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kevin
Member Username: Kevin
Post Number: 145 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Friday, March 10, 2006 - 09:11 pm: | |
Time to start a fresh thread methinks Magazine - Rays and Hail (compilation) Tom Verlaine - Tom Verlaine The Fall - A sides 458489 (compilation) Swell Maps - Trip to Marineville |
Peter Azzopardi
Member Username: Pete
Post Number: 148 Registered: 09-2004
| Posted on Saturday, March 11, 2006 - 04:14 am: | |
Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins - Rabbit Fur Coat Cat Power - The Greatest Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood So nice to be buying new music once more. |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 186 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Saturday, March 11, 2006 - 05:32 am: | |
At this very moment: Power Of Dreams - 100 Ways To Kill A Love. And suddenly I'm 23 again and it feels great! |
Graham Twyford
Member Username: Graham_twyford
Post Number: 38 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Saturday, March 11, 2006 - 08:44 am: | |
Hey Pádraig - I used to love a Power of Dreams song. I think it was called 'She's Gone' or something like that. Is that on the album? I'd love to hear it again - I never actually bought any of their stuff as I was 16/17 and broke! |
spence
Member Username: Spence
Post Number: 207 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Saturday, March 11, 2006 - 09:26 am: | |
Julian Cope - World Shut Your Mouth Witness - Before the calm McCarthy - I am a wallet Biff Bang Pow - the girl who runs the beat hotel Felt - the Pictorial Jackson Review |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 189 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Saturday, March 11, 2006 - 09:29 am: | |
Graham, there's no song called She's Gone but I'm sure it's in one of the lyrics. Their entire first album is about heartbreak. I assume that Craig Walker was making most of it up as he was only 19 at time. That's too young to have through so much turmoil! |
Wilson Davey
Member Username: Wilson
Post Number: 45 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Saturday, March 11, 2006 - 04:43 pm: | |
Creation Compilation LP - "It's different for domeheads", The Loft - Up the hill and down the slope 12" was on earlier This all started because my 19 year old daughter is leaving home today and I told her she was born with the John Peel show playing in the background. The tune JP played to open the show ? "Naked as the day you were born" by the Weather Prophets ! |
Wilson Davey
Member Username: Wilson
Post Number: 46 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Saturday, March 11, 2006 - 04:46 pm: | |
Kevin, The Fall "A sides" comp is cool. Cruisers, cruisers, CRUISERS ! dang dang DAAANG ! |
spence
Member Username: Spence
Post Number: 216 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Saturday, March 11, 2006 - 07:49 pm: | |
Mayflower by The Weather Prophets was a great album, very underrated. I saw them support Go betweens on Tallulah tour, the guitars were very Television. The Rockingbirds were great too. |
jerry hann
Member Username: Jerry_h
Post Number: 74 Registered: 07-2005
| Posted on Friday, March 17, 2006 - 10:39 am: | |
As said before The Rockingbirds are the greatest band never to make it in Nashville. Probably because they come from Norwich/London.In fact Alan Tyler the singer had a solo LP a few years ago which was good and has a good website with some of his latest works on, I emailed him a year or so back and was gracious in replying. The eels blinking lIghts and belle and Sebastians latest |
abigail law
Member Username: Abigail
Post Number: 50 Registered: 06-2005
| Posted on Friday, March 17, 2006 - 11:00 am: | |
got the neil diamond 12 songs album yesterday - on one listen i kind of liked it but lost interest half way through. i think it has grower potential though. i also dug out bandwagonesque for the first time in years and gave that a spin - still excellent |
kevin
Member Username: Kevin
Post Number: 156 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Friday, March 17, 2006 - 03:51 pm: | |
aphex twin - chosen lords morrissey - ringleader of the tormentors (both the above were copied to CD by a friend, not released yet) Hip hop essentials Vol 12 drive-by truckers - a blessing and a curse john cale/eno - the wrong way up |
gareth w
Member Username: Gareth
Post Number: 49 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Friday, March 17, 2006 - 04:05 pm: | |
Kevin, what's the Morrissey album like? Thought the single was very poor - morrissey by numbers. |
kevin
Member Username: Kevin
Post Number: 157 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Friday, March 17, 2006 - 04:28 pm: | |
only heard it once so far gareth - sounded pretty lush, strings on some tracks. not a rock n roll album thats for sure. going to play it in the car, always find thats the best way to get to know a knew album quickly because you hear it so often. will post back tomorrow about what i think of it |
kevin
Member Username: Kevin
Post Number: 210 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Thursday, March 23, 2006 - 08:10 pm: | |
gareth , i think i can pass an opinion on the Morrissey album now. there are quite a few big ballads on this, particularly "dear god, please help me" and "life is a pigsty". a few of the tracks have childrens backing vocals, although they dont sing in a cutesy way but in a menacing way that is similar to Another brick in the wall. While clearly not in the class of Vauxhall and I it is probably better than You are the Quarry. a feature of the album is Tony Viscontis production, quite an emphasis on strings, not many up beat songs. Hopefully more listens will reveal this album to be better than I think it is - eg a pedestrian Morrissey by numbers record. If I was marking it in a Pitchfork style I would give it 6.3 out of 10 |
kevin
Member Username: Kevin
Post Number: 211 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Thursday, March 23, 2006 - 08:21 pm: | |
Destroyer - Streethawk: a seduction Drive-by Truckers - A Blessing And A Curse Aphex Twin - Chosen Lords (early candidate for album of the year) Robert Forster - Danger in The Past The Winnebago Orchestra - Motor Cycle Angel (Spence, love that electronic percussive sound right at the start. It reminded me very much of that intro to Scritti's The Sweetest Girl - is it deliberate? Carolines vocals are tremendous by the way) |
spence
Member Username: Spence
Post Number: 260 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Thursday, March 23, 2006 - 08:32 pm: | |
Thanks Kev, really appreciate your comment. The rhythm machine sound was a comprimise. We were going to try for a muffled EQ type thing, like on Madonna's last single!! Best way I can describe it! Sorry. But then it took on this slow phased sound, and it felt ok, stops it being too slick a tune. It was the hardest song to produce off the whole album. I am listening to Blue Aeroplanes - Swagger Deluxe CD Blue Aeroplanes - Janice Long session (and didn't get back until 5am!) War of the worlds soundtrack Paul Haig's - Myspace site Shack - Here's Tom with the weather |
Jeff Whiteaker
Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker
Post Number: 220 Registered: 10-2004
| Posted on Thursday, March 23, 2006 - 08:34 pm: | |
Kirsty Maccoll - Kite (not a bad album, with lot's of nice guitar by Johnny Marr all over it) XTC - Apple Venus and Nonsuch Pylon - Chomp Tones on Tail - Pop By the way, Spence - nice list! |
Kurt Stephan
Member Username: Slothbert
Post Number: 200 Registered: 04-2005
| Posted on Thursday, March 23, 2006 - 10:31 pm: | |
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say... (I gave in to the hype. And so far, I like it--it gets a bit samey at times, but at their best, they're great...especially on "A Certain Romance.") Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth (Found this used a day or two ago--amazingly, I've never owned my own copy. Glad to have it.) Cat Power - The Greatest (I want to dismiss her, but she's always good for two or three tracks on an album that make that impossible.) Note: this was a somewhat gratuitous post, as I really wanted to hit post #200 today. |
jerry hann
Member Username: Jerry_h
Post Number: 89 Registered: 07-2005
| Posted on Friday, March 24, 2006 - 03:37 pm: | |
Kinks-double compilation-Klassic Kinks. I know I shouldn't buy compilations ( i borke my own rule to buy this)but Its got all the singles on and Its really great! |