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keith a 9574 posts |
May 25, 2015, 08:03
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Monganaut wrote: Wire - Wire Saw em' play Manchester a few weeks back, a weird, understated performance by the band, but enjoyable enough. Bought the CD at the gig but not played this till this week and enjoyed it immenseley. Not your typical Wire album (is there one?) it has quite a 'produced'sheen to it, but it's one that'll deffo get more plays than Object 47 or Red Barked Tree Did. Standout track for me is Harpooned....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEa__uIR-ts I didn't get to see them on this tour unfortunately,m but it's a very good album. Harpooned is excellent! I've finally got round to reading Read & Burn biog. I'm up the late 80's so I've dug out A Bell Is A Cup. My over-riding impression from the book thus far is that it's amazing that the original band stayed together (on and off) so long seeing as they don't appear to agree on anything!
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billding68 1016 posts |
May 25, 2015, 14:49
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Judas Priest-angel of retribution Queen - flash Gordon OST Lene Lovich - shadows and dust Yazzo- you and me both Psychic Tv-Hell is invisible Heaven is here the tubes- Remote control Talking heads-77 Stan ridgway-neon mirage Yello-pocket universe Brian Jonestown massacre-thank god for mental illness Jefferson airplane-long john silver SPK-auto da fe gary numan-I assassin
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Moon Cat 9577 posts |
May 25, 2015, 15:40
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Motorhead - Overkill/Bomber/Iron Fist Felix Martin - The Scenic Album Blues Pills - st Gordon Giltrap & Oliver Wakeman - Ravens & Lullabies. (Thanks to Squid for passing on this sniffery) A very nice slice of (mostly) acoustic based, filigree and mellow, folk prog. It sometimes veers into whiffage of fromage, but it's beautifully played and the good heart at the centre of the music wins the day. Very enjoyable and blimey, Oliver plays like his dad! Smoke Fairies - st Bat For Lashes - The Haunted Man The Phantom Band - Strange Friend New Model Army - Today is a Good Day Wings - Band on the Run We Are The Ocean - Ark Messenger - Illusory Blues Space Goat - st Table Scraps - More Time for Strangers God Damn - Vultures. ExperiMENTAL two piece skronking about in metal punk and electronica mixing titanic riffage and noise with ambience and other noodlings. Subversion - Animi. Intense and sometimes brutal tech/djent metal with sone of the most insane, staccato n chug rhythms I've heard. Brain bashing fun! And from the library... Roy Harper - Stormcock. Mr H has always been a gaping hole in my collection (apart from I used to have "Whatever Happened to Jugular" way back when cos of the Jimmy Page connection. Not sure where it went! So, whatever happened to etc etc) Anyway, I saw this in the Library and have been told it's something of a masterpiece. Yes, I like it very much. Where next? Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest. Hmmm. Finding myself wanting to like this more than I do. It's 'like' more than 'love' after a week or so. It's not bad, just there seems to something of the spark and inventiveness of the earlier stuff missing. Airbourne - Black Dog Barking. Dumb but fun AC/DC style riffin' n rocking. Air guitars ahoy. Have a nice week x
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thesweetcheat 6218 posts |
May 25, 2015, 17:47
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Mainly been listening to John Foxx & Louis Gordon's 2008 album Impossible. Ace synth pop. Otherwise: Joy Division - Peel Sessions Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures Joy Division - Closer Blurt - The Factory Recordings The Smiths - Hatful of Hollow The Smiths - The World Won't Listen Lonelady - Nerve Up The Fall - Sub-lingual Tablet
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thesweetcheat 6218 posts |
May 25, 2015, 17:48
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Nice to see Monsters there. I like Alma Mater, but the "Partyline" 12" remains my favourite.
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thesweetcheat 6218 posts |
May 25, 2015, 17:49
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Liking the new Wire album.
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Monganaut 2382 posts |
May 25, 2015, 19:14
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Been a while since I've seen Wire myself, last time they had a female guitarist (I think, or did I just imagine that?) now there's a younger guy who wouldn't be out of place in Sonic Youth or some such band. Does all the kob twiddling and effects etc that Gilbert used to do. Didn't look totally at home, but he did what he did well. Was quite a downbeat gig for Wire, not a lot of energy, more drawn out and slower takes on stuff, with mostly new material. Not perused the read and burn book myself, but it's on the list of future buys alongside that David Stubbs Future Days/ Krautrock anthology thingy. Doesn't surprise me that they almost 'never were', they all seem quite disperate characters, and I bet Lewis is a royal pain in the ass to be in a band with.
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Squid Tempest 8769 posts |
Edited May 26, 2015, 13:34
May 25, 2015, 20:15
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Try HQ next for Roy Harper. Or Bullinamingvase or Lifemask, or maybe Flat, Baroque and Beserk. That Giltrap/Wakeman album - tiz true about the cheeze quotient, but over-the-top singalong after a couple of glasses of red (beer would be too coarse).
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keith a 9574 posts |
May 25, 2015, 21:08
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Monganaut wrote: Been a while since I've seen Wire myself, last time they had a female guitarist (I think, or did I just imagine that?) now there's a younger guy who wouldn't be out of place in Sonic Youth or some such band. Does all the kob twiddling and effects etc that Gilbert used to do. Didn't look totally at home, but he did what he did well. Was quite a downbeat gig for Wire, not a lot of energy, more drawn out and slower takes on stuff, with mostly new material. Not perused the read and burn book myself, but it's on the list of future buys alongside that David Stubbs Future Days/ Krautrock anthology thingy. Doesn't surprise me that they almost 'never were', they all seem quite disperate characters, and I bet Lewis is a royal pain in the ass to be in a band with. Yes, Margaret Fiedler McGinnis was guitarist with them - for gigs - when they first got back together minus Bruce circa 2008. Matt has been with them for some time and also plays on the records ow. Most of the problems of what I've read are the differences between Newman and Gilbert (who are the two polar opposites within the band) and what can be referred to in shorthand as a power struggle. Obviously, seeing as they worked together on other projects, Lewis tended to be close to Gilbert. The other problem after they got back together relates to Gotobed/Grey feeling marginalised with his drums being replaced by programmed beats, though I haven't quite reached the moment where he left and they became Wir.
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IanB 6761 posts |
Edited May 26, 2015, 08:23
May 26, 2015, 08:18
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I would recommend Roy's Counter Culture compilation for the non-completist as it has nearly all the essential songs. Otherwise Squid has hit nail on head. All I would add are the six volumes of the BBC sessions and Valentine. You need at least one version of Twelve Hours Of Sunset. David Bedford made a gorgeous classical arrangement out of that one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIpBjRowuNg
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