| Author | Message | ||
     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10837 Registered: 05-2005 |
The new Suede album. It grew on me on as I was listening to it. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10838 Registered: 05-2005 |
Pulp - Forty Odd Years. Free CD with Mojo magazine. And very fine it is. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10839 Registered: 05-2005 |
V/Z - Suono Assente. One day, this 2023 album will be recognised as a lost classic. https://ad93.bandcamp.com/album/suono-as sente | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10840 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Doors – The Other Side (Rarities, Demos & Live), a CD that came with Uncut magazine a few months ago. https://www.discogs.com/release/33815199 -The-Doors-The-Other-Side-Rarities-Demos -Live | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10843 Registered: 05-2005 |
Adult Jazz - Gist Is. It came out in 2014, I bought the CD in 2021 and finally played it today. It’s pretentious, precocious and I love it. Just one of its nine tracks grates, but that may grow on me too. Younger me would have hated it. 2021 me might have hated it. It’s just right for spring 2025, though. If plainsong filtered through high life is your thing, this is for you. https://adultjazz.bandcamp.com/album/gis t-is | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10844 Registered: 05-2005 |
Love Goes On (A Tribute To Grant McLennan). It's been a long time since I played this loving compilation. | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 578 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jeff Tweedy. This music could have been found on Spring Hill Fair https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJdpGt35 DMY&list=RDGJdpGt35DMY&start_radio=1 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10851 Registered: 05-2005 |
Earlier, The Ocean From The River (2013) by Irish (mainly one man) band Ghost Maps, then Gary (2024) by English band Blossoms, now Tell Me If You Like It by Spring King (2016), also English. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10858 Registered: 05-2005 |
Bent - Programmed To Love. This album passed me by when it came out a quarter century ago, but I came across it today and am very much enjoying it. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4982 Registered: 03-2005 |
Lately I've been buying releases from the tiny Kiwi label Failsafe Records. Yesterday I received listened to "Accident Compilation" which is explanatorily subtitled "Alternative Music from Christchurch New Zealand 1980 - 1984." This is a double CD release with 27 songs. There's one song by The Bats that I don't recognize, at least not in this version, entitled "Get Fat." And the rest is mostly by obscure short-lived bands. Some of the music is bracing and magnificent. Some of it is too punk or just too primitively recorded for my taste. But there's a lot of really interesting appealing tracks from what was a fertile period for young bands. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrofLxUb xVU&list=RDQrofLxUbxVU&start_radio=1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4rHLG6h 0zQ&list=RDU4rHLG6h0zQ&start_radio=1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQi-8pl4 dtU&list=RDIQi-8pl4dtU&start_radio=1 https://failsafecompilations.bandcamp.co m/album/accident-compilation-1980-1984-r emastered Definitely a look back to an enthusiastic time and a scene that is amazing for such a modest-sized city as Christchurch. | ||
| Mark Leydon Member Username: Mark_leydon Post Number: 382 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Bats were guests on Radio New Zealand a few days ago playing a few old and new songs and sounding as good as ever. Final number was a lovely cover of The Go-Betweens 'Right Here'. Robert Scott reminisced about his days touring with the GBs and opening for Grant at a concert in Paris. Here's the link: https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programme s/afternoons/audio/2019008877/nz-live-th e-bats | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10866 Registered: 05-2005 |
I’m having an antipodean afternoon. Two brand new albums, one now very old, though all the bands are of a similar vintage. The Bats - Corner Coming Up The Apartments - That’s What The Music Is For The Triffids - Black Swan | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10870 Registered: 05-2005 |
Suede - Outsiders, a CD which came with the September issue of Mojo magazine. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10872 Registered: 05-2005 |
Various Troggs songs. Oh my, some of those lyrics haven’t dated well. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 900 Registered: 08-2005 |
Pádraig, I'm guessing some things that I've written haven't aged that well. But having mainly written for cycling magazines, I don't think I've transgressed as badly as I might have... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10873 Registered: 05-2005 |
Simon, there’s a world of difference between recommending the wrong cotter pin and expressing a desire to feel up a sleeping woman. History will forgive your journalistic faux pas. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10874 Registered: 05-2005 |
Listening to Movin On, a CD of Paul Weller rarities that came with Uncut magazine’s September issue. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10875 Registered: 05-2005 |
Prince - Around The World In A Day | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2394 Registered: 10-2006 |
The new expanded deluxe boxed extratrack version or whatever it's called, Pádraig? Worth a fling? Such a brilliant pop album, anyway, my Prince gateway probably, picked up on cassette back then. So I went to see him live in Stockholm and had the most exhilarating couple of musical hours in my life. My attention sometimes wavers in concerts, but not there, you couldn't take your eyes of this springing, guitar-tickling elf. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 901 Registered: 08-2005 |
The Ashes on Radio 5 Sports Extra in the UK. I started listening after tea and Steve Smith was batting, which meant either Australia had a big score or England had been out cheaply. Turned out it was the latter, but what a day's play! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4989 Registered: 03-2005 |
David Ackles - Five and Dime https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faEtKBnn uuU&list=OLAK5uy_n6rWWM9gsYOlz9d0qf012lr zWTgx1wpAo&index=9 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_e0woKwg J_0&list=OLAK5uy_n6rWWM9gsYOlz9d0qf012lr zWTgx1wpAo&index=8 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10877 Registered: 05-2005 |
Stuart, I started out streaming the new deluxe edition, but switched after the original album to streaming the two albums recently released by Drink The Sea, Peter Buck's new band, with Duke Harwood on vocals, Screaming Trees' drummer and a couple of others. It's great. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10878 Registered: 05-2005 |
Now listening to Cyrm by Oxn, an Irish band that mix traditional folk music with industrial, drone, electronic and all kinds of other unexpected influences. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 10879 Registered: 05-2005 |
Robert Forster - Danger In The Past | ||
| Uli B Member Username: Marenhannes Post Number: 41 Registered: 03-2006 |
Communards - Red |