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Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 7735 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Saturday, March 26, 2016 - 07:20 am: | |
It being Easter, I'm indulging in both the religious and secular aspects of the season. Religious: Listening to John Debney's stunning soundtrack to The Passion Of The Christ, and Peter Gabriel's even more stunning Passion: Music For The Last Temptation Of Christ. The devil might have all the best songs, but he does not have the best soundtracks.If Gabriel hadn't written his soundtrack using middle eastern music I don't think Debney would have been able to write his with similar influences. It's a great thing that he did. Secular: The chocolate Easter bunny I've just devoured. Sacrilicious. |
Randy Adams
Member Username: Randy_adams
Post Number: 3631 Registered: 03-2005
| Posted on Thursday, March 31, 2016 - 04:27 am: | |
Francoiz Breut -- Zoo New album, her sixth. It is very promising on two listens so far. By this point in time I've learned to trust her. I was originally a bit lukewarm on her last album La Chirurgie des Sentiments but found myself appreciating it a lot more over time other than perhaps a rather uninspiring mastering job. She never likes to make the same album twice and this one sounds a good deal different than La Chirurgie, though I expect both of them had equally lower production budgets as compared to her early years when Dominique A was involved. The only track which clunks for me is "Morlocks und die Streunerin" which just doesn't have enough going on musically for my taste and is spoken im Deutsch by Francoiz instead of delivered in her usual wonderful diffident almost offhand singing. The arrangements are comparatively uncluttered this time around and more keyboard-based than on many of her albums. You'll hear Farfisa but don't expect a novelty new-wave revival. Mastering quality is better than on her last album and I suspect that I'll find little surprises popping up on repeated listens. |
Stuart Wilson
Member Username: Stuart
Post Number: 1276 Registered: 10-2006
| Posted on Thursday, March 31, 2016 - 06:23 pm: | |
Paco de Lucia – Entros dos aguas Something about an expertly played acoustic guitar I find both exhilarating and relaxing. |
Jerry Clark
Member Username: Jerry
Post Number: 1188 Registered: 08-2004
| Posted on Friday, April 01, 2016 - 11:45 am: | |
The Cramps - A Date With Elvis Massive Attack - Ritual Spirit EP Also some old favourites that fell away only to be heartily welcomed back: Television - Marquee Moon John Cale - Paris 1919 |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 7740 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Saturday, April 02, 2016 - 11:18 am: | |
Cheap Trick – Bang, Zoom, Crazy ... Hello |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 7743 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Sunday, April 03, 2016 - 10:43 am: | |
Tom Verlaine – Flash Light. What a pleasure to be reacquainted with an old friend. |
Cichli Suite
Member Username: Cichli_suite
Post Number: 210 Registered: 08-2004
| Posted on Sunday, April 03, 2016 - 12:27 pm: | |
Pádraig, it is a nice one alright - though my favourite from that time is the previous one 'Cover'. Some great pop songs on that one. |
Cichli Suite
Member Username: Cichli_suite
Post Number: 211 Registered: 08-2004
| Posted on Sunday, April 03, 2016 - 12:43 pm: | |
.. and I am listening to it right now - thanks for the prompt |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 7744 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Sunday, April 03, 2016 - 01:43 pm: | |
Welcome back! Just thought of you the other day for some reason. |
Cichli Suite
Member Username: Cichli_suite
Post Number: 212 Registered: 08-2004
| Posted on Sunday, April 03, 2016 - 01:58 pm: | |
Thanks - hope all is well with you and the other GBers. Nice to see many familiar names still here. |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 7746 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Wednesday, April 06, 2016 - 03:05 am: | |
Revlon – Revelino. Great, lost Irish album from the mid-90s. |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 7749 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Wednesday, April 06, 2016 - 04:21 am: | |
The band name above should say Revolino, same as the title. Damn auto-correct. Weezer – Weezer (The White Album). Partying like it was 1994. |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 7750 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Wednesday, April 06, 2016 - 04:22 am: | |
Revelino. Damn you again, auto-correct. |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 7751 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Wednesday, April 06, 2016 - 08:26 am: | |
Cathal Smyth – A Comfortable Man. Absolutely stunning. I've had it for a while but this is my first time playing it. I can tell from first listen that it's a classic. The whole thing is a break-up album. I was in tears at some of the lyrics. It's so raw, but so cathartic and brilliant. The music is worthy of the lyrics. I wonder if his wife thought about taking him back after hearing an album of songs about how great she is and how sorry he is. It's powerful stuff. |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 7752 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Wednesday, April 06, 2016 - 09:16 am: | |
Cheap Trick – Rockford |
Cichli Suite
Member Username: Cichli_suite
Post Number: 213 Registered: 08-2004
| Posted on Thursday, April 07, 2016 - 03:15 pm: | |
Pierce Turner - Tantum Ergo There's always a bit of Latin in each Pierce Turner Album. Tantum ergo Sacramentum Veneremur cernui: Et antiquum documentum Novo cedat ritui: Prćstet fides supplementum Sensuum defectui. |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 7754 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Saturday, April 09, 2016 - 03:15 am: | |
I once gave Pierce Turner a very bad review in The Irish Times... The Necks - Sex. Australian, 1989, one track, 56 minutes, jazz, genius. |
Cichli Suite
Member Username: Cichli_suite
Post Number: 214 Registered: 08-2004
| Posted on Saturday, April 09, 2016 - 08:46 pm: | |
And what was the gist of your scolding, Padraig? Spent the evening listening to Auguri by Dominique A, whom I'd never heard of before reading some recent comments here. Excellent stuff. I'm looking forward to listening to more. |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 7755 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Sunday, April 10, 2016 - 06:05 am: | |
Pierce Turner ** 3 Minute World Punctual Records He’s held in high esteem by those who’ve loved his work for years. This, though, is the first time I’ve heard a full album by him and, at the risk of sounding like an eejit who just doesn’t get it, I just don’t get it. It’s not awful, but it’s not inspired either. It starts well with Sunday, which has the sound and lyrical style of Beach Boys circa Smiley Smile. But Busy is a mess, crossing Brecht and Weil with Blur. Ball And Chain is as close as it gets to conventional pop, but it’s unlikely to trouble the charts. One for converts. |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 7756 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Sunday, April 10, 2016 - 06:07 am: | |
I'd like to hear that album again to see if it lives down to my review. I gave the album to someone who was a big fan though. Is that one you have, CS? |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 7757 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Sunday, April 10, 2016 - 06:51 am: | |
R.E.M. – Near Wild Heaven 12". The b-sides are acoustic versions of Pop Song '89 and Half A World Away. |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 7759 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Sunday, April 10, 2016 - 10:26 am: | |
A mix CD I made a few years ago and titled The Godlike Genius Of Damon Albarn. I thought I'd lost it, but found it in a box when looking for something else. Happy days. It has aspects from throughout his career, from Blur, to solo, to Gorrilaz, to Chinese opera and Malian. The title is apposite. |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 7761 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Sunday, April 10, 2016 - 01:15 pm: | |
BMX Bandits - Serious Drugs, all five versions. The original single, demo, live, alternative version and other mix. Does anyone know of any more versions? I know Gigolo Aunts did a cover, which I also have, somewhere. |
Stuart Wilson
Member Username: Stuart
Post Number: 1280 Registered: 10-2006
| Posted on Sunday, April 10, 2016 - 02:03 pm: | |
Let's have a tracklisting of DA's Godlike Genius, then, Padraig, just in case, as a recent convert, I'm missing something! |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 7762 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Sunday, April 10, 2016 - 03:43 pm: | |
Would that I had a track list, Stuart. It's just a disc with the title I gave it. Next time I play it I'll try to name them, but there are 23 tracks and many are pretty obscure ones from his vinyl only first solo album, Mali Music, The Good, The Bad & The Queen, a duet with Ray Davies (OK, that one is Waterloo Sunset), Monkey: Journey To The West, Gorillaz and Blur b-sides. But I'll try. |
Hugh Nimmo
Member Username: Hugh_nimmo
Post Number: 904 Registered: 03-2007
| Posted on Thursday, April 14, 2016 - 06:20 pm: | |
The Wild Poppies - Heroine ( The Complete Collection 1986 to 1989.) New Zealand band who released a single, ep and album between 1986 and 1989. Joint release by Manufactured Recordings ( USA ) and Pretty Olivia Records ( Spain.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jCB_G-F Lws&list=PL6EEoqOWnck40nF4NMTG5rg-RGp0t_ NNZ&index=11 |
Randy Adams
Member Username: Randy_adams
Post Number: 3636 Registered: 03-2005
| Posted on Thursday, April 14, 2016 - 07:41 pm: | |
Will have to check that out Hugh. Now that I'm back home with access to a stereo I'm playing my haul from my visit to Rough Trade East. UV Pop--No Songs Tomorrow Early 80s, low budget postpunk from South Yorkshire. Think of drum machines and cheap keyboards but surprisingly there's occasionally acoustic guitar, not a typical post-punk instrument. The best of this is sounding pretty good to me. |
Randy Adams
Member Username: Randy_adams
Post Number: 3638 Registered: 03-2005
| Posted on Thursday, April 14, 2016 - 08:06 pm: | |
Cichli, I'm both glad to see you on here again and also checking out Dom A. He's made a lot of records due to the length of his career. They started out pretty primitive with cheap keyboards, drum machine and guitar and were often more twee than anything else. Then he started to develop. At this point now he'll do records with orchestration. No idea how you feel about that kind of thing. But if you like Auguri I can confidently recommend you to "Remue" which (I think, too lazy to go look right now) dates from a couple years before Auguri. And, oh jeez, the crazy groove of "La Vie Rend Modeste" from "La Memoire Neuve." If you find you keep enjoying what you hear you'll probably find much to enjoy right along the line from the early super primitivo stuff to the elegiac Euro-ballad he opens "Eleor" with, called "Cap Farvel." He did that at the show, possibly as the opener but I can't quite remember. It was ravishing sans orchestra and it's also ravishing on the record with orchestra and the great flat-picked bass guitar underpinning it. In between "Eleor" and the older music you've heard, there's his electronic "La Musique" (which I think loses steam about hald way through, but deserves another proper all ears listen) and his jaw-droppingly brilliant-from-front-to-back rock as if arranged by Erik Satie on his second to latest album, "Vers les Lueurs." He takes french musical tradition and slots it into the 21st Century. Just a lot of really great records. |
Hugh Nimmo
Member Username: Hugh_nimmo
Post Number: 905 Registered: 03-2007
| Posted on Thursday, April 14, 2016 - 10:42 pm: | |
Randy, Nothing earth shattering but a complete collection by a New Zealand band who only existed for a short period of time in the late 1980s. You might also want to checkout the following if you have not already done so. Flemming Borby ( aka Labrador ) - Somebody Wrong https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agfaQJrD 1Lg Not quite sure why he has decided to release his latest album under his own name given that all his previous releases were put out under the moniker of Labrador. A Dead Forest Index - Myth Retraced https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ja3IyLo8 Qu0 Touring on the back of the release of their debut album 'In All That Drifts From Summit Down. I don't know how interesting a two piece band ( guitar and percussion ) will sound live but for me they are one of the most interesting Australian artists I have come across in quite some time. Performing at the Teragram Ballroom, Los Angeles, on 6th and 7th June, 2016. I am guessing you don't get a great opportunity to see young Australian and New Zealand artists in your neck of the woods very often so it might be worth taking the risk. I know I would chance it if they were appearing anywhere near me. http://www.adeadforestindex.com/ |
Hugh Nimmo
Member Username: Hugh_nimmo
Post Number: 906 Registered: 03-2007
| Posted on Thursday, April 14, 2016 - 10:55 pm: | |
Randy, Performing on the 7th and 8th June, 2016, and not as previously stated. How good is this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWWCaLSA eFU |
Randy Adams
Member Username: Randy_adams
Post Number: 3639 Registered: 03-2005
| Posted on Thursday, April 14, 2016 - 11:51 pm: | |
Hugh, I can always count on you to make me aware of things. I am already aware of Dead Forest Index, thanks to you. I didn't know they were playing in LA (and have never heard of Teragram Ballroom but it's a big city and there's always a new place opening somewhere). I didn't know they were only a two-piece. I hope that doesn't mean they overdo it with electronic effects like digital loop boxes, but whatever. If I don't have a calendar conflict I'll check them out. The Borby song sounds great. Maybe he's reached the point where he wants people to know who he is. |
Cichli Suite
Member Username: Cichli_suite
Post Number: 215 Registered: 08-2004
| Posted on Friday, April 15, 2016 - 05:01 pm: | |
Randy, many thanks for the recommendations. I'm already listening to Remue and loving it. Orchestration is fine by me. Dominique A fits in with my liking of Scott Walker, early Roxy music, Jacques Brel. I wish my French were better. I find myself singing along in melodic gibberish. |
Cichli Suite
Member Username: Cichli_suite
Post Number: 216 Registered: 08-2004
| Posted on Friday, April 15, 2016 - 05:08 pm: | |
Pádraig, 3 Minute World isn't one of my favourites, though I do like it. I think a lot of people don't 'get' Pierce Turner because he is impossible to label. Look at the allmusic bio for him mentioning Van Morrison and Elvis Costello - I can't see any resemblance. Likewise, I reckon the Blur and Brecht and Weill reference might be lost to the man himself. He's not rock and roll; he's closer to art-music - yet his live performances are more like music hall. As one of the few good musical things to come out of Wexford, my home town, I think he's great. |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 7767 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Wednesday, April 20, 2016 - 01:06 pm: | |
G.W. McLennan – Live Last Monday. A wonderful, five song EP only ever released on cassette, which was given away free with a single in 1991. The sound is not very good, but I imagine that's at least partly because of the format it was released on. Hopefully the full show will be released on CD one day. |
Rob Brookman
Member Username: Rob_b
Post Number: 1790 Registered: 08-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, April 20, 2016 - 01:33 pm: | |
Parquet Courts: Human Performance. By far my favorite American indie rock band going. Imagine if the Velvet Underground and Pavement had a baby. I get to see them tonight. |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 7769 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Wednesday, April 20, 2016 - 02:07 pm: | |
I like that description Rob. Gig report afterwards, please. |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 7772 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Thursday, April 21, 2016 - 12:58 pm: | |
Bardo Pond – Acid Guru Pond |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 7783 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Saturday, April 23, 2016 - 09:20 am: | |
Miles Davis – Aura. I've loved this album since I first bought it on cassette in 1989 or 1990 when I was living in Boston. Haven't played it in years. I was reminded of it by Bardo Pond's Record Store Day release where the track titles are also all colours, four of which are the same as track titles on Aura. I presume Bardo Pond are aware of Aura. |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 7784 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Sunday, April 24, 2016 - 06:27 am: | |
Bardo Pond – Acid Guru Pond, again. This really is a stunning album. |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 7785 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Sunday, April 24, 2016 - 12:08 pm: | |
Public Service Broadcasting – The Other Side (7" edit with a remix version on the b-side). |
Hugh Nimmo
Member Username: Hugh_nimmo
Post Number: 907 Registered: 03-2007
| Posted on Monday, April 25, 2016 - 11:38 pm: | |
The Olesen brothers ( Henrik and Peter ) who were previously members of the Danish band Greene. Ukendt Under Andet Navn - Han Er Kunstner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITSuwiUp I30 De Efterladte - Synger Synger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5TDpcYC iis A Kickstarter project which I have signed up for. The album is due for release in August, 2016. |
Hugh Nimmo
Member Username: Hugh_nimmo
Post Number: 908 Registered: 03-2007
| Posted on Monday, April 25, 2016 - 11:52 pm: | |
A Dead Forest Index - Summit Down A track from their debut album which will be released later this month. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kpnlPqi OZo |
Fred Tadrowski
Member Username: Ftadrowski
Post Number: 12 Registered: 03-2015
| Posted on Wednesday, April 27, 2016 - 03:03 pm: | |
I am curious what other board members think of the Goon Sax album. I like it. It is very Jonathan Richman, which is interesting because the Go-Betweens almost recorded with Beserkley Records. But Louis Forster has talent. |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 7788 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Wednesday, April 27, 2016 - 09:59 pm: | |
I mentioned it here before, Fred. I like it a lot. Listening to Dexys Midnight Runners' Don't Stand Me Down. I bought the vinyl version last week, but I haven't played it yet. I'm listening to mp3s. An unbridled classic, which is what I've thought since I first bought it on Brazilian-edition cassette for 99p 21 years ago. Best 99p I ever spent on music. Though, of course, I subsequently bought the CD version and now the vinyl too. |
Andreas Severins
Member Username: Andreas_severins
Post Number: 329 Registered: 11-2007
| Posted on Friday, April 29, 2016 - 08:05 am: | |
Kevin Morby - Singing Saw His third album, new to me, and I like it a lot! |
Andreas Severins
Member Username: Andreas_severins
Post Number: 330 Registered: 11-2007
| Posted on Friday, April 29, 2016 - 08:06 am: | |
The Chills rsd 2016 release Pyramid! what a song, sonderful |
Hugh Nimmo
Member Username: Hugh_nimmo
Post Number: 909 Registered: 03-2007
| Posted on Friday, April 29, 2016 - 09:40 pm: | |
The latest batch of Firestation Records reissues. Three English bands who were in existence for brief periods in the mid to late 1980s Yeah Jazz - Probably This Winter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH31rX5E EU8 Me And Dean Martin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R_6H5K8 n_E Endless Bob Brown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhKQWAD9 mVk |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 7789 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Saturday, April 30, 2016 - 01:20 am: | |
Bob Dylan's Record Store Day 7" of standards. Come Rain Or Come Shine is playing right now. |
Hugh Nimmo
Member Username: Hugh_nimmo
Post Number: 910 Registered: 03-2007
| Posted on Saturday, April 30, 2016 - 02:32 pm: | |
Miaoux Miaoux - Stop The Clocks A track from his album 'Light Of The North' which was released in 2012. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2E1u4xy 898 Video filmed in Taymouth Castle near Aberfeldy. |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 7790 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Sunday, May 01, 2016 - 08:06 am: | |
A Cheap Trick compilation I made from their current and two previous albums. Power poptastic. |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 7795 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, May 03, 2016 - 12:16 pm: | |
7Horse – Livin' In A Bitch Of A World. The best straight ahead rock record I've heard in quite a while. |
Hugh Nimmo
Member Username: Hugh_nimmo
Post Number: 911 Registered: 03-2007
| Posted on Tuesday, May 03, 2016 - 09:34 pm: | |
A Dead Forest Index - In All That Drifts From Summit Down |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 7797 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Thursday, May 05, 2016 - 10:34 am: | |
Bob Dylan – The Witmark Demos. How fortunate we are to be able to hear these more than 50 years after they were recorded, never designed for commercial release. |
Andrew Kerr
Member Username: Andrew_k
Post Number: 1073 Registered: 04-2005
| Posted on Friday, May 06, 2016 - 02:17 pm: | |
My fairly knacked vinyl copy of the Stones' "Exile on Main Street". Play loud ! Who cares about the odd click when Keith's guitar sounds that good on "Happy". |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 7803 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Saturday, May 07, 2016 - 12:26 am: | |
Melody Pool – Deep Dark Savage Heart. An intense young Australian woman. First time playing it. I'm halfway through and it sounds great so far. The track Black Dog rips its melody off from a Leonard Cohen song (though exactly which one escapes me right now), but at least it takes it somewhere interesting – a country soul direction. And how Triffidsish is that album title? I think David McComb would have approved. |
peter ward
Member Username: Peter_ward
Post Number: 304 Registered: 06-2005
| Posted on Saturday, May 07, 2016 - 12:28 am: | |
A great debut album at the fresh age of 53, saw David Corley with a 5 piece band that included Cait O Riordan on bass in a jam packed back room of a bar in Kilkenny last weekend... classic stuff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fb7V1XZH UzU |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 7805 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Saturday, May 07, 2016 - 08:31 am: | |
The Jayhawks - Smile, vinyl version, spread over two discs, with six extra tracks on side four. |
Hugh Nimmo
Member Username: Hugh_nimmo
Post Number: 912 Registered: 03-2007
| Posted on Sunday, May 08, 2016 - 03:12 pm: | |
Me And Dean Martin - Let's Romanticise Our Youth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7cCW5B7 cXM The above was to have been the band's third single but they called it a day before it was released. |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 7806 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Monday, May 09, 2016 - 12:55 am: | |
Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool. So far, so great. |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 7808 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Monday, May 09, 2016 - 09:44 am: | |
The Beloved – Blissed Out (The Remixes). I'm listening to the cassette version, which has five extra tracks that, as far as I know, have never been released on CD. |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 7809 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, May 10, 2016 - 07:39 am: | |
William Tyler – Modern Country |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 7812 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, May 10, 2016 - 12:25 pm: | |
The Duke Spirit – KIN |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 7814 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Wednesday, May 11, 2016 - 06:36 am: | |
Chaka Khan – I Feel For You 12". I was in high school when this came out and loved it. People thought I was being ironic because I was a metalhead. I wasn't. |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 7815 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Wednesday, May 11, 2016 - 12:22 pm: | |
Underminers – Beyond The Stars. Long time since I've played this. I came across it while looking for something else. |
Randy Adams
Member Username: Randy_adams
Post Number: 3644 Registered: 03-2005
| Posted on Wednesday, May 11, 2016 - 04:49 pm: | |
Sudden Sway -- Early Rarities Collection. Prior to this I'd only heard their ironic synth opera classic "'76 Kids Forever" and a tiny handful of later tracks sent to me by Spence. Who'd-a-thunk they started out as a post-punk band with normal instrumentation, guitars and all? Hugh, I've also received the latest Firestation CARE package. I haven't gotten to Me and Dean Martin yet but am quite impressed with the quality of Endless Bob Brown, even though it's all demos. |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 7816 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Thursday, May 12, 2016 - 05:31 am: | |
Lacey Jones – Laney Jones. Indie, with a twist. The twist being she studied composition at Berklee College of Music in Boston. Many's the night I spent listening to Berklee students playing at Wally's Jazz Cafe in Boston. |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 7817 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Thursday, May 12, 2016 - 05:32 am: | |
The woman's name is Laney, not Lacey. Damn autocorrect thinking it's smarter than me. |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 7819 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Thursday, May 12, 2016 - 06:49 am: | |
A rather wonderful Japanese Laura Nyro compilation called Premium Best. The world would be a much better place if more best ofs were called Premium Best. |
Randy Adams
Member Username: Randy_adams
Post Number: 3646 Registered: 03-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, May 17, 2016 - 03:30 am: | |
The Riptides -- Tombs of Gold For some incomprehensible reason this classic early 80s Aussie retro band never received the proper CD reissue/anthology treatment. This one comes on vinyl. Red vinyl! This album is a collection of singles. I hope it is ultimately released on CD. It's great that I can listen to it but I've had to go to some $$$ lengths to provide myself with the ability to listen to good quality vinyl, and the freshly-rebuilt vintage preamp's phono circuitry is giving trouble so I will have go through some more bother to fix that. Nowadays vinyl is a medium for the pinkie fingered well heeled. |
Hugh Nimmo
Member Username: Hugh_nimmo
Post Number: 913 Registered: 03-2007
| Posted on Tuesday, May 17, 2016 - 10:27 pm: | |
Randy, It is available on cd with an additional 8 tracks. http://the-riptides.myshopify.com/produc ts/tombs-of-gold-cd Probably best to purchase via the band's website as apparently there was a problem with the intial batch ( three tracks were remastered at the wrong speed.) Sorry to hear that your preamp is acting up. |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 7820 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Wednesday, May 18, 2016 - 08:31 am: | |
Guy Clark – Old No. 1. RIP, Guy. |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 7822 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Thursday, May 19, 2016 - 09:54 am: | |
Ike Reilly - Born On Fire. A Wisconsin singer/songwriter who's a friend of a friend. I've known his music for more than a quarter century. I bought it from iTunes. The title track is about Chris Farley, who was another friend of my mate and Ike's. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wzneDFB CeE |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 7824 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Thursday, May 19, 2016 - 10:00 am: | |
Turns out Ike is actually from Illinois. Sorry, Rob. No offence. |
Rob Brookman
Member Username: Rob_b
Post Number: 1795 Registered: 08-2006
| Posted on Thursday, May 19, 2016 - 02:25 pm: | |
I think Ike lives up north not too far from the Wisconsin border. Given the fact you're on the other side of the world I forgive you for a 30-mile geographical error, PC : ) Glad you know about him. He's been a staple around here for a long time. |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 7825 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Friday, May 20, 2016 - 12:40 am: | |
My friend and Ike, along with Chris Farley and Pat Finn, all went to Marquette University together in the 1980s. I think they were all involved with the rugby team too. |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 7826 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Friday, May 20, 2016 - 02:27 am: | |
Bryan Estepa – Every Little Thing. I've reviewed it here. Go on, help make him a star. http://www.theguardian.com/global/2016/m ay/20/bryan-estepa-the-tempe-two-every-l ittle-thing-review-highly-self-assured |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 7828 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Saturday, May 28, 2016 - 01:03 am: | |
The Monkees – Good Times! They're back, and it's glorious. |