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1001realapes 2388 posts |
Edited Jun 11, 2023, 05:01
Jun 11, 2023, 05:00
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The Monkees - Headquarters (mono) Tim Hardin - 1 Paul Weller – Fat Pop (Volume 1) Spirit - st Spirit – Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus Durand Jones & The Indications - st Bachman-Turner Overdrive - st The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced (UK) John Denver – Rhymes & Reasons The Sweet - Blockbusters Howlin' Wolf - Change My Way Charlie Parker - A Studio Chronicle Disc D 1947 Hollywood . New York City Lainey Wilson - Bell Bottom Country Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Déjà Vu Jethro Tull - This Was (mono) Illinois Jacquet – The Blues; That's Me! Ennio Morricone - Un Uomo da Rispettare Erich Wolfgang Korngold - Charles Gerhardt / National Philharmonic Orchestra – The Sea Hawk (The Classic Film Scores Of Erich Wolfgang Korngold) The Fugs - The Fugs First Album V.A. - AM Gold 1970
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Robot Emperor 762 posts |
Edited Jun 11, 2023, 06:03
Jun 11, 2023, 05:56
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I'm going to start this now and edit it later as I've suddenly realised how tired I am. It's been ages since I did one of these. What's changed? An increased appreciation of Tom Waits. He's become my antidote to looming anxiety about the state of the world, paranoid fantasy involving the Chinese Communist Party, AI's, societal control through social media and freedom vouchers, cameras that capture heat signatures that infalibly determine truth or lie, obedience... so Tom's my antidote to losing my mind in sympathy with reality. Swordfishtrombones, Frank's Wild Years and Rain Dogs are all now assimilated. I have no idea why I didn't listen properly earlier. I always knew it was good. The Groundhogs: Thank Christ, Split, Hogwash, Who Will Save The World. He'd earnt a little appreciation to go with well earned peace. Calm clever fury? Something like that. Sleaford Mods, odd tracks from all over the place. Possibly a little obsessed/processed by the tracks BHS and Mork and Mindy. Some evil sub Wigfield earworm genius at work. A little scattergun, but capable of genius. Bloody Uriah Heep... I find comfort in their relentlessly cheerful gallop. I'm a hopeless case. Sweet Freedom has been listened to more times than it should... Salisbury has its moments, but its Wizard and Look At Yourself for me. I mention bloody Uriah Heep everytime I post one of these... it's getting embarrassing. There is something about them that reminds me of the 70's French tv serial The Flashing Blade, I suspect they have become a sonic safety blanket, how can anything negative happen during Easy Living? Stealin'... impossible. I hope you are all well.
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garerama 1115 posts |
Jun 11, 2023, 08:33
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The Association - Birthday / S/t The Beatles - Rubber Soul (original stereo mix) / Revolver (2022 boxset) The Beau Brummels - Triangle (mono) David Bowie - Outside In Budapest / All Saints Can - Soundtracks / Live Rockpalast 1970 / Tago Mago / Ogam Ogat / Doko E Cleaners From Venus - Living With Victoria Grey (The Very Best Of) / Dolly Birds & Spies / Penny Novelettes / That London John Coltrane - Om / Sun Ship / Infinity Julian Cope - Rite 2 / Odin / Rite Now / Discover Odin Miles Davis - Bags Groove / Relaxin' / Workin' / Steamin' Groundhogs - Thank Christ For The Bomb / Who Will Save The World / Groundshogs Best Guru Guru - UFO / Hinten Billie Holiday - The Very Best Of (Verve/ UM 2cd) Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express / The Man-Machine / Computer World Charles Mingus - Blues & Roots / Mingus x5 / The Black Saint & The Sinner Lady / In A Soulful Mood Nico - Heroine / Drama Of Exile (1981 & 1983 versions) / Camera Obscura (with The Faction) Public Image Ltd - Flowers Of Romance / This Is PIL Shamen - En-Tact Judee Sill - S/t / Heart Food
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Fitter Stoke 2612 posts |
Jun 11, 2023, 08:55
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It’s easy to say when you’re so down that everything’s pointless: The Teardrop Explodes ‘Culture Bunker 1978-1982’ - what a pleasure it is immersing myself in this. Some of the live stuff ain’t exactly hifi (the Band On The Wall gig especially) but remains a fascinating chronicle of The Teardrops’ swift development. The Cargo demos are raw and magnificent; the coda at the end of the Rockfield version of ‘When I Dream’ revelatory. Disc 4 is sheer delight from first note to last, and innit great how Julian kept ‘World Shut Your Mouth’ (the song) back so long? Still more to play: thoughts to come, but I can already recommend this as beyond essential to anyone familiar with this website; Grateful Dead ‘Europe ‘72’ -after their fab psych period, the Dead’s live sets became less ethereal but more good time in feel. I dig both. This slightly doctored triple album exemplifies the “straighter” side of the band but with enough edge-of-seat improvisation to keep true Deadheads happy; Wishbone Ash ‘Front Page News’ - a somewhat soft sound was adopted for Ash’s eighth album, but it’s aged better than most as a result. One of those records I shrugged at when new, but like much more now. Hey, old age and all that; Henry Cow ‘Hamburg’ - Vol.10 of their ‘Redux’ complete recordings box set features a 1976 live radio take on their then regular ‘Beautiful As The Moon’ sequence that wanders into more abstract waters than the ‘Concerts’ version I’ve loved for nearly five decades. I think that this might be even better; Bob Dylan ‘Shadow Kingdom’ - lovely, informal run through of thirteen songs from the Zim’s exhaustive back catalogue, including some deep cuts, casually - yet lovingly - rendered. He’s not been in this good a voice for decades; Roxy Music ‘Stranded’ - I’m of the opinion that Roxy Music’s first phase, i.e. 1972 to 1975, was near faultless in originality, style and musical quality. In many ways, ‘Stranded’ is the apex: no Eno alas but oh, those songs - all eight of them. That it appeared six months after the gem that is ‘For Your Pleasure’ is little short of miraculous. Not one track - nor indeed one second - is extraneous; Roxy Music ‘Siren’ - the peak of Ferry’s pop muse (i.e. his ability to write real melodies* as catchy as they are melodic). Long my favourite Roxy LP, ‘Siren’ has now to yield to ‘Stranded’ in my old age - but it remains a masterpiece. The gloriously eerie segue between ‘End Of The Line’ and ‘Sentimental Fool’ excepted, any track from this could’ve been a hit single; (* as distinct from the tuneless, groove-based stuff that has preoccupied his writing from ‘Avalon’ onwards) Van der Graaf Generator ‘World Record’ - the third (and possibly most unsung) of the great trilogy of albums that VdGG released after their mid-70s resurrection was my introduction to them as a punk-obsessed 16 year old. For some reason, it hit home like a sledgehammer, despite my having (temporarily) ditched my prior allegiance to all things prog. It stills moves me like few other records 46 years on; Klaus Schulze ‘Irrlicht’ - in some ways I feel that Klaus’ muse is best exemplified by his earliest albums, restricted as they were by the embryonic tech of the time. Like early Cluster and Tangerine Dream, ‘Irrlicht’ is neither tonal nor atonal, yet never becomes abstract noise; Kraftwerk ‘Trans-Europa Express’ - the other extreme of kosmische music, minimalist and infectious; Lutz Glandien ‘Some Days In The Life Of A Tree’ - I won’t begin to describe this, except to say that I’ve never heard anything quite like it. Do try to hear it for yourself; Alan Richardson: Piano Music (Martin Jones) - diverting, lyrical music by an underrated Scottish composer, played with Martin Jones’ usual sensitivity and zeal; Schubert: String Quartet no.9 in G minor, D 173 (Chiaroscuro Quartet) - the more I hear the Chiaroscuros, the more convinced I am that they’re amongst the most exciting combos on the current chamber circuit. Their take on this early Schubert work seems just right: spirited and quirky as the music demands. They’re also great in Haydn: String Quartet in E flat, Op.33 no.2 ‘The Joke’ (Chiaroscuro Quartet) - from their latest release, a near-ideal rendition of a work to put a smile on the most haggard and jaded face, e.g. mine - and especially in the scherzo second movement, which slides and points like no other; Reger: Organ Suite no.1 (Kirsten Sturm) - Reger’s masterful organ music adds dense harmonies to Bach’s chromatic palette to sometimes overwhelming ends; Webern: Six Orchestral Pieces, Op.6 (Robert Craft) - these remarkable, short but sweet works have been more sensitively rendered in the seven decades since this pioneering record was made, but there’s a real sense of adventure in how they’re performed here. Atonality without tears; If you’re looking for love in a looking glass world, it’s pretty hard to find. Keep smiling Dave x
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Dog in fog 317 posts |
Jun 11, 2023, 09:42
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Witthüser & Westrupp - Trips + Träume Wapassou - Wapassou Pink Fairies - The Polydor Years x3 CD box set. I already own an old, much loved vinyl copy of WABOS, but leapt at this - Never Never Land / What A Bunch Of Sweeties / Kings Of Oblivion + 10 bonus tracks and a 16-page booklet for under £9. "Do It" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxjV2tQXWkk Roxy Music - Roxy Music. Another band that we played to death as young girls, thanks to our older sisters' record collections. Re-make/Re-model - what a superb first track of a first album. But here's "The Bob (Medley)" for a change. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8nCpaxp-1c Roxy Music - Country Life Cockney Rebel - The Human Menagerie "Sebastian", here cleverly dubbed over some fantastic film footage from the Pinkpop festival, NL, 1974. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emBUr-vO9ZI The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - SAHB Stories David Bowie - Low The Birthday Party - Mutiny / The Bad Seed E.P. Sleep - Sleep's Holy Mountain Orion Rigel Dommisse - What I Want From You Is Sweet "Fake Yer Death" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9C8HkUURzY Espers - Espers III And Also The Trees - (Listen For) The Rag And Bone Man And Also The Trees - Hunter Not The Hunted Hexvessel - Dawnbearer "The Wayward Confessor" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-nIQhFuvx4 Hugo Wolf - Italienisches Liederbuch - Dawn Upshaw (soprano), Olaf Bär (baritone), Helmut Deutsch (piano) Richard Strauss - Four Last Songs - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, George Szell (conductor) "Im Abendrot" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbA5bp-26NA
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ricky nadir 78 posts |
Jun 11, 2023, 10:36
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Oldies but Goldies ;-) Stray – Only What You Make It | Time Machine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkwsLSUv5Po Amon Düül II – Archangels Thunderbird | (Excerpt From) Soap Shop Rock https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfu-k9CKq2w Lucifer’s Friend – Ride The Sky | Horla https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD_mytxCdeg Fleetwood Mac – Dragonfly | The Purple Dancer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtNMVyTtOGs Mott The Hoople – Midnight Lady | It Must Be Love https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iE1FW6JJ_3U Queen – Killer Queen | Flick Of The Wrist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZBtPf7FOoM Kiss – Rock And Roll All Nite (Live Version) | Rock And Roll All Nite (Studio Version) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8mzIyIOdm0 The Tubes – What Do You Want From Life | White Punks On Dope https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SyixSHWgR8 The Lew Lewis Band – Out For A Lark | (You'd Better) Watch Yourself https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZxLmuFaxSw Lene Lovich – Lucky Number | Home https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnIJOO__jVo Lene Lovich – Bird Song | Trixi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maucjGIUzzo and Hawkwind – Silver Machine | Seven By Seven T. Rex – Children Of The Revolution | Jitterbug Love Alice Cooper – School's Out | Gutter Cat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VLhYv7nhlY (with Peter Hesslein from Lucifer’s Friend on lead guitar)
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flashbackcaruso 1057 posts |
Jun 11, 2023, 11:00
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Nick Drake - Family Tree Pentangle - Cruel Sister Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother Pink Floyd - Themes For An Imaginary Western (ingenious soniclovenoize imaginary album, inserting contemporaneous solo Syd into selections from Ummagumma and Atom Heart Mother https://albumsthatneverwere.blogspot.com/2013/03/pink-floyd-themes-from-imaginary_15.html) Genesis - And Then There Were Three Genesis - Duke Genesis - Abacab (double LP version - a lost classic!) Genesis - Three Sides Live Genesis - BBC Broadcasts (part disappointing, part revelatory box set - disappointing because the actual radio sessions are only partially represented, but revelatory because some of the concert recordings are stunning. Nice to hear almost all of the 1980 Lyceum concert in such great sound quality, complete with Friday Rock Show interjections from Tommy Vance) Tangerine Dream - Zeit Tangerine Dream - Atem Amon Düül II - Wolf City Amon Düül II - Vive La Trance Amon Düül II - Live In London Amon Düül II - Hi-Jack Amon Düül II - Made In Germany Bob Dylan - Modern Times Bob Dylan - Together Through Life Bob Dylan - Tempest Bob Dylan - Rough & Rowdy Ways (Who'd have thought Bob would be giving us such mesmerising recordings in his old age?) The Move - Looking On The Move - Message From The Country Popol Vuh - Die Nacht Der Seele Ty Segal - Freedom's Goblin
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Hunter T Wolfe 1709 posts |
Jun 11, 2023, 11:44
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Taste- Best of The Bee Gees- Best of ("the orange album" as I think of it) Prelude- Owl Creek Incident Can- Landed Love And Rockets- My Dark Twin The Jack Cades- Something New Nikki Sudden & The Jacobites- Lost In A Sea Of Scarves Leo Kottke- My Feet Are Smiling Loren Connor- Hell's Kitchen Park L- Holy Letters Fushitsusha- Live 2 Flower-Corsano Duo- Four Aims Sir Richard Bishop- Salvador Kali Richard Youngs- Sapphie Melvins- Lysol Sun Ra & His Myth Science Orchestra- Cosmic Tones For Mental Therapy
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keith a 9573 posts |
Jun 12, 2023, 12:20
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Novelty Waves CDS – Biosphere Fragments - Bonobo Game Of The Thrones EP – Lee Perry Joy 1967-90 – Ultra Vivid Scene
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