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mingtp 1742 posts |
Feb 05, 2012, 01:32
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Albums Arcadium - Breathe Awhile Gonjasufi - Mu.Zz.Le Wolf People - Tidings Expo '70 - Hovering Resonance Mark Lanegan Band - Blues Funeral White Hills - The Process Dan Sartain - Too Tough To Live Pyramidal - Dawn in Space The Heads - Enten Eller VA - 14 Tracks - Midnight Nomads K.S. Chithra With Ilaiyaraaja Suzanne Ciani - Lixiviation Django Django - Django Django VA - La Onda Vampi VA - Beat Frauleins: Female Pop in Germany 1964-1968 DJ Food - The Search Engine Leila - U&I VA - Smash, Boom, Bang!: The Songs & Productions of Feldman, Goldstein & Gottehrer Tracks Goat - Goatman |
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PMM 2941 posts |
Feb 05, 2012, 02:15
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A shuffly ipod. too many and too varied to keep track of. highlight for this week being several tracks from the Blue Aeroplanes album, Beatsongs. I'd forgotten just how much of that album I really enjoyed.
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Sin Agog 919 posts |
Edited Feb 05, 2012, 17:10
Feb 05, 2012, 03:47
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The CD hasn't arrived yet but the free bonus disc to Teen Radiation's debut album definitely lives up to the Copius adjectives afforded to it in this month's Drudion. Can vouch for Father Murphy 'n' all, though I already knew them. As to the rest of my listening adventures... Stuff and stuff. CD's arrived. Sounding very good as I play it right now. Bit less garage-schlocky and more moody than the bonus disc, but still good. That La Onda Vampi comp's arrived, too. Didn't expect it to be so schizo-inducingly eclectic but most excellent nonetheless.
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Chaosmonger 912 posts |
Feb 05, 2012, 04:08
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The Fall - Dragnet Fela Kuti - Confusion Lou Reed - Transformer The Velvet Underground & Nico Fairport Convention - Liege & Lief T. Rex - s/t Tyrannosaurus Rex - Unicorn Gentle Giant - In a Glass House Ennio Morricone - Morricone 2001 Can - Future Days Bauhaus - In the Flat Field Devo - Hardcore Vol. 1
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IanB 4702 posts |
Edited Feb 06, 2012, 18:29
Feb 05, 2012, 09:29
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Alison Balsom - Seraph Kate Royal - A Lesson in Love Kronos Quartet - Reich: WTC 9/11, Mallet Quartet, Dance Patterns Glass - Waiting For The Barbarians Fritz Reiner w/ Chicago Symphony - Thus Spake Zarathustra Lorin Maazel & New York Philharmonic - Strauss Rosenkavalier Suite Steven Isserlis et al - Svyati and despite being run into the ground EMI classics have some really interesting podcasts up on iTunes as do the ENO. Shits on Talk Sport. non classical .... Linda Perhacs - Parallelograms Would probably have been huge had she been called Linda Smith "this is the new one from Linda Perhaps, Percups, Per .... oh fuck it here's Joni Mitchell" Peter Hammill - PNO GTR VOX BOX Not bad so far though his voice sounds like it had taken a hammering since "Veracious". Ask me again in April when I have digested it properly. Phil Manzanera - 801 Live / Diamond Head Diamond Head is an odd record. Sounds like the template for all kinds of early 80s rock sins - Spandau Ballet in particular. 801 Live remains a work of unexpected genius. Roxy Music - Live What were they on? Nearly all the hits taken either mogadon slow or, more often, at breakneck punk rock speed. Some of it gives "Damned Damned Damned" a run for its money in terms of sounding like a runaway train but I am told they actually played that fast every night. Bryan Ferry - Olympia Not sure. Some of it sounds terrific but absolutely terrible lyrics do not help. There are times when posh-sounding mumbling is to be recommended. Neil Young - Live At Fillmore East 1970 / Time Fades Away / Live Rust / Weld To my ears it is the live albums that are the really worthwhile recordings in his catalogue. Man meets audience, critics and boffinry take a back seat, guitars are cranked into life and magic happens. Led Zeppelin - Alternative Graffiti Whereas being hated by critics and unafraid of the competition left this lot free to just make (though there is no "just" about it) a series of brilliant, musically unpretentious albums. There is a reason why this music has lasted as a body of work where other artists of the era are largely known for their FM Radio hits. However vile some of the behaviour that surrounded them there is an uncynical purity about these recordings that the Stones never had and The Who lost after Sell Out. Here are 21 songs compiled from alleged out-takes and alt mixes from 1973 and 1974. Don't know how many of these takes are recordings of tour rehearsals and how much is true studio audio verite from the recording process but it's a great palette cleanser for the real thing. For the most part it sounds like a band playing through songs in real time rather than anything carefully layered and credits suggests that there are a lot of early takes here. There is a fantastic Crunge-like James Brown / Meters inspired jam and an odd acosutic stab at The Rover. No guitar army for the most part. And all the better for it. The twenty minutes of them figuring out a route into Trampled Underfoot at various tempi and with subtly different accents is particularly interesting. Hearing the way the tricky part of In My Time Of Dying works itself out is to appreciate the genius of Bonham in Buddy Rich mode. To hear the mesh of clavinet and guitar unadorned on TUF is a special thing too. Yes, Plant is a shit lyricist but better than most of his peers and all I hear here is a love of the form. The Black Crowes - Croweology Speaking of a love of the form , this is probably the last we will see of the Crowes in the studio for many years but this semi-acoustic double album of re-recorded hits and album bits is the best record of this kind since Warpaint which was itself the best record of its kind since Tattoo You. Perfect if there's even a little bit of you that wants to move like Jagger (or Rod or Ronnie or Keef or Charlie ....). The reason they are so great? Chris Robinson and Steve Gorman are old enough and young enough to be from the last generation of rock fans to grow up with this music from radio and vinyl rather than getting the boiled down glitz version of rock n roll from MTV. You can't beat learning any kind of language (musical or otherwise) by osmosis. Sung and played as if is their first musical language not off-the-peg and ready-to-wear. Soul deep..
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theglueman 25 posts |
Feb 05, 2012, 10:43
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Plinth - Collected Machine Music United Bible Studies - The Dreamlike States of UBS Hasmik Harutyunyan - Armenian Lullabies Charlene Soraia - Moonchild Lou Harrison - The Perilous Chapel
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Fitter Stoke 1549 posts |
Edited Feb 05, 2012, 12:46
Feb 05, 2012, 12:42
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Throbbing Gristle 'Second Annual Report' - quite the most vile and unbearable record I've ever heard, so it must have something. Unfortunately I'd much rather never have heard it in the first place, so freaked out has it left me; Peter Hammill 'Pno Gtr Vox Box' - I've only dipped into this so far (it only arrived yesterday) but the Sage songs sound as gripping as I recall them from the gig itself. There's something really raw, tense and honest about the man live and alone. Wonderful stuff; Van der Graaf Generator 'H to He Who Am The Only One' - Jeez, given the level of angst in evidence at this early stage, it's no wonder poor Peter had heart issues later on. The purity of his voice on these exceedingly melodic (an adjective not used enough in the context of this fine band) prog gems is something to behold; Ian Gillan Band 'Clear Air Turbulence' and 'Scarabus' - I've long dug this atypically jazzy sideline from Gillan's CV, dated though this stuff undeniably sounds. The long title track from the former is of my favourite Gillan songs. I'd love to hear him revisit this stuff now, but I think there's more chance of hearing him sing 'Stormbringer' than this! Kevin Coyne 'Marjory Razorblade' - proving that Hammill has no monopoly on tension and rawness, this primarily acoustic double album has more real power in reserve than ten Metallica records. And it hasn't dated a jot in nearly 40 years. Every home should have one. Then I work my way through Beethoven's late quartets in the Busch Quartet's 75 year old recordings and I start to wonder why anyone else ever bothered to make a record afterwards... Have a great week everyone Dave
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Stevo 5369 posts |
Feb 05, 2012, 12:46
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Fallen Angels It's A Long way Down Melodic psych lp PJ Harvey Let England Shake Really getting into this, played it about 4 times yesterday. Think its been described as state of the nation document. I just think its about the first of her lps I've bought while it was still current, even if that was only a couple weeks back. Do think i've picked up other stuff in sales. Not listened to it much though. Loving things like the organ in various places here and what sounds like a sample of the bugle used on Pearls Before swine's lp. On this strength I might reinvestigate her back catalogue. Sun Ra Out In Space This starts with a noisy 37minute take on the title track and goes on through a lot more of his interstellar groove. Think i've had this since I lived in Dublin and not played it much over the last few years. Really need to sort out some order to things so I don't neglect classics like this. Alrune Rod Sonet Årene 1969 - 1972 disc 1 this covers the 1st lp and 1st side of Hej Du the 2nd one. I was mainly listening to it for Hej Du thinking it a stronger lp but I think the s/t 1st is growing on me. Dark psych-prog stuff with droning organ. I picked up a few titles from the Scando scene when Julian did a n overview as one of his monthly reviews. I found a couple of live clips on youtube from '69 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ER87gZ31vr4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nG3QvI2WY6s there's also a lot of stuff up there from a 40th anniversary gig that i haven't looked at. Do think I got some audio a while back and they were on form though. Neutral Milk Hotel In The aeroplane Over The sea Surprised it took me that long to own this. Bought it in the same HMV package as the PJ Harvey a couple weeks back. Acoustic meets electric rock that's growing on me. Alice Coltrane Universal Consciousness/Lord Of Lords from the recent Impulse 2fer reissue campaign. I don't think I'd really heard Lord Of Lords until this week. I ripped the other lp to my walkman along with World Galaxy. But this is pretty good in its own right especially the title track which gets pretty transcendent in places. Universal Consciousness is rippling monolithic stuff. Can get pretty psychedelic in places. Alice is playing slower than she was with John where she struck me as a lighter touched Cecil Taylor. Wishing I'd picked up the live '78 set I could've got over Xmas for £3, feels stupid not to have now. Think i'm going to be looking to complete the collection of her solo stuff. Not sure if she goes off at any point though. Associates The Affectionate Punch Another cd that emerged recently when I was looking for other material to fill my walkman. I went for Sulk/4th Drawer Down for that though. This is pretty great possibly more New wave poppy than that stuff but still deeply idiosyncratically eclectic if you know what I mean. Quicksilver Messenger Service Lost Gold & Silver This was the Collector's Choice version of the material Psycho had out as Maiden Of The Cancer Moon. It was recorded in San Francisco in '68 and seems more visceral/punky than the better known Happy Trails. There are now a heap of live recordings released on Evangeline that I've yet to hear. I think their peak was 68-69 when they were the 4 piece twin guitar band between Jim Murray leaving after Monterey and Dino Valenti joining. several other titles that may come back to me later. Plus whatever my walkman throws up at random from its content of 300+ hours of music. Reading Shantaram the fictionalised autobio of an Australian fugitive in India and now Afghanistan. Great read
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Squid Tempest 6704 posts |
Edited Feb 05, 2012, 12:55
Feb 05, 2012, 12:54
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Fitter Stoke wrote: Throbbing Gristle 'Second Annual Report' - quite the most vile and unbearable record I've ever heard, so it must have something. Unfortunately I'd much rather never have heard it in the first place, so freaked out has it left me; I was wondering if that was just me! I've really enjoyed a lot of the other TG I've heard, but this one really is a creepiness too far for me. Call me a wimp, but... Edit: actually perhaps "enjoyed" isn't quite the right word there - "been interested and intruiged by" is probably better.
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machineryelf 2936 posts |
Feb 05, 2012, 17:49
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Iron Maiden - No Prayer for The Dying,Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, Dance of Death West Side Story - OST A R Rahaman - Signature Collection Nearly God - never quite sure is this is a Tricky cd or Nearly God, it's still good though whatever it is Asva - What You Don't Know Is Frontier SunnO))) - Monoliths & Dimensions Springsteen - Hammersmith 75 Spaceship - S/T Creedence Clearwater Revival - Pendulum Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs Klaus Schulze - La Vie Electronique 5 V/A - John Barleycorn Reborn UFO - Chrysalis Years Joy Division - a boxset with pretty much everything by JD on it which I cannot remember the name of A shitload of Fish era Marillion live stuff and Grendal from the singles box the new Crippled Black Phoenix & Mark Lanegan which had a couple of listens each sound ok so far but not listened properly as they have been eclipsed by A Winged Victory For The Sullen - S/T would have been one of my cds of 2011 if I'd heard it then, beautiful, a wonderful listen , not been off all weekend
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