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     skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 291 Registered: 10-2008 |
The Wipers - Over The Edge Discovery - LP Wilco - Being There Patterson Hood - Murdering Oscar The Bats - Guilty Office (had to stop listening after 4 songs - their early stuff was interesting but this stuff just meanders along. actually i have this theory that all the NZ bands have the same vocalist, they all sound just so non descript to me) | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 298 Registered: 10-2008 |
yours truly the commuter - jason lytle clock dva - thirst | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2928 Registered: 05-2005 |
Josh Pyke. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2929 Registered: 05-2005 |
BTW Kevin, I think you'll find that should read LIV. Well, it took us until 54 to get one wrong, which is not bad. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 300 Registered: 10-2008 |
damn, course it is!! actually thats still a bugbear with me that there is no editing facility on this board. although i suppose it does add a "flying by the seat of you pants" edge to the posting, especially if you've had a few sherberts - eh spence? :-) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2932 Registered: 05-2005 |
Seán Millar's Of The People part 1 EP. Yet again. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 303 Registered: 10-2008 |
Jay Reatard. Watch Me Fall - If I was a Guardian music critic I would pigeonhole this as angular, melodic, spiky, post punk pop. The Dodos - Time To Die. Another album in the vein of Animal Collective, Grizzly Bear etc - its great. Moritz Von Oswald Trio - Vertical Ascent. A founding father of the Berlin electronic/Dub Techno scene, in 20 years time this guy will be talked about the same way people talk about the original Krautrock pioneers from the 70s. The Jayhawks Anthology. This band is so schizophrenic, at times sublime alt country-ish gems sit next to puerile pop slush. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2049 Registered: 03-2005 |
Shouldn't this one be "What are people listening to LIV?" I'm giving my first listen to Wedding Present's "Bizzarro." I'm up to the fifth song. This all sounds decent to me so far. But then, considering my own--ahem!--"expertise" on guitar this chord-based stuff might be expected to appeal to me. Kevin, can't you just edit in the preview window before you hit the final "post" button? I do that all the time. I guess you're asking for the ability to edit after you've sent the final one. That's cheating. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2050 Registered: 03-2005 |
Ok, this chord thing might get monotonous. Even I manage to break it up a bit. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2935 Registered: 05-2005 |
I beat you to the punch on the LIV thing Randy! (Call me twice pedantic then) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2936 Registered: 05-2005 |
Doctor Millar - The Deal. Oh God it's brilliant. | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 519 Registered: 05-2005 |
Rock 'n' roll - John Lennon. Some of these are WAY better than the originals! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2941 Registered: 05-2005 |
A great Spunk label comp (Spoon, Bill Callahan etc) and Spinal Tap. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3248 Registered: 05-2005 |
Wilco album. I echo the review in this month's Mojo magazine... | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2056 Registered: 03-2005 |
Easybeats--Good Friday | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 88 Registered: 11-2007 |
Mixed mp3 cd from "indie scene 77-86" - wonderful cds made in austria in 1992. didn't cost much at that time but now not easy to find! all that rare and wonderful stuff starting with early punk/pub rock in 77 over new wave to pastels and co. in creation times... some songs: sonic reducer by the dead boys jet set junta by monochrome set yashar by cabaret voltaire seven minutes to midnight by wah! bouncing babies by teardrop explodes death valley 69 by sonic youth it will come by the woodentops ...echo, joy division, cab voltaire, bauhaus, modern english and so much more! I love it  | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2954 Registered: 05-2005 |
Loop - A Gilded Eternity. I saw them live in London the week it came out in March 1990. A phonomenal gig. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2955 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kevin, are you a Loop fan? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2960 Registered: 05-2005 |
Rollerskate Skinny - Speed To My Side (a great lost Irish band) | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 322 Registered: 10-2008 |
cant say i am padraig, were they part of the shoegazing scene?. i have a friend who i think has one of their albums, i'll see if i can borrow from him | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 323 Registered: 10-2008 |
yes padraig, he has "a gilded eternity" which i will listen to later on. i looked them up on allmusicguide and i soon remembered all about them. i remember peel playing arclite regularly. i loved the way allmusic described them - space rock, shoegaze, alt pop rock. Over a 3 yr period their 3 albums were on Mute,Rough Trade and Beggars Banquet,thats pretty impressive. thats like a footballer transferring to Arsenal,Liverpool and Manchester Utd in quick succession!! | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 324 Registered: 10-2008 |
loop - a gilded eternity. padraig , sounded pretty interesting on first listen , i see what you mean about the krautrock influence on some tracks. wilco - the ep. i dont think i will ever be able to listen to wilco the album all the way through again so i have christened the first 4 tracks "the ep". as soon as it gets to "you and i" and "you never know" its the off button for me. there are one or two songs after these that are ok but to be honest i cant be arsed. 2 years ago this was my favourite band on record and live, but SBS and this album, even though its a vast improvement, have killed that - f'in tragic. dirty projectors - bitte orca. the most original and inventive band of 2009 by a distance delroy wilson - 20 golden greats. Jamaica's version of sam cooke, produced by bunny lee and mixed by king tubby - what more do you want. the triffids - treeless plain. thanks to randy my interest in pre calenture era triffids has been massively rekindled. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 465 Registered: 04-2005 |
I'm not much of a Radiohead fan, but listening to Thom Yorke's cover of a Miracle Legion song 'All for the Best'. http://stereogum.com/archives/new-thom-y orke---all-for-the-best-stereogum-premie _079431.html I prefer the original ! But it is all in a good cause and he has always talked about his love for this little known American band that got rave reviews and sold about 3 records. Their '89 Rough Trade release 'Me and Mr Ray' remains one of my favourite records of all time. An Americana lo-fi classic... One of the tracks from that release is here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ATHaT641 ZA Mark Mulcahy has had a solo career since the band split, and his 3 solos albums are wonderful. Each one gets better than the previous one. Last year he tragically lost his wife Melissa and has since spent the time concentrating on his 3 year old twin girls. Some good friends have got together to record cover versions of ML and MM solo songs to help him out. It is released in September and features a fairly eclectic mix of people; Michael Stipe, Frank Black, Syd Straw, Mercury Rev, Vic Chesnutt, The National, Dinosaur Jnr amongst others. | ||
| Guy Ewald Member Username: Guy_ewald Post Number: 225 Registered: 02-2005 |
I don't know if there are any fans of The Court & Spark here. I think they've broken up, but from the ashes has come Hiss Golden Messenger whose new album "Country Hai East Cotton" is my current [new band] favorite. I think it's available on their website as a "pay what you please" download. I recommend it. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2961 Registered: 05-2005 |
Thanks for the info Andrew. I'll definitely get that record when it comes out. I'm a fan of both ML and MM solo. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2060 Registered: 03-2005 |
Today: the Panics' "Sleeps Like a Curse." Yesterday: Wipers--Youth of America Church--Seance. (Yeah, this is a lot better than Blurred Crusade. I remember seeing this cover all the time way back when. I clean forgot about it by the time I started buying Church records). | ||
| Mark Leydon Member Username: Mark_leydon Post Number: 241 Registered: 05-2005 |
OK - I'm calling the new Wilco album a masterpiece. I've lived with it for a while now and its steadily grown in stature for me and I now rate it their finest album. Initially it was the earlier songs on the album like Bull Black Nova and One Wing that impressed most. But over time the songs on the second half of the album like I'll Fight and Solitaire have really connected. And I think Country Disappeared may be the most beautiful song Tweedy's ever written. The way the lyrics and melody invoke an impressionistic image of a country in decline is just masterful. The sort of song I can imagine Richard Manual from The Band singing. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 326 Registered: 10-2008 |
since yesterday afternoon - a total binge wilco - being there wilco - summerteeth wilco - yhf the clash - the clash pil - metal box jay reatard - watch me fall gregory isaacs - hot stepper mordant music/shackleton - pickin o'er the bones dylan - another side of fiery furnaces - i am going away jj - no2 | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2971 Registered: 05-2005 |
Sarah Blasko - As Day Follows Night. I really like it. It was her cover of Hold Your Horses that turned me on to her talent. I also like the extra disc that came with my copy where she does five songs from movies such as The Sound Of Music. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2065 Registered: 03-2005 |
Doctor Millar--The Deal | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2066 Registered: 03-2005 |
New Estate--considering Cannanes--Arty Barbecue | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2977 Registered: 05-2005 |
Discs 1 and 2 of the Neil Young archives box set. Some brilliant and absolutely fascinating stuff on there. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1553 Registered: 09-2006 |
Blackmail Hitchcock's first sound film...also concurrently rereading his book-length interview by Truffaut, in which he bemoans several times the addition of sound as making movies less "pure". On one level I hear what he's saying, but even on his first time out the evidence makes clear that this advent gave him some wonderful new tools to help him on his stated aim to convey far more complexity in his characters and story. Even at the times when the dialogue is mostly semi-banal exposition it does its job by taking up the slack in that department so he's free to compose some more of those wordless sequences he does so well. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2978 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Drones - Havilah. Third great album in a row from these Victorians. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2979 Registered: 05-2005 |
George Harrison - Let It Roll Songs | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2980 Registered: 05-2005 |
Drop Nineteens - Delaware & Your Aquarium EP | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1554 Registered: 09-2006 |
Oops, posted in the wrong thread... | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2067 Registered: 03-2005 |
I just figured you meant it Allen, since it was his first sound film. Padraig, the Drones? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2981 Registered: 05-2005 |
A little something in your inbox Randy. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2982 Registered: 05-2005 |
Robert Forster - Calling From A Country Phone. First time in ages I've played it. Sounds great. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 338 Registered: 10-2008 |
yo la tengo - popular songs | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1555 Registered: 09-2006 |
Padraig, I've lately been alternating that one and "Warm Nights" a lot. He doesn't mention it directly that many times (though when he does, of course it's very direct) but the "I'm very much in love" vibe just suffuses that album. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1698 Registered: 10-2004 |
Padraig, Calling From A Country Phone is *still* my very favorite solo Robert album. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1540 Registered: 01-2005 |
The song Drop from Calling From A Country Phone almost sounds like a missing cut from Born Sandy Devotional to my ears. Anybody else pick up on that or am I nuts? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2984 Registered: 05-2005 |
Never before thought of it Michael, but you're right, it could be on BSD. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 339 Registered: 10-2008 |
I dont particularly hear The Drop being similar to a BSD cut, Beyond Their Law would be a better fit maybe. Cheers for bringing the album up though Padraig, just finished blasting it out on the headphones and sounded fantastic. wish i had it on vinyl though. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2987 Registered: 05-2005 |
It always was mine Jeff, but I think maybe it has been surpassed by The Evangelist. They are so different though that it's certainly possible to love them equally! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2988 Registered: 05-2005 |
No problem Kevin! That's what we're all here for right? BTW, what's your view on Celtic's new manager and new signings? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2990 Registered: 05-2005 |
Right now George Harrison's Best Of Dark Horse 1976-1989. Earlier, Gemma Hayes' still stunning 2002 debut Night On My Side. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2992 Registered: 05-2005 |
Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs. Three songs in on the first play. So far, so great. | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 542 Registered: 05-2005 |
A guilty pleasure...Led Zep 3...minus the blues songs. Rifftastic! | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 599 Registered: 01-2006 |
Silver Jews – Tanglewood Numbers Wilco –Wilco (The Album). I’ve been listening to this a good bit since I got it over a fortnight ago and I’m mostly disappointed with it. There are about 5 good tracks on this record – Deeper Down, One Wing, Bull Black Nova, Solitaire & I’ll Fight. I find the rest either uninspiring or just plain boring. If they had added Dark Neon to side 2 it may have livened it up a little. You Never Know has awful lyrics and sounds very MOR, the George Harrison style guitar playing and the Steve Naive style piano do little for it either… Everlasting Everything is the second album in a row that they’ve ended with a turkey. Country Disappeared & Sonny Feeling are instantly forgettable. Can’t imagine listening to Wilco (The Song) and You & I a whole lot either. If they had mashed up the last two albums to make one it would be better, something like this.. 1. Either Way 2. You Are My Face 3. Impossible Germany 4. Leave me Like You Found Me 5. Side With The Seeds 6. Hate It Here 7. Dark Neon 8. Deeper Down 9. One Wing 10. Bull Black Nova 11. Solitaire 12. I’ll Fight It does sound better on vinyl over the CD though.. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 467 Registered: 04-2005 |
A Howlin' Wolf Chess compilation. Great stuff and a much more varied range than some bluesmen from the period. That rhythm guitar on 'Killing Floor' is wild! | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 215 Registered: 05-2005 |
Wilco Album. In the french Inrocks Magazine, the critic compare "You and I" with a Go-between's song. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1544 Registered: 01-2005 |
Sonny Stitt sits in with The Oscar Peterson Trio (2008 Verve remastered edition). Highly recommended as Sonny cooks both on alto and tenor sax!!!! | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 340 Registered: 10-2008 |
xy, i said earlier i reckon i could cobble together a 4 track ep from the new wilco album. then again, i cant even muster up enough enthusiasm to listen to that either !! so, i would add impossible germany to tracks 2,3 and 4 of the new album. y'know i cant be arsed with that either so howsabout: impossible germany/bull black nova as a double a side. not bad for 3 years work ;-) | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1558 Registered: 09-2006 |
Moby - Wait For Me Original Soundtrack - The Straight Story We're in the midst of a heatwave up here, and slow & quiet with a touch of melancholy helps to conjure feelings of cool. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 341 Registered: 10-2008 |
allen, the straight story. that was a cracking, albeit strange little film | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1559 Registered: 09-2006 |
It's one I always enjoy taking out and watching. Get all teary-eyed at the end, too. David Lynch at his comparatively least strange, though of course, being himself he can't help it. | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 601 Registered: 01-2006 |
No place for You Are My Face on the Wilco Double A-Side Kev?? I've a few 7"s with three tracks on them. Allen The Straight Story OST is my favourite of Badalamenti's Lynch score work. Just a beautiful album. The film itself is very touching and I tend to place it alongside The Elephant Man, they're both probably his most starighforward and human films. Still haven't plucked up the courage to watch Inland Empire, bought it a few years aggo but haven't seen iut yet. I hear it's tough work, all three hours of it. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3277 Registered: 05-2005 |
Pad, i used to know robert from loop fairly well, nice chap, did you ever interview them? james now works for rough trade shops. the wilco album is really working for me, its stealth like, the more you listen, the more it grows on you in an unsuspecting way, i firmly believe you have to listen to it in a car on the open road, it makes utter sense when you do it this way. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2994 Registered: 05-2005 |
No, never interviewed him Spence. Nice to hear he's a good fella though. Did you like his next band Main also? I have one great EP and a good album by them. As I recall the EP is almost album length anyway. | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 602 Registered: 01-2006 |
Spence you could be right. While I am disappointed with the album it's mostly because I'm not completely bowled over by it, something I have been with most Wilco albums save the last two. I find myself humming along to tracks I'm a bit so-so about. Saying that I do think Side 2 (starting with Country Disappeared) is a bit weak, it could do with a rocker. And there a few quite weak tracks on it. Loop were around the same time as Spacemen 3 weren't they? Think Sonic Boom thought Loop ripped their sound off or maybe I'm thinking of a different band? | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3278 Registered: 05-2005 |
Si, yeah Spacemen 3 were around similar period. sb may be right, they were quite similar. to be honest though i think s3 were more distintive, esp their image | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1560 Registered: 09-2006 |
XY, Inland Empire could be hard going if one is expecting a "story." There actually is a story, which is set up in the comparatively linear first hour, and then it's down the rabbit hole. If one just completely surrenders and goes with it, it's pretty amazing, IMO. I've watched it numerous times and never been bored. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1700 Registered: 10-2004 |
Oh man, I could not deal with Inland Empire, and this is coming from someone who really likes most of Lynch's other films (especially Mulholland Drive). I felt like Inland Empire played like an amateurish pretentious art student film. I mean sure, I "got it," but really couldn't get into it. But Mulholland Drive, now that is a film I could watch over and over and never get sick of it. I'd go so far as to say that's Lynch's peak. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1561 Registered: 09-2006 |
Ah, I remember the Mulholland Drive US premiere at the Seattle Art Museum well. Naomi Watts (pre-fame) was there, decked out in a very elegant dress. She was very nice and down-to-earth, but her choice of apparel made me think she was expecting a much more swank affair, not just a bunch of fanboys and -girls in their street clothes. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1562 Registered: 09-2006 |
And again, movie talk invades the music thread... | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1703 Registered: 10-2004 |
This message board could use more thread derailment. That's funny about Naomi Watts. She was great in that, and it seems like it would've been a fairly demanding roll. Thinking over Lynch's work, I think Blue Velvet would have to be my other favorite of his. I still haven't seen Straight Story, but my mom really liked it, which means it's not your usual Lynch flick. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2070 Registered: 03-2005 |
I don't see very many movies and never saw Mulholland Drive. I did see Blue Velvet. It freaked me out because it reminded me of my home town including some of the creepy people I knew there when I was in high school. | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 603 Registered: 01-2006 |
Allen, I've heard there's no linear plot in IE, fine with me as I'm well used to Lynch's work. I liked Mulholland Drive but I'd say my favourites of his are Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks Pilot and Season 1. Speaking of Badalamenti, have you heard Julee Cruise's album Floating Into The Night? She sang the Twin Peaks theme Falling and also Mysteries Of Love from Blue Velvet OST. Both are on this fantastic record. Lynch wrote the lyrics and Badalamenti the music. You may a remember a few tracks from certain Twin Peaks episodes. I can't recommend this album highly enough. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1563 Registered: 09-2006 |
I like that one a lot, XY, and also (though not quite as well) the second album they all did together, "The Voice of Love." That one came out in the mid-90s, I think. | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 605 Registered: 01-2006 |
Haven't heard that one Allen. Have you seen Industrial Symphony No. 1, a Lynch film with Badalamenti and Cruise, kind of a concert film, worth a look though I haven't seen it in about 15 years. All this talk of Lynch reminds me of the scene in Mulholland Drive when that Spanish singer does an a capella version of one of my favourite Roy Orbison songs, Crying....astounding. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1549 Registered: 01-2005 |
Without Blue Velvet we would have never gotten Twin Peaks. Speaking of TP, the pilot really rocks in the gold box DVD set, as the sound and picture finally get a first class upgrade. I bought Julee's "Floating Into The Night" when it came out on cd some 20 years ago, but didn't pick up "The Voice Of Love". Didn't she fill in for Cindy Wilson on a B-52's tour some years back? | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1564 Registered: 09-2006 |
Wikipedia says she toured with them for quite awhile: 1992-2000. Loved that MD lipsynch scene. Got to see Industrial Symphony again a little while ago - it's on DVD, but only as part of a Lynch box set. It holds up well. "Voice of Love" is very similar in sound and tone to the first album, as you might guess. However in some instances they reversed their process: where some of the songs on "Floating" later turned up on Twin Peaks, a few of the songs on "Voice" are basically instrumental themes from Wild at Heart and Fire Walk With Me with vocals added. As mentioned, I don't like it quite as much, but it's still definitely worth the time. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2995 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Go-Betweens on shuffle on the way to work. I'd completely forgotten about the song Crooked Lines from Bright Yellow Bright Orange. Brilliant song. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2071 Registered: 03-2005 |
Lately I've taken aboard a bunch of CDs. I finally decided to spring for the old Rykodisc version of "Hunky Dory" and a Bowie best that includes "The Prettiest Star," one of my favorite Bowie songs. I had a chance to again hear the usual "hits" and be reminded of why I could never get into the whole Ziggy Stardust period. His vocals are vastly too contrived. I do wish I had "Five Years," though. And I've been listening to a 3 CD anthology from Trojan called the Trojan Rocksteady Box Set. I already had about 50% of the material but the new additions are very welcome and the digital transcriptions mostly pretty good. Not too sure why anybody thought panning around the vocal track for the Paragons' classic "Riding High on a Windy Day" would be a good idea though. No matter, I have many other versions of this recording. On the strength of Padraig's recommendation, I've picked up two Drones albums. I'm listening to "Gala Mill" right now. This is magnificent crude lonely Australian music. It's not sweet; it's tart and naked. This album was recorded in a mill in Tasmania and it sounds like it. I think it was All Music who compared the Drones to an amalgam of Dylan, Van Morrison and Neil Young. I can hear bits of Morrison and Young but only in the most intangible ways, not including the grandiosity of either of them. I believe that the Dylan comparison is based on the lyrics and I won't be hearing those until some later time, especially with Gareth Liddiard's fabulously dense and unapologetic Aussie accent. I already told Padraig that it makes me think of a much more electric Disaster Plan and it still does. That's a good thing. The songs are much longer though! You could also compare the Drones to Mark Lanegan but because they are a band they have a much more organic sound. Everybody who visits this board knows that I'm guilty of romanticizing Australia. What I see is a large, mostly empty, mostly dry continent. Those wide open semi-arid spaces inspire people to find their own personal god and also drive them a little bit crazy. This is what I hear in the songs of David McComb and Glenn Richards and hinted at in some of the songs of Grant McLennan. I also hear it in the poetry of Adam Gibson and in the lonely tonalities of Disaster Plan's Richard Moffatt. On listen number one, it sounds like the Drones are going to wind up in that pantheon. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2072 Registered: 03-2005 |
And then, while typing in that last crazy entry, another disc dropped through the mail slot--the Postal Service lady is early today!--Volume 2 of Jet Set's anthology of the productions of Chinese-Jamaican Leslie Kong from 1969 to 1971. At last, I will be able to listen to Bruce Ruffin's terrific "Bitterness of Life" without having to crank up my tired old belt-drive turntable. I'm still looking for Volume 1 of this set. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1566 Registered: 09-2006 |
Chris Smither - Another Way to Find You Kim Gordon/Ikue Mori/DJ Olive - eponymous | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 345 Registered: 10-2008 |
Randy, the only place I can find Vol 1 of Leslie Kong anthology is at Amazon, and even then its on MP3 if you fancy paying $7.99 for the privelege. Its 256k so should be decent quality if you burn it, or load to Itunes | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2999 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy, your description of the Drones, and other Australian music, is wonderful. I'm glad to have introduced you to them. I hope Gareth Liddiard sees what you've written, but he doesn't strike me as the kind of guy who googles himself. Did you like the story behind Alexander Pearce? There's a feature film coming out about him, hot on the heels of an excellent, made for TV short film which was financed from both Ireland (RTE)and Australia (SBS). | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3001 Registered: 05-2005 |
Listening to the soundtrack of the Australian film Kenny. Once will be enough for this I think! (Great film though.) | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2073 Registered: 03-2005 |
The Alexander Pearce story is perfect Australiana, Padraig. I had never heard it until you told me. He reads like a David McComb or Nick Cave character. Kevin, I'm stubborn. I want the physical object. So far anyway. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 761 Registered: 04-2006 |
on radio eins - a very good radio station in berlin- they have an eighties day. i listenfor hours. it is a lot of fun. since one hour christine heise is the host of the show. she plays music that could be from my record collection (from associates, over colourfield, now the feelies and so on and so on). so, i thought i post the stream (if anyone is interested): http://www.radioeins.de/homepage/index.h tml | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 762 Registered: 04-2006 |
...now on air our beloved the go-betweens with cattle and cane.... | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 763 Registered: 04-2006 |
the show is over... | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 764 Registered: 04-2006 |
new host, new music. now the bunnymen... | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 346 Registered: 10-2008 |
drive by truckers - the fine print. outtakes from the last decade. arctic monkeys - humbug. not great, a busted flush already? | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 437 Registered: 01-2007 |
Bowerbirds, Florence and the Machine | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1704 Registered: 10-2004 |
In the midst of my annual Passage binge. God they were brilliant. Edgy, mysterious, menacing, and intermittently beautiful. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2078 Registered: 03-2005 |
David McComb--Setting You Free EP. I didn't even know this existed until I saw it on eBay and here it is. Still looking for "Clear Out My Mind." | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3010 Registered: 05-2005 |
It's a great EP Randy. I got it at the radio station I worked at when it came out. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3011 Registered: 05-2005 |
I mean Setting You Free btw. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2079 Registered: 03-2005 |
I was pretty thrilled that there were four songs I don't have Padraig. It stands to reason that this prolific songwriter would have all sorts of great things just sitting around unreleased from his relatively fallow (in terms of release) 90s period. I like the self-produced probably demo songs best. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 472 Registered: 04-2005 |
Haven't got the CD yet, but listening/watching to Malcolm Ross and the Low Miffs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjYOAuZ1y HU The press release says it all ! The Low Miffs and Malcolm Ross New Album – Malcolm Ross and The Low Miffs Released on Re-Action Recordings – 7th September This August sees the much anticipated first fruits of the collaboration between Malcolm Ross, the elder statesman of Postcard pop (Josef K/Orange Juice/Aztec Camera) and The Low Miffs, Glasgow’s young pretenders to the Post-Punk/Pure Pop throne. Bristling with the kind of effervescent guitar-play you’d expect from a Postcard veteran, the single The Man Who Took on Love flits effortlessly from its Television-esque intro and explodes into the self-same virtuoso territory once occupied by both Sparks and The Associates, with an appreciative vocal nod in the direction of both Bowie and Scott Walker. Ambitious? Yes, but in possessing an almost indecent array of collective musical dexterity, they carry it off with great aplomb! This is only one facet of The Low Miffs and Malcolm Ross, but gives some indication of what to expect from the stylistic diversity flaunted on the forthcoming, one-off, album. The Man Who took on Love (and Won) is available as a digital download only, and is followed by the album Malcolm Ross and The Low Miffs on download/CD on September 7th. | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 216 Registered: 05-2005 |
Dear Reader - Replace why with funny Marc Almond - in Bluegate Fields Nada Surf - The Proximity Effect A Hawk a Hacksaw - Delivrance Badalamenti - The Straight Story | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 765 Registered: 04-2006 |
eclectic. sounds great and interesting, thanks andrew. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 351 Registered: 10-2008 |
The Feelies - Only Life I see that the first two Feelies albums are being reissued with the full deluxe treatment in September. Bar/none records are releasing them in the US, and for the UK release Domino records add yet another excellent underrated band to their reissue roster. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3016 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy, my version only has four tracks. I've Heard Things Turn Out This Way isn't on it. (Hint.) | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 95 Registered: 11-2007 |
Thank you again, Andrew! Not only giving me Robert's and Adele's new song but new music from Malcolm Ross - I love it! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2080 Registered: 03-2005 |
It's a good'un Padraig. And it's on its way . . . . | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3284 Registered: 05-2005 |
andrew, yeah malcolm miffs thing is great, saw the vid last week, i saw them perform at malcolm's 25th wedding anniversary in a similar room in edinburgh 2 and a half years ago, they did jackie by scott w, very good. nice lads. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1719 Registered: 10-2004 |
Yeah, that's Miffs song isn't bad. The guitars are reminiscent of Orange Juice in spots. Malcolm's Hofner semi-hollow body is awesome. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3287 Registered: 05-2005 |
they're inoffensive enuff eh!? Yeah Jeff, that hofner, its a beau! thought you'd you d spot that!! DB's - repercussion. A fu*kin gem of an album | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 97 Registered: 11-2007 |
Spence, do you know whether there are plans of the Miffs for touring the new album. Would love to see Malcolm and the band playing near or in cologne Listening to Magazine live in Manchester this february. They made a dvd with the tuesday concert and it is so similiar to the concert some days before... It is awesome ... It is a must have! | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1579 Registered: 09-2006 |
Agreed, spence, that's a killer. Didn't realize that Holsapple and Stamey came out with a reunion album this year. Anybody heard it? Did I miss the discussion? | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 610 Registered: 01-2006 |
The new Spoon 7" - Got Nuffin | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3301 Registered: 05-2005 |
andreas, dont know about miffs gigs, they seem to be playing scotland all the time. get yerself over to scotland! the magazine dvd i have just received, it was shot on the saturday you, me, jon and baz and miles were there.!! oh sorry, you know, yeah the desk cd i've had for a bit. they don't sound dated, that's what's so amazing. for me anyway. allen, yeah i first heard that album over 20 years a go, just perfect pop. another band that are similar are the sneetches. if you can, i'd recommen buying lights out with the sneeteches. its a fantastic album. if fisrt got my vinyl version in '88, bought from the hands of joe foster at a gig for Ł3! | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 356 Registered: 10-2008 |
ok, had to dig out the db's twofer cd that i have that includes repercussion. ask for jill is a belter isnt it? still prefer the first album to repercussion, but thats not a criticism. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3026 Registered: 05-2005 |
Blue Öyster Cult - Super Hits. I bet Kevin doesn't approve! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3027 Registered: 05-2005 |
SPIN Presents Purplish Rain - various artists covering Purple Rain. It's for SPINs 25th birthday or something. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 359 Registered: 10-2008 |
Padraig, to be honest i wouldnt have a clue about the merits or otherwise of Super Hits. the only song that i think i know (DFTR) is inoffensive, i may know some others but if i do their titles escape me. i suspect i would find the album an excruciating listen though :-) | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1556 Registered: 01-2005 |
Sam Phillips - Fan Dance An over-looked gem and maybe my favorite of hers, and that is saying a lot!! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2083 Registered: 03-2005 |
I've never actually heard the Db's as far as I know. I don't know why, but I just kind of lumped them into the same mental slot with Game Theory and the Replacements. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1582 Registered: 09-2006 |
Definitely poppier than the Replacements. I have a feeling you might like them. That twofer Kevin mentioned is a great introduction (especially being that it's half their output). | ||
| Mark Leydon Member Username: Mark_leydon Post Number: 245 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Bats - At the National Grid Levon Helm - Electric Dirt | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2087 Registered: 03-2005 |
Many many thanks to TROU, Alain Bashung's "Fantasie Militaire" which is seriously a very good album. I've already ordered an official copy. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3030 Registered: 05-2005 |
Robert Forster - It's Not What You Think Adele Pickvance - The Light That Guides You Home Almost like buying an old fashioned double A-side single! Both great songs. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1583 Registered: 09-2006 |
Now I've done it...played that dB's CD last night, and now I've got around 20 excellent songs fighting to be the one that's stuck in my head. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1585 Registered: 09-2006 |
Zapp - II Fripp & Eno - The Equatorial Stars An Horse - Rearrange Beds | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 689 Registered: 07-2006 |
siouxsie the the banshees - juju | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3038 Registered: 05-2005 |
Yes - Yessongs (triple vinyl) | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 439 Registered: 01-2007 |
DBs ? is this an abbreviation or is this it | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 611 Registered: 01-2006 |
Bob Dylan - Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid soundtrack | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 362 Registered: 10-2008 |
frank, thats it. or to be more accurate the dB's http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg &sql=11:difrxqe5ld6e | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 440 Registered: 01-2007 |
Thanks Kevin, I seem vaguely now to remember the name but not the music. For a frightful minute I though we had name checked the Doobie Brothers!! | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1587 Registered: 09-2006 |
Funny...given their kind of music and their rep I just assumed they were well-known around here. |