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1001realapes 2387 posts |
Jul 11, 2021, 04:20
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Arlo Guthrie - Running Down the Road REO Speedwagon - This Time We Mean It REO Speedwagon - REO Ian Anderson - The Secret Language of Birds Ian Anderson - Homo Erraticus The Residents - Leftovers Again?! N-1 - Voyeur aus dem Off Alexander Moyzes - String Quartets Nos. 2-4 (The Moyzes Quartet) Burning Spear - Living Dub Volume Two David Bowie - 'hours...' Johnny Winter - Birds Can't Row Boats, The Unreleased Masters Collection 1965-1968
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Fitter Stoke 2611 posts |
Edited Jul 11, 2021, 09:32
Jul 11, 2021, 09:22
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This week’s bored-with-football-hype blues: Uriah Heep ‘Salisbury’ - Heep’s sophomore release isn’t as good as their first or third LPs but has a few fine tracks anyway. Maybe I need to listen a little closer to this one; John Martyn ‘Live At Leeds’ - the thirteen minute take on ‘Outside In’ included here is simply sublime; XTC ‘Go 2’ - my newly-submitted Unsung comments refer; Blood, Sweat & Tears ‘3’ - brassy jazz pop from the masters of their (admittedly narrow) genre, featuring David Clayton Thomas on top vocal form; Barclay James Harvest ‘Gone To Earth’ - where BJH upped their energy quotient (well, a bit) in the year of punk. Seriously, a very decent LP; Steven Wilson ‘The Future Bites’ - which is not just clever but musically satisfying - not always a combination I’ve experienced with its omnipresent protagonist; Bauhaus ‘In The Flat Field’ - their debut was their most atonal and original statement, capturing Bauhaus at their bleak peak before commercial success blunted their edge. ‘Nerves’ features the best riff Tony Iommi never wrote; Talk Talk ‘The Colour Of Spring’ - the first LP to exhibit a taste of Mark Hollis’ abstract sensitivities. Even the dated “big” drums don’t detract from this record’s beauty; AC/DC ‘Let There Be Rock’ - oh, ok then, if there indeed must; Opeth ‘Children Of The Titans’ - monumentally heavy sounds from Sweden’s long-established prog masters, captured in rude live form a couple of years ago; Haydn: String Quartets Op.71 (Angeles Quartet) - three wonderful, varied quartets sensitively performed in a slightly over-reverberant acoustic; Mozart: Piano Concerto no.20 (Stephen Kovacevich/LSO/Sir Colin Davis) - one of Mozart’s most dramatic concertos given a duly serious reading here; Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique (LSO/Colin Davis) - and Davis’ first take on Berlioz’s trippy masterpiece is equally stern, though not lacking in excitement; Beethoven: Symphony no.3 (Cleveland/Lorin Maazel) - a straight down the middle ‘Eroica’ from Maazel, but none the worse for that; Beethoven: Piano Concerto no.4 (Walter Gieseking/Saxon State Orch/Karl Boehm) - pre-war German recording delightfully paced. Let there be sound. Dave x
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flashbackcaruso 1056 posts |
Jul 11, 2021, 12:07
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Leonard Cohen - Songs Of Leonard Cohen Leonard Cohen - Songs From A Room Leonard Cohen - Songs Of Love And Hate Leonard Cohen - Live Songs The Zombies - Begin Here: The Complete Mono Recordings 1964 - 1967 The Zombies - Odessey & Oracle (good to have this on CD now, so that I can re-programme the track order rather than having to lift the needle to rectify something that has always bugged me. A perfect album in every way apart from the fact the 'Time Of The Season' ends the album on a rather inconclusive fade-out. Moving the optimistic 'This Will Be Our Year' to the final track ends things in a far more satisfying way). The Zombies - R.I.P. The Doors - The Doors The Doors - L.A. Woman Love - Forever Changes The Beach Boys - Keepin' The Summer Alive The Beach Boys - The Beach Boys The Beach Boys - Still Cruisin' The Beach Boys - Summer In Paradise (always had a soft spot for this much-maligned album - yes the production is sometimes awful and the lyrics tend towards the cliched, but there are a handful of very decent songs and the vocal standard is as high as ever. There is also this remarkable overhaul by the prolific YouTuber DJ L33 which vastly improves some of the tracks but slightly over eggs the pudding on others. The matching in of vocals from earlier songs is often brilliant, especially the 'Summer Of Love'/'Some Of Your Love' mash up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYc9P5au-t4 On a more perverse note, this alternate 'de-mix' isolates one of the worst elements of the original, the overbearing programmed 'drumming', and presents it on its own for 44 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0DzZesqppY&t=145s Handily there is also a still active link to all the stems so that you can do your own remix. Opening track 'Hot Fun In The Summertime' is already vastly improved by taking the treble off the drum track and bringing it down in the mix). The Monkees - Headquarters The Monkees - Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. Klaus Schulze - Picture Music Paul McCartney - Press To Play Paul McCartney - Flowers In The Dirt Pink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse Of Reason Pink Floyd - The Division Bell Pink Floyd - The Endless River Genesis - Live At Twickenham 08.07.07 (listened to this 14 years on from the original gig and was marvelling at how much better Phil's voice sounds here then it did in the 1980s when I saw them previously. Still undecided whether to see them on their upcoming dates (if they ever happen). Will it be a big mistake?) Yes - Fragile Yes - Close To The Edge Yes - Tales From Topographic Oceans (another much-maligned album. Side 3 is a bit hard to take but there is much musical brilliance and invention on the other 3 sides). The Mamas & The Papas - Singles (another band for DJ L33 to apply his remixing skills to? Mostly great run of singles (aside from the dreary 'Monday Monday') but sometimes terribly mixed. I'd love to hear these in full stereo, rather than the two hard-panned mono tracks that passed for a stereo mix back then).
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keith a 9573 posts |
Jul 12, 2021, 17:11
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Sounds Almighty - Nat Birchall Meets Al Breadwinner Sudden Fictions - Bo Ningen S/T - Bonnacons Of Doom Just Dennis - Dennis Brown QP EP - Brueder Selke Spumes & Recollections - Driftmachine I - Follakzoid Flashback - Fujiya & Miyagi S/T - Future Holograms Live Ballroom Ritual - Goat Still EP - Mazzy Star Phantom Lights - Memory Drawings Stars Are The Light - Moon Duo Graft - Mugstar Ship EP - The Notwist Vertigo Days - The Notwist The Bestial Light - Radar Men From The Moon Hits Collection - Dusty Springfield S/T EP - Subterranean Lovers Ghost Riders - Suicide Mutator - Alan Vega Leaving Meaning - Swans Ecopoiesis EP- Umwelt UUUU (45) - UUUU Flock - Jane Weaver V - Wooden Shjips
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MARTASE 603 posts |
Jul 12, 2021, 21:28
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Ian Dury and the Blockheads - New Boots and Panties Ian Dury - Lord Upminster Cosmic Dead - Psych's Dead The Teardrop Explodes - Cope's Notes Crosby, Stills and Nash - S/T Hookworms - S/T EP Urthona Power Trio Quartet - NO-FI ALIVE! Hiro Yanagida - Milk Can - Ege Bamyasi Julian Cope - Rite squared Have a great week folks x
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garerama 1111 posts |
Jul 13, 2021, 21:18
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The Amorphous Androgynous - The Cartel Remixes The Astronauts - Peter Pan Hits The Suburbs / It's All Done By Mirrors Brainticket - Cottonwoodhill / Psychonaut Broadcast - Berberian Sound Studio Tim Buckley - Happy Sad / Lorca The Buzzcocks - Love Bites / A Different Kind Of Tension Cleaners From Venus - Living With Victoria Grey: The Very Best Of John Coltrane - Crescent / Live At The Village Vanguard Again! Eric Dolphy - The Illinois Concert / Out To Lunch / The Last Date Echo & The Bunnymen - Porcupine / Ocean Rain The Focus Group - Hey! Let Loose Your Love / We Are All Pan's People King Crimson - In The Wake Of Poseidon My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything / Loveless / m.b.v. Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance Pink Floyd - Piper At The Gates Of Dawn / A Saucerful Of Secrets / Relics The Rolling Stones - Between The Buttons V/A - Neu Decade
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