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     skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 368 Registered: 10-2008 |
Fear - John Cale Cold Cave - Love Comes Close Richmond Fontaine - We Used To Think The Freeway Sounded Like A River Muddy Waters - Hoochie Coochie Man, The Complete Chess Masters Vol2 1952-1958 Joe Gibbs - Dub Serial | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3041 Registered: 05-2005 |
Nice job with the Roman numerals this time Kevin. Listening to Sinéad O'Connor's I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got right now. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 369 Registered: 10-2008 |
padraig, now i have always detested ms o'connor with a passion, that voice just kills me. both my wife and my lifelong friend both love her and in particular that album. i have noticed with interest that this album which was received pretty positively by the critics on original release has recently been panned, or at least given lukewarm reviews on reissue. i like to think i was right all along :-) | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1572 Registered: 01-2005 |
Kev, Check this ms o'connor vocal out on the Phil Coulter song Shores of The Swilly. It's one of her best IMHO. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xltvpZ0Ek qM | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1590 Registered: 09-2006 |
I think that all her albums (all I've heard anyway) after those first two are the very definition of patchy, but those two hold up well. Some of the better patches got collected on her very good best-of. | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 217 Registered: 05-2005 |
I saw her with the Smiths rythm section (tour after her first record) and was really impressed by the voice. They might be giants - Sampler Scritti Politti - Cupid and Psyche Wilco - Live DVD Girl in a Coma, on Myspace Spoon - Girls can tell | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2090 Registered: 03-2005 |
McCarthy--The Enraged Will Inherit the Earth plus extras. I'd forgotten all about the wonderfulness that is "Nobody Could Care Less About Your Private Lives." And now: same band--Banking, Violence and the Inner Life Today, probably forever one of my favorite albums. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2091 Registered: 03-2005 |
And TROU, thank you so much for the Bashung CDs. Fantaisie Militaire was a total must-purchase. And that's without being able to understand the lyrics. My idiot CD player wouldn't play Bleu Petrole but I decided to order it anyway on the strength of how great Fantaisie Militaire is and because it's his last album. L'Imprudence I'll have to live with longer to decide because it is less immediate, less easy. As you said, it's darker. And Osez Josephine wouldn't play on my gradually dying CD player either. I'm going to have to break down and spring for a new one soon. But I'm guessing that Osez Josephine might be more like his earlier pop stuff and I noticed you did NOT name it as one of your favorites in your accompanying card. So, first things first: the ones you recommended. | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 546 Registered: 05-2005 |
Astrud Gilberto - Girl from Ipanema.....glumpf Outcast - Speakerbox/The Love Below....some VERY funny bits but, ultimately(obviously!), too rap and not enough pop. Engineers - 3 Fact fader.....not as hazy as the first one. Might be due to the producer. Bits of it sound a bit late period Cocteau Twins. The first one was oceanic but this seems less grand. Had it for a week and only a couple of songs coming through so far. Jimmy Little - Messenger....great selection of songs. Obviously doesn't understand the spoken bit by Robert in Cattle and Cane (and hence the whole point of the song)when he changed "so alone" to "so at home". Talking Go Betweens, Heard a GRRRRRRRRRREAT version of "Bye Bye Pride" by an Aussie lass on ABC Dig Radio last night. Would it have been Sarah Blasko, Clare Bowditch or another, Padraig? Ian MacCulloch - Candleland....still boring fluff. Why did a member of one of the best guitar bands at the time, a band that seemed to stand against the fake dance synth rubric that was starting to dominate, suddenly go all synth and dance (for that time) on us?? Traffic - Mr Fantasy...SOOOOOOOOOOOO Psychedelic!!!!!!!!! After all the love for Simple Minds on the board recently, I checked out some the other day. Has anyone heard the covers album where Simple Minds do "Bring on the Dancing Horses"? By the way, it's going to be 29 Celcius around Sydney today. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3042 Registered: 05-2005 |
Ms Blasko Geoff. 29 in the west. 28 in the city. Probably a little lower where I live on the northern beaches, but I'm heading for the city to see Sydney FC play. It's supposed to be winter for god's sake, but it will be hotter in western Sydney today than it has ever been at any time of the year in Ireland. Climate change deniers are imbeciles. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1734 Registered: 10-2004 |
Motorhead - Overkill Scars - Author! Author! Associates - Affectionate Punch Iko - '83 | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 477 Registered: 04-2005 |
Sarah Blasko : "As Day Follows Night" I know that Pádraig was championing this recently, and apparently he wasn't alone... "The album is a triumph. It is one of those breakthrough records that only when it arrives and you hear the progression in spirit and song you see the potential that was always there, just waiting for the artist to make the jump. And Blasko has made a leap. This is the best group of songs she has ever put together, her voice has never sounded so good, and her lyrics are divine." Robert Forster, The Monthly, August 2009 One to check out then ? | ||
| Charles Coy Member Username: Coy Post Number: 150 Registered: 10-2006 |
..ditto..its a gem.. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 690 Registered: 07-2006 |
what do you think of i do not want... padraig? one of my all time favourites, once you drop the first and last tracks. my reissues of the first three kim wilde issues arrived in the post a month or so ago and i'm still listening to them in a daily basis. i really didn't think i'd be this keen on them. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 478 Registered: 04-2005 |
Hey Joe, I read recently that Kim has bought a house close to us in the SW of France. Must see if she would do a gig for our cultural association ! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3045 Registered: 05-2005 |
Joe, the tracks I love on it I really love, and the one I hate I really hate. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3047 Registered: 05-2005 |
Dinosaur Jr - Farm. A great, great record. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 691 Registered: 07-2006 |
heh..... i remember you having not so flattering thoughts on the record. i love the "bullet" intro of jump in the river! that's incredible andrew! you need to get your stalk-on!!! at some point (very early on) she lost absolutely all of her spunk, but i think she was brilliant to start off with. "select" featuring view from a bridge and cambodia is 80s gloom-pop honed to perfection! | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 480 Registered: 04-2005 |
Joe, I have to ask; is "80s gloom-pop" an officially recognised music category ? If so, who else do you classify as that ? My son (who is currently discovering his own wonderful world of music) seems to require that any group fall into a very specific categorisation before he can decide whether to listen to them. "But are they thrash-electro-goth-death-skate-punk metal Dad ?" "No, they are frankly just awful my son" Also; are there not forum rules regarding the use of the word 'spunk' in any posting about Kim Wilde? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3048 Registered: 05-2005 |
Joe, can anyone other than you name a Kim Wilde song other than Kids In America (which is a truly great pop song btw)? | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 692 Registered: 07-2006 |
i'm registering it! soft cell, yazoo, omd, new order, the first couple of eurythmics records, the associates, japan. forebearers of the likes of west end girls and enjoy the silence... by no means am i equating kim with their ilk, but she was contemporaneous i suppose. with big splashes of (a poor man's) debbie harry. and abba. i reckon allen and spence (and possibly jeff) could take you up on your challenge padraig. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1595 Registered: 09-2006 |
Haven't listened to her in years, but there was a time...perhaps I should look her up again. I'd agree with joe's summation above, and add perhaps a dash of Saturday morning cartoon theme song music...certainly not an insult in my book, as I'm a sucker for that unrelenting catchiness. Particularly liked "Water on Glass," "Chequered Love," "Rage to Love,"...can't remember that second album so well, beyond the two songs you mention. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1596 Registered: 09-2006 |
Speaking of unrelenting catchiness, I'm currently making my way through a Carpenters box set I got from the library, trying to perhaps hear what Sonic Youth see in them. Though not all of it's my particular cuppa, a number of the hits are reintroducing themselves to me with pleasure, and I'll probably be making a CD-R compilation. What I find funny is hearing SY members talk on their (very excellent) Geffen video collection, trying to justify their interest in the Carpenters by throwing out stuff about "dark undercurrents" under the "sappy" stuff on top. While I'd agree to some extent, what these brave-in-so-many-other-respects folks always avoid saying is that (maybe, just possibly) they just like it for its own sake...lest, of course, the snarkier members of their group of friends give them shit for it. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3307 Registered: 05-2005 |
Having bumped into Vini Reilly (I am still in shock!) last week on my short break in Wales' town of Barmouth I am firing off some Durutti Column from my itunes as we speak. Currently on is the album Idiot Savants, its freakin brilliant, a true gem. Durutti Column are so great, what a back catalogue. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3049 Registered: 05-2005 |
Allen, there are "dark undercurrents" to the Carpenters' music (how could there not be given what happened to Karen?) but I think you're right, it's the pretty melodies and "sappy" stuff that Sonic Youth really like them for. It's certainly what I like about the Carpenters. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1598 Registered: 09-2006 |
I was perhaps a bit unclear, but I'd agree that the music has both dark and light in it, as does Karen's voice. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1599 Registered: 09-2006 |
But that they feel much less open about admitting their enjoyment of the pop part (see also their interest in Madonna, Mariah Carey, etc.) | ||
| Mark Leydon Member Username: Mark_leydon Post Number: 249 Registered: 05-2005 |
You're right Allen. It's the whole 'guilty pleasure' thing. Why guilty? I think people often feel the need to justisfy their affection for mainstream pop by citing 'dark undercurrents' and such-like. I reckon some of the Carpenters stuff such as 'Superstar(Groupie)' and 'Goodbye to Love' are just out-and-out great songs. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 693 Registered: 07-2006 |
richard was an amazing songwriter and almost mechanical at times in his construction of their massive back catalogue. though i could never really love any of their records other than "a song for you", they have a stellar greatest hits set which typifies the great tradition of the love song by being at both at once very pretty, but also utterly hopeless and miserable. nick cave wrote something about all of this a while back fans might be interested in checking out http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id= 800055 | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1600 Registered: 09-2006 |
A lot to chew on there, Joe, thanks for the link. Though I'd agree with a number of his points there are others I'd take issue with, and I'll just climb back on my hobbyhorse one last time (I promise) to say that though I agree there are plenty of singers and songs that attempt to "deny us our God-given right to be sad," there are just as many that go to the other extreme as well. I've had plenty of shitty things happen in my life (a disproportionate amount of which happened early) and plenty of happy things as well, but only at a few out-of-balance times in my life have I felt that the bad occurrences were more substantial, more "real" and "important" than the joyful ones. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3050 Registered: 05-2005 |
Allen, sorry, it was me who was being unclear! I was just agreeing with you really and wanted to put on record my own liking of The Carpenters. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3057 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Church - Starfish L.J. Hill - Namoi Mud Cam Butler - Go Slow Jay Farrar - ThirdShiftGrottoSlack EP All brilliant. I had a ball playing cool tunes yesterday afternoon and last night. Listening to Doctor Millar yet again right now. Randy, Cam Butler is one you might like. He plays guitar in front of strings and though that usually is a disaster, here it works beautifully. All instrumental. He's a Melburnian I think (the Victorian government co-sponsored the album anyway). | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1603 Registered: 09-2006 |
Popinjays - Flying Down to Mono Valley Enjoyed it when it came out ('92), have enjoyed it a little more each time I've pulled it out since then. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2096 Registered: 03-2005 |
Triffids--Treeless Plain | ||
| Lewisdhead Member Username: Lewisdhead Post Number: 46 Registered: 01-2007 |
Lots of Small Faces. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3316 Registered: 05-2005 |
Wilco - Ashes of American flags bonus live material mp3's Funny thing, on Saturday me and the wife n kids walked up to our local town to get a few bits and bobs, on y shopping list amongst the items such as Jeyes fluid (for cleaning the god awful sloppy dog shit our next door neighbour but two allows their decrepit mutley to so kindly donate right on front of our doorstep in front of the children whilst they play), erm, sorry, i digress, on the item was wilco. After getting all the essential items, I thought shit, forgot wilco, but then I thought to myself, I already have Ashes of American Flags on DVD, what is it thati could want that is Wilco related that I haven;t already bought/got? Then it dawned on me, I was to go to Wilkinsons, the hardware shop, that is referred to also as wilco!! Doh!!! | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 442 Registered: 01-2007 |
I have a dog and what really annoys me is when other dog owners let there dog sh1t all over and not clear it up I would bring back capital punishment for them!! On the musci front the reissue of Neil Young-after the Gold Rush (like a comfy pair of slipper)and Richmond Fontaine ( the very excellent new one) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3064 Registered: 05-2005 |
Good story Spence! The second article I had published in a national paper in Ireland was about dog shit. The woman running the anti-dog crap campaign threw litter on the street as I was interviewing her about dog litter. I couldn't believe the stupidity of it! I hate litter of any kind, but cigarette butts annoy me more than anything. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1577 Registered: 01-2005 |
Circus Maximus - Wind http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-aBYqVAY No A heady brew of jazz, psychedelia and folk that was a semi-staple for US underground FM radio in the late 60's. It still holds up 40 years later! | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1607 Registered: 09-2006 |
From the library: "Christmas Time Again," a very charming 2006 collection headed by the dB's (reformed, with Stamey & Holsapple), plus contributions from their buddies: Alex Chilton, Marshall Crenshaw, Don Dixon, Whiskeytown and more. Got it recorded to pull out again a few months from now. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3066 Registered: 05-2005 |
Seán Millar - Of The People Part 1 | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 375 Registered: 10-2008 |
The Feelies - The Good Earth. The song Tomorrow Today sounds remarkably like REMs King of Birds. No coincidence that Peter Buck co-produced this album the year before Document came out? In an effort to see if I really am deaf to the so called joys of the band Felt I listened to a comp of theirs on Napster. Some songs were ok, but tellingly the best song for me was an instrumental called Evergreen Daze featuring some nifty guitar work. Vocally the guy (Lawrence?)just sound like any one of dozens aping Dylan with a hint of Reed at the time. Music for mummys boys :-) | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3318 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kev. Bollocks! ;) | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 626 Registered: 01-2006 |
Wilco: The Album Sky Blue Sky AM Seeing them tomorrow night. | ||
| Mark Leydon Member Username: Mark_leydon Post Number: 252 Registered: 05-2005 |
Been thrashing The Feelies 'The Good Earth' a lot recenlty as well. Agree with you Kev on the early REM influence. I also hear a lot of the early Flying Nun sound in there as well - not just the jangly guitar but the way the vocals are mixed way in the background. A really great album that has stood the test of time. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 377 Registered: 10-2008 |
agree totally mark. im sure i mentioned the nz similarities as well sometime ago. i also hear a bit of josef k in the debut album as well. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1611 Registered: 09-2006 |
Death Proof - soundtrack The Rough Guide to Dub Radiohead - I Might Be Wrong Hey Rob, looks like Wussy's playing in your town again, yaluckybastidya... | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2101 Registered: 03-2005 |
The Drones--The Miller's Daughter | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1418 Registered: 08-2006 |
I booked 'em, Allen. I've handled the music for my neighborhood arts fest for about 13 years. Wussy was looking for a Chicago gig, so I snapped 'em up. It's gonna be good. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1613 Registered: 09-2006 |
I sort of thought that might be the case...have a great time. They've been saying more than once that they do want to tour up this way...maybe now that even NPR and Rolling Farking Stone are reviewing their album they'll be able to get a van that can cross the Rockies. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2102 Registered: 03-2005 |
Microdisney--The Clock Comes Down the Stairs | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 696 Registered: 07-2006 |
kate bush - the dreaming | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 627 Registered: 01-2006 |
Joe, great minds huh? Kate Bush - The Whole Story Mary Margaret O'Hara - Miss America Spoon - Ga Ga Ga The Shins - Wincing The Night Away Loose Fur - Loose Fur | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1615 Registered: 09-2006 |
Alright, the New Order re-reissues are out, so I'm finally going to lay my money down... | ||
| Guy Ewald Member Username: Guy_ewald Post Number: 228 Registered: 02-2005 |
Feelies fans take note: Crazy Rhythms and The Good Earth are both being reissued by Bar None. I saw them in July at Maxwell's - a great two-set show - and they're playing at ATPNY next month. And... they're supposedly in the process of recording a new album together. That's something I really didn't expect. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 697 Registered: 07-2006 |
how do they look allen? same tracklisting? go xy! one of my favourite compilations. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1742 Registered: 10-2004 |
Stooges - Raw Power Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath Judas Priest - Killing Machine Motorhead - Overkill | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1616 Registered: 09-2006 |
Same tracklisting, same packaging, just all the hundreds of glitches fixed. At least that's what it shows in the picture/description. Just ordered them online. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 698 Registered: 07-2006 |
i really want to do the same. i can't believe how enticing the likes of brotherhood and movement are now, in these reissued forms?!? i'm going to give the shops here a few months to get them instore, otherwise i'm hitting amazon uk. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1618 Registered: 09-2006 |
And I've heard much of the extra stuff already, but being that it's remastered too now, and all collected in one spot is quite nice. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 176 Registered: 03-2007 |
The Red Coats by Brillig | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2103 Registered: 03-2005 |
Whoa. Jeff was in a mood. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 304 Registered: 10-2006 |
Nice eclectic weekend included: Grizzly Bear, Yellow House and Verkathingy Rory Gallagher, Irish Tour Twin house, Philip Catherine & Larry Coryell Live, Eric Clapton & Steve Winwood When 2 7s clash, 30th anniversary, Culture Lush, Split & Lovelife I'm still swithering about the Grizzlies...lots of beautiful moments, but also a lot of slightly prissy Ooo-yes-we're-Conservatory-trained-and-j ust-adore-Van Dyke Parks-and-we-can-do-thiiiiiiis (cue ethereal harmonies and several quick time changes)...hmmmmm...so it was a relief to slap on the traditional rock dynamics of Rory & Steve & Eric in the end... | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1621 Registered: 09-2006 |
Le Tigre - 1st album Robert & Adele - Butterfish, o Butterfish The Disco Years Vol. 4: Lost in Music | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 699 Registered: 07-2006 |
which lush record do you prefer stuart? hypocrite is an all-time favourite single of mine. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2104 Registered: 03-2005 |
Go Betweens--Friends of Rachel Worth I've given this record a rest of about two years, not counting the iPod's pitch up of individual songs on shuffle mode. I love giving heavily-played albums a long rest so that I can hear them almost as new. I'm struck at how warm the sound is on this record. And "Magic in Here" is very effective in studio form, with its wonderful single-string rhythm guitar bits recalling just a bit of the band who gave us "Cattle and Cane" so many years ago. But, nope, they don't quite have the unitary sound that they would achieve with Glenn on the next two albums. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 380 Registered: 10-2008 |
cold cave - love comes close. i think this will be in my end of year top 10. just imagine the sound of these pioneer synth bands like suicide, the normal and (early)human league, with ian curtis on vocals. | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 256 Registered: 02-2007 |
The Chieftains - Down the Old Plank Road (Nashville Sessions) | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 632 Registered: 01-2006 |
The Flaming Lips - Transmissions From The Satelite Heart. Blistering guitars, great stuff. | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 633 Registered: 01-2006 |
That should be Satellite, it's late.. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3078 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy, and anyone else interested in Go-Betweens influenced Irish music, you can download two Stars Of Heaven albums free from here http://www.independentrecords.ie/starsof heaven.shtml | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1743 Registered: 10-2004 |
You know, to this day I just haven't been able to get into them (Stars of Heaven). I've really tried, though! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3079 Registered: 05-2005 |
I believe you Jeff! The great Before Holyhead EP is included in the downloads. Holyhead is the port in Wales that boats carrying immigrants from Ireland to Britain docked in. | ||
| bongo billy Member Username: Bongo_billy Post Number: 5 Registered: 06-2008 |
Don't know if it's been mentioned on here before but there's a pretty wonderful Stars of Heaven CD compilation available - released tracks and lots of BBC sessions. Nice liner notes as well. Gorgeous stuff. Well I think so..... | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 382 Registered: 10-2008 |
flying solo at work tonight so have the cd player to myself, have blasted out. or about to blast out the following curtis mayfield - greatest hits cold cave - love comes close john lee hooker - the definitive collection various - dubstep allstars vol 5 tribe called quest - low end theory panda bear - person pitch 2562- aerial richmond fontaine - we used to think the river... elliott smith - from a basement on the hill derrick may - innovator delroy wilson - dubplate style rolling stones - some girls drive by truckers - the fine print neil landstrumm - bambaataa eats his breakfast | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3083 Registered: 05-2005 |
Stereolab - Sound-Dust. Captain Easychord is the standout track. It's almost country. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1744 Registered: 10-2004 |
Triffids - "Early Singles" | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1626 Registered: 09-2006 |
KC & the Sunshine Band - 25th Anniversary Collection Asylum Street Spankers - What? And Give Up Show Biz? Eno - Apollo Willie Nelson & Asleep at the Wheel - Willie and the Wheel | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2106 Registered: 03-2005 |
Associates--The Affectionate Punch | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3321 Registered: 05-2005 |
Billy Bragg - must I paint you a picture. A wonderful collection, he's quite good really! | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 637 Registered: 01-2006 |
Back To Basics, Worker's Playtime & Talking With The Taxman About Poetry are all fantastic. They're my favourites of BB. Don't Try This At Home has some good tracks but never really worked for me. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 385 Registered: 10-2008 |
Working alone again tonight at work. cd player to myself, so its.... The dBs - Stands for Decibels Wailing Souls - At Studio One Jimmy Reed - I'm Jimmy Reed Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain... Various Dupstep Artists - Tectonic Plates Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92 Lou Barlow - Goodnight Unknown Gregory Isaacs - The Early Years The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms U Roy - Foundation Skank | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3084 Registered: 05-2005 |
Pete Townshend - Another Scoop. Haven't played this tape in about 22 years and it sounds far better than I had remembered. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3085 Registered: 05-2005 |
Thea Gilmore - Avalanche | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3086 Registered: 05-2005 |
Neil Young - Eldorada | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1627 Registered: 09-2006 |
Just starting in on the newly-arrived New Order reissues. Also: Al Stewart - Love Chronicles I've liked this album for many years, and knew that Jimmy Page played on it, but wasn't aware until just recently that the backing band is Richard Thompson and several other members of Gang of Milkmaids, using pseudonyms. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1628 Registered: 09-2006 |
Or would that be Gaggle of Milkmaids? Swarm of Milkmaids? Murder of Milkmaids? | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 386 Registered: 10-2008 |
churn of milkmaids? | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1629 Registered: 09-2006 |
That might be getting closer to it...a froth of milkmaids, maybe. | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 551 Registered: 05-2005 |
I'm with you, Stuart, on Grizzly Bear. A bit too Fleetwood Mac/Supertramp "perfection" to ingest in large doses. 7 Worlds Collide - The Sun Came Out. VERY Neil Finn - sounds like everyone felt obliged to sound like him since he invited them over, but certainly no bummers as yet. The very best of Ride - yeah them again. I rejigged a "very best of" that I had made and gave it a new cover one afternoon as I was trying not to mark some Year 8 tests! Furthest Sense is a lost gem!!!!! Can't get it out of my head!!! Please Please Me With the Beatles A Hard Days Night Beatles for Sale (heh heh...SOON!!!!!!)......all in preparation for a double major slug to my credit card Wednesday!! Kevin - you're gonna HATE the next couple of months!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 218 Registered: 05-2005 |
Sarah Blasko - Day follows night. Double pack signed collectors etc. edition coming from Australia after just a few days cost nearly the same price as a normal record here, even with postage paid. Thanks the €? And a good album. Sometimes it reminds Fiona Apple. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 387 Registered: 10-2008 |
geoff, the beatles are not in my radar, not this month, not next month, not any month their back catalogue is released. happy listenining though. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3088 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour. I genuinely don't understand why anywone would hate The Beatles. If it weren't for The Beatles white pop would still be asking "how is that doggy in the window". Geoff, I got 7 Worlds Collide the other day but haven't played it yet. | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 552 Registered: 05-2005 |
You know how I hate to stir you up Kevin( ;) ), but I genuinely feel sorry for you since, I'd imagine, the Hype surrounding these re-releases will not NEED a radar - even if you try and dodge it, you won't be able to! It would be unbareable! I'm trying to imagine what it would be like if, say, "Trout Mask Replica" was going to be as hyped as the Beatles over the next couple of months - it would NOT be a pretty option!! I hope you can dodge it but I would carry a brown paper bag with you just in case! I trust you got the double version Padraig. Some good stuff coming through already - first song(Too Blue - J. Marr/J.Tweedy: Nilfun and Johnny on vocals) is a cracker!! Randy will love the Glenn Richards song with Johnny Marr on guitar. Also listening to the first Neil Young album. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3092 Registered: 05-2005 |
Yes, the double version Geoff. It was only $2 more than the single version! | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1630 Registered: 09-2006 |
I dunno, given the evidence I don't think it's so much denial of influence (Kevin's a knowledgeable guy, and several of the artists he's big on have mentioned their love for and debt to the Beatles in interviews) as it is just personal taste. | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 553 Registered: 05-2005 |
I bow down to Kevin's obvious depth and breadth of music taste - that he doesn't like the Beatles is his own choice, just as it is mine for liking them. I think we've both shown we are both grown up enough to handle a difference in personal taste. The whole point of my comment in the first place was not to have a dig or pass judgement on his tastes but rather, believe it or not, to sympathise with him that he will probably find these next couple of months unbareable given his dislike of all things Beatles. If the Beatles machine is good at anything, I think everyone would agree they are very good on HYPE and I would have thought that people with opposite opinions as to the musical merit of the band could at least agree on that. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1632 Registered: 09-2006 |
Agreed, and I do think that came through in your earlier comment. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1633 Registered: 09-2006 |
I was more addressing Padraig's comment. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1634 Registered: 09-2006 |
And it says over on Facebook that it's Rob B.'s birthday today...many happy returns! | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1588 Registered: 01-2005 |
The Beatles starting really loosing me after the White Album. At their peak (Help!, Rubber Soul and Revolver) I think they were the best band on the planet in the recording studio, and I lived it live as pre-teen during 1965 and as a thirteen year old in 1966. I perferred my older sisters second album from Traffic to her Pepper album, so I knew the gig was up and they weren't the best in the studio anymore as of 1967/68 when I was a young teenager. I still think Help, Rubber Soul and Revolver are pretty terrific. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2109 Registered: 03-2005 |
When growing up in the 60s I was in the Rolling Stones camp. But eventually I ended up with all of the Beatles' records as well except for "Abbey Road" which I've hated since it first came out. However much I'd love to, I won't indulge in a Rolling Stones v. Beatles comparison here--not this time anyway.  I personally have heard the Beatles' things far too many times to ever need to hear them again. So I'm not a Kevin-style Beatles hater but you couldn't call me a fan either. Consider me someone in the middle. My issue is with the obscene marketing of the Beatles' stuff that Geoff alludes to. I wonder if Lennon would have allowed it. C'mon folks, the Beatles happened a LONG time ago. Yes, they were an important building block for a lot of other subsequent artists, much as Dylan was. That is a very honorable role. But what about their music is relevant now--especially to anybody young--so as to justify the release of a computer simulation game and all the rest of the product that's been pushed out over the past decade or so? This just looks like another embarrassing example of baby boomer navel-gazing: "It mattered to us so therefore it must matter to you!" | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1421 Registered: 08-2006 |
Hey, thanks, Allen! Randy, the New York Times went ga-ga over the game today, essentially arguing the opposite - that the game recontexualizes the band for young people, making them more relevant. Since it's my birthday, however, and I'm of such an advanced age that my idea of a cool video game is Pong (and since I'm a Stones guy), I don't have to spend any more energy musing on the subject : ) | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 388 Registered: 10-2008 |
aphex twin - selected ambient works 85-92. rediscovering the joys of this album over the last few days. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1635 Registered: 09-2006 |
Enjoying the hell out of the New Order sets. The only slight disappointment is personal...even with remastering I find myself unable to fully warm up to "Power, Corruption & Stuff," which sounds like it always has to me: some excellent songs, some decent songs and a couple meh songs that never really cohere into a whole. My attention wanders, too, a problem I don't have with any of the others. Speaking of the remastering, it all sounds great great great, though the curse that lies over these releases doesn't seem to have fully dispelled: the "Low-life" discs are mislabeled. The album has the bonus disc label, and vice-versa. Not complaining at all, certainly...just kinda funny. | ||
| Charles Coy Member Username: Coy Post Number: 153 Registered: 10-2006 |
..both Jack Frost albums, commanded the weekend...a little Sarah Blasko and Adele for the girls in the stock.... | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1637 Registered: 09-2006 |
Been listening to Snow Job a bit myself lately. Linton Kwesi Johnson - More Time and some of his dub stuff Al Stewart - Greatest Hits | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1423 Registered: 08-2006 |
The first disc of the new Big Star box set, courtesy of NPR. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story .php?storyId=112572226 Nice cover of "Motel Blues" by LW III at the end. Also a shambolic demo of Chris Bell's "I Got Kinda Lost," which appeared in a much-improved version on "I Am the Cosmos." Plus lotsa other stuff. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3323 Registered: 05-2005 |
Franz Ferdinand albums, they fu*kin bore me too! | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1638 Registered: 09-2006 |
Yay...I was waffling on the Beatles remasters, but it turns out my library is getting them all, so I'm just going to burn copies. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2112 Registered: 03-2005 |
Rob, was the NYT article written by a boomer? Forgive me but I remain a skeptic. I'm visiting my brother at the moment. He's a big Beatles fan, which is funny because he wasn't particularly keen on them when we were kids and the records were new. He was even playing me Monkees things last night and I don't remember him being keen on them either. He'll be riding with me up to St. Helena today and my iPod has almost 11,000 songs but not one Beatles recording, though there are a few covers. There IS quite a bit of Monkees though. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1595 Registered: 01-2005 |
A couple of months late, but WTF! Blue Rodeo - Five Days in July | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 640 Registered: 01-2006 |
I've been listening to my new copy of Wilco's Summerteeth on vinyl and it sounds way, way better than the CD version I have. Not half as loud as the CD and a more fuller feel to it. I'm not a big audiophile so can't get very technical as to why it sounds much better, it just does. I've read some online chatter about the compression issue once again. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1639 Registered: 09-2006 |
Brian Eno - Apollo Thought this was one of the more boring ambients when it first came out, but I've been listening to it a lot recently, and it's aged very well. I don't know if seeing the movie helped, but it is what brought me back to it. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1597 Registered: 01-2005 |
Jeff Beck - performing this week....live at Ronnie Scott's. Super tasty!!! | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 701 Registered: 07-2006 |
xtc - skylarking prefab sprout - steve mcqueen spring is here! | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1600 Registered: 01-2005 |
jor wrote: >spring is here! Then here you go! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpI_hObLN WE&feature=related | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1604 Registered: 01-2005 |
Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood - Live From Madison Square Garden. Well, dare I say it? Yes I dare!! This is Clapton's best live album in dacades and maybe the best that he has ever done, and Winwood is stellar as well. | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 219 Registered: 05-2005 |
David Sylvian - Manafon. After 3 songs I gave up, it's the same music as on Blemish. Last time I buy one without earing it. The Shins - Chutes too narrow The Chameleons - What doe anything mean? Basically Coop free sampler nr 7. Go-betweens - 16LL | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2113 Registered: 03-2005 |
I was up to Jeff's Amoeba this week where I picked up what I am now listening to. First, the Masters Apprentices' final LP from 1972, A Toast to Panama Red. It's a monument to that era's excess but there are still good moments. The Masters Apprentices were a band from Melbourne who ultimately retained only the same vocalist while everyone else gradually changed. They went from mid-60s garage band psychedelic to stadium rock to finally this stadium psych. At their best during this late phase they could sound like the Chris Bell-era Big Star. But a LOT of the time they just sound overblown here. Now, Youth Group's Skeleton Jar. I think Hugh has mentioned this group before and I believe David Nichols did as well. I'm on the second song now. At first blush this sounds like a cross between Gaslight Radio--who I like a lot--and Knievel, mostly for the cleaner prettier vocals. The music sounds very chordy and droning. Next, the third Lloyd Cole & Commotions album which I've never heard. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2114 Registered: 03-2005 |
I want to fix a small point about the Masters Apprentices since the Aussies can get touchy about their cities. The band actually started in Adelaide. But nobody got anywhere in Adelaide back then so they relocated to Melbourne. Ok, who cares. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3328 Registered: 05-2005 |
the clientele - bonfires on the heath | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1643 Registered: 09-2006 |
The Best of Doug Sahm & the Sir Douglas Quintet 1964-1975 | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3329 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Nightingales - Pigs on purpose. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1606 Registered: 01-2005 |
Son Volt - American Central Dust Freddie Hubbard - Blue Spirits Hilary Kole - Haunted Heart (best new female jazz singer I've heard in a long time. Another Canadian lass) http://www.hilarykole.com/home.htm | ||
| Mark Leydon Member Username: Mark_leydon Post Number: 257 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Clean - Mister Pop (great new album from the Flying Nun veterans) Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain (50th Anniversary edition - remastered) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3104 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Clientele - Bonfires On The Heath | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2115 Registered: 03-2005 |
Alain Bashung -- Fantaisie Militaire Mission of Burma--Vs. | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 220 Registered: 05-2005 |
Happy that you like these fantaisies Randy. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3330 Registered: 05-2005 |
Pad, have you had chance to form an opinion on Bonfire on the heath yet? After first listen, yes, its very Clienetel, but very beautiful, IMHO. (If it were not for Kev, then some other on this board, I'd never of bothered digging TC, for which I am forever truly grateful!) | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 391 Registered: 10-2008 |
spence, i forgot all about the clientele album. its a cracker, particularly "share the night" with its funky guitars and brass. there is quite a lot of brass on the album, do you think it has a "forever changes" feel to it? While perusing Pitchforks mammoth PK2 feature about music this decade, I came across this list of faves from The Clientele(pitchfork has asked some of their fave bands to list their albums of the decade). I'm a big fan of Boards Of Canada, and urge anybody who has not heard Plush to check them out. Alasdair MacLean, The Clientele 01. Plush: Fed 02. Humphreys & Keen: The Overflow 03. Destroyer: This Night 04. Autistic Daughters: Uneasy Flowers 05. Boards of Canada: Geogaddi 06. Edmund Cake: Downtown Puff 07. Wood-Sorrel: Echoes of Before (song on www.myspace.com/woodsorrel) 08. Ghost Club: Suicide Train 09. Charlemagne Palestine, David Coulter & Jean Marie Mathoul: Maximin 10. The Puddle: The Shakespeare Monkey | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3105 Registered: 05-2005 |
I've played it once and liked it very much Spence. Yes, it was Kevin and a couple of others on this board who introduced me to The Clientele too. I have the Plush and Destroyer albums listed above. I had a Ghost Club album (not sure if it was the one listed above) but binned it! | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 447 Registered: 01-2007 |
I have a couple of CLientele albums but not that!In the car left by my wife Before Hollywood, Born Sandy Devotional and Hatful of Hollow. Couldn't be better really. May swith to Grandaddy The Software Slump. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3106 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Beatles - Let It Be. I bought the remaster because I only previously had the naked version of it. The remaster sounded a bit strange at first, like the first time I heard the stereo master of Pet Sounds. But on second listen it sounder great. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 393 Registered: 10-2008 |
jim o'rourke - the visitor david sylvian - manofon yo la tengo - popular songs king tubby/the dynamites - sound system international | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1756 Registered: 10-2004 |
Kev, what do you think of the new David Sylvian? Is it any good? | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 394 Registered: 10-2008 |
jeff, only listened once so far but i like it. sparse instrumentation. his voice dominates the songs. | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 554 Registered: 05-2005 |
I know Jeff has already asked, but is that David Sylvian worth buying? I mean, Blemish was mostly unlistenable - I think I played it about 5 times ... and 2 of those were to friends to get a reaction! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3108 Registered: 05-2005 |
I recently got a double CD best of David Sylvian in a bargain bin for two or three bucks. Two things struck me when I played it. 1 The music is (mostly) brilliant. 2 He really can't sing. So an album where, as Kevin says above, "his voice dominates the songs", is probably not going to be to my liking! | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 395 Registered: 10-2008 |
guys, if you've been keeping up with sylvians career over the past decade or so you will know the days of japan, and even the days of brilliant trees etc are well gone. he is the new scott walker, or even the new julian cope. an ex heartthrob now making "difficult" music. he is on the cover of this months Wire magazine(uk magazine which could best be described as covering ultra left field music) where once he was on the cover of smash hits. padraig, he has what could be described as a marmite voice. i like it. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3333 Registered: 05-2005 |
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden The track new Grass has always blown me away, the way they build up but resist the temptation to blow it out of all proportion. Now, The Rainbow is blowing me away, the bridge that appears in that tune 2 or 3 times automatically creates goose pimples and demands tears are brought to well up in one's eyes forthwith!!!!! Its a mindset vibe all through the album. I really share an affinity and a liking for the way people approach making music this way, soundtrack material, its what i tried to do in a way with my last studio effort with the Winnebagos. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1757 Registered: 10-2004 |
Padraig, I have to disagree about Sylvian not being able sing. I think he's an extraordinary singer, from both a technical standpoint (he never sings out of key) and stylistically. I am aware of Sylvian's work over the past decade, but I haven't been able to get into it so much. I was kind of curious as to whether he was still mining the same "difficult" territory. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1429 Registered: 08-2006 |
A friend of mine who bartends at my local pub was spinning "Spirit of Eden" pretty regularly a couple years back. I'd never heard of it, and pretty much knew Talk Talk only from their couple US hits. I was really surprised, to say the least. At first I thought it was kind of esoteric and unfocused, but now it almost sounds like some kind of new wave-influenced jazz improvisation. A really fine record. I'm not as fond as the one after, but like it, too. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1758 Registered: 10-2004 |
That era of Talk Talk is total heroin music! Intensely insular, womb-like, muted, moody, etc... (I say that having read that they were all doing heaps of smack at that time). Personally I've never been able to get into it so much, but I know a lot of people (particularly recording engineers) who really like it. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3334 Registered: 05-2005 |
I think Massive Attack owe a lot to Spirit of Eden and Laughing Stock, most notably on their dark dub epic Mezzanine. Later on Paul Webb from Talk Talk would play with beth Gibbons from portishead in the excellent rustin man, a tenuous link it must be the in the Bristol water. Tim freise Green seemed to get a lot of name checking around this time, for a lot of the experimentation was edited digitally on SOE by him. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 396 Registered: 10-2008 |
Review of Manafon by David Sylvian from Boomkat.com. Pretty accurate if you ask me When David Sylvian makes a solo album, he really throws everything into it. It's been six years since the former Japan frontman released his masterful Blemish LP, and Manafon is its much anticipated follow-up. As with Scott Walker's latter-day work, Sylvian's music is far-removed from the chart-dwelling hits of his youth, instead taking on a ruthlessly cerebral and experimental agenda; alongside Walker, recent years have seen Sylvian as one of the very few artists who could be said to have challenged what it means to write and produce a song. Assisting him to this end is a roster of great improvisatory talents, supplying Manafon with a beautifully rendered, supremely detailed backdrop of timbres, textures and vibrations. Guitarists have been of particular importance to David Sylvian albums over the past ten years or so; Marc Ribot and Bill Frisell were among the key musicians contributing to 1999's Dead Bees On A Cake, and for Blemish Sylvian struck up highly fruitful collaborations with Christian Fennesz and - perhaps most significantly - the late Derek Bailey. The latter's striking improvisational style seems to have impacted greatly on Sylvian's approach to songsmithery, and traces of the jazz veteran's spidering, chitinous playing are detectable in the dissonant twangs of Tetuzi Akiyama and Otomo Yoshihide. Fennesz returns for Manafon, bringing his Polwechsel associates Burkhard Stangl and Werner Dafeldecker with him, while additionally, prepared guitar experimenter Keith Rowe appears, ranking alongside those other elder statesmen of British improvised music, John Tilbury and Evan Parker. This distinguished ensemble weave magic under Sylvian's supervision, fabricating the finest and most ornate of sonic environments for the band leader's rich, stately croak. Indeed, Sylvian's vocal inevitably takes the central role, offering a melodic route through an album of ostensible disorder, reaching its finest hour during Manafon's centrepiece: 'The Greatest Living Englishman'. Here the singer is joined by discordant string quartet recordings - scratched and warped on Yoshihide's turntable, while the most carefully poised of guitar and piano performances match-up against the imperious subtlety of Toshimaru Nakamura's no-input mixing board static and Sachiko M's intricate formation of cobweb-like sine waves. It's amazing that all these infinitesimal articulations are heard so clearly, but this is a recording on which all the minutiae resound with great lucidity, and truly, the more listens you give Manafon, the more it reveals its complexity and brilliance. This is far from an easy or instant record, and most likely it'll take a couple of play-throughs to get anywhere with its daringly unascertainable idiom, but once engaged, you might not hear a more enriching body of work all year. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3109 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kevin, Jeff, I was being harsh when I said he can't sing. What I should have said is that after listening to 2.5 hours of him over over two discs in one sitting made me realise that he only has that one manner of singing. He does it very well, but it doesn't vary much. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2116 Registered: 03-2005 |
Jeez, that description sounds great. The only part that gives me pause is the comparison to Scott Walker's recent stuff. I didn't scrap "Drift" and I will give it another shot sometime but it sure didn't impress me first time around. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3336 Registered: 05-2005 |
Iron and Wine - Around the well. Reminds me of my friend pete and his outfit - the leaking machine. | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 555 Registered: 05-2005 |
Many years ago (1978? 79?)there was an album released in Australia (I'm sure it was originally from America) called Beatles Rarities that had the very different mono versions of some of their stuff. Finally have ALL of the mono AND stereo versions now so have been listening to the mono White Album. Not drastically different but enough differences to keep a Beatle nut like me occupied. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3337 Registered: 05-2005 |
Iron and Wine - The Shepherd's Dog. Like it very much, this is the kinda stuff I find upon forst listen it gets me and I get it, I love it when it happens like this, I must admit I was drawn in to them by virtue of their relation with ex Wilco worker Leroy Bach, whom I thought was areally great instrumentalist and a gift to any band/group/artist he works with. | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 448 Registered: 01-2007 |
Every so often I go through periods where I can't get in to much music the stuff I have bores me or is too familiar and nothing either review internet or other source sparks my interest, I'm going through on those perods now, it lasts a week or may be 2 at the most. I'm usually buying 5-10 cds a months. But just been in to out local HMV hopingto be enticed in to something exciting but drew a blank. I usually head in to town to get a sandwich and wpould usually by my CDs at the excellent Action Records.May be it is the Beatles they are everywhere. The seems little on the horizon in new releases thought The Clientele sounds good and may be worth ordering.Nothing new this year has really excited me unlike last year which was littered with glorious LPs.Any suggestions. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 397 Registered: 10-2008 |
frank, the feelies reissues on domino are a must, even if like me you already have the albums. sound is an improvement. the drive by truckers "odds and sods" album called the fine print is just out and puts most other bands "real" albums to shame. this band is so prolific. yo la tengo's album is as usual a good listen. perhaps overly long though. you have the new richmond fontaine dont you? of the new bands on the go, the XX album is mildly interesting in a retro 1981 way. i would see if you can hear samples first, it may be your thing. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 704 Registered: 07-2006 |
julian cope - jehovahkill still incredible. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 398 Registered: 10-2008 |
"If the Beatles machine is good at anything, I think everyone would agree they are very good on HYPE and I would have thought that people with opposite opinions as to the musical merit of the band could at least agree on that." Looking at the album chart below I have a question for you Geoff. Does the Beatles PR hype machine look after Dame Vera Lynn as well? Sorry, that was below the belt ;-) However, if you also look at the calibre of the other acts in the chart I would think those PR jackets are hanging on shaky nails!! I also read an article this week that said these albums were selling very poorly and the top selling album out of all the reissues had sold a whopping 6000 sales. One other thing, apart from reading that article and seeing that chart, I have been relatively free of this reissued jaunty pop nonsense. Just a few tunes on the radio. and lets face it thats not out of the ordinary - i heard just as much bowie, led zep,stones etc etc. 1. Vera Lynn – 'We'll Meet Again – The Very Best Of' 2. Jamie T - 'Kings & Queens' 3. David Guetta – 'One Love' 4. Arctic Monkeys – 'Humbug' 5. The Beatles - 'Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' 6. The Beatles -'Abbey Road' 7. Kings Of Leon – 'Only By The Night' 8. The Cribs - 'Ignore The Ignorant' 9. The Beatles - 'Revolver' 10. The Beatles - 'Rubber Soul' | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 556 Registered: 05-2005 |
I think Macca might actually own the Vera Lynne stuff!!! Let's put it this way - 4 albums in a top 10 40 years after isn't a bad effort! Also, apparently the box sets have all sold out and won't be available here in Auz until October as they were all pregrabbed by the likes of me......no I didn't grab them all! Funnily enough, I saw a review/comment by some writer in a paper here before the release of them and they made some comment about that "it's not as if its the Andrews Sister...."! Yey World War 2! I'm afraid Kevin that at the moment I am completly immune to your barbs and am happily in Beatles nirvana!!!!....NO, not THAT Nirvana!!!! Love is all you need!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1650 Registered: 09-2006 |
I'm enjoying myself over in this corner, too...all 14 remasters came in at the library on the same day. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 966 Registered: 08-2004 |
The problem with disliking The Beatles is akin to the plight of an atheist. There is no way of sharing your feelings on the subject without sounding just plain hateful. I don't consider you an extremist Beatles fan, Geoff. So it'd be harder to offend you completely. But there are extremists out there. Who feel that everyone should love the gospel according to John, Paul, George & Gringo. Then again there are more worrying insurgents spouting the New Testament works of Wings or Plastic Ono Band. Then there's the real crackpots who insist we are descendents of extra-terrstrial pre-existence. Where Flaming Pie & Starbucks sponsored McCartney-isms are part of an ancient folklore, from which stems a calming spiritual nirvana. Now I'm with John Cale. I don't like religion at my door, I don't answer to panic knocking. Suffice to say if some Beatles fans weren't quite so forceful with their opinions they wouldn't get such a hostile reaction. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8246 313.stm This week I have been mostly listening to The Bunnymen At The Albert Hall 1983, lay down thy raincoat & groove | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 486 Registered: 04-2005 |
Sudden blast of Australian music (courtesy of a fellow board member that was holidaying in the SW of France) Machine Translations : Seven Seven The Apartments : A Life Full of Farewells Beachfield : Brighton Bothways And The Apartments are lined up for 3 dates in France in November... | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2118 Registered: 03-2005 |
That's a hilarious article Jerry. Thanks for the link. A lot of the comments are true, especially the ones about the Beatles being primarily a white-bread substitute for grittier prototypes. Maybe because it's 40 years on, people don't remember the context of the Beatles: who came before them and who was working at the same time as them. Would the Beatles have existed without the Shadows? No. And it's somehow forgotten that there were major alternatives in pop music at the time like authentic soul and r & b or the Beach Boys or C & W or if you like British rock, the Rolling Stones--God bless 'em for ridiculing Elvis--and all their progeny. It does the 60s music scene a massive disservice to reduce it down to the Beatles as the fountainhead. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 399 Registered: 10-2008 |
well said randy. on another message board i frequent some idiot claimed that there would be no stooges without the beatles. i mean, come on!! | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3339 Registered: 05-2005 |
Natalie Merchant - Motherland The Durutti Column - Sex and Death Nada Surf - Let Go War of the Worlds (Jeff Wayne 2 cd set) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3112 Registered: 05-2005 |
Without the Beatles there'd be no Beatles-phobes, and our world would be a little poorer without them. (Paul McCartney's world would be a lot poorer, but he'd probably never have married Heather Mills, so it's a tough call). | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3113 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Walls - New Dawn Breaking. A great Irish record. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1610 Registered: 01-2005 |
The Beatles sure ruled the roost for awhile and there is no denying the trends they set. However there is no way I'll every agree with Rolling Stone on Sgt. Pepper being the greatest album of all time or the White album being number 10 in RS's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Lennon and wasn't nearly as good on Pepper as he was on RS's Revolver at #3 and Rubber Soul at #5. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3117 Registered: 05-2005 |
Tanita Tikaram - Ancient Heart. Reminds me of my youth. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1652 Registered: 09-2006 |
Have had houseguests and been traveling a bit, so haven't gotten to dig into those new Beatles thangs until today. Very impressed/excited so far, and I'm just on the first two albums. | ||
| peter ward Member Username: Peter_ward Post Number: 93 Registered: 06-2005 |
Wild Beasts - Two Dancers Dan Michaelson & The Coastguards - Saltwater Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 450 Registered: 01-2007 |
I bough a couple of the remasters but I think of them as more historic artefacts now I played the ones I bought Revolver Help and the White ALbum, but nothing new sucked me in in fact the 2nd CD of the white album was very un-inspiring. I don't dislike them I just don't love them. My wife is definitely in Kevin's camp on this. But i'm slightly sentimental and they were one of the first bands I really enjoyed at the age of 10. Things have moved on. I wont be getting the Cds out again for a while and feel I let myself down by being seduced into buying the remasters, such is life. I fall into Randy's camp on this | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3122 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Feelies - Time For A Witness. I love this album. It was my first Feelies album, 17 years ago. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2120 Registered: 03-2005 |
Padraig, you have the original right? Is there a point to getting the reissues? I have all the originals. I'm asking about the Feelies, not the Rutles. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3344 Registered: 05-2005 |
http://stripedsunlight.blogspot.com/ bob live download | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 222 Registered: 05-2005 |
Asteroids Galaxy Tours - Fruits. The concert was good. I think the record will be forgotten in one month. New Prefab Sprout ready to be listened. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3123 Registered: 05-2005 |
Time For A Witness hasn't been re-released Randy, so it is the original. I got it on cassette 17 years ago, but only got it on CD yesterday, posted from a shop in Arizona, via Belgium for some bizarre reason. I got the re-released versions of the other three records. I got Only Life last year. It had no bonus material. Crazy Rhythms and The Good Earth arrived earlier this week. They contain cards with details of how to download bonus material (eight tracks in all) which I haven't played yet. Singles, demos and three live tracks recorded this year. | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 559 Registered: 05-2005 |
Frank, listen again!!!!!!!! Side three the White album is CLASSIC - Birthday, Yer Blues, Mother Nature's Son, Everybody's got something to hide except for me and my monkey, Sexy Sadie, Helter Skelter, Long Long Long - how could you lose?????? Now Now Kevin...behave!!!!!!!!! I was just thinking the EXACT opposite the other day when playing that blast of songs! Friends of mine stole the idea of a remasters party which starts saturday arvo. My mate was asked by a number of people what to wear so he emailed them the cover of 2 Virgins!!!! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2122 Registered: 03-2005 |
Eek! I hope they spend some time in the gym. Last night: The Drones--Wait Long by the River | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1654 Registered: 09-2006 |
That "I've heard this too many times, there's no renewal anymore" feeling has come up from time to time during my trek through the B**tle discs (and it can be stronger than average, as I know this stuff so well) but when I sit with it for a little, keep myself open, it always fades and I'm back to being thrilled and delighted. That's just me, anyway. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1655 Registered: 09-2006 |
Abbey Road - the one that converted me. They went into the studio knowing it was the end, and just got up and did it and did it to the best of their ability. Wonderful. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 179 Registered: 03-2007 |
John & Mary - Victory Gardens. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 180 Registered: 03-2007 |
John & Mary - The Weedkiller's Daughter. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1613 Registered: 01-2005 |
John Cale - Andalucia http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvDvwv9Ma vk | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1656 Registered: 09-2006 |
OK, I've now gone to the next level of Eatlesbay immersion, putting together and burning copies of the US versions of the early albums, the ones I was more familiar with in the early years. They're often bastardizations, yes, sometimes drawing from three or four different sources, but that doesn't mean they're bad...far from it. "The Beatles' Second Album," especially, is a highly concentrated rush of poprockaroll. OK, I'll shut up about them now. | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 452 Registered: 01-2007 |
Geoff I will listen again. Today bought Monsters of Folk and Richard Hawley. Feelies/DBT on order | ||
| Mark Leydon Member Username: Mark_leydon Post Number: 259 Registered: 05-2005 |
Monsters of Folk (Jim James, Conor Oberst, M.Ward, Mike Mogis 'supergroup'). A bit underwhelmed on early listens. There seem to be few gems there - mostly the Jim James tracks - but a lot of it just washes by. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2124 Registered: 03-2005 |
Bridezilla's 5 song EP | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 182 Registered: 03-2007 |
Firekites - The Bowery. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3134 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Rutles - Shangri-La EP | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 402 Registered: 10-2008 |
cant remember in what thread we were talking about david sylvian recently, but for those of you a bit miffed by his current solo output you really owe it to yourself to hear the album he made with the moniker "nine horses" along with steve jansen. its really, really melodic but in no way mainstream. maybe a bit like brilliant trees, or secrets of the beehive, but updated for the millenium. the albums called true born sorrow, its truly fantastic. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1660 Registered: 09-2006 |
Willie Nelson - Phases & Stages Regina Spektor - Far | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 405 Registered: 10-2008 |
flaming lips - embryonic. well this really is the cliched "sprawling epic of a double album". this will see the casual fan seduced by the poppier elements of the last few album disappear like snow off a dyke (old scottish saying there!!) theres a lot to take in here, but after 3 or so listens i think it could be a winner. if you hate the distorted sound that fridmann the producer brings to the lips (and other bands) sound you will be driven to distraction by the sound of this - its compression crazy, especially with the drums, but seems to work somehow. scary stuff!! theres loads going on here, oh to be inside the mind of wayne coyne. david sylvian - manafon. still trying to get to grips with this one - uncut have given it 5 stars!!! warp 20 (chosen) - various artists. compilation of artists on the pioneering warp label from the uk to celebrate their 20 years in existence. electronic music of the highest order from aphex twin, battles, boards of canada and more, all chosen by fans. fuck buttons - tarot sport. this band are great and should be on the warp label but arent. electronica/krautrock for the dying embers of the decade. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 184 Registered: 03-2007 |
A Sunny Day In Glasgow - Scribble Mural Comic Journal. A Sunny Day In Glasgow - Ashes Grammar. Living as I do on the West Coast of Scotland, I just had to check out this band ( they hail from Philadelphia, U.S.A. ) | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1617 Registered: 01-2005 |
Allen, Do you like Phases & Stages? I'm pretty sure that was the album before Red Headed Stranger. Does it compare with RHS? | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1662 Registered: 09-2006 |
Yes, it's got some wonderful songs on it...similar to RHS in that it's a "concept" album, different in that it's a simpler concept: a sad, average couple's life, with the woman's side of the story on side one and the man's on the other. Simpler, but deeper & richer than RHS, in my opinion. | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 561 Registered: 05-2005 |
I would place Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots as easily one of the best albums of the decade(...I know...another thread...but bear with me) but Christmas on Mars was mostly pathetic, Mystics was very patchy and Bulliten (for me..don't kill me Padraig!) was a bit over wrought. I guess I had better not waste my money then Scully??? Ditto David Sylvian??? (Hated Blemish...unengaging, overtly w!nky shit)...even his voice (on the website snippets anyway) doesn't sound as silken and rich. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3136 Registered: 05-2005 |
I won't kill you Hugh! I think they are very overrated, especially Soft Bulletin! The one album by them I really like by them is the last one with all the great pop songs Kevin is being mildly disparaging about above! | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 641 Registered: 01-2006 |
I'd rate Yoshimi as one of the better albums of the last decade too Geoff. I think Bulletin is great too but throught Mystics was awful in a lot of places. Rarely listen to it. Does nobody listen to the Lips pre Soft Bulletin? They had three fantstatic albums in a row precedding that one. Of those I'd really recommend Hit To Death In The Future Head and Clouds Taste Metallic. Anyway I'm listening to Spectrum's first release in about 13 years, the War Sucks EP. Two original Spectrum songs and covers of The Red Krayola and Laurie Anderson. The record is probably the grooviest one in my collection, blended red and green translucent vinyl. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 408 Registered: 10-2008 |
im with xy on the last lips album. its their "sky blue sky"!!! this one definetly aint their "wilco(the album) | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 415 Registered: 10-2008 |
underground resistance - revolution for change. a series of groundbreaking ep's of the early detroit techno scene from 1990-1992 compiled on 3 cds. the guys who made up underground resistance were real pioneers - jeff mills, mike banks and rob hood - they took their cue from kraftwerk and allied it with a groove that would knock down buildings. music thats almost 20 years old now but sounds like music from 2050. i really regret not being aware of this stuff back then, instead i was listening to whiny indie crud by crap bands like ride and james and lush and pale saints, and trying unsuccessfully to convince myself that out of time by rem was not mainstream sell out corporate rubbish | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3140 Registered: 05-2005 |
I love Out Of Tme Kevin. Anyway, listening to new Brisbane band Skinny Jean's debut album Dolce Doggerel right now. I just bought it this morning and am immediately playing it again. Yes, that good. Blues, negro spirituals, a touch of Talking Heads (filtered through Vampire Weekend) and more than a shake of The Triffids. It's fantastic. Randy, Hugh, this might be your cup of tea. Even Kevin, the grumpiest ex-indie fanboy in the whole of Glasgow, might like it. (Were you at the game the other night Kevin? It was live on terrestial TV in Australia. Two great goals, pity about the result). | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3141 Registered: 05-2005 |
Skinny Jean website: http://www.myspace.com/skinnyjeanband | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1664 Registered: 09-2006 |
Wammo - Faster Than the Speed of Suck Had hopes for this one...concept album about two people on a road trip trying to find something decent on the radio, with an incredible simulation of said radio songs/ads/DJs/etc., masterminded by the co-leader of Asylum Street Spankers. But aside from a couple of good tunes and a few funny lines a lot of it falls flat...not least of all because often that incredible simulation sounds so close to the real thing it's nearly unbearable. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3142 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Stars Of Heaven - Sacred Heart Hotel | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 187 Registered: 03-2007 |
Padraig, I will check them out. Currently listening to Easy / House Music by Mum Smokes who hail from Melbourne. The group consists of four songwriters who are also members of other Australians bands ( The Ancients; KES Band; Minimum Chips and Zond.) It is their second release and is a two disc set made up of two albums recorded at different times ( Easy - Jan 2006 to Mar 2007; House Music - Aug 2007 to Sep 2008.) A weird mix of ambient, instrumental, indie and pop. I like it a lot. | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 565 Registered: 05-2005 |
I agree with you Padraig - I love "Out of Time"....and Ride too!!! Skully, you've really gone to the Dark Side if you embrace Techno!!! Hugh...BUGGER!!!!!!!!!! I always had the idea from about 14 of calling a band ZOND! It was a series of Soviet period probes that went to the dark side of the moon from memory. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 419 Registered: 10-2008 |
padraig, i wasnt at the game. i have a season ticket but that doesnt include euro games, and myself along with thousands of others are refusing to stump up big bucks for inferior product. celtic are downsizing big style, i suspect in an effort to enable the irish majority shareholder to sell to a wealthy foreign investor. i wish he would hurry up. right, i must away now and blast out this terrific jeff mills comp on the headphones. foundation techno from the 90's - almost like kraftwerk got sexy!! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3143 Registered: 05-2005 |
I don't think Desmond wants to sell Kevin, but I have nothing to back that up other than how often he has stated he loves the club. I think he just wants to run it as a business that breaks even or makes a slight profit, rather than one which loses money hand over first like the other mob in Glasgow. I can't see anyone wanting to buy a Scottish club anyway. Even the bottom team in the EPL is a better buy than the best team in Scotland, purely on the TV rights if nothing else. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 420 Registered: 10-2008 |
business stuff apart padraig, its 2 hours to the big kick off against the "other mob". a celtic win at mordor would see us go 7 points ahead even this early in the season. rangers are in disarray,cant buy a goal, have loads of injuries and key players allegedly suffering from flu - why do i get a bad feeling!!! i'd settle for a draw right now. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3146 Registered: 05-2005 |
Yeah, form often goes out the window when it comes to the Old Firm... | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1620 Registered: 01-2005 |
On random play this morning: Vern Gosdin - Chiseled In Stone Emmylou Harris - Red Dirt Girl Amy Rigby - Little Fugitive Steve Earle - I Feel Alright Tift Merritt - Tambourine | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 188 Registered: 03-2007 |
Geoff, sorry about that. :-) I checked them out after purchasing Easy / House Music by Mum Smokes and remember seeing something which mentioned that they were named after a dog owned by a member of the band and/or a track by Hi God People ( a Melbourne band ) and/or a satellite of the USSR. Currently listening to Chant Darling by Lawrence Arabia. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 421 Registered: 10-2008 |
padraig, my bad feeling came true. rangers were without these players, and even lost 2 more to injury in the first half. but thanks to profligate finishing by celtic, and a referee who couldnt spot 2 of the most blatant penalties you will ever see, celtic didnt get a deserved draw but lost 2-1. a positive for me on the evidence of todays game was that we may have lost the battle but have more than enough over rangers to win the war | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1666 Registered: 09-2006 |
Phases of the Moon - Traditional Chinese Music The La's - Eponymous Lovely stuff, though it always makes me wonder...what exactly is the "right mind" to have that would make being a mercenary OK? Kim Wilde - The Singles Collection 1981-1993 Agreed, joe...the slow tailoff in quality begins pretty quickly, but it's all listenable, and the best of it is great fun. Like many of their era, the Wilde family production team cribbed a lot from Trevor Horn, but, hey, if you've gotta steal... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3147 Registered: 05-2005 |
I was "watching" it on the BBC website through my phone Kevin, so I only read about rather than seeing the denied penalties. Listening to Skinny Jean again. Album of the year for me, no question. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 189 Registered: 03-2007 |
Loney Dear - The Year Of River Fontana Loney Dear - Citadel Band The first two albums recorded by Emil Svanangen. | ||
| Charles Coy Member Username: Coy Post Number: 156 Registered: 10-2006 |
Barney Sumner's new band 'Bad Lieutenant'..check out the website http://badlieutenant.net/..the track 'Sink or Swim'..its worth a listen.. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2128 Registered: 03-2005 |
La Folie by the Stranglers, sent to me by Spence. This is really lovely. I don't remember the Stranglers sounding like this at all. I see some entertaining comments up above. Re the Flaming Lips, I picked up Soft Bulletin a few years ago on the basis of recommendations on this board but I find it bombastic and too "kiddish." | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3349 Registered: 05-2005 |
Charles, Barney knows how to write a great pop tune doesn;t he! ?Amazing to see this having just watched the Joy Division doc for the third time the other day, from those grey days to Barney's blue skies... some nice guitars in the vid, its amazing to see Stephen morris on drums, his silhouette is so iconoclatic now, thanks to peter Saville and the Lowlife album sleeve a few decades ago! Randy, please you enjoying Strangles tune, are you in paris now? | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3350 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy, do you know Strange Little Girl and Golden Brown, two exceptional singles from '82 by The Stranglers? Golden Brown is one of my fave ever songs, the video is superb, this comotosed bunch of vaudevillians!!! dressed in black... | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 224 Registered: 05-2005 |
'Feline' is also very good. I regret I wasn't able to go to the Hugh Cornwell concert this month. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 139 Registered: 05-2005 |
Agree with above on the Stranglers. Have managed to snag an advance copy of Wandermoon new album by my beloved Soft Hearted Scientists, it's a wonderful wonderful album - all killer no filler as they say. current fave is Tornadoes in Birmingham (watch out spence). long may they continue to do their psych-folk-prog electronic thing | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3351 Registered: 05-2005 |
Cosmo! Look forward to hearing the SHS album!!! They are great! TROU Feline, is an odd album, I like it esp Euro Female, the snare is like a door closing on a spaceship in Blakes 7 or something! I remember seeing em around this time, lovely black acoustic guitars made by kinkade Bros, I think in Wales? Lovely sound and look. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2129 Registered: 03-2005 |
Back from Paris, Spence. I don't think I've ever heard anything from the Stranglers that's newer than about 1978. Thanks for the songs you sent; they're all great. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3153 Registered: 05-2005 |
I thought everyone in the world had heard Golden Brown. Maybe it was only a huge hit in Britain and Ireland at the time. I had assumed a pop song so beautiful (even if it was an ode to heroin) would have been a hit everywhere. | ||
| Mark Leydon Member Username: Mark_leydon Post Number: 262 Registered: 05-2005 |
It was a big hit in Aus and NZ as well Padraig. But probably not in the US. And you're right Spence - one of THE great videos. Beautiful and funny at the same time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7R7q1lSZ fs | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 142 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kings of Convenience - Declaration of Dependence - the pure and simple pleasure of acoustic guitar and vocals with good songs and great harmonies to caress your head on a grey and grubby smudge of an english october day | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2130 Registered: 03-2005 |
Golden Brown was a big hit? Wow that's amazing. It's so rambling in terms of structure which makes sense now that you've told me what it's about. Btw if it was known that the song was about heroin that would be the end of its commercial potential in the "just say no" US. Maybe it received college radio play in the States but I definitely don't remember it in Los Angeles. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1766 Registered: 10-2004 |
They used to play "Golden Brown" on the popular "alternative" station here in the Bay Area. In fact, they used to play a lot of different Stranglers songs, especially on their "modern rock classics" segments. But, ultimately, I don't think "Golden Brown" was really a big hit on this side of the pond the way it was in the UK. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3355 Registered: 05-2005 |
Cosmo - Agree re Kings of Convenience, your description is sublime mate! Rule my World is beautiful. Going to see them next week, all thanks to Jon for making me aware they were touring, as tickets for these and Whitest boy Alive (whom I also think are brilliant) are as rare as rockinghorse shit! Randy, yes Golden Brown was freakin huge over here. It reached number 2 and was pipped to the post by The Jam, both bands had massive, decicated fanbases at the time, it was a real battle psuedo punks Vs the mods! The sleeve to Town called mailce was considerably better than the Stranglers orrible brown cover.! | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 143 Registered: 05-2005 |
Spence - I am going to see the Kings of Convenience at the Barbican next wednesday, really looking forward to it! Just listened to the album for the third time today and it sounds better every time I play it | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2132 Registered: 03-2005 |
What with all this Stranglers commentary I decided to pop in at my local Amoeba where they had a used copy of "The Hit Men," the obvious choice for me. So I'm now listening to disc one. "Grip '89" was fun; "Peaches" rather less so. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 426 Registered: 10-2008 |
randy, after seeing your comment on peaches, and without wanting to piss on everybodys parade here, i wouldnt dig too deep on info about the stranglers if i were you :-) lets just say some of the lyrics and their stance on women were, ahem, of their time, or perhaps even a few decades before that!! dont get me wrong, i saw them as a teenage punk fan and loved them, still like to hear the odd tune on the radio, but theres no chance of my listening any deeper than that now. just my tuppence worth ;-) | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2133 Registered: 03-2005 |
Kevin, don't worry. I'm very slow to get to the lyrics. I found "Peaches" (and most of the 1977/78 stuff) dull because it just seems to borrow slavishly from the tired pub rock repertoire of riffs. In my book that stuff is always filler. I'm now up to the 1979 stuff (from "The Raven") which is much better, much less by-the-musical-numbers. They seem to have learned how to create some melodic effects of their own. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1767 Registered: 10-2004 |
Randy, I rate the Raven as the first truly great Stranglers album. At that point they seem to have made a conscious decision to break out of the punk/pub mold and write good, edgy pop. Songs like "Nuclear Device," "Baroque Bordello," and "Duchess" are wonderful. The Raven is definitely one of their best albums. "La Folie" is another good one, as is the moody "Feline," their "heroin" album. I do like a bunch of their earlier songs, but those first three albums are not very consistent. I quite like their cover of "Walk on By." I *think* there's a shortened, single version of that tune that edits out the stupidly tedious organ solo. I actually made my own edit of it with a program I have at home. Yeah, some of their lyrics seemed a bit sexist in the early days. Songs like "Peaches" left some critics branding them as macho, posturing misogynists while others interpreted it as intentional irony, mocking the macho bravado. In truth, Hugh Cornwell has said that they simply wrote about sex because that was such an uncool thing to do in punk rock at the time. I gather they were, at the very least, trying to bait people. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 427 Registered: 10-2008 |
jeff, i know you are a vinyl man. the original copies of the raven came with a 3 d effect of the bird on the cover - i thought it was amazing at the time. do you have it? and i do agree they got more sophisticated musically as they grew away from the punk scene they were never comfortable with i guess | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 566 Registered: 05-2005 |
My oldest sister actually bought me the single "Peaches" as a Christmas present in 1977(?). This was really puzzling as she was always going on about sexist stuff and I had never heard the song before. I much prefer their later stuff too. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1768 Registered: 10-2004 |
Kevin, no, unfortunately I don't have the original pressing of the Raven with the 3-d cover; only the second pressing. The 3-d cover has always been kinda rare and pricey, but it's cool. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1669 Registered: 09-2006 |
The Stylistics - Greatest Hits The Miracles - City of Angels Yo La Tengo - Painful Peter Gabriel - 16 Golden Greats | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3356 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jeff, I have read Hugh's books and yes they were trying to bait people, a symptom of the times I am afraid. And yes, I agree Raven was the true test that showed the rock world how really great they were, very innovative album. I love all their albums, I grew up with them in the background and eventually became a Stranglers freak. Me and my mate (Cabby, we used to dress in all black to school, when you were supposed to wear green n grey - what rebels!!!) had all the imports, Strangled magazine, I have a Raven poster and the 3D cover, both really rare now, and Saz who used to run the Stranglers info service used to send me and my mate lots of cool things like autographs around a rubber stamp print of the stranglers logo etc etc and little kodak prints of the band touring the world etc. The following The Stranglers had was really freaking huge, it still is today, another mate of mine pete has toured with them over the last few years and says they still pull in the crowds, only its not my bag, never was since Hugh left. Feline was the last good thing the did, Aurul Sculpture was terrible IMHO. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 144 Registered: 05-2005 |
Spence, that's a weird coincidence based on our previous shared musical passions. I was a mad Stranglers fan and used to follow them around on tour in the South. I had all the japanese imports (including Live X-CERT with the hilarious mistranslated lyric sheet - 'has anyone seen sir winker'), Raven 3D,Tits EP etc (still have them all somewhere). I refused to wear any clothing that wasnt black, I got into the Doors,Captain Beefheart (Robert Williams/Nosferatu),the Cure and lots of other bands through their Stranglers connections. Disagree on Aural Sculpture as I thought Skin Deep was a great pop song and Souls is too, thats where my love affair ended though. Norfolk Coast was a recent album by them which was something of a return to former glories but they will never be taken seriously again I fear. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 973 Registered: 08-2004 |
It's funny that Spence mentions the chart battle between The Jam & The Stranglers. That's got to be the only point in time where Surrey ruled the airwaves. My brother in-law was a fan of both during the punk years, he saw both bands as they 'grew up' in the pubs of Woking & Guildford. I'm not sure if there was a territorial rivalry there. I'd imagine there was. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1628 Registered: 01-2005 |
I bought the 2001 remastered edition (with bonus tracks) cd's of the first four Stranglers albums a few years ago. I never went beyond them though, but maybe I should get Feline? | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1769 Registered: 10-2004 |
Michael - Feline is quite a different beast (sorry) from the albums that precede it. It's like moody, dark techno pop but with lots of acoustic guitar. Cornwell said the album came out so insular and muted because he and his then-girlfriend Hazel O'Connor were doing loads of smack, and that's kind of the state of mind it put him in. Some people at the time saw it as a sell-out, like they'd gone "soft" and artsy. But I really like it a lot. Their 5th album, La Folie, (which came out before Feline) is definitely worth checking out if you haven't already. Spence mentioned Aural Scultpure; I actually like that album on a musical level, but the lyrics are really stupid. I think "Ice Queen" and "Skin Deep" are great pop songs, but lyrically they're pretty trite. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 145 Registered: 05-2005 |
Actually La Folie is the 6th album Jeff, The Gospel According to the Meninblack is the 5th | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3155 Registered: 05-2005 |
Lewis Taylor - Stoned Part II. I got it in a bargain bin for $5 yesterday! | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1770 Registered: 10-2004 |
Cosmo, yeah, I realized that after posting (this board so needs an edit function!). I always forget about the Meninblack and have trouble considering it a "true" Stranglers album. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2135 Registered: 03-2005 |
Soft Hearted Scientists--Uncanny Tales from the Everyday Undergrowth Cosmo's comment about a new SHS album reminded me that I hadn't gotten this one. (I do have Whirling World). Too much music. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3156 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Walls - New Dawn Breaking. Perfect melancholy music for this wet, cold Australian spring day. Spring rain! | ||
| Mark Leydon Member Username: Mark_leydon Post Number: 263 Registered: 05-2005 |
Built to Spill - There Is No Enemy Gin Wigmore - Holy Smoke | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 146 Registered: 05-2005 |
Nice one Randy, Uncanny Tales is really good - Brother Sister is a great song,Many a Monster and Diving Bell too - I love most of the tracks and my kids used to chant 'compared to the metabolism of a fruit fly the universe really is quite simple' on long car journeys | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 147 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jeff, sorry for trainspotting! | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3359 Registered: 05-2005 |
Cosmo, I liked Nosferatu too, Wired being my fave. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3360 Registered: 05-2005 |
White Room actually! This album was really scary punk man! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2137 Registered: 03-2005 |
Cosmo, I'm still digesting it but Brother Sister is a definite standout for me. Your story about your kids sounds just right to me. I don't know how young your kids are but their music sounds like it would be perfect for children. And that's not a put-down. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3158 Registered: 05-2005 |
Oingo Boingo - Nothing To Fear. I think it's fair to say that Danny Elfman went on to better things in his soundtrack work. They looked like a great live band though, based on the four songs I used to have on Betamax tape of them at the US festival from '82 or '83 (taped off Irish TV no less!). Anybody hereabouts see them live? Randy? | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1672 Registered: 09-2006 |
Yeah, Elfboy's one-note "demonic" smirk (which also permeated all of his lyrics) wore out its welcome reeeeal fast for me. They had a few good hooks in them here and there, though...the "Weird Science" theme would be my pick. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2138 Registered: 03-2005 |
Wild Beasts--Two Dancers I'm trying to figure out why I ordered this. Track 2, "Hooting & Howling" is pretty good and the next three tracks are at least interesting--I'm on #5 right now--but I simply don't remember why I ordered it. Did somebody on here big it up? There is a falsetto singer who is a bit challenging to listen to but the backing soundscapes are attractive. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2139 Registered: 03-2005 |
Padraig I never saw Oingo Boingo live. I dismissed them as crap. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2140 Registered: 03-2005 |
And now I'm on to Alain Bashung's Bleu Petrole. | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 226 Registered: 05-2005 |
It's great that you enjoy Bashung Randy. And don't worry if you don't understand the complex lyrics. Here, a lot of people can sing them along, but very few are able to say what they exactly means. Poetry. Sarah Blasko - Overture & the underscore. As good as the last one Esser - Braveface | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 431 Registered: 10-2008 |
randy, i think you can blame(if thats the right word)the bold spence for your wild beasts purchase. i find the main singer a distraction to a mildly interesting band. the second singer is better to listen to but he's very limited imo. another in the endless lost of bands who i would probably find more interesting if i was in my teens/early 20s. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1631 Registered: 01-2005 |
On random play on my 5 disc changer this Saturday morning: Arcade Fire - Funeral The Strokes - Is This It The Shins - Oh, Inverted World Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2143 Registered: 03-2005 |
TROU, I definitely enjoy Bashung. In fact I'm listening to Fantaisie Militaire right now. I originally started playing it from iTunes on the computer through the little cheapie computer speakers while reading a book but when La Nuit Je Mens came on I had to put down the book I was reading. So I decided to start over with the proper CD on the main stereo. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1634 Registered: 01-2005 |
On random play on my 5 disc changer this Sunday morning: The Blue Nile - Hats Til Tuesday - Everything's Different Now Everything But The Girl - Idlewild The Gobs - 16 Lovers Lane The Cowboy Junkies - The Trinity Session | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 709 Registered: 07-2006 |
michael, your consistency is quietly disarming. the cowboy junkies never really did it for me and everything's different now i still can't quite take to... but the others are absolutely timeless. |