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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6567 Registered: 05-2005 |
David Bowie - The Stars (Are Out Tonight) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6574 Registered: 05-2005 |
Split Single - Searches | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6576 Registered: 05-2005 |
Steven Wilson - Sign 'O' The Times | ||
| peter ward Member Username: Peter_ward Post Number: 256 Registered: 06-2005 |
EELS - Mistakes Of My Youth | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1001 Registered: 10-2006 |
Grant Lee Buffalo - Jupiter and teardrop Gene Clark was playing on my first visit to Rome's Soulfood record shop, and this on my second... had to ask the girl who it was, even though I actually have the album at home. Obviously have to dig it out again. Meanwhile, bought: Spacemen 3 - The perfect prescription Sugar: File under easy listening deluxe The Clean: Unknown country Superchunk: No pocky for kitty The raincoats: Odyshape There were two Verlaines CDs I noted then forgot about, Bird dog and Potboilers... worth getting next time? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6578 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Verlaines are an acquired taste Stuart, especially the vocals. I like them, but they're not for everybody. Check them out on YouTube before you buy anything. On a similar point, I've tried several times with Superchunk over the years but mostly can't warm to their music. They have a couple of songs I think are amazing, eg Watery Hands, but the rest leaves me unmoved. They do seem like lovely people though, and I'm sure it's a case of it's not them, it's me. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1002 Registered: 10-2006 |
To be honest, Padraig, I had completely another band in mind when I bought this...I have an obviously utterly mistaken memory of a group by that name on a Whistle Test or Tube session or similar, led by a compact, bouncy, snub-nosed, fringe-mopped female vocalist and playing poppy punk songs, possibly with a small brass section. Nothing, it appears, like the real Superchunk, which is thrashy punk with a rather dull male voice. Not unlistenable, however, unlike many of my other ill-advised impulse buys. I do wonder then, if I didn't dream them up, who that long ago band on TV were. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6581 Registered: 05-2005 |
That's funny Stuart! I once bought an album by the Strawbs when what I was looking for was The Raspberries. Boy was I disappointed! It took me ages to figure out my error though. I was just thinking "What is this awful folk shit? I thought this was supposed to be a power pop band." | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6583 Registered: 05-2005 |
Joe Strummer - Island Hopping | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 901 Registered: 05-2005 |
Brian Jonestown Massacre - Hide and Seek (live radio session) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bojk55he Rc vocals not strong but this song always sounds great live | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3341 Registered: 03-2005 |
Stuart, I generally enjoy the early Verlaines though they can be VERY strummy and breathless in that period. So I picked up a copy of "Bird Dog" several years ago. I found it dull and never played it beyond its initial audit. I probably should try it again just to be sure. In general I think the Verlaines are one of those bands who needed to be young and relatively naive in their ambitions. Graeme Downes was a music student at university, I seem to recall, and that sophistication seeped into marvelously primitively played material. Indeed all of their early work oozed Uni undergraduate coffee house culture. Their peak moment probably happened as early as "Death and the Maiden." In the extremely unlikely possibility you aren't already familiar with this classic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P96cFKd4i rY | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3342 Registered: 03-2005 |
Stuart, I have to amend the above. When I looked in my collection I did not find "Bird Dog" but I did find a copy of "Way Out Where," a later album which I definitely gave only one listen. So, either I hated "Bird Dog" so badly that I pitched it out right away or I'm confusing it with "Way Out Where." It might be the latter as "Bird Dog" is their second album and thus might still be decent. The only Verlaines I have that I rate are "Juvenilia," which collects together their early odds and sods, and "Hallelujah All the Way Home," their first LP. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6584 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy, Stuart, Graeme Downes is now head of the music department at the University of Otago in Dunedin http://www.otago.ac.nz/music/ourpeople/o tago010094.html | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6585 Registered: 05-2005 |
His 2001 solo album Hammers And Anvils is great, by the way. http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/2434 -hammers-and-anvils/ | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6587 Registered: 05-2005 |
Wussy - Acetylene | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6588 Registered: 05-2005 |
Stuart, Randy, anyone else interested in Flying Nun, you need to watch this brilliant documentary http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjUDemQFz nA | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1003 Registered: 10-2006 |
Hammers and Anvils going for Ł1.23 at the moment on Amazon... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6591 Registered: 05-2005 |
Get it Stuart, and buy something else from the same seller to justify the postage. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6593 Registered: 05-2005 |
Lewis Taylor - New Morning. He should be hugely successful, but isn't. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 887 Registered: 04-2005 |
Paul Noonan (with Lisa Hannigan) - Apparatchik https://soundcloud.com/printer-clips/app aratchik | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 699 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, 'Bird Dog' is considered by many to be the best album The Verlaines recorded. http://thedoledrums.blogspot.co.uk/2008/ 08/verlaines-bird-dog-1987.html | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6597 Registered: 05-2005 |
James Vincent McMorrow - Glacier | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6603 Registered: 05-2005 |
Shack - Someone's Knocking | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 702 Registered: 03-2007 |
The Gits - Happy Song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFs1_Kz7Q 28 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6604 Registered: 05-2005 |
East Village - Drop Out (I bet they're a band you like Hugh) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6605 Registered: 05-2005 |
Sorry, that should have said: East Village - Shipwrecked. Drop Out is the album. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 703 Registered: 03-2007 |
Padraig, First time I have heard mention of them. The 'Drop Out Deluxe Edition' cd seems to be the one to go for as it collects together the album and the majority of the non-album tracks released by the band but I cannot see me picking up a copy anytime soon due to the cost ( Ł75.00 on AmazonCo.) Penelope's Web - Little World | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6608 Registered: 05-2005 |
I don't have the deluxe edition Hugh, though I would like to. Song of the day is The Wrens - Built In Girls | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6609 Registered: 05-2005 |
Coronet Blue - When Will Your Love Be Mine | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1005 Registered: 10-2006 |
Graeme Downes - Hammers and Anvils Oh yeah, nothing wrong with this! Good recommendation, Padraig. Opening & title track has some great plangent, clanging guitar chords and an intense vocal - like Kozelek, GD's voice has improved and expanded over the years. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 195 Registered: 08-2005 |
Smells like teen spirit. Just because. Pip pip! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6616 Registered: 05-2005 |
Oasis - Rock 'n' Roll Star (1993 demo) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6621 Registered: 05-2005 |
The War On Drugs - Under The Pressure | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6626 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Go-Betweens - Streets Of Your Town | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1007 Registered: 10-2006 |
Catchers - Beauty no3 About as lovely as it gets, this. Love the plaintive edge to the singer's voice. Tune a bit Grantish at moments. More good songs follow with the added female vocals blending well.CD arrived all the way from Carrickfergus, which was nice. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6628 Registered: 05-2005 |
Stuart, do you have Stooping To Fit? I think it's by far a better album than their debut. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1008 Registered: 10-2006 |
Just arrived, Padraig! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6630 Registered: 05-2005 |
Tribeca - Popular Summer | ||
| Thomas Keitsch Member Username: Thokei Post Number: 40 Registered: 06-2005 |
Paley Brothers- Lovin Eyes cant lie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5Rbe3FG aUk | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6633 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Nines - The Virtuous Man | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6640 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Whigs - Hit Me | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 904 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Pretenders - Middle of the Road | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6642 Registered: 05-2005 |
Robert Forster - I've Been Looking For Somebody (Live in Koeln) | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1009 Registered: 10-2006 |
Ohhhhhhhh dear, Padraig, not agreeing with you so far about Stooping... sounds like they've tried to make the leap from early to late Triffids in one huge bound, losing all the lovely delicacy of Mute along the way in an overabundance of strings, distorted vocals & thrashy guitars...a completely different band! Still, only a first impression... | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 897 Registered: 04-2005 |
Stuart, exactly my initial impression of "Stooping To Fit" too. My thoughts at the time were here is a band that have decided to scrap everything that made them likeable in the first place. But 16 years down the line I really like it! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3351 Registered: 03-2005 |
Arthur H -- Le Chercheur D'Or Another seam to mine . . . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKum30EhE Ck | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6644 Registered: 05-2005 |
Dave Edmunds - London's A Lonely Town | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6645 Registered: 05-2005 |
Stuart, Andrew, I had Stooping... before I had the debut. So my experience was the opposite. I loved the maturity of Stooping in comparison to its predecessor. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1010 Registered: 10-2006 |
Holden - Ce que je suis Opening track for their really very wonderful Chevrotine album. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijiAas3D I2U | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 706 Registered: 03-2007 |
Verone - La Vallee First track on their latest album ( La Percee.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBDh3cbtY _c They also recorded a version of the old Cat Stevens song at the same session. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0Y5GXFuf W8 | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3352 Registered: 03-2005 |
Thanks Stuart and Hugh. Stuart, "Ce que je suis" didn't light me up as much as some tracks from their first two albums so I've ordered a copy of their second album "Pedrolira" from amazon.co.uk. The first album is punishingly expensive everywhere I've looked so far. Hugh, I just ordered a copy of "La Percee" from Amazon.fr. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 707 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, Another taster from the latest album. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VfXZsYBV _c http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fAmRpRxs 8M | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6646 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jenny Jones - Brighton Pier. There's something hauntingly beautiful about this b-side. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1011 Registered: 10-2006 |
I didn't have time to go through the whole album another time, Randy, so I just went for that first song rather than pick out a pippin; though I do like it quite a lot. There's a lot of playful guitar inventiveness as the CD continues, every song seems to get its own particular sound for the instrument. Listening to it all the way through is a delicious experience. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1012 Registered: 10-2006 |
The Brogues - Ain't no miracle worker Ha, some mates of mine hammered this out last night at a rehearsal in the Corvi's Italian version and I thought, wow, another Italian pop classic! But, no...! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6648 Registered: 05-2005 |
DM3 - 1x2x Devastated |