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1001realapes 2388 posts |
Edited Mar 17, 2024, 15:25
Mar 17, 2024, 01:20
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King Tubby - Hometown Hi-Fi Dub Plate Special '75-'79 Tapper Zukie - In Dub Bunny Wailer - Rootsman Skanking Bunny Wailer - In I Father's House Bunny Wailer - Roots Radics Rockers Reggae Bunny Wailer - Solomonic Singles Vol. 1 Bunny Wailer - Crucial! Roots Classics Junior Murvin - Police & Thieves The Wailing Wailers - "Simmer Down At Studio One" Bob Marley & The Wailers - Rastaman Vibration Bob Marley & The Wailers - Kaya Augustus Pablo - Original Rockers V.A. - Studio One Roots
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Fitter Stoke 2612 posts |
Mar 17, 2024, 09:28
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Sometimes you feel so far away: Montrose ‘Paper Money’ - patchy second album with a rather pointless ballad treatment of ‘Connection’, one of my fave Stones songs; Jeff Buckley ‘Sketches For “My Sweetheart The Drunk”’ - for an unfinished record this sounds pretty damn complete to me. In fact, I prefer it to ‘Grace’. However Jeff might have revised it for release, it stands up strongly as a beautifully executed set of songs in its own right; Judas Priest ‘Invincible Shield’ - it’s remarkable how ancient entities like Priest and Saxon can still rock as hard as they do. This is one heavy mother: no surprises, and so what; KK’s Priest ‘The Sinner Rides Again’ - and guess what, there exists another Priest lineup even heavier than the mothership. Hearing this and the last named in quick succession was a bit much on the old cranium, but ‘twas much fun; Van der Graaf Generator ‘Still Life’ - the greatest prog rock album ever. There, I’ve said it; Faust ‘The Faust Tapes’ - shit bag bone on, shit bag oh penisey. Y’know the bit I mean. Forever the twelve years old I was when I first heard it; Tangerine Dream ‘Phaedra’ - fifty years old? Nah. Last week maybe; La La Land OST - a damn fine musical score is all, and I don’t care what anyone thinks; Anthony Braxton ‘Sextet (Victoriaville) 2005’ - Braxton’s Composition no.345 makes for a surprisingly approachable hour long listen with enough textural variety to hold interest; Joy S/T - a sound reminder of the freshness of the Brit jazz scene in the mid-70s; Jan Garbarek Quartet ‘Afric Pepperbird’ - sounding more resplendent than ever in its new audiophile vinyl reissue (and with Jon Christensen’s drums more to the fore than ever before), this is easily Garbarek’s greatest studio achievement and one of my all-time fave jazz records. Talk about far out: he never sounded this feral again. Check out ‘Blow Away Zone’ for proof. Oh my; Don Byas ‘Classic Don Byas Sessions 1944-1946’ (Discs 2 & 3) - this is another of those mammoth Mosaic box sets that has too much great music to digest in a few days so I’m limiting my listening to 2 or 3 CDs a week. Suffice to say the standard of Byas’ artistry is consistently superb, and the transfer fidelity remarkable; Keith Jarrett ‘Bridge Of Light’ - music for small ensembles by the extraordinarily diverse talent that is Keith Jarrett. Best is his Violin Sonata which is as much jazz as conventional chamber music; Beethoven: String Quartet Op.135 (Alban Berg Quartet) - from their second, live set of LvB’s late quartets. Perfect contemplative music for a rainy Friday afternoon; Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel/Schubert: Symphony no.8/Rachmaninov: Symphony no.2 (RPO or NYPO/Arthur Rodzinski) - decent performances from a gun totin’ conductor (yes, really); Bruckner: Symphony no.0 (Saarbrucken RSO/Stanislaw Skrowaczewski) - reference recording of the Nullte by a much missed - and underrated - conductor; Bruckner: Symphony no.00 (Aachen SO/Marcus Bosch) - Bruckner’s Schubertesque ‘Study Symphony’ given a decent enough run through; Dvorak: Symphony no.7 (Cleveland/Christoph von Dohnanyi) - damn near ideal take on Dvorak’s magnum opus. Ultimately passing away time which no longer has any meaning. Dave x
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Hunter T Wolfe 1709 posts |
Mar 17, 2024, 11:04
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Os Mutantes- Everything Is Sunshine Queen Elizabeth- The Corpse of Queen Elizabeth Amon Duul 2- Live in London Todd Rundgren- A Wizard, A True Star Boeckner- S/T Bab L' Bluz- Swacken Luka Aron- XV XXVII III XXI IX Variations & Coda Woo- Xylophonics / Robot X Gordan- S/T Mothman, The Man- Where's Your Head Cloudland Canyon- Fin Eaves The Rutles- Archaeology Barclay James Harvest- Best of Genesis- Foxtrot Talking Heads- Fear of Music
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flashbackcaruso 1057 posts |
Mar 17, 2024, 11:29
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Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan Bob Dylan - The Times They Are A-Changin' Bob Dylan - Another Side Of Bob Dylan Julian Cope - Autogeddon Julian Cope - 20 Mothers Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love/12" Mixes Kate Bush - The Sensual World Kate Bush - The Red Shoes Kate Bush - Director's Cut Vangelis - Mythodea Vangelis - Alexander Vangelis - BR25 Far Out - Nihonjin Far East Family Band - "The Cave" Down To The Earth Stomu Yamash'ta - Floating Music Stomu Yamash'ta - One By One David Bowie - Toy David Bowie - Heathen David Bowie - Reality Tom Lehrer - Songs By Tom Lehrer Tom Lehrer - More Of Tom Lehrer Flower Travellin' Band - Made In Japan Flower Travellin' Band - Make Up Spirogyra - St Radigunds Butthole Surfers - Locust Abortion Technician
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garerama 1115 posts |
Mar 17, 2024, 13:28
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The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds / Smile (soniclovenize) David Bowie - Earthling / hours ... / Heathen Broadcast - Haha Sound Children Of Alice - S/t Coil - Love's Secret Domain / Stolen & Contaminated Songs / Unnatural History / Moon's Milk (In Four Phases) / Megalithomania Death In June - The Wall Of Sacrifice / But What Ends When The Symbols Shatter? / Rose Clouds Of Holocaust The Doors - An American Prayer / Box Set (4cd) Nick Drake - Heaven In A Wild Flower / Time Of No Reply / Made To Love Magic / Family Tree Fairport Convention - Unhalfbricking / Liege & Lief / Heyday Faust - S/t / Seventy One Minutes / BBC Sessions + Gong - Magick Brother / Continental Circus Gilli Smyth - Mother King Crimson - Lizard / Islands / Live at Summit Studios, Denver 12-3-72 Meat Beat Manifesto - Satyricon / God OD EP / Dog Star Man EP / Now! EP Lee 'Scratch' Perry - Rhythm Shower / Double Seven Sex Pistols - Spunk / Never Mind The Bollocks .... Spiritualized - Ladies & Gentlemen We're Floating In Space / Let It Come Down Tyrannosaurus Rex - My People Were Fair ... / Prophets, Seers & Sages / Unicorn XTC - Apple Venus / Wasp Star
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thesweetcheat 6216 posts |
Mar 17, 2024, 13:38
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Hi folks, mostly in the depths of back catalogues and Peel sessions this week: Siouxsie & The Banshees - Peel Session 5.12.1977 Wire - The Peel Sessions Album Blondie - Eat To The Beat David Bowie - Lodger The Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette Cabaret Voltaire - Chance vs Causality The Human League - The Dignity Of Labour 12" Japan - Quiet Life Public Image Limited - Metal Box The The - See Without Being Seen Yellow Magic Orchestra - Solid State Survivor V/A - Blank Generation (US/Canadian Punk 1975-1981) Gang of Four - The Peel Sessions Martha & The Muffins - Far Away In Time Japan - Tin Drum The Names - Peel Session 1982 OMD - Peel Sessions 1979-1983 The Chameleons - The Peel Sessions Happy Mondays - The John Peel Sessions David Sylvian - Pop Song (CD single) Autechre - Peel Session 13.10.1995 Kenickie - The John Peel Sessions Mira Calix - Peel Session 9.3.2000 Epic45 - Drakelow Kristin Hersh - Wyatt At The Coyote Palace Pixies - Head Carrier Spaceship - Fields, Churches & Rivers Spaceship - The Imagined View, As Yet Unblighted EP Spaceship - Paths Are Made By Walking Tallies - Tallies E.L. Heath - Companions
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Monganaut 2381 posts |
Mar 17, 2024, 16:59
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Nice selection there. I've come to enjoy the League's Dignity of Labour EP more in me dotage than I ever did as a nipper. In fact, buying it on the back of the Sound of The Crowd 12", it#s paranoid sounds freaked me out bit, even when they were trying to be uplifting. I thought, What the fuck are those bizarre and unsettling noises doing on a record by a pop band? The free flexi of the band discussing their mission statement left me frankly scratching me head too. Over the years I've heard snatches of the EP sampled all over the place, Jack Dangers of Meat Beat Manifesto being one of the earliest I recall on the Storm the Studio album.
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thesweetcheat 6216 posts |
Mar 17, 2024, 18:43
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Monganaut wrote: Nice selection there. I've come to enjoy the League's Dignity of Labour EP more in me dotage than I ever did as a nipper. In fact, buying it on the back of the Sound of The Crowd 12", it#s paranoid sounds freaked me out bit, even when they were trying to be uplifting. I thought, What the fuck are those bizarre and unsettling noises doing on a record by a pop band? The free flexi of the band discussing their mission statement left me frankly scratching me head too. Over the years I've heard snatches of the EP sampled all over the place, Jack Dangers of Meat Beat Manifesto being one of the earliest I recall on the Storm the Studio album. Yeah, it's a great EP, definitely outside their usual sound, even for the original line-up. Funnily it fits in better with my formative electronic introduction via 1970s Jean Michel Jarre than with the synth pop which followed.
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keith a 9573 posts |
Edited Mar 18, 2024, 21:00
Mar 18, 2024, 20:58
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What Nature Gives...Nature Takes Away - Membranes I've never played this as much as its predecessor, Dark Matter/Dark Energy which I played a lot, but hearing it now I was kinda surprised just how good it is. I Trawl The Megahertz – Prefab Sprout Initially just credited to Paddy, of course, this is a fabulous set. The lengthy opening title track is actually pretty remarkable. Supper – Smog The penultimate Smog album includes one of my favourite Bill Callahan songs, Ambition. Also... Peace At Last – The Blue Nile S/T – Fujiya & Miyagi Limbs – Keeley Forsyth My Kingdom (CDS) – Future Sound Of London Rapture (CDS) – iiO Roman Roads EP – Land Observations Roman Roads IV-XI – Land Observations Natty Dread – Bob Marley & the Wailers Kaya – Bob Marley & the Wailers What Nature Gives...Nature Takes Away - Membranes Escape – Moon Duo Vauxhall & I - Morrissey Lux Prima – Karen O / Danger Mouse Loneliness (CDS) – Pet Shop Boys Mars Audiac Quintet – Stereolab Not Music – Stereolab The Parties Over – Talk Talk Signals Wires & Amplifiers 2 (Next Phase : Normal Recordings Document) – V/A
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Cutsville 2031 4 posts |
Mar 24, 2024, 08:08
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Mayor Of Simpleton Hall by The Purge No other discs necessary. I am expecting next week to be the same with perhaps the addition of Bordeaux Rose by Fairfield Parlour. Live up!
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