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Squid Tempest
Squid Tempest
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Re: Soundtracks of Our Lives week ending 18 November 2017 CE
Nov 19, 2017, 20:15
Lawrence wrote:

Marc and the Mambas - Untitled


I dug that out again recently - I think its really stood the test of time.
Lawrence
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Re: Soundtracks of Our Lives week ending 18 November 2017 CE
Nov 19, 2017, 20:34
Yes, the collaborations with Matt Johnson are the best thing about it, and also Marc Almond's melodramatic retakes of "Caroline Says" and "Big Louise" are amazing to say the least...
keith a
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Re: Soundtracks of Our Lives week ending 18 November 2017 CE
Nov 19, 2017, 21:32
Funeral – Arcade Fire

Sunshine Tomorrow – Beach Boys

Rock Section – Dayglo Maradona

Dead Magick – Dead Skeletons

Pink Moon – Nick Drake

Analogue Creatures Living On An Island – Immersion

Phantom Radio – Mark Lanegan Band

TFCF – Liars

The Nearest Exit – Memory Drawings

Next – Sensational Alex Harvey Band

Tanx – T.Rex

My Generation: 20 Sixies Classics From The Modern World – V/A

Modern Kosmology – Jane Weaver
Fatalist
Fatalist
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Edited Nov 19, 2017, 22:46
Re: Soundtracks of Our Lives week ending 18 November 2017 CE
Nov 19, 2017, 22:43
James Holden & The Animal Spirits – s/t. Loved The Inheritors, his last album, which was trancey electronica with a strange folky/pagan bent – this one takes things even further, basically turning into kraut-jazz systems music, a bit like, err, Alice Coltrane meets Phil Glass, or something. Anyway, sounds pretty great on first listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwROTPYgFDs

Goran Kafjes Subtropic Arkestra – The Reason Why Vol. 3. Norwegian trumpeter and band interpret other people’s songs with a jazz rock gusto. Good, though think that vol. 2 has the edge. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAr4nOxKd4Y

Chew – A Fine Accoutrement. Very modern sounding stoner/psych/prog instrumentals, which crucially actually throw in a few hooks: https://3dchew.bandcamp.com/album/a-fine-accoutrement

Olavi Louhivuori – Immediate Music 1. Drummer/band leader from Finnish post-rock orchestra Odderang goes improv. Heavy cosmic dronery ensues, but it’s pretty great when he’s hammering the skins: https://soundcloud.com/svart-records/olavi-louhivuori-immediate-music-i

Melanie De Biasio – Lilies. Love MDB, heavy-lidded harbinger of the 3am existential crisis blues: https://melaniedebiasio.bandcamp.com/track/your-freedom-is-the-end-of-me

Melange – Viento Bravo. Spanish group who really really like Camel. Lovers of that soft jazz prog sound will dig this bigly: https://melangemadrid.bandcamp.com/album/viento-bravo

Mike Wexler – Syntropy. I really liked his last one, Dispossession, like an occult version of Nick Drake. This is less sepulchral, though still better than most singer/songwriter fare: https://soundcloud.com/three-four-records/sets/mike-wexler-syntropy

Stray – Saturday Morning Pictures. A great band who never quite made it into the first division. This is cited by some as their best album (though I think the debut is still my fave), even if the vocals have suddenly gone all Acton-via-Alabama. Some great riffs and some really energetic playing (Iron Maiden’s Steve Harris was a big fan), but it’s perhaps the lack of any real killer tracks that ultimately meant they were never going to hit the big time. The most evil fuzz bass here though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvJ6epdC8w0

Listen With Father:

Running through the comp of great rock 45s that I put together. Joan Jett’s ‘I Love Rock & Roll’ is the favourite at the moment, but closely followed by ‘Highway to Hell’, quintessential school run music. I’m sure Malcolm would have approved.

U is for…

Union Carbide Productions – The Golden Age Of… I remember seeing this lot’s name in the music press in the late 80s and just assumed they were some grunty industrial band. Actually, they were a fantastic bunch of Swedish reprobates in love with the Stooges and the Stones, and pretty keen that everybody knew it. Yeah, even at the time, there were hundreds of bands ploughing the same furrow, but this lot really got it – their debut album was referred to as Raw Power’s unofficial follow-up, and that’s not hyperbole by any means. Anyway, this is a comp of their four albums and there’s not a duff track here. (And perhaps most pertinently for this thread, UCP were Ebbot Lundberg’s first group, the man who went on to form The Soundtrack Of Our Lives). A real brain blaster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ub5zBa3aoyk
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat
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Re: Soundtracks of Our Lives week ending 18 November 2017 CE
Nov 19, 2017, 22:58
Fatalist wrote:
James Holden & The Animal Spirits – s/t. Loved The Inheritors, his last album, which was trancey electronica with a strange folky/pagan bent – this one takes things even further, basically turning into kraut-jazz systems music, a bit like, err, Alice Coltrane meets Phil Glass, or something. Anyway, sounds pretty great on first listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwROTPYgFDs


Ooh, missed that coming out, also a big fan of The Inheritors.
drewbhoy
drewbhoy
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Re: Soundtracks of Our Lives week ending 18 November 2017 CE
Nov 20, 2017, 13:20
Should be of interest

https://www.simpleminds.com/2017/11/20/new-album-european-tour-dates/
Monganaut
Monganaut
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Edited Nov 20, 2017, 19:11
Re: Soundtracks of Our Lives week ending 18 November 2017 CE
Nov 20, 2017, 18:56
They're the new big thang don't ya know, lauded all over the place, well the places I've read. I kinda feel sorry fer artists that are heralded as the emporers new clothes on the strength of their latest effort. If everything they produce isn't top notch, peeps soon loose interest. I quite liked the record on the first couple of listens I must admit, though I can't say it's gonna rearrange my brain DNA like some folks do. This is no reflection on the artist in question (and maybe my expectations of qualifies as a fabulous record sets the bar too high), but peeps do sem to herald fairly pedestrian music as 'amazing' these days. Maybe it's cos' there is so much choice.
God! I sound like a moany old cunt....I'll get me coat.
thesweetcheat
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Re: Soundtracks of Our Lives week ending 18 November 2017 CE
Nov 20, 2017, 20:00
Monganaut wrote:
They're the new big thang don't ya know, lauded all over the place, well the places I've read. I kinda feel sorry fer artists that are heralded as the emporers new clothes on the strength of their latest effort. If everything they produce isn't top notch, peeps soon loose interest. I quite liked the record on the first couple of listens I must admit, though I can't say it's gonna rearrange my brain DNA like some folks do. This is no reflection on the artist in question (and maybe my expectations of qualifies as a fabulous record sets the bar too high), but peeps do sem to herald fairly pedestrian music as 'amazing' these days. Maybe it's cos' there is so much choice.
God! I sound like a moany old cunt....I'll get me coat.


I didn't know that, as it happens, I don't read much trendy music press these days :) Good luck to the guy if he has become popular though, fleetingly or otherwise. I bought the Inheritors mainly on the basis of the cover and the song titles...

But I agree with your point generally, and I think part of the difficulty as well as breadth of choice is ease of availability. Once upon a time you really had to want a record enough to go to a shop, do battle with the sneers of the guy behind the counter and part with your readies, and that was usually the only way to even hear a lot of stuff unless a mate had it already. I've lost count of the number of records I bought without ever hearing a note, on the strength of reviews in NME or wherever. Whereas now you can dip in on Spotify or whatever it's quite easy to quite like something enough to buy it online without leaving your living room or engaging with anyone, but without really investing any emotional effort into it. I still buy most of the stuff I get in shops when they have it. There are exceptions though, and much of new music I've bought over the last ten years has come from recommendations - and much of it is instrumental electronica and manipulated field stuff, which as you say isn't necessarily life changing but which does engage my brain very nicely indeed. To really grab my emotional attention though still usually takes meaningful lyrics.
caldervalium
caldervalium
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Re: Soundtracks of Our Lives week ending 18 November 2017 CE
Nov 20, 2017, 23:20
Can - Nottingham 1977
MC Hawking - A Brief History Of Rhyme (an old fave)
The Clash - Rat Patrol From Fort Bragg (alternate version of 'Combat Rock')
The Ukrainians - Respublika
Sparks - Hippopotamus (newish album, fab stuff)
Alex Chilton - Take Me Home And Make Me Like It
Wire - assorted KEXP session vids on youtube
Soft Boys - demos and rehearsals
Witchfinder General - Death Penalty
Fela Kuti - He Miss Road
Peter Perrett - Trades Club 2015
Thtobbing Gristle - Ajanta, Derby 1979
Monganaut
Monganaut
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Re: Soundtracks of Our Lives week ending 18 November 2017 CE
Nov 21, 2017, 01:27
Like you I remember the time you had to put the time and effort in to get off ya arse to buy a record or tape. Most of my early purchases were courtesy or Peel's nightly shows. God! the shite I've bought over the years on the recommendation of a Music paper or magazine, or on the strength of hearing one track. I guess Bandcamp, Spotify, Youtube etc....help to make an informed choice these days. I still but a fair amount of music, I do like to support the artists whenever possible. I must admit, the hit rate for purchasing consistant good records is much better than 15 or 10 years ago. I think half my vinyl collection from years ago is stuff I've spun once or twice, then stuck it in the racks never to be heard again. Probably time I cleared that stuff out truth be told. Used to think I was pretty well 'up' and well informed about music, I've only gotta browse the Quietus or Pitchfork sites or delve into the Wire magazine and these days and 9 times out of 10 I have't a clue who they are talking about. Without the great HH recommendations, I'd have nowt new to tune into.
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