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dave clarkson
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Re: Soundtracks Of Our Lives w/e 10 January 2010 CE
Jan 10, 2010, 18:16
Jim O'Rourke - the Visitor
Ike Yard - night after night
Biting Tongues - Libreville
Belbury Poly - From an ancient star
NWW - Paranoia in hi fi
A Certain Ratio - mind made up
Bruno Nicolai - Marquis de sade's philosophy of the boudoir
King Midas Sound - waiting for you.
William Basinki - disintegration loops

have a good week

8)
Jim Tones
Jim Tones
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Edited Jan 10, 2010, 18:24
Re: Soundtracks Of Our Lives w/e 10 January 2010 CE
Jan 10, 2010, 18:21
dave clarkson wrote:

I got the Broadcast/ Focus Group 'Investigate the witch cults of the radio age' CD last week. Have you heard it? think you'd like it - it's very Curse of the crimson altar stuff


I got it just before xmas - not heard it all yet, but great sound, it really takes you to that Altar!

I am Peter Manning!

;-)
wychburyman
951 posts

Re: Soundtracks Of Our Lives w/e 10 January 2010 CE
Jan 10, 2010, 18:40
Kid Calamity wrote:
I just can't stop clicking that link, just to see the preview again and again. Wychbury Man even has a Team Zissou tee shirt. I might ask to borrow it for our next gig, as a private joke between me and myself.


you are welcome - but it may be 2 sizes too big!!

I did that one myself with the help of a specialist t-shirt company thenrealised you could get official TLA mechandise - doh!
Popel Vooje
5373 posts

Edited Jan 10, 2010, 23:04
Re: Soundtracks Of Our Lives w/e 10 January 2010 CE
Jan 10, 2010, 18:45
Real Estate - Real Estate
Neither stripe-suited harbingers of the neo-yuppie attitudes that look depressingly likely to predominate during the upcoming decade, nor anything to do with Seattle band Sunny Day Real Estate. This is a lo-fi indie four-piece from New Jersey who straddle the gap between post-rock expansiveness and song-based accessibility in much the same way as early Pavement (albeit without the annoying self-consciousness) or Jim O'Rourke's "Insignificance", only with the feel of a band rather than a multi-instrumentalist solo auteur.

Yeah Yeah Noh - Leicester Square (The Best Of...)
One of the 80s' most underrated bands, pitched somewhere between the spiky post-punk humour of the Nightingales ("social surrealism", as I believe the NME termed it back then) and the jangly bedsit melancholia of the Loft, but with greater songwriting skills than either. Not only that, their singer was even kind enough to post on HH thanking me for the review I wrote of this compo on Unsung.

Television Personalities - Privelege
Much more slickly produced than their early Whaam! albums (not that that's saying a great deal), but in this case the songs surprisingly benefit from being recorded on a budget of more than £30 (whatever Dan Treacy might think). Particular highlights are "Paradise is For The Blessed", "The Man Who Paints The Rainbows" and "Engine Driver Song".

The Loft - Once Round the Fair
Astute readers may have noticed a preponderance of the kind of jangly 80s indiepop that was (un)popular during my teenage years in my entry for this week so far, but in case anyone starts to get clever, I had my mid-life crisis when I was 20.

The Fall - The Unutterable
For sure, they've released so many albums now that only a monomaniacal obsessive would want to own them all (not to mention all the dodgy grey-market issues of out-takes and live shows which, if piled up on top of each other, would probably reach even higher than Willie Nelson's mountain of outstanding IRS bills), but this is a diamond in the dust which stands out from all of their post "Infotainment Scan" releases, and which they haven't topped since.

Sonic Youth - Goo
Haven't listened this for a long long time until this week , but it still resonates - if not quite as ground-breaking as it's predecessor "Daydream nation" it's certainly better than the ill-advised flirtations with grunge ("Dirty") and lo-fi ("Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star") that followed it.

Speed, Glue & Shinki - Eve
I know Julian raved about this in "Japrocksampler" but I've played it three times since I bought it and it hasn't made that much of an impression on me so far. With the exception of the superb - and totally atypical - acoustic reverie "Someday We'll All Fall Down" it sounds like a groovy but fairly insubstantial Asian take on the power-trio format pioneered by the Hendrix Experience, Blue Cheer and Cream (but then I never much cared for Cream either...). I'm willing to grant that it may be a slow-burner, though, so I'll give it a few more plays before I give up on it.

Over and out. Or over and in, seeing as it's too bloody cold to be out anywhere after sunrise. Back to the hot water bottle and the Night Nurse for me.
mingtp
mingtp
2270 posts

Re: Soundtracks Of Our Lives w/e 10 January 2010 CE
Jan 10, 2010, 18:46
Albums

The Movements - For Sardines, Space is No Problem
The Movements - The World, The Flesh and the devil
The Movements - Grains of Oats
Elfin Saddle - Ringing for the Begin Again
A Place to Bury Strangers - Exploding Head
Scorpions - Blackout
Scorpions - Lonesome Crow
Wolfmother - Cosmic Egg
New Model Army - Today Is A Good Day
Pearl Jam - Backspacer
Roky E. - Evil One Plus One
VA - Shindig Magazine cover-mount CD
A Mountain of One - Inspirations Mix (Mix CD free from Roughtrade with last album)
David Mysterious - Jongleur Du Morte



Tracks

I, Ludicrous - We're The Support Band
Elizabeth Fraser - Moses
Scott Matthews - Fractured
Rodeo Massacre - assorted tracks
Smoke Fairies - all tracks released so far
Bill Callahan - Eid Ma Clack Shaw
Popel Vooje
5373 posts

Re: Soundtracks Of Our Lives w/e 10 January 2010 CE
Jan 10, 2010, 18:49
Jim Tones wrote:
dave clarkson wrote:

I got the Broadcast/ Focus Group 'Investigate the witch cults of the radio age' CD last week. Have you heard it? think you'd like it - it's very Curse of the crimson altar stuff


I got it just before xmas - not heard it all yet, but great sound, it really takes you to that Altar!

I am Peter Manning!

;-)



I got it as a Christmas present from my girlfriend and it's wonderful - I hadn't even known that Broadcast were still around until recently, but it seems they've released occasional albums throughout the noughties whilst keeping a very low media profile.
keith a
9565 posts

Re: Soundtracks Of Our Lives w/e 10 January 2010 CE
Jan 10, 2010, 19:08
Popel Vooje wrote:


Yeah Yeah Noh - Leicester Square (The Best Of...)
One of the 80s' most underrated bands, pitched somewhere between the spiky post-punk wit of the Nightingales ("social surrealism", as I believe the NME termed it back then ) and the jangly bedsit melancholia of the Loft, but with greater songwriting skills than either. Not only that, their singer was even kind enough to post on HH thanking me for the review I wrote of this compo on Unsung.



I don't like them as much as The Nightingales, but they definitely had their moments, and Beware the Weakling Lines was one of my fave singles at the time. And not just because it mentions the obscure 60's Bolan track The Lilac Hand Of Menthol Dan!

Although YYN were Leicester based, the singer had gone to school in these parts in North Wales and was a big mate of friend of mine - who's claim to fame incidentally was that he sang backing vocs on YYN's Peel session recording! ; )
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat
6200 posts

Re: Soundtracks Of Our Lives w/e 10 January 2010 CE
Jan 10, 2010, 19:40
machineryelf wrote:
Uriah Heep remasters and Deep Purple Machinehead remaster- this is the way to do it, the extra tracks on the Heep cds are worth the price alone, and the Machineead remaster is great, I'll be getting the others well Fireball & In Rock anyway, most impressed

Celtic Frost-pretty much everything, all classic even the hairmetal phase

Birthday Party-Prayers On Fire,Junkyard,Live & the mute Eps
Virgin Prunes - If I Die I Die,The Moon Looked Down & Laughed
PIL-Plastic Box these three bands pretty much changedthe way I looked at music, punk pretty much passed me by til I heard these i was still listening to Maiden & Def Leppard or the VU, definately broadened my horizons
Plastic Box now comes in an ordinary double cd case, pretty sure the original came in some fancy but plastic box, still genius across all 4 cds, discs 3 & 4 are still outstanding IMHO. I also thought that the Timezone single was on there, but it isn't

Leyland Kirby-Sadly The Future Is no Longer What It Is sprawling 3cd set of ambient drone and tinkly piano, just when you think you've heard enough of this type of stuff someone like Leyland Kirby reinvents it, all i need now is a spare 3 & 1/2 hours to listen to it in one go

Durutti Column 2001-9 picked this up because it was dirt cheap, and initially thought it was all a bit middle england dinner party music, but repeated listening has it growing on me, not really going to appeal to deathmetal fans though

Up-OST lovely

also this week

Elvis costello - Girls Girls Girls
Ashra Temple s/t
Groundhogs -Who Will save The world
Cult-Pure Cult
Violent Femmes - s/t
Kinks-Village green
& Dogntank-mainly cos someone was raving about it again, still no more than OK imho, remember Nutz, Quartz and a lot of other bands that had something but were never destined for greatness, add Dogntank to that list
Need a decent vocalist if nothing else
Pere Ubu- Datapanik box set definite downturn after disc 1 , i think maybe because the first disc is really good, still it was cheap, can imagine in a few years disc 3 will still be immaculate whilst disc 1 will be looking well used


Quality stuff here ME. Obviously I applaud the conversion from your first thoughts on the Durutti box (which is a real bargain), you may be right about the appeal to our metal-lovin' friends though. Not seeing a Durutti sludge-metal album appearing any time soon.

Agree completely about the Ubu-quality-tail-off too.
a23
a23
1004 posts

Re: Soundtracks Of Our Lives w/e 10 January 2010 CE
Jan 10, 2010, 19:42
Coil - Musick to play in the dark

Coil - Ape of Naples

Coil - Black Antlers

Sri Auribindo - Return into Earth

Sri Auribindo - S/T - think i prefer this debut release to Return into... esp the last track

Crispy Ambulance = Plateau Phase - had to pick this up on cd as i only had the vinyl and didn't know what "the presence" sounded like. always had a soft spot for this album

Low - Trust

Gunter schickert - uberfallig

Sand - golem - lovely, esp the final track which dives into ART territory

nick grey - spin vows under arch - what a disjointed hallucinatory record this is. didn't much rate it when it came out, but starting to enjoy

Luna - Live

Funkadelic- maggot brain

kawabata makoto - i'm your innermost

holy river family band - haida deities
redfish365
redfish365
710 posts

Re: Soundtracks Of Our Lives w/e 10 January 2010 CE
Jan 10, 2010, 19:42
Miles Davis/Bitches Brew, Kind of Blue, Sketches of Spain
Bobby Hutcherson/Components
David S. Ware Quartet/Cryptology
Matthew Shipp Quartet/The Flow of X
Gavin Bryars/The Sinking of the Titanic

Writing on the Wall/The Power of the Picts
VA/Psychosis from the Thirteenth Dimension
VA/An Overdose of Heavy Psych
Holy McGrail/Collecting Earthquakes
Smell of Incense/All Mimsy Were the Borogoves
Christophe F -Black Sheep/Heathen Frontiers in Sound
Eloy/Ocean
Jethro Tull/Heavy Horses
Flying Saucer Attack/ST
Orange Peel/ST
Uriah Heep/Celebration
Jukka Tolonen/The Hook
Flied Egg/Dr Siegel's Fried Egg Shooting Machine
Blood Ceremony/ST
The Uptown Monotones/ST
Grobschnitt/Rockpommel's Land
Gandalf/To Another Horizon
Raccomandata Ricevuta Ritorno/Per... Un Mondo di Cristallo
Iron Claw/ST
Salem Mass/Witch Burning
Agitation Free/Fragments
Bachdenkel/Lemmings
Gosta Berlings Saga/Tid ar Ljud
Cannabis India/SWF Sessions 1973
Radio Massacre International/Organ Harvest
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