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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9237 Registered: 05-2005 |
Fewer Owls - Robert Forster https://soundcloud.com/user-866272886/ro bert-forster | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9241 Registered: 05-2005 |
Bleached - Ride Your Heart. California sisters playing jangle pop. I came across this while searching for something else. As is often the case. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9245 Registered: 05-2005 |
I'm making digital versions of adored old mix tapes from the 20th century. It's a lot of fun. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9252 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Triffids - Calenture. It’s a very long time since I played it. The reacquaintance is inspired by its inclusion in a book I’m flicking through about 1001 albums to listen to. Calenture was the first Triffids album I bought, so it has a special place in my heart. Actually, now that I think of it, it was the first of their albums I bought on vinyl; I’d already bought the Stockholm live album on tape. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4366 Registered: 03-2005 |
Padraig, I got "Calenture" probably back near its original release date from a store on Melrose Avenue in Hollywood that routinely sold "Not For Sale" promotional copies of new releases. I knew nothing about the Triffids. I certainly didn't know they were Australian. I loved "Bury Me Deep in Love" but I remember not bonding with much else on the album at that time. I had to wait many years to discover earlier Triffids and then approach again when I now heard less of the gloss and more of the McComb substance. What I have been listening to is a Spanish band, I assume now defunct, called Samitier. In particular, a song called "Sóc el Meu Doble" which, I imagine, would have been the first track on Side Two of a vinyl version of the 2010 album. At first all I could find on youtube was this fragment of the song performed by the guitarist and singer in the band, Adria González. The video starts in the middle 8 of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPDwoxYb TEg It's a fine piece of work. Ah! And then I found the actual complete album version by adding the record company name to the search! Two whole views prior to me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdCctiSD UxI As far as I know Samitier had two albums, a first one you can't get for love or money--unless your name is Hugh Nimmo!--and the second one "Missatges de l'Aigua" released on a label that doesn't seem to have been at all the sort of label to release this sort of thing, which you can now get easily for insultingly cheap prices. This song is from that album. Here's another with the band doing an "unplugged" version of another song from the same album. The anorak in me notices González' Martin guitar, either a D-18 or D-28. That was probably a pretty expensive thing to get in Espańa. It's not cheap here in its home country. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmPw0Z3b El4 Here's something that looks like maybe a documentary video for them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcLCKqzk l3M And then I guess an actual official video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YN8r1i7W 2js One of the many things I like about this band is that they don't seem to rely very much on overdubs. Nor are they very electronicky. They're just a good band with a sense of song and a talent for making the most of their small four person arrangements. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9255 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy, don't be afraid of the gloss! I often like it when a band such as The Triffids or Microdisney suddenly got a budget and were able to add a touch of gloss to proceedings, even if, as is both those examples, their best work came pre-gloss. I'm listening to Meshell Ndegeocello's covers album Ventriloquism. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9259 Registered: 05-2005 |
A career-wide Augie March mix I put together from their early EPs to the most recent album. It’s been so long since I heard a lot of these older songs. And what a joy it is. The passing of years between plays has allowed me to notice things I’d never realised before, eg the My Bloody Valentine influence on The Hole In Your Roof from their debut album and the fact that the alternate version of Lupus is better than the original. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1265 Registered: 03-2007 |
One Eyed Wayne - Attack Of The Luxury Flats https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2t14o4Fw mUI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaa2C4d6 yoU | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4370 Registered: 03-2005 |
Ugh. Luxury flats. When in London I stay at a hotel converted from the old Bethnal Green Town Hall. Luxury flats there too, but at least in the form of adaptive reuse. I've stayed there enough times and over enough years to see a lot of changes in the neighborhood, surprisingly a rate of change that I normally associate with young rootless places like Los Angeles. Located there my personal London axis is Cambridge Heath Road for north/south and Bethnal Green Road/Roman Road for east/west. I remember one time deciding to wander north into Hackney where Cambridge Heath Road becomes Mare Street. Somewhere around the transition there are a number of large mixed-use apartment blocks that look exactly like ones I see popping up like mushrooms after rain in Los Angeles. They are so generic in their appearance I can't help but wonder if they're all built by the same company worldwide. I don't happen to be a person opposed to change or to modernity per se. But I am very opposed to uniformity and the loss of a unique sense of place. Perhaps there's never a serious danger of that occurring, but those giant bland mixed use buildings sure seem to look an awful lot alike wherever I see them. "Attack of the Luxury Flats" made me think of that. Where is 110 miles (klicks?) from London and 330 miles (or klicks) from Manchester? Birmingham? | ||
| Burgers Member Username: Burgers Post Number: 145 Registered: 05-2005 |
Despite what they’ll have you believe, Manchester is in England’s Midlands. It’s only about 160 miles from London. There will be a couple of places that meet your criteria. One will be around about Portsmouth, the other somewhere between Harwich and the Hook of Holland. As for distances in French kilometres, who cares? | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1266 Registered: 03-2007 |
Cypress, Mine! - Exit Trashtown / In Pieces https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Dj7zcaU aFs Irish band who hailed from Cork. They released their one and only album ( Exit Trashtown ) in 1987. The original album plus a collection of singles and demos for a second album that was never recorded was released on vinyl ( 2 x LP ) by Pretty Olivia Records in 2017. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1267 Registered: 03-2007 |
Cypress, Mine! - Last Night I Met The Man For Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4g9BZ-QX faI | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 478 Registered: 11-2007 |
Stephan Duffy - I love my friends Another wonderful offering on Needle Mythology remastered 2CD and vinyl incl. 7" | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 492 Registered: 05-2005 |
Hello Andreas, The cd is completely sold out. I've bought it through discogs. One of the urgent things I have to listen… | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 479 Registered: 11-2007 |
I got it thru jpc.de where the 2CD is available for 15 Euros. https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/poprock/detail/ -/art/stephen-duffy-i-love-my-friends/hn um/9106546 a good shop with reasonable prices for many things... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9270 Registered: 05-2005 |
Blake Mills - Mutable Set. It's not out until next month, but it deserves to be huge when it is. It reminds me a lot of Talk Talk and a little of The Blue Nile. In pre-coronavirus times there would be a huge and justified buzz about this. Times have changed, but hopefully an appreciation of great music has not. | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 481 Registered: 11-2007 |
@Padraig: Maybe this album is good and I would like it. If you have a look at his shop - he offers his signed vinyl copy for 50 USD w/o p&p. I think this price is kind of crazy. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1269 Registered: 03-2007 |
Andreas, The album will be released here in the U.K. on or about 22nd May, 2020. Norman Records have it up for pre-order at the moment ( Vinyl 2xLP for Ł21.49; CD for Ł11.99 plus shipping ) so I would expect it to be released in Europe as well. | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 482 Registered: 11-2007 |
yes, that's true, thx Hugh  I will buy it from a german or british record store. But I don't like his pricing for just an adiitional signature. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1270 Registered: 03-2007 |
Andreas, It is crazy pricing for a signed CD / LP and not something I like to see artists / bands do. | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 483 Registered: 11-2007 |
The Smiths - This Charming Man (Luis Leon Bootleg) quite an interesting, well done remix https://blankhaus.bandcamp.com/track/the -smiths-this-charming-man-luis-leon-boot leg | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9271 Registered: 05-2005 |
Andreas, I hope you will be able to check the Blake Mills album out and not be too put off by the outrageous price for a signed copy. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9273 Registered: 05-2005 |
Nick Cave covering a T-Rex song https://youtu.be/wc7mDChiiNU | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1271 Registered: 03-2007 |
Rio Arga - Rio Arga https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdF5uD2v ERs | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4372 Registered: 03-2005 |
That's pretty fun, Hugh. Two minutes and two seconds long. No CD. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4373 Registered: 03-2005 |
They seem to have a female drummer! And everything I'm running into is good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEiiuUG7 CY4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntFz0kj7 c9E The vinyl and downloads ordered. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9277 Registered: 05-2005 |
Thanks, Hugh. What a great song. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1272 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, No CD but I am pretty sure a CDR will be along shortly.;-) They have a lot in common with the following bands who are not too shabby either. A long intro to the first video but well worth the wait. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLcFMry5 ZlA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B91zWiYN q8g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuVfLQOG VtA Padraig, I am fairly new to the Spanish music scene but there are a lot of good bands around. Drop me an e-mail if you are interested. | ||
| Burgers Member Username: Burgers Post Number: 147 Registered: 05-2005 |
Radio 4 are serialising excerpts from Pete Paphides’ memoir read by him. The book apparently finishes when he is 13. The Times interviewed him a couple of months ago before it came out. He listed his 50 favourite albums. Number 39 was 16 Lovers Lane. His list included a couple of singles compilations which is usually a heresy but reminded me that his wife said her favourite Smiths album was Hatful of Hollow. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9284 Registered: 05-2005 |
Hugh, thank you. Rio Arga are on Amazon Music so I’m checking them out there. | ||
| David Unregistered guest |
Maria Mckee - back like a goddess with a wordy mad and brilliant new album. Best thing i've heard in a while - timeless i suspect. its like no-one else currently=y making music. All drama - so if you like fado etc should appeal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy_aZRk- GwA | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9288 Registered: 05-2005 |
Blumfeld - L’etat Et Moi. It’s been quite since I last played it in full. One of my favourite ever albums. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4375 Registered: 03-2005 |
Wow, that Maria McKee song sounds like something from France. At last, an American looked outside for inspiration. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1733 Registered: 10-2006 |
It's very Scott W, isn't it, very 60s diva. Not bad at all. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9289 Registered: 05-2005 |
Crumb - Evenings & Weekends. A great, lost Irish album. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9292 Registered: 05-2005 |
I have made an Amazon Music playlist of the first multi-artist compilation my brothers and I got for Christmas, Super Hits #1, which came with Super Hits #2 as a “free” addition. We were given it because it was cheaper than the rival Now compilation. I loved the Super Hits albums and was delighted to find that all bar three of the 35 songs are available on Amazon. It’s got some serious cheese on it, but also some great, forgotten new wave pop. I love the cheese too, though. https://www.discogs.com/Various-Super-Hi ts-1/master/1025441 https://www.discogs.com/Various-Super-Hi ts-2/release/590470?ev=rr | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1273 Registered: 03-2007 |
Empathy Test - Losing Touch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E61arCfx 6Qo The band released twin debut albums in 2017. The above track is from one of them. The other is called 'Safe From Harm.' | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 494 Registered: 05-2005 |
Some Peel sessions for everyone : https://davestrickson.blogspot.com/2020/ 05/john-peel-sessions.html | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4381 Registered: 03-2005 |
New Empathy Test album ordered, Hugh. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4382 Registered: 03-2005 |
And for a little cheering up for we cooped-up souls, here's one and a half minutes of 2006 Swedish celebration. Almedal -- Springa pa hustak https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXrVgUh1 vQ4 | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1738 Registered: 10-2006 |
Brilliant! I miss Swedish parties. They used to get very very drunk and very very silly, but never aggressive. Such a culture shock for the Scottish visitor. | ||
| Burgers Member Username: Burgers Post Number: 150 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Stroppies - Look Alive. Bonus 7” contains a terrible instrumental and a cover of Lou Reed’s Hangin’ ‘Round, neither credited. Another decent effort from The Stroppies, I just wish Claudia sang more and Angus less. I feel much the same about Low, Mimi Parker has one of the great voices of recent times and doesn’t use it enough. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9296 Registered: 05-2005 |
Steve Earle - Guitar Town. A brilliant debut. There's a nice feature about it in the June edition of Mojo magazine. | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 485 Registered: 11-2007 |
RVG - Feral For me her new album is even better than the wonderful debut! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9301 Registered: 05-2005 |
Ronnie Spector - She Talks To Rainbows EP from 1999. Just brilliant. | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 486 Registered: 11-2007 |
Better Oblivion Community Center - s.t. A fine cooperation between Phoebe Bridgers and Conor Oberst | ||
| David Unregistered guest |
The phrasing on that RVG album is very Go-betweens isnt it? Also a couple of vocalists. I'll give it a few spins Andreas as your music tastes in things like Tindersticks is similar to mine. Its not a criticism in any way but with some posters recommends you just know its likely to be Jangle Pop and Rolling Coast Blackout Fever are in that spot of my listening at the moment. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9306 Registered: 05-2005 |
David Yetton - Blow Out Your Candles. A gently beautiful album that should have been a huge hit. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9310 Registered: 05-2005 |
Chris Joss - Monomaniacs Vol 1. Joss is a very talented French multi-instrumentalist with an enduring love of 1970s instrumental film soundtracks. I got this for $5 the other day in the bargain bin in Hum in Newtown. | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 488 Registered: 11-2007 |
Hi David, have seen your post just a minute ago ;) You are totally right - RVG sounds very Go-Betweens... And I am waiting for the RCBF album sooo long now. Looking forward to its release date. Listening to Ben Watt's new album! Like it a lot! |