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1001realapes 2388 posts |
Mar 10, 2024, 03:48
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Bob Marley & The Wailers - The Capital Session '73 Bob Marley & The Wailers - Natty Dread Grant-Lee Phillips - Virginia Creeper Yes - The Yes Album Bunny Wailer - Rock 'n' Groove The Necks - Open The Necks - Three Ozric Tentacles - Erpsongs Ozric Tentacles - Tantric Obstacles Ozric Tentacles - There is Nothing
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flashbackcaruso 1057 posts |
Mar 10, 2024, 08:48
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Donovan - What's Bin Did & What's Bin Hid Donovan - Fairytale Kate Bush - The Dreaming Vangelis - Voices Vangelis - Oceanic Vangelis - El Greco Flower Travellin' Band - Anywhere Flower Travellin' Band - Satori Kuni Kawachi & Flower Travellin' Band - Kirikyogen Speed Glue & Shinki - Eve Speed Glue & Shinki - Speed Glue & Shinki Les Rallizes Dénudés - Cable Hogue Soundtrack Les Rallizes Dénudés - Great White Wonder (5LP box set of variable quality, occasionally painful and not in a good way; nothing hits the heights of Heavier Than A Death In The Family) Stomu Yamash'ta -Takemitsu Ishii The Stranglers - Aural Sculpture The Stranglers - Dreamtime The Stranglers - All Live & All Of The Night The Stranglers - 10 ? & The Mysterians - Cameo Parkway 1966-1967: The Best Of... David Bowie - Outside David Bowie - Earthling David Bowie - Hours Julian Cope - Jehovahkill
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Fitter Stoke 2612 posts |
Mar 10, 2024, 10:32
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It’s time to get your skates on: Jim Capaldi ‘Whale Meat Again’, ‘The Contender’ and ‘Sweet Smell of Success’ - variable but enjoyable albums by Traffic’s second most talented member. If that sounds sniffy, I mean no disrespect: Jim had a fine voice, lyrical distinction, and great taste in musical accompanists. The end result was albums that were never short of quality. He’s missed; Nils Lofgren ‘Time Fades Away’ & ‘Wonderland’ - two newly reissued early 80s albums, the earlier being decent power pop, the latter grittier and rockier. Glad to have both on CD at last; Big Big Train ‘The Likes Of Us’ - it’s good to know that tuneful, beautifully rendered rock like this is still being made. That it could have been made fifty years ago is beside the point: class is timeless; Montrose S/T - what seems cliched as owt these days must’ve been a breath of fresh air back in 1973. Compared with many of its contemporaries, this was pretty fucking heavy… Saxon ‘Call To Arms’ … but this is heavier. Jeez, is this HARD. Check out that amazing riff on ‘Hammer of the Gods’. And it’s not even the best riff on the album! I don’t care how uncool metal may be when it rocks this hard; Kiss ‘Hotter Than Hell’ - great songs but, unlike Montrose, sub-par engineering sapped much of the band’s energy. Those tracks re-recorded for ‘Alive!’ sounded so much better; Steven Wilson ‘Grace For Drowning’ - I can sense more than a little influence from all those remixed Crimson albums in SW’s second solo effort which, although too long, makes for a engrossing listen; Gary Wright ‘The Dream Weaver’ - it’s too easy to diss a record like this for being too light on the ear or too undemanding but, believe me, this is one class platter. Rock and roll doesn’t always have to shake my spine to hit my pleasure spots (but hey, that fucking Saxon album…); Richard & Linda Thompson ‘First Light’ - I’m of the opinion that R&L were at their best in their earliest and last albums. The ones in the middle - specifically this one - are a bit ordinary. Lacklustre production doesn’t help. But who am I to sniff at talent like theirs; David Sylvian ‘Blemish’ - I admire this album more with each passing year, its quiet abstraction and close miked vocal providing the perfect accompaniment for my domestic solitude (that sodding Saxon album notwithstanding): David Sylvian ‘When We Return You Won’t Recognise Us’ - total improvisation this time, as out there as this music can possibly get, yet still subtly satisfying… Saxon memories aside (OK, I think I’ve made my point); Don Byas ‘Classic Don Byas Sessions 1944-1946’ (Discs 1 & 2) - I love sax, me; Haydn: 3 String Quartets, Op.54 (Festetics Quartet) - a delve back into my favourite Haydn box, every one of these twelve delightful movements rendered precisely to my taste. Sigh; Birtwistle: String Quartet ‘The Tree Of Strings’ (Arditti Quartet) - one of Birtwistle’s most accessible scores, not that it isn’t still one weird half an hour. I can’t imagine it ever being played better than this; Mendelssohn: Hebrides Overture & Symphony no.5 (Cologne RSO/Rafael Kubelik) - straight down the middle performances of two Mendelssohn masterpieces; Beethoven: Symphony no.1 (Concertgebouw/David Zinman) - 2010 live recording, swift and sure; Beethoven: Leonore 3 Overture (Dorati)/Mozart: Symphony no.41 (Abbado)/Holst: The Planets (Previn) - I fancied a LSO night on Monday and played these CDs covering 1960 through to 1980. I was well happy with them all; Bach: French Suites (Edward Aldwell) - I love to hear Bach played on a modern piano, particularly without the vocal obligati of a certain great Canadian advocate; Mozart: Piano Concerto no.20 (Rudolf Serkin/Col SO/George Szell) - a great performance with conductor and soloist in perfect accord, looking not just at the notes but behind them. And that's another week over. Take care out there, friends. Dave x
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thesweetcheat 6216 posts |
Mar 10, 2024, 11:13
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Morning folks. A decidedly 1979 feel to this week's repeat players: Blondie - Eat To The Beat Cabaret Voltaire - Change vs Causality Japan - Quiet Life The The - See Without Being Seen Yellow Magic Orchestra - Solid State Survivor Otherwise: David Bowie - Lodger Madness - Peel Session 27.8.1979 The Slits - Cut Wire - 154 Young Marble Giants - Salad Days Blondie - Autoamerican Japan - Gentlemen Take Polaroids Visage - The Damned Don't Cry Japan - Oil On Canvas The Psychedelic Furs - All Of This And Nothing The Passengers - All Through The Night EP Fanclub - All The Same EP Brian Eno - Film Music 1976 - 2020 Gold Hick - Formed At Depth Emma Anderson - Pearlies Aphex Twin - Blackbox Life Recorder 21f EP Gazelle Twin - Black Dog
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spencer 3071 posts |
Mar 10, 2024, 12:55
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Good to see The Necks get a mention. Hope to see them in Liverpool.
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Hunter T Wolfe 1709 posts |
Mar 10, 2024, 17:36
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Residual Echoes- MFI-GBSP Todd Rundgren- Something / Anything? Todd Rundgren- Todd Yazoo- You And Me Both Julian Cope- Robin Hood Steeleye Span- Now We Are Six Dave & Toni Arthur- Hearken To The Witches Rune Dave Evans- The Words in Between Trembling Bells- Dungeness Genesis- Live The Fernweh- Torschlusspanik The Flys- Waikiki Beach Party Refugees The Dictators- Manifest Destiny X-Mal Deutschland- Early Singles 1981-82 Anja Huwe- Codes Martin Rev- S/T Avi Engel- Too Many Souls Bo Ningen- The Holy Mountain Ella Ronen- The Girl With No Skin Sam Gendel- The Room The Hanging Stars- On A Golden Shore Garden Gate- Magic Lantern Corridor- Mimi Six Organs of Admittance- Time Is Glass
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garerama 1115 posts |
Mar 10, 2024, 20:48
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The Adverts - Crossing The Red Sea With The Adverts Julian Cope - Jehovahkill / Rite Queen Elizabeth - S/t / The Corpse Of Queen Elizabeth Miles Davis - Dark Magus / Live In Tokyo 1975 (22-1-72) Death In June - Nada / The World That Summer / Brown Book The Incredible String Band - The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter / Wee Tam / The Big Huge Paul Kantner - Blows Against The Empire / Sunfighter Kraftwerk - Tone Float (Organisation) / Live Soest 1970 Ozric Tentacles - Pungent Effulgent / Erpland Lee 'Scratch' Perry - Africa's Blood / Battle Axe / Time Boom X De Devil Dead (with Dub Syndicate) / Reggae Greats / Lee Perry The Upsetter Essential Madness The Scratch Files Iggy Pop - Mantra Studios 1977 (with Bowie) / The Masters (Arista LPs comp) Psychic TV - Live In Gottingen / A Real Swedish Live Show / Trip Reset Patti Smith - Horses / Radio Ethiopia / Easter / Oregon 9-5-78 Spiritualized - Lazer Guided Melodies / Pure Phase Bridget St John - Ask Me No Questions / Songs For The Gentle Man Throbbing Gristle - Heathen Earth (DE 2cd) / Journey Through A Body T-Rex - A Beard Of Stars / Electric Warrior Robert Wyatt - Theatre Royal, Drury Lane 1974 / The Animals Film OST / Nothing Can Stop Us
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keith a 9573 posts |
Edited Mar 10, 2024, 21:22
Mar 10, 2024, 21:20
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Two weeks worth here... Flying Wig – Devendra Banhart Sefronia – Tim Buckley Mix Up – Cabaret Voltaire Can 1968 - Can La Vita Nuovo – Christine & the Queens Turn The Car Around – Gaz Coombes A Boy Named If – Elvis Costello & the Imposters Flicker – Death & Vanilla Broken English – Marianne Faithfull Live At The Royal Albert Hall 1974 – Bryan Ferry Slight Variations – Fujiya & Myagi S/T (1) – Peter Gabriel Birdy – Peter Gabriel The Love Invention – Alison Goldfrapp Electricity – Ibibio Sound Machine Beyond The Pale – Jarv Is Private Space - Durand Jones & the Indications For Ever – Jungle Tick Tick Tick – Stephen Mallinder S/T – Manfred Mann Chapter Three Kaya – Bob Marley & the Wailers McCartney III – Paul McCartney NWO (CDS) – Ministry Roisin Machine – Roisin Murphy The Long Goodbye – Pere Ubu Being Followed (CDS) – Rocket Science The Mars EP – The Room In The Wood The Spice Of Life – Marlene Shaw Every Picture Tells A Story – Rod Stewart Wraith – Teeth Of The Sea The Colours Started To Sing Again (CDS) – Transglobal Underground Restless Idylls – Tropic Of Cancer Birth Of A Nation (Inevitable Records: An Independent Liverpool 1979-86) – V/A Studio One Space-Age Dub Special – V/A Scott – Scott Walker
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Monganaut 2380 posts |
Mar 11, 2024, 00:07
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Not much this week Fu Manchu - Go For It (Live) Electric Wizard - Come My Fanatics The Mystery Lights - Too Much Tension Disrupt - Foundation Bit The Purple & Berserk - This Is The Harsh Trip For New Psych Enjoyable AMT meets Boredoms style noise/quiet, though a bit brief at 35 odd mins, I'd have loved another 20 mins of this. There's a nice coloured or black vinyl edition of this over on Riot Season or Band Camp. https://www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2024/02/this-is-the-harsh-trip-for-new-psyche-by-dope-purple-berserk-album-premiere.html Cope - Paranornal EP/ Robin Hood/ Autogeddon Keep Well,
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Monganaut 2380 posts |
Mar 11, 2024, 17:46
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How is the new QE record? worth a punt, or horrible found in the back of a drawer completeist stuff.
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