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1001realapes 2388 posts |
Edited Jan 07, 2024, 04:32
Jan 07, 2024, 01:17
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Iron Butterfly - Heavy Kiss - Hotter Than Hell Kiss - Destroyer Ace Frehley - st Chrome - Alien Soundtracks Chrome - Half Machine Lip Moves Chrome - Read Only Memory (mini-album) Roxy Music - st (disc 2 of box set, Demos & Out-Takes) Bebel Gilberto - João The Residents - A Nickle If Your Dick's This Big (disc 2) Ozric Tentacles - Erpsongs Charles Bobuck (Hardy Fox) - Roman de la Rose The Moody Blues - Prelude AC/DC - HIGH VOLTAGE (Aussie) The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold As Love V.A. - Back to Mono (1958-1969) (disc 1)
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Fitter Stoke 2612 posts |
Jan 07, 2024, 09:05
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Ring out the old, ring in the new: Bob Dylan ‘More Greatest Hits’ - the first Dylan album I ever owned remains a quality listen despite its non-chronological structure; Buzzcocks ‘Love Bites’ - which I’ve let a couple of dud tracks make me too long consider this a substandard LP. This truly enlivened a depressing end of year morning; George Harrison ‘Dark Horse’ - which is now, unbelievably, fifty years old. It’s patchy, a bit self-pitying, but there’s enough good music going down here to make me think ‘Dark Horse’ isn’t quite the turkey it’s often held out to be; Ringo Starr ‘It Don’t Come Easy’, ‘Back Off Boogaloo’ & ‘Photograph’ 45s - and even older are these 7” gems that George’s old marra unleashed upon a surprised public. And you know what - their quality sustains; Echo and the Bunnymen ‘Heaven Up Here’ - playing this while walking along Seaburn sea front at dusk, I swear I visioned the sleeve of this wonderful album. Then I went home and played it again - twice. 43 years old? Naaahhh. Just a reminder of how great music was in the early Eighties. As is Magazine ‘The Correct Use Of Soap’ - not quite up to the level of ‘Secondhand Daylight’ methinks, but still a damn fine record; Wishbone Ash ‘Bona Fide’ - like all of Wishbone’s 21st century albums this suffers from the lack of a decent lead vocalist, but the songwriting and playing remain excellent; REO Speedwagon ‘Hi-Infidelity’ - it takes an exceptional album to transcend a genre in which you have no interest to the extent that you love it anyway. This is mine. Pure pleasure from first note to last, yet I bloody hate soft rock; David Sylvian & Holger Czukay ‘Plight & Premonition’ - MOR avant garderie, and that’s not meant as a criticism, rather than a feeling that this is improvised music at its least demanding; U2 ‘Bullet The Blue Sky’ (from ‘Rattle & Hum’) - very little U2 moves me but my, this surely does. Edge’s slide makes me wriggle like a snake; David Bowie ‘Cracked Actor (Live Los Angeles 1974)’ - so superior is this belated set to ‘David Live’, I wonder why the latter was ever considered for release. The closing ‘John I’m Only Dancing (Again)’ is a particular hoot. I’ll never consider this Bowie’s best era, but this record captures his white soul phase better than any other; Mal Waldron ‘The Call’ - one of ECM’s headier releases, chosen to launch their much missed JAPO imprint in 1971. As radical in its own way as anything else recorded in Germany at the time; Maynard Ferguson ‘Live At Jimmy’s’ - jazz’ most thrilling trumpeter blowing up a storm back in ‘74. Test your tweeters with this mother; Joe Loss Orchestra ‘Joe Loss Plays Glenn Miller’ - one of my Dad’s old LPs that still shines over fifty years later. Classy big band music, occasionally enhanced by the creamy vocals of Elvis Costello’s old man Ross McManus; Bach: Prelude & Fugue in C, BWV 545 (Peter Hurford, Helmut Walcha 1950, Helmut Walcha 1970, Ton Koopman, Hans Fagius, Bernard Foccroulle, Andrea Marcon) - it’s oddly instructive to hear the same piece played by different players on different organs. Each has its own pros and cons, but Hans Fagius comes nearest to my ideal; Brahms: Symphony no.2 (BBC SO/Arturo Toscanini) - pre-war studio take not released until the 90s. Quite excellent, despite crumbly sound; Beethoven: Symphony no.7 (Philharmonia/Otto Klemperer) - 1957 live performance with a notable edge lacking from Klemperer’s (still fine) studio recordings; Sibelius: Symphony no.6 (Moscow RSO/Gennady Rozhdestvensky) - occasionally scrawny strings, but this is an unusually distinctive interpretation, heavy on atmosphere - and brass; Suppe: Beautiful Galatea Overture/Bernstein: Chichester Psalms/Beethoven: Piano Concerto no.3 (w. Rudolf Serkin)/Dvorak: Symphony no.7 (all NYPO/Leonard Bernstein) - there’s no such thing as a bland Bernstein recording, and these duly records emote and engage like few others, the only exception being the Beethoven which seemed curiously earthbound; Haydn: String Quartet in B flat, Op.55 no.3 (Buchberger Quartet) - earthy and vital take on one of Haydn’s many four-stringed masterpieces. What the Buchbergers lack in refinement, they make up for in spirit; Beethoven: Piano Sonata Op.31 no.1 (Artur Schnabel) - amidst the 78 RPM mush and a few wrong notes lies an interpretation like none since. Nostalgia for an age yet to come. Have a good week Dave x
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garerama 1115 posts |
Jan 07, 2024, 11:41
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The Afghan Whigs - Black Love Afro Celt Soundsystem - Volume 1: Sound Magic Amon Duul II - Phallus Dei / Yeti Broadcast - The Noise Made By People / Haha Sound Coil - Horse Rotorvator / Moon's Milk / The Ape Of Naples / Black Antlers Julian Cope - Rite 2 / Rite Now Edgar Froese - Aqua Genesis - Nursery Cryme / The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway Gong - Magick Brother / Camembert Electrique / Continental Circus Kraftwerk - S/t / II / Ralf & Florian Morrissey - Viva Hate Psychic TV - Live In Heaven / Thee Fabulous Feast Ov Flowering Light / Southern Comfort / Live In Glasgow The Smiths - S/t / Hatful Of Hollow / Meat Is Murder Swans - To Be Kind / The Glowing Man The Teardrop Explodes - The Piano / Kilimanjaro / Wilder Tom Waits - Rain Dogs / Bone Machine Kamasi Washington - The Epic / Harmony Of Difference Frank Zappa - Uncle Meat / The Grand Wazoo / Waka/Jawaka / Zoot Allures
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Hunter T Wolfe 1709 posts |
Jan 07, 2024, 12:24
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The Bevis Frond- Focus On Nature Elephant Stone- Back Into The Dream The Hanging Stars- On The Golden Shore Hannah Frances- Keeper Of The Shepherd Melodion- Apeiron Chin of Britain- Weasel On The Bridge Crocodiles- Endless Demos Hank Marvin- Throw Down A Line: A Taste of Hank Marvin Bill Fay- Tomorrow, Tomorrow And Tomorrow Graham Parker & The Rumour- The Up Escalator David Johansen- Here Comes The Night Todd Rundgren- Something / Anything? The Monkees- Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd Westworld- Where The Action Is
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thesweetcheat 6216 posts |
Jan 07, 2024, 14:54
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New Year listening so far: Les Group de Six - Selected Works 1915-1945 V/A - A Young Person's Guide To The Avant-Garde V/A - Bauhaus: Reviewed 1919-1933 V/A - Notes From The Underground V/A - I Hear A New World Pink Floyd - The First Three Singles Pink Floyd - Relics Duke Ellington - The Connie Plank Session T. Rex - Get It On (Fly Records era compilation) David Bowie - Aladdin Sane Kraftwerk - Ralf und Florian Jean Michel Jarre - Les Granges Brulees Tangerine Dream - Atem Kraftwerk - Autobahn Flowers (Icehouse) - Icehouse Warrington -Runcorn New Town Development Plan - District Roads, Open Space Warrington -Runcorn New Town Development Plan - The Nation's Most Central Location Epic45 - Spring Alison Goldfrapp - The Love Invention
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flashbackcaruso 1057 posts |
Jan 07, 2024, 21:43
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Shirley Collins - Archangel Hill Vashti Bunyan - Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind ABBA - Voulez Vous ABBA - Super Trouper ABBA - The Visitors ABBA - Opus 10 ABBA - Voyage John Lennon - Imagine George Harrison - All Things Must Pass Simon Joyner - Songs For The New Year Elton John - Victim Of Love Elton John - 21 At 33 Elton John - The Fox Ron Geesin - Ghost Story OST Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker (Philharmonia Orchestra/John Lanchbery) The Beach Boys - Carl & The Passions: So Tough The Beach Boys - Holland The Beach Boys - In Concert Fun Boy Three - The Fun Boy Three Fun Boy Three - Waiting Fun Boy Three - Live In Hitchin (all from the complete FB3 box set. What a great group they were, using their limitations to great effect by concentrating on rhythms and distinctive backing vocals. Then the all-female backing group came in on album two and they got even better. Our Lips Are Sealed has to be one of the finest singles of the decade with Tunnel Of Love not far behind). Broadcast & The Focus Group - Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age Kate Bush - 50 Words For Snow
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keith a 9573 posts |
Jan 09, 2024, 20:13
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Fitter Stoke wrote: Ringo Starr ‘It Don’t Come Easy’, ‘Back Off Boogaloo’ & ‘Photograph’ 45s - and even older are these 7” gems that George’s old marra unleashed upon a surprised public. And you know what - their quality sustains; As unlikely it may seem, I still think Ringo's first 3 singles above eclipse the opening three from any of the other Beatles.
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