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     Jonathan Evans Member Username: Jon Post Number: 237 Registered: 04-2005 |
As the last thread was getting a little long, I thought I'd start this one, I think I'm right with the numerals! Listening to all the New Order re-issues, particularly Low Life and Technique - brilliant! I wish they would stop arguing and get back together for some gigs. Cheers Jon | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 515 Registered: 07-2006 |
agreed, but they desperately need gillian back... any idea if we'll get a reissue of republic? that era had some of the best remixes of their carerr. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1187 Registered: 09-2006 |
Wasn't even aware of those...and it looks like they're not coming out in the states until next month. What are the extras like? | ||
| Jonathan Evans Member Username: Jon Post Number: 238 Registered: 04-2005 |
I'm not sure they're going to release anything after the 1st 5 albums. The idea being those albums didn't feature singles from that time. I think republic (and on) featured the singles. I suppose it depends how they sell. Here's a link to the discussion (and tracklisting) on NewOrderOnline. http://www.neworderonline.com/Forums/Mes sageList.aspx?ThreadID=43193 Its nice to see I'm not the only New Order fan about.... Cheers Jon | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 516 Registered: 07-2006 |
i daresay there's a few of us about jon! i thought it might have been a label issue....republic was released on london, rather than fac yeah? but you're right....more of a standard format since then. i wonder when these will hit australian record stores? | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2623 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Bell Divers - June/July | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 870 Registered: 08-2004 |
With the New Order, those remasters had best be good ones, since there's not a lot new or rare on them. Current listenings : Joe Kinnear's press conference : fans of Scorsese or Mamet won't be shocked but some might. It's hilarious & difficult not to take his side against the sharks that call themselves writers. Bob Marley - Burnin' Julian Cope - Black Sheep | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1408 Registered: 10-2004 |
Talking Heads - '77 Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas Tom Robinson - Sector 27 | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1253 Registered: 08-2006 |
I know I've said it before, but "Sector 27" is really an overlooked gem. Love that record. The extras are terrific, too. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2627 Registered: 05-2005 |
I've never heard Tom R Sector 27 Jeff/Rob? I take it its 'there' for you guys? House of Love - various comp, standout tracks, Girl with the lonliest eyes, Yer eyes, You don't understand (an imitation of Spencer Davies I'm a man) great nevertheless. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1767 Registered: 03-2005 |
The Sector 27 stuff is his best I think. My McCarthy comp came in for two plays on my road trip. The lyrics are sounding more relevant all the time. I have too much stuff and some things get overlooked for long stretches of time. It was nice to have a listen to "Bryter Layter" for the first time in months. Ditto "Swagger." I know it's your favorite, Spence, whereas I favor the earlier Aeroplanes but "World View Blue" hits the spot just right. | ||
| Lewisdhead Member Username: Lewisdhead Post Number: 35 Registered: 01-2007 |
James Kirk-You Can Make It If You Boogie. Tv On The Radio-Dear Science. Paul Westerberg-49.00 and other recent download stuff. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1769 Registered: 03-2005 |
Disaster Plan--Evacuation Centre | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2632 Registered: 05-2005 |
JosŽ Gonz‡lez - Veneer. I didn't buy this but found it after importing loads of mp3's from a friend. Its quite nice, bit Ben Watt circa '83, bit Kings of Convenience, bit S&G bit nice! Randy, yes Swagger is a fave, but I love its siblings equally as much too! | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2634 Registered: 05-2005 |
Turin Brakes - Jackinabox | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2635 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy, when you mention McCarthy and their lyrical relevance to today...such as: And Tomorrow The Stock Exchange Will Be The Human Race Arise, the wealthy of the earth Arise, you worthy men Our sun will rise when we have got The masses on the run There is only one thing on earth worth dying for Oh profit is the only thing worth dying for This is the final fight, let our down hearts be faint And tomorrow the stock exchange be the human race Stand up and let us decide the price of everything We'll take the humans by the throat and shake until they choke Our time on this earth is of so reefer spend (??) That we should try to grab everything we can This is the final fight, let our down hearts be faint And tomorrow the stock exchange be the human race Fro businessmen and shopkeepers Arise, arise, arise Join the legions of the rich And the world will be ours There is only one thing on earth worth dying Oh profit is the only thing worth dying for This is the final fight, let our down hearts be faint And tomorrow the stock exchange will be the human race | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1771 Registered: 03-2005 |
Yes, Spence! My guess is the line is "our time on this earth is of so brief a span." I listened to my compilation CD again last night and have decided to pack it off to Matthew Lobb (Bell Divers) in Oz as he's not heard any McCarthy. That song is on it of course. I'm thinking of burning copies and sending them to a number of friends. Tim Gane should sideline Stereolab, which has become kind of a novelty act anyway, and reassemble McCarthy. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1410 Registered: 10-2004 |
I agree wholeheartedly about Stereolab, Randy. Stereolab's shelflife expired 10 years ago, if you ask me. They've become such a caricature of themselves. And McCarthy seems so much more relevant right now. It'll never happen in a million years, though. The Stereolab "brand" is definitely where the money is. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2636 Registered: 05-2005 |
Yeah Randy as Jef says its a shame but there'd be no chanc n a million years of a reunion. From the lyrics, the shopkeeper, no one uses the word shopkeeper anymore, mind you there aren't any left. My Dad wa a shopkeper, a newsagent as it was later referred to. Funnily enough, the BBC have just issued a report about a cornershop that has been fond intact from the 60's, in Lancashire. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/76646 61.stm | ||
| C Gull Member Username: C_gull Post Number: 116 Registered: 05-2005 |
Blimey Spence, you are good at bringing up names from the past I'd forgotten about. McCarthy - they were great weren't they. Must dig them out again. Saw Stereolab a couple of years ago and they were a shadow of their former selves. They play Brighton before Xmas but will be away. That film of the corner shop is great- I've family in Accrington must ask them about it - last time I was there most fo the open shops did not look much different to that one (ducks for cover). | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2366 Registered: 05-2005 |
I've just listened to Man In The Corner Shop by The Jam! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2372 Registered: 05-2005 |
Augie March's just out new album Watch Me Diappear. Three tracks into the first play and oh it's wonderful so far. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2373 Registered: 05-2005 |
That should read Watch Me Disappear of course! | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2640 Registered: 05-2005 |
Radio 2. The Aled Jones programme at 7am on a Sunday morning. I never thought I'd live to say that I'd tune into his show, but I find it quite soothing! When I was away with my twins on holiday n the caravan when they were young, one and a half or something, they used to wake really early together, so I used to take them for a very early morning ride, 6-7am on a Sunday mirning, along the Welsh sea coast, sun coming up and all, Aled's Sunday show was on then, and he definately did a good job on the soothing front, they dozed for a couple of hours! | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2641 Registered: 05-2005 |
Stereolab never really did it for me Si. I liked odd songs, but there didn't seem this defining ego/front person, it seemed like a collective indulgence, and I didnt bite! I was lost in the elevator music. Don't get me wrong, they are not Shit. McCarthy on the other hand, appealed to my white Indie pop boy sensibilities at that time, intelligent lyrics and jangling guitars, that matured with age...Manics have them to thank for verything they ever did. James D vocal style and delivery is exactly like Freddie Mercury fronting McCathy. Which brings me on to Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible. A masterpiece. | ||
| C Gull Member Username: C_gull Post Number: 117 Registered: 05-2005 |
ah - it always wondered what it was put me off the Manics - just the association with Queen is enough for me! | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2642 Registered: 05-2005 |
Momus - The Philosophy Of Momus | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1192 Registered: 09-2006 |
The "5" Royales - The Anthology Kimya Dawson - Alphabutt Pet Shop Boys - Concrete American Graffiti - soundtrack | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 522 Registered: 07-2006 |
xtc - black sea | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 117 Registered: 03-2007 |
The Lucksmiths - First Frost. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1774 Registered: 03-2005 |
And for me, all thanks to Hugh, Disaster Plan's "Party." | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1412 Registered: 10-2004 |
Kinks - Village Green | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1293 Registered: 01-2005 |
I would have liked to have seen Stereolab around 1993-94 when they were touring behind Bursts With Announcements or Mars Audiac Quintet. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1414 Registered: 10-2004 |
I had the misfortune of seeing Stereolab in 1999, on their tour for that year's "Cobra and Phases...." album. I had loved them up to that point, however, especially the body of work from "Trasient..." through "Dots and Loops." But "Cobra Phases" was, for me, where they jumped the shark. The show itself was kind of a yawner, and I remember being surprised to see so many dread-locked hippies in attendance, and was practically choking on the thick cloud of pot smoke. I'd never thought of Stereolab as stoner-rock, per se, but that show set me straight. I'd have preferred to have seen them earlier, but never had the chance. A friend of mine got to see them '93 or early '94 at the Berkeley Square, here in Berkeley; a tiny dive, where they were opening for Unrest (that's right, opening). *That* would've been a cool show to see. I always felt that once Stereolab stopped ripping off '75 -era Neu verbatim, they really blossomed, (which, interestingly, is about the time Sean O'Hagan [High Llamas, Microdisney] become an auxiliary member, responsible for string arrangements, organs, and whatnot). "Transient" is where they really started writing some interesting and spine-tinglingly beautiful songs, like what you hear on most of the album's first half. Things got prettier and more interesting from there, especially with the cool "Fluorescences" and "Amorphous Body Study Center" EPs, and the "Emperor Tomato Ketchup" and "Dots and Loops" LPs. I like the earlier albums, too, but there are moments when that era's shameless appropriations of Neu are so shameless that, well, I'd rather just listen to Neu. I'm all for giving Stereolab credit for bringing the krautrock genre back into the public consciousness at a time when current musical trends couldn't have been further away, but I think they got a little too carried away in replicating that uptempo one chord drone-groove. Now, they're kind of an embarrassing caricature, imho. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2648 Registered: 05-2005 |
Various Amanda brown music on http://www.myspace.com/amandagabriellebr own Nice stuff, shes still a looker too!!!  | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2377 Registered: 05-2005 |
Emperor Tomato Ketchup is a great album. I saw Stereolab live one time. Can't remember much about it but it they were supported by Tortoise who were dreadfully boring (I may have been the only person there who dared suggest this emperor had no clothes on though). I did get a pretty cool coloured vinyl 7" at the gig. Stererlab on one side, Tortoise on the flip. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2378 Registered: 05-2005 |
Right now I'm listening to Bob Dylan's Tell Tale Signs - The Bootleg Series Vol 8 and it is wonderful. My 7-year-old really liked what she heard of it too before bedtime. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 35 Registered: 05-2005 |
Whilst I am happy to admit that Stereolab have always lacked an emotional core it is absolute nonsense to suggest that they are any more or less relevant today than they were ten years ago, nor are they a 'caricature of themselves'. They are a admittedly po-faced bunch of marxist music makers who mix their musical influences in a big colourful pot and make lovely noises and albums. Sure they sound like kraut rock, french film soundtracks, bossa nova etc SO WHAT? they sound great and sometimes that's enough. And it's certainly better than Paul dadrock Weller's poor mans Traffic which has been lauded on this forum in the recent past. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1415 Registered: 10-2004 |
Cosmo - respectfully, I disagree with you on Stereolab's relevance today, but wholeheartedly agree with you on Paul Weller's Traffic-esque solo stuff. This morning on the way to work: Kinks - Something Else (been in a kinks mood this week) | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1776 Registered: 03-2005 |
Something Else is probably my favorite Kinks album, Jeff. "David Watts" is a clever rip on the Stones' "Between the Buttons" period and "Let's Spend the Night Together" in particular. I love that Charlie Watts drum ripoff. The melody to "Two Sisters" is breathtaking (as is the story) and the lovely falsetto in "Death of a Clown" has always lit me up. Plus "Clown" is one of those Dylanesque songs that I love so much. (Ditto Dave's "Love Me Till the Sun Shines"). The cornball pseudo vaudeville of "Tin Soldier Man" and scrappy drunken r 'n r of "Situation Vacant" make side one of that album just about perfect. The arch psychedelic torch song "Lazy Old Sun?" And of course, everybody knows "Waterloo Sunset" is a stone classic. Just a great album that seems to always be overlooked in favor of VGPS. The Davies brothers were at their peak at this time. I'm currently listening to "The Clock Comes Down the Stairs." I'm really thrilled. At last, I found a copy. At $40 it was a LOT less than all the other copies I've seen. (I mean the Rev-Ola CD reissue). | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 528 Registered: 07-2006 |
although i'm yet to hear an entirely consistent eurythmics album, i've been listening to in the garden more and more...where sweet dreams and touch always come off a little thin, their first seems to have a lot more about it to keep me interested. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1196 Registered: 09-2006 |
Besides all those great songs I've always had a warm spot for the goofball "Harry Rag" and the charming, blissed-out (even though the girl leaves him) "Afternoon Tea." | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1777 Registered: 03-2005 |
Yes Allen! "I'll take afternoon tea. If you'll take it with me. You take as long as you like, 'cos I like you girl." For me, the only place where the album flags somewhat is the pair ("Funny Face" & "End of the Season") right before the transcendent ode to Terry and Julie. "Something Else" was an extraordinary leap forward from the already excellent "Face to Face." And personally I've always felt that VGPS needed Shel Talmy in the producer's chair to give all those great songs that little extra bit of pop focus. But great records, all three of them. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1417 Registered: 10-2004 |
Randy - Congrats on finding "Clock." You're still missing "Everybody's Fantastic" and "Crooked Mile," right? I'm keeping an eye out for those. As for "Something Else," it *is* a truly great album. I don't think it has the cohesion or vision of VGPS (and for that reason, I actually prefer VGPS), but it's an eclectic album loaded with standout songs. Two Sisters is baroque pop brilliance; Waterloo Sunset is gorgeous and totally deserving of its "classic" status (and that lead melodic guitar tone is incredible); Tin Solider Man is cute and catchy as hell; Davy Watts races with energy and is also catch as hell; Lazy Old Sun proved they could do warped psychedelia as well as (if not better than) anyone else at the time; No Return sounds like a totally off-kilter and lazy appropriation of Brazilian bossa nova, but is still cool and breezy; I could go on and on... I especially love my CD reissue of "Something Else" because it has among its bonus tracks the brilliant Autumn Almanac, which to my mind might just be Davies' all time greatest song. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1197 Registered: 09-2006 |
Spence, thanks for the link, that is a nice page...and she (or perhaps the person running the page) answered my friend request, too. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 36 Registered: 05-2005 |
I am a huge Microdisney fan Jeff and God Save the Kinks too. I saw Billy Childish recently and he did a rocking version of Misty Water from Great Lost Kinks (or Village Green reissue). My point on Stereolab was that they were never 'relevant' just groovy. | ||
| Lewisdhead Member Username: Lewisdhead Post Number: 37 Registered: 01-2007 |
Stereolab-Chemical Chords. | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 415 Registered: 02-2008 |
Relevant shmelevant. Stereolab - Chemical Chords. | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 419 Registered: 02-2008 |
Luv the Kinks too. SE is great, but I think Village Green is better. More good songs, doesn't really flag at any point. Truth is, though, if I had my druthers, I'd rather just hear the Kronikles, for its concentrated excellence. "Waterloo Sunset" may not be the best song ever written, but it's up there. It's certainly the most byootiful. Second fave song by them: "See My Friends". Most rocking song by them, and therefore by anybody: "Till the End of the Day". And up there amongst their best are definitely: "I'm Not Like Everybody Else" "Autumn Almanac" "Sunny Afternoon" "This Is Where I Belong" | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1778 Registered: 03-2005 |
I just think VGPS would profit from Shel Talmy. And for me, "Steam Powered Train" is a snoozer and ditto "All of My Friends Were There." Both VGPS and Something Else have too many songs for their own good. You could hack 2 songs from Something Else and 3 or 4 from VGPS and have each album come out stronger. But, yes, clearly both are great albums. There are so many Kinks favorites for me: the suave power ballad "Tired of Waiting for You" with that squeaking bass drum pedal, "I am Free" (I have a definite weakness for Dave Davies' ersatz folkie numbers), the wall-of-sound doom rock of "The World Keeps Going Round," the sweet and sour "Rosie, Won't You Please Come Home," "Holiday in Waikiki," the breathless "Berkeley Mews," and, yep, "This is Where I Belong" which might be my all-time favorite Dylanesque tune by anybody. | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 420 Registered: 02-2008 |
I staggered through your shitty dining room... | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1418 Registered: 10-2004 |
Ewan - you're not anywhere near the fires in LA county that I've been reading about, are you? Hope you're safe! Randy - funny you mention "Steam Powered Train" and "All of My Friends Were There" as being snoozers, as those are the two songs I usually skip when listening to VGPS. This thread is prompting me to dig out my self-made Kinks singles comp. I also have to admit that with the notable exception of proto-Blue Oyster Cult-ish "Wicked Annabella," I'm usually less interested in Dave Davies' songs, mainly because I have problems with his voice. Heresy, I know, but I honestly can't help it! The sound of Ray's voice, on the other hand, practically makes me swoon. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1199 Registered: 09-2006 |
"Waterloo," certainly a candidate for world's most perfectly made song, though I think "Lola" runs neck and neck with it...certainly brings out different types of feelings than "Waterloo," though none less strong. Also: This is Where I Belong Victoria (as mentioned a number of times here I have a fondness for the goofball, and Ray's woozy vocal there certainly qualifies). Big Sky Days Til the End of the Day As you say, many more... | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1200 Registered: 09-2006 |
And speaking of goofy, though I don't think it's quite a true classic, "Willesden Green" never fails to make me chortle. | ||
| cosmovitelli Unregistered guest |
chemical chords is brilliant unreservedly - i was arguing for stereolab who i love and have always loved- just trying to throw out any arguments about relevancy- see my earlier posting - relevant shmelevant indeed ewan | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1779 Registered: 03-2005 |
Omg, how could I forget "Days?!?" Sure one of the top three best broken heart songs and absolutely the theme song to every romance of mine that collapsed. How did this straw man of relevance come up concerning Stereolab? Is it because I said McCarthy's lyrics are singularly relevant right now and that I wish they'd reunite, which everyone agrees will not happen? | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2651 Registered: 05-2005 |
FUNY RE THOUGHTS ON STEREOLAB, THEY HAVE BEEN A CHURNIN IT OUT for many years, same stuff diff day IMVHO, ditto for High LLamas, sean's stuff is absolutely wonderful, a really fuc*in brilliant arranger and composer, no fuc*in doubt, but, his songs haven't moved on from his debut to his latest, really... | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1781 Registered: 03-2005 |
Oh, and yes, Jeff, I'm still on the lookout for "Everybody's Fantastic" and "Crooked Mile." Back in the old days of vinyl bootlegs (1970's) there was a Kinks bootleg going around with a bunch of recordings from live TV performances. The one I remember was a version of "Dandy" on which Dave Davies did the lead guitar fills in rockabilly style. It was an impressive alternative approach to that song which I liked better than the studio version. I'm pretty sure the performance dated from the same year as the original recording of the song. I suppose somebody must have put this on CD somewhere. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1419 Registered: 10-2004 |
Randy: re Stereolab - I don't know! I was taking your McCarthy is extremely relevant right now view, and adding to it that McCarthy seems much more relevant today than Stereolab. All I can say is that ultimately for me, Stereolab's flaw isn't that they may be less relevant than McCarthy, but that they just keep rehashing the same tired sounds, running on auto-pilot for the past ~10 years. | ||
| Guy Ewald Member Username: Guy_ewald Post Number: 217 Registered: 02-2005 |
We saw Stereolab the weekend before last and... I really love them and I wouldn't be as harsh as Jeff. But careers follow a creative arc and they seem to have stopped evolving after Sound Dust. That's not to say I don't love the three records since, but I'd be hard-pressed to hum the songs if I was reading a list of titles. Stereolab has had a pretty fluid membership, but losing a key member really throws things out of whack - they lost some of the magic after Mary's death. I liked this year's concert better than 2006 when they had a seventh member and were playing horns and such; the current lineup felt stripped-down by comparison and that's a good thing. And I'll always go see them if only to get the latest tour single; what with the "free" Spool Of Collusion/Forensic Itch single and now Explosante Fixe/L'Exotisme Inerieur I'm in Stereolab heaven! | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2653 Registered: 05-2005 |
Yeah Guy, forgot (how could I) about Mary. Mind you , when all is said and done, rather have the lab around than half the shite that wins awards all the time any day of the week eh>? | ||
| Guy Ewald Member Username: Guy_ewald Post Number: 218 Registered: 02-2005 |
Inasmuch as I keep tabs on favorites, Stereolab was my favorite band of the 90's. They were so prolific, toured regularly, put on great shows, kept evolving, etc. I'm very happy they're still at it and I like the new album, but I haven't devoured it the way I used to do with their albums. They took a pretty long break after Mary was killed and I don't think Tim and Laetitia are together anymore so some of the giddy magic has gone out of it for them personally... things change. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1420 Registered: 10-2004 |
Guy, Stereolab were one of my very favorite 90s bands as well. In a decade that for me was pretty dreadful overall musically, Stereolab definitely helped me get through it. To me they were one of *the* most important bands of the 90s. And it was so fun to watch them evolve the way they did. I agree, Mary's death definitely took some steam out of their sound. I loved her voice, and I always felt that her backing vocals (and occasional main vocals) really helped to define Stereolab's sound. She complemented Laetia beautifully. To me their music still doesn't sound quite right without her. | ||
| Jonathan Evans Member Username: Jon Post Number: 242 Registered: 04-2005 |
The Housemartins - NOw That's What I Call Quite Good. Ages since I listened to this. Cheers Jon | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 170 Registered: 05-2005 |
Aimee Mann - ...Smilers. After some perseverance, I finally think it's not so dull as that. In fact a very good album. I've bought the ticket for the concert in Bxl. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1202 Registered: 09-2006 |
Maybe even more ages for me, Jon...I should pull that one out. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1782 Registered: 03-2005 |
Pitched up by the iPod shuffle at work yesterday: The Natural Habitat of the Ficus Tree--Concubines | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1296 Registered: 01-2005 |
TROU, I'll give Smilers another shot one of these days. I was a huge Til Tuesday-Aimee Mann from 1988 to 2001. The two albums previous to Smilers, Lost In Space and The Forgotten Arm, were missing some of the tempo and texture that Whatever, I'm With Stupid and B#2 had. | ||
| Guy Ewald Member Username: Guy_ewald Post Number: 219 Registered: 02-2005 |
The Clash - Combat Rock REDUX: I downloaded the early work-in-progress, Rat Patrol From Fort Bragg the other night and put together an expanded edition of Combat Rock (dropping Overpowered By Funk). 1. Radio Clash/Outside Broadcast 2. First Night Back In London 3. Know Your Rights 4. Car Jamming 5. Atom Tan 6. Inoculated City 7. Cool Confusion 8. Straight To Hell 9. The Beautiful People Are Ugly 10. Kill Time 11. Should I Stay Or Should I Go 12. Rock The Casbah/Mustafa Dance 13. Long Time Jerk 14. Red Angel Dragnet 15. Ghetto Defendant 16. Sean Flynn 17. Death Is A Star This was always a weird album, but it's fun to rediscover it a bit. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2656 Registered: 05-2005 |
barack obama. guy can i get rat stuff from? | ||
| Guy Ewald Member Username: Guy_ewald Post Number: 220 Registered: 02-2005 |
I don't read shorthand, but... I got 'Rat Patrol' from piratebay. It was listed on a bunch of bit-torrenting sites. I didn't know that tape was in circulation; I read about it in the current MOJO (there's a sidebar in the Clash article). The fidelity varies, but the opening two tracks sound perfect and those are the unreleased songs... both of which are kind of lightweight Carribean-flavoured pop ditties. I'm happy to have them though. They seem to balance the album a bit. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1783 Registered: 03-2005 |
The Cannanes--eponymous album The Fall--Bend Sinister | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 487 Registered: 01-2006 |
Spoon - Girls Can Tell. Have only started playing this and already there are some standout songs on it. These guys have had a series of four great albums leading up to Ga Ga Ga. The Silver Jews - American Water. Have just got into this band/guy and this record is really great. First heard a cover of Random Rules by Dean and Britta on their first album and always liked that song since. Xavier Cugat - Box Set | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2384 Registered: 05-2005 |
Tobias Fröberg - Somewhere In The City. It's not quite Hall & Oates, but still might be enough to get me off Kevin's Christmas card list. | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 421 Registered: 02-2008 |
You feckin' hippie! I'm turning you in to the board's aesthetic purity monitor! What, Kevin has a Christmas card list? Every yuletide season I check me mailbox and nothing, zip, nada, de rien, bupkes, from homeboy... Actually, Tobias is great. I also heartily recommend his partner in crime and romance, Theresa Andersson. She caused quite a stir a few years ago at the N.O Jazz Fest by performing in nothing but body paint, but her music is equally flash and noteworthy. Her latest, "Hummingbird, Go!" is aces, top notch and ginger-peachy... | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 426 Registered: 02-2008 |
And me? I'm listening to Juana Molina's "Un Dia". | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 198 Registered: 02-2007 |
Greatest Hits - Hall and Oats!! | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1207 Registered: 09-2006 |
Gary Stewart - Out of Hand/Your Place or Mine 2-fer CD with two excellent 70s albums from the man who gave even George Jones a run for his money in the agonizing-over-cheating-and-being-cheate d-on department. Xgau: "No matter how justly Jerry Lee Lewis suffers, he always seems affronted that this should be happening to him. Though he hasn't thought about going to church two successive Sundays since he was twelve, Gary knows that what the Bible says is true--that sin and hell are the same place. And he lives there." | ||
| Jonathan Evans Member Username: Jon Post Number: 245 Registered: 04-2005 |
Attic Lights - Friday Night Lights Scottish indie, with Camera Obscura, Belle & Sebastian and Teenage Fanclub influences. Includes the single "Wendy" which has had a fair bit of 'alternative' airplay in the UK. Cheers Jon | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 429 Registered: 02-2008 |
Me too, DG! A lotta Hall and Oates, as well as Crowded House, the Beatles, Bruce Springsteen, Stereolab and U2, with an occassional dollop of James Blunt and Snow Patrol thrown in to keep things rockin' n' relevant! | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 682 Registered: 04-2006 |
john coltrane's complete atlantic recordings. | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 430 Registered: 02-2008 |
Coldplay....I forgot to mention Coldplay. When I REALLY wanna get jiggy with it, that's who I put on. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1786 Registered: 03-2005 |
Francoiz Breut -- eponymous (or 08648046495) earlier today: Amanda Brown -- Incognita. About 50% of it is instrumental. Not a bad record, but it'll need more listens. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1787 Registered: 03-2005 |
and now, in honor of an email exchange with Spence a while back: Bert Weedon -- King Size Guitar/Honky Tonk Guitar Two albums from 1960 & 1961 and joined together on one disc they still only eat up 49 minutes. I'll bet I haven't heard this in over 5 years. I have too much music. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1788 Registered: 03-2005 |
Ok, I'd forgotten how muzak-y Weedon gets with "Honky Tonk Guitar" what with version of "Charleston" and "Carolina in the Morning" and "Varsity Drag." It's trad, dad! So I switched over to a new generation from the same year (1961). Joe Meek's answer to the Searchers: the Outlaws and their great twangy reverb album "Dream of the West" with a cover so similar to the Winnebago Orchestra's "Born in the Sun" it'll amaze. The tunes are all written by the tone-deaf Meek under one of his pseudonyms. Future ace session drummer Bobby Graham was only 20 years old. Chas Hodges on bass was all of 17. Ritchie Blackmore would spend a couple years in this band though he hadn't arrived in time for this, their only album. I've had this CD for at least a dozen years and in all that time it's never languished longer than six months between plays. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1423 Registered: 10-2004 |
Blue Orchids - Biggest Hit | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 237 Registered: 10-2006 |
James Last - The Golden Years Perry Como sings the best of Nine Inch Nails Demis Roussos and Nana Mouskouri: Favourite Corfu Taverna Singalongs Paul McCartney's Soppiest Ballads: A Compendium Cliff Richard: Coming out for Christmas - a rockin' selection of hymns and carols | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1790 Registered: 03-2005 |
Oops, that was supposed to be Joe Meek's answer to the Shadows, not the Searchers! Is everybody worked up by Kevin's message? Btw, Perry Como singing Nine Inch Nails would be cool. It would be something like the Nancy Sinatra album from a couple years back--which I love--or Steve and Edie's version of "Black Hole Sun." | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 238 Registered: 10-2006 |
I'll actually miss Kevin's suggestions - like most of the folk on the GBMB I guess, I have a shameful tendency towards what Lord Forster calls "melodic rock", but, given my relative geographical isolation from hip sounds, compounded by a profound incapacity to use the internet fruitfully, I'm always happy to have my pallid AOR nose pointed in other, perhaps meatier, directions. | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 431 Registered: 02-2008 |
What, Cliff Richards is gay? | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1425 Registered: 10-2004 |
Hall 'n Oats - Rock 'n Soul part 1 | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2666 Registered: 05-2005 |
You're such a maneater Jeff!! I've been blasting out Horsebreaker Star. Really fuc*in loud. That album, is effin genius. Its a buzz from beginning to end, its all seasons, thoughtful, reflective, happy, sad, OK it has twang of rawhide and pedal steel, but, so what, Grant's finest hour, or however many minutes the album's length is. I'm getting out the Martin Dreadnoght, I'm inspired dude! | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1209 Registered: 09-2006 |
Raphael Saadiq - The Way I See It Reminds me a bit of Mandy Barnett's "I've Got a Right to Cry," another fun, catchy, lovely tribute-to/continuation-of a fine old musical tradition. One could ask how many of such things one needs...as long as they're as alive as this one, keep 'em coming. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1210 Registered: 09-2006 |
Oh, and the Hollies' "Evolution." | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1791 Registered: 03-2005 |
I kept my yap shut when you mentioned "Games We Play," but I love "Evolution," Allen! I wish it had been mixed in a reasonable fashion as a stereo record and I can live without "Lullabye to Tim" and "Water on the Brain" (which are back-to-back on the UK version) but it's a great record. The Clarke/Hicks/Nash writing team were truly in their stride at that point. And I love "Horsebreaker Star." I still think it's Grant's high-water mark as a solo artist. It's a fine occasion for the Martin, Spence. Where are you isolated Stuart? I suspect that many of us are isolated in musical terms, meaning we don't have a lot of friends with sympathetic musical tastes. This board, either directly or indirectly, has vastly reinvigorated my record collection. In fact, in a fit of total geekiness I'm now going to pull out all of the CDs that I only discovered because of this board and see how many there are. It'll be nearly all of the best things I have that were released in the past 20 years. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1211 Registered: 09-2006 |
I'm a relative latecomer to "Evolution," Randy, but it didn't take long...two listens and I was in pop heaven. The reissue version I have does have "Water," but makes up for it with the inclusion of "Jennifer Eccles," the epitome of gradeschool romance, IMHO. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1212 Registered: 09-2006 |
Agreed on "Horsebreaker Star," too, though I didn't entirely take to it until getting the full 2-disc edition...satori on record, it is. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1792 Registered: 03-2005 |
I count 184 CDs by 91 artists that I can trace directly to this board. If you haven't gotten it, Allen, get "Dear Eloise/King Midas in Reverse" or the original UK album "Butterfly." That and the handful of recordings after it from 1968 are the absolute acme of the Clarke/Hicks/Nash aesthetic. "Jennifer Eccles" dates from that post-"Butterfly" period though it isn't one of my personal favorites and they slag it off completely. It has always frustrated the hell out of me that Nash left when he did. But it crushed their spirits that nobody was taking them seriously. Now listening to Pollen--The glorious couch life. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1213 Registered: 09-2006 |
I'm definitely familiar with those two songs, though not with the album... | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 433 Registered: 02-2008 |
Al, b sure that I like that disc as much as you! "Way I See It" totally floats my boat, toasts my cookies, and gets the whole McEwan household on the good foot, even the kitties and alpaca rabbits. Mr. Wiggins is some kinda dam genius! The only thing wrong with the disc is that there isn't more of it - he's into that whole brevity thing... | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1214 Registered: 09-2006 |
I'm guessing that might be another way for him to make the disc more like an old Motown/Stax album - 12 short songs and out. The extra mix with Jay-Z is a reminder that it isn't the past anymore. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2386 Registered: 05-2005 |
I'm not listening to Hall and Oates, but I just ate some oats in the hall. Is that OK? Stuart, I laughed out loud at your list! | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 440 Registered: 02-2008 |
AB, I think that's exactly what he was trying to do. The music geek in me respects and loves his having the cojones to carry the retro thing the whole way: it even extends to some of the songs, like "100 Yard Dash" fading out abruptly like old-fashioned radio edit singles. Very cool, even if that song's cut off just as it was REALLY getting good, really reaching a crescendo. Ultimately, Raphael knows, as did the GBs, that it's far better to leave people wanting more! | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 441 Registered: 02-2008 |
Lee Ann Womack - Call Me Crazy. The Sea and Cake - Car Alarm. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1215 Registered: 09-2006 |
Yeah, it'd also be interesting to see what he'd do with the songs in concert. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1430 Registered: 10-2004 |
You know, "One on One" sounds an awful lot like Microdisney. Especially the intro. And "I Can't Go For That" is actually a brilliant, boldly minimalist, art-soul-pop tune. I mean all it is is this subtly treated-drum machine with synth bass, a few well-placed melodic synth flourishes and jazzy chordings for color, and a little sax. | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 447 Registered: 02-2008 |
Good points, Jeff. Another"art-soul" comparison that comes to mind is that H&O are a lot like Scritti Politti, except with a singer that can actually sing! | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1431 Registered: 10-2004 |
Ah, you don't think Gartside can sing? He's got such a sweet, angelic, pretty-boy voice! Almost a little *too* sweet, angelic, etc.. And what's interesting is his voice hasn't shown the slightest hint of aging. And unlike Michael Jackson, Gartside managed to do it sans hormones! That's a valid comparison, though, even though both bands came from drastically different places. Personally, I'm not a huge Scritti Fan, save for a few early (but not too early) songs like "The Sweetest Girl." Later on, they just got way too mechanically soulless (ironically enough), like with "The Pefect Way." But then H&O's "Method of Modern Love" is kinda mechanical too, in its own way. That's what 1985 was all about, apparently! | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 363 Registered: 04-2005 |
Several hours of Dylan and The Band's 'Basement Tapes' courtesy of our G-B's friend Misha. http://misha4music.blogspot.com/ | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1217 Registered: 09-2006 |
H&O '85 did result in (IMHO) their most indelible hook ever, in "Out of Touch." There are places there where Daryl even sounds like he's actually emoting instead of providing an amazing simulation. Since I am (quite happily) not what would be considered a manly-man I've never had problems with Green's voice...its range is limited, but not in an unpleasant way, and it fits the music. And personally I think he's got more soul than Dar...except for that murky one from the early oughts I've enjoyed all their (his, I should say) albums, and "Cupid & Psyche '85" was and is one of my most-played albums ever. | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 449 Registered: 02-2008 |
I think Green can sing. I was just indulging in the new board sport of Kevin-baiting. I thought that'd draw a "Wot the bleedin' hell, mate, ya bloody ponce", but maybe the scintillatin' Scot is gone for good... | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1432 Registered: 10-2004 |
Well, when pitting Green against Daryl, Mr. coke-hoovering, blond-pompadour, ploppy pants definitely gets my vote. He can slide effortlessly into a falsetto that's as smooth as silk, and in an interview with Pitchfork a while back, he said with a straight-face that he's totally "indie." As an aside, every single time I see my girlfriend's cat walk into the room, "Maneater" starts going through my head. Every. Single. Time. | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 450 Registered: 02-2008 |
No question. In terms of chops, traditional notions of what it means to be able to sing, ol' poopy-pants takes the prize. And, he wasn't always as unhip as he seems now. A hundred years ago, a college roommate of mine had an album he did with Robert feckin' Fripp that was pretty out there and back then, before all of their various MTV excesses, they were seen as pretty arty... Also for all his inherent cheesiness, DH appeared in the video for Elvis Costello's "The Only Flame in Town", and came off looking pretty rico suave, at least by comparison to the talented, but homely Attractions. The conceit of the vid, as I recall, was that all of the band members, including Daryl, had blind dates with winners in a "win a date with the band" contest. For the girls that didn't have the date with Daryl to pretend they were just as excited seemed like some quality acting. It was not a flattering comparison. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2395 Registered: 05-2005 |
Bob Dylan's bootleg series vol 8. Again. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1220 Registered: 09-2006 |
Hot Chocolate - Two different compilations, which together provide an excellent overview of the band. One minute they're making their way through a gobsmacked declaration of love like "You Sexy Thing" or "Every 1's a Winner," the next a harsh, complex bit of social study like "Living on a Shoestring" or "Cicero Park," the next a hilarious disco parody like "Dance (Feel it)" or "Mindless Boogie," and every last one has an irresistable tune or groove, most often both. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1221 Registered: 09-2006 |
And to clarify, I've certainly enjoyed me some H&O over the years...besides "Out of Touch," "Private Eyes," and "She's Gone" are especially cherce. And while as mentioned above I think Daryl's got technical facility up the yingyang but a bit lacking in the true feeling department (especially for someone who once dubbed himself the greatest singer alive), the same could be said for a number of other singers I've enjoyed on the radio. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 535 Registered: 07-2006 |
big star - third | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2674 Registered: 05-2005 |
God, I never realised people had previously analysed H&O in such minute detail! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1796 Registered: 03-2005 |
Love Big Star's Third, Joe! I hope you had somebody to call and cheer you up after listening. Bell Divers--June July | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1222 Registered: 09-2006 |
Spence, there was never a reason to before now. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 536 Registered: 07-2006 |
heh. sadly not randy...well i do, but didn't. listening to far too much of it, i should think about putting it in the freezer or something. | ||
| k Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1 Registered: 10-2008 |
deerhunter - microcastle arthur russell - love is overtaking me a guy called gerald - black secret technology | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1226 Registered: 09-2006 |
Apples in Stereo - New Magnetic Wonder Left it alone for a few months, to see how it might sound after that, and it's still gorgeous. There's one song I'd trim, but even that one's not horrible, just blah in comparison to the rest. Only time will tell, but it's feeling like this might go up there on my shortshortlist of never-fail eternal bliss pop records like 16LL, Call Me and Submarine Bells. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2682 Registered: 05-2005 |
Is that u Kev? Deerhunter are on 4AD, it may well be kev... Well, 6.55am, welcome to radio SPEN am! Cranking up the iTunes as we speak, let's see... Shit, ACDC? no, erm, Aphix twin, Christ no, not at this ungodly hour, Bat for lashes?, no, ah, Dennis Wilson Pacific Ocean Blue, that'll do nicely, its great, but also greatly overrated. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2398 Registered: 05-2005 |
KT Tunstall - Drastic Fantastic. Picked it up for $3 in yet another record store's closing down sale. It's great. Quite different (and better) than her first album. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2400 Registered: 05-2005 |
Gavin Friday's superb Each Man Kills The Thing He Loves. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2683 Registered: 05-2005 |
Take That - Beautiful World. Its a fantastic comeback album, from the BEST pop comeback of all time. I know I know...the kids love it though, which can't be a bad thing?? | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1800 Registered: 03-2005 |
Last night: Manfred Mann--As Is | ||
| Jonathan Evans Member Username: Jon Post Number: 251 Registered: 04-2005 |
Tracy Chapman - Collection Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes A freebie from Q magazine called REM Jukebox, no idea how long its been hanging around though. Cheers Jon | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 540 Registered: 07-2006 |
no need to convince me spence, though you might have some work with the rest of the board. their nye spectacular, which i watched the following day, was a little bit jawdropping! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1802 Registered: 03-2005 |
McCarthy again: the CD that pairs "I am a Wallet" with "Banking, Violence and the Inner Life Today." | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2688 Registered: 05-2005 |
Bloomin hell Randy, you sure are lovin them guys man ain't ya!!!!? Can't say I blame you! | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 467 Registered: 02-2008 |
Ry Cooder - The UFO Has Landed. Exemplary, satisfyingly diverse and comprehensive comp from the slide guitar master. Inspirational lyric: "Down in Hollywood/Don't you dare run out of gas/They'll drag you right out of your car and literally kick your ass". | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1803 Registered: 03-2005 |
Yes, Spence, I am definitely not tired of McCarthy. Being a guitar guy I have to love a band with such inspired guitar arrangements. And I've already talked about the lyrics. The melodies? Obviously a McCarthy strong point. But on top of all that I just love the organic way they evolved musically from the first album to the second to the third. They didn't make the same album over and over again. But they also don't sound like they made a self-conscious effort to evolve--they just did it by exploring the next idea that interested them. Which, of course, sowed the seeds of their demise and Tim and Laetitia's formation of Stereolab. Btw I don't believe that "I am a Wallet" is their best. They kept getting better each step of the way and the last is the best. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2402 Registered: 05-2005 |
Gavin Friday - Shag Tobacco. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1275 Registered: 08-2006 |
Again: "The Gift of Screws" by Lindsey Buckingham. I think this might be one of the great, lost records of 2008. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 3 Registered: 10-2008 |
The Replacenments - Let It Be Plastikman - Consumed | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2405 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Broken West - Now Or Heaven. Two songs in on the first listen. So far so very good. More great Beatlesesque power pop. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2408 Registered: 05-2005 |
Various Bruce Springsteen tracks. Candy's Room, Born To Run, Badlands, The River, Hungry Heart, My Hometown, Brilliant Disguise etc. | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 173 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Submarines - Honeysuckle week Saw those Obama voters yesterday before Aimee Mann ( http://img90.imageshack.us/my.php?image= dscf1400gw6.jpg ). Fresh and pleasant sugarpop. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1303 Registered: 01-2005 |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcorE7Bi3 II One of my favorite tracks from my favorite album by EBTG. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1806 Registered: 03-2005 |
The Apartments - Apart | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2696 Registered: 05-2005 |
Funnily nuff Randy I am listening to them too, courtesy of your good self. I really like them, they make me think of The Triffids, but far slicker, singer is very detached. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 541 Registered: 07-2006 |
my #1 from idlewild too michael. i saw the 12" on a record store recently and swooned a little. walking to you and 25th december make up my ebtg trinity, if you will. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1807 Registered: 03-2005 |
That's funny Spence. I think of them as a more intellectual Pale Fountains. Except Peter Milton Walsh can't sing to save his soul! | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 43 Registered: 11-2007 |
Marine Girls - Lazy Ways/Beach Party Ben Watt - North Marine Drive + Robert Wyatt part Tracey Thorn - A Distant Shore EBTG 7" Night & Day Soundtrack for my SOUL... | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2707 Registered: 05-2005 |
Andreas, great selction! You having a cherry red day!? North Marin Drive, was so beautiful, Box Hill, ahhhh, the mono cover, his semi crew cut, he's much slimmer now, though then Mr Watt carried some fat, it suited him and it carried the warmth of his tunes... i think jeff is a big fan | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1445 Registered: 10-2004 |
Andreas - what Spence said! Yes, Jeff is a big fan. I love everything you've got listed there. And oddly enough, I've had Lazy Ways/Beach Party in my car the past few days. Lazy Ways is beautiful. I'll have to pull out my Ben Watt records soon. It's been raining here all weekend, which is perfect weather for the EP with Robert Wyatt. A few weeks ago I was listening to EBTG's masterpiece "Eden." I never get sick of that record, nor its fairly different, yet equally brilliant eponymous US counterpart. | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 45 Registered: 11-2007 |
Yeah, I love the stripped down way of their music those days. Eden is beautiful as well but when I first heared Night & Day I was impressed of this version of that beautiful song! And Marine Girls and the Ben Watt solo are the same sort of stuff... I just remember that there is a fine 7" of Jane from the Marine Girls: It's a fine day - wonderful, even more stripped down than possible --- not the miss jane cover - don't know whether it is also from jane ??? --- On my way to work today I heared Deerhunter - Microcastle for the first time. Wonderful music but I have to hear it more often. Other records to listen to: - Kyte - Eugene McGuinness ... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2411 Registered: 05-2005 |
Madness: Mad Not Mad. Bet Spence likes that one too. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2412 Registered: 05-2005 |
Spence, I've never thought of Peter Walsh's voice as "detached", but I can see what you mean. Randy, I'ver never thought that Peter Walsh "can't sing to save his soul", but I can see what you meant too! | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2714 Registered: 05-2005 |
Pad, you right on guy, love it/them, I realised the other day, that they were pretty much there at the start of my lie liking music, and to this day, ~ I adore the group, so consistent and original, probably my fave of all time! Gonna dig it out this morning. Just been playing Poppiecock by Pop Will Eat Itself, from 22 years ago, when they sounded like Buzzcocks. Still sounds great to me. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 547 Registered: 07-2006 |
i had no idea pwei had been around for so long! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2417 Registered: 05-2005 |
I love PWEI's Cure For Sanity. What a record. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1809 Registered: 03-2005 |
Padraig, IMO Peter Milton Walsh is one of the very best songwriters still living anywhere in the world. His own pitch as a vocalist is all over the map. He learned how to pretty much avoid the sand traps as his recording career continued but judging from the YouTube clips of his recent shows, it's back to the wayward sound of "The Evening Visits." His songs are very melodic and he can't really put that across. I wish some traditional singers would cover his songs. Last night: The Poets--Scotland's #1 Group. This is one of Andrew Loog Oldham's more esoteric projects. They really needed the indie music scene that didn't exist in 1965. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2716 Registered: 05-2005 |
Yeah Joe, PWEI, have been around an age. They were originally called Wild and Wandering, the whole PWEI stuff/Wonderstuff conncection goes back to early 80's, '8/'86 PWEI had long hair leather jackets, looking a bit ike Gaye Bikers on Acid et al. They sounded like The Soup Dragons/Buzzcocks. They had Graham who was to go oand front alongside Clint, their white rap, on stand up drums. They played with al the indie groups of the time, I remember them alongside Primal Scream smashing Burberries the club up in '87 oops!They were from Stourbridge in the Midlands, I went to Art School there, I saw them hanging around with al the other bands of the time, all pretty much goths and the like. I gotto know Rich and Adam later on, Clint Mansell I know, he once gave my old group Elizabeth jane a big plug by saying we were his fave band of '91. PWEI were huge at this time. I was in contact not too long ago with Clint ion Myspace, he is now a very successful songwriter/composer for the big screen, and a really nice, intelligent guy to boot. Ricjh went on to form Bentley Rhythm Ace. | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 175 Registered: 05-2005 |
I saw them with the Mighty Lemon Drops and they stole the show so easily. Clint hanging on the ceiling, the brilliant drummer... An impressive concert. At the end they played alltogether with the MLD. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1446 Registered: 10-2004 |
Okay, so I'm really confused by all mentioning of PWEI. Spence, you've done a good job of describing them, but I'm still a bit perplexed. When I was exposed to them via MTV and the local "alternative" radio station around '88 or so (w/ songs like "Can U dig it?"), they just seemed like a long-haired, English counterpart to the Beastie Boys. Scuzzy, grimy white dudes doing silly rap. The band responsible for the whole "grebo" phenomenon. Back then, they just seemed obnoxious, throw-away party music, kinda like, well mid-80s Beastie Boys. So, basically, I just ignored them. But now I'm hearing they were apparently Buzzcocks influenced in their early days? | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 412 Registered: 05-2005 |
The new Augie March. It's growing on me thogh it hasn't hit me over the head like "Moo You Bloody Choir". Yak bells. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1813 Registered: 03-2005 |
It's out Geoff? Ok, off to Amazon . . . . | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2426 Registered: 05-2005 |
It's good, but yeah, nowhere near as good as the last one. The singer said as much in an interview in The Sydney Morning Herald. He had a lot of disagreements with the producer while making it. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2726 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jeff, you describe them very acurately! I need not elaborate! In their later days, I was never a real fan, I was a fan of the people, but the tunes were not really my thing, i appreciated their immense skill at composition and innovation though, in the same way as the Beastie boys. They were a bit of one of those cartoony bands i guess. Their drummer Fuzz thownsend who i know, was one of my fave drummers at the time, he used to be in Pig Bros with Nick beales from The nightingales, a terrific band around '86-'88, like The Fall only in many ways more original. i have an album of theirs to convert to digital, along with everything else I have comitted to and still yet to get round to in my life! Fuzz sometimes played a tin bath on stage!! very good looking guy too, he liked English buses, was mad on em, I nearly participated in a musical venture with him, but alcohol got in the way...(yawn, there he goes again, another effin musical pain in the arse anecdote...) just found this clip though not entirely the best example of theor powerful shit...http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=6oD4K4RG32 M |