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Moon Cat 9577 posts |
Feb 15, 2004, 18:59
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Grrr - looks like Joolio's in detention again. Soundz of the moment for me... Mr Night & Mr Day - This Is It. Lovely ambience, beats and electronic pleasure for ears and brain. A real unsung gem for floaty and fungal folk. 1 Giant Leap - 1 Giant Leap. Kinda dance and world music melange put together by ex Faithless bloke and another dude. Very nice mix of global beats, chants and a few rock n pop peoples. Even the presence of R****E W******S on it doesn't spoil it for me, given that it's a good song (w Maxi Jazz) and tune-although I did note that, given the kinda global unity/one world concept of the album and everyone else's songs, his lyrics still feature "Me" and "I "prominently and are about him. Figures. Pressure Of Speech - State Of The Art. Dug this out for first time in ages. Righteous mix of electronica and ambience and heavy beats. Forgotten it's coolness Pressure Of Speech - Our Common Future, Our Common Past. See above! Oceansize - Oceansize. Huge, epic swathes of indie, metalish, prog and even MBV slices of noise. Manc 5 piece make massive sounding debut. Really loving the sheer scale of it all. Nu-Prog? Dunno, but ambitious and satisfying! Turn it up and sink into the maelstrom. Gonga - Gonga - Still delighting with its Kyussish stonger grooves. The Psychedelic Breakfast - ...in Uncle Sams Basement Emporium. Very nice n all - but given all the refernces to psychedelia, it's not trippy enough. It is basically enthusiastic, melodic indie with the odd (quite effective) trippy flourish. Full marks for doing all songs in one take all together...but I wanted more weirdness! Think the La's doing longer songs with spacey bits. Still, they're all dead young, so early days. Good luck to 'em! Amused By Genitals - EEEUWWWW! That'll never come out! King Crimson - In The Wake Of Poseidon. I love the way that, in this period, they could go from pastoral whimsy to unsettling discordance in a heartbeat! Queen - News Of The World. Seeing as Brian May and Roger Taylor seem determined to crap on all they've done (awaiting almost inevitable response....), thought I'd revisit an oldie but goodie. Love the proto thrash of "Sheer Heart Attack!" Julian Cope - Jehovah Kill. Will never tire of this! Think thats mostly it! Have a nice week!
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PaulMakesMusic 951 posts |
Feb 15, 2004, 19:15
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Mendelsohns Hebridean opera. Air - Moon Safari The Sundays - Reading Writing and Arithmetic The Wedding Present - George Best and Seamonsters Obscure Scandinavian insipid indie from a band called Easy, album named magic seed. Thoroughly forgettable. Pink Floyd - Live at pompeii. Kate Bush - Various Mpegs, Man with child in eyes and cloudbusting being my current favourites. Talking heads - Storytelling giant. Excellent compilation video from the bands first ten years... Review here... http://www.epinions.com/content_83581767300 So, visual soundtrack this week! Yay!!!
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Moon Cat 9577 posts |
Feb 15, 2004, 19:20
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Forgot... Robert Miles - Organik. Yes it IS the same Robert Miles who pestered the charts with uber fromage trance anthem "Children", but this album has as much in common with that as Lemmy does with Will Young. 'Organik' is a wonderfully indulgent mix of dub, jazz flourishes, classical arrangements, rock guitars, beats and electronic squrglez. Featuring Nitin Sawhney, Bill Laswell & Dhurba Ghosh amongst others I was as surprised as a haddock when I heard it. Like it!
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Monganaut 2373 posts |
Feb 15, 2004, 19:27
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Oneida - Secret Wars This is great, if you know and like Oneida, then it's pretty much business as usual, but as far as organ driven motor pyche noise goes, they ain't bettered. My friend Charles says he likes Oneida cos' the music won't be ignored, and it engages you on many levels. I couldn't agree more, another goody, woo hoo! Colder - Even Colder Saw the vid' for Crazy Love on 120 minutes ages ago and was meaning to get hold of this, when a certain Canadian buddy stuck it in the post. Tis' great....imagine a more dub heavy / post punk sounding Tarwater and your somewhere in the arena. It's spacious sounding and draws you in from the start, groovy in parts and well wired in others, a perfect record. Appliance - Are you Earthed ? This sounds like the bastard son of Spacemen 3 / Spiritualized ans Stereolab. it's amazingly laid back, and pushes all the 'lush' buttons in my frontal lobe. Yeah, it's derivative to a degree, but it's just soooo..If i was a young man and dating, this would be the perfect record to fall in love too (Sigh !") The Homosexuals' Record Finally got hold of this from a pal in Manchester...it's great (wow, I'm slightly overusing that record at the moment :) If you can imagine Wire and Swell Maps setting up in a studio, with various members of The Ruts, The Slits, The early Mekons, bits of Gandg of Four & various Buzzcocks members popping in to add little bits to the recording from time to time, your pretty near the sound of the Homosexuals. Maaan, if they'd od stuck it out...they coulda been contenders..as it is they are stuck in the 'where are they now' file, which is just sooo sad, as everyone intersted in the 'artschool' side of punk should hear this. A Lost Gem! Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand Yeah, i know the miseryguts amongst you dismiss this bunch as hype driven morons, but i disagree. Great tunes, intelligent lyrics and they don't take it all to seriously. This is a wonderful debut record. OK so it's a has a BIG 80's influence in it's sound, but i can forgive em' that as it's just sooo damn catchy. You can hear bits of the Teardrops sound, Orange Juice, early white funk of Simple Minds, and dare i say it Spandau Ballet, Duran Duran and lashings of early Dexy's. I got a free 'live in Amsterdam CD' with my copy ,which is just brilliant too. Yeah it's got bum notes and off key bits, but it's just great to hear em' pull it off live. 'Shopping for Blood' sounds like a lost Rough Trade era Fall single and all the usual suspects are there Darts Of Pleasure And the single of the year Take Me Out. If you like a bit of 80's sounding post punk pop with white funk leanings and great lyrics ,then i suggest you run out tomorrow anf buy it, you won't be dissapointed. Erm and that's about it, hope ya'll have a great week
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Moon Cat 9577 posts |
Feb 15, 2004, 19:29
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Me mate's just got it and called me today to say how Teardropsy it is. Looking forward to hearing it!
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Monganaut 2373 posts |
Feb 15, 2004, 19:30
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Ooof, shoulda proof read that, sos' for all the SP's.
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Monganaut 2373 posts |
Feb 15, 2004, 19:35
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Yeah it's great. I didn't know what to expect when i got it...thought it might be 10 versions of Take Me Out, but it's a truly diverse record, slow bits, fast bits, lurvey bits, and a 'gay' lovesong called Michael...it's just lush. I've been hooked on it all week. It IS totally 80's and retro, but you'll have fun trying to recall where you heard that bass line, or thinking that that song reminds me of... but they've managed to pull it off in my eyes, it's retro, but it's still Franz Ferdinand too...hell, I'll stop gushing now :)
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Shrimp 1118 posts |
Feb 15, 2004, 19:41
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this week its been zappaaaa all the way n the muuuuthhhhheuuuursss tooo loads of discs been downloaded and loads to play n explore lots of bollocks but some good and great bits in there too hope i dont start downloading all the dead stuff!!!!!
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Beebon 1375 posts |
Feb 15, 2004, 20:48
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Ah, just got back from a day out at Bodmin moor, been a great sunny day :) Anyways, this week has been: C93: "All The Pretty Little Horses", "Imperium", "Bright Yellow Moon" and "Island": Phew! Still getting into this lot and have plenty more to sort through. All these albums have more than enough good stuff on them for me to enjoy. ATPLH is beautiful, dark and haunting at same time, possibly me fave. Nurse With Wound - Rock N Roll Station: This is indeed the best thing i have heard from Mr Stapelton yet Melvins - Gluey Porch Treatments: I found it really quite dull on first few listens but it's grown so much on me. Generally quite sludgey rock with faster bits in between. The Fall - This Nations Saving Grace: Arrr this has been brightening up my lunch break walkarounds all week... i had forgot how good this is. Maybe it is poppier than Hex, Witch Trials and Dragnet, yet with songs like Bombast, My New House and I Am Damo Suzuki how can you go wrong? great stuff indeeeeed! Boris - Absolutego: Only heard it a couple of times so far but WOAH what a behemoth of sound! Kyuss - Blues For The Red Sun: Great stoner stuff, which was the soundtrack to some beer drinkte's place last night, good stuff! Well, that's all i think :)
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Lawrence 9547 posts |
Feb 15, 2004, 22:46
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Arrgh! Just got up from a nap... OMD Peel Sessions CD -- liked the earlier version of "Messages" better than on the debut album. More psychedelic and with some Farfisa organ. Puissance: "Totalitarian Hearts" 7" -- Exactly the kind of stuff those who mistrust 'post-industrial' and 'dark folk' fear! But this is so over-the-top and incongruous it's hard to take seriously. In fact, by the A-side's ironic conclusion and the ambiguously silly comments printed on the sleeve you have to wonder if they recorded this with a straight face or if this was a clever satire on Machiavellian and misanthropic philosophies... Twenty Committee: Network LP Brighter Death Now: May All Be Dead 2LP Listened to some old Contrastate albums but then decided to sell them. Hasn't aged well at all.
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