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1001realapes 2389 posts |
Edited Apr 07, 2024, 04:36
Apr 07, 2024, 04:35
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The Beatles - Rubber Soul The Beatles - Get Back (soniclovenoize) Faust - st Faust - So Far Deep Purple - Shades of Deep Purple Deep Purple – The Book of Taliesyn Deep Purple - st Wire - 10:20 Steven Wilson - Insurgentes Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother Pink Floyd - Obscured By Clouds The Irish Rovers - Celebrate The First Thirty Years The Who - BBC Sessions The Who - Hits 50
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flashbackcaruso 1058 posts |
Apr 07, 2024, 08:51
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Trees - The Garden Of Jane Delawney Trees - On The Shore Mark Fry - Dreaming With Alice Peter Howell & John Ferdinando - Alice Through The Looking Glass Peter Howell & John Ferdinando - Tomorrow Come Someday The High Llamas - Hawaii Ash Ra Tempel - Ash Ra Tempel Ash Ra Tempel - Schwingungen Michael Chapman - Rainmaker Michael Chapman - Fully Qualified Survivor Michael Chapman - Window Michael Chapman - Wrecked Again Bo Hansson - Music Inspired By Lord Of The Rings Bo Hansson - Magician's Hat Bo Hansson - Attic Thoughts Bo Hansson - Music Inspired By Watership Down Gastr Del Sol - Camoufleur Labradford - Labradford Can - Live In Paris 1973 Kraftwerk - Trans Europa Express Faust - Faust Faust - So Far Faust - The Faust Tapes The Beatles - Yellow Submarine Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - The Spotlight Kid Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - Clear Spot Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - Unconditionally Guaranteed Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - Bluejeans & Moonbeams Vangelis - The Tegos Tapes Bob Dylan - 1970 Fleetwood Mac - Tusk Fleetwood Mac - Mirage Bee Gees - A Kick In The Head Is Worth Eight In The Pants
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Fitter Stoke 2614 posts |
Apr 07, 2024, 09:09
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Not necessarily stoned… but beautiful: Lou Reed ‘Sally Can’t Dance’ - time has been kinder to this album than the overrated ‘Berlin’ IMHO. I know I’m in a minority thinking that, but I knaa worra like, y,knaa; Simon McBride ‘The Fighter’ - Deep Purple’s fourth official axeman has some serious solo chops, as this 2022 album exemplifies. He’s a decent singer too; Judas Priest ‘Invincible Shield’ - so formulaic it could’ve been made by AI but… sheeat, this is red hot metal at its best: one steamroller riff after another. I can’t believe a 72 year old could wail like this; Ride ‘Interplay’ - AI indie pop this time, from a band sounding eternally young. Little really stands out, but maybe that’s the intention; The Jesus and Mary Chain ‘Glasgow Eyes’ - sorry to admit that I’m finding this a little hard work too. There are some very tired riffs going down here and an over-reliance on a clunky rhythm machine. I much preferred ‘Damage and Joy’. And is Jim Reid turning into Mark Everett? On a couple of songs they sound identical to each other; Traffic ‘Last Exit’ - scrabbled together collection of outtakes and live recordings that gets scant attention but actually makes for a highly satisfying listen; Kiss ‘Creature of the Night’ - not Kiss’ finest hour, alas. Dull. I much prefer their 70s hard rock era to their post-70s metal one. In other words, no Ace - no deal; Elton John ‘Honky Chateau’ - Elton’s first true rock album (as distinct from the subtler epics that preceded it) has dated not a jot. In fact, I think it’s overtaken ‘Madman’ as my top Elton opus. The 2022 deluxe edition adds some choice demo and live recordings to make an irresistible deal; The Jimi Hendrix Experience ‘Are You Experienced?’ - I’ve took this near-perfect album too easily for granted. It just blew my mind this week; Caravan ‘In the Land of Grey and Pink’ - y’know, until this week I don’t think I’d played this for ten years or more, despite it being part of my very psyche. More fool me. Canterbury cup of tea perfection; The Wedding Present ‘24 Songs’ - I’ve caught up with this too late to count it as a favourite album/collection of the year, whatever. Suffice to say I sense genius at work here. David Gedge has long since assumed - maybe even surpassed - Pete Shelley’s throne in the punky love/lust song stakes; Tangerine Dream ‘White Eagle’ - strange how the commercial sounding TD of the 1980s has dated more than their experimental work of the previous decade. Not that ‘White Eagle’ is bad - far from it. It’s just that it sounds like a completely different band, as if they themselves have taken from the synthi-pop acts that emerged in their own wake; David Bowie ‘Pinups’ - the first Bowie LP I ever bought new mightn’t be his most lauded but it’s great to hear The Spiders (sans Woody - why?) sounding as vibrant in their studio swan song. And some of these covers are quite decent; Don Byas ‘Classic Don Byas Sessions 1944-1946’ - more sublimely sensual sax from the underrated Byas; Beethoven: 3 Violin Sonatas, Op.12 (Gidon Kremer & Martha Argerich) - the sort of performances that I can’t imagine ever being improved upon. Music to ease depression. I know; Beethoven: Symphony no.2/Gershwin: An American In Paris (Pittsburgh SO/William Steinberg) - more D major Beethoven, performed with suitable joy and panache. I didn’t enjoy the Gershwin as much, but that’s probably due more to the music than the interpretation. The Tchaikovsky is good but not great; Wagner: Meistersinger Ov/Brahms: Double Concerto (w.Fournier & Francescatti)/Bruckner: Symphony no.9 (all Columbia SO/Bruno Walter) - Walter’s studio indian summer produced consistently fine recordings such as these. Distinctive, but never wayward; Haydn: String Quartet Op.20 no.5 (Chaos String Quartet) - I had to hear what a quartet named after a 4 Skins song (I jest) sounded like. This is from their first, newly issued album that couples Haydn with Ligeti and Fanny Mendelssohn: a curiosity in itself. I don’t so much hear chaos as excellent musicianship, and a depth that belies the members’ youth; Isn’t it nice when you find your heart is made out of ice? Have a great week Dave x
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Hunter T Wolfe 1710 posts |
Apr 07, 2024, 10:31
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Josienne Clarke- Parenthesis, I Scott Hepple & The Sun Band- Lammas Woo- Xylophonics / Robot X Julie Christmas- Ridiculous And Full Of Blood Picturebox- Mobile Disco Aro- Untouched By Fire Masai- The Galloping Cat Depeche Mode- Violator Iggy & The Stooges- Original Punks Barry Ryan- The Albums 1969-1979 Boz Scaggs- S/T Boz Scaggs- Moments Boz Scaggs- Boz Scaggs and Band
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thesweetcheat 6218 posts |
Apr 07, 2024, 11:23
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Morning! A somewhat more eclectic mix this week: V/A - Pushin' Too Hard: American Garage Punk 1964-1967 MC5 - Kick Out The Jams The Saints - (I'm Stranded) The Damned - Music For Pleasure Tubeway Army - The Plan Tubeway Army - Tubeway Army Berlin Blondes - The Complete Recordings 1980-1981 Dexys Midnight Runners - The Projected Passion Review John Foxx - The Garden Crispy Ambulance - Fin The Fall - There's A Ghost In My House 12" New Order - Substance 808 State feat. Bjork - Ooops 12" The Durutti Column - Time Was Gigantic ... When We Were Kids The Spratleys Japs - Pony The Durutti Column - Treatise On The Steppenwolf Epic45 - Drakelow Fujiya Miyagi - Transparent Things James Holden & The Spirit Animals - The Spirit Animals The Home Current - The Singles 2015-2019 Manfred Hamil - Everything Fades Lying Cat - A Pleasant And Profound Hand Into A Peaceful Death Sad Man & Francis Lowe - Stories From An Island James Holden - Imagine This Is A High Dimensional Space Of All Possibilities Depeche Mode - Memento Mori The Home Current - Born Sloppy Respectfulchild - Re:new
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Kid Calamity 9048 posts |
Edited Apr 07, 2024, 13:25
Apr 07, 2024, 12:38
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Greetings! A rare contribution from me this! I’m procrastinating see, so finding things to do, instead of trying to resolve something on a painting a few feet away from me. Among this week’s musical intake, I actually went to two gigs, in Wolverhampton. 1) The Hives supported by (a spunky new act to me) Bad Nerves. An insanely crowed venue - Both bands played full pelt, rock solid music. 2) Hawkwind, supported by (spin-off band) Lords Of Form. The best I’ve seen Hawkwind in many a decade - and this is quite possibly their last full tour, surely. Dave Brock was absent from the stage for their final encore, I noticed. Another thing I noticed was (comedian and Gingko favourite) Stewart Lee standing quite close to me. I slipped him a CD-R of music by my beat combo to serenade his journey home. Trouble was, having knocked it together to give to fellow HHer Vince Diamond, I’m not I actually sure I wrote who the music was by on it. Bum. _______________________ On the turntable ‘A Beard Of Stars: Tyrannosaurus Rex. This is a new acquisition, replacing a strangely rotted 70s pressing of the album by US label Blue Thumb. The heavy card and lush duotone, sepia effect sleeve I’m keeping and now using to house this 2014 remastered version. The additional out-takes disc can stay in the sleeve it came in though. ‘Coexist’: XX Picked up in a secondhand record shop Deptford a couple of weeks ago, this one is destined to be a grower. The first whirl tells me that. _______________________ In The Shed CD player ‘Infinity Of Now’, Telemetric Sound’ and The Last Transission’: The Heliocentrics MOJO Presents Africa Rising: Various Artists ‘The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte’: Sparks ‘Mink Hollow Road’: The Mummers _______________________ Streaming / Download (Bandcamp) ‘Contourist’: Saul Yarg / Rubber Bus ‘Battery Life’: Neil Cowley ’The Banishing’: Kavus Torabi ’The BBC Sessions’: The Utopia Strong …right, back to work.
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Monganaut 2382 posts |
Apr 07, 2024, 16:38
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Beautifully wild and windy out there. Trees Speak - Post Human/Ohms/ Shadow Falls Been a fan of these eclectic cinematic noodlers for a while now, and fav albums rotate on a regular basis, but this week I realised the thing that irked me a little about their tunes was that many sound sketchy and unfinished. Craven Faults - Thwaite Mill https://cravenfaults.bandcamp.com/album/thwaite-watermill Enjoyable though not essential live release. Coil - Moons Milk in Four Phases + Still loving those etra trax. Neu! - 75 Lumerians - Transmalina / Transmissions From Telos III Butthole Surfers - Rembrant Pussy Horse/ Locust Abortion Technician/ Psychic... Powerless... Another Mans Sac Another bunch currently undergoing the remaster/reissue process. I didn't buy anything new, just dragged out my tired old vinyl to love em' all over again. Can - Mothersky Live Berlin 71 boot Dare I say I find a lot of Can live stuff a bit listless, in that often, though they are playing together, I get the impression they are playing different songs. I can appreciate a little more where Holger's editing capabilty came to the fore on the studio releases. No Moon - Black Wing Chillwave? Meh! The Orb - No Souds are Out Of Bounds Patchy though mostly enjoyable Orb collabs from 2018 Various Comps The Last Starfighter Trib to Calvert comp that I intially didn't like/couldn't see the point of, but as it's been on my music player for over a year now, I've come to love several of the tracks muchly. New Wave Acid Punks Not that great comp of New Beat style shenanagans.
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garerama 1118 posts |
Apr 07, 2024, 21:52
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The Advisory Circle - Other Channels / From Out Here The Beatles - With The Beatles / A Hard Day's Night / Magical Mystery Tour / Let It Be (2021 remix) David Bowie - Hunky Dory / The Ziggy Stardust Companion / Blackstar Tim Buckley - Starsailor / BBC Sessions The Byrds - Mr Tambourine Man / Turn! Turn! Turn! Crass - Feeding Of The 5000 / Penis Envy / 10 Notes On A Summer's Day Current 93 - Earth Covers Earth / Island Sandy Denny - The Original Sandy Denny / All Our Own Work (with The Strawbs) Genesis - Nursery Cryme / Foxtrot Gong - You / Live Floating Anarchy 1977 Kaleidoscope (US) - Bacon From Mars (Edsel comp) Kraftwerk - Autobahn / Radio-Activity / Trans-Europe Express Marillion - Market Square Heroes (12") / Script For A Jester's Tear Neu! - S/t / '75 Poison Girls - Hex Lou Reed - Words & Music May 1965 / Rock'n'Roll Animal Frank Sinatra - Songs For Young Lovers / In The Wee Small Hours Patti Smith - Trampin' / Gung Ho Bridget St John - Songs For The Gentle Man Cat Stevens - Tea For The Tillerman The Stone Roses - S/t Subhumans - Time Flies But Aeroplanes Crash / Rats Television - Marquee Moon / Adventure Jane Weaver - The Watchbird Alluminate / Love In Constant Spectacle Neil Young - American Stars 'n Bars / Comes A Time / Live Rust
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keith a 9574 posts |
Apr 08, 2024, 13:14
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Couple of weeks worth here... S/T – Death & Vanilla To Where The Wild Things Are – Death & Vanilla Flicker – Death & Vanilla The recent Flicker album has reminded me just how good D&V are. For the uninitiated there are maybe some Stereolab influences though I think describing them as a more cuddly Broadcast is more apt. Jukebox Babe / No Fun 45 – Moon Duo The initial delight in hearing MD take on the Stooges classic has worn off. I like that they have made it their own, but it's just that bit too slow and lethargic feeling. Their version of the Alan Vega number, however, is pretty much perfection Lust For Life – Iggy Pop Every Loser – Iggy Pop Other than his two fabulous French crooning albums, Iggy's go-to to for much of the last 30 years has been neo-metal which isn't really my thing. There's always the odd track worth hearing – Strung Out Johnny in Every Loser's case – but it's unlikely that he will ever release anything as great as LFL again. Dummy – Portishead I hadn't heard this in some time. Roads sounded particularly good this time around. Also... Rubber Soul – The Beatles Station To Station – David Bowie Monster Movie – Can Cheat Codes – Danger Mouse & Black Thought Waiting For The Sun – The Doors 14 Hidden Gems From The Bootleg Series 1963-97 (Mojo cd) – Bob Dylan Dub Serial – Joe Gibbs African Dub: All-Mighty – Joe Gibbs & the Professionals Wait Til I Get Over – Durand Jones S/T – Manfred Mann Chapter Three Let's Emerge – Pye Corner Audio Between The Buttons – Rolling Stones Every Picture Tells A Story – Rod Stewart Colourgrade - Tirzah
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Monganaut 2382 posts |
Apr 08, 2024, 13:48
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keith a wrote: Jukebox Babe / No Fun 45 – Moon Duo The initial delight in hearing MD take on the Stooges classic has worn off. I like that they have made it their own, but it's just that bit too slow and lethargic feeling. Their version of the Alan Vega number, however, is pretty much perfection Not sure if You're familiar with Hawkwind track 'Hurry on Sundown', not my fav Hawkwind track by a long straw, but Moon Duo did a version that is one on my top ten cover versions. They deffo turned it into a Suicide track whilst also beng totally their own take on things. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WLNCo0tjD4 Agree on Portishead. I don't think the album can be much improved on. Though played it so much back in the day that it barely gets an airing these days.
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