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Feb 05, 2003, 00:40
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Bit thin on soundtracks people this week. I think ummagumma is brilliant too, and never understood why the band always slate it on documentaries and interviews. Does A Saucerful ...count as post syd? He only had jugband blues on it and this album is under rated also.
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Serotonin 175 posts |
Feb 05, 2003, 10:33
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nice one for ummagumma....the first floyd album I actually bought, and it still astounds me
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Serotonin 175 posts |
Feb 05, 2003, 11:01
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had an interesting weekend for musical discovery. Actually got up early on Sunday morning for once so decided to get reacquainted with Edinburgh's famed car boot sale in the Greenside car park. Came away with a bag full of about 20 cassettes (total expenditure: around £5.40) and have been avidly listening to the whole lot since, which included: Kraftwerk - Autobahn. Vertigo cassette, blue motorway sign cover. I've seen this very tape in at least three record shops going for no less than a tenner, so such a rare find for a quid is very good luck indeed. Joni Mitchell - Shadows & Light. late 70s live stuff. The quality of the songs (Mostly Hejira & Summer Lawns material) holds the album together, but the backing band are a bit too wanky jazz-lite for my taste; the very name "Pat Metheny" churns my stomach at the best of times, shame he had to mar a Joni record. Orchestral Manoevres In The Dark - 1st album. Great post-punk synth-pop fence-straddling. New Order - Movement. I like "Dreams Never End", but the rest just sounds like a jaded Joy Division yet to hit their new stride. Billy Joel - Piano Man & Streetlife Serenader. One of those great early/mid 80s relics, the two albums on one cassette phenomenon. Great witty songs and astonishing musical diversity, esp. on Piano Man. The Best Of Belinda Carlisle. aw, what the hell, it cost a pound and makes me feel like a happy innocent 10 year old again. The rest were all ancient blank tapes from the 70s and 80s, which I've always loved collecting. I suppose when cassettes were a popular format and getting a viable market share companies could afford to make them look like pieces of art with all these stripy colourful labels, white/black/blue shells and BASF's hilarious "Special Mechanism" (honestly, these two plastic bars will make the tape sound great): you can tell these are the ramblings of a slightly obsessed long-time cassette fetishist, but it's for the reasons above that I love collecting old tapes. These days, all you get is a clear shell with the company brand stamped on it. Bo-ring. Then there's the music that I found on these tapes. One of them (a mid 70s TDK C60, if anyone at all is still remotely interested) had loads of guitar-led easy listening stuff that really started to cook in a lot of places; was that guitar distorted there? Fairly lets rip for a muzak session anyway. No clue as to the artistes, though. On the others, more easy listening, half of the Mikado, and, most interestingly, two people sending a spoken letter to someone. It was utterly fascinating listening to eavesdrop on something like that from years and years ago. I'm currently in the process of archving all of this on to CDRs, as the 20-30 year old oxide on the tapes is disintegrating as they play. Oh well, then there's next Sunday...
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Serotonin 175 posts |
Feb 05, 2003, 11:03
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...meant to post that as a seperate thread, but started it off until this STOOL thread. sorry for the duplication.
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cHARLIE 2607 posts |
Feb 05, 2003, 11:13
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......sNiGGeR ; ) YarLie*
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Stevo 6664 posts |
Feb 05, 2003, 14:15
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I wouldn't be put of by that Steeleye Span thing unless its the Hills of Greenmore. I think they were a pretty different band in their earliest incarnations. Very creepy atmospheric psych-like rock versions of traditional material. I'd like to hear somebody doing more self-written stuff in that style. was going to say that No Protection by Massive attack may well be wort a check too, its a version dubbed out by thE Mad Proffessor Stevo Np Charles Wright I Got Love/Love Land
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direwolf 92 posts |
Feb 05, 2003, 17:35
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I'm not really too clear on how involved Syd was with the recording of "Saucerful..." I don't think he participated too much, but you're quite right it's also some of Floyd's best. One other lp from this period that is often overlooked is the soundtrack to "More" album.. it's quite good as well.
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Howden 216 posts |
Feb 05, 2003, 19:09
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I like this, ratcni01. Thanks for the burn! The standout track, though, is probably the one with Albarn, all high pitched and melodica-ing; it would fit snugly onto the Gorillaz album...
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Howden 216 posts |
Feb 05, 2003, 19:31
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Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros - 'Rock Art and the X-Ray Style'. Bought this 'cos it's got a track called 'Tony Adams' on it! Not as good as the second album, which I like a lot, but it's good. Toots and the Maytals - 'The Collection'. Bought this for the track 'Famine'. Pretty standard reggae. The Raveonettes - 'Whip It On'. Mary Chain/BRMC type thing. Nick Cave - 'Nocturama'. OK. Mary Margaret O'Hara - 'Miss America'. A classic record, all in a league of its own. Find it hard to think of anything to compare it to! Mileece - 'Formations'. Great for 'background' when needing to chill. Ramones - 'Anthology'. Gabba Gabba Hey! You've gotta love this band. The Warlock - 'Phoenix'. Rock and roll ups! Really like this. Thanks for the burn, Telepathine. Deltron 3030 - '?'. A hip hop album! Does the rap on 'Clint Eastwood'. Nice groove, though the concept bit between the tracks does irritate a little. Albarn makes a contribution on one Gorillaz sounding song. ThEe-SeLf AdMiNiStRaTiOn-StAtIoN!- 'PiTyFuL LiFe!'. Got a bit of a Wire guitar thing going on there on 'Car Alarm', Charlie. I like this CD, in particular 'Car Alarm'. Camper Van Beethoven - 'Tusk'. A GREAT album, though it took a few listens to get into it!
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Telepathine 371 posts |
Feb 05, 2003, 20:15
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Glad u like the Warlocks thang (they're playing the Little Civic next Tuesday...only a fiver...will have to get the MD mic sorted out for it :) I really like that Raveonettes mini LP thingy too, esp the bits on 'Ghostrider' when he goes " And It Goes Like this..." and all hell breaks loose, very very J&MC that bit.
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