| Author | Message | ||
     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2072 Registered: 05-2005 |
The last Roman numeral before it starts to get tricky... I'm listening to the soundtrack of The Singing Detective, having recently added the hard to find CD version to my original cassette version. I'd better get the DVD of the series too. Brilliant TV and a soundtrack of 30s-50s songs that help carry the story, from Limehouse Blues to Don't Fence Me In to The Teddy Bear's Picnic and We'll Meet Again. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2192 Registered: 05-2005 |
The robert forster podcast. its http://podcast.timesonline.co.uk/serve.p hp/1560/soundsrobertforster.mp3 a nice update for me, good to hear his voice. funnily enuff the guy peter paphides is a guy i have known since 1987, he interviewed lindy in '87 for his hilarious fanzine perturbed, whats more petew was and is still i believe a true gobees fan. anyhow this podcast is great. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2076 Registered: 05-2005 |
Cat Power - Jukebox. Brilliant. My six-year-old loves her. | ||
| fsh Member Username: Fsh Post Number: 147 Registered: 05-2005 |
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah ... | ||
| fsh Member Username: Fsh Post Number: 152 Registered: 05-2005 |
Do you think this 'fsh' guy is a "cyper bully"? | ||
| fsh Member Username: Fsh Post Number: 153 Registered: 05-2005 |
Nah, not at all. | ||
| fsh Member Username: Fsh Post Number: 154 Registered: 05-2005 |
thanks for all your support guys - sometimes i feel so alone in this world | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 40 Registered: 02-2008 |
Dolly Parton - Backdoor Barbie | ||
| Dr Girlfriend Member Username: Doctor_girlfriend Post Number: 41 Registered: 10-2007 |
don't feel lonely, Mr (Ms?) Fsh, some of us are reading and laughing about what you write! I'm part of the board "leper colony" too... (boo hoo) | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 949 Registered: 09-2006 |
I wouldn't say leper colony at all...I've been here nearly a year and a half now and people don't respond to everything I've written, or even close, and it's the same for everybody else...there wouldn't be time to do anything else. Besides, regarding fsh, how exactly does one respond to someone pretending to be mentally unbalanced and thinking it's an original idea? | ||
| fsh Member Username: Fsh Post Number: 156 Registered: 05-2005 |
Allen wrote: "how exactly does one respond to someone pretending to be mentally unbalanced and thinking it's an original idea?" Beats me! I dunno. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 950 Registered: 09-2006 |
Regarding the Thriller discussion begun at the end of our last episode...Michael, I love me some Prince and Time and especially Kid Creole (saw him live in '85 and it was absolutely transcendant - even better than the George Clinton show I saw, and that's saying something), but I still dig Thriller and Off the Wall a lot too...even the 25-years-and-counting flood of ookiness that Jackson's life has become doesn't dim those records for me. It's an old argument, but over time I know which side I've come to be on: James Brown was a wife beater, an absolutely reprehensible thing...but does that mean all his incredible records be thrown out too? | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 41 Registered: 02-2008 |
I'm as creeped out by Wacko Jacko's antics as the next punter, but all it takes is hearing a few bars of "Billie Jean" or "Wanna be startins somehing" (drinkin a big pimp-mug of Jesus Juice don't hurt either) and you ferget all a that other stuff! ONe of the high points in music, end of story. | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 42 Registered: 02-2008 |
Dr.G sent me some cuts by Wussy and I gotta say, this is some great rocknroll - sort of like X meets Yo La Tango with some Neal Jung thrown in for good measure. I gots to get their records. Thank you baby! ps - for what its worth, I think Mr. fsh is pretty freaking funny! | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 951 Registered: 09-2006 |
That soundtrack does sound great, Padraig...and it's been years since I've seen the series, but have fond memories of it. Michael Gambon has had quite a career... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2077 Registered: 05-2005 |
Did you know he's from Dublin Allen? He was doing some film about 10 years ago and the director told him he'd have to do his part in an Irish accent, not realising Mr Gambon was from Ireland. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2078 Registered: 05-2005 |
Van Morrisson - Wavelength. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2079 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Waterboys - Glastonbury Song. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2080 Registered: 05-2005 |
Billy Bragg - Mr Love And Justice. I'm halfway through the first listen and Something Happened is the standout track so far. | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 137 Registered: 05-2005 |
I've made some shopping in Germany this week-end and finally found the new Winnebago. I'll listen to it in the few next days. The record has received a nice review in the last MusikExpres (three stars). From my poor german to my poor english : 'A fine tribute to Nick Drake and the west-coast hippie-pop with supposedly gorgeous lyrics.' | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 163 Registered: 10-2006 |
That "supposedly gorgeous" is nice! | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2194 Registered: 05-2005 |
TROU! Good luck! No, thanks for buying, it is nice when you know someone has gone andbought it. Thanks. The Wolfhounds - Bright and Guilty. (one of the greatest guitar bands and unsung heroes of mid to late 80's alternative, easily as good as anything by YLT or simlar, IMHO) | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1560 Registered: 03-2005 |
Wolfhounds, eh? As usual, I've never of them. Are they American, Spence? At the moment: selections by Doctor Millar, thanks to Padraig. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1051 Registered: 10-2004 |
Randy - Wolfounds were trebbly, scratchy c86 pop. English. I haven't heard them in a long time, and I never totally warmed up to them, but I remember them being a bit jagged in a vaguely Josef K-esque kind of way. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2196 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy, not American, from london. jeff is near the mark (funnily enough Andy the main guitarist was a massive JK fan, and i can personally see the similarities). Though, they were around since 1982, and definately not C86, though they were lumped in with it (it must be said that the C86 IMHO, was still a great period, if you dug deep enough below the depths of Talulah Gosh and The Shop Assistants.) They started quite jangly and poppy, but turned into a real Sonic Youthesque type group, with real hidden depths. I'll mail ya. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 956 Registered: 09-2006 |
I didn't know that about Gambon, Padraig...I would've guessed England, or maybe (ignorantly, I'm sure) France because the last name sounds sorta French. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 957 Registered: 09-2006 |
Belly - King The Blasters - The Complete Slash Recordings Fluffy - Black Eye | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1054 Registered: 10-2004 |
Luiz Bonfa - La Roi de la Bossa Nova Marcos Valle - Samba Demais Martinho da Vila - Meu Laiaraia | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2082 Registered: 05-2005 |
I thought Wolfhounds were kinda metally? I'm pretty sure I used to read interviews with them in Kerrang back in the day (the mid-80s). Was their singer called Blaize Bailey? Or am I mixing them up with some other band? Allen, quite a few Irish people have French names, including some of our most famous writers (eg Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu) and artists (Louis Le Brocquy). They are mostly descended from the Huguenots. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2083 Registered: 05-2005 |
Listening right now to the solo version of Billy Bragg's Mr Love And Justice. Some of it I like better than the full band versions. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2085 Registered: 05-2005 |
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! First play and I love it. | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 9 Registered: 11-2007 |
The Chills - Kaleidoscope World with one of the sadest and best songs ever done "Pink Frost" The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms ... and I'm going to hear my "Buba & the Shop Assistants" 7" again. Haven't heared it for such a long time. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2086 Registered: 05-2005 |
Now listening to Bap Kennedy's The Big Picture album. He's from Belfast, but sounds a lot like Paul Kelly to me. The song Moriarty’s Blues is on now and features Carolyn Cassidy reciting some lines from her brilliant book Off The Road. I like this album a lot so far. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1562 Registered: 03-2005 |
Second half of Doctor Millar, right now this fabulous droning Celtic thing that closes it out called "Rock to Roll." I am a sure sucker for droning numbers and the drums are great. Everything on this number works for me. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1564 Registered: 03-2005 |
Everly Bros--In Our Image. By the time of this album (1966) the Americans didn't care what they did but thankfully the Brits were still buying. It's a great set. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1063 Registered: 01-2005 |
Allen, I don't know why some folks don't like Belly's album King considering what else came out in 1995. | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 260 Registered: 01-2007 |
Padraig I've got the Billy Bragg and the Nick Cave, to my ears the solo versions are better but I'm not overwelmed by it really not a good as some of the review would have us believe, I prefer his earlier rougher voice to this more measured one, I love the Nick Cave by the way | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 959 Registered: 09-2006 |
Michael, one possibility might be that it's a slow-grower...it was for me anyway. Bought it when it came out, listened a few times, liked it OK, have had it around all this time, but it hasn't been until the last few years that its charms have started to emerge in a major way for me. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2090 Registered: 05-2005 |
Robert Forster - Pandanus. It's great. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 963 Registered: 09-2006 |
Gram/Burritos - Live in L.A. 1969 | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 56 Registered: 02-2008 |
Whiskeytown - Strangers Almanac deluxe edition | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1566 Registered: 03-2005 |
Paul Kelly & the Messengers--Gossip | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1062 Registered: 10-2004 |
Nara Leao - O Canto Livre de Nara | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2094 Registered: 05-2005 |
Those of you that are fans of Perth band The Sleepy Jackson may be interested in an article I wrote about them five years ago, which I've posted at www.myspace.com/padraigcollins My predictions for them didn't quite come true... But it's a nice piece! | ||
| fsh Member Username: Fsh Post Number: 157 Registered: 05-2005 |
Andreas Severins Posted on Tuesday, March 04, 2008 - 10:30 am: "... and I'm going to hear my "Buba & the Shop Assistants" 7" again. Haven't heared it for such a long time." That single is very very hard to find and worth a lot of bread. Randy Adams Posted on Thursday, March 06, 2008 - 04:52 am: "Paul Kelly & the Messengers--Gossip" Is that the one that Grant McLennan collaborated on? If so, was their collaboration worthwhile in your view? | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1567 Registered: 03-2005 |
Fsh, thanks for mentioning that. I literally just got "Gossip" yesterday and was hearing it for the first time while busy doing other things so I didn't read any of the inserts but--sure enough--Grant appears as a "guest" on "Don't Harm the Messenger." It just goes to show that I was NOT paying much attention to the music when that came on because I didn't notice. I'll play it now. OK, Grant speaks in the middle of the song. Wow, I wish I'd been paying attention because that would have blown my mind! It's just a spoken passage in the middle of the song, fsh. It's a pleasant but unexceptional little ditty and suddenly Grant recites a stanza in the middle. I wonder how long it would have taken me to notice if you hadn't brought it up. In general I found this album to have a bunch of great songs with very conventional type arrangements that leave me a little cold. Which undoubtedly is why I kept myself busy doing other things while the CD was on. The album is worth having, but the Grant bit is definitely a brief moment. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1067 Registered: 10-2004 |
Marcos Valle - Samba Demais, again, which I'm really liking. Luiz Bonfa + Caterina Valente - eponymous, which I'm liking okay, except for its intermittent moments of goopy schmaltz. Tamba Trio - Tempo, I am not liking this at all. Energetic, but cheezy, slick, and soulless. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1570 Registered: 03-2005 |
Wolfhounds, thanks to Spence. Jeff, are you SURE they don't work for you? They do have the garage thing which won't be something that thrills you but there's plenty of 80s qualities and--somewhere--there HAS to be an intersection between your tastes for the Sound, Microdisney and those headbanger bands. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1069 Registered: 10-2004 |
Randy, I've only heard one Wolfhounds album, and it was years ago. I don't remember which album it was, either. It's entirely possible I just happened to hear the "wrong" album. It probably just didn't jive with whatever mood I happened to be in that week. I remember it being jagged and spastic. Like Josef K on meth. But, like I said, maybe I was exposed to the "wrong" material. | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 454 Registered: 01-2006 |
Spoon - Ga Ga Ga etc. This is super, I really like it and will definitely be looking into more stuff by these guys. | ||
| Dr Girlfriend Member Username: Doctor_girlfriend Post Number: 50 Registered: 10-2007 |
all the Spoon albums from Girls Can Tell on are pretty much in the same vein, so either you'll really like them or find them "too much of one thing." not meant as a criticism, but Britt Daniel found a comfort zone and doesn't wander too far from it... | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 968 Registered: 09-2006 |
Gogol Bordello - East Infection Can't get enough of these folks at the moment. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 970 Registered: 09-2006 |
Bad Brains - Banned in D.C.: Best of Bad Brains Daft Punk - Alive 2007 The Beautiful South - Superbi That last one has one of my favorite liner notes in a long time: "No thanks to God - he did fuckall." | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 262 Registered: 01-2007 |
The new Gary Louris-Vagabonds jsut one listen so far not bad not up there with the Jayhawks finest unfortunately, but may be a grower, Going to Neil Young tomorrow so having a bit of a feast on his music | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 100 Registered: 03-2007 |
The Magick Heads - Before We Go Under. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1572 Registered: 03-2005 |
At work today: The Essential Wolfhounds Now: Liberty Belle & the Black Diamond Express | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 2054 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kiddus I - Rockers:Graduation in Zion 1978-1980 The Breeders - Mountain Battles The Ruby Suns - Sea Lion The Gutter Twins - Saturnalia Benga - Diary Of An Afro Warrior | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 800 Registered: 08-2004 |
fela Kuti & Africa 70 - Alagbon Close/Why Black Men Dey Suffer Robyn Hitchcock - Invisible Hitchcock Hayseed Dixie - No Covers Pet Shop Boys - Actually | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2217 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kev, you ma man! As LK would say! What's The breeders like, this the new album? Also Kiddus I, what it like? | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2220 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Coral - Roots and Echoes. Now one of my fave albums ever! | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 138 Registered: 05-2005 |
An album with some touch of Shack, La's, Teardrop Explodes, Echo+ Bunnymen. Roots and Echoes, it's the sound of Liverpool I like.. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1084 Registered: 01-2005 |
Kathleen Edwards - Asking For Flowers Shelby Lynne - Just A Little Lovin' This is her Dusty Springfield tribute album. Tift Merritt - Another Country Police - Reggatta de Blanc Bill Evans - Everybody Digs Bill Evans | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 2056 Registered: 05-2005 |
Spence, only played The Breeders once so far but it sounds tasty- pretty mellow for them actually - nothing like Cannonball thats for sure. Kiddus I sounds like Black Ark era Lee Perry, one of the very best reggae reissues of last year. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1101 Registered: 10-2004 |
Carlos Lyra - Sarava Michel Legrand - The Appointment Suite Wolfhounds - misc. songs Associates - Sulk Pylon - Chomp | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 592 Registered: 04-2006 |
Hercules and Love Affair - s/t fucking great!!! not to move with the music is impossible. and anthony fits perect. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 593 Registered: 04-2006 |
antony , not anthony. sorry. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 398 Registered: 07-2006 |
christ - is there a new breeders record out!?!? how do i keep missing this stuff? i've tried so hard with antony....after watching the episode of rage he programmed a year or two ago i just fell in love with him, his record always left me a bit....bored....though. incredibly tasteful and lovely guy irrespectively! blisteringly hot outside and having a boring old day in the office, so i've got the fields' "distortion" up to a hearty level. was up until far too late last night listening to automatic for the people. wretched heat!!!! | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 2059 Registered: 05-2005 |
REM - accelerate. This is the album they should have made 10 years ago, however cant help thinking they are just going through the motions. Neon Neon - Stainless Style Robert Forster - The Evangelist | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2228 Registered: 05-2005 |
Currently loads of songs by Jeff Whiteaker, in various incarnations over years gone by, some really great beautiful guitar playing and songs on this stuff, the pop world has missed an opportunity to release stuff by Jeff, and that's a shame, but then again, its sometimes the best way. Robert Forster - The Evangelist. Promo. Fu*kin excellent, a really really beautiful album, its a modern day classic, the guy's a bloody genius. Leo Kottke - Mudlark. April March - various stuff Courtesy of the kind Mr Adams, reminds me of early Factory, Crepuscule bands, like French Impressionists and the like, and some more experimanetal, like Isabelle antena, Dislocation Dance. Lightspeed Future Lullaby - Samantha and Nanoloop for Strings. A guy called Dave Griffiths is LFL, an ex bandmate of mine and ex Piano Magic (4AD). A really beautiful sonic beut delivered in his imitable electronica stylee!http://www.myspace.com/lightspeedfuturel ullaby | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 267 Registered: 01-2007 |
Where are these promos coming from? Spence may be you record company contacts no doubt? | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1573 Registered: 03-2005 |
For my Sunday: Flamin' Groovies -- Supersnazz Wolfhounds -- Essential Minisnap -- March Hare Minisnap -- Bounce Around Yes, Spence, it is fun to listen to Jeff's stuff and marvel at the guitar work and also lovely chord progressions and structures. And though he hates his vocals, I like them. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 594 Registered: 04-2006 |
TwinSisterMoon - When Stars Glide Through Solid Souled American - Sonny | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1104 Registered: 10-2004 |
Spence, Randy - you guys are WAY too nice! But I really appreciate the kind words. And this reminds me, I really need to get off my ass and start recording the new batch of songs. | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 356 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kevin, how do you always manage to get the albums before everybody else???!!! REM and Robert!!!! Not fair!!!!!!! I've just heard the new REM single and it certainly has more "intent" than anything from "Around the Sun". I know some of us here have given up on them, probably (nearly) me too. Is it worth buying, or is it another "Around the Sun"? | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 92 Registered: 02-2008 |
I have the new REM. Overall its a step in the right direction - loud gittars, fast tempos etc. But the songs probably just aint there - like Chinese food they were gone an hour after listenin. Covers kinda cool though the names a little dorky like maybe a Matchbox 20 album would be called. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1090 Registered: 01-2005 |
Ewan, Is it even as good as New Adventures then? I thought Hi-Fi had about 1/2 dozen good songs. | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 93 Registered: 02-2008 |
Hard to say - I was just tryin to say that thoough theyre acting like it'll be a comeback maybe it ain't all that. Methinks that could be too bold of them to judge it so. | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 268 Registered: 01-2007 |
So much over hype-I wont buy the REM recently GAry Louris-Vagabonds has failed to Ignite the Nick Cave is a disappointment as is the Billy Bragg. I did buy the re-done version of Unkown Pleasure that is never a disappointment, Is there anything out there at the moment worth buying? Spence had got me tempted for the Coral ( have their 1st LP which was 1/2 good) | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 95 Registered: 02-2008 |
Please Mr. Frank - don't let me sway yer opinion. I could be wrong plus I was drunk as a monkey when I listened to the REM. I think Im going to burn all my records but the ones by Mary J Blige...If only shed cover "Dive For Your Memory". | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 804 Registered: 08-2004 |
I haven't got the new Coral CD, Jerry. But their second CD Magic & Medicine was a considerable improvement on the debut. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 596 Registered: 04-2006 |
the Coral are an ambivalent group resp. their music. I liked their first one and the ep's between the first and second promised a lot. i liked their beefheart kind of songs. the follow up lp brought them success, but I never felt really comfortable with that thing. Some songs were so wonderful and some didn't made my day. The new one seems to be in the same league. I just listened to the samples at the time the album has been released and found that some songs are very, very good. and some others trivial. Maybe I am wrong, but I decided not to buy the album. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 597 Registered: 04-2006 |
btw: anyone listened to the new Erykah Badu album? just heard an track on the radio last weekend and loved it. sounded great as ever. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 598 Registered: 04-2006 |
btw2 or kevin, read that on 7th of april a new fall album will be released. I am curious about it.... | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 599 Registered: 04-2006 |
btw 3: any Soft Machine fans out there? in may a 1970 concert (with Robert Wyatt) will be released as a DVD. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 600 Registered: 04-2006 |
btw 4: Motorpsycho - one of the best bands in the world and a must if you like the allman brothers, jazz, grateful dead, beefheart, country, bluegrass, songs that last half an hour or more, great guitar solis and so on and so on - will release their new album next week. also a long awaited dvd is awaited. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2230 Registered: 05-2005 |
Andreas, The Coral album is by far their best, most concise work-to-date. For me, they are better now than when they started, and they started out so well, they are as good if not better than, say, the La's. I think the La's are well overrated, one album an nothing more, The Coral have a very inspired and respectable back catalogue. Buy and play it 3 or 4 times, and the quality shines through. IMHO Thanks for the info on Soft Machine by the way... | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 99 Registered: 02-2008 |
Esquivel - Space age bachelor pad music. Should be issued with Jetsons style clothing. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1107 Registered: 10-2004 |
Chico Buarque - Construcao (dark, moody samba) Emitt Rhodes - debut Michel Legrand - The Appointment Suite | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2233 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Damned - The best of The Damned Aztec Camera - High land hard rain | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 269 Registered: 01-2007 |
Hang on Spence which CD are you saying is the best one? I loved half the first CD but other songs passed by | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2234 Registered: 05-2005 |
The new cd Jerry, Roots and Echoes. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2236 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Pale Fountains - Pacific Street. One of my favourite albums of all time, sounds as good now as it always did, way back 24 years a go! Christ!!! And, it always makes me happy, especially today which is the 3rd birthday of my twin girls. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1108 Registered: 10-2004 |
Amen to that, Spence. And happy birthday to your girls! | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 983 Registered: 09-2006 |
Scritti Politti - Cupid & Psyche 85, plus assorted singles Go-Bees - Andy Kershaw session Tabu Ley Rochereau - The Voice of Lightness Burial - Untrue Any album that kicks off with a sample from Inland Empire has my vote... | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 602 Registered: 04-2006 |
espers - the weed tree wooden spoon - 3 | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2237 Registered: 05-2005 |
Cheers Jeff. Massive Attack - mezzanine. I don't know whether its the time of the year, Spring around the corner, or whether its because i haven't played the stuff I am currently JIVing to, but its all sounding so fresh, so now and it doesnt' depress me in the slightest. I am lucky. Moind you with the voices of the great Horace Andy and Liz fraser, you can't go wrong I suppose. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1116 Registered: 10-2004 |
Associates - Affectionate Punch (been playing this in the car this week - what an exceptionally mind blowing album this is) Associates - Perhaps (after discussing this off-board w/ Spence, I gave this neglected record another spin. It's not bad - at least a few pretty cool songs, despite Rankin's absence) | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1577 Registered: 03-2005 |
Greetings from Buenos Aires. On the interminable (and delayed) flight I listened to the Triffids, mostly their early singles, plus some Pete Azzopardi selections. And right now I'm too tired to remember what else I listened to. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2240 Registered: 05-2005 |
Mr Adams, hope yo are having a swell time in Le Brazillia sir! PS Been playing the Triffs earlier stuf u sent, wonderful. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 2061 Registered: 05-2005 |
triston palma - joker smoker. killer early 80s jamaican dancehall. robert forster - the evangelist. I think this might be his best solo album, even better than DITP. That being the case it would then become my favourite album by a Go-Between, either solo or as a part of the group. the dodos - visiter. sounds like a cross between Animal Collective and The Violent Femmes rem - accelerate. a better album than we could have hoped for given the last few, but thats only because they have revisited 1984/1985 with a bit of Monster thrown in. the breeders - mountain battles. kim deal takes the Robert F philosophy of waiting till you have enough good songs to release a worthwhile album - Black Francis/Frank Black take note | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2242 Registered: 05-2005 |
nice class list and summary (as usual Kev), Wim Mertens - Close Cover. I fu*kin adore this composition, it moves me every time. I also love, nae adore the Soft Verdict version | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 607 Registered: 04-2006 |
wolfgang, our swiss friend recommended pascal comelade to me. that reminded me on a small album from 1986 on the new rose labe pianosaurus - groovy neighbourhood all played on toy instruments. not all is really great thereon, but the one or other song is very nice, especially (a funny thing happened on the way to the) toystore is heartbreaking beautiful. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 608 Registered: 04-2006 |
btw 5: a few weeks ago i read that jonathan richman will release a new album and will come to europe on tour. this are great news. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 609 Registered: 04-2006 |
btw 6: crossed my mind: roky erickson. does anyone have seen you're gonna miss me: a film about roky erickson? | ||
| Svein Inge Saether Member Username: Springrain Post Number: 25 Registered: 08-2006 |
Mountain Goats - Heretic Mind (Very good, needs more airing) Hercules And Love Affair - s/t (Great, I think. Not tried out in party mode yet) Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth reissue (Fantastic album, patchy collection on disc 2) Robert Forster - The Evangelist (Pure bliss) Am looking forward to hearing The Dodos, and I will soon check out Wolfhounds. Spoon played my favourite gig of last year, and Ga Ga etc is great! | ||
| Svein Inge Saether Member Username: Springrain Post Number: 26 Registered: 08-2006 |
Andreas: I haven't seen the film, but I saw Roky live last year and it was fabulous! Moltorspycho's new album will have four songs, not quite half an hour long, but probably about 10-15 minutes each. They are really pleased with their new drummer Kenneth Kapstad, who is a bit too heavy rock for me. I miss their poppy 2000-01 period, but I look forward to the record anyhow. | ||
| Svein Inge Saether Member Username: Springrain Post Number: 27 Registered: 08-2006 |
Moltorspycho!! Ha ha. I've had a couple of beers today... Motorpsycho it is. | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 270 Registered: 01-2007 |
Bought Roots and Echoes and listened to it once do like it Spence something to take you back for more | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1095 Registered: 01-2005 |
My cassette tapes of Dimension, the local NPR Sunday night two hour radio program. Mt tapes are from October of 1988 through 1990. Yes, it's the program that introduced me to a certain band from Brisbane, got me hooked on the Pixies, Wire, Throwing Muses, Nick Cave, etc. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1118 Registered: 10-2004 |
Randy, you're in Argentina? That is awesome!!! I hope you're having a fabulous trip! | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 611 Registered: 04-2006 |
svem great to have another MP admirer on my side. this band is unbelievable, espcecially live. i like their 'poppier' side around 200/2001, too, but also like their much heavier, weirder side. one of my fave albums is barracuda. cheers, andreas | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 612 Registered: 04-2006 |
svem!! it seems that i had also one beer too much this evening. sorry, sven! btw 7: are you from norway? | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1579 Registered: 03-2005 |
Jeff, I AM having an awesome trip! This is my first time in South America and only my second time in the southern hemisphere. I've been turned around as to directions all the time I've been here and I'm finally realizing that the different angle of the sun is what's throwing me off. Oddly I do not remember having that problem in Brisbane. Today is Easter Monday which turns out to be a major holiday. There was a huge march in the center of town for a cause not known to me. The food here is fantastic as are the wines (although a bit more potent at 13 to 14% alcohol, so watch out!). The people are beautiful. The city is enormous. We keep walking places and finding out they are twice as far as we thought. The US$ still has decent value here (nearly 3 AR pesos to 1 US$), which means it will be super cheap for folks from the EU or UK and nearly as cheap for the Aussies. It's like an edgier Europe, looking like a cross between Paris and eastern Berlin. | ||
| Svein Inge Saether Member Username: Springrain Post Number: 28 Registered: 08-2006 |
Andreas: Trondheim, Norway - MP hometown! You probably know this, but the new record will be released by Rune Grammofon, a label which usually deals in avantgarde, contemporary music and underground electronic stuff. A promising and exciting move! | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 175 Registered: 10-2006 |
Following the Board, enjoying the Coral's latest, especially the retroesque texture of the sound and the way the voice is pitched just perfectly on top of the tunes - I don't remember the singer sounding like this when they started out...and Following Go-betweens fan Andrew Mueller, Grant lee Buffalo, whose Jubilee is a wonderful swathe of highly listenable poprock...and Following my local record retailer,Sad Bruno, lots of early Magnetic Fields that he found gathering dust in his storeroom...a poptastic Easter, in other words, despite the Gothic weather... | ||
| Jonathan Evans Member Username: Jon Post Number: 163 Registered: 04-2005 |
Midlake - The Trials Of Van Occupanther Winnebago Orchestra - Born In The Sun (Brum based band who should play Liverpool/Manchester what do you think Spence?) Jens Lekman - Oh You're So Silent Jens Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala Cheers Jon |