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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1740 Registered: 05-2005 |
A quick trip to a record shop after the cinema this morning led to this productive haul from the bargain bin - total cost $40 (17.37 pounds, 35.41 US dollars, 24.90 euro) for the six CDs! The Czars - Goodbye I loved their first album years ago so I thought I'd give this one a shot. Shuggie Otis - Inspiration Information Been meaning to get this one for many years. Machine Translations - Wolf On A String Bigged up by a couple of people on this board. Jimmy Little - Life's What You Make It Been meaning to get this one for a few years too. I adore the album that preceeded it so hopefully this will yield as much joy - no Go-Betweens cover on this one though. He did a stunning version of Cattle And Cane on Messenger. V/A - Do It Again, A Tribute To Pet Sounds Oldham Brothers, Vic Chesnutt, Daniel Johnston, The Wedding Present and various other indie straw men. The International Submarine Band All I know about them is that Gram Parsons is among their number. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1388 Registered: 03-2005 |
Ah, Padraig, I love the ISB album, especially cheesy things like "Miller's Cave" and the excellent "Blue Eyes" and his first classic "Do You Know How It Feels to be Lonesome?" Gram was still cutting his teeth here and would be doing more profound things later but his ability to write a song was already very clear. Re Jimmy Little, it's a great album but not Aussie songs as you'll soon see when you check out the packaging. Do you have "Resonate?" That's the preceding album (after "Messenger.") It's the second album of modern Aussie songs. He does a jaw-droppingly beautiful version of "Bury Me Deep in Love" on "Resonate." It's you and somebody else on here who first turned me onto Little and I have been forever grateful. I probably play those 3 albums of his as often as anything else I have in my collection. He's an interpreter of the very first rank and the songs on these three albums are superb. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1741 Registered: 05-2005 |
I don't have Resonate Randy. I went to his website after I wrote the above and discovered that Messenger did not preceed Life's What You Make It. Resonate is now on my list of course. Bury Me Deep In Love is one of my favourite ever songs so I'm looking forward to hearing Jimmy's take on it (and if an mp3 should wing my way to whet my appetite that would be sweet too ...) | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 330 Registered: 01-2006 |
Padraig, what songs do Daniel Johnston and The Wedding Presnt cover on the tribute to Pet Sounds album? Fuxa - Fuxa 2000 Magnetophone - The Man Who Ate The Man A Mind Expansion Compilation - Mind Expansion Records | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1746 Registered: 05-2005 |
DJ - GOK, TWP - CN. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 828 Registered: 01-2005 |
Count me in as a fan of Safe At Home as well, the first and only album by the ISB. It didn't take too long after Jon Corneal of the ISB introduced Gram to the wonders of George Jones and Merle Haggard that Gram dropped his folky ways and embraced country. | ||
| Lewisdhead Member Username: Lewisdhead Post Number: 13 Registered: 01-2007 |
Rilo Kiley-Under The Blacklight New Pornoghraphers - Challengers Ike & Tina Turner- Hits The Sea And Cake- Everybody Chairmen of The Board - Anthology | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 726 Registered: 10-2004 |
Sector 27/Tom Robinson LP Matt Johnson - Burning Blue Soul Joy Division - Closer - new Rhino vinyl reissue to replace my old, worn copy Artery - Newish CD Compilation (can't remember name) Pale Fountains - Thank You 12" | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1837 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy/Padraig - thanks for turning me on to Jimmy Little. Got Messenger and Resonate from Napster - havent heard Resonate yet but Messenger is sublime, what a voice. Cattle and Cane is of course wonderful (that song is surely unf*ckupable), but I think its topped by his version of Nick Caves Are You The One That Ive Been Waiting For? The last 5 records I've bought Bim Sherman - Love Forever - quality mid 70s roots reggae The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms - plugging a gap in my collection Bob Dylan - Dylan (the 3 cd deluxe box set greatest hits thingy) Microdisney - From Daunt Square to Elsewhere (dont actually have this or the Dylan in my possession yet - Mr Amazon should deliver them tomorrow hopefully) Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures and Closer (both on vinyl) | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1391 Registered: 03-2005 |
hmmm, last five: Panics - Sleeps Like a Curse Nice - Nice Verlaines - Way Out Where Ashtray Boy - Honeymoon Suite Ashtray Boy - Macho Champions Only the Verlaines disc is a bit on the ordinary side. Kevin, you'll find that "Resonate" is less consistent than "Messenger." That's because he made a couple of his producers happy by doing their crappy songs. But the great things are, once again, great things. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2324 Registered: 03-2006 |
Keving, gauging your JD fandom: are you going to get those same releases on CD, too? They really do look pretty sweet - I may have to splurge for 'em...for the CDs that is, not really a vinyl guy. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1840 Registered: 05-2005 |
LK - have got them on CD already, and as part of the JD box set Heart and Soul so will give the current CD reissues a miss. Cant wait to see the Curtis/JD film this Friday, when is it released in the States? | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 88 Registered: 10-2006 |
Bim Sherman! there's a name I'd forgotten...have to dust off the reggae section of my cd collection and play some again. Kevin, what about your personal top ten reggae list, just out of curiosity? Meanwhile, last four cds bought... Okkerville River, the Stage Names, stunningly beautiful, Will Sheff's vocals are really coming into their own and the words are intriguingly dense. Everyone is here, Finn brothers. Nice voices, nice tunes. The lyrics, well. Better than Travis I s'pose. Collected string quartets, Shostakovitch. Something light for the long winter nights. No words of course but painfully honest all the same. Collected songs of Robert Burns. The Scottish Bob Dylan. Some of the greatest words ever written and a lot of great tunes too. And good to hear one of my favourite Scots voices, Bobby Eaglesham again. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 74 Registered: 03-2007 |
Stuart, are you referring to 'The Complete Songs of Robert Burns' issued by Linn Records in a twelve disc set? If not, be sure to check it out as it is an amazing collection. The sound quality is magnificent and it features the cream of the Scottish folk scene. It was nice to see the Five Hand Reel albums re-issued on cd last year. Last five bought:- 1. Black Cab - Altamont Diary 2. Black Cab - Jesus East 3. The Zillions - Play Zig Zag Zillionaire 4. Pivot - Make Me Love You 5. Shout Out Louds - Our Ill Wills Four from Australia and one from Sweden. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1842 Registered: 05-2005 |
Stuart, give me a day or so for that one. I have literally hundreds of reggae albums so will have to sift through them. However, off the top of my head the list would include 2 Sevens Clash, Super Ape, King Tubby Meets The Rockers Uptown and any one of several Burning Spear albums (that will be the trickiest one to decide!) | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 90 Registered: 10-2006 |
Yes, Hugh, it is the Linn set - bought in a moment of Scotsman-in-exile madness - but an extraordinarily rich and wonderful thing it is. And I just googled Bobby Eaglesham's name and found out he died in 2004. What a voice the man had - his versions for 5 hand reel of Red red rose, Carrickfergus, Earl o moray, ae fond kiss... are just stunning I think. Shame he didn't record more stuff. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 75 Registered: 03-2007 |
Stuart, I bought the individual volumes as and when they were released by Linn Records ( no more than two or three a year ) so it took around four years before my set was complete. It really is a majestic collection and a bargain at £60 which is what Linn Records are currently asking for it. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 91 Registered: 10-2006 |
So I did find my Bim Sherman compilation, Taking Off it's called I think, and good to hear it again too. All the reggae features I like - subtle melody, imaginative percussion, odd wee fluttering sounds, parping brass, female backup and a rich creamy vocal over the top. Be good to have something else by this artist. Whatever happened to great reggae music anyway? | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1846 Registered: 05-2005 |
Stuart, Pressure Sounds are releasing a Bim Sherman compilation later this month. Their releases are usually excellent. http://www.pressure.co.uk/pressuresounds /news/?id=118 | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 93 Registered: 10-2006 |
"Skanking!" as I believe one should say. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 832 Registered: 01-2005 |
No reggae Top 10 would be complete without BU's Red, but then I'm not near the expert that Kevin is regarding reggae not do I have enough reggae albums. Jazz would be no problem for me though, as I have a very decent jazz collection. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1848 Registered: 05-2005 |
Michael, have you heard Sinsemilla, the album Black Uhuru made before Red? Its an absolute killer, and probably the album that brought Sly & Robbie to wider attention | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1892 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Gladiators - Studio One Singles Bim Sherman - Tribulation (Down in Jamdown 1974-1979) General Echo - Teacher Fi Di Class The Feelies - The Good Earth Disrupt - Foundation Bit | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 81 Registered: 03-2007 |
City City City - Dawn And The Blue Light District City City City - The Perimeter Motor Show Ned Collette - Future Suture SJD - Songs From A Dictaphone Pretty Boy Crossover - A Different Handwriting | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1823 Registered: 05-2005 |
Where did you get The Good Earth Kevin? | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1897 Registered: 05-2005 |
From Amazon in the US Padraig. I actually thought it was never going to arrive(they normally come within 2 weeks), this one took 4 weeks but popped through the letter box last week. | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 358 Registered: 01-2006 |
White Horses 7" - Dean and Britta. This is a cover of a sixties British tv show apparently and this 7" is a double A side, one version en francais and the other a Sonic Boom remix. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 106 Registered: 10-2006 |
Don't get much chance to do "real" CD shopping here, but last week had a few days in Rome - went with my thick print-out of reggae-stuff-to-buy...couldn't find anything!! But it was great to be in a real record shop anyway, got a bit dizzy, wife had to help me out after a couple of hours... Purchases included: T Rex, an introduction. Versatile Heart, Linda Thompson Aphrodites Child, the singles (!!) Altitude, Blue Aeroplanes (That was just in the rack staring right at me... didn't know they were still going, though of course I've seen the name on some of Spence's posts) Over, Peter Hammill Under the black light, Rilo Kiley (not of course Riley Kilo, as I insisted on calling them to the bemused inquiry guy) Turin Brakes, the Optimist (heavily recommended by a mate) ...now all I've got to do is find the time to hear them. Amazon's great, but nothing really beats jumping round racks tumbling on stuff you'd never thought about! | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1866 Registered: 05-2005 |
XY I love White Horses, thanks for letting us know that d&b had done it! Intriguesd to Sonic Boom mix!! Stuart, hope you like Altitude. Its OK, not great, its also not a proper album in that it was recorded at various times with various personnell over the years. Adulthood is great. That Turin Brakes album is great, whan they were new kids on the block along with Source label mates, Kings of Convenience, I thought world domination would follow...their new album Dark on fire I adore. Its big sounding but still very much TB. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1867 Registered: 05-2005 |
Just heard the D*B White horses, nice, but its so Nouvelle Vague, its got no 'subtle' balls man, its very pedestrian! Rest assured The Winnebago's (when they get around o to it!) will do it justice... | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 309 Registered: 04-2005 |
The TrashCan Sinatras used to do an excellent "White Horses". Their recorded version was a little tame (a b-side), but the live one (drenched in feedback) was supreme! | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 359 Registered: 01-2006 |
Spence I'd say the version you heard was the Tony Visconti produced album version. Yeah it's not going to change your life or anything and the 7" versions aren't radically different to the album version. Dean Wareham doesn't really do radical cover versions, except maybe for Sweet Child O' Mine (Luna) and Don't Let Our Youth Go To Waste (Galaxie 500). | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 868 Registered: 01-2005 |
Kevin, it's been over a decade since I've listened to Sinsemilla as I really need to get my turntable fixed or buy a cd of it. I bought a cd copy of Red years ago, although it's outdated now with the remastered version available now, so Red is fresher in my mind. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1905 Registered: 05-2005 |
Michael, I'm sure Sinsemilla was re-released just last year - remastered to boot. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 871 Registered: 01-2005 |
Kevin, sure 'nuff 'tis. It's on my short list. |