| Author | Message | ||
     skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 127 Registered: 10-2008 |
Dinosaur L - 24 24 Music Fever Ray - Fever Ray Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle P J Harvey/John Parish - A Woman A Man Went Walking Little Feat - Dixie Chicken Disrupt - The Bass Has Left The Building The Felice Brothers - Yonder Is The Clock | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2687 Registered: 05-2005 |
Bloc Party - Hunting For Witches (Crystal Castles Remix) | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3004 Registered: 05-2005 |
The skull has beat me there, I was about to go for the next WAPLT in what would be my first attempt at roman numerals! Band of horses - Cease to begin. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2691 Registered: 05-2005 |
Fleet Foxes - Sun Giant EP | ||
| Mark Leydon Member Username: Mark_leydon Post Number: 217 Registered: 05-2005 |
Ryan Adams - Love is Hell | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1591 Registered: 10-2004 |
Steve Miro - Trilemna | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3010 Registered: 05-2005 |
McCarthy - Banking, Violence And The Inner Life Today I well expect the BBC to start using McCarthy as backing music on finance related news programmes, instead of the usual Rising Son by Massive Attack, McCathty's time is poignent and its NOW! | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1593 Registered: 10-2004 |
Cath Carroll - England Made Me | ||
| Lewisdhead Member Username: Lewisdhead Post Number: 42 Registered: 01-2007 |
Right now: Empire of The Sun-Walking On A Dream. Yesterday: Madness-Absolutely. This morning: Stax 50 Year Celebration | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2692 Registered: 05-2005 |
House Of Pain. (I'm prepared for the abuse that may follow this statement). | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1424 Registered: 01-2005 |
Colin Newman - A-Z Any other Colin Newman solo albums that reach the heights of A-Z? I've got all the important Wire albums. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 128 Registered: 10-2008 |
Michael, I think CN did an album called Not To (or something like that), not heard it for years but remember it as being good The Wire album from last year is excellent | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3013 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kev, I must catch up with latest Wire albums, I have heard snippets from various sources. I had only recently heard A-Z recently Micheal, thanks for reminding me to dig it out today! Its weird, it sounds like a typical Wire album, circa 154 period, mainly down to Gotobed's lovely drumming technique (which isn't that far removed from Charlie Watts y'know!!) I don;t think Gilbert and lewis were around for it, but it really does sound like Wire. I can also hear shades of what was to come, i.e.e some keyboard effects appear to be the same sounds as were used later on on the Ideal Copy album, that is strange in itself. A-Z doesn't sound like 1980 to me, its pretty timeless, it coulda been done last year. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 129 Registered: 10-2008 |
Ah Michael, you are obviously familiar with CNs album Not To. I see you had Don't Bring Reminders from that album as your song for the day in another thread. A-Z cued up for later on. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1953 Registered: 03-2005 |
Interesting. I never got any Colin Newman other than "Commercial Suicide" which--when I got it back when it was new--didn't engage me. I'm playing it now to see what I think 23 years on. This first song sounds like an electronic outtake from Paris 1919. That can't be bad . . . . | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1594 Registered: 10-2004 |
I LOVE Colin Newman's A-Z. A masterpiece of damaged pop weirdness. Randy, if you like Wire, I highly suggest you track down A-Z. Dark, druggy, art-pop at its best. I love Not To, quite a bit as well. Oddly enough, I was just listening to it in the car the other day. Not To is a bit poppier, or stripped down compared to A-Z, and it starts off with what I think is one of Newman's very best tracks, the breezy, melodic "Lorries." I have this one on CD, Randy, so I can send you a few tracks if interested. Commercial Suicide is a very different beast from Newman's prior solo efforts. It's primarily centered around synths, treated bass and guitar, with no drums/drum machines/percussion. I think it's a beautiful album, though, and one that's grown on me quite a bit over the years. And of course, if you like Commercial Suicide, you might as well get It Seems, which covers similar stylistic terrain. Newman's second album, the instrumental "Singing Fish," isn't too bad, either. I think all CD copies of Not To come as a two-fer with Singing Fish. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1428 Registered: 01-2005 |
Kevin, My A-Z cd has Don't Bring Reminders as a bonus cut. I don't own Not To, but I did just order it thanks to all the above comments. Jeff is correct in that all the available cd's of Not To are part of a Singing Fish/No To single disc cd. It's out of print by the manufacturer but there are plenty of new copies still floating around on amazon.com under the used and new buying option field. I'll agree with Spence, A-Z is timeless. Too bad it doesn't get much ink. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 907 Registered: 08-2004 |
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz Peter, Bjorn & John - Doves - Kingdom Of Rust All new, all essential. Also, Dylan & The Dead. This gets little praise in the great ones legacy, I found it quite moving. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 908 Registered: 08-2004 |
Sorry, that's 'Living Things' by PB&J | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1430 Registered: 01-2005 |
Jerry, Is "It's Blitz" as great as "Show Your Bones"? | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 909 Registered: 08-2004 |
I think time will tell on that one, Michael. I'm still only half convinced by Show Your Bones. They've certainly changed a bit, the focus is more on a synth sound than crunchy guitars on the new one. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3015 Registered: 05-2005 |
Paul Simon - Anothre galaxy from Surpsise album. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2694 Registered: 05-2005 |
Frank Black - live disc that came with his best of. | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 532 Registered: 01-2006 |
Jerry, what's the new PB&J one like? | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1958 Registered: 03-2005 |
today: Sound of the Sound Vol. 1--Tactics Fishcotheque--Jazz Butcher | ||
| C Gull Member Username: C_gull Post Number: 140 Registered: 05-2005 |
Which reminds me....Fishcotheque is a chip shop near Waterloo station -always makes me laugh and beats Tony's Plaice into second for best chippy name | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3023 Registered: 05-2005 |
Love it Simon! If I owned a bakery or ever end up opening one I think I'd call it Bap de la bap, after The Asscociates song from the great album that is Sulk or a greengrocer's: You say tomato i say Devoto. Ahem, anyhow... The Blue Aeroplanes - Warhols 15 The best of. Almost as good as Friendloverplane, a great ally to FLP. | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 418 Registered: 01-2007 |
The Rockingbirds remastered first lp just turned up from Amazon-alway glorious, still glorious, even bigger under achievers commercially than the GBs. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2705 Registered: 05-2005 |
Word magazine CD from October 2007 (playing it now for the first time! And it's great - Kevin Ayers, Carbon/Silicon, Manu Chao, Josh Ritter, Robert Wyatt, Edwyn Collins and more). | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3027 Registered: 05-2005 |
Frank, I love that Rockingbirds album too! They were never gonna be big, EVER! But who cares, they drank a lot I know that much. "someday my baby when I am a man and others have taught me the best that they can, sell me a suit, cut off my hair and send me to work in tall buildings, so goodbye to the sunshine and goodbye to the due goodbye to the flowers and goodbye to you, I am off to the subway, i must not be late, i am going to work in tall buildings" Love that song. Shame, don;t think Alan is off to work in tall buildings as this song was recorded well pre Wall St. CRASH! | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 420 Registered: 01-2007 |
Spence, I know they were never gonig to be big, but their songs are so good joyous well structured, any way I saw twice in Norwich and got comptelety drunk one night with them post gig, very decent lads, Alan Tyler is a gent as well and responded to an email I snet years ago when I bought one of his solo LPs from him. Diamond Geezer! | ||
| Jonathan Evans Member Username: Jon Post Number: 330 Registered: 04-2005 |
Got a Camera Obscura gig in a couple of weeks so I'm listening to 'Under Achievers Please Try Harder'. A fine band with a new album out in a week or two. Cheers Jon | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 159 Registered: 03-2007 |
Who Killed Puck? by Cloud Cult. Played it today after watching the band's dvd 'No One Said It Would Be Easy' last night. Superb. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3029 Registered: 05-2005 |
Nice one Frank. Can you remember who supported, was it a band called the box em domies? | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1431 Registered: 09-2006 |
The Baseball Project, Vol. 1: Frozen Ropes & Dying Quails Abe Vigoda - Skeleton Donald Fagen - Kamakiriad | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1959 Registered: 03-2005 |
I had to sweep the cobwebs away from my turntable to play Sleeping Giant--Go Betweens | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 132 Registered: 10-2008 |
Pavement - Brighten The Corners (Nicene Creedence Edition - 2 CD) Arthur Russell - The World Of Arthur Russell Fever Ray - Fever Ray Niney The Observer - Dubbing With The Observer Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend (not even in his top 3 albums, but still great) | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1433 Registered: 09-2006 |
Have been giving those first two a lot of spins recently. Did you see the documentary about Russell? I thought it was a very goodun. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2708 Registered: 05-2005 |
So what are your Matthew Sweet favourites Kevin? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2709 Registered: 05-2005 |
Mine are: 1 Girlfriend 2 100% Fun 3 Blue Sky On Mars | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 136 Registered: 10-2008 |
Padraig, 1 100% Fun 2 Altered Beast 3 In Reverse | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1960 Registered: 03-2005 |
June Brides/Phil Wilson--Every Conversation (best of) | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3034 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kev, I don't rate any of those above Girlfriend mate, IMHO no way siree. Did anyone ever hear The Thorns a couple of years ago, I must dig the cd out, i remember it being quite good. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 137 Registered: 10-2008 |
Spence, imo my first two picks especially have more edge than Girlfriend. And you know me mate..... Girlfriend probably has the stronger songs mind you - like I say its still a great album | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3038 Registered: 05-2005 |
I think its coz i got on so well iwth the guitars kev. They were just stunning on first ever listen, and still remain so, once smitten! The monochrome Set - The lost Weekend its just arrived through my door. I had to rush to play Andiamo, one of my fave surf instrumentals ever. Like The Shadows! only cooler. i remember them opening with it at Wolverhampton poly in 1985. james Foz Foster doing the remarkable lead runs, safe strudy and beautiful Fender jag rhythm playing from Bid in the background. Although I preferred their original line up, this line up were great live, the crowd was mightily scaty though. It was like the fans of New Order at that time, trainer wearing football hooligan types. the sleeve is crap, though Bid looks very handsome inside. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 94 Registered: 05-2005 |
Have had the Lost Weekend on CD for a few years, originally a Japanese pressing with no extra tracks (and therefore no Andiamo which is twangtastic), then got a European pressing last year with extra tracks and now have the Cherry Red reissue. I have always loved this album and I havent done a direct comparison to the other cds but the mastering sounds much brighter and I even heard an extra instrument in one of the songs that I had never noticed before | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1961 Registered: 03-2005 |
I never had Lost Weekend until the Cherry Red comp. Cosmo and Spence, do you like "Jacob's Ladder?" I found it so obnoxious that I didn't even include it when I loaded the album onto iTunes. Since it was the first thing I suddenly feared for what was coming next, thinking "f'g Warner Bros, they can ruin anything!" Thank god the rest of the album is so much better. It's also the first album that points to their 90s sound. I wish Cherry Red had added the 1986 Bid solo songs. Unless there's enough solo Bid material for a separate release! | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1602 Registered: 10-2004 |
I always thought "Jacob's Ladder" was cheesy, personally. Otherwise, Lost Weekend's a decent album. Listening to: Cathal Coughlan - Black River Falls Haven't played this one in a little while, but it's so amazingly good. It still baffles me that more people aren't into Cathal. I can think of few people today still making music this edgy and crucial. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1962 Registered: 03-2005 |
Agreed, Jeff. Both Black River Falls and Sky's Awful Blue are fantastic records that should appeal to relatively large audiences. And Foburg ought to be given a proper stage production. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 139 Registered: 10-2008 |
Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul, or whatever the feck its called - I'm working with some guys on nightshift in Reading for 4 days, and one of the guys shoved this on - I dont need to tell you how bad it is!! so, to get my own back I put on Sparklehorse - Good Morning Spider and Wilco - YHF. Forgot how great the Sparklehorse record is! They have a really eclectic bunch of CDS here, somebody is obviously a big alt country fan - every Lambchop, Ryan Adams, Calexico etc album you can think of, there is also classical music, some Miles Davis, every Van Morrisson record known to man, a few Radiohead, a few Stones, some Dylan, Gram P, Nick Drake, Tom Waits - some reggae on Trojan,some Mowtown comps, some Morrissey and aaaaaaaaarrgh - James Blunt, Keane, Killers and Queen. No Crowded Hoose and only one Beatles so fairly safe there. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2710 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Apartments - The Evening Visits... and Stays Forever | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1445 Registered: 01-2005 |
Kevin, Sparklehorse "it's a wonderful life" I have, but not "Good Morning Spider" or anything else by them. I really like IAWL, I take it you have both of them? | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 141 Registered: 10-2008 |
Michael, yes I do. The first Sparklehorse album is the one to get though, a five star stone cold classic. its called "Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot" | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3042 Registered: 05-2005 |
Lined up: Magazine - Live in oxford 2009 Tuxedo Moon - Live 1984 Interpol - Our love to admire Magazine - live Radio 1 - 1978 | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1963 Registered: 03-2005 |
Sounds Like the Flirtations. I already had a CD of this issued by a bootleg company that mastered from the vinyl, but it turns out RPM have done a proper reissue with proper sound sources and royalties paid to all concerned. This is an American Motownesque female vocal trio, in the hands of British producers, writers and arrangers. Very nice. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 911 Registered: 08-2004 |
The Flirtations is a good name too. XY, the new PB&J is a fine record. It's got those hooks & words that were missing from Seaside Rock. Maybe a bit slower than Writer's Block. The Clash - Give E'm Enough Rope Sigur Ros - ( ) Pet Shop Boys - Yes | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1446 Registered: 01-2005 |
Give 'Em Enough Rope kind of gets slogged campared to it's predessor and London Calling, doesn't it? I like it well enough despite it lack of knock out classic Clash songs, as it's got enough very good Clash songs to satisfy me. Maybe "All The Young Punks" could have been a hit if it was recorded with more bite to the mix? | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1367 Registered: 08-2006 |
Took possession of my first CD order of note in a couple months last week and, whilst doing some dreaded house packing, I'm finally getting around to listening to some of it. Up most recently: Amadou and Mariam - "Welcome to Mali." This is a pleasant surprise. African acts usually fall flat when they try to add overt Westernisms into their music. The list of victims is endless - Youssou N'Dour finally starting making great records when he got the hell away from Peter Gabriel, synths and four-four beats and Ry Cooder's musical interaction with Ali Farka Toure produced the kind of results you'd expect from a session pairing Eric Clapton and Ladysmith Black Mambazo. This is different. It's clearly African, clearly Mail, in fact, and the Western pop touches deftly work in service to the Afrocentrism, not the reverse (see N'Dour's recent CDs). It's so diverse, and so successful in its marriage of styles, I'd even call it world music, if two decades of overproduced crapola hadn't render that term the failed state of music definitions. Recommended. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1368 Registered: 08-2006 |
Oops. Make the "clearly Mali." I've been stuffing boxes for too long this morning. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2715 Registered: 05-2005 |
Welcome To Mali is great Rob isn't it? I loved their previous record, Dimanche Ŕ Bamako, so much I was almost afraid to hear Welcome To Mali. It's certainly very different, but it did not disappoint in any way. I still prefer Dimanche Ŕ Bamako, but a lot of the reasons go beyond the music itself. I don't know if they have or are about to tour America, but if you ever get the chance to see Amadou & Mariam live jump at it. They are superb in concert. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2716 Registered: 05-2005 |
Lots of stuff today, including: Army Of Lovers (early 90s cheesy Swedish europop - their song Crucified was unintentionally appropriate this weekend) Depeche Mode - two CD remix comp The Who et al - Quadrophenia soundtrack Leave Them All Behind 2 - Modular records comp | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1449 Registered: 01-2005 |
Set on random play on my 14 1/2 year old Yamaha CDC 745 5 disc changer routed to my 14 1/2 year old Yamaha RX-V870 Pro Logic receiver set on the Jazz setting to my 34 year old BIC Formula 6 mains and 8 year old Definitive Technologies BP2X rears: Emmylou Harris - Wrecking Ball Patty Griffin - Children Running Through Emmylou Harris - Red Dirt Girl Patty Griffin - 1000 Kisses Emmylou Harris - Stumble Into Grace | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 279 Registered: 10-2006 |
I woke up on Easter Sunday morning immediately thinking, I have to listen to the Evangelist. It's been a while, and it was great to hear it again: fresh, clear and beautiful. | ||
| Charles Coy Member Username: Coy Post Number: 127 Registered: 10-2006 |
..good call Stuart, did the same and added In your Bright Ray, coffee on the back yard deck was OK.. Hope all on the Board had a safe and contented Easter break... | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3049 Registered: 05-2005 |
REM - Murmer (live in Toronto - '83) Really stunning recording, as far as live recordings go, for me, this one is up there, also coz i adore the album (period) most of the tunes spring from. It sunds so fresh too, it sounds like it was recorded yesterday, just think if REM had just formed in 2009, and you could go watch this, now that would be special! | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3053 Registered: 05-2005 |
The The - or in my case, it should be Teh The! Soul Mining, a great album of my youth, very prophetic, like McCarthy, ahead of the game lyrically, sweet music, ahhhhh takes me right back. i think he once went blind you know! | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 200 Registered: 05-2005 |
Lloyd Cole, first cd of the "cleaning the ashtray" boxset. If you like the guy, it's a must. Hope the three others records are either good. | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 505 Registered: 05-2005 |
Streets Of Your Town - as played on melodica by some very strange masked individuals on Youtube. I suddenly don't feel very well!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAsMamKTf 7Y | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1441 Registered: 09-2006 |
Poptopia: Power Pop Classics of the 70s Go - The Very Best of Moby Jocelyn Montgomery - Lux Vivens: The Music of Hildegarde Von Bingen | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 145 Registered: 10-2008 |
Toots and The Maytals - Reggae Got Soul The Heptones and Friends - Meet The Now Generation The Rockingbirds- The Rockingbirds DM Stith - Heavy Ghost Boxcutter - Aceribo Message | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2722 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jane's Addiction - Ritual De Lo Habitual. First time I've played it in about 10 years or more. Even better than I'd remembered. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1969 Registered: 03-2005 |
Sudden Sway--'76 Kids Forever | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 534 Registered: 01-2006 |
At my daughter's request I was looking around YouTube for Humpty Dumpty and came across this - Ronnie Drew of the Dubliners doing part of a James Joyce piece called The Ballad of Persse O'Reilly....a reminder of magnificent Drew's voice was.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nditpSF9h 4c&NR=1 | ||
| Matt Ellis Member Username: Matt_ellis Post Number: 159 Registered: 11-2004 |
The Church - Untitled 23 Matt Deighton - Part of Your Life Son Volt - Straightaways And listening to my own band for rehearsal purposes (which it would be rude to plug!) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2724 Registered: 05-2005 |
I imagine doing a search for the term "Humpty Dumpty" on YouTube could lead to some unsavoury videos! Lucky it just led to the bould Ronnie. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2726 Registered: 05-2005 |
Faron Young - All American Country. A wonderful country voice. Nashville country from a time before those two words became a signifier of insipid pop crap. I've been a fan since I picked up another of his comps on cassette in the bargain bin in HMV Sydney in 1992. I was turned on to him by a reference to his song It's Four In The Morning in a Prefab Sprout song. | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 421 Registered: 01-2007 |
Andrew Bird-enjoying this as much as anything this year Stephanie Dosen bit of a Bella Union gig at the moment Independent Record Shop day today in the UK. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2727 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kris Kristofferson - This Old Road | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 535 Registered: 01-2006 |
Humpty Dumpty was fine Padraig, it's Dora The Explorer that you have to be careful with! The 6ths - Wasp's Nests Wilco - More Like The Moon EP Leonard Cohen - The Future The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin The Winnebago Orchestra - Born In The Sun Billy Bragg & Wilco - Mermaid Avenue Vol. I Randy Newman - The Randy Newwman Songbook Vol I | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1445 Registered: 09-2006 |
You mean DORA, who SHOUTS every GODDAMN thing she SAYS??? | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 160 Registered: 03-2007 |
King Creosote - Bombshell King Creosote - Flick The Vs | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 148 Registered: 10-2008 |
Martyn - Great Lengths Fever Ray - Fever Ray The Felice Brothers - Yonder Is The Clock | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1460 Registered: 01-2005 |
Nick Drake - Pink Moon Mary Margaret O'Hara - Miss America Bebel Gilberto - Tanto Tempo | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3059 Registered: 05-2005 |
The whitest boy alive - Rules. Their second album, equally as great as the first - Dreams. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3060 Registered: 05-2005 |
Magazine - Live at Oxford Zodiac bootleg Feb '09 Great quality, good sound, very enjoyable. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 915 Registered: 08-2004 |
Depeche Mode - Sounds Of The Universe - Deluxe edition, oh so lush packaging, Demo's, extras, DVD,2 books, badges, postcards, posters. WRONG!!! (I love it) The Decemberists - The Hazards Of Love - This one should have a Heavy Rock concept album warning sticker. For bearded men only. And who invited Grace Slick to the party. Jeeezus. When you start adding singers as 'characters' it's time to stop. This could only be worse if Ben Elton got a co-writing credit!!! | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 201 Registered: 05-2005 |
Camera obscura - Maudlin career Lily Allen - last record | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1973 Registered: 03-2005 |
Go Betweens--2d disc of 1978-1990. I ordered a copy of the 2CD Japanese version from a source in Austria but as usual nirvana is still up there around the bend and through another tunnel because what I got was the packaging and the 2d disc but NOT the first one. Grrr. Oh well, if I had to get only one of them this is the one I'd have chosen because of the more obscure songs. Somehow I had gotten the idea that the version of "King in Mirrors" on here was not the same one that's on the second disc for the reissued BH. Wrong. Pity that. I still haven't heard the single b-side version. I love having the booklet. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 98 Registered: 05-2005 |
the kingsbury manx- ascenseur ouvert! new album, i love this band gene clark - roadmaster love this man | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1974 Registered: 03-2005 |
Roadmaster is such a great collection, cosmo. It's hard to believe that its an "odds and sods" collection. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 99 Registered: 05-2005 |
spot on Randy, it's frightening how good his 'rejects' are! | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1607 Registered: 10-2004 |
Randy, I can send you the b-side version of King in Mirrors. Weird about that first disc not being included. I have the Japanese version, too, and it's all around much cooler than the more common single disc version. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1462 Registered: 01-2005 |
Okay, enough already! I broke down and ordered Roadmaster. I don't know why I didn't earlier having bought both No Other and White Light a few years ago. How are the Gene albums with the Dillards and Carla Olson? | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3065 Registered: 05-2005 |
Nick Cave and the bad asses - Abattoir Blues (Disc 1) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2728 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express. Wish I was on that train right now. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2730 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kraftwerk - The Man Machine | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2731 Registered: 05-2005 |
fIREHOSE - If'n, with Ragin' Full-on to follow. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1975 Registered: 03-2005 |
Michael, go ahead and wait for "Roadmaster" first. If he appeals to you after listening to that album, the studio album with Carla Olson ("So Rebellious a Lover") is a timeless jewel. They work very well together. The first album with Douglas Dillard ("Fantastic Expedition") is one of the--maybe the absolute--greatest record of Gene Clark's career. The second album with Dillard ("Through the Morning, Through the Night") is worthwhile for the Gene Clark fan but is not among his best albums. For starters, there's not enough original material. Jeff, I would love the b-side version of "King in Mirrors." | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1449 Registered: 09-2006 |
Joe Tex - I Believe I'm Going to Make It: The Best of Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2732 Registered: 05-2005 |
Me too Jeff if you can send it as an mp3 / m4a. Thanks. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2733 Registered: 05-2005 |
Allen, I misread your entry as Shakin Stevens and got momentarily very scared. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 101 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy is spot on again as Fantastic Expedition really is brilliant | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 153 Registered: 10-2008 |
Looks like I'll be diggin out the Gene Clark records when I get home tonight. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3068 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Durutti Column - LC | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2736 Registered: 05-2005 |
Yes, Fantastic Expedition lives up to its name. I got it very cheap from Amazon UK, so if anyone is looking for it check there first. The version I got was a twofer with another LP and and some singles all on the one disc. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1614 Registered: 10-2004 |
Padraig - re: "Shakin' Stevens" - When people list that they're listening to Ryan Adams, I sometimes mistake it for Randy Adams. Of course, it's seeing the former that, personally, makes me very scared! | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 154 Registered: 10-2008 |
Gene Clark & Carla Olson - So Rebellious a Lover Jarvis Cocker - Further Complications Bll Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle Jason Lytle - Yours Truly, The Commuter The Heptones - The Heptones and Friends Vol 1 and 2 Junior Boys - Beyond Dull Care | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1450 Registered: 09-2006 |
Padraig, my only memory of Shakin' Stevens is as a name I heard a few times in the early-80s. Sounded like he might be lame rockabilly retro. Am I anywhere close to the mark? | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1451 Registered: 09-2006 |
Just got PSB's "Yes" in the mail, and am enjoying it a great deal. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2738 Registered: 05-2005 |
"Lame rockabilly retro" just about covers it Allen. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2739 Registered: 05-2005 |
French Kicks - Two Thousand. First time playing it. I'm hearing a bit of a Radiohead thing going on here. I like it so far. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 917 Registered: 08-2004 |
Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career - Bit of an instant beauty, this one. Siouxsie & The Banshees - A Kiss In The Dreamhouse Bob Dylan - Bootleg Series 1-3 | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 426 Registered: 04-2005 |
re: 'Lame rockabilly retro' When I worked in hotel management in the early 80s, we had old Shakie's backing band (which consisted of some stellar session musicians) staying. The great man himself stayed in a better hotel (this from a man that was in the Young Communists!). Anyway they were a great bunch, especially the Irish sax player John Earle (RIP) who told me that they all made rude signs behind Shakie's back whilst on stage... | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 539 Registered: 01-2006 |
Shakie was better with Fulchester Rovers... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2744 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Screaming Jets - Tear Of Thought. Early 90s Aussie hard rock band. This is a great album of that genre. Not that I'd expect anyone else on this board to like it! The standout track is Living In England which departs hardrockland for the fuzzed up waters of hardcore. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2748 Registered: 05-2005 |
Paul Weller - Stanley Road. Disc 2 of the deluxe edition. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 106 Registered: 05-2005 |
Farther Along - The Byrds patchy but contains 'Bugler' one of the great dog songs in rock, sung by Clarence White about a boy and his dog which ends up being run over on the highway which was unfortunately the fate of Clarence himself a year later | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1465 Registered: 01-2005 |
Gram Parsons eulogy to Clarence in Gram's "In My Hour Of Darnkness" from Grievous Angel: Another young man safely strummed his silver string guitar And he played to people everywhere, some say he was a star But he was just a country boy, his simple songs confess And the music he had in him, so very few possess | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1466 Registered: 01-2005 |
The Rain Parade - Emergency Third Rail Power Trip | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 165 Registered: 03-2007 |
Butcher Boy - React Or Die | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 540 Registered: 01-2006 |
sonic youth - sonic nurse spoon - ga ga ga... beck - sea change silver jews - the natural bridge | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1468 Registered: 01-2005 |
Randy, That's high praise for "Fantastic Expedition" if you rate it higher then "No Other"! | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 482 Registered: 05-2005 |
Padraig, Padraig, Padraig... the Screaming Jets!!!!!! Tut, Tut, Tut!!!!! Next thing you'll be telling us that you've been listening to The Choirboys or Jimmy Barnes....... ; ) | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1979 Registered: 03-2005 |
Michael, yesterday I wrote a big long response to your post and then canceled it when I couldn't find documentation for half of what I was saying. I'll just put it this way: song for song, "Fantastic Expedition" is a much better album than "No Other." Whether you like bluegrass-type arrangements is another matter, but when it comes to the substantive quality of the songs, "Expedition" wins. I have the reissue that Padraig has. It's a good one for mopping up a lot of the recordings from that period. The problem is that only nine of the songs actually come from "Expedition" and the compiler interjected some singles in the middle of the album material. For folks with a limited tolerance for banjo and mandolin, that's probably a blessing. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2756 Registered: 05-2005 |
No The Choirboys or Jimmy Barnes Geoff! Forgive me my occasional hard rock foibles! Randy, I didn't know that comp didn't include the entire Expedition album. Another to buy at some point then. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2757 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy, I just checked on Amazon UK and it does include the entire Expedition album. You must have a different comp. The one I have is called The Fantastic Expedition Of Dillard & Clark/Through The Morning Through The Night. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1459 Registered: 09-2006 |
James Brown - Hot Pants Perhaps my favorite JB album ever. From the early-70s, when he was rolling out all those lengthy jams that sound like they were only faded out in order to be able to fit more than one on an album...they're so tied into the universal groove that if they were let be any of them could just continue on through eternity on their own power. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1980 Registered: 03-2005 |
Padraig, the original "Expedition" album only had nine songs. It was a short album. I meant that the original songs were mixed up with songs from other sources thus altering the effect of the album. Sorry for the confusion. I have the same comp as you. It couples "Expedition" with "Through the Morning, Through the Night" and also adds a few single sides. Every CD reissue of "Fantastic Expedition" that I have seen adds three songs from single sides: "Why Not Your Baby," "Lying Down the Middle" and the throwaway "Don't Be Cruel." The original album did not have those. |