| Author | Message | ||
     spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3011 Registered: 05-2005 |
McCarthy - The Drinking Song Of The Merchant Bankers | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 125 Registered: 08-2005 |
Raining Pleasure - The Triffids | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1425 Registered: 01-2005 |
Don't Bring Reminders - Colin Newman | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3014 Registered: 05-2005 |
Colin newman - & Jury | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1595 Registered: 10-2004 |
Lorries - Colin Newman | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 126 Registered: 08-2005 |
Who's Colin Newman? Yes, I know, I could look him up, but I really do have no idea who he is! | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1427 Registered: 01-2005 |
Go Colin! Keep 'em coming! I don't know how many times I gave Wire's "A Bell is A Cup....Until It Is Struck" a spin in 1988, but believe me it was a lot. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 722 Registered: 04-2006 |
Pharaoh Sanders - Upper Egypt & Lower Egypt kind of post-rock from days where no post-rock exists. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1429 Registered: 01-2005 |
Jazz nut that I am, I have not yet gotten to the point where I appreciate the solo works of Pharaoh Sanders, Albert Ayler or any of the other free jazz cats. Maybe some day, but until then I've still got plenty of bebop and hard bop jazz that I've yet to explore. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 724 Registered: 04-2006 |
Michael, you're right. there is a lot of things to explore on that wide field of jazz. i like that sanders and ayler stuff, but not all is really good. the a.m. song from the album Tauhid has a repetitive theme that i like very much. the rest of the album isn't that good. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2696 Registered: 05-2005 |
Frank Black - Velvety. It's pure Rolling Stones, more so than anything the Stones have managed themselves in a very long time. | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 198 Registered: 05-2005 |
Metric : Help I'm Alive. I don't know for the rest of the new album but this one is a very impressive pop song. Can't wait to see Emily in concert. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 728 Registered: 04-2006 |
john scofield and pat martino - sunny | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1363 Registered: 08-2006 |
"O Dana" - Big Star | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1431 Registered: 01-2005 |
"You and Your Sister" - Chris Bell | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2698 Registered: 05-2005 |
John Cale - I Keep A Close Watch. As beautiful a love song as anyone has ever written. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3020 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Room - New Dreams for old. Bloody great band from Liverpool in the 80's, everytime I hear this song I wait for John Peel to come in. Later they went onto form Benny Profane, much edgier and no less as brilliant as The Room | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1432 Registered: 01-2005 |
Matthew Sweet - Divine Intervention Matthew's Girlfriend album from late 1991 still sounds great some 17 years later, unlike 99% of the grunge crap from the same period. The gutiars from Richard Llyod and Robert Quine and drums from Fred Maher are stellar. I remember first buying it between Christmas and New Years Day in 1991. I've got the the double disc Legacy Edition now and the sound is improved a bit, great liner notes and the second disc which are the demos for Girlfriend. A month and a half later in mid-February of 1992 I got to see Matthew open up for Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians, one of the best concerts I've ever attended. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2701 Registered: 05-2005 |
I love that two disc version too Michael. I saw Sweet live in Austin, TX at SXSW 2001. He was brilliant. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1599 Registered: 10-2004 |
Nice one Spence, I know I've made my love of the Room known around these parts. IMO, the neglect suffered by the Room is one of the great injustices in music. Song of the day for me: Tones on Tail - Twist | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3021 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jeff, yes my friend, I thought exactly the same on Saturday when listening to said track, an injustice. Ringing was a great tune of Fireworks, must get some of their stuff on CD. Tones on tail jeff!>? Was that Daniel from bauhaus? Michael, yes i agree Sweet's Girlfriend was and still is a real great album. I adored Quine's sound, much more raw and less studied than lloyd, though they work so well together in the company of Matthew. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3022 Registered: 05-2005 |
Me again, "Private 3021 - Sar!!" With that kind of introduction I'm bound to get into the ranks of British Sea Power. The Blue Aeroplanes - Veils of colour. Its 1946 again with the Big G. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3024 Registered: 05-2005 |
McCarthy - Red Sleeping Beauty Adore this toon, love the way it ends. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3025 Registered: 05-2005 |
Michael head and the strands - something like you. Randy got me on to this, i still havent heard the album it came from! A beautiful beautiful track, he has a way of getting shit over like no other contemporary. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1429 Registered: 09-2006 |
Theme from "One Day at a Time" | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2704 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kevin Ayers - Cold Shoulder | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3026 Registered: 05-2005 |
Bonnie Prince Billy - Missing one | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1435 Registered: 01-2005 |
Walking To You - Everything But The Girl Tracey Thorn is wrapping up her third solo album, the second since EBTG went on it's current long hiatus. It should be out in another six months or so. | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 199 Registered: 05-2005 |
Vulnerable - Pet shop boys | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2706 Registered: 05-2005 |
Stephen Emmer - Passengers. A wonderful song about the love of trains! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2707 Registered: 05-2005 |
It features Lou Reed on vocals by the way. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1432 Registered: 09-2006 |
Ohmygod, they've got a new album coming and I didn't even realize. Thanks for the heads-up, TROU. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 134 Registered: 10-2008 |
Dinosaur L - Go Bang | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3031 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Apartments - Breakdown In Vera Cruz Its such a summer's day song, its refined, its elegant, its romantic, its les disques du crepuscule, its '87 in a park in London, its Andy Diagram, its that SUNSTRIPED SOUND! | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1438 Registered: 01-2005 |
Kiss Me on the Bus - The 'mats | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3033 Registered: 05-2005 |
Caroline Trettine - You've got to laugh | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1603 Registered: 10-2004 |
Payday - Cathal Coughlan | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2711 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Apartments - Mr. Somewhere | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3039 Registered: 05-2005 |
Microdisney - Birthday Girl. Just bought Daunt Sq comp, great sleeve notes, a good compilation, yeah, i'd have chosen some diff songs, but most of the essentials are on here, mastering is good. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1444 Registered: 01-2005 |
Gillian Welch - Revelator | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3043 Registered: 05-2005 |
Patrick Duff - Spider Woman | ||
| matt Unregistered guest |
Sam and Dave - Soothe Me (but good call on Mr.Somewhere) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2719 Registered: 05-2005 |
Malcolm Middleton - Loneliness Shines | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1437 Registered: 09-2006 |
Not Fair - Lily Allen | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 281 Registered: 10-2006 |
French disko - Stereolab on the Word on You tube. This is rare! (in the Scots sense, I mean). I kind of dipped into the 'lab when I was younger, but never really with great keenness. This, and the recent posts around here, convince me I have to do some research... | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3051 Registered: 05-2005 |
Stuart, I remember seeing them do this on The Word too, I thought it was good. Also like you, I never really got into them. The only reason I had some interest in them was the McCarthy connection - Tim, and Lćtitia, there was a lot of mystery surrounding them at first, and to be honest, i was too wrapped up in other stuff to go investigating, to unravel the mystery! I have a couple of albums, but I could happily live without them, I always thought broadcast were a pale imitation of Stereolab, however they sorta eclipsed S/lab in the poupularity stakes, although I love the look and voice of Trish Keenan, who incidentally I knew years ago, as she was friends with an old band I was in and used to hang around with us and carry the odd amp to a gig! I also remember her singing Simon and Garfunkel tunes in bus stops whilst waiting for the night bus home on many occasion! | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 95 Registered: 05-2005 |
Spence, I'm not sure Broadcast have eclipsed anyone in the popularity stakes unless you know something I dont. Stereolab are and were a brilliant band that I have followed since I heard a track from Space Age Bachelor Pad Music on Out on Blue Six - Mark Radcliffe's old radio show. I have every one of their albums and each and every one contains a gem or two. Their music contains elements of many things I love - krautrock, french pop, groovy soundtracks,brazilian music. I have seen them live on numerous occasions and they have rarely been anything short of brilliant. I vehemently disagree with Jeff and anyone else who claim that they are a spent force and Margerine Eclipse their first album without Mary is up their with their best. I will however concede that they lack and have always lacked an emotional core but at their worst they are a thousand times better than most rock music independent or otherwise. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3052 Registered: 05-2005 |
Cosmo, I agree with your last line, 'they are a thousand times better than most rock music independent or otherwise.' I never saw them live, but I would imagine, they would've been a spectacular experience. Maybe i'll take some time to explore their back catalogue one day too! Re Broadcast, I don't know anything you don't!, it was an off the cuff comment based upon the amount of attention Broadast have gotten in various blogs, news and reviews and in industry (hate the word) music mag sales etc that i have read about over the years, I cant vouch for any stats etc, it just seemed to me like they had become much more popular, I have no evidence though!  | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 96 Registered: 05-2005 |
No worries Spence, I am a big Broadcast fan but dont think they have ever achieved much in the way of success in terms of fans or sales. Stereolab will tour to good crowds around the country whereas I cant imagine Broadcast headlining more than a one-off show in their home town or London if at all | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3054 Registered: 05-2005 |
The The - Uncertain Smile. Soul Mining version. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1604 Registered: 10-2004 |
Saint Etienne - Archway People | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1371 Registered: 08-2006 |
"Hold On, Hold On" - Marianne Faithful | ||
| Jonathan Evans Member Username: Jon Post Number: 332 Registered: 04-2005 |
Liverpool Collective & Kop Choir "Fields Of Anfield Road" RIP & You'll never walk alone. Jon | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1438 Registered: 09-2006 |
Oh, I did get that Faithfull in the mail, Rob, and I'd agree with your summary. At the moment I'm especially partial to her "Ooh Baby Baby" and "Sing Me Back Home." | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1372 Registered: 08-2006 |
That's a crazy version of the Smokey song, ain't it, Allen? | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1439 Registered: 09-2006 |
Indeed...like some LSD fairy popped in and laid a short-term buzz on the whole recording studio. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1968 Registered: 03-2005 |
She does "Sing Me Back Home?" The Merle Haggard song? It sounds like I'll have to get this. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1440 Registered: 09-2006 |
Yep, the Merle song. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 97 Registered: 05-2005 |
Fade in to you - Mazzy Star, I havent been sleeping very well this week and the woozy, druggy vibe of this fits my mood | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3055 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Concubines - prostate beach | ||
| Ferdinand De Saussure Unregistered guest |
Word of warning about prostate beach: always sunbathe face up! | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1453 Registered: 01-2005 |
Bow Down - The Go-Betweens: Live on the ABC's Rock Arena, 1987 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rS8sv6gV l4&feature=related | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3056 Registered: 05-2005 |
cool michael, just spotted this too http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pd6Slibdc KU you know, casey reminds me of vickers here, they both brilliant bass players, goes without saying, they seem to play very similar styles, they look effortless, but so, so into it all. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2723 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jane's Addition - Obvious | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1970 Registered: 03-2005 |
It was enjoyable to watch both of those videos. Well, one and a half of them as YouTube packed up in the middle of "Hometown Farewell Kiss" while I was watching it. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1454 Registered: 01-2005 |
Great Triffids video!!! I wish I knew about them back in the 1980's. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1455 Registered: 01-2005 |
The Clarke Sisters - The Go-Betweens: Live on the ABC's Rock Arena, 1987 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Chwyh2HIx qs&feature=related | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1605 Registered: 10-2004 |
Microdisney - Rack | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3062 Registered: 05-2005 |
Great tune Jeff. Go Betweens - Time in the desert. Its funk reminds me of a time when i used to get sent work in progress demos of orange juice in their rip it up phase when i was a slip of a teenager! its pure Ross/Collins guitar. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 149 Registered: 10-2008 |
The Rockingbirds - Jonathan, Jonathan | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3063 Registered: 05-2005 |
So you picked up yer bags and yer old banjo and you followed the velvets wherever you'd go!!!!! | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 129 Registered: 08-2005 |
I'm in Love with a German Film Star - The Passions (showing my age again, but I'm probably in good company. Actually, on this message board I'm always in goof company...) | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1463 Registered: 01-2005 |
Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 - Goodnight Oslo And to go along with Goodnight Olso, a band from Norway: Bel Canto - Oyster | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3064 Registered: 05-2005 |
Nick Cave - Nature boy What a groove! | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 130 Registered: 08-2005 |
Spence, how does Nick Cave's version measure up against the Great Society's version - top version by a pre-Jefferson Airplane Grace Slick band? | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3066 Registered: 05-2005 |
Si, did Mr cave not write that song then? | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 131 Registered: 08-2005 |
Nat King Cole wrote a song called Nature Boy - as covered by The Great Society - and I don't know Mr Cave's work well enough to know whether it's a cover version or a new song with the same name. The only time I saw Nick Cave was when he was in the audience for Ed Kuepper in Camden. He looked very, very cool. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3067 Registered: 05-2005 |
he looks less cool with the receeding hairline, but he has that 'something', still! | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 620 Registered: 07-2006 |
jeff, my response may be a week over due (doing what i can to catch up) but archway people is pretty much my favourite etienne track. i've only heard the compilation version, not sure which 12 it was originally lifted from? | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1610 Registered: 10-2004 |
Joe, Archway People is from the "You're in a Bad Way" single. I'm not aware of any other version of it, so the comp version is probably the same. It's a truly awesome tune and one of my favorite Saint Etienne tracks as well! | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 621 Registered: 07-2006 |
oh good! the only reason i say that is because on my itunes it comes up as "remix", even though it is a rip from my smash the system compilation. my so tough lp has gotten a major flogging in the past few weeks. smells like lemon flavour! | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1448 Registered: 09-2006 |
Alex C. also did a very trippy version of "Nature Boy," which is on the Ryko version of "Third" | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2729 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1611 Registered: 10-2004 |
New Musik - World of Water | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 100 Registered: 05-2005 |
nature boy by nick cave is a completely different song and nothing like the nat king cole song (which is a classic) | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 132 Registered: 08-2005 |
Cosmo, thanks for that - it did seem an unlikely cover! | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 162 Registered: 03-2007 |
Two Frocks At A Weddings by King Creosote. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 163 Registered: 03-2007 |
That should have been 'Wedding.' | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 102 Registered: 05-2005 |
Hugh, I am digging the new KC, I like the one with Steve Mason from Beta Band (Coast on by?) | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 164 Registered: 03-2007 |
Cosmo, I think 'Flick The Vs' is a wonderful album. Two Frocks At A Wedding, Coast On By, Nothing Rings True and Curtain Craft are particular favourites. I have also been listening to his previous release ( Bombshell ) a lot recently. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 103 Registered: 05-2005 |
Bombshell is good, KC Rules OK also (and contains one of my favourite lyrics 'i gave up half of me heart and you gave a half hearted shrug' in 'Not one bit ashamed')but the dearest place in my heart is reserved for Rocket D.I.Y which was the first one I got | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 104 Registered: 05-2005 |
sorry for typo 'i gave up half of my heart and you gave a half hearted shrug' | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3069 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Apartments - The Failure Of Love Is Like A Brick Wall A lovely track kindly donated by Mr Adams! | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1612 Registered: 10-2004 |
New Musik - World of Water again. This one of those songs that I will be feverishly obsessed with for about three days, after which I'll become totally sick of it. Like all the best bubblegum! | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1464 Registered: 01-2005 |
I love New Musik's first album "From A to B", so many great songs besides World of Water to name here. In fact, I had it in the 11th spot in my Best of 1980 list: 1. The Soft Boys - Underwater Moonlight 2. Talking Head - Remain in Light 3. Joy Division - Closer 4. X - Los Angeles 5. Echo and The Bunneymen - Crocodiles 6. The Teardrop Explodes - Kilimanjaro 7. The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms 8. Peter Gabriel - Melting Face (III) 9. Pretenders - Pretenders 10. Colin Newman - A-Z 11. New Musik - From A to B 12. Squeeze - Argybargy 13. Kate Bush - Never For Ever 14. Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth 15. David Bowie - Scary Monsters 16. Ultravox - Vienna 17. Devo - Freedom Of Choice 18. Dire Straits - Making Movies 19. Prince - Dirty Mind 20. XTC - Black Sea Hard to believe, but used and new cd's like my 16 track Edsel Records edition of "From A to B...plus" (that I bought new five years ago and is now out of print)are going from $172.94 to $199.99 on amazon. That might make my copy of From A to B my most valuable cd in my collection. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2735 Registered: 05-2005 |
Spence, that entire Apartments album is brilliant. Failure Of Love... is not even the best track on it! | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1613 Registered: 10-2004 |
Michael, nice! I have to admit that I've been largely ignorant to New Musik's oeuvre. The only thing I've ever had was the 10" with Straight Lines, which I'd kind of neglected. I pulled it out the other day and was really impressed with it. I then promptly went on a Youtube hunt and found the World of Water video. Just today I hopped over to Amoeba on my lunch break and snatched up a copy of their second album, Anywhere, from the dollar bin. I haven't heard anything from that album. I'm trying to locate From A to B. Looks like a reissue with fewer bonus tracks can be had pretty cheaply on Amazon, so that may be what I go with. The thing that really strikes me about them (based on what little I've heard) is that their songs really take some nice, unpredictable melodic twists and turns. Great 1980 list, by the way. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 919 Registered: 08-2004 |
Nice list indeed. I'd have to kick Dire Straits out & somehow shoehorn The Affectionate Punch, Sound Affects, Sandinista & More Specials in it's place. Erm... Bob Dylan - Paths Of Victory - A real song of hope from the finger-pointing years, with two finger piano. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1615 Registered: 10-2004 |
I'm definitely with you on Affectionate Punch, Jerry. I adore that album! | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3073 Registered: 05-2005 |
Pad, I'll have to spend some cash on that band at some point. I always remember people going on about them, and it was one of those where i never ever got around to making my own purchase, and they never showed on any compilation tapes people used to do for me, looks like I missed out, I'm an absolute sucker for flugelhorns and trumpets too, damn!! Breakdown in Vera Cruz, tears a line through my heart, its fu*kin beautiful, Mr Adams got me into it. I agree with Jeff and jerry, the affectionate punch is a well underrated masterpiece. I remember seeing the running track cover with Rankine and Mackenzie on in my best friend's brother's bedroom, just lying there at the front of a stack of effin cool albums and 12 inchers. It freaked me out, it was what the hell??!! I had to invetigate. I was 11 in early 1980 when me and my mate put it on his brother's deck. i couldn't understand what the hell was going on. then a couple of years, my mate's bro, who was largely responsible for putting me on the right musical track played me this song called party fears two and I never looked back. I then revisited TAP and then its subsequent remix album, which I liked too, though it was slightly more polished, I believe MAc and Rankine thought the remix album a commercial disaster. I loved the original TAP's dry sound, so pure, Mackenzie's vocals worked with the music but he always sounded at odds with the music, but it worked, so, so well. Particular faves, Amused as always, the xylophone ending, The Germanic krautrock sounding LoganTime was a beauty, Matter of Gender and that bassline, Dempsey showing us all how utterly unique his playing would develop later on into on the Sulk album. A just makes me laugh, the kinda lyrics you'd write as a 9 year old in your first band! I have live recordings of Associates playing with Josef K in 1980, and people I know who saw them at that time said they really rocked hard, a real fu*kin rock band! Who'd of thought!? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2745 Registered: 05-2005 |
Rare Breed - a startlingly different, and great, version sent by Jeff. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2746 Registered: 05-2005 |
Just A King In Mirrors - a different, and pretty good, version from Jeff. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1458 Registered: 09-2006 |
Couldn't I Just Tell You? - Todd Rundgren | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3076 Registered: 05-2005 |
Strangelove - Hysteria Unknown A nice slice of Church esque geetar popping to start this dreary f*ckin Monday morn. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 114 Registered: 05-2005 |
Flying Burrito Brothers - Four Days of Rain It's been raining all day here but stopped when I put this on. It's on the third Burrito's album which is not great but also contains a really good version of Tried So Hard by Gene Clark | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2759 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jay Jay Pistolet - Bags of Gold | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1617 Registered: 10-2004 |
Tannoy - English Subtitles | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3078 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Concubines - Rods and Cones | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 116 Registered: 05-2005 |
1000 Violins - Locked out of the Love-In | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3079 Registered: 05-2005 |
Please don't sandblast my house! | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 117 Registered: 05-2005 |
they tried to sandblast my house | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 118 Registered: 05-2005 |
Spence, you started me on a 1000 Violins nostalgia trip and a google search revealed a site run by one of the band which included a photo of ticket for a gig at Southampton University in 1989 which I was at, tickets were four pounds (and there were about four people there) and the gig was really good as I still remember it well. I am now attempting a u-turn in the one way street that is memory lane lest I disappear in to thoughts of DJing before the June Brides (who played to the same four people) at Riverside in Southampton and a hundred other glorious jangly gigs in thev 80s | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3080 Registered: 05-2005 |
Yes mate, know what you mean, i have wonderful memories from '83 to '90 too, gig wise, all things jangly etc, I fu*kin loved ALL of it!! i know Phil Wilson, he's a lovely top bloke. Felt - The Optimist And The Poet | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1982 Registered: 03-2005 |
1000 Violins? Taking notes . . . . | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1470 Registered: 01-2005 |
She's The Kind Of Girl - Gene Clark, or should I say The Byrds? From my newly arrived copy of Gene's Roadmaster cd. Cosmo, If Gene's Here Tonight from Roadmaster would have appeared on the Burrito's third album, no doubt that album would rate higher. | ||
| Mark Leydon Member Username: Mark_leydon Post Number: 220 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Red Guitars - Good Technology | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 120 Registered: 05-2005 |
Michael, Yes and it would have been great had he joined the band. I am reading Hot Burritos but havent got to the Gene Clark tie up yet so dont know the story. The version of Tried So Hard on the album isnt the single version with Gene(but you get both versions on the CD) but actually with the exception of the vocal sounds much better - although maybe the master available wasnt as good for the single. The third album is worth getting for Tried So Hard, Four Days of Rain, All Alone but is mostly just bland. That said Burrito Deluxe is no great shakes either | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1984 Registered: 03-2005 |
That's the Rick Roberts version of the Burritos, right? I haven't heard that in probably 35 years. My recollection is that he was super dull. There were a lot of those cloying vapid "country rock" bands in California in those years. They were interchangeable. Burrito Deluxe: proof of Gram Parsons' inability to stay interested in anything for very long. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1471 Registered: 01-2005 |
Burrito Deluxe had what, a couple of good songs and Wild Horses? Too bad Gram was more interested in hanging around with Keith Richards instead of writing songs with Chris Hillman. Losing Chris Ethridge didn't help matters either. The magic the band had recording Gilded Palace Of Sin was nowhere to be found due to Gram's lack of interest, so Randy is correct about Gram. Maybe the trust fund he got made it too easy for him to lose interest? I don't think Gram would have lasted much longer then a year or so if he didn't die in 1973. Due to the after effects of a motorcycle crash and mixing his anti-seizure meds with way too much booze and drugs, he was certainly on borrowed time. I do think we would have released a follow-up to Greivous Angel with Emmylou though if he had lasted another year, and that makes me sad. |