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Pádraig Collins
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Posted on Thursday, January 03, 2008 - 11:39 pm:   

New month, new year, new list.

U2 7 - a seven song U2 EP that was only available in Target in the US. It's very good if you like them, which I do. Not too common a like in these parts granted.
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Wilson Davey
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Posted on Thursday, January 03, 2008 - 11:48 pm:   

REM - Voice of Harold. Just love Stipes accent on that, the way he phrases "sincere testimony" and "staighten our their laaves".

Just learned that guitar lick as well !!
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Geoff Holmes
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Posted on Friday, January 04, 2008 - 01:45 am:   

The Dream Academy - Life in a Northern Town.
I knew Kate St John from Cope's albums and at that stage I was living, between uni, on the North coast of N.S.W. so it became "Life in a North coast town"... And their threads on the film clip were very Magical Mystery Tour.
I'm chucking out lots of Mojos if anyones interested by the way.
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frank bascombe
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Posted on Friday, January 04, 2008 - 12:01 pm:   

Blurs-Best of
and Lady's Bridge by Richard Hawley just got round to buying them 2 for Ł10-not bad
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kevin
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Posted on Friday, January 04, 2008 - 12:25 pm:   

New albums from Drive By Truckers and Marah. As well as favs from last year by Spoon,LCD Soundsystem, Radiohead and Burial.
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Pádraig Collins
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Posted on Friday, January 04, 2008 - 11:39 pm:   

Por Vida - A tribute to the songs of Alejandro Escovedo.
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Pádraig Collins
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Posted on Friday, January 04, 2008 - 11:58 pm:   

More U2 b-sides.
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TROU
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Posted on Saturday, January 05, 2008 - 08:43 pm:   

Last FM. Wonderfull and a easy way to discover missed bands ! Last musics I liked in the previous minutes : Rogue Wave and Metric.

After Spoon's similars bands, I'll put the McCarthy.

Bonne année!
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Pádraig Collins
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Posted on Sunday, January 06, 2008 - 12:40 am:   

John Peel: A Tribute. On right now is a song called I Can't Take You To The Sun by The Misunderstood. It's from the 60s, very psychedelic. Anyone here know anything about them? Randy? It's a brilliant song and I'm wondering if I should be looking for a comp or a particular album by them.

I've just found a Wikipedia piece on them, but all further help will still be appreciated!
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Pádraig Collins
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Posted on Sunday, January 06, 2008 - 01:14 am:   

Culture - Lion Rock. Great song, as Kevin and others have pointed out here before.
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Pádraig Collins
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Posted on Sunday, January 06, 2008 - 01:22 am:   

The Wedding Present - Brassneck
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Pádraig Collins
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Post Number: 1937
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Posted on Sunday, January 06, 2008 - 01:29 am:   

PJ Harvey - Sheela-Na-Gig. I've loved this song since I first heard it on Triple J in 1992. Such a visceral power to it.
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Pádraig Collins
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Posted on Sunday, January 06, 2008 - 01:35 am:   

Pulp - Common People.
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Pádraig Collins
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Posted on Sunday, January 06, 2008 - 01:35 am:   

It's almost like I'm in a hurry to get to 2000 posts...
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Pádraig Collins
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Posted on Sunday, January 06, 2008 - 01:36 am:   

The Fall - Theme From Sparta FC #2
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Pádraig Collins
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Posted on Sunday, January 06, 2008 - 01:50 am:   

Belle & Sebastian - Lazy Line Painter Jane. A pop classic.
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Pádraig Collins
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Posted on Sunday, January 06, 2008 - 02:02 am:   

Orbital - Chime. From the John Peel comp, as are all the tracks above.
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Pádraig Collins
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Posted on Sunday, January 06, 2008 - 02:13 am:   

Now I'm onto Johnny Cash's Personal File. I bought this when it came out about two years ago, but this is my first time playing it. Sounds mighty fine already on track 1, disc 1.
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Pádraig Collins
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Posted on Sunday, January 06, 2008 - 02:32 am:   

Personal File really is stunning. Damn I wish I'd played it when I bought it. His version of Galway Bay is very moving.
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Randy Adams
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Posted on Sunday, January 06, 2008 - 05:57 am:   

Disaster Plan -- Self Help Guide
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spence
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Posted on Monday, January 07, 2008 - 10:04 am:   

Various songs on my wife's iPod. I don't listen thru headphones that much, but its remarkable what you can hear, the real detail.

On her iPod there's basically a playlist formed by accident from my iTunes catalogue. But I spent time listening to Jimmy James and Vagabonds, in particular my fave by him Ain't no big thing. I can't believe how wonderful this song is, and upon close scrutiny how great the arrangements of all the various instrumentation is. Radny sent it me last year and I've bnever looked back. Another msg boarder influnce, Jeff, a few of his songs, admittedly not his recemt stuff but The Concubines e.p. from a year or so. The playing and again, arrangements are superb. That guy has some real talent and the most exquisite guitars you'll ever hear.

I have ready to load into iTunes today some modern relics:
Kings of Convenience - Versus. A great remix by other artists compilation of their first album. I think looking back Kings are one of my top 10 fave artists of the nouties.

Sigur Ros - 4 CD's, is this their complete back catalogue? Bougt em cheap, never heard em befroe. The packaging is pure 4AD minimalism, its very nice, some of them have no writing on at all.

Oslo - Daylight. A brilliant band who sounded like a prog vrsion of early Wire. They were fronted by a guy who looked like Steve Davies the ex World Snooker Champion, don't let that put me off though!

Felt - Train above the city/The Pictorial Jackson Review. I loved this album way back when it came out in '88. Felt were local to me. They were England's answer to the Velvets. The following this band had was immense. I must've played this album a hundred times. At the time I used to go along to free mike night's at a club in Birmingham and would often find myself jammming guitar with Martin Duffy, and members of Nicki Sudden's Jacobites and Dave Kusworth's band. Later on I was in a group who had their demos produced by Marco Thomas the bassist and a few years later I was briefly in a band called Western with the drummer Gary Ainge, so this CD will bring back a lot of very personal pleasant memories. It was recorded entirely on 8 track too.

Dark Star - 20/20 SOund. A great short lived band from the embers of Levitation, only this album remains.

The Clash - London Calling 25th Anniversary. There's some hilarious DVD footage of their mad producer, Guy Stevens smashing chairs! Only in England!

Nick Cave. Abattoir Blues. Again, lovely packaging, the quality of the print on the cloth box is lovely. I think this is his masterpiece. Even though I think his best album is Let Love in. Everything's so realised. I like the way the album is split in two, Jim drumming on one CD and Thomas on the other. Its raw, well played and bluesy and well produced to boot.

Ben Folds - Rockin in the suburbs. I remember playing this and not getting it. Time to reaquaint, esp as his follow up had immediate impact on me.

Foo Fighters - One by One. This group kinda do to me what Bob Mould's Sugar did to me, move me in a big rock way, and some ho avoid the pomp, FF maybe less so, they seem to build the pop thing in to the rock thing, still can't beat If I can't change your mind tho.


Jeez am boring myself now, have a good week.
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Jerry Clark
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Posted on Monday, January 07, 2008 - 03:52 pm:   

You're right about the ipod sound quality there, Spence. I didn't realise how much I'd been missing til I got one. Now I'm spoiled & demand detailed sonix.

All About Eve -Scarlet & Other Stories

Longpigs - The Sun Is Often Out

Soulsavers - It's Not How Far You Fall It's How You Land - Very impressed with this one on initial listen

Moody Blues - In Search Of The Lost Chord - Turns out they do find it & it's Om. I like this record! Reminds me of Ogden's Nut Gone Flake meets Forever Changes via Maharishi.
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frank bascombe
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Posted on Monday, January 07, 2008 - 04:13 pm:   

Here Here for Ben Folds
Having a bit of a Blur thing going on
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Michael Bachman
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Posted on Monday, January 07, 2008 - 05:23 pm:   

Jerry, I think In Search Of is the MB's best from stem to stern. Subsequent albums had some great songs, but always had a clunker or two that kept In Search Of as the best.
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Wilson Davey
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Posted on Monday, January 07, 2008 - 07:49 pm:   

Spence,

Sigur Ros are really good. I only have Takk which has the possibly overused (but still great) Hoppipolla track. The BBC used it for one of their wildlife programmes links. Thye did a mini LP titled () that used ballet footsteps in it, very creatively. I firts heard it played in Virgin megastore of all places and it stopped me in my tracks, not much does that these days.

It's obvious to call it film music but it works great as backing to slide shows on the PC.
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Wilson Davey
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Posted on Monday, January 07, 2008 - 07:54 pm:   

Elbow - Scattered black & whites.

Another great song to use as a backdrop for, well, old black and whites scanned into my PC and made into a slideshow. A very literal use I know but it works !

Switching off is my favourire Elbow song, very emotional and great lyrics. "Stately" would be a good description.
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Jerry Clark
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Posted on Tuesday, January 08, 2008 - 06:20 pm:   

Duly noted, Michael. It's nice to learn there's more to the Moody's than ott excesses. I've got the deluxe edition with radio sessions etc which I'll give a spin in the near future.

Paul Weller - Wild Wood
British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music
Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel Of Love
Nick Cave - Tender Prey
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spence
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Posted on Tuesday, January 08, 2008 - 06:41 pm:   

Wilson
Takk is great yes. its the other cd's I have not played think they are called after squinting...çgľtis Byrjun,() andBa Ba/Ti Ki/Di Do and I am looking forward to picking up their new cd and dvd.

Teenage Fanclub - Songs from Northern Britain.
Grant McLennan - Horsebreaker Star
Blue Aeroplanes - Weird Shit
Nada Surf - Weight is a gift

All whiteman's shit.,..
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Jeff Whiteaker
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Posted on Tuesday, January 08, 2008 - 07:28 pm:   

The whooshing throb and persistent ringing of my clogged right ear due to a nasty cold.
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Allen Belz
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Posted on Wednesday, January 09, 2008 - 06:24 am:   

The dB's - Stands for deciBels/Repercussion
Steely Dan - Citizen Steely Dan
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Pádraig Collins
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Posted on Wednesday, January 09, 2008 - 09:24 am:   

Prefab Sprout - Swoon, their glorious debut. I've loved this album for close to a quarter century.
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Pádraig Collins
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Posted on Wednesday, January 09, 2008 - 10:04 am:   

Died Pretty's Doughboy Hollow. I'm seeing them play it in its entirety soon on the same bill as Ed Kuepper doing Honey Steels Gold. Should be great.

I heard Doughboy Hollow for the first time on Monday. It's great.
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Pádraig Collins
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Posted on Wednesday, January 09, 2008 - 11:26 am:   

Ed Kuepper - Finding You
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Pádraig Collins
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Posted on Wednesday, January 09, 2008 - 12:32 pm:   

Starclub - Bad Machine. A brilliant power pop song from 1993 which I got on tape that came with Select magazine. I subsequently bought their album on CD, which was a major outlay for a poor student on a band I'd only heard one song by. And it was dreadful apart from that one genius track. So bad I immediately tried to sell it to second hand record shops. Nobody would take it, so I gave it to a charity shop on Dorset St in Dublin. It's probably still there.

Last year I found and played the Select tape again and it was such a joy to hear Bad Machine again. And now, thanks to iTunes I have it as an mp4 too! I'd been scouring the web intermittently so see if I could find it anywhere. It was only tonight it occured to me to try get it from iTunes. And lo and behold...
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Jerry Clark
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Posted on Wednesday, January 09, 2008 - 04:01 pm:   

Kevin Ayers - Unfairground
Jackson Browne - Lawyers In Love
Joy Division - Heart & Soul - disc 1
Talking Heads - The Name Of This Band... disc 2
R.E.M. - Up
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Randy Adams
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Posted on Thursday, January 10, 2008 - 12:46 am:   

Noel Harrison -- Suzanne, and everything else on a great antho that just arrived, called "Life is a Dream."
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Catherine Vaughan
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Posted on Thursday, January 10, 2008 - 12:22 pm:   

I'm driving a loaner-car today, as my own is in for repair. There was a tape in the cassette deck, and my curiosity got the better of me, so I pressed play...

Roger Whitaker doing a rock n' roll version of the Coo Coo Bird!!

Aaaaaarrrrrggggghhhhhhhh!!!! My ears are bleeding!!!
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Randy Adams
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Posted on Friday, January 11, 2008 - 07:29 pm:   

Colin Blunstone -- Knowing You
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Allen Belz
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Posted on Friday, January 11, 2008 - 10:36 pm:   

Popinjays - Tales From the Urban Prairie
Gogol Bordello - Super Taranta
Janis Joplin - Janis (box set)

It couldn't have been a rock & roll version...I think if you played rock & roll in the same room with Roger Whitaker he'd melt like the Wicked Witch.
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Pádraig Collins
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Posted on Saturday, January 12, 2008 - 07:31 am:   

In January 1993 while walking in the Aran Islands with my then girlfriend, I saw some detritus thrown in a heap by the roadside. Among the items of clothing was a Roger Whitaker cassette. I imagined somebody having thrown our their easy listening partner and it made me a bit sad. But then we went and drank lots of Guinness and I felt better again.
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Pádraig Collins
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Posted on Saturday, January 12, 2008 - 07:35 am:   

Public Image Ltd. - Public Image. Uneasy listening. Makes Sex Pistols sound like Nana Mouskouri. (No offence Nana)
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Pádraig Collins
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Posted on Saturday, January 12, 2008 - 08:05 am:   

This is actually my first time playing the PIL debut, even though it's been lying in the (very large) unplayed pile for a very long time. It's so great. What a record. Religion I and Religion II are so bitter about the experience of growing up in an Irish Cathlic family in London. I wish Lydon could purge himself like that still intead of the cynicism he replaced it with.
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Pádraig Collins
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Posted on Saturday, January 12, 2008 - 08:09 am:   

That was so great I'm now onto their follow up, Second Edition. The two CDs in one package cost a mere $10 as I recall.
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Pádraig Collins
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Posted on Saturday, January 12, 2008 - 09:03 am:   

Hmm, Second Edition is a little more challenging that Public Image. Not without its charms though.
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Randy Adams
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Posted on Saturday, January 12, 2008 - 04:58 pm:   

On a much easier digestion level, I'm listening to my freshly downloaded digital version of the Triffids' "Early Singles." Hooray, I didn't botch it!

"Just like Desiree, my reverie."
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Wilson Davey
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Posted on Saturday, January 12, 2008 - 05:53 pm:   

Tom Waits, Orphans...hence the Bukowski "Nirvana" thread.

Just beautiful...
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Catherine Vaughan
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Posted on Saturday, January 12, 2008 - 06:27 pm:   

It was more like Roger's idea of Rock n' Roll, in that it had roughly the same tempo and beat, but it had then been fed through a large machine which turned everything BEIGE... Sorry I can't talk about it any more - I'm having aural flashbacks....
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Catherine Vaughan
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Posted on Saturday, January 12, 2008 - 06:43 pm:   

Earlier in the car, first half of Born In The Sun by some band called Winnebago Orchestra - anyone heard of them??? :-) Enjoying it so far, on first listen...

At the mo' I'm listening to a really great band - Wussy - on their myspace page. Our buddy LK introduced me to them, and I'm hooked!

Have a listen - you won't be disappointed! LK described them as a kind of Hillbilly Velvet Underground (They're from Ohio). There's shades of The Replacements there too, and a big dollop of Robert too! The opening line of the last track What'sHisName, and the backing vocaals on Mayflies sounds scarily like him.

http://www.myspace.com/therealwussy
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kevin
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Posted on Saturday, January 12, 2008 - 10:17 pm:   

Drive By Truckers - Brighter Than Creations Dark. Their best since The Dirty South - LK would love this one - where are you big guy?
Here's a link to the Rolling Stone review by Robert Christgau, its incorrectly called an EP - Its got 19 tracks ffs http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/albu m/17578928/review/17925191/brighter_than _creations_dark_ep

Hilariously, for what I always thought was a band who's fan base would be 30 plus, the bands forum is full of indignant posts about Christgau, they dont know who he is :-)
Why the hell they are getting uptight about a 4star review is beyond me!
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Pádraig Collins
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Posted on Saturday, January 12, 2008 - 10:20 pm:   

Kevin, I've heard from someone else that LK is OK and just taking a break from the board.
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kevin
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Posted on Saturday, January 12, 2008 - 10:46 pm:   

Thanks Padraig, I'm sure he'll come back in his own good time if thats what he wants.
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Allen Belz
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Posted on Sunday, January 13, 2008 - 01:06 am:   

That is funny Kevin, especially since Xgau has been singing that band's praises for quite some time now.
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Rob Brookman
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Posted on Sunday, January 13, 2008 - 06:35 pm:   

Hey, Catherine, Chuck Cleaver from Wussy was the head honcho in another great Ohio band, the Ass Ponys. Both of Wussy's records are stone-cold great. Get 'em while you can, because they've sold for jack. If you like, check out the old Ass Ponys stuff. "Electric Rock Music" and "Some Stupid with a Flare Gun" are especially recommended.

And Kev, Allen speaks the truth. Christgau is a total DBT fan, so it's kind of funny - in a sad way - RS readers can't tell a positive review when they read one (there's your clue: half the dolts probably didn't read the thing). Anyhow, RS assigns the grades, not the reviewers. Judging from the tone of the review, I would expect to see the new album get an A (at least an A-) when it's reviewed in Christgau's own column.
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spence
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Posted on Sunday, January 13, 2008 - 08:45 pm:   

Les disques du crepuscule - From brussels with love.
Les disques du crepuscule - The fruit of the original sin
Jean Cocteau, Erik Satie and Les Six. CD.
Durutti Column - Lips that would kiss.
Steven Brown - Decade, selceted works.
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Geoff Holmes
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Posted on Sunday, January 13, 2008 - 08:57 pm:   

Hunky Dory
Nilsson Schmilsson
Engineers
Highway 61 revisted
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Allen Belz
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Posted on Monday, January 14, 2008 - 02:41 am:   

Re: the DBT review. It could just be because Christgau is the type of critic who, even with records and bands he loves, will also state any reservations in no uncertain terms...which can be like a red cape for the certain percentage of a fanbase who are convinced their heroes shit gold 24/7.
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Randy Adams
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Posted on Monday, January 14, 2008 - 05:29 am:   

Microdisney -- Daunt Square to Elsewhere
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spence
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Posted on Monday, January 14, 2008 - 01:48 pm:   

Drive by Truckers eh Kev!? Back onto yer rock again kidda! :-)
I must takle a listen to them

I am looking forward to listening to Band of Horses i heard on Radio 2.

It has just dawned on me how close Losing haringey by The Clientele (Sorry I'm a compulsive obsessive!) sounds in style to I am the Greatest with the great AHouse. I must buy it on download NOW!
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Jeff Whiteaker
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Posted on Monday, January 14, 2008 - 06:10 pm:   

Monochrome Set - an assortment of songs from the 90s onward

Colin Blunstone - Ennismore's better songs

House of Love - House of Love (the first album)
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Geoff Holmes
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Posted on Monday, January 14, 2008 - 09:06 pm:   

Kite - Kirsty MacColl
The Colour of Spring - Talk Talk
5 Leaves left - Nick Drake
Grand Prix - Teenage fanclub
Assorted Police...9 days to go!
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Michael Bachman
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Posted on Tuesday, January 15, 2008 - 11:06 am:   

Geoff, I love Kite!

Is Grand Prix as good as Bandwagonesque?
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spence
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Posted on Tuesday, January 15, 2008 - 12:17 pm:   

Jeff
I loved the Monochorme set's Strange Boutique, shame its not available in its original metallic sleeve.
Also, have you heard the German album befor ethe House of Love album, with a song called Plastic onit? Its wonderful.
Michael, Grand prix is much better than band (IMHO), its a classic album.
I am listening to Cherry Ghost, the album Thirst for Romance.
Also lovng Neko Case. Never heard her stuff before, its amazing, my new female Johnny Cash!
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Posted on Tuesday, January 15, 2008 - 01:08 pm:   

I agree Spence, Grand Prix is the classic album. Not that Bandwagon is not a good album, but the songwriting is more cleverly developed and better tunes. A more realised overall sound. The basic template for indi-pop developed on Grand Prix IMO
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Posted on Tuesday, January 15, 2008 - 01:49 pm:   

I guess I'm getting Grand Prix then!

NP Mary Karlzen - Yelling at Mary
One of my favorite mid-90's albums that not many folks know about, which is too bad.
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Posted on Wednesday, January 16, 2008 - 03:22 am:   

Spence - yeah, Strange Boutique is my favorite Monochrome Set album. I have that LP.

I haven't heard the German House of Love album - the comp of early singles - but I'm looking for it. I've been re-visiting the first two House of Love albums for the first time in several years, and it's making me wonder why I didn't seek out the German album sooner. Great stuff!

Currently listening to (shock! horror!) Horsebreaker Star (2-disc version). I pull this one out once a year to see if I'll start to like it. I like about 5-6 songs on it for sure. Open Invitation is my favorite - a gorgeous tune. But some of these songs, like "Simone and Perry," sound like they could've been done by Hootie and the Blowfish or John Cougar Mellancamp. Yuck!
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Posted on Wednesday, January 16, 2008 - 08:33 am:   

Jeff
Funny enuff, I burnt Horsebeaker to iTunes again the other day and I was thinking exact same thing as you with Open Invitation. Nice layering of instruments. Its soft n slick n cool, it coulda beenreleased yesterday me thinks.
I like pretty much all of this album. I like the overall feel. For me, its his best solo work, period. None of the other albums did it of me, even Jack Frost I felt were pretty poor in comparison.
The thing about G is that he could do Cougar Mellancamp, he could do this stuff, cause it was him, I mean who gets away with a chorused Stratocaster sound, on Open Invitation, but Grant!
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Posted on Wednesday, January 16, 2008 - 10:53 am:   

The double disc Horsebreaker Star is back in print and very available to buy again on amazon for those in need of one.

I would love to see a remastered double disc 1978-1990 with some bonus live cuts!
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Posted on Wednesday, January 16, 2008 - 11:10 am:   

British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music
Three albums in and this one will see them have Snow Patrol like sales, I'm off to see them in Whelans in Dublin on Friday night, next time they're back it will be the olympia. Best thing I've heard all year!
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Posted on Wednesday, January 16, 2008 - 11:37 am:   

It will if The Guardian have anything to do with it!
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Posted on Wednesday, January 16, 2008 - 05:02 pm:   

Haven't seen The Guardian review Spence but glad people are getting behind it, it deserves real praise.
They have been getting steadily better (This hasn't corresponded with sales, much like the Go-Betweens, last time they played here it was a bigger venue) and if Open Season was a minor classic this may well be fully fledged.
It's got a huge energy, intelligence and inventiveness running thru it, haven't played anything else since I got it from i-tunes(Waving Flags video is included)
It benefits from the Godspeed production on certain tracks that lift the songs out of it. If there are better albums to be released this year roll on 2008.
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Posted on Wednesday, January 16, 2008 - 06:34 pm:   

They are a great band Peter. When I first saw them, the World War 1 regalia, the haircuts, the Englishness of their music, like Joy Division but with a bit of art added for good measure, it all made perfect sense to me.
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Posted on Saturday, January 19, 2008 - 01:04 am:   

Jeff, for goodness sake! Simone and Perry is a pop classic. It does not sound like Hootie and the f^&*ing Blowfish. Wash your mouth out with soap on a rope man. Clean your ear wax out while you're at it.

To the best of my knowledge I've never actually heard a single thing by Hootie and the Blowfish though - but I know I'd hate them because 1/ their stupid name, 2/ in an episode of Friends I once saw, the Ross character was getting very excited at having gotten "tickets for the Hootie concert".
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Posted on Saturday, January 19, 2008 - 01:07 am:   

How was the British Sea Power show Peter? Whelans is such a great venue. Some of the best shows I've ever seen have been there. I used to live five minutes walk from it and went there a lot. I even used to go there when they still had the tables at the front!
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Posted on Saturday, January 19, 2008 - 01:20 am:   

Michael, I was just thinking yesterday that I'd love to see a remastered double disc of 1978-1990 with extra tracks. It would be easy to add a further 12 tracks to the orignal 28 on the double vinyl. There are enough unreleased tracks and alternate takes to fill in the gaps. I'm sure it will happen some day. Especially if the people most likely to buy it - us on this board - talk about wanting it!
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Posted on Saturday, January 19, 2008 - 01:21 am:   

Portastatic's version of Bye Bye Pride. Nowhere near the exhuberance of the original, but not without charm.
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Posted on Saturday, January 19, 2008 - 01:26 am:   

The Bats version of Right Here is quite beautiful. It's like the song was written for them.
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Posted on Saturday, January 19, 2008 - 01:32 am:   

I have no idea who Paul Handyside is (Jeff? anyone?), but his version of Bachelor Kisses is great.
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Posted on Saturday, January 19, 2008 - 01:44 am:   

Dusty In Here by Future Pilot AKA (featuring Duglas T. Stewart - I think he was in BMX Bandits?) is very good too.
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Posted on Saturday, January 19, 2008 - 02:25 am:   

Yet another cover, this one from the Australian collection. It's The House That Jack Kerouac Built by Glenn Richards of Augie March. Great version, but even better is what popped up next on iTunes - Bye Bye Pride by the people who wrote it!
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Posted on Saturday, January 19, 2008 - 02:27 am:   

BTW, that version of Bye Bye Pride was the live one on disc 2 of Bellavista Terrace, which I love.

Now listening to Too Much Of One Thing. How I love that song.
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Posted on Saturday, January 19, 2008 - 02:45 am:   

Yes, 'Too Much of one Thing' is a winner!

'Coming up for Air' by the Trembling Blue Stars is also tremendous!
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Posted on Saturday, January 19, 2008 - 01:38 pm:   

Panda Bear - Bros ..you can really get lost in that song, legally.

Padraig, the BSP gig was quite brilliant, they are at the top of their game right now. The new songs were nothing short of stunning live, I was imagining "Waving Flags" from the balcony in Whelans to the end of Glastonbury this Summer and if there is any justice that is where it belongs.
The trumpet player was playing from the balcony at one stage before launching himself onto the stage, it ended on a very oily stage with about twenty people on it, the bouncers earned their money last night, it was pure mayhem at the finale, I've never seen anything like it at Whelans, fans hanging from the the lighting stacks, bandmembers being passed over the crowd, a night to remember.
Whelans is being done up at the moment and gone is the mural over the stage, a new bar has been fitted upstairs and there is a planning permission sign on the window for an extension to go up another storey for a "poetry recital room".
It is a fantastic venue as well you know, were you at the posies, vic chesnutt, Robyn hitchcock, jeff buckley, mark eitzel shows of the early ninetys? BSP have joined the legendary nights there.
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Posted on Saturday, January 19, 2008 - 03:24 pm:   

Padraig, Austin McLean and I got to talk with Glenn a couple of months ago at a Augie March gig. He spoke of his remberances of Grant, and Austin had his cd insert of Write Down Adventures Down signed by Glenn. I bought it later and missed getting it signed. The show was at the Crofoot in downtown Pontiac, kitty corner from the location of the defunkt 7th House where I saw Robert and Grant in June of 1999. I also saw Aimme Mann there once as well as Julian Lennon.

NP Shawn Colvin - Cover Girl
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Posted on Saturday, January 19, 2008 - 08:04 pm:   

Peter, have you heard the new BSP album yet? I cant get into it, but then they are going a bit anthemic which is not my bag at all. The track with the "football terracing" chant does my box in, I hate it. Saw them a few years ago supporting Primal Scream and thought they were interesting and quite different, although not too great on the tunes front.
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Posted on Saturday, January 19, 2008 - 08:40 pm:   

Lot's of Triffids...
"hit a Lonely Stretch, must be losing my touch, I was out of my depth.."
Michael, I think the less I say about Teenage Fanclub the better.
Sound like the Byrds????
BAH!!!!!!!!
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Posted on Sunday, January 20, 2008 - 02:06 am:   

Peter, I was at the Posies and Mark Eitzel gigs. Both superb. I didn't have enough money for Vic Chesnutt at the time (it was the night before R.E.M.'s Slane gig and I really wanted to go because I thought Stipe might show up to sing a song with Vic. He didn't. The Slane show was awesome though.) I saw Jeff Buckley close by a few months later at the Tivoli.

I'm into my second millenium with this post!
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Posted on Sunday, January 20, 2008 - 02:10 am:   

XTC - The Disappointed EP (an Australian only release from 1992).
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Posted on Monday, January 21, 2008 - 11:38 am:   

Bee and Flower - Last sight of land.
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Posted on Monday, January 21, 2008 - 06:50 pm:   

The Concubines - their 1st e.p.
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Posted on Monday, January 21, 2008 - 08:15 pm:   

Hi Kevin, I've been listening to little else since getting it last week, I really like it but if anthems aren't your thing I can see why it would not be your bag, the single is certainly anthemic and others have that quality too. I think they were heading in that direction on the last one too with songs like "Please Stand Up".
Current favourite is "Atom" which starts like a Bathers song before turning Postcard and finally a train crash.
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Posted on Monday, January 21, 2008 - 10:37 pm:   

Born and raised on sugar cane, she played guitar like Tom Verlaine...
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Posted on Tuesday, January 22, 2008 - 11:57 am:   

Wussy - Funeral Dress
These guys have quickly become one of my favourite bands. As for a favourite track, it's a toss-up between Conversation Lags or Motorcycle.
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Posted on Tuesday, January 22, 2008 - 12:40 pm:   

Padraig
I'm sure The Disappointed came out in the UK, in fact I'm sure (well sort of) that I've got it. It came out in one of those 3" CD singles.

Anyway, Trinity Revisited by Cowboy Junkies.

Cheers
Jon
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Posted on Tuesday, January 22, 2008 - 01:33 pm:   

I'm really glad you like "Funeral Dress," Catherine. Wussy's a band I think deserves a lot larger audience. Unfortunately, one of their members got sick right after "Funeral Dress" came out and they didn't tour. I'm hoping the new record and some live dates outside of Cincinnati will help spread the word.
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Posted on Tuesday, January 22, 2008 - 03:03 pm:   

Spence - Don't listen to that EP too much, it'll rot your brain!
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Posted on Tuesday, January 22, 2008 - 04:01 pm:   

I always loved that line Spence, if you like The Bathers you might enjoy this duet with Liz Frazer...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbPhJPY1i Kc
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Posted on Tuesday, January 22, 2008 - 04:08 pm:   

Distortion - Magnetic Fields
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Posted on Tuesday, January 22, 2008 - 04:22 pm:   

Sons & Daughters - This Gift
Godley & Creme - Goodbye Blue Sky
Last Days Of April - If You Lose It
Pale Fountains - Pacific St.
Drive By Trucker's - Brighter han Creations Dark
Everclear - World Of Noise
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Posted on Tuesday, January 22, 2008 - 04:34 pm:   

Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris - All The Roadrunning
Wes Montgomery - Smokin' At The Half Note
Katell Keineg - Jet
Thelonious Monk - Brillant Corners
Colin Newman - A-Z
The Oscar Peterson Trio - We Get Requests
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Posted on Tuesday, January 22, 2008 - 04:46 pm:   

XY765 - How is the new Magnetic Fields?
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Posted on Tuesday, January 22, 2008 - 04:50 pm:   

John Stewart - Gold ( Two Disc Compilation.)

Stewart who is probably best known as the composer of Daydream Believer, which was covered by The Monkees, passed away on 19 January, 2008, after suffering a serious stroke the previous day.
One of my favourite singer/songwriters.
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Posted on Tuesday, January 22, 2008 - 05:27 pm:   

Jerry, I love how on the tracklisting on the back of the CD digipak of the Drive By Truckers they divide the 19 tracks up as if it were a double LP - eg sides 1,2,3 and 4.
I vaguely remember seeing something on their website about the album being recorded so that it would sound best on vinyl.

Have you heard it enough to pass comment on it yet? I think its a much tougher, rootsier sound now that they have lost Jason Isbell, on the last album his songs were verging on FM rock.
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Posted on Tuesday, January 22, 2008 - 05:54 pm:   

Patterson Hood says this on the Truckers website, wished I had bought the bloody vinyl now!!

"Not only is this our finest album, but it sounds better on vinyl by an even bigger margin than any of the others. It was written, learned, played, mixed and mastered for vinyl. It's how it was meant to be heard and it shines like Rain Dance Car Wax on a 69 Camarro.

It may not be as fast around the curve as your modern hybrid but that long road trip will be as fine a ride as you ever experience. As a bonus, an included MP3 will provide the digital impetus to make you iPod quake with it's fine sounds and it is pretty fine in that format also.

Best of both worlds, vinyl sound, big beautiful packaging and portable iPod sounds for a hopefully reasonable price. Gatefold sleeve to separate what needs to be separated. Big Beautiful artwork by Wes Freed seen in the size it was intended to be seen in".
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Posted on Tuesday, January 22, 2008 - 06:08 pm:   

Peter thanks. Lovely clip. I adore both Chris Thomson, he has an amazing voice, like Bowie circa Young Americans, I used to love Friends Again too and Liz Fraser, saw Liz with Massive ATtck last year. The bathers are the most magical band, where the fu*k are they!?

Do you know if their first LP is on CD or download?
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Posted on Tuesday, January 22, 2008 - 08:36 pm:   

Felt - Goldmine Trash

Colin Blunstone - Ennismore

Dead Can Dance - Dead Can Dance
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Posted on Tuesday, January 22, 2008 - 08:43 pm:   

Pretty in a panic - My Latest Novel
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Posted on Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 12:12 am:   

Spence, I have the first album on vinyl and all of the others on cd. There is a link from www.thebathers.co.uk to a guy called Jimmy smith in Drumbarton where you may be able to get it, if not contact me by email and I will try to help you out on that one.
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Posted on Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 12:15 am:   

Antonio Carlos Jobim - Wave
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Posted on Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 01:11 am:   

Pete Azzopardi -- Greetings from Pascoe Vale Sth.
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Posted on Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 11:58 am:   

Spence, if you are referring to 'Unusual Places to Die' then I don't think it has ever been released on cd. The LP was released on Go! Discs in 1987? I believe Polygram acquired a majority stake in the label in the mid 1990's.

Listening to Cannons In The Rain/Wingless Angels by John Stewart.
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Posted on Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 05:34 pm:   

Hugh. Yes mate its that album. I got the vinyl.
Peter, could you do the honours with The Bathers please? I'll drop u one. Cheers matey.

Been listening to lots o stuff, thanks to Randy for Neko Case, and I think Kev and LK mentioned em too many times.
Also loads of stuff from MySpace. I, as per usual was completely wrong in estimating last year that I would not find anything new/worthy on myspace. What bollocks, course I have. Namely, Ranger, The Dreamers, Alan Tyler from The Rockingbirds, and Javiera Mena. God I talk some shit.
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Posted on Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 06:39 pm:   

Jorge Ben - 'O Bidů' Silencio No Brooklin

Just why I feel compelled to listen to Brazilian music in this wonderfully freezing sub-40 degree fahrenheit weather we're having here is currently beyond me. It's cold! I should be listening to "Garlands" or "Join Hands" or something.
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Posted on Thursday, January 24, 2008 - 12:22 am:   

Jeff, I've only played Distortion twice and like it. They certainly won't get sued under the Trade Descriptions Act, everything is drenched in distortion and feedback, and in a really good way. The level isn't too high so it's not monotonous and Claudia Gonson's voice works really well with that sound on her songs. A welcome depatrure from the 69 Love Songs/I sound but still totally Magnetic Fields as always...You know ya gotta get it!
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Posted on Thursday, January 24, 2008 - 01:03 am:   

Mr. XY, I agree about Distortion being good, but its Shirley Simms ("Kiss Me Like You Mean It", "I'm Sorry I Love You" etc) on lead vocals on this album...she's great but I wish Claudia had been allowed to sing one or two leads! but I love Magnetic Fields!!
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Posted on Thursday, January 24, 2008 - 04:00 am:   

Triffids -- Early Singles
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Michael Bachman
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Posted on Thursday, January 24, 2008 - 05:13 pm:   

Lilys - In The Presence Of Nothing
The Catherine Wheel - Ferment
Mercury Rev - Yerself Is Steam
Jane Birkin - Arabesque
Stacey Kent - Breakfast On The Morning Train
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Posted on Thursday, January 24, 2008 - 07:59 pm:   

The quietness of my G5 tower MAC.
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Posted on Friday, January 25, 2008 - 04:56 am:   

Joao Gilberto - Chega de Saudade
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Posted on Friday, January 25, 2008 - 06:57 am:   

The Panics - Cruel guards - what an album - great; hard to get in germany but very necessary
The Times and O'Level - all the odd classic albums re-released with bonusses - get them!
Ben Watt - North Marine Drive - old classic but hearing it again shows all the magic (on CD there is the Robert Wyatt collaboration album on it as well!
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Posted on Friday, January 25, 2008 - 08:05 am:   

I'm intrigued, Jeff, by the Brasillian stuff.
Was it you who referred me to Brasil 65?
Where would you start listening to this stuff if you are new to it?
Is Sergio a good place to start?
I've always wanted to get into more traditional South American folk (yes..farcking pan pipes stuff too!!) after falling in love with a local band(family) from Chile who play stuff from all over South America with the original instruments like Guitarons, Charangos etc. A lot of the songs are so bitter-sweet and in minor keys and Charangoes are SO evocative of mist swirling up from cloud forsts to the top of the Andes!!
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Michael Bachman
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Posted on Friday, January 25, 2008 - 04:56 pm:   

Medicine - The Buried Life

I've been listening to a lot of 1993 albums preping for next month's Best of 1993 topic. I think it was the best year of the 1990's, and it will be interesting to see what everyone else thinks.
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Jeff Whiteaker
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Posted on Friday, January 25, 2008 - 07:51 pm:   

Geoff,

Yeah, that was probably me that recommended the Brasil '65 album. It's the best place to start. Mendes' (and the Brasil '66) album "Equinox" is great too, though a lot of hardcore Brazilian music folks hate anything after the '65 record because they feel Mendes sold out, what with having American singers singing in English and whatnot.

If you dig Mendes, I'd also recommend Jorge Ben. He sings and plays guitar, and some of his records are insanely gripping. His debut, Samba Esquema Novo, his eponymous 1969 record, and the early 70s A Tabua de Esmeralda, are all pretty stunning. In the late 60s Ben was part of the Tropicalia scene in Brazil, and he did some of best work from that era, imho.

Baden Powell did some stunning work too, particularly the record he did in'66 with Vinicius de Moraes, "Os Afro Sambas" - probably my favorite 60s Brazilian album ever. It's more of a moody, gorgeous, haunting album, but really pretty, and sadly, insanely difficult to find. Powell later shunned the record as "the devil's music" and prevented it from ever being reissued. But then he re-recorded it in the 90s, but the result was slick, rote, and definitely inferior. The Japanese import is the only way to get the original. The re-make is, sadly, ubiquitous.

Luiz Bonfa's early 60s bossa nova records are insanely good, too.

I could go on and on - there is a slew of stuff out there.

I don't know anything about other South American music. Here in downtown Berkeley (CA) where I work, I sometimes see an Andean trio playing on the street. The music is pretty cool: upbeat, strummy, with strange sounding recorders and lots of shakers.
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Geoff Holmes
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Posted on Friday, January 25, 2008 - 10:44 pm:   

Thanks heaps Jeff. I will write these down and start hunting, though I'm usually very slow!
You know, it still blows me away that I am having a conversation to someone in Berkely California about Brasillian music whilst I sit here waiting for the tide to come in for a surf in Wollongong Australia! Ah technology!!!
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Pádraig Collins
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Posted on Saturday, January 26, 2008 - 03:11 am:   

Jonathan, The Disappointed was indeed a single in the UK, but the EP version with five tracks was only released in Australia!

Right now I'm listening to Pet Lamb's Paranoid From The Neck Down EP from 1990. Ah, my hardcore/metal youth!
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Posted on Sunday, January 27, 2008 - 02:59 am:   

XTC's 1992 album Nonsuch. Great pop record.
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Randy Adams
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Posted on Sunday, January 27, 2008 - 06:47 am:   

Blackeyed Susans -- Mouth to Mouth
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TROU
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Posted on Sunday, January 27, 2008 - 09:48 am:   

The Coral : Roots and Echoes
British Sea Power : Do you like rock music?
Etienne Daho : l'invitation
Sigur Rose : last one
Nada Surf : the weight is a gift
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Jeff Whiteaker
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Posted on Monday, January 28, 2008 - 07:02 pm:   

Antonio Carlos Jobim - Stone Flower. This might be his best record. Absolutely stunning.

Padraig, Nonsuch IS a great pop record. A totally beautiful one at that.

In the car this morning I was listening to a self-made comp of the better moments from Andy Partridge's sprawling "Fuzzy Warbles" demo series. There are some great gems in there if one has the patience to find them.
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Posted on Monday, January 28, 2008 - 09:25 pm:   

Hot Chip - Made In The Dark. Even more poptastic than their last album
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Posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 10:39 am:   

loving the new magnetic fields record. i had no idea there was even one on its way...leave alone the irony of me stumbling upon and buying it wearing my psychocandy t shirt. needless to say, happier than a pig in a pile of dreamy, fuzzy mud. check it out!
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Posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 08:35 pm:   

Joe I've had to give Distortion a rest this week as I played it three times each night last weekend. It's superb.

The last person I saw wearing a Psychcandy t-shirt was a really cute girl working in my local record shop in Galway, about 20 years ago...
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joe
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Posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - 09:39 pm:   

i genuinely considered staying home today to spend the day in bed listening to it.....i'm having a bit of a peanut butter & chocolate reaction to it.

and i hope you let her know that you cared for her (shirt). a little reassurance for those of us that remain in band t shirts years after the fact...
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Posted on Wednesday, January 30, 2008 - 10:23 am:   

Get the bucket for Kevin....
A Hard Days Night.
Those chord progressions in all but 3 songs(I'll Cry Instead/When I get home/Tell me why) still take my breath away!!!!
Beatles YEAH YEAH YEAH!!!
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Posted on Wednesday, January 30, 2008 - 11:09 am:   

no!

Yeah Yeah No were a great band. I used to hop on the 50 bus from Birmingham to Moseley with Mr Derek hammond many a drunken night in the late 80's, and talk about The Fall, The Nightingales and peel, then I'd wake up, I missed my stop and was now at the depot!
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Posted on Wednesday, January 30, 2008 - 04:17 pm:   

Fave tracks been playing quite randomly over the last week:

Randy Adams - Insurance Lawyer Soliloquy (instrumental, a really lovely tune, reminds me of Eyeless in Gaza and Felt at their best, i keep waiting for Lawrence to enter the picture!)
Pat Fish - Party Time (live)
Os-LO - Daylight
Neko Case - Star Witness (fuc*in awesome)
Natalie Merchant - I was born
The Montrose Avenue - Just another day
Mike Nesmith - the Crippled Lion
Martin Hannett - The Music Room
Martha Wainwright - Factory (is this woman good enough? and she's a real beau too!)
Malcolm Ross - Kind of keen ( a lovely unreleased song malcolm gave me to help start my recrd label years ago, sounds like Orange Jiuce, then it would wouldn't it!?)
Low - Breaker
Lloyd Cole - Woman in a bar. Sounds like Crash test dummies doing 74/75 with Lou Reed.
Kings of convenience - Toxic Girl (Monte Carlo 1963 Version)
Stravinsky - The rite of Spring
Spike Priggen - the very thing that you treasure
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Posted on Wednesday, January 30, 2008 - 05:49 pm:   

noh, spence, noh. :-) whatever happened to the band?
loved them, also the nightingales. hey, and what about 1000 mexicans? liked them, too.
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Jeff Whiteaker
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Posted on Wednesday, January 30, 2008 - 09:18 pm:   

Spence, what's that Martin Hannett song? I don't think I've heard it.
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Posted on Friday, February 01, 2008 - 01:36 pm:   

Jeff its off a Crepuscule compilation from 1980. From Brussels with Love.

Andreas, Yeah Yeah Noh just disappeared off the radar I'm afraid. I think recently it was said that peel didn't like the album as hey were trying too hard, so that signalled the end. Derek ended up a juornalist, I met him in a bar that ended up unbeknown to me a part time strip bar and I asked him what he was doing at the table down the front with Andy lloyd from The Nightingales, his response was that he was reviewing the food!!
They sounded similar to The Nightingales.
I played in a bass in with former Nightingales Pete Byrchmore and Maria Smith in 2003, called Gorgeous the sound was quite simlar to The Gales,but more punky. I also played in a band called Little Red Schoolhouse that had Andy lloyd from the Gales fronting until they sacked him, then I joined, and we changed our name to Silt, we sounded like Television. We tried for a deal with Cherry Red but to no avail. lawrence from Felt liked us though.
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spence
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Posted on Friday, February 01, 2008 - 01:38 pm:   

The Bathers - Unusual places to die
Thanks very much peter you are a gem mate.
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spence
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Posted on Friday, February 01, 2008 - 03:31 pm:   

peter thanks very much for all he other wonderful stuff too!
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Randy Adams
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Posted on Friday, February 01, 2008 - 04:24 pm:   

Last night:

Fire Engines -- Codex Teenage Premonition
Pale Fountains -- Across a Kitchen Table
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Geoff Holmes
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Posted on Saturday, February 02, 2008 - 10:10 pm:   

Triffids "Beautiful Waste - Mini-masterpieces 1983 to 1985".
Was released to NO fanfare on iTunes Australia(rest of the world in 2 weeks time appparently).
Made up of Raining Pleasure, Field of Glass and Lawson Street Infirmiry eps.
The Black Swan has similarly been released on iTunes Australia with 36 tracks!!! Will download that today. Beautiful Waste was only $14!!
Jodie Phillips(The Clouds) did a double take at my Triffids t shirt as I was getting Thai takeaway and she was loading into the Heritage hotel last night!
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Posted on Sunday, February 03, 2008 - 07:44 pm:   

wow, spence. don't know about your musical past.
the nightingales were great and yeah yeah noh, too. there was a time when a lot of bands had the flame of enthusiasm and just made good records. unfortunately the so called market killed them. i understand that with just only music you haven't had enough, but anyway it is sad that so much bands appeared on the radius for such a short time.

since talking about YYN 'prick up your ears' didn't get out of my head. i think i must listen to the albumand the e.p's soon.
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spence
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Posted on Tuesday, February 05, 2008 - 10:48 am:   

Andreas, yes I could bore you for years going on about my not so famous past made up of pure annecdotal gibberish!!! You get some on here from time to time.
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Jeff Whiteaker
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Posted on Thursday, July 17, 2008 - 05:57 pm:   

Padraig - it does too sound like Hootie and the Blowfish! :-)
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Pádraig Collins
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Posted on Friday, July 18, 2008 - 01:34 pm:   

I hope never to find out if that's true Jeff.
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Jeff Whiteaker
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Posted on Friday, July 18, 2008 - 04:58 pm:   

Padraig - then don't click this link! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWZ_3PE97 5c

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