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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10283 Registered: 05-2005 |
Sloan - Steady. It’s fairly incredible that they made an album this great 30 years into their career. It’s Sloan at the most Beatlesy and that’s just fine with me. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2168 Registered: 10-2006 |
Bertrand Belin – Cap Waller Making a lunge for the ludicrous heaps of CDs that have piled up since radio took over my musical life during the first lockdown, after Robert’s new album finally helped break my duck, this is one of the first I grabbed. “Burnished” is the word that springs to mind, beautifully growled and every instrument in its place doing its job perfectly, solid songs, haven’t given the words a look yet. As has been noted, traces of Bashung in voice and influence, but without that wild questing urgency that made the man from Wingersheim’s career so fascinating. Speaking of whom, a number of articles repeat the fact that he got a “Rosebud harmonica” when he was a lad – which seems almost too good to be true – but research elsewhere turns up no sign of any harmonica with that brand name. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10285 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kick by INXS and Midnight Oil’s Diesel and Dust. 1987 was a great year for Australian albums. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4806 Registered: 03-2005 |
"Rosebud" in which language Stuart? Maybe French or German? | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2170 Registered: 10-2006 |
The reference is on the French Wikipedia page and seems to source an original French article, and then it's echoed ad infinitum in other articles. But of such a make, I can find no other reference anywhere. I've mailed the M.Bashung webpage out of curiosity! | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 555 Registered: 05-2005 |
" He discovered music during his childhood, notably Kurt Weill's Mahagonny, and began to practice with a Rosebud harmonica offered to him when he was five. " | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10286 Registered: 05-2005 |
Denney And The Jets - Mexican Coke. The band name makes them sound like they should be from Melbourne, wishing they were The Clean. But they’re from Nashville, wishing they were the Rolling Stones circa 1972, and doing a pretty good job of it. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1498 Registered: 04-2005 |
Re : Bashung "Pour ses 5 ans, il reçoit son Rosebud, un harmonica." A mon avis..it's a "Citizen Kane" reference ! His "Rosebud"  | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2172 Registered: 10-2006 |
You went back to the original article, Andrew? Good for you! So it was Wikipedia that turned a cultural reference into what looks like a brand name! I thought it sounded too good to be true... | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4807 Registered: 03-2005 |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxTCkFiq fyo | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2173 Registered: 10-2006 |
In which case... Teddy! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4808 Registered: 03-2005 |
Annual Leaf -- Another Wave Home https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uebCnnSd 40U Annual Leaf -- Racing Heart https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yPYrYkO PbE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgKcC2hC Fds Hugh brought them to my attention last year. I bought the above two CDr's. While I enjoyed them from the start, there's always the problem of getting lost in an avalanche of music coming into the house. But they've been particular favorites for me lately. At their best there are echoes of the wistful side of 1980s Go-Betweens combined with a bit of that ugly-beautiful approach Robert Forster could bring to his offerings in those years. They also hit a nerve that the best Ocean Party hit for me as well. So far they seem to like to release EPs or mini-albums rather than full-length affairs. I've just downloaded their earlier pre-CDr work but have yet to absorb that. You can find them on Bandcamp. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4810 Registered: 03-2005 |
Gloria -- Sabbat Matters This highly unusual French album from 2021 sounds like the lost follow-up to Gainsbourg's "Melody Nelson" or perhaps the Feminine Complex' until-now-unknown second album or an omitted part of the soundtrack for Taratino's "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V6vbGfA Ifc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTDOHdfA 4rU | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2174 Registered: 10-2006 |
An excited Italian critic has heard it too, Randy: "Listening to Gloria is to hear, like a trail swimming through the witchcraft substance that seems to envelop this Sabbat Matters, a voice doubled, tripled, sacral and choral, like a trio of chordettes illuminated by the spotlight of a bar in a 1950s café. But at night, in great secrecy, out of sight of good Christians, with no possibility (this time) of being burned, they’re busy with choirs, guitars, barrel organs, percussion, incense fumes, colours, like the ones in the visions of Bitches Brew and with other mischiefs that, from time to time, make us forget the cross and lead us to warmer lands, where female divinities perhaps have more than two arms. The sun is out, the glorious sun of neo-pagan rites, most lively and excited on the sabbath. The music of Gloria is not, as might have been thought, a matter of a trinity, but an extract of a sextet from Lyon formed by Wendy Martinez, Amy Winterbotham, Marie-Louise Bourgeois, Josselin Varengo, Thomas Cortay and Kid Victrola. The many ingredients, merged into a totality with such a balance as to make doubters (like myself) of contemporary attempts to spice up their music with sounds critics like to use that ignoble adjective “vintage” for (revivals and neo-somethings), realise how wrong you can be, that it’s possible be able to be original through exploiting tradition. Above all there’s the dominating three female voices, the living essence of the group, to remind us of the girl groups of the 50s and 60s, singing doo-wop, R&B, rock & roll, gospel, moving arms and shoulders simultaneously, rhythmically, which have influenced entire generations of bands. Here they mix wonderfully, but not alone, combined with imagination and sounds from garage and psychedelia (neo and otherwise). No need to shake your head: that's right. In addition to the scratching guitar of Night biting and Space rocket, I swear I hear a marimba on Skeleton, like muffled drumsticks playing on the ribs of a dangerously animated voodoo skeleton. Then there’s the sweetly pleasant melodic lines, like the march-based one that glides sinuously through You had it all, then accordion fingers moving at the end of Back in town and, if I’m not wholly mistaken, a sort of clavichord in Dance with heart, something like what you might hear accompanying the voice of Victoria Legrand (Beach House) in dream pop albums such as Thank your lucky stars. In short, I have heard everything, seen everything, and glory be. The illustrations are by the exceptional Nicole Claveloux, painter, illustrator and comic book artist, whose 1970s psychedelic work these young authors, just starting out, probably came across many years ago." | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4811 Registered: 03-2005 |
That is a fabulous review Stuart! Like the critic, when I first started listening I smirked inwardly. "Ok, a cute retro project." But as I continued from song to song on the Bandcamp site for the French label Howlin' Banana Records, my inward smirk slowly changed to admiration for the thoroughness of the concept. Besides Gainsbourg, Gloria also reminds me of Bertrand Burgalat's 60s sampling productions from the early part of this century with April March. It seems to me that only the French could have come up with this. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10289 Registered: 05-2005 |
Gloria - Sabbat Matters. Thank you Randy and Stuart. https://howlinbananarecords.bandcamp.com /album/sabbat-matters | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10291 Registered: 05-2005 |
Listening to Amanda Brown's album. https://amandabrown.bandcamp.com/album/e ight-guitars | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2175 Registered: 10-2006 |
The French Mademoiselle - Jacqueline Taieb Man oh man, another record that's been lying around for a while turns out to be as thrilling a slice of 60s pop as anyone could wish for. La Taieb had a rather tougher voice than her peers and wrote her own songs, which were then blessed with robust, brass-heavy arrangements. Heaven. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyDrpsxr zVM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YNqguMM PU4 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10295 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Loons - Inside Out Your Mind. 2015 album from a San Diego band playing garage rock and pop psychedelia like it was 1967. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10298 Registered: 05-2005 |
About Aphrodite - Membran Music Polaris. Sometimes the bargain bin throws up an absolute gem you otherwise would never have come across. This is one of them. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4813 Registered: 03-2005 |
The Sundries - Full of the Joys of Spring & Magic Johnson EPs From southeast London. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3grcqYe Yx8 Three copies of the CDr remaining: https://thesundries.bandcamp.com/album/f ull-of-the-joys-of-spring-and-magic-john son-eps | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2181 Registered: 10-2006 |
Lonny - Ex-voto Blasting through my CD backlog, and here's singer songwriter Lonny, "the new folk nugget of the French-speaking scene" and, I see, daughter of excellent actor Thierry Lhermitte. This is a short album but packed wall to wall with eleven strong songs, the fruits I guess of many years of writing and sifting. Everything works here, the arrangements are subtle and layered, by the busy Olivier Marguerit, who also had something to do with Mina Tindle, never smothering the acoustic guitar or Lonny's fine voice. Beautiful and uplifting and many thanks to Andrew for passing her name along. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1459 Registered: 03-2007 |
Monnets -Jangle The Radio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68hHX3sh v6Y Debut album by a young Mexican band. Digital only release at this moment in time. Available from Bandcamp. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1460 Registered: 03-2007 |
A video of The Apartments performing live in Sydney a couple of weeks ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4vlVfmY WzY | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4818 Registered: 03-2005 |
Thank you for that video Hugh. I know I should be glad when anyone discovers the work of somebody like Peter Milton Walsh but did anybody look at the comments to the video? They're all as I would expect except for this one: "Cool song. Great fluid vibe. Excellent performance! Super cool. [two thumbs up emojis]" Was this installed by AI? Is this an actual living human being's response to this devastating ballad about the loss of a child? It is indeed a magnificent performance. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10317 Registered: 05-2005 |
New Order - Republic. It's 30 years old. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10321 Registered: 05-2005 |
Andy Votel - Vintage Voltage. It’s a mix CD of tracks from Votel’s record collection. None of the 72 songs, divided among 13 tracks, are named. I only recognised a few, but they’re obscure covers. One seems to be a Thai girl group. Interesting, but not something I’m likely to play very often. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10324 Registered: 05-2005 |
Despite saying it was something I was unlikely to play very often, I listened to the Andy Votel mix again. This time I liked the first half better. Yesterday I liked the second half better. I’m now listening to Moonlight by Hanni El Khatib. | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 558 Registered: 05-2005 |
The High Llamas - Talahomi Way | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10326 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kostars - Klassics With A K RIP Vivian Trimble https://variety.com/2023/music/news/vivi an-trimble-luscious-jackson-dead-1235576 388/ | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4822 Registered: 03-2005 |
Les siestes acoustiques de Bastien Lallemant This arrived yesterday. (As did my enormous package of Argentine releases and two other packages I haven't even opened yet!) No bank holiday for Easter here in the US. Stuart, this is my response to your question in the thread about recent purchases of physical copies. I knew that other people such as Albin de la Simone participated in this release but given its title I still expected a Bastien Lallemant album, a "Lallemant and heavy friends" sort of thing. Really this is a collaborative showcase for all of the 8 involved artists. All or most of the collaborators play on each of the songs, but each contributor gets one song of his or her own and Lallemant and Armelle Pioline each have two songs to bring the program total to 10. I came to this familiar only with Lallemant and de la Simone so for me it's an opportunity to sample the other participants. I don't know how this album was recorded, i.e., whether the participants contributed separately from the others. Recording was done in May and June of 2021. My description for the arrangements, and for the songs themselves in general, is "diaphanous." The arrangements are not truly acoustic as synthesizers and electric instruments are employed but they tend to subtly accompany the acoustic instruments. While a couple of participants are credited with drums on a few tracks this is for decoration rather than backbone. I would personally prefer a more conventional Lallemant album with a more indie pop aesthetic, but this is my first impression based upon a single hearing. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2185 Registered: 10-2006 |
Thanks Randy! My swithering was also due to the fact that I'd rather have some good old solid songsmithery from BL rather than a workshop of filmy collaborators, but, oh well, there's a new Mickey3d out too, so I got them to pop in Acoustic siestas as well. We shall see. I hope there's something juicy for you in the Argentine crate! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10333 Registered: 05-2005 |
Terry - Call Me Terry. New to me Melbourne band, though the cooler kids here may have mentioned them before, given this is their fourth album. I'm guessing they are aware of the existence of The Go-Betweens. https://terryhq.bandcamp.com/album/call- me-terry | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4824 Registered: 03-2005 |
Compańero Asma - National Rock Originally released in 2002 this album was reissued with an additional batch of unreleased loosely contemporaneous tracks in 2015. I have the reissue with the extra tracks. The title is ironic, the "Rock Nacional" label normally signifying an Argentine hard rock style which this decidedly isn't. This timelessly weird Argentine album is irresistable in its best moments but Compańero Asma are also clearly uninterested in providing you with a nice predictable consistent package so be prepared for a wandering variety. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yv7tKFYe AoQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UoT1Ucc k48 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_43whWa lEc | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 728 Registered: 08-2005 |
The Chills - Submarine Bells Walking to the pub the other night in miserable, dreary rain while listening to it through my headphones. And what a fantastic album it is, I think up there with anything I've listened to for consistent quality. Good night, fellow GBs fans, and have a good week. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2188 Registered: 10-2006 |
Cheers, Simon. You too. I hope to make it back to a British pub next year, if a pint is still an affordable option. Sitting quietly in a late afternoon Edinburgh pub with a pint of heavy and a packet of peanuts, that's my idea of a spiritual experience. I haven't heard Submarine B for ages, must dig it out. We are off north, I had a couple of walks planned where a poor runner was killed by a bear about ten days ago, so schedule changes have been made. "I'll get something for that anyway," said my wife, setting off to the shops with a grim look. I was expecting anaesthetic dart guns maybe, but she brought back a couple of tiny wee bells to tie to our rucksacks. Because huge imported Slovenian bears are terrified of them, apparently. I'm looking for more museums to visit. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10337 Registered: 05-2005 |
Stuart, I just laughed out loud at your reaction to the extent of your wife's bear-safety precautions. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10340 Registered: 05-2005 |
I just bought a new record player, so it’s going to be vinyl all night. First record played: The Go-Betweens - Right Here 7”. Followed by The Triffids’ Trick Of The Light 10” and my 40-year-old 12” of New Order’s Blue Monday. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10341 Registered: 05-2005 |
And now the first 33rpm, Underworld - dubnobasswithmyheadman | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10342 Registered: 05-2005 |
Now listening to the original Matt Wallace mix of The Replacements’ Don’t Tell A Soul. It’s a cliche to say it sounds like a different album, but it’s true. And a vastly better album than the released version which was sweetened for FM radio by Chris Lord-Alge. To no effect, it still wasn’t a hit. I loved the Lord-Alge version as it was my introduction to The Replacements, but it’s hard to listen to now we know what the album should have sounded like in the first place. It’s also a huge lesson in just how much songs can be changed in the mixing process. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10344 Registered: 05-2005 |
I’m listening to Tightrope Walker by PJ Orr. I don’t even remember buying it. It was on top of a pile of unplayed records so I put it on. I googled it expecting it to be an American solo singer, but it’s a band name and they’re from Sydney. It’s great and very like some some of Grant McLennan’s solo work and the Far Out Corporation album, which presumably is why I bought it in the first place, but where and when? https://misra.bandcamp.com/album/tightro pe-walker | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10346 Registered: 05-2005 |
Teenage Guitar - Force Fields At Home. A side project by Robert Pollard of Guided By Voices, which is very similar to early GBV. Not, mind you, that you could fit a Rizla paper between his GBV/solo/side projects work. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10351 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Church - Hypnogogue. It’s been out a couple of months but this is my first time listening to it, via stream. It’s more prog than they’ve ever done before, but I like it. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 2052 Registered: 08-2006 |
I don't think anyone's mentioned this, but I think some folks around here might like the debut album by The Tubs, a Cardiff band that sounds like the Bats fronted by Richard Thompson on vocals. Very Flying Nun. Clocking in at less than 30 minutes, it's a quick little 80s-inspired sugar high. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10357 Registered: 05-2005 |
Feist - Multitudes. I’ll be very surprised if this isn’t my album of the year for 2023. It’s stunning. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1461 Registered: 03-2007 |
Rob, A very nice albums. I picked up a copy earlier this year and recommended them to Randy who also made the Richard Thompson comparison. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYueDDtM -mE | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10359 Registered: 05-2005 |
Listening to The Tubs now. Thanks for the recommendation, lads. https://thetubs.bandcamp.com/album/dead- meat | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10362 Registered: 05-2005 |
I don’t usually have time for the notion of how a double album would have made a better single album. It’s often true, but it exists as it is, so why bother trying to second guess an artist’s vision? But, right now I’m listening to a White Album on one disc suggested by a YouTube channel. And it’s fantastic. Here it is if you’re interested. Side 1 1 Back In The USSR 2 Dear Prudence 3 Glass Onion 4 While My Guitar Gently Weeps 5 I'm So Tired 6 Blackbird 7 Martha My Dear 8 Happiness Is A Warm Gun Side 2 9 Yer Blues 10 Mother Nature's Son 11 Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey 12 Sexy Sadie 13 Julia 14 I Will 15 Helter Skelter | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10365 Registered: 05-2005 |
Bill & Aches & Blues. A fantastic 4AD compilation from 2021. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2199 Registered: 10-2006 |
The Kinks – The Village Green Preservation Society Browsing various versions of this marvellous song (Kay Rusby, Natalie Merchant) – so far they tend to follow Ray’s own rather wistful template, but I’d like to hear a choir & brass band rendition where they sound chuffed to their boots to be part of the Desperate Dan Appreciation Society; I know I would! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10384 Registered: 05-2005 |
A Blur mix inspired by this article. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/m ay/26/blurs-20-greatest-songs-ranked |