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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4602 Registered: 05-2005 |
R.E.M. - Until The Day Is Done | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 590 Registered: 10-2006 |
Sharon van Etten - Serpents The best track on the latest Uncut cd. Love the voice, the sense of crescendo, the relentlessness of the vocal harmonies. | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 301 Registered: 05-2005 |
God save the queeeen.. http://www.live4ever.uk.com/2012/06/last -jubilee-festival-cancelled-due-to-dark- establishment-figures/ | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4604 Registered: 05-2005 |
Mike Johnson - One Way Out | ||
| peter ward Member Username: Peter_ward Post Number: 172 Registered: 06-2005 |
EBTG - The Night I Heard Caruso Sing | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 2437 Registered: 10-2004 |
Short Wave Mystery - Szabo (version) | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2966 Registered: 03-2005 |
The Sound -- No Salvation I know this will bug the Sound fans on here, but "Propaganda" is probably my single favorite Sound record. It's raw, basic rock 'n roll, something you'd think can be found just about everywhere but is actually pretty rare. While I really like "Jeopardy" too, the 80s studio production started to leach the life out of the sound of the band at that point. They should have done that one on 4 track too, with Dad twiddling the dials. I can't help wondering how a record like "Liberty Belle" might have sounded if it had been recorded under such conditions. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 2438 Registered: 10-2004 |
Randy, I know you've expressed your affection for Propaganda before. I can definitely see why it appeals to you. However, I can't say that I'm too curious to hear what Liberty Belle would sound like recorded on 4-track. The super slick 16LL maybe, but not Liberty Belle. Honestly, with the exception of Lindy's unpleasant, strangely effects-laden drum sound on some songs ("Bow Down," "Wrong Road"), Liberty Belle is actually a pretty organic sounding record, especially for its time. Lots of untreated acoustic guitars; trebly electric guitars that are clearly plugged directly into amps; a wide range of extra, organic instrumentation not particularly common for the era, like vibes, Hammond organ, accordion, etc. Maybe the string arrangements on "Wrong Road" go a little over the top, making that song sound overproduced, but overall, not a big budget production by any stretch, and it's a far cry from Rick Astley, or even Spring Hill Fair, for that matter. If there's anything on the Sound's Jeopardy that gives it an 80s sound, it's the synthesizers. It's a fairly dirty, no-frills, low-fi production, done on 8-track, I believe. I think the band was just trying to instill a bit more atmosphere into their overall sound, hence the dominance of the synths and the bizarre sounds employed. For me, it's really only their last two albums where the production might work to the band's detriment, perhaps deflating the energy a bit. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1835 Registered: 10-2008 |
I quite like the sound of Jeopardy, and the synths too. The Sound imo were one of those bands who worked better in a live setting. To my dying day I'll vouch for the fact that their performance (supporting Echo and the Bunnymen) at my local uni was one of the most powerful performances I have ever witnessed and was on a par with Joy Division (supporting Buzzcocks) in 1979. I bought Jeopardy as soon as I could after that gig and loved it, but it couldnt match up to the gig which is not to say it lacks power. I have been listening to I Cant Escape Myself which is on a comp I have made up recently for the car and it still sounds as vital now as it did then, the way Adrian B's vocals get louder and more anguished in the last verse is spellbinding, and now with the power of hindsight the lyrics to that song are a self fulfilling prophecy. Same as Curtis really. I sort of gave up on The Sound after the brilliance of the first two albums, I really need to revisit the albums that came after those two - if I even still have them :-) I think Liberty Belle is the best sounding Go-Betweens album, which is not particularly giving it great praise considering that they really suffered over the years with poor production, whether it be the crap drum sound on Tallulah, the lush blandness of 16LL, or the totally over compressed disaster of Oceans Apart. Their brilliant songs deserved better on all these albums, unfortunately I am not one of those people who are blessed with the ability to overlook how an album "sounds" and just appreciate the songs. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 2439 Registered: 10-2004 |
Kevin, wow, that is awesome that you got to see the Sound in concert. Yeah, ultimately, I have no issues with the sound of Jeopardy and I dig the synths too because of the eery atmosphere they provide. If you revisit their later albums, don't forget the Shock of Daylight EP, which in my opinion is their best post-Lion's Mouth work. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4621 Registered: 05-2005 |
New Order - Temptation (12" extended version) from Factus 8 EP. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 592 Registered: 10-2006 |
Smudge - Don't wanna be Grant McLennan Went through an over-saturation of half a cow stuff a few years back,resulting in a lot of things I don't play very often, but never heard this before. What a cracker. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4628 Registered: 05-2005 |
Stuart, when I first arrived in Australia in January 1992, that CD single was one of the first things I bought. It had been rave reviewed in the Melody Maker a couple of months earlier. I also bought Ed Kuepper and Ain'ts albums for the same reason. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4631 Registered: 05-2005 |
R.E.M. (with William Burroughs) - Star Me Kitten | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4632 Registered: 05-2005 |
R.E.M. (with William Burroughs) - Star Me Kitten | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 470 Registered: 05-2005 |
Donnie and Joe Emerson - Baby | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 471 Registered: 05-2005 |
Donnie and Joe Emerson - Baby | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 472 Registered: 05-2005 |
Donnie and Joe Emerson - Baby | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1843 Registered: 10-2008 |
Repetition - David Bowie | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4636 Registered: 05-2005 |
You're a funny man Kevin. | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 821 Registered: 05-2005 |
Re the Smudge song. I remember when it came out and it only seemed a confirmation that music at that time was moving in opposite directions to my taste. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4639 Registered: 05-2005 |
R.E.M. - This One Goes Out | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 593 Registered: 10-2006 |
In what sense Geoff? It's a crunching tune, a witty lyric, short and sweet, not exactly a drastic turning point in music, I'd have thought. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 595 Registered: 10-2006 |
Peter Tosh - Downpressor man as I try to hook a young friend of mine on to reggae. Hard going so far. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 2228 Registered: 09-2006 |
The Blasters - Long White Cadillac | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 2444 Registered: 10-2004 |
Beach Boys - Child Is The Father Of The Man Just over two minutes of some of the most fabulously moody, brooding, dramatic, artsy pop music to have been created in the 60s. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2970 Registered: 03-2005 |
Savoy Brown -- When I Was a Young Boy It was sacrilege for a blues rock band to use strings in 1969. Brilliant. | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 822 Registered: 05-2005 |
Stuart, In the sense that EVERYTHING seemed to be going Techno or Grunge and... here comes ANOTHER putdown/rejection of one of my bands and the music they make. Maybe I was just in a bad mood! It depressed me. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 596 Registered: 10-2006 |
Geoff, that must have been a really bad mood! Surely the song is a light-hearted homage more than anything else - to quote from a blog: "Smudge... sang about Australia’s premier songwriting partnership in a single of theirs from 1991. Don’t Want to Be Grant McLennan is a tongue-in-cheek plea from the singer who dreams about writing songs in the style of Robert Forster, but ends up writing like Grant McLennan instead. He also namechecks the four Beatles and even claims that he doesn’t want to write like them! Methinks he doth protest too much as his song has a strong melody and even mentions the title of a tune from Grant’s solo debut as well as quoting a line from Bye Bye Pride." It even appeared on a tribute album to the GBs called Write your adventures down, apparently. Anyway, I like the idea that Grant and Robert represent two different polarities of a songwriter's psyche - id and ego respectively, perhaps! Which is what made them such a great team. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 597 Registered: 10-2006 |
Belle & Sebastian - Shoot the sexual athlete An unambiguous tribute this time and another witty lyric - I really should have heard this before, I suppose. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1850 Registered: 10-2008 |
Au Pairs - Armagh | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1852 Registered: 10-2008 |
Comsat Angels - Eye Dance | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 598 Registered: 10-2006 |
Belle and Seb - I'm waking up to us I'll listen to anything with a beagle on the cover. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4644 Registered: 05-2005 |
Stuart, it most certainly is not on Write Your Adventures Down. That album is exclusively cover of Go-Betweens songs. It is: Lee Remick - Patience Hodgson from The Grates Bye Bye Pride - Sarah Blasko Head Full Of Steam - Dan Kelly Dusty In Here - Toby and Cameron from Youth Group House That Jack Kerouac Built- Glenn Richards from Augie March Streets Of Your Town - Bob Evans Right Here - Darren Hanlon Bachelor Kisses - Josh Pyke Draining The Pool - Andrew Cox from The Fauves Hold Your Horses - Sarah Blasko No Reason To Cry - New Buffalo Finding You - Adele Pickvance Spring Rain - David McCormack Dive For Your Memory - Glenn Thompson | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4645 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jonathan Elias - The Prayer Cycle. A still stunning piece of modern classical. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 599 Registered: 10-2006 |
Ooops, I must have misread the blog. I thought the tracklist at the end was the contents of the album, but obviously it was just a list of the tracks the guy mentioned in his article. Now I understand why no journalism school would take me back in the day. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4651 Registered: 05-2005 |
Japandroids - Adrenaline Nightshift. The sound of The Hold Steady if they were a bit more punky. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 600 Registered: 10-2006 |
Morrissey - No-one can hold a candle to you | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 990 Registered: 04-2006 |
spotify: now we germans have the possibility to register without having an facebook account. now i use it, too and listened to the new dexys album, to laurel halo, bobby womack and saint etienne's new album. the first song on the saint etienne album is my song of the day. not because of the music/the song, maybe more the story and the way this story is told. a declaration of love to the music. saint etienne - over the border When I was 10 I wanted to explore the World There were these older kids at school who'd gone all the way to Somerset Just to see Peter Gabriel's house, Peter Gabriel from Genesis They way they'd dressed, the way their hair fell over their coat collars It all happened because of music, I wanted to know why I couldn't go to Somerset on my own, so I used Top of the pops as my World Atlas In 1974, I bought my first single, from Woollies in Redhill I started to memorise the charts, to memorise the leagues Tuesday lunchtime at 12:45, Saturday afternoon at five o'clock I didn't go to church, I didn't need to Green and yellow harvests, pink pies, silver bells and the strange and Important sound of the synthesiser. Over the border, I'm growing older, heaven only knows what's on it's way Every single day, love is here to stay Over the border, I'm growing older, heaven only knows what's on it's way Every single day, love is here to stay Kevin drove us to parties in his Morris Minor And there were boys, and there was booze, and mock Tudor semis And first kisses, and terrible chat up lines But in the end, the conversation always turned to music I was in love, and I knew he loved me because he made me a tape I played it in my bedroom, I lived in my bedroom, all of us did Reading Smash Hits and Record Mirror, Paul Morley and the NME, Dave McCulloch and Sounds, Modern Eon and Modern English Mute, Why, Zoo, Factory Cutting them up, sucking them in, managing the story on our own Over the border, I'm growing older, heaven only knows what's on it's way Every single day, love is here to stay Over the border, I'm growing older, heaven only knows what's on it's way Every single day, love is here to stay I had my mocks a month later But I just wanted to listen to Dexys, New Order, anything on postcard A few weeks and I'd be free A few weeks and music wouldn't have to be so private, it would be there for Me It would be there for me, and when I was married, and when I had kids Would Marc Bolan still be so important Over the border, I'm growing older, heaven only knows what's on it's way Every single day, love is here to stay Over the border, I'm growing older, heaven only knows what's on it's way Every single day, love is here to stay | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1862 Registered: 10-2008 |
I think most of us can relate to these words Andreas. I'll need to check it out on Spotify. And can I just point out I never owned a Morris Minor!! | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 991 Registered: 04-2006 |
kevin, that's why i immediately felt in ''love'' with this song and why i thought i have to post it here. and are you sure about the morris minor ? :-) | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 996 Registered: 04-2006 |
yeasayer - henrietta anyone listened to it? only just took notice of this new tune from their forthcoming album. promising! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2972 Registered: 03-2005 |
Music is definitely the chief way I traveled in my childhood. First, it was primarily the U.K. But it was also New York and San Francisco and Los Angeles where I now live. Later it was Australia, South Africa, Italy and France. My parents converted to Mormonism when I was 7 years old. Because I and my two older brothers were music mad we were all viewed as bad kids. These idiot religious freaks thought that their arid empty world was an alternative to our world of beautiful sounds and passionate expression and, for me, distant places. Yep, I can relate to the St.Ettienne lyric. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 2445 Registered: 10-2004 |
Holy crap, that song name-checks Modern Eon!!!! I mean, seriously - !!!!! I love Modern Eon and have yet to meet another soul on this planet who does as well. I adore Saint Etienne's music geekiness and always have. It's just that I've been horribly disappointed with every album they've put out since Good Humor. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 2229 Registered: 09-2006 |
I've enjoyed just about everything they've ever done to varying degrees, though at the moment the song mentioned above is the only one that's doing it for me on the new one. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4661 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Cast Of Cheers - Animals | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 480 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Soundtrack of Our Lives - Transcendental Suicide after seeing them live again last week in Sweden I am convinced they are currently the greatest rock'n'roll band in the world, sad to find out they are calling it a day at the end of the year, this Who like gem from Origin Vol 1 has been on stun volume in my car all week | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 602 Registered: 10-2006 |
GBs - Too much of one thing I forgot the wife had this one on her pod, so it was sweet when it jumped out at me first thing this morning - for half a second I was just thinking, "oh, this sounds great, what...oh of course..." A GBs weekend in prospect, then. | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 241 Registered: 11-2007 |
exlovers - Starlight, Starlight sounds like a quicker, shoegazing version of dunedin sound... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BMGfLVxY 9s | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 242 Registered: 11-2007 |
another wonderful song by exlovers - You Forget So Easily http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xqH5v-LL DE&feature=relmfu | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 1006 Registered: 04-2006 |
hot chips - flutes while thinking about if i like their new album or not, i keep on dancing away with this track... | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 728 Registered: 04-2005 |
Fred Poulet - Toute une vie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5hGJ_7fn bo&feature=related Another little gem from Fred, best known for his fly on the wall documentary about French footballer Vikash Dhorasoo during the 2006 World Cup | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4668 Registered: 05-2005 |
Adele & Glenn - City Of Sound. Post-punk meets 60s US garage rock. Fantastic. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 605 Registered: 10-2006 |
Pure - Me and the almost beautiful girl | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 304 Registered: 05-2005 |
Happy birthday - For Robert Easy to remember. It's also mine.. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4680 Registered: 05-2005 |
Peter Holsapple & Chris Stamey - Santa Monica |