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1001realapes 2389 posts |
Mar 12, 2023, 04:52
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The Beatles - Please Please Me The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band - Part One Steeleye Span - Hark! the Village Wait Steeleye Span - Please to See the King Steeleye Span - All Around My Hat Steeleye Span - Rocket Cottage Steeleye Span - Storm Force Ten Steeleye Span - Sails of Silver The Yardbirds - Little Games The Yardbirds - BBC Sessions The Trashmen – Bird Call! The Twin City Stomp Of The Trashmen (disc 1 of 4) Tangerine Dream - EXIT Klaus Schulze – Deus Arrakis The Rivingtons - The Liberty Years Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies Paul Weller - Fat Pop (Volume 1) The Electric Prunes - st (mono) The Electric Prunes - The Complete Reprise Singles Fairport Convention - st Vieux Farka Touré Et Khruangbin – Ali Robin Trower - Twice Removed From Yesterday / Bridge of Sighs Leo Kottke - One Guitar, No Vocals Sam Collins - Jailhouse Blues V.A. - English Freakbeat Vol. 3
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Dog in fog 317 posts |
Edited Mar 12, 2023, 09:26
Mar 12, 2023, 08:08
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McDonald and Giles - S/T Skara Brae - S/T The Johnstons - The Johnstons / The Barley Corn The Johnstons - Bitter Green / Colours of the Dawn / If I Sang My Song / + 13 bonus tracks. 2x CD set featuring three albums, plus 13 bonus tracks which includes 8/10 tracks from The Travelling People compilation album (which I've got on vinyl). "The Curragh Of Kildare" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIPWvAmVY2o Tír na nÓg - Live 1970 -'71. Three different live sets' audio recordings on this 2022 CD: Granada TV's Doing Their Thing '70 / John Peel's Sunday Show '71 / BBC Radio 1's Stuart Henry's Sound Of The Seventies '71. Lovely to hear John Peel (plus squeaking audience member), too. The 'live '70' as video footage, "Looking Up" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir2QHtojawQ Tír na nÓg - A Tear And A Smile / Strong In The Sun. Two albums on one CD. Tír na nÓg - Live At Sirius (2009) Tír na nÓg - The Dark Dance. "You In Yellow" (2015) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug1izp-P9GA I'll be eternally grateful I saw them twice in 2019. Leo and Sonny, I love you so much. Amazing Blondel - Evensong / Fantasia Lindum. Two albums on one CD. Wil Malone - S/T Silmaril - The Voyage Of Icarus Beethoven - Diabelli Variations (Alfred Brendel) Beethoven - Violin Concerto in D Major (Wiener Philharmoniker / Constantin Silvestri / Yehudi Menuhin) Youtube Live footage of Emmet Spiceland - with Dónal Lunny on the left (before his Planxty, The Bothy Band days) - live in 1968, as the entertainment at the Tipperary vs Wexford hurling final. "Bunclody" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ld98VUDyPqU Dónal Lunny: Following The Music, RTÉ Documentary 2007. Wonderful! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wswIE49GiG0 Alan Stivell, with René Werneer, Gabriel Yacoub (pre-Malicorne), Dan Ar Braz + other unidentified (as yet) musicians - live clip 1972. A beautiful, sensitive arrangement. "Suite Irlandaise / King Of The Fairies" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_4-dx03sso Live 1973 "Suite Sud Armoricaine" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvidD__DxYo Superb Alan Stivell - short film with clips of Alan Stivell, a Breton master harpist, singer, multi-instrumentalist. Traditional folk, 'hundreds-as-one' dance, folk-rock, standing stones.. all here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FV8RMYKUUao Leo O'Kelly and Sonny Condell (Tír na nÓg) - The Camera & The Song (1975) parts 1 & 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDTUWZWK2CI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT_Bx5HDooM Youtube: "In late July 1974, Tír na nÓg broke up*, but shortly after going back to Ireland, they were approached by the BBC and asked to compose songs for an episode of a documentary series called The Camera & The Song, produced by John Bird and Tony Broughton. The concept was simple: combine the music of several artists and bands (including Ralph McTell, The Ian Campbell Folk Group, Fivepenny Piece, Grimms, etc...) with the camera of a film director under a particular theme linked to one country most of the time. The following episode was directed by David Feig. Entitled "The Irish", it presents a global view of Ireland and its elements that make us dream about this land. Tir na nOg asked to be introduced as Leo O'Kelly and Sonny Condell as the group had dissolved at the time. Most of the songs here were specially written for the program by the duo, excepting Two White Horses and Boat Song from their two first LPs that were re-recorded with new orchestral arrangements by Nick Harrison (who had previously participated in their first two albums)..." *temporarily Peter Giles & Michael Giles - The Giles Brothers 1962 > 1967. "Nightmares In Red" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wre0WTybvMA
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Fitter Stoke 2614 posts |
Mar 12, 2023, 09:07
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We met in a psychiatric unit: Matthews Southern Comfort ‘Later That Same Year’ - the third and final LP released under MSC’s name in 1970 is the best; very US west coast in feel and sound and blessed by Ian Matthews’ angelic vocal; Cinerama ‘Va Va Voom’ - much as I love The Wedding Present, the wonderful records that David Gedge crafted under the Cinerama moniker are the real deal for me. This was the first one, a quarter century old and still sounding as fresh as a daisy. More people need to hear these thoroughly melodic and memorable tunes, their fabulous arrangements and Gedge’s spot-on summaries of love, lust and loss. They really do; Matching Mole S/T - in some ways the quintessential Canterbury LP, moving from the plaintive subtlety of ‘O Caroline’ to the jazzy experimentation of ‘Part Of The Dance’ and all of Side 2; Magazine ‘Secondhand Daylight’ - yeah, two weeks running, the best post-punk album there ever was; Black Sabbath ‘Master of Reality’ - their third, and last great, album; Opeth ‘Garden Of The Titans’ - awesome live recording by the masters of some seriously heavy shit; Cirkus ‘One’ - mega-collectable Geordie progressive rock gem from 1973. (N.B. I only have it on an unofficial CD reissue should anyone feel tempted into breaking into my billet to nab it!) Kind of BJH-meets-Moodies-meets-Crimson in its mellotron rich sound. Although a bit sixth form lyrically, the music is excellently grandiose melodic rock with some no expense spared string arrangements. There are many more acclaimed records of this genre that can’t hold a candle to this; Judas Priest ‘Rocka Rolla’ - for me, Priest were far finer a hard rock band than a metal one. Their debut is an unsung belter if you’re not welded to their big selling leather and studs era; Boz Scaggs ‘Moments’ - early Scaggs outing with an appealing white soul meets country and pop vibe; Rodney Crowell ‘But What Will The Neighbors Think’ - Crowell’s second solo effort from 1980 has more of a US new wave feel than his traditional country style, but stands up well. I like this; Keith Jarrett ‘Book Of Ways’ - baroque keyboards never sounded like this. Not many artists would get the chance to make a double album of clavichord improvisations and if they did, I doubt they’d resemble this. Newly reissued, this is one of the most left field records in Jarrett’s vast back catalogue and one of the most fascinating, to my ears anyway; Erroll Garner ‘Up In Erroll’s Room’ - in my humble opinion Garner is the most underrated pianist in jazz: entirely self taught with a technique that most concert pianists would envy, even though he couldn’t read a note of music. And his avant garde intros always raise a laugh. This relatively late record exemplifies his style perfectly; Miles Davis ‘E.S.P.’ - the earliest of Miles’ second great quintet’s LPs reveals a group already at its symbiotic peak. There’s a uniquely misty feel to this record that I find most appealing. Wayne Shorter RIP; John Coltrane ‘Ballads’ - ideal listening for a sossled Saturday night; Schubert: Piano Sonata in A, D959 (Garrick Ohlssohn) - the second of the three late great sonatas composed by the dying Schubert, expertly realised in this ace new recording. The coupled earlier sonata in A minor (D537) - with which it shares a melody - is almost as fine; Mozart: String Quartet no.21 in D, K 575 (Chiaroscuro Quartet) - subtle and tasteful performance of Mozart’s third last quartet. The Chiaroscuros’ period sound didn’t appeal to me at first, but the sheer class of their playing has won me round. I shall explore more of their recordings; Brahms: Symphony no.4 (Boston SO/Nelsons) - I can’t get away with Andris Nelsons’ rather ordinary take on Beethoven, but his Brahms is much more convincing. This is as convincingly judged a Brahms Fourth as I’ve heard in many years, and is superbly recorded. I wonder if I’d have enjoyed Nelsons’ Beethoven cycle more had he recorded it in Boston rather than Vienna; (Qualifying note re the above, for any who may be interested: I’ve been disillusioned with both the VPO and BPO for several years, as “authentic” practitioners have gradually nullified their distinctive sounds to render them sterile and undernourished at times. Their best years seem sadly behind them, whilst Munich (BRSO and MPO), Bamberg, the Czech PO, Oslo, and most of the acclaimed American orchestras have upped their game. Our own LSO, LPO, Halle, RLPO and BBC SO are also world class. IMHO of course.) I just get numb when you are hard to find. Sweet days and eves to all Dave x
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flashbackcaruso 1058 posts |
Mar 12, 2023, 10:36
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Fitter Stoke wrote: Cirkus ‘One’ - mega-collectable Geordie progressive rock gem from 1973. (N.B. I only have it on an unofficial CD reissue should anyone feel tempted into breaking into my billet to nab it!) Kind of BJH-meets-Moodies-meets-Crimson in its mellotron rich sound. Although a bit sixth form lyrically, the music is excellently grandiose melodic rock with some no expense spared string arrangements. There are many more acclaimed records of this genre that can’t hold a candle to this; x About 10 years ago I found an original vinyl pressing of this in a box of £1.50 LPs at a fair on Richmond Green. Sold it on eBay for £135, a 900% profit! From the same box I got an original Deram 'Sound Of Sunforest' fully autographed by the band. Still hanging on to that one until I get desperate enough to sell it. The stallholder specialised in jazz and clearly had no idea about the other stuff he was selling.
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garerama 1118 posts |
Mar 12, 2023, 10:42
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David Bowie - Aladdin Sane / Diamond Dogs Broadcast - The Noise Made By People / Black Sessions / Work & Non Work / The Future Crayon / Berberian Sound Studio OST Cluster - Sowiesoso / Grosses Wasser Cocteau Twins - Blue Bell Knoll / Heaven Or Las Vegas Julian Cope - Jehovahkill / Rite / Barrowlands / Rite 2 / Rite Now / Discover Odin Queen Elizabeth 2 - S/t Crass - Best Before 1984 / Christ The Bootleg Miles Davis - Sorcerer / In A Silent Way Sandy Denny - Sandy / I've Always Kept A Unicorn Genesis (US Psych) - In The Beginning The Future Sounds Of London - Lifeforms (Remixes) / My Kingdom / Papa New Guinea 2001 / Teachings From The Electronic Brain Peter Hammill - Chameleon In The Shadow Of The Night / In Camera / Nadir's Big Chance The Incredible String Band - Hard Rope & SIlken Twine / On Air Jefferson Airplane - After Bathing At Baxters / Crown Of Creation / Volunteers Pearls Before Swine - One Nation Underground / Balaklava / The Use Of Ashes / These Things Too / City Of Gold / ... Beautiful Lies You Could Live In Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother / Meddle Revolting Cocks - Beers, Steers & Queers Archie Shepp - Kwanza / Four For Trane Wayne Shorter - Adam's Apple / Juju / Speak No Evil / The Soothsayer / The All Seeing Eye / Footprints Live The System - Warfare EP & Live Television - Demos 1974 & 75 / Live At The Old Waldorf 1978 Van Der Graaf Generator - The Aerosol Grey Machine / The Least We Can Do Is Wave To Each Other XTC - Apple Venus / Wasp Star
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flashbackcaruso 1058 posts |
Mar 12, 2023, 11:20
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The Pentangle - The Pentangle The Pentangle - Sweet Child Kate Bush - The Dreaming Curtis Mayfield - Curtis Curtis Mayfield - Roots Curtis Mayfield - Superfly Focus - In & Out Of Focus Focus - Focus II Vangelis - Soil Festivities Vangelis - Mask Vangelis - Invisible Connections Sparks - No.1 In Heaven Sparks - Terminal Jive Sparks - Whomp That Sucker Prince - For You Prince - Prince Prince - Dirty Mind Prince - Controversy Prince - 1999 Eddie Cochran - The Best Of... Gene Vincent - The Great Rocker Bill Haley & His Comets - Rock Around The Clock Bill Haley & His Comets - Rockin' The Joint Bill Haley & His Comets - Rock The Joint (discovered 3 Bill Haley LPs in my rock'n'roll collection and have no memory of having actually played them. 'Rockin' The Joint' is on Festival Records so I must have bought it in Australia. These are actually pretty good when he's not straying into nursery rhyme territory and pedal steel adds some nice colour to the last of these. The Comets tend to swing more than rock, but they are excellent musicians and were still playing with real vigour when appearing on Top Of The Pops in 1974, Haley looking no older than he did in the 1950s, unlike his younger contemporaries). The Beach Boys - 15 Big Ones The Beach Boys - Love You David Bowie - Earthling David Bowie - Hours... Julian Cope - Black Sheep The Bonzo Dog Band - Tadpoles
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Fitter Stoke 2614 posts |
Mar 12, 2023, 11:29
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Cirkus One for £1.50? I could only dream of making discoveries like that. As it is, the only way I could imagine getting that on vinyl would be by shelling out big moolah for it. And I suspect that it would go for more than you got for your copy. Whatever, well done!
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Dog in fog 317 posts |
Mar 12, 2023, 11:31
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"Schubert: Piano Sonata in A, D959 (Garrick Ohlssohn) - the second of the three late great sonatas composed by the dying Schubert, expertly realised in this ace new recording. The coupled earlier sonata in A minor (D537) - with which it shares a melody - is almost as fine" This prompted memories of a lone pilgrimage to Vienna I made in 2018. I visited Schubert's birthplace, deathplace (his brother Ferdinand's former apartment - Schubert always lodged with friends and never had his own home), the church where he was baptised and performed and premiered some works, the royal chapel where he sang with the Vienna boys' choir, and both of his graves. Because it was the Christmas period, I managed to experience all these places completely alone - excepting the royal chapel, where I went to early mass. That's without mentioning 'the others'. I think you would love the city beyond words.
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Fitter Stoke 2614 posts |
Mar 12, 2023, 11:34
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Oh yes. I do hope to visit Vienna before the Reaper visits me!
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Dog in fog 317 posts |
Mar 12, 2023, 11:55
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Try to visit St Marx Cemetery where Mozart is buried as well as the main 'Zentralfriedhof' cemetery. It is quite out of the way but reachable by tram and bus. It is a beautiful, wild, tumbledown place. I photographed a moss-covered angel monument there only to discover a couple of years later, quite by chance, that it was the grave of Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, who taught Beethoven counterpoint in the 1790s.
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