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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8807 Registered: 05-2005 |
This afternoon I found a download of a song that I've been looking for for 26 years. Daisy's garage rock classic, It Gives Me The Creeps Baby (Oh Yeah!). OK, slight exaggeration. I have had the record since it came out in 1993, and mp3s didn't even exist then. But I've been looking for a decent digital version of it for about two decades. I have it on 7". I even have a rip of that 7", but the rip is only 128mp3. But now, thank you iTunes and my persistence to keep checking with great regularity, I have it at 256m4a. And the iTunes version, like my previous rip, is so obviously done from vinyl. Daisy must have lost the master recording. My rip is better at the start of the song in that there is just a couple of seconds of static before the song starts. The iTunes version has 12 seconds of static before it starts. But I'm still glad to have it at a higher bit rate. They've made it an EP, which it never was in physical form. As well as the original b-side there are five other tracks, two of which are in one file, for reasons probably best known to iTunes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgNfFSFf opM | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8809 Registered: 05-2005 |
Microdisney - Little Town In Ireland. Have a read of this if you like Microdisney https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre e/2019/feb/04/how-i-fell-in-love-with-mi crodisney (I wrote it). | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8811 Registered: 05-2005 |
Atomic Bomb! Band - Heaven And Hell | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1526 Registered: 10-2006 |
Sharon Van Etten – No-one’s easy to love The album as a whole proceeds at a rather stately plod, but track two kicks off with a punchy, Blur-like beat to carry her bruised ache of a voice forwards and the chorus is a lovely dipping slur of a thing. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8813 Registered: 05-2005 |
Blur - Song 2. I’m listening to the self-titled album it’s from on the double vinyl version I bought when it came out 22 years ago. The reason I bought it on record, not CD, was I’d just bought a new record player and wanted something to properly test it out. I can’t even remember the last time I played it. It sounds great. I’m not a vinyl purist by any stretch, but some things just sound better on record. | ||
| Outout Unregistered guest |
Microdisney were nearly a great band in my opinion. I own everything they produced but I don’t love any of their records . The first three Peel sessions, though, are magnificent. | ||
| Fred Tadrowski Member Username: Ftadrowski Post Number: 86 Registered: 03-2015 |
Nice article on Microdisney. I have traveled to Columbus, Ohio, Oxford, and Dublin mainly to see Robert. Our dentist calls my wife and I groupies. I just started listening to Microdisney last year (thanks to this board) who I believe are an acquired taste. I would love to be at their last gigs. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4058 Registered: 03-2005 |
Fred, I found them to be an acquired taste to the extent of Sean O'Hagan's Steely Dan worship. I've always loathed Steely Dan. But I found enough non-Steely-inspired Microdisney to get a good start. For post-punk there's the early stuff, especially "Love Your Enemies" and the beautiful and funny at the same time "Sun." For sheer unforgettable, unavoidable pop there's "Singer's Hampstead Home." Padraig can't believe that "Town to Town" wasn't a huge hit and I can't believe that "Singer . . . " wasn't. Once entry points like those do their job, the rest follows. And "Clock" is truly a classic great album, from the cover to the music. Like you say, an acquired taste but fun to acquire. | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 435 Registered: 02-2007 |
G. Wayne Thomas "Open Up Your Heart" | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8814 Registered: 05-2005 |
Thanks, Fred. David, welcome back. Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel Of Love. I've loved this song since I first heard it 32 years ago. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1527 Registered: 10-2006 |
Velvet Underground – Sweet Jane God, this sounded so good this morning, sitting in the car listening to the radio while I waited for the wife, volume up high. She has a better sound system in there than I do at home. I remembered the first time I heard it, on Roscoe’s Round Table on Radio 1, rereleased just after the surprise hit of Wild Side. It sounded cool and sinful and oblique and full of pain. (That, “But anyone who ever had a heart, They wouldn't turn around and break it, And anyone who ever played a part, They wouldn't turn around and hate it” still gets to me today). I could not make out the title though, and next day went hunting round record shops for a song called Sea Jade. Found it eventually, but it took a lot of standing around with headphones on. My listening tastes would never be the same. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4059 Registered: 03-2005 |
David! You just linked me to vintage Australiana I've never heard of! Thanks! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4060 Registered: 03-2005 |
And my song of the day is: Scott Walker -- The House Song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DbWgkCn nJU This comes from one of Walker's two 70s country pop albums. Don't expect the consistency and heights of his classic 60s albums as he doesn't supply any of his own songs, which is why these records are dismissed. But he does know how to sing and some of the song choices do him justice. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1266 Registered: 04-2005 |
Robert Forster - No Fame Big thanks to a member of this board ! It's simply great. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 579 Registered: 08-2005 |
Kate Bush - Egypt Presently enjoying her remastered early CDs. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1268 Registered: 04-2005 |
Feu! Chatterton - À l'aube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWJ1wpp- N0k The band played this "oldie" on Wednesday night...very intense live. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 1268 Registered: 08-2004 |
Pere Ubu - Cloud 149 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZP8BmgN Aco | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1271 Registered: 04-2005 |
Feu! Chatterton - Sari d'Orcino https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfcFdh6G dM4 "Juliette avait mis sa robe orangée..." | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4064 Registered: 03-2005 |
Ok, Andrew, I've ordered the current album. | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 436 Registered: 02-2007 |
Thanks Padraig and Randy, it's been a while. Had just bought a pristine vinyl "Morning of the Earth" for $1 at Lifeline store near Noosa. Famous photo of Michael Peterson inside fold out cover. Have been playing it a lot since and fell in love (again) with song "Open Up Your Heart. Album has special place in surfing culture in Australia. MP the great surfer has his own unique story as well. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1531 Registered: 10-2006 |
The Avett Brothers – Live and die The catchy play-out song for Judd Apatow’s This is 40. The film is basically a hymn of love to his wife’s gorgeousness, fair enough, she is gorgeous, in that squeaky, irritating way I rather like. The film has more good tunes in it than big laughs, but rich LA looks like paradise and there are some nice lines, my favourite being Chris O’Dowd’s “That’s not even the right order for any of these things!” Ryan Adams as the possible deus ex machina to the story, given recent news reports, leaves us with a suitably sickly pall of irony. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1274 Registered: 04-2005 |
RIP Peter Tork The Monkees - Shades of Grey | ||
| peter ward Member Username: Peter_ward Post Number: 359 Registered: 06-2005 |
R.I.P. Mark Hollis After The Flood - Talk Talk Some of his music still sounds like it was recorded this morning, amazing. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8820 Registered: 05-2005 |
I just read about Mark Hollis here https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/f eb/25/mark-hollis-lead-singer-of-talk-ta lk-dies-at-age-64-reports-say | ||
| Fred Tadrowski Member Username: Ftadrowski Post Number: 88 Registered: 03-2015 |
Mark Hollis - The Colour of Spring. I have always loved the last three Talk Talk albums and his quiet all acoustic solo album. What other rock album can you name that has two bassoonists and a cor anglais player on it? | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1533 Registered: 10-2006 |
Robert Forster – Remain Nice to wake up to a new RF song, though I’ve still only got the Uncut compilation so far. No big surprises, the minimalist twanged guitar and familiar melodic contours. One thing I always like about Robert is that you can hear every word and can react in real time to the lyrics – Morrissey is the same. Although on first listen I did think he was singing about “big city trains” which seemed pleasantly non-contextual. It’s not a big song, but, despite the “wryness”, the pain of the neglected artist is very real. I like the line, “I can do magic to turned backs”. I’m glad I’m one of those facing in the right direction. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1535 Registered: 10-2006 |
Hand Habits - What's the use One of the highlights for me from the previously hosannad Uncut cd. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXKTKLrF WZ8 | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 1270 Registered: 08-2004 |
New Order - Leave Me Alone | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1536 Registered: 10-2006 |
Strand of oaks - Ruby Last entry from the impressive Uncut disc, another name new to me. Great pop song and the sort of voice I love, with even a Grantesque hint to the vocals at the beginning. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7YArgg3 x9c | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1278 Registered: 04-2005 |
Beautiful Pea Green Boat - Chance https://beautifulpeagreenboat.bandcamp.c om/album/chance-ep https://okonkole-y-trompa.com/2016/10/18 /as-beautiful-as-a-green-pea/?fbclid=IwA R3TYfJbTBCyoYKcQ5p-PPvkrTavQfO5ZZ7qAlLVU R7yP-8P8A4D6xu2nVs |