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1001realapes 2388 posts |
Edited Jun 04, 2023, 04:38
Jun 04, 2023, 04:15
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Peter Tosh - Legalize It Curtis Mayfield - Sweet Exorcist Bob Marley and The Wailers - Soul Rebels The Wailers - The Best of The Wailers (Beverly's) Bob Marley and The Wailers - 127 King Street Van der Graaf Generator - ALT Paul Whiteman - "The King of Jazz" 1920-1936 T-Bone Walker - The Hustle is On T-Bone Walker - The Complete Imperial Recordings 1950-1954 Claude Thornhill - Best of the Big Bands Ennio Morricone - Gli Scassinatori James Galway - I Solisti Veneti – Italian Flute Concertos Bohuslav Martinu - Julian Jacobson, Bournemouth Sinfonietta, Tamas Vasary – Sinfonietta Giocosa / Toccata E Due Canzoni / Sinfonietta La Jolla Gillian Weir, English Chamber Orchestra, David Hill, Raymond Leppard – Poulenc Concerto For Organ / Petit Concertino / Barber Toccata Festiva Rimsky-Korsakov, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Järvi – 3 Symphonies / Capriccio Espagnol / Russian Easter Festival Overture
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flashbackcaruso 1057 posts |
Jun 04, 2023, 08:08
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Nick Drake - Made To Love Magic Pink Floyd - Ummagumma Pink Floyd - BBC Sessions 1967-1969 The Move - Move The Move - Something Else The Move - Shazam! The Beatles - The Beatles Bob Dylan - Good As I Been To You Bob Dylan - World Gone Wrong Bob Dylan - Time Out Of Mind Bob Dylan - Love & Theft Genesis - A Trick Of The Tail Genesis - Wind And Wuthering Genesis - Seconds Out Nic Jones - Penguin Eggs Tangerine Dream - Electronic Meditation Tangerine Dream - Alpha Centauri Tangerine Dream - Ultima Thule Manuel Göttsching - E2-E4 Popol Vuh - Nosferatu The Apples In Stereo - Travelers In Space And Time
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Fitter Stoke 2613 posts |
Jun 04, 2023, 09:40
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It’s cold gin time again: The Teardrop Explodes ‘Culture Bunker 1978-1982’ - here at last. I’ve only had time to play the first two discs, most of which I know from earlier releases, but it’s great to hear them as a sequence as here. If they were all we had, we’d still be lauding Julian as a giant. Can’t wait to hear the rest; Yes ‘Going For The One’ - Yes’ last truly satisfying album was released, somewhat ironically, in the year that punk was fully embraced by a weary UK. The twee ‘Wondrous Stories’ aside, it’s a belter. Did they ever record a more arresting opening track, let alone the church organ driven blast that is ‘Parallels’? Joe Jackson ‘Body & Soul’ - over-loud drums aside (well, such was 1984), this is one magnificently melodic record. ‘Be My Number Two’ is one of the saddest songs I’ve ever heard; Van der Graaf Generator ‘Godbluff’ - VdGG re-emerged in the mid-Seventies with a near faultless triumvirate of albums of which this was just the first. There’s a hymn-like quality to these songs (and of course, their vocal delivery) that makes them feel truly epic with only basic keyboards, reeds and drums. What a band; Cabaret Voltaire ‘Mix-Up’ - I still get a rush from the first Cabs LP which sounded like nothing else I’d heard on its release - and still doesn’t; Alice Cooper ‘Love It To Death’ - the final track excepted (and about which the least said the better), this - like its prompt follow up - is one helluva garage rock classic. I’m eighteen and I like it. (I wish!) The Lurkers ‘Fulham Fallout’ - never mentioned in lists of great punk debut LPs but, in its primal naïveté and sheer clout, as arresting and entertaining as most. Whither Howard Wall these days? Saxon ‘Carpe Diem’ - I used to consider Saxon a guilty pleasure, but no more. On this, their latest album of self-penned material, they exhibit a heft and attitude that puts most current metal pretenders to shame. Seize the day indeed; Wings ‘Red Rose Speedway’ - Macca’s second album under the Wings moniker hits 50 this year. It’s no classic, but has enough good tracks to stand way above the sub-mediocre ‘Wild Life’ that preceded it; Kansas ‘Another Fork In The Road’ - useful 3CD summary of Kansas’ recorded career to date. They’ve mined a quite unique path for an American band, having clear UK prog rock influences throughout their half century existence (a dodgy big hair metal phase in the mid-80s excepted). I dig ‘em, and I’m not ashamed; Kiss ‘Alive!’ & ‘Alive II’ - there seems to be a glut of Kiss live albums out there these days but I can’t get further than their first two, irrespective of how truly “live” they may - or may not - have been. Eternal clunker ‘Beth’ aside, the songs just rock and the excitement is visceral. Remember them this way; Vaughan Williams: A Pastoral Symphony (Halle/Sir Mark Elder) - Elder has inherited some of his great Halle predecessor Barbirolli’s special way with VW; Brahms: Symphony no.4 (Boston SO/Andris Nelsons) - I was underwhelmed by Nelsons’ DG VPO Beethoven cycle but his earlier Brahms series with the Boston SO is much better. In fact, this Brahms Fourth is up there with Giulini, Karajan and Skrowaczewski in the finest I know. Superb recorded sound too; Haydn: String Quartets, Op.76 nos.4-6 (Chiaroscuro Quartet) - this competes with the Doric Quartet’s recordings of the same works that I so enjoyed a couple of weeks ago. The Chiaroscuros use period strings which sound more angst ridden in the slow movements than their rivals but otherwise, honours are shared with the Dorics. Both deserve a hearing; Ligeti: String Quartet no.2 (LaSalle Quartet) - taking the string quartet format to its limit, so much so that it’s hard to believe that these are the same instruments that Haydn wrote for so lyrically. Much of the time there’s barely an awareness of what player is producing what sound. Yet the overall effect remains beautiful; Ligeti: Cello Concerto (Queyras/Ensemble InterContemporain/Boulez) - quite unlike any other cello concerto I’ve ever heard: in fact, I hear more in common with the opening movement of Tangerine Dream’s ‘Zeit’ than any other “classical” music out there. Only a quarter of an hour long with a minimal, meditative first movement. I’ve neglected the music of this fine, innovative composer for too long; Tchaikovsky: Symphony no.5 (Philharmonia/Herbert von Karajan) - the earliest of Herbie’s six commercial recordings of this work has restricted mono sound, but has Dennis Brain’s unparalleled horn playing to compensate. His ethereal solo in the second movement is simply heart stopping. I have an elderly friend who heard these artists in this work at the Edinburgh Festival back in the day and considers it one of the finest music experiences of his life. I’m jealous; Balakirev: Symphony no.1 (Philharmonia/Karajan) - another classic recording from the same era as the above, this time of a lesser known (but excellent) Russian symphony and the only time Karajan recorded it. Was there a finer orchestra in the world in the early fifties than the Philharmonia? On recorded evidence, I doubt it. Expect nothing. Sweet vibes to all Dave x
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garerama 1115 posts |
Jun 04, 2023, 12:27
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Bonzo Dog Band - Tadpoles / Keynsham / Let's Make Up & Be Friendly Tim Buckley - Lady, Give Me Your Key / Dream Letter: Live In London 1968 Can - Ege Bamyasi / Future Days Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica / Clear Spot Cocteau Twins - Blue Bell Knoll / Heaven Or Las Vegas / Milk & Kisses Coil - Astral Disaster / A Thousand Lights In A Darkened Room / Time Machines Current 93 - Nature Unveiled / Dog Blood Rising / Live At Bar Maldoror Kraftwerk - 2 / Autobahn / Radio-Activity The Monkees - S/t (Arista 2LP comp) / Definitive ... (bonus disc) Martin Newell - The Greatest Living Gentleman / Black Session 1994 / The Off White Album / Opus Cafe, Paris 1996 Cleaners From Venus - Cleaned & Collectible Vols 1 & 2 Brotherhood Of Lizards - Lizardland / S/t Psychic TV - Force The Hand Of Chance / Themes / Themes 2 / A Prayer For Derek Jarman / Themes 3 (2cd) Public Image Ltd - First Issue / Metal Box Silver Apples - S/t Dennis Wilson - Pacific Ocean Blue / Bambu Wire - Pink Flag / Chairs Missing / 154
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Dog in fog 317 posts |
Edited Jun 04, 2023, 13:42
Jun 04, 2023, 12:51
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Molly Drake - The Tide's Magnificence: Songs And Poems Of Molly Drake. It's touching to think of Nick absorbing this musical atmosphere as a boy. The fruit doesn't fall far from the fruit tree... "How Wild The Wind Blows" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ag1QYzmTE18 Slade - Beginnings (as Ambrose Slade) / Play It Loud. Their first two albums on one disc. I actually sobbed to "Dapple Rose". Tyrannosaurus Rex - A Beard Of Stars David Bowie - Hunky Dory CD with bonus tracks, including "Quicksand" (demo version) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im_04nWapnA and "The Bewlay Brothers" (alternate mix) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_0Ez_y1O2g David Bowie - Rock Reflections. A musically identical CD version of the early '70's compilation, "Images". "Come And Buy My Toys" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VpH8WyoChk David Bowie - Aladdin Sane David Bowie - The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars Steve Ashley - Stroll On (Revisited). The original album on CD but with three extra tracks, including "Spirit Of Christmas" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4NRklzzNVo Howard Eynon - So What If I'm Standing In Apricot Jam "Commitment To The Band" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmAdMD0exeY Robin Williamson & His Merry Band - A Glint At The Kindling "The Woodcutter's Song" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7HiPFnyoac Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - Timeless Flight AC/DC - Powerage "Riff Raff" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S69xWkV4uM Iron Maiden - Killers Kate Bush - Never For Ever Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love Pulp - Separations Blur - 13 "1992" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnzmywg0pSU V/A - Metal For Muthas Volume II. Much of this sounds quaintly dated now, but I still love the two Trespass tracks and also this one by Jameson Raid (known as The Raid here), though apparently the band were very unhappy with EMI's remixing of their song. The Raid - "Hard Lines" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM9mgE3mllg
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Hunter T Wolfe 1709 posts |
Jun 05, 2023, 10:26
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V/A: All The Young Droogs The Pet Shop Boys: Behaviour Keith Seatman: Disjointed Oddities And Other Such Things EP Vol. 2 James Redmond: Video City II The Jack Cades: Something New Wreckless Eric: Leisureland Chela: Diagonal Drift Ben Chasny & Rick Tomlinson: Waves Datashock: Geltungsbereich Universum Steely Dan: The Royal Scam Neil Young: Time Fades Away The Teardrop Explodes: Culture Bunker
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Monganaut 2381 posts |
Jun 05, 2023, 11:49
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Couldn't sleep last night and caught a great docu on sky arts called 'Sisters with Transistors'. Thought I'd seen it before, but turns out it was all new to me. If you're into the strange origins of electronics in music/art there is much to enjoy here, very well put together. Covers the usual suspects, but many more I wasn't aware of as well. In fact, I watched it through twice and ordered the DVD straight after. Pity there isn't an OST CD, would be a cracker. Think it's still up for streaming if you have access. https://sisterswithtransistors.com/ https://www.sky.com/watch/title/programme/de349368-37a8-4e00-820b-efac9e043b8b compiled soundtrack of sorts https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4qKBntz3F8wtS3APm9fRcC Tunes include... Ozric Tentacles - Trees of Eternity 90's to 2000 output compiled. Some good stuff and some meh, but always got a soft spot for Ozrics style of psychprogdubtrance mash ups. Stereolab - Switched on Vol:5 One of the better mop up comps from Stereolab. Later output, but not a duffer on here. Trees Speak - Mind Maze OK, but prefer the first couple of albums. It's all getting a bit samey now. Tolouse Low Trax - Leave Me Alone One time Kreidler member makes funky, rhythmic ethno trance outs. Not heard anything by TLT that I don't enjoy tbh. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lHIyUvOmslvW_k2bJwXsDqwKhO87Tc4iI Timeshard - The Planet Dog Years Still loving this trip down memory lane. They really did make some excellent tunes. The Kinks - The Journey Part 1 Decent comp of standout moments. Did ole Ray invent hauntology with his endless mythologising of the past, or just contribute to future Brexiteers ideas of yesteryear being the land of milk and honey, who knows?, still, they can carry a tune!. Hawkwind & VA - Friends And Relations-The Rarities Various Electronic Sound Covers Collection Volume.01/02 Deviation Street; High Times in Ladbroke Grove 1967-1975 3CD All yer fav squat tunes in one tidy package. Keep well.x
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keith a 9573 posts |
Jun 05, 2023, 21:22
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Black Bay – Silver Moth Featuring Stuart Braithwaite of Mogwai. Everything Was Beautiful - Spiritualized Slowly starting to realise just how good this one is. Also... Revolver – The Beatles YTILAER – Bill Callahan Covers – Cat Power Standers – Craven Faults Fuse – Everything But The Girl Broken English – Marianne Faithfull Limbs – Keeley Forsyth A 60th Anniversary Sampler (Mojo) – The Kinks Tick Tick Tick – Stephen Mallinder Alias Sessions – Murcof Game Of The Thrones EP – Lee Perry Entangled Routes – Pye Audio Corner 4 Hands – Roedelius Story Pulse Of The Early Brain (Switched On Vol 5) - Stereolab After Dark – Alan Vega
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LeeHarveyIsInnocent 48 posts |
Jun 05, 2023, 22:09
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Monganaut wrote: The Kinks - The Journey Part 1 Decent comp of standout moments. Did ole Ray invent hauntology with his endless mythologising of the past, or just contribute to future Brexiteers ideas of yesteryear being the land of milk and honey, who knows?, still, they can carry a tune!. Pretty cool comment. When did you first realise you could read minds?
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