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     Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 872 Registered: 09-2006 |
After a self-enforced layoff it's happily back to the Apples in Stereo's "New Magnetic Wonder." Not just the greatest pop album to come down the pike in too long a time, but also (in terms of form), with its ambition and its length and its linking bits and its side-trips and flights of fancy what "Soft Bomb" was aiming at and came so close to. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1865 Registered: 05-2005 |
Crumb - Evenings & Weekends (2005 album of TFC-type power pop, from Dublin) Brian - Understand (1992 album of Smiths-type pop from Irish bloke Ken Sweeney. Ken is a very nice and talented man). | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 890 Registered: 10-2004 |
Tom Robinson - North by Northwest Luiz Bonfa - El Brazilian Guitar comp | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1086 Registered: 08-2006 |
"New Magnetic Wonder" has been on heavy rotation here, too, Allen. It even improves the more you play it, revealing new sounds or some musical sleight of hand you hadn't noticed before. It's one of those rare pop albums that's both technically sophisticated and tons of fun. | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 126 Registered: 05-2005 |
Midlake - Milkmaid grand army ep. Not bad. Françoise Hardy - sampler | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 356 Registered: 07-2006 |
padraig....intrigued by this brian fella. think i can get my hands on a copy downunder? if not - i'm in london come saturday morning!!!!! | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 131 Registered: 10-2006 |
I always wanted to sample Francoise Hardy... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1867 Registered: 05-2005 |
Joe, try in London, but I doubt you'll find anything. I'll send you a sample when you get back if you have no luck in London. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 876 Registered: 09-2006 |
Agreed, Rob, and for me another factor is the increased maturity and wisdom in the lyrics...Schneider seems to be over trying to pretend he's still 23. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1465 Registered: 03-2005 |
Last night: Lee Hazelwood -- "The Reprise Recordings." Some brilliant things and a fair dose of rubbish. I didn't realize that he wrote "Houston," the only Dean Martin record I ever owned. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 753 Registered: 08-2004 |
Fairport Convention - Live Public Enemy - How You Sell Soul...? VA - 24 Hours In Paris | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 938 Registered: 01-2005 |
Stuart wrote: >I always wanted to sample Francoise Hardy... Your not the only one. I fell for her as a teenager watching Grand Prix on the big screen. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 132 Registered: 10-2006 |
Her photo popped up half way through my first year French book, a heart-stopping pout in the midst of the wretched Bertillon family's daily grind in the suburbs of Villeneuve. No surprise my first teenage solo trip was to Paris! | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1988 Registered: 05-2005 |
Wilco and Billy Bragg - Mermaid Ave vol 2. (feels Christmassy!) About to line up Best of Madness. And I've just dug out Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 877 Registered: 09-2006 |
My Bloody Valentine - 4 EPs from the late 80s Against Me! - New Wave Kate & Anna McGarrigle - 1st album Kanye West - Graduation Natacha Atlas - Gedida | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 878 Registered: 09-2006 |
And...Apples in Stereo - Tone Soul Evolution | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1869 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Triffids - Born Sandy Devotional. Simply one of the greatest records ever made. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1468 Registered: 03-2005 |
Agreed, Padraig. That record never wears out its welcome. "Calenture" I have to be in the right mood for but BSD is always appropriate. Stuart, today my iPod's random mode threw up Francoise Hardy's "Tu Es un Peu A Moi." Lovely. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 133 Registered: 10-2006 |
Her songs conjure up that whole 60s French era for me, corner bars in the rain and cobblestones and Truffaut and Malle and scooters and Lino Ventura and Gauloise, that bittersweet mix of innocence and sophistication...ah, and French girls. Unbeatable, really. | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 386 Registered: 01-2006 |
Llyod Cole - Mainstream, some good songs but overall their weakest album. Wilco - YHF demos, there are a few songs on this that never made it to the album but would surpass a few of the weaker ones off SBS... | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1995 Registered: 05-2005 |
XY there are some absolutely stunning trax from YHF demos, courtesy of your kind self. I was listening to SBS the other day and it kinda now reminds me more and more of the Guthrie stuff they did with Billy Bragg you know. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1472 Registered: 03-2005 |
After having it for well over a month I finally popped in the bonus disc to the Panics' "Cruel Guards" for a listen. I'd previously heard the version of "Lazyitis" that everybody else seems to like (but just isn't my thing) BUT once "Lazyitis" is finished they just let their folkie tastes run riot all the way to a great version of "Just Like a Woman." A very nice bonus, this. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1883 Registered: 05-2005 |
Listening to the album right now Randy, with Lazyitis queued up to follow it. I don't their take on Just Like A Woman all that much, but One Too Many Mornings and Factory Girl are great. | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 380 Registered: 05-2005 |
Matt Lunson - Miss Vaughan. With an album title like that, I've just got to like it! He's a Tazzy who lives in Ireland, who I saw playing support The Church, about 3 weeks after Grant died. Bought the CD that night. I swear I didn't cop the album title until half an hour after buying it! | ||
| Wilson Davey Member Username: Wilson Post Number: 92 Registered: 05-2005 |
Francoise Hardy...shes' a darlin ! Rachel Worth stayed with Francoise Hardy for 6 weeks in the summer of 1965 in Antibes. I lived upstairs with a borrowed guitar and eternal optimism. As we all know in Antibes it's blue and white and summer all the time... | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 218 Registered: 01-2007 |
Blue Nile-Peace at Last Richmond Fontane-13 Cities | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1997 Registered: 05-2005 |
A podcast, with Alan McGee, Mike Alway (El Records) and Ian mcnaiy (Cherry Red). Its a fuck*n hysterical nightmare, but I love em, they discuss tales of their respective labels, McGee can't stop saying "Yep! and "sorta kinda like" before everything. Its taking me over listening to these little things rather than the effin history of everything. Howevere, its like the 3 kings, theya ll were responsible in influencing my life, Ian with Cherry Red, that gave me, Monochrome Set, Kevin Coyne, and Quentin Crisp, Felt amongst others, Alan gave me, Biff Bang Pow, Felt, Weather Prophets, Duncan Dhu amongst others and Mike gave me Felt, Louis Philippe, Gol Gappas and Bid amongst others!! | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 883 Registered: 09-2006 |
Alex Chilton - Top 30 A two-disc French import, covering the Erratic One's solo daze, 1975-94. Not quite enough from the lost decade, a little too much from "High Priest," and I'd trade in the two perfectly decent live tracks in favor of "Thank You John" and "Dalai Lama." But that's to be expected, as any compilation you make of the fellow's work is going to have some contrariness built in...all in all this is real good fun. It's been too long since I heard these words of wit: Lost my job Now I can stay out all night long Fired me from my job, people Now I can sleep all day long Lost my job Guess I gotta go steal and rob | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 884 Registered: 09-2006 |
OK, I just checked and it looks like "Top 30" is available stateside too, in fact has been for 10 years. First time I've heard of it, anyway. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 900 Registered: 10-2004 |
Spence - I have that McGee/Alway/McNaiy discussion on a CD. It's disc 2 of an El Comp called The Ruling Class. It really IS both an informative and entertaining glimpse into their worlds. Of course I can only understand about 2/3 of what McGee says given his thick Scottish accent, but it's an amusing listen. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2002 Registered: 05-2005 |
Arctic Monkeys - Whetever People Say i am... Listenong to this for first time in over a year, you realise on playing Still take you home, how incrdibley good they are, from the intelligent witty lyrics to the tight playing etc, and given their age, bloomin eck!! What a group!! | ||
| Jonathan Evans Member Username: Jon Post Number: 145 Registered: 04-2005 |
Spence Your right, I really wanted to hate t'monkeys because of the clammer to make them the next big thing in the nme. But after listening to the album(s) you realise that lyrically thay're just so good. Anyway, listening to The Mighty Wah! "Songs Of Strenght & Heartbreak"...its my pre-match warm-up for any Liverpool game (obviously Heart As Big As Liverpool). Cheers Jon | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 221 Registered: 01-2007 |
Joe Henry -Civilians, couldn't help thinking Randy may like this, good tunes well played by someone who usually does the work for others. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1890 Registered: 05-2005 |
Por Vida: A Tribute To The Songs Of Alejandro Escovedo [Disc 1]. I bought this ages ago in Melbourne but I'm only finally playing it now. I have so many unplayed CDs that I'm trying to play three a day over Christmas / new year break. Por Vida is quite brilliant by the way. A worthy tribute to an extraordinary talent. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2014 Registered: 05-2005 |
Warhol's Fifteen and 88 Out and Le Petit Cadeau De Don Juan by The Blue Aeroplanes form their first compilation, Friendloverplane. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1483 Registered: 03-2005 |
Frank, I've wondered what Joe Henry's own stuff might sound like. Spence, are those the names of EPs? Friendloverplane was my introduction to the Blue Aeroplanes. Along with Bop Art it's still probably my favorite. Last night I was listening to selections from the Verlaines' "Hallelujah All the Way Home" in preparation for sending some things to Jeff. And thanks to Hugh I have a huge stack of Able Tasmans to work my way through! So I know what you mean Padraig (though somehow I suspect that your pile of unplayed discs dwarfs mine by an order of magnitude). | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2015 Registered: 05-2005 |
Hi randy No they are individual songs from the comp, I have them on repeat at the mo! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1485 Registered: 03-2005 |
Ok, got it. I was too literal with your "form" which was supposed to be "from." This reminds me of a big big problem with CDs and iPods. You tend to spend much less time looking at the annotations and artwork and because of that I think the only song title from "Friendloverplane" that I know is "Tolerance." I guess I should sit down more often. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2018 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy its these Apple mac keys, they're shite either that or I have that problem, i carn't spell!! | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2019 Registered: 05-2005 |
This guy wants to be my friend... http://www.myspace.com/jasonebsmusi | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2024 Registered: 05-2005 |
The best of Level 42! | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1995 Registered: 05-2005 |
Ive always wanted to use the word oxymoron in a post, thanks for the opportunity Spence! | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 890 Registered: 09-2006 |
Patti Smith - Dream of Life The Rough Guide to Sufi Music | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 225 Registered: 01-2007 |
Randy I'll see if my computer skills are upto email presents | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2025 Registered: 05-2005 |
Nice one Kev! The moron being Mark King eh!? I'v been mostly listening to, The Apartments, thanks to Randy. What fantastic music it is too. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 891 Registered: 09-2006 |
What a Wonderful Christmas - Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Louis Jordan, etc. A Christmas Gift For You - Phil Spector and his minions | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1896 Registered: 05-2005 |
Rubber Soul. What a lovely record! | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 949 Registered: 01-2005 |
This Time Of The Year - June Christy | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1898 Registered: 05-2005 |
The new Led Zeppelin compilation! Thanks sis! | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1999 Registered: 05-2005 |
Shackleton & Appleblim - Skull Disco Soundboy Punishments. Compilation of sublime Dubstep (I notice there is a full page article on the Dubstep scene in this months Word magazine, as well as Burial being their album of the month. Its only a matter of time till it hits the mainstream, probably to the detriment of the scene) Panda Bear - Person Pitch. Today its my album of the year! Comicopera- Robert Wyatt PJ Harvey - White Chalk. Her best album along with Stories from the city..... ? Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna. Warrior Dubz - Another Dubstep comp | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 893 Registered: 09-2006 |
Alright Padraig! Not long ago I was happily making my way through Led Zep's "Boxed Set II" myself. Nice how even the tunes they thought were comparatively second-rate are great fun. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 567 Registered: 04-2006 |
C O C K R O C K! Led Zeppelin - Mothership my massager (yes, I am getting old...) lent me this new Zep compilation. I never was a big fan (in the seventies i just owned 'the song remains the same'- album and at the time when physical graffiti was released i recorded the album from broadcast and the tape was a good friend of mine over a few months) and I think I never will be one. But becoming a BOF this is nice to listen - casually. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 894 Registered: 09-2006 |
Casually might be the best way, andreas. I find if I take the cock-waving and pomp with about 16 grains of salt and just let the music have its way with me then things work out just fine. I think R. Xgau's words of praise for New Order's "Substance" also fit Zep as a whole: "a case study in sensationalist art, and I say the world is better for it." | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1900 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Panics - Cruel Guards The Caretaker Race - Hangover Square (a friend described this 1990 album as being like David McComb fronting The Go-Betweens. He's on the money. Check it out from http://takethepills.blogspot.com/) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1901 Registered: 05-2005 |
Asleep On The Snow. Great Christmas song by Comet Gain. | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 229 Registered: 01-2007 |
I also have the Mothership CD and have enjoyed it more than I have all their other LPs, particularly like Bonzo's drumming, though the vocals grate after a while. I guess when I was younger I could have become a rocker but fortunately Punk came along and saved me. | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 230 Registered: 01-2007 |
Actually what puts me off the Zep are the realy long workouts of Drums Guitars eetc, the mothership CD does show them at their best most tracks are shortish and better for it | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1492 Registered: 03-2005 |
The neighboring residents of Greenacre Avenue are being blasted with the Panics' "Get Us Home." And then I'll have to be getting to work. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 953 Registered: 01-2005 |
Night Train and We Get Requests by Oscar Peterson. God speed Oscar. | ||
| Wilson Davey Member Username: Wilson Post Number: 105 Registered: 05-2005 |
Richard Hawley - "Lowedges". Named after a housing estate of the same name in Sheffield. The No 76 bus goes there ! I used to live in nearby Dronfield. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 896 Registered: 09-2006 |
The Funk Box - 4 discs of 70s goodness, very few dips in greatness throughout. Blake Babies - Innocence and Experience | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 897 Registered: 09-2006 |
Popinjays - Flying Down to Mono Valley Tiger - Shining in the Woods Kid Creole & las Coconuts - You Should Told Me You Were... Miles D. - Complete 'Jack Johnson' Sessions | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 2012 Registered: 05-2005 |
Drive By Truckers - Brighter Than Creations Dark. Still digesting this one, 19 tracks and the first album since Jason Ishbel left. Initial impressions are that its fairly sprawling, and more "countryish" than the last album. Shonna Tucker sings on 3 songs and has prominent backing vocals. Patterson Hood says that its their best album, I dont think he's the type to say that and not mean it. Kevin Ayers - The Unfairground. Special thanks to Andreas and Spence for pointing me the way of this one. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 759 Registered: 08-2004 |
Not had much opportunity to hear anything new of late. The shops are awash with best ofs, greatest hits, contractual filler & exploitation releases. I've had to content myself with a Depeche Mode rareities playlist, This Is Dub compilation & The Joshua Tree. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 901 Registered: 09-2006 |
Rolling Stones - Emotional Rescue Often reviled, and it certainly couldn't stand with any of their greats. The lyrics are often lazy as hell, too. But on the whole this a pretty solid and fun record, with only one real dud cut ("Indian Girl" yiccch) and a goodly number of nifty grooves like "Dance (Pt. 1)," (in which, halfway through, a bit pops up that Franz Ferdinand obviously nicked for their first hit). | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1912 Registered: 05-2005 |
Built To Spill's Car single from about 10 years ago. They are touring Australia at the moment and I just heard the singer, Doug Martsch, interviewed on Triple J, which made me dig out the single. I'd forgotten it has an absolute gem of a b-side called Some Things Last A Long Time. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1913 Registered: 05-2005 |
Now I'm on to Jeff Buckley's Live At Sin-e EP. By the way, in case anyone doesn't know, Sin-e is an Irish bar in New York. It is pronounced Shin-eh. It means "here it is" or "that's it". | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1916 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Stars Of Heaven. Great lost Irish band from the 80s. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1920 Registered: 05-2005 |
Some Things Last A Long Time was, of course, written by Daniel Johnston. | ||
| Wilson Davey Member Username: Wilson Post Number: 113 Registered: 05-2005 |
Counting Crows - Long December "The smell of hospitals in Winter" is such a great line. Really love this song. | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 399 Registered: 05-2005 |
The song "Leave As You Came" has been going round my head all day, because of your mention of Stars of Heaven, Pádraig. Must see if I can unearth Unfinished Dreaming this evening.. | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 232 Registered: 01-2007 |
Blur-Think Tank-a very good LP GBs-Tallulah lovely | ||
| Wilson Davey Member Username: Wilson Post Number: 116 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Pixies - here comes your man | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 905 Registered: 09-2006 |
Unfortunately, it's "Bad Day," by Daniel Powter, which has turned up on the background music in three count-'em three stores I've been in in the last couple of days. The aggressive uplift and pure-MOR arrangement just bring out my sneer in no time flat. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2036 Registered: 05-2005 |
Lots of various songs by The Apartments. Thanks Randy. I feel immediately drawn to all of this stuff. Although retrospectively, its a nice way to start the musak in 08. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 917 Registered: 10-2004 |
1st Jack Frost album - revisiting it after not hearing it for many, many years. I like it better than I used to. It's fairly consistent, with a lot of slower, moody, pretty numbers. I think it's cool that there's a lot of stuff here that doesn't sound much like either Grant solo or the Church. Like, there are many moments where they created something totally unique. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1924 Registered: 05-2005 |
Good choice Jeff. I always liked the first Jack Frost album, but I liked it a whole lot better when I revisited it after many years. |