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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4945 Registered: 05-2005 |
I just noticed the previous list had two whats in the title! Anyway, I'm listening right now to the Summon Your Dead EP by The Coves. And the Coves' main man is one Pete Azzopardi, formerly of this parish. There's a free download here http://thecoves.bandcamp.com/, and the whole EP is just $5 to download if you like what you here. (He didn't ask me to post this by the way). | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4947 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy Adams - State Of Grace | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4949 Registered: 05-2005 |
The new Frightened Rabbit EP, State Hospital. The track that struck me most on the first play is Wedding Gloves, which features vocals from Aidan Moffatt, formerly of Arab Strap. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4950 Registered: 05-2005 |
Richard Hawley - Standing At The Sky's Edge. The best album the Screaming Trees never made. And I mean that as a compliment. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 571 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Soft Pack - Strapped I like these guys first album but the new one is a definite step up. 1966 meets 1986 via 1978/1979 with some great swirly echo/reverb underwater production techniques and a real punchy modern pop punch (and some honking 80s sax in the mix someweher too) | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 572 Registered: 05-2005 |
punchy punch? | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 573 Registered: 05-2005 |
and somewhere a typo | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 2019 Registered: 10-2008 |
Grizzly Bear - Shields. Will definitely be high in my top 10 end of year list. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4951 Registered: 05-2005 |
Band Of Horses - Mirage Rock. Better on second listen, but far from a classic. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4955 Registered: 05-2005 |
I'm now listening to Paul Weller's When Your Garden's Overgrown EP. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4959 Registered: 05-2005 |
Band Of Horses - Sonic Ranch Sessions EP | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4964 Registered: 05-2005 |
Craig Wedren - WAND. Great record. | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 315 Registered: 05-2005 |
All the new things.. Xx Divine Fits Grizzly Bear Pet Shop Boys Get Well Soon Aimee Mann Sun Kill Moon Richard Hawley Bella Union anniversary sampler | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 574 Registered: 05-2005 |
the new Tame Impala some of which is magnificent stuff | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 2022 Registered: 10-2008 |
I listened to that on Spotify James. I found it all a bit "thin", but maybe thats the sound they were going for? The singer is also very weak imo, but will listen again and maybe get hooked in although that 60's psychadelia sound that they dabble in has never really been to my taste. Its certainly getting rave reviews at the minute. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 575 Registered: 05-2005 |
It didnt grab me on first listen Kev (except Elephant which is a stonker) but have had it on stun volume in the car since and it's got some really brilliant moments and thin it most definitely isnt. Not sure spotify has the required welly for world domination. Track 4 is my current fave | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 576 Registered: 05-2005 |
my mistake it's track 3 Apocalypse Dreams that I love | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 2023 Registered: 10-2008 |
James, my Spotify certainly has the welly. Hooked up to my hifi via a DAC, the sound is up there with CD. Another grumble I have about this record is Dave bloody Fridmann. This guy has ruined some of my favourite records by the likes of Flaming Lips and Low and others by pushing the needles into the red, this guy loves distortion/compression, I don't. Have only heard this album once so not saying he is guilty of that here,in fact if anything it seems the antithesis of that sound, but I just dont like the sound this guy makes in general. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1682 Registered: 08-2006 |
I witnessed this little slice of awesome. Marcy Mays rocks. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz11k12ud Bg&feature=share | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1683 Registered: 08-2006 |
(Meant to mention this is for Kev in particular.) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4966 Registered: 05-2005 |
Dan Reed Network - Mix It Up EP. I'm fairly certain no-one else hereabouts owns this. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4970 Registered: 05-2005 |
Wussy's Buckeye compilation, which is fantastic. I wish I'd followed Rob's recommendation about them a long time ago. I bet they are great live. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 2025 Registered: 10-2008 |
Cheers Rob, just played that Whigs song this morning, was at work the first time I saw you had posted it so couldn't play it. Just makes me pine all the more for a Whigs live fix, which so far is not reaching these shores. Here's "Gentlemen" from a Spanish festival. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba-cEOlVb Pg | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 1111 Registered: 08-2004 |
Listened to The Banshees 'Through The Looking Glass'. So many of my favourite songs on there. I forgot I had it. Put that down to old age mixed with download culture. I heard a Talking Heads song a few months ago that I didn't know even existed, let alone had gone unplayed for years on my ipod. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 1113 Registered: 08-2004 |
Recently listened to a bunch of albums that went missing from my collection for over 4 years. The Creatures - A Bestiary Of... Pulp - It Ian McCulloch - Candleland Joy Division - Closer New Order - Movement P.I.L. - Metal Box | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4979 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jape - Please Don't Turn The Record Off | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4983 Registered: 05-2005 |
Frank Ocean - Channel Orange. This is up there with the P.I.L. and Japandroids records for album of the year. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 448 Registered: 03-2007 |
The Bitter Springs - From The Parish Of Arthritis | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 449 Registered: 03-2007 |
The Bitter Springs - Five Die Filming This Lazy Lark | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 450 Registered: 03-2007 |
The Bitter Springs - Benny Hill's Wardrobe | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4986 Registered: 05-2005 |
Geoff Smith - 15 Wild Decembers | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 2027 Registered: 10-2008 |
Crime and The City Solution - An Introduction To. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 579 Registered: 05-2005 |
I just picked up An Introduction To Kev, have been really enjoying it and it sent me back to Room OF Lights with the Rowland S Howard stuff | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 580 Registered: 05-2005 |
Bob Mould - Silver Age this is REALLY good | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 2028 Registered: 10-2008 |
I have been enjoying Silver Age as well James, the first three songs are as much of an "in your face" wam bam as the first three on Copper Blue. The rest can't possibly live up to that standard, although Keep Believing is another belter. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1685 Registered: 08-2006 |
I like it, too, especially after having seen him play a handful of the new cuts live. It was amazing how well they held up alongside the "Copper Blue" materials and Husker Du classics. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 581 Registered: 05-2005 |
Am listening to the Wussy compilation (got in to this band a while ago through this message board). Is it just me or does Funeral Dress sound remarkably similar to Teenage Kicks by the Undertones? and I mean tell John O'Neill similar? | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 582 Registered: 05-2005 |
Duh! A minimal amount of research has revealed that the steal was deliberate and acknowledged and that my Wussy knowledge is not good | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1687 Registered: 08-2006 |
Glad to have another Wussy fan on the board, Cosmo. If you like the comp (which is quite good), you can't go wrong with any of their four albums. I get to see 'em in a couple weeks opening up for the Afghan Whigs. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 584 Registered: 05-2005 |
I already had two albums Rob from someone on the board bigging them up a while ago Wussy & Left For Dead | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 585 Registered: 05-2005 |
both of which are excellent! | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 586 Registered: 05-2005 |
Rob, No song writing credit on the compilation to John O'Neill which is very naughty indeed, did he get a credit on the album from which it is sourced ? | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 856 Registered: 05-2005 |
Teardrop Explodes as a soundtrack to Head On. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1688 Registered: 08-2006 |
Cosmo, I dunno. It was the title track of "Funeral Dress" (of course), which you should check out if it's available in your locale. I'll have to check the liner notes. I always thought it sounded like "Teenage Kicks," and the band has acknowledged the rip, but given how obscure Wussy are maybe it was just something they blew off. O'Neill would ever notice the royalty check even if he received one. He could maybe buy a coffee with it : ) | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 588 Registered: 05-2005 |
Rob, anticipated low sales is no reason not to give a songwriter credit to a songwriter though and it's a direct steal. Who knows some cool filmmaker may stick it in a movie one day and then O'Neill would lose out? Can't see it in an advert but perhaps an enterprising dress maker may see a gap in the market for funeral wear??? | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 589 Registered: 05-2005 |
Rob, anticipated low sales is no reason not to give a songwriter credit to a songwriter though and it's a direct steal. Who knows some cool filmmaker may stick it in a movie one day and then O'Neill would lose out? Can't see it in an advert but perhaps an enterprising dress maker may see a gap in the market for funeral wear??? | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 590 Registered: 05-2005 |
Rob, anticipated low sales is no reason not to give a songwriter credit to a songwriter though and it's a direct steal. Who knows some cool filmmaker may stick it in a movie one day and then O'Neill would lose out? Can't see it in an advert but perhaps an enterprising dress maker may see a gap in the market for funeral wear??? | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 591 Registered: 05-2005 |
sorry for triple post, new I-phone and have never posted from it before | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3052 Registered: 03-2005 |
Last night: Ned Collette & Wirewalker--Future Suture When the iPod pitched up "Forty Children" during a long trip in the car a couple weeks ago I thought that I was hearing a Doctor Millar song I'd forgotten. Then as it proceeded I thought I was listening to the young Leonard Cohen except that I knew the recorded sound was too good. Died Pretty -- Free Dirt. "Lost" is on its way to me, Geoff. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5005 Registered: 05-2005 |
I must check him out if he reminds you of Doctor Millar Randy. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5006 Registered: 05-2005 |
Beck - Devil Inside (an intriguing cover of the INXS song) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5007 Registered: 05-2005 |
Ned Collette - Song For Louis. Wow. He does sound like Sean Millar. I didn't think that was even possible for another Irish man, never mind an Australian. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjFiZMY1C Gc | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5015 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Rolling Stones' version of Mona (I Need You Baby). I presume Johnny Marr listened closely to this before writing How Soon Is Now. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3053 Registered: 03-2005 |
Padraig, that's the classic Bo Diddly sound on the Stones' version of "Mona." The Stones did it particularly well on that song with a wonderful slow, heavy muddy sound. But actually a LOT of British R & B bands of the era tried their hand at it. For another entertaining example, see "Rosalyn" by the Pretty Things. Probably not coincidentally, the Pretties' lead guitarist Dick Taylor was a former member of the Stones; he played bass before Bill Wyman joined. There are two elements to the sound in its most proper form: the heavy tremolo/vibrato guitar sound and the lumbering jungle drum sound played on the tom toms. The Pretties' actually borrowed the Bo Diddly sound pretty often; another example is "Mama Keep Your Mouth Big Shut" but for some reason their drummer Viv Prince wasn't big on the tom tom part of the sound. He does it during the instrumental break but not in the main part of the song. If you're exploring early r & b era Stones, give the '64 and '65 era Pretties a try also. They are the trashier alternative to the Stones. For one of the more bizarre and creative uses of the Bo Diddly sound check out the Kinks' "Lazy Old Sun." My guess is that Johnny Marr was aware of Bo Diddly's own music. Thirty years ago musos would have still been checking out music from the late '50s. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5016 Registered: 05-2005 |
Thanks Randy. I'll check out the Pretty Things. For some reason I thought they had emerged later in the 60s. Yes, I bet Johnny Marr was listening to Bo Diddly. He strikes me as a guy who would have spent all his money on records as a teenager. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3054 Registered: 03-2005 |
Oops I just noticed that spasmodic typo. It was supposed to be "Mama Keep Your Big Mouth Shut." Oh well. The Pretty Things reinvented themselves once or twice and that's probably why you thought they originated later in the 1960s. In 1967 everybody except vocalist Phil May and lead guitarist Dick Taylor split and a new batch of musicians came in to fill the ranks. They ceased to be the trashy r & b band some of us knew and loved and became an intense psychedelic band. The first album by this group, "Emotions", is transitional in sound and, like all of their earlier records, pretty low budget. This was because their label--Jack Baverstock's Fontana--never spent a dime on production. Except suddenly Fontana had the weird idea of grafting orchestral backings onto the music without the band's input. As was usual for Fontana they mixed it incredibly badly. That sort of thing works fine for trashy garage-ish r & b but not for psychedelia. If you turn down the level of the rather imaginatively-scored horns it actually works quite well for "My Time" but the additional accompaniment is pretty asinine on some of the other songs. "Emotions" was the end of the contract fortunately, so the Pretties switched to EMI and for the first time ever had a real studio with proper engineers to work with. "Talking About the Good Times" is a wild slab of psychedelia, but it remained on a 45 until an anthology about a decade later. After this and another single for EMI didn't do anything commercially they recorded what is universally regarded as their masterpiece: "S. F. Sorrow." This made all the rock critics sit up as the Pretties had formerly been regarded as a very dodgy outfit (except by we lovers of outre rock 'n roll). And it really is a marvelous psychedelic rock opera-ish thing. That was in '68 I think, or maybe early '69 so that's your late '60s that you're thinking of. Then Dick Taylor left and as far as I'm concerned there's no need to pay attention to them after that point. IMO they just became ordinary '70s rockers. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3055 Registered: 03-2005 |
Died Pretty -- Lost Yeah I think it's important for them to have Frank Brunetti in their ranks. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5022 Registered: 05-2005 |
Lawless soundtrack | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 455 Registered: 03-2007 |
Michael Marra ( with Mr. McFall's Chamber ) - Recorded Live On Tour 2010 In tribute to a unique Scottish talent who died yesterday. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 2249 Registered: 09-2006 |
Neil Young/Crazy Horse - Psychedelic Pill http://newalbumreleases.net/50187/neil-y oung-and-crazy-horse-psychedelic-pill-20 12/#more-50187 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5024 Registered: 05-2005 |
Lawless soundtrack. Again. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3056 Registered: 03-2005 |
Theatre of Hate -- Westworld | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 2032 Registered: 10-2008 |
Fad Gadget - The Fad Gadget Singles | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5028 Registered: 05-2005 |
Right now: Wussy - Buckeye. Yesterday: Metronomy - The English Riviera Straightjacket Fits - Done EP (my favourite thing by them) The Auteurs - Light Aircraft On Fire EP (a perfect 11 minutes, 23 seconds summation of their sound - or at least my favourite part of their sound) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5031 Registered: 05-2005 |
Richard Lloyd - some library audio tracks he recorded for potential use in movies. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3057 Registered: 03-2005 |
Francoiz Breut -- La Chirurgie Des Sentiments | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5032 Registered: 05-2005 |
Dick Diver - New Start Again. Like a lost 80s Go-Betweens album. They chose their google-unfriendly name poorly though. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5036 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Black Keys, live in the studio. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5037 Registered: 05-2005 |
Blink - It's Not My Fault. This song is 17 years old, which is just perfect as the song's protagonist is surely aged 17. A perfect song of teenage pop petulance. (Bonus fact: This Irish band is the reason the somewhat more successful US band had to add 182 to their name). | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5038 Registered: 05-2005 |
I'm now listening to another Dublin B-band - Blue In Heaven. The song playing is I Just Wanna. They were great live and pretty good on vinyl. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5039 Registered: 05-2005 |
While listening to Blue In Heaven's Swinging I realised that another Dublin band, Rollerskate Skinny, had ripped it off a decade later for their song Swingboat Yawning. Wow, so blatant they didn't even change the title much. There's no way it's coincidence. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5040 Registered: 05-2005 |
Rollerskate Skinny - Cradle Burns (hopefully that hasn't been ripped off from somewhere else too). | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 521 Registered: 01-2007 |
Bobby Womack The Greatest | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 247 Registered: 11-2007 |
Tne Bats - Compilety Bats & The Chills - Kaleidoscope World ...my Kiwi day ;) | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2464 Registered: 01-2005 |
Randy, I can't agree with you on the Pretty Things first album after SF Sorrow. Parachute is a great album and in my view almost equal to SF Sorrow. It even won album of the year from ROLLING STONE when they had street cred back in the day. I'll agree with you on the subsequent albums after Parachute though. I do need to explore their earlier albums prior to Sorrow, so perhaps my viewpoint isn't as well balanced as yours due to my collection lacking their 1964-67 albums. I do have pretty much everything starting with Sorrow and can say that apart from a cut here and there on Freeway Madness and Silk Torpedo it was typical 70's rock. I'm glad that they got signed by LZand made some money on their mid 70's albums that were issued on the LZ label and plus the Zep money to support the subsequent NA tours. | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 860 Registered: 05-2005 |
World Shut Your Mouth (album) as a soundtrack to "Repossessed". Lot of memories of 1st year Uni with this one! Great lyrics - well some great phrases anyway! How good is "Strasbourg", "Elegant Chaos" and "Greatness and Perfection" - perfect pop. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5048 Registered: 05-2005 |
Yesterday, the new two disc Midnight Oil anthology, which is excellently compiled and remastered. Right now, Bob Mould's Silver Age. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5052 Registered: 05-2005 |
Currently grooving to the Jam/Paul Weller/Bruce Foxton tracks from a Mojo magazine CD. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 2035 Registered: 10-2008 |
Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Psychedelic Pill. If the opening song Drifting Back wasn't a 27 minute snooze this would be a 10/10 album. Drifting Back is actually an extremely good song, but it needs to trim at least half its length. That these guys can turn out guitar music this fiery when they are in their 60s should make all the young bucks hang their heads in shame. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2473 Registered: 01-2005 |
Son Volt - Trace | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 862 Registered: 05-2005 |
But is it "Psychedelic" Kevin? Neil keeps dishing it out at regular intervals but I have been burnt by Dylan's recent voluminous output and am wary. Or is the title just a cash in to get Tame Impala fans to buy it? | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 2036 Registered: 10-2008 |
Only the title track is remotely Pyschedelic Geoff. It has that phased "in a tunnel" sound that was popular back in the 60's. There is an alternative, non phased version of the song at the end as a bonus. If you like NY and Crazy Horse at all you will love the album, just dont expect to hear anything you havent heard before. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3062 Registered: 03-2005 |
Evie Sands -- Any Way That You Want Me This is a reissue of a 1969 album I've not heard before. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 2037 Registered: 10-2008 |
Melody's Echo Chamber - Melody's Echo Chamber Excellent debut album. For anybody missing Broadcast, with a whiff of Stereolab floating around to boot. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 602 Registered: 05-2005 |
it's the guy from Tame Impala right? | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 2038 Registered: 10-2008 |
Sort of, he is the boyfriend of Melody Prochet, and he produced the album. "Melody's Echo Chamber In 2012, Parker teamed up with French singer, Melody Prochet, for her dream pop project, Melody's Echo Chamber.The two met after Prochet gave Parker a CD with songs from her other band, My Bee's Garden. This led to a support slot for My Bee's Garden, opening for Tame Impala. Their collaborative self-titled album was released on October 2, 2012. Allmusic's Tim Sendra called it "a rather stunning debut". Parker played guitar, featuring his distinctive spacey, phased guitar sound with Prochet's dreamy vocals, and also produced the album" | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3063 Registered: 03-2005 |
Kevin, you're mentioning two things I like with your information: Broadcast and French singers. (Stereolab, well . . . .) Sounds like something I should investigate. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 2039 Registered: 10-2008 |
Ty Segall - Twins His 27th LP this year, or is it just his 4th! Anyway, this is great, mostly in a garage rock vibe, with plenty of gnarly, amped up, sludgy guitar. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 2041 Registered: 10-2008 |
Sweethearts of The Rodeo - The Byrds | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5062 Registered: 05-2005 |
Henry Wagons & Robert Forster - I Still Can't Find Her. I saw them play a stunning version of this last night at the Annandale. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2475 Registered: 01-2005 |
Has anyone bought the double disc Sweetheart of The Rodeo? Is the sound improved from the single disc remaster, or is it just extra studio cuts? | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3066 Registered: 03-2005 |
Michael, I'm guessing that the release you are talking about is the same as the 2 CD version contained within the Byrds box that I picked up a year or so ago. I haven't done an A/B test with my old CD but the sound of the new one didn't leap out at me. If I were you, if you haven't loaded up on all the Byrds already, I'd seriously consider just buying the box. It's a bargain. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 2043 Registered: 10-2008 |
I have the double disc. For me its worth it for the GP vocal versions of songs that didnt make the original album cut for legal reasons. I would say SOTR is the best Byrds album for consistency alone, other albums may have better songs, but for me this is the best post Gene Clark album they did. Probably heresy to say so but I find albums like Notorious Byrd Brothers to be horribly dated, albeit in an era (psychedelia) that I generally dont have a lot of time for anyway. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 605 Registered: 05-2005 |
On a massive Supremes binge at the moment, an untouchable run of singles, Reflections as the best Diana Ross album (the 'psychedelic' one with lots of way out synths and amazing arrangements) and New Ways But Love Stays the best post Diana ( Stoned Love = genius, great version of Come Together) . | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 606 Registered: 05-2005 |
and Notorious Byrd Brothers rules! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3067 Registered: 03-2005 |
Kevin, on my version of the 2CD release, the Gram vocal versions are included on the first disc with the original album. The second disc has some International Submarine Band numbers and some alternate versions of SOTR songs which I personally don't need because I'm just not that big on hearing inferior takes of things. The first three International Submarine Band tracks are bona fide rarities. I won't say that they're honestly great but they are great to have. Then there are a couple of ISB tracks that come off of "Safe At Home." I'm not sure why they were included but maybe it was just to make the second CD longer. It's not hard to locate the proper ISB album. I do like psychedelia so I have no problem at all with Notorious, which is a beautifully recorded album. But other than "I Am a Pilgrim" which I find to be dull the whole of SOTR is consistent and solid, just as you say. At least that's the case once you swap the Parsons vocal tracks in place of the McGuinn ones because McGuinn's thin vocal just about kills "You Don't Miss Your Water." | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 2254 Registered: 09-2006 |
Love both Sweetheart and Notorious. Am edging up on love for three albums I was very late in coming to, Mother Earth's "Living With the Animals," "Make a Joyful Noise" and "Tracy Nelson Country." | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 611 Registered: 05-2005 |
I have been in possession of a pre-release copy of the new Soft Hearted Scientists album False Lights for a week now and am happy to report that it is their best yet. The songs are bit more political (with a small p) than Wandermoon with ruminations on the state of the world mixed in to the kitchen sink psychedelia. Sounds absolutely gorgeous and they remain darlings of my heart | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5074 Registered: 05-2005 |
Right now: Bob Mould - Silver Age Earlier: Japandroids - Celebration Rock Yesterday: Bob Dylan - Tempest O'death - Broken Hymns, Limbs And Skin Nisennenmondai - Neji/Tori (an astonishing, all female Japanese instrumental power trio playing avant garde punk. Kevin, do you know of them? If not, I reckon it's right up your alley) | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 457 Registered: 03-2007 |
The Zephyrs - When The Sky Comes Down It Comes Down On Your Head. Second album by this little known Scottish band. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 2047 Registered: 10-2008 |
Never heard of them Padraig, but Spotify have the album. Love some of the track titles, named after other groups. Pop Group Sonic Youth This Heat Sounds like they are into post punk then? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5080 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kevin, yes, post punk is a good description of them. The song names don't lie! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5081 Registered: 05-2005 |
This afternoon: V/A - Electrospective: Electronic Music Since 1958 Nomo - Ghost Rock (from Ann Arbor, great, instrumental, party jazz) Baby Dayliner - Critics Pass Away Duncan Lloyd - Seeing Double (great solo album by the Maximo Park guitarist) Last night: Royal Headache - Royal Headache (Sydney garage band who sound like they come from California in the mid-60s) Cortney Tidwell - Boys | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 2049 Registered: 10-2008 |
Grizzly Bear - Shields. In a dismal year for new releases in both the rock and electronica genres this is one of a few albums in contention for my album of the year. The year end lists will start trickling in soon, many will be hard pushed to justify going overboard about many releases this year imho. Maybe its because of our age group, and perhaps we dont "get" the upcoming bands. My friend always sticks by his mantra "Dont believe the hype that we're too old to get these new groups, we are better placed to judge them because we can compare them to the greats, and they dont match up!" I get to hear quite a lot of these new groups courtesy of my daughter, and I honestly do believe the majority of them are terrible. Thankfully she has a broad taste and likes loads of older stuff, The Who, The Kinks, The Zombies, Joy Division/New Order, The Cure, The Velvets and Bowie amongst many others. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 2051 Registered: 10-2008 |
Just had a browse through Uncut magazine albums of the year and as if to back up my thoughts in the post above their top 10 is brimming full of, ahem, veterans! 1. Leonard Cohen 2. Bob Dylan 3. Jack White 4. Dr John 5. Frank Ocean 6. Bill Fay 7. Ty Segall and White Fence 8. Grizzly Bear 9. Neil Young and Crazy Horse 10.Brooooce Now I'm too lazy to look up the combined ages, but I reckon Cohen, Dylan, Dr J, Bill Fay, NY and CH and Brooce must add up to at least 370, with an average age of about 65!! Uncut obviously cater for the older music fan primarily, but not exclusively. They give generous amounts of space to younger bands, especially in the reviews section. But this top 10 is pretty depressing really, and easily their "oldest" listing ever. Rock n roll is on the life support machine :-) | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3075 Registered: 03-2005 |
They should not limit themselves to anglophone music. Dominique A's "Vers Les Lueurs" is an easy shoo-in for one of the 10 best albums of 2012. He's not super young either but at 44 at least he's not as old as almost all of the folks listed above. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 2052 Registered: 10-2008 |
And so it continues with Mojo's albums of the year, with a very similar list. We lose Broooce and Neil Young from the top 10(although they were Nos 28 and 29, just behind those young pups ZZ Top at 27), but gain Dexys, and Kevin Rowland is well into his sixties now. Just missing out was Scott Walker at No11, he is a sprightly 70 in January 2013 according to the article in Mojo! 1 Jack White 2 Frank Ocean 3 Bill Fay 4 Leonard Cohen 5 Dexys 6 Black Keys 7 Django Django 8 Dr John 9 Julia Holter 10Bob Dylan | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5093 Registered: 05-2005 |
Sloan - The Double Cross | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2478 Registered: 01-2005 |
Quiet Heart. Everything But The Girl - Idlewild 2 disc reissue. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5094 Registered: 05-2005 |
Pride Tiger - The Lucky Ones | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5096 Registered: 05-2005 |
Bluejuice - Head Of The Hawk | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5105 Registered: 05-2005 |
Gnarls Barkley - Crazy | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5114 Registered: 05-2005 |
Rival Schools - Used For Glue. Still one of this century's best riffs. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5128 Registered: 05-2005 |
Cathal Coughlan - Tender To The Blues Cathal Coughlan - Ring Of Fire | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5129 Registered: 05-2005 |
Dave Couse & Cathal Coughlan - Good Friday | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 466 Registered: 03-2007 |
Panel Of Judges - Moods On The Move Fourth and probably last album by this Melbourne band who formed back in 1997. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3089 Registered: 03-2005 |
As usual I've never heard of them Hugh. Their 2006 album is reasonably affordable and easy to get. Everything else is in the stratosphere. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5135 Registered: 05-2005 |
Single Gun Theory - I Am What I See. Transports me back to winter (southern hemisphere) 1992. Happily so. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 468 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, I think it was a post on this forum a few years ago by David Nichols that encouraged me to check out Panel Of Judges. His brother Michael was a member of the band and played on their first album. I have never managed to track down their debut on CD and only have a digital download ( FLAC.) 'Moods on The Move' is not currently available on cd. It was released on vinyl back in 2011 on Mistletone Records and has only now been made available as a digital download on Bandcamp. Puchased my copy last night. You can find some information on the band here :- http://mistletone.net/panel-of-judges Currently listening to :- Brillig - Mirror On The Wall | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 2070 Registered: 10-2008 |
Ty Segall Band - Slaughterhouse This boy is good. Prolific as hell, pure garage rock. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 2263 Registered: 09-2006 |
Nice, rainy ambient day in the Pacific northwest. Encre - Flux Brian Eno - Lux | ||
| peter ward Member Username: Peter_ward Post Number: 201 Registered: 06-2005 |
Digging out the vinyl for Christmas: John Martyn - Solid Air The BlueNile - A Walk Across The Rooftops & Tinseltown 12" Roxy music - Viva The Triffids - Calenture Camper van Beethoven - take the skinheads bowling Songs of Leonard Cohen Grace jones - island life Boat to Bolivia Talk talk -the colour of spring |