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     kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1885 Registered: 05-2005 |
Pinch - Underwater Dancehall. The latest great album from the UK Dubstep scene. This is like Blue Lines by Massive Attack done in a Pere Ubu style - yes that good. Disrupt - Foundation Bit. More Dubstep, but this is more like King Tubby. Robert Wyatt - Comicopera. At this moment in time my album of the year. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1826 Registered: 05-2005 |
Cowboy Junkies - Trinity Revisited. It's good, but the original is great. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2426 Registered: 03-2006 |
Ray Davies - Workingman's Cafe Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedela. His best yet, I think, but does anyone know why he's so f-ing happy over getting a haircut on the cover? The Panics - Cruel Guards. Okay, though it lapses into saminess about halfway through. The singer's a dead ringer, vocally speaking, for Dean Wareham, of Luna. Has anyone ever seen them in the same room together? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1827 Registered: 05-2005 |
I think he sounds more like David Bridie from My Friend The Chocolate Cake LK. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2428 Registered: 03-2006 |
Haven't heard of them, but I gotta say, that's an excellent group name (if it's indeed a group)... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1829 Registered: 05-2005 |
I always thought it was a terrible name LK, but they are a great group. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 806 Registered: 09-2006 |
I remember in the early 80s hearing tell of a band named The Very Idea of Fucking Hitler. Just now Googled them and found the following list of similar such names: http://sam.hochberg.com/bandname.html Enjoy. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 324 Registered: 07-2006 |
icehouse's "flowers" or flowers' "icehouse"....depending on who you talk to. either way, terrific! | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 357 Registered: 01-2006 |
Chrome Dreams II - Neil Young Comes A Time - Neil Young Watusi - The Wedding Present 69 Love Songs - Magnetic Fields. Hadn't played this in quite a while, forgot what a classic record this is. There must be about 35 incredible songs on this record. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 721 Registered: 08-2004 |
Bim Sherman - Tribulation Down In Jamdown Wedding Present- Live 1987 Depeche Mode - Speak & Spell His Name Is Alive - XMMER Nick Cave - Let Love In Shack - Time Machine | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 801 Registered: 10-2004 |
Verlaines - Bird Dog (still!) and songs from Juvenalia Killing Joke - Brighter than 1000 Suns Faust - IV Ludus - The Damage | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 859 Registered: 01-2005 |
Kate Rusby - Awkward Annie The Blue Nile - A Walk Across The Rooftops Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane - At Carnegie Hall New Musik - From A to B Bud Powell - Time Waits | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2433 Registered: 03-2006 |
You got me stirred up there, for a sec, MB. I thought, scanning your message, that Tom Waits had a new one out! I think I just wet my Pampers! The Monk and Coltrane thing is gorgeous, ain't it? | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1006 Registered: 08-2006 |
I woulda pictured you as a Luvs man, LK. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2435 Registered: 03-2006 |
They chafe too much. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 861 Registered: 01-2005 |
LK, The Monk and Coltrane thing was one of the great finds in music. It was burried in the Library of Congress for almost 50 years until the tapes were found in 2004. Kudos to the unknown recording engineering who had microphones on all four musicians instead of just placing a single mic above the whole group, which was more the norm in those days. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2437 Registered: 03-2006 |
I know. Makes you wonder what other treasures are stashed away there, or in someone's attic or garage, doesn't it? | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1868 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jerry posted Shack Time MAchine best of, does anyone know wher I can get a copy of HMS Fables the demo version which had remixes etc of that album's songs? | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1409 Registered: 03-2005 |
On the way home from visiting my parents: Ed Kuepper -- Jean Lee & the Yellow Dog. Making no records for 7 years really suited Ed. This is a strong, intense and disturbing album. His poignant cover of "Finding You" fits right in with all of the unsettling originals. And he has really tied together the things he learned from his instrumental music sound experiments with his r 'n r songwriter prowess. Panics -- Sleeps Like a Curse. Still a good record. Rocking Horse has informed me that my bulk order of nearly everything Panics is on its way. Ashtray Boy -- The King's Buccaneer. I looked up "Esky" and now I have a better picture of what "Wild Esky" is about. That white and blue speckled foam! Caroline Trettine -- Ten Light Years. Always thanks to Spence. Someday I'll find an official original copy of this. and some of my stuff. That rental car had a good sound system; it gave me lots of helpful feedback for remixing. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 815 Registered: 09-2006 |
Heavenly - P.U.N.K. Girl Double Dee & Steinski - The Adventures of Double Dee & Steinski on the Wheels of Commerce Da Beat - Special Beat Service | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 273 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Little desert - Not Drowning Waving. Their best album(?) FINALLY on CD after being deleted over a decade ago. Seven Seven. Album of the year that I've heard so far. All is forgiven for Venus traps flys being boring. Machine Translations play the nearby Wombarra Bowling club(!) with a string of others on November 15th. J Walker (Greg actually...) used to live here in the Northern Illawarra and returns to play gigs every tour, usually at local Bowling Clubs. The night before, The Panics play the Oxford in the Gong. I'm very, very happy...... | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 724 Registered: 08-2004 |
Dexy's Midnight Runners - Projected Passion Revue Bob Dylan - Time Out Of Mind Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold As Love Scissors For Lefty - Underhanded Romance | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1834 Registered: 05-2005 |
LK, the guy from The Panics does sound quite like Dean Wareham, you're right. He also sounds quite like Tim Freedman from The Whitlams (which is what I should have written above, but mixed him up with David Bridie!). | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 340 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Panics - Cruel Guards. I'm really enjoying this already after a mere two listens. The middle third of the record is coming out as favourite so far. Don't Fight It, on very first listen caught my attention. There's an understated lushness to the whole album, which could stand multiple listens. I'll mention here that it already would be an early contender for a favourite of the year. (I'm a bit wary about posting in that thread at the minute, for fear I get caught in the crossfire!) | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1881 Registered: 05-2005 |
MASSIVE ATTACK - Mezzanine | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 115 Registered: 02-2007 |
Agree Catherine. Just bought Cruel Guards. Continual play on car CD player to work and back and in gridlock on Ipswich Rd (which both Howard and Rudd have promised a few billion to fix/bypass etc and is a big election issue here bigger than climate change or health or education or industrial relations to local residents apparently! well the traffic is bad ) I have fallen in love with this album. New top of list for album of year. and instant classic! | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 40 Registered: 08-2005 |
Laura Veirs: Year of Meteors and The Triumphs and Travails of Orphan Mae Nick Drake | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1611 Registered: 04-2005 |
Great stuff, Simon! The second Laura Veirs album you named has been my revelation of recent weeks. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1884 Registered: 05-2005 |
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation. Vashti Bunyan - Diamond Day. | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 347 Registered: 05-2005 |
Midlake - Trials of Van Occupanther - just bought it. I'm half way through the second listen, and like it, I think. Can't really groove out to it (the real test), as I'm in the internet café... | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1889 Registered: 05-2005 |
Just chillin to Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92. And about to put some Horace Andy on and then listen to some Winnebago Orchestra as we're reahearsing our shiiiit tomorrow for our 1st ever gig (PLUG PLUG PLUG!) in December y'all. Have a geat weekend. Kev, dannae work too hard son! | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 203 Registered: 01-2007 |
Spence were is your gig and when? | ||
| Jonathan Evans Member Username: Jon Post Number: 128 Registered: 04-2005 |
Yeah Spence - Tell all! And a trip to Liverpool or Manchester would be good, might even buy you a pint. Cheers Jon | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1892 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jon/Frank its in Northampton, details on http://www.myspace.com/thewinnebagoorche stra Jon, I'll hold ye to that! | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1912 Registered: 05-2005 |
Spence - can we now add psychic to your many talents? How did you know I was working Saturday/Sunday this weekend? | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 365 Registered: 01-2006 |
Neil Young - Interstate This is from the Big Time EP around the Broken Arrow era, crackin song. Never heard it before this, tis worth a listen/download....you'll need to register first. http://www.the-grotto.com/talk/thread.js p?forum=1&thread=10520&message=37619&q=i nterstate+neil+young#37619 | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 349 Registered: 05-2005 |
Two Gallants - Two Gallants I'm a bit slow getting into this, but that's probably because I've been blissing out on The Panics and Augie March. This one is a whole lot sparser. Martin Stephenson and the Daintees - Boat to Bolivia, remastered. Am loving this, as I would've bought it way back then, but was a kid with no money. As much as I love it, I've avoided listening to Rain yet, as it's not (raining). | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1417 Registered: 03-2005 |
Last night: Gaslight Radio--Hitch on the Leaves This morning: Panics--Crack in the Wall. This 2004 release is about 3/4 of an album with seven tracks and running 30 minutes. It's simpler than "Sleeps Like a Curse" since it's not produced by Tim Whitten. However, it is again a lovely record with a more subtle appeal. I'm glad that you are enjoying Cruel Guards, Catherine. I'm still waiting for my copy but the two things I have now leave me pretty confident that I'll be satisfied when everything shows up. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 82 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, 'In Your Head' is a wonderful song and one of my favourites by the band. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1895 Registered: 05-2005 |
Catherine I didn't know The Daintees had been remastered, it needed it. I saw them nay times in the 80's. Martin used to have us screaming out loud with stuff, especially this tune called Louis, I think it can be found on the back of Crocodile Cryer 12'', where it goes on for 10 minutes and Martin tells a really a pathetic story! Those wer the days where I remember being young and exited by groups like The Daintees and you could play pool with them befroe they went on! I remember being thrashed at pinball by Ant Dunn the bassist at Wolves Compton Poly in '86! Try doing that with Klaxons before they go on!!! | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 353 Registered: 05-2005 |
Walkin' on the moon - Tom Russell, but not his version. This is a regular in my brother's set. My 21 month old niece loves this song, but she thinks my brother actually goes walking on the moon, when he disappears off to play a gig! She has reccently announced that when she is a big girl, she's going to walk on the moon with her daddy.. | ||
| peter ward Member Username: Peter_ward Post Number: 48 Registered: 06-2005 |
Catherine, you must have played "Rain" over the weekend! Are there any extra tracks with the "Boat To Bolivia" reissue? I saw the Daintees play lots in the early ninetys Spence, they were good night out, particularly when they brought along the Hot Lick Cookies and Gypsy Dave. MS is still releasing records and living in a remote part of Scotland I believe, he's a top guitar picker himself, especially blues and ragtime. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 820 Registered: 10-2004 |
Speaking of Martin Stephenson, I absolutely LOVE that song Trouble Town, but can't find it anywhere. I mean, I have an mp3 of it somewhere on the 'puter, but I'd love to find the original 12" or something. I don't think it was ever released on anything else. Boat to Bolivia is an eclectic album, but contains some great tracks. | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 354 Registered: 05-2005 |
I gave in last night, on my way home from visiting my family, and played it probably 4 times in a row! Still not raining, but it suited where my head was at. I've seen MS play solo a few times in the past few years, always a very mellow experience. The last time, he played Rain in complete darkness, other than the red dot of light from the monitor - absolute heaven! The re-issue is a two-disc, with 12 extra tracks - I think it's only very newly released. Disc: 1 1. Crocodile Cryer 2. Coleen 3. Little Red Bottle 4. Tribute to the Late ReverendGary Davis 5. Running Water 6. Candle in the Middle 7. Piece of the Cake 8. Look Down Look Down 9. Slow Lovin' 10. Caroline 11. Rain 12. Boat to Bolivia Disc: 2 1. Wholly Humble Heart 2. Spoke in the Wheel 3. Left Us to Burn 4. Nancy 5. We Are Storm 6. Salutation Road 7. Big Sky New Light 8. The Boys Heart 9. We Can Roll 10. Neon Skies 11. Sunday Halo 12. Cab Attack I'm off for another listen! | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 821 Registered: 10-2004 |
I'm kind of shocked that "Trouble Town" didn't make it onto the bonus disc of Boat to Bolivia. | ||
| Jonathan Evans Member Username: Jon Post Number: 130 Registered: 04-2005 |
The Shins - Chutes too narrow....I'm off to see them on Thursday, so I've got my homework to make sure I remember some songs. Cheers Jon | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 891 Registered: 01-2005 |
I like the Shins first one as well from 2001. Someone made me a Best of 2001 two disc cd comp, and I bought a bunch of cd's based of hearing a cut or two, including the Oz band The Lucksmiths. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1418 Registered: 03-2005 |
Cruel Guards--Panics My Rocking Horse Care Package arrived today. I've already listened to everything, that's 2 albums and 3 eps, once. The new album sounds great and enormous, except for the obtrusively bad lyrics on what must be the radio-plug song "Don't Fight It." (That one could be by Destiny's Child!) The older recordings inevitably sound much less lush and--in my universe--that's generally a good thing. "Kid, You're a Dreamer" from the first LP (and also the 3d ep) sounds like a classic to me on the basis of two listens. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1896 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jeff I have the Trouble Town 12'' it was the first I ever bought, if you really want it, let me know you can have it mate! | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 367 Registered: 01-2006 |
I have Wilco on heavy rotation at the moment in preparation for one of the mid November Dublin gigs. Been listening to SBS a lot, same verdict, I like it though there are some songs in there that ain't too strong. I've also been listening to the YHF demos, I think I have about 5 versions of Kamera now, the one from the YHF bonus disc is my favourite, really really loud with great distortion. There's also some other stuff that has never been released on these discs and it would easily equal most of what's on SBS, like Shaking Sugar/Alone...I'd say they are going to delve mush deeper into their back catalogue for this gig than they have been in recent years... | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 733 Registered: 08-2004 |
Dead Kennedys - Milking The Sacred Cow Jon Spencer Blues Exlosion - Juke Box Explosion Innocence - Belief Pulp - Seperations I need to update my pod. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 826 Registered: 10-2004 |
Spence - I'm on it! Check your email. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 832 Registered: 09-2006 |
Red Hot + Blue Heavens to Betsy - Calculated And, finally that new PE...sounds pretty nifty on first listen, so you'll probably be counting me among the converts soon. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 895 Registered: 01-2005 |
Japan - Gentlemen Take Polaroids Very good indeed! Thanks for suggestion on this one everyone!! | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 337 Registered: 07-2006 |
jerry...your ipod seems pretty neat as is! separations is - to my ears anyway - the first excellent pulp record. haven't listened to it in years, but it's got a thumping in the past. | ||
| peter ward Member Username: Peter_ward Post Number: 49 Registered: 06-2005 |
like a hurricane - tribute to Neil Young with Uncut magazine Two Gallants - Two Gallants Band of Horses - Cease to Begin PJ Harvey - White Chalk Rumble Strips - Girls and weather | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1055 Registered: 08-2006 |
Wussy - "Left for Dead" Maybe not quite as wondeful as "Funeral Dress," one of the great, overlooked records of the '00s, but a worthy follow up. I'd like a little more Chuck Cleaver, but this collaboration is shaping up to be every bit the band the Ass Ponys were. Now if they'd just freakin' TOUR. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1924 Registered: 05-2005 |
Battles - Mirrored Robert Plant, Alison Krauss - Raising Sand Burial - Untrue Pinch - Underwater Dancehall Jay-Z - American Gangster Bim Sherman - Tribulation M.I.A - Kala Trying hard to get into the Panics album Sleeps Like A Curse, but its just not doing it so far. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1057 Registered: 08-2006 |
I've been playing that M.I.A. album a lot lately, Kev. It's like a strong cup of coffee. Actually, it's like four strong cups of coffee. It engages my nervous system like nothing else I've bought this year. Needless to say, I don't put it on anywhere near bedtime. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1427 Registered: 03-2005 |
You don't like the Church, Kevin, do you? I suspect a taste for 80s Church helps a lot when it comes to the Panics. I can send you a few other things of theirs and you can decide if they just won't happen. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 904 Registered: 01-2005 |
All my 1990 albums on cd the past two weeks. Currently playing: Sara Hickman - Shortstop On deck: They Might be Giants - Flood On double deck: Breeders - Pod On triple deck: The La's - The La's On quadruple deck: The Darling Buds - Crawdaddy On quintuple deck: Robert Johnson - The Complete Recordings Vol.1 | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 556 Registered: 04-2006 |
exactly at the moment i listen to the jose gonzalez concert in berlin which radio eins broadcasts live. if anyone is interested you canlisten hear: http://www.radioeins.de/_/livestream_jsp .html have pleasure. cheers, andreas. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 86 Registered: 03-2007 |
Able Tasmans - A Cuppa Tea And A Lie Down. Seventeen tracks of Flying Nun goodness. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 840 Registered: 09-2006 |
Dazed and Confused - soundtrack An excellent tour of a disreputable sub-sub-genre: all the 70s hardrockwhitebluesmetalpop trash a casual admirer could want, All On One Stereo CD. With only one bad cut, Nazareth's terrifying slaughter of "Love Hurts." | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1919 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Blue Aeroplanes - Friendloverplane | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1933 Registered: 05-2005 |
Disrupt - Foundation Bit- fantastic digi-dub Lightnin Hopkins - Flash Lightnin - blues master at his electric best Wilco - Sky Blue Sky - still a great 5 song EP, although not in the same league as Chronic Town obviously!! Burial - Untrue - Somebody still pushing the boundaries. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 910 Registered: 01-2005 |
Allen, it's a toss-up for me as which song is the greatest sin, Nazareth's terrifying slaughter of "Love Hurts" or ten years later Starships "We Built This City". Either one causes the bile to rise to ones throat in a vomit reflex. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1434 Registered: 03-2005 |
Last night: Panics -- Cruel Guards Ashtray Boy -- The King's Buccaneer Blue Aeroplanes -- Swagger | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1928 Registered: 05-2005 |
Funnily nuff Randy I Swaggered too last night! (Pick a card!) Strangelove - Time for the rest of your life | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 738 Registered: 08-2004 |
Amy Winehouse - Back To Black Motorhead - Ace Of Spades Suede - Suede The Julie Dolphin - Birthday EP Neutral Milk Hotel - On Avery Island | ||
| peter ward Member Username: Peter_ward Post Number: 56 Registered: 06-2005 |
Listened to Burial's "Untrue" for the first time last night on foot of Kevin's recommendation, it was dark and rainy coming out of Dublin and this soundtracked the trip perfectly. Reminded me a little of Troublemakers and DJ Shadow on first listen, if it complements the aforementioned elements so well I suspect I'm going to be listening to it a lot more this winter! I've gotten a few more electronic albums this year than previous ones, Simian Mobile Disco, Digitalism, Justice, Cut Chemist, Matthew Dear and the one I played most, The Field's "From Here We Go Sublime" I found a lot of the above to be inventive, inspirational, hypnotic releases. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1932 Registered: 05-2005 |
Beachfield album. its very good. Its bright and hummable. If it had radio play over here I'd dig it. I've had a copy now for about 4 weeks and its a real pop gem. It'd be a shame if it sinks into the sale bin vaults. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1439 Registered: 03-2005 |
Last night: Straitjacket Fits -- Hail Yesterday at work: The Panics -- "A House on a Street in a Town I'm From" and then "Crack in the Wall." | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 740 Registered: 08-2004 |
I've got the Justice record, Peter. It must be getting older that does it, because cutting edge dance music leaves me cold now. I listen to something new & all I get is a longing for older, better days. I blame Daft Punk & Air because they sound like pure muzak & much of pop has followed suit. Anyhoo Red House Painters - Red House Painters 2nd Talking Heads - Speaking In Tongues Adeva - Adeva! Rolling Stones - England's Newest Hitmakers R.E.M. - Time Of Outakes | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1933 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jerry, you know Out of time outtakes......  | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 842 Registered: 10-2004 |
Luiz Bonfa - La Roi de la Bossa Nova | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 343 Registered: 07-2006 |
the verve...a northern soul. i'm seeing them in manchester when i visit next month. i never ever thought i'd have the chance....peaking with anticipation! | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1944 Registered: 05-2005 |
Burial - Untrue The Abyssinians - Satta Massagana Deluxe Edition The Panics - Cruel Guards (Randy, Ive not given up on them just yet!) So - LK, whats the verdict on The Avett Brothers? I've heard the name dropped, so I gave them a listen on Napster - seems a bit mainstreamy but theres something interesting there that I cant quite put my finger on. I am guessing you have heard them and have an opinion? | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1443 Registered: 03-2005 |
Last night: The Verlaines -- You're Just Too Obscure for Me | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 743 Registered: 08-2004 |
Died Pretty - Every Brilliant Eye Raveonettes - Lust Lust Lust - I liked this on initial hearing, kind of Spectorish/Sonic Youthean/Velvetsesque with stoner vocalisms. The Killers - Sawdust Tokyo Police Club - Smith EP | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1852 Registered: 05-2005 |
Fatima Mansions - Viva Dead Ponies/ Best of the rest double CD. Awesome stuff. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1853 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Killers - Romeo And Juliet. Yes, the Dire Straits song. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 744 Registered: 08-2004 |
Yes The Killers, that's OK, but Shadowplay isn't so clever. LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great Kate Bush - The Red Shoes Bowie - "Heroes" Gomez - Bring It On | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 918 Registered: 01-2005 |
Jerry, Please give me a reason to buy The Red Shoes. It's the only Kate album I don't have. Is it her worse album in your opinion? | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 746 Registered: 08-2004 |
Sorry Michael, I'm the wrong man to ask. Aside from a Kate Bush best of comp. it's the only other record of hers I have. I think Kurt's the Bush-man here. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 851 Registered: 09-2006 |
Michael, it's not my very favorite, but IMO Red Shoes is highly listenable and far from a disgrace. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 853 Registered: 09-2006 |
Sheet Music - 10cc Capitol Collectors Series - Stan Freberg The Screaming End: Best of Gene Vincent World Psychedelic Classics 3: Love's a Real Thing | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1945 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jerry I played Bring it on, I felt it was underproduced, didnt get the best out of them, their live set was much more of an event than that album? | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1950 Registered: 05-2005 |
Trojan Dub box set. Like being transported back to 1978. In the kitchen, me and my pal scoff fish fingers, chips and baked beans together, whilst occasionally looking up at his mum's kitchen ceiing everytime there's a boom and the ceiling light rattles down some flakes of led paint on us, due to the ferocity of the 5k watt bass cabs blasting some good big ol dub out da speakers!!! | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1073 Registered: 08-2006 |
Miracle Legion - "Drenched." Haven't played this one in an age and it sounds great. The perfect soundtrack for making a little split pea soup, which the cold Chicago weather calls for today. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 859 Registered: 09-2006 |
Butthole Surfers - First EP and Live PCPPEP It's been too long...bracing and hilarious as hell. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 349 Registered: 07-2006 |
it's been a while, but there's some good stuff on the red shoes. rubberband girl is good fun and there's another one i particulary love....i think it's the song of solomon. i know i'd know it as soon as i hear it! there's a lyric like "don't want your bullshit, just want your sexuality" which she delivers without an ounce of tack/irony. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1954 Registered: 05-2005 |
Wake The President - Remember Fun Beautiful Scottish band, sounds like James Kirk singing in the original Orange Juice, much better than Belle and Sebastian. oh, it takes me back to the postcard days of yore! | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 852 Registered: 10-2004 |
metallica - ride the lightning, kill 'em all motorhead - overkill shack - self-made compilation of rare singles and b-sides from late 80s/early 90s | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1447 Registered: 03-2005 |
I'm getting a kick out of Jeff's momentary regression. Tonight: Straitjacket Fits -- Melt. Very briefly. It sounds like badly produced crap. Screw Gavin MacKillop. I'll try it another time when I'm in a more patient mood. Then: Dana Gillespie -- Foolish Seasons. 1968 vintage British psych dolly bird pop. Very entertaining at its best. Straitjacket Fits -- Hail. I think this is my third listen to this album, which is vastly superior to Melt. Panics -- Give Me Some Good Luck. I've been meaning to get back to the EPs. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 122 Registered: 10-2006 |
Very very taken with sigur ros at the moment, the acoustic tracks on Hvarf Heim especially - quite Nymanish, maybe too much so in the slightly relentless piano led intro, but then a massive, beautiful sequence of tracks which really takes the breath away: there's a Gaelic sound to the language, too, though whether Icelandic has anything in common with it I wouldn't know. Entrancing stuff. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1956 Registered: 05-2005 |
Stuart, I really love them. Quite unique. If only the time had been right 17 years ago The Pale Saints et al would've been recognised for what they produced too. No Ego to, refreshing in the times that are between Xfactor and I'm a (wasted old) celebrity get me outta here pap. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 860 Registered: 09-2006 |
The Greatest of the Guess Who Live at Last - Bette Midler | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 853 Registered: 10-2004 |
Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion, Morbid Tales Metallica - Master of Puppets Maiden - first album | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 368 Registered: 05-2005 |
Careful with that air guitar Jeff, you could have someone's eye out! | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 854 Registered: 10-2004 |
Judas Priest was actually just a pop group. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 861 Registered: 09-2006 |
Hey Randy, I think you might just appreciate this...was in a little hipster used-book-and-CD store here in town today. Picked up an Arto Lindsay CD for $2 and took it to the counter where there was a "Free CD with any Purchase" bin. Dug through, and there it was, near the bottom of the box: "Brave Words." The case is pretty beat up but the disc has just a couple scuffs, and plays fine. Holy crap. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 855 Registered: 10-2004 |
I was never too keen on Brave Words. A little too straight-forward for me. But the song Dan Destiny and the Silver Dawn is pure awesomeness. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 862 Registered: 09-2006 |
I love the album, but in this particular case the important factor is that copies of that particular CD go for around $80-100. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1449 Registered: 03-2005 |
No way! If there's ANY person for whom that should have happened, it's you. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 857 Registered: 10-2004 |
wow, that *is* quite a score. i forget how mind bogglingly expensive some of these (presumably out of print) albums are on CD. like, brave words on vinyl fetches $4.00 around these parts. i guess people really want this stuff on CD! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1858 Registered: 05-2005 |
What a score Allen! Nice one. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 864 Registered: 09-2006 |
Yeah, apparently some stars did some aligning there... | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 865 Registered: 09-2006 |
Finally got the new M.I.A. album from the library, and I'm currently on my third happy consecutive play. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1960 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Concubines - various songs been on and off my player today, been dancing to it with my twins too. Jeff W and his pals make their final record, lovely unique style, beautiful guitar work, nice production, remeniscent of liberty belle period GB's. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 866 Registered: 09-2006 |
Pernice Bros. - Discover a Lovelier U 2001: A Space Odyssey - expanded soundtrack Savage Garden - 1st album (for the first three songs, mostly) Butthole Surfers - Independent Worm Saloon | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 867 Registered: 09-2006 |
Oh, and The Gap Band - The 12" Collection | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1455 Registered: 03-2005 |
Perfect Teeth--History of Utah. Jeff's previous band. He lets his Brazilian thing come out in the chords. I'm loving this. | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 124 Registered: 05-2005 |
Shack – Best of XTC – Skylarking AC Collins – solo album Tribute to Grant Mc Lennan Damned – the Black Album Wilco – Sky Blue Sky. I’m not a Wilco’s fan but this one could reach my top 3 this year. Spoon – Gimme Fiction. I’ll sample the best songs of this one and Gagagaga. And I’ve also listened to some cd’s at the record shop : Burial – Untrue Okkervil River – last one Sorry but for me these two didn’t made it! | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 864 Registered: 10-2004 |
Slayer - Reign in Blood, Hell Awaits Maiden - Number of the Beast Luiz Bonfa - La Roi de la Bossa Nova The Cure - Boys Don't Cry | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 866 Registered: 10-2004 |
Randy, Spence - you guys are too kind. Thanks for listening! | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1969 Registered: 05-2005 |
Still listening Jeff, you make real nice music my friend. AC/DC - Highway to Hell | ||
| Jonathan Evans Member Username: Jon Post Number: 139 Registered: 04-2005 |
Jeff I've just 'myspaced' (can I just make words up) the concubines, and its really good. Don't know how I've missed it, I'm probably a bit slow, or your not much good at plugging! How easy is it to get hold of, I've checked a couple of UK based websites but nothing? Cheers Jon | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 867 Registered: 10-2004 |
Jonathan - nothing we've "released" is "official" (ie - no real label, no distribution, etc..) and it can only be obtained directly through us. We're pretty small beans, and even smaller now that the band has recently ceased to exist! The CDs we made were created in limited quantity (and very DIY) mainly to have something to sell at shows. If you're interested, just shoot me an email. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1457 Registered: 03-2005 |
Tonight: Disaster Plan--Reality Correctors One Through Twelve Straitjacket Fits -- Hail | ||
| Jonathan Evans Member Username: Jon Post Number: 141 Registered: 04-2005 |
I've had a great day off work (well the cricket kind of messed things up but that's another story). So I've been able to get a good amount of listening done:- Wilco - Sky Blue Sky Shack - Best of New Order - Home made best of REM - Bootleg from Atlanta 1995 Who knows what the rest of the day will bring! Cheers Jon | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 565 Registered: 04-2006 |
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band - s/t | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 382 Registered: 01-2006 |
Trees Outside The Academy - Thurston Moore. Some great songs and arrangements in here, was expecting a mixed bag of stuff but i gotta say I really enjoy this. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1079 Registered: 08-2006 |
I like "Trees," too, XY. I don't know if I rate it up there with his SY work, but it's an interesting departure. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 876 Registered: 10-2004 |
Louis Philippe - An Unknown Spring Definitely not his greatest, and I'm a bit confused as to why the press has arbitrarily decided to suddenly give so much attention to this album as opposed to any of his previous works (but I'm still glad he's getting any attention at all). Still, there are handful of genuinely moving and gorgeous tunes here. | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 374 Registered: 05-2005 |
North Star Deserter - Vic Chesnutt - A lot. If I had to describe it I'd say "Is the Drunken Actor Happy?" You Are Never Alone is the standout track for me. I've still not figured if he's being humourous or maudlin or vitriolic, and that's what I like about it. Come to think of it that's pretty much sums up what I like about Vic in general... | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1981 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jeff I adore Louis phillipe's stuff, well at least his el material. Is he on iTunes? | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 884 Registered: 10-2004 |
Spence, I'm not sure, for some reason I'm having trouble accessing the iTunes store to check at the moment... The El stuff is great, but he's done some good music since then. My favorite Philippe album is Sunshine, which came out on Trattoria back in '93, I think. His stuff has been patchy since, but his albums always have at least a few good songs. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 894 Registered: 10-2004 |
Going back to the topic of out-of-print, hard-to-find kiwi pop, I was dismayed to see a copy of the Verlaines Juvenalia just go on ebay for $44. Looks like I won't be obtaining that one anytime soon, unless I get some "stars-are-aligned" luck at a record store. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 320 Registered: 04-2005 |
The Verlaines 'Juvenalia'? Is that the LP with the bluey-turquoise sleeve and has 'Death + The Maiden' on it? If so I bought it for 99p (new) many moons ago. Must dig it out again, but can't remember being overwhelmed by it. Listening to Coltrane's 'Giant Steps' at the mo'... | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 897 Registered: 10-2004 |
Andrew, yeah, that's the one. The handful of songs I've heard from it are largely stellar. | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 215 Registered: 01-2007 |
Natural Beauty-Neil Young, just bought tickets to see him in march in Manchester 70 pounds bloody hell! He's playing in Edinburgh Kevin,probably sold out | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1876 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jack Frost's debut. It sounds very beautiful right now. More so than I've ever previously thought. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1878 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jackie Wilson's (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher. What a song! | ||
| Wilson Davey Member Username: Wilson Post Number: 90 Registered: 05-2005 |
Roger Daltrey (!!!) "Giving it all away" The Hollies "Air that I breathe". Play it and your can here The Verve trying to get out... I'm caught in a Post-glam pre-punk moment, probably to do with Christmas.. |