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1001realapes 2408 posts |
Edited Jun 16, 2024, 04:58
Jun 16, 2024, 04:56
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Paul Weller - Fat Pop (Volume 1) Paul Weller - 66 SHACK - ...here's tom with the weather Grateful Dead – Dick's Picks Volume Seven: Alexandra Palace, London, England - September 1974 (disc 3 of 3) Bob Seger - Back in '72 Chrome - The Visitation Charley Patton - Blues The Wailers - 1963-1972 (disc 1 of 4) The Use of Ashes - Untitled bass communion / freiband - courage / cowardice The Exotic Moods of Les Baxter (disc 1 of 2) Pete Namlook & Richie Hawtin - From Within 3 Flower Travellin' Band - Music Composed Mainly by Humans Amon Düül II - Wolf City V.A. - The Best of the Chicago Blues (Vanguard)
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Fitter Stoke 2642 posts |
Edited Jun 16, 2024, 14:05
Jun 16, 2024, 09:24
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There’s a chill wind blowing in my soul and I think I’m growing old: Eels ‘Eels Time!’ - Mark’s in another of his more reflective moods this time around. I suspect this will be a slow burner; Robin Trower ‘Bridge of Sighs (50th Anniversary Edition)’ - lordy be, this is good. An always decent sounding album receives a new lease of life in its 2024 remix, with extended codas and, in some cases, different takes being utilised. Trower was, and remains, a true guitar hero, so much more than his Hendrix copyist reputation justifies. And this is his best album; Pink Floyd ‘More’ & ‘Obscured By Clouds’ - Floyd’s film music is far less studio-bound and overproduced than their more celebrated work. There’s a directness and charm to these records that brings pure joy to the ears. ‘More’s’ ‘Main Theme’ and ‘Quicksilver’ are pure proto-kosmische music. Waters contributes some fine songs low on pontification. And innit great to hear Dave Gilmour rock out on both albums? (Vinyl junkies note: the current Pink Floyd label pressings are superb); Love ‘Da Capo’ - my fave Love LP. Yes, really; Riverside ‘Out Of Myself’ & ‘ID.Entity’ - respectively earliest and latest studio albums from a profoundly intense Polish prog group. There’s too much going on to fully appreciate on one listen but I can just tell I’m gonna dig them; Eloy ‘Power and the Passion’ - vintage German prog I can’t help but like, with a wacky concept that has charm transcending its half century age; Julian Cope ‘Cope’s Notes #6: Jehovahkill’ - essential annexe to one of the Drude’s greatest utterances, full of excellent unheard vibes. And the book is a joy. Fair play to Julian for making available great fans only stuff without the waste and expense of super-deluxe box sets. Which reminds me: John Lennon ‘Mind Games’ - this is soon to be given the multi-mix box set treatment, but I think I’ll just stick with the ordinary album. Which, sadly, it is. Very ordinary. (I just heard ‘There’s A Place’ on a bar CD jukebox and seriously wondered if John ever wrote a better song - and that’s from a lifelong fan); Terje Rypdal ‘Whenever I Seem To Be Far Away’ - mellotron-rich space rock with jazz and classical elements, quite unlike anything else in the ECM listings; Miles Davis ‘Porgy & Bess’, ‘Miles Ahead’ and ‘Miles in Tokyo’ - three more gems from Miles’ vast back catalogue: two of his ace collaborations with Gil Evans and a cooking live set from an embryonic version of his second great quintet; Paul Desmond ‘Easy Living’ - schmoozy smooth lounge jazz at its best. Desmond had as natural a synergy with Jim Hall as he had with Dave Brubeck; Egberto Gismonti ‘Danca das Gabecas’ - jazz? World music? I dunno, but I like it; Philipp Wachsmann & Paul Lytton ‘Some Other Season’ - bang. Crash. Squeak. Don’t expect catchy tunes; Beethoven: Symphony no.3 (Philharmonia/Herbert von Karajan) - Columbia 33CX1046 was one seriously fine early LP. Dennis Brain and Alan Civil in the third movement horn duo. It don’t get better than that; Beethoven: Symphony no.4 (Philippe Hereweghe) - thrusting and enjoyable take on Beethoven’s jolliest symphony; Mozart: Symphony no.31 ‘Paris’ (Philharmonia/Otto Klemperer) - old Otto had a rather stern way of conducting Mozart, bringing the underplayed, darker side of the music into full focus. This is serious shit; Liszt: Les Preludes/Haydn: Symphonies 93 & 95/Strauss: Ein Heldenleben (all cond. Georg Solti) - proof that there was so much more to Solti’s art than Wagner; Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra (BPO/Herbert von Karajan) - as perfect an interpretation as I could imagine in a recording that, half a century on, still sounds state of the art, a few crackles notwithstanding. Phwoor. Poet is priest and beginning to move! Have a great week, everyone Dave x
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Monganaut 2426 posts |
Edited Jun 16, 2024, 10:39
Jun 16, 2024, 10:35
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Coupla weeks here. Beak - >>>> Love this, could be fav album of the year so far. Peppered with lovely rhythmic Can-isms and a track that could be an Anika out-take. Fave trax, The Seal /Ah Yeh. https://beak.bandcamp.com/album/--3 Pye Corner Audio - Endless Echoes Prob my fav PCA album. Great cinematic house with John Carpenter style arps and atmospheres. Top Cover too! https://www.juno.co.uk/products/pye-corner-audio-the-endless-echo-cd/1003702-01/ Nocturnal Emissions - In Dub Culled from the longer Vols 1 & 2 up on bandcamp, this is a tasty comp of some of the better moments. It's all weirdly stilted digi dub, like it was made on an old Amiga octamed or something. Odd stabs and repititons that build into a strange kinda awkward dub music. It sounds odd and wrong to begin with, which is probably the intention but deffo a grower. https://holuzam.bandcamp.com/album/in-dub LIARS - everything really, albums/EP's/singles/rarities Was looking thru my racks for stuff I'd not played in too long and ended up on a LIARS binge. Fell in Love all over again. Except for the rather pedestrian EDM of Wixiw/ Mess they pretty much reinvent themselves on most of the other releases. Top stuff. It's crazy and kinda sad to think that you could prob pick up all their albums used on CD for under £20 or so. Future of The Left - The Plot Against Common Sense Shouty Welsh Indie Rockers deliver a slightly lacklustre performance on this. First two albums are still top rockers tho! Pop.1280 - Museum on the Horizon In which said band discover all things Front 242 /EDM and produce a middling response. Deffo not up there with debut release The Horror. The Orb - The Holloway Brooch (An Ambient Excursion Beyond The Orboretum) Not the best Orb I've heard. One of those RSD cashins I suspect. VR Sex - Hard Copy Pal recommended this with you'll either love it or hate it. For a new release it sounds like it could have come right out of 1985. To me it sounds like A weird amalgam of early Heads, Hawklords and Chrome/ early Pop.1280. Started off thinking it was shit, and by the end was thinking it was OK. So he was kinda right on both counts. https://vrsex.bandcamp.com/album/hard-copy Butthole Surfers - Rembrandt Pussy Horse Sisters of Mercy - Some Girls Wander/ First and Last and Always Ahhh, The Repile House EP. Still probably all you need from the Sisters, well and that groovy cover of 1969. I wasn't aware that there were differing versions of FALAA released. I always played the vinyl as a nipper, but the CD edition from 1988 has some totally different (and crap sounding) mixes. Out of curiostity I found an uber-fan website where all the changes are noted and compared. Should you be curious (and I don't blame you if you're not) ... https://heavyleatherblog.wordpress.com/2017/03/11/all-i-know-for-sure-the-making-of-first-and-last-and-always/ Well despite my bemoaning about vinyl, I plundered the shelve and dug thru some long time neglected old records. Don't have the best deck/hifi, but some of those proper analogue recordings did sound great. Esp the Fast Records comp (Being Boiled esp.good) Ditto those D.A.F. vinyls, Stone Roses - Fools Gold, Grant Hart - All My Senses 12", Sonic Youth - Bad Moon Rising and a bunch of Foetus stuff I only own on vinyl. Need to play ole Jim Thirwell more, he has a sweet turn of phrase on many songs. There was a short piece in the Grauniad yesterday about vinyl counterfitting/ Bootlegging. Hell, I think I actively sought out Boots at record fairs back in the 80's. In the days before streaming it was often the only way to get hold of something super limited or unreleased. Tho I guess if you pay top dollar for stuff these days you're more entitles to be miffed. Weirdly, from the article, the Sisters of Mercy are still one of the most bootlegged acts (they were back in the day too). Here's the article if you're interested. https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/jun/15/vinyl-came-back-from-the-dead-and-so-did-the-bootleggers-inside-the-booming-business-of-knock-off-records Tangs - Zeit Was in a fingers X'd for pay day there'd be some left on the Jehovakill Cope Notes, but my lovely youngest had bought it for me for Pappi's Day. Top Kid!! Something to spin later. Have a better one!
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flashbackcaruso 1088 posts |
Jun 16, 2024, 11:22
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Nick Drake - A Treasury Paul McCartney - McCartney Paul & Linda McCartney - Ram Wings - Wild Life Wings - Red Rose Speedway (double) Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother Pink Floyd - John Peel Concert 1971 Genesis - Wind & Wuthering Genesis - Seconds Out Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel Anthony Phillips - The Geese & The Ghost The Kinks - Kinks The Kinks - Kinda Kinks The Kinks - The Kink Kontroversy The Kinks - Face To Face Madness - One Step Beyond Madness - Absolutely Madness - 7 Madness - BBC Sessions Pet Shop Boys - Agenda Pet Shop Boys - Cricket Wife Pet Shop Boys - Lost Pet Shop Boys - Nonetheless Bob Dylan - Tempest Bob Dylan - Rough & Rowdy Ways Harmonia - Musik Von Harmonia Harmonia - Deluxe Walter Wegmüller - Tarot
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Hunter T Wolfe 1722 posts |
Jun 16, 2024, 18:59
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Art Bears- Winter Songs Howard Devoto- Jerky Versions of the Dream Barclay James Harvest- Octoberon The Bolshoi- Giants Bruce Springsteen- The Ghost of Tom Joad Boz Scaggs- Moments Boz Scaggs- Boz Scaggs And Band Scratch Acid- The Greatest Gift The Sixths- Wasps Nests
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keith a 9597 posts |
Jun 16, 2024, 22:07
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Everybody Out? Shark In The Water - FM Bats This 2005 release is from the days when I wrote online reviews. I got sent some interesting things that I would never have heard otherwise (and some not so good, too!) This was one of the best – a ragged noisefest consisting of seven songs that only lasts a little over nine minutes in total. Tant De Belles Choses - Franciose Hardy So Many Things is one of the most beautiful songs I've heard. RIP Franciose. Release – Pet Shop Boys Task: Listen again to my least favourite PSB's album. Verdict: Still my least favourite PSB's album. Prehistoric Sounds – The Saints It's years and years since I last heard this one and it holds up pretty well. It's only 1978 and The Saints have already moved on and added brass to their sound. The Drift – Scott Walker A challenging listen for sure. Unsettling at times and emotional actually, not least when he sings he's the only one left alive. Also... The Lexicon Of Love II – ABC Billion Dollar Babies – Alice Cooper Flying Wig – Devendra Banhart Rubber Soul – The Beatles Venus & Mars – Wings The Milk Of Human Kindness – Caribou Live At The Koncerhuset, Stockholm Sept 1968 – The Doors Spooky Action - Paul Draper S/T – Fun Boy 3 Majestic Dub - Joe Gibbs & the Professionals More Majestic Dub - Joe Gibbs & the Professionals Dare – Human League Body Talk – Imagination Paradise – Inner City Solid Air – John Martyn The Golden Mile - My Life Story XL1 – Pete Shelley Wake – Silent Vigils Systems Of Romance – Ultravox Space Flower – Wild Swans Nocturnal Koreans - Wire Odyssey: The Sound Of Ivor Raymonde Vol II – V/A
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Dog in fog 334 posts |
Jun 16, 2024, 23:14
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Christy Moore - Live At The Point Andy Irvine / Paul Brady - s/t The Bothy Band - Live In Concert Stone Angel - s/t Spirogyra - Old Boot Wine Linda Perhacs - Parallelograms Parallelograms https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9VbJmbtMW8 Angelo Branduardi - La pulce d'acqua Budgie - Never Turn Your Back On A Friend Venom - At War With Satan Cry Wolf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkEmwh30iUE The Crazy World of Arthur Brown - s/t Radiohead - OK Computer Sharron Kraus - Songs Of Love And Loss Angelica Caraway https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec1x5ERFqwI
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garerama 1151 posts |
Edited Jun 17, 2024, 13:18
Jun 17, 2024, 13:16
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The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds / 20 Golden Greats Boards Of Canada - The Campfire Headphase / Tomorrow's Harvest Chumbawamba - Never Mind The Ballots Alice Coltrane - Universal Consciousness / World Galaxy / Lord Of The Lords / Illuminations (with Santana) Julian Cope - Jehovahkill (album) / Cope's Notes #6: Jehovahkill / Rite / Autogeddon Dope - Maxi-12" / Guerilla Grow The Cure - BBC Radio Recording Sessions 1979-81 / Faith / Carnage Visors / Pornography Current 93 - Nature Unveiled / Dogs Blood Rising/ Live At Bar Maldoror Miles Davis - Workin' / Steamin' / Greatest Hits Fairport Convention - S/t / What We Did On Our Holidays Philip Glass - Koyannisqatsi / Glassworks / Low / The Essential PG Gong - You / Live: Floating Anarchy 1977 / Mother (Gilli Smyth) The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland / Smash Hits Mogwai - Young Team / Come On Die You / Rock Acrion / Government Commissions New Order - Movement / Power, Corruption & Lies Psychedelic Furs - S/t / Talk Talk Talk The Smiths - S/t / Hatful Of Hollow The Soft Boys - 1976-81 Trader Horne - Morning Way Tom Waits - Bone Machine / The Black Rider / Real Gone X-Ray Spex - Germ Free Adolescents V/A - Devastate To Liberate
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flashbackcaruso 1088 posts |
Jun 17, 2024, 14:40
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keith a wrote: Release – Pet Shop Boys Task: Listen again to my least favourite PSB's album. Verdict: Still my least favourite PSB's album. This has always been my least favourite too, and I also listened to it again recently for the first time in years and had forgotten about The Samurai In Autumn. That's a cracking track, totally at odds with the rest of the album. I also rather like Love Is A Catastrophe and You Choose. Weird to learn that doing a more 'acoustic' album was Chris Lowe's idea.
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keith a 9597 posts |
Jun 17, 2024, 20:48
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flashbackcaruso wrote: Weird to learn that doing a more 'acoustic' album was Chris Lowe's idea. I never knew that. Somehow assumed it would be Neil's idea!
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