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     Jonathan Evans Member Username: Jon Post Number: 188 Registered: 04-2005 |
Or in Binary.... What Are People Listening To 101010? An REM live radio show from France circa 2001. Plus a couple of Jens Lekman albums as homework for his gig next week. Cheers Jon | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 441 Registered: 07-2006 |
marianne faithful - broken english (that's an incredible looking binary figure for 42 jon!) | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1631 Registered: 03-2005 |
Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu--Gurrumul Yep, it's as good as it sounded on MySpace. Thanks Padraig! Great choice for a listen, Joe. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2138 Registered: 05-2005 |
Glad to be of help Randy. Now take note of this too... I'm listening right now to Love Will Call On You, the extraordinary new EP by The Harvest Ministers. It is simply stunningly beautiful. Just voice, guitar and piano throughout. They are a Dublin band and the EP was recorded in New York. Well, The Harvest Ministers is basically Will Merriman and whoever else is around at the time. They've been going for more than 20 years and really ought to be huge. They are also great live and Will is a lovely fella! (Did you get that I'm a fan?). http://www.myspace.com/theharvestministe rs | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 2090 Registered: 05-2005 |
Postal service - Give up. what a great electro pop album, these guys need to collaberate more - DCFC are ok, but Ben Gibbard never found his voice better than on this album Dubstep Drama - The kings of the Dubstep genre compiled Bunny Wailer - Rock'n'Groove. From 1981, the most underrated Wailer. The Fall - Imperial Wax Solution. "My Boss has the imagination of a gnat" Bon Iver - For Emma Forever Ago. Has anybody seen a review of less than 5 stars? | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 442 Registered: 07-2006 |
it is pretty neat randy. woman scorned n all that =D and right on kev. i've next to no interest in death cab, but give up is phenomenal! | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 147 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Winnebago Orchestra - Born in the Sun. Fifth or sixth times I've listened to it and I begin to appreciate. My fave song is "What does not break you", I like songs with a gimmick (here it reminds the Oasis one on "Go let it out"). Congrats Spence! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1632 Registered: 03-2005 |
Joe, if you ever feel a need to read a full-length book about somebody who reminds you of half of your more interesting--and perhaps less functional-- friends get her autobiography. Among a lot of other things, it'll give you the background to "Broken English." The lady was actually homeless for a while in the few years before that record was made. I'm visiting my family in Fresno. (And on a little escape right now in a Starbuck's). Loaded up in the rental car's 6 CD changer are: (1) a compilation of David McComb/Triffids songs I put together to TRY to turn my uber-conservative brother onto him/them; (2) The Essential Wolfhounds; (3) Paul Kelly -- Gossip; (4) Robert Forster -- The Evangelist; (5) Magick Heads -- Woody and damn! I can't remember the sixth one! | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 372 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy - How many Americans would have even heard of Paul Kelly????!!!! You love Australian culture so much, the politics is good(at the moment) and Sydney's your sort of town! MAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTTTTTTEEEEEEEEEEE !!!!!! Become an Aussie!!!!!!!!! | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 443 Registered: 07-2006 |
thanks randy......a friend loaned me faithful a few years ago and it still sits unread on my bookshelf. as soon as i give up kidding myself i can take up italian again without going back to class, i will discard all readers, grammar books and dictionaries and jump straight into marianne! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2139 Registered: 05-2005 |
V/A double CD of songs played on Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour show. So many brilliant songs I'd never heard of. Headset EP by The Welcome Mat. It's great. Got it yesterday in a market for $2. Didn't even know of its existence before that. Right now I'm listening to The Age Of The Understatement by The Last Shadow Puppets. I like it a lot so far. It reminds me very much of The Walker Brothers. This is a good thing. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2140 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kevin, you must be a happy camper right now? I know I am! | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 2091 Registered: 05-2005 |
Padraig - absolutely, but with a touch of caution, the scars of 2003 and 2005 are still with me. A month ago Celtic were 12-1 against winning the championship, now they are favourites. On a sentimental note football has a habit of throwing up co-incidencies, its almost 27 years to the day that Tommy Burns scored a crucial championship clinching goal against Dundee Utd at Tannadice. I'm sure he will be watching over the Celtic players on Thursday night at the same place. Padraig, working in newspapers as you do you wont be surprised to learn that the way the Sir David Murray manipulated red tops in Scotland are reporting the mayhem in Manchester last week is totally different to the way the English media are . Give it a month and the riots in Manchester will not have happened at all, it was all the fault of those big bad policemen!! | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 645 Registered: 04-2006 |
miles davis - in a silent way shhh - the nam eof the first track says it all: sit down and listen to this quiet and lightning album. you will be rewarded for sure. | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 435 Registered: 05-2005 |
Hey, if that's how they react if a TV screen goes on the blink, I don't want to be around when they discover that there's no copy of Die Hard 3 available from Blockbuster!!! | ||
| Jonathan Evans Member Username: Jon Post Number: 189 Registered: 04-2005 |
While its on the subject of football...I'll have my say! I feel a little bit for the Rangers fans, travelling all that way (at great expense) to watch the game for the screen to break down. What I do find difficult is the rioting that followed - probably because I went to football matches during the late 70s and early 80s when being chased around the London Underground was a monthly occurance. Finally, I don't understand the 'herding' instinct of football fans (again this is probably due to me being at Hillsborough in '89), if I've not got a ticket for the match then I'll stay at home and watch it on tv! Back on subject.... The Lemonheads - Its a shame about ray New Order - Waiting for the sirens' call The Cribs - Mens needs, Women's needs, Whatever Cheers Jon | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1633 Registered: 03-2005 |
Don't rub it in, Geoff! Actually I think of Paul Kelly as one of the more mainstream Oz artists. When I first arrived in Fresno on Friday I stopped for an iced coffee and to go for a walk through the neighborhood in my favorite district, the part of town where I had most of my acid trips back in my late teens. (The setting for the back cover of Insurance Lawyer Soliloquy, for anybody who has it). It's the only place in that town that conjures fond memories. And what came on the CD changer as I drove up and selected my parking space? Robert's "If It Rains." I sat in the car and listened to it until it finished. I got out of the air-conditioned car and was immediately blasted by 100 degrees F at 4:00 p.m. in May. It seemed so perfect, I had to stifle the tears. Geoff, I'll bet you that I was the ONLY person in that city of a half million clueless souls in the agricultural heart of California who had a copy of that album. BUT . . . on another visit about three years ago in a little used vinyl shop on the same street I scored a mint copy of the Triffids' "Raining Pleasure"! The sixth disc I couldn't think of in the last entry was the first disc from Microdisney's Daunt Square. On the way home tonight: Triffids--Early Singles; Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu; Panics--Cruel Guards; "The Evangelist" again; Panics--Cruel Guards bonus disc. I know Padraig doesn't but I REALLY like their interpretation of "Just Like a Woman" and then finally the token American disc: Love's Forever Changes. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 444 Registered: 07-2006 |
that's a long trip randy! how many hours was that? | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1634 Registered: 03-2005 |
I think about three and a half hours, Joe. The Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu disc is the longest. The Panics bonus disc is quite short. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1221 Registered: 10-2004 |
Geoff - I don't know how many Americans these days have heard of Paul Kelly, but back in 1988, that song of his, "Dumb Things," got A LOT of play on college and alternative stations here, not to mention I recall seeing the video in heavy rotation on MTV's "alternative" programs at the time. So, at least there was a time when he was pretty well known here, if only just for that one song. That's how I know of him, at any rate. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 826 Registered: 08-2004 |
Jonathan, you were at Hillsborough, wow! That was a signal that something had to change, some for better some for worse. It's interesting that 19 yeas on there's a a strong lobby for a return to terracing in the premier league. Scarlet Johansson - Anywhere I Lay My Head The Notwist - The Devil You & Me The Soft Boys - Nextdoorland No-Man - Dry Cleaning Ray Steve Winwood - Nine Lives | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1222 Registered: 10-2004 |
Marshall Crenshaw - First Album Billy Idol - Rebel Yell High Llamas - Gideon Gaye | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1154 Registered: 01-2005 |
Jerry, How do you like The Soft Boys - Nextdoorland? The SB's also released Side Three a 6 song CD EP in a cardboard sleeve a month after Nextdoorland was released. I actually think that some of the cuts on Side Three are superior to Nextdoorland. Robyn does often with the unofficial release having a number of better cuts then the offical release as is the case with: Star for Bram - Jewels for Sophia Mossy Liquor - Moss Elixor The tracks from Side Three: Narcissus Disconnection of the Ruling Class Each of Her Silver Wands Om Comin' Through Evil Guy Released by Editions PAF, 2002 You can buy it from: http://www.robynhitchcock.com/softdiscog raphy.htm | ||
| Jonathan Evans Member Username: Jon Post Number: 190 Registered: 04-2005 |
Jerry (and once again sorry for going off-topic) I was a Hillsborough, and 'unfortunately' (at the time) I couldn't get a standing ticket, so I was in the Stand above the Leppings Lane terrace. The people of Sheffield were wonderful (it was before mobile phones so contacting your family was much more difficult) the Police weren't! I'm not sure how I feel about a return to standing at football grounds, but I always thought it was to do with caging people in rather than standing (and the actions of the Sth Yorkshire Police). The Raconteurs - Consolers Of The Lonely Guillemots - Red (a fine album, featuring Get over it, which is a current fav of mine) Cheers Jon | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 373 Registered: 05-2005 |
Paul Kelly is quite mainstream here but he treads the fine line between popularity and artistic credibility unlike, say, Barnsy or Farnsy.(Don't ask!!!! Don't go there!!!) Been listening to the last Clientelle album and Da Capo after all the oo-ing and ah-ing with the release of ANOTHER remaster of Forever Changes. Is it just me or is everyone getting sick of buying AND RE BUYING albums? I saw the La's released as a double the other day with all of these "lost" versions of the same songs by Porter et al. Paint a Vulgar Picture has never seemed so apt. And Randy, I saw the Panics the other week at the 'Gong Uni. Great as per usual and SO confident now! | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 374 Registered: 05-2005 |
Meant to add, Kilbey's raving about the new Goldfrapp album. Is it any good?? | ||
| Charles Coy Member Username: Coy Post Number: 64 Registered: 10-2006 |
..The Way you Move, Lucinda Williams revisiting Yazoo, Only You and Alf's 'I Grow Weak',with Marty Wilson-Piper solo album, then drift back to FORW, I don't why..maybe its "when she sang about Angels'.. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1145 Registered: 08-2006 |
"Only the Lonely" by the great Sinatra. If you were to take away all my albums except for one multi-album series, I'd be hard-pressed not to pick everything Sinatra did on Capitol. Ah, who am I kidding? I'd take the Go-Betweens. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2141 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy, I've come to like The Panics' take of Just Like A Woman. I got the soundtrack of Australian true-life crime drama Underbelly and the version of Don't Fight It on that is sifferent to the album version. It's got extra, 'soulful', female backing vocals. I prefer the original version. Kevin, I was disgusted when I read somewhere on the web, I think it was on The Guardian's site, where a senior Glasgow policeman who was in Manchester as a Rangers fan, blamed it all on the police there. Needless to say this fool was not brave enough to give his name. I take it that the core audience for tabloids in Glasgow is Rangers fans then? Did you see Graham Spiers' wonderful article in The Times where he referred to there being "a poison at the heart of Rangers football club". When did he leave The Scotsman to join The Times do you know? I saw the article online, Google it if you haven't seen it. Jonathan, I have no sympathy for those idiots. That picture of the police dog biting a Rangers fan's leg was hilarious. Doubly so when I later read that this scum is a convicted murderer. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2142 Registered: 05-2005 |
Oh, Kevin, I loved the Holy Goalie's God bless the Pope t-shirt too! Artur sure knows how to rile them. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 827 Registered: 08-2004 |
Michael, I have got Side Three. I'll give a listen soon, I'm more of an albums man & tend to add B-sides & E.P.'s to an album playlist. I think RH has a touch of the Bob Dylan about him & liked to keep something back for the fans. It could be that the creative juices were so potent then that the music was released as it came. Steve Earle - Copperhead Road Wedding Present - Bizarro Go-B's - SMAL Roxy Music - Flesh + Blood | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2385 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Weather Prophets - Mayflower. The Raconteurs on Jools Holland show rocked a fat one in my humble one, so did Bon Iver. Except in a mellower way! | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 440 Registered: 05-2005 |
Earlier this evening - Tindersticks, Hungry Saw. Stuart Staples' gorgeous voice, what can I say without sounding like a cliché? Ah to hell with it, cliché sonorous cliché seductive cliché velvet tones cliché..... It's gorgeous. Listening to Mutter by Maria Doyle Kennedy. That's pronounced "mooter", as in german mammy, as opposed to poor pronounciation (Where's the hell is the umlaut on a qwerty keyboard??) I heard a lot of these songs live, when they were very new, so it's interesting to hear how the final versions sound. Seven More Times sounds wonderful, as does Forty Days. F*ckability is a great track. If she'd sung that to Henry XIII on The Tudors, he wouldn't have dumped her for that Boyelyn slapper! | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1223 Registered: 10-2004 |
Martha and the Muffins - Danceparc | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 445 Registered: 07-2006 |
my spin instructor plays echo beach every single week....no matter how many times i hear it, it still brings a huge (sweaty, panty) grin to my face. especially with the whole "ok, picture yourself riding along a cliff face. do you see it? we're heading for echo beach..." | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 2092 Registered: 05-2005 |
Some of these are a joke, right? | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1225 Registered: 10-2004 |
That's funny, Kevin. I'm going to ask that the next time someone says they've been listening to Radiohead.  | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 305 Registered: 01-2007 |
That Bon Iver geezer is good and I like the new CD, They say it is a bit like Astral Weeks ( which to me is not necessarily a compliment) I think it is more John Martyn than anything else. | ||
| Jonathan Evans Member Username: Jon Post Number: 193 Registered: 04-2005 |
I've still not got the Bon Iver album, but everything suggests that when the visa bill comes in and I can start buying again that It'll be on the list. Currently Winnebago Orchestra - Born In The Sun (and as a footballer 'the boy done good') Midlake - The Trials Of Van Occupanther Cheers Jon | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2389 Registered: 05-2005 |
Frank, I thought John Martin too, first I saw\heard of him on Jools show. Jon cheers mate! Gene - As Good as it Gets. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 831 Registered: 08-2004 |
Small Faces - Ogden's... The Slits - Cut The The - London Town Black Angels - Directions To See A Ghost | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1155 Registered: 01-2005 |
Badfinger - No Dice Badfinger - Straight Up Bill Evans - Waltz For Debby Bill Evans - Sunday At The Village Vanguard Richard and Linda Thompson - In Concert November 1975 | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 648 Registered: 04-2006 |
exactly at this moment: lies from attack and release of the great the black keys | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 649 Registered: 04-2006 |
now, no one was like vermeer from jonathan richman's (the great and loveable!) new album ''because her beauty is raw and wild'' | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 2098 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Hold Steady - Stay Positive. On first couple of listens its Boys and Girls In America part two, which I guess is a compliment. Bonnie Prince Billy - Lie Down In The Light - his last few albums kind of passed me by but he's back on form with this. Spiritualized - Songs in A&E. Steppas Delight - Compilation of "Dubstep Present to Future" | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1636 Registered: 03-2005 |
Last night: Spring Hill Fair Treeless Plain -- Triffids Early Singles -- Triffids | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1056 Registered: 09-2006 |
Philip Glass - The Photographer Tougher than Tough: The Story of Jamaican Music | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2146 Registered: 05-2005 |
Disc 3 of Bob Dylan's latest box set, Dylan. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2148 Registered: 05-2005 |
Not Fade Away - 15 Classics That Fired Up The Rolling Stones. It came free with Uncut magazine a few months ago. This is the first time I've played it though and it's great. Gene Vincent's Thunderbird is the standout for me. What a song. I'd never heard it before. | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 464 Registered: 01-2006 |
Wilco - Sky Blue Sky. First time I've played this in months and it sounds worse than it did a year ago. RF - The Evangelist. Contains some of his best solo work (that I've heard) and a few that don't do much for me. If It Rains is superb. Ian Brown - Unfinished Monkey Business. MBV - Isn't Anything Tom Waits - Real Gone And lots of live traditional Irish music in pubs (which is the best place to here it) last weekend in Galway. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2395 Registered: 05-2005 |
A snapshot of a few tunes that have been making me smile whilst producing a Various comp for a friend. The Triffids - Treeless Plain. Thanks randy. Van Morrison - Queen of the slipstream. Vashti Bunyan - Jog along bess. (its a beautiful track that reminds me of my friend Caroline Trettine, in one of her more gentler moments) Winston Tong - reports from the heart. Beuatiful production from Alan Rankine. Randy Adams - Insurance Lawyer Soliloquy Strangelove - World Outside. Teenage Fanclub - Only with you. (if I were 17 again, this would be going on a tape to some girl I was mad for but wouldn't have me) Tindersticks - Raindrops. I swear that Mr Cave still owes this lot something as this was very much the sound Mr Cave emplyed for the No morse shall we part period. Trashcan Sinatras - Trouble Sleeping. Frank still has a beautiful voice. This is as slick and as beautiful as anything Curtis mayfield would do (though they are not Curtis mayfield and he is genius x a million times) | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1226 Registered: 10-2004 |
Roxy Music - Roxy Music I finally found an immaculate UK vinyl pressing of this to replace my worn, crackly 1st ed. US pressing, and wow, it's like I'm hearing it for the first time all over again. Curiously, the US version was heavily over-compressed, making it warm but also fairly muffled and dull sounding. By comparison, the UK version is crisp, clear, and beautiful and it totally jumps out of the speakers. Amazing. Haven't played this record in years, so it's fun to rediscover how brilliant it is. (And it's really interesting to note how the US record label apparently felt the need to tame the record's sharp edges by compressing the bejesus out of it). Also listening to Dislocation Dance - Midnight Shift | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 2099 Registered: 05-2005 |
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes. I said on the last "What are people listening to.." thread that this album was this years Midlake, after a month of listening it blows Midlake out the water. My copy is called Ragged Wood, but its been retitled Fleet Foxes - album of the year so far!! | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 172 Registered: 02-2008 |
Elvis Costello - Momofukyu. Tasty and hearty as a big pipin hot bowl of lo mein. Van Morrison - Still On Top (3 CD version). If you cant find it on this comp it probably aint by Van the Man. Pierre Laurent Aimard - The Art of Fugue. Very fugguey LIndsay Buckingham - Under the Skin. Classic from way back in 2006. The Roots - Rising Down. Very Rootsy. Go-Betweens - Apolology Accepted. Sometimes I think this is me fave GB track, simple 3 chord ditty that it is. Fantastique track and the pianner player be playin his arse off! | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2396 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kev ta, will buy without listening, its gotta be good given what ye say! As you can see from my list, its nice that you've moved on, whereas my list is ancient! | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 2100 Registered: 05-2005 |
Spence, wait till you hear it. Ancient describes it perfectly! | ||
| Jonathan Evans Member Username: Jon Post Number: 197 Registered: 04-2005 |
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Sunday At Devil Dirt Robert Forster - The Evangelist Hefner - The Best Of I've got a few on order (and another one now Kevin's waxed lyrical about Fleet Foxes), so maybe I'll have something new to give a listen to. Cheers Jon | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1637 Registered: 03-2005 |
I started out listening to one of two albums by John Southworth lent me by a friend. I made it to track five, thinking "he tries WAY too hard to be WAY too cute." So I pulled out something much better which has the bad luck to be currently located on the bottom shelf of the cases--which means it can be overlooked: Dean Manning--Diplomatic. Not for the first or the last time, I owe Padraig a debt of gratitude for tipping me off to a hidden gem. At the moment, the very Willson-Piperish "Tricks" is playing. | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 309 Registered: 01-2007 |
Fleet Foxes to the list, Ewan I was thinking of you as I played my Vinyl copy of the new EC, It is his best in years the vinyl is good quality, it took me a while to get form Diverse Vinyl in Wales as some of their LP copies were bent and sent them back so only got it last week, at the moment it is up their with some of his early work reminds me of Blood and Chocolates as much as anything, and very little of his dischordant tuneless stuff which overshadowed Delivery Man. This is him blasting out what he is good at with ease.It has a free download which makes life easier as well Also got a vinyl copy of The Evangelist which turned up yesterday Diverse had yo get more in from Tuition not listened to it yet | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2400 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Who - Best of. I can't believe how shit it is. Apart from a few songs, I think The Who were shit, they definately ain't rocking my world that's for double sure. | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 311 Registered: 01-2007 |
I never really liked the Who either Spence a bit to self important, may be thats Townsend for you, the FLeet Foxes album is not out for 2 weeks unfortunatley, the myspace songs are excellent. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 107 Registered: 03-2007 |
Frank, my copy of the Fleet Foxes album shipped from CDPacific on 23 May, 2008. It is still listed as Pre-Order on the site ( US$10.53 plus shipping.) Their delivery times are not the quickest so it will probably be out in the U.K before my copy arrives. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 2102 Registered: 05-2005 |
glad you guys like what you've heard of so far from Fleet Foxes on myspace - but honestly the songs sound twice as good on the cd. I love the way they dont take themselves too seriously, if you look at their tour itinery they are playing Glaswegia, Madchester, The Fitchpork Festival, and they seem to be gobsmacked the tail end of their tour is supporting Wilco. Also they call their record label in the States Subterranean Pop, yep these guys will do for me. By the way, havent Sub Pop really reinvented themselves in the last few years from a grunge/rock label into what could lazily be called a left field Americana label? | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 174 Registered: 02-2008 |
This week's "they've got to be kiddin" award goes to Scarlett Johansen's CD of Tom Waits covers (!?!). Scarlett baby yer a beautiful girl but you couldn't carry a tune in a feckin bucket! Are they 'avin' a laff? They're 'avin a laff! | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 2103 Registered: 05-2005 |
Blimey, it gets better. Just flickin through the brand spanking new Mojo and Fleet Foxes is the 5 star album of the month - its also awarded a "Mojo Instant Classic" rating. LK, never mind Mizz Johansen, this lot are right up your street. For those who cant wait for the album, in the shops just now is a 5 track EP called Sun Giant, which they wrote and recorded after they completed the album. Spence, you're an Itunes man arent you? They are selling it now. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1161 Registered: 01-2005 |
The Go-Betweens - Live on SNAP with Deirdre O'Donoghue | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2403 Registered: 05-2005 |
I'm sure LK's Irish not American sometimes, hee hee! Kev, its one of those wher I need to own the art I think. Thanks anyway I think Kev deserves to get promotion to editor of and sort out MOJO and Uncut et al! | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 444 Registered: 05-2005 |
The guys in Uncut gave Scarlett's CD 3 stars, even though they slated it. I figure it was one star for the lips, and the other two for her t*ts I heard a track from it on the radio recently. It sounded strangely familiar - quite similar to the noise my cat made when I accidentally stood on her tail! | ||
| Jonathan Evans Member Username: Jon Post Number: 200 Registered: 04-2005 |
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago...has anyone seen a bad review of this album? Its a little belter, but I'm sure most have already got it tucked away in their collections. Cheers Jon | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 2104 Registered: 05-2005 |
Agreed Jon, on 17th May in this thread I posted "Bon Iver - For Emma Forever Ago. Has anybody seen a review of less than 5 stars?". However, this one justifies the hype big time. | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 175 Registered: 02-2008 |
Miss Vaughgan - you crack-a me up! LOL. I nearly snorted out my haggis out onto the keyboard over that one. Yes indeedy - One for the lips two for the "sin bags" (as the mother from the movie Carrie called them). Its, frankly, some very painful to listen to shit. She is very musically challenged, poor girl. Some might say "well whats the difference. Tom Waits cant sing", but the thing is, he CAN. He's very musical and very soulful. Which po' Scarlett isnt. She sounds like a robot that was programmed to try and sing like Nico. She, btw, makes Nico sound like Whitney Houston. | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 375 Registered: 05-2005 |
After all you guys going on about Fleet Foxes, I thought I better check it out on Amazon. The first ep, the only snippets I've heard, sounds amazing. Given that Kevin has been so into techno/electronica recently, I am a tad surprised that he would rate an album by a band that sounds like CSNY and America. This is not a bad thing either way either! Just an observation!! The review of the ep on Amazon say's something about "When Cros and Joni and the gang harmonise on Crosby's "Laughing", its the best peice of recorded music... period"(or words to that effect). Must be good. Can't wait to get it. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 2105 Registered: 05-2005 |
and I am still into techno etc Geoff. I just devour anything I think is good, regardless of genre. theres too much damn music out there! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1638 Registered: 03-2005 |
CSNY & America? Yeah, I'll be giving it a pass. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 2106 Registered: 05-2005 |
Personally speaking, i wouldnt know a CSNY or America song (apart from the pish about a Horse) if it came up and skelped me across the face with a wet fish. However, if they sound anything like I think they do they wont sound anything like Fleet Foxes, the (amazing)vocalist would fail the audition for a start. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1164 Registered: 01-2005 |
Ventura Highway was hit for America back in the mid-70's. My younger sister had the album that studio album that included it, and she used to play it a lot. I never bought anything by them. I'm pretty familiar with CSN&Y from their album Deja Vu. I have a vinyl copy. Their live album 4 Way Street has some nice guitar interplay between Neil Young and Stills from waht I remember, although I never owned a copy. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1227 Registered: 10-2004 |
I listened to the Fleet Foxes EP snippets on Amazon too, on the recommendation of someone not on this board. But prior to that, when I saw on here a comparison to Midlake, my reaction was a strong, "next!" The third song sounded promising, with some nice chimey, melodic, arpeggio guitar. Sounded a lot like recent Shack. The first two songs sounded like CSNY. Sorry... Crazy vocal harmonies. The 4th and 5th tracks didn't leave much of an impression, although actually, the 5th track sounded kind of annoying. But that 3rd track had real potential. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 211 Registered: 10-2006 |
Gosh, it's a bit of a shame not to have ANYTHING by CSNY. 4 way street really is excellent, they're all at their best on it, and the guitar stuff is, as Michael remembers, stunning. Crosby is in fine voice too on a couple of his most beautiful songs. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2404 Registered: 05-2005 |
There is to much music out there Kev, and its all down to myspace shite. Most of it supposedly passes off as music, but we know best don't we? Said Scott W. Currently listening to The Happy Family - The man on your street. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1165 Registered: 01-2005 |
I remember liking CSNY a lot for a brief period around 1970-71. Deja Vu is certainly worth picking up, the remastered CD sounds nice, as now I recall that I did buy it a few years ago and listened to it a couple of times. I may even eventually get the remastered 4 Way Street. I never had any interest in buying anything that CSN or CSNY recorded in the subsequent years though. Instead I became a big Neil Young fan in the mid 70's, Tonight's The Night did it. Solo Neil or Neil with Crazy Horse is to my ears superior to anything CSN or CSNY ever did. Cudos for Stills doing a nice job on the first Manasass album that came our in 1972, although Chris Hillman was on that album as well. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2407 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Trashcan Sinatras - Weightlifting. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1229 Registered: 10-2004 |
Spence, that's funny. Just this moment, I was actually thinking about listening to the Trashcan Sinatras. | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 376 Registered: 05-2005 |
...wait a minute!!!!! "ALTHOUGH Chris Hillman was on that album as well"??? Having a Byrd, and one who wrote "Time Between", "Girl with no name" "Artificial energy" and "Have you seen her face?" would be a plus on my accounting! Or, hang on, is this just Michael winding me up! (And the first America album is classic IMHO. At least have a listen!!) I agree, there IS so much music to listen to and it's always been the case that most of it will not "hit the spot". I admire Kevin for being able to "open up his ears" and find really divergent new stuff that excites him. A lot of stuff is just "NEXT!" the older I get! And I got the ep this arvo and its not bad on first listen. English House(?) stands out so far. Also helped that my local Redback music loyalty thang kicked in and I didn't "pay" a cent for it! | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2415 Registered: 05-2005 |
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures. Just got round to buying the remastered version. The packaging is really nice, you can just tell Saville has had a hand in it, the paper is really nice, very good quality. The whole digipack and quality of the actual print is superb, tremendous care has gone into the presentation, I'm just gonna look at the pack and drool for a few hours, you carry on! The sound is very good. 10 out of 10, though if the sun comes out its going off the player! Now where's that Black Lace CD? | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1167 Registered: 01-2005 |
Geoff, sorry for my unintended knock on Chris Hillman. What I meant to imply was that Stills wasn't the only major talent on Manasses!!We can't forget that Chris also contributed a lot to the first Flying Burrito Brothers album. | ||
| Jonathan Evans Member Username: Jon Post Number: 201 Registered: 04-2005 |
Spence Glad you got around to getting the Unknown Pleasures re-issue. The others are worth getting also. As a bit of a New Order fanatic, I'm really looking forward to what's included in their re-issues. Oh by the way..... Robert Forster - The Evangelist Dave Couse (from A House) - Beauty is [CDSingle] Cheers Jon | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2417 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jon, yeah shld be gettin them soon. Whens the NO reissues? Have you ever heard Paul Haig - The warp of pure fun abum from '85? It featured Barney from NO and many other Factory related boffs. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2419 Registered: 05-2005 |
now on to: enders - Dome. | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 177 Registered: 02-2008 |
Beautiful World - Eliza Gilkyson. Great folkie lady I saw opening up for Richard Thompson. Look Around - Sergeo Mendez and Brazil 666. Perfect for slurping Mojitos to in the backyard and trying to do my own version of Brazilian grilling to. When I get in a grilling frenzy, nothing's safe...not small children, not family pets...their version of With a Little Help from My Friends is crazy as shit, btw. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1230 Registered: 10-2004 |
Ewan, if I'm not mistaken, I think that Mendes album has a killer rendition of Roda. Spence - I have that Paul Haig album, it's pretty good, although I don't remember what Barney's contribution to it is. | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 178 Registered: 02-2008 |
Not sure JW - Im usually blind drunk on rum when I listen to it but Ill check. My girlfriend and I like to sing along, attempting to approximate the vocals, on their version of "Little Help from my Friends" which is, I think, better than the Beatles! | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1233 Registered: 10-2004 |
It just dawned on me that I should make the important distinction that the Mendes version of "Roda" is not a cover of the Kinks song, but an awesome Brazilian song written (by who, I can't remember) in the early 60s. It's just a super cool tune. Must listen to it when I get home. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 2107 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Beatles - Let It Be Bruce Springsteen - Born In The Usa The Bangles - The Essential Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1639 Registered: 03-2005 |
Somebody stole Kevin's log-on. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1234 Registered: 10-2004 |
Oh wait, duh, that's Lola... Never mind... it's been a sleep-deprived week. Currently listening to Comsat Angels - Sleep No More. I don't think I like this album. "Fiction" and the first one are way better - much more musical. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 832 Registered: 08-2004 |
Yup, beware the darkside Kevin, before you stick The Beach Boys on. Babybird - Between My Ears... This Picture - A Violent Impression | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 180 Registered: 02-2008 |
Mista Kevin be hipmotized... or maybe he be tryin to convert people to them foxy guys what he love so much by slippin em in wit dat otha shit... | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 2108 Registered: 05-2005 |
rumbled, but then I expected no less!! that was an attempt at what is known in my neck of the woods as a "whoosh" | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 2109 Registered: 05-2005 |
ok,I'm listenin to Robert - The Evangelist Ital Tek - Cyclical The Replacements - Let It Be (hah!) White Denim - Workout Holiday Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes Hot Chip - One Pure Thought The Fall - Tommy Shooter | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1067 Registered: 09-2006 |
Prince - from '92, the one called Squiggle. Starts off with that fully believable declaration "My Name is Prince," and continues strong for almost the entire duration. Trim a couple of the numbers near the end, and the dumb skits (or is that a redundancy) and I say you'd have an album nearly as strong as Sign O' the Times itself. | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 377 Registered: 05-2005 |
...I'M NOT SAYIN' NUFFINK about Let it Be!!! After a glorious day in the sun surfing and playing tennis, "Harvest Moon" is just about perfect!!!!!! Sounds like Sergio was making the devils music! | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1169 Registered: 01-2005 |
Kevin, Is that the Let It Be recent remastered cd? I've been waiting for the early 'Mats reissues! | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 2110 Registered: 05-2005 |
No , its the original but the reissue is imminent I believe. This months issue of Uncut has a look back at Paul Westerbergs career with both the 'Mats and solo albums under scrutiny. They reckon his crowning glory is Tim. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1150 Registered: 08-2006 |
The 'Mats stuff is out here in the States, at least. The only thing I don't already own on CD is "Sorry, Ma..." so that's the one I'll pick up. I would like to hear the "Let it Be" remaster, though, since it's maybe my favoritest album ever. I just hate shelling out for CDs I already own, better sound and extra goodies not withstanding. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2420 Registered: 05-2005 |
jeff barney played guitar on only truth from what i can remember. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 2111 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Bug - Pressure The Replacements - Tim Bonnie Prince Billy - Lie Down In The Light Real Authentic Reggae - Compiled by David Rodigan The Hold Steady - Stay Positive | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 2113 Registered: 05-2005 |
Heres the review of Fleet Foxes album from the Guardian. The damn links never work so heres a cut and paste Fleet Foxes, Fleet Foxes ***** (Bella Union) Dave Simpson Friday May 30, 2008 The Guardian Fleet Foxes, Fleet Foxes Buy Fleet Foxes now Fleet Foxes describe their music as "baroque pop, music from fantasy movies, Motown, block harmonies ... not much of a rock band", which is one way of describing the indefinable brilliance of one of those records that sounds like it has arrived, fully formed, from another planet. Though there are musical touchstones - English folk, late 60s west-coast music (particularly the Beach Boys and Love) - this is the sound of late-night forests, skipping animals, music made by people as old as the hills they dwell in. Implausibly, they are actually in their 20s and live in Seattle. The dizzyingly uplifting four-part harmonies of songs such as Tiger Mountain Peasant Song are interspersed with profound darkness in the death-stalked Your Protector, or Oliver James, the chilling tale of a child's drowning. It all adds up to a landmark in American music, an instant classic. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2421 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kev, you'd be suited to a job in promotions at Bella Union!!! Been listening to two compilations. One a retro given away with Mojo. Its a puny comp. Its OK, its the shouty, gobby side of youth. Also one called Long time gone. Its an Americana type comp. particular highlights, American Music Club, Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan, The Black Keys. Other remind me of a cross between the cliched associations of early Wilco and later Bonny Prince Billy. Felt - Let the snakes crinkle their heads to death. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 2115 Registered: 05-2005 |
Funnily enough Spence I know Simon Raymonde who runs Bella Union from my visits to London in the 80s. However, the last time I met him was when he came along to a Celtic vs Rangers game a right few years back - a really genuine bloke. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2427 Registered: 05-2005 |
On my way home from the shops, I had Magazine's Real Life blasting out. Boy that remaster sure brought life into an already fantastic album. Its funny the drums sound shit but absolutely great. Like the ride one song sounds like a dustbin lid, but it works! I remember an Eno produced U2 song, cant remember, mid 90's perhaps, and the dustbin lid cymbal at the end of the song, typical Eno treatment, oh it was Stay. Kev, oh yeah, I remember isn't your bro-in-law in Low!? Was that the connection!? I've seen some taliking head interviews and he seems a really nice fella. I seem to share much of his musical influences, he's a big Scott W, Billy Mac et al fan. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 2117 Registered: 05-2005 |
Spence, close with the bro-in-law, the band was Lowlife. I'm sure Simons dad was a famous composer or musician - Ivor Raymonde is his name I think. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1237 Registered: 10-2004 |
That's right, Ivor Raymonde was Simon Raymonde's dad. Very appropriate, too, if you're familiar with the work of both pop and son. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1642 Registered: 03-2005 |
Ivor Raymonde was one of the leading string arrangers for U.K. pop records in the mid-60s. He did a number of Dusty Springfield arrangements and even some for crazy Joe Meek's productions. Then Raymond branched out to produce. One of his hidden gems is Honeybus' first album. I never knew that Simon was his son. It makes perfect sense. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2428 Registered: 05-2005 |
Wow that's amazing. Its a much nicer, more worthy an entrance into the pop world for a sprog, then going through the current Simon Cowell selction process isn't it!? | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1643 Registered: 03-2005 |
What's a sprog, Spence? | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2430 Registered: 05-2005 |
offspring! randy! need another word for the post, er, good morning! | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 449 Registered: 07-2006 |
i could swear that means something else here. then again, a lot of words seem to... | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1240 Registered: 10-2004 |
Armoury Show - Waiting for the Floods. I know, old news, but this record is really hard to find in the US, and I've never heard it before. I wanted to hear it mainly as a means of following John McGeogh's career trajectory, since I love his playing so much. Not sure what I think of this album just yet. They were definitely going for a big, fairly commercial sound, deliberately shooting for the upper regions of the charts. And as such, some good ideas seem a bit compromised. McGeogh's playing is great but a bit more subdued and/or subtle or streamlined than in the past. Jobson's singing is a bit off the mark. Have to listen to it more. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2433 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jeff, its a pompous album, but hey, that was the time sure enough, Big Country, U2, et al all singing about floods, mountains, the sky and flagwaving!!. I love Richard Jobson, and John mcGeogh. I saw them play in 85, with Russ Webb from Skids on bass and John Doyle magazine on drums. They were astonishing. Once their set was finished, me and my mate at the front felt two sets of hands on our shoulders, the dudes were shouting, "boo boo, w*nkers" at the stage! Then these two guys pushed aside, we thought what arseholes, it turned out to be Jobbo and McGeogh! They lept on stage and cruised through few more numbers, I thin they payed Albert Tatlog by Skids. I have been looking for Floods on CD, I don't own the album neither, do you have electronic copy Jeff? Castles in Spain riff, was one of the first riffs i ever learnt to play. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1243 Registered: 10-2004 |
That's a cool story, Spence. Judging by some live stuff I've seen on youtube, I think Armoury Show may have worked a bit better live, ie - less slickness, more passion coming through the mix. My copy is vinyl, Spence, but I'd be more than happy to burn you a copy (I have a CD recorder, which makes a decent recording so long as the LP is in good shape). I know the CD is out of print and difficult to find. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2434 Registered: 05-2005 |
thanks jeff, as always... | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1070 Registered: 09-2006 |
Jeb Loy Nichols - Lovers Knot Bo D. - The Chess Box Anthology of American Folk Music, for the second time straight through...the old, weird America indeed. | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 190 Registered: 02-2008 |
Iz the Chess Box good, Masta Allen? Im in the market for a Bo comp. Does it have Bo-Diddley-itis on it? Congrats on owning the Jeb Loy thang. Hes quite the sublime artist. Dont he have a new one out? | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1153 Registered: 08-2006 |
I'll speak for Allen here, ETE: the Diddley Chess box is great. It might be out of print, but if it's not, grab it. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1071 Registered: 09-2006 |
Looks like it is out of print, though Amazon's got a Used/Like New copy for 35 bucks. If you don't want to go that high, you might try The Story of Bo Diddley, a little further down the page: two discs, a lot of the same songs though not quite as prime...you can get that one used for only 17 bucks, though. Sad to say I've rather lost touch with old Jeb Loy...the last one I have is Just What Time it Is. Saw him live when he toured for that one - he opened for Kasey Chambers, and a fine night of music it was. | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 195 Registered: 02-2008 |
Thanks you two. Ill have to seek that out. Proper tribute must be paid but honestly its more about it just being some badarse music I should have in my collection. | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 149 Registered: 05-2005 |
Eels - Best of Art of Noise : sampler of ambient music A very weak year for me. Less than fourty minutes of Robert's music and what more...? There are so few interesting things in the shops that I've even bought an old (and bad) record of Sisters of Mercy. Fleet Foxes, I have to find. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2439 Registered: 05-2005 |
Various Jo‹o Gilberto Thanks to Jeff. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 654 Registered: 04-2006 |
new arrival from england (not yet released in germany) i am kloot - play moolah rouge this cd rocks. great songs as always from this band. i never have seen them live. always will, since years. but never was in berlin when they played here. on december 2007 i had tickets, but the concert was cancelled due illness. they played in march this year, but missed it too. on their gods and monsters release years ago they included a live dvd and you can see how good they are live. maybe the next time.... |