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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2023 Registered: 05-2005 |
New month, new list. The Triffids - Born Sandy Devotional. I'm writing an article about Perth and the album is inspiring me. I'm going to quote the opening line of The Seabirds in it. “No foreign pair of dark sunglasses could ever shield you from the light that pierces your eyelids the screaming of the gulls.” | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2024 Registered: 05-2005 |
I got a new record player yesterday and very much enjoyed listening to Liberty Belle... and Tallulah on vinyl. I also played Stop Making Sense, Hey Jude (7"), Love Will Tear Us Apart (12"), Fools Gold (7") and more. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2025 Registered: 05-2005 |
Oh, because the Go-Betweens records were lying on the couch my daughter was looking at them and said how different Lindy looked on the cover of Tallulah. I explained to her that she had met Lindy less than two years ago but that photo was taken more than 20 years ago! Not that she looks 20 years older mind, but a bit older, as we all do. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2026 Registered: 05-2005 |
David McComb - Love Of Will. Best $7 I ever spent in a second hand record shop (in 2002 in Auckland). | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 577 Registered: 04-2006 |
christine perfect - s/t the buttefield blues band - east-west serge gainsbourg - les annee psychedelic | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1523 Registered: 03-2005 |
Augie March -- Sunset Studies Panics -- Cruel Guards (incl. covers disc) | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 326 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Black Swan (with bonus tracks) - The Triffids. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 984 Registered: 10-2004 |
Jobim - Matita Pere | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 2039 Registered: 05-2005 |
Hot Chip - Made In The Dark. At least as good as the last album, maybe even better. Drive By Truckers - Brighter Than Creations Dark (Mojo and Uncuts album of the month, long overdue recognition) Steven Malkmus & The Jicks - Real Emotional Trash. His best solo record imo Neon Neon - Stainless Style. Great electro/hip hop collaboration between Gruff Rhys from Super Furry Animals and US producer Boom Bip Cass McCombs - Dropping The Writ. This has been compared to Elliot Smith but I cant really see it, and its on Domino who dont normally release sub standard records. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1525 Registered: 03-2005 |
House of Love -- German Album. Yet another great tip from this board. Panics -- Sleeps Like a Curse | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 987 Registered: 10-2004 |
Antonio Carlos Jobim - The Composer Plays Bonfa/Getz - Jazz Samba Encore House of Love - German Album | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 98 Registered: 03-2007 |
Lets Go Naked - Insides ( formed in Brisbane in 1984. Sixteen track career retrospective released on Egg Records.) Even As We Speak - A Three Minute Song Is One Minute Too Long ( formed in Sydney in 1986. Seventeen track compilation also released on Egg Records.) Dawn Dineen - The Ghosly Apple Tree ( fourth album by this songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer who releases her stuff on her own label.) The Buttless Chaps - Where Night Holds Light Cloud Cult - Who Killed Puck? | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 776 Registered: 08-2004 |
I've been enjoying The Eels best of for a couple of weeks now. He kind of reminds me of Lloyd Cole, Beck & Babybird. Rolled into one glorius hybrid. Also: Mark Eitzel - 60 Watt Silver Lining Everything But The Girl - Idlewild Harry Nilsson - Aerial Ballet Gallon Drunk - The Rotten Mile | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2121 Registered: 05-2005 |
Just about to buy Hot Chip's new album, on the strength that Kev loves em and nothing else apart from the explotative marketing! Christ knows why I should buy it though them looking like a cross between, Stump and A Flock of Seagulls! NOT a good combination!!  | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2122 Registered: 05-2005 |
Mind you, i dn't look much better, looking like a stunt double for grizzly adams I'm bound to be mistaken from someone from lambchop! | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 239 Registered: 01-2007 |
thats a good look Spence | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 240 Registered: 01-2007 |
Listening to the re-release of Van the Mans Live opus too late to stop good remasters someone said it sounded tinny, it does a bit | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 152 Registered: 10-2006 |
Just bought tickets for Van's Berlin show...dear god, I hope he's in a good mood... | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 777 Registered: 08-2004 |
There are times when Van isn't in a bad mood, to call it a good mood would be over-optimistic! Beck - Odelay - 2-disc version Salad - Ice Cream RF - Calling From A Country Phone St - Etienne - Boxette - disc 1 | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1527 Registered: 03-2005 |
Last night I had a bit of a Gerard Langley thing going: Art Objects -- Bagpipe Music followed by Blue Aeroplanes -- Bop Art And then, to change gear, House of Love's German Album | ||
| Nigel Beckford Member Username: Nigel_beckford Post Number: 2 Registered: 07-2007 |
Howdy Randy Here's what we spun Legendary Jim Ruiz Band - Sniff , one of my favourite from the 90s. Real charmer and great sounds. Aluminum Group's latest - Little Happyness William Shatner - Has Been. Sam Baker - Pretty World - pretty record and great Townes V Z-like storytelling. Of course, all these are placeholders til the Evangelist appears! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1529 Registered: 03-2005 |
Hey Nigel! Hope you're enjoying your summer more than we are enjoying our winter. William Shatner, now THERE's an eye-popper. A friend of mine sent me a collection of Shatner and Nimoy recordings a few years ago. Shatner's "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" . . . . Currently: Disc Two of Microdisney's "Daunt Square." Specifically "Horse Overboard" right now. | ||
| Nigel Beckford Member Username: Nigel_beckford Post Number: 3 Registered: 07-2007 |
I used to love microdisney when they came out - ambulance for one - saw them in Stockwell in London years ago. I know you're a Bats fan Randy. An offshoot - MiniSnap - have a new album out here with Kay singing not Bob. Still sounds very, very Batsy. Could be just your cup of Java! The Shat's album is a real hoot and pretty heartfelt at times - Ben Folds, Henry Rollins and Joe Jackson co star/play. | ||
| Wilson Davey Member Username: Wilson Post Number: 163 Registered: 05-2005 |
I was drawn to a Ron Sexsmith vibe last night, his self titled debut and his latest "Time Being". Great songs, humane & heartfelt, bittersweet lyrics from the top drawer..I love Ron, he's in Australia next month BTW, Brisbane in March I think. Don't miss him, he likes a post-gig chat too. A genuine bloke. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2128 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy Nice to see you giving the BA's a spin, have you got Friendloverplane? I think you'd like it if you haven't. Didn't Revola put out some Shatner years ago? I think his stuff like everyone else's is widely available now, an intriguing artist. Nigel, I used to love that track Ambulance for one. 39 Minutes is great. I like the Shat ref!! | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 781 Registered: 08-2004 |
Brighter Than A Thousand Suns - Killing Joke Emmylou Harris - Luxury Liner Rosanne Cash - Hits 79-89 The Long Blondes - Someone To Drive You Home | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 241 Registered: 01-2007 |
Listening to Horsebreaker Star (the British double CD) a lot at the moment probably subconsciously thinking of Robert's CD coming out in April. Also listening to some GBs live tracks. Funny how you kind of always come back to the GBs which I don't seem to do with others. Put on ECs River in Reverse but it didn't really do much for me today. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 999 Registered: 10-2004 |
Jerry - I love that Killing Joke record. Contrary to the general consensus among KJ fans, it's one of my very favs. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2134 Registered: 05-2005 |
Hot Chip - Made in the dark. Stand out tracks: In the privacy of our love, Bendable poseable Getting to know it, I quite like it, like their approach to things, hearing lots of influences as one would with this type of group, one of the singer's sounds like Russ Mael to me, Devo, Byne/Eno, which is nice. It kinda makes me think of the Beta Band, but without the psychedelia. Some of the backing music remind me of Heaven 17's The Luxury Gap. I have friends who make a lot of electronic music that I would say was as good as this, but then that is always the case with unknowns. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1534 Registered: 03-2005 |
Spence I DO have Friendloverplane. That's the first thing I got which is why I was embarrassed a little while back when you named a couple of songs off of it that you were listening to and I didn't recognize them because I've lost the habit of actually looking at the CD packages. Gerard's titles aren't always exactly obvious. I also have Bop Art/Tolerance, Swagger and Beatsongs. I know you like Swagger the best whereas I seem to favor their earliest things. I love Bop Art and I'm liking the Art Objects album just as much. Beatsongs is far too college-radio-rock in sound for my taste; it sounds like Gerard jamming with the Hoodoo Gurus or the Smithereens or even maybe that Athens, Georgia group he was so chummy with for a bit. Driving around Los Angeles, I often find myself intoning "built in a day, built in a day, built in a day, built in a day." I'm trying to decide what BA thing to get next. Nigel, Amazon US and Amazon UK deny the existence of MiniSnap. Rocking Horse Records doesn't have anything either. I remember getting a couple things from a NZ shop; I'll have to find them and see what they have. The idea of Bats music sung by Kaye Woodward sounds really good to me. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1002 Registered: 10-2004 |
Spence - I haven't been paying attention to all the recent chatter about Hot Chip, but hold on: Heaven 17's Luxury Gap?! *That* is a comparison that grabbed my attention! Are you serious? I adore Luxury Gap. Listening at work today, on and off, to Cathal Coughlan's Grand Necropolitan. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 99 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, prior to the release of the new album, Minisnap had put out two ep's ( In My Pocket in 2002 and March Hare in 2004.) I have a feeling the band released them themselves as they appear to be CDR's as opposed to professionally pressed discs. Both titles are listed for sale on the Smokecds and NewZealandcds websites. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1535 Registered: 03-2005 |
Hugh, why am I not surprised that you would know all about this? I see they even have a semi-reasonably priced copy of "Hallelujah All the Way Home" at NZcds. Orders placed. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 2042 Registered: 05-2005 |
Maybe more Monster than Reckoning, but this is ok http://remhq.com/news_story.php?id=665 | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2136 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kev yes its quite good. The rhythm is Sweet Jane by Reed though. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2137 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy Friend is a great compilation. Actually its many of the BA's fave stuff too! I remember playing with them around this time and they were amazing. I love BopART/tolerance, Spitting out Miracles. I think it was Spitting that Stipe was fond of when they made the call.. Swagger means a lot to me personally as I was supporting on the tour and spent a lot of time with them. I still stand by the statemement one of the greatest albums of all time. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 782 Registered: 08-2004 |
Yes Jeff. Killing Joke's middle period was good, if you're not completely lost on doom-rock. Reminds me of The Chameleons, which is quite a potent reference point. I've also got the expanded Night Time CD which seems to be a more revered LP according to afficionado's. I'm an optimist when it comes to R.E.M. That particular song is not close enough to either Reconing or Monster for my liking. Way too MOR to float my boat just now. Time will tell! I'll be happy if it's like New Adventures... but shorter. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 2043 Registered: 05-2005 |
I see where your coming from Spence, but wouldnt say it was a straight rip off of Sweet Jane | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2140 Registered: 05-2005 |
REM to me, is like a multi-national company that you know is there and don't particularly care for. You question their ethics and yadda yadda yadda and you know the brand without looking at their logo, and you know there's pretty much gonna be no new surprises other than a positive financial forecast in their forthcoming Report and Accounts!! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1536 Registered: 03-2005 |
Ah, thanks Spence: "Spitting Out Miracles" next. Last night: Peter Azzopardi--Greetings from Vale Pascoe Sth. Cathal Coughlan--The Grand Necropolitan. Many thanks to Jeff for this. Spence' comment about REM reminds me of a quote from Roy Wood at the end of an insert to a Move comp: "At the time I was just writing what came into my head and never thought what style it should be. I wish I could still do that. I have to write to order now!" I wonder if this always happens? It's depressing. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1004 Registered: 10-2004 |
Spence - does Hot Chip *really* sound like Heaven 17's Luxury Gap? Or are you just putting us on? | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1034 Registered: 01-2005 |
It's hard to believe, but the last time a new studio REM album was vital to me was over 15 years ago. These days day I would rather mine for a buried treasure that escaped me back in the 80's or early 90's, like The Lilac Time's debut album, then fret about a new REM album that I will be disappointed in. Thanks to this list and everyone's album suggestions over the years, I got over the lack of an exiting new REM album to look foreward to. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2141 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jeff, its not a facsimile by any means, but along with echoes of 80's keybaord based music and other artist's I mention above I can hear, personally, bits of that album in there. the bits aren't something that I could easily pick out, and its not the voice of H17, there's no way this guy sounds remotley Glenn Gregory. Hot Chp ar by no means Heaven 17 is a better way of putting it! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2029 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Geraldine Fibbers - The Geraldine Fibbers. A seven song EP from 1994 that I've just played for the first time in at least six years, but probably the first time this century. Brilliant old country (as opposed to alt country) music. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2034 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Decemberists - The Crane Wife. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 377 Registered: 07-2006 |
ok so this H17 stuff has grabbed my attention. i think my housemate has the hot chip album....time to hunt it down! | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 2046 Registered: 05-2005 |
H17 and Hot Chip - cant see it myself but I was always suspicious of H17 - might have been the suits. Hotchip are more like Kraftwerk crossed with early depeche mode. One song actually nicks an Eyeless in Gaza style keyboard motif - great taste! | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1013 Registered: 10-2004 |
Pylon - Gyrate And on another note, now that Hot Chip has been mentioned in the same sentence as Eyeless in Gaza, I think it's imperative that I check them out. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2144 Registered: 05-2005 |
The whitest boy alive - Dreams | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1539 Registered: 03-2005 |
Go Out in the Garden -- Leaking Machine | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1018 Registered: 10-2004 |
Cabaret Voltaire - The Crackdown | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1020 Registered: 10-2004 |
Joao Gilberto - "The Legendary..." this might be the score of the year. Today, for a mere $5 I found this impossibly rare CD that compiles Joao's first three albums, which are also impossible to find on their own. This thing fetches $100 online. I am happy in bossa nova heaven. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2148 Registered: 05-2005 |
Leo Kottke - Mudlark The Coral - Roots and Echoes | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 932 Registered: 09-2006 |
Just came in the mail from the fine folks at Yep Roc: Nick Lowe's Jesus of Cool mega-reissue, with the original album, all the songs added to the US version, the "Bowi" EP and three other goodies like "I Love My Label." I've heard it all a milion times but it doesn't matter at all. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1541 Registered: 03-2005 |
And for me, the released-in-UK-only Rhino comp: "Lulu-The Atco Sessions 1969-72." This is something I've wanted to see released on CD for over 20 years now, her two best albums--and ONLY important albums--plus the usual bunch of rarities. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2150 Registered: 05-2005 |
That Nick lowe album is worth buying for the superb cover alone. Lulu Randy!? Wow! | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 933 Registered: 09-2006 |
Agreed, spence...I literally laughed out loud when I completely unfolded it. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 2048 Registered: 05-2005 |
Skream - Skreamizm Vol4 - fanatastic dubstep/techno album 100% Dynamite - various ska/funk/reggee/dub drive by truckers- brighter than creations dark - 19 tracks, at least 15 are great steven malkmus and the jicks - real e motional trash | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2152 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy Adams - CD album Insurance lawyer Soliloquy. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2155 Registered: 05-2005 |
Just bought Nada Surf - Lucky. Its a departure from their last, but that's OK, isn't it!?!! | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 133 Registered: 05-2005 |
I like it. This is good pop music. The only thing is that they shouldn't sing in french... | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2156 Registered: 05-2005 |
pourquoi pas ? pourquoi pas ? | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 246 Registered: 01-2007 |
for some reason have been listening to Hunky Dory recently an liking the songs I wasn't so keen on 20 years ago and being disappointed by the ones which have grown large in my memory, i.e The Bewlay Brothers,I use to love Bowie when I was 16-17 but have not bothered with him since. Also bought Joni Mitchel-Blue which I'll have to give more time too Really waiting for the Australians to be released: Nick Cave and RF Cds | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1027 Registered: 10-2004 |
Randy Adams - Insurance Lawyer Soliloquay Celso Fonseca - Natural | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 579 Registered: 04-2006 |
PJ Harvey - Dry Micah Blue Smaldone - Hither and Thither Simone White - I'm the man | ||
| Jonathan Evans Member Username: Jon Post Number: 153 Registered: 04-2005 |
Just finished listening to The Kop singing "You'll Never Walk Alone".....sorry about that! Vampire Weekend album Latest Morrissey Hits album (for the live album only) Roddy Frame Live in Osaka (available from his website) an acoustic gem. Cheers Jon | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 1 Registered: 02-2008 |
Lov the Vampire Weekend. They are some rockin lads, though they look to be about 12 years old! | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 334 Registered: 05-2005 |
Been listening to Beautiful Waste - The Triffids. Fantastic to hear "Raining Pleasure" and "Field of Glass" again since I ditched the broken record player years ago! "Cut off my arms/put 'em in a brown paper bag/ see how many ribbons and medals I win". Frank. I LOVE "Blue". It takes time to reveal it's secrets but when it hits...WHOAH!!! I guess like everyone you will end up shedding a tear when you hear "River" around Xmas. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2166 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jon did you ever have that Kop sinlgle from '77/'78, the "poetry in motion" song? I loved it as a kid, I was BIG Liverpool fan. I once wrote to was it John Smiththe chairman? he sent me loads o colour pics of people like Clemence, Fairclough and Thompson all signed etc. he was a lovely man. | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 249 Registered: 01-2007 |
Yes Geoff that hit me on the first play the lyrics are sensational and I'm warming up to her soprano voice. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1542 Registered: 03-2005 |
Geoff, do you have "Beautiful Waste" as a CD or a download? The UK Amazon site gives a release date in April. The US Amazon site gives a February 5 release date but then says they don't have a copy yet and the price is absurd. Domino is identified as the label releasing it but Domino's site doesn't even mention "Beautiful Waste" or, for that matter, the new "Black Swan" reissue. It's odd. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2169 Registered: 05-2005 |
I am gonna be listening to few Triffids tunes tonight. Thanks Randy. | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 7 Registered: 11-2007 |
Simone White - I Am The Man - georgious... Harrisons - No Fighting In The War Room Love Goes On Sampler... no more words necessary... Elsiane - Hybrid The Panics - Cruel Guards Just listen and wait - for "The Evangelist" ) | ||
| Jonathan Evans Member Username: Jon Post Number: 154 Registered: 04-2005 |
Spence John Smith was the chairman, now your testing me... I think he was Chairman from 1973 to 1990, and unfortunately died around 1994-95. He was a lovely man who had the interests of the game (and Liverpool at heart). I didn't get that single, but I did have the anfield (c)rap, and another couple of singles. The kop were top notch last night. Not had much chance to listen to anything today, but hopefully that'll change later. Cheers Jon | ||
| Wilson Davey Member Username: Wilson Post Number: 165 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Moodists - Some kinda Jones, on TAPE ! It's one of those NME giveaways, from 1984 I think. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1544 Registered: 03-2005 |
Enjoy, Spence. No more than a few hours after putting up my last post on this thread Domino sent me the announcement of the release of "Beautiful Waste," "Black Swan" and "Treeless Plain" all for April 8. My pre-orders are in place. It seems right that the Australians should get them first. | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 8 Registered: 02-2008 |
Mary J Blige - Growing Pains. The modern incarnation of Uretha Franklin. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 788 Registered: 08-2004 |
I like Mary J Blige, such a smoky voice & quite a boozehound. Last night: Van Morrison - His Band & The Street Choir The Durutti Column - Circuses & Bread ... and currently: Heaven 17 - Endless - a compilation of the great ones remixes & including THE Megamix! Contributing to a front room disco party for myself & the kids. (one way or another, I'll make sure they're missing school) | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1545 Registered: 03-2005 |
I listened to the Return of the Duritti Column last night! I'm afraid Martin Hannett's bangings and thumpings inspired me to send off a pretty idiosyncratic email to Jeff and Spence. Sorry guys! | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 580 Registered: 04-2006 |
some strange, but beautiful psych folk or whatever you will call this: Charalambides - Likeness Plants - The Mind is a Bird in the Hand | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1049 Registered: 01-2005 |
Mercury Rev - Yerself Is Steam Miranda Lambert - Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Lots of New Order and Mojave 3. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1547 Registered: 03-2005 |
Randy listens to a new release! Minisnap -- bounce around | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 335 Registered: 05-2005 |
2 days too late.... Randy, I have downloaded both on iTunes Auz and have burnt copies for other formats(obviously). Sad but true - I'll be buying the CD copies when they are released! Listening to Bryter Layter. I still think the strings are overwrought, sickly sweet and sound like they should be accompanying Gerry and the Pacemakers! | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 336 Registered: 05-2005 |
...oh and Devo "Freedom of Choice" - great little pop songs! | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 435 Registered: 01-2006 |
A Date With Elvis - The Cramps Hit To Death In The Future Head - Flaming Lips Come On Pilgrim - Pixies | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 15 Registered: 02-2008 |
That song that asks the musical question, "Can Your Pussy Do the Dog?" has always been a favorite. SOMEBODY had to write it... I always wondered if somebody ever gave that poor bloke on the cover of Pilgrim some Nair...he needs the family size bottle. Listening to a lot of Vampire Weekend. That lot are really on to something. Also enjoying the reissue of Mr. Beck's Odelay. I think I played it so much back when it came out I burned out on it and have forgotten how great it was. But it's a helluva record. The extra disc is pretty friggin great too! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2055 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Clientele - God Save The Clientele. Thanks for the tip Spence. It's wonderful. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2056 Registered: 05-2005 |
Oh, I'm a huge Liverpool FC fan too lads. I have one of their singles from the 70s or 80s. | ||
| Wilson Davey Member Username: Wilson Post Number: 169 Registered: 05-2005 |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBXr15K2u Sc&search=elephant%20amazing%20god%20won derful%20love%20joy%20india%20sultan%20p ipe This is absolutely amazing to watch and beautiful to listen to... I was really moved the first time I saw it...The music is Decollege by Les Bayeurs du desert. Mesmeric. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1551 Registered: 03-2005 |
Two Minisnap EPs: "In My Pocket" and "March Hare." And now, for what must be the umpteenth time, Pete Azzopardi's "Greetings from Pascoe Vale Sth." | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 581 Registered: 04-2006 |
Wilson, thanks for that video. I really like that.The music fits perfectly with the movement of the little girl giant. I just can agree with you. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 161 Registered: 10-2006 |
Tupelo Honey, Wavelength and Into the Music in the VanM remasters series, and the first time I've heard them all too. TH comes over a bit thin in terms of material and production, Wavelength rushes at you like a big happy Irish wolfhound and rolls you over merrily (though you do wish that Pete Bardens had left his synth back at the oasis), and Into the music is just a stone cold masterpiece, truly joyous, soulful, flowing wonderment. He may be a miseryguts sometimes, but on form his bucket just goes straight down to that "cool water from the well." | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 794 Registered: 08-2004 |
Van exists on a spitual plain mere mortals couldn't possibly understand. It's no wonder he's wound so tightly. You've got to love him for it. He has beauty within him & can only express it through his songs. Bit of a King Midas syndrome thing going on there! Foals - Antidote The Soft Boys - A Can Of Bees | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 439 Registered: 01-2006 |
Just downloaded the 16LL acoustic demos, got them free on the net, nice to hear, gearing up nicely for RF's release soon... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2069 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy Adams - Insurance Lawyer Soliloquy. As well as Brisbane and it's esoteric pronunciation of BrisBANE, Cover Me In Glory also made my ears prick up lyrically. It was great to hear Doubt Crowds The Door again too. And 39.59 is a very Go-Betweens-esque album length. Fine front and back cover shots too. | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 447 Registered: 01-2006 |
Let Your Light In - RF. Pleasant enough but kinda slight on first listen. As said somewhere else this is extremely like Born To A Family. | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 32 Registered: 02-2008 |
Goldfrapp - 7th Tree. Hey, what happened to trees 1-6? It leaves a big gap in my recored collection. | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 255 Registered: 01-2007 |
Playing alot of thew GBs Oceans Apart at the moment sounds good.Nick Cave new one out on monday to keep me going. No Reason to Cry on now | ||
| Dr Girlfriend Member Username: Doctor_girlfriend Post Number: 37 Registered: 10-2007 |
Magnetic Fields: The Wayward Bus never heard this before--like it even more than "Distortion"! great cover of "4'33'" too. Burial: Untrue great songwriting (rolls eyes)--but it's good, really. Wussy: Funeral Dress really excellent...better than their latest CD. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1555 Registered: 03-2005 |
Super embarrassing Padraig. But thanks. Last night: Prefab Sprout--Swoon Cathal Coughlan--The Sky's Awful Blue. His high-water mark artistically (so far)? Contrarian that he is, I wonder if he slags it off as easy listening. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 585 Registered: 04-2006 |
robbie basho - the grail of the lotus | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 38 Registered: 02-2008 |
Michael Jackson - Thriller 25th Anniversary Edicion So good. To get myself in the mood I put on my glittery one glove nd poured myself a big glass of Jesus Juice. no wonder this dang thing is the biggest selling album of all time. The girl is mine the doggone girl is mine... | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1045 Registered: 10-2004 |
Lee 'Scratch' Perry - Megaton Dub Vol. 2 - this album seems to be an object of ridicule by critics and fans alike, but I actually think it's pretty cool. Some particularly eerie atmospheric stuff, in places. King Tubby (and Prince Jammy) - Dub Gone 2 Crazy (love the persistent slamming of the reverb tank) Luiz Bonfa & Maria Toledo - Braziliana | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 340 Registered: 05-2005 |
...more than just the girl Ewan! He bloody bought Northern Songs out from under the nose of the legitimate owners of the songs with that album. I'm sorry, but a pox on it! That was the sad beginning of the whole slide into insanity for Michael Jackson!! From memory, the face altering had begun! Skin whitening, artificial insemination of his "wife", dangling his own children out of windows, out of court settlements for alledged misconduct with children was to follow!!! I will even blame Beyonce and Brittany Spears on that album!!! POX ON IT!!!!!!! | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 796 Registered: 08-2004 |
I'm with Ewan, on Thriller. Apart from the McCartney presence it's a poptacular foray into Funk. Off The Wall is even better! Julie Driscoll - 1969 Johnny Cash - Walking The Line... & Unearthed Autechre - Quaristice Nuyorican Soul - Nuyorican Soul Gretschen Hofner - Crow In Heels E.P. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1058 Registered: 01-2005 |
I bought Thriller on vinyl back in 1983. I think I played it two or three times. On the other hand I played my Prince, Time, and King Creole and The Coconuts albums many times back in 1983-84. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1050 Registered: 10-2004 |
Once or twice a year, Thriller totally rocks my world. Billy Jean is pure genius. This website is very old news, but it's a (disturbing albeit entertaining) history of Michael's face. http://www.anomalies-unlimited.com/Jacks on.html | ||
| Dr Girlfriend Member Username: Doctor_girlfriend Post Number: 39 Registered: 10-2007 |
Cat Power - Jukebox don't care if she's no longer the fragile-artiste-on-the- verge-of-a-breakdown, she still rocks my world! | ||
| Dr Girlfriend Member Username: Doctor_girlfriend Post Number: 40 Registered: 10-2007 |
nice link, Jeff, thanks...Michael Jackson used to be a black man? | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 50 Registered: 02-2008 |
He even used to have a nose. I mean one that isn't made out of that same wax they use for those orange Halloween lips. |