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     Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 534 Registered: 08-2004 |
The old thread was a pain to load even on an 8 meg connection. So roll on XX. CAN - Future Days - On the new remaster, you can even hear Brian Eno & David Byrne scratching their heads & making notes. Bob Dylan - Dylan - Something of a rarity, never released on CD, I believe. An exploitation release when Bob bailed out on Columbia (albeit, briefly). Covers of standards, some of them bog-standard (not least MR. Bojangles). At least it's short unlike Self Portrait. The Clash - Live @ Jamaica 1982 - Excellent soundboard recording. Talikng Heads - Fear Of Music Belle & Sebastian - Folf Your Hands... Broken Social Scene - To Be You & Me The Housemartins - The People Who Grinned Themselves To Death. Isobel Campbell - Amorino & This Is Just The Same E.P. R.E.M. - Fables... The Shins - Wincing The Night Away - They were being Pushed as "next big thing" in The Sun last week. What next? | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1326 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jerry, the Shins album is fantastic, but I suspect it is not "immediate" enough for the public at large, or Sun readers - is that the same thing?  LK - I downloaded The Good The Bad and The Queen from Napster today, will give you my verdict tomorrow. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1139 Registered: 04-2005 |
Jerry, "Future Days" is great, isn't it? I just discovered it in the past couple of years, as a very latecomer to Can. Interesting that Damo left the band because of it being too "mellow." I hear it as kind of a rock extension or Miles's "In a Silent Way." The post-Suzuki albums that I've heard seem to be where Can went off the rails, but they were exceptional for awhile. And truly way ahead of their time. Kevin, in the States, despite the apparent lack of immediacy of the Shins album, people are bracing for the album to be a huge hit. The deal was sealed by their appearance on Saturday Night Live this weekend. Terrible show, but still influential in terms of sales. I just read an article about how Sub Pop has basically mobilized its entire staff and resources to push the Shins album in anticipation of it being a platinum-level hit. I hope they're right. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1410 Registered: 03-2006 |
I hope it is a hit for them. As I've said in this space, they've somehow managed to coalesce their musical natterings into actual songs. And, the guy's more or less completely quit singing in that adolescent, adenoidal, emo whine... And, this is the ultimate compliment - though I have a CDR someone gave me, I'll probably splurge for the real deal. Kev, though I agree with your stance on G,B & Q, and Albarn's pathological tendency to keep forming groups, the proof is in the grooves, as they say: it's actually a pretty good record. Though I may not buy a "real copy" of it.... | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1327 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kurt, I read something the other day about The Shins being Sub Pops biggest selling band, quite impressive when you think thats where Nirvana started off. Presumably Bleach sold loads over the years. LK, my first listen to G,B &Q and it sounds pretty trancy and dubby (Simonens bass anyway). I actually have always quite liked Damons voice, that world weary tone he gives off, so I guess I will end up quite liking this actually. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1097 Registered: 05-2005 |
Cathal Coughlan - The Adoptees. Thanks Randy. Still waiting for my bag containing the CD to arrive. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1098 Registered: 05-2005 |
April March - Last Train To Christmas. Wow! What a song. Thanks Randy! Only got round to playing it now. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1099 Registered: 05-2005 |
Amy Rigby - Why Do I? Thanks LK. Sounds a bit like Melanie I think - but with more swearing. Not a bad thing. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1170 Registered: 05-2005 |
Mostly Myspace tracks from bands such as The Carrots The Roches and The Be good tanyas. They are all quite wonderful, especially as Roches and Begoods are mostly acoustic, I would recommend them to anyone. Other than that, this week so far, listening to samples of a soundtrack to the film The Fountain, it was scored by someone I know in the States, Clint Mansell, very beautiful and touching. He's up for a Golden Globe with it actually. Levitation - Need for not. Marine - Life in Reverse. Massive Attack - Mezzanine and Blue Lines. Turin Brakes - Jackinabox. Rickie Lee Jones - Flying Cowboys. Think that's about it. Pretty boring in many ways!! Nothing really new!!! | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 536 Registered: 08-2004 |
Read The Shins review in Uncut. It seems they're only being pushed so hard by Sub-Pop due to the publicity from Garden State. I agree Kurt, CAN are worthy of their place in history & are bound to appeal to impressionably minded music lovers. But even thay owe perhaps a little to Roxy Music & King Crimson, so the Eno dig is a trite one. (bad boy Jerry) | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 537 Registered: 08-2004 |
Last night : Echo & The Bunnymen - Me I'm All Smiles - Live CD not especially classic, but a better option than Live In Liverpool, due to the songs played. i.e. more choice offerings from Crocodiles & Heaven Up Here. Dave Graney & Clare Moore - Keeping It Unreal | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1145 Registered: 04-2005 |
Jerry, wasn't Can around before Roxy? And if they influenced Crimson, it must be later period. Early Crimson is way too prog for me. What I like about Can is that they weren't about chops, they were much more about grooves, atmospherics, etc. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 538 Registered: 08-2004 |
Oh yes they were. They were there before during & after in a way. They picked up from Kraftwerk & Tangerine Dream. They influenced KC & RM, who upped the ante in popularity &, I believe, inspired CAN in turn. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 207 Registered: 04-2005 |
Edinburgh's finest (and Peel favorites): ballboy Their Peel sessions are available at http://www.ballboymusic.com/downloads/. In a alternative universe 'The Art of Kissing' would be No.1 for a year. And any band that releases a song called 'All the Songs On the Radio are Shite' is OK by me. I once went to an in-store performance by the band, which was extremely memorable for the fact that virtually a entire primary school class (5 years old) had come along. To see their teacher Gordon (the group's mainman) singing. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Nemo Post Number: 113 Registered: 07-2005 |
Andrew, not forgetting 'You Can't Spend Your Whole Life Hanging Round With Ar**ho**s; I Wonder If You're Drunk Enough To Sleep With Me Tonight; I Don't Have Time To Stand Here With You Fighting About The Size Of My D**k.' It's perhaps not surprising they don't get much in the way airplay. Superb band. Currently listening to The Black Tango by Boy Omega and I Was So Unpopular In School and Now They're Giving Me This Beautiful Bicycle; The World According To Pablo by Billie The Vision and The Dancers. More great music from Sweden. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1100 Registered: 05-2005 |
Spence, I love Levitation's Need for not. Time to dig it out again. You will all, no doubt, be delighted to hear that my luggage has shown up at last. The "dozen CDs" I mentioned that was in said lost luggage was actually, upon counting them last night, 40 CDs. Plus several DVDs. And some new books. Good job I rarely buy frivolities such as clothes. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 392 Registered: 01-2005 |
I like Can a lot, but as far as Krautrock, Neu! is my favorite by a smidge over Can. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1147 Registered: 04-2005 |
I've never heard Neu! Given my preference for Can (organic, often funky) over Kraftwerk (mechanical, a different kind of funky) in the Krautrock sweepstakes, Michael, where does Neu! fit into the mix? And are they prog-y at all? ('Cuz that's just not a genre I can stomach.) | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 912 Registered: 03-2005 |
Judee Sill -- The Asylum Years. | ||
| Paul N Member Username: Pauln Post Number: 8 Registered: 10-2006 |
Your Country - Graham Parker. I really like Lucinda Williams' vocal on Cruel Lips. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1412 Registered: 03-2006 |
I second your admiration of that song, Paul, and Lucinda's vocal on it, as well. | ||
| peter ward Member Username: Peter_ward Post Number: 19 Registered: 06-2005 |
I went to see Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus 3 last night in Dublin, fantastic show. The last time I saw him play was in the same venue the night after Peter Buck would've played to 85,000 people in Slane castle in 95(I was there selling oasis eyebrows with a couple of mates as the folicly well endowed brothers were playing support!)So it was great to see the two with Scott and Bill on stage together. I'll echo what has been said in this earlier thread about Buck cutting loose and enjoying himself playing in a way he doesn't get a chance to anymore with REM. Fab covers of Eight Miles High and See Emily Play at the end with Arms of Love and Kingdom of Love being other set highlights. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1328 Registered: 05-2005 |
Heard an Irish singer called Julie Feeney on Tom Robinsons show on Radio One last night. I had never heard of her but she sounds really interesting, songs played mostly on harmonium or piano with a distinctively Irish lilt - I could imagine her being a staple of the John Peel show if he was still alive. Napster had the album so I downloaded it - have either Padraig or the Irish lads heard of her? | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1416 Registered: 03-2006 |
Kevin liking a female singer? Are you feeling okay, dude? | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1329 Registered: 05-2005 |
Point taken LK She is very mellow though, not a screechy banshee like Ms Newsome. If every female vocalist sang like Mimi from Low I would be in heaven, I have also been known to like Polly Jean Harvey. After that I'm struggling! | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 540 Registered: 08-2004 |
Andrew K, that sounds like something a certain other former schoolteacher named Gordon would do. Except it would be played on a lute to punish the children. ;-) Last night : The Who - BBC Sessions Tindersticks - The Second Tindersticks Album New Order - Singles Tom Verlaine - Tom Verlaine | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 417 Registered: 04-2006 |
i foraged for a single in my single box (believe it or not: it was rod stewartS' 'sailing. my son learns this song -which he knows at as a football hymn of the local berlin football club- in his guitar lesson). and, yes, it is always like a dicovery leafing through those old 7"'s. immediately i played a few one like the underrated 'that petrol emotion' - v2 the first spark of 'james' - hymn from a village the beat band( around 1990) 'the (fabulous) mummies' - out of our tree bintii's (of virgin prunes) princess tinymeat - a bun in the oven the fabulous '1000 mexicans' - the art of love pre c86 'the pastels' - heavens above c86 'shop assistants' - safety net the uplifting, great 'redskins' - bring it down (the insane thing) the a bit boring 'hurrah!' - hip-hip the great 'the felt' - ballad of the band the classic 'televison personalities' - part time punks yes, that made a lot of fun. now i closed the box. now: silence. | ||
| peter ward Member Username: Peter_ward Post Number: 20 Registered: 06-2005 |
Kevin, Julie Feeney won what is the Irish equivelent of the Mercury award for that album, think it's called the choice award, I dont have it but heard she's really good live. A couple of female vocalists I have listened to and really liked over the last year are Laura Viers and Keren Ann, both very poetic beautiful songwriters. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1105 Registered: 05-2005 |
Some cool listening there Andreas. I love That Petrol Emotion. Chemicrazy is a classic. They were very good live too. Kevin, I've heard of Julie Feeney, but not heard her stuff. I don't think it's the kind of thing I would like a lot; though if you do, I might also. Keep us posted on it. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 914 Registered: 03-2005 |
Andreas, thank you for reminding me of That Petrol Emotion! The only thing I have is "Manic Pop Thrill" but in '86 or '87 that was one of my favorite albums. It totally fell through the cracks over the past two decades. Let's see what I think. Putting it on now . . . . Oh yeah, "Can't Stop." Yeah, this stuff still works. Into iTunes. Kevin, I can confirm that Keren Ann is decidedly not screechy female music. The first time I heard a bit of her stuff I thought it was TOO mellow but it worked its insidious magic, especially things like "Chelsea Burns" and "One Day Without." And if you like British folkie types I'm still pushing Spence's bandmate Caroline Trettine. Heard last night: Karen Dalton's "In My Own Time." On one listen it's a pretty damn good record, very hard to date. Somewhere in the excellent booklet her voice is described as a horn. I agree with that. Also not screechy; a very fine trad blues voice with very individual phrasing. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1334 Registered: 05-2005 |
Padraig, I'm only guessing here, but when you say Julie Feeney is not the kind of thing you would like, is it because you think she is maybe similar to Enya, or more traditional Irish music? If so,fear not. While not exactly left field,I would still class it as experimental(ish). She has quite a seductive voice and the arrangements are pretty interesting, at least after only a few listens anyway. I have found some reviews, the Rough Trade review mentions Joanna Newsome, this is just lazy journalism in the extreme, maybe they heard harp on one track and though that was justification enough. The Hot Press link doesnt have a review(although according to her Myspace it was awarded 9/10), but it gives me the chance to shamelessly share her picture with everybody! Her Myspace has 4 songs from the album to hear. "...This album marks the blossoming of a major talent." Observer "... a charming, urbane and dreamy record" New York Times **** The Guardian **** Evening Standard **** The Daily Mail **** The Sun **** The Irish Times *** The Times 9/10 Hot Press '13 songs' is this week on general release in the U.K. and is also available on www.juliefeeney.com Julie will perform a live session on BBC Radio 6 with Tom Robinson in January. She performed at the Eurosonic festival recently in the beautiful Grand Theatre in Groningen, Holland. She is now preparing for U.K. dates in March. She has just shot a video with Maria Mochnacz for the song"Aching" which will be released in February. http://www.hotpress.com/music/2902791.ht ml http://www.roughtrade.com/site/shop_deta il.lasso?search_type=sku&sku=278732 http://www.indielondon.co.uk/Music-Revie w/julie-feeney-13-songs http://www.myspace.com/juliefeeney | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1112 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kevn, no it was the 'recorded in her bedroom on a laptop (or four track or whatever)' thing that was putting me off. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1114 Registered: 05-2005 |
Hugo Largo. Before that Hoyt Axton, Howling Bells, Howlin' Wolf, The Housemartins and The Hold Steady. Can you guess which letter I'm going through on iTunes? | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 159 Registered: 01-2006 |
I've been burning/ripping or whatever it's called all my Housemartin 12" records to MP3. They are one of the few bands who really put a lot of effort into their 12"s, at least 4 tracks on each one. I have their first 7 or 8 12"s, including the Caravan Of Love 12" with 5 acapella songs. Though I always thought The People Who Grinned Themselves To Death was a dreadful disappointment, a couple of very good tracks but the rest of it is pretty bland... | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 546 Registered: 08-2004 |
You've got to love The Housemartins, I think they've become under-valued because of the monster that is Beautiful South. On my turntable yesterday: PJ Harvey - 4 Track Demos Public Image Ltd - Metal Box Team America: World Police - OST Tears For Fears - The Hurting | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1173 Registered: 05-2005 |
Pad, I heard a tune called Deep Well I think by Hugo largo? Found it to be a wonderful tune, is there an album availble? I heard it probably 17 years ago! Scritti Politti - White bread black beer. Absolutely great, a divine singing voice that man has. Horace Andy, Joe Ariwa *& Mad Prof. - Rewired for dub. An amazing collection of songs from the finest of real reggae masters. Dub is probably my fave style of reggae. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 423 Registered: 04-2006 |
kurt, i took the chance to reply as michael didn't do it. but as it is a bit exhausting to express myself in english i give you just this link: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg &sql=10:ks2gtq7ztu4p and they are not prog-y at all! but i prefer the follow up band la düsseldorf. http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg &sql=10:3v6tk6hx9kr3 and not to forget cluster, harmonia, ash ra tempel, popol vuh, tangerine dream, klaus schulze...... i better stop. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1117 Registered: 05-2005 |
Spence, the album I have by them is called Drum. Nine songs, 29 minutes, brilliant. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1156 Registered: 04-2005 |
Thanks, Andreas. A very compelling description of that album--I think I'm going to have to check them out! | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 399 Registered: 01-2005 |
Spence, the Hugo Largo song you are refering to is actually titled Turtle Song. It starts out: That turtle could be a rock, in disguise. Fooling everyone. Only Indians know how to tell, there so smart. etc. The deep well lyric potion start halfway thru the song. It's the lead song from Mettle, their 1989 follow-up to 1988's Drum. I bought them both on cd the same year they were released. Drum was produced by Hugo Largon and Mr. Stipe. Padraig, try to get Mettle, it's my favorite of the two. Hugo Largo was famous for having multiple bassists playing at the same time. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1121 Registered: 05-2005 |
I will check it out Michael. I only discovered a couple of hours ago that Mettle existed. I was initially going to post that they only ever had one album! | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 402 Registered: 01-2005 |
Mimi Goese, the HL singer, released at lease one solo album, I remember hearing some cuts from it and wasn't impressed enought to go out and buy it. Danielle Dax was another late 80's favorite of mine that just faded away. At lease HL and DD both had two great albums in them that got released before they ran out of ideas. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1175 Registered: 05-2005 |
cheers chums, mst get the cd's. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1434 Registered: 03-2006 |
Listening to a coupla things big-upped by the Kev. Finally got a copy of Yabby You's "Deliver Me From My Enemies", which I love - sublime and gorgeous. Also, secured a copy of the Julie Feeney, which is quite nice, though I have to admit I'm completely bum-fuzzled as to why you like her, but not other females, Kevin...I'm truly curious - what makes her different? Does it come down to just the particular qualities of her voice? | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1339 Registered: 05-2005 |
LK- at work the other night I was feeling generous and wasnt "educating" my colleagues with The Fall and Hot Chip etc and we listened to the dreaded radio, which as anybody will tell you is pure pants in the UK. Anyway, Tom Robinson (remember Sing if Youre Glad To Be Gay, 2-4-6-8 Motorway etc) has a show and he was playing some pretty eclectic stuff, which included a live session by Ms Feeney. It just sounded so different from the rest, and it stood out as fairly interesting so I thought I would download from Napster. Its not groundbreaking, or earthshattering or anything, it just struck a chord. simple as that I'm afraid | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1435 Registered: 03-2006 |
Hey, nothin' wrong with that. I completely understand the appeal. Btw, is there a new Fall record coming out? I saw something on a blog about "Reformation TLC", or some such - what's the buzz on it? You, of course, have had it for many months now, right? | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 284 Registered: 08-2006 |
Kevin, Tom Robinson's one of those Brits who's almost entirely unknown in the States, even among music geeks. I love him, especially stuff like North by Northwest, Sector 27 and the TRB CDs. Glad to know he's still around. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1340 Registered: 05-2005 |
LK - Reformation Post TLC is the name of the album, my mate is coming round with a copy for me tonight. Rob, I had actually forgot all about Tom, I didnt even know he was a DJ these days. My memory is crap so I cant remember what he was playing, but it seemed to be current stuff mixed in with old classics | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1160 Registered: 04-2005 |
Tom Robinson is an interesting guy. I wonder if they stream his radio show; I'd be curious to hear it. Robinson doesn't get much love for his music--I bought the first TRB album when it came out and found the politics way too shrill--but he was very brave in being openly gay at a time and in a musical climate where tolerance was in short supply. Of course, later he married a woman and had children, but didn't do a Bowie or Reed-style "I'm straight, I've always been straight, I was lying before" bit of backpedaling. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1180 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kurt Tom's show is at http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/shows/tom_ro binson/ And Mark Riley's (Ex Fall and funny geezer) http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/shows/mint/ | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1343 Registered: 05-2005 |
Cheers for that Spence, now I can look to see what he played because as I say above my memory is crap. I think my description of "eclectic" does not begin to do what he played justice http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/shows/tom_ro binson/tracklisting.shtml?y=2007&d=20070 115 I could be wrong, but maybe the guys in the States wont be able to listen to these shows. Maybe its different for the BBC, but I know some people abroad cant pick up streams from Independant radio stations. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1161 Registered: 04-2005 |
Hey, thanks, Spence. The archived shows work here. Of course, because of the time difference, I won't try listening to him in real time. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1344 Registered: 05-2005 |
Isnt it sad, that pre internet, people like Kurt couldnt use this method to listen to John Peel in his prime? | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1345 Registered: 05-2005 |
Low - Drums and Guns. Initially I thought this was a really hard listen (although I liked it), but repeated listens, maybe a dozen or so now, reveal it to be a very complex and interesting record. Some spinetingling moments, especially when the music is really stripped down to just organ and beatbox on the song "Breaker", some sublime pop moments too on "Belarus" and "Hatchet". I hope this brave record gets all the praise it deserves. The Fall - Reformation Post TLC. First listen, but all the usual elements are here. Bass seems to dominate, as is the case on a lot of Fall albums. I was slightly disappointed though to find that even though MES has recruited a young American backing band the album is not chock full of garage style thrashes. Never mind, his vocals seem a bit more urgent here, he literally snarls some of the songs - great version of White Line Fever too. The Good The Bad and The Queen - this is actually really good, Mr Simonon excels on bass, and the songs really take a goood few listens to get under the skin, but they do John Lee Hooker - Hooker. Perhaps only the first 3 discs are of interest to me(esp discs 1 and 2), but its worth Ł30 just to hear the song Tupelo. That song is a blues benchmark and then some! | ||
| julia motzko Member Username: Julia Post Number: 30 Registered: 05-2005 |
I really like The Good, The Bad and The Queen, too. I think the album's excellent. I mean, I could listen to Blur's "13" and "Think Tank" any time, I guess I've always been a Damon Albarn fan, but I especially like him now, as opposed to the Brit Pop times. you can listen to the whole The Good THe Bad and The Queen album here: http://3voor12.vpro.nl/speler/luisterpaa l/32709733 and you can download a complete The Good The Bad and The Queen concert here: http://big2tiny.com/550 | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 919 Registered: 03-2005 |
Miracle Legion -- Drenched. Somebody brought them up somewhere on one of these threads and seemingly everybody else went "oh yeah!" So I found a sealed copy for $1.10 on Amazon and it's playing now. Just up to "Sea Hag" so far. This certainly starts out as a good record. | ||
| Charles Coy Member Username: Coy Post Number: 26 Registered: 10-2006 |
...I have been trying to order some 'British Sea Pilots' after hearing same on RRR in Melbourne. Bit ignorant of them, any album recommended, liked what I heard...! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1123 Registered: 05-2005 |
I think you mean British Sea Power Charles? I have their first two albums. Liked the first one a lot. Didn't play the second more than twice. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1124 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kevin, I had a listen to Julie Feeney on her myspace. I like it. Will check her out further. | ||
| Charles Coy Member Username: Coy Post Number: 27 Registered: 10-2006 |
...thanks Padraiq, appreciate the info, no wonder I floundered in search... | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1346 Registered: 05-2005 |
Padraig/Charles. British Sea Power are best experienced live. I have saw them twice, first time supoorting Flaming Lips, second time supporting The Strokes. I enjoyed them more than The Strokes, who were actually surprisingly good live. The second BSP album is better than the first imo | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 215 Registered: 04-2005 |
Randy, If you feel a need for anymore ML after 'Drenched' I'm your man I found the production (John Porter) on that particular release a little too 'hard'. They were not quite such a "rocking out" outfit! Mark Mulcahy's solo releases are definitely worth investigating also. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 922 Registered: 03-2005 |
Yeah Andrew the approach is a bit on the hard rock-ish side. Mulcahy sounds a fair bit like David Gray who Kevin has ruined for me. I'll live with it and see what I think over time. Meanwhile, I've loaded into iTunes another old favorite that I haven't heard in years: The Woodentops--"Giant" Listening now. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 285 Registered: 08-2006 |
Last night, looking for a little pre-party pick-me-up, I pulled out an obscurity I hadn't listened to in years: The one and only album from 28th Day, a bay area band that included a young Barbara Manning. I bought it in college, and later found an expanded version on CD (!) while visiting D.C. They're kind of like an mash-up of REM, X, and the VU, and the lead track, "25 Pills." is some kind of lost classic. Anyone here ever heard, or heard of, them? | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 409 Registered: 01-2005 |
Rob, no I have not heard of them. On the other hand, I have Barbara's Lately I Keep Scissors/One Perfect Green Blanket combo cd, which I have enjoyed for 10 years or so. I thought about picking up discs from her subsequent band, the SF Seals, but never did. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Nemo Post Number: 114 Registered: 07-2005 |
Rob, I have a copy of the expanded version of 28th Day which was issued on the Skyclad label back in 1992. I think the original was released in the mid 1980's. I also have copies of 'One Perfect Green Blanket' by Barbara Manning which includes her version of 'Smoking Her Wings' by The Bats and 'Nowhere' by the S.F. Seals of which she was member. I remember reminding myself to check out Cole Marquis who wrote/co-wrote eight or nine of the tracks on the 28th Day album including '25 Pills' but somehow I never did. Probably down to the fact that it was harder to check out obscure artists/bands back then than it is now. It has been years since I last listened to any of the above so perhaps now is the time to dust them down. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Nemo Post Number: 115 Registered: 07-2005 |
Rob, I pulled out my 28th Day album and having examined it I believe it is simply a re-issue of the original release and not the expanded version. The rear insert lists it as 'Skyclad Recordings Ltd 1992; Bring Out Your Dead Records 1985.' It only contains 13 tracks and I see there is a 'Complete Recordings' on Amazon which has 18 tracks. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1348 Registered: 05-2005 |
Au Pairs - Playing With A Different Sex Delta 5 - Singles and Sessions Richmond Fontaine - Thirteen Cities Menomena - I am The Fun Blame Monster | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1447 Registered: 03-2006 |
The Clash - Singles Box Set. I didn't buy it, way too much trouble to listen to that way, but some kindly soul compiled them and burned me a copy. Jesus, were there singles wonderful... And Damn Kev, you manage to stay incredibly up to date - what the hell are Menomena? | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1351 Registered: 05-2005 |
Here you go LK http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/ menomena/iamthefunblamemonster?q=MENOMEN A http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/ menomena/friendandfoe | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1169 Registered: 04-2005 |
Michael, do you have Barbara Manning's solo album for Matador, "2121"? It's really outstanding and features a nearly 20-minute multi-part "rock opera" that's actually great, and probably more coherent than anything Pete Townshend did in that vein. The two SF Seals albums were a bit disappointing, even though they were essentially Barbara solo as well. I've lost track of her in the past few years, but I was a big fan for a long time. She's been in a band called the Go-Luckys with two German guys but I haven't heard their albums. A friend of mine in SF saw them play some tiny club and said it was kind of sad because no one was listening and Barbara seemed almost despondent, like she'd given up. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1170 Registered: 04-2005 |
Sorry, make that album title "1212." I must be getting dyslexic. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 160 Registered: 09-2006 |
The mid-80s, one of those unsung eras of semipop...haven't heard 'Giant' in years, but about six months ago I put on the Woodentops live one, "Hypno-Beat," at a party and for the next half-hour had everyone dancing in a near-ecstatic rush until they dropped - the pace never stops... Love the Scrits, too, spence (or, more aptly, Mr. Scrit, in the same way that Martin Phillipps is Mr. Chill)...the new one's growing on me, and I own them all, but I still feel that "Cupid & Psyche" (and all the 12-inch singles that accompanied it) was the only album that was strong from start to finish. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 163 Registered: 09-2006 |
"Rattle and Hum," which I got at a garage sale for a quarter today. Yeah yeah, they were at the height of their self-importance, but removed from that bit of history it's a very consistent album...pretty hot live stuff (especially "Bullet the Blue Sky") and a (mostly - the B.B. King duet has always felt clunky) good batch of studio songs. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1181 Registered: 05-2005 |
Allen you got me thinkig. Peel once played 'the new Scritti single', and that song was Would beez. At the time I was 15 or something, it sounded nothing like what I had loved by them before but I fell in love with it nontheless, but it always felt to me at odds with what Peel should be playing, y'know sticking it on between Bastard Kestral and The Cocteau Twins, guess it proved he loved Mr Gartside enough! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1131 Registered: 05-2005 |
Whipping Boy - When We Were Young (Philo version). I prefer it the original; which was already one of my top 100 songs ever. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 218 Registered: 04-2005 |
Keren Ann's first release "La biographie de Luka Philipsen". And rather coincidentally have just discovered that she is appearing as guest vocalist with the jazz group "Third World Love" in Paris (7th Feb Sunset Club). This is the band that I have been raving about in several threads. So if anyone just happens to be in Paris that night.... | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1186 Registered: 05-2005 |
ELO - Best of. Small Faces - First Step Jules Gray - Jules Gray Clare Moore - Third Woman | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 416 Registered: 01-2005 |
Kurt, No I don't have 1212. Thanks! I'll have to pick it up. Too bad about her current state of mind though. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1454 Registered: 03-2006 |
Don't Rush have an album called 2121? Which I, by the way, DON'T recommend picking up. If you feel the need to hear someone sing that high, just slam a heavy book down on your balls and sing along to speeded up Led Zeppelin records...Rush in a nutshell...so to speak... | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1174 Registered: 04-2005 |
Maybe Barbara was a Rush fan. Then again, she sings much, much lower than that guy. Have you ever seen people dance to Rush? I was at a wedding reception where the groom and his buddies were Rush fanatics. In the middle of standard wedding reception fodder ("Celebrate," "We Are Family," etc.), the DJ played two Rush songs and all the stoners suddenly crowded the dance floor and began their semi-epileptic headbanging dance. Truly bizarre. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1187 Registered: 05-2005 |
I akways thought the singer if The Bluetones sounded like geddy Lee, how unfortunate for the indie kids following... Listening to Jeff Tweedy's Sunken Treasure right now. kurt Weill - samples from his foundation website - nice. | ||
| Jonathan Evans Member Username: Jon Post Number: 77 Registered: 04-2005 |
I'm listening to Jose trying to defend Chelsea (after Liverpool won), that DVD is a keeper! Sorry couldn't resist... I mostly dig out CD's after Padraig gives them a mention. The Whipping Boy album was brilliant, it was so underrated. Come on Padraig, should I listen to Something Happens, The Frank & Walters or A House? I'm currently working my way through Jesse Malin's albums as I'm off to see him tomorrow night, and Belle & Sebastian's Tigermilk and If your feeling sinister. Cheers Jon | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1455 Registered: 03-2006 |
A laugh out loud image, Kurt. Thanks for that. Rush: whitest band ever? Their music would seem well nigh impossible to dance to...give your pals credit for bravely attempting it, I guess. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1175 Registered: 04-2005 |
My pals? Oh no, they were no friends of mine. The friend I was attending because of was the bride, and she hated Rush even more than me. | ||
| Matt Ellis Member Username: Matt_ellis Post Number: 147 Registered: 11-2004 |
Padraig I was listening to Whipping Boy's self titled 3rd album a few days ago, then I followed it with Heartworm. For me 'When We Were Young' is their best song. Ashamed to say I completely forgot about the 'philo' version. Can anyone explain the Phil Lynott co-writing credit? I've just dug it out of an extremely dusty box along with all of their singles on CD. Their website seems to be down at present. I wonder if there is any hope of them recording again - only a handful of Irish dates since they reformed 2 years ago. I'd hate to think that Ferghal McKee was going back to be a cook in some Dublin Hospital. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1132 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jonathan, listen to all three of them! I used to know the Franks really well in Cork back in the day. I did a course with the drummer. I did a radio program with Something Happens' guitarist Ray Harmon one time (and drank many pints with him afterwards) and also did a program - on Public Enemy of all bands - with A House's guitarist Fergal Bunbury. He's a huge PE fan. And an absolutely lovely bloke. As is Ray Harmon. That's my star spotting over for the day. Matt, as far as I know Whipping Boy first performed that version at the Vibe For Philo on the 10th anniversary of his death in 1996. I'm sure I read somewhere that they used some old Phil Lynott lyrics on the Philo version. I'm not familiar with the original though. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 927 Registered: 03-2005 |
Padraig, I am ever on the hunt for another belated discovery. I remember some raving about A House on here previously, I think involving Spence. I can get three albums of theirs for absurdly low prices on the US Amazon but one listener describes them (on "I am the Greatest") as Prog-rock. Another listener describes them (on "Wide Eyed & Ignorant") as sounding like 70s-vintage Ringo Starr. I don't think I need to tell you what reactions those descriptions stimulate. Are they full of $#%# and should I press on regardless? The descriptions for Whipping Boy's "Heartworm" contained no such nervous-making references so I bought one of the more expensive copies for less than $2, which is just insulting but makes it mighty easy for me to explore. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1133 Registered: 05-2005 |
Not prog rock Randy! Not like Ringo either. Both are great albums. The US version of I Am The Greatest is different to the Irish/UK version though. But still absolutely worth getting. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1134 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy, I just looked at the US Amazon site and the track list their is the same as the Irish edition, so maybe that is what they are selling. All the better if they are. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1189 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Concubines e.p., by jeff W and his band. Really great songs, help me think of Spring being just around the corner!! Randy, Ahouse are great, simply try em, its hard to describe them. Dave Couse has anice Myspace page. Endless art 06 is awesome. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 929 Registered: 03-2005 |
I've ordered copies of both "I am the Greatest" and "Wide Eyed and Ign'ant." I also decided to order a copy of the Shack album since that seems to hold people's enthusiasm. And Amazon did a good one for me. It recommended the Someloves to me. A little quick googling and I realized that this will be totally up my alley. Then I bought a book on Australian houses and got the hell off the site; it costs me too much money. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1357 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Earlies - The Enemy Chorus. Loads better than the first album, chock full of keyboards and brass - recalls The Beta Band for me. Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna... Who is this guy, I ve seen the name but never heard the music? This is great off kilter pop, will be playing this a lot. Kirsten Hersh - Learn to sing like a star. Only heard this once so far, but I liked what I heard which is more than I can say for the last 15 years worth of her music, including Throwing Muses | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1191 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kev, Randy's approachin' the big K! Kev, u heard any Tanya D? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1138 Registered: 05-2005 |
Shack's Waterpistol. First half on the bus home last night. Second half on the bus to work this morning. An absolutely awesome album. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1359 Registered: 05-2005 |
Spence, not since Belly. has she any solo stuff? Randy will take his own good time reaching the K, theres no flab on his posts | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 423 Registered: 01-2005 |
Kevin, Lovesongs for Underdogs by Tanya Donelly is the one to start with. I have all of her solo stuff expect the one that was released in 2006. I am prenstly listening to: Sir Douglas Quintet -Mendocino. Wow is it great! | ||
| David Matheson Member Username: David_matheson Post Number: 116 Registered: 12-2004 |
I'm really enjoying Lloyd Cole's Antidepressant. It's a great follow-on from his Music In A Foreign Language of a few years ago. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 552 Registered: 08-2004 |
Lloyd Cole has one of those voices that are reassuring to hear every so often. This week: Lloyd Cole - Lloyd Cole Suicide - American Supreme The Triffids - Calenture The Hold Steady - Boys & Girls In America Dead Prez - Turn Off The Radio Nick Cave - Tender Prey The Good, The Bad & The Queen - The Good, The Bad & The Queen Morcheeba - FragmentS Of Freedom Psychic TV - Re-Trip R.E.M. - Up Demos Morrissey - Ringleader Of The Tormentors VA - Reckless Roots Rockers The Byrds - Untitled | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 937 Registered: 03-2005 |
In the car at the moment: Karen Dalton -- In My Own Time The Chills -- Secret Box #1 The Bats -- Silverbeet The Triffids -- Born Sandy Devotional Ian Tyson -- Cowboyography, which is where it's at right now I have a friend who is a big Lloyd Cole fan but when I asked him about "Antidepressant" he was kind of lukewarm so I haven't gotten around to buying. "Music in a Foreign Language" is an excellent album. Michael, Doug Sahm is another of those 60s artists who just passed me by. I think "She's About a Mover" is all I've ever heard. That one song just sort dropped into a Sam the Sham & the Pharoahs slot in my mind and I've never explored Sahm even though so many people think very highly of him. Is it atypical? Jerry, is Morcheeba a Brazilian semi-hip-hop act? I saw them at the Hollywood Bowl at a world music show once but I can't remember which group they were. All I can remember is that their name is associated with a set I liked. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 555 Registered: 08-2004 |
Randy, no the Morcheeba I know & love are London-based & have released 3 very good poppy/disco/trip-hoppy records. I got into them via their work on David Byrne's excellent Feelings LP. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 939 Registered: 03-2005 |
Oh ok. I'm just crossing memories. I saw David Byrne at the Hollywood Bowl (with Arcade Fire I think) and I'm sure Morcheeba would have been the opening act. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 424 Registered: 01-2005 |
Randy, The Sir Douglas Quintet with Doug Sahm were Tex/Mex with nice Hammond B3 grooves. Mendocino was their other hit. She's About A Mover was atypical. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1144 Registered: 05-2005 |
Lloyd Cole & The Commotions - Rattlesnakes, two disc remaster. Great remastering job. Awesome debut. Some very good rarities/ unreleased stuff on the second disc. Sloan's new album. 30 songs in just under 77 minutes. Great stuff if you like them anyway. Can't see it convincing anyone who doesn't already like them though. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 945 Registered: 03-2005 |
The wonderful Brits have released two two-disc anthos of Ann Peebles that mop up everything she did for Hi Records, spanning from 1968 to 1981. I've ordered both and the second volume has arrived. This pair of discs, running from 1974 through to the end, must represent just about the last gasp of the old-style traditional Southern soul sound before the more recent revivals started happening. This set goes deep into the shark-infested waters of the disco era and yet nearly everything is at least listenable and a lot of it is great and there is a thankfully small proportion of the flying cymbal/boom boom boom bass drum garbage that turned a depressing number of excellent soul songs into crap in those years. The first album "Tellin' It" is simply superb and the following two are better than they might be although inevitably hampered by the attempt to tone down the firey Ann Peebles vocal sound and, similarly, to tone down the rhythm section. I'm really looking forward to getting the first set. Hardin, if you don't have them, these two sets have to be up your alley and Padraig you might want to check them out too. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1201 Registered: 05-2005 |
Pad, I alwways loved the riff in the song Rattlesnakes, it always got me how great that song was. Forest Fire guitar playing too. They alwyas had a great drummer too. Very clean and precise, he sorta made the songs in a lot of ways, funny that innit!? Randy gonnna check Ann Peebles out, sounds good! | ||
| Matt Ellis Member Username: Matt_ellis Post Number: 150 Registered: 11-2004 |
The Church - Remote Luxury (brand spanking new CD with 2 EP's tagged onto it 'Sing Songs' and 'Persia') Is anybody going to see The Church at Islington Academy in April? - a new European Tour was announced yesterday. If you are going I will buy you a half at the bar. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1148 Registered: 05-2005 |
Taking notes Randy. Will check out Ann Peebles. Just had a look on Amazon UK. There's a single disc best of for 4 pounds. Think I'll start with that to see how it grabs me. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1149 Registered: 05-2005 |
Right now I'm listening to Hot Chip's rather excellent Australian Tour EP. It's got Colours, a DFA remix of the same track and remixes of three other tracks. $3 in Dick Smiths! Bargain. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1150 Registered: 05-2005 |
Ooh, Amazon US has what looks like an even better introduction to her work for $8.49. It's 21 tracks from her Hi Records years. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1153 Registered: 05-2005 |
Cathal Coughlan's Foburg. Oh it is so great. Buy it. If it's good enough for Randy and me it's good enough for (most of) you. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 428 Registered: 04-2006 |
sandy bull - re-inventions. the best of the vanguard years. this man was years ahead of the times. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 948 Registered: 03-2005 |
I hope I'm not repeating myself with this story. After getting "Foburg" I made up a sample CD of Cathal Coughlan for a friend of mine who is really big into live theater music. I started the set with "Ghost of Limehouse Cut." She said she just sat there going "and then what happened next?" She raved about the whole collection. Cathal Coughlan seems destined to write for the stage, I think. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1204 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy, Padraig, Cathal is the Irish Scott Walker. He's as original. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1475 Registered: 03-2006 |
Thanks for the suggestions, R&P. Ann Peebles is so completely up my alley it's ridiculous, so I'll check that out. She, like Mr. Johnson, must've cut a deal with the devil, to sing the way she does. Just what I need, more records to buy. And, "Rattlesnakes" happens to be one of my all time favorite records. Beautiful, soul-touching songs, impeccably sung and played. It don't get no better. In terms of Mr. Cole's career, I'm not sure he's ever again scaled the heights he did on that record and its followup, "Easy Pieces"...though, I have to say, "Music In a Foreign Language" comes close - it stayed in my CD player for about a year. I own and like the new one, but it has yet to grab me in the same way...So, must seek out deluxe "Rattlesnakes"...Dammit, the record buying never ends... I have a couple for you Randy, that seem in the ballpark of your tastes: "Country & West Coast - the Birth of Country Rock" - as this CA-oriented comp features all the names you talk about, the Dillards, Gene Clark, Ian & Sylvia, you probably have a lot of what's on it, but maybe it'd interest you as an historical document...It has some groups on it I've never heard of, too, like the Corvettes and the Spencers. "Forever Changing - the Golden Age of Elektra Records"...probably needs no explanation.... | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1476 Registered: 03-2006 |
Oh, and I wanted to mention that I snagged a copy of the new one by Dean & Britta, "Back Numbers". It's a...what's the expression you UK folks use? A corker? a cracker? It's a crackin' corker! No sophomore slump here. It's sort of like Lee Hazlewood & Nancy Sinatra as sung by the Jetsons, with great, catchy tunes that stick, including, if I read this right, an Ann Margaret cover! | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 430 Registered: 01-2005 |
I just picked up th 2 disc Hearts and Skin by The Church. Hmm, I now have a Church gap between Priest=Aura and Hologram of Baal, is it worth filing or should I prgress to the albums after Hologram? | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1190 Registered: 04-2005 |
Thanks for the tip on the new Dean & Britta, LK. The last one was good but didn't wow me. I've actually gone a different direction with Mr. Wareham lately; I've been listening to Galaxie 500's "Copenhagen," quite a fine live album I picked up recently. Others in heavy rotation: Kristin Hersh - Learn to Sing Like a Star Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones (never heard it last year) Pernice Bros. - Live a Little Cansei de Ser Sexy - self-titled (fun and funny; sort of like LeTigre minus the political hectoring) Can - Future Days | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 949 Registered: 03-2005 |
Michael, for what it's worth, I find "Sometime Anywhere" to be unlistenably boring. I have a much better memory of "Magician" but I haven't listened to it in quite a while and some other folks on here really pan it, if I remember correctly. I do rate "After Everything Now This" fairly highly. The things which have come out since have not really grabbed me too much and "Uninvited Like the Clouds" engaged me so little that I only put two songs from it on iTunes and haven't played the disc since. I'm a song guy and the Church too often like to wander into noodly atmospheric stuff with damn little song content. Have you heard any of Marty Willson-Piper's solo records? I heartily recommend "Spirit Level." That album in particular seems to be where he was putting all of his creative energy as a songwriter in the early 90s. "Hanging Out In Heaven" from 2000 is almost as good. I'll check out the comps you mention Hardin. I didn't know Ian & Sylvia had any California connection. I thought they were all Canada, New York and Nashville. I was super late to "Rattlesnakes" and, yeah, it's a knockout record. Is the new version remixed? Does it sound as different as the remixed/mastered "Tallulah?" That's my gold standard for rewarding reissues. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1481 Registered: 03-2006 |
Curiously Randy, it also has Jerry Jeff Walker on it, whom I thought hailed from NY. The liner notes would probably explain this if I could get myself to read them. Ah, laziness. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1193 Registered: 04-2005 |
Randy's comments about latter-period Church are spot-on: I found "Magician Among the Spirits" very cheap in a cutout bin and found about 75% of it to be endless noodly nonsense, wavering strangely between prog and world beat. But it had two utterly fantastic, focused songs in the recognizable Church style that showed what a could band they could be. So for the reduced price I paid, it was a good deal. Definitely a band well-served by song-focused comps. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1194 Registered: 04-2005 |
By the way, I'm not unaware that I criticize the Church for endless noodly nonsense, and then a few posts above mention listening to Can, which arguably devoted its entire career to endless noodly nonsense. I guess my only point is: if your strength is as a song band, write some songs before you make your album. One of the greatest things about the Go-Betweens is that they didn't feel compelled to dabble in long, go-nowhere instrumental workouts. The guitar solo on the album version of "Man O' Sand" feels like such a crazy indulgence in the context of their work, but by most standards, it's very restrained. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1155 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy, I've only played the remastered Tallulah once; I'll play it again soon. I always really liked Tallulah anyway though. With Rattlesnakes I heard things I hadn't noticed before - and I played the vinyl version to death in the mid 80s. So that's a good starting point on how well it came out. I never heard the previous CD version though, so I don't know how much of an improvement it is on that. | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 163 Registered: 01-2006 |
the new Dean & Britta album isn't out till Feb 27 in Ireland & the UK, will have to do with the 'Words we used to say' EP until then. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 435 Registered: 01-2005 |
Padraig, the remastering job on Tallulah is one of the best I have ever heard. In fact, I told Robert that after the Abbey Pub show in Chicago in June of 2005. He agreed that it was a fantastic remastering job. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 436 Registered: 01-2005 |
Kurt, I missed your Jan 17th reply concening Neu!. Their 3rd and last album, "Neu!75", is essential. The second half of it is a primer for the punk movement that followed 2 years later, so it's very ground breaking. The first album, "Neu!", is just a touch behind that, but Stereolab obviously used it as a main influence 20 years later. The middle album, "Neu!2" was pretty good, but not as essential as the other two or the Krautrock greats by Can, Faust, Amon Duul, etc. |