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Moon Cat 9577 posts |
Edited Jul 16, 2012, 18:33
Jul 16, 2012, 18:29
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Hail! Rush - Clockwork Angels KISS - Psycho Circus KISS - Rock n Roll Over Diamond Head - Lightning to the Nations aka The White Album. Top NWOBHM riffage! Speed Caravan - Kalashnik Love Vali Ohm - 3,000 Light Years. I really wanted to like this mostly one-man space rock effort espesh as Nik Turner guests. The heart's in the right place and there's some nice ideas but some of the playing and recording is so sloppy and rough it's like a demo of a demo. With an actual band aboard this could be good stuff. It's trying to head for the stars but seems to have crashed landed at Newport Pagnell services. 8^( Obake - ST. Excellent doom/drone, noise, metal and sinister ambience. I like! Ian O'Brien - Gigantic Days The Phantom Band - Checkmate Savage. Excellent kinda Celt-Krautish amalgam recommended to me by AQK. Like it a lot! Spectrum Road - ST. Fusiontastic super group featuring Jack Bruce and Vernon Reid amongst others. A sonic tribute to Tony Williams with some Mahavishnuesque vibes in them grooves. Motorpsycho - It's a Love Cult. Motorpsycho & Stale Stolorkken - The Death Defying Unicorn. Ace! Have a nice week x
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daddy longhair 11 posts |
Edited Jul 16, 2012, 19:43
Jul 16, 2012, 19:40
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Graham Coxon - A+E Parliament - Chocolate City
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bubblehead2 2167 posts |
Jul 16, 2012, 20:28
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Not much time for listening of late, my normal diet of sludgy stoned spaced out scuzz hasn't really been hitting the spot either, more melodious stuff has however, so... LEE HAZLEWOOD - These Boots Are Made For Walkin' ( Complete MGM Recordings, ) - there's a lot i like about Lee, lyrics, vocal delivery and orchestration particularlee. NANCY SINATRA - Boots - The Hazlewood songs really stand out, also covers the likes of As Tears Go By, Day Tripper, In My Room but these are far less to my taste, very MOR. Er, great cover photo though ! DR JOHN - Babylon- Great record in parts, and a bit underrated too ? The USA of the time comes in for a right slagging. Otherwise, it's mostly been Radio 6, some reggae in the car and a bit of Bowie and Iggy. All the best everyone.
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Five 960 posts |
Jul 16, 2012, 21:13
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mingtp wrote: What are they like live then? New album's pretty good if you get a chance to pick it up. Enjoyed the live set, some pleasant instrument-swapping in the latter 1/3 of the show ... the lady (don't know any band members names, sorry!) is very cool on bass when she gets out from behind her piano. The songs are long and also danceable without being "jammy" in the perjorative sense. Less intense than, say, Comets On Fire, but maybe more like those Elevators tracks (sans jug) where Roky doesn't sing. (Or Airplane without Gracie Slick / Big Brother without Janis. Or Chris Robinson Brotherhood without Chris Robinson. Y'know ... good SF rocknroll with zero resemblance to the Dead, not that I would mind.) They rocked. I dug it. Wouldn't mind stronger songs, but the vibe is enough to keep me.
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Hunter T Wolfe 1710 posts |
Jul 17, 2012, 21:47
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Beak- >> Neu! -2 Sonic Youth- Evol The Telescopes- Taste Go-Kart Mozart- On the Hot Dog Streets Kim Wilde- S/T Kim Wilde- Select Bob Dylan- Blood on the Tracks The Rolling Stones- Exile on Main Street Horace Andy- The Prime of... Camera- Radiate This Mortal Coil- It'll End in Tears Party Day- Glasshouse
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Squid Tempest 8769 posts |
Jul 17, 2012, 22:18
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Was pointed at this track off the Camera album earlier - splendid propulsive stuff... http://soundcloud.com/bureau-1/camera-ausland
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spencer 3072 posts |
Jul 18, 2012, 03:31
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Now I've finally got time to post... 1) Lead Us Not Into Temptation - David Byrne ..... Sometimes you can get tripped up by other records and put good albums to one side, meaning to return .. and then forget them. Happened with this. It's the soundtrack for the film Young Adam, where Byrne is joined by various Scottish luminaries from the Delgados, Belle and Sebastian and Mogwai. The film is nihilistic and amoral and David captured and complimented it beautifully; it's predominantly instrumental and strings based, with discrete guitar fx and keyboards, and drifts along without a single duff moment. The best soundtrack album I own, and is worth buying just for the track titles, eg. Body in the River, Seaside Smokes, Sex on the Docks, Warm Sheets, Dirty Hair and Bastard. Cant recommend it highly enough; and I didn't play it for four years. 2) Rasta Communication - deluxe edition .... Keith Hudson. Got last Saturday, still absorbing this. While Keith couldn't be described as a vocalist of the highest order the beats can. It has extra tracks and a bonus disc of dub versions.. and I like it a lot. As a personal plus, the notes in the cd mentioned another Hudson record, From One Extreme to Another. About thirty years ago a record shop owner I knew raved about it and played it to me; I thought it was great but walked out without buying as it was a US import and expensive and I was skint. A week later when I felt a bit more flush I went back but it had gone. I never found another copy. I've never forgotten it; one of those holy grails. Anyway, the sleeve notes mentioned a dub version of it called Nah Skin Up. The title tracks on RC and it's a cracker. On checking Amazon they had it at a very good price. Ordered. Happy bunny. 3) Unearthed - Johnny Cash .... Box set of the American Recordings 'rejects'. Indispensible. Always wanted this, but was expensive new, now deleted and very, very pricey, The other month I asked the owner of my local indie emporium if he could look for a 'cheap' crappy nick second hand copy at a price that I might be able to afford with a lot of pip squeaking. When I next saw him he pressed a promo copy into my hand. Free. I was ... choked. Barry is a Very Nice Man. 4) Bitches Brew Live - Miles Davis .... Came out two years ago and completely passed me by until I saw it in the second hand section of the aforementioned emporium when I was buying the Hudson. A quick Amazon review squint revealed lots of 5*s. Four quid. Bought. It's three tracks from Newport Jazz Festival plus the complete set from Isle of Wight '70 in far better quality than ever before. Fierce, wild and in parts very funky. Rather good. 5) Hanging Gardens - The Necks .... Seems to be attracted to my player as much as Kate Bushes efforts last year. That's meant as a compliment. Another music, but just as absorbing, patience-rewarding and vital. Ttfn
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Hunter T Wolfe 1710 posts |
Jul 18, 2012, 10:38
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Squid Tempest wrote: Was pointed at this track off the Camera album earlier - splendid propulsive stuff... http://soundcloud.com/bureau-1/camera-ausland It's an excellent record- not officially out till end of August though. Just when you think you don't need to hear yet another contemporary neo-kraut space rocker... these guys are genuine Berliners though, and have apparently played with Rother and Moebius to boot.
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Squid Tempest 8769 posts |
Jul 18, 2012, 11:14
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Indeed. There's a lot of it akraut.
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Robot Emperor 762 posts |
Jul 18, 2012, 11:27
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Amebix - Sonic Mass. Been a firm favourite for a few months now but it just keeps going up in my estimation. If you love Mastodon etc this honestly is so much better. So ... uplifting is a word people seem to be using about it. Augustus Pablo - King Tubbys meets Rockers Uptown. Lee Scratch Perry - Arkology. Because you can never have too many versions of Sufferers Time. Pigeonhead - The Full Sentence. Pixies - Surfer Rosa. The Rain Parade - Emergency Third Rail Power Trip. Richard Thompson - Small Town Romance. Roxy Music - s/t, For Your Pleasure. Sam & Dave - The Best of. Surely the best "best of"... Bestiest of the best of's... bestist best of... Scritti Politti - Early. Shack - HMS Fable. Son House - The Original Delta Blues.
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