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     skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 88 Registered: 10-2008 |
Ive got broadband and that last "what are people listening to" thread was getting out of hand to load up, so here we are at the half century. Buzzcocks - Another music in a different kitchen Magazine - Magic,Murder and the Weather Freddie McGregor - Mr McGregor The Heptones - Deeper Roots The Juan McLean - The Future Will Come (somebodys been listening to Dare by The Human League!) Zomby - Various 12" singles (dubstep) Beach Boys - Wild Honey Junior Boys - Begone Dull Care | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 223 Registered: 02-2007 |
Finally someone worked out what comes after XLIX !! Thanks Skulldisco. My Morning Jacket - Sweatbees Died Pretty - Free Dirt (Repackaged double CD) Richard Thompson - Sweet Warrior Linda Thompson - Dreams Fly Away Tex Perkins Dark Horses - Sweet Nothing Grant Lee-Phillips - Mobilize Dan Penn - Do Right Man | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1917 Registered: 03-2005 |
Pigram Bros.--Saltwater Country Holly Throsby--A Loud Call Kevin, is that Heptones record with or without Leroy Sibbles? How does it stack up? | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2908 Registered: 05-2005 |
Chic - Risque The Stranglers - Feline Pale Fountains - Pacific Street | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 146 Registered: 03-2007 |
Amaya Laucirica - Sugar Lights Khancoban - Limbs May Fall | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1355 Registered: 08-2006 |
The Go-Between - Spring Hill Fair LL Cool J - All World John Fahey - Of Rivers and Religion Fluffy - Black Eye Brian Eno - Discreet Music | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 89 Registered: 10-2008 |
Randy, its without Leroy Sibbles. Its from the late 70s and is produced by Niney The Observer. I actually got the album title wrong, it should be Deep in the Roots. Have you heard Sea of Love by The Heptones, its a comp of their Studio One stuff which was released on Heartbeat? Its amazing. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1918 Registered: 03-2005 |
No, Kevin, I haven't heard the "Sea of Love" comp. It will be interesting to hear what they do with the soggy title song. For the Heptones, all I have is the Trojan comp and two of their albums. The Trojan comp has none of their Studio One stuff so thank you very much for the head's up on that. According to the notes on Amazon, it's all rock steady--my favorite JA musical period. And Heartbeat usually pulls things from good sound sources. That's one of the odd and sometimes frustrating things about Jamaican artists back then: they'd record for several different major producers at the same time and no record labels can get all the rights. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 90 Registered: 10-2008 |
Randy, its a great version of Sea of Love, although I cant compare it to the original as I havent heard it. Another great Studio One release is On Top which is basically a greatest hits album. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1919 Registered: 03-2005 |
Kevin, I'm so glad you got me to go trolling through Amazon. In addition to the Heptones' set, I found ANOTHER promising Heptones set also consisting of Studio One recordings that does not overlap with "Sea of Love," a great (and already out of print, but one used copy was waiting for me!) CD release of the one-and-only LP done by the Cables (another Coxsone act) and a collection by a group I've never heard of before--The Tennors--and a brilliant anthology of the Ethiopians that seems to perfectly step around the stuff already released on Trojan's anthology of this group. So, my mail slot will be dropping all sorts of rock steady goodness quite soon. Meanwhile, listening to : Pigram Bros--Jiir This Oz indigenous country band is growing on me in a serious way. In the U.S. country music long ago deteriorated to a test-marketed pop affectation with little or no connection to the rural world that spawned it. Even the vaunted alt-country is generally just some youngish rock musicians donning a suit of musical clothes for the occasion before they change their outfits and ape something else. In big empty Australia, the country's unlucky have embraced it and invested it with all of the soul that ours once had. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2910 Registered: 05-2005 |
Grace Jones - Hurricane. TV on the radio - Dear Science. Starbase 109 - My new invention. | ||
| JunkInTheTrunk Unregistered guest |
Magazine - all discs. I'm somewhat chuffed by all the tales of seeing the blokes in all theyre Magaziney glory. Lucky basterds! | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2914 Registered: 05-2005 |
Oh frig its Obama! | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 147 Registered: 03-2007 |
Clue To Kalo - Come Here When You Sleepwalk | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2917 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Concubines-Pining for the Fjords Very nice, Great bunch of songs, it belongs on el!, reminds me of High Llamas and the GB's in places, its quite a feat, Jeff plays everything and there's a lovely female voice on there too. | ||
| Achybreakyquietheart Unregistered guest |
Morrisy - Years of Refusing. Stonking sweet sounds from the great former Smiths singer, Morrsey. Geezum the lad can sing. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2918 Registered: 05-2005 |
British Sea Power - Open Season. A very good album, not as raw, but still wonderful. | ||
| Jonathan Evans Member Username: Jon Post Number: 311 Registered: 04-2005 |
Spence I love British Sea Power, something typically English-eccentric about them. Currently America's Folk Heroes (Woody Guthrie). Cheers Jon | ||
| Charles Coy Member Username: Coy Post Number: 121 Registered: 10-2006 |
..so agree with British Sea Power, 'we are all waving flags'... | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 94 Registered: 10-2008 |
BSP? 3rd rate Bunnymen ;-) | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2919 Registered: 05-2005 |
Skull, no I don't think so, their early stuff was more JD for me. They play with a passion, which is more than the REAL 3rd rate Bunnymen imposters do, such as, Editors etc etc ") And they have lived past their second album, who does that nowdays? | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 70 Registered: 05-2005 |
I have to say I am with Kev on this one, when BSP first arrived on the scene I read the interviews and saw the photos and liked the Haircut 100/Bunnymen/ACR look with the trees on stage eccentricity. Then heard the records which just dont deliver much more than a Bunnymen/U2-all a bit pompous and quite boring heard it too many times before limpid rock. Have tried to go back to them on each new release and they havent got any better to these ears. They still look good in their videos though! | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 456 Registered: 05-2005 |
O.K. You were right Kevin/Sculldisco! I bought the Sun Giant ep at the height of your blathering about Fleet Foxes last year and never really heard any great SONGS on it so stayed clear of the album....stupid move! What a great album!! Since I made THAT mistake, probably spurred on by your repeated negative critiques of a certain Liverpool quartet, I got that Animal Collective album too. Not an easy listen but some very tasty bits coming through on the first couple of listens so far.... but the Fleet Fox's album is too good to take off yet! Just bought the new Church single "Pangaea". This is much more like it from them! GREAT. Their myspace site has another teaser (from the forthcoming album) called "Happenstance" ( - not a cover of the db's song!) and that's fab too. Could be a good year for music.... | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2921 Registered: 05-2005 |
Morrissey - years of refusal. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 71 Registered: 05-2005 |
I have had the Morrissey album on repeat in the car since monday and it's good and getting better | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1550 Registered: 10-2004 |
Spence - What do you think of that new Morrissey? | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1551 Registered: 10-2004 |
Associates - 4th Drawer Down This album never ceases to amaze me. Simultaneously beautiful and frightening! | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2922 Registered: 05-2005 |
'TIS TYPICAL MOZZER JEFF! I do love the old miserable bitter bastard! | ||
| cosmooffline Unregistered guest |
shame is the name on the b-side of the moz single is excellent too | ||
| cosmooffline Unregistered guest |
yes jeff the associates world is one of wonder. message oblique speech - all important rubbish made to publish made to last! | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 192 Registered: 05-2005 |
Morrissey - Years of refusal. The worst of the last three records in my opinion. Even if his voice is at its best. I'll go to the concert. Lloyd Cole - Cleaning out the ashtrays. 4 cds waiting for listen. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 95 Registered: 10-2008 |
i like it too. the old buffer has maybe released his best album since vauxhall and i | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1924 Registered: 03-2005 |
Today: The Cables--What Kind of World The Heptones--Sweet Talking Augie March--Watch Me Disappear Wild Swans--Incandescent (disc one) | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 264 Registered: 10-2006 |
also grooving to the Moz...hilarious words, and altho I'm no muso, isn't there some great drumming on this record? love the horn flourishes, too...No Come back to Camden to reduce me to tears, but still a fresh and funny piece of work...meanwhile, does anyone know the Howling Bells? Stephen Dalton's Uncut review has aroused my curiosity... | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 96 Registered: 10-2008 |
Randy, The Cables: excellent choice, just prompted me to play it myself. Neko Case - Middle Cyclone Radiohead - In Rainbows Little Feat - Dixie Chicken Various - Once Upon A Time At King Tubbys | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1381 Registered: 01-2005 |
>Neko Case - Middle Cyclone Kevin, That is by no means a Mercury Cyclone that Neko is kneeling on the hood of on the cover of Middle Cyclone, it's a 1967 Mercury Cougar. I know there aren't a lot of Mercury Cyclones that are still amongst us as Mercury never sold that many compared to the nearly identical 1967 Ford Fairlane, but here is a 1967 Mercury Cyclone: http://www.jumpthegun.com/cyclone/pictur es/67burgcycdhuffrt.jpg | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2608 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Beatles, Red and Blue albums. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2923 Registered: 05-2005 |
McCarthy - Banking, Violence And The Inner Life Today How new now and 'with it' I am eh!!!?? | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1926 Registered: 03-2005 |
Damn! You people have the new Neko Case already? Thanks for keeping the record straight Michael. I had a model of that car when I was a kid. | ||
| Jonathan Evans Member Username: Jon Post Number: 312 Registered: 04-2005 |
Dennis Wilson - Pacific Ocean Blue Empire Of The Sun - Walking On A Dream Cheers Jon | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1927 Registered: 03-2005 |
The Ethiopians -- Reggae Hit the Town | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 459 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Howling Bells got a big wrap in some quarters here in Auz early last year I think. Sioux/Pretenders style I think from memory they were saying. I know they're playing in Sydney soon as part of some multiband gig/festival/type thing. I think I checked out the website/myspace site and they were OK to good. Are they being raved about OS? | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 265 Registered: 10-2006 |
Not raved, but rather well talked of. Terribly cute, the singer, too. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 72 Registered: 05-2005 |
I heard a single when they were first around which was good but when the first album came out I think they had used Coldplay's producer and they sounded as if they could become sterile and stadium boring or cool and interesting depending on which way they wanted to go. Which path did they choose? | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 266 Registered: 10-2006 |
From YouTube, I suspect the one more travelled by! | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 97 Registered: 10-2008 |
Yo La Tengo - Fakebook Stereolab - Transient Random Noise Burtsts with Announcements Martyn - Great Lengths Wailing Souls - Wailing Junior Boys - Begone Dull Care Magazine - Touch and Go Anthology | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2610 Registered: 05-2005 |
Geoff, I came across a The Howling Bells CD single the other day and wondered whatever had become of them. They used to be an average indie pop band called Waikiki and then one day changed their name to The Howling Bells and changed their music to a heavier, PJ Harvey-ish style. Not without its charms, but fatally derivative I think. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2612 Registered: 05-2005 |
P.J. Olsson - Three Light Years And A Day. Lovely, gentle, power pop from back in the day (2002). | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 460 Registered: 05-2005 |
Ah ha...well I DO have a Wakiki album somewhere: wasn't that impressive from memory! Played it once!! | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2929 Registered: 05-2005 |
Obama's speech to congress at 2am this morning. Really inspirational delivery, great speech writer too, this was better than the inaugural. I know he still has to deliver, but what he said and the way he delivered it, was light years in comparison to everything that has happened c/o Bush and co in the last stinky, mosh pit ridden last 8 years. Now its back to Gordon Brown et al over here, oh fu*kin hell, shoot me... | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 98 Registered: 10-2008 |
Cant stop playing the Yo La Tengo covers album from the 90s, Fakebook. Previously thought it was a bit throwaway, now its one of my faves of theirs. I noticed on Amazon its attracting crazy money - Ł106!! | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1554 Registered: 10-2004 |
I could never get into Fakebook. Know a lot of people who seem to dig it, though. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 148 Registered: 03-2007 |
Skulldisco, there is another one on AmazonCo selling for Ł120.04. The seller is RBMBooks who offer a lot of stuff for sale at crazy prices. Both copies appear to be a Japanese releases and will probably contain a bonus track/bonus tracks. Currently listening to The Bowery by Firekites and Gee Whiz But This Is A Lonesome Town by Moriarty. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1382 Registered: 01-2005 |
Fakebook is going for $15.98 on amazon.com for a new copy. I'm listening to another covers album currently, although it was released in 2008. Meet Glen Campbell - Glen Campbell. Covers of the VU's "Jesus", Jackson Browne's "These Days", the Foo Fighters' "Times Like These". I like it. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1357 Registered: 08-2006 |
Funny, Kev, when you mentioned "Fakebook" yesterday I pulled it out and played it while making dinner last night. I meant to say thanks for the reminder - it's a record I loved back in the day but overlooked in the last decade in favor of other, more recent YLT albums. Nice to hear it again. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2931 Registered: 05-2005 |
Michael, I heard good reports about Glen Campbell, you rate it then? Listening to Po! a few tracks from a friends blog. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2932 Registered: 05-2005 |
Brendan benson - The alternative to love. Great album, reminds me of Squeeze with a touch of Wilco. I can see where the raconteurs get their feed from... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2614 Registered: 05-2005 |
I love that Glen Campbell album Michael. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2933 Registered: 05-2005 |
I'll get the album then Pad! | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1384 Registered: 01-2005 |
Yes I rate it Kevin, get it by all means!! I'll echo Pad's feelings about it as the more I listen to it the more I love it. Currently listening to and ripping to my library as I bang this post out: Pylon - Hits | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1928 Registered: 03-2005 |
Blue Orchids--The Greatest Hit | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 149 Registered: 03-2007 |
Worn Copy by Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1386 Registered: 09-2006 |
Ditto on the Glen C. album...Mr. Forster actually did a very nice writeup on it when it came out. Citizen Steely Dan - one of those box sets I can pull out of an evening and happily listen straight through. Even the weaker cuts are shored up by all the stronger ones. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2618 Registered: 05-2005 |
I bought the Glen Campbell album on Robert Forster's recommendation in that article! | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1558 Registered: 10-2004 |
My very favorite Glen Campbell moment is him doing "Guess I'm Dumb," written for him by Brian Wilson. In fact, that might be one of the top 5 greatest recorded moments in pop history. | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 224 Registered: 02-2007 |
Allman Brothers Band - Ramblin' Man | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1386 Registered: 01-2005 |
Over The Hillside - The Blue Nile | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 102 Registered: 10-2008 |
Martyn - Great Lengths Disrupt - The Bass Has Left The Building Stereolab - Refried Ectoplasm, Switched On Vol2 The Juan Maclean - The Future Will Come The Uniques - Watch This Sound Bonnie Prince Billy - Beware | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 150 Registered: 03-2007 |
My favourite album by Glen Campbell is Reunited With Jimmy Webb. It collects together the songs from the Reunion album ( eight of the ten songs were written by Webb while the other two were written by his sister Susan Webb and Lowell George of Little Feat respectively ) plus all of the other Webb composition he recorded between 1974 and 1988. Currently listening to:- Khancoban - Limbs May Fall An Horse - Not Really Scared ( EP ) Oliver Mann - Sings Oliver Mann - The Possum Wakes At Night We Grow Up - Night Kitchen | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 103 Registered: 10-2008 |
The Morwells - Crab Race Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest Beck - Modern Guilt | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1562 Registered: 10-2004 |
Blue Aeroplanes - Swagger Gal Costa/Caetano Veloso - Domingo Jazz Butcher/Max Eider - Misc. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1393 Registered: 09-2006 |
My local thrift shop had an influx of CDs this week, and for a pittance I picked up three comps, one of which I used to own and was very happy to get reacquainted with: The Specials' "The Singles Collection." Also got Bowie's "The Singles Collection," which a number of you may've perused before, but which is new to me. A pretty good walkthrough IMO - Disc One barely makes a misstep, and though Disc Two doesn't end soon enough (after "Blue Jean" would be fine, thanks) the biggest quibble I've got is the omission of the original "Cat People," though I understand it was available on some versions (it probably came where "Wild is the Wind" is now). It sure as hell beats "Best of Bowie," which I had the misfortune to hear not long ago - odd choices, edited versions galore (some so bad it sounded like the CD was skipping), and more than half of the second disc devoted to post-"Never Let Me Down." Speaking of edited versions, does anyone know why "Heroes" gets singled out for radical chopping on every comp I've heard? It's perhaps the song of his in which build is most essential to its power, and when he's bellowing by the second verse it just doesn't work. Next up: The Jam's Greatest Hits | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 105 Registered: 10-2008 |
Zomby - All his 12" 45's - this guy is a genius. Various Artists - Basic Replay Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup Various Artists - In Search of Wonky Allen, spot on about Bowies Heroes. A terrible edit edit of what is perhaps one of the greatest songs of all time - certainly one of the best in Bowies canon | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2942 Registered: 05-2005 |
Driving around to clients yesterday, a lovely, day, the passage to Spring, in the changer were: The Concubines - pining for the Fjords The Pale Fountains - Pacific Street Shack - Miles and Gil The Smiths - Rank The Smiths - The World won't listen. The Smiths blew me away, they were an unbelievably original and almost timeless force. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 74 Registered: 05-2005 |
Roll Your Moneymaker - Early Black Rock'n Roll 1948 to 1958 Compilation | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2622 Registered: 05-2005 |
David Bowie - The Platinum Collection (3 discs). It features the single version of Heroes so reviled above! | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1394 Registered: 09-2006 |
Maybe years ago Bowie saw some fan in the front row yawning during that song and he's been paranoid ever since... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2623 Registered: 05-2005 |
Rest easy Allen and Kevin. I'm right now listening to Heroes in all its six minutes, ten seconds glory. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2624 Registered: 05-2005 |
David Holmes - Story Of The Ink. Gets better every time I hear it. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1932 Registered: 03-2005 |
Neko Case--Middle Cyclone This is my initial listen. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2626 Registered: 05-2005 |
Outlaw Blues, Murder Ballads & Prison Songs -V/A comp with February edition of Uncut. My daughter bought it yesterday for my birthday! (I may have indicated it was what I desired). Johnny Cash, Dave Alvin, Big Maceo, Bo Diddley, Mississippi John Hurt, the wonderful Baskery and more. It's a great comp. | ||
| Charles Coy Member Username: Coy Post Number: 125 Registered: 10-2006 |
Happy Birthday Padraig, that Johnny Cash tribute in in Uncut is brilliant.. Listening to The Verve 'Forth', The Frames 'Burn The Maps' & Morrissey 'Years Of Refusal'..holy hell how about his voice in YOR. Yodels, hums and yearns its growing on me. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1395 Registered: 09-2006 |
It's not in stores for another week and a half, so I was very pleasantly surprised to find my copy of "Quiet Please...the New Best of Nick Lowe" in the mailbox today. Summary upon first listen: due to a couple of major omissions and two or three minor ones I prefer the "Basher" comp as a summary of the 70s and 80s, but the choices here are far from a disgrace - the pool of choices is so deep one can't go too far wrong. And until Yep Roc reissues the 6 still OOP albums from that period (which I trust they're working on), these are pure gold. There's maybe two or three too many selections from his last four records, especially considering they're all readily available, but all in all it makes a strong case for that phase of his career - even makes "The Convincer," an album I've found way too bland sound like something to hear. Also includes a DVD with 9 extremely cute vintage videos and an entire '07 live show. Happy to own it. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1396 Registered: 09-2006 |
Oh, and many happy belated returns of the day, Padraig! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2630 Registered: 05-2005 |
Thanks lads. Much appreciated. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1360 Registered: 08-2006 |
Ditto, Padraig. Hope you had a happy one. Allen, I hadn't heard about that N. Lowe collection. Thanks for the heads up. This weekend, I've been rediscovering this terrific band I hadn't played much lately called the Go-Betweens. I highly recommend them to all. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1399 Registered: 09-2006 |
I've been doing a bit of that myself, specifically The Peel Sessions and The Friends of Rachel Worth, my favorite of the Mach II albums - tunes and guitar parts and moods that flow from one song to the next in a gestalt that I love sinking into. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2944 Registered: 05-2005 |
Happy Birthday Pad! | ||
| Jonathan Evans Member Username: Jon Post Number: 315 Registered: 04-2005 |
To Start Happy Birthday Padraig, any many more happy ones! I'm currently listening to the Rugby League Challenge Cup draw, its a little bit of a niche listen... I wouldn't recommend it. Widnes are playing Halifax (Away) for anyone interested!! Musically, just put on the cd86 compilation which, I think the kids term is 'bigged up', a while back. Its still very good, and made me think about CDing the original NME C86 tracks. That sounds a job for the weekend - will 22 tracks fit on 1 CD - I'll let you know!! Cheers Jon | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2631 Registered: 05-2005 |
Did you get that cassette when it came out Jonathan? Or did you pick it up in a charity shop at some point? How many of the songs from the cassette are on CD86? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2633 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy Adams - State Of Grace. A wonderful and very touching song. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 109 Registered: 10-2008 |
The Word Girl - Scritti Politti | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 110 Registered: 10-2008 |
Followed by The "Ssweetest Girl", clearly one of the best 10 songs ever written | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 111 Registered: 10-2008 |
followed by I love you you big dummy by the mighty Magazzine | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2634 Registered: 05-2005 |
Pictures of You - NME Cure Tribute CD. Some very good versions on this disc, and a nice message from Robert Smith on the art of the cover. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2947 Registered: 05-2005 |
Paul haig - Live at Ultratheque '83 Paul Haig - Drama (cassette) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2636 Registered: 05-2005 |
My Bloody Valentine - Soon (Andrew Weatherall Mix). A superlative take on a stratospherically awesome and awe-inspiring song. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2951 Registered: 05-2005 |
Microdisney - peel sessions. I love this CD. I love the way the first three songs, Sun, moon and Dreaming Drains, open the door to their sad claustophobia. The sound is very 4 track Tascam in the bedroom type sound. On moon, you can start to hear Sean's influence on their future sound, the bassline structure, the guitar embellishments, and the overall melody. I also love on Dreaming Drains the chance to hear Cathal start to come out of his shell, like Roddy Frame early on, he retained his hometown accent, rather than going American, this song actually reminds me of jeff W's latest music from Pining for the fjords, I can see a resemblance to Cathal there in his lyrics and also there's Jeffs lovely skills in his music. Everybody is dead is now on, what a scorcher, I\d love to cover this sorta honest beautiful music, the end of this song is still as frenetic and energetic today as it was the first time I was shocked to hear it!. Cathal is God. Oh, and so is Sean... | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1390 Registered: 01-2005 |
John Hiatt - Walk On Nina Simone - Live at The Village Gate | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1569 Registered: 10-2004 |
Spence, Microdisney's Peel Sessions are great, aren't they. What's really interesting about them is that whereas most bands' Peel Sessions possess more energy or rawness, Microdisney's earlier sessions were moodier and melancholy, almost kind of druggy, like they'd taken downers before recording. And that lends the songs a unique atmosphere, differing from the already unique atmosphere on their studio recordings. But then along comes Everybody is Dead and that ending is like John Cale's most extreme coked-up freak-out multiplied by 10. I would love to have seen Microdisney live. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1570 Registered: 10-2004 |
High Llamas - Beet, Maize, & Corn The Sound - From the Lion's Mouth Associates - Sulk | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2638 Registered: 05-2005 |
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Howl | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1572 Registered: 10-2004 |
Jesus & Mary Chain - Psychocandy It's been years since I've listened to this, and I pulled it out on a whim this evening. Such a fun album! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2639 Registered: 05-2005 |
That's funny Jeff, considering how much BRMC ripped off JAMC initially. Right now I'm listening to The Essential Men At Work. Down Under is a stone classic (and I'll brook no argument on that point) but nothing else they did comes close to essential. A few good pop tunes though. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2952 Registered: 05-2005 |
Miles Davies - Bitches Brew | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1573 Registered: 10-2004 |
Let's Active - Afoot Virgin Prunes - If I Die, I Die... And... I've pulled out my box of 7"s, which is always fun: Go-Betweens - Hammer the Hammer, Part Company, Spring Rain (Australian version w/ the cooler cover) Wire - Our Swimmer Josef K - The Missionary, Sorry for Laughing | ||
| Jonathan Evans Member Username: Jon Post Number: 318 Registered: 04-2005 |
Padraig, I got the c86 tape when it came out, or when I stole it from my older cooler brother. It had 22 tracks on it, most of the bands feature on the cd86, but the majority are different tracks. The Cure freebie was a good addition, in fact I only get the NME when its got something with it now, as I feel they're more interested in cool than music. Currently got disc 6 of The Wedding Present complete Peel sessions - Live at Reading 1996. Cheers Jon | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2641 Registered: 05-2005 |
Yeah, I very rarely buy the NME unless it has a CD with it anymore either. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 82 Registered: 05-2005 |
the monkees - music box box set i picked up cheap on the internet which arrived this morning and which i am absolutely loving - the headquarters stuff is sounding incredible and 'she hangs out' makes me think of Mr Forster | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2958 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jeff, if ever there were two classic Indie milestone 7'' vinyl releases that were meant to be together/ be released concurrently, it was The Missionary and Sorry For Laughing. From the sleeve design to the missing vinyl centre, a pure match made in heaven. Actually, funny story this, way back in '86 a guy had SFL 7'' on his stall at one of these record fairs, and I put a deposit down on it as i was skint, and i didn't see him again for 2 years at another record fair in a completely different city, and Gawd bless him he remembered that I had put a minimal deposit on it and i paid the additional Ł4 and it was MINE!!!! The NME has been utter younger generation pap for a long time now, it wwas at its best last in '87. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2642 Registered: 05-2005 |
That's a great story Spence! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1937 Registered: 03-2005 |
First, an entertaining string of songs by Ludus. Thanks Jeff! And now, The Weather Prophets--Diesel River | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1938 Registered: 03-2005 |
And now I'm on to Jazz Butcher's "Fishcotheque." How interesting to find the Weather Prophets' rhythm section on here. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2647 Registered: 05-2005 |
Various Blur b-sides and rarities, inspired by an article in Uncut magazine. The Wassailing Song, in particular, is lovely. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1392 Registered: 01-2005 |
Aimee Mann - I'm With Stupid Bobby Hutcherson - Dialogue (recommended for any jazz fan) | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1400 Registered: 09-2006 |
David Toop's great compilations "Ocean of Sound" and "Sugar and Poison" Forsterguy - Calling From a Country Phone John Lennon - Anthology | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1939 Registered: 03-2005 |
Biff Bang Pow--Debasement Tapes. This is much better than I was expecting it to be. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2648 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Quarter After - The Quarter After. US psychedelic album from a few years ago. iTunes doesn't recognise it so I'm guessing I have one of not many copies sold. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2649 Registered: 05-2005 |
It's very good by the way, especially if you like The Byrds. And I love The Byrds. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2650 Registered: 05-2005 |
That's Proper Folk. A comp of various folkies from Scotland, Ireland, England and Australia. Pretty good stuff, though not something I'd often be in the mood for. Only cost a couple of quid from Amazon UK. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2651 Registered: 05-2005 |
And one Yank too - the wonderful Mary Gauthier. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 85 Registered: 05-2005 |
Padraig, the Quarter After is Rob Campanella from the Brian Jonestown Massacre and his brother's band. Both their albums are excellent, Changes Near (Byrds joke) the second album is worth getting too. Rob also produces the Tyde who are also excellent(especially for Felt lovers) | ||
| Jonathan Evans Member Username: Jon Post Number: 323 Registered: 04-2005 |
Morrissey - Viva Hate Lloyd Cole & The Commotions - The Singles Cheers Jon | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1395 Registered: 01-2005 |
Neko Case - Middle Cyclone. First pass listen, and it's a keeper for sure and will be in my top 10 for 2009. Jeff, I love the Let's Active afoot ep, so poppy and perfect in it's own way. I bought it on vinyl way back in 1983 based on the 1982 Village Voice Pazz and Jop poll about the same time I bought Chronic Town. Hard to beat those two 1982 ep's. Mitch Easter was like a god back in 1982-84 time period. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 112 Registered: 10-2008 |
Robert Wyatt - Schleep | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2653 Registered: 05-2005 |
Thanks for the info Cosmo. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 113 Registered: 10-2008 |
Zomby - Where were U in 92? Dubstep/techno crossover, with hindsight the album of the year 2008. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1578 Registered: 10-2004 |
Blue Aeroplanes - Various selections from Bop Art, Friendloverplane, & Tolerance. Art Objects - misc. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2964 Registered: 05-2005 |
That's rad Jeff! | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1579 Registered: 10-2004 |
Spence, many thanks to you and Randy for turning me onto the stuff! Michael - yes, Afoot really is a perfect EP. I love how it's not just sunny pop; how there's some nuance and moodiness in places, which gives it more depth. Cypress is quite good, too! | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1396 Registered: 01-2005 |
Cypress is quite good indeed. I still have my twenty year old Afoot/Cypress cd in my collection as well as the vinyl editions I bought originally. Big Plans For Everybody is decent as well. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2966 Registered: 05-2005 |
No probs Jeff, glad to spread my infatuation! Warsaw - some recordings pre Joy Division. Really fascinating, to hear Ian Curtis sounding like Shaun Ryder from The Happy mondays!! He obviously let his Manchester/northern accent shiiiiiine initially, then he developed a slight American touch to his voice, which made it sound incredible in Joy Division. Also interesting to hear Stephen Morris, really trying to emulate a drum machine, Bernard with his trademark, low lead notes to high lead notes, beautiful strumming technique, filled with passion, just short of real rock, and ol Hooky with his pre Adam Cayton style of rolling bass lines, that eventually gets up to speed and takes over with mesmorising lead style bass playing that is all together fuc*ing awesome. By the way, Rhino are rereleasing the recent new Order Cd remasters, this time remastered!!!! | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 895 Registered: 08-2004 |
VA - Warchild Heroes re, New Order, when are the Demos coming out, just in time for Xmas I hope, Spence. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1405 Registered: 09-2006 |
Hopefully we won't have to wait that long... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2654 Registered: 05-2005 |
Marlena Shaw - California Soul. What a song. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2655 Registered: 05-2005 |
Robert Forster - 2541 Grant McLennan - In Your Bright Ray | ||
| Charles Coy Member Username: Coy Post Number: 126 Registered: 10-2006 |
..brilliant Padraig, drove to work with 16LL blasting/Quiet Heart and Clouds..:-). My friend in Sydney sent me TV on the Radio/I can get used to this..its OK.. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 419 Registered: 04-2005 |
Stuff I really don't like ! Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase The old theory of the monkey and a dictionary coming up with the works of Shakespeare applies. But in this case the monkey would have a computer and ProTools (even if Boc claim to use only analog gear apparently). This CD will be used in the garden to frighten the birds away from the strawberries. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible Lord knows that I have tried. But it stills sounds like an overblown Frankenstein's monster of Bunnymen sewn together with Brooocie. Stop the glockenspiel NOW. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 116 Registered: 10-2008 |
The new Super Furry Animals album, easily the best thing they've done for yonks. Its pop, but its "out there" weird pop. Available now on mp3 from their website. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 898 Registered: 08-2004 |
Currently, The Sound Of The Smiths. Last night, Little Richard - The Veejay Years I can't hear much good on Neon Bible either, Andrew. The first E.P. & Funeral are much more palatable. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2969 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kev lookin forward to hearing SFA | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2657 Registered: 05-2005 |
Gentleman Jesse and His Men - I Don't Wanna Know. Serviceable power pop. Georgia Satellites - Keep Your Hands To Yourself. Reintroduced to this classic on the local FM station while on a trip to Noosa a year ago. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2658 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Phantom Band - Checkmate Savage. The Scottish folk/Krautrock crossover starts here. Are you a fan Mr Disco? | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 117 Registered: 10-2008 |
Its ok Padraig, listened to it a few times on Napster. Will play it again tomorrow, sometimes a few weeks without hearing something can make you realise how good an album is. or how bad of course! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2659 Registered: 05-2005 |
I think it's great Kevin. And this is my first listen. I love the Beach Boys type harmonies on Throwing Bones! It goes so well with the Kraftwerkian locked groove Scottish folk! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1941 Registered: 03-2005 |
The Happy Family -- The Man on Your Street Next up, in memorium, Alain Bashung's "Pizza." | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 86 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kev, thanks for the SFA tip, downloaded last night before bed and listened to a CD on way to work. Only the first 3 songs would play (and it's not a long drive anyway) but sounding cool- they are gods and they sound like they are enjoying the freedom at Rough Trade | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1944 Registered: 03-2005 |
Monochrome Set -- Lost Weekend. It's a good thing "Jacob's Ladder" wasn't a hit. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1581 Registered: 10-2004 |
Randy, is that the new Lost Weekend reissue you've got? | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 417 Registered: 01-2007 |
very much enjoying the Astral Weeks live-very dubious initially but it is really good, also also John Martyn- London Conversations. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 119 Registered: 10-2008 |
dm stith - heavy ghost. junior boys - begone dull care. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1945 Registered: 03-2005 |
Yes, Jeff, the Monochromes' album is one of the few upcoming releases that I signed up for as soon as it became possible to order. "Lost Weekend" has been the gaping hole in my MS collection for a long long time. Tonight I'll be listening to the CARE package from upstate New York that I found leaning against my front door today: Jazz Butcher --Scandal in Bohemia Jazz Butcher --Distressed Gentlefolk Max Eider --Best Kisser in the World And--weirdly enough--ALL of them are signed. No idea if they're real signatures or if the seller forges them. They didn't cost much more than unsigned copies from other sellers so I figured why not? If they're forgeries that'll almost be cooler: Pat Fish and Max Eider as art fraud subjects! And after that I'll play The Tactics' "Sound of the Sound Vol. 1" which also fell through the mail slot today. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2663 Registered: 05-2005 |
I don't think Pat Fish is well enough known to warrant fakes autographs Randy. They're undoubtedly the real deal. Magic Moments: The Definitive Burt Bacharach Collection | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2666 Registered: 05-2005 |
Ireland winning the rugby triple crown. Thanks RTE on the internet. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2667 Registered: 05-2005 |
And Ireland winning the rugby Grand Slam for the first time in 61 years of course! | ||
| Jonathan Evans Member Username: Jon Post Number: 324 Registered: 04-2005 |
Good win for Ireland, though it got a bit too close in the last 5 minutes - Wales having a kick to win it in the last minute. I'm happy to say that Wales & Ireland were by far the best two teams...who play rugby!!!! If only England had a go at it on occasions. Good football results today also....United and Chelsea getting beat, Liverpool to do the usual messing it up tomorrow. Listening to an album by a band called The Boat People, who I think are from Australia, I've not heard too much of them, but it sounds quite good. Its your typical Australia summer sounds. Cheers Jon | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2978 Registered: 05-2005 |
Buzzcocks - A Different Kind Of Tension Jeez its fu*kin rubbish, its like some 5th rate punk band after the fact, I dunno, Discharge, or Sham 69 tribute. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1583 Registered: 10-2004 |
Spence - I can't tell if you're joking! FWIW, I actually like that album! | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1411 Registered: 09-2006 |
I have a strong, strong suspicion that he's joking, Jeff. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2980 Registered: 05-2005 |
Sorry guys I'm not! I think its fuc8ing rubbish, total garbage, what on Earth were they thinking of, there's no love in that album, no humour, no clever Shelley, just rubbishy after thoughts. Sorry, I'm as disappointed as the next punk i can tell ya. The cover was rad though. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1584 Registered: 10-2004 |
It might be my favorite Buzzcocks (proper studio) album, come to think of it. Hollow Inside, I Believe, Raison d'Etre , the title track, etc... - great stuff, in my view. Sure, it's got a couple of clunkers, but overall, I really like it! | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2981 Registered: 05-2005 |
I'm probably being a bit harsh Jeff, its just that I do feel with Buzzcocks that it was all over past their second album. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1948 Registered: 03-2005 |
I haven't been in a Buzzcocks mood in a long time. I'll have to see what I think. Right now: Biff Bang Pow--Debasement Tapes | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1585 Registered: 10-2004 |
My honest take on the Buzzcocks is that they were primarily a singles band, which is why Singles Going Steady has been, by far, the most often played Buzzcocks album in my house over the years. I listen to that more than any of the studio albums. But as the studio albums go, I do like Tension. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2982 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jeff I agree, they were a singles band, the first two and the comp Going Steady are great IMHO. A bit like Madness, a cracking singles band though Madness have no stand out album whatsoever, they were all just OK IMHO. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1408 Registered: 01-2005 |
I've got the Buzzcoks - Singles Going Steady on cd, and a nice remastered English import version of Madness - Presents The Rise and Fall on cd. I've never been motivated to add any other cd's by either band to my collection however. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1413 Registered: 09-2006 |
Singles is my album of choice as well, though I also have real fondness for the lengthier best-of Operator's Manual, which collects up lots of nice bits that aren't on the former album. And Lest We Forget is a pretty good live album, dim sound and all. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1413 Registered: 01-2005 |
Allen, the Battle of 1413. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1415 Registered: 09-2006 |
At first I Googled Battle of 1413 to see if that was one of their songs I'd forgotten about, but then...pretty funny! | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 900 Registered: 08-2004 |
A Different Kind Of Kitchen is the only Buzzcocks I've got so far, I rather like it. It does tend to get short shrift in relation to the 1st 2 LP's. Rhett Miller - The Instigator Depeche Mode - Music For The Masses Thom Yorke - The Eraser Remixes Wedding Present - Hit Parade 2 | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 472 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Boat People are from Brisbane I think Jon but I haven't heard anything by them for a couple of years. Friends of mine had an ep and it was ok. Rust Never Sleeps - how great is this album (except Welfare Mothers) Untitled #23 - The Church. One absolute classic and a lot of B-sides (so far...) No line on the Horizon - I really hated their last 2 but this is not bad. Can't be too bad if it samples "The Pearl" (Budd/Eno). That Coldplay album also has a sample of Brian Eno's from "Apollo". Sounds like the producer is trying to get people to discover his back catalogue. (Not a bad thing IMHO). Poor choice of FIRST single, just like the Church (again...groan). John Lennon/Plastic Ono band - Seriously, this might be up your alley Skully. F'n brilliant. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1419 Registered: 09-2006 |
Love that POB one...was just listening to it as part of my soundtrack to Philip Norman's recent John bio. I also liked this little bit of low key sarcasm from the book: ""Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" was instantly banned by the BBC for spelling out the letters of the drug that increasingly dominated headlines. John retorted that the song had nothing to do with LSD but was simply the title of a painting his son Julian had done at school - a story which Paul would later corroborate. It is a plausible enough explanation if one accepts that John never took acid or encouraged its use, that he was completely word blind, and that he took an ongoing and responsive interest in Julian's schoolwork." | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1949 Registered: 03-2005 |
Geoff, do you mean the Lennon/Ono Band record that was his first studio solo album, with "Mother" and "Working Class Hero" on it? Yeah, that's a great album--period. It makes me laugh that Lennon had Phil Spector produce a record full of arrangements with only three or four instruments. Currently listening to The Sound's Jeopardy. Thank you very much, Jeff! | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2989 Registered: 05-2005 |
I've never heard Jeopardy! Billy Bragg - Must I paint you a picture. never really listened to ol Bill that much, but by what I have listened to so far he knows how to write a sweet tune or two!! | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 122 Registered: 10-2008 |
Spence - Jeopardy is ace. Saw them play the whole thing live in 81 (or whenever), supporting the Bunnymen. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2991 Registered: 05-2005 |
What a gig that must've been Kev. Did you see Josef k supporting the Bunnymen!? | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 123 Registered: 10-2008 |
never saw the K spence. saw OJ twice though, they were a shambles both times, but in a good way!! Edwyns voice was surprisingly good live mind you. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2994 Registered: 05-2005 |
he he kev, yeah the OJ were shambolic weren't they!! kev on a diff topic, do you know where I can order good qualityScotch pies from, mutton ones with hole in the middle, I used to be able to get them sent to me in England from a place in Penicuik where my family comes from, but they've gone now. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1420 Registered: 01-2005 |
Spence, I give a double thumb up to Mermaid Avenue by Billy Bragg and Wilco. The 1998 album consists of unpublished works of Woody Guthrie set to new music in which Bill and Wilco's Jeff Tweedy share mosy of the vocal duties with the exception of one lead local by Natalie Merchant. It's not a patchwork effort by any means and any serious collector should really consider adding it to their collection if they don't have it. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2677 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Go-Betweens - The Clowns Are In Town (from Very Quick On The Eye) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2678 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Go-Betweens - I Love You Still (from The Botany Tapes) | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1421 Registered: 09-2006 |
Agreed, Michael, and Volume II is very good as well. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2999 Registered: 05-2005 |
Michael, I forgot to metion I have got the mermaid albums, and great they are too. I also have demos courtesy of mr XY which are equally as great. By the way where is XY? Joe ? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2685 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Scrap Saturday collection. Brilliant four disc compilation of an Irish radio comedy classic from the early 90s. | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 529 Registered: 01-2006 |
Spence, got your Winnebago Orchestra CD just after I returned from a nice break in the west of Ireland, thanks a million. Currently playing Frank Black - Frank Black Francis. Some pretty cool arrangements of loads of Pixies songs, kinda pared back and more sonically textured, really good. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3006 Registered: 05-2005 |
No probs Si, sorry it took so long, its only recently i could afford to get you one, we have to buy them now the freebies have all gone. | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 531 Registered: 01-2006 |
Wow Spence, you shouldn't have but thanks a lot, I'll send something over to you. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3019 Registered: 05-2005 |
no don;t mate, honestly. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1364 Registered: 08-2006 |
Marianne Faithful - "Easy Come, Easy Go" If anything gives the lie to the "American Idol"-supported (but certainly not invented) concept that vocal pyrotechnics=good music, this does. Like, say, Dylan, she invests something in these songs that goes far, far deeper than your typical "Idol" belter could manage in a year's worth of studio takes. It's lovely stuff, in its way, but more than that it's moving. Excellent. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 729 Registered: 04-2006 |
today the new neil young album has been released in germany. what should i say. it's neil young, but the most of the stuff is crap (by first listening). uninspired and boring. but as on every abum of that good old man is the one or other fine song. to name the few: just singing a song, off the road and the acoustic highlight light a candle. classics (maybe). the rest is rumbling and lazily executed. what a pity. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1426 Registered: 09-2006 |
Got that one on order, Rob, and am looking forward to it. It's part of my two-part birthday present to myself, the other being an out-of-print Nick Lowe CD that I'm paying a fairly ridiculous amount of money for, but I miss having it around, so what the frak. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1427 Registered: 09-2006 |
Oh, and good to see you around these parts again... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2699 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Roots Of Rap: Classic Recordings From The 1920s & 30s. Folk and blues, including Cocaine Blues by Luke Jordan. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1954 Registered: 03-2005 |
So, Rob, the Faithfull record really stands up? I haven't gotten it. I was worried that it had come out too soon after her last one which I thought came out too soon after the one before it. She can be VERY erratic. Right now: Blue Orchids--The Greatest Hit to hell with all that professionalism shit. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1433 Registered: 01-2005 |
I still haven't bought MF's Broken English on cd for some reason, and I used to play my vinyl copy a lot in the early 80's until I fell for the music of Kate Bush. I shall have to rectify that very soon and get Broken English on order. Speaking of Broken English (the song), it's writer Barry Reynolds released a great cover of it on his stellar early 80's album I Scare Myself. Barry also was a session player on MF's BE as well. Too bad Barry's ISM was never promoted much, as the whole album is a corker! Highly recommended by me for those who don't have it or never heard of it. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1956 Registered: 03-2005 |
Michael, I've heard really positive comments about his album before. Thanks for reminding me of it. If it's your own song can it be a cover? Last night: the Concubines' Pining for the Fjords. On the headphones. After a luxo meal with wine and one nice little draw. My crazed contemporaneous report forthcoming, Jeff, after I review it and purge the most outlandishly self-indulgent bits. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1365 Registered: 08-2006 |
Allen, back at you. I admire a man who will pay top dollar for an out-of-print Nick Lowe CD. Which one? Randy, I think this one really does stand up. I'm with you - she CAN be erratic. For some reason - the Hal Wilner production, the performance, the tunes, etc. - hits me just right. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1428 Registered: 09-2006 |
Rob, it's "The Rose of England," my favorite of his 80s records. I considered "Labour of Lust," but I hear rumblings that Yep Roc's going to be doing up a special bells-and-whistles edition of that one...but I doubt they're going to be getting to "Rose" anytime soon. | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 476 Registered: 05-2005 |
Doves - Kingdom of Rust. Unfortunately it may be aptly named! Bob Dylan - The Basement tapes Midlake - the Trials of Van Occupanther. Sounding like Fleetwood Mac...this is not a good thing! Coldplay - Viva la Vida and Prospekts March. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular. On the Beach - Neil Young. Rust Never Sleeps - Neil Young. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1957 Registered: 03-2005 |
Geoff, you made me laugh out loud. I used to offer folks my copy of "Van Occupanther" for free. Nobody was amused. And nobody accepted. |