| Author | Message | ||
     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1755 Registered: 05-2005 |
It's a good job we're all proficient with the Roman numerals isn't it? The Beatles - Love. Still sacrilicious. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1763 Registered: 05-2005 |
Ryan Adams - Halloween Head. Heard it by chance the other day when it came up after I turned the iPod dial without looking where I was going. What an awesome song. I love the way he introduces the guitar solo by saying "Guitar solo"! He sounds like David McComb on it. Really! The lyrics are utterly non-sensical but he sings it like it's the Magna Carta. I love that! Maybe he has a sense of humour after all! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1764 Registered: 05-2005 |
Sharon Jones - Got A Thing On My Mind. Like it. May investigate further. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1766 Registered: 05-2005 |
Shaun Ryder - Amateur Night In The Big Top. An overlooked electronic classic. Recorded in Perth, Western Australia with an ex member of Cabaret Voltaire. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1820 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kevin Ayers - The Unfairground. Its a lovely album, the music is very up. Great lyrics and voice too, from the man who gave Julian Cope a role model... | ||
| Austin McLean Member Username: Bruegelpie Post Number: 48 Registered: 09-2004 |
Padraig, I agree that "Halloween Head" by Ryan Adams is a fantastic song. I think the song is about scoring drugs. "Head full of tricks and treats, Places where junkies meet, And it leads me through the streets at night, etc." Apparently he dropped it from his set list, since people were screaming for it at the show I saw last month and he didn't play it. I never liked Ryan much on previous albums, but Easy Tiger is a winner! | ||
| Paul N Member Username: Pauln Post Number: 26 Registered: 10-2006 |
Gold Afternoon Fix - The Church | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1821 Registered: 05-2005 |
good album that, didn't it say gold afternoon pix on the centre label on the vinyl version, I seem to recall... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1774 Registered: 05-2005 |
Thanks Austin; that does indeed sound like a scoring drugs song. I'll have to listen a little closer to the lyrics! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1776 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Style Council - Long Hot Summer. Inspired by a feature on Paul Weller's best songs in Uncut. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1398 Registered: 03-2005 |
Ashtray Boy -- Candypants Beach Panics -- Sleeps Like a Curse | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 747 Registered: 09-2006 |
Polly Jean - The Peel Sessions Plastic People of the Universe - Leading Horses Pulnoc - eponymous | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 966 Registered: 08-2006 |
The Mekons - "Natural" It took me a bit to get around to this, but it's terrific. "OOH" was a late-career high-water mark, but this is up there. Kinda acoustic, kinda shamanistic, it's got dark and light, Greenlaugh and Langford, and it's very English. Jon's lived here in Chicago so long, you'd think he'd go permanently native. But he gets back with the Mekons and it's like old times. I hope they keep this up 'til they're 70. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2362 Registered: 03-2006 |
Fats Domino - Walkin' to New Orleans - the Greatest Hits. Not sure he's ever been improved upon... | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 967 Registered: 08-2006 |
No, LK, he hasn't. Fats Domino is one of the "old-time" rock and rollers I can listen to and not feel like it's something archival (Chuck Berry and the Everlys also qualify). And like Al Green, I'd listen to that guy play the phone book. He's an American treasure. Did you get his latest, LK? Christgau spoke highly of it. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2364 Registered: 03-2006 |
I did, in fact, and I love it. It's just tremendous. The title song of it, "Alive and Kicking" was thought to be his response to Katrina - he had been missing for days and was thought to possibly be lost, which would've indeed been a heartbreaking tragedy - but apparently, he had written it before that awful period. I also have the new tribute disc, "Goin' Home" which features all kinds of great artists like Lucinda, Randy Newman and Tom Petty covering some of his classic-est songs (okay, I'm a bit of a fan). One of the highlights is a version of "Walking to New Orleans" by Neil Young, recorded for some Katrina benefit or another, that's enough to make a sentimental feller get a little misty... | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2366 Registered: 03-2006 |
Semi-related aside: one word I can't get enough of in song: "whipoorwill" (sp?). It's in "My Blue Heaven", as well as Hank Williams' great "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry". | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 308 Registered: 07-2006 |
padraig - i love long hot summer too. plus, one of the seediest videos ever! | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 836 Registered: 01-2005 |
A couple of Rounder Heritage Series cd's, which are: Cajun Music: The Essntial Collection Zydeco: The Essential Collection | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1869 Registered: 05-2005 |
Robert Wyatt - Comicopera. What is it with these old guys that can still produce great work in their 50/60s? This is great(although if you dont like his voice...), musically inventive(never thought I could like a xylophone instrumental!),apparently Eno is involved which always helps too. Public Enemy - How You Sell Soul... - Robs right, this is really good, best thing they have done in aeons. Subway Sect - Singles Collection - Vic Godard was always on the margins, but this has loads of top tunes. He'd probably be a star today if he was just starting out. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 744 Registered: 10-2004 |
Joe - that video for Long Hot Summer is hilarious and mildly disturbing what with a shirtless Paul Weller writhing around on the ground a la Madonna. I love the Style Council. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 745 Registered: 10-2004 |
This morning on my way to work I listened to Stereolab's "Transient Random Noise Bursts with Announcements." I haven't pulled this out in years. Such an amazing, gripping album. Still excites me after all these years. | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 265 Registered: 05-2005 |
It's a pity the Style Council ended up where they did. The early singles were teriffic and then Weller wanted to preach, first politics, then crap music to people who he had weened off straight rock. Does he play any Style Council stuff live now? He's only been to Auz once and will, like Julian Cope, probably never come again. Having had my winge, I must say that I too have been listening to some 'Council - especially Big Boss Groove. Now that WAS an hilarious film clip! | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 748 Registered: 09-2006 |
Royal Crescent Mob - S.N.O.B. The more I'm hearing about it the more keen I am to check out the Robert Plant/Alison Krauss album | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2370 Registered: 03-2006 |
Well, it's produced by T-Bone Burnett, who's no slouch. So, that could be enough to outweigh the "Plant factor". | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 340 Registered: 01-2006 |
Chrome Dreams 1977 - Neil Young Well I will be tomorrow morning, nearly finished downloading it now... | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 751 Registered: 09-2006 |
It's true - nature abhors a vacuum, and it hasn't been too kind to Robert either...but it was sort of nice to read about how he had great trepidation about doing it and that Alison had to train the poor chap how to harmonize with her. Imagine those two voices...it might suck, but I just have a feeling that it could be something good... | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 970 Registered: 08-2006 |
Wait, Allen, you know the Royal Crescent Mob? I lived in Columbus when they were at their peak, and knew them pretty well. A great band. It's interesting to hear someone reference them... | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2371 Registered: 03-2006 |
Hey, it's probably not going to shock you too much, considering the frequent affinities we three have, but I used to be really into the Royal Crescent Mob, as well. They actually made it to Baton Rouge, where they had a pretty big following, pretty frequently... My girlfriend at the time, "the Waif", as I called her, loved to obnoxiously torment her dad by singing "drunkard's nose, big and bulbous" to him when we'd all had a few. He wasn't really a drunk, just had a big old veiny schnozz...ah, good times. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 754 Registered: 09-2006 |
Oh yeah...I played them a whole lot back in the late 80s, and they're still lotsa fun today - smart, goofy, hilarious, funky, what else could you want? Three guesses who turned me on to them, and the first two don't count... | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1399 Registered: 03-2005 |
Disc one to "On the Beach with the Paragons." Kevin, you have mail. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 715 Registered: 08-2004 |
VA - Radio 1 Established 1967 (wanted to hate this but it's actually quite a toe-tapper, there is a little scum on the surface but it wipes away quite easily) John Fogerty - Revival (a bit heavy rawk) The Beastie Boys - The Best Of Grand Royal 12"ers John Prine & Mac Wiseman - Standard Songs For Average People Bunny Wailer - Rock 'n' Groove Simple Minds - Good News From The Next World ps. thanks for the heads up on the new PE record. They're obviously under publicised. Is it me or are they quite prolific at the moment, only Rebirth Of A Nation has been a let down for me & that's only by their own high standards. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 76 Registered: 03-2007 |
Abstract Poverty - Machine Translations Halo - Machine Translations Holiday In Spain - Machine Translations Managed to source copies of these OOP titles at long last and I am currently listening to them while awaiting the release of the new album ( Seven Seven ) on 19 October, 2007. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 838 Registered: 01-2005 |
The new Kate Rusby album - AWKWARD ANNIE. It doesn't grab you right away like UNDERNEATH THE STARS did, but her deeply personal lyrics slowly unfold to envelope you into her world after repeated plays. A sure bet to land near the top of my Top Ten for 2007 list. | ||
| peter ward Member Username: Peter_ward Post Number: 45 Registered: 06-2005 |
Okkervil River - The Stage Names I Am Kloot - Peel Sessions (Voice sometimes reminds me of Grant) The best of the Ukranians Richard Hawley - Lady's Bridge and Edwyn Collins - Home Again, that track "Leviathan"is powerful stuff. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 758 Registered: 09-2006 |
Bo Diddley - The Chess Box Moby - Animal Rights (only the ambient songs) Mekons - Original Sin Pooh Sticks - Formula One Generation | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 975 Registered: 08-2006 |
The New Pornographers - "Challengers" I'm liking this more and more. I don't think it's great, but I'm a sucker for Carl Newman's schtick and this is a worthy addition to their discography. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2375 Registered: 03-2006 |
Richard Hawley - Lady's Bridge. Rich, gorgeous, evocative. This guy, Chris Isaak with substance, can seemingly do no wrong. This is, what, his third or fourth masterwork in a row. PJ Harvey - White Chalk. In a word, sucky. Look for it in a cutout bin near you in the very near future. Maybe this'll clear her psychic decks for another flame-throwing rock n roll record, a la "Dry" or "Rid of Me". "Still Dry"? Or, maybe in tribute to Bruce Willis, "Dry Harder". And peter, that Okkervil River record is tremendous. Kudos to Mista Kurt Stephan for turning me on to it... | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1874 Registered: 05-2005 |
LK - Isnt the diversity of opinion on this board refreshing? For me the PJ album is great, your other two choices do nothing for me at all. And I say that as someone who normally likes the type of stuff that OR do. Also, to be honest I havent heard RH's album but I have heard tracks from it, and numerous other songs from his back catalogue and I just dont get him. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2376 Registered: 03-2006 |
It is refreshing. I'm not surprised that you don't like RH, though I am that you're not a fan of the OR (if I'm reading your post right). The PJ, man...I dunno, could be me, but I'm not digging it. I will say this for it - at least it's short! You only have 30 minutes of quavery falsetto to get through... Which is something else I meant to mention: I never pay full price for anything (I got my copy used), but, though it's only 30 minutes and comes in a flimsy paper sleeve, they're apparently listing it at full price, $18.99. Ouch, that seems a tiny bit like price gouging... More on that subject: is it just me, or do the vast majority of new releases these days come in cardboard sleeves (usually a little more substantial than PJ's)? I prefer some kind of plastic insert with the little star that holds the CD in place - it keeps them from getting scuffed the way they do in a cardboard sleeve. I can understand if they're doing it out of environmental concern, which I support, but I suspect they're doing it just to cut costs, the cheap bastards. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 532 Registered: 04-2006 |
... but this 30/35 minutes albums are often the best ones... | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 533 Registered: 04-2006 |
... and i prefer paying money for the short, good ones instead for boring eighty minutes... | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 534 Registered: 04-2006 |
... good to read about I Am Kloot. Is tis Peel Session a new release? just one or two days ago i asked myself what happened to this wonderful band. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 535 Registered: 04-2006 |
flower travellin' band - satori | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1400 Registered: 03-2005 |
Total agreement with Andreas about the short album thing. I love Augie March, but their albums would jump up in listenability dramatically if they had the Go Betweenish 10 songs instead of 14. This is true of so many people. I've been really getting into Randall Lee's Ashtray Boy records but, again, too many songs to make for good albums. I suppose the whole concept of an "album" is going the way of the oozlum bird thanks to downloading. LK, I'm kind of relieved to hear that somebody doesn't like the PJ Harvey thing. I still haven't heard it myself but I do wonder whether she might be a medium good artist pumped up to first rank by pure hype. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1876 Registered: 05-2005 |
Couldnt agree more about the album length thing. I am sure that most of you, like me, have never heard some albums all the way through due to them being 60 mins or more. Couldnt agree less about PJ, I would say that only about half of her albums have been well received in the UK. I wouldnt say shes at all hyped here, but sounds like maybe she is over the pond. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 760 Registered: 09-2006 |
A footnote to the discussion about the necessity of artists being assholes in order to create...it does seem true in a large number of cases, which doesn't seem to provide any kind of lesson for the millions of people who'd still love to become romantically involved one. Thank goodness there are the exceptions (the aforementioned Robert and Grant, as well as folks like Al Green, Brooce, Louis Armstrong, and the blessed Allen Ginsberg) to prove that another way is possible, should you have the temperament for it... That assholism can also backfire in some cases, especially if one doesn't have enough talent to back it up. For me the prime example is Oasis - it's a semi-tradition in British music magazines for a new hot band to fill their first interviews with a lot of blather about how they're the saviors of music and everything (with a few exceptions) that came before them was crap. It usually wears off after an album, or two, but with those two boobs it never seemed to, and they dug into their arrogance with such relish it turned me off in a big way and reminded me that oftentimes people use the I'm-an-artist-I-have-to-be-a-jerk defense not to create but just to justify scumbag behavior. No matter how many people tell me they have a few good songs, I've never listened to one and have no plans to. Same goes for R. Ashcroft - I sorta liked "Urban Hymns" when I heard it, but that was before I ran across a couple interviews and that video, which really ought to end with him finally elbowing past the wrong guy - a psycho with an Uzi in his backpack. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 977 Registered: 08-2006 |
I think I'd classify PJ as a first-rate artist. "Dry," "Rid of Me," "To Bring You My Love" and "Stories of the City..." are, in my opinion, as first-rate as albums get. "Is This Desire?" and "Uh Huh Her" didn't stick with me as strongly, but the former remains a close call. I wish she'd play to her strengths more instead of indulging in mood pieces when it suits her, but she wouldn't be the first major artist to misunderstand or mishandle her talent. Kev, I wouldn't say PJ is overhyped here. She's still largely under the popular radar, mass-market-wise. She does get the critical attention over here, but I wouldn't describe her as particularly hyped. In fact, her new record seems to have slipped under the radar permanently. | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 113 Registered: 05-2005 |
New pornographers - Challengers. Easily my album of the month. Sleater-Kinney - The woods Slowdive -Souvlaki The Specials - best of REM - best of the IRS years And currently, Beachfield - Brighton Bothways (a man posing with his cat on a cardboard sleeve with plastic insert can't be wrong...) | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1826 Registered: 05-2005 |
Badly Drawn Boy - Hour of Bewilderbeast. I am ashamed to say, never listened to it properly until this morning. Its wonderful, original and right up my street, its a proper album, its what music should be like, or at least aim to be. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 539 Registered: 04-2006 |
robert wyatt - comicopera john fahey - railroad 1 the decemberists - her majesty | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 540 Registered: 04-2006 |
kevin coyne's awesome 'case history' | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 543 Registered: 04-2006 |
duane allman, an anthology , part one. great stuff. exactly now the boz scaggs track 'loan me a dime' coming out of the loudspeaker. what the hell of a song. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 766 Registered: 09-2006 |
That is a great song, Andreas. Boz did his share of decent material once upon a time. "Under the Blacklight" finally came in at the library. Ooooooh, so '70s (that's a compliment). | ||
| Juan Vera Bellon Member Username: Veritabellon Post Number: 4 Registered: 09-2007 |
Ray Davies - Is there life after breakfast? Sufjan Stevens - Adlai Stevenson Herman Dune - I wish that I could see you soon | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2381 Registered: 03-2006 |
Awright, Allen! You're in for a lot of fun, my friend. Omigosh, what a sweet record. I've gotten to the point where I love it. "Moneymaker" is the only duff track for me. Questions for you as you listen: Is it just me, or does something about "Silver Lining" seem very reminiscent of Joni Mitchell, and does "Dream World" seem like great, slightly seedier Fleetwood Mac. Two sterling references in my book, btw. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1832 Registered: 05-2005 |
Levitation - Coterie Some Myspace band The Icicles | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 981 Registered: 08-2006 |
LK, "Dreamworld" is totally Fleetwood Mac. For some reason, "Silver Lining" isn't in the memory banks right now, but I'm sure you're right about the Joni hat-tip. That's not to say anything on the record sounds derivative. The band's gotten good enough they kind of bend their influences to their own purposes. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 547 Registered: 04-2006 |
beautiful english folk from 1978 magenta - canterbury moon | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 845 Registered: 01-2005 |
TROU, I love Slowdive's Souvlaki. I rate it right with MBV's - Loveless and The Pale Saints - In Ribbons as my favorite shoegazer albums. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 771 Registered: 09-2006 |
My goodness Monday morning (here on this side of the globe, anyway) and the board's suddenly buzzing. LK, I will keep those questions in mind...I've only played it twice (and as is often my way, it was more in the background, as I've found that in my case making too many determinations based on early listens is often a trap, in that it can sometimes set my reactions in stone) but am thoroughly looking forward to the listens to come. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 772 Registered: 09-2006 |
I'm noticing that I've been on here for a little over a year, and that (based solely on my experience on a handful of chatboards in the past) this is by far the most consistent as far as members sticking around. On those other boards if I'd dropped off for even half a year I could be guaranteed to find an almost entirely new bunch of people on there when I checked back in... | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 551 Registered: 04-2006 |
exactly at this moment blows public enemy's track 'harder than you think' everything away. what a killer track. if the album is on the same level everyone should by it. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 552 Registered: 04-2006 |
a few moments ago: herbie hancock and leonhard cohen : the jungle line from the album river:the joni letters. great. also great: burnt friedman featuring barbara panther : machine in the ghost now: the dynamics : rockit (yes, this rockit) this free giveaway from the german music mag spex contains really good tracks. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1836 Registered: 05-2005 |
Allen I suppose we don't get out much, think of it as a bar, a meeting place, wher the food and drink is the personality behind every board member, the people in 'Cheers'! maybe I'd probably be Ted Danson and go nowhere but, make a crap film (tho I love it) called Loch ness. The others in the bar, maybe Kev, Randy and Andrew and the Jerry's, XY Catherine would like to decide who'd they'd be in the Gobees 'Cheers' bar! I reckon LK would be Frasier, and leave us all, for fame in his own sitcom, allowing us drop in cameo's from time to time!!!! | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2392 Registered: 03-2006 |
Hey man, I'd be Norm, with my fat arse and love of beer! | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 311 Registered: 07-2006 |
i got the calenture reissue the other day and found it much better than i remember. spectacular even and i think my eventual favourite. the bonus tracks are of an extremely high standard (i particularly love that synthy (me?)one .....fever love or something)....and suspect i'll be listening to them more than either of the other reissues. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1401 Registered: 03-2005 |
Well, you all know how much TV I watch. I have no idea what character I'd be. Today I got my CD copy of the Heptones' "Cool Rasta." What used to be Side Two on that album is killer. I also got Ashtray Boy's "Everyman's 4th Dimension." On first listen it sounds like another great collection of Randall Lee songs. I think it was only a month ago when I only had his work with the early Cannanes and now I have this huge stack! And, visiting the UK Amazon site I see that the Winnebagos aren't going to be released until November 12. So I'm now officially pre-ordered. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1788 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Band - The Last Waltz. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 775 Registered: 09-2006 |
There's not enough characters on Cheers, so we'd have to start importing them from other shows...I could be Reverend Jim. "Whaaaaaaaaaaat dooooooes aaaaaa yellllllllooooooowwwwww liiiiiiiiiiighhhhhht meeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaan?" | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 716 Registered: 08-2004 |
I'll be the postman fella. The one who was the mammoth in Ice Age. Eddie Harris - Listen Here! The Eddie Harris Funk Project Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous Nick Drake - Family Tree Augie March - Moo, You Bloody Choir - Live disc The Bravery - The Sun & The Moon | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 296 Registered: 05-2005 |
As a female, my Cheers characters are limited. I've got to choose from a neurotic, another neurotic, an ice-queen... Ok, in spite of the fact that I'm about 2'6" taller, I'll have to go with Carla. Or Vera? | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1838 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Clientele - God save The Clinetele. Fackin genius! | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 182 Registered: 01-2007 |
Rilo Kiley just got under the back light for my birthday, just loading in to my beautiful little nano and really enjoying it | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 849 Registered: 01-2005 |
The perfect album for a Fall day: Everything But The Girl - Idlewild | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 779 Registered: 09-2006 |
Mott the Hoople - The Ballad of Mott: A Retrospective Freedy Johnston - This Perfect World Best of the O'Jays | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 780 Registered: 09-2006 |
OK, it didn't take long at all, after three plays just about every song on "Under the Blacklight" is checking in, and I'm oohing and ahhing. I'm ready to join the group now...no, no, wait, get that Kool-Aid away from me!!! | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1840 Registered: 05-2005 |
Happy Birthday Franko! | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 103 Registered: 10-2006 |
As such a newie on the board, I could only slip into a fantasy Cheers as Customer #3, I guess, though I'd be happy if it got me anywhere near Bebe Neuworth. Meanwhile, googled some bits from the original, wonderful series: Cliff (to English visitor): We swear not a word you say will ever go beyond this room. Norm: We never go beyond this room. Carla: You're from England, huh. Eric: How'd you guess? Carla: Because you sound smart even when you say stupid things. Sam: What's new, Norm? Norm: Most of my wife. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 78 Registered: 03-2007 |
Cruel Guards ( Limited Edition ) - The Panics The five track covers disc ( Lazyitis – Happy Mondays; One Too Many Mornings - Bob Dylan; Factory Girl – The Rolling Stones; Who By Fire – Leonard Cohen; Just Like A Woman – Bob Dylan ) is excellent. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1792 Registered: 05-2005 |
Hugh, I just bought it a couple of days ago but haven't played it yet. Got it for $22 but saw it tonight for $19.50. Of course. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1797 Registered: 05-2005 |
I'm listening to the second disc right now Hugh. It's stunning! And I'm only two tracks in. That version of One Too Many Mornings is just sublime. The version of Lazyitis before is brilliant too. Never mind the extra $2.50 I spent getting it! | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 300 Registered: 05-2005 |
Present & Past (1983-1995) A promotional compilation, almost like a best of Grant's solo and GoBe material. I got it purely for curiosity, as I've obviously got everything. Anyone know anything about this release??? 1. Simone & Perry 2. Lighting Fires 2. Open Invitation 4. Surround Me 5. Haven't I Been a Fool 6. Streets of Your Town 7. Bye Bye Pride 8. The Wrong Road 9 Bachelor Kisses 10 Cattle and Cane 11 Late Afternoon in Early August. The whole cd works for me, right up to the last track, which feels right out of place. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1800 Registered: 05-2005 |
It was just released to radio stations I think Catherine. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1801 Registered: 05-2005 |
Listening to The Panics' Cruel Guards now. Disc 1, track 1. Sounds amazing already. This really was $22 well spent! Beautiful strings on track 1, Get Us Home. iTunes tells me it's Easy Listening! Not a bad description actually. I could easily hear this being played by Wogan on BBC Radio 2. | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 301 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Triffids, Born Sandy Devotional. The weather here the past few days reminds me of my last few days in Sydney last May, not quite cold enough for frost, but bright and sunny. I remember walking in Hyde Park while listening to this, so yesterday I pretended I was back there, and walked in Stephen's Green in Dublin, listening to it again... Not quite the same, but cheaper than a 24-hour flight!!! | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 302 Registered: 05-2005 |
I figured it was a radio promo thingy, but I just thought it was odd, that if they were plugging Horsebreaker, they'd have so few tracks on it... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1802 Registered: 05-2005 |
It's meant to signify a "here's what his new record sounds like, and here's some great old stuff by him" kind of thing. The idea, presumably, to get a station to play a few of the songs. Not that it worked in Grant's case. | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 303 Registered: 05-2005 |
I'm curious as to who chose the songs for it, etc. Was it Grant or some Beggars/Atlantic Bigwig? Would a different mix have appealed more to the radio stations? Probably not, unfortunately... | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1844 Registered: 05-2005 |
Max Eider - back in the bedroom | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 79 Registered: 03-2007 |
Padraig, I pre-ordered a signed copy from JB Hi-Fi last month and it arrived this morning. It cost AU$21.99 plus a rather steep AU$11.00 shipping charge. Yet another stunning album from a wonderful band. I am only on my second listen but I am tempted to say it improves on 'Sleeps Like A Curse.' I'm glad I paid the extra couple of dollars for the Limited Edition as the five track covers disc is sublime. 'Who By Fire' is probably the weakest track but, that said, it is still a decent rendition of the song. 'Lazyitis' and 'One Too Many Mornings' are indeed fabulous. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 768 Registered: 10-2004 |
Spence, does Max have a new album out or something? I heart Max Eider. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1804 Registered: 05-2005 |
Max Eider just asked to be my friend on myspace today! I'd better start listening to him/them! | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1848 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jeff, dunno mate, probably!! He's very erm, English!!!! | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2409 Registered: 03-2006 |
Modern Lovers - s/t. Just got the re-issue. Man oh man, I love this disc... | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 789 Registered: 09-2006 |
Chills marathon - everything I have by them. All the new folks who just joined the board, if you haven't already heard of them: if you like the Go-Bees there's a damn good chance you'll like these guys too. They're harder to find, but very much worth the effort... | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 270 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jeez....I feel like a real heathen!!! I know I have sprouted on and on about them for ages...but I've got to say I'm quite disappointed by the Panics new one. I find I keep doing the opposite every time I play the single(Don't fight it)and that seems to be the only real tune. I'm sounding like the NME of old - build em up - knock em down! Having said that, I will not miss them when they tour the Gong in November!! Can't wait to get the new Machine Translations - hope it's as good as Happy and Bad Shapes! Can I add any more exclamation marks???!!!!!!!! | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 314 Registered: 05-2005 |
Geoff, you can never have too many exclamation marks. I ordered the Panics on Friday, based purely on everyone's raving about them heere. I had to order it from Redeye, as none of the usual sites in the northern hemisphere seemed to even know they existed. Here's hoping they'll live up to my expectations. On second thoughts Geoff, maybe you can have too many exclamation marks - there were none left for my post... | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 80 Registered: 03-2007 |
Geoff, I have to say I am expecting 'Seven Seven' to be closer in sound/style to 'Venus Traps Fly' than 'Happy' or 'Bad Shapes.' Chaos shipped my copy on Friday ( 19 October ) so, with luck, it will arrive sometime this week. I rate 'Venus Traps Fly' highly but I seem to remember reading somewhere that you were less than impressed with it. No problem here with 'Cruel Guards' by The Panics. I like it a lot. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1406 Registered: 03-2005 |
I have a giant order with Rocking Horse Records for everything Panics except for their 2004 and 2005 albums, which I found in the States. I'll report on whether it turns out to be overkill. At last I have something released this year. Today Ed Kuepper's new one arrived in the mail at work. I listened to the first disc which includes a very nice cover of "Finding You." Honestly, it's a tender job. The whole album is vintage Kuepper, in total effect a great deal stronger than his last handful of individual albums. I left the CD at work so this comes from memory: the great Jeffrey Wegener plays drums on everything, an uncredited person plays an appropriately unhinged sax on one of the songs, Chris Bailey sings on one song but it's not exactly obvious, several employ cello and/or violin parts and there're lots of layers of Kuepper guitarwork. I look forward to hearing the spare disc. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 994 Registered: 08-2006 |
Tabu Ley Rochereau - "The Voice of Lightness." A two-disc, two-and-a-half hour set of 60s-70s Congolese rhumba goodness. Make that greatness. Highly recommended to anyone on the board with an even passing interest in African music. The Mekons - "Natural." I should have mentioned this in the "Early Contenders" thread. I'm thinking this might be as great as "OOH," their last album and one of their best. This one has a different vibe - it's more acoustic, more autumnal, but laced with doom and anger - but it's terrific. These guys have really evolved into an interesting, challenging band. | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 319 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy, think I'll wait for your report on everything else Panics, before I splurge on the rest.. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1851 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Rockingbirds - The Rockingbirds | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1582 Registered: 04-2005 |
Radiohead - In Rainbows OK, this is really good. I respect them a lot for the way they're distributing this, and it just might be their best album too. This coming from someone who's always suspicious of the hype and acclaim surrounding them. Laura Veirs - The Trumphs and Travails of Orphan Mae Her recently re-released second album; very different from her last three. Very acoustic and rootsy, with songs about the Old West and men and women putting holes in their heads drinking too much whiskey. I like it a lot. Veirs is becoming one of my favorite current singer/songwriters. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 779 Registered: 10-2004 |
Padraig - I'd recommend Max Eider's first album, "The Best Kisser in the World" to just about anyone on this message board. It's classic, catchy, upbeat, melodic, guitar-based pop. He played in Jazz Butcher in the mid-80s. He did a 2nd solo album ("Hotel Figueroa") about 6 years ago which is pretty good with a bit more of a jazz-pop angle. | ||
| Jonathan Evans Member Username: Jon Post Number: 119 Registered: 04-2005 |
Billy Bragg - The live solo (official) bootleg. The Wedding Present - Seamonsters. Belle & Sebastian - Fold your hand...... Cheers Jon | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 191 Registered: 01-2007 |
I love the Rockingbirds --so great any one got the Alan Tyler cds | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 796 Registered: 09-2006 |
The Very Best of...the Pogues Common - Finding Forever Mekons -F.U.N. 90 | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 718 Registered: 08-2004 |
Material - Seven Souls Muddy Waters - Blues Chuck Berry - Roll Over Beethoven Reggae Bubblers - Livin' Up Richard Lloyd - The Radiant Monkey Richmond Fontaine - $87 & A Guilty Conscience... | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 789 Registered: 10-2004 |
Verlaines - misc from Juvenalia Servants - Reserved Killing Joke - What's this for? and Night Time | ||
| Matthew Bradbury Member Username: Bradders Post Number: 15 Registered: 09-2005 |
The Swell Season - feat. Glen Hansard (of The Frames)and Marketa Irglova. Beautiful and moving music! Some of the songs are from the low-budget, independent Irish film 'Once' which won an award at the recent Sundance Festival. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1816 Registered: 05-2005 |
Thanks for the tip Jeff. The Kids Are Alright by The Who. Listened to it while drinking several beers last night. What a brilliant album. It was the first time in 20 years I'd heard it but every song sounded like an old friend. I bought it on CD a couple of days ago. I still have the double vinyl version too so I had a look at that. Sides 1 and 2 are pretty scratched, but sides 3 and 4 look fine. I wonder if it ever would have occured to me a quarter century ago that I'd still adore that record? | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 799 Registered: 09-2006 |
That was the first Who record I ever bought, Padraig, as I was making my belated (due to age) way through the British Invasion, and I'd already processed the Beatles and the Stones...bought it before ever seeing the movie, though when I finally did it just amped up my enthusiasm that much more... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1817 Registered: 05-2005 |
I've never actually seen the film Allen. I presume it's available on DVD so no doubt I'll get it one day. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 800 Registered: 09-2006 |
Oh you simply must if you can...watched it again about a year ago and it's a delight from start to finish. | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 332 Registered: 05-2005 |
Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings - 100 days 100 nights. Fan-F**king-Tastic! It arrived yesterday morning from those nice people at amazon, and was on repeat pretty much all day, with the exception of when I gave the Binky Griptight sampler CD a spin. I dare anyone to try to sit still when listening to this. I'm bloody exhausted from dancin about the house!! | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 719 Registered: 08-2004 |
The Kids Are Alright is a great video. Reminds me of spending hours in video shops looking for something to rent. Seeing the Ox gold-disc shooting & Keith Moon in a gimp suit kicking off Barbara Ann. The Jam's Snap vid was a revelation too, at the time. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 858 Registered: 01-2005 |
Blooming Heather by Kate Rusby. In memory of my great friend Peg Maxbauer from Traverse City, Michigan. My best friends Jim and Sue and I went over to pick up Peg from dinner and drinks at her house two Saturdays ago, and we found her dead. She fell off her roof putting in her storm windows. I went back up north this past weekend for the funeral, and there wasn't a dry eye in the church. God speed Peg. Blooming Heather (aka Wild Mountain Thyme) Oh, the summertime is comin', And the trees are sweetly blooming, And the wild mountain thyme Grows around the blooming heather Chorus Will ye go, lassie, will ye go? And we'll all go together to pull wild mountain thyme All around the blooming heather. Will ye go, lassie, will ye go? I will build my love a bower By yon pure crystal fountain And around it I will pile All the flowers of the mountain. Chorus... If my true love she won't come I will surely find another To pull wild mountain thyme All around the blooming heather. Chorus x2 |