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keith a 9570 posts |
Mar 04, 2018, 21:31
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flashbackcaruso wrote: keith a wrote: flashbackcaruso wrote: David Bowie - Lodger (+ 2017 Tony Visconti remix) Hi FBC. What's the verdict on this? Still not heard it myself. Hard to make a judgement, as 'Lodger' is an album I've only recently started to fully appreciate, and after playing it again on the original vinyl I thought I'd give the new mix a listen on Spotify Web Player after having read about it in Mojo last year. So firstly it's not an album I've immersed myself in enough to detect major differences, but apparently Visconti pulled out all sorts of things that got lost in the original mix. And secondly, the quality on Spotify seemed to lack the crispness I assumed the new version would have, so maybe you need to get the actual box set for the full effect. I imagine if you know the original inside out the new version would be quite revelatory. Cheers. I think it's am under-rated album myself. Also, although I owned a few Bowie LP's by that time, this was the first one I bought as soon as it was released.
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keith a 9570 posts |
Mar 04, 2018, 21:34
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Dope On Drugs – Dope The Binding Of Loki...almost 28 mins of a relentlessly hypnotic groove...is the bees knees. Impossible Broadcasting - Transglobal Underground Not really of TGU's best IMO, but there are still a couple of corking numbers. Black Sessions 2011 - Wire Last time I played this I found this a little lacklustre, but I cranked it up a bit this week and after a slowish start with the mid-tempo Adapt this sounded a whole better than I remembered. Also... Shag Tobacco – Gavin Friday This Is Happening - LCD Soundsystem American Dream - LCD Soundsystem Low In High School – Morrissey S/T – Mungo Jerry Electronically Tested – Mungo Jerry S/T – Secret Machines S/T - Stealers Wheel Ferguslie Park - Stealers Wheel Right Or Wrong - Stealers Wheel Out Spaced (Selected B-Sides & Rarities 94-98) – Super Furry Animals Musique Originale Du Film Donne-moi La Main – Tarwater From The Velvets To The Voidoids (U.S Punk Rock Roots 1970-1978) – V/A Sherwood At The Controls Volume 1985-90 – V/A Turn Me On, I'm A Radio (Uncut cd) – V/A White Blood Cells – White Stripes
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Fatalist 1123 posts |
Edited Mar 04, 2018, 21:54
Mar 04, 2018, 21:54
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Dead Meadow – The Nothing They Need. Another great album from DM. Not sure how they manage to be entirely generic (stoner psych) yet always sound unmistakeably like themselves. Wonderful track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DB5HI9tQdu4 Drinks – Hippo Lite. Second album from Cate Le Bon side project. On the one hand, it’s compellingly detached from the mores of modern music (in fact, it sounds almost exactly like a piece of avant indie/post punk circa 1981). On the other, it’s a bit patience-testing in places. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lRyLTosUGE Ethan Gold – Live Undead Bedroom Closet Covers. Another choice cut from the closet of doom, The Knife’s ‘Forest Families’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xwo_XiDVKs (better than the original!) Simply Saucer – Cyborgs Revisited. Never given this a proper listen before, more fool me. Yes, it sounds a LOT like VU, but the spirit of Hawkwind and the Stooges is also in there, and it’s just really urgent and vital. Liking it a lot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwXdwVg2Reo Chrome – Alien Soundtracks / Half Machine Lip Moves. Carrying on with the theme of scuzz rock riffs with sci-fi overtones, gave these two, err, classics a listen. Bloody odd, but fab, sounds like the inside of JG Ballard’s head circa The Atrocity Exhibition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXDGDoqwlLY Modulo 1000 – Não Fale Com Paredes. Space/downer rock oddity from Brazil 1972 – definitely not Tropicana… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H1PEwKIIAo The Bridge – Overdrive Rock/Jazz-Party. Library album given a re-release. Does what it says on the tin, though to be honest, I wasn’t concentrating that much, as at the time I was trying to keep the car from rear-ending other road users in the snow. Listen With Father: PJ Harvey – Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea. In a way, Peej is an obvious choice for the girls’ musical education/indoctrination, but her themes can be a bit… adult. And I like her without being completely wild about a lot of her stuff. I hadn’t listened to this in ages, and I know she’s disowned it a bit herself, but this is as good an intro as any I guess (though Is This Desire? remains my favourite). Girl 1 liked, girl 2 ambivalent. The Vinyl Countdown – C: Kevin Coyne – Millionaires And Teddy Bears. So, when I was talking about The Beyond being the only musical artist to have ever come out of Derby, I was obviously forgetting it was the birthplace of Mr Coyne too (plus Peter Hammill lived there as a teenager). It’s kind of hard to describe why KC is so great, because on paper, he’s just another blues-influenced singer songwriter, yet he’s so much more than that… An incredible voice, an interestingly minimal approach to songwriting and arrangements, and a gritty, funny and genuinely humane take on the world. MATB came out in 1979, and while Coyne’s the type of artist whose records are always indelibly their own, it’s interesting how he’s absorbed what was in the air at the time… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YZo3cH_zK4 Live: Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band – Café Oto, Hackney. Wow. This was one of those fantastically intimate gigs where the band are right there in front of you, and the sheer skill and verve of their playing just blows you away. Definitely a band who really come to life on the stage, how ever good the records are. A lot gutsier than I expected too. Their FB page describes them as ‘cock rock raga’, which is pretty perfect. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRwWgV_GHik
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Fitter Stoke 2607 posts |
Mar 05, 2018, 09:02
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Jim Capaldi ‘Some Come Running’ Jim Capaldi ‘Oh How We Danced’ Steve Winwood ‘Time Is Running Out’ 12” Traffic ‘Far From Home’ Julian Cope ‘Autogeddon’ Robert Fripp ‘Exposure’ Sylvian/Fripp ‘Darshan (The Road To Graceland)’ EP Peter Hammill ‘This’ Pip Pyle ‘Seven Year Itch’ Bruford ‘Gradually Going Tornado’ Faust ‘IV’ Marc and the Mambas ‘Torment and Toreros’ Aerosmith ‘Get Your Wings’ Wishbone Ash ‘The Power of Eternity’ Sandy Denny ‘Rendevous’ Tavares ‘Sky High’ Bruch: Violin Concerto no.1 (Perlman/LSO/Previn) Haydn: String Quartets Op.33 (Bingham Quartet) Enescu: String Quartet no.1 (Ad Libitum Quartet) Bartok: String Quartet no.3 (Hagen Quartet) Bax: Symphony no.5 (LPO/Thomson)
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spencer 3068 posts |
Mar 05, 2018, 10:58
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I've only really appreciated what a lyrical genius Jim Capaldi was in the last year or so despite being very fond of Traffic from the year dot. A big loss, RIP
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anthonyqkiernan 7087 posts |
Mar 05, 2018, 13:44
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After The Next Day got compared to it a lot I immersed myself in Lodger. It's remarkable. Think I'll give this remix a sniff
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Fitter Stoke 2607 posts |
Mar 05, 2018, 16:13
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Absolutely. Capaldi's solo catalogue is well worth investigation if you're only familiar with his work with Traffic. The first three Island LPs ('Oh How We Danced', 'Whale Meet Again' and 'Short Cut Draw Blood') are especially fine, and boast some stellar back up musicians, including many of his Traffic muckers.
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spencer 3068 posts |
Mar 05, 2018, 19:12
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I see Winwood's playing at Mancs Bridgewater Hall.. tempted
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flashbackcaruso 1053 posts |
Mar 05, 2018, 19:39
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I've sort of ruined a key moment from the Berlin period, since my daughter started singing another song to 'Always Crashing In The Same Car' last time I played Low, and I couldn't resist putting the two together. To me it now sounds like a mostly instrumental version of this 'duet': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akbYjxSsljQ
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Fitter Stoke 2607 posts |
Mar 06, 2018, 17:40
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Yeah, so am I. I saw him at Sage Gateshead ten years back and he was quite superb, and on the strength of his new live CD he still is. Tickets to see him have more than doubled in price since then, mind. I might hang fire and hope that he announces more dates, including one nearer me in NE England.
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