| Author | Message | ||
     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7355 Registered: 05-2005 |
Luke Haines - Adventures In Dementia - A Micro Opera EP | ||
| Lewisdhead Member Username: Lewisdhead Post Number: 143 Registered: 01-2007 |
Cathal Smyth-A Comfortable Man. SOAK-Before We Forgot How To Dream. Unknown Mortal Orchestra-Multi-Love. Jim O'Rourke-Simple Songs. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 261 Registered: 08-2005 |
The Cure, Glastonbury 1986; fabulous performance and I was there. Hair in Willie Nelson-style plaits and wearing a South American alpaca poncho - bring it on! | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1157 Registered: 10-2006 |
Philippe Sarde's swooningly romantic soundtrack to Claude Sautet's Les choses de la vie, which also features a heart-stutteringly beautiful Romy Schneider. It is a real bugger that it is impossible to find a good collection of Sautet's work subtitled in English. I have to make do with the Italian dubbed versions. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7362 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Clash - Black Marker Clash | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7366 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Orange Humble Band - Depressing Beauty. There are only 1000 numbered copies in Australia. I've got No 470. It was recorded in 2012 and I was just wondering if it would ever come out. Thank God I walked into Red Eye Records and saw it. | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 428 Registered: 02-2007 |
Before & After Science - Brian Eno | ||
| Mark Leydon Member Username: Mark_leydon Post Number: 348 Registered: 05-2005 |
Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Multi-Love. My album of the year so far. Just terrific. | ||
| Lewisdhead Member Username: Lewisdhead Post Number: 144 Registered: 01-2007 |
@Mark Leydon: it's a belter. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1159 Registered: 10-2006 |
20 seconds of Blur - Lonesome Street Loved the riff as it crunched out suddenly on the radio, but then the bastard grandson of Anthony Newley whinged perkily into life and, oh god, I thought, it's Blur. Nice first 20 seconds, though. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3510 Registered: 03-2005 |
Wow Stuart, you make it almost sound good! I love the unloved David Bowie period when he did his Anthony Newley schtick. Unfortunately "Lonesome Street" sounds like a busy lot of stuff going nowhere interesting. As is my usual way, I've paid no attention to Blur. I'll now return to my innocence of Blur. Meanwhile, I spent some time up on a ladder painting last night and accompanied it with the 16 Bastien Lallement tracks that I have loaded onto my smaller older iPod (60g) and then 6 of the 20 Labrador tracks to be found on there. They're quite different musical experiences but they did a fine job of stripping the tedium from the task. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 823 Registered: 03-2007 |
Khaya - We've Got Rhymes 4 x Like These Debut album ( released in 1998 ) by a little known Scottish band who went on to record a further album and mini album for SL Records in 1999 and 2000. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1raTYmvW ohc | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7373 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kathryn Williams - Hypoxia. Trying not to listen to closely to the lyrics seeing as they're based on Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar. Hard to avoid though. Ed Harcourt's participation is easy to hear, and a good thing. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7375 Registered: 05-2005 |
Rush - Exit ... Stage Left. It's probably 30 years since I last heard this, and that was on double vinyl, which I still have. The remastered CD version sounds fantastic, and I won't have to get up three times to flip or change the record. I must have played it a hell of a lot back in the day, because I recall every time change on every song. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7377 Registered: 05-2005 |
And now for something completely different... Matthew Shacallis - Reach The Stars. A power poptastic EP from a Sydney guy who is not unfamiliar with Big Star and The Kinks. | ||
| Lewisdhead Member Username: Lewisdhead Post Number: 145 Registered: 01-2007 |
Eyelids https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMpEz-cs v2s | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 1158 Registered: 08-2004 |
Talk Talk - The Party's Over Stephen Jones - The Outsider | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 825 Registered: 03-2007 |
The Train Set - She's Gone From their retrospective album 'Never California.' | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3519 Registered: 03-2005 |
Time to paint the frames on a couple casement windows near the stereo so let's listen to some of that stack of unfiled CDs on the table. Dominique A -- Eleor I find this record to be a grower. Not that I ever disliked it. Decoration -- See You After the War Have I already written about them? I think maybe I have. This one teeters on the generic indie at times and for whatever reason the vocalist makes me think of David Gedge though he doesn't give off nearly such a lovable uptight Basil Fawlty vibe as does Gedge. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3520 Registered: 03-2005 |
The Concubines -- I've Tried Subtlety I've had a CDR of this for years. This is one of Jeff Whiteaker's excellent albums, this one graced from start to finish by the cool and stylish timbre of Rachel Blado on vocals. Dating from 2003, this album is now available on Jigsaw Records. It is emphatically and entirely worth having. Here is the opening song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPzew37z BVU A number of songs have been uploaded to youtube though irritatingly as "Various Artists" instead of The Concubines. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7379 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Orange Humble Band - Depressing Beauty. Review here. http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/ju n/26/the-orange-humble-band-depressing-b eauty-review-power-pop-perfection | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7380 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Black Watch - The End Of When. Thanks again to Hugh for bringing them to our attention. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7381 Registered: 05-2005 |
Blur - The Magic Whip | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7382 Registered: 05-2005 |
Yes - Yours Is No Disgrace. RIP Chris Squire. I bumped into him in a Sydney record shop before a gig a few years ago. I spoke to him for a few minutes before he joined his wife and toddler at the other end of the store. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1166 Registered: 10-2006 |
I'll go for And you and I as little by little the music of darkened living rooms, crushed lager cans, seeping ashtrays and furtive armchair snogging vanishes from our lives... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7383 Registered: 05-2005 |
Nicely put, Stuart. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7384 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Black Watch - Sugarplum Fairy, Sugarplum Fairy. What a game of two halves. The second half is so much better than the first. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7389 Registered: 05-2005 |
Various Joe Henry tracks. One of the most underrated singer-songwriters going. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7391 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kraftwerk - Computer Love | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7392 Registered: 05-2005 |
Talk Talk - Such A Shame (US promo 12") | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7395 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Legal Matters - The Legal Matters. American band channelling a lot of other American bands, particularly The Byrds and Big Star. Pretty perfect for July 4, really. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7396 Registered: 05-2005 |
East Village - Cubans In The Bluefields. London band, from a 1988 EP. Not a million miles from what The Go-Betweens were doing the same year. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7397 Registered: 05-2005 |
Echo & The Bunnymen - Life At Brian's - Lean And Hungry double 7". I'm even loving the vinyl crackle. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7398 Registered: 05-2005 |
East Journey - The Genesis Project. I've just downloaded this from iTunes. I don't think there is a physical edition. It got a great review in yesterday's Sydney Morning Herald, which made me check it out. The first track, Bright Lights Big City, is the closest thing I've ever heard to power pop played by Aboriginal musicians. They recorded the EP in LA with Stevie Salas, an American Indian producer. There are five rock songs which feature didgeredoo and some lyrics in an Arnhem Land Indigenous language. There are also five shorter pieces which are more like traditional Indigenous Australian music. Some members of Yothu Yindi also play on the EP. This is great and makes me want to go back to Arnhem Land. It's almost 11 years since I was there. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7400 Registered: 05-2005 |
Revolting Cocks, Pailhead, Acid Horse and other Al Jourgenson-related industrial music. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1173 Registered: 10-2006 |
Jan Akkerman - Blues Hearts I am always a little dubious about the articles in women’s magazines that encourage occasional infidelity as the surest way to keep a marriage healthy and alive; musically, however, I do like, now and then, to betray the well-made verse-chorus song with lyrics offering a certain wit, passion or intelligence sung by a distinctive and expressive voice, for a bit of spaced-out noodle-di-do instrumental guitar wizardry: which often means returning to my first love – something even Cosmo might not be too happy about – Jan Akkerman, here in relaxed bluesy mode, as fluid and dexterous as ever. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3528 Registered: 03-2005 |
Very funny post Stuart. I suspect that I land in your notion of Cosmo's territory. For instrumentals I like to flip flop between the tense cacophonous scratch of the likes of Dirty Three and the Fire Engines or over to the proto-Muzak of the Shadows or one of Joe Meek's instrumental nameplates. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 827 Registered: 03-2007 |
Lord Huron - Lonesome Dreams https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9bEotgv xP4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmcXXr6O D2s I checked out this band after Padraig mentioned their album 'Strange Trails' a few months ago. The first track is from their first album 'Lonesome Dreams' which was released back in 2012. The second track is from 'Strange Trails.' | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 828 Registered: 03-2007 |
Lord Huron - Strange Trails Link to the track mentioned by Padraig plus one other. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0wwzYG2 vV0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8oC5Jhr ftc | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 1161 Registered: 08-2004 |
Had a nice family barbecue yesterday. Celebrating our eldest boys return from his first year at uni. Mrs Jerry stuck on Babybirds 'There's Something Going On' LP very loud through a slightly tinny ipod dock. Still good though. Hope it upset the neighbours. Who have put us through James Blunt, UB40 & a Bon Jovi 'Best Of' on repeat for their get-togethers in the past. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 991 Registered: 04-2005 |
Lengthy live version of Ryley Walker's "Primose Green"...mighty impressive young man http://www.nyctaper.com/2015/06/ryley-wa lker-june-26-2015-le-poisson-rouge-flaca lacmp3streaming/ | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7408 Registered: 05-2005 |
A lot of Mina. And, of course, I've realised I had heard of her before. This World We Live In (Il Cielo In Una Stanza) was used in Goodfellas, though it did not make it to the soundtrack album, which I'm pretty sure I have on vinyl. | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 307 Registered: 11-2007 |
A bunch of wonderful records of the infamous but lovely Occultation lable (http://occultation.co.uk/) The Granite Shore debut album "Once More From The Top" Nick Halliwell is the band leader. Participating on the record are the lable mates: Phil Wilson, Arash Torabi (June Brides) Mike Kellie (Spooky Tooth / The Only Ones) Mike Finney, Steve Perrin (The Distractions) Martin Bramah (founding member of The Fall, Blue Orchids and Factory Star) So you see a lot of very good musicians! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFTLPqE_ OYA&list=PLPMo7XTtBnGgy_2aMIqK5E1CJRoJq- uMw Also a lot of stuff of June Brides | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 1165 Registered: 08-2004 |
Cooking dinner yesterday was punctuated by Peter Bjorn & John's superb 'Gimme Some' LP. They might be Sweden's McBusted, for all I know, but the songs are immense. "May seem macabre but it's beautiful". | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 1166 Registered: 08-2004 |
Free download of Wilco's new album: http://wilcoworld.net/ | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 1167 Registered: 08-2004 |
I've entered into a pact with my soon to be 13 year old daughter. She's given me 21 Pilots & Panic At The Disco to listen to. In trade I've given her The Strokes & Peter Bjorn & John. Not too challenging or completely without rough edges I felt. Also still quite current. Hopefully we'll be able to meet in the middle somewhere. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 829 Registered: 03-2007 |
Salad Boys - Salad Boys ( CDR - FLAC Download ) Released as a limited edition cassette in 2013. Available as a download from Bandcamp. New Zealand band whose debut album 'Metalmania' will be released in September, 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JiQZ59O htw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=de8IgeCE 0ak | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7414 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jerry, thanks for,the Wilco tip off. It's great. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7415 Registered: 05-2005 |
Complain to the council about your neighbours playing James Blunt etc. There's a law, surely? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7417 Registered: 05-2005 |
Irish band The Drays. https://soundcloud.com/the-drays | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 834 Registered: 03-2007 |
Jean Paul Sartre Experience - I Like Rain ( The Story of the Jean-Paul Sartre Experience ) Three disc set collecting together everything the band recorded for Flying Nun between 1986 and 1993. Released by Fire Records in conjuction with Flying Nun. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyGO8Too Ack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mCwZHE1 UBU | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7418 Registered: 05-2005 |
I ordered it yesterday, Hugh, even though I have more than half the stuff on it already. Their third and final album is something close to a classic. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7423 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Drays - Look Away Down Collins Avenue. Finally found it on iTunes. It doesn't show up if you search the band name, but does if you search the album title. Not good for the band. The album is great on first listen. I used to do radio programs with the singer back in the day. The guitarist has the same name as an old editor of mine. Making me nostalgic for Dublin and pints of porter. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7425 Registered: 05-2005 |
Emerson, Lake & Powell - Emerson, Lake & Powell. About 27 years since I last played this, but I must have played it a lot back in the day because I'm remembering every tricky chord change. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3540 Registered: 03-2005 |
Nightingales -- Mind Over Matter | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 836 Registered: 03-2007 |
The Shifting Sands - Feel Debut album released back in 2012 on Fishrider Records, Dunedin, New Zealand, Backing musicians include David Kilgour ( The Clean ) Robert Scott ( The Bats; The Clean ) Lesley Paris ( Look Blue Go Purple ) and Robbie Yeats ( The Verlaines.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GazTkJ_ YiE Occultation Recordings ( in association with Fishrider Records ) will release their second album ( Cosmic Radio Station ) later this year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cD1XAiF Yw0 | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 837 Registered: 03-2007 |
The Dark Beaks - Spill Your Heart The very first Fishrider Records release. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3QUySsN VFs | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3541 Registered: 03-2005 |
La Grande Sophie -- S'agrandit This is her first album, from 1997. It cost me an arm and a leg. It's clear she had already formed as a songwriter. This is not a super primitive creation like Dominique A's "La Fossette." She is responsible for all the guitar work and others provide the bass, drums, trumpet, flute, accordion and keyboards. The original packaging is unfortunately inimical to CDs, scratchy flexi-plastic and the main disc shows a lot of surface wear as a result. So far (6th track) my CD player is managing but I'll have to keep my fingers crossed. This was obviously either much played by its first owner or very carelessly regarded. I prefer to think the former. It turns out some of the songs are posted on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKpPv06f nQg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4RsYU6l qrI "S'agrandit" is accompanied by her even earlier Ep "Kitchen Miousic" which I thought for SURE would be like "Un Disque Sourd" but a quick check of the first track revealed actual bass guitar and a drum machine. Positively major label by comparison to Dom A's earliest work. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3542 Registered: 03-2005 |
From "Kitchen Miousic": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqQ197ND sNQ and this entirely silly and delightful opening number: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CARrh5Mp WKA It actually had more than a drum machine. Her namesake tune: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym4IPU3p 5mQ Worth the crazy money I paid for it? Absolutely, but you do have to like her. I suppose a nice cheap unscratched reissue version will be announced any day. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7427 Registered: 05-2005 |
R.E.M. - Losing My Religion Vol 4 (an acoustic radio show from 1991) | ||
| C Gull Member Username: C_gull Post Number: 288 Registered: 05-2005 |
gwenno album in Welsh and Cornish. No idea what she's singing about but like it a lot. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7433 Registered: 05-2005 |
An Australia and New Zealand compilation I made for a friend in Ireland. Playing it before I put it in the post to make sure the disc burned properly. It's a great mix, he says modestly. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7434 Registered: 05-2005 |
Various tracks by Pailhead, which featured members of Ministry and Fugazi. Not for everybody, but I like it a lot. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 841 Registered: 03-2007 |
The Prophet Hens - Popular People Do Popular People https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3BQWjfz -pk | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3550 Registered: 03-2005 |
Thanks Hugh. I just ordered a copy. It always helps when I like the name of the band. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7439 Registered: 05-2005 |
Icecream Hands - Sweeter Than The Radio | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7441 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Fauntleroys - Below The Pink Pony EP. Alejandro Escovedo channels Velvet Underground. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7442 Registered: 05-2005 |
Should have said Alejandro Escovedo and friends channel Velvet Underground. It's a band, not a solo spinoff. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7443 Registered: 05-2005 |
Richard Hell & the Voidoids guitarist Ivan Julian does lead vocals on four of Below The Pink Pony's six tracks. Escovedo does the other two and plays bass on the record. | ||
| C Gull Member Username: C_gull Post Number: 291 Registered: 05-2005 |
Fantastic that you can now download programmes that include music from the BBC, I guess they had to resolve some performing rights issues. On a long drive through France listened to Thurston Moore and Paul Weller interviews, Joe Strummers last recorded performance, john cooper Clarke show, Gideon coes shed insect special and three episodes of dad's army. Almost makes driving a pleasure. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 842 Registered: 03-2007 |
Don Lennon - Nick And Mary ( Double Album / Two Disc Set ) One of my favourite U.S. singer / songwriters. Virtually unknown despite having released six albums between 1997 and 2011. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCV_a8PA Cxc | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1182 Registered: 10-2006 |
Sternbuschweg - Die unvollkommenheit Man, this is even better than I thought it would be... glorious harmonies, changling guitars, all that velvety lush Byrdsian/Teenage fanclub stuff they're going for (I guess?)present and correct.. even the wife came dancing into my studio with a big grin on her face, "What IS that?" "Er... German indie..." Shame it's so short! | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 843 Registered: 03-2007 |
The Bon Scotts - Modern Capitalism Gets Things Done Third album by this Melbourne band. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj978yTE mK8 | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3551 Registered: 03-2005 |
Stuart, have you checked out Sternbuschweg's 2008 album on Firestation Records? It offers you the same virtues with a longer program. Meanwhile, thanks to help from my brother and nephew last weekend (and a sprained big toe on my right foot) I now have the capacity to listen to vinyl! Which means I can listen to: Pale Lights -- Before There Were Pictures and the wonderful "Waverly Place" on their previous 4 song EP. Soon I will break out the vinyl version of the new Apartments album as well. Albums work much better in 20 minute halves. For now, back to the CD player for the wonderfully named Prophet Hens. I literally chose them out of Hugh's long Fishrider Records list because I loved the band's name. Thank you Hugh! I will dip another toe in the Fishrider/Occultation pond shortly. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 846 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy / Stuart, The Sternbuschweg album ( Mein Herz Schlagt Weiter Jeden Tag ) was released by Tumbleweed Records who also issued the Die Unvollkommenheit EP / Mini Album. The Glucklich Oder Nicht EP was released by Wuton and Firestation Records released a 7 inch vinyl single featuring two tracks from the album. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3553 Registered: 03-2005 |
Oops. Sorry. Thanks for the correction Hugh or else poor Stuart might have banged his head trying to find the nonexistent Firestation album. I was introduced to Sternbuschweg by a Firestation compilation, which I imagine is the single Hugh referenced. Apparently I didn't look very hard at the album packaging when it arrived even though I have a bit more German than any other language! My comments about the substance of the 2008 album remain. On initial listen I was less impressed by the earlier Glucklich Oder Nicht ep. We'll see how that goes with time. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1183 Registered: 10-2006 |
Whichever label it may be on, it is already on the way! | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 847 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, The Glucklich Oder Nicht ep was their first release and there was a big gap ( five years ) between it and the release of Mein Herz Schlagt Weiter Jeden Tag ( album ) and Die Unvollkommenheit ( ep / mini album ) which may be the reason you are less impressed by it. Stuart, Glad to hear you have managed to source a copy of the album as it is becoming harder to find / more expensive by the day at all the usual places. I posted in case you were having difficulty finding a copy as it can be purchased directly from Tumbleweed Records. http://www.tumbleweedrecords.de/shop/ind ex.php | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1184 Registered: 10-2006 |
Thanks, Hugh! And is that it for the Sbw lads then? Have they broken up? Will they make any more music? | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 848 Registered: 03-2007 |
Stuart, They have a website but it is not functioning properly and has not been updated for some years so I am guessing there is little chance that they are still in existence. It looks like they may have called it a day shortly after the release of the album and mini album in 2008. http://sternbuschweg.de | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3555 Registered: 03-2005 |
Spanish Amanda -- Rallye Sport Yes I know I've already raved in spittle specked fashion about Spanish Amanda. I remain of the opinion that Huw Bucknell is a mad genius of our recent fin de siecle period. I don't agree with his own evaluation of his work in that I am of the opinion that "Brave New Girl" is the stronger set but "Rallye Sport" is certainly worth hearing as well. I've burned it with the 3 tracks released by Firestation Records on comps, two of which songs were (I think) intended to be part of "Rallye Sport" anyway. If the likes of Felt's Lawrence or Billy McKenzie get on your nerves then you will probably want to avoid Huw Bucknell also. It's not that those two are so similar to each other or to Bucknell; it's just that all three are so indelibly who and what they are that they can't paper it over with anything so either you are on the bar stool or you are not. If the idiosyncratic likes of Lawrence and McKenzie appeal to you I seriously recommend you to the Spanish Amanda. Bucknell has moved on from music to writing fiction so presumably there won't be any more. Sadly I cannot find the song that I would use to reel in people on this board, i.e., Spanish Amanda's "Go Betweens" which is deeply ravishing beyond its obviously provocative name. I will have to settle for the following which are meritorious but not what I would choose. I will have to rely on all three to give the sense of this man's gestalt. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2wcG537 B24&list=PL8XhMy3Bi1kNJ4bHU5QITDsvReqRnp 0PS&index=2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH9i34cb G_U&list=PL8XhMy3Bi1kNJ4bHU5QITDsvReqRnp 0PS&index=1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eIs5zPP 65A&list=PL8XhMy3Bi1kNJ4bHU5QITDsvReqRnp 0PS&index=3 Were it available I would also offer up "Spanish Amanda West London Ex-Wives Dub." | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7447 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Legal Matters - The Legal Matters. It's amazing how every song sounds like you've known it for years. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7449 Registered: 05-2005 |
A Lemonheads mix CD I just made. Twenty-eight songs in 79 minutes and three seconds. Jesus Rides With Me is playing now. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 849 Registered: 03-2007 |
The Good Ship - Glory A Brisbane band who describe their music as Porno / Country / Folk / Cabaret which is a first for me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXyu6b1j N9g They released three albums between 2010 and 2014 before calling it a day earlier this year. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3556 Registered: 03-2005 |
Nits -- Malpensa I finally got around to buying this. It's now three years old. On first listen it seems too "mellow." It is quite a bit different than "Doing the Dishes" which I love. But that's the Nits; their records are all over the map. Perhaps I'll have a different view of "Malpensa" in another year or three. Last night I listened to Bitter Springs -- Everyone's Cup of Tea This is another one I finally got around to buying, also three years old. I'm keeping about half of the first disc for the iPod and I haven't gotten to the second disc yet. They've always been into schtick but for my taste the music is running too deep into pastiche here. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3557 Registered: 03-2005 |
Wow, the second Bitter Springs disc, Everyone's Cup of Tea CD 2 or The Bitter Springs destroyed my life, is much better than the first disc. It's not even close. I'm on track 11 and so far only track 10 (White Noise/And Even Now) is sounding like something to skip. Some of the tracks are simpler versions of those on the first disc. That's virtually always an improvement though it still couldn't save "And Even Now" for me. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3558 Registered: 03-2005 |
Tarmac -- Notre Epoque Sounding good so far; much less frenetic than Louise Attaque. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 850 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, I had a listen to some of their stuff on YouTube and liked what I heard. Ordered L'Atelier and Notre Epoque a few minutes ago. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7454 Registered: 05-2005 |
Microdisney - The Clock Comes Down The Stairs. The genius of Cathal Coughlan and Seán O'Hagan needs to be shouted from the mountains. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3559 Registered: 03-2005 |
Hugh, I did also pick up L'Atelier. I didn't get around to listening to it until this morning. It's more acoustic and thus more like Louise Attaque though still not so frenetic. Meanwhile, tonight I am listening to Bitter Springs -- Suburban Crimes of Every Happiness This dates from 2001. I'm only half way through right now but even if the rest of it is dross the first half-dozen songs justify the existence of this album. (At an alarming 76 minutes in length it will have to start drooping somewhere in the program.) Sometimes listening to the Bitter Springs seems to this Yank a little like watching a Benny Hill show but when they are firing on all cylinders they are quite exceptional. Unlike the dozen-year-newer album I listened to last weekend these songs are not musical stereotypes. To you folks in the U.K. did this record get any press or play in the early part of this century? It screams "big musical event." | ||
| C Gull Member Username: C_gull Post Number: 294 Registered: 05-2005 |
Black Tambourine and The Black Tambourines To cut a long story short....Heard a track by the latter on the radio and thought it sounded good so selected them on Spotify for some background listening whilst working, thought they sounded a bit different and only realised later I was listening to the former who I had never heard of but a little reading shows that maybe I should have. Then made sure I listened to the latter. The good news is I really like both. Two new bands to listen to for the price of one! Are there other so similarly named bands causing this type of confusion? | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 852 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, They deserved much more recognition than they ever received in my humble opinion. Their first four albums ( 1997 - 2001 ) were released on Dishy Recordings and Vespertine. There was then a gap of several years ( 2006 ) before they self released their next album on the Harvey label. According to Discogs, Vespertine released 11 titles between 1995 and 2001 before calling it a day although the web page suggests they put out at least 13 titles. I am guessing they did not have a lot of money for PR / Promotion. Dishy Recordings appears to have existed from 1992 until 2000. They only managed 49 releases so, once again, I suspect there was little in the way of money available for PR / Promotion. The band had been on the go for quite some time before I came across them so I suspect they never received much press coverage in their early years. There is a 'Press' section on their website but there are very few entries in it. Looking at the few entries that are there would suggest that the band was, for some reason, well received in Spain . Everyone's Cup Of Tea is my least favourite album. I don't know if it is a co-incidence or not but one of the founding members of the band and the Last Party ( Daniel Ashkenazy ) left immediately prior to the release of the album. Their new album ( Cuttlefish And Love's Remains ) will be released in the U.K. on 23 October, 2015, on Harvey Records. Currently listening to :- The Revolutionary Army Of The Infant Jesus - Beauty Will Save The World | ||
| peter ward Member Username: Peter_ward Post Number: 294 Registered: 06-2005 |
Tinariwen - Live in Paris & Avro Part - Tabula Rasa & synphony No.1 ...on Vinyl, bought in a closing down HMV today. Had to lighten the mood afterwards with a bit of Jools but great albums on first listen. |