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Hunter T Wolfe 1710 posts |
Sep 18, 2011, 21:26
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The Sisters of Mercy- Floodland The Mission- God's Own Medicine The Mission- Children David Sylvian- Brilliant Trees The Glitter Band- Rock n' Roll Dudes Sly and the Family Stone- Fresh Linton Kwesi Johnson- Reggae Greats Kenny Rogers- 20 Golden Greats (actually this £1 charity shop buy is all late 60s / early 70s First Edition tracks, about half of which don't even have Kenny on lead vocals. I picked it up mainly to have 'Condition (I just dropped in'), but there are some other gems amid the schmaltz (and even the shmaltz is superior shmaltz). 'Church without a name' in particular is like listening to 'Whiter Shade of Pale' on an extreme bad acid trip- what the hell is going on there?) The Implosion Quintet- The Future Sound of Yesterday The Horrors- Skying Family- Bandstand Bridget St john- Jumblequeen
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mingtp 2270 posts |
Sep 18, 2011, 21:38
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redfish365 wrote: Orchid / Capricorn Just checked this out after reading your list. Love it!
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redfish365 710 posts |
Sep 18, 2011, 21:43
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mingtp wrote: redfish365 wrote: Orchid / Capricorn Just checked this out after reading your list. Love it! Oh yeah, Ming... you'll love it! If you get the cd you'll also love the packaging.
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Robot Emperor 762 posts |
Sep 18, 2011, 21:55
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veneta1 wrote: Grateful Dead - Europe 72 (The Complete Box Set) Words cannot do justice to the brilliance that is on offer here over the course of 73 CDs. Mindblowing. Jesus H... I assume you started listening to it in '74 and have just come up for air. Not much has changed really. You'll soon catch up.
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mingtp 2270 posts |
Sep 18, 2011, 21:55
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redfish365 wrote: mingtp wrote: redfish365 wrote: Orchid / Capricorn Just checked this out after reading your list. Love it! Oh yeah, Ming... you'll love it! If you get the cd you'll also love the packaging. Way ahead of you, already ordered. Just also got Through The Devil's Doorway too (but only on d/load for the moment). My equally metal-orientated compadre DJ Nameless loved Capricorn when I played it to him earlier too, so you've already got two converts. \m/
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FifePsy 540 posts |
Sep 18, 2011, 22:43
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Loren Connors - Red Mars. Great slabs of sonic landscapes from Connor's guitar which sounds like it may have beem recorded in the far reaches of the solar system. Mogwai - Earth Division. Much as I love them, I don't ever expect to be really surprised by them but this new EP sees them using string quartet and even mouth organ with great results. Guaranteed to be used for some BBC documentary in the not to distant future. Original pressing of this was wiped out in the PIAS fire so nice to have this hunk of solid vinyl in my mitts. v/a - Bob Blank, The Blank Generation, Blank Tapes NYC 1975-1987. Intriguing compilation centred around producer Bob Blank's Blank Tapes studio. Real intersection of mutant disco, jazz and No Wave so the likes of Sun Ra, James Blood Ulmer, Lydia Lunch, Gladys Knight, Fonda Rae etc. Also Arthur Russell's (as Lola) great Wax the Van. Not bad for £3 out of Fopp. Barn Owl - The Conjurer. First album I've heard from them and like this a lot. Want to check out their new collaboration with Ellen Fullman. Other plays: Art Ensemble of Chicago - Urban Bushmen The Free Spirits - Out of Sight and Sound Larry Coryell - Spaces The Necks - Live at Issue, Night Two, Set Two Delphic Vapours - Get Off Their Knees SAHB - Next Zappa - Roxy and Elsewhere Davy Graham - A Scholar and a Gentleman PJ Harvey - Let England Shake Adrian Belew - Twang Bar King Fred Frith - The Previous Evening Peter Erskine - Juni Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn And good to hear Maconie feature Mark Hollis's s/t solo album on Freak Zone tonight. One to dig out for next week. Have a great week all.
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flashbackcaruso 1058 posts |
Sep 18, 2011, 22:57
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The Doors - The Soft Parade (for some reason The Doors' 'worst' album is one of my favourites. Often lightweight, but great fun) The Rolling Stones - Their Satanic Majesties Request (still mystifies me that the Stones quickly disowned this album which brims with chaotic invention). The Kinks - Sleepwalker The Kinks - Misfits (this most English of groups pander towards the US market and the results are often surprisingly pleasing, although on 'Misfits' Ray sometimes sails the band into dangerously cheesey territory). Micah P.Hinson - The Gospel Of Progress (his first album which he toured to wonderful effect with The Earlies as his backing group, although I first heard him play these songs acoustic and they were no less compelling in a more stripped back setting). The Kingsbury Manx - The Kingsbury Manx The Kingsbury Manx - Let You Down (peerless first pair of albums from this unassuming but deeply effecting US band. Each one always feels like the better of the two whenever I play them). The Turtles - Golden Hits The Turtles - Chalon Road (two excellent compilations from this unfairly overlooked band, with some overlap between the two. 'Chalon Road' was Rhino's attempt to compile a lost album out of stray tracks from their 45s, unearthing some mighty psychedelic gems in the process). Kaleidoscope - Tangerine Dream Kaleidoscope - Faintly Blowing (some of the twee-est lyrics of an era prone to such excesses, more than compensated for by wonderful melodic invention and some surprisingly powerful playing. One of the great unsung British psych bands). Elvis Presley - For L.P. Fans Only Elvis Presley - A Date With Elvis (the two stop-gap LPs compiled from non-album tracks to keep fans happy while Elvis was in the army. Amazingly some of his greatest ever Sun recordings - 'Blue Moon Of Kentucky', 'Milkcow Blues Boogie', 'Good Rockin' Tonight' and my favourite rockabilly cut EVER 'Baby Let's Play House' - were among the songs scraped from the bottom of the barrel for the second of these. It also includes 'Is It So Strange', one of his most haunted recordings). Matt Berry - Witchazel (I've been meaning to buy this ever since I heard Stuart Maconie play 'The Pheasant' on the Freak Zone and assumed it was from some lost harmony-prog-folk gem of the early 70s until Stuart back-announced it. Then I saw Matt Berry posing as Vangelis on 'Shooting Stars' and finally knew I had to have it. Somewhere between Circulus and The Last Hurrah, it's knowingly retro in a gloriously inventive and often rather beautiful way). Lambchop - How I Quit Smoking (the first Lambchop album I bought, and the one I return to the most. It subversively mixes the most lush tendencies of Nashville with Kurt Wagner's most perverse lyrics).
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keith a 9574 posts |
Sep 18, 2011, 23:32
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Forge A New Noize – Gestalt Midlands based (I think) punky kinda act. Great guitar sounds and some killer riffs. Classic Recordings - Mighty Diamonds Not as good as I remembered TBH. Sounded a bit on the bland side really. Linger Ficken' Good – Revolting Cocks Better than I remembered – I always liked it but it seemed a poor relative of Big Sexy Land and Beers steers & Qu**rs. OK, maybe not in their class but I enjoyed hearing it again. Creep is great and as for their take on Rod’s D’ya Think I’m Sexy – well I find it hysterical. One of my all-time fave cover versions! Pet Projects: The Brian Wilson Productions - V/A Highlight is probably Pamela Jean by The Survivors. Also features Glen Campbell and the wonderfully named The Laughing Gravy. Reel Music: The Coolest Sounds From The Greatest Movies – V/A Screenadelica (Hot Sounds From Cool Movies) – V/A Two old Uncut cd’s from way back. They feature bits of allsorts really – the former manages to feature both The Ride Of The Valkyries and KC & The sunshine Band whilst the latter goes from Bernard Hermann to Blur! Seeing For Miles (Uncut 2009 10) The one with Sun Araw, Sleepy Sun, Deradoorian etc, on. Also... Zinc Alloy And The Hidden Riders Of Tomorrow – Marc Bolan & T.Rex Love Peace & Fuck – Brain Donor Six – Mansun Plus live stuff by The Clash, Iggy & the Stooges, Sonic Youth and T.Rex
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redfish365 710 posts |
Sep 19, 2011, 00:38
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mingtp wrote: redfish365 wrote: mingtp wrote: redfish365 wrote: Orchid / Capricorn Just checked this out after reading your list. Love it! Oh yeah, Ming... you'll love it! If you get the cd you'll also love the packaging. Way ahead of you, already ordered. Just also got Through The Devil's Doorway too (but only on d/load for the moment). My equally metal-orientated compadre DJ Nameless loved Capricorn when I played it to him earlier too, so you've already got two converts. m/ Well awlright! \m/ Rock the fuck on!
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Toni Torino 2299 posts |
Sep 19, 2011, 08:51
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Apollo 440 - Electra Glide In Blue Dreadzone - Second Light Quiddity - Broadening Bowie - Hunky Dory Low Bias - The Ash And The Oak
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