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1001realapes 2389 posts |
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May 14, 2023, 04:34
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The Guess Who - Rockin' The Nice – The Thoughts Of Emerlist Davjack The Nice – Ars Longa Vita Brevis Klaus Schulze - Dig It Klaus Schulze - Live Klaus Schulze - Audentity Grant-Lee Phillips - All That You Can Dream Joe Higgs - Life of Contradiction Bob Marley & The Wailers – Wail 'n Soul'm Singles Selecta Robert Johnson – The Centennial Collection (Master Takes) Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Brain Salad Surgery Jefferson Airplane – Live At The Fillmore Auditorium 11/25/66 & 11/27/66 (We Have Ignition) Stockhausen - Kontrapunkte / Maderna Boulez
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flashbackcaruso 1058 posts |
May 14, 2023, 10:15
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Bob Dylan - Slow Train Coming Bob Dylan - Saved Bob Dylan - Shot Of Love V/A - One More Chance (handy Charisma comp of singles that flopped, with 'Happy The Man' sitting next to 'Eric The Half-a-Bee' plus VDGG's great version of 'Theme One' and String Driven Thing's very enjoyable 'It's A Game'). Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left Genesis - Foxtrot Genesis - Live Genesis - BBC 1972 Cluster - Cluster Cluster - Cluster II Widow's Weeds - Maelstrom Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - Bat Chain Puller Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - Doc At The Radar Station Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - Ice Cream For Crow Ralph McTell - You Well-Meaning Brought Me Here String Driven Thing - String Driven Thing Amon Düül - Psychedelic Underground Amon Düül - Paradieswärts Düül Ash Ra Tempel - Le Berceau De Cristal Can - The Lost Tapes The Monkees - The Birds, The Bees & The Monkees
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Fitter Stoke 2614 posts |
May 14, 2023, 10:30
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Day in day out day in day out: Pink Floyd ‘Wish You Were Here’ - sometimes you can know an album so well that you take it for granted and stop actively listening. That’s what I’d done with WYWH for decades. This week I (soberly) put it on my deck and it fucking blew my mind; Joy Division ‘Heart and Soul’ - as did this. Am I alone in finding their non-album tracks even more satisfying than the albums themselves? Whatever, there’s a consistency and quality here that far outreaches just ‘Unknown Pleasures’ and ‘Closer’, classics though they are; Bruce Springsteen ‘Devils & Dust’ - The Boss gets much deeper and introspective when devoid of his E-Street chums, as here; Patti Smith Group ‘Radio Ethiopia’ - Patti’s second album is my favourite, capturing her muse at its most intense; Pink Floyd ‘Animals’ - which, unlike WYWH, I’ve grown to love gradually over the years. Their nastiest, most rocking album and the last of theirs that I truly rate; Ian Hunter ‘Defiance Part 1’ - the dude sounds old (well of course he does) but my, the attitude’s still there. And he’s got a few minor talents supporting him; Marillion ‘An Hour Before It’s Dark’ - my favourite album of 2022. How this band remains a cult - albeit a sizeable one - is a mystery to me; The Saints ‘(I’m) Stranded’ - first wave punk glory from Australia. As unique as the Ramones but without their critical kudos; The Jolt s/t - too late for punk and too early for the mod revival, The Jolt made a decent and distinctive power pop LP with well-good songs. A lost gem from 1978; Bruce Springsteen ‘The Wild, The Innocent And The E-Street Shuffle’ - there’s a freshness in Springsteen’s early work that transcends five decades. Whilst I love his recent work - and I don’t believe he’s ever sung better than now - the seven long songs on this record sound so goddamn good it’s easy to feel that he ever bettered them. The man was - and is - a legend; Dream Theater ‘Distance Over Time’ - they’ve got less impactful over the years - especially since Mike Portnoy departed - but can still deliver inventive, highly melodic hard rock as here; Robert Plant ‘The Principle Of Moments’ - it’s hard to believe that this still fresh sounding record is now 40 years old. Percy kept the vocal histrionics in check on his sophomore album, with a band that was similarly restrained, yet bang on the money; Faces ‘Pool Hall Richard’ 45 - this is one seriously raunchy seven inch. The best Stones song the Stones never wrote? Discuss; Keith Jarrett: Nagoya, November 12, 1976 (from ‘Sun Bear Concerts’) - this great man turned 78 last week and, whilst poor health has meant it’s highly unlikely we’ll get anything new from him, he’s at least left a massive legacy of fine recordings to enjoy. This is as good an example as any of his lyrical, improvisational art. Listen and drift away; Jan Garbarek Group ‘It’s OK To Listen To The Gray Voice’ - one of those marvellous European jazz records that Garbarek made annually in the 70s and 80s, always with stellar back up from his ECM label mates. Eberhard Weber is on particularly fine form here; Lucia Popp: Opera Arias (Munich RSO/Kurt Eichhorn) - lovely 1982 recital from the much missed soprano. Her ‘Song To The Moon’ is a wonder to behold; Haydn: 3 String Quartets, Op.74 (Endellion Quartet) - straight laced performances from 30-odd years ago. So what? The music is beautifully served; Haydn: String Quartet in G, Op.76 no.1 (Chiaroscuro Quartet) - a very different, analytical approach to Haydn, expertly played on gut strings without tears; Haydn: 2 String Quartets, Op.77 (London Haydn Quartet) - more gut strings, this time played ultra sensitively, to the great benefit of Haydn’s sublime slow movements; Haydn: String Quartet in D minor, Op.103 (Tatrai Quartet) - only two movements were completed of Haydn’s last string quartet but they still fulfil admirably in this fine rendition. Much as I’m enjoying the Festetics and London Haydn Quartets’ complete Haydn quartet surveys it’s the Tatrais’ much longer gestating series that remains my first choice; Haydn: Symphony no.62 in D (Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood) - any of Haydn’s hundred plus symphonies can put a smile on even the most jaded face. This did mine; Wouldn’t it be great if we ran out of hate? Have a great week, all Dave x
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Hunter T Wolfe 1710 posts |
May 14, 2023, 11:25
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The Teardrop Explodes: Culture Bunker (this has rather dominated my listening week, especially since the nice people at Universal sent me the vinyl box set!) Talking Heads- Fear Of Music Soundcarriers- Celeste The Alan Bown- S/T (AKA Outward Bown in the UK, but this is the US version) The Flamin' Groovies- Shake Some Action The Electric Prunes- S/T Eliza Skelton- The Lookerer
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Dog in fog 317 posts |
May 14, 2023, 13:48
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Donovan - Catch The Wind Giles, Giles & Fripp - The Brondesbury Tapes (1968) Giles, Giles & Fripp - The Cheerful Insanity Of Giles, Giles & Fripp David Bowie - David Bowie aka Space Oddity David Bowie - The Man Who Sold The World "After All" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXewmtDGQFQ Trees - The Garden Of Jane Delawney Witthüser & Westrupp - Bauer Plath "Die Schlüsselblume" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ua392NAeYCc Hawklords (+The Sonic Assassins) - 25 Years On Pulp - Different Class "Something Changed" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxm_3J3r5rM Pulp - This Is Hardcore The Dandy Warhols - Come Down Roy Harper - Man & Myth "The Exile" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2C-XA8xDMPs Hawkwind - Somnia. Hawkwind's 'lockdown' album "China Blues" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCnrbheJIjI V/A Motown Chartbusters Volumes 1 & 3 Isley Brothers - "Behind A Painted Smile" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LVfIpPm56I V/A This Is Northern Soul Judy Street - "What" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnGPgg-4Ic8 V/A Saturday Night Fever sound track Bee Gees - "You Should Be Dancing" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JoZS6LgqYI V/A Let's Hear It For The Girls Again
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keith a 9574 posts |
May 14, 2023, 20:03
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Standers – Craven Faults Live Works – Craven Faults Enclosures – Craven Faults The long-awaited new Craven Faults LP is finally here and on the strength of a first play it's as great as I had hoped. And the cd boxset comes with the other two releases above (both of which are excellent) if anyone who likes long electronic instrumentals is interested. Days: Live From Alien Research Centre – The Notwist Vertigo Days is one of my favourite and most played albums of recent times. I really do think that they may have bettered their 2002 classic Neon Golden with this one and I never thought they would do that. So I had to get this live version – sure it doesn't veer far from the studio album but it's great to hear all the same. Also... Novelty Waves (CDS) – Biosphere Shortwave Memories – Biosphere Fragments – Bonobo Glorious Game – El Michels Affair & Black Thought Broken English – Marianne Faithful S/T – The Only Ones This Is... - Augustus Pablo King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown – Augustus Pablo / King Tubby Wake – Silent Vigils Racing The Storm – Emiliana Torrini, The Colourist Orchestra
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garerama 1118 posts |
May 14, 2023, 22:53
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The Apostles - The Lives & Times Of The Apostles / The Acts & Times Of The Apostles In The Theatre Of Fear Bauhaus - Press The Eject Button & Give Me The Tape / 1979-1983 Edgar Broughton Group - Keep Them Freaks A Rollin': Live At Abbey Road, December 1969 / Out Demons Out! (Best Of) Tim Buckley - Lorca / Starsailor Can - Doko E / The Lost Tapes Caravan - S/t / The Show Of Our Lives (comp LP) John Coltrane - Crescent / A Love Supreme / Kulu Se Mama / Live At The Village Vanguard Again! / Cosmic Music (with Alice Coltrane) The Cure - Faith / Carnage Visors / Pornography Discharge - Why? / Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing Flux (Of Pink Indians) - Strive To Survive Causing Least Suffering Possible / Uncarved Block Joy Division - Warsaw / Peel Sessions Robert Mellin & Gian Puro Reverberi - The Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe OST Nico - The Marble Index / Desertshore Michael Nyman - The Draughtman's Contract OST / Drowning By Numbers OST / The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover OST / The Piano OST Poison Girls - Hex / Chappaquidick Bridge Soft Cell - Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret Soft Machine - Jet Propelled Photograph / Vol 1 / Vol 2 Sonic Youth - EVOL / The Destroyed Room Sorrow - Sleep Now Forever / The Final Solstice II Third World War - S/t / II The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Factory Rehearsals 3-1-66 / Scepter Studio Sessions / S/t / Valleydale Ballroom, Columbus, Ohio 4-11-66 V/A Devastate To Liberate Intermission (Ghost Box)
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garerama 1118 posts |
May 14, 2023, 22:59
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Dog in fog wrote: David Bowie - The Man Who Sold The World "After All" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXewmtDGQFQ Trees - The Garden Of Jane Delawney Nice to see "After All" singled out. That is the great unsung Bowie song - I rate it as his best and TMWSTW as his best album when it's not Low. Great to see Trees sitting next to that too - damn fine album!
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Dog in fog 317 posts |
May 15, 2023, 15:33
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garerama wrote: Dog in fog wrote: David Bowie - The Man Who Sold The World "After All" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXewmtDGQFQ Trees - The Garden Of Jane Delawney Nice to see "After All" singled out. That is the great unsung Bowie song - I rate it as his best and TMWSTW as his best album when it's not Low. Great to see Trees sitting next to that too - damn fine album! They're both superb Bowie albums, for sure, but my Top 2 have to be 'Images 1966-1967' and 'Hunky Dory'. Images was an early 70s compilation, an extension of his first album - an older sister of my best friend up the road had it. As young girls of 8 or 9, we'd play this album to death, not only learning all the lyrics but creating mini dramas for each song (She's Got Medals being a memorable 'play' ;-)). Along with the cartoons on the gatefold sleeve, it was (and is) such a child-friendly album, though London Boys gave me my first inkling of seedy, urban goings on. "There's a special place in the rhubarb fields, underneath the leaves, It's a secret place and adults aren't allowed there, Mr. Grownup, Go away, sir..." from There Is A Happy Land.
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Hunter T Wolfe 1710 posts |
May 15, 2023, 15:52
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Dog in fog wrote: garerama wrote: Dog in fog wrote: David Bowie - The Man Who Sold The World "After All" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXewmtDGQFQ Trees - The Garden Of Jane Delawney Nice to see "After All" singled out. That is the great unsung Bowie song - I rate it as his best and TMWSTW as his best album when it's not Low. Great to see Trees sitting next to that too - damn fine album! They're both superb Bowie albums, for sure, but my Top 2 have to be 'Images 1966-1967' and 'Hunky Dory'. Images was an early 70s compilation, an extension of his first album - an older sister of my best friend up the road had it. As young girls of 8 or 9, we'd play this album to death, not only learning all the lyrics but creating mini dramas for each song (She's Got Medals being a memorable 'play' ;-)). Along with the cartoons on the gatefold sleeve, it was (and is) such a child-friendly album, though London Boys gave me my first inkling of seedy, urban goings on. "There's a special place in the rhubarb fields, underneath the leaves, It's a secret place and adults aren't allowed there, Mr. Grownup, Go away, sir..." from There Is A Happy Land. Great to hear love for She's Got Medals, London Boys, There Is A Happy Land, etc. I never had 'Images', but my first Bowie album was 'The World Of David Bowie', similarly mixing tracks from his first album with contemporary singles and some great '60s songs that weren't released at the time. Some days it's still my favourite Bowie album, certainly my favourite to sing along to in a mockney accent..
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