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     kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 254 Registered: 05-2005 |
Willard Grant Conspiracy - Let it Roll Drive-by Truckers - Decoration Day Art Brut - Bang Bang RocknRoll Centro-matic - Fort Recovery The Fall - Grotesque(after the gramme) | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 262 Registered: 03-2005 |
Most recent listens: Neko Case - "Fox Confessor" Salem 66 - "Your Soul is Mine, Fork it Over" Vic Chesnutt - "Silverlake" | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 224 Registered: 08-2004 |
Pulp - We Love Life Some random R.E.M. | ||
| Rob Robinson Member Username: Rsub8 Post Number: 49 Registered: 05-2005 |
Native Tongue - YOWL | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 95 Registered: 05-2005 |
Go Betweens!!!!!! Yoshimi battles the Pink Robots Seance Kinks David Sylvian | ||
| abigail law Member Username: Abigail Post Number: 62 Registered: 06-2005 |
i played life is a pigsty from the new morrissey album about a dozen times last night - the rest of the album didn't seem that great to me on first listen though plus brighter (old sarah records band) singles collection faith - the cure | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 42 Registered: 01-2006 |
Loose Fur - Born again in the USA The Best of John Fahey 1958 to 1977 | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 68 Registered: 04-2005 |
Spooky coincidences on the John Fahey. How many people in the world can be listening to him at the same time? John Fahey 'I Remember Blind Joe Death' King Creosote 'KC Rules' (maybe not 100% brilliant, but some lovely stuff) Nick Drake outtakes, bits + pieces downloaded. Just to remind myself what beauty there is in his music and especially his guitar playing. Only drawback is hearing him speak and realise that he sounded just like a young Price Charles. Anyway, James Blunt hang your head in shame, for having used the 'singer-songwriter' title. | ||
| jerry hann Member Username: Jerry_h Post Number: 100 Registered: 07-2005 |
Neil Diamond ( real grower) Artic Monkeys ( again) | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 308 Registered: 05-2005 |
On a purely selfish level, a batch of acoustic ideas for the new Winnebago Orchestra CD out next year! I'm really pleased with them. Its nice feeling that, knowing when its reached the, ok I ain't gonna rewrite this shit any longer... Oh, and been listenming to an artist in States a friend of mine called Particle Dots, http://www.myspace.com/particledots and I been loving Mermaid Avenue volumes by Bragg and Wilco. XY what's the Loose fur stuff like? Jerry, Neil's album is supposed to be great? | ||
| jerry hann Member Username: Jerry_h Post Number: 101 Registered: 07-2005 |
Spence Neil's LP is good I listened to it whilst doing some decorating and really liked what I heard,It has had good write-ups but as you know that doesn't always mean its any good. I can't remeber the songs in detail as I've only listended to it a couple of times but it is one on those albums which you want to put on again and probably has hidden trasures to keep you going playing. After getting it I didn't listen to it for a week or so as couldn't find it only to find that my wife had borrowed it. Its not bombastic like you would expect him but acoustic guitar well crafted songs and sensitive production. I'm not really been into him befoer only liking Johnny Cash's version of Solitary Man. Hope that helps Spence | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 238 Registered: 08-2004 |
Yesterday: Liberty Belle & bonus The White Stripes - White Blood Cells Rolling Stones - Aftermath (US version) Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure Interpol - Antics & some of my '80's party playlist, bliss. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Nemo Post Number: 18 Registered: 07-2005 |
The Widdershins - Good Songs ( 1987 - 1989 ) Formed in 1987 in Sydney, Australia, after the demise of The Lighthouse Keepers, this nineteen track retrospective collects together all of the bands vinyl releases ( singles, compilation album track, mini album, album ) on c.d. for the first time. | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 43 Registered: 01-2006 |
Spence, the new Loose Fur album seems stronger and better overall than the first one, Loose Fur, which I thought a bit disjointed and too short. I'm a big fan of Jeff Tweedy and I prefer his contributions to Jim O'Rourke's. Having said that the album works very well with the two singers and it flows very well as a result. Definitely more cohesion to this album than the first one. Quite a different sound to the album compared to a lot of stuff around at the moment. I'm no good at describing music so I'll leave it at that. The Jeff Twedy tracks 'Hot Chicken' and 'The Ruling Class' are really excellent, especially the latter...great lyrics in that song as well.."So son you better turn around/ Yeah Christ is on his way across town/ He was getting tired of hanging around/ Yeah he's back Jack smoking crack find him if you want to be found." | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 248 Registered: 04-2005 |
Gang of Four - Entertainment! Saint Etienne - Good Humour Bettie Serveert - Log 22 And probably lots of PiL, Joy Division, Wire, Young Marble Giants, etc., soon because I'm reading "Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984" by Simon Reynolds. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 281 Registered: 03-2005 |
Hugh: tell us something about what the Widdershins sound like. The antho you have sounds like a really nice mop-up operation. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Nemo Post Number: 19 Registered: 07-2005 |
Randy, The Widdershins were formed by Greg Appel and Juliet Ward in 1987, a year or so after their previous band The Lighthouse Keepers disbanded. Their sound is a quirky mix of pop, rock, country, folk and even blues with lots of chiming/jangling guitar ( 12 string?) Appel is the main songwriter while Ward, who is the lead singer, has a very distinctive vocal sound which, to my ears, is quite husky, quavering and nasal. The album has just been released here in the U.K. on a small label ( Egg Records ) based in Glasgow which is about 30 miles from where I live. I have only listened to it a few times so far but I have to say it is growing on me with each play. I was a fan of The Lighthouse Keepers and own a copy of their album ‘Tales Of The Unexpected’ which was released on Hot Records back in 1984. I lost track of them when they disbanded in 1986 ( no Internet in those days ) and only became aware of The Widdershins late last year when the owner of Egg Records posted details of future releases on his website. If, like me, you enjoy listening to and collecting music by Australian bands of the era then it is indeed a nice package. That said, although it does collect all their vinyl releases, there are two songs from a unreleased 1990 single which they could not find space for on the disc. They are, however, available for download. Check out the following website where you can listen to four samples of their work ( around 60 seconds each.) www.eggrecords.co.uk In addition, if you click on ‘Links’ on the Egg Records website you will see ‘links’ to websites dedicated to The Lighthouse Keeper/The Widdershins run by Roger Griffen. Hope this helps. Let me know what you think. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 294 Registered: 03-2005 |
Thanks a whole lot, Hugh. I just mentioned this subject on another thread. I will be checking this out. And, yeah, I have kind of a weird thing for Oz music. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Nemo Post Number: 21 Registered: 07-2005 |
Randy, Jim Kavanagh who runs Egg Records also has a thing about Australian bands. He has already released some stuff ( The Palisades from Perth and Lets Go Naked from Brisbane ) with more to follow this year ( Even As We Speak; Lets Go Naked; The Lighthouse Keepers.) The Palisades album is a compilation of tracks recorded between 1986 and 1986 and there is a distinct nod to the early work of their compatriots The Church in some of the tracks ( The Old Poet; Night In Gale.) | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 104 Registered: 05-2005 |
I think you'll find that the Church had a lot to answer for with a lot of Australian "underground" 80's music Hugh. Even INXS jangle rocked at one point (This Time). | ||
| C Gull Member Username: C_gull Post Number: 25 Registered: 05-2005 |
Fall - Complete Peel Sessions Fall- Fall Heads Roll Mark Kermode's Film Reviews podcast Field Music Botany Sessions | ||
| David Matheson Member Username: David_matheson Post Number: 78 Registered: 12-2004 |
I saw the Lighthouse Keepers shortly before they broke up and still remember the gig fondly. There is a double CD called Lipsnipegroin that I think includes all their vinyl releases. However, I bought it and returned it to two different places because the copies I bought contained only the first disc. Fortunately I eventually found a copy with both discs. What I'm listening to at the moment: Johnny Cash Leonard Cohen The Go-Betweens Kate Bush Joe Jackson Split Enz | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Nemo Post Number: 22 Registered: 07-2005 |
Geoff, I have no doubt you are correct. My problem is a lack of knowledge of the scene as, being a U.K. resident, I had limited access to Australian music back then. I picked up on various bands who managed to release albums in Europe ( The Church; Go-Betweens; The Triffids; The Apartments; The Lighthouse Keepers; Ups & Downs together with a lot of Flying Nun artists ) but no doubt missed out on many others whose records did not make it across. David, I came across the 'Lipsnipegroin' release by the Lighthouse Keepers several days ago and a copy is currently on route to me. You have me worried now and I just hope my set contains both discs. I had been waiting for the Egg Records release but I believe it will only be a 'Best Of' on a single c.d. which makes 'Lipsnipegroin' the more attractive package. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 291 Registered: 05-2005 |
drive by truckers - a blessing and a curse morrissey - ringleader of the tormentors calexico - garden ruin (their best album imho) comsat angels - sleep no more bob marley and the wailers - the complete upsetter singles | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 276 Registered: 05-2005 |
Just finished listening to a Sufjan Stevens album called Seven Swans. First time I played it. It's really good. Lyrics are a bit too religious for my liking, but lovely melodies. I think it's his debut, but I won't swear on it (no pun intended). Sun Kil Moon's Ghosts Of The Great Highway is on now. A really wonderful record. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 297 Registered: 05-2005 |
Padraig, Seven Swans is the second album. The first is called Greetings from Michigan and is highly recommended. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 298 Registered: 05-2005 |
Massive Attack - Collected. (Great compilation, although a bit light on the Horace Andy tracks for my liking. Could have done without the Sinead O'Barmy song) The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers (provided by a friend - on first listen its pretty riffy, 70s influenced rock -clocks in at 33 mins, only 10 tracks. brendan benson seems to handle most of the vocals, although Jack White can be heard prominently on backing vocs) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 281 Registered: 05-2005 |
Thanks Kevin. Yeah, I'd forgotten that he interrupted his US states collection with an out of state album. He should have called it Delaware or something. I love Brendan Benson's stuff and I really like White Stripes so I'm curious to hear what The Raconteurs sound like. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 305 Registered: 05-2005 |
yeah yeah yeahs - show your bones. somebody whose name i forget asked a few weeks ago what this was like and i said i would post back a few days later. sorry but i forgot, anyway this album is really resonating with me now. i think i said previously it has a very muscular sound, and that still holds true. the drumming is fantastic and for a band without a bass player they really kick up a great racket. highlights are Gold Lion, Turn Into, Dudley and Way Out. Nick Zinners guitar playing is very inventive, sometimes right in your face, at other times gentle and reflective. Karen O is pretty much Karen O and that is a compliment. Ghostface Killah- Fishscales. Hip hop can be interesting in 2006 George Jones - The Essential George Jones. Wonder if we would have had Dylan, Gram, Gene Clark and Ryan Adams etc without ol George? Well, definately Dylan I suppose  | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 250 Registered: 08-2004 |
That was me Kevin. I've got it myself, now & it wasn't quite the departure from their first album I was led to believe. Nothing wrong with that. George Jones & uncle Bob were both Stella drinkers according to reports. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 307 Registered: 05-2005 |
Really Jerry? I knew Dylan was a grumpy sod, but thats really hacked me off. still they say all geniuses have a dark side, probably what makes them geniuses i guess | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 251 Registered: 08-2004 |
John Cale - Fear I've just got The Raconteurs, one for later. It's something I've read about a couple of times on the subject of Dylan. It was a bit of a bad comment really, I should take it back. Is George Jones still alive? He's another who's written lot's of songs that have been huge & you'd never know they were his. Like Kris Kristofferson & Jimmy Webb. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 311 Registered: 05-2005 |
feb 14 - drive by truckers (could be the song to break them) | ||
| jerry hann Member Username: Jerry_h Post Number: 109 Registered: 07-2005 |
Richmond Fontane-the Fitzgerald-deep, dark but a cracker | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 306 Registered: 03-2005 |
The new Ray Davies. It's nice to see how much his voice is intact but not sure the music is standing out for me. Looking forward to pulling the wrap off Jens Lekman's "Oh you're so silent Jens" and Neko Case' "Furnace Room Lullaby." | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Nemo Post Number: 23 Registered: 07-2005 |
Randy, "Black Cab, Black Cab" ( Oh you're so silent Jens.) Currently listening to Everything. Now! by Pelle Carlberg who was formerly of Edson. Superb little album and something which might appeal to people who enjoy Jens Lekman. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 308 Registered: 03-2005 |
Hugh, if you love "Black Cab," run, don't walk to the nearest place you can find the Left Banke's first album or the excellent antho "There's Gonna Be A Storm." The harpsichord riff is sampled from "I've Got Something on My Mind." The whole bloody thing. It's peculiar that he credits the little sample from Belle & Sebastian's "Mary Jo" for that song but not Michael Brown's harpsichord from the Left Banke recording because it's virtually the entire song. If Jeff were on here right now we could sing "I've got something on my mind, it's no lie, I'm tellin' you why." Sing that to the harpsichord and you get the idea. Imagine it with gorgeous three-part Zombie-ish harmonies. So far I'm enjoying the Lekman collection but I don't really approve of sampling at all. Call me old fashioned but I think people should depend upon their own creativity. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 310 Registered: 03-2005 |
I finished my first listen to "Oh you're so silent Jens." I see that the string quartet intro to "Walk Away Renee" is the source of some of the strings on "Maple Leaves." I confess this cuts into my appreciation of Jens Lekman. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 312 Registered: 05-2005 |
tapes n tapes - the loon (pixies meets pavement) semifinalists - self titled lambchop - thriller/hank | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 334 Registered: 05-2005 |
Watched a great Gram Parsons show on bbc4 this evening, very good, and very sad, made great litsening. New Morrissey album and the UNCUT sampler. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Nemo Post Number: 24 Registered: 07-2005 |
Randy, you are taking me back to my youth. I'm showing my age now but I own an original vinyl copy of 'Walk Away Renee' issued on the Philips label back in 1967. In later years I picked up vinyl copies of Montage by Montage ( the re-issue on Bam Caruso in 1986 ) and 'And Suddenly It's' by The Left Banke ( Bam Caruso in 1988 ) together with the c.d. anthology 'There's Gonna Be A Storm.' It has been years since I last listened to them so I will look out 'There's Gonna Be A Storm' tomorrow and give it a play. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 311 Registered: 03-2005 |
Oh ok, Hugh, so you already knew. You are more forgiving than me. In my book you don't go poaching bits of Left Banke and get away with it. I've never heard Montage, only of. And to tell you the truth I've never even heard the Michael Brown Stories just because of the mental block created by "Brother Louie." Which I know makes no sense. I have to really thank Guy Ewald for reminding me to re-visit the Everlys. In fact I picked up a handful of reissues of their great mid-60s Warner Bros. albums and they're just like shooting up for me. I've always had "Two Yanks in England" but some of the other albums like "In Our Image" are just as good. Spence, was the Gram Parsons show done by a German guy? I saw one screened here in a theater during a film festival about 2 years ago. They even talked to one of his university counselors. It was indeed amazing and very poignant. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Nemo Post Number: 26 Registered: 07-2005 |
Randy, sorry for the confusion but I obviously didn't explain things very well in my earlier reply. Although familiar with the Left Banke it has been many years since I last listened to them and I did not pick up on the samples used by Lekman hence the reason I will be be listening to the tracks you mentioned sometime today. Currently listening to 'How I Learned To Write Backwards' by The Aislers Set ( which was mentioned by Jeff in another thread ) while trying to find my copy of 'There's Gonna Be A Storm.' | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 109 Registered: 05-2005 |
Some bought, some old, some burnt by friends Moo you bloody choir - Augie March What was left - Clare Bowditch Ringo 1978-1990 - Go Betweens Blood on the Tracks Harvest Moon At War with the Mystics - Flaming lips Uninvited like the Clouds - The Church (growing on me....like a fungus!) | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 254 Registered: 08-2004 |
The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers Radiohead - Pablo Honey The Clash -London Calling Rolling Stones - Out Of Our Heads New Order - Brotherhood Big Boi - Speakerbox | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 271 Registered: 04-2005 |
Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan - Ballad of the Broken Seas Shivaree - Breach EP John Coltrane - One Up, One Down: Live at the Half Note XTC - Oranges and Lemons Roxy Music - Country Life Stereolab - Margerine Eclipse | ||
| Hardin Smith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 286 Registered: 03-2006 |
Wussy - Funeral Dress Rolling Stones - Forty Licks Grant McLennan - Horsebreaker Star The Essential Sonny Rollins Ray Davies - Other People's LIves | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 315 Registered: 03-2005 |
Really love that Campbell/Lanegan thing. In fact it's got me on a Mark Lanegan exploration. Are the Screaming Trees any good? The sticker on one of their CDs had a description that didn't sit too well with me. It made it sound like they're metal. I hate metal. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 318 Registered: 05-2005 |
Grunge might be more accurate than metal Randy. All of Mark Lanegans albums are at worst good, in some cases extremely good. | ||
| mingus Member Username: Mingus Post Number: 37 Registered: 06-2005 |
CD reissue of the Comsat Angels "Waiting for a Miracle" literally straight out of the mail box... Steve Reid+Keiran Hebden (Fourtet) "Spirit Walk". The Hold Steady "Separation Sunday". John Cooper Clark "Snap Crackle Bop". Suicide reissues. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 319 Registered: 05-2005 |
mingus- i got the Sleep No More reissue by the Comsats last week. always preferred this to Waiting For a Miracle - darker and edgier. the only album they matched The Sound and The Bunnymen imo | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 318 Registered: 03-2005 |
thanks for the info, Kevin. I have picked up a 1998 Mark Lanegan album and it's good. A friend burned me an unfortunately skipping copy of two newer Lanegan albums which are great. On the basis of your "grunge" description for Screaming Trees I'll probably pass them up. | ||
| mingus Member Username: Mingus Post Number: 38 Registered: 06-2005 |
Keven, my old tape of Waiting For A Miracle has survived from 1980 until 2006, but I must confess I am not that familiar with Sleep No More - I must give it a listen. Also listening to: The Early Years EP Nine Horses - Snow Borne Sorrow Gavin Bryars - A Portrait. Beth Orton - Comfort of Strangers. The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour. The Laughing Clowns - Cruel But Fair box set. Fela Kuti - Music Is The Weapon. Tom Verlaine - Warm and Cool. | ||
| mingus Member Username: Mingus Post Number: 39 Registered: 06-2005 |
sorry, should read "Kevin"... | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 321 Registered: 05-2005 |
Fiery Furnaces - Bitter Tea Gram Parsons - Anthology Byrds - Sweethearts of the Rodeo Both the above albums inspired by the Gram Parsons documentary on BBC4 at the weekend. Other programmes shown included a documentary about the main country artists - Johnny Cash, Jim Reeves, Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Hank Williams and George Jones. All except Gentleman Jim led colourful lives to say the least! Hardin, the section about your man George was the best - described how he became known as "No Show" and other highlights included footage of him being arrested for drunk driving and driving his car off a bridge - wonderful stuff!!) | ||
| Hardin Smith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 288 Registered: 03-2006 |
Damn Kev, I would've loved to have seen that - all the artists you mention are big time faves of mine, not just the Possum. Even Jim Reeves, though he seems a little tame compared to the rest of that motley crew. (Have you heard Prefab Sprout's version of "He'll Have to Go"? Unsurprisingly, it's totally brilliant.) GJ has a great biography that details a lot of that colorful behavior - the guy truly is lucky to be alive! Since you seem to have a taste (like me) for that genre some call alt-country, or Americana, or whatever, I really recommend the new album by Wussy, Funeral Dress...it's the new-ish side project of Chuck Cleaver (of Ohio's immortal Ass Ponys) and it's, imo, indescribably wonderful...sort of like an angry, peckerwood VU, with great, stop-you-in-your-tracks tunes...but of course, listen to sound samples before you buy - one can never completely predict peoples' tastes on this board! BTW Kev, have you checked out that milesofmusic.com site? It's a great source for that kind of music. | ||
| Jim Kavanagh Member Username: Kavanagj Post Number: 6 Registered: 10-2004 |
Just noticed this thread and the mention of the Widdershins. The cd is available via the Egg Records web site and in Australian shops via Reverberation, Red Eye lists the release on their online shop: www.redeye.com.au/ The Lighthouse Keepers will be later in the year and will be a "best of" CD (enhanced with a video) and sleeve notes from one of your favourite Go Between forum members. I would expect Go Betweens fans (like myself) to really like these 2 Cds. I got into Oz music via The go betweens and love lots of sounds from the eighties from the likes of Waterfront records, phanton, easter. Happy listening Jim Egg records, Glasgow www.eggrecords.co.uk | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 342 Registered: 05-2005 |
adam green - jacket full of danger. kinda like the american version of Richard Hawley - very 60s sounding. David Sylvian - Secrets of the Beehive. never liked Japan (apart from Ghosts) but this album is a classic. probably 15 yrs since i last played it Lambchop - i hope you are sitting down. Im a big Lambchop fan but had never heard this till its reissue | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 114 Registered: 05-2005 |
I finally got "Tin drum" last year on C.D. and found it a bit embarrassing, apart from Ghosts. Secrets IS a great album and I think I now like it better than Gone to Earth on some days. Have you heard the 9 Horses collaboration? I have to say I've hardly played it - it sounds too Japan-y(!) and I want David Sylvian to now be doing more light jazz! | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 356 Registered: 05-2005 |
I thought the 9 Horses album was great Geoff, though nowhere near as great as Secrets... | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 357 Registered: 05-2005 |
Set You Free 1964-73 - Gene Clarke in the Byrds. (Fantastic compilation of Byrds tracks, every one of the 22 tracks has lead vocals solely by Gene Clarke (released on the Australian label Raven)) Oh Inverted World - The Shins Xterminator - Primal Scream (in anticipation of the new record) Rock Bottom - Robert Wyatt (this man could sing the proverbial telephone directory and it would sound wonderful) Treasure Chest - Duke Reid (compilation of prime Jamaican Rocksteady) Southern Rock Opera - Drive-by Truckers(if there is a more blistering r'n'r band on the planet just now I want to see them) | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 340 Registered: 03-2005 |
There are actually 22 Byrds track with Clark on lead? Any rarities, Kevin? Raven does great anthos. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 359 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy, slight amendment - They are either Gene vocals or compositions - here is the blurb from the website GENE CLARK in THE BYRDS 1964-1973: SET YOU FREE TRACK LISTING 1. THE REASON WHY 2. PLEASE LET ME LOVE YOU 3. YOU SHOWED ME (Electric vers.) 4. BOSTON 5. TOMORROW IS A LONG WAYS AWAY (Acoustic vers.) 6. FOR ME AGAIN 7. I KNEW I'D WANT YOU (Electric vers.) 8. HERE WITHOUT YOU 9. SHE HAS A WAY 10. I'LL FEEL A WHOLE LOT BETTER 11. YOU WON'T HAVE TO CRY 12. SHE DON'T CARE ABOUT TIME 13. THE WORLD TURNS ALL AROUND HER 14. NEVER BEFORE (THE DAY WALK) 15. SET YOU FREE THIS TIME 16. IF YOU'RE GONE 17. EIGHT MILES HIGH 18. SHE'S THE KIND OF GIRL 19. ONE IN A HUNDRED 20. CHANGING HEART 21. COWGIRL IN THE SAND 22. FULL CIRCLE Raven presents for the first time on one CD, the very best of THE BYRDS featuring the captivating voice and songwriting brilliance of the late great GENE CLARK. A prolific and extraordinarily gifted songwriter with a striking, emotion-laden voice, Clark's influence and legacy cannot be underestimated. Using elements of country, bluegrass, rural blues and pop he melded the folk sounds of Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan with the exhilarating electric music surging out of Liverpool in the 1960s. He crafted a body of work that is innovative, influential and unforgettable. 'I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better', 'She Don't Care About Time', the psychedelic 'Eight Miles High' and other classics, almost single handedly transformed the direction of popular American music in the mid-1960s. The Byrds, with Clark as its primary songwriter and lead vocalist, and with Roger McGuinn its creative force, was soon anointed as the American counterpart to the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. This collection starts with the Byrds' exciting Pre-Flyte recordings at World Pacific Studios under Jim Dickson in 1964, moves through the hit-laden Columbia albums Mr Tambourine Man, Turn Turn Turn and Fifth Dimension to the full Byrds reunions of 1969 and 1972. This Digitally-Remastered, 22-track collection of Gene's compositions and/or vocals (with liner notes by Sid Griffin) is one of the finest compilations of vital 60s music yet released. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 342 Registered: 03-2005 |
Ok, it was the idea of 22 tracks with his vocals that got me. The only things I don't have are the ones from the reunion album. That should be a great listen. If you haven't heard it before, imagine "Never Before" on "5D". That's where it would have been if he hadn't quit. And it gives a taste of how much better that album would have been. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 362 Registered: 05-2005 |
robert forster - calling from a country phone drive by truckers - various tablets from mount rock n roll buzzcocks - opeartors manual (best of) howlin wolf - his best vol 2 go betweens - before hollywood (especially c and c, and ask) | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 364 Registered: 05-2005 |
anything and everything by Pubbic Image - the 2nd band in which John Lydon posted a big V sign to everybody - where are our Lydons - that Coldplay twat makes me f'in despair | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 294 Registered: 04-2005 |
Wire - A Bell Is A Cup The Church - Magician Among the Spirits (bargain bin find) Wedding Present - Hit Parade 1 Human League - Greatest Hits (huh?) Beatles - Revolver Eclecticism is the spice of life. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 344 Registered: 03-2005 |
Kurt, your last entry there reminds me of my next Saturday commitment to see Matthew Sweet and Suzanna Hoffs at the Roxy. I agreed to go with a friend BEFORE hearing what they were doing. He then played their pointless copy cover of "And Your Bird Can Sing." I will sleep through that show. The same friend did redeem himself by playing some Keren Ann songs. While her new made-for-America album sounds a little dull some of the older made-for-Europe songs are great. My most recent listen was "Two Yanks in England" by the Everly Bros. | ||
| Hardin Smith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 339 Registered: 03-2006 |
Babbling on about them on this website got me psyched to hear the Kinks, suggestible guy that I am...So, I pulled out all kinds of stuff, including "The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society" (waaay better than Sgt. Pepper's, as "concept" albums go) - one song from it in particular, Big Sky, really floats my boat... and some comps - had to hear all the chestnuts, like "Waterloo" and "I'm not like everybody else" and "Better Things"... I also recently picked up and am really enjoying the solo record by Eef Barzelay, the main singer songwriter behind Clem Snide - "Bitter Honey"...you have to like, er not mind, nasal adenoidal singing and rather plaintive balladry, but if you do, this record rules. I really am fascinated in particular by a song on it called, "The Ballad of Bitter Honey", a completely moving ballad about a backup dancer for Ludacris (?!?..he makes it work - it's really touching and cynical at the same time)... | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 348 Registered: 03-2005 |
Hardin, being a forever fan of what I call the "Dylanesque" one of my favorite old Kinks tracks is "This is Where I Belong." That song works every time. The new Ray Davies LP got its second listen on Saturday. Great writing, Davies is sounding good. What fails for me are the arrangements. Too bombastic. | ||
| Hardin Smith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 343 Registered: 03-2006 |
Agree on both counts, Randy... "This.." is up there with my all time faves of RD's too, and rest asuured, it got played this weekend too, on my drive down to Laguna. And, yes, the arrangements and production on the new one are a tad overwrought...I wonder if it's a product of the long gestation period for the album - perhaps he just kept fiddling and adding stuff...I would love to hear more stripped down and basic versions of the tunes. But still, the songwriting really shines through. Amazing that so many of the songs are so prescient about the calamities that befell him in N.O., like "After the Fall", when they were written well in advance of them. | ||
| david sigston Member Username: Futuretarded Post Number: 4 Registered: 04-2006 |
I'll stick my neck out once again as a Vines fan and say I've been listening to their new record Vision Valley a lot lately. And also Bright Eyes- I'm wide awake its morning and Weezer- The Green Album | ||
| Hardin Smith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 366 Registered: 03-2006 |
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (reissue)- Eno & Byrne People That I'm Wrong For - Warren Zanes You In Reverse - Built to Spill Thunderbird - Cassandra Wilson Garden Ruin - Calexico The Legend - Johnny Cash Kink Kronikles - Kinks | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 371 Registered: 05-2005 |
Whats the Built to Spill like Hardin - conficting reviews so far | ||
| Hardin Smith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 367 Registered: 03-2006 |
It sounds pretty damn good, so far...(of course, one has to like the basic BTS sound - I'm assuming you do)...they seem like their long break did them some good: it's more focused - with muscular, involving songs - a couple that assert themselves so far are "Traces" and "Goin' Against Your Mind", which might be one of the best tunes they've ever come up with...you have to like guitar soloing, too : it's pretty full of crunchy and cool geetar hoo-haw...they branch out a bit too - there's one long number that segues into a ska passage (I kid you not). The Calexico, btw, might be their best yet, too... And, same goes for the new DBTs, btw - based on one listen, it sounds pretty...what's your word? incendiary...sort of just like all the others, only better...more vivid and ass-kickin', more catchy and anthemic (for me that's not a bad thing per se)...Scanning the lyrics, it looks like yet another good bunch of cynical and dark sentiments...If this record doesn't make their bones, I don't know what will...excellent job, guys. Btw, I read this yesterday: Colley and Hood have been musical partners for 20 years. So, they're way overdue for a little jangle in their pocket... | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 372 Registered: 05-2005 |
Hardin, actually I havent heard much BTS - just figured they are a band I should investigate more. Agree about Calexico. Recently I have been dipping my toe in the water regards Nada Surf. There was something about them that put me off before, but listened to The Weight is a Gift today and most of the songs hit home for the first time - definately one to play more of i think The Fiery Furnaces new one, Bitter Tea has had a few plays now and I would recommend it to fans of this band - not sure they are to everybodys taste though - possibly quirky, verging on annoying to some people | ||
| Hardin Smith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 370 Registered: 03-2006 |
I might be one of those people, as the FFs tend to give me migraines - too crazy, too all over the place...but, I strive to remain open-minded, so if you're giving the new record props, maybe I'll give 'em another chance. Nada Surf are very good, I think, but although I've had that disc since it came out, it hasn't really beckoned to me from my shelf to be played since...maybe it's time to dust it off. Several other people here have mentioned it. I definitely like where they're coming from lyrically speaking... | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 308 Registered: 04-2005 |
Fiery Furnaces...prog rock by any other name. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 374 Registered: 05-2005 |
My mate who works for Rough Trade got us on the guest list to see a special one off show last year as part of the Edinburgh Fringe festival in which Fiery Furnaces supported Franz Ferdinand (who as i suspected were dreck!) I think Fiery Furnaces come into their own in a live setting, much more of a band based thing. One intriguing thing that they did that night- there were no gaps between the songs, the songs just melded into each other. even the ramones paused for a 1,2,3,4 between songs! | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 377 Registered: 05-2005 |
sonic youth - rather ripped. fantastic return to form from the yoof- probably the most accessible album they have done since Dirty all of 14 yrs ago. No new ground being broken here, but thats why we love them right? | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 357 Registered: 03-2005 |
Prog rock . . . shudder. | ||
| abigail law Member Username: Abigail Post Number: 70 Registered: 06-2005 |
this easter holiday i enjoyed listening to forever breathes the lonely word - felt and coles corner - richard hawley the latter i highly recommend to anyone who hasn't heard it yet | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 378 Registered: 05-2005 |
ditto, coles corner is beautiful, its like a modern day johnny cash, meets the sensible mr matt monroe, really really beautiful, i hope the guy gets the recognition he deserves... i have been playing Go Betweens The Lost album, I'd never heard it before. Its so great, its natural, and it reminds me of my mate's brothere's band rehearsing in '77 when I was a kid, all bands start out and seem to sound like this, school canteen hall recordings, this is REAL lo-fi, not yer bollocks imitations! its lovely, what a refreshing album! | ||
| jerry hann Member Username: Jerry_h Post Number: 118 Registered: 07-2005 |
His other LPs are great as well, Late Night Final and Lowedges ( named after another Sheffield landmark/area). Coles Brothers is now John Lewis. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 277 Registered: 08-2004 |
Sheffield is one of the great rock & pop cities. A bit like our Chicago. There was some kind of rock museum opened there a few years back which was somewhat controversial.(waste of money/should be in London etc). I don't know if it's still open though. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 81 Registered: 01-2005 |
Listening to at the momnet.... Under The Covers Vol. 1 - Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs. This will be in my Top 10 for 2006, not problem. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 312 Registered: 04-2005 |
Kevin, is the new Sonic Youth actually in stores now, or do you have an advance copy? What did you think of their last two (Sonic Nurse and Murray St.)? To me, those were both pretty good, so if you rate the new one as their best in ages, I'm really eager to hear it. Hate the album title, though. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 382 Registered: 05-2005 |
Advance copy Kurt. I liked the last two, especailly Murrat St. However, my only criticism of these albums would be that it is rather like reinventing the wheel- eg just another Youth album. However, as the old saying goes"if it aint broke....." I think Rather Ripped is due to hit the stores in late May, however if you believe Mojo the album is actually called "Do you believe in Rapture?" How does that grab you? | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 316 Registered: 04-2005 |
The possible alternate title is a little better, I guess. You know, I've never really thought Sonic Youth's albums were all that different from one another...their quality seemed to be based on the quality of the songs. For example, "NYC Ghosts & Flowers" sort of had no songs (at least not good ones), so it wasn't very good. The last couple albums, songs returned. Honestly, in my old age, I'm relieved they've mostly gotten away from that "metal on metal" guitar sound of 12 or 15 years ago. I thought the guitar tones on "Sonic Nurse" were gorgeous, but still unique in the classic SY way. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 379 Registered: 05-2005 |
Michael yes I love the Sweet Hoffs thing, really compliment one another, Sheffield is a fab place. I played there supporting Baby Bird at the Uni. It was one of the best on stage monitor set ups I had ever heard. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 383 Registered: 05-2005 |
Well I think you will love this one Kurt. On my first listen the thing that grabbed me was the fact that these are definately well structured songs with melodies, and dare I say it choruses. Im sure I read somewhere, possibly that Mojo article, that they had enlisted some engineer/producer guy who had worked with a few big names - maybe he instilled some discipline | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 380 Registered: 05-2005 |
Tonite I have played: You can make it if you boogie - James Kirk (Masterful) Urban leisure - tuxedo moon Motherland - natalie Merchant Music has the right to children - Boards of Canada Sense and Sensuality - The Au Pairs | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 364 Registered: 03-2005 |
The Glasgow School -- Orange Juice Twin Cinema -- New Porns | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 281 Registered: 08-2004 |
Newish tunes, this week: The Delays The Kooks Larrikin Love Be Your Own Pet Mystery Jets | ||
| Mark Tuffield Member Username: Mark_t Post Number: 39 Registered: 05-2005 |
Masterful is a great one word description of it Spence! I’d be tempted to put it in the Album of the Decade thread, but not sure I’ve heard enough stuff in the “naughties” to be a good judge. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 383 Registered: 05-2005 |
Yeah Mark , thanks, I just admire the way it all sound effortless. the Leopards are a great band too to have backing you. Malcolm Ross has often had them back him oln solo gigs. James Kirk was always underrated, but he was there at thge beginning, a bit like John Cale was to the Velvets. Playing Whammy B52's at the moment! | ||
| Hardin Smith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 372 Registered: 03-2006 |
Ditto (though I hate to use that word - in the US there's a big, hateful fat b_st__d, named Rush Limbaugh who uses it as a trademark) on Richard Hawley and Coles Corner...great great stuff...You gotta love a record with a song titled "Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet?"...A perfect song to listen to alone at 2 am, with a big single-malt Scotch and a cigarette (I don't smoke, but it makes me want to)... |