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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8176 Registered: 05-2005 |
Chuck Prophet - Bobby Fuller Died For Your Sins (after one listen, I'm pretty certain this is one of the albums of the year) The Sadies - Northern Passages Tift Merritt - Stitch Of The World (bonus tracks edition) The New Mendicants - Into The Lime (The first three came from my Yep Roc subscription, and I got The New Mendicants free from them, which was nice) Japandroids - Near To The Wild Heart Of Life Son Volt - Notes Of Blue The Merry-Go-Round - Listen, Listen: The Definitive Collection (The latter three came today from Amazon. I have no idea who The Merry-Go-Round are, but the invoice says I did indeed order it. So now I'm going to have to google them to find out who the hell they are and what made me order something which two weeks later I can't even remember) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8177 Registered: 05-2005 |
Ah, Emitt Rhodes was in The Merry-Go-Round. That's why I ordered it. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 984 Registered: 03-2007 |
Padraig, I own a copy of the album. Rhodes wrote the wonderful 'Time Will Show The Wiser' which Fairport Convention recorded for their debut album. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8178 Registered: 05-2005 |
Hugh, I figured either you or Randy would have it! Rhodes's comeback album last year is fantastic. His voice still sounds amazing. Having recorded little for 40 years must have helped preserve it. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3726 Registered: 03-2005 |
Padraig, if you read the booklet that comes with the CD you'll find Rhodes a pretty interesting story. Way back when, the song "Live" was a quite good-sized hit in California. Rob might be able to tell you if that song made it further across the country. There was also some decent chart action with "You're a Very Lovely Woman," which sounds like something by Left Banke (possibly another highly-regarded Yank outfit from the era that you aren't familiar with). The Merry-Go-Round were a band headed up by Rhodes but then Rhodes went solo. He was a multi-instrumentalist as well as a good songwriter. About half of your anthology will feature his earliest solo work. It's superb. He was something like 17 when he started with Merry-Go-Round which is undoubtedly why he thought it was ok to use a fake English accent on his vocals. He was a Southern Californian. I didn't even realize he'd done a new album. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 997 Registered: 03-2007 |
Asia Fields - Goodbye Frank Keen - Waiting Peppermint Parlour - Pep Sounds Pressure Group - All Of This And More The latest batch of reissues by Firestation Records. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1366 Registered: 10-2006 |
Ryan Adams - Ashes and fire Gorillaz - Humanz Dominique A - La Musique/La matiere (special edition) Jens Lekman - I know what love isn't Teenage Fanclub - Here Luis Eduardo Aute - Canciones de amor y destruccion A small ragbag of stuff bought from Salamanca's last record shop. Aute was a songwriter I loved when I lived in Spain, for his early rocky Dylanish stuff, I have no idea what this 3 cd collection will be like. I think he went a bit soft jazzy later on, so I hope not all like that. I already have the Dom A, but this has 14 extra tracks and only cost 5 euros, as did Lekman, who is really just a name to me, but who I've read something about. It was nice to be in a record shop again, even a not very good one. The rest of the town is devoted massively to clothes and food, as everywhere seems to be these days, although, as you'd expect in a university city, there were a couple of good bookshops. Otherwise, it seemed a beautiful, liveable place, lots of well-kept green areas, no rubbish in the streets, affordable restaurants, and no major earthquakes since Lisbon. Quite enticing. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8247 Registered: 05-2005 |
Stuart, you did well with that haul. It's not such a bad record shop at all if they sold all those. I love the word Salamana because it's the melodious family name of an odious family crime gang in Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1368 Registered: 10-2006 |
I was a bit miffed they didn't have the new Real Estate and, especially, a bunch of stuff by the Majorcan singer I mention elsewhere...she's so famous in Spain, it's like an American shop having nothing by Joni Mitchell. Possibly I could have rounded up a few more things, but there were another half a dozen overdecorated altar pieces to stare at and the wife was chapping rather fiercely on the window with her lighter. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8345 Registered: 05-2005 |
I picked up a bunch of packages from the post office this morning. Vinyl Paul Simon - Graceland (180 gram, 25th anniversary edition) The War On Drugs - A Deeper Understanding (double album) Luna - Bewitched Big Black - Songs About Fucking (I remember a picture of Robert Plant in Q magazine in about 1989, where he was holding this record) Big Star - Complete Third, Vol 3: Final Masters CD Brian Wilson - Playback: The Brian Wilson Anthology Young Gun Silver Fox - West End Coast | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3883 Registered: 03-2005 |
Purchases on their way to me: !. Laetitia Velma--Les Eaux Profondes Heavy involvement by Dominique A 2. Ruth's Refrigerator--Suddenly a Disfigured Head Parachuted 3. Jody & the Creams--A Big Dog.n These last two are Ruth Miller projects. Already here: Augie March--Bootikins Solid, but probably not at the level of the magnificent "Havens Dumb." Mademoiselle K--Sous Les Brulures L'Incandescence Intacte Honestly? I only like two tracks. Miossec--Brule Miossec--L'Entreinte Miossec--Finisteriens Filling holes. All of these Miossec albums are solid. Mumbly--Being Earnest Mumbly--Mumblybule EP More French twee along the lines of the wonderful Doggy. All credit to Hugh. Rolling Blackouts C.F.--Talk Tight Rolling Blackouts C.F.--French Press I've already written about the Orbweavers and Cats on Fire. I can't remember if I've commented about Po!, a Rutland-area band formed by Ruth Miller. I have two of their albums. This is another Hugh Nimmo find. Jangly English twee. See if you can summon up a youtube for "I Won't Stay." | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8518 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy, stick with Bootikins. It gets better with every listen. For me, six of the 11 tracks are stone AM classics: Mephistopheles Perverted, The Long Wait And See, Bootikins, When I Am Old, I Woke Up In Borgolombardo and Bitter Clingerzz | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3886 Registered: 03-2005 |
Oh, I'm not going anywhere Padraig. It took "Havens Dumb" quite a while to arrive for me. But I do suspect that Glenn should have given himself another half-year to a year to further collect and refine songs. This one came out sooner than I would have expected. I'm pretty confident I'll never want to hear "I Hurtle Back to a Conservative Locker" in the future. Unusually for him, Glenn simply pinched the chord progression and melody from other things, particularly from the timeless "People Get Ready." What I love most with Augie March is the classic Glenn Richards meandering melody. Think of the thread path on an old film projector or an old section of Italian mountain road. You careen all around and then--voila!--end up right where you're supposed to be. Like the opener to the last album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUfydjrH czc Dammit! I really want to see this band again and not just a rump show early in the morning at a crappy street fair with an audience of seven people. In my geezer unemployment I'm definitely going to be making a trip down under for the purpose. This is a group who should have gone much further. The big disappointment in this batch was Mademoiselle K. Sorry, Stuart, but I thought it was terrible. I did put 5 tracks on my library for my larger iPod to see if maybe some of the proper band numbers start to grow on me but it's not promising. | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 432 Registered: 02-2007 |
The Odessa Tapes - The Flatlanders . Some demo alt-country tunes from early 70's Suffering of Tomorrow - Pete & Royce. Greek prog interesting stuff Both vinyl at local record store here in Ipswic | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1444 Registered: 10-2006 |
Oh, probably no great claims to be made for it, Randy: I'll have to give it another spin. On the other hand, you seem to have Miossec's career fairly well covered! Don't miss his last one, Mammiferes, which, as a late, reflective, mature piece of work played with a youngish band, reminds me a little of Songs to play. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8529 Registered: 05-2005 |
I raided the bargain bin in JB this afternoon. Vinyl LPs ($10 each): Sam Outlaw - Tenderheart King Creosote - Astronaut Meets Appleman Blackberry Smoke - Holding All The Roses The Joy Formidable - Wolf's Law Vinyl 7" ($5): Bane - 6:58 Boston EP CDs (mostly $2, a couple were $1): Hooters - Nervous Night/One Way Home/Zig Zag (three albums on two discs) V/A (Chris Bell, Vampire Weekend, Richard Hawley etc) - Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist soundtrack Skinny Jean - Dolce Doggerel (I bought this when it came out nine years ago, and it's brilliant, but I can't find my copy so I was delighted to find it very cheap. A lost classic from Brisbane, which I bigged up here at the time) Bill Wells & Adrian Moffat - Everything's Getting Older Bell X1 - Chop Chop Les Triaboliques - Rivermudtwilight Eugene McGuinness - The Invitation To The Voyage Night Moves - Colored Emotions John Gorka - Before Beginning V/A (Tim Rogers, Sarah Blasko etc) - The Key Of Sea The Avett Brothers - Mignonette |