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     spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 92 Registered: 05-2005 |
Thought the other thread was getting a bit long... so, for me I have been mostly spinning: James Roberts - Everything you know is right CD album Josef K - Endless Souc CD comp Massive Attack - Mezzanine CD album The Pale Fountains - Pacific Street CD album UB4o - Signing Off CD album | ||
| jerry hann Member Username: Jerry_h Post Number: 53 Registered: 07-2005 |
The Kinks-another one by the kinks. tomorrow will be time to dig out my old triffids LPs and give BYBO another listen | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 96 Registered: 05-2005 |
big youth - screaming target mogwai - mr beast flaming lips - at war with the mystics john cale - helen of troy outkast - stankonia nick cave - murder ballads underworld - dubbnobasswithmyheadman | ||
| Graham Twyford Member Username: Graham_twyford Post Number: 31 Registered: 05-2005 |
Vashti Bunyan - Lookaftering Marion - This World and Body Engine Alley - A Sonic Holiday | ||
| abigail law Member Username: Abigail Post Number: 36 Registered: 06-2005 |
The Durutti Column - Someone Else's Party Byrds - Notorious Byrd Brothers Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 6, 'Pathétique' Triffids - Born Sandy Devotional | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 150 Registered: 08-2004 |
Bob Dylan - Oh Mercy Belle & Sebastian - The Boy With The Arab Strap Depeche Mode - A Broken Frame White Stripes - Elephant Talk Talk - Colour Of Spring Morrissey - Kill Uncle | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 93 Registered: 05-2005 |
Graham is that Marion the group from Manchester a few year ago, is it on CD if it is? | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 99 Registered: 05-2005 |
.... oh and Grandaddy - Waiting for the Fambly Cat | ||
| Wilson Davey Member Username: Wilson Post Number: 1 Registered: 05-2005 |
Ron Sexsmith - Other Songs | ||
| Stephen Harris Member Username: Smh Post Number: 18 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jam - Sound Affects (still sounds great) Pavement - Terror Twighlight (still not up to much) GoB's - BYBO (ditto) Gob's - Live Tivoli (lovely) Clap Yr Hands... - Black Session (on my first listen) | ||
| gareth w Member Username: Gareth Post Number: 35 Registered: 05-2005 |
The magic of the ipod has thrown up ‘Rumour and Sigh’ by Richard Thompson once again. Had forgotten how good this was – a great 3 song opener if ever there was one and ‘Vincent Black Lightening 1952’ is always a joy to hear. Any Thompson fans here care to recommend some of his other albums? | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 136 Registered: 04-2005 |
Gareth, where to start? For people who are mainly into RT because of "Rumor and Sigh," I'd recommend "Amnesia" over his other Mitchell Froom-produced albums. "The Old Kit Bag" from a few years ago is excellent, better than any of his solo albums since "R & S." Going further back in his catalog, try "Hand of Kindness." And if you haven't heard Richard and Linda Thompson's albums, "Shoot Out the Lights," "Pour Down Like Silver," and "I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight" are the essentials. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 111 Registered: 05-2005 |
Played The DB's today - Repercussion XTC - English Settlement ( a bit long though) Blaine L Reininger - Night Air Yo La Tengo - Prisoners of love and finally for today Sugar - Copper Blue | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 100 Registered: 05-2005 |
LCD Soundsystem - Introns Secret Machines - Ten Silver Drops Liars - Drums Not Dead Joe Gibbs Productions Big Star - In Space (the half dozen good songs!) | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 113 Registered: 05-2005 |
no one likes this thread! the other one takes a year to scroll thru! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 161 Registered: 05-2005 |
Easy Spence. Build it; and they will come. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 171 Registered: 03-2005 |
Yeah, sorry. There was still unfinished business with Pete concerning the Plug Uglies on that one and I forgot this one. Last night I listened to the Blue Aeroplanes' "friendloverplane." On its second and a half listening, I'd say about one half of the tracks were quite good. | ||
| jerry hann Member Username: Jerry_h Post Number: 55 Registered: 07-2005 |
The Eels-Blinking Lights, had this for ages but some how felt intimidated by its 2 cd disc status, but going at it in stages I've been really impressed and can't wait to play it again.I've always felt Mark Everett was trying to be a bit too much like Tom Waits (vocally ) but he's a real talent. Also listened againto BYBO and really enjoyed it much more now than when it first came out, I flet the songs had little drama or change in pace and a bit too jangly but I was wrong. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 116 Registered: 05-2005 |
Glad you like it Randy, I was touring with them a lot around that period, 86-88 and a lot of the stuff on friendloverplane were studio outtakes etc, but some hidden gems like Warhols 15, Etiquette and veils of colour. There's a lot of the experimental stuff too. A year later though they had changed into something very very different. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 117 Registered: 05-2005 |
Deus have CD entitled Pocket Revolution which is excellent, a real underrated group. | ||
| peter ward Member Username: Peter_ward Post Number: 4 Registered: 06-2005 |
Bell X1 - Flock Isobell Cambell/Mark Lanegan - Ballad of Broken Seas M83 - Before the Dawn Heals Us Richard Hawley - Cole's Corner Heard a Guillemots song on the radio during the week that sounded really good.."Train To Brazil" they're playing Dublin on Sunday night..anybody seen them play? | ||
| Graham Twyford Member Username: Graham_twyford Post Number: 34 Registered: 05-2005 |
Spence - I think Marion were actually from Macclesfield but I'm sure they're who you were thinking of. I actually only have that album on cassette which is obviously a pain. Record shops in Germany aren't exactly flooded with 'This World and Body' on CD. That album unfortunately came out in early 1996 when if you weren't poppy clever-clever scenesters like Oasis, Blur or Pulp you didn't really fit. If Marion had released 'This World and Body' last year I'm sure they'd be huge. But unfortunately they didn't. So the best guitar album released by any British band in 1995 / 1996 remains a mostly ignored classic...a dubious honour indeed. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 101 Registered: 05-2005 |
Mogwai - Mr Beast Hiphop essentials vol6 Gregory Isaacs - Lonely Lover Smiths - Strangeways Here We Come(the band are correct, this is their best album) Wire - 154 | ||
| Peter Senning Member Username: Peter_senning Post Number: 13 Registered: 05-2005 |
Harper Lee - Go Back to Bed Harper Lee - Train Not Stopping (EP) I strongly recommend anyone with the slightest affection for the Go-Betweens to check out Harper Lee. Samples are available at http://www.indiepages.com//matinee/catalog/cd009.html | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 103 Registered: 05-2005 |
drive by truckers - a blessing and a curse burning spear - farover green on red - gas,food,lodging miles davis - 'round about midnight wolfe tones - spirit of the nation | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 164 Registered: 08-2004 |
Go-B's - Live At Mcabes '88 Pixies - Doolittle | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 141 Registered: 04-2005 |
Luna - Rendezvous Ridiculous lyrics, beautiful guitar interplay and tones. Pretty much the perfect Luna album. | ||
| Matt Ellis Member Username: Matt_ellis Post Number: 58 Registered: 11-2004 |
Graham, Re: Marion. I never thought about it like that before but I agree about the Marion album. It could have been huge like the Snow Patrol Album was two years ago. Funny how this album has been mentioned a few times on this board - they were never huge. I remember about 3 people picked it for one of their top albums of all time (including me). I saw them at Reading 1996 and they were very good live. One day I will have to listen to their follow up (and last album) The Program (produced by Johnny Marr). I think it's cool that ex-Marion guitarist/keyboard player Phil Cunningham is now more or less a permanent member of New Order. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 129 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jerry, what's the GB's live at Mcabes? is it tape? Also, re close shaves, Geneva were a great band on Suede's label nude, and Whipping Boy... | ||
| jerry hann Member Username: Jerry_h Post Number: 58 Registered: 07-2005 |
Gorillaz Demon Days | ||
| just maisie Member Username: Maisie Post Number: 1 Registered: 02-2006 |
Today's listening: Destroyer - This Night (so-so) The Wrens - The Meadowlands (great) David Bowie - Diamond Dogs (he'll go far) BBC Radio 4 - The Archers (has anyone heard Jade speak yet?) m. | ||
| Michael D Member Username: Michael_d Post Number: 8 Registered: 06-2005 |
Picked up Jenny Lewis (of Rilo Kiey) and the Watson Twins; Rabbit Fur Coat on the weekend, lovley country pop. | ||
| Matt Ellis Member Username: Matt_ellis Post Number: 60 Registered: 11-2004 |
Beth Orton - Comfort In Strangers (going to see her tomorrow) Peter, I saw Guillemots last month in London. I thought they were so, so. Nice to hear and see female double bass player. It didn't help that the venue was jam packed and the two support bands were amongst the worst I have ever heard. I'd like to hear the Guillemots album before I pass judgement. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 165 Registered: 05-2005 |
I saw Marion live at the Feile festival in Cork in 1995 and thought they were great. Stone Roses, Orbital and Tricky were also great that weekend. And Nick Cave came on during Kylie's set to play Where The Wild Roses Grow; but I missed it as I was definitely not watching Ms Minogue. | ||
| B. Rider Member Username: Boundary_rider Post Number: 25 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins: Rabbit Fur Coat Neil Diamond: 12 Songs Flatlanders: More a Legend than a Band Bobby Bare: The Moon was Down | ||
| jerry hann Member Username: Jerry_h Post Number: 61 Registered: 07-2005 |
The Flatlander are great one of my favourite records-not got it on CD though is it available B.Rider? Also whats the Neil Diamond like? is it as good as the hype | ||
| Graham Twyford Member Username: Graham_twyford Post Number: 35 Registered: 05-2005 |
Matt - 'The Program' is very good although I think Marion were already in the mire at that point (singer Jaime Harding's drug problems). If I recall, it got good reviews but was promptly delayed for 12 months due to contractual problems which didn't help. Unfortunately they didn't get as far as a 3rd album... Pádraig I saw a lot of Feile on TV - couldn't make it in person. My abiding memory is of Dustin interviewing Kylie. And liking Sleeper. God help me! Spence - Whipping Boy have reformed recently. I saw them in Ireland over Christmas and they were brilliant as ever. I'd love to hear a new album. 'Heartworm' was a ferociously brilliant album - the best Irish album of all time in my opinion. | ||
| B. Rider Member Username: Boundary_rider Post Number: 26 Registered: 05-2005 |
Flatlanders is on CD, Jerry. I bought it online a while back (can't remember where from though). Rounder Records reissued it. The Diamond album is dividing people. I love it; the kitsch has been stripped away and what is left is a strong set of songs and performances. In places it's quite stark and intimate but in others melodic and joyous. The bloke writes a cracking tune. Gets better with each listen too. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 132 Registered: 05-2005 |
Yeah Marion were name dropped by MORRISSEY and they looked like Suede circa 'Coming Up'. Its all coming back to me now. Whipping Boy I think were so understated, it was the wrong time for their simplicity, and them in general. Graham, look forward to their new release one day perhaps? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 167 Registered: 05-2005 |
Spence, Whipping Boy were anything but understated and simple! | ||
| Matt Ellis Member Username: Matt_ellis Post Number: 61 Registered: 11-2004 |
I think all three of Whipping Boys Albums are brilliant..yes I'm not an expert on Irish music, but in my humble opinion 'Heartworm' is the best Irish album of all time followed by any record by The Frank And Walters and then 'On The Turn' by Kerbdog! I can see a simplistic, down to earth honesty in Whipping Boy's lyrics but I would think the singer Ferghal McKee is anything but simplistic. Just listen to the lyrics of 'A Natural' they aren't autobiographical but they distrubed me for a very long time. I've been on a Whipping Boy fan mailing list for about five years. Apparently McKee was a cook in a hospital in Dublin after a string of appearances in various Irish bands before Whipping Boy reformed. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 134 Registered: 05-2005 |
yeah you are right, I like the simplistic arrangements of the music, more than the simplistic approach of the singer...I felt that their music was understated, there were no real structures fighting for attention just an anaesthetic drone that sucked you in, no real guitar solos or owt... | ||
| David Needs Member Username: Joe Post Number: 1 Registered: 02-2006 |
Currently listening to the new "Comes With A Smile" Magazine cover CD. Up to the usual high standards with rare tracks from Gravenhurst, The New Pornographers, rivulets and Spoon. Shame its the final issue... Back issues with CDs are often selling on E-Bay for over £30 each so hopefully this'll be an investment. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 169 Registered: 08-2004 |
Last Night : Bowie - Low Dylan - Highway 61 The Editors - The Back Room Portishead - Dummy Depeche Mode - Construction Time Again The Zutons - Who Killed The Zutons | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 170 Registered: 08-2004 |
Spence, it's one I got from dimeadozen. They perform as a trio, RF GM & AB. It's very good quality. It omits You're A Big Girl Now from the same show that's on the 16LL bonus disc. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 116 Registered: 05-2005 |
Just dug out Heartworm by The Whipping Boy, just curious to see what it sounded like after all these years. I remember playing it a lot when it came out, and even though its probably been 10 yrs since I heard it the songs sounded reasonably familiar. However, I thought it sounded pretty weak to be honest, one track (We dont need nobody else) even sounded like Blue Aeroplanes. Sorry, but dont think I will be playing this again Listening to Various - More Pressure, Straight to the Head Grandaddy - Whatever happened to the Fambly Cat Liars - Drums not Dead Teardrop Explodes - Kilimanjaro Drive By Truckers - A blessing and a curse | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 119 Registered: 05-2005 |
Wire - 154 Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen Smiths - Hatful of Hollow Sugar Minott - The Roots Lover Johnny Cash - American Recordings | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 138 Registered: 05-2005 |
Sorry mate but the Blue Aeroplanes are anything but weak!!! | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 120 Registered: 05-2005 |
you mean whipping boy spence? blue aeroplanes swagger is certainly not weak | ||
| peter ward Member Username: Peter_ward Post Number: 5 Registered: 06-2005 |
Whipping Boy are playing Vicar Street in Dublin on April 29th for anyone who may be interested. From recent interviews they are just playing these comeback shows but have no plans at the moment to record again. http://www.gamerseurope.com/whippingboy/downloads.htm The above links to all their recorded output except Heartworm, including rarities and live stuff for people who like weak blue aeroplanes!!! Try the self titled last album from 2000 Kevin, its more lo-fi than Heartworm as it was recorded on a shoestring in comparison, has some great songs on it including my favourite "Ghosts Of Elvis" which was one of the highlights of their Christmas Show. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 172 Registered: 05-2005 |
Thanks for the link Peter. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 153 Registered: 05-2005 |
As many Trojan box sets as I can get through today in snowy England... | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 50 Registered: 05-2005 |
Remote Area Nurse soundtrack by David Bridie, Blurred Crusade to Persia ep by the Church, Byrds Mr Tambourine Man, Cold and the Crackle - Not Drowning Waving, the Earlies | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 173 Registered: 05-2005 |
Whipping Boy! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 174 Registered: 05-2005 |
Albert Namatjira by Not Drowning Waving is one of my favourite ever songs Geoff. | ||
| Wilson Davey Member Username: Wilson Post Number: 22 Registered: 05-2005 |
Roger McGuinn - "Silver Dagger" off the UNCUT March 06 Playlist CD. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 125 Registered: 05-2005 |
loose fur - reborn in the usa yeahyeahyeahs - show your bones flaming lips - at war with the mystics lou reed - new york slim smith - keep your love light shining | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 51 Registered: 05-2005 |
Padraig, I love Not drowning waving and only really rediscovered them after hearing the RAN sampler in "the Australian" in January. Tabaran is one of my fave albums...Call across the Highlands is SOOOO atmospheric. You don't happen to have "Another Pond" and the fabulous "Little Desert" on C.D. by the way??? I guess David Bridie couldn't winge too if they were burnt since they are deleted items now. I have both on L.P. of course but don't have a record player anymore. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 172 Registered: 08-2004 |
Kevin, how's Show Your Bones, YYY's have changed a bit, judging by Gold Lion? | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 128 Registered: 05-2005 |
Havent heard the album enough to make a judgement Jerry. Early impressions are that its tougher sounding, although Gold Lion is a brave opener given that it shows the bands gentler side. I'll give it a good listen later on and let you know what I think | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 175 Registered: 05-2005 |
Hi Geoff, no, I don't have thoese albums. I only have one NDW album. I think they have a best of compilation though, which I must get. (A double CD as far as I recall). I got that RAN sampler with The Oz too and it also put me in mind of them! | ||
| Stephen Harris Member Username: Smh Post Number: 21 Registered: 05-2005 |
lots of Mogwai | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 176 Registered: 05-2005 |
I spent a lot of yesterday listening to my 4-year-old calling Central Coast Mariners fans "losers" after Sydney beat them in the A-League final! That's my girl! I knew taking her along was a good idea. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 164 Registered: 05-2005 |
I am playing Endless Soul by Josef K, then for all you bootleggers, I have a rehearsel tape of Orange Juice from 1982, where there's a conversation betwwen the members on why Peel thought one of them was a cun*! |