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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4763 Registered: 05-2005 |
Inspired by an email exchange with Randy, on the way into and home from work I listened to David McComb's Love Of Will on the iPod. Either I'd never previously heard it through headphones, or it's been so long since I played it I'd forgotten it, but it sounded so brilliant. I had definitely forgotten how much of a country influence there is on so many songs. It's a pity Johnny Cash didn't hear Day Of My Ascension. What a cover of that he could have done. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3003 Registered: 03-2005 |
Padraig, that would have been awesome. Though I wonder if he might have thought the lyrics blasphemous. He might have preferred "The Lord Burns Every Clue" (but it wouldn't have fit his voice nearly as well). It's remarkable, however, just how thoroughly the Triffids and David McComb did not happen in the U.S.. I doubt that Rick Rubin had ever even heard of them/him. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4768 Registered: 05-2005 |
Did they or he ever play in the US Randy? | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3006 Registered: 03-2005 |
Having just finished reading the book on them, I'm embarrassed that I cannot remember if the Triffids did manage to get one NYC date. If they did that's all and nothing more. A tour had been planned but never came off. It's amazing to read about all the attention and press they enjoyed in the U.K. and Europe while nothing happened for them in the U.S.. I supposed most of it is down to their time with Hot Records. Speaking strictly for myself, when I listened to the copy of "Calenture" that I picked up from a cut-out bin in '87 I assumed they were another wannabe Spandau Ballet or (early) Talk Talk or Tears for Fears: one of those big ballady over-produced British bands. I would NOT have had that impression of them at all if the cut-out CD I bought had been "Born Sandy Devotional." But I'm not sure BSD was ever released in the States back then. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 2483 Registered: 10-2004 |
It'd be interesting to know when Born Sandy Devotional was released in the US, because I'm pretty certain my LP is a US pressing. Can't remember the label at all, though. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 423 Registered: 03-2007 |
Jeff, the following listing suggests it was first manufactured and distributed in the U.S. in 1986 under licence from Hot Records by Rough Trade. Same catalogue number ( HOTLP2013 ) as the U.K. release. http://www.discogs.com/Triffids-Born-San dy-Devotional/release/2050612 | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 424 Registered: 03-2007 |
Correction. Catalogue No. HOTLP 1023 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4777 Registered: 05-2005 |
Alejandro Escovedo - Big Station | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3010 Registered: 03-2005 |
It just goes to show what I know. Funny thing is I have that Rough Trade version of BSD on vinyl. But I got it less than a year ago. "Calenture" is the only thing of theirs I ever saw here back in the day. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 428 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, It is more than likely that that the early titles by The Triffids were never well advertised/distributed in the U.S. which would explain why you never came across them. Rough Trade filed for bankruptcy a few years after the release of Born Sandy Devotional so I am guessing they had money problems even then. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 429 Registered: 03-2007 |
Michael Marra - Posted Sober | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 431 Registered: 03-2007 |
Ned Collette & Wirewalker - 2 A Melbourne born singer/songwriter currently living in Berlin. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZUKhDqtd _s | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 2237 Registered: 09-2006 |
I'm quite liking the tasters from the new xx album. In other news, another Byrds comp? Japanese only, all the singles, A & B sides, mostly mono...I love them, so please tell me if I'm missing much by not having this... | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 742 Registered: 04-2005 |
Hugh Michael Marra is a brilliant songwriter and performer! I first came across him at the end of the '80s in a dance/play called 'A Wee Home from Home'. The cast was just Marra playing and a dancer called Frank McConnell, and it remains one of the best things that I ever seen in a theatre. He wrote 'Mother Glasgow' for that show I believe, which has since been covered by several other artists including Hue and Cry and Eddie Reader. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 432 Registered: 03-2007 |
Andrew, my introduction to him was in 1991 when Eclectic Records of Edinburgh issued his album 'On Stolen Stationery.' I have followed his career since then. I gather he is quite a prolific songwriter so it is disappointing that he has only ever released four studio albums and a few eps which are extremely difficult to track down. I have never had the pleasure of seeing him perform live unfortunately. I am currently waiting to take delivery of Michael Marra with Mr McFall's Chamber ( Recorded live on tour 2010 ) and Houseroom ( EP released in April 2012 ) which he recorded with the Hazey Janes whose members include his son Matthew and daughter Alice. Link to a video of his song Scribbled Down Drunk ( But Posted Sober.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SmRDsBn7 qc | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1955 Registered: 10-2008 |
Eyeless in Gaza - Sixth Sense, The Complete Singles Collection | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4783 Registered: 05-2005 |
M/A/R/R/S - Pump Up The Volume (UK 12") | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4788 Registered: 05-2005 |
Icecream Hands - You Can Ride My Bike | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3018 Registered: 03-2005 |
Jill Birt--Render & Prosper It's astonishing that she still sounds as innocent on vocals when she must be near the half century. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 1022 Registered: 04-2006 |
inspired by the little bossa nova talk: Edu Lobo - A Musica de Edu Lobo por Edu Lobo with the Tamba Trio Elenco classic. as soft as butter. | ||
| peter ward Member Username: Peter_ward Post Number: 183 Registered: 06-2005 |
Chromatics - Kill For Love Fixers - We'll Be The Moon Mark Lanegan Band - Blues Funeral Mothlite - Dark Age Robert & Grant - Solo Rarities, love Grant's tender cover of If I Should Fall Behind | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 535 Registered: 05-2005 |
James Yorkston - I was a Cat from a Book | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3019 Registered: 03-2005 |
Died Pretty--Free Dirt This is a good solid substantial album. This isn't what a person will typically think of as an 80s-sounding group, though in fact they probably could not have existed without Radio Birdman happening first. In that respect maybe Died Pretty are like the Plug Uglies, another terrific Aussie 80s garage-type band who could not have existed without Radio Birdman happening first. But Died Pretty pulled more inspiration from the 60s than did the Uglies. I'd say Died Pretty also couldn't have existed without the great 60s/70s Aussie outfit Masters Apprentices coming first. And I'm tempted to say that the vocalist took more inspiration from Stevie Wright (Easybeats) than was OK to admit at the time. I adore the Easybeats but I wasn't saturated with them like I imagine people were in Oz. Well, those are the ideas that jump up on first listen. Excellent tip, Cosmo and Geoff. I don't know how I got them pegged as a major label "rawk" band, but I did. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 434 Registered: 03-2007 |
Paul Dempsey - Everything Is True Debut solo album by the singer, guitarist and principal songwriter for the Australian band, Something For Kate. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4793 Registered: 05-2005 |
Redd Kross - Researching The Blues | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 399 Registered: 02-2007 |
Love that album Hugh, beter than I thought I would as not really a huge fan of SFK. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4795 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Replacements - Don't You Know Who I Think I Was? The Best Of The Replacements. An excellent compilation. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4796 Registered: 05-2005 |
Republic Of Loose - My Brain. Probably the greatest Irish soul song ever (with apologies to Mr Morrison). | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 435 Registered: 03-2007 |
David, I only sourced a copy from an Amazon MarketPlace Seller a few days ago and to date I have listened to it once. Nice album in my opinion. I have been aware of it for several years but up until very recently it was pretty expensive here in the U.K. where it is only available on import. I am not really a huge fan of Something For Kate either although I do have all their albums. Are you familiar with Parallel Lions who also released their debut album in 2009? If not, check out Holding Patterns. Not quite a solo album but Ollie Browne ( singer, guitarist and songwriter ) was a member of the Melbourne band, Art Of Fighting and at times they sound a lot like them. For me, tracks 2, 3 and 6 are highlights. http://parallellions.bandcamp.com/ Currently listening to :- Aroah & Dot Tape Dot - Patterns | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 400 Registered: 02-2007 |
No not previously heard of them Hugh. Listening to the songs via the link now. Immediate liking on 1st listen. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 436 Registered: 03-2007 |
Jorge Ben - The Definitive Collection Decided to check him out after reading all the good things Cosmo, Jeff and Andreas had to say about him in another thread. Unfortunately, most of his early albums are prohibitively expensive here in the U.K. so I ended up with the above. A two disc set issued by Wrasse Records. Thirty nine tracks recorded between 1963 and 1976 with one track recorded in 2004 tacked on at the end. Sound quality is very good. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3020 Registered: 03-2005 |
Died Pretty -- Doughboy Hollow This arrived yesterday along with Soft-Hearted Scientists' "Wandermoon" and two Ned Collette albums. I think I'm going to end up being in agreement with Geoff on Died Pretty. On first listen "D.C." is lovely but in general the more polished and professional sounding record loses a lot of the appeal that I found in the "Free Dirt" and pre-"Free Dirt" recordings. For example, I kept hearing songs and thinking "I'd cut out 90 seconds and the song would have more impact." Some of the songs seemed like generic album-oriented-rock. I will get their second album and think about their third, which was recorded in my city of Los Angeles. I wish I could say otherwise but most of the time it is NOT a good thing when somebody cuts an album here. Los Angeles production values are vastly too glossy and too reliant upon hackneyed session players. Yes I can think of exceptions--Vic Chesnutt's two LA albums are wonderful, but that's what they are: exceptions. The Soft-Hearted Scientists record was as expected: reliably entertaining. I've heard one of the Ned Collette albums so far: Future Suture. It was more quirky than I'd expected after listening to some youtube samples of his work. More quirky is a good thing. The sparsely populated Australia continues to serve up more than it's fair share of musical quality. Ned Collette is a Hugh Nimmo recommendation. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 538 Registered: 05-2005 |
I have been relistening to Died Pretty alot after the recent board exchanges (a definite benefit of participating here) and have had Doughboy Hollow on in the car for a couple of days, am enjoying it but definitely like the early stuff better. When I was preparing a rigorous defense of the band against Jeff's slight (percieved) I immediately reached for the early stuff. Doughboy is a good album though. I also listened to the Out of the Unknown compilation and it plays through really well. Wandermoon has some great songs and the Scientists are unique as a band for me in that they seem to distill loads of stuff I like in to a groovy imagined whole. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1964 Registered: 10-2008 |
Once more I have to admit I have never heard of yet another band that you guys are talking about with Died Pretty. I checked Spotify and they only had one song, Harness Up. It is truly dreadful, with U2 and Coldplay style "OH OH OH OH's" throughout the song. Its here on Youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG-sG6dAZ Xk | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4797 Registered: 05-2005 |
Last night I played three quiet records, each of which I liked very much: Ed Harcourt - The Beautiful Lie; David McAlmont - You Go To My Head; and Ryan Adams - Ashes & Fire. | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 840 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy, No argument with me - I like their early stuff too. Doughboy Hollow was like Rain on the Humming Wire - the final confirmation that they had lost it. The one before it was where the rot started (much like the Panics too). Their second, Lost, I used to rank better than Free Dirt. Some great songs on it. I think I even have got the vinyl copy signed in white texta somewhere! But have you any Stems yet? Yes, Kevin, Harness Up IS truely aweful. They had well and truely lost any charm to me by then. (Trace(?)...the one after Doughboy Hollow) See if you can find "Mirror Blues". That MIGHT be more your style, but I can never tell! | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 437 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, prior to recording his first solo album, Ned Collette was in the band City City City with Joe Talia and Ben Bourke ( Wirewalker.) They recorded two albums. A few vocal tracks but predominantly an instrumental outfit. http://citycitycity.bandcamp.com/ | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1965 Registered: 10-2008 |
Died Pretty - Springenfall Now this is a lot better than that bombastic rubbish song of theirs I listened to last night. (I managed to track down a version of the album Lost this morning via Tomahawk. Check here for details on Tomahawk - http://www.tomahawk-player.org/) | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1966 Registered: 10-2008 |
bill fay - life is people | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 539 Registered: 05-2005 |
Euros Childs - Summer Special | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1968 Registered: 10-2008 |
Animal Collective - Centipede Hz Hear the new album before release via the website http://radio.myanimalhome.net/ | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 2238 Registered: 09-2006 |
The xx - Coexist Pet Shop Boys - Elysium The former is really charming me - sounds 70% like the last album, 30% weaving in some new stuff, and as long as they're hitting my pleasure centers this strongly that percentage feels just right. The PSB feels like it'll take a little longer. | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 311 Registered: 05-2005 |
Ormonde - Machine. Project with Midlake's friend Robert Gomez and Anna Lynne-Williams (I only know she has worked for Chemical Brothers). It seems this album will stay in my CD player for a long time... There is even a cover of Serge Gainsbourg's Lemon Incest on it. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1974 Registered: 10-2008 |
Lee Scratch Perry and Friends - Disco Devil, The Jamaican Discomixes | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3024 Registered: 03-2005 |
Dominique A -- Tout Sera Comme Avant Stuart, have you gotten this? It's not nearly as challenging to listen to as its inspiration "L'Imprudence" though I think I will probably do a bit of judicious pruning when I load it into iTunes. It's a good record. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3025 Registered: 03-2005 |
Geoff, yesterday "Who'll Point You" came on the iPod in the car and I loved the sound of it from the first notes. I didn't actually recognize it--a side effect of getting too many new (to me) records in too short a time--so I didn't realize it was the Moffs until the vocals came in. But it illustrated perfectly how the Moffs just hit the spot for me and I'll always like them better than Died Pretty. I will, however, be getting "Lost." | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 842 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy, Good. I played "Lost" a couple of times in the last few days and was surprised how much I still like it. I say that because when I got it 10 years ago on cd it seemed a bit embarrassing. Look for the clip of "Towers of Strength" on You Tube. Classic Ron Peno performance! | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 438 Registered: 03-2007 |
Migala - La Increible Aventura Spanish band who released five albums between 1997 and 2004. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APfWJW9ua zU | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 626 Registered: 10-2006 |
Randy, Tout sera and Auguri are on my "have to let sink in" list - neither of them seem as immediate as Remue, Vers and La musique, anyway, although there are obviously beautiful things on both. Tout sera's relatively slow pacing aroused for the first time a certain impatience in me that I can't get all the words. But the guy has such a gorgeous voice, his work is always a pleasure. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1989 Registered: 10-2008 |
Matthew Dear - Beams. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 442 Registered: 03-2007 |
Migala - Asi Duele Un Verano | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3033 Registered: 03-2005 |
Vic Chesnutt -- Drunk I never got around to this album, for no particular reason. The first track "Sleeping Man" is entertaining and quite different than normal V. Chesnutt sounds but this is a weak album, clearly cut too soon after the beautiful "West of Rome," which in turn is probably one of the three best albums in Chesnutt's lengthy career, no doubt helped by Michael Stipe's production input. There just aren't much in the way of songs here. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4815 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy, Drunk was my introduction to Vic Chesnutt. He self-released a cassette version of it when his record company initially refused to release it. A friend of mine in Athens, GA bought it and sent it to me. I love it. There are tracks on it which never made it to either CD version of the album, mostly because he would have been sued for sampling a U2 dance remix! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3034 Registered: 03-2005 |
Wow, that's definitely something to have Padraig! But if you haven't, give a listen some time to "West of Rome." The first one or two songs won't seem all that much different than the songs on "Drunk" but after that it takes off. Even the songs added as bonus on the New West CD version are strong. Right now I'm listening to Chesnutt's final album--at least I think it's his last album--"At the Cut." I was originally put off by the sheer intensity of his penultimate album "North Star Deserter" and so didn't get the next one. Both albums are recorded in Canada. They are not easy listening but on first listen it sounds like "At the Cut" is better than "North Star Deserter." "Chinaberry Tree" is downright beautiful in a bittersweet way. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 752 Registered: 04-2005 |
Think that I will have to buy 'West of Rome'! Just read Jem Cohen's notes from the reissue CD (http://jemcohenfilms.com/wp/50-2/)and it sounds great. And our friend Ray Neal (from Miracle Legion) plays some guitar on it too. Somewhere I have some photos from the recording sessions for the record, that Ray's wife took... | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 443 Registered: 03-2007 |
Migala - Diciembre 3 a.m. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4818 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Go-Betweens - Quiet Heart | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1990 Registered: 10-2008 |
Vic Chesnutt. I only bought one of his albums, The Salesman and Bernadette, and I did play it quite a bit at the time and thought it was pretty good but nothing special,I'll dig it out again. I listened to West Of Rome on Spotify last night, and have Drunk and Is The Actor Happy queued up. After listening to West of Rome I think he is more the type of artist I will enjoy listening to now, as opposed to years ago when I listened to The Salesman and Bernadette . Anybody who was admired by pre arsehole Stipe, and Mark Linkous is ok by me. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 444 Registered: 03-2007 |
Migala - Arde | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4822 Registered: 05-2005 |
I sat down and played a load of albums and singles yesterday. It had been ages since I'd listened to so much music in a row like that. The Immediate - In Towers & Clouds (sole album by a Dublin band who broke up after releasing it. Destined to become a lost classic I think) The Champs - III (heavy metal meets Krautrock. Mostly intrumental. Mostly brilliant) Times New Viking - Born Again Revisited (this was supposedly their "polished" album. I'd hate to hear the unpolished ones then. Still, some great songs. Can't imagine playing too often though.) Adam Clayton & Larry Mullen - Mission: Impossible (worth every cent of the 50c I paid for it) Edwyn Collins - A Girl Like You (and its three great b-sides) Circus Diablo - Circus Diablo (melodic hard rock. Loved it) The Beatles - Free As A Bird (also has three great b-sides) Sons And Daughters - Love The Cup (great debut EP) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4826 Registered: 05-2005 |
Now listening to Bob Mould's Silver Age. Glory be, he's remembered how to play guitar again. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 2240 Registered: 09-2006 |
Bobby - Tempest It's here, if you want: http://newalbumreleases.net/48694/bob-dy lan-tempest-2012/#more-48694 | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3040 Registered: 03-2005 |
Dominique A -- L'Horizon Oddly, the wiki article describes this album as one of his more experimental ones. Perhaps the lyrics are experimental; that I wouldn't know. Musically I'd say it's one of his least experimental, certainly nothing like "Tout Sera Comme Avant" or a number of his records really. Like "Tout Sera Comme Avant" it favors acoustic instruments, but here dominated by a strumming acoustic guitar on most numbers. It's very French in sound. None of this is criticism; just description. Another strong album. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 1999 Registered: 10-2008 |
Ariel Pinks Haunted Graffiti - Mature Themes. Even better than his last album, and that was one of my albums of the year then. Hooks galore, but not obvious ones - takes a few listens for them to emerge. Animal Collective - Centipede Hz. Not as immediate as the last album, MPP, and seemingly a reaction against that albums universal acclaim this is mad, weird and revealingly excellent. Bob Mould - Silver Age. Sounds like a long lost Sugar album, this is a good thing! Bob Dylan - Tempest. Another cracker from the old git, makes you wonder why he was so crap in the 80's!! | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 2242 Registered: 09-2006 |
My theory on why so many of that generation struggled in the 80s has long been that they were doing what up til then had rarely been done - continuing a career in rock when they weren't young men any more. They had no models and so consequently they were trying everything they could to see what might work and feel true. Lou Reed is the biggest exception because I think he was ahead of the curve and did all his experimenting in the 70s.  | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4832 Registered: 05-2005 |
Bill Fox - Shelter From The Smoke | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1669 Registered: 08-2006 |
Allen, I think there's something to your theory. Never thought of it before, but the first wave of rockers did what they did and when it was no longer in fashion they either faded away or hit the nostalgia circuit. Unless they wanted to follow suit, Dylan and the like had to adapt, and in the era of heavy synths and gated drums, that couldn't have been easy (evidence shows it wasn't). I will say I still pull out Dylan's "Infidels" and "Empire Burlesque" from time to time. They don't match anything Reed was doing at the time, tho. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4834 Registered: 05-2005 |
Times New Viking - Fuck Her Tears | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 407 Registered: 02-2007 |
Rob, Infidels couldve been a great album, with Blind Willie McTell and Foot Of Pride replacing Neighbourhood Bully. And get rid of the drum machine on Licence to Kill. Dylan didnt know whether to embrace the technology or stick with what he knew, so you have these strange sounding albums on top of still amazing songs. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4840 Registered: 05-2005 |
Buffalo Tom - Bones EP | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1670 Registered: 08-2006 |
Agreed, David. It's mystifying why he left those two songs off the track list. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 642 Registered: 10-2006 |
Holton's Opulent Oog Few of my favourite singers are vocal virtuosos, but this guy has to have the most unappealing voice ever committed to disc. Tuneless doesn't begin to describe it. Another one for my Panics pile, along with Six organs of admittance, sigh. | ||
| peter ward Member Username: Peter_ward Post Number: 189 Registered: 06-2005 |
Dan Deacon - America Bill Fay - Life Is People Django Django John Talabot - fin Here We Go Magic - A Different Ship Soulsavers - The Light The Dead See (still my favourite album of the year) Beach House - Bloom ( a close second) Cold Specks - I Predict A Graceful Expulsion (A closer Second) Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Mature Themes | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4845 Registered: 05-2005 |
Stars - Cattle And Cane. A pretty good cover given it's such a hard song to cover (and easy to get utterly wrong). | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4849 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Frank & Walters – Funky Cold Medina. I haven't heard their version since I last saw them live almost 21 years ago. I did a Fás course with the drummer back in the day! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4852 Registered: 05-2005 |
Redd Kross - Winter Blues | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4854 Registered: 05-2005 |
Stardust - Music Sounds Better With You Remixé EP | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4858 Registered: 05-2005 |
Now listening to Stars' version of This Charming Man. They do good covers of 80s songs! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4859 Registered: 05-2005 |
And now I'm on to Irish 80s band The Stars Of Heaven's Sacred Heart Hotel album. I did radio programs with a couple of the members in the mid-90s. Very nice fellas. Serious Go-Betweens fans too. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 445 Registered: 03-2007 |
El Hijo - Las Otras Vidas Solo project of Abel Hernandez who was a member of Migala. Padraig, I still have my vinyl copy of that album. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4863 Registered: 05-2005 |
Good to hear Hugh! I'm listening to Velvet Crush's Don't You Slip Away From Me. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4864 Registered: 05-2005 |
And now I'm listening to The Bats' Daddy's Highway, which bears a remarkable resemblance to Don't You Slip... I think Velvet Crush were Bats fans then! | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 643 Registered: 10-2006 |
Vasilis Papakonstantinou – Thalassa sti skala The only real Greek rock album I own, excluding some Aphrodite’s Child, Vangelis and Irene Papas, this album by one of the country’s most eminent rock-protest figureheads sounded fine sipping whisky and soda at twilight at a harbour-side bar on a tiny Aegean island; and actually sounds pretty good home back home too, though, like a lot of European singer-songwriter stuff it’s very traditional musically, a mix of folk and classical flourishes and a nod to 70’s rock. Whatever the hell he’s singing about – Google translation helps me out with titles like “Life in other,”, “Keeps just yet”, “Why not buy you,” and “Give me a hug” – he’s got a rich, expressive voice and certainly puts his heart into it. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 2003 Registered: 10-2008 |
Robert Hood - Motor: Nighttime World 3 The Detroit techno wizard strikes again | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 2005 Registered: 10-2008 |
Grizzly Bear - Shields Been on repeat for about 2 weeks now. | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 850 Registered: 05-2005 |
Addendatwo - Steve Kilbey Worth it alone for brilliant covers of "The Wrong Road" and "Lonely Stretch". | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4879 Registered: 05-2005 |
Mojave 3 - Puzzles Like You. I picked this up in a bargain bin recently. It's terrific. Big Star Baby is probably the best track on it and is worthy of the band mentioned in its title. As with The Jayhawks' equally great Big Star, it, of course, sounds like their heroes. Band Of Horses - Mirage Rock. Not as immediate as their last album, which was my album of the year in 2010. Air - Le Voyage Dans La Lune. A great record. Dirty Projectors & Bjork - Mount Wittenberg Orca. I like it, but I don't think I'd play it a whole lot. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4899 Registered: 05-2005 |
An iTunes genius playlist based round Mojave 3's Big Star Baby. To my delight, it has included The Jayhawks' Big Star in the mix. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 447 Registered: 03-2007 |
Emak Bakia - Un Cuerpo Extrano Yet another project of Abel Hernandez. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4903 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Frank Ocean album. It is stunning. Anyone else here listened to it? The comparisons with Prince in his 80s heyday are accurate. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1676 Registered: 08-2006 |
Love it, Padraig. As I mentioned on the Gigs thread, I got to see him live in NYC this weekend. The guy is every bit as good a singer live as he is on record. The real deal. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4921 Registered: 05-2005 |
Lucky you Rob. I'm envious. Have you ever listened to Chocolate Genius? Right now I'm listening to Raspberry Beret by Hindu Love Gods. Great, great version. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4924 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Avalanches - Gimix (Radio Mix) [Promo] | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4926 Registered: 05-2005 |
Now listening to The Baseball Project's Long Before My Time. It's yet another song which "borrows" the Sweet Jane riff, but it does so with a damn sight more panache that most others. A brilliant song. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1681 Registered: 08-2006 |
Love the Hindu's version of RB, Padraig. What a great cover. And I've only heard one Chocolate Genius album, "Black Music," I think. Haven't played it in a while. Interestingly, the main guy in the group (something Thompson?) was part of Springsteen's "Seeger Sessions" band. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4931 Registered: 05-2005 |
I only have Black Music too Rob. I've never come across anything else by him, but that one album is fantastic. Yes, googling him yesterday I saw that not only does he have other records, but that he also played with Bruce. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4932 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Chalets - No Style. Just came up on iTunes. I know where it came from (a free download compilation) but I'd never previously played it. Pretty good. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4936 Registered: 05-2005 |
R.E.M. - Photograph (with Natalie Merchant) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4937 Registered: 05-2005 |
Now listening to R.E.M.'s lovely version of The Lion Sleeps Tonight (b-side of The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight single) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4942 Registered: 05-2005 |
Nada Surf - The Stars Are Indifferent To Astronomy. Still kicking myself for forgetting to go see them in Sydney 12 days ago. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4943 Registered: 05-2005 |
New Radicals - You Get What You Give |