|
Unsung Forum » Soundtracks of Our Lives week ending 24 December 2022 CE |
Log In to post a reply
|
|
|
|
|
|
Topic View: Flat | Threaded |
1001realapes 2389 posts |
Edited Dec 25, 2022, 09:09
Dec 25, 2022, 05:10
|
|
The Ventures - The Ventures' Christmas Album Southwest F.O.B. – Smell Of Incense The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute / The Widow (Live) Morgan Delt - st Morgan Delt - Phase Zero The Id – The Inner Sounds of The Id The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band - Part 1 The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band – Vol. 3 - A Child's Guide To Good & Evil The Fabulous Wailers – Original Golden Crest Masters The Wailers - Livewire!!! Olivia Newton-John – If Not For You DE Hailu Mergia & The Walias Band – Tezeta Hailu Mergia / Dahlak Band – Wede Harer Guzo Grant-Lee Phillips - Yuletide EP Namlook – Namlook XV - Free Your Mind Namlook – Namlook XXI: Subconscious Worlds Alien Community - I Terry Riley - Shri Camel Rush - Hold Your Fire Frank Zappa - The Grand Wazoo Index - Anthology 1967-1969 Datacide - 'Flowerhead' The Trashmen - Surfin' Bird Yusef Lateef - Cry! Tender Vince Guaraldi Trio - A Charlie Brown Christmas Majic Ship - The Complete Authorized Recordings John Uzonyi's Peacepipe - st Tomorrow - 50 Minute Technicolour Dream The Soft Boys - 1976-81 (disc 2)
|
|
Fitter Stoke 2614 posts |
Dec 25, 2022, 09:06
|
|
This week’s (not very) festive playlist: Snow Patrol ‘Final Straw’ - Snow Patrol’s major label breakthrough album remains their best for me: decent songs with plenty of bite; Phil Miller In Cahoots ‘Out Of The Blue’ - exemplary music from the jazzier end of the Canterbury Scene. RIP Phil, Pip and Elton; Mark Hollis S/T - I recall an old ECM ad describing that label’s music as “the most beautiful sound next to silence”, an analogy that equally applies to this quiet masterpiece; Streetwalkers ‘Downtown Flyers’ - proof that not all immediately pre-punk music was dour and dull. This - mostly - rocks; Saxon ‘Carpe Diem’ - my metal album of the year, not that I’ve heard many others; Sandy Denny ‘Rendezvous’ - Sandy’s last proper album could have been so much better had it not been so over-produced and cover heavy (inexplicably, three of her own songs were dropped from the final cut). As it is, it’s just an okay record. Sandy deserved a better swan song, not that she knew it at the time; Rick Danko S/T - long forgotten solo debut by The Band’s long-gone bassist and occasional singer. No lost classic, but highly enjoyable anyway; Marillion ‘An Hour Before It’s Dark’ - their latest - and greatest - studio album which I’m running out of superlatives to describe; Mick Goodrick ‘In Pas(s)ing’ - Goodrick’s 1979 album, the first under his own name, is a quiet classic and one of my favourite ECM releases. He sadly left us last month after a long battle with Parkinson’s Disease. RIP, Mick; Marc Johnson ‘Bass Desires’ - another fine ECM date featuring one of the best jazz bassists of modern times and some ace axe interplay between Bill Frisell and John Scofield, though the (very 80s) guitar synths are a little overused; Marc Johnson ‘Overpass’ - Johnson’s most recent album is that rare thing: an album of solo bass that never drags. In fact, his inventiveness is astounding. Makes a fascinating comparison with Gary Peacock ‘December Poems’ - another impressive bass album with a distinctively icy feel, especially the brace of tracks with Jan Garbarek; Vince Guaraldi Trio ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’ - just lovely; Dave Brubeck Quartet ‘Time In’ - the last of the classic Brubeck quartet’s time themed albums is also its most lyrical; Schoenberg: String Trio, Op.45 (Juilliard Quartet) - following this outwardly austere late work with a miniature score reveals its subtleties, intensity, beauty and humour; Gillian Weir ‘French Virtuoso Organ Music’ - jeez, there’re some speaker busting moments in this. Not all of this is great music but my, it’s exciting; Alexander Eadon ‘Advent to Epiphany’ - another wide-ranging recording of seasonal music played on the colourful Oundle School Chapel organ; Messiaen: La Nativite du Seigneur (Marie-Claire Alain) - the fourth version of this awesome festive masterpiece I’ve recently heard is one of the most powerful, played on the suitably massive organ of Lucerne’s Hofkirche. Greetings to all. Dave x
|
|
|
flashbackcaruso 1058 posts |
Dec 25, 2022, 23:26
|
|
Bridget St John - Thank You For... Pentangle - Reflection Pentangle - Solomon's Seal Midwinter - The Waters Of Sweet Sorrow Midwinter - Stone Angel Steve Ashley - Stroll On Steve Ashley - Speedy Return Paul Simon - Still Crazy After All These Years Elton John & Linda Thompson - Warlock Sampler V/A - Elton John's Christmas Party Sufjan Stevens - Songs For Christmas Trader Horne - Morning Way The Watersons - Frost & Fire Brian Wilson - What I Really Want For Christmas Mike Love - Reason For The Season The Rotary Connection - Peace Windy & Carl - Introspection Vince Guaraldi Trio - A Charlie Brown Christmas Elvis Presley - Elvis Sings The Wonderful World Of Christmas Elvis Presley - Elvis' Christmas Album The Flaming Lips - Christmas On Mars Phil Spector - A Christmas Gift For You The Earlies - These Were The Earlies Screen Prints - Noises From The Darkroom IV: Christmas 2000 The Beach Boys - Merry Christmas From The Beach Boys The Beach Boys - The Beach Boys' Christmas Album The Beatles - Living In The Material World (soniclovenoize recreation) The Beatles - Complete Christmas Collection 1963-1969 Low - Christmas
|
|
|
keith a 9574 posts |
Dec 26, 2022, 11:19
|
|
World Shut Your Mouth: Cope Notes #3 – Julian Cope Revolutionary Suicide – Julian Cope I finally got round to listening to latest Cope notes cd the other night. Wow! As someone who was gutted when the Teardrops split and then excited when Cope finally announced his debut solo set this period has a special place in my heart. The demo versions are great. The arrangements were already fully realised and basically just needed re-doing in a posh studio. As for Revolutionary Suicide...well I reckon In His Cups is one of Julian's finest ever moments. The Wonderful & Frightening World Of... - The Fall “Midges!” Encore – The Specials For obvious reasons. Also played lots of Specials, FB3 45's. RIP Terry. Also... Revolver – The Beatles Reality – Bill Callahan Oh Death - Goat People Get Ready: The Best Of Curtis Mayfield's Impressions – The Impressions Everything Is Wrong – Moby Wave – Patti Smith Group Dream Of 100 Nations – Transglobal Underground Futuristic Dragon – T.Rex Cool It Down – The Yeah Yeah Yeahs
|
|
Hunter T Wolfe 1710 posts |
Dec 26, 2022, 13:10
|
|
Felt- Train Above The City Felt- The Pictorial Jackson Review Fun Boy Three- Waiting More Experience- Electric Laboratory of High Space Experience Modulo 1000- Nao Fale Com Paredes The Barracudas- Drop out With... Lovelock- Washington Park Belbury Poly- The Willows The Electric Prunes- Mass in F Minor Steeleye Span- Below The Salt Various Artists- The Resident Sampler 15: Best of 2022
|
|
Dog in fog 317 posts |
Dec 26, 2022, 14:55
|
|
Christy Moore - Live At The Point The Bothy Band - Live In Concert The Ilk - The Battle Of Winwaed David A Jaycock - Ten Songs Sharron Kraus - The Woody Nightshade Orion Rigel Dommisse - What I Want From You Is Sweet Joolz - Weird Sister Tír na nÓg - s/t Stone Angel - s/t V/A - Strange Folk V/A - El Pea Schubert - Die schöne Müllerin (Ian Bostridge, Mitsuko Uchida) Carols From King's
|
|
|
Kid Calamity 9048 posts |
Dec 27, 2022, 14:37
|
|
Various TelefÍs releases, by the late Cathal Coughlan & Jacknife Lee (a Dó, Falun Gong Dancer etc) 'Where I'm Meant To Be' and 'Chapter 7' by Ezra Collective 'Artifacts' and 'Magma' by Black Flower 'Dins O Cuol' by Poil 'Key' by Red Snapper
|
|
garerama 1118 posts |
Dec 28, 2022, 20:52
|
|
Boards Of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust OST / Isollar II In The Court / Outside In Budapest / Heathen Can - Ogam Ogat / Doko E Cluster - II / Zuckerzeit C.O.B - Moyshe McStiff & The Tartan Lancers Of The Sacred Heart John Coltrane - First Meditations (For Quartet) / Meditations / Jupiter Variations Julian Cope - Peggy Suicide Dope - Semi-Legal On The Edge Of Culture The Dickies - The Incredible Shrinking Dickies / Dawn Of The Dickies Klaus Dinger & Prejapandorf - 2000! Magazine - Real Life / The Correct Use Of Soap Midwinter - The Waters Of Sweet Sorrow Charles Mingus - Pithecanthropus Erectus / Mingus Ah Um / Candid Recordings Part Two Psychic TV - Pagan Day / Those Who Do Not Rudimentary Peni - EPs Of RP / Death Church / Cacophony The Specials - S/t Cat Stevens - Tea For Tillerman 23 Skidoo - Seven Songs V/A Twin Peaks: Limited Event Series OST Intermission (Ghost Box)
|
| Unsung Forum Index |
