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Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 5757 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Wednesday, June 05, 2013 - 09:33 am: | |
One Over The Eight - a Hot Records compilation featuring Ed Kuepper, The Apartments and The Celibate Rifles. |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 5761 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Wednesday, June 05, 2013 - 10:01 am: | |
Jimmy Braswell - I Can't Give You My Heart |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 5762 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Wednesday, June 05, 2013 - 11:09 am: | |
Love & Rockets - Love & Rockets |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 5763 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Wednesday, June 05, 2013 - 12:02 pm: | |
Frightened Rabbit - Pedestrian Verse |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 5764 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Wednesday, June 05, 2013 - 10:48 pm: | |
Prefab Sprout - Bonny (acoustic) |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 5765 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Thursday, June 06, 2013 - 01:37 am: | |
Sweet Billy Pilgrim - Twice Born Men. A truly stunning record. |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 5767 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Thursday, June 06, 2013 - 07:10 am: | |
34 tracks by 17 Saddle Creek artists that were encoded as mp3s on another Saddle Creek CD. Now that's how to do a sampler. |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 5768 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Thursday, June 06, 2013 - 11:59 pm: | |
OMD - Metroland |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 5770 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Friday, June 07, 2013 - 12:13 am: | |
Dominique A - various tracks, inspired to do so by Stuart's post and by me coming across a Dominique A disc on top of the kitchen boombox. |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 5772 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Friday, June 07, 2013 - 12:29 am: | |
Drive-By Truckers - Carl Perkins' Cadillac. Feb 14 is up next. |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 5773 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Friday, June 07, 2013 - 12:40 am: | |
Reacquainting myself with more artists lurking in the iTunes D section: The Drones - Nail It Down (seven minutes of wound-up, claustrophobic, Victorian rock). |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 5774 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Friday, June 07, 2013 - 12:48 am: | |
The Duke Spirit - Homecoming. Modern day British indie blues rock. And brilliant. |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 5775 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Friday, June 07, 2013 - 12:50 am: | |
Ed Kuepper - Not Too Soon, one of the many classics on Honey Steel's Gold. |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 5777 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Friday, June 07, 2013 - 01:00 am: | |
Ed Kuepper - Highway To Hell. I first heard him play this at a show in Dublin about 15 years ago. It was astonishing and sounded like a one man orchestra (it was a solo show). |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 5779 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Friday, June 07, 2013 - 01:14 am: | |
O Emperor - Hither Thither. An Irish band that should have had much more success with this record. |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 5781 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Friday, June 07, 2013 - 02:46 am: | |
Simple Minds - Real To Real Cacophony |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 5783 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Friday, June 07, 2013 - 04:27 am: | |
Simple Minds - Empires And Dance |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 5784 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Friday, June 07, 2013 - 05:27 am: | |
Simple Minds - Sons And Fascination |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 5785 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Friday, June 07, 2013 - 06:31 am: | |
Simple Minds - Sister Feelings Call |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 5787 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Friday, June 07, 2013 - 08:11 am: | |
Simple Minds - New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) Never before have I played six Simple Minds albums in a row. Well, never prior to getting this box set have I owned more than one Simple Minds album (not counting two compilations). The box set of their first six albums (cunningly titled X5 as Sons And Fascination originally included Sister Feelings Call as a free bonus album - in this set they are packaged together in a gatefold sleeve). I've greatly enjoyed this six hours (there are 19 bonus b-sides/12" versions/live tracks) of early Simple Minds, particularly Sons... and Sister... |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 5788 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Friday, June 07, 2013 - 11:35 am: | |
The Casanovas - The Casanovas |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 5789 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Friday, June 07, 2013 - 12:10 pm: | |
Dave Graney 'N' The Coral Snakes - You Wanna Be There But You Don't Wanna Travel. This is my first time ever hearing this album, having just bought the box set the other day. I got it on the recommendation of a friend who said that anyone who liked Robert Forster's music would probably like Dave Graney's. It's an accurate comparison, especially on the title track. The musicianship is very tight throughout. |
Lewisdhead
Member Username: Lewisdhead
Post Number: 103 Registered: 01-2007
| Posted on Friday, June 07, 2013 - 12:33 pm: | |
@Padraig. O Emperor have a new album out on 14th June. Free download single at: http://oemperor.bandcamp.com/track/conta ct-2 I think they are a very good band, and the few I heard from the new album sound great. They are from my hometown of Waterford. |
Hugh Nimmo
Member Username: Hugh_nimmo
Post Number: 570 Registered: 03-2007
| Posted on Friday, June 07, 2013 - 01:20 pm: | |
Live In Concert With The NZSO - Little Bushman http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwmQSTN8K Hg |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 5791 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Saturday, June 08, 2013 - 12:20 am: | |
Thanks Lewis, I'm listening to Contact right now. Good to know they are about to release a second album. |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 5794 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Saturday, June 08, 2013 - 01:17 am: | |
Peter Holsapple & Chris Stamey - Here And Now |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 5795 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Saturday, June 08, 2013 - 01:41 am: | |
Whale - Hobo Humpin' Slobo Babe |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 5796 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Saturday, June 08, 2013 - 01:45 am: | |
Wilco - I Might (iTunes Session version) |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 5797 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Saturday, June 08, 2013 - 01:50 am: | |
Wilco - Art Of Almost. I love the You Better You Bet-style keyboard intro. |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 5798 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Saturday, June 08, 2013 - 01:57 am: | |
Wire - Please Take. Still stands out as one of the greatest comebacks ever. |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 5799 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Saturday, June 08, 2013 - 02:06 am: | |
Whipping Boy - Twinkle and When We Were Young (Philo Version). They should have been huge. |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 5801 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Saturday, June 08, 2013 - 10:10 am: | |
Sunnyboys - Play The Best |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 5803 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Saturday, June 08, 2013 - 11:22 am: | |
The Sunnyboys compilation is is great. They completely pased me by until now because they were gone from the public consciousness before I ever lived in Australia, and I don't recall any other bands citing them as an influence, though surely they must have been. Alone With You is another in a long line of songs which have ripped off Don't Fear The Reaper; magnificently so in this case. |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 5806 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Saturday, June 08, 2013 - 12:18 pm: | |
Frankie & The Heartstrings - The Days Run Away |
Hugh Nimmo
Member Username: Hugh_nimmo
Post Number: 572 Registered: 03-2007
| Posted on Saturday, June 08, 2013 - 10:29 pm: | |
Padraig, I don't think The Sunnyboys received much coverage in the British music press in the early 1980s. Their first two albums were released on the Mushroom label and it is possible that they were never released in the U.K. Closer Records ( French Label ) released both albums as a double lp ( Days Are Gone ) in 1985. I picked up a copy but I regret to say it never made much of an impression on me. I am not familiar with The Remains but, having listened to a few tracks on YouTube, it does seem that they may well have been influenced by them. I was tired of American / British music back then which may explain why they did not particularly appeal to me at that time. The competition was also pretty tough. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cRODgXnI lU Ordered two copies of The Remains by Barry & The Remains earlier this afternoon ( Sony 1991; Epic 2007.) Virtually identical track listings but I like the very different sleeve inserts and managed to source them cheaply. Time for a Sunnyboys anthology ( 1980 - 1984 ) methinks. |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 5808 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Saturday, June 08, 2013 - 11:31 pm: | |
Nice work Hugh! I think I'll be joining you in ordering a Remains record. I'm just back from a run and am listening to The Beach Boys' Platinum Collection - Sounds of Summer Edition. Perfect for a warm and sunny Sydney winter morning! |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 5809 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Sunday, June 09, 2013 - 02:57 am: | |
A very cool mix on my iPod as I cross Sydney harbour on the ferry from Manly to Circular Quay. Stone Temple Pilot's Cinnamon has just ended. It's an uncharacteristically great power pop song from a band who otherwise generally leave me cold. |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 5810 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Sunday, June 09, 2013 - 08:05 am: | |
The Apartments - Black Ribbons (Autumn mix) |
Stuart Wilson
Member Username: Stuart
Post Number: 858 Registered: 10-2006
| Posted on Sunday, June 09, 2013 - 08:28 am: | |
Cracking version of UM that one, Hugh, nice. I've been skim-listening to a lot of Church recently without getting too excited about them, I must admit. Maybe it takes a live track to hear them at their best? |
Randy Adams
Member Username: Randy_adams
Post Number: 3215 Registered: 03-2005
| Posted on Sunday, June 09, 2013 - 03:19 pm: | |
Great Church vid Hugh. Kilbey almost looks like the 1960's David Bowie there. |
Hugh Nimmo
Member Username: Hugh_nimmo
Post Number: 573 Registered: 03-2007
| Posted on Sunday, June 09, 2013 - 03:36 pm: | |
Stuart, I much prefer their earlier albums ( up to and including Heyday ) to the later ones. Their first two contain some great songs. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVf3-myXw Jo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1BOr0IaM Yw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeDRhKaB6 z4 Randy, I was thinking exactly the same thing while watching the video. Currently listening to :- X-tal - Mayday |
Randy Adams
Member Username: Randy_adams
Post Number: 3216 Registered: 03-2005
| Posted on Sunday, June 09, 2013 - 04:07 pm: | |
I first heard the Remains on Lenny Kaye's essential "Nuggets" comp released back in the mid-70s. "Nuggets" was one of the core records for me back in that dreary era of "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover," the Eagles and disco. I was already familiar with maybe about one half of the people on that album. The Remains were among the new introductions. Kaye chose "Don't Look Back" which sounded like a punk Zombies. The Remains may be the only "garage" type band who made it to a major label without being turned into a producer's puppet (Electric Prunes). They could do originals and covers and they ALL ended up sounding like Remains tracks. Barry Tashian knew how to write a song and the band knew how to present it. They added nothing fancy to their recordings. They were scratchy sounding and yet fundamentally wholesome sounding too, which might have doomed them at the time. (For comparison, consider the classic punk danger to the Standells' "Dirty Water" or "Sometimes Good Guys Don't Wear White" or "Riot on Sunset Strip.") Here's one of my favorite Remains cuts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NrR1oVcE Os Simple, honest and effective. Fan Club (New Rose) did a great anthology of the Remains way back in the 80s. I also have the 1991 Sony release. I'll have to check out the 2007 Epic release, though I imagine that I've already got everything between the two above and Sundazed's "A Session with The Remains" which I don't recommend except for the completists. |
Randy Adams
Member Username: Randy_adams
Post Number: 3217 Registered: 03-2005
| Posted on Sunday, June 09, 2013 - 04:47 pm: | |
Hugh and I diverge on the Church, Stuart. The best of their early records are indeed wonderful but I never bonded with any of their albums until maybe "Seance." The big U.S. breakthrough album "Starfish" put me to sleep the last time I gave it a listen. However, if you pluck out the best from the '80s, it's very good indeed. One of my favorites: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQvzUoK_x FY My big love for "It's No Reason" is a tip-off. I love the arty tendencies of the Church which really started to take off in the 1990s. For my money "Priest=Aura" is one of their best albums and they released a pretty good string if you forgive and forget the boring "Sometime Anywhere." They were still making great albums in the early 2000s. Here's a nice example from 2003: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPf0_UaGO m4 I have a really big love for this era of the Church. I was finally shaken off them by "Uninvited, Like the Clouds" which had two gorgeous tracks and a bunch of completely dull ones. I've no idea if they've since gotten back their mojo. If you don't get anything else by them, "El Momento Descuidado" is THE Church album all human beings must own. A decision to buy this and skip everything else is a perfectly defensible choice. This album is a wonderful revisit of highlights from their long career in relatively simple, acoustic form, warmly recorded. The songs are presented on their own merits. Church Unplugged. Necessary. I also really like some of Willson-Piper's solo albums, though I haven't been keeping up on them. |
Hugh Nimmo
Member Username: Hugh_nimmo
Post Number: 574 Registered: 03-2007
| Posted on Sunday, June 09, 2013 - 05:26 pm: | |
Randy, Nice track. There are apparently two versions of 'Say You Are Sorry' on the 2007 Epic release ( with running times of 1:53 and 2:23 ) but other than that it contains exactly the same collection of songs as the 1991 Sony release albeit with a totally different running order. There are a couple of copies of the Fan Club anthology for sale on Discogs at the moment. I will see how I get on with the Sony / Epic releases before deciding whether or not to purchase it. |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 5812 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Sunday, June 09, 2013 - 09:33 pm: | |
Randy, Starfish will forever remind me of your hometown. I spent a wonderful, carefree, warm and sunny November day in 1989 walking around LA listening to it. Starfish = Winchells donuts, Fatburger and discovering that Californian supermarkets also sold liquor (unlike those in Massachusetts, where I'd spent the previous six months, with a stop off in the surprisingly abstemious Athens, GA on the way). |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 5814 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Monday, June 10, 2013 - 01:27 pm: | |
The Clientele - Bonfires On The Heath |
Michael Bachman
Member Username: Michael_bachman
Post Number: 2527 Registered: 01-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, June 11, 2013 - 12:02 pm: | |
The Byrds second album (with bonus cuts), Turn, Turn, Turn! |
Hugh Nimmo
Member Username: Hugh_nimmo
Post Number: 575 Registered: 03-2007
| Posted on Tuesday, June 11, 2013 - 04:33 pm: | |
Boy With A Fish - Birds Fly Backwards |
Hugh Nimmo
Member Username: Hugh_nimmo
Post Number: 576 Registered: 03-2007
| Posted on Tuesday, June 11, 2013 - 05:22 pm: | |
The Horse Flies - Until The Ocean |
Randy Adams
Member Username: Randy_adams
Post Number: 3218 Registered: 03-2005
| Posted on Wednesday, June 12, 2013 - 04:37 am: | |
This will matter to no one, except possibly Stuart, but I've got to repair some of the big errors in my Church diatribe above. "Anaesthesia" dates from 1998. For some reason I thought it was on 2003's "Forget Yourself." That is a fine album but it doesn't have "Anaesthesia" which is instead on "Hologram of Baal," a very fine return to form for the Church after a few weak and wandering albums in the mid-1990s. While I definitely hold the opinion that 1992's "Priest = Aura" is one of their best albums the Church really got into gear toward the end of the 90s and produced the excellent "After Everything Now This" and "Forget Yourself" in the early 2000s. So . . . I can't say the '90s were their best period. Instead, I'd say 1998 to 2005 or so. I know, nobody cares but the mistaken info about "Anaesthesia" got on my nerves. I blame this on both my middle-aged disintegrating brain and also the loss of a sense of album identity thanks to listening to things in scatter form on the iPod. Here's another beauty from "Hologram of Baal": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_KdFU0M- 4k |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 5817 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Wednesday, June 12, 2013 - 12:15 pm: | |
The Soft Pack - The Soft Pack |
cosmo vitelli
Member Username: Cosmo
Post Number: 780 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Wednesday, June 12, 2013 - 07:41 pm: | |
new Boards of Canada Black Sabbath - 13 Beady Eye - BE |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 5820 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Thursday, June 13, 2013 - 02:32 pm: | |
You've been at the b section, haven't you Cosmo? How's the Boards album? They've been getting some fawning reviews which make unexpected (to me anyway) comparisons; eg to MBV. I think I've only ever heard one track by them and it didn't grab me at all. |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 5822 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Saturday, June 15, 2013 - 12:10 am: | |
The Grays - Ro Sham Bo |
cosmo vitelli
Member Username: Cosmo
Post Number: 781 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Saturday, June 15, 2013 - 07:36 am: | |
The Boards of Canada is good Padraig, not breaking any new ground but doing what they do very well, like a soundtrack to a strange film. Nothing like MBV in sound, was the review comparing their approaches rather than sound? I hadn't noticed the B bands thing. Jacco Gardner is current listen, very good Syd Barrett like sounds, like Jim Noir in places. |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 5823 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Saturday, June 15, 2013 - 07:57 am: | |
I think it was a sound comparison Cosmo, but I won't swear on it. Listening to the Antipodean version of the Guards album In Guards We Trust. Four extra tracks. |
cosmo vitelli
Member Username: Cosmo
Post Number: 783 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Saturday, June 15, 2013 - 10:58 am: | |
Glad to see how much you are liking the Soft Pack Padraig, Did you get The Muslims EP? |
Hugh Nimmo
Member Username: Hugh_nimmo
Post Number: 577 Registered: 03-2007
| Posted on Saturday, June 15, 2013 - 11:44 am: | |
Cosmo, I have been looking around for a copy but it only seems to be available as a Japanese import ( with extra tracks ) making it pretty pricey here in the U.K. Currently listening to :- SJD - Dayglo Spectres |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 5826 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Saturday, June 15, 2013 - 03:10 pm: | |
I don't have it Cosmo. I will be looking for it though. |
Hugh Nimmo
Member Username: Hugh_nimmo
Post Number: 579 Registered: 03-2007
| Posted on Saturday, June 15, 2013 - 04:37 pm: | |
Comet Gain - Sneaky |
Randy Adams
Member Username: Randy_adams
Post Number: 3220 Registered: 03-2005
| Posted on Saturday, June 15, 2013 - 11:55 pm: | |
Scientists -- Swampland (Birth of the Scientists) |
cosmo vitelli
Member Username: Cosmo
Post Number: 784 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Sunday, June 16, 2013 - 10:53 am: | |
Yes Hugh, I stumped up the cash for the japanese import |
cosmo vitelli
Member Username: Cosmo
Post Number: 786 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - 07:20 pm: | |
Tunng - Turbines |
TROU
Member Username: Trou
Post Number: 333 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Friday, June 21, 2013 - 07:31 am: | |
Camera obscura - Desire lines. The more I listen, the more I like. |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 5828 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Friday, June 21, 2013 - 07:40 am: | |
Luna - Chinatown EP |
Hugh Nimmo
Member Username: Hugh_nimmo
Post Number: 583 Registered: 03-2007
| Posted on Friday, June 21, 2013 - 01:53 pm: | |
Diagrams - Black Light New project of Sam Genders who was a founding member, songwriter and singer for Tunng. |
Hugh Nimmo
Member Username: Hugh_nimmo
Post Number: 584 Registered: 03-2007
| Posted on Friday, June 21, 2013 - 04:11 pm: | |
Comet Gain - City Fallen Leaves |
Randy Adams
Member Username: Randy_adams
Post Number: 3224 Registered: 03-2005
| Posted on Friday, June 21, 2013 - 05:03 pm: | |
Sadly, I'm not listening to much of anything. The left channel went out on my amp, so it's gone off to the shop where the work backlog is weeks long. It's iPod or nothing now. |
Michael Bachman
Member Username: Michael_bachman
Post Number: 2529 Registered: 01-2005
| Posted on Saturday, June 22, 2013 - 01:23 pm: | |
Camera Obscura - Underachievers Please Try Harder I bought a cd of this early CO release recently. |
Rob Brookman
Member Username: Rob_b
Post Number: 1735 Registered: 08-2006
| Posted on Saturday, June 22, 2013 - 01:36 pm: | |
I love that Comet Gain album, Hugh. Just played it the other day, in fact. |
Hugh Nimmo
Member Username: Hugh_nimmo
Post Number: 585 Registered: 03-2007
| Posted on Saturday, June 22, 2013 - 04:55 pm: | |
Rob, I have been listening to the band a lot recently and that album is one of my favourites. I love the closing track. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6AxdgoEX 2k Currently listening to :- Comet Gain - Howl Of The Lonely Crowd |
Hugh Nimmo
Member Username: Hugh_nimmo
Post Number: 586 Registered: 03-2007
| Posted on Saturday, June 22, 2013 - 10:05 pm: | |
Randy, Sorry to hear that. I solved the problem many years ago by purchasing a second hi-fi system for the house as I hate being without music. I have no great love for MP3 players ( although I have one which I use on holidays etc. ) but they are no substitute for the real thing. One of my amps failed last year and I thought I might have to send it back to the manufacturer ( Mission Cyrus ) for repair. They were quoting a turnaround of 4 to 6 weeks and a price of approximately half of what I paid for it. I eventually contacted the person who sold it to me ( he was no longer in business ) and he put me in touch with someone who repaired it in less than two weeks at a fraction of the cost that Mission Cyrus were asking for. I hope you get it back soon. Currently listening to :- Comet Gain - Broken Record Prayers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfDhMCRaG 2A |
Hugh Nimmo
Member Username: Hugh_nimmo
Post Number: 587 Registered: 03-2007
| Posted on Saturday, June 22, 2013 - 10:15 pm: | |
Two more YouTube videos of tracks from 'Broken Record Prayers.' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD3FkHC1w cc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L36PwFX6U 8U |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 5837 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Sunday, June 23, 2013 - 07:27 am: | |
Randy, I feel your pain. Beady Eye - Be. I miss Kevin. I'm sure he'd leave a go at me for listening to this. |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 5840 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Sunday, June 23, 2013 - 08:35 am: | |
The Milk Carton Kids - The Ash & Clay |
Andrew Kerr
Member Username: Andrew_k
Post Number: 818 Registered: 04-2005
| Posted on Sunday, June 23, 2013 - 11:07 am: | |
Pádraig, OK in the continuing absence of Kevin, I'll take up the relay. But without any of his great wit or sarcasm I'm afraid... WHAT WERE YOU THINKING OF FFS ??!! The other day I actually watched a clip of Beady Eye (on the Guardian site) and it was utterly appalling. Liam has no voice left it seems and the song was devoid of any interest whatsoever. I always hated Oasis too. Bunch of talentless thugs. |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 5842 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Sunday, June 23, 2013 - 11:16 am: | |
That'lll do nicely Andrew! Now listening to Phoenix's new one. I'm sure that's more to your Gallic taste? It's already down to $9.99 in JB Hi-fi so I wonder if that means the label made far too many copies and have already begun discounting it? |
Randy Adams
Member Username: Randy_adams
Post Number: 3225 Registered: 03-2005
| Posted on Sunday, June 23, 2013 - 10:57 pm: | |
Thanks, guys. I did get a call yesterday from the repair guy who has gotten to the pre-amp that I decided to take in at the same time since it had a burned-out light on the front and the knobs and switches had gotten noisy. He said the amp would be next. This is much faster than the complaining people on Yelp led me to expect so I'm keeping my fingers crossed. These are both vintage McIntosh units and this is the place recommended by the company for repair on the west coast. I depend on these units for everything, for mixing and mastering my own recordings also. I love the iPod for use in the car. I'm not so keen on it elsewhere. Agreed. We need Kevin here to rubbish the usual suspects. I also kind of think he's one of the few people on here who would have been interested when I pulled out the Scientists, who by the way have the distinction of being the last band played by my system with both channels working. A fading memory now . . . . |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 5845 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Monday, June 24, 2013 - 09:49 am: | |
Randy, I saw The Scientists play Blood Red River a few years back, supporting Sonic Youth, who played Daydream Nation. |
Hugh Nimmo
Member Username: Hugh_nimmo
Post Number: 588 Registered: 03-2007
| Posted on Monday, June 24, 2013 - 02:04 pm: | |
Boy With A Fish - I Put My Tongue On The Window |
cosmo vitelli
Member Username: Cosmo
Post Number: 792 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Monday, June 24, 2013 - 02:20 pm: | |
Edwyn Collins - Elevation Days superb! Japanese only compilation of all of the tracks recorded by EC for the short lived Elevation label. All good tracks and I am really pleased to find a copy of this CD |
cosmo vitelli
Member Username: Cosmo
Post Number: 793 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Monday, June 24, 2013 - 05:13 pm: | |
Electric Soft Parade - Idiots 3 or 4 songs in and this is gorgeous stuff, a touch of Teenage Fan Club (the Clash review mentions the GBs too but not heard that yet myself) |
Randy Adams
Member Username: Randy_adams
Post Number: 3228 Registered: 03-2005
| Posted on Wednesday, June 26, 2013 - 03:52 am: | |
For others this would be a revival but I'm hearing it for the first time: Hoodoo Gurus -- Stoneage Romeos I got "Blow Your Cool" back when it was released and also picked up a copy of "Mars Needs Guitars" and never got around to this, their debut. The Gurus aren't high art but they demonstrate Oz' growing confidence as a rock homeland. At their best the Gurus produce a very well conceived brand of 60's revival power pop that I don't need to hear very often in the 21st Century but was praying for in the mid-70s, still ten years before the Gurus appeared. |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 5849 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Friday, June 28, 2013 - 09:31 am: | |
Smith Westerns - Dye It Blond. I've had this quite a while but have not previously played it. Living up to the hype so far. |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 5859 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Friday, June 28, 2013 - 12:57 pm: | |
Brian Wilson - Sweet Insanity (an album whose existence I'd been unaware of until 15 minutes ago) |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 5867 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Saturday, June 29, 2013 - 11:51 am: | |
Father John Misty - The Demos EP |
Hugh Nimmo
Member Username: Hugh_nimmo
Post Number: 591 Registered: 03-2007
| Posted on Saturday, June 29, 2013 - 05:45 pm: | |
The Memory Band - Oh My Days |
Hugh Nimmo
Member Username: Hugh_nimmo
Post Number: 595 Registered: 03-2007
| Posted on Tuesday, July 02, 2013 - 03:42 pm: | |
The Memory Band - On The Chalk ( Our Navigation of the Line of the Downs ) |
Hugh Nimmo
Member Username: Hugh_nimmo
Post Number: 596 Registered: 03-2007
| Posted on Wednesday, July 03, 2013 - 04:58 pm: | |
Comet Gain - Casino Classics |