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Monganaut 2370 posts |
Mar 20, 2011, 14:37
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Our local library has had a bit of a clear out, so picked up a few odds and ends out of curiosity, as they were only 50p a pop. Mudhoney - The Lucky Ones Not heard owt since the 2002 album 'Since We've Become Translucent' which I liked a lot. This one seems OK, only gave it the once over so far, though don't think it's a s good as 'Since We...' on initial impressions. Laika - Wherever I Am, I Am What Is Missing Not the best release by Laika, but nice enough background music. Not sure you could claim that as a recommendation though. Pansy Division - Total Entertainment Remember these from a great Iggy/Stooges covers album 'We Will Fall' from a few years back. They did a great version of 'Loose' on it. CD's OK, as the title implies, it's fairly entertaining, if fairly straight forward rock/pop punk. S'OK. Will probably bear repeated listenings. Bunnymen - Evergreen Not their best record by a long straw, but not their worst either. Stooges - Funhouse 2CD Remaster Wow! this sounds F***in' grrrreaat. Had this cranked to 11 this morning and put one of those shit eatin' grins on my face the whole time. Deffo better than my tired old 1st edition CD's, no question, plus an extra disc of selections of tracks from the bumper Funhouse 7 CD release from several years back on Rhino. Stooges - Stooges 2CD Remaster See above, sounds awesome. 2nd disc is alternate versions and mixes, all of which are worth hearing. 50p, Whose complaining! Non library stuff Suuns - Zero QC + EP These guys are awesome. I thought it was Clinic initially when i stuck it on my walkman, but they soon diversify into other 'art rock' areas. Like's em lots. Comus - Song To Comus Love Comus, though disc 1 of this 2 disc completist thang is where the good stuff is if I'm honest. Not so enamoured of the later stuff. Holy Sons - Criminals Return Still diggin' this baby. He really is the most depressing songwriter truth be told, but more than made up by the simple but engaging music. Got to get hold of the new Grails album too, the bit's I've read on HH make it sound as good as 'Burning Off Impurities'. Bowie - Low/Diamond Dogs Had some birthday pennies from mummy and daddy and these were up at £2.99 each on Amazon, soooo. Man!, These remasters sound amazing. There are sounds and frequencies on Warszawa that I've NEVER heard, and I've had this record since I was 17 (I'm 44 now). Best 2.99 spent in ages! I always steered away from the Diamond Dogs album, even though it has 3 of my fav' Bowie tracks in the aforementioned 'Diamond Dogs', 'Rebel Rebel' and '1984'. I Don't know? it has a real air of foreboding about it, and I find if I'm not in the right head-space, it can be quite heavy for a pop record (Ditto Pulp's 'This Is Hardcore') esp' the track 'Candidate', which really puts the willies up me for some reason. Buuuuut, It's been on all week, loving it all over again, guess my heads in a funny place:/ Liars - Drums Not Dead This has gotten under my skin to a ridiculous degree, must play it 2 or 3 times a day at the minute. I love the LIARS! Cope - Jehovahcoat Demos Still getting a look in, still enjoying the latter phases. Cope - FG2 2CD version Another cheapy on Amazon, £5.99. I have it already as a vinyl album (though the cat ripped up the cover when he was a kitten), but it's well worth a punt, as the second CD rounds up the collection nicely. Hells! re-reading that post, seems I've re-bought a small chunk of my music collection. Keep swearing I'm not gonna do it, but the lure of 'extra' trax/discs/ better sound means I always do. Gaaah!, I'm a total sucker!
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Moon Cat 9577 posts |
Edited Mar 20, 2011, 16:00
Mar 20, 2011, 15:20
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Hail! \m/ Julian Cope - The Jehovahcoat Demos. Plopped into the pod on Friday. Early listens are favourable. Other HHers have posited this as a kind of hinterland betwixt the JehovahKill period and The Rite series and that makes sense listening so far. Love all the packaging too! Romeo Must Die - Hardship in Season. Utterly generic but quite fun metalcore. Freebie album with Metal Hamster. Doves - Kingdom of Rust. Finally, a Manchester band realises that it's ok to rock and then they split up after. Gah! Greg(o)rian - The Dormancy of Our Omnicient Masters. The logo is proabably a hint of the SunnO))) worship going on here. Pretty metal doom and drone stuff. Slow riffage and much heaviness on display. Not re-inventing the wheel but I like it! Free download too! The Defiled - Grave Times. Modern metal with cyber flourishes. Again, not stunning, but entertaining enough. Another MH Freebie. Tis the way of things it seems Felix Da Housecat - Son of Analogue. Pleasingly left of centre but groovey electronica. Ozzy Osbourne - Scream. Apart from the first two albums I've never been much of a fan of solo Oz, but this is a belter. Another old rock-git rediscovers his mojo. Black Country Communion - S/T. Love it! Basement Jaxx -Scars Black Tempest - Secret Astronomies. Lab coat wearing loon makes bloopment in excelsis 8^) New Model Army - Today is a Good Day. Great stuff! MGMT - Congratulations. Like this a lot! Shere Khan - Age. Hadn't played this excellent drum n bass double for ages. It's top stuff! The Darkness - Permission to Land/One Way Ticket to Hell...And Back. Rawk me! The Shining - Grindstone. Metally jazz metal jazzed up with mad bits! Nollaig Casey & Arty McGlynn - Causeway. Fiddler and guitarist combine to make pleasant album of jazztinged Irish folk. Like it! Worm Oroubourous - S/T. Lush! Elbow - Build A Rocket Boys. This is properly good. A few more listens have opened up things and there's some lovely stuff going on. In fact, and I don't say this lightly, some of this album makes me think there's stuff that's not a million miles from latterday Kate Bush - seriously! - if she were a thick-set Northern romantic bloke rather than the sexy siren supreme that she is. The English vibe and prog tinged sonics do make me think of her work. Dismiss them as standard indie fare at your peril say I. Have a nice week tune twisters x
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redfish365 710 posts |
Mar 20, 2011, 15:31
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Raingods isn't one of my favorite Fish albums... and that's why I pulled it out. That said, I love Fish and Fish-era Marillion to the point of having the Fish logo tattooed on my body. Sunsets is Fish's last really great album... but you're right about the spoken word stuff and about Johnny Punter! Regarding Warning, the vocals ate why I like it. Most of the genre is plagued by that cookie monster vocals which I can't abide!
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IanB 6761 posts |
Edited Mar 20, 2011, 15:54
Mar 20, 2011, 15:51
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redfish365 wrote: Raingods isn't one of my favorite Fish albums... and that's why I pulled it out. That said, I love Fish and Fish-era Marillion to the point of having the Fish logo tattooed on my body. Sunsets is Fish's last really great album... but you're right about the spoken word stuff and about Johnny Punter! Regarding Warning, the vocals ate why I like it. Most of the genre is plagued by that cookie monster vocals which I can't abide! Fugazi and Clutching At Straws I love. Misplaced Childhhood not so much. Script sits somewhere in between. Then again I only got properly into the Fish era after going mad over Brave and Afraid Of Sunlight. No love for Hogarth or a Barry tattoo?
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redfish365 710 posts |
Mar 20, 2011, 15:54
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The Movements? Davenport? Lard Free? Ghost? Ahh, you have taste my friend! I could easily adapt to life on your couch... would feel right at home with these sounds.
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redfish365 710 posts |
Mar 20, 2011, 16:00
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IanB wrote: redfish365 wrote: Raingods isn't one of my favorite Fish albums... and that's why I pulled it out. That said, I love Fish and Fish-era Marillion to the point of having the Fish logo tattooed on my body. Sunsets is Fish's last really great album... but you're right about the spoken word stuff and about Johnny Punter! Regarding Warning, the vocals ate why I like it. Most of the genre is plagued by that cookie monster vocals which I can't abide! Fugazi and Clutching At Straws I love. Misplaced Childhhood not so much. Script sits somewhere in between. Then again I only got properly into the Fish era after going mad over Brave and Afraid Of Sunlight. No love for Hogarth or a Barry tattoo? No love for Hogarth, sorry. I've been a fan since the pre-Script singles.... bought Script the day it came out at the Virgin in London. (Am American, was on a school trip to England which I turned into a record buying extravaganza! Saw Pallas and Twelfth Night on back to back evenings at the Marquee also). Kinda feel like liking Horgarth would be disloyal or something. My brother and some friends do like Hogarth era stuff... Brave is frequently mentioned as one I "need to give fair hearing to" but I really can't . It's complicated.
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Moon Cat 9577 posts |
Mar 20, 2011, 16:09
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Chaosmonger wrote: Still listening to a lot of 60s classics: Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde The Beatles - Abbey Road John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band The Kinks - Village Green Preservation Society The Who - Tommy The Who - Who's Next Tyrannosaurus Rex - Unicorn Burzum - Fallen Please don't take this the wrong way as it is meant affectionately, but when I was going through "Soundtracks" that placing of "Burzum" at the end of your list made me really smile and giggle like a foolish person. It just looks so wonderfully wrong!
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IanB 6761 posts |
Mar 20, 2011, 16:10
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redfish365 wrote: IanB wrote: redfish365 wrote: Raingods isn't one of my favorite Fish albums... and that's why I pulled it out. That said, I love Fish and Fish-era Marillion to the point of having the Fish logo tattooed on my body. Sunsets is Fish's last really great album... but you're right about the spoken word stuff and about Johnny Punter! Regarding Warning, the vocals ate why I like it. Most of the genre is plagued by that cookie monster vocals which I can't abide! Fugazi and Clutching At Straws I love. Misplaced Childhhood not so much. Script sits somewhere in between. Then again I only got properly into the Fish era after going mad over Brave and Afraid Of Sunlight. No love for Hogarth or a Barry tattoo? Am American, was on a school trip to England which I turned into a record buying extravaganza! Saw Pallas and Twelfth Night on back to back evenings at the Marquee also). Kinda feel like liking Horgarth would be disloyal or something. My brother and some friends do like Hogarth era stuff... Brave is frequently mentioned as one I "need to give fair hearing to" but I really can't . It's complicated. Superb story. Seriously good school trip. The old Marquee in Wardour Street was a real theatre of dreams in my teenage years. I would go straight to Happiness Is The Road and Marbles myself and come back to Brave but it doesn't sound like you are game for either. Full marks for commitment. I am old and still harbour a major Trevor Rabin allergy. Just the name sets me off ..
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Moon Cat 9577 posts |
Mar 20, 2011, 16:14
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Dude, if we are ever in a pub somehere (which I'm confident we will be at some point), ask me to do my Fish singing "Script for a Jester's Tear" impression. I'm sure you will be suitably impressed/appalled!
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mingtp 2270 posts |
Edited Mar 20, 2011, 16:32
Mar 20, 2011, 16:22
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Albums Win Win - Win Win Neige Morte - Neige Morte Michael Chapman - Fully Qualified Survivor Jeniferever - Silesia Kein Hass Da - Hirntrafo: Bad Brains Transformation The Witches - A Haunted Person's Guide To (recommended) Earth - Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light Peaking Lights - 936 The Movements - Follow the Movements Hawkwind - Blood of the Earth DJ Cherrystones & Zeus - Swamp Bait mix (highly recommended) Turisas - Stand Up and Fight Smoke Fairies - Gig EP (Thanks Moonie) The Shining - Blackjazz (Thanks Moonie) EDIT: Danielson - The Best of Gloucester County Tracks REM - Discoverer Niela Miller - Baby Don't Go Downtown Western Hymn - Out of the Way EP Cat's Eyes - Broken Glass EP
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