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machineryelf
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Re: Soundtracks of Our Lives week ending 4 November 2017 CE
Nov 05, 2017, 21:24
waiting for the Domboshawa and Stereocilia LPs to turn up, good to hear they're worth the wait, also waiting for this, another £5 bargain
https://stereocilia.bandcamp.com/album/the-road-to-the-unconscious-past
garerama
garerama
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Re: Soundtracks of Our Lives week ending 4 November 2017 CE
Nov 05, 2017, 21:30
Thanks Squid.
machineryelf
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Re: Soundtracks of Our Lives week ending 4 November 2017 CE
Nov 05, 2017, 21:52
not done this for a while as I've been trawling through a bunch of MP3s and so no big pile to reference
I have decided in the Beatles vs Rolling Stones debate the Beatles win hands down

also T-Rex vs Slade is a draw , Bolan didn't half sing some nonsense but he has some lovely riffs and after 3 hours Noddy does get a bit shouty but otherwise more fun than a big fun thing

watched the Sex Pistols at Xmas , what lovely people they were/are Lydon face down in a cake coming up with a big grin on his face cheered me up no end

4 1/2 hours of Black metal compilations is fun, also BM is universal, English, Chinese, Hungarian,Finnish, Martian they all sound exactly the same, except South americans who are always sadder and/or Angrier and the Japanese singing Spanish who just sound awesome

30 Odd Years The Subway Sect, I know this because I purchased a copy from Vic Godard after seeing his excellent Band live

also saw Ghost Poet[surprisingly chunky live, also Mogwai-like ], GY!BE [superb, probably not a good judge as I love them but they were superb], Inca Babies amongst others at a lets celebrate John Peel event also very good[ also featured Sunderlands top surf punk band Milk Lizards, 2 guys playing improvised wahed accordians and gongs and Pellethead [who also supported The Subway Sect]

Danzig - I've just played this so it makes the list, played the Meteors before so that's in as well

Lots of Dio, whose voice definitely went South before he died and employed far too many squealy harmonics guitar players , Man On The Silver Mountain does not require Harmonics you squealing buffoon

The Cult - Electric Peace Mrs Elf has played this a lot, I'm not complaining, if nothing else our combined love of The Cult means neither of us will ever be invited to the cool kids table, AND WE DON'T CARE
Squid Tempest
Squid Tempest
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Re: Soundtracks of Our Lives week ending 4 November 2017 CE
Nov 05, 2017, 21:55
machineryelf wrote:
waiting for the Domboshawa and Stereocilia LPs to turn up, good to hear they're worth the wait, also waiting for this, another £5 bargain
https://stereocilia.bandcamp.com/album/the-road-to-the-unconscious-past


nooo - that's more money spent that I haven't got!

Cheers though, ordered it on the spot.
Fatalist
Fatalist
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Re: Soundtracks of Our Lives week ending 4 November 2017 CE
Nov 05, 2017, 22:30
La Feline – Triomphe. It’s a great feeling to hear something and straight away know that, not only are you going to really like it, but that it’s objectively great too ie. it’s not just ticking the boxes of your own personal peccadilloes. So, La Feline is a lady called Agnes Gayraud and she’s just a fantastically evocative and compelling songwriter. Musically she’s in indie/folky/post-punk territory (and definitely a bit Radiohead-ish in places), but to simply try and tie this down to genre kind of defeats the object. Have a listen, she’s fab: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0G0IO_do8o

Cobra Family Picnic – Magnetic Anomaly. This, on the other hand, is the definition of generic. Which isn’t to say it’s bad, but its moves are so familiar, it could wash over you without really making any impact. But if psychedelic space rock is your thing, it’s worth a listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRDBy8cMkHg

Erlend Apneseth Trio – Ara. One of the seemingly endless avant/jazz/folk releases from Hubro. Fine, some nice fiddle, but can’t imagine wanting to sit through it again

Electric Wizard – Wizard Bloody Wizard. You like EW, or indeed Uncle Acid, then you’ll want this. Great vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX1530GNc6U

Atomic Rooster – s/t. There’s a box set upcoming in Dec that features all of their 70s stuff. One of the first early heavy bands I got into, it seems they never got the kudos they deserved, and mostly remembered these days as Carl Palmer’s first band. But Vincent Crane, who had been the driving musical force behind the Crazy World Of Arthur Brown, was a fantastic keys player, and they were pretty big for a while, even having a couple of hit singles. I guess their problem was that they fell between a variety of stools – proto-prog, muscular R&B, hard rock – though this is also what makes them quite often rather brilliant. Anyway, this first album is the one that features CP, but doesn’t feature a guitarist, and in places it definitely sounds like a test-run for ELP. But don’t let that put you off. One other thing to mention though – Crane suffered from serious depression throughout his life and ultimately killed himself in 1989, and lyrically just about every song on this album reflects that, sometimes to quite a painful degree: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ll_ievJrd0

Listen With Father:

Siouxsie & The Banshees – Once Upon A Time. Practically an old standby now. The girls immediately loved the likes of ‘Hong Kong Garden’ and ‘Christine’, but I get the sense they’re really digging into some of the harsher/weirder stuff now. And blimey, the lyrics to tracks like ‘Playground Twist’ are really quite disturbing… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJAx5BOWPM8

T is for…

Finding a lot of intriguing stuff in the archive under ‘T’

Tarantula Hawk – s/t. A great re-discovery, though I suspect I probably just didn’t listen to it enough when I first got it – it’s heavy, sludgy instrumental psych-prog from the turn of the century that’s pleasingly visceral: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HovbaZAALu8

Two Lone Swordsmen – The Fifth Mission (Return To The Flightpath Estate). Again, I think I picked this up cheap years ago without really giving it a proper listen. Obviously follows on from the Sabres Of Paradise stuff, but it’s a bit more diffuse/diverse. It’s very long (2 CDs worth), and quite a bit of it sounds like two stoned blokes in a studio at 2am entertaining themselves with random loops and noises, but there’s some excellent dark psychedelic techno here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKZACLxQJv8

VA – Torque. Oof, this one I remembered much better, played it lot at the time during my brief techstep/drum & bass phase. Still sounds brilliant in places – the fact the guys making this stuff were working with a (deliberately) restricted sound palette and often just reusing the same breaks/drum patterns gives it a hypnotic consistency (when it could have been just really dull). It still feels like the perfect soundtrack to some grungy but mind-blowing sci-fi movie, like if David Cronenberg had made Blade Runner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLV0OSGIiqU
Squid Tempest
Squid Tempest
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Re: Soundtracks of Our Lives week ending 4 November 2017 CE
Nov 05, 2017, 23:11
I love that Cobra Family Picnic album, right up my street!
keith a
9565 posts

Re: Soundtracks of Our Lives week ending 4 November 2017 CE
Nov 05, 2017, 23:14
Shag Tobacco – Gavin Friday
Mid-90's release that finds the former Virgin Prune on altogether more accessible form. There's some Bowie, Scott, Brecht and 80's pop influence and a rather decent cover of Bolan's The Slider - it really is a top notch album. Hilites for me are probably You Me & World War Three and Mt 20th Century which includes a great moment when Friday sings
“I once believed in Jesus
Now I can't believe in rock 'n' roll”
but really...it's all great.

Also...
With The Beatles – The Beatles

Night Gallery - Eternal Tapestry & Sun Araw

Garden Of Ashes – Duke Garwood

World Music - Goat

Anthology – Tommy James & the Shondells

Hippopotamus - Sparks

Drift - Tarwater

Bush Doctor – Peter Tosh

Psychic Karaoke – Transglobal Underground

Super Ape – The Upsetters
Return Of Super Ape – The Upsetters

V2 – The Vibrators

Back To Land – Wooden Shjips

Watched England Is Mine...
As someone who has bought, shall we say, the odd Smiths/Moz record, I must admit I was a bit unsure whether I wanted to see the England Is Mine film or not. Sure I was interested in the subject but the reviews were pretty mixed and I thought I would hate it but...I've but gotta say I enjoyed it - it's an enjoyable account of a moody, introspective, creative but self-centred young man finding his feet in life. I don't remember anyone our age drinking beer from bottles back in the 70's though. It was either from a glass or a can round here (Party Seven!!) x
Beebon
1375 posts

Re: Soundtracks of Our Lives week ending 4 November 2017 CE
Nov 06, 2017, 07:42
Lifesigns - Cardington (This could be my favourite album of the year, wonderfully melodic neo prog)

The Flower Kings - Banks Of Eden

Steven Wilson - To The Bone (Played it a couple of times when it came out and was left a bit indifferent to be honest, however this week it began to click with me)
Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase

Genesis - Trespass

Hellhammer - Satanic Rites
Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion (I was very sad to learn of the passing of Martin Eric Ain recently aged just 50. His influence on the world of metal was massive. I hadn't heard any Hellhammer for a couple of years, I had forgotten how much I dig their rawness)

Anathema - A Natural Disaster
Paul Chain - Park Of Reason
Popol Vuh - Nosferatu OST
Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
Transatlantic - Bridge Across Forever
Pineapple Thief - Your Wilderness
Beebon
1375 posts

Re: Soundtracks of Our Lives week ending 4 November 2017 CE
Nov 06, 2017, 07:48
Fatalist wrote:

Electric Wizard – Wizard Bloody Wizard. You like EW, or indeed Uncle Acid, then you’ll want this. Great vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX1530GNc6U


Yes! Eagerly awaiting this, out at the end of the week too! :)
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