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Monganaut 2380 posts |
Edited Mar 19, 2017, 21:03
Mar 19, 2017, 20:59
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Yowza! This week has mostly been... Dollkraut - Holy Ghost People This was a pressie for my 50th a few weeks back, lovin' it, and have been playing it on repeat for most of the past two weeks. If you like the ensemble Death and Vanilla this should float your boat massively. A lovely, if rather salacious cover surrah enfolds this lovely package. http://www.dollkraut.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4BYYq1Ysd8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGmWpE1dm-E Circle - Alotus/Raunio (live) Two of my fav Circle releases. I bought a second copy of Ranio (and a another coupla CD's) from Cope when he was having a clear out a few years back...about my only claim to fame. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clDo6DFOD0Y&list=RDclDo6DFOD0Y Been having big music/house sort through/throw out over the last few weeks, and have been digging through the archive an enjoying stuff I've not played fer a while. Grandaddy - Under The Western Freeway For my money, they never bettered their debut album. I'm told they've gotten back together, but not investigated any new stuff (yet). Album - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PN2hE0lnaw John Martyn - Solid Air/Bless The Weather/One World As far as I'm concerned, all the JM ya need in ya life. Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Bwyd Time/ Barafundle Gorky's two best/most consistent albums as far as I'm concerned. Mad pop psych from stupidly musically talented (at the time) teens. Bwyd Time - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUftTWBh8ww&list=PL15608B3382DA919C Bafrafundle - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pubbxQOYh4M&list=PLmZmFywZLF77LcDSwV5-Dt_p3GF721m1Q PJ Harvey - To Bring You All My Love Probably my fav Peej album. Made during the 'Nick Cave' years, and I guess it shows. Album - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3a1Qzo0q6M&list=PLTUlTwlsdlFQhGYG43lE63cOThHmtSVLi Beck - Mutations Great record from 2006. Back froom when he used to alternate albums with pop then downbeat. This is the downbeat phase after 'The Information' album. Good Stuff! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bek_A2bm5rE&list=PLYVIJldjocyqGkEd7EvDkwQ2gFEuB76XD Various - Searching For the Wrong Eyed Jesus Great alt. country/folk/ southern gothicy soundtrack to the docu from many years back (which is up in youtube if you've never seen it...well worth an eyeball... here .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zw5KwqfDh8) Moon Duo - Circles Along with Wooden Shjips, I view the two bands as kinda like underground versions of Status Quo, in that you always know what yer gonna get music-wise. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX-_B1eOJ-8 Pere Ubu - Various You tube gigs Some great concerts from 80/2013/2015 etc....Not the easiest of listening sometime, but exhilarating nontheless. Ole Dave on fine curmudgeonly form fer most. Pere Ubu - 19 Dec 2013 Casbah, San Diego, CA. (full set) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEQekGlHpSc Pere Ubu Live Fox Warfield 8:15:80 Bill Graham's URGH ! #1 complete show) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVbPgNDTJ88 Pere Ubu "Help me, I'm on Tour" 1981 tour film and extras https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFSe7q3gVBA Pere Ubu: Nacht des Gruselsoundmonsters Live at Szene Wien 15.02.2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUoM_Bvk8LM Pere Ubu (TheU-Men) - Don’t Expect Art (X-MasConcert) '80 full album https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WV7-eZnecgQ WELL, that be it. Have a good en!
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keith a 9573 posts |
Mar 19, 2017, 22:02
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Smile – The Beach Boys With The Beatles – The Beatles Outside – David Bowie Hours – David Bowie Push The Sky Away - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds Rite At Ya – Julian Cope Dead Magick – Dead Skeletons S/T – Death & Vanilla Transmission - Death In Vegas EP 1 (12”) - Paul Draper EP 2 (12”) - Paul Draper S/T – Franz Ferdinand I Need You (CDS) – Dave Gahan Supernature - Goldfrapp Trippin' (CDS) - Goldtrix Memory Palace – Paul Haig / Billy Mackenzie Phantom Radio – Mark Lanegan Band Solid Air – John Martyn Live At Leeds – John Martyn Southpaw Grammar – Morrissey Ringleader Of The Tormentors – Morrissey Become Not Becoming EP (10”) – The Nightingales Heaven Scent – Perfect Disaster So Hard (KLF CDS) – Pet Shop Boys Very / Relentless – Pet Shop Boys Before (CDS) – Pet Shop Boys Bilingual – Pet Shop Boys Together (Mixes CDS) - Pet Shop Boys Intervision – Jimi Tenor Bush Doctor – Peter Tosh Restless Idylls – Tropic Of Cancer Stop Suffering (45) – Tropic Of Cancer The Who Sell Out – The Who Live At Leeds – The Who Chair's Missing - Wire Insiding – Bruce Gilbert Commercial Suicide – Colin Newman
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thesweetcheat 6216 posts |
Mar 19, 2017, 22:20
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Erik Satie - Vexations Erik Satie - Trois Gymnopedies Erik Satie - Six Gnossienes V/A - The Birth of Rock'n'Roll Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures OMD - Architecture & Morality OMD - Dazzle Ships The Chameleons - Script Of The Bridge The Chameleons - What Does Anything Mean, Basically? Depeche Mode - The Singles 1981 - 1985 The Chameleons - Strange Times Cocteau Twins - "Love's Easy Tears" 12" The Cure - Disintegration The Durutti Column - Vini Reilly New Order - Technique Cocteau Twins - Heaven Or Las Vegas Ned's Atomic Dustbin - Ingredients EP Orbital - Blue Album New Model Army - Carnival New Model Army - High Wild Billy Childish & The MBEs - "Thatcher's Children" & "He's Making A Tape" 7" singles The Juan Maclean - The Future Will Come New Model Army - Between Dog And Wolf Grasscut - Everyone Was A Bird Blankscreen - "Dead Planet" single
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Fatalist 1123 posts |
Mar 19, 2017, 22:56
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Jane Weaver – Modern Kosmology. Eek, have purloined a promo of the new JW. Just one listen so far, and fair to say that fans will be pleased. Less quirky than The Silver Globe and less interstellar disco than ‘I Need A Connection’, but it’s full of gloriously melodic neo-kraut goodness. There’s one track in particular that will have Broadcast fans swooning, and in places it sounds quite like the last Radiohead album. Overall, probably her most consistent release so far. https://soundcloud.com/jane-weaver/slowmotion Blown Out – Superior Venus. A band where you know exactly what you’re getting each time ie. blistering cosmic riffadelica, but who manage to keep tweaking the formula enough to remain vital. This newie sounds bigger and better than ever: https://blownout.bandcamp.com/track/impious-oppressor-preview-edit VA – Brown Acid: The Fourth Trip. Latest comp of obscure US early rock singles. Entertaining stuff, though it’s the occult prog of Axas that takes the honours with their track ‘Lucifer’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HgD4m5jFVI VA – Running The Voodoo Down. There’s something about the title/presentation of this psychedelic soul/R&B comp which feels a bit uncomfortable, but it’s a decent selection. Features the usual names plus a few less well known ones (well, to me anyway, which isn’t saying much) – for instance, Fugi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOmHzYhVb0Q Hawkwind – The Machine Stops. OK, I must have had some very grumpy ears on when I first listened to this, because on second hearing it’s much more agreeable, and yes, ‘a return to form’ I guess (though the production is still a bit flat). However, it’s watching various clips from the last tour that’s really piqued my interest, with Brock out front again sparring with new bassist Haz Wheaton, who is decidedly Lemmy-esque in his playing style. They look and sound like a really exciting live band again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0GIZqU5qd4 Robert Calvert – Captain Lockheed And The Starfighters. As The Seth Man succinctly put it in his HH review of this, this is like Hawkwind if Paul Rudolph had replaced Brock rather than Lemmy. Super stuff, and the various skits still raise a smile: “They don’t always crash, you know” “It would be an honour to crash in such a plane!” Listen With Father: Ladytron – Light & Magic. Overlong and cheekily derivative in places, but it’s hard not to like the machine-tooled, leftfield pop of this album. On saying that, the girls seemed fairly unmoved by it. Best at its most uncompromising: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r7bSYz1-QY E is for… Echoboy – s/t. Another one of those talked up, next big things that somehow never quite materialised (despite a series of releases on Mute after this self-released debut). Tellingly, I remember really liking this at the time (1999), but couldn’t actually remember what it sounded like. And of course, it turns out to be very of its time, on the one hand being on nodding terms with Neu! (Krautrock starting to hit the indie mainstream around now), while on the other sounding very much like a bedsit Spiritualized. Still very listenable though, and in places really rather great (though as I’ve just discovered, pretty much entirely absent from YouTube). Live: Blown Out / Shitwife – The Windmill, Brixton. Having listened to the new album, I was gripped by an uncharacteristic fit of spontaneity when I saw that Blown Out were playing that very night at the other end of the Victoria line… Small pub with a stage at one end, whereupon said band proceeded to rip a tear in the space/time fabric, like Hendrix rocking out in the ruins of Chernobyl. Suffice to say my ears are still buggered: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JshdF-Z8Bzw Props also to support band Shitwife, one bloke on drums, another on sequencer/keys, a hell of a tasty racket including a version of Aphex’s ‘Come To Daddy’.
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thesweetcheat 6216 posts |
Mar 19, 2017, 23:12
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Fatalist wrote: Ladytron – Light & Magic. Overlong and cheekily derivative in places, but it’s hard not to like the machine-tooled, leftfield pop of this album. On saying that, the girls seemed fairly unmoved by it. Best at its most uncompromising: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r7bSYz1-QY Not listened to that in full for a while, but the title track is one of my very favourite 'Tron tracks. Kind of reminds of 70s Jean-Michel Jarre, in a good way.
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Fatalist 1123 posts |
Mar 19, 2017, 23:20
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thesweetcheat wrote: Fatalist wrote: Ladytron – Light & Magic. Overlong and cheekily derivative in places, but it’s hard not to like the machine-tooled, leftfield pop of this album. On saying that, the girls seemed fairly unmoved by it. Best at its most uncompromising: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r7bSYz1-QY Not listened to that in full for a while, but the title track is one of my very favourite 'Tron tracks. Kind of reminds of 70s Jean-Michel Jarre, in a good way. Absolutely. As I said, listening to it again, I was surprised how much it lifted from elsewhere. For instance, 'Seventeen' is basically a cooler version of Blur's 'Boys & Girls'!
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Monganaut 2380 posts |
Edited Mar 20, 2017, 02:25
Mar 20, 2017, 02:22
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Fatalist wrote: Echoboy – s/t. Another one of those talked up, next big things that somehow never quite materialised (despite a series of releases on Mute after this self-released debut). Tellingly, I remember really liking this at the time (1999), but couldn’t actually remember what it sounded like. And of course, it turns out to be very of its time, on the one hand being on nodding terms with Neu! (Krautrock starting to hit the indie mainstream around now), while on the other sounding very much like a bedsit Spiritualized. Still very listenable though, and in places really rather great (though as I’ve just discovered, pretty much entirely absent from YouTube. I do love that first album by Echoboy. Scene 30, Flashlegs (Suite) and the sublime Mountains. Odd one out was always 'Signs' which could have been an Oasis B-side or something. As you say, early adopter of that indie 'Kraut' sound. Think the first self released album was limited to 500 numbered copies, so maybe that's why it's not that well known. The follow ups Volumes '1' and '2' went on to that almost but not quite Stereolab/Scala indie/ electronic sound, very Mute in execution I'd have to say. Next record 'Giraffe' was his big strive fer the charts I think. The last album 'Elektrik Soul Psymphonie' is probably his most experimental record (well if you discount the severely numbered live 'remix' album '46:54:00' which didn't really work at all for me, but at east he tried something a bit different (and beat The Heads to the idea in some respects)). Gonna dig out that first record again this week, cheers for reminding me of it (and Soul Psymphonie). The bedroom guy 'Whitey' kinda took parts of Echoboy and ran with it in a more pop direction. First Whitey album 'The Light At The End Of The Tunnel Is A Train' is well worth a spin. Think the album track 'Walk in The Dark' was used in an Advert somewhere way back when - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHcmNIqomDY&index=4&list=PL332ED0D5CC945E14 Whitey Album...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4JnQxXQCJY&list=PL332ED0D5CC945E14 Echoboy - Signs - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OChbv-rlzdU Echoboy - Südwestfunk (Ester Brinkmann Remix) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIHGnBRX4Bk Echoboy - Telstar Recovery (Live) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=us7r63mXGC4
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jb lamptoast-morsley 2447 posts |
Mar 20, 2017, 14:10
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Monganaut wrote: Beck - Mutations Great record from 2006. Back froom when he used to alternate albums with pop then downbeat. This is the downbeat phase after 'The Information' album. Good Stuff! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bek_A2bm5rE&list=PLYVIJldjocyqGkEd7EvDkwQ2gFEuB76XD Foolish child! Mutations was after Odelay in 98.
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Monganaut 2380 posts |
Mar 20, 2017, 18:11
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Ha ha. Doh! yer right, it was Modern Guilt after The Information. I'm such a dunce.....going to stand in the corner.
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Fatalist 1123 posts |
Mar 20, 2017, 18:12
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Monganaut wrote: Fatalist wrote: Echoboy – s/t. Another one of those talked up, next big things that somehow never quite materialised (despite a series of releases on Mute after this self-released debut). Tellingly, I remember really liking this at the time (1999), but couldn’t actually remember what it sounded like. And of course, it turns out to be very of its time, on the one hand being on nodding terms with Neu! (Krautrock starting to hit the indie mainstream around now), while on the other sounding very much like a bedsit Spiritualized. Still very listenable though, and in places really rather great (though as I’ve just discovered, pretty much entirely absent from YouTube. I do love that first album by Echoboy. Scene 30, Flashlegs (Suite) and the sublime Mountains. Odd one out was always 'Signs' which could have been an Oasis B-side or something. As you say, early adopter of that indie 'Kraut' sound. Think the first self released album was limited to 500 numbered copies, so maybe that's why it's not that well known. The follow ups Volumes '1' and '2' went on to that almost but not quite Stereolab/Scala indie/ electronic sound, very Mute in execution I'd have to say. Next record 'Giraffe' was his big strive fer the charts I think. The last album 'Elektrik Soul Psymphonie' is probably his most experimental record (well if you discount the severely numbered live 'remix' album '46:54:00' which didn't really work at all for me, but at east he tried something a bit different (and beat The Heads to the idea in some respects)). Gonna dig out that first record again this week, cheers for reminding me of it (and Soul Psymphonie). The bedroom guy 'Whitey' kinda took parts of Echoboy and ran with it in a more pop direction. First Whitey album 'The Light At The End Of The Tunnel Is A Train' is well worth a spin. Think the album track 'Walk in The Dark' was used in an Advert somewhere way back when - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHcmNIqomDY&index=4&list=PL332ED0D5CC945E14 Whitey Album...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4JnQxXQCJY&list=PL332ED0D5CC945E14 Echoboy - Signs - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OChbv-rlzdU Echoboy - Südwestfunk (Ester Brinkmann Remix) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIHGnBRX4Bk Echoboy - Telstar Recovery (Live) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=us7r63mXGC4 Good stuff. Like I said, I was pretty surprised by how under-represented he was online, particularly that nobody had posted 'Flashlegs', which is great. Less than 20 years ago too. He (Richard Warren, that is) actually went on to play with Spiritualized for a couple of years. He's also another of the rare breed of musicians to vaguely 'make it' (or not, as the case may be) to come from Nottingham (Sutton in Ashfield, to be precise).
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