| Author | Message | ||
     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7631 Registered: 05-2005 |
Matthew E. White – Fresh Blood | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7633 Registered: 05-2005 |
Little Steven – Voice Of America | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7634 Registered: 05-2005 |
David Bowie – A Reality Tour | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7639 Registered: 05-2005 |
Ducktails – St. Catherine | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7640 Registered: 05-2005 |
David Bowie & Reeves Gabrels – Acoustic live on KFOG in 1997. A wonderful performance, and Bowie is also very funny in answering questions from the audience. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7643 Registered: 05-2005 |
Pete Yorn – Summer Was A Day (acoustic) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7646 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Go-Betweens – 1978-1990 [Disc 1]. Bye Bye Pride is playing right now. Always one of my favourites of The Go-Betweens' straight up pop songs. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3601 Registered: 03-2005 |
Robert Forster--The Evangelist, the faultless Side One. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7648 Registered: 05-2005 |
Dub Noir – Pick Your Century. It's finally on iTunes Australia, so I was able to get the rest of the tracks. Thanks Randy for introducing them to me. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3602 Registered: 03-2005 |
The Hardy Boys -- British Melancholy Recorded in Glasgow in 2011. What you get when one of those great little regional C86-ish bands from the 1980s decide to make new music in their middle age. High art? No. Worthwhile? Yes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKxagpfr zU4 | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3603 Registered: 03-2005 |
Padraig, as is so often the case, thanks must go to Hugh for Dub Noir. He led me to them a handful of years ago. He tirelessly pitches various North American artists to me and I rebuff him on most of them--"nah, sounds like American crap!"--but he patiently tries another. Dub Noir got through. Total credit to him. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3604 Registered: 03-2005 |
Further comment on the Hardy Boys' album having finished it. I enjoyed the thought that went into many of the instrumental parts. 53 minutes is too long for eleven songs, many of which should have been shorter. (I gradually learned on my own stuff: get straight to the song, do it, and get out.) A little more time spent with the lyrics would have been profitable. When you are middle-aged you probably have fewer things to write about; write about them in more depth possibly with more detail. And (something I also forget too often) remember the power of humor. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7655 Registered: 05-2005 |
This is one of the funniest things I've heard in a very long time – David Bowie impersonating Bruce Springsteen, Marc Bolan, Tom Waits, Lou Reed, Anthony Newley, Iggy Pop and Neil Young. Just brilliant. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7657 Registered: 05-2005 |
The link would have been useful http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2016 /01/21/david_bowie_impersonates_bruce_sp ringsteen_lou_reed_and_more_video.html?s id=5388d195dd52b8581b001459&wpsrc=newsle tter_culture | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 895 Registered: 03-2007 |
Emily - A Retrospective ( Two Disc Set ) Missing from the above are the following songs which were originally released in 1988 on the Irony EP ( vinyl only ) by Creation Records. I don't think the label were prepared to licence them for this compilation. Such a pity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4eYkiay fBM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA4rb9hQ 5zw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45L84Hog cKs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDmgbvGQ eF4 | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 429 Registered: 02-2007 |
Bowie - "Fall Dog Bombs The Moon" from Reality album (2003). Great song and the album is very underrated I think. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 896 Registered: 03-2007 |
Spy - Unknown Places Twenty three track restrospective by a German band who released singles in 1997 and 1998 on Marsh Marigold Records. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7661 Registered: 05-2005 |
David, that's an amazing Bowie song. It stands up to almost anything in his entire career. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1051 Registered: 04-2005 |
Anyone identify the music that kicks in at around 45 seconds in this film trailer ? I saw the trailer at the cinema a couple of days ago and has been bugging me ever since. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjTVaDMc Hjw Apparently a French bassist called Pascal Humbert (currently in the group Detroit with Bertrand Cantat) is responsible for the soundtrack, but I guess that he may have picked some other people's music too... | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 897 Registered: 03-2007 |
Andrew, I get the message 'The Uploader has not made the video available in your country' when I attempt to view same. Found the following which I hope may be of use to you. http://www.soundtrack.net/album/les-prem iers-les-derniers/ | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1052 Registered: 04-2005 |
Hi Hugh, Cheers for that link but doesn't provide any answers I'm afraid. Are you able to see this version ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSgjI9qV xHs The song starts with a low male voice singing. I am sure that I know the song, but have a vague feeling that it does not continue in that vein ! | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 322 Registered: 11-2007 |
Hi Andrew, it wasn't easy but I was successful  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiVS56Ie PXw Micah P. Hinson - Beneath the rose ...and it is a nice song... and a link to german amazon: http://www.amazon.de/Micah-P-Hinson-Gosp el-Progress-Hinson/dp/B00NEDATLU/ref=sr_ 1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1453845918&sr=8-1- fkmr0&keywords=Micah+P.+Hinson+Beneath+t he+rose | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1253 Registered: 10-2006 |
Good going, Andreas - well worth the search!! | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1053 Registered: 04-2005 |
Brilliant Andreas ! Many thanks! I'll be able to sleep easy tonight. Did you know the song already ? I know nothing about the artist, but a friend had made me a compilation with that song on it and I really liked it. The film actually looks pretty good too. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 899 Registered: 03-2007 |
Andrew, I was able to view the video via the second link but I did not recognise the song so I am glad Andreas managed to identify it for you. I also liked what I saw of the trailer and will look to pick it up on dvd in due course. | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 323 Registered: 11-2007 |
Hi guys, no Andrew, I just knew the name but not his music! ...but liked the music on first listening! thx to you Other music I haven't listened to yet but a new hint for me from the german paper SPIEGEL: GET WELL SOON her with a very cynical video starring Udo Kier! Get Well Soon - It's Love https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDsX9FV5 0vE | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 384 Registered: 05-2005 |
Get well soon is one of my fave german band. We've our tickets for the Gloria concert since one month... Fourth time we try to see them, always had bad luck for their previous concerts (snow, illness..). Hope everything will be ok in march.. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3606 Registered: 03-2005 |
Being further from Berlin than Hugh, my Firestation package didn't arrive until yesterday. Currently, Hipflasks -- A Lovely Scar 80's vintage guitar pop from Newcastle. A person could accuse them of sounding like a lot of other small market U.K. bands from the second half of the 1980s. I happen to really like these bands so I'm quite contented with this set. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7665 Registered: 05-2005 |
Therapy? – Infernal Love | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 902 Registered: 03-2007 |
No Monster Club - A Morbid Fascination https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8Koy9Z9 Hxk The band hail from Dublin and have released at least ten or eleven titles most of which were never issued on cd or are no longer available in that format. Part of the Popical Island Collective along with the Ginnels, Grand Pocket Orchestra and Cave Ghosts. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7667 Registered: 05-2005 |
Frank Sinatra – Ultimate Sinatra: The Centennial Collection (Deluxe) | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3611 Registered: 03-2005 |
Shiny Two Shiny -- When the Rain Stops | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7676 Registered: 05-2005 |
Dan Hicks (& His Hot Licks) – I Scare Myself. Thanks, Stuart, for the inspiration. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7677 Registered: 05-2005 |
Sorry, it was Simon, not Stuart. An SW mix up. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7678 Registered: 05-2005 |
Listening to Dan Hicks makes me realise how much Jim Ruiz owes to him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgOpoB8f RVc | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7679 Registered: 05-2005 |
Rockfour – Another Beginning | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7684 Registered: 05-2005 |
Late 1991 was an extraordinary time for music. For me it is a dividing time between what music was and what lay ahead. Within a couple of months Nirvana, Teenage Fanclub, My Bloody Valentine, Primal Scream and Neil Young all released career changing or defining albums. Those albums were made by people from America, Scotland, Ireland, England and Canada, but Australians Single Gun Theory's Like Stars In My Hand is up there with them. As with Young's Weld, it is heavily influenced by the Gulf War earlier that year. My theory is that any record made by a thinking person that year was in some way influenced by the war. I'm listening to Like Stars In My Hand now, on vinyl. I got it for Ł1 in Adrian's Records, Wickford, Essex about 20 years ago. Rarely has one pound been so well spent. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7687 Registered: 05-2005 |
An iTunes mix I just made of various rare and obscure David McComb tracks. Still Alive And Well, which as far as I know was the last song he recorded, is just superb. I've been intending to put this mix together for years. I'm not sure what inspired me to finally do it tonight, but I'm sure subconsciously it has something to do with the fact he died 17 years ago last week. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7688 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Blackeyed Susans – Dive For Your Memory (yes, a cover of the Go-Betweens song) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7689 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Go-Betweens – Dive For Your Memory (acoustic demo version) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7690 Registered: 05-2005 |
Allo Darlin' – Dive For Your Memory | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7692 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jump Little Children – Mexico | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7694 Registered: 05-2005 |
Sigmatropic - Every Soul Is A Boat EP, on rather lovely orange vinyl. First time playing it and I had it at the wrong speed first. Boy it's been a long time since that happened. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3614 Registered: 03-2005 |
Bathers--Pandemonia (Director's Cut) Right now, the wonderful "Yellow Crombie." | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7696 Registered: 05-2005 |
I've been reminded by this lovely article http://www.smh.com.au/comment/why-are-me n-so-hopeless-at-love-20160222-gn0w0i.ht ml that Born Sandy Devotional is 30 years old next week. The Seabirds is playing right now. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7698 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jay Gonzalez - The Bitter Suite EP | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7702 Registered: 05-2005 |
Ivy - Thinking About You. One day their brilliance will be recognised beyond me and the Farrelly brothers. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7703 Registered: 05-2005 |
Sons Of Freedom - USA Long Distance. Canadian alt rock from 1991. I loved this at the time (a friend sent it to me from Vancouver). Hearing it again for the first time in maybe 20 years, it still sounds great. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7705 Registered: 05-2005 |
John Lee Hooker - The Healer | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1785 Registered: 08-2006 |
Wussy - "Forever Sounds." Another winner from a band that's very, very good at making records and another incremental evolution in the band's sound, this one noisier and bigger than anything else in their catalog. I've seen a few reviews site a shoe gaze infuence, which I guess I can hear. The vocals are a big down in the mix and the guitar effects are wilder and louder than ever. They're playing two shows in Chicago this weekend so I'm getting ready for some well-earned hearing loss. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7716 Registered: 05-2005 |
ELP – Lucky Man (alternate version, from the remastered edition of the self-titled album) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7717 Registered: 05-2005 |
Grant McLennan – In Your Bright Ray. Such a long time since I last played this. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7720 Registered: 05-2005 |
Salim Nourallah – Hi Parade. A one-man Texan Beatles. https://salimnour.bandcamp.com/album/hit -parade | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7721 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Feelies – It's Only Life (acoustic version). Oh, and the Salim Nourallah album is Hit Parade, not Hi Parade, as I wrote above. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3626 Registered: 03-2005 |
Adrian Borland -- Cinematic If you must throw yourself under a train, leave behind a gift like "Cinematic," a beautiful album from the first note to the last. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7724 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Goon Sax – Up To Anything. Debut album from a Brisbane band of two young men and a young woman. One of whom is Louis Forster. The apple does not fall far from the tree. http://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/ma r/11/the-goon-sax-up-to-anything-review- like-living-in-a-great-coming-of-age-fil m | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7726 Registered: 05-2005 |
Sophia are about to release a new record, and this augurs very well for it https://sophia.bandcamp.com/track/the-dr ifter-2 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7727 Registered: 05-2005 |
My daughter was asking me about Melbourne guy Chet Faker, which reminded me I have his album, Built On Glass. Playing it now. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1272 Registered: 10-2006 |
Virtually sliding down the bark, I'd say, Padraig - look at those leg moves!! | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1273 Registered: 10-2006 |
Blur - Zoe Ball XFM session, 8 Oct 2003 Caravan, End of a century, Good song, Out of time, Tender. A ridiculously brilliant clutch of songs, beautifully played & sung. There seem to be backing singers present, who get a mention nowhere, which is a shame, since they add a great deal. I was thankfully a long way away from the Britpop wars, but I still managed to end up with everything by Oasis and nothing by Damon & chums. What a mistake; but, on the other hand, what a wonderful thing to rectify. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7728 Registered: 05-2005 |
Stuart, I thought I was a late starter with Blur, having climbed on board with Parklife, 22 years ago. Looks like you're making up for all those lost years. Listening to The Drones - Feelin Kinda Free. The middle tracks, To Think That I Once Loved You and Tailwind, are stunning. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1274 Registered: 10-2006 |
Or "Who is it this month?" as the wife sighs when the Amazon marketplace packages start piling up in the hall... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7730 Registered: 05-2005 |
Blur – Bustin' + Dronin' (add this Japanese remix and live release to your list, Stuart) | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3627 Registered: 03-2005 |
In preparation for a concert next weekend I am listening to Sad Lovers & Giants' third album "The Mirror Test." This is a pretty good album, a lot more immediately appealing than their second one "Feeding the Flame." Until this week I only had "Epic Garden Music." I almost saw Sad Lovers & Giants in London in the fall of 2014 but I had picked up a bug in Paris and decided not to try. It's wild to have them show up in my own town way out here on the edge of North America. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 7733 Registered: 05-2005 |
A Tribe Called Quest – Revised Quest For The Seasoned Traveller. RIP Phife Dawg. |