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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10388 Registered: 05-2005 |
Bob Dylan - Shadow Kingdom. With very few exceptions, musicians rerecording their old songs is a tedious cash in. This is superb. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10390 Registered: 05-2005 |
Various U2 records. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2204 Registered: 10-2006 |
One of our English/Italian musical evenings yesterday, as I came into the kitchen and the wife was singing this: I Nuovi Angeli – Per vivere insieme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ryGWXAR A3g So, the usual dialogue: “How do you know this one?” “How do you know it?” “Well…” Then I was amused to find they’d also done this (some very cool piano here): I Nuovi Angeli – L’orizzonte č azzurro anche per te https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zBCJE4J QBo Which led on to one of the slightly rarer cases that went in the other direction: Umberto Bindi – Il mio mondo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7b-q-EQr m2M And ended up with a fine song that perhaps could really have done with a great English cover itself: Equipe 84 - Č dall'amore che nasce un uomo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f9lx9kW Pnw | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10395 Registered: 05-2005 |
Bill Fox - Shelter from the Smoke https://billfox.bandcamp.com/album/shelt er-from-the-smoke | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10396 Registered: 05-2005 |
Andy Partridge - My Failed Songwriting Career - Vol 2 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10398 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Human League - Dare The League Unlimited Orchestra - Love and Dancing | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 745 Registered: 08-2005 |
Pádraig, thanks for the Andy Partridge reference. I met him a few years ago at a book signing in Bath, and your post led me indirectly to The Dukes of Stratosphear. I feel some CD buying coming on... It also led me to this excellent Guardian interview: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/o ct/20/my-dream-had-died-xtcs-andy-partri dge-on-mental-illness-battling-the-music -industry-and-losing-his-muse | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10400 Registered: 05-2005 |
I saw the band Kansas mentioned somewhere the other day and, though I’d been aware of their existence for at least 40 years, it occurred to me again that I’d never knowingly heard a note they’d played. For decades I’d assumed they were a b-grade southern rock band, based on nothing more than a shaky grasp of where the various flyover states are situated. This belief persisted even after my knowledge of US geography improved. In recent years I somehow (by osmosis, probably) became aware that they are/were not a southern rock band, but that rare (as far as I know) thing, an American prog rock band. So now I’m streaming some of Kansas’s supposedly best songs. I’m pleased to report that my previous four decades of ignorance as to their sound/location in the lower 48 is not regretted. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10401 Registered: 05-2005 |
Simon, thanks for the link. I remember reading that article when it first came out. It’s very sad. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 746 Registered: 08-2005 |
"So now I’m streaming some of Kansas’s supposedly best songs. I’m pleased to report that my previous four decades of ignorance as to their sound/location in the lower 48 is not regretted." Cruel, Pádraig, very cruel!! | ||
| Burgers Member Username: Burgers Post Number: 210 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kassi Valazza Knows Nothing The Portable Herman Dune volume 3 Esther Rose - Safe to Run everything I can find from Firestations and Brennen Leigh (separately) An EP called Sports by a teenager from Teesside who records under the name Cosial. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4838 Registered: 03-2005 |
Love the Unicorn -- Sports At last. They just didn't seem to have it in them but here it is. Under-recorded vocals, but Italian indie-pop I can get excited about sufficiently to search out whatever I can find. Ten years late of course. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nxt28oNr mkQ&list=OLAK5uy_n4VGWIT_Tdmo5uqaePAzZK7 5rrukNCqZk | ||
| Ric Member Username: Ric Post Number: 18 Registered: 05-2019 |
TMS Aggers & co. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10407 Registered: 05-2005 |
Agnes - Magic Still Exists | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10411 Registered: 05-2005 |
Lonnie Holley - Oh Me, Oh My (the album, not the title track which is on the SOTD thread) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10413 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Re:fomation - Pharmakoi/Distance-Crunching Honchos with Echo Units | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10420 Registered: 05-2005 |
Led Zeppelin - The Song Remains The Same. Much better than I recalled it being. It must be 35 years or more since I last played it. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10421 Registered: 05-2005 |
Having looked at Wikipedia, I found the explanation for why The Song Remains The Same sounds so vastly better; it’s the remastered, hugely improved sound, with extra tracks. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4841 Registered: 03-2005 |
Remastered, hugely improved sound. Boy, do I hope somebody does that for "Oceans Apart" sometime soon. I tend to listen to much of my music collection in a shuffle mode. "Finding You" was tossed up a few weeks ago. The delicacy of the arrangement and Grant's wonderful lyrics and sheer vocal gestalt had only improved with the passage of time. But the brickwalled, over-distorted sound was atrocious. I'd assumed that the ubiquity of the loudness wars in mastering over the ensuing years would leave this one unremarkable to my ears but no . . . it's horrible. A beautiful piece of work is massively vandalized. Wrong topic, sorry. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1524 Registered: 04-2005 |
Randy, Just don't go there again  Remember the last time ? The wounds have just healed. Honestly it's my least favourite Go-Betweens record and I'm not sure how much of it is down to that awful sound. Actually I think that someone wrote that I couldn't be a real fan if the sound quality mattered that much to me. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10422 Registered: 05-2005 |
I'm sure it will be unfucked for the part III box set. Won't it? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10424 Registered: 05-2005 |
Surely that's possible, unless the master tapes/files have been lost? | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4842 Registered: 03-2005 |
I sure hope so Pádraig. I remember all the controversy about the sound on here when it was released. Weirdly, it didn't bother me so much back then. I suppose I was just so glad to have a new album and I liked some of the Mark Wallis detailing. But, yeah, the massive compression really hurts the ears and undercuts a lot of that detailing. I'm used to listening to a lot of low budget recordings and of course some of them are over compressed, but I was surprised by the blasting compression especially when the entire band comes in on "Finding You." The remaster of "Tallulah" has always been one of my favorite remasters, along with "In the Pines" and "Treeless Plain" by the Triffids. So it could happen! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10425 Registered: 05-2005 |
Yes, I was in the “It’s not that bad” corner at first. Then I realised the naysayers were right. When tour dates were announced someone on here asked if they were going to stick a knife in Adele’s bass amp “to get that authentic Oceans Apart sound”. I laughed heartily at that. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10427 Registered: 05-2005 |
One The Juggler - Nearly A Sin. I have no idea why, but the band's name popped into my head on the bus home. I thought it sounded like a band I may once have heard of. And now, thanks to the internet, I'm listening to their sole album, from 1984. And very good it is, too. Like a cross between Big Star and early Church. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10428 Registered: 05-2005 |
On further reading, it turns out it wasn't their sole album. And there's a definite Bowie influence on them too. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10429 Registered: 05-2005 |
Grian Chatten - Chaos For The Fly. I’m loving it so far. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10430 Registered: 05-2005 |
One Day International - Blackbird. Irish band whose closest comparison may be Augie March’s quietest, most orchestrated moments. They only made this 2008 album, as far as I know. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10434 Registered: 05-2005 |
A mix of music by The Godfathers. One of the great unsung heroes of rock music. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4844 Registered: 03-2005 |
Vestes - Prestissimo This is one of those weedy little French bands I love so much. I love pop songs that are not entirely obvious in terms of where they go with their progressions. And they do what they're meant to do and then politely take their leave without wasting a bunch of time. I also enjoy the crystalline sound of the backing. https://insilicorecords.bandcamp.com/alb um/prestissimo | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10436 Registered: 05-2005 |
V/Z - Suono Assente. Best album of the year so far, for me. They are an Italian woman and a Japanese man who are based in London. It’s a mixture of Italian film soundtracks, jazz, hip hop, dub, post punk, spoken word, electronic and more. That makes it sound like it should be dreadful, but it’s not. It works magnificently. And it’s only 28 minutes long, all killer, no filler. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10438 Registered: 05-2005 |
21 Beggars Banquet. Beggars Banquet artists covering the album their label was named for. https://www.discogs.com/release/436975-V arious-21-Beggars-Banquet | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10440 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Bleeding Allstars - That Strange Summer https://the-bleeding-allstars.bandcamp.c om/album/that-strange-summer | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10443 Registered: 05-2005 |
JSR - The Other Women. An interesting conceit about famous women’s names used in rock and pop songs. https://thejohnsallyride.bandcamp.com/al bum/the-other-women | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10444 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Foreign Films – Magic Shadow. New to me Canadian band. I will be investigating more. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10447 Registered: 05-2005 |
Blur - The Ballad Of Darren. It gets better every time I play it. I’m even starting to like the one song I didn’t like at first. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10449 Registered: 05-2005 |
Bob Mould - Workbook. I’ve loved this album since I bought it on tape when it came out in 1989. It’s years since I last played it, but it’s lost none of its power. As my listening tastes have evolved over the decades I can now hear how influenced by English folk music Workbook is. I certainly hadn’t a notion of that in 1989. I just thought it was a massive change from Husker Du and didn’t think much beyond that, other than loving it. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 2053 Registered: 08-2006 |
Padraig: I rode shotgun with another guy picking Bob Mould up at the Cincinnati airport to take him to a radio interview. On the ride back we ended up spending almost the whole time speaking about Bob's newfound (and almost obsessive) passion for Richard Thompson. I actually mailed him a cassette copy of "Pour Down Like Silver," which he couldn't find. (Early Richard Thompson albums were super hard to find in the 80s.) Anyhow, the English folk music vibe you pick up on is entirely accurate. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10450 Registered: 05-2005 |
Rob, thank you for that. I was was going to write Richard Thompson, rather than English folk music in general, but thought that would be a bit gauche given my previously expressed (and gradually fading) antipathy to Mr Thompson. You have a lot of very cool stories, which I always enjoy reading. I still sometimes tell people the Studs Terkel story that you told here when he died in 2008. In fact, I just reread it right now. The search function works well. | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 507 Registered: 02-2007 |
Eat A Peach - The Allman Brothers Burgers - Hot Tuna Deep In A Dream: An Evening With The Songs Of David McComb Bought 186 CDs for $1 each at garage sale yesday. These are first 3 I listened to. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10452 Registered: 05-2005 |
David, I thought I was doing well with nine CDs for a dollar each at an op shop the other day. I tip my hat to you. | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 508 Registered: 02-2007 |
Pádraig, there were thousands of CDs for sale, apparently a deceased estate. It was an amazing collection, box sets and some hard to find stuff, all aphabetised in boxes on dozens of tables under the house. It was the owners lifetime collection and he had suddenly passed away. His partner told me they just needed them gone..all $1 per CD. It was a bit sad actually thinking about all of that. Then he told me...when I was leaving that he was glad so many other people cd now enjoy listening to his music. It was a nice moment. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10454 Registered: 05-2005 |
That was a nice thing to hear and a good way for them to look at it. | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 509 Registered: 02-2007 |
Fear - John Cale Slow Dazzle - John Cale Helen Of Troy - John Cale Actually a box set called John Cale...The Island Years with a coupla extra tracks thrown in. Fear album is amazing on first listen. Phil Manzenera & Eno on guitars & synthesiser. What a revelation! Melodic pop tunes with gnarly edge, pre-punk songs, indie-sounding rock from 1974-5. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10455 Registered: 05-2005 |
That’s a great set, David. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10459 Registered: 05-2005 |
Led Zeppelin II, the legendary Robert Ludwig “hot mix”. And it really is astonishing. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4847 Registered: 03-2005 |
I would be terrified at the prospect of having to shelve 186 CDs in one swoop but that's a great story, David. CDs are out of fashion now so I suppose a lot of them will go begging. Whenever my collection has to change hands I expect a lot of it will stimulate head-scratching and be lucky to avoid the landfill. The Cale set I have is the broader one issued by Rhino, called "Seducing Down the Door." John Cale is timeless. | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 510 Registered: 02-2007 |
Im going to have to cull something soon Randy...simply no room left on any of my shelves. The first of these Cale albums (Fear) is stunning. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2214 Registered: 10-2006 |
Vintage Violence has some nice things on it, the live Fragments of a Rainy Season is a great listen. Browsing titles, I don't think I've ever heard Academy in Peril...any good? I have a bunch of recent stuff and the famous Eno collaboration still to catch up with. I caught him in a solo concert at a lovely old theatre in a small town nearby: highly unpublicised, there were maybe 20 people in the stalls. He was brilliant, moving from guitar to piano, especially when the lighting engineer plunged him into darkness and the air was filled with aggrieved, strongly Welsh-accented swearing. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 2054 Registered: 08-2006 |
Lemme add a good word for John Cale Island comp David mentions above. Add to that "Paris 1919" and the Eno collaboration "Wrong Way Up" and that's a pretty solid body of work. His more experimental stuff I admire more than I enjoy. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10466 Registered: 05-2005 |
Died Pretty - Doughboy Hollow. RIP Ron Peno. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-12/d ied-pretty-frontman-ron-peno-dies/102722 644 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10468 Registered: 05-2005 |
Red Hot + Fela. A superb compilation of Fela Kuti covers. https://www.discogs.com/release/5145487- Various-Red-Hot-Fela | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10471 Registered: 05-2005 |
Young Modern - It’s Automatic: The Best Of Young Modern. I saw this in Red Eye and bought it based on the hype sticker. I think I had heard of them, but I’d definitely never heard them. They only released one album in the late 70s and this combines that with most of an album they made in 2006 and two live tracks from 2010. They don’t sound 30 years older on the tracks from 2006. It still sounds like The Byrds, the Velvets at their jangliest, a bit of Big Star, a touch of The Beatles and early Rolling Stones. I’m very glad I bought it. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10473 Registered: 05-2005 |
All the talk of The Lemonheads on another thread has inspired me to listen to a mix of 10 of their songs I made a few years ago. It’s all done and dusted in less than 29 minutes. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2222 Registered: 10-2006 |
He was able, for that amazingly brief moment in his life, to concentrate so much pop bliss into such gorgeously compact structures. Tune and wit and feeling and the whole package. And then the genie snapped his fingers and it all went up in smoke. And gone forever, it seems. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10475 Registered: 05-2005 |
Eloquently put, Stuart. I think the genie’s name may have been bagofskag. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2223 Registered: 10-2006 |
Not, though, to forget the De Quincey quote: "If a man 'whose talk is of oxen' should become an opium-eater, the probability is, that (if he is not too dull to dream at all)— he will dream about oxen." | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2224 Registered: 10-2006 |
https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicb log/2015/aug/26/the-lemonheads-10-of-the -best https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/j un/13/lemonheads-shame-about-ray-how-we- made-drugs Two related articles. Black mark for not mentioning Mike Nesmith. And it looks like, at that point, the genies’s name was Speedy! But also, Australia, new friendships, interlacing inspirations. “She’s the puzzle piece behind the couch that made the sky complete.” What a great line! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10478 Registered: 05-2005 |
Depeche Mode - Classics. Rarities. Revelations, a CD that came with Mojo magazine a few months ago. It’s great. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10480 Registered: 05-2005 |
Fiddlehead - Death Is Nothing To Us. Every so often you need something to blow the cobwebs away. https://fiddleheadma.bandcamp.com/album/ death-is-nothing-to-us | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10483 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Drones - Here Come The Lies | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10486 Registered: 05-2005 |
R.E.M.’s top 40 as picked by … R.E.M. Bill Berry picked three songs from albums he didn’t play on. Which was nice of him. https://remhq.com/news/top-forty-r-e-m-s ongs-according-to-berry-buck-mills-and-s tipe/ | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10488 Registered: 05-2005 |
A Giant Dog - Toy. A 2017 album from an Austin, Texas band that I found a few weeks ago in the Auckland Flying Out shop’s bargain bin. And I’m very glad I did. It’s great. It’s a female-fronted band that seems to have decided why pick one 1970s music style to copy when you can copy every prominent 1970s music style, from punk to prog to power pop and even some genres that don’t begin with a p. Rob, this seems like a band you’d love. Do you? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10489 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Wizard of Oz soundtrack. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1464 Registered: 03-2007 |
Vasas Flora Och Fauna - Man Blĺser Bort New album by the Finnish band formed by Mattias Björkas who was the lead singer / songwriter for Cats On Fire. | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 561 Registered: 05-2005 |
McCarthy - I'm a Wallet, vinyle reissue with lot of bonus things. Not a cheap things... My fave band of the C86 cassette. Saw them in 1987 in Aachen before the release of the lp, a splendid concert with an audience of less than ten... |