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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4707 Registered: 05-2005 |
Bought in JB Hi-fi Kensington's bargain bin yesterday Thirteen Senses – The Invitation Rory Gallagher – Rory Ungdomskulen – Cry-baby Tim Hall – No Dogs No Disneyland Baxter Dury – Floor Show Nathaniel Mayer – Why Don’t You Give It To Me? Hawksley Workman – Lover/Fighter Max Tundra – Mastered By Guy At The Exchange Michael J Sheehy – No Longer My Concern | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4708 Registered: 05-2005 |
The title of the Rory Gallagher should read Wheels Within Wheels. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4709 Registered: 05-2005 |
Bought in Dunedin, New Zealand last week (the first nine are NZ artists) The Eversons – Summer Feeling V/A – Tally Ho: Flying Nun’s Greatest Hits (double CD featuring all of our favourites) The Shifting Sands – Feel (featuring various Flying Nun luminaries) David Mulcahy – Oddy Knocky The Mutton Birds – She’s Been Talking OMC – On The Run Timothy Blackman – Modern Sprawl The Naked And Famous – Passive Me Aggressive You (three disc version with their early EPs) Blam Blam Blam – The Complete Blam Blam Blam (features Don McGlashan from The Mutton Birds) Guillemots – From The Cliffs (I suspected I already had this, and I do. Someone will be getting it in the post) Mt St Helens Vietnam Band – Mt St Helens Vietnam Band Arab Strap – Enjoy Your Retirement: Ten Years Of Tears Joe Henry – Blood From Stars Gluecifer – Automatic Thrill Alejandro Escovedo – Gravity (two disc remaster) Mint Royale – See You In The Morning Mink DeVille – The Collection V/A – The Bridge School Concerts (Neil, Bruce, Thom etc) Crocodiles – Summer Of Hate Jeffrey Foucault – Ghost Repeater The Ramones – Weird Tales box set Dunedin still has a couple of independent record shops, though I’m sure it had a whole lot more in the heady days of the Dunedin Double EP. The shop where I bought most of the NZ titles above (cash, they didn’t take credit cards) was Disk Den on Princess St. I was happy to find such a big and well-stocked shop, but it all made me a little sad too. In the hour I was there, only one other person came into the shop, and he bought nothing. I had a nice chat with the owners, a couple who are probably in their 60s, about the state of music retailing. They were interested in why I was only buying NZ albums. It occurred to me that they have probably owned the shop for a quarter century or more and at some point presumably imagined they could sell the shop and retire. It probably isn’t worth much as a going concern now. I wonder how long more they will be able to able to afford the rent on such a big space and to keep it so well stocked. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2412 Registered: 01-2005 |
Siouxsie & Banshees - Kaleidoscope Magazine - The Correct Use Of Soap Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than The Driver... Susanna Hoffs - Someday The Lumineers - The Lumineers Eliza Gilkyson = Land Of Milk & Honey Kenny Dorham - Una Mas Freddie Hubbard - Breaking Point Sara Gazarek - Blossom & Bee | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4754 Registered: 05-2005 |
Today in Newtown: From Repressed Records Day Ravies - Sunshine Punch EP From Egg Records Timbuk 3/Stan Ridgway - Back 2 Back Hits (a great compilation featuring five songs from Timbuk 3 followed by five from Ridgway! It was a bizarre find as just this morning my daughter mentioned Khatmandu, which made me think of Timbuk Too and then Timbuk 3. This was providence, I had to buy it!) Massive Attack - 100th Window Ron Sexsmith - Cobblestone Runway The Answer - Revival Oranger - The Quiet Vibration Land | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4758 Registered: 05-2005 |
From the 99c bin in JB Hi-fi, Bondi Juncion: Sumo - The Danceband David Axlerod - Seriously Deep (I interviewed him once. A gentleman) The Chelsea Smiles - The Chelsea Smiles Joe Pernice, Nick Drake etc - The Perfect Catch? soundtrack Various classical - Scoop soundtrack Spoon, Elvis Perkins etc - Fast Food Nation soundtrack Lynrd Skynrd, The Kinks etc - Sahara soundtrack | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4786 Registered: 05-2005 |
Blur - 21. Oh, joy. I've said it before, but Damon Albarn is the only British musical genius to have emerged in the past quarter century. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1956 Registered: 10-2008 |
When it comes to singles Blur have a decent track record, but they have never made a really great album imo. A few solid "7 out of 10's" efforts maybe. Albarn is a talent though, no doubt about it, although I think he is a bit of a musical magpie in the same way Bowie was. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 532 Registered: 05-2005 |
I am a Blur fan and Graham Coxon is one of my favourite guitarists, unfortunately I am also of the opinion that Damon Albarn is a total knob (allbeit a talented one)and as for Alex James and his mating about with David Cameron etc the less said the better. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1958 Registered: 10-2008 |
Yeah, Coxon is a much more likeable guy, as well as very talented. I much prefer his solo work to anything by Blur. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 533 Registered: 05-2005 |
Yes I really like his solo albums too, he is a true and slightly eccentric talent and a great guitar player | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1959 Registered: 10-2008 |
Bass Culture - Boss Sounds (Early regaae 1968-1972) http://www.demonmusicgroup.co.uk/Product .aspx?ProductID=6137 Bass Culture - When Reggae Was King (Roots, rockers, DJ's and dub 1970-1980) http://www.demonmusicgroup.co.uk/Product .aspx?ProductID=6138 Bass Culture - Mash You Down (The Birth of Dancehall 1978-1975) http://www.demonmusicgroup.co.uk/Product .aspx?ProductID=6139 Freedom Sounds - Trojan records 5 CD Box set. http://www.trojanrecords.com/news/2012/0 6/trojan-presents-freedom-sounds The Bass Culture sets, and the Trojan box are some of the releases that have been timed to co-incide with this weeks 50th anniversary celebrations of Jamaican independence. David Bowie - All Saints Not been buying as many albums as I normally do recently. The summer months in the last few years have proved to be really hollow periods for new releases or reissues due to the industry appearing to shut down and concentrate more on the extremely lucrative festival circuit which seems to run from May to September now. Not good news for record junkies, but good news for my bank manager and my postman! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4978 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jape - Please Don't Turn The Record Off (promo single by Irish electro band. Got it for $1) Geoff Smith - 15 Wild Decembers (never previously heard of him, but it was only $2, and a quick phone google made it sound interesting) Jason Walker - Ashes & Wine (his second album is very good, but I'd never previously come across his first. I did today, for $3) Ingrid Michaelson - Human Again ($10. A google search suggests there's a very good chance I'll like it) | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 456 Registered: 03-2007 |
The Sugargliders - A Nest With A View The Hermit Crabs - Time Relentless ( EP ) Bart and Friends - It's Not The Words That You Say ( EP ) The Blanche Hudson Weekend - You Always Loved Violence | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5034 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Pipettes - We Are The Pipettes. I got it at a reduced price in JB Hi-fi (not quite bargain bin price). I have the title track on single and really like it. Jeff has bigged this band up in the past. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5044 Registered: 05-2005 |
Tim Hardin - Hang On To A Dream: The Verve Recordings Peter Gabriel - So (three disc remaster) fIREHOSE - fROMOHIO fIREHOSE - If'n fIREHOSE - Ragin', Full-on (The cassettes of the latter three, and the Gabriel album too actually, have long needed replacing) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5050 Registered: 05-2005 |
Midnight Oil - Essential Oils V/A - Electrospective: Electronic Music Since 1958 (from BBC Radiophonic Workshop to Swedish House Mafia, via Krautrock, 80s electro, 90s dance and much more over two discs) Jack White - Blunderbuss The Bamboos - Medicine Man Devin - Romancing Pretty Things - Come See Me: The Very Best Of | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5070 Registered: 05-2005 |
Paul Buchanan - Mid Air (two disc version) Paul Weller - That Dangerous Age Simple Minds - Simple Minds X5 box set (their first five albums - six really, counting Sister Feelings Call - plus various b-sides and remixes). | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5112 Registered: 05-2005 |
Nuggets : Down Under Nuggets, 29-track compilation of Australian garage-rock from 1965 to 1967. Features Masters Apprentices, The In-Sect, The Cherokees, Throb, The Atlantics, The Black Diamonds, The Easybeats, Wild Cherries, Bobby & Laurie, The Loved Ones etc. (Randy, you will want to check this out http://www.redeye.com.au/answer.asp?reio n=USA&artist=various&title=nuggets+:+dow n&advSearch=yes) Also, Nuggets : Antipodean Interpolations of the First Psychedelic Era. Features Pond, The Laurels, Step-Panther, Straight Arrows, Palms, Velociraptor, Bloods, Eagle & The Worm, Davey Lane & more covering tracks from the original Nuggets, which is now 40 years old. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3086 Registered: 03-2005 |
I'll check it out Padraig. I actually have a lot of things by those listed artists already though. The Masters Apprentices have been well served in the CD era; you can get everything of theirs. Ditto the Easybeats of course, though I wish they rated the remaster treatment. Also the Atlantics. Bobby & Laurie are shockingly harder to do that with than should be the case given their profile way back when. They were pretty popular and their records were excellent. But I've managed thanks to some Germans who dubbed some vinyl LPs. The Black Diamonds were superb but as far as I know they recorded very little. If this has something of theirs that I don't have I'll snap it up just for that alone. Hopefully I can find a track listing somewhere. After the U.S., Oz is the greatest source of '60s garage rock. Raven, Big Beat and Canetoad have all put out good anthos. Canetoad have made a business out of delving very deeply into '60s Oz music with a number of good single artist collections. Much of it is dubbed from vinyl but it's well done and it beats the hell out of not hearing it at all. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3087 Registered: 03-2005 |
Ok, it's on Festival. That means proper tapes will be used and the sound will be good. It probably also means ugly packaging and artwork. They should steal Raven's art director. Some of the titles and some of the artists are unfamiliar. Good. Ordered. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 465 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, Nice article on the band which you may or not be aware of. There is a used copy of the Tymepiece album for sale on AmazonCom and Redeye have a new copy in stock. http://www.milesago.com/Artists/black-di amonds.htm | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3088 Registered: 03-2005 |
Thank you for that Hugh. I will get it, even though they will almost certainly be less entertaining in their 1971 guise than they were in 1966 and 1967. Prog rock? Eeek. "See the Way" is one of my favorite Aussie sides from '66, right up there with "Sorry" by the Easybeats and "Wars or Hands of Time" by Masters Apprentices. The sheer isolation of Oz yielded marvelous musical results, at least when people weren't just doing covers of American or British records, which A & R guys like Festival's Pat Aulton would indeed be pushing them to do. Back then people were particularly dismissive of Australian rock, usually including the Aussies themselves. A mistake of course. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 467 Registered: 03-2007 |
The five bonus tracks on the album were recorded in 1968, 1969 and 1970 so with luck they will not be too far removed in sound from the 1966/1967 tracks. I have a copy of the Masters Apprentices Two Disc Set ( Aztec Music ) but I have never heard anything by The Black Diamonds. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5162 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Jam - The Gift (super deluxe box set version) Winter People - A Year At Sea The Preatures - Shaking Hands EP Led Zeppelin - Celebration Day | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5212 Registered: 05-2005 |
Gary Clark Jr - The Bright Lights EP (Australian tour edition - which is as long as most albums) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5242 Registered: 05-2005 |
I braved the city for the boxing day sales. Well, I only went into two record shops. I don't think I've ever seen Pitt St Mall so crowded. Sarah Blasko - I Awake Codeine - Barely Real EP (I had to get this as I don't think I've ever come across it on CD before - my version was a cassette taped from a record, which I think I still have somewhere) Amy Winehouse - At The BBC box set (for $18.40!) | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 1028 Registered: 04-2006 |
a small residents box set: http://vimeo.com/53441332 | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 2116 Registered: 10-2008 |
Got some HMV vouchers for Xmas, so bought three CD's today that I had previously played regularly on Spotify. Bill Fay - Life Is People. Daphni - Jialong. Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5250 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God (remastered version) Sarah Blasko - What The Wants, The Sea Will Have Django Django - Django Django (tour edition with second disc of remixes - I got this without ever having heard a thing by them, based on people here praising it...) Gary Clark Jr - Blak And Blu | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5255 Registered: 05-2005 |
I went to the JB Hi-fi branch in Eastgardens yesterday to trawl what I know from a brief previous visit to be a good bargain bin. Moving Targets - Fall Grand National - A Drink & A Quick Decision The Evens - Get Evens Rudimentary Peni - Death Church Walking Concert - Run To Be Born Chris Stills - Chris Stills BMX Bandits - "Theme Park" The Bank Holidays - Sail Becomes A Kite Joe Lally - Nothing Is Underrated Dave Gahan - Hourglass Robert Wyatt - '... For The Ghosts Within' Dawn Landes - Fireproof Pattersn Hood - Murdering Oscar The Panics - A House On A Street In A Town I'm From Pop Levi - Never Never Love Double Dagger - More | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 2119 Registered: 10-2008 |
Padraig, the Patterson Hood is good, but his latest solo release Heat Lightning Rumbles In The Distance is by far his best solo release, and up there with the best Drive By Truckers albums imo. If you like Murdering Oscar definitely worth checking the new one. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3108 Registered: 03-2005 |
I have a serious need to move my CD list from my old computer to the new one and enter the pile of CDs on the coffee table so they can be filed away and the table stops looking like a model of some town's central business district. Adele & Glenn - Carrington Street Alain Bashung & Chloe Mons - Cantique des cantiques Jill Birt - Render & Prosper Cilla Black - Cilla in the 70s. I think I managed to find ONE decent song. Francoiz Breut - La Chirurgie des Sentiments Broadcast - Tender Buttons Broadcast/Focus Group - Witch Cults of the Radio Age Barbara Carlotti - Les Lys Brises Barbara Carlotti - L'Idgal Vic Chesnutt - Drunk Vic Chesnutt - At the Cut The Claim - Black Path Ned Collette - Future Suture Ned Collette & Wirewalker - 2 Cathal Coughlan - Grand Necropolitan Died Pretty - Free Dirt Died Pretty - Lost Geoff was right. This was the single best LP. Died Pretty - Doughboy Hollow Dominique A - La Fossette. Repurchased to get the bonus disc of his first record Un Disque Sourd. Dominique A - La Memoire Neuve. Repurchased for bonus disc. The record companies love me! Dominique A - Tout Sera Comme Avant Dominique A - L'Horizon Go-Betweens - Quiet Heart Dobie Gray - Drift Away/Loving Arms Luke Haines - Outsider/In Jack Ladder - Not Worth Waiting For Jack Ladder - Hurtsville. I also bought his middle LP but it never ever showed up at my door. McGuinn, Clark & Hillman - The Capitol Collection. This is so frustrating. There are some great youtube vids of them doing live performances, just the three of them and George Grantham on drums. These crappy glossy 80s LA productions demolish each and every song. Even so, you can still get the basic wonder of Gene Clark's "Backstage Pass." Melody's Echo Chamber - s/t The Names - Swimming Panel of Judges - No Scandal, No Future in Heaven Sandy Posey - Born to be Hurt Red Lorry Yellow Lorry - Talk About the Weather The Revolving Paint Dream - Flowers in the Sky. Another of Alan McGhee's Creation psychedelia bands. Evie Sands - Any Way that You Want Me Evie Sands - Suspended Animation The Servants - Small Time Soft-Hearted Scientists - Wandermoon Spherical Objects - Further Ellipses/No Man's Land Theatre of Hate - Westworld Theatre of Hate - The Singles Tindersticks - s/t Holly Throsby - Under the Town Tymepiece - Sweet Release. Excellent for someone who likes early 70s psych prog. I don't. The Wake - Here Comes Everybody Yo La Tengo - Prisoners of Love plus A Smattering of Outtakes and Rarities. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3109 Registered: 03-2005 |
Oh, and I purchased a copy of "Down Under Nuggets" on Padraig's prompting. I actually have the overwhelming majority of the tracks but I didn't have Phil Jones & the Unknown Blues' "If I Had a Ticket." And now I know where Ed Kuepper got that song. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5283 Registered: 05-2005 |
I bought a massive amount of CDs in the London and Ireland in the first three weeks of the year. Too many to list here right now (maybe later). Most were bought in Rough Trade East, Fopp in Covent Garden, Adrian's Records in Wickford (they have a Thin Lizzy picture disc on the wall which I bought from them by mail order 30 years ago! I mentioned it to the guy behind the counter. The eponymous Adrian perhaps) and Tower in Dublin (I think the only place where Tower exists anymore). I also bought something in HMV on Grafton St, little realising it would shut its doors for the last time that night. I passed by the Sound Cellar on Nassau St in Dublin. I wish I'd gone in as I recall the owner, Tommy Tighe, being worried in the mid-80s when HMV and Virgin opened in Ireland. He has outlasted them and many others, fair play to him. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 2145 Registered: 10-2008 |
Is Dolphin records still a going concern Padraig? Remember going in to their shops many times over the years, not been to Dublin since 2004 mind you. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 1123 Registered: 08-2004 |
HMV seem to have a lifeline in England still. | ||
| peter ward Member Username: Peter_ward Post Number: 207 Registered: 06-2005 |
Padraig, I secured tickets to the Bowie and Radiohead Olympia shows way back when, he always seemed to have a few stashed when ticketmaster was sold out, probably because while he was in the centre of town you would hardly know it existed from the street. I originally went in there for metal though! Kevin, Dolphin closed just last year, I think their label still exists though, they were responsible for a song you will be familiar with from Parkhead... "The Fields Of Athenry"? and a whole heap of other hairy trad records from my childhood. With HMV closed I am now an hour from my nearest record store, all online from here on in barring the occasional trip to town. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3127 Registered: 03-2005 |
Wow, this is a super depressing thread. I just checked, at least Avalanche Records still exists. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5290 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kevin, I was just talking about Dolphin Discs in Ireland a couple of weeks ago. We were talking in a joking fashion though - that shop was top heavy with titles like "20 Great Republican Ballads". Peter, it was metal that brought me to Sound Cellar too. It was the only place to get it back in the day. Still is for a lot of the obscure stuff I imagine. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5293 Registered: 05-2005 |
Despite telling myself I wouldn't buy another CD until March at least, given how many I bought in the UK and Ireland recently, I couldn't help myself yesterday: The New Mendicants (Norman Blake & Joe Pernice) - Australia 2013 EP Pernice Brothers - Goodbye, Killer Iain Archer - Flood The Tanks Chris Pickering - Ghost City Slobberbone - Everything You Thought Was Right Was Wrong Today Matthew E. White - Big Inner V/A - The Moon Under Water (Domino comp, came free with the Matthew E. White disc) Jimmy Little - Songman (three disc set comprising Messenger and Life's What You Make it remastered, plus a disc of unreleased and live tracks) | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3128 Registered: 03-2005 |
I wonder why they didn't include "Resonate" on the Jimmy Little collection. Tell me what you think of the unreleased and live songs Padraig. Meanwhile, a shipment from Cloudberry dropped through the door: The Strange Idols antho Hugh mentioned earlier and I also decided to pick up a Deddingtons collection. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5294 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy, judging from a quick glance at the liner notes, I think it's because Brendan Gallagher did not produce resonate. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3129 Registered: 03-2005 |
That's probably it Padraig. Gallagher did produce two of the tracks on "Resonate" including an excellent song of his own called "Now That You're Gone." The rest was produced by Richard Pleasance (Boom Crash Opera) and Daniel Denholm. Gallagher did play guitar on one of the Denholm-produced numbers ('Bury Me Deep in Love.") It has some clunkers on it but it continues the concept of "Messenger." I'll be very interested in Songman if it includes some more Gallagher cuts. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 492 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, I hope you like them. I enjoy collecting retrospective anthologies by little known British bands who existed for brief periods in the 1990s and 2000s. The first release in the Cloudberry Cake Kitchen Series ( Feverfew ) is also very good. Keith Girdler and Paul Stewart of that band went on to form Blueboy who recorded albums for Sarah Records and Shinkansen Records. Roque interviewed the ex-members of Strange Idols in the run up to the release of 'Idolatry.' The article is worth reading if you have not already done so. http://www.cloudberryrecords.com/blog/?s =strange+idols&x=0&y=0 ( scroll down page.) Last records bought :- Num9 - The Glow-Worms Resistence Num9 - Contra Num9 - El Baile Solo project of Coque Yturriaga who was previously a member of Migala and Emak Bakia. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 2147 Registered: 10-2008 |
Randy - "Wow, this is a super depressing thread. I just checked, at least Avalanche Records still exists." Perhaps some good news in the shape of this article when a "physical" record store embraces the digital era? | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 2148 Registered: 10-2008 |
oops, heres the link http://www.factmag.com/2013/01/29/amoeba -music-launches-vinyl-vaults-digitizing- rare-and-out-of-print-records/ | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3131 Registered: 03-2005 |
Thanks for the link Kevin. I suppose a really large store like Amoeba can do that. It'll be interesting to see what they come up with and whether they do a decent job. I've digitized a couple of records at home, using my Roland digital deck. The quality is excellent because I can patch lines from a proper hifi turntable with an excellent low mileage cartridge (rather than one of those dubious digital conversion turntables) but the Roland is intended for recording original music and then mixing it down to a master, so it's cumbersome and time-consuming for digitizing records. I had to copy each separate song as a separate Roland project and THEN create a master for each song from the initial copy so as to create a proper CD with separate tracks that a CD player will recognize. That way you also eliminate record pop between the songs. I think I've literally done it for three albums (and promptly discovered that one of them had been recently released in CD form). You really have to be in the mood; it's a huge amount of work. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 2149 Registered: 10-2008 |
Thats a real labour of love Randy! Record pop -uugghh! I hate that noise, at least I know how to fix that. I am currently suffering a similar noise when I listen back to streamed music online, or anything I have digitised and listen to through any media player - eg Winamp, Windows Media Player, Spotify etc. I have scoured the web for a remedy, but it appears that its a problem suffered by many and so far I have had no luck in eradicating it completely. The cause of the annoying pop or crackling sound is buffering apparently, and its compounded if you have a DAC (which I have), and Windows 8 (which I also have). There are all kinds of tips available online, so far I can't totally fix it it but I have managed to decrease the amount of times it happens. This popping sound is the modern equivalent of the record that jumps! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5316 Registered: 05-2005 |
Frightened Rabbit - Pedestrian Verse. It came out yesterday in Australia, half a week before it's out elsewhere. It was only $9.99 too, which was why I bought it immediately and played it last night. It sounded very good on first listen. Plus, from the bargain bin in JB Hi-fi: Heatmiser - Yellow No. 5 EP (Elliot Smith's old band) The Boxcar Guitars - Lamp Light EP The Lime Spiders - Nine Miles High 1983-1990 Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson - Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 493 Registered: 03-2007 |
Padraig, Any good? I have it on order along with Tree Bursts In Snow by Admiral Fallow but it will be later in the week before I take delivery. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KY4j8Ow-C Ts http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmR0wCf1a PI Here is another Scottish band for you to check out. They release their second album in March. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQHrO7Akc eE | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5323 Registered: 05-2005 |
Hugh, not as immediate as The Winter Of Mixed Drinks, and nothing, so far, as brilliant as Swim Until You Can't See Land. But I have a feeling it will sound better on future listens. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5500 Registered: 05-2005 |
Japandroids - Post-Nothing Japandroids - No Singles The Men - Open Your Heart Nick Cave, Mark Lanegan etc - Lawless soundtrack R.E.M., Flat Duo Jets etc - Athens Ga: Inside Out Fleetwood Mac - Rumours (35th Anniversary 3CD Deluxe Edition) Cassette - Cut For Summer (Melbourne-based New Zealanders don't hide their love for Neil Young) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5512 Registered: 05-2005 |
This afternoon: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Push The Sky Away Atlas Genius - When It Was Now The Men - New Moon My Bloody Valentine - mbv The Drones - I See Seaweed Hungry Kids Of Hungary - You're A Shadow Dick Diver - Calendar Days Don McLean - The Best Of Popstrangers - Antipodes | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5513 Registered: 05-2005 |
While I was in the record shop a teenage couple was in the same aisle as me. I was delighted to see young people in a record shop and overheard the boy saying to his girlfriend that he was looking for Joy Division. I pointed out where their CDs were to him and asked if he wanted a recommendation. I suggested he get The Best of Joy Division, which is an excellent two disc primer (disc 2 is various BBC sessions), and was on sale for just $10. He picked it up. As I walked away I overheard his girlfriend saying "just download it". He put the album back. I despair. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5525 Registered: 05-2005 |
GB3/Steve Kilbey - Damaged/Controlled McAlmont & Butler - Bring It Back | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3183 Registered: 03-2005 |
Padraig, I didn't see your previous March 16 entry before. That's a really depressing story. At the very least, I hope the download is one that is paid for. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 739 Registered: 05-2005 |
My kids never buy any music (although they have access to my extensive music library), I am seriously worried about the future of the music industry on the basis of this. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3184 Registered: 03-2005 |
When I was a kid, music was literally a transformative and identity-defining experience. Maybe it would have been for me in any case since as an infant I used to crawl around the room in circles whenever my parents would play music, but it was a transformative and life-defining experience for a lot of people in my age group and in the one just older than me and clearly also in the one coming just after me. I'd say music was a mostly generation-wide transformative experience for (at the very least) the Anglophone kids growing up in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. It might even have survived in this status through some of the 1990s. But the computer and the internet became the source of transformative and identity-defining experiences for kids after that. I am sure there are still music-crazy young people but it's definitely not the entire generation. There are other things that are transforming and defining their lives now, presumably off platforms like Facebook or Twitter or another internet experience. Los Angeles was a major international music capital when I moved to town in 1978. Most of the "music industry" institutions--the companies and recording studios--are long gone. (I love the fact that there's still a busy studio on Santa Monica Boulevard at the end of my street, but it's a growing rarity.) Music is now for the enthusiasts, kind of like jazz always was. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but it's certainly different than it was and the business side of it has to operate on a very different model. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 523 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy / Cosmo, I think the future is probably digital download and even then I am not convinced that the music industry, as it currently exists, will be able to continue for very much longer. The c.d. is on its way out in my humnble opinion. I attempted to order a used c.d. on AmazonCom earlier today. The cost was Ł2.83 ( US$4.30.) Shipping was Ł9.76 ( US$14.96.) Needless to say, I passed. It seems that the majority of the today's kids are not prepared to pay for music. As as result, there is no incentive for people to produce music for those who expect to be able download it for 'free.' Randy, I could be wrong but I doubt very much if the boy's girlfriend was suggesting that he 'paid' to download the album. Golden Grrlrs - Golden Grrrls Girls Names - Dead To Me Girls Names - The New Life Thrashing Marlin -Donkey Deep Doctor Millar - The Bitter Lie Bitter Springs - Everyone' Cup Of Tea Green Pajamas - Death By Misadventure Green Pajamas - Summer Of Lust Jonathan Boulet - We Keep The Beat Found The Sound See The Need Start The Heart Spiro - Pole Star Spiro - Lightbox Spiro - Kaleidophonica All the above were paid for. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3185 Registered: 03-2005 |
Hugh, I think people will produce music for their specific audiences. The audiences will develop via geographic location and also internet grapevine/media. The people who don't want to pay anything to hear the music will not be the target audience and probably will seldom even be in the audience at all. Pretty much nobody will be entering music with dreams of stardom and riches; they'll do it because they love it. Obviously they won't be spending as much money on the productions, though I'm inclined to view that as a good thing since so many bands made crappier records as their recording budgets increased. Plus, digital technology permits a remarkable amount of work to be done on the cheap. Hire one single professional mixing/mastering engineer after you're done with the raw recording and you can pretty much match the old standards. Yes, I agree that CDs are on their way out but I'll keep buying them as long as I can. I want a hard copy that is more durable and stable than a CD-R. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5528 Registered: 05-2005 |
Joe Pug - Messenger Royalchord - The Good Fight Grant-Lee Phillips - Nineteeneighties Echo & The Bunnymen - World Tour EP Brakes - Touchdown V/A - Up Yours! Punk's Not Dead | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5532 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy, Hugh, Cosmo, it did occur to me to further intervene and say to the young man that it was cheaper to buy the double CD for $10 than it would cost to download it. What stopped me was I didn't want to hear them say they would get it from pirate bay or something. Judging from their designer threads and well-spoken accents he certainly could afford to use daddy's credit card to pay for a download. Hopefully he did. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5541 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy, I love your description of music as "a transformative and identity-defining experience". Beautiful description. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5549 Registered: 05-2005 |
Songs - Malabar Therapy? - Hats Off To The Insane EP The Afghan Whigs - What Jail Is Like EP Bill Janovitz & Crown Victoria - Fireworks On TV! | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2509 Registered: 01-2005 |
Albert King - Born Under A Bad Sign (2013 remaster with 5 bonus tracks). My Bloody Valentine - mbv Robyn Hitchcock - From London with Love Kate Bush - Red Shoes Best Coast - Crazy For You Ahmad Jamal - Blue Moon Wayne Shorter - Without A Net James Moody - Moody 4B Cat Power - Moon Pix Duane Allman - Skydog: The Duane Allman Anthology Fleetwood Mac - Rumors: Expanded Edition (3XCD) Denise Donatelli - Soul Shadows Jackie Ryan - Listen Here Madeleine Peyroux - The Blue Room Tift Merritt - Buckingham Solo:Live Tift Merrit - Home Is Loud The Shins - Port of Morrow Beach House - Bloom Dwight Yoakam - 3 Pears Tedeschi Trucks Band - Everybody's Talking | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5565 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Cribs - Payola The Bitter Springs - Firm Family Favourites EP The Bitter Springs - Poor Trace EP (the last two on Hugh's top notch recommendation) The Walls - Hi-Lo Mike Scott - Rare, Precious And Gone Mike Scott - Building The City Of Light Gemma Hayes - Let A Good Thing Go G.W. McLennan - When Word Gets Around Doctor Millar - The Bitter Lie Hinterland - Kissing The Roof Of Heaven | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3191 Registered: 03-2005 |
At Rough Trade East today, Let's Go Naked - Emotion Engine. I'd get more but my bags are jammed. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5590 Registered: 05-2005 |
Trevor Rabin -Can't Look Away Sigmatropic - Dark Outside The Sunshine Underground - Raise The Alarm The Pictures - The Fantastic Sounds Of The Pictures Love Parade - A Strawberry Situation Cracker - Sunrise In The Land Of Milk And Honey Justin Currie - What Is Love For Vance Joy - God Loves You When You're Dancing Chet Faker - Thinking In Textures and a Joy Division DVD box set containing 24 Hour Party People, Control and the Joy Division documentary. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 532 Registered: 03-2007 |
An Horse - Walls Lawrence Arabia - The Sparrow Thrashing Marlin - Donkey Deep Randy, let me know how 'Emotion Engine' compares with 'Insides.' | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 1064 Registered: 04-2006 |
the new motorpsycho album (still life with eggplant). fantastic as every release. three of the marcos valle reissues on light on the attic. Garra, Vento sul and Previsao do Tempo. All three housed in a heavy gatefold cover. well done LITA! great brazilian music from the seventies! Don Bikoff - Composia for G-String Guita. a reissue of a private pressed LP from 1968 in the Fahey/Basho style. Duane Allman Skydog Box set. awesome! even if i have all the fahey cd's and vinyl albums (some of them 5-fold) i bought the fahey box 'the transcendental waterfall' containing the first six albums in (more or less) glorious vinyl. unfortunatley 4MWB worked a bit sloppy. the labels on the albums are not really identical with the originals (clolours). Folks at 4MWB, I think you should have done this a bit carefuller. 4MWB also released 'The voice of the Turtle' on vinyl which I also bought. And they released the first Basho Album 'The Seal of the Lotus' (as far as i know in this case they reproduced the Takoma labels correctly). Jon Anderswon - Olias of Sunhillow. Second Hand vinyl. The original of the seventies. Some of the songs reminds me on Dead can Dance (the ''world music'' style). Novos Bainos- Acabou Charare. another brazilian classic. Imaginational Anthem - Volume Five a must-buy for acoustic guitar afficionados like me. |