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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5653 Registered: 05-2005 |
Peter Case - Selections From Peter Case 12" (1986) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5655 Registered: 05-2005 |
Pete Townshend - Lifehouse Chronicles: Arrangements & Orchestrations | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5658 Registered: 05-2005 |
Indigo Girls - Closer I Am To Fine. I have this on cassette single somewhere. Haven't heard it in years. Still about as awesome as folk pop ever got. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUgwM1Ky2 28 | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 756 Registered: 05-2005 |
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions stone cold classic | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 833 Registered: 10-2006 |
Suade - Dog man star | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 834 Registered: 10-2006 |
aka Suede | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5669 Registered: 05-2005 |
Big Star - September Gurls | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5675 Registered: 05-2005 |
Stevie Nicks - Rooms On Fire | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5677 Registered: 05-2005 |
Van Morrison - Poetic Champions Compose, on cassette. I think I have the CD of it somewhere too. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5680 Registered: 05-2005 |
Dusty Springfield - I Think It's Gonna Rain Today | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5682 Registered: 05-2005 |
Clay Hammond - I'll Make It Up To You, from Take Me To The River: A Southern Soul Story 1961-1977 (Disc 2). What a song. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 836 Registered: 10-2006 |
Beta band - 3 eps Must be one of the most exhilerating recordings ever: idea after idea, tune after tune, all those sneaky drum patterns and snaky basslines, young men saying to each other, "Let's just do EVERYTHING." | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 849 Registered: 10-2006 |
Wilco - The whole love Over a year old already? Who'd have thought. Good to hear it again anyway, I doubt if I've heard anything so fresh or confident since it first came out. Almost ridiculous to kick off with something as enthralling as The art of almost. Meanwhile, I twiddle my thumbs waiting for something to really obsess over. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 850 Registered: 10-2006 |
Dominique A - L'horizon Listening to so much of an artist at one time, some things get skated over, but today, the coldest bloody Spring day for years, with sun-winked freezing rain being blown across town, this sounded utterly gorgeous. The only person I really, really would like to see live at the moment. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5740 Registered: 05-2005 |
Pink Floyd - The Great Gig In The Sky (early mix by Alan Parsons - with NASA transmissions and news broadcasts name-checking Richard Nixon instead of the wailing vocal improv by Clare Torry) | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3209 Registered: 03-2005 |
Agreed, Stuart. L'horizon is probably one of Dominique's three best albums but I was late to get it and in the rush to pile up all his releases (and those amazingly good bonus tracks on the reissues!) it's not had the play it deserves. I figure that a concert of his will end up being the impetus for my next visit to France. | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 332 Registered: 05-2005 |
Dominique A comes here in my neighbour from time to time (last month : http://mescritiques.be/spip.php?article1 680 ). I must confess I've never heard an album of him and I've never seen him in concert. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3211 Registered: 03-2005 |
TROU, perhaps you're a little like me and you prefer the artists who are--for you in Belgium--more exotic? I have a hard time getting enthused about most U.S. artists. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 853 Registered: 10-2006 |
Magnolia Electric Co. For a long time I only had one Jason Molina album, the Lioness, which was a little too dirge-like even for my taste and didn't encourage me to investigate further. This is a far richer piece of work, though, as he lets his inner Neil Young take over, thickens the instrumentation and even lends out a couple of songs to other vocalists, including the excellently named Scout Niblett. A brilliant album, I think. I have a few more JM things on the way; apparently his recent death has landed the family with huge medical expenses to pay. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 855 Registered: 10-2006 |
Yes, just to emphasise, it's great to have one of those albums that you really can't wait to get home to, to listen to again, and then again. Hugely addictive. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5758 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Jesus & Mary Chain - Some Candy Talking EP. Truly one of the greatest ever EPs. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 857 Registered: 10-2006 |
I find it hard to gauge Dom A's standing in his native land: amidst a great deal of general praise, some seem to feel he's already sold out, and that his music is particularly favoured by upper-middle class Parisians who like to have it blaring out of their beach-parked Land Cruisers. Others say that he's still "too much in the shadows" and not getting the attention he deserves. I reckon he should be regarded as a national treasure & maybe the brightest musical landmark on the French scene: if there's someone more interesting, I'd love to hear them. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5771 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Dream Academy - Life In A Northern Town 12" version, lovingly digitised at 192 kbps. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5792 Registered: 05-2005 |
Peter Case - Peter Case | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2528 Registered: 01-2005 |
Pádraig, How about a new topic "Top 10 Favorite EP's"? Julian Cope - Peggy Suicide | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5825 Registered: 05-2005 |
Build it and they will come, Michael. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5831 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Bitter Springs - Absence Makes The Hair Grow Blonder EP | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5833 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Afghan Whigs - 66 EP. The 12" remix of Somethin' Hot is particularly fine. The cover of Hole's Miss World is great and the cover of James Booker's Papa Was A Rascal is terrific. There's no faulting Greg Dulli's knowledge and love of R'n'B and soul. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 794 Registered: 05-2005 |
Momus - Tender Pervert the last great Momus album for me, he was starting to experiment with electronics but still playing his guitar. The Charm of Innocence is such a brilliant song | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 795 Registered: 05-2005 |
Teardrop Explodes - Wilder (Expanded Edition) | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3227 Registered: 03-2005 |
The sound equipment came back. After connecting the inputs and the Byzantine speaker lines (two speaker sets, one of them back and forth through a headphone switch box) I was able to listen to . . . . . The Bats -- Free All the Monsters Wire -- Change Becomes Us | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5852 Registered: 05-2005 |
Aztec Camera (but really Roddy Frame solo) - Down The Dip and Jump live from Glasgow Barrowlands, 1988. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5853 Registered: 05-2005 |
Roddy Frame - The North Star, Surf & Western Skies | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5854 Registered: 05-2005 |
Aztec Camera - We Could Send Letters (from NME C81 cassette) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5855 Registered: 05-2005 |
Rockfour - Everyone. Greatest Israeli power pop band ever. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5856 Registered: 05-2005 |
Rollerskate Skinny - Horsedrawn Wishes. A brilliant lost classic from the very fertile mid-1990s Dublin scene. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5858 Registered: 05-2005 |
Blues Traveler - But Anyway. I know nothing else about this band other than this one song from the soundtrack to Kingpin. (Previously in the wrong thread) Ivy - This Is The Day. From another Farrelly Brothers soundtrack, this one from There's Something About Mary. Bobby and Peter always use great music in their films. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5862 Registered: 05-2005 |
Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3232 Registered: 03-2005 |
I mentioned in another thread that I won't often look to see if another better anthology or release has been issued for somebody when I bought something early on in the CD era. There are exceptions. Near the top of that list are the Easybeats, one of my all-time favorite groups. They started as a smarter-than-average teen scream band in Australia and quickly developed a facility for writing quick efficient two and a half minute rock classics. I suggest numbers such as "I'll Make You Happy" or "Sorry" or the confident casual unique-sounding simplicity of "Easy As Can Be." They clearly deserved a bigger stage and they went looking for one in late '66/early '67. In London they found the competition entirely different than in little Oz. In less than a year they moved from their perfected distillation of their teen rock--the worldwide smash "Friday On My Mind"--to the emotionally and musically complex "Come In, You'll Get Pneumonia" and "Falling Off the Edge of the World." I am always on the lookout for somebody to do a better job with Easybeats reissues. I bought the individual albums reissued by Albert and Repertoire. I am currently relying upon the box set released by Albert Productions which leaves off "Friends," a final album released without the band's authorization that is actually a hodgepodge of late band recordings and Harry Vanda/George Young songwriting demos. The box set is better than some of the previous Repertoire versions but the mono Australian recordings still don't quite have the crystalline sound that I know well-mastered monophonic recordings can have. And Ted Albert was a good producer so I doubt that the fault lies in the original tapes. The Holy Grail I keep checking the internet for is a proper from-the-masters release of the Easybeats' "lost album," the record they recorded in London in late 1967 with Glyn Johns after they moved on from their first U.K. phase with Shel Talmy. Except for two tracks that found their way onto their next official (and rather inconsistent) album "Vigil" (released in modified form as "Falling Off the Edge of the World" in the U.S.), all of the Glyn Johns recordings stayed in the can and were only issued in fuzzy inferior mono versions on the still-essential odds & sods anthology "The Shame Just Drained." In less than a year the Easybeats moved from the teen classics to this masterful timeless song that I'd love to cover myself (if I weren't too lazy to put the work into arranging and recording something I've not written): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L02HMkMt 67A They hadn't carelessly abandoned their classic sound. This album also included "Gonna Have a Good Time Tonight" aka "Good Times" which was released as a single (and on "Vigil") and this gem with its contrapuntal vocal argument between the cab driver and his fare and little "Batman" theme musical reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bal7jzA 2Vo The Easys' version stayed in the can. A cover version by Marmalade was released. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 864 Registered: 10-2006 |
The Electric Soft Parade – Holes in the wall Man, what a bugger it was to find this one. Reading the chirpy reviews about the band’s latest, I thought I’d get their excellent debut out for a relisten, but, opening the case, found it empty. I realised with a sinking heart that I’d probably done something I detest myself for, ie, out of sheer laziness popped the CD for safekeeping into the nearest case at hand with the idea that I’d put it back in its proper place later. Out of curiosity, I haphazardly picked up another case nearby, which should have been playing host to Robert Plant’s Mighty Rearranger. Instead, it contained Placebo’s “Covers” CD. F***** hell, I thought, what a nightmare. After three days of painstaking searching, I managed to locate Elvis Presley On Stage doubled up in Quicksilver Messenger Service’s Happy Trails, Lou’s Transformer in Alan Hull’s Squire, Morrissey’s My Burglary Years in Pentangle’s Solomon’s Seal, Adele’s 21 (the wife’s) in Malcolm Middleton’s A brighter beat, Jan Garbarek’s 12 moons in the Jayhawks' Smile, and, finally, on the afternoon of the third day, The Electric Soft Parade in Eels’ Blinking Lights. The Robert Plant CD, together with John Phillips’s Wolfking of LA, another forlornly empty case, remain Missing in Action meanwhile, unless they’ve crossed over into the Classical section, which at the moment I don’t have the heart to start investigating. What’s interesting is there seems absolutely no earthly connection between the stray CDs and the case they end up in, which perhaps indicates the rather scattergun nature of my listening habits. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5871 Registered: 05-2005 |
I feel your pain Stuart, though thankfully I don't do that myself. Versus - Dead Leaves. Most of these songs were recorded 21 years ago. They must have been very young at the time. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5875 Registered: 05-2005 |
Brian Wilson - The Wilson Paley Sessions | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3233 Registered: 03-2005 |
So Stuart, you must have paid a visit to Los Angeles and sold a CD or two to Amoeba as I bought one of them: Broadcast -- Work and Non Work With a "Staff Pick" sticker on it no less! I got it home and opened it up and found Nick Drake -- Time of No Reply Well, I didn't have that particular Nick Drake. But the conservationist in me really wants to find the copy of "Time of No Reply" with "Work and Non Work" inside it. Except I suppose it will have "Blizzard of Ozz" inside instead. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 598 Registered: 03-2007 |
Stuart, I cannot remember ever putting a disc into the wrong case but I do occassionally mis-file a cd in the wrong storage box and when that happens they can be a bugger to find so I understand your frustration. Lindisfarne - Nicely Out Of Tune | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5881 Registered: 05-2005 |
A mix CD I made about a decade ago. Weezer's Buddy Holly is playing right now. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 865 Registered: 10-2006 |
Now you understand why you got the wrong Panics disc that time, Padraig! I imagine most Message Boarders have a fairly rigorous filing system... I like to think of my own collection as blooming in an organic and creative sort of way, which is why most of it is so hard to find. One section is vaguely alphabetical, the rest just tends to accumulate in certain parts of the house, until the wife yells at me to do something about it. There just isn't enough room, really. Nick Drake wasn't a bad alternative, there, Randy. I reckon that almost never happens on a professional level, though, now I come to think about it, I have no idea how CDs actually get into their cases. If the cellophane wasn't on, I guess some smartass customer switched them around, perhaps to get Broadcast at a lower price? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5888 Registered: 05-2005 |
Scientists - Bllod Red River: 1982 - 1984. An Australian noise classic. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3237 Registered: 03-2005 |
Stuart, my copy of "Work and Non Work" ("Time of No Reply") was a used disc. So I assume it was mixed up by the seller or maybe whoever handles the stocking of used discs. And, yes, if I must get the wrong disc the Nick Drake was a good one. Inspired by the Scientists' anthology I bought a couple weeks back I picked up a copy of Beasts of Bourbon "The Axeman's Jazz." Total crap on the first listen; not sure when it will get a second. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5892 Registered: 05-2005 |
Beasts Of Bourbon are very overrated I think. The Cruel Sea are a much better band. I saw them play an acoustic set as The Cruel Three in 1992 (one of them didn't show up for the gig) which was brilliant. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5894 Registered: 05-2005 |
Right now I'm listening to a mix tape of acoustic songs I made 22 years ago. I miss the simple joy of making a mix tape for yourself, or friends or to impress a new girl. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5896 Registered: 05-2005 |
And tapes outlast mix CDs. I doubt any of the CDRs I've ever burned will still function 22 years after I made them. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 885 Registered: 10-2006 |
Paul McCartney - Ram His immediate post-Beatles work has all the fresh creative glee of a guy who's just escaped from the chain gang. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2538 Registered: 01-2005 |
Pádraig, Here is my favorite song about making mix tapes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgfO2hoyd 5c I saw her live early this year, and next month she is back in Ann Arbor and I'm going to see her again. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6045 Registered: 05-2005 |
That's great. Thanks Michael. I really like Tift Merritt. |