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Lawrence 7995 posts |
Dec 24, 2011, 23:37
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Just got Miles Davis' Dark Magus on vinyl reissue -- hmmm, I'm going to have to play this a bit more. A lot more going on here than on the surface... Lucifer's Friend: Banquet. I only got this for the dodgy piss-take of the Stones' Beggars Banquet on the cover -- the band dressed in tight leather but not really looking menacing... Anyways, don't expect any real heavy metal on here, this is very light prog with crystal-clear production and lots of 70s TV soundtrack-style horns and electric piano, and John Lawton proves why he became Uriah Heep's singer later on -- not a bad singer, I should say... It's very mild prog-rock but not bad and I will keep it around if I'm in the mood for 70s kitsch... The Stickmen: Get On Board ep. This is better than a previous album of this Philadelphia funk band that I have. "Funky Hayride" is like Sly and the Family Stone jamming with Funkadelic on bad acid if that's possible...
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flashbackcaruso 213 posts |
Dec 25, 2011, 00:48
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Belle & Sebastian - John Peel Christmas Party Windy & Carl - Introspection Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Welcome To The Pleasure Dome Steve Ashley - Stroll On Rotary Connection - Peace Kosmonaut - Kosmonaut 1 Elvis Presley - Elvis' Christmas Album Elvis Presley - Elvis Sings The Wonderful World of Christmas The Flaming Lips - Christmas On Mars Phil Spector - A Christmas Gift For You Brian Wilson - What I Really Want for Christmas The Beach Boys' Christmas Album (1964) Merry Christmas From The Beach Boys (1977) Vince Guaraldi Trio - A Charlie Brown Christmas
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Chaosmonger 912 posts |
Dec 25, 2011, 03:12
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Klaus Schulze - Mirage Fela Kuti - Open & Close The Residents - Duck Stab/Buster & Glen When - Drowning but Learning The Beach Boys - The SMiLE Sessions Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express Pagan Altar - Volume 1 Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) Should be getting some cool stuff tomorrow. Merry fucking Christmas!
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1001realapes 1114 posts |
Edited Dec 28, 2011, 03:33
Dec 26, 2011, 05:26
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My Morning Jacket / Songs : Ohia - split My Morning Jacket - iTunes Sessions Vince Guaraldi Trio - A Charlie Brown Christmas The Beach Boys - Ultimate Christmas Jethro Tull - Christmas Album John Fahey - Complete Christmas Mark Fry - Dreaming With Alice Raison D'etre - Lost Fragments Raison D'etre - Spiraal Raison D'etre - Enthralled By The Wind of Lonelienes Ravi Shankar - Improvisations Forrest Fang - Phantoms The Alps - Jewelt Galaxies / Spirit Shambles The Alps - Le Voyage The Alps - III The Alps - A Path Through The Sun The Alps - A Path Through The Moon The Alps - Easy Action Wilco - The Whole Love Råd Kjetil Senza Testa - Lägesförändringen Epsilon - st Haze - Hazecolor Dia Birth Control - Operation The Residents - Santa Dog The Residents - The Tunes of Two Cities Kate Bush - This Womans Work Alio Die & Mariolina Zitta - La Sala dei Cristalli Alio Die & Zeit - Il Giardino Ermeneutico
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IanB 4702 posts |
Edited Dec 27, 2011, 08:11
Dec 26, 2011, 06:45
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Queen Elizabeth 2 Elizabeth Vagina Untied Knot - Sketches For A Lost Summer Atrium Label Compilation - Under The Northern Cross Gorillaz - Laika Come Home Michael Hunter - River Black Tempest - Supernormal Recordings Takehisa Kosugi - Catch-Wave ACR - To Each / Sextet Anglagard - Hybris Bowie - Tin Machine II / Toy / Stage "Toy" is really interesting idea that didn't deserve its fate at the hands of the record company. It's much more satisfying than some of his bandwagon chasing efforts of the last fifteen years or so but that said there is far too much make-a-rock-noise-here playing and arranging on the up tempo songs. At risk of making a rockist pronouncement, there's more to rock than maintaining a tempo and steady measure of attack. Nothing really swings. Whereas the second Tin Machine record and "Stage" are the two great unsung gems in the Bowie catalogue. "Stage" is particularly good. Especially the first record of the two. Hammered at the time but no one had heard "Discipline" or "Remain In Light" and "Low" hadn't been the proverbial game-changer in terms of what was acceptable in mainstream rock. This is the sound of a man moving so fast he was almost unrecognisable to many of the most loyal members of his own audience. and Alabama Shakes - ep There seems to be a five minute American music industry feeding frenzy developing around this band so went on Bandcamp to check em out. What I found was a band of telegenic High Fidelity geeks playing more than decent Booker T and the MGs / Otis lifts. The three of them are fronted by an endlessky emoting, superficially Amy-esque lead singer. Think "Cowboy Junkies - Live At the Apollo" with a lead signer who has inhaled the entire pre 1970 Stax and Atlantic soul catalogues. Sounds kind of appealing, right? And it is exactly that - kind of appealing. Though that's the problem with the music industry hype machine, if your socks aren't blown off first time you feel justified in being unreasonably underwhelmed. On this slender evidence the band will be a joy live but although she's clearly a really powerful singer she isn't as good a rock-soul stlyist as say Chris Robinson (though of course he has a 20+ year head start) and from what I am hearing on these tunes less conversational and more in your face than Amy. Which is ok if your taste runs that way. I like a bit of a soul shouter too but the danger for me when the emote knob always seems to be on 11 is that it's kind of wearing. What they are doing seems genuine enough but I am equally sure the music supervisors on a dozen RomComs are scrambling to use them in the next 500 Days of Summer style blockbuster. An A&R man's wet dream in other words and while it is unbelievably premature to judge a band based on one ep the "next big thing" treatment tends to beg the question. You can certainly see them making at least one record that takes up residence on people's iPods next to Adele, Duffy, Amy, Rumer, Joss Stone et al so probably best to go see them while it's still fresh and before the record business has their way with them. Expect them to turn up on Later within the next six months. You can almost see the army of Mark Ellen types that will show up at Boston Arms and nod sagely with approval - an approval that will be taken up by "Mojo Men" and "£50 blokes" nationwide and then crossover into three-cds-a-year suburbia. So an ep that is good not great and just about the sum of its influences. In the short term I can't see them making anything that gets under my skin like "I Am Shelby Lynne" or Black Crowes doing "No Expectations". Though as debut eps go I should be so lucky! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HxNtWEIKhQ
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machineryelf 2936 posts |
Dec 26, 2011, 08:12
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That big John Fahey boxset on dust to digital-absolutely fantastic Andrew Liles - Ouarda [the subtle art of phyllorhodmancy] Sabbath -Master of Reality Whitehills - HP1,s/t lots of UFO,Iron Maiden & Budgie [cannot get enough gallapygallopy metal at the mo] A whole bunch of xmas tunes Black Tempest - Supernormal Kate Bush - Aeriel,Directors Cut,50 Words for Snow Asva - What You Don't Know Is Frontier, Futurists Against the Ocean Klaus Schulze - La Vie Electronique 3,4 & 5 Earthling Tempel - Pilgrimage To Thunderbolt Pagoda Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Hawk
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keith a 7910 posts |
Dec 26, 2011, 10:34
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Blood Pressures - The Kills Another enjoyable set from The Kills, even if it doesn’t necessarily blow me away. The Last Goodbye is a bit of a heartbreaker likely to appeal to anyone who liked Maps by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Xmas ep – Low Blue Xmas – V/A My youngest wanted me to put a xmas cd on whilst we put the tree up. I don’t think he had the Low cd in mind. ‘This is a bit depressing’ he pointed out though I was loving it. Next up was Blue Xmas, a Mojo cd from some years ago. Half way through and A Girl Named Eddies The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot came on which didn’t exactly lighten the mood! Still the tree looks nice and James Brown’s Lets Make Xmas Mean Something This Year was next up and xmas songs don’t get much better than that... Also... Smile – The Beach Boys No Thyself – Magazine Dead Cities, Red Seas, Lost Ghosts - M83 Inside The Ships – Tarwater MOJO Music Guide Vol. 1 - Instant Garage – V/A The Route To Quadrophenia – V/A
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mingtp 1742 posts |
Edited Dec 26, 2011, 14:04
Dec 26, 2011, 14:03
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Albums Bevis Frond - The Leaving of London Orchestra of Spheres - Nonagonic Now Psychic Ills - Hazed Dream Master Musicians of Bukkake - Totem I Master Musicians of Bukkake - Totem II Master Musicians of Bukkake - Totem III Big Blood - Dead Songs Metallica - Beyond Magnetic EP Woven Hand - Black Of The Ink (recommended) Datashock - Pyramiden von Gießen VA - Bob Stanley Supports Finders Keepers: Make Do & Mend Vol. 8 Black Spiders - Sons of the North Motley Crue - Greatest Hits Moonface - Organ Music Not Vibraphone Like I'd Hoped Quiddity - Broadening VA - Smalltown Supersound The Devil's Blood - The Time Of No Time Evermore Nick Garrie - The Nightmare of J.B. Stanislas Tracks Nick Nicely - Hilly Fields (1892) Jacques Dutronc - Et Moi, Et Moi, Et Moi + Mini, Mini, Mini Poly Styrene - Black Christmas (Kahn Remix) Cults - You Know What I Mean Theory of a Deadman - Chick Came Back Caro Emerald - Stuck Nick Garrie - The Nightmare of J.B. Stanislas Enter Shikari - Gandhi Mate, Gandhi
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Lawrence 7995 posts |
Dec 26, 2011, 19:18
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Well there's a few others I just got at the Bop Shop, and just talked to an old friend home for the holidays -- Paj Coscole, ex of bands like Blast Paris, the Howl and Helmut Theatre. Dog3000, he now lives in Madison where you are, and I think Paj himself had his own show on WORT for awhile (so he told me...) Henry Gross: Plug Me Into Something -- A 70s rock performer panned excessively by asshole critic Dave Marsh. So hearing it, it's actually better than anything Bob Seger came out with at the same time, not to mention today's alterna-rock crap... The Crepitation Contest on Laff Records. Not quite as funny as I was expecting but more annoying. Did anybody get the Farts tape that used to be advertised in NME back in the 80s? Was that funnier?
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