| Author | Message | ||
     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6945 Registered: 05-2005 |
Augie March - Havens Dumb. On first listen it's more like Strange Bird than their last two more commercial, but still great, albums. Maybe that's due to now being on an independent label. I'm annoyed, though, that an extra three tracks are only available through iTunes. I've bought the CD, and would have paid a couple of dollars more for a "deluxe edition" with the extra songs, but the only option is to pay $2.19 per track to get inferior quality MP3s from Apple. Not good enough Mr Richards. Now that they have parted from their former label, hopefully Sony/BMG will release a comprehensive anthology mopping up all the EP tracks and other rarities. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 772 Registered: 03-2007 |
Luluc - Passerby Follow up to her debut album ( Dear Hamlyn ) which was released back in 2008. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl4WOY15_ nA | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6946 Registered: 05-2005 |
XTC - Skylarking (corrected polarity edition). A stunning remaster. It sounds like a different album. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 920 Registered: 04-2005 |
Television live at the Old Waldorf 78 Maybe some of you musicians out there can explain to me what made Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd’s guitar playing so “different” ? Essentially you take 2 electric guitars played loudly, throw in some killer riffs (‘Foxhole’) and add some fierce duelling. All over an extremely tight rhythm section of bass/drums. Nothing new there. Yet why do they sound so “unmacho” ? It does not seem to be based on the blues, as much “heavy rock” is. There are certain parts that sound almost “arabic” (scales that Richard Thompson uses also?) I love the fact that you in several places they sound so tentative as they start a solo and as it unwinds it gains in confidence. I have a Rolling Stone record review book where Dave Marsh gives them a right slagging off calling them something like “the Greatful Dead of the punk generation”. How wrong he was. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1763 Registered: 08-2006 |
I remember that review, Andrew. I read it shortly after hearing "Marquee Moon" for the first time. I thought Marsh must have listened to a different record (although I've come around to the idea that Verlaine and Garcia share a bit of tone and technique as guitarists). | ||
| Lewisdhead Member Username: Lewisdhead Post Number: 117 Registered: 01-2007 |
Chuck Prophet-Night Surfer. Avi Buffalo-At Best Cuckhold. J Masics-Tied To A Start. Melanie De Biasio-No Deal. Wussy-Attica. Allah Las-Worship The Sun. Death Blues-Ensemble. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6948 Registered: 05-2005 |
A CD I made up of Streets Of Your Town and all the b-sides that appeared on the 7", 12" and both CD releases. 1 Streets Of Your Town 2 Wait Until June 3 Cassanova's Last Words 4 Spring Rain 5 Right Here 6 Mexican Postcard 7 Quiet Heart 8 Bow Down 9 The House That Jack Kerouac Built | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 940 Registered: 05-2005 |
Blue Aeroplanes - Action Painting (live at Western Star Domino Club 1984) http://www.theblueaeroplanes.com/theblue aeroplanes.com/Vid_Action_Painting.html I was at this gig | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3417 Registered: 03-2005 |
Lower Plenty -- Life/Thrills | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 943 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Coral - The Curse of Love recorded on to 8 track in 2006 and released today with little or no fanfare (or press) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6953 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Delines - Colfax | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6954 Registered: 05-2005 |
Craig Armstrong - It's Nearly Tomorrow | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6958 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Rolling Stones - Big Hits (High Tide And Green Grass). I've made an iTunes playlist which combines the original 12-track US LP, plus the five different tracks that were substituted on the UK version, and I Wanna Be Your Man, which was of the time but didn't make either version of the album. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1078 Registered: 10-2006 |
Real Estate - Atlas Played this a couple of months back, grunted, filed it away; but today, with fitful autumn sunshine and the right wine, it sounds rather spectacular. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3420 Registered: 03-2005 |
Padraig, the Rolling Stones were actually my very first "favorite group" as a kid. Taschen just released a super expensive photo book devoted to them which got me thinking about them for the first time in years. In the mid-60s--while Brian Jones was still alive--they provided a priceless combination of musical obsessiveness, inspiration and English upper middle-class educational background. The Stones weren't idiot savants from the working class. Contrasted with the Beatles, the Stones' lyrics were better-conceived and their topics reflected their more urban sophistication. The same goes for their musical influences. The Stones appealed to a young kid who read books. Both bands were the product of a U.K. still on its back economically after WWII, but the Stones especially so because they would have normally faced much better prospects. In another time, they would have enjoyed easy dull upper middle class lives. Jagger would have had a fancy finance job in the City. But in the early '60s, these smart well-educated young men had nowhere to go and the rest is history. I can't help wondering whether a similar lack of prospects might yield a great generation of music-makers and other artists here in the States and also in Europe where employment opportunities are not absorbing anything near the flow of youth pouring out of the universities. Right now, in the U.S., there are still far too many trust-fund babies in the arts fields but I look for a cohort of penurious but much more talented entrants in the upcoming years. Getting back to the Stones, pop-meister that I am, I totally lost interest in the band once they re-invented themselves with Mick Taylor as a stadium rock band. Everything from the lips and tongue logo to the song topics devolved into a very conscious self-parody designed to appeal to the lowest common denominator and work on a large screen. They largely dropped their Englishness, a great shame IMO. While everybody else will celebrate their post-1968 music, I consider the likes of "Satisfaction", "19th Nervous Breakdown", "Last Time", "Get Off My Cloud", "Mother's Little Helper" and "Backstreet Girl" to be their important work. It was made when that youthful burst of inspiration was in full flame. The danger signs were already flashing by the time of the brilliant "Sympathy for the Devil" but, loosely, they kept making great music through their entire British Decca contract. So, Padraig, at some point put together the playlist for "Through the Past, Darkly" as well. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6959 Registered: 05-2005 |
Thanks for your thoughtful response, Randy. Coincidentally, I had been thinking as I was listening to the mix that they were a great little pop band back then, with such English lyrical concerns (though not the same social strata of concern that Ray Davies wrote about), and so many songs lasting around 100 seconds. it's not that such thoughts had not occurred to me before - they had, many times over the past more than 30 years since I first bought Rolled Gold on vinyl - it's just that it really struck me yesterday for the first time in a long time. So, great minds thinking alike. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6960 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Young Sinclairs - This Is The Young Sinclairs. Check them out Randy, I think you'd like them (though you might think 'I heard that kind of music first time round'). | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 774 Registered: 03-2007 |
The Black Watch - The End Of When Two disc set. Latest album plus a bonus disc ( 16 tracks from their back catalogue.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE2B4aXTB ok | ||
| peter ward Member Username: Peter_ward Post Number: 262 Registered: 06-2005 |
Thanks to an earlier post somewhere on here by Rob Brookman I've discovered a new band to love - Wussy. What brilliant songs, great to discover they have a sizeable back catalogue that are just as good as the one I heard first - Attica!..cheers Rob | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6964 Registered: 05-2005 |
I second that emotion. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6966 Registered: 05-2005 |
Hugh, thanks for The Black Watch tip. I was intrigued by the band name so I'm listening to excerpts of the album through iTunes and it sounds amazing (Go-Betweens crossed with My Bloody Valentine at times. Who would have thought that was possible?) iTunes doesn't have the bonus disc though, so I'm ordering it from America. I'm going to get the singer's latest book too. The reviews make it sound right up my street. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6969 Registered: 05-2005 |
Lost Property, a two disc compilation of '80s "alternative" music. And very good it is too. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1764 Registered: 08-2006 |
Cheers back, Peter! New Wussy converts make me very happy since I'm kind of evangelical about the band. Attica's as good a place to start as any - their whole catalog's uniformly terrific, IMO. Lots of folks think their first is best, I love their self-titled third for personal reasons, but I play and love all five. I get to see them November 22 here in Chicago and I'll be sure to tell them the legend is spreading. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 775 Registered: 03-2007 |
Padraig, They are a wonderful band with a stunning back catalogue. Criminally underrated in my humble opinion. Here is a link to a superb track from their previous album ( Led Zeppelin Five ) which was released back in 2011. The book does sound interesting and I will probably pick up a copy in due course. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gabBGw8f0 Uo | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6971 Registered: 05-2005 |
Just listened to a couple of great tracks from The Black Watch. I've only been 26 years late in discovering them. Wussy and The Black Watch are two of the many bands I would never have discovered had it not been for this board. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 923 Registered: 04-2005 |
The Who - Who's For Tennis ? A reconstruction of an album that never was ? A lot of fun and maybe my fave period of the 'orrible 'oo..., very whimiscal and quirky. And "Little Billy" was the fabbest tune ever written for an anti-smoking campaign. http://albumsthatneverwere.blogspot.co.u k/2014/09/the-who-whos-for-tennis.html | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6973 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters | ||
| Lewisdhead Member Username: Lewisdhead Post Number: 118 Registered: 01-2007 |
I listed Wussy-Attica in an earlier post in this thread. A vinyl release will be out later this month for anyone interested. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1079 Registered: 10-2006 |
Thiefaine/Personne - Amicalment blues My ongoing odyssey around the work of HF Thiefaine, which I’m glad to see has you all riveted to your seats, has arrived at this 2007 blues album he wrote with guitarist Paul Personne for Johnny Halliday to record, but which Johnny sniffily refused, more fool him, since it is a wonderful slab of greasily muscular noise, with old Hubert’s voice sounding far more relaxed,expressive and ductile than on a lot of his own work. The idea of French blues might have all the magnetic attractiveness of Italian rap or English reggae, but here the usual blues tropes are trotted out with warmth and passion, plus a useful touch of inventive tunefulness, to make the whole enterprise highly captivating. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3421 Registered: 03-2005 |
Augie March -- Havens Dumb On first listen it sounds like what I guess it is: a retreat from major label commercial music. The sound is a bit unfocused. On "Havens Dumb" they are probably trying to emulate a bit of the "low-fi" sound that some younger artists employ. There are few of the grab-you-by-the-neck melodic numbers suitable for radio that Sony/BMG extorted from them. At times I am reminded of each of the first three albums and, thankfully, never of the fourth which did have some high points but also demonstrated the poisonous influence of big record labels and made the long hiatus advisable. A listener might lament the dearth of obvious radio-spinners here, but that means there's thankfully none of the generic wannabe catchy pop-tones the likes of "Pennywhistle" from "Watch Me Disappear." My guess is that many of these songs will slowly reveal themselves particularly when they pop up independently on the iPod in shuffle mode. I'm a great fan of Glenn Richards' songwriting and am sure I'll find enough from this collection to appreciate in the ensuing months and almost certainly little to annoy me. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6978 Registered: 05-2005 |
The CRY! - Dangerous Game. Indie summer pop on a southern hemisphere spring afternoon. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6979 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Crystals - Then He Kissed Me (which is brilliant) and He's Sure The Boy I Love (which is a stone classic). | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6980 Registered: 05-2005 |
DJ Shadow - Stem (Cops 'N' Robbers). This is the great 7" version. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6981 Registered: 05-2005 |
Midnight Oil - The Real Thing. A stunning live album which I bought a while ago but have just played for the first time now. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6982 Registered: 05-2005 |
Scott Walker + Sunn O))) - Soused. I wish he would, just once, make an accessible, Walker Brothersesque record, but that's probably never going to happen. He even makes a reference on the final track, Lullaby, to a painter no longer painting the same kinds of things he used to. I presume this is an allegory for his music. Soused is, nonetheless, very good. I just don't think I'll be playing it very often. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6989 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Legal Matters - The Legal Matters. Power pop band from Detroit who, I'm guessing, have some Posies, Teenage Fanclub and Beatles records in their collection. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3427 Registered: 03-2005 |
James King & the Lonewolves--Lost Songs of the Confederacy Not the same as what Andrew posted earlier but this new album by this now-geezer proves to be a lot better than I anticipated. Here's an original version. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA6XHSwM s_8 The new version on the 2014 LP--recorded in Glasgow of course--is more mournful, possibly the consequence of age. Whatever the reason it's ravishing but youtube doesn't have it. It's readily available from Stereogram Records. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 933 Registered: 04-2005 |
Yippee got my amp repaired (properly this time) First spin of a lovely piece of vinyl that I had received as a present...Chet Baker (Riverside OJC-087 1959?). Sterling supporting cast of Bill Evans, Herbie Mann, Kenny Burrell, Paul Chambers,Philly Joe Jones, Connie Kay, Pepper Adams.. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 777 Registered: 03-2007 |
Gravy Train - Thank You For Nothing! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0zN3ATO BzE Twenty eight track retrospective by U.K. band who released three and a half singles between 1990 and 1993. The sound is not always perfect as some of the tracks were retrieved from dodgy cassettes. Released by Jigsaw Records | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 778 Registered: 03-2007 |
Lavender Faction - Take Down The Walls http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaLKI-MiA Cc Yet another retrospective by a U.K. band who released a few singles and an ep in 1990 / 1991. Also on the Jigsaw Records label. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6994 Registered: 05-2005 |
Disc two of The Afghan Whigs' rerelease of Gentlemen. Very interesting to hear Greg Dulli rather than Marcy Mays sing My Curse. (Rob worked with Marcy Mays as far as I recall). The sleeve notes, written by someone called Bob Gendron, are good, but with a huge, glaring omission; how can you write about this album without even mentioning the all pervasive Catholic guilt in Dulli's lyrics. It seeps through every song. But maybe you have to be Catholic yourself to hear it? Contributions from non-Catholics welcome here! | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1766 Registered: 08-2006 |
Not Catholic, but I'm down with your thesis, Padraig. I've always felt Dulli is a decent guy with guilt issues who adopted the persona of the roué. Of course, no one who writes a song like "My Curse" can be totally debauched. The thing is drenched in guilt and regret. In context of the album, though, it's a stoke of genius to have Marcy sing it. The guy who says he has "a dick for brain" gets his answer. Yeah, Dulli wrote "My Curse". But if he sang it, it would have upended the album. Marcy sounds like she's putting a knife in his back, which his character deserves. For me, it defines the album. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6996 Registered: 05-2005 |
Thanks Rob. I'm listening to Some Blue Morning, the new album by Irish singer-songwriter Adrian Crowley. So far it sounds like the best thing he has ever done. It has a real wintry feel to it. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6999 Registered: 05-2005 |
Some Blue Morning, again. This is my third day in a row playing it. It really is wonderful. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3428 Registered: 03-2005 |
A couple of English language albums by German bands: Mazyfields--Where Sunshine's Sold and the wonderfully-named Soulboy Collective -- Clique Tragedy On superficial first listen, Soulboy Collective's record is the more appealing. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7002 Registered: 05-2005 |
Gemma Hayes - Bones & Longing. On first listen it's good, but without a standout track. I expect it will be a grower though. I've only seen her live once, and that was in a support slot. I'd love to see her play again. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7004 Registered: 05-2005 |
Temples - Sun Structures. I bought it in Rough Trade East last week but this is my first time playing it. It's great. I have tickets to see them at the same shop on Tuesday night. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7007 Registered: 05-2005 |
Temples - Sun Restructured. Disc 2 of the Rough Trade package of their album. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7008 Registered: 05-2005 |
Temples - Live In Brooklyn EP. Disc 3 of the Rough Trade package. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7009 Registered: 05-2005 |
Mick Flannery - White Lies. Another purchase from my trip to Ireland and London. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7010 Registered: 05-2005 |
Parkay Quarts - Tally All The Things That You Broke EP, which I got in HMV in Limerick, of all places. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2555 Registered: 01-2005 |
A couple of opening acts that I've seen over the past few months. Low (opened for Slowdive)has certainly been around for a while, but I've never really listened to them at all. Lera Lynn (opening for Robyn Hitcock) is a country folk singer from REM land (Athens,GA). | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7014 Registered: 05-2005 |
David Ford - The Arrangement EP | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1771 Registered: 08-2006 |
Thurston Moore - "The Best Day"/Lee Renaldo - "Last Night on Earth" Moore sounds more Sonic Youth-y than he has in his recent solo work, although on the pastoral side, and Renaldo goes his own way, with great guitar and songwriting sensibility I can't put my finger on. I actually prefer Renaldo's last two solo albums to Moore's, but "The Best Day" is worth hearing for those who fear we may never have a proper Sonic Youth record again. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7016 Registered: 05-2005 |
I haven't got The Best Day yet, Rob, but I too really like Ranaldo's last two records. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7017 Registered: 05-2005 |
Wilco - What's Your 20? Essential Tracks 1994-2014. The remastering is very good. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7018 Registered: 05-2005 |
Wow, I am so enjoying listening to the Wilco compilation. It's the first time in many years that I've heard most of these tracks and it's bringing me back to a time (mid to late 90s) and a place (Dublin) when my life was very different. It's also reminding me of playing some of these tracks on my midnight-2am Sunday night radio show. It's such a powerful thing that music can transport you like that. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 938 Registered: 04-2005 |
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme 50 years (this week) since one of the greatest(and most spiritual) records ever made was released. Worship at the Church of John Coltrane ! http://www.coltranechurch.org/ | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7021 Registered: 05-2005 |
TNT - 10,000 Lovers (In One). A pop metal classic that never fails to put a smile on my face. It's also brilliantly used in Jo Nesbo's Jackpot movie. Gotta love those Norwegians. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7022 Registered: 05-2005 |
Tom Petty - Full Moon Fever. It's astonishing that this never got the double deluxe treatment, especially as it's now 25 years old. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7023 Registered: 05-2005 |
Aled Jones - Walking In The Air. Just got it from iTunes. I've always loved this song. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7024 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Pogues - Fairytale Of New York. There is no greater Christmas song. It still makes the hairs on my arms stand on end. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7026 Registered: 05-2005 |
An Americana Christmas - John Prine, Emmylou Harris, Johnny Cash, Corb Lund, Bob Dylan, Max Gomez etc | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 939 Registered: 04-2005 |
A tantalising few seconds of the Apartments' "21", a taster from a new album. http://www.theapartments-music.com/ Nice photo of Amanda Brown in the photos page ! That was the Bordeaux show, where the last song played was "21". An extremely emotional few minutes. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 940 Registered: 04-2005 |
If anyone is interested there is a crowd funding project for The Apartments new album http://www.microcultures.fr/en/profile/v iew/the-apartments | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 781 Registered: 03-2007 |
Andrew, I cannot get the site to work. Clicking on the 'Back This Project' button takes me to a page with various 'Participation' options. Clicking on any of the options does absolutely nothing ( i.e. no request for personal or payment details.) | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 942 Registered: 04-2005 |
Hugh, You have created an account ? Afterwards you just select one of the options and should get a page with the option displayed ("Chose your pack") and underneath a button "Pay" (which took me to Paypal). But I have the feeling that the first time it didn't work for me either and I went back in (this time in French) and it was OK. The fact that in English it says "Chose" and not "Choose" does not inspire confidence ! | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 782 Registered: 03-2007 |
Andrew, Yes, I have created an account. There is no PayPal button on the Participate / Choose Your Pack page. I can see the four options ( Digital Preview - €9; CD & Postcard €14; Vinyl & Poster €25; Deluxe - €100 ) but I am unable to purchase any of them. Will e-mail the company. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 783 Registered: 03-2007 |
Andrew, I attempted to contact the company using their website 'Contact' form but that does not appear to be functioning either!!! Do you have a direct e-mail address? | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 784 Registered: 03-2007 |
Resolved. Pledge made. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 943 Registered: 04-2005 |
Hugh, It was so much easier in the good old days, just to go to the record shop... | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 785 Registered: 03-2007 |
Andrew, It was in some ways but you could only listen to and buy what the shop had in stock. The Internet has allowed me find and purchase music that I would otherwise have been unaware of and for that I am eternally grateful. Bo Kaspers Orkester - Hund https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4H7Newe Z-g Swedish band who sing in Swedish. Their music is a mix of lounge, jazz, pop and rock. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3437 Registered: 03-2005 |
I agree with Hugh but, yes, it can be fiddly to order some things online--which I have now done re the Apartments LP. Thank you Andrew. In my case, there was an exercise I had to go through due to Paypal arbitrarily reviving my old address and sending it with the shipping instructions accompanying the cash. I do not want my bespoke Apartments CD and LP disappearing in U.S. Postal Service limbo. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7034 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Rosenbergs - Ameripop EP | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7039 Registered: 05-2005 |
A CDR I've put together called The Godlike Genius Of Damon Albarn II. (So called, because a few years ago I made a previous CDR of his music, but it has disappeared.) This features much that he played at the Opera House last week - solo, Gorillaz, Blur and The Good, The Bad & The Queen. The melancholy air of much of Albarn's solo work is fitting this quiet, grey Christmas Eve quite well. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7043 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Delines - Colfax. There has been more consensus here around the greatness of this album than with any previous record. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7044 Registered: 05-2005 |
Bill Moss - Sock It To 'Em Soul Brother | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7045 Registered: 05-2005 |
Christmas Rules compilation. Some really great tracks here, which means more new (to me) bands to check out, such as AgesandAges, Black Prairie, Punch Brothers and The Head And The Heart. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7046 Registered: 05-2005 |
Sean Rowe - Madman. If rock 'n' roll doesn't work out for him he can always do voiceovers for movies trailers. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7050 Registered: 05-2005 |
Dream Police - Hypnotized | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7053 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Apartments - Seven Songs. I'm listening through my television, which is not ideal sonically, but I'm liking the convenience Apple TV provides. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3442 Registered: 03-2005 |
Fever Hut -- The Warmth of Vinyl This is certainly a undergraduate's topical band/project, what with song titles like "Jean-Paul Sartre," "Frida & Diego," "Beckett Country," "The Dying Days of Howard Hughes" and my favorite as a title: "Esther Hartzy." It's a good record and deserved more than simple burial in 1994. Courtney Barnett -- The Double EP I made a point of not buying this online. I wanted to give a little token support to Los Angeles' biggest music shop, Amoeba Records. But my experience reminded me why I almost never go there. They had one single copy which I overlooked in the stacks and so I asked staff if they had it. Nobody had heard of Courtney Barnett, one of this year's big international breakthroughs! The sole copy in this enormous shop was found thankfully. I briefly looked in the French section where they seem to think it's still all about Charles Aznavour, Edith Piaf, Jacques Brel and Serge Gainsbourg. Ok, they acknowledge Ms. Sarkozy. There was not even ONE single Dominique A album. There was a single, crappy Alain Bashung anthology that stopped at 1992. On the other side of the balance sheet, over the store's giant sound system they were playing an out-of-print anthology of the Action, a London mod band from the mid-60s produced by George Martin(!). The Action weren't anywhere near the best of what the original Mod scene had to offer but the esoteric touch was appreciated and beat the heck out of the likely alternative of hip hop. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7054 Registered: 05-2005 |
I've just reconnected my record player and am listening to a pop compilation from 1981 called Super Hits #1. I bought this and its companion Super Hits #2 (buy one, get the other free was the attraction 33 years ago) in London in November. My brothers and I got this on cassette when it came out and played it to death, I'm re-engaging with a happy little piece of my childhood. There are some truly terrible songs on it, and the sound is tinny, with up to nine tracks per side, but I'm loving it. There are also some skips, but, again, it doesn't matter. Hi-fidelity wasn't the attraction here. http://www.discogs.com/Various-Super-Hit s-1/release/852682 http://www.discogs.com/Various-Super-Hit s-2/release/590470 | ||
| Matsrep Member Username: Matsrep Post Number: 131 Registered: 10-2005 |
Courtney Barnett is pretty good, I think (especially the second EP, that is the first 6 songs). Rob Snarskis solo album is great. Also check out Sharon Van Etten's latest album, Are we there. (Which, in some weird way, reminds me of The Go-Betweens.) |