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redfish365 710 posts |
Dec 06, 2009, 22:44
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mingtp wrote: redfish365 wrote: Demon/The Plague OMG! Now that brings back memories! I saw them live 8 or 9 times in my teens. Very under-appreciated band that, and they made some great records. Bless. Well as an American who never had the chance to see them live I am envious to the nth! I bought their first three albums as they were released via mailorder... and at once fell in love with their unique take on the sort of B-list of the then exploding "NWOBHM" thing. To me Demon was better then just about any extant hard rock act with memorable melodies and smart lyrics. I was more a progger then and and Demon always reminded me of prog with their concepts and seemingly theatrical vocalist. I did recently buy a DVD of Demon in concert from the 80s and it was even cooler than I had ever imagined! In 1983 I did spend 2 weeks in London as a 16 year old with a group from school. Our teacher was a great guy who took me to the Marquee to see Pallas. We had such a good time we went back the next night to see Geoff Mann and his amazing band... I do recall that this made up for not seeing the two things I really wanted to see in England at the time - Marillion and... Demon!
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keith a 9573 posts |
Dec 07, 2009, 00:41
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LP’s KISS MY SWEET APOCALYPSE (CD) / UNRULY IMAGINATION – Black Sheep I've finally give the Christophe F cd a rest and gone back to these. Patchy I guess, but both have some great tracks all the same. BLACK CHERRY / SUPERNATURE – Goldfrapp I love Black Cherry. Enough to have put it in my top 25 of the noughties here, in fact. Supernature always sounded like an inferior Black Cherry Pt II, but listening to it again...well that may still be the case but it’s much better than I remember. SWEETHEART – The Klaxons Latest in the Alan Vega series of 10” 45’s. TBH The Klaxonx don’t really do a lot different to the original, but it’s pleasing on the ears all the same. SWORDS – Morrissey A recent collection of b-sides from the last few years. There’s not too much here that’s likely to convert the non-Moz fan, but Never Played Symphonies is a really good b-side and his take on Drive-In Saturday is interesting if only from the point of view that he does so little different with it and yet it sounds so typically Moz. Perhaps the Bowie influence is more prevalent than you think (and yes I know Bowie didn’t have to do much with Moz I Know It’s Gonna Happen to make it sound typically Bowie all those years ago!). Highlight though is undoubtedly the awesome Ganglord which is probably fit to compare with anything he’s done. “There’s a clock on the wall, makes fun of us all” he sings rather beautifully over a really powerfully backdrop. Great organ fade-out, too. The limited edition live set that accompanies it is pretty run-of-the-mill though. OTHERS... A GENTLE CYCLE REVOLUTION EP / TIME & SPACE EP – Appliance CLOSE TO ME – The Carpenters HARD TIMES ON THE WAY – Black Daniel MIRACLE KICKER – Dark Captain Light Captain S/T – Franz Ferdinand STREET HORSSING – Fuck Buttons 1974 – Harmonia AUTOBAHN – Kraftwerk BLESS THE WEATHER – John Martyn KICK OUT THE JAMS –MC5 YES / ETC – Pet Shop Boys PRELIMINAIRES – Iggy Pop VOL 1 – Wooden Shjips
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machineryelf 3681 posts |
Dec 07, 2009, 08:20
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Phantom Smasher - s/t Spaceship – s/t NIN – The Fragile Jeff Buckley – Mystery White Boy Sabbath – Never Say Die, Master of Reality Grant Hart – Ecce Homo Carmina Burana – Carl Orff Lynyrd Skynyrd – The Movie Savoy Brown – Hellbound Train The Underneath – Lunatic Dawn Of The Dismantler Shockheaded Peters – various 12” singles Fauna – Rain Echtra – Burn It All Away,A War With Wonder Pink Floyd – DSOTM Soft Cell – Non Stop Erotic Cabaret Funkadelic – Maggot Brain Black Grape – Stupid Stupid Stupid Mortiis – Smell of Rain Them Crooked Vultures – s/t SunnO))) – Monoliths & Dimensions Supertramp – Crime of the Century And lots of festive carols for tis the time of the season etc
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IanB 6761 posts |
Edited Dec 07, 2009, 11:34
Dec 07, 2009, 08:40
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John Abercrombie - Night (w/Jan Hammer) What early ELP would have sounded like if they had substituted a jazz influence for the classical Julie London -Sings Cole Porter & In Person Not her best record by a long chalk but "In Person" includes a fantastic bass/vocal duo version of Bye Bye Blackbird, check the clip out on You Tube. "Sings Cole Porter" is worth having as a companion to the Ella "Songbook" set. London tackles Porter's classics from the end of the bar around last orders. E&TB - Crocodiles Sounded like nothing else on earth at the time. The bass sound on this album, on "Discipline" and on "Remain In Light" define an era for me with rock bass players and drummers listening to African music and finding new ways to go. Uriah Heep - Salisbury KC - Absent Lovers KC - Discipline Kiss - Sonic Boom Alice - Billion Dollar Babies Vernon Handley & Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra - Ralph Vaughan Williams Serenade To Music (chorale version) Bryden Thomson LSO & LPO - Ralph Vaughan Williams Norfolk Rhpasody etc Gorgeous records both, especially if you have a taste for the late Romantic movement as it melded with the 20th century.
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Squid Tempest 8763 posts |
Dec 07, 2009, 10:31
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Sunn O)))/Boris - Altar Finally got my turntable back from repair, so out comes the vinyl again, including this. Storming. White Hills/The Heads - Collision Vol 1 Ditto. This is great. Vision Thing - Through a Shimmering Haze Lovely stuff courtesy Meurglys (from round these parts) and cohorts. Haven't had a chance to listen to it in depth, but enjoying what I've heard very much. http://www.saints-hosting.org.uk/sadfish/viewpage.php?page_id=45 Human Quena Orchestra - Politics of the Irredeemable One of my favourites of the year. Really dark and nasty. Spirit - Spirit of 76 Tangerine Dream - Encore, Bootleg Box 1, Phaedra, Rubycon Still getting heavily played on my travels to/from work. Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells I'm a bit stuck on this again at the moment. Not quite sure why! Popul Vuh - Aguirre/In the Garden of Pharao Lovely. Been relaxing to this this week. Alice Coltrane - Ptah the El Daoud This has really grown on me. One of the best jazz albums I've heard in yonks. Can't wait to play it to my dad, I think he'll love it.
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The Sea Cat 3608 posts |
Edited Dec 07, 2009, 18:01
Dec 07, 2009, 18:00
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Squid Tempest wrote: Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells I'm a bit stuck on this again at the moment. Not quite sure why! Alice Coltrane - Ptah the El Daoud This has really grown on me. One of the best jazz albums I've heard in yonks. Can't wait to play it to my dad, I think he'll love it. Tubular Bells is wonderful, as indeed Ommadawn. Don't play them much these days, but when I do.... Yes. Mike gets full coolness for those two albums regardless. And Ptah is simply one of the greatest albums, ever. :-)
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Daminxa 1415 posts |
Dec 07, 2009, 18:37
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I know very little indeed about classical music but, The Firebird Suite - now that's a fantastic piece of music, really powerful stuff!
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carlyclub 128 posts |
Dec 08, 2009, 00:08
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Boo Radleys - Giant Steps v/a - dread Broadcasting Corp: Rebel Radio Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions - Through the Devil Softly Rickie Lee Jones - Pirates John Cooper Clarke - Snap, Crackle & Bop The Ramones - Weird Tales of... Miracle Legion - Surprise Surprise Surprise Baxter Dury - Len Parrot's Memorial Lift Underworld - dubnobasswithmyheadman Boom Bip - Seed to Sun Flop - & the Fall of the Mop Squeezer Japan - Quiet Life American Music Club - United Kingdom/California Animal Collective - Danse Manatee/Spirit They're Gone Spirit They've Vanished Yes - Fragile/Close to the Edge Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells a Story J D Blackfoot - The Ultimate Prophecy The Band - The Last Waltz Otis Redding - Otis Blue Dennis Wilson - Pacific Ocean Blue/Bambu Mercury Rev - Boces Sun Araw - The Phynx v/a - Victrola Favourites
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Squid Tempest 8763 posts |
Dec 08, 2009, 11:06
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The Sea Cat wrote: Squid Tempest wrote: Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells I'm a bit stuck on this again at the moment. Not quite sure why! Alice Coltrane - Ptah the El Daoud This has really grown on me. One of the best jazz albums I've heard in yonks. Can't wait to play it to my dad, I think he'll love it. Tubular Bells is wonderful, as indeed Ommadawn. Don't play them much these days, but when I do.... Yes. Mike gets full coolness for those two albums regardless. And Ptah is simply one of the greatest albums, ever. :-) I actually quite like Hergest Ridge too. I don't listen to them very often either, but I do get the urge every now and then.
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machineryelf 3681 posts |
Dec 08, 2009, 13:29
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I've got Ommadawn & Hergest Ridge together on a cdr my brother gave me, makes very nice listening on a trudge round the countryside when the mood takes me, both better listens than Tubular Bells which it must be said does trail off halfway thru side 2 [ and therefore would probably only get me to the park and back, if I hurried]
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