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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5611 Registered: 05-2005 |
At Glebe Record Fair yesterday: XTC - Coat Of Many Cupboards box set V/A - Rogue's Gallery Augie March - Waltz EP The Smiths - This Charming Man EP The Feelies - Four Free Feelies Songs EP Ride - Birdman EP Lemonheads - Mrs Robinson/Being Around EP The Screaming Jets - Living In England EP | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 827 Registered: 10-2006 |
First aid kit - the Lion's Roar Frightened rabbit - Quietly now James Carr - The Goldwax singles Broadcast - Berberian sound studio All bought in Inverness's small but tasteful and decently priced Imperial Records. How great to be in a record shop again! Wish I'd spent more now.Fopp in Edinburgh meanwhile had an air of death about it. But they were playing Iron & Wine's latest, which sounded both MOR yet interesting. Had to rush and didn't get it though. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5616 Registered: 05-2005 |
I forgot to mention that I also bought The Thorns' self-titled album at Glebe Record Fair. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5629 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kieran Ryan - Kieran Ryan | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5654 Registered: 05-2005 |
Today, from the bargain bin in JB Hi-fi in Leichhardt (the first five are Australian, King Brothers are Japanese, the rest American): James Cruikshank - Hello Human Tamlin - End Of The Affair George Byrne - Foreign Water James Macdonald - Naked Soul Sandrine - Dark Fades Into The Light King Brothers - Blues Living Things - Bom Bom Bom single V/A - Made To Measure: Martin Freeman presents a personal selection of classic Motown cuts King's X - XV | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5685 Registered: 05-2005 |
Sweet Billy Pilgrim - We Just Did What Happened And No One Came Sweet Billy Pilgrim - Stars Spill Out Of Cups EP Sweet Billy Pilgrim - Twice Born Men Sweet Billy Pilgrim - Crown And Treaty (direct from the band's website) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5691 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Breeders - LSXX | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5701 Registered: 05-2005 |
Chris Stamey - Lovesick Blues (which includes a download code for five extra songs) Allah -Las - Allah-Las | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5702 Registered: 05-2005 |
Six extra songs in fact! Including a great cover of I Am The Cosmos. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 764 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Fall - Re-Mit Primal Scream - More Light Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5710 Registered: 05-2005 |
Beachwood Sparks - The Tarnished Gold The Soft Pack - The Soft Pack The Soft Pack - Strapped | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5711 Registered: 05-2005 |
R.E.M. - Green (remastered deluxe edition) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5747 Registered: 05-2005 |
Last Sunday at Parramatta record fair Tori Amos - A Piano: The Collection Alabama 3 - Hits And Exit Wounds R.E.M., Bonnie Raitt, Loudon Wainright, The Five Blind Boys Of Alabama, June Tabor etc - Beat The Retreat: Songs By Richard Thompson Frightened Rabbit - Sing The Greys Jackie Leven - Creatures Of Light And Darkness Last Sunday at Beat Disc, Parramatta Augie March - Here Comes The Night EP Friday at JB Hi-fi, Warringah Mall (all from the 99c bin) Cornelius - CM Long Range - Madness And Me Dean & Britta - Back Numbers The Casanovas - The Casanovas Ned Collette - Jokes And Trials Boy Hits Car - The Passage Nancy Sinatra - Nancy Sinatra David Lane - Head In The Clouds Sufjan Stevens, Lee Ranaldo, Peter Case etc - I Am The Resurrection: A Tribute To John Fahey Speedstar - Bruises You Can Touch/Forget The Sun, Just Hold On Cam Butler - Healing Feelings Grant-Lee Phillips - Strangelet Frank Yamma & Piranpa - Keep Up The Pace Alec Ounsworth - Mo Beauty Tiny Vipers - Hands Around The Void Radar Bros - Auditorium Rhett Miller - The Believer Golden Rough - Slippery Slope Johnny Clegg & Savuka - The Very Best Of Eric Bachmann - To The Races Secret Machines - Secret Machines The National Trust - Dekkagar Dananananaykroyd - There Is A Way Sunstorm - House Of Dreams Marlena Shaw, Donna Summer, Sparks etc - Once In A Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story Of The New York Cosmos Rachid Taha - Diwan 2 David Axelrod - The Edge Marty Wilson-Piper, Mick Hart etc - A Tribute To Nick Drake | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5778 Registered: 05-2005 |
Chuck Prophet - Let Freedom Ring Gang Of Four - Content Dave Alvin - Eleven Eleven Dave Alvin - West Of The West Radio Birdman - Zeno Beach Ian Hunter - Shrunken Heads The Bigger Lovers - Honey In The Hive Love And Rockets - Five Albums box set (Seventh Dream Of Teenage Heaven, Express, Earth.Sun.Moon, Love And Rockets and Assorted! (a new odds, ends and EP tracks compilation) Dave Graney 'n' The Coral Snakes - The Mercury Years 1994-1997 box set (You Wanna Be There But You Don't Wanna Travel, The Soft 'N' Sexy Sound, The Devil Drives and Crayfish Palace Royalty (a new b-sides and rarities compilation) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5800 Registered: 05-2005 |
Sunnyboys - Play The Best Dave Grohl, Paul McCartney, Stevie Nicks, Trent Reznor, Rick Springfield etc - Sound City - Real To Reel soundtrack The Milk Carton Kids - The Ash & Clay Frankie & The Heartstrings - The Days Run Away | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5813 Registered: 05-2005 |
Guards - In Guards We Trust The Clientele - Bonfires On The Heath | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5830 Registered: 05-2005 |
Luna - Chinatown EP Anita Lane - The World's A Girl Sister Jane - Be Kind EP (1960's Californian, blue-eyed psychedelic soul made in the New South Wales Blue Mountains in 2010 - I used to know a couple of the band members) The Afghan Whigs - 66 EP The Bitter Springs - Absence Makes The Hair Go Blonder EP | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5832 Registered: 05-2005 |
That should be Absence Makes The Hair Grow Blonder. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5841 Registered: 05-2005 |
Green Day - Uno America - The Definitive Pop Collection Foals - Holy Fire Phoenix - Bankrupt The Shaggs - Philosophy Of The World | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5851 Registered: 05-2005 |
Portugal. The Man - Evil Friends Jaguar Ma - Howlin | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5864 Registered: 05-2005 |
Tim Van Eyeken - Stiffs Lovers Holymen Thieves Chad Van Gaalen - Soft Airplane (Just noticed they are both Vans. Neither is Dutch though. The former is English, the latter Canadian). Father John Misty - The Demos EP The Million Dollar Hotel - Soundtrack Scientists - Blood Red River Jack Frost - Snow Job | ||
| C Gull Member Username: C_gull Post Number: 208 Registered: 05-2005 |
Blimey Padraig - I make that 78 records in 27 days - how do you make time to listen to them all?! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5866 Registered: 05-2005 |
I don't. I tell myself that I'll get round to them all eventually. Just like all the books I add to the unread piles... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5879 Registered: 05-2005 |
Rodriguez - Searching For Sugar Man soundtrack | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5925 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Ergs - Jersey's Best Prancers EP Matthew Sweet, Frank Black, Kristin Hersh etc - High School Reunion: A Tribute To Those Great 80s Films Kelley Stoltz - To Dreamers Underworld - Pearl's Girl (US edition on Wax Trax) | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 613 Registered: 03-2007 |
Retrospective collections by three U.K indie bands issued by Firestation Records. As far as I know, none of them ever managed to release an album. I wish there were more record companies doing this sort of thing. A chance to hear some of the music you missed first time around. Red Money - A Kind Of Retrospective 1990 - 1995 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNMfIheIA 7U Reserve - Beneath The London Sky 1985 - 1990 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWNgu84Jc MY The Bridge - Face Down Everybody Looks The Same 1984 - 1988 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3mMqDcCM Cw | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3249 Registered: 03-2005 |
Very useful, Hugh. I just completed my orders on Firestation's site. I added a couple of other choices. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 614 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, What other titles did you go for? I am already looking forward to their next batch of retrospective releases ( Penelope's Web; The Gits; Riot Of Colour.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKZQNrKDM 5g http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFs1_Kz7Q 28 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2GzbJxlp CU | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3250 Registered: 03-2005 |
Hugh, I picked up the Bodines release and also The Morrisons. I have something by the Bodines on the C86 anthology and I just picked the Morrisons arbitrarily. I probably should have checked youtube but I was in my usual big hurry. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 816 Registered: 05-2005 |
Gilberto Gil - Louvacao brilliant debut album from 1967 | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2536 Registered: 01-2005 |
Marianne Faithfull - Broken English (Deluxe Edition) Fleetwood Mac - Then Play On (Deluxe Edition) Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City Frank Wess - Magic 101 Kat Edmonson - Way Down Low | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 620 Registered: 03-2007 |
Doctor Millar & The Beet Club - Always Coming Home Sean Millar - Sean Millar ( Of The People Parts 1 & 2 ) | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3255 Registered: 03-2005 |
I've been on a bit of a binge. 1. Best of Babybird. I had to have something with "You're Gorgeous." Judging from the rest of the material it sounds like this one comp might be all I really need. It's not bad by any means but there's a bit of--ahem!--consistency exhibited here. 2. Beasts of Bourbon--Axeman's Jazz. I've already expressed my disappointment with this. 3. Benny Profane--Trapdoor Swing/Dumb Luck Charm 4. Blurt -- s/t plus Singles. Haven't heard this yet. 5. Bodines -- Shrinkwrap 6. The Bridge -- Face Down Everybody Looks the Same 7. Barbara Carlotti -- l'Amour, l'Argent, le Vent. A bit more mainstream in sound than her earlier records. Hence a bit less engaging. 8. Chocolate Watchband -- Melts in Your Brain . . . Not on Your Wrist. Upgrade from my previous comp for this group. 9. Church -- El Momento Siguiente. Definitely not as great as "El Momento Descuidado" but there's a lovely cover of "Wide Open Road." 10. Sandy Denny & the Strawbs -- All Our Own Work. Very lovely sounding solution to the problem of Dave Cousins' over-earnest vocals. Now if my iPod would just choose a song from it! 11. East of Eden -- Mercator Projected. Written about previously. Randy buys a CD of prog rock! 12. Hoodoo Gurus -- Stoneage Romeos 13. Isolation Ward -- Point Final. A Belgian group from Les Disques du Crepuscule era. 14. Mickey 3d -- Mistigri Torture. First album I think. 15. Mickey 3d -- La Treve. Sounds weak on first listen. 16. Mickey 3d -- Tu vas pas mourir de rire. I already had a couple other of their records so I picked these up for completist sake. 17. Mina -- Canta Lucio. An album of Battisti songs from the mid-70s. The songs are great, the arrangements occasionally soppy thanks to the era. 18. The Morrisons -- Songs From the South of England. Written about elsewhere. 19. Passage -- Pindrop. A great favorite of Jeff Whiteaker's. I haven't really heard it yet. 20. Red Money -- A Kind of Retrospective. The first song "My Erstwhile Companion" is a great bit of Tin Pan Alley style writing. I don't think any of the other songs reach its standard. The singer is trying too hard. 21. Reserve -- Beneath the London Sky. Lovely C86 type guitar band. 22. The Room -- In Evil Hour. Haven't heard it yet. 23. The Shadows -- Complete Singles As & Bs 1959 - 1980. An upgrade from a previous comp. 24. Scientists -- Swampland. Written about previously. 25. Stockholm Monsters -- Alma Mater plus. I think it was Jeff who sent me "Terror." I haven't heard this yet but I have heard and very much like . . . 26. Stockholm Monsters -- All At Once Singles 1981 - 1987. 27. Wire -- Change Becomes Us. Still hasn't really had a proper listen. These are the arrivals. There are still more orders on the way to me. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 621 Registered: 03-2007 |
You certainly have. :-) | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 622 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, I checked out a few Stockholm Monsters videos on YouTube earlier this afternoon and liked what I heard. I have since placed orders for Alma Mater Plus, All At Once: Singles 1981 - 1987 and The Last One Back. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3258 Registered: 03-2005 |
As usual, Hugh, you managed to get something I didn't get. In the meantime I received a copy of Knievel's "Steep Hill Climb." I've had a copy of "The Name Rings a Bell That Drowns Out Your Voice" for years. My gripe with "Name Rings a Bell" is that there is a certain bland quality to it. I still find that on "Steep Hill Climb" except that, being earlier, it has more of that crunchy 1990's guitar chord sound which I really don't love. But the songs on "Name Rings a Bell" had quality and I will give this record time to reveal itself to me as well. I also have their new album on its way. Perhaps another variety of blandness? | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 623 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, the title popped up while I was searching on AmazonCo for the other two releases and being a bit of a completist I just had to add it to the order. :-) It appears to be a mix of live tracks and demos recorded between 1980 - 1987. It will be a week or two before I take delivery as they are coming from the U.S.A. ( AllYourMusic.) Suprised to hear that Knievel are still on the go as I thought they called it a day after the release of No One's Going To Understand In My Way ( a compilation of tracks from earlier singles and eps ) back in 2002. Had a quick look at their website and it seems they started playing live / recording again in 2011. The band released their first album ( We Fear Change ) in 1995. It has been a long time since I last listened to it but I suspect it may have much the same sound as 'Steep Hill Climb' which was released in 1998. I am rarely tempted to pull out and listen to Knievel these days and yet I have been listening a lot recently to The Beautiful Few who were around at or about the same time. Incoming :- UV Race - Racism UV Race - Homo Total Control - Henge Beat Australian bands featuring Al Montford of Lower Plenty. Totally different in style to that band. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 624 Registered: 03-2007 |
The Brilliant Corners - Growing Up Absurd / Whats In A Word / Fruit Machine The Brilliant Corners - Somebody Up There Likes Me / Joyride The Brilliant Corners - Heart On Your Sleeve : A Decade In Pop 1983 - 1993 Spaceways - Trad Spaceways - Solid Krell Metal Experimental Pop Band - Discgrotesque Experimental Pop Band - Homesick Experimental Pop Band - The Tracksuit Trilogy Experimental Pop Band - Tarmac & Flames Experimental Pop Band - Vertigo All the bands feature David Woodward who was a founding member of The Brilliant Corners. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3260 Registered: 03-2005 |
The Brilliant Corners represented a very worthwhile discovery for me Hugh. It figures you'd research them and see what followed on. I haven't gotten "Heart On Your Sleeve" because I wanted to avoid big overlaps. Does it by any chance include their final album? That's signally missing from the other two releases. A person has to figure out where to spend the shekels. Right now I'm trying to figure out if it's worthwhile to buy the box set of Jacques Dutronc's full length LPs after having already gotten the 13(!) CD box set of his EPs. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 626 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, 'Heart On Your Sleeve' is made up of all the singles the band released on the SS20 and McQueen labels, plus numerous tracks never previously released and a handful of previously unissued demos and live tracks. Cherry Red Records currently have the rights to the albums 'Hooked' and 'A History Of White Trash' which the band released in 1990 and 1993 respectively and hopefully they will release them in due course. Here is a link to a recent interview with Davey Woodward. Scroll down the page to find it. http://www.cloudberryrecords.com/blog/ It is still early days but I have to say I am thoroughly enjoying the Experimental Pop Band albums. Still waiting for the Spaceways releases to arrive. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3262 Registered: 03-2005 |
Thanks for the link Hugh. And the info. I only knew about "Hooked" so I'm glad to learn there's yet another Corners record. According to Woodward, "White Trash" is the better of the two. In the meantime I've ordered three shockingly cheap Experimental Pop Band albums from sellers here in the U.S.. I've been digging around in the C86-era bands for quite a while now, given tips by Spence and Jeff (who's not generally a big C86 type but he's a big '80s fan) and just following amazon links. I've also pursued some of the Sarah Records acts though I gradually concluded that they tend to parody themselves too much. When I first heard "A Girl Called Property," the second track on Cherry Red's "Growing Up Absurd" reissue, I figured I'd stumbled onto something special. It offered a perfect blend of intellect, cool delivery and no-pedal guitar repurposing shaggy versions of 60s soul licks on a song suggestive of something Lou Reed might have written for the Velvets' third album and yet transcending the Velvets influence. I wish somebody had put the song up on youtube so I could show people what I'm blathering about. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 628 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, The early Experimental Pop Band albums in particular are all over the place musically ( indie rock, electronica, pop, dance, funk and jazz influences.) It is not something that usually sits easily with me but I have to admit that I am really quite taken by the band. I am not exactly sure what you will make of the albums you have ordered but I suspect you will find something in each of them that appeals to you. He is a good songwriter / musician. I initially ordered Somebody Up There Likes Me / Joyride directly from Cherry Red Records but was advised that it was out of stock and that they were unlikely to get replenishment for quite some time. I know how annoying it can be when a track you want to use is not available on YouTube. I recently tried to find something ( anything ) by The Beautiful Few. Zilch. Incoming :- Experimental Pop Band - Tinsel Stars | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5981 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Experimental Pop Band is now featuring more often than The Go-Betweens on these pages. Thanks Hugh and Randy for reminding me of them and the one album I have. I think I reviewed one of their singles back in the day. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5988 Registered: 05-2005 |
I went into a local charity shop this morning, hoping to pick up something unexpected and wonderful, as I have done there in the past. But what I saw were scores of CDs I donated there more than two years ago. I gave them more than 200 discs at the time so I guess a lot of them have been bought, but the fact that so many are still there is kind of depressing. It means kids are no longer looking in charity shops for bargains. OK, not everything I left there is greatly desirable, but a lot of it was albums where I subsequently bought the remastered double disc edition and no longer needed the original version. And anyway, one man's meat is another man's poison. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 637 Registered: 03-2007 |
Sean Millar - Tarzan's Ambition ( The Best Of ) |