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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8848 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Claim - Black Path (Retrospective 1985-1992) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8853 Registered: 05-2005 |
Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising. I've been looking forward to this for a while, the fourth album from Natalie Mering, who is Weyes Blood. After seeing her live at the Sydney festival in 2017 I described her on here as "like Joni Mitchell fronting Peter Gabriel-era Genesis at their wildest". She's much quieter on record though, and so it is again with Titanic Rising. But four tracks into the first play, it sounds great. Not that it's all laid back. Everyday is a soul stomper, with a great string arrangement. I can't wait to see that one live if/when she makes it back to Sydney. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8855 Registered: 05-2005 |
An iTunes mix I made of three-minute pop songs. I mostly make iTunes mixes of around 80 minutes, so they will fit onto a CDR if I want to burn it. Playing right now is Bellarine by Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8856 Registered: 05-2005 |
Listened to a lot of Microdisney and Cathal Coughlan this afternoon. It had been a very long time since I played Coughlan’s debut solo album, Grand Necropolitan. I’d forgotten how truly great it is. And how influenced by Scott Walker. | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 542 Registered: 01-2007 |
Julia Jacklin | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8859 Registered: 05-2005 |
Giuda - E.V.A. An Italian band working in the 70s hard rock milieu. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8861 Registered: 05-2005 |
Sean O’Hagan - High Llamas, his 1990 solo album before he used the title for his next band. | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 427 Registered: 11-2007 |
13 minutes of Jetstream Pony: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEp8C113 qFg | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8864 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Aints - The Church Of Simultaneous Existence | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 428 Registered: 11-2007 |
Fontaines D.C. @ Rockpalast! Rockpalast is THE german concert / TV format since the late 70s for rock music This concert took place in groningen, netherlands https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRGEAeAj 63A | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8865 Registered: 05-2005 |
Fontaines DC - Dogrel. It’s not out officially till tomorrow, but Red Eye in Sydney had a copy when I called in just to see if they’d have it tomorrow. And so now I’m listening to it. And it’s fucking monumental. I can’t remember the last time I was so excited to hear a debut album. And I certainly can’t remember the last time a debut album was this great. And I can’t remember the last album by an Irish band that was this great. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4128 Registered: 03-2005 |
A bunch of L.A. Salami songs from his Pre-EP, Another Shade of Blue and Prelude. This is one artist who successfully forced me to purchase music via download. I'm culling and shuffling to create two well-packed CDs for a friend of mine who's always supported my own musical efforts, including the occasional judicious criticism. Her mom just died; I'm hoping this music helps just a little bit. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1561 Registered: 10-2006 |
Marc Bolan – Children of the revolution Certainly enough on this extensive compilation to convince me that another elfin man-child with a taste for dandy dressing had an encyclopaedic knowledge of MB’s work – what with those casual, loose-wristed riffs, colourfully whimsical/salacious lyrics, song-opening squeals, soul-stirring backup singers counterpointing the trilling, high-pitched lead… Marc may never have made it big in the USA, but someone sure was listening out in Minneapolis. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8868 Registered: 05-2005 |
Fontaines D.C. - Dogrel. I'm on my third play of it - the CD last night through the hi-fi, this morning on my iPad on the bus to work, and now through iTunes. And it gets better each time. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8871 Registered: 05-2005 |
LCD Soundsystem - American Dream. I got it cheap in Fopp in Covent Garden recently. Now I see what the hype was about, but I’m glad I waited for the hype show to move on before I got it. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8872 Registered: 05-2005 |
And now, as it’s record store day, I picked an LP at random out of my unplayed pile. It’s Cosmogramma by Flying Lotus. So far I’m not sure if it’s even playing at the right speed. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8873 Registered: 05-2005 |
It was the wrong speed. It sounds far better at the right speed. | ||
| Alexey Member Username: Alexey_p Post Number: 14 Registered: 03-2019 |
Interestingly, two new albums I love from genres for which I have little time these days... PUP - Morbid Stuff and WH Lung - Incidental Music. Both are infectious to quite a dangerous degree. Best stuff I've heard this month. On the other hand, I still don't get the hype around Weyes Blood. I mean, it's lovely and all - but Jesus is it ever bland. P.S. Need to get that Fontaines DC album... The singles are excellent. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 1277 Registered: 08-2004 |
PJ Harvey - All About Eve Human League - Crash | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4130 Registered: 03-2005 |
Stuart, T Rex did pretty well here. The only big hit--and it was HUGE in California at the least--was "Bang a Gong" but I remember seeing T Rex albums in all the record stores' racks in the early 70s. I admit that I wasn't into Bolan's glam bubblegum cocktail back then. I was enthralled by the Moody Blues! . . . (ducks) . . . | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1286 Registered: 04-2005 |
Been listening a lot to our friend Yonathan Avishai’s first release for the legendary ECM Records. It’s called “Joys and Solitudes” and it completely captures what makes him such a special pianist. We saw him play in Bordeaux a few weeks ago, as part of the “Piano Day” festival, in a beautiful old church (L’Espace Saint-Rémi). Here’s one of the pieces from it..."Lya"...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfdcQyTm Kfg As one of the reviews phrased it “An eloquent showcase of the virtues of musical economy” And catching up properly on Robert’s “Inferno”...Tapete sent a second copy after the first failed to arrive. Hope the person who stole the first at least likes it! It’s a great record and I can’t wait to see him and the band in Glasgow next month. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8876 Registered: 05-2005 |
Fontaines D.C. Over and over. | ||
| Alexey Member Username: Alexey_p Post Number: 15 Registered: 03-2019 |
Over and over, Padraig. Parts of it leave me speechless. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1945 Registered: 08-2006 |
Can't remember if anyone here's mentioned it, but I've been enjoying the new record from Melbourne's Possible Humans. I see it got a decent review today in Pitchfork so I thought I'd bring it up. Reminds me a little of a more grungy version of the Bats. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8878 Registered: 05-2005 |
Peter Gabriel - Passion, in honour of Good Friday. Not that I need a religious holiday to to play this, one of the greatest soundtrack albums ever. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8881 Registered: 05-2005 |
No-Man - Wild Opera. It came out in 1996, I bought it in London last month and I'm playing it for the first time right now. And it's wonderful - jazz/trip hop/prog rock/avant garde/orch pop, a mix that sounds like it should be awful, but is not. I wish I'd bought it back in the day. It would have given me 23 years of joy up until now. Oh well, better very late to the party than never. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8883 Registered: 05-2005 |
Cane 141 - Scene From 6am, a 1998 album by a band from Galway in the west of Ireland. I haven't played this in a very long time. I don't know what reminded me them, but something did. Mercifully it was on a shelf and not hidden away in the garage. They are, on this album at least, a cross between The Go-Betweens and The Blue Nile. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8884 Registered: 05-2005 |
A 1986 Neil Young best of that was only released in a few countries (but, as one of those countries was the US, I'm sure it sold a lot of copies). It has an edited version of Like A Hurricane and the 7" version of Down By The River. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8885 Registered: 05-2005 |
Donny McCaslin - Blow. My kinda jazz. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8891 Registered: 05-2005 |
Peter Gabriel - Rated PG, a collection of his film music. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8894 Registered: 05-2005 |
Ride - Future Love. Their new single, and it augurs mightily well for their forthcoming album. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4137 Registered: 03-2005 |
Thousand -- Le Tunnel Vegetal Thousand is Stephane Milochevitch. As is so often the case, Hugh Nimmo introduced me to him. He is a Talitres artist. His first two albums are in English and seem to mine a seam of imaginary ugly Americana. I much prefer this, his third album (from 2018). On "Le Tunnel Vegetal" he decided to relax and just be French. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8896 Registered: 05-2005 |
Barry Adamson - The Negro Inside Me. I'd heard some of it before on a compilation of his, but I didn't have the album. I bought it this afternoon in Lawson's, the oldest record shop in Sydney. It opened in 1964. It closed for good today. It wasn't lack of sales that killed the shop, it was the rent going from from $77,000 a year to $238,000. Jerry Pasqual has owned it since 1979 and is aged 77, not that he looks it. He was outside the shop as I was leaving. I thanked him for running a great shop and giving me so much pleasure over the years. I shook his hand. He seemed inordinately sad, as if the reality of the end of what he's done for 40 years had just hit him. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-04-05/s ydneys-oldest-surviving-record-store-to- close/10970112 | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4139 Registered: 03-2005 |
Padraig, that story about the rent is a common one here in LA. And SF. And NYC. And London. It makes sense it would be Sydney that would be that way in Oz. It's depressing. I keep thinking that artists are going to have to adopt a "B list" or "C list" city to build a community in. I just can't see how somebody who is struggling to create can spend any energy on that in a place where it costs so much just to have a roof. In Oz I expect that Melbourne is just as bad as Sydney. I remember inner Brisbane being pretty expensive in 2007. Maybe Hobart. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8897 Registered: 05-2005 |
Rents in Hobart are now huge too, Randy. It has has become a victim of its own counterculture success. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-04-12/h obart-rental-market-surging/9641086 | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1147 Registered: 03-2007 |
Maison Neuve - Joan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8zg2lip DBI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFftl3Dt pjI Yet another very good Talitres release. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4140 Registered: 03-2005 |
Very appealing Hugh. Copy ordered. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4141 Registered: 03-2005 |
Padraig, your comment about Hobart's "counterculture success" reminded me that one of the Violent Femmes relocated there from the U.S. maybe about a decade ago. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4142 Registered: 03-2005 |
Meanwhile I've been listening to early Lookman (L.A.) Salami. I love a man who can write sensitively about a woman. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1BpYyk4 SUI He even writes touchingly about a cat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9ui4gm2 qIM I am not tiring of this man's music. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8898 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy, yes, the bass player Brian Ritchie moved there in 2008. I’ve just listened to Yma Sumac’s 1952 album Legend Of The Sun Virgin. I bought it on second hand vinyl recently for $10. It’s brilliant, bonkers stuff. What a voice she has. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VMUIgGMYAw I | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 432 Registered: 11-2007 |
The Pearlfishers - Open Up Your Colouring Book saw that they get a new album out on the wonderful Marina records (Love & Other Hopeless Things) and remembered this wonderful 2LP with cd crying a tear because Marina's existence is ending more than soon! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8903 Registered: 05-2005 |
What’s happening with Marina, Andreas? Is it going out of business or has it been bought by another label? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8904 Registered: 05-2005 |
I’ve just ordered the triple vinyl edition of Marina’s 25th anniversary compilation. | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 433 Registered: 11-2007 |
Hi Padraig! Yes, so sorry. The new Pearlfishers should be the last album on Marina records. At the end of last year they announced the end of the label. Here is an article of a german magazine (Stern) on that. https://www.stern.de/kultur/ende-eines-i ndie-labels-ein-bewegender-marina-abschi ed-mit-the-pearlfishers-8689816.html?fbc lid=IwAR0u7fPAvRzxpmFpWTSSw9tAfPnFvXYdaU WeVL2xr4qnhJ4Mrr1vz1EIsTA I don't want ot write more, it is too sad. You can translate parts of it with google translate... Goosebumps compilation is wonderful! | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 434 Registered: 11-2007 |
Here is a link to an article in herald of scotland https://www.heraldscotland.com/arts_ents /17570039.davie-scott-of-the-pearlfisher s-lets-make-an-amazing-record-that-was-a lways-the-driving-thing/ where it is said: Love & Other Hopeless Things is Marina’s last album by all accounts. Scott is not so sure. “My suspicion is they will go back on that because a vinyl junkie is a vinyl junkie.” Let's hope!! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4145 Registered: 03-2005 |
Another, smaller German label--I think Tokei Records--reported that a major increase in Deutsche Post rates for small packages was forcing it to give up its mail order business. I noticed an outlandish (8 Euro) charge for postage to the US on a singe CD offering from a German seller on discogs the other day. I wonder if that is a factor in Marina's decision. | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 437 Registered: 11-2007 |
The Apartments - Live @ L'Ubu a RSD 2019 release. Vinyl 2LP incl. DL with a seven-piece band Live recording from september 2015 in Rennes, France Black Ribbons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSc4HVx7 4GM | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 462 Registered: 05-2005 |
Pip Blom - Indie Robots cd. Young band from Holland. Their concert (as guests of The Breeders) was one of my best of last year. The first album is out soon on Heavenly. | ||
| Burgers Member Username: Burgers Post Number: 114 Registered: 05-2005 |
If you like The Pearlfishers you may be interested in the series that Davie Scott made for BBC Radio Scotland last year on Classic Scottish Albums. It’s available as a podcast of 30 half hour episodes. Pretty much covers the albums you’d expect but omits TV21, Camera Obscura, The Associates, Boards of Canada and Life Without Buildings | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8910 Registered: 05-2005 |
Danny Graham - Danny Graham. A 1980 album from a Sydney man whose entire career was this debut, a second album and a single. The original LP has now become a much sought after record, selling for $500. Mercifully, I got a download from Bandcamp for $12. It's outsider pop/psychedelic/folk and the first time I heard of him was today in a newspaper article. And so far, so wonderful. | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 438 Registered: 11-2007 |
Sophia - De Nachten Vinyl Remaster Crystalclear and worth buying | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4147 Registered: 03-2005 |
Television Personalities -- The Painted Word | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8912 Registered: 05-2005 |
Goosebumps - 25 Years Of Marina Records, triple vinyl edition. It arrived today, and wasn’t particularly well packed, but it’s playing fine. And oh, the music. A brilliantly chosen compilation. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8914 Registered: 05-2005 |
Earlier, Whiskey Alpha Delta Echo by Wade Jackson. I’ve had this for a while but finally played it today. I wish I’d played it before now, some of it is great. He wears his Big Star influences on his sleeve, but that’s OK with me. Jackson is from Sydney and it was nice to see from the sleevenotes that I know a couple of people who worked on this album, the co-producer and a backing vocalist. Googling for a review of it, I saw an album called Summer by Pop 4 reviewed alongside Jackson on some site. That sounded like my cup of tea too, so I bought it from Bandcamp and am listening to it now. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1154 Registered: 03-2007 |
The Pariahs - Friendly & Courageous Peppelkade 14 - North of England The latest releases by Firestation Records. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1155 Registered: 03-2007 |
The Salad Boys - This Is Glue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRcFFm5p GHY From Christchurch, New Zealand. Track from their second album. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8915 Registered: 05-2005 |
Hoolahan - Casuarina. I bought this a while ago in Red Eye, purely based on the power pop description written on it. It’s much more than that, though. I’m halfway through it and it veers from power pop to indie to krautrock. Instant Gain sounds like The Go-Betweens crossed with Kraftwerk. I know nothing about them other than they are Australian. The sleeve doesn’t even say who’s in the band. OK, curiosity got the better of me. https://www.hoolahan.band/home | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8916 Registered: 05-2005 |
Daniel Lanois - Acadie. It’s been a long time since I last played this. It’s 30 years old, and I bought it on tape when it came out. I was reminded of it in a conversation with a record shop owner this afternoon. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8917 Registered: 05-2005 |
Orla Gartland - Why Am I Like This? EP. A very talented young Dublin woman. Not sure it would find favour among many here, but maybe. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCePJhYK T0qg7u3oxSw_laXw | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1156 Registered: 03-2007 |
Chook Race - About Time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDPgznTY 1no Opening track from their debut album which was released back in 2015. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8921 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Cure - Greatest Hits. Inspired by last night's concert at the Opera House. Robert Smith picked the track list for this compilation and he chose very well. | ||
| Ted Member Username: Ted Post Number: 13 Registered: 01-2005 |
'Dunedin Spleen' by The Verlaines. It's staggeringly, breathtakingly good. I can't believe how good it is. Only available on Bandcamp at the moment (but well worth every cent of the price of a download), hopefully it will appear on vinyl and cd soon. If I was forced to recommend one track out of the 19 (!) on the album it would be 'Way Too Old To Grow Up Now', about Shayne Carter of Straitjacket Fits - https://verlainesband.bandcamp.com/track /way-too-old-to-grow-up-now - but really, the whole album is fantastic. Very highly recommended. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8924 Registered: 05-2005 |
Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman, on vinyl, through headphones. I’m hearing things I’d never noticed before | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4163 Registered: 03-2005 |
Davey Woodward and the Winter Orphans Bought at their gig in London a few days ago. On Tapete. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4165 Registered: 03-2005 |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_qa7FCd QTE | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8932 Registered: 05-2005 |
Hey! Elastica - In On The Off Beat. One and only album from this Edinburgh band. It has never been released on CD. I wish I could say I'm playing the vinyl, but I've just bought the AAC files from iTunes. Expensive too, at $19.99, but two tracks in and I'm glad I got it. I saw it recommended somewhere as a lost classic ages ago but held off for some reason. Probably because I had not heard the album. It came out in 1984 and is pop/funk in a B-52's style. Just down the road in Glasgow, The Blue Nile released A Walk Across The Rooftops the same year. What a difference 45 miles makes. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8933 Registered: 05-2005 |
I’m listening to a Blue Nile best of I made and called Premium Best. Perfect for a cold(ish) winter’s morning in Sydney. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 1280 Registered: 08-2004 |
A Certain Ratio - To Each Buoyed by the ACRBOX, I decided to give ACR proper a go. Perfect for gloomy gardenning and drizzly dog walking. Also: Black Grape - Stupid Stupid Stupid - first listen to this for a long time. More for when the sun peaks out. All in all a very positive record. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8939 Registered: 05-2005 |
Prince - 1999, seven-track single LP version. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4171 Registered: 03-2005 |
Following up on one of Hugh's tips upthread my copy of the Salad Boys' This is Glue has arrived, along with their first album Metalmania. I've started with the newer album. Decidedly Kiwi in all the right ways, very guitaristic with diffident vocals. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4172 Registered: 03-2005 |
Metalmania, of course, sounds nothing like its name suggests. It is perhaps just a little more strummy than This is Glue, though this isn't demonstrated by this Kid Canaveral-esque song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYBz_xvU a_8 | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 1281 Registered: 08-2004 |
Challenged my daughter to make a playlist of best B-sides for our rail trip to Brighton for the university open day. Mine was 5 hours long. There are worse places to be on a sunny day in June. David Sylvian & Ryuichi Sakamoto - Forbidden Colours | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8940 Registered: 05-2005 |
A Wire mix. I may be alone in preferring their 00s/10s stuff to their 70s/80s stuff, brilliant though the latter is. Jerry, what was on your list? Just a flavour, not all five hours. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4176 Registered: 03-2005 |
David McWilliams -- Days at Dawn. This arrived a lot sooner than I anticipated. Three albums from 1972, 1973 and 1974 are combined together. At times McWilliams reminds me a bit of Townes Van Zandt, his music stirring together British folk and elements of American country. The recordings are restrained and enjoyable for the most part, but with the last of the three albums clearly aiming for a more commercial sound and thus more bland. The two links here lead to songs from the first and second Dawn albums respectively. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKV2LxZe eko https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icac4a7w KuQ | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 1282 Registered: 08-2004 |
Thanks for asking, Padraig. It starts alphabetically with 'Broken Window' by Arcade Fire and goes all the way through to Yeah Yeah Yeahs.. Just about to listen to The Cure - Faith - Read the review of their Glastonbury appearance. Missed the show cos of work. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8947 Registered: 05-2005 |
No ZZ Top b-sides then? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8956 Registered: 05-2005 |
Lou Reed - New York (1989) Lou Reed & John Cale - Songs For Drella (1990) Brian Eno & John Cale - Wrong Way Up (1990) Reed and Cale were on fire in 1989/90. So was Eno. New York and Songs For Drella are two of my favourite ever albums. I only discovered Wrong Way Up's existence a few years ago (I must have read about it when it came out, but I don't remember doing so), and is a much more poppy affair than the other two. But if I ever get round to playing it as often as I've played New York and Songs For Drella, it might make my all time list too. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8962 Registered: 05-2005 |
Primal Scream - a live session on Mary Anne Hobbs's BBC show. They played Moving On Up, Country Girl and Rocks and it rocks. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8963 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Chills - Soft Bomb. My favourite ever album, as I’ve said here before (probably on numerous occasions). I had the great pleasure of telling Martin Phillipps this in Auckland a few weeks ago. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8964 Registered: 05-2005 |
XTC - Apple Venus Volume 1. Orch pop in excelsis. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8967 Registered: 05-2005 |
David McComb - Love Of Will. It’s years since I last listened to it. It sounds wonderful. I’m listening through Amazon music, though I do have the CD. I’m glad it’s on streaming services (even though it took a long time for Alexa to understand what I was looking for) as the album is so hard to find - the cheapest copy on Discogs is Ł40, which is a barrier to gaining new fans. Oh, and The Triffids 10 disc box set is now going for €750. Another one I’m glad to own, though I remember thinking it was pretty expensive when it came out. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1580 Registered: 10-2006 |
Trying out my sister-in-law's Google speaker thingy, I have to shout, oy google!! Play Robert Forster!! First two times, it denies all knowledge, third time it plays a vaguely familiar track by someone else. I am sweating like hell by this time, it is horrendously hot. Finally Google thing catches on and I get The Morning. Then it alternates tracks from Songs to play and Inferno. Then I have to take the dog out for a walk in the oven. When I get back, we start all over again. Oy Google, next track! Next track! My knees are giving way, then it breaks into Pandanus. It has never sounded better. What a great song. Then, who knows why, Falling star. Then back to the Evangelist. It's hard to delve into that back catalogue, eh, Google?? But then, I've been looking for somebody! Good going, Google!! But is the algorithm or whatever going to throw up the same songs in the same order every time?? Too much shouting involved... | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4185 Registered: 03-2005 |
Poor Stuart. A Scottish person is not meant for what you are enduring. When I want some grey skies and a little rain in the summer I head to Edinburgh. I grew up in Fresno, California. In summer you can easily go for three or four weeks in a row with every day's high temperature in the 100s. If the high is in the 90s it is considered cool. But it's the "dry heat" there so not so bad as the same temps in a place like Brisbane or Atlanta. I got very grouchy about the Apple shuffle mode on my iPods until I learned how to concoct special "smart playlists" that countered some of the tendencies of the default shuffle algorithm. One of the infuriating tendencies was to play the same song too often, apparently on the theory that it was really popular with me because, hey, I'd heard it before! | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1581 Registered: 10-2006 |
It took me a long time to understand the concept of natural heat, Randy. When I was working in Spain I went on my first proper beach holiday and my Valencian girlfriend, unpacking my case, held up my favourite thick-weave Aran sweater. "What is this for, Stuart?" I shrugged,"Well, you know, if we want to go out later in the evening..." That night, we were walking along the shore with our feet in the shallows. I was still in an old t-shirt and trunks and it was about midnight. She turned to me. "Oh, Stu, maybe you want to go back and get the big jumper now?" And she laughed like a fool for about 20 minutes. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4187 Registered: 03-2005 |
Don't feel bad Stuart. I just made a similar mistake on my trip there. Before going I reviewed the high and low temps and brought a number of long sleeved light flannel shirts thinking I'd need them after dark. In the Spring and Fall, LA can get decidedly nippy after the sun goes down even when it is quite warm during the day. I could have cut down my baggage by half if I'd known. Or had the space to bring Spanish things back with me. | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 441 Registered: 02-2007 |
As I Call You Down - Fist Full Of Mercy |