| Author | Message | ||
     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8035 Registered: 05-2005 |
We have reached 100. Robert Forster - Songs To Play, in preparation for seeing him in a couple of hours. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8038 Registered: 05-2005 |
Damien Jurado - Other People's Songs Volume One | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8042 Registered: 05-2005 |
Michael Buble - It's Christmas Time. I love this CD. What a voice he has. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8044 Registered: 05-2005 |
Joseph Washington Jr. - Merry Christmas To You | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8051 Registered: 05-2005 |
My 2016 CD mix. I'm enjoying this far more hearing it on disc through a good hi-fi than as an iTunes mix through the computer. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8052 Registered: 05-2005 |
Adam Young - Elementary Carnival Blues. Several good songs and one great one so far. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8053 Registered: 05-2005 |
Marching Church - Telling It Like It Is. They are a bit too much in thrall to The Cure this time. Still some very good songs, but nowhere near as good as their previous album, This World Is Not Enough. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8055 Registered: 05-2005 |
Syd Arthur - Apricity | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3698 Registered: 03-2005 |
This is particularly aimed at Stuart. Right now I'm digging through the enormous back catalogue of Marta Kubisova (that spelling is missing some Slavic pronunciation marks). She recorded and performed until early 1970 and then was banned by the Communist government because of her indelible association with the Prague Spring movement. She recorded a LOT of stuff and inevitably some of it is IMO kinda dull--especially the covers of western pop tunes--but the good stuff is really great, with the consequence that I now have a 6CD (!) anthology steaming its way to me. Check out this eye-popping mid-60s Czechoslovak vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDDW4vFi 4-4 Or how about this? Hapsburg pop music! Check out its little musical nod to the Beatles' "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" at the end. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pt8cgEmd uFk And if you wonder why the Czech government shut her down check out this 1969 video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12pqfKMQ M-Q Here, she marries acid rock and Central European melodrama: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4lWb2lQ 20A | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1325 Registered: 10-2006 |
Thanks Randy! I wanted to investigate Czech pop music when I was in Brno, but in the end I chickened out and went on a Supraphon binge instead. I'll have a listen to Marta when I can! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8058 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Fall - Lost In Music. I've loved their version ever since I first heard it in 1993. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1326 Registered: 10-2006 |
Song one is tremendous, Randy! Can you give me titles for 2 & 3, because for some reason I can't link directly on them. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8061 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Smithereens - 2011 | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3699 Registered: 03-2005 |
Stuart, song 2 is titled "Nechte Zvony Znit." Song 3 is titled "Ring O Ding." It's a better song than the title suggests and, well, the vid--if you find the official video--makes its point. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3700 Registered: 03-2005 |
And song 4, if you can't get it, is "Tajga Blues '69" | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8063 Registered: 05-2005 |
Single Gun Theory - Flow River of My Soul. It has been a very long time since I've played this album of electronic pop genius. I bought it on cassette in Madison, Wisconsin in November 1994, having first discovered them in Sydney in early 1992. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8064 Registered: 05-2005 |
Bob Dylan - Trouble In Mind, B-side to the 1979 single Gotta Serve Somebody. Mark Knopfler on guitar. I can see why it was only a B-side, but it's still great. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8066 Registered: 05-2005 |
Sheer Mag - III EP | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8067 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Stranglers - La Folie | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 968 Registered: 03-2007 |
One Man Bannister - Evolver The latest release ( cassette and digital download only ) by Thokei Tapes of Hamburg, Germany, who recently gave us RePort by Robert Scott ( The Bats. ) One Man Bannister is Matthew Bannister who was formerly a member of Sneaky Feelings and Evolver is his tribute to Revolver by The Beatles. https://thokeitapes.bandcamp.com/album/o ne-man-bannister-evolver | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8069 Registered: 05-2005 |
Atlas Sound - Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel. It reminds me of a cross between Unsound, Velvet Underground and Yo La Tengo. All bands on the other end of the alphbet from Atlas Sound. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8070 Registered: 05-2005 |
That should have read Unwound. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8071 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Jesus And Mary Chain - Amputation. Taster of their first album in 18 years. http://www.avclub.com/article/hear-song- jesus-and-mary-chains-first-album-18-yea -247137 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8072 Registered: 05-2005 |
Chook Race - About Time (2015) and Around The House (2016). The latter is so much better than their debut, which isn't without its charms. Definitely influenced by The Go-Betweens. The leap between the two records is similar to that between Send Me A Lullaby and Before Hollywood. Melbourne band. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8073 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Dust Brothers Megamix, a cassette which was given away free with the December 17 1994 issue of the NME. I still have the tape, but I'm listening to a digitised version. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8074 Registered: 05-2005 |
Listen here if you're interested https://www.mixcloud.com/eaguilarm/the-c hemical-brothers-nme-xmas-dust-up-1994/ | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8076 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jimmy Smith - Verve singles collection | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8078 Registered: 05-2005 |
Joan Of Arse - Distant Hearts, A Little Closer. A lost near classic from 2001. From Dublin, so-called because there was already an American band called Joan Of Arc. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1327 Registered: 10-2006 |
The Rolling Stones – Blue & lonesome Just an exhilarating bunch of songs from a group paying gleeful homage to the music that kickstarted their careers. Brian will be thumbs-upping from the cloudy heights. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8080 Registered: 05-2005 |
Thornetta Davis - Honest Woman. Her first album since Sunday Morning Music, 20 years ago. It's not as good as that, but it comes very close at times. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1328 Registered: 10-2006 |
Houndstooth - Ride out the dark One of those discs that seems to have appeared in my collection from nowhere, though listening to it again, with its pleasantly drawled female vocal and busy guitar work, like a slightly livelier Mazzy Star, it's actually very good to have it. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8086 Registered: 05-2005 |
M. Craft - Silver & Fire | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8090 Registered: 05-2005 |
Just Say Noël, a 1996 Geffen compilation with Aimee Mann & Michael Penn, The Posies, The Roots, XTC, Sonic Youth etc doing Christmas songs. Some great stuff here. | ||
| Thomas Keitsch Member Username: Thokei Post Number: 45 Registered: 06-2005 |
Dan West- d´animal l´ogic https://danwest.bandcamp.com/album/danim al-logic Dan is from L.A. and very much 60s influenced. Beta, Psychedelia etc. On his new album you will also find some "newer sounds"... Hes in a Band with Azalia Snail, called LoveyDove, worth checking out too. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8096 Registered: 05-2005 |
To begin my Christmas songs marathon, a 2012 compilation called Christmas Rules. Calexico's Green Grows The Holly is the (understated) highlight so far. Two more compilations coming up later, the double CD An Alternative Christmas and the 2015 edition of Christmas Time by The dB's & Friends. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8099 Registered: 05-2005 |
The John Peel show of December 20, 2001. Fantastic stuff. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8103 Registered: 05-2005 |
R.E.M. - Out Of Time. The rerelease is not remastered but it sounds brighter and clearer than I've ever noticed before. Maybe CD technology has advanced a lot. Maybe my system is much better than I've ever had before (though I don't think it is). It almost feels like that cold March 1991 day it was released and I bought the tape in Comet Records in Cork - like hearing it for the first time again. And it's wonderful. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8106 Registered: 05-2005 |
Skinny Jean - The Diving Saucer Returns from a World Where the Sun Never Shines. One day, Skinny Jean's two albums will be hailed as lost classics. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8108 Registered: 05-2005 |
King Crimson - The Young Person's Guide to King Crimson. I think this is a first for the board! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8111 Registered: 05-2005 |
An iTunes playlist of songs by Seth Swirsky, both solo and with The Red Button. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8115 Registered: 05-2005 |
Brian Eno being interviewed on BBC World Service. Fascinating stuff. I had no idea he was the first person to use the word ambient to describe a type of music. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8117 Registered: 05-2005 |
Brian Eno - Reflection | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8119 Registered: 05-2005 |
Two Blur CDs that came free with the Observer years ago. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3710 Registered: 03-2005 |
Shopping -- Why Choose This is an East London band, the album dating from 2012 and recorded in Glasgow. Very interesting three-piece sound: one guitar, bass and drums. Two vocalists, one male and the other female. Seemingly no overdubs. Spikey and interesting; a bit of Fire Engines and a bit of Send Me a Lullaby and its flatterer, Disinterest. Bubblegum Lemonade -- The Great Leap Backward. They don't seem to know anything but major chords. I should have trusted one of my old rules: if the band's name is bad, so will be the music. Released on Matinee, which fooled me. You've-heard-it-a-million-times-before-d reck. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8122 Registered: 05-2005 |
Bubblegum Lemonade - Some Like It Pop. Randy's dissing of them made me dig out this album I've had for a while. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8124 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy is right about Bubblegum Lemonade. Stupid name. Heard it all before. | ||
| peter ward Member Username: Peter_ward Post Number: 326 Registered: 06-2005 |
Randy, a band to usurp one of your Old Rules?... Ham Sandwich - The Naturist. A nice Amanda Brown like contribution to this version..... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uafSdMz- xkk Been listening to a fantastic album called "Madness Is The Mercy" by August Wells, based in NYC for the last 20 years but from Dublin and originally, it's one time Rollerskate Skinny mainman Ken Griffin and New York pianist John Rauchenberger. Nothing remotely like RS this has more in common with Scott Walker, John Cale or David McComb. It's beautifully played and arranged, features timeless songwriting and a fantastic rich voice on top of it all: https://youtu.be/gAo0ZJyxojg https://youtu.be/BVEdsTkn3gc | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8125 Registered: 05-2005 |
Duncan Maitland - Lullabies For The 21st Century. This came out in 2010 but I only recently heard of him and have just bought it from iTunes as the CD is very hard to find. Two tracks into my first play of it and it sounds great, a sort of one man Beach Boys/Beatles/Byrds. He's from Dublin, which makes me love it even more. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8130 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Handsome Family - disc 2 of Unseen, which is a sort of best of EP, with seven of their older tracks going back to 20 years ago. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8131 Registered: 05-2005 |
A Blue Nile compilation I just made with three tracks from each of their albums and one track each from the second discs of the remastered first three albums. I've been listening to them for 30 years now. I loved their left field genius from the first time I ever heard them. Cold, rainy nights in Glasgow (and I had many of them over the years) always made me think of The Blue Nile and the city that inspired their music. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8133 Registered: 05-2005 |
Peter Gabriel - Hit | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8135 Registered: 05-2005 |
Weyes Blood – Front Row Seat To Earth | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1340 Registered: 10-2006 |
Wow, PC, she does have a gorgeous voice. Joni Mitchell fronting 1970s Genesis sounds a bit too good to be true (plus she seems to have a deeper tone than JM) but just the idea makes me want to hear more. And she looks like a London girl I once unrequitedly hankered for into the bargain. Sold. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8137 Registered: 05-2005 |
Stuart, your enthusiasm has made my morning! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8140 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Bats - The Deep Set. It's out on Friday, but I have a preview copy. The first half doesn't stray too much from the folk-pop formula the Bats have used since they started recording again in 2005, but the second half is more introspective and closer in sound to their 1995 album Couchmaster. Perhaps not coincidentally, this is their first album on Flying Nun since Couchmaster. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 969 Registered: 03-2007 |
Padraig, A longer wait for me as the release date for the U.K. is 17 February, 2017. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8142 Registered: 05-2005 |
Hugh, thanks for the Robert Scott and Matthew Bannister tip-offs, by the way. I ordered both tapes. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 970 Registered: 03-2007 |
Padraig, Matthew Bannister has two titles available from Powertool Records, New Zealand, which you may or may not be aware of. One Man Bannister - Moth The Weather - Aroha Avenue | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1341 Registered: 10-2006 |
Weyes Blood – Front Row Seat To Earth As I thought, not quite as exciting as Joni singing with Genesis - maybe, for much of its controlled & stately poise, more Judith Durham fronting Barclay James Harvest... a little bit of Foxtrot's instrumental verve might suit her well. Some of it is very beautiful indeed, though, and I do love her voice. To keep an eye on. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8144 Registered: 05-2005 |
Thanks, Hugh. I love the name One Man Bannister. Stuart, I should have pointed out that Weyes Blood is a bit more sedate on record than live. I like your description though. Hopefully you get to see her live and experience the Joni/Genesis aspect in all its glory. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1342 Registered: 10-2006 |
I'd certainly go along to see her - she's going to be in France & England in April but, like so many less well-known artistes, will not be dipping even a toe into Italy, sigh. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8147 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Vaselines - V For Vaselines, on glorious vinyl. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8148 Registered: 05-2005 |
Pixies - Doolittle. On 180 gram vinyl (though I'm not sure the weight of the vinyl makes all that much difference if the record is remastered anyway). This is my first time hearing it on vinyl since May 1989 when I heard it for the first time in my friend James Broderick's house. I moved to Boston a couple of weeks later and played Doolittle every day for months on end. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3713 Registered: 03-2005 |
Allo Darlin -- Europe The third album (We Come from the Same Place) being a winner, I've ordered the other two. I didn't know anything about Allo Darlin but surely somebody on here mentioned them before? They are essentially Aussie Elizabeth Morris and her London band. This second album with its theme of worry about the continent follows on a breathtakingly depressing article I read in the NYT this morning about the pestilence of temporary jobs in Europe. All of this comes on top of a disquieting long conversation I had with the youngest in my small staff of attorneys. He's just year or two too old to qualify as a millennial and it became painfully clear how hard it was proving for him to take off and thrive. Hell of an era we're living in. Promising album though. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 973 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, I have all three albums and may have mentioned them on this forum in the past. I am pretty sure Padraig has mentioned them on a number of occasions. Currently listening to :- Vasas Flora Och Fauna - Slakt Med Lotta Svard Debut album by the band formed by Mattias Bjorkas after the demise of Cats On Fire. | ||
| Thomas Keitsch Member Username: Thokei Post Number: 46 Registered: 06-2005 |
The Bats- The Deep Set @Padraig: "Free all the monsters" was on Flying Nun too (2011) | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 974 Registered: 03-2007 |
Thomas, Free All The Monsters was released on Mistletone Records in Australia which is probably why Padraig thought The Deep Set was their first album on Flying Nun since Couchmaster. Still waiting for the release of The Deep Set in the U.K. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3714 Registered: 03-2005 |
Thanks Hugh. I was pretty sure I'd heard of Allo Darlin and couldn't imagine where else I'd hear of them. Awaiting my US order for the Bats album. | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 338 Registered: 11-2007 |
Just listening to the the new album of Clock Opera - Venn. Sounds wonderful on first listen... | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 339 Registered: 11-2007 |
The Bats - The Deep Set Very early in the year but for me definitely a candidate for the album of the year! One of the best in their career... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8153 Registered: 05-2005 |
You should pay more attention to my posts, Randy. I'm very interesting. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3715 Registered: 03-2005 |
In the era of Trump even humorous self-congratulation is a bad idea Padraig. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8154 Registered: 05-2005 |
So unfair. Sad. | ||
| Burgers Member Username: Burgers Post Number: 71 Registered: 05-2005 |
Allo Darlin' split up a couple of months ago. As a final dump on fans they issued the last single as a limited 100 7" announced via email and promptly sold out and immediately offered for resale on ebay for Ł25+. I suspect that will look like a good price in the future. It is available as a download and on promo CDs. They were a very patchy band. I think the last album has 3 great tracks and the rest are poor. The covers album has 3 great tracks (including Dive for Your Memory) followed by 3 terrible ones. All of the stuff with ukeleles is unlistenable. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3717 Registered: 03-2005 |
Thanks for the info Burgers. It'll be interesting to see how the Allo Darlin' music wears on me. I do find that I need a while for the mental sands to settle. But for the moment at least, they are appealing in the one-song-at-a-time context of iPod shuffle. The Lucksmiths are a useful example for me. I liked them right away but over time I have found that some of their music--often the earlier--is just too over-the-top precious. So ultimately I'll end up culling out the good from the schtick. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1817 Registered: 08-2006 |
My favorite is "Europe," but I think all three of Allo Darlin's albums are pretty darn good. Unlike Burgers, I had no problem with the ukeleles. Sharp lyrics, great melodies and then there's the wonderful tune about them finding a Go-Betweens tape in the car. Which is a ukulele song. | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 340 Registered: 11-2007 |
Conor Oberst - Ruminations Back to long forgotten quality | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8156 Registered: 05-2005 |
Rob, I love Europe too. The Final Countdown is a stone classic. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1818 Registered: 08-2006 |
Haha! Every time I hear that song I think of "Arrested Development." | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 975 Registered: 03-2007 |
Billie The Vision & The Dancers - While You Were Asleep https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBPRXF0t Vko Their sixth album which was released back in 2012. It went out of print very quickly after release and it has taken me till now to source a copy. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 976 Registered: 03-2007 |
Leevi And The Leavings - Hanta Koipien Valissa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZKbhjXE LGI Finnish band who recorded 16 albums between 1980 and 2003. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 977 Registered: 03-2007 |
The Bats - The Deep Set | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8160 Registered: 05-2005 |
An iTunes playlist I made of some lesser known Rolling Stones songs. Tell Me is playing right now. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 978 Registered: 03-2007 |
Holly Throsby - After A Time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0c-hTwYV 8Qs Featuring Mark Kozelek on vocals. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8165 Registered: 05-2005 |
Blackfield - Blackfield V. I'd never heard of them before, but this was playing in Red Eye records the other day and sounded great. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3721 Registered: 03-2005 |
14 Iced Bears -- Hold On Inside (Complete Recordings 1991 - 1986) This is a backwards anthology, starting at their final album in 1991 at which time they were sort transitional psych revival and shoe gaze. They sound like somebody Alan McGee would have signed to Creation. The music moves backward in time as the anthology progresses. On Disc 2 I'm into the 80s and they're starting to sound like a Sarah Records psych revival band. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3723 Registered: 03-2005 |
Ocean Party -- Restless A lesson learned: the Rough Trade staff's descriptions of releases in their stacks are desperately far off the mark. They should hire me to do it for them. Ocean Party is described as "breezy coastal pop." Well, one or two songs fit that description. What they are is gorgeously Aussie laconic pop of a surprisingly wide range with a lovely non-glossy edge. Cross vintage Panics with Ohio's defunct and lamented Dub Noir and you've got a reasonable idea of Ocean Party on "Restless." I should have pulled this CD out of my January London haul for first choice to play. Thanks Hugh for the info about the band. I'll be digging around for the rest of their output. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 981 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, I don't think their debut album has ever been released on cd. Their second album was released on a small label ( Sound Of Melbourne Records ) and may be hard to find. If you experience difficulty tracking down any of the others then try their current record label :- http://shop.spunk.com.au/products?utf8=% E2%9C%93&search=ocean+party | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3724 Registered: 03-2005 |
Thanks Hugh. I've ordered the second album from Sound of Melbourne Records. We'll see if they actually have it. I've ordered the others mostly from eBay sellers including a CD single and an EP that doesn't even show up on Discogs' list. Each of these includes one track from the first album plus the EP has a handful of other tracks. (Perhaps it predates the first album.) I can source a vinyl copy of the first album from somebody in NZ. I'll probably do that but I figure it makes sense first to get the CDs and make sure "Restless" isn't some sort of fluke that totally outclasses everything else they've done. I am a bit amazed that they're able to crank out an album a year. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 982 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, I don't think the Sound Of Melbourne website has been updated for some time but hopefully they will still have some copies of Social Clubs on cd. The band have certainly released a lot of material in a relatively short period of time. I am guessing that having 5 / 6 songwriters helps out in that respect. No sign of them slowing down as they have just released an eleven track cassette / digital download called B-Grade Material. Click on the following link for details :- https://theoceanparty.bandcamp.com/music While I prefer the later releases, the early stuff is still very listenable. I can assure you that Restless is not some sort of fluke. Soft Focus is every bit as good in my humble opinion. Currently listening to :- The Holiday Crowd - Over The Bluffs Four piece group based in Toronto, Canada. The bassist / drummer hail from the U.K. / Ireland respectively. A very British sounding band. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_NkXJmc 5U4 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8170 Registered: 05-2005 |
The sound of rain, glorious rain. Sydney's record shattering summer of extreme heat has finally wound down. Worst. Summer. Ever. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3725 Registered: 03-2005 |
The Holiday Crowd vids are interesting Hugh. I hope the bassist is the vocalist. Otherwise somebody's really laying it on with the fake British accent. But they do a pretty good job recreating the feel of groups that were influenced by the Smiths, a genre I'm quite keen on (even if I only have a limited appetite for the actual Smiths themselves). | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 983 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, The lead vocalist is Imran Haniff who I believe is probably a Canadian. The band released a second album ( The Holiday Crowd ) on vinyl / digital download in August, 2016. Both titles are available from Shelflife Records in the U.S. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8171 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Bats - The Guilty Office | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8172 Registered: 05-2005 |
Cadillac Walk - The Mink DeVille Collection. Found it for $12 in a second hand place the other day. I hadn't noticed before how like the Rolling Stones they sound. |