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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5423 Registered: 05-2005 |
Bob Dylan - Tempest | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5429 Registered: 05-2005 |
Tin Angel is such a great song. Dylan's use of "get up, stand up" in the lyrics is, presumably, a tribute to Bob Marley? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5431 Registered: 05-2005 |
Mojave 3 - Big Star Baby The Jayhawks - Big Star Big Star - September Gurls | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5434 Registered: 05-2005 |
Nada Surf - The Stars Are Indifferent To Astronomy | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5435 Registered: 05-2005 |
Naked Prey - Wichita Lineman Glen Campbell - Wichita Lineman | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 2184 Registered: 10-2008 |
"Mojave 3 - Big Star Baby The Jayhawks - Big Star Big Star - September Gurls" Padraig - You could also add Alex Chilton by The Replacements, December by Teenage Fanclub from Bandwagonesque, or even anything of Thirteen which was of course the follow up to Bandwagonesque. Talking of Bandwagonesque, I love this from Wikipedia. The liner notes to the 2009 Big Star Box set Keep an Eye on the Sky say "...Bandwagonesque was so in thrall to Chilton, Bell, and company that some critics had taken to calling it "Big Star's 4th." | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5436 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kevin, I remember the Melody Maker review of Bandwagonesque really annoyed me because it wrote about Big Star as if everybody knew who they were. I'd never heard of them! Steve Sutherland wrote: "Bandwagonesque echoes Chilton’s ‘Radio City’ so closely so many times that anyone with a prior knowledge of the American maverick’s work can’t help wondering whether these young Scots have overstepped the mark where acceptable, even laudable, inspiration becomes wholly criminal plagiarism.” I just thought, what a pretentious arse, naming an obscure band nobody but old men like him have ever heard! I loved, and still love, Bandwagonesque. It made me want to check out Big Star. Doing so in early 1992 introduced me to an even greater love. But Bandwagonesque does not plagiarise Big Star. Sutherland was wrong. And pretentious. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 2186 Registered: 10-2008 |
To be fair, it wasn't just Sutherland who pointed out the alleged plagiarism. Although I can't remember if other reviewers just jumped on his bandwagon(ha!) I had heard of Big Star because one of my friends loved them, but my main exposure to them before Bandwagonesque was knowing that some of their songs were covered on the This Mortal Coil albums. Bandwagonesque stands on its own merits for me though. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5437 Registered: 05-2005 |
Teenage Fanclub - Bad Seeds (b-side of Free Again 7" - sounds like Nick Cave fronting the Cramps. A bit Big Star-ish too though). | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5440 Registered: 05-2005 |
Teenage Fanclub - Mellow Doubt (Alternative Version - a really great and quite different take. It's in B sharp, rather than D flat - so I'm told) | ||
| Lewisdhead Member Username: Lewisdhead Post Number: 97 Registered: 01-2007 |
I'm listening to Teenage Fanclub. But I do that all the time. Love that band. | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 321 Registered: 05-2005 |
Teenage Fanclub - It's all in my mind. All the time in the car and never tired of it. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 2187 Registered: 10-2008 |
Speaking of Teenage Fanclub and cars, has anybody watched the movie Young Adult? The main character played by Charlize Theron has the song "The Concept" on a loop in her car. Its a great film to watch to boot, Theron's character is totally unhinged! | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 696 Registered: 05-2005 |
Yes I saw that film Kev, it's very good and Charlize Theron is so brilliant in it | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 506 Registered: 03-2007 |
Spiro - Lightbox http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQYDK4Gvb k8 | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 697 Registered: 05-2005 |
Alternative TV - The Image is Cracked | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3161 Registered: 03-2005 |
The Saints -- The Monkey Puzzle | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5441 Registered: 05-2005 |
Teenage Fanclub - Please Stay | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5447 Registered: 05-2005 |
Tex Perkins, Don Walker & Charlie Owen - Whenever It Snows. Such a beautiful song (the music anyway - the lyrics tell an unhappy tale). | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5448 Registered: 05-2005 |
Tha Fall - Hit The North. More than a quarter century old and still sounds great. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 507 Registered: 03-2007 |
The Bitter Springs - Everyone's Cup Of Tea New double album. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFAlq-pjD t8 | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 786 Registered: 04-2005 |
Checking out my local village library, which has had an major refurbish. CDs and DVDs available and it can be surprising what you find in deepest rural France! A double CD EP by Beirut - disc 1 is 'March of the Zapotec' (with a Mexican brass band) and the second called 'RealPeople Holland' (electronic) Never heard Beirut before, but am immediately struck how much Zac Condon's voice and phrasing resembles Neil Hannon's ! Sadly the reality of the song 'My Night With The Prostitute From Marseille' doesn't quite live up to its title. Also borrowed Curtis Mayfield - Curtis (Rhino reissue) Frank Ocean - Channel Orange (see what all the fuss is about) | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 2189 Registered: 10-2008 |
Following on from the Belle and Sebastian Pitchfork documentary, here is another one on The Soft Bulletin by Flaming Lips http://pitchfork.com/news/45029-pitchfor ktv-presents-documentary-on-the-flaming- lips-the-soft-bulletin/ Hopefully these are two of many more to come, if I could have a wishlist it would include Kid A by Radiohead and Yankee Hotel Foxtrot by Wilco. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 2191 Registered: 10-2008 |
The above should be in the "What are people watching thread" obviously, have moved it to there! | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 2192 Registered: 10-2008 |
The My Bloody Valentine album finally arrived today, vinyl and CD copies. Have already played it to death as I got the download sent to me when I ordered the vinyl/cd just under a month ago, but just great to finally have the physical artefacts. Along with the Nick Cave album and the Atoms For Peace album this year is already shaping up to be a stellar year. In fact these three albums would have beaten anything in my top 3 albums of last year with ease, although last year was a particularly poor year imo. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5450 Registered: 05-2005 |
David Bowie - The Next Day (through an iTunes stream). Three tracks in and it sounds brilliant so far. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5456 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Bowie album, bar one track, sounded great. Even that one track (can't recall which one just now!) probably only dropped in quality compared to what surrounds it. Right now, Abba - Knowing Me, Knowing You. Their saddest, and most brilliant, song. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5457 Registered: 05-2005 |
Autumn - Comes... Autumn. Long lost 70s Australian band. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5458 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kevin, the MBV record is getting a commercial release beyond the band's website. It's out in Australia on March 5, according to Red Eye records' website http://www.redeye.com.au/mybloodyvalenti ne_preorder.asp. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 508 Registered: 03-2007 |
Marie Pierre Arthur - Marie Pierre Arthur Marie Pierre Arthur - Aux Alentours Stuart, her debut is everything you said it was. I like the follow up as well. Nice find. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5461 Registered: 05-2005 |
Cat Power - I’ve Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5464 Registered: 05-2005 |
INXS - Never Tear Us Apart (soul version) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5465 Registered: 05-2005 |
Juliana Hatfield - Change The World | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5470 Registered: 05-2005 |
Skinny Jean - Anhedonia, from the brilliant Dolce Doggerel album of 2009. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 791 Registered: 10-2006 |
Glad you like her, Hugh! I have the latest Bitter Springs in my shopping basket, meanwhile... | ||
| Austin Member Username: Bruegelpie Post Number: 97 Registered: 09-2004 |
The new Frightened Rabbit, "Pedestrian Verse" is really good. The single "Backyard Skulls" is certainly going to be one of my top songs of the year. Anyone remember Homestead Records from the 80's? One of my favorite Homestead artists, Big Dipper, has a new CD out "Crashes on the Platinum Planet", and it is really wonderful, particularly the single "Robert Pollard." Apparently Pollard called Big Dipper the "20th Greatest Band of All Time". | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 509 Registered: 03-2007 |
Austin, I remember the label well. I believe Demon Records released their stuff here in the U.K. It was nice to see Merge Records release Supercluster ( The Big Dipper Anthology ) a few years ago. I keep hoping that they or some other label will release an anthology for Salem 66 who also recorded for Homestead. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoKAPPXDD Wk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fm7Guq4Eo RM Currently listening to 'Summer Of Lust' by Green Pajamas. Originally released on cassette on Green Monkey Records back in 1984 and now out on cd for the first time. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXHTPR-vL KY | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 700 Registered: 05-2005 |
I too got the Marie Pierre Arthur debut, thanks Stuart | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 701 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Kingsbury Manx - Bronze Age new album out today, I love this band | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5479 Registered: 05-2005 |
Cut Off Your Hands - You And I Cut Off Your Hands - Hollow Two very good indie pop albums by a New Zealand band who should be regretting their terrible name. Recommended for fans of The Smiths and The Go-Betweens (of which there are a few hereabouts I think). | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5482 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Men - Think/Gates of Steel 7" and Captain Ahab/Wasted single. The days before they discovered the power of melody. Still great, if a little too in thrall to Big Black. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5485 Registered: 05-2005 |
Men At Work's Land Down Under just came on through iTunes. It is an unexpected surprise though it shouldn't be seeing as I've just been listening to The Men, so Men At Work is what follows it on iTunes! I love Land Down Under. It never fails to give me goosebumps. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5486 Registered: 05-2005 |
More men. This time Men Without Hats - The Safety Dance (12" Version). Never mind Neil Young and Michael J Fox, this is the best thing ever to come out of Canada! | ||
| Austin Member Username: Bruegelpie Post Number: 98 Registered: 09-2004 |
Hugh - good to see that there are Big Dipper fans out there like me. I don't know Salem 66, but will check it out.' Padraig - I suggest that you consider going to one of Frightened Rabbit's shows in AU. They are playing in early May and put on a hell of a show. It will in part make up for the unforgivable sin of missing Nada Surf!  | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5487 Registered: 05-2005 |
Will do Austin! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5489 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Beatles - Ticket To Ride | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5491 Registered: 05-2005 |
Bernard Sumner - Love Will Tear Us Apart (acoustic). Simply stunning. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 1052 Registered: 04-2006 |
as far as i can remember myself, i am the only one here who rates i am kloot as a really great band. they released a new album which i bought. after listening to it two times i have to say that it is a bit dissapointing. but maybe this depends that it is a more reduced one than on their last album. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5494 Registered: 05-2005 |
Serena-Maneesh - Serena-Maneesh. Norwegians heavily "influenced" by MBV. Band Of Skulls - Sweet Sour. Good, British rock. GB3 - Emptiness Is Our Business (featuring the last song, as far as I know, that Grant McLennan recorded) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5496 Registered: 05-2005 |
Right now, The Cribs demos disc which came with NME. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3177 Registered: 03-2005 |
Bitter Springs -- From The Parish of Arthritis Like every album with too many tracks (18 according to the cover art but my CD player says 20) I will need to cull but there are definitely some strong songs on here and many numbers will profit from iPod shuffle so as to avoid being lost among 18 (or 20). | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 720 Registered: 05-2005 |
New Devendra Banhart album which is sounding good, more use of keyboards and drum machines but in a gentle manner. I am a fan and it feels like a grower | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 322 Registered: 05-2005 |
They might be giants - Nanobots I am Kloot - Let it all in Johnny Marr - The messenger Tame Impala - Lonerism Georges Harrisson - Early takes I Hugh Cornwell - Totem and Taboo Morrissey - Best of | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 515 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, you can never have too much of a good thing. :-) There are 20 tracks on the album. The first 14 are correctly listed on the cover art. Track 15 is an untitled 20 second instrumental. Hells Angel, Like Boorman's Son, Hispapaof and Girl On A Mountain Bike should be listed as tracks 16, 17, 18 and 19 respectively. The album ends with track 20, an untitled 40 second spoken word / musical piece. Kid Canaveral - Now That You Are A Dancer. Second album by this Edinburgh based band who are signed to Fence Records. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKWGR-KZ2 GQ It comes across much better on disc as it needs to be played loud. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 812 Registered: 10-2006 |
Where did you find Parish, Randy? It's going for a mere Ł350 on Amazon.uk! | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 516 Registered: 03-2007 |
Stuart, New copies are almost impossible to find at the moment. The band hope to open a 'Store' on their new website in the very near future so it may well be worth holding off to see if they make the album available. The following is a link to a used copy for sale on Discogs ( US$9.00 plus shipping.) http://www.discogs.com/buy/CD/Bitter-Spr ings-From-The-Parish-Of-Arthritis/834606 35?ev=bp_rel_det There are also a few cheap used copies on AmazonCom. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 813 Registered: 10-2006 |
I know, that's why I was amazed that Randy got hold of one! | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 2218 Registered: 10-2008 |
Its on Spotify, for zilch! | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 517 Registered: 03-2007 |
I could be wrong but I think he elected to purchase a used copy due to the high prices being asked for new copies. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3178 Registered: 03-2005 |
Right, I got a used copy. And the seller sent it super fast too. I don't hesitate to buy used if new isn't available. And the silly prices (your 350GBP and the $211 I saw on Amazon) do NOT mean "new is available." | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 518 Registered: 03-2007 |
I also do not hesitate to buy used provided they are listed as being in very good or mint condition. I only do so from Sellers with good feedback and in most cases the discs I have received have be indistinguishable from new copies. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 2219 Registered: 10-2008 |
Me too. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5502 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kid Canaveral - various tracks | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3179 Registered: 03-2005 |
I am much less picky about the condition. Usually the only thing that is battered is the jewel case and that's easy to replace. I do want all the cover art of course. I once got a defective disc and it wasn't because of its being a used copy. It had a manufacturing defect on the surface which had been there all along. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5505 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Laurels - Mesozoic EP. Sydney psych rock band who may have worn out their dad's copy of Loveless. Still very good though. The album, Plains, which came after the EP is much better and less derivative. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5506 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kraftwerk - The Mix. In preparation for seeing them perform this album in May at the Opera House. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5514 Registered: 05-2005 |
Guards - In Guards We Trust | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5518 Registered: 05-2005 |
Sound City: Real to Reel soundtrack | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 724 Registered: 05-2005 |
Psychic TV - Allegory and Self Am I having a mid-life crisis with all this listening to slightly weirder favourites from my 80s self? Current 93, Death in June and now Psychic TV, haven't listened to this stuff for years. Godstar is still rubbish but Just Like Arcadia sounds great. The C93 stuff sounds like The Incredible String Band now which is weird | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 726 Registered: 05-2005 |
Virgin Prunes - If I Die I Die the 80s art rock revival in full effect at work today, forgot how much this ROCKS! | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 727 Registered: 05-2005 |
well side 2 does | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3181 Registered: 03-2005 |
The Pitchfork Media documentary on "If You're Feeling Sinister" got me to load Belle & Sebastian's early discs onto iTunes. (They were on the old library for the iPod I retired last summer.) As I frequently am I was late to B & S, but not horribly so. I started on them some time in the '90s. I started with "Tigermilk" which I always loved and I still think is the single best B & S album. I never knew that "Sinister" was actually the album that introduced them to the world. It's a shame because "Tigermilk" has the advantage of a string of songs that Murdoch gathered together more gradually. While I think "Stars of Track and Field" is wonderful--a better produced version of it would have made it the ideal follow-up single if "Tigermilk" had been released as the first album--"Sinister" sounds to me like too many songs were thrown together too quickly. They all would have ended up better if they'd had further gestation time. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 729 Registered: 05-2005 |
Steve Mason - Monkey Minds in the Devil's Time brilliant album, Beach Boys, dub, electro, gospel hands down album of the year so far for me (song of the year and album of the year both released on the same day here - see song of the day) | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 731 Registered: 05-2005 |
Josh Rouse - The Happiness Waltz | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 520 Registered: 03-2007 |
Fat Freddy's Drop - Dr. Boondigga and the Big BW Seven piece band from Wellington, New Zealand who play a combination of dub, blues, funk, jazz, reggae, roots and techno. They formed in the late 1990s and are due to release their third ( studio ) album sometime this year. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubqXv5Ir5 n8 | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 789 Registered: 04-2005 |
Emily Jane White - Ode to Sentience Another CD borrowed from the library. Third album from this Californian singer-songwriter. Interesting melancholic alt-country, but she definitely has that "something" that lifts it above the rest. This is the first track, but it misses the stunning cello of the recorded version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbQlAIup yn8 | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 732 Registered: 05-2005 |
a day spent with the new Josh Rouse and it's a corker, best since 1972 | ||
| Mark Leydon Member Username: Mark_leydon Post Number: 345 Registered: 05-2005 |
The new album 'Malabar' by Sydney band Songs is just out and its a cracker. Here's a video of the first single: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPApNykXZ M4 | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 734 Registered: 05-2005 |
nice song Mark, shame about the video, found a good link to The Soft Pack on the same screen too http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dn24_PTL0 LM stumbling accidentally on to things is a large part of the fun of youtubing | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 735 Registered: 05-2005 |
Don't mean to harp on but the Josh Rouse album really is a stonker. Super hooky songs,early 70s west coast vibe (much like 1972 which was called that for a reason) , some nice movie soundtrack like parts to the arrangements, highly recommended. I am going to keep playing it until the Spring finally arrives here in England (which apart from a robin singing for a mate in my garden every day doesnt appear to be happening | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 521 Registered: 03-2007 |
Emily Jane White - Dark Undercoat | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5523 Registered: 05-2005 |
David Bowie - The Next Day. If this isn't album of the year then there is something else very special waiting for release between now and Christmas. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5526 Registered: 05-2005 |
Earlier this afternoon: GB3/Steve Kilbey - Damaged/Controlled McAlmont & Butler - Bring It Back The Men - New Moon | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5527 Registered: 05-2005 |
Wire - Change Becomes Us | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 737 Registered: 05-2005 |
the Wire album is superb, I listened to it this morning on an early morning hungover drive back from Brighton and it's so good to hear a bunch of old geezers sounding so aggressive, inventive and just plain Wire brilliant. Missing Kev today as am sure he will be loving it | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 522 Registered: 03-2007 |
He has been away long enough. Time he was back. Doctor Millar - The Bitter Lie | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3182 Registered: 03-2005 |
Which Wire album, Cosmo? I have "Red Barked Tree" (and various older albums). Every time the iPod pitches up a song from RBT I'm amazed at how great it is. Frankly, I like it better than, say, "Ideal Copy." I have a notion of what I'll try to get Kevin to come back, but I might not get to it until I return from my vacation which is coming up shortly. And maybe he'll benefit from a little longer stretch away. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 738 Registered: 05-2005 |
Change Become Us Randy, it's the new album and it's totally brilliant | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 524 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, I am going to inundate him with samples by Southern Hemisphere bands until he agrees to return. :-) Hopefully it will be sooner rather than later. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5533 Registered: 05-2005 |
Sean Millar - Tarzan's Ambition | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 525 Registered: 03-2007 |
Padraig, I have only managed to source cd copies of 'The Bitter Lie' and 'The Deal' to date. I do know that I can download FLAC copies of 'Always Coming Home' and 'Of The People Parts 1 & 2' from Bandcamp but I am holding off for the time being in the hope that I can find them on cd. Currently listening to:- Big Dipper - Supercluster ( Anthology ) | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 526 Registered: 03-2007 |
Dumptruck - D Is For Dumptruck Dumptruck - Positively Dumptruck Dumptruck - For The Country Formed in Boston, Massachusetts, in the early 1980s, the band released the above albums between 1983 and 1987. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3187 Registered: 03-2005 |
City City City -- Dawn and the Blue Light District Who'dathunk that Ned Collette's prior band would be an instrumental band? Kind of a disappointment since what I was expecting was some more of his literate songcraft. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 527 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, I thought I mentioned that fact to you some time ago. There are a few vocal tracks on the second album ( The Perimeter Motor Show ) but it is nothing like his solo work. Currently listening to :- Salem 66 - Natural Disasters, National Treasures Salem 66 - Down The Primrose Path Salem 66 - Your Soul Is Mine, Fork It Over They started life as an all-female indie rock band in Boston and recorded four albums for Homestead Records between 1985 and 1990. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3188 Registered: 03-2005 |
I must have missed that Hugh. I believe "Your Soul is Mine, Fork It Over" is an anthology. I bought it way back when it was released. It's the only Salem 66 I have. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 528 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, as anthologies go, it is not a particularly good one. The band released two singles, an ep and four albums ( A Ripping Spin; Frequency And Urgency; Natural Disasters, National Treasures; Down The Primrose Path ) on Homestead Records between 1984 and 1990. 'Your Soul Is Mine' only collects together a track from one of the singles, three tracks from the ep, three tracks from 'A Ripping Spin' and 'Frequency And Urgency' in its entirety. Some of their stuff has never been released on cd ( the tracks from one of the two singles, three tracks from the ep and seven tracks from 'A Ripping Spin.) I have the first three albums on vinyl and everything which has been released on cd. Not a great band but I like them. Are you familiar with Big Dipper and Dumptruck? I managed to contact Sean Millar and he is sending me cd copies of 'Always Coming Home' and 'Of The People Parts 1 & 2.' He does not have any copies of Tarzan's Ambition' left unfortunately. Currently listening to :- Emily Jane White - Victorian America | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3189 Registered: 03-2005 |
Useful info Hugh. I think I remember liking the earlier material on "Your Soul is Mine" more than the later material. It was on my last iPod but I haven't seen fit to load it onto the new one yet. Like you said, not a great band. I am not familiar with Big Dipper or Dumptruck. Not terribly enticing band names, either of those. The last Doctor Millar I have is "Always Coming Home." Padraig turned me onto him years ago. I thought he'd bailed on releasing things on CD and figured I'll need to participate in the new crowd fund scheme to get a copy of the new album. | ||
| peter ward Member Username: Peter_ward Post Number: 212 Registered: 06-2005 |
My favourite Dr Millar song, live in Whelans: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njWIgasS6 -Q | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5536 Registered: 05-2005 |
Joe Pug - Nation Of Heat EP | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5539 Registered: 05-2005 |
Hugh, I have just ordered The Bitter Lie through Discogs. Previously I only had a CDR copy of it. I thought I had The Deal, but if I do I can't find it. Always Coming Home is magnificent. If FLAC is the only way to get it it's worth doing so. I'm pretty sure Of The People Parts 1 & 2 was never commercially available on CD. I think it was only possible to get it on CD through his website. I also have Part 1 on cassette. Sean reckons it sounds better on tape and I think he's right! On your recommendation I have ordered the Big Dipper Anthology from Amazon but it says "currently out of stock". From your experience, is it likely ever to be back in stock, or would they just have made a limited number, never to be reprinted? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5540 Registered: 05-2005 |
Joe Pug - In The Meantime EP | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5542 Registered: 05-2005 |
Joe Pug - Messenger (I got the album and the two EPs - which are combined on the second disc - last weekend for $3. Bargain.) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5544 Registered: 05-2005 |
Guards - In Guards We Trust | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 530 Registered: 03-2007 |
Padraig, I contacted Sean via e-mail and he is sending me cd copies of 'Always Coming Home' and 'Of The People Parts 1 & 2.' He no longer has cd copies of 'The Bitter Lie' and 'Tarzan's Ambition' for sale. I have to send him the money in an envelope once I receive the discs!!!! He comes across as a lovely guy. As American bands of that era go, I like the Big Dipper but I would suggest you listen to some samples before placing an order if you have not already done so. 'Supercluster' is a Limited Edition Three Disc Box Set ( 5000 copies.) It is available direcly from Merge Records for US$14.98 plus shipping. http://www.mergerecords.com/artists/bigd ipper | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2504 Registered: 01-2005 |
Skydog-Duane Allman 7cd boxset. I scored the #1987 out of 10,000 that were made. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 1056 Registered: 04-2006 |
michael, i did not take notice of the box until i read your post. how is it? worth to buy (or search for. it seems that it is sold out already)? thanks in advance for any personal information (beside the official advertisement)regarding the box. cheers, andreas | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2507 Registered: 01-2005 |
Andreas, Yes, it is very worth getting. I have the original Anthology on vinyl only and never did get the second one, so it was worthwhile for me. I got boxset from amazon.com for a decent price. They might have some left. It comes with very decent lines notes and a turtle shell guitar pick like Duane used (when he wasn't playing slide). | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 1058 Registered: 04-2006 |
Thanks Michael.Even though I have also the second volume of the Anthology I can't withstand. I took notice of the offer on amazon.com. But sending it to Germany isn't the cheapest and not to forget Tax and customs fee. So I ordered right now the last copy which a small family business offers on the web for an acceptable price (and it seems that this is (was) really one of the last copies in Europe. I haven't found any other offer, only one for the double amount). | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 325 Registered: 05-2005 |
Alt-J - Awesome Wave. Les Inrocks album of the dull year 2012. Finally listened to this addictive music since one week. That's very good and I put them alongside Xx in the 'best young bands' section of my Ikea's Benno towers. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 1059 Registered: 04-2006 |
listened to Alt-J today. Breezeblocks (remix). great song. |