| Author | Message | ||
     Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 92 Registered: 10-2006 |
Let fall your soft and swaying skirt Let fall your shoes, let fall your shirt... A girl in port, Okkervil River. Sumptious, shining beauty. Mr Sheff at the top of his game. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 732 Registered: 10-2004 |
Into the Garden - Artery | ||
| Austin McLean Member Username: Bruegelpie Post Number: 47 Registered: 09-2004 |
Stars - Take me to the Riot | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 264 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jeff, when you say Artery, are you talking about the Balkan heavy metal band? | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 734 Registered: 10-2004 |
Catherine: no, I'm talking about the obscure, early 80s post-punk band from Sheffield. I discovered them recently and I like some of their stuff. Their better songs have kind of a Joy Division meets Teardrop Explodes vibe. Horrid name, though. Would be better much suited to a Norwegian death-metal band. | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 265 Registered: 05-2005 |
Your Artery sounds rather interesting, might have to investigate. The mix sounds of JD and TE sounds like a promising combination. The Artery I'm talking about are not quite Norwegian Death-Metal! They're a bunch of 30-something Bulgarian blokes, based in Amsterdam, who play a kind of Balkan/Heavy Metal mix. Ever heard Enter Sandman played on a bouzouki? I have.. They're actually pretty good live. http://dl.mp3lizard.com/artery/god.mp3 http://dl.mp3lizard.com/artery/HIGHER%5F AND%5FFASTER.mp3 | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1850 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jeff, didnt Artery do a track called The Garden, or something similar? I remember Peel played them a lot. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 735 Registered: 10-2004 |
Kevin - yeah, it's "Into the Garden." That's a popular favorite, which earned considerable praise from Peel. Artery's output was rather patchy, but when they were firing on all cylinders - as they were on "Into the Garden" - they were quite good. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1811 Registered: 05-2005 |
Dear John - Nice (thanks Randy) | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 945 Registered: 08-2006 |
"Fear Is a Man's Best Friend" - John Cale | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 749 Registered: 09-2006 |
Just watched "The Harder the Come," so it's "Sweet and Dandy" by the Maytals. | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 339 Registered: 01-2006 |
Allen I taped that film off the TV a few months ago but haven't watched it yet. I checked in during recording it to the bit where Jimmy Cliff is doing The Harder They Come song in the studio complete with a big spliff in his hand, excellent stuff. Looks like a good film too... | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 341 Registered: 01-2006 |
And listening to Change Your Mind by NY while I'm finishing this downloading. It's the only song on Side 2 of Sleeps With Angels, hadn't played it in ages, mesmirising. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 752 Registered: 09-2006 |
It was, certainly a landmark in a number of ways. Sharp and honest politically (the record trade, the ganja trade and the police department are all in each other's back pocket) and darker overall than I thought it would be. The DVD I'm watching has an excellent commentary by Cliff and writer/director Perry Henzell. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 753 Registered: 09-2006 |
That is a fine piece of work, XY...I think I posted here a couple months back about how I pulled that album off the shelf and ended up playing it three times in a row. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1870 Registered: 05-2005 |
Guys, The Harder They Come is my favourite soundtrack ever. Although I think I have only ever bought that, and the Soundtrack to the film Walker that Joe Strummer was involved with!! Sleeps With Angels, is it really that good? Maybe need to reappraise that one, will listen to it over the weekend. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 837 Registered: 01-2005 |
Count me in as a fan of Sleeps with Angels. I think it's the best NY studio album from the last 13 years, and easily one of his ten best. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1871 Registered: 05-2005 |
Just played Sleeps With Angels. Better than I recall, starts of really well, but Change Your Mind goes on far too long. Remembered that Train Of Love was basically Western Hero with different lyrics, Trans Am is great, Piece Of Crap is just what it says on the tin. Can any album by a major artist have so many bum notes, not a criticism as such because with someone like NY it gives it a certain charm. Overall glad to hear it again, and Michaels comment about it being one of his 10 best is food for thought for a thread. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 841 Registered: 01-2005 |
NY certainly has enough humdingers to easily fill out a Top 10. I was thinking about picking up Clapton's autobiography, but I would probably just get ticked at thinking how he wasted his talent after the Dominoes by being surrounded by mediocre bandmates that never pushed him in the studio like Duane Allman did on the Layla sessions. Or maybe it was just that Duane was so special and not so much Eric's fault? | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 755 Registered: 09-2006 |
I would'nt mind if "Change Your Mind" were even longer, actually...to me SWA is an album like "A Thousand Leaves" - it feels endless, in the best possible way, nearly every song opening out into eternity (which is why, when I make my top 10 Neil list, "Weld" is going to be on it). To me the only slightly weak link is the title track: like many tributes to dead peers, especially ones who've gone recently, it feels overly self-conscious, like he's trying to cover too many bases at once while remaining unpretentious. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2383 Registered: 03-2006 |
"Evidently Chickentown" - John Cooper Clarke | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1833 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kevin Ayres - Baby Come Home | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1798 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Panics - One Too Many Mornings. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 764 Registered: 10-2004 |
Marine Girls - Lazy Ways | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1845 Registered: 05-2005 |
Nice one Jeff, you know your old Indie my boy! Blackwater - Rain Tree Crow. Just played it. I can't believe how great and ahead of its time this song is, Jeeeeeeezus!!!!!!!!!!!! | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 766 Registered: 10-2004 |
Spence, I need to find that, I haven't listened to it in ages. Which is weird, since I love Japan so much. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2402 Registered: 03-2006 |
Huh. Do you think the famous mercenary thugs, the ones shootin' things up in I-rak, were David Sylvian fans? Is that where they got the name? | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 769 Registered: 10-2004 |
Ha! I'm sure the Blackwater crew has got Sylvian staples like "The Boy with the Gun" pumping through their ear-pieces while on the job. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 307 Registered: 04-2005 |
Lemonheads + the sublime "It's About Time". | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 321 Registered: 07-2006 |
kissability - sonics. i still think it'd sound better on goo than daydream though. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 794 Registered: 09-2006 |
"Star Baby" - The Guess Who "And the Band Played 'Waltzing Matilda'" - Pogues | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 105 Registered: 10-2006 |
"Cadillac" - T Rex. Scorned at 15, grooved to at 50! Great slack-wristed crunching riff and lovely brisk guitar noodles. Marc wants to buy his baby a Cadillac, it seems. The wee girls in cheesecloth shirts with silver stars on their cheeks were right after all!! | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 790 Registered: 10-2004 |
Actor's Studio - Winnebago Orchestra I'm always blown away by how great this song is. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1861 Registered: 05-2005 |
Even with the Rockford Files Moogesque middle 8?! Thanks anyway Jeff, ur very kind... | ||
| Jonathan Evans Member Username: Jon Post Number: 122 Registered: 04-2005 |
Take pills by Panda bear Cheers Jon | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1815 Registered: 05-2005 |
Ed Kuepper's version of Finding You. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1887 Registered: 05-2005 |
And me too Padraig - thanks Randy | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 816 Registered: 09-2006 |
"The Wells Fargo Wagon (is a'Comin' Down the Street) - from The Music Man "My Body is a Cage" - Arcade Fire Random net headline spotted in passing today: "Britney Spears calls world 'cruel' in new book." World holds press conference to deny allegations... | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 817 Registered: 09-2006 |
And that's actually been topped by another one I just ran across: "Australian opposition leader regrets ear wax eating video." | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1830 Registered: 05-2005 |
Don't Fight It - The Panics. The used it during the Channel 10 sports news on Sunday night! Fame surely beckons now! |