviews of their work over the years & to say I was curious would be an understatement. Although the ingredients were all wrong I still enjoyed listening to them. A kind of perverse thing happened, where the stop button was always an option. Just as I reached over to do the deed, a cracking riff would stop me in my tracks. Roll on Volume II. | ||
| jerry hann Member Username: Jerry_h Post Number: 361 Registered: 07-2005 |
Just bought yesterday the Beatles "Love" cd, I'm not usually a massive fan but admire and quite loike their work,you can't escape it really they are a bit like folk songs now. But what prompted me to get it was I just caught the programme on the BBC about the making of it nad the Cirque de Soleil show accompanying it and as struck how great George and Giles Martin production and arrangements are. Listening to them last night was quite revelatory and heard the songgs in a new light. Particularly was While My Guitar gently weeps. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1135 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Hammond Song - The Roches. The name of this band is Talking Heads - Talking Heads (2 CD set). Rip it up - Orange Juice. Midnite Vultures - Beck. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 871 Registered: 03-2005 |
Inspired by an earlier post from Spence, I picked up a copy of Dave Graney's "My Life on the Plains." He deconstructs country, even doing songs by Gene Clark, Gram Parsons, Fred Neil and the old chestnut "Streets of Laredo." The only other Graney album I have is "Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye." "My Life on the Plains" is better. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1136 Registered: 05-2005 |
Hi Randy Glad you like! Thanks for the April March & Los Cincos tune its great! i'll use it on my Xmas comps in the future! I am on a Beck frenzy. Next up Sea Change. Anyone else like the man? | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1282 Registered: 05-2005 |
Spence, Becks new album is great. As are Sea Change and Odelay Any other Graney recommendations? Napster has quite a few albums, downloading Night Of The Wolverines at the moment because I loved the title. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1283 Registered: 05-2005 |
Listening a lot to an album called Transparent Things by Fujiya and Miyagi(who despite the Japenese name are from Brighton) which is a big melting pot of Hot Chip, Can, Neu, Eno,Talking Heads and Aphex Twin. Its fantastic although obviously given the influences, not very original. Also, a new signing on the ever reliable Domino record label, a guy called Benjy Ferree(a failed actor apparently who used to babysit for David Lynch). Only on first listen but sounds very interesting, alt countryish, but more left field than that genre normally is. The Kinks have been mentioned in reviews, can see it very very vaguely. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1137 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kev, am gonna check out Transparent, sounds good. Domino really seem to know how to tailor artists of supposed quality and distinction? I say this as I haven't really heard much of their roster but they do seem to latch on to the cool, and don't force feed, but nurture and let the artist remain organic. Are they the next 4AD I wonder? Mixing the rough with the smooth. Archie Bronson Outfit sound like a quality act. i saw them in 2004 with Wilco and its nice they are still around, slowly cooking. Graney wise, I was the hunter and I was the prey is good, some songs of his stand out over time like, Listen to her daughter's sing, Rock n Roll is where I hide. Is he on iTunes? His new album on Reaction which is a reissue I think its The Brother who lived. Its already been out but has additional tracks now. On a me me me level, I was once proud to have been talking with Mr G once about releasing it in the UK and handling the licence over here but we were skint and our ambitions with our little label became stratched very quickly and it didnt happen. Reaction i s a good label, i admire their integrity and support fro not so much cutting edge but reliable, like they have Malcolm Ross' new album, which has met with much applause. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 352 Registered: 01-2005 |
Randy, Dave Graney's "My Life on the Plains"? For any history buffs of the American West, they will recognize that title as being George Armstrong Custer's autobiography. Of course as things turned out, the Native Americans had the last say in regards to Custer's life on the plains thanks to superior numbers, weapons and Custer foolishly dividing his forces before properly scouting the entire Sioux and Cheyenne village at the Little Big Horn. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 246 Registered: 08-2006 |
Lou Reed's "New Sensations," one of my all-time favorites. When that kick drum comes in on "Doin' the Things That We Want To," it's better than any drug I'm acquainted with. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1284 Registered: 05-2005 |
The solo album from Gruff Rhys- Candylion. Much better than the last Super Furrys album, although obviously not as lush as the Furrys are. Couple of tracks actually reminded me of Nick Drake if he was backed by Love. This augurs well for the imminent Super Furrys album, assUming Gruff hasnt kept all his best songs for this solo effort. Its also been well received so far- 4 stars in Mojo and Q. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 355 Registered: 01-2005 |
Francoise Hardy. I have had a thing for her since I saw Grand Prix in the theatre in 1967.Screw Dubya and all those hate mongering anti-French right wing nut jobs. France was right not to fight in Iraq in 2003. I am proud to be a francophile. Not to mention my ancestors came from Alsace, the NE section of France famous for it's German style white wines. | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 69 Registered: 05-2005 |
Coincidence Michael. Itunes shows me that I've listened 51 times 'la terre' from Françoise Hardy since yesterday... http://www.fhardy.de/text/la_terre.html | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1286 Registered: 05-2005 |
Viarosa - Where The Killers Run. If there was a "Country Noir" section in the record stores this is where you would find this album. They are touring with Robyn Hitchcock in January 2007. Their Myspace page includes some of the the following influences,and it shows in the album - Johnny Cash, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, Neil Young, Lift To Experience, The Velvet Underground, Bob Dylan, The Violent Femmes, Patti Smith, Mark Lanegan, Willard Grant Conspiracy, Lambchop, PJ Harvey, Bowie, Talk Talk, The Stones. Also, still lots of plays for Benjy Ferree and Fujiya and Miyagi, the latter could be 2007s Hot Chip | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 140 Registered: 09-2006 |
Jonesing on wolfgangsvault.com right now...been through short sets by the Byrds, the Clash and CCR and am currently in the middle of a full Stevie Wonder concert. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1088 Registered: 04-2005 |
I'm listening to--much to my surprise--Gang of Four's "Solid Gold," which inexplicably my girlfriend picked to play while fixing enchiladas for tonight's New Years Eve party. I can hardly complain! | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1089 Registered: 04-2005 |
Oh, look, it's 2007 in the UK now...cheers everyone! | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1287 Registered: 05-2005 |
cheeeeers Kurt, yep its 2007. Solid Gold, well i wouldn't complain, its got paralyzed,what we all want,Outside The Trains Don't Run On Time,Cheeseburger,Hole In The Wallet,He'd Send In The Army, and To Hell With Poverty - your girl has good taste. Inexplicably I'm playing Oceans Apart and it just sounds wonderful - must go well with the red wine!! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 873 Registered: 03-2005 |
hmmmm. red wine . . . . Wonder if that'll go with my crappy home-made tacos. Right now, Entomology again. Somewhere, Kevin, you described Josef K as a funkier Joy Division. That's a really great description. I picked up the "Live at Valentino's" CD. It's amazing how close most of the performances are to the studio versions. I've only had one listen so far and at first that's a little bit of a disappointment because, I suppose, I just wanted to hear some more new Josef K songs. But they must have been a wonder to watch! Michael, I did not know that "My Life on the Plains" was also the title to Custer's autobio but it fits with Graney's smart-ass concept. Any significance to the name of his backing band--"The White Buffaloes?" Happy New Year to everybody in Euroland and Oz. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 357 Registered: 01-2005 |
Randy, the only things I know about white buffaloes is that they are extremly rare, and Native Americans held them in great honor, as they were usually a sign from the Spirits that great changes were on the horizon. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1288 Registered: 05-2005 |
I cant recommend the Benjy Ferree album highly enough. Domino rarely get it wrong and they havent this time, apparently they phoned him up after hearing his album and offered to sign him up - he put the phone down thinking it was a wind up. To the elusive LK- this is right up your street my man, especially with the Kinks influence starting to subtly reveal itself with each passing play Beg,steal or borrow is my advice. http://www.myspace.com/benjyferree http://www.dominorecordco.us/index.php?p age=artists&artistID=217 | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1291 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy,sorry for the late reply - yep I did say that. I also quoted some music journalist who said JK were like "Wire doing disco" - both quotes are apt imo | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1090 Registered: 04-2005 |
The journalist who called JK "Wire doing disco" is a fool. Mid-'80s Wire is "Wire doing disco." Josef K was just Josef K. Benjy Ferree? How do you stay on top of all this obscure stuff, Kevin? You sure he's not a relation of the dreaded Bryan Ferry, using a different spelling as a disguise? | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1292 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kurt - re Benjy - I read an album review and noticed that he was on Domino - I am always interested in music this label releases | ||
| Matt Ellis Member Username: Matt_ellis Post Number: 135 Registered: 11-2004 |
Thanks for the tip on Viarosa Kevin - one day I will finally get broadband and be able to listen to the delights of Myspace. I'm off to see RH&TV3 next Monday and Thursday. I currently have RH&TV3 Ole Tarantula jammed into my PC on heavy rotation. I'm also listening to The Church Sing-Songs/Remote Luxary/Persia compilation - it hasn't sunk in yet but its starting to sound like one of their best. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1293 Registered: 05-2005 |
Matt, let us know how Viarosa come over live. RH&TV3s album needs more work on my part, I flirted with it for a few days a couple of months ago but I just couldnt warm to it unfortunately. | ||
| Matt Ellis Member Username: Matt_ellis Post Number: 136 Registered: 11-2004 |
It took me quite a few listens to warm to it Kevin - it's definately a grower. 'Underground Sun' 'Briggs' and 'Belltown Ramble' are by far the standouts for me. I just can't believe they've already recorded the follow-up. It's too expensive to be a Robyn Hitchcock record collector lol | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1294 Registered: 05-2005 |
Just listened to Ole Tarantula again, sorry but I just find it boring. Some nice vocal harmonies on a couple of tracks but it just doesnt grab me somehow | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 142 Registered: 09-2006 |
Nellie McKay - Pretty Little Head The Fall - 50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong Still paying tribute to J. Brown...more than a week later I've made it through all of his music that I have, some several times. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 521 Registered: 08-2004 |
Bellatrix - It's All True Soul II Soul - Club Classics Vol. 1 Echo & The Bunnymen - Peel Sessions + Simple Minds - New Gold Dream Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings & Food Siouxsie & The Banshees - Voices In The Air The Triffids - In The Pines The Who - The Who Sell Out + 16 Lovers Lane | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1099 Registered: 04-2005 |
801 Live: Finally got this on CD after losing my vinyl copy at least 20 years ago. Great avant-supergroup featuring Eno, Phil Manzanera, Simon Phillips, and others. Weird but fun to hear Eno singing "Tomorrow Never Knows" and "You Really Got Me." Phil Manzanera - Diamond Head: Replaced my 30-year-old, scratchy vinyl copy with a CD. This is a really great album, not half as "prog" as you might expect, with great contributions from Eno, Robert Wyatt, Andy Mackay, John Wetton, and a cast of thosands. Musically it's basically a Roxy album without Ferry, which is not a bad thing. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1354 Registered: 03-2006 |
El Perro Del Mar - found this on a blog. This "group" basically consists of a Swedish girl and sounds like a girl doo-wop group as imagined by David Lynch. Strange tension between incredible, catchy cheeriness and weird, otherworldy creepiness. Utterly fascinating and compelling.. George Jones and Merle Haggard - Kicking Out the Footlights...Again!: A phenomenal duet record of sorts by the two greatest living country singers. They sing some of each other's greatest hits to beautiful, moving effect. They also do some other chestnuts: heaven is hearing the Possum singing "Don't Get Around Much Anymore". Sublime. John Lee Hooker - Hooker: the just released box set. All the best stuff by my absolute favorite blues artist ever. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 144 Registered: 09-2006 |
Kurt, I love that 801 album...my first girlfriend turned me on to that one when I was in the midst of my first flush of Eno fandom oh so many years ago... | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1146 Registered: 05-2005 |
LK, is Hooker available in UK? | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1104 Registered: 04-2005 |
Probably, but don't you call them tarts or trollops there? Sorry, somebody had to do it.  | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1360 Registered: 03-2006 |
I would think so, Spence. It's on Shout! Factory records, a cool re-issue label that's nipping at the heels of Rhino. I'm sure, if nowhere else, you could get it from Amazon. In my book, there aren't many songs that quicken the pulse like "Boom Boom". | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 249 Registered: 08-2006 |
LK, you scoundrel, welcome back. And all hail the Hook. I gotta pick that up. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1147 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kurt, yep spot on, my Borat impression works!? | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1296 Registered: 05-2005 |
The new Richmond Fontaine album called Thirteen Cities. Gruff Rhys - Candylion (yet another 4 star review in Uncut, to add to Mojo and Q reviews) Grinderman, the new album from Nick Cave and co. Despite a few distorted guitar parts this is pretty much a Bad Seeds album (in fact a few of the Bad Seeds play on it). Still getting to grips with it but slowly sinking in as another very good Cave album. Still playing the Benjy Ferree. Fujiya and Miyagi's album Transparent Things is as good as Hot Chip imo. Decemberists - The Crane Wife is just about to get a release in the UK, have had it on import for ages so thought I would dig it out again. Didnt sound as good as I remembered, specailly the longer, folky, proggy tracks - uurggh | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1298 Registered: 05-2005 |
Spence, I already have Hooker on order. The best deals I saw are Play.com at Ł32.99 (inc p & p), or Amazon at Ł31.99, with approx Ł2 p & p. Some places are charging approx Ł40 | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1361 Registered: 03-2006 |
Spence, excellent impression...btw, beware of hooker with vajean like wizard sleeve... Damn, Kev...how'd you snag a copy of Richmond Fontaine's new one so early? Color me jealous. Is it more rocking than that last boring and depressing one? I do have a copy of Grinderman and am kinda liking it. So far. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1299 Registered: 05-2005 |
LK- yep its more like Post To Wire, but still has a few sombre tracks as well. Guess you could say its a hybrid. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1362 Registered: 03-2006 |
Cool. Post to Wire is one of my absolute faves of that genre, or really, any genre...Why Richmond Fontaine isn't huge is a total mystery to me, though I understand they have a big following in the UK. On that subject, there's a Scottish artist I wanted to ax you about, Kevin: King Creosote. Any good? | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1148 Registered: 05-2005 |
cheers kev and lk, heard new malcolm middleton (arab starp) single today, very very good. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1300 Registered: 05-2005 |
LK, never heard KC. Apparently he's a bit folky, about the sum of my knowledge I'm afraid | ||
| Matt Ellis Member Username: Matt_ellis Post Number: 139 Registered: 11-2004 |
Jerry - how do you find the Bellatrix album? I completely forgot about it. I bought it as soon as it came out a few years back but was very dissapointed after seeing them live as a support band. I'm currently listening to a Frank Black album 'Black Letter Days' I think it's his best after what seems to be everyones favourite 'Teenager Of The Year' I seem to have got addicted to buying his solo albums which is hard work - he releases around 1 a year on average! Does anyone have a view on his solo material? | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1301 Registered: 05-2005 |
Dog in The Sand is good Matt | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 401 Registered: 04-2006 |
happy new year to all of you! karen dalton - in my own time nick cave likes her, bob dylan likes her, lenny kaye likes her, devendra banhart likes her and i like her, too. what a marvellous album. listened last night to this perfect reissue of a perfect record and i was overwhelmed. http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg &sql=10:xl5ibks9hak0~T1 i am sure that some of you folks out there (could) like her, too. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 252 Registered: 08-2006 |
At the risk of attracting the scorn of my board mates, I have to admit I only just got my copy of "Orphans." (Okay, okay, so I've been a slovenly music buyer for the last six or so months.) My painstakingly crafted critcal opinion: It is wonderful. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 523 Registered: 08-2004 |
Matt, I picked up the Bellatrix CD at my local Oxfam shop. Saw Fierce Panda on the label & snapped it up, ultimately it was a bad move. Girly pop trying to be outrageous, not impressed. | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 151 Registered: 01-2006 |
Orphans is great on initial listens but the Israel-Palestine song (Road to Peace??) has to be one of the most mis-judged things he's done in the last few decades. It reminds me of Patti Smith explaining to the Olympia audience in Dublin why she was wearing green and orange after the 1998 peace deal in the north of Ireland....it was received with an embarrassing silence... | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 255 Registered: 08-2006 |
I agree, XY, it's a weirdy. I've listened to it a few times, and I don't hate it as song, but it sticks out like a sore thumb amid the other, decidedly non-topical stuff on the CD. He certainly doesn't have, say, Springsteen's deft touch with the political tune. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1302 Registered: 05-2005 |
doesnt Kathleen Brennan write all Toms lyrics? | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 882 Registered: 03-2005 |
Andreas, that AllMusic review of Karen Dalton really reads like something. I love interpreters. I'll be checking her out. Happy New Year to you and welcome back. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1110 Registered: 04-2005 |
I don't think she writes all the lyrics. From what I've heard, they collaborate--I wonder if she is more of a conceptualist for him, giving him ideas to write about? I think my opinion of TW would drop slightly if I knew none of the lyrics were his. While his subject matter and musical styles have expanded tremendously since he started working with Brennan, the style of the lyric writing doesn't seem (to me, anyway) significantly different. I think it's still mostly Tom's words. I bet LK knows the answer to this question. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1366 Registered: 03-2006 |
Kevin, at the risk of sounding geekier than I already do about Tom Waits, there's no hard and fast rule. They mostly collaborate and share credit for everything, music and words, but Waits still also composes solo occassionally. I like "Road to Peace" - I may be suffering from some form of political naivete, but it works for me. I like that he names names and it seems incredibly heartfelt. Congrats on owning Orphans, Rob. It is a phenomenal collection that I think people will be listening to and talking about for decades. Hard to believe these were his "leftovers", though many were re-recorded. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 403 Registered: 04-2006 |
the best disc of the three orphan ones is surely the bastard - cd. brawlers: good, but nothing on it which really makes me enthusiastic. the same with the bawlers. beautiful songs, dor sure. but maybe a bit to much of beauty. but 'bastards' is the one which sets the standard. there's no dull moment on it. every song or interpretations arouses the interest of the listener. that's what a record should be made of. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 404 Registered: 04-2006 |
by the way: i never was a big tom waits fan. i ignored him, like i ignored bob dylan. orphans is a good way to start. and maybe i will give the onbe or other waits album a listen. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 405 Registered: 04-2006 |
randy, the karen dalton album is really worth to listen. even such songs like 'when a man loves a woman' or 'how sweet it is' (which everyone knows well and have listen to them in several interpretations) catches you. one reason is -for sure- her unique voice (only kevin could have his problems with her voice .... :-) ). | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 406 Registered: 04-2006 |
once again orphans: to my copy a 7'' was included. side a : lie to me from the orphans album side b: crazy about my baby prev.unreleased does anyone have this single too? does anyone know why some copies have been sold together with the single? and is this unreleased song, really unreleased? my www-search wasn't satisfying. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1370 Registered: 03-2006 |
My copy, and I have the deluxe, bound-booklet version that cost, more or less, 50 bucks (not the cheaper digi-pak), does NOT have that song, dammit. Luckily, that song is out there in the blogosphere for download...I'm jealous of your nifty collector's item, Andreas, even if I don't have a turntable to play it on... | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 407 Registered: 04-2006 |
now: the last of the buff medways e.p. the buff medways final release. wild billy childish broke up the band. the song 'the last of the buff medways' is the bitter story of the band and the disrespect which was showed on them. even john peel and his silence about the buffs is mentioned. but wild billy childish would not be wild billy childish if we could not listen to new music from him in the near future. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1154 Registered: 05-2005 |
Andreas, I never liked Billy C as a person, tho I am intigued by him and wanted to buy a BM album, what would you say would be a good purchase starting point please? Cheers. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1303 Registered: 05-2005 |
looking forward to listening to the new Low album Guns and Drums later tonight. Will be paying special attention to the lyrics given Alan Sparhawks mental problems in the last couple of years. On the lyrics for Road To Peace, I think they are a bit awkward, and if I was a betting man I would say they were written by Tom, now that I have been enlightened to the songwriting partnership details | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1115 Registered: 04-2005 |
I thought I'd read somewhere that Waits actually transcribed most if not all the words to "Road to Peace" from other sources, like newspaper and TV accounts. Maybe I just imagined that. A new Low album, hmm? I really liked "The Great Destroyer" after not being into them at all before that. Just tooooooo sllllllowwww... I hope they haven't gone back to that old style. I know they lost their "rockin'" bass player, but that may not make a difference. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 408 Registered: 04-2006 |
spence, if it should be a BM record maybe you could start with the medway wheelers. but you can also buy any other BM album - or any other release of his long career. if you haven't any other WBC, Pop Rivets, Milkshakes, Mighty Caesars, Headcoats album you can start with that new 'my first billy childish album' (damaged goods label) kind of compilation. WBC and his and associated bands/artists output on his own Hangman Records was great. my favourite WBC album ever is a calypso record: black hands - captain calypso's hoodoo party but, spence, why don't you like WBC as a person? | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1304 Registered: 05-2005 |
I didnt even notice, but when my mate slipped me a bunch of promos it was the Low album that jumped out and I didnt even notice the new album from LCD Soundsystem - bloody hell. If you liked the last album you are going to love this, I will temper that by pointing out that I am saying this after a solitary listen, sometimes liking an album so much on first listen can be a bad thing in the long run. Its very melodic and synth/computerised beats based obviously, but has a toughness about it too. Our Trans Antlantic bretheren may be intrigued by track 3, its called North American Scum! | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1116 Registered: 04-2005 |
We won't take track 3 personally...they're Mormons, after all! I'm intrigued by your description--synths and programmed beats are different for them. I know what you mean about albums that sound great on first hearing not holding up. Gnarls Barkley was the big one in that category for me last year. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1305 Registered: 05-2005 |
sorry kurt, i didnt make it clear enough, my comments in my last post refer to how good the LCD Soundsystem album sounds. As I type this I am listening to the Low album for the first time - still on track 1, report to follow. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1306 Registered: 05-2005 |
actually kurt, now I have listened to the Low album the bit about "synths and programmed beats" also applies here, although the synth is very minimal - this is one stripped down record and one that perhaps only diehard fans will like. I am only guessing, but I reckon that Alan S will be credited as being the sole musician on this album. I cannot hear any "real" drums on this record, just a primitive sounding beatbox, although there are "live" cymbals. The (few) bass notes sound programmed, there is also minimal electric guitar. One lyric that stood out was "lets bury the hatchet like the Beatles and The Stones" on the track "Hatchet". Unfortunately (for me anyway) Mimi only gets one lead vocal on "Dust on the window" although she does do her normal amount of vocal harmonies with Alan S. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1120 Registered: 04-2005 |
Oops, it never occurred to me you originally meant LCD Soundsystem in your description...but it's funny the Low album is fairly "techno" too, at least by their standards. Kind of hard to imagine them without Mimi's minimalist drumming. Is the LCD Soundsystem album a new one, or the recent thing they did for Nike? I haven't been keeping up on my music news lately. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1307 Registered: 05-2005 |
its a new one Kurt, another 9 tracker called Sound Of Silver. released in March. | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 70 Registered: 05-2005 |
I'm into the Sibylle Baier cd today. Songs recorded in the beginning of the seventies, but never published. The music of this german girl reminds me Leonard Cohen. She’s got dithyrambic reviews in the french press. It's worth to listen to her. http://www.myspace.com/sibyllebaier http://www.orangetwin.com/sibylle.html Otherwise Shack and the BBC sessions of the La's are the cd's of these last weeks. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 889 Registered: 03-2005 |
Sending a few songs over the net got me listening to the Beau Brummels' excellent reunion album from 1975 and then Gene Clark's collection of unreleased songs "Under the Silvery Moon." After Clark everyone else pales. TROU thanks for the Sibylle Baier link. MySpace is screwing up as usual but she sounds great. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1156 Registered: 05-2005 |
Been busy today tidying the house. Levitation - Need for not. Various songs of the great war 1914-18 - Oh what a lovely war. Beethoven - Sypmh No 9 in D minor, OP. 125 "Choral". Morrissey - Vauxhall and I. (His best and will never be bettered IMHO). Beck - Sea Change. (so wonderful). Caroline Trettine - 10 Light Years. | ||
| Matt Ellis Member Username: Matt_ellis Post Number: 141 Registered: 11-2004 |
Jerry - you never know: that Bellatrix CD could have been my copy! | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 409 Registered: 04-2006 |
i am totally excited. randy tolds about that gene clark collection of which i don't know and trou posted that sibylle baier link. and i don't know anything about that record either. randy, as you wrote everything else pales after listening to that gene clark songs. that means it is worth to buy? please tell a little, randy. and sibylle baier sounds more than interesting. surely not only a record for your obscurity section. and back to the thread: listened to johnny cash live at san quentin. the legacy edition is really great. the complete show. carl perkins rocks and the statler brothers are another fine 'brothers'-group. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 891 Registered: 03-2005 |
Andreas, "Under the Silvery Moon" was released in 2003. It consists primarily of a bunch of demos recorded by Clark with Pat Robinson in the period just before Carla Olson. It also includes some of the CRY material (Clark/Robinson/York). Except for two songs recorded in a regular studio, the sound of the set is not fully professional but it's the very listenable product of a project studio. And the players include Nicky Hopkins and Rick Danko as well as John York (whose name you might recognize from the "Ballad of Easy Rider" era Byrds). For the most part the material is less country-oriented than had been usual for Clark and some of it just sounds like old farts reaching back to memories of youth with a pretty bad cover of "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow" (tune that guitar!) and the proto-Presley "Don't You Know." The backings use a lot more synth than is usual for Clark. But there are also superb Clark originals like "Immigrant Girl," the wonderfully densely-worded "My Marie" and "Dangerous Games," "Sleep Will Return" and the full studio recordings of "Mary Sue" and "Carry On." There is an earlier version of "Fair and Tender Ladies." If you love Gene Clark--and I revere Gene Clark--it's a must-have collection. The best things are better than the "Firebyrd" album because even with the synthesizer the backings do not suffer from the terminal non-imagination of that 1984 album. Andreas, you don't have your e-mail address in your profile here. If you have a broadband internet connection I can send you some examples of the songs. My e-mail addy is: flaminia@sbcglobal.net Oh and let me know if you have iTunes and can take files in m4a format or if I need to convert to mp3. Spence, what is 10 Light Years like? | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 194 Registered: 04-2005 |
Tidied up the hard drive and compiled a CD of various bits and pieces downloaded over the past couple of years. Some highlights: Jeff Buckley + Liz Fraser "All Flowers in Time" A rough demo, but very moving and powerful. Fraser's voice send shivers up your spine, as she does her gutteral wailing. By the tone of her voice at the end of the song ("oh my god") she appears to think that it was a load of shite. Graeme Allwright: La Marseillaise A new caring + sharing version of the dreadfully bloody + imperialist French national anthem. This NZ born singer has lived in France for over 50 years now and finds the national anthem a disgrace. So he re-wrote the words and there is a petition to get this version adopted. Almost 80 years old now he played a concert in my village in 2005 and gave an incredible performance. Future Pilot AKA: couple of pieces from the hippest driving instructor around. Complete mix-up of cultures and sounds and all the best for it. And I'll repeat my never-ending question: when do we get to hear Robert Forster's version of their 'The Maid of the Loch' (You'll Never be Rich)? The recording dates back to 2001! And lastly The CD of 'Gibraltar' by ABD Al Malik. Having always said that rap did nothing for me ("says nothing to me about my life"), this is a revelation. Although apparently more 'slam' than 'rap'? With a quite jazzy background. A Muslim from the 'banlieus', with a deep belief in humanity. At present I can only get about 50% of the lyrics, but I shall go into full translating mode soon. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 372 Registered: 01-2005 |
I just got into the solo recordings of Gene Clark last year. I love No Other, and White Light is almost as good. I was going to pick up Roadmaster next, is that the logical one to get next Randy? Although I love Gene, I still give the edge to Gram based on "Hot Burrito #1", "Sin City", and the highlights of GP and Grievous Angel. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1157 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy 10 years is great, will get you a copy. Spence | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1313 Registered: 05-2005 |
Sorry to disagree Michael. much as I love Gram, Gene did it longer and consistently better imo | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 411 Registered: 04-2006 |
despite gram parsons was a musician whom i like very much - the first burrito album is one of my all time faves- gene clark is the one who makes me cry. and roadmaster is definitely a must have. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 412 Registered: 04-2006 |
randy, thanks for your informations about the gene clark album. i will send you a mail within the next days. for now i have to quit the www. cheers andreas | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 373 Registered: 01-2005 |
Gram certainly had a long gap between Burrito Deluxe and GP, no doubt about it. And Burrito Deluxe wasn't all that great compared to The Gilded Palace of Sin, GP and Grievous Angel. So you guys are correct in that Gene did it longer and more consitent. However, when Gram was "on" in concert, people did weep. I'll stick with Gram having higher peaks and lower valleys than Gene. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1377 Registered: 03-2006 |
I'm with you, Michael, my well-preserved friend...Gene did it longer, but he didn't do it better, imo. Gram's flame burned brighter (and bluer) and, let's face it he pretty much invented country-rock (whether that's a laudable achievement or not) and is an icon - his face should be on Mt. Rushmore. Which is not to say Gene Clark is chopped liver. The stuff he wrote, while in the Byrds, is indelible. Never really rated his solo output, though. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1379 Registered: 03-2006 |
Stuff I'm listening to - "Jungle Jim and the Voodoo Tiger", by James Luther Dickinson, noted producer, sideman to Ry Cooder, and Papa to the North Mississippi Allstars...sublime and deeply gratifying, like some dream combination of the Stones and Replacements, fronted by Big Luther Kent.... | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 895 Registered: 03-2005 |
Michael, it all depends upon your personal tastes in music because Gene Clark's records cover a lot of ground. A high water mark on the level of "White Light" or "No Other" (which some folks might remember is not one of my faves of his anyway) is his first Dillard & Clark album ("Fantastic Expedition") but you must be ok with banjo because the "Dillard" is banjo maestro Douglas Dillard. If that's not a problem for you, buy the A&M "Remasterpieces" issue that couples it with Dillard & Clark's second album "Through the Morning, Through the Night." While this second album is not nearly as good as "Fantastic Expedition," it still has some essential Clark originals like the title song and "Kansas City Southern." Andreas is right, "Roadmaster" is indeed a must-have but it is an odds and sods collection so it won't have the cohesion of the two albums you already have. Don't let that put you off; it's a very good odds and sods album and it even has the novelty of a couple numbers done with the old lineup of the Byrds (but everybody added his part separately, so not a real reunion). If you are ok with 60s-sounding stuff get "Echoes." That's a very good antho including a few of Clark's songs with the Byrds plus his first solo album "With the Gosdin Brothers" plus two sides to an unreleased single that is magnificent in a late-60s mechanical music box way. His last official record company-funded album was "So Rebellious a Lover" with Carla Olson. While I personally wish that they had done more originals, it's still a very fine album and the two of them mesh very well together even with the age gap between them of probably 15 years or so. The arrangements are totally acoustic on the album's original songs, including bass. It just sounds lovely forever. Try to get the Fuel/Varese Sarabande version which includes a bunch of extra odds and ends including their great electric version of Phil Ochs' "Changes" and also a group of studio demos recorded by Gene backed by Carla Olson's band the Textones when he was trying to get yet another record deal. I recommend that you steer clear of "Firebyrd" at least until you are really hooked because it's just a weak amateurish album due to a naff band. "Two Sides to Every Story" is a better album but not in the first rank. It's become oddly hard to locate out where I am so you might not be able to find it anyway. And releases like "Gypsy Angel," "Silhoetted in Light" and "Under the Silvery Moon" are essential for the Gene Clark freak but not recommended for the newcomer because they are funky recordings. "Silvery Moon" is the most easily digestible of those three. Spence, that would be great. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 376 Registered: 01-2005 |
Randy, thanks for the recommendations!You don't like "No Other"? I love that album, especially Strength Of Strings. I'll get Roadmaster next. It would have been great if Gram and Gene ever sang together. Speaking of which, REAP to Alzheimers-plagued Sneaky Pete Kleinow of the Flying Burrito Brothers, who died on the 6th of January. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1382 Registered: 03-2006 |
Good one, Michael. Respect to Sneaky Pete. Great pedal steel player. Probably my favorite instrument and one that, though I dabble in guitar, completely mystifies me. Sneaky's playing really added a lot to those Burrito Bros. records, too - gave them that extra touch of high lonesome that really propelled them honky tonk heaven... | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 260 Registered: 08-2006 |
The new Ornette Coleman, "Sound Grammar," his first album in some time and his best since the late '80s, I'd say. His recent band sounds brilliant. Here's hoping for a period of renewed activity from one of the true living geniuses in modern music. | ||
| Matt Ellis Member Username: Matt_ellis Post Number: 142 Registered: 11-2004 |
Kevin - I can now report on Viarosa. I liked the overall sound. Something in them reminded me of The Church! - in that there is a lot melodically going on in each track. I was impressed with the guitarist - he played guitar/banjo/lap steel and mandolin! Only 2 or 3 songs in the set really grabbed me - but others potentially would. I also thought The singer has very exaggerated vocal phrasing - tended to make some songs samey. I'm off to see Robyn and The Venus 3 again on Thursday (and I will be less drunk) so I will listen some more :-) As far as Robyn Hitchcock is concerned - me and my mate were in tears of laughter at his on stage banter - it's well known that the guy is witty in an obscure way, but it was something else! I managed to meet the band after the gig - they hung out with the audience! It was a shocking turn out (less than 100) I actually plucked up the courage to get photos with them all and even speak to one of my all time heros Peter Buck! after blabbing about how much I enjoyed the gig I asked him if R.E.M. might be gigging this year - and he was very non-commital. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 377 Registered: 01-2005 |
Matt, I bet Peter enjoys playing more with Robyn, Bill and Scott in front of a 100 people then with REM playing in front of 15 thousand. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1128 Registered: 04-2005 |
I've been pretty ungenerous about Pete Buck in the past, but it occurs to me that quite possibly, the whole R.E.M. experience and its expectations make him uptight, and that he's actually still a nice, down-to-earth guy when he can have fun playing music in a more honest, small-scale way, as with the Minus 5 or Hitchcock. And, I wonder, if the two Mikes--Stipe and Mills--are just not very fun guys to be around. Maybe they're "handcuffing" him musically too. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1314 Registered: 05-2005 |
Cheers Matt, hope you enjoy the next gig. Randy, I fully endorse what you say about Roadmaster. Just playing it at work tonight, and it includes one of my favourite Gene songs, In A Misty Morning. Looking at the sleevenotes I see that the sadly departed Sneeky Pete plays pedal steel on this song, but the star for me is one Byron Berline whose fiddle playing is immense. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 262 Registered: 08-2006 |
For the R. Hitchcock fans on the board: Heard a promo on public radio this morning that he and P. Buck are going to appear in-studio on our local rock-crticism radio show, "Sound Opinions." For those not in Chicago - or wherever else the show is syndicated - I think you'll be able to stream it after the show airs on the 13th. Go here: http://www.soundopinions.com/ | ||
| Matt Ellis Member Username: Matt_ellis Post Number: 143 Registered: 11-2004 |
I agree with you there Michael - although as everybody knows there is so much history between Peter, Mike and Michael (i.e. going from a party covers band to multi millionaires over their 26 years together) They have never left more than 3 years between albums so I really hope they record this year. Kurt - Peter definately seemed down to earth and a nice guy. Seeing him wandering around the back of a tatty venue in freezing Norwich seemed surreal. I'm not sure about Buck being tied down musically with R.E.M. Watching the 'behind the scenes stuff' on the latest R.E.M. DVD it seemed like Buck acted almost as band leader (then again it was shot in the mid 80's) his guitar work with Robyn H sounds like classic Buck - maybe he feels he can't do that in R.E.M. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 899 Registered: 03-2005 |
While it's obviously nice not to have to worry about money, I'd think that being a star would be a thoroughly dreary experience. It sounds like a prison to me. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 263 Registered: 08-2006 |
I agree, Randy. I always thought that, if I were going to make a go of it as a musician, I'd love to have a career more along the lines of the GBs. To have the respect of your peers, fans and the press, and still be able to go to the grocery store and corner bar with a police escort - I'd trade that for the big bucks and the bigger hassles of full-on celebrity-dom. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 900 Registered: 03-2005 |
It goes on and on. You never get to be a person. Nobody approaches you as a person. You are an icon. Icons are made of wood. Loading some more things onto my iTunes library for the iPod, listening right now to the Flamin' Groovies' great "Shake Some Action." They spent too much time regugitating licks from their favorite songs but when they actually did a real song honestly of their own, like "Shake Some Action," they were unstoppable and they showed the way for the whole indie crowd that came along ten or fifteen years later. They were such welcome relief in the dreary 70s. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1385 Registered: 03-2006 |
It's probably a measure of how deeply I've been corrupted by living in Cali, but I'd be willing to put up with all that "dreariness" if there were enough money involved. One could always hire someone to do the grocery shopping (Jesus, would that be sweet freedom) and even, for that matter, go down to the corner bar and do your drinking for you. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1387 Registered: 03-2006 |
I finlly got around to listening to the promo copy I've had for ages of the Rapture's "Pieces of the People We Love", or whatever it's called. I should've gotten around to it earlier, as it's an excellent record. Waaay better than their first. It comes down, as it always does, to songs, and this one's got the songs. I'm also consoling myself over Kinky Friedman's recent gubernatorial defeat by listening to the awesomely great comp of his stuff, "Last of the Jewish Cowboys". Wonderful from start to finish. Not everybody who comes from (or claims to come from) Texas is an evil simpleton. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 382 Registered: 01-2005 |
All those one nighters for months on end have to take their toll after a while. I think the jazz world has it right, week long stints at more intimate clubs playing in front of smaller crowds. I think it would be way cool to own such a place. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1315 Registered: 05-2005 |
Field Music - Tones In Town. This is the UK equivalent of Midlakes "....Vanoccupanther". A real slow burner. LK/Spence. Finally got the Hooker box set. Its fantastic, especially discs 1 and 2. Cant work up the courage to play disc 4, the "duets" disc with the usual suspects who arent fit to tune the great mans guitar. I dont think I will ever play that disc | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1388 Registered: 03-2006 |
Glad you got it, Kevin. I agree - I think it's a magnificent set. And, I know what you mean - I haven't managed to play disc 4 either. At least we have three totally bad-ass discs to tide us over! I think my favorite, so far, is disc 2. That's the one that starts off with "Dimples", right? Great flippin' song! | ||
| Wolfgang Steinhardt Member Username: Berbatov Post Number: 43 Registered: 09-2006 |
Hi everybody, and if that is not a too embarrassing retard- happy new year (though it's almost time to start the "best record of 2007" thread...). I used to buy a lot of CD's in the meantime, there was time enough to listen and I feel completely out of time to confess that my Apollo V of 2006 lifted off on december 31st when I listened for the first time in my life to the Bad Brains s/t from 1982. I always used to prefer punk and post-p. from the UK and never ever got into Hardcore but I found this so outstanding, I guess I'll have to give it a new try. The next one was the great Josef K. comp, Heart of the Congos, U-Roy and John Fahey and all that and many, many others have been recommended here on the board. I had to think of that terrible day back in the month of may when I read it in my local paper - worst breakfast ever - and visited this board for the first time. 3 weeks later my company sent me (and that never ever happened before and will probably never happen again, just fate) to Sydney where I took the opportunity to stay some more time in Australia and go further to visit Brisbane where I actually walked the streets of his town for five days, with every note the Go Betweens ever recorded stuffed in my ipod and just beeing a sad 46 year old fan and "teenager" -to cut it short: 2006 wasn't a good year at all (not even in terms of music I think) but what I learned is that there is a small gallic village here on the net and if there's a good fairy somewhere all you guys (and not so many girls, why?) should be stuffed in a coach that goes from Brisbane to Perth and back to sing along the whole Forster/McLennan songbook and enough piwo to make the world go around. If paradise is half as nice I would say it's o.k.... Sorry for being pathetic, but you people made my year... | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 527 Registered: 08-2004 |
http://www.remhq.com/flash/news/news.htm l?news_id=2363 There's a chance R.E.M. could be recording in England for the first time since Fables. BTW Matt, I've possibly bought a lot of your throwouts over the years. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 413 Registered: 04-2006 |
good to have you back on the board, wolfgang. a happy new year to you, too. reading your 'australia'- story made me a bit sentimental. when i think about how long it took to handle the death of grant, that must a very special moment and feeling to be there. i wasn't a big us-hardcore fan,too. surely the dead kennedys or black flag were great bands, but i really didn't liked them. the bad brains were different and so were , the minutemen and hüsker dü. those three bands were highly admired by me (especially the minutemen). also a lot of other sst bands were on my turntable. bands like gone, saccharine trust, saint vitus, the meat puppets or always august. ah, that was a good time. wrtitng about us-hardcore, but listening to completely different music. judee sill - judee sill sweet, sweet music. a voice like karen carpenter. country flavored bach melodies. this is not only sweet, this is great and beautiful. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1160 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jerry the picture of REM in front of the yellow door looks like Steptoe (Stipe) and his two cleaning ladies!! oh dear!! http://www.scotsindependent.org/2005/050 304/steptoe%20and%20son.jpg | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1316 Registered: 05-2005 |
LK, if you like The Rapture album you will surely like the new one from LCD Soundsystem. I have a promo, think it hits the streets in March. Very similar sounding to The Rapture, but the songs are stronger imo | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 152 Registered: 09-2006 |
The second volume of Columbia Records' "Pop Music - Soundtrack for a Century," which covers 1951-1975. It begins with Frank Sinatra, ends with Earth, Wind & Fire, and in between the story's kinda odd, because Columbia resisted rock and roll for a long time...there's not even the slightest hint of it until the Yardbirds suddenly turn up 2/3 of the way through the first disc. However, it subsequently does a pretty good job of showcasing the dreamy jazz-pop (lovely at best, teeth-grindingly bland at worst) that coexisted with rock on the Top 40 for a long while: Johnny Mathis, Doris Day, Rosemary Clooney, et. al....in small doses they're very nice indeed. | ||
| Wolfgang Steinhardt Member Username: Berbatov Post Number: 44 Registered: 09-2006 |
... funny Andreas, the Judee Sill twofer was among my new CD's - haven't listened very carefully yet but I liked it very much at first impression. I lived on that Joni Mitchell diet for decades, but now the ladies come out of their canyons - or maybe I'm just belated as always! Have you listened to Sybille Baier in the meantime ? | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 902 Registered: 03-2005 |
Ok, this thread prompted an expensive morning on Amazon; I've ordered Sybille Baier, Judee Sill and Karen Dalton. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1389 Registered: 03-2006 |
LK must add his voice to the chorus of huzzahs for Judee Sill. Her melodies, arrangements and singing were just incredible. "Heart Food" (it took a lot of willpower to get past that title - ugh) is probably the best, but, make no mistake, the first one is not to be missed, either. One of the truly epic talents to come out of that era. And yet another tragic story. Kids, don't do drugs. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 903 Registered: 03-2005 |
Oh yeah, some of us occasionally talk about the fact that the internet makes it so easy to get things that there's no longer the thrill of acquisition. Yesterday I actually had a bit of that thrill, having finally run down a copy of the 1994 Albert Productions release of "Tales of Old Grand-daddy" by Marcus Hook Roll Band. This is a fake band created in 1973 by George Young and Harry Vanda formerly of the Easybeats and I've pursued it for ten years with no success. Of course, being a mid-70s creation it's mostly obnoxious sounding to my ears--kind of a blue-eyed stadium funk rock sound which I've never had any use for--but at last I have it! This is not a shock; it's the direction I knew they moved into after the collapse of the Easys and thankfully there's still a pop discipline in the songs and the arrangements. Some of the social commentary funk songs would be a lot more effective if done by someone like Jimmy James. In the 70s Vanda/Young were mostly recording for the purpose of selling their songs and "Shot in the Head" from this batch of material was picked up by Savoy Brown. The lyrics would fit into one of our threads about pop stardom: "I've been 52 years in a rock 'n roll band, ten thousand women on a one night stand. and all I got to show is a hole in my hand where my money fell through. I've had enough to get shot in the head." That lyric pretty much sums up Vanda and Young's attitude of the business in which they'd gone from lionized heroes in Oz to bright new things in the U.K. with a huge international hit to "who?" in just a few short years. But finally I've got it. I better not get ripped off or my house burn down. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 153 Registered: 09-2006 |
Weren't they also Flash and the Pan? | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 415 Registered: 04-2006 |
yes, allen, they were. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1392 Registered: 03-2006 |
Anna Netrebko - the Russian Album Ron Sexysmith - Time Being Nas - Hip Hop Is Dead | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 904 Registered: 03-2005 |
It's really terrible that the only place I seem to actually listen properly to music is in my car which I barely drive due to a short commute. Most recently I've been listening to the third disc from the Chills' Secret Box--many thanks to Andrew K.--and on the way home was totally knocked out by "The Streets of Forgotten Cool." | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 156 Registered: 01-2006 |
I got a USP Turntable at Christmas so burning (what's the correct IT term??) a lot of vinyl to MP3. Therefore playing lots of my old 12" records from around '88-93, Wedding Present, MBV, Spectrum, Morrissey, House of Love and and old LPs, Neil Young, Beatles, Bob Dylan. Also still listening to the last two Peter, Bjorn and John CDs, crackin' stuff.... | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1405 Registered: 03-2006 |
"My man" came through with a bunch of promos, so I'm enjoying some new stuff that's coming out soon. Richmond Fontaine's "13 Cities" is niiiice, maybe not quite up to their masterpiece, "Post to Wire", but way more engaging than their last soporific, mega-depresso release. I have no real interest, but on the other hand, no problem with Norah Jones, so I greet her new one, "Not Too Late" with a more or less open mind. Having said that, though it's quite pleasant, it's completely nothing special. Next on deck, "The Good, the Bad and the Queen"...No idea what to expect. Where's the Kev? What's the poop on this disc, man? | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1322 Registered: 05-2005 |
LK - not heard "The Good, the Bad and the Queen" yet, I am a bit so so about this one. If Napster have it I will give it a listen, if not I wont be heartbroken. I just think Damon A wants to have to many personas for his own good- Blur for his pop side, Gorillas sees him with his dance hat on, The Good.. sees him go all experimental, he has done the World music bit as well hasnt he. I think he should just kiss and make up with Graham Coxon and make a bloody good Blur record! | ||
| Matt Ellis Member Username: Matt_ellis Post Number: 144 Registered: 11-2004 |
I heard the latest The Good, The Bad and the Queen track (not sure if it was a single) on Xfm Kevin and I was very impressed (which is a bit weird considering I totally went off Damon's vocals after The Great Escape) I went to see Robyn H again on Thursday along with Viarosa - I must give a big thumbs up to Viarosa. They totally won me over at this gig. I might go and see them again. Kevin have you noticed the singers vocal phrasing - very unusual: dramatic and stylised. Like he is addressing the Normans in song before the Battle of Hastings. (ok I might be going over the top here!) After Robyn H's band played Peter Buck was the only band member to meet and greet the audience. Buck also played drums on the last song! | ||
| Matt Ellis Member Username: Matt_ellis Post Number: 145 Registered: 11-2004 |
I should have added - Thanks for the R.E.M. related info Jerry and Spence - you may have to check your ISP settings for that link Spence. Trust me not to go to the Oxford gig! seems like they'll be doing something this year. Oh and thanks to Buck for telling me REM probably wouldnt be gigging this year (as they now have) LOL | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1093 Registered: 05-2005 |
I would be listening to the new Cathal Coughlan album and about a dozen others I bought in Ireland over Christmas - except that my luggage failed to turn up in Sydney airport. We left Ireland four days ago and still no sign of the bags. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 533 Registered: 08-2004 |
This should be in the 'lost in transit thread', Padraig. :-D |