| Author | Message | ||
     andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 226 Registered: 04-2006 |
maybe -and beside to our beloved 'listening'-thread this could be a interesting one. due to our immense record input and to ever changing moods this could be inspiring. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 227 Registered: 04-2006 |
NINA NASTASIA - On leaving i just can repeat myself. a folk/singer-/songwriter gem. spare, beautiful, outstanding. a wonderful voice. please read here: http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/release.php?id=197 | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 825 Registered: 05-2005 |
I was going to say TV On The Radio, but I have banged on about this enough. So, its The Rapture, Pieces of People We Love. So Andreas, this is to be a Friday thread? Every Friday somebody starts a new Record of The Week thread, and people add to it (only once though!)as the week goes on. Nice one. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 861 Registered: 05-2005 |
This one is going well isnt it?  | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 611 Registered: 05-2005 |
Laughed like a drain! | ||
| Donat Member Username: Donat Post Number: 162 Registered: 11-2004 |
My record of the week would have to be Lou Reed's 'Berlin' album. I've played it five times this week after not hearing for the last five. It's one of the best albums Lou Reed's ever done post VU and he doesn't even play guitar on it! | ||
| Eke Member Username: Ekewebb Post Number: 98 Registered: 05-2005 |
I love the Walkmen's A Hundred Miles Off at the moment. It's sort of patchy and derivative at initial listen but when it's in your blood it's pandemonium and it's gorgeous. | ||
| jerry hann Member Username: Jerry_h Post Number: 246 Registered: 07-2005 |
Literally a Record, not CD/MP3, this week I dug out a few old favourites,but what I'll nominate is Martin Stephenson and the Daintees-Salutaion Road, starts off in a very well produced way i.e same as 16LL but the songs really hold up. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 234 Registered: 01-2005 |
Why did Lou give up his guitar for much of the 70's anyway? Was he too busy live being a glam singer, or had he lost confidence in his playing? | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 417 Registered: 08-2004 |
Lou was too busy being miserable, Berlin is one of the most depressing LP's ever. Babybird - Between My Ears There's Nothing But Music. Album of the year? | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 647 Registered: 04-2005 |
Ah, Lou and the early '70s. I think it was a combination of laziness, Lou putting the music in someone else's hands (Ronson, Ezrin, etc.), and, as he's been quoted, working with musicians who weren't into what he was doing on guitar, which was obviously not technically proficient. Although he rediscovered the guitar by the late '70s, apparently it took teaming up with Robert Quine in '82 for "The Blue Mask" for Lou to really feel comfortable going back to the guitar full-time. For that, we owe the late great Mr. Quine, as Lou was definitely revitalized by taking control of his sound in the '80s and '90s. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 648 Registered: 04-2005 |
By the way, Donat, playing "Berlin" five times in one week is truly an exercise in masochism. I admire it and have certainly spent many an hour listening to it in the past 30 years, but the last time I played it, I decided I needed at least a decade-long break from it. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 239 Registered: 01-2005 |
Kurt, It's been a good half dozen years for me I bet since I last dragged out Berlin and listened to it. Has anyone got the remastered The Bells? I heard it's pretty decent, although it never struck me as being one of his best when I used to play my vinyl version of it. I thought Lou's albums were pretty spotty after Street Hassle and before The Blue Mask. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 653 Registered: 04-2005 |
"The Bells" is probably underrated, but at the same time, it's really a frustrating album because parts of it are so ragged and Lou's vocals are a mess. I remember when I bought it that I was horrified by the first two cuts--"he's gone disco!" Except that "Disco Mystic" isn't really disco music. But in a way, it was a breakthrough album for him, in that he returned to personal songwriting. The album after it, "Growing Up In Public," was a serious mistake, though. Generic rock with awkward melodies, bad singing, and "analyst's couch" lyrics--very ungainly. Luckily, he got back on track with "The Blue Mask." | ||
| Donat Member Username: Donat Post Number: 163 Registered: 11-2004 |
'Berlin' is quite a depressing album, but no more than say, 'Blood On The Tracks' or 'On The Beach'. It's strange, because I'm not in a down mood - my cat hasn't left me or anything like that - I'm just rediscovering a 70s classic. It's hard to listen to 'The Bed' and 'The Kids' - especially when the kids start crying along to the slap bass towards the end of the song. I've also been listening to Mayo Thompson's (of Red Crayola fame) 'Corky's Debt To His Father' which is a must-have if you're a Townes Van Zandt fan or into country that's a little bent. Another record I haven't played in a while. Reed's ultimate guitar album (at least solo) would have to be Blue Mask and I think the reason why he didn't play guitar that much in the 70s was because of his lack of technical prowess. Reed's a very basic guitar player and his solos aren't ever the same thing twice - or perhaps he does that as a throwback to free-jazz tradition? He's one musician whose work and personality I can't get my head around. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 868 Registered: 05-2005 |
Isnt there a story that on "The Kids" the producer told the kids that their mother had died, and they really were crying real tears? | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 658 Registered: 04-2005 |
That's the legend about "The Kids," though whether it's really true, I don't know. The producer, Bob Ezrin, also claimed the album drove him to try heroin. That I could believe. Donat, Lou's always been a good rhythm guitarist, but the style he plays in (think the VU albums) didn't fit with more commerical mainstream sounds of the '70s. When the VU got rediscovered in the post-punk era, that staccato strumming style came back (think Feelies, T. Heads, early Orange Juice and Go-Betweens, etc.) and maybe that inspired Lou to return to the guitar sound he helped originate (though it also owes a lot to Bobby Fuller's "I Fought the Law" and even '60s funk). As far as his lead playing goes, he was always about sound, not chops, and that feedback-drenched, atonal style was never going to fit in with the conventional hard-rock hacks he played with most of the '70s. So he didn't even try. These days, I think he has pretty decent chops, but still has no interest in playing conventional, blues-based lead guitar. Sorry, more than you wanted to hear. I've thought about this way too much because I've been a VU/Reed obsessive for 30 years! | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 874 Registered: 05-2005 |
Friday again. My record of the week is Beck - The Information | ||
| jerry hann Member Username: Jerry_h Post Number: 252 Registered: 07-2005 |
Kurt you are the man to ask re VU: the 1969 live, it is sold as 2 seprate CDs as Lou Read and the VU am I right in thinking it is with out John Cale? I've not got it,and would like it by all accounts it is great. What do you think? | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 885 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jerry, Cales not on it, Lous brother Doug plays bass. it is fantastic. | ||
| Donat Member Username: Donat Post Number: 168 Registered: 11-2004 |
Kurt, thanks for that - I'm not too far away from hitting the 30 years of Lou love myself and I agree. Forster's guitar style echoes Lou in many instances throughout the years, especially the pre-Lindy songs. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 669 Registered: 04-2005 |
Jerry, Kevin's right. It's a shame they split the set into two separate CDs; I still have my vinyl double album, which after 30 years and countless spins is gratifyingly free of scratches. It's the best-sounding live VU release (not counting the dodgy '93 reunion tour set, which is ruined by Lou's inability to sing the old songs), though there is a fair amount of tape hiss. Generally, it's the quieter, "small room" Velvets; Sterling Morrison used to say he didn't like '69 Live because it didn't sound like the band in a larger venue, when they cranked the amps a lot more. But the performances are no less intense. The Quine Tapes 3-CD box is worthy too, but is mostly inferior in sound, which is a damn shame. These recordings capture the louder, wilder sound of the band (also sans Cale, however), and the three extended and very different versions of "Sister Ray" are worth the price of the set alone. Supposedly, the owner of the SF venue where most of the Quine recordings were made has a set of tapes of the performances made at the sound board, but says he won't release them, or the band's management won't pay him enough for the rights. Too bad, because good-sounding recordings of the Quine-era shows would make up the best live album ever. Lou never sang or played better than he did in the '69 VU era. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 670 Registered: 04-2005 |
By the way, Donat--yes, I hear a lot of Lou Reed in Robert's rhythm guitar playing, but that may be filtered through other Reed disciples Robert obviously worshipped (early T. Heads, Modern Lovers, etc.). "Karen" is, unquestionably, one of the many songs influenced by "Heroin." | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 784 Registered: 05-2005 |
kurt, what is the The Quine Tapes 3-CD box please? | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 681 Registered: 04-2005 |
Spence, I'll let this explain it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootleg_Series_Volume_1:_The_Quine_Tapes | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 881 Registered: 03-2006 |
I am still not afraid: my record of the week would have to be "Beat Your Ass"...further listens only confirm my initial impressions that this is a substantive, major piece of work from Yo La that I will be listening to for a long time... It also prompted me to pull out their excellent "Prisoners of Love" comp...great great... | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 895 Registered: 05-2005 |
LK, spot on. I am not afraid.... is their definitive statement imo - which given albums like I Can Hear The Heart.... shows the quality we are talking about here. Prisoners of Love is a fantastic comp, and thanks for the reminder, its one I will dig out and play tomorrow. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 252 Registered: 04-2006 |
friday passed, but i will add my fave of the week: bonnie prince billy 'the letting go'. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 939 Registered: 05-2005 |
Lee Scratch Perry. Panic in Babylon Mad as a hatter, but a genius. A bit like Phil Spector in that respect, without the guns obviously | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 640 Registered: 03-2005 |
Bet he had guns too. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 433 Registered: 08-2004 |
Arson was Lee Perry's weapon of choice. | ||
| jerry hann Member Username: Jerry_h Post Number: 266 Registered: 07-2005 |
Every thurdsday I have the pleasure of not working so have time to dig out and old LP. yesterday played Danger in the Past ( do death really).The record in unbelievably good and gets better each play. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 941 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jerry, I reckon this is the best record Robert ever made, either solo or with the GO-Bs. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 790 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kev, its a bold statement, I am very very, fond of it too. When it came out, it met with mue(ed) sic! response over here, but it just stood head and shoulders over everything that was out at that time, it was such an achievement. Its like buried teasure! After a rethink, and watching Tallulah period GB's on DVD recently I think Talullah and Lib Belle are my faves. Close on its heels though are Oceans Apart and FORW and BYBO. The early stuff is definately what I play most, I know that much. Sorry, going off as per usual! | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 136 Registered: 04-2005 |
I'm with the sentiments over 'Danger in the Past'. It sounds 'complete', and not just a collection of songs stuck together (which personally I find the post reunion albums sound like). And I loved the sound that he got on stage at the time with his German band. Nearest I ever got to Dylan in 1966! | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1013 Registered: 05-2005 |
Teh Decemberists - The Crane Wife. | ||
| Donat Member Username: Donat Post Number: 185 Registered: 11-2004 |
Danger In The Past (like Grant's debut) does have a fair few tracks that were slated for Go-Betweens album #7, but for some reason or another, it does sound quite complete. It is a great record and by far his best so far, though I am warming to Warm Nights each time I play that and I quietly think it's his best record too. I do skip 'Rock & Roll Friend'. Never been a big fan of studio re-recordings, but I can somehow tolerate it when Ed Kuepper does it. Fortress is also a bit of a 'Cut It Out' - it's those farting sounds - they're so off-putting! I've been flogging Friends Of Rachael Worth's RF songs a lot this week, but I pass on 'German Farmhouse' - hate the sound of that song - a little too loud in an Oceans Apart kinda way. RF's slow acoustic mk 2 Gobs tracks melt me every time. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1033 Registered: 05-2005 |
Coney Island Baby - Lou Reed Its interesting to read a lot of reviewers are claiming this mid 70s Lou release to be some underrated classic. Its just been re-released with half a dozen or so bonus tracks, to be honest they were left off for good reason imo The original 8 tracks are superb though, and it has that classic thick,warm sounding 70s production. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 266 Registered: 04-2006 |
the black swan - bert jansch | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 23 Registered: 08-2006 |
The Hold Steady - "Boys and Girls in America" Despite the fact Pitchfork likes it. Hey, every now and then, even a blind pig finds a truffle. Oh, wait, pigs find truffles by smell. Abort aphorism. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 868 Registered: 05-2005 |
Avalon - Roxy Music | ||
| Aidan Brewer Member Username: Uptowninvisible Post Number: 2 Registered: 10-2006 |
The Shins - Wincing the Night Away | ||
| John B. Member Username: John_b Post Number: 26 Registered: 10-2006 |
Beirut - Gulag Orkestar Came across it by coincidence and finally got my copy yesterday. Balkan-music with English lyrics, its fabulous. One of the weirder albums in my collection, to go with Heigher Heights by The Twinkle Brothers, a combination of Polish folk music and reggae/dub.... | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1042 Registered: 05-2005 |
ok Aiden. where did you get The Shins? Its not due till January. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1002 Registered: 03-2006 |
Steve Reich - Phases JohnB, I'm a big fan of the Beirut record, too, and was raving about it a few weeks ago. If you decide you really like that style of music I have another recommendation for you: Devotchka. | ||
| Aidan Brewer Member Username: Uptowninvisible Post Number: 4 Registered: 10-2006 |
I downloaded the Shins album from a rapidshare file the day it leaked (I think it was about 6 days ago). Unfortunately, the file was disabled, although you could probably find it on soulseek. Anyways, I think it is their best yet! | ||
| John B. Member Username: John_b Post Number: 28 Registered: 10-2006 |
Thanks LK, I will look into Devotchka as soon as I have some time (which probably means Monday). Yesterday, while watching crappy German cup football on TV, I listened to U2's "The Unforgettable Fire" and "The Joshua Tree." It works with football and I actually preferred TUF. I don't go crazy over Bono and company, but every now and then I still like them. | ||
| jerry hann Member Username: Jerry_h Post Number: 290 Registered: 07-2005 |
Ron Sexsmith -Retriever,he writes great songs | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1051 Registered: 05-2005 |
Yabby You - Deliver Me From My Enemies | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 276 Registered: 04-2006 |
surely fionn regan and his marvellous fingerpicking/folk album 'the end of history'. great songs, really. giv ethis guy a chance if he his until now unfamiliar to you. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1025 Registered: 03-2006 |
Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels On a Gravel Road, Deluxe Edition Yo La Tengo - Prisoners of Love, cuz I'm still jazzed about seeing them, and this has all their greatest popular hits, in one stop, no muss no fuss. Plus, I'm too lazy to figure out which disc of theirs, besides this one, has their great cover of Sandy Denny's "By the Time It Gets Dark"... | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 802 Registered: 04-2005 |
The "Little Honda" EP. You're welcome. -the resident nerd | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1027 Registered: 03-2006 |
Thank you, sir... and hey, if you're going to do something, why not excel? Your command of YLT ephemera is something to behold. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 465 Registered: 08-2004 |
Pulp - Peel Sessions | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 883 Registered: 05-2005 |
REM - Life's Rich Pagaent | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1068 Registered: 05-2005 |
Lightnin Hopkins - The Tradition Masters | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 470 Registered: 08-2004 |
120 Days - 120 Days First time I've heard this band & it's easily the best new record this week. They're Norwegian & seem to have mixed up the best Prog/Krautrock/New Wave/Britpop. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 54 Registered: 08-2006 |
For the second straight week, the Hold Steady's "Boys and Girls in America." Anyone? Anyone? C'mon, Little Keith, bail me out here. You gotta like this thing. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1077 Registered: 05-2005 |
Seconded Rob | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1070 Registered: 03-2006 |
Thirded - all in favor say aye... | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 59 Registered: 08-2006 |
Thanks, guys. I gotta a little verklempt there for a bit. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 301 Registered: 04-2006 |
i just push the reply button: fionn regan - the end of history. GREAT! | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 315 Registered: 04-2006 |
josephine foster and the supposed - all the leaves are gone | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 97 Registered: 08-2006 |
Andreas, that Josephine Foster stuff is crazy s--t! She reminds me sometimes of a psychedelic Sandy Denny. Do you hear that? Recommended: Toumani Diabaté’s Symmetric Orchestra - Boulevard de l’Indépendance. Has made inroads to supplanting The Hold Steady on the CD player. Great Malian music. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 316 Registered: 04-2006 |
rob, yes you are absolutely right. this maid and their band make weird music. their kind of singing reminds me surely on sandy denny, but much more on shirley collins playing with jefferson airplane using stranger guitar effects. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1124 Registered: 03-2006 |
Rob, I dig that Edamame Djoubooti Orkestra, or whatever it's called, too...I have a copy and it's great stuff... Also Andreas, I finally acquired a copy of the Fionn Regan disc. Gorgeous stuff that is going to take me a while to absorb... | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 98 Registered: 08-2006 |
And the award for Best Butchery of a Band Name goes to... That gave me a good laugh, LK. Glad you enjoy the album, even if the words on the cover didn't exactly burrow into your consciousness... | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1129 Registered: 03-2006 |
Easier to make a joke than type all that out...and I don't understand the words they sing on the disc inside, so I guess there's not much chance of the words on the cover sticking to my brain. Still doesn't detract from the joyous, uplifting music, though... Since you're master of all things African, Rob, whattaya think of the Fela? Any particular discs, comps, etc., you'd recommend? It is some singularly funky shit. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1119 Registered: 05-2005 |
Califone - Roots and Crowns | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 102 Registered: 08-2006 |
Hey, LK: If you're interested in Fela, I'd definitely recommend starting with a two-CD set called "The Best Best of Fela Kuti" on MCA. Don't know if it's in print right now (it came out in 2000) but it should be easy to find and it's a great introduction. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 103 Registered: 08-2006 |
By the way, LK, you know I was laughing WITH you about your Edameme Djoubooti quip. I have the same problem with a lot of these African bands, even though I listen to the music constantly AND speak pretty passible French. Oh, and you get bonus points for spelling edamame correctly. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1137 Registered: 03-2006 |
Well yeah - hopefully you realize I could've just copied it from your post above, if I didn't know how to spell it anyway...and I give you credit for being able to recognize a joke. I was serious about really liking the disc, though. I believe I read a rave Christgau review, then checked out samples...and right before Tower here went out of business they'd feature a lot of cool things like that on sale, so I picked it up... As is the case with a lot of African music, I find it to be an almost instant mood-changer. Hard to stay in a bad mood with that stuff on - it could be used as a Prozac substitute. My girlfriend always insists on ordering edamame, though it's often overkill, so yeah, that one's scratched on my brain. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 104 Registered: 08-2006 |
Yeah, there's something about African music that's a real up - they might be singing about getting ripped off by the local merchant, robbed by corrupt cops or being left by their lovers but it always sounds like they're going to have a bang-up time regardless. There's a lot of joy on that continent, and it makes you wonder why – they really know how to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. It makes you wonder why all these indie kids in the US are so sad. Affluence bringing you down, dude? | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 329 Registered: 04-2006 |
friday passed and my record of the week is: joanna newson - ys in opposite to some other listeners i like this record. it is not progrock. it is simple folk. it is pop. i find myself singing and whistling the one or other melody of this gem. van dyke parks improved it with his orchestra arrangments. you can say that it is rather a new van dyke parks album with songs from joanna newsom. some of you wrote that you don't like the voice of mrs. newsom. yes, she have a weird kind of singing. but victoria williams' voice sounds much more like mickey mouse. by the way: the first victoria wiliams lp was also work with a lot of van dyke parks arrangements etc.. and by the way II: i like also fiery furnaces 'blueberry boat' cd..... taste differs :-) | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 330 Registered: 04-2006 |
i have a second record of the week. beirut - gulak orkestar now released in germany. i immediately bought it. and it includs a bonus ep (lon gisland ep). great 'balkan'stuff even when the brass always sounds very similar. but the record lasts only 37 minutes. exactly the perfect period to get not bored. mr. zach condon did a great job and i like to see him live in prenzlauer berg in berlin playing 'prenzlauer berg'.. does anyone remebers the great 3 mustaphas 3? i lovd that band. they were great. espescially live. unfortunately i only taped their cd's at the time of their release. does anyone know if the band still exists resp. if the cd's can be bought? | ||
| Wolfgang Steinhardt Member Username: Berbatov Post Number: 26 Registered: 09-2006 |
Hallo Andreas - I've got 5 or 6 Mustapha-records (LP's)- if I should ever get it managed to transfer them into bits and bytes I could burn some CD's for you (hopefully between Xmas an New Year, but I'm so stupid with these things, it might last :-). I once played them to my turkish barman back in Kreuzberg and he was very very puzzled about their view at oriental music - we couldn't agree, but I was allowed to leave the tape and in the end he played it three times a day... Haven't heard of them for a long time now, I wonder too if they still exist. Schönes Wochenende anyway, Hertha leads 2:1 vs. Dortmund at the moment... | ||
| jerry hann Member Username: Jerry_h Post Number: 318 Registered: 07-2005 |
Andreas, I'm liking the Joanna Newsome a bit more on each play I've got it in the car as that is whereI do a lot of listenig these days, I definitely admire it but not certain whether I love it yet, time will tell | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1167 Registered: 05-2005 |
oakley hall - second guessing. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 985 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Darkness - Thing called Love (is that what its called?) Am just about to jump and perform a scissor drop-kick from the height of my table with my MAC on it, I'm aiming for Stave Austin, my $6,000,000 doll from 1974! | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1200 Registered: 03-2006 |
Careful Spence, you don't want to be the first man nutted by Steve Majors! That would probably make the papers... Record of the week for me is, hands down, the Tom Waits set. Finally got my hands on the official release, though I've been listening to an advance copy for weeks. Big ups on the packaging - beautifully put together and pretty much a must for any Waits fan. Since he re-recorded, apparently, the bulk of the tracks, I think it has to be treated as a major Waits "artistic statement", rather than an emptying of his vaults...listening to it, it sure plays that way. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 988 Registered: 05-2005 |
Cheers LK, will go ot and buy Mr Waits tomorrow evening. Kev, I see Mr Hepworth rates the Hot Chip! | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1182 Registered: 05-2005 |
Spence, remember to visit the cash line first. You will do well to get Mr Waits for less than Ł30. yep, Hot Chip - I predict they will feature in most of the end year polls | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1000 Registered: 05-2005 |
Surprise by Paul Simon. Wonderful album, really cool instrumentation, and his voice is so soothing. | ||
| Andy Robinson Member Username: Andyblue Post Number: 59 Registered: 03-2005 |
Tom Waits set is 21-99 at Amazon - I know it's not the same at the local place but 9 quid ... | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 338 Registered: 04-2006 |
I am very early i know (it isn't Friday), but actually I am one week too late and I am quite sure that this record is not only my record of the week, no, it is surely one of the highlights of this slowly fading year. And you will know us by the Trail of Dead - So Divided They did it again. It seems that every record is a bit more megalomaniac, over the top, bombastic, melodramatic. Simply GREAT. Sure, it isn't a new Source tag & codes -their so called masterpiece-, it is another step forward into the world of POP. But if POP sounds like that one i have nothing against it (by the way: i never had anything against POP). And for all GBV-fans: yet they put a cover of 'Gold Heart Mountain Top Queen Directory' on the record. Could someone who covers GBV song a bad one? And for further details, explanations and characterisations simply take a walk to your local record dealer and give this album a listen. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 919 Registered: 05-2005 |
A mix disc I made a couple of copies of with 30 songs, each about 2.5 minutes long. It never gets boring! | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1200 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Drones - Gala Mill. I keep coming back to this. I dont think you can ever love something like this, but you can admire it(as a wise man said once on here). | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1042 Registered: 05-2005 |
Endless Art '06 by Dave Couse of A House. Its a a work of ART! Its brilliant, its clever, its simple, its heart warming its everything music should be, its the best song of my week, possibly the best single song of this year. I once supported this guy, he's a force, I am glad I am aware of him, he's fab. Thanks Padraig. http://www.myspace.com/davecouse | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1203 Registered: 05-2005 |
Never mind Record of The Week, heres 11(yes 11) of the bleeders - whatever marbles he had left have now all disappeared http://www.nme.com/news/ryan-adams/25281 | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 59 Registered: 05-2005 |
Wow ! I put Couse on my list of things to find ... | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1043 Registered: 05-2005 |
he's got a bit too much time on his hands Kev! TROU - cool! | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 101 Registered: 09-2006 |
Neil Young - On the Beach Binging on Mr. Young right now, and this one's the centerpiece...it's never fully clicked for me until now, but its fucked-up beauty is suddenly unfolding before me. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 980 Registered: 04-2005 |
Thanks for that link, Kevin. My loathing for Ryan Adams was fading slightly, but it's back in full force now. Gee, Ryan, you're so clever and outrageous. The Shits, with an album called "...Hits the Fans." So clever and original. We'll ignore the fact that the Replacements already used that title about 20 years ago. Good call with On the Beach, Allen. Obviously, I'm going through a Neil phase now too. | ||
| Aidan Brewer Member Username: Uptowninvisible Post Number: 10 Registered: 10-2006 |
Lee Hazlewood - Cowboy In Sweden A magnificent baroque pop/country record from a brilliant songwriter. | ||
| Paul S. Member Username: Prema Post Number: 28 Registered: 11-2005 |
Find myself of late doing a back-to-back with two Texas tinged country CDs: Guy Clark - Workbench Songs (nothing earth shattering but a nice variety of songs) Idgy Vaughn - Origin Story (her debut released this year. I've mentioned the track "Good Enough" before. The whole album is really quite good. Easily makes my best of the year top 5. Playful and reflective. Good murder ballad with the gal pushin' the guy off the bridge for a change.) | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 816 Registered: 03-2005 |
Aidan, your entry on this thread made me hover over a couple of Lee Hazlewood reissue CDs on my last record store visit. I'm old enough to have heard a bit of his stuff when it made it to the radio back when new. Of course I thought it was crap then but I was a dumb kid who thought the mellotron Moody Blues were the highest form of art. Any suggestions as to where should I start? | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1225 Registered: 05-2005 |
Culture - Harder Than The Rest |