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Pádraig Collins
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Posted on Sunday, September 06, 2015 - 12:22 am:   

Robert Forster
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Pádraig Collins
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Post Number: 7458
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Posted on Sunday, September 06, 2015 - 04:51 am:   

PiL – What The World Needs Now...
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Pádraig Collins
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Post Number: 7462
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Posted on Monday, September 07, 2015 - 11:17 am:   

Pugwash – Play This Intimately (As If Among Friends)
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TROU
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Post Number: 377
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Posted on Tuesday, September 08, 2015 - 10:58 am:   

Ducktails - Ste Catherine
Wire - Wire
Wilco - star wars
They might be Giants - Glean
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Pádraig Collins
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Post Number: 7463
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Posted on Tuesday, September 08, 2015 - 02:09 pm:   

An Irish band called The Riptide Movement
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Pádraig Collins
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Posted on Wednesday, September 09, 2015 - 06:14 am:   

Pugwash - Play This Intimately (As If Among Friends)
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Pádraig Collins
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Posted on Wednesday, September 09, 2015 - 12:16 pm:   

The Pursuit Of Happiness - Walking In The Woods
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Lewisdhead
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Post Number: 150
Registered: 01-2007
Posted on Wednesday, September 09, 2015 - 04:45 pm:   

A stream of Robert Forster's new album
Seamus Fogarty-Ducks and Drakes EP
Tame Impala-Currents
Bully-Feels Like
David Corley-Aa=vailable Light(this is a masterpiece)
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Lewisdhead
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Posted on Wednesday, September 09, 2015 - 04:45 pm:   

David Corley-Available Light(this is a masterpiece)Doh!!
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Andrew Kerr
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Posted on Wednesday, September 09, 2015 - 06:30 pm:   

The stream of RF is here

http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicbl og/2015/sep/09/robert-forster-songs-to-p lay-exclusive-album-stream

Sounds great on first listen...
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Catherine Vaughan
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Posted on Thursday, September 10, 2015 - 12:14 am:   

Did you get to see David Corley in Kilkenny or Waterford, Lewisdhead? Easily two of the gigs of the year in my book... Album hasn't left the car since I got it. Came highly recommended by John Murry.
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Pádraig Collins
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Post Number: 7467
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Posted on Thursday, September 10, 2015 - 09:07 am:   

Wilding - Molecules To Moons. Made in Melbourne by a guy from Liverpool who is possibly familiar with the music of Paul McCartney and Brian Wilson. It's great.
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Pádraig Collins
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Posted on Thursday, September 10, 2015 - 09:22 am:   

Family Fold - Lustre-glo
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Pádraig Collins
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Posted on Thursday, September 10, 2015 - 11:59 am:   

Bad Dreems - Hume. God it sounds so like The Go-Betweens. Just brilliant.
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Pádraig Collins
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Posted on Thursday, September 10, 2015 - 12:08 pm:   

Bad Dreems - Ghost Gums. If Paul Kelly fronted The Go-Betweens it would sound like this. Bad Dreems, like Mr Kelly, are from Adelaide. It's nice when Adelaide is noticed for something other than churches and serial killers.
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Pádraig Collins
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Posted on Thursday, September 10, 2015 - 12:12 pm:   

Bad Dreems - Paradise. This one sounds like Midnight Oil, circa Power And The Passion. Most of the rest of the album sounds like The Replacements if Paul Westerberg grew up listening to AC/DC rather than Big Star.
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Lewisdhead
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Posted on Thursday, September 10, 2015 - 09:30 pm:   

@Catherine: Saw him in Waterford, it's where I'm from. It was great but I guess Cleeres is special.
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Catherine Vaughan
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Posted on Thursday, September 10, 2015 - 09:59 pm:   

Both gigs were great. Yeah, Cleeres has a bit of magic going on. I'll try dig out the link to John Murry doing Southern Sky for you, if you haven't seen it? Was posted to facebook.

By the way, don't know if you saw my post, John will be playing in Wexford on 24th, if you're into it.
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Jerry Clark
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Post Number: 1170
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Posted on Friday, September 11, 2015 - 07:42 am:   

Talk Talk - London 1986
Inspiral Carpets - Revenge Of The Goldfish
Sonic Youth - Confusion Is Sex & Kill Your Idols
Ride - Carnival Of Light
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Pádraig Collins
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Post Number: 7473
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Posted on Saturday, September 12, 2015 - 04:13 am:   

Bad Dreems
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Pádraig Collins
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Post Number: 7474
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Posted on Saturday, September 12, 2015 - 11:33 am:   

A Dublin band called Number Ones
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Andrew Kerr
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Post Number: 1012
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Posted on Saturday, September 12, 2015 - 04:25 pm:   

Dylan - my vinyl copy of "Highway 61 Revisted"

The record was released 50 years ago ! Still sounds absolutely stunning.

"the songs on this specific record are not so much songs but rather exercises in tonal breath control"

- from the sleeve notes
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Pádraig Collins
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Posted on Saturday, September 12, 2015 - 08:09 pm:   

Is your copy 50 years old? I have an original White Album, which I haven't played in almost 30 years.
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Pádraig Collins
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Post Number: 7478
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Posted on Sunday, September 13, 2015 - 07:09 am:   

Robert Forster – Songs To Play
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Pádraig Collins
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Post Number: 7480
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Posted on Sunday, September 13, 2015 - 07:51 am:   

#1 Dads – About Face
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Pádraig Collins
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Posted on Sunday, September 13, 2015 - 07:57 am:   

The #1 Dads song So Soldier, which features Ainslie Wills on vocals, sounds like a cross between Fleetwood Mac and Mazzy Star. It's brilliant.
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Pádraig Collins
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Posted on Sunday, September 13, 2015 - 09:01 am:   

The Associates - Party Fears Two 12". I don't even know how long it is since I heard this song.
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Andrew Kerr
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Posted on Sunday, September 13, 2015 - 09:53 am:   

"Highway 61 RevisIted" even !

No Pádraig the copy I was playing I probably bought in the late '70s. I do have another copy, probably a 60s original but it is unfortunately in a terrible condition.

I found it in a house in Melbourne, where I was living for a few months in the mid '80s. The owner didn't want records anymore, but most of them were unplayable. The sleeve is beautiful though ! Laminated, with different photos and layout (including list of musicians) on the back cover.

I grew up listening to a friend's mono copy of The White Album. When I finally bought my own (stereo) copy there were some marked differences. Lennon screaming "I've got blisters..." after "Helter Skelter" just doesn't exist on the mono copy. I almost died of fright the first time that came blasting out of the speakers !

PS "Party Fears Two" still sounds like it comes from another universe ! Unique.
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Pádraig Collins
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Posted on Sunday, September 13, 2015 - 10:16 am:   

I didn't know "I've got blisters..." was not on the mono version. That would be scary, hearing it for the first time!

The Associates get a lot of love on this site, which is nice.

Right now I'm listening to a wonderful power pop band called Lolas.
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Randy Adams
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Posted on Sunday, September 13, 2015 - 04:32 pm:   

I'd never heard anything by the Associates when I started participating on this board. I saw their albums in the stacks forever but I couldn't get around to everything and never got to them. Jeff was (and is) a big fan. When I first heard a few numbers of theirs that he sent to me I thought "oh god, just what I need to hear, another histrionic queen."

Not easily daunted by a "meh" response, Jeff kept sending me tracks and finally he sent Party Fears Two which is one of the most perfect synth pop records I have ever heard. Like so many of the greatest records it is not known in the United States of Nowhere. Then Spence sent me a crappy live recording of Billy Mackenzie backed by Malcolm Ross. It didn't even have Alan Rankine on it. I don't know what the song was but the performance was jaw-dropping. I should dig it out of the old computer and burn it onto a disc. After that I was sold.

It's really shocking to me that the Associates' records have not received the reissue love. Bizarre. I still do not have a copy of Fourth Drawer Down. I ordered one in the early part of this year but it never arrived.
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Andrew Kerr
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Posted on Monday, September 14, 2015 - 09:01 pm:   

Randy,

Think that the recording that Spence sent you was probably with Paul Haig, rather than Malcolm Ross. He sent me the recording of the Wilkie House gig in Edinburgh and I had had the luck to be there. A brilliant evening.

One of my few regrets in life in life is to have missed Mackenzie joining Malcolm's band (with his American friend Spike Priggen) one evening in a dodgy nightclub in Edinburgh. Friends that were there said his version of "Wild is the Wind" was unbelievable.

However I was at the night before when Paul Haig joined Malcolm for a few choice Velvets' covers.

Strangely for such an outgoing performer Mackenzie always seemed very lowkey and quite shy when I saw him around. I was night manager in one of Edinburgh's old prestigious hotels and the band booked in for a whole week, before their Edinburgh festival performances.

A memorable moment was delivering room service to the most delectable Martha Ladly (of the Muffins fame), who answered her door wearing only a very small towel.

One of the night porters asked me who the group were and when I explained that they were going to be playing several concerts he replied "On the strength of the arguments I've been hearing in the bar I very much doubt it"

The gigs were indeed cancelled and shortly after Rankine left, although he continued to stay in the hotel quite often.
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Pádraig Collins
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Posted on Tuesday, September 15, 2015 - 12:02 pm:   

Great stories, Andrew. More please!
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Hugh Nimmo
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Post Number: 854
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Posted on Tuesday, September 15, 2015 - 07:57 pm:   

Tarmac - Concert Au Reservoir, Paris 23/12/2003 ( Two Disc Set )
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Randy Adams
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Posted on Wednesday, September 16, 2015 - 03:28 am:   

Andrew you are correct. I went back to my old computer and it was Paul Haig and Billy Mackenzie. As a singer Mackenzie had such a vivid personality; it's amazing that he was so reticent about stage performance. That's one of the factors about him that works in his favor, in my book.

Hugh, you don't do things by half measure. I haven't heard the live set but of the two studio albums at this point I like the second one better.
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Randy Adams
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Posted on Wednesday, September 16, 2015 - 04:45 am:   

Moving back in Scottish time I am listening to:

The Poets--Wooden Spoon, the Singles Anthology 1964 - 1967

I already have another set by this overlooked Glasgow band who were discovered and initially produced by Andrew Oldham. That earlier set includes some really great unreleased numbers dubbed from scratchy horrible-sounding acetates. The problem is that the regular released numbers on that CD were also dubbed from vinyl so I decided to see if the tracks on this version released by Cherry Red imprint Grapefruit come from a better source. They do indeed seem to come from a better source, most obviously the great bass-driven second single, "That's the Way It's Got to Be" with its non-jangly electric 12 string lead. This totally unsuccessful a-side was followed by the equally unsuccessful "I Am So Blue," a moody asymmetric minor key number with odd percussion effects and an equally peculiar b-side "I Love Her Still."

The Poets defied the then-current rock songwriting conventions to make mysterious songs with odd time signatures and peculiar chord sequences. Though from Glasgow their music sounds like it comes from one of those subterranean closes in Old Town Edinburgh complete with smoky fires and sweating stone walls. The Poets' askew presentation conjures visions of lizards and crickets.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2PBoUBX Y4w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nqv4JWeG gh8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5iZGBVP nhg

After having lost all of their original members, for their final single they released a last hurrah--the Freakbeat/Northern Soul classic "Wooden Spoon." Personally I like the spooky earlier numbers better, but as a last-ditch cash-in it's pretty good.

This is strictly for folks with a taste for mid-60s beat-era guitar bands. They're idiosyncratic in sound and, well, they're Scottish goddamn it.
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Hugh Nimmo
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Post Number: 855
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Posted on Wednesday, September 16, 2015 - 04:01 pm:   

Randy, I do tend to be a bit of a completist when I like an artist or band. The live album was released back in 2004 and good copies are becoming expensive / hard to source so I thought I would grab one while I still could.

I have the ealier set by The Poets ( Scotland's No. 1 Group.) A terrible recording which does not do the band justice.

Currently listen to :-

The Devoted Few - Billboard Noises.

Finally managed to source a used copy after several years of searching.
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Pádraig Collins
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Posted on Thursday, September 17, 2015 - 12:39 pm:   

Family Of The Year. Teeth-rottingly sweet power pop and folk pop. Just as I (sometimes) like it.
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Stuart Wilson
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Posted on Thursday, September 17, 2015 - 01:18 pm:   

The Waterboys - Carolan's Welcome

Bit o'yer haunting Irish whistley stuff.
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Hugh Nimmo
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Post Number: 856
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Posted on Friday, September 18, 2015 - 06:02 pm:   

Blank Realm - Illegals In Heaven

Latest album by this Australian band.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb6RTwfe _N4
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Pádraig Collins
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Post Number: 7491
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Posted on Wednesday, September 23, 2015 - 10:53 am:   

In God's Country, a compilation that came with Uncut magazine about 12 years ago. A great blues and folk primer.
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Pádraig Collins
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Posted on Wednesday, September 23, 2015 - 12:00 pm:   

New Order - Music Complete
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Pádraig Collins
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Posted on Saturday, September 26, 2015 - 02:11 am:   

Mercury Rev - The Light In You
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Randy Adams
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Post Number: 3566
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Posted on Saturday, September 26, 2015 - 06:55 am:   

Pale Lights -- Before There Were Pictures

I've had this on CD for maybe a couple years at the most. I also had the vinyl but have only been able to play it in the past month. It is heaven to me. Two sides of five songs, loosely 20 minutes each, the way God intended music to be heard. The singer and songwriter, Phil Sutton, is British but the rest of his band is American and they operate in Brooklyn. I never really feel like trekking over to NYC. Except this band might make me touch down. Only for this band. Otherwise I'm staying on the plane and getting off at LHR.

Here's something relatively new from them:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4-rli3Y mC0

I would like to post either "Manhattan" or "Waverly Place" but neither turns up on my search on youtube. The first is from the album I've named above. The other is from an earlier 4 song EP.
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Pádraig Collins
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Posted on Saturday, September 26, 2015 - 08:09 am:   

Girl Band – Holding Hands With Jamie. Easy listening it ain't. Reminds me of Whipping Boy, a bit (not least in the singer's Dublin-accented vocals), and Sonic Youth, a lot. I would have adored this 20 years ago. I like it a lot now too, but not like I would have in the mid-90s.
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Hugh Nimmo
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Posted on Saturday, September 26, 2015 - 12:20 pm:   

Randy, Try these links.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v15OwOqf L2s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ2upp3S Ohw
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Hugh Nimmo
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Posted on Saturday, September 26, 2015 - 01:29 pm:   

Machine Translations - The Bright Door
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Hugh Nimmo
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Posted on Saturday, September 26, 2015 - 02:43 pm:   

Holly Throsby - Team
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Jerry Clark
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Posted on Saturday, September 26, 2015 - 03:50 pm:   

Janis Joplin - Pearl
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Ragged Glory
The Human League - Fascination
The Triffids - Black Swan
The Beat - I Just Can't Stop It
Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
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Pádraig Collins
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Posted on Tuesday, September 29, 2015 - 11:10 am:   

David Bowie - Space Oddity (Original UK Mono Single Edit), Changes (Mono Single Version), Velvet Goldmine. I got these three songs on a 7" more than 30 years ago, Space Oddity on the A-side and the other two on the B-side. I played that 7" to death. Still have it. What I'm playing now though are mp3s.
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TROU
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Posted on Wednesday, September 30, 2015 - 09:38 am:   

Perhaps a vinyl fan could be interested here?
http://www.dominorecordco.com/uk/albums/ 16-09-15/born-sandy-devotional/
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Andreas Severins
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Registered: 11-2007
Posted on Friday, October 02, 2015 - 07:15 am:   

The Nectarine No. 9 - Saint Jack (The sound of young scotland on postcard 1995!!)

Robert Forster - STP
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Andrew Kerr
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Posted on Friday, October 02, 2015 - 05:25 pm:   

Oh Andreas "Saint Jack" is a wonderful record !

And apparently it is being reissued shortly.

http://www.roughtrade.com/albums/96902
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Andreas Severins
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Posted on Saturday, October 03, 2015 - 01:36 pm:   

Hi Andrew,

just because of the reissues I have heard of that record and it is really lovely!
Haven't known that postcard records my favourite record label of the 80ies has a release in the mid 90s :-)
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Andrew Kerr
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Posted on Saturday, October 03, 2015 - 01:58 pm:   

Andreas,

I think that Alan Horne restarted the label to put out the Orange Juice demos ("Ostrich Churchyard") and the singles compilation CD ("The Heather's on Fire"). But it also released the 2 wonderful Paul Quinn CDs and 3 Nectarine No.9 CDs...their first "A Sea With 3 Stars" is less guitars and more electronics. Quirky!

I saw Nectarine No.9 live several times and they were pretty inconsistent! But on a good night you could believe that Davy Henderson was a genius.

And his current band The Sexual Objects are putting out some great things too...just not that easy to find !?
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Pádraig Collins
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Posted on Sunday, October 04, 2015 - 12:29 pm:   

New Order's In Session version of Rock The Shack (sung by Barney, rather than Bobbie Gillespie as it is on Get Ready). It's a complete rip off of Teenage Kicks! How had I never noticed that before? How did nobody notice this? Can somebody else listen to it and confirm I'm not hearing things?
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Randy Adams
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Posted on Monday, October 05, 2015 - 02:40 am:   

Firestation Records' 12 inch 45 rpm reissue of

The Hardy Boys -- Wonderful Life

Four crystalline pop songs recorded in 1989 at Big Noise Studio in Edinburgh.
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Pádraig Collins
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Posted on Monday, October 05, 2015 - 10:35 am:   

New Order – Brotherhood
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Pádraig Collins
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Posted on Monday, October 05, 2015 - 12:13 pm:   

Al Green – Take Me To The River
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Hugh Nimmo
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Posted on Monday, October 05, 2015 - 01:16 pm:   

Love Parade - All We Could Have Been ( 1989 - 1990 )
The Banzai Babies - The Sun's Still Shining

The latest Firestation Records retrospectives.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ans-BXn vfw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGdopIC9 GSk
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Pádraig Collins
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Posted on Wednesday, October 07, 2015 - 11:02 am:   

Seals & Croft – Rhino High-Five EP. Summer Breeze and four other lush 70s pop classics. OK, "classics" might be stretching it, a bit.
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Hugh Nimmo
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Posted on Wednesday, October 07, 2015 - 01:21 pm:   

Close Lobsters - Firestation Towers ( 1986 - 1989 )

Scottish band who formed in Paisley in 1985. Three disc set collecting together the two album, singles and b-sides they recorded between 1986 and 1989.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNIdjhrf 3wE
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Pádraig Collins
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Posted on Sunday, October 11, 2015 - 08:23 am:   

The Beach Boys Classic, selected by Brian Wilson. It's strange, at times, hearing theses songs in this order, but it works really well as an hour of Brian Wilson's genius.
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Pádraig Collins
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Posted on Sunday, October 11, 2015 - 08:46 am:   

The City Views, a Perth band who party like it's 1992. For me this is a good thing. I'm not sure the youth of 2015 would care a great deal for it though.
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Pádraig Collins
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Post Number: 7518
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Posted on Sunday, October 11, 2015 - 09:10 am:   

Greatest Ever Power Pop, The Definitive Collection. I'd dispute the efficacy of the title, but it is very good.
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Pádraig Collins
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Post Number: 7519
Registered: 05-2005
Posted on Sunday, October 11, 2015 - 10:58 am:   

Robert Smith remixes of Ride's Vapour Trail http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicbl og/2015/oct/07/listen-to-robert-smiths-r emixes-of-rides-vapour-trail
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Stuart Wilson
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Post Number: 1209
Registered: 10-2006
Posted on Friday, October 16, 2015 - 12:24 pm:   

Joan Shelley - Over and even

An impulse buy which, for once, I will not have to groan out loud at every time my eyes flick over its cover on the shelf. Something about it having been written on a Greek island intrigued me and, indeed, track 5 is an echo/homage/steal of other songs written on a Greek isle by a certain Mr Cohen - in fact, if he is still having money problems, I reckon a plagiarism hit might be quite fruitful here. Shelley has one of those clear, bell-like, crystalline voices that sits perfectly over the golden shimmer of acoustic guitars: she is already being called the "new Joni" though the "new Judy" might be more appropriate. There is a great deal of heart-lifting tunefulness here and it provides a warmly pleasurable listen.
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Simon Withers
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Post Number: 299
Registered: 08-2005
Posted on Friday, October 16, 2015 - 08:46 pm:   

Kate Bush, the House of Love, Ed Keeper, Crowded House, the Chills.
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Andrew Kerr
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Post Number: 1029
Registered: 04-2005
Posted on Thursday, October 22, 2015 - 06:24 pm:   

New Louise Attaque single "Anomalie"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=280lxFC9 20g

By the comments on YouTube the fans don't seem to be too overjoyed by this return! Where is the violin ? Sounds like Coldplay ? Sounds like a Gaëtan Roussel solo recording ?
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Hugh Nimmo
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Post Number: 865
Registered: 03-2007
Posted on Friday, October 23, 2015 - 02:05 pm:   

The Bitter Springs - Cuttlefish & Love's Remains
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Stuart Wilson
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Post Number: 1213
Registered: 10-2006
Posted on Saturday, October 24, 2015 - 10:57 am:   

I kind of prefer this acoustic cover version, Andrew... but I'm always a sucker for a French chick with a guitar!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hemSuWD5 Fyk
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Andrew Kerr
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Post Number: 1031
Registered: 04-2005
Posted on Saturday, October 24, 2015 - 04:11 pm:   

Hi Stuart,

Yes that is pretty good

This might be a site for you

http://fillessourires.com/
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Stuart Wilson
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Post Number: 1214
Registered: 10-2006
Posted on Sunday, October 25, 2015 - 07:45 am:   

Good Lord. Thank you.
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Andrew Kerr
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Post Number: 1034
Registered: 04-2005
Posted on Sunday, October 25, 2015 - 11:11 am:   

Pauline Drand - Aéroport

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs1L-rnP Mxw

Possibly another one for you Stuart !? Shades of Françoiz Breut ?

I like "Emile Sait" as well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7g4EyxHU aBo
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Randy Adams
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Post Number: 3572
Registered: 03-2005
Posted on Monday, October 26, 2015 - 02:47 pm:   

Would Be Goods -- The Morning After

Jessica Griffin's group, the Would Be Goods had a couple of great tracks on the El comp "The Ruling Class." Exploring further.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow9lOATK bnY
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Randy Adams
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Post Number: 3573
Registered: 03-2005
Posted on Monday, October 26, 2015 - 03:00 pm:   

This one is too good not to share. Would Be Goods again, from "The Morning After."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAy4vDdG ZPk
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Pádraig Collins
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Post Number: 7522
Registered: 05-2005
Posted on Wednesday, October 28, 2015 - 12:37 pm:   

Tony O'Connor - Uluru. I just discovered last night he died five years ago. I bought this on cassette in the Kuranda markets in the Atherton Tablelands, far north Queensland, in 1992. I recently bought it again from iTunes. I'm not sure anyone else here would like it, but I love this album.
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Simon Withers
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Post Number: 302
Registered: 08-2005
Posted on Thursday, October 29, 2015 - 09:59 am:   

A lot of Kate Bush and The Chills
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Jerry Clark
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Post Number: 1173
Registered: 08-2004
Posted on Friday, October 30, 2015 - 02:55 pm:   

Felt - Forever Breathes The Lonely Word
Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out Of This Country
The Fall - Live At The Witch Trials
Belle & Sebastian - Girls In Peacetime...
The Kinks - Muswell Hillbillies
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Hugh Nimmo
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Post Number: 867
Registered: 03-2007
Posted on Friday, October 30, 2015 - 04:14 pm:   

The Chills - Silver Bullets
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peter ward
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Post Number: 290
Registered: 06-2005
Posted on Saturday, October 31, 2015 - 08:14 pm:   

Oliver Cole - the Year of The Bird
A slow burning great album, the songwriting & instrumentation are easily the best thing this accomplished songwriter has released to date.
Glen Hansard & Gemma Hayes also make an appearance but he plays almost everything himself
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Andrew Kerr
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Post Number: 1035
Registered: 04-2005
Posted on Monday, November 02, 2015 - 06:41 pm:   

Dylan - Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window (early version)

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/20 15/10/15/exclusive-bob-dylan-like-you-ve -never-heard-him.html

I know that I have previously railed against all this releasing-the-previously-unreleased business.

Most of the time it feels like it might have been unreleased for a good reason ? It wasn't any good ?

But I'll make an exception for the 18 (!) CDs of Dylan from 65 - 66. Might have to sell the children or the cat for cruel medical experiments though to afford it. Surely Bob can't need the money ? 600 dollars ?!
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Pádraig Collins
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Post Number: 7525
Registered: 05-2005
Posted on Tuesday, November 03, 2015 - 08:23 am:   

Carly Simon - You're So Vain, as chosen by Robert Forster on the radio program I linked to elsewhere.
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Simon Withers
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Post Number: 304
Registered: 08-2005
Posted on Wednesday, November 04, 2015 - 10:44 pm:   

The Smiths, REM, The Saints...
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Randy Adams
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Post Number: 3575
Registered: 03-2005
Posted on Thursday, November 05, 2015 - 04:11 am:   

The Understudies -- Let Desire Guide Your Hand

A vinyl release from Germany's Firestation Records, British band vintage 2014.
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Randy Adams
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Post Number: 3576
Registered: 03-2005
Posted on Thursday, November 05, 2015 - 04:27 am:   

Last night I listened to:

Francoiz Breut--s/t

Her first album. Geez, what a great album! Francoiz Breut is one of my favorite artists still making records, but I've tended to rely on her various songs popping up in shuffle mode on the iPods and probably haven't sat down and played the actual album in something like 5 years. I wonder if this might be one of her records that inspired Grant McLennan to rate her highly. I always assumed it was her second album but this one is superb. The spare well-considered arrangements and the quality recorded sound show off a recently-acquired set of 1960s vintage British Wharfedale loudspeakers to great effect.

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