|
Unsung Forum » Soundtracks Of Our Lives w/e 31st October 2010 CE |
Log In to post a reply
|
|
|
|
| Topic View: Flat | Threaded | |
jb lamptoast-morsley 2448 posts |
Nov 02, 2010, 23:18
|
||
I too love the earlies and have both their albums. Word has it that they are no longer recording, but have their own recording studio and produce and back other people now. Didn't they back King Creosote on an album?
|
|||
|
dave clarkson 2988 posts |
Edited Nov 02, 2010, 23:40
Nov 02, 2010, 23:33
|
||
|
My mate Tom played guitar and trumpet in the band and more or less did all the studio engineering stuff for them. They were a gang of musicians/ session musos formed around two lads and moved between an axis of groups...King Creosote and Micah Hinson's band to name a few. Don't think they operate as a band anymore or certainly not as it was. 8)
|
|||
Monganaut 2382 posts |
Nov 03, 2010, 01:54
|
||
|
I keep meaning to pick up the Pictish Trail record, that's a Kid Creosote side thingy int it? The singles off that have a nice vibe. Particularly loved 'Winter Home Disco'. Sad that The Earlies seem to have called it a day, but they have two stonking albums and a few great singles to their name, and won't have the misfortune of producing some second rate bullshit to piss us all off. To paraphrase Steve Albini on the demise of Big Black, "Breaking Up is an idea that occurs to too few to many bands, and usually the wrong ones" At a slight tangent, I gotta say, I thought the new Phantom Band album was a bit patchy, has it's moments, but... Maybe it'll grow on me?
|
|||
riverman 845 posts |
Nov 03, 2010, 12:52
|
||
|
Monganaut wrote: I read an interview with him online somewhere, he claims to have demo's about 2000 songs or so in the last decade or more. He just dips into the vaults for the odd album here and there. Think i read he'd suffered the blues pretty bad when he was younger and songwriting and recording were his way out of it all, which must have been miserable for him, but provides some stunning music for us. Seems a more constructive and affirming way out of the dark passenger too. Anyhoo, website is... http://holysons.com/ Looks like there's a new LP out as well - Survivalist Tales.... Well that crept up on me. I've seen him a few times with Grails in London and briefly chatted to him after one gig. He seems v hyperactive and I could easily imagine him sat up all night recording. Thanks for the news of the new album - I'd missed that.
|
|||
Stevo 6664 posts |
Edited Nov 03, 2010, 15:16
Nov 03, 2010, 14:44
|
||
|
Jung Turks Liber Eth http://www.jungturks.com/music/ Local post-rock/instro duo whose lp I found in the local chain cd store last week. I used to see them regularly as the support act at a local venue. Not sure if they're still playing as regularly. Guitarist used to be pretty mobile if I'm remembering right. Frenziedly plucking a semi acoustic guitar to the accompaniment of a jazzy drummer. I like the cd, it was on the 3-spinner for most of the week. Daniel Owino Misiani & Shirati Jazz Benga Blast! 90s compi of 80s material by Kenyan based Tanzanian ex-pat Luo and his band. Pretty great percussive grooves with complex guitar picking. I really need to find out more about the genre. & get the new Sterns compi of the group's '70s material. Infectious. African Scream Contest. Great, great material mainly from the opposite coast to the above. West Africa had some amazing music being made in the 70s under influence from US soul/funk artists like James Brown with some psychedelic influence thrown in. think i need to pick up the discs by the individual artists too. Toumani Diabate & Symmetric Orchestra Boulevard de L'Independence I find the kora reminds me of royal courst of a few hundred years back. Very stately music, deeply atmospheric. Here mixed with more upbeat instrumentation I find pretty psychedelic. This cd was going for 5Sterling in FOPP last year. Think it's pretty amazing. Mose allison Best of Laid back, cool piano blues singer who was pretty popular with mods in the 60s. Funny lyrics, great tunes. What more do you want? The Action Rolled Gold 2nd version of this material I bought, having got Brain before this was released. Not sure what exact difference between the 2 versions is beyond better remastering & wider distribution. Listening to this & knowing they were under the wing of George Martin it is almost unbelievable that this never got fully worked up to what it could have been as finished product. These remain demoes though and a lost 60s lp is at least in some way widely represented. Spring The multi mellotron band supporting singer/songwriter like material on the main lp but get a bit more rocky on the bonus material on this Repertoire disc. Love Is the Song We Sing disc 3 Think this may be the most overtly psychedelic of the 4 discs on the box set. It starts with The Charlatans' Alabama Bound which is one of my favourite tracks. Goes through most of the rest of the first tier of San Fran bands among some lesser known stuff. Great compi. Do wish they'd do a Detroit volume. Ya Ho Wah 13 played a couple of their lps this week. Some 'far out' stuff, among the more psychedelic material I've heard. Band sound stoned, especially Father Yod whose chanting may just be a little extraneous. Pharaoh Sanders Isipho Zam. Psychedelic head jazz? think my fav track here is the 2nd, Balance which might find itself being added to my walkman if there's space. Leon Thomas is here with his trademark yodelling. Do wonder exactly what the target audience was at the time. pictures of this being played through the P.A. at dashiki clad black power meetings fleet through the head, but I wonder on the accuracy. Grateful Dead various live 70s & '81. '81 they still had it. Earlier stuff doesn't need saying. Swirling vistas of fractal exploration, if that isn't too overwritten. Swans Koko 28/10 Live is as good as the studio lp. They're revisiting pretty early material in a style more redolent of their white rabbit or '88 stuff. so far more melodic though less brutal, deeply hypnotic though. Do hope more video footage appears since this is massively compelling http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGIu3MYZKWE&feature=share Relatively Clean Rivers The Phoenix cd of this early 70s lp. Wish there was a more legit version. This is a bit reminiscent of the Dead's take on country rock in places. Great US post psych/verging on prog throughout. Would reccommend it more if there was an alternative source. Live Skull Positraction New York band's final lp. Has Thalia Zedek on vocals, she went onto greater renown of course. Not sure what happened to rest of band. They kind of fit in with Sonic Youth in terms of sound. Often semi psychedelic, especially on the long closing track Caleb which has the same waves lapping at a dawn beach feel as SY were very good at. videos. Watched 2 seasons of Mad Men, early Sopranos, early Spooks, Captain Scarlet's origin episode. Reading James frey Bright shiny Morning -long sprawling set of vignettes about L.A. enjoyed greatly, though subject matter could be depresing. Dead Men do tell Tales memoirs of a forensic anthropologist I think I picked up for 20c, very interesting. Stevo
|
|||
IanB 6761 posts |
Nov 03, 2010, 15:07
|
||
|
keith a wrote: CITIZEN CAIN'D - Julian Cope A patchy affair for sure, but there are some great tracks here. Particularly enjoyed I Can't Hardly Stand It - perhaps the wildest, loosest sounding track in Cope's long illustrious history? Good call. Of the many 2005/2006 Cope related releases this is the one that has the greatest potential for longevity I think. Especially the second half. "Cying Shame" is a wonderful track, as is "World War Pigs" and "Homeless Strangers" almost sounds like a sloppy drunk Be Bop Deluxe. I remember the vocals coming in for some stick at the time but they sound like single-take-no-fixes jobs and are really spontaneous and passionate.
|
|||
|
keith a 9574 posts |
Nov 03, 2010, 15:44
|
||
|
IanB wrote: keith a wrote: CITIZEN CAIN'D - Julian Cope A patchy affair for sure, but there are some great tracks here. Particularly enjoyed I Can't Hardly Stand It - perhaps the wildest, loosest sounding track in Cope's long illustrious history? Good call. Of the many 2005/2006 Cope related releases this is the one that has the greatest potential for longevity I think. Especially the second half. "Cying Shame" is a wonderful track, as is "World War Pigs" and "Homeless Strangers" almost sounds like a sloppy drunk Be Bop Deluxe. I remember the vocals coming in for some stick at the time but they sound like single-take-no-fixes jobs and are really spontaneous and passionate. Crying Shame and World War Pigs are two of my fave latter-day Cope tracks. The latter is on a compilation I made for my youngest so I hear that one in the car an awful lot! Not quite so keen on Homeless Strangers tbh - I think it's the Lynyrd Skynyrd intro that puts me off a bit. Just sounds too derivative to my ears. I still can't quite figure out what the actual song reminds me of though. Any ideas, Ian?
|
|||
|
IanB 6761 posts |
Edited Nov 03, 2010, 18:34
Nov 03, 2010, 18:32
|
||
|
keith a wrote: IanB wrote: keith a wrote: CITIZEN CAIN'D - Julian Cope A patchy affair for sure, but there are some great tracks here. Particularly enjoyed I Can't Hardly Stand It - perhaps the wildest, loosest sounding track in Cope's long illustrious history? Good call. Of the many 2005/2006 Cope related releases this is the one that has the greatest potential for longevity I think. Especially the second half. "Cying Shame" is a wonderful track, as is "World War Pigs" and "Homeless Strangers" almost sounds like a sloppy drunk Be Bop Deluxe. I remember the vocals coming in for some stick at the time but they sound like single-take-no-fixes jobs and are really spontaneous and passionate. Crying Shame and World War Pigs are two of my fave latter-day Cope tracks. The latter is on a compilation I made for my youngest so I hear that one in the car an awful lot! Not quite so keen on Homeless Strangers tbh - I think it's the Lynyrd Skynyrd intro that puts me off a bit. Just sounds too derivative to my ears. I still can't quite figure out what the actual song reminds me of though. Any ideas, Ian? I thought it was ripped off from the intro to "Modern Music" after the Sid James (or is it Tony Hancock?) bit though it also has a ploddy Neil Young thing about it. Must go have a listen.
|
|||
|
keith a 9574 posts |
Nov 03, 2010, 18:55
|
||
Not played Modern Music in a long time. Will give it a spin...
|
|||
laresident 861 posts |
Nov 04, 2010, 03:32
|
||
Reading the fairly ok John Einarson's book about Arthur Lee made me dig out all those worn Love records. He lived in some nice hilltop houses. We had a friend who owned the nearby "Castle" which my wife and many others swear is haunted. Not too sensitive I would just discribe it as seriously creepy.
|
| Pages: 8 – [ Previous | 1 … 3 4 5 6 7 8 | Next ] | Add a reply to this topic |
|
|
|
| Unsung Forum Index | |
