| Author | Message | ||
     Jonathan Evans Member Username: Jon Post Number: 169 Registered: 04-2005 |
I think the roman numerals are right!!! At the moment its a box set of soft cell 12" singles on CD (if that makes sense). I mean the 12" single versions on CD! Also the Bat for Lashes CD arrived and sounds great on first listen. Cheers Jon | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 429 Registered: 07-2006 |
it's an incredible collection jonathan - enjoy! i actually got the lp version when i was in london for fifty quid....bargain! the guy who sold it to me was an angsty old mole, but i put up with it on account of the grossly underestimated price tag! | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2302 Registered: 05-2005 |
Winston Tong - Theoretically Chinese. Wire - 154. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1158 Registered: 10-2004 |
Spence - How's that Winston Tong record? I've always been curious about it. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2305 Registered: 05-2005 |
Hi Jeff, Its worth the investment IMHO. Its very slick. Its kinda not like anything else. WT voice is very fragile, but really cool. The line up for the album included Dave Formula, Jah Wobble, Stephen Morris, Simon Topping and Alan Rankine, Rankine prduced it too. Its very well produced. Stand out tracks are Reports from the heart and News speak. I was a big Tuxedo moon fan a s ayoung lad and this was an extension of Tuxmo for me, so I guess that's why i invested in it. I would have been 17 at the time of purchase, Christ! | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1160 Registered: 10-2004 |
Spence, I dig Tuxedomoon too, particularly Desire. I've been curious about the Tong record for a while, but it's not an easy one to find. With an endorsement from you, though, I'll definitely search it out. Sounds like a pretty awesome "super group" is backing him too. It seems it would be hard to go wrong with all of those people involved! | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2306 Registered: 05-2005 |
Yeas Jeff I must admit. I was fortunate enough last year to work and produce some tracks for a guy called Stephen Harrison (used to front Heyday with ex Josef K). he'd had his stuff produced and played on by rankine too. The way Rankine produces and arranges is quite extraordinary. Light years ahead of most of us. I see Rankine has been very sucessful in commercial terms over the last few years, writing many big hits for crap groups. | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 140 Registered: 02-2008 |
Two stone frakkin masterpieces: Dig Lazerus Dig - Nick Cave. "Prolix! Nothing that a pair of scissors can't fix!" Sheer bloody genius. For Emma Forever Ago - Bon Iver. Sort of like if Tom Waits, Morrisee and Neil Young had a baby, castrated him, and made him write songs with Iron N Wine. A moody classic perfect for pining fer lost sweethearts in a cabin in the woods. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1608 Registered: 03-2005 |
Inspired by Michael's post a while back I'm listening to "The Fad Gadget Singles." I'll bet I haven't heard this in about 20 years. The highlights like "Ricky's Hand," "Life on the Line" (surely a darker and more intelligent Human League), "I Discover Love" and "Collapsing New People" hold up very well indeed. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2307 Registered: 05-2005 |
Felt: The Splendour Of Fear Ignite The Seven Cannons and The Strange Idols Pattern and Other Short Stories Brightened up my day these 3. | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 456 Registered: 01-2006 |
Spoon, Spoon & more Spoon.... Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga - This is still super after playing it non stop for a month or so. Kill The Moonlight - even better than Ga Ga Ga... Iggy & The Stooges - Raw Power, good but not a patch on Fun House or The Stooges. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2308 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Noseflutes - Several Young Men Ignite Hardboard Stump | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 430 Registered: 07-2006 |
the beautiful bastard that is the strange idols pattern is one of my favourites too spence. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2312 Registered: 05-2005 |
Joe, cool! Nada Surf - let Go. A pop masterpiece. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1171 Registered: 10-2004 |
Listening to an old mix I made of Jazz Butcher and solo Max Eider. Brilliant stuff! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1612 Registered: 03-2005 |
Last night: Church -- Starfish Lilac Time -- And Love for All | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 459 Registered: 01-2006 |
Spectrum Meets Captain Memphis - Indian Giver This is a pretty unusual collaboration between Sonic Boom of Spectrum/Spacemen 3 and Jim Dickinson! A few old Spectrum songs re-done and some swampy bluesy spacey stuff but it works... Check this http://www.myspace.com/sonicboom and try 'The Lonesome Death of Johnny Ace' for a taster...described by Sonic as "a song about the late Johnny Ace , a 50's R&B crooner who blew his brains out playing ''gun games'' backstage between 2 shows on Xmas day at the famous Mitchell Hotel & whorehouse in Memphis, stories don't get much better than this!!" | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 294 Registered: 01-2007 |
Apart from The Evangelist Guy CLarke Old No 1 Last Shaddow Puppets-good Triffids-Treeless Plain and The beautiful Wasteland Comp | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 2081 Registered: 05-2005 |
X - Los Angeles. Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours. Australias answer to LCD Soundsystem, if LCD had been influenced by the Human Leagues Dare rather than Bowie/Eno/MES/New Order. The Fall - Imperial Wax Solution. Fifty year old man indeed! Prince Buster - Fabulous Greatest Hits Bon Iver - For Emma Forever Ago. Sounds like Iron and Wine with a more restrained Jeff Buckley on vocals. 5 star album of the month in both Mojo and Uncut. | ||
| Jonathan Evans Member Username: Jon Post Number: 176 Registered: 04-2005 |
Kevin I love Cut Copy...they don't get much publicity in the UK (or maybe I'm looking in the wrong place). Currently I've got the Complete Billy Bragg Peel sessions (on 5 CDs) off some people on his messageboard....unbelieveably good. Also, Polly Paulusma's debut album Scissors In My Pocket... She's a talent. Cheers Jon | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 433 Registered: 07-2006 |
cut copy make for a great live spectacle (and the drummer for one is an incredibly nice guy), but i've always found them a bit flat on record. you're right though about the league kev...check out HLs "i don't depend on you" vs CC's "going nowhere".... | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2338 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy Adams' latest album. A lovely bunch of tunes, good words, well sung and well strummed, very catchy, a bit of The Gobees, a bit of Felt, a bit of Randy Newman! in there and a bit of the BMX Bandits too, its very sunny, its brightened up an otherwise dull day in England, outside it could be 1985 and The Smiths are with Mr Street laying down tracks for Meat is Murder... | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2339 Registered: 05-2005 |
Magazine - Real Life (remastered). The remastered RL brings as other remasters from their back catalogue, a new edge to their wonderful music, I catually feel like I am in a live take in the studio atthe recording of this album, ths clarity of everything blows me away, i mean, that descending piano break in Difinitive Gaze, Christ, gotta go Shot has just appeared, I can hear things now I could benever hear before, WOw!!!!!!!!!! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1618 Registered: 03-2005 |
I can't believe you did that Spence because last night I listened to the Wolfhounds comp "Lost But Happy" and then next the Winnebagos' "Born in the Sun." And then my own halting first set which I'm trying to clean up and tweak into better shape. So the Magazine remasters DO sound better? I remember Kevin saying they are about the same as before. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 816 Registered: 08-2004 |
I had a little Magazine on the go last night. Magazine - Scree Rarities - '78-'81 Monochrome Set - Independent Singles Collection Jesus & Mary Chain - 21 Singles Nick Cave's Dig Lazarus Dig is an excellent record more of a continuation of Abatoir Blues, Nick showing us all how to grow old disgracefully. I didn't expect much from it for for some reason & was pleasantly surprised. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1145 Registered: 01-2005 |
Lot's of late 60's through 1970 stuff. Jethro Tull's first three albums, This Was, Stand Up and Benefit. I thought they stared going downhill with Aqualung,and never bought anyting after that. Jefferson Airplanes 2nd through 5th studio albums and the live Bless It's Pointed Little Head. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 635 Registered: 04-2006 |
motorpsycho - little lucid moments | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 296 Registered: 01-2007 |
Rough trade -Indipop vol 1 Sharon Jones Anyone got the new Portishead?? | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 636 Registered: 04-2006 |
no, frank. but you can stream it here in full length: http://3voor12.vpro.nl/speler/luisterpaa l/39506770 best wishes, andreas | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 162 Registered: 02-2007 |
Michael, Jefferson Airplane seems a tad maligned these days, but those first few albums were great IMHO. After Bathing At Baxters and Crown of Creation my favs. Dated? Perhaps. It is rooted in its time and place, but Crown of Creation gets wellpast the hippy image and there's well crafted songs at that album, which is after all the sign of a good band. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1188 Registered: 10-2004 |
Anti-Nowhere League - We Are the League Adrian Borland - Alexandria | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 365 Registered: 05-2005 |
Massive Attack - the first 2 Cocteaus - Heaven.. Chris Bell, "I am the Cosmos". Now I think Teenage Fanclub DO sound like this!!!!....only Chris is better!!! Personal Ups and Downs best of compilation.(Great psychedelic surf-psyche-up pop) Telek - Amette. Papuan who collaborated with Not Drowning Waving on Tabaran. He's got a sweet voice and the "string band" stuff can sound like Simon and Garfunkel with the harmonies. Well worth investigating, even though it is only some obscure Papuan stuff!!! Bob Dylan - Pat Garrat and Billy the Kid soundtrack(how underrated is that!) AND Blood on the tracks. ...and of course... ROBERT!!!!!!!!!! Finally got the Evangelist late last week. How great is Demon Days??!!! | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2342 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy! Funny that matey! I really do think the Magazine remasters are better, much better in fact. It may be though that I am so used to the vinyl over the years and the diminshed sound that vinyl gives you afte millions of plays. Jerry whst's the Monochrome Set album like? I'd heard that they are not the pukka versions. I would so love Strange Botique on CD. Currently playing Monochrome Set - Eligible bachelors. Absoultely amazing album. I'll scry instead is the most amazing dance song. Also listened to: James - hey ma. My wife bought it on Sunday. The opening song is like as joe mentioned spomewhere like where they left off, from the grossly underrated and quite doomladen 'Pleased to meet you'. However, they have for me, returned to Laid, (except without Eno)and the times of born of Frustration. The Andy Diagram influence very much at the forefront, some of Tim's lyrical leanings emind me of Hymn to the village era, weird. On second listen, i am beginning to enjoy it, though its hardly gonna blow me away, its simply...James. Nice Cave and Bad Seeds - Lazurus. A fantastic album. I think apart from the opening track, this could kinda be a carry on from Let love In. They really do miss Blixa though, like REM miss Berry. The songs are great though, its nice to have the likes Cave and Graney still around, there's no one around who's as dangerous as these two, quite remarkable songwriter's, performers and players. Felt - Forever breathes the lonely word. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 2083 Registered: 05-2005 |
No Age - Nouns Silver Jews - Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea Bunny Lee Productions - The Mighty Striker Shoots at Hits | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2116 Registered: 05-2005 |
Chris Mills - The Wall To Wall Session The Cannanes - Trouble Seemed So Far Away (both bought, along with oodles of other stuff, at a recent record fair) | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 819 Registered: 08-2004 |
Dunno 'bout that Spence. re Monochrome Set, it's the 1st time I've heard 'em. Hot Chip - Made In The Dark - pretty good again but a touch over-long, I found myself looking at my watch on occasion. Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark The Clash - Give 'Em Enough Rope | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 56 Registered: 08-2005 |
Yep, I still listen to The Jefferson Airplane - my first big musical love (while all my friends were listening to Rush, Genesis, Zep, Whitesnake and the like). My ideal JA album would be side 1 of After Bathing at Baxter's and side 2 of Crown of Creation, though Lather on side 1 is a great song. Happy days! I also listen to The Great Society - check them out if you can. There's some very dodgy playing on the live album Conspicuous Only In Its Absence/Collector's Item | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 2085 Registered: 05-2005 |
Fleet Foxes - Ragged Wood. This years Midlake, but less FM radio friendly. This will feature heavily in the year end polls, trust me. Otis Redding - Otis Blue. No words required. The Fall - Imperial Wax Solvent. Barrington Levy - Teach The Youth (at Joe Gibbs 1980-1985) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2122 Registered: 05-2005 |
Solomon Burke - Nashville. Picked up a (new) copy for $8 in JB Hifi on Thursday night. Half way through and I love it so far. Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu - Gurrumul. An extraordinary album by a blind Aboriginal musician who plays right handed guitar left sided. Incredible voice (so pure), great guitarist. He sings in three different Aboriginal languages and, on two songs, in English. Randy, check him out. The Yunupingu's a hugely respected family of politicians and musicians. (His cousins were in Yothu Yindi). | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2123 Registered: 05-2005 |
Website is www.myspace.com/gurrumul | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2124 Registered: 05-2005 |
Just found out he is playing the Sydney Opera on Saturday 12 July. I am so there! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1621 Registered: 03-2005 |
Thank you Padraig. It is ordered. The first two songs heard at random on the myspace page clinched the sale. Hopefully Hugh Nimmo sees this because I think he'll get right on it too. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1032 Registered: 09-2006 |
Elbow - Cast of Thousands Marshall Crenshaw - Live: My Truck is My Home | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1201 Registered: 10-2004 |
Been in a big Love mood lately, listening to de Capo and Forever Changes quite a lot. I swear, aside from Pet Sounds/Smile-era Beach Boys, Love just might be my very favorite 60s band. Love in their prime made music that was just too beautiful and too brilliant for words. And I love that they were sloppy as hell, and that they could come with gorgeous, breezy songs like "Orange Skies" alongside brutal, charged rockers like "7 is as 7 Does." After all these years, I never get sick of Love. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1134 Registered: 08-2006 |
Jeff, I saw Arthur Lee do "Forever Changes" with a group of ringers a few years back. It was really, truly terrific, and I wasn't expecting that. The music holds up remarkably well, even with a high school horn section (I swear, they looked about that old). A great, great band in their day. Think I'll pop on the excellent "Love Story" set in honor of your bringing this up. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1202 Registered: 10-2004 |
Rob, one of my top 10 regrets is that I didn't get to see Arthur Lee/Love before he died. He and the Forever Changes ensemble came though San Francisco twice, and both times there was some conflict that prevented me from going (I think I was on vacation during one of the shows). Really bummed about that. A friend of mine saw them both times and made sure to rub it in. He said Lee was in great form (especially for having recently gotten out of jail at the time) and that periodically, between songs, he would spot these old hippie burn-outs in the crowd that he knew and he'd just start talking to 'em. My mom's boyfriend saw them back in the 60s (the classic, '67-era line-up). He said they were good but really trashy/garagey. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1038 Registered: 09-2006 |
Haven't listened to Da Capo as much as I probably should...but False Start is another darn good one, IMO. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1135 Registered: 08-2006 |
"False Start" is a goodie, Allen. Jeff, I'm sorry you didn't get to see the Arthur Lee/"Forever Changes" show. It really was better than it had any right to be. I went out of curiousity/respect - expecting the worst - and was quite impressed. Too bad he couldn't capitalize on his newfound fame for a bit longer. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1204 Registered: 10-2004 |
Allen, side one of Da Capo is pure heaven from start to finish, at least for me. But side 2 is just the epitome of 60s psychedelic self-indulgence. It also took the concept of filler to a new high (or low). Allen, Rob, shockingly, I don't own False Start. Wasn't it reissued recently? I thought Out Here was patchy: some great songs interspersed with some pretty iffy ones. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 57 Registered: 08-2005 |
I too caught the Love "Forever Changes" tour a few years ago, at the Colston Hall, Bristol. And was alos very impressed. And boy, did the band look young! | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1137 Registered: 08-2006 |
I dunno if "False Start" has been reissued, Jeff. It's worth getting, I'd say, especially if you're a fan. However, aside from "Forever Changes," I mainly listen to that "Love Story" two-disc set when I need to feed a Love jones. The second disc provides a pretty nice selection of their good later stuff, without the filler. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 435 Registered: 07-2006 |
i picked up accelerate on the weekend which is going down a treat. also found the learning to crawl remastered which remais a joy...plus i finally have it on cd, so i can give my lp on a long earned break. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2359 Registered: 05-2005 |
Joe , I did too! I like it. the only thing is, is if I were to take any praise away it would be, that the REM of old, were always going forward, whereas they have to go back now, to retrace and past glories. And that's sad. Really, the impersonal artwork sums the whole thing up for me. Yet another multi-national, rolling it out. Its pleasant enough, but they're just not dangerous anymore. I'll still play it, but it don't mean that much to me. Whereas...Love's Forever Changes. What a body of work that album was/is. I'm with Jeff, I never, ever get sick of Love, I never ever get tired of Forever Changes. I was kinda obsessed years ago. I don't know what it is about the album that sets me on fire. Its got a mysterious, totally unique unknown charm about it. Some of the songs on it are like mini rock opera's. It presses all the right buttons for me. Its beautiful, weird, the cober is superb, and merges many musical genres together quite effortlessly. I know there was talk of session players at the beginnig of the album, however like The Monkees (Randy will put me right) I think thes songs were eventually finished with the main band in tow. I know they had much of the music arranged at recording/mixdown time by the respective songwriter's. I am looking forward to hearing the reissue soon. There's a great version of Falsehod here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDVj1X5Qj ew | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2360 Registered: 05-2005 |
Sorry, Bummer in the Summer!! | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1206 Registered: 10-2004 |
Spence, that's true about the session musicians. From what I recall, the band was having a tough time nailing the songs in the studio. They were kind of sloppy (which indeed was part of their charm), and it got to a point where some songs were taking 60+ takes to get down. Someone, probably an A&R rep or a producer, threatened to bring in session players to get the job done. So, with their egos on the line, they got their proverbial shit together and eventually nailed it. The strings and horns, of course, were all session musicians, though, obviously. And Spence, I love your description of Forever Changes. Totally spot on. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 436 Registered: 07-2006 |
it was funny you know....i was actually listening to something else last night (very possibly the first melissa etheridge record, i've been in an odd mood of late) and accelerate - being the next disc in the stereo - started up afterwards and i was struck by this profound feeling of this is all too familiar, yet have no idea what it is. one of the better rehashes of late. shame i can't say the same about madonna...apparently she's only got four minutes to rip my heart out and have timbaland take an impossibly polished dump on it. | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 366 Registered: 05-2005 |
Is there ANOTHER reissue of Forever Changes? Totally great album. I find Pet Sounds like Forever Changes in that way it gets to you. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 332 Registered: 04-2005 |
I'll second all that praise for 'Forever Changes': completely unique and utterly timeless. And floppy suede jackets to boot. Currently listening to John Coltrane - One Down, One Up: Live at the Half Note From radio broadcasts from '65, this certainly kicks starts the day with it playing on the way to work. An amazing sense of empathy between musicians, there is a depth and emotion that is hard to find in most 'rock' music of today. And spirituality. Lets all go pray at the church of John Coltrane! http://www.coltranechurch.org/ | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2361 Registered: 05-2005 |
Hi geoff, yes the reisue: http://www.amazon.com/Forever-Changes-Lo ve/dp/samples/B0015D3YX6/ref=dp_tracks_a ll_2#disc_2 Just spotted Dennis Wilson - Pacific Ocean Blue cd cover on this page, can't wait to hear that. I'll buy it for the cover alone! He looks like Kenny Dalgleish when he was at Celtic, except with a beard! | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 821 Registered: 08-2004 |
The session musicians thang applied to a lot of bands back in the day. The Byrds & The Beach Boys for instance. The Wrecking Crew were the musos choice if you want a hit single or two. Last night: The Replacements - Sorry Ma... - with bonus demos etc Jonathan Richman - Because Her Beauty Is Raw & Wild Mansun - Kleptomania Magnus - The Body Gave You Everything Nectarine No. 9 - I Love Total Destruction | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 2088 Registered: 05-2005 |
skream - skreamizm volume 4 black keys - attack and release no age - nouns | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1208 Registered: 10-2004 |
Listening to an African Highlife mix a friend of mine made for me. Really cool stuff! Very pretty, super melodic, and rhythmically busy. Sunny, intricate melodies snake in and out and around the rhythms. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1141 Registered: 08-2006 |
Good Highlife is about as good as it gets, Jeff. It's kind of sad, too, to hear the post-colonial optimism in those tunes and think what's happened to those countries since. It's like listening to old Thomas Mapfumo tracks and reading about the desperate mess Zimbabwe's in. A lot of the great Highlife was made right in that period when a lot of African countries had just gotten out of the frying pan and were a decade or so away from hitting the fire. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2363 Registered: 05-2005 |
I don't know much about African highlife music, though I was a big fan of the Bundhu Boys. I saw them many times. To be honest their music was so much better than the dance music at the time, its a real shame it never took off big style. An, they could play! Tonight, I am working late. And after a day watching and listening to the news in Burma and being thankful for this existance, I stumbled acorss Kicking Televsion, live cds by Wilco. What struck me was how excited I was. Like, nowadays, I like to buy the CD of a real favourite artist, download, is just not good enough. And, looking at this CD brought it all back, it reminded me of why I loved vinyl, its not the same by any stretch though I have been able to sit down, look at the sleeve, feel the artwork, read up on who's PR for Tony Margherita and feel good about owning this music. Sheer excitement is part down to the fact that i bought this 2 years ago, loaded to itunes, since lost from itunes, forgot I owned the bastard thing, it was a really nice suprise to see it there, going "play me you fu*ker" And today, I am thankful to be alive... | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 437 Registered: 07-2006 |
jerry - is that mansun record some sort of compilation? they've long since broken up yeah? still love me some taxloss and being a girl. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1041 Registered: 09-2006 |
Jens Lekman - Night Falls on Kortedala Ol' G.W. - Horsebreaker Star (2-disc version) | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1625 Registered: 03-2005 |
Babe Rainbow -- House of Love | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1210 Registered: 10-2004 |
Randy - how's Babe Rainbow? Rob - you raise an excellent and interesting point with regard to Highlife. Although I have no idea what they're singing, the music really is bursting with life and optimism, which surely must have reflected the frame of mind for many people just breaking free of colonialism. And it's sad to think of how that optimism would eventually be squashed. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1626 Registered: 03-2005 |
Check your mailbox tomorrow Jeff. It's a solid album. And now I really understand the Church comments. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 438 Registered: 07-2006 |
i agree, babe rainbow remains a thoroughly enjoyable listen. mine still includes the original "how to listen to babe rainbow" manual in the insert... | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 822 Registered: 08-2004 |
Joe re. Mansun's Kleptomania: It's part compilation. A disc of E.P Songs, B-sides etc, a disc of rarities. Disc 1 is a rough mix of some of the last songs the band wrote & recorded then compiled by Paul Draper. It's pretty good without the polish of their usual output. By a lot of other bands standards it's probably as good as a finished record. Last night: Bentley Rhythm Ace - For Your Ears Only Bruce Cockburn - The Trouble With Normal Donald Fagen - The Nightfly Was (Not Was) - Boo! | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 638 Registered: 04-2006 |
Spence, Dennis Wilson's Pacific Ocean Blue is not only worth to buy because of the picture of Dennis on the cover. The music is great. We all like so many kinds of music and have our favourite albums. POB is one of those albums which you always forget to mention, but in truth it is one of your real favourite ones. This reissue contains also the non-released Bamboo album which now will have it's first official release. Great stuff, too! When I am not such a dumbass I should have sold my old CD copy in the meantime. Not only because i have it double (CD and vinyl), but also because I could have earned a lot of money (some people paid around USD 100.00 for the 1991 CD). In this spirit Dennis forever! Yours, Andreas | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1627 Registered: 03-2005 |
That's funny, Joe! So how AM I supposed to listen to Babe Rainbow? Under a pyramid? Get stoned first? After meditation? With a notebook at the ready? | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 439 Registered: 07-2006 |
randy - all o' the above i daresay! if only scanners had remained in vogue (and not bundled away in pieces in people's garages) - i'd be able to send you a copy. i'll have a look-see tonight and refresh my memory. jerry - the new work's not all little kix "paul writes something for the ladies" is it? mansun put out some ripping eps though....will keep an eye out for it! | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 641 Registered: 04-2006 |
jerry, how is the new Jonathan album? | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 642 Registered: 04-2006 |
what i always liked most on forever changes is that perfect short guitar solo on a house is not a motel. perfect! my favourite guitar solo together with the short guitar solo on a pop group song called colour blind. perfect, too! | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 302 Registered: 01-2007 |
I'm completely loving The Popguns-Waiting for Winter such great melody and great voice by Wendy Morgan any one got any of their stuff? wher would one start? | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 643 Registered: 04-2006 |
kevin, how is the new fall album? it isn't released in germany until now. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2365 Registered: 05-2005 |
andreas, the love solo is a real air guitar moment isn't it!?! | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2366 Registered: 05-2005 |
randy, glad you liking babe rainbow buddy!! actually andreas, old kev has been really quiet, you ok kev!? | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 2089 Registered: 05-2005 |
I'm fine Spence, just dipping in and out you know  Andreas, The Fall album is ace, some hard hitting guitars especially on tracks like Wolf Kidult Man. Tommy Shooter is really good, as is Alton Towers and Ive Been Duped. A good way to accompany the MES book | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 427 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Triffids Stolen Property. On repeat on the car stereo, so loud my ears nearly bled. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2134 Registered: 05-2005 |
Grant's disc of Intermission. In the lyric book it gets the recording dates of the songs from his second album wrong. They can't have been recorded in 1993 when I owned the album in December 1992. Also played Feist's first album and the best of The Lemonheads last night. | ||
| fsh Member Username: Fsh Post Number: 179 Registered: 05-2005 |
Feist ? Is that supposed to be Faust? | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 429 Registered: 05-2005 |
Not many people realise, but Faust never actually got a record deal. In spite of the fact that over the years he was mooted to be variously "the next U2", "the next ELO", and in the distant past, "the next Mozart". Most recently, he's been described as "the next Coldplay", god help us. The lack of a deal may come as a surprise to many, considering his healthy reputation when it comes to negotiating.. Some rare recordings are believed to exist, stored in various attics around the world, and tend to be wrapped in unusual legal documents... Further rumours indicate that they are most commonly found in the posession of those who lack vowels in their names, but this has not been corroborated... | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 103 Registered: 03-2007 |
fsh, I don't think so. Feist is probably Leslie Fiest who is a Canadian singer/songwriter and part time member of the Canadian band Broken Social Scene. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 104 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, you know me too well. I checked out Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu on MySpace and a copy of the album is currently winging its way to me from Chaos.com in Australia. I placed an order with a different supplier for Gapu Damurrun by The Saltwater Band at the same time. Padraig, superb recommendation. Geoff, I am a big fan of Telek and have three of his albums ( Telek; Serious Tam; Amette.) Serious Tam is probably my favourite. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2370 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kev, am on the case man, I must buy the new Fall CD on Monday, I must. I always remember Randy's descirption of the last album, something about Tourette's syndrome, made ma laugh, hough I am not sayiing that it TS is anything to laugh about, apart from in relation to desricbing the E Smith mannerism!! | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 440 Registered: 07-2006 |
love stolen property too catherine. i've been listening to lonely stretch over and over again for weeks. a fine record it is! | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 367 Registered: 05-2005 |
I picked up Amette for $4 (reduced from $8)! I actually saw him at the Heritage in Bulli last year(?) when I think he toured for that album. I'm a big NDW fan and Tabaran is probably the best IMHO. By the way, I heard about Gurrumul via iTunes months ago and liked it but was saving money for other things. I have it now since Padraig raved and I agree it's very good. Great voice. Haven't heard the Saltwate band. Good? | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 105 Registered: 03-2007 |
Geoff, still waiting for the Saltwater Band album to arrive. I ordered it on the strength of the tracks I listened to on their MySpace website and the fact that Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu is a member of the band. The few songs I have heard certainly sound good to me. I love all things NDW/MFTCC/David Bridie. I still have a couple of NDW titles to pick up and Tabaran is one of them. Probably not their best album but I have a soft spot for Proof ( Motion Picture Soundtrack.) I really enjoyed the film which might explain it. I was all lined up to go and see MFTCC at the Edinburgh Festival a couple of years ago but they cancelled their trip over to the U.K. at the last minute. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 106 Registered: 03-2007 |
I Heart Hiroshima - Tuff Teef. The Phoenix Foundation - Happy Ending. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2371 Registered: 05-2005 |
Felt - ignite the seven canons Felt - The splendour of fear | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 430 Registered: 05-2005 |
Mark Dignam - Poetry and Songs From The Wheel | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1211 Registered: 10-2004 |
Comsat Angels - Fiction Felt - Me and a Monkey... | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 368 Registered: 05-2005 |
Hugh, Tabaran, as most of the others now, has been re-released, with a dvd of some film clips and other footage from NDW's time in Rabaul. I especially love Call across the Highlands - still sends shivers up the spine! It is well worth a relisten if you haven't heard it in a while and have cottoned onto Telek. I'll have to hunt down the Saltwater band. After all, how many bands have Geoffrey's in them??!! | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 303 Registered: 01-2007 |
awaiting my Vinyl copy of The Evangelist and thinking of getting Bon Iver, basically a compilation as well which starts with Wide Open Road (Triffids) then Impossible Germany then Post to Wire ( by Richmond Fontaine) then I forget possibly Born to a Family 4 of my favourite songs at the moment | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1045 Registered: 09-2006 |
Spurts: The Richard Hell Story Mbuti Pygmies of the Ituri Rainforest | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2373 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jeff, me and a monkey is fantastic eh? a mate of mine at the time Richard Left played the last solo on the track New Day Dawning, I remember him telling me he'd recorded it, he ripped it off from a Carpenter's track, though boy, it's sure some of the best soloing I have ever heard. He later was fortunate to play in Felt's last ever line up in Birmingham, December '89. Jerry, I wasn't to hear this Bon Jovi, I mean Iver, they are all over the press like a bad suit! | ||
| John B. Member Username: John_b Post Number: 126 Registered: 10-2006 |
Portishead - Third Far away from what they used to do but still typically Portishead. "We carry on" is one of the best tracks I have heard in years | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1628 Registered: 03-2005 |
Last night: the deluxe reissue of "Forever Changes," inspired by all the raving on here. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 824 Registered: 08-2004 |
Daniel Lanois - Here Is What Is The National - Boxer The Raconteurs - Consolers Of The Lonely | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1212 Registered: 10-2004 |
Spence - yeah, Monkey is a good record, and it's been a while since I've really listened to it. That is really funny the way New Day Dawning shifts gears into a total arena rock power ballad. That solo is *so* Freebird! The side with New Day Dawning is, for me, the record's better half, but overall it was a good note for Felt to go out on. I'd love to know what it was like to have the Sound's Adrian Borland in the Producer's chair. Randy + other Love folks - I haven't bought the deluxe "Forever Changes" simply because I already have the reissue from 2001 (which sounds beautiful and comes with a handful of bonus tracks, like the awesome "Wonder People"), and a good copy of the LP. Is the package worth shelling out for? Are those alternate mixes on the bonus disc different enough to warrant buying this album for a third time? | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1147 Registered: 01-2005 |
All the Byrds studio albums, except for the 1973 reunion album which I don't own. I love Bugler from the Farther Along album. The band was in a rush to get the album done, and Clarence got a second stab at the vocals on Bugler, and it's his rich overdubed vocals recorded after the rest of the album was done that make it such a perfect song. It's so sad that Clarence, Gram, Gene and Michael left us so soon. | ||
| Jonathan Evans Member Username: Jon Post Number: 185 Registered: 04-2005 |
Michael Which byrds album would you recommend first. I've got the best of (NZ $8 - bargain!), but don't know what would be a good choice to start of. Cheers Jon | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 159 Registered: 02-2008 |
Old 97s - Blame It on Gravity. Used to love 'ems but this is pretty lame-o! Its freneticsisms and goopy sincerity cant disguise that they aint no tunes. Dis band should disband. | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 166 Registered: 02-2007 |
Jonathan, don't know if you should start with this but you have to have a listen to Sweetheart Of the Rodeo. Classic album where Gram and the Byrds go alt-country and create somethun amazing. Give the 60's stuff a decent listen to as well (Dylan covers et al) but SHOTR is in my top 100 albums of all time! | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 369 Registered: 05-2005 |
Can I recommend, Jonathan, either Younger than Yesterday or Turn!Turn Turn!? No,No I hear - definitely not the dreaded second album, but I find it more "even" than the first. Sweetheart - yeah, it's very good but boy you REALLY need to like country because you don't get anything else! And then there's the snobs puzzling choice - The Notorious Byrd Brothers which has a lot of style but not as many knock out great songs as the others. My first was 5th Dimension - that's a good place to start too!!!!!!!!! Oh to be discovering the Byrds for the first time again!!!!!! Younger than Yesterday is one of my all time faves. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1214 Registered: 10-2004 |
Geoff, I agree - Younger than Yesterday is my fav, too. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1148 Registered: 01-2005 |
Jonathan, I second Geoff's Younger Than Yesterday pick as one to get started on. Tough to pick my favorite US band from 1965-72, but I'll give the edge to The Byrds. So my Byrds picks would be: Younger Than Yesterday Mr. Tambourine Man Sweetheart Of The Rodeo (If you like Country!) Fifth Dimension Turn! Turn! Turn! The Notorious Byrd Brothers (Untitled)/(Unissued) Farther Along Ballad Of Easy Rider Dr. Byrds & Mr. Hyde Brydmaniax | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1629 Registered: 03-2005 |
Jeff, I'm not qualified to say anything about the reissue of "Forever Changes." It's my first copy. But if the only thing you don't have is an old alternate mix of the album, that seems pretty expendable. There is an alternate ending to "You Set the Scene." I can send you that. The Byrds, hmmm. There are so many Byrds. You have to figure out which band appeals to you the most. Jonathan, I'd recommend you get the 4 CD box. It's an excellent overview of their lengthy career and all their iterations. Alternatively, I agree with "Younger Than Yesterday." Even though they'd lost their best songwriter (Gene Clark), it's the most consistent album. The early ones tended to be spotty rush jobs. I have an idea! List your favorite tracks on the antho that you currently have. Then we'll be able to give you better direction. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1049 Registered: 09-2006 |
Guess I'm a snob, because Byrd Brothers definitely does it for me as their finest totality, followed by Sweetheart. And big fat agreement on the great There is a Season box. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1630 Registered: 03-2005 |
On the subject of what we've been listening to, I will be visiting my brother up in Fresno tomorrow and returning the first 3 discs to the Buffalo Springfield box set that he lent me. No idea why he didn't give me the fourth! For my money, BS were the brightest-burning of all West Coast bands, leaving the Byrds and the rest in the weeds. Most of this is because they had two and a half excellent songwriters. (Furay being the half--things like "Kind Woman" are as good as they get but he wasn't prolific and he could also turn out tripe like "Sad Memory"). And LOTS of guitars! Which, of course, just reflects my giant instrumental bias. Their first two albums are astonishing and even the third wears well with time. They moved at lightning speed from Sunset Strip club band with substantial songs (first album) to international first-rank artists (Again) to seasoned and mature solo artists (Last Time Around). It's a shame they couldn't keep it together because I love the chemistry that comes from things like Furay singing Neil Young songs and Dewey Martin's soul stylings and SOMEBODY needed to keep Stills from his worst excesses--indeed Stills and Furay tended to offset each other's excesses quite well. I am old enough to remember when songs like "Bluebird" first came out on the radio. I have a massive bias in favor of British bands of the era and did back then too but the Buffalo Springfield just kept amazing us. Besides, their lead guitarist was an audible fan of Hank Marvin! They didn't come better than BS. And then they broke up and started making all those records that I personally just don't enjoy. (Honorable exception: Neil's brilliant first album) | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1050 Registered: 09-2006 |
Maybe he thought you didn't need the fourth disc because all (or maybe just most) of it is on the other three discs...but of course hearing the songs in their album sequence is essential too... | ||
| Jonathan Evans Member Username: Jon Post Number: 187 Registered: 04-2005 |
Thanks everyone....sounds like I've got a few purchases to make, but at least its payday!!! I'll start another thread as this is getting a bit long....should we still with roman numerals or should I try something different. Cheers Jon | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1150 Registered: 01-2005 |
I give Stills huge cudos for helping out Judy Collins on her masterful 1968 album Who Knows Where The Time Goes. There is not a bad cut on the entire album, and she never came close to recording another one like it. Stills then of course wrote Suite Judy Blue Eyes in her honor. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 825 Registered: 08-2004 |
I'd say Sweetheart Of The Rodeo was the best. Nothing on there sounds dated, unlike Notorious BB, Younger TY or 5th Dimension. Jonathan, If you get the remasters with bonus songs you'll hear some cracking LP radio ads & a studio ruckus par excellence. Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Sunday At Devil Dirt - If Leonard Cohen were 30 years younger & duetted with Harriet Wheeler it probably wouldn't sound anything like this. Mission Of Burma = Vs | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1215 Registered: 10-2004 |
I just can't get over the country thing w/ later Byrds. I'm ambivalent about it. I can take it in small doses, or certain elements of it, depending on the context. But while sometimes it's wonderful, other times it's just too much for me. I realize A LOT of people really dig the country angle, though. I'll probably never fully understand why, but it's something I've certainly had to make peace with over the years. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1216 Registered: 10-2004 |
Randy, so, given that you are the board's resident 60s guru, what's your take on Love and Forever Changes? I can't remember if you've discussed them before. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1151 Registered: 01-2005 |
Didn't we talk about Love and Forever Changes on the Best of 1967 subject? Another one to get from the time period that finally got released on cd a couple of years ago that I highly recommend: Serpent Power - Serpent Power/Poet Song | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1219 Registered: 10-2004 |
Michael - we probably did, but given the discussion just above in this thread, and the brand new FC reissue, it seemed worth revisiting. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1152 Registered: 01-2005 |
Jeff, Sounds good to me. I bought the previous FC reissue a few years ago, and Da Capo last year as well as the Forever Changes concert DVD last year! |