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1001realapes 2407 posts |
Edited Sep 09, 2024, 10:43
Sep 08, 2024, 06:13
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Alexander Spence - Oar Moby Grape - st (mono) Moby Grape - st (stereo) Moby Grape - Wow Moby Grape - '69 Moby Grape - Truly Fine Citizen Moby Grape - 20 Granite Creek Moby Grape - The Place and the Time Crosstalk: The Best of Moby Grape The Amazing Charlatans |
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Fitter Stoke 2641 posts |
Edited Sep 08, 2024, 09:29
Sep 08, 2024, 09:26
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Hello all: Slayer ‘Reign In Blood’ - whooaaarrrggghhh; Radiohead ‘The King Of Limbs’ - probably the hardest Radiohead album to love, but I hear new things every time I play it; Wigwam ‘Hard’n’Horny’ - Wigwam’s debut is a fun fest of late 60s Hammond vibes and psych pop that sounds neither hard nor horny; The Saints ‘(I’m) Stranded’ - first wave antepodean punk masterpiece; Black Flag ‘Nervous Breakdown’ EP - and another one, this time from California; Elvis Costello ‘Taking Liberties’ - ace US comp of Declan’s early gems; John Martyn ‘London Conversation’ and ‘The Tumbler’ - John’s early albums bear little resemblence in sound or style to his more acclaimed work, but have an appealingly naive charm about them; Blur ‘The Ballad Of Darren’ - funny innit how relatively low-key Blur’s return was last year. If any of their contemporaries could produce a comeback album as strong as this, I’d be surprised and impressed; The Monochrome Set ‘Eligible Bachelors’ - witty and catchy as they always were; Sonny Rollins ‘Volume 2’ - the one with the sleeve that Joe Jackson parodied, and one of the greatest sax albums ever. Hope Sonny enjoyed his 94th birthday; Wayne Shorter ‘Schizophrenia’ - maybe not quite of the status of the above, but a fine listen anyway. James Spaulding excels himself on reeds; Nielsen: Sinfonia Espansiva (SFSO/Herbert Blomstedt) - I’m starting to feel that Nielsen is edging closer to Sibelius as my fave Scandinavian composer. This is one helluva fine symphony, especially in this near ideal 1989 recording; Bruckner: Symphonies 1 (Concertgebouw/Bernard Haitink) and 9 (VPO/Claudio Abbado) - it was old Anton’s 200th birthday on Wednesday presenting a good opportunity to play his jolly tunes. These have a few of them; Wagner: Siegfried Idyll (NYPO/John Barbirolli) - quite why the New York critics turned against the young Barbirolli is a mystery, especially on the strength of recordings like this; Lalo: Namouna (Orch Nat de l’ORTF/Jean Martinon) - I heard this lovely ballet for the first time this week. Sheer joy; Liszt: Tasso (Philharmonia/Constantin Silvestri) - Liszt’s symphonic poems give the lie to the critical opinion that the great piano whizz was no orchestrator. This rocks; Haydn: String Quartets in E flat, Op.33 no.2 ‘Joke’ and D minor, Op.76 no.2 ‘Fifths’ (Emerson Quartet) - beautiful chamber music perfectly executed; Beethoven: 11 Bagatelles, Op.126 (Rudolf Serkin) - forceful and tender playing by turns, accompanied by Serkin’s vocal obligato; Schubert: Piano Sonata in C, D 840 (Wilhelm Kempff) - another of Schubert’s unfinished works that sounds complete enough when played as well as here. Have a great week Dave x
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flashbackcaruso 1087 posts |
Sep 08, 2024, 10:33
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Elvis Presley - His Hand In Mind Elvis Presley - For The Asking Elvis Presley - Elvis For Everyon Elvis Presley - How Great Thou Art Elvis Presley - Tomorrow Is A Long Time Elvis Presley - Golden Records Volume 3 Elvis Presley - Golden Records Volume 4 Elvis Presley - The Complete 1950s Studio Masters (new 4CD comp that doesn't quite live up to its promise as it's missing some of the 1957-8 recordings that got held back for release in the 1960s, but disc 1 is absolutely essential - the complete Sun recordings in their correct sequence and the best sound quality I've ever heard) Bobbie Gentry - Ode To Billie Joe Bobbie Gentry - The Delta Sweete Bobbie Gentry - Local Gentry Bobbie Gentry & Glen Campbell - Bobbie Gentry & Glen Campbell Bobbie Gentry - The Windows Of The World Donovan - A Gift From A Flower To A Garden Beulah - When Your Heartstrings Break Beulah - The Coast Is Never Clear The Coral - Butterfly House The Coral - Distance Inbetween The Coral - Move Through The Dawn Paul Giovanni/Magnet - The Wicker Man OST Gheorghe Zamfir/Bruce Smeaton etc. - Picnic At Hanging Rock OST Elgar - The Dream Of Gerontius (Britten/LSO) Mike Oldfield - QE2 Mike Oldfield - Five Miles Out Mike Oldfield - Crises Mike Oldfield - Discovery The Incredible String Band - BBC Sessions 1971-1974 The Kinks - Soap Opera The Kinks - Schoolboys In Disgrace Mr Fox - Mr Fox Mr Fox - The Gypsy Yoko Ono - Season Of Glass (+ Walking On Thin Ice 45) The Apples In Stereo - The Discovery Of A World Inside The Moone The Apples In Stereo - Velocity Of Sound
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Dog in fog 334 posts |
Sep 08, 2024, 10:36
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Steve Hillage - Rainbow Dome Musick Michael Yonkers - Grimwood "Damsel Fair And Your Angel" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GamBd2Pjd9s Donovan - Sunshine Superman 2CD edition ('new' US stereo + original UK mono versions) Barry Dransfield - s/t Pink Floyd - The Early Years 1967-1972 Cre/ation 2CD Pink Floyd - A Saucerful Of Secrets Agincourt - Fly Away Ithaca - A Game For All Who Know Friends - Fragile Peter Howell & John Ferdinando (aka H & F Recordings) - 'Tomorrow Come Sunday' soundtrack Peter Howell & John Ferdinando - Alice Through The Looking Glass "Jabberwocky" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKqjJ_uSDQU For any fans of Peter Howell & John Ferdinando (and the other projects to which they were central, i.e., Agincourt, Ithaca, and Friends), the 5CD + booklet boxset* is on offer at Cherry Red Records at the moment, for £14.99. https://www.cherryred.co.uk/a-game-for-all-who-know-the-h-amp-f-recordings-box *I presume you know about this boxset, flashback. Garmarna - Vedergällningen Hölderlin - Hölderlins Traum Warlus - Songs "Listen To The Warlus" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eheg8FZq35s The Rolling Stones - Aftermath The Rolling Stones - Between The Buttons The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed Sieben - Ogham Inside The Night Matt Elliott - Howling Songs Matt Elliott - The Broken Man "Dust Flesh And Bones" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SAQyceAg1s V/A - MOJO Psych Out! V/A - MOJO Bad Seeds - Nick Cave: Roots & Collaborations Karen Dalton - "Katie Cruel" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwFIPDiMI30 V/A - MOJO ok_computer
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Dog in fog 334 posts |
Edited Sep 08, 2024, 10:54
Sep 08, 2024, 10:51
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"Gheorghe Zamfir/Bruce Smeaton etc. - Picnic At Hanging Rock OST" The combination of the abovementioned musicians, along with the western classical music, is so perfect for the atmosphere of the film.
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garerama 1150 posts |
Edited Sep 08, 2024, 11:15
Sep 08, 2024, 11:13
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The Beatles - With The Beatles / Abbey Road (50th mix) Beautify Junkyards - The Invisible World Of ... / Cosmorama Belbury Poly - The Willows / From An Ancient Star / New Ways Out Can - Ege Bamyasi Live In Paris 1973 / Live In Ashton 1977 Brian Eno - Small Craft On A Milk Sea (with Jon Hopkins & Leo Abrahams) / High Life (with Karl Hyde) / The Ship Jon Hopkins - Music For Psychedelic Therapy / Ritual The Incredible String Band - S/t / The 5000 Spirits Or The Layers Of The Onion / The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter (mono) Kraftwerk - Autobahn / Radio-Activity / Trans-Europe Express Bridget St John - Ask Me No Questions / Songs For The Gentle Man Swans - White Light From The Mouth Of Infinity / Love Of Life / The Great Annihilator Third Ear Band - Alchemy / Elements / Hymn To The Sphynx The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico / Live At The Gymnasium 1967 Nico - Chelsea Girl Tom Waits - Small Change / Foreign Affairs / Blue Valentine / Heartattack & Vine Jane Weaver - Modern Kosmology / Loops In The Secret Society / Flock / Love In Constant Spectacle White Noise - An Electric Storm V/A - In A Moment (Ghost Box)
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thesweetcheat 6262 posts |
Sep 08, 2024, 11:24
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Morning! Two repeat players this week, still assimilating some late-00s albums that I missed at the time: Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport V/A - Warp20 (Unheard) Otherwise: Mozart - Piano Concerto 20 In D Minor V/A - Teenage: The Creation of Youth 1911-1948 V/A - Beyond The Sea Manic Street Preachers - Life Becoming A Landslide EP Ride - I Don't Know Where It Comes From EP Shengen/Portal/Innerise/Weyland - EP Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - The Assassination of Jesse James... Radiohead - In Rainbows Client - Zerox Machine CDS The Good The Bad & The Queen - Kingdom of Doom CDS Kristin Hersh - In Shock EP Millimetrik - Northwest Passage's New Era Underworld - Phonestrap/Autotrader Underworld - 020202 Olafur Arnalds - Dryad 1909 The Unthanks - Here's The Tender Coming The Durutti Column - M24J: Anthology [disc 2] Olafur Arnalds - Living Room Songs Lines of Silence - The Long Way Home Veryan - One Universal Breath
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Monganaut 2425 posts |
Edited Sep 08, 2024, 13:05
Sep 08, 2024, 13:04
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Hi All! Only two records this week played numerous times. Hawkwind - X in Search Of Space Found an old 1989 EMI pre remaster copy for a coupla quid in a huge junk shop in Church Stretton. I Couldn't leave it there all on it's lonesome. WOW! what a great sounding mix, open and natural, not too much NR, been playing it to death. I'm so used to the 90's remastered edition (not the new one, don't have £60 right now) that I'm sure I can hear stuff I've nt heard before. Extra bits of Dik MIk and a bit more of Niks skronking in places. Can - Future Days Got to the top of Caer Caradoc a short time before sunset, with the wind deffo taken out of my sails (not as young as I once was). Sat down on some rocks at the very top bit watching the world go buy, and eating me tea listening to this whilst I got me puff back for round 2. Just a perfect soundtrack for a warm September day out in nature. (Round 2 was Willstone hill to Gaer Rock and back to train station via Helmeth hill if your interested, not quite as knackering, but still half dead by the end). Oh, I fibbed, just remembered there was Suzanne Ciani - Buchla Concerts 1975. https://suzanneciani.bandcamp.com/album/buchla-concerts-1975
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flashbackcaruso 1087 posts |
Sep 08, 2024, 16:10
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Dog in fog wrote: "Gheorghe Zamfir/Bruce Smeaton etc. - Picnic At Hanging Rock OST" The combination of the abovementioned musicians, along with the western classical music, is so perfect for the atmosphere of the film. I compiled my own soundtrack album as it doesn't seem like an official one will ever be released. Took quite a bit of searching to find pristine stereo versions of the Zamfir pieces, but the most elusive element is Bruce Smeaton's original score. Luckily I found this perfect recreation of the 'Ascent Theme' on Spotify, performed by the appropriately named David Appleyard: https://open.spotify.com/track/62Ko8GWnuqwJwDOfQDdUgH A nice bonus track is this later version of the theme tune with strings by Ennio Morricone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJCKHuXHVmk Beethoven's 5th Piano Concerto fits so perfectly with the mood of this film that its effectiveness has been in no way lessened by the overuse of the piece on movie soundtracks in the intervening years.
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flashbackcaruso 1087 posts |
Sep 08, 2024, 16:12
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Dog in fog wrote: For any fans of Peter Howell & John Ferdinando (and the other projects to which they were central, i.e., Agincourt, Ithaca, and Friends), the 5CD + booklet boxset* is on offer at Cherry Red Records at the moment, for £14.99. https://www.cherryred.co.uk/a-game-for-all-who-know-the-h-amp-f-recordings-box *I presume you know about this boxset, flashback. I knew about this box set but didn't think I needed it. Might have to buy it now that it's so cheap. Thanks for the heads up.
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