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1001realapes 2388 posts |
Mar 03, 2024, 03:23
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Can - Live in Cuxhaven 1976 Can - st Yes - Close to the Edge Yes - Fragile Univers Zero - st John Coltrane - Dakar The Necks - Sex The Necks - Aquatic The Necks - Body The Necks - Vertigo Bunny Wailer - Rock 'n' Groove Tangerine Dream - Sorcerer Ennio Morricone - Ecce Homo OST Peter Tosh - Legalize It Bob Marley & The Wailers - Survival Banco de Gaia - Maya Pete Seeger - Darling Cory and Goofing-Off Suite Burning Spear - Creation Rebel ZZ Top - Tres Hombres V.A. - The Frog Blues & Jazz Annual No. 1 V.A. - Those Shocking Shaking Days
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garerama 1115 posts |
Edited Mar 03, 2024, 13:09
Mar 03, 2024, 10:47
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Broadcast - Haha Sound / Investigate Witch Cults Of The Radio Age (with The Focus Group) / The Future Crayon Can - Live In Paris 1973 / Future Days & Future Nights / Horror Trip In The Paperhouse Cocteau Twins - Blue Bell Knoll / Heaven Or Las Vegas The Cramps - Off The Bone The Cure - Melkweg, Amsterdam 1979 / Faith / Carnage Visors Miles Davis - Agharta / Pagaea The Fall - Grotesque The Incredible String Band - S/t / The 5000 Spirits Or The Layers Of Onion King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King / In The Wake Of Poseidon / Live At Summit Studios, Denver 12-3-72 Charles Mingus - The Black Saint & The Sinner Lady / Mingus (x5) Ozric Tentacles - Pungent Effulgent / Erpland Lee 'Scratch' Perry - Time Boom X De Devil Dead (with Dub Syndicate) / Reggae Greats / Lee Perry The Upsetter Essential Madness The Scratch Files Otis Redding - Dock Of The Bay: The Definitive Collection The Patti Smith Group - Radio Ethiopia / CBGBs 1979 Spacemen 3 - Taking Drugs To Make Music To Take Drugs To / Playing With Fire (2cd) / Recurring The Velvet Underground - ... & Nico (mono) / 1969 Tom Waits - Closing Time / The Heart Of Saturday Night Frank Zappa - Waka/Jawaka / The Grand Wazoo V/A Cloud Cuckooland (Finders Keepers) Neu Decade (Mojo)
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flashbackcaruso 1057 posts |
Mar 03, 2024, 11:23
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The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground - VU The Velvet Underground - Another View Kate Bush - Never For Ever Focus - In And Out Of Focus Focus - Focus II Focus - Focus 3 Vangelis - Direct Vangelis - The City Jon & Vangelis - Page Of Life Vangelis - 1492: Conquest Of Paradise Vangelis - Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus The Stranglers - The Raven The Stranglers - The Gospel According To The Men In Black The Stranglers - La Folie The Stranglers - Feline David Bowie - Black Tie White Noise David Bowie - Buddah Of Suburbia Magma - .M.D.K. Magma - Köhntarkösz Magma - ?dü Wüdü Julian Cope - Peggy Suicide Grey Malkin, Kitchen Cynics & Margery Daw - Weeping Stones The City - Now That Everything's Been Said
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Fitter Stoke 2612 posts |
Edited Mar 03, 2024, 11:52
Mar 03, 2024, 11:50
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And the tension builds: Gig: Fairport Convention at Sunderland’s Fire Station. I’m ashamed to admit that despite having dug Fairport’s records for over three quarters of my now pension age life, this was the first time I’ve caught them live (though I’ve seen Richard Thompson many times). These five 70-plus gadgies knocked me out over a thoroughly entertaining two hours including goodies old and (nearly) new. And how many bands can still boast in their current ranks THREE members that played on an album made in 1970? Needless to say, the ‘Full House’ numbers were rendered wonderfully - but so was the whole set. They’re a good laugh too; Richard & Linda Thompson ‘Hokey Pokey’ - ace second album that I like even more than ‘Bright Lights Tonight’. How much younger does Richard sound on this; Jim Capaldi ‘Short Cut Draw Blood’ & ‘Let The Thunder Cry’ - two highly respectable LPs that deserve far more attention that they received. Songs are mostly excellent and Jim’s vocals likewise. Had he starred in a different band we’d all be hailing his singing from the rooftops; Steven Wilson ‘Insurgentes’ - the first album released under SW’s own name (as distinct from his earliest PT efforts) is his moodiest and most distinctive. If it reminds me of Radiohead it’s not in its sound or songs, more its ethereal vibe. A slow burner and a keeper, this; Big Big Train ‘The Likes Of Us’ - despite major line-up changes (including the sudden death of their former lead vocalist), BBT return with a new album full of their customary craft, imagination and charm. So much more than just another prog band, these; Killing Joke ‘…what’s THIS for?’ - Adam and the Ants on steroids; Patti Smith Group ‘Radio Ethiopia’ - I guess I’m in a minority preferring this to ‘Horses’ but hey, I just do, okay? In fact, it’s my fave of all of her albums. She’s never shown more edge than here; Clearlight ‘Forever Blowing Bubbles’ - pretty cool French prog from 1975, with a Hillage soundalike axeman and a way out of tune piano; Tom Verlaine ‘Dreamtime’ - and this, after ‘Marquee Moon’, is my choice Verlaine platter. I miss you, dude; The Beatles ‘Mono Masters’ (selections) - proof that some of The Fabs’ best stuff was relegated to B side or EP status. And weren’t the four “new” ‘Yellow Submarine’ tracks sublime? It’s all too much; Richard Barbieri ‘Planets + Persona’ - kind of like ‘My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts’ brought into the 21st Century, and I mean that as a compliment; Paul Weller ‘Soul Wandering’ 45 - great, uptempo taster for Paul’s new album. I also played his 2022 ‘Glad Times (Soul Steppers)’ remix which had eluded me until now. Disco lives! Nick Lowe ‘Dig My Mood’ - oh, I do Nick. And that this is probably your best album. Sheer Brentford class; Randy Travis ‘This Is Me’ - mid-90s album I hadn’t played for at least twenty years. It really shone out of my speakers. The poor dude has been held back after a bad stroke but he’s left a substantial legacy of quality country records; Tony Bennett & Dave Brubeck ‘The White House Sessions 1962’ - I dunno if JFK was present at this gig but, if he was, what a treat he had; Dizzy Gillespie ‘Jumbo Caribe’ - Diz goes Latin with Verve (capital V intended); John Coltrane ‘Live at Birdland’ - Trane’s classic quartet caught live and in the studio in 1963, just before Trane’s dive into abstraction. McCoy Tyner is on particularly good form; Jan Garbarek Quartet ‘Afric Pepperbird’ - early ECM classic now reissued on audiophile vinyl. A career high for Garbarek in my opinion, and one of the finest jazz albums in my collection. I favourably reviewed this in Unsung aons ago, and I still stand by every word, except to add that I now consider its four short “filler” tracks excellent too; Dino Saluzzi ‘Andina’ - I know no other bandoneon players than Saluzzi, but I do know that I love the sounds he makes from his. This 1988 album is haunting and beautiful; Bizet: Symphony in C and John McCabe: Symphony no.2 (both CBSO/Louis Fremaux) - Fremaux brings out all the Gallic joy of Bizet’s young masterpiece as well as all the tumult and calm of McCabe’s unsung work. Proof that the Birmingham orchestra was in rude form well before Simon Rattle took over; Beethoven: Symphonies 4 & 5 (Nat Orch Washington/Gianandrea Noseda) - one of the most vibrant and exciting new Beethoven CDs I’ve heard for years. I also played their First and Seventh which were almost as good, but just short of great, an exceptionally fast take on the Seventh’s last movement notwithstanding. A rather murky recording doesn’t help; Beethoven: Symphony no.9 (Ukrainian Freedom Orch/Keri-Lynn Wilson) - oh dear, I really wanted to like this but it’s severely compromised by what must be one of the most perfunctory readings of the slow movement I’ve ever heard; Mozart: Symphonies 39, 40 & 41 (Orch of 18th Cent/Frans Brueggen) - another album that offers refreshing takes on old warhorses. Brueggen remained a vital conductor even in his final years; Dvorak: String Quartet Op.96 ‘American’ (Janacek Quartet) - an echt-Bohemian performance from 1963 that more than holds its own today; Lead me not into temptation. Keep safe and smiling Dave x
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thesweetcheat 6216 posts |
Mar 03, 2024, 12:55
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Can't wait for '78. Five repeat players this week: Dr Alimantado - Best Dressed Chicken In Town Japan - Obscure Alternatives La Dusseldorf - Viva X-Ray Spex - Germ Free Adolescents (deluxe) Yellow Magic Orchestra - Yellow Magic Orchestra (Japanese version) Otherwise: V/A - Discreet Ruminations and Oblique 45s: Brian's Imaginary Jukebox Eno, Moebius, Roedelius - After The Heat Siouxsie & The Banshees - The Scream Marsheaux - Peek a Boo V/A - Strange Selectors (Werra Foxma) V/A - You Are The Fabric (Werra Foxma) New Model Army - Sinfonia
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Acid_Trash 10 posts |
Mar 03, 2024, 13:41
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Camel "Moonmadness" Annie Haslam "Annie in Wonderland" The John Renbourn Group "A Maid in Bedlam" Equimanthorn "Lectionum Antiquarum" + "A Fifth Conjuration" Ceremonial Torture "Sabbath, Thou Arts" + the splits with Hail Conjurer and Black Goat Funeral Frost "Queen of Frost"
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jb lamptoast-morsley 2448 posts |
Mar 03, 2024, 14:04
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Recently: Future Sound of London - ISDN - Dead Cities Faust - BBC Sessions - 71 minutes. NYX/Gazelle Twin - Deep England Nirvana - Live and Loud - In Utero. Wasn't feeling any of these Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts VI: Locusts. The kind of music that gets played on Adam Curtis documentaries. The very kind in fact! Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Let Love in New Model Army - Thunder and consolation - The Love of Hopeless Causes New Fast Automatic Daffodils - Pigeonhole - Body Exit Mind. Particularly enjoyed these two having been more familiar with the former. That'll do
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Monganaut 2381 posts |
Edited Mar 03, 2024, 14:22
Mar 03, 2024, 14:08
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Timeshard - Planet Dog Years Rrose - Touch Please The Green Child - S/T, Shimmering Bassett Coil - Moons Milk in Four Phases Dope - Semi Legal on the Edge of Culture prob my fav Dope release, love the mixed in dub elements at the end of track 2 King Gizzard.... - Demos Vol: 5-6 Oneida - Each One, Teach One Let me step into the Light Light Light Light........ A Certian Ratio - The Graveyard and The Ballroom Vince Clarke - Songs of Silence Gareth Liddiard - Strange Tourist Acoustic edginess that really gets in there. https://tropicalfstorm.bandcamp.com/album/strange-tourist Public Interest - Spiritual Pollution Nik Turner - Space Ritual 1994 Live Various Soul Jazz Recordings - Cold Wave #1/#2 God Unknown - Singles Club V1 Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project - The Task Has Overwhelmed Us Some interesting versions of JLP's back catalogue. https://glitterhouserecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-task-has-overwhelmed-us Just read the Paul Simpson biog Revolutionary Spirit: A Post-Punk Exorcism Good read, makes the most of a hit and miss career, but the guy sure can lay on the pretension when he feels like it. still, enjoyed it mostly. Also enjoying the Paul Morris biog Record, Play, Pause. Prob my fav so far of of all those Joy Div/New Order biogs. Great sense of throwaway humour. Deffo worth your time. Keep well.x
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Monganaut 2381 posts |
Mar 03, 2024, 14:15
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FSOL have been releasing/rereleasing/updating a bunch of back catalogue stuff and versions of late which are still mostly worthy of a good listen. Certainly not lost their ambient magic. https://fsol.bandcamp.com/
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jb lamptoast-morsley 2448 posts |
Mar 03, 2024, 14:36
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Wow! Plenty there
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