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1001realapes 2388 posts |
Edited Sep 03, 2023, 10:02
Sep 03, 2023, 04:07
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Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - It Comes to You in a Plain Brown Wrapper (soniclovenoize reconstruction) Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - BBC Sessions 1968 Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - Lick My Decals Off, Baby Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - The Spotlight Kid Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - Clear Spot Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - Harpos Detroit December 11th 1980 Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - Ice Cream For Crow Howlin' Wolf - Smokestack Lightning The Complete Chess Masters 1951-1960 (disc 1 of 4) Sparks - The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte Frank Zappa - Hot Rats Frank Zappa - The Grand Wazoo Frank Zappa - Waka/Jawaka Frank Zappa - Sleep Dirt Frank Zappa - Over-Nite Sensation Creedence Clearwater Revival - st Conrad Schnitzler - Blue Glow
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Fitter Stoke 2613 posts |
Sep 03, 2023, 09:18
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Take a little trip back with Father Tiresias: Black Sabbath ‘Paranoid’ (except the title track to which my separate post refers) - some records infect you from youth and their effects never fade. This is one of mine; Lush ‘Sweetness and Light’ EP - memories of happier, carefree times abound with this wee 45 RPM diamond; The Smiths ‘Louder Than Bombs’ - what seem like something of a mish-mash of mostly non-album tracks for the US market turned out to be my favourite Smiths CD, even more than any of their four “proper” albums; The Pointer Sisters ‘That’s A Plenty’ - sophomore album that’s good in its swampy moments, but gets a little too Andrews Sistersish for my liking on its predominantly swing-like tracks; Magazine ‘Secondhand Daylight’ - a much finer second effort, this: in fact, it’s Magazine’s finest as far as I’m concerned, and one of my all-time favourite albums. There are some records that are as defined by their production as their songs, and this eerie, murky sounding epic is one of them. Colin Thurston and John McGeogh RIP; Genesis ‘Selling England By The Pound’ - and this is my favourite Genesis platter for similar reasons but my, what songs. This was their creative prog apex before disappearing into woolly ruminant pretentiousness. (They’d enjoy a three album renaissance before becoming a bad pop group); Streetwalkers ‘Downtown Flyers’ - one of those mid-70s records that gives the lie to the “stale pre-punk” cliche; Madonna S/T - one of my many guilty pleasures is Madge’s debut album which, for all its cheesy eightiesness, just hits my pleasure button like none of her other albums; Van Morrison ‘Beyond Words: Instrumental’ - on the face of it, this should be a non-event. I wasn’t expecting much, but this is really rather good: tasty, mostly upbeat music that reminding me how astute the grouchy one has been in his choice of backing musicians over the years. Good stuff to walk to; Slowdive ‘Everything Is Alive’ - first impressions of this newbie are very strong: kind of MBV meets Cocteau Twins with just a soupçon of Joy Division’s keyboardy moments added to the stew. Lovely, even if it does sound as if it could have been made thirty years ago; Brinsley Schwarz ‘Despite It All’ - exhibiting that Nick Lowe’s songwriting chops were more than fully formed over fifty years ago, albeit more than a little touched by Van Morrison’s style of the time (no crime there). I’d pay good money to see the Brinsleys at a reformation gig or two. How about it, lads? Van der Graaf Generator ‘Theme One’/‘W’ 45 - well, a CD of it anyway. Terrific, standalone single from the ‘Pawn Hearts’ era, the A side being well familiar to early Radio 1 stalwarts like me, the B being a hidden Hammill gem; The Dave Brubeck Quartet ‘Brubeck Time’ - unalloyed pleasure is all. I want Bru and Des played at my funeral; Paul Desmond ‘The Complete 1975 Toronto Recordings’ - long after the classic lineup of The Dave Brubeck Quartet disbanded, Paul Desmond put together a new alto & guitar centred quartet for two series of Bourbon Street club dates. This awesome Mosaic box collates the lot and believe me dudes, there’s not a dull moment across them. It includes a disc preserving a date with trombonist Rob McConnell that hasn’t been released before. It’s ace - but I have to admit a bias towards anything on which Desmond played. I just adore his unique, smoky sound; Waylon Jennings ‘Ladies Love Outlaws’ - Waylon couldn’t make a bad record during his 60s and 70s heyday as far as I’m concerned: every album a short and sweet collection of songs that he made his own, whether he wrote them or not. This is as good an example as any. Check out his take on Bobby Braddock’s ‘Revelation’: you don’t need to be a God botherer to be moved by it; Haydn: String Quartet Op.76 no.4 ‘Sunrise’ (Chiaroscuro Quartet) - this exhibits a micro-managed approach to Haydn which might have killed his spirit and invention. Not here, for this is fabulously entertaining. There are some excellent young quartets doing the rounds at the moment and the Chiaroscuros are up there with the best; Brahms: String Sextets 1 & 2 (augmented Lindsay Quartet) - yearningly beautiful works by a young and clean shaven Brahms perfecting his art. This cheap Alto CD is just one of many highlights of the Lindsays’ rich recorded legacy; Bax: Four Orchestral Pieces (BBC PO/Andrew Davis) - Bax at his most approachable: English music that’s hard to dislike, especially in a performance as idiomatic as this; Berwald: Symphony no.4 ‘Sinfonie Naive’ (San Francisco SO/Herbert Blomstedt) - unashamedly romantic take on an underrated symphony; Beethoven: Symphony no.5 (BPO/Herbert von Karajan) - another underrated symphony :-) given the full heft of Herbie’s big band in 1976. There are subtler recordings available, but few this powerful; Beethoven: String Quartet in C, Op.59 no.3 ‘Rasumovsky’ (Talich Quartet) - mid-period Beethoven at his best, played with taste and verve; Beethoven: Piano Sonata no.12 in A flat, Op.26 (Louis Lortie) - Lortie is refreshingly direct in his approach to Beethoven, meaning less of the mannerisms favoured by many more illustrious interpreters; I just get numb when you are hard to find. Felicitations all Dave x
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Hunter T Wolfe 1709 posts |
Sep 03, 2023, 09:57
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Abstract Concrete- S/T Melt Plastic Group- Hooh Chris Brain- Steady Away The Horrors- V Flicks- Go For The Effect Tommy James & The Shondells- Cellophane Symphony Donovan- A Gift From A Flower To A Garden Traffic- Last Exit The Doors- The Soft Parade Jeff Wayne etc - War Of The Worlds The Rubettes- Singles 1974-1977 Transvision Vamp- Pop Art Goat- World Music Goat- Gallows Pole OST Goat- Oh Death Goat- Medicine
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garerama 1115 posts |
Sep 03, 2023, 09:59
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Alternative TV - What You See ... Is What You Are / Vibing Up The Senile Man The Beach Boys - Today / Pet Sounds / SMiLE (Hitville Mix - soniclovenoize & Purple Chick deluxe) David Bowie - Outside In Budapest / Toy (boot) / Reality / The Next Day / Blackstar Tim Buckley - Blue Afternoon / Lorca / Starsailor / Top Gear 1968 & OGWT 1974 Can - Soon Over Babaluma / Unlimited Edition / The Can Tapes Alice Coltrane - Live At Carnegie Hall 1971 (Africa) / Universal Consciousness / Lord Of Lords / Elements (with Joe Henderson) / Eternity John Coltrane - Kula Se Mama / Live At The Village Vanguard Again! / One Down, One Up: Live at the Half Note / Offering: Live at Temple University / Jupiter Variations (The Mastery Of JC Vol 3) The Future Sound Of London/ Amorphous Androgynous - Lifeforms / Tales Of Ephidrina / ISDN / The Isness PJ Harvey - Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea / Uh Huh Her Robyn Hitchcock - Fegmania (with the Egyptians) / S/t I Monster - Neveroddoreven Improved Sound Limited - Engelchen Macht Weiter Hoppe Hoppe Reiter Rahsaan Roland Kirk - The Case Of The 3 Sided Dream In Audio Color / Other People's Music Kraftwerk - Tone Float (Organisation) / S/t / 2 / Rolf & Florian Perry Leopold - Experiment In Metaphysics The Loft - Once Round The Fair The Rezillos - Can't Stand The Rezillos / Mission Accomplished ... But The Beat Goes On The Ruts - The Crack / The Peel Sessions Album Patti Smith - Gone Again / Peace & Noise Gilli Smyth - Mother / The Owl & The Tree (Mother Gong) Strawbs - Dragonfly Stump - Peel Session / Quirk Out / A Fierce Pancake Jane Weaver - Flock (deluxe)
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flashbackcaruso 1057 posts |
Edited Sep 03, 2023, 16:36
Sep 03, 2023, 15:22
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Van Dyke Parks - Song Cycle Van Dyke Parks - Discover America Van Dyke Parks - Clang Of The Yankee Reaper Paul Simon - There Goes Rhymin' Simon Paul Simon - Live Rhymin' Elvis Presley - Elvis Is Back! Elvis Presley - Something For Everybody Elvis Presley - G.I. Blues Elvis Presley - Flaming Star/Wild In The Country/Follow That Dream Elvis Presley - Blue Hawaii Elvis Presley - Pot Luck Elvis Presley - Gold Records Vol.3 Mutantes - Os Mutantes Mutantes - Mutantes Mutantes - A Divina Comédia ou Ando Meio Desligado The Bees - Sunshine Hit Me The Bees - Free The Bees The Coral - Roots & Echoes Bobbie Gentry - Windows Of The World Bobbie Gentry - Touch 'Em With Love Bobbie Gentry - Fancy Bobbie Gentry - Patchwork Bobbie Gentry - Thunder In The Afternoon Sagittarius - Present Tense Sagittarius - The Blue Marble The Millennium - Begin The Millennium - Pieces Milton Nascimento - Milton Nascimento Milton Nascimento & Lô Borges - Clube Da Esquina of Arrowe Hill - The Springheel Penny Dreadful & Other Tales Of Morbid Curiosity Lilys - Lilys Lilys - Everything Wrong Is Imaginary Mike Oldfield - Incantations Mike Oldfield - Platinum Simian - Watch It Glow Simian - The Wisp EP Simian - One Dimension EP Simian - Mr Crow EP (a band who put all their best tracks on b-sides) Pet Shop Boys - Bilingual & b-sides (ditto to some extent) The Beach Boys - Live In London Bach - The Great Organ Works (Wolfgang Rübsam) Kodaly - Galánta Dances/Marosszék Dances/"Peacock" Variations (Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra/Adrian Leaper) Beethoven - Piano Concerto Nos.1-3 (Stefan Vladar) Elgar - The Dream Of Gerontius (Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/David Hill)
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Monganaut 2382 posts |
Edited Sep 03, 2023, 19:03
Sep 03, 2023, 19:01
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White Canyon and the 5th Dimension - Gardeners of the Earth Much to like here if you're a Black Angels fan, similar guitar sounds and vibes. Nice cover too. https://whitecanyon5thdimension.bandcamp.com/album/gardeners-of-the-earth Nurse With Wound - Space Music 2/The Devil's Interval/Opium Cabaret I do enjoy NWW, but much of this later stuff is all a bit samey tbh. The Orb - Abolition of the Royal Familiar (Gillotine Mixes) Holger Czukay - Radio Waves Jah Wobble, Holger Czuckay, Jaki Liebezeit - Full Circle This has clicked massively with me over th last few years, Prob my Fav Post Can album now. Seth Mans review from yesteryear captures this pretty well... https://www.headheritage.co.uk/unsung/review/97/ Hawksmoor - Telepathic Heights If you enjoyed those Deutsche Electronische Musik Comps, you may enjoy this, though it's a single artist (Cover's very DEM). https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/sjr/product/telepathic-heights Jan Van Droogenbroeck - Far View I had no idea this guy was in Brainticket until I bothered to look online the other day. Enjoyable comp of Mort Garson-esque electronic twiddlery. https://joelvandroogenbroeck.bandcamp.com/album/far-view Death and Vanilla - Flicker/ Reimagined by Civilistj?ä?vel! EP Still ploughing that mid period Broadcast vibe. Still enjoy them tho. https://deathandvanillamusic.bandcamp.com/album/flicker https://deathandvanillamusic.bandcamp.com/album/death-and-vanilla Rrose - Please Touch Imagine an updated Plastikman 'Music', with a more ambient tilt and you've Rrose' latest output. Didn't think much of this at first, but gotta say, this is floating my boat massively at the mo, esp. if I wake up and can't get back to sleep (and that's not a put down!) https://eaux.ro/album/please-touch Mekons - John Peel 1978-79 Old bootleg tape of those crucial early Peel sessions. Up on youtube to. 78' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-efJTUdYFc 79' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU9zbbBMxTI Thighpaulsandra - I Thighpaulsandra Never an easy listen, but I do enjoy digging it out from time to time. Optical Black, We The Descending, The Angelica Declaration and Beneath a Frozen Lake Of Stars are prob my fav moments. OB - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiCjEY6jKuU WTD - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_z77EM0fAYs TAD - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkSnm_fT3ZU BAFLOS - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQywRBCCrj8 Keep well everyone!
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keith a 9573 posts |
Sep 03, 2023, 21:44
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Shortwave Memories - Biosphere S/T (AKA Vital Selection) - Black Uhuru Haunted Head – Kid Congo & the Pink Monkey Birds Functional Designs – Deepchord Fuse - EBTG A Comforting Notion EP – Heartworms People Get Ready: The Best of Curtis Mayfield's Impressions – The Impressions Kiwanuka – Michael Kiwanuka Vertigo Days – The Notwist Pulse Of The Early Brain (Switched On Vol 5) - Stereolab After Dark – Alan Vega Original Reggae Greats – V/A
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