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1001realapes 2387 posts |
Nov 17, 2019, 06:34
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O Yuki Conjugate - Northbound Music for Season One V.A. - G-Spots The spacey folk electro-horror sounds of the Studio G Library V.A. - Guitar Wizards 1926-1935 Cat Stevens - Teaser and the Firecat Frank Zappa - Zoot Allures The Cotton Pickers - 1922-1925 AC/DC - Ballbreaker Super Furry Animals - Northern Lights (single) |
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Zariadris 286 posts |
Edited Nov 17, 2019, 12:58
Nov 17, 2019, 11:15
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MUGSTAR w/Damo Suzuki - Start from Zero MUGSTAR - Centralia I'm carrying on with my Mugstar trip. These past two weeks I've been spinning these constantly. Start from Zero is a beautifully recorded live gig in Liverpool with Damo and the lads creating tight and dark post-punk psych, like a cross between Heaven Up Here and Monster Movie. Standout cuts are the ghostly Subway Sound and the 22 minute motorik closer, Zero Coda, which brings to mind Neu! and Bauhaus jamming Bela Lugosi's Dead. Outstanding. Centralia is two sidelong cuts of first-rate instrumental cosmic excursion that channels the vibes of Achim Reichel's Echo and Popul Vuh circa Letze Tage, Heart of Glass, as well as the plaintive tones on side B of Bruder des Schattens...I could listen to this forever. BIG COUNTRY - Steeltown I come back to this at least once a year. One of the most outstanding - and unsung - albums of the 80s, IMO. What a unique sound, at turns heavy and lilting, dark and luminous - Mark Brzezicki's clattering drums and Tony Butler's swooning, booming bass lines no less essential than the e-bow driven bagpipe-like twin guitar clash of Stuart Adamson and Bruce Watson, all beautifully produced with Lillywhite at the controls. The song craft and atmospheric textures of Steeltown are timeless to these ears. Lyrically, the album is brilliant as well, at once political and personal, angry and dreamy: the incisive Flame of the West has lost none of its urgency in this age of populist demagoguery. It's as much about Trump as Reagan. Come Back To Me makes me cry every time - a devastating anti-war song from the POV of a young widow that segueways from the scorching WWI inspired Where The Rose is Sown. And the haunting, indeed apocalyptic title track about the dispossession of the working class harkens back to a decade when people still gave a shit about them - a time before the technocratic new left turned its back and left them to right wing populists; a time when rock musicians, like our own Archdrude, used their voices to protest and demand. The Bolshevik-style constructivist cover art says it all. I even remember the day I bought it, a spotty 15 year old at Fnac, along with Iron Maiden's Powerslave! I don't much listen to Powerslave anymore, but Steeltown is a desert island disc for sure: a reminder of who we all were - what we feared, dreamed and stood for - before the wall came down.
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flashbackcaruso 1055 posts |
Nov 17, 2019, 11:23
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Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath Black Sabbath - Sabotage Scott Walker - 'Til The Band Comes In Scott Walker - In My Room Scott Walker - Where's The Girl? Scott Walker - An American In Europe Paul Simon - Paul Simon Mercury Rev - Snowflake Midnight/Strange Attractor Mercury Rev - The Light In You Mercury Rev - Bobbie Gentry’s The Delta Sweete Revisited (This wasn't quite the track-by-track re-imagining it was meant to be, as Louisiana Man was missing and a version of Ode To Billie Joe was spuriously tacked on the end. But now they've released a version of that missing track, very nicely sung by Erika Wennerstrom. Restoring this song to its rightful place and removing the gaps between the tracks to make it a proper 'sweete' makes for a much more satisfying listen). Cardiacs - The Obvious Identity Cardiacs - Toy World Cardiacs - Archive Cardiacs Cardiacs - The Seaside Thompson Twins - Quickstep & Side Kick Thompson Twins - Into The Gap Goblin - Zombi Bee Gees - 1st
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Fitter Stoke 2611 posts |
Nov 17, 2019, 12:18
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Van Morrison ‘Three Chords and the Truth’ Geraint Watkins ‘Rush Of Blood’ Opeth ‘In Cauda Venenum’ Fleetwood Mac ‘Bare Trees’ Gillan & Glover ‘Accidentally On Purpose’ Marillion ‘Fuck Everyone And Run’ Mendelssohn: Overture ‘Ruy Blas’ (OSR/Ernest Ansermet) Mendelssohn: Symphony no.4 ‘Italian’ (Philharmonia/Guiseppe Sinopoli) Beethoven: Symphonies 1, 3, 4, 5 & 6 (WDR SO/Jukka-Pekka Saraste) Beethoven: Symphony no.8 (Orch Haydn of Bozen & Trient/Gustav Kuhn) Beethoven: Symphony no.2 (Stuttgart RSO/Karl Munchinger) Beethoven: Symphony no.5 (Halle/Sir John Barbirolli) Beethoven: Symphony no.9 (LSO/Eugen Jochum) Beethoven: Piano Concerto no.1 (Tapiola Sinfonietta/Olli Mustonen) Beethoven: Piano Concerto no.4 (Conrad Hansen/BPO/Wilhelm Furtwangler) Beethoven: Overture ‘Leonore no.2’ (BPO/Furtwangler) Brahms: Symphony no.3 (BPO/Furtwangler) Tchaikovsky: Symphony no.2 (LSO/Antal Dorati)
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jb lamptoast-morsley 2447 posts |
Nov 17, 2019, 22:03
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You write really well. Draws me in anyway
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keith a 9572 posts |
Nov 17, 2019, 22:51
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Ribbons – Bibio The Petrified Forest - Biosphere Black Caesar – James Brown Shepherd In A Sheepskin Vest - Bill Callahan The Good Son – Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds Guesswork – Lloyd Cole Return To The 37th Chamber – El Michels Affair Negative Capability – Marianne Faithfull Serf's Up – Fat White Family Somebody's Knocking – Mark Lanegan Band Lux Prima – Karen O / Dangermouse The Long Goodbye / Montreuil – Pere Ubu The Road: Part II / Lost Highway – UNKLE The Paralian – Andrew Wasylyk
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Zariadris 286 posts |
Nov 18, 2019, 08:35
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Thank you man. That's very kind of you to say. I'm so pleased it's of interest to you. Do please keep me/us informed of your thoughts about the upcoming Cosmic Dead show you mentioned...
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spencer 3070 posts |
Nov 18, 2019, 10:26
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Seconded
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Monganaut 2375 posts |
Nov 18, 2019, 19:17
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I've never heard Steeltown, but that beautifully written overview has made me want to seek it out. Keep em' coming! (the reviews that is :) I read many years ago a comment in a music mag by Lloyd Cole, the gist if which was.... the stuff you get into in your formative years as a teen, makes the biggest impression on you, and you find that through your life that you return to those sounds time and again, because they had such an impact on you at the time. The cool stuff you get into later is always relevant, but never quite buries itself as deep as the original musical you loved, be it cool or not. I find that true with many bands I listened to as a kid. Simple Minds, Bauhaus, Echo And The Bunnymen, Gary Numan, John Foxx, Teardrops/Cope, Sabbath etc....
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Monganaut 2375 posts |
Nov 18, 2019, 19:26
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Not a whole lot this week....Been on a bit of a Depeche Mode bender. Depeche Mode - Speak and Spell Depeche Mode - A Broken Frame Depeche Mode - Construction Time Again Depeche Mode - Some Great Reward Depeche Mode - Music For The Masses Depeche Mode - Black Celebration Depeche Mode - 101 There is a wonderful documentary by Jerry Deller and Nicholas Abrahams about hardcore Depeche Mode fans from around the globe on youtube. Some bits are every bit as funny and cringworthy as you'd expect, but some parts really heartwarming and touching too.... 'Our Hobby Is Depeche Mode'...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kk2thrDgFKc Japan - Quiet Life Stooges - S/T Stooges - Funhouse Meat Beat Manifesto - impossible Star That's about it. Keep Well!
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