| Author | Message | ||
     jerry hann Member Username: Jerry_h Post Number: 39 Registered: 07-2005 |
Ben Folds-Rocking the Suburbs Mercury Rev-Secret Migration Elliot Smith-X/O Teddy Thompson Those have been on today so far | ||
| julia motzko Member Username: Julia Post Number: 13 Registered: 05-2005 |
today: * townes van zandt - highway kind (since I saw that documentary about him, "be here to love me", I'm really back into him) *art brut - bang bang rock & roll (going to their show tomorrow, have to get to know the songs better!) *jonathan richman - jonathan richman (bought the record (used) yesterday) | ||
| gareth w Member Username: Gareth Post Number: 20 Registered: 05-2005 |
'plans' - death cab for cutie (great) '29' - ryan adams (dissapointing) 'Z' - my morning jacket (excellent) 'chronicles' - rush (always great) | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 57 Registered: 05-2005 |
artic monkeys - debut album wolf parade -apologies to the queen mary ini kamoze - ini kamoze broken social scene - broken social scene | ||
| Peter Collins Member Username: Tyroneshoelaces Post Number: 46 Registered: 05-2005 |
I must admit I'm quite taken with Funeral by Arcade Fire. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 112 Registered: 04-2005 |
I'm on an Auteurs/Luke Haines binge--lots of the Auteurs albums (incl. the free live album available for download from Luke's website) plus Black Box Recorder. Recent releases that have been getting some spins: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah's debut, Franz Ferdinand's latest, and Laura Veirs's "Year of Meteors." And I downloaded some classic '72-75 Roxy Music onto my iPod (my Roxy collection is all on vinyl), so I've been binging on that too. | ||
| jerry hann Member Username: Jerry_h Post Number: 40 Registered: 07-2005 |
Kevin is the Arctic Monkeys out yet? On them: there is a live KCRW session which you can watch and listen to (with interview)if you log onto there website. Being from the UK the wonders of KCRW has escaped me until recently ( apart from the Go-betweens live on Snap).I agree Ryan Adams disappointing-but not really surprised. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 58 Registered: 05-2005 |
jerry- arctic monkeys not out yet - i have heard a download of the album which is released on 23rd Jan | ||
| Hamish Walke Member Username: Hamish Post Number: 5 Registered: 05-2005 |
The National - Alligator - my favourite 2005 album My Morning Jacket - Z - good Broken Social Scene Have also just won the G-Bs Liberty Belle reissue in the Lo-Max competition so am playing that a lot as well | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 46 Registered: 05-2005 |
Nada Surf - The weight is a gift Go betweens - Live at The Tivoli Brisbane CD Jeb Loy Nichols - Now Then The Fall - 50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong Billy Bragg & Wilco - Mermaid Avenue Vol 1 and 2 | ||
| Eke Member Username: Ekewebb Post Number: 24 Registered: 05-2005 |
Go-Betweens - Live In London Richard Swift - The Novelist The Triffids - The Black Swan Kraftwerk - Minimum Maximum Audio Bullys - Generation Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home | ||
| Duncan Hurwood Member Username: Duncan_h Post Number: 31 Registered: 05-2005 |
Divine Comedy - Absent Friends Jah Wobble - Take me to God Future Sound of London - Lifeforms Scott Walker - Scott III | ||
| abigail law Member Username: Abigail Post Number: 23 Registered: 06-2005 |
in the last few weeks i have been mostly listening to cat power - moon pix straight story soundtrack townes van zandt - Live at the Old Quarter some simon & garfunkel and the Isobel Campbell, Mark Lanegan album Ballad of the Broken Seas which a good friend gave me recently | ||
| Eke Member Username: Ekewebb Post Number: 27 Registered: 05-2005 |
Aaah. Scott III - it's been a while. I'll give it a spin tomorrow. And I've been hearing good things about that Isobel Campbell/Mark Lanegan album recently too. I'll have to track down a copy. | ||
| Donat Member Username: Donat Post Number: 114 Registered: 11-2004 |
The Isobel Campbell/Mark Lanegan album is an excellent record. I haven't heard the new Belle & Sebastian album as yet, though I've read glowing reviews online. I've been listening to a lot of Television Personalities lately, particularly their first record 'And Don't The Kids Just Love it' and '2' by All Girl Summer Fun Band. | ||
| Peter Azzopardi Member Username: Pete Post Number: 135 Registered: 09-2004 |
My tinnitus. | ||
| Rob Member Username: Rob Post Number: 43 Registered: 12-2004 |
Neu! Let it be (naked) Divinyls Best Of Earth Wind & Fire Low (Bowie) | ||
| Todd Slater Member Username: Todd_slater Post Number: 21 Registered: 01-2005 |
Summer 05/06 high rotation The Dirty Three - Cinder The Greencards - Weather & Water; Australian trio carving out niche via touring with Dylan & Willie Nelson Francoiz Breut - Une Saison Volee Ali Farka Toure & Toumani Diabate - In The Heart Of The Moon (sublime African blues, recorded on the banks of Niger River;Ry Cooder also prominient) Cheikh Lo - Lamp Fall; Senegalese funk, flamenco, & jazz. 'Where Joy Kills Sorrow' / Australian compilation from late 90's feat; Mick Harvey, Dirty Three amongst others. Gillian Welch - Soul Journey Beck - Sea Change | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 128 Registered: 03-2005 |
Literally? Paul Kelly's "Foggy Highway" which arrived in the mail yesterday. In the last couple of days, The Fall's "Real New Fall LP" and "Fall Heads Roll." Also Ed Kuepper's "Serene Machine" and "Character Assassination." Also a German Marvin Gaye anthology. I am about to go on an extended drive in a rental car with NO CD player. It didn't occur to me to look for one before signing off on it. It has a cassette player! I haven't used those in years. So I will scoop up some old unlabeled tapes at random and find out what I used to listen to. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 116 Registered: 05-2005 |
What a cool way to listen to your past Randy. I met an old girlfriend recently and she said she's listening to all the old mix tapes I made for her in the early-to-mid 90s as her car has no CD player! I'm intrigued to know what I put on those tapes for her. Lots of songs with coded messages about love I would imagine. Right now I'mn listening to NME's Cool List 2005 CD. And you know what, it is cool; We Are Scientists, The Cribs etc. Good to know what the kids are listening to now that their obsession with neu metal and pop-punk has worn thin. Yesterday before going into town for the football I listened to an double CD 80s acoustic compilation which was great (the version of There She Goes was the original 1988 single version which I don't think I'd ever heard before). I also listened to a brilliant compilation a friend made called Domestic Violence. I had never properly listened to the lyrics of Warren Zevon's Excitable Boy before, despite hearing it probably 50 times. Man, what a violent song. I still find Delia's Gone hilarious though. On Friday night I returned to being an 80s teenager and listened to a double CD Def Leppard compilation I picked up that day for $10. And I loved it... I'll get my coat. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 130 Registered: 03-2005 |
Yes, the lack of control over what I heard was interesting. I started out with a tape that was one-half British Northern soul and one-half Charles Blackwell productions from the early and mid 1960s. Next up were a couple of tapes of one of my lifetime favorites, the permanently unfashionable totally great Hollies. The first focussed on their especially unfashionable 1970s era, concentrating on album and unreleased tracks; the second zeroed in on their 1965 to 1968 era with Graham Nash. Then I popped in what turned out to be a great collection of Joe Meek productions including such nuggets as the theme song to the 60s marionette cartoon "Stingray," Ritchie Blackmore's almost full metal version of "Keep a Knockin'" with The Outlaws in 1964 and culminating with the Honeycombs doing the magnificently pessimistic album track "This Too Shall Pass Away." Last in was a compilation of Django Reinhardt concentrating on his and Stephane Grappelli's great original tunes. I was entertained all the way and reminded of some things that should be pulled out when I get home. The Domestic Violence compilation sounds like a great idea, Padraig. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 26 Registered: 01-2005 |
Kate Rusby - The Girl Who Couldn't Fly. I was listening to Disc 2 of Children of Nuggets earlier this morning. I just got Colin Newman - A-Z, and Slowdive - Pygmalion over the weekend, and I'll be listening to those shortly. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 126 Registered: 08-2004 |
Yesterday I listened to : Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah R.E.M. - Live In Hyde Park Babybird - There's Something Going On The Ramones - Rocket To Russia | ||
| Matt Ellis Member Username: Matt_ellis Post Number: 39 Registered: 11-2004 |
Nine Black Alps - 'Everything Is' Is someone on this board going to shock me and say that they like or at least of heard of them!? They have the ability to sell out major gigs in minutes here in the UK. The Jayhawks - 'Blue Earth' Blimey! I haven't heard this in ages. I got into them via their more current stuff circa the mid ninties. I can't believe how country this sounds...miles away from 'Alt Country' of later works. I imagine this lot would go down a storm with a Go Bees audience. Early Day Miners - 'All Harm Ends Here' Little-known Canadian 5 piece. They make Radiohead appear happy-go-lucky yet they make great music...weird! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 125 Registered: 05-2005 |
I like what I heard of Nine Black Alps. I have a couple of their 7 inches and a five track Australian-only EP that was released last year. They are the only Nirvana-like band I can bear, probably because they realise the pop side to Nrivana was far more important than the grunge side. | ||
| M. Mark Burgess Member Username: Fortysomething Post Number: 60 Registered: 05-2005 |
Richard Thompson-Front Parlour Ballads Nico-Camera Obscura Ultimate Spinach Martin Carthy-Shearwater | ||
| Gerhard Member Username: Dalloways Post Number: 4 Registered: 07-2005 |
Literally, at the moment, we're listening to The Essential Willie Nelson. Others?... Pernice Brothers - Discover a Lovelier You Neil Finn - One All A Girl Called Eddy | ||
| gareth w Member Username: Gareth Post Number: 23 Registered: 05-2005 |
Re: the cassette posts above, I’ve played a few tapes lately out of curiosity (and I haven’t played a tape in 3 or 4 years) and it’s great to play some stuff that has slipped through the cd / itunes net. Recent re-discoveries include ‘Now and Zen’ by Robert Plant which sounds great right now, a really good Wings compilation (underrated band but when your previous act was The Beatles…) and a mix tape with some great Blue Aeroplanes and AMC on it. We should start a national tape day when we play nothing but tapes. There’s a good coffee table book out about mix tapes from the 80’s called ‘the art of cassette culture’ which sums up the obsession quite nicely. | ||
| Matt Ellis Member Username: Matt_ellis Post Number: 40 Registered: 11-2004 |
Good on yer Pádraig. 'Nevermind' aside I've never been a huge Nirvana fan so I see where your coming from. I wish I could figure out who else Nine Black Alps remind me of. Maybe its an amalgamation of bands and they just sound like themselves. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 131 Registered: 05-2005 |
Matt, I do really like Nirvana and one of the articles I've written that I'm most proud of was one on the 10th anniversary of Kurt Cobain killing himself. What I mean is that Nirvana took the grunge template, added in The Beatles and Boston (play More Than A Feeling and Smells Like Teen Spirit back to back sometime) and turned it into pop, some of which was gold; then bands such as Bush took Nirvana's template and turned it into godawful sludge. I was very happy when that bloke from Bush married that woman from No Doubt. The two least talented music millionaires ever getting hitched saved two other innocents from an awful fate. If anyone reading this board has ever bought a Bush, No Doubt or Gwen Stefani record - shame on you. | ||
| M. Mark Burgess Member Username: Fortysomething Post Number: 61 Registered: 05-2005 |
I thought about buying a Bush cd a few years ago to see what all the fuss was about and actually made it to check-out but I couldn't go through with it. I think I got a best of from Joan Armatrading instead. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 134 Registered: 05-2005 |
Good choice Mark. Joan Armitrading is great. | ||
| Mark Leydon Member Username: Mark_leydon Post Number: 33 Registered: 05-2005 |
Current listening includes Sufjan Stevens 'Come on Feel the Illinoise'. This guy is a mad genius with more ideas packed into this one album than most performers manage in their entire careers. Also really enjoying the Tony Visconti-produced version of the Finn Brothers 'Everyone is Here' album which someone made available for download on the internet last week. This is the original recording of the album which the brothers made in upstate New York. But for some reason they scrapped this version and re-recorded the entire album with Mitchell Froom in LA. For my money the Visonti version is far superior. A much more live, organic sound than the over-compressed LA-sheen on the Froom version. Also belatedly getting into 'Aligator' by The National. Its a fine album. Although I find the last few tracks don't quite maintain the very high standard set earlier. | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 4 Registered: 01-2006 |
"If anyone reading this board has ever bought a Bush, No Doubt or Gwen Stefani record - shame on you".....a bit rich to post comments like that with a U2 thread in here.... Currently listening to... 'Songs of Pain' & 'More Songs of Pain' - Daniel Johnston 'Comes A Time' - Neil Young 'Mightly Like a Rose' - Elvis Costello | ||
| Eke Member Username: Ekewebb Post Number: 28 Registered: 05-2005 |
What's the point in loving music without having the time to fit in a few irrational hatreds? "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds" and I'm consistent and little-minded enough to hate that threesome and U2 as well. | ||
| jerry hann Member Username: Jerry_h Post Number: 42 Registered: 07-2005 |
Bright Eyes-Wide Awake its Morning and Magnolia Electric Co. and a bit of Rufus Wainwright | ||
| Guy Ewald Member Username: Guy_ewald Post Number: 71 Registered: 02-2005 |
A friend sent me a couple mixed CDR's of indie pop that he'd discovered on the Internet. There were only a few names I was familiar with and there's a lot of good stuff on the discs, but one band that really impressed me was Page France. I found their second album "Hello, Dear Wind" downtown and it's really gotten under my skin in a way that Bright Eyes, Devandra Banhardt, Sufjan Stevens and the rest of the Indie Folk-Pop pack have not. I think they're from Baltimore. Tuneful acoustic ditties with spare ensemble support... very appealing somehow. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 154 Registered: 10-2004 |
i've been listening to almost nothing but late 60s/early 70s ennio morricone stuff for the past 2 weeks. mind blownig! | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 127 Registered: 08-2004 |
Nice One Jeff. Yesterdays soundtrack included : The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan Bryan Ferry/Roxy - More Than This Isobel Campbell/Mark Lanegan - Rambling Man Belle & Sebastian - Tigermilk Van Morrison - Astral Weeks The Who - A Quick One | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 52 Registered: 05-2005 |
Today I thought I'd have amorning with Aztec Camera. Boy do I regret it. The old Postcard relations of the Go bees really let me down. The first singles and album are so great, real timeless classics. But with Knife, even though I adore Malcolm Ross' guitar playing, things start to go down hill. I was left feeling delfalted after the rush of blood that was High Land Hard Rain. Dug out Love, and Stray. Save for possibly 2 or 3 songs, in my opinion, dreadful. Things get slightly better with Frestonia (11 years old!!!!). But really where did it all go wrong for Aztec Camera. AC always feature in conversations about my favourite bands, when now on closer inspection and 23 years further down the line, they are actually pretty crap. Shame that. Still great name and I love Roddy, but ...B.A.D. Morning Britain I'm afraid... | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 72 Registered: 05-2005 |
the postcard singles were great - after that avoid like the plague | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 155 Registered: 10-2004 |
spence - i agree that aztec camera's postcard singles and debut LP were phenomenal. for me, some of the best music ever created. and their postcard singles are my very favorite of everything released on that label. i actually like 'knife'. it's slick, but i still think the songs, for the most part, were well-crafted and catchy. they still had some dignity, for me, at least. 'love' was roddy's blatant and sad attempt at mainstream acceptance. he eschewed everything that was good about aztec camera. i don't care much for post-knife albums until 'dreamland,' which is slick and gooey, but for some reason i like it. but yeah, it's kinda sad that roddy went for the "gold" so early in the game. i'm sure he was capable of producing better music during the mid to late 80s, but simply had motives to do otherwise. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 143 Registered: 03-2005 |
Spence's entry reminds me why I tend to make no effort to hear all the new stuff while it's new. It's just too hard to evaluate something while it has its glossy new sheen. In light of both Spence's comments and Kevin's, I'll give AC another try but focus only on the early things. Roddy Frame never really gripped me on any previous attempts. My latest listening has been the Laughing Clowns, thanks to the new 3 CD reissue. This is my first exposure to this period of the great Ed Kuepper's career. I'm loving it. It IS a bit comforting to see that even Kuepper would occasionally "borrow" a bit from himself by re-using a chord progression or bits of lyrics from something earlier. On another thread I mentioned Toronto's Dishes from the late 1970s as the source of a single that should not be forgotten. It turns out that they were anthologized on CD in 2001 even though they only released two seven inch EPs. This is augmented with some live performances. Keeping in mind that the music comes from 1977 and 1978, the Dishes were a chaotic, brilliant bunch. After their demise, the individual members apparently wandered off to become academics or restauranteurs. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 23 Registered: 04-2005 |
> the postcard singles were great - after that avoid like the plague. Hmmm. I am not even sure that 'Mattress of Wire' is that good. But 'Just Like Gold'/'We Could Send Letters' (the first single) is simply perfect. Roddy Frame was quoted in that 'Uncut' Postcard article as saying that he doesn't want it ever to come out on CD. He wants it to stay as that object of art that it certainly is. Another thread for bands that never bettered their first ever release? In my book, Prefab Sprout and 'LIMOGES' fits the bill. I think that it was their first 45! | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 156 Registered: 10-2004 |
Andrew - I have to disagree.. I think 'Mattress of Wire' is an exceptional piece of melodic pop. I think Frame's reasoning for never reissuing the Postcard stuff on CD is a cop-out. Why force everyone to go hunting on ebay and pay upwards of $30.00 to hear these songs? At the very least get Alan Horne to reissue the 7"s. I love Prefab Sprout too, and Lions in My Own Garden is a Classic, but so is Swoon, in my opinion, and a lot of the stuff they did afterwards. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 53 Registered: 05-2005 |
I think AC's first Postcard releases are gems, if only for the fact that he was writing this kinda stuff at 13!!!!!! That to me is what really makes them special. It would be great to reissue the 7''s wouldn't it! Especially as younger generations are loving vinyl lately. Its never gonna happen though. I don't think Horne is interested, like most of the Postcard crew and all that, they've moved on, like we all have. Save for the GoBetweens! That was meant in a nice way by the way!! Cheers | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 40 Registered: 05-2005 |
I lost the thread of Aztec Camera after yet another disappointing album in "Dreamland". Maybe if he teamed then with David Sylvian instead of Ryuchi Sakamoto, it might have had more guts. Nothing of his stands up to "High Land Hard Rain" although I love "Knife" the song on "Knife" the album. Roddy has made only one appearance in his tour of Australia in 91(?) at the Enmore in Sydney. You couldn't help love even the crap songs with that voice of his! | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 41 Registered: 05-2005 |
....oh and I'm listening to Neil Youngs greatest hits and the Concert for Bangaladesh. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 55 Registered: 05-2005 |
Playing Josef K, Live at Valentino's on ROL Records CD today. I love it, its raw and Josef K were on top form, I was lucky to have been in a position to design the packaging, the whole thing fills me up with excitement. I have also been listening/watching some Television songs live from last year, they played a track I believe to be new, it sounds very Eastern influenced, some haunting guitar work. Really fab stuff. Billy Ficca has NOT aged either! | ||
| Peter Collins Member Username: Tyroneshoelaces Post Number: 60 Registered: 05-2005 |
Bizarrely, I was listening to the odd Josef K track yesterday - I really love It's Kinda Funny. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 56 Registered: 05-2005 |
Peter, that's strange innit!? Yes, Its Kinda Funny, is the 'classic' track isn't it. However, my fabes are Chance Meeing, Missionary and the Peel session. The Peel session is faultless. It was captured when they were at their very best. Months before calling it a day. Shame, might have ben nice to have heard more songs by the group at that time... | ||
| Eke Member Username: Ekewebb Post Number: 30 Registered: 05-2005 |
Geoff, I was at the Enmore to see Aztec Camera then. Who did he drag on as someone who "fought in the punk wars"? My memory's shot and I can't remember. Was it Mick Jones? And you're right, it was a great show even though I'd lost interest in Roddy by then. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 26 Registered: 04-2005 |
Just to chirp in here on Josef K. I have just finished reading an article that was mentioning the degree of hype for Artic Monkeys (young people's music I believe) and in particulary from the NME. I recall a review of Josef K (by Paul Morley) that featured a pic of Paul Haig with the title 'Is this man too talented to live?'. I am sure that the hype from the press was mentioned as being one of the reasons of the breakup at the time? Any ideas on that Spence? | ||
| Matthias Treml Member Username: Matthias Post Number: 52 Registered: 05-2005 |
I've been listening to two very non-complimentary cds lately. The first is Van Halen - The Best Of Both Worlds. Partly, due to the conversations in this forum about Teenage music tastes. I'm re-living my junior high days. And although I like 5150 with Hagar, I have to say the David Lee Roth version of the band is far superior. The other CD I've been listening to is Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine. I liked Tidal very much. She has distinctive piano playing abilities and a cool smoky voice. I hadn't heard the Pawn album. So it's been some time but with all the press about freefiona and whether the label or her shelved the album, it piqued my interest. It's a good record with some strange sounds and lyrics. The title track is pretty cool too. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 120 Registered: 04-2005 |
Matthias, I've resisted the latest Fiona Apple despite all the raves it's gotten because I heard "Pawn" and liked her voice and much of the music, but found her songs--pretty much nothing but angry rants against a now-departed lover--to be really tedious. Reviews lead me to believe the latest album is more of the same. Is that true? A little more songwriting range would do her a world of good. Lately, I've been listening to new(ish) releases by Ladytron, the Go! Team, M.I.A., Bloc Party, and Amy Rigby. All enjoyable, and the M.I.A. may turn out to be a classic...or an "I can't believe I used to like that" album. I'm not sure yet. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 57 Registered: 05-2005 |
Andrew, interesting...Basically, there were internal things that only Josef K would know about, but I know Malcolm once said to me, that he saw Edwyn in the street and Ed asked him to join Orange Juice simple as that. There was also the money issue with Orange Juice, just signed to Polydor etc where as the K were still Indie flitting between Postcard and Crepuscule. Summit like that anyway. That's what I believe and think. Malcolm has also said to me that the K were truly at their very best at the time of the break up. That's good to know. In a way I think they knowingly knew that it was similar to the way Television called it a day. 2 albums, nuff said, although one album was never officially released. Sorry folks to take up too much of the thread with the K! I happen to like the Arctic Monkeys. No real reason and at my age I don't believe in being 'too precious' but when they come on the radio, I find myself wanting to listen. Bit like when I first heard Franz Ferdinand. Nice boys they are too! I recommend the FF DVD its greaat! Oh, my twin girls who are 11 months old were rocking to Cattle and Cane, the acoustic version from the dvd today! | ||
| Panda Member Username: Panda Post Number: 2 Registered: 02-2006 |
I am listening to Pipas Jens Lekman ("the new Jonathan Richman" sayeth the husband) Early OMD The Berkeley Groks Science Show podcast (http://www.groks.net) Britta Phillips and Dean Wareham's "L'Avventura" | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 6 Registered: 01-2006 |
Panda, I love Jonathon Richman but mostly stuff with the Modern Lovers, ie The Modern Lovers and Modern Lovers 88, a few solos like Back in Your Life are good but haven't heard anything good from him in about 20 years...and Dean Wareham & Britta Philips are in the studio recording a follow up to L'Avventura so that should be good... | ||
| Matthias Treml Member Username: Matthias Post Number: 53 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kurt, It is true. Fiona needs some range. I'm sure this is why she is so popular with the teen-college kids. Those angst years that we are past. Musically, I like the album. There are a couple of tracks that are good lyrically, but I'm FFing through the whining. ;-) I was a huge Sinead O'Connor fan during Lion and the Cobra record (which was during my H.S. early college days) and Fiona reminds me a lot of her. My friend and I used to joke about the genre. He made me a mixed tape titled "Angry Women of Rock" Sums it up nicely. | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 42 Registered: 05-2005 |
Your testing my memory now Eke!!!! I think you were right. It might very well have been Mick Jones. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 73 Registered: 05-2005 |
The new Mogwai album -Mr Beast The new Graham Coxon album Tommy Boy records present - Hip Hop Essentials volume1-4 The Wailing Souls - At Channel 1 Guided By Voices - a complilation CD-R that I made myself - in an alternative universe GBV are the biggest band in the world Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit Sleater Kinney - The Woods | ||
| Peter Collins Member Username: Tyroneshoelaces Post Number: 62 Registered: 05-2005 |
All this talk of Josef K reminds me of the Blue Orchids - released one great but flawed lp (like Josef K's The Only Fun in Town, it sounded like it was recorded in a bus shelter with the instruments submerged in blancmange) then disappeared. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 28 Registered: 04-2005 |
I know that we are not supposed to mention the existance of such things, but...listening a lot to the G-Bs Berlin gig, that was broadcast live in May last year. Got me looking forward to the DVD as well. Quite a contrast with the Barbican live CDs. I quite enjoy them too, but they are very 'poised' and the band sounds too scared to really go for it. Maybe they were a little overawed by that occasion, but the Berlin performance is hell of a lot better, the playing excellent and the sound much more upfront. Even 'Was there anything..' (never a personal fave) gets reinvented as a 200mph speed thrash extravaganza. OK I exaggerate but you get the general idea. Lots of highlights. 'Bye Bye Pride' has grown into a much more powerful thing. With big muscles. And 'Too Much of One Thing' described by RF as 'a long song. We are about to play Desolation Row' is wonderful. Never understood the dismissal of that song as sounding like a poor Neil Young outtake somewhere. And the cheesiest organ ever on 'People Say'. By the way, any one else for a seperate thread on RFs song introductions?. My favourite might be 'This is one of the 10 greatest songs ever written. (pause for effect) And I wrote it.' That was for 'People Say', but I can't even remember when or where now... | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 62 Registered: 05-2005 |
Bad Education!! Love it! | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 29 Registered: 04-2005 |
The Flood!! Love it! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 142 Registered: 05-2005 |
My favourite Robert introduction is one I've seen him do both solo and with The Go-Betweens: "This next song has one of the most complicated guitar intros ever written"... and then he starts Spring Rain. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 63 Registered: 05-2005 |
I think mine was when they played Irish Centre Birmingham May '89 I think. Robert went on about the next soing being about a couple of old dears who come from over that way, down the road, a place you would all know in coming from Birmingham, called Walsall! Christ knows how he clocked that one! Then they played The Clarke Sisters. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 64 Registered: 05-2005 |
PS I'll get me trainspotter mac!! | ||
| Per Stam Member Username: Matsrep Post Number: 7 Registered: 10-2005 |
A Year With No Head Bad Education - highlights on a brilliant (not flawed) lp by the blue orchids. the ltm reissue adds ep and single tracks, making it a great (really great) lost classic. I do not think that they ever got so good again in their come backs - there have been a few (I read that some new songs are available now). | ||
| nickt Member Username: Nickt Post Number: 3 Registered: 05-2005 |
recently got back into "snow gas bones" by meow meow, a sort of jesus & mary chain meets the beach boys (in a good way) - out on integrity in the UK but also in the USA on devil-in-the-woods - and they're from LA i think...? also dug out my old blue aeroplanes album - talk of them reforming i believe - any news on that, anyone? | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 11 Registered: 05-2005 |
For the moment I'm listening to the Go-Betweens's label mates : the Wrens. Really good band that reminds me the early works of Primal Scream, and Yo la Tengo etc. Also the last record of Fiona Apple is fine for me. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 137 Registered: 08-2004 |
Last night : Nick Cave - Tender Prey World Party - Dumbing Up Bob Dylan - Live 1961-2001 The Kinks - The Kinks Pulp - Freaks + Masters Of The Universe | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 79 Registered: 05-2005 |
byrne/eno - my life in the bush of ghosts flaming lips - at war with the mystics belle and sebastian - if youre feeling sinister sugar minott - rare gems | ||
| jerry hann Member Username: Jerry_h Post Number: 47 Registered: 07-2005 |
Yesterday Van Morrison-Side 2 record 2 of Its to late to stop the show, Followed by Joy Division-Substance and the CD of Striped Sunset Lounge, | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 156 Registered: 03-2005 |
Wish I'd been visiting Kevin. My most recent purchase is the Canetoad collection of 1970s Bobbie & Laurie and other miscellaneous early 70s Australian acts. Unfortunately, B & L--whose 60s music I love--decided to go Mac Davis and it's pretty disappointing. Most of the other acts are typical early 70s country rock except, perversely, Terry Walker whose great clutch of recordings from Perth in the 60s were self-penned folkie/country but here he's doing rather unconvincing blue-eyed soul cover versions. So this disc hasn't gotten much of a listen. Riding in the car to and from work is Vic Chesnutt's "Is the Actor Happy?" | ||
| Jaz Member Username: Jaz Post Number: 4 Registered: 05-2005 |
Well, it's my day off and I've just put my feet up after doing an accumulation of housework. I have a bottle of Guinness Foreign Extra and I've just put on my new Anne Briggs CD for the umpteenth time this week. I can't believe I'd never heard of her before this week's 'Folk Britannia' on BBC4. And while I was cleaning the oven I had on Bic Runga's latest, which I had expected to love on first play like 'Beautiful Collision' before it. More of a grower, this one. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 81 Registered: 05-2005 |
Talking Heads - Fear of Music (playing as I type) In the pile for listening to later here at work Hip Hop Essentials 1979-1991 (vol 7) Ryan Adams - 29 Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene Various Artists - Studio One Soul 2 Belle and Sebastian - If you are feeling sinister (cant get enough of this at the moment - bought it when it came out 10yrs ago - think I only truly appreciate it now) KT Tunstall - Dogs Poo The last one was a joke! | ||
| Guy Ewald Member Username: Guy_ewald Post Number: 84 Registered: 02-2005 |
Saw Mission of Burma last week and have been listening to Clint Conolly's band CONSONANT, the first CD from 2002 that I just recently acquired. They're a good band with Chris Brokaw from COME on guitar. I guess they've broken up now that MOB are active again... wish I'd have seen them when they were around. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 148 Registered: 05-2005 |
Safety Dance by Men Without Hats. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 149 Registered: 05-2005 |
Now on to Only Life by The Feelies. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 157 Registered: 03-2005 |
I love the Feelies! Moreso than REM. Last night, Sufjan Stevens' "Illinoise." By the time this 74 minute disc was over, I was glad it was over. What seems awe-inspiringly creative for 40 minutes becomes fatiguing after awhile and I promised myself that sometime I'd skip through to find out how many actual songs there are interspersed within all that flashy incidental music. Robert & Grant's 10 song edict forever validates itself. After Stevens, I played "Born Sandy Devotional" for my guest. I'm working on spreading the gospel. Then onto David McComb's "Love of Will." Finally a multi-artist tribute to Roky Erickson called "When the Pyramid Meets the Eye." I hadn't heard this in a long time and found that too many of the covers were not up to the standard of the originals. Right now I'm listening to the washing machine. Today I want to go to our local huge anorak music store Amoeba with a list of names I got off this board. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 80 Registered: 05-2005 |
Richard Hawley - Coles Corner The Jam - Snap! (Remastered) Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit The Moodists - Jack O Diamonds Played them all today. Richard Hawley is a modern day Johnny Cash. The Moodists blow me away, I love them as much as Dave Graney, whom I happen to think is one of the most underrated, undervalued artists of all time. B&S I would recommend for the Postcard fans out there, there's Orange Juice all over it, plus The Isley Brothers et al | ||
| gareth w Member Username: Gareth Post Number: 28 Registered: 05-2005 |
I saw Sigur Ros play on Thursday night and was blown away by the show so am playing a lot of their stuff right now, in particular 'Takk'. An odd experience live - more like watching opera than a rock band - but they're in a league of their own right now. Really coming of age. Also love the Neil Diamond album and Rilo Kiley are getting a lot of airplay too. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 89 Registered: 05-2005 |
randy - dont know if you are aware but this is sufjans 3rd album and they are all cursed by being incredibly long. however, i believe that unusually this is because every song truly merits being on there, usually the last 20mins of overlong albums are substandard. maybe you should do what i do with sufjan - play the albums in two sittings, just like the old vinyl days! | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 90 Registered: 05-2005 |
listening to john cale - fear (much as i love lou reed, is john the more talented of the two - i wonder?) after randys thread, I am in the process of downloading Born Sandy Devotional from Napster. Another record I have not heard for 15 years or so, no doubt still at my mums house. I have a nagging fear that the songs will be as magnificent as I remember but will sound terrible - another of these 80s records that sound crap. will soon find out  | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 91 Registered: 05-2005 |
aahh - wide open road from Born Sandy Devotional, how great to hear that song again. one of those songs that gives me goosebumps - from the moment David Mccomb gives it a hushed "2,3,4". my fears about the sound were only slightly accurate - chicken killer sounds terrible though. Randy, didnt David die a few years back, car crash? | ||
| B. Rider Member Username: Boundary_rider Post Number: 23 Registered: 05-2005 |
www.thetriffids.com Re-released and repackaged soon on Domino in Europe. Best album ever made. Calenture to follow. Third best album ever made. | ||
| Andy Robinson Member Username: Andyblue Post Number: 11 Registered: 03-2005 |
What did you buy, Randy? What's number 2, B? | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 92 Registered: 05-2005 |
nice link to the triffids site b rider - thanks there is however a laughable statement on a link to an mp3 clip of the triffids playing a live version of pale blue eyes. it says: "If there's a better version of this song anywhere I'd like to hear it. Adam Peters joining us on cello." well, in my opinion the original version of this song is in amongst the best 10 songs ever written - rendering the above statement just pure dumb frankly. sorry but sometimes these things just have to be said - rem's version kicks 7 shades of shit out of this too. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 82 Registered: 05-2005 |
Domino seem to want to be seen as the kings of reissues, what a roster, Orange Juice, The Fire Engines, soon Josef K, now The Triffids? What next... | ||
| B. Rider Member Username: Boundary_rider Post Number: 24 Registered: 05-2005 |
Haven't decided yet Andy. Liberty Belle maybe? Kevin, can't speak for Graham Lee, ex Triff guitarist who runs the site, and someone who played on this song, but I think we can safely assume they mean versions other than the original. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 93 Registered: 05-2005 |
point taken b rider, although he obviously hasnt heard the rem version | ||
| Mark Leydon Member Username: Mark_leydon Post Number: 37 Registered: 05-2005 |
Emerges from shed. This week I've been mainly listening to The Arctic Monkey's debut CD. Love the energy and the clever lyrics. But not sure if the songs themselves will stand the test of time. Retreats into shed and slams door. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 159 Registered: 03-2005 |
I believe David McComb died in the mid-90s from complications of a car crash injury. I'm not the expert on this; I'm comparatively new to the Triffids and still don't even have all their releases (such as "Black Swan"). Some folks say it was related to heroin abuse and others a bum heart. Somebody on here knows. My Amoeba visit was postponed one day. The place is essentially a crack den for me. I spent about $180 which (as usual) is more than I intended to spend. My purchases: inspired by Jaz' entry here, two Anne Briggs CDs which I think mops up everything she recorded. I've only heard one of them so far. Trad Brit folk including some acapella. It will obviously need more time for proper absorption. An antho of A & B sides of the Netherlands' great Shocking Blue. A reissue of two 60s Jackie de Shannon albums, probably a little redundant for me as I had most of the songs already but that's the problem of forgetting what you already have. The new Pernice Brothers album, quite pleasant on first listen. The new Belle & Sebastian but I haven't opened it yet. A Rhino 2-CD antho of John Cale inspired by Kevin. This choice may be a dumb one as I might just wind up buying all of the individual albums. The only Cale albums I already have are "Paris 1919" and "Walking on Locusts." I thought this might be a good way to figure out what Cale albums to go after. Inspired by Guy Ewald I looked for Eno's remasters but got cold feet because I wasn't sure if these were the ones. Guy, are they the ones made in Holland? The packaging doesn't say anything about remastering. I did buy a copy of "Another Day on Earth" which I'd never had. I haven't heard it yet. I'd wandered off from Eno when he was doing his ambient thing. I got the Blue Aeroplanes' "friendloverplane" as Amoeba unfortunately did not have "Swagger" or the early collection "Spitting (something or other)" that were recommended on here. I haven't opened this one yet. Having never heard the Flaming Lips, I decided to buy "The Soft Bulletin." I haven't gotten to that one yet either. While looking for Page France--no luck on that this time--I stumbled on the Plug Uglies' antho! And of the things I've listened to so far--it's playing right now--the Australians have once again hit the right musical nerve for me. But it will be a while before I digest all this stuff. And there you have it. A music junkie shoots up. | ||
| Guy Ewald Member Username: Guy_ewald Post Number: 85 Registered: 02-2005 |
I think the Eno's are from Holland... they come in cardboard digipak's that say ORIGINAL MASTERS on the black part of the left front edge. Hey, buy one and see if you like the sound... one of the reasons I love these is that they DON'T sound extensively rejigged, they just sound right. | ||
| Peter Azzopardi Member Username: Pete Post Number: 136 Registered: 09-2004 |
Kevin, the only Cale album I own is "Vintage Violence", and I think it's safe to say it eclipses any Reed solo material; and I do like many of Reed's solo albums. So why, oh why, have I not checked out more Cale records? Madness. | ||
| Donat Member Username: Donat Post Number: 120 Registered: 11-2004 |
Peter, you need Paris 1919 and Slow Dazzle. Better still, get anything up to and including Honi Soit. I think the best record Reed and Cale did solo-wise is their 'Songs For Drella' album. | ||
| jerry hann Member Username: Jerry_h Post Number: 48 Registered: 07-2005 |
Like wise Peter, I seem to listen to Lou Reed alot more and own more of his when really I've not discovered John Cale-who I prefer. particularly the Songs for Drella (vinyl copy only). Anyway It's something to get into an bit more. I use to love Lou's New York Album so must get that out when I get the house to my self | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 7 Registered: 01-2006 |
Yo La Tengo: I can hear the heart beating as one Wilco: Being there Sonic Youth: Sonic Nurse | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 94 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy - the Eno remasters should be in cardboard digipaks, hopefully this makes them easy to identify. Dont know if it was just luck Randy, but you randomly picked The Flaming Lips masterpiece! Peter or anybody else needing John Cale tips - you cant go wrong with any of his mid 70s Island releases. XY765 - Thanks for reminding me of the YLT album - a great listen | ||
| Guy Ewald Member Username: Guy_ewald Post Number: 86 Registered: 02-2005 |
Rather than seek out the individual albums, The Island Years 2-CD set is the way to go for Cale's mid-70's work. It includes, Fear, Slow Dazzle, Helen of Troy and a few extras. HoT was released in two versions with one track substituted/replaced... both tracks are on this set. Through the years I've numbered each of those three albums as my favorite from that period. At this point I'd probably tip Helen of Troy over the other two, but it was a very fruitful and consistent couple of years for him and the music really holds up. And Paris 1919 is one of those albums no collection should be without. | ||
| jerry hann Member Username: Jerry_h Post Number: 51 Registered: 07-2005 |
Randy, I didn't know that heroin had been implicated in David McCombs death? I've been looking on the triffids site and related sites and to my mind it still remains unclear. He had a car accident and was suppose to have been ok bt said to have been drowsy the following morning. I suppose he could have had intracerebral bleed or accidently overdosed. he had been in bad health having a heart transplant. What a great shame I was upset for a while after his death as I loved the triffids ( almost ) as much as the Go-betweens. Did any one see them live. I saw them at the Shaw theatre ( 1987 ish) and he were brilliant unconfentional comid out starting with a few slow songs completely autre. Calenture and BSD have been regular on my turntable |In the Pines id great as well. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 161 Registered: 03-2005 |
As I said, I'm not qualified to hold forth on David McComb's death. I was just repeating some of the things I've run across when reading about him. All of it's unsupported speculation. Intracranial bleeding seems more likely to me. Some of the things I read really slag off "Black Swan." I will ultimately get that; what should I be expecting? Rock God posturing? Regarding the Cale set, I love "Hedda Gabler" which comes from an EP. I'm thinking "Honi Soit" will be a must-have for me. My problem with some of the mid-1970s stuff is that I simply hate the musical aesthetics of that period what with all the tubby-sounding rock n roll. I forgot that I have had "Songs for Drella" since it originally came out. I was so disappointed in it that I played it twice and never again. I'll have to see if I have a different opinion now. The Plug Uglies just kept getting better and better from the time of my last entry on this thread. I still think that's the big find on this Amoeba trip. For those of you who don't know--I didn't--that's where John Willsteed went after the GoBees. He even produced their last release. But they're great with or without him and some of the things on this set are amazingly strong-sounding four track tapes that I assume were essentially recorded live in the studio. They further the tradition of Australian bands with female drummers, here with the marvelously named Tina Havelock Stevens. Belle & Sebastian's "The Life Pursuit" is, of course, immediately appealing sounding. "Act of the Apostle" sounds like a nice outtake from "Odyssey & Oracle." I'm very hit and miss about buying this band's records. The thing I always wonder with B & S is whether the immediate appeal will fade with nothing left. After all, so much of what they do can turn into a "name that group" exercise. One moment they're the Kinks on "Village Green Preservation Society," then next they're Tyrannosaurus Rex and then they're the Nazz. We'll see. It's enjoyable right now. I promise to give The Flaming Lips many more spins but at first blush I seem to experience them a bit like Mercury Rev who, to Padraig's dismay, I just can't seem to really love. There's something really distant about these ginormously arranged cinematic-scale groups. Blue Aeroplanes sounded very promising to me on the first go-round. The first song to yank my attention in particular was "Tolerance" but I think others will. I was getting tired by the time this disc was put on. Sorry, as so often I've overdone it. | ||
| Peter Senning Member Username: Peter_senning Post Number: 12 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jerry, I too loved the Triffids nearly as much as the Go-Betweens. I had the good fortune to see them live twice in the 1988-89 timeframe in Aarhus, Denmark, but someone pinched my ticket collection so I can't give you dates or venues... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 153 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy, I've just dissed Flaming Lips on another thread and I was going to say, but didn't, that I don't like them being compared to Mercury Rev. I mean, I know why people would compare them, but to me Mercury Rev are close to genius and Flaming Lips just good pretenders. Why have hamburger when you could have steak? I must admit to having bought a couple of Flaming Lips EPs and liking them a whole lot better than the album whose name I can't think of. | ||
| Peter Azzopardi Member Username: Pete Post Number: 138 Registered: 09-2004 |
Back up: Randy, are you saying that Plug Uglies comp that Donat mentioned a while back has actually come out? | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 95 Registered: 05-2005 |
Interesting to see Padraigs views on Flaming Lips Vs Mercury Rev. For me the Lips are genius, and Mercury Rev overblown pompous guff. It really is all about opinions as a wise man once told me. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 20 Registered: 05-2005 |
here here Kevin..Mercury Rev have indeed become pompous and overblown and increasingly so with each release..the Flaming Lips on the other hand seem to be improving with age and achieve an intimacy and emotional charge that is sadly absent from the Rev's ramblings | ||
| Paul Wright Member Username: Wallaby Post Number: 12 Registered: 05-2005 |
Litrally listening to Keith Jarrett (encore from Tokyo Sun Bear Concerts). More generally Aimee Mann, The Fall, the GBs, Soundtrack to Buffy the Vampire Slayer (once more with feeling), Rilo Kiley More Adventurous, Artic Monkeys. And now literally, The Adverts - My place. The wonders of I-tunes shuffle. And will soon be listening to Robert's Myspace site. I can recommend Mark Gardener's Myspace (ex-Ride) for his new tracks. And if you are really desperate, my hobby band Elephant Thursday has a site there too. PS Now the Bunnymen - I want to be there when you come. | ||
| Guy Ewald Member Username: Guy_ewald Post Number: 89 Registered: 02-2005 |
I would agree that Mercury Rev have lost the plot. Deserter's Songs was quite wonderful to my ears, but it's been diminishing returns with the two since. Their last album was almost unlistenable to me... a nougaty pile-up of keyboards. It sounded like Gary Wright fer chrissakes! 'Hedda Gabler' is probably the last song Cale recorded that I really loved - it was from a 3-song EP - and it's very much of-a-piece with albums like Helen of Troy. I'm not sure what else is on that Rhino set, but his music wouldn't necessarily benefit from the anthology approach. He changed a lot from album to album. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 149 Registered: 08-2004 |
Padraig, would that be Zaireeka? | ||
| gareth w Member Username: Gareth Post Number: 32 Registered: 05-2005 |
I agree that Mercury Rev has lost it a little. ‘Deserters Songs’ is magnificent from start to finish but as much as I try to like the last one I just can’t. The production is too overblown for them (although the bass playing is great) and the songs just aren’t there for me anymore. As a general rule I lose interest in a band when they start singing about ‘The Lord of the Rings’ and that rule came into force on this record. On the weekend I picked up George Harrison’s ‘All Things Must Pass’ and can’t stop playing it. What a great record. Even like the jams at the end. My favourite post-Beatles album by a Beatle I think. | ||
| Guy Ewald Member Username: Guy_ewald Post Number: 91 Registered: 02-2005 |
Were you unfamiliar with All Things Must Pass? It is a formidable album. The production always comes under attack, but I've concluded that a straight, reverb-less recording wouldn't have had the cohesion of ATMP. It really glues the thing together. | ||
| gareth w Member Username: Gareth Post Number: 33 Registered: 05-2005 |
I was. My post-Beatles records have been confined to McCartney and Lennon's stuff. I like 'Flowers in the Dirt' and 'Chaos and Creation...' a lot though. I'm still playing 'Chaos...' which has surprised me. I'm holding out for the Travelling Willburies Vol1 to come out this year. A great lost album in my opinion. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 154 Registered: 05-2005 |
"Mention Lord Of The Rings once more and I'll more than likely kill you" - Half Man Half Biscuit. Not Zaireeka Jerry. The one in 1999 that everyone raved about (bar me). | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 44 Registered: 05-2005 |
I got onto "All Things Must Pass" when Steve Kilbey was raving about it in an interview for a sunday paper in 1980, shortly after the Unguarded Moment came out. I know the year precisely because I also bought Devo's "Freedom of Choice" at the same time. Guess which one I still play(?!) although I still have a soft spot for the other! Try playing "All things must pass" on sunday mornings...perfect!!!! Gareth, I too am still playing "Chaos..". Surely "Follow me" ranks well above a lot of things he has done. So simple, so short and yet so great! | ||
| Michael Leach Member Username: Mike_l Post Number: 11 Registered: 05-2005 |
I also love the Triffids - Treeless Plain is probably the best debut album by an OZ band, IMHO (though I know there were many tapes beforehand etc). Never saw them live, but saw David McComb solo around 94, I think. A laid back, low key, but engaging show. Ive got (no, actually, I had) all the albums. Never liked Black Swan much, sold it - but Treeless Plain is, in my opinion, something you should definitely buy if you dont own it. In the Pines and BSD next in line - and the Raining Pleasure EP next. Now - speaking of lost singles, triffids early "beautiful waste" is one of the finest australian love songs of all time. really captures those swooning, fleeting moments of first love. You can get it on their best of - Ive got the original single, but it cost me. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 163 Registered: 03-2005 |
Pete, the Plug Uglies antho I have carries a 2005 copyright date so I'm sure it's the same one. It is on Laughing Outlaw Records. They have a website www.laughingoutlaw.com.au. The catalogue number is LORICS-002. There are 19 tracks. My blundering into it was pure dumb glorious luck and great credit to Donat and whoever else on here gave them a recommendation so that I would recognize the name. I agree that "Treeless Plain" is a terrific collection of songs but I've never felt like it held together as one album. It seems to pull so many disparate things together making it hard to figure out what the Triffids were all about at the time. I'd love to hear the earlier cassette things. I didn't know "Raining Pleasure" is an EP. Maybe that's why I can't find it on CD. | ||
| Michael Leach Member Username: Mike_l Post Number: 12 Registered: 05-2005 |
Yeah Randy, I had to track that EP down over the net through 2nd hand record stores. Its worth the effort though. "Embedded" is on it - one of my fave Triffids tracks. re: the earlier cassette things - Come on Wminc! There's legion of us here who'll buy it. Ill buy two myself. I downloaded an early (Lee Remick inspired, Id say) Triffids track called MGM - which is just great! If the rest of the stuff is half as good it'll be a real joy. | ||
| Peter Azzopardi Member Username: Pete Post Number: 139 Registered: 09-2004 |
Thanks for the info Randy. I've been steadily wearing out my Johnny Panic 12" for the past year now, anticipating this. | ||
| Wilson Davey Member Username: Wilson Post Number: 7 Registered: 05-2005 |
My I tunes selection is playing, Alone again or by LOVE, Emerald by Thin Lizzy (Riff-ola!)is next Just had Dedicated to the one I love by Mamas & Papas and Somewhere only we know by Keane... | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 169 Registered: 03-2005 |
Yeah, Pete, Johnny Panic" is really something. Though the liner notes don't say I assume it's about their guitarist who had offed himself; a profound lament. The CD is a great collection of material all the way through. I listened to it again today, along with the Belle & Sebastian album. |