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Kid Calamity 9048 posts |
Jun 10, 2012, 17:08
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AIM: 'Flight 602' Can: 'Landed' Circle: 'Prospekt' Bowie: 'The Platinum Collection' David Holmes: 'Bow Down To The Exit Sign' EZ Rollers: 'Drumfunk Hooliganz' Fat Boy Slim: 'You've Come A Long way, Baby' Goldfrapp: 'Seventh Tree' Grace Jones: 'Island Life' plus a few others Human League: 'Reproduction' John Cooper Clarke: 'Disguise in love' & 'Word Of Mouth: Very Best Of John Cooper Clarke' Magazine: 'Where The Power Is (Best of)' Miles Davis: 'Cookin' Morcheeba: 'Le Bataclan, Paris, 11 october 2010' Morphine: 'B Sides & Otherwise' Nostalgia 77: 'Everything Under The Sun'
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Squid Tempest 8769 posts |
Edited Jun 10, 2012, 18:25
Jun 10, 2012, 18:19
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Nope - Revision Blimmin brilliant. Really great double drum thing too. My record of the week by miles. Fougou - Further From The Centre of Disturbance Excellant CD from Matt Apollolaan. Ambient and drifty, but with some genuine bite and spookiness in there too. Very good indeed. White Hills/Farflung split The Farflung side of this is better than it has any right to be! Kevin Ayers - The Harvest Years This is really really good value. 5 classic CDs, nice remastering. Shame there isn't a more informative booklet though. Richard Skelton - Verse of Birds Beautiful. Less melancholy than the previous things of his that I've heard, and better for it. Lovely package too. Singles: Hookworms/Kogumaza aplit Cheval Sombre - Couldn't Do Can - Ege Bamyasi Teeth of the Sea - Your Mercury Edgar Froese - Solo box (love this) Stray - Saturday Morning Pictures (very good) Pink Fairies - Kings of Oblivion (a bit laddish for my taste) Jethro Tull - Broadsword & the Beast (growing on me a lot) John Martin - In Session (great when the sun shines) Hawkwind - Onwards This is class! Really top release from Hawkblokes. Fantastic stuff. Ty Segall & White Fence - Hair Like this a lot. Young blokes get stoned & rock out in studio. Carlton Melton - aQ Hits Ace! Dead Sea Apes - Lupus, Astral House Excellant stuff. Really getting into Lupus now. Phew! So much to listen to, and so much of it is good too!
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keith a 9574 posts |
Edited Jun 11, 2012, 00:25
Jun 10, 2012, 20:02
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Moon Cat wrote: Ultrasound - Everything Picture (2cd versh). Can't remember when I last played this ambitious slice of neo-prog made back in the day before you were allowed to say things like neo-prog. Enjoyed it (again) especially the 22 minute freakout on the last track (on the extra cd). Seem to remember they got quite good press at the time - what happened? They split up not longer after the album release. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrasound_(band) I played the album recently - it has its moments, but it's Stay Young that really does does it for me. A great single IMO.
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Stevo 6664 posts |
Edited Jun 10, 2012, 21:20
Jun 10, 2012, 21:20
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They also reformed a couple of years back. Think they're still going from then. One of them, I think the guitarist, was in a band called NoMan wasn't he? Thought there'd be trouble with the name cos Roger Miller of mission of Burma had a solo project called that too. Stevo
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flashbackcaruso 1058 posts |
Jun 10, 2012, 22:21
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Simon & Garfunkel - Sounds Of Silence Pink Floyd - Ummagumma Popol Vuh - Einsjäger Und Siebenjäger Cosmic Jokers - Planeten Sit-In Cosmic Jokers - Gilles Zeitschiff Cosmic Jokers - Sci Fi Party Fairport Convention - Liege & Lief The Beach Boys - Still Cruisin' The Beach Boys - Summer In Paradise The Beach Boys - That's Why God Made The Radio (In anticipation of the new Beach Boys album, I nervously revisited their previous two efforts, possibly so that I wouldn't be too disappointed if the latest one isn't up to scratch. Hate to admit this, but some of the tracks on 'Still Cruisin' aren't bad at all, although I'm still on the fence about 'Kokomo' and 'Make It Big' is corporate movie theme fodder at its worst. Then onto 'Summer In Paradise' the most reviled album in their catalogue. Mike Love's most unimaginative lyrics (he rhymes 'Wouldn't it be nice' with 'paradise' 3 times) and pro-tooled within an inch of its life. Awful programmed drumming and sax solos when you least want them. But a Beach Boys album is never going to be entirely useless, and that's because it features The Beach Boys. Just when you've decided a track has no redeeming features, then along comes a sublime bit of harmony singing and you no longer know what to think. Bastards! And it's got Carl Wilson on it. Comparing it with the new one, you really miss Carl's voice in the mix. Thankfully the material is generally much better. Not always top notch - there is a long stretch where the melodies just feel a bit too well-worn and bordering on cheesy, but the title track which I was initially cautiously positive about has bedded in as a right cracker, and the gorgeous closing 3-song suite nods back to side 2 of 'The Beach Boys Today' with its welcome change to melancholic introspection. My main gripe is that Al and Bruce should have been allowed to contribute to the song-writing, rather than have the new Wilson/Love compositions mediated through an outsider (who exactly is this Joe Thomas and how did he gain such a creative foothold?). And what is it with the frequent use of auto tune on this album? It's relatively subtle, but it bugs me more with each listen. Still, it is quite something to have a bona fide new Beach Boys album after 20 years of bad-feeling, and an incredible 50 years after their debut. Flo & Eddie - Moving Targets Emerson Lake & Palmer - From The Beginning (Disc 2) The Kinks - Face To Face (Put this on because it was a rainy day in June, but by the time it got to that track the sun had come out). Pram - The Stars Are So Big, The Earth Is So Small...Stay As You Are (Haven't listened to Pram in years. Still find them quite intoxicating).
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keith a 9574 posts |
Jun 11, 2012, 00:22
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Thanks for the Beach Boys report. I've only heard the title track. There's part of me that thinks it's cynically contrived and part of me that can't resist the voices. Still undecided whether to buy the album or not, but I suspect I will give in! Anyway, here's my weeks listening... False Positives – Akatombo Manchester 2012 - Buzzcocks Film Music By... - Ennio Morricone No Love Lost – The Nightingales King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown – Augustus Pablo Hotel Shampoo – Gruff Rhys Australia 1966 – Rolling Stones Flesh & Blood – Roxy Music Disconnect From Desire - School Of Seven Bells The End Of All Things – Tropic Of Cancer S/T – Tweak Bird Northern Soul Scene – V/A Now Hear This! The Word Magazine June 2012 – V/A The Route To Quadrephenia – V/A (especially Slim Harpo’s I Got Love If You Want It. Now it’s one thing using three chords that served the blues / rock’n’roll so well, but nicking the melody as well like The Who did with their I’m The Face is a step too far). Monolith EP - WIK?N
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keith a 9574 posts |
Jun 11, 2012, 00:28
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Stevo wrote: They also reformed a couple of years back. Think they're still going from then. One of them, I think the guitarist, was in a band called NoMan wasn't he? Thought there'd be trouble with the name cos Roger Miller of mission of Burma had a solo project called that too. Stevo Yes, they seem to have reformed but there doesn't appear to have been any further releases as yet. Don't know about NoMan, although according to Wiki one of them formed the Minuteman so could that be it?
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drewbhoy 2559 posts |
Jun 11, 2012, 01:30
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Album Of The Year - Faith No More 5x5 - Simple Minds (the first 5 albums box set) Various Jon Anderson Keith's list (very good as well) Saluatation Blues - Martin Stephenson and the Daintees (saw Martin the other week in Macduff, some guy!)
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Chaosmonger 977 posts |
Jun 11, 2012, 05:29
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Graveland - Immortal Pride Sacrifice - Forward to Termination Cluster - Grosses Wasser Wishbone Ash - Argus (it's okay, I guess) Aura Noir - Out to Die Mutiilation - Vampires of Black Imperial Blood Mutiilation - Remains of a Ruined, Dead, Cursed Soul Burzum - Umskiptar (solid effort but a big step down from Fallen) Infernum - Farewell
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Stevo 6664 posts |
Jun 11, 2012, 07:56
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yeah, funny I was going to put the Minuteman as another comment but thought I was less certain of that. definitely seemed to cause some comment in post-hardcore circles. Stevo
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