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     skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 156 Registered: 10-2008 |
Soul Jazz Records - Singles 2008-2009 The Juan Maclean - The Future Will Come. Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One Martyn - Great Lengths Steve Earle - Townes Son Volt - American Central Dirt | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3077 Registered: 05-2005 |
A certain Ratio - I'd like to see you again. Bonnie Prince Billie - Lie down in the light Boards of Canada - Music has the right to children, (phew! felt like I was in THAT Cronenberg/Carpenter/George A Romero film all afternoon I can tell ye!) Blue Orchids - A darker bloom The House of Love - Days run away | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1460 Registered: 09-2006 |
Zombie children...always shudder-worthy. | ||
| C Gull Member Username: C_gull Post Number: 141 Registered: 05-2005 |
Bob Mould - Life and Times | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1462 Registered: 09-2006 |
About to begin a Talking Heads immersion...got the Brick box set, got the CD version of TNOTBITH, got the Stop Making Sense DVD. Should be fun... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2760 Registered: 05-2005 |
Word magazine's March 09 CD. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1981 Registered: 03-2005 |
Catching up on recent purchases: Go Betweens--The Peel Sessions Oliver Mann--The Possum Wakes at Night Tactics--Sound of the Sound Vol. 2 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2761 Registered: 05-2005 |
Disc 1 of Hank Williams - The Absolutely Essential Collection. It's a three disc, 60 song comp that was very cheap. According to iTunes however, I'm not listening to country from Hank, but pop from Junior ESC 2006 Sweden. Sort it out Mr Jobs! | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 486 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Cure - 17 Seconds. Better than I remember. - Head on the Door. Only 2 great songs..but they are great still all these decades later. Bon Iver - For Emma Beck - Mellow Gold | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 115 Registered: 05-2005 |
the juan maclean-the future will come (and it will sound like the human league) david bowie- diamond dogs | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1618 Registered: 10-2004 |
New Musik - Anywhere Roxy Music - Avalon John Cale - Fear | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3081 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jeff, Avalon is somewhere else eh!? | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1619 Registered: 10-2004 |
Spence, Avalon's a funny album. It's like if Japan had hired studio musicians to play their music, or Duran Duran on reds, but I really like it. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1469 Registered: 01-2005 |
The Serpent Power - The Serpent Power They were a late 1960's era SF Bay area band. An interesting eclectic mix of raga, Jefferson Airplane balladry, John Fahey, Quicksilver Messenger Service and Country Joe and the Fish. Husband and wife team Tina and David Meltzer were the talent behind the band, and they released an album titled Poet Song after The Serpent Power broke up after one album. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 159 Registered: 10-2008 |
Son Volt - American Central Dust Sonic Youth - The Eternal (web stream) Pavement - Wowee Zowee The Heptones - Deep In The Roots | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 121 Registered: 05-2005 |
Tyrannosaurus Rex - A Beard of Stars I am a huge Pavement fan Kev, have been loving the exhaustive nature of the reissues. Am hoping for 'Preston School of Industry' the song on Terror Twilight reissue. Speaking of Preston School of Industry the band, there is a very GBs song on their Monsoon album | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 123 Registered: 05-2005 |
Joyce- Visions of Dawn | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3085 Registered: 05-2005 |
Tunng - Good Arrows | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1620 Registered: 10-2004 |
Divine Comedy - Casanova | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3086 Registered: 05-2005 |
Luis Bonfa - Plays and sings Bossa nova Thanks Jeff, lovely and chilled now my friend! | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1621 Registered: 10-2004 |
No prob, Spence, that's a nice one. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 124 Registered: 05-2005 |
Vetiver - Tight Knit | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2765 Registered: 05-2005 |
Swine Flu - Media Hysteria Again The Wokingham Interiors - Is Dancing So Very Wrong? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2769 Registered: 05-2005 |
Back to reality now: Christy Moore - Listen. Sounds brilliant so far. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2770 Registered: 05-2005 |
Sophia - There Are No Goodbyes (disc 2) | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3089 Registered: 05-2005 |
Like it Pad;), An interiors fan then eh!?  | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2772 Registered: 05-2005 |
Laughing Clowns - Cruel, But Fair. In prepation for tomorrow night's gig. Likely to be the last Clowns gig for quite some time now that Ed's joined The Bad Seeds (though somehow I can't imagine him and Nick - both men with healthy egos - getting on for the long term). | ||
| Austin Member Username: Bruegelpie Post Number: 64 Registered: 09-2004 |
The Pains of Being Pure At Heart - S/T Standout tracks include "Young Adult Friction" and "Stay Alive." It's not often that Pitchfork and I agree. For anyone that was a Sarah records fan or a fan of C86, this is a must-have. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1623 Registered: 10-2004 |
Padraig - Ed joined the Bad Seeds?! Interesting... | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1985 Registered: 03-2005 |
Yeah, I read that the other day and just kind of blanked out. It did not compute. Ed is famously cranky. Maybe he's looking for a rest from the burden of being the front man. It might be like Peter Buck & Co. backing Robyn Hitchcock, a nice low-stress fun thing to do for the sheer enjoyment. But somehow I can't imagine Nick Cave is an easy type to work with. Maybe--god forbid--he just needs the money. Austin, Sarah Records and C86 references get my attention. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 161 Registered: 10-2008 |
Super Furries - Dark Days Light Years The Very Best Of Lightnin Hopkins The Best of Sly and The Family Stone | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2776 Registered: 05-2005 |
I imagine he needs the money Randy. As a friend of mine put it "it's Ed's retirement plan". Even if he only co-writes one Nick Cave album the royalties should add considerably more to his coffers than his own back catalogue. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1986 Registered: 03-2005 |
Sadly, Padraig, you are undoubtedly correct about the royalties. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1466 Registered: 09-2006 |
Coming out of T. Heads immersion, though still replaying favorite bits here and there. Remains great stuff, no matter how many times I hear it. Even the two weaker last albums have their real prizes...the first half of "Naked" is particularly choice. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 125 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Horrors- Primary Colours | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1376 Registered: 08-2006 |
Allen, I think "Naked" is a bit underrated. A very respectable swan song. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1467 Registered: 09-2006 |
Agreed...and two that aren't underrated one bit are "Remain in Light" and "Stop Making Sense," (the movie, not the soundtrack)...they're like benign forces of nature. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3095 Registered: 05-2005 |
Grace Jones - hurricane | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1468 Registered: 09-2006 |
And the video for "Blind," which I hadn't seen in a long time: a pipe wrench with Alien-ish drool coming from its "mouth," running for president. Unaccountably creepy as hell. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 166 Registered: 10-2008 |
cosmo - The Horrors is a strange one for me. the musics pretty good, verging on great but the vocalist has to go ;-) he's like a melting pot of pete murphy, ian curtis and ian astbury. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 126 Registered: 05-2005 |
yeh youre right there Kev,I quite like the sound of your murphy/curtis/astbury blender but alas the Horrors singer is indeed shite and keeps them firmly grounded in indie land when the music is soaring and striving for more and better things. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2777 Registered: 05-2005 |
Grant McLennan - Surround Me EP. | ||
| Mark Leydon Member Username: Mark_leydon Post Number: 221 Registered: 05-2005 |
A feast of indie stuff that a friend put me onto recently - - some old some new - but all good: The Feelies - The Good Earth Grand Archives - The Grand Archives Deerhunter - Cryptogram Cave Singers - Invitation Songs Vivian Girls - self titled Game Theory - Big Shot Chronicles Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer Earth - The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 490 Registered: 05-2005 |
Just heard the title song from Engineers album "3 fact fader". Very good indeed!!!!!! They are playing in Dear Old Blighty in June somewhere with Richard Barberi!!!! Wow!!! | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 284 Registered: 10-2006 |
Chasing Robert Forster's elegant shadow through the dainty alleyways of Regensburg, I nudged the German economy along with: Man bleeds in Glasgow - Jackie Leven It's blitz - Yeah yeah yeahs Starlite walker - Silver Jews Wilderness - Brett Anderson Lost channels - Great Lake Swimmers Zuckergeist - Cluster The Very Best of the Move R & Linda Thompson Live in '75 The collection - Vangelis But at the moment all I can listen to is my first Stereolab purchase, Emperor Tomato Ketchup...did they sound this good on Peel?? How did they slip by me? Wonderful, anyway. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1988 Registered: 03-2005 |
Last night, after receiving a message from Ian in Australia reminding me that May 6 had arrived, I strapped on the Burns/Baldwin 12 string and played to the U.S. version of "Horsebreaker Star." It was a lovely communion. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1473 Registered: 01-2005 |
Stuart, You might want to hold off on buying anymore Stereolab albums until the re-issues are released later this year. I would get the "Transient Ramdom-Noise Bursts With Announcements" re-issue first and then follow with "Mars Audiac Quintet". | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1990 Registered: 03-2005 |
Jeopardy--The Sound Wolf on a String--Machine Translations | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 128 Registered: 05-2005 |
Niney the Observer - Roots with Quality excellent reggae anthology | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 285 Registered: 10-2006 |
Thank you, Michael. I didn't know about the reissues. I hope, for once,that my "local" music shop owner hasn't been too efficient with the list I phoned in to him! | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 491 Registered: 05-2005 |
Are you "into" Machine Translations yet Randy? I saw them tour for "Wolf on a String" and they finished with a song where they had the 2 guitarists on Loop stations at full throttle. Awe inspiring! | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 166 Registered: 03-2007 |
The Nights You Did Your Hair - The Beautiful Few | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1991 Registered: 03-2005 |
I"m never going to be "into" Machine Translations on the level of, say, Augie March Geoff. Or the Panics, for that matter. I tend to bond more with artists who present more of their emotional selves and I don't get that from J. Walker. He's probably more well-adjusted than the personalities that I gravitate toward. I also think he needs to do fewer records and be more ruthless when culling material for release. But there's a lot of good stuff. I would expect a Machine Translations show to be good. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 167 Registered: 03-2007 |
Dimmer - The Zincs Black Pompadour - The Zincs | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2785 Registered: 05-2005 |
Matthew Sweet - Sunshine Lies The Who - The Who Sell Out The Weepies - Say I Am You Madness - The Liberty Of Norton Folgate | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1626 Registered: 10-2004 |
AC Marias - One of Our Girls (Has Gone Missing) Faith Global - The Same Mistakes Tactics - Various mid-late 80s songs Martha Ladly - misc songs | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1470 Registered: 09-2006 |
Wussy - Funeral Dress The Meters - Struttin' B-52's - Party Mix/Mesopotamia | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 169 Registered: 10-2008 |
Dillard and Clark - Fantastic Expedition Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet Lou Reed - New York Love - Forever Changes Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Wilco - Being There Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express Drive By Truckers - Brighter Than Creations Dark Various Artists - Dub Echoes U Roy -Foundation Skank Danger Mouse/Sparklehorse - Dark Night Of The Soul Yes these 12 hour nightshifts are hard going :-) Ive still got these to fit in, but wont manage them all Elliot Smith - XO REM - Fables Of The Reconstruction Beach Boys - Smiley Smile/Wild Honey Tricky - Maxinquaye Otis Redding - Otis Blue Sugar - F.U.E.L Junior Boys - Last Exit | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 129 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Beep Seals - Things that roar gorgeous 60s west coast vibe,I saw these guys as Jim Noir's backing band when he supported Shack (but they didnt back him on Super Furries tour). Have just got the album which is a sunshine favourite only to discover they are splitting up. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1477 Registered: 01-2005 |
Allen, I saw the B-52's when they tour stopped in Detroit supporting Mesopotamia in early 1982. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 168 Registered: 03-2007 |
Marry Me - St. Vincent Actor - St. Vincent Padraig, I really like 'Say I Am You.' | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1478 Registered: 01-2005 |
Hugh, How is the new St. Vincent album? | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1471 Registered: 09-2006 |
Michael, wish I would've seen that tour...seems like it would've been one of their heydays. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 169 Registered: 03-2007 |
Michael, it arrived in the mail this morning and I have only listened to it once so far but I like it a lot. First impressions are that it has similarities to 'Marry Me' but the production values are higher and the overall sound is heavier/denser. I also think she sounds more confident in her vocals on this one. In my opinion, it is a darker and perhaps more ambitious album than 'Marry Me.' At the moment, I prefer it to 'Marry Me' but that could change with time. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1479 Registered: 01-2005 |
Hugh, Thanks! It's on my "next buy" list. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1472 Registered: 09-2006 |
Spinning Wussy a few more times...really digging it right now. And am wearing my new Go-Bees "Lee Remick" T-shirt...ordered from the online store and it got here from London in less than a week. Pretty impressive, and a great shirt! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1992 Registered: 03-2005 |
Robyn Hitchcock & Egyptians--Respect | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 430 Registered: 04-2005 |
Get into the groove daddy-o... Mulatu Astatke & The Heliocentrics "Inspiration Information" Collaboration between 60 year old Ethiopian jazz master and young London based jazz collective. Not normally perhaps my kind of thing, but listened to originally as the bass-player is the son of a friend. And now really getting into it; perfect for driving along to at the moment, as the sun comes out, the temperatures go up and the countryside looks at its best. Full story here http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/may /01/mulatu-astatke-jazz | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 431 Registered: 04-2005 |
And Avril Lavigne 'My Happy Ending'... Went to our local music school show on Saturday and there was a duo of two teenage girls that did a cover of this. What a great pop-song! | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1481 Registered: 01-2005 |
Randy, Respect gets knocked around a lot on the Fegmaniax e-mail message list. I think it's decent and like the production mix on it better then Perspex Island and Jewels for Sophia. I saw them in February of 1992, a year before Respect was released. Robyn annouced they were playing a song for the first time ever live, and it turned out to be "The Yip Song". The song is about his father who passed away from cancer the previous year. Hang onto your copy, as A&M hasn't given up the rights to Robyn yet on Globe of Frogs, Queen Elvis, Perspex Island and Respect. Until that changes it means that there won't be a YepRoc box set covering the later period RH & Egyptians studio albums. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1993 Registered: 03-2005 |
Michael, thanks for the info. I have very few Robyn Hitchcock albums. I picked up "Respect" at a little shop in Fresno when visiting my mom for Mother's Day. The John Leckie production credit is what induced me to buy it. I've always thought that Robyn makes vastly too many records. I've had "Queen Elvis" and "Perspex Island" since they were new. I thought "Perspex Island" was ho-hum and that's what stopped me from continuing with Hitchcock. I find about half of "Respect" to be quite good. In the same shop I found a copy of the original U.S. release of "Tallulah." I don't need it, of course, but I couldn't pass it up. I also got a vinyl copy of a 1988 album by A House. This little store has amazed me before. I found a vinyl copy of the Triffids' "Raining Pleasure" there a few years ago. That's an Aussie-only release! If there's anybody in Fresno, California listening to this music I want to meet him or her. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1627 Registered: 10-2004 |
Randy, do you have Fegmania? That's one of his best, imo. I'm also quite fond of Black Snake Diamond Role and Element of Light. Sounds like an interesting little store, Randy. There's one of those up in Anderson (a small, backwater town south of Redding, on highway 99), where I've found a few surprising things, like a rare, early Astrud Gilberto album and a copy of the original New Order Ceremony 12". | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1994 Registered: 03-2005 |
Jeff, I have none of those. I knew Fegmania was one I should get. Hitchcock records are so numerous I just figure I'll get one here and there when the spirit moves me. I have never even heard of Anderson. But I've never gotten as far north as Redding. I think Yuba City is as far as I've ever gotten. When I was in my teens my then best friend used to drive around to the small towns in the Central Valley to rifle through all the cut-out bins at drug stores. He collected some astonishing records that way, always for dirt cheap. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2790 Registered: 05-2005 |
Do you have all the A House records Randy? They were a great band. A guy from the same village I'm from plays in their singer Dave Couse's band. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2791 Registered: 05-2005 |
Listening to Supergrass Is 10: The Best Of 94-04 right now. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1476 Registered: 09-2006 |
Have a Nice Decade: The 70s Pop Culture Box Re: The Pet Hates thread...this, this is what words like 'awesome' should be reserved for. Quite a document. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1995 Registered: 03-2005 |
Padraig, I have only 3 albums: I am the Greatest & Wide-Eyed and Ignorant on CD and On Our Big Fat Merry-go-Round on vinyl. I know zip about this band (who Spence made me aware of) and I was surprised to discover they made records as early as 1988. I suppose I should do a Wikipedia check on them. At the moment I'm listening to The Servants' "Reserved." | ||
| Jonathan Evans Member Username: Jon Post Number: 336 Registered: 04-2005 |
I loved A House at the time, I'm sure I went to one of their gigs when I was at Uni in Leicester, that must have been 1992(ish). Listening to The Leisure Society - Sleeper Its a great little mellow/folkish album. Cheers Jon | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3108 Registered: 05-2005 |
SUpported AHouse many times, bloody great and bloody loudest live band I have EVER heard, lovely blokes, and blokess. They were the greatest. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 171 Registered: 10-2008 |
"All art is quite useless according to Oscar Wilde" A friend has just given me a CD-R of the new Wilco album. Will play it later on and report back. Its a bit like bumping into an old girlfriend you still have the hots for, but are nervous its gonna be a disaster :-) | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3109 Registered: 05-2005 |
I remember the guitarist from Ahouse, a big strapping irish man, looked very hard, I remember thinking you wouldn;t mess, and then he spoke in the softest warmest irish accent, and he was the nicest man you could meet, wouldn;t harm a fly, great guitarist too, think he was called Feragal bunbury. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1997 Registered: 03-2005 |
Spence, after hearing "On Our Big Fat Merry-go-Round" I can believe that they were a loud band onstage. They have a very different sound on that record than the other two that I have. The iPod shuffle recently threw up Blue Aeroplanes' "Jack Leaves and Back Spring." Gorgeous, not at all how I remember "Beatsongs." Hmmm. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 172 Registered: 10-2008 |
http://pitchfork.com/news/35323-hear-the -new-wilco-album-right-now/ | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3111 Registered: 05-2005 |
great sleeve eh kev!!!!!??? | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 173 Registered: 10-2008 |
hmmm, if you say so spence. ive just compared the first track on the stream with the cd i have and its good but obviously not got the same depth of sound. i played the 256k version rather than 128k, and despite what pitchfork say about the quality it sounded not too bad, although there were a few jittery wobbles where the song stopped. anyway, 2 listens to the album this afternoon and im gonna take the 5th on it for the moment. initially disappointed that its sonically similar to the last album,but its too early to have a definitive view on it. at least 10 listens required i think. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3112 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy Yes, we first supported them at the barrell organ in digbeth birmingham, small run down pub, that was burnt out last year, its been an irish pub for some time, but has now completely gone. it didn;t handle the sound coming through a pa very well, Couse had this gigantic Gretsch jumbo acouustic guitar, absolutely blew my head off, let alone when the elec guitars came in, I remember watching them in soundcheck, in total awe was I. A track, it goes When I first saw you or something, a very moving song, I'm sure that was the song, Couse's voice so powerful, just him and a backing keyboard he blew the roof off, it gives me goose bumps just thinking about it, his arms stretched out like jesus, he was a fu*kin genius. (pet hate word!) I know you don;t rate beatsongs that highly Randy, its still a great pop album IMHO, their last great album. kev, yeeah its shit mate! really really shit, it looks like some kinda myspace profile pic that some twat has put together to try and be funny | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 174 Registered: 10-2008 |
although maybe if you were stoned the humps on the camel would resemble a W for Wilco? | ||
| Mark Leydon Member Username: Mark_leydon Post Number: 225 Registered: 05-2005 |
The new Wilco album. Reason it's now streaming on the official Wilcoworld website (thanks Kev!) is because it leaked yesterday. First impressions its a really strong album - more like YHF or AGIB than their last one. A lot more going on sonically. Highlight so far a song called Black Bull Nova - very krautrock - a bit like Spiders Kidsmoke from AGIB but better. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 175 Registered: 10-2008 |
agreed mark, after 3 listens Black Bull Nova is a killer, not sure about the krautrock though. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2792 Registered: 05-2005 |
Fergal is a lovely fella Spence. I did a radio program with him one time on Public Enemy! We were probably the two least likely PE fans in the world. At the time we discovered we had both recently bought the same make of record player! | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3115 Registered: 05-2005 |
Pad - cool!! Just listening to Wilco new album on their site, You never know, sounds like something from am. Solitaire is pure nick drake, its beauty, my fave so far. This album, thus far is sky blue sky II for me, imho | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 176 Registered: 10-2008 |
Big in The Game - Dubstep compilation Flying Lotus - Los Angeles Martyn - Great Lengths The Field - Yesterday and Today Wilco - The Wilco Album | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 177 Registered: 10-2008 |
Spence, more like Summerteeth than SkyBS if you ask me, more importantly the real Wilco(for me anyway) appear to be back. 4 listens in and the album slowly revealing itself to be a return to form. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3120 Registered: 05-2005 |
Probably kev, ain;t listened too closely need to spin it 'for real' when me gets me hands on it! Glad you liking it mate. Just chillin (whilst working) to some Trojan dub comps at the mo. Had a fu*kin shite week for work, its a real bitch the world's in right now, we cannot allow these fu*kers to do it again! 9of course they well coz all the regulation will be scrapped at the first corrupt hurdle. Sorry me going off the rails there! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2793 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Cramps - Off The Bone | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2794 Registered: 05-2005 |
BTW, if Wilco are returning to Summerteeth-like sounds I might get interested in them again. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1485 Registered: 01-2005 |
Dean and Britta - L'Avventura | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 541 Registered: 01-2006 |
Michael, L'Avventura is my favourite DnB album, it has the right balanlce of good originals and interesting covers. One of my favourite songs from that album is Random Rules which got me into The Silver Jews which was a great discovery for me. The Madonna one is cool too. Night Nurse - your song of the day - is a great choice. Big input from Sonic Boom there too, I remember you're a Spacemen 3 fan as well. Incidentally he has his first Spectrum release in 13 odd years, Was Sucks EP, avaliable below, I'm gonna wait until the vinyl gets released in a few weeks so I'm not sure what it's like yet. The EP is available here, his new full length record will be from the same label. http://www.mindexpansionrecords.com/ DnB's Words You Used To Say EP is good too. I think I play that more than Back Numbers. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2000 Registered: 03-2005 |
Soft Hearted Scientists--Take Time to Wonder in a Whirling World This has only had one listen so far. My first impression is that it is the virtual opposite of Augie March's "Moo, You Bloody Choir." Individual songs do not really stand out but the album as a whole is quite enjoyable. The SHS seem to be more of a groove than a song band (but maybe I'll revise that on subsequent listens). They are super British in overall sound. Hugh thought I wouldn't like them, but on one listen I do. Cosmo offered me my money back; he can keep it in his pocket. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 170 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, I have to admit I had my doubts as to whether or not the Soft Hearted Scientists would appeal to you ( musically and lyrically ) but I am glad you like them. Currently listening to 'Love Needs Us' by Cuthbert & The Night Walkers. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1479 Registered: 09-2006 |
Dark Was the Night (Red Hot Organization comp) World Psychedelic Classics 3: Love's A Real Thing - the Funky, Fuzzy Sounds Of West Africa Still liking PSB's "Yes" a lot...and the bonus disc is a huuuuge improvement on the bonus disc from the last album | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 134 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Flies - second album (as yet untitled) Glad you like SHS Randy and that album is definitely a grower too | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 437 Registered: 04-2005 |
Trashcan Sinatras newie 'In the Music'. Not released quite yet, but on pre-order from their site and you get to download the CD in MP3 form. On initial listens sounds quite like the wonderful 'Weightlifting'. But they seem to have found happiness! Rather bizarrely it has Carly Simon on backing vocals on one track, although to be honest you would have to be told that it is her. For the mo' "I Hung My Harp Upon The Willows" is standing out. Modern day folk-song ? As Spence pointed out a while ago a band that just went their own way and now does exactly what they want. They have a loyal fanbase and an excellent web-site. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3134 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Smiths - The Smiths. 25 years on! Christ! A really wonderful album. I like it because its them at their most gritty and came before their hits, its very English, and its very very beautiful, though exceptionally grey, someone once said to me, you can "smell the pverty". Andrew, lookin forward to the Trashcans! | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 922 Registered: 08-2004 |
Wow Spence, I had The Smiths debut on last night. It's funny how Morrissey has never really moved on from that kind of song, he's a genre in his own right. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1632 Registered: 10-2004 |
Winnebago Orchestra - haven't listened to this in several months, but I still think it is a lush, immaculately crafted album of pristine beauty. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1633 Registered: 10-2004 |
Winnebago Orchestra - Born in the Sun. Haven't listened to this in several months, but I still think it is a lush, immaculately crafted album of pristine beauty. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1634 Registered: 10-2004 |
Whoops - double post! | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1490 Registered: 01-2005 |
Any word on when the Smiths reissues are due? | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1635 Registered: 10-2004 |
Michael - Nope, only word, still, is that they've simply been remastered by Marr and Stephen Street. You'd think, having done that, they'd have plans to release these in the foreseeable future, but I haven't read about them anywhere. | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 543 Registered: 01-2006 |
Sparklehorse & Dangermouse - Dark Knight of the Soul. On first listen (part of) this sounds good. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3139 Registered: 05-2005 |
Schuks Jeff! Biff bang Pow! - The girl who runs the beat hotel. Massive influence on me and one of my first post C86 musical outings - Steamtown. | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 423 Registered: 01-2007 |
A Bill Callahan fest and Andrew Bird | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1498 Registered: 01-2005 |
The Go-Betweens @ The Roxy Theater, Hollywood, CA September 10, 1987. Is this considered one of the better shows by the classic line-up? | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 425 Registered: 01-2007 |
Thinking of getting Man of Aran by British Sea Power. Not got any of there stuff. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 183 Registered: 10-2008 |
Lemonheads - Varshons Cotti - Various 12" singles John Martyn - One World. A friend is trying to convert me. hmmm - interesting voice, examplary playing. Not quite the "milkmaid churning" music I expected. Nick Cave - Your Funeral My Trial Sonic Youth - The Eternal Wilco - The Wilco Album | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 926 Registered: 08-2004 |
Is that the remastered Nick Cave, Kev? | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 429 Registered: 01-2007 |
Gone and purchased the new Jarvis Cocker and the BSP, which is interesting in a classical way, the Jarvis I decided to get despite the bad reviews. | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 430 Registered: 01-2007 |
Listening to Clouds from a compilation on the computer whilst waiting for my daughter to get out of the bath. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 184 Registered: 10-2008 |
It is Jerry - one of the few Cave albums I had never bought so thought I would shell out when it got reissued | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 930 Registered: 08-2004 |
Your Funeral... is a good album, tho actually a double E.P. I cannot fathom the need for a remastering when it's good enough to begin with. I don't need a documentary either. It'd be nice if there were some extra songs. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1501 Registered: 01-2005 |
Jenny Lewis - Acid Tongue Stan Ridgeway - Mosquitos Opal - Early Recordings Oliver Nelson - The Blues and the Abstract Truth (one of my all time favorite jazz albums) | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2002 Registered: 03-2005 |
Bee Gees--Odessa | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3154 Registered: 05-2005 |
Wake the president - You can;t change that boy | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1505 Registered: 01-2005 |
Viva Saturn - Brightside Lost and shamefully ignored 1995 psychedelic treat. Former Rain Parade members made up the core of the group. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3156 Registered: 05-2005 |
Doves - Kingdom of Rust I really love it, I completely identify with its sonic textures and massive landscapes, i',m walking around its area, unaided and in complete bliss. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2003 Registered: 03-2005 |
McCarthy--Banking, Violence & the Inner Life Today This record simply never wears out for me. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3157 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy, ditto!!!! | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 172 Registered: 03-2007 |
A Low High - All India Radio. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 193 Registered: 10-2008 |
The Low Anthem - Oh My God, Charlie Darwin. 50% Fleet Foxes sounding and 50% The Felice Brothers through a Tom Waits mixer. You'll not be surprised to hear that its on Bella Union record label in the UK, and Wilco's label Nonesuch in the US. Coming to various top 10 end of year lists near you soon (well in 6 months) Best summed up by this review I came across "many of the songs are dense with sound,sensurround almost, overflowing with clanging and clapping,pump organ and harmonica,woodwind and horns,banjo,booming bass, drums, guitars. any space left is filled with multi voice harmonies and reverb" | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1494 Registered: 09-2006 |
Downtown Science - s/t David Byrne - The Knee Plays | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 194 Registered: 10-2008 |
Goats Head Soup - Rolling Stones Warrior Dubz - Dubstep compilation Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest Mordant Music/Shackleton - Pickin O'er The Bones Jason Lytle - Yours Truly The Commuter Toddla T - Skanky Skanky | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1509 Registered: 01-2005 |
Sleater-Kinney - Dig Me Out Keith Richards - Talk Is Cheap Lost album that kicks and is funky thanks to Bootsy Collins and a star studded guest list. Whiskeytown - Faithless Street Son Volt - Trace OMD - Architecture & Morality | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 173 Registered: 03-2007 |
Moving Up Country - James Yorkston & The Athletes Just Beyond The River -James Yorkston & The Athletes The Year Of The Leopard - James Yorkston Roaring The Gospel - James Yorkston | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2004 Registered: 03-2005 |
Ed Kuepper--Electrical Storm | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2005 Registered: 03-2005 |
Scott Walker--Scott | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2808 Registered: 05-2005 |
Living Things - Ahead Of The Lions. A truly great straight ahead rock album. I played it twice today, on CD and later on on the iPod while out for a walk. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2809 Registered: 05-2005 |
Danger Mouse And Sparklehorse - Dark Night Of The Soul. It gets better as the album goes on. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2810 Registered: 05-2005 |
God Only Knows - Daniel Johnston version. One of my all time favourite songs and this is the only cover of it fit to lace Brian Wilson's boots. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2811 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Dukes Of Stratosphear - Chips From The Chocolate Fireball. Best spoof psych album ever. You can hear the love. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2816 Registered: 05-2005 |
Wilco - Summerteeth, in memory of Jay Bennett. | ||
| Mark Leydon Member Username: Mark_leydon Post Number: 231 Registered: 05-2005 |
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. Jay is all over this album - RIP. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3159 Registered: 05-2005 |
Wilco - Why would you wanna live. Bloody hell, I really didn;t know I was gonna pick this particular song to play as a glass raising Wilco tune for poor JB, but it seems to fit the mood I was in when i heard about his untimely death, also, aI think this was featured on I am DVD, WITHOUT the man, but it seems to stand out as a JB tune this. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3160 Registered: 05-2005 |
Wilco - The lonely 1. Oh bloody hell, this has moved me. Jeezas! | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3161 Registered: 05-2005 |
It follows right afetr on Being there. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3163 Registered: 05-2005 |
REM - Live At Larry's Hideaway, Toronto The additional live CD with Murmer reissue. I may have commented on this before, that's old age for ye! Its a remarkable recording, given its age, etc, the quality of their original uniqe songwriting style and playing really shines through. The songs just sparkle so much, the sound of the instruments is raw and pure and you can literally feel the energy and what it must've been like in the audience, I also love the way you can hear the desk being messed with, reverb/echo and eq'ing dropping in and out completely randomly??. I would loved to have seen them live during this period. When you listen to this live CD, you realise how important Murmer and Chronic Town was/is, and how IMHO they have yet to better. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2007 Registered: 03-2005 |
David Westlake -- Westlake | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2008 Registered: 03-2005 |
Weather Prophets--Diesel River Loft--Magpie Eyes 1982-1985 | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 288 Registered: 10-2006 |
Oscillons of the Antisun - Stereolab Chemical Chords - ditto Sticky Fingers Goat's head soup It's only r&r Black & Blue (RS reissues) The Stereolab obsession is simmering away nicely, and turns out to be perfect listening for the suddenly descended semitropical weather. And Chemical Chords,at least to one who hasn't yet fully assimilated the back catalogue, actually sounds pretty beautiful: with its echoes of old French film scores and Ipanema and Brian Wilson and with Sadier's addictively rhubarb & cream vocals, it looks set to become my soundtrack for the summer. | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 551 Registered: 01-2006 |
The Information - Beck | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 552 Registered: 01-2006 |
Padraig where's that Daniel Johnston cover of God Only Knows from? Haven't been keeping up to date with DJ since Fear Yourself. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2826 Registered: 05-2005 |
Do It Again - A Tribute To Pet Sounds Sacriligeous some say. Not so say I. The Wedding Present take on Caroline No is almost equally as awesome as Daniel Johnston doing God Only Knows. 1. Oldham Brothers – Wouldn’t It Be Nice 2. Vic Chesnutt – You Still Believe In Me 3. Nobody And Mystic Chords Of Memory (with Farmer Dave) – That’s Not Me 4. Centro-matic – Don’t Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder) 5. Micah P. Hinson – I’m Waiting For The Day 6. Antenna Shoes – Let’s Go Away For Awhile 7. Dayna Kurtz – Sloop John B 8. Daniel Johnston – God Only Knows 9. Mazarin – I Know There’s An Answer 10. Jody Wildgoose – Here Today 11. Patrick Wolf – I Just Wasn’t Made For These Times 12. Architecture In Helsinki – Pet Sounds 13. The Wedding Present – Caroline No | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 503 Registered: 05-2005 |
Neil Young - I made up a compilation for a friend titled "I can't belive you're not into Neil Young!". Radiohead - Amnesiac Bob Dylan - Love and Theft, Bob Dylan and Self Portrait. The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love (highly reccommended) | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2009 Registered: 03-2005 |
Pete Astor--Injury Time | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2827 Registered: 05-2005 |
Wagons - The Rise & Fall Of Goodtown | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2010 Registered: 03-2005 |
The Bats--Silverbeet Triffids--Calenture. Such great songs so badly overproduced. This would have been a masterpiece if the budget had been half as much. As it is, a few of the massive productions work--such as "Bury Me Deep in Love" and "Blinder by the Hour." But fine songs like "Trick of the Light" are almost destroyed by the instantly-dated 80s Top 40 sheen. Thank god for "In the Pines." | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2011 Registered: 03-2005 |
And thankfully, "Jerdacuttup Man" is done just right. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2830 Registered: 05-2005 |
OK Computer. | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 504 Registered: 05-2005 |
I have tried many times to "get" O.K. Computer and I never can! The Bends, Kid A and Amnesiac are WAY better IMHO. Were you dragging it out for "old times sake" or are you too in the delemma of believing the Emperor's got no clothes Padraig? By the way, listening to Rockfield by Duffy. She knows how to sing (i.e. like Dionne and Dusty)and she's got some great tunes too! I'm feeling a little bit shook up though - Duffy followed by Amnesiac followed by Dylan's Self Portrait! | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 431 Registered: 01-2007 |
Interesting the Triffids have come up again, I've been listening to Aurstralian Melodrama and In the Pines! Also Bonnie Prince Billy " Beware" I have to say I am always underwelmed by him probably the hype but may be this one will take some playing Also playing Bill Callahan | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2012 Registered: 03-2005 |
Jerry, what a fine idea! I think I'll listen to "In the Pines." | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2831 Registered: 05-2005 |
Geoff, that was the first time I ever heard the album! Honestly! I never got them at all back in the 90s (though I saw them play a tiny gig in Dublin in 1993). The first thing I bought by them was the 2+2=5 single in 2003 after I heard it in a record shop and had no idea who it was! Last year I got their double best of which inspired me to recently get the Bends and OK Computer double disc versions. I thought The Bends was brilliant and was really surprised by what a straight ahead rock album it is. OK Computer is great too, though not as good as The Bends. I remember everyone talking about The Bends when it came out and having a conversation with a famous Irish radio DJ about it and he was very surprised I hadn't heard the record. Now I understand his surprise! | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 506 Registered: 05-2005 |
Yeah. The Bends is VERY good. A mate had done a burnt copy for me years ago - I played it once and thought, I'll have to get back to that. Getting back to it happened last year for me...WHOAH!!!! what an album! That album was the soundtrack for many surfs last year - perfect surf psyche-up music! Hence, Amnesiac. He had also done me a burn of that but I didn't even get around to that. It's very good too though not as straightforward. I always did like Kid A but could never understand why! It appealed to me on an intellectual level somehow. Amnesiac is a bit Kid A and a bit the Bends - a great album. Do yoursef a favour Padraig! | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 220 Registered: 10-2008 |
Amnesiac - played it the other day, and while it is not on a par with its twinned album Kid A(their greatest album imo) its still pretty neat. I blame The Bends for all the bands like Keane and their ilk. Never got into it then or now. Fake Plastic Trees - uurgh!! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2847 Registered: 05-2005 |
I'll check it out Geoff. This evening I listened to Caroline Now, a brilliant Scottish comp from a few years back with 24 covers of Brian Wilson songs. |