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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4353 Registered: 05-2005 |
Gavin Friday - Each Man Kills The Thing He Loves | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4356 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Grays - Ro Sham Bo | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4357 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jason Falkner - Photograph (Def Leppard cover) | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1662 Registered: 10-2008 |
Beat Down Babylon - Junior Byles | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 2187 Registered: 09-2006 |
Wyatt binge: Soft Machine - Third Matching Mole - s/t Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom, 1982-1984, Old Rottenhat, His Greatest Misses | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4360 Registered: 05-2005 |
David Bowie - "Heroes" | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4366 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Triffids - Stockholm | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4370 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Afghan Whigs - What Jail Is Like EP | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 377 Registered: 02-2007 |
The Shins - Wincing The Night Away. Wow what a great album | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 544 Registered: 10-2006 |
Augustus Pablo - East of the river Nile One of the most purely pleasurable albums ever made. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4378 Registered: 05-2005 |
Earlier, I was listening to Paul McCartney's Unplugged album. A fine example of the genre. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4383 Registered: 05-2005 |
I got Human Switchboard's Who's Landing in My Hangar: Anthology 1977 - 1984 in the post the other day. I haven't played it yet, and bought it solely based on some rave review it got. (In fact, I don't think I've ever even heard a song by them.) Anyway, I was flicking through the sleeve notes and saw that Guy Ewald, sometimes of this parish, was thanked. Nice one Guy! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4388 Registered: 05-2005 |
Henry Rollins & The Hard-Ons - Let There Be Rock EP (1991) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4390 Registered: 05-2005 |
Paul Weller - No One In The World | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 2370 Registered: 10-2004 |
Smiths - Meat is Murder Siouxsie - The Scream Cocteau Twins - Head Over Heels | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4391 Registered: 05-2005 |
Good Morning Vietnam soundtrack. A brilliantly compiled companion to a great film. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2895 Registered: 03-2005 |
Inspired by Jeff's totally expected impassioned defense of 1983 Cocteau Twins I'm listening to "Head Over Heels" which I haven't heard in years. I based my comment about '84/'85 being their peak on the fact that I always--from the first listen--bonded the most strongly with their work from that period. I'm only on "Five Ten Fiftyfold" now. Listening to it now I'm struck by how much Siouxie and the Banshees I'm hearing on both this and "When Mama Was Moth." I certainly didn't see that way back when. Except this is better than Siouxie and the Banshees. I do have to wonder what would happen to the Cocteaus if somebody took away their flanger. My love affair with the Cocteaus was relatively short-lived, looking back now. The first thing I bought was "Pink Opaque" which was the new release. I then mopped up everything and it was all Cocteaus all the time for a bit there. Well, except for Nick Cave and the Fall; they were played when the Cocteaus weren't. I was perfectly happy with "Victorialand" and also Moon and the Melodies. When "Heaven or Las Vegas" arrived I was done with the Cocteaus. Yeah, "In Our Angelhood" is VERY Siouxie. And much better too. Ok, "Glass Candle Grenades" is also very Siouxie. This is hilarious; I simply never picked up on it then and I was faithfully buying the Siouxie records back then too. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2896 Registered: 03-2005 |
Ah, I forgot "In the Gold Dust Rush". This was always a favorite from this album. And not quite so Siouxie. It's time to load this album onto iTunes and cut some of the later tracks from "Lullabyes to Violaine." (I'm starting to run into storage space problems.) "Tinderbox (of a Heart)" is back to Siouxie. As with everything else here, a better Siouxie. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4398 Registered: 05-2005 |
Human Switchboard - Who's Landing In My Hangar? (Download bonus tracks). | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4401 Registered: 05-2005 |
Listening to some Jam classics now - Absolute Beginners & Town Called Malice. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 2375 Registered: 10-2004 |
That's funny, I don't hear Siouxsie in the Cocteau Twins' "Glass Candle Grenades" at all. And I'm a huge and longtime fan of both! I can hear some Siouxsie in "Angelhood," obviously, and maybe a bit in "Tinderbox (of a Heart)" (shades of Siouxsie's "Melt" I suppose?). But as for the rest of "Head Over Heels," I just can't hear much Siouxsie. In general, Guthrie's melodies and chord progressions, not to mention some of rhythms of those songs, just don't sound very Siouxsie to me. Plus, the arrangements, the overall spacey/atmospheric sound, is different to these ears. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1673 Registered: 10-2008 |
Jeff, listening to Head over Heels last night I heard a large dose of Hooky in "In Our Angelhood", but was more struck by how the guitar sound on a good few songs on the album was very reminiscent of John McKays style of playing, well at least in the tone of the guitar. I guess we all hear different things even while listening to the same songs :-) | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 2376 Registered: 10-2004 |
Kevin, I don't know if you know the song "Fireworks" by Siouxsie and the Banshees, but it sounds like a direct influence on "Angelhood." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CW77F6cD qM But yeah, I'm sure Peter Hook was an influence as well. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1674 Registered: 10-2008 |
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 2377 Registered: 10-2004 |
David Bowie - "Heroes" Siouxsie and the Banshees - Join Hands, The Scream Tones on Tail - Pop | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 952 Registered: 04-2006 |
the byrds - dr. byrds & mr. hyde i always liked this album and never understood why it was disliked by so many. a fine dylan opener (as on many other byrds albums), the great drug store truck drivin' man, the blues/heavy tinged bad night at the whiskey and the two songs for the film 'candy' (the child of the universe and candy). and the rest of the songs isn't bad at all. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 705 Registered: 04-2005 |
Randy Adams - Long Ago + Not True | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 706 Registered: 04-2005 |
Woops wrong thread, should be Song of the Day... | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 2189 Registered: 09-2006 |
Andreas, though I think it's slightly patchy I'm a fan of that album as well. Chemical Brothers - Brotherhood The two-disc version, one of the few CDs where I can put either disc in the player and dance furiously to it straight through, without ever having to run over and advance to the next track. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2900 Registered: 03-2005 |
I was surprised at how much I liked some of the songs on "Dr. Byrds" when I heard it for the first time in at least 3 decades after buying the Europe-only Byrds box. I agree both songs from "Candy" are great and "Bad Night at the Whisky" is sensational, quite a demonstration of McGuinn's continued creative vitality. I also really like "Your Gentle Way of Loving Me." But I confess I don't like their version of "Wheel's on Fire." | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2901 Registered: 03-2005 |
The Bats -- Couchmaster What a great album this is! I bought too many Bats albums too quickly when I bought this one and they all blurred together at the time. Padraig, this one was a favorite of yours, wasn't it? And thanks Andrew, wrong thread notwithstanding. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 953 Registered: 04-2006 |
it is spring (o.k., looking out of the window it doesn't look like spring and temperatures around 4 degree celsius tells another story): igor stravinsky - le sacre du printemps i am not an musician or someone who can analyse music and most of all i am not a classic music expert/fan, but this composition is compelling. is anyone up for an easy riddle? what was my first contact with stravinsky's music? padraig, it's your turn. btw: right now i listened to john fahey's fonotone records and in the accompanying book there is a passage about fahey's endless tuning while playing concerts (i.e he tuned his guitar longer than he played his stuff) and in this context a quote attributed to stravinsky can be read: ''harpists spend ninety percent of their lives tuning their harps and ten percent playing out of tune''. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 2190 Registered: 09-2006 |
I will say that Dr. Byrds has one of the lamest titles (and covers) I've ever seen | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2356 Registered: 01-2005 |
Allen, From one of the great covers of all time in Sweatheart of the Rodeo to Dr. Byrds! | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 2382 Registered: 10-2004 |
Simple Minds - Life in a Day Wow, what a crappy album! I just bought the Simple Minds X5 box set (their first five albums in nice, mini-LP replica sleeves), and while I'm quite happy to have what are good remasters of these albums, Life in a Day really stands out as a stinker. I used to own it, briefly, and sold it years ago. I thought I'd give it a spin to sort of reassess it, but it's still as lousy as it's always been. There's zero personality in these tracks, the songs are devoid of truly moving melodies or hooks, or of anything you could consider original. They were NOT ready to make an album, and with this record, had the misfortune of having to grow up in public. Talk about a dramatic leap in quality from one album to the next! Their follow-up, Real to Real Cacophony, sounds like a completely different band. I'd love to know what happened that made them go from third-rate Roxy Music/Cars soundalikes, to the wildly inventive and intensely creative post-punk band they would quickly become. Did they suddenly discover acid or something? | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1683 Registered: 10-2008 |
Jeff, I finally remembered to play Fireworks - I was working when I read your post so couldn't play it at the time. Yes, its uncannily similar, especially the bass and guitar. It's easy to forget just how many great pop songs The Banshees made, and that is one of them. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4408 Registered: 05-2005 |
Great Western Squares - Judas Steer | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 806 Registered: 05-2005 |
I'm very envious of all of you who saw the Cocteaus. There was never even a whisper that they would float "down under". I agree with Randy - even "Head over Heels" shows signs of Souxsie but becoming even more psychedelic. What an amazing start to a second album! And what a title!! Seriously creative!!!"Treasure" though was the first one I heard and the one that roped me in - I played it religiously for ages. No one else knew of them and they were my secret little discovery in the wilds of Armidale Uni! I can always blow people away by playing them some Cocteaus! I'm always hearing people RAVE about "Heaven or Las Vegas" but to me it was actually quite a disappointment after "Blue Bell Knoll" which I consider to be their equal best with "Treasure" and "Victorialand". Heaven seemed a bit "dance" when that was a trendy move by bands and it alienated me a bit - I thought that was the beginning of the end. Having said that, and after giving up on them as trying to go "mainstream" (Cocteaus "mainstream"?...what was I thinking!)with 4 Calendar Cafe, discovering the B sides of the later stuff (e.g. Round, Flock of Soul[Whoah!!!!That's amazing!!!], Cherry Coloured funk (seefeel mix)[That's amazing too!!!]) showed they still had some good stuff circulating round the body, even if it was only producing flashbacks. I like some early Souxsie stuff alot..but Cocteaus is better! | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 414 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Lullabies comps are great for picking up b-sides, I watched The Lovely Bones recently and discovered Alice which I had previously missed. Millimillenary is one of my favourites and that's a pretty obscure track too. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 2191 Registered: 09-2006 |
After having so much fun revisiting my Chemical Brothers records I decided to go back to a couple of albums from roughly the same era, and discovered my feelings on both have changed barely at all: Utah Saints - s/t Fun, funky, thoroughly exciting, inventive, slightly uncool and all the better for it, and did I mention fun? The Prodigy - Music For the Jilted Generation A couple of their singles have popped for me in the past, but even those I can live without, and their albums have always had me looking at my watch. Functional, sure...if there was nothing else available I could dance to this, but that's not very likely to happen. Next up, the new album from the esteemed Mr. Randy Adams! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4421 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Pursuit Of Happiness - When We Ruled. So glad I saw them live (in Boston in 1990). | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 2388 Registered: 10-2004 |
Wire - The Ideal Copy | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2359 Registered: 01-2005 |
The Ideal Copy was the second Wire album I bought. The first was A Bell Is a Cup.....Until It Is Struck in 1988. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1688 Registered: 10-2008 |
The Chills - Kaleidoscope World. Probably haven't heard this in 20 plus years, although several tracks appear on the other comp, Heavenly Pop Hits. Reading the booklet its amazing to think the band had 11 line-ups in 8 years, even puts The Fall to shame. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 954 Registered: 04-2006 |
The Byrds - Untitled ladies and gentlem, let's have a fine end with the byrds... a few words which are etched in my mind since i first heard them on a compilation (double LP The Byrds 1964-1971))in the seventies when i was a teenager. i can't remember when i pulled out 'untitled' the last time. it must have been a decade (or more, maybe two decades ago). a fault - and not only because the opening words of the opening track still gives me goosebumps. 'lover of the bayou' a grandiose rocker (and the goosebump continues!), the phenomenal version of 'eight miles high', ''i am gonna' catch that horse if i can'' i.e. the brilliant 'chestnut mare' or the fine 'just a season'. this record made my day! btw: maybe the cover of dr. byrds is lame, but imho i always disliked the cover of the notorious byrd brothers more than the cover of dr. byrds. Th sweetheart cover is great, but if one cover of a byrds album is to be pointed out as their best i would say it's the cover of their first album with the fisheye photo of the band. btw II resp. kevin: the chills' 'kaleidoscope world' would perfectly fit to the byrds 'untitled' just because of the reason i haven't pulled out this record for aeons, too. a new assignment for me... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4431 Registered: 05-2005 |
Peter Gabriel - Passion. Still an absolutely stunning record almost a quarter century on. And season appropriate to boot! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4436 Registered: 05-2005 |
Ivy - Apartment Life. Reaquainted with them thanks to seeing There's Something About Mary the other night. This Is The Day from this album is used prominently in the film. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4441 Registered: 05-2005 |
Listening to Jack Feels Fine's self titled record from 1992. I don't think they were ever well known too far beyond their native Vancouver, but some of their stuff still sounds great 20 years on. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 956 Registered: 04-2006 |
the chills - kaleidoscope girl kept my promise and pulled out the record. still like all the songs on side one. fine pop-songs. the songs on side two declines a bit. beside ''kaleidoscope girl'' stands a record from another new zealand band, the ''tall dwarfs'', in my shelf. ''hello cruel world'' the compilation of songs from 1981 - 1984. while listening to the record i have to say that the ''weird'' songs on the album are still present in my brain (more than the songs on kaleidoscope world), even when i can#t remember when i listened to this record the last time ( i assume it must be in the eighties). | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 957 Registered: 04-2006 |
while the tall dwarfs record stands left to the chills i also pulled out what's standing right beside kaleidoscope world. it's the lighthouse keepers' ''tales of the unexpectd''. i never thought of selling the chills and the tall dwarfs and the records rested in my shelf for decades. in contrary i often thought of selling the album of the lighthouse keepers - and therefore i listened to it a several times. it is a strange record. the songs are not strong enough to say wow what an album, but most of the songs have something that always keeps me away from selling it. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 958 Registered: 04-2006 |
drifting away from the countries of the southern hemisphere i pulled out this reord: South Wales Striking Miners Choir/Test Dept. - Shoulder to Shoulder i also not listen to this record for a long time, but i have to say that it is still a good record - and not only the test dept. stuff. maybe more than ever the songs of the south wales strikingminers choir are moving me. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xgrkFOAF 0Y | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 960 Registered: 04-2006 |
throbbing gristle - 20 jazz funk greats ah, great - and crackling (i am not sure, but i think i bought this album as a second hand item (age nebulizes my memory). maybe i have to think about the vinyl reissue released a few month ago. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 961 Registered: 04-2006 |
now playing wipers - youth of america adrenalin push. still awesome!!! | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 962 Registered: 04-2006 |
violent femmes - hallowed ground the song 'never tell' is still the highlight on the LP. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 964 Registered: 04-2006 |
and one more rwevive album (to be true it is just an ep): the trypes - the explorers hold this feelies ''sideproject'' (as i read on the web they existed before the feelies started) contains four fine songs and interesting is that the ep will be re-released on vinyl this month. http://www.piccadillyrecords.com/product s/TheTrypes-MusicForNeighbours-Acute-822 61.html | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1701 Registered: 10-2008 |
LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem One of the best debut albums of the last 20 years imo. James Murphy is no innovator, he wears his influences proudly on his sleeve - Bowie, Iggy (Bowie period only), Eno, Talking Heads, Krautrock - but always brings something new to the party rather than just slavish imitation. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4446 Registered: 05-2005 |
A Cheap Trick best of comp. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4452 Registered: 05-2005 |
Brendan Benson - Lapalco | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1713 Registered: 10-2008 |
The Associates - The Affectionate Punch Just struck me that few bands, if any, have sounded so different over three consecutive albums. Fourth Drawer Down, and then Sulk could have been made by two totally different bands. I'm talking musically of course, because Billy Mackenzies vocals are on each album and are unmistakable. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1717 Registered: 10-2008 |
The Associates - Fourth Drawer Down. Playing this album this morning it struck me how much the song The Associate would have been a perfect fit on Sulk. It sounds like it was recorded at the same sessions. Looks like it may well have been, reading the Allmusic review of Sulk it seems that this song was on the US version of Sulk, although I think they are referring to the reissue. A look at the discography finds it was also on the original German version of the album but from what I can see it was never on any UK editions of the album. I said in another thread about The Cure that the bass playing of Michael Dempsey was an integral part of The Cure sound. He was also bassists on The Affectionate Punch, Fourth Drawer Down and Sulk. His playing on The Affectionate Punch in particular is sublime. Wonder what became of him, all the records he made with The Cure and The Associates were at least 30 years ago. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 2197 Registered: 09-2006 |
Tom Robinson Band - Power in the Darkness Fatboy Slim - On the Floor at the Boutique | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 2400 Registered: 10-2004 |
Kevin, the funny thing about the singles that comprise Fourth Drawer Down is that the Associates had a bit of scam going when they recorded those. They'd find a major label with an interest in them, and get the label to give them some money to record a "demo" of new material, which was part of the courting process at that time. But instead of making a demo, they'd use it to record a new single, which they would then put out on Situation Two. Brilliant! I love Fourth Drawer Down. I think those songs show the Associates at the peak of their powers, although I love Affectionate Punch and Sulk just as much. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1721 Registered: 10-2008 |
Never knew that Jeff, seems a very Associates thing to do though!! If pushed i just favour The Affectionate Punch over the other two, that might be because I dont think the UK version of Sulk was all it could be. Its terribly sequenced, the US version that the ALLMUSIC review refers to seems to put the songs in a better order in my view. "The edition of Sulk which was the most common to find while record shopping throughout the late '80s and '90s was originally the American issue. Heavy substitution and track reordering -- a typical enough move on the part of American companies no matter what the act -- resulted in a radically different record. For some strange reason, the European CD issue of the album relied on this American edition, something only finally rectified as part of an overall reissue program in 2000. All this said, while this second edition sacrifices some of the quirky edginess of the original, collecting all the major hit singles that made the band such a distinctive U.K. chart presence in the early '80s certainly isn't a problem at all. The three tracks from the second side of the original album -- the bizarro funk of "It's Better This Way," the swooning hyper-romance of "Partyfearstwo," and the nervy, sped-up rush of "Club Country" -- here lead off the record, followed by the OK-enough remake of Diana Ross' "Love Hangover" and the charming "18 Carat Love Affair." As for the remaining tracks, "Arrogance Gave Him Up," "No," "Skipping," and "Gloomy Sunday" are retained in a much different order," | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 2401 Registered: 10-2004 |
I prefer the UK version of Sulk, partly because that was the first version I owned and became familiar with. The US version has a bizarre remix of "It's Better This Way" with totally over-the-top slap-funk bass, and a noticeably inferior and anemic sounding remix of "Party Fears Two." Plus, I prefer hearing "White Car in Germany" and "The Associate" in the context of Fourth Drawer Down. I admit, the UK Sulk is sequenced a little strangely in that Side One is kind of the moodier, more difficult side, while Side 2 has the poppier material. The US version kind of reverses that. As far as the three tracks the US version omits, I mainly object to losing "Bap de la Bap," which is an utterly strange and manic song. The only track on both versions that I never cared for was their straight-forward version of "Gloomy Sunday." It's the only song I skip when listening to that album. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4462 Registered: 05-2005 |
John Hiatt - Snake Charmer. Great track from 1985. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1727 Registered: 10-2008 |
The Monochrome Set - The Independent Singles Collection | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1731 Registered: 10-2008 |
Gang Of Four - Solid Gold. I always thought this album was underrated, perhaps understandable after the passionate guts and fury of Entertainment. I did some googling and found that Allmusic http://www.allmusic.com/album/solid-gold -r7983/review and Pitchfork certainly didnt underrate it. Pitchfork had it as No24 album of the 80's. http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-list s/5882-top-100-albums-of-the-1980s/8/ The Pitchfork Top 100 of the 80's is a fascinating and contentious list. Maybe nitpicking, but some things I would take issue with are This Nations Saving Grace by The Fall is the highest ranking Fall album at No 13, Talk Talks Spirit Of Eden is at No34, Laughing Stock doesnt even make the 100 although reviewing Spirit Of Eden they refer to Laughing Stock as their masterpiece - a bit confusing that one. Just to add insult to injury, the inferior Colour Of Spring does make the list. Heres the full list http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-list s/5882-top-100-albums-of-the-1980s/1/ | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1735 Registered: 10-2008 |
The Monochrome Set - Love Zombies | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 2200 Registered: 09-2006 |
ABC - Beauty Stab | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1744 Registered: 10-2008 |
Very interesting, if unexpected http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/71 06 "There couldn’t be a more prescient cultural moment for Here Comes Everybody to reappear — it feels like the potential interest in a sound that’s so now, but from then should be boundless. The Wake played catch up for years before they got here, and now the world is finally catching up to them." | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1745 Registered: 10-2008 |
The Sound - Jeopardy | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4477 Registered: 05-2005 |
Mavis. It's an album of singers such as Kurt Wagner, Edwyn Collins and Sarah Cracknell writing songs with Ashley Beedle and some other bloke in the style of Mavis Staples. That description makes it sound like it should be absolutely rubbish, but it's great. I picked it up in the JB Hi-fi bargain bin for $5 yesterday. I'd never even heard of it before. http://www.wordandsound.de/article/61934 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4478 Registered: 05-2005 |
Also Big Star's Keep An Eye On The Sky box set. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1750 Registered: 10-2008 |
The Monochrome Set - The Strange Boutiquw | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1751 Registered: 10-2008 |
The Strange Boutique | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1752 Registered: 10-2008 |
Some of the instrumental pieces on The Strange Boutique are very similar to Microdisneys music, never noticed that before | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2366 Registered: 01-2005 |
Spoon - Kill the Moonlight | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 2202 Registered: 09-2006 |
The Band - s/t, Moondog Matinee and Northern Lights Southern Cross They'll never be my favorite band, but they did make one undeniably great record (the s/t) and some other very playable ones. Last Waltz holds up very well during the concert scenes, too (whoever had the bright idea to get stoned before filming the interview sections should be smacked though, they come off mostly as utter dolts). RIP Levon. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 713 Registered: 04-2005 |
Allen Re: The Last Waltz. I saw the film when it was first released in a late-night showing in the Glasgow Film Theatre with a wonderfully cranked up sound system and have loved it ever since. But sometimes you can know too much about a film, album, painting whatever ? All the info since about the re-recording of their parts, the gulf between Robertson and the others ("we switched his mike off") tends to wipe some of the magic away ? But Levon Helm's singing on 'The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down' still sends shivers down the spine. And an amazing drummer. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 2203 Registered: 09-2006 |
Yeah, just the fact that Robertson was hellbent on dissolving the group while Helm wanted to continue provides enough subtext to be viewing things differently. Yet from the core of their opposite vantage points they still managed to tear into the music with (what at least looks like) real passion. I'd pay, oh, 5 to 10 American dollars to see Neil Young's spot before they edited out the glob of cocaine... | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 716 Registered: 04-2005 |
And I've always been convinced that Neil (with his big goofy grin) is up to no good next to Joni Mitchell in the all-star finale. I wonder if he had a bad case of wanderin'-hand-trouble ? | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1757 Registered: 10-2008 |
The Birthday Party - Junkyard. 30 years old no less. http://thequietus.com/articles/08590-the -birthday-party-junkyard | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4482 Registered: 05-2005 |
Sam & Dave - I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 381 Registered: 02-2007 |
Kathleen Edwards - Voyageur. Brilliant! | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1760 Registered: 10-2008 |
Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted http://thequietus.com/articles/08592-pav ement-slanted-and-enchanted | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1762 Registered: 10-2008 |
The Velvet Underground - The best of The Velvet Underground. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 985 Registered: 04-2006 |
fleetwood mac - rumours a bit boring duane allman - anthology ii antidote for the aforementioned album now: bob dylan - blonde on blonde mono version. a wonderful album. over and over again. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1766 Registered: 10-2008 |
Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain. Just edges it over Slanted and Enchanted for me, both stone cold classics though. Probably the best US band of the 90's for me. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 2410 Registered: 10-2004 |
The Passage - For All and None | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1767 Registered: 10-2008 |
Pavement - Brighten The Corners. Return to form after the sprawling mess of Wowee Zowee. The album they should have made after Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain, this falls just a smidgeon short of CR,CR and SAE in the Pavement canon. By anybody elses standards a classic. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4491 Registered: 05-2005 |
Crooked Rain has always been my favourite Pavement album by far. Their remastered, two CD packages are, as Kevin said, fantastic. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 442 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Birthday Party - Hee Haw great compilation of all their early singles and EPs, I like the twisted 60s garage vibe to this stuff which was gone by Prayer on Fire | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 2416 Registered: 10-2004 |
The Cure - Disintegration | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 2417 Registered: 10-2004 |
Crispy Ambulance - The Plateau Phase | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 575 Registered: 10-2006 |
Michael Chapman - Rainmaker | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 2206 Registered: 09-2006 |
Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Messin', Nightingales & Bombers | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4514 Registered: 05-2005 |
As a special tip of the hat to Kevin, Hugh, Stuart, Andrew and any other Scottish folk on this board, I'm listening to Altered Images. 99 cents in JB Hi-fi was rarely so well spent. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1775 Registered: 10-2008 |
May the road rise with you Padraig. There has always been a Go-Betweens connection with Scotland hasn't there? | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 374 Registered: 03-2007 |
Padraig, it is probably twenty plus years since I last listened to that album. I still have a vinyl copy but no longer own a functioning turntable. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 725 Registered: 04-2005 |
Pádraig, For me and perhaps many males of my age, Clare Grogan occupies a very special place in our hearts. I actually have a friend who told her that in person a couple of years ago at an Edwyn Collins gig. He was quite drunk, but she took it very well apparently ! The film 'Gregory's Girl' (in which she starred) is simply my teenage years, growing up in a Glasgow suburb. And I first saw Altered Images supporting U2 at Strathclyde Uni. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1779 Registered: 10-2008 |
Isn't Anything - My Bloody Valentine | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1781 Registered: 10-2008 |
Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4545 Registered: 05-2005 |
Cowboy Junkies - Witches. A haunting b-side from 1990. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4546 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Future Sound Of London - Papua New Guinea (Andrew Weatherall remix). This is one you love too I imagine Kevin? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4548 Registered: 05-2005 |
Talk Talk - It's Getting Late In The Evening. A brilliant b-side. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4549 Registered: 05-2005 |
Shack - Liberation & Faith, two tracks from the Emergency 12" from 1988. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4554 Registered: 05-2005 |
Donna Summer - I Feel Love. Krautrock meets disco. Brilliant song. R.I.P. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 447 Registered: 05-2005 |
I Feel Love - possibly the greatest single of all time, it's perfect. RIP Donna | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2368 Registered: 01-2005 |
I totally forgot about I Feel Love. Pádraig is spot on with his "Krautrock meets disco" comment. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 2215 Registered: 09-2006 |
Man, I'm falling behind...Donna Summer passed away? Have to dance to the Bad Girls album (the best thing she and Giorgio Moroder ever put their names on) this evening. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2941 Registered: 03-2005 |
As a young gay guy in the 70s I considered disco the price for meeting somebody (I should have taken up cottaging instead). "I Feel Love" was the great exception. It was psychedelic and unbelievably long, the highlight of the disco floor. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2369 Registered: 01-2005 |
It probably safe to guess that Whit Stillman shed a few tears over the passing of Donna Summer. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4566 Registered: 05-2005 |
Palace Brothers - Palace Brothers. I bought this on cassette in the bargain bin of an Our Price near Liverpool St Station about 15 years ago. Years since I last played it, but I know I played it a lot at the time. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4568 Registered: 05-2005 |
Paleface - Burn & Rob. I've been listening to this song since it came out 21 years ago. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1788 Registered: 10-2008 |
Pale Fountains - Pacific Street. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1789 Registered: 10-2008 |
Paul Haig - The Warp of Pure Fun | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2953 Registered: 03-2005 |
Pacific Street, Kevin? A change of heart or confirmation of previous opinion? | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1790 Registered: 10-2008 |
I was on Spotify listening to a Bathers album Randy, and they do this thing where they give you a link to like minded artists. This was a version of Pacific Street that included 4 tracks that were on singles released before the album. It was ok, I do like Michael Heads vocal styling but some of the music is a bit to burt bacharachy for my tastes. I can see why others would like it though. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 2423 Registered: 10-2004 |
Dislocation Dance - Midnight Shift | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4577 Registered: 05-2005 |
Lyle Lovett And His Large Band | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 587 Registered: 10-2006 |
The Concretes A really excellent pop/VU/Mazzy star type album I always forget I have, with a beautifully forlorn female vocal. Quite perfect in its way. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1796 Registered: 10-2008 |
Sugar - Copper Blue (2012 reissue) Sounds amazing. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4588 Registered: 05-2005 |
That album has given me an awful lot of pleasure over the last 20 years. It was one of the first "new" albums I bought on CD (rather than replacing vinyl and cassette copies of old albums). I'm pretty sure I paid $35 for an import copy of it in Red Eye in Sydney at the time. The 2 CD + 1 DVD remaster version costs $35.98 in Red Eye today. The reissue is on its way to me. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1799 Registered: 10-2008 |
I got it for a tenner. Beaster and File Under Easy Listening are on order at Ł9 each. For some reason there is a weeks gap between each of the three albums being released, unusual marketing strategy. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1802 Registered: 10-2008 |
Christ, $35.98 is over Ł22, thats extortionate!! It does comprise 2 CD's and a DVD, but to be honest I'll never play the live CD or watch the DVD, so paying Ł10 I dont feel ripped off. But I would never pay the equivalent of Ł22 just for a remaster. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4590 Registered: 05-2005 |
I've ordered it from the UK Kevin. I buy a lot of records from Red Eye, but something like this, where they have to import it, is always going to be far cheaper for me to get from Amazon. The Australian releases they stock comprise most of the purchases I get there - albums that are not available outside Australia and barely even available beyond Red Eye and few other local independents. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4591 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Drones - Wait Long By The River ... A stunning album. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4593 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Grays - Ro Sham Bo | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 2426 Registered: 10-2004 |
Nice to hear you giving the Pale Fountains a try, Kevin! What's next? Felt? ;) I'm pissed off - several people got me really curious about Spotify, so I went to check it out, only to find that it's not available in Slovakia. Bummer! That's what I get for moving to some former Eastern Bloc backwater! | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1804 Registered: 10-2008 |
Jeff, I don't know what it is, but I just never "got" Felt. I'll see what Spotify have tomorrow (at work till 7am Monday morning) and give them a fresh listen. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1805 Registered: 10-2008 |
Can - Soon Over Babaluma ..and yesterday Go-Betweens - Spring Hill Fair | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 986 Registered: 04-2006 |
spotify wasn't available in Germany for a long time, too. now -since a few weeks- we have the chance to use spotify, but -as far as i know- you only can use it if you have an facebook account. i have none... back to the topic: joy divison - unknown pleasures it is always fascinating to listen to this magnificient record. and because i am a sentimental old man the one or other song bring tears to my eyes... before i listened to unknown pleasures i listened to pet sounds, but not the original album. a friend of mine gave me the mojo cd pet sounds revisted. and i was pleasantly surprised. nice interpretations and a reminder how great this album is. cheers, andreas | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1806 Registered: 10-2008 |
I dont have a facebook account Andreas and I am able to use Spotify. Don't know whether that is because I signed up a year or so ago and it wasn't a pre requesite then, or whether its a German only thing? Another thing that I benefit from is I am a Premium account holder which allows uninterrupted streaming of albums without any breaks for adverts. My daughter assures me that Premium accounts cost money but I don't pay anything, so again maybe you had to be in at the beginning for this benefit. Back to Felt - Spotify seems to have most if not all of the albums, a quick check on Allmusic confirms they have the "classic" albums so I will give a listen to Forever Breathes The Lonely Word, Crumbling The Antiseptic Beauty and The Splendour Of Fear over the coming days. But I think I will ease myself in with Absolute Classic Masterpieces which is a comp from 1979-1985. I am ready to be converted! | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 2427 Registered: 10-2004 |
Kevin, one does indeed have to pay for a premium account these days. I wasn't able to get far enough to know whether or not I needed a Facebook account, but that's not a problem. I just can't imagine their being any rush to make Spotify available in Slovakia. Sigh... Felt's Strange Idols Pattern is reckoned by many (myself included) to be one of their very best albums. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 988 Registered: 04-2006 |
talking about felt... i am an enthusiastic fan of the beautiful album 'let the snakes crinkle their heads to death'. it always reminds me on another album i love and i am enthusiastic about, too: bo hansson - lord of the rings. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1807 Registered: 10-2008 |
Jeff, Strange Idols Pattern is on Spotify so duly added to the list to be played. Its got a whopping 20 tracks, 11 songs added on to the original 9. B-Sides and outtakes I presume? | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 2428 Registered: 10-2004 |
Kevin, sounds like that is the version that combines Strange Idols and Ignite the Seven Cannons, the album that came after it. Seven Cannons is good (produced by Robin Guthrie and sounds very much like it), but imo, Strange Idols is better. Not sure which album out of the two will appear first, but if it starts out sounding like a Cocteau Twins album, you'll know. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1808 Registered: 10-2008 |
Yes Jeff, you are right. Allmusic shows that from song 11 onwards it is the Robin G produced album. Halfway through the comp and I don't mind it, I certainly want to hear more of Felt. Funnily enough it reminds me of the Cocteaus on quite a few songs. Not too keen on the lengthy instrumental songs mind you. Vocally Lawrence reminds me of the guy from Blue Aeroplanes on some songs, wonder if Blue Aeroplane guy was a fan cos he certainly sounds influenced by Lawrence. I think Lawrence in turn may have been influenced by Tom Verlaine in his vocal style. Listening to this album I am reminded of how highly praised Maurice Deebank was as a guitar player back in my long lost youth. He was regularly feted in the pages of NME, Sounds and Melody Maker as a guitar god, the forerunner of later indie stars such as Johnny Marr, John Squire , Bernard Butler and the guy from House of Love whose name escapes me. I think the reason I may have been put off them back in the day was that my introduction to them was a guitar instrumental album which I thought was rubbish. I never gave them a proper chance after that. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2959 Registered: 03-2005 |
When I first heard Lawrence I assumed, without even questioning it, that he was aping Lou Reed but without any of the humor. He is the single aspect of Felt that I've found puts off some people I try to introduce the band to. Maurice Deebank on the other hand . . . . I doubt that Gerard Langley was influenced by Lawrence but obviously it's time to do a little time comparisons. The Blue Aeroplanes grew out of the Art Objects in which Langley was already doing his poetry. The Art Objects album is dated 1981. The early Felt stuff dates from the same year. Oh well, so much for that approach. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1809 Registered: 10-2008 |
Ok, first listen to Strange Idols. After I got over the mental hurdle of convincing myself I wasnt listening to a Blue Aeroplanes album (has anybody ever saw Lawrence and Gerard Langley in the same room?)I did really enjoy it. I can see where Randy met resistance from his friends when trying to sell them Felt though, Lawrence is very much the weak link in the band. With a more charasmatic singer this band would have been mega, albeit on an indie scale. Thanks mainly to the superb guitar playing of Maurice Deebank. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 2429 Registered: 10-2004 |
Part of the reason Lawrence works for me is that his vocals don't compete with Deebank's melodic playing. Deebank will play these soaring, meticulous lead melodies *while* Lawrence does his thing, which might not work with a singer that actually sings. To me, Lawrence sounds like a mishmash of Lou Reed, Tom Verlaine, and the guy from the Feelies. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1810 Registered: 10-2008 |
Good point about Lawrence not competing with the music Jeff. After that though it comes down to "do you enjoy his singing?" For me the jury's very much still out on that one, hopefully he is an acquired taste. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 453 Registered: 05-2005 |
Lawrence is definitely part of the binary school of singers which includes Lou Reed, Tom Verlaine etc, very nasal delivery and I sometimes even hear Dylan in there, I am a big Blue Aeroplanes fan but cant say I have ever heard a Gerard Langley thing. Lawrence and Gerard are both massive VU fans. Cant see why you would have a problem with Lawrence but not the other binary boys though Kev and for the record I think Felt are an amazing band | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 816 Registered: 05-2005 |
I can thank you guys here for turning me onto Felt. I always knew the name but never heard any of their stuff when it came out. Their early stuff - Crumbling the Antiseptic Beauty, The Splendour of Fear, The Strange Idols Pattern and other stories, Ignite the 7 cannons are great. Forever Breathes the Lonely Word is a classic. "Down but not yet out" - what a song! Last year, Forever breathes the Lonely word was the album I played the most - my "album of the year" only 26 years too late! I wish I'd heard it back then. However, I think a lot of Felt's later stuff is mostly pretty loose doodling. Mind you - you guys have 26 more years of listening ahead of me so I might get there in the end! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2960 Registered: 03-2005 |
Geoff, if I had to list all of the artists I've been turned onto via the folks on this board I'd be naming off 1/2 of my collection. Felt is one of them. The Moffs are another. I have perhaps a few extra years of Felt listening on you. I don't know if you meant to include "Me and a Monkey on the Moon" in your assessment of "a lot of Felt's later stuff" but if so I recommend you give it another visit. It's a great album. And produced by Adrian Borland to boot! It's a very fine swansong. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2961 Registered: 03-2005 |
Following on the above post I'm currently listening to "Me and a Monkey on the Moon." I remember not expecting too much from this record because it's their last and then being totally knocked out when I put it on. It starts out with Lawrence and pedal steel guitar fer crissakes! And goes from strength to strength. The songs are solid and diverse. One of the unexpected nice (for me) features of this record is that it is not quite so heavily saturated with Martin Duffy's organ. He plays more atmospherically here. The only issue I personally ever have with Lawrence is his mannered style of vocal delivery. And, frankly, I'm not having an issue with that at all right now, so it's not a big issue for me. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1811 Registered: 10-2008 |
I was speaking to my friend about Felt yesterday. Me and a Monkey was the only Felt album he had. I have that on my "to listen" Spotify list. James, its maybe not in the tone of voice that I can hear similarites between Lawrence and Gerard so much as the kind of sing/speak lilt to their voices. Its uncanny, but it seems to me that Lawrence doesnt employ this method all the time and therefore perhaps that is when he adopts the binary method you describe. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1812 Registered: 10-2008 |
Wailing Souls - Wailing Souls. Their Studio One debut. I've spent the whole day listening to various Studio One albums by the likes of Horace Andy, Alton Ellis, Delroy Wilson Freddie McGregor and Bob Andy. Burning Spear lined up for later. No wonder this label was called "the university of reggae", many of these artists were schooled there. Also been on a Can binge recently - Future Days, Soon Over Babaluma and Anthology. Flowers of Romance by PIL, and some Felt lined up for this evening. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 455 Registered: 05-2005 |
Geoff, you are right about ‘Forever Breathes…’ it’s their masterpiece, Randy is also correct that ‘Me and a Monkey…’ is a glorious swan song. I rate ‘Poem of the River’ and ‘Pictorial Jackson Review’ pretty highly too. Maybe the later stuff you heard is the instrumental ‘Train Above the City’ stuff ? that’s not really a proper Felt album and is definitely a bit noodle bland | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1815 Registered: 10-2008 |
Felt - Forever Breathes the Lonely Word This is great! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4599 Registered: 05-2005 |
Don Henley - The Boys Of Summer. One of the greatest ever singles. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4601 Registered: 05-2005 |
OMD - Maid Of Orleans | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 2430 Registered: 10-2004 |
The Saints - Prehistoric Sounds "John Finn's Wife" is just a rip-off of "Swing For The Crime." Kevin - glad to hear you're enjoying Felt's Forever Breathes the Lonely Word. It's a wonderful album. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1819 Registered: 10-2008 |
Buzzcocks - Love Bites. (the expanded version with Love You More, Noise Annoys, Promises and Lipstick) | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1820 Registered: 10-2008 |
Yes Jeff, enjoyed Forever Breathes.. so much I ordered it after one listen. The other albums need more exposure before I bite. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1822 Registered: 10-2008 |
John Cooper Clarke - Snap, Crackle and Bop | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 2431 Registered: 10-2004 |
Snap, Crackle and Bop is a tremendous album. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 456 Registered: 05-2005 |
Psychedelic Furs - The Ghost in You got the excellent Should God Forget compilation and was surprised to find myself enjoying this song so much, I remember being disappointed with the Mirror Moves album based on the naff 80s production (although being pleased that the Furs were back in the UK to tour it). Now this sounds really good, I am able to appreciate the songwriting a lot more. Think I am heading for a Furs binge this weekend. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1825 Registered: 10-2008 |
The Wake - Here Comes Everybody. The reissue is going down well here http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/1666 1-here-comes-everybody/ and here http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/71 06 I didnt even know they had reformed till I read the Pitchfork review. http://www.cerysmaticfactory.info/a_ligh t_far_out_ltmcd2550.html Spotify have the new album so will listen later. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 2432 Registered: 10-2004 |
I saw that Wake review on Pitchfork, Kevin. That box set looks beautiful. But my question is, is this a new (and improved) remaster, or did they source it from the LTM reissue from 10 years ago? The LTM reissue was done from a needle drop, because apparently the master tapes were long gone, and sadly, the vinyl LTM used was kind of shoddy (especially for the bonus tracks, which sound really mucked up), so it really lacks in the sound quality department. But if this box has been remastered then I might spring for it. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1827 Registered: 10-2008 |
James, noticed today that The Furs are playing a gig in Edinburgh so I assume they are yet another band who have got the reformation bug. I generally liked their stuff, especially the faster stuff from the early days. Some of the later stuff I liked at the time (mid 80s?) but when I listened again a few years back it left me cold. Maybe I should re-evaluate. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1828 Registered: 10-2008 |
Felt - Me And A Monkey On The Moon. Another winner I think. This and Forever Breathes are definitely the strongest albums for me, although to be fair I haven't totally immersed myself in all their work. Much as I admire Maurice Deebanks playing I think I prefer the later albums. Thats one piece of sacrilege out the way, the next is I can't stand Primitive Painters. I never liked it, Liz's unwanted warblings ruinl it for me. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 458 Registered: 05-2005 |
Talk Talk Talk is brilliant and first album great too and I always loved Forever Now, am re-evaluating Mirror Moves but dont think that Midnight to Midnight deserves salvation, will give it a go. Interesting listening to early Furs I can now hear it as a big big influence on Pornography by the Cure | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 818 Registered: 05-2005 |
The first 'Furs album had some great stuff too - She Loves You, Sister Europe etc. When I listen to the 2nd and 3rd now I can't help to be transported back to my first years of Uni. It was all Teardrop Explodes, Psychedelic Furs and Echo and the Bunnymen. Ah youth. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4603 Registered: 05-2005 |
Mike Johnson - Year Of Mondays. I don't know what made me think of it, but I found it without too much trouble in the drawer I thought it would be in. Great to hear it again after many, many years. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4606 Registered: 05-2005 |
Massive Attack - Sly (underdog mix). Found in the same drawer as the Mike Johnson album. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4607 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Future Sound Of London - Lifeforms EP. Also in the same drawer! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4608 Registered: 05-2005 |
Athens, GA - Inside/Out soundtrack. Again, from the same magical drawer! This includes two R.E.M. songs not (to my knowledge) available elsewhere. Also includes the brilliant Pylon. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4609 Registered: 05-2005 |
Turns out those two R.E.M. tracks are on the I.R.S. Vintage Years edition of Lifes Rich Pageant... | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2965 Registered: 03-2005 |
I often wonder what certain posters' houses look like, particularly you Padraig and also Hugh because my sense is that you are both the most intense and most prolific music acquirers of us all. Your mention of finding music in a drawer "I thought it would be in" conjures up amazing mental pictures for me. Like opening a cupboard looking for dishes and finding music instead. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1829 Registered: 10-2008 |
Next instalment of the Sugar remasters. Beaster has arrived and F.U.E.L will be released next week. Still to read the comprehensive booklet with Beaster, but the booklet with Copper Blue told how Bob Mould had stockpiled 30 songs for the session and 6 songs were "quarantined" and explicitly earmarked for Beaster. They are much heavier than the power punk/pop of Copper Blue but still relatively tuneful, although it didn't seem that way at the time where everybody seemed sledgehammered into submission by the power of the songs and the weighty subject matter of the lyrics. Myself and two friends travelled down to London just for the gig at Brixton Academy in 1993, one of the loudest gigs I have ever been to, as well as one of the drunkest!! Listening again to Copper Blue and Beaster its hard to think of another guitarist who could make the guitar sound so thrilling AND melodic at the same time. Off the top of my head Wilko Johnson from Dr Feelgood, Joe Strummer,and Andy Gill from Gof4 were thrilling guitarists, but not renowned for being particularly melodic. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1830 Registered: 10-2008 |
Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4611 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy, I do have CDs in cupboards where in more normal houses one finds dishes and dried goods. Any new visitor to my place will find CDs, DVDs and books in the oddest of places. I wish I had a bigger place (though I'd probably just fill that space too). | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 390 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, a modest red sandstone fronted bungalow with three rooms plus kitchen, bathroom and hall. I converted the loft space for use as a computer/music room some years ago and that is where I do most of my listening these days. My vinyl collection is stored in the eaves while my cd collection is stored in the room. The actual cds ( excluding oversized box set collections ) are kept in stackable boxes ( 3 litre Really Useful Boxes or similar.) I am currently in the process of disposing of a substantial number of dvds as I need space for more music. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 464 Registered: 05-2005 |
Listened to Copper Blue on a drive to Bristol today as a result of Kev's post, forgot how great it is, undoubtedly one of Creation's best album releases. | ||
| peter ward Member Username: Peter_ward Post Number: 173 Registered: 06-2005 |
M Ward - A Wasteland Companion |