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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8265 Registered: 05-2005 |
Red Sovine - Teddy Bear https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zoTLwrm 9QE (I think I've got something in my eye) | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 346 Registered: 11-2007 |
HELMUT - POLYMONO (debut album) helmut - ourwalls (new album) example of his new album (helmut - fur): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xW3TKskf Ou0 links from his bandcamp site: https://helmut.bandcamp.com/album/polymo no https://helmut.bandcamp.com/ Love his music and you can get it on vinyl! | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 347 Registered: 11-2007 |
PIXX - The Art Of Anxiety new act on 4AD the new single baboo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csuCJMLb HZU | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8269 Registered: 05-2005 |
XTC - Skylarking, 2016 mix. A truly wonderful album. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3765 Registered: 03-2005 |
An anthology: Sharon Signs to Cherry Red. A collection of U.K. independent female artists from 1979 to 1985. A lot of novelty froth of course but there are sure to be some useful leads. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1820 Registered: 08-2006 |
Chuck Berry - "Chuck." What fun this is. Does he shamelessly recycle riffs so classic they'll bear repeating 200 years from now? Yep, and he makes 'em swing a little harder, too. Does he provide some age-infused wisdom to some familiar Berry themes? Check. Does he sing and write and outshine his collaborators like he ain't gonna half-ass his first (and last) studio record in 37 years? Damn straight. A pretty cool grace note to end a career for the ages. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 439 Registered: 08-2005 |
Cicadas, crickets, grasshoppers, frogs etc - from the room of m lovely hotel in Padova, Italy. (With a bit of early Kraftwerk earlier) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8271 Registered: 05-2005 |
Grant McLennan - In Your Bright Ray Robert Forster - Turn On The Rain The Go-Betweens - Bye Bye Pride | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3773 Registered: 03-2005 |
While in Paris I picked up a cheap secondhand copy of Benjamin Biolay -- Rose Kennedy From 2001, I think this is his first studio album. It's not a bad record, but for my taste it's too conventional, too lacking in something that stands out. I suppose that's what I should expect from the photo of his youthful, winsome soon-to-be-married-to-a-star's-offspring self. I'm on the hunt for another French thrill. Perhaps Feu Chatterton; I have ordered a copy of their newer, easier-to-get (cheaper) album. We'll see. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3774 Registered: 03-2005 |
My Disco -- Severe From 2015, Australian post-punk. Very atmospheric but I'm a pop music guy. I'd like some actual songs. Many of the old post-punk gave us those and some of the new revival groups, like Nite Fields and Viet Cong/Preoccupations manage to do so. This'll be handy for playing while I'm doing something else in the background. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3777 Registered: 03-2005 |
Feu! Chatterton -- Ici le jour (a tout ensemble) I listen to these things so you don't have to. Scanning online comments with my nonexistent French reading comprehension, people seem to describe them as a cross between Bashung and Noir Desir. On first listen I hear Bashung style vocal phrasing and maybe some homage to his more dense records like Novice and L'Imprudence. But the voice of the singer sounds more like Dick Rivers to me while the backing is just too . . . plodding yet portentous sounding. Overblown but lacking memorable songs. The album was recorded in a studio in Gothenburg but for some reason it was thought to be a good idea to record the vocalist with what really sounds like a typical stage mic including cheap stage-style reverb. The result doesn't sound very good, mowing down any nuance that the vocalist might possibly possess. I'll manage to cull maybe 2 or 3 things I can import into the iPod's library. For example the first song sounds kind of like a blues rock garage band from the late 1960s trying to do prog. I'll either like it or hate it after a few more plays. Subsequent hearings might improve my view of the whole thing but right now Feu! Chatterton isn't sounding like a new seam for me to mine. Let's put it this way: if (like me) you really enjoy Francoiz Breut, Dominique A, Barbara Carlotti and Bastien Lallemant (three of these come to me from Stuart!) there's no obvious reason that you'll enjoy Feu! Chatterton. I will continue my inefficient search. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1375 Registered: 10-2006 |
And we thank you for doing so! In the absence of some cool new artist to get my teeth into, I am concentrating on my two or three classical obsessions... but it is about time someone came along... | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1021 Registered: 03-2007 |
Colour Me Wednesday - Anyone And Everyone ( EP ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZOo4wtW Ya0 | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3778 Registered: 03-2005 |
Lovely Hugh. Difficult to get the CD versions, natch! | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1022 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, You can source the CDs directly from the band. Be aware that the EP comes in a homemade sleeve and can take up to 28 days to ship. Let me know if they do not ship to the USA. https://colourmewednesday.bandcamp.com/ Links to the official video of Don't Tell Anyone and a live acoustic version of the same song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8gnAskq NeA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BuIPdMI Aqk | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8282 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Clean - Vehicle, 2013 edition with a live EP tacked on at the end. It doesn't seem to have been remastered, but sounds great anyway. But then, my previous copy was a cassette. In the sleevenotes, David Kilgour says Geoff Travis of Rough Trade expected them to make a Marquee Moon-type record, but got a pop album. That's about right. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8283 Registered: 05-2005 |
My Friend The Chocolate Cake - The Revival Meeting. Another great album by a sadly under appreciated band. | ||
| Fred Tadrowski Member Username: Ftadrowski Post Number: 57 Registered: 03-2015 |
I second that Padraig, it is my favorite cd of the year so far. Good songwriting with just the acoustical instruments of piano, cello, violin, acoustic guitar, acoustic bass, and drums. It is that sound that makes their music unique. My brother spent a couple of months going to college in Australia twenty-five years or so and came back with some Not Drowning, Waving music. My Friend the Chocolate Cake was formed out of that band. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8284 Registered: 05-2005 |
Fred, 25 years ago was when I first lived in Australia too and came across Not Drowning Waving on a Triple J radio sessions compilation. I was put off MFTCC at first because of their terrible name. I don't think I realised the Not Drowning Waving connection until years later. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1023 Registered: 03-2007 |
The Ocean Party - More To Run https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67-AsKvo Ls8&feature=youtu.be Track from their new album ( Beauty Point ) which will be released on the 18th August, 2017, by Spunk Records ( Australia / New Zealand ) and Emotional Response Records ( U.S. ) | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3783 Registered: 03-2005 |
Thanks Hugh. The speed of their output is dizzying. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 1203 Registered: 08-2004 |
Heard for the first time in the last week: Jesus & Mary Chain - Darklands Primal Scream - Sonic Flower Groove Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse - Dark Night Of The Soul Public Enemy - Nothing Is Quick In The Desert | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3787 Registered: 03-2005 |
The only one of those I have, Jerry, is "Darklands" which I picked up when it was new. Having bypassed them at Rough Trade in January in favor of getting something by Ocean Party I am now listening to: Goon Sax -- Up to Anything | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8292 Registered: 05-2005 |
I got Darklands when it came out too. I thought it was brilliant then and still think so. | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 350 Registered: 11-2007 |
Faber - Sei ein Faber im Wind a young swiss guy beloved by the critics... and by me  singing naughty tunes about sex, drowning refugees while laying on the beach, right wingers and more. Laconic and quite unique | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1384 Registered: 10-2006 |
Yeah, lots to like there... thanks Andreas! | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1385 Registered: 10-2006 |
Aha... and of Italian parentage! So I guess his name (whether given or taken) might after all be a tribute to the great Fabrizio de Andrč. Very interesting. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1387 Registered: 10-2006 |
Faber - Alles Gute https://vimeo.com/203089322 And a great voice, too... with a trombone... irresistible... | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3792 Registered: 03-2005 |
Huh. Super interesting video. Scratchy voice. Und mit Deutsch I have a tiny prayer of figuring out the lyrics mostly on my own. Andreas, is he Swiss? Is his pronunciation significantly different than in western Germany? "Alles Gute" sounded a bit odd to my inexpert ears at the end of the song though I realize that when you're singing words sometimes you have to tinker with their spoken sound to get what you need musically. Thanks for bringing him to our attention! | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 351 Registered: 11-2007 |
Hi Randy, hi Stuart, yes he is swiss and he sounds swiss - but you have to listen carefully. here you can find a lot of his videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZmMQrt 1cIU6YQpypm7aclw If you buy the vinyl copy there are 13 prints with the lyrics on the back with which you can change the cover of the album. Each print is an image out of the video This is very interesting, too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwehUOyz gF8 Here he improvises with his band - very nice! | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 1204 Registered: 08-2004 |
Re: Darklands. I was a little disappointed. None of the immediate intensity of Psychocandy. But,time will tell. | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 352 Registered: 11-2007 |
Postcard -- Flying Nun -- Kleine Untergrund Schallplatten Kleine Untergrund Schallplatten from Augsburg is a fine little german indie record lable They mostly release lovely designed 7"es of young interesting bands with a small runof copies. Not only german bands. One long player by the britsh band The BV'S that sold out almost immediately (160 copies only)! Less than 10 releases until today. Ronny Pinkau, the guy who runs the label is all into the music, he loves the idea of postcard records... Here are some videos of the bands: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL mmCX4TSUKYXM-Cef2NHu7wru6_1mq1eQ Find a band you like!! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3796 Registered: 03-2005 |
Thank you for the tip Andreas. I've been picking up music from Germany's Firestation Records who release a mixture of superb obscure vintage and current bands, and Cloudberry Records who also put out beautifully sleeved 7"s of current people with downloads along with a lesser number of CDs. I have been really impressed by some of these records and should probably see if there are youtube vids for some of them and post links here. I will definitely explore Kleine Untergrund Schallplatten. In fact your description of the 160 copy release of the BV's LP fills the collector in me with intense anxiety. Meanwhile, right now, having picked up a bunch of Sarah Records artists some years ago it makes sense for me to try Trembling Blue Stars. I have started with the anthology-like "A Certain Evening Light." | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3797 Registered: 03-2005 |
Here's a link to one of the Cloudberry 7 inch singles that has impressed me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEsqwlT9 FA4 It's recorded in Buffalo, NY & Glasgow Scotland! Note the vast view total. | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 353 Registered: 11-2007 |
Hi Randy, thx for your hint with Trembling Blue Stars. Sounds good to me - I have ordered the CD you mentioned... Uwe of Firestation Records is a nice guy and I order almost every time he sends a newsletter Coming back to the collector in you. The 7"es also get sold out immediately and if you want: buy now! You can buy them easily thru discogs directly from the label. Next week a new single will be released and in august new releses will follow. | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 354 Registered: 11-2007 |
Fleet Foxes - Crack-Up Wonderful new album if not their best | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3798 Registered: 03-2005 |
I should have given more description for Trembling Blue Stars, Andreas. They are a successor band to the Field Mice. The odd thing about "A Certain Evening Light" is that it starts out with what I think is the weakest track. After that, from "Abba on the Radio" you're good to go so long as you like the wimpy style of the Field Mice. I do, but some folks don't. I love Uwe Weigmann. He is very easy to do business with. Hugh made me aware of Firestation. I do wish he had digital downloads for his vinyl releases but a person can't have everything in this world. I'm guessing Kleine Untergrund Schallplatten have learned a bit from the experience of Uwe and also Roque Ruiz at Cloudberry. They tend to issue things in larger releases of maybe 300 or 500 copies and need a lot more time to sell them off. It's great for me though. It means I can keep picking things from their catalog. I bought a batch of old releases from both Uwe and Roque this past month. One of the winners from my recent batch from Uwe is Loor a los Heroes. They are very straightforward but excellent pop rock: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-4yeYpK chk Last night I came home to find my copy of: Lost Tapes -- We Thought It was Okay at the Time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kik6K9hW hZs Lost Tapes are a Spanish band, described as "dream pop". They do their songs in English. I picked up a nice 7" EP of theirs from Cloudberry Records and then learned that their EP's and other odd releases had been scooped together on this CD. They also have an album from 2016 which I will undoubtedly buy. | ||
| Austin Member Username: Bruegelpie Post Number: 165 Registered: 09-2004 |
I also like Trembling Blue Stars. There is a Go-Betweens connection in that their album "Her Handwriting" was named for a lyric contained in a certain song by a certain band we all adore. | ||
| Burgers Member Username: Burgers Post Number: 75 Registered: 05-2005 |
The other connection is their cover of Coming Up For Air which is one of the few covers of GM/RF songs which is better than the original. Franz Ferdinand's version of Was There Anything I Could Do? being another obvious one. In my view, The Field Mice were the best band in the world around 1989/1990, after the Go-Betweens finished and before Stereolab started. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1389 Registered: 10-2006 |
Theodore Paul & Gabriel - Please her please him This French girl trio caught my eye playing a neat acoustic version of Modern Love on a Bowie documentary. Their album is not life-changing but rather appealing, especially when the singer turns on the rasp in her voice and pitches it against the other's harmonies. There are a couple of ooooh-that's-nice moments. Their biggest mistake I think is singing in English, not for the accents, but for the clumsiness of the lyrics. It killed Mademoiselle K's last album for me, a shame not to realise singing something like Jouer Dehors is an awful lot sexier than screaming out F*** me ad infinitum. In French, this might have been a little gem. As it is, good hummable background music for lessons. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3801 Registered: 03-2005 |
All credit to Hugh, my enjoyment last night was provided by the first album of this unlikely French band from Limoges: Doggy -- des stars dans tous les bus The following vid is from a later release of theirs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MR3HPHK vnY | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 1206 Registered: 08-2004 |
New this week in my personal hit parade: Akala - It's Not A Rumour Suicide - A Way Of Life Arcade Fire - Everything Now Primal Scream - S/T Sleaford Mods - Divide & Exit The Cramps - Big Beat From Badsville Brian Eno - Before & After Science Rolling Stones - The Complete British Radio Broadcasts 1963-65 Vol 1 The Stones comp is a 3 disc affair with some lovely period hepcat DJ chit chat. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3805 Registered: 03-2005 |
Continuing with Doggy, tonight I am hearing their 2009 mini-album, which dropped through the door: Mon Colonel Next up, their next mini-album/EP: Leurs traces dans la neige | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8301 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Creases - Tremolow. Debut album from a young Brisbane band. Hugh, I reckon they're up your street, Randy too, maybe. https://m.facebook.com/TheCreases/ Now listening to Infinite Soul, The Best Of The Gripweeds. A New Jersey band who sound like they recorded in the 60s, but they're contemporary. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1390 Registered: 10-2006 |
That Doggy track is excellent - great guitar. The idea of a label called Anorak Records operating out of a town like Limoges... yeah, somehow nudges along my faith in human nature. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1026 Registered: 03-2007 |
Stuart, I believe Anorak Records is / was owned and operated by Guillaume Bassard who is Doggy. The last Doggy release was a four track 3" CD back in 2014. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3806 Registered: 03-2005 |
Hugh, one of the interesting things I found when I searched for a youtube video is that there are a number of live clips of Doggy. At least for stage purposes there is an actual band of people. Perhaps he's like J. Walker (Machine Translations) and he puts together groups on occasion for performance purposes. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1027 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, As well as being a Musician and owner of a Record Label, I believe he is also a Producer. I am sure I read an article somewhere which said he recorded the majority of his album on his own but that later releases were recorded with a band he put together. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1167 Registered: 04-2005 |
Hey nothing wrong with Limoges ! Beautiful railway station and the town was good to enough to serve as a Prefab Sprout song title..."Lions in My Garden (Exit Someone)"...and not forgetting the porcelain. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1391 Registered: 10-2006 |
Oh, no criticism intended! After browsing a bit, I'm already half planning a trip there! It was more the idea of a small, Sarah-influenced group of French guys producing excellent neo-indie sounds against the background of (what I imagined as) a rather sleepy backwater of porcelain traditionalism that amused me. Hard to imagine a similar set-up in Italy. The surrounding countryside also looks gorgeous. The auld alliance, nourished by teen years absorbing French cinema and literature, and, latterly, French pop, is very much alive in this Scots heart. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1168 Registered: 04-2005 |
Sorry Stuart...I wasn't entirely serious. Amongst my kids' friends here in the SW, Limoges comes quite low down the list of happening towns to go and study in...but I insist that the railway station is mighty impressive. When I was in the small town of Udine (NE of Italy) earlier this year I was somewhat surprised to find a very informative exhibition on progressive rock in the local library. Never knew that so many biographies of Robert Wyatt existed ! And in Italian. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1392 Registered: 10-2006 |
Oh good heavens, yes, they do love their prog here! Pink Floyd above all - hardly a year goes by without another Italian book about them, if not two. But there was a huge wave of prog groups here in the late 60s and 70s, a teeming subculture I've only scratched the surface of. I think only PFM made any kind of impression at an international level. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1028 Registered: 03-2007 |
With an appearance on The Old Grey Whistle Test in 1975. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFJq2BRV b0s | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3807 Registered: 03-2005 |
After that 1975 clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBPzltUD 0rA | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1029 Registered: 03-2007 |
The Honeys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjfeuukK 14E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oK9Cq5SP xIU Introduced to this Australian band yesterday thanks to Roque's blog on the Cloudberry Records website. They released an album and a couple of singles in 1988, split and then reformed to release a second album in 2007. Both albums released on CD but are currently unavailable unfortunately. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1393 Registered: 10-2006 |
Well, they were young, excitable Italian guys with 10 minutes on British TV to blow our socks off... I probably would have been quite thrilled with this when I was 17 (but muttering at school, "yeah, not as good as Focus though...") Like a lot of prog, they seemed to underestimate the power of a good song: and, according to my wife, they did also write some fine songs, as well as, more to modern taste, backing de Andrč on many occasions. Still, thank god for punk. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3808 Registered: 03-2005 |
Stuart I was in high school in the early 1970s--PFM era. One of our foreign exchange students was Zoran Zagortic. I am sure I've misspelled his name. He was from Yugoslavia when it still existed. He quickly spotted his soul mates in my pothead set. He had a big shaggy head of hair and played keyboards. One of his prize possessions was an electronic keyboard he bought in California and took back home with him. He was all prog all the time; I was already a 60s pop guy by then. But he was also a big floppy unruly wonderful puppy dog of a guy. He loved to torture me with embarrassment by saying outlandishly inappropriate things in public places when we were both stoned because, hey, he's the barbarian from the Balkans--a godless Communist!!!!--and what does he know? I really posted that particular Magazine song for its title as a comment to that endless noodling PFM number. Magazine themselves were accused of being Prog and there is a bit of it underlying their best records, especially "Secondhand Daylight." Both Dave Formula and John McGeoch were originally prog guys. Btw, I kept myself awake last night until noon-ish Rome time to bid on a batch of 8 Ornella Vanoni CD reissues of her 1960s albums. Only one other person bid and that bid was not very much. So unless it gets waylaid in the post I have her really difficult 1965 and 1966 albums steaming my way along with the rest from that era. I will be knee deep in Ornella Vanoni, just about musically perpendicular to PFM. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1394 Registered: 10-2006 |
Well, you got a better class of exchange student than I did. My 5th year saw the arrival of a square-jawed, square-shouldered lumberjack type Canadian, whose clear blue eyes radiated a cheerful emptiness. All the girls fluttered blindly towards him like flies towards bear cack. He had no interest in music, and barely had time to develop any anyway. Meanwhile, I still do like the occasional three-day prog binge, and seeing tracks called a suite with seven or eight different movements and bracketed titles - you know, like - iii, Elsinore (the black sea awaits) - still give me a little thrill. | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 413 Registered: 05-2005 |
Cigarettes After Sex. And I'm not alone... http://www.talkhouse.com/francoise-hardy -new-favorite-band/ | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3809 Registered: 03-2005 |
Interesting Jean! Are Cigarettes After Sex basically Greg Gonzalez playing all the instruments? (I suppose I can check that for myself.) I can see why Francoise likes this. He uses the same style of close-up intimate singing. It's very French in that sense. Btw, I didn't know that she is still married to Jacques Dutronc. What a marvel of stability! Stuart we had that type of foreign exchange student as well. He was from Australia, blond-haired, a footballer and he definitely did NOT see his soul mates in my little group of misfits. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3810 Registered: 03-2005 |
Tonight I'm listening to The Lost Tapes - Let's Get Lost It took a couple weeks to get here from Madrid. | ||
| Thomas keitsch Unregistered guest |
The Bats- The Deep Set Looking forward to the upcoming New Sneaky Feelings Album (Progressive Junction). Flying Nun ist just doing a cd Version (which is fine for me), but not vinyl. Does anyone have a idea, which label could be Interested in a vinyl Release? UK or us Label... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8303 Registered: 05-2005 |
Thomas, I bought their first album, Send You, on double vinyl in the Flying Nun shop in Auckland last week. A very cool little shop. Earlier I listened to Isles Of Wonder, a double CD soundtrack to the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics, compiled by Rick Smith of Underworld. A fantastic album. I've had it for a long time but only finally played it today. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1031 Registered: 03-2007 |
Kajak - Tief Drinnen-Weit Draussen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_6CUzm9 Wpc Follow up to their debut album which was released in 2002. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3811 Registered: 03-2005 |
A new Sneaky Feelings album sounds interesting. I am not a rapid fan of theirs, having gradually decided to cull some of the more precious Bannister songs from "Positively George Street" from my iTunes library but there are a hard core that remain and are unlikely to be removed. Hugh, you are mining the German seam now. This one sounds promising, my only objection being the crunchy guitar sound but I managed to forgive Luke Haines for that on the Auteurs records (and those records are far more crunchy in guitar sound than Kajak here.) I like it when bands use their own language. Right or wrong I feel like it makes the music more essentially theirs. For me right now: Karl Smith -- Kites From 2013. I have never listened to Sodastream but very much like his Lee Memorial project. Last night: Vaclav Neckar -- Zivot This is an overview covering about 25 years. It's better than I thought but there is no conceivable justification for choosing a 33 year newer remake of his classic "Stin Katedral" on a career anthology. Here is the original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lgt7AxlC 988 Thank God I have the proper one elsewhere but there are a bunch of remade versions of old songs which means--sigh--I do not yet have a suitable anthology of Neckar. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1032 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, I am in the midst of a buying spree and I have music coming in from all over ( Australia, Finland, France, Germany, New Zealand, Spain, U.K. and the U.S.A.) so I am not just mining the German scene. Quite a few of the titles are by German bands. Some sing in their native language while others sing in English. Like you, I prefer it when bands sing in their native language even although I might not understand a word. Both Kajak albums are very good. The band split after the release of Tief Drinnen-Weit Draussen and Matthias Rothaug ( Singer / Songwriter ) now works as a Teacher. Currently listening to :- Kajak - Haus Der Jugend No videos on YouTube as far as I can tell. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1033 Registered: 03-2007 |
Lowtide - Julia Asylum Party - Julia Lowtide are a Melbourne band who released their one and only album to date back in 2014. In 2015 they released the single Julia which was originally written and recorded by the French band Asylum Party in 1988. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsTeLpWa gRc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeZtT8zB aZU | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3813 Registered: 03-2005 |
Pretty entertaining Hugh. Especially the vid of the originals, when the keyboardist takes a drag on his cigarette. When attitude was a big part of it. Sounds like early House of Love. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1034 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, The French label Infrastition re-issued their complete works on 2 x 2 disc sets back in 2006. I have copies on route to me. Currently listening to :- Requin Chagrin - Requin Chagrin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GY0lJy5 Pdg | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8307 Registered: 05-2005 |
Walter Becker - 11 Tracks Of Whack |