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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6696 Registered: 05-2005 |
TNT - Tell No Tales. Classic 1987 hair metal from Norway (with an American singer). | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6698 Registered: 05-2005 |
Wilco - James Alley Blues (from The Harry Smith Project: Anthology of American Folk Music Revisited) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6700 Registered: 05-2005 |
Dukes Of Stratosphear - 25 O'Clock (expanded edition) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6701 Registered: 05-2005 |
Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer (extended dance remix) - 12" version never, as far as I know, released on CD. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6702 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Chills have re-recorded Pink Frost... http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2014/0 6/02/316673769/a-pink-frost-remake-heral ds-the-return-of-the-chills | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6703 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Triffids - Wide Open Road, inspired by the fact that their box set is now going for $737. Wow. http://www.discogs.com/Triffids-Come-Rid e-With-Me-Wide-Open-Road-The-Deluxe-Edit ion/release/2214704 | ||
| Lewisdhead Member Username: Lewisdhead Post Number: 115 Registered: 01-2007 |
The Delines-Colfax Wussy-Attica Lucius-Wildewoman Lyla Foy-Mirrors The Sky The Woodentops-Giant | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6704 Registered: 05-2005 |
Various digitised 12"s - New Order, Sinead O'Connor and, right now, Fleetwood Mac's Little Lies. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 724 Registered: 03-2007 |
The Gits - A Retrospeculative 1987 - 1990 | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 726 Registered: 03-2007 |
Pageants - Dark Before Blonde Dawn Debut album by band who formed in Melbourne in 2009. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 909 Registered: 05-2005 |
Parquet Courts - Sunbathing Animals genius stuff | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 727 Registered: 03-2007 |
The Steinbecks - Kick To Kick With The Steinbecks | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 729 Registered: 03-2007 |
The Zebras - The Zebras | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 730 Registered: 03-2007 |
The Zebras - Worry A Lot | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6710 Registered: 05-2005 |
Lush - For Love EP. It includes a great cover of Wire's Outdoor Miner. It has always intrigued me as to why so many indie bands cover Outdoor Miner. Is it because it's the Wire song that most lends itself to poppy reinterpretation? Cosmo (and anyone else) let me know what you think. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6711 Registered: 05-2005 |
John Murry - Califorlornia | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6712 Registered: 05-2005 |
Prong - Whose Fist Is This Anyway. Six track EP which I bought on cassette when it came out in 1992. I recently finally got the CD (I'd been looking for years). It sounds even better than I'd remembered. I doubt a single other user of this blog would like it though. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 731 Registered: 03-2007 |
The Crane Wives - Safe Ship, Harbored | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 732 Registered: 03-2007 |
The Crane Wives - The Fool In Her Wedding Gown | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6715 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Cure - The Balearic Sound Of The Cure EP | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6718 Registered: 05-2005 |
Ian McCulloch - September Song 12" | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 911 Registered: 05-2005 |
Ramases - Glass Top Coffin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYv8f7SoO 3E mindblowing psych/folk/prog genius from 1975, I can hear Love, Air, Goldfrapp in this track | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1028 Registered: 10-2006 |
Cool choice CV. To investigate. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 733 Registered: 03-2007 |
Complete Discography ( Six Disc Set ) issued last month. Not bad for a band who only released two albums and a few singles during their lifetime. Lots of info on the band at the following fan website. http://ramases.wordpress.com | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6720 Registered: 05-2005 |
Everything But The Girl - Acoustic EP | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6727 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jack White - Lazaretto. The opening track, Three Women, while great, bears a strong resemblance to Evie by Stevie Wright, former frontman of The Easybeats. Randy, do you hear it too? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6729 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jackie Leven (with Robert Bly & Mike Scott) - Clay Jug. A magnificent six minutes and 28 seconds. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6730 Registered: 05-2005 |
Bruce Springsteen - American Beauty EP | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3370 Registered: 03-2005 |
Hi Padraig. I've never been a Jack White fan so I haven't heard it. White does a good job producing other folks though. "Evie" of course I have heard many times. There's a great youtube vid of Stevie Wright doing it on stage at a festival in Sydney in 1979, five years after the original recording. I'm not a big 70s hard rock guy but it's a superb epic and that live performance clicks. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4wJbATKp EA | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3371 Registered: 03-2005 |
Meanwhile, frequently following behind Hugh I'm now listening to the Steinbecks' "Kick to Kick." It just fell through the door. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3372 Registered: 03-2005 |
OMG, "I, Radio" is a big spoof of Adam Gibson and the Aerial Maps! Hilarious. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6731 Registered: 05-2005 |
it's here Randy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_-Ous2qoEA | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6732 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Jack White song, I mean. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3373 Registered: 03-2005 |
Thanks for reminding me of why I don't like Jack White, Padraig. The guy is pure ersatz. I do indeed hear some moves from "Evie" in there. But it sounds like a pastiche of a LOT of what Stevie Wright did in the early/mid 70s. Here's Wright's "Hard Road": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixXuA9zac AM And Stevie Wright was taking some obvious pages out of Rod Stewart & the Faces' playbook when he recorded that in 1974. Meanwhile, here's Vanda/Young's Marcus Hook Roll Band version of "Shot in the Head" later covered by Savoy Brown. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0sO56SLo TA I can only take small doses of this stuff, as in maybe one or two tracks at a time. I vastly prefer the Easybeats' stuff. Even as they started to transition toward the boogie rock thing at the end of their career (1969) they kept a firm grip on pop appeal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2dOz0mVt _g "Evie" (written by Vanda/Young) outclasses the Jack White track by a long distance but in fairness to him "Evie" was a super ambitious number. But I can't see the point in Jack White. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 915 Registered: 05-2005 |
just got the Ramases - Discography , well packaged and there are some cool alternate versions, demos and rare tracks but the original albums have been remixed as well as remastered and this is not necessarily for the better. Glass Top Coffin album has the keyboards pulled down in the mix and doesnt sound as good to me. Compare the youtube link version (original)posted by me to the remix which is on spotify - odd that they should decide to alter it this much. It's definitely worth owning the box set as it is a lovely thing but I would say still get GTC re-issue on Vertigo for the original and best mix. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6735 Registered: 05-2005 |
Snapshot by Irish teenage bluesmen The Strypes. I'm interviewing them later. Well, one of them. I still haven't been told which one though. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6736 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Lilac Time - A Dream That We All Share | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6737 Registered: 05-2005 |
Billy Bragg - Accident Waiting To Happen (Red Star Version) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6738 Registered: 05-2005 |
Sparklehorse - Don't Take My Sunshine. A lysergic, psychedelic pop beauty. What a loss Mark Linkous' death was. I saw them live in London in 1996. He had a heart attack that night, after a drug overdose, poor man. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 737 Registered: 03-2007 |
Lower Plenty - On The Beach Track from their third album ( Life/Thrills ) which will be released on Bedroom Suck Records on 20 June, 2014. http://bedroomsuckrecords.com/artists/lo wer-plenty/ | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6741 Registered: 05-2005 |
Nine Inch Nails, Jane's Addiction & Street Sweeper - NINJA 2009 Tour Sampler | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6743 Registered: 05-2005 |
Mary Margaret O'Hara - He Got Better Things for You (from The Harry Smith Project: Anthology of American Folk Music Revisited) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6744 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Bad Seeds Jukebox, a compilation which came with Mojo magazine a few months back. It's a great mix of blues, jazz, rock, folk and more. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6746 Registered: 05-2005 |
Bruce Springsteen - American Beauty EP, which was released on record store day. A great record. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6751 Registered: 05-2005 |
Hugh, I've finally got a reply from Flying Nun, 23 days after I emailed this question to them: Hi, are the Robert Scott b-sides disc and Solo Spares download going to be made available other than having to buy various vinyl formats of his new album? I would love to buy both of these as well as the new album, but can't afford to pay $80 to do so. It feels like you are trying to fleece the fans who love his music. Please tell me I'm wrong about that and that all three releases will be available to buy without having to buy vinyl I don't need and a tote bag (I don't know a single music fan who is excited by tote bags, so am mystified as to how they have become so ubiquitous in music releases). Pádraig Collins And this is the reply: Hi Padraig Thanks for the email and feedback - excuse the late response. You have made a good point and due to various feedback we have updated the packages and now have one that is for the LP, the B-Sides Disc and Spare download. These extras are only available with the pre-order, this is because we wanted to offer something special to people who supported and help get the release pressed to vinyl. While our pre-order packages aren’t always perfect/suitable for everyone’s taste - I would disagree with your accusation that we are trying to fleece fans. More, we are just trying things out to see what we can make work for us and the artist in this constantly changing environment of releasing music, as well attempting to offer fans something extra, while helping the artist. Let me know if there is anything else I can help with. Regards | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 739 Registered: 03-2007 |
Padraig, But still not one for the cd, the B-sides disc and the spare download as far as I can tell. By my calculations, I would need to pay NZ$86.00 to purchase the above ( including a vinyl album I do not want.) Add in VAT/Duty/Handling charge which would be payable when the package arrives in the U.K. and I would be looking at an overall cost of approximately NZ$121.00 ( Ł62.00.) I like Robert, but not that much. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3380 Registered: 03-2005 |
I'm a fan of Robert Scott too but I'll wait until a more reasonable release occurs. The Jasmine Minks -- Cut Me Deep (Anthology 1984 - 2014 | ||
| Lewisdhead Member Username: Lewisdhead Post Number: 116 Registered: 01-2007 |
Melanie De Biasio-No Deal Lucius-Wildewoman Samantha Crain-Kid Face Blackbird Blackbird-Tangerine Sky | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6763 Registered: 05-2005 |
Echo & The Bunnymen - I Want To Be There When You Come CD single | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6764 Registered: 05-2005 |
Hugh, yeah, their answer is not at all satisfactory. It's a great pity. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6767 Registered: 05-2005 |
R.E.M. - iTunes Live From London, which I've just bought. Next up, R.E.M. iTunes Originals, which I've also just bought. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6768 Registered: 05-2005 |
The iTunes Originals versions of I Wanted To Be Wrong and The Outsiders are both great, particularly the latter. I had not heard them since the album the original versions of both come from, Around The Sun, first came out a decade ago. I played that album twice ever; with the second play only to confirm it really was as awful as I though it was. Hearing these unpolished versions on iTunes Originals shows that there were actually songs under the over-produced veneer of Around The Sun. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6769 Registered: 05-2005 |
Will Kimbrough - Sideshow Love. I saw him play in Kim Richey's band at SXSW in 2001. What a musician he is. This album proves he's a great songwriter too. | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 355 Registered: 05-2005 |
It seems that I'm the only one on earth to think that Around the Sun is a décent REM record.. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6770 Registered: 05-2005 |
I think you are Trou. But I like Monster, and no one else does. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3384 Registered: 03-2005 |
I'm doing some painting at my shambolic manor on this long weekend before I join friends uphill to scan the horizon for fireworks displays. A tedious task such as painting calls for a great album. Being a Yank I discovered her decades after the fact. Being a very young dolly bird she had relatively little control over her career, occasionally tilted toward novelty numbers selected by lecherous old men and burdened with the usual "shut up and sing" problem for women in those days. A couple well-written self-penned B-sides reinforced the back story that her precocious vocal phrasing already told. She popped out one album right before the British Invasion that I am still not tired of hearing even 25 years after first acquiring it some 25 years after its initial release. It was perfect for making me forget the doldrum of my task and remains a grossly overlooked classic: Helen Shapiro -- Helen in Nashville | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1040 Registered: 10-2006 |
Hard to find the original now, but almost the whole album is on CD 3 of the Ultimate HS with two tracks for some reason moved to CD1. Always loved that dark boom in her voice. Here's a bit of Italian pop from a few years back that made me think of Helen... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp-3s5aN Reg | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6775 Registered: 05-2005 |
XTC - Gribouillage (a France-only EP from 1992 which came with initial copies of the Nonsuch album) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6777 Registered: 05-2005 |
Ken Stringfellow - I Never Said I'd Make It Easy | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3385 Registered: 03-2005 |
Yesterday while doing another paint session I pulled out one of those classics I like to give a nice long rest so that I can hear it all again with a fresh set of ears: 16 Lovers Lane -- Go-Betweens Not for the last time, I'm sure, I found myself recalling Robert Christgau's description of Robert Forster as the "lesser half" of the Go-Betweens with near fury. It has always been obvious that "Love is a Sign," "Clouds" and "Dive For Your Memory" are deep elegiac masterpieces. But on this refreshened audit of the album I found myself marveling at the multi-layered brilliance of "You Can't Say No Forever." The song swings from minor to major key repeatedly, with unusual and fresh chord combinations and Robert's brilliant, specific--sometimes almost pointillist--lyric images. No, it's not a catchy 45-rpm single. It's an unexpectedly brilliant painting you stumble onto in a corridor between galleries in a huge art museum, stashed there to test your attention level. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1042 Registered: 10-2006 |
Are we not all either Grantmen or Robertmen?? Given the choice of only one oeuvre, the other being consigned as usual to some devastating universal cataclysm etc, mine would always be RF's. Dearly as I love many of Grant's songs, certain of Robert's (Love is a sign & Dive for your memory being two)I really would not want to live without. Although it would be a bugger, of course, to be left with just the lyric of Too much of one thing. | ||
| Greg Adams Member Username: Greg_adams Post Number: 52 Registered: 06-2005 |
Christgau. What's the deal with that guy? He also said that Forster's best solo album is The Evangelist, which just seems crazy to me. I think Danger in the Past is Robert's best. I've never had a strong preference for Forster over McLennan or vice versa. I guess I lean toward Forster, but a lot of my favorite GBs songs are Grant's, so it evens out. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 920 Registered: 05-2005 |
Roadrunner - Jonathan Richman erratic, eccentric and totally brilliant compilation - completely disowned by JR himself but a magic encapsulation of his genius nevertheless | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6785 Registered: 05-2005 |
I could have sworn he played it when I saw him Cosmo, but I'm probably mis-remembering. I'm listening to the Hard-Ons/Henry Rollins 1991 12" cover of Let There Be Rock. The b-side Carry Me Down is next. I taped this from a vinyl copy 23 years ago, but I've just downloaded the tracks from iTunes. Great beer drinking music. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6787 Registered: 05-2005 |
Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend. What a perfect album | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 922 Registered: 05-2005 |
It's Roadrunner the compilation album Padraig not the song which he did play for many years and didn't disown, it's on the Select label and has a terrible cover but is a genuinely great compilation | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6788 Registered: 05-2005 |
Ah! I missed the word compilation in your post. That explains it. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 744 Registered: 03-2007 |
Rosemary Standley & Dom La Nena - Birds On A Wire I had hoped to link to the opening track on the album ( Blessed Is The Memory by Leonard Cohen ) but it has not been posted on YouTube so I have gone with Duerme Negrito. Rosemary Standley is the lead vocalist in Moriarty. Dom La Nena is a Brazilian born cellist, singer and songwriter. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wpmj27Iex Co | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6791 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Wannadies' ska version of Depeche Mode's New Life. Brilliant. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6793 Registered: 05-2005 |
Shack - The Fable Sessions | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6797 Registered: 05-2005 |
David Holmes - No Man's Land. Many, many years since I've played this. But I loved it from the first time I ever heard it 19 years ago. Brilliant to hear it again. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6798 Registered: 05-2005 |
Eastern Hollows - Eastern Hollows. Americans who are very familiar with the works of The Stone Roses, The Cure etc. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6799 Registered: 05-2005 |
I suspect they may have a few My Bloody Valentine and Ride albums in their collection too. Maybe they are rifling through their dads' record collections? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6800 Registered: 05-2005 |
Cat Power & Coldplay - Wish I Was Here | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3386 Registered: 03-2005 |
They release things so rarely that I don't check very often but it turns out that the Cannanes released a mini-album in 2012 and a full one in 2013. Cannanes -- Howling at all Hours The inimitable David Nichols is back on drums! I love his messy busy Attention Deficit Disorder style of playing. He also supplies vocals on "Is It Because I'm Bleak?" As usual most of the vocals are by Frances Gibson and Stephen O'Neil with their wonderful conversational delivery but there are also appearances by two other members, James Dutton and Francesca Bussey, both dating from the ancient days of "Love Affair with Nature." It's a solid set of songs other than the final six minute O'Neil meander-opus which for the moment I don't see the point of. Maybe I'll have a different opinion down the road. I don't want to think about how old these folks are, but they have not lost their gift for offhand primitivism coupled with elegance and dry humor. They seemed to be fading away into the dotage of sonic smoothness back in 2002 with "Trouble Seemed So Far Away" but no worries, they pulled back from that brink. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6801 Registered: 05-2005 |
Magnapop - Rubbing Doesn't Help. Haven't played this in probably 15 years or more. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6803 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Painted Ladies - Play selections from The Loner. Randy, I think you would like this a lot. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander musicians - along with Ed Kuepper, Paul Kelly, Rusty Hopkinson and more - re-record part of the first Aboriginal protest album. http://www.thepaintedladies.com.au | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3387 Registered: 03-2005 |
Thanks Padraig. It makes me curious about the original, which I'm guessing will be better than the honorable but inevitably slick re-makes. The virtue of the big Kev Carmody tribute that you switched me onto some years back is that it introduced me to Carmody's records. Quite rightly, you nabbed me with Carmody's own version of "Thou Shalt Not Steal" rather than the cover. The best thing I ever heard Clare Bowditch do was "Blood Red Rose." | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 745 Registered: 03-2007 |
Carmody is about to release a 4 disc set of previously unrecorded songs dating from 1967 to 2014. http://kevcarmody.com.au/news Currently listening to :- L'Altra - Telepathic | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6804 Registered: 05-2005 |
That's good news. Thanks Hugh. Randy, I've not yet heard the original of The Loner. It's available, but hard to find. I'll get it next time I see it though. There's some information on it here. http://www.sandmanrecords.com.au/sand422 .html | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3388 Registered: 03-2005 |
Padraig I ordered a copy of the original shortly after posting my entry above. It wasn't cheap at about $30 US. Hugh, thanks for the link. I hope it really happens. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6806 Registered: 05-2005 |
Hopefully it's money well spent Randy. Sonic Youth - Into the Groove(y) | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 924 Registered: 05-2005 |
Felt- Ignite the Seven Cannons/The Strange Idol's Pattern and other Short Stories I finally got hold of a CD of this with the original tracklisting including Crucifix Heaven. Lawrence removed this from all re-issues of this subsequent to the 1989 release. I have been searching for this for years, cost me a small fortune but am a happy man. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 746 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, I hope so too. I am still patiently waiting for the release of the albums Dianne Davidson recorded for Janus Records between 1971 and 1974. She announced the re-issues back in March, 2012, but there is still no sign of them and her Facebook page was last updated in January, 2014. Currently listening to :- The Driscolls - The Complete Recordings 1988 - 1991 ( Two Disc CDR Set ) Sounds like at least some of the 35 tracks were mastered from vinyl with no attempt made to remove the clicks and pops. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1044 Registered: 10-2006 |
Martinu - Opening of the wells Not much time for pop rock on the old stereo since this came my way, and I wouldn’t bother mentioning it except it’s so bloody beautiful is seems a shame not to. At the end of his life, Czech composer Martinu, in exile for around thirty years, collaborated with a poet from his Moravian hometown on these three folk-inspired cantatas. Martinu liked tinkering with weird combinations of instruments, so the second piece here for instance makes use of flute, clarinet, French horn, accordion and piano, but it’s the voices that make it so magical – I like a Slavic accent to my music, and here they are just spine-ticklingly gorgeous as soloists and, when pitched against the choir, just about the loveliest sound you might ever hope to hear. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6808 Registered: 05-2005 |
Eat Lights Become Lights - Into Forever. New album from a Krautrocking English band. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6809 Registered: 05-2005 |
Robert Scott update: Hugh, Randy, you can now order the Robert Scott album with the additional CD and download only material for $29.95 here http://flyingout.co.nz/products/robert-s cott-green-house-pre-orders. My nagging of Flying Nun paid off. I'm sure many others nagged them too though. I've just ordered it, along with the re-release of The Clean's classic Vehicle (which I've previously only owned on cassette, though more than half its songs are on a two disc compilation of theirs I have). | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 747 Registered: 03-2007 |
Thanks Padraig. Copy ordered a few minutes ago. I might still get hit with a VAT/Duty/Handling Charge but the price of the package is far more acceptable now. Currently listening to :- Newsflash - Real Horror Show A 21 track retrospective issued by Firestation Records. U.K. band who were based in the Isle of Sheppey in the late 1980s / early 1990s. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fu7KZnqKR 5M | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6810 Registered: 05-2005 |
Disco Inferno - The 5 EPs. I first discovered them in the bargain bin of Comet Records in Dublin about 20 years ago. I bought whatever EP it was without having a notion what they sounded like. I just knew that the Melody Maker liked them and that was enough for me to risk a couple of pounds, despite being a student with little money. Once I heard it I went straight back to Comet and got another two of their EPs from the bargain bin. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 748 Registered: 03-2007 |
Comet Gain - Paperback Ghosts http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aafUlLMR2 Tw | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 925 Registered: 05-2005 |
King Creosote - From Scotland With Love Morrissey - World Peace Is None Of Your Business The Black Angels - Clear Lake Forest Yes - Heaven and Earth Soft Hearted Scientists - The Slow Cyclone the KC album is really good,different styles and atmospheres befitting a soundtrack. Morrissey I have had for a week now and it's a stonker, as good as the reviews suggest. SHS is a collection of demos and unused tracks but surprisingly cohesive and contains a couple of absolute gems | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 356 Registered: 05-2005 |
Morrissey, Spoon, Alt-j.. I'm waiting for.. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6814 Registered: 05-2005 |
Cosmo, I've heard the Yes album. It's probably the second worst record they've ever made. Only Open Your Eyes is worse. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6815 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Pogues - Fairytale Of New York. I'm making an Irish mix for someone very special. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6817 Registered: 05-2005 |
Sinéad O'Connor - I Am Stretched On Your Grave (Apple Brightness Mix) | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 926 Registered: 05-2005 |
Padraig, It's a bit dull for sure but I am not a fan of Big Generator's horrible 80s production so I would say that one is the worse. Did you hear the actual album? the snippets on the web don't sound as mastered as the actual CD, the new singer does a very good Anderson though. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6818 Registered: 05-2005 |
I've heard the full album Cosmo. I saw them live with the new singer last year. It was a great show. He not only sounds like Anderson, he looks like he did in the 1970s! I met Chris Squire in a record shop around the corner from the venue before the show. It was nice to bump into him in a record shop. Big Generator's production is glaring and harsh, but apart from the first two tracks (Rhythm Of Love and the title track), I actually love it. The rest of the songs are very strong. I have the Japanese remastered version which probably helps. I got it in New Zealand for NZ$8 (about 4 pounds), which was nice. Now that I think of it, meeting Chris Squire and buying the Japanese version of Big Generator both happened in branches of JB Hi-fi. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1046 Registered: 10-2006 |
Graham Nash - Songs for beginners In preparation for holiday reading of his autobiog, this lovely collection of short, beautifully sung, beautifully played songs. "There's only one" amazingly like a template for Dark side of the moon. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3391 Registered: 03-2005 |
I love Graham Nash but have always felt that his new California buddies were a dreadful influence on him, at least in those days. Maybe about 4 or 5 years ago I heard "Immigration Man" for the first time since way back when "Songs for Beginners" was a new album. I was blown away by what a spoiled, entitled prat he sounded like. It's not like the immigration authorities ever denied him entry. He wasn't John Lennon. But that ridiculous overrated jerk David Crosby had convinced Nash that "protesting" even when you have nothing to protest is the path to credibility. Here's a bit of proper Graham Nash before his new buddies contaminated his naturally sensitive and balanced nature. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDP9Qs94e l4 Did he need to leave the Hollies in order to grow personally and artistically? Perhaps, given the conservative structure of the U.K. music biz at the time and his bandmates' terror of falling into commercial irrelevance like the Searchers and so many other Beat era groups. Unnerved by the commercial failure of their thoroughly excellent 1967 album "Butterfly" the Hollies made some terrible panicky choices in 1968 and 1969, while leaving some really beautiful gems in the can or on obscure releases. Like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auFGcatdO ck Or this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-28z7bnCh Qc At the same time they started doing cabaret work, something sure to shove them into irrelevance if they hadn't come to their senses by 1970 and returned to the normal rock band circuit, by which time Nash and his evergreen songwriting talent was long gone. So, sure, it made sense for Nash to bail out. And I think his more recent reinvention of himself as a photographer is terrific. I just hate his C,S & N/C,S,N & Y period. Yuck. They were his inferiors (OK, not Young, but definitely the others) and will forever be a pain in the side of this guy who was a kid who adored the Hollies at the time Nash left. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3392 Registered: 03-2005 |
Moving on, I received my copy of Vic Simms' "The Loner." Before putting it on I'd wondered if it was going to be a challengingly stark recording of just him and a guitar. No. He is accompanied by three players. The playing is simple with no instrumental fills. However, there are some hugely inappropriate horns grafted onto a few of the songs and what sounds like fake audience applause was also grafted on. The horns ruin the first song "Get Back into the Shadows" but thankfully disappear on most of the following numbers. They're not too obtrusive on "Stranger in My Country." Remembering that this dates from 1973, it's an amusing display of how clueless the old-guy mainstream Aussie music biz could be back then because the presentation and arrangements sound like they're from 1966 or 1967 rather than 1973. I haven't read the liner notes yet. Hopefully they will explain some of the above. Do I think it's worth buying? Yes. Do I think it's worth paying $30 for? Probably not for a lot of folks. I wish there were a youtube post of one of the tracks. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1047 Registered: 10-2006 |
This is actually the first time I've heard his first solo album, Randy, and it's mainly a fresh, lovely & intimate work, with only Chicago as an example of his protest writing: a pretty good example, too, I reckon. Simple man had me in tears, good heavens. I can't listen to your youtube stuff, since the sound's died on my laptop and I can't get it fixed until September; the Clarke, Hicks & Nash album has been in my Amazon basket for ages,though, if that's the one to get? | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3393 Registered: 03-2005 |
Hi Stuart, it's a shame you can't listen to the youtube tracks first. The Clarke, Hicks & Nash box is great value. It's also probably more of their music than you'll ever want, going all the way back to their beat group origins and then demonstrating their gradual growth from one year to the next as songwriters and musicians. There's certainly a lot of stuff you'll want to skip but it's a great demonstration of the growth of pop music in that era. Having read the liner notes to "The Loner" it sounds like there might have been a delay between the recording of the music and its release. The notes are not clear. It may actually date from 1970. It still sounds anachronistic for 1970 but at least a bit less so. Interestingly, the record was used as public relations propaganda by the Aussie prison authorities to demonstrate how humane their facilities were! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3394 Registered: 03-2005 |
This morning I am listening to something more or less NEW (2013). The Stevens -- A History of Hygiene. From Melbourne. Aussie primitivist. The Clean must be a favorite of theirs. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3395 Registered: 03-2005 |
I suspect the Stevens are up your alley Hugh. They're definitely working for me. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c87a0EqhW W0 There are 24 tracks on this album so obviously nothing hangs around for too long, in case a particular track isn't appealing. Earlier this morning I listened to another more or less new release on the same label: Darren Sylvester -- Off By Heart I bought this one on the basis of its surprising lush 80s balladic sound. Unfortunately most of the songs just are not sufficiently distinctive though this one is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOx6Vtk0Q 48 Quite a surprising time-warp number. I wish most of the songs were as strong. I also find the vocals too mannered, too indebted to Stuart Staples of the Tindersticks. Or maybe it's Roland Gift of Fine Young Cannibals. I also picked up Bushwalking -- No Enter which I listened to last night. I enjoyed it but I want to hear it again before I report. It was not as easy to pigeonhole. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 929 Registered: 05-2005 |
Padraig, I listened to the new Yes again on the drive back from London late last night and it sounded better than I thought it was. The middle of the album is pretty AOR and dire but start and end sounded good and Yes like. Music often sounds different/better driving at night and it certainly made me revise my opinion. I no longer want to flick the switch on their life support machine. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6821 Registered: 05-2005 |
Thanks Cosmo. I'll give it another go. I do like the first song. It's definitely the best thing on the album. They are playing in Sydney in November one day after I fly to London. I thought about going up to see them in Queensland the night before I leave, but missing the connecting flight is too much of a risk. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6823 Registered: 05-2005 |
Listening to a couple of Cotton Mather singles from 2012/13 - I'll Be Gone and California. Both b-sides, Animal Show and High Society, are also very good. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6824 Registered: 05-2005 |
Now listening to Courtney Barnett's The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas. Randy, have you heard this? I'm pretty certain you'd really like it. She mentions The Triffids in one song. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 751 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, Ordered a copy of A History of Hygiene by The Stevens a few minutes ago. My last order from Chapter Music was in October, 2013, for Night Bus by The Ancients and I don't remember seeing any mention of The Stevens album at that time as, if I had, I would probably have ordered it. I have a couple of albums by Blank Realm incoming. They hail from Brisbane and have three siblings in their ranks. They have been around since 2006 / 2007 and at the outset their style was described as abstract, drone and experimental. They signed to Bedroom Suck Records ( home of Boomgates who I like ) in 2010 and their music is now more song based. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BdVJ0dC3 IE | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 753 Registered: 03-2007 |
Padraig, I have just received an update from Flying Out regarding the Robert Scott album. It seems that the CD will be ready in a couple of weeks and the vinyl will follow in late September. The e-mail included a link to a digital copy of the new album. I followed it to find that the download is only available in MP3 format. I will be very disappointed if the Solo Spares download is only made available in MP3 format. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6828 Registered: 05-2005 |
Hugh, I got the same email. I have downloaded it, but have not played it yet. I didn't even check the bitrate, though I'm assuming it's 320. You're right though, the downloads should be made available in FLAC. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6833 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kraftwerk - Tour de France | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6835 Registered: 05-2005 |
i've just started playing the new Robert Scott album. The first track, Your Lights Are Low, has female lead vocals (by whom I don't know, seeing as so far I just have the mp3s). It's a bit of a throwback to his Magick Heads days, but it's a great opener. Second track, Lava, could have come from Couchmaster (which, scarily, is 19 years ago). And now track three, Vertigo, is playing, and it's a rocker. It could have been on Silverbeet. Wow, this album is jumping all over the place but it all sounds great so far. Hugh, have you played it yet? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6838 Registered: 05-2005 |
OK, so it settled into a more downbeat feel as the album went on, and Vertigo is the only upbeat pop song here. But it's still great. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 756 Registered: 03-2007 |
Padraig, I did not go ahead with the download as I don't like MP3s so I am having to wait for the CD. I believe the female vocalist is Hollie Fullbrook ( Tiny Ruins.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45bgjqKbc 2c The above song eventually turned up on her second album ( Brightly Painted One ) which was released here in the U.K. on the Bella Union label a few months ago. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_IhE7-nI C8 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6839 Registered: 05-2005 |
Ah, that makes sense. Every Flying Nun email I get mentions Tiny Ruins. I'm listening to Spoon's They Want My Soul. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6841 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Chills in session on BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p023fb0y | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 757 Registered: 03-2007 |
Thanks for that Padraig. Heading to Glasgow on Saturday night to see them play at the Old Fruitmarket. Currently listening to :- L'Altra - In The Afternoon |