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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9817 Registered: 05-2005 |
I've kinda lost the run of myself with the Roman numerals, so I'm making this new one November 2020. I hope no one minds. Ups And Downs - Another Country. A five song covers EP. All very good (Outdoor Miner) to great (Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime). | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9823 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Men - Tomorrow’s Hits. The track Settle Me Down sounds like The Go-Betweens, I’ve just noticed. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9828 Registered: 05-2005 |
Peter Bruntnell - King Of Madrid. This guy should be vastly better known than he is. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9835 Registered: 05-2005 |
AC/DC. I need some heads down, no nonsense hard rock to get me through the next 30 or so hours. Fey pop just isn’t going to cut it for the moment. | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 515 Registered: 05-2005 |
Scars - Author ! Author ! Expanded. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9838 Registered: 05-2005 |
I paused too long after saying Alexa (I was about to ask her to play NPR) and she said “Here’s an album you might like, Soft Bomb by The Chills.” Seeing as it’s my favourite ever album, I have to applaud the machine learning inherent in that. I’ll switch to NPR soon, though. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9839 Registered: 05-2005 |
There was some Republican prick on NPR, so I switched it off. I then turned on ABC News on TV, but they they also had some lying Republican prick on. So now I’m listening to Kraftwerk’s Tour De France. Ah, that’s better for my blood pressure and sanity. | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 516 Registered: 05-2005 |
Serenity now... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9841 Registered: 05-2005 |
Thanks, Trou. Your post helped me feel the serenity. Silver Jews - American Water. I recently rediscovered a cassette copy of this in my garage while, as usual, looking for something else. What an album. I must have played it a lot back in the day as I remembered all the songs. Maybe I have a CD copy of it somewhere too. | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 467 Registered: 02-2007 |
Chilliwack - Fly At Night | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9846 Registered: 05-2005 |
Cowboy Junkies - Best Of. It only covers albums two to five (the RCA years), but it’s a well chosen compilation. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9849 Registered: 05-2005 |
Miracle Legion - You're the One Lee 12", in particular the brilliant You're The Only, recorded with members of The Sugarcubes. https://miraclelegion.bandcamp.com/album /youre-the-one-lee | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9850 Registered: 05-2005 |
Wynton Marsalis - Standard Time Vol 2 Intimacy Calling. I don’t listen to jazz very often, but always enjoy it when I do. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9864 Registered: 05-2005 |
Amy Rigby - 18 Again, An Anthology. Thanks to Rob for reminding me of her a few years back. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 2016 Registered: 08-2006 |
Miracle Legion and Amy Rigby. You're on a roll of my faves, Padraig. Play a little Sonic Youth and you'll reach nirvana (the state, not the band). | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9866 Registered: 05-2005 |
Maybe later, Rob. Right now Leonard Cohen’s I’m Your Man album is tickling my fancy. Something just made me think I needed to play it right now, and I am. Oh, the first song is First We Take Manhattan, so maybe I was getting a subliminal message related to the US election. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9867 Registered: 05-2005 |
“Everybody knows that the plague is coming Everybody knows that it’s moving fast.” Yeah, the US election was definitely calling on me subliminally to listen to I’m Your Man. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4508 Registered: 03-2005 |
Being a C86 kind of guy, I think of Close Lobsters songs. Like "Foxheads Stalk This Land." Or "Too Bloody Stupid." Or I just think of McCarthy. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9869 Registered: 05-2005 |
An Amazon Music playlist just pitched up a track I’d never heard before and I liked it. To my astonishment, it’s Counting Crows, a song called Mr Jones. I’ve hated Counting Crows’ music since I ever heard of them. Now I’m wondering if I ever actually previously heard a single song by them. My dislike was probably based on a bad review in Melody Maker. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1824 Registered: 10-2006 |
Really you've never heard Counting Crows before, Pádraig? They made one good album, which has Mr Jones on it, their first possibly, and I know it fairly well because it's one of my wife's favourites! And it does feature a bunch of highly listenable songs. They were never able to replicate its quality or success, as far as I know, though continue to pump stuff out. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9871 Registered: 05-2005 |
I thought I had, but I must not have, because I would have remembered that voice which sounds a bit like Tom Petty and a bit like someone else I can't remember now. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9875 Registered: 05-2005 |
Disco Inferno - The 5 EPs | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9878 Registered: 05-2005 |
A Rolling Stones mix of their recent digital singles and EPs. I’m enjoying it very much. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9883 Registered: 05-2005 |
A new six song EP called Arrows by a young Australian woman called Shannen James. It’s very good indie pop. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9887 Registered: 05-2005 |
A playlist of Indigenous Australian artists I made from recommendations made by Peter Garrett of Midnight Oil. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9888 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Bats - Foothills. Another consistent Bats album that reminds me most of Couchmaster. I keep hoping, though, that one day they’ll again do a straight up pop album like Silverbeet. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9889 Registered: 05-2005 |
Bill Prichard - Jolie. It was referenced in the book I read earlier this week. | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 469 Registered: 02-2007 |
Hank Marvin - Hank Marvin (debut 1969) . Sometimes referred to as "Would You Believe It", this is great guitar instrumentals of classic songs that Marvin was so good at. Vinyl $1 at thrift shop. On ebay for over $50. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9892 Registered: 05-2005 |
Nice find, David. I'm listening to The Reindeer Age, a 30 year old compilation of bands from where I'm from, many of whom I saw several times in the mid to lates 80s. https://fanningsessions.wordpress.com/20 11/11/30/the-reindeer-age-cassette/ | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9894 Registered: 05-2005 |
And, I should add, some of whom I went to school with and one of whom I'm related to. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1334 Registered: 03-2007 |
Grubs - It Must Be Grubs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEdCgw0_ Vp8&list=OLAK5uy_meHxzv15_nUrYOojWuyzFLx 4husa5tEl8 and a live version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUpmsOdt eDc | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9896 Registered: 05-2005 |
Dave Fanning’s Best Of Irish Rock compilation, which I got for 20 cents in a charity shop. https://www.discogs.com/Various-Dave-Fan nings-Best-Of-Irish-Rock-Volume-1/releas e/2756756 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9898 Registered: 05-2005 |
Further - Where Were You Then? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9900 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Modulators - Drivetime. Fairly bonkers surf psychedelia https://soundcloud.com/chantrecords/sets /the-modulators-drivetime | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9907 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Blue Aeroplanes - Swagger. Almost a year since I last played it, iTunes tells me. Still one of the best live bands I've ever seen. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9915 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kristin Hersh - Possible Dust Clouds. This is such a great rock album. It's closer to Throwing Muses than most of her solo stuff. What a talented musician and songwriter she is. Always brilliant live too. She's one of the few people I've seen play live on three continents. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9917 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Verlaines - Dunedin Spleen | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9919 Registered: 05-2005 |
Daphne & Celeste Save The World. A great dance pop album from 2018, which only caught my attention because Max Tundra wrote all the songs. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9921 Registered: 05-2005 |
Rush - Counterparts | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9923 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Chills - Soft Bomb. I'm sure this must be the album I've most often included in this thread. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9928 Registered: 05-2005 |
Fugazi - In On The Killtaker | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9931 Registered: 05-2005 |
Bill Callahan - Shepherd In A Sheepskin Vest. A wonderful record. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9934 Registered: 05-2005 |
Various artists - Handel's Messiah: A Soulful Celebration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handel%27s _Messiah:_A_Soulful_Celebration | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9939 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jenny Lewis - On The Line | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9942 Registered: 05-2005 |
Mold - Sonic Youth At Disney World / Bob Mould Hates Me https://mold1.bandcamp.com/releases | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1336 Registered: 03-2007 |
Francois And The Atlas Mountains - Les Plus Beaux https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgLNMXXB wjc | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9946 Registered: 05-2005 |
Gemma Hayes - Night On My Side. It had been a very long time since I'd played this album in full, and I did so just now after being inspired by a discussion on another thread. I'd forgotten the country influence on the first half of the album and the huge My Bloody Valentine influence in the second half, before ending with a return to country and pastoral folk music. I've never seen this album in any "greatest ever Irish albums" list, but it should be. It's so perfect, it makes me think she must have been thinking "I may only get to do one album, I'm giving this everything." | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9947 Registered: 05-2005 |
I just found the BBC review of the album which says: "Gemma is Ireland's answer to Kylie Minogue." This is the most hilariously awful musical comparison I've ever read. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9950 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Godfathers - Love Is Dead (Valentine Day Massacre Mix) 12" | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9951 Registered: 05-2005 |
New Order - Technique. I can’t even remember the last time I played this. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9952 Registered: 05-2005 |
Angel Olsen - Smaller / More Than This 7". The Roxy cover is particularly good. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9953 Registered: 05-2005 |
M. Ward - Think Of Spring. It's an album of Billie Holiday covers, which is an ambitious concept for a white, male folk singer. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9954 Registered: 05-2005 |
Gregor - Destiny. He’s from Melbourne, but the music is more Sheffield than Victoria. https://6regor.bandcamp.com/album/destin y | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9958 Registered: 05-2005 |
Speaking of greatest ever Irish albums, Duncan Maitland - Lullabies For The 21st Century. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9960 Registered: 05-2005 |
Maxďmo Park, various single tracks, including their new release I Don't Know What I'm Doing and Questing, Not Coasting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsvGyiMM bCQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqYkiZ4a 1oQ | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9961 Registered: 05-2005 |
Steven Wilson - Transience | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4519 Registered: 03-2005 |
KOYI -- s/t https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3oncWUK Rb0 From 2018, another release by Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires' LAPTRA artist-collaborative label. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9963 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Electorate - You Don’t Have Time To Stay Lost https://theelectorate.bandcamp.com/album /you-dont-have-time-to-stay-lost | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9964 Registered: 05-2005 |
Zodiac Mindwarp & The Love Reaction - Tattooed Beat Messiah | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9966 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Lemonheads - It's A Shame About Ray. An album I've loved since I first bought it in 1992. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9968 Registered: 05-2005 |
Cinderella - Rocked, Wired & Bluesed, The Greatest Hits. They were lumped in with the 80s hair metal bands (not helped by their hair metal hair), but Cinderella were always closer in sound to AC/DC and The Rolling Stones than Motley Crue-style crap. | ||
| Burgers Member Username: Burgers Post Number: 172 Registered: 05-2005 |
It’s A Shame About Ray is a perfect album provided you don’t have the reissue with Mrs Robinson tagged on. I feel much the same about reissues of High Land, Hard Rain and Boat to Bolivia. Becca Mancari - The Greatest Part | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 2018 Registered: 08-2006 |
Pylon: "Gyrate" and "Chomp." Finally re-released and two peaks of early 80s American indie rock. If you don't know, they're an Athens, GA band, contemporaries of the B-52s and REM. They've also released a pricy boxed set that includes both albums and demos and live stuff. I'm not that much of a fan boys; these do just fine. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9971 Registered: 05-2005 |
Rob, I bought their compilation Hits on tape twice within a week in 1989. I first got it in Wuxtry Records in their hometown of Athens (which made me feel very cool). And then, having played it and loved it, it promptly disappeared from my overstuffed bag on a flight from LA to Boston. I blamed an indie-loving baggage handler. A couple of days after that I was in Tower Records in Greenwich Village in New York and bought it again. Mercifully, it was the only time I've ever had to replace an album so quickly. I still overstuff my bags with new music purchases though, to the point of having had to buy two new bags in Heathrow a few years back. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 2019 Registered: 08-2006 |
Haha! That's terrific. I think "Hits," which I also have, has all of "Gyrate" and half of "Chomp" but I like having them separate. Plus, nicely remastered. They were a great band. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9972 Registered: 05-2005 |
Rob, it’s got almost all of Gyrate, a big chunk of Chomp and both sides of their first single Cool/Dub. I only knew about them because REM had covered Crazy. A fine cover of a brilliant original. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 2020 Registered: 08-2006 |
How could they leave "Cool" off "Gyrate"? One of their best tunes. Seems perverse. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9974 Registered: 05-2005 |
I suspect it was the punk aesthetic of singles sometimes being stand alone releases. The Jam and The Clash, in particular, were proponents of this. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9975 Registered: 05-2005 |
And now I'm playing Pylon - Hits. | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 518 Registered: 05-2005 |
Lightning Seeds - Four Winds Some good news for the Goon Sax! https://themusicnetwork.com/the-goon-sax -matador-signing/ |