| Author | Message | ||
     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9507 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Best Of Huey Lewis & The News | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 504 Registered: 05-2005 |
Soccer Mommy - Color Theory. A poppy Courtney Barnett. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9510 Registered: 05-2005 |
G Stands For Go-Betweens: The Go-Betweens Anthology - Volume 2 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9513 Registered: 05-2005 |
A couple of tracks from the forthcoming Power Of Dreams comeback album. The two songs already available bode well for the full album. https://powerofdreams.bandcamp.com/ | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9515 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Rolling Stones - Goats Head Soup (deluxe edition) | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1786 Registered: 10-2006 |
Great album. I often wish the other Mick had hung on in there. He gave them something musically which Ronnie never could, and probably deserved a few credits here and there. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9517 Registered: 05-2005 |
Stuart, I was just thinking something similar - how Mick Taylor brought a different flavour to the band and greatly enhanced everything of theirs he played on. | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 458 Registered: 02-2007 |
The Phoenix Foundation - Happy Ending | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9518 Registered: 05-2005 |
WZLX, a Boston radio station I never listened to when I lived there. But as the two stations I did listen to back then, WBCN and WFNX, are both defunct, I thought I’d give WZLX a chance. Amazing and all as the technology is that brings a radio station from the other side of the world into my home, my initial listening choices from decades ago have been vindicated. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9521 Registered: 05-2005 |
Peter Gabriel - Rated PG, a compilation rounding up his various soundtrack contributions. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9522 Registered: 05-2005 |
The House Of Love: 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9528 Registered: 05-2005 |
Underworld - dubnobasswithmyheadman | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9534 Registered: 05-2005 |
Joshua Burnside - Into The Depths Of Hell. An Irish musician who is new to me, but this is his third studio album. He has also released a live album and a couple of EPs. This proves the worth of album reviews; I would not have heard of him otherwise. Think Will Oldham with even more of an Irish traditional influence. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9535 Registered: 05-2005 |
Listen to/buy the album here https://joshuaburnside.bandcamp.com/albu m/into-the-depths-of-hell Review that alerted me to his existence here https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music /joshua-burnside-into-the-depths-of-hell -a-singular-northern-irish-talent-1.4337 401 | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 459 Registered: 02-2007 |
Athlete - Vehicles & Animals (2003) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9538 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Phoenix Foundation - Fandango | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 497 Registered: 11-2007 |
Jetstream Pony - If Not Now, When? New 7" sold out on there bandcamp site after an hour I ordered it at the label: https://jetstreampony.bandcamp.com/album /if-not-now-when-yellow-pills wonderful - short and rough | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 498 Registered: 11-2007 |
Available at: https://www.spinoutproductions.com/shop/ | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9541 Registered: 05-2005 |
Durocs - Durocs. A lost power pop classic from 1979. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4448 Registered: 03-2005 |
Cool Sounds -- Dance Moves. Cool Sounds is one of the many Melbourne bands related to Ocean Party, in this case through Liam Halliwell and Nick Kearton. Hugh sent me a CDr copy of this--perhaps their most Ocean Partyesque album--long ago. I decided to shell out for a vinyl copy. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9544 Registered: 05-2005 |
Smashing Pumpkins - it’s at least a quarter century since I last listened to this. Some of it is very good. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 652 Registered: 08-2005 |
Vashti Bunyan, early REM and Nick Drake... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9545 Registered: 05-2005 |
Max Richter’s Sleep, live at Sydney Opera House https://www.sydneyoperahouse.com/digital /season/music/max-richter-sleep.html I hope it’s not geoblocked outside Australia. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9548 Registered: 05-2005 |
Nits - Nest. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4450 Registered: 03-2005 |
Plucked off the front porch, an amazingly fast shipment from Bristol: The Charlie Tipper Conspiracy -- TEN https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmKrNVRP K9E | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9553 Registered: 05-2005 |
Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9556 Registered: 05-2005 |
Dub Noir - Pick Your Century. It's been ages since I last played this. Randy introduced me to them. Almost certainly the most New Zealand-sounding band ever to come out of Columbus, Ohio. There's a little bit of Brisbane in their sound too, but mainly Dunedin. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1790 Registered: 10-2006 |
My Apartments CD has just arrived, will try to get round to it later, accompanied by a nice little b & w postcard of a stately-looking abbey in the north of France, now used as a psychiatric hospital, apparently. I used to buy stuff from an Athens outlet which also sent postcards with their merchandise, it's nice to get a bit of local flavour, until their postal price suddenly went up to over 7 euros per CD. No idea why that happened, but no way to hit back at Amazon, that's for sure. | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 505 Registered: 05-2005 |
Think they've got a big box with the same postcard at Talitres. LTM, XTC website, smart companies all send postcards with the cd's... | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4452 Registered: 03-2005 |
As is so often the case, Hugh gets the credit for Dub Noir, Pádraig. I agree they're very Dunedin. I wish they'd made some more recordings. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9566 Registered: 05-2005 |
Very honest of you, Randy. Yes, another Dub Noir album might be good, but maybe it's for the best to make one smart, literate, slightly leftfield pop album and not risk a disappointing second. And their name is likely to keep them a secret forever. No one is going to see the name Dub Noir and expect a Dunedinish guitar pop sound. Some reggae fans are going to be a bit disappointed though. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9568 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jean Claude Vannier - L’Enfant Assassin Des Mouches Alternate Takes. I don't know how I came across this, but seeing as I bought it from Bandcamp, it may have been a recommendation from there. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9571 Registered: 05-2005 |
Hanoi Rocks – Tracks From A Broken Dream. A compilation of rarities by the Finnish/English band whose career ended when their drummer Razzle died in a car driven by a drunk Vince Neil of Motley Crüe. Neil got a 30 day sentence and served 19 after paying a $2.5 million fine. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9576 Registered: 05-2005 |
The National - I Am Easy To Find. They may be the best American band of the 21st century | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9579 Registered: 05-2005 |
Voz Di Sanicolau - Fundo De Mare Palinha https://analogafrica.bandcamp.com/album/ fundo-de-mar-palinha-limited-dance-editi on | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9580 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Witch Trials - The Witch Trials. A one off 12" by Jello Biafra and East Bay Ray of Dead Kennedys and The Sound's Adrian Borland, Christian Lunch and Morgan Fisher. https://www.discogs.com/Witch-Trials-The -Witch-Trials/master/49026 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9581 Registered: 05-2005 |
Here's one of the tracks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QAmYeiK xnw | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9583 Registered: 05-2005 |
Modern Nature - How To Live. English pastoral folk with a bit of krautrock and prog. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9588 Registered: 05-2005 |
Emma Swift - Blonde On The Tracks https://emmaswift.bandcamp.com/album/blo nde-on-the-tracks | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4456 Registered: 03-2005 |
Ginnels -- Mountbatten Class From Dublin! 8 songs in 18 minutes. And I learned something, that a "ginnel" is a narrow space or passage between buildings. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RJtjGBV 9y4 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9590 Registered: 05-2005 |
Thanks, Randy. I'd never heard of them before. Listening now. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9593 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Apartments - In And Out Of The Light. First play and it sounds very good. I think it will take a few listens to truly reveal itself, though. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9594 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Electorate - You Don’t Have Time To Stay. Sydney indie pop band, whose drummer Nick Kennedy I know because he works in Red Eye Records. https://scenestr.com.au/music/sydney-ind ie-pop-trio-the-electorate-release-their -delightful-debut-album-you-don-t-have-t ime-to-stay-20200918 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9602 Registered: 05-2005 |
Fontaine’s DC - A Hero’s Death. It gets better with every listen. I hope they sell enough to have a long and sustainable career. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9604 Registered: 05-2005 |
Ghost BC - If You Have Ghost EP | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 506 Registered: 05-2005 |
Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters. Nothing to do with her first three records, but seems interesting. Suzanne Vega, Live in NY. Dispensable. The Doves - The Universal Want. I'm not conviced. However I still have to listen to their former records. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9607 Registered: 05-2005 |
Little Steven’s Underground Garage Presents The Coolest Songs In The World! Vol. 6 | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4457 Registered: 03-2005 |
Ginnels -- Crowns Complete with cover photos that surely must have been taken at the dead zoo in Dublin. From 2012, this sample ("Wake Up Normal") is definitely jangle pop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTJG_Be_ guc Well, until the last 30 seconds. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9608 Registered: 05-2005 |
That’s lovely, Randy. And The Dead Zoo would make a great name for a jangle pop band. Or a death metal band. Maybe more the latter. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9609 Registered: 05-2005 |
Danny & The Champions Of The World - Brilliant Light | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4459 Registered: 03-2005 |
The Dead Zoo would make a great name for a band, of any sort. I never thought of that Pádraig. Maybe people would object to it like they did to The Viet Cong as name for the postpunk revival band in Canada. They relented and switched to the forgettable name Preoccupations. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdMz7BUt Ovk | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9611 Registered: 05-2005 |
I'd forgotten about The Viet Cong. They were great. I completely lost touch with them when they changed their name. I've just been listening to a brilliant cassette only Robert Scott compilation called RePort, which rounds up various 7 inches, tribute album contributions and outtakes. The tape is long sold out, but you can listen to/buy the files here https://robertscottnz.bandcamp.com/album /report | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9613 Registered: 05-2005 |
Sparklehorse - Dreamt For Light Years In The Belly Of A Mountain. The opening track, Don’t Take My Sunshine Away, is one of the most perfectly Beatlesesque pop songs not made by The Beatles. What a loss to the world Mark Linkous’s death was. I’m so glad I saw them live in London in 1996. Tindersticks, High Llamas and Babybird were also on the bill. What a gig. https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-enter tainment/pop-tindersticks-baby-bird-high -llamas-sparklehorse-the-astoria-london- 1325214.html | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9614 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Brilliant Trees - Friday Night. The 1996 debut by a Dublin band who didn’t hide their Blur/Smiths influences. It’s a fine album anyway. | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 507 Registered: 05-2005 |
It's Immaterial - House for sale. Finally, it arrived yesterday. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1315 Registered: 03-2007 |
Trou, It has been a long wait. I made payment to Pledge on 28th January, 2017, and again to Just Giving on 10th June, 2019. Still waiting for my copy to arrive. I am guessing they are being sent out in batches. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1375 Registered: 04-2005 |
Trou et Hugh, Did you see the article in the Guardian ? https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/s ep/15/we-got-there-cult-pop-band-its-imm aterial-back-after-27-years | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1316 Registered: 03-2007 |
Andrew, Thank you for the link. I had not seen it. | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 508 Registered: 05-2005 |
Uncut has given an excellent 9/10 to the record. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9615 Registered: 05-2005 |
Cordrazine - From Here To Wherever. A 1998 album by a Melbourne band that I got in a charity shop recently. This is my first time playing it and I’m blown away. The singer/guitarist/songwriter owes a great deal to Jeff Buckley, but mainly through his vocals. The music is more lush and less rock than Buckley. Here’s an example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXdFhh2- F1w | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1317 Registered: 03-2007 |
The Paradise Motel - Derwent River Star https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6pjzvq7 sS8 From their album Flight Paths which was released in 1998. No. 32 on ABC.Net / Double J's 'The 50 Most Overlooked Songs Of The 90s.' The compilers could just as easily have chosen the following song from the same album. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_HDY47K cgM | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1318 Registered: 03-2007 |
It's Immaterial - Is It Alright Between Us? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUJJA3o5 -n0 Apparently recorded around 1992 but sadly not included on 'House For Sale' for some reason. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4461 Registered: 03-2005 |
Wow, that's a difficult video for "Is It Alright Between Us" Hugh. I wanted to scream "tie up her arm, guy!" Nice song though. Paradise Motel's "Flight Paths" was classic album. A person can grab quite a few songs from it. My first choice will probably always be: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLfR2efF ZCI | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4462 Registered: 03-2005 |
Pádraig, the Cordrazine song that you posted is great. It has a bit of the blend of melodrama and mystery that Augie March would offer in a few years. The song "Crazy" from the 1997 EP is also good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Tog1vV- xCE "Clearlight," the first song on your album, bangs just on the edge of being overblown and I can see how Hamish Cowan might have fallen into the trap of self-parody if Cordrazine had taken off commercially. But they didn't make another album until 2010 so that didn't happen. Interestingly Cowan was previously in a band called Blindside. I have their album somewhere. I bought it because it was on Summershine Records but remember being disappointed by it. Now I'll have to hunt it up and see if I still agree with that. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9619 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy, I got that EP on the same day in a different charity shop. I’ve been doing quite a bit of charity shop digging in recent times. Thrift stores as you call them in America, op shops as they call them in Australia (op being short for opportunity). | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9620 Registered: 05-2005 |
I’ve just pressed play on Bob Mould’s new album Blue Hearts. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9623 Registered: 05-2005 |
That was very good. Only one song is over three minutes. I followed it with Bruce Springsteen’s new single, Ghosts, which is far better than the previous promo from his upcoming album. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lo5QNcFi oZ4&list=PLJ3gKh8Ty5pYbHPj2k_cL8LxiZUvQc nXw&index=1&ab_channel=BruceSpringsteen& src=Linkfire&lId=b94b59a4-78cd-4ba3-a689 -a6e5538db41e&cId=a7e0a4df-a4e6-4286-a1c 5-a948eba1c2c2 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9624 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Coolest Songs In The World Vol. 1. The first edition of a fabulous series curated by Steve Van Zandt. Hopefully one day I’ll get them all at a reasonable price. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9626 Registered: 05-2005 |
Steve Earle - Townes. An album of covers of Townes Van Zandt songs. The duet with his son Justin Townes Earle on Mr Mudd And Mr Gold is heartbreaking given JTE’s recent death. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9633 Registered: 05-2005 |
St Lucia - Matter, because sometimes I just want to listen to an upbeat dance pop album. If Phoenix were more influenced by 1980s music, they’d probably sound like this. St Lucia’s main man Jean-Philip Grobler has a French-sounding name, but he’s a South African who lives in New York. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9635 Registered: 05-2005 |
Vinx - Rooms In My Fatha’s House. An extraordinary jazz/soul/funk/African album that I recently came across in a charity shop. I’d never heard of it, but it looked interesting. Best $2 I ever spent, maybe. This review sums it up very well https://www.allmusic.com/album/rooms-in- my-fathas-house-mw0000674349 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9636 Registered: 05-2005 |
Enzso by Enzso, another charity shop find. It is Split Enz songs orchestrated by the band’s former keyboard player Eddie Rayner, and it is mostly heinous. It’s all so overblown; most of it has the subtlety of the music on a Sunday afternoon Lassie film. Neil Finn and/or Tim Finn sing on most of the songs on it. Wisely, I’ve just read, they played no part in a second volume that followed a few years later. (The albums came out in 1996 and 1999.) Just because you can add strings to a pop/rock song doesn’t mean you should. This album is a prime example of this. Ah well, you win some, you lose some. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9639 Registered: 05-2005 |
Music From The Source, a two disc compilation celebrating 25 years of world music label Riverboat Records. It came out six years ago, so Riverboat is now 31 years old. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9648 Registered: 05-2005 |
Renaissance - Camera Camera, a 1982 album that mixes synth pop, prog rock and power pop. It’s great. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9658 Registered: 05-2005 |
Ultimate Grammy Collection - Classic Country. | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 464 Registered: 02-2007 |
The Mona Lisa's Sister - Graham Parker | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9659 Registered: 05-2005 |
Pet Shop Boys - Discography. I bought this last year, I think, but this if my first time playing it. It’s a 1991 singles collection and is the first PSB album I’ve ever bought. It’s great pop music. Though I liked the occasional song, I was too much of a guitar rock fan to properly appreciate them in my formative years. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9664 Registered: 05-2005 |
David Yetton - Move To Trash (Bits, Pieces, Offcuts & Stuff). A brilliant album whose only physical release is 100 cassettes on a German label. I'm astonished that there are still eight tapes left. https://thokeitapes.bandcamp.com/album/d avid-yetton-move-to-trash-bits-pieces-of fcuts-stuff-mc | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9668 Registered: 05-2005 |
Underworld - Everything Everything. The next best thing to an Underworld concert. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9670 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Hired Hands - A Tribute To Bruce Langhorne. An extraordinary various artists album https://scissortail.bandcamp.com/album/t he-hired-hands-a-tribute-to-bruce-langho rne paying homage to an extraordinary musician https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Lang horne | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 2011 Registered: 08-2006 |
The Clientele have a new cover of "Orpheus Beach" on Bandcamp. It's not bad. https://theclientele.bandcamp.com/album/ orpheus-beach | ||
| Thomas Keitsch Unregistered guest |
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=27QIFJwuhA I Sparrow- The quite revelation Jason Zumpano from Canada... | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4471 Registered: 03-2005 |
It's Immaterial -- House For Sale | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9675 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Moonlandingz - Interplanetary Class Classics. One of the finest albums of the last few years. I hope they make a follow up one day. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9677 Registered: 05-2005 |
Cleopatra Wong - Egg EP. The brilliant 1992 EP by Lindy Morrison and Amanda Brown. It's been far too long since I last played it and it's sending tingles down my spine.Watch this video, it'll make your weekend better. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdRbu34a f-8 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9678 Registered: 05-2005 |
Chris Hillman - Like A Hurricane. Nothing to do with the Neil Young song. It’s a 1998 album that sounds like the 70s never ended. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9679 Registered: 05-2005 |
BAD II - The Globe. One of two band I’ve seen play live in three continents, the other being The Waterboys. BAD live were always very good. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9682 Registered: 05-2005 |
Splashgirl - Sixth Sense. Norwegian jazz/classical/avantgarde ensemble. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odGhzQpG ngo | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9684 Registered: 05-2005 |
Michael Penn - Walter Reed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWGL3mPE 114 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9687 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jean Claude Vannier - L’Enfant Assassin Des Mouches Alternate Takes | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9688 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Pearlfishers ‎– Love & Other Hopeless Things. A brilliant record. I really hope there is more to come from them. David Scott is such an undervalued talent. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9689 Registered: 05-2005 |
That should just say The Pearlfishers. The ‎ got added somehow in the cutting and pasting. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4473 Registered: 03-2005 |
Monochrome Set -- Chaps Right now, the second disc. It was this anthology that many years ago made me aware that the Monochrome Set had a second wind in the 1990s. I thought they'd ended with "Reach For My Gun." Bid indulged himself in his very mannered offbeat humor to the nth degree in that period but there are still a lot of great tunes, buckets of inspiration from Lester Square and, now and then, Bid would stop time with something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MezMeZPP WHY | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9695 Registered: 05-2005 |
U2 - The Joshua Tree, vinyl version. On some tracks, especially on side two, it has an emotional resonance more powerful than the CD version. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1321 Registered: 03-2007 |
El Mato A Un Policia Motorizado - La Sintesis O'Konor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sClvGUT VYU | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9699 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Who - Who | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9710 Registered: 05-2005 |
Tears For Fears - Seeds Of Love box set. | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 509 Registered: 05-2005 |
Speaking of box, my signed Divine Comedy boxset, ordered during the lockdown, arrives on monday. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9712 Registered: 05-2005 |
TROU, that Divine Comedy set looks phenomenal. I tried talking to Neil Hannon after a music awards ceremony in Belfast in, I think, 1996. But I was very drunk (there was free beer at the event) and I think I just annoyed him. Sorry, Neil. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9713 Registered: 05-2005 |
Something just reminded me of the song 5.7.0.5., or 9.7.0.5. as I remembered it. The internet didn't let me down. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHm3w-50 Vwc | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 510 Registered: 05-2005 |
Padraig, Neil still speaks about your conversation to the audience....  https://nsa40.casimages.com/img/2020/10/ 09/201009021432520267.jpg | ||
| Thomas Keitsch Unregistered guest |
The Blackeyed Susans- Mouth to Mouth | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9714 Registered: 05-2005 |
TROU, I’m laughing out loud at that, at 4.37am. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9715 Registered: 05-2005 |
A Mutton Birds mix on Amazon Music. They are surely one of the most underestimated bands ever. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9721 Registered: 05-2005 |
Supercrush - SODO Pop. Teenage Fanclub meets Weezer, with just a hint of Dinosaur Jr and My Bloody Valentine. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9723 Registered: 05-2005 |
Echo & The Bunnymen - Life At Brian's, Lean And Hungry. My favourite ever double 7", and it goes for a pittance on discogs. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9729 Registered: 05-2005 |
What Else Do You Do? (A Compilation Of Quiet Music) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Else_ Do_You_Do%3F_(A_Compilation_of_Quiet_Music) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9732 Registered: 05-2005 |
John Prine - Fair & Square. A fine, late period Prine album. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9735 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Go-Betweens - Cattle And Cane/Heaven Says 7". | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 513 Registered: 05-2005 |
McCarthy - God Made the VIRUS! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOti1xX8 fdI | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9737 Registered: 05-2005 |
Sturgill Simpson - Sound & Fury. This album should have been huge. Perhaps it was a step too far for many of his established fans and too eclectic to garner new fans. I love it. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9738 Registered: 05-2005 |
TROU, earlier today I heard a Soccer Mommy song on a Mojo magazine CD. I liked it a lot. It reminded me more of Juliana Hatfield than Courtney Barnett. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9740 Registered: 05-2005 |
Lou Reed - New York, CD 3, rough mixes etc, of the new box set. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9742 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Struts - Strange Days. A good, straight up rock album. Very good in parts, such as Another Hit Of Showmanship which features Albert Hammond Jr from The Strokes. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9743 Registered: 05-2005 |
Lisa Miller - As Far As Life Goes. 1999 album by an Australian singer/songwriter who really should be more widely known. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9744 Registered: 05-2005 |
Aqualung - Memory Man. Garden Of Love, which Paul Buchanan of The Blue Nile sings on, is particularly lovely. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9745 Registered: 05-2005 |
Andy Irvine - Rude Awakening. A 1991 album by this Irish folk singer. I bought it a few weeks ago for $1 in a charity shop sale. I’m blown away by it. It’s an astonishing album. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9748 Registered: 05-2005 |
Robert Forster's session with Marc Riley on BBC from 2016. Listening to it while it's halftime in the rugby Test I'm watching. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9749 Registered: 05-2005 |
Dion - For Always, 28 Greatest Hits & Favorites. 28 songs in 72 minutes, that's the way to do it. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9758 Registered: 05-2005 |
Cut Off Your Hands - HLLH. I presume these guys all have day jobs as it's been four years since the first single off the album was released and three years since the second. Unlike most New Zealand bands that I love, they are more influenced by Talking Heads and other US acts than they are by other NZ bands. https://cutoffyourhands.bandcamp.com | ||
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Dead Famous People-Looking at Girls from their brandnew Album "Harry", released on Fire Records https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GgS4By0Puz | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9760 Registered: 05-2005 |
Caesar Frazier - 75. I imagine only Randy remembers who this guy is. (Though I hope I'm wrong about that.) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9761 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love. I’ve considered this to be one of the greatest albums ever made since I first heard it 35 years ago. This is my first time playing the whole album in a long time and I noticed something I’d never realised before - the traditional Irish melody of Cloudbusting. I love that an album that came out when I was a kid is still revealing itself to me in middle age. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4486 Registered: 03-2005 |
Randy is listening to something from the U.S.!! Bat Manors -- Literallly Weird. Self-released in 2014. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fC95hzxd 8Ds I could have chosen nearly any song from the album. Here's another: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5m_kKuj 3Ek | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9765 Registered: 05-2005 |
Has someone hacked or kidnapped you, Randy, or have you just taken to referring to yourself in the third person? All three scenarios are concerning. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9769 Registered: 05-2005 |
Prince - Originals | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9775 Registered: 05-2005 |
John Debney - The Passion Of The Christ soundtrack. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9778 Registered: 05-2005 |
Silver Jews - American Water, on cassette on the kitchen boombox. It must be 20 years or more since I last played it. I must have played it a lot back in the day, though, as I was recognising all the songs. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9779 Registered: 05-2005 |
Nada Surf - Stories Going 'Round https://nadasurf.bandcamp.com/track/stor ies-going-round | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9782 Registered: 05-2005 |
Tom Petty - Wildflowers & All The Rest | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9783 Registered: 05-2005 |
Nirvana - Nevermind, the original Butch Vig mix before it got sweetened in the mix by Andy Wallace. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9788 Registered: 05-2005 |
Cut Off Your Hands - HLLH | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9790 Registered: 05-2005 |
Beck - Raspberry Beret/When Doves Cry/Kiss/1999 | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4489 Registered: 03-2005 |
Bestia Bebe -- Jungla de Metal 2 This is Argentine band Bestia Bebe's second album, released in 2015. It's the first of theirs that I've heard. This is joyous raw power pop-styled rock. No fancy production. No high concept. Just a great band with good pop sense. With an awesome lead guitarist. Twelve songs clock in at 34 minutes and change. On first listen, there's not a dud on here, even if it is their sophomore effort. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y_clHtZ 2dg&list=OLAK5uy_lFTxk1IAU3tsSUZW1NKpjWd NsusTCX6Yg&index=2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb44ZOLK QHA&list=OLAK5uy_lFTxk1IAU3tsSUZW1NKpjWd NsusTCX6Yg&index=9 This makes a sort of 1960s/1970s Australian sense to me. Buenos Aires is a stupendously big city in the Southern hemisphere, isolated from much of the rest of the world by geography and by their own difficult economics. But that doesn't mean they don't listen to music and then turn around and create their own with as much passion as any of the rest of us. And if they want a music scene they have to create their own. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9792 Registered: 05-2005 |
That is some cool stuff, Randy. And a good description too. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9795 Registered: 05-2005 |
I’m listening to a playlist I made of songs with American or American in the title - Don McLean, Tom Petty, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, James Brown, Violent Femmes, Paul Simon, Neil Diamond, Ray Charles, Waylon Jennings and Lou Reed. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9801 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jack Frost - Snow Job | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9807 Registered: 05-2005 |
Ups And Downs - Another Country EP https://www.zdigital.com.au/artist/ups-a nd-downs-1/release/another-country-11624 811 (the link may not work outside Australia, but try it anyway) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9808 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jack Logan - Kissin' The Wall. Maybe the best Lemonheads-style song not done by The Lemonheads. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4slo1rG MSA | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9810 Registered: 05-2005 |
Is it too early for a Christmas song? It's never too early for a Christmas song. Calexico's new single Hear The Bells owes so much to Fairytale Of New York I hope they give The Pogues a co-writing credit. But it's still great. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0ztQc42 e0g&feature=emb_logo | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9814 Registered: 05-2005 |
Paul Smith & Peter Brewis - Frozen By Sight. Exiting Hyde Park Towers, which is about Sydney, has just played. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 658 Registered: 08-2005 |
Pádraig, it is too early for a Christmas song. Definitely. We haven't even passed Halloween or Guy Fawkes Night (one for the Brits there). Shame on you! |