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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8588 Registered: 05-2005 |
What I bought on my holidays in London/Dublin/Limerick. Vinyl: Quiet Slang - We Were Babies & We Were Dirtbags 7" EP Johnny Cash & The Evangel Temple Choir - A Thing Called Love 7" Shake - Redwater 7" EP, on rather lovely clear/splatter vinyl BA Robertson - Knocked It Off 7" NME Fourplay - 7" EP with Elvis Costello, Billy Bragg, Mantronix and Miles Davis Gary Moore - Over The Hills And Far Away double 7" EP Billy Bragg - Between The Wars 7" EP white label (to replace the copy I've regretted selling a long, long time ago) Microdisney - Town To Town double 7" EP Francoise Hardy - C'est A L'amour Auquel Je Pense 7" EP Flips - Broken Dog The Drays - Look Away Down Collins Avenue Son Volt - The Search (double vinyl remaster) Blind Willie Johnson - The Rough Guide 30th Century Records - V/A compilation including Sam Cohen and Bike (sadly not something new after 20 year by the New Zealand band, but a Brazilian band of the same name) Halfway To Paradise - V/A comp featuring Gene Vincent, Dion, Chuck Berry, Patsy Cline etc The Pogues - The Best Of, on orange vinyl Lonely Robot - Please Come Home, double LP Dr Dog - Wild Race EP (one-sided 12") Green - Green CDs: Black Box Recorder - Life Is Unfair box set Abandoned - Pity Of The Sea EP Parquet Courts - Wide Awaaaaake! DJ Koze - Knock Knock Superstar - Every Day I Fall Apart EP Super Furry Animals - Zoom! The Best Of 1995-2016 Insecure Men - Insecure Men The Liminanas - Shadow People Sting - Bring On The Night Sting - The Dream Of The Blue Turtles The Proclaimers - The Very Best Of Aqualung - Aqualung The Playwrights - English Self Storage Paul Brady - Oh What A World Nothing But Thieves - Nothing But Thieves Nothing But Thieves - Broken Machine Franz Ferdinand - Always Ascending The Cinematic Orchestra - Live At The Royal Albert Hall The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike Shriekback - Natural History, The Very Best Of Jacques Brel - The Absolutely Essential Peter Delaney - Witch Bottle Wyvern Lingo - Wyvern Lingo Christy Moore - On The Road Hermitage Green - Gold & Rust EP Fox Jaw - Ghost's Parade Pet Shop Boys - Discography Ennio Morricone - The Very Best Of The Blades - Modernised Girls Names - The New Life The Flag Listeners - And Other Short Stories Wire - Chairs Missing, three disc remaster Wire - 154, three disc remaster The Screaming Blue Messiahs - Vision In Blues box set Field Music - Open Here Weezer - Hurley Badbadnotgood - Late Night Tales (a v/a com, chosen by Badbadnotgood) The Breeders - All Nerve Max Richter - Behind The Counter (three disc compilation of tracks picked by Richter) Brakes - Brakes Pete Williams - Roughnecks & Roustabouts Marc Carroll - Love Is All Or Love Is Not At All Communions - Blue The Music Tapes - Mary's Voice Anathema - Weather Systems Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino Brian Byrne - Goldenhair (words by James Joyce) Aretha Franklin - A Brand New Me Blossoms - Cool Like You (deluxe edition) Blossoms - Blossoms (extended edition) Iceage - Beyondless Iceage - New Brigade Iceage - You're Nothing New Order - Live At Bestival 2012 Nicole Willis & The Soul Investigators - Tortured Soul Medium Medium - Hungry, So Angry Towers Of London - Blood Sweat & Towers Grant-Lee Phillips - Widdershins Peter Bruntnell - Retrospective Gwenno - Le Kov Windings - It's Never Night Jack White - Boarding House Reach Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Who Built The Moon? Hookworms - Microshift Charlie Haden - Liberation Music Orchestra Yung Wu - Shore Leave Charlotte Gainsbourg - Rest Django Django - Marble Skies + 20 other CDs originally given away free with newspapers, which I bought for 20c each in a charity shop. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 541 Registered: 08-2005 |
Blimey, that would have put you over the luggage allowance. My recent purchases? Laura Veirs' new CD. That's it! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8589 Registered: 05-2005 |
Simon, I had to check a bag I was hoping to carry on. I was pissed off as this only happened at the gate. Ah well, nothing went missing anyway. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1901 Registered: 08-2006 |
Holy cow, Padraig, that's damn impressive. My hat's off to you. That Parquet Courts is pretty much my album of the year right now, and in the face of some very stiff competition. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8797 Registered: 05-2005 |
Permanent Clear Light - Higher Than The Sun 7" (not the Primal Scream song, btw). Finnish prog rock/jazz/art rock band. The 7" is a beautiful package with a clear, lilac record, a 3D cover, a 3D poster and 3D glasses to look at them. EZTV & Nic Hessler - split 7" of covers of songs by obscure 70s power poppers Milk 'N' Cookies. Ikon - Azkadelia 7". Melbourne band, generally lumped into the goth category, but they are far more than that. Another beautiful package. The record is clear vinyl, there is a signed post card of the cover art and it also includes a CD with five songs not on the 7". Ikon - I Burn For You 7". And yet another great package, from a band that specialises in them. The record is clear vinyl, there is a postcard of the cover art (not signed this time) and there is also a CD containing the two songs from the 7" plus three others. Three of these records take a lot of care with how they are packaged (and don't forget to add great music) and the other has obscurities covering an obscurity from probably my favourite genre. That's how to sell records. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4046 Registered: 03-2005 |
Padraig, have you done a youtube search for "Ikon?" Try it. At first I thought "has Padraig jumped into computer vocalized kpop ditties?" Fortunately the song titles will get you to the right band. "I Burn For You" is a nice piece of music. The vid is campy but then the goth aesthetic came a little late for me. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4047 Registered: 03-2005 |
Btw "Azkadelia" was even better. A quick discogs look tells me they have a daunting string of albums. Researching . . . . | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4048 Registered: 03-2005 |
It sounds like some of the earliest stuff is probably too metallic for me and that they get better as they age. I've decided to start with a big overview anthology "Like Sounds Through the Hourglass." It has Azkadelia II. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8799 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy, I hit upon the Kpop band on previous searches! There have been other bands called Ikon over the years too. I'm tickled by the idea of some Korean teenagers inadvertently getting into some Antipodean darkness. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1524 Registered: 10-2006 |
Goran Kajfes Subtropic Arkestra - The Reason Why Vol.3 I loved the first two albums in this trilogy, and am now looking forward to the last. I've filleted a couple of reviews to try to give an impression of the music the GKSA comes out with: “joyous swing… electronic world… great Afro-guitar… torrential drumming… theme to a 60s adventure serial… one of the freshest things around at the moment… Afrobeat, Ethio-jazz and big band funk… obscure worldbeat gems, recent indie anthems, dippy psychedelic oddities… skittery waltz… slinky piece of horn-led funk, complete with woozy slide guitar… a pulsating piece of Afrobeat… ecstatic free-jazz freakout… shards of astral jazz: researching the source material will send you down some very rewarding wormholes”. Not my usual sort of stuff, and all the more welcome thereby. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1116 Registered: 03-2007 |
Stuart, I read your filleted review and quickly decided it was not for me. I then listened to a few tracks on YouTube. Ordered a copy of the album shortly thereafter. Not my usual sort of stuff either but it sounds very promising. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1525 Registered: 10-2006 |
Oh, jolly good! Hope you enjoy it! I think it was their version of Grizzly Bear's Yet again on Vol. 2, probably heard on Radio FIP, that got me to dip my toe into such relatively unvisited waters. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4055 Registered: 03-2005 |
I know we are all supposed to try to avoid the giant dripping maw of Amazon but after resisting several direct email offers from Barclay to pre-order a crazy new 24 CD package of Alain Bashung--still not including his denigrated 60s/early 70s stuff!--I decided to order. The direct mail offer was 108 Euro, free shipping. Well, obviously the free shipping won't apply to a guy in California. Barclay directed me to one of two French online music order services. Rather than create yet another account that I'll probably never use again, I decided to see if maybe I could pre-order on the dreaded Amazon.fr. Yes! For 91 Euro plus shipping. Except when I actually ordered it, it became 85 Euro plus 8.50 Euro shipping! In dollars it came out to $101 and change. This is about $24 less than the direct mail offer that didn't even include shipping. So that is now my last 20 (four) records bought. If, instead, I list the unfiled CDs sitting on the dining table, they are: Jeanne Balibar -- Paramour Jeanne Balibar -- Slalom Dame Alain Bashung -- En Amont Brilliant Corners -- A History of White Trash Buzzcocks -- Time's Up! Caramel -- Ole Zamora Harper Lee -- All things can be mended Ikon -- Like Sounds Through the Hourglass Lowtide -- Southern Mind Miossec -- Les Rescapes Nightingales -- Perish the Thought Ocean Party -- The Oddfellows' Hall Passmore Sisters -- The Original Rock'n Roll Chair Peru -- Across Blue Skies Peru -- Leaving the Acre Polo et Pan -- Caravelle Sad Lovers & Giants -- Mission Creep Varsovie -- Etat Civil Varsovie -- L'heure et la trajectoire Varsovie -- Coups et blessures Various -- Go Go Train Comments? The Brilliant Corners album is their last and weakest. I never had the Devoto-era Buzzcocks! Harper Lee is growing on me. VERY Sarah Records-ish in sound. Ikon are a fabulous Goth equivalent of the Moffs. Yes, you have to skip through some of it but the great stuff really is. There's a daunting string of records by them, but it speaks well of them that they always took several years to release a new album, indicating that they actually imposed some standards on their own output. The new Nightingales was a disappointment on first listen. They have been the opposite of Ikon lately, putting out records too often. I'll try it again later. Polo et Pan was suggested to me by a French expat here in LA. Too much groovy background music, not enough song content for me. Varsovie are NOT easy listening but I am very impressed so far. I bought the Go Go Train anthology for its couple of Tony Colton tracks. He wrote "I Stand Accused," which was covered by Elvis Costello way back on "Get Happy." Tony Colton's original stands as one of the greatest 1960s British soul records. The Colton tracks on Go Go Train are not nearly as good unfortunately. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 577 Registered: 08-2005 |
Kate Bush part 1 remastered on CD The Kick Inside Lionheart Never For Ever The Dreaming Hounds of Love The Sensual World The Red Shoes And the Eerie Wanda CD 'Pet Town'; I was in my local Rough Trade buying the Kate Bush collection (even though I could buy it more cheaply online) and this was being played. Likeable but hard to describe. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8952 Registered: 05-2005 |
All vinyl, most bought in Auckland (in Flying Nun's shop called Flying Out, Southbound Records, Real Groovy, Marbecks and JB Hifi), and a few in Sydney (Desire, which is my local mostly second hand record/book store, and Sandy's, which is three suburbs over). The Undertones - Cher O'Bowlies (weirdly named, but great compilation) The Undertones - Singles (13 x 7 inches box set) David Bowie - Bowie Now (a mixture of tracks from Heroes and Low that was originally a promo 40 years ago but got a Record Store Day release) Arbor Labor Union - I Hear You Prince - 1999 (seven track, one LP version, another Record Store Day release) Paul Collins - Feel The Noise Brightness - Teething Thunderpussy - Thunderpussy London O'Connor - Circle Triangle (actually the symbols for those shapes) Ghost Music - I Was Hoping You'd Pass By Here Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams - Contraband Love A Giant Dog - Pile Trevor Burton- Long Play Jeff Austin - The Simple Truth Milk 'N' Cookies - Milk 'N' Cookies (the record box set) | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 468 Registered: 05-2005 |
Some burglars visited my house yesterday. They have devasted the whole place, taking only small objects and (costly) girly things. Bizarrely they haven't touched my record collection which remains in pristine condition (even the G-Stand box set). I'm sure now that my contribution for the future generations worth nothing…  | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8958 Registered: 05-2005 |
I'm very sorry to hear that Trou. It's a small mercy the stupid thieves left your music alone. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1576 Registered: 10-2006 |
Such a sh***y thing to happen, Trou. It's the vindictive and unnecessary chaos they leave behind that often causes more pain than what's actually taken. Fortunately, books and music are rarely targeted. I hope you'll soon be ship-shape and back to normal. | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 443 Registered: 11-2007 |
Hi Jean! All the best for you! I can not image how that might feel for you, this is one of the things that should never happen. One can not feel safe in your own place anymore!! Maybe you should open the box set now and enjoy the contents! I feel with you, Andreas. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4182 Registered: 03-2005 |
Jean how horrible! That's my big neurotic fear. Whenever I go out of town for more than a few days I take elaborate and probably futile measures to scramble and hide things I am most worried about losing. My parents' place was burgled when I was a late teen. The burglars took a bunch of guitars and a tape machine with some of my early warblings on it. Not sure they took records then either, but back in those days records were a common target. My record collector friend was burgled a few years later and they took off with about 900 albums. Like Andreas says, after this it's hard to feel safe at home. You've been invaded. Stuart, sometimes I think maybe the best anti-burglar effect is to put books up around all the entry points and let them serve as a crucifix against a vampire. Nothing repulses people quite like books! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9071 Registered: 05-2005 |
This thread has been dormant for a while, time to fire it up again. Vinyl: Paul Kelly And The Messengers - Post (double set) Nikki Sudden, Johnny Fran & Simon Carmody - The Last Bandits In The World (double set) CD: Underworld - Drift Series 1 Sampler Edition Leonard Cohen - Thanks For The Dance Bobby Goldsboro - The Very Best Of Billy Bragg - The Best Of Billy Bragg At The BBC 1983-2019 (double set) REM - Monster box set (five CDs, one blu-ray) Bob Dylan - Travelin’ Thru (three disc set) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9405 Registered: 05-2005 |
Steve Earle - Ghosts Of West Virginia LP (I won this test pressing and a slip mat of the album cover in my favourite record shop) Various artists - Smugglers Way, a collection of unreleased songs on five coloured flexidisc 7"s, featuring Dirty Projectors, Real Estate, Cass McCombs, Villagers and John Maus Stephen Malkmus - Phantasies, a five song EP from 2001 I'd never even heard of before coming across a second hand copy Bob Dylan - Rough And Rowdy Ways Wire - 10:20 Warmer - Wooden Box With Strings Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue Loretta Lynn - Wouldn't It Be Great IQ - Nomzamo Midnight Oil - Capricornia Lúnasa - Otherworld Kiris J Callinan - Bravado Cowboy Junkies - Lay It Down Mano Negra - Best Of Marc Ribot Y Los Cubanos Postizos - Muy Divertido Mercury Rev - Hello Blackbird Okkervil River - I Am Very Far Pink Mountaintops - Get Back V/A - Big Shot, The Fernwood Records Story North Atlantic Oscillation - Lightning Strikes The Library Beak> - >>> Bargou 08 - Front Music Populaire The Radiators - TV Tube Heart (40th anniversary edition) Magnapop - Mouthfeel God First - Mr Jukes V/A - Riverboat Records, Music From The Source V/A - Music From Jarvis Cocker's Sunday Service Local Natives - Hummingbirds Marillion - Script For A Jester's Tear (five disc remaster) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9567 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Brilliant Trees - Friday Night Sparklehorse - Dreamt For Light Years In The Belly Of A Mountain V/A - Cheap Tricks In A Box: Dining Out Records 1979-1982 Ghost BC - If You Have Ghost Cinerama - Valentina Beaches - Second Of Spring Durocs - Durocs Glenn Gould - Bach,J.S: Goldberg Variations (1955 & 1981) V/A - Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs Present The Tears Of Technology Life Without Buildings - Any Other City Ian Broudie - Tales Told (Needle Mythology remaster) V/A - People! Let's Freak Out, The Irish Rock Rebellion 1963 - 1970 The Explosive Sounds of Dublin, Belfast and Beyond! Marianne Faithfull - The Very Best Of Marianne Faithfull The Blue Nile - High (two CD remaster) Peter Gabriel - Rated PG Brian Wilson & Van Dyke Parks - Orange Crate Art (remaster) PJ Harvey - Dry (demos) The Jayhawks - XOXO Paul Weller - On Sunset (deluxe edition) V/A - Absolute Beginners (expanded edition) | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 656 Registered: 08-2005 |
CDs: Throwing Muses - University Throwing Muses - House Tornado/The Fat Skier Throwing Muses - The Real Ramona Throwing Muses - Self-titled First Album/The Doghouse Cassette All on eBay Dandy Warhols - Thirteen songs from Urban Bohemia 2CD edition (£1 at a charity shop) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9596 Registered: 05-2005 |
Which bonus disc did you get, Simon? I see there are three different bonus disc releases https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteen_T ales_from_Urban_Bohemia | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9598 Registered: 05-2005 |
Their rather lovely take on Hells Bells from the Australian bonus disc is here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SYjR-L1 Mzk | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9625 Registered: 05-2005 |
All vinyl, mostly 7 inches, a few 12 inches and LPs. Simon Love - The New Adam & Eve Kathryn Joseph - Tell My Lover Western Daughter - Driftwood Songs Pugwash - Without You Jens Lekman - I Know What Love Isn't Sweet Lights - Endless Town Roger Miller (the Boston post punk guy, not the Texas country singer) - Big Steam Primitive Calculators - Sick/C*nt Craig Brown Band - Overthinking Sonic Rendezvous Band - City Slang Robyn Hitchcock & Emma Swift - Follow Your Money Wet Dreams - Cartridge Belt Chavez - Cockfighters Let's Wrestle - Rain Ruins Revolution Various - Decadubs 3 Bobby Wayne with The Warriors - Sally Ann Gold Connections - Gold Connections Life Without Buildings - Any Other Day All are new, not secondhand. Most were from bargain bins. | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 461 Registered: 02-2007 |
The Everly Brothers - Reunion Concert Pat Metheny Group - Letter From Home Miles Davis - doo-bop Ben Kwiller - On My Way Of Monsters & Men - My head Is An Animal Nilsson - Best of Sling Blade Soundtrack MSMR - Secondhand Rapture Motor Ace - Five Star Laundry Ben Christophers - Spoonface The Phoenix Foundation - Buffalo Athlete - Vehicles & Animals Jordie Lane - Not Built To Last EP The Cure - Wild Mood Swings Paul Simon - There Goes Rhymin' Simon Chris Pickering - Excuses Excuses Chris Pickering - Corners Chris Pickering - Circles The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age Of The Understatement | ||
| Thomas Keitsch Member Username: Thokei Post Number: 49 Registered: 06-2005 |
CDs: Dead Famous People- Harry (brand new Album) Steven Fellows- Slow Glass (ex Comsat Angels) Sneaky Feelings- The Mercury Moment The Clean- Vehicle&Live Richard Thompson-Acoustic Classics The Stereo Bus- s/t Steve Wynn- Northern Aggression Steve Wynn- Pick up the Litter Chris & Carla-Swinger 500 Mark Eitzel- Caught in a trap... V.A.- AK79 (Flying Nun Rec.) Downloads/CDRs: Bailter Space-Concret Darryl Baser- Second Selfie The New Existentialists- Didnt have Time (George Henderson of the Puddle) Vinyl: The Caretaker Race- Somewhere on Sea EP The Pterodactyls-We ve done it now EP One Man Bannister- Rubber Solo The Cakekitchen- Trouble again in this town The Beatles- Beatles Beat (german Comp.) Tapes: REM- Automatic... Paul Mc Cartney: RAM Tug of war Driving Rain Wings: Venus & Mars Band on the run Back to the egg George Harrison: 33 1/3 s/t Gone Troppo John Lennon: Double Fantasy Milk & Honey Imagine Walls & Bridges Lou Reed- Transformer plus 4 Albums released on my wee little Label: The Normal Ambition Electric Blood (Robert Scott) Michael Canning Soon: Alec Bathgate | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9673 Registered: 05-2005 |
Very cool list, Thomas. | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 466 Registered: 02-2007 |
Vinyl (from Yandina markets last Sat) Yes- Relayer Yes- Tales From Topographic Oceans Tangerine Dream- Cyclone E L P - Brain Salad Surgery Mahavishnu Orchestra - Visions of the Emerald Beyond Jerry Goodman & Jan Hammer - Like Children Having a Prog & Jazz Fusion week. |