| Author | Message | ||
     cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 876 Registered: 05-2005 |
Sun Kil Moon - Benji Kozelek is really on a roll at the moment | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 869 Registered: 04-2005 |
Bobbie Gentry - Raven Records "Two for One" of "Ode to Billie Joe" (1967) and "Touch 'em with Love" (1969)... Wonderful stuff! I had never really realised how odd a song "Ode to Bille Joe" actually is ! No chorus and a very conversational style delivery. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6454 Registered: 05-2005 |
I bought that twofer close to 20 years ago Andrew. It's wonderful stuff. I don't even know how I knew of her existence. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 877 Registered: 05-2005 |
I am a big Bobbie Gentry fan, highly recommend Delta Sweete Andrew which has some killer tunes, it's available on a twofer with Local Gentry | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6455 Registered: 05-2005 |
Julian Cope - Easty Risin' (East Easy Rider remix) | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 283 Registered: 11-2007 |
Sun Kil Moon - Benji I wonder why I haven't found out about Mark Kozelek's work much before. Can't understand ;) Last years Mark Kozelek & Desertshore opened my eyes and now I love his Musical Canon. When looking thru his Website I found out that Robert Vickers ! is the guy of Caldo Verde Records!! I had a Little Chat with him on Mark touring in the next months (but not Germany) and he told me, that Mark would tour Germany when a promoter for that can be found. Now I try to find a promoter for his german tour ;) If anybody has a contact I would be happy! | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 972 Registered: 10-2006 |
4 dates in Italy for MK...surely I can get to one of them? | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 973 Registered: 10-2006 |
Meanwhile, the Band Live at the Academy of Music, CD 1... so far, right up there with yer other essential lives like 1969, Too late to stop, Field Commander Cohen etc... one great song after another pumped out with fire and passion, plus the addition of the great Toussaint horn arrangements. And man, those guys could sing! | ||
| Lewisdhead Member Username: Lewisdhead Post Number: 109 Registered: 01-2007 |
Morgan Delt-Morgan Delt The New Mendicants-Into The Lime Thee Silver Mt Zion Memorial Orchestra-Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light On Everything Hospitality-Trouble Cian Nugant and the Cosmos-Born With The Caul True Widow-Circumambulation Close To The Glass-The Notwist Lyla Foy-Shoestring EP Quasi-Mole City Fossil Collective-Tell Where I Lie | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6459 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Clientele, a privately curated collection of their b-sides. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6463 Registered: 05-2005 |
Nina Persson - Animal Heart | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6469 Registered: 05-2005 |
Prefab Sprout - Crimson / Red XTC - Senses Working Overtime EP (the four track, 3" CD version, though I also have the three track 7" vinyl version, which is very scratched). | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 878 Registered: 05-2005 |
Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire For No Witness Auteurs - New Wave (expanded edition) Current 93 - I Am The Last Of All The Field That Fell | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6471 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kate Bush - Moments Of Pleasure EP | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6473 Registered: 05-2005 |
Ride - The Model | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6474 Registered: 05-2005 |
Suzanne Vega - When Heroes Go Down EP | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6476 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Fat Lady Sings - Dronning Maud Land (their singer/pianist/songwriter Nick Kelly taught me law in college) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6477 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Waterboys - This Light Is For The World | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6478 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Divine Comedy - Johnny Mathis' Feet (Andrew, Stuart, email me if you want to hear this) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6479 Registered: 05-2005 |
Edwyn Collins - A Girl Like You (live, with Bernard Butler on guitar) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6483 Registered: 05-2005 |
Into Paradise - Stand Still | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6484 Registered: 05-2005 |
Dogs Die In Hot Cars - various b-sides | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 980 Registered: 10-2006 |
Paul McCartney - The Family Way (original soundtrack) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6487 Registered: 05-2005 |
Daniel Avery - Divided Love Two | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 880 Registered: 05-2005 |
Beck - Morning Phase Wild Beasts - Present Tense | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 881 Registered: 05-2005 |
both of the above are strong and early contenders for top 10 albums of the year. the Beck in particular is very strong, pastoral 70s vibe, laurel canyon mixed with a bit of english Drake/Martyn sound. Gorgeous string arrangements courtesy of his dad I believe. Wild Beasts is a Talk Talk/Blue Nile influences really filtering through in to their rapturous mix. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 680 Registered: 03-2007 |
City Giants - Provenance ( 1986 to 1988 ) Retrospective collection ( 18 tracks ) by a London band who at the time only managed to put out one 7 inch single. Released on Firestation Records. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9usXR3Qd AM | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 882 Registered: 05-2005 |
Nice one Hugh, reminds me a little of 1000 Violins, are you/were you in to them, great band | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 682 Registered: 03-2007 |
They slipped under my radar at the time and I only came across them very recently Cosmo. I like them a lot but they only have two titles available on cd at the moment and prices for used copies are crazy ( Ł59.97 to Ł86.63.) The good news is that Cherry Red Records are planning to release a compilation album ( 24 tracks ) in May, 2014, or thereabouts. https://www.facebook.com/scaredtogethapp y How could anyone not like this. :-) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvUKB4Z1N JI | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 878 Registered: 04-2005 |
Grass House - Faun Heard it on the radio (France Inter) this afternoon and tracked it down | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6490 Registered: 05-2005 |
Wild Beasts - Present Tense. It is as Cosmo described it above. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6491 Registered: 05-2005 |
I'll add that it's an appropriate soundtrack to the dull, grey, wet end of summer day we're having in Sydney, where the sky is so close it reminds me of my homeland. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6493 Registered: 05-2005 |
Real Estate - Atlas | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6495 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love (alternative version). Nowhere near as great as the album version, but interesting. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6496 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Trashcan Sinatras (featuring Carly Simon) - Prisons | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6497 Registered: 05-2005 |
Elbow - Running To Stand Still | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6500 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Men - Tomorrow's Hits | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6501 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Men - Campfire Songs EP | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6504 Registered: 05-2005 |
Dan Croll - Sweet Disarray | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 886 Registered: 05-2005 |
Real Estate - Atlas this is a real step up from these guys, sounds alot like Felt in places, very good stuff | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6506 Registered: 05-2005 |
If that's what Felt sound like, then I'd better start listening to Felt. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6508 Registered: 05-2005 |
William Onyeabor - Who Is William Onyeabor? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6509 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Triffids - When A Man Turns Bad. Pity this wasn't used on Breaking Bad. It would have been perfect. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6510 Registered: 05-2005 |
Matthew Sweet - Modern Art | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6511 Registered: 05-2005 |
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - Live 02-23-2014 Hunter Valley, Australia This is the show I was at, and a download of the whole three hour show cost just $10 from the Springsteen site. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6513 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Men - Get What You Give. Best song to channel Boston’s More Than A Feeling since Smells Like Teen Spirit. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6514 Registered: 05-2005 |
Blumfeld - Walkie Talkie. Possibly the greatest German pop song ever. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6515 Registered: 05-2005 |
And I've just realised the album it comes from, the brilliant L'Etat Et Moi, is 20 years old this year. God, that makes me feel old. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 687 Registered: 03-2007 |
1000 Violins - Like One Thousand Violins Sheffield band who existed between 1985 and 1989. Vinyl Japan released this thirteen track compilation album in 2000. Cherry Red Records are planning to release a twenty four track compilation album in May, 2014. Cosmo had this track as his song of the day recently. Fabulous. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0Fe5PcSu Oc | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6516 Registered: 05-2005 |
Yes - Owner Of A Lonely Heart (original version and three remixes) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6518 Registered: 05-2005 |
Terry Hall - Rainbows EP | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6519 Registered: 05-2005 |
Therapy? - Nurse | ||
| Lewisdhead Member Username: Lewisdhead Post Number: 111 Registered: 01-2007 |
Nothing-Guilty of Everything | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6525 Registered: 05-2005 |
Charles Jenkins - Walk This Ocean. He has a new album out, but this is the previous one, which I picked up in a JB Hi-fi bargain bin in Brisbane in January. This is my first time playing it and it sounds great so far. A lot less polished and power-poppy than his albums with Icecream Hands. SAVE!, which is playing right now, is very Dylanesque. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6526 Registered: 05-2005 |
Drive-By Truckers - Dragon Pants EP | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6527 Registered: 05-2005 |
Drive-By Truckers - English Oceans | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6528 Registered: 05-2005 |
Courtney Barnett - The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 888 Registered: 05-2005 |
Yo La Tengo - Fade Out extra disc with Fade, demos, live tracks and out-takes | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3335 Registered: 03-2005 |
The Rileys -- Songs to Hoover By Timeless late 80s/early 90s indie pop from the ashes of Feverfew and the foundation of Blueboy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YOfItg6_ wY All thanks to Hugh for making me aware of them. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 688 Registered: 03-2007 |
I am hoping my copy will arrive later this week. Currently listening to :- Katze - ...Von Hinten! Katze - Du Bist Meine Freunde German band featuring Klaus Cornfield of Throw That Beat In The Garbagecan! | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 891 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Eighteenth Day of May really liked this band who split after only one rather good album, very cool folk rock/trees/pentangle/fairport sound and they were brilliant live too http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bKtfY2XC QI | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 689 Registered: 03-2007 |
Cosmo, I have a copy of the album. Two members of the band ( Alison Cotton and Mark Nicholas ) went on to form The Left Outsides who released two CDRs that I am aware of ( And Colours In Between and Live At The Drop Out.) Very limited quantities if I remember correctly. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 892 Registered: 05-2005 |
I have And The Colours In Between Hugh which I thought was a bit thin but there is an album from last year The Shape Of Things To Come on Spotify that is a lot better. Doesnt seem to be a physical release though | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 690 Registered: 03-2007 |
Cosmo, Like you, I was somewhat disappointed with it. That said, it did not stop me picking up the 'Live' album. :-) I don't use Spotify but will try and check out the new albums via some other means. Currently listening to:- When Skipjack Tripped - Is This World Still Mine? When Skipjack Tripped - Headphone Home German band featuring, among other, ex-members of Throw That Beat In The Garbagecan! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6529 Registered: 05-2005 |
Hugh, where do you hear about all these bands that I've never heard of (and I know more obscure indie bands than 99.9 cent of people)? The Lemonheads - Car Button Cloth (two disc remaster). | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 691 Registered: 03-2007 |
Padraig, I usually pick up on a lot of them via small independent record labels such as Cloudberry, Firestation and Matinee etc. and various music blogs. As well as running Cloudberry Records, Roque operates a blog with articles on lots of obscure indie bands of the 80s and 90s who never made any real impact on the music scene while they were around. The latest Cloudberry release in the Cake Kitchen series is by The Rileys. They were around for a few years in the late 1980s / early 1990s during which time they only released a couple of singles, a couple of eps and a mini album. Songs To Hoover By Vol. 2 is a 21 track retrospective which collects together most, if not all, of the songs they recorded during their existence. An excellent release by a very good band. http://www.cloudberryrecords.com/ Directly below the link to the Cloudberry Cake Proselytism blog on the website you will see 'Friends.' I visit most of these sites on a regular basis looking for interesting releases. If and when I do find something I like, I invariably go looking for more stuff by them and this often leads on to other bands / artists. As an example, Roque introduced me to the German band Throw That Beat In The Garbagecan! very recently. They split around 1996 and, since then, various members have released solo albums and / or joined other bands who have released albums ( Klaus Cornfield, Alex Sticht, Lotsi Lapislazuli, Supergroup and When Skipjack Tripped.) Currently listening to :- The Rileys - Songs To Hoover By - Vol. 2 | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 989 Registered: 10-2006 |
Bobby Gentry - the excellent twofer mentioned above. Another great reminder from the board - I'd forgotten what a fine, raspy voice she had. She was one of the few occasions where my taste and my father's coincided - music was something almost wholly inessential to him, but he did have rather a crush on Bobby. Whoever did the string arrangements on her first album really knew what he was doing - they swirl up from the depths like swamp gas. She had a very distinctive sound right from the start, though it was already gone by Touch 'em, splendid though that is. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 692 Registered: 03-2007 |
According to Discogs, Jimmie Haskell was the Arranger and Conductor on the album. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 990 Registered: 10-2006 |
And got a Grammy for it, too! | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 693 Registered: 03-2007 |
Rare interview with Haskell where talks about his time with Gentry. http://www.examiner.com/article/bobbie-g entry-had-the-most-gorgeous-legs-ever-on -the-record-with-jimmie-haskell | ||
| Lewisdhead Member Username: Lewisdhead Post Number: 112 Registered: 01-2007 |
Spain-Sargent Place. Withered Hand-New Gods. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 694 Registered: 03-2007 |
Lewisdhead, What do you make of the new Withered Hand album? I have two of his eps ( You're Not Alone and Religious Songs ) plus his debut album ( Good News ) and like him a lot. More than four years since he released Good News. It has been a long wait. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzc7HMcNp h4 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6534 Registered: 05-2005 |
Thanks Hugh. Also, it's good to see that we have reached a consensus on the great Bobby Gentry. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6535 Registered: 05-2005 |
Dean Wareham - Dean Wareham | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6538 Registered: 05-2005 |
Bob Mould - Live at Cabaret Metro, Chicago, Il., May 14th, 1989 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6539 Registered: 05-2005 |
It's stunning, by the way. | ||
| Lewisdhead Member Username: Lewisdhead Post Number: 113 Registered: 01-2007 |
@Hugh, only familiarizing myself with Withered Hand. I'm liking the new album. It's got that Scottish pop sound going on, which I like a lot. Quite folky in places too. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 992 Registered: 10-2006 |
Keren Ann - La biographie de Luka Philipsen One of those apparently effortlessly fresh and melodic albums that French, often female, pop singers seem to occasionally knock out - this is from 2000 - with just enough imagination in the arrangements, twists to the tunes and sensual languidity in the voice to keep things interesting. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 695 Registered: 03-2007 |
Lewisdhead, Thank you. I am still waiting for my copy to arrive. I think this is the first time he has recorded in a proper studio and I am glad to hear that he had not abandoned his folk roots. Currently listening to :- Ned Collette & Wirewalker - Vanitas Quack A taster from the forthcoming album ( Networking In Purgatory ) which will be released by Dot Dash / Remote Control Records on 18 April, 2014. http://www.remotecontrolrecords.com.au/ Scroll down the page to find it. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3337 Registered: 03-2005 |
Hi Stuart, I don't know how familiar you are with Keren Ann. She's got a pretty long career by now. She's actually Dutch/Israeli but lived her teens in France. She switched to English language not too long after the album you're listening to. I was horrified of course but in fact she still brings the same deceptively effortless approach to her music in that language and given the sophistication of some of her English lyrics I really wish I could understand her French ones. I managed to see her perform live once in Los Angeles. She showed up with a drummer, a clarinet player (unless my memory is playing with the fact that the venue was at a Hebrew university and it was a saxophone player instead), and no bassist. She played a big hollow body electric Gretsch or Gibson guitar herself. It was an odd and wonderful gig. She's developed quite a sturdy pop sense but even so her records are nearly always slow growers. She's a big favorite of mine, the quintessential music artist without borders. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 895 Registered: 05-2005 |
Madness- Keep Moving (US Version) this has always been my favourite Madness album, seen as a move towards more mature songwriting, 'adolescence to adulthood', the US version includes 'The Sun and The Rain' and 'Wings of a Dove' and really messes with the track order too but sounds great today ! | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 993 Registered: 10-2006 |
That's all I've got by her Randy, but it sounded so good today, maybe because it's suddenly spring outside and the music went perfectly with the birdsong and upsurge of daffodils, that I ordered another couple - Nolita & Disparition. I kind of steered clear of the all-English albums, but maybe that wasn't necessary! Hey, didn't you have a bit of a quiver round your way?? | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 880 Registered: 04-2005 |
I really like Keren Ann too. She seems to do exactly what she wants as an artist. I saw her play a couple of years ago (the ‘101’ tour) in Bordeaux and she appeared on stage, dressed in black with a slow-slung Les Paul and proceeded to give the songs a right good Stooges-like thrashing, while a mirrorball spun . My son was laughing saying “She’s winding up the audience”. She’s had some pretty eclectic collaborations, and seems quite at ease working with jazz musicians. In France she has often paired up with Erik Truffaz, whilst the Israelian trumpeter Avishai Cohen has been part of her entourage for many years now. And when the latter’s band played in Paris, she was only too happy to let them put her name on the poster and joined them on stage for a few jazz standards. Stuart do you know 2007’s “Lay Your Head Down” ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7GdsmLs mLs Essentially it resembles a great Velvets chooglin’ tune, but she has a rare knack to to take a melody where you don’t quite expect it to go. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 994 Registered: 10-2006 |
Oh yeah, nice stuff Andrew. Lovely vocal and then all that smart business with the handclaps, guitar and layered voices towards the end just to give it something extra. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3338 Registered: 03-2005 |
Stuart, your order of "Nolita" will seal the deal for you and carry you into her newer English language work, or nothing will. A few of her classic English language tunes are on there: "Chelsea Burns" and "One Day Without." But she's also a great subtle lyricist, try this one also from "101": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4N5yYCcW ew | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6542 Registered: 05-2005 |
Suzanne Vega - In Liverpool EP | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6543 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kate Bush - The Red Shoes EP | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6545 Registered: 05-2005 |
Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band - Artorius Revisited EP | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6548 Registered: 05-2005 |
A House - On Our Big Fat Merry-Go-Round | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 286 Registered: 11-2007 |
Red House Painters - Ocean Beach | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6549 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Afghan Whigs - Parked Outside | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6550 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Hold Steady - I Hope This Whole Thing Didn't Frighten You. I'd love to see them and The Afghan Whigs in a double header. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 996 Registered: 10-2006 |
Courtney Barnett - The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas Really enjoying this, especially her voice & lyrics. Be interesting to see how she goes on from here. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6551 Registered: 05-2005 |
I've just discovered that there's a band called Cattle & Cane. Guess who they sound like? http://www.cattleandcane.co.uk | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6553 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Blue Nile - Peace At Last | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3339 Registered: 03-2005 |
My circumstances over the past few months have not allowed me many opportunities to listen to a regular album. For a while my stereo was inaccessible and it's still outside of the cabinet and spread around on the floor--but hooked up! I'm still walking around piles of possessions which I have to keep shifting when another part of the house is worked on or when more piles are brought from the old house. Tonight I finally got around to listening to: Doctor Millar -- C48 I've been enthralled by "Wake Up Outside London" for months. Padraig sent me "You Fill My Heart with Greed" quite a while back. It is very "Blood on the Tracks" in feel. I might say that about the entire album. Many of the songs are wonderfully stark in their arrangements, often eschewing instrumental fills and relying on simple chord backings. Maybe this is simply an expedient forced by the budget but it's quite effective on many of the songs, perhaps most compellingly on "The Morning Shift." It focuses you on Millar's lyrics. When he's conjuring up a story or a character he's one of the best. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6554 Registered: 05-2005 |
Glad to hear you're liking it Randy. The Afghan Whigs - Do The Beast | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 696 Registered: 03-2007 |
My Sad Captains - Fight Less Win More | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6558 Registered: 05-2005 |
Temple Of The Dog - Temple Of The Dog | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 698 Registered: 03-2007 |
Keren Ann - La Biographie de Luka Philipsen | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6561 Registered: 05-2005 |
24 Hour Party People Complete Soundtrack | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6562 Registered: 05-2005 |
Billy Bragg - Life's a Riot with Spy vs. Spy [30th Anniversary Edition] | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 998 Registered: 10-2006 |
Lemonheads - It's a shame about Ray About as perfect an album as you could wish for, I guess, a grin-inducing rush of pure brilliance, like a stroll through central Rome on a spring morning or a dip in the Aegean from an empty beach at dawn, or whichever other suitably idyllic experience might spring to your own mind. Amazing how a simple trio manages to pack each tune with so much quirkily thrilling detail, so that every song has a sort of kick-off point that invites a yay-saying punch at the sky. I haven’t read the liner notes yet, so I don’t know exactly all the elements that somehow meshed with such blissful inspiration here, though obviously Evan’s sojourn in Australia and the people he met there were presumably central. Bloomsbury’s interesting 33 1/3 series doesn’t seem to have got round to it yet: perhaps they will. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6564 Registered: 05-2005 |
One of my favourite ever albums Stuart. It soundtracked much of 1992 for me. | ||
| peter ward Member Username: Peter_ward Post Number: 252 Registered: 06-2005 |
Sun Kil Moon - Live CD that came with Benji... this includes enchanting versions of tracks from the same album with just Mark and his nylon strung guitar.... envious of Stuart on here seeing him in Italy on this tour, enjoy! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6566 Registered: 05-2005 |
Seńor Coconut & His Orchestra - Humo En El Agua. We used to listen to a lot of Seńor Coconut on the graveyard shift in The Irish Times back in the day. |