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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6843 Registered: 05-2005 |
Mystic Braves - Desert Island. LA band doing the '60s in the '10s better than most did it in the '60s. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6844 Registered: 05-2005 |
Just listened to the rest of the Mystic Braves album. It really is great. Randy, watch out for local shows by these guys. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6846 Registered: 05-2005 |
ABC radio coverage (online) of the Super Rugby final. Crusaders have just taken the lead over the NSW Waratahs. Damn. It sounds like a great game and I'm kind of wishing I'd gone out to the Olympic Stadium to watch it. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6847 Registered: 05-2005 |
And the Waratahs win! | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 930 Registered: 05-2005 |
It was a great game Padraig and the first Waratahs try came from a breathtaking passage of play | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 931 Registered: 05-2005 |
Conor Oberst - Upside Down Mountain the first thing by him that I have liked in a long long time | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6848 Registered: 05-2005 |
I really wish I'd gone Cosmo. Biggest ever crowd for a Super Rugby game. Listening to Time Between - A Tribute To The Byrds. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6850 Registered: 05-2005 |
V/A - Miniatures (A Sequence Of 51 Tiny Masterpieces). A bonkers but quite brilliant experimental rock album from the 1980s. Every piece has to be one minute or less. Best track to far, John Peel Sings The Blues Badly by Norman Lovett. Andy Partridge's The History Of Rock'n'roll is great too. | ||
| C Gull Member Username: C_gull Post Number: 239 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Delines. Soft country rock super group? Favourite album so far this year | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6853 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Wedding Present - George Best. What an album. What a footballer. | ||
| C Gull Member Username: C_gull Post Number: 241 Registered: 05-2005 |
Stereolab. Dug out a few old cds. They were great weren't they? Particularly enjoying Mars Audio Quintet and Transient Random-Noise Announcements. What I also remember is for a low-fi sound how exciting they were live. Anyone know what Tim Gane is up to? | ||
| C Gull Member Username: C_gull Post Number: 242 Registered: 05-2005 |
Ah George Best Padraig, still brings me to tears when I listen to it -one of those classic fitted the time of my life albums. I was a student in Leeds in the mid-80's so saw lots of early Wedding Present gigs. David Gedge still seems a thoroughly decent bloke and they are still good live. When GB came out it was no disappointment,those frst words 'Oh Why Don't You...' On the footballer I only saw Best once, when he played for Fulham at Chelsea. Boxing Day 1976, Division 2 in front of 55003 (me and my brother and my Dad were the 3) at Stamford Bridge. Ron Harris kicked him off the park and Chelsea won 2-0. Its still my favourite match more than 35 years later. Its a game I regard as of a by-gone era. Pay on the gate, gates locked at 1:30. Right level of fierce rivalry between two neighbours. An incredibly exciting atmosphere possibly bordering on dangerous but so much better than football is today and something we will never get back. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 932 Registered: 05-2005 |
Cavern of Anti Matter is Tim Gane's latest project/band - Berlin based Kraut style https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DMFV-O9 aIU | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6857 Registered: 05-2005 |
I've only been to one football match in England - Millwall at home to Reading in August 2000 (the man who was to become my brother-in-law a week later is a Millwall fan). That was pay at the gate. But it was a second division game, which is now known as first division, and was previously, correctly, known as third division. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 760 Registered: 03-2007 |
Cancel The Astronauts - I Am The President Of Your Fanclub ( And Last Night I Followed You Home.) ( CDR - FLAC Download ) Cancel The Astronauts - Funny For A Girl ( CDEP ) | ||
| C Gull Member Username: C_gull Post Number: 244 Registered: 05-2005 |
deerhunter - Halcyon Digest About time we heard something new from Bradford Cox I think. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3401 Registered: 03-2005 |
Kid Canaveral - Shouting at Wildlife So far (third song) youthful and high spirited. More appealing to me than Cancel the Astronauts who seem to have too much of a mainstream aesthetic, even using digital vocal tweaking in places. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6868 Registered: 05-2005 |
New Order - Peel Session 24/11/98 | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 762 Registered: 03-2007 |
Robert Scott - Solo Spares ( CDR - FLAC Download ) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6872 Registered: 05-2005 |
Hugh, the link they sent me was only for an mp3 download. How did you get a FLAC? I've emailed them about it but have not yet heard back. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 763 Registered: 03-2007 |
Padraig, I e-mailed them back in July to ask what digital download formats 'Solo Spares' would be made available in. They replied on 9 August, 2014, to say that by default the format was MP3 but that they would be happy to send me FLAC or WAV files. I requested FLAC and received a link on 11 August. Downloaded the zipped files but was unable to extract the FLAC files due to DRM and Encryption issues. I noticed that during the attempt to extract the FLAC files the programme created a MAC-OSX folder, which I believe is an Apple folder, on my PC so that may have been the problem. E-mailed them immediately and received a new link on 12 August. Downloaded the zipped files, extracted the FLAC files and burned them to CDR without any issues. Flying Out have just received the Shix b-sides CD and will start shipping them and the new album tomorrow. Currently listing to :- Blank Realm - Grassed Inn | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6873 Registered: 05-2005 |
Thanks Hugh. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6879 Registered: 05-2005 |
Joe Henry - Invisible Hour. Good music for a wet, late winter, Sunday afternoon. On days like this it can be hard to believe that within three weeks it will be hotter here than most summer days in Ireland. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6881 Registered: 05-2005 |
Bob Dylan - No Direction Home sampler CD | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6882 Registered: 05-2005 |
Lloyd Cole - Cleaning Out The Ashtrays sampler | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6883 Registered: 05-2005 |
Soulsavers w/ Dave Gahan - The Light The Dead See | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6884 Registered: 05-2005 |
Staying Alive soundtrack. I bought 100 discs, sight unseen, for $10 yesterday in a second hand record shop. This and the three previous discs have already made it a worthwhile gamble. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 764 Registered: 03-2007 |
Robert Scott - The Green House / Shix | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6885 Registered: 05-2005 |
My copy still has not arrived Hugh, and I live next door to NZ, not half the world away. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 765 Registered: 03-2007 |
Padraig, Although shipping times from Australia and New Zealand to the U.K. are usually pretty good in my experience, five days is exceptional. I could not believe it when the package dropped through my letterbox. I hope you receive your copy soon. Currently listening to :- Various Artists - Between Two Waves: The Second Wave - Volumes I, II and III ( CDR - FLAC download ) From Volume III http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGSfztAUy Ww Collaboration between The Spook School and The Just Joans. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6888 Registered: 05-2005 |
Still not arrived Hugh! Listening to World Party's Thank You World EP. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6891 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Bats - Spill The Beans EP | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6893 Registered: 05-2005 |
Cotton Mather - Kontiki (expanded edition). I saw them in Dublin around the time this came out. There were only about 75 people in the venue, including about 40 of us on the guest list. But they played like they were The Beatles at Shea Stadium. It was a great show. Robert Harrison said he'd written the album while living just outside Dublin while his wife was studying there, so he felt like he was bringing the songs home. A great memory. My Before And After is such an amazing song. It's like a song John Lennon would have written if he had grown up in New Zealand and recorded for Flying Nun. A stand out track on a stand out album. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6897 Registered: 05-2005 |
Various One Dove remixes | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6900 Registered: 05-2005 |
Various Avalanches remixes | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6906 Registered: 05-2005 |
Good Morning, Vietnam soundtrack | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6908 Registered: 05-2005 |
Viet Cong - Cassette EP. Modern psychedelic rock/garage rock from Canada. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6909 Registered: 05-2005 |
Echo & The Bunnymen - Life At Brian's, Lean And Hungry double 7" | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6911 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Waterboys, live at the Olympic Ballroom, Dublin, October 7 1987. I was at the show the night before at the same venue. I have this bootleg on cassette, but the download I've just found sounds far better than I remember the tape sounding. Presumably it comes from the same source though. It's probably just my middle-aged hearing filtering out the stuff that most annoys me about bootlegs. There was such a buzz about The Waterboys in Ireland then; a buzz entirely justified when Fisherman's Blues came out a year later. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6915 Registered: 05-2005 |
FKA Twigs - LP1. This is great. Prior to Anna Calvi covering one of her songs I'd never even heard of her. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6916 Registered: 05-2005 |
FKA Twigs reminds me very much of Kate Bush, not particularly the music itself (though some of it is not a million miles from side two of The Hounds Of Love), but the fearless ambition to do whatever she wants. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1056 Registered: 10-2006 |
HF Thiefaine - Supplements de mensonge How great to drop in on an artist in all the richness of his maturity and know that there is a whole facinating history waiting to be investigated. Probably the best French album I've bought since Bleu Petrole & Vers les lueurs. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6920 Registered: 05-2005 |
Pavement - Shady Lane (Japanese Tour EP) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6922 Registered: 05-2005 |
Lost Property, an "alternative" music compilation, which is actually very good. http://www.discogs.com/Various-Lost-Prop erty-An-Alternative-History-1979-1992/re lease/1660767 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6924 Registered: 05-2005 |
101 Film Classics, which I got from iTunes for $16.99 - i.e. 17 cents per track. I call that a bargain (though not the best I've ever had). | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6926 Registered: 05-2005 |
Livingstone Daisies - Don't Know What Happiness Is. I've just downloaded it from iTunes. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6928 Registered: 05-2005 |
Livingstone Daisies - Waiting On The Last Minute. Recorded before Don't Know What Happiness Is, but released after it. And it's even better. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6930 Registered: 05-2005 |
Listening to Livingstone Daisies again. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6932 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Lemonheads - It's About Time EP | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6935 Registered: 05-2005 |
Sloan - Commonwealth | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6937 Registered: 05-2005 |
U2 - Songs Of Innocence. What a genius idea to give it free to everyone with an iTunes account. It will take about one day to become the biggest selling album ever (even if the sale price is nothing). And when the CD comes out I will buy it, because four songs into the first play it sounds the best U2 album in a long time. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1069 Registered: 10-2006 |
Dan Michaelson & the Coastguards - Blindspot About as low key as a hobbit's front door, maybe slightly sprightlier than the Tindersticks. Dan has the kind of pebbledash voice I like and there are little melodic touches that bowl it along pleasantly. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6940 Registered: 05-2005 |
Zebras - Siesta | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 770 Registered: 03-2007 |
Lewis & Clarke - A Map Of A Maze http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItBbinOoU Lc Black Cloud which is the first vocal track ( about 1 minute 37 seconds in ) reminds me a little of The Bathers. |