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1001realapes 2388 posts |
Edited Aug 06, 2023, 10:48
Aug 06, 2023, 04:19
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The Beatles - HELP! (mono) Klaus Schulze - Dune (track 1) Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (mono) Brave New World – Impressions On Reading Aldous Huxley Code III - Planet of Man Grateful Dead - Workingman's Dead Grateful Dead - American Beauty XTC - Mummer XTC - The Big Express B.B. King - The Great B.B. King Brewer & Shipley - Down in L.A. Brewer & Shipley - Weeds Jefferson Airplane - Crown of Creation Wilson Pickett - Wilson Pickett's Greatest Hits Van der Graaf Generator – The Least We Can Do Is Wave To Each Other Yamo - Time Pie R.E.M. - Murmur Grant-Lee Phillips - Ladies' Love Oracle Hans Zimmer - DUNE Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Deluxe Edition V.A. - AM Gold 1969 V.A. - AM Gold 1971
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Fitter Stoke 2612 posts |
Edited Aug 06, 2023, 09:08
Aug 06, 2023, 09:05
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The downward spiral never ends: Steely Dan ‘Can’t Buy A Thrill’ - even on their first album Fagen and Becker sound confident and in charge. I’m not sure there’s ever been a more fully realised debut than this; Black Star Riders ‘Wrong Side Of Paradise’ - sometimes you just gotta rock. There’s little that’s original going down here but it just hits you where you want it. As does The Answer ‘Sundowners’ - again, what’s there to say except… turn the fucker up until those lugs bleed; Julian Cope ‘Jehovahkill’ - Julian’s 90s take on kosmische music has sustained longer than much of its antecedents have for me. He’s made many other fine records but this one will always find a place in my heart; U2 ‘An Cat Dubh/Into The Heart’ (live) - from NME’s 1981 ‘Dancin’ Master’ tape, the best thing U2 ever did by light years. Ok, so I checked out on them quickly afterwards, but I stand by my comment. There’s genuine emotion going down here, in spades; Opeth ‘Garden Of The Titans’ - up there with THE great rock double live albums, and harder than almost all of them. Check out the cranium busting final three minutes of ‘Deliverance’ and feel the world collapse; Jethro Tull ‘17’ - a semi-lost B side that is right up there with the best of Tull’s music, IMHO anyway, available in three separate mixes in their ‘Benefit’ 50th anniversary box. The stereo mixes are clearer, but the mono punches hardest. No chorus, no middle eight: just a fab three chord verse played again and again for six glorious minutes; The Smiths ‘Louder Than Bombs’ - the only band that made the mid-80s matter - at their best; Luther Grosvenor ‘Under Open Skies’ - Ariel’s first solo album from 1971, post-Spooky Tooth and pre-Mott, with a wide range of musical flavours mostly played by the man himself. The original version of ‘When I Met You’ (later reworked by Widowmaker) and the shuffling ‘Rocket’ are particular highlights, the latter featuring a fabulously psychy guitar solo. And the dude ain’t no slouch on bass either. Blag this new reissue while it lasts; Rolling Stones: self selection of fave back catalogue tracks - ‘cos I needed to. Won’t bore you with song details, except to say that great riffs ruled my choices; Waylon Jennings ‘Folk-Country’ & ‘Leavin’ Town’ - Waylon’s first two RCA albums from 1966 are much more mainstream C&W fayre against the outlaw country he went on to pioneer, but his patent rich baritone is already in place. I’ve just shelled out on Cherry Red’s recent CD reissues of his 1960s albums and look forward to playing them all; Brahms: Symphony no.1 (Lucerne SO/Michael Sanderling) - measured but epic reading that registers much higher with me than the same forces’ lacklustre Second that I played a few weeks ago. This Brahms’ First positively sings, with loads of subtle instrumental detail I miss in other recordings. What a fine orchestra Lucerne has. Who knew; Schubert: Symphony no.9 (Orch of 18th Century/Frans Bruggen) - well played but slightly routine interpretation of a work that can move mountains; Bruckner: Motets (Corydon Singers/ Matthew Best) - much as I love Bruckner the symphonist, there’s something uniquely pure in his vocal writing that moves me to the core, and this old Hyperion record captures it magnificently; These days it’s all secrecy, with no privacy. Happy trails Dave x
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Hunter T Wolfe 1709 posts |
Edited Aug 09, 2023, 16:10
Aug 06, 2023, 10:37
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Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats- Slaughter On First Avenue Andrew Rumsey- Evensongs Vinny Peculiar- How I Learned To Love The Freaks Papernut Cambridge- Mellotron Phase Volumes 1 & 2 Deviant Amps- Castle In The Sky Julian Cope- Cope's Notes #3 (World Shut Your Mouth) Julian Cope- Rite Cat Stevens- The World of... Wishbone Ash- S/T Bryan Ferry- In Your Mind Cameo- Word Up The Smiths- The Queen Is Dead Bram Tchaikovsky- Strange Man, Changed Man Cheap Trick- Heaven Tonight
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flashbackcaruso 1057 posts |
Aug 06, 2023, 11:50
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Paul Simon - Seven Psalms Paul Simon - Stranger To Stranger Paul Simon - In The Blue Light (Ordering Seven Psalms on Amazon, I discovered the previous 2 albums, which I hadn't got round to hearing, at bargain prices, so purchased those two as well. Paul Simon is making surprisingly vital music in his old age. Stranger To Stranger is full of unusual samples and his ruminations on the term 'Motherfucker' made me laugh. Great to hear his acoustic guitar skills to the fore on Seven Psalms, nicely supported by bells and drones). Heron - Upon Reflection: The Dawn Anthology Mike Oldfield - Hergest Ridge Fuchsia - Fuchsia Fuchsia - Fuchsia, Mahagonny & Other Gems Fuchsia - Fuchsia II: From Psychedelia To A Distant Place Leonard Cohen - Various Positions Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man Leonard Cohen - The Future The Incredible String Band - The Incredible String Band The Incredible String Band - The 5,000 Spirits or The Layers Of The Onion The Incredible String Band - The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter (These are the Fledgling reissues that briefly appeared around 10 years ago. They seemed a bit overpriced at the time, but just got all three for under a fiver each from the same Discogs seller and they are easily the definitive versions. Great packaging, beautifully remastered, especially 5,000 Spirits which was badly botched on an earlier CD release, with the stereo channels out of sync on side 2). The Monkees - Live 1967 The Monkees - Missing Links The Monkees - Pool It! (I remember how exciting it was when 3 new Monkees albums appeared in 1987 and trekking up to Oxford Street to pick them up on import. Live 1967 makes up in vigour what it lacks in finesse, with a fabulously grungy Stepping Stone - recorded in Seattle, of course - to close things off. Missing Links was the real surprise, a well-sequenced album that showed just how good the band's long lost out-takes were. Pool It! was the disappointment. Too 80s-sounding even then, but a few songs have grown on me over the years). Klaus Schulze - Live
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garerama 1115 posts |
Aug 06, 2023, 17:02
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Boards Of Canada - The Campfire Headphase / Tomorrow's Harvest The Boo Radleys - Everything's Alright Forever / Giant Steps David Bowie - Low / "Heroes" / Stage / Lodger Julian Cope - Black Sheep / Kiss My Sweet Apocalypse 2 (Black Sheep) / Black Sheep Notes The Duckworth Lewis Method - S/t / Sticky Wickets Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' (mono) / The Times They Are A-Changing Brian Eno - Another Green World / Discreet Music / Before & After Science / Ambient 4: On Land / Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks / Another Day On Earth The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin / The Soft Bulletin Companion Grateful Dead - Anthem Of The Sun / Aoxomoxoa Peter Hammill - Fool's Mate / Chameleon In The Shadow Of Night / In Camera Roland Rahsaan Kirk - Volunteered Slavery / Blacknuss Kraftwerk - Rolf & Florian / Autobahn La Dusseldorf - S/t / Viva / Individuellos My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything / Loveless / m.b.v. Nico - The Marble Index / Desertshore Iggy Pop - The Idiot / Lust For Life Psychic TV - Mouth Of The Night / Allegory & Self / Jack The Tab / Tekno Acid Beat Klaus Schulze - Dune Throbbing Gristle - Live December 2004: A Souvenir Of Camber Sands / Desertshore (X-TG) / The Final Report (X-TG)
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