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zphage 3378 posts |
Edited Dec 09, 2007, 16:21
Dec 08, 2007, 18:38
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Best album:Spoon GaGaGa Really enjoyed this has a Beatles meet Faust via Texas (the state) quality of effortless tunefulness. Best reissue: Lee Moses Time and Place a Holy Grail of searing blues/rock/soul, this guy was going thru some serious turmoil, and probably made one the most intense records ever recorded. Box set: Pentangle The Time Has Come A truly staggering set of a an awesome band, sits to the left of their original recordings with enough outtakes, and live that it stands on its own and augments with little duplication of existing records. {Kevin Coyne/Siren 3Cd Dandelion is also a real pleasure} Book: Japrocksampler A fan's book written by the fan's fan love of time and genre conveyed with knowledge and excitement. the type book rock'n'roll direly needs but rarely gets. |
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IanB 6761 posts |
Edited Dec 10, 2007, 20:19
Dec 08, 2007, 18:48
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Album : Robert Fripp "At The End Of Time" love him or hate him Fripp turns in a deeply spirtual record of plangent depths and ecstatic highs. recommended if you get off on TD in "Ricochet" mode and Ash Ra's "Schwerer Dino". honourable mention to Julie Fowlis for making a great trad album without frills or tricksy production and still selling a cart load. Box Set : Various "Breath Of Fresh Air - Harvest Story" you forget how much latitude bands on majors had in those days to try and be all they wanted to be. Some of it misses the mark by a country mile but there's not one careerist, Satan felating, bandwagon chasing note in the whole box. Reissue : Roy Harper "Stormcock" no bonus tracks but a generous upgrade to the sound of the original Science Friction cd. Gig: Jerry Dammers Spatial AKA Sun Ra tribute big band thing at QEH and the Mingus Big Band at Ronnies Movie: Painted Veil Book : Terence Blacker "You Cannot Live as I Have Lived and Not End Up Like This: The Thoroughly Disgraceful Life and Times of Willie Donaldson" - not a music book but, with a title like that, who cares? honorable mentions to Bracewell's "Remake Remodel", Peter Gay's "Modernism" and "Japrocksampler" of course. Art: Painting Of Modern Life - Hayward
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Jasonaparkes 876 posts |
Dec 09, 2007, 18:12
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Album...Part Two - The Endless Not by Throbbing Gristle. It's been a good year, but this album still holds interest and is most definitely TG in the 21st Century Reissue...Y by the Pop Group Compilation...Peel Sessions Plus by the Teardrop Explodes DVD...I liked Zodiac lots, though am waiting for the director's cut - it might not be so good on second viewing too (I suspect the same for This is England). So...the third season of The Wire Gig of the year...either the Melvins with Big Business/Porn at the Barfly or Silver Mt Zion at the Oxford Zodiac (RIP, it's very Carling now) Book...It might be Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson, but am not at the end yet, so I'll go with Japrocksampler too - apart from a few 33 1/3 books and Copey's tome, it's been a pretty rotten year for music themed books!
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Dog 3000 4611 posts |
Dec 09, 2007, 20:00
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Next month I will put together my "official" top 10 albums list (yeah I know you can't stand the suspense!) At the moment a strong case can be made for that Me'shell Ndegeocello record . . . very futuristic sound, definitely original. Also Deerhoof, Fiery Furnaces, Dungun, Earthling Society, Black Moth Super Rainbow and the Omar/Damo collaboration. I feel like the best albums of last year (Scott Walker, Liars) were better than the best of this year, but overall there were a lot more "really good records" that I heard this year (though who knows if that just means I was paying more attention in 2007.) I could easily come up with 25 "honorable mentions" besides a top 10. Interesting new reissue that just came out: The Dragons, a psych-soul-Beachboys-esque band featuring Daryl Dragon of "The Captain & Tennille" fame and his brothers -- recorded late 60's, never released until now -- purty neat! (And in case you're worried, it's one of the other not-The-Captain brothers who was the leader here.)
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earthlingfred93 1114 posts |
Dec 09, 2007, 21:28
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I'm definately going for Alison faith levy and Mushroom's 'Yesterday I saw you kissing tiny flowers' CD on the 4Zero label. It really is a sublime piece of Psych/Jazz krautrock west coast thingymejig. Not easily pigeonholed which is important in these derivative times. AFL sings like a cross between Polly Harvey, Julee Cruise and Mazzy Star, but makes her own unique voice... I'm really getting into the Badgeman 'Ritual Landscape' and could say it's a re-issue of sorts. Yes it's up there in the best of stakes. Not much else really. But then I dont really listen to Mod stuff y'know. I'm still reeling at the Moody Blues 'Days of future passed' and their new fangled audio sound called DERAM...it's gonna take off I'll tell you
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Fitter Stoke 2606 posts |
Dec 10, 2007, 00:27
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Best album: Neil Young's 'Chrome Dreams II', containing ace examples of both his rocks-off Crazy Horse material and his thought-provoking, 'Needle and the Damage Done' laid back acoustic style: in short, the great man in his true pomp and circumstance. It don't get any better than this. Honourable mentions are also due to fellow old-guards Van Morrison (whose internet only 'Live At Austin City Limits' is astounding), Bruce Springsteen (delivering the goods big-time with 'Magic'), and Canterbury stalwarts Kevin Ayers ('The Unfairground' being half an hour of luxury Ayers at his long-awaited best) and Robert Wyatt ('Comicopera' - flawed genius). Best reissue: it's been a good year of reactivated gems. The Moby Grape and Soft Machine remasters were excellent, and the three proper Joy Division albums have never sounded darker, and better, than in their new expanded format. Y&T's early metal epics finally got the blistereng remastering they deserved as well, and Napalm Death's 'Scum' obliterated anew in its dualdisc format. But pride of place goes to Salvo's superb reissues of the first two Move albums, especially 'Shazam' which sounds immaculate and drips power, emotion, humour and charm in equal measure: British progressive rock at its finest. Don't miss it. Best box set: I'm torn between two very contrasted releases - The Wedding Present's quintessential 'Peel Sessions' box (so full of pleasures that I have to restrict my listening to a session at a time, and believe me, there ain't one clunker here) and Charlie Parker's 'Complete Carnegie Hall Performances' (which, despite duplicating some stuff already avalable in the massive Verve box, brings some superb live recordings onto the market.) If pushed, I'll go for the Weddoes as this is a rock and roll site. Best classical album: Solti's Mahler 5 with the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra - his last ever performance and a perfect blend of the intense and the emotional. Have to mention Music & Art's stunning remastering of Toscanini's overwhelming 1939 Beethoven cycle as well as the greatest 'Eroica' I've ever heard with the Symphony of the Air conducted by Bruno Walter in a 1957 memorial concert to that self-same Italian maestro. Beethoven never sounded greater than this. A very good year for music, all told. Here's to the next one.
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zphage 3378 posts |
Dec 11, 2007, 18:11
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Lots of great stuff to check out, but this is it for the year? no top ten best/worst? No Holy Grails to spend time and money checking out?
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KARL MAX 71 posts |
Dec 12, 2007, 23:14
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For the first time in my life I'm flying my Swedish colours and proclaiming the best platters all coming from the frozen sub-arctic circle, rotten herring munching and fly agaric inebriated last heathen country in Europe. Sweden that is. The limeys can keep that stiff football coach, we don't want him! We got reckids by; Dungen-Tio Bitar. The best stoner Swedish midsummer dancing round the maypole tripper since Älgarnas Trädgård. Life On Earth-Look there is... Dungens bandmates meet Creation of Sunlight. St Mikael-Mind of Fire. Returning from the bathtub at last! Ernst Jürgensen-From the Archives of EVP. Even more from the discoverer of EVP. I believe! The best gig was, of course, Dungens only gig this year at the photoshoot for the cover. Ejstes unleashed his new band for an audience of 3 people and then called it quits to live performing for an indefinate future.
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earthlingfred93 1114 posts |
Dec 13, 2007, 05:52
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Karl Marx wrote The best gig was, of course, Dungens only gig this year at the photoshoot for the cover. Ejstes unleashed his new band for an audience of 3 people and then called it quits to live performing for an indefinate future. ########### That's class that is....
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Chaosmonger 977 posts |
Dec 13, 2007, 17:04
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Dodheimsgard - Supervillain Outcast Reverend Bizarre - III: So Long Suckers Sigh - Hangman's Hymn Electric Wizard - Witchcult Today Witchcraft - The Alchemist Watain - Sworn To The Dark Slough Feg - Hardworlder Mayhem - Ordo Ad Chao Darkthrone - F.O.A.D. Ulver - Shadows Of The Sun When - Trippy Happy
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