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1001realapes 2387 posts |
Edited Oct 11, 2010, 03:10
Oct 10, 2010, 07:10
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Harlem Hamfats - Volume 1 (1936) The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown Arthur Brown - Strangelands B.B. King - My Kind Of Blues Lonnie Johnson - Complete Recorded Works 1925-1932 vol. 2 Jimi Hendrix - Love Or Confusion / 12 Bar With Horns Mississippi John Hurt - 1928 Sessions - Elton John - Rare Masters John Lennon - Mind Games Procol Harum - Procol Harum 1970 40th Anniversary Playlist pt. 2 : The Doors - Morrison Hotel Caravan - If I Could Do It All Over Again , I'd Do It All Over You The Incredible String Band - I Looked Up Syd Barrett - Barrett Bert Jansch - Rosemary Lane Kluster - Klopfzeichen Elton John - Tumbleweed Connection Organisation - Tone Float Deep Purple - In Rock Ringo Starr - Beaucoups of Blues Steppenwolf - 7 Sun Ra - The Night Of The Purple Moon Leonard Rosenman - Beneath The Planet Of The Apes Stevie Wonder - Signed , Sealed & Delivered Kevin Ayers And The Whole World - Shooting At The Moon Focus - In And Out Of Focus Trees - On The Shore Jackson 5 - ABC Grateful Dead - The Workingman's Dead Os Mutantes - A Divina Comédia ou Ando Meio Desligado Wolfgang Dauner - Output Albert Collins - The Compleat David Bowie - The Man Who Sold The World Parliament - Osmium The Velvet Underground - Loaded Love - False Start Funkadelic - Funkadelic MAGMA : MAGMA Hawkwind - Hawkwind King Crimson - Lizard Creedence Clearwater Revival - Cosmo's Factory |
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Popel Vooje 5373 posts |
Edited Oct 13, 2010, 14:27
Oct 10, 2010, 10:55
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Tame Impala - Innerspeaker Marvellous, off-kilter psychedelic rock from from Perth, Australia, which -for a band who weren't even born when it happened - admirably captures that moment in the late 60s when the benevolent anything-goes hedonism of the Montrerey Pop Festival gave way to the Chicago riots, the King/ Kennedy assasinations and Altamont. Not only that, it doesn't sound remotely retro even on the occasions where it rocks as hard as Led Zep. Are you listening, Jack White? Ah I forgot - Jack White's burned his computer and only listens to wax cylinders and shellac 78s these days. I wish he'd go the whole hog and stop pressing his creatively bankrupt music on any other format too. Apostle of Hustle - Eats Darkness Littered with between-song samples like a hip-hop album, this mercifully avoids the tendancy of many hip-hop acts to turn their second albums into over-wrought 2CD epics that serve no purpose other than to convey the size of their record collections (remember "Wu-Tang Forever"? Well, I hope whoever told the Clan that the world was looking for a rap eqivalent of "Use Your Illusion 1 & 2" is feeling very guilty for leading the genre so far astray). In fact it's a mere 33 minutes long, and consequently there's nary a wasted second. How to describe the music? Like a more upbeat and wistful counterpart to their parent group Broken Social Scene. V/A - Mojo Presents Journey to Love (Rare and Early Elektra Classics) "Oh Joy!" I can hear already hear you wailing. Yet another attempt by Mojo to produce an aural document of a label that's already been anthologised to death (well, there was that 4CD box a couple of years back), and I must admit I nearly threw up myself whern I saw THAT dick-wielding beer monster with the Arthur Rimbaud complex on the cover for the 469,972nd time. But this freebie mainly covers Elektra's early days as a folk/blues label, before they decide to join the rock fray by signing the Butterfield Blues Band and Love. COnsequentlythere are some real gems here which I hadn't heard before. Stand-out tracks are by Jean Ritchie, the Dillards, Fred Neil and Phil Ochs. Tim Buckley's "Morning Glory" would also have made the list if I hadn't already been familiar with it for 25 years. The Third Eye Foundation - Ghost Grunge? Died along with Kurt. Britpop? A Frankenstein's monster created by coke-addled public schoolboy music journalists who either misguidedly romanticised the working classes (in the case of Quoasis) or lauded bands who mimicked them badly (Bleurgh). The so-called Post-Rock underground was where the REAL excitement lay in the mid-late 90s, (even if post-rock was a non-existant and largely indefinable genre made up by Simon Reynolds). Unclassifiably brilliant albums like this one are the proof. Quite how a bedroom auteur from the West Country had the imagination to open the album with a darkside drum'n'bass track built around an uncredited (and probably unauthorised) sample of "Metal Machine Music" and follow it up with a track containing an even more chilling sample of what sounds like an old man screaming in a mental home (according to my other half) against a background of old Turkish folk tunes slowed down and maniuplated to the point where thy sound like pigs being slaughted in slow motion is beyond my powers of reckoning. I See Matt Elliot put out his first release under the 3EF name for 10 years recently. Commercially, he might have been better advised to sit out the current 80s revival and wait for the 90s one, but then I always admired the guy's blatant disregard for marketing considerations. Murry Wilson - The Many Moods of Murry Wilson I'd be lying if I were to claim that this album has any intrinsic merit other than as an obscurantist curio. Even taken on its own terms - as a piece of pleasant but unimposing lounge music - it's not particularly outstanding, noticeably lacking in imagination when compared more established lynchpins of that genre like Les Baxter or Martin Denny. The kitschy sleeve does give the impression that Capitol intended to market this album as part of their longstanding tradition of exotica-flavoured arists. Then again, their lack of willingness to promote it also suggests that they only reeleased it in order to get the terminally pushy blowhard who recorded it off their backs so they could get on with being sued by the Beach Boys. That said, the opening track "Love Won't Wait" and the instrumental cover of his son Brian's "The Warmth of the Sun" are rather lovely. There are also two tracks written by Murry's plumber, Eck Kynor, that sound exactly like that guy who used to ascend from the ground playing a Wurlitzer fairground organ in Blackpool Tower. By and large though, it's creepy schlock, conceived and recorded by a creepy man, and the main rerason I included it here was to draw attention to this rather excellent cartoon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDNM7dy2WjI&feature=related That's all I've got, unless you want the shirt off my back. Blame those intransigent fuckwits at Argos who sold me two defective I-Pods in six weeks and told me they couldn't replace the second one without sending it back to the manufacturer to see if it had been "misused" first, as if I were in the habit of feeding I-Pods to my pet alligator.
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paradox 1576 posts |
Oct 10, 2010, 11:11
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I've been loving the Tame Impala album for a month or so now, and It's still getting plenty of spins. Your review is spot on. I have managed to pick up a couple of earlier singles, one being the Antares Mira Sun 5 tracker, which is alot more Garage Rock sounding and also excellent.
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paradox 1576 posts |
Oct 10, 2010, 11:40
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Smoke Fairies - Through Low Light and Trees. Sandy Denny - The North Star Grassman and The Ravens. Richard And Linda Thompson - I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight. Roy Harper - HQ.......Stormcock....Lifemask. Pentangle - Sweet Child. Oakley Hall - Gypsum Strings. Chrysalis - Definition. Frumpy - All Will Be Changed. Budgie - Squawk. The Devils Blood - The Time Of No Time Evermore. Sleep - Holy Mountain. Sir Lord Baltimore - S/T.....Kingdom Come. Heights - From Sea To Sky. July - S/T......The Second Of July. The Move - Shazam expanded edition. Black Moth Super Rainbow - Dandelion Gum.........Eating Us. Camel - S/T.....Mirage....Moon Madness. Tame Impala - Inner Speaker. Curved Air - Air Cut. John Cameron and FROG - Psychomania Movie Soundtrack. Have a great week all.
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lord gazzington 72 posts |
Oct 10, 2010, 11:50
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Darkthrone - Transilvanian hunger Deerhunter - Helcyon Digest Neil Young - Le noise David Bowie - Heroes and Low Thomas Koner - Nunatak, Teimo, Permafrost my fav album for the early hours Underworld - Oblivion with bells Lost in translation - OST David Sylvian - Sleepwalkers Wolves in the throne room - two hunters Herbie Hancock - Maiden voyage various King tubby, Augustus Pablo, Lee Perry and the scientist
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Fitter Stoke 2611 posts |
Oct 10, 2010, 11:58
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Neil Young 'Le Noise' John & Yoko 'Some Time In New York City' Rory Gallagher 'Rory Gallagher' and 'Deuce' Eels 'Hombre Lobo' Neil Cowley Trio 'Loud...Louder...Stop' Fred Frith 'Speechless' Sandy Denny 'The North Star Grassman And The Ravens'
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Mart 214 posts |
Oct 10, 2010, 12:42
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Another thumbs up for Tame Impala, stumbled upon at the begining of the week and pretty much taken over my life.Innerspeaker makes mgmts foray into psychedelia sound a bit crap (even tho i quite like it). Bostons Spaceships, Our Cube House Stil Rocks is still a twistin and a turnin in my mind, enjoy listening to an american putting on a fake brit accent for a change, just for extra barrett,bolan,bowie-ness. Wire - Outdoor Miner, witness the birth of mbv, rem etc. Deerhunter - Helicopter makes me want to cry ! Ou est le Swimming Pool - Dance The Way I Feel. Stupid stupid stupid death.
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Popel Vooje 5373 posts |
Edited Oct 13, 2010, 14:19
Oct 10, 2010, 12:57
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paradox wrote: I've been loving the Tame Impala album for a month or so now, and It's still getting plenty of spins. Your review is spot on. I have managed to pick up a couple of earlier singles, one being the Antares Mira Sun 5 tracker, which is alot more Garage Rock sounding and also excellent. Thanks for the comment, and the tip - just ordered that E.P. from amazon.
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flashbackcaruso 1056 posts |
Edited Oct 10, 2010, 18:59
Oct 10, 2010, 13:29
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Elvis Presley - Moody Blue Elvis Presley - Good Times Queen - Queen Khatchaturian - Gayane/Spartacus (some of this music was brilliantly used by the Coen Brothers in their underrated classic 'The Hudsucker Proxy' and Kubrick in '2001: A Space Odyssey') The Kinks - Sleepwalker Espers - II OMD - History Of Modern The Kingsbury Manx - The Kingsbury Manx Genesis - Duke John Lennon & Yoko Ono - Double Fantasy Stripped Down
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machineryelf 3681 posts |
Edited Oct 10, 2010, 16:29
Oct 10, 2010, 15:08
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Neil Young – Le Noise after initial doubts about this, thinking it was all a bit worthy but dull, this has grown on me a great deal and it’s getting repeated listens now, yet another classic to add to his canon Robert Plant – Band Of Joy another classic, probably a bit dadrock for your average Stooges fan, but if you want a good Sunday afternoon listen this will fill that niche very nicely Crippled Black Phoenix – I, Visionary yet again CBP deliver a classic, progpostrock with more than a dash of Floyd, includes a Journey cover, from the early Journey period I assume, it’s a lovely tune, makes me wonder what those first few Journey lps are like Opeth – Still Life always think this gets ignored, imho it’s the best allround Opeth cd, probably it’s problem , a lack of a classic outstanding Opeth tune [ like Purple & Fireball ] Ramones – Road To Ruin probably the point at which the Ramones became less than essential, still a bloody good listen though Sleep’s Holy Mountain – not as monolithic as the mighty Jerusalem/Dopesmoker and all the better for it Metallica – S/t dug this to see if still cared and found much to my surprise that I enjoyed it muchly, going to try St Anger this week, I doubt that will be as much fun Ref compression wars - listen to this and Death Magnetic to see that listening habits have changed in the last 20 years. Max Richter – The Blue Notebooks Onehirix Point Never –Rifts Rollins Band – Hard Volume, The End of Silence seems like a suitable spot to post this http://losergoes1st.blogspot.com/2010/04/h.html Cathedral – The Guessing Game The Cult – Love in a big box of goth loveliness, 4 discs is more Cult than you really need but it’s all rather spiffy imho Gas – Nah und Fern Set Fire To Flames –telegraphs in negative/mouths trapped in static book of the week http://www.amazon.co.uk/Document-Eyewitness-Intimate-History-Rough/dp/0752853589/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1286724367&sr=1-1 if you were around in the 80s buying records this is a superb read charitable event of the week http://www.justgiving.com/swvg-walk2010 don't buy that cd, download it and give the money to charity
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