| Author | Message | ||
     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7057 Registered: 05-2005 |
Dunedin Double 12" (The Chills, Sneaky Feelings, The Stones, The Verlaines) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7059 Registered: 05-2005 |
Big Scary - Not Art. I bought it in 2013 when it won an Australian independent music award. Finally playing it now. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7061 Registered: 05-2005 |
R.E.M. - Live at the 40 Watt Club, Athens, November 1992. From various CD singles I've put together what is almost the whole concert. It's superb. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7064 Registered: 05-2005 |
Pink Floyd - Pulse | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3446 Registered: 03-2005 |
Skint & Demoralised--This Sporting Life/Love & Other Catastrophes. This is two albums packaged together. They are David Gledhill and Matt Abbott. The first one is recorded in Sheffield and the second in Sheffield, New York and London and involves more people. I'm on the first one and it's working for me so far. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3447 Registered: 03-2005 |
The next night I listened to the second of the two Skint & Demoralised albums packaged together; it turns out that the second disc is the older one, from 2009. Surprisingly I prefer the newer one (from 2011). At its best it beguiled me with the likes of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00uY6zLu 018 But especially on the older album ("Love & Other Catastrophes") Skint & Demoralised spend more time than I'd recommend doing a sort of English pop rap thang, the overlap for a Venn diagram of Experimental Pop Band, Aerial Maps and Bitter Springs. It's certainly not hip hop, but maybe a little Wigan Casino soul. I also think the older record is trying too hard to attract radio time. Between the two discs I ultimately loaded about 50% of the tracks onto iTunes. I suspect a few of them will be deleted when they have the bad luck to play when I'm in the wrong mood. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 788 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, Nice find. I have just ordered the Love And Other Catastrophes Promo, This Sporting Life / Love And Other Catastrophes and their three singles. A couple of tracks from their third and last album 'The Bit Between The Teeth.' Digital Download only as far as I know. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zh-wjY4h e70 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXiAAeJw Pq0 | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3449 Registered: 03-2005 |
Wow Hugh I never expect to find somebody before you do. How frustrating that the new album is only available as a download. When will I cave in I wonder? It's "Broadway Circle" that works for me in this pair. I think you will find quite a few numbers similar to "Breakfast at Sylvia's" on the CDs you've ordered. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 789 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, They first came to my notice when Firestation Records released 'Love And Other Catastrophes' on vinyl back in 2011. I mistakenly assumed it was a new album which was only being put out on vinyl and did not do any research on the band. The Promo version of the album has four tracks which do not appear on the double album package hence why I purchased it. According to Discogs, this version of the album was withdrawn ( prior to release? ) and only Promo copies exists. Currently listening to :- Greene - Teenage Museum Danish band from the early 1990s who featured a young Flemming Borby in their lineup. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qy4k4VM fv0 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7071 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Smiths - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out (CD2), which also features Hand In Glove, I Don't Owe You Anything and Jeane with Sandie Shaw on vocals. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 790 Registered: 03-2007 |
Dianne Davidson - Mountain Mama Released on vinyl in 1972 and now out on cd for the first time. Well worth the wait. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXKBnN5Q F7g | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7075 Registered: 05-2005 |
Sonic Youth - Sugar Kane EP | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 791 Registered: 03-2007 |
The Auctioneers - Before Lost And Found The Sullivans - Somewhere Songs The latest retrospective releases from Firestation Records. Both bands hailed from Essex, England, and were only around for brief periods in the 1980s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp8RaVJD bL0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UpKU6KD BhA | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7095 Registered: 05-2005 |
Neil Young - Live Rust. It has been a very long time since I've played this album. One of my favourite ever records. It will forever remind me of the summer of 1988. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7097 Registered: 05-2005 |
Various b-sides and EP tracks by The National. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 1146 Registered: 08-2004 |
My Running Wild playlist. Currently in training for a half marathon so these songs are helping: Last Time I Was Fooled - Brinsley Schwarz Love -> Building On Fire - Talking Heads America, Fuck Yeah - Team America: World Police Walkin' the Dog - Flamin' Groovies If You and I Could - Them Brave & Strong - Sly & The Family Stone The Bottom Line - Big Audio Dynamite A Little Soul - Pulp Fool - P.I.L. Sennen - Ride My Favorite Dress - The Wedding Present Shake Dog Shake - The Cure Reject - The Slits Swallow - My Bloody Valentine Head On - Pixies Elephant Stone - The Stone Roses | ||
| C Gull Member Username: C_gull Post Number: 272 Registered: 05-2005 |
Anyone else listening to the Serial podcast. Great listening, kind of like a box set TV series on audio. I listen to it in the gym and when out running. Talking of which - Which half are you training for Jerry? I am 12 weeks away from Brighton Marathon (my first). I was thinking about starting a Running thread on here i am guessing we may not be the only ones. | ||
| Thomas Keitsch Member Username: Thokei Post Number: 41 Registered: 06-2005 |
My first Tape-Release ever..: One Man Bannister- Birds & Bees OMB= Matthew Bannister of Flying Nun Rec., Sneaky Feelings etc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgtMrMBi jZ0 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7116 Registered: 05-2005 |
An iTunes playlist of the top 100 David Bowie songs, as featured in Mojo magazine. Bowie has such a deep catalogue it's easy to forget just how many great songs he wrote. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7117 Registered: 05-2005 |
Luna - Dancing Days | ||
| Lewisdhead Member Username: Lewisdhead Post Number: 122 Registered: 01-2007 |
Natalie Prass-Natalie Prass A Lazarus Soul-Last of the Analogue Age The Hedge Schools-At The End Of A Winding Day Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires-Dereconstructed Sons Of Bill-Love And Logic Mourn-Mourn Adrian Crowley-Some Blue Morning | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7121 Registered: 05-2005 |
Ram Jam - Black Betty, 7" version | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7122 Registered: 05-2005 |
Not as good as Nick Cave's version, but I heard Ram Jam long before I ever heard of Cave. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 1147 Registered: 08-2004 |
I'm running the Reading half marathon on March 22nd, C Gull. I think a running thread is a good idea. I only really listen to compilations when running/training. It gives me a nice push when it gets hard. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7128 Registered: 05-2005 |
An iTunes playlist I made that has 25 songs beginning with each letter of the alphabet, minus X as there is no song on my computer beginning with it. Twenty years ago this would have been put onto a C-90 and probably given to a girl who didn't really get the labour of love that went into it. Now it's an iTunes playlist and I've tailored the tracks to ensure it will fit onto a CDR. Oh, well. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7129 Registered: 05-2005 |
Because I'm killing time before heading to Stadium Australia for the Asian Cup final (Australia vs Korea for those of you who haven't been paying attention), here is the track list for my Alphabet City mix: AAA - Paul Westerberg Be Happy Children - Paul Weller Candle - Chad VanGaalen Danger, Heartbreak Dead Ahead - The Marvelettes Eight Days A Week [Mono] - The Beatles Facet Squared - Fugazi Gale Song - The Lumineers Had It All - Allah-Las I Am a Child (Live Rust version) - Neil Young Je m'en vais - The Limińanas Keep Swinging (Downtown) - Sloan Ladies and Gentlemen (A Cappella With Lead Vocal) - Spiritualized Marlene On The Wall - Suzanne Vega Nowhere - Therapy Open The Door - Magnapop Past Perfect - Wild Beasts Queen Of Pumpkin Plukes - Dogs Die In Hot Cars Right Time - Nikki Lane Sunspots - Bob Mould Tour De France (Radio Version) - Kraftwerk Unconscious Melody - Viet Cong Vibor Blue (Acoustic Version) - Ian McCulloch Walkaway (single version) - Cast You Must Be Prepared to Dream - Ian McNabb Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7131 Registered: 05-2005 |
Mark Hollis - Mark Hollis | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 1148 Registered: 08-2004 |
5 mile run in blustery conditions completed soundtracked by some favourites: Perfect Blue - Lloyd Cole & The Commotions Red Sails - David Bowie Revolution Rock - The Clash Pale Movie - St. Etienne Satellites (Soulsavers Remix) - Doves Honest With Me - Bob Dylan To Here Knows When - My Bloody Valentine Elegia - New Order The Passenger - Iggy Pop You Want The Candy - The Raveonettes | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 793 Registered: 03-2007 |
Shine! - Shine! Number 5 in the Cloudberry Cake Kitchen Retrospective Series. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYZTd4ph mCM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUqouIOf oKg | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3456 Registered: 03-2005 |
Hugh, my copy of Shine! turned up this weekend also. It's amazing how many regional bands existed in the U.K. in the 1980s, producing their own original material and insufficiently interested in traveling to London. I've been enjoying Firestation's and Cloudberry's exhumations of these recordings. They have irreversibly changed my view of 1980s music and, importantly, of 1980s U.K. music. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 794 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, This U.K. band issued a four track 12 inch with Shine! in 1989. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoteooTz n6Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT-T0zIy 7-M One track from the 12 inch and one from their debut album which was released in 1992. Came across this 1980s Australian band on YouTube earlier tonight. As far as I can tell, they only ever released a single, an ep plus one or two tracks on compilations. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyOGrANU 6A4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91AwYjKg aQ8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYRw2x-1 qtQ | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3457 Registered: 03-2005 |
Thanks for the links Hugh. Perhaps Bardot have other recordings hidden in cans. As for the Tripps, they sound great. Oz is due for a new wave of excavations, at least in the form of various artists comps if not monographs. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3459 Registered: 03-2005 |
Labrador -- Caleidoscope Aeroplane The title track from their 2010 5 song EP "Talk of This Town" is what first attracted my attention to Labrador. All of that EP is excellent, but in their first two albums sometimes Labrador could get bogged down in terminal blandness. Their third album, "Caleidoscope Aeroplane" from 2009 is my favorite of their long-players so far but I have yet to hear all of their most recent (2012) album "This Time" so this may change. As a Yank, it really pulled me up to see that this record was recorded in Havana. This is a Danish band who took advantage of the obviously quite affordable and very talented musicians in that land just outside of my own. I haven't been able to go. It's a small taste of life behind the Iron Curtain to be prohibited from visiting a place just outside my native national borders. Frustratingly I cannot find a youtube of the title song but you hear bits of it in this interview clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vSjv2YW 5Mo Note the viewer total. The other song I'd really like to post on here is called "Butterflies" but, again, no luck. As is often the case, Labrador is someone Hugh has been aware of for quite a while. I am a newcomer. Do not let the tiny viewer total fool you: Labrador is a very high quality purveyor of stylish pop music. And I mean that in the very best way. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 795 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, Check out the Ghostbrother Project EP ( Back Into Your Heart ) if you have not already done so. A collaboration between Flemming Borby and Nicholas Ginbey which was released last year on Divine Records, Germany ( formed by Borby in 2002.) The four tracks were recorded in Austin, Texas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Na1nRf9Q J3s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQMe0BnP KlA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loZvoYLg 29c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_Ola9vK KoQ | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 796 Registered: 03-2007 |
De Efterladte - Traditionen Utro Featuring Peter H. Olesen who was lead vocalist and one of the two main songwriters in Greene. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROS7IIqE Jr8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VDfoUtN nXs | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 797 Registered: 03-2007 |
Olesen-Olesen - Sommerferie Zimmerroom https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8mAUwCD Pkg From their debut album ( Indenlands Udenbys ) which was released in 1997. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 798 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, It took a bit of searching ( Caleidoscope Aeroplane ) but here you go. Scroll down for two tracks from the album. http://flemmingborby.net/music.html | ||
| Lewisdhead Member Username: Lewisdhead Post Number: 123 Registered: 01-2007 |
Sean Rowe-Madman | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7141 Registered: 05-2005 |
Luna - Luna Live! I gave this a five-star review in The Irish Times. First time in years that I've played it. It's still a five-star album. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7146 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Golden Palominos - Clustering Train. Michael Stipe on vocals and Richard Thompson on guitar. (I've upgraded my opinion of Thompson since I dismissed him a few years ago on these pages as "milkmaid went a-churnin'" music.) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7148 Registered: 05-2005 |
XTC – Senses Working Overtime EP. I got this as a three track 7" more than 30 years ago, and got the four track, 3" CD version a few years ago. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7149 Registered: 05-2005 |
Bob Dylan - Hard Rain. I'm playing this disc from the box set first as I had read that there were glitches on Oh, Sister. And there are on my copy too. I've emailed Sony and got an automatic reply saying I would be sent a replacement. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7150 Registered: 05-2005 |
Stories - About Us. I only just heard of this band today. Thank you, internet. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 952 Registered: 05-2005 |
Father John Misty - this is seriously good, I was somewhat wary after the unanimously good reviews but this is a great album, lyrically and musically very strong | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7174 Registered: 05-2005 |
Philip John - Master The Monster. It's not terribly original - many, not least Brian Wilson, have done this before - but John does it so well. This album deserves far better than utter obscurity. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7177 Registered: 05-2005 |
Daniel Saturn - Softly | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7178 Registered: 05-2005 |
Michael Price - Entanglement. Three tracks into the first play and so far, so beautiful. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7182 Registered: 05-2005 |
Good Luck Mountain - Good Luck Mountain Too. This is lovely. That probably sounds like I'm damning it with faint praise, but I'm not. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 954 Registered: 05-2005 |
Joni Mitchell - Hejira |