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     kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1459 Registered: 05-2005 |
Low - Drums and Guns. Had this on CD-R for months now, but its finally been released. I think its their best yet -whats the verdict Stateside? Dean and Britta. Back Numbers. Just downloaded this from Napster after the positive comments here. Liked what I heard. LCD Soundsystem - Sounds of Silver. Album of the year for me so far. Although another contender - after initial reservations the Wilco album is really hittimg home now. Very reflective, gentle songs which take a while to sink in, always the sign of a great album? | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1298 Registered: 04-2005 |
Haven't heard either the LCD Soundsystem or the Low yet, Kev, but they're at the top of my list. And I too dig the Dean & Britta and the new Wilco. Can you believe it--we agree on a bunch of things!  | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1460 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kurt, glad to see you are coming round to my way of thinking Just joking, I'm sure we have more in common than we dont when it comes to music. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1083 Registered: 03-2005 |
In the car: The Clean--Getaway at work: Gaslight Radio--Hitch on the Leaves. A little birdie in Brisbane tipped me off on this one. Superb. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 320 Registered: 09-2006 |
The Best of Delaney and Bonnie Imperial Teen - What is Not to Love Roni Size/Reprazent - New Forms | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1728 Registered: 03-2006 |
To add my voice to the chorus of huzzahs, that NY at Massey Hall thing is awfully good...he was in incredibly great voice and his take on the songs is so fresh - a lot of them hadn't been recorded or released yet. I was pleasantly surprised: the deluxe version comes with a DVD, that isn't just a high def version in surround sound - it actually includes a lot of performance footage. Also, Grinderman - hilarious and fun... And still, Sky Blue Sky - I dunno - it might be their best. The songs on it really stick.... | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1301 Registered: 04-2005 |
Wow, Allen...Imperial Teen. Probably their first mention ever on the board. I didn't know they were still together until I saw an SXSW report on a show of they played this week. Their first two albums were pretty good--they lost me on the third. I was impressed by the fact that two members of IT came out of heavy SF bands I didn't like--Faith No More and Sister Double Happiness--and started making almost Pixies-like music. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1302 Registered: 04-2005 |
And now listening to: Television - Adventure Pulp - This Is Hardcore I've rediscovered the Television album recently after always discounting it a bit as inferior to the flawless debut. And for some reason, "This Is Hardcore" has really clicked with me in a way it didn't when it came out. Maybe I can relate more now to the songs of jadedness and aging. "Jarvis" finally comes out in the States in April--I'm looking forward to it. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 322 Registered: 09-2006 |
If that's true about IT not turning up on the board before, I'd say that's a bit surprizing...despite their roots,the music they make is in the same general range as a number of bands revered on this site. "On," the third album, had a difficult mental gestation period for me, but has become my very favorite. | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 85 Registered: 05-2005 |
Back to 1979. I'm enjoying now Devo's 'Duty now for the future". One of the few american artists I admired strongly at the time. And this music still works! | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1305 Registered: 04-2005 |
That's going way back--I haven't heard that album in decades, TROU. But I remember "The Day My Baby Gave Me A Surprize," though, which might be their best song ever. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1357 Registered: 05-2005 |
Morrissey - Suedehead the best of. Morrissey - Vauxhall and I (his very very best, IMH&OO) I am hated for loving I am hated for loving anonymous call, poison pen brick in the small of the back again I still don't belong to anyone - I AM MINE I am hated for loving I am haunted for wanting anonymous call, poison pen brick in the small of the back again I still don't belong to anyone - I AM MINE I am falling with no noe to catch me I am falling and there's still no one to catch me anonymous call, poison pen brick in the small of the back again I still don't belong to anywhere I just don't belong | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 519 Registered: 10-2004 |
Gary Numan - Dance | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 597 Registered: 08-2004 |
Patti Smith - Horses Legacy Edition Bonus The Cranberries - Bury The Hatchet (it was shit so I turned it off) Grinderman - Grinderman Happy Mondays - Bummed & Madchester Rave On [RMB] - Widescreen Two Lone Swordsmen - Wrong Meeting Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed & Hot Rocks Mellow Trax - Techno Vibes The Who - Quadrophenia | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1465 Registered: 05-2005 |
Studio One Kings -another classic reggae comp from Soul Jazz Panda Bear - Person Pitch. The Beach boys done Animal Collective style The Arcade Fire - Neon Bible. I was so wrong about this. Grinderman - s/t. Nasty Ol Nick on the best form he's shown in years. Electric Alice and No Pussy Blues are fantastic | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1088 Registered: 03-2005 |
Kevin liking Arcade Fire? The earth has slipped out of orbit. I'm on a big Augie March kick. I listened to "Moo, You Bloody Choir" at work. After being softened up by "Strange Bird" I'm able to get more out of it but I can see why I like the earlier album better. There are fewer moments that make me think "Turin Brakes." Sometimes this group sounds like they've collapsed Queen and Dylan together the same way the GoBees did it with the Monkees and Dylan. Well, if one works surely so must the other. But I like the Monkees and have problems with Queen. I also received a copy of Augie March's first album. It does not seem to have any of the hurdy gurdy carnival feel of the other two. And "Strange Bird" is currently up in the car. That's a good lyric Spence. Maybe I'll be able to get into Moz when I grow up. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 538 Registered: 01-2005 |
Tracey Thorn - Out Of The Woods I don't even recognize her old voice one bit in the first song, "Here It Comes Again". "A-Z", the second song, is little more like the old Tracey. This is going to take some me time to get used to. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1319 Registered: 05-2005 |
Towering Inferno - Kaddish. Towering Inferno are two English Jewish guys (one died a couple of years ago) and Kaddish is an incredible album about the holocaust. Brian Eno said it's the scariest album he ever heard and I agree with him. They played in Galway in 1995 and I so wanted to go but had no money at the time. | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 33 Registered: 01-2007 |
So the AF-Neon Bible is worth the money is it Kevin saw it yesterday for £10 but went for a few other purchases instead. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 478 Registered: 08-2006 |
"Neon Bible" has really grown on me, too, Kev. For some reason, I liked it a lot more when I got the actual CD and stopped playing the advance MP3s a friend sent me a while back. For some strange reason, I think I listen to music more seriously when it comes with packaging. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1739 Registered: 03-2006 |
As I've stated before, I'm digging the new Arcade Fire, too. Great bunch of timely and pointed songs, played and sung with passion, outdated concept that that is. Other new stuff I been playin': The new Tracey Thorn. Michael, I have to say, I just don't get this one. I'm not usually much of a sonic fetishist - I don't typically care if something's production isn't perfect, but this is just packed with too much musical sludge for me to get to the songs. Too much synth, too discoey, too many strings... Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank. Pretty solid, pretty great...marred (no pun intended) ever so slightly by a couple of songs that seem like bids for mainstream acceptance, like "Dashboard", but overall, what's the phrase I'm looking for - very f-ing cool, very satisfying. Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha. Fantastic, and his best yet, I think. I think anyone who's susceptible at all to his violin driven, artsy-poppy style would love this. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 331 Registered: 09-2006 |
As soundtrack to the Pynchon book mentioned in the other thread: Miles Davis: "The Complete 'In a Silent Way' Sessions," "The Complete 'Jack Johnson' Sessions," "Get Up With It," and "Agharta." Works perfectly. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 437 Registered: 04-2006 |
James Blackshaw - O true believers A young , brilliant guitar player whirling around the steel strings. But just look, read and listen here: http://www.myspace.com/jamesblackshaw | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 145 Registered: 07-2006 |
i got the new arcade fire a couple of weeks ago....will take it home over the weekend with me and give it another go. at first listen kinda sameish, though not as compelling. song o the moment is blondie's "maria". i don't care for their reformed stuff at all....or anything they did after 1979 for that matter....but good god that's gotta be one of the greatest comeback singles of all time. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1090 Registered: 03-2005 |
"timely and pointed songs." "sung with passion." Hmmm, that sure as hell doesn't fit the copy of "Funeral" that I have. For that one I'd describe it as "superb platform for memorable stage carnival, sung during hyperventilation." And Kevin likes the new one? I guess this means I have to borrow a copy and hear it. | ||
| John B. Member Username: John_b Post Number: 101 Registered: 10-2006 |
Ok ok, I have finally fallen for Midlake as well. When I listened to "The trials..." for the first time in autumn I was really out to buy something loud and fast. No wonder I didn't like them then. Gave the album another try yesterday and loved it... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1326 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jarvis Cocker - The Jarvis Cocker Album. Just playing it for the first time. Like it a lot so far. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1469 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy, Arcade Fire have surprised me with this one. LK's description is a good one, my only complaint would be that at times the singer apes Ian McCulloch a bit, but even more "over the top" than Mac was. I've said it before, but "Keep The Cars Running" is Bunnymen karaoke | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 334 Registered: 09-2006 |
Louis Armstrong - "The Complete Hot Fives and Hot Sevens Recordings" Maria Muldaur - "Heart of Mine - The Love Songs of Bob Dylan" "25 Greatest Bubblegum Hits" Ghostface Killah - "More Fish" | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 86 Registered: 05-2005 |
Robert Gomez -Brand new Towns . This music seems very fine. I'll see him live before Midlake in just one month! A great night it will be I'm sure. And the new Bebel Gilberto is waiting in front of me... | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 214 Registered: 01-2006 |
Wilco - AM and Summerteeth demos | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1331 Registered: 05-2005 |
A couple of tracks from the forthcoming Dinosaur Jr album. This Is All I Came To Do alone is ensuring I'll buy it on the day of release. We're Not Alone is pretty great too, may even be a better tune in the long run. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1334 Registered: 05-2005 |
No Longer My Concern by Michael J. Sheehy. I got it very cheap at a record fair a few weeks ago. I like it, as I've liked a couple of other albums by him, but not enough that I would have picked it up if it wasn't in the bargain bin. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1335 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Replacements - Skmyway. How I love that song. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1336 Registered: 05-2005 |
Skyway. Of course. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 336 Registered: 09-2006 |
'Tis a beautifully melancholy song indeed...and the slip of the typewriter/tongue happens to us all...a random bit of trivia I picked up today on the net: presenting at the Oscars Nicole Kidman came out with the pronunciation "Dreamgwirls." Exactly what accent is that? | ||
| Peter Member Username: Peterw Post Number: 3 Registered: 02-2007 |
I'm from Barcelona - Let Me Introduce My Friends (29 piece Indie Pop from Sweden..its great.) LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver The Ponys - Turn the Lights Out The Thermals - The Body, The Blood, The Machine | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1741 Registered: 03-2006 |
Charlie Louvin - s/t I can't recommend this highly enough to anyone interested in country music. Just a gorgeous, deeply moving disc - Louvin sings these classic chestnuts as though his life depended on it, which of course, it does...Charlie, I feel you: it does indeed take a worried man to sing a worried song. Lotsa great cameos from all your favorite rockers, too - the Bonnie Prince, Jeff Tweedy, Costello and Tift Merritt, as well as contributions from some country music perennials, like George Jones and Marty Stuart. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 337 Registered: 09-2006 |
That does sound like an impressive collection, LK...the only thing I've heard of his is a couple of great Louvin Brothers albums from back in their heyday. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1338 Registered: 05-2005 |
Yummy Yummy Yummy - The Ohio Express. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1095 Registered: 03-2005 |
OMG. Padraig you are truly catholic. (And, yeah, I have "Yummy, Yummy, Yummy" tucked away somewhere in my collection). | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 541 Registered: 01-2005 |
The Stranglers - Rattus Norvegicus | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 481 Registered: 08-2006 |
Still the Arcade Fire. Can't quite get "Neon Bible" out of my CD player. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 340 Registered: 09-2006 |
I'll be getting that one soon, Rob...though my copy's coming from the library. I know what you mean about having the packaging for your very own, but unfortunately it's a luxury I can't afford at the moment. And cheers, Padraig! That 25 All-Time Bubblegum Hits mentioned above has that song as well as such other sublimities as "Sugar Sugar" "Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)" and "Gimme Gimme Good Lovin'" The perfect bit of frivolity to put on between weightier albums. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1364 Registered: 05-2005 |
Madness - Best of Madness. Gonna go and dig out Rattus michael! | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1743 Registered: 03-2006 |
Al Green - the Definitive Greatest Hits Mary Weiss - Dangerous Game Antibalas - Security | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 439 Registered: 04-2006 |
bob dylan - bringing it all back home phil kellogg - gravity can bring you down | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1340 Registered: 05-2005 |
Thanks Randy and Allan! Last night I played Christy Moore's Ride On album. It just came in the post yesterday. I had not heard it since my brother's vinyl copy about 20 years ago. I must have played his copy an awful lot because two decades on every song was familiar to me. A wonderful record; at times deeply moving moving (eg Viva La Quinte Brigada - about the Spanish civil war), at other times hilarious (Lisdoonvarna, which includes an immortal line about the local airport having to get it's runway widened so Jackson Browne's plane could land!). Irish folk music at or near its very best. And I'm not even a huge Christy Moore fan apart from this album. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1342 Registered: 05-2005 |
Allen, thanks for the tip about the bubblegum CD. Think I'll order it. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 345 Registered: 09-2006 |
Hope ya like it, Padraig. GoBees - Liberty Belle, album and videos. One of my favorite parts of Mr. Forster's singular, multifaceted fashion sense is the gender fluidity - sometimes as just an undercurrent, sometimes intentionally outrageous (as in the LB video) or sometimes just matter-of-factly, just one part of who he is, like in all the "Tallulah" booklet photos. He's one attractive chap there, and if I swung that way, I'd probably have his pic on my wall.. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1479 Registered: 05-2005 |
Richard Swift - Dressed Up For The Let Down. Classic pop album based in piano,strings and brass with witty intelligent lyrics. Fans of Magnetic Fields/Stephen Merritt will love this. Swell - Too Many Days Without Thinking. Not heard this album in years - have they split up? Son Volt - The Search. OK, but not as good as the comeback album Modest Mouse - We were dead.... Is this not supposed to be the album that makes them big time - cant see it myself - maybe I need to listen more | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1368 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Stranglers - Rattus Norvegicus "" "" - No More Heroes (Remasters) I love these, esp the sleeves, they transport me to fun wide eyed times. The lyrics were suspect in places, and of course they were a con. Highly intelligent, ex public schoolboys jumpin on the punk bandwagon dressed as the Doors, bloody scary cover on RN, apparently JJ Burnel was pisse at the pic that was used, as he never was the artwork he was promised before it went to print!! Too much blusher!! | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1313 Registered: 04-2005 |
The Stranglers were highly intelligent? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1348 Registered: 05-2005 |
Paul Simon - Graceland. What a record. Before that The Waterboys; and before that Paul Revere and The Raiders. | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 36 Registered: 01-2007 |
Richmond Fontaine-Winnemucca Miles Davis Round about Midnight, forgot how good this was | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1101 Registered: 03-2005 |
Manfred Mann -- As Is & Up the Junction soundtrack Rolling Stones--IBC demos predating their first album. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1371 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kurt, yep Cornewll has a masters in physics or something like that, Dave G was a mathmatician, JJ a teacher and karate expert and Jet was , er...Jet! Don't quote me as I read it all a long time ago, been a fan for nearly 29 years though!!! | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1320 Registered: 04-2005 |
I had no idea such brainpower was behind songs like "Peaches"! | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 528 Registered: 10-2004 |
Luiz Bonfa - Violao E O Samba, and Luiz Bonfa Plays and Sings Bossa Nova | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 351 Registered: 09-2006 |
The new Arcade Fire B-Side/outtake compilation, "Burn Victims." No, just kidding...though if/when they do one of those it'd be a pretty good title. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1323 Registered: 04-2005 |
No, not album titles punning on the band's name! Didn't Can pretty much ruin that for everybody? | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 353 Registered: 09-2006 |
Yeah, but at this point in pop music history it's a double convolution...the act of punning would be a signal that they know how silly it is but they're doing it anyway because they don't mind being silly. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 354 Registered: 09-2006 |
No? OK, never mind... | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 355 Registered: 09-2006 |
Elvis P. - "Tiger Man" Klezmatics - "Wonder Wheel (Lyrics by Woody Guthrie)" | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1374 Registered: 05-2005 |
Stephen Harrison - http://www.myspace.com/stephenhowardharr ison Jeff, you may know him? He was in metropak, time of Josef K etc, formed a band called Heyday with ex Josef K, then an album produced for Crepuscule by Alan Rankine and Paul Haig, I've loved his stuff ro 20 years but never on CD, now its all there! He hunted me doen as a friend on Myspace!! Pack on your back and Sad and Blue are gorgeous, abit like Paul Quinn and Scott Wwalker crossed with the Wild Swans, lovely, just in time for Summer!! | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1483 Registered: 05-2005 |
Wild Swans have an album out Spence - I take it that its a compilation of old stuff. I wore out my copy of Revolutionary Spirit in the early 80s | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 529 Registered: 10-2004 |
Spence - I have that Crepuscule comp that Harrison's song "Sad and Blue" is on. That's an amazing comp, and it was what introduced me to the Pale Fountains as it has the original "Just a Girl." I bought that comp for $2.00 about 10 years ago and have loved it ever since. I never thought to pursue Stephen Harrison further, although I like that one song quite a bit. But the other tunes on his myspace page are good too. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1106 Registered: 03-2005 |
. . . which reminds me I have yet to hear anything by Pale Fountains. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 530 Registered: 10-2004 |
Ah, I'll get on that soon, Randy. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1375 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kev, that WS album was great. It'll b e interesting to see the new comp, wonder f its been remastered? Would be daft to rerelease with out remastering. Jeff, yep you got it! That compilation was great, like most Crepuscule stuff its rare now, it might be worth $25 dollars to a collector. The Japanes are fond of Crepuscule, as they were of El! In fact the Japanese were way ahead of the game in th days of Crep and El! They welcomed the possibilities that those two labels offered, pretentious or ot, it was good stuff. There's a good DVD out called Shadowplayers which is the story of Fatory Records and the Benelux/Crepuscule connection, you can get it from LTM. Peter Hook and Anthoby Wilson are very funny in it. As is Larry Cassidy from Section 25. I think there is a bit where the interviewer (James Nice, who runs he label) talks to Larry about inspiration, and where did it come from, like writers perhaps, and Larry Cassidy in his real working class northern dulcit tone replies "Fuck off!", you had to be there I guess... I'll prob buy Stephen's CD. He was great. Randy, hopefully you'll love the Fountains, can't describe them, however related buzz words to sort of describe them would be...optimistic, English, out of time, light, Loveish, soetimes heavy | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 602 Registered: 08-2004 |
Beastie Boys - To The 5 Boroughs David Sylvian & Robert Fripp - The First Day Ost - Above The Rim Joy Division - The End VA - IndieBlast '99 The Wannadies - Skelleftea Echo & The Bunnymen - The Grey Album (Demos) - An exceptional bootleg of what should have been the album of the year, 1987. A rollocking, rocking, rivetting, raucous, rarity. Hopefully one day this will be released & the actual eponymous nadir will be destroyed. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 531 Registered: 10-2004 |
Jerry - I never knew about the Grey Album Demos! I like that record okay, but I've always been put off by its lifeless, overly slick production. They went from producing a record with oodles of character and an organic, disctinctive sound, to making that "grey" album that sounded as flat and inspiring as a piece of Wonder Bread. Didn't Gil Norton do that one? He seemed to have a penchant for ruining potentially good records in the mid-to-late 80s (eg - Triffids' Calenture). | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 604 Registered: 08-2004 |
Jeff, some cleaned up songs, Lover I Love You, Satisfaction, New Direction. Were on the Crystal Days boxset. Showing the heavier sound they'd taken on encouraged by Jesus & Mary Chain's pilfering of the Velvets sound. I think things changed when Bill Drummond quit managing the band & they were being pushed to crack America with a radio friendly sound. It all went horribly wrong as you know. I only got the demos this week & it's a revelation. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1484 Registered: 05-2005 |
Dinosaur Jr - Beyond. 10 times better than I thought it would be. Mascis vocals are a revelation, and the band is tighter than a ducks arse. But, as with some of the Wilco album its the guitar solos that bug me, and to my untutored guitar solo ear they all sound the same. Still, its not enough to put me off and Dinosaur fans will surely love it. Rebel Music Vol2 - Great 1968-1973 period reggae anthology from Trojan records The Good The Bad And The Queen - the unexpectedly good album from Albarn and Simenon could be album of the year material? | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 491 Registered: 08-2006 |
Glad to hear that about the Dinosaur, Jr. CD, Kev. I've heard maybe three tracks online and they've all been excellent. I was afraid maybe they were leaking out the superlative stuff and the rest would be filler. Sounds like it might be, lo and behold, a good record. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 357 Registered: 09-2006 |
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson - "1980" Little Loudo Wainwright - "Attempted Mustache" Not his deepest album, but his funniest and one of his most consistent. "The Man Who Couldn't Cry" (memorably sampled by DJ Shadow) might be my favorite song of his. | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 38 Registered: 02-2007 |
Allen, Johnny Cash does a great live version of "Man who wouldn't cry" on one of his American Recordings albums. Some remarkable songs on that series, listen to them regularly. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1380 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kevm the rebel music sounds good, is it downloadable? I don't think I will beable tohandle Albarn's artistic self indulgence, he's a clever man, but after his recent radio 2 interview, I have no time for the guy or his stuff, howvere, i shall take apeek on iTunes, never say never. Never! | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1381 Registered: 05-2005 |
XY, the Summerteeth and Am demoes sound good! Roddy Frame - Western Lands. Its been a slow burner for me, still not totally convinced, but ts a very close-up album, it draws you in. RF seems to be like most singer songwriters who had it and lost it, i.e. Kevin Rowland, et al in reflective mode, also ready to repent. There's some nice musical arrangements too. I still feel, High Land Hard Rain is his best, and really he hasn't written anything that will ever be as good as that album, 25-27 years ago, big shame. Still, a big musical influence, on me anyway. | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 218 Registered: 01-2006 |
Spence, the Summerteeth demos are better, but they aren't too different to the album versions, if you want me to send you them just shout. I';ve also been listenin to Wilco cover versions, a heap of songs called 'Someone Else's Songs', some of them are very short and some are just messing around but there's some good stuff here too.. Wilco Someone Else's Songs Disc 1 1. Listen to Her Heart (9/10/95): Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers 2. Peace, Love and Understanding (4/17/96): Nick Lowe - (Golden Smog) 3. Love & Mercy (4/17/96): Brian Wilson -(Golden Smog) 4. Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (1/11/97): Jane Taylor 5. Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow (2/15/97): Carole King 6. Color Me Impressed (5/10/97): The Replacements 7. I Wanna Be Sedated (5/10/97): The Ramones 8. Drown (5/23/97): Son Volt 9. True Love Will Find You in the End (9/4/97): Daniel Johnston 10. Ever Fallen in Love (10/30/97): The Buzzcocks 11. Sunday Bloody Sunday (11/4/97): U2 12. Sugar Baby (11/7/97): Doc Boggs 13. Tear Stained Eye (11/7/97): Son Volt 14. If It Makes You Happy (11/7/97): Sheryl Crow 15. WonÕt Get Fooled Again (11/7/97): The Who 16. Ingrid Bergman (3/26/98 ): Woody Guthrie/Billy Bragg 17. John Wesley Harding (3/26/98): Bob Dylan 18.100 Years from Now (6/12/98): Gram Parsons 19. James Alley Blues (8/30/98): Richard "Rabbit" Brown 20. A Fool Such as I (10/19/98): Elvis Presley 21. IÕm Only Sleeping (11/12/98): The Beatles 22. Yesterday (11/15/98): The Beatles 23. Rainbow Connection (12/30/98): Kermit The Frog 24. SheÕs a Jar (6/15/99): Wilco 25. Oklahoma USA (10/20/99): The Kinks 26. Thirteen (10/20/99): Big Star 27. Dreaming (10/21/99): Blondie 28. Any Major Dude (11/5/99): Steely Dan 29. Cock in My Pocket (11/5/99): The Stooges Disc 2 1. Give Back the Key to My Heart (11/22/99): Doug Sahm 2. Kingsport Town (1/4/00): Bob Dylan 3. LookinÕ for a Lover (1/4/00): Neil Young 4. King of Carrot Flowers, Part 1 (1/9/00): Neutral Milk Hotel 5. Rock Salt and Nails (5/14/00): Bob Dylan 6. Organ Blues (5/14/00): T. Rex 7. Reflections in a Crystal Wind (9/12/00): Richard & Mimi Fari–a 8. IÕm into Something Good (9/13/00): Herman's Hermits 9. Colon song (11/16/00): Traditional 10. Stairway to Heaven (12/20/00): Led Zeppelin Ð (Golden Smog) 11. Ripple (2/25/01): Grateful Dead 12. I Wish I Was Your Mother (9/15/01): Mott The Hoople 13. No Depression (11/18/01): The Carter Family 14. ItÕs Alright to Cry (2/17/02): Rosie Grier 15. Three Is a Magic Number (2/17/02): Schoolhouse Rock 16. Yellow Submarine (2/17/02): The Beatles 17. We Will Rock You (2/17/02): Queen 18. Be Not So Fearful (4/6/02): Bill Fay 19. TV Eye (5/26/02): The Stooges 20. Henry & the H-Bombs (6/10/02): Mott The Hoople | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1359 Registered: 05-2005 |
Fingerprints: The Best Of Powderfinger. I've had it for ages but only got rund to playing it right now. It's good, not great. I saw them live at a couple of festivals and they were really good. I'd been expecting them to be a bit heavier based on the live shows. For those of you outside Australia, Powderfinger are a Brisbane rock band, one of whom, Ian Haug, played with Grant in Far Out Corporation. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1485 Registered: 05-2005 |
Just heard on BBC Rdio news that Johnny Marr has achieved his first stateside number 1 as guitarist with Modest Mouse. This is presumably a mistake, and it has topped the "alternative" charts rather than the big bad real charts? Surely? | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 492 Registered: 08-2006 |
You read right, Kev. Modest Mouse is No.1, with no qualifier. Weird, eh? | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 444 Registered: 04-2006 |
...Trail of Dead - So Divided Still burns. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1768 Registered: 03-2006 |
The Modest Mouse thing IS weird and considering it's the third "indie", or what we thought used to represent indie, in recent times to land atop the charts, it seems like a trend of some sort...the Arcade Fire and the Shins also debuted way up there, at #2, for both of them. It is a good record, btw. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1486 Registered: 05-2005 |
LK - I can see why Arcade Fire might appeal to casual record buyers who like to have a token "cutting edge" record in their collection. But Modest Mouse and The Shins I find harder to fathom. Now I love The Shins, but that still baffles me. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 605 Registered: 08-2004 |
Could it be radio & TV support on top of cult status? Still not sure if it's a good or bad thing. Maybe it's down to lower sales. The only people still buying music are guitar worshipping melody-heads, just like us. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1487 Registered: 05-2005 |
Spence - Rebel Music vol2 is not available for download at Itunes or Napster yet. Napster usually do get Trojans new releases eventually, but they are normally about 2 weeks late in getting them. Dont know if you are aware of Bleep.com, which is an excellent download site. They have a lot of recent Trojan releases but dont have Rebel Music yet - keep checking and I'm sure it will appear at Napster or Bleep. http://www.bleep.com/?label=Trojan Regarding Mr Albarn, I was as cynical as you about this release, but theres no denying he has come up trumps with this one | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1770 Registered: 03-2006 |
I think your theory is more or less correct, Jerry. I think, since CD sales are down, way down, it has to be a feature of that...maybe all the really popular shit is selling through other means, digitally,etc., and it's cleared the way for some (previously thought to be) obscure bands to stack up big numbers...Maybe it's the old-fashioned "melody-heads" (there are worse things one could be) that have to have the actual artifact. My only other theory is that it makes no sense at all, and is yet another sign of the impending apocalypse... | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 546 Registered: 01-2005 |
Jeff, Gil Norton might have seemed to have a penchant for ruining potentially good records in the mid-to-late 80s as you say, but he also produced the brillant Throwing Muses debut from 1986 and also The Pixies "Doolittle". Speaking of 1986, get's your picks ready as I'll start of April with a bang with my list on Sunday. The Throwing Muses eponymus debut album will certainly be in my top 5. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 493 Registered: 08-2006 |
I've never gotten around to Modest Mouse - for no good reason, really - but I think it's excellent their record is number 1, and that Arcade Fire and the Shins have done so well. I don't know if MM qualifies as "indie rock" technically (they're on a major, after all) but I'm sure glad their sound is hitting so many people's sweet spots. To quote Jerry, we guitar-worshiping melody-heads deserve some props from the music industry. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1771 Registered: 03-2006 |
I think you'd like 'em, Rob, based on your other tastes...MM actually recorded on an indie label for many years before heading up to the majors, so I think the appellation indie still applies, if such labels still mean anything. The new one is, I think, the second one they've recorded for Epic, which of course, put out the back catalog with their label affixed to it, too. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 496 Registered: 08-2006 |
I'll definitely check it out. I really can't say why I don't own any MM. In fact, I checked the CD collection just to make sure I wasn't forgetting something. They always get consistently good reviews and everything I've heard I've liked. Okay, off to Amazon... | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1774 Registered: 03-2006 |
As much as I like 'em, I hate for you to take my recommendation unqualifiedly. LK don't roll like that. Perhaps you should download some stuff to check 'em out first...there's a song off of their last one that I think you'd love, called "Bury Me With It", that's just amazingly rocking and cool. I think the mighty Dean, btw, has given most of their stuff high marks... | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 532 Registered: 10-2004 |
For an alternate, and possibly completely unwanted perspective, MM embody all that I dislike with contemporary music. Actually its really just Brock that I can't stand. His vocals are like pure nails on a blackboard for me. Even though their music is probably better than it used to be, at least from a pop standpoint, I can never get around his vocals. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 497 Registered: 08-2006 |
Hey, LK, I'd never hold you over the fire like that - actually, I've heard MM many times and like 'em a lot. I just haven't turned that admiration into consumerism. And Jeff, I can totally see your point of view. Brock is a taste to be acquired or not. That's actually one reason I like the band. Sometimes, bands with polarizing aspects can be extra thrilling if you're down with those particular aspects. Which, in this case, I suppose I am. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1775 Registered: 03-2006 |
Nothing in Jeff's post made me feel held over the fire particularly. He carefully couched it in terms of what he likes, and because it's still (almost) a free country, till Bush has us rounded up and sent to the camps, he's free to like or dislike what he pleases. And, IB's vocals really are kind of an acquired taste, which is why I offered the caveat before. Though I wouldn't think they'd be too much of a stretch for anybody who's acclimated to people like the Pixies, Tom Waits, Pere Ubu, Talking Heads, et al. The guy, however you slice it, is a great and fascinating songwriter. He definitely has a knack for turning the clever, doom-laden, "laughing all the way to the graveyard" phrase, the title of the new disc being one such example. I was just looking at Metacritic and it gets pretty uniformly high marks. One review called it "enthralling", a description I'm down with... Not sure how polarizing they are, or his vocals are, though, when you consider that he's got the numba one. Maybe polarizing on this board, but I don't know if ole Isaac is sweating that too much. He's probably not anxiously calling his agent and asking, "have the folks from the Go-Betweens board weighed in, yet?"... If you've heard them before and like what they're up to, in general, I think it'd be hard for you to go wrong with the new one, Rob. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1488 Registered: 05-2005 |
Panda Bear - Person Pitch. This is a total mind f***, this guy has some musical imagination. Never really got into Animal Collective but this offshoot is the real deal and just watch out for the end of year polls - give it a few more trys LK. http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/ pandabear/personpitch?q=PANDA%20BEAR Low - Drums and Guns. I've said before I think this is their best album, their voices have never sounded better and if Modest Mouse can get to No1 why not Low? http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/ low/drumsandguns?q=low Wilco - Sky Blue Sky. Cant wait to hear these songs live -Wilco will be a must see this year. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 498 Registered: 08-2006 |
LK, I didn't mean to imply that Jeff was holding you over the fire. I was referencing your reluctance to be the solo recommender of the MM CD. Just saying I wouldn't put that pressure on you. I always do my research before buying something, so you shouldn't worry that I'll be putting pins in my LK voodoo doll if I don't like the CD. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1326 Registered: 04-2005 |
To take us in a slightly different direction in the Modest Mouse discussion: LK, how do you rate the new album compared to the last one? I found that one to have some great highs but some painful lows--and overall, it was disappointing compared to "The Moon and Antarctica." Do you think the new one is better than "Good News"? | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 221 Registered: 01-2006 |
Right now 'Falling Out' by Peter Bjorn & John....i think this one may be as good as Writer's Block.... Dean and Britta: Back Numbers..i like this, think it's better than l'avventura, doesn't sound as disjointed. a few songs seem to be recycled in this one, Family Conference from the Squid And The Whale Soundtrack certainly.. NY: Live at Massey Hall, only listened to it once so far but sounds good, exactly like i thought it might, ie that BBC session in 71. Really like the versions of Cowgirl In The sand and Joureny Through The Past. Otherwise a desperatley disappointng evening, witnessed Galway United lose 1-0 to a very very late Shamrock Rovers goal in the League of Ireland match in Tolka Park....then the pub where we had a few pints afterwards closed at 11.30! | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 606 Registered: 08-2004 |
Does all this mean Bright Eyes will be no. 1 in a couple of weeks. With Arctic Monkeys going in at 2. I'd never heard of Modest Mouse until recently. From the descriptions here they're Clap Your Hands Say Yeah meets The Smiths via Talking Heads. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1776 Registered: 03-2006 |
Rob: If you're not holding me over the fire for recommending MM, that'll be a refreshing change. My brother still insists I owe him a CD for recommending Richard Thompson to him (I can hear you laughing, Kev)... Kurt: that question's probably above my pay grade. I didn't mean to set myself up as the world's foremost expert on them. More just to say I dig what they do and think they're the real deal. I can't find my copy of "Good News", but remember it as being pretty great - challenging and interesting - all the way through. I honestly don't remember any crushing lows, but recall a lot of high spots: "Bury Me With It", the Dirty Dozen horns, which worked for me in that context, etc. I think the critical consensus is that the new one isn't quite as good though... Jerry: add in a touch of Tom Waits and the Pixies, and I think you're gettin' close... | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 363 Registered: 09-2006 |
I have several MM albums and while I always enjoy them when I put them on, I rarely feel compelled to...which usually means what I need to do is immerse myself in them for awhile, which is always the best method for me. Speaking of immersion, a totally unexpected GoBees binge: LB led me to Tallulah, and then, in turn, all of the other studio albums and a couple of the bonus discs. What a wonderful sojourn. Still not sure if 16LL is my favorite, though if I was able to tote up number of plays I think it'd be out in front... | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1489 Registered: 05-2005 |
I think MM could be described as "hard work" to listen to, the kind of band you need to stick with. they dont seem to have a "signature sound" either which I found means its hard to keep focused on the albums, although I have only heard "Good News...", and the new one, and even then have only played the new one a few times and doubt if I have heard it all the way through. compare and contrast reviews, LK is right that the new one has not been as well received.Although its been well received in the UK, where Uncut and Mojo have both given it 4/5 http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/ modestmouse/goodnewsforpeoplewholovebadn ews?q=modest%20mouse http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/ modestmouse/weweredeadbeforetheshipevens ank?q=modest%20mouse | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1361 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Sleepy Jackson - Personality. I bought it in Novermber in Melbourne but have only gotten around to playing it right now. It is wonderous, lush and beautiful. I wish I'd played it ages ago. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1382 Registered: 05-2005 |
Gonna play Bingo hand Job and the Grey Bunnymen stuff Jerry C kindly sent. Thanks for making my musical weekend jerry, you are very kind. Spence | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 445 Registered: 04-2006 |
after returning from playing football/soccer with my son for over three hours i am totally exhausted and i need some cure: the 'cul de sac' leader with a solo acoustic guitar album in the fahey/basho style. glenn jones - against which the sea continually beats great work! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1113 Registered: 03-2005 |
Songs from "The Man Who Sold the World" as I send them off to Matthias. I hadn't loaded this onto iTunes before and am once again blown away by what a great groundbreaking album it is. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1384 Registered: 05-2005 |
Stephen Harrison - Glad its over. His Myspace page is full of great songs. He was abit of a Scott Walker type singer, up there with paul Quinn. Great voice. http://www.myspace.com/stephenhowardharr ison | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1385 Registered: 05-2005 |
finished listening to bingo hand job, christ, rem were fuc*in brilliant, what happened? cheers jerry! | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 365 Registered: 09-2006 |
GoBees binge continues with "Striped Sunlight Sound"...one of the aspects of much live performance/many live albums is that songs are often stripped of studio subtleties, tested to see if they stand up as more elemental works...which these do, thrillingly. Also, a Nick Lowe binge, belated honoring his birthday: Brinsley Schwarz: "Silver Pistol" and "Nervous on the Road" NL: "Labour of Lust" (one of the few times where I prefer the American version), "The Abominable Showman," "The Rose of England," and "Party of One." | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 87 Registered: 05-2005 |
The new Bebel Gilberto on a sunny sunday morning... I don't have to tell you... Brazil whith a pinch of Belgium in it. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 608 Registered: 08-2004 |
No problem Spence. Allen, Silver Pistol & Nervous On The Road are qualified classics. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1362 Registered: 05-2005 |
Rhythm Method by The Fountainhead. "Natural" contraception, the Catholic church, Ayn Rand and mid-80s Irish electronica. Can't beat it. |