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     kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 2118 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Hold Steady - Stay Positive. Spiritualized - Songs in A&E The Bug - London Zoo Little Feat - Dixie Chicken Shearwater - Rook | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 379 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Incredible String Band - "the 5000 spirits" and "the Hangman's beautiful daughter". The last one reminds me of a cross between solo Syd Barrett and Monty Python with all the silly voices. Friends/ 20/20 - the Beach Boys. Do it again- what a great song! I'll be dragging Moon safari out next! Belles Will Ring - Mood Patterns. Got it last year. Dragged it out again for a closer inspection. Supposed to be new psychedelic but sort of sounds like Someloves but not quite as catchy. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1155 Registered: 08-2006 |
Hey, Kev, I notice the forthcoming Hold Steady has been on your playlist for a while. You like? | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1648 Registered: 03-2005 |
I'm having friends over for a drunken dinner tonight and have been putting together some CDs for the occasion. I'm afraid my guests will recognize nearly nothing but I'll be having a lovely listen. I'm doing four CDs and have managed to sneak on the Concubines' "Attention," a Winnebagos outtake ("L'Invitation 1975"), and an old Pete Azzopardi track I'll bet he doesn't even remember sending to me, a duet with Liz called "Spring" which I've loved from the first time I heard it. And there are all kinds of (in the US) unheralded greats like the Pale Fountains, Triffids, Verlaines, Lilac Time, the Chills. If my guests can't get enjoyment from these great tunes they don't deserve ears. And I slip in a few self-indulgent numbers that maybe aren't obviously appealing to the uninitiated, like Microdisney's "Sun," but a song that starts out with the line "I drink gin like a 1960s wino" is priceless. And O'Hagan's guitar is lovely anyway. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 2119 Registered: 05-2005 |
Yes Rob its a goodie, I think I said earlier that its Boys and Girls in America part 2 and I stand by that. I read that Craig Finn has had singing lessons, i can just about detect it but he still sounds as passionate as ever. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1156 Registered: 08-2006 |
Sorry if I missed your earlier review, Kev, but I appreciate the take. "Boys and Girls..." Part II is fine with me. I liked Part I quite a bit. Dunno what he's doing with singing lessons, though. He was doing quite well before, IMO. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1177 Registered: 01-2005 |
Sounds like 1992 to me! The Charlatans UK - Between 10th and 11th Juliana Hatfield - Hey Babe Jonathan Richmand - I, Jonathan Lush - Spooky | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2440 Registered: 05-2005 |
randy! hope you had a great drunken time!! you are bound to have lost friends playing them winnebago outtakes my dear friend!! i would have love to been at the party with your quality choices!! Sun by Microdisney, is really good, its really home made too, that time in their career, those sonds from that peiod sound very claustophobic, 4 track TASCAM IN THE BeDROOm TIME. Still great tunes though. You, like most people on the board have great tatse randy, never let it be said that you don't.! | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 454 Registered: 07-2006 |
hey michael.....between tenth and eleventh (or the bananas record) used to be one of my most listened to discs at uni. i can't even be bothered, weirdo and i don't wanna see the sights all resonated strongly with me at the time. to me, the charlies were at their best when they stuck to swirly, fuzzed-out pop rather than the stomp and general MOR snoozefest they turned into. plus i wish tim'd drop that ridiculous falsetto.... | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1178 Registered: 01-2005 |
Joe, I enjoyed listening to it, it's been a loooonnnggg time! I've been ripping a lot of my cd collection into my notebook library, I must have ripped a couple hundred or so over the weekend! We've been getting a lot of ran lately. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1248 Registered: 10-2004 |
Randy, I hope your drunken gathering was a success. I only wish the people I knew up here had half the musical taste that you have. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1649 Registered: 03-2005 |
Spence & Jeff, yes a good time was had by all even if I am now at home on a Monday morning waiting for the plumber to come and replace the last portion of the corroded old house pipes that chose that occasion to start leaking ominously! I have one friend among the guests who is pretty knowledgeable who caught Portland, Oregon indie Corinna Repp's version of "I'll Be Seeing You." I knew it was a cover but I didn't know it was an old Depression-era tune. Same friend is a serious Francophile so I knew "L'Invitation 1975" would go over well. | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 452 Registered: 05-2005 |
Far Out Corporation - An unexpected, but very welcome gift for which I'm hugely thankful - I've already thanked you a few times, but once more, Thank You! This has been on repeat for days now. All of this was new to me, with the exception of Suicide At Home (a gorgeous song, for all its darkness). Of the others, Hold and Shadow Overload are favourites. If You Want Release is a great rocking song - Parachute deserves a mention too! - ok, the whole thing is great, so it's no surprise it's been on repeat since last Wednesday! Adele's vocals are stunning on this - the harmony between hers and Grant's voices really works for me. I'm enjoying this immensely. One thing though - I KNOW that on the CD, the image is a burning letter C, but if you squint, it looks like something "flushable"??!! | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 200 Registered: 02-2008 |
Les Savy Fav - After the Balls Drop. Live record from New Years Eve someplace and covers include Creedence's "Hey Tonight", "Debaser" by some group from Boston, and a highly charged version of Love's "Everybody's Gotta Live". | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1181 Registered: 01-2005 |
Three 2008 releases and one from 1961, all bought recently: RF's - The Evangelist Aimee Mann - @#%&*! Smilers A slight comeback for Aimee after her last two albums Lost In Space and The Forgotten Arm. Still it's nowhere near as good as 1993's Whatever, or 1996's I'm with Stupid or even the last Til Tuesday album Everything's Different Now from 1988. Maybe it will grow on me, but her last two never did despite many efforts on my part. Sam Phillips - Don't Do Anything Nancy Wilson & Cannonball Adderley An almost perfect pairing from 1961. Two thumbs up!!! | ||
| Mark Leydon Member Username: Mark_leydon Post Number: 168 Registered: 05-2005 |
The new My Morning Jacket album 'Evil Urges'. Quite a departure for MMJ. Not as much of the trademark ethereal vocals as on their earlier albums. Downright funky in places, particularly the title track that channels Prince. Overall sounds great - one of the better new albums I've heard this year. | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 202 Registered: 02-2008 |
Bobby Womack - the Soul Years | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 455 Registered: 07-2006 |
kev - what do you think of the new spiritualized? one of the most promising titles i've heard in a long while! | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 2121 Registered: 05-2005 |
Joe, the Spritualized album is great. Have been listening to it almost daily, maybe the best thing they have ever done imo | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1650 Registered: 03-2005 |
Triffids -- "Black Swan" demos Yo La Tengo -- "I Will Beat Your Ass" first half. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1251 Registered: 10-2004 |
Antena - Camino del Sol | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 213 Registered: 10-2006 |
I'm finally starting - after ordering their complete works in a rather silly moment of site-induced enthusiasm - to warm to the Panics, though it's taken a bit...main problem is the singer and that sort of "Sex-change Lucinda Williams fronting the Corgis" feel about it. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 2122 Registered: 05-2005 |
Every Mouth Must Be Fed - another great Pressure Sounds release - featuring U Roy, I Roy, Joe Higgs, Junior Byles Thomas Leer - Contradictions The Bug - London Zoo - will be amongst my albums of the year I guess Dennis Wilson - Pacific Ocean Blue | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1254 Registered: 10-2004 |
Whoa Kev - you're actually listening to something that came out before this week?!  I like that Thomas Leer album. He had a pretty unique approach to techno-pop - didn't sound quite like anyone else. I like that it sometimes sounds like he recorded it in his bedroom. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 2127 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jeff, you know me - forwards ever, backwards never(well not that often!!) | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 456 Registered: 07-2006 |
that's a big call kev....i'm trying to kerb my spending to one record a fortnight (errrr....) and i think you might've swayed me there. now what i'd REALLY love to hear is their "songs in a & e minor"! | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 2128 Registered: 05-2005 |
Aww Joe , I hate that kinda pressure Just remember I also like reggae, dubstep, and Irish music, so if you hate the Spiritualized dont blame me!! Seriously, if you like Jason P I cannot see how you would dislike this album | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 457 Registered: 07-2006 |
heh....i'm sure your taste would do senor pierce proud. to be honest, i kinda lost interest after ladies and gentlemen, which for me was an absolute standout of the otherwise 'meh' mid-late 90s. like i said....based on your recommendation and the title, i'm feeling good about my purchase. thank christ it's payday tomorrow - no more toast for dinner for at least a week! and some dreamy tunes to soundtrack my carb-reduced eatings... | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 14 Registered: 11-2007 |
on my way to work I heared a live concert of scott matthew (the guy from the shortbus soundtrack) playing for a german radio station. the day before it was an acoustic nada surf concert as well in germany. both in wonderful quality recorded from the radio thru the internet -- and wonderful music! | ||
| Peter Collins Member Username: Tyroneshoelaces Post Number: 149 Registered: 05-2005 |
The latest Tindersticks lp is magic. The Hungry Saw | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2448 Registered: 05-2005 |
Andreas, Scott Matthew is great isn't he? He's actually on a friend of mine's label, San Remo Records. He's a local boy lives down the road. The Junipers - Cut your key. Is a great debut by the East Midlands boys. | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 469 Registered: 01-2006 |
Joe, like Kevin says this is a real return to form for Jason Spaceman. A kinda new (and very welcome) departure in sound for Spiritualized, pretty stripped down with some great tunes. I'd recommend it too... Also Spoon - Kill The Moonlight Spectrum - Highs, Lows and Heavenly Blows | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1655 Registered: 03-2005 |
The sound of the plumbers bashing out the tile in the bathroom. And my bank account shrinking. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2453 Registered: 05-2005 |
Mikey Dread - African Anthem Dubwise: The Mikey Dread Show | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 472 Registered: 01-2006 |
I was listening to the Leonard Cohen gig which is playing about a kilometer away while out the back garden watering my veg and ahem, other plants....Hallelujah, Waiting for The Miracle, First We Take Manhattan, will be there tomorrow night, can't wait... | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1077 Registered: 09-2006 |
Steinski - What Does It All Mean?: 1983-2006 Retrospective I've had a lot of this stuff on mp3s and/or CD-Rs for years, but the ones I didn't have are great too, it's wonderful to have it all in one place, and I'm glad I'm finally able to throw a little money the guy's way. Incredibly entertaining music from one of the greatest mixers and samplers of all time. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 462 Registered: 07-2006 |
death in vegas - the contino sessions | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 2130 Registered: 05-2005 |
Little Feat - Sailing Shoes John Holt - Up Park Camp Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes Bon Iver - For Emma Forever Tectonic Plates | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1657 Registered: 03-2005 |
GoBees--Oceans Apart I gave this record a very long rest. In fact this is almost certainly the first time I've listened in more than a year. I love doing this with favorite records because then I get to hear them almost as if for the first time. Plus this is the one that hurts me the most to hear; the one that emphasizes the lost opportunity the most. On this listen I'm struck at how much better Wallis & Co. are at presenting Robert than presenting Grant. The equalization (and probably microphone choice) undercuts Grant's voice, emphasizing the higher frequencies--the breathiness--and overlooking the mid-range bottom--the presence--and using too much reverb. All the subtleties of Grant's voice, those little flicks of vulnerability, are paved over. It was clearly a very good choice for Robert to come back to Wallis for "The Evangelist." I'm also struck by all the little details that Jeff W. always likes so much (and so do I). "Here Comes a City" was almost a completely new listen for me, just a great dynamic pop single and a perfect forceful mix. I hadn't noticed the organ before. I'm struck by how well it serves the same purpose (while not being at all similar) as "Spring Rain." The songs that I was never real keen on still rate about the same for me but "City," "Finding You," "Boundary Rider," and the linchpin of the whole album for me--"Darlinghurst Nights," then Grant's mysterious and surprising "Statue" and the elegiac "Mountains Near Delray" keep the album going from strength to strength. Now to "The Evangelist" . . . . | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1162 Registered: 08-2006 |
Bon Iver - "For Emma, Forever Ago" Finally got around to this. Kev recommended it, the reviews were excellent, but it was his version of "Skinny Love" on Jools Holland's show that finally landed it in my Amazon shopping cart. It's uncommonly pretty stuff, and it goes down easy from the first play onward. Reminds me a bit of Sufjan Stevens, but sparer and not as whimsical. I wonder if there's enough here to keep me coming back, but for now I'm liking it quite a lot. | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 214 Registered: 02-2008 |
"Like a Fire" - Solomon Burke. A beatifully and impeccably sung collection of immaculately bland songs by mostly mainstream songwriters and luminaries like Eric Clapton, Ben Harper and Jesse Harris. Sounds great but not a lotta there there. Way less interesting and compelling than Nashville and Don't Give Up On Me. | ||
| Mark Leydon Member Username: Mark_leydon Post Number: 170 Registered: 05-2005 |
Fleet Foxes. A thing of great beauty. I don't really see the CSN comparisons a lot of people are making. Sure there's lots of intricate harmonies - but it is quite a unique sound - kind of a cross between Steely Span and Brian Wilson, with even a touch of a South Pacific Island choir in places. The music and lyrics invoke the same sort a of pre-industrial Arcadia as the last Midlake album - so much so that when one of the songs mentions 'missing a connecting flight' you find yourself taken aback - sh*t, they have airlines in this rustic utopia? So be warned - if you hate the baroque pop of Midlake or say Sufjan Stevens you'll probably hate Fleet Foxes. But I'm loving them. Here's a clip from their University of London gig last week performing one of my favourite songs from the album 'Oliver James'. It's really a solo showcase for mainman Robin Pecknold. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v__qYp4I8 9I | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 15 Registered: 11-2007 |
Hi Spence, haven't answered yet because of so much soccer - and tonight it will be germany or austria ;) Yes, Scott Matthew is great ... I have to hear it on and on and on. But you have to take care - I already bought a record by Scott MatthewS (this guy is from england) have not heared it yet but not Scott Matthew ;(( This morning I heared MGMT and Triffids - Calenture Deluxe... Time to Pretend by MGMT is wonderful but I have to hear the album more often to get a contact to it... Calenture is soooo wonderful | ||
| Mark Leydon Member Username: Mark_leydon Post Number: 171 Registered: 05-2005 |
whoops - I meant Steeleye Span not 'Steely Span' | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 837 Registered: 08-2004 |
Paul Weller - 22 Dreams - On first listen this is really very good. Folksy, bluesy & soulful. PW's voice has never sounded better imho. Get the deluxe edition cos there's some goodies on there that don't detract from the rest. | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 150 Registered: 05-2005 |
Super! I have to listen to this new Paul Weller. I have already my ticket for the concert! | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1261 Registered: 10-2004 |
After years of searching, I finally found a nice vinyl copy of the Monochrome Set's (super rare) "Lost Weekend." Previously, I only knew the song "Wallflower," which I like. After listening to the album once over the weekend, I'm not sure what to think. Kind of mediocre, on first impression. Any other Monochrome fans have opinions one way or the other on this one? Maybe it suffered from Lester Square's departure? (But then the Invisible, the band Square joined after leaving MS, didn't exactly set the world on fire either). | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1658 Registered: 03-2005 |
Wow, Jeff, I'm impressed. The only thing I've ever heard from that album is "Reach for my Gun" which I like well enough. I'd expect the absence of Lester Square to be a problem. But I still wish I could find it. My current listen: Disaster Plan--Self Help Guide All credit to Hugh Nimmo for turning me onto this jagged all-elbows challenging and also very intelligent band. Very anti-pop. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 659 Registered: 04-2006 |
port o brien different stuff on my space http://www.myspace.com/portobrien | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 660 Registered: 04-2006 |
and watch the video.it's not only my song of the week it's also a lot of fun. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 661 Registered: 04-2006 |
...where is spongebob...? | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1192 Registered: 01-2005 |
I see that the singles originally released in the UK the same year as "Lost Weekend" (1985), "Jacob's Ladder/Andiamo" and "Wallflower/Big Ben Bongo" were on the same lable that EBTG was on back then, Blanco Y Negro. "Lost Weekend" from the same year was on WB though. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1263 Registered: 10-2004 |
Michael - interestingly, my copy of Lost Weekend is on Blanco Y Negro, with no mention of WB unless it's in the tiniest print in some corner. Blanco Y Negro, of course, was Mike Alway's short-lived first run at his own indie before starting up El. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2457 Registered: 05-2005 |
I remember seeing the Set in '85 at Wolverhampton Polytechnic, they opened with Andiamo, what a fantastic surf song. The crowd was raucous, very very packed, Bid was dressed in this smart Indian style suit/dress. They were cool. They were being suppiorted by Del Amitri. Erm, I am playing More Specials today. A great album, quite original, they were quite experimental on this one. I love all the songs, a mix of party ska based tunes, some of which I shall be spinning very loudly in my back garden this coming saturday as its my 40th,and some tunes just plain eerie!. I dug it out aftre watching the very moving Shane Meadows film, This is England again. It took me right back, the early 80's. He really captured the mood at that time. For me the good times in the film really resonated with me. I think we were all skinheads/mods/scooter boys/girls or had friends who were at sometime or other. Fortunately, i didn't know anyone who boasted the hatred that the thug in the film did. There wer some hoorible guys around though. Same as today. There wasf racism around, it was hard to avoid hearing it or seeing it, thankfully I grew up with and around many races, Jamaicans, indians, Chinese, Irish, Welsh, there were many predjuces going around, and we kinda, as a group/gang or whatever fought against the racism, laughed it off. I experienced bullying of a kind, I was forever targeted for being Scottish or too skinny and was taunted for having long blond hair when i was 8. The Specials amongst others really takes me right back, one listen to anything from their two albums and I'm there young and excited and experiencing new things again! Sorry slipped into a diff thread there! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1659 Registered: 03-2005 |
Happy 40th Spence! | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1165 Registered: 08-2006 |
I'll second what Randy said. Congrats on the milestone, Spence. As a fairly recent entrant into the 4-0s, I can tell you it ain't so bad. At least, I haven't experienced any catastrophic organ failures. Cheers, man! | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1265 Registered: 10-2004 |
Yeah Spence, Happy 40th indeed! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1660 Registered: 03-2005 |
Meanwhile, inspired by the recent Monochrome Set postings I listened to the antho "Volume, Contrast, Brilliance." This is how I was introduced to them probably about 15 years ago. I hadn't loaded it up onto iTunes and had forgotten how many things on it are unique to that collection, including an earlier and better (imho) version of "Jet Set Junta." I wish I'd thought of sending that song around to my fellow travelers before we went to Buenos Aires just to get us all into the right frame of mind! | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2461 Registered: 05-2005 |
Cheers, randy Rob and jeff. I am currently listening to a boat load of Magazine, today I have trawled through Secondhand daylight, Correct use of soap, or spoa in my usual neat style of typing! and now the boxsets, 'Maybe its right to be nervous now'. Thers's a bit like randy likes Jest Set earlier version, loads of demos and Peel and alternative versions of the classics on here. Esp Shot by both sides, it sound slike it was recorded in my grandad's garage, I adore the rawness and the honest feel it gives out. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1266 Registered: 10-2004 |
Spherical Objects - Further Ellipses weird late 70s/early 80s Mancunian band - melodic, if slightly angular poppy post-punk, with a singer who sounds like Big Bird on meth. Not sure what I think of them, but some songs are pretty cool. Singer takes some getting used to... and last night, I played Nick Heyward's North of a Miracle. Album has some unforgivably cheezy moments, but I love it. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2462 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jeff, North of a miracle is excellent. As you say, there's a bit of cheese here and there, but I love it. Whistle down the wind is a gem, Blue Hat, Two make it true, Club boy at sea, Kick of Love sounds like Mezzoforte b side! Today, McCarthy - Banking, Violence And The Inner Life Today. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2464 Registered: 05-2005 |
Then...lined up... The Action - Rolled Gold. Biff Bang Pow - Paint the paintbrush honey. The Byrds - Mr Tambourine Man The Free Design - Kites are fun. Kinda reminds me of The Winnebago Orchestra in a way, only we're not as happy. Hurrah - The sound of Philadelphia The King of Luxembourg - Royal Bastard Marine Girls - Lazy Ways The Monochrome Set - Love Zombies. Lester Square is possibly one of my top 20 fave gutarists of ALL time pop pickers. Sure you'll sleep well knowing that. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 343 Registered: 04-2005 |
Renan Luce - Repenti Birthday present from my children, who have impeccable taste. Young French singer/songwriter with poetic lyrics... The big hit single (+ mighty catchy it is too) was 'La Lettre' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWooP8cFS A4 | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 320 Registered: 01-2007 |
Really liking FLeet Foxes and the Dennis WIlson some how they complement each other well otherwise managed to get hold of the Popguns Eugenie, which is lovely | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 2132 Registered: 05-2005 |
Glad you like Fleet Foxes Jerry The post about the Dennis Wilson album made me ditch my CD-R and fork out for the deluxe reissue. Came today and its a magnificent package, still to play the Bamboo sessions stuff yet. Also listening to A Certain Ratio - Early Flying Lotus - Los Angeles The Best of The Specials | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 344 Registered: 04-2005 |
Session from Edwyn Collins and Paul Quinn (from over 20 years ago, I feel old...), courtesy of http://dusty7s.blogspot.com/ Fine version of 'Louise Louise'... | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 223 Registered: 02-2008 |
Martha Wainwright - I Know You're Married But I Have Feelings Too. Pretty good, pretty pretty good... | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 151 Registered: 05-2005 |
Today, the Hot Chips - Made in the dark. And I've bought Paul Weller, the Fleet Foxes album (beautiful sleeve!) and 'Uncut' magazine with the american music sampler. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1664 Registered: 03-2005 |
It's super hot where I am. Summer has arrived in a fury. I'm sitting in my back yard in the shade with a cheap crappy beer listening to the Pale Fountains' "Pacific Street." | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1665 Registered: 03-2005 |
Then I followed it up with "Across a Kitchen Table" because, well, it made sense and sounded great. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1082 Registered: 09-2006 |
The live disc from the Joy Division box...always nice to be reminded of how absolutely smoking they were. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2474 Registered: 05-2005 |
Cheers for the edwyn / paul link Andrew. Great songs, esp It had to happen. Paul Quinn man, what a genius voice. Randy, Pacific St and Table are both great striped sunlight sounding albums aren't they!? Allen, I too love the love cd's on the recent remasters. The energy is amazing. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1083 Registered: 09-2006 |
Those are great too, spence, but actually I was listening to the disc from the Heart and Soul box set...a little dimmer soundwise but it hardly matters. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 466 Registered: 07-2006 |
i picked up the treeless plain and black swan reissues for $20 each the other day and am enjoying them both immensely - particularly the former. i realise it's probbaly falling on deaf ears here, but i am incredibly excited by the kelly rowland single. destiny's child had their moments, but beyonce i find painfully unsexy and a tired bore. this single of kelly's though is incredible and has put me in the most ecstatic mood for the last 24 hours. seriously - i am ebullient! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1667 Registered: 03-2005 |
Yes Joe the "Treeless Plain" remix and master is quite a revelation bringing out all the detail and crispness. It's also quite remarkable in the context of the early singles. Graham Lee's reissue program has been a wonderful thing and has finally allowed me to get a proper handle on what this slippery group were about. Yesterday I listened to a batch of alternate takes of songs from the 13th Floor Elevators' first album. I don't know why these outtake versions are available and yet the masters of the versions used for the album are not. Sundazed has just issued a new vinyl copy of this record in mono--like God intended--supposedly taken from a clean master copy tape. I hope they put out a CD version because it has been impossible to get a decent transcription of this album over all these years and the crappy stereo mix strips all the guts out. It was bizarre though. I hadn't listened to any of this stuff for many years and as "You Don't Know (How Young You Are)" started up I just started singing all the lyrics right through, except for the lines that I never knew anyway. I had no idea I could still remember them. Early brainwashing. I was in high school when I discovered the Elevators' records. There was a long period when I listened to this record at least four times a week. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2479 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Pixies - Death to the pixies. Not the greatest compilation of all time, but very good, IMHO. I still can't get over this band, how f*ckin good and totally original they were, they suited each other so well, their work is pure poetry in motion. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 2135 Registered: 05-2005 |
I have a battered old black T Shirt with "Death to the Pixies" on it, and underneath an image of Black Frances screaming into a mic. It always attracts stares from people who have no idea who the band are, you can see them thinking "whats he got against pixies?" | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 2136 Registered: 05-2005 |
Dubstep all the way, apart from the mighty Hold Steady and A Certain Ratio The Bug - London Zoo Mary Anne Hobbs - Evangeline Plastician - Beg To Differ Steppas Delight - Various on SoulJazz The Hold Steady - Stay Positive A Certain Ratio - Shack Up, Flight, Du The Du, Knife Slits Water | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 840 Registered: 08-2004 |
Mudhoney - The Lucky Ones - My only gipe with this one is, it's too short! Air - Moon Safari + Extras - Too long! Hugo Race & True Spirit - 53rd State - Just right! | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 229 Registered: 02-2008 |
Chris Difford - I Didn't Get Where I Am. Bob Dylan - Blood On the Tracks, the NY Sessions. The different arrangements shed new light on these epic songs. Also, there are fascinating snippets of different or extra lyrics. I think my favorite of the lot is, "Just outside the door, he felt jealousy and fear/It was just another night in the life of the Jack of Hearts". That is, btw, the greatest story song ever written, bar none. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1198 Registered: 01-2005 |
Spence, 1988 was a year of musical discovery for me. I bough the "Surfer Rosa-Come On Pilgrim" cd and was blown away by it, my first Wire album "A Bell", my first Throwing Muses album "House Tornado", and oh yeah, 16LL my first GB's. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2484 Registered: 05-2005 |
Michael yep twas a good year for the roses! A Bell is great album, I liked that Wire period. Scott Walker - Scott 4. I weep time after time at the song On Your Own Again, its beautiful and sad and romantic in every way, and its length is pure genius again. Kev I got a Certain Ratio CD on the way, some of their material is expensive. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 467 Registered: 07-2006 |
i got into doolittle as well as the sonics' "goo" one summer when i was 16 (1998?), sitting in my best mate's bungalow...his incredibly tasteful (and now sadly deceased) sister had recently passed them onto him and within a few weeks we were both mad for 'em. i don't think either of us ever listened to mellon collie and the infinite sadness ever again. he was the pumpkins nut though....i was inappropriately pop-tastic, even back then. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1669 Registered: 03-2005 |
Right now, a selection of Saltwater Band tracks thanks to Hugh. | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 16 Registered: 11-2007 |
Death to the pixies is wonderful remembering me of hearing the pixies. Thanxs spence. As an alternative this morning I heared the pixies wonderful second concert at brixton acedemy from the revival tour. this concert is soooooo great with all the power, even mindblowing... | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 324 Registered: 01-2007 |
Ewan where did you find the alternate Blood on the Tracks takes?? still listening to Fleetfoxes probably album of the year so far, and POB not given it much time yet as the Fleetfoxes seem to be on. Lookinf forward to the release of the Hold Steady | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2487 Registered: 05-2005 |
Magazine - BBC Radio 1 live in concert. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1272 Registered: 10-2004 |
More Spherical Objects, Elliptical Optimism and Further Ellipses. I take back my earlier comment about the singer sounding like Big Bird. He actually sounds more like Fozzy Bear on steroids. and... Microdisney - Everybody's Fantastic Modern Eon - Fiction Tales | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1200 Registered: 01-2005 |
Pink (nee Anderson) Floyd (nee Concil) - The Piper At The Gates of Dawn - 30th Aniversary Box Set | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 17 Registered: 11-2007 |
Jeff, has the Modern Eon album come out as a cd? I can't find it anywhere... Heared some of jackie leven's official live bootlegs this morning. I love his songs and the jokes inbetween... | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1085 Registered: 09-2006 |
Mekons binge: Original Sin Rock 'n' Roll Journey to the End of the Night F.U.N. 90 The Mekons Story | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 152 Registered: 05-2005 |
It's Immaterial - Life is hard and then you die... Some beautiful forgotten songs on it. A good secretive band I store with the Blue Nile etc. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1201 Registered: 01-2005 |
Allen, WTF, no Fear and Whiskey? Sorry to say that's the only Mekons I have. I've heard good things about Rock 'n' Roll, and that would be my next Mekons buy. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1273 Registered: 10-2004 |
Andreas - as far as I'm aware, no, the Modern Eon album has not seen a CD release. I asked James Nice of Les Temps Modernes if they'd ever consider reissuing it (since it would fit in with a lot of the post-punk stuff they reissue), but he told me Virgin/EMI controls the rights, and that their licensing fees are way too steep to make it worthwhile. So, I just listen to it on my old vinyl copy. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1274 Registered: 10-2004 |
Hunters & Collectors - eponymous debut Section 25 - From the Hip Pale Fountains - Longshot for Your Love Steve Miro & the Eyes - early singles | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1168 Registered: 08-2006 |
Michael, "Original Sin" includes "Fear and Whiskey," plus some EP tracks from the period. For a long time, until they re-released it a few years back, it was the only way to get "Fear and Whiskey." And definitely get "Rock 'n' Roll." It's excellent. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1086 Registered: 09-2006 |
And if you like that one, Michael, I'd encourage you to keep going...their large output has many gems among it. Way back when I used to find them a little hard to take for more than the length of an album, but not any more. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1169 Registered: 08-2006 |
I'd second that. "Curse of the Mekons" and "The Edge of the World" are great, "OOH" from a year or two ago is excellent, and I like last year's "Natural," too. | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 18 Registered: 11-2007 |
Thanx Jeff, what a pity, I have heaps of music even vinyl and 7"-rarities but I don't owe the modern eon album... and I was hoping that it would be released in the near future. At the moment I am listening to totally different music. I got all Jackie Leven official bootlegs as mp3s on one cd and hear these in my car on my way to work. I love his concerts and in august there will be his new record... | ||
| Charles Coy Member Username: Coy Post Number: 76 Registered: 10-2006 |
'Butterfly Net' ..Ed Kuepper (Ex Saints) | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2491 Registered: 05-2005 |
A Certain Ratio - Early - 2 disc retrospective. Very good, Loved em for ages, much undervalued group. | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 232 Registered: 02-2008 |
Mr. Frank: I found the NY Sessions of Blood on the Tracks somewhere online, but don't remember where. If I can find the link, I'll send it to you. (I've noticed that links to downloadable music have a tendency to disappear rather quickly from this site). If you're a fan of that record, and I question the judgement of anybody who isn't, it's fascinating, revelatory even, to hear the alternate version. My favorite Mekons songs is "Ghosts of American Astronauts". That's some trippy shit, man. "John Glenn drinks cocktails with God". | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2492 Registered: 05-2005 |
My fave Mekons song is Where were you. Orange Juice - Texas Fever. Its sounding quite remarkable, a really exciting album, although described as a mini album, gawd bless ye ed. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2156 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Feeling - Twelve Stops And Home | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2157 Registered: 05-2005 |
Just For Dad compilation - disc 3. Prefab Sprout's Car And Girls on right now. Cool. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 2141 Registered: 05-2005 |
I Roy - Heavier Than Lead Ragga Twins - Step Out The Bug - London Zoo Plastician - Beg To Differ Max Romeo - Beat Down Babylon The Hold Steady - Stay Positive | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2158 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Essential Rory Gallagher - disc 1. Brilliant Irish blues man for those of you who are not familiar with him. He died in 1995, aged 47, after years of heavy drinking. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2161 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Nits - The Train. Greatest Dutch song ever. Even better than No Limits by Two Unlimited and Radar Love by Golden Earring. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2162 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Nits - Road Not Taken. Possibly the greatest Dutch country song ever. Better even than Pim Verbeek & The Zuider Zee's Take Me To The Dutch Mountains. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 111 Registered: 03-2007 |
Padraig, nice to know that someone else on the board likes this wonderful Dutch band. Currently listening to 'Where Night Holds Light' by The Buttless Chaps. | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 19 Registered: 11-2007 |
The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms one of my albums for the island... they are playing a reunion concert in NYC with sonic youth hope I will be able to see them here in germany once... | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2495 Registered: 05-2005 |
McCarthy - I am a wallet. Reminds me of happier times from the C86 era, forget the daisies and the cups of tea, MccArthy and The wolfhounds were like SOnic Youth with semi acoustics. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2163 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Nits aren't a million miles from some of The Feelies and McCarthy stuff lads... Listening to Radio Shoes by Holland's finest right now. I recommend Nest (their best of) to anyone here who loves avant pop music. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2497 Registered: 05-2005 |
I'll try the nits out pad. ta. Martha Wainwright - I Know You're Married But I've Got Feelings Too Kinda reminds me of a female leonard cohen. A very intelligent ,moviing, beautiful sounding and looking person. She's effortless like Cohen. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1204 Registered: 01-2005 |
Easy Trivia Question: What Hollywood connection to the G-B's and the Feelies have in common? | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 668 Registered: 04-2006 |
spence, i saw MW years ago supportinh her brother. both gigs, rufus' and martha's were great. i bought their 1st album directly after her gig from herself. nice young lady. good album, even when i liked her gig muc better than the studio recording. don't know how her new album sounds like, just read that it is in some parts to polish and a bit overproduced. | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 234 Registered: 02-2008 |
Real Animal - Alejandro Escovedo. He may look like Ray Romanos older brother, but he rocks like a mutherfecker. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1674 Registered: 03-2005 |
I ordered the current Nits. Wow, they have a LOT of albums! McCarthy, Spence? I'll investigate. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2501 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy, I hope you liek McCarthy, they are not as racaus as Wolfhounds, bit more political, nice guitars. The Associates - Fourth Drawer Down. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1277 Registered: 10-2004 |
Randy, you haven't heard McCarthy? I thought you had, for some reason. Well, it looks like Spence beat me to the punch, but I know he'll give you a stellar intro. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 2144 Registered: 05-2005 |
I am a wallet LP by McCarthy is great | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1675 Registered: 03-2005 |
Wow, what a lovely stuffed email box I came home to for lunch! Nits from Hugh and McCarthy from Spence. Hugh has nicely focused on some earlyish Nits tracks which will help me figure out where to go in their huge catalog. Still working my way through the McCarthy tracks. Both groups sound necessary. "I am a Wallet" already ordered, Kevin. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2508 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kev Wallet is great, its so evocative, you can smell the poverty! King of Luxembourg - Royal Bastard. I'm off for a bit going to Devon with me wife and twins, it'll probably rain. Anyone wishing to break in whilst I am away, feel free, a mate is staying here, and he's in the martial arts combat hall of fame, so you might just make his day!! ;) See ye soon! | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1280 Registered: 10-2004 |
What's the deal with the Nits? I've never heard of them. AMG makes comparisons to Prefab Sprout, XTC, and Talking Heads. Sounds intriguing. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1281 Registered: 10-2004 |
Oh, and another fan of I am a Wallet here. McCarthy at their peak. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 672 Registered: 04-2006 |
listened to a whole bunch of music the owlservice - a garland of songs sonny sharrock - black woman the john renbourn group - live in america i am kloot - play moolah rouge steven r. smith - owl mississippi fred mcdowell - standing at the burying groeund: live 1969 jo ann kelly - jo ann kelly muleskinner - a potpourri of bluegrass jam roy harper - stormcock | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 674 Registered: 04-2006 |
at this moment steve gunn - sundowner | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 237 Registered: 02-2008 |
John Coltrane - My Favorite Things. Hearing the Tranes' take on this Julie Andrews (eeuuwww)classic is one of life's most sublime pleasahs... "Don't play no game, just play me John Coltrane". | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 675 Registered: 04-2006 |
rory gallagher - irish tour cul de sac - a radio show from 1999 kinky friedman - sold american (an album which i would like to buy as a reissue on vinyl) | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1284 Registered: 10-2004 |
Suicide - Second Album |