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Off Topic => The Pub => Arts and Entertainment => Topic started by: PaulF on 28 March, 2008, 07:35:08 am

Title: Today I am Listening To...
Post by: PaulF on 28 March, 2008, 07:35:08 am
Gold ~ Ryan Adams
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Post by: pcolbeck on 28 March, 2008, 10:29:03 am
Nice choice. I particularly like Nobody Girl and Harder now it's Over.
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 28 March, 2008, 11:30:27 am
The Offspring - Conspiracy of One
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Post by: pcolbeck on 28 March, 2008, 11:51:05 am
Schumann String Quartets 1&3 - The Zehetmair Quartett
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 28 March, 2008, 12:22:06 pm
Crowded House - Temple of Low Men
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Post by: Pingu on 28 March, 2008, 12:42:44 pm
Gravelands - The King

(Listening to Come As You Are 'cos I'm trying to learn it on the guitar)
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Post by: andyoxon on 28 March, 2008, 02:03:05 pm
The droning computer...
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Post by: pcolbeck on 28 March, 2008, 02:53:40 pm
I've moved on via Freddy Kempf playing Schumann to:

Wilco - Sky Blue Sky

Quite an up album for Wilco. Lovely melodies.
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Post by: scott on 28 March, 2008, 07:19:02 pm
The Madeira - Sandstorm (http://cdbaby.com/cd/madeira)
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Post by: Flying_Monkey on 28 March, 2008, 09:48:50 pm
Neon Neon... really quite excellent, but then Gruff Rhys is reliably brilliant.

I will be getting The Breeders new one soon - and even better, seeing them live next week. Now that will be good.
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Post by: PaulF on 01 April, 2008, 09:50:14 am
pandora.com
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Post by: tiermat on 01 April, 2008, 10:20:14 am
Bob Dylan ~ Modern times
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Post by: kyuss on 02 April, 2008, 12:05:11 am
Bonobo - Dial M for Monkey
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 02 April, 2008, 10:55:22 am
Ken Bruce. I did very badly on PopMaster.
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Post by: PaulF on 02 April, 2008, 11:44:53 am
Grinderman - Grinderman
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Post by: neilcu on 02 April, 2008, 12:51:32 pm
The Cranberries - No Need to Argue
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Post by: spesh on 02 April, 2008, 11:28:29 pm
Dark Side Of The 80s (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dark-Side-80s-Various-Artists/dp/B00008GER0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1207071581&sr=1-1) - alternative rock, Goth and indie...
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Post by: simonali on 02 April, 2008, 11:49:32 pm
Bloc Party - various b-sides and remixes on my iPod at work. Current track Flux (Metal On Metal Remake)
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Post by: PeterM on 03 April, 2008, 09:41:35 pm
The Necks, Drive By

I think I now know where EST got their ideas...
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Post by: pcolbeck on 03 April, 2008, 10:39:15 pm
Apples In Stereo - New Magnetic Wonder
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Post by: Dave on 07 April, 2008, 09:35:08 pm
Mykonos by Fleet Foxes.

Just heard it on Racliffe&Maconie.

Fan-blummin-tastic  :D
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Post by: rogerzilla on 07 April, 2008, 09:38:32 pm
"Static And Silence" by The Sundays.

I've also been playing "When I'm Thinking About You" on the guitar (very easy chords) but I can't actually sing the chorus because it has a huuuuge vocal range.  Mrs Z is out at choir practice and I shall ask her to have a go when she returns, voice fully warmed up!
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Post by: domesticated ape on 07 April, 2008, 09:48:11 pm
Agaetis Byrjun by Sigur Ros
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Post by: PeterM on 07 April, 2008, 10:11:58 pm
I have a Sigur Ros-shaped socket in my brain...

But at the moment:  Alain Bashung, Bleu Pétrole
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Post by: MercuryKev on 07 April, 2008, 10:50:49 pm
Supper by Smog
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Post by: kyuss on 09 April, 2008, 01:41:29 am
'Pin' by Yeah Yeah Yeahs (from their Fever to Tell album). Chooooooooooon.

(I don't think my neighbours are liking me very much right now)
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Post by: kyuss on 09 April, 2008, 02:06:05 am
'Cat Claw' by the Kills (from Keep on Your Mean Side).

Girly punk rules when you're ver ver drunk
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 09 April, 2008, 10:51:16 am
DJ Random was in a Mars Volta mood this morning...
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Post by: pcolbeck on 10 April, 2008, 01:24:07 pm
I did a lot of driving yesterday 500 miles thwere and back in fact and on the way back it was time to turn the stereo up LOUD ! On the playlist were:

West - Lucinda Williams

I sit just me or is her voice the sexiest in rock ?

El Corazón - Steve Earle

I cant believe this is ten years old now.

The Revolution Starts Now - Steve Earle

More recent and one of his more political albums. "Rich Mans War" is a cracker but there is a lovely bllad too "I Thought You Should Know".
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Post by: alan on 10 April, 2008, 08:22:47 pm
The Strolling Bones  The Rolling Stones : 40 Licks

Classic stuff,like being a teenager again ;D
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Post by: alan on 10 April, 2008, 09:17:52 pm
  & now U2,,1980-1990
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Post by: PeterM on 10 April, 2008, 09:48:16 pm
Yeasayer.  Reminds me of Talking Heads, without in any way being similar...
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Post by: alan on 10 April, 2008, 10:36:27 pm
 & now Fleetwood Mac, Peter Green vintage
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Post by: alan on 11 April, 2008, 12:04:30 pm
Johnny Cash : All American Country
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Post by: pcolbeck on 11 April, 2008, 12:36:44 pm
One of John Downland's lachrima on Radio 3.
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Post by: alan on 12 April, 2008, 09:05:25 pm
All The Road Running : Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris
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Post by: alan on 13 April, 2008, 07:34:25 am
Aled Jones : Radio 2
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Post by: PaulF on 13 April, 2008, 09:49:37 am
Pillows & Prayers - Cherry Red Compliation
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Post by: microphonie on 13 April, 2008, 12:09:23 pm
The Necks, Drive By

I think I now know where EST got their ideas...

Great album! I'm toying with the idea of seeing them live at Norwich Arts Centre...

Currently listening to  Don Letts on 6Music  (http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/shows/don_letts/)
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Post by: PeterM on 13 April, 2008, 10:31:07 pm
Tim Hecker, Harmony in Ultraviolet.

Melodies emerging from apparent formlessness...  Mmm...
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Post by: scott on 15 April, 2008, 10:07:39 pm
Yndi Halda - Enjoy Eternal Bliss

http://www.myspace.com/yndihalda

PeterM--you might enjoy this...
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Post by: IanDG on 17 April, 2008, 10:29:58 pm
Joe Bonamassa - Sloe Gin
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Post by: Chris S on 18 April, 2008, 10:07:55 am
Old Genesis albums. Playlist excerpt:

Trespass
Nursery Cryme
Wind and Wuthering
Trick of the Tail

Ah, those were the days :thumbsup:. If only I could remember them...  ::-)
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Post by: alecstilleyedye on 18 April, 2008, 10:09:30 am
kraftwerk, minimum maximum, and now the mix.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 18 April, 2008, 11:05:49 am
DJ Random is in a Sonic Youth mood at the moment.  I must Re-Educate him.
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Post by: Malandro on 18 April, 2008, 01:32:28 pm
DJ Random is in a Sonic Youth mood at the moment.  I must Re-Educate him.

Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation

Possibly the best indie rock album of all time!
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Post by: alecstilleyedye on 18 April, 2008, 02:58:08 pm
DJ Random is in a Sonic Youth mood at the moment.  I must Re-Educate him.

Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation

Possibly the best indie rock album of all time!
certainly among the best. i've got all about eve on the 'pod at the mo (see other thread).
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Post by: alan on 18 April, 2008, 04:38:46 pm
The Rolling Stones Hot Rocks 1964-71 Disc 2
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Post by: nicknack on 18 April, 2008, 09:13:44 pm
America (Live) - The Nice
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Post by: Frenchie on 19 April, 2008, 12:03:07 pm
Some old Pappo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pappo), mostly Blues and in Spanish.
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Post by: microphonie on 19 April, 2008, 02:55:02 pm
Muslimgauze - Wish of the Flayed

Free official download of the album  here  (http://arabbox.free.fr/muslimtapes.html)

 8)
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Post by: miloat on 19 April, 2008, 08:16:15 pm
Down to the bone - The Urban Grooves
A slightly unknown jazz funk outfit with a bit of acid jazz if you get my drift.
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Post by: PeterM on 19 April, 2008, 10:38:03 pm
Yndi Halda - Enjoy Eternal Bliss
PeterM--you might enjoy this...

Indeedy-doody.  They're supporting Olafur Arnalds in Noldon in June.  Should be an excellent gig...

(But I can't help worrying slightly about a British band that opts for an Icelandic name.)
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Post by: Bluebottle on 19 April, 2008, 11:04:56 pm
The Associates - Sulk.

Fantastic stuff.  Billy MacKenzie's vocal chords should have been preserved for the nation although you do wonder if the album's producer didn't sometimes apply a pair of pliers to a strategic part of Billy's anatomy.
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Post by: Phil on 19 April, 2008, 11:21:53 pm
Frank Turner's new album, and I saw him live yesterday :)
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Post by: Flying_Monkey on 20 April, 2008, 10:15:37 am
The Breeders - Mountain Battles. Not as good as Title TK, but a grower. And they were brilliant live - they just seemed to be having fun as well as being outstanding performers. Plus I had a running dialogue with Kim Deal all the way through in between songs...  :)
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 21 April, 2008, 11:13:13 am
The iPod adaptor for my new motorcar has not yet appeared, thus forcing me into the clutches of Radio 4 :'(
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Post by: PaulF on 21 April, 2008, 11:36:19 am
And then nothing turned itself inside out ~ Yo La Tengo
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Post by: Domestique on 21 April, 2008, 05:36:14 pm
Nerina Pallot - Fires
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Post by: PeterM on 21 April, 2008, 10:42:25 pm
Alain Bashung, Bleu Pétrole (again...)
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Post by: Quisling on 22 April, 2008, 12:02:36 am
I'm rather liking No Surprise by James Yuill at the moment.

http://www.myspace.com/jamesyuill
 :thumbsup:

Another  :thumbsup: for Yndi Halda too - Enjoy Eternal Bliss is a fantastic album
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Post by: Chris S on 22 April, 2008, 12:11:49 pm
Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother.

Mmmm... crazy tempo changes, but you gotta love Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast.

"Marmalade, I like marmalade"
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Post by: bobajobrob on 22 April, 2008, 02:43:06 pm
Molotov - Changuich a la Chichona (Mexican rap music)

It has innuendo that would make hummers blush.

Quote
Changuich a la Chichona
Al pastor me echo una gringa
mas lechuga a la pechuga
Muslo aqui muslo aca y papas
a la francesa
quisiera comer mas de esa
pero esta mas buena la hamburguesa
ella quiere un king de polla
sushilitto no la llena
traiga un caldo pal Tlalpeño
un espagegeti al albañil
traele un trio de Mac a Anita
y traete un combo para mi
pero mira nomas que tortas
oh se ven tan deliciosas
cubana o una hawaiana
sin chile y sin cebollas
No quiero comer mas Kentuchy chota
o pincho a la española
la de Sanders mas discreta
no revela su receta
estan muy buenas sus garnachas
pero quiero echar bailon
quiere su chorizo en papas
o en barras de camaron

Changuich a la Chichona

Now if you're hungry for some bologna
and you got some buns that you wanna show me
open up wide you can eat
this Oscar Meyer that's really boney
I want to get down into your juju bees
and I think i'm gonna flick em'
you tities are smelin like chocolate chip
ice-cream n' I think I wanna lick em.
I got some hot beef for that rump roast
but you gotta say please
I'll dig into that thigh everytime but
but hold the cottage cheese
And for dessert we can do the works
I'll put my whip cream in your pie hole
and don't flinch when you feel a pinch on
that pretty litlle taco
Cuz I've tried to pry
a bearded clam that would no budge
so I went around the corner to keep on trying
and I got a little fudge

Para papas las de Wendy's
pero no las presta
mas mueve un par de tetas
qur chinguero de carretas
traiga un espaggeti al burro
con una cerveza en lata
la de malas que en la horchata
le pisen su quinta pata
guardenle unos chilaquiles
pa mañana el desayuno
y unos huevos divorciados
no queremos enredarnos
bimbo blanco o integral
no me importa me da igual
papa chapata mama chapata
y aqui estan sus chapatines
dinotriple o brontodoble
quarter pounder whopper doble
quiero hacerle un sandwichito
baile mas apretadito
mejor que la lambada
una pecada a la italiana
quiero bailar con bola
pero con la mas chichona
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Post by: bikenerd on 22 April, 2008, 03:37:08 pm
The Field - From Here We Go Sublime

And it really is sublime.  I'd thoroughly recommend it to fans of minimal, melancholic, glitchy, trancy, dance music and repetition.  Lots of repetition. repetition. repetition. repetition. repetition. repetition.
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Post by: Frenchie on 22 April, 2008, 05:32:33 pm
Satriani -- Crystal Planet
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Post by: PaulF on 22 April, 2008, 06:10:37 pm
iPod playlist;
Teenage Riot ~ Sonic Youth
Noone Wants an Alien ~ Wipers
Smells Like Teen Spirit ~ Nirvana
She's Lost Control ~ Joy Division
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Post by: Quisling on 22 April, 2008, 10:24:27 pm
Is it over? - by Lovers Electric (available as a free download from their website at the moment, and you can listen to the whole album).  Saw them live last year supporting OMD, and very good performers they are too.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 23 April, 2008, 01:18:37 pm
Fat Freddy's Drop - Based On A True Story.
Reggaetastic  8)
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Post by: bobmick on 23 April, 2008, 02:53:30 pm
Achtung Bono by Half Man Half Biscuit to get me in the mood before seeing them in Nottingham tonight.  This HMHB gig gets me into double figures (nothing compared to most Biscuit fans)
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Post by: Andrew Br on 25 April, 2008, 10:28:46 am
Another vote for the Breeders- Pod this time.
Two things after seeing them a few weeks ago:-
1) I need to get a copy of Pacer
2) I have a new axe hero. Her name is Cheryl.

Message ends.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 25 April, 2008, 11:21:16 am
Camille - le fil (http://www.camille-lefil.com/)

Like a sexy French version of Bjork crossed with a bit of trip hop.
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Post by: Jezza on 25 April, 2008, 11:50:15 am
Travelling Wilburys - End of the Line (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DjRJ9ubbJQ)

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Post by: clarion on 25 April, 2008, 11:55:11 am
I was listening to the Glam Metal Detectives earlier.

Just now it was the Exploited, accompanying a Youtube vid about the Poll Tax Uprising
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Post by: bikenerd on 25 April, 2008, 11:58:42 am
Also a big Breeders fan.  Last Splash was the first CD I bought when I was 15!
Missed their gigs as I've already spent too much money on concerts this year.

Today I'm listening to minimal German techno on the Kompakt label.     
Sehr gut, ya!
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Post by: pcolbeck on 25 April, 2008, 01:09:59 pm
And now its:

Lucinda Williams - World Without Tears

The sexiest voice in rock by a long way.
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Post by: tonycollinet on 26 April, 2008, 04:22:24 pm
After Jules Holland last night.

Brandi Carlile (http://www.brandicarlile.co.uk/?gclid=CKLfgqLK95ICFQ8iQgodzhkwDw)


Simply Stunning

 8)
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Post by: pcolbeck on 26 April, 2008, 08:08:23 pm
She was fantastic wasn't she.
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Post by: Frenchie on 26 April, 2008, 09:58:51 pm
The latest G3 live recording... playing ZZ Top's La Grange.
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Post by: Frenchie on 28 April, 2008, 05:30:31 pm
Crystal Planet -- J. Satriani
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Post by: PaulF on 28 April, 2008, 06:08:27 pm
Ghazal ~ Moon Rise Over Silk Road
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Post by: andrewc on 28 April, 2008, 06:24:19 pm
Katrina & The Waves,  foot tapping stuff  ;D

Red Wine & Whisky All The Tiiiiiiime!
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Post by: Domestique on 29 April, 2008, 02:50:04 pm
Altered Images - Happy Birthday, the best of

I had forgotten how good 'Dont talk to me about love' was. That song is bringing back a lot of really good memories from the early eighties for me  :)
Now I want to watch Gregory's Girl  8)
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Post by: microphonie on 29 April, 2008, 03:24:37 pm
Mogwai - Young Team

After seeing  Sennen  (http://www.myspace.com/sennenwidows),  Airiel  (http://www.myspace.com/airiel) and  Ulrich Schnauss  (http://www.myspace.com/ulrichschnauss) at Norwich Arts Centre last night I feel I need more quiet/loud guitar shenannigans!
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Post by: pcolbeck on 29 April, 2008, 04:17:19 pm
Lucinda Williams - Live @ The Fillmore

Double CD recorded in 2003. Even more stripped back and raw than her studio stuff.
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Post by: Flying_Monkey on 29 April, 2008, 04:29:03 pm
Mogwai - Young Team

After seeing  Sennen  (http://www.myspace.com/sennenwidows),  Airiel  (http://www.myspace.com/airiel) and  Ulrich Schnauss  (http://www.myspace.com/ulrichschnauss) at Norwich Arts Centre last night I feel I need more quiet/loud guitar shenannigans!

Good line up - I saw Schnauss at The Big Chill a few years ago. He was good but rather blown off the stage by The Egg, who are marvellous and not as well known as they should be.

Mogwai Fear Satan!!!!  :demon:
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Post by: microphonie on 29 April, 2008, 05:16:23 pm
Mogwai - Young Team

After seeing  Sennen  (http://www.myspace.com/sennenwidows),  Airiel  (http://www.myspace.com/airiel) and  Ulrich Schnauss  (http://www.myspace.com/ulrichschnauss) at Norwich Arts Centre last night I feel I need more quiet/loud guitar shenannigans!

Good line up - I saw Schnauss at The Big Chill a few years ago. He was good but rather blown off the stage by The Egg, who are marvellous and not as well known as they should be.

Mogwai Fear Satan!!!!  :demon:


He wasn't helped last night by the awful sound - all the synth melodies were drowned by the drums & bass. Just before he was about to start he looked to the sound desk, started to do a thumbs up and then looked shocked to find no-one behind the desk! He then got up & wandered thru' the crowd to the desk just as the Airiel guitarist/sound man for the night turned up. He needn't have bothered as he didn't appear to touch any of the dials anyway...

Just played: Thom Yorke - The Eraser
Now playing: Beth Gibbons & Rustin' Man - Out of Season (inspired by the Portishead thread, an album I've just ordered)
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Post by: Frenchie on 29 April, 2008, 05:59:58 pm
Dream Theater -- Systematic Chaos
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Post by: Domestique on 30 April, 2008, 02:42:37 pm
Hot Potatoes - The best of Devo  :)
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Post by: andrewc on 30 April, 2008, 08:55:16 pm
PJ Harvey - Is This Desire..?

Have just bought tickets to see Martin Smith & Gilad Atzmon next weekend and Mcoy Tyner & Joe Levano in a couple of weeks time.
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Post by: Frenchie on 01 May, 2008, 08:54:11 am
Liquid Tension Experiment -- Vol. 1
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Post by: pcolbeck on 01 May, 2008, 02:06:46 pm
Music For The Funeral of Queen Mary - Henry Purcel - Winchester Cathedral Choir

Magisterial with great kettle drums! I do love Purcell, his music is always beautiful.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 01 May, 2008, 02:13:33 pm
All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone ~ Explosions In The Sky

Bored with the radio and the iPod adaptor for my new motorcar won't be installed until next week.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 01 May, 2008, 03:07:42 pm
Now it's:

Arvo Part - Te Deum

A bit of Estonian neo medievalism.
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Post by: Chris S on 01 May, 2008, 03:39:50 pm
Original Soundtrack from Halo 3.

It's not mine, honest guv; on loan from #2 son; actually it isn't bad - in a "rather like Lord of the Rings" kind of way. Big expansive orchestral, choral type stuff. Goes well with PL/SQL and Oracle procs  :sick:.
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Post by: agagisgroovy on 01 May, 2008, 04:56:30 pm
Well, I'm trying to listen to Ribhinn O by Runrig but the blocking system isn't letting me...  ::-)  :(
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Post by: Polar Bear on 01 May, 2008, 04:57:57 pm
Enya, The Celts.   Love her music.
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Post by: Tourist Tony on 01 May, 2008, 06:26:50 pm
Portishead, Third
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Post by: Dinamo on 02 May, 2008, 04:00:50 pm
The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age Of Understatement
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Post by: andrewc on 02 May, 2008, 08:30:27 pm
"Arvo Part - Te Deum

A bit of Estonian neo medievalism."

Excellent choice, I like Arvo Part.

Currently playing Alison Moyet's Raindancing for some 80's nostalgia. I might put Preisners "Requiem For My Friend" on later. I've not played that for a while.
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Post by: Frenchie on 02 May, 2008, 09:33:20 pm
Liquid Tension Experiment -- Vol. 2
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Post by: rower40 on 02 May, 2008, 09:51:35 pm
Anything by Mike Oldfield.  MP3 is on Random play, but selecting only stuff by himself.
"Grand Piano"....
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Post by: Aidan on 02 May, 2008, 10:55:01 pm
Portishead, Third

Ditto. and

David Sylvian -   Good son vs the only daughter

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Post by: MSeries on 02 May, 2008, 10:58:37 pm
80s music on the wireless, currently ABC - All of my heart.
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Post by: microphonie on 04 May, 2008, 12:28:38 pm
Yazoo - Best of

I'd almost forgotten how great Alison Moyet's voice is, particularly on the more introspective songs eg Winter Kills
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Post by: Flying_Monkey on 04 May, 2008, 12:45:04 pm
Youssou N'Dour - Egypt

Eclectic Afro-arabic devotional songs. By far his best work for years...
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Post by: IanDG on 04 May, 2008, 04:21:58 pm
Oysterband - selected random play all tracks for artist on my MP3 player
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Post by: GruB on 04 May, 2008, 05:38:22 pm
The Angels Liveline 20th Anniversary Deluxe 2CD Edition  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 04 May, 2008, 05:40:29 pm
Goldfrapp, and the thud of the bass from the bloke upstairs's speakers. I would go up and tell him to turn it down but last time he came to the door wearing nothing but a black thong. I've suffered the noise since then.
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Post by: spesh on 04 May, 2008, 09:48:23 pm
I was listening to The Matrix Reloaded soundtrack, now I'm headbanging to The Cult.  8)
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Post by: spesh on 04 May, 2008, 11:52:50 pm
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band.

I blame/thank Tourist Tony for introducing me to this band; their take on Jaques Brel's En Suivant (Next) is something else... ;D
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Post by: Chris S on 06 May, 2008, 11:16:04 am
My entire Dire Straits collection.

Mmmm.... Stratocaster-tastic.
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Post by: andrewc on 08 May, 2008, 10:16:00 pm
Goldfrapp, and the thud of the bass from the bloke upstairs's speakers. I would go up and tell him to turn it down but last time he came to the door wearing nothing but a black thong. I've suffered the noise since then.

I'll remember that trick the next time my neighbors complain  ;D   

Just played The Indigo Girls, "Nomads, Indians & Saints", currently listening to TheThe, "Infected"

Hoping to get another one in before the "no music" 11PM watershed in my flat!
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 09 May, 2008, 11:03:26 am
10,000 Days ~ Tool
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Post by: Jethro on 09 May, 2008, 11:07:46 am
Ace of Spades by Motorhead very loud

did someone say something?
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Post by: PaulF on 09 May, 2008, 11:49:41 am
dEUS ~ Vantage Point
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Post by: Quisling on 10 May, 2008, 10:42:34 pm
Sudden Sway on MySpace.  they have about a dozen MySpace sites (typical of a band that once released 8 different recordings (not remixes) of the same single on the same day.

If you've not come across them before, they're very, very odd.  At times musically interesting, but mostly odd.  I recommend "Ah metal blossom" after the first 46 seconds.
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=152172166

Spacemate was just the greatest/oddest album/box set/game "thing".
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Post by: nicknack on 11 May, 2008, 03:08:14 am
Porcupine Tree again (Voyage 34). It always seems appropriate after a gig at this time of night.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 12 May, 2008, 10:48:05 am
Muchas Gracias ~ Kyuss
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Post by: spesh on 13 May, 2008, 01:09:14 am
Doctor Satchafunkilus & The Musterion Of Rock - Joe Satriani (barking mad album title, but it's rather good)

Good to Be Bad - Whitesnake (some of David Coverdale's best work in years)

Currently listening to a live album by George Thorogood & The Destroyers. (B-b-b-b-baaad to the bone... )

I had a bit of a splurge in the local music emporia yesterday morning - I've still got Airbourne, Def Leppard, Death In Vegas, Foo Fighters, Nazareth, Pendulum and Queens Of The Stone Age to get through.    8)
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Post by: spesh on 14 May, 2008, 01:36:58 am
Pendulum -In Silico

Best described as being from that strange place where Drum & Bass meets heavy rock - which explains why the sticker on the jewel case has a quote from Kerrang! magazine, of all organs of the musical press...
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Post by: alan on 14 May, 2008, 09:56:41 am
Radio 2 & the birds chirping in the trees as I sit on the patio doing estimates & wondering how many I can defer to another day so that I can get out on my bike.
This working from home lark is a dirty job but someone's got to do it ;)
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 14 May, 2008, 10:05:29 am
Take Them On, On Your Own ~ Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

But by tomorrow I shall be back with whatever DJ Random serves up.
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Post by: microphonie on 14 May, 2008, 06:54:13 pm
Pendulum -In Silico

Best described as being from that strange place where Drum & Bass meets heavy rock - which explains why the sticker on the jewel case has a quote from Kerrang! magazine, of all organs of the musical press...

Really? Sounds interesting!
How does it compare to Hold Your Colour?

As for me I'm catching up with my recordings of the last few Rob da bank shows.
And waiting in the wings is the Holy Fuck album and the first 3 OMD albums obtained in their remastered versions with extra tracks (all 3 for £15 from FOPP!)  8)
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Post by: agagisgroovy on 14 May, 2008, 07:16:49 pm
Amy MacDonald, Clannad and a band called Dun Ringle.  ;D
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Post by: Frenchie on 16 May, 2008, 05:43:01 pm
The Extremist -- J. Satriani
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Post by: pcolbeck on 16 May, 2008, 05:48:45 pm
A sampler CD off the front of the latest Songlines world music magazine. I must say the new Natasha Atlas CD is sounding very tempting.
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Post by: Frenchie on 17 May, 2008, 01:24:48 pm
The rather good latest Satriani Album, Prof. Stachafunkilus and the Mysterion of Rock.
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Post by: IanDG on 17 May, 2008, 01:44:43 pm
A centrifuge, the air conditioning system and the compressors on the haematology analysers

edit: and an alarm 'beep' because the QC is out  :(
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Post by: alan on 19 May, 2008, 09:29:17 pm
Thin Lizzy. Greatestits Vol 1 & 2
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Post by: nicknack on 28 May, 2008, 07:39:16 pm
Peter Hammill - Chameleon In The Shadow Of The Night

I'd almost forgotten how good it is.
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Post by: Gus on 28 May, 2008, 08:07:39 pm
Rage against the machine ~RATM
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Post by: PaulF on 28 May, 2008, 08:28:12 pm
For Emma, Forever ~ Bon Iver
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Post by: alan on 29 May, 2008, 06:40:28 pm
U2 : The Joshua Tree
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Post by: Deano on 29 May, 2008, 09:57:32 pm
69 Love Songs by the Magnetic Fields. 

It's such a massive album that each time I come to it I hear a different song which sounds like a gem.  Praise Odin for the random function  :)
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Post by: Naggers on 31 May, 2008, 02:51:28 pm
UNKLE  - Edit Music for a Film (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edit_Music_for_a_Film:_Original_Motion_Picture_Soundtrack_Reconstruction)




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Post by: Frenchie on 31 May, 2008, 03:16:24 pm
A blues selection.
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Post by: bobajobrob on 31 May, 2008, 03:22:29 pm
Bob Marley "smoke two joints" and other tracks.
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Post by: nicknack on 31 May, 2008, 08:20:26 pm
Ten Years After - Roadworks (Live album sans Alvin but good anyway).
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Post by: Flying_Monkey on 31 May, 2008, 09:20:01 pm
Just got the new Bon Iver album - 'For Emma, forever ago' - very lovely if rather slight.
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Post by: Frenchie on 31 May, 2008, 11:34:37 pm
Led Zep' -- Remastered.
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Post by: Quisling on 03 June, 2008, 02:09:43 am
Whatever you want by Lovers Electric. A fine new track.

also, Ah Metal Blossom by the utterly bonkers Sudden Sway.  Where are they now?
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Post by: Frenchie on 03 June, 2008, 07:46:15 am
Dream Theatre -- Systematic Chaos.
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Post by: annie on 03 June, 2008, 07:49:56 am
Buena Vista Social Club - produced by Ry Cooder, very nice indeed.
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Post by: PaulF on 03 June, 2008, 08:32:16 am
Massive Attack vs. Mad Professor, totally bonkers dubbed out trip-hop
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Post by: julianbramley on 03 June, 2008, 09:50:50 am
Radiohead 'In Rainbows'
Have been for the last few weeks, its just growing and growing and growing.

Get a load of this-hypnotic.

YouTube - Radiohead - Jigsaw Falling Into Place (thumbs down version) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoLJJRIWCLU)
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Post by: spesh on 03 June, 2008, 04:19:00 pm
And now for something completely different... Yello's 'You Gotta Say Yes To Another Excess' and 'Stella'
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Post by: alan on 03 June, 2008, 08:31:46 pm
I have just loaded these into the cd player & set to play random

The Legendary Johnny Cash
The Best of Roy Orbison
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Post by: cookiemonster on 03 June, 2008, 08:45:27 pm
Jagged - Gary Numan.

A brilliant and under-rated album IMO.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 04 June, 2008, 12:24:12 pm
Neil Young Live At Massey Hall.  :thumbsup:
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Post by: PaulF on 04 June, 2008, 02:14:48 pm
Neil Young Live At Massey Hall.  :thumbsup:

Brilliant choice!
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Post by: alan on 04 June, 2008, 06:17:23 pm
ZZ Top: Eliminator. Very loud on the I-Pod  8)
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Post by: Frenchie on 07 June, 2008, 05:59:57 pm
Some Dragon Force. Fast, it is fast...
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Post by: andrewc on 07 June, 2008, 09:22:48 pm
"Bukra" by Rabih Abou-Khalil,  a Lebanese Oud player who mixes middle eastern rhythms with modern jazz.

I first heard him on my radio, curled up in a tent on a tour of Northern Ireland, came back and started buying his CD's.
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Post by: Gus on 07 June, 2008, 10:23:02 pm

Psychobilly and lots of it  :D :D
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Post by: alan on 09 June, 2008, 08:30:04 pm
Lennon Legend:The Very Best of John Lennon
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Post by: spesh on 09 June, 2008, 11:39:53 pm
Pendulum -In Silico

Best described as being from that strange place where Drum & Bass meets heavy rock - which explains why the sticker on the jewel case has a quote from Kerrang! magazine, of all organs of the musical press...

Really? Sounds interesting!
How does it compare to Hold Your Colour?

I got hold of the 2007 reissue version of Hold Your Colour last week, and comparing the two, there isn't much in it, but I'd say that In Silico just shades it. That's not to say that Hold Your Colour is a bad album, I quite like it...
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Post by: microphonie on 10 June, 2008, 06:15:37 pm
That's another album to add to the wanted list then... :thumbsup:
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Post by: Flying_Monkey on 10 June, 2008, 06:42:48 pm
dEUS - Vantage Point.

Not their best album (The Ideal Crash is still that IMHO) but still reliably good. They are a band who if they were British or American might well be regarded on a par with Radiohead et al. As they are Belgian, they remain relatively obscure art-rockers outside of their home country.
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Post by: Jezza on 10 June, 2008, 08:17:07 pm
Evgeni Kissin playing Chopin.
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Post by: Frenchie on 10 June, 2008, 08:59:53 pm
YouTube - DragonForce - Through the Fire and Flames (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jgrCKhxE1s)
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Post by: Frenchie on 10 June, 2008, 09:58:56 pm
Prompted by a recent post in the "cover" thread...

YouTube - Sisters Of Mercy - Marian (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHl09zyrnZo&feature=related)
YouTube - The Sisters of Mercy -- Lucretia, My Reflection (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuezNswtRfo&feature=related)

Being 16 again.
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Post by: Quisling on 11 June, 2008, 12:40:44 am
The Sundays.  Harriet Wheeler just has the most beautiful fantastic voice, and I've just spotted her myspace page :thumbsup:

Recommended tracks from their three albums - Can't be sure, Joy, She, God made me, Goodbye etc.

If I could pick a single vocalist in all time and space to pop over and sing me a song it'd be Harriet :-*
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Post by: andrewc on 11 June, 2008, 06:34:50 pm
My next door neighbour...... teaching one of his students to play violin.... ::-)
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Post by: alan on 11 June, 2008, 07:04:52 pm
My self strangling my guitar.It's a good thing I have headphones plugged into the amp :-[ otherwise a divorce may be imminent
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Post by: alan on 11 June, 2008, 07:07:19 pm
teaching one of his students to play violin.... ::-)

Suprisingly the school are teaching my grand-daughter to play violin.She is performing in a concert in a few weeks :thumbsup:
It is a joy to see & hear her play. O:-)
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Post by: andrewc on 11 June, 2008, 07:14:27 pm
That's nice, I wish I could play an instrument.   Henry (the neighbour) is very good, plays for the Crosby Symphony Orchestra.  His students are mostly past the screeching stage as well.
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Post by: Chris S on 20 June, 2008, 03:37:43 pm
Bob Sinclar - Western Dream
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Post by: Flying_Monkey on 20 June, 2008, 03:54:42 pm
These days, I am mostly listening to the really rather fabulously old-time Fleet Foxes...
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Post by: Frenchie on 20 June, 2008, 05:03:15 pm
Through the fire and flames -- Dragon Force again...
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Post by: Dave on 20 June, 2008, 07:53:04 pm
These days, I am mostly listening to the really rather fabulously old-time Fleet Foxes...

Oh yes. They are very good.

Currently listening to Superfuzz Bigmuff - Mudhoney.

And having flashbacks to Saturday nights at Rock City in Nottingham :thumbsup:
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Post by: Flying_Monkey on 21 June, 2008, 03:41:47 pm
The Silver Jews' new album Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea, is wonderful. Funny, beautiful, tender and David Berman has a voice that Nick Cave would kill for. The band should be far better known, but I'm happy with being one of their few fans...

Also listening to dEUS' The Ideal Crash to remind me what a truly great band they can be, a confidence which was rather dented by their most recent release, which I have decided after a few listens is really rather dull, with the exception of a couple of tracks. 
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Post by: Frenchie on 21 June, 2008, 08:39:56 pm
Prof Satchafunkilus... -- Joe Satriani

Su-perb! "Revelation" in particular.
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Post by: Jezza on 21 June, 2008, 10:57:34 pm
Royksopp. I love this video as well.

YouTube - Royksopp - "Remind Me" (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-v8WHF4XEI)
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Post by: pcolbeck on 23 June, 2008, 03:47:32 pm
Was listening to the best of Linda Ronstadt but now its Lucinda Williams Live @ The Fillmore.
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Post by: alan on 24 June, 2008, 07:07:30 pm
David Bowie : best of bowie (UK issue)
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Post by: Dave on 24 June, 2008, 07:47:10 pm
Screaming Jets - All For One (am I the only person who has a Screaming Jets CD?)
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Post by: microphonie on 25 June, 2008, 03:33:21 pm
Scorn -  'Stealth'  (http://www.adnoiseam.net/label/catalog/88/enter.htm).

The first studio album by Mick Harris (drummer from Napalm Death) for 5 years. Loping beats and monstrous bass - showing the dubstep youngsters how it's done. Stunning.

 8)
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Post by: tiermat on 25 June, 2008, 03:38:22 pm
Screaming Jets - All For One (am I the only person who has a Screaming Jets CD?)

Nope, I have one, not that one...
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Post by: bikenerd on 25 June, 2008, 05:01:44 pm
Junkie music:

Nick Cave
Spiritualized
Sparklehorse
Mark Lanegan
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Post by: microphonie on 25 June, 2008, 05:46:45 pm
Now listening to Kraftwerk - live in Buenos Aires 1998  clicky  (http://fppo.net/dwnld/dload.php?action=file&file_id=256)

Available on a great site:  fppo  (http://fppo.net/dwnld/dwnld.php)

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Post by: Quisling on 25 June, 2008, 10:13:33 pm
The new Sigur Ros album - Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust

It's excellent.  The song Festival is perfect - 4 minutes or so on Jonssi's plaintive ululations/minimal instrumentation, followed by another 5 minutes of gradually building music, rising to a splendid conclusion.

highly recommended.

C
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Post by: Chris S on 26 June, 2008, 12:06:48 am
The new Sigur Ros album - Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust

Just tried a couple of tracks out for size. What an astonishing sound - I will definitely be getting me a copy of this CD.

Thanks Q  :thumbsup:.
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Post by: Flying_Monkey on 26 June, 2008, 02:44:13 pm
That's my next purchase too!
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Post by: alchemy on 26 June, 2008, 02:49:49 pm
HAARP - the live album by Muse recorded at Wembley last year. Weird name, great album  :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

I thought their concert in Perth was good but the Wembley gigs look like they were something else
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Post by: alan on 26 June, 2008, 07:20:14 pm
myself,playing strangling my guitar :-[
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Post by: annie on 26 June, 2008, 09:23:23 pm
Waiting to Exhale
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Post by: pcolbeck on 27 June, 2008, 03:48:59 pm
Diana Krall - One Night In Paris

Like sinking into a big fluffy velvety marshmallow; but in a good way. Fantastic production, singing and everything really.
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Post by: Flying_Monkey on 27 June, 2008, 05:03:28 pm
Got the Sigur Ros, but distracted by complete works of Thomas Tallis found in a sale. Sublime.
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Post by: onb on 27 June, 2008, 09:25:35 pm
Eliza Carthy new cd its gowing on me .Magnifico
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Post by: Frenchie on 28 June, 2008, 12:49:04 pm
The Fratellis, which I just got.

Good.  :thumbsup:
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Post by: LEE on 28 June, 2008, 01:29:34 pm
ELBOW - "The Seldon Seen Kid"

Excellent.  Occasional hints of QOTSA and Arctic Monkeys or something like that.
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Post by: bobajobrob on 30 June, 2008, 11:11:06 am
Groove salad on Soma FM. "A nicely chilled plate of ambient beats and grooves."
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Post by: Gus on 30 June, 2008, 08:46:46 pm

Einstürzende Neubauten  : " Strategies against architecture III

and some Icelandic too

Mugison : Mugiboogie (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=uZG4KRzXYrY) A super liveband I highly can recommend
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Post by: alan on 30 June, 2008, 10:02:44 pm
The Beatles: Help!
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 07 July, 2008, 01:27:51 pm
ELBOW - "The Seldon Seen Kid"
s'good innit?

B52's - Funplex. Pretty good on a first listen, a return to form. OK, not as weirdly cool as the really really old stuff, but pretty good and lots of perving too. :)
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Post by: tiermat on 07 July, 2008, 01:28:59 pm
A mixture of songs that I put together, a bit like this (rough tracklisting)

1)Andrew WK - Party 'Til You Puke
2)Biffy Clyro - Now I'm Everyone
3)Bad Religion - Incomplete
4)Bad Brains - Fearless Vampire Killers
5)Busta Rhymes and Ozzy Osbourne - This Means War
6)Dinosaur Jnr - Freak Scene
7)Dinosaur Jnr - Keep The Glove
8)Dreadzone - Biological Radio
9)Firehose - Brave Captain
10)Fishbone - Black Flowers
11)Black Grape - Dadi Waz A Badi
12)Ludichrist - Iwo Jima (That Manly Smell)
13)Placebo - Nancy Boy
14)Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Death Is Not The End
15)Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - The Curse Of Milhaven
16)Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Where The Wild Roses Grow (Ft Kylie)
17)Nine Inch Nails - Piggy (Nothing Can Stop Me Now)
18)Sugar - If I Can't Change your Mind
19)White Zombie - More Human Than Human (Euro Mix)
20)Tool - Die Eir von Satan
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Post by: Flying_Monkey on 07 July, 2008, 02:01:23 pm
Thomas Tallis - slowly working my way through the collected works. Just the most sublime vocal music ever conceived of by human beings.
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Post by: matthew on 07 July, 2008, 11:52:59 pm
Pentangle, Live tonight in London  :thumbsup:

Sounded very similar to the original 60s/70s recordings but with the added bonus of seeing just how easy they made it look.

Fab
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Post by: Frenchie on 08 July, 2008, 08:49:20 am
Dragon Force; again!
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Post by: Frenchie on 08 July, 2008, 04:50:32 pm
... now Steve Vai -- Sound Theories Vol. I
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Post by: geoff on 11 July, 2008, 10:31:18 pm
Divine Comedy National Express (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiBI3A2WcrE)

Genius!
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Post by: cookiemonster on 11 July, 2008, 11:04:21 pm
The new Beck album - Modern Guilt.

Another work of genius.  8)
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Post by: goatpebble on 12 July, 2008, 07:30:51 pm
Bored at work, I listened to/watched Janacek's Vec Makropulos, the 1995 Glyndebourne production. The set design by Tobias Hoheisel is simple, but the final moments, as the lid of the piano opens (suspended upside down, high above the stage) and sheets of music fall...

After that I listened to some piano studies by Ligeti, and some early songs.

But the Janacek is visceral stuff, it doesn't let you go.

So I listened to 'From the House Of The Dead', as well, as I had never heard it before.

Goodness, I do have fun at work!

 ::-)
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Post by: PaulF on 12 July, 2008, 07:35:13 pm
Lamb ~ Fear of Fours
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Post by: goatpebble on 12 July, 2008, 07:57:45 pm
Right now, I am listening to Wozzeck.
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Post by: Bluebottle on 13 July, 2008, 07:55:37 pm
Étienne Daho - Retour à Toi.
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Post by: Flying_Monkey on 13 July, 2008, 08:46:58 pm
I dug out Zita Swoon's 'I Paint Pictures on a Wedding Dress' today - slightly off-kilter Belgian glam-art-folk rock.
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Post by: spesh on 13 July, 2008, 11:24:58 pm
The Best of Budgie provided the soundtrack to dealing with a mountain of ironing, followed by Rob Zombie's 'Hellbilly Deluxe'.

Currently listening to a Rush complilation.
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Post by: marna on 13 July, 2008, 11:31:54 pm
Lots of Handsome Family. I am making someone a mixtape newfangled mp3 playlist of my favourites of their tunes, and of course that means working out which my favourites are.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 21 July, 2008, 12:20:04 pm
Queens of the Stone Age - R  8)
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Post by: PaulF on 21 July, 2008, 01:33:41 pm
My Lamertree 'finds' :):Souls Science by Justin Adams & Juldeh Camara and Coffee Time by The Bedouin Jerrycan Band
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Post by: Flying_Monkey on 21 July, 2008, 02:39:02 pm
Two Gallants... and Husky Rescue.
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Post by: urban_biker on 21 July, 2008, 04:23:04 pm
Dragonforce - Sonic Firestorm

Avenged Sevenfold

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Post by: spesh on 22 July, 2008, 12:41:32 am
Scott Walker - Scott Two

Voodoo Six - First Hit For Free
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Post by: bobajobrob on 24 July, 2008, 06:39:04 pm
Kings of Leon - Youth and Young Manhood album.

I've had "California Waiting" stuck in my head for the last few days. Awesome track.
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Post by: Pingu on 25 July, 2008, 10:44:36 pm
Once Upon A Time/The Singles - Siouxsie & the Banshees  :)

Like bobajobrob I've had a song going through my head for the last few days - Arabian Knights.
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Post by: Dave on 29 July, 2008, 08:15:34 pm
Be My Baby on Radcliffe and Maconie. God damn, what a fantastic song.
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Post by: nicknack on 29 July, 2008, 08:27:13 pm
My daughter's just graduated and is at home pending getting a job.

Consequently I am trying not to listen to bleedin' Friends.  :sick:
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Post by: Frenchie on 29 July, 2008, 10:33:35 pm
Raimundos -- great Brazilian punk-rock!
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Post by: spesh on 30 July, 2008, 12:24:00 am
This week's playlist has consisted of a Diamond Head compilation, Rush's progtastic "2112" album, and a Magnum anthology.

I must resist the pull of the music emporia...  ;D
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Post by: Frenchie on 30 July, 2008, 11:20:08 am
Dragonforce - Sonic Firestorm

Sweet!
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Post by: PaulF on 30 July, 2008, 12:44:49 pm
Van Morrison ~ It's Too Late To Stop Now. I'd forgotten just how good it was!
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Post by: Jezza on 02 August, 2008, 09:36:01 pm
Sigur Ros - Med Sud Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust.

 :o 8) :'( ;D :)
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Post by: fiendish on 02 August, 2008, 09:44:26 pm
Santogold.  Not sure yet.
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Post by: andrewc on 02 August, 2008, 11:11:34 pm
Cocteau Twins - John Peel sessions, Pet Shop Boys & Communards.   An 80's evening...
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Post by: alan on 11 August, 2008, 06:47:41 pm
The Strolling Bones....40 Licks :P
& next up will be
U2 The Best of 1980-90, 1990-2000
& then
ZZ Top  Eliminator.
 ;D
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Post by: Flying_Monkey on 11 August, 2008, 08:21:36 pm
The Bratislava Hot Serenaders play Duke Ellington. Great period stuff.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 11 August, 2008, 10:07:09 pm
Careful With That Axe, Eugene (from Pink Floyd's Ummagumma).
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Post by: Quisling on 14 August, 2008, 10:49:20 pm
Sigur Ros - Med Sud Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust.

 :o 8) :'( ;D :)

I've been listening to that a bit today, again, but mainly I've been listening to the track Von.  They really are a bloody remarkable band. :thumbsup:  How can you get so many emotions within one track like they do with Festival, or Glosoli? Pure genius.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 15 August, 2008, 09:00:29 pm
The "Electric Blues" Internet radio channel on Winamp.  It's actually rather good.
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Post by: andrewc on 15 August, 2008, 09:09:28 pm
"Both Sides Now" by Joni Mitchell.  Bought it for my Mum and liked it so much I copied it.
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Post by: annie on 15 August, 2008, 09:10:33 pm
"Both Sides Now" by Joni Mitchell.  Bought it for my Mum and liked it so much I copied it.

I think Joni Mitchell is wonderful, good choice Andrew.
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Post by: Tim Hall on 15 August, 2008, 09:16:27 pm
Today in the car I listened to episodes 51-55 of "This Sceptred Isle".

This evening I listened to "A hot piece of grass" by Hayseed Dixie.

 
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Post by: andrewc on 15 August, 2008, 10:03:19 pm
Martyn Joseph live "Don't Talk About Love"

I went to see Suzanne Vega at the Liverpool Philharmonic.  This guy was playing support, got on stage late and totally blew her away.

Variously described as the Welsh Woody Guthrie or the Welsh Bruce Springsteen.

Guitar based ballads with a social conscience.
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Post by: Rhys W on 15 August, 2008, 10:08:23 pm
The long awaited box set by influential Welsh-language act Geraint Jarman a'r Cynganeddwyr. 15 CDs for £46.99 - you do the math.  :thumbsup:

 Martyn Joseph is Welsh? I never knew.
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Post by: andrewc on 15 August, 2008, 10:18:36 pm
The long awaited box set by influential Welsh-language act Geraint Jarman a'r Cynganeddwyr. 15 CDs for £46.99 - you do the math.  :thumbsup:

 Martyn Joseph is Welsh? I never knew.

Martyn Joseph - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyn_Joseph)

Martyn Joseph (born 1960, Penarth, Wales)
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Post by: PaulF on 19 August, 2008, 02:02:09 pm
Rachel Unthank & The Winterset ~ The Bairns

Rather beguilling nu-folk which is slowly growing on me
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Post by: bobajobrob on 28 August, 2008, 07:53:56 pm
Fleetwood Mac "Rumors".

Love that album.
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Post by: nicknack on 29 August, 2008, 04:14:39 pm
New Polar Bear album. Called, rather unusually, 'Polar Bear'. They must really have struggled with that name.

To be followed by the Portico Quartet - Knee Deep in the North Sea.
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Post by: scott on 29 August, 2008, 04:35:38 pm
To be followed by the Portico Quartet - Knee Deep in the North Sea.

Sounds like it might be interesting, but for some reason the music on myspace is hanging up a lot. I'll try again later today...
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Post by: microphonie on 29 August, 2008, 05:39:54 pm
Rachel Unthank & The Winterset ~ The Bairns

Rather beguilling nu-folk which is slowly growing on me

Just got this from the library along with Kate Rusby's 'Awkward Annie' album. I'm not normally into folk but these aren't too bad at all. And nice to hear regional accents in full flow!

That's one benefit of a decent audio library: getting out stuff you'd never normally listen to.

Also of a nu-folk/folktronica bent are Tunng and Espers.

NP: Rob da Bank & Friends radio show from a week ago with Mogwai in session/choosing the tracks  :thumbsup:
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Post by: LEE on 31 August, 2008, 01:32:57 pm
"Consolers of the Lonely" by the Raconteurs.

I think it's a superb from start to finish, it's Rock Jim but not as we know it.
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Post by: Flying_Monkey on 31 August, 2008, 05:32:58 pm
My wife and I are listening to Blue by Joni Mitchell. Because...
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Post by: Chris S on 31 August, 2008, 05:34:56 pm
...thunder  :thumbsup:
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Post by: PaulF on 31 August, 2008, 05:40:54 pm

Also of a nu-folk/folktronica bent are Tunng and Espers.


...and in a similar vein The Imagined Village Project. Simon Emmerson project with collaboration from artists as diverse as Billy Bragg, Benjamin Zephaniah, Tunng, Eliza Carthy, Sheila Chandra and Transglobal Underground. Traditional Folk with a modern arrangement and slant.

Superb!!
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Post by: Tim Hall on 01 September, 2008, 09:58:23 pm
John Lee Hooker. The Collection.  A whole quid from Mr. Sainsbury's Emporium of Toothy Comestibles.
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Post by: Flying_Monkey on 01 September, 2008, 10:35:28 pm

Also of a nu-folk/folktronica bent are Tunng and Espers.


...and in a similar vein The Imagined Village Project. Simon Emmerson project with collaboration from artists as diverse as Billy Bragg, Benjamin Zephaniah, Tunng, Eliza Carthy, Sheila Chandra and Transglobal Underground. Traditional Folk with a modern arrangement and slant.

Superb!!

I saw Imagined Village live - it was okay, but trying a bit too hard for 'relevence' and overdoing the beats sometimes - rather like the Afro-Celts (another Emmerson project). Sheila Chandra has a stunning voice though...
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Post by: Quisling on 02 September, 2008, 12:11:39 am
Von by Sigur Ros - I love this video YouTube - Sigur Rós - Von (Heima) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hme5jf2Z_ow)

A small audience of all ages - entranced by the music.  It's a beautiful sort of extended family scene, and a lovely song.
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Post by: alan on 03 September, 2008, 07:09:44 pm
The Strolling Bones....40 Licks :P

 ;D

And again
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Post by: Chris S on 16 September, 2008, 09:51:15 am
... Pink Floyd. Lots of Pink Floyd  :( :'(
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Post by: Frenchie on 16 September, 2008, 12:31:27 pm
PlanetRock.co.uk

Very good radio. Waiting for my shipment of Dream Theaters and Metallica...
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Post by: Andrew Br on 16 September, 2008, 07:51:45 pm
... Pink Floyd. Lots of Pink Floyd  :( :'(

Yup.
Strange how you're reminded of stuff, go back to it and think "this is fucking ace".

RIP Rick. Top work mate  :thumbsup:

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Post by: Jezza on 16 September, 2008, 11:09:44 pm
Some very bouncy Dutch trance courtesy of Armin van Buuren.
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Post by: Dinamo on 17 September, 2008, 04:21:14 pm
... Pink Floyd. Lots of Pink Floyd  :( :'(

Just listened (watched actually) to David Gilmour playing Comfortably Numb with vocals from
Richard Wright  :'( from the 'Remember That Night' DVD
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Post by: tiermat on 18 September, 2008, 11:42:50 am
Pearl Jam's Rearview Mirror, The Best Of, The Downside.

got some funny looks driving into the car park at work belting out "The Last Kiss"
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Post by: Frenchie on 18 September, 2008, 12:28:49 pm
Dragon Force's UltraBeatdown
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Post by: pcolbeck on 18 September, 2008, 12:36:50 pm
Véronique Gens - Tragédiennes

A selection of tragic songs from the French Baroque/Classical period.
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Post by: Dinamo on 18 September, 2008, 03:51:55 pm
Kraftwerk ~ Minimum Maximum
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Post by: border-rider on 18 September, 2008, 03:57:17 pm
Pixies - Debaser

I'd forgotten how good...
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Post by: bikenerd on 18 September, 2008, 04:01:10 pm
Pixies - Debaser

I'd forgotten how good...

Very, very good!
I sometimes think that "Surfer Rosa" is the pinnacle of human achievement. ;)
For me: Spiritualized live at the Royal Albert Hall.  Hopefully they'll be that good when I see them live next month.
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Post by: groucho on 18 September, 2008, 04:09:49 pm
Take Time to Wonder in a Whirling World - Soft Hearted Scientists

Local lad (s)!

Wry stuff!
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Post by: microphonie on 18 September, 2008, 07:40:37 pm
Heaven 17 - The Luxury Gap - thanx Daily Mail! Bet they don't get the irony of that one...

Currently playing:

Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs, borrowed from the library. First time I've heard them and not too bad so far...
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Post by: Rhys W on 18 September, 2008, 10:11:52 pm
The debut album from Glasvegas. Quite stunning.
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Post by: geoff on 19 September, 2008, 11:04:57 pm
Beyoncé - Irreplaceable
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Post by: mikeitup on 21 September, 2008, 06:25:40 pm
Enuff Z'Nuff : Greatest Hits, S/T, Live.
                       
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Post by: Chris S on 21 September, 2008, 06:27:19 pm
The debut album from Glasvegas. Quite stunning.

Stabbed.

What a sad indictment on our times  ::-) :(
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Post by: padbeat on 22 September, 2008, 02:59:03 am
Psalm 69 - Ministry - Old school industrial metal

Doolittle - The Pixies - Quite possibly the best band in the history of music

From Out Of Nowhere - Faith No More - 'cos I was explaining to one of my collegues that there was quite good music made before he went to High School ::-)

Dig! Lazarus Dig! - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - explaining to same collegue that there's great music being made that he's never heard of!
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Post by: groucho on 22 September, 2008, 03:53:41 pm
Liege & Lief - Fairport Convention

For Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night - Caravan

and sadly a whole lot of Pink Floyd! Hence the retrospection above.



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Post by: tiermat on 22 September, 2008, 03:56:11 pm
Kings Of Leon - Only By The Night, growing on me

And catching up on The Bike Show podcasts
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Post by: Fi on 22 September, 2008, 04:12:23 pm
I've just re-discovered the Searchers, via Youtube.  Makes me feel young again.
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Post by: PaulF on 22 September, 2008, 04:40:58 pm
Yerself is Steam ~ Mercury Rev
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Post by: Frenchie on 22 September, 2008, 07:39:20 pm
Dream Theater
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Post by: alan on 23 September, 2008, 02:59:13 pm
Thin Lizzie:Greatestits
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Post by: bikenerd on 23 September, 2008, 05:35:45 pm
Daft Punk: Alive 2007.

Just awesome. :D
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Post by: Frenchie on 24 September, 2008, 09:41:44 am
Dream Theater, Awake.
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Post by: Jasper the surreal cyclist on 24 September, 2008, 10:42:26 am
Portico Quartet, Knee deep in the North Sea........nice.
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Post by: Dave on 24 September, 2008, 06:48:37 pm
Morphine, to celebrate what would have been Mark Sandman's birthday.

Video goodness (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXnGxASoXn0)
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Post by: nicknack on 24 September, 2008, 07:15:23 pm
Morphine, to celebrate what would have been Mark Sandman's birthday.

Video goodness (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXnGxASoXn0)

Ah, wonderful.

We generally play that one and Buena at gigs.
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Post by: nicknack on 24 September, 2008, 09:15:22 pm
Just been listening to Gary Numan - Replicas. I haven't heard this album for about 28 years, but I could still remember a lot of the words. I wish my memory was good for something useful though.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 30 September, 2008, 02:12:13 pm
Howard Jones - New Song, because that's what Jeremy Vine is playing in his "I have to play a song that's sort of the same sort of theme as what I've just been pontificating about" way. I'm chair-dancing. Later on I will either be listening to ABBA or the Beach Boys - I haven't decided yet.
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Post by: spesh on 01 October, 2008, 10:36:02 pm
Rush - 2112, and right now, a Def Leppard greatest hits compliation.  :D

From the sublime to the faintly cheesy but rather enjoyable.

Mind you, it was hair metal and radical garage rock last night c/o Skid Row and the MC5...
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Post by: clarion on 01 October, 2008, 10:38:11 pm
Currently listening to bits of Beatles on Youtube.

The White Album really was a rather good album, though Butterfly feels that 'Wild Honey Pie' and 'Why Don't We Do It In The Road?' could have done with a few more lyrics
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Post by: Frenchie on 02 October, 2008, 11:11:54 am
Dream Theater -- Scenes from a Memory
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Post by: Flying_Monkey on 02 October, 2008, 11:42:05 am
My listening for the next few days will be the new albums by the mighty Mogwai, The Aliens, Fujiya and Miyagi, and James Yorkston. Luckily the Travis album that my wife wanted was not in stock yet!  ;)
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Post by: rogerzilla on 02 October, 2008, 01:12:53 pm
A Johnny Cash compilation.  After all the boom-chicka-boom-chicka-boom stuff, there are some of his famous cover versions.  "Hurt" is well-known, but his version of U2's "One" is my favourite.
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Post by: tiermat on 02 October, 2008, 03:45:10 pm
Biffy Clyro - Puzzle, just on "Now I'm Everyone"

FANTASTIC...
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Post by: Gus on 02 October, 2008, 05:22:54 pm
Clutch - Robot hive/Exodus
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Post by: Quisling on 02 October, 2008, 11:06:25 pm
YouTube - James Yuill - This Sweet Love (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPkfFv_aJsA)

I'm liking this folktronic stuff these days.

Mind you, I was liking Metallica a lot last weekend.  Such is life :thumbsup:
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Post by: tiermat on 03 October, 2008, 03:41:23 pm
Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica

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Post by: Frenchie on 03 October, 2008, 04:16:41 pm
Mind you, I was liking Metallica a lot last weekend.  Such is life :thumbsup:

Ahhh!  :thumbsup:

Listening to Dragonforce today.
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Post by: microphonie on 03 October, 2008, 06:22:11 pm
My listening for the next few days will be the new albums by the mighty Mogwai, The Aliens, Fujiya and Miyagi, and James Yorkston. Luckily the Travis album that my wife wanted was not in stock yet!  ;)

The  Fujiya & Miyagi  (http://www.myspace.com/fujiyaandmiyagi) one is pretty decent, although I think the overall quality has reduced with each of the 3 albums released so far (the track 'Rot' on the MySpace link is from the first album). Then again, maybe that's just 'cos I'm more familiar with the spoken vocal & lyrical style now & it doesn't appear so fresh now rather than there being any real quality drop  :-\

Or maybe I'm just being supercool/pretentious in an 'I saw them first' style ;D

Just listening to Rob da Bank from 22/09 with Mogwai in session too  :thumbsup:

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Post by: alan on 03 October, 2008, 07:54:24 pm
Tom Jones:Greatest Hits
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Post by: Flying_Monkey on 04 October, 2008, 12:34:16 pm
The  Fujiya & Miyagi  (http://www.myspace.com/fujiyaandmiyagi) one is pretty decent, although I think the overall quality has reduced with each of the 3 albums released so far (the track 'Rot' on the MySpace link is from the first album). Then again, maybe that's just 'cos I'm more familiar with the spoken vocal & lyrical style now & it doesn't appear so fresh now rather than there being any real quality drop  :-\

I am underwhelmed to be honest. The new album is pleasant and undemanding enough but it is like listening to a bloodless imitation of Can (not Kraftwerk as everyone always says). It also reminds that a few years ago there was a British band called Appliance who did this kind of thing with so much more dynamism. I miss Appliance.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 04 October, 2008, 01:42:04 pm
Ahem.

"More ABBA Gold".

 :-[

There are some classics on there I'd forgotten, like "The Day Before You Came".  And Agnetha is pretty hot in the sleeve photos  ;)
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Post by: microphonie on 05 October, 2008, 11:16:58 am
The  Fujiya & Miyagi  (http://www.myspace.com/fujiyaandmiyagi) one is pretty decent, although I think the overall quality has reduced with each of the 3 albums released so far (the track 'Rot' on the MySpace link is from the first album). Then again, maybe that's just 'cos I'm more familiar with the spoken vocal & lyrical style now & it doesn't appear so fresh now rather than there being any real quality drop  :-\

I am underwhelmed to be honest. The new album is pleasant and undemanding enough but it is like listening to a bloodless imitation of Can (not Kraftwerk as everyone always says). It also reminds that a few years ago there was a British band called Appliance who did this kind of thing with so much more dynamism. I miss Appliance.

Ah! I keep seeing Appliance cds in my local s/h shop and have never given them a try. So a recommendation is good  :thumbsup:



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Post by: andrewc on 05 October, 2008, 01:11:42 pm
Currently listening to Sinead O'Connor, "Am I Not Your Girl".  Her album of jazz / torch covers.  A lovely voice.

Last night I spent a very pleasant 2 hours listening to Joe Stilgoe (Richard's son) at the Rodewald Suite in Liverpool. He's a excellent pianist and played a mix of his own songs and old favourites.  I  enjoyed it so much I bought the CD he was selling.  :: JOE STILGOE :: (http://www.joestilgoe.com/joe.html)
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Post by: Flying_Monkey on 05 October, 2008, 05:12:43 pm
Ah! I keep seeing Appliance cds in my local s/h shop and have never given them a try. So a recommendation is good  :thumbsup:

All three of their albums are good, but it's their first one, Manual, that I go back to more often. In some ways it is their most naive, where they wear their influences most on their sleeves, but the krautrock, analogue warmth is lovely.

The of course there is Stereolab... but I am sure no-one needs telling how good they are.
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Post by: Frenchie on 06 October, 2008, 08:33:05 am
More Metallica yesterday. This latest album is good. It even got Baby G's vote.  :P
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Post by: Deano on 12 October, 2008, 02:25:49 pm
Squarepusher - Ultravisitor.  This sort of broken electronica suits overcast days. 
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Post by: GruB on 12 October, 2008, 03:50:56 pm
My boss has got me into Alabama 3.  Amazing.  A mix of country rap drum and bass.  Amazing.  And from Scotland too !!
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Post by: Pneumant on 12 October, 2008, 04:12:34 pm
Rory Gallagher - Top Priority, brilliant hard blues/rock album from 1979, RG was a great guitarist 8)

Frenchie - my Dream Theater collection is bursting at the seams too - brilliant band  :thumbsup:
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Post by: andrewc on 12 October, 2008, 08:10:53 pm
Friday night was jazz night in Liverpool

First I listened to the Neil Cowley Trio at the Rodewald Suite. A really lively gig to a packed room. 

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=eQi5CcChNsc (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=eQi5CcChNsc)

When that finished I walked around the corner to  "The Caledonia" to see Marley Chingus....

[url=http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=hoAU_Cw4AK8]YouTube - MaRLEY CHiNGUS rockin out @ jazz at the caledonia (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=hoAU_Cw4AK8)[/url]

It was the drummers birthday........  The rest of the band were wearing masks made from photos of his face and the audience (it was packed with cute students!) had been given little placards to wave with more photos.  Quite surreal..

They are the resident band there, so I'll probably pop in next Friday as well.
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Post by: Jezza on 12 October, 2008, 11:24:42 pm
Beautiful trance track.

YouTube - Andy Moor feat. Carrie Skipper- So Much More (Shawn Mitiska Remix) ARMIN VAN BUUREN 5.1 SURROUND (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAJH1_XSH10)
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Post by: Flying_Monkey on 13 October, 2008, 01:35:35 pm
My boss has got me into Alabama 3.  Amazing.  A mix of country rap drum and bass.  Amazing.  And from Scotland too !!

eh? I thought they were very much from Brixton! They are excellent though - and a superb live band.
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Post by: Really Ancien on 13 October, 2008, 01:58:59 pm
Sister Rosetta.
YouTube - Sister Rosetta Tharpe-Trouble In Mind-1964 (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=AfQJLTdDSco)

Damon.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 13 October, 2008, 03:20:58 pm
My boss has got me into Alabama 3.  Amazing.  A mix of country rap drum and bass.  Amazing.  And from Scotland too !!

eh? I thought they were very much from Brixton! They are excellent though - and a superb live band.

You are this: right:

Quote from: www.alabama3.co.uk
We're not from Alabama, and there's not three of us. We're from Brixton, London.

TWFKAML used to live next door to one, or more.  Of them.
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Post by: groucho on 13 October, 2008, 03:31:11 pm
 :thumbsup: for Alabama 3. The only gig I have to get the whole family to see!

At the moment listening o Ryan Bingham - Mescalito.

Look out for Richard Thompson touring '1000 years of Pop!'
www.richardthompson-music.com. (http://www.richardthompson-music.com.)

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Post by: GruB on 13 October, 2008, 07:39:52 pm
My boss has got me into Alabama 3.  Amazing.  A mix of country rap drum and bass.  Amazing.  And from Scotland too !!

eh? I thought they were very much from Brixton! They are excellent though - and a superb live band.

They started their careers in Brixton, but I think you will find they are actually from Scotland.
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Post by: GruB on 13 October, 2008, 07:48:01 pm
"in South London, the son of a Welsh Mormon preacher meets the offspring of a Glaswegian trade unionist at an underground acid house party "

I stand corrected.  1/2 Scottish 1/2 Welsh but based in Brixton.
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Post by: spesh on 14 October, 2008, 01:19:52 am
Currently listening to "Long Days, Black Nights" an anthology of classic Magnum tracks.  8)

I'll just have to confuse everyone by digging out some psychedelic Goa trance next...  ;D
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Post by: PaulF on 14 October, 2008, 10:40:07 am
Strange Attractor ~ Mercury Rev
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Post by: Frenchie on 14 October, 2008, 05:48:41 pm
Some Santana...
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Post by: tiermat on 20 October, 2008, 11:41:59 am
Remaster of Puppets, a freebie that came with Kerrang last year, to celebrate 25 years since the original was released.

Fantastic listening to MachineHead, Funeral For A Friend et al cover the classics, but it is a shame that Mastodon screw up Orion....
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 20 October, 2008, 12:49:14 pm
The Dear Janes.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 20 October, 2008, 01:02:19 pm
The Dear Janes.

Yay!  My tenuous claim to fame #261 - I once carried Barbara's banjo while she was looking for a taxi ;D
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 20 October, 2008, 01:11:05 pm
Wow!

I first heard of them when I saw them supporting The Saw Doctors at the Liverpool Empire in about 1994 and just loved them. I found my copy of Sometimes I the other day - hadn't heard it in years and now I'm just playing and replaying it over and over again, and I've just ordered Ginny Clee's solo album from Amazon.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 20 October, 2008, 01:17:00 pm
I first heard of them when I saw them supporting The Saw Doctors at the Liverpool Empire in about 1994 and just loved them.

Similar thing here; TWFKAML & I saw them supporting Robyn Hitchcock somewhere or other in Londonton.  She reckons that in the last fifteen years we've seen them more than any other band!

I found my copy of Sometimes I the other day - hadn't heard it in years and now I'm just playing and replaying it over and over again, and I've just ordered Ginny Clee's solo album from Amazon.

It is this: excellent.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 20 October, 2008, 02:06:13 pm
Tattoo - Rory Gallagher (1973)

On vinyl. Inspired by the Radio 2 program linked in another thread. Bluestastic.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 20 October, 2008, 03:37:05 pm
And swiftly we move on 17 years to:

Mixed UP - The Cure (1990)

Wasn't a great success when it was released this one but it remains my favourite Cure album. Four sides (on vinyl I'm not sure how many CDs) of remixes of The Cures hits. The did the mixes themselves and some had been released on 12 inch before. Side B wit Lovesong and A Forest is particularly good.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 20 October, 2008, 08:53:26 pm
Yann Tiersen - La valse des monstres.

La Valse des monstres - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Valse_des_Monstres)
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Post by: pcolbeck on 21 October, 2008, 02:32:54 pm
Brothers and Sisters - The Allman Brothers Band

It's the one with Jessica on it and the truly wonderful Southbound with great electric piano from Chuck Leavell (later to play keyboards for the Rolling Stones and Eric Clapton. )
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Post by: tiermat on 21 October, 2008, 02:34:15 pm
Today has been a mix of Modest Mouse albums, I burnt a CD of MP3s to go in the hire car and can easily skip between albums.

3rd Planet and Interstate 8 are the favourites of the day....
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Post by: spesh on 22 October, 2008, 11:24:58 pm
Dopes To Infinity - Monster Magnet  8)
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Post by: Flying_Monkey on 22 October, 2008, 11:59:39 pm
Ghost Dog soundtrack by the RZA...
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Post by: pcolbeck on 23 October, 2008, 09:57:35 am
Well I have got the 70s rock thing out of my system for a bit so today it's:

Music for the funeral of Queen Mary - Purcell

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Post by: alan on 23 October, 2008, 06:05:41 pm
The Rolling Stones : Forty Licks
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Post by: alan on 24 October, 2008, 04:28:50 pm
Fleetwood Mac: The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac
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Post by: PaulF on 24 October, 2008, 04:37:01 pm
Love is the Way ~ Eddi Reader
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Post by: microphonie on 26 October, 2008, 12:15:48 pm
I have just started a subscription with eMusic, 'cos I got 50 free downloads when I downloaded Winamp & because I can fill in a few gaps in my Muslimgauze collection   8)

Currently listening to  Reuber - ruhig blut b  (http://www.emusic.com/album/Reuber-ruhig-blut-MP3-Download/11298448.html)

Really nice, long version of a Staubgold label sampler track I've loved for ages... :thumbsup:
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Post by: Pneumant on 26 October, 2008, 01:29:52 pm
Magnum - Vigilante

Super uplifting album from 1986 with near perfect songs,  my favourite is the title track itself  :)
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Post by: Flying_Monkey on 26 October, 2008, 02:24:21 pm
A collection of stuff by Curtis Mayfield. A beautiful man.
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Post by: Analog Kid on 27 October, 2008, 04:03:52 pm
Cat Food - King Crimson
Godzilla - Blue Oyster Cult

and then

Armorica - The Black Crowes

and then

Quadrephenia - The Who (I'd forgotten just how good this was)
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Post by: Thor on 27 October, 2008, 04:18:31 pm
When I Grow Up - Michelle Shocked

Living My Life (album) - Grace Jones
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Post by: alan on 27 October, 2008, 07:58:00 pm
The Shadows : Essential
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Post by: spesh on 27 October, 2008, 09:47:18 pm
Atomic Rooster: The Devil Hits Back
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Post by: Deano on 29 October, 2008, 11:42:24 pm
The Best of Eddie Cochran.  I found the CD after buying it at a charity shop a few years ago.  It's wonderful.  A bit of a nostalgia-fest, since my parents and my uncle used to listen to him when I was a kid - but boy, could he play guitar.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 30 October, 2008, 10:48:31 am
Miracle of the Voice - Natalie Dessay

Two CDs worth of highlights from recordings by the French Soprano. This is one of a bundle of classical CDs I picked up cheap in France last weekend. It's the enhanced package with a DVD I am saving for Friday night with a bottle of red. I have a weakness for French sopranos ....
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Post by: spesh on 31 October, 2008, 05:37:14 pm
Hellbilly Deluxe - Rob Zombie
The Best of Black Sabbath

They seemed to be the most appropriate choices today. :demon:
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Post by: alan on 31 October, 2008, 06:49:41 pm
 U2: The  Best of
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Post by: andrewc on 31 October, 2008, 08:01:33 pm
 "Exile"   Gilad Atzmon & The Orient House Ensemble
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Post by: Deano on 31 October, 2008, 09:07:58 pm
Someone's lent me Sacred Hearts and Fallen Angels, the best of Gram Parsons.  After Eddie Cochran, someone else who died young.  I am enjoying it, though :thumbsup:
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Post by: Flying_Monkey on 02 November, 2008, 03:51:37 pm
New Okkervil River album. It's okay, but gets a bit bland after a while.
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Post by: PaulF on 02 November, 2008, 04:04:47 pm
Astral Weeks ~ Van Morrison Still superb!
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Post by: mike on 03 November, 2008, 10:29:51 pm
Imelda May - love tattoo.  The first time I've ever asked the staff in a music shop 'what's this CD you're playing?'

It's absolutely fantastic!!
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Post by: andrewc on 05 November, 2008, 08:14:44 pm
Last night I spent an uncomfortable 3 hours in the company of Eddi Reader and her band.  Eddi was wonderful as always, but the seats at Pacific Road are like something out of a torture museum!

The opening act was a chap called Dean Owens from Leith.  Dean did 30 minutes with guitar & harmonica (and was joined by Kevin McGuire on double bass for a couple of tracks).

My favourite was "The Man From Leith", a tribute to his father.     I enjoyed his session so much I bought his new CD "Whiskey Hearts"

A few sample tracks here http://www.deanowens.com/content/multimedia/audio/ (http://www.deanowens.com/content/multimedia/audio/)
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Post by: Analog Kid on 05 November, 2008, 08:19:27 pm
Old Wild Men - 10cc

How on earth did they come across as a pop band in the early 70's when they were doing this stuff at the same time?
 :)
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Post by: alan on 06 November, 2008, 07:08:44 pm
Roy Orbison : Gold Collection
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Post by: Flying_Monkey on 06 November, 2008, 07:45:57 pm
The Renaissance - Q-Tip (from A Tribe Called Quest) - it just seems so entirely appropriate to be listening to intelligent hip hop in the circumstances!
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Post by: Really Ancien on 06 November, 2008, 07:52:15 pm
Old Wild Men - 10cc

How on earth did they come across as a pop band in the early 70's when they were doing this stuff at the same time?
 :)

Because you were too young to understand the references.
YouTube - 10cc Oh Effendi Live (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=bsniZ1k36pk)

Damon.
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Post by: Frenchie on 06 November, 2008, 10:59:26 pm
Joe Satriani -- Strange beautiful music
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Post by: Gus on 07 November, 2008, 07:16:07 pm
Einstürzende neubauten

It's surrealistic but the more I listen to it the more I get drawn into their universe  and I love it
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Post by: pcolbeck on 09 November, 2008, 03:02:26 pm
Wilco - Sky Blue Sky

Currently repeat playing track 8 - Hate it here (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=yYLaWXjUr8A)
Great lyrics and some nice understated guitar playing.
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Post by: nicknack on 09 November, 2008, 06:58:46 pm
Colosseum - Those who are about to die salute you

(and another fan of Einstürzende neubauten here)
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Post by: Aidan on 09 November, 2008, 07:28:36 pm
Live in Japan

Rodrigo y Gabriela

Fantastic :thumbsup:
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Post by: GruB on 09 November, 2008, 08:52:30 pm
AC/DC - For Those About To Rock We Salute You
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Post by: pcolbeck on 11 November, 2008, 11:24:29 am
The Best Of  - Rod Stewart

And it really is as it doesn't include anything recorded after 1974.

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Post by: bikenerd on 11 November, 2008, 11:49:51 am
A Place To Bury Strangers - A Place to Bury Strangers

Supposedly New York's loudest band.  Sound a lot like the Jesus and Mary Chain and a little like Slowdive.
So I like!  :D
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Post by: Really Ancien on 11 November, 2008, 02:02:44 pm
It's a Long Way to Tipperary by the Red Army Choir.
YouTube - It's a Long Way to Tipperary (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=CQs97_jVufk&feature=related)

Damon.
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Post by: Frenchie on 12 November, 2008, 04:06:37 pm
This...
YouTube - Joe Satriani - Belly Dancer LIVE 2002 Heineken Music Hall (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=LBSYfCQXMoM)

It is just so good.
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Post by: Analog Kid on 12 November, 2008, 09:31:32 pm
Bastard - Ian Hunter.

Sorry thats just how it is.....
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Post by: pcolbeck on 12 November, 2008, 10:24:59 pm
St Matthew Passion - Bach
Paul McCreesh conducting with the Gabrieli Players and a stellar but very small group of singers (only 8) including Magdalena Kozena and Mark Padmore. This small scale interpretation is very intimate and perfect for this time of a night.
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Post by: spindrift on 13 November, 2008, 11:02:15 am
Fab remix:

YouTube - Aurora - Ordinary World (Condor Remix) (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=7KWGaViLgA8&feature=related)
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Post by: Frenchie on 13 November, 2008, 11:02:51 am
Live in Japan

Rodrigo y Gabriela

Fantastic :thumbsup:

Great stuff indeed...
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Post by: pcolbeck on 13 November, 2008, 11:17:38 am
A collection of live Jimi Hendrix in honour of the late Mitch Mitchell.
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Post by: alan on 13 November, 2008, 07:35:36 pm
David Bowie : The Best of David Bowie (UK version)
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Post by: mike on 13 November, 2008, 07:37:42 pm
Kings of Leon's new one.  Quite good.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 15 November, 2008, 05:43:12 pm
I have been in the attic and sprung some more old vinyl.

Nine on a Ten Scale - Sammy Hagar

On of his solo albums before he became lead singer of Van Halen. It's rubbish.

Earthshaker - Y&T

I had forgotten about this lot. This is surprisingly good in an AOR kind of way. A bit like a slightly heavier Journey. Check out these stage cloths
 (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=FjSY3U1DJUk)
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Post by: IanDG on 15 November, 2008, 07:50:43 pm
the 'new' Seasick Steve (I started out with nothing) - it finally arrived in Stornoway's Woolworths
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Post by: clarion on 15 November, 2008, 07:52:26 pm
Excellent - I like him, as does Our Kid.

I've been listening to Tilly & The Wall, who have guested on Sesame Street* singing the alphabet.

* Now that is cool
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Post by: andrewc on 15 November, 2008, 09:06:06 pm
"Me, Myself an Eye" by Charles Mingus (or not, he's not on the album and there is some debate about how much of the arangement he did).  Good though.

Last night was "The Christians" at Liverpool Philharmonic followed by more Marley Chingus at the Caledonia, sadly they didn't have the cute blonde singer this time...
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Post by: Manotea on 16 November, 2008, 09:37:30 am
The B52s: the B52s.

They came from Planet Claire.
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Post by: Deano on 16 November, 2008, 01:51:28 pm
The Fall's Peel Sessions, and The Stooges by The Stooges.  Ear-bleeding stuff :thumbsup:
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Post by: microphonie on 16 November, 2008, 02:52:22 pm
The B52s: the B52s.


Me too!

And Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip - Angles
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Post by: Dave on 16 November, 2008, 06:26:22 pm
Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone on R6, then probably a couple of the new Replacements re-issues.
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Post by: Frenchie on 17 November, 2008, 08:54:07 am
the 'new' Seasick Steve (I started out with nothing)

Great musician...
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Post by: Analog Kid on 17 November, 2008, 09:49:53 am
On a grey and slightly melancholic monday morning:-

"Fire & Water","Highway" and "Heartbreaker" by Free will all be making an appearance.



Earthshaker - Y&T

I had forgotten about this lot. This is surprisingly good in an AOR kind of way. A bit like a slightly heavier Journey.


"Knock You Out" makes you smile as much as "I Believe In You" makes you cringe. :)
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Post by: alan on 17 November, 2008, 09:58:59 am


"Fire & Water","Highway" and "Heartbreaker" by Free will all be making an appearance.




That has reminded me that I have a greatest hits type album of Free.Must root it out.
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Post by: clarion on 17 November, 2008, 03:15:46 pm
Avoiding the horrors of Money Box, I turned over reluctantly to Steve Wright.

He's just played Neil Young, Boz Scaggs' High Sierra, and Lindisfarne's Lady Eleanor in succession.

Heck, that's a high strike rate of 'stuff I quite like, but would never go out & actually buy' :)
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Post by: pcolbeck on 17 November, 2008, 05:11:21 pm

Earthshaker - Y&T

I had forgotten about this lot. This is surprisingly good in an AOR kind of way. A bit like a slightly heavier Journey.


"Knock You Out" makes you smile as much as "I Believe In You" makes you cringe. :)
Most of this type of rock makes you cringe as you get older. It's specifically designed for 14 - 16 year old boys really.
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Post by: Analog Kid on 17 November, 2008, 09:28:56 pm

Earthshaker - Y&T

I had forgotten about this lot. This is surprisingly good in an AOR kind of way. A bit like a slightly heavier Journey.


"Knock You Out" makes you smile as much as "I Believe In You" makes you cringe. :)
Most of this type of rock makes you cringe as you get older. It's specifically designed for 14 - 16 year old boys really.

Not sure what that says about me then being somewhat more than 16 when they appeared on my radar, even if it was briefly. I saw them play a blistering set at Reading in nineteen-something based almost entirely around Eathshaker. I looked forward to the next album and tour and thought "Black Tiger" was pants so didn't bother. Someone played me a late eighties track of thiers ("Contagious"?) which was poodle rock at it's most hairsprayed. Awful. It was a brief affair.. :D

Along the same(ish) lines as Clarions previos post, iTunes came up with a little run in "Shuffle" mode that I'd never have come up with in a million years but worked brilliantly. Sequence as follows

Bye Routes - Golden Earring
Lucky - Radiohead
Shipwrecked - The Big Dish
All That You Dream - Little Feat


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Post by: PaulF on 23 November, 2008, 03:49:36 pm
Day & Age ~ The Killers
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Post by: Quisling on 24 November, 2008, 08:37:10 am
James Yuill's new album.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 26 November, 2008, 01:40:23 pm
Live At The Quick ~ Béla Fleck & The Flecktones

Jazz with banjos.  In it.  Gift from our highly-esteemed ACP / LRM Representative and Supreme Ruler of the Universe Mr Marshall.

Odd.
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Post by: alan on 27 November, 2008, 02:20:47 pm
Sky 366:the Vault

Love in the Afternoon
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Post by: Jacomus on 27 November, 2008, 03:00:17 pm
Slayer - Christ Illusion
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Post by: microphonie on 27 November, 2008, 06:35:30 pm
The latest  Rob da Bank & Friends  (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/robdabank/) show: 10 Years of Minus Records with Richie Hawtin. Quality techno.

Also been playing the  Santogold  (http://www.santogold.net/) album a lot recently.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 27 November, 2008, 06:50:35 pm
I have just rediscovered my Sennheiser headphones. Last night I had a good old blast of J. S. Bach's Violin Concerti.
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Post by: Air Dancer on 27 November, 2008, 07:03:43 pm
Freeschaland by Freescha
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Post by: microphonie on 27 November, 2008, 07:08:04 pm
Freeschaland by Freescha

Any good? I'm a fan of 'Slower Than Church Music' by them.

Also recommend Casino Versus Japan (esp. 'Go Hawaii') which is similar stuff
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Post by: Air Dancer on 27 November, 2008, 07:17:32 pm
It's very good. I can't stop playing the bloomin' thing  ;D

It's a compilation of tracks from their earlier EPs, with a few others tracks thrown in as a bonus.

A very relaxing album.
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Post by: alan on 27 November, 2008, 09:08:20 pm
George Harrison
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Post by: Flying_Monkey on 28 November, 2008, 08:58:29 am
James Yorkston - Just Beyond the River.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 28 November, 2008, 12:53:32 pm
Bootleg of HMHB's recent London gig :thumbsup:
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Post by: alan on 28 November, 2008, 03:47:31 pm
The Beatles:Magical Mystery Tour
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Post by: alan on 28 November, 2008, 08:02:57 pm
Dire Straits
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Post by: noisycrank on 28 November, 2008, 09:40:30 pm
96 tears - The Stranglers
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Post by: clarion on 28 November, 2008, 09:41:08 pm
Right now - Richard Thompson - Woodstock
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Post by: microphonie on 29 November, 2008, 10:23:46 am
Bootleg of HMHB's recent London gig :thumbsup:

Downloadable?

Bad: I forgot about their Norwich gig  :'(

Good: But their back catalogue is available to download from eMusic  :thumbsup:
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Post by: bikenerd on 29 November, 2008, 10:28:02 am
The Jesus Lizard, of course.
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Post by: PaulF on 29 November, 2008, 11:00:55 am
The Clash ~ Live at Shea Stadium
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Post by: Melrose on 29 November, 2008, 01:08:52 pm
Runrig - The Stamping Ground and Everything You See

The Summer Walkers from The Stamping Ground brought back good memories of Sutherland Audaxes, some lyrics below:

"And it's up by the Shin
And up by the Naver
And the long winding shores of Loch Maree
By Ben Hope and Ben Loyal
By Stack and by Arkle
The road reaches long now the summer is here"

I hope I can be back there soon, touring or doing the 300k again!

From Everything I see the Clash of the Ash is best.
   MySpace.com - R U N R I G - UK - Rock / Celtic  - www.myspace.com/runrigofficial
 (http://www.myspace.com/runrigofficial)

Is anyone going to see Runrig at the Barrowlands next weekend? Or Scone next August? ::-)

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Post by: Air Dancer on 30 November, 2008, 01:07:43 am
"The Best of Green on Red" by Green on Red
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Post by: pcolbeck on 01 December, 2008, 03:00:09 pm
"The Best of Green on Red" by Green on Red
I love their version of "funny how time slips away".
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Post by: pcolbeck on 01 December, 2008, 03:02:01 pm
Mozart - Mass in C minor - conducted by Louis Langree

A real treat if you like French sopranos as it has Natalie Dessay and Veronique Gens. Mmmm lucious.
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Post by: alan on 04 December, 2008, 05:33:10 pm
 22 Carat Country Gpld ; Various Artists
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Post by: Dinamo on 04 December, 2008, 05:39:42 pm
David Gilmour ~ Live In Gdansk
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Post by: Flying_Monkey on 05 December, 2008, 09:31:22 am
The Dears - Missiles.
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Post by: Gus on 05 December, 2008, 02:04:13 pm

Ministry an Co-Conspirators ~ Cover Up

 "What a wonderful world"   and "Black Betty" like I never heard them before  :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
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Post by: alan on 05 December, 2008, 02:11:05 pm
The Pretenders : Greatest Hits.
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Post by: onb on 05 December, 2008, 02:49:17 pm
Only By the night -The Kings of Leon
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Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 06 December, 2008, 03:32:43 pm
Joni Mitchell: Blue.

I never tire of this album.
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Post by: Frenchie on 07 December, 2008, 02:21:58 pm
AC/DC: Black Ice
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Post by: clarion on 08 December, 2008, 09:16:35 am
Last night, after a journey that took at least twice as long as usual for various reasons, I found myself walking up the hill to my home.  Well, dancing, actually, as I had Nina Simone followed by a bit of Aretha Franklin, then a dash of Blues Brothers...
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Post by: onb on 08 December, 2008, 11:19:21 am
Joni Mitchell: Blue.

I never tire of this album.



+1 to that.
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Post by: nicknack on 08 December, 2008, 04:55:28 pm
Soft Machine - Drop

A live recording from 1971 with the utterly manic Phil Howard on drums. Brilliant!
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Post by: Gus on 10 December, 2008, 07:17:27 pm

The Reverend Horton Heat
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Post by: alan on 11 December, 2008, 11:03:50 pm
This evening listened to a Festival of Christmas Music at the Victoria Hall,Hanley,Stoke-on-Trent featuring
Staffordshire Youth Orchestra - North
Staffordshire Youth Choir - Central
Massed Choirs from Staffordshire Schools.

Included
Fantasia on Greensleeves
Once in Royal David's City
Silent Night
White Christmas.
Twelve Days of Christmas
O Come All Ye Faithful
O Little Town of Bethlehem
Jingle Bells
Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer.

The star turn was The Centre of the Universe a.k.a. my grand-daughter O:-).
I noticed that several hundred of those present may not have realised this.
Their loss. ;D
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Post by: Pneumant on 12 December, 2008, 03:31:47 pm
The Doors - The Soft Parade: the difficult Doors album, much criticised but I like it and thats what counts!
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Post by: Dave on 12 December, 2008, 09:49:01 pm

The Reverend Horton Heat

Good choice :thumbsup:

Ezio (Live in Cambridge), Cheap Trick, Stereolab, Nude Girls, Bellowhead.

God, I haven't had a night of playing CDs for sooooo long. Why?
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Post by: peanut on 12 December, 2008, 10:44:50 pm

The Reverend Horton Heat

Good choice :thumbsup:

Ezio (Live in Cambridge), Cheap Trick, Stereolab, Nude Girls, Bellowhead.

God, I haven't had a night of playing CDs for sooooo long. Why?

bluddy TV its a curse  ::-)

George Thorogood and all the Delaware Destroyers . Must get reaquainted
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Post by: Dave on 12 December, 2008, 10:47:04 pm
God, I haven't had a night of playing CDs for sooooo long. Why?

bluddy TV its a curse  ::-)

Don't have a TV, am just pathetic :(
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Post by: Flying_Monkey on 13 December, 2008, 10:47:18 am
The Doors - The Soft Parade: the difficult Doors album, much criticised but I like it and thats what counts!

It's actually the only Doors album I would really bother listening to any more. In adversity bands often create their best work, and this album with its ludicrous concept and Morrison's voice at its rawest is somehow more real and affecting than any of the more bombastic and pretentious stuff they did.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 13 December, 2008, 11:31:29 am
I still think "The Doors" is the best  :P

Today I shall mostly be listening to...Victor Hely-Hutchinson's Carol Symphony.
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Post by: andrewc on 13 December, 2008, 11:04:54 pm
This morning was Tchaikovsky & Sibelius.   A swift visit to Oxfam saw me leave with Mahlers 2nd Symphony & Vaughan-Williams 9th, both on mint vinyl.    Another visit to "Hairy Records" gained me a Coleman Hawkins compilation and Ben Webster live at The Monmartre Club, Copenhagen. This last is superb, but I didn't read the sleeve notes properly in the shop.  It's the last part of a 3 LP set, so I've now got to start looking for the other 2!

Currently listening to "Blue Saxophones", Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins, Oscar Petersen, Herb Ellis, Ray Brown & Alvin Stoller.   I bought this for £1.99 in a charity shop a few years ago and it's now one of my favourites.  Absolutely beautiful music  :)
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Post by: Dave on 16 December, 2008, 09:45:02 pm
Mykonos by Fleet Foxes (on Radcliffe/Maconie). Ab-so-bloody-lutely amazing.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 17 December, 2008, 12:30:55 am
Late Junction on Radio 3. The home of truly weird music.
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Post by: geoff on 17 December, 2008, 04:57:35 pm
 Henry Thomas (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=lQN97JxyD9A) a great favourite of Kershaw's IIRC
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Post by: chillmoister on 17 December, 2008, 05:01:23 pm
Global Underground 30 - Nick Warren - Paris ...just reached the dubby part of disk1 ....boomshakkalakka Dread
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Post by: Tourist Tony on 19 December, 2008, 02:40:20 am
A shouty  socialst evening with various Oysterband discs. Soooooooooo right.
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Post by: clarion on 19 December, 2008, 08:50:26 am
Last weekend I bought myself some surprisingly good value headphones for my MP3 player.  I have rediscovered how brilliant Nazareth are.  Slade are good value, too, and good for keeping the cadence up on the trainer :)
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Post by: alan on 21 December, 2008, 01:38:38 pm
Mark Knopfler/Emmylou Harris: All the Road Running
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Post by: nicknack on 21 December, 2008, 05:37:23 pm
Marilyn Monroe - I Wanna Be Loved By You
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Post by: clarion on 21 December, 2008, 06:50:36 pm
Tim Minchin on Youtube.

Dangerously Hilarious.  I'm laughing so much my face hurts.

If I Didn't Have You (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Gaid72fqzNE)
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Post by: pcolbeck on 21 December, 2008, 07:56:38 pm
Folk, Blues and Beyond - Davy Graham
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Post by: alan on 24 December, 2008, 02:18:30 pm
A variety of Classical stuff
Mozart
Handel
Elgar
Tchaikovsky
Verdi
Holst

& then it will be variety of Xmas carols & hymns
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Post by: cpjmathieson on 24 December, 2008, 04:39:19 pm
All my life- Foo Fighters
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Post by: geoff on 27 December, 2008, 11:12:35 pm
There She Goes - The LAs

'twas on the telly the other day...such a great tune
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Post by: geoff on 28 December, 2008, 01:27:38 pm
Now we're gettin real hip and wiggy with the Beach Boys:

 "Do It Again", "Darlin'" and I'm looking forward to "Wild Honey"
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Post by: Tourist Tony on 28 December, 2008, 02:22:39 pm
Working my way through my Martin Simpson albums, and trying to play along.
Failing miserably, of course.
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Post by: IanDG on 28 December, 2008, 03:36:21 pm
Hall of the Mountain Grill - Hawkwind, a xmas present from mrs W.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 28 December, 2008, 04:14:14 pm
Neil Young - Sugar Mountain Live @ Canterbury House.
I don't think I've ever heard the man rabbit so much! Drugs, eh?  ;)
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Post by: Flying_Monkey on 30 December, 2008, 12:59:58 pm
George Winston's December, which I got my wife for Christmas. Icy, tinkly background music, but better than many of his more New Agey imitators.

Also The Dears' No Cities Left. Still their best.
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Post by: David Martin on 30 December, 2008, 10:42:10 pm
U2 18 singles collection..

..d
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 30 December, 2008, 10:47:17 pm
The Lost Soul Band - The Land Of Do As You Please and Friday the 13th and Everything's Rosie. I might dig my vinyl out later as well.

I used to go and see them years ago when I was a student in Edinburgh and after I qualified when I worked in Kent I'd go see them in London and then they split up at the end of 1994 after 3 albums, a couple of singles and no chart success whatsoever. You can hear them on myspace, and Sunday night's gig is on youtube in various parts. They've reformed for a couple of farewell gigs, Spice Girls style, and I went to see them on Sunday and it was just like all the years just rolled away and I was young again. They were probably Scotland's best ever least successful band, they were just at the wrong time.

You know the Kingsmill ad with the song that goes you're lovely to me yes you are? That's Gordon Grahame, who is the singer of The Lost Soul Band.

It was so good to see them, and nice to have a chat with a couple of them afterwards too. I used to be quite pally with Gav, the percussionist, and their mate Sandy who is a legend on the Edinburgh pub band scene, but I hadn't seen either of them since the mid-90s.
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Post by: alan on 31 December, 2008, 06:52:52 pm
U2 : 1980-2000

next up will be vintage Rolling Stones & then it will be the best of Guns 'n Roses.
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Post by: Chris S on 31 December, 2008, 07:00:53 pm
U2 : 1980-2000

next up will be vintage Rolling Stones & then it will be the best of Guns 'n Roses.

It's New Year alan - look forward mate, look forward.

* puts on Tremeloes Greatest Hits Hit*
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Post by: alan on 31 December, 2008, 07:06:08 pm
U2 : 1980-2000

next up will be vintage Rolling Stones & then it will be the best of Guns 'n Roses.

It's New Year alan - look forward mate, look forward.

* puts on Tremeloes Greatest Hits Hit*
Bl**dyEll.
The Trems..  A real rave from the grave ;D

I like a good dose of nostalgia at New Years Eve.
I look forward to being unable to remember tonight,tomorrow when it will be yesterday.More nostalgia. :)
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Post by: Palinurus on 31 December, 2008, 07:10:05 pm
A bit of Albert Ayler (Ms P wanted to find out what he sounded like), Eric Dolpy's "Out to Lunch", Ornette Coleman- various Prime Time recordings I've bought recently.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 31 December, 2008, 08:28:32 pm

* puts on Tremeloes Greatest Hits Hit*

Silence Is Golden and Do You Love Me? Two hits.
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Post by: alan on 31 December, 2008, 08:47:31 pm
IIRC "Do You Love Me" was done by the Dave Clarke Five".
Can anyone concurr?
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Post by: Aidan on 31 December, 2008, 08:53:11 pm
Elephant   the White Stripes :thumbsup:
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 31 December, 2008, 08:59:12 pm
IIRC "Do You Love Me" was done by the Dave Clarke Five".
Can anyone concurr?
I respectfully disagree.  ;D Although they might have done it too. I like watching old clips of the Dave Clark 5 - Dave always looks like he's drumming to something else entirely.
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Post by: annie on 31 December, 2008, 09:17:13 pm
Despedida
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Post by: alan on 01 January, 2009, 07:15:49 pm
Roy Orbison : Gold Collection
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Post by: nicknack on 01 January, 2009, 08:13:20 pm
Alive, She Cried - The Doors
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Post by: clarion on 01 January, 2009, 09:57:15 pm
UFO on Youtube.  Why don't I have any of this on CD? ???

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Post by: oncemore on 02 January, 2009, 03:51:46 pm
The new PC speaker-system that the son bought me for Xmas - excellent! What a good boy!
Herself is in town, so blasting Alabama 3 ("Night We Nearly Got Busted") right now. Then some Beefheart, I think....
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Post by: Dave on 02 January, 2009, 08:32:45 pm
Ministry - Psalm 69. To be followed by Metallica - Metallica and Montrose - Montrose
 :thumbsup:


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Post by: nicknack on 02 January, 2009, 08:35:50 pm
Wheels of Fire - Cream

The first lp I ever bought. I still think it's brilliant.

Back in the days when Eric bothered to play guitar. I don't think he's been arsed for the last 30 odd years.
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Post by: toekneep on 03 January, 2009, 10:39:03 pm
Jake Thackray, what is making me smile deeply.
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Post by: nicknack on 03 January, 2009, 10:44:59 pm
More old stuff. Feels odd being in on a Saturday night.

Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh - Magma
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Post by: Jasper the surreal cyclist on 04 January, 2009, 04:03:44 pm
Dr. Rubberfunk................... 8)
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Post by: PaulF on 04 January, 2009, 05:04:07 pm
Daydream Nation ~ Sonic Youth

Well the rest of the family are upstairs so I've got some 'peace and quiet'  ::-)
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Post by: alan on 04 January, 2009, 07:01:23 pm
ZZ Top : Eliminator
very loudly on the Ipod thing
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Post by: Torslanda on 05 January, 2009, 12:24:25 am
Its been a Genesis night. Sod Radio 2, I'm going to work tomorrow to Selling England by the Pound!
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Post by: Really Ancien on 05 January, 2009, 12:28:19 am
More old stuff. Feels odd being in on a Saturday night.

Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh - Magma
Oh my God, I'd forgotten them, didn't Steve 'Interesting' Davis, promote a concert by them once?


Yes Indeedy          My obsession: Steve Davis |
            Sport |
            The Observer
    (http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2004/mar/07/snooker.features)

Damon.
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Post by: Jasper the surreal cyclist on 05 January, 2009, 02:53:48 pm
Me, I'm just a lawnmower, you can tell me by the way I walk.......
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Post by: Jasper the surreal cyclist on 05 January, 2009, 03:26:54 pm
Steve Davis stroked my dog whilst out for a walk in Plumstead.....
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Post by: Jacomus on 05 January, 2009, 03:41:57 pm
Has been Pendulum this morn, and I'm feeling more of the same this eve.
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Post by: Quisling on 05 January, 2009, 10:18:50 pm
Led Zeppelin.
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Post by: woollypigs on 06 January, 2009, 01:13:45 pm
The sound track to Juno (2007) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0467406/), a very good movie and American movie too, some very catchy tunes :)
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Post by: Androcles on 06 January, 2009, 10:28:20 pm
In the Region of the Summer Stars by The Enid
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Post by: andrewc on 06 January, 2009, 10:28:54 pm
I popped into HMV on my way home so this evenings music has been Murray Perahia playing all 5 Beethoven piano concertos with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.

£12 for 3CD's worth of beauty  :)
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Post by: andrewc on 06 January, 2009, 10:30:41 pm
In the Region of the Summer Stars by The Enid

 :D  Saw them a few times way back in the early 80's.  The grotty old Bierkeller in Liverpool. Good stuff!
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Post by: andrewc on 06 January, 2009, 11:06:45 pm
I popped into HMV on my way home so this evenings music has been Murray Perahia playing all 5 Beethoven piano concertos with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.

£12 for 3CD's worth of beauty  :)

Arse!  The last CD is skipping  >:(
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Post by: Pneumant on 07 January, 2009, 09:25:29 am
Joe Satriani - Is there Love in Space?

A brilliant album, one of his best later works, so full of feeling, gonna turn it up to 11 now 8)
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Post by: Tourist Tony on 08 January, 2009, 12:57:53 am
In the Region of the Summer Stars by The Enid

 :D  Saw them a few times way back in the early 80's.  The grotty old Bierkeller in Liverpool. Good stuff!
Just mentioned them on the prog thread. Heard them interviewed on local radio in 79, and they were......a bit rude in their language. The interview was live. Ooops.
As for now, Lisa Knapp, and Belly.
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Post by: vorsprung on 08 January, 2009, 10:18:48 am
ecouter M deux radio

http://www.m2radio.fr/pls/m2mix_winamp.m3u

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Post by: токамак on 09 January, 2009, 08:41:31 pm
Just dug this CD out - a favourite from 1996.

Emperor Tomato Ketchup – Stereolab – Listen free and discover music at Last.fm (http://www.last.fm/music/Stereolab/Emperor+Tomato+Ketchup)
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Post by: Deano on 09 January, 2009, 10:17:40 pm
The Broken Family Band.
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Post by: Jasper the surreal cyclist on 11 January, 2009, 06:49:14 pm
Fischer Spooner..........
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Post by: microphonie on 12 January, 2009, 06:25:27 pm
Just dug this CD out - a favourite from 1996.

Emperor Tomato Ketchup – Stereolab – Listen free and discover music at Last.fm (http://www.last.fm/music/Stereolab/Emperor+Tomato+Ketchup)

Their finest album imho (just beating Refried Ectoplasm Volume 2)

NP:  Mary Anne Hobbs  (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/maryannehobbs/) on listen again.
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Post by: Chris N on 16 January, 2009, 04:31:11 pm
Just been listening to a fabulous live version of No-one Knows by QOTSA on 6 Music.  Must see if I can get a copy of this.
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Post by: Frenchie on 16 January, 2009, 04:36:05 pm
Wes Montgomery. Superb!
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Post by: Frenchie on 16 January, 2009, 04:38:55 pm
Joe Satriani - Is there Love in Space?

A brilliant album, one of his best later works, so full of feeling, gonna turn it up to 11 now 8)

I prefer Strange Beautiful Music. Prof Satchetc. is pretty good to.

Switched To Is There Love etc. now though...
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Post by: Jasper the surreal cyclist on 18 January, 2009, 07:05:45 pm
Animal Collective.....
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Post by: Pneumant on 18 January, 2009, 08:46:50 pm
Joe Satriani - Is there Love in Space?

A brilliant album, one of his best later works, so full of feeling, gonna turn it up to 11 now 8)

I prefer Strange Beautiful Music. Prof Satchetc. is pretty good to.

Switched To Is There Love etc. now though...

Not sure about 'Prof Satch..', to be honest I think his last really good album was 'Crystal Planet'.  I've got all his CD's  :), been a fan since 'Flying in a Blue Dream came out 18 yrs ago, saw him last  at Hammersmith Odeon last May - brilliant concert :thumbsup:
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Post by: Pneumant on 18 January, 2009, 08:49:11 pm
Megadeth - Cryptic Writings

Brilliant album with lovely smooth powerful guitar riffs and killer songs, just the thing for blowing the cobwebs around the sitting room 8)
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Post by: kyuss on 20 January, 2009, 05:12:58 pm
Biffy Clyro
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Post by: microphonie on 20 January, 2009, 06:18:38 pm
Animal Collective.....

Have you heard Panda Bear's 'Person Pitch'? Recommended if you like AC...
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Post by: Chris S on 20 January, 2009, 08:36:36 pm
Juliet Turner - People have Names
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Post by: Bledlow on 20 January, 2009, 08:38:54 pm
Smetana. Before that, Tielman Susato.
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Post by: alan on 20 January, 2009, 10:21:48 pm
The Animals : The Most of The Animals
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Post by: spesh on 22 January, 2009, 10:55:19 pm
Man With No Name
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Post by: PaulF on 22 January, 2009, 11:07:31 pm
The Pretenders - The Pretenders

Forgotten how brilliant that album is!!
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Post by: Jasper the surreal cyclist on 23 January, 2009, 09:14:40 am
Animal Collective.....

Have you heard Panda Bear's 'Person Pitch'? Recommended if you like AC...
Thanks for that. Nice.................


Radio Three at the moment, Bach.
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Post by: alan on 23 January, 2009, 03:39:25 pm
Roxy Music,the Best Of
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Post by: Air Dancer on 24 January, 2009, 01:16:50 am
"Mountain Battles" by The Breeders

It takes 1, 2 possibly 3 listens to appreciate.

Top notch :thumbsup:
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Post by: alan on 24 January, 2009, 05:25:23 am
Mo Duta on Radio 2
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Post by: Naggers on 24 January, 2009, 01:51:07 pm
Tom Robinson - Still Loving You.

A favourite album for over 20 years.



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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 24 January, 2009, 01:58:49 pm
My new copy of the re-issue of Now That's What I Call Music. Today I have done the Safety Dance, learned about Kissing With Confidence and wondered Is There Something I Should Know?
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Post by: toekneep on 24 January, 2009, 07:33:31 pm
Dixie Chicks - Home. Loving that banjo.
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Post by: clarion on 24 January, 2009, 07:43:58 pm
Tom Robinson - Still Loving You.

A favourite album for over 20 years.





Crikey - I thought I was the only person in the world who loved that album! :o

I neeeeeed to get it on CD
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Post by: Chris S on 25 January, 2009, 03:16:53 pm
The best of Split Enz - Split Enz
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Post by: alan on 25 January, 2009, 06:17:56 pm
U2: Best of 1980-1990
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Post by: alan on 25 January, 2009, 07:20:57 pm
Bon Jovi : Crossroad
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Post by: alan on 25 January, 2009, 09:07:36 pm
The Pretenders : Greatest Hits
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Post by: clarion on 25 January, 2009, 09:08:58 pm
Slim Gaillard.
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Post by: Marco Stefano on 25 January, 2009, 09:37:20 pm
Slim Gaillard.

"Cement Mixer, Putty Putty..."     ;D
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Post by: clarion on 25 January, 2009, 09:47:06 pm
Oh yus!  And Flat Foot Floogie/Floozy With The Floy-Floy. :D

There's also an amazing sequence n Youtube from Hellzapoppin', which begins with an awesome jam, and ends with some astonishing Lindyhopping.

I was privileged to meet and work with Slim.  A lovely, lovely guy, even if he was stoned off his box and talking nonsense.
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Post by: Jasper the surreal cyclist on 26 January, 2009, 10:29:49 am
Seven seconds of Love.....
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Post by: alan on 26 January, 2009, 05:53:43 pm
The Beatles : Magical Mystery Tour
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Post by: Jasper the surreal cyclist on 27 January, 2009, 09:58:22 am
Linda Thompson
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Post by: mikeitup on 27 January, 2009, 05:52:02 pm
Michael Angelo Batio: 2X Again.

It rocks!!  :thumbsup:
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Post by: PaulF on 27 January, 2009, 07:30:03 pm
Richard Thompson ~ 1000 years of popular music :)
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Post by: microphonie on 27 January, 2009, 07:32:46 pm
 Dälek  (http://www.deadverse.com/) - Absence album

I don't listen to much hip-hop but I like the non-traditional 'chainsaw sonics' on this - very 'industrial'. The lyrics seem to be much more socially aware too:

“Who trades his culture for dollars?
The fool or the scholar?
Griot? Poet? or White Collared?”
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Post by: Pneumant on 28 January, 2009, 07:52:20 pm
Bob Brozman  -  Post - Industrial Blues

Its not all heavy metal here at Pneumant towers you know  ::-). Blues tonight with the fab  Brozman & his National Steel guitar . Excellent track called 'Follow the Money' - almost written in anticipation of the current recession (sorry I meant credit cr*nch)
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Post by: simonp on 28 January, 2009, 10:43:25 pm
Tonight by Franz Ferdinand (birthday present).
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Post by: Domestique on 29 January, 2009, 06:27:15 pm
All that you can leave behind - U2

Beautiful Day really is a great song
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Post by: Tourist Tony on 29 January, 2009, 11:27:26 pm
Mazzy Star--"Among my Swan"
Almost forgotten what a great album it is, and how sexy Hope Sandoval's voice is
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Post by: Jasper the surreal cyclist on 30 January, 2009, 12:49:08 pm
Groooooooooooooooooooooooooove Armada....
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Post by: pcolbeck on 30 January, 2009, 09:34:40 pm
No Little Boy - John Martyn

It's making me a bit sad.
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Post by: clarion on 31 January, 2009, 09:26:06 pm
Well, earlier, in the car to go walking in Surrey:

Green Day - American Idiot.

Superstoker's choice, and I think rather good.

We both enjoyed reflecting that the original American Idiot has gone. :)
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Post by: nicknack on 01 February, 2009, 12:56:44 am
Robin Trower.

When I left to go to a gig at 7.30 this evening I was about half way through 'Bridge Of Sighs'. Mrs nicknack just kept ploughing through the Trower on the computer and at 12.55 he's still going. Only another 6 albums to go -  I didn't realize I had so much.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 01 February, 2009, 09:51:34 am
Well, earlier, in the car to go walking in Surrey:

Green Day - American Idiot.

Superstoker's choice, and I think rather good.

We both enjoyed reflecting that the original American Idiot has gone. :)
One of Master Pcolbecks favourites. I like it too. Good punky pop songs with thoughtful lyrics.
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Post by: microphonie on 01 February, 2009, 12:49:17 pm
Earlier today:
David Holmes - The Holy Pictures
Glasvegas - Glasvegas
B12 - Last Days of Silence - Remixes

Right Now:

Bass Clef - A Smile is a Curve That Straightens Most Things
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Post by: pcolbeck on 02 February, 2009, 02:30:02 pm
Beethoven - Piano Sonatas 8,14 and 23 - Daniel Barenboim
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Post by: Quisling on 02 February, 2009, 02:47:31 pm
I've just seen the new Coldplay video for "Life in Technicolor ii" with the puppet version of Coldplay.  It made me laugh out loud several times. ;D
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Post by: microphonie on 02 February, 2009, 03:02:27 pm
2ManyDJs (Soulwax) sitting in for  Rod da Bank's  (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/robdabank/) radio show:

The first hour is a mix of 420 song intros all mixed together and it's totally bonkers!
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Post by: PaulF on 02 February, 2009, 03:53:46 pm
R.E.M. ~ Live in Toronto 1983 Great live recording packaged as park of the Murmur reissue
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Post by: alan on 03 February, 2009, 11:19:53 am
Diana Ross & The Supremes : the #1's.

It's like being teleported back 40 years to when Marj & I were courting :thumbsup:
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Post by: alan on 03 February, 2009, 06:49:43 pm
Bruce Springstein Greatest Hits
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Post by: Jasper the surreal cyclist on 03 February, 2009, 07:08:58 pm
Field Music...
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Post by: alan on 03 February, 2009, 09:03:39 pm
Bon Jovi : Crossroads
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 04 February, 2009, 10:40:57 am
Forever ~ Cranes

It is impossible to make out what Alison Shaw is singing about, but this absolutely does not matter.

Note to self: CDs have been re-released.  Get thee to Nozama pronto.
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Post by: Jasper the surreal cyclist on 04 February, 2009, 01:50:23 pm
The Crane Wife...by The Decemberists.
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Post by: alan on 04 February, 2009, 02:53:34 pm
Neil Diamond : Hot August Night
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Post by: Thor on 05 February, 2009, 09:12:27 am
Emiliana Torrini - Me and Armini
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Post by: Frenchie on 06 February, 2009, 08:03:12 pm
Trivium: The Crusade.
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Post by: kyuss on 06 February, 2009, 08:12:42 pm
Monster Magnet: 'Dopes to Infinity'
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Post by: Pneumant on 07 February, 2009, 03:19:10 pm
Megadeth - Youthanasia

Poor album title - but a great CD (their best work IMO) with great melodic  songs, perfectly executed with an incredible tight  woven sound, and Dave Mustaine's vocal performance is at its peak too. The classic 'A Tout Le Monde' is here alongside 'The Killing Road', 'Youthanasia',  and 'Elysian Fields'. In truth not a duff track to be found, can be played all the way through without resort to the 'skip' button  - recommended to  those who like a capital R in their Rock :thumbsup:

 
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Post by: alan on 07 February, 2009, 07:52:10 pm
The Beatles:Rubber Soul,which will be followed by Revolver
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Post by: Deano on 07 February, 2009, 07:53:29 pm
Lots of Okkervil River.  "Don't Fall in Love With Everyone You See" is still my favourite LP, though.
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Post by: spesh on 08 February, 2009, 10:28:47 pm
Death In Vegas - Greatest Hits

Hawkwind - Epoch Eclipse

The free CD that came with this month's Classic Rock magazine - lost tracks from Thin Lizzy, UFO, 13th Floor Elevators, Rogue Male et al.

And now, The Scorpions....
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Post by: tiermat on 09 February, 2009, 09:04:37 am
Working my way through 8G of MP3s on my new headunit in the car, but seem to be loitering around Fear Factory, especially Remanufacture, then skipping to the Bonus CD from Soulfly - Soulfly.

On a bit of Metal Remix tip today :)
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Post by: Frenchie on 09 February, 2009, 09:07:33 am
Deep Purple -- Platinum collection, Disc 1
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 09 February, 2009, 12:36:07 pm
B-52's - Funplex :)
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Post by: Pneumant on 09 February, 2009, 01:38:04 pm
Allan Holdsworth:  Sand
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Post by: Analog Kid on 09 February, 2009, 04:07:13 pm
UFO megamix!!!!!

For me burfdae I was gived the remastered:-

"No Place To Run"
"The Wild, The Willing & The Innocent"
"Mechanix"

The Tonka Chapman period UFO was a really good one.
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Post by: alan on 09 February, 2009, 07:34:34 pm
Black Magic Woman :  (early as in Peter Green era) Fleetwood Mac
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Post by: Frenchie on 10 February, 2009, 06:19:44 pm
Volkerball by Rammstein
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Post by: alan on 10 February, 2009, 10:13:14 pm
Thin Lizzy:Greatest Hits
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Post by: Frenchie on 11 February, 2009, 09:11:01 am
6-Radio, the Bruce Dickinson show...
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Post by: Jasper the surreal cyclist on 11 February, 2009, 07:22:07 pm
The voices in my head, they are telling me to kill................
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Post by: nicknack on 11 February, 2009, 07:49:39 pm
Closer - Joy Division
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Post by: nicknack on 11 February, 2009, 08:49:20 pm
When An Old Cricketer Leaves The Crease - Roy Harper (always brings a tear or two to my eyes  :'( )

followed by (to lighten the mood!)

A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers - Van Der Graaf Generator
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Post by: Jasper the surreal cyclist on 12 February, 2009, 02:09:28 pm
Play Ska............The Skatalites.
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Post by: annie on 12 February, 2009, 05:08:50 pm
Bob Dylan
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Post by: Frenchie on 13 February, 2009, 08:11:28 am
More Rammstein.
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Post by: Chris S on 16 February, 2009, 12:25:11 pm
Lamb lies down on Broadway - Genesis
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Post by: spesh on 16 February, 2009, 09:36:58 pm
Pretty Hate Machine - Nine Inch Nails
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Post by: Aidan on 16 February, 2009, 09:38:29 pm
Morrissey - Years of refusal
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Post by: rogerzilla on 16 February, 2009, 09:44:09 pm
A selection of Bluetones songs on the laptop.  Very clever songwriting; makes "Wish You Were Here" seem embarrassingly facile.  The fourth album sucks though.
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Post by: Quisling on 18 February, 2009, 12:29:30 am
Various stuff on Youtube:
Pretty Paracetamol  by Fisher Z
Rock and Roll Queen by The Subways
Pretend were dead - L7
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Post by: Si on 18 February, 2009, 09:59:30 am
Cage The Elephant.
A band I'd never heard of before I caught about 10 seconds of one of their tracks on TV the other day.  Thought I'd take a chance.  Well worth it...sort of like an edgier version of the 80's paisley underground American guitar bands - long ryders, green-on-red, etc
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Post by: bikenerd on 18 February, 2009, 10:43:33 am
The National - Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers
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Post by: PaulF on 18 February, 2009, 10:45:05 am
In the Fishtank ~ Low and Dirty Three
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Post by: alan on 18 February, 2009, 08:07:43 pm
Black Magic Woman :  (early as in Peter Green era) Fleetwood Mac

This again.
It still sounds good 42 years on 8)
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Post by: Jasper the surreal cyclist on 19 February, 2009, 09:52:51 am
Beulah. The coast is never clear.....
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Post by: Domestique on 19 February, 2009, 05:09:26 pm
The Cardigans - Gran Turismo
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Post by: Jasper the surreal cyclist on 19 February, 2009, 05:25:54 pm
Good thinking, I will look that one out and play it....
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Post by: Climberruss on 19 February, 2009, 11:51:41 pm
Metalica - Death Magnetic

The best thing they have done since Black.

THey are touring next couple of weeks, going to see them in Nottingham and Sheffield...Bring it on!!!! :thumbsup:
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Post by: alan on 22 February, 2009, 08:12:24 pm
Sultans of Swing: The Very Best of Dire Straits
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 24 February, 2009, 11:03:23 am
13 Blues For Thirteen Moons ~ Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band

More of the same - terrible singing and Godspeed-stylee guitar & strings - and none the worse for it.
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Post by: alan on 25 February, 2009, 06:21:35 pm
"Ode To Joy" played on a clarinet by my grand-daughter.
Absolutely magic ;D
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Post by: Frenchie on 25 February, 2009, 06:26:50 pm
Volkerball -- Rammstein
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Post by: Biggsy on 25 February, 2009, 07:39:30 pm
Just heard and instantly fell in love with Sad Day for Puppets on the radio.  They've been around for a couple of years, but they're new to me.

Klicktrack previews (http://www.klicktrack.com/klicktrack/releases/sad-day-for-puppets/unknown-colors/3)

YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe9b6U0Tj40)

YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YTGgu2MzVo)
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Post by: StuAff on 25 February, 2009, 10:28:16 pm
Metalica - Death Magnetic

The best thing they have done since Black.

THey are touring next couple of weeks, going to see them in Nottingham and Sheffield...Bring it on!!!! :thumbsup:
Awesome album. Listening to it for the umpteenth time. Going to the second night at the O2, end of March.
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Post by: Frenchie on 26 February, 2009, 12:44:06 pm
Metallica - Death Magnetic

I like it too.
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Post by: Dinamo on 26 February, 2009, 03:53:23 pm
Primal Scream ~ Screamadelica
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Post by: PaulF on 27 February, 2009, 07:47:14 pm
No Line on the Horizon ~ U2

Not sure but not the great "return to form" that the critics are suggesting. Jury's still out ???
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Post by: Tourist Tony on 28 February, 2009, 06:08:03 am
Lisa Ekdahl.
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Post by: spesh on 01 March, 2009, 09:09:30 pm
A bit of a mixture today...

Prodigy - "Invaders Must Die"
Tubes - "White Punks On Dope"
Soil - Redefine

Currently listening to a progressive house/trance mix by John Digweed from the Global Underground series of albums.
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Post by: Thor on 02 March, 2009, 09:23:49 am
Bike Show Podcast (http://podcasts.resonancefm.com/archives/category/shows/thebikeshow)  8)
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Post by: clarion on 02 March, 2009, 11:15:57 am
Not today, but at the weekend, I listened to ZZ Top's Deguello & Slade's Greatest Hits.

Brilliant - every one a gem*

Then yesterday, taking Superstoker back to his mum's, we were listening to some classic reggae.  :thumbsup:





* except Radio Wall of Sound
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Post by: Domestique on 02 March, 2009, 06:08:21 pm
Cage the Elephant - Aint no rest for the wicked
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Post by: Aidan on 02 March, 2009, 06:22:17 pm
Ernest Ranglin
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Post by: tonycollinet on 02 March, 2009, 09:05:56 pm
This is a very good thread to read to use together with spotify. (https://www.spotify.com)
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 03 March, 2009, 11:35:08 am
Hvarf - Heim ~ Sigur Rós
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Post by: Chris S on 03 March, 2009, 12:02:56 pm
Tyler Ramsey - A long dream about swimming across the sea
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Post by: Pneumant on 03 March, 2009, 05:42:00 pm
Def Leppard - Pyromania
The Wonder Stuff - Never Loved Elvis

A great slice of rock from 1983 with really strong assured songs, I especially like 'Photograph', 'Too Late for Love' and 'Foolin' '.

The 'Stuffies - always assured and brill live, too clever by half really, NLE is their 3rd album (1991) and has some great tracks - I like 'Play', 'Welcome to the Cheap Seats' , 'The Size of a Cow' and 'Donation'.


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Post by: Climberruss on 03 March, 2009, 09:29:57 pm
Metalica - Death Magnetic

The best thing they have done since Black.

THey are touring next couple of weeks, going to see them in Nottingham and Sheffield...Bring it on!!!! :thumbsup:
Awesome album. Listening to it for the umpteenth time. Going to the second night at the O2, end of March.

 :thumbsup:  Awsome concerts...great in Nottingham, better in Sheffield!!  ;D
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 04 March, 2009, 10:46:44 am
Manic Street Preachers
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Post by: Tourist Tony on 05 March, 2009, 12:52:54 am
AC/DC Powerage. Pure filth and sleaze.
Preceded by Beethoven's seventh, and Carmina Burana
Followed by Hawkwind 's Warrior on the Edge of Time
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm

All to a glass or two of Glenkinchie
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Post by: Tourist Tony on 05 March, 2009, 01:05:33 am
I lied. Powerage was so good I stuck Highway to Hell on afterwards.
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Post by: Chris S on 05 March, 2009, 04:12:27 pm
U2 - No line on the Horizon.

Yawwwnnn.... Heard it all before. They really should get a drummer who knows more than three rhythms...

Bono still sounds younger than his 48 years though.
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Post by: annie on 05 March, 2009, 07:33:40 pm
Noah and the Whale
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Post by: chillmoister on 05 March, 2009, 07:52:09 pm
Nick Warren - Lima - Global Underground #35

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Post by: LEE on 06 March, 2009, 08:59:46 am
This is a very good thread to read to use together with spotify. (https://www.spotify.com)

Good call, never heard of Spotify before.  Just installed it and it seems like it could get some serious use.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 06 March, 2009, 12:25:41 pm
Wings Of Joy ~ Cranes

Not a patch on Forever :(
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Post by: onb on 07 March, 2009, 04:07:19 pm
Elbow -Seldom seen kid ,I am trying to convince myself its good ,emporers clothes innit?
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Post by: PaulF on 07 March, 2009, 04:16:18 pm
Elbow -Seldom seen kid ,I am trying to convince myself its good ,emporers clothes innit?

I think that Seldom Seen Kid is brilliant but it's the only Elbow that I possess. Any recommendations for other stuff by them?
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Post by: onb on 07 March, 2009, 04:20:54 pm
Elbow -Seldom seen kid ,I am trying to convince myself its good ,emporers clothes innit?

I think that Seldom Seen Kid is brilliant but it's the only Elbow that I possess. Any recommendations for other stuff by them?

No its my first dabble ,moved on to Only by The Night -Kings of Leon which is the best Album Ive bought in years.
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Post by: Jezza on 07 March, 2009, 04:43:05 pm
U2 - The Unforgettable Fire.
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Post by: Pingu on 07 March, 2009, 05:35:19 pm
Elbow -Seldom seen kid ,I am trying to convince myself its good ,emporers clothes innit?

I think that Seldom Seen Kid is brilliant but it's the only Elbow that I possess. Any recommendations for other stuff by them?

Elbow (band) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbow_(band)#Discography)

All good  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Quisling on 07 March, 2009, 07:03:18 pm
Howling Bells whom I have just discovered.  Juanita Stein has a fantastic voice.

Airborne Toxic Event - some time after midnight :thumbsup:

X Marks Destination - by The Whip
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Post by: microphonie on 08 March, 2009, 09:36:11 am
Howling Bells whom I have just discovered.  Juanita Stein has a fantastic voice.


First album or new one? The first is great - I intended seeing them live tomorrow but left it too late: sold out  :(

The Duke Spirit are similar and also worth a listen.


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Post by: Quisling on 08 March, 2009, 02:15:28 pm
Howling Bells whom I have just discovered.  Juanita Stein has a fantastic voice.


First album or new one? The first is great - I intended seeing them live tomorrow but left it too late: sold out  :(

The Duke Spirit are similar and also worth a listen.


Radio Wars - tis v good. Must get the first one too.

I have to say I'm really loving The Whip's album - sort of New Order meets OMD meets the Psychedelic Furs.
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Post by: simonp on 09 March, 2009, 12:33:55 am
Astronomy Domine from Live in Gdansk right now, using Spotify.

I've managed to improve the sound quality alot by playing with the audio settings in Wine.  Native would be better (hint, hint).

Edit: and here's the playlist:

Spotify Resource (http://open.spotify.com/user/sproven/playlist/3RMPfb4bftnraF9c9mGWWn)
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Post by: Jasper the surreal cyclist on 09 March, 2009, 01:19:55 pm
Nightmares on Wax...
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Post by: Jezza on 09 March, 2009, 06:09:26 pm
Beethoven's piano concerto no. 2.
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Post by: Frenchie on 09 March, 2009, 08:20:25 pm
A random selection of my collection... The last song was by Dream Theater. What a band!
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Post by: Climberruss on 09 March, 2009, 11:06:36 pm
Neil Young - Keep on Rokin' in the Free World!

Haven't heard it for ages , then its on the radio twice in one day...concerts coming up perhaps?

I saw him at the Fleadh in London a couple of years back - very good. :)
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 10 March, 2009, 11:39:25 am
Amplifier.  Saw 'em at the Camden Barfly last night.  Drummer Matt Brobin is this: a maniac.
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Post by: Domestique on 10 March, 2009, 03:11:33 pm
Amy Winehouse - Frank
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Post by: Jasper the surreal cyclist on 10 March, 2009, 03:37:59 pm
Bring me the head of Phillip K Dick on i-player whilst ironing.
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Post by: Tim Hall on 10 March, 2009, 05:22:04 pm
The Blackburn Files, with Fine Time Fontaine as Stephen J Blackburn. "That's barathea that, kid".

By Ian MacMillan, Dave Sheasby and Martyn Wiley.
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Post by: Dinamo on 11 March, 2009, 03:54:22 pm
Flash Gordon ( Orginal Soundtrack ) ~ Queen
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Post by: Pneumant on 11 March, 2009, 04:45:15 pm
Liquid Tension Experiment - 1

 8)
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Post by: pcolbeck on 14 March, 2009, 04:42:33 pm
Something's Coming - Delaney Bramlett

Great arrangements, stings, choir, horns the works. Alternating between funky, gospel and rock.
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Post by: Frenchie on 14 March, 2009, 09:35:58 pm
Liquid Tension Experiment - 1

 8)

Very, very nice.
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Post by: Frenchie on 14 March, 2009, 09:36:45 pm
Trivium (while running a short while ago)
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Post by: Chris S on 16 March, 2009, 08:32:16 pm
10cc - Original Soundtrack. Hooray - I'm 15 again  ;D. Music is a kind of magic.
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Post by: groucho on 17 March, 2009, 11:02:25 am
Deaf School ......the Anthology!

" ..we use to pump the Bel Ami
  while drinking iced coke or tea.."
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Post by: David Martin on 17 March, 2009, 01:22:43 pm
U2 No line on the horizon
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Post by: alan on 17 March, 2009, 03:11:05 pm
U2 No line on the horizon

What do you reckon.Is it good,bad or indifferent?
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Post by: PaulF on 17 March, 2009, 03:44:29 pm
U2 No line on the horizon

What do you reckon.Is it good,bad or indifferent?

Indifferent I'm afraid :(
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Post by: Chris S on 17 March, 2009, 03:57:55 pm
U2 No line on the horizon

What do you reckon.Is it good,bad or indifferent?

Indifferent I'm afraid :(

Agreed. Heard it all before.
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Post by: Chris S on 17 March, 2009, 04:02:32 pm
... some rare Peter Gabriel tracks:

Jetzt komme die flut
Shosholoza
Digging in the Dirt (Extended version - Awesome!)
When you're falling (Feat: Afro Celt Sound System)
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Post by: alan on 17 March, 2009, 04:22:47 pm
U2 No line on the horizon

What do you reckon.Is it good,bad or indifferent?

Indifferent I'm afraid :(
U2 No line on the horizon

What do you reckon.Is it good,bad or indifferent?

Indifferent I'm afraid :(

Agreed. Heard it all before.

Thanks for that.
I shall not be parting with my £ then.
I'll stick with the two "Best of " albums
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Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 18 March, 2009, 10:34:11 pm
Rammstein: Dalai Lama.

They only do one thing really, but they do it well  :thumbsup:
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Post by: StuAff on 18 March, 2009, 11:48:31 pm
Rammstein: Dalai Lama.

They only do one thing really, but they do it well  :thumbsup:
Agreed that they do it well, but 'Reise Reise' & 'Rosenrot' in particular show experimentation & broadening of their sound. 'Los', for example. Roll on the next album (and tour...can't wait to get singed again!!).
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Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 19 March, 2009, 10:28:20 pm
Steely Dan: Aja.

I am still gobsmacked sometimes by this album. Over 30 years old now.

Gulp. 30 years.
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Post by: microphonie on 20 March, 2009, 06:17:06 pm

µ-Ziq - Bluff Limbo
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Post by: StuAff on 20 March, 2009, 06:26:23 pm
Last night: Gojira (excellent French metal band) live in Pompey.
Right now: Skinny Puppy, Cleanse Fold And Manipulate.
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Post by: Deano on 20 March, 2009, 08:36:42 pm
It's Eighties night.

I'm listening to an early eighties "alternative" compilation.  A bit before my time, very reminiscent of the sounds coming from my elder sister's stereo :thumbsup:
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Post by: Deano on 20 March, 2009, 08:51:06 pm
Hmm, "Life's what you make it" - Talk Talk.  Decent tune, but it seemed to be on a permanent loop on the local radio station in the late eighties.
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Post by: Pneumant on 21 March, 2009, 07:38:12 am
Hmm, "Life's what you make it" - Talk Talk.  Decent tune, but it seemed to be on a permanent loop on the local radio station in the late eighties.

Yes but it is a great song which still has bite 23 years later,   you should listen to the album it came off  'The Colour of Spring' - a superb record. Mind you the army of supporting musicians made it happen - Morris Peart & Steve Winwood amongst them.
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Post by: Pneumant on 21 March, 2009, 07:43:33 am
Liquid Tension Experiment - 1

 8)

Very, very nice.

A piece of work that whisks me away every time  :thumbsup: Outstanding playing - particularly Tony Levin  whose bass sound is awesome.
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Post by: Gus on 21 March, 2009, 09:32:03 am

KMFDM ~ Tohuvabohu
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Post by: Tourist Tony on 21 March, 2009, 09:29:26 pm
Another Oysterband evening, mixed with some Fairport, and topped off with Lisa Knapp
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Post by: Tourist Tony on 22 March, 2009, 01:08:56 am
...and now Lucinda Williams....
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Post by: Pneumant on 22 March, 2009, 06:40:25 pm
The Black Crowes - Shake Your Money Maker

Brilliant post work music  :)
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Post by: Chris S on 24 March, 2009, 11:49:01 am
Henry Priestman - The chronicles of modern life
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Post by: alan on 25 March, 2009, 07:05:02 pm
Thin Lizzy ;Greatest Hits
currently have Whisky In The Jar on repeat
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Post by: Dave on 25 March, 2009, 07:16:35 pm
Mike Harding Folk Show on R2.
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Post by: Pneumant on 26 March, 2009, 04:29:17 pm
John McLaughlin Trio - Live at The Royal Festival Hall November 27, 1989.
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Post by: microphonie on 26 March, 2009, 06:21:41 pm
Future Sound of London's A-Z of Psychedelia on  Rob da Bank's  (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/robdabank/) radio show.

Loads of highly amusing 'way out, man' stuff/bollocks being spouted between tracks too (loads of highly significant government buildings are built on ley lines, apparently!)

 ;D

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Post by: Tourist Tony on 27 March, 2009, 10:32:03 pm
Kathryn Tickell, lots of. Such pure beauty in her playing, composition......why not a bigger audience? This is what music is about, warm, melodic, virtuoso playing, stuff you just want to dance, sway, foot tap, sing tonelessly to. Power to her bellows!
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Post by: Thor on 28 March, 2009, 01:17:43 pm
Mighty Rearranger - Robert Plant

Not my usual sort of thing.  Not Zeppelin.  Not bad.
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Post by: bottlemasher on 28 March, 2009, 03:12:00 pm
The Ting Tings

We started nothing
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Post by: Quisling on 28 March, 2009, 06:54:20 pm
Exits, by The Boxer Rebellion.

not a bad track on the album, and yours for < a fiver on iTunes at the moment.
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Post by: Pneumant on 29 March, 2009, 07:40:00 am
Mighty Rearranger - Robert Plant

Not my usual sort of thing.  Not Zeppelin.  Not bad.

I've got this too and foolishly believed the hype when released! Not bad sums it up perfectly, I think Plant's vocals actually spoil the record, a mellower, fuller vocalist would have been so much better.
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Post by: Tourist Tony on 29 March, 2009, 12:57:39 pm
Eric Bogle, "Colour of Dreams". A man who so, so easily brings my tears.
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Post by: LEL on 29 March, 2009, 02:41:01 pm
Polbain to Oranmore

folk music fans might have heard of it.
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Post by: Pneumant on 01 April, 2009, 04:09:38 pm
Marillion - Marbles

Superb uplifting music, superlative guitar work on the song 'Neverland', recorded in Buckinghamshire too  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Jaded on 01 April, 2009, 06:20:17 pm
Polbain to Oranmore

folk music fans might have heard of it.

Hmm, is that Polbain, Achiltibuie?
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Post by: pcolbeck on 01 April, 2009, 10:36:42 pm
Jazz. Mainly Miles and Mingus.
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Post by: Tourist Tony on 02 April, 2009, 12:16:05 am
I am sticking with my current trend, words written and sung by people who care about people. More Eric Bogle, Oysterband, Leon Rosselson....
Just in a phase of wanting to hear people sing who are people that can love.
Not too much to ask?
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Post by: bikenerd on 03 April, 2009, 03:17:20 pm
Ministry - Rio Grande Blood
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Post by: spesh on 06 April, 2009, 10:59:36 pm
Alannah Myles - Rocking Horse
Rush - Retrospective III
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Post by: StuAff on 06 April, 2009, 11:15:41 pm
Ministry - Rio Grande Blood
Good stuff..can't wait for the new live DVD!
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Post by: Wascally Weasel on 07 April, 2009, 03:26:09 pm
The 25th year anniversary three disc version of the Blade Runner Soundtrack.
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Post by: bikenerd on 09 April, 2009, 04:14:16 pm
Throwing Muses : Hunka Papa

I think I'm getting old: this CD is twenty years old! :(
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Post by: hubner on 09 April, 2009, 04:51:55 pm
My current playlist:  :)

AC/DC - Highway to Hell (1979)
Al Ferrier - Hey Baby
Ash - Folk Song
Ash - Jesus Says (Live)
Ash - Petrol
Ash - Petrol
Ash - Petrol (Glastonbury 23-6-1995)
Ash - Starcrossed
Ash - Submission
Ash - Uncle Pat
Beulah - Sunday Under Glass
Billy Ward & Dominos - These Foolish Things
Blancmange - Living on the Ceiling
Blink 182 - Reebok Commercial
Blondie - Heart of Glass
Blue Sky Boys - Kentucky
Bob Luman - Blue Days, Black Nights
Bobby Vinton - Blue Velvet
Buddy Holly - Blue Days, Black Nights (26 Jan 1956)
Buddy Holly - Raining in My Heart (stereo) (21 Oct 1958)
Buddy Holly - That's My Desire (take 1) (25 Jan 1958)
Buddy Holly - Words of Love (12 Mar 1957)
Buddy Holly - Words of Love (8 Apr 1957)
Buzzcocks - - Everybody's Happy Nowadays-
Carl Perkins - Lonely Street
Carl Perkins - Sweethearts or Strangers (1956)
Chantels - I Love You So
Charlie Feathers - Bottle to the Baby (King alternate)
Charlie Feathers - Stutterin' Cindy
Charlie Feathers - Wedding Gown of White (alternate)
Charlie Feathers with Jody & Jerry - Get with it
Charlie Poole - Sunset March
Charlie Walker - Pick Me Up on Your Way Down
Chuck Berry - Around And Around (1958)
Chuck Berry - Reelin' And Rockin' (1958)
Concretes, The - A Way of Life
Connie Francis - Stupid Cupid
Conway Twitty - It's Only Make Believe
Countrymen - So This Is How It Feels,1965
Cream - Sunshine of Your Love
Cream - Sunshine of Your Love (BBC Sessions 1967)
Cream - Sunshine of Your Love (Live, 1968)
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Green River
Crystals, The - He's a Rebel
Cure - In Between Days, Move Music Fes Manc 17-7-04
D.L. Menard - The Water Pump
Damned, The - Smash It Up
Damned, The - Smash It Up (Part 2)
David Garrick - So Much Love (1966)
Deerhoof - Flower
Deerhoof - Holy Night Fever
Del Shannon - Keep Searchin'
Del Shannon - Out of time
Del Shannon - Runaway '67
Del Shannon - Under My Thumb
Depeche Mode - Just Can't Get Enough
Dewey Balfa, Marc Savoy & D.L. Menard - J'ai Passé Devant Ta Porte (I Passed In Front Of Your Door)
Dinosaur Jr - Feel The Pain
Dinosaur Jr - Keep the Glove (Mar 1989)
Dion & the Belmonts - Lonely Teenager
Dion & the Belmonts - Love Came To Me
Dionne Warwick - Close To You
Donays, The - Devil in His Heart
Dorothy Moore - Misty Blue (1975)
Dusty Springfield - So Much Love
Echo & The Bunnymen - Bring on the Dancing Horses
Echo & The Bunnymen - Stars are Stars
Eddie Cochran - Slow Down
Eddy Arnold - Make the World Go Away
Edsels - Rama Lama Ding Dong
Elvis Presley - Kentucky Rain
Elvis Presley - Mystery Train
Elvis Presley - True Love Travels on a Gravel Road
Everly Brothers - ('Till) I Kissed You
Four Aces - Love is a Many Splendored Thing
Galaxie 500 - Blue Thunder [John Peel Show, 24th September 1989]
Galaxie 500 - Here She Comes Now
Galaxie 500 - Submission (Sex Pistols) [John Peel Show, 30th October 1990]
Galaxie 500 - Tell Me
Galaxie 500 - When Will You Come Home [John Peel Show, 30th October 1990]
Gene Chandler - Duke of Earl
Gene Terry and The Downbeats - Cindy Lou
Georgio Moroder & Phil Oakly - Together in Electric Dreams
Go! Team, The - Friendship Update
Hank Mizell - Jungle Rock
Jack Earls - Slow Down
Jam, The - Art School (In The City,1977)
Jam, The - Non-Stop Dancing (In The City,1977)
Jam, The - Slow Down (In The City,1977)
Jam, The - Sounds From the Street (In The City,1977)
Jerry Lee Lewis - Hand Me Down My Walking Cane
Johnny Cash - Leave that Junk Alone (Demo)
Joseph Szigeti - Clair de Lune (compressed)
Kinks - Sunny Afternoon
Kraftwerk - Neon Lights
Kraftwerk - The Model
Larry Hart - You are the Only One
Led Zepplin - Kashmir
Leon Payne - It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels
Leon Payne - Let's Turn Back the Years
Leon Payne - Sweethearts or Strangers
Li Huangjia (dizi), Liu Ying (erhu) - gū sū xíng  姑苏行
Lionel Prevost - Flim Flam
Liu Ying (gaohu) - yú zhōu chàng wǎn .渔舟唱晚
Lonesome Drifter, The - Teardrop Valley
Long John Baldry - Man Without A Dream,1966
Louvin Brothers, The  - Alabama
Louvin Brothers, The  - Kentucky
Mac Curtis - Grandaddy's Rockin'
Mac Curtis - Half Hearted Love
Maddox Brothers & Rose - Careless Driver
Madness - In the Middle of the Night
Mar-Keys - Last Night
Martha and the Vandellas - (Love is Like a) Heatwave
Marvin Gaye - How Sweet it is (to Be Loved by You)
Marvin Gaye - Stubborn Kind of Fellow
Matt Monro - On Days Like These
Maurice Williams And The Zodiacs - Stay
McCoys, The  - Hang on Sloopy
Miracles, The - Shop Around
Mitty Collier - I Had a Talk With My Man
Motorcycle Boy - Big Rock Candy Mountain
Motorhead - Ace of Spades
Muddy Waters - Got my mojo workin (1957)
Mudhoney - By Her Own Hand
Mudhoney - In & Out of Grace
Mudhoney - In 'n' Out Of Grace (Demo)
Mudhoney - Sweet Young Thing
Neil Young - Slip Away
Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Like a Hurricane
Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Slip Away
New Order - Blue Monday
New York Dolls - Subway Train
Nirvana - Sliver
Number One Cup - Waiting on the Lions (Radio 1)
O M D - Enola Gay
O.V. Wright - That's How Strong My Love Is
Ottowan - D I S C O
Patsy Cline - Lonely Street
Patsy Cline - Pick Me Up on Your Way Down
Pavement - Shady Lane
Percy Faith & His Orchestra - Theme From 'A Summer Place' (1960)
Percy Sledge - Out of Left Field
Pixes - Hey
Pixies - Hey
Pixies, The - Hey
Primitives, The - Thru' the Flowers
Queen & David Bowie - Under Pressure
Rage Against The Machine - Wake Up
Ramones - Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue (Demo)
Ramones - Surfin' Bird
Ramrods, The - (Ghost) Riders in the Sky
Ray Smith - Forever Yours (previously unreleased)
Ronnie Spector - You Can't Put Your Arms Around A Memory
Rosie & The Originals - Angel Baby
Roy Orbison - Running Scared
Rudy 'Tutti' Grayzell - Ducktail
Shěn Fèngquán 沈凤泉 & Shěn Duōmǐ 沈多米 - màn sān liù  慢三六 (2 erhu solo) Slow Three Six
Shigeru Umebayashi, composer - 2046 (2004) End Theme
Shocking Blue - Venus
Smiths - Is It Really So Strange
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - The Tracks of My Tears
Sòng Fēi  宋飞 - tán yuè 弹乐 (music of pingtan) CCTV3 (youtube video)
Sòng Fēi 宋飞 & Jiāng Kèměi  姜克美 (èrhú 二胡) - màn sān liù  慢三六 (2 erhu solo, slow three six)
Sonics, The - Have Love, Will Travel
Sonics, The - Let the Good Times Roll
Sonny Till & The Orioles - Crying in the Chapel
Spacemen 3 - Come Down Easy
Spacemen 3 - Lord Can You Hear Me
Spizzenergi - Where's Captain Kirk?
Sportique - The Kids are Solid Gold
St Ettienne - Nothing Can Stop Us
Stiff Little Fingers - Alternative Ulster
Strokes - Take It or Leave It
Suzhou Mus Instrument Factory No 1 Ensemble - zǐ zhú diào (1983) Purple Bamboo
Suzhou Opera Troupe - xíng jiē (1983) Walking Along a Street
Talulah Gosh - Talulah Gosh
Teenage Fanclub - Ain't That Enough
Ten Pole Tudor - Swords of a Thousand men
The Chordettes - Mr Sandman
The Flamingos - I Only Have Eyes for You
Tiffany - I Think We're Alone Now
Timmy Thomas - Why Can't We Live Together
Tomoyasu Hotei - Battle Without Honor or Humanity
unknown - xíng jiē 行街 (walking in street), 风华国乐 720HD 视频, 行街 (江南丝竹)
Velvet Underground - Here She Comes Now
Velvet Underground - Pale Blue Eyes
Velvet Underground - Sunday Morning
Velvettes - Needle in a Haystack
Vernon Taylor - Mystery Train
Wedding Present - Take Me!
Werly Fairburn - Everybody's Rockin'
Who, The - Heatwave
Who, The - So Sad About Us
Who, The - Substitute
Who, The - Under My Thumb
William Bell - Do Right Woman, Do Right Man
William Bell - I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now)
Wilson Pickett - Sugar, Sugar
Wilson Pickett - You Keep Me Hangin' On
Yú Qíwěi  余其伟 - yú zhōu chàng wǎn .渔舟唱晚 Fisherman's song at dusk
Zhào Hányáng  赵寒阳 - bìng zhōng yín 病中吟 Groaning in Sickness
Zhào Hányáng  赵寒阳 - sān bǎo fó  三宝佛 Buddha of San-Bao
Zhào Hányáng  赵寒阳 - xūn fēng qǔ 薰风曲 (erhu piece) Song of the Warm Southerly Breeze
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Post by: IanDG on 11 April, 2009, 12:39:53 am
The Answer - Everyday Demons (their recently released CD)  :thumbsup:
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Post by: rogerzilla on 13 April, 2009, 07:42:52 pm
The rather marvellous "Blockheads", where Ian Dury anticipated chav culture by 25 years.

Quote
You must have seen parties of Blockheads
With blotched and lagered skin
Blockheads with food particles in their teeth
What a horrible state they're in

They've got womanly breasts under pale mauve vests
Shoes like dead pigs' noses
Cornflake packet jacket, catalogue trousers
A mouth what never closes

You must have seen Blockheads in raucous teams
Dressed up after work
Who screw their poor old Eileens
Get sloshed and go berserk

Rotary accessory watches
Hire-purchase signet rings
A beauty to the bully boys
No lonely vestige clings

Why bother at all about Blockheads?
Why shouldn't they do as they please?
You know if it came to a brainy game
You could baffle a Blockhead with ease

How would you like one puffing and blowing in your ear-hole?
Or pissing in your swimming pool?

Bigger brained Blockheads often acquire
Black and orange cars
Premature ejaculation drivers
Their soft-top's got roll-bars

'Fill her up,' they say to Blockheads
'Go on, stick it where it hurts'
Their shapeless haircuts don't enhance
Their ghastly patterned shirts

Why bother at all about Blockheads?
Superior as you are
You're thoughtful and kind with a well-stocked mind
A Blockhead can't think very far

Imagine finding one in your laundry basket
Banging nails in your big black dog


Why bother at all about Blockheads?
Why should you care what they do?
Cos after all is said and done
You're a Blockhead too
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Post by: spesh on 14 April, 2009, 10:15:20 pm
This weekend, I have been mostly listening to...

Diamond Head - Lightning To The Nations
Wishbone Ash - Argus
Monster Magnet - God Says No
Tangerine Dream - Phaedra
Tangerine Dream - Tangram
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Post by: microphonie on 15 April, 2009, 06:14:13 pm
 Guided Relaxation Dub  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5WxZNIpszs) and other tracks by Borgore

To quote someone on Youtube: "It's like Amazing and Awesome had a wild fuck session and this is the offspring. It's definitely an Altered State of Mind style of music"

 8)
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Post by: Chris S on 15 April, 2009, 06:58:13 pm
Music of the Spheres - Mike Oldfield
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Post by: Flying_Monkey on 16 April, 2009, 10:11:29 am
Especial by Elis Regina. I can't believe I had never come across this wonderful Brazilian vocalist until my recent trip. This is an early album from 1968, sound quality is not the best, but it is so much fun. I came back with a stack of CDs of samba, bossa nova, forro and more.
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Post by: Frenchie on 16 April, 2009, 11:15:44 am
Especial by Elis Regina. I can't believe I had never come across this wonderful Brazilian vocalist until my recent trip. This is an early album from 1968, sound quality is not the best, but it is so much fun. I came back with a stack of CDs of samba, bossa nova, forro and more.

I hope you brought some Skank, Raimundos and others too?!
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Post by: Flying_Monkey on 16 April, 2009, 09:27:09 pm
I hope you brought some Skank, Raimundos and others too?!

I'm afraid not - to me, most Brazilian rock just sounds like good imitations of European and US stuff. Skank were the best of the bunch I heard, but not worth buying...
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Post by: Frenchie on 17 April, 2009, 08:34:39 am
I hope you brought some Skank, Raimundos and others too?!

I'm afraid not - to me, most Brazilian rock just sounds like good imitations of European and US stuff. Skank were the best of the bunch I heard, but not worth buying...

Really?!  :o

I personally don't think so...

and if you stretched to include Blues and Argentina (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pappo) in your selection I can give you at least one another name who is a superb musician but relatively unknown over here!
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Post by: Flying_Monkey on 17 April, 2009, 11:05:59 am
Yeah, sorry! Maybe it's just me, but once I got to Rio and the whole vibrant samba and forro street-music scene that still exists, I started to be a lot less interested in the rock stuff.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 17 April, 2009, 10:21:18 pm
There's some good Columbian music. I particularly like Aterciopelados.
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Post by: Bluebottle on 19 April, 2009, 07:59:27 pm
Currently, tis The Mountain Goats - We Shall All Be Healed.

"Martin calls to say he's sending old electrical equipment
That's good we can always use some more electrical equipment"

Lovely.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 20 April, 2009, 09:15:46 pm
The Very Best Of Roy Orbison.  Somehow he does emotion without being cheesy.

Why is it that U2's best songs are the ones they wrote for other people?  There's Roy doing "She's A Mystery To Me", and Johnny Cash's "The Wanderer".  Maybe it's because Bono sings like a dog howling at the moon and The Edge doesn't really play guitar.
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Post by: Climberruss on 21 April, 2009, 10:53:57 pm
Death Magnetic - Metallica

Great album - best stuff they've done for years.
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Post by: Spinners on 22 April, 2009, 06:54:38 am
The Very Best Of Roy Orbison. 

Ditto. There was a cracking little documentary about him on TV about 3 weeks ago and I went out and bought this.
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Post by: Frenchie on 22 April, 2009, 09:01:59 am
After the latest Metallica, the latest Satch... Excellent!
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Post by: Quisling on 22 April, 2009, 11:13:32 pm
Valravn, a Danish/Faroese/Swiss-Ecuadorian folk/rock/punk/electronica band.

Check them out on youtube, find out more at Valravn (http://www.valravn.net) or
   Valravn on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Videos
 (http://www.myspace.com/valravn)

Jolly exciting stuff. Think "Sugarcubes with folk elements".

and the singer is hot ::-)
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Post by: microphonie on 23 April, 2009, 05:20:35 pm
Downloaded last night:

 Kora! Kora! Kora! - The Cabaret Voltaire Versions  (http://www.amplifier.co.nz/release/45120/kora-kora-kora-the-cabaret-voltaire-versions.html?play=45145#item45145)

Basically, Richard H. Kirk of CV remixes tracks by the New Zealand dub-rock band Kora.

's good so far  8)
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Post by: Quisling on 30 April, 2009, 12:04:22 am
This version of "Daniel" by Bat for Lashes.  Soooo much better than the over produced single.
YouTube - Bat for Lashes - &quot;Daniel&quot; E4 Fresh Saturday (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1j6VKzH9wI)
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Post by: Tewdric on 30 April, 2009, 03:35:01 pm
My latest ebay accident arrived today.  A direct cut all-analogue 180g vinyl audiophile pressing of Black Sabbath -  Paranoid.

The linn poweramp hasn't had such a good work-out in ages!

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Post by: Moloko on 30 April, 2009, 03:39:38 pm
After each 'light shower' here, the blackbirds burst back into song.
So I'm radio free and listening to real bird song.
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Post by: Frenchie on 01 May, 2009, 03:09:05 pm
Joe Bonamassa -- The Ballad of John Henry
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Post by: PaulF on 01 May, 2009, 03:32:18 pm
Calexico ~ Feast of Wire
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Post by: Gus on 05 May, 2009, 06:02:50 pm

Cradle of Filth ~ Nymphetamine
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Post by: Thor on 06 May, 2009, 09:15:08 am
Night Time - Killing Joke

rather sets one up for the day...
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Post by: StuAff on 06 May, 2009, 01:44:07 pm
Night Time - Killing Joke

rather sets one up for the day...
Not listening to them now, but will tonight, live :)
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Post by: spesh on 06 May, 2009, 10:27:22 pm
On A Storyteller's Night - Magnum

Pomp rocker, and proud...  8)

The Best of Budgie

Seriously heavy riffing, and wonderfully idiosyncratic song titles.  :D
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Post by: Frenchie on 07 May, 2009, 08:41:11 am
Joe Bonamassa -- The Ballad of John Henry

Some more of that...
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Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 12 May, 2009, 07:28:30 pm
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005LNGW (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005LNGW)

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41HH17RNHBL._SS500_.jpg)

Used to have this on vinyl, way back when, and practically wore it out in various smoke filled student pads. Still a great album  :)
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Post by: Thor on 13 May, 2009, 10:49:42 am
Night Time - Killing Joke

rather sets one up for the day...
Not listening to them now, but will tonight, live :)

Missed this.  How was it?!
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Post by: Flying_Monkey on 13 May, 2009, 11:12:49 am
New Super Furry Animals one... it's nice enough but they haven't really done anything with any proper songs on it since Phantom Power, they are just coasting on a pleasant psychedelic haze..
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Post by: StuAff on 13 May, 2009, 11:56:33 pm
Night Time - Killing Joke

rather sets one up for the day...
Not listening to them now, but will tonight, live :)

Missed this.  How was it?!
Damn good (as all the shows I've seen), though the set was a bit too short for my taste (only 90 mins- the displayed set time was 8.30-10.30, but they were off at 10.10). As with last year's gigs, the emphasis firmly on old stuff, this time nothing from the 2003 album or Hosannas.
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Post by: StuAff on 13 May, 2009, 11:58:33 pm
And guess what I'm listening to now? By coincidence, Killing Joke 'The Gathering 2008' (both gigs from London last year, actually listening to the second night, when I went).
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Post by: Frenchie on 14 May, 2009, 08:40:57 am
Joe Bonamassa -- Live from nowhere in particular
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Post by: Flying_Monkey on 14 May, 2009, 02:06:50 pm
Cradle of Filth ~ Nymphetamine

There was (or perhaps is) a north-east tribute band to Cradle of Filth called 'Cot o'shite'  ;D
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Post by: woollypigs on 16 May, 2009, 08:34:14 pm
Elvis - A big hunk o' love
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Post by: Pneumant on 17 May, 2009, 04:27:33 pm
Thanks Frenchie, have pulled Sloe Gin out , Bonamassa rocks!

Joe Bonamassa - Sloe Gin
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Post by: valkyrie on 17 May, 2009, 07:58:20 pm
Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career - just lovely.
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Post by: Aidan on 17 May, 2009, 08:16:07 pm
21st century breakdown - Greendays new one, on first listen it's not bad

Manics new one up next :thumbsup:
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Post by: woollypigs on 20 May, 2009, 07:08:59 pm
Happy Birthday - Victor Borge
Birthday - The Beatles
Happy Birthday - Stevie Wonder
Birthday - Sugarcubes

And my all time favorite birthday song ...

Happy Birthday - Altered Images
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Post by: PaulF on 20 May, 2009, 07:21:17 pm
Happy Birthday - Victor Borge
Birthday - The Beatles
Happy Birthday - Stevie Wonder
Birthday - Sugarcubes

And my all time favorite birthday song ...

Happy Birthday - Altered Images

Is it someone's birthday today ??? You really should have told us :)
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Post by: Frenchie on 20 May, 2009, 07:51:11 pm
Thanks Frenchie, have pulled Sloe Gin out , Bonamassa rocks!

Joe Bonamassa - Sloe Gin

He really does... And he started young too (check on YouTube).

Right now listening to Dragonforce, Inhuman Rampage
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Post by: Bluebottle on 20 May, 2009, 08:18:45 pm
Steve Earle - Townes.

Sounds good so far.
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Post by: spesh on 20 May, 2009, 11:26:05 pm
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine

I can't believe this album was released 20 years ago.
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Post by: StuAff on 20 May, 2009, 11:44:22 pm
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine

I can't believe this album was released 20 years ago.

You're making me feel old- first heard it in '91! Classic........
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Post by: Flying_Monkey on 23 May, 2009, 03:02:41 pm
I have just discovered The Wave Pictures... and their new album, Instant Coffee Baby is excellent. It reminds me a little of Violent Femmes, Beat Happening and a little bit of Clap Your Hands, Say Yeah. Acerbic, observational, funny-sad songs of slacker lo-fi love.

Incidentally, this is what record shops are for - if I hadn't happened to have heard them in RPM in Newcastle, I never would have thought of buying this record. Facebook, MySpace etc. just keep you in a comfort zone...
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Post by: Deano on 24 May, 2009, 01:33:34 pm
I used to love RPM records.  Good to hear it's still there.

Current listening is Bwyd Time by Gorky's Zygotic Mynci.
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Post by: spesh on 24 May, 2009, 09:24:49 pm
Shinedown - The Sound Of Madness
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Post by: Quisling on 24 May, 2009, 11:18:29 pm
Jeff Wayne's The War of the Worlds.  I haven't heard that in 20 years or more.

Oooolaaaah!!! ;D
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Post by: PaulF on 24 May, 2009, 11:57:29 pm
Veckatimest ~ Grizzly Bear

Lush
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Post by: Flying_Monkey on 25 May, 2009, 10:57:00 am
I used to love RPM records.  Good to hear it's still there.

Current listening is Bwyd Time by Gorky's Zygotic Mynci.

I used to love that album...

RPM certainly still exists, but it has moved somewhere that you would never find by accident now... it is off High Bridge Street in Old George Yard opposite Attica, which may well be the coolest vintage clothing shop in the country.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 25 May, 2009, 07:35:22 pm
Prompted by a conversation at work last week, I'm playing the entire Furniture back catalogue.

Gosh.

Modern music really is shite, isn't it?  There's just no-one around who can do stuff like that any more.
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Post by: Flying_Monkey on 25 May, 2009, 08:53:36 pm
Modern music really is shite, isn't it?  There's just no-one around who can do stuff like that any more.

I don't understand people who say this. There is a greater variety of more interesting and adventurous music around now than ever before, and you have more ways of accessing it - maybe not in 'the charts' or in the mainstream but when was that ever the case? At the same time, the back catalogue of the entire musical history of the world is also more accessible than ever.

You've never had it so good!
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Post by: rogerzilla on 25 May, 2009, 09:01:05 pm
All I hear is warmed-up 60s/70s pop being hailed as cutting edge, and formulaic ballad pap like the stuff from The X-Factor  :sick:
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Post by: Flying_Monkey on 26 May, 2009, 09:28:08 am
All I hear is warmed-up 60s/70s pop being hailed as cutting edge, and formulaic ballad pap like the stuff from The X-Factor  :sick:

Maybe you should stop listening to Radio 1 then! There's a whole world of music out there, and it only takes a minimal effort to find new things...
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Post by: Domestique on 26 May, 2009, 02:43:56 pm
Out There And Back - Paul van Dyk  8)
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Post by: Really Ancien on 26 May, 2009, 07:14:07 pm


Modern music really is shite, isn't it?  There's just no-one around who can do stuff like that any more.

You're just mature, thats all. Seeking novelty is a juvenile characteristic, it's your place to judge everything in the light of what you already know. Accept your destiny, and revel in your liberation from the tyranny of the new.
We are living in a golden age, you can't go wrong with Radcliffe and Maconie and the stuff on BBC4.
But Furniture though? You must be out of your brilliant mind.

Damon.
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Post by: Thor on 29 May, 2009, 09:17:26 am
The new Simple Minds album - Graffiti Soul.  They lost it somewhere around Sparkle in the Rain.  I don't think they've found it again yet.  :-\
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Post by: Chris S on 29 May, 2009, 10:11:10 am
Passion - Peter Gabriel.
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Post by: Bluebottle on 30 May, 2009, 08:52:07 pm
Through the wonder of the æther, I is listening to the last matches of the French football season.  All to play for- the title, European places, relegation.  C'est l'heure du cul grinçant.
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Post by: Gus on 30 May, 2009, 08:52:22 pm
Laibach - Opus Dei
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Post by: nicknack on 31 May, 2009, 01:44:21 pm
Einstuerzende Neubauten.

I'd forgotten what a thoroughly excellent bunch they are. Great stuff!
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Post by: simonp on 31 May, 2009, 08:03:06 pm
Broken Boy Soldiers by The Raconteurs.
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Post by: PaulF on 01 June, 2009, 12:21:02 am
Roadsinger ~ Yusuf (the artist formerly known as Cat Stevens :)) A surprising return to form. Relly growing.
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Post by: simonp on 02 June, 2009, 08:41:09 pm
Black Horse And The Cherry Tree - KT Tunstall
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Post by: Quisling on 02 June, 2009, 10:50:33 pm
a bit of Ladytron, and a bit of the excellent Valravn
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Post by: PeterM on 02 June, 2009, 11:18:20 pm
Beirut
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Post by: Domestique on 08 June, 2009, 10:03:06 am
The Libertines - Time for Heroes

'What a Waster' 
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Post by: Thor on 08 June, 2009, 10:54:47 am
Dead Can Dance
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Post by: StuAff on 09 June, 2009, 11:34:11 pm
Tonight, Kodo- just bought a download, after seeing them live in London Sunday night. Truly amazing show, had wanted to see them for years and very glad I finally did.
Tomorrow, Faith No More at Brixton Academy. Yaaaaay!
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Post by: PaulF on 10 June, 2009, 12:10:57 am
Tom Waits, on shuffle. What a range that man has!
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Post by: Chris S on 10 June, 2009, 02:34:25 pm
Pink Floyd - Obscured by Clouds

Because the sky currently is... :(
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Post by: Gus on 12 June, 2009, 01:03:18 pm

Alestorm ~ Black sails at midnight
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Post by: Tourist Tony on 13 June, 2009, 04:34:08 am
A mixture on my hard drive of Sigur Ros, Tri Yann (Kan ar Kann) and at this precise moment a song by the Groundhogs all about a toilet roll.
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Post by: Cunobelin on 13 June, 2009, 12:51:25 pm

Alestorm ~ Black sails at midnight


You have just cost me money!


They are excellent.


In some ways reminds me of a heavier version of "The Morrigan"

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Post by: Frenchie on 13 June, 2009, 01:50:36 pm
Live from nowhere in particular -- Joe Bonamassa.

and then the latest Dove.
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Post by: Flying_Monkey on 13 June, 2009, 04:42:30 pm
Gal & Caetano Veloso - Domingo. Just lovely.
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Post by: oncemore on 16 June, 2009, 08:35:05 pm
Doro Pesch (Warlock). Can't imagine how I've not done so before. Sadly, so sadly, I'm too old to be a groupie or else I'd follow her around the world....
I may be in love....
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Post by: spesh on 17 June, 2009, 12:55:37 am
Steve Hillage - Green
Joanne Shaw Taylor - White Sugar
Blackfoot - Marauder
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Post by: Chris S on 17 June, 2009, 09:11:31 am
My entire Beautiful South playlist.

And I'm feeling radical today - so I'm not playing it in chronological order. I know how to live. Oh yes.
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Post by: mattc on 17 June, 2009, 01:34:26 pm
Django Djanog - storm

Know nothing about them, but keep hearing the song on radio.

YouTube - Django Django - Storm (better quality) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbL3oUMsvgU)
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Post by: Flying_Monkey on 17 June, 2009, 02:05:34 pm
As I have been clearing up our house for the big move, I've been discovering all sorts of things I haven't listened to for ages.

I was listening to Dr Didg the other day and thinking, hmm... don't think I will be bothering with this again, and then a young hippy couple came round to collect some shelves and a sofa that we were freecycling and said they really liked it... so I gave them both the CDs. Synchonicity...
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Post by: Moloko on 17 June, 2009, 03:30:04 pm
Beethoven's 7th Symphony. An advert for a Xbox360 game came on the TV with the ad using the music.
Reminded me how much I liked the music, so I dug the CD out.
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Post by: Deano on 17 June, 2009, 08:44:33 pm
Sorting through a box of stuff, I found some records i hadn't listened to in years, including some which are at least as good as I remember, so listening for the next hour or two will be:

Geogaddi by Boards of Canada
Not the Tremblin' Kind by Laura Cantrell

The Billy Bragg thread reminds me that I've probably got a copy of Mermaid Avenue in there, too.

*rummages*
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Post by: Gus on 19 June, 2009, 07:36:36 pm

Got some cd's from a friend so now I'm listening to :

Pig Destroyer

and

Goatwhore

No points for guessing what kind of music it is  (http://bestsmileys.com/music1/18.gif)(http://bestsmileys.com/music1/18.gif)(http://bestsmileys.com/music1/18.gif)

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Post by: Jezza on 19 June, 2009, 10:46:46 pm
Sorting through a box of stuff, I found some records i hadn't listened to in years, including some which are at least as good as I remember, so listening for the next hour or two will be:

Geogaddi by Boards of Canada


By strange coincidence this is also what I'm listening to on the iPod at the moment.
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Post by: StuAff on 20 June, 2009, 11:58:24 am

Got some cd's from a friend so now I'm listening to :

Pig Destroyer

and

Goatwhore

No points for guessing what kind of music it is  (http://bestsmileys.com/music1/18.gif)(http://bestsmileys.com/music1/18.gif)(http://bestsmileys.com/music1/18.gif)


And there was me thinking it was ambient chillout :)
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Post by: andrewc on 20 June, 2009, 09:21:30 pm
A recent visit to Oxfam saw me leaving with LP's by The Christians, The Cocteau Twins, Oscar Peterson and 3 by Joe Jackson. All good in their different ways.

Popped into HMV to buy some Phillip Glass for Fathers Day and treated myself to Playground, one of Manu Katche's jazz excursions, very good, though poss a bit too laid back.
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Post by: Spinners on 22 June, 2009, 08:25:34 pm
'The Queen is Dead' by The Smiths
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Post by: Flying_Monkey on 23 June, 2009, 08:49:54 am

Got some cd's from a friend so now I'm listening to :

Pig Destroyer

and

Goatwhore

No points for guessing what kind of music it is  (http://bestsmileys.com/music1/18.gif)(http://bestsmileys.com/music1/18.gif)(http://bestsmileys.com/music1/18.gif)


And there was me thinking it was ambient chillout :)

Great names, but they almosst seem like they've been created by a quite simple randomizer programme: animal + sex and/or violence

I am wondering whether somewhere in the world there is a 'Goatfelcher', a 'Dolphin Fisting' or the improbable 'Mouse Bastard'...
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Post by: Domestique on 24 June, 2009, 06:21:02 pm
Talking Heads - True Stories  8)
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Post by: Frenchie on 24 June, 2009, 06:27:59 pm
Liquid Tension Exp., Vol I (eponymous album)
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Post by: Quisling on 06 July, 2009, 11:34:15 pm
Sorting through a box of stuff, I found some records i hadn't listened to in years, including some which are at least as good as I remember, so listening for the next hour or two will be:

Geogaddi by Boards of Canada


By strange coincidence this is also what I'm listening to on the iPod at the moment.

On a similar theme I am currently listening to Music for Twin Peaks Part 1 by Stars of the Lid. 
   Stars of the Lid on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Videos
 (http://www.myspace.com/starsofthelid)
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Post by: Spinners on 07 July, 2009, 07:20:54 pm
Echo & The Bunnymen - a double CD 'greatest hits' type thingie but I can't stop skipping to 'The Cutter' ;).
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Post by: alan on 07 July, 2009, 08:46:41 pm
Bon Jovi...ideal turbo music.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 08 July, 2009, 09:12:44 pm
Snuff's "Potatoes And Melons At Wholesale Prices Direct To You The Public" EP.  It's musical genius.

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Post by: LEE on 09 July, 2009, 02:40:53 pm
Mazzy Star - "Into Dust"

It's the track played on the rather superb Virgin Advert (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0m4-4xkrIY)  and I had to find out what it was.  Now I'm looping it on Spotify.

(I incorectly guessed it was the Cowboy Junkies)
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Post by: microphonie on 09 July, 2009, 06:12:50 pm
Mazzy Star - "Into Dust"

It's the track played on the rather superb Virgin Advert (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0m4-4xkrIY)  and I had to find out what it was.  Now I'm looping it on Spotify.

(I incorectly guessed it was the Cowboy Junkies)

Thanks for that - I'd been wondering what it was!  :thumbsup:

Looks like I'll be on Spotify too: it isn't available on eMusic :(

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Post by: LEE on 10 July, 2009, 09:03:35 am
Mazzy Star - "Into Dust"

It's the track played on the rather superb Virgin Advert (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0m4-4xkrIY)  and I had to find out what it was.  Now I'm looping it on Spotify.

(I incorectly guessed it was the Cowboy Junkies)

Thanks for that - I'd been wondering what it was!  :thumbsup:

Looks like I'll be on Spotify too: it isn't available on eMusic :(



Listening to their Album, "So Tonight That I Might See", today (I'm only 16 years out of touch) and I'd still have guessed it was the Cowboy Junkies.  This is a good thing but it's an album for late at night rather than friday morning.
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Post by: alan on 10 July, 2009, 08:22:35 pm
Fleetwood Mac :Greatesthits
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Post by: Spinners on 10 July, 2009, 10:51:04 pm
I'm really into HMV's '2 for £10' promotion at the moment and picked up 'Meat is Murder' by The Smiths and U2's Greatest Hits of which 'Desire' and 'Elevation' are just brilliant.
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Post by: LEE on 11 July, 2009, 12:16:43 am
I'm really into HMV's '2 for £10' promotion at the moment and picked up 'Meat is Murder' by The Smiths and U2's Greatest Hits of which 'Desire' and 'Elevation' are just brilliant.

I don't feel so bad about being only 16 years out of date now
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Post by: Spinners on 11 July, 2009, 07:47:46 am
I'm really into HMV's '2 for £10' promotion at the moment and picked up 'Meat is Murder' by The Smiths and U2's Greatest Hits of which 'Desire' and 'Elevation' are just brilliant.

I don't feel so bad about being only 16 years out of date now

Being out of date will ALWAYS be in fashion...
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Post by: Zoidburg on 11 July, 2009, 01:27:45 pm
Two Suns - Bat For Lashes

Rather Kate Bush/Tori Amos/Bjork etc etc

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Post by: alan on 11 July, 2009, 05:33:12 pm
I have just plugged myself into U2's "Best of" double album & off to the garage to fettle a Brooks Swallow onto the Langster.
I might put my aerobars on the Trek in readiness for more TT-ing
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Post by: Butterfly on 11 July, 2009, 10:57:05 pm
Les Barker - guide cats for the blind. It's brilliant. :D
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Post by: DrMekon on 11 July, 2009, 11:03:31 pm
Extricate by The Fall
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Post by: Zoidburg on 13 July, 2009, 04:19:04 pm
Love Tattoo - Imelda May

Hubba hubba :P
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Post by: alan on 13 July, 2009, 04:31:21 pm
Love Tattoo - Imelda May

Hubba hubba :P

But then again,she May not unfortunately
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Post by: alan on 16 July, 2009, 06:55:13 pm
Thin Lizzy & ZZ Top
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Post by: Aidan on 16 July, 2009, 08:35:09 pm
458489 A-sides  The Fall
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Post by: alan on 16 July, 2009, 09:03:50 pm
 & now Bon Jovi
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Post by: Chris S on 17 July, 2009, 12:13:10 pm
Split Enz - The best of Split Enz
Crowded House - Woodface
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 18 July, 2009, 11:51:30 am
Stevie Wonder's greatest hits.
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Post by: Wascally Weasel on 18 July, 2009, 11:55:37 am
The Starlets - Out into the days from here.
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Post by: microphonie on 18 July, 2009, 06:44:43 pm
 Ø -aka Mika Vainio of Pan(a)sonic - 'Oleva'  (http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=116044)

Sublime electronica from Finland.  :thumbsup:
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Post by: alan on 20 July, 2009, 08:15:49 pm
The Supremes: The #1's
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Post by: Chris S on 21 July, 2009, 08:30:45 pm
Howard Shore -  the sound tracks to all three Lord of the Rings films.

You know, if you really crank this stuff up on 5.1 Surround - it's brilliant to write code to  :thumbsup:.
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Post by: alan on 21 July, 2009, 09:18:57 pm
The Best Air Guitar ...Ever : various artists
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Post by: pcolbeck on 24 July, 2009, 02:42:13 pm
Bach B Minor Mass
Hermann Scherchen (conductor), Vienna Symphony Orchestra 1950

Restored from a vinyl copy and downloaded in Flac format. Very different from a modern interpretation but very beautiful non the less.
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Post by: PaulF on 25 July, 2009, 06:19:58 am
A Silver Mount Zion - Horses in the Sky
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Post by: David Martin on 25 July, 2009, 09:19:38 pm
The Proms. Delius, and now Holst planets suite.
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Post by: Moloko on 25 July, 2009, 09:22:40 pm

Yeah, Jupiter's sounding well jolly in 5.1.
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Post by: Quisling on 26 July, 2009, 12:29:51 am
Where it is by The Beloved - from their early pre-Happiness days when they were trying to be New Order.  I found the album as a free down load.  I'd happily have paid but I don't think it's ever been released on CD or as digital download so I'm jolly chuffed to find it.  My apologies to the artist, I'll bung Jon Marsh a fiver if he needs it.

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Post by: Flying_Monkey on 26 July, 2009, 10:02:02 am
Whatever Peter N puts up at Nevver. Designed for repeated listening. one.img + one.mp3 - Peter Nidzgorski, X818 (http://www.nevver.com) loud and on repeat.

The guy has impeccable taste in garage / psych / trash etc.
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Post by: spesh on 02 August, 2009, 11:50:36 pm
Grace And Danger - John Martyn

I'd heard the title track on Planet Rock, of all radio stations, and was curious... The obituary in the Times described him as "an electrifying guitarist and singer whose music blurred the boundaries between folk, jazz, rock and blues".

On initial listening, I can see where the author of that comment is coming from. Looks like I'll have to go and get "Solid Air", considered to be the definitive John Martyn album...
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Post by: Flying_Monkey on 02 August, 2009, 11:59:13 pm
On Saturday night, I went to the 50th birthday performance of Japanese experimental music star, Otomo Yoshihde, who played half an hour of treated piano (which basically sounded like modulated metallic feedback) and then was joined by a group of 7 other guitarists, percussionists and and electronic musicians, including the brilliant Jim O'Rourke, for over an hour of ambient / free jazz / noise...

...nice!  :thumbsup:
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Post by: nicknack on 11 August, 2009, 07:02:36 pm
I imagine I would have liked that too.

Anyway, now listening to Cream - Spoonful (off Wheels of Fire)

First album I ever bought - nearly 40 years ago.  :o

Still love it.  :)

Edit: Just checked - over 40 years ago. <sigh>
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Post by: Quisling on 13 August, 2009, 07:07:44 pm
Harry Patch (In Memory of) by Radiohead - yours from the W.A.S.T.E website for a quid with proceeds to the Royal British Legion. 

Usual Yorke ululations but nice string arrangements by Jonny Greenwood.

A good effort :thumbsup:
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Post by: andrewc on 14 August, 2009, 11:53:43 pm
One from my youth.....

UFO - Strangers in the night.... never saw them live, though I did see Michael Schenker a couple of times.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strangers_in_the_Night_%28UFO_album%29 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strangers_in_the_Night_%28UFO_album%29)
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Post by: PaulF on 15 August, 2009, 12:04:52 am
Various bits of Americana: The Low Anthem, Iron and Wine & Calexico, Great Lake Swimmers...
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Post by: Spinners on 15 August, 2009, 11:19:11 pm
Harvest - Neil Young
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Post by: Flying_Monkey on 16 August, 2009, 02:13:44 am
Harvest - Neil Young

I just found the DVD of Jonathan Demme's live film of Neil Young, Heart of Gold, in the bargain bin in a Tokyo record store for a fiver!  :thumbsup:

But what I was listening to last night was Miles Davis's Quiet Nights, the last of his great recordings with Gil Evans arranging and conducting.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 16 August, 2009, 10:00:49 pm
Kraftwerk - lots of them. I always liked "Autobahn" and "Trans Europe Express" but hadn't really listened to much else. I didn't even know that they were still going. Just downloaded Minimum-Maximum a double live CDs worth of live tracks (if live can really be applied to Kraftwerk) from a tour in 2005 and it's blinding. I've got the "Tour de France" album downloading now.
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Post by: Spinners on 16 August, 2009, 10:39:02 pm
Minimum, maximum... beats per minute.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 17 August, 2009, 08:15:52 pm
Black Grape - It's Great When You're Straight...Yeah!

Posisbly Shaun Ryder's finest moment, only tarnished by the woeful follow up album.
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Post by: Tourist Tony on 18 August, 2009, 12:20:31 am
Grace And Danger - John Martyn

I'd heard the title track on Planet Rock, of all radio stations, and was curious... The obituary in the Times described him as "an electrifying guitarist and singer whose music blurred the boundaries between folk, jazz, rock and blues".

On initial listening, I can see where the author of that comment is coming from. Looks like I'll have to go and get "Solid Air", considered to be the definitive John Martyn album...
I have Solid Air if you want to borrow it. Amazing stuff.
I am having an Oysterband thing still, playing along on mandolin and muted fiddle.
Not at the same time of course.
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Post by: mark on 18 August, 2009, 12:47:24 am
Woodstock 40 Years On: Back to Yasgur's Farm

A 6 CD set of recordings from the festival, including groups that never got included in the movie or the original album.
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Post by: Quisling on 18 August, 2009, 12:25:05 pm
the new, "leaked" Radiohead track

YouTube - Radiohead - These Are My Twisted Words (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiJj_8yjLnU&feature=PlayList&p=2A7ED1CC5B6E2F63&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=26)
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Post by: spesh on 18 August, 2009, 06:12:46 pm
Grace And Danger - John Martyn

I'd heard the title track on Planet Rock, of all radio stations, and was curious... The obituary in the Times described him as "an electrifying guitarist and singer whose music blurred the boundaries between folk, jazz, rock and blues".

On initial listening, I can see where the author of that comment is coming from. Looks like I'll have to go and get "Solid Air", considered to be the definitive John Martyn album...
I have Solid Air if you want to borrow it. Amazing stuff.
I am having an Oysterband thing still, playing along on mandolin and muted fiddle.
Not at the same time of course.

Thanks for the offer, but I picked up Solid Air the other weekend.

I've been also listening to the Who (Who's Next), ZZ Top (El Loco), and er... White Zombie (Astro-Creep 2000).

From the sublime to the ridiculous...   ;D
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Post by: StuAff on 18 August, 2009, 11:09:35 pm
Grace And Danger - John Martyn

I'd heard the title track on Planet Rock, of all radio stations, and was curious... The obituary in the Times described him as "an electrifying guitarist and singer whose music blurred the boundaries between folk, jazz, rock and blues".

On initial listening, I can see where the author of that comment is coming from. Looks like I'll have to go and get "Solid Air", considered to be the definitive John Martyn album...
I have Solid Air if you want to borrow it. Amazing stuff.
I am having an Oysterband thing still, playing along on mandolin and muted fiddle.
Not at the same time of course.

Thanks for the offer, but I picked up Solid Air the other weekend.

I've been also listening to the Who (Who's Next), ZZ Top (El Loco), and er... White Zombie (Astro-Creep 2000).

From the sublime to the ridiculous...   ;D
Sublime, sublime and sublime, surely?
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Post by: rogerzilla on 19 August, 2009, 09:49:25 pm
Frankie Goes To Hollywood's "War", with Chris Barrie's great Ronald Reagan monologue.

Quote
Man has a sense for the discovery of beauty. How rich is the world for
one who makes use of this discovery. Beauty must have power over man.

After the end of the war, I wanted to devote myself to my thoughts for five to ten years, and to writing them down.

Wars come and go.  What remains are only the values of culture.

Then of course there is revolutionary love.  Love of comrades fighting for the people, and love of people. Not an abstract people but people one meets and works with.  When Che Guevara talked of love being at the center of revolutionary endeavour, he meant both. For people like Che, or George Jackson, or Malcolm X, love was the prime mover of their struggle, and love cost them their lives.

Love, coupled with a man's pride.

Love, coupled with a man's pride.

It's all bollocks, but it's poetry.
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Post by: spesh on 19 August, 2009, 10:16:10 pm

<snipped to save space>

I've been also listening to the Who (Who's Next), ZZ Top (El Loco), and er... White Zombie (Astro-Creep 2000).

From the sublime to the ridiculous...   ;D
Sublime, sublime and sublime, surely?

I was getting in ahead of the music critics. :demon:

There are some... interesting... juxtapositions on my CD shelves.

Today's aural assault comes courtesy of:

Accelerated Evolution - the Devin Townsend Band
Mer de Noms - A Perfect Circle
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Post by: Quisling on 20 August, 2009, 01:29:46 am
the new, "leaked" Radiohead track

YouTube - Radiohead - These Are My Twisted Words (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiJj_8yjLnU&feature=PlayList&p=2A7ED1CC5B6E2F63&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=26)


Edit - now available as a free download from radiohead.com
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Post by: alan on 22 August, 2009, 07:42:26 pm
U2...loudly :demon:
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Post by: rogerzilla on 23 August, 2009, 08:36:46 am
The Doors - L.A. Woman

Some of it is second-rate blues filler, but it grows on you.  I shudder to think how stoned Jim Morrison was when he wrote "The WASP".

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Post by: alan on 30 August, 2009, 07:22:53 pm
Layla..ol' slow hand
Whiskt in The Jar:Thin Lzzy
Various tracks bt The Shads'
& other tracks with distinctive guitar riffs
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Post by: Quisling on 30 August, 2009, 10:58:59 pm

   Anne-Marie official site on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Videos
 (http://www.myspace.com/annemariehurst)

She of original Skeletal Family fame is back, and getting ready to gig with one of the Skel's in tow.

Punk is not dead after all.

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Post by: Spinners on 30 August, 2009, 11:03:12 pm
Parklife - Blur

I didn't bother with them back in 1994 but I picked this one up nice and cheap recently and I'm just loving it, even the two 'interlude' type filler tracks.
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Post by: alan on 31 August, 2009, 09:52:20 am
Radio 2
It's a Beatle-fest day :thumbsup:
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Post by: HTFB on 02 September, 2009, 11:33:27 am
Pam Ayres on Radio 4 now (11.30 2 September), on the theme of bikes.
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Post by: clarion on 02 September, 2009, 11:34:42 am
Yes.  Me too.  I was about to go to the toilet & get a fresh coffee.  May have to wait...
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Post by: Moloko on 03 September, 2009, 05:13:51 pm
I Don't Want To Go To Chelsea.   (neither can anyone) ;D   :thumbsup:
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Post by: clarion on 03 September, 2009, 08:02:45 pm

I Don't Want To Go To Chelsea.   ;D   :thumbsup:

I don't, either.  But what are you listening to? ;D
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Post by: Chris S on 04 September, 2009, 11:51:48 am
Aphex Twin. All sorts, but not Milkman or Come to Daddy 'cos they scare me.
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Post by: microphonie on 04 September, 2009, 06:49:22 pm
Aphex Twin. All sorts, but not Milkman or Come to Daddy 'cos they scare me.

IIIIIIII Want your soooooooooooouuuuuuuulllllllllllll!  :demon:

Currently listening to OMD - Dazzle Ships (via Spotify) for the first time in 25yrs or so.

It's really not as weird as I thought it was at the time.
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Post by: Pneumant on 06 September, 2009, 04:36:15 pm
The Cranberries - No need to argue

Rediscovering old Cd's - this one is rather good, dusted off after many many years unplayed in my collection . Dolores O'Riordan has a great voice.

'Zombie' , 'Empty' and 'Ridiculous Thoughts' are the standout tracks for me :)
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Post by: clarion on 06 September, 2009, 09:56:22 pm
Been listening to some Slade this weekend.  Mmm yes. :)
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Post by: Tewdric on 07 September, 2009, 04:18:21 pm
Beethoven Pionao concerto no.5, on my recently downloaded Linn 24-bit 192 KHz recording of Sir Charles Mackerras and the SCO.  It's a superb performance and simply the most astonishing audio quality I've ever heard.  Remarkable stuff.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 07 September, 2009, 09:31:07 pm
The grossly unfashionable, and even hated by the band themselves, "Atom Heart Mother" by Pink Floyd.  I like it.
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Post by: clarion on 07 September, 2009, 09:41:12 pm
Cloud Street on Youtube.  Very folkie, but they have a few funny songs, and that chap has a great voice.
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Post by: Aidan on 08 September, 2009, 06:03:26 pm
11:11  Rodrigo y Gabriela   :thumbsup:  Not dissapointed
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Post by: rogerzilla on 09 September, 2009, 08:23:24 pm
The Best Of The Boomtown Rats.

Quote
Her mind's made up, she walks down the road,
Her hands in her pockets, coat buttoned 'gainst the cold,
She finally finds Billy down at the Italian cafe
When he's drunk it's hard to understand what Billy says
But then he mumbles in his coffee and he suddenly roars,
"It's a rat trap Judy, and we've been caught."

My line manager at work, who did a bit of roadie-ing as a student, was once told to f**k off by Bob Geldof.
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Post by: Spinners on 09 September, 2009, 09:17:06 pm

My line manager at work, who did a bit of roadie-ing as a student, was once told to f**k off by Bob Geldof.


You mean you haven't been?
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Post by: clarion on 09 September, 2009, 10:19:03 pm
Neil Innes!  There's loads on Youtube all of a sudden :D
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Post by: Quisling on 10 September, 2009, 08:56:11 am
Koder på snor by Valravn.  Their 2nd album just released.  A truly excellent follow up to their eponymously titled first effort.

If you're after a bit of Danish/Faeroese/Swiss-Ecuadorian electro folk punk then this is the album for you.

Electronic beats, hot hurdy gurdy action and a singer that sounds like Bjork.  This is an album that sings from dark volcanic places of ancient people. A bit like Noggin the Nog.  A long time ago in a land far, far away where the dark cliffs meet the sea...

   Valravn on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Videos
 (http://www.myspace.com/valravn)
It's cheaper on Amazon than iTunes at the moment.
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Post by: Chris S on 10 September, 2009, 11:06:49 am
A Mike Oldfield day for me:

Hergest Ridge
Ommadawn
Tubular Bells I, II and III
The songs of distant Earth
Music of the Spheres
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Post by: Jaded on 12 September, 2009, 01:22:07 am
The Best Of The Boomtown Rats.

Quote
Her mind's made up, she walks down the road,
Her hands in her pockets, coat buttoned 'gainst the cold,
She finally finds Billy down at the Italian cafe
When he's drunk it's hard to understand what Billy says
But then he mumbles in his coffee and he suddenly roars,
"It's a rat trap Judy, and we've been caught."

My line manager at work, who did a bit of roadie-ing as a student, was once told to f**k off by Bob Geldof.

Bob Geldof invited me on stage.
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Post by: Tourist Tony on 14 September, 2009, 01:37:03 am
I am having a Sigur Ros session. Big, moody melodies===what music should be, and afterwards  I will hit the Sibelius 3 to 5.
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Post by: ludwig on 15 September, 2009, 07:09:33 am
The birds singing
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Post by: Aidan on 15 September, 2009, 07:18:31 am
Manafon , David Sylvians new cd, a great follow on from Blemish
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Post by: alan on 15 September, 2009, 08:40:57 am
The birds singing

...Mr. Tambourine Man? ;)

or was it My Green Tambourine :-\(or was that The Lemon Pipers :-\ :-\)
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Post by: Deano on 15 September, 2009, 09:18:35 pm
The Warrior's Code by the Dropkick Murphys.  Not their best, I think, but great rowdy stuff. 
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Post by: clarion on 15 September, 2009, 09:23:10 pm
The birds singing

...Mr. Tambourine Man? ;)

or was it My Green Tambourine :-\(or was that The Lemon Pipers :-\ :-\)

Amazingly, that was on the radio tonight (R&M), and I've not heard anything of it for twenty years! :o
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Post by: mike on 15 September, 2009, 09:31:06 pm
Chopin's nocturnes.  Absolutely amazing.
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Post by: Tim Hall on 15 September, 2009, 10:12:48 pm
Mawkin:Causley (http://www.mawkincausley.co.uk/) The Awkward Recruit.  Spiffy songs from hundreds of years ago about going off to fight in foreign lands and sometimes coming back to tell the tale, and stuff.

Mrs. Hall says the lead singer is drop dead gorgeous too.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 16 September, 2009, 09:29:55 pm
A CD of Jefferson Airplane. I had forgotten how rubbish most of their stuff was. Oh well it only cost 99p from the bargain bucket at a service station and White Rabbit and Need Somebody To Love are good songs.
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Post by: Androcles on 18 September, 2009, 11:37:43 pm
Camel.  Bits and pieces from Stationary Traveller on YouTube.  Not heard it for ages but that bass still sends a bit of a shiver.....
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Post by: Chris S on 21 September, 2009, 03:31:40 pm
A Fenderbusting playlist incl:

Dave Gilmour
Eric Clapton
Mark Knopfler

and others. Ah - the benefits of working at home - maximum scope for air-guitar  :thumbsup:
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Post by: alan on 21 September, 2009, 07:04:56 pm
U2. Their greatest hits double album.
There's some decent turbo/rollers training tracks therein
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Post by: alan on 21 September, 2009, 07:07:28 pm


and others. Ah - the benefits of working at home - maximum scope for air-guitar  :thumbsup:


It's great innit :thumbsup:

The Shadows often play & do that dance routine to Kon Tiki & Telstar in our office ;)
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Post by: Chris S on 21 September, 2009, 07:09:27 pm
U2. Their greatest hits double album.
There's some decent turbo/rollers training tracks therein

Funny you should mention that - last week's interval session on the turbo included "Lady with the Spinning Head", played ver ver loudly on the iPod.
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Post by: alan on 21 September, 2009, 07:26:06 pm
 & now we is havin' a George Thorogood & The Destroyers blowout,starting with
Who Do You Love
& then
Bad To The Bone

& then some early Fleetwood Mac (the Peter Green era) such as
Black Magic Woman
Need Your Love So Bad

& then some Thin LIzzy including
Parisean Walkway
Whisky In The Jar(o)
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Post by: Tourist Tony on 21 September, 2009, 11:08:28 pm
Ozric Tentacles, "Pungent Effulgent"
Followed by Bruckner's 3rd and 8th back to back.
I have VERY wide tastes....

For those wgo don't know Bruckner, I also love Mahler. Mahler is a Gaudi Cathedral, set amid the Austrian Alps. Rich, deep, wonderfully human music, that reaches down inside you and tears at your soul.
 Bruckner is Ulm Cathedral, seen from the inside; soaring stone, hung with WWI battle flags, austere, solidly-built soundscapes, and just as human in a different way.
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Post by: Pneumant on 23 September, 2009, 11:13:24 am
The new Megadeth album 'End Game'.  I like it lots, sort of a return to their late 80's /early 90's sound which is no bad thing. Brill new lead guitarist too, chap called Chris Broderick who adds a much needed counter to Dave Mustaine's riffing, missing since Marty Friedman left the band a few years ago.
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Post by: tiermat on 24 September, 2009, 08:43:25 am
Re-master of Puppets, a freebie CD that came with Kerrang 3 years ago to mark the 20th anniversary of the original.

Contains covers by Trivium, MachineHead, Chimaira and Bullet for my Valentine.

Class
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Post by: docsquid on 24 September, 2009, 07:02:58 pm
Rapid Eye Movement by Riverside.

Excellent if you are an old codger like me who likes Prog Rock.
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Post by: Flying_Monkey on 24 September, 2009, 07:25:49 pm
Talking of prog, some of you may remember my rant about Rush here... having moved to Canada, I have discovered that saying anything bad about Rush is rather like attacking Jesus. Clearly there are many virtues to Canada, but musical taste is not among them: I give you also Celine Dion, Shania Twain, Bryan Adams, Avril Lavigne, Nickelback... the list goes on.  ;)
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Post by: RJ on 24 September, 2009, 09:14:00 pm
OTOH, there's Neil Young ...
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Post by: Flying_Monkey on 24 September, 2009, 10:55:34 pm
OTOH, there's Neil Young ...

And Joni Mitchell of course, and more recently Arcade Fire, and Broken Social Scene - and actually there is a a very interesting genuinely independent scene, largely alt-folk stuff. It's not all bad!
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Post by: clarion on 24 September, 2009, 11:10:52 pm
Stuff on youtube - Ivor Cutler, Tom Lehrer, Stanley Unwin...
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Post by: StuAff on 24 September, 2009, 11:45:35 pm
Stuff on youtube - Ivor Cutler, Tom Lehrer, Stanley Unwin...

Tom Lehrer.....genius.....
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Post by: clarion on 25 September, 2009, 09:38:50 am
And the other two aren't? :o

Also listened to some Otway, Otway & Barrett, and Barrett ;D



And Tim Minchin, Kit & The Widow, Flanders & Swann, Victor Borge...
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Post by: StuAff on 25 September, 2009, 11:15:28 am
And the other two aren't? :o

Also listened to some Otway, Otway & Barrett, and Barrett ;D

Not really familiar enough with them to say....
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Post by: StuAff on 25 September, 2009, 11:16:25 am
As for myself: this morning, Orbital. Tonight: Orbital (live at Brixton :) )
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Post by: Domestique on 26 September, 2009, 07:49:44 pm
The Blockheads and Billy Bragg at the Village Green event, Chalkwell  8)
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Post by: Tourist Tony on 26 September, 2009, 08:26:06 pm
OTOH, there's Neil Young ...

And Joni Mitchell of course, and more recently Arcade Fire, and Broken Social Scene - and actually there is a a very interesting genuinely independent scene, largely alt-folk stuff. It's not all bad!

You forgot Lenny.....
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 27 September, 2009, 04:53:16 pm
Johnnie Walker's Sounds of the 70s on R2 and I am laughing my arse off because he just played the Kursaal Flyers and I had forgotten how brilliant it is to rhyme laundry with quandary and urgent with detergent.
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Post by: Flying_Monkey on 27 September, 2009, 05:39:49 pm
This morning: Come Down by the Dandy Warhols, Waltz of a Ghetto Fly by Amp Fiddler, and Rachmaninov's Piano Concertos 1-4 played by Vladimir Ashkenazy.
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Post by: Bledlow on 27 September, 2009, 08:10:02 pm
Blur - Park Life. Followed by some dances from Terpsichore, by Michael Praetorius.
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Post by: Spinners on 27 September, 2009, 10:19:54 pm
'Band On The Run' and 'Wings Greatest'- Wings.
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Post by: alan on 28 September, 2009, 06:42:10 pm
ZZ Top: Eliminator
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Post by: groucho on 29 September, 2009, 03:51:08 pm
Uncut 150 - 15 Various artists.

I only have CDs by 9 out the 15, so I am not sure whether this is a 'pass' or a 'fail'  8)
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Post by: Chris S on 02 October, 2009, 10:13:03 am
We are Scientists on We7
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Post by: pcolbeck on 02 October, 2009, 10:35:07 am
Some stuff I bought off iTunes last night after being reminded of it on the radio over the last week.

Gladys Knight and The Pips - Midnight Train to Georgia

Held up as one of teh best examples of teh art of backing singing ever on a Radio 4 program the othjer day about backing singing and you know I think they were right.

Gladys Knight and The Pips - The Look of Love

Just because I love this song.

Laura Nyo - Emmie
Laura Nyo - December's Boudouir

I had never heard of her until Barry Manilow picked Emmie for one of his desert Island disks.

Trijntje Oosterhuis - The Look of Love

Dutch pop / jazz singer. Found this as a link from the Gladys Knight version of this song. Lovely smoky voice. I still think my favourite version is Dianna Krall's version from "One Night in Paris" which incidentally is one of the best recorded live albums I have ever heard.


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Post by: TimC on 02 October, 2009, 10:54:59 am
Tenacious D - Tribute and Wonderboy. Triffic stuff. Kyle and Jack are quite talented, really!
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Post by: pcolbeck on 02 October, 2009, 08:30:42 pm
Charlie Mingus - Mingus Mingus Mingus

next

John Coltane - Blue Train
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Post by: alan on 10 October, 2009, 07:56:22 pm
U2 Greatest Hits 1980-1990
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Post by: Spinners on 11 October, 2009, 09:24:02 pm
Press to Play, Flowers in the dirt and Flamin' Pie - Paul McCartney
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Post by: Gus on 13 October, 2009, 04:53:14 pm

Tom Waits  _ Rain dogs
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Post by: Flying_Monkey on 13 October, 2009, 06:18:09 pm
Yesteday, The Kinks - Face to Face, Joni Mitchell - The Hissing of Summer Lawns and Midlake - The Trials of Van Occupanther
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Post by: Gus on 13 October, 2009, 06:32:41 pm

Rammstein - Liebe ist für alle da
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Post by: Flying_Monkey on 13 October, 2009, 08:26:57 pm

Rammstein - Liebe ist für alle da

I know they're Swedish, but are you are TSOOL fan, Gus?

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Post by: Tewdric on 13 October, 2009, 08:32:58 pm
Nice new 180g vinyl copy of the Blue Joni Mitchell album. 

And a Deadmau5 CD.  Don't ask - Monsieur Pumpe put me up to it..
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Post by: Chris S on 13 October, 2009, 10:35:07 pm
Full fat Tonal choons from Genesis:

Carpet Crawlers (Peter Gabriel of course)
Snowbound
Entangled
Ripples
Duchess
Your own special way
Afterglow
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Post by: StuAff on 13 October, 2009, 11:02:02 pm

Rammstein - Liebe ist für alle da

You've got it already? Legit? I have the special edition on order....
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Post by: Gus on 14 October, 2009, 07:08:19 am

Rammstein - Liebe ist für alle da

You've got it already? Legit? I have the special edition on order....

not legit, it have leaked to the interweb
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Post by: StuAff on 14 October, 2009, 11:50:31 am

Rammstein - Liebe ist für alle da

You've got it already? Legit? I have the special edition on order....

not legit, it have leaked to the interweb
Yup, went looking for it (might as well, still getting the CD of course)...listening now. Another cracker...
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Post by: pcolbeck on 14 October, 2009, 03:34:30 pm
Big Star - #1 Record

Lovely AOR / FM radio friendly tunes with really dark lyrics.
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Post by: Deano on 14 October, 2009, 10:53:59 pm
Rough trade Shops Indiepop 1.  As the liner notes say, "Twee As Fuck!" :)
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Post by: tiermat on 15 October, 2009, 07:55:00 am
Florence and the Machine - Lungs
that and skipping through an eclectic mix from my USB stick (including Blade soundtrack, Foo Fighters, Morcheeba, Dizzee Rascal, amongst others)
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Post by: her_welshness on 15 October, 2009, 05:49:47 pm
Am loving Florence and the Machine!

Currently listening to 'What Time is Love' by KLF on Radio 6. I hate to be all Bryn about this, but I tell you what Radio 6 is cracking  :thumbsup:
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Post by: microphonie on 16 October, 2009, 06:28:39 pm
Thanks to a visit to FOPP in Nottingham last weekend:

The Human League - Reproduction

£3 well spent

Good preliminary listening before Synth Britannia on BBC4 tonight



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Post by: Flying_Monkey on 17 October, 2009, 02:29:46 am
I am surprised to say that even I like what I have heard of Florence and the Machine. David Byrne has been playing them a lot on his iTunes playlist...

But what I have been listening to today are two local bands from the area of Ontario where I live - one called The Gertrudes, who should be massive - wonderful, joyful music somewhere between Sufjan Stevens and The Fleet Foxes - and The Abrams Brothers, who are just the most awsome fiddle-driven folk, and they are about 15 and 17. Crazy.
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Post by: Marco Stefano on 18 October, 2009, 01:45:40 pm
Squeeze - Babylon & On
(play 'one song to the tune of another the same one' with 'Footprints' and Prince's '(I'm Gonna Party Like It's)1999')

Portishead - Portishead
Life from the spooky weird end...
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 18 October, 2009, 02:48:50 pm
Huey Lewis and the News Greatest Hits. Don't ask me why, I just wanted to hear it.
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Post by: Spinners on 18 October, 2009, 10:23:52 pm
Architecture & Morality - OMD (probably their finest hour)

I was inspired to put that on following the 'Messages' clip shown on Synth Brittania.
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Post by: spesh on 18 October, 2009, 11:06:19 pm
The Cult - Love
Magnum - Kingdom Of Madness, and On A Storyteller's Night
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Post by: geoff on 19 October, 2009, 02:10:34 pm
Christina Aguillera "Hurt"

I just wanted to check out that she could sing...I can report back that she can, but I'd prefer it if she didn't

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Post by: rogerzilla on 19 October, 2009, 08:44:32 pm
Er...Soft Cell "Torch".
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Post by: tiermat on 20 October, 2009, 06:27:56 am
A new one to me - Billy Talent - III

Catchy, almost poppy, rock.  Reminiscent of early Green Day in places.  Sticks with you too, I have "Tears into Wine" stuck in my head right now :)
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Post by: peliroja on 20 October, 2009, 05:02:43 pm
Mylène Farmer.  :thumbsup:
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Post by: LEE on 20 October, 2009, 06:40:17 pm
Ian Brown - "My Way"

In particular the track "Stellify" and a great cover of "In the Year 2525"

..and some early Stranglers (thank you Spotify), "Nice n Sleazy" has just taken me back 30 years
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Post by: rogerzilla on 20 October, 2009, 08:05:27 pm
Led Zeppelin "I'm Gonna Crawl", which is said by some to contain Jimmy Page's best guitar solo.
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Post by: Flying_Monkey on 20 October, 2009, 08:34:53 pm
Today I am listening to my friends, Sheesham and Lotus (http://www.sheeshamandlotus.com/menu.html), who are just brilliant - if you liked the 'old-time' North American folk music in Oh, Brother! Where Art Thou? you'll love this...
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Post by: Chris S on 20 October, 2009, 08:38:21 pm
My two sons, playing a blues sequence on Bass and Piano (with drum machine help).

Mmm.... dig those blues... that's funktastic  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Chris S on 22 October, 2009, 11:58:25 am
Editors: In this light and on this evening
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Post by: alan on 22 October, 2009, 08:21:47 pm
Johnny Cash: All American Country
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Post by: Quisling on 22 October, 2009, 11:19:50 pm
YouTube - You're Gonna Miss Me, Lulu and the Lampshades (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWCOYJg9ps4)

Awesome performance.
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Post by: spesh on 25 October, 2009, 10:31:41 pm
Alice In Chains - Black Gives Way To Blue
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Post by: onb on 28 October, 2009, 09:55:41 am
The Imagined Village
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Post by: nicknack on 30 October, 2009, 01:34:15 pm
Esbjorn Svensson - Good Morning Susie at the mo - after From Gagarin's Point of View, Viaticum, Strange Place For Snow, Tuesday Wonderland, Somewhere Else Before, etc...

Why is it I can listen to EST all morning and love it but can't find a single other piano player I can do that with? I can manage Keith Jarrett for a while and one or two others but there's something about Mr Svensson's playing that really gets me.

Then the bugger went and drowned hisself, so there's no more. Anyone got any suggestions for similar?
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Post by: Flying_Monkey on 31 October, 2009, 01:26:18 am
Esbjorn Svensson - Good Morning Susie at the mo - after From Gagarin's Point of View, Viaticum, Strange Place For Snow, Tuesday Wonderland, Somewhere Else Before, etc...

Why is it I can listen to EST all morning and love it but can't find a single other piano player I can do that with? I can manage Keith Jarrett for a while and one or two others but there's something about Mr Svensson's playing that really gets me.

Then the bugger went and drowned hisself, so there's no more. Anyone got any suggestions for similar?

Yes, it was a tragic loss...

Talking of piano players who died too young, I am just this minute listening to the sublime and single-minded Glenn Gould playing - and humming along to! - Bach's French Suites...
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Post by: kyuss on 31 October, 2009, 01:29:48 am
Portishead - Dummy
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Post by: nicknack on 04 November, 2009, 01:13:08 pm
Morphine's latest - At Your Service.

Mark Sandman's been dead for 10 years now so they've released a double cd of live and alternate versions that haven't seen the light of day before.

Needless to say, it's utterly f'ing brilliant.

For all fans of low rock.  :thumbsup:
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Post by: pcolbeck on 04 November, 2009, 02:15:18 pm
JJ Grey and Mofro

Southern funk band. I'm listening to live recordings on the Internet Music Archive.
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Post by: Aidan on 04 November, 2009, 05:48:15 pm
Paul Heaton - the Cross Eyed Rambler
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Post by: Flying_Monkey on 04 November, 2009, 08:20:59 pm
Iron and Wine, Around the Well. For a collection of B-sides and rarities, it puts many other bands' best offerings to shame. There are some beautiful songs on it.
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Post by: clarion on 08 November, 2009, 09:48:08 am
Nina Simone on Youtube.  Brilliant.

'It makes me glad
You're gonna have things that I never had
When out of all men's hearts
All hate is hurled
You're going to live
In a better world
Brown baby'

:'( :'( :'(
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Post by: Domestique on 08 November, 2009, 02:39:31 pm
Fairport Convention, the History of
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Post by: nicknack on 08 November, 2009, 06:17:19 pm
Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition

Wondering how long I can get away with playing it this loud before someone suggests I turn it down
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Post by: rogerzilla on 09 November, 2009, 08:05:33 pm
The Doors - Strange Days
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Post by: rogerzilla on 09 November, 2009, 08:59:35 pm
and now the rather better Morrison Hotel.

The way "Peace Frog" blends into "Blue Sunday" is magical.
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Post by: Hot Flatus on 09 November, 2009, 09:14:37 pm
Biosphere, Dropsonde
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Post by: microphonie on 10 November, 2009, 06:36:08 pm
Biosphere, Dropsonde

Biosphere - Patashnik (perfect lunch hour listening)

Is Dropsonde on a par with his other ambient stuff (Cirque, Substrata)? I've had it in my eMusic 'Save For Later' list for ages.
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Post by: Flying_Monkey on 10 November, 2009, 07:44:37 pm
Can - Tago Mago
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Post by: Hot Flatus on 10 November, 2009, 10:26:39 pm
Biosphere, Dropsonde

Biosphere - Patashnik (perfect lunch hour listening)

Is Dropsonde on a par with his other ambient stuff (Cirque, Substrata)? I've had it in my eMusic 'Save For Later' list for ages.

Its very very good.... but Cirque is my favourite!  Dropsonde isnt as dark
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Post by: Hot Flatus on 10 November, 2009, 10:27:15 pm
The Extraordinary Garden- Charles Tenet, for the last hour.

Now about to have a burst of A Foreigner No Longer by King Britt.  A great tune, but a shameless rip off of B movie by Gil Scott Heron.
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Post by: her_welshness on 11 November, 2009, 12:07:11 am
Ella Fitzgerald - Everytime we say Goodbye.

She is so f*cking brilliant. I don't have a bad singing voice (being Welsh and all) but I cannot even remotely compete with such a wonderful sound
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Post by: kyuss on 11 November, 2009, 03:34:16 am
The Smiths 'What difference does it make' live at the BBC. Johnny Marr is really quite something isn't he?
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Post by: pcolbeck on 12 November, 2009, 01:38:14 pm
The Decemberists' latest album The Hazards of Love streamed from their web site (http://www.decemberists.com/). Excellent as ever if a bit more rocky than previous albums. Stand out track so far is The Wanting Comes In Waves/Repaid.

Oh heck they are only streaming three tracks. I am going to have to put the CD on my Christmas list.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 16 November, 2009, 07:01:35 pm
AC/DC - Whole Lotta Rosie.  Dadadadadadada.  Dadadadadadada.
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Post by: Hot Flatus on 17 November, 2009, 09:14:38 pm
I've hit the random button on the Squeezebox. Sometimes it just comes up with the most sublime selections that hang together  beautifully by chance....

Just had:  Sail on by Free, Area 51 by Eat Static, followed by the Howard Marks bit off the soundtrack of Human Traffic, then a bit of Return Forever
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Post by: Flying_Monkey on 17 November, 2009, 09:29:12 pm
I am listening to a couple of CDs lent to me by a friend: a Montreal band called Plants and Animals and one by the cult group Neutral Milk Hotel, who I have somehow managed to avoid ever hearing before.
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Post by: microphonie on 18 November, 2009, 06:28:40 pm
Neotropic -  15 Levels Of Magnification  (http://www.last.fm/music/Neotropic/15+Levels+of+Magnification)

I am listening to a couple of CDs lent to me by a friend: a Montreal band called Plants and Animals and one by the cult group Neutral Milk Hotel, who I have somehow managed to avoid ever hearing before.

That reminds me: I must dig out my Olivia Tremor Control cd - I believe they had some NMH connection.

I've also realised my eMusic subscription has just renewed so I'm off in search of 75 more tracks to d/l, including these albums:

2562 - Unbalance
Biosphere - Dropsonde
Helen Love - Bubblegum Killers e.p.
Pentatonik - A Thousand Paper Cranes
v/a - Below The Radar: The Best of Wordsound Dub
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Post by: Flying_Monkey on 18 November, 2009, 06:45:43 pm
Today, the archives of Nevver. Designed for repeated listening. one.img + one.mp3 - Peter Nidzgorski, X818 (http://www.nevver.com)

My favourite place.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 21 November, 2009, 09:01:16 pm
The Best of Herb Alpert.  I'm not sure if this is terribly naff or terribly sophisticated.
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Post by: jogler on 21 November, 2009, 10:11:04 pm
40 Licks : Rolling Stones
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Post by: Hot Flatus on 22 November, 2009, 10:59:20 am
The Best of Herb Alpert.  I'm not sure if this is terribly naff or terribly sophisticated.

You'll be listening to Al Stewart next  ::-)

 ;D
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Post by: Spinners on 22 November, 2009, 09:56:52 pm
After playing 'Rumours' to death, I bought 'Fleetwood Mac' yesterday and I've had three play throughs today. Doesn't seem that good so far but perhaps it's a slow-burner...
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Post by: clarion on 22 November, 2009, 10:03:45 pm
Selections from Hair. 
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Post by: Bluebottle on 23 November, 2009, 11:25:55 pm
Word of Mouth.  Typical Radio 4 worthiness. :thumbsup:
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Post by: her_welshness on 23 November, 2009, 11:49:37 pm
Word of Mouth.  Typical Radio 4 worthiness. :thumbsup:

Speaking of Radio 4- 'Bleak Expectations' is rather good  :thumbsup:
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Post by: kyuss on 24 November, 2009, 01:17:16 am
Gemma Hayes - 'Night On My Side'.
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Post by: kyuss on 24 November, 2009, 01:18:11 am
Oh, and Ryan Adams - 'Heartbreaker' and 'Demolition'.
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Post by: Flying_Monkey on 24 November, 2009, 03:32:50 am
Taj Mahal and Toumani Diabate - Kulanjan. Real musicians with real spirit and empathy exploring new (but actually, ancient) ground. Wonderful.
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Post by: Hot Flatus on 24 November, 2009, 12:22:44 pm
Dhafer Youssef  Electric Sufi.  A beautiful recording.
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Post by: Flying_Monkey on 24 November, 2009, 04:47:16 pm
Dhafer Youssef  Electric Sufi.  A beautiful recording.

Damn, that looks like just the kind of thing I love. And Doug Wimbish is on it too.  I must get it... thanks!
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Post by: border-rider on 24 November, 2009, 04:50:03 pm
Kiss by Age of Chance :)

Ace.

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Post by: bikenerd on 24 November, 2009, 04:57:52 pm
Bob Dylan - Hard Rain.  Love the versions of "Shelter from the Sky" and "Idiot Wind" from this.
Fever Ray - Fever Ray.
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Post by: LEE on 24 November, 2009, 05:13:00 pm
Joe Bonamassa (all the albums on Spotify)

He says he grew up listening to British rock and blues bands such as Free, Bad Company, Eric Clapton and so on.  It shows.
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Post by: jogler on 24 November, 2009, 06:24:02 pm
George Thoroughgood & the Destroyers :Bad to the Bone
& then
Mr. Thoroughgood & his mob : Who Do You Love
& then it will be a dollop of Z.Z.Top
followed by some early Fleetwood Mac.
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Post by: microphonie on 24 November, 2009, 06:26:49 pm
Kiss by Age of Chance :)

Ace.



 :thumbsup:

Sadly The Publishers have insisted that the audio be removed from the YouTube link of the video.  :(

Their album 1000 Years of Trouble is still one of my all time faves. The lyrics are even still relevant today (what with financial meltdown & US invading places)




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Post by: Hot Flatus on 24 November, 2009, 06:58:03 pm
Dhafer Youssef  Electric Sufi.  A beautiful recording.
And Doug Wimbish is on it too.  I must get it... thanks!

TACKHEAD!!!!!

I'd forgotten all about them!

The Youssef album is my favourite of his.  Best listened to on a decent system on a winters night with the curtains drawn and a whisky in your hand.
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Post by: Gus on 24 November, 2009, 07:09:54 pm

Dick Dale  The king of surf guitar
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Post by: kyuss on 26 November, 2009, 01:51:34 am
Pearl Jam - Vs
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Post by: Dinamo on 26 November, 2009, 02:41:56 am
Original 106.5
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Post by: nicknack on 26 November, 2009, 10:00:07 am
Can - Ege Bamyasi

I remember travelling up to London specially to get this when it first came out. Haven't listened to it in ages - forgotten how good it is.
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Post by: Zoidburg on 26 November, 2009, 04:52:51 pm
Pearl Jam - Vs
Jesus H Christ.

I have just been transported back in time to sixth form college.

The bad hair! the bad clothes! the hippy vegetarian girlfriend, the unsuitable layabout friends.

 :facepalm:
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 28 November, 2009, 03:35:43 pm
The Messiah. It's a classic version - Sir Malcolm Sargent conducting the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, with Elsie Morison, Marjorie Thomas, Richard Lewis, James Milligan and the Huddersfield Choral Society.
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Post by: spesh on 28 November, 2009, 10:05:41 pm
Rammstein - Mutter

And now, by way of a contrast...

Tangerine Dream - Force Majeure.
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Post by: perpetual dan on 28 November, 2009, 10:07:18 pm
the ipod chose new model army's vengeance earlier, which was pretty suitable for my mood all week
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Post by: her_welshness on 29 November, 2009, 03:42:46 pm
Radio 4 : Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.

Simon Russell Beale is good as Smiley, but nothing beats Alec Guinness.
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Post by: docsquid on 29 November, 2009, 07:09:48 pm
On my iPod while ironing I was listening to

The Editors new album - the one with Papillon on it
Skunk Anansie's Greatest Hits album (Smashes & Trashes)

I guess I must have been in a dark mood!
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Post by: Tourist Tony on 30 November, 2009, 01:58:44 am
Leslie West solo albums, then Mountain in their entirety,live. Just fancied some ear-bleedingly heavy guitar stuff
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Post by: Tourist Tony on 30 November, 2009, 02:53:54 am
Oh yes. Ear-bleeding by numbers. Don't look around, Mississippi Queen...

      YouTube
            - Mountain. Nantucket Sleighride
    (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0JrV86EKCs)

      YouTube
            - Mountain - Woodstock - Southbound Train (Longer Version)
    (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm11kFRz388)

      YouTube
            - mountain - don't look around
    (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FplFq9EXiSM)
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Post by: jogler on 30 November, 2009, 09:18:28 pm
That freebie Burly Chassis Shirly Bassey cd that was in Sunday's Mail.
I really like it( the cd that is)
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Post by: clarion on 30 November, 2009, 09:30:22 pm
Alice Cooper on Radcliffe & Maconie.  Just had Elected - my favourite track, and rather loud. :D
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Post by: Pedaldog. on 30 November, 2009, 10:17:32 pm
Nico - Chelsea Girl.  She does "Keep it with mine", the Sandy Dennie track and her accent puts it across really well.
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Post by: seventytwo on 30 November, 2009, 10:33:57 pm
Fontanelle by Babes in Toyland...
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Post by: TheLurker on 01 December, 2009, 08:03:14 am
Corelli. Concertos 1 - 6. Op. 6 then the plan is to listen to C.P.E Bach's flute concertos.



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Post by: Frenchie on 01 December, 2009, 09:21:16 pm
Johnny Cash.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 01 December, 2009, 10:17:45 pm
There was a great Johhny Cash documentary on the TV a couple of nights ago.
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Post by: Frenchie on 01 December, 2009, 10:48:41 pm
There was a great Johhny Cash documentary on the TV a couple of nights ago.

Yep. BBC4 but also on the Bio channel. I watched them three.  :P
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Post by: pcolbeck on 01 December, 2009, 10:55:46 pm
Walk The Line is worth watching if you haven't seen it. Joaquin Phoenix does a very good Johnny Cash.
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Post by: Frenchie on 01 December, 2009, 10:58:45 pm
Walk The Line is worth watching if you haven't seen it. Joaquin Phoenix does a very good Johnny Cash.

Done that...  :P

Cash is a late discovery for me, but I like him. More than I thought I would, considering my prefered music style.


      YouTube
            - Johnny Cash-Walk The Line
    (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7K4jH7NqUw&feature=related)

      YouTube
            - Johnny Cash Man In Black
    (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCqpPj87ekE&feature=related)

      YouTube
            - Johnny Cash - San Quentin (Live from Prison)
    (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zgja26eNeY&feature=related)


      YouTube
            - Johnny Cash & Willie Nelson - Ring of Fire (live)
    (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99CT3wQmiFU&feature=related)


      YouTube
            - Johnny Cash Hurt
    (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmVAWKfJ4Go)
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Post by: pcolbeck on 01 December, 2009, 11:02:23 pm
One of the great regrets of my life is that I was at Glastonbury in the early 90s when he played. No one but me in our group wanted to go see him and so I went along with the crowd to another stage and watched a band I can't even remember now instead :(
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Post by: Frenchie on 01 December, 2009, 11:04:54 pm
One of the great regrets of my life is that I was at Glastonbury in the early 90s when he played.

I think he had a buzz of a concert there, at least I seem to remember something along these lines, when he had his late revival period.
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Post by: jogler on 02 December, 2009, 09:16:11 am



Cash is a late discovery for me, but I like him. More than I thought I would, considering my prefered music style.



exactly the same for me
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Post by: kyuss on 03 December, 2009, 11:36:50 pm
Aerosmith - Permanent Vacation
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Post by: PaulF on 03 December, 2009, 11:45:50 pm
Bill Laswell - Version 2 A Dub Transmission
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Post by: Marco Stefano on 04 December, 2009, 12:28:28 pm
Smashing Pumpkins - Gish
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Post by: Tourist Tony on 04 December, 2009, 12:45:52 pm
A selection of Richard and Linda stuff. Getting some misery in as an antidote to Christmas.
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Post by: Moloko on 04 December, 2009, 12:56:14 pm

The Four Seasons.

Vivaldi not Frankie.  ;D
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Post by: Deano on 04 December, 2009, 10:40:33 pm
I'm currently enjoying a lot of John Langford stuff - The Mekons, The Waco Brothers and the Pine Valley Cosmonauts.  Also Power in The Darkness by the Tom Robinson Band, which is such a joyous, hopeful album that I may begin to alienate people by evangelising too much about it.
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Post by: PaulF on 04 December, 2009, 11:12:22 pm
Jeff Buckley - Grace

and as it's that time of year Low's Christmas Album
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Post by: spesh on 05 December, 2009, 05:32:42 pm
Budgie - In For The Kill!
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Post by: Moloko on 05 December, 2009, 07:04:07 pm
A rare gem...


Stop, Hammond (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1AzbT46jQo) time.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 08 December, 2009, 07:55:05 pm
I was listening to The Black Crows radio streaming from their website but now it's:

Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis - Neville Marriner.
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Post by: nicknack on 08 December, 2009, 09:19:47 pm
Radiale - Spaceways Incorporated in collaboration with Zu.

Another wacky brilliant Emusic offering.
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Post by: jogler on 09 December, 2009, 04:39:16 pm
A cheap DVD purchased a lunch time
Classical Greats:Bach,Greig,Handel,Stauss,Tchaikovsky,Wagner & others.
Bought on a whim & enjoying it.I normally listen to the likes of ZZ Top,Rolling Stones.
This is quite a departure.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 11 December, 2009, 11:04:46 pm
The Doors' "Orange County Suite".

A drunken lament for Pamela Courson by Jim Morrison which was overdubbed with instrumentation by the surviving Doors after he carked it.

Quote
Now her father has passed over
and her sister is a star
and her mother smokes diamonds
and she sleeps out in the car
Yeah, but she remembers Chicago
The musicians and guitars
and grass by the lake
and people who laughed
and made her poor heart ache

I don't think "grass" refers to a municipal lawn.
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Post by: Bledlow on 11 December, 2009, 11:31:16 pm
Igor Stravinsky.
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Post by: Frenchie on 14 December, 2009, 07:45:57 pm
Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison (live).  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Deano on 14 December, 2009, 09:28:51 pm
The Cramps - Off The Bone.  Quite bonkers, but quite marvellous.
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Post by: scott on 14 December, 2009, 09:55:20 pm

The Soft Boys - Underwater Moonlight
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Post by: kyuss on 15 December, 2009, 02:07:32 am
The Lemonheads - 'Ride with me'.
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Post by: Flying_Monkey on 15 December, 2009, 02:46:56 pm
Husky Rescue
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Post by: oncemore on 15 December, 2009, 08:22:10 pm
Sheena is a punk rocker...

The KKK took my baby away....


Oh how I LOVE Spotify!!
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Post by: oncemore on 15 December, 2009, 08:32:59 pm
And highly recommended

The Gaslight Anthem - start with The '59 Sound.

F*^"in' ROCKS!
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Post by: Quisling on 15 December, 2009, 09:52:42 pm
I caught the end of some remix of a Four Tet song on Zane Lowe this evening and don't know what it is. But it was good.

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Post by: simonp on 15 December, 2009, 09:53:54 pm
Broken Boy Soldiers
Consolers of the Lonely
Rage Against The Machine
La Roux
Icky Thump
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Post by: microphonie on 16 December, 2009, 06:32:03 pm
Telefon Tel Aviv - Immolate Yourself
Bibio - Ovals & Emeralds



I caught the end of some remix of a Four Tet song on Zane Lowe this evening and don't know what it is. But it was good.



That'll be:  Love Cry (Joy Orbison Remix)  (http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/3bcff06f-675a-451f-9075-99e8657047e8)


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Post by: andrewc on 16 December, 2009, 07:33:42 pm
My medical registrar neighbour moonlights as a music teacher.  Someone is learning to play Tzigane by Ravel....
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Post by: finch on 17 December, 2009, 07:11:06 pm
Pentangle - Travelling Song - amongst other assorted Jansch + Renbourn stuff
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Post by: clarion on 18 December, 2009, 09:00:30 am
Right now, I'm listening to the very last Wake Up to Wogan.

:'(



But I know he retired before.... ;)
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Post by: jogler on 18 December, 2009, 01:01:50 pm
Right now, I'm listening to the very last Wake Up to Wogan.

:'(



But I know he retired before.... ;)

I missed it...............Result :thumbsup:
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Post by: Aidan on 19 December, 2009, 09:59:33 am
One of the great regrets of my life is that I was at Glastonbury in the early 90s when he played. No one but me in our group wanted to go see him and so I went along with the crowd to another stage and watched a band I can't even remember now instead :(

I remember watching that on tv at the time , he was fantastic
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Post by: andrewc on 20 December, 2009, 01:00:49 pm
Gidon Kremer and Kremerata Baltica performing the Mozart Violin Concertos.  Beautiful.

http://www.nonesuch.com/journal/daily-telegraph-4-stars-for-gidon-kremers-energetic-take-on-the-mozart-violin-concertos-2009-08-17 (http://www.nonesuch.com/journal/daily-telegraph-4-stars-for-gidon-kremers-energetic-take-on-the-mozart-violin-concertos-2009-08-17)
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Post by: Frenchie on 21 December, 2009, 07:42:11 pm
West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum by Kasabian tonight.

Them Crooked Vultures await next.
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Post by: Aidan on 21 December, 2009, 08:48:51 pm
Street Sweeper Social Club   :thumbsup:
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Post by: pcolbeck on 23 December, 2009, 04:43:45 pm
Sandy Denny - I'm a Dreamer

Listening to her always makes me sad. There is just something tragic in her voice (even if you don't know the story of her life).
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Post by: Quisling on 24 December, 2009, 12:01:14 am
I've been catching up with the Cocteau Twins after downloading a bunch of mp3's to replace my old vinyl.  Brought back some memories :thumbsup:

also, I've just downloaded a free sampler from the usually excellent Domino Record Co  Domino | Xmas 2009 (http://www.dominorecordco.com/xmas2009/)
Haven't had a chance to listen yet.

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Post by: David Martin on 28 December, 2009, 07:15:42 pm
Madness - The Liberty of Norton Folgate.
Makes me start to think I have been out of London too long.
And then I think not.

And my favourite female artist of all time - Karen Carpenter - Yesterday once more.

..d
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Post by: rogerzilla on 31 December, 2009, 11:54:14 am
Scarily, Ken Dodd - Where's Me Shirt?  The Little Misses have a CD of old children's classics.
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Post by: Moloko on 31 December, 2009, 12:21:54 pm
Beethoven's 7th Symphony.

Yesterday I was watching Charlie Brooker and there was a tiny snippet of the 7th.
It reminded me a full airing was now due. Goosebumps.  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Flying_Monkey on 31 December, 2009, 02:53:22 pm
Omar Sosa - undemanding, pleasant and sometimes even clever, world jazz.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 31 December, 2009, 04:48:11 pm
Now Vivian Ellis' "Coronation Scot", which you'd know if you heard it.

Ellis : Coronation Scot: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra: Amazon.co.uk: MP3 Downloads (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ellis-Coronation-Scot/dp/B001LH5G50)
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Post by: Hot Flatus on 31 December, 2009, 06:27:22 pm
Trilok Gurtu- The Definitive
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Post by: Moloko on 06 January, 2010, 11:26:56 am
The Bike Going Slowly Through Deep Snow (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_cCreWLds0) romanza.
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Post by: jogler on 07 January, 2010, 12:24:05 pm
The Definitive Collection ; Four Tops
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Post by: jogler on 08 January, 2010, 08:39:58 pm
Magical Mystery Tour :The Beatles
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Post by: kevinp on 08 January, 2010, 08:46:11 pm
Newton Faulkner - Hand built by Robots
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Post by: nicknack on 08 January, 2010, 11:11:31 pm
Friends.

And every other f'kin day.

The sooner my daughter finds (and can afford) her own place to live the better.

I love her dearly but there are limits.
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Post by: Deano on 08 January, 2010, 11:11:47 pm
The Definitive Collection ; Four Tops

Neon Rainbow by the Box Tops.

Coincidence?  Synchronicity?  Serendipity?
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Post by: Deano on 08 January, 2010, 11:12:29 pm
Friends.

And every other f'kin day.

The sooner my daughter finds (and can afford) her own place to live the better.

I love her dearly but there are limits.

Ae you sure that doesn't belong in the RANT thread? :)
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Post by: MSeries on 08 January, 2010, 11:14:48 pm
80s music (what else ?)  on the wireless
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Post by: nicknack on 08 January, 2010, 11:16:58 pm
Friends.

And every other f'kin day.

The sooner my daughter finds (and can afford) her own place to live the better.

I love her dearly but there are limits.

Ae you sure that doesn't belong in the RANT thread? :)

Yes, it does. I'm terribly sorry.

Back OT.

Van Der Graaf Generator.
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Post by: MSeries on 08 January, 2010, 11:19:35 pm
nicknack, did you mean you were listening to that TV show Friends staring Matt LeBlanc ? or your daughters friends ?

Hazy Shade of Winter by The Bangles on now
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Post by: nicknack on 08 January, 2010, 11:21:24 pm
TV is in same room as this pc. Can't see it but can hear it. So, yes, it's the tv one.  :sick:
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Post by: MSeries on 08 January, 2010, 11:23:05 pm
Footloose - Kenny Loggins
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Post by: Deano on 08 January, 2010, 11:25:11 pm
Now Exile on Main Street by The Rolling Stones.  I haven't heard it before, and they all sound a bit fuzzy, as if they're drugged up and having a cracking time.  Great stuff.
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Post by: clarion on 09 January, 2010, 06:46:19 pm
Cat Nav by Les Barker & the Mrs Ackroyd Band ;D
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Post by: Moloko on 09 January, 2010, 06:49:39 pm
The Very Best of Ian Dury & the Blockheads.
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Post by: nicknack on 09 January, 2010, 06:51:18 pm
Daughter at work in pub - will probably have to stay there the night.  :thumbsup:

So:

Les Claypool - Live Frogs
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Post by: Butterfly on 09 January, 2010, 07:23:42 pm
Cat Nav, Guide Dogs for the Blind vol 4 - Les Barker ;D
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Post by: andrewc on 09 January, 2010, 08:42:46 pm
PJ Harvey - Pure,    turned up loud..... it's the only way...... :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sth0IYq29C0&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sth0IYq29C0&feature=related)
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Post by: Butterfly on 09 January, 2010, 09:05:16 pm
Top Cat, White Tie and Tails, Guide Cats For the Blind Volume 3 - Les Barker and Others
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Post by: jogler on 09 January, 2010, 09:44:13 pm
Macca & Gilmore covering Elvis.
Magic stuff :thumbsup:

BBC 4 sings Elvis
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Post by: Butterfly on 09 January, 2010, 10:19:00 pm
Dark Side of the Mongrel - Les Barker :D.
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Post by: MSeries on 09 January, 2010, 10:23:22 pm
Utah Saints
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Post by: Deano on 09 January, 2010, 10:26:23 pm
Someone has lent me Dazzle Ships by OMD.  MSeries would probably approve.
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Post by: MSeries on 09 January, 2010, 10:29:59 pm
Tiffany - Think We're Alone Now  on the wireless, real club classics
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Post by: Spinners on 10 January, 2010, 08:09:20 am
A cracking present off my daughter for Christmas, Ministry of Sound - 80's electronic 'anthems' (very few anthems but a really good compilation and I rarely reach for the skip button)


   Ministry of Sound | Ministry of Sound : Anthems Electronic 80s
 (http://www.ministryofsound.com/product/digitaldownload/downloads/download/anthemselectronic80s/)

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Post by: Quisling on 10 January, 2010, 05:17:57 pm

      YouTube
            - Valravn - Koder pÃ¥ snor [ Official ]
    (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6OqDZft42s)

a rather truncated edit of the 7 minute+ title track for the latest Valravn album.  That Anna-Katrin has a beautiful voice, evoking thoughts of Bjork and Noggin the Nog ;)
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Post by: jogler on 13 January, 2010, 02:49:35 pm
 a Beatles marathon which began at 0700 this morning to provide background to shovelling mountains of paper & figure work.This is how it played out
Beatles For Sale
With the Beatles
A Hard Day's Night
Help
Rubber Soul
Revolver
St. Peppers.....
Abbey Rd
Let It Be
Magical Mystery Tour


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Post by: jogler on 13 January, 2010, 03:37:31 pm
& now
War of the Worlds :Jeff Wayne
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Post by: spesh on 13 January, 2010, 06:36:43 pm
Mountain - Greatest Hits
Muse - The Resistance
Metallica - Reload

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Post by: oncemore on 15 January, 2010, 08:20:33 pm
Fred McDowell - jeez, he was a GOOD slide player!
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Post by: Hot Flatus on 15 January, 2010, 08:39:45 pm
Skream-Skream!
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Post by: Frenchie on 15 January, 2010, 09:40:12 pm
Kasabian.

Them Crooked Vultures.
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Post by: jogler on 15 January, 2010, 11:25:45 pm
right now...
Nana Mouskari singing Hey Jude
Not really sure about that
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Post by: Deano on 15 January, 2010, 11:26:27 pm
Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
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Post by: Snakehips on 15 January, 2010, 11:28:33 pm
A collection of tracks that I got from YouTube , converted to MP3 , downloaded to my PC and forgot about. (until today)

Snake

 My Library  (http://www.yudu.com/library/6690/Snakehips-s-Library)
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Post by: jogler on 16 January, 2010, 12:04:49 am
Right now...
Macca doing Lady Madonna unplugged  :thumbsup: with a bloke named Jools Holland lending a hand :)
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Post by: Hot Flatus on 16 January, 2010, 09:33:18 am
Sub Focus
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Post by: Frenchie on 16 January, 2010, 11:38:05 am
The Man Comes Around -- Johnny Cash.

Superb and touching.
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Post by: Cyclops on 16 January, 2010, 04:24:37 pm
Searching for the Young Soul Rebels by Dexys Midnight Runners.

Haven't listened to this in years and forgot how good it was. Hooray for spotify :thumbsup:
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Post by: Bluebottle on 16 January, 2010, 07:04:50 pm

Neil Young - Trans

Neil does disco...ish. Plus vocoders.  Odd, not exactly his best work, but strangely leaves be with a smile on my face.  "You need me like ugly needs a mirror" is quite Beckettian in quality.  Almost.
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Post by: Andrij on 16 January, 2010, 07:15:42 pm
Bizet's "Carmen", live from the Metropolitan Opera, New York (BBC Radio 3)
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Post by: microphonie on 17 January, 2010, 07:14:33 pm
Muslimgauze - Sycophant of Purdah

Rotor+ - Map Key Window

Nice & chilled...
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Post by: Hot Flatus on 18 January, 2010, 01:28:39 pm
Miles_Gurtu

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Post by: PaulF on 18 January, 2010, 01:32:47 pm
"Great Lake Swimmers Radio" from Pandora
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Post by: Dinamo on 19 January, 2010, 03:43:15 pm
The Man Machine ~ The Story of Kraftwerk via BBC i-player
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Post by: Redlight on 19 January, 2010, 03:47:16 pm
all kinds of odd stuff that is being transferred to i-tunes before finding a home in the attic until I can figure out where to put it. Where else do Buddy Holly, Dubstar, Eric Bogle and Clash all share a home?

You see, you CAN have too many CDs!
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Post by: Frenchie on 19 January, 2010, 05:40:07 pm
Them Crooked Vultures
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Post by: Hot Flatus on 19 January, 2010, 05:43:17 pm
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan remixed by Gaudi
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Post by: Vernon on 19 January, 2010, 07:30:52 pm
Having just purchased this (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Catalogue-Kraftwerk/dp/B002LCOQTG), I am now listening to Autobahn.
I may be gone some time...
 :)
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Post by: Tourist Tony on 19 January, 2010, 08:43:45 pm
Kath Tickell, "Strange but True"
A truly wonderfulvirtuoso on fiddle and small pipes, here playing with an eclectic mix of odd instruments, just pure joy and musicality. Playing for the sheer delight ofmaking music with friends. Playing along myself on the mando....[Jazz Club] Great!!!
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Post by: DrMekon on 19 January, 2010, 10:09:26 pm
lots of 12k, raster noton stuff and minimalism generally  today. loving shuttle 358, taylor deupree and mokira at the mo', but today was mainly philip glass ensemble and steve reich.

Is there a yacf last.fm group?
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Post by: Tourist Tony on 19 January, 2010, 10:37:02 pm
lots of 12k, raster noton stuff and minimalism generally  today. loving shuttle 358, taylor deupree and mokira at the mo', but today was mainly philip glass ensemble and steve reich.

Is there a yacf last.fm group?
DO-YOU-SPIKKA-DA-INGLISH?
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Post by: Chris S on 20 January, 2010, 04:33:04 pm
Regina Spektor - Begin to Hope
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Post by: jogler on 20 January, 2010, 04:49:45 pm
The Power of Love :Shirley Bassey
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Post by: microphonie on 20 January, 2010, 06:21:29 pm
The xx - xx (laidback indie)

King Midas Sound - Waiting For You (laidback dubstep with vocals)  8)
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Post by: Tourist Tony on 21 January, 2010, 11:52:44 pm
Sigur Ros, Hvarf-Heim
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 22 January, 2010, 09:08:19 am
Sentenced
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Post by: groucho on 22 January, 2010, 09:26:55 am
The Eels - End Times
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Post by: nicknack on 22 January, 2010, 05:14:30 pm
Still In Love With You - Thin Lizzy Live and Dangerous

Loud

Keyboard's all blurry.  :'(
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Post by: jogler on 22 January, 2010, 08:11:30 pm
Still In Love With You - Thin Lizzy Live and Dangerous

Loud

Keyboard's all blurry.  :'(

coincidently my Thin Lizzy stuff plays the same way
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Post by: DrMekon on 22 January, 2010, 08:33:37 pm
some dub, mainly king tubby stuff.
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Post by: Dinamo on 22 January, 2010, 08:46:22 pm
Planet Rock Radio playing Them Crooked Vultures  ;D
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Post by: geoff on 23 January, 2010, 12:25:32 am
audacity of huge (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ylu0ybj7DIg) - simian mobile disco

a small work of genius
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Post by: Flying_Monkey on 23 January, 2010, 06:43:45 pm
Owen Pallett's new album Heartland. He is an unclassifiable genius in the Sufjan Stevens mode. But Canadian.

And apparently he's playing tin London at Union Chapel on the 25th, so get down there if you have a chance. He is brilliant.
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Post by: PaulF on 23 January, 2010, 07:27:02 pm
World Party ~ Bang!

Sublime
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Post by: Hot Flatus on 23 January, 2010, 07:28:09 pm
Anouar Brahim, Le Pas du Chat Noir
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Post by: jogler on 24 January, 2010, 06:42:49 pm
Elvis Presley : 30#1 Hits
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Post by: MSeries on 24 January, 2010, 06:43:47 pm
World Party ~ Bang!

Sublime

Great album, on CD or vinyl ?
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Post by: PaulF on 24 January, 2010, 06:48:06 pm
World Party ~ Bang!

Sublime



Great album, on CD or vinyl ?

MP3 :)

But ripped from CD - discovered them in my post vinyl days. Is there a difference between the CD and vinyl versions? Apart from the mystery track on the CD version that cuts in afetr 17 minutes or so of silence and scared the sh!t out of me the first time it cut in
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Post by: Redlight on 24 January, 2010, 08:08:21 pm
The Beatles mono remasters

Amazing .... bit of marketing  :-\

I guess they made it a boxed set because they knew that we'd all rush out and buy Revolver, Pepper and the White Album and ignore the rest.

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Post by: jogler on 24 January, 2010, 08:14:01 pm
I've managed to ignore the White Album since rebuilding my Beatles collection following a house burglary in 1978.
I think the only marketing exercise I've bought into was buying the #1 Hits album.
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Post by: Redlight on 24 January, 2010, 08:54:59 pm
I;m at the other extreme.  When I get around to buying the remastered Stereo version, it will be my fifth copy - two vinyl, one original CD, mono CD and then new stereo CD.  Am on to 4th copy of Revolver and With The Beatles too. 
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Post by: Domestique on 25 January, 2010, 07:11:20 pm
Jullian Cope - Peggy Suicide
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Post by: PaulF on 25 January, 2010, 07:25:56 pm
Contra ~ Vampire Weekend

Not a great progression from their debut but that's not a bad thing :thumbsup:
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Post by: Chris S on 27 January, 2010, 03:40:13 pm
Meddle - Pink Floyd.

"One of these days, I'm going to cut you into little pieces..."
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Post by: jogler on 27 January, 2010, 04:25:21 pm
Dolly Parton ; Super Hits.

I resisted the temptation to refer to it as Supertits.Oh...FAIL ;D
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Post by: nicknack on 27 January, 2010, 04:27:43 pm
Chameleon in the Shadow of the Night - Peter Hammill
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Post by: Redlight on 27 January, 2010, 04:51:34 pm
Chameleon in the Shadow of the Night - Peter Hammill

That's just inspired me to dig out my vinyl copy of The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage.  Rubicon is still a chiller
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 28 January, 2010, 01:07:40 pm
Goldfrapp - Felt Mountain seems to be doing the techincal report writing biz right now, and after that I might try a bit of Sigur Ros - Takk.
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Post by: Moloko on 28 January, 2010, 01:42:38 pm
Nina Simone.


Damn, she's good.
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Post by: kyuss on 30 January, 2010, 01:47:27 am
Madeleine Peyroux, 'Bare Bones'.

And Imelda May, 'Love Tattoo'.
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Post by: jogler on 30 January, 2010, 05:52:43 pm
Toady I spent many,many minutes listeneing to my heart going thudthudthud as I laboured up some long drags
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Post by: spesh on 30 January, 2010, 06:05:13 pm
Great cover versions (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=29267.msg537015#msg537015)

Not in their entirety, mind! ;D
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Post by: nicknack on 30 January, 2010, 06:28:08 pm
Mostly Sonny Rollins.
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Post by: Aidan on 30 January, 2010, 06:34:58 pm
get yer ya yas out   Rolling Stones
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Post by: rogerzilla on 04 February, 2010, 08:24:24 pm
A Pet Shop Boys "best of".  Some gems among the (multitudinous) dross, like "Rent", "West End Girls" and "Being Boring".
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Post by: oncemore on 05 February, 2010, 08:31:32 pm
Saxon. Wheels of Steel. Pretend Metal, me.
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Post by: spesh on 06 February, 2010, 09:44:21 am
Joe Perry - Have Guitar, Will Travel

Presented free with this month's Classic Rock magazine, it's an interesting album by Aerosmith's lead guitarist.
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Post by: geoff on 06 February, 2010, 04:15:40 pm
Mayday - Tinashe (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1Ig94Ja7hg)

going viral soon, I expect
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Post by: Tim Hall on 06 February, 2010, 05:45:28 pm
Revolver, The Beatles.

Six quid in Mr Sainsbury's Emporium of Toothy Comestibles.
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Post by: geoff on 06 February, 2010, 08:17:55 pm
Revolver, The Beatles.

Six quid in Mr Sainsbury's Emporium of Toothy Comestibles.

Good tip Mr H, thanks: I just scored the Beach Boys' "Pet Sounds" at Sainsbury's for a fiver.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 06 February, 2010, 08:53:07 pm
Revolver, The Beatles.

Six quid in Mr Sainsbury's Emporium of Toothy Comestibles.

Good tip Mr H, thanks: I just scored the Beach Boys' "Pet Sounds" at Sainsbury's for a fiver.
I always thought Pet Sounds was over-rated; the 2-in-1 CDs of "Little Deuce Coupe/All Summer Long" and "Surfer Girl/Shut Down Vol. II" are great though, and are a whole £4 each from Amazon.
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Post by: kcass on 07 February, 2010, 11:39:35 am
Kate Bush - Aerial.  Utterly brilliant. Seriously
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Post by: andrewc on 09 February, 2010, 07:31:41 pm
"It'll End In Tears", This Mortal Coil.    Kangaroo, Holocaust, Song To The Siren, Fond Affections ...... what a wonderful selection  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Deano on 09 February, 2010, 07:38:47 pm
South Shields's gift to the world: The Wildhearts :thumbsup:
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Post by: Legs on 09 February, 2010, 07:48:10 pm
Reg's Don't Shoot Me I'm Only The Piano Player
Blues For Baby And Me is one of his very finest works.  IMHO.
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Post by: perpetual dan on 09 February, 2010, 09:24:07 pm
Moodswings' moodfood - which I remembered while watching the Brian Eno programme the other night. Takes me back.
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Post by: Redlight on 10 February, 2010, 07:42:37 am
Steve Hackett's Spectral Mornings from 1979.  Some dross on it, to be sure - Hackett always had a weakness for naff "comedy" songs, but the title track and Everyday still pack some punch and Clocks has always cried out to be a soundtrack. 

A strong reminder that it was his departure rather than Peter Gabriel's that marked the artistic death knell for Genesis.
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Post by: Mobbsy on 10 February, 2010, 08:13:11 am
Half Man Half Biscuit - Acthung Bono. Top drawer puns including a reference to a 'drive-by shouting' in the excellent song 'For What is Chatteris...'.
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Post by: DrMekon on 10 February, 2010, 08:25:09 am
Nico Muhly. Missed him in Cambridge recently.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 10 February, 2010, 10:00:25 am
Half Man Half Biscuit - Acthung Bono. Top drawer puns including a reference to a 'drive-by shouting' in the excellent song 'For What is Chatteris...'.

Did the Mildenhall 300 in 2006, which had a control in Chatteris.  Our group got horribly carved up by a bus, which certainly led to a drive- or at least ride-, by shouting.
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Post by: Mobbsy on 10 February, 2010, 08:08:02 pm
Did the Mildenhall 300 in 2006, which had a control in Chatteris....

A control in Chatteris alone sounds like it makes the Mildenhall 300 worth considering (without added bus)
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 11 February, 2010, 11:20:41 am
A control in Chatteris alone sounds like it makes the Mildenhall 300 worth considering (without added bus)

The Green Welly Cafe.  NB: it helps if you have Bridget leading your group from the previous control coz (s)he knows the way around Cambridge.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 11 February, 2010, 09:01:54 pm
Mozart's Don Giovanni.  Goodness knows what they're singing about, but they're good at it.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 12 February, 2010, 12:07:17 pm
Mozart's Don Giovanni.  Goodness knows what they're singing about

Isn't that the one about proportional representation?
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Post by: jogler on 13 February, 2010, 09:17:10 am
Radio 2:Sounds of the Sixties with Brian Matthew.
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Post by: nicknack on 13 February, 2010, 12:20:19 pm
A bit of noise for Saturday morning - Them Crooked Vultures.
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Post by: Gaseous Clay on 13 February, 2010, 12:31:20 pm
...and feeling the bass loop from the crap that the pikey bastards next door have ramped up with no consideration for any f****r but themselves.  >:(

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Post by: Frenchie on 13 February, 2010, 06:08:27 pm
I was watching "Francais pour une Nuit", Metallica's live DVD at the Arenes de Nime last July...
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Post by: microphonie on 16 February, 2010, 06:45:37 pm
Borgore - Gorestep Vol 1

Dirty & twisted dubstep
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Post by: Redlight on 16 February, 2010, 07:57:51 pm
So far this afternoon/evening:

Rise up like the sun - Albion band
Bringing it all back home - Dylan
Laughter and lust - Joe Jackson
The Most of Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks

maybe some Nick Drake next  :)



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Post by: Chris S on 16 February, 2010, 08:13:06 pm
Peter Gabriel - Scratch My Back (on WE7)

Erm... not too sure about this one Pete...
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Post by: StuAff on 17 February, 2010, 12:06:23 am
I was watching "Francais pour une Nuit", Metallica's live DVD at the Arenes de Nime last July...

Excellent show- I got the Blu-ray.
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Post by: goatpebble on 17 February, 2010, 08:33:32 pm
At this moment, Pascal Rogé and Ravel. Gaspard de le Nuit.

I spent the afternoon doing paperwork, with Pierre-Laurent Aimard, and Ligeti.
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Post by: Mobbsy on 17 February, 2010, 09:09:29 pm
Curtains - Tindersticks
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Post by: Deano on 17 February, 2010, 10:03:43 pm
Killing Joke.  Fire Dances.
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Post by: andrewc on 17 February, 2010, 10:28:04 pm
"Movements In Colour".  Andy Sheppard.  I saw him playing last week with Joanna MacGregor and the RLPO.
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Post by: StuAff on 17 February, 2010, 11:47:06 pm
Right now, Metallica '...And Justice...'. Before that, Meat Beat Manifesto's 'Autoimmune'. And before that, Hayseed Dixie's 'Killer Grass'. Which is indeed Killer...:)
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Post by: Flying_Monkey on 18 February, 2010, 01:37:12 pm
Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um - that cat could play!
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Post by: jogler on 18 February, 2010, 02:47:05 pm
The Four Tops: The Difinitive Collection
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Post by: nicknack on 18 February, 2010, 03:42:46 pm
The 40th Anniversary series of "The Court of the Crimson", Lizard" and "Red". All remastered by Steven Wilson (of Porcupine Tree), and bloody good they are too.
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Post by: goatpebble on 18 February, 2010, 09:18:00 pm
"Movements In Colour".  Andy Sheppard.  I saw him playing last week with Joanna MacGregor and the RLPO.

ooh, jealous I am!

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Post by: rogerzilla on 18 February, 2010, 09:19:11 pm
"Fin ch'han dal vino", as murdered by Darius on Popstar to Opera Star last week.  Samuel Ramey does it rather better.
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Post by: Flying_Monkey on 19 February, 2010, 04:34:25 pm
Officium by Jan Gabarek and The Hilliard Ensemble. Until I heard a track from this on the radio the other day I would never have thought that improvised saxophone and mediaeval Christian choral music was a combination I would like. Not all of it works, but when it does it is sublime.
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Post by: jogler on 24 February, 2010, 07:22:24 pm
Eliminator:ZZ Top

loudly
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Post by: goatpebble on 24 February, 2010, 09:31:44 pm
Janacek, the String Quartet no. 1, 'The Kreutzer Sonata'

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Post by: spesh on 25 February, 2010, 05:06:32 pm
... rainwater hammering on the flat roof over the utility area.

Which is failing to drown out the Euro-$hite dance music being played next-door.

Oh, the joys of living in terraced housing...

Re-installing Unreal Tournament and connecting up some speakers to the PC would be churlish now, wouldn't it? :demon:
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Post by: andrewc on 25 February, 2010, 10:26:55 pm
I'm not long back from watching Vasily Petrenko conduct the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic performing Mahler's 2nd.    Utterly stunning.   If you have a chance to see the Phil under Petrenko be sure to take it.  I'm very fortunate to have them 10 minutes walk from my flat  :smug:

http://www.youtube.com/user/RoyalLiverpoolPhil (http://www.youtube.com/user/RoyalLiverpoolPhil)

Back home I'm having a change of pace with Anouar Brahem playing oud http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=34405 (http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=34405)
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Post by: Pneumant on 26 February, 2010, 06:54:18 pm
Animals as Leaders

A brilliant instrumental guitar rock album by ace guitarist  Tosin Abasi, recommended if you like Satriani/Vai/Petrucci etc.
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Post by: PaulF on 26 February, 2010, 07:35:21 pm
Prompted by the 'Prog' thread Gordon Giltrap's 'Fear of the Dark'.
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Post by: Wascally Weasel on 27 February, 2010, 01:01:46 am
Shamelessly listening to early Marillion on spotify.  I'm on Grendel at the minute (well 17 minutes).
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Post by: Flying_Monkey on 27 February, 2010, 03:05:45 pm
Ben Harper - Both Sides of the Gun.
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Post by: Pingu on 28 February, 2010, 12:25:36 am
The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place - Explosions In The Sky

Prog rock for the 21st century  :P
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Post by: mr endon on 28 February, 2010, 05:47:32 am
Big Bill Broonzy.
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Post by: Moloko on 28 February, 2010, 11:49:28 am
The Lark Ascending - Ralph Vaughan Williams.

Coincidently, the sun is also brightly shining through the window. Glorious!
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 28 February, 2010, 11:53:16 am
The Music Lives On Now The Mines Have Gone: Best Of The Colliery Bands (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Music-Lives-Mines-Have-Gone/dp/B0033PRSSG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1267357904&sr=1-1)

Can't beat a brass band.
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Post by: Hummers on 28 February, 2010, 01:40:06 pm
Steely Dan.

Quite excellent stuff.

H
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Post by: pcolbeck on 28 February, 2010, 01:46:41 pm
Jaques Brel - Infinement
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Post by: Redlight on 01 March, 2010, 10:25:43 pm
Greendale by Neil Young.  What a gig that was!!!
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Post by: mikeitup on 03 March, 2010, 08:22:30 pm
Steel Panther - "Feel The Steel"

It rocks!!  :thumbsup: :thumbsup: 8)
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Post by: goatpebble on 03 March, 2010, 08:37:24 pm
Poulenc, the Trois Mouvements perpétuels, played by Pascal Rogé.

I remember my mother playing this, before her wrists suffered from all sorts of nasty stuff.

edit: I am sure she has not blamed Poulenc for her painful wrists.

edit again: I am now listening to Le Bestiaire, which I have actually sung (with careful coaching)
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Post by: Flying_Monkey on 04 March, 2010, 12:19:08 am
Poulenc, the Trois Mouvements perpétuels, played by Pascal Rogé.

Definitely the best interpreter of Poulenc and Satie IMHO...
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Post by: Moloko on 04 March, 2010, 04:34:12 pm

Sparks.    :) (http://i578.photobucket.com/albums/ss226/SgtBikeo/smiley.gif)


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Post by: spesh on 04 March, 2010, 05:28:20 pm

Sparks.    :) (http://i578.photobucket.com/albums/ss226/SgtBikeo/smiley.gif)

"Zoo time is she and you time"  8)

Shouldn't the Russel Mael smiley have more hair?  ;D
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Post by: Moloko on 04 March, 2010, 05:31:30 pm

Sparks.    :) (http://i578.photobucket.com/albums/ss226/SgtBikeo/smiley.gif)

"Zoo time is she and you time"  8)

Shouldn't the Russel Mael smiley have more hair?  ;D

 ;D


I couldn't Get In The Swing.
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Post by: bikenerd on 05 March, 2010, 10:32:35 am
Liars, Autechre, Steve Reich, Tortoise and S Club 7.
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Post by: Moloko on 05 March, 2010, 10:46:47 am
Pigeon Toed Orange Peel. No more, no less...
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Post by: perpetual dan on 05 March, 2010, 11:41:43 pm
Jerry Dammers and the Spatial AKA Orchestra ... just got home ... that was different  :thumbsup:
space is the place... ;D
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Post by: Pneumant on 07 March, 2010, 08:09:53 pm
Foreigner - Can't Slow Down

Got most of the  Foreigner CD's in my collection. This latest one is minus original vocalist  Lou Gramm (replaced by the just as good  Kelly Hansen). A rather good CD IMO, a good mix of killer melodic rock tracks and trademark ballads.  Not as good as Foreigner 4 but recommended 8)
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Post by: Tewdric on 07 March, 2010, 08:18:20 pm
The Beatles 24 bit USB edition. 

I may be some time..
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Post by: Redlight on 07 March, 2010, 08:53:45 pm
The Beatles 24 bit USB edition. 

I may be some time..

As in "The Beatles" double or the whole back catalogue?

Any good?  I was a bit underwhelmed by the remastered Revolver CD.
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Post by: Tourist Tony on 08 March, 2010, 12:31:35 am
Alannah Myles, eponymous and Rocking Horse. A great rock screamer. And a really durrty voice.....almost as sleazy as Hope Sandoval
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Post by: Tourist Tony on 08 March, 2010, 12:44:12 am
Now playing Leslie West, "Dodging the Dirt"
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Post by: spesh on 08 March, 2010, 09:08:58 am
Alannah Myles, eponymous and Rocking Horse. A great rock screamer. And a really durrty voice.....almost as sleazy as Hope Sandoval

Oh yes indeedy!  :D

Always thought Black Velvet was a song to be interpreted horizontally with one's dancing partner.

Got her third album (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Alannah-Myles/dp/B000002J7A/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1268038827&sr=1-6) as well as the two you mentioned.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 08 March, 2010, 11:43:48 am
I Am The Golden Gate Bridge ~ Creature With The Atom Brain

Homme-approved Belgian stoners, with added Mark Lanegan.  Good stuff :thumbsup:
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Post by: jogler on 08 March, 2010, 01:28:00 pm
The Supremes: The #1's
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Post by: Frenchie on 08 March, 2010, 01:34:25 pm
A maiden playlist on YouTube. The Clansman is on right now.
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Post by: Chris N on 08 March, 2010, 01:37:16 pm
Led Zeppelin Remasters.  Underworld next.
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Post by: Domestique on 09 March, 2010, 06:43:04 pm
Madness - One step beyond
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Post by: pcolbeck on 09 March, 2010, 07:52:29 pm
Handel - Italian Cantatas - Natalie Dessay and Emmanuelle Haim
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Post by: RJ on 09 March, 2010, 10:38:35 pm
 Ali Farka Toure & Toumani Diabate - Ali & Toumani (http://www.nonesuch.com/albums/ali-and-toumani).

A wished-for birthday present - sublime (poignant too, obviously).
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 10 March, 2010, 09:16:56 am
Transylvania ~ Creature With The Atom Brain.

Big mistake to put your passport photos on the cover, lads.  Nothing that ugly has been seen in public since that time Phil May appeared on TOTP with a huge boil on his nose.
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Post by: nicknack on 10 March, 2010, 10:27:06 am
Dusty in Memphis. Makes a change from prog and jazz.
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Post by: Pneumant on 10 March, 2010, 05:06:20 pm
Streetwalkers - Downtown Flyers

I love Roger Chapman's stuff, this is a wonderful recording full of warmth and great songs  :thumbsup:
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Post by: goatpebble on 11 March, 2010, 09:34:06 pm
Messiaen, the Vingt Regards. It's the 1975 recording, of Yvonne Loriod.
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Post by: andrewc on 11 March, 2010, 09:55:28 pm
Ali Farka Toure & Toumani Diabate - Ali & Toumani (http://www.nonesuch.com/albums/ali-and-toumani).

A wished-for birthday present - sublime (poignant too, obviously).

I bought this earlier today. Very, very good. I saw Toumani Diabeate play in Liverpool last year.

Currently listening to Anouar Brahem,  "The Astounding Eyes of Rita".  More Oud.

I've a musical weekend lined up, tomorrow it's The Portico Quartet (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM6hPuui-l8) , on Saturday it's Dhafer Youssef (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=30675.0) and on Sunday it's the RLPO Youth Orchestra (http://www.liverpoolphil.com/?lid=468)  :D
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Post by: Spinners on 11 March, 2010, 10:16:00 pm
Bryan Ferry & Roxy Music - The Platinum Collection (Triple CD)

I didn't appreciate him when I was younger but what an effortlessly smooth voice (and the coolest man on the planet).
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Post by: goatpebble on 12 March, 2010, 08:51:31 pm
Ali Farka Toure: Radio Mali

and earlier, Meredith Monk. Turtle Dreams.
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Post by: mikeitup on 13 March, 2010, 01:09:27 pm
........Rock Sugar - "Re-imaginator"

Excellent covers album of rock/pop hits that improve on alot of the originals IMO.

Not just bog standard renditions either.  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Moloko on 13 March, 2010, 05:26:17 pm
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis  -  R. V. Williams.
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Post by: goatpebble on 13 March, 2010, 08:44:47 pm
Anton Webern, 6 Stücke für Orchester op. 6

Difficult and muscular stuff. Webern loved the Alps, and his music often seems to reflect the small and strange thoughts you might have on a long and lonely climb.

For me, when I am sweating, and worrying, sometimes I look down, and the sight of small alpine plants, the tiny flowers, or the crystals in the rocks, then Webern's intense music comes into my mind.
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Post by: jogler on 16 March, 2010, 12:20:29 pm
Elvis; The # 1's.

The neighbours both sides are out so the volume is up :)
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Post by: Deano on 16 March, 2010, 11:06:09 pm
Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.........
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Post by: Frenchie on 17 March, 2010, 08:19:09 am
My Maiden collection on my HD. I blame the BBC; and Sky Arts.  ::-)
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Post by: pcolbeck on 18 March, 2010, 09:09:03 pm
Cat Power - The Greatest

Haven't listened to this for ages. It's really rather good.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 22 March, 2010, 09:11:25 pm
Highlights from Don Giovanni, to be precise, "Madamina, il catalogo e questo", which is Leporello telling the jilted Donna Elvira about the Don's thousands of previous women (1,003 in Spain alone), and not exactly sparing her feelings.
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Post by: microphonie on 23 March, 2010, 06:45:01 pm
Orbital - Live in Sydney on 6Music:  6 Mix  (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00rm291#p0070hnz)
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Post by: pcolbeck on 23 March, 2010, 10:44:52 pm
Kraftwerk - Minimum Maximum
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Post by: StuAff on 23 March, 2010, 11:32:51 pm
Orbital - Live in Sydney on 6Music:  6 Mix  (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00rm291#p0070hnz)

Thanks for the heads-up, first I knew of Phil & Paul doing these shows on 6Music (missed part one, grr).
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Post by: Steve GT on 24 March, 2010, 10:21:23 am
Just listened to..
AC/DC - The Razors Edge.
Now Peter Gabriel - So.
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Post by: Moloko on 24 March, 2010, 01:32:51 pm
Love is Blue (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPq2HSzgWR4).  J. S. Bach meets Ferrero Rocher.
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Post by: Chris S on 26 March, 2010, 11:37:24 am
Bit of a Mike Oldfield day:

Tubular Bells II
Songs of Distant Earth
Ommadawn
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Post by: tiermat on 26 March, 2010, 11:40:58 am
Best of the Stone Roses.

"...I wanna, wanna, wanna be adored....."

Until recently I had not realised just how musically gifted some members of this band are/were, "I am the Resurrection" stands out as an absolute belter.
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Post by: Moloko on 26 March, 2010, 11:54:48 am
Der Hölle Rache (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERsjRsCBlBo).  Erika Miklosa is just so glovely.   :-*
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Post by: Riggers on 26 March, 2010, 11:56:31 am
Glopperly glovely.
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Post by: Riggers on 26 March, 2010, 12:01:22 pm
That's why it's called a 'glop' glove.
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Post by: longers on 27 March, 2010, 10:41:58 am
Talking Heads are on the stereo. Again. Only me in the workshop so the volume is of my choosing.

I picked up Fear of Music in Vinyl Exchange recently, found 3 more bargains on Amazon and am wondering why I didn't do this years ago.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 28 March, 2010, 06:18:36 pm
Would you believe the best of Kylie Minogue?
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Post by: Zoidburg on 28 March, 2010, 06:19:27 pm
Would you believe the best of Kylie Minogue?
Regulator will be with you shortly.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 28 March, 2010, 06:25:03 pm
A work colleague came up with what he considered to be a cast-iron "gay" test, which consisted of the simple question:

"Do you fancy Kylie Minogue?"

The idea was that any heterosexual male would reply "yes", but with hindsight, it was probably the most inaccurate test ever devised.
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Post by: Zoidburg on 28 March, 2010, 06:28:55 pm
Ohhhh it's perfectly straight to fancy the antipodean pocket sex penguin that is kylie.

Buying all her albums and going to GAY to see her perform live - without the wife in tow.

That may raise eybrows.
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Post by: matthew on 28 March, 2010, 08:49:47 pm
Chris Wood: Handmade Life.

Complete with his folk song  "Hollow Point". Following the folk tradition of recording history of the little man against the state by telling the tail of a fatal journey that only got as far as Stockwell tube.



I first heard the song live, without introduction, last year. You could hear the intakes of breath in the audience as each person realised what the song was about.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 28 March, 2010, 08:54:13 pm
Ohhhh it's perfectly straight to fancy the antipodean pocket sex penguin that is kylie.

Buying all her albums and going to GAY to see her perform live - without the wife in tow.

That may raise eybrows.

Have you seen the advert she did for Agent Provacteur (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Vk4RiEMLY8) ? Strewth !
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Post by: Spinners on 29 March, 2010, 10:30:30 pm
Perennial favourites - OMD's 'Organisation' and the follow-up 'Architecture and Morality'.

On the former, I just love their version 'The more I see you' (made famous by Chris Montez in the 60's but dating back a lot further than that).
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Post by: oncemore on 30 March, 2010, 09:00:28 pm
You Tube - nice!

Chuck Berry & Keith Richards - Oh Carol
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Post by: nicknack on 30 March, 2010, 09:02:09 pm
Haq Ali Ali by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 31 March, 2010, 03:33:08 pm
Medieval Baebes http://www.mediaevalbaebes.com/ (http://www.mediaevalbaebes.com/)

Been a while since I listened to them, forgot how good they are.
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Post by: Tourist Tony on 31 March, 2010, 09:05:39 pm
Before work, Introduction to Eels

Afterwards, it will be Sigur Ros and Takk.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 01 April, 2010, 02:59:50 pm
Don't laugh.

Please don't laugh.

The "Love Never Dies" cast recording.  The show may or may not suck, but the music is fine at a first listening.  At least one of the main themes is re-used from the Phantom film, though.
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Post by: Flying_Monkey on 01 April, 2010, 04:54:11 pm
Don't laugh.

Please don't laugh.

The "Love Never Dies" cast recording.  The show may or may not suck, but the music is fine at a first listening.  At least one of the main themes is re-used from the Phantom film, though.

And you were complaining about Burt Bacherach being cheese the other day? Come on, Lloyd Webber has no soul. It's music for people who hate music.  :demon: >:( ;)
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Post by: Dinamo on 02 April, 2010, 02:52:56 pm
Planet Rock on Digitial Radio

Just played Foo Fighters ~ Monkey Wrench, and todays Triology at Three is 3 songs from David Gilmour  ;D
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Post by: Dinamo on 02 April, 2010, 03:17:03 pm
Planet Rock on Digitial Radio

Just played Foo Fighters ~ Monkey Wrench, and todays Triology at Three is 3 songs from David Gilmour  ;D

On An Island : Fat Old Sun ( Live ) : There's No Way Out Of Here
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Post by: pcolbeck on 02 April, 2010, 05:33:48 pm
The same annoying blues loop round and round in TablEdit whist I try and get my head around soundfonts so I can get a reasonably authentic acoustic guitar sound for midi.
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Post by: Redlight on 02 April, 2010, 08:49:19 pm
Johnny Cash at San Quentin (jail)

the man had presence.
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Post by: Tourist Tony on 05 April, 2010, 01:48:31 am
Still listening to Eels. A man with a real feel for words
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Post by: Basil on 05 April, 2010, 12:09:28 pm
Wire.  Pink Flag.

Not normally lunch time listening for me.  I'm obviously in a "Mood"  :demon:
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Post by: jogler on 07 April, 2010, 12:47:57 pm
Fleetwood Mac,the early version with Peter Green.Magic stuff with a threat of nostalgia overload
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Post by: Dinamo on 08 April, 2010, 10:47:39 am
Roxy Music ~ Flesh + Blood

Bought in FOPP for £4 on Sunday - what a bargain for an excellent album, haven't heard it for years ( used to own cassette ), not a bad track on whole album  ;D
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Post by: Chris S on 08 April, 2010, 11:00:23 am
The Who - Ultimate Collection
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Post by: nicknack on 08 April, 2010, 09:02:22 pm
The Edgar Broughton Band - Wasa Wasa
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Post by: Air Dancer on 09 April, 2010, 09:00:49 pm
Hard Corps - "Metal and Flesh"

Pleased to find this
      YouTube
            - Hard Corps Dirty
    (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukh8il7kEs0)
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Post by: Deano on 10 April, 2010, 11:57:07 am
Digging through some old CDs, so currently it's Selected Ambient Works Vol II, by Aphex Twin.
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Post by: Tourist Tony on 12 April, 2010, 01:39:33 am
Just got back from the folk club, where I had a play on a very nice bouzouki. So now having a Kath Tickell binge....
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Post by: oncemore on 13 April, 2010, 08:25:27 pm
Sister Ray...as my then dealer/mate said as he staggered from the room BEFORE it ended "...dangerous music, man....." The peak and drop off is better than White Rabbit - even without the grapefruit.

Takes me back to the good days like nowt else can...
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Post by: microphonie on 14 April, 2010, 07:17:16 pm
Working my way through a pile of bargain (£18 the lot!) purchases from the excellent Scottish electronica label  Benbecula  (http://www.benbecula.com/index.shtml)

Christ. - Blue Shift Emissions
Christ. - Seeing & Doing
Frog Pocket - Moon Mountain of the Fords
Ochre - Lemodie
Ochre - Like Dust of the Balance
Prhizzm - Prhizzm e.p.
Reverbaphon - The Medium thru Which Sound Travels is No Longer Present
Reverbaphon - Our Heart Beats With Joy (The Curved World Outside)
V/A - Benbecula Music Vol 1 & 2
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Post by: spesh on 14 April, 2010, 09:35:15 pm
An acoustic (or at least, electro-acoustic) playlist I put together last night.

Everthing from Tim Hardin to Hawkwind, with a good sprinkling of Alannah Myles, Magnum and Robert Plant/Led Zeppelin...  8)

And a bit of ecoutez et repetez - Heart must have been maxing out on Led Zeppelin's 4th album when they recorded Little Queen   ;D

Dream Of The Archer - Heart (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsnBT3NofiQ)

The Battle Of Evermore - Led Zeppelin (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTuzVZsKAhY)

Hmmmm....
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Post by: Redlight on 14 April, 2010, 10:31:48 pm
Utopia - Deface the Music. 

Very good Beatles pastiche.

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Post by: jogler on 19 April, 2010, 07:19:43 pm
40 Licks:The Rolling Stones

Mrs.Jogler was also listening to it,even though I am wearing headphones :o
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Post by: spesh on 20 April, 2010, 05:12:11 pm
The new album by Slash - and a cast of supporting artists.

I'm liking this one a lot - it's not all Guitar Hero III guitar pyrotechnics, and who would have guessed that both Fergie (Blackeyed Peas) and Nicole Scherzinger (ex-Pussycat Dolls) could do the rock thang with style?  :thumbsup: 8)
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Post by: Wascally Weasel on 21 April, 2010, 11:36:40 pm
Restless Natives soundtrack by Big Country
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Post by: jogler on 22 April, 2010, 03:15:35 pm
Gold Collection:Roy Orbison
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Post by: PaulF on 22 April, 2010, 03:43:55 pm
High Violet ~ THe National
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Post by: rogerzilla on 24 April, 2010, 08:51:28 pm
Right now, "The Way It Is" by Bruce Hornsby and The Range.  It may be AOR, but the piano playing is brilliant.
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Post by: jogler on 26 April, 2010, 04:22:23 pm
Then & Now 1964-2004 : The Who
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Post by: Bluebottle on 02 May, 2010, 05:56:21 pm
Thanks to the Tune Association thread, I is revisiting Ha! Ha! Ha! by Ultravox (pre-Ure). 

Hiroshima Mon Amour, The Man Who Dies Everyday and Young Savage.  All excellent, nice and spiky. 
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Post by: Basil on 02 May, 2010, 06:36:26 pm
An old person responds.

Today, I are mostly listening to "Forever Changes" by Love.

Wow, what a trip down memory lane.

Edit:
I've just had a wander around You Tube.  Here's That Track (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yVBMUXr4xo) for those of you who are old enough.
Warning:  You do have to be quite old for this to be meaningful.
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Post by: plum on 02 May, 2010, 06:39:11 pm
Like Bluebottle I'm mostly listening to the tunes from the tune association thread, suggestions coming in at just the right rate :)
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Post by: Redlight on 03 May, 2010, 09:50:50 pm
Tubular Bells.

Don't ask why!
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Post by: Chris S on 03 May, 2010, 10:32:15 pm
Tubular Bells.

Don't ask why!

Watching The Exorcist?

Oops sorry, you said not to ask.
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Post by: Redlight on 04 May, 2010, 09:12:17 pm
spent the whole weekend wandering around with a couple of bars of unidentified tune on permanent loop in my head. Finally placed them to "somewhere" on the first side of TB, so I had to play it to be sure (and exorcise them). 

Now I can't get rid of the bloody Piltdown Man bit  ::-)
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Post by: andrewc on 05 May, 2010, 01:08:13 pm
Debussy,  Trio in G for violin, cello & piano.   Jacques Rouvier, Jean-Jacques Kantorow & Phillipe Muller.

Lovely.

HMV are doing 4 CD box sets of major classical composers under the "Simply" title. Good value at £10 for 2.
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Post by: bikenerd on 05 May, 2010, 02:38:06 pm
Gas - Nah und fern boxset.
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Post by: microphonie on 05 May, 2010, 06:23:48 pm
Gas - Nah und fern boxset.

That's still on my 'wants' list (one of many...)

Now listening to The Black Dogs mix:  Sheffield vs Downwards via Ealing  (http://www.theblackdogma.com/tbd/?p=1446), which may be of interest to those who enjoyed the Synth Brittania programme on BBC 4, followed by:

Muslimgauze - Babylon Iz Iraq
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Post by: PaulF on 06 May, 2010, 05:22:59 am
Won't Get Fooled Again seems appropriate for today :)
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Post by: tiermat on 06 May, 2010, 08:01:49 am
Currently have "Plastic Beach" by Gorillaz on....

Still not 100% wether I like it...
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Post by: Tourist Tony on 06 May, 2010, 09:17:13 am
Martin Simpson,Smoke and Mirrors
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Post by: bikenerd on 06 May, 2010, 10:57:52 am
Friend of a friend's music project - Walls which is out this week on Kompakt.
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Post by: mattc on 07 May, 2010, 03:09:22 pm
Drunk Girls by LCD Soundsystem

Makes me smile every time it's on the radio (which is nearly hourly on 6!)

At first it sounds like a dumb teenagers song, but then some of the lyrics are wonderfully sweet.

Drunk girls know that love is an astronaut

It comes back, but it's never the same
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Post by: Deano on 09 May, 2010, 10:33:52 pm
Broken Record Prayers by Comet Gain. 

They're one of the few proper bands I saw play Darlington, and this compilation is a blend of marvellous nostalgia and startling discovery. 

I thought they'd quit years ago, so I'm pleased to see that they're still going.
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Post by: Quisling on 12 May, 2010, 10:01:15 pm

      YouTube
            - The National  Bloodbuzz Ohio.  LIVE.wmv
    (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQAF6gmh4qI)

As Wiki says - sort of Bruce Springsteen meets Joy Division.  As seen on Jools last night.
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Post by: nicknack on 12 May, 2010, 11:05:21 pm
This. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQCv97GtaFo)

Not forgetting "Shave 'Em Dry"
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Post by: PaulF on 13 May, 2010, 05:35:53 am

      YouTube
            - The National  Bloodbuzz Ohio.  LIVE.wmv
    (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQAF6gmh4qI)

As Wiki says - sort of Bruce Springsteen meets Joy Division.  As seen on Jools last night.

Get the album! It's brilliant, my current favourite :thumbsup:
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Post by: Chris S on 14 May, 2010, 06:32:47 pm
Infinite Arms - Band of Horses (preview on we7). Sounds great!
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Post by: Aidan on 14 May, 2010, 06:40:49 pm
Rory Gallagher     Bad Penny
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Post by: mattc on 16 May, 2010, 06:04:47 pm
http://beemp3.com/download.php?file=2328495&song=Little+Fluffy+Skies

A lovely spoof (by Alan Parker) of the equally lovely Orb record.
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Post by: jogler on 19 May, 2010, 09:35:29 am
Thin Lizzy.
The neighbours are out & I have the house to myself so..it's VERY LOUD....
& when I have finished this estimate I am going to give the axe a thrash :thumbsup:
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Post by: clarion on 19 May, 2010, 09:39:13 am
The Boys Are Back In Town, then? ;)
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Post by: jogler on 19 May, 2010, 09:48:43 am
more importantly there's whisky in the jar-o coffee :)
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Post by: токамак on 19 May, 2010, 08:17:17 pm
Innervisions (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innervisions) - Stevie Wonder (1973).

The song 'Jesus Children of America' came into my head at work today, so I downloaded the album. It's been a while since I listened to it - was a favourite in my dad's vinyl collection. 
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Post by: jogler on 20 May, 2010, 02:23:11 pm
Diana Ross & The Supremes:The #1's

nostalgia overload
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Post by: goatpebble on 20 May, 2010, 09:35:58 pm
John Adams: Shaker Loops
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Post by: PaulF on 25 May, 2010, 08:20:02 am
Karen Elson ~ The Ghost Who Walks

That's Mrs Jack White to you and me. As the reviews said "Supermodel marries rock star and records album is a formula unlikely to work but here it does". It's great stuff, rootsy Americana with a country twinge but always a sinister Nick Cave-esque undertone.
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Post by: tiermat on 25 May, 2010, 08:24:45 am
Powderfinger - Golden Rule

Their posters were EVERYWHERE whilst we were in Aus, didn't really catch up with them til we got back and I am loving the sound!

Now to root out the back catalogue :)


      YouTube
            - Powderfinger - All Of The Dreamers
    (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbjzE9wWuyY)
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Post by: Legs on 25 May, 2010, 08:27:55 am
Kansas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CB17uWuBrL0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CB17uWuBrL0)
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Post by: jogler on 31 May, 2010, 10:35:24 am
Radio 2: Tony Blackbumburn broadcasting The Top 60 of the 60's.
It's like being a teenager again :thumbsup:
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Post by: nicknack on 31 May, 2010, 05:13:15 pm
Elephant9 - Walk the Nile

Norwegian jazz/prog trio. Keyboards (mostly Hammond), bass and drums. Wonderful stuff.

From a review on the Beeb:
Quote
It may only contain six tracks, but there’s no shortage of imagination on show throughout this second album from Norwegian show-stoppers Elephant9, favourites on the European jazz scene and purveyors of some of the most dazzling, dizzying instrumental music this side of a dance-world sub-genre yet to pass.

That said, this trio – Ståle Storløkken, Nikolai Hængsle Eilertsen and Torstein Lofthus – might well be key players in whatever form any future dance designs may take, such is their delirious abandonment here, their delivery of propulsive percussion and thick organ guaranteed to set toes tapping. Truly, it’s a set that engages from the off and relents only briefly, during the opening minutes of the title-track, resulting in the sort of sensory onslaught usually reserved for the mightiest of metal acts, or the most affecting of post-rockers. Indeed, there are elements to Elephant9’s sound that echo the slow-shifting soundscapes of the post-rock elite; yet the package here is more vibrant of execution, a consistently high tempo demanding reaction where could-be peer groups would noodle their audience into a catatonic state.

Another excellent Emusic find!
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Post by: Aidan on 31 May, 2010, 06:29:13 pm
Laura Jansen - Bells    pretty damn good
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Post by: Freshwater on 31 May, 2010, 08:58:54 pm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00sg0yk (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00sg0yk) 

I know it's not music but it is what i'm listening to  :)
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Post by: Quisling on 03 June, 2010, 02:25:31 am
I stumbled upon this while researching my summer holiday destination!

   Sad Day We Left The Croft bei MySpace Musik - Kostenlos MP3s anhören, Bilder & Musikvideos ansehen
 (http://www.myspace.com/saddayweleftthecroft)

and the excellent documentary in three parts on youtube about the 1980's punk experience on the Isle of Lewis.  Brilliant!

      YouTube
            - Sad Day We Left the Croft Part 1 of 3
    (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKqNinmZmro&NR=1)

Reminds me of the film "Local Hero".
Q

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Post by: Domestique on 05 June, 2010, 04:05:35 pm
Julian Cope - Peggy Suicide
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Post by: Domestique on 07 June, 2010, 05:10:29 pm
The Stranglers - The Men in Black

Really had forgotten what a great album this is  8)
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Post by: spesh on 08 June, 2010, 11:22:11 pm
Frank Zappa - Sheik Yerbouti

Scabrously amusing, and not for the easily offended... I have TT to thank (or blame? :demon: ) for exposing me to Zappa's warped genius. ;D

Heaven & Hell - The Devil You Know

Black Sabbath Mk.2 in all but name - full of power, brooding evil and - prior to his untimely demise - proof that Ronnie James Dio still had a good set of pipes at his age.

Just finished listening to a Blue Oyster Cult compilation, and now it's decision time - Budgie's magnum opus, or Ted Nugent's?

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Post by: Snakehips on 10 June, 2010, 09:23:24 am
Howlin' Wolf , one hundred today.

Snake


 My Library  (http://www.yudu.com/library/6690/Snakehips-s-Library)
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Post by: Redlight on 10 June, 2010, 09:20:19 pm
Buddy Holly

Don't know why, just felt like going: well-a well-a well-a....

It's a crazy feeling  ;D
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Post by: Aidan on 10 June, 2010, 09:25:10 pm
Les Paul and Chet Atkins


retro guitar tastic :thumbsup:
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Post by: LindaG on 11 June, 2010, 02:40:11 pm
Tom Robinson - Atmospherics (Listen to the radio)

Completely sumptuous.  And atmospheric indeed.
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Post by: PaulF on 11 June, 2010, 02:58:20 pm
Reichenbach Falls ~ Ravens and Charms

A discovery from a magazine cover cd. Mellow American alt-rock
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Post by: Tim Hall on 12 June, 2010, 09:02:13 pm
Bruce Springsteen and  the E Street Band, Greatest Hits.

A fiver from Mr. Sainsbury's Emporium of Toothy Comestibles.
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Post by: Wascally Weasel on 15 June, 2010, 01:02:07 am
Jethro Tull- Thick as Brick (on Spotify).


Crap. Am I *that* drunk, on a Monday?


<checks Facebook for drunken rampage stats>

Oh bugger.
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Post by: Chris S on 24 June, 2010, 03:01:46 pm
Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
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Post by: Deano on 24 June, 2010, 10:43:54 pm
The Best of the Boomtown Rats, which I've borrowed from my elder sister after a conversation with Mr Nesbitt during the Snow Roads.  I'm surprised at how many tunes I recognise, given that they had their heyday when I was a toddler.
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Post by: Domestique on 26 June, 2010, 06:55:37 pm
Amy Winehouse - Frank
I have played this album a few times now since I got it. Each time it gets better and better, fast becoming a fav  :thumbsup:
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Post by: PaulF on 26 June, 2010, 09:37:39 pm
My new favourite band :), Blitzen Trapper
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Post by: rogerzilla on 28 June, 2010, 08:58:20 pm
Watching Gosta Winbergh singing the famously hard "Il Mio Tesoro Intanto".  He was one of the finest tenors of all time but he still looks as if he's going to pass out a couple of times.
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Post by: jogler on 01 July, 2010, 08:21:00 pm
One of those ten-a-penny various artists recordings.
This turns out to be a bit of a gem with
Santana
Eric Clapton
B B King
Jimi Hendrix
The Booze Brothers
Jimmy Paige
The Yardbirds

some terrific blues onna 'lectrick geeeetarrr :thumbsup:
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Post by: jogler on 02 July, 2010, 05:12:16 pm
Roxy Music
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Post by: jogler on 02 July, 2010, 05:48:15 pm
ZZ Top
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Post by: Tourist Tony on 02 July, 2010, 08:39:30 pm
Kath Tickell, "Strange but True"
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Post by: mike on 04 July, 2010, 11:51:18 am
Best of Stevie Wonder.   Perfect for a sunny day.
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Post by: Redlight on 06 July, 2010, 08:40:07 pm
recently acquired Let It Be - Naked

Hmmm  :-\
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Post by: redshift on 07 July, 2010, 12:54:17 pm
Countdown.  5 shows per day.

Di-dum, di-dum, diddlydum, booo...


 ::-)
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Post by: clarion on 07 July, 2010, 12:59:04 pm
It's not the same without the Mayor of Wetwang.
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Post by: redshift on 07 July, 2010, 01:30:11 pm
Rachael's nice though.
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Post by: Legs on 08 July, 2010, 10:04:58 pm
Dead Man's Suit - Jon Allen  :thumbsup:
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Post by: AndyH on 08 July, 2010, 10:14:08 pm
The Smiths.

The Smiths.

might listen to Meat Is Murder next.
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Post by: Tourist Tony on 10 July, 2010, 10:55:53 pm
Small Faces
The Darlings of Wapping Wharf Launderette
Bloody hell,  Marriott was good. What a loss.
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Post by: kyuss on 11 July, 2010, 01:30:22 am
Pearl Jam 'Ten'.
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Post by: andrewc on 13 July, 2010, 09:21:18 pm
Kabalevsky cello concerto played by Daniel Shafran.  Side 4 of a 2LP pack, 1,2 & 3 being occupied by Shostakovich 7, USSR Symphony Orchestra conducted by Yevgeny Svetlanov.

£2.99 on mint vinyl from Oxfam  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Zoidburg on 13 July, 2010, 09:24:11 pm
Pearl Jam 'Ten'.
Crikey that brings back the memories.

I can remember spending many an hour listening to that whilst sucking face with one of the very very early GFs.
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Post by: Torslanda on 14 July, 2010, 11:16:28 pm
£2.99 on mint vinyl from Oxfam  :thumbsup:

I didn't realise you could get it flavoured . . .
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Post by: Torslanda on 14 July, 2010, 11:20:26 pm
Jean Michel Jarre.

Courtesy of those awfully nice Amazon people I received in today's mail a re-mastered CD and live DVD of 'Oxygene' and a CD of the follow up, 'Equinoxe'.

Oh My God! How good does that sound in the car? Dolby ProLogic and crank it UP!

I came home from Asda the long way this evening, TWICE!
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Post by: microphonie on 18 July, 2010, 09:24:00 am
Currently listening to  Tom Ravenscroft  (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00slvl3) on 6Music listen again.

He doesn't half sound like his dad (John Peel) at times - it's almost unnerving! He's plays the same sort of music mix as Peely too. Highly recommended.
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Post by: Andrew Br on 22 July, 2010, 11:32:59 pm
Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood- Summer Wine.
I caught part of the song on R2 last night (Stuart Maconie I think) so I looked on Youtube and I've played it several times since.
I'm going to try to find the CD at the weekend.
Plus, I've also listened to "Some Velvet Morning" and Siw Malmkvist duetting with Lee Hazelwood.
Don't you just love Youtube ?  ;)

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Post by: Deano on 22 July, 2010, 11:56:50 pm
The Dead Weather.  What a great racket :thumbsup:
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Post by: Deano on 22 July, 2010, 11:59:53 pm
Currently listening to  Tom Ravenscroft  (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00slvl3) on 6Music listen again.

He doesn't half sound like his dad (John Peel) at times - it's almost unnerving! He's plays the same sort of music mix as Peely too. Highly recommended.

Aha!  I hadn't made the connection.  Must have a listen.
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Post by: Bledlow on 23 July, 2010, 05:18:52 pm
D. Shostakovich - 7th Symphony.
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Post by: LindaG on 05 August, 2010, 03:37:14 pm
My i-Pod is on Shuffle, and seems to be in melancholy mood today.

Until 'Sleep now in the Fire' by RATM came on.   :thumbsup:
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Post by: jogler on 05 August, 2010, 05:10:49 pm
Blondie: Greatest Hits
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Post by: Aidan on 05 August, 2010, 05:25:35 pm
The Dead Weather.  What a great racket :thumbsup:

Is that Sea of Cowards? Good innit :thumbsup:
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Post by: Deano on 05 August, 2010, 07:04:46 pm
Horehound.  I haven't got around to Sea of Cowards yet.  I can't keep up with Jack White's output, bless 'im.
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Post by: YahudaMoon on 05 August, 2010, 07:08:19 pm
Lightning Hopkins, PIL and Public Enemy.
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Post by: jogler on 05 August, 2010, 07:25:17 pm
The Pretenders ;  Greatestits
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Post by: jogler on 05 August, 2010, 08:48:54 pm
Johnny Cash : The Legendary
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Post by: YahudaMoon on 05 August, 2010, 11:12:50 pm
u ziq
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Post by: Deano on 05 August, 2010, 11:14:38 pm
Now, Galaxie 500.  Aaaaaahhhhhhhhhh.......
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Post by: YahudaMoon on 05 August, 2010, 11:29:46 pm
Godspeed. leve ves skinny fists comme antennae to heavan
Maybe my fave Album ?
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Post by: Deano on 06 August, 2010, 12:41:37 am
I prefer Yanqui U.X.O. 

Marvellous band, though, and one I've never managed to see live.  They're touring the UK in December, but coming nowhere near me :(
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 06 August, 2010, 09:35:41 am
I prefer Yanqui U.X.O.  

Marvellous band, though, and one I've never managed to see live.  They're touring the UK in December, but coming nowhere near me :(

Wooooo!  I missed Thee Silver Mt. Zion last year, so will be deffo going to this assuming it hasn't sold out already.

Edit: It hasn't sold out.  I shall go to the ball :thumbsup:
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Post by: bikenerd on 06 August, 2010, 12:20:46 pm
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs.  Well, this has been on heavy rotation all week.  Great songs and it's actually an album (like their previous two were as well) rather than just a collection of singles and minor songs.

I hope they announce a proper UK tour and I'll be getting up at 3 in the morning to watch the webcast tonight!  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Frenchie on 06 August, 2010, 12:36:11 pm
Gainsbourg on YouTube...
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Post by: jogler on 06 August, 2010, 02:02:02 pm
The sound of...baking :thumbsup:
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Post by: jogler on 06 August, 2010, 03:01:32 pm
Guitar Legends:Disc II
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Post by: jogler on 06 August, 2010, 06:39:15 pm
Guitar Legends : Disc I
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Post by: jogler on 06 August, 2010, 07:45:16 pm
Clapton : Complete Collection
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Post by: mikeitup on 06 August, 2010, 10:59:54 pm
Gotthard : Made in Switzerland Live  :thumbsup:
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Post by: jogler on 07 August, 2010, 10:28:01 am
Classic radio
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Post by: jogler on 07 August, 2010, 11:30:03 am
The Shadows : 20 Golden Greats

I think I might be showing my age here ;D
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Post by: spesh on 08 August, 2010, 05:53:17 pm
On a bit of a 1980s tip today:

The Teardrop Explodes - Kilimajaro
Propaganda - A Secret Wish

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Post by: Ray 6701 on 08 August, 2010, 08:24:46 pm
Various waterboys stuff on you tube. 
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Post by: YahudaMoon on 09 August, 2010, 07:14:32 am
No your not showing your age, theres nothing wrong in music from back in the day, your just showing your poor taste in music lol
The Shadows : 20 Golden Greats

I think I might be showing my age here ;D
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Post by: jogler on 11 August, 2010, 09:26:06 am
Bruce Springstein Greatest Hits
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Post by: clarion on 11 August, 2010, 09:26:56 am
The Shadows : 20 Golden Greats

I think I might be showing my age here ;D

Were you doing the dance? ;D
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Post by: jogler on 12 August, 2010, 11:51:19 am
Lennon Legend;The Very Best of John Lennon
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Post by: nicknack on 12 August, 2010, 11:53:23 am
Otis Taylor - Double V

and before that

Otis Taylor - Recapturing the Banjo (yes, I know, but it's actually rather good)
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Post by: mattc on 12 August, 2010, 01:28:36 pm
Stuff from this page:


   smoke fairies bei MySpace Musik - Kostenlos MP3s anhören, Bilder & Musikvideos ansehen
 (http://www.myspace.com/smokefairies)

(first heard on Tom Robinson)

God I hate MySpace pages.
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Post by: Flying_Monkey on 12 August, 2010, 02:57:43 pm
The new Broken Social Scene album. Not bad.
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Post by: Hot Flatus on 12 August, 2010, 03:00:29 pm
The Singing Bowls of Tibet (Alan Presencer)

(http://images.artistdirect.com/Images/Sources/AMGCOVERS/music/cover200/drd900/d942/d94222v35g6.jpg)

Does what it says on the tin
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 12 August, 2010, 03:29:40 pm
Steve Wright in the Afternoon. I very much enjoyed the oldies half hour. I was chair dancing.
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Post by: jogler on 12 August, 2010, 03:41:48 pm
lucky chair :)
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Post by: jogler on 13 August, 2010, 01:47:11 pm
The Best of Bananarama
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Post by: nicknack on 13 August, 2010, 08:38:07 pm
Just For Love - Quicksilver Messenger Service

I've just downloaded it. I haven't heard the album in at least 30 years but as soon as it started I felt utterly familiar with it. Why can't I remember what happened last week?
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Post by: jogler on 18 August, 2010, 04:38:53 pm
my way,the best of Frank Sinatra
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Post by: Ray 6701 on 18 August, 2010, 05:20:03 pm
Bombay bicycle club - I had the blues but I shook them loose & Flaws.
Arcade fire - The suburbs.
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Post by: woollypigs on 20 August, 2010, 03:56:55 pm
Rachid Taha - Rock el Casbah (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DbFYsi9iSg) my new favourite tune, Clash should have had added some Arabic flavour to this tune first time around.
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Post by: jogler on 20 August, 2010, 07:18:09 pm
U2
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Post by: jogler on 20 August, 2010, 07:53:25 pm
ZZ Top
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Post by: HTFB on 21 August, 2010, 08:48:40 am
Pig with the Face of A Boy: The Complete History Of The Soviet Union, to the tune of Tetris (http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=hWTFG3J1CP8&vq=large)
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Post by: PaulF on 21 August, 2010, 08:52:39 am
America ~ America  Some great folky stuff there from before they went MOR. OK a couple of twee hippy dippy tracks too :)
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Post by: mattc on 26 August, 2010, 10:33:55 am
The new Midlake album.

Pretty good, except; that guy's voice is real wrist-slashing stuff.  I'd need to be in the right mood to fully 'enjoy' this stuff.
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Post by: PaulF on 26 August, 2010, 10:35:06 am
Flaming Lips take on Dark Side of the Moon. Gloriously barmy!
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Post by: microphonie on 26 August, 2010, 06:11:27 pm
Isan - Glow In The Dark Safari Set

Ciaran Bryne - Galtrim + Nine Lives Causeway (Boards of Canada soundalike from Ireland)

Mary Ann Hobbs' show from last night on pvr (counting down to her last R1 show... :(  )
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Post by: nicknack on 26 August, 2010, 06:27:09 pm
Lots of Van Der Graaf Generator. Real Time at the mo.
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Post by: Deano on 28 August, 2010, 06:09:41 pm
The Felice Brothers - delicious americana.
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Post by: kyuss on 01 September, 2010, 01:05:55 am
Brand New Heavies - Heavy Rhyme Experience Vol 1.
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Post by: padbeat on 01 September, 2010, 01:38:31 am
World War Z by Max Brooks with a cast including Alan Alda, John Tuturro, Jurgen Prochnow and Henry Rollins.

Absolutely sodding brilliant!
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Post by: DrMekon on 03 September, 2010, 02:00:23 pm
These New Puritans - Hidden, found via The Britten Sinfonetta.
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Post by: nicknack on 03 September, 2010, 08:25:23 pm
Riverside. Loud.

I'm in a prog mood again.
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Post by: Dinamo on 03 September, 2010, 08:29:07 pm
Pearl Jam ~ Ten

Recently bought this from Amazon for £4
What an excellent album, are all their albums this good ?
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Post by: jogler on 07 September, 2010, 04:02:36 pm
Elvis 30#1 Hits
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Post by: DrMekon on 07 September, 2010, 07:40:52 pm
Rafael Anton Irisarri - Hopes and Past Desires.
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Post by: jogler on 07 September, 2010, 08:13:08 pm
George Thorogood & The Destroyers : Who Do You Love (on repeat)
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Post by: jogler on 07 September, 2010, 09:38:54 pm
Mr. Thorogood & his Destroyers.Live at The Juke Joint Jam,Clarksedale, Mississippi.
Bad To The Bone.
6 mins of 4 chords & 3 licks :thumbsup:
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Post by: Legs on 09 September, 2010, 11:18:04 am
World Party.  Put the Message in the Box and Ship of Fools are two simply awesome songs - so different in feel that it's only really the timbre of Karl Wallinger's voice thjat they have in common.  :thumbsup:
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Post by: mattc on 09 September, 2010, 12:23:10 pm
Clint Eastwood's jazz picks:

BBC - BBC Radio 2 Programmes - Jamie Cullum, 07/09/2010 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00tmtvg)

I'm no jazz nut, but there was some really good stuff in there.  And I could listen to Clint (talking) all day...

(Warning - contains traces of:
sycophancy,
Eastwood singing (only at the end) &
Cullum singing (possibly worse)
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Post by: Chris S on 09 September, 2010, 04:09:15 pm
Richard Thompson - Dream Attic
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Post by: jogler on 09 September, 2010, 07:38:13 pm
Nirvana.
They do a remarkbly good cover of David Bowie's "The Man Who Sold Thev World".Nearly as good as Lulu's version
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Post by: jogler on 09 September, 2010, 08:10:07 pm
The Police Greatest Hits
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Post by: Redlight on 09 September, 2010, 08:26:04 pm
Rue des Cascades by Yann Tiersen.  Interesting mix of reflective piano pieces and jaunty accordian tunes.
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Post by: jogler on 09 September, 2010, 08:53:20 pm
Thin Lizzy
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Post by: jogler on 09 September, 2010, 10:24:15 pm
The Spencer Davis Group-Live
on Vintage TV,Sky 369
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Post by: Manotea on 09 September, 2010, 10:28:09 pm
ABC -  Lexicon of Love.
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Post by: ktcita on 09 September, 2010, 11:56:37 pm
Fat Freddy's Drop... a fabulous gig tonight at the Troxy
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Post by: Wowbagger on 10 September, 2010, 07:44:02 pm
Monteverdi, proms, now.
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Post by: jogler on 10 September, 2010, 07:44:48 pm
Monteverdi, proms, now.

Me too
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Post by: jogler on 11 September, 2010, 04:15:30 pm
Van Morrison.  8)
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Post by: PaulF on 11 September, 2010, 04:18:16 pm
David Bowie ~ The Man Who Sold the World
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Post by: Gus on 11 September, 2010, 04:26:05 pm
Grinderman ~ 2   :thumbsup:
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Post by: PaulF on 11 September, 2010, 04:27:23 pm
Grinderman ~ 2   :thumbsup:

Any good?
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Post by: LindaG on 11 September, 2010, 07:27:04 pm
Ockeghem - Missa Mi-Mi   :)
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Post by: jogler on 11 September, 2010, 09:46:29 pm
The Animals : The Most of...
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Post by: Chris S on 13 September, 2010, 07:11:19 pm
Capture - Afro Celt Sound System  :thumbsup:
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Post by: jogler on 14 September, 2010, 08:13:00 pm
Various Rolling Stones tracks on YouTube.One I've not heard before by them....
The Harlem Shuffle
Rock meets Soul with Blues :thumbsup:
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Post by: Deano on 14 September, 2010, 08:14:33 pm
Wilco, Wolf Parade, The Low Anthem, the Wilderness of Manitoba, Lantern and the Lake, Monotonix, The Mountain Goats, The Felice Brothers...
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Post by: PaulF on 15 September, 2010, 11:58:28 am
Wilco, Wolf Parade, The Low Anthem, the Wilderness of Manitoba, Lantern and the Lake, Monotonix, The Mountain Goats, The Felice Brothers...

I'm familiar with Wilco and The Low Anthem, are any of the others in a similar vein? Any album recommendations?
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Post by: Deano on 15 September, 2010, 01:00:28 pm
Wilco, Wolf Parade, The Low Anthem, the Wilderness of Manitoba, Lantern and the Lake, Monotonix, The Mountain Goats, The Felice Brothers...

I'm familiar with Wilco and The Low Anthem, are any of the others in a similar vein? Any album recommendations?

The Felice Brothers aren't a million miles away from Wilco, they play boozy Americana (much as I hate that term, but you get what I mean), with a hard lyrical edge and loads of down-to-earth New York attitude.  The LP The Felice Brothers is a good place to start.  Great live band, too.

Wilderness of Manitoba: quite delicate, folksy stuff, with lovely harmonies and excellent songs.  I think they've only released one LP, the name of which escapes me.  But it's gorgeous.

Wolf Parade play really anthemic pop (if that isn;t a dirt word these days): they're probably going to be massive before long.  Expo 86 is a damn good LP.

The Mountain Goats are one of my favourite bands.  You really need everything ;D  But try Tallahassee or We Shall All Be Healed or, for something a bit earlier, Zopilote Machine (if you can find it).  A lot of the earlier albums are just John Darnielle on his own, with some very basic recording equipment, whereas his more recent stuff is much more polished.  I'm less keen on the more recent stuff for that reason, but those three LPs show off both aspects - the full band sound and the wonderful songs he pens.  His songs can sound much the same, but I think that's cos he's managed to create quite a unique sound, his voice is quite striking, and his lyrics tend to have a particular crescendo-ing rhythm to them.  I'm surprised you've managed to miss them.

The other two, I'm just learning to love myself.  Monotonix certainly aren't like Wilco or the Low Anthem - they're a fucked-up Israeli punk band who only left Israel after their raucous, destructive live performances earned them bans from all the venues there.  And Lantern on the Lake haven't released an LP yet.

I've recently bought a lot of music when I should really be saving my cash :-[ :D
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Post by: LindaG on 17 September, 2010, 12:49:46 pm


I've recently bought a lot of music when I should really be saving my cash :-[ :D


Me too.  But music feeds the soul, and who wants to starve to death?

Today I am listening to the St Matthew Passion, John Eliot Gardner, The English Baroque Orchestra.
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Post by: spesh on 17 September, 2010, 09:51:32 pm
I set my MP3 player to select all the songs in memory, then hit shuffle...

It's been a fun musical journey today.

Way Out West, Joe Satriani, Gun, Alannah Myles, Propaganda, Heart, VAST, Magnum, Astral Projectrion, Urge Overkill, BT, Diamond Head, Alice In Chains, Gary Numan...



I've recently bought a lot of music when I should really be saving my cash :-[ :D


Me too.  But music feeds the soul, and who wants to starve to death?

This begs the question... what's the aural equivalent of the "wafer thin mints (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WaferThinMint)"? ;D
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Post by: PaulF on 18 September, 2010, 05:57:42 am

I've recently bought a lot of music when I should really be saving my cash :-[ :D


And now you're encouraging me to do the same - thanks :D
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Post by: HTFB on 18 September, 2010, 12:38:13 pm

This begs the question... what's the aural equivalent of the "wafer thin mints (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WaferThinMint)"? ;D

Plinky-plunk lute madrigals, probably. Shakespeare opens Twelfth Night with a wafer-thin moment.
Quote
Music. Enter Duke, Curio and other Lords, Musicians attending.

DUKE CREOSOTE: If music be the food of love, play on;
    Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
    The appetite may sicken, and so die.

The Early Music scene is full of concerts where, after an hour of dirges in mediaeval Italian, the Leader of the Consorte comes to the front of the stage and says "Those were some of Monteverdi's Songs of Gaiety And Happiness; now we move to some rarely played works from the thirtieth volume of his Songs Of Misery And Death", and the audience murmurs appreciatively as they reach to slit their wrists and really get in the mood.
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Post by: LindaG on 18 September, 2010, 10:40:45 pm

This begs the question... what's the aural equivalent of the "wafer thin mints (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WaferThinMint)"? ;D

Plinky-plunk lute madrigals, probably. Shakespeare opens Twelfth Night with a wafer-thin moment.
Quote
Music. Enter Duke, Curio and other Lords, Musicians attending.

DUKE CREOSOTE: If music be the food of love, play on;
    Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
    The appetite may sicken, and so die.

The Early Music scene is full of concerts where, after an hour of dirges in mediaeval Italian, the Leader of the Consorte comes to the front of the stage and says "Those were some of Monteverdi's Songs of Gaiety And Happiness; now we move to some rarely played works from the thirtieth volume of his Songs Of Misery And Death", and the audience murmurs appreciatively as they reach to slit their wrists and really get in the mood.
 ;D ;D POTD for my money.  Oh you are so on the money!
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Post by: IanDG on 19 September, 2010, 10:44:52 am
Vinyl  :thumbsup:

Yesterday, someone gave me a turntable, so I'm re-visiting the record collection. Last night:

Richard Thompson - Rumour and Sigh
Van Morrison - No Guru, No Method, No Teacher
CSNY - Deja Vu
Yes - Fragile

 :)  :)  :)  :)


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Post by: Regulator on 19 September, 2010, 10:54:54 am
This morning was Gardiner's Santiago a cappella - just the thing for a Sunday morning.

I've know changed to the Jordi Savall and the Hesperion XXI recording of Dimitrie Cantemir's Kitabu 'İlmi'l-Musiki 'ala Vechi'l-Hurufat or "The Book of the Science of Music".  A fantastic recording of 17th C. Ottoman court music, which includes music from the Sephardic and Armenian traditions.
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Post by: PaulF on 20 September, 2010, 08:25:11 am



Wilderness of Manitoba: quite delicate, folksy stuff, with lovely harmonies and excellent songs.  I think they've only released one LP, the name of which escapes me.  But it's gorgeous.


It's called "When You Left the Fire" and is absolutely brilliant. Downloaded yesterday, think less saccharine Fleet Foxes.

Thanks again :thumbsup:
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Post by: jogler on 21 September, 2010, 12:10:48 pm
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
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Post by: Basil on 22 September, 2010, 12:52:45 am
Just before I go to bed I'll listen to
Love - Forever Changes.

Sorry, you need to be really old for this to mean anything to you. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yVBMUXr4xo)
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Post by: Deano on 23 September, 2010, 04:22:54 pm



Wilderness of Manitoba: quite delicate, folksy stuff, with lovely harmonies and excellent songs.  I think they've only released one LP, the name of which escapes me.  But it's gorgeous.


It's called "When You Left the Fire" and is absolutely brilliant. Downloaded yesterday, think less saccharine Fleet Foxes.

Thanks again :thumbsup:

Great stuff :thumbsup:
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Post by: jogler on 23 September, 2010, 08:02:04 pm
Duane Eddy
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Post by: Manotea on 23 September, 2010, 08:13:25 pm
Frankie Miller - Full House
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Post by: oncemore on 23 September, 2010, 08:29:25 pm
Blue, All The Way To Canada - Moe Tucker.

Delightful (as indeed is Moe!).
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Post by: Ray 6701 on 23 September, 2010, 09:54:52 pm
Stornoway - Beachcomber's Windowsill.  I especially like track 4: The Coldharbour Road, track 8: Watching Birds & track 9: On The Rocks  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 24 September, 2010, 05:29:21 am
DJ Random on my iPod is supposed to select tracks at random which have a play count of zero.  What he appears to be doing is playing semi-random stuff starting with the most recently added and working backwards in time.  The first morning here I got three hours of Seasick Steve.  Yesterday afternoon was four hours of solid Hawkwind.  And, Mr Random, if you're going to play an entire concept album, it's better start with the first track and got through to the last.

Rather than the other way round ???
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Post by: Domestique on 24 September, 2010, 06:46:27 pm
Tales of Gill Scott Heron  :)
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Post by: Regulator on 26 September, 2010, 02:56:25 pm
I'm working my way through the Complete Works of Thomas Tallis with the Chappelle du Roi conducted by Alistair Dixon.

9 CDs with about 13 hours of some of the finest choral music ever written  :thumbsup:


Mr R is hiding upstairs playing World of Warcraft...  ;D
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Post by: jane on 26 September, 2010, 03:14:19 pm
 Ar Ceol's Ar Canan by Oi Polloi
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Post by: Torslanda on 26 September, 2010, 04:14:15 pm
Just received 'The Complete H2G2' 14cds. Remastered, documentaries, the works. Struggling to get into the 'Tertiary Phase' based on 'Life the Universe etc.' from 2005. Douglas Adams was undoubtedly a genius taken too early.
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Post by: PaulF on 26 September, 2010, 04:34:30 pm
Versions of Dark Side of the Moon. Starting with Flaming Lips, then Easy Star Allstars and then maybe some Pink Floyd.
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Post by: PaulF on 27 September, 2010, 10:09:57 am
Now got Neil Young's Le Noise on repeat :)
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Post by: jogler on 27 September, 2010, 10:33:12 pm
Frankie Laine
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Post by: microphonie on 28 September, 2010, 06:27:14 pm
Kuchen  Kids With Sticks  (http://www.emusic.com/album/Kuchen-Kids-With-Sticks-MP3-Download/10946971.html)

Shriekback  Care/Tench  (http://www.emusic.com/album/Shriekback-Care-Tench-And-Related-Tracks-MP3-Download/10602906.html)

Forest Swords  Rattling Cage  (http://www.emusic.com/album/Forest-Swords-Rattling-Cage-MP3-Download/12003816.html)
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Post by: Flying_Monkey on 28 September, 2010, 06:44:14 pm
I'm working my way through the Complete Works of Thomas Tallis with the Chappelle du Roi conducted by Alistair Dixon.

9 CDs with about 13 hours of some of the finest choral music ever written  :thumbsup:

I have to agree - I have the same box set.

I am, however, listening to The Suburbs by Arcade Fire, and revisiting whatever takes my fancy whilst we are gradually transfering all our CDs onto our new Mac Mini.
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Post by: eck on 28 September, 2010, 08:34:49 pm
Fleet Foxes, heard on the kayaking clip linked by adamski:
http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=38032.msg731489#msg731489 (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=38032.msg731489#msg731489)

I hadn't heard of them before. Hmmm...  :-\
Described by someone as Neil Diamond meets the Beach Boys.  ???
I think they meant Neil Young.  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Chris S on 29 September, 2010, 11:34:13 am
Hergest Ridge - Mike Oldfield.

Ah, I'm 15 again  :).
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Post by: Domestique on 29 September, 2010, 06:50:01 pm
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust

If I had to leave all my other albums behind and only take one with me it could well be this one. Timeless  8)
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Post by: jogler on 29 September, 2010, 07:15:22 pm
U2
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Post by: Deano on 29 September, 2010, 10:17:01 pm
The Jim Jones Revue, and CW Stoneking.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 02 October, 2010, 05:47:35 pm
Right now...Focus - "Hocus Pocus".
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Post by: onb on 02 October, 2010, 09:01:34 pm
Mumford and Sons. :thumbsup:
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Post by: welshwheels on 03 October, 2010, 11:55:31 am
the clash police on my back :thumbsup:
slade run runaway :thumbsup: go on noddy give it some ;D
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Post by: Wowbagger on 03 October, 2010, 09:28:24 pm
Thomas Tallis (This Week's Composer, R3, on I-player).

Bloody marvellous what that chap could do with unaccompanied voices.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 04 October, 2010, 11:37:15 am
Assorted Jimi Hendrix Experience stuff from a four-CD box-set of previously unreleased stuff :thumbsup:
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Post by: microphonie on 04 October, 2010, 06:08:06 pm
Don Letts'  Big Audio Dynamite  (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0072pzt) radio specials on listen again (he must need the PRS)

 8)

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Post by: pcolbeck on 10 October, 2010, 01:24:41 am
Beethoven Piano Concerto No.5 second movement. Comparing different versions on YouTube before I buy one. Currently loving Helene Grimaud.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 10 October, 2010, 01:59:49 am
Ruddy hell. If you like Bach give this a listen. I tend towards the Canadians (Gould and Hewitt) but just ran across this version of the D minor concerto by Maria Yudina on YouTube. Bloody hell its amazing. Rubbish sound quality and not sure when it's from but still.

Maria Yudina (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb61-isWowA&feature=related)
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Post by: pcolbeck on 10 October, 2010, 02:07:35 am
Oh hell she does an outstanding Goldberg Variations too. This is getting expensive.
Don't you just love it when something in mono with crackles is still so good that it doesn't matter.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 10 October, 2010, 02:32:24 am
Oops a Bach jag and now it's 2:30am. I blame Rosalyn Tureck.
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Post by: jogler on 10 October, 2010, 08:10:40 am
Aled Jones on Radio 2.
It's my weekly dose of "mmmm,is there or is there not a God?"
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Post by: Wowbagger on 10 October, 2010, 10:53:09 am
Ruddy hell. If you like Bach give this a listen. I tend towards the Canadians (Gould and Hewitt) but just ran across this version of the D minor concerto by Maria Yudina on YouTube. Bloody hell its amazing. Rubbish sound quality and not sure when it's from but still.

Maria Yudina (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb61-isWowA&feature=related)

Quote from: wiki
Yudina has the distinction of being Joseph Stalin's favorite pianist. One night, Stalin heard a performance of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23 on the radio performed by Yudina and asked for a copy. It was a live broadcast so officials woke up Yudina, drove her to a recording studio where a small orchestra had quickly been assembled, and made her record the concerto in the middle of the night, a single copy was pressed from the matrix and then presented to Stalin (the matrix has survived and the recording has been available on CD). It is said that he broke out in tears after hearing only the first notes of Yudina's playing. Despite the recognition from Stalin the pianist remained an uncompromising critic of the Stalinist regime with unprecedented impunity. She was awarded the Stalin Prize and donated its monetary portion to the Orthodox Church for "perpetual prayers for Stalin's sins". She died in Moscow in 1970.

Bloody hell!  :o

Thanks, Phil. Good listening. Did you see the bit in Wiki where some have said that her style influenced Glenn Gould?
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Post by: PaulF on 10 October, 2010, 11:29:25 am
Sea shanties on a cd that I bought from nudists in York yesterday.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 10 October, 2010, 12:03:00 pm
Thanks, Phil. Good listening. Did you see the bit in Wiki where some have said that her style influenced Glenn Gould?

I did. You can tell why.

Pat :)
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Post by: DrMekon on 10 October, 2010, 01:27:14 pm
The Smiths - a random mix via slimserver. For some reason, I find The Smiths enormously comforting when cleaning or doing DIY.

I was looking for a job and then I found a job...
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Post by: Deano on 10 October, 2010, 08:10:34 pm
I'm transferring CDs to my computer (I've only had it three years) - and the latest find from the depths of the attic is Free Peace Sweet by Dodgy. 

OK, it has an unbelievably awful pun for a title, they're obviously taking themselves a bit too seriously in some of the lyrics and themes of the album, and overall it's dated, cheesy, generic indie with added pomposity, but there are still a couple of songs which are excellent, and the album has a lovely warmth about it - excellent harmonies and chiming guitars fighting with the drums for a bit of space in the mix.

I'm hoping to find Dodgy's Homegrown in the heap, which I remember being a much better album.
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Post by: Chris S on 11 October, 2010, 11:37:53 am
Badly Drawn Boy - It's what I'm thinking Part 1: Photographing Snowflakes.

It's  :thumbsup:
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Post by: PaulF on 11 October, 2010, 11:50:29 am
Sea shanties on a cd that I bought from nudists in York yesterday.

I've just seen what the iPhone's predictive text does to 'buskers'  :o :o
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Post by: jogler on 11 October, 2010, 03:07:49 pm
Nirvana
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Post by: tiermat on 11 October, 2010, 03:22:35 pm
On the TV is MTv Classics, 90s classic mixtape, which is currently showing the Spice Girls  :sick: but in the car I have the new Kings Of Leon cd, V. V. V. Good!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by: Deano on 11 October, 2010, 07:18:21 pm
Sea shanties on a cd that I bought from nudists in York yesterday.

I've just seen what the iPhone's predictive text does to 'buskers'  :o :o

I saw that, and didn't think anything of it.  York's a fairly cosmopolitan place ;)
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Post by: PaulF on 11 October, 2010, 07:26:24 pm
Well it was quite warm :)
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Post by: jogler on 11 October, 2010, 07:51:16 pm
George Thorogood & The Destroyers
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Post by: Chris S on 12 October, 2010, 03:26:38 pm
The Orb - Metallic Spheres (feat David Gilmour).

Mmm... grooooovy man. Anyone got a spliff I can ponce?
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Post by: Quisling on 12 October, 2010, 11:22:46 pm
 
    YouTube
        - Four Tet- This Unfolds
   (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWcmcSsry3E)

 
    YouTube
        - The Horrors - 'Who Can Say'
   (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNjcSgU0Nrg)
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Post by: onb on 13 October, 2010, 01:10:21 pm
Hedonism.
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Post by: nicknack on 13 October, 2010, 02:53:11 pm
Some new cds.

Hugh Hopper - The Gift of Purpose
Wyatt/Atzmon/Stephen - For the Ghosts Within
Members of Morphine with Jeremy Lyons - The Ever Expanding Elastic Waste Band
King Crimson - In the Wake of Poseidon (40th Anniversary Series)
King Crimson - Islands (40th Anniversary Series)

All thoroughly excellent.
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Post by: Dinamo on 13 October, 2010, 08:48:19 pm
The Orb - Metallic Spheres (feat David Gilmour).

Mmm... grooooovy man. Anyone got a spliff I can ponce?

........and me !
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Post by: Deano on 13 October, 2010, 08:50:01 pm
Hedonism.

Daughters having a party again?
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Post by: Wowbagger on 14 October, 2010, 12:52:32 am
A bit of Praetorius followed by some Susato.
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Post by: kyuss on 17 October, 2010, 06:00:42 am
Ministry - ΚΕΦΑΛΗΞΘ

"...all of a sudden I found myself in love with the world, so there was only one thing I could do - was ding a ding dang my dangalong linglong" (http://bestsmileys.com/music1/18.gif)
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Post by: StuAff on 17 October, 2010, 02:12:25 pm
Ministry - ΚΕΦΑΛΗΞΘ

"...all of a sudden I found myself in love with the world, so there was only one thing I could do - was ding a ding dang my dangalong linglong" (http://bestsmileys.com/music1/18.gif)

Classic album!
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Post by: onb on 17 October, 2010, 08:34:09 pm
Hedonism.

Daughters having a party again?


Indeed ,they can sup me under the table easy street.


Anyway I is listening to Liza Carth and her mums latest offerin .Im not sure about some of their song choice but the singing is wonderful. :thumbsup:
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Post by: spesh on 17 October, 2010, 09:36:38 pm
Ministry - ΚΕΦΑΛΗΞΘ

"...all of a sudden I found myself in love with the world, so there was only one thing I could do - was ding a ding dang my dangalong linglong" (http://bestsmileys.com/music1/18.gif)

Ah, yes... good ol' Jesus Built My Hotrod...

The intro voiceover is perhaps only rivalled by that for Zodiac Mindwarp & Love Reaction's Prime Mover.  ;D
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Post by: oncemore on 19 October, 2010, 08:21:58 pm
Vince Taylor - Brand New Cadillac.
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Post by: oncemore on 19 October, 2010, 08:35:10 pm
And...Lita Ford and Doro Pesch (oh to be young enough to be a groupie - Doro, I'm over here....).
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Post by: Deano on 19 October, 2010, 10:12:50 pm
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy sings Greatest Palace Music. 
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Post by: JT on 19 October, 2010, 10:39:59 pm
Earlier on, in a rare change from shuffled playlists, Third by Portishead.

Now, Superunknown by Soundgarden complete with sporadic outbursts of air-drumming.
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Post by: Ray 6701 on 20 October, 2010, 01:19:33 am
Earlier on, in a rare change from shuffled playlists, Third by Portishead.

Now, Superunknown by Soundgarden complete with sporadic outbursts of air-drumming.


Good stuff!!  I'm on Arcade fire, Funeral  :)
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Post by: jogler on 21 October, 2010, 12:05:09 pm
Elvis
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Post by: Torslanda on 21 October, 2010, 05:57:29 pm
Bought the soundtrack from 'Cars'

James Taylor's 'Our Town' is really poignant. **Shivers**

On the upside Kevin 'Bloody' Wilson. '25 Years of Kev'. Some of the rudest, most sexist, bigoted lyrics I have ever heard in my life EVAH!

But, Christ! It's funny! So funny I was laughing so hard I had to stop the car!

Don't play it to yer granny.
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Post by: vorsprung on 22 October, 2010, 10:25:00 am
Scott 4 by Scott Walker
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Post by: vorsprung on 22 October, 2010, 04:00:37 pm
Now i've moved on and I have Acperience1 by Hardfloor in my ears
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Post by: vorsprung on 22 October, 2010, 04:08:09 pm
1980s spotify playlist (http://open.spotify.com/user/jamieandrews/playlist/3pdoI42Yk0Y6S4ytEohW9J)
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Post by: jogler on 22 October, 2010, 07:59:34 pm
George Harrison
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Post by: rogerzilla on 22 October, 2010, 10:28:06 pm
Mussorgsky's "A Night On Bare* Mountain"

*or "Bald" depending on your translation.  Quite bonkers.
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Post by: clarion on 22 October, 2010, 10:35:01 pm
Julia Fordham.  Deeply underrated.
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Post by: bloomers100 on 22 October, 2010, 10:43:33 pm
Glen Campbell
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Post by: toofewteeth on 22 October, 2010, 11:49:54 pm
Amadou & Miriam - Dimanche a Bamako. And now The Shed Sessions by the Bhundu Boys - fairly superb, really.
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Post by: David Martin on 23 October, 2010, 09:37:29 pm
Peatbog Faeries - what men deserve to lose.

Ideal backing soundtrack for that audax film..
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Post by: pcolbeck on 23 October, 2010, 09:40:22 pm
Glen Campbell

You are a Wichita Line Man and ICMFP.
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Post by: Rhys W on 23 October, 2010, 11:38:42 pm
Glen Campbell

You are a Wichita Line Man and ICMFP.

He did sing (but not write) Galveston, which is one of the saddest songs known to humanity.

Me, I had "BB King Live at the BBC" on earlier.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 23 October, 2010, 11:58:20 pm
A ramble through Youtube starting with Glen Campbell and finishing up with Isaac Hayes nu way of Elvis and Dean Martin just by clicking on related videos.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 24 October, 2010, 12:35:14 am
And now Nina Simone. Great voice and a very underrated pianist.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 24 October, 2010, 01:02:09 am
And change again. Proof you don't need a fancy video to sell a song. Just a good tune (borrowed from Listz) and a genius lyrics and a performer who can make you believe he means them.

Jacques Brel - Ne me quitte pas (don't leave me) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za_6A0XnMyw) with subtitles. It's completely different and a lot darker than the English version (If you go away) that people think is a direct translation.

Brel was a genius.
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Post by: Ray 6701 on 26 October, 2010, 08:51:07 pm
The waterboys - A Pagan place  :)
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Post by: LindaG on 26 October, 2010, 08:52:08 pm
The Songs of Distant Earth - Mike Oldfield
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Post by: Chris S on 26 October, 2010, 08:59:35 pm
The Songs of Distant Earth - Mike Oldfield

10/10 for atmosphere. Or lack of it  ;)

Apollo 8 Genesis reading - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_8_Genesis_reading)
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Post by: YahudaMoon on 26 October, 2010, 09:03:26 pm
Aphex Twin. I Care Because You Do Album. Changed too The Beatles. A Hard Days Night Album. On Vinyl.
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Post by: Manotea on 26 October, 2010, 09:06:15 pm
Gregory (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFrxQGxl1os)
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Post by: clarion on 26 October, 2010, 09:07:36 pm
RIP :(
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Post by: Manotea on 26 October, 2010, 09:13:44 pm
One of the joys of living in Harlesden in the 70's was walking along the high road past a string of record shops pumping out reggae, dub, lovers rock...

Everyhing was ire. Of course, I was too young to appreciate it then, yeah man.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 26 October, 2010, 10:31:37 pm
Beethoven 7th symphony. Picked up all 9 for a bargain £11 in a EMI classics boxed set on Amazon. It's the Karajan mono set from the 50s but excellent still.

Anyone got the 70s cycle on Deutsche Gramophone and like it ? I am thinking about getting it to contrast with this one.
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Post by: Dinamo on 27 October, 2010, 02:09:34 am
Turin Brakes - The Optomist LP

Haven't listened to this in ages, still a great album.
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Post by: LindaG on 27 October, 2010, 08:59:57 am
The Songs of Distant Earth - Mike Oldfield

10/10 for atmosphere. Or lack of it  ;)

Apollo 8 Genesis reading - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_8_Genesis_reading)

Sometimes when my i-pod is on 'shuffle', it will play the first track 'In The Beginning'.  When the track takes me by surprise, the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end.  I love it.

Thanks for the link - 'lack of jurisdiction', heh.
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Post by: Dinamo on 28 October, 2010, 12:07:09 am
Is There Anybody Out There

Pink Floyds The Wall - Live


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Post by: oncemore on 30 October, 2010, 08:07:48 pm
Memories are made of this...

"Ain't no doubt about
We were doubly blessed
We were barely seventeen
And we were barely dressed..."

Christ, I hate being old. Especially on Saturday nights...
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Post by: E.C. Ryder on 01 November, 2010, 03:40:23 pm
I`ve just bought The Harmonies voices of the WI
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Post by: microphonie on 01 November, 2010, 07:02:02 pm
The best electronica album I've heard in ages:

Senking -  Pong  (http://www.boomkat.com/artist.cfm?a=4718)  8)

Very atmospheric, a bit like Murcof's Martes meets slowed down dubstep. And a tribute to the classic video game of the same name to boot.  :thumbsup:

Sounds fantastic on headphones.

Video for  V8  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZToyrr4ckEg), probably my fave track off the album.

WARNING: video contains violent images, with lots of spurting blood, towards the end (from kung-fu/horror/Python film samples), although one might argue they're 'just flesh wounds'...

The knife-fetishists out there might like to play along to the images accompanying the drum beat  :)

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Post by: Flying_Monkey on 01 November, 2010, 08:42:54 pm
The Age of Adz, by Sufjan Stevens. Not sure what I think of this yet. Seems a bit lacking in something, which he's tried to cover with a lot of retro electronica, which makes a some it sound like Yellow Magic Orchestra (and not necessarily in a good way).

Plus Wake Up! by The Roots and John Legend. Love sixties and seventies black protest music, love The Roots, never thought much of John Legend - but this is really quite good.
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Post by: perpetual dan on 03 November, 2010, 01:31:42 pm
The Orb and David Gilmour. On first listening I rather like it.
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Post by: bikenerd on 03 November, 2010, 05:22:34 pm
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 04 November, 2010, 02:28:54 pm
Cowgirl In The Sand ~ Neil Young & Crazy Horse.

This has been the Earworm of No-Choice for about a fortnight.  I thought that by actually listening to it, it would go away.

I was this: wrong :(
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Post by: CAMRAMan on 04 November, 2010, 02:45:07 pm
A very old & eclectic playlist I created on Spotify a couple of years ago and forgot about.

And [drum roll] Half Man Half Biscuit are on Spotify now[/drum roll]
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Post by: Flying_Monkey on 05 November, 2010, 01:06:50 pm
Write About Love by Belle and Sebastian. Forgetable. Their last one was far, far better.
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Post by: Manotea on 05 November, 2010, 10:24:42 pm
George Thorogood & The Destroyers - Anthology. One for the bike mp3 cos I'm Bad to the Bone. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7VsoxT_FUY)
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Post by: jogler on 09 November, 2010, 05:54:35 pm
U2
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Post by: mattc on 10 November, 2010, 07:19:17 pm
Blondie - Parallel Lines

How come nothing written this decade has an intro like Hangin On the Telephone? It's not rocket-science - just some drums, a guitar and timing. Possibly perfect.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 10 November, 2010, 08:17:58 pm
Everlong - Foo Fighters.  Their best track IMO.  Worth digging up the video on YouTube.
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Post by: Clandy on 10 November, 2010, 08:25:11 pm
100 Hits Electric Eighties (http://www.amazon.co.uk/100-Hits-Electric-Various-Artists/dp/B0041PCNMS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1289420638&sr=1-1). Five disc 80s compilation album on a bargain price from Amazon.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 10 November, 2010, 08:47:34 pm
Now "This Guy's In Love With You" by Herb Alpert (OK, Bacharach and David).
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Post by: pcolbeck on 12 November, 2010, 09:11:35 am
666 - Aphrodites Child

Demis Rousos does prog / psychedeliia oh yes indeed.
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Post by: clarion on 12 November, 2010, 09:21:23 am
Radcliffe & Maconie played some Aphrodites Child the other night.  Really good.
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Post by: LindaG on 12 November, 2010, 09:22:37 am
Spem in allium.  Tallis Scholars.

Big sighs.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 12 November, 2010, 09:54:21 am
Radcliffe & Maconie played some Aphrodites Child the other night.  Really good.

I know I heard it. I knew about them but had never heard any. Bough the download from Amazon for £4.00. It's very of its time but some great guitar work and Vangelis sound effects.
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Post by: spesh on 12 November, 2010, 01:42:33 pm
666 - Aphrodites Child

Demis Rousos does prog / psychedeliia oh yes indeed.

It's a small step from this to playing Magma's Mekanïk Destruktïw Kommandöh and learning Kobaïan...   :demon: ;D :demon:
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Post by: LEE on 12 November, 2010, 01:49:53 pm
Blondie - Parallel Lines

How come nothing written this decade has an intro like Hangin On the Telephone? It's not rocket-science - just some drums, a guitar and timing. Possibly perfect.

Ahh, Debbie Harry, her posters lined my bedroom walls back in the day.

"Picture This" is one hell of a song.

Check out my former pin-up singing another great track The Hardest Part  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEjCDriXwnI) and tell me you don't get a funny warm feeling in your lower tummy parts.

Bit of a shock to find out she's got a Bus Pass now.
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Post by: jogler on 12 November, 2010, 03:17:38 pm
Debbie Harry.If she played her cards right she could have me ........again :demon:
There's many a good tune played on an old fiddle Lee. ;)
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Post by: Dinamo on 12 November, 2010, 03:31:41 pm
Kylie - X .

Sat in the car on driveway whilst Baby Dinamo is sleeping in the back.
Rain hammering down outside.
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Post by: LEE on 12 November, 2010, 04:13:16 pm
There's many a good tune played on an old fiddle Lee. ;)

I can't argue with that.

I also hear that a good wine matures with age.

However I still can't get worked up by the prospect of fiddling with the mature Debbie Harry.
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Post by: Quisling on 12 November, 2010, 07:45:59 pm
f#a#infinity by Canadian post-rock band Godspeed You! Black Emperor.  Tis very good.

Also, I've been listening to/attempting to interact with... "Say Something in Welsh - Lesson 2".  Which is less accessible than Godspeed  ;)
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Post by: andrewc on 12 November, 2010, 09:21:19 pm
Looking & listening to some old favourites on Youtube,

There's more to love than boy meets girl (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRm3TpxBFik&feature=related)

She Sells (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aH0pt-wushc&feature=related)

Fast Car (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Orv_F2HV4gk)

For My Lover (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fn01zVMX6Q0&feature=related)
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Post by: Wowbagger on 13 November, 2010, 07:36:51 am
Barenboim playing Schubert.
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Post by: PaulF on 13 November, 2010, 08:10:06 am
Hockey ~ mind Chaos
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Post by: rogerzilla on 14 November, 2010, 06:10:36 pm
Because it's on Classic FM*, "Jupiter" fron The Planets.  Clever chap, Holst, altough I'm sure he had the "I vow to thee, my country" theme kicking around from some previous abortive piece and decided to shoehorn it in.


*regular Sunday fixture on the radio, Radio 3 being too obscure by half.
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Post by: LindaG on 17 November, 2010, 10:50:54 pm
Rhapsody in Blue.

And the soundtrack from 'Pal Joey', one of my very favourite films.   :)
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Post by: jogler on 17 November, 2010, 11:11:41 pm
George Thorogood & the Destroyers
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Post by: RJ on 18 November, 2010, 05:15:10 pm
Neu 2
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Post by: Pedaldog. on 18 November, 2010, 10:07:21 pm
Beautiful South, four albums in a row!
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Post by: Simonb on 18 November, 2010, 10:10:28 pm
Roy Harper. Lots of lovely Roy Harper.
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Post by: andrewc on 19 November, 2010, 10:43:15 pm
Snap, by The Jam.  4LP* compilation , currently Eton Rifles and far too loud for the neighbours... ;D

* yes, I'm one of the strange people who haunt Oxfam buying old vinyl....
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Post by: Pingu on 19 November, 2010, 10:49:52 pm
I've rediscovered Elvis Costello  :)
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Post by: spesh on 20 November, 2010, 05:01:08 pm
Bourbon Soaked Gypsy Blues Bop 'n' Stroll, by The Urban Voodoo Machine (http://theurbanvoodoomachine.com/content/?page_id=982)

Does exactly what it says on the album cover.  :thumbsup:
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Post by: jogler on 20 November, 2010, 06:15:33 pm
George Thorogood
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Post by: Jaded on 20 November, 2010, 06:17:22 pm
Deadmau5
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Post by: oncemore on 20 November, 2010, 08:31:45 pm
Saxon - 'kin 'sphistacated, me.
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Post by: jogler on 21 November, 2010, 09:16:45 pm
Queen,Greatest Hits
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Post by: Tail End Charlie on 21 November, 2010, 09:32:40 pm
You can't beat a bit of Johnny Cash.
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Post by: Chris S on 21 November, 2010, 10:50:00 pm
You can't beat a bit of Johnny Cash.

Which bit?
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Post by: Deano on 21 November, 2010, 11:05:39 pm
Explosions in the Sky.

(not literally - it's a band from Texas)
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Post by: jogler on 22 November, 2010, 12:26:03 am
You can't beat a bit of Johnny Cash.

Which bit?

the bit that will Hurt
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 22 November, 2010, 11:33:35 am
Explosions in the Sky.

(not literally - it's a band from Texas)

And a jolly good one too.  TWFKAML and I went to see them last year and it was a Splendid Thing.
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Post by: microphonie on 22 November, 2010, 07:26:05 pm
The superb  Forest Swords  (http://www.emusic.com/artist/Forest-Swords-MP3-Download/12774451.html) - Dagger Paths

Highly recommended post-rock for fans of Pan-American/GY!BE etc

Just re-released today including the very fine Rattling Cage single:  here  (http://daggerpaths.tumblr.com/)
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Post by: rogerzilla on 22 November, 2010, 08:19:06 pm
Mozart's "Der hölle Rachte kocht in meinem Herzen" from The Magic Flute.  Now, singing that would give you a sore throat.
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Post by: jogler on 23 November, 2010, 09:43:50 pm
Duffy
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Post by: Quisling on 23 November, 2010, 09:48:10 pm
The superb  Forest Swords  (http://www.emusic.com/artist/Forest-Swords-MP3-Download/12774451.html) - Dagger Paths

Highly recommended post-rock for fans of Pan-American/GY!BE etc

Just re-released today including the very fine Rattling Cage single:  here  (http://daggerpaths.tumblr.com/)

Ooh, I'll investigate that one.  I've just bought my first GY!BE album and like Yndi Halda so that sounds likely to up my street.

Currently listening to Become what you are by the Juliana Hatfield Three.  A good ebay purchase for 99p + P&P from a charity.  Recycling + helping a charity + great tunes = Win.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 23 November, 2010, 11:56:49 pm
Janis Joplin. I forgot how good she was especially when she reigned it in a bit.
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Post by: microphonie on 24 November, 2010, 06:26:48 pm
The superb  Forest Swords  (http://www.emusic.com/artist/Forest-Swords-MP3-Download/12774451.html) - Dagger Paths

Highly recommended post-rock for fans of Pan-American/GY!BE etc

Just re-released today including the very fine Rattling Cage single:  here  (http://daggerpaths.tumblr.com/)

Ooh, I'll investigate that one.  I've just bought my first GY!BE album and like Yndi Halda so that sounds likely to up my street.

Currently listening to Become what you are by the Juliana Hatfield Three.  A good ebay purchase for 99p + P&P from a charity.  Recycling + helping a charity + great tunes = Win.

It's not as orchestral as GY!BE, instead having an almost Morricone-like twangy geetar as lead instrumentation. If you only want to try the odd track get the  Rattling Cage  (http://boomkat.com/downloads/317736-forest-swords-rattling-cage) single or try the opening track from the album.

From your past posts I thought this one might interest you!
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Post by: David Martin on 25 November, 2010, 01:07:06 pm
Music for the Kilted Generation by the red Hot Chili Pipers.
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Post by: PaulF on 25 November, 2010, 03:18:21 pm
New Pornographers ~ Challengers
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Post by: clarion on 25 November, 2010, 10:29:30 pm
Sweet on Youtube.

They really were rather good.
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Post by: Flying_Monkey on 27 November, 2010, 03:07:01 am
New Pornographers ~ Challengers

I saw them play here a few months back. Unfortunately Neko Case decided not to join them at the last minute... but they were still pretty damn good.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 27 November, 2010, 02:21:20 pm
Properllerheads' "Spybreak".  Best known as the backing music in the "lobby scene" of The Matrix.
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Post by: PaulF on 28 November, 2010, 10:50:30 am

But what I have been listening to today are two local bands from the area of Ontario where I live - one called The Gertrudes, who should be massive - wonderful, joyful music somewhere between Sufjan Stevens and The Fleet Foxes - and The Abrams Brothers, who are just the most awsome fiddle-driven folk, and they are about 15 and 17. Crazy.

Will have to check out The Gertrudes as I like the other bands you mention.
 

Finally managed to track them down! Toronto's HMVs didn't stock them but managed to buy online

Giving them a first listen now, as you say great band terrible name
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 28 November, 2010, 01:39:48 pm
Deacon Blue's Raintown album. I bet it's 15 years since I last heard it. I still love it.
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Post by: simonp on 28 November, 2010, 02:40:09 pm
Gotan Project: La Revancha del Tango
The Levellers: Levelling the Land
Ocean Colour Scene: Moseley Shoals
KT Tunstall: Tiger Suit

Next probably: The Raconteurs: Broken Boy Soldiers
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Post by: nicknack on 28 November, 2010, 09:13:06 pm
Esbjorn Svensson
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Post by: NeilP on 28 November, 2010, 09:46:36 pm
Silver and Gold - Neil Young. It was on Sky Arts the other day so it's on the telly but as I'm not watching I reasoned that it still counts.
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Post by: NeilP on 28 November, 2010, 09:49:42 pm
One of the joys of living in Harlesden in the 70's was walking along the high road past a string of record shops pumping out reggae, dub, lovers rock...

Everyhing was ire. Of course, I was too young to appreciate it then, yeah man.

Lucky you, I love all that stuff.
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Post by: kyuss on 29 November, 2010, 01:52:06 am
Brant Bjork - Jalamanta
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Post by: Ray 6701 on 29 November, 2010, 01:58:04 am
U2 the Joshua tree, I'd forgotten how good it is  :thumbsup:
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 30 November, 2010, 06:15:17 pm
Madness, My Girl. 


SmallestCub says 'I don't know this song' but is dancing anyway.
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Post by: Dinamo on 01 December, 2010, 06:24:25 am
Guns N Roses, Appetite For Destruction.

It's the only cassette that will play in my car !
But a great album all the same, the final track 'Rocket Queen' being the highlight.

Then to the other end of the musical scale I'm off to see Faithless in Cardiff tonight  :thumbsup:
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Post by: NeilP on 01 December, 2010, 04:27:21 pm
Moby - Hotel including the Ambient disc which is great for an afternoon indoors after a pub lunch.
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Post by: simonp on 01 December, 2010, 05:14:49 pm
Properllerheads' "Spybreak".  Best known as the backing music in the "lobby scene" of The Matrix.

Take California just came round on shuffle.
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Post by: microphonie on 01 December, 2010, 06:59:23 pm
Stars of the Lid - Gravitational Pull Vs. The Desire For an Aquatic Life - nicely chilled ambient

And Don Letts on 6Music listen again.
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Post by: Aidan on 01 December, 2010, 07:09:26 pm
One Minute Silence - I wear my skin
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Post by: Tail End Charlie on 01 December, 2010, 09:35:25 pm
Rolf Harris - Two Little Boys. Makes me cry.
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Post by: Tourist Tony on 01 December, 2010, 10:01:03 pm
Ole Shakey Young, 'Reac-tor'

Forgotten how lovely and rocky it is
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Post by: kyuss on 03 December, 2010, 04:13:25 am
Biffy Clyro - Puzzle.

'Mon the Biffy'. (http://bestsmileys.com/music1/18.gif)
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Post by: coll_coll on 03 December, 2010, 05:06:05 am
TMS
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Post by: Jaded on 03 December, 2010, 08:02:37 am
Leftfield's Phat Planet, going on inside my head at 125 decibels, much like it was going on live at 11 last night.
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Post by: tiermat on 03 December, 2010, 09:03:25 am
Biffy Clyro - Puzzle.

'Mon the Biffy'. (http://bestsmileys.com/music1/18.gif)

I am so stoked that they are supporting the Foos next year at Milton Keynes.  Two top class bands in one night....

Anyways today I am listening to "The Dissent Of Man" by Bad Religion

Fantastic!
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Post by: jogler on 03 December, 2010, 08:17:30 pm
The Beatles "Rooftop Concert" on Youtube 8)
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Post by: rogerzilla on 04 December, 2010, 07:08:53 pm
Beethoven's 5th Piano Concerto ("Emperor"), 3rd movement.  There's a little bit at about 5 minutes* which is quite reminiscent of the mad fast bit out of "Für Elise".

*Karajan conducting, so probably at 4 minutes on most other recordings  ;)
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Post by: Ray 6701 on 04 December, 2010, 07:18:22 pm
u2 unforgettable fire  :)
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Post by: simonp on 04 December, 2010, 10:06:40 pm
Thickfreakness - The Black Keys
Tiger Suit - KT Tunstall
Broken Boy Soldiers - The Raconteurs
Consolers of the Lonely - The Raconteurs
X&Y - Coldplay
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Post by: clarion on 04 December, 2010, 11:14:40 pm
Neil Innes :)
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Post by: andrewc on 05 December, 2010, 12:02:15 am
Tonight started with Leonard Cohen and ended up with Ben Webster.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsGrbvy871I (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsGrbvy871I)
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Post by: andrewc on 06 December, 2010, 08:52:14 pm
I raided the British Heart Foundation shop on the way home, a couple of decent compilations on mint vinyl, Oscar Peterson & Ella Fitzgerald, both very enjoyable.  A change of pace at the moment, "Garlands", by The Cocteau Twins..
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Post by: tiermat on 07 December, 2010, 11:39:35 am
From one extreme to the other today....

Started out with Jack Johnson "To The Sea"

And now am listening to Metallica - "Master of Puppets"
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Post by: jogler on 07 December, 2010, 12:33:25 pm
Elvis
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Post by: tiermat on 07 December, 2010, 02:04:33 pm
Now moved onto Green Day - "21st Century Breakdown", memories of June in Manchester, watching them play live.  Doesn't make Corosync any easier, or any more interesting....
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Post by: jogler on 07 December, 2010, 08:14:32 pm
Dana Fuchs
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Post by: Quisling on 07 December, 2010, 09:18:24 pm
Explosions in the sky; early "post-rock".

Just sussing them out on Youtube but I've liked everything I've heard so far.
This is especially chilled and beautiful
    YouTube
        - Explosions In The Sky - Inside It All Feels The Same
   (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KY8BCgX0dwg&feature=related)

Microphonie will be along in a minute to tell me all I need to know.  I think I have a music-twin ;)
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Post by: Deano on 07 December, 2010, 09:44:22 pm
Explosions in the sky; early "post-rock".

Just sussing them out on Youtube but I've liked everything I've heard so far.
This is especially chilled and beautiful
    YouTube
        - Explosions In The Sky - Inside It All Feels The Same
   (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KY8BCgX0dwg&feature=related)

Microphonie will be along in a minute to tell me all I need to know.  I think I have a music-twin ;)

Or you could go back a few pages ;D

Today I am Listening To... (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=27.msg779048#msg779048)

I've found Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever to be my favourite album.  Such a big sound, considering there are only three of them.
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Post by: Quisling on 07 December, 2010, 09:46:44 pm
Jeez, we're triplets!

Thanks Deano, I didn't spot that earlier post. </slapping myself awake>
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Post by: Deano on 07 December, 2010, 09:55:30 pm
Same here - I've just noticed Mr Larrington's reply below my post :facepalm:

They are a great live band - I saw them in some London dive about 8 years ago. Looks like they're touring next year, but only Manchester and London.
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Post by: jogler on 07 December, 2010, 09:56:55 pm
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 08 December, 2010, 10:04:27 am
Same here - I've just noticed Mr Larrington's reply below my post :facepalm:

They are a great live band - I saw them in some London dive about 8 years ago. Looks like they're touring next year, but only Manchester and London.

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!  We shall go.

When the Social Secretary and I saw them, though, there were four.  Of them.

Edit: Social Secretary says 'spotter buys the tix', so Deano, you owe me some dosh  ;D
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Post by: tiermat on 08 December, 2010, 10:06:04 am
Green Day again, I am afraid, this time it is "Bullet In A Bible"
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Post by: Deano on 08 December, 2010, 05:41:03 pm
Same here - I've just noticed Mr Larrington's reply below my post :facepalm:

They are a great live band - I saw them in some London dive about 8 years ago. Looks like they're touring next year, but only Manchester and London.

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!  We shall go.

When the Social Secretary and I saw them, though, there were four.  Of them.

Edit: Social Secretary says 'spotter buys the tix', so Deano, you owe me some dosh  ;D

Ha!  Them's not the roolz around 'ere ;D

Besides, I need my cash to get tickets for Mogwai in Gateshead come February.

..and they were a three-piece (drums, guitar, guitar) when I saw them, but it was several Whiles ago, so they must have gotten a new member.
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Post by: Jaded on 08 December, 2010, 05:47:44 pm
The Seduction of Claude Debussy
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Post by: microphonie on 08 December, 2010, 07:12:44 pm
Explosions in the sky; early "post-rock".

Just sussing them out on Youtube but I've liked everything I've heard so far.
This is especially chilled and beautiful
    YouTube
        - Explosions In The Sky - Inside It All Feels The Same
   (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KY8BCgX0dwg&feature=related)

Microphonie will be along in a minute to tell me all I need to know.  I think I have a music-twin ;)

Or you could go back a few pages ;D

Today I am Listening To... (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=27.msg779048#msg779048)

I've found Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever to be my favourite album.  Such a big sound, considering there are only three of them.

Wow, I've never been considered to be a music guru before. Most family/friends think my musical taste is just weird... ;D

Actually - EITS are one band that's pretty much passed me by. I have a downloaded copy of 'All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone' but it seems to have got lost in deluge of other stuff I got at the same time. Will have to add it to the mp3 & listen at work. And add 'Those Who Tell...' to my save for later list on eMusic too.

More recommendations in addition to Forest Swords:

This Will Destroy You
65daysofstatic (latest album We Were Exploding Anyway is great)
Gentleman Losers

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Post by: spesh on 08 December, 2010, 10:20:25 pm
Inspired by the King Crimson thread, I've listening to a prog playlist on my Babbage Engine's MP3-a-tron.

Marillion, Porcupine Tree, Muse, Mostly Autumn, Panic Room, Alan Parsons Project, Rush, Queensryche and er... Opeth, to name but a few!
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Post by: Deano on 08 December, 2010, 11:15:49 pm

Wow, I've never been considered to be a music guru before. Most family/friends think my musical taste is just weird... ;D

Actually - EITS are one band that's pretty much passed me by. I have a downloaded copy of 'All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone' but it seems to have got lost in deluge of other stuff I got at the same time. Will have to add it to the mp3 & listen at work. And add 'Those Who Tell...' to my save for later list on eMusic too.

More recommendations in addition to Forest Swords:

This Will Destroy You
65daysofstatic (latest album We Were Exploding Anyway is great)
Gentleman Losers



Your tastes seem very wise to me.  I haven't heard of half the bands you mention ;D

Of this lot, I know 65daysofstatic - I know their first album best, and they're very good, but it's much meatier than EiTS.

When I was trying to explain Explosions in the Sky to someone else, I described them as a less avant-garde Godspeed.  And hopefully that doesn't sound too crap.
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Post by: Deano on 08 December, 2010, 11:23:09 pm
.. and currently I'm listening to the Twominutemen double 7" compilation, which is probably in a similar vein, except much much shorter.  I'd forgotten how good it is.

ETA: Disc 1 seems to be in a similar vein (especially Grover) - but Disc 2 ain't. At all. But The Surf Creatures is a cracking name for a band.
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Post by: Ray 6701 on 09 December, 2010, 01:04:31 am
Interpol: Antics.  My fave album  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 09 December, 2010, 11:45:00 am
When I was trying to explain Explosions in the Sky to someone else, I described them as a less avant-garde Godspeed.  And hopefully that doesn't sound too crap.

Did I mention that the Social Secretary and I are seeing GY!BE on Tuesday :D
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Post by: jogler on 09 December, 2010, 12:53:48 pm
The Beatles 1
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Post by: E.C. Ryder on 09 December, 2010, 01:31:03 pm
The Eagles greatest hits
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Post by: jogler on 09 December, 2010, 02:47:12 pm
The Essential Neil Diamond; Disc 1
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Post by: BrianI on 09 December, 2010, 02:49:48 pm
Tangerine Dream - Cyclone.    :thumbsup:
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Post by: onb on 09 December, 2010, 04:24:51 pm
Joni Mitchell -For the Roses.
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Post by: onb on 09 December, 2010, 04:49:05 pm
Burlesque -Bellowhead.
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Post by: microphonie on 09 December, 2010, 07:10:39 pm
Did I mention that the Social Secretary and I are seeing GY!BE on Tuesday :D

[gritted teeth] I hope you have a great time. No, I really do. [/jealousy]  :'(

Your tastes seem very wise to me.  I haven't heard of half the bands you mention ;D

I mostly listen to electronica so a lot of the artists I mention are anonymous & faceless Aphex/Autechre fan-boys with a limited audience!  ;D
Electronica recommendation of the year: Senking -  Pong  (http://www.emusic.com/album/Senking-Pong-MP3-Download/12117844.html)
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Post by: Flying_Monkey on 09 December, 2010, 08:52:48 pm
I mostly listen to electronica so a lot of the artists I mention are anonymous & faceless Aphex/Autechre fan-boys with a limited audience!  ;D

Well, I quite like most of them too, so you aren't entirely alone...
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Post by: Exit Stage Left on 09 December, 2010, 09:02:56 pm
A five CD 70s EMI compilation. A lot of the stuff is embedded in the heads of people my age, so it's good soundtrack material. One of my faves is this.

    YouTube
        - Brian Protheroe - Pinball
   (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s-KwsoZk0Q&feature=related)
It's a precursor to Al Stewart and Gerry Rafferty, but the imagery is Bowie and the post phrasing gives it a lovely weary quality.
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Post by: Deano on 09 December, 2010, 09:22:14 pm
When I was trying to explain Explosions in the Sky to someone else, I described them as a less avant-garde Godspeed.  And hopefully that doesn't sound too crap.

Did I mention that the Social Secretary and I are seeing GY!BE on Tuesday :D

Git ;D
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Post by: kyuss on 10 December, 2010, 02:27:33 am
I mostly listen to electronica so a lot of the artists I mention are anonymous & faceless Aphex/Autechre fan-boys with a limited audience!  ;D[/url]


Ah, Gantz Graf (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyJfHU4GoOQ&feature=related). One of my all time favourite music videos. You're not alone in the love of electronica (though I admit I'm a bit out of touch these days).
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Post by: jogler on 10 December, 2010, 12:59:40 pm
All Right Now : The Best of FREE
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Post by: kyuss on 11 December, 2010, 05:12:22 am
Biffy Clyro - Puzzle.

'Mon the Biffy'. (http://bestsmileys.com/music1/18.gif)

I am so stoked that they are supporting the Foos next year at Milton Keynes.  Two top class bands in one night....

Not a huge fan of Foo Fighters (I'd rather see Dave Grohl behind a drum kit), but they're pretty good live from what I've heard from my brother. And Biffy are awesome live. This Milton Keynes shenanigans sounds like the making of a 'Good Day Out™'
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Post by: nicknack on 11 December, 2010, 11:02:54 am
Zu. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0FKoyUwjxM&translated=1) A bit of noise for Saturday morning.
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Post by: Deano on 11 December, 2010, 09:08:35 pm
Yet more elegant, filigree'd post-rock.  This time, Things Shaped in Passing by the Six Parts Seven.

I'm working through a bunch of vinyl records: a bit of blissful Zimbabwean music from the Bhundu Boys shall be next :thumbsup:
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Post by: LindaG on 11 December, 2010, 10:25:20 pm
Beat a Drum by R.E.M.

On repeat.

I think it's beautiful.  It makes me think of the moments when I've been happiest.
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Post by: E.C. Ryder on 12 December, 2010, 11:55:58 am
The Skiffle Session, with Van Morrison, Chris Barber and Lonnie Donegan which was recorded live in Belfast. Dr John also comes on stage for a couple of numbers.
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Post by: Tail End Charlie on 12 December, 2010, 10:11:39 pm
Red Box - Lean On Me - Ace. Brings back good memories of the 80's.
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Post by: jogler on 13 December, 2010, 07:00:39 pm
The Hollies.Best of
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Post by: groucho on 15 December, 2010, 11:27:20 am
Thea Gilmore - Strange Communion. Last year's Christmas CD from the songstress.
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Post by: tiermat on 15 December, 2010, 05:57:54 pm
My Chemical Romance - Dangers Days: True Lives of Fabulous Killjoys.

Not as good as "Black Parade" but still very good.

Followed by Biffy Clyro - Only Revolutions
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Post by: nicknack on 15 December, 2010, 07:20:15 pm
Frankie Goes To Hollywood
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Post by: rogerzilla on 16 December, 2010, 09:15:19 pm
A very complicated quartet from Act I Scene 12 of Don Giovanni.
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Post by: kyuss on 17 December, 2010, 04:26:45 am
Zu. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0FKoyUwjxM&translated=1) A bit of noise for Saturday morning.

Cool. A new band I'll need to find out more about. I'm just back from visiting family in Ostia too!

Today, I have mostly been listening to Meshuggah's 'ObZen' album. Bleed (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc98u-eGzlc).
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Post by: YahudaMoon on 17 December, 2010, 06:35:09 am
If tou like Dub plate you should like playing these games

:: DUB SELECTOR 4 :: THE ECHO CHAMBER :: (http://www.infinitewheel.com/dubselector4.html)
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Post by: tiermat on 17 December, 2010, 08:19:12 am
My Chemical Romance - Dangers Days: True Lives of Fabulous Killjoys.

Not as good as "Black Parade" but still very good.

I take that back, it's as good as Black Parade, just a bit harder to get into.  It's a slightly different direction for them (though not too far).  Sing along tunes (Sing, S/C/A/R/E/C/R/O/W for two) and great musicianship
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 17 December, 2010, 10:53:04 am
When I was trying to explain Explosions in the Sky to someone else, I described them as a less avant-garde Godspeed.  And hopefully that doesn't sound too crap.

Did I mention that the Social Secretary and I are seeing GY!BE on Tuesday :D

Git ;D

Musically awesome, minus several million for presentation.  You couldn't even tell how many of them were on stage coz they didn't turn the lights on once.  I think there were seven.
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Post by: nicknack on 17 December, 2010, 01:24:15 pm
Jaga Jazzist
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Post by: jogler on 17 December, 2010, 07:39:45 pm
The Animals
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Post by: jogler on 18 December, 2010, 08:07:27 am
Radio 2 : Sound of the Sixties
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Post by: RW on 19 December, 2010, 04:49:42 pm

Boris Trouplin  (http://www.myspace.com/boristrouplin/music)

(http://c2.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/16/l_ca1208d27365b038658b8e56a4ba5ddd.jpg)
Ural Kunst started me on cycling bagpipers this afternoon
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Post by: clarion on 19 December, 2010, 09:12:38 pm
Dave Edmunds on Youtube.  Utterly underrated musician.
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Post by: mondobongo on 19 December, 2010, 11:26:00 pm
Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds, amazed to find out that Mrs MB had never heard it all the way through.
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Post by: clarion on 19 December, 2010, 11:28:15 pm
:o :o :o :o :o
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Post by: Deano on 19 December, 2010, 11:31:26 pm
Mrs MB is remarkably privileged.  Aoart from the first "WAH-WAH" noises and the Richard Burton voiceover, the record is an appalling wank-fest.
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Post by: mondobongo on 20 December, 2010, 12:06:38 am

You don't like it then Deano??
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Post by: Flying_Monkey on 20 December, 2010, 11:50:26 am
I'd agree entirely with Deano.

Having had a seasonal party yesterday, I've been listening mainly to Christmas songs, and they are doing my nut...
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Post by: Jaded on 20 December, 2010, 11:57:57 am
The Cocteaus. Marvellous.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 20 December, 2010, 05:43:50 pm
Right now, the theme from ghostbusters.  We do seem to have a somewhat eclectic teatime playlist.
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Post by: Deano on 20 December, 2010, 10:15:38 pm

You don't like it then Deano??

I think I nominated it in the "worst albums you've owned" thread ;D
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Post by: Jaded on 20 December, 2010, 11:14:03 pm
Phazing by Dirty South.  :thumbsup:
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Post by: PaulF on 20 December, 2010, 11:26:10 pm
Laura Marling ~ Blues Run the Game
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Post by: mondobongo on 21 December, 2010, 08:32:45 am
Earth v's The Wildhearts, raucous rock n roll.
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Post by: Gus on 22 December, 2010, 06:27:54 pm

My favorite christmas music :

Tom Waits - Christmas Card From a Hooker in Minneapolis (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12qBoy2rhVw)
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Post by: tiermat on 23 December, 2010, 09:35:10 am
Bad Religion - Stranger Than Fiction

To be followed by :

My Chemical Romance - Danger Days

Provided that the Squeezbox doesn't mess up, again...
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Post by: BrianI on 23 December, 2010, 07:59:37 pm
Mike Oldfield - To Be Free from the album "Tr3s Lunas".

Quite thought provoking lyrics
Quote
And if I had a wish, my wish would be...

To be free
To be
wild
And to be
Just like a child
And if I get lost
I really don't
mind
Cos I'm me
Doing just fine
   :thumbsup:
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Post by: nicknack on 23 December, 2010, 08:02:30 pm
Cream - Wheels of Fire

First album I ever bought.

Still sublime.

When Clapton could still play.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 24 December, 2010, 10:52:29 am
Slade's Greatest Hits.  Anyone who contradicts my opinion that Noddy Holder is one of the top five rock'n'roll singers of all time will have to answer to The Bear.

I'm saving Amplifier's two-years-in-the-making magnum opus The Octopus for this afternoon's M25 adventures.
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Post by: StuAff on 24 December, 2010, 01:15:43 pm
I really dislike this time of year, not least because of having to put up with all the work etc. I am compensating with some nice relaxing tunes: Slayer, Alec Empire, Einstuerzende Neubauten & Ministry so far...
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Post by: Gandalf on 24 December, 2010, 02:43:45 pm
I've been listening to Clifford Brown this week, tragic that he only lived until he was 26. 

I don't think there has ever been anyone quite like him.
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Post by: clarion on 24 December, 2010, 04:38:41 pm
We were listening to Jake Thackray, but now catching up with the Now Show
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Post by: Clandy on 24 December, 2010, 04:47:39 pm
Adagio for Tron - Daft Punk. From the soundtrack album.
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Post by: nicknack on 24 December, 2010, 05:40:43 pm
Lunatic Soul
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Post by: Wowbagger on 24 December, 2010, 06:14:18 pm
J. S. Bach - R3's "This Week's Composer" but they are concentrating only on the 6 years he spent at Anhalt-Köthen (1717-23). It was during this period that he was at his most free to do his own thing, since he had fewer obligations to the church. Lots of his best secular orchestral music was composed while he was at Anhalt-Köthen.
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Post by: mondobongo on 24 December, 2010, 06:21:34 pm
 Motorhead's The World is Yours. Whilst its slow it does have a nice bluesy groove to it.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 24 December, 2010, 09:03:46 pm
I've just listened to the Messiah and am about to listen to Brandenburg no 5. An astonishing piece of work.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 24 December, 2010, 09:42:52 pm
And now the E major violin concerto.

There ain't 'arf been some clever bastards.
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Post by: Andrij on 25 December, 2010, 01:43:03 pm
"The Magician's Nephew", to be followed by "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe".  BBC 7 FTW!  :thumbsup:
 
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Post by: Andrew Br on 25 December, 2010, 09:59:28 pm
Beethoven's 9th while Helen is asleep on the sofa.
I'll check in a minute to see that she isn't dribbling  ;)

Earlier, the lucky girl got to listen to "Christmas Wrapping", all of "Lexicon of Love" (see my other postings........), "Beauty Stab", most of "Last Night of the Proms", "Lt. Kije" (Prokofiev), "Gayaneh" (Khachaturian) then "Blue Lines", "Better Things", "Mezzanine" (all Massive Attack) and "Cure For Pain" (Morphine).

Top day  :thumbsup:

I finally got around to moving the RH speaker (they're VERY heavy) across to the left about 30cm.
It's improved the imaging tremendously and the bass is much fuller because the spikes contact the floor better.

She's not dribbling  :)
Question is, when do I wake her up and tell her it's bed-time ?

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Post by: jogler on 27 December, 2010, 06:50:32 pm
the Strolling Bones : 40 Licks  :thumbsup:
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Post by: jogler on 27 December, 2010, 07:56:42 pm
U2
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Post by: andrewc on 27 December, 2010, 08:38:53 pm
Sonny Stitt & Barry Harris,  The Complete Late Quartets, 3cd's of bliss....  picked at random from the jazz section at HMV by my sister.
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Post by: clarion on 27 December, 2010, 09:32:05 pm
Mike Harding - One Night In Lincoln.  On Youtube. ;D
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Post by: LindaG on 27 December, 2010, 11:59:26 pm
Stevie Nicks.

Annie Lennox.
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Post by: clarion on 28 December, 2010, 11:39:44 am
Mike Harding - One Night In Lincoln.  On Youtube. ;D

That was brilliant.  Eighteen segments of pure gold.
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Post by: andrewc on 28 December, 2010, 08:16:40 pm
Gilad Atzmon & The Orient House Ensemble, The Tide Has Changed.
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Post by: Deano on 28 December, 2010, 09:17:45 pm
The Cramps.  Gothic surf rock :thumbsup:
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Post by: Deano on 28 December, 2010, 11:10:55 pm
Now, the Futureheads.  From Sunderland to the world.
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Post by: spesh on 28 December, 2010, 11:43:15 pm
Motorhead's The World is Yours. Whilst its slow it does have a nice bluesy groove to it.

Slow?  ???

Well I suppose it's all relative.   ;)
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Post by: jogler on 31 December, 2010, 07:26:01 pm
ZZ Top
party music :thumbsup:
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Post by: jogler on 31 December, 2010, 07:43:52 pm
randomly onto Guns 'n Roses
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Post by: andrewc on 31 December, 2010, 09:12:03 pm
Black,   Comedy,    Colin Vearncombe.  Someone I've seen live multiple times.  A seriously good performer & songwriter.

I remember being in the Stanley Arms in Huyton, early 80's when someone came to our table and asked if he could take a spare chair.  Cue Ian falling off his and going, "That's Black, he's a star...."
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Post by: mondobongo on 01 January, 2011, 10:28:27 am
Motorhead's The World is Yours. Whilst its slow it does have a nice bluesy groove to it.

Slow?  ???

Well I suppose it's all relative.   ;)

Compared to Overkill or even recent Albums like Inferno it is a slower album, still as heavy as a heavy thing though.  ;D
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Post by: Andrij on 01 January, 2011, 02:49:39 pm
Oy to the World (http://www.oytotheworld.com/), by the Klezmonauts (http://www.klezmonauts.co.uk/). Good fun!  :)
 
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Post by: clarion on 01 January, 2011, 03:07:19 pm
That is hilarious!  Literally crying with laughter. ;D
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Post by: jogler on 02 January, 2011, 10:26:20 am
Diana Ross & The Supremes
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Post by: jogler on 04 January, 2011, 06:03:28 pm
Elvis Greatest Hits
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Post by: interzen on 05 January, 2011, 09:02:39 am
I was listening to Porcupine Tree just now, but having just found out that Mick Karn died on January 4th I've just stuck Japan's "Quiet Life" on for a spin ...  :'(

Not a good start to the day, really.
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Post by: LindaG on 05 January, 2011, 01:42:26 pm
Nemone. 

I love her.  Best dissertation soundtrack ever.
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Post by: LindaG on 05 January, 2011, 03:16:19 pm
Streaming 'Written On The Forehead' by PJ Harvey.

Wow.
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Post by: mondobongo on 05 January, 2011, 11:51:29 pm
Been a while since I pressed repeat for an entire album but Slash's solo album is most excellent. Tight as a drum and would love to know if Iggy Pop just ad libbed the lyrics for We're all gonna die. A great rock n roll record with lots of lovely riffs and did I mention how tight it is. Fantastic instrumental featuring Dave Grohl and Duff McKagan as well.
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Post by: Chris S on 06 January, 2011, 11:25:04 am
Animals - Pink Floyd.

Fuck, it's bleak  :thumbsup:.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 06 January, 2011, 11:40:05 am
Animals - Pink Floyd.

Fuck, it's bleak  :thumbsup:.

Wotesed.  "Dogs" is one of the bleakest tracks evvah.
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Post by: Mobbsy on 06 January, 2011, 11:49:12 am
Sisters of Mercy - First and Last and Always
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Post by: interzen on 06 January, 2011, 12:13:05 pm
Kevin Bloody Wilson - 20 Years Of Kev  ;D
Definitely not safe for kids, definitely not PC but bloody funny!
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Post by: Chris S on 07 January, 2011, 10:17:32 am
System 7 - Phoenix

Excellent turbo trainer Zone Out hypnochoons  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 07 January, 2011, 11:18:42 am
Lumberjack's Lament by Let's Talk About Trees, which seems to be a lovely little ditty about sqrls and beavers. So right up my street :)
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Post by: interzen on 07 January, 2011, 11:48:24 am
It's the iPod pot-luck megamix today - just switched it into shuffle mode and I'll take my chances. Got a bit of everything, from Brian Eno to Slayer which should keep it interesting :)

Currently playing: "Collision" by Loop, a good earwax-shifting choon if ever there was

[EDIT: Now listening to the copy of "Diesel and Dust" by Midnight Oil which had been sitting in my pigeonhole at work since before Christmas and I was stricken with the pig plague]
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Post by: padbeat on 08 January, 2011, 03:43:16 am
Whole iChoones thingie on random has lead me to The Disposable Heroes of Hiphopricy's Television

haven't listened to in in years, and forgot how damn good it is!
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Post by: Domestique on 08 January, 2011, 10:28:31 am
jamiroquai - rock dust light star

First play of this album and its good  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 09 January, 2011, 12:33:58 am
Vincent Oliver & Supertalented — Ballad Of A Lonely Penguin And A Hungry Polar Bear :)
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Post by: Wowbagger on 10 January, 2011, 07:21:58 pm
Die Zauberflöte.
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Post by: clarion on 10 January, 2011, 08:42:38 pm
Currently listening to Radcliffe & Maconie.  They have just had the first segment of guests British Sea Power, which proved to be a somewhat ragged conversation.  I think cannabis may have been involved.  It may well be worth listening out for more golden embarrassment later.

Compliance issues so far include references to 'special cream', and having a Jodrell Bank.
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Post by: tiermat on 11 January, 2011, 01:10:43 pm
Re-visiting the nineties here,

Started with Soulfly - Soulfly, especially the Bonus disc of re-mixes.
Then came Propellorheads with Decksanddrumsandrockandroll
Now it's Live with Throwing Copper.

Hmm, last album in my playlist, must add more....

Mechanical Animals - Marilyn Manson
NIN - Further Down The Spiral

Seperated by "Whiskey Drinking Woman" by Nazereth, just for the hell of it...
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Post by: microphonie on 11 January, 2011, 06:24:41 pm
So far today:

Third Eye Foundation's new album - the Dark  8)
Murcof - The Versailles Sessions
Muslimgauze - Sandtraffikar

NP: Don Letts on 6Music listen again
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Post by: Quisling on 11 January, 2011, 06:32:58 pm
Whole iChoones thingie on random has lead me to The Disposable Heroes of Hiphopricy's Television

haven't listened to in in years, and forgot how damn good it is!

That's a mighty fine tune!

Today, amongst other things I've been listening (hard) to "Say something in Welsh, Lesson 5". The word for milk appears unpronounceable!
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Post by: andrewc on 11 January, 2011, 10:13:05 pm
Just been listening to "Snap", a 2 LP collection by The Jam.....

Going Underground was released in 1980, reading the papers seems like going back in time...

"What you see is what you get
You've made your bed, you better lie in it
You choose your leaders and place your trust
As their lies wash you down and their promises rust
You'll see kidney machines replaced by rockets and guns
And the public wants what the public gets
But I don't get what this society wants"
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Post by: mikeitup on 12 January, 2011, 08:58:32 am
I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Live Vol. 2.

Great stuff!
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Post by: mondobongo on 13 January, 2011, 09:53:19 pm
Ghost featuring Ian Astbury off Slash's solo album.
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Post by: Deano on 13 January, 2011, 10:53:57 pm
Mclusky - snotty, shouty, ranty indie rock from S Wales.  Sadly now defunct.

It's hard not to like a band which came up with song titles like "Your Children Are Waiting for You to Die", "Whiteliberalonwhiteliberalaction", "The Gift of Slight" and "Lightsabre Cocksucking Blues".
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Post by: Simonb on 13 January, 2011, 10:59:21 pm
Subbacultcha!
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Post by: Chris S on 14 January, 2011, 10:39:25 am
Hellbilly Deluxe - Rob Zombie

 :o

Rob Zombie + Empty House + 5.1 Sound = Office-based Seismic activity  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Jaded on 14 January, 2011, 01:24:16 pm
Slave to the Rythm  :thumbsup:
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Post by: nicknack on 14 January, 2011, 06:50:07 pm
The James Taylor Quartet - Hammond-ology

Hammondastic!  :thumbsup:
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Post by: andrewc on 14 January, 2011, 07:07:12 pm
Mr TNT brought me a humungous box earlier.  Carrying it 8 flights of stairs was a bit knackering...

A Michell Orbe.....  Tecnoarm is fitted and it's now annoying the neighbours nicely..

Midnight Oil, "Diesel & Dust" at the moment, sounding good  :thumbsup:

(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5122/5355262886_88d4c95362_b.jpg)
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Post by: interzen on 14 January, 2011, 07:11:15 pm
Midnight Oil, "Diesel & Dust" at the moment, sounding good  :thumbsup:
Ironically enough, I was listening to that on my iPod on the bus home.
Listening to it now - got my favourite track ('Warakurna') belting out at obscene volume whilst I fill in bloody insurance accident report forms. I suppose on a rig like yours, Peter Garrett will sound more like a strangled cat than he usually does :)

EDIT: Might still have my original (1986) vinyl copy of "Diesel and Dust" kicking around somewhere. Nowt to play it on, though ....

EDIT 2: Just occurred to me that "Beds Are Burning" is one of the first songs I learned to play on the bass. Not that it's difficult - the bassline to "Bullroarer" is surprisingly complex, however.
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Post by: andrewc on 14 January, 2011, 07:22:16 pm
It's the only Oils album I've got on vinyl, the rest are on CD.   Must check the charity shops again.....

We have Pete Garrett's double on the forum as well,  a better singer than politician from my occasional reading of Australian news sites...
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Post by: interzen on 14 January, 2011, 07:31:16 pm
It's the only Oils album I've got on vinyl, the rest are on CD.   Must check the charity shops again.....

We have Pete Garrett's double on the forum as well,  a better singer than politician from my occasional reading of Australian news sites...
I've adopted Diesel and Dust as the 'theme album' of my planned ride across Western Australia in a couple of years time - kind of apt, since I'll be visiting some of the places mentioned on the album (including the Gunbarrel Highway1 and Warakurna/Giles - big, fat sand tyres FTW!)

I'd love to have my Surly frame redone in an aboriginal stylee, but sadly it would be considered offensive by some, and not just because it'd be ridden by a pasty Pom :)

Back on topic, I've got the iPod Genius feature picking some choons for me as I type ...

1 - Riding on sand is hard. Training for desert riding in the UK is even harder2 - several trips to hot and dusty places are planned between now and the Oz trip. If anyone knows how I can get copies of Len Beadell's books without having to sell a kidney, then please let me know
2 - Towing a trailer with a pair of water carriers on will be even more interesting.
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Post by: andrewc on 14 January, 2011, 07:43:10 pm
Have you read "Cold Beer & Crocodiles" ?  A good account of a circumnavigation by bike.
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Post by: interzen on 14 January, 2011, 08:00:50 pm
Have you read "Cold Beer & Crocodiles" ?  A good account of a circumnavigation by bike.
It's on my Amazon wishlist, along with several other items of Australia-related reading material. Need to get my cashflow sorted out first though.

I'm not going for a circumnavigation (sadly) but more of a 'ride from the edge to the middle then turn right and keep going until you get wet feet' (ie. Perth to Alice Springs to either Adelaide or Melbourne, via lots of sandy bits)
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Post by: andrewc on 14 January, 2011, 08:28:47 pm
PM me an address and I'll stick it in the post.   Got Discovery Road as well, which has an Aussie section.
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Post by: interzen on 14 January, 2011, 08:36:13 pm
PM me an address and I'll stick it in the post.   Got Discovery Road as well, which has an Aussie section.
Cheers - I'm happy to give you something for it, though.
I read "Discovery Road" before Christmas and it was largely the Aussie section which resulted in the book being donated to the British Heart Foundation - if they'd concentrated more on writing about the country and the people instead of bickering amongst themselves then it would have been good.

Currently playing: Brian Eno, "The Shutov Assembly" ... nice, floaty ambient choonage.
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Post by: andrewc on 14 January, 2011, 08:43:12 pm
No worries, post it back when finished or pass it on to somebody else, there is a "lending library" on the forum http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?board=29.0 (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?board=29.0) and I've too many books for this tiny flat !

PJ Harvey, "Stories from the city, stories from the sea" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4kTMYhY2ds (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4kTMYhY2ds)
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Post by: mondobongo on 15 January, 2011, 01:45:05 am
On Down the Road by Izzy Stradlin lovely and laid back and great to get slowly drunk to.
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Post by: spesh on 15 January, 2011, 06:40:44 pm
Detroit Social Club - Existence. A slice of atmospheric indie rock with echoes of Kasabian and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club...

EDIT: Now listening to Stephen Dale Petit's "Crave" - blues with a modern twist. Worth it for the cover of 2Pac's "California".  ;D
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 16 January, 2011, 01:56:00 pm
The Best of Rod Stewart.
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Post by: interzen on 16 January, 2011, 02:04:09 pm
Wolfram Spyra - Live at Awakenings, Burton-on-Trent, 21st November 2009 :)
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Post by: bobb on 16 January, 2011, 02:06:27 pm
The Best of Rod Stewart.

You like Essex boys don't you?  :P
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Post by: her_welshness on 16 January, 2011, 05:07:22 pm
'Lost voices of Afghanistan' on Radio 4 just now. Jonathan Powell appealed to BBC World service listeners in Afghanistan for poems, and he was literally inundated with them.

There was one called 'If I was the Queen of the whole world'. I just stood there in the kitchen sobbing myself silly, it was such a beautiful and moving piece.
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Post by: PaulF on 16 January, 2011, 05:27:07 pm
Trinity Sessions ~ Cowboy Junkies
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Post by: LindaG on 16 January, 2011, 06:43:24 pm
"Eden Rock", read by the man himself, Charles Causley.

Reading this out loud to myself, as I have often done, helped me get more out of this poem than listening to him.  It was still worth doing tho'.

He wrote it at the end of his life, but somehow in my head it is spoken by a younger man.

Meh.  Go figure.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 17 January, 2011, 08:47:35 pm
Pink Floyd - Animals.

Gilmour's guitar soloing on "Dogs" is among his best.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 18 January, 2011, 12:56:26 pm
Rattus Norvegicus ~ The Stranglers.  J-J Burnel's bass is teh AWSUM.
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Post by: interzen on 18 January, 2011, 01:01:32 pm
Rattus Norvegicus ~ The Stranglers.  J-J Burnel's bass is teh AWSUM.
Got to agree - I've tried for ages to replicate that tone but never managed to succeed (ditto for Simon Gallup's bass tone on the Disintegration-era Cure albums)

Mind you, you're not likely to Burnel his bass sounds like crap, are you? :)

Currently listening to "Diesel and Dust" by Midnight Oil ... again.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 18 January, 2011, 05:13:14 pm

You like Essex boys don't you?  :P
If you wrote me a song as beautiful as You're In My Heart (preferably not called I'm In Your Gob) I'd not only show you my tits, I'd let you have a go on them.
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Post by: tiermat on 20 January, 2011, 03:02:18 pm
The Beautiful South - SuperBi

Smiling whilst listening to "Manchester" :)
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Post by: Torslanda on 20 January, 2011, 03:32:20 pm
Pink Floyd - Animals.

Gilmour's guitar soloing on "Dogs" is among his best.

Turn it up.

Preferably to 11!
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Post by: Chris S on 20 January, 2011, 05:13:05 pm
In need of some ambient falsetto.

Sigur Rós - Takk
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 20 January, 2011, 10:14:40 pm
The R2 Gary Barlow 40th birthday concert. I was having a very long phone conversation earlier, so I recorded it. But the stupid digibox didn't record Corrie, so I've missed that.
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Post by: jogler on 21 January, 2011, 10:56:19 am
Johhny Cash
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 21 January, 2011, 12:37:27 pm
System Of A Down.  Like metal, only different :thumbsup:
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Post by: interzen on 21 January, 2011, 12:49:16 pm
Hawkwind, specifically the "Space Ritual" album.
Even more specifically I'm listening to it through the headphones I generally use for mixing/monitoring

Pure psychedic heaven. And Lemmy, of course  8)
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Post by: tiermat on 21 January, 2011, 03:59:32 pm
All mixed up today:

The Black Crows - 3 Snakes and One Charm
The Counting Crowes - Across A Wire
The Beautiful South - SuperBi
Body Count - Body Count
Corinne Bailey Rae - Corinne Bailey Rae
Faithless - Forever Faithless

Did start listening to Amorica by the Black Crows and realised why I don't listen to it very much, it's 'cos it's shit....
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Post by: mondobongo on 22 January, 2011, 11:08:12 am
We're All Gonna Die - Slash feat Iggy Pop (Great first line)

We're Here Because We're Here - Anathema
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 22 January, 2011, 02:51:16 pm
Tony Blackburn doing the 1989 chart countdown. He's just introduced Buffalo Stance by Neneh Cherry with "listen to the beginning of this, it's weird."  ::-)
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 22 January, 2011, 03:50:00 pm
The Best of Rod Stewart.

You like Essex boys don't you?  :P
Today, George Michael. Ladies and Gentlemen. For the Feet. I am dancing.
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Post by: PaulF on 22 January, 2011, 05:53:07 pm
Hunky Dory haven't heard it in ages, takes me back to when I was much younger than I feel happy remembering.
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Post by: PaulF on 22 January, 2011, 07:15:39 pm
And now The National's High Violet. Michael Stipe allegedly challenged them to produce a cheerful album and this is the result ??? Jeez but totally amazing all the same
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Post by: jogler on 22 January, 2011, 08:36:50 pm
Mark Knopfler on the BIO channel
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Post by: Oaky on 22 January, 2011, 08:41:00 pm
The Whisky Priests: "Bloody well live".
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Post by: Deano on 22 January, 2011, 08:43:49 pm
Richard and Linda Thompson.  A pleasure which never fades.
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Post by: RW on 22 January, 2011, 10:51:53 pm
Cannonball Adderley
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 23 January, 2011, 11:28:13 am
Aretha.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 23 January, 2011, 06:13:58 pm
Vince Clarke's remix of Happy Mondays' W.F.L.  Practising my Bez "treading water" dance.
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Post by: andrewc on 23 January, 2011, 08:38:54 pm
Earlier it was Head Injuries, by Midnight Oil  :thumbsup:   Currently doing my ironing while listening to Jorge Bolet playing Liszt piano works..
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Post by: loafer on 23 January, 2011, 08:49:49 pm

 Music : Oldies With Video  enjoy
 

Music Videos Page One (http://www.my-3-sons.com/javascript-flv/flv-videos1.htm)

 
 

 
 
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Post by: Torslanda on 23 January, 2011, 11:31:16 pm
Madness - Night Boat to Cairo & One Step Beyond.

David Bowie - Scary Monsters & Super Creeps

This is how music should be, fun!
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Post by: rogerzilla on 24 January, 2011, 08:35:36 pm
QOTSA - No One Knows
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Post by: interzen on 24 January, 2011, 10:23:46 pm
The soundtrack to "Fable III" ... largely because I've been playing said game on the 360 :)

Earlier: nothing, 'cos I left my iPod at home  :facepalm:
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Post by: andrewc on 24 January, 2011, 10:31:09 pm
Bruckner 5.  Bernard Haitink, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Oxfam vinyl  :thumbsup:

Relaxing after a fairly tense day.......
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Post by: Mobbsy on 25 January, 2011, 01:08:36 pm
Tiny Tears - Tindersticks
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Post by: interzen on 25 January, 2011, 01:10:56 pm
Wolfram Spyra - Phonehead
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Post by: Nuncio on 25 January, 2011, 01:20:58 pm
Tiny Tears - Tindersticks

Ooh - I was listening to that an hour ago.

Now onto Warpaint - 4-piece female LA band, strangely reminiscent of 80s punk-inspired mimimalists Marine Girls at times.
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Post by: mattc on 25 January, 2011, 02:18:20 pm
The Burns Unit (http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/ddd7cf4a-6e7e-48a0-b679-4fce20865727#p00db14g)

They did a really good session on Marc Riley last week.
BBC - BBC 6 Music Programmes - Marc Riley, 19/01/2011, The Burns Unit live in session (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00dcx3r) (1 day left)

Round and Round was a superb new track.
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Post by: spesh on 26 January, 2011, 06:23:58 pm
Sparks  ;D
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 26 January, 2011, 07:46:24 pm
This town ain't big enough for the both of us! Musical histrionics, I love it.
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Post by: mondobongo on 26 January, 2011, 09:58:55 pm
Jailbreak - Thin Lizzy

So many great riffs. My absolute favourite little bit is when the guitar comes in after the first verse of Cowboy song just sublime.

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Post by: andrewc on 28 January, 2011, 11:58:13 pm
Just seen the RLPO do a wonderful Prokofiev & Racmaninov set. Now rather drunk in a pub, listening to  Marley Chingus (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8izaASWK2cQ) who are regular performers here....

Review of Thursday's RLPO performance (http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-entertainment/echo-entertainment/2011/01/28/review-simon-trpceski-joins-the-rlpo-for-petrenko-s-glorious-rachmaninov-100252-28070014/)
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 30 January, 2011, 12:21:33 pm
Marina & The Diamonds.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 31 January, 2011, 08:45:46 pm
Roger Waters trading as Pink Floyd - The Final Cut

I remain unconvinced of any Floyd album after "The Wall", and that was patchy.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 31 January, 2011, 08:55:11 pm
Just seen the RLPO do a wonderful Prokofiev & Racmaninov set. Now rather drunk in a pub, listening to  Marley Chingus (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8izaASWK2cQ) who are regular performers here....

Review of Thursday's RLPO performance (http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-entertainment/echo-entertainment/2011/01/28/review-simon-trpceski-joins-the-rlpo-for-petrenko-s-glorious-rachmaninov-100252-28070014/)

Marley Chingus - niiice !
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Post by: Clandy on 31 January, 2011, 08:56:10 pm
Roger Waters trading as Pink Floyd - The Final Cut

I remain unconvinced of any Floyd album after "The Wall", and that was patchy.

There were only two albums after The Wall: Momentary Lapse Of Reason and The Division Bell both of which were very good (The Final Cut although containing some superb tracks, is really just leftovers from The Wall). What a lot of people (and Waters himself) fail to understand is that Waters was not Pink Floyd.
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Post by: Clandy on 31 January, 2011, 08:56:36 pm
Listening to Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Red Right Hand.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 31 January, 2011, 09:15:11 pm
Roger Waters trading as Pink Floyd - The Final Cut

I remain unconvinced of any Floyd album after "The Wall", and that was patchy.

There were only two albums after The Wall: Momentary Lapse Of Reason and The Division Bell both of which were very good (The Final Cut although containing some superb tracks, is really just leftovers from The Wall). What a lot of people (and Waters himself) fail to understand is that Waters was not Pink Floyd.

Well...I like Atom Heart Mother, and no-one else seems to  ;)
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Post by: Redlight on 31 January, 2011, 09:19:19 pm
Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Hallelujah!
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Post by: Clandy on 31 January, 2011, 09:20:39 pm
Roger Waters trading as Pink Floyd - The Final Cut

I remain unconvinced of any Floyd album after "The Wall", and that was patchy.

There were only two albums after The Wall: Momentary Lapse Of Reason and The Division Bell both of which were very good (The Final Cut although containing some superb tracks, is really just leftovers from The Wall). What a lot of people (and Waters himself) fail to understand is that Waters was not Pink Floyd.

Well...I like Atom Heart Mother, and no-one else seems to  ;)

I only like Summer '68, Fat Old Sun, and If, from Atom Heart Mother. But then there are people who think Ummagumma is great, whereas I think it is a pile of self-indulgent crap. (and I'm a lifelong Floyd fan)
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Post by: Wowbagger on 31 January, 2011, 10:30:11 pm
Elias, in German, by Mr. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 31 January, 2011, 10:45:04 pm
Thelonious Monk mainly with a bit of Sarah Vaughen thrown in.
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Post by: Chris S on 01 February, 2011, 08:54:47 am
Roger Waters trading as Pink Floyd - The Final Cut

I remain unconvinced of any Floyd album after "The Wall", and that was patchy.

There were only two albums after The Wall: Momentary Lapse Of Reason and The Division Bell both of which were very good (The Final Cut although containing some superb tracks, is really just leftovers from The Wall). What a lot of people (and Waters himself) fail to understand is that Waters was not Pink Floyd.

Well...I like Atom Heart Mother, and no-one else seems to  ;)

I only like Summer '68, Fat Old Sun, and If, from Atom Heart Mother. But then there are people who think Ummagumma is great, whereas I think it is a pile of self-indulgent crap. (and I'm a lifelong Floyd fan)

I always enjoyed "Several species of small furry animals gathered together in a cave and grooving with a Pict", but I suspect that enjoyment lent much to chemical assistance  :-[.
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Post by: harvey on 01 February, 2011, 11:22:53 am
The Decemberists 'The King is Dead' and Kings of Leon 'Come Around Sundown'
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 01 February, 2011, 01:11:56 pm
Roger Waters trading as Pink Floyd - The Final Cut

I remain unconvinced of any Floyd album after "The Wall", and that was patchy.

There were only two albums after The Wall: Momentary Lapse Of Reason and The Division Bell both of which were very good (The Final Cut although containing some superb tracks, is really just leftovers from The Wall). What a lot of people (and Waters himself) fail to understand is that Waters was not Pink Floyd.

Well...I like Atom Heart Mother, and no-one else seems to  ;)

Nope, I do as well, old hippie that I am.  In fact I like all Floyd except The Wall and The Final Cut, as these mainly consisted of Roger Waters being angsty and gittish.
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Post by: Chris S on 01 February, 2011, 03:07:05 pm
Roger Waters trading as Pink Floyd - The Final Cut

I remain unconvinced of any Floyd album after "The Wall", and that was patchy.

There were only two albums after The Wall: Momentary Lapse Of Reason and The Division Bell both of which were very good (The Final Cut although containing some superb tracks, is really just leftovers from The Wall). What a lot of people (and Waters himself) fail to understand is that Waters was not Pink Floyd.

Well...I like Atom Heart Mother, and no-one else seems to  ;)

Nope, I do as well, old hippie that I am.  In fact I like all Floyd except The Wall and The Final Cut, as these mainly consisted of Roger Waters being angsty and gittish.

No surprise that Roger Waters' solo albums (Radio K.A.O.S, Amused to Death, The Pros and Cons of Hitchiking) all have Echoes [sic] of The Final Cut, and to a lesser degree - The Wall, in them.

That said, being somewhat prone to angst and gittishness myself, I quite like his angsty and gittish stylee.
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Post by: microphonie on 01 February, 2011, 07:33:01 pm
Courtesy of Interzen:

Dark Side Of The Moog 8 - Namlook & Schultze

I like this, particularly the long opening track - very spaced/dubby. The full-on drum & bass track towards the end took me a bit by surprise though  :thumbsup:

Live @ Awakenings - Wolfram Spyra.

Not sure about this one - getting too close to prog noodling/Vangelis for my liking  :-\
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Post by: interzen on 01 February, 2011, 07:53:24 pm
Courtesy of Interzen:

Dark Side Of The Moog 8 - Namlook & Schultze

I like this, particularly the long opening track - very spaced/dubby. The full-on drum & bass track towards the end took me a bit by surprise though  :thumbsup:

Live @ Awakenings - Wolfram Spyra.

Not sure about this one - getting too close to prog noodling/Vangelis for my liking  :-\
The final track of DSoM8 does catch you by surprise :) Apparently it was the 'encore' track rather than being part of the main set - definitely not the sort of stuff Herr Schulze is best known for ;)

As for the Spyra set, I guess you really had to be there - despite there not being many people there (40 tops, which was quite disappointing) there was a really good vibe which matched the music perfectly.

As for me, I'm listening to the soundboard recordings from the 2009 Hampshire Jam - absolutely sequencer-tastic (and it helps that I was actually there too)  :thumbsup:
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Post by: simonp on 01 February, 2011, 10:27:42 pm
Surrender.
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Post by: microphonie on 02 February, 2011, 06:23:32 pm
Courtesy of Interzen:

Dark Side Of The Moog 8 - Namlook & Schultze

I like this, particularly the long opening track - very spaced/dubby. The full-on drum & bass track towards the end took me a bit by surprise though  :thumbsup:

The final track of DSoM8 does catch you by surprise :) Apparently it was the 'encore' track rather than being part of the main set - definitely not the sort of stuff Herr Schulze is best known for ;)


Ah, forgot it was live. Makes more sense as part of an encore.

Today's listening:

Bibio - The Apple & the Tooth
Pan Sonic - Gravitoni
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Post by: andyoxon on 05 February, 2011, 11:08:23 am
Kasabian - West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum

on Free Music, we7 (http://www.we7.com)    - good site.   :)
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Post by: Dinamo on 06 February, 2011, 02:41:32 pm
Freebird ~ Lynyard Skynyrd

possibly the best track ever

on Planet Rock Digital Radio  :thumbsup:
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Post by: PaulF on 06 February, 2011, 02:48:23 pm
The Decemberists 'The King is Dead' and Kings of Leon 'Come Around Sundown'

'The King is Dead' - that's really growing on me
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Post by: Wascally Weasel on 06 February, 2011, 02:49:07 pm
The Proclaimers.  I might have to be sitting here doing work spreadsheets (on predicted Olympics related station demand) but I can listen to something good while I do.
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Post by: Andrij on 06 February, 2011, 02:56:07 pm
Baroque, assorted pieces.
 
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Post by: rogerzilla on 06 February, 2011, 06:19:19 pm
Nessun Dorma, the only good thing in Turandot, or so I'm told.
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Post by: PaulF on 06 February, 2011, 06:53:16 pm
Assorted Neil Young
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Post by: Aidan on 06 February, 2011, 06:56:26 pm
Barton Hollow - The Civil Wars

You heard it here first folks, these are gonna be big
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Post by: PaulF on 06 February, 2011, 06:57:21 pm
Barton Hollow - The Civil Wars

You heard it here first folks, these are gonna be big

So what are they like? Genre, references?
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Post by: Aidan on 06 February, 2011, 07:09:45 pm
Barton Hollow - The Civil Wars

You heard it here first folks, these are gonna be big

So what are they like? Genre, references?

American Indie folk rock   is probably the best description.   


    YouTube
        - the civil wars
   (http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+civil+wars&aq=0)
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Post by: Tim Hall on 06 February, 2011, 07:39:08 pm
"Boots or No Boots" by the Bible Code Sundays. Like the Pogues, but with better teeth.
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Post by: Flying_Monkey on 07 February, 2011, 10:14:47 am
Barton Hollow - The Civil Wars

You heard it here first folks, these are gonna be big

So what are they like? Genre, references?

American Indie folk rock   is probably the best description.   


    YouTube
        - the civil wars
   (http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+civil+wars&aq=0)

alt-country or Americana, I'd say... in that it combines old time with modern rock - interesting.
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Post by: Aidan on 07 February, 2011, 11:51:33 am
Barton Hollow - The Civil Wars

You heard it here first folks, these are gonna be big



yes thats a fair appraisal, interesting and i reckon has that white stripes new old appeal


So what are they like? Genre, references?

American Indie folk rock   is probably the best description.   


    YouTube
        - the civil wars
   (http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+civil+wars&aq=0)

alt-country or Americana, I'd say... in that it combines old time with modern rock - interesting.
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Post by: PaulF on 07 February, 2011, 05:31:36 pm
Barton Hollow - The Civil Wars

You heard it here first folks, these are gonna be big



yes thats a fair appraisal, interesting and i reckon has that white stripes new old appeal


So what are they like? Genre, references?

American Indie folk rock   is probably the best description.   


    YouTube
        - the civil wars
   (http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+civil+wars&aq=0)

alt-country or Americana, I'd say... in that it combines old time with modern rock - interesting.

Sounds right up my street :thumbsup:
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Post by: microphonie on 09 February, 2011, 06:39:47 pm
Ladysmith Black Mambazo - Old MacDonald Zulu Style on  Don Letts  (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00y47gp#segments) 'Listen Again' (starts about 30min in).

Old MacDonald Had a Farm has never sounded so good  ;D

Earlier: Dylan Ettinger -  New Age Outlaws  (http://dylanettinger.bandcamp.com/) - spacey, electronic with a slight edge. The track Crippler Crossface reminds me of early Cabaret Voltaire, which can't be bad...
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Post by: Deano on 09 February, 2011, 09:34:00 pm
Victor Jara.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 10 February, 2011, 12:15:00 pm
Across The Plains ~ Little Miss Higgins

Anyone who can write a song called Bargain! Shop Panties must be doing something right.
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Post by: geoff on 10 February, 2011, 02:08:57 pm
Brighton band Anagrams debut "we form a shelter (http://anagrams.bandcamp.com/album/we-form-a-shelter)"

especially "red and green", "so stories go", "lost in space"

have a listen!

(declares interest as proud uncle of lyricist/guitarist Dave)
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Post by: BrianI on 10 February, 2011, 06:25:02 pm
Kraftwerk - Concert Classics   :thumbsup:
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Post by: clarion on 10 February, 2011, 09:56:48 pm
Nazareth on Youtube.  Marvellously raucous.  Manny Charlton is an under-recognised genius.
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Post by: andrewc on 10 February, 2011, 10:04:48 pm
So far tonight Kate Bush "Hounds of Love",  The Christians "Colour" and now Simply Red "Picturebook"

80's night ...
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Post by: andrewc on 10 February, 2011, 10:38:15 pm
Bloody hell,     "Holding Back The Years" , 1986,    brings back lots of memories....lots of  names..
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Post by: Redlight on 10 February, 2011, 10:42:40 pm
Joan Osbourne

Spotted her on BBC4's Transatlantic Sessions and was reminded of her first (and, I think, only) UK gig back in 96 at the Borderline in London.   Hers has been an interesting artistic journey.  

Am also listening, courtesy of Michael at no 60, to Emily Portman. Now there's a songwriter to be reckoned with.  
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Post by: mondobongo on 10 February, 2011, 11:33:33 pm
Started with early Motorhead Overkill, Bomber etc and have just switched to Testament.
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Post by: Quisling on 10 February, 2011, 11:35:47 pm
Kraftwerk - Concert Classics   :thumbsup:

Is that the one with Tanzmusik?

Me want. ;D
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Post by: Dinamo on 11 February, 2011, 01:19:45 am
Obscured By Clouds, then Atom Heart Mother both by Pink Floyd  ;D
Should help the night shift pass quicker !
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 11 February, 2011, 12:33:52 pm
More Little Miss Higgins.  She has a voice which gives me goosebumps and, according to some oaf from Radville SK, "a nice dumper".  From the sound of it, Radville is high on my list of places not to visit.

Until Wednesday I'd never heard of her, but Across The Plains was on repeat before and after Ben Weaver's set on Tuesday night, so I cranked up my Google-Fu...
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Post by: pcolbeck on 11 February, 2011, 04:23:53 pm
Erik Satie - Gnossienne No.1
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Post by: spesh on 11 February, 2011, 04:49:02 pm
Yes - Big Generator, followed by Goldfrapp - Supernature
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Post by: jogler on 11 February, 2011, 07:38:38 pm
U2
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Post by: andrewc on 12 February, 2011, 10:09:22 pm
Bartok, Concerto for Orchestra,  Pierre Boulez, New York Philharmonic.

I hit the local Oxfam earlier and came away with a dozen LP's, Midnight Oil, Genesis, Oscar Peterson, Glenn Gould playing Bach, Isaac Stern & Lionel Rose playing the Brahms Double Concerto .... having a pleasant evening in  :)
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Post by: Ray 6701 on 13 February, 2011, 09:19:45 pm
Radiohead: every album & Rainbows is the best  :thumbsup:
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Post by: LindaG on 14 February, 2011, 10:13:41 am
Adele - 19

I love most of the tracks, but can only listen to her in small doses.  She sounds like she's shouting after a while.

However, this feels like a 'just been dumped' set of songs, so the shouting may be entirely appropriate.

I think 'Don't You Remember' is just a gorgeous country song.

"I know I have a fickle heart
And a bitterness
And a wandering eye
And a heaviness in my head ..."

Lovely.
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Post by: LindaG on 14 February, 2011, 04:43:38 pm
And now ... Ella Fitzgerald. 
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Post by: Nuncio on 14 February, 2011, 09:24:43 pm
Adele - 19

I love most of the tracks, but can only listen to her in small doses.  She sounds like she's shouting after a while.

However, this feels like a 'just been dumped' set of songs, so the shouting may be entirely appropriate.

I think 'Don't You Remember' is just a gorgeous country song.

"I know I have a fickle heart
And a bitterness
And a wandering eye
And a heaviness in my head ..."

Lovely.

Do you mean Adele - 21? The new one?
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Post by: andrewc on 14 February, 2011, 09:28:46 pm
Working my way though a box set of Vaughn Williams symphonies....
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Post by: LindaG on 14 February, 2011, 10:28:06 pm

Do you mean Adele - 21? The new one?

Er, yes   :-[
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Post by: Chris S on 15 February, 2011, 02:29:21 pm
The Wall - Pink Floyd.
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Post by: jogler on 16 February, 2011, 10:36:09 am
The Four Tops
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Post by: tiermat on 16 February, 2011, 07:02:59 pm
Public Enemy - He Got Game

One of their lesser known albums, but still good.  Hard to believe that it is nearly 15 years old!
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 16 February, 2011, 10:49:07 pm
Code Monkey.

Jonathan Coulton  &raquo; Blog Archive   &raquo; Thing a Week 29 – Code Monkey (http://www.jonathancoulton.com/2006/04/14/thing-a-week-29-code-monkey/)
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Post by: Tim Hall on 17 February, 2011, 07:59:39 pm
The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel.

On 12 inch vinyl.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 17 February, 2011, 09:07:15 pm
Blondie in concert on R2.
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Post by: clarion on 17 February, 2011, 09:09:29 pm
Tom Robinson
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 20 February, 2011, 01:23:33 pm
Rumer. Perfect for a mellow Sunday.
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Post by: YahudaMoon on 20 February, 2011, 01:27:42 pm
Mettalheadz compilaTION. Limited edition vinyl 4 plate. not ya Sunday chill out kinda thing. No idea who the artist is ?.
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Post by: giropaul on 20 February, 2011, 06:27:00 pm
Barclay James Harvest, after a wonderful concert by them last night in Buxton - I feel 21 again!
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Post by: IanDG on 20 February, 2011, 06:32:40 pm
Barclay James Harvest, after a wonderful concert by them last night in Buxton - I feel 21 again!

go careful Paul
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Post by: jogler on 20 February, 2011, 10:53:58 pm
Joan jett & The Blackhearts
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Post by: simonp on 20 February, 2011, 10:58:00 pm
This:

Black Eyed Peas; Kylie Minogue; Blondie; Candy Dulfer; Pet Shop Boys; The Who; Little Boots.
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Post by: Oaky on 20 February, 2011, 11:01:02 pm
Jethro Tull
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Post by: YahudaMoon on 20 February, 2011, 11:04:26 pm
Right now its 'R Kidds n Noize on the excelent Collission label on vinyl obviously for me
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Post by: YahudaMoon on 20 February, 2011, 11:10:25 pm
just gone totally difo from Noize to PJ Harvey 'Uh Oh Ah 'album
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Post by: Hot Flatus on 21 February, 2011, 06:22:04 am
Alix Perez. 1984
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Post by: jogler on 21 February, 2011, 02:34:52 pm
Joan jett & The Blackhearts

again
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Post by: Chris S on 21 February, 2011, 03:31:13 pm
Moby
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Post by: jogler on 21 February, 2011, 04:27:11 pm
George Harrison
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Post by: microphonie on 21 February, 2011, 06:33:19 pm
Third Eye Foundation - The Dark

The Fun Years - Life-Sized Psychoses
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Post by: perpetual dan on 22 February, 2011, 09:52:06 am
A playlist which is a mix of recently added from CD and little listened to choices by the computer.
I finally got round to uploading The Rose of Avalanche yesterday. The computer has balanced this out with Bentley Rhythm Ace and Perfecto Allstarz.  ;D
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Post by: PaulF on 22 February, 2011, 10:26:34 am
King of Limbs and Smart Flesh, jury's still out on both
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Post by: marcusjb on 22 February, 2011, 03:19:17 pm
King of Limbs (bit late, but I was away for a long weekend).

Definitely going to take a couple of listens, much like In Rainbows did, before I decide I do really like it.

Give Up The Ghost is the stand-out track for me on first listen.

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Post by: Deano on 24 February, 2011, 08:35:49 pm
Charlie Parr - King Earl.

Fingerpickin'-tastic stuff.  Good banjo action.
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Post by: tiermat on 25 February, 2011, 09:11:37 am
My Last.FM stream, currently playing Pearl Jam - Save You.

This weekend is going to be a 90's-tastic mix of music to help us pick music for August.....
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Post by: microphonie on 25 February, 2011, 05:59:17 pm
Hammock - Maybe They Will Sing For Us Tomorrow - mellow ambient/post-rock fare in the same vein as Stars of the Lid. And rather nice to have on the headphones whilst reading.
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Post by: nicknack on 25 February, 2011, 08:47:27 pm
Bjork

Bachelorette

Wonderful
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Post by: Clandy on 25 February, 2011, 09:23:16 pm
Jamie Lidell - Compass (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbVrlMNE7Qg). Great song and tune, surprisingly first brought to my notice in a video game.
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Post by: Chris S on 25 February, 2011, 09:27:11 pm
Rain, on the conservatory roof.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 25 February, 2011, 09:57:16 pm
On 6 music.:  Ensemble Economique - To feel the night as it really is. Fantastic.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 27 February, 2011, 04:09:46 pm
Deacon Blue - Raintown and Fellow Hoodlums.
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Post by: Dinamo on 01 March, 2011, 03:30:43 am
MP3 player has been on shuffle for the last hour or so......

Kraftwerk - La Forme (King of the Mountains) mix
Suede - Asphalt World
Metallica - Whiskey in the Jar
Faithless - Insomnia
Men At Work - Down by the Sea
Pink Floyd - Echoes

......helps the night shift pass quicker  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Quisling on 01 March, 2011, 10:54:24 am
King of Limbs - Radiohead. In particular Codex.  Wonderful track.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 01 March, 2011, 11:02:01 am
Deacon Blue - Raintown and Fellow Hoodlums.

Noooooo!  My wife used to inflict Deacon Blue on me when we first met.
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Post by: Quisling on 01 March, 2011, 11:12:02 am
Deacon Blue - Raintown and Fellow Hoodlums.

Noooooo!  My wife used to inflict Deacon Blue on me when we first met.

That's grounds for divorce that is.  Nearly as bad as Kenny Rogers.  MiniQ seems to have developed a liking for that well known rhyming slang James Blunt.  I'm convinced he's the 21st century equivalent of Chris de Burgh.

*shudders*
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 01 March, 2011, 11:23:16 am
KT Tunstall, Tiger Suit.  I like it.

We went to see her at the O2 Academy in Leeds at the weekend.  She is (and bear in mind who is saying this) absolutely tiny.  And extremely engaging and funny.  

ETA - and anyway, she will always have a special place in this household because when the SmallestCub was a small and grizzly baby the one thing that would always calm him down was KT at loud volume.
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Post by: tiermat on 01 March, 2011, 11:27:51 am
Strange, TLD always calmed down to Rancid or RHCP..... :)
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Post by: Chris S on 03 March, 2011, 11:55:54 am
Mike Oldfield. In this order:

Hergest Ridge (reminds me of sitting in a park with my girlfriend, Summer of '76, when I was 16)
Ommadawn
3 Lunas
Tubular Bells 1 & 2 (but not 3 - thought that was pants, but the concert video is OK 'cos of the sexy woman playing bass)
Songs of Distant Earth ("Magellan" has just started - cranked up the 5.1 Sound so the pens on my desk are rattling  :thumbsup:)

(still to come)

Music of the Spheres
Amarok
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Post by: tiermat on 03 March, 2011, 02:30:45 pm
Bad Religion - The Dissent of Man

Fantastic, is all I'll say...
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Post by: andrewc on 05 March, 2011, 01:59:48 pm
Pretenders 2 ,  Chrissie Hynde singing "Bad  Boys Get Spanked"  :P
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 06 March, 2011, 01:55:22 pm
Isaac Hayes - Hot Buttered Soul.
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Post by: clarion on 08 March, 2011, 09:13:52 pm
Lots of different versions of The Great Gig In The Sky - by Pink Floyd and cover bands - and realising what an amazing achievement Clare Torry's vocal was for two takes (I think only the first was used).  Only Sam Brown comes close, and some of the singers used by Floyd themselves have been a bit rubbish.  At one time, they used three singers, which in itself is testament to Torry.
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Post by: jezzasnr on 09 March, 2011, 02:01:34 pm
John Grant - Queen of Denmark
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Post by: Chris S on 09 March, 2011, 02:09:49 pm
Band of Horses - Cease to Begin
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Post by: tiermat on 11 March, 2011, 08:38:38 am
Today, for me, is a Faithless day...

Currently have "Tarantula" blasting out :)
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Post by: microphonie on 11 March, 2011, 06:04:00 pm
NEU! - Neu!75 - classic krautrock

Jakob - Solace - Mogwai-esque post-rock
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Post by: Chris S on 11 March, 2011, 09:54:48 pm
Songs from the West Coast - Elton John.
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Post by: Pingu on 11 March, 2011, 10:45:00 pm
Relics - Pink Floyd
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Post by: Clandy on 11 March, 2011, 10:49:54 pm
Tracie Young.


    YouTube
        - The Country Code.wmv
   (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrgHltQW4II)
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Post by: rogerzilla on 13 March, 2011, 09:21:48 am
The Beautiful South - Dumb (possibly their best song, although their popularity was on the wane by then),.
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Post by: Quisling on 14 March, 2011, 12:37:59 am
NEU! - Neu!75 - classic krautrock

Jakob - Solace - Mogwai-esque post-rock

One day I'm going to pop round and borrow your record collection :-)

Today, I am listening to the new album by The Boxer Rebellion - The Cold Still. It's really rather excellent.
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Post by: microphonie on 14 March, 2011, 07:39:26 pm

One day I'm going to pop round and borrow your record collection :-)

Today, I am listening to the new album by The Boxer Rebellion - The Cold Still. It's really rather excellent.

 ;D

I'm glad someone appreciates it: whilst at (heathen) friends' yesterday it was suggested that my cd collection was the reason the burglar who 'visited' recently buggered off without taking anything.  ::-)

Today (all borrowed from the library):

V/a  Deutsche Electronische Music  (http://www.souljazzrecords.co.uk/releases/?id=18676)
Jonsi - Go
Klaxons - Surfing the Void

Latest eMusic downloads - i.e. soundtrack for the next month

Nicolas Jaar - Space is Only Noise
Direwires - Hearts in Stasis
Eluvium - Lambent Material
Hammock - Longest Year
Peaking Lights - 936
Rene Hell - Porcelain Opera
Spyra - Sferics
The Fun Years - God Was Like, No (ace title!)

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Post by: Deano on 14 March, 2011, 10:15:10 pm
Earlier today, Underworld - Second Toughest in the Infants, while walking to work.  It's great walking music, so I could pretend to be a character in a grimy Britflick as I traipsed Darlo's murky streets.

Now, I'll go off and listen to something more esoteric, but probably not as esoteric as microphonie's collection.
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Post by: andrewc on 14 March, 2011, 10:30:27 pm
Jan Garbarek Group - Twelve Moons
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Post by: spesh on 14 March, 2011, 10:59:50 pm
Paul Oakenfold's Goa Mix - pyschedelic trance, film scores and dialogue from Blade Runner.

First broadcast on Radio 1 in 1994, licencing issues meant that it took until last year before it was released on CD, albeit in a slightly updated form, with some film score tracks re-recorded. Back in the day it was a revelation.

It still sounds great today...  8)
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Post by: Chris S on 15 March, 2011, 11:21:24 am
Today is Roger Waters day.

Pros and Cons of Hitch hiking
Amused to Death
Radio Kaos.

Mmm... moody angst FTW.
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Post by: Pedaldog. on 15 March, 2011, 02:26:55 pm
Roger Waters? Head man of the "Sultans of Whinge"!

I am just rocking through the day with Joe Walsh and the James gang.
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Post by: LindaG on 15 March, 2011, 02:29:41 pm
Stainer's Crucifixion.
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Post by: tiermat on 16 March, 2011, 12:26:20 pm
Today's choice started with a duo of Black Crowes albums, Hard To Handle followed by Three Snakes and One Charm.

The current listening has moved onto Bloc Party - Silent Alarm

When that has finished I shall be listening to Black Sabbath - We Sold Our Souls for Rock and Roll.

After that I haven't decided yet...
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Post by: Chris S on 16 March, 2011, 12:29:05 pm
I need a calm day after the whingefest of Roger Waters yesterday.

So today is Brian Eno day.

Ambient 1 - Music for Airports
Ambient 2 - The Plateaux of Mirror
Ambient 3 - Days of Radiance
Ambient 4 - On Land
Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks

I wonder far I get before I doze off...?
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Post by: tiermat on 16 March, 2011, 01:51:21 pm
On the way to work, and on the return leg I shall be listening to Terrorvision - Rarities and B-Sides.

Notable by the omission of the most popular B-Side they did (as voted by the TV forum members) "Hard To Feel".  It does however contain "What shall we do with the drunken sailor", "You really got a hold on me", "This drinking will kill me", "Glad all over" and my favourite "Too Stoned To Dance"...
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Post by: Wowbagger on 16 March, 2011, 10:07:14 pm
Mr. Beethoven's C minor piano concerto.

Radio 3 are broadcasting all of his concerti this week (5 * piano, 1 violin, 1 triple) and next week all 9 symphonies will be aired.

Of all the bastards, Mr. B was indeed one of the cleverest.
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Post by: tiermat on 17 March, 2011, 10:20:00 am
I was enjoying Pitchshifter - ..:[ www.pitchshifter.com ]:.. (http://www.pitchshifter.com) (which had been preceeded by PSI) when Amarok crashed.  Don't know if it's a comment on my musical taste or what.

So after re-starting Amarok I am now listening to Stereophonics - Word Gets Around and I have lined up The Style Council's Greatest Hits and Sugar - Copper Blue....
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Post by: Chris S on 17 March, 2011, 11:37:04 am
Elbow - build a rocket boys!

Listening for free on We7, but think I will shortly be buying as it's rather  :thumbsup:
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Post by: IanDG on 17 March, 2011, 11:58:51 am
'Trout Mask Replica' - Captain Beefheart just finished, now listening to 'Rain Dogs' - Tom Waits.

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Post by: pcolbeck on 17 March, 2011, 03:25:25 pm
Bach Cello Suites - Pablo Casals

Recorded in 1938 and 39. Mono and a tad scratchy even cleaned up and digitised but still sublime.
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Post by: Tourist Tony on 17 March, 2011, 06:27:37 pm
'The Big Time' by Tom Waits

Then 'Pet Sounds'

No, not that one. The one by the Hamsters.
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Post by: Pingu on 17 March, 2011, 10:35:47 pm
Once Upon a Time - The Singles - Siouxsie & The Banshees
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Post by: Simonb on 17 March, 2011, 10:38:53 pm
Battles -- Ice Cream
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Post by: marcusjb on 18 March, 2011, 11:24:24 am
Wagon Christ - Toomorrow

Luke Vibert's first release under the Wagon Christ moniker for 7 years - and very, very good so far!
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Post by: jogler on 18 March, 2011, 11:25:28 am
The Four Tops;The Definitive Collection
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Post by: jogler on 18 March, 2011, 12:17:14 pm
The#1 Hits : Diana Ross & The Supremes

looks like it's gonna be a Motown day 8)
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Post by: PaulF on 18 March, 2011, 01:32:05 pm
The National's eponymous album, Smart Flesh by Low Anthem, next up Collapse into Now and The Suburbs
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Post by: jogler on 18 March, 2011, 02:22:34 pm
Changed the tempo with Thin Lizzy Greatest Hits
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Post by: pcolbeck on 18 March, 2011, 03:47:13 pm
Wagner - Tristan and Isolde

The Furtwangler recording on EMI from 1952 with Kirsten Flagstad and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.

Might not get through the whole thing today :)
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Post by: BrianI on 18 March, 2011, 07:32:34 pm
Tangerine Dream - Monolight!   :thumbsup:
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Post by: Pingu on 19 March, 2011, 10:34:05 pm
The Quiet Lamb - Her Name Is Calla

Bit Explosions in the Sky-ish with added quiet piano/vocal/orchestral passages.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 19 March, 2011, 10:38:36 pm
Is it any good then?
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Post by: Pingu on 19 March, 2011, 10:43:36 pm
It's quite mellow. I think it depends on your mood. I'm liking it just now.
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Post by: Legs on 19 March, 2011, 10:45:12 pm
Kenny Loggin's cousin.
Loving the funky middle eight.  :thumbsup:
http://www.we7.com/#/song/Dave-Loggins/My-Lovers-Keeper (http://www.we7.com/#/song/Dave-Loggins/My-Lovers-Keeper)
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Post by: pcolbeck on 21 March, 2011, 04:47:30 pm
Davy Graham - Folk Blues and Beyond

Probably the most influential acoustic guitar player of the last fifty tears. Check out:

She moved through the fair (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvpTVn_Ltzc)

And

Anji (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n8cxvzol3E&playnext=1&list=PLFD4A17BF2D695A17)
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Post by: clarion on 23 March, 2011, 11:10:10 am
Marion Raven.  Just stumbled across her via Lennon & Meatloaf, but she's quite good.

Norwegian pop-rock.  And she's quite an attractive young lady, too.  Which is nice.
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Post by: PaulF on 23 March, 2011, 01:41:40 pm
Layla and Other Assorted Love songs
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Post by: jogler on 23 March, 2011, 02:31:33 pm
U2
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Post by: Chris S on 23 March, 2011, 02:41:46 pm
Cloud Cult - Feel Good Ghosts

Yeah... I know... a bit angsty and emo, but what the hell - I like it.
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Post by: tiermat on 23 March, 2011, 03:55:25 pm
On the way into work Duffy - Endlessly, dunno if that is the title track or a description of how long it goes on for...

At work

Biffy Clyro - Puzzle
and now
The Black Crowes - Hard To Handle
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Post by: Pedaldog. on 23 March, 2011, 08:40:15 pm
The Housemartins - "Now that's what I call quite good".
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Post by: Deano on 23 March, 2011, 11:32:48 pm
Taking a break from the folk, anti-folk and slowcore with a bit of the Nerve Agents. 
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Post by: RJ on 25 March, 2011, 12:30:24 pm
Autobahn.

Genius.
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Post by: tiermat on 28 March, 2011, 01:17:43 pm
Back to the '80's here with:

fIreHose - Ragin' Full On

to be followed by some Fishbone, quite what tho I haven't decided yet :)
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Post by: tiermat on 28 March, 2011, 03:39:54 pm
Ended up being "Give A Monkey A Brain And He'll Swear He's The Centre Of The Universe"

Now I am all funked out I am listen to Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace :)
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Post by: clarion on 28 March, 2011, 09:37:11 pm
Following mention of The Levellers earlier, I'm having quite a folky evening.  Show of Hands, Jethro Tull, Albion Band, Maddy Prior etc...
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Post by: YahudaMoon on 28 March, 2011, 09:40:03 pm
On vinyl

French Drum & Bass from 2001
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Post by: clarion on 28 March, 2011, 11:44:04 pm
Following mention of The Levellers earlier, I'm having quite a folky evening.  Show of Hands, Jethro Tull, Albion Band, Maddy Prior etc...

Then loads of Lindisfarne...

Now I've discovered someone has uploaded a 1979 PSG Rockpalast gig to Youtube.  They do almost the whole of Easter, which is my favourite album... :thumbsup:

By all the Goddesses, Patti Smith is an amazing woman.
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Post by: Deano on 28 March, 2011, 11:49:46 pm
The new Mountain Goats album.  I'm a bit underwhelmed, to be honest. 
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Post by: onb on 29 March, 2011, 08:37:22 pm
Bellowhead - Eponymous then there will be some Kate Rusby
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Post by: spesh on 29 March, 2011, 08:45:44 pm
Wishbone Ash - Argus
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Post by: onb on 29 March, 2011, 08:47:53 pm
Changed mind re Kate and am listening to The Imagined Village.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 30 March, 2011, 08:15:55 pm
Was Dolphins - Tim Buckley but now Ashes of American Flags - Wilico.
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Post by: Deano on 30 March, 2011, 09:21:13 pm
Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle.  Patchy, but the good patches are very good indeed.
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Post by: YahudaMoon on 31 March, 2011, 12:57:09 am
Ive just found a copy LP of Jonny Cash At San Quentin in a crate of vinyl.

Ive never heard it before.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 31 March, 2011, 01:17:57 am
Ive just found a copy LP of Jonny Cash At San Quentin in a crate of vinyl.

Ive never heard it before.

Your in for a treat then. Everyone should have a copy of that.
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Post by: YahudaMoon on 31 March, 2011, 01:30:22 am
Ive just found a copy LP of Jonny Cash At San Quentin in a crate of vinyl.

Ive never heard it before.

Your in for a treat then. Everyone should have a copy of that.
It was a great album. Im gonna keep it.  :)
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Post by: YahudaMoon on 31 March, 2011, 01:43:17 am
(http://www.stonesthrow.com/uploads/images/product/detail/madvillainy.jpg)

Sorry if it's a repost though I can't get enough of this Album
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Post by: tiermat on 31 March, 2011, 08:06:01 am
Yesterday was a day of listening to podcasts, in particular Preston & Steve (
   Preston and Steve | 93.3 WMMR: Everything That Rocks
 (http://www.prestonandsteve.com))

So today is going to musemick....

the day kicked off with a bit of Bloc Party in the car on the way into work, now I have fired up Amarok I think I will be listening to....

Don't laugh....

Chet Atkins and Mark Knopfler - Neck and Neck....
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Post by: Chris S on 31 March, 2011, 11:09:13 am
Florence & the Machine - Lungs
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Post by: jogler on 31 March, 2011, 08:06:55 pm
Roy Orbison
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Post by: tiermat on 31 March, 2011, 08:13:07 pm
Chet and Mark were followed by, in order:

When It Falls - Zero 7
Hold Me Down - You Me At Six
Only Revolutions - Biffy Clyro
Jack 'o' the Green - Jools Holland et al
the Soul Sessions - Joss Stone

So you could say I have had an eclectic music taste day
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Post by: Redlight on 31 March, 2011, 10:53:25 pm
VINYL  :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Snap, crackle, pop, er...jump  :-\
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Post by: Basil on 31 March, 2011, 11:28:06 pm
Wheels of Fire.

Fuck yeah!
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Post by: pcolbeck on 03 April, 2011, 01:19:39 am
A selection of Andreas Scholl on Youtube. The Cold Genius (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7ESonXLbkk) song is particularly good.
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Post by: jogler on 04 April, 2011, 05:12:16 pm
ZZ Top

ETA mrs. jogler says
turn it down.

I'm wearing headphones ;D
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Post by: robbo6 on 04 April, 2011, 06:40:28 pm
Mme. BB (fiddle) and cous-in-law (joanna) César Franck's Sonata in A major. All sodding day.
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Post by: welshwheels on 05 April, 2011, 07:20:50 pm
viva la vida by coldplay  :thumbsup:
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Post by: tiermat on 05 April, 2011, 08:02:39 pm
On the way to work, Bad Religion - The Dissent of Man (don't you just love BR's play on words in there song and album titles?)

At work - Jack Johnson - In Between Dreams

On the way home from work - started with the last bit of BR, then the USB thingy changed to Lily Allen ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGHHHH so I re-selected and got the Iron Man 2 soundtrack, good ole AC/DC....
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Post by: Deano on 07 April, 2011, 02:49:00 pm
Grant Lee Buffalo - Fuzzy. A wee bit of nineties nostalgia.  It's held up pretty well, I'd say.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 12 April, 2011, 01:43:03 pm
Was Gong but now the prelude to Tristan and Isolde.
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Post by: Chris S on 12 April, 2011, 05:44:28 pm
Richard & Linda Thompson.

"Dimming of the Day" was just on. I love it. Soppy date  :facepalm:.
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Post by: Gus on 12 April, 2011, 06:02:38 pm

Killing Joke : Pandemonium  :D I'm back in my 90's time boble
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 13 April, 2011, 11:29:16 am
Triggered by yesterday's little trip down nostalgia lane (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=10706.msg912347#msg912347), Dory Previn.

At this precise moment: Beware of Young Girls.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 13 April, 2011, 11:52:07 am
And now The Lady With the Braid.

Good lord, that brought back some memories of teenage angst.  I may never plait my hair again....
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 13 April, 2011, 12:26:59 pm
Loudon Wainwright III, More Love Songs.

The album that meant I learnt what synchronicity means.  And possibly my favourite instrumental break ever.
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Post by: Snakehips on 13 April, 2011, 01:17:57 pm
Living in the Past
Jethro Tull
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Post by: Simonb on 13 April, 2011, 01:20:14 pm
Neu! (again)
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Post by: Chris S on 13 April, 2011, 03:10:46 pm
Jónsi - Go (on We7)

It's like listening to Sigur Ros, but different. Quite like it actually.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 13 April, 2011, 05:17:17 pm
Unhappy Anniversary.

Such a cheerful brass section, so at odds with the lyrics.  Ouch.  Forgot how much I like this album.
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Post by: PaulF on 13 April, 2011, 06:45:41 pm
Now onto 6Music via R.E.M., Metronomy, Steely Dan.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 13 April, 2011, 08:46:34 pm
And now onto a bit of Eartha Kitt.

Dearly_Beloved wandered in earlier and said 'so, you've finally bothered to work out the ipod and spotify then?'.
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Post by: clarion on 14 April, 2011, 08:22:11 pm
Um, Gary Glitter :-[

Although his tastes are vile and rightly criminal, he was a fantastic performer and produced some magnificent singles.
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Post by: clarion on 14 April, 2011, 10:06:41 pm
Now Dusty Springfield, by way of Slade.

My musical taste makes no allowances for logic.
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Post by: Deano on 14 April, 2011, 11:30:49 pm
Sam Cooke - Ain't That Good News.
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Post by: jogler on 15 April, 2011, 10:39:23 am
The neighbours are out so U2 is playing at nuclear noise levels.Next up is ZZ top to herald ear-drum armaegeddon :thumbsup:
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Post by: Rhys W on 16 April, 2011, 11:23:16 pm
Inspired by the turntable-porn thread I dug out some old vinyl, stuff that doesn't come up on iTunes:

Lone Justice - the first album, a masterpiece of 80s country-rock;
Anhrefn - Defaid, Skateboards a Wellies;
Herp Albert & the Tijuana Brass - South of the Border, a classic I salvaged from my grandfather's collection.
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Post by: Redlight on 17 April, 2011, 12:29:52 am
And now The Lady With the Braid.

Good lord, that brought back some memories of teenage angst.  I may never plait my hair again....

Fantastic lyric; I love the way her mind wanders: there's a comb on the shelf, I papered that wall myself etc

My favourite though is still Wake Up Slow on We're All Children of Coincidence. 

Late last night, you said you loved me
I just thought 'he's just coming on
And by tomorrow, he'll have come, and gone
Gone and left me'...

STILL not available on CD  >:(
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Post by: nicknack on 17 April, 2011, 08:47:45 pm
Foo Fighters - Wasting Light

Not something I would have chosen myself, but my daughter's just bought it and put it on.

Not bad, actually.
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Post by: Deano on 17 April, 2011, 09:02:25 pm
The Beatles - The White Album.

I'm finding it a hard listen - to my ears, it's mostly quite poor or horribly dated.  The headline tracks are still wonderful, though.
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Post by: nicknack on 17 April, 2011, 09:53:53 pm
The Beatles - The White Album.

I'm finding it a hard listen - to my ears, it's mostly quite poor or horribly dated.  The headline tracks are still wonderful, though.

Ah, but which ones would you say they were?
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Post by: Deano on 17 April, 2011, 09:56:57 pm
The ones that stood out :)

Basically, the ones that I remember as being good from the last time I listened to it:

- Dear Prudence
- While My Guitar Gently Weeps
 
And especially Helter Skelter.  I love the basic garage band effect. 
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Post by: valkyrie on 17 April, 2011, 10:06:24 pm
Midlake - The Courage of Others. Thanks to Fopp in Edinburgh for playing some Midlake the last time I was in there, I'd never heard of them before.
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Post by: nicknack on 17 April, 2011, 10:17:13 pm
The ones that stood out :)

Basically, the ones that I remember as being good from the last time I listened to it:

- Dear Prudence
- While My Guitar Gently Weeps
 
And especially Helter Skelter.  I love the basic garage band effect. 

I still like the rather haphazard nature of it all. To your selections I'd add: Back in the USSR, Yer Blues, Happiness is a Warm Gun and, I probably shouldn't but I often find myself singing Savoy Truffle.
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Post by: Deano on 17 April, 2011, 10:47:30 pm
It is charming, in a way.  I still like listening to albums as albums, and that certainly feels like the proper way to listen to it - I've just picked out the tracks which I thought worked in isolation.

I'll give it a few more listens, but I probably came to it too late.  It must have made more sense (or failed to make sense in a more interesting way) in 1968.
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Post by: Redlight on 18 April, 2011, 07:19:48 am
The ones that stood out :)

Basically, the ones that I remember as being good from the last time I listened to it:

- Dear Prudence
- While My Guitar Gently Weeps
 
And especially Helter Skelter.  I love the basic garage band effect. 

Blackbird is still pretty flawless, even though, like much of paul's work on that album, it isn't really a Beatles track.

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Post by: Chris S on 18 April, 2011, 06:01:50 pm
Jónsi - Go (on We7)

It's like listening to Sigur Ros, but different. Quite like it actually.

This. Again. For on-the-bike motivation, Animal Arithmetic has to be The Choon of the album, but the lyrics are truly bizarre. However, the first verse1 does contain the line "riding bikes, making out" - so that's OK by me.


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1
Wake up, cut my hair
Making food disappear
Riding bikes, making out
Elephants run you down


 :-\
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Post by: tiermat on 19 April, 2011, 05:03:27 pm
WMMR's choice of music, this (USA) station and TripleM (Australia) seem to have the best playlists available on the web...
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Post by: Tourist Tony on 19 April, 2011, 10:38:16 pm
One channel on my venerable antique sound centre has failed. Arse. Now listening to Lucinda Williams, World Without Tears.
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Post by: Chris S on 20 April, 2011, 10:17:48 am
Dire Straits - Money for Nothing (Hits)
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Post by: microphonie on 20 April, 2011, 06:37:54 pm
This month's eMusic downloads:

Demdike Stare - Tryptych  (http://boomkat.com/downloads/366918-demdike-stare-tryptych)- very nice electronica

v/a -  Generation Bass presents Transnational Dubstep  (http://soundcloud.com/djumb/generation-bass-presents-transnational-dubstep-promo-excerpt-mix)- decent mix of 'ethnic dub' (crap term, I know) plus dubstep.

Sawako -   Bitter Sweet  (http://boomkat.com/cds/96396-sawako-bitter-sweet) - rather pleasant ambient/post-rock type stuff from Japan

Still to be listened to:

Bibio - Mind Bokeh

Bola - Mauver

Subeena - 23

Tholen - Sternklang
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Post by: Legs on 22 April, 2011, 11:20:11 am
Jon and Vangelis - The Friends of Mr Cairo
If you don't mind Back To School, it's one of those No-Weak-Link Albums.

And the title song has got the cycling-related mondegreen: "Sam Spade's Sturmey Archer"...  :thumbsup:
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Post by: RJ on 22 April, 2011, 11:00:30 pm
Trans-Europe Express - Kraftwerk
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Post by: Quisling on 23 April, 2011, 10:30:42 pm
Supercollider / The Butcher, free from Radiohead  :thumbsup:

Set guitars to kill by And so I watch you from afar.  A band that Zane Lowe said made the Foo Fighters look like Justin Bieber.  And they don't even have a vocalist. :o
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 24 April, 2011, 11:03:53 am
Christy Moore.
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Post by: Rhys W on 24 April, 2011, 07:38:58 pm
The Stupids - Van Stupid.
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Post by: Deano on 24 April, 2011, 10:09:39 pm
Rachel Unthank & the Winterset.  How lovely it is to hear North East England voices raised in song.
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Post by: onb on 26 April, 2011, 04:28:46 pm
Eliza Carthy and the Ratcatchers ,Rough Music


The Gallant Hussar is in my opinion the best rendition of a tradititional english folk song ever, and there are plenty of contenders.
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Post by: onb on 26 April, 2011, 04:31:57 pm
Rachel Unthank & the Winterset.  How lovely it is to hear North East England voices raised in song.

There was a good article about  them in the Observer a couple of months ago ,I saw them about 2 years ago and was quiet disapointed but I have heard  them since as a duo and they seemed much better.
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Post by: jogler on 26 April, 2011, 05:18:19 pm
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts
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Post by: onb on 26 April, 2011, 10:14:55 pm
Rachel Unthank & the Winterset.  How lovely it is to hear North East England voices raised in song.

There was a good article about  them in the Observer a couple of months ago ,I saw them about 2 years ago and was quiet disapointed but I have heard  them since as a duo and they seemed much better.

The Uthanks are on Later With Jools Holland tonight
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Post by: Chris S on 27 April, 2011, 02:48:23 pm
The Wall - Pink Floyd
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 27 April, 2011, 09:36:30 pm
Tri Yann
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 27 April, 2011, 10:51:24 pm
And now a bit of Piaf.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 28 April, 2011, 03:18:52 pm
Some utter tripe on the radio.  In the office....
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Post by: interzen on 28 April, 2011, 03:21:11 pm
SomaFM: Listener Supported, Commercial Free Internet Radio (http://www.somafm.com) - the "Space Station Soma" channel, to be precise.
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Post by: tiermat on 28 April, 2011, 03:27:16 pm
Still on WMMR, and Preston & Steve to be more precise.

Pure silliness to get me through the working day :)
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Post by: PaulF on 28 April, 2011, 04:02:18 pm
Sketches (for My Sweetheart the Drunk) ~ Jeff Buckley
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Post by: IanDG on 28 April, 2011, 04:03:21 pm
Gomez - Bring It On
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Post by: Redlight on 28 April, 2011, 11:36:01 pm
Clannad in Concert, from 1978 - before they went all fey and ethereal
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Post by: PaulF on 29 April, 2011, 12:45:07 pm
Psychedelic Furs eponymous first album to hear Wedding Song.
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Post by: simonp on 02 May, 2011, 01:13:48 pm
Today, so far:

Teo & Tea - Jean Michel Jarre
Destination Docklands - Jean Michel Jarre
La Revancha del Tango - Gotan Project
Lunatico - Gotan Project

Edit: now listening to: All Is Not Well - Manhole (now known as Tura Satana)
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Post by: Quisling on 02 May, 2011, 11:03:10 pm

    YouTube
        - The Joy Formidable - 'Whirring' (The Sarm Sessions)
   (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF4t0hLHTFY)

You know a band is going to be good when the lead singer is called "Ritzy"  :thumbsup:
A great live performance - they make a big noise.
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Post by: simonp on 04 May, 2011, 12:21:15 am
Rubber Factor - The Black Keys

(among other things)
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Post by: clarion on 04 May, 2011, 09:18:22 pm
Gay music.  Butterfly mentioned earlier that she only knew of two Village People songs, so we started with that, then moved on to Pet Shop Boys.

EDIT:  Um, now Dusty...
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Post by: Chris S on 05 May, 2011, 08:41:05 am
Tyler Ramsey: A Long Dream About Swimming Across The Sea
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Post by: DrMekon on 05 May, 2011, 12:35:14 pm
Tehillim part IV by Steve Reich

I am reviewing a thousand abstracts, and it's mind numbing.
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Post by: welshwheels on 07 May, 2011, 07:33:18 pm

    YouTube
        - The Knack - My Sharona live (HQ)
   (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1T71PGd-J0) :thumbsup:
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Post by: PaulF on 07 May, 2011, 07:34:28 pm
Aztec Camera ~ High Land, Hard Rain
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Post by: Chris S on 10 May, 2011, 05:20:36 pm
Underworld: 1992-2002

Mmm... techno-tastic.

Currently, Spikee is on - and stuff is bouncing around on my desk. Good thing I work at home, alone  :facepalm:.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 11 May, 2011, 11:51:16 am
Be careful what you listen to: McSweeney's Internet Tendency: What Your Favorite Classic Rock Band Says About You.
 (http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/lists/24peck.html).

Edit: Part 2 (http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/lists/17peck.html).
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Post by: pcolbeck on 13 May, 2011, 04:50:37 pm
Assorted Scorpions tracks from the mid 70s Uli Roth / Michael Rudolph Schenker period. I am particularly liking "In Trance".
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Post by: jogler on 13 May, 2011, 09:56:28 pm
ZZ Top. loudly :thumbsup:
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Post by: jogler on 13 May, 2011, 10:14:29 pm
Guns n Roses
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Post by: jogler on 13 May, 2011, 10:45:23 pm
Dana Fuchs
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Post by: Deano on 13 May, 2011, 10:47:06 pm
The Mooney Suzuki. 
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Post by: jogler on 13 May, 2011, 11:42:20 pm
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
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Post by: YahudaMoon on 13 May, 2011, 11:59:28 pm
Jools Holland on the TV
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Post by: jogler on 14 May, 2011, 12:24:51 am
Suzi Quattro
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Post by: Doosh on 16 May, 2011, 05:44:49 pm
Neutral Milk Hotel - In A Plane Over The Sea
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Post by: Doosh on 16 May, 2011, 06:33:24 pm
Wild Beasts - Smother
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Post by: PaulF on 16 May, 2011, 06:55:18 pm
Webb Sisters, Van Morrison, Electric Ladyland, Braids, some 6Music....
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Post by: microphonie on 17 May, 2011, 07:06:13 pm
More selections from my latest eMusic downloads:

Grouper - A I A: Alien Observer
Grouper - A I A: Dream Loss

Both rather nice drifting ambient pieces. The rest, below, will be my listening for the rest of the month

Demdike Stare - Symbiosis
Direwires - There's Life After Winter
Lawrence English - Kiri No Oto
Geir Jenssen - Cho Oyu 8201m - Field Recordings From Tibet
Cluster - Sowiesoso
Belbury Poly - From An Ancient Star
Thomas Köner - Daikan
Oöphoi - An Aerial View
Vidna Obmana & Alio Die - Echo Passage
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Post by: tiermat on 19 May, 2011, 09:46:50 am
Just for a change, WMMR.

Currently playing Sublime - The Wrong Way.

Think I will have to check these guys out (Sublime).
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Post by: PaulF on 19 May, 2011, 10:01:14 am
The Soft Province
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Post by: jogler on 19 May, 2011, 10:26:36 am
The Four Tops
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Post by: clarion on 19 May, 2011, 08:09:34 pm
Alice Cooper.  It helps to be remided he/they wasn't just a pantomime character/band.
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Post by: Biggsy on 20 May, 2011, 12:58:08 pm
Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi - "Rome" album.  "Black", featuring Nora Jones, is particularly gorgeous.
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Post by: jogler on 21 May, 2011, 12:31:52 pm
Elvis.
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Post by: Biggsy on 21 May, 2011, 01:35:16 pm
Elvis.

The documentary on 6Music?  I was woken by that after going to sleep with the radio on.  Brilliant drumming on that live version of Suspicious Minds.
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Post by: jogler on 21 May, 2011, 01:40:06 pm
No,I missed that :(
I have The Pelvis on my mp3
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Post by: Ham on 21 May, 2011, 02:10:35 pm
Manu Chao.

And the little voice in my head telling me I need to do work instead of going out riding ....
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Post by: jogler on 22 May, 2011, 08:00:20 pm
The Beatles...the early stuff
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 24 May, 2011, 09:06:18 am
His Bobness turns seventy1 today, thus it would be churlish to turn one's attention anywhere else.  But WTF is Desolation Row about, eh?  EH??  This has been puzzling me for about thirty years.

1 - All of a sudden I'm starting to feel Old :-\
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Post by: Domestique on 25 May, 2011, 05:51:45 pm
Sandanista - The Clash

Was this really 1980 when this came out  ??? where have all those years gone  ???
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Post by: essexian on 26 May, 2011, 07:43:42 pm
Dear Messers. Yorke, Greenwood, Greenwood, O’Brien and Selway

I write as I have recently purchased your most recent disc: “Kings of Limbs” on the misapprehension that the said disc would contain “music.” Sadly, after a couple of listens, I have found no evidence of such. Indeed, to describe the wailing and disorganised sounds the 5 inch piece of plastic now sitting on my CD rack waiting a thick layer of dust to form contains as such would surely result in a knock on the door by the good burgers of Oxford Trading Standards.

This therefore is a request that you cease and desist from making such crap. May I remind you that you have not made a good album since The Bends some 16 years ago. Whilst it is accepted that bands can play on previous triumphs for a period of time and that an experimental period is acceptable, its now time to stop this nonsense and get back to making proper music.

Failure to do so will result in me ignoring any future recordings you may release.

Yours sincerely

Miserable of Stafford.
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Post by: nicknack on 26 May, 2011, 08:14:38 pm
Ooh! If it's unlike the turgid shite they were wont to produce I might have to give it a listen.  :thumbsup:
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Post by: clarion on 26 May, 2011, 10:45:58 pm
Slim Gaillard.

Crunchy crunchy crunchy crunch I don't want no lunch just bring me some potato chips... ;D
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Post by: Deano on 27 May, 2011, 12:26:25 am
Iron and Wine's live album, Norfolk.  A delicate joy.
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Post by: jogler on 27 May, 2011, 04:58:56 pm
SOUL music....
Motown
The Philly sound
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Post by: jogler on 27 May, 2011, 07:58:54 pm
The Shadows
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Post by: harvey on 28 May, 2011, 09:26:34 am
Barton Hollow - The Civil Wars

You heard it here first folks, these are gonna be big

Can't get enough of these guys.
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Post by: Flying_Monkey on 28 May, 2011, 02:08:13 pm
Gil Scott-Heron, with tears in my eyes.
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Post by: RJ on 28 May, 2011, 05:03:19 pm
Ali Farka Toure & Toumani Diabate - puts me (thankfully) in a calmer spot
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Post by: YahudaMoon on 28 May, 2011, 05:09:59 pm
Gil Scott Herron LP's
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Post by: PaulF on 28 May, 2011, 05:19:32 pm
Gil Scott Heron :(
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 29 May, 2011, 01:45:35 pm
Continuing my recent foray into spotify and down memory lane, Talking to the Taxman about Poetry.  The Cubs seem to quite like it.  I'm trying to remember if there's any inappropriate for smalls tracks on there, since I haven't heard it for the best part of 20 years....

And now they want to listen to the first song that SmallestCub ever listened to.  Which I think was Macy Gray, although I'm not sure which track.  So I shall look for that.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 29 May, 2011, 06:31:59 pm
Lowell George - Thanks I'll Eat it Here

On vinyl :)
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Post by: PaulF on 29 May, 2011, 07:01:07 pm
The new Bon Iver. Shimmering delicate stuff. Possibly his best yet
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Post by: Deano on 30 May, 2011, 08:50:42 pm
My Maudlin Career, by Camera Obscura.  Perfect pop music, in the finest sense. 
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Post by: tiermat on 31 May, 2011, 02:38:44 pm
I Am Kloot - The Sky At Night and
The Go! Team - Rolling Blackouts

All in prep for Deershed in July...
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Post by: nicknack on 31 May, 2011, 07:21:19 pm
Riverside.

Progtastic!  :thumbsup:
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Post by: RJ on 01 June, 2011, 09:25:54 pm
Ali Farka Toure & Toumani Diabate - puts me (thankfully) in a calmer spot

Today mashed up with Kraftwerk and Neu!  Hits the spot.
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Post by: Deano on 01 June, 2011, 10:39:34 pm
erm, Jean-Michel Jarre.  There goes my street cred ;)
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Post by: Deano on 01 June, 2011, 11:01:11 pm
Now Gillian Welch - Hell Among the Yearlings. 
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Post by: interzen on 01 June, 2011, 11:41:59 pm
The Orb - U.F.Orb
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Post by: Quisling on 02 June, 2011, 12:10:32 am
I've been watching some videos of Altered Images on Youtube.

This has nothing to do with how lovely Claire Grogan is ::-) :-*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkGk5q2lfMc&feature=related

    YouTube
        - ‪Altered Images - See Those Eyes (TOTP)‬&rlm;
   (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rEDCIiEFdY&feature=related)
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Post by: tiermat on 02 June, 2011, 08:48:31 am
Started with Seasisck Steve - Dog House Blues, now listening to Adele - 21, cued up after is Cee-Lo Green- The Lady Killer then I Am Kloot and The Go! Team (again :) )
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Post by: YahudaMoon on 02 June, 2011, 02:39:11 pm
Greg Wilsons edits on 12" vinyl : 80' Disco stuff

Yello, Lost Again

Mr Bloe, Groovin With Mr Bloe

Chaka Khan I Feel for You

Raw DMX. Do It To The Funk

Mike T. T' On The Mike

Onto some post millenium breakbeak

Nightmares On Wax. Smokers Delight

Then onto some IDM Experimental 1990's

µ-Ziq – Tango N' Vectif

Squarepusher- Music is One Rotted note




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Post by: nicknack on 02 June, 2011, 06:27:11 pm
John Cale - Circus Live. Totally ace!
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Post by: nicknack on 02 June, 2011, 08:37:17 pm
Maggot Brain now.
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Post by: clarion on 02 June, 2011, 08:41:59 pm
Um...Maggot Brain too.
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Post by: clarion on 02 June, 2011, 09:32:15 pm
Following a bit of Funkadelic, I got onto Woodstock live performances...

Currently Santana.
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Post by: nicknack on 02 June, 2011, 09:35:04 pm
Ah. good idea.

I'm going home now.
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Post by: simonp on 03 June, 2011, 04:54:12 pm
All is not well - Manhole
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Post by: jogler on 04 June, 2011, 07:04:42 pm
George Thorogood & The Destroyers
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Post by: oncemore on 04 June, 2011, 08:19:07 pm
We are the metalheads - Doro.
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Post by: jogler on 04 June, 2011, 08:24:34 pm
Duanne Eddy
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Post by: BrianI on 04 June, 2011, 08:28:30 pm
erm, Jean-Michel Jarre.  There goes my street cred ;)

+1   :thumbsup:  Shame his CD's don't come with laser light shows  :-\
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Post by: Deano on 04 June, 2011, 09:56:55 pm
Now Mogwai (or The Moggs, as they are known to their millions of fans). 
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Post by: rower40 on 05 June, 2011, 07:18:40 pm
G & S: Princess Ida.
One of their lesser-known comic operettas.
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Post by: Tourist Tony on 06 June, 2011, 12:52:58 am
Show of Hands, at this exact moment their song about Chile and Pinochet, and dear gods the passion and the sheer humanity of Phil and Steve make me weep.
This is what folk used to be about, this is what folk SHOULD be about.

I am just a soppy old tart at times like this.
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Post by: clarion on 06 June, 2011, 09:20:52 pm
R&B - Billy Preston & Fats Domino
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Post by: Deano on 06 June, 2011, 10:55:23 pm
Boo Radleys - Giant Steps
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Post by: clarion on 07 June, 2011, 08:44:18 pm
Ian Dury & The Blockheads
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Post by: YahudaMoon on 07 June, 2011, 08:45:02 pm
Radio 4
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Post by: Canardly on 07 June, 2011, 08:50:38 pm
The wife
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Post by: LindaG on 07 June, 2011, 08:58:09 pm
Natural History - Talk Talk.  It reminds me of some stuff, and I really like it.
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Post by: clarion on 07 June, 2011, 09:05:25 pm
Madness
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Post by: jogler on 07 June, 2011, 09:15:55 pm
Dianna Ross & The Supremes
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Post by: jogler on 09 June, 2011, 03:39:31 pm
Elvis
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Post by: tiermat on 09 June, 2011, 03:42:47 pm
Natural History - Talk Talk.  It reminds me of some stuff, and I really like it.

I haven't listened to that for years!!!!

Must dig it out and listen again.

today though it is Seether and Korn I am listening too, whilst trying to find some albums by Sublime.
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Post by: jogler on 09 June, 2011, 04:15:51 pm
Johnny Cash
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Post by: clarion on 09 June, 2011, 04:21:33 pm
Last night, I was feeling pretty grumpy, partly because of a selfish fuckwit I am having to deal with at work, partly because of the terribly dangerous left hook a few hundred metres from home, and partly because the Roadsafe website was playing up, so I played Madness.  Lots of it, including three different versions of One Step Beyond (in a row - sorry Butterfly! :( ).

It improved things.
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Post by: jogler on 09 June, 2011, 08:24:34 pm
ZZ Top
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Post by: interzen on 09 June, 2011, 08:32:42 pm
Pressurehed
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Post by: Efrogwr on 09 June, 2011, 09:49:26 pm
Ancient Cajun recordings.
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Post by: RW on 09 June, 2011, 10:14:35 pm
A CD I bought from a boot sale in France a couple of weeks ago and haven't got round to playing yet.  It's the best of the six I paid €5 for

L'arbre de Mai, by a group called Allégorie - songs and dances from the time of Dufay - good fun, but (probably) not at all historically accurate - they've only thrown about a quarter of Maximillians cart at it.
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Post by: Deano on 09 June, 2011, 10:39:52 pm
A bit of Dick Dale, after listening to Tom Ravenscroft's three-hour Surf Rock special on 6music.
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Post by: YahudaMoon on 10 June, 2011, 03:00:31 pm
Lots of stuff. Mainly artist on the Ram Records label. Its hardcore tecno from 2002/2003

Just gone through Ram Trilogy Vol 1 - 4

Going onto the Prince Album - Purple Rain. Then Maybe Public Enemy - Fear Of A Black Planet. Could do some Northern Soul ? Mmm ?

Think I'll be tuned out by then. Back to radio 4 or somethink.
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Post by: jogler on 10 June, 2011, 03:12:28 pm
John Lennon
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Post by: microphonie on 12 June, 2011, 09:48:01 am
Still haven't properly listened to last months eMusic downloads and yesterday was renewal time already!
Warp Records have u/l a lot of e.p.s from their back catalogue so I've taken advantage.

So...this month I are be mostly listening to:

Aphex Twin - Girl/Boy & On
Autechre - Anti, Anvil Vapre, Envane
Disjecta - Looking For Snags
GAK - Gak
Polygon Window - Quoth
Seefeel - Starethrough

Non-Warp stuff:
Belbury Poly - Farmer's Angle
Kode9 & The Spaceape - Black Sun - really looking forward to hearing this
Peaking Lights - Imaginary Falcons
Burial - Street Halo


Also bought a couple of recent Muslimgauze releases: Beirut Transfer & Lazhareem Ul Leper making use of an HMV discount code - showing that HMV aren't completely useless/doomed!
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Post by: Bluebottle on 12 June, 2011, 11:39:44 am
Well reminded  :D

Must dig out the Muslimgauze minidisc you gave me back in C+ days and convert it to mp3.  Now, which post house move box is it in?
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Post by: jogler on 12 June, 2011, 03:44:00 pm
Johnnie Walker's Sounds of the 70's on Radio 2.
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Post by: nicknack on 12 June, 2011, 05:19:57 pm
Brad Mehldau - Highway Rider
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Post by: microphonie on 13 June, 2011, 06:22:39 pm
Well reminded  :D

Must dig out the Muslimgauze minidisc you gave me back in C+ days and convert it to mp3.  Now, which post house move box is it in?

Really? Did you use another forum name on C+ 'cos I can't remember sending you that? I assume it was all part of that music swap project that Phil (?) instigated?

Kode9 & The Spaceape - Black Sun - really looking forward to hearing this
On first listen: disappointing  :(
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Post by: BrianI on 13 June, 2011, 07:00:57 pm
Tangerine Dream: Dream Mixes 2.1
Forgot I had this album as it was tucked behind the rest of the cds!   :thumbsup:
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Post by: Dinamo on 13 June, 2011, 07:52:09 pm
Led Zeppillin ~ Mothership

Bought in HMV last week for £6
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Post by: Tourist Tony on 14 June, 2011, 04:02:25 pm
On vinyl.
Saxon
Wheels of Steel.

And why not?
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Post by: interzen on 14 June, 2011, 04:14:36 pm
Tag's Trip on somafm.com

Trancy goodness  ;D
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Post by: clarion on 14 June, 2011, 04:15:32 pm
On vinyl.
Saxon
Wheels of Steel.

And why not?

Turn it up LOUD! just before 747 (Strangers In The Night).  Those opening chords blow your socks off.
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Post by: Bluebottle on 14 June, 2011, 08:03:22 pm
Well reminded  :D

Must dig out the Muslimgauze minidisc you gave me back in C+ days and convert it to mp3.  Now, which post house move box is it in?

Really? Did you use another forum name on C+ 'cos I can't remember sending you that? I assume it was all part of that music swap project that Phil (?) instigated?

Yep, that's the one. I forget my user name then, either le chimiste or jean calvin.

Have found the minidisc, just not the minidisc player.  More unpacking to follow.

In the meantime I has mostly been listening to Alejandro Escovedo.
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Post by: Tourist Tony on 14 June, 2011, 11:01:00 pm
Montrose
Rock the Nation
Vinyl....

Headphones and heavy, man.
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Post by: jogler on 15 June, 2011, 02:40:46 pm
Bruce Springstein : Greatest Hits
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Post by: Steph on 15 June, 2011, 04:26:12 pm
Frank Zappa
You are what you is
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Post by: microphonie on 15 June, 2011, 06:55:10 pm

Yep, that's the one. I forget my user name then, either le chimiste or jean calvin.

Have found the minidisc, just not the minidisc player.  More unpacking to follow.

In the meantime I has mostly been listening to Alejandro Escovedo.

Ah! It was Le Chimiste.


Today was Belbury Poly -  Farmer's Angle  (http://boomkat.com/cds/335450-belbury-poly-farmer-s-angle-revised-edition) &  From An Ancient Star  (http://boomkat.com/cds/281599-belbury-poly-from-an-ancient-star). So-called 'hauntological' music according to The Wire. Imagine the plinky-plonky/squelchy synth music that accompanied kid's tv or schools programmes in the 70s mixed with darker atmospheres & film samples. Rather fun  :thumbsup:
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Post by: clarion on 15 June, 2011, 09:14:55 pm
B-52s.  Just because
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Post by: Quisling on 16 June, 2011, 12:52:13 pm
B-52s.  Just because

**presses the big YACF invisible "Like" button**
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Post by: Biggsy on 16 June, 2011, 01:14:01 pm
Still listening to Dangermouse - Black (http://soundcloud.com/theaudioperv/danger-mouse-daniele-luppi).
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Post by: Wascally Weasel on 16 June, 2011, 07:15:16 pm
Bruce Springstein : Greatest Hits

I gave the 75 - 85 live collection a blast the other day, sending good vibes to Clarence Clemons.
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Post by: nicknack on 17 June, 2011, 12:17:47 am
Al Stewart - Zero She Flies

A bit of nostalgia.
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Post by: LindaG on 17 June, 2011, 04:32:24 pm
Not listening to, but watching, PJ Harvey's video album for Let England Shake.

She's so damn good.
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Post by: Biggsy on 18 June, 2011, 03:06:55 pm
Suffocation by Mass Obliteration via Map of Metal (http://www.mapofmetal.com), a nice brutal death ditty.  Charming! :)
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Post by: andyoxon on 18 June, 2011, 04:54:27 pm
Leftism.   Neighbours away.   Mrs and mini-aos away.   Celestion DL4 II.   Cranked.   ;)
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Post by: Fab Foodie on 18 June, 2011, 05:02:10 pm
Leftism.   Neighbours away.   Mrs and mini-aos away.   Celestion DL4 II.   Cranked.   ;)

Oooiiiiii turn it down matey .....
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Post by: pcolbeck on 19 June, 2011, 06:22:56 pm
Lots of YouTube stuff

The Faces
The Black Crowes

and then I ran into Saint Jude (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l40x_DCn_vw&feature=related) ! My she's got a set of pipes on her. They deserve to make it big. Needs some better songs of their own from what I could make out on YouTube but their playing is great and they do brilliant covers. Ronnie Wood has already done an impromptu guest appearance with them it seems.
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Post by: Andrij on 19 June, 2011, 09:14:21 pm
a Depeche Mode concert which was broadcast on 6 Music.

It just struck me that it's been ages since I've listened to Depeche Mode.  I have a cassette or two, but don't understand how I never bought any CDs.  I will have to rectify this post haste!
 
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Post by: pcolbeck on 20 June, 2011, 07:25:21 pm
Today I has da Funk !

Lots of Parliament and Funkadelic plus some swamp funk from JJ Grey and Mofro.
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Post by: jogler on 20 June, 2011, 08:29:32 pm
The Crystals,The Ronettes,The Supremes,Martha Reeves & The Vandellas....you get the picture I'm sure.
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Post by: jogler on 20 June, 2011, 10:16:55 pm
The Shadows
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Post by: LindaG on 22 June, 2011, 03:44:15 pm
Alexander O'Neal and Luther Vandross.

Oh, baby.   ;D
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Post by: pcolbeck on 22 June, 2011, 03:47:32 pm
Amazon have just delivered a CD of Rostropovitch playing the Bach Cello Concertos. Hmm thats going on right now.
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Post by: tiermat on 23 June, 2011, 11:26:08 am
Still just waking up today (didn't get back here until after midnight last night, due to having to go to Portsmouth), but yesterday was:

Seether
Sublime
The Black Crowes
The Counting Crows
VV Brown
Korn

Plus random radio 4 stuff when I got sick of music.  Must do 10 hours in the car again sometime :)
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Post by: kyuss on 25 June, 2011, 03:09:47 am
Sufjan Stevens - 'Michigan'.
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Post by: kyuss on 26 June, 2011, 03:37:07 am
Micah P. Hinson & The Gospel Of Progress
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Post by: perpetual dan on 26 June, 2011, 10:22:22 pm
Finally got round to buying FSOL's Lifeforms on CD, although I've yet to get the whole way through.
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Post by: interzen on 27 June, 2011, 01:55:31 pm
Alestorm - Scottish Pirate Metal. Yaaarrrrrr!


    YouTube
        - ‪ALESTORM - Keelhauled (Official)‬&rlm;
   (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ta-Z_psXODw)
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Post by: Doosh on 27 June, 2011, 02:30:44 pm
Just got some Kraftwerk on, Trans Europe Express.

Got QOTSA Songs For The Deaf lined up next.
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Post by: tiermat on 27 June, 2011, 02:42:32 pm
Currently "Bullet For My Valentine", sometimes you have to go with the Acoustic Spooky kid vibe :)
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Post by: interzen on 27 June, 2011, 02:45:47 pm
Now we've moved on to Finntroll - Scandinavian oompah death-metal ;D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3u86DPd7qc

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Post by: tiermat on 27 June, 2011, 02:48:25 pm
Ah! No-body makes death metal like the Nordics, do they? Brings back memories of my youth, listening to Messiah Marcolin and Candlemass.
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Post by: PaulF on 27 June, 2011, 02:56:24 pm
iPod on shuffle, means I don't have to make any decisions and am hearing loads of stuff I'd forgotten about
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Post by: tiermat on 28 June, 2011, 09:38:38 am
Started with Jack Johnson - Inbetween Dreams and now am onto The Go! Team - Rolling Blackouts
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Post by: interzen on 28 June, 2011, 09:57:12 am
Alestorm's "Black Sails at Midnight" - nothing like a few power shanties to kick off the day. Yarrr!  ;D
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Post by: YahudaMoon on 28 June, 2011, 10:15:21 pm
Vinyl 12"

BC (aka Bad Company, not the band from the 70's) : Speed Ball. 1998 ?

Bushwacka: The Egyption. 2002 ?

Collapse - My Love.  1990 (Do not listen to the basic mix)

Debbie Deb : When I Hear The Music. 1983 TUNE !

A bootleg 12" inch
Daft Punk vs. Prince / Donna Summer - Kiss Da Funk / State Of Independence (Not On Label (Prince), Not On Label (Daft Punk), Not On Label (Donna Summer)

Collapse - My Love Ambient Drops (got a be a classic !??) 1990

and on to


King Curtis – The New Scene Of King Curtis

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Post by: Deano on 28 June, 2011, 10:16:47 pm
Rough Trade Shops Electronic 01.  Currently Autechre - sounding like a C64 being chucked down the stairs, but rhythmically.
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Post by: YahudaMoon on 28 June, 2011, 11:09:02 pm
Give us a feedback , Avoid/want ?

1. Signals  Brian Eno 02:45   
 2. I Hear A New World  Rod Freeman 02:39   
 3. Kardamom  Oval 01:00   
 4. Die Liebe  Barbara Morgenstern 03:54   
 5. Hot On The Heals Of Love  Throbbing Gristle 04:18   
 6. Marseille 2  Christian Zanesi 03:24   
 7. Dr Who  BBC Radiophonic Workshop 02:21   
 8. Space Invaders Are Smoking Grass  I-F 04:05   
 9. Bufferin:"Memories"  Raymond Scott 00:59   
 10. The Light 3000  Kpt.Michi.Gan 04:04   
 11. Day Breaks, Night Heals  Robert Rental 03:59   
 12. Basscadet  Autechre 05:24   
 13. 586  New Order Engineers: by Bruno Ellingham and Andrew Robinson 07:29   
 14. Freak 'N' You  Matmos 04:58   
 15. Between Kate And Naomi  Uusitalo 02:30   
 16. Atelier  Pierre Henry 03:32   
 17. Inkey$  Aphex Twin 01:18   
 18. D.C. D.O.A.  Terre Thaemlitz 01:12   
 19. The Robots  Kraftwerk 06:07   
 20. Radio Music  John Cage 00:57   
 21. Out Out Out  Non 03:33   
Disc 2  1. Just A Second  Faust 03:36   
 2. Cars  To Rococo Rot 03:58   
 3. I Want More  Can 03:31   
 4. Freestyle Dumping  Stereolab 03:56   
 5. Arvio  Pan Sonic 01:22   
 6. Tascel_7  Arovane 05:41   
 7. Superbad  LB 03:15   
 8. Firspk  D 02:16   
 9. Being Boiled  The Human League 03:47   
 10. Direct Drive  Aux 88 03:51   
 11. Mean Old Devil  Bruce Haack 03:24   
 12. Peanuts  Kevin Blechdom 02:42   
 13. Turn On  Fischerspooner 04:23   
 14. Trixie  Thomas Brinkmann 04:52   
 15. Warm Leatherette  The Normal 03:22   
 16. Big Muff  Depeche Mode 04:20   
 17. Senderwahl  Dexter 03:53   
 18. 011  Fennesz 02:49   
 19. At The Golden Circle Stockholm  Farben 06:11   
 20. Ended  Coil
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Post by: Deano on 28 June, 2011, 11:14:42 pm
It's mostly very pleasing.  But it covers a lot of ground!

The Schneider TM one is a cover of the Smiths tune.  The Raymond Scott track sounds like an advert from a Philip K Dick novel.  Obv. the Dr Who theme is a classic.  If you like this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing you'll like.
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Post by: YahudaMoon on 28 June, 2011, 11:30:27 pm
Just digging in the crates for the Human League , Being Boiled' lol. Im on this at the moment
(http://www.recordstore.co.uk/images/covers/mute/NOMU107-300.jpg)

Oh no. Ive just found 'Soft Cell, Tainted Love. poor tune tough the 12" is magic though annoying  !
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Post by: Deano on 28 June, 2011, 11:36:20 pm
I have that album too ;D

Love the Richard BURTON version of Blake's Jerusalem (not that one).
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Post by: Simonb on 29 June, 2011, 08:49:16 am
Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
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Post by: BrianI on 02 July, 2011, 08:11:48 pm
Ministry of Sound - Back to the Old Skool - Praga Kahn "Injected With A Poison"

I needz more powerz in my computer speakerz
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Post by: LindaG on 05 July, 2011, 02:57:53 pm
The Zutons
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 05 July, 2011, 03:24:45 pm
The Penguin Café Orchestra
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Post by: nicknack on 05 July, 2011, 09:05:11 pm
Peggy Lee - Is That All There Is?
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Post by: tiermat on 06 July, 2011, 12:17:15 pm
Foo Fighters - In Your Honour

One of their lesser known albums, and one which they only played 2 songs off on Sunday (Cold Day In The Sun and Best Of You), would have like to see them play Virginia Moon, but then again they do have 7 albums worth of material (8 CDs, as "In Your Honour" is a double), so it must have been hard for them to choose.

That has just finished now, I think I will line up "Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace" then move onto The Go! Team
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Post by: IanDG on 06 July, 2011, 12:39:30 pm
Rory Gallagher - Notes from San Francisco
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Post by: Deano on 06 July, 2011, 11:43:05 pm
Warren Zevon.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 07 July, 2011, 08:40:27 am
Bach Brandenburg no. 1. It was one of my O level set works more than 40 years ago. IIRC the others were ...

oh bugger! The radio's batteries have just died.
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Post by: interzen on 07 July, 2011, 11:08:23 am
Lots of trancey goodness courtesy of somafm.com
Getting me in the mood for tonight's ride.
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Post by: andrewc on 07 July, 2011, 08:06:02 pm
It just had to be this track News of the World (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAXeUKPwBj4)  :)
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Post by: LindaG on 07 July, 2011, 09:25:58 pm
Badly Drawn Boy.

Randy Crawford.
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Post by: nmcgann on 07 July, 2011, 09:57:19 pm
It just had to be this track News of the World (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAXeUKPwBj4)  :)
Great track  :thumbsup:
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Post by: YahudaMoon on 07 July, 2011, 10:25:53 pm
The Prince of Tecno

Blake Baxter ACID !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL
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Post by: LindaG on 07 July, 2011, 11:33:29 pm
Foo Fighters - In Your Honour

One of their lesser known albums, and one which they only played 2 songs off on Sunday (Cold Day In The Sun and Best Of You), would have like to see them play Virginia Moon, but then again they do have 7 albums worth of material (8 CDs, as "In Your Honour" is a double), so it must have been hard for them to choose.

That has just finished now, I think I will line up "Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace" then move onto The Go! Team

Echoes ... and In Your Honour are my two favourite FF albums.  And by the way, I hated you for getting to see them live when me and Jane couldn't get tickets.

But after that great bike ride I forgave you.   :-*
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Post by: nicknack on 07 July, 2011, 11:54:02 pm
Tubas in the Moonlight - Bonzos
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Post by: YahudaMoon on 08 July, 2011, 12:02:37 am
Ive had a vinyl night. Heres some


!!! (chkk chk chk) Louden Up Now , Album (Warp Label 2004 ?)

Lightin Hopkins with Earl Palmer & Jimmy Bond. Compilation ? (Boulevard Label
1971)

And this funk Album . Parlament. Funkentelechy. Maybe my fave funk album from 1977 ?
(http://s.dsimg.com/image/R-2321978-1276816035.jpeg)


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Post by: Kim on 08 July, 2011, 12:05:28 am
Music.  On proper headphones.  Without being in either  a) a train  or  b) a tent

I can't remember when I last did this.   ::-)
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Post by: Peter on 08 July, 2011, 12:08:21 am
Ive had a vinyl night. Heres some


!!! (chkk chk chk) Louden Up Now , Album (Warp Label 2004 ?)

Lightin Hopkins with Earl Palmer & Jimmy Bond. Compilation ? (Boulevard Label
1971)

And this funk Album . Parlament. Funkentelechy. Maybe my fave funk album from 1977 ?
(http://s.dsimg.com/image/R-2321978-1276816035.jpeg)



John,  I'm pretty sure I've got the Lightning Hopkins album!  Is it mostly white, with a black and white of LH mostly to the left and maybe a bit of navy blue somewhere?  (All my vinyl's in store at the moment.  If it is that one, it's amazing how they keep up with LH because he keeps on putting in a half-bar here and taking one out there!  Great stuff!
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Post by: YahudaMoon on 08 July, 2011, 12:09:16 am
Enjoy ! No music/bike, no life
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Post by: Peter on 08 July, 2011, 12:10:31 am
Enjoy ! No music/bike, no life

True!  Now answer the question!
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Post by: YahudaMoon on 08 July, 2011, 12:19:46 am
Hi Peter

The one I was listening to was this

The original
(http://s.dsimg.com/image/R-1664163-1236006532.jpeg)
Repress
(http://s.dsimg.com/image/R-1383124-1258206575.jpeg)

(http://s.dsimg.com/image/R-1383124-1258206582.jpeg)

Maybe its this ?
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Post by: Peter on 08 July, 2011, 12:27:57 am
Hi Peter

The one I was listening to was this

The original
(http://s.dsimg.com/image/R-1664163-1236006532.jpeg)
Repress
(http://s.dsimg.com/image/R-1383124-1258206575.jpeg)

(http://s.dsimg.com/image/R-1383124-1258206582.jpeg)

Maybe its this ?

Bit hard to tell!
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Post by: YahudaMoon on 08 July, 2011, 12:36:58 am
Music  is no good in store Peter. :) Maybe you could sell it to me ? Vinyl only, no 7" inch though.

yEAH Mr hOpkinS Is out there with the original blues guitar players in my opinion. Class !
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Post by: Peter on 08 July, 2011, 12:39:47 am
Bingo - I'm pretty sure the one I've got's the original, so purple not blue.  I agree, music is best not in store but I'm hoping it's only temporary!

See you soon.
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Post by: Kim on 08 July, 2011, 01:06:37 am
Dire Straits happened.  And now I'm reading about Francis Chichester.  Such is the hazard of the internet.   :thumbsup:
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Post by: YahudaMoon on 08 July, 2011, 01:14:17 am
Good indication Peter on old Vinyl original albums is what they call 'flip back sleeve' Maybe pre 1970. I think after the 60's 'flip back sleeves' became redundant. If the Lightnin Hopkins original album/compilation was a flip back , I don't know ?

Here is a good example of a flip back sleeve from Bob Dylans: Freewheelins rear sleeve.

Notice how the front sleeve has flipped back bonding the rear card sleeve

(http://www.discogs.com/image/R-1280814-1236868399.jpeg)
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Post by: Doosh on 09 July, 2011, 12:59:47 am
Had a Manchester day today, listened to in rough yearly order:

Joy Division - Disc 2 of Heart and Soul
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
Stone Roses - Stone Roses
Happy Mondays - Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches
Doves - Lost Souls
Doves - Kingdom of Rust
Elbow - Build a Rocket Boys
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Post by: Peter on 09 July, 2011, 01:00:55 am
Had a Manchester day today, listened to in rough yearly order:

Joy Division - Disc 2 of Heart and Soul
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
Stone Roses - Stone Roses
Happy Mondays - Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches
Doves - Lost Souls
Doves - Kingdom of Rust
Elbow - Build a Rocket Boys


Get well soon, Matt!
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Post by: jogler on 09 July, 2011, 08:53:37 am
Radio 2.Sound of the 60's with Brian Mattews.
luvit :)
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Post by: Biggsy on 09 July, 2011, 09:09:12 am
Hey funk fans, check out the Craig Charles Funk & Soul show on 6Music, Saturday evenings.

I enjoy this a lot, even though I don't think I've ever bought a funk record.
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Post by: Andrij on 09 July, 2011, 06:48:42 pm
Massenet's Cendrillon (Opera on 3) from the Royal Opera House.
 
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Post by: Pingu on 11 July, 2011, 12:28:37 pm
Hello Starling - Josh Ritter

Lift Your Skinny Fists.... - Godspeed You! Balck Emperor
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Post by: PaulF on 11 July, 2011, 01:27:42 pm

Lift Your Skinny Fists.... - Godspeed You! Balck Emperor

Good call! Just inspired me to play it myself  :thumbsup:
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Post by: jogler on 11 July, 2011, 01:32:01 pm
That has SO much potential for abuse Paul.I think you are very brave for posting that ;)
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Post by: PaulF on 11 July, 2011, 01:35:30 pm
 :facepalm: Not that anyone round here would ever dream of quoting a post out of context  ::-) ::-)
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Post by: tiermat on 11 July, 2011, 01:38:14 pm
Biffy Clyro - Puzzle

My favourite Biffy album, from the opening bars of "Living Is A Problem Because Everything Dies" to the closing bars of "Machines", it just encapsulates everything that rock should be.
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Post by: Deano on 12 July, 2011, 12:08:11 am
Lambchop - I Hope You're Sitting Down.

Warm, delightful alt-country.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 12 July, 2011, 07:50:06 pm
Joan As Policewoman on the way to Embra.
A little bit of Tortoise, followed by Trojan Dub now.
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Post by: Deano on 13 July, 2011, 12:40:44 am
Asian Dub Foundation.
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Post by: microphonie on 13 July, 2011, 06:27:08 pm
Coil - Musick To Play in the Dark Part 2

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Post by: Tourist Tony on 13 July, 2011, 06:45:34 pm
Got some cheap deals, so no apologies!
UFO, Best Of (three quid!)
Wishbone Ash, Argus
Procul Harum, Best Of.
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Post by: clarion on 13 July, 2011, 08:36:02 pm
Random Slade.

As loud as this crappy laptop can manage.
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Post by: PaulF on 13 July, 2011, 08:58:10 pm
Iron and Wine
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Post by: LindaG on 13 July, 2011, 10:59:27 pm
Voice of the Seven Woods
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Post by: LindaG on 13 July, 2011, 11:27:04 pm
And now, TS Eliot.  Burnt Norton.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 15 July, 2011, 09:22:12 am
Mr. Bach. Double violin concerto.
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Post by: SpaceBadger on 15 July, 2011, 10:25:54 pm
Best of The Human League.  :D :D
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 17 July, 2011, 02:12:24 am
Timbuk3
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 17 July, 2011, 02:33:19 pm
Bought some 'new' cd's yesterday. So,
Deerhunter - Microcastle
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 17 July, 2011, 03:04:59 pm
The National - Boxer
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Post by: LindaG on 17 July, 2011, 04:24:35 pm
Deerhunter - Microcastle

Heard this yesterday.  Is very good.
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Post by: tiermat on 18 July, 2011, 02:42:54 pm
Just gone through two Seasick Steve albums, now listening to Foo Fighters - Medium Rare, a collection of cover versions.
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Post by: Deano on 18 July, 2011, 09:28:52 pm
Jeffrey Lewis and Peter Stampfel.
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Post by: interzen on 18 July, 2011, 09:30:21 pm
"The Drone Zone" on somafm.com - I've had a very stressful day and am trying desperately to chill out.
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Post by: Biggsy on 19 July, 2011, 09:17:17 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DvXvq3sjyQ
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Post by: Redlight on 19 July, 2011, 10:46:38 pm
Timbuk3

Yay!  So you're the other person who bought that album?
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 20 July, 2011, 11:02:04 am
Well, 20+ years ago I had Greetings From on tape.  On the other side was More Love Songs by Loudon Wainwright III, if memory serves correctly.  Present from a school friend.

Then just shy of 20 years ago my then boyfriend (an Irish bloke I met in France and split up with in Africa) gave me a tape with Christy Moore on one side (can't remember the album but it had Ride On on it) and Timbuk 3's Eden Alley on the other.

So I didn't exactly buy it.

And then I recently discovered spotify on the ipod and have been happily reminiscing :)
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Post by: jogler on 20 July, 2011, 08:01:35 pm
The Four Tops : The Difinitive Collection
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Post by: PaulF on 20 July, 2011, 08:34:14 pm
The National - Boxer

My favourite album at the moment :)
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Post by: jogler on 23 July, 2011, 08:28:53 am
Radio 2. Brian Matthews' Sound of the Sixties

 :thumbsup:
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Post by: nicknack on 23 July, 2011, 11:14:07 am
Coltrane.
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Post by: Deano on 23 July, 2011, 11:18:46 am
Gedge.
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Post by: YahudaMoon on 23 July, 2011, 02:43:12 pm
Sid Vicious - Sid Sings

Found this in a dusty crate. Ive got a lot of live albums of sid though not heard this before. His only album. It's a live album and sounds really poor lol. I mean the sound quality. Their is one studio track Franks Sinatras 'My Way (last track). That has some sound Quality.

Thought I'd post the sleeves for those who haven't seen it before, not sure which is the front sleeve ?

(http://s.dsimg.com/image/R-688146-1147869725.jpeg)

(http://s.dsimg.com/image/R-688146-1147869715.jpeg)
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Post by: billplumtree on 23 July, 2011, 08:21:12 pm
Cat Stevens - Tea for the Tillerman.  Bloody hell, he was good back then.
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Post by: Andrij on 24 July, 2011, 07:18:13 pm
Verdi's Requiem (BBC Proms).  Should have gone down to the Albert Hall but by the time I remembered it was too late.
 
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Post by: Doosh on 25 July, 2011, 09:07:12 pm
Michael Yonkers Band

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfMLjrAOr74
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Post by: YahudaMoon on 25 July, 2011, 11:54:46 pm
Mainly 'Stiff Records'

Anyone over the age of 35 ? must have had some Stiff Records ?

This is Stiff Records first release

(http://s.dsimg.com/image/R-1208199-1304270159.jpeg)

Of what I did not know !!! I loved the 'Play Loud' text on the labels of what my parents disapproved
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Post by: Peter on 25 July, 2011, 11:56:49 pm
Verdi's Requiem (BBC Proms).  Should have gone down to the Albert Hall but by the time I remembered it was too late.

What an apposite remark, Andrij!
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Post by: Peter on 25 July, 2011, 11:58:31 pm
Mainly 'Stiff Records'

Anyone over the age of 35 ? must have had some Stiff Records ?

This is Stiff Records first release

(http://s.dsimg.com/image/R-1208199-1304270159.jpeg)

Of what I did not know !!! I loved the 'Play Loud' text on the labels of what my parents disapproved

Thought you'd have been listening to "Climb Every Mountain" after yesterday!
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Post by: YahudaMoon on 26 July, 2011, 12:05:32 am
Is walking a exception lol. It certainly was a stiff climb HA :)

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Post by: Biggsy on 26 July, 2011, 09:16:02 am
I'm embarrassed to say that I only Stiff I had was a couple of Madness cassettes.

What does "mono enhanced stereo" mean?
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Post by: Doosh on 26 July, 2011, 07:21:33 pm
John Lee Hooker - The Healer
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Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 26 July, 2011, 11:06:32 pm
Steely Dan: Can't buy a thrill. "Do it again" is just superb. The whole album is just jaw droppingly well put together. 

Next year, it'll be 40 years since that came out. <Shakes head>

When I first got into music this was the sort of thing that my mate's big brothers had on the stereo. 
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Post by: Doosh on 27 July, 2011, 02:27:57 pm
Kraftwerk - The Man Machine
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Post by: LindaG on 27 July, 2011, 04:02:56 pm
The Decemberists
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Post by: clarion on 27 July, 2011, 09:54:34 pm
Stranglers.

It's Martin's fault.
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Post by: Deano on 27 July, 2011, 09:57:03 pm
Boards of Canada - In a Beautiful Plce Out in the Country.

Wonderful, atmospheric electronica.
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Post by: clarion on 28 July, 2011, 09:33:00 pm
Sparks (again).  Being astonished by creative originality.
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Post by: Wascally Weasel on 29 July, 2011, 12:01:41 am
The Tain - Horslips.

Edit: Now it's Magnum.  This isn't good is it?
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Post by: spesh on 29 July, 2011, 12:39:48 am
Edit: Now it's Magnum.  This isn't good is it?

It depends... Kingdom Of Madness, Chase The Dragon and On A Storyteller's Night are classics, but they definitely got a bit meh post-Goodnight LA. ;)
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Post by: Peter on 29 July, 2011, 12:43:15 am
Coltrane
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Post by: kyuss on 29 July, 2011, 03:43:45 am
Manu Chao (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScVvQ3ya46k). Fast forward it a bit to 1.30. IMO one of the best Glastonbury performances ever.
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Post by: tiermat on 29 July, 2011, 12:20:40 pm
Medium Rare by Foo Fighters, an album of covers.  they are just cracking through a Ramones cover, pretty damned good, if you ask me
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Post by: LindaG on 29 July, 2011, 12:29:03 pm
Sometimes I browse through this thread, looking for new music to explore, and I swear I hear John Peel's voice reading stuff out.

Is it just me?
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Post by: Biggsy on 29 July, 2011, 12:36:40 pm
No.  I often hear John Peel's voice in my head saying all sorts of things, not just connected with music.
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Post by: LindaG on 29 July, 2011, 01:03:49 pm
Blackfield
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Post by: PaulF on 29 July, 2011, 01:42:18 pm
Smart Flesh ~ The Low Anthem

Beautifully atmospheric
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Post by: tiermat on 29 July, 2011, 01:48:59 pm
No.  I often hear John Peel's voice in my head saying all sorts of things, not just connected with music.

Trouble is, that after seeing the Beeb's coverage of Glasto, my image of Peely quickly morphs into Mark Radcliffe.....

Back on topic, listening to Puzzle by Biffy Clyro.  I love this album, it's happy, sad, angry and bouncy all at the same time....
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Post by: clarion on 29 July, 2011, 03:23:38 pm
The Tain - Horslips.

I thought I was the only person who ever listens to that nowadays! :o

I love Dearg Doom
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Post by: spesh on 29 July, 2011, 09:58:51 pm
Classic Rock presents: NWOBHM (http://www.planetrock.com/promotions/nwobhm-compilation/classic-rock-presents-nwobhm/)  :thumbsup:
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Post by: welshwheels on 30 July, 2011, 05:00:29 pm
this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsqKH_VIrng&ob=av2e :thumbsup:
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Post by: LindaG on 01 August, 2011, 12:18:11 am
Talking Heads.
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Post by: Deano on 01 August, 2011, 12:20:43 am
The Broken Family Band. Country-tinged folksy indie with bitter, heartfelt lyrics, led by Stephen Adams's wonderfully OTT US accent.

See also his current band, The Singing Adams. A little less country, a little more indie.
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Post by: LindaG on 01 August, 2011, 12:22:03 am
The Broken Family Band. Country-tinged folksy indie with bitter, heartfelt lyrics, led by Stephen Adams's wonderfully OTT US accent.

See also his current band, The Singing Adams. A little less country, a little more indie.

This sounds interesting.  It shall be explored tomorrow  :D
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Post by: Deano on 01 August, 2011, 12:29:54 am
You really should. It's fabulous.  TBFB also had a great quiet-loud vibe going on at times, like a country version of the Pixies. Good sweariness as well.

I can do you CDRs if you like (or a USB stick more like, as the CD drive is a bit temperamental).
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Post by: LindaG on 01 August, 2011, 12:31:23 am
Yes please!  Why not? Love exploring new music  :smug:
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Post by: Deano on 01 August, 2011, 06:51:19 pm
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci live at Clwb Ifor Bach, 2000.  I taped it off the radio and just found the tape in a box - so I'm converting it to MP3.  It's as enchanting as I remember.
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Post by: clarion on 01 August, 2011, 09:38:50 pm
Uncharacteristically, Gerry Rafferty.
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Post by: interzen on 01 August, 2011, 09:41:48 pm
Fields of the Nephilim - Dawnrazor

I'm in that kind of a mood tonight ...
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Post by: Pingu on 02 August, 2011, 01:10:45 pm
Harvest - Neil Young
Speaking of Now - Pat Metheny
Blinking Lights & Other Revelations - Eels
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Post by: Illegal Combat Ant on 02 August, 2011, 01:20:01 pm
Had the good fortune and connections to get guest tickets for WOMAD last weekend and managed to blag my way onstage with Booker T Jones.

Proper R 'n' B, not that stuff that's nicked the name.

Evidence that I speak the truth here. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=743sMXx6BhY)

Even better, while I was wallowing in nostalgia (yes, I am an old fart), I discovered that the latest episode (http://www.livefromdarylshouse.com/currentep.html) of the consistently wonderful 'Live from Dary'ls House' featured the man himself.

Hammond B-3 heaven.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 02 August, 2011, 03:15:42 pm
Remain In Light - Talking Heads

The one with the scary album cover.
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Post by: PaulF on 02 August, 2011, 03:25:40 pm
Just had The Soft Province's eponymous album
Currently Soft Bulletin - Flaming Lips
Next up another eponymous one from The National
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Post by: Chris S on 02 August, 2011, 04:14:23 pm
Sigur Rós. Lots of Sigur Rós. It's that kind of day.
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Post by: tiermat on 03 August, 2011, 11:49:41 am
Sublime - 40oz To Freedom

Class ska punk
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Post by: LindaG on 03 August, 2011, 03:11:14 pm
http://youtu.be/ES1RypBww_g

A little something my son introduced me to.

ETA:  He showed me this too.

http://youtu.be/fc-V3NYckOI
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Post by: tiermat on 03 August, 2011, 03:16:01 pm
Now that, LG, put me in mind for the perfect "song" for today....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGNgcRwKW4Q
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Post by: marcusjb on 04 August, 2011, 01:57:45 pm
Nevermind - inspired by the fact that I read about the 20th anniversary edition coming out soon.

20 years - where did it go?

I arrived at University just as Nirvana got huge - certainly part of the soundtrack of my first year there.
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Post by: Biggsy on 04 August, 2011, 03:14:33 pm
Spotlight Kid - Haunting Me (http://soundcloud.com/robmccleary1/spotlight-kid-haunting-me).  Blatantly derivative of My Bloody Valentine - one of my very favourite bands - but that doesn't spoil my enjoyment.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 04 August, 2011, 04:46:56 pm
EldestCub's "Music of the year, 1968" album. He knows every word, it would appear.
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Post by: Bluebottle on 04 August, 2011, 05:14:33 pm
At the moment, Erik Satie - En habit de cheval.
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Post by: Doosh on 04 August, 2011, 11:09:19 pm
Floyd - Wish You Were Here
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Post by: Illegal Combat Ant on 05 August, 2011, 09:36:40 am
The Stranglers Duchess (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXJfVXYL714)

"And the Rodneys are queueing up, God forbid"

God forbid indeed, they've taken over the world.
 >:(
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 05 August, 2011, 09:30:44 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMo6Ju8SJ8o
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Post by: kyuss on 06 August, 2011, 03:10:28 am
Ryan Adams "Heartbreaker". It's been a while since I've put it on, and I'm sure it's not considered cool, but it's one of my 'Desert Island' disks without doubt.
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Post by: Biggsy on 06 August, 2011, 03:56:45 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAANdjxEKlU&feature=related
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Post by: Steph on 06 August, 2011, 08:26:45 am
Tull. Aqualung, and Roots to Branches.
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Post by: Jules on 06 August, 2011, 06:40:50 pm
I love Aqualung - and indeed most early Tull.
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Post by: Biggsy on 06 August, 2011, 07:50:48 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzHBxu4HR1M&feature=related
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Post by: RJ on 06 August, 2011, 08:20:34 pm
Casework deadline, ergo Ozrics

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tKLuPDcOmY&feature=related
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Post by: RJ on 07 August, 2011, 09:38:44 pm
The Blue Nile - A Walk Across the Rooftops
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Post by: LindaG on 09 August, 2011, 09:35:02 am
A bit of this.  Lovely.

http://youtu.be/IFPTLfYeYtw
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Post by: andrewc on 09 August, 2011, 08:11:25 pm
A song for the last few days.. >:(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCkNu9OxThc
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Post by: interzen on 09 August, 2011, 08:22:42 pm
A song for the last few days.. >:(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCkNu9OxThc
Or this (one of my favourite FZ songs, as it happens)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiVFfOOm_GI

Currently, I am listening to "Diversions" by Orbital - a much maligned (IMO) remix album.
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Post by: PaulF on 09 August, 2011, 09:48:22 pm
F♯ A♯ ∞ ~ Godspeed You Black Emperor. Somehow appropriate at the moment
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Post by: Pingu on 10 August, 2011, 01:30:11 pm
Mogwai
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 10 August, 2011, 03:28:23 pm

Or this (one of my favourite FZ songs, as it happens)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiVFfOOm_GI


The Deviants did a fine cover of that at one of their reunion gigs, with Wayne Kramer on guitar.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 10 August, 2011, 06:53:32 pm
The amazingly naff-titled Glenn Miller Orchestra - In The Digital Mood.  It's all the classics recorded in digital stereo.  If I'm brutally honest, the musicianship isn't quite as good as the 1940s originals, but the sound is phenomenal.
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Post by: LindaG on 11 August, 2011, 01:04:58 pm
10,000 Maniacs.
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Post by: Pingu on 11 August, 2011, 01:13:04 pm
Flat Baroque and Berserk - Roy Harper
Timothy's Monster [Disc 4] - Motorpsycho
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Post by: Regulator on 11 August, 2011, 01:15:08 pm
Dreams of Andalusia (http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2009/Oct09/Dreams_andalusia_metcd1062.htm)... a fantastic album.  Great to plug into when working my way through ASI spreadsheets, as it calms the soul.
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Post by: Biggsy on 11 August, 2011, 02:03:30 pm
A 10,000 Maniacs cover

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnY88-MJSmU

(The singer's strained voice is very evocative for me)
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Post by: spesh on 11 August, 2011, 09:15:14 pm
I've been in raucous mode today - Love/Hate, Rammstein, Ratt, P.O.D., Scorpions, Pendulum, The Prodigy, White Zombie...
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Post by: interzen on 11 August, 2011, 09:16:53 pm
Whereas I'm feeling mellow and working my way through a variety of ambient gig recordings ...
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Post by: Chris S on 12 August, 2011, 06:20:38 pm
Glasvegas - Euphoric /// Heartbreak \\\
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Post by: RW on 12 August, 2011, 07:33:23 pm
Ives 2
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Post by: Deano on 12 August, 2011, 08:36:11 pm
Best of Lindisfarne (courtesy of Pedaldog).
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Post by: rogerzilla on 12 August, 2011, 08:52:36 pm
It's film music night at The Proms; they're working through the John Williams canon.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 12 August, 2011, 09:32:14 pm
A medley of Bond themes now.   :thumbsup:

Not as good as Propellerheads' OHMSS, but close.
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Post by: interzen on 12 August, 2011, 09:35:01 pm
Ned's Atomic Dustbin - Intact
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Post by: Tewdric on 12 August, 2011, 09:36:44 pm
A medley of Bond themes now.   :thumbsup:

Not as good as Propellerheads' OHMSS, but close.

I'm listening too and the Bond medley was ace!  :thumbsup:
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Post by: rogerzilla on 12 August, 2011, 09:38:40 pm
LOL at the guitarist, who looks like Mervyn King's assistant.  Looks like a self-built Strat as it has no name on the headstock.
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Post by: Illegal Combat Ant on 15 August, 2011, 01:43:17 pm
Listening (and watching) this excellent 'Literal version' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZaiB9jYCxI&feature=youtu.be) of the Men without Hats video to 'Safety Dance'

I've been giggling like a six year old all day.
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Post by: Illegal Combat Ant on 18 August, 2011, 09:12:12 pm
This. (http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x182kz_feeder-buck-rogers_music) All because of some new advert for some horrible sickly sweet linctus that used to aid recovery.
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Post by: Doosh on 23 August, 2011, 09:09:12 pm
The Walkmen - Lisbon
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Post by: nicknack on 23 August, 2011, 09:35:23 pm
An evening of Brian Eno.

'Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)' at the mo.
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Post by: Gus on 24 August, 2011, 05:10:42 pm

Red Hot Chili Peppers - I'm with you  :D
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Post by: Biggsy on 24 August, 2011, 07:55:20 pm
Very strange:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aqKA_2UUy4&feature=player_embedded
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Post by: David Martin on 25 August, 2011, 10:03:56 am
Madness NW5 (from The Liberty of Norton Folgate)
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Post by: LindaG on 25 August, 2011, 09:37:12 pm
http://youtu.be/HqViJyweNV0

Beautiful.  What would it be like, to make art like this?  But thank God, someone does.
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Post by: Peter on 25 August, 2011, 09:49:43 pm
http://youtu.be/HqViJyweNV0

Beautiful.  What would it be like, to make art like this?  But thank God, someone does.

I love their stuff, especially Bright Lights Tonight and Dimming Of The Day.  Not so thrilled by Linda singing You Raise Me Up - not her but the song is so derivative: the "You Raise Me Up" phrase is identical to Danny Boy but noone has acknowledged this.

Do you like Kate and Anna McGarrigle?
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Post by: LindaG on 25 August, 2011, 09:51:08 pm
http://youtu.be/HqViJyweNV0

Beautiful.  What would it be like, to make art like this?  But thank God, someone does.

I love their stuff, especially Bright Lights Tonight and Dimming Of The Day.  Not so thrilled by Linda singing You Raise Me Up - not her but the song is so derivative: the "You Raise Me Up" phrase is identical to Danny Boy but noone has acknowledged this.

Do you like Kate and Anna McGarrigle?

I'm afraid I've never heard of them.
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Post by: Phil on 25 August, 2011, 09:52:18 pm
I'm on a Bellowhead kick tonight. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBE5ovRJQn8
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Post by: RJ on 25 August, 2011, 09:54:01 pm
http://youtu.be/HqViJyweNV0

Beautiful.  What would it be like, to make art like this?  But thank God, someone does.

I love their stuff, especially Bright Lights Tonight and Dimming Of The Day.  Not so thrilled by Linda singing You Raise Me Up - not her but the song is so derivative: the "You Raise Me Up" phrase is identical to Danny Boy but noone has acknowledged this.

Do you like Kate and Anna McGarrigle?

This isn't bad either:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=payivmhyrII&feature=related
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Post by: LindaG on 25 August, 2011, 10:05:54 pm


I love their stuff, especially ... Dimming Of The Day. 

Peter, I only heard of Richard and Linda recently.  I think Bunbury and Deano are fans, and I kind of followed their lead.

I just looked this up.  Oh dear.  It's really very good, isn't it.
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Post by: LindaG on 25 August, 2011, 10:07:09 pm


This isn't bad either:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=payivmhyrII&feature=related

You're not wrong.
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Post by: Peter on 26 August, 2011, 12:23:23 am
Linda, if you like Richard and Linda's harmony singing, then you must hear "I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight".  You must also listen to Kate and Anna McGarrigle, probably their eponymous first album.  But do it sitting down: if it's poignancy + harmony singing you like, then you might actually faint!
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Post by: LindaG on 26 August, 2011, 10:13:44 pm
So much music in the world.  Crusty needs to go back to work soon so I can waste my days off on the computer again  :thumbsup:
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Post by: LindaG on 27 August, 2011, 11:28:55 pm
Linda, if you like Richard and Linda's harmony singing, then you must hear "I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight".  You must also listen to Kate and Anna McGarrigle, probably their eponymous first album.  But do it sitting down: if it's poignancy + harmony singing you like, then you might actually faint!

I've dipped into Kate and Anna, and TBH their voices don't do a lot for me.  However, the music I like best has often left me cold at first then with perserverance proved to be a (lifelong) keeper.  So I haven't given up on them.

Thanks for the tips.
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Post by: Peter on 28 August, 2011, 12:17:35 am
Fair enough, Linda, that's what makes the world go round!  To be fair to K & A, most of the Youtube stuff is live performance from relatively recently when their voices have got a little shriller.  Also Kate was very ill of a particularly horrible kind of total body cancer towards the end of her life.  If you haven't heard it, try the "Go Leave" clip, it's about her break up with Louden Wainwright (she was Rufus's mother).  If you have heard that, then I'm sorry to have gone on about it again!

All the best,

Peter
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Post by: woollypigs on 28 August, 2011, 11:48:59 am
Started with Dr. Jeckyll and Dr. Hyde with their Genius Rap. Which have a sample from the group called Tom Tom Club, whom at first I couldn't remember who they were. So after some wiki'ing around I found out they started as a side project to Talking Heads. So much for listening to 80's old school rap.
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Post by: Andrij on 28 August, 2011, 07:13:26 pm
The Gabrieli Consort and assorted soloists performing Mendelssohn's Elijah.  The volume may be turned up a bit higher than absolutely necessary, but I'm enjoying it too much to care what others think.  Besides, it's much more preferable to the noise that comes drifting in off the street.
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Post by: perpetual dan on 28 August, 2011, 10:27:39 pm
Recorded spaghetti western orchestra prom. Made me smile, lovely theramin playing.
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Post by: interzen on 28 August, 2011, 10:34:50 pm
Various bits of fractally generated ambient/drone music - sort-of kind-of like Brian Eno's past experiments in 'generative' music with a side order of added overall strangeness. Not unpleasant to listen to by any means, but 'interesting' even given my rather wide tastes in sounds.

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Post by: Doosh on 29 August, 2011, 03:45:27 pm
Bowie - Hunky Dory
Lennon - Plastic Ono Band
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Post by: interzen on 29 August, 2011, 05:37:18 pm
The Tragically Hip1 - have started with their first EP, which I discovered courtesy of a Canadian I worked with at university, and I'm about halfway through their discography now. I'd quite forgotten how good they are.

1- The other good band to come out of Canada ;)
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Post by: Illegal Combat Ant on 30 August, 2011, 01:12:42 pm
A Tanya Stephens song 'No More' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vnigr6G1gU) that sounds eerily relevant to life in the UK right now.

Shame it was written about Jamaican politics 10 or so years ago.
 :'(
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Post by: PaulF on 01 September, 2011, 07:22:31 pm
The Tragically Hip1 - have started with their first EP, which I discovered courtesy of a Canadian I worked with at university, and I'm about halfway through their discography now. I'd quite forgotten how good they are.

1- The other good band to come out of Canada ;)

The other being?

the Band, Wilderness of Manitoba, Courage of Lassie, The Gertrudes, etc.?
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Post by: nicknack on 01 September, 2011, 08:35:07 pm
I think he can only be referring to Godspeed You Black Emperor...

and I'm listening to The Beatles at the mo.
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Post by: Deano on 01 September, 2011, 08:45:29 pm
Guitar Wolf!

Shouty, raucous Japanese NOISE.
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Post by: Doosh on 02 September, 2011, 04:29:24 pm
Patti Smith - Horses
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Post by: kyuss on 03 September, 2011, 03:09:01 am
Ben Howard

Under the Same Sun (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KrU1LY-pQU&feature=BFa&list=FLmoEA2ENAAVay7IichRdgYA&lf=plpp).
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Post by: Steph on 03 September, 2011, 02:24:21 pm
Swann and Dyer, "Thumb Twiddling"
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Post by: Steph on 03 September, 2011, 10:24:04 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AYIL5CEHpw&feature=related
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Post by: Billy Weir on 04 September, 2011, 05:35:23 pm
Mainly listening to Minisrty of Sound's Old Skool House compilation of late 80s/early 90s dance music (acid, rave etc).  Bizarre how tracks that seemed so fast 20 years ago now seem a wee bit plodding.  And repetitive.  Still some classics in there though: Waterfall, Voodoo Ray, Papua New Guinea, Humanoid,....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBk6Qe_rQUA

Apols for the advert at the start of the video (if it flashes up for embedded links - it does if you view from YT directly).  Youtube, innit.
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Post by: marcusjb on 05 September, 2011, 05:41:20 pm
Total 12 compilation by Kompakt arrived today - blimey.  Real return to core values for the label - it's staggering good on first listen.  Superpitcher and Coma tracks stand out on first go.  Certainly sounds like Kompakt again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52C138DCkHs (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52C138DCkHs)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q92LYAY4sZg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q92LYAY4sZg)

Next up - new Plaid album Scintilli - first proper output from them in 8 years, let's see if the wait was worth it?
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Post by: microphonie on 05 September, 2011, 06:34:40 pm
Ulrich Schnauss & Jonas Munk - s/t collaboration for me. Rather nice it is too.

Next up - new Plaid album Scintilli - first proper output from them in 8 years, let's see if the wait was worth it?

I'm undecided about this one - I was rather underwhelmed by Spokes & was very close to walking out of their gig in Norwich last year. Like Autechre they seem to be more interested in showing how good they are at manipulating the software than producing anything resembling a tune.  :(

Might still take a risk on the Norwich gig in October though... :-\
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Post by: marcusjb on 05 September, 2011, 06:49:01 pm
Ulrich Schnauss & Jonas Munk - s/t collaboration for me. Rather nice it is too.

Next up - new Plaid album Scintilli - first proper output from them in 8 years, let's see if the wait was worth it?

I'm undecided about this one - I was rather underwhelmed by Spokes & was very close to walking out of their gig in Norwich last year. Like Autechre they seem to be more interested in showing how good they are at manipulating the software than producing anything resembling a tune.  :(

Might still take a risk on the Norwich gig in October though... :-\

Can understand the comments on Spokes for sure - after Double Figure (which I really loved), it got a bit up it's own arse.

Scintilli on now - and it sounds closer to Double Figure than Spokes - it's really rather good - Thank and Unbank caught my attention (I will admit, I've been rather distracted with some work stuff whilst trying to listen to it).  Some of it is quite menacing though - but, all in all, sounds very good, sounds like Plaid should but without getting lost in technical somersaults!
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Post by: microphonie on 05 September, 2011, 06:58:27 pm

Can understand the comments on Spokes for sure - after Double Figure (which I really loved), it got a bit up it's own arse.

Scintilli on now - and it sounds closer to Double Figure than Spokes - it's really rather good - Thank and Unbank caught my attention (I will admit, I've been rather distracted with some work stuff whilst trying to listen to it).  Some of it is quite menacing though - but, all in all, sounds very good, sounds like Plaid should but without getting lost in technical somersaults!

That sounds promising (as did the samples on Scintilli.com)  :thumbsup:

Might pop into the Arts Centre tomorrow & spend b/day cash on a ticket!
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Post by: interzen on 05 September, 2011, 07:05:55 pm
Ibizarre.
Balearic ambient-techno - some of it is very good indeed, whereas other tracks are too noodly even for my tastes. Overall though, it's a keeper.
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 06 September, 2011, 10:12:50 am
Levelling the Land by the Levellers

Strange how much having heard this live affects listening. It's almost too much. They are an outstanding live band.
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Post by: eeymsmo on 06 September, 2011, 01:51:01 pm
Loud sounds to drown out the office.

For calmness - OM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM22W_stXG4

And general overpowering of even our loudest Business Relationship manager - Sunn 0)))
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIR1KfKXH6s
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Post by: Simonb on 06 September, 2011, 01:55:00 pm
"Zeus EP" - British Sea Power. Fucking, fucking ace.
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Post by: interzen on 06 September, 2011, 01:55:31 pm
And general overpowering of even our loudest Business Relationship manager
That sounds like it could actually be the name of a Sunn O))) track :)
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 07 September, 2011, 11:45:09 pm
Detroit Cobras, Life, love and leaving. Appropriataly enough... I may be baking at the same time.
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Post by: clarion on 09 September, 2011, 08:58:19 pm
Spider In The Bath.  Not a series I have ever seen on TV proper - I think it was broadcast between my childhood and my bairns - but we had a video of it for Our Kid.  Such a sensitive and gentle programme.  I still enjoy it, and it is making me smile :)
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Post by: kyuss on 10 September, 2011, 02:39:05 am
Fu Manchu - The action is go.
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Post by: microphonie on 10 September, 2011, 02:58:31 pm
Just finished downloading my latest eMusic quota:

Currently playing

Gnod - InGnodWeTrust - not my usual sort of thing & downloaded on the basis of the review in  The Quietus  (http://thequietus.com/articles/06409-gnod-ingnodwetrust-review)

"With its oppressive array of krautrock rhythmic patterns, dub effects, electronic manipulations and bleak post-punk vibe, In Gnod We Trust is a concrete slab of quivering, disgusted urban psychedelic music, as ominous as it is compelling."

Jeez, they're not wrong: track 2, in particular, is rather intense and bordering on being extremely grating...listening on headphones might be interesting!

And in the queue:

Seefeel - Faults

wAgAwAgA - Mrepsican

The Field - Looping State of Mind

Thighpaulsandra - Rape Scene - dodgy title - bought due to low cost & Coil/Spiritualised connections

Svarte Greiner - Kappe

Autechre - Cichli Suite

Another Electronic Musician - Use (how long before there's Yet Another Electronic Musician?)  :D

Clutchy Hopkins & Lord Kenjamin - Music is My Medicine

Sigur Ros - Ny Batteri & Svefn-g-englar eps

The complete  Study Series  (http://ghostbox.greedbag.com/dept/~study-series/) on Ghost Box.

And some 1-track ambience to use up my allocation:

DJ Olive - Buoy & Triage

Steve Roach - A Deeper Silence

BJ NIlsen & Stilluppsteypa - Passing Out

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Post by: jogler on 10 September, 2011, 11:01:01 pm
just been listening to Last Night of The Proms
 :thumbsup:
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Post by: Biggsy on 11 September, 2011, 09:44:21 am
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake - a brilliant album.

I don't mind admitting it was the Mercury nomination that got me back listening to PJ, after I thought I had lost interest.
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Post by: clarion on 12 September, 2011, 08:27:24 pm
Horslips.  Started with Lindisfarne, and I'm beginning to realise that I like folk-rock much more than I thought.
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Post by: marcusjb on 13 September, 2011, 09:51:12 am
Plastikman Arkives 1993-2010

Bloody expensive boxset, but worth every penny so far - he is a true musical hero of mine and this set gives many insights into how he works etc.  Hearing some of the recording sessions for Spastik are fascinating - seeing how much he then chopped things down from his original session - no wonder he says his fingers are covered in scalpel scars!

The book in the box set is fascinating, especially about the impact of being banned from the US had on his music and mental state etc.

Great stuff!
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Post by: urban_biker on 13 September, 2011, 11:32:54 am
I've been really getting into Small Town Eyes by Justin Sandercoe (of justin guitar website). Some great tracks including this . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj5IOk4UpHo&feature=player_detailpage (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj5IOk4UpHo&feature=player_detailpage)
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Post by: Biggsy on 14 September, 2011, 12:01:27 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NarL1RXtvBI
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Post by: citoyen on 14 September, 2011, 12:14:22 am
New Laura Marling album. Bit of a curate's egg. I mostly like it but there's at least one song I've really taken against - Salinas.

Of her three albums so far, it's probably her third best.

Oh well.

d.
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Post by: LindaG on 16 September, 2011, 08:52:13 pm
Cure special on 6 music. Cracking stuff.
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Post by: jogler on 17 September, 2011, 09:17:12 am
Brian Mathew's "Sounds of the Sxties" on Radio 2.
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Post by: nicknack on 17 September, 2011, 10:50:56 am
Edgar Broughton Band - Sing Brother Sing

Mainly because I had "Aphrodite" running through my head when I woke up this morning and it reminded me me I hadn't heard the album for ages.
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Post by: Biggsy on 18 September, 2011, 01:25:31 pm
Miming to Cocteaus; more enjoyable than the official videos:

http://youtu.be/s7tl7347qf8

http://youtu.be/vnB4_lTR2ew
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Post by: interzen on 18 September, 2011, 01:27:56 pm
All sorts of stuff - decided to live dangerously and put the iPod into 'shuffle' mode.

Makes for some interesting juxtapositions: the last four tracks I've had have been by The Beatles, Brian Eno, Slayer and Talk Talk, respectively. The seque from "Music for Airports" into "Angel Of Death" was quite interesting :)

EDIT: now we have Booker T. & the MG's with the awesome 'Green Onions' ...
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Post by: jogler on 18 September, 2011, 07:30:12 pm
U2
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Post by: tiermat on 19 September, 2011, 04:24:27 pm
Bush

Reminded of them from the US station I listen to during the day playing their new single "The Sound of Winter", so plunging, head long, through their back catalogue.

Currently listening to "Glycerine" then going to listen to their remix album "Deconstructed"

It's the late '90's all over again :)
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Post by: PaulF on 19 September, 2011, 04:46:09 pm
Lanterns on the Lake ~ Gracious Tide, Carry Me Home
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Post by: tiermat on 21 September, 2011, 10:51:33 am
"I'm With You" - Red Hot Chili Peppers
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Post by: tiermat on 22 September, 2011, 09:27:04 am
Now listening to my Last.FM station, started with Bloc Party, then the Foo Fighters and now it's playing "Folding Stars" by Biffy Clyro.

Pure Class!

Now it's on Audioslave - "One and the Same"
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Post by: urban_biker on 22 September, 2011, 12:00:35 pm
"I'm With You" - Red Hot Chili Peppers

I've got it - but not got into it yet. Struggling to find a track that hooks me in.
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Post by: Pingu on 22 September, 2011, 01:01:34 pm
Ágætis Byrjun - Sigur Rós
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Post by: eck on 22 September, 2011, 01:15:16 pm
Ágætis Byrjun - Sigur Rós
Nah, you're just showing off that you can do fancy accents and diphthongs and stuff.  :P
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Post by: Pingu on 22 September, 2011, 01:16:45 pm
Ágætis Byrjun - Sigur Rós
Nah, you're just showing off that you can do fancy accents and diphthongs and stuff.  :P

Copy & paste, dear boy  ;)
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Post by: Biggsy on 22 September, 2011, 05:11:13 pm
Free "4AD Sessions" compilation music download by signing up to mailing list:

http://www.4ad.com/news/22/9/2011/4adreleasesessionscompilationlpandfreemp3download   (Page doesn't completely load properly with IE for me; does with Firefox).
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Post by: PaulF on 22 September, 2011, 06:22:56 pm
Spent the day listening to R.E.M. :(

Now introducing my son to Nirvana - Nevermind is 20 years old tomorrow
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Post by: woollypigs on 22 September, 2011, 06:31:44 pm
Now introducing my son to Nirvana - Nevermind is 20 years old tomorrow
Feck me, time files.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 22 September, 2011, 07:56:58 pm
Dandy Warhols - Come Down

Stoner music  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Chris S on 22 September, 2011, 08:01:03 pm
I was listening to wank music classic rock gods Pink Floyd on the iPod on tonight's pseudo commute. I was shocked and appalled to discover I don't have Dark Side of the Moon on there.

That will have to be rectified.
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Post by: SteveS on 22 September, 2011, 08:15:18 pm
Now introducing my son to Nirvana - Nevermind is 20 years old tomorrow
Feck me, time files.
You think time flies, I was also listening to Nirvana today, Rainbow Chaser, 7" single released in 1968 by the original British Nirvana not those transaltantic youngsters.
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Post by: clarion on 23 September, 2011, 10:15:17 am
Tri Yann, inspired in part by the dulcimer in the Korg Kaossilator thread.
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Post by: tiermat on 23 September, 2011, 01:43:10 pm
Last.FM has gone all old school on me, just had PWEI - 88 seconds.....and counting.

Now have Grandmaster Flash - White Lines :)  :thumbsup:
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Post by: eeymsmo on 23 September, 2011, 02:09:21 pm
Last.FM has gone all old school on me, just had PWEI - 88 seconds.....and counting.

Is sir aware of the current 'reform'? I'm in 2 minds about it. There's only 1 original member (Graham Crabb) involved, but it does also involve Mary from GBOA. So I'm sort of torn, but I'll no doubt buy the new album when it emerges.

As for my listening, as 10 shots of espresso don't appear to have roused me today, I'm having a last ditch attempt with some Anaal Nathrakh:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rymgm3jcuWc
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Post by: tiermat on 23 September, 2011, 02:11:33 pm
Last.FM has gone all old school on me, just had PWEI - 88 seconds.....and counting.

Is sir aware of the current 'reform'? I'm in 2 minds about it. There's only 1 original member (Graham Crabb) involved, but it does also involve Mary from GBOA. So I'm sort of torn, but I'll no doubt buy the new album when it emerges.

As for my listening, as 10 shots of espresso don't appear to have roused me today, I'm having a last ditch attempt with some Anaal Nathrakh:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rymgm3jcuWc

No i wasn't, but obviously am now....

Nothing will ever top that hot, non-stop dancing, sweaty night at Bradford Students Union when I saw them play live....

Ah fondest of fond memories (apart from my younger brother's rant about students, he doesn't half know how to choose his places for his rants....)
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Post by: interzen on 23 September, 2011, 02:18:05 pm
I was listening to wank music classic rock gods Pink Floyd on the iPod on tonight's pseudo commute. I was shocked and appalled to discover I don't have Dark Side of the Moon on there.

That will have to be rectified.
Don't bother - it's shit.
"Wish You Were Here" is far, far better.

Currently listening to Ned's Atomic Dustbin  :thumbsup:
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Post by: jogler on 23 September, 2011, 03:04:30 pm
the bread making machine...whirrr whirrr whirrrr
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Post by: eeymsmo on 23 September, 2011, 03:08:52 pm

Nothing will ever top that hot, non-stop dancing, sweaty night at Bradford Students Union when I saw them play live....

Ah fondest of fond memories (apart from my younger brother's rant about students, he doesn't half know how to choose his places for his rants....)

Good chance I'd have been there as well.  :thumbsup:

Favourite memory of Bradford SU gigs was an NMA one where we built a large pyramid with a young lady of my aquaintance on top holding on to the lighting bars. Said pyramid then collapsed leaving the young lady hanging. Fastet rebuild of a pyramid evar!!!

Having been back for a small festival since the refit 2 years I really don't like the layout for live gig. Though that seems to be the way for most SUs these days
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Post by: Chris S on 23 September, 2011, 03:14:50 pm
Don't bother - it's shit.
"Wish You Were Here" is far, far better.

Well... maybe, maybe not.

I like Wish You Were Here a lot, but it's much less iconic.

Anyway - being a head case myself, I find myself swaying between the dismal hopelessness of Animals, and the down-right nuttyness of Dark Side of the Moon  :).

For some reason, my copy of Animals is very faint - I have to turn it up to 10 to hear it. Of course, then I forget and melt my ears next time I put some Van Halen on...
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Post by: YahudaMoon on 23 September, 2011, 03:19:32 pm
Big Black: Songs About Fucking
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Post by: YahudaMoon on 23 September, 2011, 03:24:43 pm
Had to switch that off. Hardcore trash metal stuff is OK for one song nowadays >>>>>>>>>>>
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Post by: giropaul on 23 September, 2011, 07:05:06 pm
Mazzy Star - So Tonight I Might See and Among My Swan albums.

Liked the music behind a very naff TV advert for some war game, looked it up and ordered the CD - Mazzy Star - Into Dust. Then found the CD already in my shelves - must have liked it before sometime then!

Anyway, got me back listening to it.
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Post by: Biggsy on 23 September, 2011, 08:13:07 pm
Mazzy Star with those war game visuals is one of the strangest juxtapositions I've ever come across.  I have So Tonight That I Might See on vinyl :thumbsup:
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Post by: YahudaMoon on 23 September, 2011, 09:28:20 pm
I havent got much from Jazz or even much music from the 60's on vinyl though this has to be one of my faves and a absolutely classic from 1962. Its Charles Mingus – Oh Yeah LP on Vinyl obviosly and in my best kept :-)
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Post by: YahudaMoon on 23 September, 2011, 09:53:05 pm
Here is the vinyl album cover from Big Black. I know the title is not excacly right though it aint a bad album and I purchase vinyl sometimes only its artwork credit !!!!!!!!!!. Some will disagree(http://s.dsimg.com/image/R-1308627-1281826239.jpeg)
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Post by: Butterfly on 23 September, 2011, 09:58:43 pm
Meatloaf.
Lots of Meatloaf.

Not Understated.
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Post by: YahudaMoon on 23 September, 2011, 10:09:02 pm
Charles Mingus

(http://s.dsimg.com/image/R-1380950-1274515822.jpeg)
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Post by: border-rider on 23 September, 2011, 10:32:04 pm
Talking Heads on the Old Grey Whistle Test on BBC4  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 23 September, 2011, 10:40:13 pm
I am realising, watching the same program, that I have a girl-crush on Debbie Harry in her prime.
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Post by: border-rider on 23 September, 2011, 10:41:58 pm
She's extraordinary

I remember watching that in 1979 as a callow youth and being, erm, bowled over. It's still an incredible sight 32 years on...
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Post by: YahudaMoon on 23 September, 2011, 10:44:39 pm
Thats it. Blondie is on.
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Post by: Biggsy on 23 September, 2011, 10:49:46 pm
I'm listening to some weird stuff on 6Music at the mo, so am missing the Blondie.  It's all on YouTube anyway, innit?
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Post by: YahudaMoon on 23 September, 2011, 10:53:18 pm
Im on AutoAmerian LP On vinyl obviously :)
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 23 September, 2011, 10:54:23 pm
Brian Eno looking like a hooker in *that* silver jacket. Never fails to amuse me.

Plus 6 Music will be on listen again :)
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Post by: Pingu on 23 September, 2011, 11:51:05 pm
John Martyn & Ry Cooder*  :thumbsup:



*Not together
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Post by: Peter on 23 September, 2011, 11:57:04 pm
What was the Ry Cooder?  Vigilante Man, or maybe How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live??

He is a staggering talent, as much for his musical choices as his musicianship.
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Post by: Pingu on 23 September, 2011, 11:58:23 pm
It was Vigilante Man.
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Post by: Peter on 23 September, 2011, 11:59:04 pm
Charles Mingus

(http://s.dsimg.com/image/R-1380950-1274515822.jpeg)

Just seen this YM.  I was listening to Mingus Ah Um only yesterday!

Pete
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Post by: Peter on 24 September, 2011, 12:01:31 am
It was Vigilante Man.

I love that, all the bangs and rattles of the slide.  Not so sure about the bandana (if I remember correctly)!
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Post by: jogler on 24 September, 2011, 05:54:16 am
]crush on Debbie Harry in her prime.

& ever since for me :D
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Post by: jogler on 24 September, 2011, 08:10:23 am
Brian Mathew's "Sounds of the Sxties" on Radio 2.

again
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Post by: Biggsy on 24 September, 2011, 09:07:19 pm
Craig Charles Funk & Soul Show on 6 Music.

I always enjoy it a lot, but why have I never bought a funk record, and hardly any soul records?

Maybe it's because I buy records to explore the music more, whereas with funk and soul, you "get" it, all of it, immediately on first listen, so there's nothing left to get into afterwards?

EDIT: Does Mezzoforte count as a funk band?
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Post by: Dinamo on 25 September, 2011, 01:26:35 pm
The free CD given away with this months MOJO.....
.....Cover versions of Pink Floyds' Dark Side Of The Moon & Wish You Were Here albums.

Includes IMO great versions of Have a Cigar by John Foxx And The Maths, Wish You Were Here by Lia Ices and The Orb's Shine On You Crazy Diamond  :thumbsup:
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Post by: pcolbeck on 25 September, 2011, 06:39:23 pm
Lots of Nina Simone.
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Post by: PaulF on 25 September, 2011, 07:04:46 pm
The new Wilco album, enjoying so far. More 'A Ghost is Born' than 'Yankee, Hotel, Foxtrot'.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 27 September, 2011, 11:23:16 am
90 Bisodol (Crimond) ~ Half Man Half Biscuit

Not sure about this yet.  Not as immediate as CSI: Ambleside or Achtung Bono.
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Post by: interzen on 27 September, 2011, 11:28:12 am
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
"Shine On You Crazy Diamond" was playing on the radio whilst I was in the dentists yesterday, which reminded me that I hadn't listened to it for a while (and I still think it's better than DSotM)
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Post by: LindaG on 27 September, 2011, 07:34:39 pm
Johnny Marr and The Healers, on You Tube, as for one marvellous moment I thought I'd be able to go and see them with The Chief next week.  But never mind ...
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Post by: rogerzilla on 27 September, 2011, 08:04:40 pm
A selection of Beautiful South tracks.  "Song For Whoever" may be the most attention-grabbing opening track of a debut album ever written, and the lyrics don't go where you expect them to.  Mostly very dark stuff, though.
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Post by: interzen on 27 September, 2011, 08:16:09 pm
Sven Vath on somafm.com - just the sort of chill-out stuff I need right now.
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Post by: clarion on 27 September, 2011, 10:16:25 pm
Last night, I indulged myself with a Boomtown Ratsfest.  Try it - you'll be surprised by the large number of good songs they did (and unsurprised by the stinkers ;D )
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Post by: Gus on 28 September, 2011, 03:59:43 pm

Graveyard, a Swedish rock band that sounds surprising like Led Zeppelin
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Post by: LindaG on 28 September, 2011, 05:16:37 pm
Treating myself to this Nirvana feed

http://hypebeast.com/2011/09/nrivana-live-at-the-paramount-show-stream/
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Post by: Chris S on 28 September, 2011, 06:35:14 pm
Trying to rescue my email from the smoking ruin of a DNS screwup  >:(

I don't know that one, is it any good?  ;)

Edit: Waaa? Where'd he go? :)
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Post by: interzen on 28 September, 2011, 06:35:41 pm
Trying to rescue my email from the smoking ruin of a DNS screwup  >:(

I don't know that one, is it any good?  ;)
Nah - it just sounds like a 56k modem shoved through a rack full of effects ;)

Obviously, it should have gone in the 'what are you doing ...' thread but my brain is totally fried. This calls for a bit of Slayer, I think :)

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Post by: Chris S on 28 September, 2011, 06:36:36 pm
Trying to rescue my email from the smoking ruin of a DNS screwup  >:(

I don't know that one, is it any good?  ;)
Brain-fade ... been one of those days, so I think I'm going to treat myself to a bit of Slayer  :demon:

:)

Would you like to borrow my Van Halen collection?
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Post by: interzen on 28 September, 2011, 06:38:51 pm
Trying to rescue my email from the smoking ruin of a DNS screwup  >:(

I don't know that one, is it any good?  ;)
Brain-fade ... been one of those days, so I think I'm going to treat myself to a bit of Slayer  :demon:

:)

Would you like to borrow my Van Halen collection?
I don't think there's a polite answer to that one ;)
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 28 September, 2011, 06:58:46 pm
Pingu's cooking my dinner, listening to Explosions In The Sky - Last Known Surroundings.
It's really rather nice :)
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Post by: Dinamo on 29 September, 2011, 03:58:58 am
My playlist at the moment is Led Zeppelin, No Doubt, Kraftwerk, Foo Fighters, Pink Floyd & Turin Brakes.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 29 September, 2011, 01:43:47 pm
Official: 90 Bisodol (Crimond) is pants >:(  With the possible exception of Tommy Walsh's Eco House there is nothing on this record which would make me even contemplate heading for the (sponsored) mosh-pit.

I am this: disappointed.
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Post by: tiermat on 29 September, 2011, 02:02:51 pm
This morning was Terrorvision - Super Delux, thier first album in far too long.

this afternoon I have gone back to my Last.FM station as I really CBA to queue songs on amarok, I will let a computer choose what I listen to :)
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 30 September, 2011, 03:23:05 pm
Them Crooked Vultures
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Post by: jogler on 01 October, 2011, 09:42:44 am
Brian Mathew's "Sounds of the Sxties" on Radio 2.

again

again;again
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Post by: YahudaMoon on 06 October, 2011, 02:53:04 pm
I only found out as of last year Ireland had a massive D+B scene of what is excellent. Mainly from the year 2006/2009 Excellent stuff though nothing you could called classic as its all been done before. Still good though. Got a crate of D+B last year, running through some of it

All vinyl 12" obviosly.

Why do people listen on mP3 wap ? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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Post by: interzen on 06 October, 2011, 02:58:00 pm
Going a bit minimalist today:

Phillip Glass - Koyaaniqatsi
Steve Reich - Electronic Counterpoint

Fans of The Orb may recognise bits of the latter ;)
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Post by: clarion on 06 October, 2011, 04:39:36 pm
I only found out as of last year Ireland had a massive D+B scene of what is excellent. Mainly from the year 2006/2009 Excellent stuff though nothing you could called classic as its all been done before. Still good though. Got a crate of D+B last year, running through some of it

Dandelion & Burdock? ;D
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Post by: microphonie on 06 October, 2011, 06:49:10 pm
Reload - A Collection of Short Stories.

Classic stuff - particularly like the track 1642 Try 621

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vreBUaS47s

The video doesn't enhance the music, sadly: should be set in a crippled spaceship with evil aliens robots chasing someone who's desperate to get through a PIN-protected door but can't remember the number.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 06 October, 2011, 07:30:08 pm
nothing at all.  no cds, no cd player, and no ipod.

i'm actually enjoying the quiet  :)

but will probably be going shopping in the next few weeks, when i decide i feel like it.
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Post by: YahudaMoon on 06 October, 2011, 07:39:45 pm
Sound Factory- Understand This Groove.

Its a bit repetitive after track 3 side 2

Also I do understand the groove as I heard it loads  since 1992

Top tune though one for the 'I don't want to hear this tune for another 10 year crate'
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Post by: Redlight on 06 October, 2011, 08:10:24 pm
Pentangle - Reflection

Seems appropriate  :'(
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Post by: interzen on 10 October, 2011, 09:36:18 am
Venom - their early stuff reminded me of a joke that went around when I was a kid:

"What's the difference between Venom and a row of milk bottles?
 You can get a tune out of a row of milk bottles"

(being based in Newcastle, they were a 'local' band for us)

However, despite the fact they were unspeakably crap in the early days, listen to any of the early NWOBHM stuff and you can hear their influence.
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Post by: microphonie on 10 October, 2011, 06:17:16 pm
Plaid - Scintilli

I'm not overly impressed but probably requires a few listens. Looks like I'll be saving the price of a gig ticket!

My other eMusic downloads for listening to in the month ahead:

Biosphere - N-Plants
Bvdub - I Remember (Translations of Mørketid)
Container - Lp
Death In Vegas - Trans-Love Energies
Geomatic - Blue Beam
Ladytron - Gravity The Seducer
Mark McGuire - Get Lost




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Post by: Redlight on 11 October, 2011, 09:17:36 pm
Chet Baker, in his mellow period
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Post by: interzen on 11 October, 2011, 09:18:54 pm
King Tubby - some righteous dub.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 13 October, 2011, 12:24:12 pm
Got the music on random play today. Just had a Bach cantata followed by "I love your sexy ways" - Funkadelic.
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Post by: mattc on 13 October, 2011, 04:06:58 pm
Peter Gabriel and his amazing Frog Chorus Pointless Orchestra (on the radio and on Jools, I should stress)

'king Hell. Does it have to be this way? If a musician reaches 50 without a car crash, overdose etc intervening, is he destined to become crap? Which is worse -  cranking out albums that are just like the last one, just milder? Or "reworking" your Greatest Hits?

And how does
Stripping them down
translate into
Performing in front of a full orchestra?!?

Look, we're bored of the Unplugged thing - please don't try to sell us something even worse.  :hand:


Don't Give Up was just about OK, but missing 90% of the original magic.
Solsbury Hill - Ok, but not worth the effort.
Just listened to Digging in the Dirt, which was a quietly disturbing, fascinating record - now it's just lift muzak  :facepalm:

I wonder what that Presley bloke is doing these days ...
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Post by: marcusjb on 14 October, 2011, 04:22:32 pm
Every piece of music I ever owned if I keep this up - new system set up and sounding rather tasty already - I am busy listening to all my favourites- currently Island by Whitest Boy Alive.

It's going to be hard to motivate myself to get out on the bike tomorrow - I just want to listen to so much stuff currently.
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Post by: jogler on 17 October, 2011, 11:58:16 am
Johnny Cash
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Post by: nightrider on 17 October, 2011, 12:09:01 pm
Boiled in lead-Orb.Is it folk music?Is it rock music?I don't know but I like it.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 17 October, 2011, 09:47:35 pm
"Duel Of The Fates", by far the best thing about The Phantom Menace.
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Post by: Pingu on 17 October, 2011, 11:14:03 pm
On the train this evening:

Black Cherry - Goldfrapp
Happy Songs For Happy People - Mogwai
Black Holes & Revelations - Muse
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Post by: jogler on 18 October, 2011, 03:04:52 pm
ZZ Top

intraveinously(sp)
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Post by: rogerzilla on 19 October, 2011, 07:51:39 pm
It's A Fast Driving Rave-Up With The Dandy Warhols Sixteen Minutes
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Post by: Pingu on 19 October, 2011, 08:04:17 pm
On this evening's train:

True Stories - Talking Heads
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Post by: Redlight on 19 October, 2011, 08:31:10 pm
O2's call waiting muzak.....for the past 20 minutes  :(
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Post by: Marco Stefano on 19 October, 2011, 09:22:33 pm
On this evening's train:

True Stories - Talking Heads

And for me, Naked - Talking Heads.
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Post by: Steph on 20 October, 2011, 04:53:55 am
Show of Hands, several albums in sequence. Then an Eels compilation.
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Post by: LindaG on 20 October, 2011, 11:40:44 am
Gives me goosebumps, this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfJmGpaL18k
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Post by: jogler on 21 October, 2011, 11:48:10 am
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts
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Post by: Gus on 21 October, 2011, 01:38:51 pm
Atari teenage riot
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Post by: andrewc on 21 October, 2011, 09:25:09 pm
Communards, dancing around my living room in a most undignified manner as well...
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Post by: jogler on 21 October, 2011, 09:37:21 pm
TTIUWP
 ;D
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Post by: andrewc on 21 October, 2011, 09:51:01 pm
TTIUWP
 ;D

TMTLTBMG  :D

It's a long time since I saw Jimmy Somerville sing at the Mountford Hall in Liverpool..... feeling old..... :o
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Post by: andrewc on 21 October, 2011, 11:15:41 pm
Which lead me on to this Bronski Beat (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcRnMfZyYrw&feature=related)....

I never liked "The State" very much, too trendy, but they had cheap booze.

The hotel in "Letter to Brezhnev" is still there, I walk past it most days. If you ask you can have the Margi Clarke suite......
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Post by: oncemore on 22 October, 2011, 09:17:08 pm
Foo Fighters....Rage Against The Machine...

Another boring saturday night....boy do I wanna drink.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 24 October, 2011, 04:45:36 pm
Janet Baker - Bach Cantatas

It's a thinking day.
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Post by: Pingu on 24 October, 2011, 04:55:54 pm
Mezzanine - Massive Attack
No Such Place - Jim White
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Post by: rogerzilla on 24 October, 2011, 07:24:12 pm
A CD I found in the picnic area at Dryslwyn Castle yesterday and gave a bit of a polish with some Meguiar's ScratchX (a very gentle cutting polish for cars) so it plays.  "The Best Pub Album CD 1".  ;D
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Post by: Chris S on 24 October, 2011, 07:33:33 pm
Coldplay - Mylo Xyloto.

It's a lot like Coldplay. But quite good, nevertheless.
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Post by: welshwheels on 24 October, 2011, 07:33:48 pm
^^^^I thought it was only me from this place that went mooching about dryslwyn castle some of my favourite routes pass there  :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
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Post by: andrewc on 24 October, 2011, 08:19:14 pm
Brahms Violin Concerto in D Minor. Yehudi Menuhin and the LSO.

And now Sibelius 4. Berlin Philharmonic under von Karajan.   Working my way through the latest charity shop vinyl  :D
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 24 October, 2011, 09:24:50 pm
Tindersticks - Harmony Around My Table

sounds like he's singing in Vic Reeves Club style
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Post by: interzen on 24 October, 2011, 09:30:00 pm
Devo's greatest hits
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 24 October, 2011, 09:34:59 pm
Got bored of Tindersticks, now on Dengue Fever - Cannibal Courtship
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Post by: pcolbeck on 24 October, 2011, 09:42:34 pm
A CD I found in the picnic area at Dryslwyn Castle yesterday and gave a bit of a polish with some Meguiar's ScratchX (a very gentle cutting polish for cars) so it plays.  "The Best Pub Album CD 1".  ;D

What's on it ?
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Post by: PaulF on 24 October, 2011, 09:46:16 pm
Things We Lost In the Fire ~ Low
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Post by: Pingu on 24 October, 2011, 11:10:43 pm
Grinderman - Grinderman

Obscured By Clouds - Pink Floyd
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Post by: LindaG on 25 October, 2011, 02:18:46 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=943sWfkveD0

Thanks for this YACF.  Loving it.
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Post by: LindaG on 25 October, 2011, 05:27:53 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWMqgeIDJs8

And, indeed, for this.
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Post by: IanDG on 25 October, 2011, 05:30:26 pm
Sensational Alex Harvey Band at the BBC
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Post by: Marco Stefano on 25 October, 2011, 07:05:48 pm
Spending spree at the bargainous Fopp in Cambridge, so all of these:

Hup - The Wonder Stuff
The Eight-Legged Groove Machine - The Wonder Stuff
Nicola - Bert Jansch
End Times - Eels
Let Them Talk - Hugh Laurie
Good Morning Spider - Sparklehorse (paging Juan Martin...)
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Post by: NeilP on 25 October, 2011, 10:04:19 pm
Dinosaur Jr. - Bug
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Post by: tiermat on 26 October, 2011, 01:44:36 pm
Dinosaur Jr. - Bug

A fantastic album, trufax :)

Today I am listening "I Am With You" - Red Hot Chili Peppers

Nice, chilled out music to stop me killing stoopid PMs....
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Post by: tiermat on 26 October, 2011, 02:52:05 pm
Now listening "Super Delux" by Terrorvision

Good old uplifting rock'n'roll from those idiots from Keighley....
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Post by: NeilP on 26 October, 2011, 07:57:39 pm
New Order - Substance
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Post by: RJ on 26 October, 2011, 08:42:58 pm
Kraftwerk again - The Man-Machine (picked up 2nd hand this afternoon for £3  :))
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Post by: IanDG on 26 October, 2011, 09:20:15 pm
Bad As Me - The new Tom Waits (arrived in the post tioday)  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Juan Martín on 27 October, 2011, 02:54:25 pm
Spending spree at the bargainous Fopp in Cambridge, so all of these:

Hup - The Wonder Stuff
The Eight-Legged Groove Machine - The Wonder Stuff
Nicola - Bert Jansch
End Times - Eels
Let Them Talk - Hugh Laurie
Good Morning Spider - Sparklehorse (paging Juan Martin...)

Can I borrow Good Morning Spider?
(You knew I was going to say that)
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Post by: Juan Martín on 27 October, 2011, 02:57:12 pm
Tonight on the train I will be listening to Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot :thumbsup:
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Post by: Juan Martín on 27 October, 2011, 06:48:56 pm
I did too! And then Tiny Cities: Sun Kil Moon.
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Post by: NeilP on 27 October, 2011, 10:58:16 pm
Mmm seems it's Dinosaur Jr. week for me. Today it was "Beyond" on repeat on the bus in and out of work.
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Post by: Juan Martín on 28 October, 2011, 07:53:09 pm
And today Illinoise: Sufjan Stevens
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Post by: jogler on 29 October, 2011, 08:43:58 pm
a clickclickclick noise...in my left knee ::-)
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Post by: pcolbeck on 29 October, 2011, 09:09:09 pm
The Cure - Mixed Up

Think I fancy some Depeche Mode next.
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Post by: NeilP on 30 October, 2011, 07:32:30 am
After a day trip to Manchester yesterday it was these in the car on the way home

Milburn - Well Well Well
This Mortal Coil - It'll End In Tears
The The - Infected
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Post by: Juan Martín on 30 October, 2011, 03:12:17 pm
On the train today, nothing. Because I forgot my MP3 player. It's not a bloody i-pod. OK.
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Post by: LindaG on 30 October, 2011, 03:15:37 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSN4dSJrba4

They're coming to a club near us soon, trying to decide what I think about going to see them.  I think I like them.
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Post by: De Sisti on 30 October, 2011, 03:37:26 pm
It's real by By All Means.

Release Date 1992, Label Motown, Genre: R&B/Soul
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Post by: NeilP on 30 October, 2011, 06:52:40 pm
Pixies - Surfer Rosa whilst walking the dogs this afternoon.
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Post by: Steph on 31 October, 2011, 01:17:03 am
Afrocelt sound system. Want to dance.....
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Post by: andrewc on 31 October, 2011, 10:35:12 pm
After a day trip to Manchester yesterday it was these in the car on the way home

Milburn - Well Well Well
This Mortal Coil - It'll End In Tears
The The - Infected

I've got the last 2. Wonderful albums.

Tonight has been Dvorak's Cello Concerto in C Minor & Tchaikovskys Variations on a Rococo Theme performed by Christine Walevska and the LPO, followed by Rachmaninov 2, performed by the  Halle Orchestra.  Currently listening to "Blue Saxophones", Ben Webster & Coleman Hawkins.. :thumbsup:  Sunday Morning at the Montmartre will be next..
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Post by: Redlight on 01 November, 2011, 01:21:01 pm
...the ipod on random song shuffle while doing some DIY. 

Sometimes it throws up some interesting juxtapositions - earlier this morning I had I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight by Richard and Linda Thompson followed by The Arctic Monkeys' Riot Van :-). 

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Post by: Juan Martín on 01 November, 2011, 03:33:02 pm
Con Otro Aire: Chambao
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Post by: oncemore on 01 November, 2011, 08:55:57 pm
Wish-bloody-ful thinking...."I Drink Alone" George Thorogood.
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Post by: Domestique on 02 November, 2011, 10:33:08 am
Soft Cell - Tainted Love, imo one of the best songs from the 80's, or ever  8)
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Post by: LindaG on 02 November, 2011, 12:16:30 pm
The Bee Gees.

Marvellous.

Now you can tell by the way I use my walk ...
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Post by: jogler on 02 November, 2011, 04:03:20 pm
40 Licks : The Strolling Bones Rolling Stones
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Post by: Biggsy on 03 November, 2011, 12:56:06 am
Tonight (Wednesday) I went to see Throwing Muses for the first time, at the Shepherds Bush Empire.  They were faultless and played plenty of the hard and fast and catchy stuff I like.  Superb.  I didn't lose myself in the music, though, and get insanely excited, like I do with the records.  It needs to be a private experience for that.

There were no young people in the crowd.  All were middle-aged like me (technically!).  It's sad that a new generation hasn't discovered the Muses.  Going to indie gigs in the nineties, even when the band was getting on a bit, there would always be plenty of teenagers as well as old codgers.

(http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k59/iceblinker/--Various/IMG00033-20111102-2206.jpg)
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 03 November, 2011, 01:17:20 am
Dory Previn, Mythical Kings and Iguanas.
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Post by: Quisling on 03 November, 2011, 09:22:28 am
The new Florence + The Machine song, "Shake it out".  Really good.

Also, have been listening to an artiste called Jane Taylor and her album "Compass".  Top notch singer/songwriter stuff.  One of a handful of great groups/singers that my girlfriend has introduced me to.  Alas, her Spandau Ballet/Let Loose/Westlife collection is getting a miss.  She had to have a flaw somewhere ::-)
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Post by: tiermat on 03 November, 2011, 09:28:03 am
Have finally got around to putting some tunes on my phone, so have my headphones listening to "Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys" by My Chemical Romance.
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Post by: PaulF on 03 November, 2011, 11:03:24 am
Sparklehorse ~ Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain

Forgotten how brilliant it was!
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Post by: jogler on 03 November, 2011, 11:04:28 am
Frank Sinatra
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Post by: tiermat on 03 November, 2011, 02:10:47 pm
Now listening to Gorillaz - The Fall

An album I hadn't come across before, and much more laid back than other by them.

Quite nice really.
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Post by: Juan Martín on 03 November, 2011, 07:50:55 pm
April - Sun Kil Moon
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Post by: interzen on 03 November, 2011, 07:58:44 pm
Philip Glass - Powaqqatsi soundtrack
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Post by: LindaG on 03 November, 2011, 09:12:28 pm
April - Sun Kil Moon

I love this    :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

I've never 'met' anyone else who likes Sun Kil Moon before  :D
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Post by: LindaG on 03 November, 2011, 09:53:33 pm
Quiet Little Voices by We Were Promised Jetpacks.

Another band I may be tempted to go and observe in the flesh.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 04 November, 2011, 09:20:18 am
Eels - Useless Trinkets
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Post by: pcolbeck on 04 November, 2011, 11:09:53 am
Now it s"The Decemberists" "The Crane Wife".

I've had this a couple of years and never really got round to listening to it. Playing with Ruby Ripper at the moment and using it as a test.
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Post by: NeilP on 04 November, 2011, 12:14:01 pm
The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
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Post by: StuAff on 04 November, 2011, 12:50:30 pm
Skinny Puppy's new one, HanDover (sic). Another cracker.
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Post by: LEE on 04 November, 2011, 01:24:44 pm
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds.

I like Oasis, I always preferred Noel's voice to Liam's (even when covering Liam's songs when Liam went AWOL at gigs) so, unsurprisingly, I really like this album.

I guess the only complaint you may have is that is sounds similar to a few existing Oasis tracks but that's no different to any Singer/Songwriter going solo.
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Post by: Domestique on 04 November, 2011, 02:14:59 pm
Twice Upon a Time/The Singles - Siouxsie And The Banshees

Back in the Punk days today  8)
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Post by: marcusjb on 04 November, 2011, 02:17:01 pm
MBV - Loveless

Released 20 years ago tomorrow!

Blimey, back end of 91 was a pretty interesting time in music - we've just had the 20th anniversary of Nevermind and Screamadelica as well.  I was a little fresh-faced 18 year old fresher at university.  Life-time ago now.
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Post by: Juan Martín on 04 November, 2011, 04:02:05 pm
April - Sun Kil Moon

I love this    :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

I've never 'met' anyone else who likes Sun Kil Moon before  :D

Well there are at least three of us then! Someone in the office put me on to them. April is my favourite I think, have you heard any others?

On the train tonight: My Songs and a Poem - Estrella Morente
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Post by: Rhys W on 04 November, 2011, 06:15:38 pm
After watching the Creation Records night a week ago, The Weather Prophets' "Mayflower". On cassette (ask your parents).

<goes off to google what Pete Astor has been doing all these years>
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Post by: LindaG on 04 November, 2011, 06:34:46 pm
April - Sun Kil Moon

I love this    :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

I've never 'met' anyone else who likes Sun Kil Moon before  :D

Well there are at least three of us then! Someone in the office put me on to them. April is my favourite I think, have you heard any others?

On the train tonight: My Songs and a Poem - Estrella Morente

Ghosts of the Great Highway.  One of my favourite albums evah.
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Post by: Juan Martín on 04 November, 2011, 07:36:14 pm
Yup, that's great too, although I think April is probably my favourite evurrr. I can also recommend Tiny Cities (that are versions of Modest Mouse songs I think), the live album (Lost Verses Live - Mark Kozelek on his own) and the latest: Admiral Fell Promises. Spread the word!

J
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Post by: Juan Martín on 06 November, 2011, 04:48:46 pm
This afternoon I have been listening to some Palestrina masses - it's like having your mind flossed!
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Post by: LindaG on 06 November, 2011, 09:19:50 pm
This afternoon I have been listening to some Palestrina masses - it's like having your mind flossed!

Oh yes.  Wonderful noise.

Are you me?!
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Post by: PaulF on 07 November, 2011, 02:06:15 am
The hotel background music is some great Americana. Wilco, old school R.E.M. I think the cool kids have hijacked the sound system but I'm not complaining!
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Post by: Juan Martín on 07 November, 2011, 08:28:15 am
This afternoon I have been listening to some Palestrina masses - it's like having your mind flossed!

Oh yes.  Wonderful noise.

Are you me?!

You might be. We're never seen in the same room together, am I.
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Post by: Dinamo on 07 November, 2011, 07:45:53 pm
and watching also......

Nirvana  Live at the Paramount.

Featuring Lithium, Polly, Breed, Smells Like Teen Spirit and Jesus Wants Me As A Sunbeam.

AWESOME
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 07 November, 2011, 11:02:36 pm
Tracy Chapman, for the first time in years.  Isn't it funny when you realise that you can still remember all the words....
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Post by: StuAff on 07 November, 2011, 11:09:29 pm
and watching also......

Nirvana  Live at the Paramount.

Featuring Lithium, Polly, Breed, Smells Like Teen Spirit and Jesus Wants Me As A Sunbeam.

AWESOME

Got the blu-ray, haven't got round to watching it all yet but the bit I did see looked fab. The Reading DVD brought back a lot of happy memories...
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Post by: Pingu on 07 November, 2011, 11:18:43 pm
and watching also......

Nirvana  Live at the Paramount.

Featuring Lithium, Polly, Breed, Smells Like Teen Spirit and Jesus Wants Me As A Sunbeam.

AWESOME

Nope, I just don't get nirvana. They're just a pile of meh.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 09 November, 2011, 07:29:17 am
Kaiser Chiefs, Ruby, and Barry Manilow, Copacabana.

SmallestCub's choice of breakfast music.  Because his very best friend at school is Ruby, and his very best friend at nursery was Lola.
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Post by: Chris S on 09 November, 2011, 11:51:16 am
Florence & the Machine - Ceremonials.

I can find her voice a bit waily sometimes; but I'm enjoying this. Doubly in fact - as Ubuntu Rhythmbox seems to be listing every track twice  :thumbsup:.
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Post by: PaulF on 09 November, 2011, 04:08:58 pm
April - Sun Kil Moon

I love this    :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

I've never 'met' anyone else who likes Sun Kil Moon before  :D

Downloaded this on the basis that Lindagordinho and Juan Martín seem to like similar stuff to me. It really is rather good.

In a spirit of reciprocation and in the style of "people who bought x also bought y" Songs:Ohai and Great Lake Swimmers are in a similar vein
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Post by: LindaG on 09 November, 2011, 04:12:51 pm
April - Sun Kil Moon

I love this    :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

I've never 'met' anyone else who likes Sun Kil Moon before  :D

Downloaded this on the basis that Lindagordinho and Juan Martín seem to like similar stuff to me. It really is rather good.

In a spirit of reciprocation and in the style of "people who bought x also bought y" Songs:Ohai and Great Lake Swimmers are in a similar vein

I am very, very flattered  :D and shall explore your recommendations forthwith.
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Post by: mattc on 09 November, 2011, 06:15:54 pm
Kaiser Chiefs, Ruby, and Barry Manilow, Copacabana.

SmallestCub's choice of breakfast music.  Because his very best friend at school is Ruby, and his very best friend at nursery was Lola.
Still too young for The Kinks?
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Post by: microphonie on 09 November, 2011, 07:06:00 pm
Ladytron - Gravity The Seducer for about 10 min until the battery ran out on my Sansa Clip :(

Bit underwhelmed with this album so far anyway...

Yesterday was eMusic subscription renewal day so listening for the month ahead is:

The Advisory Circle - Mind How You Go
Gnod/White Hills - Gnod Drop Out With White Hills II
K-X-P - Easy ep
Rapoon & Black Faction - New Cult of the Sun Moon
Regis - In A Syrian Tongue
Walls - Coracle

Also, I might even have a listen to the 3 Mike Harding albums I downloaded for my dad, who's seeing him tonight in Doncaster on his last ever tour.
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Post by: onb on 09 November, 2011, 08:03:45 pm
Show of Hands -Roots
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 09 November, 2011, 09:43:09 pm
Kaiser Chiefs, Ruby, and Barry Manilow, Copacabana.

SmallestCub's choice of breakfast music.  Because his very best friend at school is Ruby, and his very best friend at nursery was Lola.
Still too young for The Kinks?

No, that's another fave :)
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Post by: Juan Martín on 10 November, 2011, 08:38:12 am
April - Sun Kil Moon

I love this    :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

I've never 'met' anyone else who likes Sun Kil Moon before  :D

Downloaded this on the basis that Lindagordinho and Juan Martín seem to like similar stuff to me. It really is rather good.

In a spirit of reciprocation and in the style of "people who bought x also bought y" Songs:Ohai and Great Lake Swimmers are in a similar vein

I am very, very flattered  :D and shall explore your recommendations forthwith.

Me too, I'll try to take a listen at the weekend!
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Post by: PaulF on 10 November, 2011, 08:43:17 am
April - Sun Kil Moon

I love this    :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

I've never 'met' anyone else who likes Sun Kil Moon before  :D

Downloaded this on the basis that Lindagordinho and Juan Martín seem to like similar stuff to me. It really is rather good.

In a spirit of reciprocation and in the style of "people who bought x also bought y" Songs:Ohai and Great Lake Swimmers are in a similar vein

I am very, very flattered  :D and shall explore your recommendations forthwith.

Me too, I'll try to take a listen at the weekend!

Hope you enjoy!
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 10 November, 2011, 10:41:02 am
Watched Tuesday's edition of Imagine on iPlayer last night.  Simon & Garfunkel in general and the Bridge Over Troubled Water LP in particular.  Ironically, the title track is about the only one which grates a bit - the massive finale is a bit too Jim Steinman for my ears.  It's on iPlayer for another seven weeks, give or take, and is excellent.
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Post by: tiermat on 10 November, 2011, 02:38:58 pm
Big Bad Sun - Big Bad Sun, via Magnatune
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Post by: Juan Martín on 12 November, 2011, 09:21:52 am
Everything Has To End Somewhere - Things in Herds

(go on, check them out!)
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Post by: Juan Martín on 16 November, 2011, 08:38:32 pm
Greetings from Michigan - The Great Lakes State: Sufjan Stevens
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Post by: Moultonaught on 16 November, 2011, 08:47:59 pm
Anything I can by Adam Ant/Adam & the Ants, as I'm off to see him play in Oxford tomorrow evening, woo hoo.  ;D

My first gig was Adam & the Ants... No pressure for it to be a good gig then or anything....
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Post by: Juan Martín on 17 November, 2011, 07:36:21 pm
I Can Dancing and Walking: Things in Herds

Sometimes folky, sometimes synthy, sometimes rocky, sometimes simultaneously. Odd Stuff but good. :thumbsup:
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Post by: Biggsy on 19 November, 2011, 07:09:37 pm
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Darklands album.  Superb, except for the drum machine or drumming that sounds like a drum machine.  I don't always dislike drum machines (eg Cocteau Twins), but gotta have a compatible sort of drum sound for the rest of the music.
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Post by: oncemore on 19 November, 2011, 08:35:24 pm
Roadrunner - Once and Twice. Modern Lovers.

And I'm back, ton ten in the pouring rain, bottle of whisky, midnight, M62, 35 years ago. Bad.

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Post by: Wowbagger on 20 November, 2011, 10:42:25 am
There was an absolutely splendid piece on R3's "Sunday Morning" programme today - Variations on "Lambeth Walk" by Franz Reisenstein. He had written each of the variations in the style of a different composer and they had me laughing out loud.

If you want to search on "Listen again" it must have been on at about 9.30 or 9.45.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b017cgd9 refers.
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Post by: microphonie on 20 November, 2011, 03:00:38 pm
Possibly my favourite band of this week - their new single  Allergies  (http://soundcloud.com/too-pure-singles-club/the-lovely-eggs-allergies) is great - the marvellously bonkers The Lovely Eggs  :D

 Don't look At me (I Don't Like It)  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uuMy2ZN7A8) - starring John Shuttleworth as The Man With The Sausage Roll Thumb

Nice use of a rotating bike wheel as an instrument  8):

 Oh Wierd Heart  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP0iJ3RkCNM&feature=player_embedded)

Not sure about the sentiments in this song though:

 I Wanna Fall Off My Bike Today  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUvh1BOg5vU&feature=related)

Nice to hear a singer's regional accent in full effect too   :thumbsup:

More videos  here  (http://www.thelovelyeggs.co.uk/videos.php), including the rather sweary Fuck It & People Are Twats  :)

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Post by: rogerzilla on 20 November, 2011, 06:18:38 pm
Old Ludwig's "Emperor" piano concerto, to which the little Zs are dancing and we are enjoying in a crapulent haze.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 20 November, 2011, 11:32:16 pm
I've just found the Glorious 9th on Iplayer.

I may be some time.
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Post by: Jaded on 20 November, 2011, 11:56:38 pm
Phantasm by Biosphere.

#We had a dream last night.
#We had the same dream.

Stunning.

Followed by

Vibratoire and then Circulaire by Biosphere.

Shattering.
Glorious.
Unforgettable.
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Post by: marcusjb on 21 November, 2011, 01:48:36 pm
Fine choices Jaded - Biosphere is a favourite artist of mine.  Substrata is easily one of the best albums of the genre.  And Patashnik really does take me back - will have to give it another listen again soon.

Cass is away, so yesterday was frittered away listening to my new Linn system whilst playing video games (Skyrim).

I had a marvellous time rediscovering my music collection and hearing it on a good system.  It was rare for me to listen to full albums, in order - but a real treat.

The morning started with mainly vocally rock/folk stuff:

Jody Wildoose - Afterlife
Beta Band - The 3 EPs
Calexico - The Black Light
Dennis Wilson - Pacific Ocean Blue
James Yorkston - The Year Of The Leopard

By the afternoon, I went far more electronic:

Tim Koch - Faena
Eno, Moebius, Roedelius, Plank - Begegnungen
The Field - Looping State Of Mind
Tim Koch - islandtones (I was so overjoyed hearing Faena, that I had to really - he's an artist I know little about and his output seems limited to these two albums only)
Superpitcher - Kilimanjaro

Before ending with an all-time favourite - Global Communication's 76:14

A really wonderful day of the sort I don't tend to get with Cass around!  Been a long time since I've played games all day whilst listening to music!
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Post by: Biggsy on 21 November, 2011, 02:28:18 pm
For the first time in many years, I went to a shop to buy an album on the day of release.  I shall be listening to Kate Bush's 50 Words for Snow soon.

Interesting that HMV didn't have it in a special display stand.  It was just in with the main lot of rock & pop CDs.  Marketing fail!

They also offered my a loyalty card, priced at £3.  This gets you two quid off after you've acquired ten-billion-trillion points.
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Post by: microphonie on 21 November, 2011, 06:28:14 pm
Fine choices Jaded - Biosphere is a favourite artist of mine.  Substrata is easily one of the best albums of the genre.  And Patashnik really does take me back - will have to give it another listen again soon.

Before ending with an all-time favourite - Global Communication's 76:14


Absolutely...I can highly recommend the new Biosphere album N-Plants too.

Cho Oyu 8201m - Field Recordings From Tibet is worth a listen too but I have to be in the mood for pure ambient sounds

GC 76:14 - classic stuff 8)
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Post by: De Sisti on 21 November, 2011, 06:35:47 pm
Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong on YouTube.
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Post by: Juan Martín on 21 November, 2011, 06:38:16 pm
1000 Years of Popular Music - Richard Thompson
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Post by: Steph on 21 November, 2011, 08:15:57 pm
The new Kate Bush album. Enjoying it far more than the rehash one.

Edit: but WHY Reg Dwight? His voice just jarred on me, that horrible cod-Yank accent.
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Post by: oncemore on 22 November, 2011, 08:44:00 pm
Hawkwind. Wind of Change, Lost Johnny etc. Yes, I know, pap really, but ah the memories of Crazy Pauline from The Valleys with whom I spent an interesting speed crazed few weeks in Plymouth many years ago....

It's a bugger when all one has is memories.
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Post by: PaulF on 22 November, 2011, 08:51:24 pm
The National, my favourites songs of theirs as a playlist.
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Post by: Steph on 23 November, 2011, 12:38:03 am
Hawkwind. Wind of Change, Lost Johnny etc. Yes, I know, pap really, but ah the memories of Crazy Pauline from The Valleys with whom I spent an interesting speed crazed few weeks in Plymouth many years ago....

It's a bugger when all one has is memories.

That'll be the "Masters of the Universe" album, then, with the Roger Dean-alike cover. It's so Easy and Lost Johnny are two rarities on that. I go through heavy phases of Hawkwind every now and again, and recently found the very 'eavy version of 'Shouldn't Do That' from Roadhawks on Youtube. Gettin' aware.....
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 23 November, 2011, 10:25:54 am
Hawkwind. Wind of Change, Lost Johnny etc. Yes, I know, pap really, but ah the memories of Crazy Pauline from The Valleys with whom I spent an interesting speed crazed few weeks in Plymouth many years ago....

It's a bugger when all one has is memories.

That'll be the "Masters of the Universe" album, then, with the Roger Dean-alike cover. It's so Easy and Lost Johnny are two rarities on that. I go through heavy phases of Hawkwind every now and again, and recently found the very 'eavy version of 'Shouldn't Do That' from Roadhawks on Youtube. Gettin' aware.....

Lost Johnny & Wind Of Change may be found on Hall Of The Mountain Grill easily enough; It's So Easy was the B-side of Psychedelic Warlords....  I can't remember where I got it but yes, I have the single.  There's a bangin' live version on The 1999 Party too.

As to that version of You Shouldn't Do That, guess what I'll be looking for this evening :thumbsup:
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Post by: citoyen on 23 November, 2011, 10:32:59 am
I have discovered YouTube mix lists. Yesterday, I feasted on Django Reinhardt. Today, I'm in a John Coltrane kind of mood…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6WwuxqXPOg&feature=list_related&playnext=1&list=AVGxdCwVVULXdAOWdLfJqreSUZRJ3kUoqm

d.
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Post by: oncemore on 23 November, 2011, 05:25:02 pm
"Lost Johnny & Wind Of Change may be found on Hall Of The Mountain Grill easily enough; "

Indeed - I do have the album, but I was spotifying!
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Post by: Steph on 24 November, 2011, 12:39:24 am
The shuntdothat Roadhawks version is the one that starts with "Who loves ya baby?" before a choppy riff that launches into a most delightful wall of utter distortion, so very, very different to the original on "In Search of Space"

Mmmmm braincelltastic! Think I shall dig out "Warrior OTEOT" for some head distortion later this morning....
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Post by: LindaG on 24 November, 2011, 12:45:14 am
Rinsing my ears out with some Howells.  Now that's better.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmtsuJvp7YU
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 24 November, 2011, 07:02:51 am
The Velvet Underground, "I'm sticking with you".  At the request of SmallestCub.  I think we will follow it with some Detroit Cobras, which usually works as wakey-up music.
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Post by: Juan Martín on 24 November, 2011, 08:30:48 am
Carbon Glacier - Laura Veirs
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 24 November, 2011, 10:33:11 am
the very 'eavy version of 'Shouldn't Do That' from Roadhawks on Youtube. Gettin' aware.....

(Observes Stacia.  Has moment.)
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Post by: IanDG on 24 November, 2011, 10:49:47 am
Random play on my MP3 seems to have a bias for tracks from 'Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica' at the moment
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Post by: Juan Martín on 24 November, 2011, 11:19:55 am


(Observes Stacia.  Has moment.)
[/quote]

I remember seeing Hawkwind at the Fairfield Halls, that Mecca of culture, when I was very young. Stacia was present. I was probably psychologically damaged.

Wouldn’t be allowed nowadays of course. Health & Safety. She could have had someone’s eye out.
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Post by: Juan Martín on 24 November, 2011, 05:37:56 pm
On the train tonight: Space Ritual

(I left work early for an appointment to have my ears syringed. I'm not sure I would have risked it in full power glowing stereo.)
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Post by: jogler on 25 November, 2011, 11:12:36 am
Upto a few minutes ago I was listening to the ARG* who lives next door thrashing his axe.

*apprentive rock god
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Post by: IanDG on 25 November, 2011, 11:14:05 am
Rachid Taha - Made in Medina
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Post by: Pingu on 25 November, 2011, 11:16:36 am
Just had Grinderman 1st album & now onto Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Live Forever by Explosions in the Sky.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 25 November, 2011, 03:38:09 pm
Rachid Taha - Made in Medina

Your the only person other than me I have ever heard refer to that album. Tis good though.
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Post by: PaulF on 25 November, 2011, 03:43:26 pm
Sixteen Horsepower, think  Nick Cave but without the cheery optimism
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Post by: LindaG on 25 November, 2011, 06:35:43 pm
John Tavener - Eternal Memory.

Hmm, might be a bad sign this.
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Post by: cuddy duck on 25 November, 2011, 09:10:18 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z6TbO7LpEU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkpTHK2FzUc

Ruddy norah!!
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Post by: Pingu on 25 November, 2011, 09:40:51 pm
Tonight it's the Squeezebox on song mix, let's see what we get:

Eels - Agony
David Bowie - The Width of a Circle (at the Beeb)
Goldfrapp - Pilots
Starsailor - Tie Up My Hands
Eddi Reader - Aye Waukin-O
Hothouse Flowers - Hallelujah Jordan
Pat Metheny Trio - (Go) Get It
Derek & the Dominos - Little Wing
Talking Heads - Stay Hungry (live)
The Ruts - You're Just A...
The King - New York New York
Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer
Lou Reed - Wagon Wheel
Muse - Endlessly
White Stripes - A Martyr For My Love For You
Pat Metheny Trio - Lone jack
Finn Brothers - Homesick
Bob Marley - Exodus  8)
Robert Johnson - Milkcow's Calf Blues
Stiff Little Fingers - Tin Soldiers
Radiohead - Bones
Fat Freddy's Drop - Dark Days
REM - Circus Envy
REM - Let Me In
Eels - Theme For a Pretty Girl
Fat Freddy's Drop - Roady
Neil Young - Barstool Blues (live)
Heliopause - dead ends
Skinhead o'Connor - Mandinka
Siouxsie & the Banshees -  Arabian Knights
Radiohead - Codex
Joy Division - Incubation
Neil Young - Cinnamon Girl (live)
Her Name Is Calla - Interval One
Divine Comedy - Mastermind
The Cure - The Weedy Burton
Motorpsycho - Taifun
Paul Weller - Broken Stones
Little milton - Sneakin' Around
Fun Lovin' Criminals - Methadonia
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Post by: andrewc on 26 November, 2011, 11:51:55 am
Rather a lot of Miles Davis..........I indulged in 2 box sets from Amazon, 20 CD's worth...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0035KGWRC (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0035KGWRC)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B004LR5JZO (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B004LR5JZO)

I mentioned this to one of our apprentices, early 20's. He'd never heard of Miles... :o
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Post by: Juan Martín on 26 November, 2011, 04:13:41 pm
John Tavener - The Protecting Veil

(Reminded by Lindagordinho)
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Post by: LindaG on 26 November, 2011, 04:31:39 pm
John Tavener - The Protecting Veil

(Reminded by Lindagordinho)

The first Tavener piece I ever bought.  It's great isn't it?
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Post by: Juan Martín on 26 November, 2011, 04:54:48 pm
I hadn't listened to it for years, I'll move it towards the top of the pile - thanks for reminding me!
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Post by: Marco Stefano on 26 November, 2011, 05:46:48 pm
Famille Nombreuse by Les Negresses Vertes (on loan from Juan ^ - merci!)

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Post by: Juan Martín on 26 November, 2011, 06:14:19 pm
And now for something completely different...

Next - The Sensational Alex Harvey Band

What can I say, it's sensational.

I am listening to all sorts of different things at the moment because since I mentioned Oops I Did It Again on another thread I cannot get the bloody tune out of my head, probably because I spent an hour or so playing along with my guitar on YouTube. Claiming at work that I am humming the Richard Thompson version cuts no ice.
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Post by: cyclinginstructor on 26 November, 2011, 06:42:06 pm
Trans global underground - diaspora - a masterpiece-IMHO
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Post by: JStone on 26 November, 2011, 08:39:31 pm
Oded Kafri - The druMachine project

Wandering around Bristol's Broadmead shopping centre this afternoon in a half-hearted attempt to do some xmas shopping, I got sidetracked by the sound of some amazing drumming coming from this (http://youtu.be/0O45pWDRTGg) busker in the middle of a large crowd. Good enough to persuade me to part with £5 on the spot for a CD - not something that's ever happened before  ;)
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Post by: Juan Martín on 27 November, 2011, 04:40:29 pm
La Revancha del Tango - Gotan Project
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Post by: rogerzilla on 27 November, 2011, 06:14:11 pm
Trans global underground - diaspora - a masterpiece-IMHO
Set up by two of the ex-Furniture guys.
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Post by: Juan Martín on 29 November, 2011, 09:33:00 am
Nine Objects of Desire - Suzanne Vega
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Post by: jogler on 29 November, 2011, 02:20:31 pm
Amy Winehouse.
I've never been a fan of hers BUT this morning I heard her version of "Tomorrow".
Absolutely stunning
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Post by: Domestique on 29 November, 2011, 07:10:56 pm
Manic Street Preachers - Forever Delayed
Martha and the Muffins - Far away in time
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Post by: andrewc on 29 November, 2011, 08:32:48 pm
Ben Webster, "Saturday Night At The Montmartre".  I bought "Sunday Morning" in a charity shop last year, and then realised it was the last one of a 3 LP set.  After missing a couple on Ebay last month I got lucky a week ago and "Saturday Night" & "Midnight" turned up today  :D

Recorded almost a month after I was born at the Montmartre Jazzhus in Copenhagen. Ben Webster on tenor sax, Kenny Drew on piano, Alex Riel on drums & Nils-Henning Orsted Pedersen on bass.

Rather fine.
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Post by: Ham on 30 November, 2011, 10:02:37 am
Last night, doing ironing, I was listening to and enjoying BBC 6 Music through the TV digital service. I then thought "This is strange, this is a bit off the wall even for 6Music, a bit surreal, I wonder what group released this? It's all spoken and about competition." Until I looked up and realised it had changed to BBC1 and Masterchef  :facepalm:
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Post by: tiermat on 30 November, 2011, 11:09:52 am
Started the day with "I'm With You" by RHCP

Now moved onto what is becoming a favourite, "Super Delux" by Terrorvision

After that is some Seasick Steve.
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Post by: citoyen on 30 November, 2011, 11:43:43 am
I never realised I was such a fan of jazz until very recently. Lot of catching up to do. Today is Project Mingus...

This track is blowing my mind right now:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxz9eZ1Aons

d.
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Post by: Pingu on 30 November, 2011, 04:01:47 pm
Golden Age of Radio - Josh Ritter
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Post by: Juan Martín on 01 December, 2011, 07:41:45 pm
Chamber Music - Francis Poulenc
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Post by: andrewc on 01 December, 2011, 07:49:59 pm
My dinner is bubbling away on the hob and "Cookin" with the Miles Davis quintet is on the CD player  :P
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Post by: Biggsy on 01 December, 2011, 09:53:19 pm
Felt - Primative Painters (with Liz Fraser), on 6 Music now.  Delicious.
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Post by: kyuss on 02 December, 2011, 01:34:09 am
Neutral Milk Hotel. No specific album, just been reccomended them so checking YouTube. I like so far. If you like Sufjan Stevens, Bon Iver etc they're worth a listen.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 02 December, 2011, 09:23:18 am
Small children singing Christmas carols.  Welcome to the soundtrack of my life for the next 2annahalf weeks....  Mind, this lot are fairly tuneful.  And we haven't had little donkey.  Yet.
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Post by: De Sisti on 02 December, 2011, 09:31:47 am
I never realised I was such a fan of jazz until very recently. Lot of catching up to do. Today is Project Mingus...

This track is blowing my mind right now:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxz9eZ1Aons

d.
I'm glad there's someone else on this forum who likes jazz. Try listening
to Stomp radio on the web (www.stompradion.com), Wednesday 10pm - 1am,
with host Nick Hoisier. Top class modern jazz and some re-recording of "standards".

I also find listening to classical music on R3 and Classic FM very relaxing.
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Post by: tiermat on 02 December, 2011, 10:08:12 am
Small children singing Christmas carols.  Welcome to the soundtrack of my life for the next 2annahalf weeks....  Mind, this lot are fairly tuneful.  And we haven't had little donkey.  Yet.

Oho, you should have said, TLD could have given you a rendition of it last night, as her school choir is doing that song as part of their Xmas show :)
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Post by: andyoxon on 03 December, 2011, 01:47:38 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJYUSdX-Rps

Not bad...   ;)
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Post by: nicknack on 03 December, 2011, 04:55:33 pm
Ana Popovic's latest - Unconditional.

Nice bit of blues.

Here's a bit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSeR0Z2NFBs
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Post by: Peter on 03 December, 2011, 05:11:04 pm


I never realised I was such a fan of jazz until very recently. Lot of catching up to do. Today is Project Mingus...

This track is blowing my mind right now:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxz9eZ1Aons

d.

d. I've just seen your post.  That was an incredible year for jazz: Brubeck's Time Out, Miles Davis's Kind Of Blue, Ornette Coleman's Shape Of Jazz To Come, Mingus's Mingus Ah Um (from which your track) all released in 1959.  Have you got all of these?  They are all still available.  Kind Of Blue has never been out of print.

I listen to all sorts of music and I came to this lot late as collections but I'm really glad I did!

Cheers!
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Post by: LindaG on 03 December, 2011, 09:08:54 pm
Never Too Much nby Luthewr Vandross.

God I'm so pissed.

But that song says exactly how I feel about Crusty.

So there hyou go.
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Post by: RW on 03 December, 2011, 09:30:11 pm
Menhuin playing the Tchaikovsky recorded in 1949.  So different to current playing - v. exciting because you have the feeling it's all going to go horribly wrong.  Not like a modern "performance" that's perfect, after god knows how many takes.
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Post by: Juan Martín on 04 December, 2011, 11:02:42 am
Con Otro Aire - Chambao

(While doing my Spanish homework)
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Post by: onb on 04 December, 2011, 02:54:42 pm
Show of Hands  Backlog 2
We went to see them thurs night they are fab.
 :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
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Post by: LindaG on 05 December, 2011, 12:20:47 pm
Build A Rocket Boys! - Elbow.

I love his voice.
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Post by: PaulF on 05 December, 2011, 12:26:05 pm
Propaganda ~ A Secret Wish
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Post by: Steph on 05 December, 2011, 11:29:06 pm
Sandy Denny, a mix of recordings. One more sadly missed.
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Post by: citoyen on 06 December, 2011, 12:22:38 am
I'm glad there's someone else on this forum who likes jazz.

Liking jazz is very much a recent development for me. I mean, I've always been quite happy to listen to stuff from the easier end of the spectrum, but now I'm "discovering" stuff like John Coltrane and Charles Mingus.

I'll definitely give Stomp a go. Sounds interesting.  :thumbsup:

There's a ten-part series on the history of jazz that started on PBS on Saturday. Narrated by Wynton Marsalis, apparently. Haven't started watching it yet but I've got the first four parts recorded. Might be interesting.

I like Radio 3 very much, though there's too much singing for my taste.

d. I've just seen your post.  That was an incredible year for jazz: Brubeck's Time Out, Miles Davis's Kind Of Blue, Ornette Coleman's Shape Of Jazz To Come, Mingus's Mingus Ah Um (from which your track) all released in 1959.  Have you got all of these?  They are all still available.  Kind Of Blue has never been out of print.

Haven't got recordings of any of them (yet!) but have been listening to a lot of the stuff you mention at my desk at work via YouTube (and finding it does wonders for my mood). Mingus is the one who's really grabbed my attention so far.

d.
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Post by: tiermat on 06 December, 2011, 09:05:21 am
Started with Seasick Steve, and now am onto Korn - Unplugged
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Post by: tiermat on 06 December, 2011, 09:44:17 am
Korn - Unplugged

Currently on the track done with Robert Smith, outright brilliant. "Without You"

the one with that woman from Evenesence is hauntingly brilliant too....
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Post by: LindaG on 06 December, 2011, 02:22:23 pm
Korn - Unplugged

Currently on the track done with Robert Smith, outright brilliant. "Without You"

the one with that woman from Evenesence is hauntingly brilliant too....

The trouble with Korn is THOSE HORRIBLE MASKS.

My daughter had a Korn doll and it was a really, really nasty thing.

Ewww.

But after your endorsement I shall try and listen to them again.  Without video.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 06 December, 2011, 02:32:31 pm
You may be mixing them up with Slipknot...
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Post by: tiermat on 06 December, 2011, 02:35:03 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQz5Z1ctPqc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQAj-GSV_VI

Enjoy :)
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Post by: LindaG on 06 December, 2011, 02:38:26 pm
You may be mixing them up with Slipknot...

Ah, you are correct.  Silly me.  The three years of being unable to live in my house without ear plugs and a blindfold, has made all that stuff blend into one.  But there was definitely a Korn dolly.  And it was, definitely, a nasty nasty thing. 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/10898247@N00/393119117/

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Post by: tiermat on 06 December, 2011, 02:51:42 pm
Whilst poking around YouTube for those Korn vids, I found one from their new album.

Korn does dubstep.

Sound unlikely? Sounds like it should be a complete car crash? Not in the slightest.  Korn Ft. Skrillex - Get Up

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK8YSsjIaDs
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Post by: LindaG on 06 December, 2011, 03:03:10 pm
The first two are brilliant.  Her voice sounds wonderful with the band.
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Post by: tiermat on 06 December, 2011, 03:07:32 pm
The first two are brilliant.  Her voice sounds wonderful with the band.

I have to admit I had it palying in the background whilst I was working earlier and I had one of those shivery moments when she started singing....
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Post by: Riggers on 06 December, 2011, 03:19:22 pm
Ed Reardan on R4 replay thingy.
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Post by: tiermat on 07 December, 2011, 08:29:54 am
Today is starting well, with Korn - The Path of Totality.

Metal meets dubstep (as mentioned upthere^), some of the tracks sound like one of my favourite bands of all time, Pitchshifter, which is no bad thing :)
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Post by: Juan Martín on 07 December, 2011, 07:22:49 pm
The Greatest - Cat Power
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Post by: tiermat on 08 December, 2011, 08:23:12 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyZsDeHn920

Another Korn one, I am afraid, really enjoying their Unplugged, nearly, but not quite, as good as Nirvana's unplugged.
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Post by: Juan Martín on 08 December, 2011, 07:37:31 pm
Kamakiriad - Donald Fagen
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Post by: tiermat on 08 December, 2011, 08:24:16 pm
Now, as Mrs T is out at a birthday party, I am having a musical review of the year, Tiermat style.

So it is solely bandsI have seen play live this year.

This includes:
I am Kloot
The GO! Team
Terrorvison
Kings of Leon
Foo Fighters
Biffy Clyro

Mrs T should go out more often :)
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Post by: Peter on 08 December, 2011, 08:25:24 pm
Christmas Carols
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 08 December, 2011, 09:01:01 pm
Singing Adams.  Right now, 'The Old Days'.  I do like.

(I need to free my head of carols and christmas songs.  And, in particular, of '5 mince pies in a baker's shop', which the SmallestCub has been practising A LOT this week in preparation for his starring role as, shockingly, a mince pie in the show today.  On the bright side, only a week to go and so far so no-Little-Donkey....)
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Post by: tiermat on 08 December, 2011, 09:42:38 pm
(I need to free my head of carols and christmas songs.  And, in particular, of '5 mince pies in a baker's shop', which the SmallestCub has been practising A LOT this week in preparation for his starring role as, shockingly, a mince pie in the show today.  On the bright side, only a week to go and so far so no-Little-Donkey....)

All together now....

Little Donkey
Little Donkey....

Oh well, suit yourself :)

This reminds me, must find our "Christmas Around The World" CD.

Perfect antidote to Bing and Co.  Christmas songs from around the world (who would have guessed that from the title, eh?), including Zydeco, blues and African beats.
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Post by: Peter on 09 December, 2011, 01:17:30 pm
@ CL and Tiermat

Carols as opposed to Christmas songs!  I'm a peri. in schools so we've had Little Donkey, Rudolph et al since October!  T, I like a man who likes his Zydeco - do you know Rockin' Doopsie?

Happy Christmas to all of you! :)
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Post by: jogler on 09 December, 2011, 07:12:15 pm
The Shadows : 20 Greatest Hits
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Post by: jogler on 10 December, 2011, 01:15:17 pm
Pick of the Pops on Radio 2.

However I'm trying not to hear TB
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Post by: PaulF on 10 December, 2011, 02:10:49 pm
Decided to get minto the festive spirit so put on Christmas by Low. About the only acceptable Christmas album IMO.
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Post by: marcusjb on 10 December, 2011, 02:23:29 pm
This Is Tunng Live From The BBC - lovely collection of their sessions etc. from over the years.

Byetone - Symeta in 24 bit - was named as Bleep's album of the year yesterday and worthily so - very early Pan Sonic is the best pointer I can think of (even back to the short time they were called Panasonic beforethey got told that this was not an acceptable name for a band by a certain large japanese electronics manufacturer)  Really rather good (especially in that there 24 bit).
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Post by: Biggsy on 10 December, 2011, 02:28:56 pm
Where's my funk?  I was hoping to be listening to Push - Band on a Mission!, but the CD ain't arrived yet.
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Post by: Juan Martín on 10 December, 2011, 04:20:59 pm
St Matthew Passion - JS Bach
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Post by: Juan Martín on 10 December, 2011, 07:43:40 pm
And now, Norma (Callas) - Bellini
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Post by: PaulF on 10 December, 2011, 08:02:32 pm
Bon Iver's eponymous album. Sublime!
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Post by: RJ on 10 December, 2011, 09:44:23 pm
Planxty - After the Break
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Post by: microphonie on 11 December, 2011, 09:25:57 am
Have recently been exploring the delights of random play on my mp3 player. However, having just completed my next load of eMusic downloads, it'll be a selection from the following for the next couple of weeks:

Autechre - Move Of Ten
Bvdub & Ian Hawgood - The Truth Hurts
Beak> - Beak>
Chris Watson - El Tren Fantasma (The Signal Man's Mix)
Ku-Ling Bros - Creach (expanded edition)
Legowelt - Classics 1998-2003
Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica
Vatican Shadow - Mural Of Saddam
Vatican Shadow - Pakistan Military Academy
Vatican Shadow - Washington Buries Al Qaeda Leader At Sea - Decks 1-3

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Post by: nicknack on 11 December, 2011, 01:28:24 pm
The Unthanks - The Songs of Robert Wyatt and Antony And The Johnsons

Beautiful.
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Post by: spesh on 11 December, 2011, 09:32:06 pm
After an afternoon of relatively laid-back tunes whilst writing Crimble cards, I am now having a bit of a Joe Satriani blow-out.
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Post by: jezzasnr on 11 December, 2011, 10:47:57 pm
Bon Iver.

Guess I'm a little behind the game in this, but I like it. Really really like!!
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Post by: Peter on 12 December, 2011, 12:48:11 am
My Christmas Song For You - The Mills Brothers  (tune by Hoagy Carmichael)
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Post by: oncemore on 13 December, 2011, 08:47:14 pm
Motley Crue. Not bad.
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Post by: Pingu on 13 December, 2011, 11:09:54 pm
This morning it was On The Beach by Neil Young followed by The Scream by Siouxsie & The Banshees.
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Post by: Pedaldog. on 14 December, 2011, 01:33:50 am
Various albums by Eric Burdon, ex of the Animals. The guy is obviously out of his tree but it is really good listening to music, as opposed to played in the background whilst doing stuff.

Also "From the Underworld by the Herd. Poetry that somebody made a tune to go with! I've been trying to find who wrote it and the closest I can find ios that it was the groups management, two people who I hope have a long and happy life based on the creation of a thing of beauty.
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Post by: jogler on 14 December, 2011, 11:36:37 am
Various albums by Eric Burdon, ex of the Animals.

Also "From the Underworld by the Herd.

2x :thumbsup:
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Post by: Chris S on 14 December, 2011, 11:51:15 am
Glasvegas.

"I’m feeling so guilty about the things i said to my mum when i was ten year old
I’m feeling so guilty about any old shit
and how i think my missus is fucking every guy that she looks at
this is it, this is it, this is it, this it
the end was always coming and now its here"


Quality lyrics  :thumbsup:
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Post by: oncemore on 14 December, 2011, 08:03:57 pm
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. Really very good.
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Post by: Pingu on 15 December, 2011, 11:06:35 am
Special Moves - Mogwai

<gazes at shoes>
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Post by: jogler on 16 December, 2011, 12:39:47 pm
A 5xCD compilation,100 Essential Carols & Hymns for Christmas,purchased this morning whilst doing the TescoTango
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Post by: CrazyEnglishTriathlete on 16 December, 2011, 01:51:13 pm
Stuff starting with V; started with Veteran of the Psychic Wars and am now on to piano studies by Villa-Lobos
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Post by: tiermat on 16 December, 2011, 01:58:24 pm
Korn, again.

The one that is playing now is an interesting mix of Korn, Pitchshifter and Candlemass....

Off to the pub in about 30 mins so listening this to get in the mood :)
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Post by: Biggsy on 16 December, 2011, 02:24:54 pm
My funk has arrived at last.  Push - Band on a Mission!  Undemanding and mainstream, but it cheers me up.  Need a break from gloomy stuff.  Also got some Go! Team on order.
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Post by: tiermat on 17 December, 2011, 07:18:24 am
Also got some Go! Team on order.

Rolling Blackouts?
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Post by: Biggsy on 17 December, 2011, 12:19:53 pm
Also got some Go! Team on order.

Rolling Blackouts?

Yep.  I've heard a bit on the radio - a lot of joyous sounds all at once.

I'll get the previous album too.
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Post by: tiermat on 17 December, 2011, 01:11:08 pm
Also got some Go! Team on order.

Rolling Blackouts?

Yep.  I've heard a bit on the radio - a lot of joyous sounds all at once.

I'll get the previous album too.

They are one of TLD's favourite bands, having seen them at Deershed last year.  Favourite songs from Rolling Blackouts are "The Secretary Song" "Buy Nothing Today" and "T.O.R.N.A.D.O"
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Post by: jogler on 17 December, 2011, 02:49:20 pm
Toe Knee Black Bum  :sick:
 & Pick of the Pops :thumbsup:
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Post by: Manotea on 17 December, 2011, 11:07:13 pm
Rickie lee Jones (http://www.rickieleejones.com/lyrics/chuck.html)

What a great song/rendition.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 19 December, 2011, 12:52:13 am
Something a bit festive...

http://soundcloud.com/singing-adams/i-got-you-a-book-for-christmas
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Post by: Gus on 19 December, 2011, 07:46:04 pm
Dropkick Murphys ~ Going out in style
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Post by: oncemore on 20 December, 2011, 08:00:29 pm
Ezio - Just To Talk You Again. Such a sad, melancholy, song. "I would die just to talk to you...again." And there is a lady for whom I WOULD.

The only song that brings me near to tears.
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Post by: Peter on 20 December, 2011, 08:12:59 pm
Ezio - Just To Talk You Again. Such a sad, melancholy, song. "I would die just to talk to you...again." And there is a lady for whom I WOULD.

The only song that brings me near to tears.

oncemore, have you heard Darling Be Home Soon by The Lovin' Spoonful?  It contains the lovely line: For the great relief of having you to talk to.

Also, Go, Leave by Kate and Anna McGarrigle (actually just Kate) is unbearably poignant, as is Love Has No Pride (Koz and Titus) as sung by Bonnie Raitt.  Also poignant but slightly studenty, is Flowers and Wine by Pete Atkin (lyrics by Clive James).  Why do I know all this (sniff....)?
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Post by: oncemore on 20 December, 2011, 09:06:42 pm
I'll try and have a listen. Thanks.
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Post by: Snakehips on 20 December, 2011, 09:09:48 pm
A selection from The Jethro Tull Christmas Album
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Post by: Illegal Combat Ant on 21 December, 2011, 02:08:49 pm
Dobie Gray, from the 'Drift Away' album, Rocking Chair. Strange blend of soul, funk, rock and country that works really well. Another loss of 2010.  :(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_FJBRbvddI&list=UUwmKd-ePE_y0qTu0f_1A3Rg&index=1&feature=plcp (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_FJBRbvddI&list=UUwmKd-ePE_y0qTu0f_1A3Rg&index=1&feature=plcp)
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Post by: Peter on 21 December, 2011, 02:59:14 pm
ICA, I wasn't aware Dobie had died :-\  I haveDrift Away on an Old Grey Whistle Test album which includes Ry Cooder singing Guthrie's Vigilante Man and Bonnie Raitt doing Love Has No Pride.  Those were the days!
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Post by: Illegal Combat Ant on 21 December, 2011, 03:17:49 pm
Yeah. 6th Dec, age 69, or 71, depending on source. Amazing voice and some great musicianship on that particular album.
I'm feeling old right now.
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Post by: Basil on 21 December, 2011, 09:27:04 pm
Come on you 62 year olds.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNcXFy8QTC4&feature=related

Wasn't that just great?
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Post by: Biggsy on 21 December, 2011, 10:02:58 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc3u4dxx-pI

:demon:
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Post by: Basil on 21 December, 2011, 10:22:30 pm
*clicks with trepidation -prepared to hate it and Biggsy for ever*

Fuck.  That's great.

Thanks Biggsy.


Sort of misses the Summer of Love thing, but still - Great. :thumbsup:

Thanks.  You've made a happy man very old.
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Post by: Biggsy on 21 December, 2011, 10:45:08 pm
Cool!  :thumbsup:  Think I first heard them do that on a Peel session.  The Boos early music so different from their later "Wake Up Boo" smash hit.  The melodies were just as sweet, but were buried under incredible walls of sound.

Alone Again Or: I love the original Love version as well, and you don't have to be 62 to know it!  ;D
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Post by: Basil on 21 December, 2011, 10:53:12 pm
OK, we're going Wire - Pink Flag now.

Just me?
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Post by: Biggsy on 21 December, 2011, 11:14:54 pm
I don't know that one.  I do know a Wire cover I like!:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACRvJLtIdCQ
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Post by: Biggsy on 21 December, 2011, 11:21:10 pm
Sick joke on YouTube comments: "I like Gary Glitter's version of this song, called "Outdoor Minor'".
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Post by: Basil on 21 December, 2011, 11:27:48 pm
Nah.  Sorry.
And not Wire's greatest moment either.

*wanders off Beefheartwards*

And why the * does youtube keep asking me if I would like to meet "singles into cycling"?  This interweb thingy is getting worrying.
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Post by: NeilP on 22 December, 2011, 03:48:44 pm
Neil Young - Live Rust
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Post by: LindaG on 22 December, 2011, 06:38:01 pm
6 music. Round Table special edition. Some wonderful stuff, remind me to listen to the whole thing when I get up on Xmas Eve. Really hard to get off the sofa and go to work.
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Post by: Illegal Combat Ant on 24 December, 2011, 12:06:48 pm
Portobella


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQIrH8EgLHQ&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQIrH8EgLHQ&feature=related)
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Post by: Juan Martín on 24 December, 2011, 06:36:55 pm
Hummel Piano Trios. I have just found this on my PC and cannot remember listening to it before, curious.
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Post by: PaulF on 24 December, 2011, 06:47:20 pm
Roky Erikson ~ True Love Cast Out Evil

Actually unintentionally seasonal. In an offbeat way :)
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Post by: andrewc on 24 December, 2011, 07:02:24 pm
Currently Eddi Reader is whispering "Barcelona Window" in my ear......
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Post by: ferret on 24 December, 2011, 10:59:05 pm
Roots:The Best of Show of Hands.  sort of folk with attitude  ;)

and just has it's Christmas Steeleye Span "Gaudete" has been playing quite a bit.
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Post by: NeilP on 25 December, 2011, 11:17:05 am
Cashier No. 9 - To The Death of Fun introduced to me by my son this morning.  :thumbsup:
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Post by: LindaG on 25 December, 2011, 08:49:24 pm
The fantastic Christmas playlist I spent ages compiling, with Kate Rusby, Annie Lennox, Otis Redding, Billie Holliday ...

And which everyone else hates.  Hence headphones while they all watch Corrie.

Sweet bells, sweet chiming Christmas bells ...

 :)
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 27 December, 2011, 02:34:07 pm
múm - Summer Make Good
Salmonella Dub - One Drop East
Connan Mockasin - Forever Dolphin Love  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 27 December, 2011, 03:39:54 pm
I forgot about:
North Atlantic Oscillation - Grappling Hooks :D
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Post by: clarion on 28 December, 2011, 09:19:12 pm
Nazareth.  Just awesome.
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Post by: Domestique on 31 December, 2011, 10:32:10 am
Fairport Convention - Unhalfbricking
£2.68 from Amazon, bargain  :thumbsup:
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Post by: geoff on 01 January, 2012, 07:32:12 pm
Listen, buy/donate if you're as moved by this as I was: Little Starling by Phily K (http://philyk.bandcamp.com/)
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Post by: LindaG on 02 January, 2012, 11:18:15 pm
The Maccabees
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Post by: Domestique on 03 January, 2012, 05:17:01 pm
John Martyn - Solid Air
1973  :o
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Post by: jogler on 03 January, 2012, 05:43:53 pm
Marj coughing her lungs up like a 100-a-day-smoker :(
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Post by: Peter on 03 January, 2012, 05:56:02 pm
Sorry to read that.
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Post by: andrewc on 03 January, 2012, 09:41:32 pm
Currently Olivier Messiaen's Turangalila Symphonie.....

OMG  :o     
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Post by: tiermat on 04 January, 2012, 02:58:23 pm
http://hypem.com/#!/zeitgeist/2011/songs

Curerntly listening to The Go! Team's mix, then I shall move onto other ones....
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Post by: Biggsy on 06 January, 2012, 09:52:14 am
My The Go! Team Rolling Blackouts CD arrived yesterday and I instantly love it.  (I'd only heard two tracks from it before).  It's highly original and highly joyous.  It's loads of fun all the time.
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Post by: Biggsy on 06 January, 2012, 11:48:18 am
Safety advisory:

Order an oxygen tank at the same time as your Go! Team album.  It's hard to breathe when music is this exciting.
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Post by: Domestique on 06 January, 2012, 03:30:36 pm
Family - Old songs New songs
Whoo 1971 timewarp  :D
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Post by: Juan Martín on 06 January, 2012, 04:45:47 pm
I always remember someone describing Roger Chapman's voice as being like a goat being plugged into the mains...

I think I'll listen to some Family on the train home. Thanks for the reminder :thumbsup:
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Post by: spesh on 06 January, 2012, 04:53:01 pm
I always remember someone describing Roger Chapman's voice as being like a goat being plugged into the mains...

It's er... unique, isn't it?  ;D
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Post by: jogler on 07 January, 2012, 08:55:05 am
Radio 2,Brian Matthew's" Sounds of the Sixties"

terrific stuff :thumbsup:
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Post by: interzen on 07 January, 2012, 11:41:55 am
Hawkwind - Space Ritual

Good old-fashioned space rock with Lemmy on bass. What's not to love?
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Post by: Biggsy on 07 January, 2012, 01:41:47 pm
Have you seen "Lemmy The Movie", interzen?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b012p5vv
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Post by: interzen on 08 January, 2012, 03:21:48 pm
Have you seen "Lemmy The Movie", interzen?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b012p5vv
No, but his autobiography (White Line Fever) is well worth a look, especially as it doesn't concentrate entirely on Motorhead. He comes across as a really intelligent and interesting sort of guy.

I still think it's hilarious that he got turfed out of Hawkwind for doing too many drugs though ;D
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Post by: Biggsy on 08 January, 2012, 06:04:56 pm
The Hawkwind guys in "Lemmy The Movie" blamed the problems on the fact that they were all doing different drugs.  :)
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Post by: jogler on 09 January, 2012, 12:51:00 pm
Whitney Houston : The Ultimate Collection
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Post by: microphonie on 10 January, 2012, 06:56:23 pm
Yesterday was Chris Watson's - El Tren Fantasma  (http://thequietus.com/articles/07512-chris-watson-el-tren-fantasma-review): a field recording taken from along a now defunct Caribbean-Pacific rail route across Mexico

Today was Explosions In The Sky - Take Care, Take Care, Take Care

And the following latest eMusic downloads will be my listening for the next month:

Dälek - Abandoned Language
Lee Scratch Perry - On-U Sound Presents...Nu Sound & Version
Lee Scratch Perry & Bill Laswell - Rise Again
Pye Corner Audion & The Advisory Circle - Ghost Box Study Series 07: Autumnal Activities
Senking - List
The Field - Sound Of Light
Throbbing Gristle - Greatest Hits: Entertainment Through Pain
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Post by: oncemore on 10 January, 2012, 08:23:17 pm
I always remember someone describing Roger Chapman's voice as being like a goat being plugged into the mains...

I think I'll listen to some Family on the train home. Thanks for the reminder :thumbsup:

Good ol' Roger! I once saw him so bombed that he simply fell backwards off the front of the stage. Guitarist wandered to the edge, looked down, shrugged .... band kept playing...Chapman just kept on twitching flat on his back. Proper bands then!

Listening to Hotel Room, Edgar Broughton. Every drunks' song...
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Post by: andrewc on 10 January, 2012, 09:55:28 pm
I like Explosions In The Sky  :thumbsup:

Currently it's the Tomasz Stanko Quintet..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5_KsNKTBZU (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5_KsNKTBZU)
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 10 January, 2012, 10:49:06 pm
North Atlantic Oscillation: Grappling Hooks, again.
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Post by: Pedaldog. on 11 January, 2012, 01:27:49 am
Imelda May - Love Tattoo.  She's actually really good and I am surprised as I had heard her name and assumed she was just another whining 24 notes per second type!
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 11 January, 2012, 11:30:00 am
I like Explosions In The Sky  :thumbsup:

Ten days until TWFKAML and I attend their gig at the Brixton Academy :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
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Post by: Biggsy on 11 January, 2012, 11:44:42 am
Was listening to an old Tindersticks gig on 6Music last night.  Wow.  It's hard to get that voice and those songs out of my head this morning.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 11 January, 2012, 07:54:53 pm
I like Explosions In The Sky  :thumbsup:

Ten days until TWFKAML and I attend their gig at the Brixton Academy :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
GIT!
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Post by: Pingu on 11 January, 2012, 09:28:05 pm
I like Explosions In The Sky  :thumbsup:

Ten days until TWFKAML and I attend their gig at the Brixton Academy :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
GIT!

Double GIT!  :)
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Post by: andrewc on 11 January, 2012, 10:08:31 pm
I like Explosions In The Sky  :thumbsup:

Ten days until TWFKAML and I attend their gig at the Brixton Academy :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
GIT!

Double GIT!  :)

Triple Git!    Not playing anywhere convenient for me   :(
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Post by: LindaG on 13 January, 2012, 01:22:52 am
Cowboy Junkies.  Sweet Jane.  Oh yes.
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Post by: Steph on 13 January, 2012, 08:24:13 am
Richard Thompson, Old Kit Bag. Some heavy stuff there.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 13 January, 2012, 01:17:30 pm
I like Explosions In The Sky  :thumbsup:

Ten days until TWFKAML and I attend their gig at the Brixton Academy :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
GIT!

Double GIT!  :)

Triple Git!    Not playing anywhere convenient for me   :(

Arithmetic fail.  It's actually 14 days from today.
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Post by: Pingu on 13 January, 2012, 01:23:57 pm
I like Explosions In The Sky  :thumbsup:

Ten days until TWFKAML and I attend their gig at the Brixton Academy :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
GIT!

Double GIT!  :)

Triple Git!    Not playing anywhere convenient for me   :(

Arithmetic fail.  It's actually 14 days from today.

That doesn't exempt you from GITdom  :hand:
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Post by: Juan Martín on 13 January, 2012, 08:39:38 pm
Canteloube: Chants d'Auvergne. Exquisite, and always makes me think of the summer. It's bloody freezing outside.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 13 January, 2012, 08:45:06 pm
Canteloube: Chants d'Auvergne. Exquisite, and always makes me think of the summer. It's bloody freezing outside.

Lovely isn't it. Who's performing it ? I have the Veronique Gens version.
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Post by: Juan Martín on 13 January, 2012, 08:48:35 pm
This is Kiri Te Kanawa but I have heard that the Veronique Gens version is superb...can I justify two copies?
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Post by: pcolbeck on 13 January, 2012, 08:50:47 pm
Since it's on Naxos and thus dirt cheap I am sure you can.
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Post by: LindaG on 14 January, 2012, 11:01:33 am
The Vaccines  :)
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Post by: PaulF on 14 January, 2012, 11:04:07 am
Animal Collective ~ Merriweather Post Pavillion
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Post by: Ray 6701 on 17 January, 2012, 10:16:15 pm
Bernard Butler: people move on  :)
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Post by: PaulF on 17 January, 2012, 10:34:45 pm
The Orb ~ Blue Room
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Post by: clarion on 17 January, 2012, 10:36:19 pm
Boys Town Gang, Patrick Cowley, Sylvester... :-[
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 17 January, 2012, 10:37:40 pm
Down to Eartha, Earth Kitt.

It makes me smile  :)
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Post by: Peter on 18 January, 2012, 12:58:58 am
Down to Eartha, Earth Kitt.

It makes me smile  :)

She stayed with my wife's auntie once and she really was down to earth!
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Post by: clarion on 18 January, 2012, 07:27:29 am
Tenuous (but cool) claim to fame!

Was she just an old-fashioned girl? ;)
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Post by: tiermat on 18 January, 2012, 08:53:53 am
Just for a change, Korn - The Path of Totality

Will set the iPod to random after this.
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Post by: Domestique on 18 January, 2012, 06:52:05 pm
Ace - How long
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Post by: spesh on 18 January, 2012, 07:02:14 pm
Various tunes I've been extracting clips from for use as ring tones*. Everything from The Prodigy's "Voodoo People" to the theme from Dangerman. ;D


* Hours of fun with the Audacity utility.  :thumbsup:
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Post by: tiermat on 18 January, 2012, 07:59:11 pm
Various tunes I've been extracting clips from for use as ring tones*. Everything from The Prodigy's "Voodoo People" to the theme from Dangerman. ;D


* Hours of fun with the Audacity utility.  :thumbsup:

BTDTGTTS, spent far too long working out optimum length of clip* then finding suitable source material**.

* 9 seconds
** my favourites being the opening bars of "the MAn Who Sold The World" from Nirvana Unplugged, and the chorus from "New Breed" by Fear Factory.
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Post by: welshwheels on 18 January, 2012, 08:56:49 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHZHhVovHN4&ob=av2n  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Biggsy on 19 January, 2012, 08:48:12 am
Chairlift - Met Before (http://soundcloud.com/chairlift/met-before).  Pure happy pop like this will always be my favourite kind of music.
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Post by: Biggsy on 19 January, 2012, 11:45:20 am
Re Chairlift: Once again, I heard the band before seeing them, and only afterwards realised that the singer is stunningly beautiful.  Music comes first; looks are just a bonus.  Honest!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6dZeurk4qQ
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Post by: clarion on 19 January, 2012, 10:29:51 pm
Tom Robinson - from early stuff to the most recent stuff available.  Probably annoying Butterfly, but I like it.
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Post by: marcusjb on 20 January, 2012, 04:51:39 pm
A lot of Clark.

He just sneaked out a little snippet of his new album:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6nq4M7QBxt4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6nq4M7QBxt4)

Ever so exciting - he's just my cup of tea. Seems a little calmer than other output of late, but top notch stuff once again.

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Post by: pcolbeck on 20 January, 2012, 04:59:03 pm
Sounds very similar to the sort of thing Tangerine Dream have been doing for years.
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Post by: Juan Martín on 20 January, 2012, 05:00:55 pm
I see from the BBC that Etta James has popped her clogs so I'll listen to some of hers on the way home.

(goes home)
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Post by: marcusjb on 20 January, 2012, 05:04:45 pm
Sounds very similar to the sort of thing Tangerine Dream have been doing for years.

Definitely a lot of influence there - he tends to have a lot more going on rhythmically than TD though, and quite an aggressive edge that TD never really had.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 20 January, 2012, 05:15:31 pm
Sounds very similar to the sort of thing Tangerine Dream have been doing for years.

Definitely a lot of influence there - he tends to have a lot more going on rhythmically than TD though, and quite an aggressive edge that TD never really had.

I liked the middle eastern influenced beats that came in in the second half.
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Post by: marcusjb on 20 January, 2012, 05:23:10 pm
If you look out for him on Spotify or whatever, don't miss out on his earlier stuff under the name Chris Clark - he changed him name as there is a Chris Clark soul singer - but three good releases under that name as well - Clarence Park (one of the best), Ceramic Is The Bomb and Empty The Bones Of You.  Good stuff all in all.
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Post by: microphonie on 20 January, 2012, 06:12:41 pm
That Clark track is great - might have to check out the album if that's typical. For some reason I never got around to buying any Chris Clark, despite buying a lot of Warp Records stuff in the past.


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Post by: CrazyEnglishTriathlete on 21 January, 2012, 01:30:17 pm
Echoes. 

David Gilmour live in Gdansk - must be one of those days
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Post by: Simonb on 21 January, 2012, 02:05:33 pm
The Marshall Suite by The Fall. Fucking excellent. All things considered.

In-in-in-in-in-evitable...
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Post by: Vernon on 21 January, 2012, 04:16:14 pm
Damn you random play...
I've just been rickrolled by my own stereo!
Moved on to Al Green now, though.
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Post by: Juan Martín on 21 January, 2012, 06:00:05 pm
Some Debussy and Ravel string quartets.
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Post by: microphonie on 22 January, 2012, 01:38:35 pm
Scorn - Evanescence: doomy dubtastic  8)
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Post by: LindaG on 22 January, 2012, 06:41:47 pm
Moar Cowboy Junkies
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I never, ever thought I'd listen to country music but I can't get enough of this band at the moment.

It's definitely country, because someone shoots  his dog in the middle of a field.

And how the bollix do you do that embedding stuff proply?!?!
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Post by: PaulF on 23 January, 2012, 08:27:44 am
Something by Chairlift getting it's first listen, verdict so far. Great!
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Post by: Biggsy on 23 January, 2012, 11:02:29 am
Something by Chairlift getting it's first listen, verdict so far. Great!

An album or the latest single "Met Before"?  See Reply #2700 for a link to listen again.
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Post by: PaulF on 23 January, 2012, 11:04:59 am
The album! And very good it is!
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Post by: Biggsy on 23 January, 2012, 11:19:49 am
The new one?!  Is it out yet?
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Post by: PaulF on 23 January, 2012, 11:23:35 am
Released today, was on my iPhone shortly after midnight
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Post by: Biggsy on 23 January, 2012, 11:27:02 am
:thumbsup:
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Post by: Biggsy on 23 January, 2012, 02:11:18 pm
Oh, I didn't realise the album was called "Something".  I thought you were just listening to something (you didn't know) by Chairlift!

I don't think much of the name "Chairlift", by the way.  Reminds me too much of a Stannah stairlift!
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Post by: Peter on 23 January, 2012, 02:13:48 pm
Oh, I didn't realise the album was called "Something".  I thought you were just listening to something (you didn't know) by Chairlift!

I don't think much of the name "Chairlift", by the way.  Reminds me too much of a Stannah stairlift!

Stannah would be good.  Stannah Tease even better?
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Post by: dasmoth on 23 January, 2012, 09:21:59 pm
Chairlift album is on the way  :thumbsup:

In the meantime: Heavenly vs. Satan.  I've known Marine Research/Tender Trap for years, but only just found out about their earlier stuff.
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Post by: Biggsy on 23 January, 2012, 10:26:21 pm
John Peel used to play Heavenly a lot.  Lovely.
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Post by: tiermat on 24 January, 2012, 07:27:28 am
Today I am listening to The Black Keys - Brothers.

I took my dad to the hospital in Sheffield yesterday, which gave me a chance to visit my favourite record shop, Record Collector on Fulwood Road in Broomhill.

Whilst there I purchased the above mentioned CD, El Camino by the same and Chris Cornell's Songbook.

I am looking forward to today.
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Post by: tiermat on 24 January, 2012, 09:51:33 am
Well Brothers was a mixed bag, some LOVELY songs, some not so.

Chris Cornell's Songbook though is outstanding! Acoustic versions of Soundgarden and Audioslave songs mixed with new stuff.  "Wide Awake" is the stand out track so far, but I haven't finished the CD yet, it has just changed onto "Black Hole Sun"
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Post by: tiermat on 24 January, 2012, 12:30:43 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_426RiwST8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnzIrRykilA

AND

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_PrT25o8Vs

(read the scrolling text :))
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Post by: interzen on 24 January, 2012, 12:38:33 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1dryYIeomM

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_NUtIqfTBo

EDIT: and this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZcJO8cL0CM&feature=related

(pure, ambient awesomeness)
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Post by: Steph on 24 January, 2012, 10:46:26 pm
Lisa Knapp, 'Bold and Undaunted'
Fey, subtle, brilliant.
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Post by: marcusjb on 25 January, 2012, 11:10:28 am
Guided by Voices - Let's Go Eat The Factory

I was intrigued when the 'classic' mid-90s line-up reformed.  Intrigued and concerned as these things often tarnish the legends you've built up.

They're a wee bit tighter than you were in the 90s, not quite as frantic - but the song-writing still shines through.  Typical GBV style - there are only a couple of songs longer than two minutes.  Funny listening to an album recorded in this day and age on a 4-track (though I believe some tracks were recorded in real studios).

Alright, it's not quite Alien Lanes, but it's a fine album all in all so far.
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Post by: LindaG on 25 January, 2012, 11:50:00 am
Cowboy Junkies - The Trinity Sessions  :D
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Post by: Chris S on 26 January, 2012, 10:43:37 am
Cowboy Junkies - The Trinity Sessions  :D

Never heard of the Cowboy Junkies before. Listening now.

So - a bit like The Waifs then. But Canadian, not Australian.

Easy listening - but I'm not a huge Country fan.
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Post by: RJ on 26 January, 2012, 10:18:32 pm
Cowboy Junkies - The Trinity Sessions  :D

(... a very excellent choice)

Me, the last couple of days:

Ali Farka Toure - Savanne

(genius)
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Post by: Ham on 27 January, 2012, 12:39:58 pm
Zarif.

Who?

Off the back of being reminded of a vid I took on HMS Bristol a few years back using a compact camera

http://vimeo.com/5255630

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Post by: Biggsy on 27 January, 2012, 01:53:37 pm
Listening to Chairlift's Met Before again, via a single-track promo CD won on eBay for 99p.  The album is on the way from the VAT-free Channel Islands.  Hurry up!
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Post by: citoyen on 27 January, 2012, 04:55:03 pm
Diamond Mine - King Creosote & John Hopkins

Can't believe it's taken me so long to discover this superb album. Tbh, I didn't even know it existed until it got the Mercury nomination. But I bloody love it. I've had it on constant repeat for the past three days.

d.
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Post by: RW on 27 January, 2012, 10:24:07 pm
Emy Dragoi - jas hot club Romania.  Folk influenced jazz, with amazing piano accordion playing.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 28 January, 2012, 03:47:54 pm
The Doors - Queen Of The Highway
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Post by: LindaG on 31 January, 2012, 08:40:33 am
Cowboy Junkies - The Trinity Sessions  :D

Never heard of the Cowboy Junkies before. Listening now.

So - a bit like The Waifs then. But Canadian, not Australian.

Easy listening - but I'm not a huge Country fan.

Never heard of the Waifs before ...
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Post by: LindaG on 31 January, 2012, 10:01:43 am
http://youtu.be/VO63vb1S7Cw

On Battleship Hill, and the rest of this album.  It's powerful stuff.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 31 January, 2012, 10:12:12 am
Far Far Away - Slade.
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Post by: Riggers on 31 January, 2012, 11:52:29 am
Analysing Baker Street on R4 Soul Music 11.30 this morning. Forgotten what a fantastic song that was!!  :thumbsup:
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Post by: clarion on 31 January, 2012, 11:58:03 am
It's a song that makes me :'(

I think most of us have felt this.

Quote
Windin' your way down on Baker Street
Light in your head and dead on your feet
Well another crazy day
You'll drink the night away
And forget about everything
This city desert makes you feel so cold.
It's got so many people but it's got no soul
And it's taking you so long
To find out you were wrong
When you thought it had everything

You used to think that it was so easy
You used to say that it was so easy
But you're tryin'
You're tryin' now
Another year and then you'll be happy
Just one more year and then you'll be happy
But you're cryin'
You're cryin' now

Way down the street there's a lad in his place
He opens the door he's got that look on his face
And he asks you where you've been
You tell him who you've seen
And you talk about anything

He's got this dream about buyin' some land
He's gonna give up the booze and the one night stands
And then he'll settle down there's a quiet little town
And forget about everything

But you know he'll always keep movin'
You know he's never gonna stop movin
Cus he's rollin'
He's the rollin' stone

And when you wake up it's a new mornin'
The sun is shinin' it's a new morning
You're goin'
You're goin' home.

And an interesting programme, too.

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Post by: nicknack on 01 February, 2012, 01:27:32 pm
Portico Quartet's latest one, cleverly entitled "Portico Quartet". Perhaps a bit bolder than the others and still jolly good.
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Post by: clarion on 01 February, 2012, 01:35:59 pm
Last night, following the Radio 4 Soul Music about Baker Street, I was listening to some Gerry Rafferty.  His output was patchy, to say the least, but some was sublime.
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Post by: clarion on 01 February, 2012, 03:57:13 pm
Currently listening to Radcliffe & Maconie, but I was a bit baffled by the Teatime Theme Time, and someone came in to talk to me when the link was explained.  Can anyone enlighten me please?
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Post by: Peter on 01 February, 2012, 05:08:29 pm
Last night, following the Radio 4 Soul Music about Baker Street, I was listening to some Gerry Rafferty.  His output was patchy, to say the least, but some was sublime.

Clarion, do you know "Her Father Didn't Like Me Anyway"?  It's an early one but I think it's great.  I love "Star", too.
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Post by: Biggsy on 01 February, 2012, 09:58:35 pm
Got my copy of Chairlift's "Something" album at last.  Tracks 1-6 don't do anything for me; tracks 7-11 are good to brilliant.
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Post by: Rhys W on 01 February, 2012, 10:34:18 pm
Slightly OT, but there's a great clip of Billy Connolly on youtube, recounting an elaborate prank call Gerry Rafferty made whilst waiting backstage, bored, at some Humblebums gig. Very funny and worth spending a few seconds searching it out.
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Post by: tiermat on 03 February, 2012, 01:58:37 pm
The Godfathers.

Cracking politi-rock from the '80's

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO5dcW0P75M
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Post by: Wowbagger on 03 February, 2012, 08:24:37 pm
Wednesday evening, Nightwaves on Radio 3, after 10 p.m. There was a discussion on the changes in sexual attitudes during The Enlightenment. One of the participants quoted Wilkes:

"Life can then little else supply but a few good fucks and then you die"

for which the presenter saw fit to apologise. Thereafter, another presenter, Peggy Reynolds, continually referred to the sex act as "doing things", as portrayed pictorially and in the written word after print became cheap to produce.

Sometimes I think The Enlightenment totally passed by some people on Radio 3. On the other hand, some of the lyrics of ancient music that they play is very forthright indeed.
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Post by: marcusjb on 04 February, 2012, 08:50:59 am
The Godfathers.

Cracking politi-rock from the '80's

Ah cracking stuff indeed. One if the first gigs I ever went to sans parents, international 2 in Manchester 89.
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Post by: Biggsy on 04 February, 2012, 09:54:26 am
Last night's Classic Albums on BBC4 on Black Sabbath's "Paranoid".   It'll be on BBC iPlayer if you missed it.

"Paranoid" is one of the very few heavy metal albums I've bought; this programme made me realise (again) how good musically it is, as well as attitude and style wise.
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Post by: Steph on 05 February, 2012, 12:24:50 am
Tri Yann, 'Portraits'.
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Post by: tiermat on 05 February, 2012, 08:48:04 am
The Pixies, Live, on Sky Arts 1.

What better way to start a Sunday? TLD is watching it, I don't think she knows what to make of it though....
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Post by: marcusjb on 05 February, 2012, 09:03:43 am
Well, I'm not going out on a bike today - snow and a cold have put the kibosh on that. I'll try and get on the turbo later, but breathing is hard work, so we will see.

So, a last listen to my current linn digital streamer before it leaves me and a new one arrives to take it's place in a couple of weeks.

Started with nick drake - five leaves left (man in a shed - how awesome a song?)

Trying to decide what is next. I like mornings like this. Rare I get to sit and listen to music for a couple of hours.
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Post by: LindaG on 06 February, 2012, 06:11:00 pm
Gung Ho by Patti Smith.  Such an artist, such a band,  and acquired at a bargain price. 
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Post by: andrewc on 07 February, 2012, 10:18:48 pm
The The....  The Violence of Truth, what a brilliant band

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84o3LLXxfGk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84o3LLXxfGk)
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Post by: microphonie on 08 February, 2012, 06:40:34 pm
A selection from my latest eMusic downloads:

65daysofstatic - One Time For All Time
Andy Stott - Passed Me By & We Stay Together
Raime - Hennail
This Will Destroy You - Tunnel Blanket
King Midas Sound - Without You
Bill Laswell & Nicholas James Bullen - Subsonic 2
Vatican Shadow - Byzantine Private CIA, Kneel Before Religious Icons & Yemeni Commandos
Scorn - Gyral

But mainly the Andy Stott stuff so far...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHweamNAkjY&feature=related
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 08 February, 2012, 07:17:16 pm
Rodrigo y Gabriela - Area 52.
Not enuff guitar and too much other stuff so far...
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Post by: citoyen on 10 February, 2012, 02:49:41 pm
Heard this on 6music the other day and it's been buzzing round my head ever since...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UVNT4wvIGY

I thought that being on the 6music playlist, it wouldn't be a mainstream hit, but turns out it's No.1 on iTunes. Nice.
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Post by: PaulF on 10 February, 2012, 04:04:54 pm
Also prompted by 6Music Soul Mining by The The*

*And how is The The pronounced? Thee The, The Thee, The The, Thee Thee?
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Post by: jogler on 10 February, 2012, 04:05:42 pm
Steve Wright on Radio 2
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Post by: clarion on 10 February, 2012, 04:06:26 pm
Also prompted by 6Music Soul Mining by The The*

*And how is The The pronounced? Thee The, The Thee, The The, Thee Thee?

T'T'

'appen ;)
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Post by: marcusjb on 10 February, 2012, 05:32:20 pm
Rodrigo y Gabriela - Area 52.
Not enuff guitar and too much other stuff so far...

About right.

It's good so far - but the horns get a bit much and don't allow you to focus on their unfathomable talents on the guitars.
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Post by: nicknack on 10 February, 2012, 05:35:46 pm
Just for a change - more saxophone stuff. This time it's the wonderful Jan Kopinski - "Earth".
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Post by: Steph on 10 February, 2012, 09:57:55 pm
Richard the Thompson, Old Kit Bag. Blistering guitar, savage lyrics. "God never listened to Charlie Parker; Charlie Parker lived in vain"
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Post by: nicknack on 11 February, 2012, 02:25:14 pm
Heard this on 6music the other day and it's been buzzing round my head ever since...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UVNT4wvIGY

I thought that being on the 6music playlist, it wouldn't be a mainstream hit, but turns out it's No.1 on iTunes. Nice.

Cheers. I rather liked that. Never come across him before.
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Post by: jogler on 11 February, 2012, 09:59:28 pm
ZZ Top
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Post by: pcolbeck on 12 February, 2012, 03:46:47 pm
Heard this on 6music the other day and it's been buzzing round my head ever since...
I thought that being on the 6music playlist, it wouldn't be a mainstream hit, but turns out it's No.1 on iTunes. Nice.

I liked that. Quite reminiscent of the first bit of XTCs Senses Working Overtime
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyX75NpibdU (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyX75NpibdU)
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Post by: Peter on 12 February, 2012, 05:17:14 pm
Richard the Thompson, Old Kit Bag. Blistering guitar, savage lyrics. "God never listened to Charlie Parker; Charlie Parker lived in vain"

Oh yes she did; that's why she took him early (and John and Bix but, oddly, not Miles!).
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Post by: PaulF on 12 February, 2012, 05:37:17 pm
Ray Manzarek's interpretation of O Fortuna ??? Jury's out on this one.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 12 February, 2012, 06:52:19 pm
Unreleased Bonnie Raitt and Lowell George version of Steve Winwards "cant find my way home" . Slide tastic. The talk finishes and the song begins 3 minutes in here: Now I am off to see if the whole sessions is on the Intrent Archive.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4tJiyU_gjY&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4tJiyU_gjY&feature=related)
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Post by: microphonie on 13 February, 2012, 06:40:21 pm
First listen of  This Will Destroy You  (http://www.myspace.com/thiswilldestroyyou) - Tunnel Blanket

Totally unlike the other album by them I've got, which is more mellow post-rock.

This is one for all of you who are into Mogwai/Explosions in the Sky. Very big on the quiet/LOUD angle...as are 65daysofstatic for that matter.

Opening track live at SXSW:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYr3c-mUFnU

Surprisingly they were dull as ditchwater when I saw them live 18 months ago
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Post by: LindaG on 14 February, 2012, 11:06:26 am
Half Man Half Biscuit.  I have been told to sit on the sofa and not move till I have listened to the whole of Four Men Who Shook The Wirral.   Apparently this will make me cheer up.

It's working  ;D
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Post by: citoyen on 14 February, 2012, 11:09:30 am
Heard this on 6music the other day and it's been buzzing round my head ever since...
I thought that being on the 6music playlist, it wouldn't be a mainstream hit, but turns out it's No.1 on iTunes. Nice.

I liked that. Quite reminiscent of the first bit of XTCs Senses Working Overtime

I hadn't made that connection but now you mention it... I also thought there are hints of Talk Talk about it, or maybe The Police.

Today's playlist is majoring heavily in the new Django Django album. Bloody marvellous. Early contender for album of the year.

Here's the opening track, Hail Bop, which gives a pretty good flavour of the album - very Beta Band-esque:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVdvdxKeeiw

d.
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Post by: LindaG on 14 February, 2012, 11:11:10 am
My own favourite from the Django Django album is Default, I can't stop playing it, it's brilliant.
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Post by: Biggsy on 14 February, 2012, 11:20:20 am
You owe me the money for a Django Django album, Citoyen and Crusty's favourite primate.  I wouldn't have heard of them if it wasn't for you.  My PayPal address is pb [at] mm [dot] st.  I'll let you off, LindaG, if you wouldn't have mentioned it if Citoyen hadn't prompted you.  :)
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Post by: LindaG on 14 February, 2012, 11:22:23 am
Nah, sorry Biggsy.  It's been on my Facebook page for days so I so would've mentioned it.

Your cheque is in the post  ;)
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Post by: LindaG on 14 February, 2012, 11:26:37 am
Unreleased Bonnie Raitt and Lowell George version of Steve Winwards "cant find my way home" . Slide tastic. The talk finishes and the song begins 3 minutes in here: Now I am off to see if the whole sessions is on the Intrent Archive.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4tJiyU_gjY&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4tJiyU_gjY&feature=related)

Wow.

Thanks for that pc.  Brilliant.
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Post by: citoyen on 14 February, 2012, 11:30:26 am
My own favourite from the Django Django album is Default, I can't stop playing it, it's brilliant.

Yes, brilliant. I can't decide what my favourite track is but that's certainly a contender. Waveforms and Life's A Beach are also amazing.
Default:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDjpOrlfh0Y
Waveforms:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2dOW3ztvfs
Life's A Beach:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5w981vZVpqA

Biggsy, consider it your fee for my musical recommendation service. It's a small price to pay.  ;)

d.
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Post by: citoyen on 14 February, 2012, 11:36:13 am
Actually, I think Zumm Zumm might be my favourite:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLvdI34yn_I

Dammit, the whole album is brilliant.

d.
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Post by: LindaG on 14 February, 2012, 11:45:32 am
Kimbra, the woman on the Gotye film, is a pretty fine artist in her own right.  Look up 'Settle Down', it makes me shiver.
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Post by: citoyen on 14 February, 2012, 11:53:47 am
That is good. She has quite a voice on her.

d.
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Post by: LindaG on 14 February, 2012, 11:58:55 am
 :)  Glad you like it.
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Post by: jogler on 14 February, 2012, 08:51:35 pm
Duane Eddy
 :thumbsup:
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Post by: jogler on 14 February, 2012, 09:37:18 pm
The Rondels
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Post by: andrewc on 14 February, 2012, 09:43:33 pm
Mike Curiak posted a new video on his blog, with a good soundtrack.

http://vimeo.com/36612474 (http://vimeo.com/36612474)

This led me to google the artiste... Zoe Keating ...it's cello Jim, but not as we know it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYrcXX4nWOA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYrcXX4nWOA)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmM13E6oxzY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmM13E6oxzY)
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Post by: jogler on 14 February, 2012, 10:21:20 pm
The Shadows
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Post by: Pingu on 15 February, 2012, 12:51:59 pm
Thanks to a crossword: The Wall, Pink Floyd.
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Post by: ludwig on 15 February, 2012, 05:45:29 pm
tune yards. She makes me go wiggly woo
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Post by: citoyen on 15 February, 2012, 05:47:08 pm
This led me to google the artiste... Zoe Keating ...it's cello Jim, but not as we know it...

I love Zoe Keating. My favourite track of hers is Optimist:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqOj36h7AIk

edit: of course, her stuff sounds very different live to how it does on record. Here's the album version of Optimist:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIdgNJ4ufkU
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Post by: citoyen on 15 February, 2012, 06:00:02 pm
Another one hot off the 6music playlist that I'm loving right now...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=722dDnXtkgA

For a flavour of what to expect, here's a quote from her Wikipedia page: "Mary Epworth is a singer and songwriter who makes music influenced by traditional English song, 60s west coast Psychedelia, and Greek Progressive Rock."
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 15 February, 2012, 07:22:53 pm
Joan As Policewoman - Flash
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Post by: LindaG on 18 February, 2012, 11:37:54 am
Joan As Policewoman - Flash

Thanks for that one MrsP  :)
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 18 February, 2012, 12:28:20 pm
You're welcome :)
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Post by: DrMekon on 18 February, 2012, 03:53:10 pm
So far today

Radiohead - tkol rmx
Chiddy Bang - peanut butter and swelly
Bonobo - black sands remix
The silver mt Zion orchestra - the West will rise again
Shigeto - lineage
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Post by: Domestique on 22 February, 2012, 03:22:08 pm
Sly & Robbie - Late Night Tales
and
Groove Armada - Late Night Tales

 :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
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Post by: tiermat on 23 February, 2012, 08:52:49 am
Lambchop - Mr M.

Yes it's nice, chilled out, laid back music, but not really my cup of tea.
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Post by: PaulF on 23 February, 2012, 09:01:53 am
El Camino ~ Black Keys Just getting into them
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Post by: tiermat on 23 February, 2012, 09:07:21 am
El Camino ~ Black Keys Just getting into them

I like that one, "Brothers" is good too
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Post by: PaulF on 23 February, 2012, 09:36:41 am
El Camino ~ Black Keys Just getting into them

I like that one, "Brothers" is good too

That was the last thing that I played yesterday :d Probably my preferred album, but I've got Rubber Factory cued up next
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Post by: Chris S on 23 February, 2012, 09:59:24 am
Groove Armada
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Post by: Pingu on 23 February, 2012, 12:59:08 pm
El Camino ~ Black Keys Just getting into them

I like that one, "Brothers" is good too

That was the last thing that I played yesterday :d Probably my preferred album, but I've got Rubber Factory cued up next

I've just listened to Attack & Release - seems to be a bit rougher and readier than El Camino.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 23 February, 2012, 05:21:17 pm
The radio is tuned to Radio 2.  I can almost forgive this, because Steve Wright  :sick: is playing The Weather Girls.
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Post by: Pingu on 24 February, 2012, 01:02:22 pm
The radio is tuned to Radio 2.  I can almost forgive this, because Steve Wright  :sick: is playing...

You must have done something very, vey bad indeed.
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Post by: Androcles on 24 February, 2012, 11:57:13 pm
Radiohead's Kid A on Youtube. 

Never heard it before  :-[ , and I love it already.
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Post by: jogler on 25 February, 2012, 03:24:29 pm
ZZ Top:via inyerearpods.Loud enough to be almost intravenous :thumbsup:
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Post by: LindaG on 25 February, 2012, 10:38:43 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZoThmaBSog
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Post by: interzen on 25 February, 2012, 10:52:26 pm
Charlemagne Palestine's 'Strumming' - never knew you could get sounds like that out of a piano ... despite being very loud in places, it's also very relaxing.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 26 February, 2012, 06:32:04 pm
Mama Cass

Dunno why Dream a Little Dream popped into my head earlier.... but it did.  So now I'm seeing what else I like.
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Post by: LindaG on 26 February, 2012, 09:17:57 pm
So much to choose from Crinkles!

My dad used to have some sort of greatest hits album of theirs, I must have nearly worn it out.  The Mamas and the Papas, I mean.  Did Mama Cass have a solo career?

Try Dedicated To The One I Love, and My Girl, and Go Where You Wanna Go.

Dream a Little Dream is my favourite though  :)
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Post by: jogler on 26 February, 2012, 09:20:52 pm
I have a Mamas & Papas Greatestits but I ain't your daddy ;D
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Post by: LindaG on 26 February, 2012, 09:22:24 pm
Kid Creole and the Coconuts.

Oops, wrong thread  ;)
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Post by: marcusjb on 27 February, 2012, 12:05:56 pm
The Ting Tings "Sounds From Nowheresville" - pure pop - properly fun.
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Post by: Pingu on 27 February, 2012, 01:03:39 pm
Talking Heads on random play  :)
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Post by: Biggsy on 27 February, 2012, 01:14:49 pm
Liz Green.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoyBugTTrTY

Where has she been all my life?
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Post by: jogler on 27 February, 2012, 04:01:01 pm
Elvis
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Post by: tiermat on 27 February, 2012, 04:04:47 pm
A random mix on my iPod, which seems to work, so far I have had (in no particular order):

Green Day
Cowboy Junkies
DJ Shadow
Korn
Slipknot
The Beautiful South
Tricky
Anastacia
Anthrax
Billy Talent
My chemical Romance
Fear Factory
Jack Johnson
plus many many more </Ronson record advert>
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Post by: marcusjb on 28 February, 2012, 06:34:47 pm
Jeff Wayne's War Of The Worlds!

Still gives me the willies - used to terrify me as a child.

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Post by: jogler on 28 February, 2012, 06:40:11 pm
Jeff Wayne's War Of The Worlds!

 :thumbsup:
<jogler wanders off to dust off his copy of same:not heard for too long>

unfortunately I was very much not a child when it was originally released
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Post by: RW on 28 February, 2012, 08:59:14 pm
Dvorak, Rusalka.  The Vaclav Neumann version.  I've had the CD for too many years unplayed.  Part of a job lot of ex BBC library CDs and vynil I picked up ages ago.  It shouldn't have been ignored for so long.
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Post by: LindaG on 29 February, 2012, 05:27:37 pm
Harvest Moon by Neil Young.  Three times, end to end now.   :)  A great way to spend an afternoon when you can't ride a bike.
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Post by: jogler on 29 February, 2012, 05:49:30 pm
I think that's one of Marj's favourite albums,if not THE favourite :)
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Post by: LindaG on 29 February, 2012, 05:55:32 pm
She has good taste in music  ;)
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Post by: Biggsy on 29 February, 2012, 06:10:47 pm
She likes a whiny old Canadian.  ;)  So do I sometimes.  Only sometimes.

I heard Lily Allen in Wilkinson's yesterday.  No, she wasn't working on the tills; "The Fear" was playing on the tannoy.  I do love a catchy tune and great production.
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Post by: LindaG on 29 February, 2012, 06:16:56 pm
She likes a whiny old Canadian.  ;)  So do I sometimes.  Only sometimes.

I heard Lily Allen in Wilkinson's yesterday.  No, she wasn't working on the tills; "The Fear" was playing on the tannoy.  I do love a catchy tune and great production.

Me too, that's a good song.  The video's fun too.
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Post by: LindaG on 01 March, 2012, 12:07:20 am
And now, Song For Athena by John Tavener.
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Post by: Pingu on 01 March, 2012, 01:01:13 pm
I find myself listening to Forever Dolphin Love by Connan Mockasin - again.
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Post by: PaulF on 01 March, 2012, 01:19:01 pm
Voyageur by Kathleen Edwards. Not surprisingly a strong Bon Iver influence in the production
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Post by: jogler on 01 March, 2012, 07:45:48 pm
George Thorogood & The Destroyers
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Post by: rogerzilla on 01 March, 2012, 09:31:21 pm
Madness.

There is nothing like this around any more, the songs or the videos.  So much talent.  They started in the 70s and Woody still looks about 14.
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Post by: LindaG on 01 March, 2012, 09:34:29 pm
Madness.

There is nothing like this around any more, the songs or the videos.  So much talent.  They started in the 70s and Woody still looks about 14.

You're not wrong.  Are you listening to a particular album?  Or spotifying/youtubing?

One Step Beyond (Deluxe version!) was my present to myself last year.  I'm sure I had a good excuse - a broken fingernail or some such.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 01 March, 2012, 09:46:18 pm
Just playing Ultimate Madness or whatever the 1990s compilation was.  I felt compelled to order the DVD collection.

"My Girl", "Baggy Trousers" and "Return of the Los Palmas 7*" bring a tear to my eye simply through nostalgia, and "Night Boat To Cairo" is one of those songs that you can't resist dancing to.  If you're a bloke.

*the very, very low-budget video has a lot of short clips, mostly very British scenes but with some Star Wars thrown in.  Someone has bothered to catalogue them:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Return_of_the_Los_Palmas_7
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Post by: LindaG on 01 March, 2012, 09:49:07 pm

 "Night Boat To Cairo" is one of those songs that you can't resist dancing to.  If you're a bloke.



Er, actually, not just if you're a bloke  :-[

 O:-) O:-) O:-)

I honestly don't think it's dated at all.  OK, the whole two-tone thing was very much of a time, but on the other hand - it came back in again last year, along with most of my clothes. 

And it's still damn good stuff isn't it.

The Prince is my personal favourite.
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Post by: Biggsy on 01 March, 2012, 10:12:15 pm
Complete Madness was one of my favourite cassettes.  It's still seems incredible to me that one band had so many so very great singles.  Their later stuff still had great tunes, but they let their melancholy side dominate.

This evening I've been listening to Rhys W! (on guitar):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7oxpFi4GB4
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Post by: rogerzilla on 01 March, 2012, 10:21:37 pm
I ought to buy the 2009 album "The Liberty Of Norton Folgate".  It is supposed to be the best thing they've ever done.
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Post by: LindaG on 01 March, 2012, 10:23:50 pm
I ought to buy the 2009 album "The Liberty Of Norton Folgate".  It is supposed to be the best thing they've ever done.

Never heard of it till now.  Thanks Roger.
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Post by: citoyen on 02 March, 2012, 12:17:57 pm
Now playing the new Grimes album, Visions. It's like an edgier version of Goldfrapp - early Goldfrapp, but with more of a beat and less of the weird noises. I like it lots.

"Night Boat To Cairo" is one of those songs that you can't resist dancing to.  If you're a bloke.

At uni, a few mates and I started the "Two Tone Society", which was really just an excuse to hold regular nights in the bar where we played all our favourite records - and fritter union funds on old stuff from Prince Buster and the like at record fairs.

Night Boat To Cairo was always a guaranteed floor filler. We had a regular crowd who when it got to the slow bit, always ended up on their backs on the floor, wiggling arms and legs in the air, before leaping up and pogoing around like loons for the finale.

Booker T's Soul Limbo was another favourite.

Ah, happy days...

d.
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Post by: LindaG on 02 March, 2012, 07:36:55 pm
Graceland by Paul Simon.

Twenty five years.  Blimey.

Memories of national express bus journeys and my 22 inch waist  ::-)

It's good though.
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Post by: geoff on 02 March, 2012, 08:51:11 pm
Adele - good ain't she!
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 03 March, 2012, 01:46:53 pm
Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings and Food
Tindersticks - Falling Down A Mountain
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Post by: Juan Martín on 04 March, 2012, 07:00:36 pm
Good Morning Spider - Sparklehorse.

I just love strange stuff like this!
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Post by: Illegal Combat Ant on 04 March, 2012, 10:58:19 pm
The Trombone Shorty album 'For True'.

Here's 'Do for me' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnC2wV-l6bI) 'Do to me' on Later with Jools Holland. Excellent stuff.
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Post by: citoyen on 05 March, 2012, 11:12:31 am
Today's post included the new remastered 2CD set of Human League's Dare, which is now blasting out on the office stereo.

Nostalgiatastic!

d.
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Post by: tiermat on 05 March, 2012, 08:32:49 pm
Pale Seas
Tupelo
Pip Mountjoy (who I swear I have met, just can't remember when)
Saint Etienne

All spurred on by getting an email telling me of the next lot of bands being added to Deershed's lineup (www.deershedfestival.com)

My fave so far? Tupelo....
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Post by: jogler on 05 March, 2012, 10:39:35 pm
Tina Turner ,Amsterdam Arena
Sky Arts 1HD
The Wildest Dreams Tour
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Post by: pcolbeck on 06 March, 2012, 08:30:18 am
The Faming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

Particularly enjoying "It's Summertime".
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 06 March, 2012, 09:58:45 am
Random Angry Loud Music on the way here, and Mama Cass now I'm at a desk.

I think this is in the appropriate order. 
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 06 March, 2012, 10:58:53 am
Queen, best of, albums one and two.

Marvelling at Freddie's vocal range.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 06 March, 2012, 01:05:08 pm
Grah.  Spotify no-worky.  Back to the MP3s....

Quite liking Vampire Weekend.  And who does, indeed, give a fuck about an Oxford Comma?  Must remember not to singalong....
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Post by: rogerzilla on 07 March, 2012, 08:01:02 pm
Watching Madness videos, specifically "NW5". It's amazing to see a load of fifty-something guys writing and performing as well as they did in the 1970s.
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Post by: PaulF on 07 March, 2012, 08:05:45 pm
Simon and Garfunkel ~ Live New York 1969

Essentially the "Bridge Over Troubled Water" album 'unplugged'. In my view much better with the sparser, less produced performances.
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Post by: tiermat on 08 March, 2012, 12:21:09 pm
The Beautiful South

Started with the unquestionably dark Quench and have now moved onto the much happier Superbi.
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Post by: Pingu on 08 March, 2012, 12:48:42 pm
Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division
We Were Exploding Anyway - 65daysofstatic
Yanqui UXO - Godspeed You! Black Emperor
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Post by: citoyen on 08 March, 2012, 12:54:11 pm
M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming

Finally got a copy yesterday though it's been out for a few months. Wish I'd got it sooner. It's very good. Very good indeed.

d.
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Post by: T42 on 08 March, 2012, 01:06:41 pm
An American in Paris
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Post by: welshwheels on 08 March, 2012, 09:33:35 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIpqP-ZVdCM&feature=related :facepalm:
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Post by: rogerzilla on 08 March, 2012, 09:46:17 pm
The Beautiful South

Started with the unquestionably dark Quench and have now moved onto the much happier Superbi.
They've always been dark.  "0898" is quite sinister throughout.
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Post by: Illegal Combat Ant on 08 March, 2012, 11:29:27 pm
Hue and Cry Duty to the debtor (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KarI-9Vpd38) 'Duty to the debtor'. Always liked their stuff back in the day - just never enough to  buy any. Don't even need to think about buying it these days.  ;)
They've matured pretty well, this is right funky.
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Post by: LindaG on 09 March, 2012, 08:07:08 pm
John Lennon - Double Fantasy, Walls and Bridges, Plastic Ono Band ...

Nice.   :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LzNNgctnbs

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Post by: jogler on 09 March, 2012, 08:56:04 pm
how about this classic recieving the Lennon treatment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtFg417oF_A
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Post by: LindaG on 09 March, 2012, 09:05:23 pm
That is, quite honestly, one of my all time favourites jogler.  Absolutely great.

but I prefer this:  because I am, at heart, a solitary soul.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moCf_pghM-U

It's so beautiful  :)

My dad cried, the day John Lennon died.  It took me years to understand why, but I think I do, now.  What an extraordinary artist he was.
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Post by: tiermat on 09 March, 2012, 09:07:52 pm
My dad cried, the day John Lennon died.  It took me years to understand why, but I think I do, now.  What an extraordinary artist he was.

Mine too, for a man who never cried it was a shock to see him do so.

I remember, as a teenager, having a copy of "Rock 'n' Roll" on tape that I played so much it wore out.
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Post by: jogler on 09 March, 2012, 09:10:09 pm
That is, quite honestly, one of my all time favourites jogler.  Absolutely great.


It's a marj-anthem.

Lennon's death is one of those occassions when so many folk can recollect exactly where they were & what they were doing.I was so shocked I had to stop the car.
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Post by: LindaG on 09 March, 2012, 09:14:53 pm
Okay, so here's one of my all time, top ten, favourite song lyrics.

"before you cross the street, take my hand.  Life is what happens to you when you're busy making other plans"

Do you remember the feeling of that tiny warm hand, finding yours, before you crossed the road?  The absolute trust?  Damn but he was good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt3IOdDE5iA

Beautiful boy.  John Lennon.

Everybody stand up.
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Post by: jogler on 09 March, 2012, 10:38:02 pm
The Animals
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Post by: jogler on 10 March, 2012, 12:05:22 am
The Supremes
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Post by: kyuss on 10 March, 2012, 12:25:44 am
Red Fang.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U48nRVL9Q4k&list=FLmoEA2ENAAVay7IichRdgYA&index=4&feature=plpp_video
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Post by: Dinamo on 10 March, 2012, 12:31:27 am
Hopes & Fears - Keane
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Post by: microphonie on 11 March, 2012, 09:46:08 am
More eMusic downloads to dive into. Only listened to the first couple so far. I was surprised how many of the 2 Bears tracks I recognised: I thought I'd only heard Bear Hug  :thumbsup:

The Shangaan Shake compilation is a set of remixes of tracks from the compilation Shangaan Electro: New Wave Dance Music From South Africa done by the great & good of the current underground dance scene. On first listen it's another  :thumbsup: and means I'll d/l the original album next month.

The 2 Bears - Be Strong
Various Artists - Shangaan Shake
Belbury Poly - The Belbury Tales
Burial - Kindred
Django Django - Django Django
Emeralds - Emeralds
Sandwell District - Feed Forward
Haxan Cloak - Observatory e.p.
Young Hunting - The Night of the Burning


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Post by: rogerzilla on 11 March, 2012, 09:57:39 am
Okay, so here's one of my all time, top ten, favourite song lyrics.

"before you cross the street, take my hand.  Life is what happens to you when you're busy making other plans"

Do you remember the feeling of that tiny warm hand, finding yours, before you crossed the road?  The absolute trust?  Damn but he was good.
For balance, my father said on hsi death that he was once a good Liverpool comedian, who had been ruined by that Ono woman.
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Post by: Peter on 11 March, 2012, 10:06:34 am
@ Jogler, LindaG and Tiermat

I, too, am I big John Lennon fan.  The Rock and Roll album is great but I just wondered, have you heard Ry Cooder's version of Stand By Me?  He does it in a Tex-Mex style with Flaco Jimenez and the King brothers.  But then, I love Ry Cooder!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7LxCRJC4Kw
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Post by: nicknack on 11 March, 2012, 10:22:55 am
Messiaen's Vingt regards sur l'enfant Jesus.

Courtesy of Spotify. I keep forgetting I've got this. I should use it more often.
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Post by: jogler on 11 March, 2012, 10:24:51 am
@ Jogler, LindaG and Tiermat

.  But then, I love Ry Cooder!



I reckoned so from Tune association :thumbsup:

RC doesn't do it for me.Having said that I think Lennon's cover of Ben E. King's classic is even better than the original.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 11 March, 2012, 11:42:41 am
A fair bit of Bobby Whitlock, should be much more well known than he is. Here with EC.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZNL0wvIj78 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZNL0wvIj78)
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Post by: pcolbeck on 11 March, 2012, 11:51:04 am
And one from Bobby's first solo album in 1972 again with EC on guitar.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__hy5OZJlmY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__hy5OZJlmY)
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Post by: Biggsy on 11 March, 2012, 12:15:53 pm
Documentary on the history of 6Music - on 6Music now, til 1pm.  I'm sure it'll be repeated if you missed the start.
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Post by: Biggsy on 11 March, 2012, 04:45:45 pm
A disco version of Anarchy in the UK.
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Post by: PaulF on 11 March, 2012, 06:32:49 pm
@ Jogler, LindaG and Tiermat

  But then, I love Ry Cooder!


There's a big Ry Cooder shaped hole in my collection!

Got any reccomendations of where to start? A playlist? Or a good "Introduction to"?
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Post by: Wowbagger on 11 March, 2012, 06:47:49 pm
Mrs. Wow and I went to a very fine concert at the Cliffs Pavilion, a mere half-hour walk form our house. The players were the EU Chamber Orchestra (http://www.etd.gb.com/index.htm) and the soloist was Julian Lloyd-Webber. The works we heard were Handel's Entance of the Queen of Sheba, a Mozart Divertimento (although apparently this wasn't a proper divertimento on account of having the wrong number of movements), a Haydn 'Cello Concerto, a Sibelius Romance and Mozart's 29th Symphony. My pal Frank was also there. and we had a natter before the concert started.

It's gratifying that the money we give to the European Union is sometimes spent on something worthwhile.   :P
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Post by: Peter on 11 March, 2012, 07:53:40 pm
@ Jogler, LindaG and Tiermat

  But then, I love Ry Cooder!


There's a big Ry Cooder shaped hole in my collection!

Got any reccomendations of where to start? A playlist? Or a good "Introduction to"?

Paul, I'll get on to it - there's just so much!  I'll be back as soon as I've got a miinute.
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Post by: PaulF on 11 March, 2012, 08:11:34 pm
Thanks, much appreciated!
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Post by: pcolbeck on 11 March, 2012, 08:14:30 pm
My favourite is Bop Til You Drop. Ry Cooder and Chakla Kahn on the same record, what's not to like ?
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Post by: Peter on 12 March, 2012, 12:43:27 am
@ paulf and pcolbeck

Yes, I'd definitely recommend Bop Til you Drop; Ry's version of All Shook Up is astonishing.

I confess to not really knowing his recent output (post Buena Vista Social Club) but I'd suggest starting with his first, Into The Purple Valley, then maybe Boomer's Story, obviously Chicken Skin Music, with the great Flaco Jimenez, and Borderline, which contains the poignant "Across The Borderline" (about Mexican immigrants) and the equally haunting "This Is The Way We Make A Broken Heart".

paul, I hope you enjoy Ry.  He's not everyone's cup of tea but that's what makes the world go round.  I can't think of another artiste who casts his net so wide when looking for material.

(He also wrote the soundtrack for Paris, Texas, starring the great Harry Dean Stanton.
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Post by: Biggsy on 15 March, 2012, 11:46:46 pm
Veronica Falls - My Heart Beats
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAQ0R9DB8Qk

Veronica Falls - The Fountain (live)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vah_ZTiJn4
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 16 March, 2012, 12:03:15 am
Big Fox.

An accidental Spotify find.  I likee.
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Post by: Steph on 16 March, 2012, 01:43:41 am
Sigur Ros. Enough said.
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 16 March, 2012, 10:17:58 am
Ian Drury.
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Post by: Biggsy on 16 March, 2012, 12:36:51 pm
Is anyone else impressed by Veronica Falls?  You could say it's unoriginal indie pop, but I don't care when it's this very nice.  And there's some sadness in some of the lyrics to contrast with the pretty tunes and voices and upbeat tempo, like much of the best pop music has.

I'd never heard of them before last night on 6Music.  I should have taken more notice of everything on Bella Union, run by a Simon Raymond of the Cocteaus.
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Post by: Ham on 16 March, 2012, 12:57:34 pm
Avishai Cohen(s).

First heard as a v brief moment on Jamie Cullum's show (http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b01d5qgl starts at about 0:25) but it appears that there are two Avishai Cohens (Cohanim?) and this trumpeter version of Avishai Cohen is entirely different and separate http://www.avishaicohenmusic.com/live/

Enjoying both

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Post by: Deano on 16 March, 2012, 01:46:34 pm
Electrelane. Girls with guitars, and also swirling keyboards and driving bass, with occasional choirs and other stuff. Always a great listen.
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Post by: Juan Martín on 18 March, 2012, 06:11:53 pm
The Well-Tempered Clavier.
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Post by: nicknack on 18 March, 2012, 07:07:15 pm
Careless Whisper

Sometimes you just have to.
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Post by: LindaG on 18 March, 2012, 08:54:38 pm
Careless Whisper

Sometimes you just have to.

Because they were forcing splinters under your fingernails?
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Post by: PaulF on 18 March, 2012, 08:57:31 pm
Tired Pony, a bunch of musicians haing fun.
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Post by: LindaG on 18 March, 2012, 09:01:32 pm
The Vaccines - What did you expect from the vaccines?

And singing along.  It's grand, jolly stuff.

As passed on to me by my mate TheChief.
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Post by: LindaG on 18 March, 2012, 10:08:12 pm
And now, The Editors, just because they sound a bit like The Vaccines  :)
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Post by: Dinamo on 18 March, 2012, 10:14:09 pm
Faithless - The Dance
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Post by: Biggsy on 20 March, 2012, 08:11:22 pm
The Lift Men - Cloudy O - a song about dooring a cyclist.
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Post by: LindaG on 20 March, 2012, 08:15:48 pm
The Smiths
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Post by: clarion on 21 March, 2012, 01:18:46 pm
Radmac.  To avoid Osbo.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 22 March, 2012, 09:05:40 am
The Best of Stevie Ray Vaughab - Vol 1

Well at least I will be when I have ripped it. It was yesterdays bargain. £1.99 in a second hand CD shop. Now to find vol 2 ...
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Post by: LindaG on 22 March, 2012, 10:59:28 am
Lost Verses Live by Mark Kozelek, as provided by Juan Martin of this parish.  It's brilliant, absolutely great.  What a lucky find  :)

The live version of Tiny Cities is exceptionally fabulous  :D
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Post by: tiermat on 22 March, 2012, 11:07:52 am
Jools Holland - Jack 'O' The Green, I was reminded of this album by Tune Association.

Currently Prince Buster is exulting me to "Enjoy Yourself" :)
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Post by: LindaG on 22 March, 2012, 11:09:03 am
Jools Holland - Jack 'O' The Green, I was reminded of this album by Tune Association.

Currently Prince Buster is exulting me to "Enjoy Yourself" :)

It's later than you think!
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Post by: tiermat on 22 March, 2012, 11:10:07 am
It sure is LG!
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Post by: tiermat on 22 March, 2012, 11:12:17 am
And just to change the tone after JH, I have lined up Slipknot "All Hope Is Gone" :D
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Post by: jogler on 22 March, 2012, 11:25:06 am
I have lined up Slipknot "All Hope Is Gone" :D

I hope you are not suicidal :hand:
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Post by: tiermat on 22 March, 2012, 11:26:36 am
Jogler, no, not in the slightest, and TBH that album is actually quite uplifting....
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Post by: LindaG on 22 March, 2012, 11:41:12 am
Jogler, no, not in the slightest, and TBH that album is actually quite uplifting....

Whaaaa .... ????
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 22 March, 2012, 07:16:50 pm
North Atlantic Oscillation, again. I think that and Tindersticks are my fave albums of the mo.
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Post by: ludwig on 22 March, 2012, 07:30:32 pm
everything everything and tune yards
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Post by: andrewc on 22 March, 2012, 11:56:44 pm
Oldies, but goodies.    The Ruts...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJYS0b6pG4o&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJYS0b6pG4o&feature=related)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCkNu9OxThc&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCkNu9OxThc&feature=related)
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Post by: Steph on 23 March, 2012, 11:03:44 pm
Ranarim, "Till Ljusan Dag"
Female duet vocal, nyckelharpa and mandola/guitar. Swedish lyrics with a Norge border accent (they say 'ikke' a lot)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ranarim_TFF2005_05.JPG

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-N1glkrnUw&feature=related
No, I don't fancy the singers. Well, I do, but the music is the thing.
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Post by: Dinamo on 24 March, 2012, 09:20:33 am
Their Law - The Prodigy
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Post by: pcolbeck on 24 March, 2012, 10:10:18 pm
Lots and lots of Rory Gallagher tonight. "Walk on Hot Coals" from the Irish Tour 1974 is doing it for me right now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5Hsu-A-WYM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5Hsu-A-WYM)
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Post by: Biggsy on 24 March, 2012, 11:28:16 pm
At long last I've bought some Beach Boys albums: Pet Sounds, Sunflower and Surf's Up.  Listening to Pet Sounds now.

Modern bands could at least learn one lesson from the old boys: keep your songs short if there's not a good reason for them to be long.  Don't bore us.  Leave us wanting more!
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Post by: welshwheels on 27 March, 2012, 08:25:57 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDAh19tms4U&feature=related   :thumbsup:
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Post by: pcolbeck on 28 March, 2012, 08:56:50 am
At long last I've bought some Beach Boys albums: Pet Sounds, Sunflower and Surf's Up.  Listening to Pet Sounds now.

Pet Sounds is genius but I have never been convinced by the rest of the Beach Boy's catalogue. Pet Sounds was a bit of a one off (it was a Brain Wilson solo project rather than a Beach Boys one).
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Post by: NeilP on 28 March, 2012, 09:15:10 am
Scotch Mist - Radiohead
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Post by: Biggsy on 28 March, 2012, 11:08:33 am
Hearing Surf's Up (the song, Brian Wilson's) on the radio recently was what prompted me to buy the albums, so it's not just Pet Sounds I'm going to like.

(The Sunflower and Surf's Up albums are available on a single CD).
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Post by: microphonie on 28 March, 2012, 06:24:56 pm
The rather wonderful new album by Belbury Poly:  The Belbury Tales  (http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/xrnv)

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Post by: LindaG on 30 March, 2012, 09:29:02 pm
The Mozart Clarinet Quintet in A, K581.

Alles ist in ordnung.

Aaaahhhhhhh ....................
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Post by: Biggsy on 30 March, 2012, 09:30:04 pm
Veronica Falls - Veronica Falls (album).
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Post by: Illegal Combat Ant on 31 March, 2012, 12:29:34 pm
Without this lot punk would never have happened. Anyway, they were all good mates of mine back in the day and I went on to play with one of the original members till he died. Then I stopped playing for a while cos I was going the same way.

The Pink Fairies 'Do it' (Does that count as a minor claim to fame?  ;))

do it (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nagC41Pe4c4)

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Post by: pcolbeck on 31 March, 2012, 08:10:29 pm
I always though the mighty MC5 where credited with being the proto punk band. I like the Pink Fairies too.

Teenage Lust - MC5 1970
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAQ2vIdydSA&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAQ2vIdydSA&feature=related)
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Post by: pcolbeck on 31 March, 2012, 08:23:54 pm
There is actually a connection between the MC5 and the Pink Faries in that Wayne Kramer guitarist for the MC5 wrote a musical with Mick Farren of the Deviants in the 80s (who spawned the Pink Fairies when they broke up) and played live with the reformed Deviants sometimes. Here he is on the excellent "Police Car" live in the 80s.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWqt9boKKVo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWqt9boKKVo)
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Post by: clarion on 31 March, 2012, 08:28:11 pm
ftr, that's a Austin Mini Cooper MkII and probably belonged to the Liverpool force.
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Post by: Peter on 31 March, 2012, 08:33:42 pm
The Mozart Clarinet Quintet in A, K581.

Alles ist in ordnung.

Aaaahhhhhhh ....................

Selbstverstandlich!

Have you heard the Brahms Quintet?
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Post by: Biggsy on 31 March, 2012, 09:03:51 pm
The Craig Charles Funk and Soul Show on http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/
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Post by: LindaG on 01 April, 2012, 01:47:58 am
The Mozart Clarinet Quintet in A, K581.

Alles ist in ordnung.

Aaaahhhhhhh ....................

Selbstverstandlich!

Have you heard the Brahms Quintet?

No.  Not yet.

Aber ich muss das prufen.

Danke, Peter.
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Post by: Peter on 01 April, 2012, 10:17:05 am
Bestimmt.  Kegelstatt Trio ist auch wunderbar.  Wirklich, alles von Wolfgang!

What do you reckon about Alice From Wolfgang as a group name?
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Post by: LindaG on 01 April, 2012, 02:56:17 pm

What do you reckon about Alice From Wolfgang as a group name?

Hmm.  What genre?
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Post by: Bledlow on 01 April, 2012, 08:46:58 pm
Yesterday, I was listening to Rodrigo's Fantasia para un Gentilhombre, a piece by John Ireland, & a couple of Bach piano concerti, in St Lawrence's church, West Wycombe.

The music was good. Not quite a professional performance, apart from the guitarist (double starred first in music at Cambridge, but now works in derivatives sales for a major bank  :facepalm:) & pianist (a professional), but good enough. The church is mediaeval, but was rebuilt with a spectacular interior in the 18th century (paid for by Sir Francis Dashwood), & its setting is stunning. We arrived in just enough light to enjoy the view, with a kite on its last patrol of the day wheeling overhead, & numerous noisier birds letting everyone know of their presence before settling down for the night.

A glass of wine in the interval & an amiable chat with Mrs B's new boss (mother of the guitarist). What's not to like?

It's been too long since I last did something like that.
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Post by: Peter on 01 April, 2012, 09:23:39 pm

What do you reckon about Alice From Wolfgang as a group name?

Hmm.  What genre?

Digger-Kraut rock, maybe?
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Post by: Peter on 01 April, 2012, 09:28:50 pm
Just got back from a performance of Stainer's Crucifixion given at the cathedral in Manchester.  I'm not keen on the story because it ends badly, but it's a wonderful piece.  Many will know the central "God So Loved The World", but the whole thing is so moving and there are five hymns incorporated which give the audience a chance to take part.  A great afternoon, capped by Newcastle's defeat of Liverpool!

@ Bledlow, that sounds like a good one, too!
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Post by: pcolbeck on 01 April, 2012, 09:29:52 pm
Stanley Clarke - basstastic
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Post by: TimC on 01 April, 2012, 10:05:11 pm
Davy Knowles and Back Door Slam. Bluestastic!
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Post by: Katie on 01 April, 2012, 10:31:33 pm
Currently, my brother blowing people up on Call of Duty.

Have had Lenka - The Show stuck in my head much of the day, though.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 03 April, 2012, 09:53:14 pm
The Boomtown Rats' "Rat Trap".  They don't write them like that anymore.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 03 April, 2012, 10:37:16 pm
The new Dr John album (released today)produced by the guy from the Black Keys. Swampfunktastic. Never thought I would walk into HMV and hear Dr John over the PA and it be a recommended allbum of the week but there you go. £10 well spent.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 04 April, 2012, 08:18:44 pm
The Fruity Bits Of Ivor Biggun.

I'm truly sorry.
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Post by: andyoxon on 04 April, 2012, 09:11:33 pm
Pendulum
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Post by: andrewc on 04 April, 2012, 11:23:57 pm
Just back from the RLPO with Petrenko conducting the St Matthew Passion.   Over 3 hours, plus the interval in a packed, overly warm hall. I was nodding off for a bit.   Absolutely superb performance though.
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Post by: Biggsy on 05 April, 2012, 10:43:16 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3Vs4pHHARI
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Post by: kyuss on 07 April, 2012, 03:13:57 am
Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kM0mjukDGRw
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 07 April, 2012, 03:47:38 am
After being reminded of her existence last weekend, Tanita Tikaram.  Ah.... nostalgia!
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Post by: jezzasnr on 07 April, 2012, 05:03:47 am
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinasours
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Post by: microphonie on 09 April, 2012, 11:13:51 am
More eMusic downloads:

Demdike Stare - Elemental
Clark - Iradelphic
African Head Charge - Voodoo of the Godsent
Harmonious Thelonious - Listen
Nickolas Mohanna - Transmission Hue
Kareem - Noctocromäs
Emeralds - Solar Bridge
Burial Hex - Initiations
Shrag - Tendons in the Night

Only got through the Clark, AHC & Harmonious Thelonious so far.

The HT album has made the biggest initial impression - funky electonica that takes you on a journey round the world, with influences from Africa & South America via Balinese gamelan: a few samples & a glowing review are  here  (http://www.emusic.com/listen/#/album/harmonious-thelonious/listen/12970878/:). If this doesn't have you shaking your rump you must be dead. Recommended.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hk_6ab2rYIo

A bit underwhelmed by the AHC album: nothing immediately stands out apart from the track I heard on Don Letts that got me to try out the album: Badman Plan. Probably requires repeated listening.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqFsvsa5YCk

Iradelphic is pretty lush electronica, with Com Touch being the stand-out track:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nq4M7QBxt4


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Post by: pcolbeck on 09 April, 2012, 11:34:15 am
Erykah Badu  - Annie Don't Wear No Panties

I wish she did more funk, this is gorgeous.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9d9eydCfTdw&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9d9eydCfTdw&feature=related)
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Post by: rogerzilla on 09 April, 2012, 04:37:48 pm
Embarrassingly, C W McCall's "Convoy" which is one of the worst earworms possible.  Someone at work actually has a "chartreuse microbus".
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Post by: rogerzilla on 09 April, 2012, 06:32:34 pm
On the same compilation, Thin Lizzy's "Whiskey In The Jar" (must work out the guitar riff) and Sparks' "This Town Ain't Big Enough For The Both Of Us" which is quite unearthly.
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Post by: nicknack on 09 April, 2012, 07:40:17 pm
Esbjorn Svensson.

I'm in that sort of mood.
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Post by: Biggsy on 09 April, 2012, 11:55:58 pm
Benny Hill - Ernie (The Fastest Milkman in the West)
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Post by: Pingu on 11 April, 2012, 01:06:19 pm
Elbow followed by Múm
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Post by: clarion on 11 April, 2012, 03:06:26 pm
Mum's more armpit than elbow, wouldn't you say?
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Post by: tiermat on 11 April, 2012, 03:17:57 pm
An iPod mix, again, today has thrown up, so far, Arrested Development, Jane's Addiction, Seasick Steve and Rancid....
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Post by: clarion on 11 April, 2012, 03:30:00 pm
That's a good mix.
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Post by: Pingu on 11 April, 2012, 03:31:22 pm
Mum's more armpit than elbow, wouldn't you say?

Ball or aerosol?
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Post by: clarion on 11 April, 2012, 03:38:10 pm
No, it's for my armpits...

</for the sake of completion>
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Post by: ran doner on 11 April, 2012, 03:40:12 pm
No, it's for my armpits...

</for the sake of completion>

Not the Nine O'Clock News wasn't it ?
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Post by: rower40 on 11 April, 2012, 06:49:55 pm
Eagles - Journey of the Sorcerer.
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Post by: Peter on 11 April, 2012, 07:47:17 pm
Rowan, is that The Eagles?  Bit of a poncey title for them.  What's it all about?
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Post by: PaulF on 11 April, 2012, 09:46:14 pm
Was that the one used as the theme for "Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy"?
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Post by: Gus on 11 April, 2012, 10:00:16 pm
Clawfinger
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Post by: tiermat on 12 April, 2012, 06:45:37 am
Clawfinger

DeafDumbBlind ?
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Post by: rower40 on 12 April, 2012, 07:09:32 am
Was that the one used as the theme for "Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy"?
Yup.
The "Original Radio Scripts" narrates the incident after HHG2G was first broadcast, with people writing or phoning into the Beeb (no Email in those days) asking what the theme music was, then finding out they already had it in their album collections (no MP3s in those days).
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Post by: Dinamo on 12 April, 2012, 12:17:43 pm
4 Ever Floyd

An Internet radio station playing Pink Floyd  !

Plays random/requested tracks from all Floyd albums inc solo work.

Now playing Celestial Voices from A Saucerful Of Secrets !
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Post by: Biggsy on 12 April, 2012, 12:22:58 pm
Something brand new from Saint Ettienne.  :thumbsup:
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Post by: tiermat on 12 April, 2012, 12:34:54 pm
Something brand new from Saint Ettienne.  :thumbsup:

Is it out now? Must toddle off to get it, as we are seeing them @ Deershed in a couple of months time :)
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Post by: billplumtree on 12 April, 2012, 01:04:56 pm
The "Original Radio Scripts" narrates the incident after HHG2G was first broadcast, with people writing or phoning into the Beeb (no Email in those days) asking what the theme music was, then finding out they already had it in their album collections (no MP3s taste in those days).

FTFY
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Post by: Biggsy on 12 April, 2012, 01:31:23 pm
Something brand new from Saint Ettienne.  :thumbsup:

Is it out now?

Probably not yet.  I was listening to it on 6Music.
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Post by: Peter on 15 April, 2012, 12:22:40 am
Early Elvis Presley, circa 1956, all the Crudup and Lieber and Stoller stuff.  Just Great.  I suppose God will have forgiven Tom Parker - I'm finding it next to impossible. :-[
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 15 April, 2012, 10:45:26 pm
Tindersticks - Falling Down A Mountain
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Post by: Biggsy on 15 April, 2012, 11:01:53 pm
6Music all day.
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Post by: Pingu on 15 April, 2012, 11:16:37 pm
4 Ever Floyd

An Internet radio station playing Pink Floyd  !

Plays random/requested tracks from all Floyd albums inc solo work.

Now playing Celestial Voices from A Saucerful Of Secrets !

Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast right now - it's been a ruddy long time since I heard that  :D
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Post by: Feanor on 15 April, 2012, 11:22:43 pm
4 Ever Floyd

An Internet radio station playing Pink Floyd  !

Plays random/requested tracks from all Floyd albums inc solo work.

Now playing Celestial Voices from A Saucerful Of Secrets !

Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast right now - it's been a ruddy long time since I heard that  :D

I've just got back from the US of A, and I'm about to Set the Controls for the Heart of my Bed...

NN all.

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Post by: Deano on 17 April, 2012, 05:03:42 pm
The Gun Club and the Soledad Brothers. Rowdy white boy blues.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 18 April, 2012, 11:37:02 am
Ashes and Fire - Ryan Adams

Latest album. On the whole very good if a bit patchy as all of his stuff is (he writes a lot of songs !)
This one contains one of his best love songs "I love you but I don't know what to say":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IUPrTgwiak (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IUPrTgwiak)

We belong here, we belong here
Ain’t nobody that can tell us we’re wrong
Help me say, say this to you
I’ll stand by your side, to see you through

I promise you that I’ll keep you safe from harm
I’ll love you all the rest of my days
When the night is silent and we seem so far away
Oh I love you but I don’t know what to say

I was lost, I was lost
Tried to find the balance, got caught up in the cost
Let it go, when I met you
All the clouds parted, all that light came shining through

I promise you I will keep you safe from harm
And love you all the rest of my days
When the night is silent and we seem so far away
Oh I love you and I don’t know what to say

I promise you that I will keep you safe from harm
And love you all the rest of my days
When the night is silent and we seem so far away
Oh I love you and I don’t know what to say
Oh I love you and I don’t know what to say


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Post by: interzen on 18 April, 2012, 11:38:37 am
Philip Glass
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Post by: Pingu on 18 April, 2012, 12:06:52 pm
Linton Kwesi Johnson
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Post by: Illegal Combat Ant on 18 April, 2012, 10:13:05 pm
When it all goes wrong  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM-fWmMMydk)

"Well, it's tough shit baby, you gotta hold on"
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Post by: Biggsy on 18 April, 2012, 10:57:51 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQhDwChloIw&feature=channel&list=UL

...amongst http://www.youtube.com/user/paulinasinaga#g/u
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Post by: NeilP on 19 April, 2012, 12:24:06 pm
Eels - Electro Shock Blues
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Post by: microphonie on 19 April, 2012, 07:24:23 pm
Kareem: NOCTOCROMÄS  (http://www.junodownload.com/products/noctocromas/1456949-02/)

The Boomkat review:

"...Kareem has deemed the time right to unleash his darkest material yet 'Noctocromas'. Puffed full of caliginous aural clouds, 'Noctocromas' can at first seem wilfully unpenetratable as the first two tracks ('Doom' and 'HaCks 1') blur past in a steely mask of electronic drone. Just when you're thinking it's a beatless headmash throughout, 'HaCks 3' introduces a heartbeat rhythm of soulless depth that drags you in to the aural tar ever deeper, with the violent pounding remorselessly drilling you against the wall. Bleeding into one another, the individual pieces soon become one turbulent beast, as the granite beats begin to take their toll on the surrounding structures. Very dark and awfully proud of it."

And pretty spot-on it is too. It's like an alternative soundtrack to Alien. A release made for listening to on headphones.  :thumbsup:
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Post by: PaulF on 20 April, 2012, 10:20:59 am
Just had Music from Big Pink, now simply The Band

R.I.P. Levon Helm
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Post by: interzen on 22 April, 2012, 11:58:26 am
Deepchord - "Hash Bar Loops"

Massively chilled-out dub techno - sounds like The Orb on valium  ;D
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Post by: RJ on 22 April, 2012, 10:12:19 pm
Ozric Tentacles - Paper Monkeys.

FirstBorn (8 ):  "Funky space rock!"   Not wrong  ;)
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Post by: interzen on 23 April, 2012, 09:29:06 am
Ozric Tentacles - Paper Monkeys.

FirstBorn (8 ):  "Funky space rock!"   Not wrong  ;)
Personally, I think their last couple of albums have been utter crap - was listening to "Strangeitude" on the way in to work, though ;)
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Post by: tiermat on 23 April, 2012, 01:32:25 pm
Another iPod mix, this time, so far, I have had Metallica (Enter Sandman), Uncle Kracker (Follow Me), Placebo (Follow The Cops Back Home), Stevesick Steve (Ain't My Dog), Stereophonics (A Thousand Trees) and it has just moved onto The Godfathers (Someone Like You).

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Post by: interzen on 23 April, 2012, 02:00:22 pm
Ozric Tentacles - There Is Nothing

"Thrashing Breath Texture" has to be the best track name in the history of history itself ;D
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Post by: tiermat on 23 April, 2012, 02:09:53 pm
Moved onto a Mackem vibe now, 3 Colours Red, Ginger and Dogs D'Amour (maybe this should be in the pop quiz thread, or is it too easy? :) )
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Post by: marcusjb on 23 April, 2012, 04:38:03 pm
Shifted - Crossed Paths

(http://beatsperminute.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/shifted-crossed-paths-300x300.jpg)

Dark, disturbing, minimal, Berlin-influenced techno at it's very best.

His identity is a mystery - apparently someone who's been around a while, but not in electronic music possibly. 

Tracks like Leather are rather brilliant if you're into sparse 4/4.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 23 April, 2012, 04:56:52 pm
White Stripes - Icky Thump. Only one track I dont like.
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Post by: Deano on 23 April, 2012, 05:29:45 pm
It's a great album. I think my favourite track is Conquest, just cos it's so preposterous.

What's the track you don't like?
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Post by: Dinamo on 23 April, 2012, 05:47:04 pm
Shifted - Crossed Paths

(http://beatsperminute.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/shifted-crossed-paths-300x300.jpg)

Dark, disturbing, minimal, Berlin-influenced techno at it's very best.

His identity is a mystery - apparently someone who's been around a while, but not in electronic music possibly. 

Tracks like Leather are rather brilliant if you're into sparse 4/4.

Just listened to more tracks on YouTube from the upcoming album - very good  :thumbsup:
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Post by: pcolbeck on 24 April, 2012, 01:51:51 pm
It's a great album. I think my favourite track is Conquest, just cos it's so preposterous.

What's the track you don't like?

Prickly Thorn, But Sweetly Worn

My favourite is 300 M.P.H. Torrential Outpour Blues.
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Post by: Deano on 26 April, 2012, 04:36:15 pm
Fair enough. I really like the folksiness of Prickly Thorn.

Today, Amerasia by Terry Allen.

Now, Among My Swan by Mazzy Star *swoons*
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Post by: Riggers on 26 April, 2012, 04:37:55 pm
I had to 'Google' Mazzy Star. And I can see why you would too. Oo-er missus.
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Post by: Deano on 26 April, 2012, 04:41:32 pm
It's all about the music, Riggers.
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Post by: Riggers on 26 April, 2012, 04:50:51 pm
… and Mazzy Star.

Went to see the Civil Wars a few week's ago. Very nice close harmony.
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Post by: Biggsy on 26 April, 2012, 06:38:27 pm
It's all about the music, Riggers.

And sniffing the vinyl.
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Post by: Aidan on 26 April, 2012, 06:43:22 pm
New Jack White album. Excellent!
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Post by: mike on 27 April, 2012, 11:06:44 am
Katrina and the waves on r2, with an instant flashback to them playing at our college ball in 1993 (or 4, cant remember) - I think they played this about 10 times!
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Post by: tiermat on 27 April, 2012, 11:08:48 am
Powderfinger.

Perfect chilled out counterpoint to my stressed out work day....
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Post by: interzen on 27 April, 2012, 11:48:45 am
Geddy Lee's solo album - OK, it's a few years old and it manages to sound a lot like a Rush album, but it's still damned good.
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Post by: marcusjb on 27 April, 2012, 04:26:19 pm
(http://media.warp.net/images/WARPCD055_Packshot_1000.jpg)

Little that can be said about it - one of the finest albums ever.

It's on my main Linn system rather loud today - suits the melancholy I am feeling today nicely.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 28 April, 2012, 12:04:00 pm
Alabama Shakes - last night on Later and today on Youtube. Excellent. She sings much better than the other Brittany :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUpXO_9gyrc&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUpXO_9gyrc&feature=related)
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Post by: marcusjb on 28 April, 2012, 07:17:40 pm
(http://media.kompakt.fm/01/assets/releases/fitted/rn130-symeta.jpg)

Byetone - Symeta

I forget just how good this album is - relentless, driving with a hefty nod towards the likes of Pan Sonic - hypnotic stuff.
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Post by: jogler on 30 April, 2012, 03:34:25 pm
This

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbiYv_lNfFA

& more

she could ride my tandem anytime she wants to...
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Post by: LindaG on 30 April, 2012, 03:41:43 pm
Think so?  She might make her hair a bit untidy.

Veronica Falls.  Not bad on a first listen.
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Post by: interzen on 30 April, 2012, 03:42:24 pm
Slayer - Reign In Blood  :demon:
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Post by: LindaG on 30 April, 2012, 08:04:01 pm
Joni Mitchell - Aisles of Smiles.  A live album from 1974.  Famous for its excellent production values, apparently.  My mate burned it for me.

It's marvellous.
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Post by: tiermat on 01 May, 2012, 03:13:24 pm
Complete opposite end of the spectrum to LG, I am listening to Anthrax - Attack of the Killer B's.

Late '80's/90's rap/rock. FANTASTIC :)
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Post by: microphonie on 01 May, 2012, 04:35:23 pm

Byetone - Symeta

I forget just how good this album is - relentless, driving with a hefty nod towards the likes of Pan Sonic - hypnotic stuff.

Ta for the recommendation: just added this to my eMusic 'save for later' list. Have you tried Senking's 'Pong', also on Raster-Noton?
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Post by: Bledlow on 01 May, 2012, 06:47:52 pm
 . . . a blackbird.

He usually performs about this time of day. He likes improvising round themes, putting in lots of variations & bits of verbal trickery, but sometimes he just sings a simple tune, rather sweetly.
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Post by: Biggsy on 01 May, 2012, 08:35:23 pm
Blackbird here as well.

Recording from a few minutes ago: http://soundcloud.com/iceblinker/birdie003
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Post by: tiermat on 02 May, 2012, 12:23:16 pm
One of my favourite albums of all time.

Hair Of The Dog, by Nazereth

Currently on "Son of a Bitch"
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Post by: interzen on 02 May, 2012, 12:25:10 pm
Deepchord - Liumin

Ambient dub-techno inspired by a trip to Japan (apparently) - 'tis good.
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Post by: clarion on 02 May, 2012, 01:02:40 pm
One of my favourite albums of all time.

Hair Of The Dog, by Nazereth

Currently on "Son of a Bitch"

And singing it at the top of your voice, gritty Dan Mccafferty-style, I trust? ;D
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Post by: tiermat on 02 May, 2012, 01:07:55 pm
One of my favourite albums of all time.

Hair Of The Dog, by Nazereth

Currently on "Son of a Bitch"

And singing it at the top of your voice, gritty Dan Mccafferty-style, I trust? ;D

Of course! The cats are currently hiding, I wonder if the two things are linked?
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Post by: clarion on 02 May, 2012, 01:10:04 pm
Is Manny Charlton the most underrated lead guitarist of all time? 
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Post by: PaulF on 02 May, 2012, 01:11:10 pm
Show of Hands ~ Witness

Really enjoying it after a tip off from the St George's day thread.
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Post by: tiermat on 02 May, 2012, 01:20:26 pm
Is Manny Charlton the most underrated lead guitarist of all time?

Bloody brilliant, IMHO.  then again, I am not the average CD (or LP) buying public :)  The range of styles he shows, just on this album is fantastic.
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Post by: jogler on 04 May, 2012, 03:48:50 pm
ZZ Top
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Post by: jogler on 04 May, 2012, 04:28:41 pm
The Rolling Stones
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Post by: jogler on 04 May, 2012, 05:05:58 pm
U2
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Post by: Biggsy on 06 May, 2012, 04:59:25 pm
John Cooper Clarke DJing on 6 Music - Week 1 of a "Month of Sundays", Sundays 4 - 6pm.
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Post by: microphonie on 07 May, 2012, 09:22:38 am
Can't quite work out whether I think this is genius or a good idea not quite executed to perfection:

Richard Burton reading Under Milk Wood mashed up with King Tubby's Caught By The River:

 Under Dubwood (http://soundcloud.com/caughtbytheriver/sets/rivertones-1/)

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Post by: Biggsy on 07 May, 2012, 11:38:36 am
Can't quite work out whether I think this is genius or a good idea not quite executed to perfection:

Richard Burton reading Under Milk Wood mashed up with King Tubby's Caught By The River:

 Under Dubwood (http://soundcloud.com/caughtbytheriver/sets/rivertones-1/)

It's working for me. :thumbsup:  Just what I need on a bank holiday Monday morning.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 07 May, 2012, 12:31:06 pm
Lemon Jelly - Lost Horizons
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Post by: citoyen on 08 May, 2012, 11:41:20 am
This Is For The Whites In Your Eyes - Choir Of Young Believers

They did Hollow Talk, the theme song for The Bridge, the Scandicrime drama currently airing on BBC4. Tbh, the rest of the album mostly isn't up to the standard of that one track...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vy7yuj-UrNI
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Post by: Butterfly on 09 May, 2012, 03:06:18 pm
Peter and the Wolf narrated by Dame Edna Everage. I didn't think it was possible for that piece of music to be more annoying...
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Post by: PaulF on 09 May, 2012, 03:58:51 pm
Dr Dee ~ Damon Albarn

Until the 6Music special a couple of Sundays ago I didn't realise how great he is.
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Post by: microphonie on 10 May, 2012, 07:05:05 pm
Byetone - SyMeta - thanks again for the recommendation to marcusjb:  the comparison to Pan(a)sonic was spot on.

The video for Black Peace is rather good: Transformerlikemechanoidbuddingcoralbodyparts-tastic (or something)  8)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j09AO2n9tnM
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Post by: citoyen on 10 May, 2012, 07:21:55 pm
A Folk Song A Day
http://www.afolksongaday.com/2011/07/12/mercedes-benz/
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Post by: marcusjb on 11 May, 2012, 09:40:57 am
Byetone - SyMeta - thanks again for the recommendation to marcusjb:  the comparison to Pan(a)sonic was spot on.

The video for Black Peace is rather good: Transformerlikemechanoidbuddingcoralbodyparts-tastic (or something)  8)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j09AO2n9tnM

I'd never seen the video - it is very good.

If you like Symeta, the earlier LP "Death Of A Typographer" is well worth a listen
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Post by: LindaG on 11 May, 2012, 01:06:23 pm
Someone Purer by Mystery Jets.  Played lots on 6 Music this week and I really like it.
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Post by: jogler on 11 May, 2012, 04:16:18 pm
The Shadows Greatestits
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Post by: microphonie on 11 May, 2012, 05:53:19 pm
If you like Symeta, the earlier LP "Death Of A Typographer" is well worth a listen

I added that to my 'save for later' list yesterday!

You might like Kareem -  NOCTOCROMÄS  (http://www.junodownload.com/products/noctocromas/1456949-02/), which I was listening to today - particularly HaCks 5

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Post by: jogler on 11 May, 2012, 08:29:29 pm
Fleetwood Mac : Rumours

Next up is.... Tango In The Night
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Post by: jogler on 11 May, 2012, 10:09:24 pm
& now

Fleetwood Mac
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Post by: jogler on 11 May, 2012, 10:48:55 pm
& now

Tusk
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Post by: Pingu on 11 May, 2012, 11:04:39 pm
Jogler - I don't know what you've done but I think that's more than enough punishment.
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Post by: nicknack on 13 May, 2012, 05:28:07 pm
Melanie - Candles in the Rain

Yes, I am an old hippy.

I can even remember seeing her at the Rainbow in about '71.
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Post by: LindaG on 13 May, 2012, 10:21:45 pm
It's May and it's sunny  :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlCS-qf7yaM
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Post by: Biggsy on 14 May, 2012, 04:13:35 pm
Girls Aloud - Sound of the Underground album.
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Post by: jogler on 14 May, 2012, 09:30:13 pm
this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjdkjGwGJQc
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Post by: jogler on 14 May, 2012, 10:18:32 pm
The Rolling Stones

40 Licks
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Post by: tiermat on 16 May, 2012, 08:55:19 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9CD05QvhcM

Having seen him on Later last night I thought I would hunt down some more of his work, very very good.
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Post by: nicknack on 17 May, 2012, 10:07:19 am
I realise it's a bit early in the day but:

Opeth
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Post by: StuAff on 17 May, 2012, 11:38:12 am
Right now, Nothing But Noise (featuring Daniel B. from Front 242, his friend and ex-bandmate Dirk Bergen, and Erwin Jadot). Analogue synth wafty ambience....lovely.
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Post by: jogler on 17 May, 2012, 02:51:49 pm
Vangelis.
various tracks on Youtube
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Post by: woollypigs on 17 May, 2012, 07:21:36 pm
Loads of Donna Summer RIP
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Post by: jogler on 17 May, 2012, 07:33:15 pm
John Lennon

allstandup
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Post by: jogler on 17 May, 2012, 07:56:02 pm
which has led to George Harrison

I expect you all to remain standing
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Post by: LindaG on 17 May, 2012, 09:16:42 pm
Allo Darlin

A new band (to me) recommended to me by my b-i-l, the world's biggest music geek.  I really like them, a bit like The Sundays, a bit like Camera Obscura.  Marvellous!  It's like meeting a new friend  :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDM_DyoGGSA
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Post by: tiermat on 18 May, 2012, 10:46:30 am
Don't laugh.

Promise you won't laugh.


OK, today I am listening to this:





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSZVYZTze74
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Post by: tiermat on 18 May, 2012, 11:00:28 am
I like the iPod's random playlist, straight after Jessie J it played John Cougar Mellancamp - Big Daddy and now it's Black Sabbath - N.I.B.
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Post by: clarion on 18 May, 2012, 11:01:54 am
Well, Nobody's Perfect.
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Post by: tiermat on 18 May, 2012, 11:02:40 am
And it has just moved onto one of my favourite relationship songs EVER....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNrQOUtXYOo
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Post by: tiermat on 18 May, 2012, 11:03:00 am
I see what you did there, Clarion, very funny...
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Post by: GrahamG on 18 May, 2012, 02:49:46 pm
'I wanna sex u up' - the joys of commercial radio in the workplace.

When I get home, it'll be time for some noise whilst I fettle- Converge I think.
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Post by: interzen on 18 May, 2012, 02:52:33 pm
Sheep on Drugs - Greatest Hits.

Streamed from their website, yet: http://www.sheepondrugs.net/pages/discography.aspx?idAlbum=34  :thumbsup:
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Post by: LindaG on 20 May, 2012, 12:51:11 pm
Paperback Writers, today hosted by Alain de Botton (6 Music).

The fact that a really clever person likes some of the same music as me makes me feel very clever by association.  Also, some new stuff - particularly Blood Of Eden by Peter Gabriel and Sinead O'Connor.

He's fully indulging himself here, very obviously this music means something real to him.  And I'm enjoying it so much  :)
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Post by: PaulF on 20 May, 2012, 12:53:45 pm
Paperback Writers, today hosted by Alain de Botton (6 Music).

The fact that a really clever person likes some of the same music as me makes me feel very clever by association.  Also, some new stuff - particularly Blood Of Eden by Peter Gabriel and Sinead O'Connor.

He's fully indulging himself here, very obviously this music means something real to him.  And I'm enjoying it so much  :)

You beat me to it :)

He's playing a good selection isn't he?
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Post by: LindaG on 20 May, 2012, 01:47:06 pm
Yes, he really did.  I may have to 'listen again' to that.  And he enunciates so beautifully.

I'd never heard that Peter Gabriel track before.  Wow.
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Post by: jogler on 21 May, 2012, 07:22:10 pm
The Shangri Las
The Crystals
The Ronettes
The Marvelettes

&

The Shirelles
The Chiffons
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Post by: interzen on 21 May, 2012, 07:23:26 pm
The various recordings made at the 2009 Hampshire Jam - knowing that I was actually there makes them all the more awesome :)
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Post by: jogler on 21 May, 2012, 08:54:59 pm
T Rex
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Post by: CommuteTooFar on 21 May, 2012, 09:34:23 pm
Pussycat  - 25 Jaar Na Mississippi - current track Rio
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 21 May, 2012, 09:39:22 pm
Today I had;
Linton Kwezi Johnson
Eagles of Death Metal
Mad Professor
This Will Destroy You
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Post by: jogler on 21 May, 2012, 10:21:32 pm
George Thorogood
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Post by: PaulF on 23 May, 2012, 06:55:00 pm
Neil Young ~ Everybody Knows this is Nowhere

Perfect for a languid summer's day
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Post by: Aidan on 27 May, 2012, 08:23:32 pm
Two new ones

The Cult - Choice of weapon 

Walter Trout - Blues for modern daze

Both really rather good

Also been listening to Slash's new one recently, but I really do wish he would find another singer. Myles Kennedys voice really grates with me
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Post by: Wowbagger on 28 May, 2012, 10:16:06 am
A very familiar voice on Woman's Hour.  :D

Cross-post: https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=5506.msg1240493;topicseen#msg1240493
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Post by: interzen on 28 May, 2012, 10:26:53 am
Listening to Hawkwind at the moment, but at around 11am I shall be switching to the cricket commentary.
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Post by: tiermat on 28 May, 2012, 11:15:07 am
Today is officially a laid back day so I am listening to:

The Black Crowes - Warpaint
Powderfinger - Footprints (best of)
Caro Emerald - Scenes from the Cutting Room Floor.

Any more laid back and I may well fall asleep.
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Post by: jogler on 28 May, 2012, 03:21:13 pm
The Shadows
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Post by: Deano on 28 May, 2012, 04:08:29 pm
Wilson Pickett. Mustang Sally. Perfect sixties soul.
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Post by: microphonie on 29 May, 2012, 06:56:51 pm
The completely stunning Musick To Play in the Dark Vol 2 by Coil. I can never quite decide what my fave track is, but it's probably this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijBT-__O4co&feature=related

The line 'I'll wrap my last kiss in a bandage' is just gorgeous.

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Post by: jogler on 30 May, 2012, 04:29:58 pm
Diana Roos & The Supremes
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Post by: Deano on 30 May, 2012, 04:36:16 pm
Diana Roos & The Supremes

I hadn't realised she'd moved to Australia ;)

I'm being nostalgic with Workshy by Animals that Swim. I especially love Roy, a track about meeting an embittered Roy Orbison in a bar. The b-side to the single was a lovely cover of a Roy Orbison tune.
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Post by: jogler on 30 May, 2012, 04:42:03 pm
Diana Roos & The Supremes

I hadn't realised she'd moved to Australia ;)



AIUI she's known down under as Sheila Supreme ;D
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Post by: jogler on 30 May, 2012, 08:29:42 pm
Simon & Garfunkel
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Post by: Wowbagger on 01 June, 2012, 02:08:49 am
The Trout Quintet.
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Post by: Deano on 01 June, 2012, 03:24:28 pm
Disobedience: Chris T-T Sings A.A. Milne.

Just downloaded, partly cos I've been craving new music, and party cos I googled Chris T-T put of whatever-happened-to-him curiosity. It's charming. Shame I'm going to miss his tour - I've seen him live a couple of times, most memorably on a cold November evening in Cotherstone village hall, where we all brought our own beer and snacks, and I kipped on the floor afterwards as I thought I was a bit too pished to ride the 20-odd miles home.
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Post by: Juan Martín on 02 June, 2012, 07:17:35 pm
KT Tunstall. New to me - like it!

And getting back into the Byrds at the moment...
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Post by: LindaG on 03 June, 2012, 02:17:24 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGrnXEBq3QE&feature=list_related&playnext=1&list=ALYL4kY05133q9X9lbSwiAVLCNRpXYx2sN
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Post by: Biggsy on 04 June, 2012, 11:05:51 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u4Md_aXVJE&ob=av2e
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Post by: Biggsy on 04 June, 2012, 11:34:19 am
Public Service Broadcasting also did a track called "Lit Up" - which has reminded me of this beauty:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2qbMP4YSu0
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Post by: Aidan on 04 June, 2012, 12:23:10 pm
This is PIL. By PIL :-)


Think it's a grower
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Post by: microphonie on 05 June, 2012, 09:32:37 am
Biggsy - love that PSB track: puts me in mind of La Luna by Plank!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMVrj630xzA&feature=fvwrel
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Post by: PaulF on 05 June, 2012, 01:13:18 pm
Just caught out of the corner of my ear ??? that Public Service Broadcasting will be on 6Music Mark Radcliffe show this lunchtime.
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Post by: andrewc on 05 June, 2012, 02:05:50 pm
This Mortal Coil - Song to the Siren

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mUmdR69nbM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mUmdR69nbM)
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Post by: PaulF on 05 June, 2012, 07:58:37 pm
Just caught out of the corner of my ear ??? that Public Service Broadcasting will be on 6Music Mark Radcliffe show this lunchtime.

Downloaded 'War Room' their EP on the strength of that. Great stuff in a similar vein, but each track has it's own distinct identity

Also downloaded Americana from Neil Young & Crazy Horse. Exactly what our expect from their interpretation of American traditional songs.  Bit of a disappointment really: in the background it sounds like any Neil Young or a competent bar band playing American traditional songs.it lacks the energy or passion of say Le Noise.
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Post by: jogler on 05 June, 2012, 09:31:13 pm
Neil Diamond
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Post by: jogler on 05 June, 2012, 10:40:30 pm
Duffy
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Post by: nicknack on 07 June, 2012, 09:29:53 pm
Pinski Zoo
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Post by: Chris S on 07 June, 2012, 09:39:25 pm
Game of Thrones audiobook.
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Post by: andrewc on 07 June, 2012, 10:20:03 pm
Jeff Buckley, the Mystery White Boy live album.  Currently "Kangaroo"  :thumbsup:
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Post by: marcusjb on 11 June, 2012, 09:47:42 am
(http://static.boomkat.com/images/564640/333.jpg)

Nathan Fake - Iceni Strings

Man, it's great to see him back and back with something so strong - can't wait for another full album.
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Post by: Dinamo on 12 June, 2012, 12:44:51 am
The Sabres of Paradise .... Haunted Dancefloor.
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Post by: tiermat on 12 June, 2012, 02:14:28 pm
iPod mix again, had Seasick Steve, Billie Holliday, Christina Aguilera, My Bloody Valentine, and currently on The Smashing Pumpkins - Disarm, truly one of the most beautiful song EVER, it's fact!
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Post by: Biggsy on 13 June, 2012, 12:29:49 pm
http://soundcloud.com/memphisindustries/frankierose_applesforthesun_thegoteamremix
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Post by: nicknack on 13 June, 2012, 07:25:15 pm
Magma - Ëmëhntëhtt-Ré
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Post by: jogler on 13 June, 2012, 08:20:13 pm
Dana Fuchs
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Post by: jogler on 13 June, 2012, 08:44:35 pm
Dana Fuchs

which led to Chicken Shack/Christine Perfect/Christine Mcvie & then Fleetwood Mac of the Peter Green era.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 14 June, 2012, 09:40:54 pm
Hazel O'Connor - Eighth Day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBkvcQEGq9k

They don't write stuff as crazy as this any more.
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Post by: jogler on 15 June, 2012, 02:05:51 pm
Free
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Post by: jogler on 15 June, 2012, 03:05:16 pm
on random play

The Yardbirds
The Animals
The Searchers
The Kinks
The Zombies
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Post by: jogler on 15 June, 2012, 07:06:40 pm
Eric Clapton
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Post by: LindaG on 16 June, 2012, 12:21:53 am
Motherland by Natalie Marchant.  Such a voice she has.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFchSzzvszE
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Post by: microphonie on 16 June, 2012, 02:17:27 pm
Goth Trad -  New Epoch  (http://www.discogs.com/Goth-Trad-New-Epoch/master/406913) album of rather good Japanese dubstep.

And in stark contrast:

Gnod -  InGnodWeTrust  (http://www.discogs.com/Gnod-Ingnodwetrust/release/2809375) - plodding psychedelic spacerock

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Post by: Illegal Combat Ant on 16 June, 2012, 11:37:29 pm
Mostly Public Service Broadcasting

 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u4Md_aXVJE)
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Post by: microphonie on 17 June, 2012, 01:23:52 pm
Wanting to expand my immersion in krautrock/kosmische I've just had my first ever listen to an album by Can: Tago Mago.

I won't be doing that again in a hurry - whilst some of the music is fine I just can't stand Damo Suzuki's 'singing'.  :hand:

Give me Neu! any day.
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Post by: essexian on 18 June, 2012, 03:43:55 pm
Beatsongs by The Blue Areoplanes.


Very underrated IMHO
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Post by: jezzasnr on 18 June, 2012, 05:16:05 pm
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs - Trouble.
First listen through, think I'm going to like this one for a while yet!
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Post by: rogerzilla on 18 June, 2012, 08:53:52 pm
David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes.

He claims he was so stoned that he can't even remember recording it.
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Post by: andrewc on 18 June, 2012, 09:05:20 pm
John Cale - Venus in Furs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=15GGl7vvGVg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=15GGl7vvGVg)
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Post by: LindaG on 21 June, 2012, 12:24:31 am
Queen.
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Post by: Biggsy on 21 June, 2012, 10:46:49 am
Today I am listening to the Specials' Ghost Town over and over in my head.  It's a great track, but I've had enough now.

Doooo doo doo dum dummm...

(Can't find the earworm thread).
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Post by: Jaded on 21 June, 2012, 04:17:18 pm
Mostly Public Service Broadcasting

 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u4Md_aXVJE)

Ruddy marvellous!
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Post by: PaulF on 22 June, 2012, 09:10:41 pm
Mostly Public Service Broadcasting

 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u4Md_aXVJE)

Ruddy marvellous!

That they are!

Now listening to another 6Music find, First Aid Kit. In session today on the morning show they play beautiful Swedish country tinged melancholic pop. Could be part of the soundtrack to Wallander or another of those Scandanavian crime thrillers. In some ways a little like aemily Barker.
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Post by: microphonie on 23 June, 2012, 02:56:30 pm
Byetone - Death of a Typographer album, particularly like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3SLAYjF9VA&feature=fvwrel


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Post by: Redlight on 23 June, 2012, 07:48:40 pm
Roy Harper : Songs of Love and Loss

Just beautiful - although I would have preferred the live version of Another Day....
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Post by: Manotea on 23 June, 2012, 08:14:55 pm
David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes.

He claims he was so stoned that he can't even remember recording it.
bowie night on tv channel ??? last night. Classic stuff.
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Post by: LindaG on 24 June, 2012, 12:40:02 am
The High Fidelity soundtrack.  Mostly marvellous.
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Post by: Biggsy on 24 June, 2012, 11:32:33 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_LwSU1s5ww
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Post by: jogler on 26 June, 2012, 05:42:14 pm
Sinead O'Connor's version of House of The Rising Sun.

excellent stuff :thumbsup:
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Post by: clarion on 28 June, 2012, 03:44:34 pm
Right now, RadMac.  Teatime Theme Time has been Intergalactic by The Beastie Boys (one of their very best, to my mind) and Iron Man by Black Sabbath, which (Ozzy's poor singing aside) is a great track.  I wonder what's next?
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Post by: tiermat on 28 June, 2012, 03:46:54 pm
Today has been another eclectic mix, courtesy of Mr i. Pod.

Started with Rancid
then Black Sabbath
then Duffy, Caro Emerald, Queensryche, The Go! Team, Powderfinger, Prodigy and now is on Faithless....
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Post by: jogler on 28 June, 2012, 09:14:16 pm
Thin Lizzy
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Post by: jogler on 28 June, 2012, 09:56:06 pm
The Beach Boys
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Post by: jogler on 28 June, 2012, 10:20:13 pm
Nirvana
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Post by: Juan Martín on 30 June, 2012, 10:05:11 am
Quadrophenia

After watching the making of the record on BBC4 last night. Worth catching if available on I-Player if only for Pete Townshend's comments on Keith Moon's drumming but also many 'blimey I remember that' moments.
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Post by: nicknack on 04 July, 2012, 04:08:05 pm
Can - The Lost Tapes

Jolly good it is too.
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Post by: Ron-da-Valli on 04 July, 2012, 07:01:46 pm
Sham 69
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Post by: nicknack on 04 July, 2012, 07:04:01 pm
Sham 69

Oh c'mon. Nobody listens to Sham 69.
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Post by: jogler on 06 July, 2012, 06:05:29 pm
Rod Stewart,The Small Faces,The Faces
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 06 July, 2012, 08:27:55 pm
Scientist
Prince FarI
North Atlantic Oscillation
Deerhunter
Dengue Fever
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Post by: jogler on 06 July, 2012, 08:38:36 pm
The Beatles Rooftop Concert.

A video of the full gig
 :thumbsup:
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Post by: nicknack on 06 July, 2012, 08:55:06 pm
Natacha Atlas
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Post by: jogler on 07 July, 2012, 04:11:45 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=fvwrel&v=HPkTGm4RtVM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgPvRSAdK6o&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTWKbfoikeg
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Post by: tiermat on 07 July, 2012, 05:39:17 pm
In the car on the outward journay and on the return, Johnny Cash.

It was TLD's choice, and I didn't argue :)
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Post by: Biggsy on 07 July, 2012, 05:59:57 pm
A load of Black Sabbath and Ozzy via the "God Bless You Ozzy" documentary, produced by Jack Osbourne.  It's bound to be repeated on BBC4 soon if you missed it.
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Post by: Deano on 07 July, 2012, 06:38:55 pm
Atlantic Gold - 75 Soul Classics from the Atlantic Vaults.

Currently, the Coasters.
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Post by: jogler on 07 July, 2012, 09:30:36 pm
^^^^^
just had a looksee at the track list.
That's a marvellous album
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Post by: Deano on 07 July, 2012, 11:47:03 pm
It really is.

60s and 50s soul is good. 70s, not so much
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Post by: welshwheels on 08 July, 2012, 12:25:52 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eL9o2a2VRsY&feature=related
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Post by: LindaG on 08 July, 2012, 10:15:21 am
The nice thing about grown-up children, is when they start showing and teaching you stuff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLFLrTnue9s


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Post by: jogler on 08 July, 2012, 10:52:14 am
If I could ride my bike like Morello plays his guitar...
that's just what you need at 3am on a night ride when the dozzies become manifest :thumbsup:
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Post by: jogler on 08 July, 2012, 11:16:09 am
Thanks to an LG post elsewhere I have been reminded that I own this

http://compare.ebay.co.uk/like/300658343367?var=lv&ltyp=AllFixedPriceItemTypes&var=sbar&adtype=pla

so....
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Post by: jogler on 09 July, 2012, 07:11:54 pm
Simon & Garfunkel
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Post by: jogler on 12 July, 2012, 12:04:23 pm
Elvis: 30 #1 Hits
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Post by: ran doner on 12 July, 2012, 07:14:31 pm
The Welsh Arrow ~ Pierre Bensusan
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Post by: RW on 13 July, 2012, 11:57:49 am
The Greig Cello Sonata on an LP that came from a charity shop and will be recycled to one.  It's a piece that I can't remember ever hearing before and listening to it gave me the impression that Greig all sounds the same.  That's based on the fact that there are common quotations from the piano concerto and the lyric suite, and also isn't really fair as Greig's a composer who's music I don't know very well.
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Post by: Domestique on 13 July, 2012, 02:20:07 pm
The Fall - 458489
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 13 July, 2012, 10:38:47 pm
KT Tunstall, Acoustic Extravaganza.
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Post by: tiermat on 16 July, 2012, 12:48:58 pm
A loooong list today:

    Saint Etienne
    Cashier No 9
    Club Smith
    Dutch Uncles
    Janice Graham Band
    Moody Gowns
    Tupelo
    The Glendale Family
    Arthur Rigby And The Baskervylles
    Villagers
    Los Campesinos!
    Beth Jeans Houghton
    & The Hooves Of Destiny
    The Staves
    Treetop Flyers
    Washington Irving
    School Of Seven Bells
    Very special guests Field Music
    Paul Thomas Saunders
    Laki Mera
    Woodenbox
    AKϟDK
    Ellen And The Escapades
    Rachel Sermanni
    The Lost Brothers
    Pale Seas
    Gary Stewart
    Pip Mountjoy
    Cherry Ghost
    Human Don't Be Angry
    We Were Evergreen
    Rae Morris
    Sam Airey
    R M Hubbert
    Monument Valley
    Grant K Fennell
    Beccy Owen
    Boat To Row
    Annie Dressner

Why all these? 'cos we are going to see them at the weekend so want to catch up with the sound of the weekend :)
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Post by: Deano on 16 July, 2012, 09:07:09 pm
Alfie, If You Happy With You Need Do Nothing. A gentle classic.
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Post by: jogler on 20 July, 2012, 09:10:46 am
John Lennon 

all stand up
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Post by: LindaG on 20 July, 2012, 11:16:35 am
Fats Waller, Jazz Piano Master.

Fats Waller's Original E Flat Blues at the moment.  Wow.

Spotify's great sometimes.

ETA:  I Just Wanna Hear Swing Songs!  Lovely  :D

The word I would have used if I could have remembered it, is swing.  This stuff really swings, which is much much harder to do than it sounds, ISTR from my sax days.
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Post by: Redlight on 20 July, 2012, 11:43:05 pm
Graceland, remastered. 

Still a great album. 
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Post by: LindaG on 23 July, 2012, 12:01:27 pm
Every Kingdom by Ben Howard.  Not sure what to make of it on first listen, but this song's nice.  I like this video too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAMZ9k8PR-E
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Post by: Biggsy on 23 July, 2012, 12:03:55 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jspBeVa0sTs
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 23 July, 2012, 12:57:16 pm
So far:
Scientist - Rids The World Of The Curse Of The Vampires
Quantic Soul Orchestra - Tropidelico
Tindersticks - Waiting For The Moon
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Post by: Biggsy on 24 July, 2012, 12:55:29 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coj9nWh80Sk
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Post by: tiermat on 25 July, 2012, 10:30:41 am
Just for a change, The Janice Graham Band (my Amazon order has just turned up), then I have 3 Los Campesinos! CDs to work through :)
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Post by: tiermat on 26 July, 2012, 04:15:21 pm
After spending all day wrestling TJG and LC! mp3s onto my iPod I am now listening to Led Zeppelin, in a touch of musical serendipity....

I apologise to my neighbours in advance, 'cos it's getting turned right up :)
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Post by: Redlight on 26 July, 2012, 09:51:01 pm
The Beatles Rooftop Concert.

A video of the full gig
 :thumbsup:

Available where? Macca has said that Let It Be won't be available during his lifetime but I've never seen film of the whole performance in any case
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Post by: Redlight on 26 July, 2012, 10:00:18 pm
21 by Adele. 

Saw a clip of her singing Someone Like You and thought it was pleasant, if derivative, so bought the album to see what the fuss was about.  Have to say I'm still nonplussed.  One or two interesting arrangements but the songs themselves, apart from the aforementioned, are pretty mediocre. She has the potential to be a great singer but she sounds like a 20 year-old trying to sound 35 (a bit like the guy in The Commitments film, for those with long memories). 

Maybe I'm missing something - in which case can someone tell me what it is, but it rather feels as though she is being lauded as the new Besse Smith when she's actually the new Joss Stone.
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Post by: RJ on 29 July, 2012, 05:41:30 pm
Every Kingdom by Ben Howard.  Not sure what to make of it on first listen, but this song's nice.  I like this video too.


OK - I'll give it another go ...

Meanwhile, my Kraftwerk binge continues with Computer World.
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Post by: Pingu on 31 July, 2012, 03:19:22 pm
A Passion Play - Jethro Tull
The Undertones first album
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Post by: Peter on 01 August, 2012, 10:17:26 am
21 by Adele. 

Saw a clip of her singing Someone Like You and thought it was pleasant, if derivative, so bought the album to see what the fuss was about.  Have to say I'm still nonplussed.  One or two interesting arrangements but the songs themselves, apart from the aforementioned, are pretty mediocre. She has the potential to be a great singer but she sounds like a 20 year-old trying to sound 35 (a bit like the guy in The Commitments film, for those with long memories). 

Maybe I'm missing something - in which case can someone tell me what it is, but it rather feels as though she is being lauded as the new Besse Smith when she's actually the new Joss Stone.

Do not be hesitant about your opinion - you are right.  She is better than most but it has to be said that "most" just aren't very good at the moment!
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Post by: PaulF on 01 August, 2012, 10:27:14 am
Various bits of Belle and Sebastian
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Post by: Redlight on 01 August, 2012, 11:45:35 am
French "musique" radio  :sick:
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Post by: Pingu on 01 August, 2012, 12:56:39 pm
Warchild - Jethro Tull
Rated R - Queens Of The Stone Age
Finally We Are No One -  Múm
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Post by: LindaG on 06 August, 2012, 11:05:35 am
James!    :D :D :D
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Post by: LindaG on 09 August, 2012, 09:46:57 pm
Joni Mitchell again  :)

Some really nice sax impro on there.
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Post by: LindaG on 10 August, 2012, 10:53:59 am
Toots and the Maytals
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Post by: tiermat on 10 August, 2012, 11:01:31 am
The Black Crows, their newer stuff, reminds me a lot of how they were on "Shake Your Moneymaker"
Also Hard-Fi, The Janice Graham Band (again) and Los Campesinos!
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Post by: rogerzilla on 12 August, 2012, 07:00:37 pm
The Sundays "Static And Silence", which never dulls and should make the shortlist for Best Album Ever.  It's a tragedy that they never recorded any more, but Harriet is 49, so probably can't carry off the little girl vocals any more  :o

Not to be confused with The Saturdays, God no.
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Post by: LindaG on 13 August, 2012, 09:44:07 am
The Sundays "Static And Silence", which never dulls and should make the shortlist for Best Album Ever.  It's a tragedy that they never recorded any more, but Harriet is 49, so probably can't carry off the little girl vocals any more  :o

Not to be confused with The Saturdays, God no.

I love that album Rog.  My mate Steve named his daughter after Harriet.
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Post by: tiermat on 17 August, 2012, 10:28:48 am
Having aLOUD morning, started with The Stereophonics (their first album, the only one worth listening to), then Green Day (Bullet In A Bible) and am now on Placebo (Meds), Mrs T and TLD are out :D
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Post by: rogerzilla on 17 August, 2012, 05:23:48 pm
On the frankly bizarre Jack FM - Stan Ridgway's "Camouflage"  ;D
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Post by: pcolbeck on 17 August, 2012, 06:08:08 pm
Beck - Guero

Had it on repeat in the car over the last week. It grows on you and there are some killer base lines on some of the tracks.
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Post by: Dave_C on 17 August, 2012, 07:00:41 pm
'The War Room' by Public Service Broadcasting. As introduced to me by 6 Music.
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Post by: PaulF on 17 August, 2012, 07:21:08 pm
'The War Room' by Public Service Broadcasting. As introduced to me by 6 Music.

Brilliant isn't it?
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Post by: Dave_C on 18 August, 2012, 07:14:25 pm
@PaulF. It sure it, I've had it on repeat for the last few days.
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Post by: andrewc on 18 August, 2012, 08:17:53 pm
Previously Enigma "Mea Culpa".  I actually had to turn the volume down a bit  ;D       Currently Stan Getz, "Interpretations" from 1953.

I hit Oxfam earlier & walked out with a load of LP's, including a 12LP set of Barenboim playing the 32 Beethoven piano sonatas
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Post by: LindaG on 21 August, 2012, 03:23:09 pm
The playlist I made for my friend, ready for when he gets back from the States.  Trying to work out if the tracks are in an acceptable order.  Can you juxtapose '60s pychedelia with guitar-heavy strummy folky stuff and 'cello music?  We'll see.
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Post by: andrewc on 21 August, 2012, 10:03:05 pm
The Christians,  "Happy In Hell",   a good local group.
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Post by: Deano on 24 August, 2012, 09:58:21 pm
David Holmes' Free Association. Shame he seems to do mostly film work nowadays.
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Post by: interzen on 24 August, 2012, 11:12:48 pm
Deepchord's "Hash Bar Loops"

I've been listening to it a lot recently, particularly when I've been building electronicky things. Dunno why I like it so much, but I do.
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Post by: Peter on 25 August, 2012, 12:09:19 am
Tintinyana by Dollar Brand - Township Jive at its best.  All my Hugh Masakela is in store at the moment, worse luck!
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Post by: LindaG on 25 August, 2012, 12:52:45 am
Dark Dark Dark on spotify.  I didn't like them at all on first listen, but now they're beginning to sound like a keeper  :)
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Post by: jogler on 25 August, 2012, 04:56:59 pm
David Bowie:The Best of. Disc 1
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Post by: PaulF on 25 August, 2012, 05:19:35 pm
Don Letts on 6Music. Version excursion, reggaeified versions of classic songs. If the weather's not going to be summery at least the soundtrack can be.
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Post by: jogler on 25 August, 2012, 05:53:04 pm
The Everley Bros..youtube mix
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Post by: Redlight on 26 August, 2012, 09:18:21 pm
The Duke by Joe Jackson. JJ and a cast of extras that includes Iggy Pop interpret Duke Ellington pieces. Had it for about a month and it's growing on me.
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Post by: ferret on 26 August, 2012, 09:27:22 pm
foofighters playing live at Reading, unfortunately from my armchair in Wales (via the TV) thought I'd better add the last bit :)
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Post by: Illegal Combat Ant on 27 August, 2012, 03:07:28 pm
Jackie Greene, specifically, Silver Lining

 (http://vimeo.com/46331177)

Going to see him on Thursday at a little club in Bristol. Only found out yesterday that he was touring 'cos someone left a comment on my YouTube channel. I've been listening to him for years after being introduced to his music by a friend in San Francisco. His brand of Americana has been my driving soundtrack in the States ever since. Apparently he hasn't been in the UK for 6+ years. He's only doing about 5 nights in the UK supporting The Deep Dark Woods in some very small and strange venues. Excellent!
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Post by: Dinamo on 28 August, 2012, 10:54:02 pm
AphexTwin / Selected Ambient Works 85 - 92

 :thumbsup:
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Post by: Chris S on 28 August, 2012, 10:57:02 pm
AphexTwin / Selected Ambient Works 85 - 92

 :thumbsup:

 :thumbsup: indeed. At least, until you're just dozing off and Come to Daddy comes on  :o.
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Post by: jogler on 04 September, 2012, 04:25:36 pm
Elvis
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Post by: Dinamo on 04 September, 2012, 07:49:12 pm
Use Your Illusion I & II - Guns N Roses
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Post by: microphonie on 05 September, 2012, 06:26:17 pm
Bits & pieces from recent downloads:

Beak
This Will Destroy You
65daysofstatic
Goth Trad
Senking
Tomas Barfod
Shriekback
Four Tet
Nathan Fake
Clark
Cyclobe
The Advisory Circle
Marconi Union
Tangerine Dream
Ulrich Schnauss & Mark Peters
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Post by: rogerzilla on 06 September, 2012, 08:37:37 pm
Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante K.364.  I don't know if it's just its association with "Drowning By Numbers", but the second movement is both moving and deeply sinister at the same time.  It's probably the viola that does it.
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Post by: citoyen on 06 September, 2012, 09:50:25 pm
∆ (http://soundcloud.com/alt-j/sets/alt-j-tessellate-sarm-acoustic/)

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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 06 September, 2012, 09:53:45 pm
Zero 7
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Post by: andrewc on 08 September, 2012, 12:35:12 pm
Joe Jackson's "Jumpin' Jive"
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Post by: Andrij on 08 September, 2012, 01:06:58 pm
All seven They Might Be Giants albums I own, on shuffle.  Lovely silly fun.  :D
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Post by: pcolbeck on 08 September, 2012, 02:07:14 pm
SRV - Texas Flood

On full blast in the car for 150 miles yesterday. SRVs first album and stunning. Just a Strat with hot pickups a bit of overdrive and a tube amp.
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Post by: tiermat on 09 September, 2012, 01:17:08 pm
All seven They Might Be Giants albums I own, on shuffle.  Lovely silly fun.  :D

Ooooo, I think I will dig out Flood. TMBG are responsible for my love of live music, my very first gig was them playing at Redcar Bowl (sounds grander than it is) in 1990.
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Post by: Andrij on 09 September, 2012, 01:49:39 pm
This afternoon is a Bad Religion marathon.   I'm hoping some of their energy will miraculously transfer over to me.
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Post by: tiermat on 09 September, 2012, 01:55:34 pm
Andrij, STOP LOOKING THROUGH MY CD COLLECTION!!! :D

Put 21st Century Digital Boy on, turn it up to 11 and bound around the room like a loon, guaranteed to make you feel better.

Failing that, put the Dissent of Man on.
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Post by: Andrij on 09 September, 2012, 02:08:54 pm
Andrij, STOP LOOKING THROUGH MY CD COLLECTION!!! :D

Put 21st Century Digital Boy on, turn it up to 11 and bound around the room like a loon, guaranteed to make you feel better.

Failing that, put the Dissent of Man on.

 ;D  This could be a fun game.

I have been known to put Generator on shuffle and repeat for a few hours.  Doubt they neighbours were impressed but it was the music for my mood.
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Post by: tiermat on 09 September, 2012, 02:54:21 pm
I am managing to annoy my family today by listening to Rancid and NOFX...

I seriously need something to keep me awake enough to complete some builds, as the caffiene just ain't working (I know why I feel like this, I have cleared up after the BBQ and seen the amount of Calvados, rum, vodka and the like that was consumed last night!)
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Post by: Deano on 10 September, 2012, 07:48:07 pm
For a change (not), Low.
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Post by: Deano on 11 September, 2012, 10:06:02 pm
Gravenhurst - The Ghost in Daylight. As doom-laden and dark as the earlier records that I know, slightly folky and atmospheric, and I'm off to see him next week. I did see a bit of his set at the End of the Road festival last week, but he had the bad luck to be playing about five minutes after Patti Smith finished, and I heard most of his set reverberating through the wall of the tent. Sounded bloody good, though.

Also, some early (sparse and beautiful) Songs:Ohia.

Interspersed with Pulp and The King.
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Post by: microphonie on 12 September, 2012, 07:04:51 pm
Scribble Beats by  Locust Toybox  (http://www.fat-pie.com/locust/) aka David Firth of Salad Fingers animation fame

All 9 albums can be had for free & if you're into Warp Records stuff they're well worth having
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Post by: PaulF on 12 September, 2012, 08:09:05 pm
Hymns of Love and Spirits ~ The Wilderness of Manitoba
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Post by: Deano on 12 September, 2012, 08:51:13 pm
Hymns of Love and Spirits ~ The Wilderness of Manitoba

Any good? I still listen frequently to When You Left the Fire.
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Post by: Chris S on 12 September, 2012, 08:58:26 pm
Valtari - Sigur Ros.

It suits my mood tonight.
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Post by: PaulF on 12 September, 2012, 09:19:35 pm
Hymns of Love and Spirits ~ The Wilderness of Manitoba

Any good? I still listen frequently to When You Left the Fire.

As good I'd say but not a massive departure, has some acoustic versions of songs from When You Left the Fire and feels a little less produced.
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Post by: PaulF on 12 September, 2012, 09:25:28 pm
Hymns of Love and Spirits ~ The Wilderness of Manitoba

Any good? I still listen frequently to When You Left the Fire.

As good I'd say but not a massive departure, has some acoustic versions of songs from When You Left the Fire and feels a little less produced.

And their new album is streaming here (http://music.cbc.ca/#/blogs/2012/9/The-Wilderness-of-Manitobas-Island-of-Echoes-Full-album-stream). Haven't listened yet.
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Post by: Deano on 12 September, 2012, 09:58:35 pm
Cheers! I quite preferred the live versions of a few of their songs, too. They were excellent live when I saw them a couple of years ago.
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Post by: andrewc on 12 September, 2012, 10:12:06 pm
Just got back from the RLPO. A superb Tchaikovsky’s 2nd piano concerto by Simon Trpčeski who is now a regular in Liverpool followed by a dramatic performance of Stravinsky's Firebird.

Rosalyn Tureck playing Bach to wind down for the evening.
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Post by: microphonie on 14 September, 2012, 11:23:29 am
Valtari - Sigur Ros.

It suits my mood tonight.

They've just announced a few tour dates for next year:

2 March - Glasgow
3 March - Manchester
5 March - Wolverhampton
7 & 8 - London

And a Sigg  water bottle  (http://www.sigur-ros.co.uk/valtari/buy/) with Valtari boat design!
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Post by: pcolbeck on 16 September, 2012, 08:45:33 pm
Scott Walker on Youtube. Most get the vinyl out again. Check out the base line on this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-zgdGQB4S4&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-zgdGQB4S4&feature=related)
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Post by: Pingu on 17 September, 2012, 01:05:28 pm
Colossal Youth - Young Marble Giants.
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Post by: Deano on 17 September, 2012, 11:03:28 pm
Rant by the Futureheads.

It's fabulous. A cappella versions of their own songs (with Sunderland accents shining through), plus a few north east folk tunes and a Sparks cover. They sing wonderfully together.
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Post by: Deano on 17 September, 2012, 11:07:46 pm
And it comes with a free beermat!
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Post by: jogler on 19 September, 2012, 07:30:05 pm
Fairport Convention.

Sandy Denny :'(
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Post by: jogler on 19 September, 2012, 10:06:30 pm
George Harrison
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Post by: andrewc on 19 September, 2012, 11:07:50 pm
Arvo Part.  Spiegel Im Spiegel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8qg_0P9L6c&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8qg_0P9L6c&feature=related)
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Post by: Peter on 20 September, 2012, 12:07:03 am
Andrew, do you know the O Antiphons?
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Post by: andrewc on 20 September, 2012, 01:34:45 pm
I have them on the De Profundis CD with Theatre of Voices, though I've not listened to it in ages.  Got lots of his other work as well.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/P%C3%A4rt-De-Profundis-Arvo/dp/B0000007FL/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1348144276&sr=8-1

I'm seeing the RLPO perform Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantus_in_Memoriam_Benjamin_Britten)  in February, which will be the first time I've heard any of Part's work performed live.
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Post by: tiermat on 20 September, 2012, 01:37:03 pm
The Black Keys - El Camino
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Post by: Biggsy on 20 September, 2012, 01:57:46 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v29I0srhPwg

(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mai74sr1Ds1qdl86po1_500.jpg)

http://melosechochamber.tumblr.com/

Whole album: http://www.npr.org/2012/09/16/160881907/first-listen-melodys-echo-chamber-melodys-echo-chamber?sc=tumblr&cc=tumb_music#playlist
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 22 September, 2012, 11:43:23 pm
Thee Oh Sees - Carrion Crawler.
Discovered last night on t'young Peel lad's show.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 23 September, 2012, 07:23:51 pm
I haz just bought some Thee Oh Sees and some Quantic Soul Orchestra off amazon, cos our local record shop didn't have them :(
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Post by: andrewc on 23 September, 2012, 10:28:42 pm
Tim Garland's Lighthouse Trio (Tim Garland, Gwilym Simcock, Asif Sirkis) whom I saw for a very enjoyable gig on Friday night.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro3rYCqyJgM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro3rYCqyJgM)
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Post by: Biggsy on 24 September, 2012, 12:26:36 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FP-2VLQEv4c
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Post by: tiermat on 26 September, 2012, 12:35:56 pm
Today is most definitely a Seasick Steve day...
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Post by: nicknack on 26 September, 2012, 05:56:37 pm
"Last Exit"

Laswell, Brotzmann, Sharrock and Jackson at their best. Stunning.
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Post by: mike on 26 September, 2012, 06:39:42 pm
Velvet underground. Perfect.
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Post by: PaulF on 27 September, 2012, 07:13:45 pm
Hymns of Love and Spirits ~ The Wilderness of Manitoba

Now listening to the new one, Island of Echoes. More mainstream than the earlier stuff and reminiscent of Crosby, Stills & Nash. In a good way :)
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Post by: rogerzilla on 29 September, 2012, 04:22:29 pm
Python Lee Jackson (with Rod Stewart earning some new seat covers for his car) - In A Broken Dream
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Post by: mr magnolia on 29 September, 2012, 06:15:33 pm
Man: 2oz plastic with a hole in the middle.
God help me- I'll be getting the Uriah Heep stuff out next. Good job Mrs m is coming back soon to save the magnoliettes!
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Post by: rogerzilla on 29 September, 2012, 07:34:26 pm
It's A Fast Driving Rave-Up With The Dandy Warhols Sixteen Minutes.

You can't have more fun with two chords and a one-string guitar riff.
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Post by: tiermat on 01 October, 2012, 05:06:09 pm
Radio 6 Music.

I thought I would never see the day when you could hear NIN being played on UK daytime radio.

How wrong I was....

Thank you LG for telling me about R6M playing Black Keys a lot today, haven't heard them on there yet, but have heard loads of other good stuff (including the aforementioned and PJ Harvey)
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Post by: LindaG on 02 October, 2012, 03:45:32 pm
You're welcome  :D
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Post by: jogler on 02 October, 2012, 03:50:58 pm
^^^^
it's vey very nice to "see" you on the forum again.

I've not forgotten that I have a rain cheque on a ride date with you ;)
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 02 October, 2012, 08:03:03 pm
Thee Oh Sees - Putrifiers II. Great :)
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Post by: pcolbeck on 02 October, 2012, 09:23:41 pm
Hank Williams Junior makes a nice contrast to Die Hunns which was a bit earlier.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 02 October, 2012, 10:22:50 pm
Thea Gilmore.  I haz tix for next month :D
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Post by: tiermat on 03 October, 2012, 12:40:27 pm
DJ Shadow.

It's one of those days....
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 03 October, 2012, 12:57:30 pm
Quantic. Nice.
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Post by: clarion on 03 October, 2012, 07:42:25 pm
Right now, I'm listening to Mike Harding on Radio 2.

I do like Mrs 'Arding's lad, but I often find folk music irritating.  However, what he is playing this evening is just beautiful.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 04 October, 2012, 02:20:25 pm
I've just realised I'm listening to a latino style cover of Portishead's Wandering Star. I like it :)
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Post by: tiermat on 04 October, 2012, 03:21:30 pm
Sugar
Husker Du
Dinosaur Jnr

Yes, today is a Sub-Pop day, I had honestly forgotten how good some of this is (and how dire the rest is :) )

Brings back memories of being a leather-jacketed, long haired greebo in my late teens.....
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Post by: pcolbeck on 04 October, 2012, 04:45:41 pm
Greg Allman Band in concert 1974 curtsey of YouTube. Fantastic ! Not sure who;s playing on this but its a great recoding off the mixing desk. Southern Soul rather than Southern Rock.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbuCAbMNOIg&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbuCAbMNOIg&feature=related)
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Post by: MattH on 05 October, 2012, 11:42:23 am
A very eclectic mix.

I've finally (after over a decade) got around to setting up a record deck again, now I've got some room in my office. Opening the boxes of vinyl that have been in storage for all that time is like a window into my past. Lots of stuff that I think "Did I really buy that?", others that despite having many, many thousands of mp3s I haven't got in digital format or heard for all that time and had completely forgotten existed even though they were the soundtrack of my teens.

All with that genuine crackle and pop too  :)
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Post by: MattH on 05 October, 2012, 12:06:35 pm
Just found the 7" of this forgotten masterpiece, in the "Hooked on Classics" mould
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgKDKyl-EKE
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Post by: LindaG on 05 October, 2012, 02:25:07 pm
Simple Minds.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 05 October, 2012, 02:30:53 pm
David Byrne & St. Vincent
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Post by: LindaG on 05 October, 2012, 02:35:42 pm
Oh, and this morning Shaun Keaveney played Editions Of You by Roxy Music.  Fuck me I love that.  Orgasmic saxophone.  Cheers Shaun  :thumbsup:




ETA:  With added badgers for Andy Gates  :)
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Post by: PaulF on 05 October, 2012, 02:48:24 pm
Gold by Ryan Adams which is back where started here (http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=27.0;topicseen)
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Post by: jogler on 05 October, 2012, 04:08:48 pm
Roxy Music.
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Post by: LindaG on 05 October, 2012, 04:10:16 pm
Roxy Music.

70-s-tastic isn't it jogler!   :-*
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Post by: jogler on 05 October, 2012, 04:17:33 pm
It certainly is "Alan Freeman" pop-tastic :thumbsup:

 :-*
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Post by: interzen on 06 October, 2012, 04:59:30 pm
Sleep's "Dopesmoker" - fookin' awesome.
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Post by: Pingu on 06 October, 2012, 08:25:29 pm
'The War Room' by Public Service Broadcasting. As introduced to me by 6 Music.

Brilliant isn't it?

Heh, heh. Just booked tickets to see them later this month  :thumbsup:
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 07 October, 2012, 04:06:15 pm
Aretha Franklin.

For the same reason that I rediscovered Mama Cass a bit back.  Because CBeebies are using Think (and were using Dream a Little Dream) as the music for one of their in-between-programmes bits.

See, having small children around doesn't _always_ rot the brain....
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Post by: interzen on 07 October, 2012, 04:10:47 pm
Aretha Franklin.

For the same reason that I rediscovered Mama Cass a bit back.  Because CBeebies are using Think (and were using Dream a Little Dream) as the music for one of their in-between-programmes bits.
Her rendition of 'Think' in the Blues Brothers comes fairly close to being Crowning Music Of Awesome.

More stoner metal for me today: Om's "Conference of the Birds" - pretty amazing what you can do with a bass guitar, drums and colossal quantities of recreational herbage.
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Post by: jogler on 09 October, 2012, 05:56:34 pm
U2
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Post by: Chris S on 09 October, 2012, 06:30:15 pm
U2

Still not found what you're looking for?
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Post by: jogler on 09 October, 2012, 06:39:05 pm
That's playing right now :thumbsup:
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Post by: microphonie on 09 October, 2012, 06:41:07 pm
'The War Room' by Public Service Broadcasting. As introduced to me by 6 Music.

Brilliant isn't it?

Heh, heh. Just booked tickets to see them later this month  :thumbsup:

Am debating whether to see them on Saturday - I'm not convinced that the other 3 bands on the bill make it worth the effort (e.g. one is a grime artist straight outta Thetford!) :-\

Just d/l the War Room Remixed album for lunchtime listening tomorrow & am enjoying new track  'Everest'  (http://publicservicebroadcasting.net/) (because it is there)
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Post by: jogler on 10 October, 2012, 12:44:53 pm
Dire Straits
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Post by: tiermat on 11 October, 2012, 03:33:20 pm
Terrorvision, currently on the whole of "Super Delux" and going to go back *cough**cough* years to "Formaldehyde" and "How To Make Friends and Influence People". We'll try and forget about "Shaving Peaches" and "Good To Go", shall we?
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Post by: interzen on 11 October, 2012, 03:42:44 pm
"Pilgrimage" by Om - more stoner metal, but now being piped through the hi-fi now that I've found the appropriate cableage to hook the laptop up to the amp.

Since my neighbour has gone out, this is being played at mind-melting volume :)
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Post by: LindaG on 15 October, 2012, 07:54:09 pm
Bob Dylan.
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Post by: PaulF on 15 October, 2012, 09:38:29 pm
Haunted Man by Bat for Lashes. Think that it will reward repeated listens.
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Post by: perpetual dan on 17 October, 2012, 08:41:02 pm
Showaddywaddy, the news lately put me in the mood. I may move on quite soon though.
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Post by: interzen on 17 October, 2012, 08:44:29 pm
The new Deepchord album, "Sommer" ... it's identifiably Rod Modell's work, which is to say it sounds like it was produced in a room stuffed with mattresses (but in a good way), but somehow it's not really doing it for me at the moment.

I suspect that it'll improve with repeated listenings, but it's still nowhere near as good as "Hash Bar Loops"
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Post by: John Henry on 17 October, 2012, 08:46:45 pm
Various versions of 'The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down' to determine the best.

I don't know why I bothered, it's obviously The Band. But the Black Crows are a respectable second. Joan Baez and others commit unacceptable mondegreens. It's 'Stoneman's cavalry', woman - read a history book.
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Post by: Biggsy on 17 October, 2012, 08:47:09 pm
Melody's Echo Chamber - on US-import CD cos I couldn't wait for the UK release.  Lovely and dreamy.
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Post by: Ham on 18 October, 2012, 12:01:11 am
Various versions of 'The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down' to determine the best.

I don't know why I bothered, it's obviously The Band. But the Black Crows are a respectable second. Joan Baez and others commit unacceptable mondegreens. It's 'Stoneman's cavalry', woman - read a history book.

You didn't mention Jimmy Witherspoon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYIoU0BOl7g

I think it's also up there
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Post by: LindaG on 19 October, 2012, 10:25:59 am
C'mon - Low.

On first listen I like it.  That's not always a good sign mind, but so far so good  :)

I didn't even know I had it.  It was under a pile of random shite on my desk that I moved to find some random shite.  I think it's part of a pile of CDs someone lent me.  I like nice surprises.
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Post by: interzen on 19 October, 2012, 10:30:19 am
Klaus Schulze and Pete Namlook - Dark Side Of The Moog Vol.8

Live Berlin School electronica with one of the 'old masters' (Schulze) ... 'kin awesome.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 19 October, 2012, 08:02:58 pm
Amy Rigby.

I may have snorted unattractively with laughter several times.  And had to skip the odd track rather quickly, due to Cubs in the room and not wanting to explain, for example, what "Are we ever going to have sex again" is about :D
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Post by: jogler on 19 October, 2012, 09:15:22 pm
The Animals
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Post by: jogler on 19 October, 2012, 09:59:27 pm
etta james
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Post by: jogler on 20 October, 2012, 03:36:27 pm
etta james

which linked me to this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA1nw-CF_x0

 :thumbsup:
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Post by: interzen on 20 October, 2012, 03:43:31 pm
Orbital's 'Brown Album' (or 'Orbital 2' as it is sometimes known) because, dammit, I'm in the mood for some bangin' techno.
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Post by: jogler on 20 October, 2012, 06:47:55 pm
Nina Simone
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Post by: Biggsy on 20 October, 2012, 06:48:54 pm
The Craig Charles Funk & Soul Show
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Post by: jogler on 20 October, 2012, 08:43:22 pm
Tom (the Voice) Jones
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Post by: PaulF on 20 October, 2012, 10:12:30 pm
Tom (War Baby) Robinson
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Post by: jogler on 21 October, 2012, 02:53:54 pm
Various cover versions of Ghost Riders In The Sky

The visuals on Debbie Harry's version have made me fall in lust :demon:
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Post by: Juan Martín on 21 October, 2012, 06:26:12 pm
A compilation of Squeeze singles. I cannot get 'Tempted' out of my head now!
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Post by: LindaG on 21 October, 2012, 06:35:04 pm
A compilation of Squeeze singles. I cannot get 'Tempted' out of my head now!

'No Place Like Home' is one of my favourite tracks ever!

I'm listening to the Unthanks.  Northern lasses are the best.
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Post by: iddu on 22 October, 2012, 06:49:12 am
R2: When Will Young starts to sound like Annie Lennox, time for a hearing check :-[

[Edit: or more sleep...]
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Post by: Illegal Combat Ant on 22 October, 2012, 05:47:31 pm
Alizée - Moi Lolita

 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDwKPGUIVME)

Well, you've gotta get in the mood for Panorama later, innit? </jk>
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Post by: interzen on 22 October, 2012, 05:51:15 pm
The death metal compilation I've just put on to my iPod - I've had a shitty day so I'm going ride off the anger whilst listening to various people sing/shout/scream about Satan, death and other wholesome topics.
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Post by: Illegal Combat Ant on 22 October, 2012, 08:03:46 pm
Die Antwoord - Fatty Boom Boom

 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIXUgtNC4Kc)

 :o :o :o
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Post by: LindaG on 22 October, 2012, 10:27:45 pm
Natalie Merchant

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1XgsS9CjyI

Purely for her voice. 
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Post by: nicknack on 23 October, 2012, 11:47:55 am
Due to general fogginess and lack of wind I have not gone sailing today. Instead, I'm sat indoors listening to Godspeed You! Black Emperor's latest - "Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!". Excellent.
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Post by: billplumtree on 23 October, 2012, 01:29:18 pm
I'm listening to the Unthanks.  Northern lasses are the best.

Unthanks here an'all, with Brighouse & Rastrick brass band.  How northern can you get?  ;D  Gorgeous atmospheric music, reminds me of Kate Rusby singing with Grimethorpe Colliery band.
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Post by: LindaG on 24 October, 2012, 12:34:11 pm
I'm listening to the Unthanks.  Northern lasses are the best.

Unthanks here an'all, with Brighouse & Rastrick brass band.  How northern can you get?  ;D  Gorgeous atmospheric music, reminds me of Kate Rusby singing with Grimethorpe Colliery band.

I have that album. It's fabulous isn't it?
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Post by: Biggsy on 24 October, 2012, 12:44:52 pm
Who is the nearest recording artist to the North Pole?   (Wondering how northern you can get).

Today I will be listening to Melody's Echo Chamber again.
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Post by: Juan Martín on 03 November, 2012, 05:28:09 pm
Nine Tenebrae Motets - Edmund Rubbra. Which I bought after I enjoyed hearing exerpts in one of ESL's Audax Highlights Videos. It's an education on 'ere, it really is!
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Post by: LindaG on 03 November, 2012, 06:54:56 pm
OK Computer by Radiohead  :thumbsup:
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Post by: clifftaylor on 03 November, 2012, 06:58:02 pm
New Donald Fagen.
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Post by: Juan Martín on 04 November, 2012, 05:58:39 pm
Nonsuch - XTC
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Post by: Pingu on 05 November, 2012, 09:46:41 pm
Kevin Coyne on 6music  :thumbsup:
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Post by: andrewc on 06 November, 2012, 01:46:26 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=koq9ypm2soA#at=801 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=koq9ypm2soA#at=801)

"Time Out" by The Dave Brubeck Quartet.

The video is of the full album, with sleeve notes and added kittehs  :D   Really well done.
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Post by: Rhys W on 09 November, 2012, 05:57:05 pm
I was in a vinyl kind of mood today and the album I dug out was Olympian by Gene. Great band that burnt out too soon.
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Post by: PaulF on 09 November, 2012, 06:02:04 pm
For some reason (maybe the cover version thread?) I decided I had to listen to Blind Faith today. Dug it out and it's brilliant!
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Post by: andyoxon on 09 November, 2012, 07:23:49 pm
Mike Oldfield - Giving it another airing...   T'is great.  :thumbsup:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVL6bRvEs6E&feature=related

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Post by: jogler on 10 November, 2012, 03:11:18 pm
This

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-312lVPnhY

& similar on the youtube Jett stream

Despite the fact that I'm wearing headphones,Marj is listening to it too  ;D
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Post by: jogler on 10 November, 2012, 04:12:22 pm
I got side tracked onto this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwwJzNzRAZQ&NR=1&feature=endscreen

can you see the attraction?
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Post by: CrazyEnglishTriathlete on 10 November, 2012, 06:46:05 pm
George Benjamin - Shadowlines

having bought a cheapie ticket to see his first opera at the roh purely on the basis of the brochure.

Fortunately he studied with Oliver Messaien and Yvonne Loriod  and music sounds of that school so I should be happy.

If not - it was a cheapie ticket in the gods so I should be able to see the stage with the help of a small telescope
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Post by: Juan Martín on 10 November, 2012, 06:51:03 pm
Lute Songs by Thomas Campion. All the rage in the late 16th century, and some of the lyrics quite ribald. But the countertenor does make it sound a bit camp to my 21st century ears.
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Post by: microphonie on 11 November, 2012, 10:33:43 am
Plank! - Animalism

One for fans of Mogwai & similar. Shame the album version of La Luna has been messed around with though. The (far superior) original version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMVrj630xzA
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Post by: Juan Martín on 11 November, 2012, 05:03:41 pm
English Settlement - XTC
Chants d'Auvergne - Canteloube
And now, some piano grooves by Debussy and Ravel
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Post by: Hillbilly on 11 November, 2012, 05:46:05 pm
Delgados - Universal Audio.  In particular track 6 ("Sink or Swim") although most of the playlist is tops.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiOnd1huQqA
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Post by: andrewc on 11 November, 2012, 05:54:15 pm
Sonny Rollins, "Saxophone Colossus"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onPyI9yzag8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onPyI9yzag8)
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Post by: LindaG on 11 November, 2012, 06:10:57 pm
Paper Aeroplanes.

Sweet acoustic stuff.  Nice for an autumn evening in front of the fire.
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Post by: IanDG on 12 November, 2012, 08:42:06 pm
listening/watching a Sigur Ros dvd (Heima).
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Post by: tiermat on 13 November, 2012, 01:47:33 pm
Last Friday's Later...

Soundgarden are sounding way past their best, other, younger, artists are showing them up.
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Post by: PaulF on 13 November, 2012, 02:38:48 pm
Craig Charles on 6Music
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Post by: Biggsy on 13 November, 2012, 03:17:58 pm
Craig Charles on 6Music

Me too.  :thumbsup:

Don't forget his Funk & Soul Show on Saturdays as well.

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Post by: PaulF on 13 November, 2012, 05:04:07 pm
Craig Charles on 6Music

Me too.  :thumbsup:

Don't forget his Funk & Soul Show on Saturdays as well.



Usually listen to that when cooking dinner.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 13 November, 2012, 07:01:23 pm
The Best of Quantic  :D
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Post by: DrMekon on 13 November, 2012, 07:47:29 pm
Ran in listening to Monk by Thelonious Monk, and home to Kids and Animals by Mike Ladd.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 13 November, 2012, 08:42:47 pm
The Magnetic Fields, for the first time in aaaaaaaages.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 13 November, 2012, 09:38:10 pm
Aaaah Prefab Sprout....


<rummages>
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Post by: clarion on 15 November, 2012, 10:19:30 pm
Nazareth. 

I've long been convinced of the best rock guitarist* - Jimi Hendrix, the best rock drummer - John Bonham, and the best rock bassist - Noel Redding, but I've not been sure who I'd have on vocals in my ideal rock band.  I think Dan McCafferty gets the gig.


* Although it's astonishing that Manny Charlton is sooooo underappreciated.
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Post by: andrewc on 15 November, 2012, 10:35:48 pm
"Time Changes" by The Dave Brubeck Quartet.   From this rather good £14 box set (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Original-Album-Classics-Countdown-Further/dp/B003924NZ4/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1351976861&sr=1-1)

Probably a little too loud for this time of night though  ;D
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Post by: clarion on 15 November, 2012, 10:38:26 pm
Now Golden Earring.  A one(ish)-hit wonder with a fifty year history. :-\
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Post by: PaulF on 16 November, 2012, 06:15:56 am
Horses in the Sky ~ A Silver Mt. Zion   

Described by the band as "6 busted 'waltzes' for world wars 4 thru 6"
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Post by: citoyen on 16 November, 2012, 08:35:30 am
A bit late to the party, I know, but I have lately discovered LCD Soundsystem and I flipping love them.

This is my favourite (great vid too):

http://youtu.be/i2V_ZT-nyOs
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Post by: citoyen on 16 November, 2012, 08:38:20 am
The Magnetic Fields, for the first time in aaaaaaaages.

Funnily enough, re previous post, I was just thinking how LCD Soundsystem remind me a bit of Magnetic Fields and that I've not listened to any of Mr Merritt's work for a while...
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Post by: rogerzilla on 16 November, 2012, 06:35:21 pm
Echo and the Bunnymen - Ocean Rain (one of the quintessential 80s albums).
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Post by: LindaG on 16 November, 2012, 06:36:29 pm
Harvest Moon.  Again.   :)
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Post by: nobby on 16 November, 2012, 07:50:29 pm
I've just discovered Dirty Rider by Mikill Pane and his Read My Lips isn't bad either

Videos on You Tube - lots of bikes in first
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdfiVwsLeVY
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Post by: Illegal Combat Ant on 16 November, 2012, 07:59:52 pm
Henry Lim & his String Quartet - Where is My Mind.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Zpqset00iE&feature=youtu.be
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Post by: jogler on 17 November, 2012, 10:51:12 am
Fleetwood Mac.
The early years band,the Peter Green era.
 :thumbsup:
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Post by: nobby on 17 November, 2012, 11:15:46 am
Henry Lim & his String Quartet - Where is My Mind.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Zpqset00iE&feature=youtu.be

I thought that was going to be a bit high brow for me but I looked anyway and it was excellent. Thanks for sharing.
Off to iTunes now  :)
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Post by: Biggsy on 17 November, 2012, 11:33:41 am
^ I like the backing singer.  :thumbsup:
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Post by: LindaG on 17 November, 2012, 06:18:27 pm
The Hallelujah chorus.  It's actually a bit magnificent y'know.
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Post by: jogler on 17 November, 2012, 06:55:11 pm
rather like yourself then ;)
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Post by: Gus on 18 November, 2012, 07:04:36 pm
Carmina Burana

 I'm still not a big fan of classical music, but there are times when it just fits perfect in to my life.
I find my self listening more and more to it, must be a sign that I'm getting older and more understanding.  ???
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Post by: LindaG on 18 November, 2012, 10:11:37 pm
rather like yourself then ;)

So smooth ...

Carmina Burana

 I'm still not a big fan of classical music, but there are times when it just fits perfect in to my life.
I find my self listening more and more to it, must be a sign that I'm getting older and more understanding.  ???

I find myself more and more open to new things as I get older, it's great isn't it?

I'm listening to Saint Saviour's Union album.  This Ain't No Hymn is lovely, and I can see why the crowd were baying for 'Horse' when we saw her last week.  Not at all my usual thing but I'm enjoying it.  I have a post it note covered in the names of new bands for me to check out, from talking to a mate earlier.
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Post by: Biggsy on 18 November, 2012, 10:59:43 pm
Saint Saviour (if I've remembered the name right) makes an appearance in a lovely docu film about a record shop repeated late tonight on BBC4.

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Post by: rogerzilla on 19 November, 2012, 08:16:37 pm
Rolling Stones - Paint It Black (the perfect ending to Full Metal Jacket).
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Post by: LindaG on 20 November, 2012, 02:21:44 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHUr7KfD8WY
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Post by: microphonie on 20 November, 2012, 07:14:29 pm
The totally superb new Godspeed You! Black Emperor album - Don't Bend! Ascend!

Best track is the opener, Mladic, which almost defines the word 'epic':

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXdF9uhVrI0

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Post by: PaulF on 20 November, 2012, 09:52:56 pm
The totally superb new Godspeed You! Black Emperor album - Don't Bend! Ascend!

Best track is the opener, Mladic, which almost defines the word 'epic':

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXdF9uhVrI0



It's good but, for me, doesn't match F# A# ∞
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Post by: Illegal Combat Ant on 21 November, 2012, 10:00:02 am
Golden Brown

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy8Y3R4dXyc
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Post by: Peter on 21 November, 2012, 10:17:09 am
The totally superb new Godspeed You! Black Emperor album - Don't Bend! Ascend!

Best track is the opener, Mladic, which almost defines the word 'epic':

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXdF9uhVrI0

Try to hear Cantus Arcticus by the Finnish composer Rautavaara.  A completely different intention but you might hear similarities, especially when the guitars spar, early on in the Mladic piece!
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Post by: tiermat on 22 November, 2012, 11:54:40 am
Tuesday night's Later.. Live.

That Sinaed woman still has a fantastic voice, aged much better than her contemporaries.

And the Blue Grass/Zydeco band were brilliant, not enough whooping though...
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Post by: pcolbeck on 22 November, 2012, 05:15:21 pm
Hendrix on Spotify.
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Post by: PaulF on 22 November, 2012, 05:45:55 pm
Be-Bop Delux
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Post by: microphonie on 22 November, 2012, 07:10:21 pm
The totally superb new Godspeed You! Black Emperor album - Don't Bend! Ascend!

Best track is the opener, Mladic, which almost defines the word 'epic':


It's good but, for me, doesn't match F# A# ∞

That's still my fave too - Dead Flag Blues in particular  8)


Try to hear Cantus Arcticus by the Finnish composer Rautavaara.  A completely different intention but you might hear similarities, especially when the guitars spar, early on in the Mladic piece!

Had a brief listen on Spotify but didn't get it - don't think my ears are tuned to 'modern classical'. Ta for the suggestion though...
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Post by: IanDG on 23 November, 2012, 10:54:36 am
I've got the vinyl out :)

Listening to  Richard Thompson - Rumour and Sigh
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Post by: Illegal Combat Ant on 23 November, 2012, 02:30:18 pm
Snarky Puppy. My word they're ever so proficient. 21st century, top-class noodlers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=eZBlRkF0-to
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Post by: phantasmagoriana on 23 November, 2012, 07:15:14 pm
The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute. Haven't listened to it in ages and had forgotten how good it is. :thumbsup:
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Post by: IanDG on 23 November, 2012, 07:46:19 pm
I've got the vinyl out :)

Listening to  Richard Thompson - Rumour and Sigh

Progressed to
Roy Harper - Flat, Baroque and Berserk
10,000 Maniacs - In My Tribe
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Post by: CrazyEnglishTriathlete on 23 November, 2012, 10:17:24 pm
Rolling Stones - Paint It Black (the perfect ending to Full Metal Jacket).

I saw Vixen do an excellent cover of this at the Milton Keynes Bowl in about 1990
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Post by: mr magnolia on 24 November, 2012, 10:30:13 am
Richard Hawley
'Standing on the skys edge '

Family not amused.
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Post by: jogler on 24 November, 2012, 02:06:05 pm
Marj is playing some of her Clanned stuff so that is what I'm listening do.I'm expecting a marching band to pass thru' the lounge  ;D
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Post by: Juan Martín on 24 November, 2012, 03:32:11 pm
Górecki No 3. Parts of this have been going round in my head all week but I haven't listened to it for years, so I thought I would look it out.

The recording took a bit of tracking down in the media player filing system as I couldn't remember what it was called but remembered the soloist was Dawn Upshaw...(actually I remembered the soloist was Gwen Upjohn which didn't help)...
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Post by: jogler on 24 November, 2012, 03:44:24 pm
Frank Sinatra
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Post by: jogler on 25 November, 2012, 12:00:38 pm
Elvis
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Post by: Juan Martín on 25 November, 2012, 07:49:40 pm
More Grip - Sidestepper
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Post by: Deano on 25 November, 2012, 07:52:06 pm
Wilco - Sky Blue Sky.
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Post by: LindaG on 28 November, 2012, 12:44:01 am
Foals
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Post by: LindaG on 28 November, 2012, 12:36:36 pm
The Chapman Family.  Defined as punk-influenced indie folk.  Blimey.  I like them anyway, lots of bass, rhythm-driven stuff, guitar's not great, but good songs.
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Post by: tiermat on 28 November, 2012, 12:42:53 pm
LG, have you heard/heard of Gogol Bordello? Sounds like you would like them if you like The Chapman Family.  They describe their sound as "Romanian Gypsy Punk".  I especially like "Start Wearing Purple" as much as anything as it reminds me of my late mother in law :)
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Post by: LindaG on 28 November, 2012, 01:00:34 pm
No I haven't heard of them.  I'll put them on my list  :)
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Post by: Biggsy on 28 November, 2012, 02:36:07 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gEVaniPOmU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gekHV9DIjHc
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Post by: Illegal Combat Ant on 28 November, 2012, 09:19:58 pm
I'm having a lot of trouble getting out of this Snarky Puppy hole.

Binky - this is just ace.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQ99OMlI5cg&feature=related
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Post by: tiermat on 29 November, 2012, 11:18:20 am
The newer* Black Crowes stuff, nice, quite mellow stuff it is...

*for a certain, given, value of newer, one of the albums is from 2008**
** Warpaint
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Post by: LindaG on 29 November, 2012, 01:41:01 pm
Krystle Warren, as recommended by Crinklylion OTP.  It's rather nice  :)

ETA:  The Infamous Stringdusters.  Name says it all ...
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Post by: pcolbeck on 29 November, 2012, 02:46:19 pm
Scott Walker, he never gets stale, weird but never stale.
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Post by: clarion on 29 November, 2012, 10:50:10 pm
Led Zeppelin, by accident.

I started listening to the Kinks, then The Who, then Eddy Cochran (bypassing The Who's Summertime Blues, which was actually the mental link), Little Richard, Jimmy James (Hendrix), then a vid of a terribly young James Page playing in a skiffle band on Huw Wheldon's show.

A happy accident, though. :)
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Post by: MattH on 29 November, 2012, 11:57:11 pm
The family has gone to bed, the house is quiet. I'm sitting in a darkened room, cans on so I don't disturb them, listening to some great jazz.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFFarIS7Gyc
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Post by: pcolbeck on 30 November, 2012, 08:08:13 am
The family has gone to bed, the house is quiet. I'm sitting in a darkened room, cans on so I don't disturb them, listening to some great jazz.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFFarIS7Gyc

Thanks that's brilliant. Might have to buy that CD.
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Post by: MattH on 30 November, 2012, 10:11:05 am
If you do, the later re-issue is worth getting - it has alternate takes of what was a 12 hour recording session with no prior rehearsals. The Duke's band on the right, Count's on the left makes some interesting stereo imaging at times, but helps to separate out who is playing what.
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Post by: Chris S on 30 November, 2012, 10:19:14 am
Today, I am listening to emergency vehicles. Again.

I live on the main drag in Diss, between where all the blue lit vehicles live, and the killing zone that is the A140/A143/B1077. So it's really obvious when something is kicking off over there :(.

It's only a few days since this tragedy: http://www.dissexpress.co.uk/news/latest-news/woman-who-died-in-brome-a140-collision-is-named-1-4539637.

Given the amount of ice out there today (the paramedics were looking after an old dear who was on the ground, between here and Tesco), it's not really a surprise  that clearly there has been another "incident".

Time to put some music on loud and drown out the sirens. Ah - Underworld - that'll do.
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Post by: RJ on 30 November, 2012, 11:43:41 am
Early Hawkwind and mid-1970s Tangerine Dream ...

Yeah, I know ...
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 30 November, 2012, 08:29:20 pm
Allo Darlin' - Europe
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Post by: pcolbeck on 30 November, 2012, 09:26:46 pm
Bach Partita No.2 for Solo Violin  - Viktoria Mullova

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8ClFfVnw8o (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8ClFfVnw8o)
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Post by: jogler on 01 December, 2012, 09:10:39 pm
The Four Tops
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Post by: interzen on 01 December, 2012, 09:13:56 pm
Rush, "Clockwork Angels"
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Post by: andrewc on 01 December, 2012, 10:03:13 pm
Snarky Puppy. My word they're ever so proficient. 21st century, top-class noodlers.

They were in Liverpool last week, I had a ticket for Amira Medunjanin and didn't feel like a 2nd gig that night.  Must be getting old  :(
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Post by: andrewc on 01 December, 2012, 10:04:34 pm
Joni Mitchell, first "Blue", now "Hejira".
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Post by: Ham on 04 December, 2012, 10:24:21 am
Black Uhuru, nice to remember how good they are (and Sly & Robbie, natch)
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Post by: Andrij on 04 December, 2012, 02:42:45 pm
On my commute this week I've been listening to various tracks from Balkan Beat Box (http://balkanbeatbox.com/).  It's been perfect - the beats match my cadence almost perfectly.  The commutes have been nice, but the music has made them even more enjoyable.

The track that got me hooked on BBB was Bulgarian Chicks (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZDyOswzL2E).


Now if I could only find somewhere to get some Gypsy Sound System tracks...
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Post by: pcolbeck on 04 December, 2012, 02:55:19 pm
Eric Clapton - Backless

On vinyl.  I'm giving the Thorens a workout today.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 05 December, 2012, 03:26:50 pm
Admiral Fallow.

I quite like 'em.
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Post by: LindaG on 05 December, 2012, 03:39:45 pm
Mogwai
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 05 December, 2012, 03:48:52 pm
What, you can hear her snoring all the way from Toytown?

*impressed with LG's superhero hearing powers*

 ;)
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 07 December, 2012, 09:21:50 am
Right now, the school choir performing in the hall.

They're good.

Right, back to work....
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Post by: interzen on 07 December, 2012, 10:50:17 am
Still listening to the new Rush album.
It's a keeper, for sure.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 07 December, 2012, 01:35:19 pm
Laura Cantrell, Trains And Boats And Planes.  Right now, Howard Hughes Blues.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 08 December, 2012, 01:36:17 pm
Diana Krall - Glad Rag Doll

Its produced by the splendiferous T-Bone Burnett and is a lovely dark reworking of old songs. Not like Mrs Costello's usually output at all.
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Post by: andrewc on 08 December, 2012, 07:39:08 pm
The very wonderful Tunisian Oud player Anouar Brahem playing Astrakan Cafe.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MjZqSBuLc8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MjZqSBuLc8)

Live video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ph3wSuDjpc (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ph3wSuDjpc)

Full album
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Post by: Andrij on 08 December, 2012, 08:10:52 pm
Listening to Arthur Smith sing Leonard Cohen.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 09 December, 2012, 12:56:25 am
Amy Rigby, 18 Again - An Anthology.

I may follow it with Til The Wheels Fall Off.  Partly because "Are We Ever Going To Have Sex Again" makes me snort, deeply unattractively, with laughter every single time I listen to it.

She's playing in Glasgow in March.  But it's onna school night and I can't go :(  Fingers crossed for more dates getting added.
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Post by: jogler on 09 December, 2012, 09:18:24 am
Nirvana
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Post by: rogerzilla on 09 December, 2012, 09:52:03 am
Madness - One Better Day.  Superb xylophone/piano combination.
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Post by: jogler on 09 December, 2012, 06:53:30 pm
Roy Orbison
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Post by: andrewc on 09 December, 2012, 09:14:44 pm
Currently Daniel Barenboim, playing Beethoven.  I've been feeling crap all day, so have been drinking tea and listening to music.  Bach, Beethoven, This Mortal Coil and Springsteen.
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Post by: LindaG on 10 December, 2012, 11:18:09 am
Johnny Marr and the Healers.  Very '90s that.
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Post by: LindaG on 10 December, 2012, 04:26:48 pm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01213yq

Dermot O'Leary interviewing Johnny Marr.

With a song from the new album, and a re-working of Please Please Please.

Oh yes.  Can't wait to see him live in March  :thumbsup:
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Post by: LindaG on 10 December, 2012, 05:23:29 pm
And now, a hilarious podcast interview with Tom Butchart of Sound It Out Records.

http://allbacknofront.com/podcasts/all-back-no-front-6/
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Post by: andrewc on 10 December, 2012, 08:21:05 pm
Charles Mingus, "Blues & Roots".
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Post by: pcolbeck on 11 December, 2012, 05:27:05 pm
Susan Tedesch

If you like soul, R&B with a bit of southern fried rock rather then you should like this. She plays a mean Telecaster (but a Les Paul here)as well as being a great singer. Also married to pne of the best blues / slide guitarists around.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9I6lQNK6Ok (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9I6lQNK6Ok)
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Post by: billplumtree on 11 December, 2012, 08:02:53 pm
The very wonderful Tunisian Oud player Anouar Brahem playing Astrakan Cafe.

Ooh!  Inspired by andrewc, another oud player:  Rabih Abou-Khali.  Specifically A Chocolate Love Affair, from the wonderful Songs For Sad Women album.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=M9iOA1dxWPA
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Post by: Biggsy on 11 December, 2012, 08:34:14 pm
Melody's Echo Chamber by Melody's Echo Chamber, yet again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEtgRtZ1fD0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v29I0srhPwg
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Post by: andrewc on 11 December, 2012, 09:20:53 pm
The very wonderful Tunisian Oud player Anouar Brahem playing Astrakan Cafe.

Ooh!  Inspired by andrewc, another oud player:  Rabih Abou-Khali.  Specifically A Chocolate Love Affair, from the wonderful Songs For Sad Women album.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=M9iOA1dxWPA

By an utterly amazing coincidence I've just read your post and am listening to the same piece!

I was camping in Southern Ireland and listening to a local jazz programme when I heard "Songs For Sad Women" for the first time.   I made a note of the name and bought it when I got home.

Dhafer Youseff ?
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Post by: billplumtree on 11 December, 2012, 09:33:54 pm
 :D

Dhafer Youseff ?

Nope - new one on me, but thanks for the tip!  Long been a fan of Anouar Brahem.  Who wouldn't be, with album titles (and content) like The Astounding Eyes of Rita?
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Post by: marcusjb on 12 December, 2012, 07:34:04 pm
Kompakt Total 1 through 12 on random play on the study system - 212 great tracks!

Got a stack of code to write tonight and this will go down a treat to help with it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2N5y4Mlnhk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2N5y4Mlnhk)
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Post by: Ham on 13 December, 2012, 11:58:07 am
Courtesy of 6 Music, Luke Sital-Sing's version of God Rest ye merry gentlemen, free MP3 download here http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p012dh9r
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Post by: tiermat on 13 December, 2012, 12:14:20 pm
Anastacia.

Just 'cos I can :)
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Post by: billplumtree on 13 December, 2012, 01:11:49 pm
Anastacia.

Now she'd be a good'un to take down to the gym...  Thanks for the reminder, T!
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Post by: pcolbeck on 13 December, 2012, 01:59:55 pm
Itunes has decided I want all of "The Salsa Funck Experience" when I asked for Scott Walker. I haven't worked out the new iTunes yet ...
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 14 December, 2012, 07:34:14 am
Krystle Warren, Love Songs - A Time You May Embrace

Specifically, right now, I Worry Less.
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Post by: Andrij on 18 December, 2012, 10:06:23 pm
This afternoon is a Bad Religion marathon.   I'm hoping some of their energy will miraculously transfer over to me.

Just a few random tracks from Bad Religion, having learned they have a new CD coming out in January!

http://youtu.be/OKflTc_RT6U  :thumbsup:
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Post by: marcusjb on 19 December, 2012, 09:28:13 am
(http://www.thesirenssound.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Burial-Truant-Rough-Sleeper.jpg)

New Burial EP - a real cracker.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 20 December, 2012, 02:04:41 am
Astral Weeks - Van Morrison

Perfect for 2:00 in the morning.
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Post by: tiermat on 20 December, 2012, 06:40:27 am
This afternoon is a Bad Religion marathon.   I'm hoping some of their energy will miraculously transfer over to me.

Just a few random tracks from Bad Religion, having learned they have a new CD coming out in January!

http://youtu.be/OKflTc_RT6U  :thumbsup:

I don't need an excuse to buy more CDs...

BesidesI am still enjoying "The Dissent of Man"
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Post by: RJ on 20 December, 2012, 09:34:05 am
Yesterday's bus home:  Jayhawks - Tomorrow the Green Grass.  An alt-country gem.

This morning in the 9am semi-dark semi-rain:  Ali Farke Toure - Savanne
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Post by: pcolbeck on 20 December, 2012, 02:31:04 pm
Since I pulled an all nighter last night to finish a report I need something lively  to keep me awake. So its:

The Supersuckers - The Evil Power of Rock and Roll
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Post by: PaulF on 20 December, 2012, 02:49:08 pm
Wilderness of Manitoba, I need calming down...
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Post by: bikenrrd on 20 December, 2012, 05:07:47 pm
(http://www.thesirenssound.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Burial-Truant-Rough-Sleeper.jpg)

New Burial EP - a real cracker.

Aha, this is out now.  Thanks for the heads up.  I really like the Kindred / Street Halo recent EPs.

I'm mostly listening to Chromatics - Kill for Love, which I missed when it came out in April, but it is right up my street.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 20 December, 2012, 07:06:34 pm
Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting - Elton John
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Post by: Chris S on 20 December, 2012, 08:26:40 pm
The Kill Bill soundtrack.

The film is OK I suppose, as it goes; the usual Tarantino splatterfest - but set against the soundtrack, it's not arf bad. Music is a powerful thing.
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Post by: LindaG on 21 December, 2012, 04:38:50 pm
The Christmas playlist I just burned.  Bearing in mind how much I fucking loathe the tyranny that is Christmas.  I think it's not half bad.

   
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Post by: PaulF on 21 December, 2012, 05:30:32 pm
The Christmas playlist I just burned.  Bearing in mind how much I fucking loathe the tyranny that is Christmas.  I think it's not half bad.

  • Sweet Bells                              Kate Rusby   
    That'll Be Christmas              Thea Gilmore   
    Christmas Is Really Fantastic      Frank Sidebottom   
    God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen   Annie Lennox   
    White Christmas                       Teddy Thompson & Rufus Wainwright         
    The Powers and the Glory of Love      Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat   
    The Christmas Orphan         John Shuttleworth   
    Empire State of Mind               Alicia Keys   
    Wires                                    Athlete   
    Two Thousand Years               Billy Joel   
    January Hymn                     The Decemberists   
    White Winter Hymnal              Fleet Foxes         
    What Are You Doing New Year's Eve    Kate & Anna McGarrigle & Rufus Wainwright   
    Winter                                Joshua Radin   
    Don't Stop Believin'            Journey
   


Nice!
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 21 December, 2012, 06:36:22 pm
This time last year I think I would have heard of two of them lot, LG.  Now I've heard of more than half of 'em, and have seen 4 of them (all ones that I hadn't heard of before) performing live this year!
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Post by: andrewc on 21 December, 2012, 10:00:42 pm
Jeff Buckley "Grace", possibly a little too loud to be a good neighbour  ;D
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Post by: PaulF on 21 December, 2012, 11:14:21 pm
Jeff Buckley "Grace", possibly a little too loud to be a good neighbour  ;D

I don't think that's possible :thumbsup:
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 21 December, 2012, 11:28:31 pm
Lisbee Stainton, intermingled with  Karine Polwart.  Very melodic.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 22 December, 2012, 03:17:16 pm
The Christmas playlist I just burned.  Bearing in mind how much I fucking loathe the tyranny that is Christmas.  I think it's not half bad.

Can I suggest an addition?

http://open.spotify.com/track/7DRAvCg13BE8GHCXRrUbDP
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Post by: Andrij on 22 December, 2012, 07:14:11 pm
Oy to the World! A Klezmer Christmas (http://oytotheworld.com)  :D
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Post by: PaulF on 22 December, 2012, 07:16:38 pm
Craig Charles - a perfect antidote to 'Strictly'
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 23 December, 2012, 12:23:05 am
I quite enjoyed Strictly, actually....

Anyhoo.  Singing Adams, Moves.  Now on Spotify!  Hurrah!
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Post by: ferret on 23 December, 2012, 11:48:37 am
Corey Taylor of Slipknot  :demon:
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Post by: rogerzilla on 23 December, 2012, 01:26:43 pm
Jilted John - Jilted John  ;D
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Post by: clarion on 23 December, 2012, 07:43:00 pm
Radio 6 Music - Joe Strummer Playlist.  Tom Robinson presenting a series of tracks suggested by DJs and the public related to Joe.  Excellent radio.
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Post by: dasmoth on 23 December, 2012, 07:57:27 pm
The Crossing -- Sophie B. Hawkins.  Came as a bit of a surprise that she had a new album out.
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Post by: Deano on 23 December, 2012, 11:23:57 pm
After listening to a lot of delicate, lovely folksy stuff recently, I'm breaking it up with the righteous hatred of Dead Kennedys' Plastic Surgery Disasters.
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Post by: andrewc on 24 December, 2012, 07:56:58 pm
Gershwin's "Embraceable You" performed by Andrew McCormack & Jason Yarde.

A brief interview with music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af1v14debeU (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af1v14debeU)

I saw them play in Liverpool a year or so back.  I don't recall Jason's hair being quite so impressive..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eesgl5EBZiU (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eesgl5EBZiU)

Andrew McCormack solo.

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Post by: jogler on 25 December, 2012, 08:51:05 am
Aled Jones on Radio 2.

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Post by: jogler on 25 December, 2012, 10:06:49 am
Ed "Stewpot" Stewart. Radio 2. Junior Choice Christmas Special.

approaching nostalgia overload :D
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Post by: Butterfly on 25 December, 2012, 10:51:09 am
Stewpot started to play something unbearable so we are listening to Absolute who are currently playing Fairytale of New York  :D
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Post by: Tim Hall on 25 December, 2012, 11:00:04 am
"The Foggy Dew" as performed by The Dubliners from The Dubliners at Their Best.
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Post by: mr magnolia on 25 December, 2012, 12:43:11 pm
The Handsome Family - so much wine.
Perfectly Christmas....
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Post by: LindaG on 26 December, 2012, 08:39:58 am
Natalie Merchant - Tigerlily.

I love her voice.  Just right for winding down after work.
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Post by: jogler on 26 December, 2012, 12:52:27 pm
Classic FM
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Post by: LindaG on 28 December, 2012, 03:16:09 pm
Everything's Getting Older by Bill Wells and Aidan Moffatt.  This was a mistake, I'm maudlin enough as it is today.  Then it was Lanterns on the Lake, Gracious Tide, Take Me Home.  Again, a bit wistful to be listening to when you're sorting the laundry and a bit spaced out.

So, next.  King Creosote and Jon Hopkins Diamond Mine?

Or, I Was a Cat from a Book by James Yorkston?

I shall have a coffee break while I ponder ...
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Post by: PaulF on 28 December, 2012, 03:53:25 pm
Currently "In the Reins" by Iron & Wine and Calexico. Perfect antidote totes grey we have here.
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Post by: Dinamo on 28 December, 2012, 04:00:25 pm
Neil Young - Mirrorball
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Post by: interzen on 28 December, 2012, 04:09:08 pm
Working through my collection of Sir Pterry audiobooks - tonight I am mainly listening to "Feet Of Clay", having just finished listening to "Interesting Times".

"Feet Of Clay" is read by BaldrickTony Robinson, so it's better than most, although still not as good as the books read by Stephen Briggs.
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Post by: Juan Martín on 29 December, 2012, 07:20:18 pm
Vampire Weekend - a random charity shop purchase.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 29 December, 2012, 07:28:35 pm
If it's the eponymous album, I find Oxford Comma is a good track for fast angry cycling....
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Post by: Juan Martín on 29 December, 2012, 07:38:42 pm
It is! And I'm enjoying it so far!
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Post by: Biggsy on 29 December, 2012, 07:51:10 pm
When Wiggins met Weller: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pgq27
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Post by: Pingu on 29 December, 2012, 11:32:06 pm
Heavy Electrics - Eat Lights, Become Lights:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ju3wOKgSlwI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8fSnHZk2j4
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Post by: andrewc on 30 December, 2012, 12:03:05 am
Scorpions , Rock Me Like A Hurricane

Long time since I saw them live..
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Post by: microphonie on 30 December, 2012, 10:04:13 am
Heavy Electrics - Eat Lights, Become Lights:

Oh yes! Like a cross between 65DOS & Holy F*ck. Now first in line for d/l when my eMusic sub renews on NYD. Cheers! :thumbsup:
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Post by: microphonie on 30 December, 2012, 10:18:10 am
When Wiggins met Weller: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pgq27

I enjoyed listening to it, even though there wasn't anything surprising musically. It's got potential as the basis of a drinking game whereby a drink is taken whenever Sir Wiggo says 'really'. Really!
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Post by: Pingu on 30 December, 2012, 04:54:09 pm
Heavy Electrics - Eat Lights, Become Lights:

Oh yes! Like a cross between 65DOS & Holy F*ck. Now first in line for d/l when my eMusic sub renews on NYD. Cheers! :thumbsup:

I thought you'd like that. I'm glad to return the favour  :)
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Post by: Wombat on 30 December, 2012, 06:12:45 pm
Daniel Roth playing Cesar Franck's Trois chorales on the organ of St Sulpice, Paris.

Managed to resist using more than a quarter of my 100w per channel, but only because the next door neighbour was in.  Oh god that is good...  the dog disagreed, and the cats hid.

Having heard M Roth playing other Franck pieces on that very same organ, it brings it to life for me a bit more.
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Post by: PaulF on 30 December, 2012, 07:39:46 pm
Simon & Garfunkel live, 1969. Essentially the "Bridge Over Troubled Water" album but without, what I consider, the overproduction. The songs stand up far better on their own with a small band
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Post by: phantasmagoriana on 30 December, 2012, 08:39:54 pm
Placebo on the radio.
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Post by: LindaG on 31 December, 2012, 03:28:11 am
Firefly by Lisbee Stainton.  Thanks for that one Crinklylion.  It's a bit wistful and it's really annoying, being preached at by children, but still her voice is lovely and something in the music is chiming with my mood tonight.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 31 December, 2012, 06:58:53 am
You up for going to see her in March then, rotas and Life permitting?

Btw, can I suggest Sophie Mac (http://open.spotify.com/album/2XRCC2Ar8AadxlXFBISQ7W) and Lotte Mullan (Plain Jane http://open.spotify.com/album/2XRCC2Ar8AadxlXFBISQ7W) if you're liking Lisbee.  Also frighteningly youthful.

*Qs up a playlist of those three*
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Post by: marcusjb on 31 December, 2012, 11:04:40 am
AphexTwin Selected Ambient Works 2

Of all his works, this is the one I listen to the least.

But it is always a pleasure when I do but it on.
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Post by: jogler on 01 January, 2013, 12:32:22 pm
Currently Duanne Eddy,next up The Shads..
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Post by: interzen on 02 January, 2013, 11:47:10 am
HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy Live, recorded at Hackney Empire (see: http://www.hitchhikerslive.com/shop-audio.php)

It involves a fair number of the original radio series cast1 and is actually rather good. In this particular show, Terry Jones provides the voice of The Book, but I'm not quite sure it works for me2

1 - except those who are dead, of course. Which means no Peter Jones as the Voice Of The Book :( OTOH, Simon Jones, Geoff McGivern and Mark Wing-Davey are all present and correct :)
2 - although, admittedly, Peter Jones was a hard act to follow.
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Post by: Biggsy on 03 January, 2013, 06:47:27 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZThquH5t0ow
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Post by: interzen on 03 January, 2013, 07:08:07 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZThquH5t0ow
Ah, so you've heard ;)
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Post by: jogler on 03 January, 2013, 09:46:58 pm
The Rolling Stones
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Post by: Ewan Houzami on 04 January, 2013, 06:52:23 pm
The Now News Show Quiz on R4. The gags turn to Lance Armstrong and cycling and Rory Bremner asks Hugh Dennis 'You cycled in the Tour de France didn't you?' 'Er, no, it was a stage separate from the race itself which they let members of the public have a go on.' Or words to that effect.   :facepalm: anyway.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 04 January, 2013, 08:15:11 pm
Mr Tom Ravenscroft. Because I'm a pseud, apptly.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 04 January, 2013, 10:14:02 pm
On TOTP, the Boomtown Rats doing "Rat Trap".  They don't write symphonic classics like that any more  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Pingu on 04 January, 2013, 11:24:53 pm
They don't play chandeliers like that, either (if it's the clip I'm thinking of).
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Post by: rogerzilla on 05 January, 2013, 11:01:30 am
They don't play chandeliers like that, either (if it's the clip I'm thinking of).
It is.  Who'd have thought you could get such a tune from one?
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Post by: Juan Martín on 05 January, 2013, 06:28:16 pm
The Ragpicker's Dream - Mark Knopfler. Another random purchase from the hospice shop in the village when I dropped in some stuff this morning. Not as trad as I had imagined it would be but I am enjoying it.
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Post by: Biggsy on 10 January, 2013, 01:14:20 pm
https://soundcloud.com/ingroovesmarketing/sets/tame-impala-lonerism

Tame Impala - Lonerism.  "Psychedelic hypno-groove melodic rock music".  Yeah, man.
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Post by: tiermat on 10 January, 2013, 01:33:20 pm
Los Campesinos whilst wrangling networks, it seems to work for me :)
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Post by: marcusjb on 10 January, 2013, 03:09:34 pm
Deadmau5 - > Album Title Goes Here <

He might be a bit cheesy - but he makes good music to code to! 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52Nla2rMuvA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52Nla2rMuvA)
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Post by: pcolbeck on 12 January, 2013, 02:44:08 pm
Led Zeppelin because I picked up a copy of Hammer of the Gods (the infamous biography of  the band) at a cheap bookshop the other day. I keep forgetting how blindingly good Led Zep were.
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Post by: Juan Martín on 13 January, 2013, 12:45:54 pm
The Decline of British Sea Power.
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Post by: TimC on 13 January, 2013, 03:00:35 pm
I saw them a couple of years ago at Latitude - a really interesting and fun band.
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Post by: Dibdib on 13 January, 2013, 04:23:38 pm
It's a terrible song but I love it anyway. So damn catchy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm8xIo_2Aok
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Post by: jogler on 13 January, 2013, 08:10:43 pm
The Strolling Bones circa 1967
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Post by: LindaG on 14 January, 2013, 11:03:13 am
The Rise And Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. 

Good, isn't it.
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Post by: PaulF on 14 January, 2013, 11:03:46 am
Fade, the new Yo La Tengo
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Post by: LindaG on 14 January, 2013, 11:05:42 am
Fade, the new Yo La Tengo

Oooh!
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Post by: PaulF on 14 January, 2013, 11:17:38 am
Fade, the new Yo La Tengo

Oooh!

Think that it counts as a "return to form". The last 2 albums I found a bit dull but this is more classic YLT more in the mould of "And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out" or "I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One"
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Post by: citoyen on 14 January, 2013, 12:44:39 pm
Ruth Theodore - reminding myself of the brilliance of her last album ahead of the new one that's coming out soon...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW1aO1psjIE

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Post by: tiermat on 14 January, 2013, 12:45:32 pm
Just for a change, Los Campesinos.
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Post by: Dibdib on 14 January, 2013, 06:04:01 pm
Daft Punk - Discovery.

(I accidentally tuned into Radio 1 the other evening and found them remixing One More Time. It was so bad I nearly crashed the car. Bloody savages.)
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Post by: microphonie on 14 January, 2013, 07:03:11 pm
Oren Ambarchi - Sagittarian Domain

Loscil - Coast/Range/Arc

Don Letts' 6Music show

And over the weekend lots of stuff from my collection that I haven't listened to for ages: Baked Beans, Black Dog Productions, Bowling Green...yep, I'm ripping my alphabetically stored cds (again) this time to FLAC.

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Post by: MattH on 15 January, 2013, 12:46:28 pm
A 1980s extended remix - Sleepwalking by Instinct.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPqSVkko7Ag

It was recorded in 1985 by a group formed by the breakup of Pigbag, but not released until recently on a ZTT compilation CD; I suspect it would have done well in the clubs back then.
All the hallmarks of the ZTT 12"s (over)produced by Trevor Horn -
Not highbrow at all, and a very formulaic treatment, but good for riding to.
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Post by: jogler on 17 January, 2013, 07:28:42 pm
The Stones do Motown.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=nAkMTu6q2pY

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Post by: jogler on 17 January, 2013, 07:33:24 pm
& with a little help from Bowie they do a bit more Motown

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9G4jnaznUoQ
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 17 January, 2013, 07:47:23 pm
Amy Rigby.  Who is touring in a couple of months.  Currently the track "Are we ever going to have sex again?"

*crosses fingers for a cooperative calendar and a cheap travelodge or similar 'cos otherwise I'm selling the Cubs to the circus and kipping in a bus shelter in either Gateshead or Hull one night in early March*
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Post by: interzen on 17 January, 2013, 08:16:09 pm
Faith No More - specifically their first two albums ('Introduce Yourself' and 'We Care A Lot')

Granted, Chuck Mosely couldn't sing for shit but for some reason I like these two albums a lot more than the majority of stuff they recorded with Mike Patton who is, without a doubt, a monumentally talented vocalist - he just really doesn't 'do it' for me.
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Post by: RJ on 17 January, 2013, 08:20:29 pm
Streetcore - Joe Strummer & his Mescaleros

Not entirely sure why I didn't own this till the day before yesterday, but am glad I do, as it's really rather good.
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Post by: citoyen on 17 January, 2013, 11:43:42 pm
The gorgeous new Junip track - Line Of Fire, which sounds like it ought to be the soundtrack to a new Swedish crime drama...

http://youtu.be/9iBgxJQ4oqY

(Junip is Jose Gonzalez's band, if that means anything to anyone.)
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Post by: tiermat on 18 January, 2013, 01:13:13 pm
St Etienne - Words and Pictures

The first disc is good, as it is all the original songs, but the second disc is not very good at all, all remixes, some of which sort of work and others that fall flat on their arses.
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Post by: LindaG on 18 January, 2013, 04:33:07 pm
Radio Ethiopia by that Patti Smith. I wore my Patti shirt to the dentist this morning cause I knew my dentist would like it but he wasn't on for emergencies so it was a waste.
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Post by: keytothehighway on 19 January, 2013, 01:15:14 pm
The Stones do Motown.....

fantastic - ages since I've listened to that - might as well do the Metropolitan Glide now

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgs0AnxmAxM

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Post by: Biggsy on 19 January, 2013, 04:46:01 pm
Girls Aloud (various hits).

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Post by: StuAff on 19 January, 2013, 05:07:14 pm
Faith No More - specifically their first two albums ('Introduce Yourself' and 'We Care A Lot')

Granted, Chuck Mosely couldn't sing for shit but for some reason I like these two albums a lot more than the majority of stuff they recorded with Mike Patton who is, without a doubt, a monumentally talented vocalist - he just really doesn't 'do it' for me.

I love all the albums. Patton is of course a much better singer, but the first two albums have some of FNM's finest work. They played plenty of the Chuck-era material in the two London shows last year. Saw the Hammersmith one and was delighted they aired 'Pills For Breakfast'.
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Post by: andrewc on 19 January, 2013, 10:03:33 pm
Joe Stillgoe (Richards son), a good singer & pianist as you'd expect.

His cover of "Waterloo Sunset".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKnAFRzmppc (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKnAFRzmppc)
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Post by: citoyen on 21 January, 2013, 12:48:52 pm
On a bit of a Half Man Half Biscuit tip today. Always guaranteed to raise a smile...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fg69oE_K-so&list=AL94UKMTqg-9DIpB8hgEYuPzuQ-bDzmK_o
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Post by: jogler on 21 January, 2013, 07:18:50 pm
The Chiffons
The Ronettes
The Toys
The Crystals
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Post by: citoyen on 22 January, 2013, 01:48:20 pm
The The?
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Post by: Thor on 22 January, 2013, 03:34:15 pm
Vinyl revival.  Currently employing Audacity to convert the following to digital...

Natural History - The March Violets
Gun Shy - The Screaming Blue Messiahs
Viva - Xmal Deutschland
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Post by: jogler on 26 January, 2013, 07:15:12 pm
Tina Turnon Turner
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Post by: Juan Martín on 27 January, 2013, 06:19:37 pm
British Sea Power again. This time 'Do You Like Rock Music?' I am really enjoying this stuff at the moment but have given myself some serious earworms!
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Post by: jogler on 27 January, 2013, 08:03:02 pm
Whitney Houston : The Ultimate Collection
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Post by: Jacomus on 29 January, 2013, 09:05:37 am
Fear Factory: The Industrialist

P.s. Damn, this is a good album.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 29 January, 2013, 03:12:57 pm
A Drive by Truckers playlist. Particularly enjoying "When the pin hits the cap" and "Your Daddy hates me".
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Post by: LindaG on 29 January, 2013, 03:14:40 pm
James Yorkston and the Athletes, Moving Up Country.

Sluvly it is.
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Post by: tiermat on 29 January, 2013, 03:16:43 pm
Fear Factory: The Industrialist

P.s. Damn, this is a good album.

I am on a mix of Manufacture and ReManufacture.

Ooo "New Breed" has just started, sometimes I wished I didn't work in an office...
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Post by: interzen on 29 January, 2013, 03:35:46 pm
Robin Guthrie, mainly 'cos I'm going to see him play in York on Feb. 15th.

Guitar ambient? Yes please ...
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Post by: tiermat on 29 January, 2013, 08:42:22 pm
Now hunting out music from the first batch of bands announced for our annual musical pilgrimage.

So far I am enjoying:
PSB
Darwin Deez
The Milk

The Unthanks I also rate, but in a different manner to the above. Not 100% sure how their sound will go down at a festival!
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Post by: Deano on 29 January, 2013, 08:47:17 pm
James Yorkston and the Athletes, Moving Up Country.

Sluvly it is.

One of my favourite albums.
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Post by: tiermat on 30 January, 2013, 02:52:49 pm
Public Service Broadcasting - The War Room

Gloriously mad, as only British music can be.  Pathe newsreel voiceovers mashed with guitars.  "Spitfire" is brilliant.  For the full effect you need to see the accompanying video, which is what I was doing this morning whilst trying to get my head around a server build!  Their channel, on YouTube is PSBUK, worth checking out.

I have also lined up some Willy Mason, The Unthanks and Darwin Deez...
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Post by: Jacomus on 30 January, 2013, 04:29:02 pm
This morning was going back to an old favorite,

Dark Tranquillity: Fiction

Followed by, Dark Tranquillity: We Are The Void

Currently on,

Adept: Death Dealers which contains the superb song 'No Guts, No Glory'


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Post by: Jacomus on 30 January, 2013, 04:31:18 pm
Fear Factory: The Industrialist

P.s. Damn, this is a good album.

I am on a mix of Manufacture and ReManufacture.

Ooo "New Breed" has just started, sometimes I wished I didn't work in an office...

Ah, both great albums. :thumbsup:
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Post by: microphonie on 30 January, 2013, 06:18:34 pm
Public Service Broadcasting - The War Room

Gloriously mad, as only British music can be.  Pathe newsreel voiceovers mashed with guitars.  "Spitfire" is brilliant.  For the full effect you need to see the accompanying video, which is what I was doing this morning whilst trying to get my head around a server build!  Their channel, on YouTube is PSBUK, worth checking out.


New album due in May too and numerous live dates to support the new single & album (Inform – Educate – Entertain ):

http://publicservicebroadcasting.net/

 :thumbsup:
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Post by: tiermat on 30 January, 2013, 06:28:19 pm
Public Service Broadcasting - The War Room

Gloriously mad, as only British music can be.  Pathe newsreel voiceovers mashed with guitars.  "Spitfire" is brilliant.  For the full effect you need to see the accompanying video, which is what I was doing this morning whilst trying to get my head around a server build!  Their channel, on YouTube is PSBUK, worth checking out.


New album due in May too and numerous live dates to support the new single & album (Inform – Educate – Entertain ):

http://publicservicebroadcasting.net/

 :thumbsup:

And, ahem, playing at Deershed in July (www.deershedfestival.com), which is gradually turning into a YACF camping/beer/music meet up :)
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Post by: microphonie on 30 January, 2013, 06:56:52 pm
Public Service Broadcasting - The War Room

Gloriously mad, as only British music can be.  Pathe newsreel voiceovers mashed with guitars.  "Spitfire" is brilliant.  For the full effect you need to see the accompanying video, which is what I was doing this morning whilst trying to get my head around a server build!  Their channel, on YouTube is PSBUK, worth checking out.


New album due in May too and numerous live dates to support the new single & album (Inform – Educate – Entertain ):

http://publicservicebroadcasting.net/

 :thumbsup:

And, ahem, playing at Deershed in July (www.deershedfestival.com), which is gradually turning into a YACF camping/beer/music meet up :)

Ooh - sister & b-i-l may be interested in that - clashes with last 3 stages of the TdF though...
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 30 January, 2013, 07:45:45 pm
Public Service Broadcasting - The War Room

Gloriously mad, as only British music can be.  Pathe newsreel voiceovers mashed with guitars.  "Spitfire" is brilliant.  For the full effect you need to see the accompanying video, which is what I was doing this morning whilst trying to get my head around a server build!  Their channel, on YouTube is PSBUK, worth checking out.


New album due in May too and numerous live dates to support the new single & album (Inform – Educate – Entertain ):

http://publicservicebroadcasting.net/

 :thumbsup:

Yay!
Buggrit, we're in Rome when they play Furrybootoon  :'( We really enjoyed the last gig.
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Post by: tiermat on 30 January, 2013, 07:57:56 pm
Public Service Broadcasting - The War Room

Gloriously mad, as only British music can be.  Pathe newsreel voiceovers mashed with guitars.  "Spitfire" is brilliant.  For the full effect you need to see the accompanying video, which is what I was doing this morning whilst trying to get my head around a server build!  Their channel, on YouTube is PSBUK, worth checking out.


There are a couple of pubs in a short walk of the site for watching such things ;)

New album due in May too and numerous live dates to support the new single & album (Inform – Educate – Entertain ):

http://publicservicebroadcasting.net/

 :thumbsup:

And, ahem, playing at Deershed in July (www.deershedfestival.com), which is gradually turning into a YACF camping/beer/music meet up :)

Ooh - sister & b-i-l may be interested in that - clashes with last 3 stages of the TdF though...
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Post by: Jacomus on 31 January, 2013, 02:40:48 pm
Today I have been processing payments to the genteel strains of Insense: The Silent Epidemic

Our clients have been fucking PAID! ;D

How do you tend to listen to music? I have always done a whole album, then maybe another of the same band. I don't like to mix songs up.
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Post by: Biggsy on 31 January, 2013, 06:32:43 pm
Mostly, I listen to mixed up music on the radio.  Secondly, I listen to albums (unless I only got the single or EP), skipping tracks I don't feel like.

I'm still frequently playing the latest albums by Melody's Echo Chamber and Tame Impala.
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Post by: Jacomus on 31 January, 2013, 06:54:09 pm
Interesting, I am always amazed (and a little envious of) by people's capacity to listen to all sorts of music, jumbled up. Also, their ability to not have an unpleasant, visceral reaction to music they don't like. Very similar to the intense, skin-crawling, aggravation of hearing someone chewing and swallowing.
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Post by: MattH on 01 February, 2013, 11:10:53 am
If the music was written to be listened to as a whole, then that's how I prefer to listen to it (e.g. most concept albums) as otherwise it's a bit like putting on a film DVD and only watching the best scenes - they may be good, but without the build up and context setting then they are missing something.

Otherwise it's pretty much random play, with a bias towards favourites and a finger on the skip button.

Today I've been listening to some Tangerine Dream - Underwater Sunlight and Miracle Mile. Interesting soundscapes for background noise whilst tapping away at the computer.
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Post by: tiermat on 01 February, 2013, 11:13:19 am
Like Matt I listen to those albums that are meant to be listened to as a whole, as a whole (Operation: Mindcrime spring immediately to mind), but the rest of the time I have my iPod on random and just listen to whatever jumps into the queue.  Most times this works, sometimes it doesn't.
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Post by: interzen on 01 February, 2013, 11:39:17 am
New Model Army, specifically 'Thunder and Consolation' (which I often find difficult to listen to for purely personal reasons) and 'Impurity' (a crowning moment of musical awesome)

In addition, both of these albums feature Ed Alleyne-Johnson, who can often be found busking in York (and is, by himself, a pretty awesome musician)
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Post by: MattH on 01 February, 2013, 12:18:04 pm
I remember doing the lighting for a New Model Army gig back in the 80s. It was quite scary. Mainly because the building was full of NMA fans, who didn't tend towards the conservatively dressed wallflower type, and the band had got held up with a delayed ferry from Ireland. No-one was looking forward to telling them it was cancelled, and with no things like mobile phones we had no idea how the band were getting on after a call from a payphone to tell us they'd finally arrived on the mainland - albeit Liverpool, a couple of hours drive on a good day.

Luckily the band arrived only about 30 minutes after they were due on stage (about 7 hours later than they were supposed to have arrived), and went straight on with only a cursory soundcheck.
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Post by: Rhys W on 02 February, 2013, 12:00:18 am
Maria McKee's "You Gotta Sin To Get Saved" on vinyl. Her finest post-Lone Justice album for sure. I believe her backing band was practically the Jayhawks at this time. This, along with Uncle Tupelo is what got me into the whole alt-country thing.
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Post by: interzen on 02 February, 2013, 08:41:44 pm
This:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKqoNrZ00Bg

Drum and bass done right  :demon:
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Post by: andrewc on 02 February, 2013, 08:45:18 pm
Gogol Bordellos "Transcontinental Hustle".   

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtLjyRq2waY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtLjyRq2waY)
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Post by: jogler on 02 February, 2013, 09:39:08 pm
Bruce Springsteen
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Post by: Pingu on 02 February, 2013, 11:15:24 pm
Cheesy latin-american covers by Senor Coconut (courtesy of Tom Robinson).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Puc0ZiVRESU
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Post by: Biggsy on 03 February, 2013, 07:59:00 pm
NEW My Bloody Valentine !!!!  (via Radio 6).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21312898

http://www.mybloodyvalentine.org/
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Post by: Andrij on 03 February, 2013, 08:12:26 pm
Muzsikás és Sebestyén Márta, Szép hajnali csillag.

*may have finally called up something tiermat doesn't have in his collection*
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Post by: tiermat on 03 February, 2013, 08:42:17 pm
Muzsikás és Sebestyén Márta, Szép hajnali csillag.

*may have finally called up something tiermat doesn't have in his collection*

CORRECT!  ;D
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Post by: Andrij on 03 February, 2013, 08:44:58 pm
Muzsikás és Sebestyén Márta, Szép hajnali csillag.

*may have finally called up something tiermat doesn't have in his collection*

CORRECT!  ;D

Some might consider that cheating. (Be glad I went for something using the Latin alphabet!)  Next challenge will be to find something in English...
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Post by: Andrij on 03 February, 2013, 09:17:50 pm
Trawling through my collections I've rediscovered this gem (http://patrz.pl/mp3/klezmer-narodna-ajde-jano-mp3), a Serbian folk tune done klezmer stylee.
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Post by: tiermat on 03 February, 2013, 09:20:00 pm
Andrij, That will be the real challenge! :)
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Post by: Andrij on 03 February, 2013, 09:42:21 pm
The way tonight is going, doubt I'll make any serious attempts.  But the challenge will not be forgotten!

ATM, losing myself in red wine and Ukrainian music.  Don't expect I'll get anything else constructive done this evening.
*stares menacingly at server*
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 03 February, 2013, 10:53:16 pm
Admiral Fallow.  Still quite liking 'em.
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Post by: tiermat on 04 February, 2013, 08:50:41 am
As I am in the office, and have forgotten to update my iPod, I am once again on a mix.

So far today I have had:
Asian Dub foundation - Buzzin'
The Cowboy Junkies (dunno which one, I don't know enough of their stuff yet to say "That track")
Pantera - Walk
Chris Cornell - Doesn't Remind Me
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Post by: interzen on 04 February, 2013, 11:21:44 am
The two Om albums ('Advaitic Songs' and 'God is Good') that arrived this morning courtesy of a certain tax-dodging, river-themed Internet emporium.

The more I listen to them the more I want to sell a relative (or two) and get myself a Rickenbacker bass and a metric fuck-ton of effects pedals.
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Post by: Biggsy on 04 February, 2013, 06:27:35 pm
The two extremes of the new MBV album:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpoOjoiYcWY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWyRfqfEC2s
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Post by: microphonie on 04 February, 2013, 06:35:40 pm
Coincidentally (because I've reached 'M' in my ripping to Flac marathon)...more stuff from Ukraine albeit post-rock/experimental rather than traditional:

The Moglass - Уходящие Вдаль Телеграфные Столобы Становятся Всё Меньше И Меньше (which apparently translates to something like 'telegraph poles are getting smaller and smaller as the distance grows').

Plus the two Eat Lights Become Lights albums and finally an amazing track/video from Gnod:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wdi2tuz_SM4


Will have to explore the new MBV album - I was a bit unsure of the one track I've heard so far but think it'll be a grower
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 04 February, 2013, 10:04:36 pm
Hmm, must look for the other Eat Lights Become Lights album...

Just heard Exits by L Pierre on Gid Coe. Must investigate further....
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Post by: marcusjb on 05 February, 2013, 09:10:15 am
MBV

It's not Loveless, it shouldn't have taken 20 years to make, but it's still very very good.
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Post by: Jacomus on 05 February, 2013, 11:28:05 am
Soilwork: The Panic Broadcast
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Post by: PaulF on 05 February, 2013, 12:36:36 pm
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds ~ Push the Sky Away. First impressions are good....
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Post by: clarion on 05 February, 2013, 01:14:16 pm
Er, Saxon :-[
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Post by: LindaG on 05 February, 2013, 01:15:53 pm
Diamond Mine by King Creosote and Tom Hopkins. It's great.
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Post by: Jacomus on 05 February, 2013, 01:35:25 pm
Moved on to Scar Symmetry: The Unseen Empire

Now listening to As I Lay Dying: Decas
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Post by: tiermat on 05 February, 2013, 01:38:13 pm
Korn - The Path of Totality

Their album recorded with a number of Dub-Step artists such as Skrillex, Noisia and Excision.  Proving that they can easily move across gendres.

Rock and Dub-Step sounds like it shouldn't work, but it does!
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Post by: Jacomus on 05 February, 2013, 01:41:06 pm
Korn - The Path of Totality

Their album recorded with a number of Dub-Step artists such as Skrillex, Noisia and Excision.  Proving that they can easily move across gendres.

Rock and Dub-Step sounds like it shouldn't work, but it does!

That sounds like a pretty good combo to me, I must check it out.

I've abandoned As I Lay Dying, it is a bit too driving for my current mood. Gone back to Scar Symmetry: Holographic Universe
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Post by: Jacomus on 05 February, 2013, 01:43:22 pm
Scratch that, I've taken your recommendation, Tiermat.

It's far too long since I last listened to Korn and, damn, I need a better bass range!
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Post by: tiermat on 05 February, 2013, 01:47:41 pm
Scratch that, I've taken your recommendation, Tiermat.

It's far too long since I last listened to Korn and, damn, I need a better bass range!

Yes, that album NEEDS to be played LOUD and with LOTS of bass.

My laptop doesn't cut it, it sounds flat.  Maybe time to sit in the car and crank it out :)
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Post by: Jacomus on 05 February, 2013, 01:56:17 pm
Scratch that, I've taken your recommendation, Tiermat.

It's far too long since I last listened to Korn and, damn, I need a better bass range!

Yes, that album NEEDS to be played LOUD and with LOTS of bass.

My laptop doesn't cut it, it sounds flat.  Maybe time to sit in the car and crank it out :)

I'm listening through a pair of mid-range Sony over ear headphones. Unfortunately, whilst their tonal range is really good, they can't produce the required bass at a low volume that I'm happy to listen at.
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Post by: microphonie on 05 February, 2013, 06:40:33 pm
Hmm, must look for the other Eat Lights Become Lights album...

It's called Autopia & on first listen isn't as good as Heavy Electrics. They've already recorded the follow-up to HE - Modular Living - & is "coming soon-ish", apparently
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Post by: tiermat on 06 February, 2013, 02:42:29 pm
Not an attempt to out-do Andrij (I would never do that, honest :)  :demon: ), today I am listening to Ojos De Brujo - Corriente.

Flamenco pop, for the win :)

ETA: Depending on whether you go for Catalan or Castillian, the band's name means Eyes of the Warlock or Eyes of the Magician, respectively.  The band is from Barcelona...
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Post by: simonp on 06 February, 2013, 03:36:23 pm
Catgroove by Parov Stelar

I don't know why. Chambermaid Swing has already become an annoying earworm. Fixing it with more of the same may be a mistake.
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Post by: marcusjb on 06 February, 2013, 03:46:49 pm
MBV

It's not Loveless, it shouldn't have taken 20 years to make, but it's still very very good.

OK

It's on heavy rotation here.

Bloody hell it's good.  Really really good.

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Post by: tiermat on 07 February, 2013, 09:05:41 am
Ojos De Brujo, again.

Seems appropriate as I day dream of touring in Catalonia, whilst I am sat in the sun here today.
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Post by: Biggsy on 07 February, 2013, 09:13:39 am
Re MBV:
OK

It's on heavy rotation here.

Bloody hell it's good.  Really really good.

+1

I ordered the vinyl and CD as well as the top-quality download.  I don't really know why.
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Post by: marcusjb on 07 February, 2013, 09:20:52 am
Re MBV:
OK

It's on heavy rotation here.

Bloody hell it's good.  Really really good.

+1

I ordered the vinyl and CD as well as the top-quality download.  I don't really know why.

I have really hardly listened to anything else this week - sucks you right in and blows you apart. 

Quite some piece of work.
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Post by: Deano on 07 February, 2013, 03:04:04 pm
A Complete Introduction to Northern Soul, borrowed from the local library.

I also borrowed The Best of Show of Hands.

Six CDs altogether - for £1.
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Post by: MattH on 07 February, 2013, 05:16:52 pm
Phantom of the Opera.
http://youtu.be/PqLAdbtfJbs

I may have pushed the volume control up a little and tapped my feet in time with the music whilst this was on.
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Post by: Andrij on 07 February, 2013, 05:55:27 pm
The sounds of my co-workers working late (as am I).
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Post by: Bledlow on 07 February, 2013, 07:35:08 pm
Mrs B playing a Benjamin Britten CD, starting with The Young Persons Guide to the Orchestra.

She'd never heard of Britten until a few minutes ago, but she's played this CD several times recently.

Hmm. Centenary of his birth this year. I suppose there will be Events, certainly at Snape.
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Post by: Biggsy on 08 February, 2013, 12:13:08 am
Even As We Speak - 1993 Peel session.
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Post by: Ham on 08 February, 2013, 09:29:08 am
Ojos De Brujo

I wonder who is to blame for that?

They are rather good.
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Post by: tiermat on 08 February, 2013, 09:36:56 am
Ojos De Brujo

I wonder who is to blame for that?

They are rather good.

I couldn't possibly comment :)
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Post by: jogler on 08 February, 2013, 07:42:09 pm
The Crystals
The Shangrilas
The Ronnettes
The Shirelles

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Post by: eck on 08 February, 2013, 07:49:03 pm
The Crystals
The Shangrilas
The Ronnettes
The Shirelles

 :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

...but will you love me tomorrow?   ;D
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Post by: jogler on 08 February, 2013, 08:27:35 pm
I'm afraid I've been been untrue to you Eck.I've promised myself to Cindy Birdsong.
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Post by: jogler on 08 February, 2013, 08:41:49 pm
The Supremes
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 08 February, 2013, 09:46:22 pm
Kate Rusby, 20.  It's a bit like someone wrapping you up in a cosy blankie and feeding you chocolate, I find.
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Post by: clarion on 08 February, 2013, 10:06:03 pm
Is she going to pop round for tea? ;)
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Post by: clarion on 08 February, 2013, 10:07:09 pm
I'm listening to Alice Cooper on Planet Rock.  I love him.  He played Rock Bottom by UFO.  There should be lots more UFO on the radio.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 08 February, 2013, 10:09:24 pm
Is she going to pop round for tea? ;)

I wish.  Specially in red-shoes-with-bows-on.  She so should.  I've even got official Yorkshire Tea.
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Post by: clarion on 08 February, 2013, 10:09:51 pm
I *really* love this one!
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Post by: Jacomus on 09 February, 2013, 01:08:21 pm
This Is She: This Is She

Easy to listen to, electro-metal with a female singer.

They were superb live, better than the recorded album. Somehow the album hasn't captured the power of her voice, it sounds quite synthetic whereas live it is abundantly clear that she doesn't need her voice modified!

I suspect that because they are such a new band, the album was recorded before they quite 'got' their sound. Aside from the difference in her voice, it is also missing the depth of bass.
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Post by: tiermat on 09 February, 2013, 01:11:43 pm
Today's band of choice, for the whole Tiermat family, is The Milk and the ambum is "Tales from the Thames Delta"

Cracking bop-along soul.
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Post by: Juan Martín on 09 February, 2013, 07:51:47 pm
Get cape, wear cape, fly.
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Post by: interzen on 09 February, 2013, 08:23:03 pm
Ned's Atomic Dustbin (the band, as opposed to the Goon Show episode1)

1 - although I do have it. I may even listen to it later :)
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Post by: PaulF on 10 February, 2013, 10:47:38 am
Re MBV:
OK

It's on heavy rotation here.

Bloody hell it's good.  Really really good.

+1

I ordered the vinyl and CD as well as the top-quality download.  I don't really know why.

I have really hardly listened to anything else this week - sucks you right in and blows you apart. 

Quite some piece of work.

I'm not getting it I'm afraid :( Got halfway through and gave up. Will try again later but now got Low on to cheer me up :D
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Post by: PaulF on 10 February, 2013, 11:21:43 am
... now got Low on to cheer me up :D
The Invisible Way is pretty amazing - a far more organic feel than the recent albums, more piano and acoustic guitar - it may be down to Jeff Tweedy's production but it's less aggressive and just creeps up on you. Mimi sings a lot more too which is nice :)
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Post by: Biggsy on 10 February, 2013, 12:54:32 pm
I'm not getting it I'm afraid :( Got halfway through and gave up. Will try again later but now got Low on to cheer me up :D

Do you like MBV's previous album?
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Post by: PaulF on 10 February, 2013, 01:49:35 pm
I'm not getting it I'm afraid :( Got halfway through and gave up. Will try again later but now got Low on to cheer me up :D

Do you like MBV's previous album?

Don't really know it. I missed it when it came out - or my tastes have changed! But given their influences, band who reference them etc. and the fact that my tastes lean towards the 'unconventional' I expected to. I'm going to give it a few more listens, I suspect it's not one of those albums that is immediate, and to be fair I didn't hate it, or even dislike it I just wasn't grabbed by it the first time round.
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Post by: Biggsy on 10 February, 2013, 02:21:45 pm
Some of the tracks were absolutely immediate for me, some required work.
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Post by: Deano on 10 February, 2013, 08:09:21 pm
To Kill a King. Research for Deershed festival.

Liking it so far.

I also have the new Low album to listen to. I hope it's a return to form after C'mon, which I thought was the weakest of theirs I've heard.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 10 February, 2013, 09:03:45 pm
Tonight I am mainly admiring Derek Triuck's amazing fingerstyle slide playing. Check out the solo from 4:50. Pretty good trumpet solo before it too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxaineCMv38 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxaineCMv38)


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Post by: PaulF on 10 February, 2013, 09:11:48 pm
To Kill a King. Research for Deershed festival.

Liking it so far.

I also have the new Low album to listen to. I hope it's a return to form after C'mon, which I thought was the weakest of theirs I've heard.

Don't think that lull be disappointed. On further listens it's definitely a return to form.
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Post by: Deano on 10 February, 2013, 09:17:56 pm
Cheers, Paul. It'll be good prep for going to see them at the Sage in April.
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Post by: Peter on 11 February, 2013, 01:18:15 am
Tonight I am mainly admiring Derek Triuck's amazing fingerstyle slide playing. Check out the solo from 4:50. Pretty good trumpet solo before it too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxaineCMv38 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxaineCMv38)

I enjoyed that!  I think that's one of those cases where the instrumentalists (esp. Derek) eclipse the rest of the song.  I liked the song better when it was in D - when it gets into the F section it just becomes a bit too stadium-rock anthem for me.
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Post by: Deano on 11 February, 2013, 10:32:33 am
To Kill a King. Research for Deershed festival.

Liking it so far.

I also have the new Low album to listen to. I hope it's a return to form after C'mon, which I thought was the weakest of theirs I've heard.

Don't think that lull be disappointed. On further listens it's definitely a return to form.

It is good, isn't it?
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Post by: PaulF on 11 February, 2013, 10:37:47 am
To Kill a King. Research for Deershed festival.

Liking it so far.

I also have the new Low album to listen to. I hope it's a return to form after C'mon, which I thought was the weakest of theirs I've heard.

Don't think that lull be disappointed. On further listens it's definitely a return to form.

It is good, isn't it?

Definitely - it's on 'alternate play' at the moment :)
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Post by: Deano on 11 February, 2013, 10:45:59 am
I'm on a bit of a Low fest at the moment - I'm listening to the A Lifetime of Temporary Relief box set. The new album definitely holds up.
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Post by: Ham on 11 February, 2013, 03:43:20 pm
Pekka Pohjola, Mathematicians Air Display. On VINYL

Mike Oldfield on Guitar, Pekka on bass.

Just sorted out the connection from my amp to line in, for the l-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-ong deferred project to transfer vinyl to PC. While I was having a bit of a grump, thought I'd see what was on youtube.  Sure enough, Mathematicians Air Display is there, but compared to the vinyl it is truly shite,  if you hear it you will wonder why anyone bothered.

As a Small Unimportant Thing hardly worth mentioning, the grump came about because I couldn't make Audacity behave. I was about to post a query for help, then I thought me to check the version...... 1.2  :-[

(anyone interested, I can make the digitised track available)

Oh, it's also on the Love Records Label
(click to show/hide)
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Post by: Ham on 11 February, 2013, 04:30:30 pm
Maze now.

This is fun. I think my mono Disraeli Gears might be next.

Think I might need a new stylus, amazingly still available http://www.stylusplus.co.uk/index.asp?function=CART&ECD=2114&productid=1533
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Post by: Ham on 12 February, 2013, 03:43:34 pm
Rachid Taha.

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Post by: Domestique on 12 February, 2013, 04:39:16 pm
Plej - Electronic music from the Swedish leftcoast  8)
Title: Is there a north-south divide in England's music industry?
Post by: LindaG on 12 February, 2013, 09:41:04 pm
The Chapman Family.

By coincidence I also encountered this article:

<grauniad alert>

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/the-northerner/2013/feb/12/north-south-divide-music-industry
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Post by: citoyen on 13 February, 2013, 12:40:26 pm
Foals live on 6Music. Totally awesome.
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Post by: andrewc on 13 February, 2013, 08:49:04 pm
A package was collected earlier , Studio-Albums-1968-1979-Joni-Mitchell (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Studio-Albums-1968-1979-Joni-Mitchell/dp/B0097AQEOK/ref=pd_ys_qtk_fr_2?pf_rd_p=217325991&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_t=1501&pf_rd_i=home&pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_r=10CNKJGA8WDE5S3TQ77B)  , 10 CD's.  I've only heard 3-4 of them previously.   Currently discovering "Song to a Seagull"  :thumbsup:
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Post by: interzen on 16 February, 2013, 12:23:08 pm
Ride, "Nowhere" - in particular, this gem:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wF0FO5riglY

Mark Gardener (ex-Ride guitarist) was supporting Robin Guthrie last night doing an acoustic set - he did a couple of Ride songs, but they do sound much better with the feedback ;) (although his version of "In A Different Place" did sorta-kinda work in an acoustic context)

"Nowhere" is one of the best albums of the 90s, IMO - the follow-up, "Going Blank Again" was OK and the third album is commonly referred to as "Carnival of Shite" for very good reasons.

Edit: Now this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74mT5ABGsKY

 :demon:
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Post by: Juan Martín on 16 February, 2013, 06:02:15 pm
Good News For People Who Love Bad News - Modest Mouse
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 16 February, 2013, 10:11:57 pm
I was  going to listen to Tom Robinson on 6 Music but ICBA listening to his guest wittering on for hours, so instead, North Atlantic Oscillation - Fog Electric.
Would really like to see them live.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 18 February, 2013, 09:31:24 am
Chicago Transit Authority - first album aka Chicago I

The band that later changed it's name to Chicago - yes that Chicago of the FM friendlily love songs. Their first album though was a different beast altogether !
Not sure what it should be called really, perhaps "progressive funk" ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V41bEZPo-J4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V41bEZPo-J4)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxIRZ7qJwkc (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxIRZ7qJwkc)
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Post by: tiermat on 18 February, 2013, 10:04:32 am
Public Service Broadcasting

The Milk

Los Campesinos!
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Post by: RJ on 18 February, 2013, 08:57:20 pm
Made in Japan

Just because ...
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Post by: Illegal Combat Ant on 19 February, 2013, 08:10:01 pm
Public Service Broadcasting

The Milk

Los Campesinos!

I shall be at PSB's transmission at Moles Club, Bath next wednesday evening. Only a fiver. I'm expecting a jolly spiffing show. Tix still available.

Quote
J. Willgoose, Esq. and Wrigglesworth sample old public information films and archive material and set them to new music. Live, the films are screened simultaneously as laptops are fiddled with, drums are pounded, theremins are wafted at, guitars are bashed and banjos furiously plucked. Teaching the lessons of the past through the music of the future.



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Post by: CommuteTooFar on 19 February, 2013, 09:16:11 pm
I decided to relive my youth so I tapped a few keys into Amazon and the first four Angelic Upstarts albums appeared on my desk at work today. I used to own some of them on vinyl now on CD.

Such joyous cacophony.  Currently listening to second album "We gotta get put this place"     Makes me very happy.

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Post by: pcolbeck on 20 February, 2013, 01:30:22 pm
Bach BWV 56,4 and 82 - Karl Richter 1970 - Munich Bach Choir with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Not an authentic period interpretation but a lush romantic one on modern instruments which paradoxically makes it a out of date and unfashionable these days.
Still it's absolutely ravishing.

You can't have too much Bach.
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Post by: microphonie on 20 February, 2013, 07:40:44 pm

I shall be at PSB's transmission at Moles Club, Bath next wednesday evening. Only a fiver. I'm expecting a jolly spiffing show. Tix still available.

Bargain at a fiver - my Norwich ticket was double that...

New single is out soon: https://soundcloud.com/psbhq/signal-30-public-service and it rocks far more than the War Room stuff
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Post by: Deano on 20 February, 2013, 09:51:53 pm
The Wave Pictures, performing the songs of Herman Dune.  Now there's an agreeable combination.
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Post by: tiermat on 21 February, 2013, 10:30:28 am

I shall be at PSB's transmission at Moles Club, Bath next wednesday evening. Only a fiver. I'm expecting a jolly spiffing show. Tix still available.

Bargain at a fiver - my Norwich ticket was double that...

New single is out soon: https://soundcloud.com/psbhq/signal-30-public-service and it rocks far more than the War Room stuff

It's ok, but I still prefer "Spitfire"

Today, though, I am listening to Willy Mason - Carry On

Good it certainly is :)
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Post by: andrewc on 23 February, 2013, 03:26:03 pm
I've placed the classical & jazz to one side today and am entertaining my neighbours with a nice box set.   

Black Sabbath, The Complete 70's Collection  ;D
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Post by: Littlesox on 23 February, 2013, 06:39:57 pm
Once the cycling coverage is finished, I will play Lambchop - Is a woman.

Stunning.
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Post by: Deano on 23 February, 2013, 06:52:57 pm
Once the cycling coverage is finished, I will play Lambchop - Is a woman.

Stunning.

Damn, I haven't listened to that in years. I think I have it on minidisc ;D

I'm off for a rummage.
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Post by: Biggsy on 23 February, 2013, 10:12:26 pm
I don't own any Lambchop.  I must put that right.

When not listening to 6 Music, I'm still listening to Tame Impala - last couple of albums.
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Post by: LindaG on 24 February, 2013, 11:13:28 am
Cerys Matthews on 6 nusic. Always an education.
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Post by: Littlesox on 24 February, 2013, 12:14:18 pm
Jimmy Smith Trio

Cool and groovy Hammond organ !
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Post by: interzen on 26 February, 2013, 02:58:17 pm
Tubular Bells - an album forged from pure awesome.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 26 February, 2013, 04:01:04 pm
Best of Johnney Winter.

Picked this up in the HMV sale this morning. Was quite surprised at some of the more low key horn backed tracks on there as well as his more trademark high energy blues rock.  If you've never heard any of his stuff imagine if Rory Gallagher had a Texan cousin.
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Post by: tiermat on 27 February, 2013, 11:23:34 am
More Deershed stuff, so far this morning:

Smoove and Turrell - Eccentric Audio (nice funk/soul)
Moulettes - Moulettes (rather good, they are!)
Alasca - Actors and Liars
Edwyn Collins - Losing Sleep
Novella - Surrounded by Monsters.

I have a feeling it is going to be a good day, music wise.
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Post by: clarion on 27 February, 2013, 11:45:45 am
Did you hear Edwyn on Radmac?
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Post by: tiermat on 27 February, 2013, 11:47:55 am
Did you hear Edwyn on Radmac?

Unfortunately, no.  I rarely get chance to listen to the radio, and when I do it is usually as I am cooking, so don't actually get chance to follow what is happening :(

I was really surprised, though, reading up on his recent history, to find he had suffered from a double haemorrhage and lost the ability to speak.  Apparently, in his rehab, he found it easier to sing than speak.
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Post by: clarion on 27 February, 2013, 02:48:38 pm
As usual, I am listening to Radmac.  I was developing a tendency to look back fondly at acid house music as an artform which I did not understand at the time, but could grow on me.  Fortunately, the dross they have been playing has cured me of this tendency.
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Post by: clarion on 27 February, 2013, 02:51:35 pm
Did you hear Edwyn on Radmac?

Unfortunately, no.  I rarely get chance to listen to the radio, and when I do it is usually as I am cooking, so don't actually get chance to follow what is happening :(

I was really surprised, though, reading up on his recent history, to find he had suffered from a double haemorrhage and lost the ability to speak.  Apparently, in his rehab, he found it easier to sing than speak.

Edwyn does still have a lot of speech problems, but can be lucid for a decent length of time to manage an interview.  Despite a few trips, he got through the discussion, but struggled when they were talking about the track he'd selected, and the woman from his band who was with him had to help him through.  Painful to listen to, as it must be so frustrating for such a witty and erudite person being trapped by his own inability to communicate.
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Post by: clarion on 27 February, 2013, 03:04:07 pm
Ah, that's much better - straight back from some crud called Washing Machine by Mr Fingers into Ever Fallen In Love? by Buzzcocks.  :)
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Post by: jogler on 27 February, 2013, 06:45:35 pm
The Rolling Stones 40 Licks

Via headphones,rather loudly :thumbsup:
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Post by: Biggsy on 27 February, 2013, 06:55:53 pm
My MBV vinyl has arrived.  Hmmm, shall I play it, sniff it, or sell it?  (Already got the double-CD-quality digital.  Already sold the CD).
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Post by: jogler on 27 February, 2013, 07:22:27 pm
Etta James
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Post by: Ham on 28 February, 2013, 08:17:34 am
Well, I'm not really listening to it yet but courtesy of this  post http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=38032.msg1429590#msg1429590

I followed to Patax here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuztNpi2tns

and bought it here http://www.youkalimusic.com/index.php/es/catalogo/133-patax-live-from-infinity now I can't wait for it to arrive.

If you like real Flamenco and real music, a sort of fusion between classic flamenco and Chick Corea this is effing fantastic stuff I can't recommend it highly enough. The CD/DVD is 16 Euro including shipping paid by Paypal. (the "buy" page lets you listen to more
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Post by: Ham on 28 February, 2013, 08:39:00 am
Actually there is quite a lot of stuff on phewtube so I am listening to them http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfhILSbQjU8


 .... have to go and drive a hundred miles or so now for work. Bore.
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Post by: tiermat on 01 March, 2013, 12:39:23 pm
Deershed prep, redux, thusly:

AlasCa - definitely growing on me
Smoove and Turrell - very very good, can see us sat in a field, drinking beer, the sunshining, talking rubbish whilst these guys play their little hearts out.
Moulettes - I normally shy away from folk, or folk tinged, music, but these guys remind me, in some small way, of bands like The Levellers (sans clogs and attitude) and the ilk, mixing, as they do, folk and other gendres.
Public Service Broadcasting - seem to becoming a forum favourite, is it because they are bonkers? On paper their style is. Take old newsreels, sample them and play guitar and keyboard riffs over the top.  Doesn't sound that good, does it? Somehow, though, it just works.  Admittedly they work better if you have the video on too.
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Post by: jogler on 01 March, 2013, 04:54:02 pm
Emmylou Harris & Mark Knopfler
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Post by: Illegal Combat Ant on 01 March, 2013, 05:46:32 pm
Did someone mention PSB?

Once, there was a mountain called Peak 15. Nothing was known about it...


 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhgfzEm3CWU)
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Post by: jogler on 01 March, 2013, 06:07:07 pm
This

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbiYv_lNfFA
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Post by: jogler on 01 March, 2013, 06:12:11 pm
& now this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=s-312lVPnhY&feature=endscreen
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Post by: LindaG on 01 March, 2013, 07:27:11 pm
James Yorkston.
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Post by: PaulF on 01 March, 2013, 08:21:37 pm
Thom Yorke

Oh! Isn't this Tune Association? Well I'm still listening to Thom Yorke. Who probably qualifies as my stalker as he not only went to the same school, the same university but also lives in the same county!
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Post by: tiermat on 01 March, 2013, 09:43:44 pm
This evening, due to forumte and fb friend recs, we have been enjoying an evening of (in no order other than when I remember them):
Patax (see above)
Malalma (from Colombia)
Nortec Collective (Mexico)
Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafters (Seattle, and you can tell)
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Post by: Andrij on 02 March, 2013, 07:21:47 pm
Two albums from Brave Combo: Kiss of Fire and Polkatharsis.
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Post by: CAMRAMan on 02 March, 2013, 08:33:58 pm
Loadsa stuff since I fired up my stereo for the first time since 2000!

The one album I listened to all the way through was Klinga Mina Klockor by ABBA's Benny Andersson. He made it in the mid-80s and went back to his folk roots. Beautiful. About as far removed from ABBA as it's possible to be.
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Post by: Juan Martín on 03 March, 2013, 05:24:58 pm
Buena Vista Social Club Presents: Omara Portuondo
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Post by: Peter on 03 March, 2013, 06:28:57 pm
Juan, I've seen quite a lot of BVSC stuff - all of it good.  Is Omara the amazing female singer?
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Post by: IanDG on 03 March, 2013, 08:38:45 pm
The Definitive Leadbelly (a box set containing 3cds + a dvd)  :)
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Post by: Peter on 04 March, 2013, 12:15:26 am
The Definitive Leadbelly (a box set containing 3cds + a dvd)  :)

Excellent, Windy - does it have "Lining Track" and "On A Monday"?  I love Leadbelly songs.
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Post by: Andrij on 04 March, 2013, 03:13:47 am
Wagner's Parsifal, 'live' from the Metropolitan Opera.
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Post by: Juan Martín on 04 March, 2013, 09:20:59 am
Juan, I've seen quite a lot of BVSC stuff - all of it good.  Is Omara the amazing female singer?

Yes, she's the one. Highly recommended if you like the BVSC stuff.
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Post by: Peter on 04 March, 2013, 10:29:49 am
Agreed!
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Post by: PaulF on 04 March, 2013, 10:32:06 am
Retribution Gospel Choir, a Low side project
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Post by: IanDG on 04 March, 2013, 11:12:44 am
The Definitive Leadbelly (a box set containing 3cds + a dvd)  :)

Excellent, Windy - does it have "Lining Track" and "On A Monday"?  I love Leadbelly songs.

Unfortunately no. A few other notable omissions ('Gallis Pole' and 'Black Betty') that would have been nice to be included too IMO - but overall a great collection (http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Definitive-Leadbelly-Anniversary-Edition/dp/tracks/B001QU9RNY/ref=dp_tracks_all_1#disc_1)

 
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 04 March, 2013, 06:00:13 pm
Amy Rigby.

Currently "cynically yours".
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 08 March, 2013, 09:56:52 pm
Talking Heads - Remain in Light.
Ahhhhh.....
Album cover still gives me the heebie jeebies though.

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Post by: LindaG on 09 March, 2013, 12:13:23 pm
The Winston Giles Orchestra. Uplifting and full of joy.
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Post by: Illegal Combat Ant on 09 March, 2013, 02:04:40 pm
Winny Puhh. This was so nearly Estonia's Eurovision entry. Gloriously bonkers.

 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dllo85ZSUk)
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Post by: interzen on 09 March, 2013, 02:09:35 pm
Robin Guthrie - trying to recreate the atmosphere of his York gig by cranking the volume all the way up to 11 and beyond.

Fortunately, my neighbour has gone out ;D
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Post by: andyoxon on 09 March, 2013, 07:23:06 pm
Yup ELO...   :)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRjPpRuBZ_o
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Post by: Littlesox on 09 March, 2013, 11:53:31 pm
That bloody dog next door - yap yap yap.

Still, Motorhead's Ace of Spades at max volume plus one should put it right.

A 1, a 2, a 1 2 3 4.......
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Post by: MattH on 10 March, 2013, 10:46:23 am
Reminds me of being at uni. The girl in the flat above us played a Jason Donovan song on repeat (Sealed with a Kiss - it goes on about being apart for the summer, which obviously appealed to her teenage angst) for the last couple of weeks of term.
Our part of the house was occupied by stage crew. We saw her out at the summer ball (where we were crewing) and she was seen staggering into her house shortly after the end at 5am. Once we'd done the pull down, we thought it'd be a good idea to test some of the audio gear before putting it into storage for the summer. A several of kW of amps and PA cabs made their way into the room below hers, to be tested at about 8am using Motorhead's Overkill played on a CD player a safe distance away  :demon:
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Post by: tiermat on 10 March, 2013, 11:58:54 am
In a similar vein to Matt, but using domestic hifi equipment, not pa.

One year the couple next door went on holiday and left their 18 yr old daughter to look after the house. On the Saturday night she decided to have friends round after kicking out time. Loud music and loud voices, both in their house and outside. It was a lovely warm night so our windows were open and we heard it all. It died down about 4am, when I guess they crashed out. Ndn's daughter's bedroom shared a wall with our spare room. We got up Sunday morning, turned the speakers to face that wall and put Sepultura on VERY LOUD. We then went out for the day :)
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Post by: Juan Martín on 10 March, 2013, 04:24:26 pm
Home - Peter Broderick
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Post by: interzen on 10 March, 2013, 04:36:03 pm
Eddie Izzard - Glorious.

I'd forgotten how bloody funny his old material is.
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Post by: Pingu on 10 March, 2013, 11:31:39 pm
Err... The Band (http://www.openculture.com/2013/03/watch_the_band_play_the_weight_up_on_cripple_creek_and_more_in_rare_1970_concert_footage_.html)   :-[
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Post by: marcusjb on 11 March, 2013, 08:43:06 am
Home - Peter Broderick

Such a great album. Not listened to it in ages. It may be given an outing today!
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 11 March, 2013, 11:20:26 am
Baldilocks, who lived downstairs from some of my mates during the 83-84 drinking season, used constantly to complain about the noise.  On the final day of the 84 innings, Steve turned his amp up to 11, struck a Mighty Chord on his Rickenbacker 4001 and leaned it against the amp.  Then we went to the pub.

It was still going five hours later :demon:
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Post by: tiermat on 11 March, 2013, 01:47:37 pm
Smoove and Turrell
AlascA
The Mulettes
The House of Love
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Post by: jogler on 11 March, 2013, 05:40:09 pm
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
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Post by: Ham on 11 March, 2013, 06:17:47 pm
This guy's video

http://vimeo.com/43426940

I should have got bored before the end, I didn't.

As far as I can work out he just works in a music store. And that guitar? a '58 Sunburst? Can be yours for $33K.


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Post by: Tigerrr on 12 March, 2013, 01:44:30 pm
Did someone mention PSB?

Once, there was a mountain called Peak 15. Nothing was known about it...


 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhgfzEm3CWU)

Thats a discovery for me - Love the PSB stuff.
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Post by: LindaG on 12 March, 2013, 06:42:06 pm
Hannah Cohen.

Johnny Marr.

More Johnny Marr.

Joined by George, playing percussion on the bottom of the laundry baskets, and George's dad, jamming  on an out of tune Mandolin.

Absolutely brilliant.
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Post by: LindaG on 12 March, 2013, 08:29:45 pm
... and Radiohead ...
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Post by: Biggsy on 12 March, 2013, 08:49:23 pm
Dub Xtra (UK) internet radio station.

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Post by: Biggsy on 12 March, 2013, 09:26:12 pm
Back to 6 Music.  You can have too much dub.

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Post by: Pingu on 12 March, 2013, 10:55:35 pm
A man in a pink furry suit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUiUx4c6Imk
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 13 March, 2013, 12:31:05 am
Laura Cantrell.  Currently "The Whiskey Makes You Sweeter".
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Post by: interzen on 13 March, 2013, 08:48:25 pm
Tubular Bells.
Live.
From 1973.
With, amongst others, Steve Hillage.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7VHRyQDMTM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7VHRyQDMTM)

Words can't even begin to describe how awesome this is.
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Post by: tiermat on 14 March, 2013, 11:19:31 am
This Spotify playlist:

http://open.spotify.com/user/supercuteinasuit/playlist/4lJ1kJuMOKV91zSKS2UenY

Good it is...
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Post by: interzen on 15 March, 2013, 11:13:23 am
Tubular Bells II - it's really rather good, although it does sound rather more dated than the original, if indeed that were possible; there's a lot of synth stuff which just screams 'late-80s, early-90s' (it was released in 1992)

Best of all, the Master Of Ceremonies is Severus SnapeAlan Rickman ;D (nowhere near as good as Vivian Stanshall on the original, but an adequate substitute)
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Post by: Jaded on 15 March, 2013, 11:19:55 am
Some Balearic Trance stuff.  :thumbsup:
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Post by: interzen on 15 March, 2013, 11:26:02 am
Some Balearic Trance stuff.  :thumbsup:
Strangely enough, there are hints of that in TB2 - think Mike Oldfield was living in Ibiza during the 90s.

I uploaded a pile of stuff onto the Nexus 7 last night, but bangin' techno is notable by its absence. Think I'll have to remedy that.
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Post by: LindaG on 15 March, 2013, 03:17:20 pm
Low.  Things We Lost In The Fire.

Culturally interesting, among other things.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 15 March, 2013, 04:41:49 pm
Low.  Things We Lost In The Fire.

Culturally interesting, among other things.

Which reminds me...

*phones the Sage to chase why I appear to have been charged for three tickets nearly a month ago but still have no Low tickets in my little_stash_of_future_fun_evening_plans*

Yup, tix being posted out tomorrow :D
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Post by: Jacomus on 16 March, 2013, 12:09:32 pm
Today I am rocking out to the brilliant Halestorm.

I may have a thing for the singer, whose voice cuts right through me (in a good way) that makes my spine tingle.
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Post by: Ham on 16 March, 2013, 01:31:13 pm
Today I am rocking out to the brilliant Halestorm.

I may have a thing for the singer, whose voice cuts right through me (in a good way) that makes my spine tingle.

Thanks for that - they are rather good. In the Roundhouse tomorrow, eh? (no, I know I won't go - I would have once upon a time)
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Post by: Illegal Combat Ant on 16 March, 2013, 03:47:25 pm
Primal Scream - 2013

 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdCraT9_wk4)

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Post by: Illegal Combat Ant on 17 March, 2013, 05:24:48 pm
I'm listening to my friend Chicky and Jason from San Francisco in their incarnation as La Fin Absolute du Monde. If you like your music dark, trip-hoppy, experimental ... you might just like them.
They're touring the UK on a budget, using Megabus FFS!

Here's Leave Me In Detroit

 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gyRHEJFsKw)

And, as a shameless pimp for the poor merkins tryin' to live the dream, here's a list of their dates. Quite a few in Scottishland. Then back down to me and Jaded's neck o' the woods. I expect they'll be staying at mine to save money before they get back to That London.

http://www.reverbnation.com/artist/artist_shows/801740

If you google around, you can find some of their more, errr, 'experimental' and NSFW video stuff.
They're really lovely people, the gigs are cheap as chips, go on, take a punt on 'em.
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Post by: LindaG on 18 March, 2013, 12:13:18 pm
Great Lake Swimmers
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Post by: citoyen on 18 March, 2013, 12:26:54 pm
Very much enjoying the new album from Woodkid - really quite different to anything else out there at the moment. Very interesting, both lyrically and musically. This is probably my favourite track:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCSOUOhgoe8
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 18 March, 2013, 08:32:18 pm
Mélanie Pain.

I rather like.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 18 March, 2013, 09:08:43 pm
I Am The Resurrection - The Stone Roses.  Still sounds as good as it did in 1989, especially when the song opens up and Ian Brown finally breaks into "I am the resurrection and I am the life".
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Post by: marcusjb on 19 March, 2013, 06:31:34 pm
Aphex Twin - the ON EPs on the smaller hi-fi quite loudly.  Really about my favourite era of his and that fat distorted kick drum is something else.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1RBnRLp9LM

(video directed by Jarvis Cocker of Pulp by the way!)
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Post by: Illegal Combat Ant on 19 March, 2013, 09:49:25 pm
Lots of George Carlin. Here's some. I really, really miss him.  :(

 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvgN5gCuLac)
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Post by: JohnP on 19 March, 2013, 09:56:00 pm
Madeleine Peyroux 1996 - 2011
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Post by: LindaG on 19 March, 2013, 10:03:27 pm
Madeleine Peyroux 1996 - 2011

Gosh, she wasn't very old was she?
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Post by: JohnP on 19 March, 2013, 10:08:07 pm
^ hehehe
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Post by: JohnP on 19 March, 2013, 10:09:12 pm
... a selection of recordings issued between 1996 and 2011.
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Post by: LindaG on 19 March, 2013, 10:11:16 pm
... a selection of recordings issued between 1996 and 2011.

 ;)
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Post by: RJ on 20 March, 2013, 08:42:32 am
Trans Europe Express
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Post by: billplumtree on 21 March, 2013, 07:46:29 pm
Nigel Kennedy on R4, Front Row, plugging his latest album.  Really *interesting* music - but god, he's an arse!  Like yeah, man, I was wearing Hendrix's bandana and had this like out-of-body experience innit...  He really shouldn't do interviews, they're having to translate his faux cockney into english. 

But, having said that, I'll definitely get the new album - Brubeck infused with Bach (or was it vice versa?) sounded fantastic
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Post by: Peter on 21 March, 2013, 09:08:54 pm
Brubach?
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Post by: billplumtree on 21 March, 2013, 09:29:46 pm
That's the chappie.  Dave Sebastian, innit yeah
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Post by: Peter on 21 March, 2013, 10:03:57 pm
That's the chappie.  Dave Sebastian, innit yeah

Es geht noch weirder, Wilhelm: JS went to hear the great organst Buxtehude at LUBECK!  Mayb this is where he got the idea for Nehmen Sie Funf?
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 21 March, 2013, 10:17:14 pm
A Hawk And A Hacksaw on 6 Music just now. I rather liked that....
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Post by: tiermat on 22 March, 2013, 07:54:35 am
Green Day - Uno

It is different than the other stuff, although a little like "21st Century Breakdown", but moves forward.
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Post by: Steve GT on 22 March, 2013, 10:31:14 am
Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense.
Have not played it in years. One of the very few live albums I like.
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Post by: Deano on 22 March, 2013, 02:43:35 pm
Ghosts, the latest album from Simon Joyner. Released as vinyl-only, and recorded using only analogue equipment.

It sounds very good, too - more of a big band feel than his earlier lo fi stuff, which is just fine.
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Post by: Domestique on 23 March, 2013, 11:00:27 am
The The - Dusk
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Post by: jogler on 23 March, 2013, 03:53:44 pm
ZZ Top
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 23 March, 2013, 06:49:31 pm
PSB - The War Room
trying to block out himself playing Tull in the kitchen (sideshow bob shudder)
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 23 March, 2013, 07:13:50 pm
Quantic Soul Orchestra - Tropidelico
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Post by: Juan Martín on 24 March, 2013, 04:49:10 pm
Paco de Lucía - Cositas Buenas
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 24 March, 2013, 09:50:39 pm
Earlier, North Atlantic Oscillation - Grappling Hooks, followed by Parliament- Gold.

Now, Talking Heads- Fear of Music. Almost as good as TNOTBITH.
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Post by: Peter on 25 March, 2013, 12:48:50 am
Paco de Lucía - Cositas Buenas

Excellent choice!  (Presumably you are aware of your namesake?)
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Post by: Juan Martín on 25 March, 2013, 11:15:26 am
Yes! I have a couple of JM's records and one of his was probably the last gig I went to see, a terrific performance in Lewes a few years ago.
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Post by: microphonie on 25 March, 2013, 06:45:59 pm
Four new releases on Gnod's new label -  Tesla Tapes  (http://teslatapes.bandcamp.com/):
Druss
Dwellings
Negra Branca
Raikes Parade

And Gnod's own recent release Chaudelande, including the amazingly epic and ear-cleaning  Genocider  (https://soundcloud.com/spectrejan/gnod-genocider)

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Post by: RJ on 25 March, 2013, 07:01:48 pm
Urban Hymns, apparently
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Post by: Deano on 25 March, 2013, 10:46:15 pm
Ghosts, the latest album from Simon Joyner. Released as vinyl-only, and recorded using only analogue equipment.

It sounds very good, too - more of a big band feel than his earlier lo fi stuff, which is just fine.

He's touring, as well!

http://aglimpseofparadise.wordpress.com/2013/02/15/simonjoynerinnc/

 :thumbsup:
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Post by: citoyen on 26 March, 2013, 08:47:06 am
Stop Making Sense

http://youtu.be/-pCZ5E5tn4I

http://youtu.be/xzORu1dqEE0

http://youtu.be/anjT71N4PGM
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Post by: citoyen on 26 March, 2013, 08:53:46 am
http://youtu.be/BV0qTTzCsrI
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Post by: Pingu on 26 March, 2013, 08:21:27 pm
http://www.openculture.com/2012/06/live_in_rome_1980_the_talking_heads_concert_film_you_havent_seen.html
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Post by: citoyen on 26 March, 2013, 10:36:13 pm
http://www.openculture.com/2012/06/live_in_rome_1980_the_talking_heads_concert_film_you_havent_seen.html

*Like*
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Post by: LindaG on 27 March, 2013, 11:46:17 am
Full Sundown Assembly by Bell Gardens. Tom at Sound it Out made me buy it, he's a bugger for that, but he was spot on as usual. Pretty songs and reminiscent of someone from the sixties whose name I can't remember.
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Post by: Illegal Combat Ant on 27 March, 2013, 02:58:07 pm
Joe Walsh - Live from Daryl's House.

http://www.livefromdarylshouse.com/currentep.html?ep_id=75
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 28 March, 2013, 09:34:06 pm
Earlier, Mélanie Pain.  Got tickets to see her in Leeds on Wednesday....

Then there was a bit of Lotte Mullan.... that'll be Manchester in May.

Then a spot of Low.  April, Gateshead.

Then some James Yorkston.  Still haven't found a gig I can get to....

Now Jeffrey Lewis.  Leeds, because a gig and a Very Late Train will be perfect preparation for control-assisting the following day on a 600 :D
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Post by: andrewc on 28 March, 2013, 11:28:03 pm
Watching old videos on Youtube,    Stiff Little Fingers, Undertones, Buzzcocks, The Jam, Squeeze, Skids, Elvis Costello ...you can tell my age..

I found this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYQ_MBFmpi8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYQ_MBFmpi8)

I don't know where it was filmed, but I saw them on the same tour at the Liverpool Empire.  1st gig I ever went to, 1979 so I'd have been 14.... :o
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Post by: andrewc on 28 March, 2013, 11:54:33 pm
Still on a nostalgia kick I went googling for something from my dim & distant past...... and found it !   Welsh language rock!     I heard this on either The Friday Rock Show or The Great Easton Express (Liverpool radio prog which got me through school) and had a recording of it on a knackered C90.

I never knew anything about the band or the singer though...  Omega,  fronted by Delwyn Sion who appears to be a stalwart of Welsh language music http://www.glanceri.com/history.htm (http://www.glanceri.com/history.htm)

"Adferwch Y Cymoedd" (Return to the Valleys)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xAI9Ur444k (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xAI9Ur444k)
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Post by: LindaG on 30 March, 2013, 11:16:10 am
John Lennon.
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Post by: MattH on 30 March, 2013, 08:19:38 pm
Still on a nostalgia kick I went googling for something from my dim & distant past...... and found it !   Welsh language rock!

Ah, that reminds me of
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaOLsrFGLKM

We had a real love-hate relationship with them back in the 80s. I remember on one gig them threatening to smash my lighting rig with one of their guitars unless the bouncers let some of their mates back in, who'd been thrown out for fighting on the dance floor...
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Post by: jogler on 31 March, 2013, 01:22:09 pm
Judy Collins
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Post by: Chris S on 31 March, 2013, 01:24:01 pm
Cloud Cult - Love

Some nice jangly hanging cadences, thumping rhythms and rather less funeral music than the previous album. One or two good overnight-cycling choons  :thumbsup:.
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Post by: jogler on 31 March, 2013, 07:40:37 pm
The Shadows
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Post by: jogler on 01 April, 2013, 12:24:42 pm
Movie soundtracks,eg

The Magnificent Seven
The Last of the Mohicans
Once Upon A Time in the West
A Fistfull of Dollars

& more.
There is a theme there,innit ;D
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Post by: Peter on 01 April, 2013, 08:06:55 pm
The one you really want is The Harry Lime Theme from The Third Man.
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Post by: Quisling on 04 April, 2013, 09:27:04 am
Valtari by Sigur Ros.  Not as memorable as many of their other works, in that there isn't any single standout anthem or indeed anything you could hum afterwards, but it's quietly beautiful like staring into a clear lake, and all the tracks hang together very well.  There's no discord like some of their work - instead it shimmers with beautiful sounds.  Definitely one where you need to pull up a chair, turn up the volume and just sit and listen.  You will be rewarded.
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Post by: billplumtree on 04 April, 2013, 01:33:28 pm
After repeated mentions of some band or other called Low, and David Bowie's second third umpteenth self-reinvention, it was inevitable:

David Bowie, Low.
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Post by: PaulF on 08 April, 2013, 05:47:09 pm
The National being interviewed and in session on 6Music, previewing some of their new album. Sounding good!
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 11 April, 2013, 12:31:27 pm
Some local group called Girl.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=0jP84ZT-1gY

*snorts, deeply unattractively with laughter.  But in a good way*
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Post by: tiermat on 12 April, 2013, 12:06:40 pm
Once again, Smoove and Turrell, simply 'cos, due to an email received from CL earlier this week, I have tickets to see them tonight in York!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq4RW4PGfSA
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Post by: David Martin on 14 April, 2013, 09:40:38 am
Luke Sital-Singh - Old Flint EP
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Post by: jogler on 14 April, 2013, 03:30:59 pm
The Who
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Post by: Littlesox on 14 April, 2013, 05:31:50 pm
The Who

Ah bliss. "Who's next" - The Who.

Quite simply the most powerful and strident rock music ever produced by a 4 piece band.
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Post by: tiermat on 15 April, 2013, 09:05:19 am
Laura Mvula - Sing to the Moon.

Saw her on ...Later and liked what I heard.  Hopefully it marks a return to ...Later doing what it should do, that is showing established artists (this week it was Suede, reformed after 10 years) but also giving acts like this air time.

Lovely voice, gorgeous songs, well worth a listen.
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Post by: Deano on 17 April, 2013, 10:47:24 pm
The Polyphonic Spree performing songs from the Rocky Horror Show.

Whoever thought this was a good idea was a lunatic. And brilliant. I've always like the Polyphonic Spree's way of chucking themselves with enormous gusto into their performances, and that's exactly what they do here, and yeah, it's good. Bonkers, of course, but it works.
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Post by: jogler on 20 April, 2013, 09:33:17 pm
The Who

& again
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 21 April, 2013, 07:23:33 pm
Kate Rusby, 20. 

Currently "Awkward Annie" on repeat, at the request of the SmallestCub who is dancing round the living room dressed in a towel and looking unbearably cute.  If I was a properly mean mummy I'd be taking photos with which to embarrass him in his late teens.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 22 April, 2013, 09:18:45 am
Van Halen - Van Halen

I had forgotten how good they were before all the hairspray and spandex. Apparently Eddie used to audition Marshall amps to find ones that were just on the edge of actually blowing up and then use those to record and tour with. Here that lovely Marshall overdrive on the beginning of "aint talking about love"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBOLf2UyzU8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBOLf2UyzU8)
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Post by: CommuteTooFar on 22 April, 2013, 09:08:32 pm
Vianna Da Motta
Piano Concerto in A Major
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Post by: Illegal Combat Ant on 22 April, 2013, 10:07:51 pm
Got my tickets to see Snarky Puppy in Bristol in July in the post today. So ... 'Slow Demon'. Oh my, I love this band - listen all the way through.

 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67PMG2nVs4k)
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Post by: CommuteTooFar on 22 April, 2013, 10:16:05 pm
Moved on to another CD.
Robert Fuchs Piano Concerto in B flat minor Op 27.

I used to own a piano made by Fuchs-Mohr.
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Post by: Biggsy on 23 April, 2013, 02:21:45 pm
Even As We Speak - Feral Pop Frenzy album, including...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwGmuHgmcyc
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 23 April, 2013, 07:31:19 pm
Dolfish.  "I'd rather disappear than stay the same" from the album of the same name.
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Post by: jogler on 23 April, 2013, 08:15:08 pm
Cher
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Post by: pcolbeck on 24 April, 2013, 12:08:44 pm
Purcell - Dido and Aeneas

With Jessye Norman as Dido. This was recommended by WoW and is indeed exclenent though I still prefer Janet Baker as Dido.
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Post by: Vince on 24 April, 2013, 01:15:59 pm
Neck and Neck - Chet Atkins and Mark Knopfler
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Post by: PaulF on 25 April, 2013, 10:13:30 am
Country Gothic today: Slim Cessna's Auto Club, Sixteen Horsepower and Blitzen Trapper
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Post by: Ham on 26 April, 2013, 04:55:08 pm
Natascha Rogers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAZbskYyMQs

"A mix of Afro Cuban, pop & jazz"

Worth a listen if that sounds interesting to you.
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Post by: jogler on 27 April, 2013, 08:40:27 pm
Dolly Parton
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 27 April, 2013, 10:56:43 pm
A Hawk and a Hacksaw - You Have Already Gone to the Other World.

Look, it's got a goat on the album cover, what's not to like?
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Post by: jogler on 28 April, 2013, 04:29:23 pm
The Beatles
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Post by: jogler on 28 April, 2013, 05:41:04 pm
Emmylou Harris.
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Post by: IanDG on 29 April, 2013, 09:26:07 am
Currently listening to a Seasick Steve interview on R6 - just heard the opening track off his new album  :thumbsup:
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Post by: tiermat on 29 April, 2013, 09:46:33 am
Currently listening to a Sea Sick Steve interview on R6 - just heard the opening track off his new album  :thumbsup:

Oh, yes, just remembered that "Hubcap Music" is out today...

Shall have to drop by a shop on my way to Leeds this PM.
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Post by: jogler on 04 May, 2013, 09:40:50 am
Radio 2:Brian Mathews

currentlyspinning "Knights In White Satin".A true classic from pop's golden era
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Post by: Littlesox on 04 May, 2013, 12:03:54 pm
Van Halen - Van Halen

I had forgotten how good they were before all the hairspray and spandex. Apparently Eddie used to audition Marshall amps to find ones that were just on the edge of actually blowing up and then use those to record and tour with. Here that lovely Marshall overdrive on the beginning of "aint talking about love"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBOLf2UyzU8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBOLf2UyzU8)

Agreed - have just dug this out and played it for the first time in ages.

Awesome the impact that it had at the time, beacuse Eddie was doing things never been done before.

Apparently (here we go again, a Littlesox Wikimyth) they came over here to support Queen, and after 3 shows were politley asked to leave the tour because they were upstaging the main act.

I also still like Fair Warning.

As Bill and Ted would say - most excellent !
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Post by: rogerzilla on 04 May, 2013, 12:34:18 pm
Mr. Blue Sky by ELO, one of the best and most quirky songs ever.

The vocoded bit at the very end is actually "Please Turn Me Over", not "Mr Blue Sky, why?".  The track was at the end of one side of the Out of The Blue LP.
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Post by: Biggsy on 04 May, 2013, 02:09:41 pm
Just got the beautiful 2013 CD album from The Besnard Lakes: Until In Excess, Imperceptible UFO.

Not sure taking pills from strange men is a good idea, though:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvJzzq5LkSo
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Post by: Illegal Combat Ant on 04 May, 2013, 02:44:24 pm
Just got the beautiful 2013 CD album from The Besnard Lakes: Until In Excess, Imperceptible UFO.

Not sure taking pills from strange men is a good idea, though:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvJzzq5LkSo
I liked that  :thumbsup:
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Post by: microphonie on 04 May, 2013, 03:12:45 pm
Working my way through my latest eMusic downloads: it seems I've gone for mainly (dark) ambient/experimental this month with a touch of 'chillwave' (ToC), African polyrhythm-influenced dance (HT) & BoC-esque electronica (Freescha) to lighten things up...

 Tropic of Cancer  (https://soundcloud.com/camellalobo) - 4 eps
 Harmonious Thelonious  (http://www.harmoniousthelonious.com/) - Talking
 Miles  (https://soundcloud.com/modernlove/sets/miles-faint-hearted) - Faint Hearted
Celer -  In Escaping Lakes  (https://soundcloud.com/slowflowrec/celer-in-escaping-lakes-ww1001) + Tightrope
 Freescha  (https://soundcloud.com/bitcandy/sets/freescha) - Freeschaland
The Haxan Cloak -  Excavation  (https://soundcloud.com/experimedia/the-haxan-cloak-excavation)
 Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement  (https://soundcloud.com/blackest-ever-black/rainforest-spiritual) - 4 eps

But currently revisiting some old industrial electronic stuff courtesy of Terror Against Terror's Psychological Warfare Technology Systems

The Only Good God is a Dead God:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38tDgcjqGk8

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Post by: TimC on 04 May, 2013, 03:29:21 pm
Mr. Blue Sky by ELO, one of the best and most quirky songs ever.

The vocoded bit at the very end is actually "Please Turn Me Over", not "Mr Blue Sky, why?".  The track was at the end of one side of the Out of The Blue LP.

Jeff Lynne's productions are always immaculate, and I love his own songs. i saw a (MTV?) programme about him quite recently and he comes across as one of the most ego-free and thoroughly nice blokes you could imagine. So ELO are excellent in my book.
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Post by: Illegal Combat Ant on 04 May, 2013, 09:56:06 pm
So the Stones are reducing ticket prices on their US tour cos they're having some trouble selling 'em. About fucking time, they've been getting away with murder for years. Greatest Rock'n'Roll band in the world - do me a fucking favour. I couldn't be happier that they've finally been rumbled. Does anyone here know anyone who owns a Stones album post-Exile on Main Street? Thought not.

Apropos of all the above

Rhythm and Blues Alibi (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZIhD-dbXQM)
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Post by: rogerzilla on 04 May, 2013, 10:37:52 pm
Roxy Music - Virginia Plain.  Brian Eno on keyboards, apparently with a wah-wah pedal.
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Post by: Manotea on 05 May, 2013, 08:22:08 am
A frightener from totp 1978, automatic lover. Beyond parody.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTFCwKvlKZo&feature=youtube_gdata_player (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTFCwKvlKZo&feature=youtube_gdata_player)
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Post by: interzen on 06 May, 2013, 02:39:53 pm
Faith No More - King For A Day, Fool For A Lifetime

An underrated album, I feel, even though it isn't nearly as good as 'Angel Dust', and the title track is an absolute belter live:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQWux5vd8zI

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Mike Patton is totally batshit crazy but they guy can sing ...

(and that bass sound is one I'd absolutely kill for)
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Post by: tiermat on 06 May, 2013, 02:44:51 pm
Fwiw, interzen, I still think you cannot beat "Introduce Yourself" as far as FNM go, but then Mr Patton only joined after it was released, so he doesn't feature on the album, but does in the videos and, obviously on any live performance of the tracks.
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Post by: interzen on 06 May, 2013, 03:00:15 pm
Fwiw, interzen, I still think you cannot beat "Introduce Yourself" as far as FNM go, but then Mr Patton only joined after it was released, so he doesn't feature on the album, but does in the videos and, obviously on any live performance of the tracks.
I prefer Chuck Moseley's vocals on the early stuff - not sure why, it just suits the music better.

For me, the first two albums ("We Care A Lot" and "Introduce Yourself") are classic skate music - probably because I was still doing a fair bit of skateboarding when I first got into FNM at university. Just wish I knew where my copy of "We Care A Lot" was  :-\

I feel a trawl through the archives coming on ...
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Post by: RJ on 07 May, 2013, 12:43:01 pm
XTC - a singles compilation
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Post by: Deano on 07 May, 2013, 08:44:31 pm
Summer Special by Euros Childs.

I recognise a lot of the songs from seeing him live at the Westgarth in Boro. Lovely summery pop.

and it has a fabulous cover:

(http://media.thelineofbestfit.com/wp-content/media/2012/09/euros-childs-summer-special.jpg)
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Post by: jogler on 07 May, 2013, 09:04:22 pm
The Strolling Bones
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 07 May, 2013, 09:05:21 pm
Today (other than occasional forays into Dolfish and Melanie Pain because they do creep into the playlists a lot by default at the moment) has mostly been Lotte Mullan and Allo Darlin' since I'm off to see 'em both this weekend.

Funnily enough I haven't listened to the ones I'm off to see tomorrow!
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Post by: Flynn on 08 May, 2013, 07:35:23 am
Alf's back in superb style! And I recognise that place… ;)

Alison Moyet's new single, When I Was Your Girl

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-wtJyh2Co4

(Note to Adele: This is how it's done.)
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Post by: Illegal Combat Ant on 08 May, 2013, 02:49:06 pm
Pete Drake and his Talking Guitar. Forever. Eat your hearts out Peter Frampton and Joe Walsh.

 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dTFajHVyHo)
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Post by: Riggers on 08 May, 2013, 03:33:13 pm
My God, that's a scary video. Chap at the start looks like America's version of Effing Davis with those eyes.
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Post by: Illegal Combat Ant on 08 May, 2013, 04:10:37 pm
I'm glad it wasn't just me found it scary. I was after some validation.  ;D
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Post by: LindaG on 08 May, 2013, 09:56:07 pm
Kiki Dee.  Blimey.
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Post by: Riggers on 10 May, 2013, 09:58:59 am
… well, listening all week actually, to A sting in the tail by Dave Goulson on R4's Book of the week. Bloody fascinating stuff. He's doing terrific stuff. I wish there were more chaps like him, helping to save the bee.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/A-Sting-Tale-Dave-Goulson/dp/0224096893
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Post by: PaulF on 10 May, 2013, 10:37:39 am
New stuff from The National, think that it's a grower :)
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Post by: MattH on 10 May, 2013, 10:44:12 am
Delving into the depths of my MP3 collection, I came across this - a Bob Rivers parody of One of Us.

http://youtu.be/iiZwrRLS2-A

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Post by: phantasmagoriana on 10 May, 2013, 11:24:54 pm
Dr Dre - The Chronic.
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 11 May, 2013, 12:19:49 am
something new to me - The Lake Poets

http://thelakepoets.bandcamp.com/music (http://thelakepoets.bandcamp.com/music)

Playing at Galtres festival this year, looking forward to seeing and hearing them live.
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Post by: Wascally Weasel on 11 May, 2013, 12:31:56 am
Roxy Music - Virginia Plain.  Brian Eno on keyboards, apparently with a wah-wah pedal.

When Ferrry says "Virginia Plain" at the end of the song he sounds just like Weebl from Weebl and Bob.
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Post by: Deano on 14 May, 2013, 10:35:00 pm
Ships by Sweet Baboo.

Yet more Deershed prep.
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Post by: Biggsy on 19 May, 2013, 10:06:05 am
Mark E Smith interview with Radcliffe & Maconie.  Radio gold!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p018pxfy

BTW, I thought the new Fall single was absolute crap on first listen, but it's growing on me.  I now think it's quite bad but sort of good.
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Post by: tiermat on 20 May, 2013, 09:28:27 am
Started with Jools and Friends, now listening/watching last week's Later...

So far QoTSA and Texas, next up Peace.
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Post by: jogler on 21 May, 2013, 03:34:54 pm
Free

a sort of requiem
 :(
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Post by: Illegal Combat Ant on 21 May, 2013, 05:16:38 pm
John Grant - GMF.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekFWPsXXcg0
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 21 May, 2013, 07:55:14 pm
The Handsome Family. Honey Moon.
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Post by: citoyen on 22 May, 2013, 05:55:21 pm
Ruth Theodore. Jazz-folk whimsy par excellence. New album out 10th June. Tickets bought to see her at St Pancras Old Church. Very excited.

http://www.ruththeodore.com/
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Post by: citoyen on 23 May, 2013, 12:45:35 am
http://youtu.be/80If-JYGsWw
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Post by: Ham on 23 May, 2013, 09:25:01 am
Neko Case with and without The New Pornographers.
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Post by: LindaG on 23 May, 2013, 06:41:13 pm
Jeffrey Lewis.  End Result.  It's a good song, it sums up how I feel today.
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Post by: phantasmagoriana on 24 May, 2013, 09:17:37 pm
Earth - Pentastar: In The Style of Demons.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 24 May, 2013, 09:32:10 pm
Caroline Smith and the Good Night Sleeps.
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Post by: interzen on 24 May, 2013, 10:26:22 pm
The Chemical Brothers - Exit Planet Dust

I can take or leave their later stuff, but this ranks alongside Orbital's 'Brown Album' as one of the top 10 albums to exercise to.
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Post by: phantasmagoriana on 24 May, 2013, 11:27:52 pm
Now, Cradle of Filth - Cruelty and the Beast. I don't think I've listened to it in over a decade.
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Post by: Domestique on 25 May, 2013, 06:09:00 pm
Dreadzone - Biological Radio
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Post by: Wowbagger on 28 May, 2013, 02:25:19 pm
There was an absolutely breathtaking performance of Rimsky-Korsakov's "Flight of the Bumblebee" on R3 this morning, with the main part played on the xylophone by Heather Corbett, principal percussionist with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01slmnz/Breakfast_Tuesday_Petroc_Trelawny/ at 1h 59m 20s. It's mind-boggling to think about the amount of practice required to produce such dexterity.
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Post by: nicknack on 01 June, 2013, 08:50:15 pm
Currently on "Death Walks Behind You" - Atomic Rooster

Preceded by "In Hearing Of Atomic Rooster" and "Atomic Rooster".

Before that it was "Emerson, Lake and Palmer" and "Pictures At An Exhibition".

It's one of those evenings.

Hammonds rool ok!

If it wasn't for Arne Dahl in a few mins I'd probably get onto Brian Auger, Medeski Martin and Wood, James Taylor Quartet and Elephant (.
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Post by: Biggsy on 01 June, 2013, 09:25:30 pm
Primal Scream in concert live on Radio 6.  Ok, but not really great, so far.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 02 June, 2013, 11:12:53 am
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories

Master PColbeck bought this and has been playing it death in the house. Its really is very good. Nile Rodgers on some tracks.
Sounds like a mash up between Chic, Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk and the Flaming Lips if you can imagine that.
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Post by: interzen on 02 June, 2013, 12:41:18 pm
Wolfram Spyra - Gasoline 91

Sequencers + Rhodes piano1 = WIN!

1 - the real thing, too, not a VST. At least, he was playing a 'real' Rhodes when I saw him live a few years back.

http://youtu.be/2_NUtIqfTBo - this is the first track off the album.
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Post by: New Puritan on 03 June, 2013, 08:12:51 pm
I seem to be somewhat incapable of taking Mazes' "Ores and Minerals" off my turntable. Big helpings of anglo-flavoured Krautrock. As if Neu! came from Doncaster instead of Dusseldorf.
Track off album here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vwy8LXEr7uM
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Post by: Illegal Combat Ant on 04 June, 2013, 05:16:43 pm
 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0IMOfQSzuE)
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Post by: microphonie on 04 June, 2013, 07:06:16 pm
A Young Persons Guide - a compilation of Mark McGuire (of Emeralds) stuff: multi-layered guitar/electronica instrumentals:

 clicky  (http://www.youtube.com/embed/Fabt4-UyvM8?)
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Post by: citoyen on 05 June, 2013, 10:45:06 am
Lescop. Supercool French electro pop noir. Like Daft Punk but waaaay more chin-strokey and gauloisesque.

This is how to make a pop video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezeyIGnKIKY
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Post by: tiermat on 05 June, 2013, 10:52:52 am
Dreadzone - Biological Radio

Damn you! I have "Moving On" stuck in my head now... :D
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Post by: interzen on 05 June, 2013, 12:45:18 pm
Om - Advaitic Songs. Bass guitar plus drums plus a metric fuckton of effects = epic WIN

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKqoNrZ00Bg

I wish I could make my bass sound like that - but it's not a Rickenbacker and it's fretless :(

Earlier on we had Sunn O)))'s 'Monoliths and Dimensions' and Sleep's 'Dopesmoker', both played at suitably ear-pummelling volumes.

"Maximum Volume Yields Maximum Results" indeed ...
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Post by: tiermat on 07 June, 2013, 11:45:52 am
Powderfinger - The Golden Rule.

Perfect Aussie vibe for a sunny day :)
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Post by: interzen on 07 June, 2013, 12:09:12 pm
Rush - Clockwork Angels

First time I've listened to it in a while, so I decided to run it through my B&W speakers and crank the volume a bit.

Jesus. H. Tapdancing. Christ. That's a bass tone you could shave with ...
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Post by: interzen on 08 June, 2013, 11:18:10 am
Paul Simon - Graceland

The only album of his that I like, and this guy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakithi_Kumalo) makes it really special (for me, at least), particularly on 'The Boy In The Bubble'

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Post by: CrinklyLion on 08 June, 2013, 11:19:21 am
Caroline Smith and the Good Night Sleeps.

Again!
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Post by: jogler on 08 June, 2013, 01:37:46 pm
Radio 2,Pick of the Pops with Tony Blackbum.

right now The Animals:Don't Bring Me Down.

Marvellous stuff

ETA & now Percy Sledge:When A Man Loves A woman.
marj music :thumbsup:
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Post by: phantasmagoriana on 08 June, 2013, 06:10:42 pm
Type O Negative  - World Coming Down
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Post by: rogerzilla on 09 June, 2013, 01:56:12 pm
On the radio, that 80s classic "Safety Dance" by Men Without Hats or, as my friend's father called them in a memorable malapropism, "Men With No Heads".

The video, IIRC, features a dwarf and is rather odd.
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Post by: interzen on 09 June, 2013, 02:28:49 pm
On the radio, that 80s classic "Safety Dance" by Men Without Hats or, as my friend's father called them in a memorable malapropism, "Men With No Heads".

The video, IIRC, features a dwarf and is rather odd.
It was the 80s, man ... given enough Bolivian Marching Powder it probably seemed quite sensible at the time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCUm3yUhlfo

EDIT: That bloody tune is stuck in my head now  ;D
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Post by: rogerzilla on 10 June, 2013, 06:52:31 am
A bit of Googling shoes that the trippy blonde dancer in the video is now the editor of Cosmopolitan ("SEX!") magazine,.
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Post by: Illegal Combat Ant on 12 June, 2013, 04:59:56 pm
I've been a big fan of Todd Rundgren for over 40 years now. He's always managed to challenge me with his various leaps. I'm going to see him at Bristol Academy tomorrow night, touring his new album 'State'. I don't think I'm going to be disappointed.  ;D
I may need to choose my enhancement with care.

COLLIDE-A-SCOPE.

 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGIGK7TpxxQ)
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Post by: phantasmagoriana on 15 June, 2013, 11:38:55 pm
Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile. Possibly my favourite album ever.
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Post by: Paul on 16 June, 2013, 11:04:06 pm
I'm having an ELO revival. I thought I was a fan in the late 70s, but I've just bought A New World Record and Out Of The Blue and I realise that I had just touched the fringe with Discovery and a Best Of.

While, I think my Best Of wasn't too wide of the mark, there's a lot of stuff on Out Of The Blue that I'm really enjoying. I'm especially delighted to find that Mr. Blue Sky is only the 4th of a whole 'concerto'.

I remember being excited and nervous about coming out as an ELO fan at school. I liked disco, mod, ska, Pink Floyd and even some Motorhead. But it seemed important to belong to a particular musical genre at the time, so it was difficult then)

But I do love some of their stuff still, especially Mr. Blue Sky. I was thrilled by the first Madness album (I learned all the words very quickly and invented a dance to each track), and Regatta De Blanc was fantastic. And I still cherish a glorious summer listening to Steel Pulse's Handsworth Revolution.

But given the middle-aged opportunity, the first song I wanted to own again was Mr. Blue Sky and it still touches something in me, reminds me of a childhood that I had almost forgotten.

 :)


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Post by: tiermat on 17 June, 2013, 12:55:55 pm
Re-discovering random on my iPod (which I haven't used since before my last holiday, in fact I think the last time I used it was in Catalonia in April).

So far today I have had, in the playlist:
The Milk
The Beautiful South
Tool
The Go! Team
Sugar
Green Day
The Black Crowes

Yes, a lot of bands with "The" in their names! :)
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Post by: IanDG on 19 June, 2013, 09:40:16 pm
Adam Tomlinson presents Act 3 of Wagner's Siegfried from Leeds Town Hall  :-\
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 20 June, 2013, 11:23:16 am
North Ten, by Blue Rose Code.
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Post by: Illegal Combat Ant on 22 June, 2013, 02:41:57 pm
Ska Trek - Hold Down. A cover of an old Kingstonians track by a German ska band. Sweet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWHgefX3Jzc&feature=youtu.be
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Post by: LindaG on 22 June, 2013, 02:51:29 pm
One Of These Days by Gaz Coombes which is so appropriate it's quite eerie.
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Post by: interzen on 22 June, 2013, 02:59:25 pm
Rush - Vapo(u)r Trails.

Underneath the terrible production (the dynamics are compressed to Hell and back) there's an absolute cracker of an album trying to escape. I'm even more convinced of this having heard a couple of remastered tracks off Retrospective 3.

I still live in the hope that a remastered version of the album is released and that they'll hunt down Paul Northfield (original producer), shoot him through the lungs, stick red-hot knives up his jacksie1 and then bury him in quicklime as a warning to all the other wingnuts who think Louder Is Better.

1 - Handle first, so he cuts his fingers trying to pull them out.
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Post by: LindaG on 23 June, 2013, 04:05:31 pm
A spectacular thunderstorm. So good I switched off John Lennon and opened the windows for the full effect.
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Post by: tiermat on 25 June, 2013, 01:02:14 pm
Today, catching up on stuff I first heard when in that Catalonia.

First up, Els Amics de les Arts http://elsamicsdelesarts.cat/english/
and then, Imagine Dragons http://www.imaginedragonsmusic.com/Default.aspx (I know they are not spanish, but I heard them over there, ok?)
and finally Macaco http://en.macaco.es/
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Post by: LindaG on 26 June, 2013, 06:54:34 am
"Us" by Peter Gabriel. Great stuff.
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Post by: tiermat on 26 June, 2013, 08:10:17 am
A band from last year's Deershed - Los Campasinos.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 27 June, 2013, 08:38:40 pm
The Black Keys

Currently on "Psychotic Girl"
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Post by: RJ on 27 June, 2013, 09:38:05 pm
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories

Master PColbeck bought this and has been playing it death in the house. Its really is very good. Nile Rodgers on some tracks.
Sounds like a mash up between Chic, Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk and the Flaming Lips if you can imagine that.

I can't quite decide whether to file this under Pure Genius, or Guilty Pleasure - but I'm enjoying it lots.
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Post by: Illegal Combat Ant on 27 June, 2013, 09:43:23 pm
Ride - Dreams burn down. VERY LOUD.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5zTuVhNs5c (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5zTuVhNs5c)
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Post by: LindaG on 28 June, 2013, 11:38:07 am
Snake Wagon  :D :D :D
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Post by: LindaG on 28 June, 2013, 07:42:34 pm
Bob Dylan. Damn but he's good.

And not unlike Snake Wagon.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 28 June, 2013, 09:26:40 pm
Seasick Steve @ Glasto
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Post by: pcolbeck on 28 June, 2013, 09:53:18 pm
Me to. JPJ is laying down some amazing lap steel slide with him ATM.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 29 June, 2013, 12:23:18 am
The Artic Monkeys are playing an absolute blinder. Alex Turner doesn't like playing it safe.
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Post by: microphonie on 29 June, 2013, 02:28:52 pm
Arctic Monkeys were excellent & what was shown of Portishead was fantastic too (loved the David Cameron with lazer beam eyes video)
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Post by: jogler on 29 June, 2013, 08:10:24 pm
Pick of the Pops:Radio 2
Tony Blackbum spinning the discs
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Post by: jogler on 29 June, 2013, 10:00:58 pm
The Crystals
The Shirelles
The Ronettes
The Dixie Cups

ETA & The Chiffons
       & The Shangri-Las
       & The Poni-Tails
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Post by: Illegal Combat Ant on 01 July, 2013, 01:35:26 pm
Pixies - Bagboy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGdSYPh5_BI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGdSYPh5_BI)
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Post by: tiermat on 01 July, 2013, 01:39:59 pm
Bad Brains, currently on one of my favourite tracks of all time, "Banned in DC"
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Post by: interzen on 01 July, 2013, 01:55:48 pm
Devo
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Post by: pcolbeck on 01 July, 2013, 02:25:05 pm
Grace Potter and the Nocturnals. Got to love a girl who rocks a Flying V.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1PpRwRsDZc (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1PpRwRsDZc)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Ov8uT8DTvlw#t=98s (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Ov8uT8DTvlw#t=98s)
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Post by: PaulF on 01 July, 2013, 04:21:01 pm
Pixies - Bagboy


Good call!

Currently listening to Pixies Live at Brixton Academy
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Post by: andrewc on 01 July, 2013, 08:57:32 pm
Joe Jackson at the BBC.  A 2 CD set from an under appreciated artist.  (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Live-The-BBC-Joe-Jackson/dp/B001NKQI8O)

Rocking good stuff,  I hope the neighbours like it  :D
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Post by: pcolbeck on 02 July, 2013, 01:14:06 pm
Continuing my southern rock / funk theme from yesterday with a nice laid back summer tune

JJ Grey - Sweetest Thing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6J-SBfMP5A (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6J-SBfMP5A)
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Post by: billplumtree on 02 July, 2013, 01:16:25 pm
Joe Jackson at the BBC.

Ordered!  Thanks, Andrew  ;)  Blimey, Look Sharp feels a long, long time ago now...
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Post by: Illegal Combat Ant on 04 July, 2013, 05:21:16 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AdfZ2rhZmc (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AdfZ2rhZmc)
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Post by: Dibdib on 05 July, 2013, 04:24:29 pm
Starting to work my way through Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time (http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-20120531). The top 50 especially is a list of "why don't I own a copy of that?" albums.

The latest delivery from Amazon has included Marvin Gaye's What's Going On, The Beatles' Revolver and David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust album. I am a very happy lad.
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Post by: Biggsy on 05 July, 2013, 04:35:33 pm
I know the Rolling Stones made a lot of albums, but 500?  Blimey!  *cheesey face*
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Post by: Dibdib on 05 July, 2013, 04:39:09 pm
I know the Rolling Stones made a lot of albums, but 500?  Blimey!  *cheesey face*

Clearly you've been listening to...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oShTJ90fC34

 :facepalm:
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Post by: Biggsy on 05 July, 2013, 04:49:25 pm
... http://youtu.be/ZThquH5t0ow

YouTube videos aren't embedding any more.

eg > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZThquH5t0ow

:'(
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Post by: interzen on 11 July, 2013, 10:50:57 am
Bit of a Simon Posford-oriented day today:

Shpongle - Tales of the Inexpressible
Hallucinogen - Twisted ('LSD' is possibly one of the best trance tracks evah ...)
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Post by: andrewc on 11 July, 2013, 09:12:48 pm
Dhafer Youseff "Abu Nawas Rhapsody" http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=36405 (http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=36405)

A brilliant fusion of North African oud & modern jazz.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPIXeZWs0NI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPIXeZWs0NI)
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Post by: interzen on 12 July, 2013, 02:50:25 pm
Camper Van Beethoven, "Telephone Free Landslide Victory"

Haven't listened to it for ages - I don't normally do the folk/rock/ska/crossover thing but this is sufficiently weird that that I'm prepared to overlook that. Generally speaking, if someone's heard CvB before then its probably been "Take The Skinheads Bowling" or "The Day Lassie Went To The Moon" (both on this album)

Their folk-inspired cover of Black Flag's "Wasted"(!) is worth the price of admission alone ...

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Post by: Chris S on 17 July, 2013, 11:39:28 am
Palma Violets - 180
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Post by: tiermat on 17 July, 2013, 11:43:56 am
A sunny mix of Powderfinger and Ojod De Brujo.

Looking out of the window and wishing I wasn't sat here :(
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Post by: Vince on 18 July, 2013, 09:34:30 am
As suggested by my niece.....
Show of Hands and The Spooky Men Chorale singing Don't You Want Me Baby
Strange but good.
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Post by: jogler on 18 July, 2013, 11:11:26 am
Various versions of "Ghost Riders in the Sky" ranging from the original thru' to the film track/theme version with Nicolas Cage.
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Post by: microphonie on 18 July, 2013, 12:22:36 pm
Broadcast - Berberian Sound Studio

Haxan Cloak - s/t

Cabaret Voltaire - Red Mecca

And... eagerly anticipating the release of the new Eat Lights Become Lights album, Modular Living
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Post by: pcolbeck on 25 July, 2013, 05:53:29 am
Downloaded the two latest JJ Grey and Mofro albums from Amazon.

Currently listening to "Your lady she's shady". Excellent,  dirty funk at 6:00am what could be better.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6k6upczAHA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6k6upczAHA)
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Post by: Dibdib on 25 July, 2013, 07:28:25 pm
I don't even care that it's My Chemical Romance, this is still catchy as f**k.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egG7fiE89IU
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Post by: IanDG on 25 July, 2013, 08:26:46 pm
Roy Harper - HQ

"There'll be one mad dog and his master, pushing for four with the spin
On a dusty pitch, with two pounds six of willow wood in the sun"



 :)
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Post by: rogerzilla on 25 July, 2013, 09:19:45 pm
Happy Mondays - Dennis and Lois (a brilliant piece of funk - they really did have talent despite being stoned the whole time) and Bring A Friend (which has possibly the most dubious lyrics of any song, ever).

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Post by: jogler on 26 July, 2013, 11:17:03 pm
Right now I'm earwigging the Old Grey Whistle Test  showing Cher & Greg Allman doing a Lieber & Stoller
composition called Love You Only.
I have nevr associated any of those four folk with the Blues but it's very  :thumbsup:
Recorded in 1977.She was hothothot.
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Post by: jogler on 26 July, 2013, 11:26:01 pm
& now Blondie :thumbsup:
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Post by: Peter on 27 July, 2013, 09:54:11 am
Right now I'm earwigging the Old Grey Whistle Test  showing Cher & Greg Allman doing a Lieber & Stoller
composition called Love You Only.
I have nevr associated any of those four folk with the Blues but it's very  :thumbsup:
Recorded in 1977.She was hothothot.

Well, they wrote Hound Dog and Kansas City, which are 12-bars.

You might be interested in this, A.  They are all-time greats.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Leiber_and_Mike_Stoller
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Post by: jogler on 27 July, 2013, 10:06:21 am
Thanks for that Peter.
I do associate L&S with the Elvis stuff & have,unfairley,pigeon-holed them into pop music.
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Post by: Peter on 27 July, 2013, 10:10:24 am
Cheers A.  I'll probably be whistling some of their stuff at Eskdalemuir.  Listen to the wind at Moffat!
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Post by: interzen on 27 July, 2013, 01:11:15 pm
The soundtrack to '24hr Party People' - like the film itself, the soundtrack is pretty good slice of the Manchester scene in the 80s/early-90s.

I still think Steve Coogan is a twat, though ...
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Post by: Biggsy on 27 July, 2013, 04:49:50 pm
Giles Peterson on 6 Music playing jazzy dance stuff.  Bit soporific for this time of day.  Talking of soporific, the new Daft Punk and Camera Obscura albums I got and listened to last night were unexpectedly down beat.  I love sleepy music, but it's about time that I had an upper.
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Post by: andrewc on 27 July, 2013, 11:01:58 pm
The cooling downpour outside had me playing "Take Me Dancing Naked In The Rain" by Blue Pearl.  This led me to play a load of stuff by Durga McBroom
who did lots of work backing Pink Floyd.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXCQuyaDpmE&list=PL6A92ABCBEFDC4A9B (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXCQuyaDpmE&list=PL6A92ABCBEFDC4A9B)



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Post by: Vince on 04 August, 2013, 08:31:53 am
Listened to 57 different tracks on the drive from Calais home last night, all of them good ones. The surprising thing is that the play list was put together by my son. Well done Boy Wunja.
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Post by: Pingu on 14 August, 2013, 10:59:19 pm
Joy Division session on 6 Music. Dodgy-lo-fi-goodness  :thumbsup:
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Post by: rogerzilla on 16 August, 2013, 09:56:17 pm
Ah, the magic that is the Commendatore scene in Don Giovanni.  Translating from da Ponte's libretto:

Statue: Listen up, I'm here to seal your doom, you philandering scrote
Leporello: We are sooo fucked (hides)
Don Giovanni: You don't scare me.  I am the ultimate alpha male.
Statue: This is your last chance to repent, scumbag, before you go to the fires of hell
Don Giovanni: Piss off, you old fart
Statue: Please yourself (disappears).
Don Giovanni: Ah, bugger, he wan't shitting me.
Demon chorus:  Yummy!
(fin)
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Post by: Littlesox on 18 August, 2013, 09:09:11 am
The Charlatans - Some Friendly
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Post by: rogerzilla on 21 August, 2013, 06:49:41 pm
ELO - Discovery (or "Disco Very", as it's known).  My O-Level geography teacher's favourite album.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 24 August, 2013, 05:29:09 pm
ELO - Yours Truly, 2095 (from Time).  Great lyrics.

Quote
I drive the very latest hovercar
I don't know where you are
But I miss you so much till then
I met someone who looks a lot like you
She does the things you do
But she is an IBM
...
She is the latest in technology
Almost mythology
But she has a heart of stone
She has an IQ of 1001
She has a jumpsuit on
And she's also a telephone
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Post by: interzen on 24 August, 2013, 05:42:41 pm
Ministry - The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste

"Burning Inside" fits my mood quite nicely at the moment. Perhaps too nicely ....
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Post by: Ruth on 24 August, 2013, 09:11:27 pm
Sweet Thing by Bowie. On repeat. Wow.
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Post by: The_Mikey on 24 August, 2013, 09:24:03 pm
Nicola Conte - Love and Revolution
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Post by: Ruth on 26 August, 2013, 05:05:34 pm
10,000 Maniacs. Unplugged, in the Natalie Marchant era. Brian out of Placebo was on the radio and cited the Maniacs and, specifically, Natalie, as musical influences  8)
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Post by: interzen on 26 August, 2013, 05:12:47 pm
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead.

Morrissey may be, in the immortal words of Viz, a daffodil-arsed miserabalist but him and Johnny Marr sure as hell knew how to write a tune. Or, indeed, several tunes.
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Post by: Ruth on 26 August, 2013, 05:19:28 pm
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead.

Morrissey may be, in the immortal words of Viz, a daffodil-arsed miserabalist but him and Johnny Marr sure as hell knew how to write a tune. Or, indeed, several tunes.

*nods in agreement
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Post by: Biggsy on 26 August, 2013, 07:05:06 pm
10,000 Maniacs. Unplugged, in the Natalie Marchant era.

I didn't know there was any other era.  Surely 10,000 Maniacs without Natalie Marchant is like the Smiths without Morrisey?
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Post by: rogerzilla on 26 August, 2013, 09:52:21 pm
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead.

Morrissey may be, in the immortal words of Viz, a daffodil-arsed miserabalist but him and Johnny Marr sure as hell knew how to write a tune. Or, indeed, several tunes.

*nods in agreement
It's their studio masterpiece but it's only 80% great because there's a bit of filler on there.  I put it slightly below Hatful of Hollow (which isn't a "proper" album).

The Smiths' favourite album was apparently Strangeways, Here We Come, but that may just be "we never lost it" hubris.
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Post by: clarion on 28 August, 2013, 02:41:28 pm
Terry and Gerry on Youtube.
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Post by: Illegal Combat Ant on 03 September, 2013, 01:43:36 pm
Defined lines (http://youtu.be/s2M6JUFCCSA)
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Post by: Chris S on 03 September, 2013, 07:42:37 pm
Bombay Bicycle Club - A Different kind of Fix.

Really, rather good.
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Post by: phantasmagoriana on 03 September, 2013, 08:26:13 pm
Nine Inch Nails - Hesitation Marks
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Post by: The_Mikey on 03 September, 2013, 08:31:56 pm
Rose Melberg - Homemade ship
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Post by: Ruth on 03 September, 2013, 10:39:23 pm
The Sundays. Brill.
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Post by: StuAff on 03 September, 2013, 11:39:19 pm
Nine Inch Nails - Hesitation Marks

+1. Splendid stuff.
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Post by: Illegal Combat Ant on 04 September, 2013, 01:20:36 pm
Oh joy. MOAR Snarky Puppy. This is a new one and an absolute corker. Gone Under (http://youtu.be/gsGHkUeTc_w).
Takes my breath away, such power.
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Post by: PaulF on 04 September, 2013, 01:30:48 pm
Martin Stephenson and The Daintees ~ Boat to Bolivia. Takes me back...
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Post by: tiermat on 04 September, 2013, 01:47:47 pm
The Janice Graham Band and The Black Keys, back to back, very uplifting it is...
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Post by: Steph on 04 September, 2013, 07:20:11 pm
Nancy Kerr and James Fagan. Right now, she is playing one of my fave tunes, at about Warp 9. I could give up.

Decent singing, astonishing fiddle-playing, including an awful lot of LH pizzicato in the middle of fingering notes for the bow. I watched them at Shrewsbury, and she was utterly relaxed while she did the fireworks. I hate her....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miNaVKnOm-U
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Post by: pcolbeck on 05 September, 2013, 08:11:41 am
This very nice version of "isnt it a pity"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paTpQx3fJ-E (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paTpQx3fJ-E)

Entire gig available free (and legally) as a VBR MP3s, FLAC or Ogg Vorbis here (http://archive.org/details/ttb2012-08-30.sbd.dvdrip-axstv.t-flac16)
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Post by: microphonie on 05 September, 2013, 06:22:44 pm
The new Forest Swords album - Engravings - and very good it is too. Here's  The Weight of Gold  (https://soundcloud.com/forestswords/theweightofgold) and  Thor's Stone  (https://soundcloud.com/forestswords/thors-stone) for your aural delight...

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Post by: rogerzilla on 05 September, 2013, 09:50:49 pm
For no particular reason, Gary Byrd and the GB Experience "The Crown" on YouTube.  One of the earliest mass-market rap songs, produced by Stevie Wonder with a bit of singing by him.  The lyrics are great - a ramble through black history with jarring 80s pop culture references.

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Post by: IanDG on 06 September, 2013, 09:50:22 pm
HQ - Roy Harper
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Post by: Deano on 06 September, 2013, 11:14:47 pm
Boab - disco special on BBC4 now.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 07 September, 2013, 02:06:13 pm
Tony Blackburn's Pick of the Pops; 1972 & 1985.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 07 September, 2013, 08:32:26 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jofNR_WkoCE
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Post by: Jaded on 10 September, 2013, 09:09:25 am
Hidden Orchestra - Archipelago
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 11 September, 2013, 12:07:50 pm
This Mortal Coil.

Contrasted occasionally with Blackbeard's Tea Party.
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Post by: PaulF on 11 September, 2013, 12:24:27 pm
This Mortal Coil.

Contrasted occasionally with Blackbeard's Tea Party.

That's a nice contrast. Thought I was the only person who'd heard of  Blackbeard's Tea Party. Saw them busking in York a year or so back and bought the cd. Great band!
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 11 September, 2013, 12:47:53 pm
This Mortal Coil.

Contrasted occasionally with Blackbeard's Tea Party.

That's a nice contrast. Thought I was the only person who'd heard of  Blackbeard's Tea Party. Saw them busking in York a year or so back and bought the cd. Great band!
Live on a big stage they are even better. A real performance rather than just a bunch of musicians standing on stage playing instruments. It helps that the fiddle player is terminally cute.

We have 3 of their CDs, mostly bought on the basis of liking to support local bands. Much prefer seeing them live.

(http://www.blackbeardsteaparty.com/thumb.php?file=gallery/Cambridge_Folk_Festival_2012/221499_347457445331643_662624148_o.jpg&size=176&quality=80)
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Post by: tiermat on 11 September, 2013, 12:53:05 pm
In the car, Master of Puppets, the remake issued by Kerrang! (I think) a few years ago to mark the anniversary of the album being released.  All the tracks are covered by the likes of Bullet for My Valentine, Chimera and the like.

At my desk I am back to a random iPod mix of music, too many to mention.
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Post by: Pingu on 14 September, 2013, 10:28:50 pm
Jim White on Tom Robinson, 6 Music  :thumbsup:
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Post by: PH on 15 September, 2013, 10:56:43 pm
Jim White on Tom Robinson, 6 Music  :thumbsup:
That was a great show in every way, I think I'll listen to it again.
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Post by: tiermat on 16 September, 2013, 08:28:26 am
On the way down here this morning, I revisited another old album (old being a relative term, this one being only 2 years old)

The Janice Graham Band - It's Not Me
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Post by: Steph on 17 September, 2013, 02:59:27 am
As I have done so many times, I heard a great track in a record shop and bought the album, years ago. The band split after two records, and I could never find the other one. By chance, I saw that a certain online mega-retailer had a copy of the two albums and one disc. It arrived a few days ago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1fDqX3-9aU

The album has the track that caught my ear, a song about a stalker:
"It's me that follows after, it's my step you hear... It's me!"

In Swedish, of course.
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Post by: Illegal Combat Ant on 22 September, 2013, 11:14:41 am
Snarky Puppy feat. N'Dambi - Deep.

http://youtu.be/0d2zOrebuwM
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Post by: Ham on 23 September, 2013, 07:56:30 pm
You're not  London based are you? http://www.timeout.com/london/music/snarky-puppy
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Post by: microphonie on 24 September, 2013, 06:22:35 pm
Don Letts' Sound of Cinema programme from last week. Just got past the Blaxploitation stuff.

'You're damn right...'

And earlier today: Oren Ambarchi's Sagittarian Domain:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_hVhqw9c48
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 24 September, 2013, 06:25:35 pm
Laura Cantrell.... new album :)
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Post by: andrewc on 24 September, 2013, 09:10:45 pm
I caved in and bought the remastered version of "Sandanista" on vinyl.... :thumbsup:
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Post by: clarion on 25 September, 2013, 10:54:31 am
On vinyl, you can still hear, in crystal-clear detail, every nuance of the disappointment that album turned out to be.
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Post by: andrewc on 25 September, 2013, 04:28:05 pm
On vinyl, you can still hear, in crystal-clear detail, every nuance of the disappointment that album turned out to be.

They've remastered all the studio albums .  Sound quality is excellent, better than my old CD copy.  Must be topping up the pension fund..

http://www.theclash.com/gb/news/gb/2013-09-09/the-clash-5-studio-album-box-set-vinyl
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Post by: Chris S on 26 September, 2013, 08:14:41 pm
Bill Bryson - Down Under (Audiobook)

Once again, I'm thinking "We should have a 'What audiobook are we listening to today?' thread". Audio books are not reading, so don't qualify for the "What are we reading today?" thread, and yet - listening to an audiobook is very different to listening to music.

Meh...
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Post by: Pingu on 26 September, 2013, 11:18:04 pm
Quote
Once again, I'm thinking "We should have a 'What audiobook are we listening to today?' thread"

A radical thought: why don't you start one?

Quote
Meh...

Ah...
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Post by: Vince on 27 September, 2013, 10:20:11 am
Disagree. Audio books are quite appropriate in the 'What books etc' thread. Although the activity is different, the content is the same mostly similar. And someone listening to the audio book can have a meaningful discusion with someone reading the wooden or digital version of it.

Fboab recommended something in the book thread she had been listening to on LEL (I think) and I thoroughly enjoyed it on the Kindle.
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Post by: Ruth on 02 October, 2013, 07:17:42 pm
Mark Radcliffe's Folk Show on R2.

He just played a shitty song called Dance The Dark Morris, from an album called The Wintersmith, by Steeleye Span.  Are they really writing songs about Pterry novels?!
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Post by: Ruth on 02 October, 2013, 08:44:24 pm
Jo Whiley.  Fabulous.  Has she always been on Radio 2?!  I love her.
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Post by: interzen on 02 October, 2013, 09:31:04 pm
Mark Radcliffe's Folk Show on R2.

He just played a shitty song called Dance The Dark Morris, from an album called The Wintersmith, by Steeleye Span.  Are they really writing songs about Pterry novels?!
Not just songs ... a whole album: http://www.progrockmag.com/news/steeleye-span-terry-pratchett-collaborate-on-album/

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Post by: Illegal Combat Ant on 03 October, 2013, 07:41:45 pm
You're not  London based are you? http://www.timeout.com/london/music/snarky-puppy

Sorry, been away from this thread. No, we're not London-based but we are going. Mind you we'll be surrounded by Shoreditch hipsters.

Meanwhile, the Pups are dribbling out tracks from their #1 iTunes jazz chart album.
Listen to Lalah Hathaway sing chords, starting at about 6.13. Stunning vocal.
Mark my words, these guys will be walking away with a Grammy next year.

http://youtu.be/0SJIgTLe0hc

I may have mentioned I'm going to their next live album recording on Monday. In that Holland. Should be a good combination.
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Post by: interzen on 03 October, 2013, 07:55:05 pm
Scorn - Anamnesis (compilation) and Whine (live-ish album)

Dark ambient as done by Napalm Death's original drummer(!) - actually rather good in a dubby, extremely bass-heavy sort of way.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 04 October, 2013, 03:32:28 pm
The Black Crowes. I am particularly liking this cover of the Velvet Undergrounds "Oh Sweet Nothing". It's not often Rich Robinson sings instead of Chris but his voice really suits this song. Also Luther Dickinson's guitar work is awesome on this track.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf9-BCix4io
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Post by: tiermat on 04 October, 2013, 04:27:13 pm
The Black Crowes. I am particularly liking this cover of the Velvet Undergrounds "Oh Sweet Nothing". It's not often Rich Robinson sings instead of Chris but his voice really suits this song. Also Luther Dickinson's guitar work is awesome on this track.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf9-BCix4io

I have always been a big BC fan, but really went off them after "Amorica".  I, just recently, got "Warpaint" then "Before The Frost ... Until The Freeze" and I am impressed.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 04 October, 2013, 04:36:34 pm
Yes they lost it a bit in the late 90s early 2000s. There is loose (good) and then there is confused rambling mess (not good). 
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Post by: interzen on 05 October, 2013, 12:10:04 pm
Conflict - a nice bit of anarcho-punk to get things moving.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 05 October, 2013, 06:38:35 pm
Japan - Quiet Life.  David Sylvian has a horrible voice but it's a good song.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 05 October, 2013, 07:41:40 pm
Clearing out my office room today and now I can get to the record deck again. So Delaney Bramlett "Something's Coming" - gospel and soul infused rock with big arrangements. Vanetta Fields is the backing vocalist on this one, she was also on "Wish you were Here" and "Exile on Main Street".  A nice slice of early 70s rock.
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Post by: interzen on 05 October, 2013, 07:43:59 pm
Japan - Quiet Life.  David Sylvian has a horrible voice but it's a good song.
It is.
And the bass line is an absolute bastard. DAHIKT - but then, Mick Karn (RIP) had the sort of talent most people can only dream of.
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Post by: andrewc on 05 October, 2013, 08:19:29 pm
John Coltrane,    The Heavyweight Champion (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Heavyweight-Champion-Complete-Atlantic-Recordings/dp/B00E5R5TAA/ref=pd_zg_rss_nr_m_h__231201_4?tag=pinkfishmedia-21)  a 7CD box set of all his recordings on Atlantic.

Wonderful stuff, and at a lightweight price.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 06 October, 2013, 05:04:28 pm
The Smiths - Handome Devil.  A bit of S&M sex and the immortal line "there's more to life than books, you know, but not much more".
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Post by: interzen on 06 October, 2013, 05:05:26 pm
The Smiths - Handome Devil.  A bit of S&M sex and the immortal line "there's more to life than books, you know, but not much more".
All hail the daffodil-arsed miserablist  ;D
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Post by: tiermat on 08 October, 2013, 02:04:59 pm
After the short conversation, up thread, regarding The Black Crowes, I am listening to "Warpaint" by the aforementioned Southern Rock group.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 08 October, 2013, 02:08:50 pm
After the short conversation, up thread, regarding The Black Crowes, I am listening to "Warpaint" by the aforementioned Southern Rock group.

There are two versions of that, studio and live. I have the live.
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Post by: tiermat on 08 October, 2013, 02:12:48 pm
:) I have both...

But at the moment I am listening to the studio version, as that is the one I put on the iPod.
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Post by: microphonie on 09 October, 2013, 06:59:39 pm
Scorn - Anamnesis (compilation) and Whine (live-ish album)

Dark ambient as done by Napalm Death's original drummer(!) - actually rather good in a dubby, extremely bass-heavy sort of way.

Anamnesis was yesterday's soundtrack.

Today was  Severence - Hidden Ceilings  (https://soundcloud.com/severence) - really nice microdub/glitch in a similar style to Pole
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Post by: PaulF on 11 October, 2013, 01:26:49 pm
Until Colours Run, the new one from Lanterns on the Lake
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Post by: pcolbeck on 11 October, 2013, 04:37:21 pm
Bach Motets - The Montiverdi Choir - John Eliot Gardiner

Just beautiful. The way the mutiple harmony lines intertwine is just hypnotic.

I'm a little pigged off though as I bought it on iTunes and have just found out I could download it direct from the Montiverdi web site as a FLAC for the same cost :(
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Post by: Pingu on 13 October, 2013, 12:44:03 am
Sleepmakeswaves:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZw6mUxSvJM
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Post by: rogerzilla on 13 October, 2013, 05:49:37 pm
Abba - The Day Before You Came.
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Post by: Illegal Combat Ant on 14 October, 2013, 05:10:38 pm
Twelve year-old Jayna Brown sing with (guess who? - Snarky Puppy!!) and a very young Gabriel on Gibson guitar. Stick yer 'X Factor' kids, if you want to really learn your craft, the only way is hard work and dedication - which the SP boys enable by putting their hands in their pockets and giving their time.

I'll do me (http://youtu.be/bTx7lNr9uBw).
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Post by: Steph on 18 October, 2013, 11:06:50 pm
This. Wow.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p01jzvrs/6_Music_Live_at_Maida_Vale_October_2013_Sigur_Ros_6_Music_Live_Highlights/
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Post by: Ruth on 18 October, 2013, 11:09:52 pm
This. Wow.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p01jzvrs/6_Music_Live_at_Maida_Vale_October_2013_Sigur_Ros_6_Music_Live_Highlights/

I was listening to this too Steph. Wow indeed.
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Post by: Biggsy on 18 October, 2013, 11:29:55 pm
Currently listening to dance music on 6 Music.

I heard all of the Sigur Ros session live this morning on the radio.  Fine performance, but their music doesn't quite do it for me.  The highlight was one of the guys saying "shit faced" in the interview.  :)

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Post by: Illegal Combat Ant on 21 October, 2013, 05:45:00 pm
Lucille Bogan - Shave 'em dry (http://youtu.be/gkPCmIxv-3k). Certainly NSFW.
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Post by: matthew on 21 October, 2013, 05:48:22 pm
the new Government Mule album "Shout"

has grown on me slowly over the last week, sufficiently bluesy and hard to not be dinner jazz but not so harsh as to demand your undivided attention.

Very pleasant listening.
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Post by: Steph on 22 October, 2013, 12:29:41 am
Best of Mountain. Felix and Leslie were the perfect pairing.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 22 October, 2013, 12:35:22 am
the new Government Mule album "Shout"

has grown on me slowly over the last week, sufficiently bluesy and hard to not be dinner jazz but not so harsh as to demand your undivided attention.

Very pleasant listening.

I quite fancy getting that as I like Warren Haynes. Which disc do you prefer the one where he sings or the one with guest singers ?
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Post by: tiermat on 22 October, 2013, 10:33:26 am
Los Campesinos' new album, No Blues.
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Post by: Chris S on 22 October, 2013, 09:18:50 pm
Lucille Bogan - Shave 'em dry (http://youtu.be/gkPCmIxv-3k). Certainly NSFW.

 :o

Goodness gracious!
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Post by: nicknack on 23 October, 2013, 07:05:51 pm
Lucille Bogan - Shave 'em dry (http://youtu.be/gkPCmIxv-3k). Certainly NSFW.

 :o

Goodness gracious!

The Asylum Street Spankers do a decent version of that and many other lewd ditties.

However, I've got Jagged Little Pill on at the mo. Nice and loud.
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Post by: andrewc on 24 October, 2013, 11:41:14 pm
Just listened to "The Ghost Of Tom Joad" with the lights down,  & the volume slightly higher..... ;)   what an awesome album.   I've owned it for years & it's still amazing.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 26 October, 2013, 07:36:48 pm
Sleepmakeswaves:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZw6mUxSvJM

This, while waiting for the spag bol to cook. Preceded by Mr Scruff - Keep It Unreal (or at least the bits without the warbling on)
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Post by: Illegal Combat Ant on 28 October, 2013, 06:49:20 pm
Just for a change like - Snarky Puppy feat. Chantae Cann -Free Your Dreams. (http://youtu.be/n7qMu_9v4P4)
That rhythm section is as tight as a ... tight thing with a wedgie.
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Post by: Andrij on 28 October, 2013, 08:21:19 pm
I'm tuned in to Radio3 for some
... proto-fascistic caterwauling.
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Post by: Biggsy on 02 November, 2013, 05:19:02 pm
The new Throwing Muses album: Purgatory/Paradise.  32 tracks on one CD!  http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0007525443/

I'm up to track 21 so far.  The album will need a lot of getting-to-know.  Don't think it's going to be one of my favourites, to be honest.

Track 23 now already.
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Post by: Ham on 03 November, 2013, 09:31:18 am
Sara Baras. One of those occasions when the sound synch issues on Youtube are really really frustrating. Any way of fixing, short of downloading and playing through VLC?
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Post by: Ruth on 03 November, 2013, 06:47:31 pm
Real Life by Joan As Policewoman.  Absolutely fabulous.  Something of the k.d.lang about her voice, I think, but there's a real wordsmith behind these songs.

Great stuff  :)
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Post by: Biggsy on 03 November, 2013, 07:11:12 pm
An older Throwing Muses song: Ruthie's Knocking (http://youtu.be/j6BbK3Knfm4)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6BbK3Knfm4

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Post by: Biggsy on 03 November, 2013, 07:22:50 pm
Sara Baras. One of those occasions when the sound synch issues on Youtube are really really frustrating. Any way of fixing, short of downloading and playing through VLC?

I only get this with a minority of YouTube videos (including the one I posted above, sadly).  I doubt there's any (other) way of fixing it.  :(

Try finding alternative videos of the same artist.
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Post by: Ruth on 03 November, 2013, 08:30:02 pm
An older Throwing Muses song: Ruthie's Knocking (http://youtu.be/j6BbK3Knfm4)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6BbK3Knfm4

 :D :D :D :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
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Post by: pcolbeck on 08 November, 2013, 05:01:04 pm
Steely Dan. Various tracks on Youtube.
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Post by: BrianI on 08 November, 2013, 07:34:37 pm
Stellardrone - "Invent The Universe" album

 ;D

Needs a decent amp & headphones I think, rather than tinny computer speakers!

An amazing album!

http://stellardrone.bandcamp.com/album/invent-the-universe (http://stellardrone.bandcamp.com/album/invent-the-universe)
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Post by: Chris S on 08 November, 2013, 07:47:51 pm
Not Very Much.

Stupid ears.
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Post by: andrewc on 09 November, 2013, 07:57:36 pm
Leonard Cohen "Death of a ladies man".   

Current track, "Don't go home with your hard on"  :o
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Post by: Andrij on 10 November, 2013, 07:45:09 pm
Britten's War Requiem, live from the Royal Albert Hall.

I'm sure I've heard bits of it before, but never the whole piece.  While I won't be rushing out to buy a copy, I can honestly say it's a perfect match for the new Coventry cathedral, where it was first performed.
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Post by: Biggsy on 10 November, 2013, 10:13:12 pm
Miles Davis - Round about Midnight.  I never realised I like jazz this much.  It's such a fresh change from the rock and pop I normally listen to (despite being 56 years old).

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Post by: billplumtree on 11 November, 2013, 12:58:52 pm
Phillip Henry & Hannah Martin, Mynd.  http://philliphenry.bandcamp.com/album/mynd (http://philliphenry.bandcamp.com/album/mynd)

Superb.  Understated Indian-influenced guitar from him;  she has a lot of June Tabor about her.  This must be that New Folk thing, I suppose.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 14 November, 2013, 12:51:25 pm
On a long drive yesterday I had Dr John's "Locked Down" CD on repeat. In the end it becomes completely hypnotizing. Nice guitar work on it too from Dan Auerbach (Black Keys)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ko38kSd1its
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Post by: Biggsy on 14 November, 2013, 01:07:10 pm
Connan Mockasin.  Like Prince on drugs and helium underwater!  Heard the new stunning album last night, now listening to this track again: http://youtu.be/B-JDih6hTA0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-JDih6hTA0
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Post by: tiermat on 15 November, 2013, 07:58:27 am
Radio Flaixbac, by the wonder of the Internet.

It's a radio station from Barcelona, and it is weird....
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Post by: rogerzilla on 15 November, 2013, 09:17:06 pm
Level 42 - It's Over; the only song where Mark King's whingy voice suits the material, and there are some great chords and dynamics.  The lyrics are very very sad.
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Post by: andrewc on 15 November, 2013, 09:27:44 pm
Earlier Branka Parlic, followed by the Cleveland Orchestra playing George Gershwin.  Currently PJ Harvey "Stories from the City"
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Post by: Steph on 16 November, 2013, 09:52:05 am
Lots of Nancy Kerr's fiddling. Amazing stuff.
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Post by: David Martin on 16 November, 2013, 10:15:17 pm
Bach St Matthew passion. Playing that as background music during a stats workshop was described as 'creepy'
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Post by: mcshroom on 16 November, 2013, 10:20:20 pm
Holst's Planet suite after being reminded by yesterday's 'Friday night is space music night' thread over on Cyclechat
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Post by: interzen on 16 November, 2013, 10:49:38 pm
Elton John - Rocket Man

(yes, really)
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Post by: andrewc on 16 November, 2013, 11:12:27 pm
From the sacred to the profane....   Most of the day has been spent listening to the compete works of Thomas Tallis.   Now it's "Kind of Blue".....
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Post by: interzen on 16 November, 2013, 11:21:56 pm
Stellardrone - "Invent The Universe" album

 ;D

Needs a decent amp & headphones I think, rather than tinny computer speakers!

An amazing album!

http://stellardrone.bandcamp.com/album/invent-the-universe (http://stellardrone.bandcamp.com/album/invent-the-universe)
Ooooh, now that's good stuff.
I like.
A lot.
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Post by: phantasmagoriana on 16 November, 2013, 11:31:52 pm
Nadine Shah. Heard her on R4 earlier, was impressed enough to buy the album. Good stuff.
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Post by: Biggsy on 17 November, 2013, 12:13:30 am
Clara Hill - Walk the Distance (album), including:

http://youtu.be/VEASKNsh8to
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEASKNsh8to

The rest is more chill-out.
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Post by: Illegal Combat Ant on 17 November, 2013, 09:36:24 am
The Punch Brothers - Just what I needed. (http://youtu.be/Yxgr-Ebpidw)
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Post by: mcshroom on 17 November, 2013, 09:55:40 am
Sara Watkins - Sun, Midnight Sun (album)

One of the better ones :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJY4asP8lT4
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Post by: Steph on 17 November, 2013, 11:36:29 am
Been having a play of some memories...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FR3nKgju4ho
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Post by: tiermat on 18 November, 2013, 10:29:41 am
Today's old treasure, recently re-discovered is:

fIREHOSE : Ragin' Full On (1986) and Fromohio (1989)

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Post by: mcshroom on 19 November, 2013, 11:06:53 pm
Lully Lulla Lullay by Philip Stopford
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6o0amydcLU
http://youtu.be/C6o0amydcLU
Apparently I'm singing this at Christmas - which could be interesting without getting to practice with the choir beforehand.
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Post by: Peter on 20 November, 2013, 10:13:37 am
I liked that very much, M.  I also like the usual version but get irked by the way so many of the "posh" choirs sing "tin-eh" instead of "tiny".

Good luck

P.
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Post by: Andrij on 20 November, 2013, 10:22:01 am
The Psalter, chanted. 

I find it calming and soothing, and I need that right now.  Also, I'm hoping wearing headphones at my desk will discourage people from interrupting me / giving me even more work to do
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Post by: tiermat on 20 November, 2013, 10:24:21 am
For the same reasons as Andrij, I am listening to Smoove and Turrell - Eccentric Audio

The headphones thing is not working for me, though, my cow-orker who sits at the next desk keeps asking me about an Oracle install (yes he is the DBA, not me!)
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Post by: citoyen on 21 November, 2013, 05:54:05 pm
I've had this sublime live version of one of my favourite Roxy Music songs on near constant repeat since I came across it a couple of days ago...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SN4aqXCE0Y

Just brilliant. If the tambourine moment doesn't fill your heart with joy, that's probably because you don't actually have a heart.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 21 November, 2013, 08:17:18 pm
All day I have been playing Kate Rusby.
What a voice.
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Post by: tiermat on 22 November, 2013, 07:43:42 am
NIN - Further Down The Spiral, currently on one of my favourites, Hurt (Quiet)
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Post by: New Puritan on 22 November, 2013, 08:45:41 pm
Cate LeBon's latest LP, Mug Museum. Hints of a Welsh, psych-folk-flavoured Nico, with a smidge of early Stereolab throw in for good measure. I fuffin' love it!
Oh, in case you were wondering, she's not related to the plump-featured 80's glam-pop, Armani-suited, foremast-hanging, Brummie & D Duran front man, Simon of that ilk. Which is nice.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 22 November, 2013, 10:15:05 pm
Sallie Ford.  Who has rather, erm, clearer and more distinct lyrics on the recording than live.  She's ever so slightly rude.  Must remember not to play when the small people are around...
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Post by: clarion on 23 November, 2013, 11:02:16 am
Last night, a crappy week was made slightly better by a hefty dose of Tim Minchin.
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Post by: citoyen on 23 November, 2013, 11:17:08 am

Hints of a Welsh, psych-folk-flavoured Nico, with a smidge of early Stereolab throw in for good measure.

Interesting. Sounds right up my street. I shall check her out.
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Post by: andrewc on 23 November, 2013, 07:50:51 pm
"Snap" by The Jam. A really good greatest hits album.
Angry , bitter lyrics & great music.
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Post by: tiermat on 28 November, 2013, 09:10:48 am
"Baron Von Bullshit Rides Again" by Modest Mouse, the official bootleg, AKA a live album :)
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 28 November, 2013, 09:18:31 pm
So far today... Blue Rose Code.  Dolfish.  Sallie Ford.  Polly and the Billets Doux.  Now Laura Veirs. 

Couldn't be bothered to head out to the Random Pick gig I'd been thinking about, so am listening to 5 of this year's earlier Random Picks on Spotify instead.
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Post by: Jacomus on 29 November, 2013, 07:25:27 pm
Today I am rocking out to the brilliant Halestorm.

I may have a thing for the singer, whose voice cuts right through me (in a good way) that makes my spine tingle.

Thanks for that - they are rather good. In the Roundhouse tomorrow, eh? (no, I know I won't go - I would have once upon a time)

Glad to be of service.

Today is, yet another, day of Tristania. Well worth a listen if you liked Halestorm.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 01 December, 2013, 01:34:32 pm
Billy Bragg - Levi Stubbs' Tears


(why is it Levi Stubbs' Tears but Bridget Jones's Diary?)
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Post by: tiermat on 02 December, 2013, 08:23:39 am
As those who have FB have seen, I am really really enjoying the work of Lucy Spraggan.  It might sound a bit odd, but Saturday, when I played "Tea and Toast" was the first time, in the 13 years or so that I have known her, that I have seen Mrs T reduced to tears by a song.

Then again, I do have a soft spot for "1 woman, one guitar"* type of arrangements.


*Sandi Thom and Kate Nash** are in that group
**Yes, I know, KN doesn't always just use a guitar, but you know what I mean!
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Post by: Peter on 02 December, 2013, 10:48:50 am
Billy Bragg - Levi Stubbs' Tears


(why is it Levi Stubbs' Tears but Bridget Jones's Diary?)

Because the former is wrong, in my opinion!
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Post by: tiermat on 03 December, 2013, 10:07:37 am
Josh Osho, he's good!
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Post by: Jacomus on 06 December, 2013, 04:23:05 pm
Josh Osho, he's good!

Osho good?



IGMC
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Post by: Illegal Combat Ant on 06 December, 2013, 06:53:27 pm
http://youtu.be/aopKk56jM-I
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Post by: Gus on 06 December, 2013, 07:07:27 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9jbdgZidu8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9jbdgZidu8)
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Post by: rogerzilla on 07 December, 2013, 09:27:30 am
The Smiths - Pretty Girls Make Graves.  What an uplifting piece  :)

In his autobiography, Morrissey agrees with me that "The Smiths" was a very crappily produced album, with all the zing and attack taken out of the sound; that's mainly why they wanted "Hatful Of Hollow" released, because John Porter hadn't ruined all the tracks.
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Post by: T42 on 07 December, 2013, 09:37:00 am
Listening to SFA 'cos the wife's out and I wouldn't hear the (/% postie.
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Post by: Deano on 07 December, 2013, 11:20:06 pm
Listening to SFA 'cos the wife's out and I wouldn't hear the (/% postie.

Super Furry Animals?
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Post by: citoyen on 11 December, 2013, 10:50:12 am
Billy Bragg - Levi Stubbs' Tears

(why is it Levi Stubbs' Tears but Bridget Jones's Diary?)

Because the former is wrong, in my opinion!

Oxford style is to write the S if you would pronounce it with the S, so both are "correct" if you regard Oxford as the arbiter. I would normally add the S in both cases. However, it would sound ugly and ruin a beautiful song if Billy Bragg sang "Stubbses", so I'm happy for him to go against the citoyen style guide on this one. Especially as it really is a sublime song.
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Post by: citoyen on 11 December, 2013, 10:52:04 am
We've got the new Toy album on the office stereo today. Right up my alley. Like a mash-up of Stereolab, Spacemen 3 and New Order. In a good way.

http://youtu.be/fOePTEelxp8
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 13 December, 2013, 11:13:43 pm
F**k Buttons  :thumbsup:
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Post by: andrewc on 14 December, 2013, 01:43:07 pm
Enigma , "The screen behind the mirror" ,  it samples "Carmina Burana" a lot, so that may be on next!
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Post by: perpetual dan on 14 December, 2013, 04:35:28 pm
Mrs Dan has just discovered the Hackney Colliery Band. We currently have Africa playing.
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Post by: Ruth on 14 December, 2013, 09:43:25 pm
The Boxer Rebellion.  Going to see them next February  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Ruth on 14 December, 2013, 10:09:21 pm
And Placebo's album. Loud Like Love.  I love it.

Had a really good conversation with the guy in the record shop about Brian Molko.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 14 December, 2013, 10:51:09 pm
Sara Cox's 80s show on R2. I did not enjoy the 12" of Sussudio (who would?) but I am very much enjoying Zoom by Fat Larry's Band.
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Post by: Ruth on 14 December, 2013, 10:51:54 pm
Zoom - that's such a nice song.

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Post by: tiermat on 17 December, 2013, 02:25:44 pm
PWEI vs The Moral Minority

It's 1988 all over again...
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Post by: T42 on 17 December, 2013, 04:39:40 pm
Orpheus in the Underworld (http://youtu.be/oPQcFkFwxC0).
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Post by: Peter on 17 December, 2013, 06:54:10 pm
Billy Bragg - Levi Stubbs' Tears

(why is it Levi Stubbs' Tears but Bridget Jones's Diary?)

Because the former is wrong, in my opinion!

Oxford style is to write the S if you would pronounce it with the S, so both are "correct" if you regard Oxford as the arbiter. I would normally add the S in both cases. However, it would sound ugly and ruin a beautiful song if Billy Bragg sang "Stubbses", so I'm happy for him to go against the citoyen style guide on this one. Especially as it really is a sublime song.

Just seen your reply, citoyen.  I haven't actually heard the song (though I did see BB do a good solo version of Tracks Of My Tears at a sound-check, once!).  However, I don't think for me that singing "Stubbs's tears" would detract from any sublimity that might be involved.  If I came to the recording without a knowledge of Tamla, I'd just think the bloke was called Stubb and think no more about it.  Anyway, OT, how are we going to cope without Araucaria's Christmas double - or do you think he left one for us as a farewell gift?

Peter
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Post by: Ham on 19 December, 2013, 01:05:00 pm
Patax again.... their flamenco take on Billie Jean http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHD7_TU8PK4
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Post by: tiermat on 19 December, 2013, 02:54:49 pm
The Moulettes - Horses for Hearses.

Takes me back to lovely weekend I spent this summer in a field near Thirsk, great company, great food, great beer and fantastic music!
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Post by: andrewc on 19 December, 2013, 10:40:44 pm
Delving into the box of LP's it's been the Modern Jazz Quartet and is now Marillion.  "Script For A Jesters Tear"   all of a sudden I'm 18 again.... :o
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 19 December, 2013, 11:12:29 pm
Delving into the box of LP's it's been the Modern Jazz Quartet and is now Marillion.  "Script For A Jesters Tear"   all of a sudden I'm 18 again.... :o

I had one of those moments y'day in a taxi when they played Deacon Blue on the radio. Took me right back to 4th yr Xmas party...not somewhere I was in a hurry to get back to!
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 23 December, 2013, 08:23:16 pm
John Lydon picking the tunes on 6music just now.
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Post by: tiermat on 23 December, 2013, 09:48:11 pm
Delving into the box of LP's it's been the Modern Jazz Quartet and is now Marillion.  "Script For A Jesters Tear"   all of a sudden I'm 18 again.... :o

When touring France last year, Misplaced Childhood was BH lasted out, regularly.
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Post by: Biggsy on 24 December, 2013, 02:08:43 pm
Dum Dum Girls - Lost Boys and Girls Club

https://soundcloud.com/subpop/dum-dum-girls-lost-boys-and

(This presses my buttons, really hard).
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Post by: Ruth on 25 December, 2013, 06:28:32 pm
The Muppet Christmas Carol reminded me of this.   :smug:

http://youtu.be/PN-8JpgmA0s
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Post by: tiermat on 25 December, 2013, 07:14:19 pm
Imagine Dragons - Night Visions.

Mrs T bought it for I for Xmas. I like it, they are like The Killers before they went pretentious.
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Post by: clarion on 25 December, 2013, 08:48:09 pm
A fabulous day of Richard Briers on BBC 4Extra.  I've laughed out loud, and I've cried.  A brilliant and lovely man.
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Post by: Steph on 28 December, 2013, 11:36:56 pm
Lindisfarne and Alan Hull, a variety of recordings. Wonderful.
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Post by: clarion on 31 December, 2013, 10:48:57 pm
Slade!
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Post by: tiermat on 01 January, 2014, 12:02:05 pm
A recording of last night's Hootenanny.

For once he seems to have got a good mix of music.
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Post by: Biggsy on 01 January, 2014, 12:39:24 pm
The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.

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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 02 January, 2014, 07:16:10 pm
GY!BE - 'Alleluja! Don't Bend Ascend
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Post by: andrewc on 04 January, 2014, 05:58:51 pm
The Tord Gustavsen Ensemble.   Just booked a ticket to see them at RNCM in March

Video below

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCTlABhj0qA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCTlABhj0qA)
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 05 January, 2014, 11:06:09 pm
The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads, Disc 2. Which, IMO, is one of the finest items out there.
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Post by: bikenrrd on 10 January, 2014, 03:49:49 pm
Old NME cover tapes from here:

http://pressplayandrecord.wordpress.com
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Post by: Pingu on 11 January, 2014, 06:26:51 pm
The Black Chord - Astra*

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjF3fyPc-kc


*Warning: contains traces of prog.
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Post by: Ruth on 13 January, 2014, 06:08:36 pm
Liz Green.

Bloody brilliant album. Had it on repeat all afternoon whilst wrangling Ikea with a dodgy screwdriver.
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Post by: microphonie on 13 January, 2014, 06:19:18 pm
The Haxan Cloak - Excavation

Particularly love The Drop

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65368wvMUOk
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Post by: Riggers on 14 January, 2014, 09:12:41 am
Friend put me on to John Grant. Lovely voice. This track is GMF. (Greatest M***** F*****) so a few naughty words … but beautifully sung nonetheless

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekFWPsXXcg0
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Post by: Gus on 14 January, 2014, 12:28:46 pm
A friend I've spend hours with while riding.

http://youtu.be/eHja2ePozK8
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Post by: Biggsy on 14 January, 2014, 04:12:41 pm
Today I am listening to "The Only Way is Bioethics" by Sniff my Cabbage.

(In my mind)
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Post by: pcolbeck on 16 January, 2014, 01:01:28 pm
CDs I bought yesterday.

First was Electric Six - Fire
Its the one with Danger High Voltage and Gay Bar on it, excellent !

Zero 7 - Simple Things
Loving this excellent chill out music.

Still have a Robert Johnson CD to go.
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Post by: interzen on 16 January, 2014, 01:45:10 pm
Tom Lehrer, via a rather circuitous route ...

For some strange reason, I had Ponchielli's 'Dance of the Hours' stuck in my head which, in turn, led me to listening to Allan Sherman's "Hello Muddah Hello Fadduh" and then Mr. Lehrer's version (which he calls 'Camp Granada') ... it was downhill from there.

I'd forgotten how much Tom Lehrer makes me smile which, at the moment, isn't necessarily a bad thing - wish he'd do an updated version of "The Elements Song"1 though.

1 - for the two people who don't know about this, it's the Periodic Table (as it was in the Fifties) sung to the tune of "I Am The Very Model Of A Modern Major General": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYW50F42ss8
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Post by: Bledlow on 16 January, 2014, 03:02:27 pm
Woman's Hour, & an interesting segment on body hair.

I've never understood why removal of all body hair is considered attractive. From eyebrows shaved to almost nothing (look at Imogen Stubbs if you want proof of why this is silly) downwards, it seems to me a lot of work for no purpose.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 16 January, 2014, 03:46:12 pm
The same reasons people style the hair on their head, because we can.
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Post by: Bledlow on 16 January, 2014, 04:01:40 pm
Unacceptable answer, because it denies reality. How many women remove body hair only or mainly 'because they can'? They can shave their heads, but how many do?
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Post by: pcolbeck on 16 January, 2014, 04:32:37 pm
Why do men shave their beards ?
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Post by: Bledlow on 17 January, 2014, 08:30:38 pm
Do they? Some do, certainly, but far from all. It varies with fashion & personal taste.

What baffles me is the attitude I often read, & occasionally hear, expressed, that body hair (particularly on women) is disgusting, insanitary, etc.. That's not in the same class as choices of hairstyle.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 19 January, 2014, 10:33:53 pm
What baffles me is the attitude I often read, & occasionally hear, expressed, that body hair (particularly on women) is disgusting, insanitary, etc.. That's not in the same class as choices of hairstyle.

True. It should be a personal choice thing but some of it is obviously driven by fashion. Nothing wrong with fashion so long as you have a choice whether to follow it or not.
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Post by: menthel on 20 January, 2014, 05:32:49 pm
Mogwai's newest- rave tapes. Actually it was delivered on Friday but I didn't get listening time at the weekend. I am also a bit sad as I am having to listen to the cd rather than the vinyl as my thorens td150 mk2 is a little poorly at present!
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Post by: nicknack on 24 January, 2014, 08:38:21 pm
Made in Japan - Deep Purple

Not that unusual but I had it on quite loud during dinner (Mrs n was not likely to object - she loves it too) and during Space Trucking the tears started rolling down my face. I know I can get quite emotional about music, but Space Trucking for heaven's sake?
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Post by: Biff on 24 January, 2014, 09:39:22 pm
Nico (Christa Päffgen) of Velvet Underground fame. The Classic Years.. What a voice.  Very pretty. A sad end.
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Post by: Juan Martín on 25 January, 2014, 08:39:33 pm
From the sea to the land beyond - British Sea Power
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Post by: interzen on 27 January, 2014, 09:37:33 pm
Rush - Vapo(u)r Trails

The remixed/remastered version.

I always maintained that there was an awesome album struggling to fight its way out from the godawful production of the original.
I was right.

Also, Pearl Jam - Ten.
There are some top songs on there (Even Flow, Jeremy etc.) but fuck me the lyrics are depressing.
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Post by: andrewc on 27 January, 2014, 10:20:14 pm
Presto (http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk) were offering large reductions on box sets last week, so I ordered Clifford Curzon: The Complete Decca Recordings (http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Decca/4784389) , 23CD's of masterful piano playing.   It arrived this morning and I'm currently up to disc 4.

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Post by: tiermat on 28 January, 2014, 10:29:05 am
Also, Pearl Jam - Ten.
There are some top songs on there (Even Flow, Jeremy etc.) but fuck me the lyrics are depressing.

What do you expect? Pearl Jam are the Beautiful South of Rock (without the happy sounding tunes).

Doesn't stop me liking them though.

Do yourself a BIG favour and listen to "Live on Two Legs", especially "Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town".
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Post by: interzen on 28 January, 2014, 10:34:37 am
Also, Pearl Jam - Ten.
There are some top songs on there (Even Flow, Jeremy etc.) but fuck me the lyrics are depressing.

What do you expect? Pearl Jam are the Beautiful South of Rock (without the happy sounding tunes).
Well, quite.
It's perhaps unfortunate that that particular album is inextricably linked with a particularly difficult time in my life, and even 20+ years on some of it is incredibly hard for me to listen to. Even now, I still can't listen to "Black" all the way through.

That said, lyrical content aside, "Even Flow" is an awesome song.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 28 January, 2014, 10:52:49 am
Exile - again

Not a happy record but probably the greatest example of a rambling piece of rock melancholy and world weariness ever recorded:

Who's that woman on your arm ?
all dressed up to do you harm
And I'm hip to what she'll do,
give her just about a month or two.

Bit off more than I can chew
and I knew what it was leading to,
Some things, well, I can't refuse,
One of them, one of them the bedroom blues.

She delivers right on time,
I can't resist a corny line,
But take the shine right off you shoes,
Carryin', carryin' the bedroom blues.

In the bar you're getting drunk,
I ain't in love, I ain't in luck.
Hide the switch and shut the light,
let it all come down tonight.

Maybe your friends think I'm just a stranger,
Some face you'll never see no more.
Let it all come down tonight.
Keep those tears hid out of sight,
let it loose, let it all come down.

http://youtu.be/j2k_KfvxBW8 (http://youtu.be/j2k_KfvxBW8)
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Post by: tiermat on 28 January, 2014, 11:18:40 am
After reading what IZ is listening to, I have just put on "Rearview Mirror, the best of" by Pearl Jam.

It kicks off with "Even Flow"

I may have to skip over "Black", like IZ I have issues with listening to it all the way through, that and "Daughter"
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Post by: David Martin on 28 January, 2014, 11:40:10 am
I'm interrupting my listening to the St Matthew Passion to browse around this http://www.soundsurvey.org.uk/index.php/survey/waterways/ - environmental recordings around the lost and not so lost waterways of London.
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Post by: Bledlow on 28 January, 2014, 11:28:11 pm
Nico (Christa Päffgen) of Velvet Underground fame. The Classic Years.. What a voice.  Very pretty. A sad end.
Somewhere, I have a cassette of June 1 1974, & Mrs B still has something that plays cassettes. I'll have to dig it out.

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Post by: mattc on 29 January, 2014, 07:25:28 pm
(slight threadcromancy ... )
Drunk Girls by LCD Soundsystem

Makes me smile every time it's on the radio (which is nearly hourly on 6!)

At first it sounds like a dumb teenagers song, but then some of the lyrics are wonderfully sweet.

Drunk girls know that love is an astronaut

It comes back, but it's never the same

One day I shall create a blog dedicated to groovy, dumb-yet-clever nonsense songs.
It may start with "Drunk Girls", and will certainly  include
http://theburninghell.bandcamp.com/track/amateur-rappers

" tags: folk doom gospel folk rock hawaiian neo-swing indie folk Canada "  - I think that says it all ...
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Post by: CrazyEnglishTriathlete on 29 January, 2014, 08:22:50 pm
Ravel.

I wanted something classical and different while I was working on a proposal document in the office.  I'd never knowingly bought anything by the French composer Maurice Ravel but it turned out that I had 41 "songs" composed by him from various compilations of artists that I followed.

Very good it was too.  Makes me wonder if I should invest in some more of his music, or whether by getting what favourite artists picked from his canon maybe I have heard the best. 
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Post by: Ruth on 31 January, 2014, 03:49:50 pm
Carly Simon.

Let The River Run reminded me of this place, because of all the chord changes.  Not one is gratuitous though.  Fabulous, fabulous recording.

I love Carly.
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Post by: marcusjb on 31 January, 2014, 10:01:41 pm
Making the most of being home alone

Mogwai - Rave Tapes on the good system.

Belting stuff.
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Post by: mcshroom on 01 February, 2014, 09:45:03 am
New band to me, but London Grammar - impressed :)
http://youtu.be/6drfp_3823I
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Post by: eck on 04 February, 2014, 03:29:03 pm
Just downloaded the soundtrack from "Chasing Legends". The guy who takes our club turbo sessions used it a couple of times. It's superb.

But the Chemical Brothers' "The Sunshine Underground" is still the best turbo workout in a single track:

  :D
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Post by: jezzasnr on 04 February, 2014, 03:42:50 pm
New Bombay Bicycle Club album. rather good.
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Post by: CrazyEnglishTriathlete on 05 February, 2014, 09:50:33 pm
New band to me, but London Grammar - impressed :)
http://youtu.be/6drfp_3823I
I quite liked this.  Good thing I have an amazon ban on at the moment as was tempted to make a purchase.  But then remembered future budget commitments and was no longer tempted.
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Post by: clarion on 07 February, 2014, 02:40:57 pm
Weekday afternoon, so it's Rad(mac), with a lack of Stuart in between Mark's random burbling.

And I think they've just usurped Radio 2's crown as home of middle-aged, middle-class listening by having an extended discussion of powerwashing drives and fences ::-)
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Post by: microphonie on 07 February, 2014, 07:24:10 pm
This weekend I will be throwing myself at  Touched  (http://touched.bandcamp.com/album/touched) - 123 tracks of electronic music (over 11 hours!). All for the princely sum of £6 - all of which goes to Macmillan Cancer Support.

Features such luminaries as 808 State, Future Sound of London, Arovane, Plone & Christ.

Bargain.

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Post by: Tim Hall on 09 February, 2014, 08:40:28 pm
Andy Twyman (http://andytwyman.com/).

One man band blues from just down the road. Seen him a couple of times and noticed he's got a new album out, so did the Paypal thing on his website on Thursday, CD on the doormat on Saturday, with a note from the man himself thanking me.

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Post by: CrinklyLion on 09 February, 2014, 08:51:24 pm
The Low Anthem.  I got a sudden fancy for hearing "Keep On The Sunny Side".
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Post by: Dibdib on 09 February, 2014, 09:17:27 pm
Rediscovered a passable-quality remaster of The Grey Album (http://www.weallwantsomeone.org/2012/11/29/download-a-remastered-version-of-the-grey-album/)*, which I hadn't heard in years.

Quote
Seems like not too long ago that The Grey album came out and caught the internet by storm. For those of you who need a refresher, The Grey Album is a mashup of The Beatles White Album with Jay-Z’s Black Album. It was done by a young Danger Mouse, pretty much launching his career. It was a great concept, and one that launched hundreds of album mashup imitators that never quite matched.

(* Warning for folksy yacf'ers with sensitive dispositions - contains strong rap music and sampling of The Beatles which some listeners may find heretical.)
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Post by: Deano on 09 February, 2014, 09:28:52 pm
The Low Anthem.  I got a sudden fancy for hearing "Keep On The Sunny Side".

Can't beat the Carter Family's version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbmQQ4RfzVE&feature=youtube_gdata_player

And now I've established my folky credentials - I love the Grey Album  :D
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Post by: interzen on 10 February, 2014, 11:08:45 am
Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Wigga in da house, y'all! ;)

But seriously, it's pretty damned good - "She Watch Channel Zero" is particularly awesome on account of sampling Slayer (the half-time riff from "Angel Of Death", to be precise)
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Post by: pcolbeck on 10 February, 2014, 11:17:16 am
I am very much enjoying the 70s funk stylings of the new Paloma Faith single "Can't Rely On You". Good use of cowbells too :)
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Post by: tiermat on 10 February, 2014, 11:20:08 am
IZ, that's a good one, but I prefer:

Fear of a Black Planet and
He Got Game.

the second one is a bit of an "outfield" one, as it wasn't really a solely PE release, but is the soundtrack to a Spike Lee movie of the same name.  Has some fantastic blast out loud PE tracks, though.

As for what I am listening to, today, it's Chris Cornell - Songbook.
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Post by: Peter on 10 February, 2014, 11:21:07 am
I am very much enjoying the 70s funk stylings of the new Paloma Faith single "Can't Rely On You". Good use of cowbells too :)

As good as "Concrete and Clay"?
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Post by: pcolbeck on 10 February, 2014, 11:26:15 am
I am very much enjoying the 70s funk stylings of the new Paloma Faith single "Can't Rely On You". Good use of cowbells too :)

As good as "Concrete and Clay"?

Well no but it does have a completely mad video to compensate.

http://youtu.be/imi9Smkt_cI

cowbells at 3:00 minutes in.

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Post by: interzen on 10 February, 2014, 11:29:18 am
Fear of a Black Planet
... is up next.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 10 February, 2014, 11:42:15 am
And back to funk:

Erykah Badu - Annie Dont Wear No Panties

http://youtu.be/9d9eydCfTdw

This has flute instead of cowbells.
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Post by: tiermat on 10 February, 2014, 11:50:54 am
And back to funk:

Erykah Badu - Annie Dont Wear No Panties

http://youtu.be/9d9eydCfTdw

This has flute instead of cowbells.

Oooo, Baduism is one of my all time fave albums, going to dig it out of the digital cruft on my home PC so I can listen to it again...
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Post by: Deano on 11 February, 2014, 09:11:23 pm
Block Out the Sirens of this Lonely World by Chip Taylor.

It's not exactly a toe-tapper, as the title suggests, but he has a great lived-in voice and whispery delivery like a gnarly American Jarvis Cocker (though that should really be the other way around), and it's growing on me.
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Post by: interzen on 11 February, 2014, 09:33:04 pm
MC 900ft Jesus - Welcome To My Dream

Contains one of my favourite rap/hip-hop style tracks, "The City Sleeps", which is all about a serial arsonist ...
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Post by: pcolbeck on 12 February, 2014, 03:58:45 pm
Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers - Anthology

Very loud ! Good straight forward rock. I particularly like the early stuff.
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Post by: Ruth on 12 February, 2014, 04:25:09 pm
I meant to dip into Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers after watching that Sound City film. Must remember to do that.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 12 February, 2014, 04:56:52 pm
Start with:

Refugee (http://youtu.be/fFnOfpIJL0M)

American girl (http://youtu.be/12_RbUfdpW0)

Don't do me like that (http://youtu.be/yJuuqh57qC4)

Here comes my girl (http://youtu.be/GOOiZAHFvfc)
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Post by: clarion on 13 February, 2014, 09:23:42 pm
Glam rock.

Well, specifically, Gary Glitter atm :-[

But he produced some cracking songs!
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Post by: air dancer on 13 February, 2014, 10:17:16 pm
Latest album from one of my favorite Columbian bands....Systema Solar - La Revancha del Burro

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeHwgbCT0do
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Post by: Dibdib on 14 February, 2014, 06:11:24 pm
This evening's soundtrack is courtesy of a nice and varied little delivery from Mister Amazon at work today:

The Beatles - Abbey Road
Bellowhead - Broadside
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue

 :thumbsup:
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Post by: Pingu on 17 February, 2014, 11:10:24 am
Pull Up The Roots - live Talking Heads track that didn't make the cut for Stop Making Sense:

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbnQJmtFKHg
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Post by: rogerzilla on 21 February, 2014, 11:09:53 am
Gary Byrd and the GB Experience - The Crown, finally found the full 12" version at over 10 minutes.  The guy virtually invented rap.
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Post by: Vince on 21 February, 2014, 12:10:07 pm
The Rezillos
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Post by: air dancer on 21 February, 2014, 01:40:05 pm
ZAZ - Recto Verso

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDRaWmgTG6Y (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDRaWmgTG6Y)
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Post by: clarion on 21 February, 2014, 07:44:07 pm
Well, I was listening to the Rutles, but a Tune Association link has prompted me to seek out some classic Abba!  Discotastic!
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Post by: CrazyEnglishTriathlete on 22 February, 2014, 06:06:08 am
An Accidental Memory in the Case of Death - Eluvium.
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Post by: Ruth on 23 February, 2014, 08:37:13 pm
"How Can You Mend A Broken Heart" by Al Green.

<waves lighter in the air>

 :'( :'( :'(
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Post by: Dibdib on 23 February, 2014, 08:42:48 pm
I've been pilfering in my dad's CD collection.

Currently enjoying Stop Making Sense by Talking Heads  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Ruth on 23 February, 2014, 08:43:38 pm
I've been pilfering in my dad's CD collection.

Currently enjoying Stop Making Sense by Talking Heads  :thumbsup:

Great album that  ;D
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Post by: Dibdib on 23 February, 2014, 08:45:27 pm
I've been pilfering in my dad's CD collection.

Currently enjoying Stop Making Sense by Talking Heads  :thumbsup:

Great album that  ;D

I've been pinching a bit of everything - some Talking Heads, some Dire Straits, an Otis Reading album, some Bowie, some REM and a couple of others :D
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Post by: IanDG on 23 February, 2014, 08:54:27 pm
Alice Cooper - Schools Out. The first album I ever bought.

Remember singing along to this (http://youtu.be/_iPHmjHnbuE) at the age of 11. No wonder I got funny looks from my mum   ::-)
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Post by: Ruth on 23 February, 2014, 09:07:31 pm
A song about Spring  :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cydWN_-0Qb0
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Post by: mcshroom on 23 February, 2014, 11:37:36 pm
Juliana - Walkin'
http://youtu.be/SNe6GyQ2vlQ
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Post by: T42 on 24 February, 2014, 11:06:41 am
Birds outside my office window. We have sparrows & pigeons nesting up in the eaves and wrens in the ivy on the far side of the house. Redstarts too, somewhere - we're always seeing them round the place.

But now I'm going downstairs to listen to bangers & chips doing what they do best.
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Post by: microphonie on 24 February, 2014, 06:45:09 pm
Senking - Enduro Bones

A really good match of downhill MTB footage to Senking's music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPhu2JEHTYo&feature=youtu.be
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Post by: mcshroom on 24 February, 2014, 07:14:48 pm
Bastille - Bad Blood
http://youtu.be/F90Cw4l-8NY
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Post by: Dibdib on 24 February, 2014, 07:33:58 pm
Probably not the first time in this thread, but:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnJFhuOWgXg
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Post by: Pingu on 24 February, 2014, 08:03:03 pm
I've been pilfering in my dad's CD collection.

Currently enjoying Stop Making Sense by Talking Heads  :thumbsup:

Your dad's?  :facepalm:
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Post by: Pingu on 24 February, 2014, 08:05:07 pm
Talking Heads - 1-2-3 Red Light - Live 1976 Max's Kansas
 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5qRT8NDXQw)
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Post by: Dibdib on 24 February, 2014, 08:17:45 pm
I've been pilfering in my dad's CD collection.

Currently enjoying Stop Making Sense by Talking Heads  :thumbsup:

Your dad's?  :facepalm:

Not any more!  :demon:

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Post by: Ruth on 24 February, 2014, 08:27:16 pm
Crowded House.

A band Crusty introduced me to oh so many years ago. I have thought of them as a corny pop band for all this time, but for some reason they have songs that are hitting the spot right now, Four Seasons In One Day most particularly.
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Post by: andrewc on 24 February, 2014, 10:37:33 pm
A rather scratchy copy of Handel's "Messiah".  (Mackerras, English Chamber Orchestra, Ambrosian Singers).  Lovely stuff.
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Post by: tiermat on 25 February, 2014, 12:58:58 pm
Crowded House.

A band Crusty introduced me to oh so many years ago. I have thought of them as a corny pop band for all this time, but for some reason they have songs that are hitting the spot right now, Four Seasons In One Day most particularly.

I don't normally knock people's musical tastes, but, REALLY?

You'll be listening to The Lighthouse Family next, at which point you will most definitely be off the Xmas card list!

MY choice today is Imagine Dragons, Emili Sande and Tom Odell.
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Post by: interzen on 25 February, 2014, 01:01:54 pm
Orbital - with particular emphasis on the Brown Album (aka Orbital 2) and Diversions

The latter is a remix album which isn't quite as crap as most of their later stuff.
The Brown Album is still a techno masterpiece IMO.
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Post by: Redlight on 26 February, 2014, 02:13:14 pm
Remain in Light, Talking Heads… on slightly crackly vinyl.  Still can't work out if anyone is actually playing the tune on Once in a Lifetime.

Cueing up The Curse of the Higsons (also on vinyl) next….
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Post by: Chris S on 26 February, 2014, 09:16:05 pm
In view of the fact that:

a. Fboab's not here this evening (She'd dump me if she were, and I put this on)
b. I may be venturing into Geordie land on this year's York Arrow

I'm listening to Dire Straits.
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Post by: Deano on 26 February, 2014, 09:45:16 pm
In view of the fact that:

a. Fboab's not here this evening (She'd dump me if she were, and I put this on)
b. I may be venturing into Geordie land on this year's York Arrow

I'm listening to Dire Straits.

I'm hoping for more of an Alex Glasgow (http://www.mawson-wareham.com/artists.php?artid=30&sename=Alex+Glasgow) vibe. Sadly, he doesn't seem to have written a song called Ferry Across the Tyne - I thought if anyone had...

We'll also pass through Futureheads territory, of course.
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Post by: Ruth on 26 February, 2014, 09:50:48 pm
Crowded House.

A band Crusty introduced me to oh so many years ago. I have thought of them as a corny pop band for all this time, but for some reason they have songs that are hitting the spot right now, Four Seasons In One Day most particularly.

I don't normally knock people's musical tastes, but, REALLY?

You'll be listening to The Lighthouse Family next, at which point you will most definitely be off the Xmas card list!

MY choice today is Imagine Dragons, Emili Sande and Tom Odell.

I quite like The Lighthouse Family.

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Post by: phantasmagoriana on 26 February, 2014, 09:56:16 pm
Four Seasons in One Day reminds me of dance classes in PE at school. :hand:
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Post by: Ruth on 26 February, 2014, 10:31:35 pm
Four Seasons in One Day reminds me of dance classes in PE at school. :hand:

I never was one of the cool kids  ::-)
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Post by: Patrick Harper on 27 February, 2014, 12:12:19 am
Really like this sort of thing ATM

For those at work or without flash, it's And The Rainfall's 'Blank Pages'.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkOdbNppaOU (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkOdbNppaOU)
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Post by: tiermat on 27 February, 2014, 08:13:19 am
Crowded House.

A band Crusty introduced me to oh so many years ago. I have thought of them as a corny pop band for all this time, but for some reason they have songs that are hitting the spot right now, Four Seasons In One Day most particularly.

I don't normally knock people's musical tastes, but, REALLY?

You'll be listening to The Lighthouse Family next, at which point you will most definitely be off the Xmas card list!

MY choice today is Imagine Dragons, Emili Sande and Tom Odell.

I quite like The Lighthouse Family.

OH. DEAR. :) :D

It's ok, I'll still be your friend :)
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Post by: Peter on 27 February, 2014, 08:19:05 am
In view of the fact that:

a. Fboab's not here this evening (She'd dump me if she were, and I put this on)
b. I may be venturing into Geordie land on this year's York Arrow

I'm listening to Dire Straits.

I'm hoping for more of an Alex Glasgow (http://www.mawson-wareham.com/artists.php?artid=30&sename=Alex+Glasgow) vibe. Sadly, he doesn't seem to have written a song called Ferry Across the Tyne - I thought if anyone had...

We'll also pass through Futureheads territory, of course.

Alex wrote a song called "All In A Day" about shipbuilding on the Tyne, so that would do.  It's a great song.
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Post by: L CC on 27 February, 2014, 01:03:58 pm
In view of the fact that:

a. Fboab's not here this evening (She'd dump me if she were, and I put this on)
b. I may be venturing into Geordie land on this year's York Arrow

I'm listening to Dire Straits.

I'm hoping for more of an Alex Glasgow (http://www.mawson-wareham.com/artists.php?artid=30&sename=Alex+Glasgow) vibe. Sadly, he doesn't seem to have written a song called Ferry Across the Tyne - I thought if anyone had...

We'll also pass through Futureheads territory, of course.
He sang this (http://www.8notes.com/scores/6831.asp).

I'm picturing you all singing mournfully, realising you've missed the last ferry.

That's now I've cleared the horrible audio of chez-Chris-last-night out of my ears.
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Post by: jogler on 28 February, 2014, 03:13:12 am
this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebtC3ORg9fU

ETA  & now this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLhculGmGn0
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 02 March, 2014, 07:08:13 pm
Crowded House.

A band Crusty introduced me to oh so many years ago. I have thought of them as a corny pop band for all this time, but for some reason they have songs that are hitting the spot right now, Four Seasons In One Day most particularly.

I don't normally knock people's musical tastes, but, REALLY?

You'll be listening to The Lighthouse Family next, at which point you will most definitely be off the Xmas card list!

MY choice today is Imagine Dragons, Emili Sande and Tom Odell.

I quite like The Lighthouse Family.

OH. DEAR. :) :D

It's ok, I'll still be your friend :)

I'll pass on TLF, but Crowded House are woefully underrated. I will admit, however, that I don't think that Woodface is one of their better albums....
Temple of Low Men and Together Alone are much better, IMO :)

And, I'm going to see the rather wonderful Neil Finn in May. In Brussels :P
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Post by: tiermat on 02 March, 2014, 07:50:19 pm
At the risk of ridicule, today has been a mix of:

Imagine Dragons
Tom Odell
Emili Sandé and
Lorde.
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 03 March, 2014, 02:39:31 pm
A bit of K's Choice
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Post by: Ruth on 03 March, 2014, 10:15:40 pm
Altered Images!  Including Kochanski!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfqPJp7Q7qE
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Post by: Redlight on 04 March, 2014, 05:19:02 pm

And, I'm going to see the rather wonderful Neil Finn in May. In Brussels :P

Me too, but in London.  His gig with Tim a few years ago was one of the best I've been to.

Not sure about the new album, though.  I got it at the weekend and have only listened a couple of times, but it has a slightly unfinished feel to it, a bit like the last few peter gabriel albums.  I'll keep at it….
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Post by: Dibdib on 04 March, 2014, 05:55:00 pm
I love Amazon Auto-rip. I get proper CDs in the post AND MP3s to listen to in the meantime.

Today's impulse purchases, and therefore office headphone entertainment, were Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti and The Dave Brubeck Quartet's Time Out.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 05 March, 2014, 10:58:17 am
American IV - The Man Comes Around  Johnny Cash

Just beautiful, I don't know what else to say about this really. All covers bar a couple of re recordings of his own songs. If this doesn't make you cry you have no soul.
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Post by: microphonie on 05 March, 2014, 06:38:34 pm
Some very soothing ambient electronica:  Reflector  (http://entropyrecords.bandcamp.com/album/coppice-halifax-reflector-2)by Coppice Halifax
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Post by: Redlight on 05 March, 2014, 08:31:44 pm
The Glamoury by Emily Portman. If Angela Carter could have sung and written songs, this is probably what she would have produced
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 09 March, 2014, 09:51:50 pm
Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen
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Post by: tiermat on 10 March, 2014, 07:52:08 am
Tom Odell - Long Way Down, and singing at the top of my voice whilst sat in traffic on the A14 (oh! the glamour!), especially to "Grow Old With Me"
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Post by: rogerzilla on 10 March, 2014, 08:03:01 pm
Aneka - Japanese Boy.  Marvellous 80s one-hit wonder.
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Post by: Pingu on 13 March, 2014, 10:48:10 pm
Crowded House.

A band Crusty introduced me to oh so many years ago. I have thought of them as a corny pop band for all this time, but for some reason they have songs that are hitting the spot right now, Four Seasons In One Day most particularly.

I don't normally knock people's musical tastes, but, REALLY?

You'll be listening to The Lighthouse Family next, at which point you will most definitely be off the Xmas card list!

MY choice today is Imagine Dragons, Emili Sande and Tom Odell.

I quite like The Lighthouse Family.

OH. DEAR. :) :D

It's ok, I'll still be your friend :)

I'll pass on TLF, but Crowded House are woefully underrated. I will admit, however, that I don't think that Woodface is one of their better albums....
Temple of Low Men and Together Alone are much better, IMO :)

And, I'm going to see the rather wonderful Neil Finn in May. In Brussels :P

Together Alone, quite loud, onna a decent hi-fi - 'nuff said.
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Post by: Ruth on 14 March, 2014, 09:21:30 pm
Random stuff on i-Tunes at the moment, but this morning 'Lifetime Piling Up' by Talking Heads was on the radio when I was getting ready for work, and it was the best fucking earworm ever, all day.

Cry, cry, cry, it's just you and I
Like an automobile with no one at the wheel
Spinning out of control
We're all over the road
In our sexy machine
All the passengers scream
Scream, scream!

I can see my lifetime piling up, I can see it smashing into yours,


Damn it's good.  Specially at 0630 on a Friday :)
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Post by: andrewc on 14 March, 2014, 09:34:42 pm
The very wonderful Abdullah Ibrahim (formerly Dollar Brand) has a new album out called Mukashi (http://gerryco23.wordpress.com/2014/03/07/once-upon-a-time-abdullah-ibrahims-new-album-mukashi/)

There are no videos or clips yet, so here's an extended performance from Poland in 1984

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENmYxyccwm0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENmYxyccwm0)
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Post by: clarion on 14 March, 2014, 09:39:10 pm
Sensational Alex Harvey Band.

It's not my fault, honest.  Blame ESL.
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Post by: jogler on 14 March, 2014, 10:48:56 pm
I'm having a '60's dose of nostalgia


The Chiffons
The Crystals
The Toys
The Shangi-Las
The Ronettes
The Shirelles

There is a theme there.Can you see it?
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Post by: jogler on 15 March, 2014, 12:09:38 am
& by way of a contrast this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0q8Oho_RjM

& the rest of the album
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Post by: Ruth on 15 March, 2014, 09:50:32 pm
Tim O'Brien's Dylan covers album, Red On Blonde.

It's absolutely fabulous.  He gives good mandolin.
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Post by: Pingu on 16 March, 2014, 11:41:33 pm
Random stuff on i-Tunes at the moment, but this morning 'Lifetime Piling Up' by Talking Heads was on the radio when I was getting ready for work, and it was the best fucking earworm ever, all day.

Cry, cry, cry, it's just you and I
Like an automobile with no one at the wheel
Spinning out of control
We're all over the road
In our sexy machine
All the passengers scream
Scream, scream!

I can see my lifetime piling up, I can see it smashing into yours,


Damn it's good.  Specially at 0630 on a Friday :)

 :thumbsup:
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Post by: Pingu on 16 March, 2014, 11:46:00 pm

There are no videos or clips yet, so here's an extended performance from Poland in 1984

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENmYxyccwm0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENmYxyccwm0)

I think that's the tour when I saw him & Carlos Ward at the Arts Centre in Aberdeen. Great stuff.
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Post by: menthel on 17 March, 2014, 01:51:47 pm
Belle and Sebastian- The Boy with the Arab Strap.
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Post by: PaulF on 17 March, 2014, 09:17:05 pm
Mixture of Euro pop covers and remixes in a Greek hotel bar. Just had a cover of Seven Nation Army preceded by a remix of Phil Collins' "In the Air Tonight" (which is probably where his solo career peaked
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Post by: tiermat on 18 March, 2014, 09:42:29 am
The Black Crowes
The Milk
Smoove and Turrell
then
back to The Black Crowes....
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Post by: pcolbeck on 18 March, 2014, 02:31:38 pm
Dan Auerbach - Keep it hid

Pounding rhythmic rock and blues from the Black Keys frontman.
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Post by: Peter on 18 March, 2014, 02:39:28 pm
Front man?  I thought there were only two of these excellent chaps anyway?!
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Post by: pcolbeck on 18 March, 2014, 02:40:50 pm
Front man?  I thought there were only two of these excellent chaps anyway?!

True but he stands in the front singing and playing guitar the other chap sits behind the drums :)
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Post by: Wowbagger on 18 March, 2014, 02:54:53 pm
I am totally gorging myself on Beethoven. I have recently bought a new "smart" phone and have put all 9 symphonies on it, along (so far) with Bach's 'cello suites and some Beethoven string quartets. I have to say that the quality of the sound is incredible.

I'm currently in the first movement of the Pastoral. This is the first piece of classical music I became familiar with, over 50 years ago, and it's as wonderful now as it was then. It's quite odd to think that, for 25% of this masterpiece's existence, I have been listening to it.

The world was not compete until Beethoven improved it.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 18 March, 2014, 09:09:28 pm
Well, I think that's a first for me - all 9 symphonies in one day. I don't think I would have attempted it if I didn't feel totally shit though.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 18 March, 2014, 10:21:44 pm
I've had the a Herbert von Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic set to work my way through when I get round to it. Only listened to the 5th so far.
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Post by: IanN on 19 March, 2014, 09:00:05 pm
'Lost in the dream' album by 'the war on drugs'
Americana - sometimes a bit springsteenish - without the annoying sax solos.

Truly superb. the first album in years I've played over and over
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Post by: pcolbeck on 21 March, 2014, 11:17:26 am
Ben Harper - Diamonds on the Inside.

The fella can really play guitar !
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Post by: Dibdib on 21 March, 2014, 12:23:04 pm
Well, I think that's a first for me - all 9 symphonies in one day. I don't think I would have attempted it if I didn't feel totally shit though.

Didn't Crowded House write a song about that? Oh, sorry, I think it was actually about Vivaldi.  ;D

This morning's non-musical listening has been Fit The Second of Hitchhiker's on iPlayer, followed by The Eagles' Hotel California.
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Post by: billplumtree on 21 March, 2014, 01:23:49 pm
This morning's non-musical listening has been Fit The Second of Hitchhiker's on iPlayer, followed by The Eagles' Hotel California.

Bit harsh on the Eagles, don't you think?  But fair.
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Post by: clarion on 21 March, 2014, 01:59:05 pm
Was the Journey Of The Sorceror broken by an overnight stop at the Hotel?
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Post by: Peter on 21 March, 2014, 02:08:59 pm
This morning's non-musical listening has been Fit The Second of Hitchhiker's on iPlayer, followed by The Eagles' Hotel California.

Bit harsh on the Eagles, don't you think?  But fair.

You are a cad, sir!  Hotel California contains so much that is excellent: acid trip words, great guitar riffs and solos and one of the best bass lines in pop music, which is also very easy, if you know your 5 chords!  I shall make a point of whistling it all the way from Ingleton!
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Post by: billplumtree on 22 March, 2014, 07:16:25 pm
Vivian Stanshall - English as tuppence.  On R4Extra now, and for the next 3 hrs.  And I'm already pmsl.  It's gonna be a good evening.
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Post by: interzen on 22 March, 2014, 07:26:24 pm
Vivian Stanshall - English as tuppence.  On R4Extra now, and for the next 3 hrs.  And I'm already pmsl.  It's gonna be a good evening.
<fx: belts downstairs to put the radio on>
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Post by: billplumtree on 22 March, 2014, 07:30:16 pm
*sings*  "I'll dismember you-ooo..." 
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Post by: clarion on 22 March, 2014, 07:31:55 pm
Confession: I much prefer Neil Innes.  But, when he's not being silly in a pathetically forced way (see Vic Reeves), Viv could be very funny.
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Post by: billplumtree on 22 March, 2014, 07:38:33 pm
Innes is presenting, with,at the moment, Ade Edmonson.  Loads of Bonzo stuff so far.
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Post by: Steph on 24 March, 2014, 01:00:01 am
A compilation album of Lindisfarne. Wonderful jug band sounds, excellent and insightful lyrics; passion and hope.
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Post by: tiermat on 24 March, 2014, 01:38:26 pm
The sound of Northern 2 carriage trains passing by the window.  My new office is right next door to Prudhoe station and those trains make a strange "Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo" sound as the come into, and leave, the station....
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Post by: pcolbeck on 25 March, 2014, 11:05:22 am
Tanya Donelly - Whiskey Tango Ghosts

Might have to lookup some of her work in Throwing Muses and Belly as this is really good.
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Post by: Steph on 25 March, 2014, 11:19:04 am
The new Wilko/Daltrey/Sweaty Norman album, on Chess!

Absolutely raw; apparently done in quick-as sessions over a very short period. Rock and roll the way it should be, and hopefully not the last thing Mr Wilkinson can manage to give us.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Going-Wilko-Johnson-Roger-Daltrey/dp/B00HZX0IM0/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1395746377&sr=1-1&keywords=wilko+johnson+roger+daltrey+going+back+home
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Post by: tiermat on 25 March, 2014, 11:22:37 am
Smoove and Turrell trailing their new album on 6Music:

https://soundcloud.com/smoove-and-turrell/bbc-radio-6-music-in-session
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Post by: Peter on 25 March, 2014, 02:50:05 pm
A compilation album of Lindisfarne. Wonderful jug band sounds, excellent and insightful lyrics; passion and hope.

Has it got Winter Song on it?  A wonderful song from a wonderful, compassionate man.
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Post by: Steph on 25 March, 2014, 02:59:10 pm
Oh indeed. I did the song at the folk club this winter. Lovely, lovely song. I can in now ay do justice to the music, so I read the words as a poem.

"Do you spare a thought for Jesus, who had nothing but his thoughts?
Who got busted just for talking and befriending the wrong sorts...
When Winter comes howling in"
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Post by: pcolbeck on 25 March, 2014, 03:33:02 pm
Now its:

Little Feat - The Last Record Album

The funkiest slinkiest rock band ever.
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Post by: Peter on 25 March, 2014, 03:55:20 pm
They should have done a Christmas album; could have called it "The First Lowell".
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Post by: pcolbeck on 25 March, 2014, 04:13:00 pm
They should have done a Christmas album; could have called it "The First Lowell".

Aaargh !
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Post by: Peter on 25 March, 2014, 04:15:51 pm
Happy to help!
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Post by: CrazyEnglishTriathlete on 26 March, 2014, 10:25:47 pm
Carlos Santana.  Mostly old stuff such as Live at the Fillmore.
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Post by: Redlight on 27 March, 2014, 11:38:18 am
Some old Genesis - 'cause The Times lists Tony Banks as being 64 today and I'm finding that thought a bit unsettling.
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Post by: jogler on 27 March, 2014, 05:33:29 pm
The Who

ETA & now Queen to be followed by U2
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Post by: mcshroom on 27 March, 2014, 10:21:19 pm
Bit different, being an acapella choral folk piece, but I'm liking this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX6dJgmof0E
No more fish, no fishermen sung by Finest Kind
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Post by: Dibdib on 29 March, 2014, 08:42:29 pm
I seem to basically have this on repeat:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNpKjmNaJpQ
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Post by: Pingu on 29 March, 2014, 10:10:03 pm
Elbow on the red button.
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Post by: jogler on 29 March, 2014, 11:14:23 pm
Diana Ross & The Supremes
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Post by: Ruth on 31 March, 2014, 06:13:33 pm
The Classic, by Joan As Policewoman.

Oh, my.
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Post by: air dancer on 02 April, 2014, 03:27:06 pm
The Fall - The War Against Intelligence.

Cracking compilation.
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Post by: spindrift on 02 April, 2014, 11:22:19 pm
Doc Hollywood was on the other day, this was on the soundtrack, tenor sax FTW:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGB-5ZmjSz8
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Post by: tiermat on 03 April, 2014, 11:34:14 am
DJ Shadow - Entroducing

It appears to be very good at stimulating the document writing process.
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Post by: air dancer on 06 April, 2014, 11:11:26 pm
French Psyche-Punk.

La Femme - Psycho Tropical Berlin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3y_nP8GGGdY
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Post by: Redlight on 07 April, 2014, 09:13:48 pm
I-pod on random play. Am perturbed at the number of times I have to get up and look to see what the hell I'm listening to.
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Post by: Pingu on 07 April, 2014, 09:36:28 pm
The Black Keys new one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZZUY32iCzU
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 09 April, 2014, 07:05:08 pm
Sleep Makes Waves, And Then We Destroyed Everything
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Post by: microphonie on 10 April, 2014, 06:06:32 pm
The rather wonderful  Somnambulist's Tale  (http://gnod.bandcamp.com/album/the-somnambulists-tale) by Gnod.

A mellow ambient tribal drone psychedelic offering that can be had for a 'name your price' rate (i.e. free if you're a bit tight/skint...)  8)
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Post by: tiermat on 11 April, 2014, 02:20:22 pm
Dinosaur Jnr.

Just to annoy Mrs T and TLD :) :D
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Post by: PaulF on 11 April, 2014, 03:01:55 pm
Joni Mitchell, moved onto Court and Spark from Hejira
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Post by: Ruth on 11 April, 2014, 10:07:45 pm
A Winged Victory for the Sullen, because someone returned the CD to me.

It's just so lovely and amazing and beautiful.
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Post by: tiermat on 17 April, 2014, 11:08:14 am
Last.fm

I love the (I forget the term) way that you start with one band, and you wynd your way through numerous other, different, bands and can end up somewhere completely different.  Finding new (to you)bands on the way is a major bonus!

Today's stream started with Ojos De Brujo - Ventilaor R-80
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Post by: PaulF on 17 April, 2014, 12:19:27 pm
Townes van Zandt's first album, inspired, like a lot of recent listening by True Detective
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Post by: tiermat on 17 April, 2014, 01:16:02 pm
As mentioned above, I love the way you end up hearing stuff you might not come across otherwise, by using Last.fm.

This just played, I love it...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Dv4bBSQ_7A
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Post by: andygates on 17 April, 2014, 07:34:02 pm
Spacegoat!  http://spacegoatmx.bandcamp.com/
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Post by: pcolbeck on 18 April, 2014, 11:11:44 am
Townes van Zandt's first album, inspired, like a lot of recent listening by True Detective

Saw him live at a pub in York years ago. A genius song writer.
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Post by: Wobbly on 18 April, 2014, 04:16:18 pm
Jake Thackray

Live at the Lobster Pot.
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Post by: Dibdib on 19 April, 2014, 09:51:18 am
Waking myself up with strong coffee and a bit of Led Zeppelin - first Physical Graffiti, then Led Zep IV.
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Post by: jogler on 19 April, 2014, 09:53:26 am
Radio 2: Sounds of the Sixties with Brian Mathews
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Post by: rogerzilla on 21 April, 2014, 07:53:51 pm
It's the Classic FM annual hall of fame and they've got to the top four; no.4 is Beethoven's "Emperor" piano concerto, which is deservedly there (if only for the few bars in the last movement when it unexpectedly goes all baroque).  The tedious Mozart clarinet concerto has already been and gone, thank goodness.  Suspect no.1 will be Rachmaninov's no.2 piano concerto (the Brief Encounter/All By Myself one) or one of Vaughan Williams' pastoral efforts.  I don't think they've had Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis (the Master and Commander one) or The Lark Ascending yet.
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Post by: Ruth on 21 April, 2014, 07:58:31 pm
I thought The Lark Ascending got in every time?
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Post by: rogerzilla on 21 April, 2014, 08:01:04 pm
Nah, Mozart's clarinet concerto has won, as has Rachmaninov's no.2.  The Fantasia is much better than the Lark anyway IMO.
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Post by: jogler on 21 April, 2014, 08:17:22 pm
Radio 2.
Dolly Parton
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Post by: rogerzilla on 21 April, 2014, 08:54:36 pm
Ah...that bloody lark again  >:(  Last no.1 in 2010.

The only winners since inception have been The Lark Ascending, Rachmaninov's no.2 piano, Bruch's no.1 violin (can be excellent dependiing on the soloist, as it contains a bit of improvisation) and the only Mozart piece I don't like, the clarinet concerto.
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Post by: jogler on 24 April, 2014, 07:44:44 pm
Various versions of Ghost riders in the Sky...
Burl Ives
Johnny Cash
The Shadows
Duanne Eddy
The Ramrods
Frankie Laine
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Post by: Ruth on 25 April, 2014, 11:57:29 pm
Carly Simon.

I still love her  :)
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Post by: pcolbeck on 26 April, 2014, 11:32:39 am
Drive-By Truckers

I need to buy the rest of their albums ...
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 27 April, 2014, 02:33:27 pm
I am baking, so I am listening to George Michael's Ladies and Gentlemen, (For the Feet). Sometimes when I bake I listen to ABBA or Stevie Wonder, but it's usually George.
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Post by: tiermat on 27 April, 2014, 03:50:43 pm
Whilst building TLDs bike I was listening to The Go Team then swapped to the best Unplugged album ever made, that being the one by Nirvana.
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Post by: David Martin on 28 April, 2014, 11:30:30 pm
A colleague has put me on to Karl Jenkins  'The Armed Man', a piece I had never heard before. Currently listening to a poor youtube recording but even that is stunning.
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Post by: Ruth on 28 April, 2014, 11:33:20 pm
A colleague has put me on to Karl Jenkins  'The Armed Man', a piece I had never heard before. Currently listening to a poor youtube recording but even that is stunning.

Before I YouTube that DM, can you put a genre on that piece for me?

Ta x
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Post by: David Martin on 29 April, 2014, 08:23:41 am
Choral mass with orchestra + extras.
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Post by: Juan Martín on 29 April, 2014, 08:55:11 am
Hocus Pocus – (Best of) Focus. The intricate guitar, the Hammond organ, the yodelling. What, as they say, is not to like? Well, the yodelling obviously.
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Post by: Aidan on 29 April, 2014, 01:22:15 pm
Rodrigo y Gabrielas new LP more of the same but maybe a touch less frenetic in places . I like.
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Post by: tiermat on 29 April, 2014, 01:28:55 pm
Tool - aenima.

I love the way mp3 players allow you to listen to subversive music whilst sat in an open plan office!
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Post by: pcolbeck on 29 April, 2014, 04:29:53 pm
The Who - The Ultimate Collection

I hope I die before I get old ! oh hang on it's too late for me and even later for Pete and Rodger.
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Post by: Biggsy on 30 April, 2014, 12:51:41 pm
Today I am having all my boxes ticked by Tuff Love.

http://youtu.be/suK8dfql8U0
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Post by: PaulR on 01 May, 2014, 11:07:55 am
I've just been dabbing tears of joy and pride from my eyes while watching/listening to the opening seven minutes of last Saturday's performance of Rachmaninov's Vespers, feat. Mrs R on the alto line: http://youtu.be/kZB4P7l90Wg (http://youtu.be/kZB4P7l90Wg)



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Post by: jogler on 03 May, 2014, 09:37:45 am
Radio 2: Sounds of the Sixties with Brian Mathews

& again

Fortunate Son : Creedance Clear Water revival :thumbsup:
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Post by: Dibdib on 03 May, 2014, 10:05:23 am
Some old-school Beastie Boys this morning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhqyZeUlE8U
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Post by: jogler on 03 May, 2014, 03:16:36 pm
Etta James
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Post by: jogler on 03 May, 2014, 05:14:28 pm
The Everley Brothers
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Post by: Dibdib on 06 May, 2014, 08:55:58 pm
I picked up a big stack of CDs (ten, I think) from That's Entertainment over the weekend, and surprisingly I think deadmau5's 4x4=12 might actually be my favourite.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEQMkzjcLEA
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Post by: air dancer on 06 May, 2014, 10:12:51 pm
Pinkunoizu - "The Drop".

Danish Psychedelic Rock, eclectic with a big dollop of motorik for good measure.

Caught a track of theirs, being played on 6 Music recently, so had to go and investigate.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91X7kJ8dsYs
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Post by: Deano on 08 May, 2014, 10:23:07 pm
Listening back to Simon Joyner, interspersed with the International Karate Plus!!!
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Post by: Ham on 10 May, 2014, 10:02:22 pm
The 5 6 7 8's and shonen knife.

For when only trash is good enough

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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 11 May, 2014, 04:28:46 pm
Stevie Wonder's Definitive Collection. 38 tracks, only two are dross, and one of those is Paul McCartney's fault.
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Post by: tiermat on 11 May, 2014, 04:47:10 pm
The first and third episode of this season's ...Later.

Ep 1 was utter crap.

Ep. 3 rocked.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 16 May, 2014, 08:02:41 am
Just has an Amazon splurge so I'm listening via Cloud Player and the CDs are in the post.
First up is:

Blessed - Lucinda Williams

Such a beautiful and emotive voice.

Then it will be:

Turn Blue - The Black Keys
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Post by: pcolbeck on 16 May, 2014, 05:04:37 pm
Ooh "Weight of Love" the first track on the new Black Keys album is epic. 7 minutes of tortured lead guitar great funky bass and ambient synth. My new favourite Black Keys track.

http://youtu.be/ycvKhsuG7qE

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Post by: Andrij on 17 May, 2014, 10:25:48 pm
Postmodern Jukebox (https://www.youtube.com/user/ScottBradleeLovesYa/videos)
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Post by: microphonie on 23 May, 2014, 06:06:47 pm
After a prompt from Mrs Pingu here's a list of recent purchases that have been forming my listening over the last few weeks:

Lots of ambient/electronica by  Coppice Halifax  (http://coppicehalifax.bandcamp.com/) - particularly Reflector (http://entropyrecords.bandcamp.com/album/coppice-halifax-reflector-2) & Soft Shelter  (http://coppicehalifax.bandcamp.com/album/soft-shelter)

Mogwai - Rave Tapes

Lots of Muslimgauze digital releases, including Tandoor Dog & Madrass Sitar Burner

Some Ukrainian electronica courtesy of Zavoloka & retro electro pop from Blancmange (albeit a recent re-recording of the Happy Families album).

Looking forward to new Plaid, Eat Lights Become Lights, Wrangler and Fujiya & Miyagi over the next week too.

And finally, another plug for the Macmillan Cancer Research fund raiser  Touched  (http://touched.bandcamp.com/album/touched) - 123 tracks for £6 and I'll also be downloading this new album by  Noboru Watanabe  (http://touched.bandcamp.com/) - also raising money for Macmillan.


cheers
Lee


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Post by: nicknack on 23 May, 2014, 07:22:34 pm
Motorpsycho's latest - Behind the Sun. It's jolly good.
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Post by: Andrij on 25 May, 2014, 12:45:14 am
Lemon Bucket Orkestra.
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Post by: jogler on 30 May, 2014, 02:40:41 pm
The Very Best of The Everly Brothers

They don't make 'em like that any more:absolute class.
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Post by: Steph on 30 May, 2014, 03:40:46 pm
Huw Llloyd Langton rarities. Sad loss.
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Post by: Andrij on 31 May, 2014, 10:42:25 am
The Kelzmatics.
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Post by: RJ on 02 June, 2014, 10:06:43 pm
'Lost in the dream' album by 'the war on drugs'
Americana - sometimes a bit springsteenish - without the annoying sax solos.

Truly superb. the first album in years I've played over and over

Rather good, isn't it?  Lots going on; not just "Americana", but also krautrock rhythms and non-linearity and some fine musicianship.

Random review:  http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/19094-the-war-on-drugs-lost-in-the-dream/

And an interview: http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/features/interviews/the-war-on-drugs-142586/2
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Post by: billplumtree on 05 June, 2014, 07:09:42 pm
"Simon Evans goes to Market", in the Radio 4 6.30pm comedy slot.  Intelligent comedy that R4 does so well, on occasion, and this is definitely one of those.  Last in the series, this one was on the economics of oil (I know, I know!  But honestly, it really is very funny);  previous ones were on gold and food economies.  iPlayer it while you can.

Sample:  you know those little plastic dinosaurs?  Well, given that they're made of plastic, and plastic is made from oil, and oil is made from dinosaurs, they probably contain real dinosaur.....  (the disillusioning reality is that that sort of oil is mostly made from plants, but that doesn't make it less funny / thought-provoking).
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Post by: jogler on 07 June, 2014, 01:15:22 pm
Radio 2,PotP.

1965 :thumbsup:
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Post by: andrewc on 08 June, 2014, 12:17:23 am
Classic Genesis , Suppers Ready .....  :D   

Video below

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M58wE8GTGp4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M58wE8GTGp4)
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Post by: Ham on 08 June, 2014, 02:07:45 pm
One for Andrij, really. Heard on 6 music earlier, just revisiting

Paprika, Caje Sukarije

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gihsO7N7P7Y
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Post by: microphonie on 08 June, 2014, 05:20:35 pm
Psychedelic folk-rock isn't my usual bag, but I'm gradually getting more & more into the motorik-influenced new album,  Entropicalia  (https://soundcloud.com/ghost-box/sets/entropicalia), by The Soundcarriers - released by the wonderful Ghost Box label.

Particularly good are Boiling Point & This is Normal (feat. Elija Wood) (tracks 3 & 5 of the linked album sampler)

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Post by: air dancer on 09 June, 2014, 10:44:08 pm
Various random tracks from various random albums by Stereolab
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Post by: marcusjb on 10 June, 2014, 07:40:01 pm
http://youtu.be/fDBcxEMHNMs

Still a class act. First album in over a decade.

Plastikman - EX
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Post by: Andrij on 10 June, 2014, 07:41:46 pm
Bugs Bunny on Broadway (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugs_Bunny_at_the_Symphony)
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Post by: Vince on 11 June, 2014, 09:32:49 am
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain

Sadly not a substitute for sleep.
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Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 11 June, 2014, 09:38:12 am
A quite entertaining hour with Bob Dylan:

http://grooveshark.com/#!/album/Bob+Dylan+s+Theme+Time+Radio+Hour/4739912
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Post by: T42 on 11 June, 2014, 09:52:51 am
A blackbird holding forth on the gutter over my window. Cars going by. The neighbour's kids playing at police-cars (EEEEEEEooooo EEEEEEEooooo EEEEEEEooooo). The neighbour bawling at them to shut up (EH! OH! HOLTS MAUL!!!)

Aaaaah, the peace and quiet of the country!
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Post by: Bledlow on 11 June, 2014, 10:42:49 am
Stravinsky.
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Post by: T42 on 11 June, 2014, 11:03:55 am
^^^you'd probably like it here, then
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Post by: Dibdib on 13 June, 2014, 07:09:51 pm
Not even a little bit sorry :P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2FPQvwhSDY
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Post by: tiermat on 14 June, 2014, 02:47:11 pm
Hope & Social - All Our Dancing Days.  Currently on Long Way Home.

Feel like listening to Lucy Spraggan - Tea and Toast, but I don't want to cry...
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Post by: andrewc on 14 June, 2014, 10:41:54 pm
John Coltrane "Live in Paris"......    on vinyl .... through valves....  :D
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Post by: andrewc on 15 June, 2014, 10:03:50 pm
Vladimir Ashkenazy playing Chopin. It's stunning.   Part of a 54 CD box set (http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Decca/4785437) I got for less than half price on Ebay last week. Going to take me a while to listen to all of them  ;D
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Post by: Ruth on 15 June, 2014, 10:06:58 pm
John Mayer.  He's got a nice voice.
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Post by: marcusjb on 17 June, 2014, 11:26:52 am
This

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/watmmofficial/cat023-caustic-window-own-the-legendary-record-by

Quite a fascinating story and goes to show what crowdfunding can do in unusual circumstances. This is music by one of the most important electronic artists ever, that would have remained unheard without this.

Of course, it being Richard James, he could have played us all for fools and recorded this music recently, rather than 20 years ago.

So far, it's a good piece of work, not as aggressive as other Caustic Windows pieces. An interesting addition to the myth.
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Post by: microphonie on 17 June, 2014, 06:14:20 pm
I love the Caustic Window Compilation album but couldn't bring myself to go for that. Maybe at half the price but I'm just not 'completist' enough to take the plunge...
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 19 June, 2014, 08:01:55 pm
Tame Impala - Innerspeaker.

Yesterday it was Eat Lights Become Lights - Into Forever
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Post by: jogler on 21 June, 2014, 03:11:54 pm
This

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7T8wrrZ9Ug
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Post by: andrewc on 24 June, 2014, 10:31:46 pm
Classic NWOBHM !  Girlschool from 1980.....       Saw them live twice, a very decent band.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6TOZep2nOU (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6TOZep2nOU)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg_ar-p-Nrw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg_ar-p-Nrw)

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Post by: andrewc on 24 June, 2014, 10:58:14 pm
MOAR classic British rock,  from the days before I got seduced by classical & Jazz!

UFO - Lights Out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hS9lRO4clEo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hS9lRO4clEo)

I'm a Loser

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gF99NpzPfxM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gF99NpzPfxM)

Whenever I travel to London I'm playing this in my head...

"Euston station and it's cold as ice
All night specials, they move you on
But me and Ginger over there
We got this thing where we really take care"
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Post by: Ruth on 26 June, 2014, 09:33:02 pm
Mary Chapin Carpenter.

A true contralto voice isn't that common, and I think hers is an especially lovely one. 

Her new album, 'Songs from the Movie' is so good.
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Post by: mcshroom on 26 June, 2014, 09:37:02 pm
Handel's Messiah. I'm amazed how much I've forgotten since we sang it last year and I need to get practicing again.
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Post by: Ruth on 26 June, 2014, 09:42:15 pm
Handel's Messiah. I'm amazed how much I've forgotten since we sang it last year and I need to get practicing again.

Mary Chapin Carpenter.

A true contralto voice isn't that common, and I think hers is an especially lovely one. 

Her new album, 'Songs from the Movie' is so good.

mcshroom, come see Mary at the Sage at the end of September with me?  And, indeed, any other forumites who might be reading this?  Because she's so damn good.  I have my ticket already but am always glad of company  :)
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Post by: mcshroom on 26 June, 2014, 10:01:07 pm
If she's as good as she sounded on the Transatlantic Sessions then yes please :)

When is it?
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Post by: Ruth on 26 June, 2014, 10:06:11 pm
September 30th.  It's a Tuesday  :D
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Post by: mcshroom on 26 June, 2014, 10:09:22 pm
Should be able to make that :D
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Post by: jogler on 27 June, 2014, 08:01:00 pm
Nirvana
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Post by: jogler on 27 June, 2014, 09:36:42 pm
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
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Post by: microphonie on 28 June, 2014, 02:19:23 pm
More eMusic downloads:

Fatima Al Qadiri - Asiatisch
Final - Solaris
Ben Frost - A U R O R A
Fujiya & Miyagi - Artificial Sweeteners
Rhythm & Sound - See Mi Yah Remixes
Salaryman - The Electric Forest
Shackleton - Freezing Opening Thawing
Swans - To Be Kind
Yazoo - Reconnected
and at long last:

Warm Leatherette  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5QErPDNcj4&feature=kp)
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Post by: jogler on 28 June, 2014, 02:39:01 pm
Not for the first time...

Radio 2,PotP.
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Post by: nicknack on 28 June, 2014, 04:20:08 pm
Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson - Past Sixty Blues

Somehow appropriate.  :(

 ;D
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Post by: RW on 28 June, 2014, 06:25:11 pm
John Jenkins
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Post by: jogler on 29 June, 2014, 12:58:27 pm
The Shadows
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Post by: jogler on 29 June, 2014, 03:12:20 pm
Radio 2 Sounds of the Seventies with Johnnie Walker
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Post by: jogler on 30 June, 2014, 08:30:16 pm
Dolly Parton & Kenny Rodgers
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Post by: Pedal Castro on 30 June, 2014, 08:33:54 pm
Parton and Nelson :-)
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Post by: jogler on 04 July, 2014, 04:12:27 pm
rock chicks...
Blondie
Suzi Quattro
Joan Jett
Pat Benatar
The Pretenders
Cher
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Post by: jogler on 04 July, 2014, 07:26:37 pm
Let It Roll : George Harrison
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Post by: jogler on 04 July, 2014, 08:39:36 pm
3 versions of Love Hurts

the Everly Brothers
Nirvana
Joan jett
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Post by: clarion on 04 July, 2014, 08:54:41 pm
Not Nazareth?
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Post by: jogler on 04 July, 2014, 08:57:39 pm
No,my taste in Nazareth is limited to This Flight tonight & Broken Down Angel.

Anyhow I'm still in love with Joan Jett :D
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Post by: jogler on 04 July, 2014, 09:54:56 pm
Dolly Parton
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Post by: jogler on 05 July, 2014, 07:56:35 pm
The Pretenders Greatest Hits
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Post by: Ruth on 05 July, 2014, 09:03:14 pm
Brad Paisley - Wheelhouse.

Specifically, Death of a Married Man.
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Post by: jogler on 06 July, 2014, 08:11:40 pm
The Who
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Post by: jogler on 06 July, 2014, 09:13:22 pm
Johnny Cash
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 07 July, 2014, 08:20:11 am
The Infinite Monkey Cage.  Well, I will be at 16:30 this afternoon1.  New series.  Hurrah :thumbsup:

1 - well, I may have to listen to a recording as I intend to pop out to watch some bike race or other for a bit
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Post by: billplumtree on 09 July, 2014, 08:06:37 am
Nowt at the moment.  But I can predict with confidence that I'll be listening to John Shuttleworth's Lounge Music on R4 on Sunday at 7.15pm.
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Post by: perpetual dan on 09 July, 2014, 01:27:22 pm
Eno and Hyde's High Life.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 09 July, 2014, 02:46:18 pm
Thank you, DJ Random, for being in a Monster Magnet mood this morning.  Cheered me up no end.
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Post by: microphonie on 14 July, 2014, 01:14:14 pm
Currently randomly selecting tracks to try out my newly arrived DAC/headphone amp from   Epiphany Acoustics  (http://epiphany-acoustics.co.uk/products-page/dacs/ehp-o2di-desktop-headphone-amplifierdac-3/). Big improvement in sound quality noticeable already (from my laptop).  :thumbsup:

This Mortal Coil - Song to the Siren
Advisory Circle - Now Ends the Beginning
Lamb - Gorecki
Land Observations - From Nero's Palace
Muslimgauze - Iranian Female Olympic Table Tennis Team Theme
GYBE - Dead Flag Blues
LFO - Snot
Lowlife - Ramafied
Milanese - Caramel Cognac
Public Service Braodcasting - Spitfire
Reload - 1642 Try 621
Stereolab - French Disko
The Sundays - Here's Where The Story Ends
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Post by: pcolbeck on 14 July, 2014, 07:35:01 pm
Sharon Jones (Dap Kings) and Daryl Hall "Do what you want to do"

http://www.livefromdarylshouse.com/currentep.html?ep_id=47

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Post by: essexian on 15 July, 2014, 02:30:39 pm
Morrissey- World peace is none of your business.

Oh you lucky people.... I'll be back with a full review when I have listened to it a few times..... I know, I bet you can hardly wait  ;D





Morrissey, you either love, or hate him.  Me? Love at first sight. It might seem trite but its true you know.
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Post by: jogler on 15 July, 2014, 07:10:01 pm
ZZ Top,rather loudly :thumbsup:
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Post by: jogler on 16 July, 2014, 07:11:12 pm
Elvis :  30 #1 Hits
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Post by: jogler on 17 July, 2014, 08:54:39 pm
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts

on my headphones.
loud?
marj says she can hear it across the living room  8)
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Post by: clarion on 17 July, 2014, 09:07:13 pm
Johnny Winter :'(
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Post by: jogler on 17 July, 2014, 10:15:53 pm
etta james
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Post by: clarion on 17 July, 2014, 10:52:00 pm
Robert Cray
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Post by: andrewc on 17 July, 2014, 11:06:19 pm
Vaughan-Williams, followed by Pink Floyd... 

There are worrying signs of new occupants in the flat next door though!  I hope they're music lovers  ;D
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Post by: Andrij on 18 July, 2014, 06:13:36 pm
Squirrel Nut Zippers
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Post by: jogler on 18 July, 2014, 07:49:00 pm
Rewind : The Rolling Stones
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Post by: nicknack on 18 July, 2014, 08:06:08 pm
Can.
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Post by: jogler on 22 July, 2014, 10:39:09 am
Tracy Chapman
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Post by: Andrij on 22 July, 2014, 06:39:16 pm
Der Rosenkavalier.


Should have gone to the RAH this for it. :(
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Post by: andrewc on 22 July, 2014, 08:54:20 pm
Nothing at all.... it's sweltering & turning on my valve amp would be like turning on an electric fire...... :(

Perhaps I need a summer amp .........  :D
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Post by: billplumtree on 22 July, 2014, 09:04:08 pm
A lightweight racing amp...?
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Post by: jogler on 22 July, 2014, 10:35:20 pm
Dire Straits
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Post by: andrewc on 22 July, 2014, 11:11:55 pm
Nothing at all.... it's sweltering & turning on my valve amp would be like turning on an electric fire...... :(

Perhaps I need a summer amp .........  :D

It cooled down & I gave in...... some Gilad Atzmon.   Which led me to check Amazon & order his last album, and another one by Tord Gustavsen ...... :facepalm:
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Post by: mcshroom on 23 July, 2014, 12:02:46 am
Finest Kind - No more fish, no fishermen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX6dJgmof0E
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Post by: jogler on 23 July, 2014, 09:52:57 am
Bon Jovi
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Post by: jogler on 23 July, 2014, 12:10:51 pm
Eurythmics
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Post by: jogler on 24 July, 2014, 11:45:28 am
The Big O, a.k.a. Roy Orbison.
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Post by: Redlight on 24 July, 2014, 01:20:00 pm
A box of around 200 albums that I unearthed while clearing out the loft. I'd forgotten they were up there or, indeed, what half of them were.

I may be some time.....
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Post by: billplumtree on 24 July, 2014, 07:21:49 pm
The end of a crackin' series just finished on radio4, It's a Fair Cop.  Alfie Moore, an ex-copper, I dunno how much to believe him(!) doing the R4 6.30 comedy slot...  No, honestly, it is quite believable - he's v radio 4 comedy, and in a good way.  From Sheffield, was based as a copper in Skegness and Scunthorpe (and that bit's obviously true), takes the piss out of the Met a lot (always a good sign); v funny and educational with it.

Previous episodes on iPlayer: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b048nkd4
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Post by: Andrij on 24 July, 2014, 07:34:59 pm
The end of a crackin' series just finished on radio4, It's a Fair Cop.  Alfie Moore, an ex-copper, I dunno how much to believe him(!) doing the R4 6.30 comedy slot...  No, honestly, it is quite believable - he's v radio 4 comedy, and in a good way.  From Sheffield, was based as a copper in Skegness and Scunthorpe (and that bit's obviously true), takes the piss out of the Met a lot (always a good sign); v funny and educational with it.

Previous episodes on iPlayer: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b048nkd4

Heard a couple of these.  Agree - quite good.
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Post by: clarion on 24 July, 2014, 07:37:54 pm
I enjoyed them very much.
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Post by: spesh on 24 July, 2014, 09:14:24 pm
The distinctly sub-Saharan soundtrack to the party currently in effect at next door-but-one.
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Post by: andrewc on 24 July, 2014, 10:28:39 pm
The distinctly sub-Saharan soundtrack to the party currently in effect at next door-but-one.

I saw one of my neighbours the other day, and mentioned that it looked like someone might be moving into the flat nest to mine (previous occupant is now in an old peoples home).   I might need to turn my music down a bit......

Music,  oh,  that's _you_ !!   Playing music until 11 ?
Yes, the lease says I can.......
But I go to bed at 10:30........!  and the U shape of our block acts as an echo chamber....

Still. at least you play decent music......

Gilad Atzmon is middle eastern jazz,   not quite sub-sarahan....   I've got Toumani Diabate or Youssou N'dour for that  ;D

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Post by: Vince on 24 July, 2014, 10:51:25 pm
Bach. Brandenburg concertos.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 25 July, 2014, 10:28:51 pm
The Magnetic Fields.

Music to bake to...
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 26 July, 2014, 01:14:43 pm
Tenuous claim to fame: I used to know Stephin Merritt's half-brother.
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Post by: jogler on 26 July, 2014, 01:59:32 pm
Not for the first time...

Radio 2,PotP.

deja vous
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Post by: Juan Martín on 27 July, 2014, 06:50:15 pm
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts - Brian Eno and David Byrne
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Post by: microphonie on 28 July, 2014, 06:54:00 pm
New eMusic purchases:

Witchman - Heavy Traffic

Vatican Shadow - Death Is Unity With God box set

Clock DVA - Post-Signs

Anaxaton6 - Juju Grid (side-project of Barry Andrews of Shriekback ahead of a new Shrieks album sometime soon)

and the coldwave-with-a-Morricone-twang of DVA Damas -

 Nightshade  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBdCVg2fIR8)
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Post by: andrewc on 28 July, 2014, 07:36:42 pm
UFO live "Strangers in the Night"    Superb stuff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCWLM4U6vwg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCWLM4U6vwg)
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Post by: jogler on 30 July, 2014, 03:03:59 pm
Blondie
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Post by: nicknack on 30 July, 2014, 05:41:16 pm
Todd Rundgren.
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Post by: jogler on 30 July, 2014, 07:46:33 pm
ZZ Top
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 30 July, 2014, 08:23:55 pm
DJ Random decided that Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band's "God Bless Our Dead Marines" would be a fitting accompaniment to the walk into town today.

A pity he then spoiled things with Zeke, who sound more like Monster Magnet than Monster Magnet do...
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Post by: Marco Stefano on 30 July, 2014, 10:15:16 pm
The 'Oo - Odds & Sods
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 31 July, 2014, 04:38:03 pm
Hang On To Each Other ~ Thee Silver Mt Zion Memorial Orchestra

No guitars.  Very different to their normal fayre :-\
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Post by: jogler on 31 July, 2014, 06:19:01 pm
Ms Jett again.

I think I'm in lust
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Post by: microphonie on 31 July, 2014, 07:16:53 pm
The simply wonderful dark ambient drones plus chants of Lustmord's  The Word As Power (http://www.juno.co.uk/products/lustmord-the-word-as-power/495034-01/)

The tracks Babel & Grigori in particular are just gorgeous
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Post by: billplumtree on 31 July, 2014, 08:14:45 pm
Rim Banna - Seasons of Violet.  Gorgeous, sultry singing, in Arabic, of Palestinian love songs, while a bunch of Norwegians lay down a western - middle eastern fusion kinda thing behind.  No, really.  Try After You Left (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAj8TA8fBHo), for instance.

Was led to her by the wonderful Lullabies from the Axis of Evil album.
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Post by: Juan Martín on 31 July, 2014, 09:10:52 pm
Music for Airports - Brian Eno
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Post by: andrewc on 02 August, 2014, 05:03:14 pm
Looking at the biblical weather outside my window a couple of old favourites seem appropriate

"Rain" by The Cult

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3DgAJwVeVU (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3DgAJwVeVU)

"Naked in the Rain" by Blue Pearl, Durga McBroom on vocals.  I danced to this many times in a variety of hot, sweaty Liverpool clubs  :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLSGYZpsg9k (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLSGYZpsg9k)
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Post by: Biggsy on 02 August, 2014, 05:05:32 pm
Haley Bonar - Kill The Fun

http://youtu.be/nkrKKk1VL9s
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Post by: pcolbeck on 02 August, 2014, 05:10:33 pm
Rim Banna - Seasons of Violet.  Gorgeous, sultry singing, in Arabic, of Palestinian love songs, while a bunch of Norwegians lay down a western - middle eastern fusion kinda thing behind.  No, really.  Try After You Left (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAj8TA8fBHo), for instance.

Ta, I like that a lot.
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Post by: andrewc on 02 August, 2014, 05:19:13 pm
Rim Banna - Seasons of Violet.  Gorgeous, sultry singing, in Arabic, of Palestinian love songs, while a bunch of Norwegians lay down a western - middle eastern fusion kinda thing behind.  No, really.  Try After You Left (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAj8TA8fBHo), for instance.

Ta, I like that a lot.

Yes, thanks Bill.  You've probably cost me money....  ;)

Rim Banna "The Absent One"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHsxFpZBtfE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHsxFpZBtfE)
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Post by: pcolbeck on 03 August, 2014, 08:07:52 pm
Stephen Stills - Stephen Stills

I cant believe I never heard this before. Clapton and Hendix on guitar, Booker T on the organ, Ringo Starr on drums. Backing vocals from David Crosby, Graham Nash, Mamma Cass, Rita Coolidge and Claudia Lennear amongst others.

How could it not be great !

http://youtu.be/AYQjxZURQwE
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Post by: Andrij on 07 August, 2014, 02:55:58 pm
A live recording of the Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus (http://www.bandura.org), who I used to perform with before I moved to London.  I've performed most of this repertoire.

I'm almost in tears.  I miss performing, and I really miss performing with these guys.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 07 August, 2014, 03:51:24 pm
Black Mountain.  Once I'd persuaded a slightly flaky CD player to work that is.
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Post by: Ruth on 07 August, 2014, 08:40:42 pm
Willie Nelson
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Post by: andrewc on 08 August, 2014, 09:16:08 pm
Rim Banna - Seasons of Violet.  Gorgeous, sultry singing, in Arabic, of Palestinian love songs, while a bunch of Norwegians lay down a western - middle eastern fusion kinda thing behind.  No, really.  Try After You Left (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAj8TA8fBHo), for instance.

Ta, I like that a lot.

Yes, thanks Bill.  You've probably cost me money....  ;)

Rim Banna "The Absent One"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHsxFpZBtfE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHsxFpZBtfE)

CD arrived today,  a German seller but dispatched from Switzerland ?   

Very good.  The track above is by Palestinian poet Rashed Hussein.    I can't find an online translation, but it's rather angry.

Here is another of his poems.

Without a Passport

I was born without a passport
I grew up
and saw my country
become prisons
without a passport

So I raised a country
a sun
and wheat
in every house
I tended to the trees therein
I learned how to write poetry
to make the people of my village happy
without a passport

I learned that he whose land is stolen
does not like the rain
If he were ever to return to it, he will
without a passport

But I am tired of minds
that have become hotels
for wishes that never give birth
except with a passport

Without a passport
I came to you
and revolted against you
so slaughter me
perhaps I will then feel that I am dying
without a passport
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Post by: Ruth on 10 August, 2014, 11:15:01 pm
Somewhat less profound than that.

'Long Gone Before Daylight' by the Cardigans.

It's a couple of years since I listened to this album, but I just remembered how much I love it.  Cheesy?  Yeah, well, so what.  I like cheese.

And Nina Persson's voice is great, those first few notes of 'Communication' still make me melt.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 11 August, 2014, 12:54:41 am
Godspeed You! Black Emperor.  Burned all my .mp3s to a CD to listen to in the motor-car.
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Post by: CrazyEnglishTriathlete on 12 August, 2014, 08:51:30 pm
A playlist that starts:

July Morning - Uriah Heep
Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler
Perfect Strangers - Deep Purple
Why Are They Watching Me - Dio
Roadhouse Blues - The Doors
Zuton Fever - the Zutons
Persuasion - Santana
Hold Your Colour (Live at Brixton) - Pendulum
Still I'm Sad - Rainbow
The Rhythm Method - Rush

Felt a lot better after that  ;D
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Post by: Redlight on 12 August, 2014, 09:53:13 pm
Stephen Stills - Stephen Stills

I cant believe I never heard this before. Clapton and Hendix on guitar, Booker T on the organ, Ringo Starr on drums. Backing vocals from David Crosby, Graham Nash, Mamma Cass, Rita Coolidge and Claudia Lennear amongst others.

How could it not be great !

http://youtu.be/AYQjxZURQwE

Yep, that's a bit of a gem.  Love The One You're With is one of the great opening tracks of that era, although I think I prefer this cover version by the Isleys: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Bo-PCf5Y0o (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Bo-PCf5Y0o)
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Post by: tiermat on 13 August, 2014, 09:19:15 am
Smoove and Turrell - Broken Toys to be followed by Nirvana - MTV Unplugged.
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Post by: T42 on 13 August, 2014, 09:20:38 am
"Until the End of the World" soundtrack.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 14 August, 2014, 12:04:26 am
Today DJ Random seems to like:

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Post by: tiermat on 14 August, 2014, 08:45:22 am
My Chemical Romance
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 14 August, 2014, 09:44:43 am
My Chemical Romance

My chum Dai Infidel once met them in a poolside bar at an hotel in Bangkok.  She says they're very nice young men to the extent that it took her quite a while to twig that they were a band.
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Post by: Andrij on 14 August, 2014, 11:12:10 am
Bad Religion
1) select all albums {nearly their entire discography}
2) click 'random play'
3) enjoy
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Post by: tiermat on 14 August, 2014, 11:46:35 am
Bad Religion
1) select all albums {nearly their entire discography}
2) click 'random play'
3) enjoy

DAM YOU! I am going to have to do that this PM.

If I get fired for signing along, I know who to blame!!!
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Post by: Andrij on 14 August, 2014, 11:50:36 am
Bad Religion
1) select all albums {nearly their entire discography}
2) click 'random play'
3) enjoy

DAM YOU! I am going to have to do that this PM.

If I get fired for signing along, I know who to blame!!!

Your music teacher, obviously!  ;D
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Post by: tiermat on 14 August, 2014, 11:53:10 am
Bad Religion
1) select all albums {nearly their entire discography}
2) click 'random play'
3) enjoy

DAM YOU! I am going to have to do that this PM.

If I get fired for signing along, I know who to blame!!!

Your music teacher, obviously!  ;D

Nah, they both gave up on trying to teach me how to sing, as a hopeless case!
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Post by: tiermat on 15 August, 2014, 08:55:32 am
Today it's Korn Unplugged.

They have some guests on this and they make it sublime.

Robert Smith and Korn doing "Make Me Bad/Inbetween Days" is excellent, but the star of the album is "Freak On A Leash" featuring the gorgeous Amy Lee.
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Post by: PaulF on 15 August, 2014, 09:51:18 am
Peter Hammill, Ph7
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 17 August, 2014, 08:22:01 pm
Like Hearts Swelling ~ Polmo Polpo.  CD has been in hiding since at least 2008 and possibly longer than that, but was located today nesting with Kyuss, Nirvana, Samson and Bob Dylan...
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Post by: Andrij on 20 August, 2014, 04:44:29 pm
Гайдамаки (Haydamaky) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haydamaky_%28band%29)
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Post by: microphonie on 21 August, 2014, 06:09:12 pm
Shackleton: Music For The Quiet Hour/The Drawbar Organ Eps:

 MFTQH Part Three  (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQs9NWrXDVQ)
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Post by: Juan Martín on 28 August, 2014, 08:26:50 pm
Space Ritual.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 29 August, 2014, 01:03:34 am
DJ Random's faves today appear to be Slint and Jackson C Frank.
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Post by: citoyen on 03 September, 2014, 04:30:23 pm
New Ruth Theodore. Squee!
http://shop.ruththeodore.com/album/volume-one-earth-to-shovel
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Post by: Juan Martín on 06 September, 2014, 06:35:18 pm
Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase.

A 50p punt from the charity shop in the village. I noticed it as I think it had been recommended to me by Amazon. Well Jeff, your algorithm is correct; it’s sublime. The best 50p I’ve spent in a long while.
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Post by: geoff on 07 September, 2014, 01:50:35 pm
Last several days really:

over and over (good for the endorphin rush): Peter Gabriel - In your Eyes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWvbu5K7MBM)

and working out chords etc on guitar for Glenn Campbell's versions of Jimmy Webb's Witchita Lineman (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbTCTbGjfck) and  If These Walls Could Speak (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnVkRonN9cY)

... digging around on Twitter: Oxfordshire country musician Ags Connolly (http://agsconnolly.com/) (my goodness, I do like a good old twang every now and then!)

and finally my nephew's band Dark Horses (https://www.facebook.com/darkhorsesmusic?ref=ts) - who're out touring their new album pretty well now

Happy days...
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Post by: Andrij on 07 September, 2014, 06:19:00 pm
Cleveland Browns vs. Pittsburgh Steelers.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 09 September, 2014, 07:39:44 pm
Steven James Adams - House Music.

Likee.  Which is handy, since I have tix to go see him.
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Post by: RJ on 09 September, 2014, 11:12:54 pm
The Rails - Fair Warning

Falling the right side of that tricky dynastic musical knife-edge (Kami Thompson is Richard and Linda Thompson's daughter), particularly as The Rails are a husband-and-wife folk duo, I'm really enjoying this album.  Strong material, freshly sung and played - and the title track is one of the most desperately heart-breaking new songs I've heard in I'm-not-sure-how-long.  Recommended.

Review: http://www.violentsuccess.com/2014/05/19/the-rails-fair-warning/
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Post by: sg37409 on 10 September, 2014, 08:33:00 am
When I bought tickets for Robert Plant via ticketmaster, I had to agree to buying his new cd. I wasn't very happy about that. It duly arrived yesterday and have had a listen. I hope its a slow burner, on first listen I didn't like it much.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 10 September, 2014, 10:21:59 am
The Rails - Fair Warning

Falling the right side of that tricky dynastic musical knife-edge (Kami Thompson is Richard and Linda Thompson's daughter), particularly as The Rails are a husband-and-wife folk duo, I'm really enjoying this album.  Strong material, freshly sung and played - and the title track is one of the most desperately heart-breaking new songs I've heard in I'm-not-sure-how-long.  Recommended.

Review: http://www.violentsuccess.com/2014/05/19/the-rails-fair-warning/

Gosh you can tell she's Linda's daughter both in the way she sings and the way she looks.
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Post by: Riggers on 10 September, 2014, 11:36:35 am
Yesterday … I was listening for a short while to: Judee Sill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0feFedDW_iQ
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Post by: IanDG on 11 September, 2014, 07:02:55 pm
Transmission currently being played on R6 :)
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 11 September, 2014, 10:00:28 pm
Tool, courtesy of DJ Random this morning.
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Post by: Deano on 14 September, 2014, 08:59:06 pm
Mostly Jonathan Richman - but now The Burning Hell, in anticipation of the gig on Thursday. Never listened to them before, and I already have the tickets, so it's probably a good job I'm enjoying it.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 16 September, 2014, 01:30:33 am
DJ Random was in a drum solo mood today.  Moby Dick, Toad and Rat Salad all came up.
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Post by: tiermat on 18 September, 2014, 02:03:38 pm
Seasick Steve, currently he is wanting to drive his tractor...
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Post by: billplumtree on 18 September, 2014, 08:15:28 pm
Jennifer Crook, Carnforth Station (http://music.jennifercrook.com/).  Wonderfully downbeat and wistful, just as it should be with that title.
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Post by: jenhunt on 19 September, 2014, 09:21:07 am
whilst at work we have R2 on as it's the only thing that nobody really objects to....

at home however - yesterday evening was spent listening to Karl Jenkins' "The Armed Man - a mass for peace" in an attempt to learn my part for november 8th, when I'll be singing it with Yarm Choral and the Black Dyke Brass Band :D I'm so excited (and slightly geeking out about it too!)
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Post by: PaulF on 19 September, 2014, 09:47:35 am
Kate Bush*

*OK not for about 10 hours but getting ready to leave :smug: ;D
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Post by: citoyen on 19 September, 2014, 10:10:41 am
The Rails - Fair Warning

Gosh you can tell she's Linda's daughter both in the way she sings and the way she looks.

You can indeed. I like.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 19 September, 2014, 12:19:22 pm
New CD just delivered from Amazon today.

Véronique Gens - Tragédiennes, Vol. 2: mainly Gluck, Sachinni and Rameau.

I think I have a bit of a thing for French sopranos, i have quite a bit of Sandrine Piau and Natalie Dessay in my collection as well.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 20 September, 2014, 12:20:28 am
Good choice by DJ Random: Somewhere In Texas ~ The Raveonettes (shortly after entering Texas)
Bad choice by DJ Random: Feel Good Hit Of The Summer ~ Queens Of The Stone Age (while negotiating foot-deep puddles brought about by the arse-end of a Pacific hurricane)
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Post by: marcusjb on 20 September, 2014, 02:23:01 pm
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/99/Aphex_twin_syro.jpg)
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 21 September, 2014, 03:25:09 am
Nice one by DJ Random this afternoon.

Oedipus Rex ~ Tom Lehrer, immediately followed by
Number One Son ~ Amplifier
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Post by: Steph on 22 September, 2014, 07:18:40 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Fl5HLQxhME

Peter Knight.

And lead break in this one on his awesome electric octave violin. Letting rip at 2:16.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQXLrvTe54c
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Post by: LEE on 23 September, 2014, 11:43:25 am
Courtesy (once again) of "Later with Jools Holland" I am introduced to bands new to me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mhgfXgwdls (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mhgfXgwdls)
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Post by: pcolbeck on 23 September, 2014, 12:09:58 pm
Ryan Adams on Later with Jools on iPlayer - Hammond organ and slapback echo tastic !
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Post by: tiermat on 23 September, 2014, 12:24:32 pm
Ryan Adams on Later with Jools on iPlayer - Hammond organ and slapback echo tastic !

Brill, wasn't it? Very Neil Young, in a good way.
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Post by: microphonie on 23 September, 2014, 07:05:04 pm
A newly re-mastered release of  Jam Science  (http://shriekback.bandzoogle.com/store) by Shriekback.

Comes with additional tracks & an additional cd - Live at Hatfield.

 :thumbsup:
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 24 September, 2014, 01:47:35 am
Perhaps I am partly to blame for having six versions of Jimi Hendrix' take on See My Train A-Comin' but really, DJ Random, did you have to play three of them on the same day?
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Post by: marcusjb on 26 September, 2014, 10:01:06 am
After a week of Syro being on near constantly, time to go backwards - Drukqs, Analord and The Tuss records are all cued up for today's coding marathon. 

A quick look back at Syro's origins:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnVRp6SXSk4&list=RDPnVRp6SXSk4
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Post by: interzen on 26 September, 2014, 10:51:24 am
deadmau5

Impressed so far.
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Post by: marcusjb on 26 September, 2014, 11:52:14 am
deadmau5

Impressed so far.

If you ever get the chance - see one of his shows.  Great fun.

He's my default choice for riding through the night on Audax events - very uplifting!
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Post by: tiermat on 26 September, 2014, 12:17:32 pm
At the other end of the scale, I am listening to Los Campesions, Alasca and The Moulettes.
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Post by: interzen on 27 September, 2014, 01:26:53 pm
Rise Above: 24 Black Flag Songs to Benefit the West Memphis Three

I'm not a fan of cover albums, even if they were cut for a good cause like this one was, but oh dear God this is pure, unadulterated awesome as befits the people performing on it, amongst others: Henry Rollins (naturally ...), Tom Araya, Mike Patton, Iggy Pop and ... Lemmy.

I could easily see me listening to this during turbo sessions.

Definitely  :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
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Post by: billplumtree on 27 September, 2014, 08:52:06 pm
Regardless.  Thea Gilmore in fine form.
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Post by: Dibdib on 27 September, 2014, 09:12:20 pm
Teenage Fanclub - Songs From Northern Britain.

Bought on a whim (one of those for for a tenner jobs), promptly forgotten about, and spotted at random on the shelf. It's definitely a grower.
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Post by: andrewc on 29 September, 2014, 09:38:50 pm
Mahler 2, Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Claudio Abbado. 
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Post by: Dibdib on 30 September, 2014, 08:31:57 pm
Not even sorry.

(click to show/hide)
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Post by: pcolbeck on 01 October, 2014, 12:26:04 am
I hate you Dibdib !

I clicked on that and now its stuck in my head. Very good pop.
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Post by: Steph on 01 October, 2014, 09:33:56 pm
The first four Sibelius symphonies, the Helsinki conducted by Berglund. I wanted something powerful while I worked on my books, and, well, I can say no more. Wonderful.
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Post by: andrewc on 01 October, 2014, 09:51:46 pm
Leon Fleisher (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Fleisher) playing 5 Beethoven piano concertos with the Cleveland Orchestra conducted by George Szell in 1959/61.   Beautiful stuff to unwind to after a hectic day in front of a PC.
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Post by: Andrij on 04 October, 2014, 11:35:54 am
Social Distortion.
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Post by: Andrij on 08 October, 2014, 02:06:54 pm
Today: Die Walküre.  Yesterday: Das Rheingold.  No prizes for guessing what's lined up for tomorrow and Friday.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 08 October, 2014, 03:21:22 pm
Today: Die Walküre.  Yesterday: Das Rheingold.  No prizes for guessing what's lined up for tomorrow and Friday.

A geezer with a double-necked guitar telling tales from topographic oceans?

I have to say that at first listen Mystoria, the latest from the greviously-awsum Amplifier, does not appear to be up to snuff.  Sounds more like sub-Sabbath bludgeon riffola and the last thing they needed was a second guitarist .??
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Post by: clarion on 10 October, 2014, 11:25:32 am
Stevie Wonder's performance of Superstition on Sesame Street, followed by Jeff Beck joining him to play same in 2009, then Billy Gibbons, Beck & the phenomenally talented Tal Wilkenfeld playing Foxy Lady, a bit of a Beck/Wilkenfeld jam, then Blockheads (Wilkenfeld and Watt-Roy are not a million miles apart).
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Post by: Juan Martín on 11 October, 2014, 11:26:44 am
Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots - The Flaming Lips
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 11 October, 2014, 06:58:18 pm
Tame Impala - Innerspeaker.

Tried listening to the new album last night and didn't like it as much, seemed a bit too poppy.
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Post by: andrewc on 11 October, 2014, 11:10:00 pm
Been listening to Joni Mitchell all day........ best female artiste ever.. ?

Just been playing Keith Jarrett, "The Survivors Suite" , with the volume up  & the lights off  :thumbsup:
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Post by: marcusjb on 13 October, 2014, 11:19:42 pm
With the very untimely passing of Mark Bell announced today; LFO, rather loud on my main system.

Some of you may not be familiar with his work as LFO and other aliases, but are possibly more familiar with his work with Bjork, as he produced around 5 of her latest albums (and Depeche mode Exciter amongst other things).

A true talented innovator and a thoroughly nice man.  RIP Mark.

http://youtu.be/PGDTTiBvYW0
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Post by: billplumtree on 15 October, 2014, 08:05:53 pm
Azam Ali, Elysium for the Brave.  Sample at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRT7L3913BU

Atmosphere, in spades.  One amazon reviewer describes it as "...closet Goth...a wonderful mix of darker progressions of techno-middle-Eastern Farsi...along with overtly Gothy Western New Age/pop/rock with English", which pretty well covers it.

Her earlier stuff has a lot of Monserrat Figueras about it.  This doesn't.
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Post by: tiermat on 16 October, 2014, 08:53:53 am
Opposites - Biffy Clyro

Took me until T in the Park this year to realise that they had released another album after "Only Revolutions".

It's taking a bit of getting used to, it's not "Puzzle", that is for certain, but contains a few good tracks, "Stinging Belle", "Biblical" and "Black Chandelier" among them.
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Post by: clarion on 16 October, 2014, 11:04:05 am
Patti Smith.  Goddess.
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Post by: andrewc on 18 October, 2014, 09:03:12 pm
Tokyo String Quartet, playing Beethoven beautifully.   A package arrived earlier with the Complete String Quartets (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Beethoven-Complete-Quartets-Tokyo-Quartet/dp/B00L5J4PYC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1413662306&sr=8-1&keywords=beethoven+tokyo) in.

Wonderfully recorded, the discs are SACD hybrids & play perfectly on my standard CD player.
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Post by: Ruthie on 19 October, 2014, 09:57:41 pm
Radiohead.

Genius stuff.  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 19 October, 2014, 10:51:25 pm
Monster Magnet.  Loud.  Excellent.
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Post by: Riggers on 21 October, 2014, 09:09:03 am
Not today, but last night I was listening to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmdzIWZbsLw
by Anouar Brahem. Hadn't heard of him before, but a friend gave me the album for my birthday. I'm hooked!
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Post by: andrewc on 22 October, 2014, 06:53:22 pm
Not today, but last night I was listening to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmdzIWZbsLw
by Anouar Brahem. Hadn't heard of him before, but a friend gave me the album for my birthday. I'm hooked!

He's wonderful.  I went to Brussels earlier in the year to see him play the entire album live.    If you like him also check out Rabih Abou Khalil (http://www.rabihaboukhalil.com/) and Dhafer Youssef (http://www.dhaferyoussef.com/)
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Post by: Riggers on 23 October, 2014, 08:46:14 am
 :thumbsup: for those two. Just listened to a bit of 'Birds Requiem' album by Dhafer Yousef. Marvellous.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 24 October, 2014, 03:34:09 pm
Lots of Lucinda Williams on Youtube

Some good some great and some shoddy (she looks out of it on some of the videos).

This one is excellent though and worth a listen to just for Doug Pettibone's blistering guitar.

http://youtu.be/P-Fhf6nlQHI
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Post by: Biggsy on 24 October, 2014, 04:30:08 pm
Gerry Rafferty - City to City.  I must be going soft.

Interesting that Baker Street was sped up a bit for the single, as well as edited, to make it more radio friendly and the sax in tune, allegedly.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 25 October, 2014, 08:05:47 pm
Various episodes of "Live from Daryl's House" on YouTube. If you want an antidote to X-Factor et al then give this a try. Nearly all of them are utterly brilliant, fantastic musicianship and singing.

Shelby Lynne - Leaving

http://youtu.be/E0kSDM19BLg

Rob Thomas - She's Gone (does it count as a cover of Daryl is on it ?)

http://youtu.be/b_YRDMcYjoM

Nothing But A Miracle - Diane Birch

http://youtu.be/H9lyrOETXao
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Post by: Deano on 25 October, 2014, 09:06:32 pm
Finally got around to listening to City Forgiveness by the ever-wonderful Wave Pictures.

It does seem to be that rarest of beasties, a good double album!  Though the first disc is more ear-grabbing so far, probably cos it has more songs on it that I know.

Off to see them live next week, where I think they'll be playing a set of mostly Daniel Johnston tunes  :thumbsup:
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Post by: microphonie on 27 October, 2014, 06:55:39 pm
Lots of recent downloads in the queue on the new Digital Audio Player (the ace iBasso DX90):

The Bug - Angels & Devils, Exit ep
Vince Clarke & Martyn Ware - Spectrum Pursuit Vehicle
Cut Hands - Festival Of The Dead
Electronic Eye - Autoshark
Richard H. Kirk - Intone Unreleased Projects Vol. 4, Reality Is Opposite & Sonic Reflections (Unreleased Soundtrack Project 1994)
Kode9 & The Spaceape - Killing Season
Lamb - Backspace Unwind
Vasco De Mento   - Burning The Words (Part One)
Vasco De Mento   - Burning The Words (Part Two)
Bit Crackle - Afro Digital
Demdike Stare -   Testpressings #005 & #006
Function & Vatican Shadow - Games Have Rules
Lee Gamble - Koch
Muslimgauze - Deceiver Vol 3 & 4
R.Seiliog -   Shuffles E.P.


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Post by: Steph on 28 October, 2014, 03:31:56 pm
'Going Back Home' from Wilko and Rog.

'Nantucket Sleighride' as I was posting about Felix and Leslie. Looking up Leslie's work on Am*zon, I came across this inspired if utterly non-PC record cover, following the amputation of part of one of his legs.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Guitarded-Leslie-West/dp/B0002QI626/ref=sr_1_8?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1414510286&sr=1-8&keywords=leslie+west
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Post by: Redlight on 29 October, 2014, 10:14:18 am
Punk

Loud

Neighbours have gone away for half term  :thumbsup:
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Post by: tiermat on 29 October, 2014, 10:25:54 am
Jools Holland - Jack'O'The Green

An oldie, but a goodie :)
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 30 October, 2014, 10:00:53 pm
Listening to the new North Atlantic Oscillation album. I'm a bit underwhelmed :(
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Post by: clarion on 30 October, 2014, 10:07:02 pm
We've listened to an edition of TOTP from 1980 - cracking stuff, including Selecter, Madness, Dexy's, Pretenders etc.  Now on a 1968 edition with The Move, Manfred Mann, Alan Price etc.  Not quite so good, but there are some gems in there.
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Post by: tiermat on 31 October, 2014, 08:17:27 am
A blast from the past for me (though not too far in the past)

Uncle Kracker - Double Wide
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 31 October, 2014, 10:29:53 am
I haz an MP3 CD in the motor-car with five Tool albums on it.  Will this be enough for the journey from Larrington Towers to Crystal Palace?
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 31 October, 2014, 10:44:13 am
Squeals and squawks and thumps of two Cubs playing upstairs and (I think, it's a bit unclear due to it being a Cub-choice on their stereo upstairs and the intervening sound insulation-and-pollution) Kirsty MacColl.
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Post by: tiermat on 31 October, 2014, 10:45:54 am
Back in the here and now with Biffy Clyro - Opposites

It's a grower, that is for certain.
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Post by: Juan Martín on 31 October, 2014, 11:54:57 am
Physical Graffiti (Oooooooooooooooh Yeyeah!! And so on)
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Post by: Redlight on 31 October, 2014, 06:31:59 pm
Back to Front by Peter Gabriel, which is an official CD of his concert at the O2 last October, to which I went.  Apparently you can buy a copy of every show on the tour (this was a gift from a well-meaning friend).  There's even a box set with the whole lot in, which seems a bit excessive.

Sad to say, apart from the odd moment (an acoustic version of Shock the Monkey, for example), it's only serving to remind me how boring the concert was and why I was happy to leave before the end.  I don't think it'll be getting a second play.  :(
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Post by: Deano on 31 October, 2014, 08:11:55 pm
Broken Social Scene.
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Post by: Steph on 31 October, 2014, 08:30:41 pm
'Going Back Home' from Wilko and Rog.

'Nantucket Sleighride' as I was posting about Felix and Leslie. Looking up Leslie's work on Am*zon, I came across this inspired if utterly non-PC record cover, following the amputation of part of one of his legs.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Guitarded-Leslie-West/dp/B0002QI626/ref=sr_1_8?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1414510286&sr=1-8&keywords=leslie+west
I bought it. Leslie West turned up to 11. Loud, grunty, wailing and shouting blues rock, Da-DUm, da-DUM, gorgeous stuff. Sod subtlety.

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=leslie%20west%20stormy&qs=n&form=QBVR&pq=leslie%20west%20stormy&sc=0-15&sp=-1&sk=#view=detail&mid=7EE38C15994EE49CB2987EE38C15994EE49CB298
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Post by: RJ on 01 November, 2014, 12:25:20 am
http://www.krautrock-world.com/Radio/playing.php
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Post by: TheLurker on 02 November, 2014, 07:57:14 am
John Mayall and his Bluesbreakers - at this very moment, "Crawling up a Hill". 
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Post by: Juan Martín on 04 November, 2014, 08:33:08 pm
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly - The Chronicles of a Bohemian Teenager
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Post by: Ham on 04 November, 2014, 11:13:52 pm
....a lot of rain on the conservatory roof, and being pleased it is no longer on me.
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Post by: Pingu on 04 November, 2014, 11:51:08 pm
...Sad to say, apart from the odd moment (an acoustic version of Shock the Monkey, for example), it's only serving to remind me how boring the concert was and why I was happy to leave before the end.  I don't think it'll be getting a second play.  :(

Oh, poo :( We're going to see him in December.
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Post by: Pingu on 04 November, 2014, 11:52:43 pm
'The Grape and Grain' show, Gideon Coe, 6Music  :)
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Post by: CommuteTooFar on 05 November, 2014, 10:06:56 pm
Magyar Dalok & Magyar Rapszodiak by list played by Leslie Howard on Hyperion CD. (CDA66851/2)
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Post by: Steph on 06 November, 2014, 08:18:48 pm
Jez Lowe. Sweet man.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 07 November, 2014, 06:53:46 pm
French jazz radio on FIP, which seems to be doing jazz covers of Michael Jackson at the moment.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 08 November, 2014, 12:28:17 pm
Godspeed You! Black Emperor ~ Lift Yr. Skinny Fists...

The Mollycat seems to like it too
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Post by: Deano on 08 November, 2014, 10:07:34 pm
Godspeed You! Black Emperor ~ Lift Yr. Skinny Fists...

The Mollycat seems to like it too

They've announced some UK dates next spring, you know.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 08 November, 2014, 11:23:07 pm
Ooh, ta!  I shall Investigate...

Edit: April, 17th - Albert Hall, Manchester.  20th - Shepherds Bush Empire, That London.

np: Masters Of Reality.  I don't understand these arj-fangled "networks", that they have now, but my iThings Library has appeared on Mr Sunshine's Babbage-Engine so it would be wrong not to.  Also, Chris Goss can do a spookily-accurate Jim Morrison.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 09 November, 2014, 08:21:47 pm
UK dates, chiz....
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Post by: Deano on 09 November, 2014, 08:40:42 pm
UK dates, chiz....

It's marginally better than two nights in London, though (I'm looking at you, Cat Power), and doesn't merit being called a tour.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 09 November, 2014, 09:50:24 pm
They're doing two shows in Canada this month.  That makes it a tour...

...by Half Man Half Biscuit standards :D
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Post by: Deano on 09 November, 2014, 10:19:30 pm
Mrs P, Chris T-T's playing Aberdeen, despite skipping almost the entire north of England:

http://christt.com/live/

Highly recommended.
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Post by: gibbo on 10 November, 2014, 12:31:48 pm
UK Subs.

Went to see them last Saturday in Ipswich. Sad to say the sound quality wasn't that great. The warm up bands, Jack The Lad and Red Flag 77 were a bit better. Still, got in for free as managed to get on the quest list courtesy of a friend who's BiL is the bass player with the Subs.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 11 November, 2014, 08:57:58 am
UK dates, chiz....

It's marginally better than two nights in London, though (I'm looking at you, Cat Power), and doesn't merit being called a tour.

They have added a date in Glasgow.  Though this is not much of an improvement, it's a bit closer to Furryboottoon.  Londonton tickets not now on sale until midday tomorrow chiz, after I'd set the alarm cat an'all.
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Post by: Juan Martín on 11 November, 2014, 07:24:54 pm
Going off to my RT appointment this morning from St Paul's a busker (I suppose we must call her) at the bottom of the escalator was singing ‘Voi che sapete’, Cherubino’s aria from Le Nozze di Figaro. I realised just as I reached the platform that her voice was sending shivers down my spine so I looped back to the escalator to make a donation. Listening now, it doesn’t have the same effect; must be the acoustics.
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Post by: Juan Martín on 16 November, 2014, 07:05:30 pm
A collection of Bach fugues.
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Post by: tiermat on 17 November, 2014, 08:59:46 pm
Following a post, and conversation on bookface, I am having a Primus splurge.

Tommy the Cat is top of the list :)
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Post by: Snakehips on 17 November, 2014, 09:47:29 pm
Not today, but being mid November it won't be long before the old Jethro Tull Christmas selection comes out again.
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Post by: tiermat on 18 November, 2014, 08:16:22 am
Not today, but being mid November it won't be long before the old Jethro Tull Christmas selection comes out again.

That reminds me, must find the "Christmas Around The World" CD, ready, as Mrs T will insist on the decos going up on 1/12.
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Post by: Juan Martín on 23 November, 2014, 06:43:44 pm
Grace - Jeff Buckley. I had forgotten how good this is!
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Post by: CrazyEnglishTriathlete on 23 November, 2014, 09:59:20 pm
Beth Hart  Live at Paradiso.

Whole Lotta Love.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 24 November, 2014, 08:59:23 pm
Roy Harper - Stonehenge, UK. 1984

On YouTube and looking for myself in the audience. It seems a lifetime away.
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Post by: Andrij on 25 November, 2014, 12:12:30 am
Bad Religion

It's the sort of music which begs to be cranked up to 11, but I doubt the neighbours (left, right and/or below) would appreciate it so stereo set at a 'sensible' volume. *sigh*
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Post by: tiermat on 25 November, 2014, 07:17:16 am
Bad Religion

It's the sort of music which begs to be cranked up to 11, but I doubt the neighbours (left, right and/or below) would appreciate it so stereo set at a 'sensible' volume. *sigh*

Agreed, you need a detached house, or deaf neighbours!

Which CD was it you were listening to?
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Post by: Andrij on 25 November, 2014, 07:45:14 am
Most of them.  :smug:


I suppose I could have transferred tracks to the ipod, plugged in the ear buds and cranked the music, but 1) it's not quite the same, and 2), ICBA.
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Post by: Ruthie on 28 November, 2014, 10:10:52 am
The Protecting Veil, by John Tavener.  It's perfect.
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Post by: Juan Martín on 30 November, 2014, 06:00:35 pm
In the Land of Grey and Pink - Caravan
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Post by: mcshroom on 02 December, 2014, 05:49:43 am
The Eccesium Choir's 'Christmas Blessing'. Bit early for Christmas stuff but wonderful choir :)
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Post by: tiermat on 04 December, 2014, 09:05:56 am
Tricky, starting with "Maxinquaye" then onto "Angels with Dirty Faces" and ending with "Juxtapose", the last of which I can only get away with playing out loud when no one else is in the house.
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Post by: perpetual dan on 05 December, 2014, 01:05:12 pm
Warming up for this evening with a Fields of the Nephilim marathon as background to work.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 05 December, 2014, 02:24:50 pm
DJ Random is in a Kyuss mood today, though on Wednesday he played three consecutive John Lee Hooker tracks.  I think this is some kind of record.
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Post by: clarion on 05 December, 2014, 11:16:56 pm
Nick Drake
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Post by: TheLurker on 06 December, 2014, 07:09:55 am
Elizabethan Lute Songs.  Peter Pears & Julian Bream
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Post by: andrewc on 06 December, 2014, 07:00:41 pm
Working my way through a box set of Jacqueline Du Pre's recordings for EMI.  17 CD's,  I'm up to number 6 which is the Beethoven Cello Sonata's.

If you are looking for a Christmas present for someone who likes classical music then Presto have it for £26.50 which is an utter bargain.
 http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/EMI/0919342 (http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/EMI/0919342)
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Post by: Ruthie on 06 December, 2014, 11:58:38 pm
O, Devotion - Liz Green's album from a couple of years ago. Top moody Saturday night stuff.
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Post by: Gattopardo on 07 December, 2014, 01:33:21 am
Kate Rusby - Little lights Was introduced to me by an ex girlfriend who has the same style curly hair. Still quite fancy the ex and kate rusby.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 10 December, 2014, 09:25:03 am
The 13th Floor Elevators :thumbsup:
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Post by: Riggers on 10 December, 2014, 10:22:49 am
Repeat of … "Blue Jam… Blue Jam… Blue Jam…"
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Post by: mcshroom on 10 December, 2014, 11:35:28 pm
KT Tunstall - Eye to the Telescope
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 11 December, 2014, 02:54:43 pm
DJ Random, he say "Today you will listen to A Perfect Circle"
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 12 December, 2014, 02:09:37 pm
Chairs Missing ~ Wire

I'd forgotten how Aces this record is.
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Post by: andrewc on 12 December, 2014, 08:47:11 pm
Midnight Oil, "Diesel & Dust" , an old favourite.
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Post by: Andrij on 12 December, 2014, 11:12:11 pm
Midnight Oil, "Diesel & Dust" , an old favourite.
:thumbsup:
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Post by: CommuteTooFar on 13 December, 2014, 11:43:52 pm
Sigrid und Marina

I do not understand the words but lovely voices.
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Post by: Pingu on 14 December, 2014, 10:27:34 pm
God Is An Astronaut

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfv1IWHPNnU
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Post by: pcolbeck on 15 December, 2014, 11:17:52 am
Alfred Deller - Music for a while (Henry Purcell)

Simply exquisite.

http://youtu.be/NiDNS1eGpLM

Music for a while
Shall all your cares beguile.
Wond'ring how your pains were eas'd
And disdaining to be pleas'd
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Post by: Pingu on 19 December, 2014, 11:21:40 pm
Ye Olde Talkynge Heds:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25XLlpAigWw
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 20 December, 2014, 11:39:44 am
Thank Christ For The Groundhogs - a three-CD compilation of the 1968-72 works of TS McPhee and the boys.

Wait!  Is that a Hammond organ I hear?  For shame!
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Post by: Steph on 20 December, 2014, 04:08:05 pm
You inspired me to dig out their "...for the bomb"

My garden is now all overgrown.

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Post by: billplumtree on 21 December, 2014, 09:39:48 pm
Vashti Bunyan's new album, Heartleap.  Her third:  the previous one was 7 years ago, and the first was, ridiculously, in 1970.  And she's even more wonderful than ever this time round.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPXj1hlHuTs
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Post by: mcshroom on 22 December, 2014, 11:40:05 pm
Jesus Christ the Apple Tree
http://youtu.be/4-9Ab-vYs08

Apparently I'm singing this on Wednesday but I haven't got a copy of the score yet :-\
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 22 December, 2014, 11:48:24 pm
Josh Homme-endorsed Belgian stoners Creature With The Atom Brain.  And Neil Young.
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Post by: Ruthie on 03 January, 2015, 11:40:46 am
Good Omens, the Pterry adaptation/radio series in collaboration with Neil Gaiman.  Spot the cameos by the authors!

Most enjoyable when you're cooking.
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Post by: sg37409 on 03 January, 2015, 03:10:57 pm
Tonic for the troops. (On original vinyl)
I'm so modern !
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Post by: David Martin on 03 January, 2015, 11:45:22 pm
Verdi's Requiem. ANd when I am done wiht that I have the complete cycle of Shostakovitch symphonies to work through.
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Post by: Ham on 05 January, 2015, 10:33:56 am
Bow Thayer, an astonishing guitar talent in that cool, country-blues laid back style that makes it sound so easy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmZ9g9LlQio - accompanied by a bass uke, at 12:00-ish he starts playing his bojotar - a smashing together of banjo, dobro and electric guitar. I'd reckon the Mississippi blues he plays at about 32:00 are as good as anything.
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Post by: Riggers on 06 January, 2015, 12:30:59 pm
Owen Pallett In Conflict album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KNDXQUJ9BI
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Post by: pcolbeck on 06 January, 2015, 04:00:25 pm
Bow Thayer, an astonishing guitar talent in that cool, country-blues laid back style that makes it sound so easy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmZ9g9LlQio - accompanied by a bass uke, at 12:00-ish he starts playing his bojotar - a smashing together of banjo, dobro and electric guitar. I'd reckon the Mississippi blues he plays at about 32:00 are as good as anything.

Excellent. He's new to me, thanks Ham.
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Post by: Andrew on 06 January, 2015, 04:49:46 pm
Lana del Rey's 'Ultraviolence'..... repeatedly.
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Post by: Steph on 07 January, 2015, 12:14:16 am
Verdi's Requiem. ANd when I am done wiht that I have the complete cycle of Shostakovitch symphonies to work through.
Excellent!

For me, this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8LyuMSrJmA
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Post by: microphonie on 07 January, 2015, 06:41:41 pm
Samaris -  Silkidrangar  (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv92z0OCwy8) - 19th C Icelandic poetry backed by clarinet & electronics. Wonderful...
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Post by: Andrij on 09 January, 2015, 01:05:04 am
Good Omens.

Brilliant  ;D
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 09 January, 2015, 01:37:33 am
Good Omens.

Brilliant  ;D

Oh goodie!  This plezh still awaits but I have a copy on the PVR, another on the Babbage-Engine, a third on a USB memory stick and a fourth on a CD in the car.  I do not want to miss this ;D
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Post by: andrewc on 12 January, 2015, 10:54:36 pm
Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday On Columbia  (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0029XIWCY?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00) , this turned up in the post today.  10 CD's for £20,  not bad at all. 
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Post by: Riggers on 16 January, 2015, 09:37:52 am
Well … after seeing my very first Broadchurch last night on the telly (yes, I missed the first series thanks) I am listening to Ólafur Arnalds - So Close. Icelandic chappie composer with Arnor Dan vocals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XXd_KPShjE
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Post by: Andrij on 17 January, 2015, 01:02:35 am
Various yewtoob clips of Kate Davis (http://www.katedavismusic.com/). 

One is impressed (and smitten).
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Post by: Feanor on 18 January, 2015, 06:57:10 pm
BBC R4 "From Our Own Correspondent" yesterday had an item about an African cycle team.
I just spotted it on the BBC website.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-30838464

It's an inspiring story.
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Post by: Chris S on 22 January, 2015, 02:34:41 pm
The Calm Blue Sea.

Bloody hell - they sound quite a lot like Explosions in the Sky, don't they?  :o

Have I missed something - are they actually the same band? Did they get bored with one name and change it?
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Post by: tiermat on 22 January, 2015, 03:02:11 pm
Biify Clyro - Opposites followed by Bad Religion - The Dissent of Man

Later there shall be NOFX and Rancid.

It's one of those days...
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 22 January, 2015, 05:51:07 pm
The Calm Blue Sea.

Bloody hell - they sound quite a lot like Explosions in the Sky, don't they?  :o

Have I missed something - are they actually the same band? Did they get bored with one name and change it?

They're also from Austin TX.  Something in the water?

Mind you, Stevie Ray Vaughan was from Austin too.
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Post by: nicknack on 22 January, 2015, 05:58:45 pm
Trees.
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Post by: Riggers on 23 January, 2015, 10:17:52 am
Trees. Blimey, they're years old they are.
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Post by: andrewc on 23 January, 2015, 01:35:35 pm
As I'm off work I can listen to the Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert.   The Emerson Quartet playing Shostakovich String Quartet No 15 in E Flat Minor Op 144.   Recorded at St Georges Hall, Liverpool last year.  I was in the audience for this one & it's just as good the 2nd time.  Listen carefully & you can hear the huge chandelier tinkling...
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Post by: David Martin on 23 January, 2015, 11:51:51 pm
Shostakovith 15th symphony.
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Post by: Deano on 24 January, 2015, 04:52:35 pm
The football :o

(click to show/hide)
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Post by: Deano on 24 January, 2015, 07:26:38 pm
And currently enjoying Matthew E. White.

Chris, I'll have to give Calm Blue Sea a listen - ripping off Explosions in the Sky is no bad thing, in my book!
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Post by: Andrij on 24 January, 2015, 08:21:13 pm
Verdi's Requiem. (Radio3)
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Post by: Wowbagger on 24 January, 2015, 11:09:59 pm
Earlier I was listening to Haydn's "Creation Mass" and practising the bass line. The dog kept joining in, which was off-putting to say the least.
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Post by: PaulF on 26 January, 2015, 05:01:59 pm
Bit of a Van Morrison Day: Astral Weeks, Hard Nose to the Highway and St Dominic's Preview
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Post by: tiermat on 27 January, 2015, 01:04:23 pm
Bloc Party and My Chemical Romance (not both together, obviously)

Teenage Angst 'R' Us
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Post by: Steph on 27 January, 2015, 11:53:41 pm
Capercaillie
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Post by: geoff on 28 January, 2015, 01:00:08 pm
Had a day of immersion in Judee Sill's music...I remembered her from 1973 or so, on OGWT, then browsing found this documentary (http://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/unfictional/the-lost-genius-of-judee-sill). Glad to have found it (good old BBC!)
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Post by: Andrij on 28 January, 2015, 03:04:43 pm
The 2014 Reith Lectures.
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Post by: billplumtree on 28 January, 2015, 07:35:37 pm
A review on R4 of Bob Dylan's new album, Shadows in the Night, consisting of covers of Sinatra-sung standards.

It's not April 1 already, is it?
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Post by: Riggers on 30 January, 2015, 08:49:28 am
Last night, I was listening to Whispering Bob Harris's 'Country' programme on R2 at 7pm. Hadn't listened to it before, but it was on by chance as I was chiseling and planing some wood on the kitchen table, and it was very entertaining. Yes, there was the inevitable sliiiiiiiiiiiide guitar and overly emphasised surrrrtherrrrn accent (as they're good 'ol country girls 'n' boys), but overall, I was pleasantly impressed.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0505rr1
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Post by: Tim Hall on 30 January, 2015, 01:26:59 pm
The Green Rock River Band. (http://www.greenrockriverband.com/)

Wonky Tonk, Doom Folk Band.

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Post by: Mr Larrington on 02 February, 2015, 10:47:46 pm
I have resurrected a certain number of albums from a dying hard drive and the sound qualitynthereof is pleasingly less crap than I feared it might be.  Hence I am now listening to NWOBHM also-rans Vardis :thumbsup:
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Post by: tiermat on 03 February, 2015, 11:38:26 am
Inspired by the release of the names of the first acts on the bill @ Deershed 6, I have been listening to:

The Felice Brothers
Ibibio Sound System
John Grant
Honeyblood
Black Rivers
Menace Beach
Curtis Eller

My favourites, at the moment, are The Felice Brothers and Curtis Eller.
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Post by: Deano on 03 February, 2015, 10:26:48 pm
The Felice Brothers are fantastic.

I'm currently listening to the very indie, quite sweary and incredibly Lancastrian The Lovely Eggs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYyYqhxxHYY
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Post by: Andrij on 04 February, 2015, 11:49:53 am
http://xkcd.com/1482/   ;D
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Post by: David Martin on 06 February, 2015, 11:18:23 pm
Khan academy lectures on linear algebra.
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Post by: andrewc on 06 February, 2015, 11:24:54 pm
Working my way through a Chopin box set (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Chopin-Complete-Martha-Argerich/dp/B002NFCHBA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1423264878&sr=8-1&keywords=chopin+complete)

Just got to disc 13 . Piano sonata 2 in B flat minor, this includes the "Marche funebre",  which had me sitting upright in my chair feeling rather sad....
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 07 February, 2015, 12:04:31 pm
Parallel Universe.  3CD collection of Hawkwind's 1970-74 Stuffs including, apparently, twelve previously unreleased ones.  It is this: teh aces :thumbsup:

Now, has anyone got a backup copy of New World's Fair by Michael Moorcock & The Deep Fix? (Dons stupid hippie hat with strings hanging down the sides)
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Post by: tiermat on 07 February, 2015, 12:31:17 pm
The Felice Brothers are fantastic.

I'm currently listening to the very indie, quite sweary and incredibly Lancastrian The Lovely Eggs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYyYqhxxHYY

I knew, upon listening to them, that you might be a fan...

Curtis Eller is gloriously mad.
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Post by: microphonie on 07 February, 2015, 04:23:42 pm

I'm currently listening to the very indie, quite sweary and incredibly Lancastrian The Lovely Eggs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYyYqhxxHYY

I knew, upon listening to them, that you might be a fan...


(Sausage roll)  :thumbsup:
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Post by: billplumtree on 07 February, 2015, 08:37:27 pm
Piano sonata 2 in B flat minor, this includes the "Marche funebre",  which had me sitting upright in my chair feeling rather sad....

I love it.  Sometimes it has me doing the sad sitting upright thing;  but at other times I can detach it from all the cultural references, and then it just sounds glorious
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Post by: Andrij on 08 February, 2015, 06:20:46 pm
The choir of King's Colege, Cambridge, singing Rachmaninov's Vespers.

[liturgicalpedant]
The title is a misnomer.  The music is actually for an All-Night Vigil (http://orthodoxwiki.org/Vigil), which is a combination of Vespers and Matins.
[/liturgicalpedant]
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Post by: Steph on 16 February, 2015, 12:16:21 am
'Man or Myth', Roy Harper. Sublime.
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Post by: Tim Hall on 16 February, 2015, 01:15:14 pm
Turista Terry & Gerry on spotify. Trying not to sing along (crowded office, innit)
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Post by: tiermat on 18 February, 2015, 08:43:59 am
Today is a Slipknot type of day, in this case "All Hope is Gone"
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Post by: rogerzilla on 22 February, 2015, 05:10:15 pm
Sex Farm - Spinal Tap (yes, really)
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Post by: PaulF on 22 February, 2015, 05:27:46 pm
Mogwai, why did nobody ever tell me how brilliant they are!
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Post by: pcolbeck on 22 February, 2015, 07:32:54 pm
"When you're smiling and astride me" - Father John Mistry

Rather lovely really.
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Post by: Ruthie on 22 February, 2015, 07:56:36 pm
"When you're smiling and astride me" - Father John Mistry

Rather lovely really.

The whole album's a treat.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 26 February, 2015, 02:43:24 pm
Royal Blood.  The singer sounds quite a lot like Wolfmother's Andrew Stockdale; overall sound is a bit White Stripes, a bit early QOTSA and really rather splendid.  Not the sort of thing I expected to find behind an advert for a CBBC app either.
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Post by: Tim Hall on 26 February, 2015, 03:03:25 pm
The Hillmans (Barn Dance Music for Plumbers, according to their moribund website)

I saw them at Crawley Folk Festival a couple of years ago. Why someone thought it a good idea to book a psychobilly band at a folk festival I'm not sure.
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Post by: andrewc on 01 March, 2015, 07:53:05 pm
Jorge Bolet playing Liszt.  Jorge Bolet: The Complete RCA and Columbia Album Collection (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00J57KHUC?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o04_s00)

10 CD's of beautiful music,  Liszt, Chopin, Rachmaninov & others for £17. 
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Post by: Ham on 03 March, 2015, 09:21:10 pm
I seem to be having a Patax moment again... the new album of Michael Jackson covers. It really shouldn't be as good as it is.

eg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSn9rwS4JJs

or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU0Z-ATEYEA

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Post by: Deano on 03 March, 2015, 11:36:42 pm
Electrelane. God, they were good.
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Post by: IanDG on 03 March, 2015, 11:47:01 pm
The Crusaders  :-\

http://youtu.be/YqDF-wL3VXM

I sought of got there thro' a youtube chain starting with Seasick Steve and have stuck with it.
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Post by: Ham on 04 March, 2015, 11:47:09 am
I've just invented a new game, turn any video into Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody ( TMPratchettGaiman) using the youtube suggestions on the side of the page - not including multi track mixes or "show more")

From the Crusaders, to Randy Crawford, Mark Knopfler, Eric Clapton, Bon Jovi, Queen with Elton John, Bohemian Rhapsody.

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Post by: Ham on 04 March, 2015, 12:04:29 pm
(took me 22 steps from Mahler's 4th)
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Post by: tiermat on 04 March, 2015, 01:32:32 pm
I seem to be having a Patax moment again... the new album of Michael Jackson covers. It really shouldn't be as good as it is.

eg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSn9rwS4JJs

or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU0Z-ATEYEA

<Jazz Club>

NIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICE

</Jazz Club>

Seriously, though, it is very good. The video is only spoilt by the bass player looking like he was going to make a mess of his grots at one point.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 06 March, 2015, 02:29:24 pm
Chista Ludwig singing Mahler's Der Abschied.

http://youtu.be/Q_bwuSK7U34

Strange dark beautiful music.  No wonder Mahler was virtually ignored as a composer until forty years after his death.

The sun departs behind the mountains.
In all the valleys the evening descends
with its shadow, full cooling.
O look! Like a silver boat sails
the moon in the watery blue heaven.
I sense the fine breeze stirring
behind the dark pines.
The brook sings out clear through the darkness.
The flowers pale in the twilight.
The earth breathes, in full rest and sleep.
All longing now becomes a dream.
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Post by: Steph on 06 March, 2015, 09:12:02 pm
The Hillmans (Barn Dance Music for Plumbers, according to their moribund website)

I saw them at Crawley Folk Festival a couple of years ago. Why someone thought it a good idea to book a psychobilly band at a folk festival I'm not sure.
Crawley was always a sort of bit of music attached to a beer festival. It's now a beer festival.
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Post by: Pingu on 06 March, 2015, 11:16:25 pm
Public Service Broadcasting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wY-kAnvOY80

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHIo6qwJarI
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Post by: Pingu on 09 March, 2015, 08:59:58 pm
Harvest - Neil Young. I'd forgotten how many good songs there are on this album.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 10 March, 2015, 07:04:20 am
Harvest - Neil Young. I'd forgotten how many good songs there are on this album.
Neil Young - The most brilliant terrible guitar player and singer in the world. It really really shouldn’t work but when you hear it it's just glorious.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 11 March, 2015, 03:35:00 pm
Morgan James

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuSO5KpdUic

Came across her via The Postmodern Jukebox. Ace voice, I ordered the CD.
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Post by: tiermat on 11 March, 2015, 03:59:22 pm
Korn - Unplugged
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Post by: pcolbeck on 12 March, 2015, 03:51:52 pm
Mahler - Das Lied von der Erde

Otto Klemperer and the Philharmonia Orchestra recorded in 1967 with Christa Ludwig and Fritz Wunderlich.

This is an absolute bargain. Boxed set on Warner Classics that also includes Symphonies 2,4,7 and 9 and some other lieder. Recorded over a year with either Christa Ludwig or Elizabeth Schwartzkopf on mezzo duties. It's been remastered into 24-bit/96 kHz from the original master tapes and sounds lovely. About £12 which for six CDs of such great recordings is stupidly cheap.
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Post by: tiermat on 12 March, 2015, 04:04:15 pm
Fear Factory - ReManufacture

It just seems like a day for this...
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 13 March, 2015, 05:10:19 pm
Amplifier.  Miss von Brandenburg and I are going to see them in a couple of weeks so I thought it wise to refamiliarise myself with some of their lesser-listened-to output.

I ordered a T-shaped shirt from their webby SCIENCE last week and as a result of it being out of stock have been having an e-mail conversation with drummer Matt Brobin today.  I have also had a nice chat with singer/guitarist/songwriter/producer/photographer/git (delete as applicable) Sel Balamir concerning a double payment for a download.  Nice peoples :thumbsup:

You don't get that with One Direction or U2.
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Post by: Andrij on 14 March, 2015, 09:42:02 pm
Helping a friend...

Anyway, right now I have just finished listening to Wire's Pink Flag and have now loaded Quicksilver Messenger Service - Happy Trails.
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Post by: Deano on 14 March, 2015, 09:44:39 pm
;D
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Post by: andrewc on 17 March, 2015, 10:30:41 pm
Youtube videos of the Tiger Lillies, off to see them in Salford tomorrow night.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEq_ZIxHz_M (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEq_ZIxHz_M) This has my eyes tearing up.

 Lyrics http://www.greatwar.co.uk/poems/ewart-alan-mackintosh-in-memoriam.htm (http://www.greatwar.co.uk/poems/ewart-alan-mackintosh-in-memoriam.htm)

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3xmfqMj8s8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3xmfqMj8s8)
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Post by: tiermat on 18 March, 2015, 08:17:01 am
Slipknot - All Hope is Gone

The sun is shining, work is easy and I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Life is good, so this CD is the one to listen to!
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Post by: pcolbeck on 19 March, 2015, 10:27:13 am
Gov'T Mule - The Deep End, Volume 1

If you like classy guitar rifs and Hammond organ you'll like this one. Its really a tribute album to their base player who died (it's all songs he liked) and has a stellar set of guest musicians especially base players: Jack Bruce, Bootsy Collins, John Entwistle, John Scofield, Roger Glover and a host of others.
 
https://youtu.be/ijsritrkiAA?list=PL94gOvpr5yt0-BZp98E94UpgKRdTzZ5X8
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Post by: T42 on 24 March, 2015, 05:42:40 pm
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida - Carbon Iron Butterfly.

At least I was. It's boring.
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Post by: Dibdib on 25 March, 2015, 06:40:25 pm
I've had Fiesta by The Pogues (and a few other Pogues tracks) in my head all day. No idea why.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pYI9t-I6qo

And now I'll be spending all evening thinking of my Dad.
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Post by: Chris S on 26 March, 2015, 10:33:16 am
Augustines : Augustines.  :thumbsup:

(bounces up and down in chair)

ETA: Augustines - Mashup of U2 and Bruce Springsteen.
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Post by: PaulF on 26 March, 2015, 10:44:11 am
Radiohead
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 30 March, 2015, 03:50:59 pm
Deep joy when I got up this morning afternoon to find upon the doormat a cardboard Thing from Nozama, and nestling within its wood-pulpy folds a shiny shiny copy of 'Asunder, Sweet And Other Distress', being the latest offering from undisputed Champions of the Post-Rock Wurrrrld Godspeed You! Black Emperor.  I could have had it for less money and tax-dodging direct from Constellation Records but I wanted it NOW and they weren't doing pre-orders for addresses outside Canuckistan chiz.

Quite short for them, four tracks adding up to a little over forty minutes.  On first listening I give it  :thumbsup: :thumbsup: though there's definitely some recycling of earlier tunes in there.  Usually arty sleeve goodness you expect from Constellation.
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Post by: Biggsy on 31 March, 2015, 12:12:24 pm
Today I will be listening to the new album from The Go! Team, released yesterday.

http://www.thegoteam.co.uk/

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Post by: tiermat on 31 March, 2015, 12:43:26 pm
Today I will be listening to the new album from The Go! Team, released yesterday.

http://www.thegoteam.co.uk/

It is good, I got it yesterday and am impressed.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 01 April, 2015, 03:02:02 pm
Waylon Jennings - The Final Concert

https://youtu.be/1D5nYb74fVk

Fantastic cover of the Marshall Tucker Band classic.
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Post by: andrewc on 02 April, 2015, 08:12:09 pm
Joni Mitchell, whilst sending healing thoughts California-wards.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 03 April, 2015, 09:30:39 am
Allison Moorer's new album "Down to believing"

It's a breakup album (she just got divorced from Steve Earl) but she doesn't do crying into her beer - it's searing.
Highly recommended !

https://youtu.be/29ApPZg6b88
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Post by: pcolbeck on 04 April, 2015, 12:15:04 pm
And today its John Mayall's Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton

A classic album but I have never heard t before somehow. Had a splurge on Amazon cheap CDs the other night and am currently listening to them on the Amazon Player as they haven't been delivered yet.
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Post by: Andrij on 16 April, 2015, 03:26:11 pm
Bugs Bunny on Broadway
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 16 April, 2015, 07:39:40 pm
One More From The Road ~ Lynyrd Skynryd.  Aten't listened to it for years.

What song is it you wanna hear?
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Post by: Marco Stefano on 16 April, 2015, 09:36:14 pm
I now have a works car with DAB and have started listening to 6 Music, particularly Mary-Anne Hobbs standing in for someone in the morning this week, playing loads of stuff that I don't know but quite like. Public Service Broadcasting's 'Go!' has been played a few times - absolutely love it.

Listening to some of their other stuff on youtube at the moment. I am slow to bands and tend to get into them and go backwards chronologically...
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Post by: menthel on 17 April, 2015, 03:08:53 pm
Deep joy when I got up this morning afternoon to find upon the doormat a cardboard Thing from Nozama, and nestling within its wood-pulpy folds a shiny shiny copy of 'Asunder, Sweet And Other Distress', being the latest offering from undisputed Champions of the Post-Rock Wurrrrld Godspeed You! Black Emperor.  I could have had it for less money and tax-dodging direct from Constellation Records but I wanted it NOW and they weren't doing pre-orders for addresses outside Canuckistan chiz.

Quite short for them, four tracks adding up to a little over forty minutes.  On first listening I give it  :thumbsup: :thumbsup: though there's definitely some recycling of earlier tunes in there.  Usually arty sleeve goodness you expect from Constellation.

Mine came as bike, chunksome vinyl sauciness (along with download codes), tis flipping awesome.
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Post by: microphonie on 17 April, 2015, 06:05:01 pm
Public Service Broadcasting - The Race For Space

Shriekback - Without Real String or Fish

and ploughing through the Aphex Twin archive tracks that he put up on Soundcloud for free download. They're available  here (1-157)  (https://archive.org/details/aphextwinsoundcloud2015-1) and  here (158-175)  (https://archive.org/details/AphexTwinSoundcloud158-175). There's also a useful reference spreadsheet  here  (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11ouNaaVrNp60Ib34Kp0TO1n1XSc7-9DvfiZ9ZiTiD2c/htmlview?sle=true#gid=0)



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Post by: Steph on 18 April, 2015, 02:03:09 pm
A moment of nostalgia, playing one disc of the Space Ritual a few times, the one that starts with 'Orgone Accumulator' and ends with 'Master of the Universe'

Proper thundering melodic bass, surprisingly subtle in detail. Go, Lemmy! I'm off to get my "eyeballs integrated" and make sure that I bring all bodies to orgasm simultaneously.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 18 April, 2015, 06:41:22 pm
Cream this afternoon.  Where can I get some of whatever Ginger Baker was on?
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Post by: Steph on 19 April, 2015, 08:58:08 am
Cream this afternoon.  Where can I get some of whatever Ginger Baker was on?

In the Afghanistan area, mostly.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 19 April, 2015, 12:11:23 pm
I thought you needed to have just come off opiates to have that much energy ???
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Post by: Steph on 19 April, 2015, 01:08:13 pm
Then I would suggest a word with the bass player I mentioned upthread...
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Post by: Biggsy on 19 April, 2015, 01:17:05 pm
"The First Time" with Kevin Rowland on Radio 6 Music now (interview and music choice).
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Post by: pcolbeck on 20 April, 2015, 09:15:11 am
A moment of nostalgia, playing one disc of the Space Ritual a few times, the one that starts with 'Orgone Accumulator' and ends with 'Master of the Universe'

Proper thundering melodic bass, surprisingly subtle in detail. Go, Lemmy! I'm off to get my "eyeballs integrated" and make sure that I bring all bodies to orgasm simultaneously.

Oh yes !

Da da da dah, da da da dah, da da da dah, dah dah dah dah - I am the master of this universe and the wind of time is blowing through me ...
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Post by: pcolbeck on 20 April, 2015, 12:07:22 pm
Rilo Kiley - Does He Love You?

https://youtu.be/QWfn2Y7ghWM

A proper grown up song about love, marriage, affairs and children.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 20 April, 2015, 12:21:04 pm
Continuing with the Rilo Kiley theme this time Jenny Lewis solo:

https://youtu.be/JHl2rWnG1Co

With Ryan Adams doing guitar duties for her.
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Post by: menthel on 23 April, 2015, 11:10:18 am
Russian Circles- Memorial. Bloody awesome!
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Post by: pcolbeck on 23 April, 2015, 11:51:26 am
Laura Nyro

She really should be better known. There are a lot of similarities with Carol King but then Laura would switch it up and it had more funk.

https://youtu.be/7HhJRxRxOQo

https://youtu.be/EfW41eKUkKE?list=PL265914523AA80295
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Post by: menthel on 23 April, 2015, 02:05:11 pm
Billy Bragg- Tooth & Nail, what a bloody cracker too!
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Post by: pcolbeck on 24 April, 2015, 09:30:23 am
Here's something to get you through the last working day of the week. I challenge you not to tap your foot to this and it's recorded in a bike shop !

https://youtu.be/BC6hMZLd91Y

JD McPherson

Old time rock and roll complete with upright base, saxaphone and telemacaster goodness.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 25 April, 2015, 11:37:28 pm
Mogwai.

Slint meets Explosions In The Sky.  I do not think I will be ponying up to see them in June.
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Post by: menthel on 26 April, 2015, 10:37:07 am
Mogwai.

Slint meets Explosions In The Sky.  I do not think I will be ponying up to see them in June.

Shame, greatest band in the world, making me deaf since Young Team! Superb live band too, adds a dimension to the recorded stuff.
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Post by: menthel on 26 April, 2015, 10:39:06 am
Mogwai.

Slint meets Explosions In The Sky.  I do not think I will be ponying up to see them in June.

Shame, greatest band in the world, making me deaf since Young Team! Superb live band too, adds a dimension to the recorded stuff.

In fact I am now listening to Mogwai- Young Team.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 26 April, 2015, 02:17:20 pm
They just don't grab my attention in the way that for e.g. EITS do.

Also, it was quicker to use Audacity to cut out that ten minutes of silence from the end of "Secret Pint" than to let it play.  Another scalp in my crusade against silence-based ponciness :thumbsup:
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Post by: menthel on 26 April, 2015, 06:35:16 pm
They just don't grab my attention in the way that for e.g. EITS do.

Also, it was quicker to use Audacity to cut out that ten minutes of silence from the end of "Secret Pint" than to let it play.  Another scalp in my crusade against silence-based ponciness :thumbsup:

Listen to some of the other stuff too, Young Team is the classic but their maturing style really comes through as you listen to the albums chronologically.

I am listening to the latest Godspeed YBE on the beautiful black stuff at present. May move on to Russian Circles after.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 26 April, 2015, 06:39:43 pm
Listen to some of the other stuff too, Young Team is the classic but their maturing style really comes through as you listen to the albums chronologically.

I am and it does, but not enough to persuade me to fork out my unearned.  Yet.
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Post by: menthel on 26 April, 2015, 06:46:19 pm
Listen to some of the other stuff too, Young Team is the classic but their maturing style really comes through as you listen to the albums chronologically.

I am and it does, but not enough to persuade me to fork out my unearned.  Yet.

I guess my love for them comes from when young and easily influenced (or under the influence). ;)
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 26 April, 2015, 06:48:26 pm
It might have worked if I'd heard them before Slint & EITS rather than the other way round...
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Post by: Deano on 26 April, 2015, 06:53:22 pm
They certainly preceded Explosions in the Sky! Slint, not so much.

I've never seen 'em live (yet). Not for want of trying, just the stars haven't aligned correctly.

Always love their version of Sweet Leaf:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q72na528kLo
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Post by: menthel on 26 April, 2015, 07:16:55 pm
EITS are later, mogwai themselves certainly acknowledge the influence that Slint had on them. The Post Rock genre is certainly a broad church including many things.

If you like it a little more electronic (eg Mogwai's most recent stuff) then I can highly recommend the Errors and Fuck Buttons (awful name but great music).
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 26 April, 2015, 07:22:36 pm
Slint broke up about five or six years before Mogwai Young Team was released, but I didn't hear them until ~2004.  Saw the reformed version in 2005 at the Forum in Kentish Town and jolly splendid it was too, although I think the drummer was pretending to be asleep for the first three numbers.

EITS' first album dates from 2000, so well after.

Edit: I keep missing whatever A Silver Mount Zion are calling themselves this week for much the same reason as Deano chiz.
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Post by: menthel on 26 April, 2015, 07:28:12 pm
Slint broke up about five or six years before Mogwai Young Team was released, but I didn't hear them until ~2004.  Saw the reformed version in 2005 at the Forum in Kentish Town and jolly splendid it was too, although I think the drummer was pretending to be asleep for the first three numbers.

EITS' first album dates from 2000, so well after.

Edit: I keep missing whatever A Silver Mount Zion are calling themselves this week for much the same reason as Deano chiz.

I find the whole Godspeed YBE and the subsidiaries quite confusing. The music is often great but sometimes it can be rather impenetrable. It would make a great episode of Rock Family Trees though!
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 26 April, 2015, 07:32:28 pm
I blame hearing the Constellation Records sampler "Song Of The Silent Land" at an impressionable age (40).
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Post by: microphonie on 27 April, 2015, 07:00:30 pm
First couple of listens to the new GY!BE album today & it's a big  :thumbsup: - although I think I prefer the previous album.

On a similar feel the latest This Will Destroy You album - Another Language - is pretty decent too
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Post by: menthel on 28 April, 2015, 09:55:22 am
First couple of listens to the new GY!BE album today & it's a big  :thumbsup: - although I think I prefer the previous album.

On a similar feel the latest This Will Destroy You album - Another Language - is pretty decent too

Will see if it is on Napster when I do some mindless drone computer work later, thanks!
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Post by: tiermat on 28 April, 2015, 12:49:30 pm
WMMR, specifically Preston & Steve. Must. Not. Laugh.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 28 April, 2015, 01:03:16 pm
Glenn Gould:  Bach - Partitas 1-6

Incredible.

https://youtu.be/o6AVYXxR6-U
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Post by: pcolbeck on 28 April, 2015, 02:35:36 pm
And now the same thing by Maria Tipo

https://youtu.be/-IeD0xW9404

Wow that's different. I think I like it though.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 29 April, 2015, 02:35:07 pm
Gillian Welch

You don't need a huge budget and dancers to make a great video. A good song and a steady cam will do:

https://youtu.be/jdYG-Nh_AxU
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Post by: PaulF on 29 April, 2015, 03:04:32 pm
Having a Prog day: Van der Graaf Generator, King Crimson, Genesis and Yes so far
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Post by: Riggers on 29 April, 2015, 04:45:54 pm
Heard this last year, but keep coming back to it. The lovely Laura Doggett.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwh-YfWAlFo
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 29 April, 2015, 05:49:08 pm
Refamiliarising myself with Masters Of Reality's back catalogue, as we are to see them next month.
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Post by: Andrij on 01 May, 2015, 01:36:25 pm
Dance Hall Crashers: Lockjaw and Blue Plate Special.
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Post by: perpetual dan on 01 May, 2015, 03:13:24 pm
Whatever spotify are sending to Mrs Dan's laptop. Could do with some quality control!
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 01 May, 2015, 10:22:35 pm
Kyuss.  Perfect for the days when you find early Sabbath a little too twee.
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Post by: Biggsy on 02 May, 2015, 05:56:35 pm
Gilles Peterson on 6 Music - playing stuff too soporific for this time of day, as usual.  Craig Charles on shortly should perk us up.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 02 May, 2015, 08:31:52 pm
Best not to mention that I've got Sigur Rós on, then.
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Post by: sojournermike on 05 May, 2015, 01:00:42 am
The Young'Uns - Another Man's Ground

Very highly recommended
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Post by: sojournermike on 05 May, 2015, 01:04:13 am
Streets of LAhore followed by Between the Wars - brilliant
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Post by: sam on 06 May, 2015, 03:05:24 am
Madisen Ward and the Mama Bear – Silent Movies (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts2aARA1dwQ)

wait for it... wait for it...


yeah, let's do some more
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 06 May, 2015, 07:53:48 am
Vampire Weekend.

Because I lost the SmallestCub in the 40 seconds that it took to get the tandem in the front door yesterday, but eventually (2 minutes, felt like an hour obv...) tracked him down at the SmallestSuperHeroNextDoor's place, where I reminded him that you can't go play round your mate's without telling me first then got distracted by the music playing Quite Loud - which was the reason the Superhero's mam hadn't heard me knock the first time, since she was enjoying a new charity shop find.  Realised who it was, and that I haven't listened to 'em for ages.  Makes me want to ride my bike... which I just worked out is because their 2008 offering was an album I listened to a fair bit while cycling a couple of years back and discovered is jolly good for riding-fast-while-grumpy to and ending up a bit more zen as you park your bike at t'other end of the journey.
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Post by: andrewc on 06 May, 2015, 05:55:06 pm
Glenn Gould:  Bach - Partitas 1-6

Incredible.

https://youtu.be/o6AVYXxR6-U

This arrived the other day.  I can forsee a lot of relaxing evenings ahead.   

Glen Gould Bach Edition - 44 disc boxset (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0086WQNZ0?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=od_aui_detailpages00)
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Post by: pcolbeck on 06 May, 2015, 06:07:40 pm
Glenn Gould:  Bach - Partitas 1-6

Incredible.

https://youtu.be/o6AVYXxR6-U

This arrived the other day.  I can forsee a lot of relaxing evenings ahead.   

Glen Gould Bach Edition - 44 disc boxset (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0086WQNZ0?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=od_aui_detailpages00)

Ooh that's nice. I have about five Glen Gould Bach CDs but maybe I could get this and sell the ones I all ready have ....
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Post by: Pingu on 06 May, 2015, 11:58:40 pm
Tom Ravenscroft on iPlayer playing Rema Rema  :o  :thumbsup:
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Post by: billplumtree on 08 May, 2015, 07:05:57 pm
Dead Ringers on R4.  As many lolz as ever, but with added heartbreaking pathos.
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Post by: Riggers on 11 May, 2015, 02:59:46 pm
Sixto Rodriguez's Coming From Reality album. Enough to make you cry.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 11 May, 2015, 05:34:23 pm
Tinariwen.  Why has it taken me so long ???
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Post by: Andrij on 11 May, 2015, 06:14:34 pm
Tinariwen.  Why has it taken me so long ???

Thanks for the recommendation - listening now.
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Post by: Dibdib on 11 May, 2015, 10:08:15 pm
A bit of teenage reminiscing with a little Mighty Mighty Bosstones (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIGMUAMevH0) and a little Rancid (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BWBrcF7sWQ).
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Post by: tiermat on 12 May, 2015, 11:18:51 am
Slipknot - All Hope is Gone

Like My Chemical Romance, Slipknot are one of those bands that I don't usually either a) get to hear or b) am allowed to admit I like.  I like them both for pretty much the same reason.  Their music can take a little getting used to, but has a certain subtly to it (in Slipknot's case, you have to look past the loud guitars and drums to realise just what it is).

I likes it.
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Post by: Vince on 12 May, 2015, 05:57:12 pm
The Liberty of Norton Folgate by Madness

I missed this when it was released. Very different but at the same time similar to their 80s output
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Post by: citoyen on 12 May, 2015, 11:22:47 pm
FFS - they make me LOL

Been hearing the single Johnny Delusional a lot on 6music recently. There's a strong chance it's the catchiest tune you'll hear all year...

http://youtu.be/3tyVcS8jWHk

Is it just me or is Ron Mael looking increasingly like Simon Brint from Raw Sex?

This one is hilarious:
http://youtu.be/9Itq9MAg9FU




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Post by: pcolbeck on 14 May, 2015, 10:36:21 am
"Motorcycle Emptiness" - Manic Street Preachers

One of the best guitar riffs ever, Surprisingly it was done on a telecaster not a Les Paul.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 14 May, 2015, 04:59:58 pm
Nina Simone - "Little Girl Blue"

https://youtu.be/zTFhADgKxi0

Her first album. Listen to this for her fantastic piano playing as well as her voice. Lovely Bach inspired counterpoint.
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Post by: Andrij on 20 May, 2015, 02:56:16 pm
Assorted electro-swing via Soundcloud.
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Post by: tiermat on 20 May, 2015, 03:05:50 pm
Inspired by our catch up with ...Later, last night, today I am listening to "Hot Sardines"

http://hotsardines.com/
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Post by: nicknack on 20 May, 2015, 04:29:06 pm
Hank Crawford.
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Post by: Andrew on 20 May, 2015, 08:32:43 pm
Curtis Harding

Pukka soul with a bit of funk/disco and even a dash pop. Surprisingly good.
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Post by: tiermat on 21 May, 2015, 08:00:02 am
Curtis Harding

Pukka soul with a bit of funk/disco and even a dash pop. Surprisingly good.

He was on the same ...Later, thanks for reminding me, must look up some of his music.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 21 May, 2015, 08:42:57 am
Mélanie Pain

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Post by: pcolbeck on 21 May, 2015, 01:47:58 pm
Steely Dan - assorted tracks

A marmite band. I like marmite. Great lyrics, great playing and fantastic obsessive production values.
They always make me think of 70s silver HiFi separates with glowing blue VU meters.

(http://www.audioclassic.org/uploads/1/8/8/9/18899713/6532172_orig.jpg)
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Post by: andrewc on 24 May, 2015, 12:25:22 am
Iron Maiden, "Hallowed be thy name" played very loudly on a jukebox.

What Eurovision ?
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 28 May, 2015, 02:01:55 pm
Be-Bop Deluxe.  Bill Nelson = the guitar hero you could like without losing any punk credentials you pretended to have.
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Post by: tiermat on 29 May, 2015, 08:36:40 am
Courtnet Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, Sometimes I Just Sit.

Very reminiscent of L7/Elastica and the like of that era.
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Post by: Clare on 29 May, 2015, 09:17:16 am
The final of the 500 words competition, the winner of the 5-9 age group when asked how she wanted Kenneth Brannagh to read her story...


"Well".

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Post by: Mr Larrington on 29 May, 2015, 12:48:18 pm
Tool.

I want some of what Danny Carey has for supper.
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Post by: Steph on 30 May, 2015, 01:38:49 am
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sin-%C3%89/dp/B000024JH3/ref=pd_sim_15_2?ie=UTF8&refRID=1JNKP9ZEEBZK3RNEDWCM

Nuff said. Pure delight.
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Post by: Andrij on 30 May, 2015, 11:30:11 am
DJ Dero, Electrosamba!
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Post by: tiermat on 01 June, 2015, 01:18:45 pm
Started with Arrested Development - Best of

Then I moved onto Biffy Clyro - Opposites.

This has nearly finished, so shall need to choose something else.  Watch this space :)
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Post by: Andrij on 01 June, 2015, 02:01:29 pm
The Mighty Mighty Boostones

   followed by

Mephiskapheles
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Post by: Ham on 02 June, 2015, 08:57:50 am
discovered 1 Mike 1 Take, a veritable cornucopia https://www.youtube.com/user/1mic1take/videos

If you like jazz, try Robert Glasper's take on Teen Spirit, complete with minor fluff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WudaLBOCrBE
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Post by: PaulF on 02 June, 2015, 09:10:16 am
Assorted Tim Buckley
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Post by: Quisling on 02 June, 2015, 10:11:51 am
The Wedding Present - Bewitched.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fDqFPATgFI
One of the best "kerangs" in music when the guitars kick back in at 5 mins.  Great bitter sweet lyrics too.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 02 June, 2015, 02:06:14 pm
Leave No Star Unturned ~  Hawkwind.  Live at the Cambridge Corn Exchange, January 1972, so likely one of Lemmy's first gigs.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 02 June, 2015, 07:30:11 pm
Art Blakey - gulping down as much of his stiff as I can find on YouTube. I cant believe I had never really listened to him before. Amazing hard bop.
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Post by: Dibdib on 06 June, 2015, 09:04:16 pm
Massive Attack - Mezzanine. Subwoofertastic.
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Post by: tiermat on 11 June, 2015, 02:53:44 pm
John Shuttleworth on Mark and Lard Radcliffe and Maconie.

Shall have to turn it off in a minute as I am laughing too much, especially the bit about Lady Gaggia...
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Post by: pcolbeck on 16 June, 2015, 12:07:43 pm
BB King in his pomp, not the old guy on a chair from his later years. Live in Africa 1974.

https://youtu.be/UOnzDKvn7YI

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Post by: clarion on 17 June, 2015, 05:52:58 pm
Seemed like a good moment for some of Queen's more raucous moments.
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Post by: clarion on 17 June, 2015, 06:41:59 pm
Via Bad Company to Trust.

Did you know that even Trust have a tribute band now?  Les Grands Gueules.
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Post by: Vince on 19 June, 2015, 03:53:31 pm
Gin Wigmore - Gravel and Vine

Inspired by a whisky advert that uses Kill of the Night
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Post by: Steph on 19 June, 2015, 06:45:55 pm
Nantucket Sleighride, the album.
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Post by: nicknack on 19 June, 2015, 06:58:59 pm
Deep Purple - Made in Japan

Best live rock album eva?
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Post by: pcolbeck on 19 June, 2015, 09:32:27 pm
Deep Purple - Made in Japan

Best live rock album eva?

I got that for Christmas when I was about 13 from my Aunty. Plaid it to death :)
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Post by: Steph on 20 June, 2015, 09:12:56 pm
Deep Purple - Made in Japan

Best live rock album eva?

I got that for Christmas when I was about 13 from my Aunty. Plaid it to death :)

"My woman in Cumbernauld"
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Post by: Steph on 20 June, 2015, 09:13:53 pm
Mixed stuff: SAHB, Love Story
Oysrerband, various
Pink Floyd, Echoes
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Post by: Deano on 20 June, 2015, 09:15:04 pm
The Burning Hell - Live Animals

https://theburninghell.bandcamp.com/album/live-animals

It really captures the joy of their live performances.
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Post by: Tim Hall on 24 June, 2015, 03:14:13 pm
Terry & Gerry (and therefore the wonderful turista OTP) on Spotify.  Tapping my feet and trying not to sing (my orquers des vache might not appreciate it)
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Post by: tiermat on 30 June, 2015, 09:19:25 am
Last.FM's "Artists like Terrorvision" '90's Brit-poprock abounds, currently on "Sherriff Fatman"
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Post by: rafletcher on 30 June, 2015, 09:52:50 am
Leftfields newest, Alternative Light Source. Despite the universally glowing reviews so far it's been a bit meh. Ok I'm listening in the car, but there's nothing like Phat Planet or Afrika Shox to get you winding up the volume. And only 2 tracks to go.  :-\
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Post by: essexian on 02 July, 2015, 04:18:04 pm
Pink Floyd: "The Wall"

Remind me not to listen to this album when I am feeling a bit miserable, er like I am today.

Bad choice Ian. Great Album, wrong topic area.

Next up: Carter USM 101 Damnations.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 02 July, 2015, 04:30:42 pm
Here is what to do if you are tempted to listen to the super-duper deluxe edition of Deep Purple's Made In Japan in its entirety: anything at all.  It's the original 1972 album, and the 2014 remaster of same, and all three shows from which the original album was assembled.  The main entertainment comes from spotting the different twiddly bits Jon Lord put into his keyboard solos, and Ian Gillan trying to explain " Smoke On The Water" to an audience who probably don't understand a word he's saying.
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Post by: Ruthie on 03 July, 2015, 02:15:14 pm
The Sundays.  Just perfect music for a summer day.
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Post by: rafletcher on 03 July, 2015, 02:21:58 pm
Deep Purple - Machine Head.  Has to have the best first three tracks of any album... probably
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Post by: Biggsy on 03 July, 2015, 02:23:29 pm
Does The Wall make anyone feel anything other than miserable (regardless of how you start off feeling)?  I like having a copy in my collection, but I can't listen to it.

Today I am listening to 6 Music, as usual.
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Post by: Pingu on 03 July, 2015, 09:13:30 pm
Cycling and/or Holland themed Gideon Coe show on 6 Music via iPlayer  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Torslanda on 05 July, 2015, 09:36:17 am
Seemed like a good moment for some of Queen's more raucous moments.

Rarely, if ever, listen to Queen these days. With one or two exceptions most of their material post 1976 is dross.

Meanwhile I have re-acquired and become re-acquainted with Natural History - a Talk Talk compilation. Lots of jangly piano & harmonica. By God he could hit those drums! 
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Post by: Ruthie on 08 July, 2015, 04:53:26 pm
Kathryn Williams's new album Hypoxia.  Marvellous.  I'm sure she was supposed to be playing round here this week, but maybe the gig got cancelled.

Hmph.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 08 July, 2015, 09:27:08 pm
Yesterday at the Cluny, wasn't it?
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Post by: Ruthie on 08 July, 2015, 09:44:52 pm
Yesterday at the Cluny, wasn't it?

According to her website she was playing Durham on Saturday, but that gig is no more.
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 08 July, 2015, 10:21:26 pm
Launderette fb page had her down on the 11th June...

It's a cracking album, isn't it?
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 10 July, 2015, 12:32:10 pm
Motörhead.  All of it.  Filling in the shameful gap in my post-1985 knowledge of the 'head.

Acoustic guitar?  Keyboards?  WTF ???
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Post by: Torslanda on 10 July, 2015, 03:36:44 pm
I always wondered if the fictional supergroup DeathTongue (with generous sprinkling of umlauts) was a Motorhead tribute...
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Post by: Tim Hall on 13 July, 2015, 01:04:18 pm
The Hillman's debut album "Kings of the Weald Frontier" on Spotify. I may have to buy it.  Foot tapping psychobilly.
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Post by: tiermat on 15 July, 2015, 09:32:05 am
Sleaford Mods - Divide and Exit.

NSFW music, a bit sort of like PiL, all piss and vinegar.

<y favourite line, so far "Chumbawumba weren't political, they were just shit"
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Post by: Wowbagger on 17 July, 2015, 02:02:49 pm
I stumbled across Mozart's Clarinet Quintet on R3. It is a wonderful piece. He also used the last movement for a set of piano variations, which I used to play. Quite hard not to sing all g in the railway carriage.
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Post by: billplumtree on 17 July, 2015, 02:19:51 pm
Quite hard not to sing all g in the railway carriage.

Quite boring though, I should think?  I would put some other notes in as well, if I were you.
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Post by: tiermat on 19 July, 2015, 11:15:56 am
Today, and Friday, is ADF - The Signal and the Noise.

FAntastic album, kind of like "RAFI's Revenge", but with a softer, more grown up, edge.
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Post by: Peter on 19 July, 2015, 09:48:07 pm
I stumbled across Mozart's Clarinet Quintet on R3. It is a wonderful piece. He also used the last movement for a set of piano variations, which I used to play. Quite hard not to sing all g in the railway carriage.

Yes, Mozart wrote particularly superbly for the  clarinet.  Obviously, you'll know the Concerto but the Trio (Kegelstatt) is excellent, too.  I'd love to hear his Ave Verum arranged for woodwind quartet, preferably three clarinets and as bassoon - wonder if it's been done?!
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Post by: fuzzy on 22 July, 2015, 03:10:52 pm
Kings of the Wild Frontier- Adam and the Ants :thumbsup:
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Post by: CrinklyLion on 22 July, 2015, 06:39:25 pm
Blue Rose Code, studio demo with the McCrary Sisters

https://soundcloud.com/bluerosecode/blue-rose-code-feat-the-mccrary-sisters-grateful-studio-demo
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Post by: Andrij on 23 July, 2015, 07:08:27 pm
Iain M Banks - The State of the Art (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00hv1dz)
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Post by: fuzzy on 24 July, 2015, 01:23:35 pm
Wheatus (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCKkE2sM1Uc)
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 24 July, 2015, 05:01:59 pm
Sabbath.  The last couple of albums before they sacked Ozzy were this: shit.
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Post by: tiermat on 29 July, 2015, 12:16:06 pm
Soulfly, as I am going to see them tonight.

Followed that with Sleaford Mods.
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Post by: Domestique on 31 July, 2015, 05:26:48 pm
Stiff Little Fingers - Inflammable Material
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Post by: Dibdib on 02 August, 2015, 10:48:09 pm
I just can't get this track out of my head at the moment.

SL2 - On a Ragga Tip (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9hpeVwx1Ug)
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Post by: Steph on 03 August, 2015, 12:56:26 am
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=which+side+are+you+on&FORM=VIRE5#view=detail&mid=399DDAC60282F8D69530399DDAC60282F8D69530
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Post by: Biggsy on 18 August, 2015, 03:28:51 pm
Pesky!  12-year-olds signed to Fierce Panda! 

https://play.spotify.com/album/2lXHt4KRlxi8VL2z49Vc6X
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Post by: Ruthie on 18 August, 2015, 08:49:00 pm
The Race For Space by PSB.  Really enjoying it.
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Post by: Regulator on 20 August, 2015, 01:43:08 pm
Marlene Dietrich at the moment.  There's something mesmeric about her voice...
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Post by: Steph on 26 August, 2015, 04:48:09 pm
'Murmurs', by Martin Simpson, Andy Cutting and Nancy Kerr. Some wonderful stuff there.
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Post by: Legs on 27 August, 2015, 07:09:29 pm
Lady's Bridge by Richard Hawley.  Flawless album (IMHO).  Mini Legs loves it at bathtime.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 28 August, 2015, 11:20:53 am
Rainbow.  The late Ronnie James Dio at full throttle.  By 'eck, he had a set of pipes on 'im!
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Post by: citoyen on 28 August, 2015, 12:58:18 pm
Neu!

Bit of a gap in my musical knowledge that needs filling, so I've downloaded the first three albums. Very much enjoying them so far. Being a fan of Bowie/Talking Heads/Eno, it all sounds strangely familiar - in a good way.
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Post by: Legs on 31 August, 2015, 02:16:10 pm
Epic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8PeZ3A2oKc
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Post by: Tewdric on 31 August, 2015, 10:08:46 pm
Rainbow.  The late Ronnie James Dio at full throttle.  By 'eck, he had a set of pipes on 'im!

I've been a RJD fan since about age 14.  He could sure belt it out; a proper rock god.  Stargazer and Kill the King still cut it for sure.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 31 August, 2015, 10:45:09 pm
Sadly only got to see him when he was a member of Geezer Butler & The Three Italians.  "Heaven And Hell" is a terrific album but it's nowhere near gloomy enough to be Proper Sabbath.
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Post by: Dibdib on 11 September, 2015, 09:57:25 pm
After waiting what felt like an age for it to come from an eBayer in Japan, I got home tonight to Joe Hisaishi's soundtrack to My Neighbour Totoro. I've been smiling like a child ever since.

Unfortunately now I have to sort out all of the track names in iTunes, as the ones from the CD are all in Japanese and I can't read them!

(edited to add: obviously I would have paid half the price, had it immediately and it would have all been tagged in English if I had just bought it from iTunes in the first place, but where's the fun in that?)
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 12 September, 2015, 04:20:05 am
H2G2 - the radio series.  Reached about Fit the Fifteenth.
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Post by: essexian on 12 September, 2015, 10:02:32 am
Anthems for doomed youth, the new album by The Libertines.

Was it worth waiting 9 years for this album.....on first listen very much so.


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Post by: Wowbagger on 14 September, 2015, 11:10:02 am
I'm not really listening, but Mrs. Wow is, to some R4 reading. Every so often the background music breaks through and grabs my attention. It's Bach's "Italian Concerto" played on a harp. Absolutely stunning.
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Post by: Biggsy on 19 September, 2015, 05:48:11 pm
Tangled Up With You by Eliza's Uncertainty (https://soundcloud.com/nickgoodwinmusic/tangled-up-with-you), inspired by quantum mechanics.  Amazon (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tangled-up-With-You/dp/B00QTFU7EO).
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Post by: Andrew on 20 September, 2015, 06:27:44 pm
Lana del Rey's 'Honeymoon'.

Less raw, more produced than previous works but works just as well. In a day or two, I might even say better. Think gangster's moles, film noir,  Bond movies, movie soundtracks, slow rap back beats and soaring choralesque vocals.

My God, she's a women I could blow my brains out with.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 21 September, 2015, 04:23:02 am
DJ Random, he say "Today is a day for Bob Dylan".
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Post by: Legs on 21 September, 2015, 09:05:32 am
Cracked Rear View by Hootie and the Blowfish.  I think I have a bit of a mancrush on Darius Rucker.
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Post by: PaulF on 21 September, 2015, 09:17:13 am
Peter Hammill's Chameleon in the Shadow of Night
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Post by: menthel on 21 September, 2015, 09:50:13 am
Screaming Trees- nearly lost you. Such a tune!
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Post by: pcolbeck on 21 September, 2015, 01:18:17 pm
Peter Hammill's Chameleon in the Shadow of Night

Not one to listen too if your feeling a bit down I suspect. Not a little ray of sunshine Mr Hammill is he ?
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Post by: tiermat on 22 September, 2015, 07:46:18 pm
Low - What Part of Me.

Lovely, lovely song. Took me a few listens to realise that it's not a break up song, but the opposite.
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Post by: Biggsy on 26 September, 2015, 02:09:31 pm
The new album from Julia Holter (http://www.juliashammasholter.com/)
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Post by: Steph on 27 September, 2015, 10:04:53 am
Ani DiFranco and Quicksilver Messenger Service.
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Post by: microphonie on 27 September, 2015, 02:24:33 pm
On repeat: Carter Tutti Void -  f(x)  (http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=carter+tutti+void+f(x)&FORM=HDRSC3#view=detail&mid=099132D4F1E5DDAD2B86099132D4F1E5DDAD2B86) - dubbed-out industrial techno

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Post by: fuzzy on 27 September, 2015, 11:44:54 pm
George Ezra. Good voice, easy tempo.Very nice.
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Post by: Raj on 01 October, 2015, 10:12:34 pm
Bossa Nova ............   Charlie Byrd  8) 8) 8) 8) 8)
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Post by: sg37409 on 02 October, 2015, 11:51:19 pm
Is there a better album than Talk Talk, Spirit of Eden for this time of night when the families gone to bed ?
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 06 October, 2015, 03:53:22 pm
13 ~ Black Sabbath.  After thirty-odd years of studio albums ranging from mediocre to bloody awful this is top stuff.  Brad Wilk does a terrific Bill Ward impression too,
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Post by: tiermat on 10 October, 2015, 02:59:47 pm
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats - Eponymous.

Brilliant STAX sound, odd really as that's the label it on.... :)
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Post by: Steph on 20 October, 2015, 10:20:43 pm
Moulettes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmJkEJw4jEU&index=2&list=PL4Sc0XIfmQRr7mxK9QZYRfBNHAljv80Lc
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 20 October, 2015, 11:13:43 pm
System Of A Down.  I'm sure they feel very strongly about something but I can't make out what it is half the time.
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Post by: Andrij on 26 October, 2015, 09:24:51 pm
"A Canticle for Leibowitz: Fiat Homo" on Radio 4extra

Sadly, I don't think parts two and three have been recorded.
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Post by: tiermat on 26 October, 2015, 09:42:32 pm
System Of A Down.  I'm sure they feel very strongly about something but I can't make out what it is half the time.

Horses and Chinese takeaway.

I think..
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Post by: tiermat on 26 October, 2015, 09:43:44 pm
Moulettes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmJkEJw4jEU&index=2&list=PL4Sc0XIfmQRr7mxK9QZYRfBNHAljv80Lc

Good choice! Worth seeing live, if you can.
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Post by: menthel on 27 October, 2015, 03:04:00 pm
Mogwai collection/retrospective/best of/rarities Central Belters. And yes, it is a belter.
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Post by: andrewc on 27 October, 2015, 09:06:39 pm
"A Canticle for Leibowitz: Fiat Homo" on Radio 4extra

Sadly, I don't think parts two and three have been recorded.

Damn, a long time since I read that. 

Glen Gould,  humming over the Goldbergs...
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 28 October, 2015, 12:24:19 pm
R-A-M-O-N-E-S Ramones!

There is a time and a place for guitar virtuosity, multi-layered soundscapes, soaring wossnames and Keith Emerson knifecriming a Hammond L-100.  And there are some days when four chords is at least one too many.

(Does the Cretin Hop)
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Post by: Paul on 10 November, 2015, 11:08:16 pm
I started watching a programme of Artists' covers of Dylan songs. When it got to Cliff and some young Nolans doing a cover of something or other, horribly*, I turned it off.

Am now listening to the real McCoy.

Bliss.

(*They were covering the song horribly. I turned it off magnificently.)
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Post by: tiermat on 11 November, 2015, 08:02:22 am
Portugal. The Man, in particular "All Your Light"

Brought to it by watching this: http://kaleidoscope.redbull.com/ which is a bit of a headfuck, as far as cycling videos go...
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 11 November, 2015, 01:23:24 pm
I started watching a programme of Artists' covers of Dylan songs. When it got to Cliff and some young Nolans doing a cover of something or other, horribly*, I turned it off.

Am now listening to the real McCoy.

Bliss.

(*They were covering the song horribly. I turned it off magnificently.)

(Tries to imagine what The Nolans doing Desolation Row would be like.  Fails)

There's probably a whole new parlour game in there.  "Unlikely Cover Versions You'd [Like|Hate] To Hear".
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Post by: Paul on 11 November, 2015, 09:54:52 pm
Found it (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNrdeOOefGU).

Don't click on this without an antidote very nearby.
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Post by: Ruthie on 11 November, 2015, 10:54:11 pm
That's not so bad!  At least they're in tune.
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Post by: Ruthie on 13 November, 2015, 09:50:18 pm
Pixies.

Because it's Children in Need and there's fuckall on the telly.
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Post by: Katie on 14 November, 2015, 01:14:59 pm
Katy Perry - Fuck You, on repeat.

Boss is listening to happy music to distract us both from how shitty the world is.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 19 November, 2015, 11:12:39 pm
DJ Random's in a Hendrix mood tonight :thumbsup:
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Post by: Pingu on 20 November, 2015, 10:59:43 pm
I-player, Gideon Coe cake night. Just played Neil Young followed by Devo  :thumbsup:
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Post by: andrewc on 20 November, 2015, 11:04:14 pm
Elgar, Enigma Variations & Greensleeves,  Boult & the LSO.
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Post by: Riggers on 27 November, 2015, 04:34:03 pm
… Rain (http://www.rainymood.com)
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Post by: Andrij on 28 November, 2015, 04:20:35 pm
Rusted Root.
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Post by: T42 on 29 November, 2015, 03:49:10 pm
The King's College Choir singing the Horst-Wessel-Lied.
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Post by: Peter on 29 November, 2015, 05:31:02 pm
I suppose it's just a song, when all's said and done.  (I may have just written a poem....)
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Post by: andrewc on 01 December, 2015, 10:04:45 pm
Billie Holiday ,   "You're My Thrill" ...   I must get that "Lady Day" box set into regular play again.
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Post by: andrewc on 01 December, 2015, 10:13:59 pm
And now it's "Lover Man".    I think Jimmy Somerville's version has a bit of extra bite than this one.
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Post by: Kim on 08 December, 2015, 11:04:24 pm
A tinny second-hand rendition of barakta's beepy euro-pop essay-writing playlist.  It occurs to me that I should be careful not to get stranded on another planet with this as my only music.
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Post by: TimC on 09 December, 2015, 05:03:39 pm
Wishbone Ash - Argus. first time for many years, and I'm right back in 1972! I'd forgotten how similar to CSN&Y they were are* in many ways.

* I didn't realise they are still around and touring!
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Post by: rogerzilla on 09 December, 2015, 07:38:02 pm
10cc - Rubber Bullets.  10cc were rather silly but their talent was amazing.  Disturbingly, Eric Stewart these days looks just like Ian Faith from "This Is Spinal Tap"

(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/8fd6AprXZW4/hqdefault.jpg).
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Post by: CrazyEnglishTriathlete on 09 December, 2015, 11:15:22 pm
Sorabji's Trascendental Studies - like Scriabin on LSD.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 11 December, 2015, 06:30:44 pm
Queen: Jazz.
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Post by: TheLurker on 11 December, 2015, 08:16:50 pm
Byrd: Mass for 4 voices, Mass for 5 voices, Infelix ego.
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Post by: ElyDave on 13 December, 2015, 09:39:20 pm
Simon and Garfunkel Live in New York followed by Bridge Over Troubled Water
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Post by: David Martin on 15 December, 2015, 11:23:45 pm
Having found the streaming audio on amazon prime I have been very much enjoying John Rutter. A bit unsophisticated but very relaxing spiritual music. The Beatles concerto was fun, but a lot like a bloke vamping off on a piano in the pub. Still good fun though.
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Post by: David Martin on 15 December, 2015, 11:39:39 pm
From Rutter onto Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. Which I just described as being 'very Tom and Jerry'. Probably because it has been used as the background for many of the cartoons.
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Post by: Steph on 16 December, 2015, 02:38:35 pm
Brahms, first piano concerto, and Bruckner, 3 and 8. Still get to me, all three of them
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 20 December, 2015, 03:10:13 pm
Slade: Alive.
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Post by: Andrij on 25 December, 2015, 02:39:34 pm
Oy to the World! A Klezmer Christmas (http://oytotheworld.com)  :D

Again.  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 25 December, 2015, 05:39:25 pm
Gideon Coe's Xmas eve show, when the Internet allows....
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Post by: Crumbling Nick on 25 December, 2015, 09:49:53 pm
K563, with passion and finesse.
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Post by: TimC on 29 December, 2015, 06:55:31 pm
Wishbone Ash: Argus.

The Essential Alan Parsons Project

One Republic: Native
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 29 December, 2015, 09:32:41 pm
Gave DJ Random the afternoon off and instead had:

Space Ritual ~ Hawkwind
The 1999 Party ~ Hawkwind
On Parole ~ Motörhead
Motörhead ~ Motörhead

Bit of a theme here...
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 30 December, 2015, 12:01:05 am
Penguin Cafe Orchestra
Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
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Post by: andrewc on 31 December, 2015, 10:17:50 pm
Deacon Blue "Raintown" ,  I just looked up the lyrics to "He Looks Like Spencer Tracey Now"  , I never knew the history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Agnew (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Agnew)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co-wHEtnSDE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co-wHEtnSDE)
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 31 December, 2015, 10:47:16 pm
Gideon Coe's Obit show
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Post by: Ham on 01 January, 2016, 10:19:57 am
Aretha Franklin at 73 http://mic.com/articles/131477/with-one-performance-aretha-franklin-reminded-the-world-what-a-real-singer-sounds-like
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Post by: mcshroom on 01 January, 2016, 10:49:54 am
Absolute Radio's top 100 movie songs. Pretty good mix so far :)
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 02 January, 2016, 12:51:33 am
This http://www.aidanmoffat.co.uk/index.php/site/news_detail/the_island_come_true_by_l_pierre/

Just what I was looking for to finish off the night. Not too loud, just nice.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 03 January, 2016, 10:45:33 pm
David Byrne - Rei Momo
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Post by: pcolbeck on 05 January, 2016, 11:08:16 am
Beth Hart

https://youtu.be/mx6YWVaU_AU

Smokin !

Just ordered the CD of this gig. She was on Jules's Hootanany but was quite restrained compared to this.
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Post by: menthel on 05 January, 2016, 02:43:03 pm
Mogwai!!!

Hardcore will never die, but you will.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 05 January, 2016, 04:22:58 pm
SYR8: Andre Sider Af Sonic Youth

You know "LA Blues" off The Stooges' "Fun House"?  Like that, but lasts for 57:32 instead of a touch under five minutes.

I am glad I didn't actually pay any actual cash money for this.

Edit: ZOMFG, it was live!  And people actually applauded and cheered afterwards :o
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Post by: menthel on 06 January, 2016, 02:31:07 pm
Errors- Come down with me.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 09 January, 2016, 06:33:54 pm
Wishbone Ash.

Omnes: Clear off, hippie!
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Post by: jsabine on 10 January, 2016, 01:15:42 am
6 Music played the album version of Interstellar Overdrive just before midnight. 9 minutes.

I was impressed, but secretly hoping for Astronomy Domine and Syd Barrett intoning the names of galaxies.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 10 January, 2016, 07:55:48 am
Shortly after Syd died we went to see Robyn Hitchcock.  Mr Hitchcock plus band played "Arnold Layne" as near note perfect as made no odds.  "Good," said Mr Sunshine, "it's meant to be LOUD!"
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Post by: Steph on 11 January, 2016, 08:38:59 pm
The new Ozric Tentacles album, 'Technicians of the Sacred'
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Post by: tiermat on 12 January, 2016, 09:25:10 am
Bad Religion - Best Of...

Wow, they have a huge back catalogue to choose from, don't they? the Best Of is >2h30!!!!!
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Post by: menthel on 15 January, 2016, 12:49:53 pm
Eighth Blackbird- Filaments. Its a rather good jazzy modern classical type of thing.
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Post by: menthel on 19 January, 2016, 01:31:02 pm
Me again- Chemical Brothers and Dig Your Own Hole. Dancing in my head.

Edit: And now Sugar- Copper Blue. Its a cracker!
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Post by: Redlight on 23 January, 2016, 10:56:37 pm
Fast Forward - new-ish album by Joe Jackson

I've been a fan from the days of Look Sharp and I think I have seen JJ live more times than any other artist. I wasn't too impressed with his last album of original songs but about 75% of this one is a return to form and a couple of tracks are quite sublime.

I'll be seeing him live next month and have no doubt that it will be a good night. Like Dylan, he dips into his back catalogue and presents his older songs in completely new ways.  Unlike Dylan, he let's his band know what he's going to play in advance  ;)
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Post by: Dibdib on 23 January, 2016, 11:09:43 pm
Picked up a couple more David Bowie albums in town today, Low and Let's Dance. So much of the Bowie I grew up with was around the Ziggy Stardust... era, so it's nice to explore some of the other parts of his career.
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Post by: Steph on 23 January, 2016, 11:39:29 pm
Picked up a couple more David Bowie albums in town today, Low and Let's Dance. So much of the Bowie I grew up with was around the Ziggy Stardust... era, so it's nice to explore some of the other parts of his career.

Interesting link between two of the RIPs is that on "Lodger" and other stuff  Bowie was joined by Simon House, the violinist from Hawkwind.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 28 January, 2016, 12:58:10 pm
Steel Panther - Brilliant. If you remember bands like Poison and Motley Crue these guys will make you smile.

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Post by: pcolbeck on 29 January, 2016, 10:20:43 am
Dave Rawlings Machine - Nashville Obsolete

Brilliant dark Americana. Gillian Welch on harmony vocals and second guitar.

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Post by: Mr Larrington on 29 January, 2016, 06:22:50 pm
The Velvet Underground.  The live CDs included in the 45th anniversary box sets ran out before Win 10 on Slow Dempsey (the laptop) had finished cleaning up post-upgrade rubbish, in spite of a 37 minute version of "Sister Ray" :o
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Post by: andrewc on 30 January, 2016, 09:12:08 pm
A box set of von Karajan conducting the Berlin Philharmonic, all the Beethoven symphonies (1977 version)
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Post by: Andrij on 30 January, 2016, 10:08:20 pm
Turandot, live from the Met. 

Well, delayed,  Started listening live, but was interrupted by a phone call.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 04 February, 2016, 08:50:39 am
Fuck Buttons.  I think they only have two songs (three if you count their cover of "Mogwai Fear Satan") but they're quite good at disguising it.
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Post by: Torslanda on 04 February, 2016, 08:38:19 pm
This afternoon, funnily enough, both Dark Side of the Moon and Brothers In Arms.

See the Terry Wogan thread . . .
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Post by: Vince on 05 February, 2016, 10:23:58 am
Ooo... Good idea. :thumbsup:
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Post by: menthel on 05 February, 2016, 10:45:43 am
Lateduster- Easy Pieces. Its rather good jazzy/post rock/instrumental twiddlery from the mid noughties.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 05 February, 2016, 11:56:33 am
Shelby Lynne, lots and lots of Shelby Lynne. The older she gets the better she gets.

https://youtu.be/6NM4Aqmx-iI

https://youtu.be/QOif0fKLb1M



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Post by: pcolbeck on 05 February, 2016, 03:41:58 pm
And now the new album from the Tedeschi Trucks Band - Let me get by.

Excellent ! Two drummers, a brass section, two great singers and the worlds best slide guitarist, what's not to like.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 05 February, 2016, 06:17:39 pm
And now the new album from the Tedeschi Trucks Band - Let me get by.

Excellent ! Two drummers, a brass section, two great singers and the worlds best slide guitarist, what's not to like.

The brass section, if you want my op!on.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 12 February, 2016, 10:50:04 pm
Fuck Buttons.  I think they only have two songs (three if you count their cover of "Mogwai Fear Satan") but they're quite good at disguising it.

I likes Fuck Buttons :)

Tonight - Halcyon Digest by Deerhunter :)
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Post by: andrewc on 12 February, 2016, 10:52:19 pm
"Sandinista" , played rather loud. 😀
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Post by: Pingu on 19 February, 2016, 11:44:30 pm
Australian post rock  :thumbsup:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZw6mUxSvJM
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Post by: Ruthie on 21 February, 2016, 07:51:18 am
The Shooting Of.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRuY099sYqw

Absolutely kicking myself for not buying the album at his gig.
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Post by: essexian on 24 February, 2016, 08:55:19 am
Fancy a bit of Kate Bush today..... Might even try to listen to the unlistenable "50 words for Snow" later!

Wish me luck with that!




 
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Post by: Andrij on 25 February, 2016, 02:28:19 pm
Theme tunes shifted major->minor, or vice versa.
https://soundcloud.com/laztozia
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Post by: Torslanda on 29 February, 2016, 11:09:54 pm
Recently purchased two Supertramp albums, both remastered, 'Crime of the Century' and 'Breakfast In America'.

The latter sent particular shivers through me, having bought it 30 odd years ago.

I am a dreadful 70s throwback . . .
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Post by: andrewc on 03 March, 2016, 08:43:39 pm
I remember listening to "Breakfast in America" on the radio while getting ready for school.  A few years later I had a copy recorded from an LP from the local library (remember them ?)   Only got a compilation CD now  :(

Just been listening to Zoe Keating playing at the WEF in Davos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iep2N6nP5JE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iep2N6nP5JE)
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Post by: Redlight on 04 March, 2016, 01:51:03 pm
Just collected Hunky Dory and Ziggy 2012 remasters from my local Sainsbury's for a fiver each.  I normally try to resist buying things that I already have on vinyl but at that price it seemed churlish not to take advantage.

HD is playing right now
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Post by: pcolbeck on 04 March, 2016, 02:42:26 pm
Steely Dan - Gaucho

On headphones, is there any other way to listen to Steely Dan ?
The production is something else.
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Post by: menthel on 08 March, 2016, 11:15:31 am
Sonic Youth- Dirty.
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Post by: tiermat on 08 March, 2016, 12:46:57 pm
Tricky - Skilled Mechanics
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Post by: menthel on 09 March, 2016, 09:29:17 am
Blackbeard's Tea Party- Reprobates. Off to see them on Saturday- beer and raucous folk ahoy!
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Post by: tiermat on 09 March, 2016, 02:29:02 pm
Pitchshifter - www.pitchshifter.com It's an oldy, but a goody.  My biggest regret, from our days living in Northampton, is that I never got to see them play live on home ground...
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Post by: Ruthie on 09 March, 2016, 09:00:55 pm
Trev Gibb.  I think I actually like him quite a lot.  He's clever and he makes a nice noise.
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Post by: andrewc on 12 March, 2016, 05:12:13 pm
Bach Cello Suites.    First by Stephen Isserlis, then Yo-Yo Ma, now Pierre Fournier  :D
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Post by: menthel on 12 March, 2016, 06:57:25 pm
Blackbeard's Tea Party- Reprobates. Off to see them on Saturday- beer and raucous folk ahoy!

2 tickets spare if anyone is interested.
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Post by: Pingu on 17 March, 2016, 06:55:50 pm
The Spirit of Man (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJAVFZxNgAA) on the jukebox at the Moorings  :thumbsup:
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Post by: perpetual dan on 20 March, 2016, 10:19:56 am
Miss Dan the Elder has discovered ROCK, so on an if you can't beat them basis, I've put Led Zep II on.
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Post by: Ruthie on 22 March, 2016, 11:19:23 pm
'Lodger'.

It doesn't date.
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Post by: Legs on 23 March, 2016, 01:21:26 pm
Steely Dan - Gaucho

On headphones, is there any other way to listen to Steely Dan ?
The production is something else.
I totally love Steely Dan, and it's a toss-up between Gaucho and The Royal Scam for my favourite album.  Fagen's solo album The Nightfly is also pure production genius.
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Post by: David Martin on 26 March, 2016, 11:39:12 pm
Postmodern Jukebox. Some of it works really well, other bits are a bit contrived or need a bit more careful arranging.
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Post by: Steph on 27 March, 2016, 12:47:59 am
Blackbeard's Tea Party- Reprobates. Off to see them on Saturday- beer and raucous folk ahoy!

I looked after an abandoned/forgotten case I found at Shrewsbury Festival for half an hour, hoping the owner would return before I finished my meal. It turned out to be BBTP's box of CDs-for-sale, much to the relief of the gent who reclaimed it, and I was rewarded with a free copy of their disc.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 27 March, 2016, 03:17:13 pm
Gov't Mule - The Deep End vol 1

Smashing. Saving vol 2 for another day.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 01 April, 2016, 02:36:07 pm
The Wilderness ~ Explosions In The Sky

New album, released today.  is teh Aces :thumbsup:
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Post by: IanDG on 04 April, 2016, 10:52:24 pm
Jackie Leven (https://youtu.be/APNVVMp0AF0)
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Post by: pcolbeck on 05 April, 2016, 11:32:33 am
The Drive by Truckers

Sometimes funny and often dark. Have been described as Southern Gothic.

"When the pin hits the shell" is a particularly dark example.

Me and you, we liked our pills
And our whiskey
But you don't want your head full of either one
When the house gets quiet and dark
...
And the same God you were so afraid
Was gonna send you to Hell
Is the same one you're gonna answer to
When the pin hits the shell


https://youtu.be/X4DYgOre02s

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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 11 April, 2016, 04:21:45 pm
Weaving my Ancestor's Voices by Sheila Chandra.
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Post by: Quisling on 12 April, 2016, 03:27:31 pm
The Wilderness ~ Explosions In The Sky

New album, released today.  is teh Aces :thumbsup:

I've heard bits of this and it is indeed good.  You may also therefore like my current choice - Yndi Halda's 2nd album Under Summer.  A little different to their first effort some 10 years ago but every bit as good.  Classic "post rock" with added violin.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 12 April, 2016, 04:06:32 pm
The Wilderness appears to have - gasp - keyboards on it :o  I'll keep an eye out for Yndi Halda; sounds interesting.
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Post by: Riggers on 12 April, 2016, 04:39:47 pm
Radiohead No Surprises. I thank you!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V40_GkVOLqE
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Post by: pcolbeck on 13 April, 2016, 07:41:09 am
Tedeschi Trucks Band

This video made me laugh. Two drummers in a small studio that's OK but the horn section get banished to another room, maybe they had been very naughty :)

https://youtu.be/NwgEELSShrU

Superb guitar solo from 5:18, Derek Trucks amazing as usual never over does it.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 13 April, 2016, 08:24:15 pm
I've heard bits of this and it is indeed good.  You may also therefore like my current choice - Yndi Halda's 2nd album Under Summer.  A little different to their first effort some 10 years ago but every bit as good.  Classic "post rock" with added violin.

Have just bought both.  Only halfway through the first track of Enjoy Eternal Bliss but am liking what I'm hearing thus far.
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Post by: andrewc on 13 April, 2016, 10:48:29 pm
Bach Cello Suites.    First by Stephen Isserlis, then Yo-Yo Ma, now Pierre Fournier  :D

Heard the David Watkin (http://www.thestrad.com/cpt-reviews/bach-six-cello-suites-bwv1007-12-2/) recording on the radio at the weekend & ordered it straight away.  Utterly beautiful.   

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMsdQMgu3dE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMsdQMgu3dE)
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Post by: pcolbeck on 14 April, 2016, 03:57:06 am
You need the Pablo Casals recording as well. Its the reference for all others. Its pre WWII and mono but the Naxos restoration of the original recording is excellent and relatively cheap too.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bach-Suites-Transcriptions-Johann-Sebastian/dp/B00004VXD2
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Post by: pcolbeck on 14 April, 2016, 04:52:09 am
Vintage Trouble

Sort of a 60s soul / R&B vibe. Just heard of these guys and they are really good. Apparently they have been on tour supporting AC/DC which seems an odd match but there you go.

Vintage Trouble - Pelvis Pusher (https://youtu.be/ZMCutWGTHSU)
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Post by: fuzzy on 14 April, 2016, 08:36:00 am
Vintage Trouble

Sort of a 60s soul / R&B vibe. Just heard of these guys and they are really good. Apparently they have been on tour supporting AC/DC which seems an odd match but there you go.

Vintage Trouble - Pelvis Pusher (https://youtu.be/ZMCutWGTHSU)

Saw them supporting Paloma Faith. I concur- they are good.
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Post by: Quisling on 14 April, 2016, 11:58:51 am
I've heard bits of this and it is indeed good.  You may also therefore like my current choice - Yndi Halda's 2nd album Under Summer.  A little different to their first effort some 10 years ago but every bit as good.  Classic "post rock" with added violin.

Have just bought both.  Only halfway through the first track of Enjoy Eternal Bliss but am liking what I'm hearing thus far.

You're welcome.  The first half of Dash and Blast is awesome.  For years I thought A Song for Starlit Beaches was the weakest track on the album but now I've come to realise it is never a wasted 22 minutes of my life.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 14 April, 2016, 12:04:47 pm
I've heard bits of this and it is indeed good.  You may also therefore like my current choice - Yndi Halda's 2nd album Under Summer.  A little different to their first effort some 10 years ago but every bit as good.  Classic "post rock" with added violin.

Have just bought both.  Only halfway through the first track of Enjoy Eternal Bliss but am liking what I'm hearing thus far.

You're welcome.  The first half of Dash and Blast is awesome.  For years I thought A Song for Starlit Beaches was the weakest track on the album but now I've come to realise it is never a wasted 22 minutes of my life.

Nothing on the telly last night except soggy foopballers so I listened to The Lot.  Thanks for the recommendation :thumbsup:  Though with a name like that they ought to be from Seyðisfjörður rather than Canterbury.
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Post by: Andrij on 17 April, 2016, 10:32:59 pm
Sir Henry at Rawlinson's End.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 18 April, 2016, 01:16:51 pm
Are you lollygagging over the syllabub?
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Post by: Steph on 18 April, 2016, 03:22:07 pm
One of my favourite people and musicians goes daft...
https://soundcloud.com/jonnyjazz/bach-goes-bananas
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Post by: sg37409 on 18 April, 2016, 03:44:35 pm
The Wilderness ~ Explosions In The Sky

New album, released today.  is teh Aces :thumbsup:

Yeah, its very good.  Off to see the 1st date in their tour tomorrow in Glasgow and looking forward to it a ton !
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Post by: pcolbeck on 18 April, 2016, 05:59:54 pm
Marianne Faithfull

The stuff from the late seventies onwards. Some really quite beautiful and haunting songs. I particularly like "There is a ghost" and "Flaming September".
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 18 April, 2016, 06:25:23 pm
The Wilderness ~ Explosions In The Sky

New album, released today.  is teh Aces :thumbsup:

Yeah, its very good.  Off to see the 1st date in their tour tomorrow in Glasgow and looking forward to it a ton !

Git!  I have another week to wait :(
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 25 April, 2016, 11:00:46 am
Jonathan Richman :D
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Post by: Ruthie on 15 May, 2016, 10:22:20 pm
Bob Dylan.

Yeah ...
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Post by: Pingu on 15 May, 2016, 10:43:13 pm
Opened the windows and listened to the blackbirds singing.
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 20 May, 2016, 01:05:55 pm
Gwegle have offered my a month's free music.

So, yes thank you. I'll have a month of that.

So I'm listening to Lloyd Cole and the Commotions. Nostalgia, yup, that's me.

Yesterday was The Waterboys.

Today will be Midnight Oil, Diesels and Dust album.  Best songs ever sung by someone utterly incapable of singing.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 29 May, 2016, 01:08:00 pm
Sticky Fingers.
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Post by: andrewc on 29 May, 2016, 09:55:48 pm
Having a binge on This Mortal Coil.   Only problem with this warm weather is that the amp doubles as a room heater !
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Post by: tiermat on 04 June, 2016, 09:17:55 am
Having discovered the Vevo app on our new smart TV, I am binging on '90s and new millennium rock, starting with System of a Down.
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Post by: citoyen on 04 June, 2016, 01:02:08 pm
In Search Of Harperfield - the very lovely new(ish) album by Emma Pollock.

Standout track:
https://youtu.be/6I6MkgtIaXE

(The bit where she starts singing in Scottish makes me go weak at the knees.)

Tenuous cycling link: she used to be in the Delgados.
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Post by: Tim Hall on 04 June, 2016, 09:22:49 pm
Bruce. Revision for tomorrow innit. Doesn't "The Ghost of Tom Joad" sound a lot like "Nebraska".
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Post by: billplumtree on 14 June, 2016, 07:14:31 pm
Michael Rosen, on R4's My Teenage Diary.  Granted, I'm a long-standing fan,  but what a lovely bloke.  Warm-hearted, intelligent, and hilarious - best thing I've heard for ages, on what can sometimes be a damp squib kinda programme.  How could you not love someone who calls his communist father Pater?  He'd fit in well here, in fact, with his general excellence, idiosyncratic sense of humour, grammar pedantry, (I'll stop there)
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Post by: dim on 14 June, 2016, 08:39:24 pm
uriah heep demons and wizards:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btDHH3tRqR8

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Post by: Tim Hall on 14 June, 2016, 10:06:38 pm
Michael Rosen, on R4's My Teenage Diary.  Granted, I'm a long-standing fan,  but what a lovely bloke.  Warm-hearted, intelligent, and hilarious - best thing I've heard for ages, on what can sometimes be a damp squib kinda programme.  How could you not love someone who calls his communist father Pater?  He'd fit in well here, in fact, with his general excellence, idiosyncratic sense of humour, grammar pedantry, (I'll stop there)
The bit where he related his mother trying to dissuade him from going on a demo was knicker wettingly funny.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 27 June, 2016, 06:29:01 pm
Sleep.  USAnian stoners from the early 1990s.  Think Black Sabbath tribute band but with a singer who makes Ozzy sound like Pavarotti.  It's absolutely hysterical but I have an horrible suspcision that they actually meant it.

Their last album was called "Dopesmoker"; the title track is 63 minutes long :o
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Post by: Steph on 01 July, 2016, 01:25:38 am
Preternatural, by Moulettes, followed by Aqualung and Minstrel in the Gallery by Tull.
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Post by: Riggers on 14 July, 2016, 09:14:55 am
For the past few days I've been-a-listening to:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gphiFVVtUI&feature=share

A very talented chap is Estas Tonne. Check out his other stuff.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 16 July, 2016, 07:56:03 pm
Sonic Death - Early Sonic Youth, 1981-83.  If they got a record deal on the back of that then there was even more cocaine floating about the industry than was previously thought possible.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 24 July, 2016, 09:42:41 pm
Prom - Ludwig van's Glorious 9th, my droogies!
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Post by: Jock Stewart on 25 July, 2016, 09:34:25 pm
Back to The The. Matthew Johnson's got new material brewing. The London East End visionary will soon be hitting the road. Infected and Mind Bomb still send shivers up my spine.
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Post by: andrewc on 03 August, 2016, 08:55:15 pm
I needed something to get free postage on an Amazon order.  Gidon Kremer playing the Bach Sonataa & Partitas.  2 CD's for £4.99.    :thumbsup:
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Post by: Wowbagger on 07 August, 2016, 08:22:35 am
Beethoven's Waldstein sonata. More than any other Beethoven sonata I have attempted to play, this one has highlighted my utter inadequacy. It is lovely to hear it played properly. I don't know who the pianist is yet.
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Post by: TheLurker on 07 August, 2016, 12:16:44 pm
At the moment, The Yardbirds.  I shall, if MrsLurker doesn't kill me first*, follow that with some John Mayall.


*You'd think that after nigh on 30 years of blissful *cough* cohabitation with myself that MrsL would have learnt to love such things, but it seems not. Hey ho.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 09 August, 2016, 06:19:35 pm
Ludovico Einaudi.  An Italian with a melancholic piano.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 10 August, 2016, 01:59:50 pm
Ludovico Einaudi.  An Italian with a melancholic piano.

Edit: He's just cropped up behind Matthew Syed's piece about wiff-waff in the PRC.
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Post by: andrewc on 13 August, 2016, 10:53:03 pm
A week or so ago I took delivery of a box set of 50+ mono CD's originally recorded in the mid 40's to mid 50's. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Decca-Sound-Mono-Years-1944-1956/dp/B00QHL0V3C/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1471124757&sr=1-1&keywords=decca+mono

"THE BIRTH OF HI-FI
 Today we take high fidelity sound quality for granted, but how did it start?  When was the moment when compressed and scratchy sound gave way to natural, realistic sound that captured the whole picture of a performance?
 Decca Sound ‘Mono Years’ seeks to answer that question and shows how, 70 years ago, amidst war-time privations, a small team at Decca made technological breakthroughs that brought hi-fi to the world.
 This latest cube explores Decca’s earliest high-fidelity history, and restores some restores critically acclaimed albums from ensembles such as the Trio di Trieste, Quintetto Chigiano and Griller Quartet which have not been available since their original LP release more than sixty years ago. An equally impressive array of soloists includes pianists Clifford Curzon, Julius Katchen, Friedrich Gulda and Moura Lypmany and violinists Ruggiero Ricci and Alfredo Campoli. Several generations of cellists are represented with recordings by Pierre Fournier, Maurice Gendron and Zara Nelsova."


I'm now up to disk 12 & so far there hasn't been a duff one.  Some familiar tunes but also a lot of stuff I've not heard before.  Recommended  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Ruthie on 21 August, 2016, 01:02:46 pm
Wiggins mit Weller on 6 Music  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Riggers on 09 September, 2016, 12:58:04 pm
Currently listening to:

http://www.rainymood.com
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Post by: Andrij on 09 September, 2016, 07:58:32 pm
Verdi's Requiem.


I am very tempted to turn it up to 11.
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Post by: tiermat on 20 September, 2016, 03:06:31 pm
Opposites - Biffy Clyro
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Post by: sg37409 on 24 September, 2016, 12:19:34 pm
levelling the land, got my ticket through for their 25th anniversary tour this week.
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Post by: CrazyEnglishTriathlete on 25 September, 2016, 06:07:11 pm
Sorabji - Opus Clavicembalisticum recorded by John Ogden.

Because I am stuck working in a hotel in Sao Paulo and have the time to do so.  A remarkable composer and an equally remarkable pianist, a recording after he was recovering from a long mental breakdown and not long before a tragically early death from diabetes complications.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 26 September, 2016, 10:48:43 am
levelling the land, got my ticket through for their 25th anniversary tour this week.

Oh heck that makes me feel old.

Nearly as bad as hearing that Primal Scream did the whole of Screamadelica at Glastonbury in 2011 tto celebrate its 20th anniversary and then realizing that I saw them do it at Glastonbury the year it was released ....
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Post by: Tim Hall on 27 September, 2016, 12:44:39 pm
The Tom Robinson Band, recorded live at Golders Green Hippodrome in 1978, courtesy of the 6 Music website.
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Post by: sg37409 on 28 September, 2016, 11:53:04 pm
levelling the land, got my ticket through for their 25th anniversary tour this week.

Oh heck that makes me feel old.

Same here. We saw them on the original tour, I still remember the digeriedoo (sp ?) solo with the massive bass. Fantastic.

Tonight, Laurie Anderson, Big Science. (on vinyl, bought in the eighties)
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Post by: Ham on 29 September, 2016, 12:43:41 pm
Every now and  again Youtube "recommendations" throw up something worth listening to: Cream on US TV in 1968 doing Sunshine of your love (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MY-aAYl259k) - It's an excellent version, worth it for Ginger Baker alone
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Post by: Legs on 29 September, 2016, 02:54:55 pm
Tom Rush, The Circle GameUrge For Going seems very apt on a day like today, and the title track always has me close to tears.
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 30 September, 2016, 11:05:45 am
For the first time in decades, Marillion's Misplaced Childhood. Bloody hell, it's pretentious.  ;D
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Post by: Legs on 30 September, 2016, 11:33:58 am
For the first time in decades, Marillion's Misplaced Childhood. Bloody hell, it's pretentious.  ;D
I had the misfortune of hearing part of Marc Almond's rendition of Jackie on R2 a few evenings ago.  I'm sure Brel would have been positively spinning in his grave.  The 80s were truly different times...
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Post by: Ruthie on 04 October, 2016, 08:01:55 pm
Marc Riley on 6Music.  He's playing a session from something called 'Plastic Mermaids'.  I think I like it. 
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Post by: Deano on 04 October, 2016, 11:37:47 pm
Trembling Bells. They're a bit like Deep Purple crossed with Fairport Convention.
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Post by: PaulF on 05 October, 2016, 07:32:09 am
Marc Riley on 6Music.  He's playing a session from something called 'Plastic Mermaids'.  I think I like it. 

Caught parts of it as I was cooking and downloaded some stuff this morning. Enjoying it so far. Similar in some ways to more recent Mercury Rev.

Based on what I think you like from your posts I think you may like it! :)
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Post by: tiermat on 14 October, 2016, 02:53:20 pm
A strange mix, today.

Nathaniel Ratliff (our tickets for Leeds arrived today)
Followed by Terrorvision - Super Delux
Then onto Tool - Aenima.

I did wait until Mrs T had gone out before I put the last one on, though.
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Post by: Tim Hall on 15 October, 2016, 04:16:45 pm
Just home from town with Billy Bragg's latest CD, "Shine A Light", in my pocket. It's him and Joe Henry(*) traveling across America by train, in a bit of a Woody Guthrie stylee.  It's subtitled "Field Recordings From The Great American Railroad", and has stuff like Rock Island Line, Midnight Special, John Henry.  It works for me.


* I'd not heard of John Henry, but Wiki tells me he's got a pedigree as long as your arm ( an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer. He has released 13 studio albums and produced multiple recordings for other artists, including three Grammy Award-winning albums). He's also Madonna's brother in law.
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Post by: Ham on 22 October, 2016, 05:18:29 pm
Just found Ancantha Lang, a big blues voice, worth keeping an eye on, methinks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Clz5LyOUorY
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Post by: TheLurker on 24 October, 2016, 07:28:30 pm
Have just dug out a "Best of Chess" double album and am listening to Buddy Guy at the moment cos Phil Chess' death has been announced. 
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Post by: Crumbling Nick on 31 October, 2016, 12:19:05 am
Radio 3...

No words, just music. But a fascinating, ear-opening collection of familiar pieces by performers with a very different approach from the mainstream, the usual romantic stuff and some intriguing pieces (at a guess) from the last half century. I can't place the work with an oriental flavour - quarter tones at a guess - but probably a European composer. Nor the piece that seem to owe a lot to the minimalists but had something different to say. The whole of the Dr Who theme raised more questions than answers.

The team at R3 obviously had fun with the programming. How do you wind down from an organ symphony (I think)... to the monumental chaconne from Bach's D minor partita? How do you choose a violinist whose approach to the solo partita fits in with the final work of the day, that can only have been Wagner?

I know the details are available on the BBC website, but somehow that's not quite the point.

I have a suspicion that R3 may have been subtly taking the piss out of Classic FM. There was some cherry-picking of movements - the Bach chaconne for example, but the programming was joined-up. 
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 31 October, 2016, 11:14:11 am
It's the words on R3 which I find more off-putting than the music.  I can usually tune out the Stuffs by modern composers who make early Sonic Youth sound like Cole Porter but the grate ponces wittering on between pieces make me want to throw things at the wireless.  And I only ever hear R3 at Fort Larrington, so it's not my wireless.
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Post by: Feanor on 12 November, 2016, 10:12:33 pm
I've just played an old vinyl record I've not played for years.

Little Feat: Feats Don't Fail Me Now.

I'd forgotten just how good it is.  I need to take the Rock n Roll Doctors advice more often.

Lowell George.
Two degrees in be-bop, a PhD in swing
He's the master of rhythm, he's a rock and roll king.
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Post by: billplumtree on 20 November, 2016, 07:42:22 pm
John Shuttleworth, on the wireless.

It's my time to shine,
Not the moon's, or the sun's,
Or Martin Clunes'

Chris Difford making a valiant, but inevitably doomed, attempt to be the straight man.
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Post by: sg37409 on 24 November, 2016, 11:40:26 am
I've just played an old vinyl record I've not played for years.

Little Feat: Feats Don't Fail Me Now.

I'd forgotten just how good it is.  I need to take the Rock n Roll Doctors advice more often.

Lowell George.
Two degrees in be-bop, a PhD in swing
He's the master of rhythm, he's a rock and roll king.

That very lyric pings into my head every time someone in the house mentions a degree or a phd. They sometimes are sung aloud rather than internally.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 24 November, 2016, 12:24:08 pm
Gretchen Peters - Blackbird

Once of the best albums I have heard for a while. It's somewhat dark.

https://youtu.be/a5hIn569qMQ

last thing I remember was your footsteps in the hall
whisky in your voice and a shotgun on the wall
now there’s shadows in the shadows, there’s trouble in the cane
and there’s things you do that you just can’t explain
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Post by: pcolbeck on 24 November, 2016, 12:52:34 pm
Rory Gallagher - I fall apart

This is a beautiful song from his first solo album. Lovely guitar work (of course) with some interesting insertion of Celtic chords and progressions. I love the production as well, not sure anyone would release an album with such loose and sloppy production these days, it was deliberate apparently and I like it.

https://youtu.be/pjxhwNrhIgA
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Post by: sg37409 on 24 November, 2016, 02:29:32 pm
Gretchen Peters - Blackbird

Once of the best albums I have heard for a while. It's somewhat dark.
It is a good album, also try out Hello Cruel World. I think the lyrics of Five Minutes are excellent.
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Post by: tiermat on 29 November, 2016, 11:02:48 am
Terrorvision - Super Delux

Maybe it will banish the ear worms I have in my head after the knockout gig I went to on Friday night!
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Post by: Peter on 29 November, 2016, 11:16:41 am
Rory Gallagher - I fall apart

This is a beautiful song from his first solo album. Lovely guitar work (of course) with some interesting insertion of Celtic chords and progressions. I love the production as well, not sure anyone would release an album with such loose and sloppy production these days, it was deliberate apparently and I like it.

https://youtu.be/pjxhwNrhIgA

I usually love Rory Gallagher but I found this a little wearing in places (not that he'd ask me!).  In the first verse he rhymes "apart" with, wait for it, "apart" and in the second he just fails to reach the top note (the tonic) in his vocal on each of the four lines and I kept wanting to shout "push!" like a midwife!
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Post by: pcolbeck on 02 December, 2016, 10:24:46 am
Angel Olsen

A new discovery for me. Great headphone music.
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Post by: Juan Martín on 03 December, 2016, 06:05:57 pm
The Floyd, man.
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Post by: Andrij on 03 December, 2016, 06:51:45 pm
Manon Lescaut, live from the Met.  Makes for rather pleasant background music.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 06 December, 2016, 02:37:24 pm
Thee Oh Sees - Plastic Plant

Came free on a CD with Uncut. Garage psychedelica and oh my god the base !

The base doesn't seem so loud, driving and amazing on Youtube but in the car cranked up - drool.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 06 December, 2016, 06:31:28 pm
Various Robyn Hitchcock live recordings of dubious provenance.  Well, alright, bootlegs.  (Re-)Ripping them from cassette.
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Post by: Crumbling Nick on 08 December, 2016, 11:20:23 pm
Live music making in all its glorious diversity.

In the morning Mrs N's U3A (University of the Third Age, aka crumblies) ukulele group performed Christmas songs with audience participation. Amazingly it was all pitched so that even my decrepit voice could cope, though I did wonder how the soprano voices managed the low notes at the end of "White Christmas". The ensemble playing & singing was excellent.

Lunch on a train to the city was followed by a glorious performance of wind music by eight CBSO musicians. A wind octet is not exactly chamber music, but they knew the acoustics of the CBSO Centre and they played as a chamber ensemble. Lots of communication by body language. They opened my ears to the complexities of a wind band. I had no idea that a bassoon (Margaret Cookhorn) could alter a simple dance rhythm into ensemble music with a bounce worthy of Tigger. The finale, one of Dvorak's slavonic dances transcribed (superbly) for wind band was both a super virtuoso piece and huge fun. There were quite a few others in the grey brigade audience who joined me in laughing at the end, before the formal applause started. The performers grinned.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 16 December, 2016, 05:36:11 pm
Doyle Bramhall II

Can sing, produce and play guitar well enough to be hired by Clapton amongst others - I hate him.
Doesn't release enough of his own stuff in my opinion.

Here he is is live in 2014 playing with Sheryl Crow.  Skip to 5:30 for a brilliant version of Doyle's "I'm leaving" with Sheryl singing backing vocals.

https://youtu.be/rFflPzgQSnM

Or what about this from his new album. Its got a hell of a groove.

https://youtu.be/2gYfXL4rOto
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 21 December, 2016, 11:28:55 pm
A Matter Of Life ~ Penguin Café.  Features Arthur "Son of Simon" Jeffes, hence the abbreviated name.  Similar enough to to the Penguin Café Orchestra to keep fans happy, different enough to make them say "that's a bit different from the Penguin Café Orchestra and, moreover, really rather good."  Why has it taken me five years to get round to buying this album?
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Post by: Steph on 22 December, 2016, 01:14:11 am
Fairport's Jewel in the Crown, Sin E's Deep Water Dropoff, Kath Tickell's Strange But True* and the new mixed-bag-compilation of older Floyd followed immediately by Wish You Were Here.


* Contains a great version of Jimmy Allen/Salmon Tails that I simply can't help playing along to on the mandolin.
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Post by: Juan Martín on 22 December, 2016, 02:59:59 pm
Paris 1919 - John Cale
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Post by: Ruthie on 23 December, 2016, 08:14:40 pm
Iffy Pop on 6 music. He's playing some class Christmas music  :D
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Post by: T42 on 04 January, 2017, 07:58:51 am
Just discovering Dagmar Krause. Wow.

https://youtu.be/WOGwxhZDCUA
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Post by: pcolbeck on 05 January, 2017, 12:19:49 pm
Early AC/DC.

Saw this under one track on Youtube, made my spill my coffee :)

Everytime I listen to Bon Scott, I feel like I have to take a shower and get an STD screen afterward. He's my hero.
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Post by: madcow on 06 January, 2017, 01:49:08 pm
Radio 4 Extra broadcast "Beryl : A love story on two wheels"  by Maxine Peake.
Mixture of actors and family recall parts of Berry Burton's amazing racing career.
Available on BBC iPlayer for 30 days.
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Post by: mattc on 06 January, 2017, 02:12:09 pm
Radio 4 Extra broadcast "Beryl : A love story on two wheels"  by Maxine Peake.
Mixture of actors and family recall parts of Berry Burton's amazing racing career.
Available on BBC iPlayer for 30 days.
Almost by accident, I listened to the "Sporting Witness" episode about Beryl yesterday. Much shorter, but real interviews. I think all the SW's are on the iPlayer for eternity, there's some good stuff in there.


Right now?

Rock Wi T'yew by Mr Mike Jackson on Rockin' Radio 2. With toons like that, I reckon he'll go far.
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Post by: Steph on 05 February, 2017, 10:53:32 am
A new live album by Hawkwind which contains this:


The original:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go0JMX3zNeA

The new and, er, rather different version. Oh dear.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8pGS4cWbHo


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Post by: Mr Larrington on 05 February, 2017, 01:26:00 pm
A new Hawkwind live album, you say?  Tell me more!
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Post by: Steph on 05 February, 2017, 01:40:50 pm
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Space-Ritual-Live-2014-Deluxe/dp/B00SMP4150
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 05 February, 2017, 01:44:39 pm
Ta!
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Post by: Steph on 05 February, 2017, 01:55:46 pm
Not watched the DVD. Some of the performance is ace, some of it irritating, like the howling on Steppenwolf.
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Post by: spesh on 05 February, 2017, 03:47:14 pm
A new live album by Hawkwind which contains this:


The original:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go0JMX3zNeA

The new and, er, rather different version. Oh dear.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8pGS4cWbHo

I saw the remake a while ago. BRIAN BLESSED !!!!!!!!1!!! hamming it up kind of destroys the sense of impending apocalypse that the original reading had.

OTOH, the KLF remix of Silver Machine on the Epoch: Eclipse compilation was just shite.
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Post by: Steph on 05 February, 2017, 03:58:24 pm
The original Sonic Attack is profoundly disturbing, the vocals almost sneered at the listener. BB seems to be laughing all the way through.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 06 February, 2017, 03:57:03 pm
Yoicks!  What is it that they have done to Orgone Accumulator that brings it down to only six minutes?

(Awits firther listening with degree of trepidation)
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Post by: spesh on 06 February, 2017, 04:03:24 pm
So, it's new money for old rope patchouli censer wicks? :demon:
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Post by: tiermat on 06 February, 2017, 05:29:56 pm
Being the good dad I am, I have just subjected TLD to "Valley Girl" by HRH Frank
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Post by: spesh on 06 February, 2017, 05:54:12 pm
Being the good dad I am, I have just subjected TLD to "Valley Girl" by HRH Frank

This unit endorses the above post.  :thumbsup:

Like... totally... for sure
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Post by: Riggers on 07 February, 2017, 01:54:29 pm
I'm listening to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=565tXd1UyYI

But be warned! Viewing this might compel you to 'Prancercise', or just be sick.
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Post by: tiermat on 13 February, 2017, 01:16:04 pm
Today I am a little more up to date, listening to "Wolves" and "Human" by Rag and Bone Man.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 13 February, 2017, 08:33:46 pm
Elwan, the freshly-minted new offering from Tinariwen.  Like!  Big ups to Scott otp for tipping me off to its release.
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Post by: groucho on 14 February, 2017, 02:16:16 pm
...The Suffering Song...RIP Robert Fisher
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Post by: BrianI on 15 February, 2017, 10:45:22 am
Longplayer, Live!

A 1000 year long musical composition.  http://longplayer.org/

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Post by: Andrij on 15 February, 2017, 10:52:16 am
Longplayer, Live!

A 1000 year long musical composition.  http://longplayer.org/

We've been able to visit on a few of my Thames Path Meanders.
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Post by: David Martin on 15 February, 2017, 08:33:50 pm
Gottundammerung.. Wagner's ring cycle is all about some git who wouldn't pay the builders for creating a wall whilst doing dodgy deals with a theif from a different land.
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Post by: Steph on 16 February, 2017, 08:31:36 pm
I'm listening to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=565tXd1UyYI

But be warned! Viewing this might compel you to 'Prancercise', or just be sick.
My eyes! I am reminded of Lamia's sister in Greg Bear's 'Serpent Mage', or TP's 'Witches Abroad' and its ugly sisters. The ones with too many joints in their limbs...
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 28 February, 2017, 07:03:20 pm
Thank you DJ Random for playing Sleep's "Dopesmoker" this afternoon.  All sixty-three and a half minutes of it.  Yes, it is just one track, and not a live recording either.
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Post by: Ruthie on 01 March, 2017, 06:55:49 pm
The Maccabees  :D
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Post by: David Martin on 04 March, 2017, 08:10:05 pm
voces8 - various choral albums.
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Post by: andrewc on 06 March, 2017, 09:08:38 pm
A rather wonderful Mahler box set. £18.99 via https://www.amazon.co.uk/Complete-Mahler-Symphonies-Leonard-Bernstein/dp/B005SJIP1E


Just finished No3 , highly recommended if you like Mahler  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 18 March, 2017, 08:04:09 pm
Keef  - Crosseyed Heart.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 19 March, 2017, 11:13:21 am
A rather wonderful Mahler box set. £18.99 via https://www.amazon.co.uk/Complete-Mahler-Symphonies-Leonard-Bernstein/dp/B005SJIP1E


Just finished No3 , highly recommended if you like Mahler  :thumbsup:

Thanks that looks interesting and cheap. I hadn't really thought about Bernstein for Mahler, all my recordings are Klemperer or Walter.

[EDIT]

Bought it and have listened to the First Symphony - very good.
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Post by: Riggers on 23 March, 2017, 10:48:11 am
Michael Nyman's Decay Music
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Post by: pcolbeck on 30 March, 2017, 04:56:01 pm
Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood - Crossroads Guitar Festival 2007

Blimey they were on fire for this. Cool backing band as well including Derek Trucks and Doyle Bramhall II.

https://youtu.be/6DYC61HzmtM

Dear Mr. Fantasy play us a tune
Something to make us all happy
Do anything, take us out of this gloom
Sing a song, play guitar, make it snappy

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Post by: pcolbeck on 31 March, 2017, 12:13:19 pm
I am about to have a Traffic marathon as Amazon have just delivered a boxed set of five classic Traffic albums, a bargain for £9.99. No it doesn't include "Hole in my shoe" (thank god) but you do get "Dear Mr Fantasy", "John Barlycorn must die" and "The low spark of high heeled boys",
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Post by: Ham on 31 March, 2017, 03:08:16 pm
Izo Fitzroy (https://soundcloud.com/izo-fitzroy), found first on the Blues Kitchen
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Post by: dim on 31 March, 2017, 09:21:11 pm
Stanley Brinks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOIHV8iyzfU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6y1DJ-ysS24

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8unrOg4HquU




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Post by: dim on 31 March, 2017, 09:46:05 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4Tls9bWwMU
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Post by: Riggers on 06 April, 2017, 11:34:27 am
Programme about Edward Thomas. Radio 4 right now!

And the Afternoon Play about him tomorrow afternoon on R4 at 2.30pm.
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Post by: Paul on 08 April, 2017, 12:51:11 am
Love: Alone Again Or (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_X3HKEC68EM).
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Post by: andrewc on 08 April, 2017, 12:57:44 am
Frak! Midnight Oil are touring, but the only available gig is a Sunday night in That London.   That's an expensive evening, ticket, train & hotel  :(
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Post by: T42 on 20 April, 2017, 11:46:26 am
In the workshop this morning I got fed up listening to France Info's repetitive pre-election waffle and put Aaron Copland on the mifi**.  The left channel had dropped out for some reason but I was using whirry electrics so I decided the one channel would do and bumped up the volume to compensate.  About two minutes into Appalachian Spring, the loud bit with triumphant brass and mucho percussion, the missing channel cut in.  The shop has concrete walls, roof & floor so the effect was rib-rattling, very like being inside one of the speakers.

But it was bloody wonderful so I left it that way until I needed to think.

** in this case half-buggered 1981 Sony music centre with still-good amp & hefty separate CD deck, playing through speakers with 8" woofers.
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Post by: sg37409 on 20 April, 2017, 12:08:05 pm
Frak! Midnight Oil are touring, but the only available gig is a Sunday night in That London.   That's an expensive evening, ticket, train & hotel  :(

Bah.  I saw them in Glasgow on the beds are burning tour.  It was a fantastic gig.  I've often looked to see if they were touring since but never have.  No chance I can make that Hammersmith date.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 21 April, 2017, 05:31:03 pm
UFO

The bridge between early 70s rock and NWOBHM. Some great songs.
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Post by: arabella on 24 April, 2017, 09:52:08 pm
Warsaw Village Band, better known as Kapela ze wsi Warszawa.
You'll probably like it if you like Hawk and a Hacksaw, Gogol Bordello, Taraf de Haidouks and similar.
There's loads on youtube.
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Post by: Andrij on 25 April, 2017, 09:55:08 am
Warsaw Village Band, better known as Kapela ze wsi Warszawa.
You'll probably like it if you like Hawk and a Hacksaw, Gogol Bordello, Taraf de Haidouks and similar.
There's loads on youtube.

Dziękuję bardzo!
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Post by: Redlight on 25 April, 2017, 10:40:43 am
The Beach Boys' "Pet Sounds", which comes off the shelf once a year or so.  It's not, perhaps, quite the perfect album that it's sometimes made out to be but it's still an impressive recording.  I'd love to have heard what Brian Wilson would have done with those arrangements had he been able to hear with both ears and recorded the album in stereo.
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Post by: Redlight on 01 May, 2017, 04:45:38 pm
L.P. - Saw her performing (lip-synching, I think) this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn3wJ1_1Zsg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn3wJ1_1Zsg) a couple of times at the recording of Later last week and the CD dropped through the letterbox while I was off riding the London-Wales-London on Saturday with the damn song going round and round me head as an ear worm for 400km.
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Post by: Jakob on 03 May, 2017, 10:36:34 pm
U2. They're doing tour rehearsal in the stadium across the street!
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Post by: Redlight on 09 May, 2017, 01:55:29 pm
My 37 year old vinyl copy of Crocodiles by Echo and The Bunnymen, bought on the day it was issued.  I'd been dragged along to see them a few weeks earlier at The Lyceum (with a new band called U2 third on the bill) by a schoolfriend of mine who had come down from Liverpool especially. I didn't know what to expect and was completely blown away.  I've not listened to it for years and forgotten just how good it was/is.
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Post by: andrewc on 13 May, 2017, 10:00:58 pm
Murray Perahia playing Chopin.    https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00KV191WG/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 


6 CD's of lovely music for less than a tenner !
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Post by: Riggers on 15 May, 2017, 09:02:11 am
If you want to chill, listen to some music that doesn't interfere, or require any special attention, then listen to The Necks's SEX (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaTyHFo3kns).

Brilliant.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 15 May, 2017, 06:26:13 pm
Caetano Veloso - Legendary Brazilian singer / guitarist apparently. I hadn't hear of him until I followed a link from Riggers. Most excellent.
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Post by: Torslanda on 15 May, 2017, 07:06:18 pm
Marillion ~ Misplaced Childhood. Yes, yes. I know it's 30 some years old but I hadn't seen the disc since
2012's French Odyssey. Tiermat saw it amongst my cd collection and said 'oo, haven't heard that... etc.'

It struck me that , at the time, everyone compared them to Genesis (bring back Peter Gabriel...[cont p.94]) listening now with fresher ears, it's definitely channeling the later Pink Floyd.
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Post by: tiermat on 15 May, 2017, 07:46:07 pm
Lavender's Blue, dilly dilly...

Oh look, a squirrel!
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Post by: menthel on 25 May, 2017, 12:48:13 pm
All of the Bela Fleck. Why do I even bother trying to play the banjo???
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Post by: pcolbeck on 30 May, 2017, 10:25:15 am
Led Zeppelin, lots and lots of Led Zeppelin.
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Post by: PaulF on 30 May, 2017, 10:34:28 am
All of the Bela Fleck. Why do I even bother trying to play the banjo???

I get the same feeling when I hear Chris Thile on mandolin. Incidentally the pair o ft hem have apparently just announced an album together
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Post by: pcolbeck on 01 June, 2017, 02:09:56 pm
Little Feet. All my Little Feet was on vinyl but I just picked up the boxed set Rad Gumbo: The Complete Warner Bros. Years 1971-1990.
All the albums up to 1990 in remastered form including the deluxe version of Waiting for Columbus. 13 CDs for £35 a bargain.

Just looking the personnel listing for Dixie Chicken . Apart from Little Feet themselves there are Bonnie Bramlett, Bonnie Raitt and Gloria Jones as backing singers. Not too shabby!
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Post by: Legs on 01 June, 2017, 03:06:02 pm
Jim Croce.  It's in the CD player in the car for moments when there's something rubbish on R2.  Because Suzi Perry's on Drivetime this week, Jim's had a lot of playing.  Thursday (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97jIQGbGql0) is such a beautiful song.
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Post by: menthel on 05 June, 2017, 12:39:46 pm
All of the Bela Fleck. Why do I even bother trying to play the banjo???

I get the same feeling when I hear Chris Thile on mandolin. Incidentally the pair o ft hem have apparently just announced an album together

More of those inadequate feeling upcoming then! ;)
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Post by: T42 on 05 June, 2017, 04:07:56 pm
Yesterday, as I was cleaning the bike, the whole of Herb Caravan's version of Turandot. Fairly wallowed in it I did. Need a better sound system in the workshop, though, the choruses and tutti were a bit muddy on a 35-year-old music centre and left-over speakers from god knows where.  Concrete walls probably don't help, either.
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Post by: Quisling on 07 June, 2017, 11:10:22 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8DmK-Z5kEQ

^^^This beautiful work^^^ [Don't You Go Rushing by Lisa Knapp]
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Post by: Gus on 08 June, 2017, 05:22:39 pm
http://youtu.be/4c3BCWx5Rpg (http://youtu.be/4c3BCWx5Rpg)  the lyrics remind me what I think about politicians.
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Post by: red_riviera on 09 June, 2017, 11:45:47 am
"Nowadays everybody wanna talk like they got something to say
But nothing comes out when they move their lips
Just a bunch of gibberish
And motherfuckers act like they forgot about Dre May"


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFcv5Ma8u8k (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFcv5Ma8u8k)

Eminem, Dr. Dre - Forgot About Dre (Explicit) ft. Hittman
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Post by: T42 on 09 June, 2017, 02:18:03 pm
Ding Dong, the Witch is Dead

https://youtu.be/rHJoj9IqeKg
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Post by: dim on 09 June, 2017, 08:52:32 pm
http://youtu.be/4c3BCWx5Rpg (http://youtu.be/4c3BCWx5Rpg)  the lyrics remind me what I think about politicians.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxN1STgQXW8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsGVghRBdKI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIRKjogt3-4


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Post by: Torslanda on 10 June, 2017, 04:53:15 pm
Vintage Genesis. No change there, then...
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Post by: Steph on 11 June, 2017, 03:35:50 am
Ozric Tentacles, 'Pungent Effulgent'.
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Post by: Paul on 16 June, 2017, 10:27:17 pm
Gimme Some Lovin' (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ko3m0NBbq1o)
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Post by: andrewc on 17 June, 2017, 01:20:53 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=je8brwUWOew


On Thursday night I heard 3 of the lead players from Liverpool Philharmonics string section playing the Goldberg variations arranged for strings, which was absolutely lovely.


http://www.liverpoolphil.com/whats-on/goldberg-variations
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Post by: Quisling on 21 June, 2017, 10:53:08 am
Kraftwerk.

Me and MiniQ are off to see them in that there Londinium on Friday.  One off the bucket list. :thumbsup:
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Post by: BrianI on 27 June, 2017, 03:18:57 pm
Trinity Ward - "Hymns for Machines" album.

http://trinityward.com/album/hymns-for-machines (http://trinityward.com/album/hymns-for-machines)

 I stumbled upon this artist on facebook.  A great find. Lovely retro sci-fi ambient artist!  :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Kraftwerk.

Me and MiniQ are off to see them in that there Londinium on Friday.  One off the bucket list. :thumbsup:

Enjoy!   :thumbsup:
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Post by: rogerzilla on 28 June, 2017, 10:20:00 pm
Doors - L A Woman.  There's filler on it but it's still the best Doors album.  The CD has bonus tracks on it: "Orange County Suite" is a druggy lament with some startling lyrics and a tempo shift halfway through, finally recorded by the band and mixed years after Jim Morrison recorded the vocals, and one of the best things on there.
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Post by: sg37409 on 28 June, 2017, 11:48:47 pm
Tried the new Fleet Foxes the other day.  Wasn't impressed.
Just bought the new Roger Waters - If you liked Amused to Death, you'll like this. Very similar.  I like it.
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Post by: Redlight on 29 June, 2017, 10:02:54 am
The much-hyped new stereo mix of Sgt Pepper.

 :-\ :-\ :-\
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Post by: Ham on 29 June, 2017, 10:59:16 pm
The guitar playing accountant Joe Bonamassa and Tina Guo playing acoustic at Carnegie Hall. check out the state of her bow by the end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQBkV7s0sV0

There are several more videos from that gig, all quite exceptionally good.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 30 June, 2017, 10:57:05 am
"Trippin' With Dr. Faustus", the fresh-today new album from the lovely chaps of Amplifier.  This Unit hereby endorses this product, service or sentiment.
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Post by: Jack Standish on 04 July, 2017, 07:08:08 am
Journey - Any Way You Want IT.
I miss those kind of songs.
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Post by: Redlight on 17 July, 2017, 11:53:07 am
David Bowie's "Pin-ups".  Haven't listened to it for about 30 years.  Now I remember why.  It was a bit of a career low, wasn't it?
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Post by: Andrij on 20 July, 2017, 10:28:15 pm
Illusion & Doubt (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpTYrvO29m2PwDZ9W0XEt-DfZxtrCcZpB) by The Dead South, thanks to stumbling across this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9FzVhw8_bY).

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Post by: T42 on 21 July, 2017, 10:40:53 am
Raspberry in Glue by Geo. Gerschwin. And got superglue under a fingernail the while.
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Post by: Andrij on 21 July, 2017, 11:01:44 am
Illusion & Doubt (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpTYrvO29m2PwDZ9W0XEt-DfZxtrCcZpB) by The Dead South, thanks to stumbling across this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9FzVhw8_bY).

And now Good Company (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpTYrvO29m2MBaxEB4QeCVVDDJcdCXdiL).
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Post by: Quisling on 21 July, 2017, 11:56:49 am
Thanks to Deano of this parish in Tune Association I discovered this beauty:

Design your own container garden - The Mountain Goats
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JggpfFRZmc0

Reminded me of this:
Losing all my hair by Babybird.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxwvDTjy87o

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Post by: Monty on 31 July, 2017, 01:37:47 pm
Neil Young 'Decade'
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Post by: Torslanda on 03 August, 2017, 01:04:57 am
Should come as no surprise to anyone who knows me but in the course a near 12 hour day I listened to most of Genesis' back catalogue. Because Vanessa Feltz. Ended the day with 'Animals' and 'The Wall'. Rogerzilla commented a long time ago about Dave Gilmour's guitar work. It really is sublime.
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Post by: spesh on 03 August, 2017, 01:24:19 am
Er... ITYM Pink Floyd. ;)
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Post by: menthel on 03 August, 2017, 02:14:11 pm
Public Service Broadcasting (otherwise known as Purple Sprouting Broccoli in my head).
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Post by: Monty on 03 August, 2017, 02:29:20 pm
The new Fall album. Much drunken shouting as is to be expected, but not half bad...mostly.
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Post by: Torslanda on 03 August, 2017, 11:49:55 pm
Er... ITYM Pink Floyd. ;)

Read it through again and you'll get it . . .
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Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 04 August, 2017, 12:24:06 am
I’m having a Scott Walker phase, what with the recent Prom (most excellent, if you have not watched it - it’s on iPlayer) and further exposure on Stuart Maconie.

On a completely different tack, I found this earlier today - one man techno, without the tech:

https://youtu.be/fhKUhaeyb18
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Post by: BrianI on 05 August, 2017, 08:34:58 pm
Stellardrone - Rendezvous with Rama from his new album Between The Rings.

An ideal soundtrack / album  if ever Rendezvous with Rama The Movie was made!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxOVms9dE9g (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxOVms9dE9g)
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Post by: Von Broad on 07 August, 2017, 09:05:03 pm
Thievery Corporation. Going through the whole lot.
Again.
Boy, do these folks know how to do melancholy.
Lovely.
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Post by: Legs on 10 August, 2017, 08:07:21 am
Slightly randomly, Tableau of a Lithotomy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZEv_6NsJj8).  Something reminded me of it last night...

"The surgeon maketh his first incision."
"The forceps is introduced."
"The blood, it floweth."
"Relief and rejoicing."

I've got it on vinyl somewhere, and the B-side, called something like Visit from a Norgine Representative, is hilarious.
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Post by: menthel on 10 August, 2017, 02:07:48 pm
Songhoy Blues. Will brighten up even the darkest days!
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Post by: Riggers on 16 August, 2017, 02:44:16 pm
LP's 'Lost on You'. It's one that is also constantly playing in my head. Played it to my eldest, who said it was "Rubbish." Youth huh?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoqSYM4ZS-E
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Post by: Quisling on 29 August, 2017, 03:38:02 pm
The Imperfect Sea by Penguin Cafe.

Worthy successors to the Penguin Cafe Orchestra. Try this for a taster:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILrIEKaC450
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 29 August, 2017, 04:22:01 pm
The Imperfect Sea by Penguin Cafe.

Worthy successors to the Penguin Cafe Orchestra. Try this for a taster:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILrIEKaC450

Ooh, a new one!  There will be a Shopping when I get back from me holibobs :thumbsup:
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Post by: Quisling on 30 August, 2017, 10:24:22 am
The Imperfect Sea by Penguin Cafe.

Worthy successors to the Penguin Cafe Orchestra. Try this for a taster:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILrIEKaC450

Ooh, a new one!  There will be a Shopping when I get back from me holibobs :thumbsup:

The album includes a cover of Kraftwerk's "Franz Schubert" which has a nice circularity about it, since PCOs first major gig was as support act for Kraftwerk themselves.  There's also a cover of Simian Mobile Disco's "Wheels within wheels" which is one of the album's highlights.
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Post by: menthel on 04 September, 2017, 10:35:57 am
New Mogwai Albumin. Tis v, v good.
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Post by: T42 on 04 September, 2017, 01:32:45 pm
Me and Bobby McGee, which has been performed by the band inside my skull for the last week and I wish they'd effing well shut up. I've tried listening to other stuff but it won't go away. Arse.
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Post by: Redlight on 04 September, 2017, 01:48:51 pm
LP's 'Lost on You'. It's one that is also constantly playing in my head. Played it to my eldest, who said it was "Rubbish." Youth huh?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoqSYM4ZS-E

The album's not bad either - a little bit of filler and nothing quite as catchy as the title track, but enough to make it worth picking up.

I prefer this video though - for an obvious reason  :demon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn3wJ1_1Zsg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn3wJ1_1Zsg)
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Post by: Monty on 04 September, 2017, 02:32:20 pm
Steely Dan today. And there might be another album purchase on the horizon too.
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Post by: Riggers on 06 September, 2017, 01:29:04 pm
LP's 'Lost on You'. It's one that is also constantly playing in my head. Played it to my eldest, who said it was "Rubbish." Youth huh?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoqSYM4ZS-E

The album's not bad either - a little bit of filler and nothing quite as catchy as the title track, but enough to make it worth picking up.

I prefer this video though - for an obvious reason  :demon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn3wJ1_1Zsg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn3wJ1_1Zsg)

Ah. Now, you see, that does nothing for me. Each to their own and all that, as they say. Where's Penelope Cruz, when you want her!
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 07 September, 2017, 05:22:13 am
Dead Blonde Stars, a beat combo endorsed by Amplifier front man and all-round Top Chap Sel Balamir.  Sound a bit like Audioslave which, IMHO, is no bad thing.
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Post by: Legs on 14 September, 2017, 02:04:07 pm
Goodbye Jumbo (World Party)  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Redlight on 14 September, 2017, 02:04:41 pm
Martin Simpson's new album, Trails and Tribulations  :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
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Post by: PaulF on 14 September, 2017, 02:10:59 pm
Martin Simpson's new album, Trails and Tribulations  :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Good isn't it? Recommended it to my boss who liked it who in return recommended John Prine's Fair & Square which is on at the moment
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Post by: pcolbeck on 14 September, 2017, 02:23:39 pm
JJ Grey and Mofro

Swampy southern soul infused rock. Hammond B3 - check, saxophone - check, nasty guitar - check.  Wish they would tour in the UK.

https://youtu.be/SzIHr1U0zA8

On Fire
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Post by: sg37409 on 14 September, 2017, 03:55:04 pm
Goodbye Jumbo (World Party)  :thumbsup:

I enjoy that album from time to time.

Downloaded the new OMD album, the Punishment of Luxury: will be listening to that properly later. 1st listen seems good.
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Post by: Quisling on 15 September, 2017, 10:12:23 am

Quote

Downloaded the new OMD album, the Punishment of Luxury: will be listening to that properly later. 1st listen seems good.

From what I've seen so far on Teh Youtube it certainly has some highpoints which are more akin to their heyday than some of post-Crush commercial tosh they churned out like Liberator.

I'm currently listening to Daughter's new album.  Elena has a beautiful voice and they make a jolly good noise.
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Post by: Redlight on 16 September, 2017, 06:18:36 pm
Martin Simpson's new album, Trails and Tribulations  :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Good isn't it? Recommended it to my boss who liked it who in return recommended John Prine's Fair & Square which is on at the moment

It is. I love his interpretation of Bones and Feathers (having also loved the original) but what's most striking is how his own songwriting has matured and absorbed elements of the other music he has been playing for years. Many of his compositions on this album sound as though they could have been around for a century already.  It's nice to hear Joshua Gone Barbados again too. Martin used to play at my club regularly in the early '80s when that was a fixture in his set.

(Worryingly, I went to put the CD in the appropriate place on the shelves only to discover that my copy of his Sad or High Kicking seems to have vanished.  That's the 3rd CD to do so this year  ??? ???  ???)
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Post by: sg37409 on 22 September, 2017, 11:58:14 pm
Tried the new Fleet Foxes the other day.  Wasn't impressed.
Just bought the new Roger Waters - If you liked Amused to Death, you'll like this. Very similar.  I like it.

The new Fleet foxes , "Crack Up" is growing on me.  Background stuff for later at night, its not bad.
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Post by: Redlight on 25 September, 2017, 01:55:02 pm
Chet Baker.  I know he was predominantly a trumpeter but there's an androgynous quality to his voice that I adore.
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Post by: Steph on 25 September, 2017, 09:01:02 pm
New Steeleye album, 'Dodgy Bastards'---a nice example of how acceptable language has changed over their five decades of work.

Some cracking rockers on it, and Maddy's voice of course, and a rather good new fiddle player, but:

RAP? WTF?
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Post by: Peter on 25 September, 2017, 09:04:26 pm
Chet Baker.  I know he was predominantly a trumpeter but there's an androgynous quality to his voice that I adore.

He was great, wasn't he?  His version of Funny Valentine is one of the best standards ever; the words are a bit suspect, though!
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Post by: dim on 25 September, 2017, 09:05:31 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jRbK5nykm8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jRbK5nykm8)
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Post by: pcolbeck on 26 September, 2017, 10:19:51 am
After seeing her on Later with Jools at the weekend and being reminded how good (and odd) she is I am listening to loads of Camille on YouTube.
I am going to have to dig out the CD I bought in France about 10 years ago.

https://youtu.be/qGNmFrhK7E0
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Post by: Legs on 28 September, 2017, 11:52:33 am
Grace Slick, Dreams (the album) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjqiWyQOyIM).  :demon:

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Post by: Steph on 01 October, 2017, 09:54:33 pm
Legs: I will have to investigate.

Redlight: Oh yes. First time I ever heard him live was at my old folk club in Luton, where Joshua Gone... was a highlight indeed.
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Post by: simonp on 03 October, 2017, 12:36:50 pm
Live at Pompeii (2017).
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Post by: Monty on 03 October, 2017, 03:58:57 pm
Alice In Chains - Facelift
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Post by: Steph on 03 October, 2017, 05:05:58 pm
Martin Simpson's new album, Trails and Tribulations  :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Part way through it as I type this.
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Post by: andyoxon on 05 October, 2017, 09:25:41 pm
Rush:  'Best ever intro....'      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSToKcbWz1k

With of course, one of the best ever drummers, & bassist, and a very good guitarist.

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Post by: Mr Larrington on 06 October, 2017, 02:47:41 pm
Luciferian Towers, the latest offering from Godspeed You! Black Emperor.  It's rather good.
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Post by: Quisling on 14 October, 2017, 12:18:53 pm
Luciferian Towers, the latest offering from Godspeed You! Black Emperor.  It's rather good.

Me too! Anthem for no state part III is totally awesome. Tippity top notch.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 14 October, 2017, 12:29:32 pm
Apropos GY!BE, two thumbs up to Don at Constellation Records in Montréal for sorting out the problem with online ordering and including a handwritten note with the CD.  You don't get that from Beardy Branson.
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Post by: ian on 14 October, 2017, 10:26:54 pm
Daughter's A Hole in the Earth. Makes me tingle in all the good places.

(In other news, I'm starting to like the new Taylor Swift stuff. I know you were all concerned about this.)
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Post by: sg37409 on 19 October, 2017, 10:55:35 pm
The new Robert Plant is brilliant.  I didn't have high hopes after Lullaby and the ceaseless bore, but Carry Fire is right up my street, with plenty of eastern and african influences. I didn't bother getting a ticket to see him in glasgow next month, that was a mistake.

Also really liking Justin Adams (guitarist from robert plants' space shifters) new album, Ribbons.

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Post by: Steph on 19 October, 2017, 11:32:08 pm
Gone back a few years, and doing the 'M and B's on my CD rack. Bruckner 3, 4 and 8, Brahms 4 and Mahler 5 and 10.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 20 October, 2017, 08:54:26 am
The new Robert Plant is brilliant.  I didn't have high hopes after Lullaby and the ceaseless bore, but Carry Fire is right up my street, with plenty of eastern and african influences. I didn't bother getting a ticket to see him in glasgow next month, that was a mistake.

That's one of the reasons I like Plant, he keeps changing it round and trying different things. Some work some don't but at least its interesting. A lot of people become their own tribute band but not Percy.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 20 October, 2017, 09:30:31 am
Mazzy Star

https://youtu.be/SiO_7LhPZFM

beautiful but I might have to switch to something more up tempo to get the Friday work out of the door.
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Post by: menthel on 20 October, 2017, 09:43:28 am
New Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn. Tis very good.
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Post by: PaulF on 20 October, 2017, 09:58:45 am
Eastpointers - saw them last night in a village hall a few miles away. Great Celtic band from PEI, they're touring the UK at the moment, in Manchester tonight. If that's your thing try to go to see them.

@menthel if Bela Fleck's your thing you might enjoy them.
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Post by: menthel on 20 October, 2017, 10:08:40 am
Eastpointers - saw them last night in a village hall a few miles away. Great Celtic band from PEI, they're touring the UK at the moment, in Manchester tonight. If that's your thing try to go to see them.

@menthel if Bela Fleck's your thing you might enjoy them.

I will give them a listen!
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Post by: Steph on 20 October, 2017, 12:48:57 pm
Mazzy Star

https://youtu.be/SiO_7LhPZFM

beautiful but I might have to switch to something more up tempo to get the Friday work out of the door.

That is one of my all-time favourites. Sandoval's voice is just so vulnerable.
In another take on their music, this one is a song that sums up an awful lot of alcohol-related experiences of my youth: The limping, stumbling guitar is perfection.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OicEoJwJYMk
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Post by: PaulF on 29 October, 2017, 11:17:21 am
Bluegrass covers of Radiohead songs.
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Post by: Steph on 30 October, 2017, 07:36:29 pm
The wonderful, the amazing John Kirkpatrick. As English as an English thing. 'Blue Balloon', including the lovely little love song Laundroloverette, and 'Black against the snow'.
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Post by: Steph on 07 November, 2017, 09:26:39 pm
Radio 3 and a performance of Shostakovitch's 6th. I had almost forgotten how wonderfully bleak the opening movement is; reminds me of Sibelius' 4th.
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Post by: Jack Standish on 08 November, 2017, 06:48:53 am
Refreshing my memory of the loudest band in the world - Manowar.
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Post by: Riggers on 10 November, 2017, 11:37:26 am
The John Lewis advert* song – The Beatle's Golden Slumbers song, sung by Guy Garvey from Elbow. What a group!



* £7m apparently to make!
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Post by: pcolbeck on 10 November, 2017, 01:09:49 pm
* £7m apparently to make!

One wonders if discounting all their stock to a total of £7m would work just as well.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 12 November, 2017, 09:21:21 pm
Volume 13 of His Bobness' "Bootleg Series".  Do not be fooled by the reviews; Bob's gospel period was mostly dire.
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Post by: PaulF on 12 November, 2017, 09:27:29 pm
Only mostly?
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 13 November, 2017, 07:38:34 am
With the exception of his recentish covers albums, which are uniformly dreadful, even the least well-received Bob album has one or two decent tracks on it.  But even the live recordings from this era are a bit suspect; things "Like A Rolling Stone" doesn't need include backing singers.
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Post by: T42 on 13 November, 2017, 08:04:07 am
There are bad times just around the corner (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCZCv98XKFs), running in my cerebral hifi.  Strikes me that, with a few minor tweaks, it might be re-issued as "The Brexit Song".
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Post by: Legs on 14 November, 2017, 09:27:10 am
There are bad times just around the corner (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCZCv98XKFs), running in my cerebral hifi.  Strikes me that, with a few minor tweaks, it might be re-issued as "The Brexit Song".
Maybe this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHptB-BVemE) is a suitable antidote? (Also, Dennis DeYoung is the greatest rock balladeer of all time - at least on a par with Messrs Bulsara, Dwight and Barrett - and this is one of his very best.)
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Post by: Peter on 14 November, 2017, 12:25:38 pm
I'd never heard of Styx (I'm not American), so I looked them up.  Here is what they (or a Styx acolyte) say about themselves on Wikipedia:-

"They are best known for melding the style of pop rock and hard rock with the power of a hard-rock guitar balanced with acoustic guitar, synthesizers mixed with acoustic piano, upbeat tracks with power ballads, and incorporating elements of international musical theatre."

Snappy, no?  Another way of saying, "We are not particularly distinctive."  And so it proved on listening, to me at any rate!  Very competent and a good live act, obviously, but anything less like their name, it's hard to imagine!
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Post by: Legs on 14 November, 2017, 03:52:21 pm
Styx is a band of two halves, really - the moderately-hard rock act that Tommy Shaw and James Young wanted to pursue, and the purveyors of power ballads as exemplified by Babe, Come Sail Away and The Best Of Times.  They had 'artistic differences' in the 80s which resulted in something of a schism.  I'd definitely agree that the rock ballads are not very Stygian!
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Post by: pcolbeck on 14 November, 2017, 04:03:53 pm
Peter if you didn't rate Styx you are really not going to rate REO Speedwagon :)
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Post by: Legs on 14 November, 2017, 04:24:46 pm
Peter if you didn't rate Styx you are really not going to rate REO Speedwagon :)
...whereas I'm going to keep on loving them.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 14 November, 2017, 04:28:03 pm
Peter if you didn't rate Styx you are really not going to rate REO Speedwagon :)
...whereas I'm going to keep on loving them.

 :)
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 14 November, 2017, 07:36:43 pm
Styx were described in "Sounds" back in the day as "pomp rock".  And REO Speedwagon's "Back On The Road Again" has a terrific guitar solo.  In it.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 15 November, 2017, 11:01:15 am
Styx were described in "Sounds" back in the day as "pomp rock".  And REO Speedwagon's "Back On The Road Again" has a terrific guitar solo.  In it.

I quite like a bit of REO Speedwagon or Journey. Always makes me think of silver 70s Pioneer stereos for some reason.

Just remember kids too much of that kind of soft rock and your brains will liquefy and drip out of your ears.
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Post by: Steph on 22 November, 2017, 09:58:25 pm
An Eric Bogle collection, with a box of tissues ready. What a lovely writer, and lovely man.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 08 December, 2017, 11:55:21 am
Not Dark Yet - Shelby Lynne & Allison Moorer

If you like harmonies you'll like this. They are sisters but have never released an album of duets before.
Covers everything form the Merle Haggard to Nirvana and Nick Cave.

They make "My List" by the Killers sound like it was written by Van Morrison which is odd. Lovely but odd.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 08 December, 2017, 12:36:23 pm
The only song on Not Dark Yet that isn't a cover is "Is it too much?" which they wrote together.

Their parents were killed in a murder suicide in front of them when Shelby and Alison were teenagers:

Is it too much to carry in your heart?
Is it too much to carry in your heart?
No one else sees the rain fall
No one else hears the ghost call
Is it too much to carry in your heart?
Is it too much hurtin' in your eyes?
Is it too much feelings to try to hide?
No one else works upon the toes
No else there to share the load
Is it too much to carry in your heart?

Bring it here to my side
Tell me about the tears you cry
Lord know you must be tired enough
Whisper what you never tell
Don't you know you ain't by yourself
I'm right here to help you , lay it down

Is it too much to carry in your heart?
Is it too much to carry in your heart?
No one else sees the memories
No one else lives it with me
Is it too much to carry in your heart?
Is it too much to carry?
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Post by: menthel on 13 December, 2017, 10:33:06 am
Screaming Trees Sweet Oblivion. Great, great album. Shame its on spotify at work and not at home off the flame coloured vinyl version I have.
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Post by: Andrij on 13 December, 2017, 10:35:10 am
Yesterday, finished listening to Max Richter's Sleep (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_(album)).
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Post by: pcolbeck on 14 December, 2017, 05:14:39 pm
A random playlist of Gov't Mule.

Warren Haynes is a genius with a Les Paul.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 18 December, 2017, 02:38:39 pm
Middle period Joni Mitchell

Currently "The Hissing of Summer Lawns"
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Post by: pcolbeck on 18 December, 2017, 03:35:10 pm
Moved on to "Shadows and Light".

Pat Metheny on lead guitar and Jaco Pastorius  on base, remarkable!
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Post by: pcolbeck on 15 January, 2018, 11:40:23 am
Yesterday I binged on Bach but today its Samantha Fish.
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Post by: andyoxon on 17 January, 2018, 07:26:01 pm
Hans Zimmer classics - "Gladiator" Rhapsody Lang Lang on piano.   Tis great.
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Post by: Legs on 18 January, 2018, 09:00:03 am
Hidden Treasure playlists (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09lsgpg) on Radio 2 iPlayer - broadcast at oh-too-early on Tuesday mornings but well worth a listen.  I'd forgotten how good Romeo's Tune is... and where else can you hear Steve Forbert alongside Clarence Carter and Devo?
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Post by: Steph on 19 January, 2018, 01:52:00 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZTibl44hNg
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Post by: pcolbeck on 23 January, 2018, 05:31:46 pm
The Cure - Mixed Up

Superb, extended dance flavoured remixes of some of their best songs, my favourite Cure album. I can't believe its nearly 30 years old though (1990) makes me feel really old.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 02 February, 2018, 11:17:16 am
The Runaways and Shonan Knife. It's a girl band day !
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Post by: pcolbeck on 02 February, 2018, 09:04:42 pm
Friday Night is Music Night on Radio 2

I normally hate this and most of Radio 2s output in general. However tonight Mrs Pcolbeck left the radio tuned to radio 2 and its Michael Feinstein with an orchestra doing tunes by Hollywood composer Harry Warren (42nd street etc) and it's brilliant.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 02 February, 2018, 09:08:18 pm
Dream Tröll, Leeds' finest purveyörs of swörd-änd-sörcery heavy mêtal nonsense :thumbsup:
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Post by: Deano on 02 February, 2018, 09:37:50 pm
Dream Tröll, Leeds' finest purveyörs of swörd-änd-sörcery heavy mêtal nonsense :thumbsup:

Ride, Darkhorse, Ride by Three Inches of Blood came up on my ride today. It starts with the sound of a sword being unsheathed :)
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Post by: Redlight on 02 February, 2018, 09:55:13 pm
Spotify.

I've been persuaded to pay a tenner a month for hearing the music without ads but - and here's the big BUT - I am sceptical about the business model and what it means for artists. I'm of the generation that bought records and then bought some of them again on CD, so in  my mind there is a direct connection between my having the pleasure of listening to an artist's work and them receiving some financial benefit.  But how does Spotify work?  I'm sure the artists must get a royalty but how does it compare with what they would get if I made a physical purchase? 

As it happens, I have gone out and bought a couple of albums that I've first listened to on Spotify but there are several that I've listened to more than once but not purchased. And I feel a bit bad about that.  Am I freeloading?
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Post by: pcolbeck on 02 February, 2018, 10:04:41 pm
No your not its just the modern way. Loads of kids don't buy anything but a Spotify subscription or similar ever.

I have recenty signed up for Amazon Prime unlimited music or whatever its called. Seems to have about everything,
I have 500+ CDs and 300+  vinyl albums. The subscription is letting me listen to stuff I wouldn't bother buying and then I will still buy the stuff I really like to get the higher bit rate versions.
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Post by: dim on 03 February, 2018, 05:21:16 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=45&v=npgdUGXjtAU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=45&v=npgdUGXjtAU)
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Post by: dim on 03 February, 2018, 05:38:35 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=14&v=29uruM5-VYo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=14&v=29uruM5-VYo)
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Post by: dim on 03 February, 2018, 06:07:26 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=80&v=iOU_7WZEK8A (https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=80&v=iOU_7WZEK8A)
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Post by: dim on 04 February, 2018, 04:17:25 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz53tEaJsa8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz53tEaJsa8)
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Post by: Steph on 04 February, 2018, 09:25:02 pm
Sibelius, symphonies 3,4 and 5, yet again. Utterly sublime.

I always find myself mouthing along to the tune, and when I was at a live performance of the 3rd, I realised that so were two-thirds of the audience.
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Post by: T42 on 05 February, 2018, 08:23:26 am
^^^ So am I, as of now. Best idea I've heard so far today. :thumbsup:
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Post by: pcolbeck on 05 February, 2018, 07:34:33 pm
Träume Wesendonck Lieder - Wagner

On Radio3 In Tune mixtape tonight. A new one for me. Superb though it was a male voice rather than female.
The Sea by Maya Youseff earlier was lovely too.
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Post by: Under the arches on 07 February, 2018, 12:05:28 pm
The Skids - Burning Cities.

Their new album. It is good. Looking forward to seeing them in June
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Post by: Legs on 08 February, 2018, 09:26:13 am
The Skids - Burning Cities.

Their new album. It is good. Looking forward to seeing them in June

Peas sure sound divine!
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Post by: menthel on 08 February, 2018, 10:28:48 am
Hookworms. New faddy music for the youngsters. Actually very good psychpop type stuff that reminds me of the coral, cooper temple clause etc. And also probably older bands than that...
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Post by: pcolbeck on 08 February, 2018, 01:27:33 pm
John Coltrane - a random playlist courtesy of Alexa. Can't beat a bit of bebop. Nice.
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Post by: Steph on 08 February, 2018, 09:06:28 pm
NOT listening to:
Nick Knowles, 'Every kind of people'

The comments on Amazon are nearly as good as those for Price and Andre.

"Pound shop Chris Rea"

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B075VMZP7X/ref=cm_sw_r_fa_apa_MM4EAb4DZ2M3P
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Post by: pcolbeck on 13 February, 2018, 08:55:24 pm
The BBC Singers: Mendelssohn's arrangement of Bach's St Matthew Passion on Radio 3 tonight.

I thought I wouldn't like it, I thought I would think it was a bowdlerized version of something sublime but you know its really rather lovely if not historically accurate in any shape or form.
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Post by: Quisling on 21 February, 2018, 09:45:49 am
Daughter's A Hole in the Earth. Makes me tingle in all the good places.

Considering Music From Before the Storm is a soundtrack to a game it is an excellent album, and A Hole in the Earth is one of the highlights for sure. Elena Tonra has a beautiful voice.  I listened to that in the car last night, and then Luciferian Towers by Godspeed You! Black Emperor (mentioned upthread by Mr Larrington).  That GY!BE album gets better with every listen.
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Post by: Andrij on 02 March, 2018, 10:29:20 am
A recording of a recent performance of Wagner's Parsifal, from the Met.

I may be some time...
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Post by: pcolbeck on 15 March, 2018, 07:47:49 pm
BWV 1052 on BBC Radio 3 in concert.

How did I miss this one. its lovely.
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Post by: Redlight on 18 March, 2018, 02:19:28 pm
A pile of old cassette tapes that have been in a storage box in the loft for years. When the girl who is now Mrs Redlight  was at uni, there was guy who must have had the hots for her as he made her a whole bunch of compilation tapes.  Some of the tracks are pretty good. I only wish they were labelled as I haven't a clue who many of the artists are (and nor does she) ::-)
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Post by: Pingu on 21 March, 2018, 10:28:53 pm
A pile of old cassette tapes that have been in a storage box in the loft for years. When the girl who is now Mrs Redlight  was at uni, there was guy who must have had the hots for her as he made her a whole bunch of compilation tapes.  Some of the tracks are pretty good. I only wish they were labelled as I haven't a clue who many of the artists are (and nor does she) ::-)

Shazam?

ETA - or Google the lyrics.
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Post by: Redlight on 22 March, 2018, 03:13:46 pm
Hmm - that might be fun, although very time-consuming.  Sometimes it's as much fun to continue in ignorance and wait for a random moment of revelation.

For example, the first time I heard Van Morrison's song "Moondance" was when I was about 18 and heard it played at a festival  by an American fingerpicking guitarist named Dan Crary.  He must have assumed everyone knew the song because he didn't introduce it, but I carried that tune in my head for another three years before a friend whose flat I was visiting put the original album on and I had a 'eureka' moment.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 29 March, 2018, 02:23:28 pm
P.W.E.I
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 29 March, 2018, 07:00:58 pm
Monster Magnet.  Loud and stupid.  Perfect for a soggy March Thursday.
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Post by: Steph on 30 March, 2018, 07:03:51 pm
CD grabbed at random from my rack: Dvorak 7 and 8. Forgotten how delightful they are.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 20 April, 2018, 12:35:16 pm
Supersonic Blues Machine - Californisoul

I had missed that they had released this second album. Its very good if you like their kind of thing. Has stellar guests like the first album.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 24 April, 2018, 11:52:35 am
A random selection of Quireboys tracks chosen by Alexa.

I remember them as being very Faces influenced but there's a lot of late 70s Stones in some of this stuff too.
A lot better than I had remember, should have been more successful than they were really.
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Post by: spesh on 24 April, 2018, 12:46:41 pm
A random selection of Quireboys tracks chosen by Alexa.

I remember them as being very Faces influenced but there's a lot of late 70s Stones in some of this stuff too.
A lot better than I had remember, should have been more successful than they were really.

Like a lot of their contemporaries, they were just getting in their stride when along came grunge...
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Post by: T42 on 24 April, 2018, 12:49:56 pm
Tom Walker's "I'll leave the light awwn" used as hold music by the bunch who should be delivering stuff this pm.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 24 April, 2018, 09:01:59 pm
Neil Diamond, the "Jewish Elvis".
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 25 April, 2018, 06:00:35 am
DJ Random was in a Rory Gallagher mood yesterday.  This Unit hereby endorses this product, service or sentiment.
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Post by: T42 on 25 April, 2018, 08:22:11 am
Some noisy bugger outside with an eternal fucking combustion-engined instrument of bucolicism demolishing innocent vegetation.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 29 April, 2018, 08:01:34 pm
The first two Jeff Beck albums with Rodders on vocals and Ronnie Wood on base plus Madeline Bell, John Paul Jones, Keith Moon and Jimmy Page on some of the tracks. Not bad at all.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 29 April, 2018, 10:04:41 pm
Daniel Lanois - Acadie.
The Maker has one of my favourite baselines evah.
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Post by: Riggers on 01 May, 2018, 09:38:15 am
This morning first thing, and yesterday too actually. It may not be everybody's 'uplifting' type of music, but I revel in maudlin music; so thank you The Unthanks with their Mount The Air:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPnDO4gJk84

Yummy. In fact I've listened to it 5 times already this morning!
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Post by: Riggers on 02 May, 2018, 09:44:33 am
. . . and this morning too!
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Post by: tiermat on 03 May, 2018, 06:05:34 am
A random selection of Quireboys tracks chosen by Alexa.

I remember them as being very Faces influenced but there's a lot of late 70s Stones in some of this stuff too.
A lot better than I had remember, should have been more successful than they were really.

Like a lot of their contemporaries, they were just getting in their stride when along came grunge...

This should maybe be filed under "Bands you really shouldn't like but do", I really enjoy both The Quireboys and The Dogs D'Amour to the point of finding myself singing their songs on a regular basis.  I have also seen the both play live, in the '90s.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 04 May, 2018, 10:40:25 am
Last night was the last Jo Whiley show on Radio 2. I am sad. It was great early evening listening with an eclectic mixture of music.
She's being moved to co presenting the drive time program with Simon Mayo, can't see that lasting. Square peg, round hole. Mayo is good at what he does but his thing is talking not playing music and the music at that time of the day is whatever the BBC has on rotation not what a DJ chooses.
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Post by: LEE on 04 May, 2018, 04:07:22 pm
Another Music in a Different Kitchen - Buzzcocks

Definitive Punk album.

Young Person - "What's Punk Rock?"
Me - "Listen to this Album"
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 04 May, 2018, 04:45:30 pm
DJ Random decided to play "Fast Cars" yesterday.
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Post by: Andrij on 05 May, 2018, 05:29:42 pm
Assorted works of the Moulettes (mentioned here previously by others).  YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/user/TheMoulettes) ǀ SoundCloud (https://soundcloud.com/moulettes)
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Post by: pcolbeck on 06 May, 2018, 01:26:30 pm
Jenny Lewis - on random. The girl tries on plenty of different hats.
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Post by: Quisling on 08 May, 2018, 02:19:27 pm
Cruel Winds by the Night Flowers.  I'm liking it a lot.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 10 May, 2018, 09:31:45 pm
Rubbish by Carter USM, one of the few songs to include the word "chlorofluorocarbon" and make the line scan.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 11 May, 2018, 11:35:51 am
The incomparable Nina Simone.

I love Alexa, I thought I fancy listening to Nina Simone so "Alexa play Nina Simone" and there you go. Brilliant.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 25 May, 2018, 02:19:06 pm
And today its a woman who in some way reminds me of Nina Simone, Erykah Badu. I'm working my way through all her albums.
Great covers as well. With a definite nod to 70s album art work:

(https://images-eu.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51XEldF7rUL._AC_US218_.jpg)
(https://images-eu.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51z11goJ2OL._AC_US218_.jpg)


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Post by: T42 on 31 May, 2018, 09:17:10 am
Seasick Steve playing a broomstick and two Morris Minor hubcaps:

https://youtu.be/S-vSZFEWHlo
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Post by: Legs on 01 June, 2018, 12:22:28 pm
Van Morrison - TB Sheets
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Post by: Riggers on 05 June, 2018, 11:15:32 am
Today gentlemen, I am listening to: The Cinematic Orchestra - Arrival of The Birds & Transformation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n88MReEC27k&start_radio=1&list=RDn88MReEC27k)

and . . .

Christine Perri's '1000 years' (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvV1IOAmzYw)

Why? I love maudlin music.
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Post by: Steph on 28 July, 2018, 09:19:08 pm
Assorted works of the Moulettes (mentioned here previously by others).  YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/user/TheMoulettes) ǀ SoundCloud (https://soundcloud.com/moulettes)

I have photos! Come back Ruth Skipper!

Anyway, tonight: The Proms on R3, shouting along to that ecstatic outburst of joy that is the finale of Beethoven's 5th, and then they treated the audience to an encore--the finale of the 7th. Little Moment indeed; damp-eyed and grinning now.
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Post by: Steph on 29 July, 2018, 11:38:21 am
This morning first thing, and yesterday too actually. It may not be everybody's 'uplifting' type of music, but I revel in maudlin music; so thank you The Unthanks with their Mount The Air:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPnDO4gJk84

Yummy. In fact I've listened to it 5 times already this morning!
Radio 3 . Now. What sounds rather like the Unthanks and Felton Lonnen.
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Post by: Deano on 01 August, 2018, 10:12:25 pm
Lots of Kinky Friedman, after a mate shared a link.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 07 August, 2018, 07:42:31 pm
A Prom. The second half tonight is A German Requiem by Brahms. We sang in that a couple of years ago. It's excellent stuff.

As a factoid of no value whatsoever, I would like to point out that I was once in the same room as someone who played a piece of Brahms. In the company of the composer.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 07 August, 2018, 07:46:49 pm
This morning first thing, and yesterday too actually. It may not be everybody's 'uplifting' type of music, but I revel in maudlin music; so thank you The Unthanks with their Mount The Air:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPnDO4gJk84

Yummy. In fact I've listened to it 5 times already this morning!
Radio 3 . Now. What sounds rather like the Unthanks and Felton Lonnen.

They were on a prom a few nights ago. Almost certainly still available on Listen Again.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 08 August, 2018, 12:41:25 pm
A Southern Rock Opera - Drive by Truckers

Excellent concept album based on Lynyrd Skynyrd and racism in the Southern USA in the 70s.
If you like your concept albums to sound like Yes and involve songs about elves then this isn't one for you. Think swampy triple lead guitar and dark lyrics about George Wallace.
IT also has possibly the best song about a teenager desperate to escape a small town since Born to Run in Zip City. Has the same desperation but less of the hope and joy of Spingsteen's song:

Maybe it's the twenty-six mile drive from Zip City to Colbert Heights
Keeps my mind clean
Gets me through the night
Maybe you're just a destination, a place for me to go
Keeps me from having to deal with my seventeen-year-old mind all alone
Keep your drawers on, girl, it ain't worth the fight
By the time you drop them I'll be gone
And you'll be right where they fall the rest of your life

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Post by: Mr Larrington on 09 August, 2018, 04:19:14 pm
DJ Random is definitely in a Janis Joplin mood today :thumbsup:
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Post by: Wowbagger on 09 August, 2018, 10:22:31 pm
J. S. Bach.
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Post by: T42 on 10 August, 2018, 07:46:43 am
The Captain Pugwash signature tune, triggered by the kitchen timer and playing inside my head.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 10 August, 2018, 04:06:17 pm
These two:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ir6QosIGMY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lv2OHYI6Y4M
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Post by: Steph on 13 August, 2018, 09:12:57 pm
R3, Proms. Just started. Sibelius 5. Sighs happily.
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Post by: Pedaldog. on 19 August, 2018, 01:09:19 am
Captain Beefheart's "Electricity". 
There are times when you need a certain.... "Musical Slap round the head".
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Post by: andrewc on 19 August, 2018, 10:51:36 pm
"The Enid" on Youtube.  I saw them live back in the 80's at a place called the Bierkeller in Liverpool.  They played this .https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NENYunMB8Q (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NENYunMB8Q)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdU5MQKDXsk&frags=pl%2Cwn
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Post by: Deano on 19 August, 2018, 11:06:19 pm
I went to Deezer to listen to The Weight by The Band.

Its first hit was a 60s compilation, and I gave it a listen.

Jeez, 60s music was terrible. A few gems, but mainly really awful ballads, terrible covers (does anyone want to hear Cilla Black cover You've Lost that Lovin' Feeling?) and Beatles wannabes.

It was like listening to Dave Travis on GNR. But I couldn't stop, cos when it was good, it was amazing.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 20 August, 2018, 09:43:12 am
This Unit recommends the compilations Nuggets, Nuggets II and Mindrocker for lesser- (or un-) known 60s tunes.
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Post by: simonali on 23 August, 2018, 01:34:14 am
And today its a woman who in some way reminds me of Nina Simone, Erykah Badu. I'm working my way through all her albums.
Great covers as well. With a definite nod to 70s album art work:

(https://images-eu.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51XEldF7rUL._AC_US218_.jpg)
(https://images-eu.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51z11goJ2OL._AC_US218_.jpg)

She is very weird!

https://youtu.be/4cfmEgpOOZk
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Post by: T42 on 25 August, 2018, 04:03:21 pm
Morgana King

https://youtu.be/Y1VVJ5B5u-c (https://youtu.be/Y1VVJ5B5u-c)
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Post by: pcolbeck on 26 August, 2018, 07:39:38 pm
In the court of the krimson king - King Krimson

Hadn't heard this for ages. I remembered it for the mellatron but hearing it again my god what drumming!
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Post by: Wowbagger on 26 August, 2018, 08:07:01 pm
This:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyZ6Bobga2U
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Post by: D.A.L.E. on 26 August, 2018, 09:32:15 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j58V2vC9EPc
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Post by: Kim on 03 September, 2018, 08:10:07 pm
PING! PING! PING! PING! PING! PING! PING! PING! PING! PING!
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Post by: ElyDave on 07 September, 2018, 02:20:26 pm
The remastered Led Zep live album The Song Remains the Same; just getting to the end of the 29 minute version of Dazed and Confused.  :)

SWMBO doesn't get rock and roll  ::-)
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 17 September, 2018, 04:48:20 am
Bleak Expectations.  Quite amusing in a sub-Goonish kind of way.
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Post by: Legs on 17 September, 2018, 08:46:49 am
Cornershop's Handcream for a Generation.

Lessons Learnt From Rocky I To Rocky III is a real classic
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Post by: pcolbeck on 17 September, 2018, 10:15:14 am
Can you see - Marshall Tucker Band

Great intro and best use of a flute in a rock song no 2 - Kept of the top spot by something by Jethro Tull
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Post by: Legs on 17 September, 2018, 11:03:00 am
Great intro and best use of a flute in a rock song no 2 - Kept of the top spot by something by Jethro Tull
How about Thijs van Leer's flute stylings for Focus?
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Post by: pcolbeck on 28 September, 2018, 10:31:18 pm
Mrs P Colbeck put the radio on Radio 2 and its been stuck there all evening. There was a terrible show tunes show but now we have sounds of the 80s and its been mainly good sounds of the 80s. Gloria Estefan Dr Beat anyone ?
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Post by: pcolbeck on 28 September, 2018, 10:33:49 pm
Even better the Go Go's-We Got the Beat !
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Post by: T42 on 30 September, 2018, 03:25:43 pm
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
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Post by: pcolbeck on 04 October, 2018, 08:46:02 pm
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

Just listened to that on Radio 3 in concert - BBC National Opera of Wales

Always strange to hear a non English orchestra play this probably the most English peace of classical music there is.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 10 October, 2018, 06:02:32 pm
Doyle Bramhall II's new album Shades.

Pretty good and Eric Clapton guests and solos on one track.
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Post by: phantasmagoriana on 14 October, 2018, 09:28:16 pm
Type O Negative. I'd forgotten how good they were.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 18 October, 2018, 03:47:03 pm
Ellie King:

https://youtu.be/YJudLBRIvS8

warning may contain banjo.
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Post by: Steph on 18 October, 2018, 08:09:43 pm
BBC R3, Rachmaninov second piano concerto, right now.

I don't care how overdone it is; it still leaves me weeping.
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Post by: Steph on 20 October, 2018, 07:26:14 pm
What I did this Summer...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8sWPjYe1tw

ETA: go to about 26 mins to hear the 'Can't Win' solo. Awestruck.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 24 October, 2018, 01:56:38 pm
"Wipe the Windows, Check the Oil, Dollar Gas"

An album which is a collection of live performances from 1972-1975 by the Allman Brothers Band.
I've had this for decades on vinyl but mainly ignored it really. The sound is a bit ropey on some of the tracks but its worth persevering as some are stunning and show why the Allmans were such a live draw in the early 70s.
"Aint wasting time no more" recorded at a nightclub New Year's eve 1972 is outstanding. Great vocals from Gregg and fantastic guitar from Dickie Betts.

When they hit the groove they make all the other Southern Rock bands that came after them sound one dimensional and plodding. The had real soul and a groove as well as some good tunes.

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Post by: nicknack on 24 October, 2018, 08:32:58 pm
Brass Against.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JrlKcoD1Qw
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Post by: pcolbeck on 17 November, 2018, 10:30:27 pm
Primal Scream - The Original Memphis Recordings

https://youtu.be/XlscpTz5xWc

This is essentially what should have been the next album to Screamadelica which it is nothing like. Produced by Tom Dowd in Memphis and featuring the Muscle Shoals rhythm section and The Memphis Horns. Primal Screams record company hated it and sent the masters off to other producers to get it completely remixed. That's what was released as Give Out But Don’t Give Up a particularly scrappy album.
This album though released from the newly discovered original Tom Dowd masters is fantastic. It's a far better album that the one that was released in 1994. I can see why the record company hated it though as this is Primal Scream trying to emulate all their 60s and 70s heroes rather than a mid 90s dance / rock cross over album.
Their was a rather good documentary about this on BBC4 last night as well.
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Post by: T42 on 18 November, 2018, 02:33:44 pm
Eric Idle - Fuck Christmas. Decorations are already up round the village. :facepalm:
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Post by: rogerzilla on 21 November, 2018, 07:23:12 pm
Jimi Hendrix - 3rd Stone From The Sun

"And you'll never....hear....surf....music....again"
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Post by: rafletcher on 21 November, 2018, 08:17:30 pm
The first Ultravox album, I’d forgotten how much I enjoyed it.
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Post by: T42 on 22 November, 2018, 10:25:41 am
Hold music, mostly, interspersed with "press 1 for...".  Trying to make an appointment to get our French ID cards.
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Post by: sojournermike on 25 November, 2018, 06:35:30 pm
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young - Deja Vu

One I’ve heard before;)
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Post by: sojournermike on 25 November, 2018, 07:33:48 pm
And warming it up a bit - Neil Young - Live Rust
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Post by: izza on 25 November, 2018, 07:59:07 pm
2 hour ride with Iron Maiden this morning.

Seventh Son followed by Live after Death.

(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20181125/d4e7668adcd1986005188abbc45452b7.jpg)


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Post by: tiermat on 26 November, 2018, 08:31:20 am
A new artist, to us, first seen on ...Later (so it is still, occasionally worth watching):

Fantastic Negrito - Last Days of Oakland.

If you like Led Zep, Rainbow, etc mixed back with a whole load of blues (he covers "In the Pines" on this album), give it a try.
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Post by: rafletcher on 26 November, 2018, 04:38:16 pm
A new artist, to us, first seen on ...Later (so it is still, occasionally worth watching):

Fantastic Negrito - Last Days of Oakland.

If you like Led Zep, Rainbow, etc mixed back with a whole load of blues (he covers "In the Pines" on this album), give it a try.

Not bad that, I'll give it a better listen tomorrow in the gym  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Denis99 on 28 November, 2018, 08:32:14 pm
Robben Ford - Keep on running

Excellent bluesy album
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Post by: andrewc on 02 December, 2018, 10:34:37 pm
I really should listen to "The The" more often.  I've got out of the habit.


The The - Pillar Box Red (Letterbox Version) - YouTube (https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiF18rclILfAhXE_qQKHbitCGQQyCkwAHoECAkQBQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dm0EDX_lylgE&usg=AOvVaw0Pa7DCgNgOMRKfyAXIqZFr)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lo0cZRaZs6c&frags=pl%2Cwn


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXaEAoRUkfE&frags=pl%2Cwn


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ustXRPke9lM
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Post by: andrewc on 02 December, 2018, 11:02:38 pm
During my recent trip this was playing in my head a lot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJeWySiuq1I&frags=pl%2Cwn


https://www.flickr.com/photos/andrewclark/albums/72157702549648541


I keep listening to this, despite never having seen the film.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ou96vLl--e4&frags=pl%2Cwn    away to that bay of pirates then..
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Post by: andyoxon on 05 December, 2018, 09:11:32 pm
New Dawn Fades, Joy Division, Live 1980  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G19ak4Nh294&fbclid=IwAR34iEQAtZY10mKpwkQ0PgQDIyyG0iytZxwghBHdUlz58a20Tl10NLefT_Q

Now that's a bass line...
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Post by: sg37409 on 06 December, 2018, 05:34:17 pm
Frak! Midnight Oil are touring, but the only available gig is a Sunday night in That London.   That's an expensive evening, ticket, train & hotel  :(

Bah.  I saw them in Glasgow on the beds are burning tour.  It was a fantastic gig.  I've often looked to see if they were touring since but never have.  No chance I can make that Hammersmith date.

Announced a couple of UK dates in 2019.  Swithering about a trip to manchester.
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Post by: sg37409 on 07 December, 2018, 07:13:15 pm
A new artist, to us, first seen on ...Later (so it is still, occasionally worth watching):

Fantastic Negrito - Last Days of Oakland.

If you like Led Zep, Rainbow, etc mixed back with a whole load of blues (he covers "In the Pines" on this album), give it a try.

Hadn't heard of them either: Its very good :thumbsup:
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Post by: slope on 16 December, 2018, 02:12:06 pm
Can't find any posts relating to Gerry Mulligan on YACF - and surelize there's enough of us old enough?

https://youtu.be/Qk--ReORZCc

Personally I really go into internal gut/soul melt at around 3.30
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Post by: Steph on 21 December, 2018, 07:50:02 pm
Haitink and the Vienna Phil thundering out Bruckner's 3rd and 8th. Aaaaaaaaahhhhhhh…..
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Post by: Steph on 09 January, 2019, 06:59:47 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqI_tAATkFo&fbclid=IwAR0lYgyzVxrAxq0fEECnACm0gHO62Oi3SnB3EDyr6cskplO1MNPKXEeC4Sk

One of the world's greatest guitarists, doing Amazing and Subtle Stuff, with some rather disturbing lyrics.
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Post by: Steph on 11 January, 2019, 10:01:26 pm
,,,and now, via Roy harper's Loony on the Bus, to Tom Waits' sublime Heartattack and Vine.
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Post by: Legs on 12 January, 2019, 07:54:32 pm
Warren Zevon's Excitable Boy.  Superb album, not a duff song there.  The title track cracks me up every time.
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Post by: tiermat on 12 January, 2019, 08:46:18 pm
At the prompting of BBC's Sound of 2019, I am listening to, and really enjoying, Rosalia. She is a Flamenco performer from Catalonia who is fusing hip hop with traditional Flamenco, thus making her unpopular in her homeland.
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Post by: Genosse Brymbo on 15 January, 2019, 02:19:13 pm
It's intensely satisfying to be listening to the Stranglers' Rattus Norvegicus when at work.  How else would I have a huge grin on my face while installing Billysoft's SharePoint 2016?  Your system needs to restart to continue.  Press Finish to restart your system.  Who cares when there's an 18-year-old jumping around in your head!
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Post by: pcolbeck on 25 January, 2019, 10:20:58 am
Jenny Lewis's "Red Bull and Hennessey" the first song released from her new album. A grower I think.
A stella bunch of musisions on this:

Don Was - Bass
Ringo Starr - Drums
Ryan Adams - Guitar and piano

https://youtu.be/rINs_GRLAVs
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Post by: essexian on 26 January, 2019, 08:41:12 am
"Sorry, is this the right place? I can't read the sign as I don't have my reading glasses with me."

"The right place? Oh, I mean the right place to register a complaint."

"It is....good. Right, my complaint. I want to know how on Earth it can be 27 years since Boss Drum was released. Are you trying to make me feel old or something. Come on, it was hardly last week."

"What do you mean... the computer says September 1992? That's impossible!"

"Who are you calling Granddad. Why I'll take my belt to you, you young whippersnapper."



Sigh.

Just been listening to Boss Drum by The Shamen in the car. It still sounds as fresh and exciting as it did back then....sadly, I am no longer able to party beyond 10pm  :facepalm:  Youth, it is wasted on the young!


One final thing.... when I was young, our seniors used to say that music from their time was better than it is today. They were right. Music now is crap compared to the 50's to late 90's!
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Post by: Torslanda on 26 January, 2019, 09:30:26 am
Ahem! Teh Rant Thread is over there -->>
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Post by: essexian on 26 January, 2019, 09:36:07 am
Ahem! Teh Rant Thread is over there -->>


True... but I've not got my reading glasses with me..... ;D :facepalm:
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Post by: Torslanda on 26 January, 2019, 09:40:04 am
 ;D :thumbsup:
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Post by: pcolbeck on 08 February, 2019, 12:07:33 pm
Brandi Carlile

https://youtu.be/5r6A2NexF88

Lovely voice and great songwriting.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 08 February, 2019, 08:13:20 pm
Thomas Larcher "Alle Tage" on Radio 3 in concert.

I'm not usually a fan of modern classical music but this is good !
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Post by: Riggers on 21 February, 2019, 12:17:36 pm
Max Richter's 'War Anthem'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLIpWLLPnu4

I could listen to maudlin music all day long thank you very much.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 22 February, 2019, 08:46:16 pm
Tonight mostly Bonnie Raitt
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Post by: pcolbeck on 22 February, 2019, 09:25:21 pm
Now Sandy Denny.
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Post by: DaveJ on 26 February, 2019, 01:08:20 pm
Scarlatti played by Racha Arodaky (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=039oHv1D61k&list=OLAK5uy_mkKTVseioZdgnDbt3OnQdloC5tgoaaQVs)

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Post by: nicknack on 10 March, 2019, 12:42:10 pm
The Comet is Coming. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mlpg-iyiEv0)
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Post by: T42 on 29 March, 2019, 11:10:05 am
Son just forwarded this: rather splendid:

André Waignein - Missa Solemnis - Orchestre d'Electricité de Strasbourg (https://youtu.be/REwLM6PLzXI)

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Post by: Steph on 08 April, 2019, 10:39:26 pm
In 1988, I hit 30, and I was in a down period. Gender issues were really, really hurting, and I was looking at all sorts of... solutions. I will leave that one there.

An album came out, and I am listening to it as I type, but at the time I found it incredibly personal. This was an out lesbian singing some gorgeously crafted love songs. It gave me hope, in an odd way.

Tracy Chapman's eponymous first album. 'Baby, can I hold you...'
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Post by: Deano on 09 April, 2019, 01:53:28 pm
Local-ish band named Martha. I'm quite enjoying the classic indie pop vibe.

https://marthadiy.bandcamp.com/album/love-keeps-kicking
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Post by: rafletcher on 12 April, 2019, 08:47:49 am
Rory Gallagher. Man, he could play.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 12 April, 2019, 12:41:22 pm
Rory Gallagher. Man, he could play.

Journo: What's it like being the best guitarist in the world?
J Hendrix: Dunno.  Ask Rory Gallagher.

Allegedly.
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Post by: rafletcher on 12 April, 2019, 09:48:25 pm
Indeed.  Whatever, it makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up. Plus the voice. Sublime.
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Post by: Steph on 13 April, 2019, 03:12:26 am
Rory Gallagher. Man, he could play.

I saw him at a Kent Custom Bike show.

"Let's have everything louder than everything else!"
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 13 April, 2019, 10:30:48 am
Was that before or after Ian Gillan asked for the same thing on "Made In Japan"?
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Post by: pcolbeck on 13 April, 2019, 11:06:54 am
Rory Gallagher. Man, he could play.

I saw him at a Kent Custom Bike show.

"Let's have everything louder than everything else!"

Me too Steph. We must have been in the same crowd. That was a long time ago.
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Post by: T42 on 25 April, 2019, 03:29:26 pm
Vltava by Smetana played on the harp by Valérie Milot.

https://youtu.be/TnYCW8eWqQo
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Post by: pcolbeck on 26 April, 2019, 07:47:18 pm
Vltava by Smetana played on the harp by Valérie Milot.

https://youtu.be/TnYCW8eWqQo

Smetana is great. I love  Má vlast.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 26 April, 2019, 07:53:56 pm
Tonight its Grand Funk Railroad "We're an American Band"

They are quite interesting in that they were huge stadium fillers in the 70's, bigger than Aerosmith, Van Halen or any of teh other bands that are still famous but have been just about forgotten now.

Listening to this now I can see why. They fall between two stools, sort of a bit proggy and a bit rock but not a really distinct sound. The songs aren't on the whole memorable either though the musicianship is good. Sort of between the early and the late seventies.

The title track of the album "We're an American Band" is blindingly good though.

https://youtu.be/Zc_JcGuH5Z8
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Post by: tiermat on 22 May, 2019, 07:28:36 am
Since Friday, when it was released, "Balance not Symmetry" by Biffy Clyro. A bit of a departure for them as it is a soundtrack album. However it isn't just a commercial cash in album, the film inspired the music and vice versa.

As one review put it, its a return to pre-puzzle Biffy. Fantastic!
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Post by: T42 on 22 May, 2019, 07:53:36 am
GoT on gits, rather splendid:

https://youtu.be/6i0a7RDPkM8
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Post by: T42 on 11 June, 2019, 10:36:11 am
Just heard Fauré's choral version of  his Pavane on the car radio. Unfortunately the piano accompanist was a heavyweight boxer on his bran break so the choir was only occasionally audible.  Or maybe the sound guy needed a suppository.
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Post by: andrewc on 21 June, 2019, 10:11:08 pm
Damn.  Flicking through the CD rack I put on Rim Banna's "Revelation Of Ecstasy & Rebellion" ,  that prompted me to Google her & I find that she died last year aged 51. Fuck cancer.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STKPfA9xpaY



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rim_Banna



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Post by: Canardly on 21 June, 2019, 10:16:35 pm
What a voice, how sad.
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Post by: Redlight on 21 June, 2019, 11:14:50 pm
French pop music  :sick:

My 15 yo French god-daughter is staying with us for the week  :)

Love her to bits but....
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Post by: pcolbeck on 24 June, 2019, 09:53:50 pm
Fanny

https://youtu.be/fWQnCN-MWFg

Never heard of them before today but it seems they were the original all girl rock band. 1970-74. Preceded the Runaways by a fair bit.
Not bad at all.
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Post by: CrazyEnglishTriathlete on 12 July, 2019, 10:03:44 am
Liszt orchestral music.  Picked up this 5 volume CD pack on Amazon for £4.99.  Kurt Masur conducting.  Shameful that his Symphonic Poems are hardly ever recorded let alone performed.  Brass sections around the world would be queuing up to thunder audiences with Mazeppa.
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Post by: Andrij on 12 July, 2019, 01:38:23 pm
10,000 Maniacs

Definitely well over a decade since I've had a listen.
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Post by: nicknack on 13 July, 2019, 08:21:34 pm
Deep Purple - Made in Japan.
At max vol. Old Chopsuey AU215 going flat out into a pair of Monitor Audios. Doors and windows wide open. Stuff the neighbours. I have to put up with the rap on one side and the shit R&B on the other.
Best rock album eva!
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 13 July, 2019, 10:15:31 pm
Right now I am listening to Tom Jones performing in, I guess, Eastville Park for Bristol Pride. Ironically events there come in through the window loud and clear but stuff in St Paul's, like Carnival last week, (or say Lakota any night), we don't hear at all despite it being much closer. I'm quite enjoying Tom, I wasn't so keen on Love Saves the Day a couple of months ago.
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 13 July, 2019, 10:54:30 pm
Tom has finished. Sounds like the crowd are bellowing for an encore but I don't think they're going to get one. Apparently he was at the County Ground (cricket stadium) not Eastville.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 14 July, 2019, 12:40:29 pm
The sound check from some bash over in Lloyd Park.  Highly-educated bunch of soundmans they have over there; this one could count up to seven!
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Post by: Steph on 14 July, 2019, 12:53:37 pm
Deep Purple - Made in Japan.
At max vol. Old Chopsuey AU215 going flat out into a pair of Monitor Audios. Doors and windows wide open. Stuff the neighbours. I have to put up with the rap on one side and the shit R&B on the other.
Best rock album eva!
I have it on my MP3. Remind me to tell you about chatting to Mr Paice about our ...different experiences of Knebworth. In the meantime,


LET'S GO SPACE TRUCKING!
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Post by: pcolbeck on 14 July, 2019, 09:19:51 pm
Deep Purple - Made in Japan.
At max vol. Old Chopsuey AU215 going flat out into a pair of Monitor Audios. Doors and windows wide open. Stuff the neighbours. I have to put up with the rap on one side and the shit R&B on the other.
Best rock album eva!

Firat LP I ever got of my own (thanks Aunty Anne). Top rock.
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Post by: Quisling on 15 July, 2019, 09:08:17 pm
Frightened Rabbit (RIP Scott Hutchison)
The new Biffy Clyro cover of The Modern Leper is a good one, but Scott's solo performance here is brilliant - especially his hilarious audience dialogue at the start:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob3X77TwqEw
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Post by: fd3 on 01 August, 2019, 11:34:29 am
Bowie and Tin Machine.  I even enjoyed much of "Tonight".
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Post by: andrewc on 03 August, 2019, 07:55:21 pm
Bach cello suites, played by Paul Tortelier.   a 3LP box set from Oxfam.
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Post by: T42 on 04 August, 2019, 10:55:20 am
A cardiologist on YouTube describing Russian experiments on grafting two dogs' foresections together. (https://youtu.be/i6eLnERsOdY) :sick:
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Post by: jsabine on 04 August, 2019, 10:59:49 am
IRTA foreskins, and my mind was truly boggled.
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Post by: T42 on 04 August, 2019, 11:01:01 am
I think mine just did too.
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Post by: CrazyEnglishTriathlete on 07 August, 2019, 09:27:17 pm
Sorabji’s 100 Transcendental Studies somehow made understandable by Fredrik Ullen.  He recorded 72 - 83 in 2015 and have been waiting ever since for what will presumably be the last CD of this extraordinary set.   
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Post by: andrewc on 23 August, 2019, 08:15:27 pm
David Watkin playing the Bach Cello Suites.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMsdQMgu3dE


A glass of chilled rose while dinner cooks.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 08 September, 2019, 09:36:29 pm
Listening to Elgar on the proms and its making me feel better.
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Post by: fd3 on 08 September, 2019, 11:00:54 pm
A compilation of Bowie Duets/bit-parts.  His backing vocals to Scarlet Johanson's Tom Waits cover ...
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Post by: pcolbeck on 16 September, 2019, 09:54:14 am
Radio Tarifa

Spanish / Arab fusion. The idea of teh band was that this is what an imaginary radio station at Tarifa on the Straights of Gibralta would have played over the centuries.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 23 September, 2019, 06:32:16 pm
Amadjar, the latest from Tuareg guitar gods Tinariwen.  No surprises except perhaps the inclusion of Stephen O'Malley of Sunn O))) as a guest on the final track.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 25 September, 2019, 06:23:23 pm
I like this live video from Sheryl Cow and Chris Stapleton (who he I have no idea?).

https://youtu.be/aOuVw9x-PHs

It's not the best song in the world but it's OK and sometimes that's just fine. There is pleasure in watching a group of really competent musicians and a singer performing something really well and doing the best they can with it.
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Post by: CrazyEnglishTriathlete on 05 October, 2019, 01:36:27 pm
Liszt's Orchestral suites, played by the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra conducted by Kurt Masur - large scale structures that anticipate much of 20th century film music amongst other things.  Picked up a 5CD set for a song.
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Post by: T42 on 05 October, 2019, 02:07:07 pm
Marianne Faithfull, 20th Century Blues et al, at volumes that get past the biscuit joiner and my earplugs.
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Post by: fd3 on 08 October, 2019, 11:42:40 pm
New Pixies album.  Welcome back 80/90s - the world of "not sure about this" sedgwaying into "addictive listening"
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Post by: Riggers on 15 October, 2019, 11:49:08 am
Right now: Richard Dawson's 'Two Halves' (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkSvn23fbAg) A new find for me. Witty lyrics, though some may find his vocals challenging.
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Post by: Legs on 03 November, 2019, 07:32:09 pm
New self-titled album from Michael Kiwanuka.  Very highly recommended.
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Post by: andrewc on 08 November, 2019, 06:05:33 pm
After finding her on Twitter I've been watching a few videos by Tanita Tikaram, getting nostalgic for my mid 20's I suppose.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbXsbGSoIWk&frags=pl%2Cwn  1988...... :jurek:


a bit more recent.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXePfBKjbek
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Post by: T42 on 25 November, 2019, 01:08:36 pm
Masterpiece, by The King's Singers:

https://youtu.be/JXhAz0DOpMU

The first bit is for Wowbagger.
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Post by: jezzasnr on 25 November, 2019, 01:45:19 pm
I like this live video from Sheryl Cow and Chris Stapleton (who he I have no idea?).

https://youtu.be/aOuVw9x-PHs

It's not the best song in the world but it's OK and sometimes that's just fine. There is pleasure in watching a group of really competent musicians and a singer performing something really well and doing the best they can with it.
https://youtu.be/4bU3awqJ-GY (https://youtu.be/4bU3awqJ-GY)
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Post by: fd3 on 29 November, 2019, 09:30:59 pm
TMBG.  Not just a black Friday 20% off sale, but downloads for $5 (and the latest two albums got 20% off on top of that).  I now have four albums for just under £13.
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Post by: CrazyEnglishTriathlete on 06 December, 2019, 05:24:51 am
Spiral Guru. 

Was going through the Classic Rock free sampler when this combination of stoner guitar riffs and crystal clear vocals grabbed my attention and forced me to download their album "Void".

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Post by: Ham on 08 December, 2019, 04:35:21 pm
Beth Hart singing some astonishingly personal songs off her new album, stripped back to her and a piano

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q45R7VoKIeY
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Post by: Ham on 10 December, 2019, 02:26:51 pm
Today I found Jenny and the Mexicats, the Tiny Desk is a good entre  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yng5CTT8Ogk or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuM7jzv6io8

Sounds as if she - Jenny Ball - is British. I haven't looked her up (snarf snarf) but I can't help wondering if she's related to Kenny (sure she isn't a daughter)
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Post by: Riggers on 12 December, 2019, 03:18:56 pm
Max Richter's 'On the nature of daylight'. The more maudlin the music, the happier I am.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUMc_-Bcunk
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Post by: Legs on 16 December, 2019, 08:04:26 am
Billy Joel Live From Long Island 1982, particularly this wonderful performance of Until The Night (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikWH9k_39po&list=PL-HzNWxgD9K5t9DCGWt-VVMaY7jBAXD39&index=12).
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Post by: tiermat on 16 December, 2019, 08:09:18 am
Michael Kiwanuka, I was introduced to him via 6Music and Later.

His radio friendly unit shifters are good but his other stuff is better. So much so that I thought my playlist on Spotify had swapped from him to Pearl Jam!
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Post by: Riggers on 17 December, 2019, 02:40:32 pm
This is both sad and moving. A tribute to Keith Emerson, with Rachel Flowers on piano, and you can see how it has affected her soon after she starts to play:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zb7G_K5iRBk
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Post by: rogerzilla on 22 December, 2019, 07:52:57 pm
Alanis Morrissette, the angry one.
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Post by: Jakob on 05 January, 2020, 09:50:42 pm
Jacob Collier, whoms existance I was unaware about until about a week ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPBirt1YhuM

The NPR Tiny Desk Concert Series is absolutely awesome.
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Post by: Robh on 05 January, 2020, 11:56:44 pm
Jacob Collier
He’s a very gifted musician, a terrific talent. He was picked up by Quincey Jones at one point. As a listener, I find him a little over-reliant on the technical side of things; hopefully, when he’s a little older, he’ll allow more feeling to come into play. But whichever way you look at it, doing something like this at the age of 17(?) is pretty special:

https://youtu.be/pvKUttYs5ow

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Post by: pcolbeck on 06 January, 2020, 08:29:54 pm
Just heard this on the radio. Khruangbin & Leon Bridges - Texas Sun. Don't known anything about them but it's lovely:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSWNWWREtsI
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Post by: Jakob on 06 January, 2020, 11:39:45 pm
Yeah, Khruangbin is my other new discovery!.

Re: Collier: He's playing locally in April, but I want to know which version turns up!.
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Post by: geoff on 09 January, 2020, 06:36:05 pm
...
The NPR Tiny Desk Concert Series is absolutely awesome.
...

and

...the Tiny Desk is a good ...

yes it is...and also their "All songs considered" (https://www.npr.org › podcasts › all-songs-considered) pod

to whom I owe a small addiction to Jason Isbell, the incredible LIZZO and most of all Gillian Welch/Dave Rawlings (https://www.npr.org/2010/02/01/123086467/david-rawlings-and-gillian-welch-tiny-desk-concert)
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Post by: sg37409 on 14 January, 2020, 05:04:02 pm
Fancied something new.  I dont get to listen to R6 so much now I bike to work.  So I checked out Fopp's albums of the year 2019.
Bought Sharon Van Etten, Remind Me Tomorrow.

Very highly recommended. Have not bought an album I'd describe as a grower in a while, this def is. Enjoying it more each night.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 15 January, 2020, 08:06:52 pm
Drive by Truckers on a random play on Amazon

Some of the best lyrics ever. Sad love songs then angry screaming triple guitar attack. Smashing.

Drag the lake Charlie

Our best case scenario
Is Lester turns up dead
I'm almost out of Valium
Courage and self-respect


Birthday Boy

The pretty girls from the smallest towns
Get remembered like storms and droughts
That old men talk about for years to come


Goddam Lonely Love

And I could find another dream,
One that keeps me warm and clean
But I ain't dreamin' anymore, girl, I'm waking up
So I'll take two of what you're having and I'll take everything you got
To kill this goddamn lonely, goddamn lonely love
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Post by: andrewc on 28 January, 2020, 08:54:16 pm
The Berlin Philharmonic under Simon Rattle.  "The Rite Of Spring" is terrifying.   


This is a very good box set for the money.  https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B06W2M9SGY/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1


(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/619RcGkaaFL.jpg)
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Post by: andrewc on 02 February, 2020, 11:34:06 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uScIqt9au30 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uScIqt9au30)


Tanita Tikaram ,  I had a cassette of this in my Sharp Sound System , which was stolen from my Fiat  >:(
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Post by: Rowan on 03 February, 2020, 12:13:31 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uScIqt9au30


Tanita Tikaram ,  I had a cassette of this in my Sharp Sound System , which was stolen from my Fiat  >:( [size=78%]  80's.[/size]
I have a couple of hers on my play list, Good Traditions and Twist of Sobriety,  never tire of hearing them - love her voice.

Used to very much fancy her back in the day,  she looks like she could be my daughter now.
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Post by: andrewc on 03 February, 2020, 12:18:36 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEzoWe3saQE&frags=pl%2Cwn (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEzoWe3saQE&frags=pl%2Cwn)


Tracy Chapman.  Only ever seen her play live once, Human Rights Now!  at Wembley back in the day....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzLCfvYEvmE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzLCfvYEvmE)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3I1HLbqIkE&frags=pl%2Cwn (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3I1HLbqIkE&frags=pl%2Cwn)  Full gig with Sting, Springsteen, Gabriel etc  :thumbsup:
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Post by: andrewc on 03 February, 2020, 01:16:48 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lV21J75vFE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lV21J75vFE)


Sinead O'Connor . Bloody hell  :jurek:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzPyhIp-Gk4&frags=pl%2Cwn
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Post by: andrewc on 06 February, 2020, 04:12:51 pm
Atom String Quartet.  I saw them in Liverpool a while ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-n912qgEQY    :thumbsup:


From the comments "'I'm high as a kite on meth, and this is exactly what I needed!"
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Post by: pcolbeck on 06 February, 2020, 04:21:33 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lV21J75vFE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lV21J75vFE)
Sinead O'Connor . Bloody hell  :jurek:

Thanks I hadn't heard that for a couple of decades. Takes me back.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 13 February, 2020, 09:27:03 pm
Schubert on random play from Amazon Prime.

It switches from saccharine oh god make it stop to absolutely sublime. I don't know any other composer that elicits two such different emotions in me depending on the piece.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 13 February, 2020, 10:20:54 pm
Schubert on random play from Amazon Prime.

It switches from saccharine oh god make it stop to absolutely sublime. I don't know any other composer that elicits two such different emotions in me depending on the piece.

Also every third track Amazon serves up is a version of Ave Maria. I was raised a Catholic but still FFS "Alexa skip"
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Post by: fd3 on 16 February, 2020, 09:28:22 pm
Stuff from the new Bowie EP.  Half of it is filler and the good stuff is studio versions of stuff I have on bootleg.
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Post by: andrewc on 20 February, 2020, 02:48:04 pm
Jeff Buckley "Grace" .   Far too long since I listened to this , what a record.



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Post by: andrewc on 28 February, 2020, 01:36:14 pm
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Simon-Rattle-his-Soloists-Years/dp/B01BW4FDB8/ref=sr_1_1    Working my way through this.  Currently Cecile Ousset playing Ravel's Piano Concerto in G.


A very good buy at the price.  :thumbsup:



(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/711N4z6EPSL._SL1425_.jpg)



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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 06 March, 2020, 07:14:55 pm
Mostly to Air.
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Post by: Ham on 10 March, 2020, 01:53:51 pm
Los Bitchos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPp2fdHMxTM
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Post by: nicknack on 10 March, 2020, 07:15:00 pm
Ahead Rings Out - Blodwyn Pig
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Post by: pcolbeck on 16 March, 2020, 02:16:13 pm
Grace Potter. New album came out and I missed it.

https://youtu.be/XxZIT75-XJU

Its pretty good.
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Post by: Ham on 18 March, 2020, 12:02:31 pm
You know that feeling when you heard something new and wanted to rush out and buy an album? Possibly the most wonderful new performer I've heard since .... Amy Winehouse? (nothing like her, but you know what I mean)

Taimane, doing a Tiny Desk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXUCJKto68Q
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Post by: sg37409 on 18 March, 2020, 10:22:48 pm
Big Science.
Brilliant album
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Post by: Wowbagger on 25 March, 2020, 07:31:07 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNeoWuknHXw

A choir rehearsal on Youtube!

Brahms Requiem for those who like that sort of thing.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 26 March, 2020, 11:02:46 am
The Handsome Family.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 10 April, 2020, 10:44:01 pm
Netherlands Bach Society, St. John Passion.

Very appropriate for Good Friday. An extra little frisson because this wonderful performance was recorded at the Grote Kerke, Naarden, in 2017. I went there in May 2013 for my nephew's wedding.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMf9XDQBAaI
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Post by: andrewc on 10 April, 2020, 11:50:48 pm
Thanks Wow.  That's lovely.


The very wonderful Steven Isserlis is tweeting a daily piece to camera during the lockdown.   Today's recital was by John Tavener.  https://twitter.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1248731120386084865?s=20 (https://twitter.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1248731120386084865?s=20)
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Post by: andrewc on 17 April, 2020, 08:31:16 pm



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZaJO0PGeAg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZaJO0PGeAg)


A recent discovery.  Matthew Halsall & the Gondwana Orchestra.   

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Post by: pcolbeck on 17 April, 2020, 09:12:43 pm
McCartney
Paul McCartney's first solo album from 1970.

I have never listened to it before, of course I know some songs like Jet and Maybe I'm Amazed but have never listened to the album.
Quite amazing really. He plays all the instruments himself using overdubbing on a 4 track with no mixing desk (and thus no meters) and is in th emiddle of depression and probably a nervous breakdown and still working on Let it Be with the fragmenting Beatles.

It got slammed by the critics.

Most people would be happy if it was the only thing they every recorded!

The man's a musical genius.
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 18 April, 2020, 09:37:47 am
https://youtu.be/JBLtU0mG8qY

Grace a Citoyen. I don't even understand it and it's giving me chills.
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Post by: hellymedic on 19 April, 2020, 09:34:31 pm
Hope@home.

Violinist Daniel Hope is streaming daily concerts from his Berlin home in lockdown.

https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/097148-002-A/hope-home-episode-16/ (https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/097148-002-A/hope-home-episode-16/)

I'm not sure he is doing the social distancing quite like me.
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Post by: andrewc on 19 April, 2020, 10:32:55 pm
Thanks Helen  :thumbsup:

Beethoven Piano Concerto no 3 1st Movement - Isata Kanneh-Mason (Recording of Facebook Live)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Syhm27w68no&feature=youtu.be

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Post by: hellymedic on 20 April, 2020, 10:13:17 pm
Thanks Helen  :thumbsup:

Beethoven Piano Concerto no 3 1st Movement - Isata Kanneh-Mason (Recording of Facebook Live)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Syhm27w68no&feature=youtu.be

Thanks!
Superb!
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Post by: hellymedic on 21 April, 2020, 06:54:22 pm
Our very own Dez is 'shielded' for medical reasons and posted this on Facebook.
A man of very many talents...

Quote
Further to recording Bertha last week, I've done four theme tunes this week!
Last of the Summer Wine - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJwlsyE1gw4 (Thanks to David Woodcock for the guitar part)
Mr Men - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV46ctV3pyg
Raggy Dolls - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxYKV0KpGWI
Woof - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtJLFJxfFO4
All these and more were in this weeks The Railway Hotel Open Mic Night at https://www.facebook.com/RailwayHotelSouthend/videos/239667153945456/
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Post by: andrewc on 25 April, 2020, 08:17:58 pm
Frank Sinatra & Count Basie , Live At The Sands.    I'm officially middle aged.    Chap could carry a tune though.   
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Post by: CrazyEnglishTriathlete on 26 April, 2020, 08:05:09 pm
Kodaly Cello Sonata.  I found it when tidying up stuff in my parents' house.
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Post by: Redlight on 28 April, 2020, 09:47:27 am
In Search of the Lost Chord and On the Threshold of A Dream by the Moody Blues. My wife was buying some stuff on Amazon and I added these on the spur of the moment because she was talking about her late mother, who (before she was born) went out with one of the band.

When I was in the sixth form I shared a house with two older guys, one of whom was a massive MB fan, so I heard them a lot in those days but haven't heard any of those albums since. They're very dated, of course - laughably in places - but it's good to listen to them again.



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Post by: CrazyEnglishTriathlete on 30 April, 2020, 08:41:39 pm
Paul Crossley playing Poulenc.  It's very lovely, but I've found Poulenc reuses his musical ideas quite a lot so perhaps listening to three CDs straight is not the best idea and it would be best in bite-sized chunks.  The ideas themselves are distinctive and great fun.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 01 May, 2020, 07:37:07 pm
The freshly-minted and eponymous debut album by DeadBlondeStars.  Rubbish name, terrific noises.  Not dissimilar to Soundgarden.
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Post by: CrazyEnglishTriathlete on 01 May, 2020, 10:16:57 pm
Rory Gallagher, Live at Montreux 1975.  How have I not discovered this before?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpxRsohTGAA
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Post by: rafletcher on 01 May, 2020, 10:19:37 pm
Rory Gallagher, Live at Montreux 1975.  How have I not discovered this before?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpxRsohTGAA

I’ve no idea. It’s brilliant.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 02 May, 2020, 09:52:41 am
Rory Gallagher, Live at Montreux 1975.  How have I not discovered this before?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpxRsohTGAA

Excellent.

Did your man ever play a duff gig? Saw him several times in the 80s and 90s riveting every time.
Irish Tour '74  is probably the best live album ever. Great documentary as well.
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Post by: Quisling on 05 May, 2020, 12:06:09 pm
Stumbled across US band Skating Polly recently.  Sort of Nirvana meets Alanis Morrissette angsty grunge.  Here is a good example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B4Nn9_9YHg

Also, I've no idea how I missed this banger from Arcade Fire for the last 9 years.  Where was I?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awHWColYQ90
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Post by: Ham on 05 May, 2020, 08:16:32 pm
Charlotte Barnes. Wot?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qso4MRfidrw

AKA Lianne La Havas, aka Lianne Charlotte Barnes
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Post by: CrazyEnglishTriathlete on 05 May, 2020, 10:12:57 pm
Finally got around to listening to the orchestral CD from Nightwish Human II Nature.  It's interesting but wouldn't go rushing back to it.  Unlike Rosalie Cunningham, who is up next.
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Post by: Chris S on 07 May, 2020, 09:49:38 pm
I've decamped to a different room, as I'm totally nerding out here.

Who the fuck would have thought you could do an acoustic version of Pink Floyd's "Echoes". Well, if anyone can, Gabriela y Rodrigo can...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2vIPnzY90w
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Post by: Andrij on 09 May, 2020, 10:25:32 am
The complete* works of Bad Religion
Now that I've got Banshee working properly, it's much easier to play through my collection.  I will confess I miss using iTunes on my old PC.

* all 17 albums I own.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 09 May, 2020, 10:49:18 am
Monks.  Not that Strawbs spin-off from the 1970s, the one from the mid-1960s formed by USAnian servicemen in Germany.  Released one album before disappearing into almost-obscurity, but are endorsed by the likes of Jack White, Iggy Pop, Jello Biafra, Mark E. Smith-ah and Ade Blackburn ["Who he? – Ed.]*.  Apparently they were influential in the development of Krautrock, though I can't hear it myself.

* frontman of creepy oddballs Clinic; sounds like he's singing through clenched teeth.
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Post by: andyoxon on 16 May, 2020, 10:03:30 am
Hans Zimmer live in Prague. Loud on the KEFs .   :thumbsup:. Neighbours are out.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 20 May, 2020, 10:16:57 pm
Joni live - Shadows and Light

Just listen to Jaco's bass!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArhQHt4Y55g
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Post by: CrazyEnglishTriathlete on 23 May, 2020, 08:27:04 pm
Atom Heart Mother - Pink Floyd/Ron Geesin.  Doesn't have the critical acclaim of Echoes.  But I like it.
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Post by: T42 on 24 May, 2020, 03:50:00 pm
Delius - Over the Hills and Far Away. Royal Phil with Thomas Beecham.
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Post by: Steph on 25 May, 2020, 03:59:14 pm
https://www.folkonfoot.com/festival?fbclid=IwAR1d3TSeVIfe3xze0V8b4Paygq7Ri2PajBdxb580fStBBJelaBrtImdM6Fs
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Post by: PaulF on 25 May, 2020, 04:51:21 pm
https://www.folkonfoot.com/festival?fbclid=IwAR1d3TSeVIfe3xze0V8b4Paygq7Ri2PajBdxb580fStBBJelaBrtImdM6Fs

Thanks for the heads up on this! Just caught the end of Cara Dillon, looking forward to the Kitty Macfarlane.
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Post by: Andrij on 26 May, 2020, 03:20:57 pm
Rusted Root, When I Woke (https://www.discogs.com/Rusted-Root-When-I-Woke/master/667738).
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Post by: Tim Hall on 26 May, 2020, 06:13:18 pm
Sleaford Mods, All That Glue. 
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Post by: tiermat on 26 May, 2020, 06:59:39 pm
This morning, instead of listening to Biffy Clyro*, I did my bike ride to the notes of DJ Shadow - Our Pathetic Age.

*which you might have guessed if you look at my ride names on Strava :)
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Post by: andrewc on 30 May, 2020, 10:32:01 am
The postman brought me a nice present yesterday.  "To Drink The Rainbow" by Tanita Tikaram.    Lovely stuff.     I had her first album mumble years ago & she'd dropped of my radar, but have been following her on Twitter @tanita_tikaram recently so bought this, an anthology of her work between 1988 - 2019. 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkE2fhZq7FI


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjgVBvgQKpM
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Post by: Legs on 12 June, 2020, 03:28:18 pm
Carrie & Lowell, Sufjan Stevens.  Good for having in the background while working.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 12 June, 2020, 08:35:24 pm
Townes Van Zandt - Live at The Winning Post York 1990

https://youtu.be/BthRLYDTFPY

Just found this on YouTube. I was at this gig. 30 years ago, doesn't seem that long. A brilliant night at what is basically a big pub with a function room.
I had no idea it was recorded.

Try "To Live is to Fly" - 48m 10s in its a lovely song. The man was a genius.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 13 June, 2020, 12:22:54 pm
Grace Potter's streams from home.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKgVl6E2PRSb1MHpw88ib-cAbWstFWDi1

A mixture of her own songs and covers.
Dead Flowers is great and "Nothing but the Water / Foxy Lady" is fun with Wayne and Garth on drums and base.

https://youtu.be/WltSLPTBtuA
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Post by: CrazyEnglishTriathlete on 13 June, 2020, 09:02:00 pm
Various versions of Rainbow's Stargazer, listening to Ritchie Blackmore's solo which apparently is based on a Phrygian scale (yes I had to look it up).  Not your average rock musician, Mr Blackmore.
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Post by: andrewc on 14 June, 2020, 12:05:53 am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUXahDmsVdU


"Mountains O' Things"


The life I've always wanted
I guess I'll never have
I'll be working for somebody else
Until I'm in my grave
I'll be dreaming of a life of ease
And mountains Oh mountains o' things


To have a big expensive car
Drag my furs on the ground
And have a maid that I can tell
To bring me anything
Everyone will look at me with envy and with greed
I'll revel in their attention
And mountains Oh mountains o' things


Sweet lazy life
Champagne and caviar
I hope you'll come and find me
Cause you know who we are
Those who deserve the best in life
And know what money's worth
And those whose sole misfortune
Was having mountains o' nothing at birth


Oh they tell me
There's still time to save my soul
They tell me
Renounce all
Renounce all those material things you gained by
Exploiting other human beings


Consume more than you need
This is the dream
Make you pauper
Or make you queen
I won't die lonely
I'll have it all prearranged
A grave that's deep and wide enough
For me and all my mountains o' things


Oh they tell me
There's still time to save my soul
They tell me
Renounce all
Renounce all those material things you gained by
Exploiting other human beings


Mostly I feel lonely
Good good people are
Good people are only
My stepping stones
It's gonna take all my mountains o' things
To surround me
Keep all my enemies away
Keep my sadness and loneliness at bay


The life I've always wanted
I guess I'll never have
I'll be working for somebody else
Until I'm in my grave
I'll be dreaming of a live of ease
And mountains, Oh mountains o' things

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Post by: Andy W on 14 June, 2020, 05:56:10 am
Moon River, sung by Audrey Hepburn. From the film Breakfast at Tiffanys.
Such a nice song, full of warmth
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Post by: CrazyEnglishTriathlete on 18 June, 2020, 09:47:21 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dpqo_6jpe08

Valentina Lisitsa taking a very serious look at Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition
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Post by: pcolbeck on 19 June, 2020, 10:05:02 am
Norah Jones - Live from Ronnie Scotts

https://youtu.be/A4xSumIINCg

Nice piano playing !
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Post by: PaulF on 19 June, 2020, 10:32:16 am
New Bob Dylan and Neil Young albums
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Post by: fd3 on 20 June, 2020, 11:57:15 am
Bauhaus is the soundtrack of lockdown.  Pondering a playlist of all their little known experimental tracks.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 20 June, 2020, 09:46:06 pm
Brothers and sister rock and roll !

https://youtu.be/h8ggSs7G3J4

Perfect !
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Post by: pcolbeck on 20 June, 2020, 10:17:10 pm
Brothers and sister rock and roll !

https://youtu.be/h8ggSs7G3J4

Perfect !

I'd like to know who is on the mixing desk on these as they are doing a remarkable job.
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Post by: tiermat on 22 June, 2020, 08:22:35 am
The Interrupters, saw them live a couple of years ago when we took TLD to see Green Day at Leeds Arena.  I liked their music then and it's even more relevant now.

https://open.spotify.com/artist/25Maank76ry2Tmbi2Ql1SF

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Post by: CrazyEnglishTriathlete on 30 June, 2020, 09:36:09 pm
John Ogdon playing Liszt's Funerailles.  No one gets close to exploring the opening chords the way that he does.
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Post by: andrewc on 30 June, 2020, 09:52:41 pm
Not listening , but I've just read this in the Grauniad,   https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jun/30/girlschool-heavy-metal-pioneers-drugs-groupies-lemmy-motorhead


I saw them play at the Royal Court in Liverpool when I was a long haired teenage oik..    1980 something.....   
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 30 June, 2020, 10:55:43 pm
Not listening , but I've just read this in the Grauniad,   https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jun/30/girlschool-heavy-metal-pioneers-drugs-groupies-lemmy-motorhead


I saw them play at the Royal Court in Liverpool when I was a long haired teenage oik..    1980 something.....

If that article is accurate then I must have seen them supporting Motörhead in 1979, though my recollection is that Nutz were the support at the Lyceum.  Getting old sucks.
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Post by: CrazyEnglishTriathlete on 01 July, 2020, 09:18:41 am
Never saw Motorhead play live.  Did see Lemmy in the audience at the Marquee Club for a Lee Aaron gig in 1990
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Post by: pcolbeck on 01 July, 2020, 10:50:05 am
Never saw Motorhead play live.  Did see Lemmy in the audience at the Marquee Club for a Lee Aaron gig in 1990

You missed out. I don't have any of their records but live they were a force of nature. Brilliant.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 01 July, 2020, 11:19:48 am
Never saw Motorhead play live.  Did see Lemmy in the audience at the Marquee Club for a Lee Aaron gig in 1990

One of my Tenuous Claims to Fame is having been elbowed out of the way at the bar in Dingwalls by a thirsty Lemmy intent on obtaining further supplies of drinkohol for himself and Wilko Johnson at a Deviants reunion gig.
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Post by: CrazyEnglishTriathlete on 02 July, 2020, 05:20:08 pm
Today's band is Beast in Black.  They were support for Nightwish on their Decades tour at Wembley Arena.  They came on to Judas Priest's Nightcrawler and launched into that era heavy metal.  Naff riffs.  Naff songs.  Except the lead singer Yannis Papadopolous is a trained opera singer rather than just a wannabe, they nailed all the riffs, and it just somehow sort of works. 
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Post by: geoff on 05 July, 2020, 09:08:48 pm
Shack: HMS Fable
https://open.spotify.com/album/0waCN9Dzq28sIxCSVYwPHO?si=Fq8WQ5R_Q_6zoAMUCstmsQ

It's a grower this. 1999 album from band led by Mick Head, former Pale Fountains front man, and his brother John. I'd never come across it before. Great songwriting really authentic and raw. Thought it was a bit hackneyed first time thro...but keep coming back to Streets of Kenny, Comedy, Cornish Town and others yep... a keeper.

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Post by: pcolbeck on 05 July, 2020, 10:41:08 pm
Exile on Main Street - again.

It just gets better every time.
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Post by: fd3 on 06 July, 2020, 06:03:59 pm
Lots of SCALA radio (my daughter's fault).  It's generally a nice mix, but a little heavy on showtunes and classic covers of fuckingcoldplay.
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Post by: andrewc on 16 July, 2020, 10:42:33 pm
Feeling nostalgic & browsing videos on pootube,,,   


https://youtu.be/ahTUBOzKjVI


https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x30et3h


   Poor Kirsty  :'(
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Post by: fd3 on 17 July, 2020, 05:29:32 pm
Just discovered bancamp (yea, I know, total dinosaur - I even buy my own music).

Hunt Sales (Ex Tin Machine of Bowie infamy).  Not my usual thing.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 17 July, 2020, 06:17:37 pm
He (and his brother) were also in Iggy's post-Stooges band for a while.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 19 July, 2020, 11:42:43 pm
Steel Panther

Its ironic when a band satirizing hair metal bands are actually better than most of the original bands.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 20 July, 2020, 12:06:31 am
Oh god I've moved on to Mötley Crüe now.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 20 July, 2020, 12:51:13 am
(Sings)
Help me Mrs Medleycott
I don't know what to do
I've only got three bullets
And there's four of Mötley Crüe
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Post by: fd3 on 20 July, 2020, 11:20:36 pm
He (and his brother) were also in Iggy's post-Stooges band for a while.
Aye, I think that's where Bowie met them in the first place.
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Post by: Redlight on 21 July, 2020, 02:40:56 pm
A CD reissue of the Moody Blues' On The Threshold of A Dream.  I think the last time I listened to this was when I was 17 and sharing a house with a massive Moodies fan. 

Of course, a lot of it hasn't aged well, particularly the 'poems' but what is most striking about this, and a couple of their other albums from that period, is how much more interesting the songs written by Mike Pinder are than the more well-known Justin Hayward and John Lodge offerings.  This CD contains a bunch of alternative takes of songs from the album, including a complete version of his Have You Heard, which has to be one of the most gorgeous songs in the band's whole back catalogue.  (On the original album, it was split into two parts, with a rather overblown instrumental piece dividing them.)

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Post by: CrazyEnglishTriathlete on 21 July, 2020, 10:58:09 pm
Bourbon House - Wild Abandon

Nothing to do with the family well connected amongst crowned heads of Europe but something far more down to earth.  Has a sense of a band experimenting with their boundaries and encourages me to hope that they will continue to do so.
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Post by: sg37409 on 22 July, 2020, 01:54:14 pm
Dept of Disappearance, Jason Lytle
 :thumbsup:
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Post by: pcolbeck on 28 July, 2020, 07:38:37 pm
Mrs Pcolbeck has had radio 2 on all day and they have played Katie Melua's new single A Love Like That several times.
I'm not a big fan of Ms Melua's oeuvre but  I like this, its got a bit of a Zero 7 vibe to it.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 12 August, 2020, 03:35:20 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cokCgWPRZPg&fbclid=IwAR1ELVREUJ7_lIeJU9uTq9rqeq9hFmWxaXhqRB92l2HIe8_vCl5KPoPwlIg

This.
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Post by: fd3 on 12 August, 2020, 03:43:39 pm
Just found out NIN gifted out two albums at the start of lockdown Ghosts V&VI - instrumental tracks.

Also, The Cure's Join the Dots (B-sides), which I thought was a bargain @ £14 for 4CDs.
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Post by: andrewc on 21 August, 2020, 09:20:16 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAawm4OhQJU&list=PL8a8cutYP7fohtC8ZZRDbFM7Xe6BdgKzK


Ella Fitzgerald singing the Cole Porter songbook.   A good CD purchase. 
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 21 August, 2020, 10:46:51 pm
DJ Random: Roadrunner (Twice) ~ J Richman & The Modern Lovers
[Four songs later]
DJ Random: Roadrunner (Once) ~ J Richman & The Modern Lovers

And it's not as though I have fifty versions of each, either.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 22 August, 2020, 07:05:16 am
A new discovery for me last night, Brother Dedge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bd6PjKDj5s

Difficult to describe. Sort of dark acoustic Americana folk.
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Post by: fd3 on 22 August, 2020, 05:55:21 pm
The Cure - Join the Dots.  It's like getting four new albums that you know will be as good as the old stuff - because it is the old stuff.

In so doing I just discovered that Google Play sell mp3 downloads (in fact that it exists) and that some of their albums are significantly cheaper than amazon.
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Post by: nicknack on 22 August, 2020, 06:20:01 pm
Arild Andersen, as in this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTOJGGdr_Hs).
Children and granddaughter are with us for a few days so some education is in order.
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Post by: CrazyEnglishTriathlete on 23 August, 2020, 08:31:28 pm
Lynne Jackaman (ex St Jude) has finally recorded new material vs Blues Pills (Holy Moly) - first recording without their iconic guitarist Dorian Serriaux.  Neither added much to the world, but I felt that Holy Moly was the Blues Pills back to form.
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Post by: T42 on 24 August, 2020, 08:29:22 am
Today I am listening to Birds Do It, Bees Do It, Even Little Educated Fleas Do It running round and round inside me 'ead. I don't know where it came from but I wish it would bugger off.  My parents hadn't yet met when that torture device was thrust upon the world.
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Post by: CrazyEnglishTriathlete on 03 September, 2020, 10:33:36 pm
Blue Oyster Cult

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVQ1_sSr2RU

At a drive in show in July this year.  Unstoppable.  And they still rock despite Eric Bloom and Buck Dharma being older than Noah.
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Post by: andrewc on 04 September, 2020, 08:02:43 pm
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000m6s5


Anoushkar Shankar on the Proms.  That would get the gammon foaming at the mouth if they listened to any more than the Last Night.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 05 September, 2020, 10:26:10 pm
I like a bit of chanson and blimey this is good:

https://youtu.be/DjLEVtm00-0

Lara Fabian - Je suis malade (I am sick)
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Post by: pcolbeck on 07 September, 2020, 04:20:59 pm
More Lara, possibly the best audience sing along I have ever heard.

https://youtu.be/IYnFwUbC9A8

Apparently she was having a very rough time in her personal life and it had been in the French media. Before this gig in Paris her pianist had secretly suggested to one of her fans that it would be nice if they sang along. Watch the shock in her eyes when they start. The audience also changed the lyrics from "Je t'amine" (I love you) to "On t’aime" (we love you).
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Post by: Wowbagger on 14 September, 2020, 10:50:46 am
Schubert string quintet in C.
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Post by: Legs on 15 September, 2020, 07:06:32 pm
Having a bit of a talk-box-fest on the old playlist: Haitian Divorce, Livin’ On A Prayer, Beverley Hills, Show Me The Way...
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Post by: Andy W on 19 September, 2020, 06:27:45 am
Open country on R4. With  Claire Balding and Alice Roberts, fascinating.
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Post by: CrazyEnglishTriathlete on 19 September, 2020, 07:53:57 pm
The sound of motor engines at 24 heures de Le Mans with my petrol-head son.
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Post by: Jaded on 22 September, 2020, 11:01:10 pm
Public Image.

Getting rid of the Albatross
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Post by: CrazyEnglishTriathlete on 24 September, 2020, 09:24:45 pm
All Them Witches - Nothing as the Ideal.  I should be working on a last-minute proposal document and have so far written 40 words with 3 typos in 25 minutes.  It is not helping with my productivity but it is sure bending my mind in appropriate directions.  It is a bit like the Doors discovering Hawkwind, bingeing on Pink Floyd and then heading off whatever direction took their fancy.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 24 September, 2020, 10:55:28 pm
DJ Random is currently belting out a live version of “Brainstorm” from 1978, so that lot ^^^^ might attract some of my attention next week. Ta!
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Post by: PaulF on 26 September, 2020, 10:48:12 am
Sex Bomb by the Red Army Choir

https://youtu.be/MNacQaHJqEs
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Post by: TheLurker on 26 September, 2020, 12:14:23 pm
Mozart.  Mass in C minor.  Berlin Phil, under Abbado. With Bonney, Auger, Blochwitz & Holl
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Post by: pcolbeck on 26 September, 2020, 02:04:46 pm
My new eBay bargain HiFi:

NAD 3130 amp
NAD 5425 CD player
NAD 5120 record deck
KEF Coda III speakers

About £280 for the lot. Sounds brilliant so far (haven't tried the record deck yet).
The CD player was supposed to have a dead display (its easy to replace the small bulb with an LED so I wasn't bothered about that) but it just burst into life all by itself.#
The volume pot on the amp is a tad crackly so I will need to break out the contact cleaner and probably blow out the internals as it looks dusty as hell in there.

For a supposedly 30W amp the 3130 has got some oomph, I cant turn the thing up past about a quarter without it being deafening and those KEF speakers are 8 omh!
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Post by: Steph on 30 September, 2020, 11:13:00 pm
Tom Waits
Heartattack and Vine

I don't think I will ever tire of this album. Such a wonderful work of art.
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Post by: Legs on 05 October, 2020, 07:40:53 pm
Bob Seger.  Must have heard Night Moves hundreds of times in my life, but only just realised how awesome a song it is.
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Post by: CrazyEnglishTriathlete on 07 October, 2020, 09:21:03 pm
Pendulum

Because.
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Post by: Andrij on 08 October, 2020, 09:00:35 am
Komitas Vardapet: Patarag, Armenian Divine Liturgy (https://youtu.be/XtPfE6mHA_s)
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Post by: CrazyEnglishTriathlete on 09 October, 2020, 11:47:57 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4POF9AQKQk

Anna von Hausswolf.  partly because of the mesmerising video that accompanies the music and opens out the imagination without ever giving any answers.  A pipe organ as you have never heard it before and yet making the instrument relevant for vast new genres of music.
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 09 October, 2020, 02:54:09 pm
Starcrawler

Grunge rock. Ridiculously young band, good sound.
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Post by: Hot Flatus on 11 October, 2020, 07:42:39 pm
Yussef Dayes & Alfa Mist: Love is the Message

Got here via Yussef Kamaal, Black Focus.
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Post by: PeterM on 18 October, 2020, 10:07:15 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4POF9AQKQk

Anna von Hausswolf.  partly because of the mesmerising video that accompanies the music and opens out the imagination without ever giving any answers.  A pipe organ as you have never heard it before and yet making the instrument relevant for vast new genres of music.

Most of the images in the video come from "Sacro Bosco," the 16th century Gardens of Bomarzo in Italy.  The garden was her inspiration for All Thoughts Fly, the album that this track comes from.  "The organ on All Thoughts Fly is situated in Gothenburg and is a Swedish replica of the Arp Schnitger organ in Germany. It is the largest organ tuned in Quarter-comma meantone temperament in the world. With its four manuals, one pedal and 54 stops, it was built as part of a ten-year research project reconstructing 17th Century North German organ building craft."

It's a really good album and certainly puts the Goth in Gothenburg...
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 18 October, 2020, 10:48:56 pm
Roaring Jack.  Australia's answer to The Pogues.
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Post by: Tim Hall on 18 October, 2020, 10:57:56 pm
Roaring Jack.  Australia's answer to The Pogues.
(Makes a note)
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 19 October, 2020, 12:20:22 am
Roaring Jack.  Australia's answer to The Pogues.
(Makes a note)

They’re rather good, especially if you like your Celtic punk seasoned with left-wing politics.
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Post by: ppg on 19 October, 2020, 08:44:19 am
The HHGTTG again.
Maybe in these Covid times, sending all the telephone desanitisers off on the B Ark wasn't such a great idea
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Post by: perpetual dan on 19 October, 2020, 09:13:05 am
Yesterday's 6 music shoegaze special. Some old favourites in there  ;D
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000nln8 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000nln8)
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Post by: fd3 on 20 October, 2020, 05:55:25 pm
Love and Rockets - their "not actually Love and Rockets" ambient stuff.
Neither their nor my usual stuff.
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Post by: perpetual dan on 20 October, 2020, 08:55:03 pm
Love and Rockets - their "not actually Love and Rockets" ambient stuff.
Neither their nor my usual stuff.
Ooh. Interested in that. Anywhere you’d suggest to start listening, if I dipped in on Spotify / whatever?
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Post by: nicknack on 20 October, 2020, 09:48:31 pm
I'm on my 4th Anouar Brahem album in a row. It's that sort of evening. ICBA to do anything much.
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Post by: sg37409 on 21 October, 2020, 09:40:57 am
Enjoyed listening to Go Go Boots by Driveby Truckers last night for first time in ages.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 21 October, 2020, 11:49:22 am
Enjoyed listening to Go Go Boots by Driveby Truckers last night for first time in ages.

I had Southern Rock Opera on the other day. I have tickets for DBT in Leeds which has been postponed until some time next year :(
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Post by: fd3 on 21 October, 2020, 05:49:51 pm
Love and Rockets - their "not actually Love and Rockets" ambient stuff.
Neither their nor my usual stuff.
Ooh. Interested in that. Anywhere you’d suggest to start listening, if I dipped in on Spotify / whatever?
I'm not on Spotify.  I got "Lift" of the bay as it isn't readily available on the usual sites and am listening to "hot trip to heaven" on youtube.  It sounds (to me) like they are trying to channel Tom Waits on "hot trip to heaven" (the track not the album).
If you pm me I can post you "Lift".
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Post by: perpetual dan on 22 October, 2020, 06:50:38 pm
Love and Rockets - their "not actually Love and Rockets" ambient stuff.
Neither their nor my usual stuff.
Ooh. Interested in that. Anywhere you’d suggest to start listening, if I dipped in on Spotify / whatever?
I'm not on Spotify.  I got "Lift" of the bay as it isn't readily available on the usual sites and am listening to "hot trip to heaven" on youtube.  It sounds (to me) like they are trying to channel Tom Waits on "hot trip to heaven" (the track not the album).
If you pm me I can post you "Lift".
I found lift on YouTube, and rather liking it so far - though it probably counts as my usual stuff :) Thanks though.
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Post by: fd3 on 24 October, 2020, 02:22:52 pm
Well, the offer on "lift" is still open.
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Post by: sg37409 on 25 October, 2020, 04:51:42 pm
Bought the new Bruce Springsteen album, Letter to You.   Quite good.  Better than a lot of his more recent solo stuff imho, I was glad to see the return of the E Street Band.
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Post by: nicknack on 02 November, 2020, 07:23:12 pm
Parliament - Mothership Connection
Sometimes you just need a bit of funk.
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Post by: fd3 on 03 November, 2020, 06:08:19 pm
Front242
Apoptygma Berzerk (on bandcamp)
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Post by: Steph on 12 November, 2020, 04:34:41 pm
Tracy Chapman's first album, yet again, mainly for one of the finest love songs ever written. I can be really soppy at times.
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Post by: citoyen on 12 November, 2020, 05:10:50 pm
Tracy Chapman's first album, yet again, mainly for one of the finest love songs ever written. I can be really soppy at times.

I heard Fast Car on the radio the other day, first time in a long time, and it made me want to dig out the album. It’s a really fine piece of work and has stood the test of time very well.
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Post by: Steph on 12 November, 2020, 07:20:45 pm
I always cry to that one  and 'Baby Can I Hold You'
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Post by: andrewc on 12 November, 2020, 07:27:59 pm
Tracy Chapman's first album, yet again, mainly for one of the finest love songs ever written. I can be really soppy at times.


Did you see https://www.npr.org/2020/11/03/930696519/tracy-chapman-returns-to-sing-of-revolution-on-the-eve-of-election-day   ?
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Post by: Steph on 13 November, 2020, 10:39:01 am
I did indeed!
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Post by: woollypigs on 13 November, 2020, 01:17:18 pm
New AC/DC album https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCB0JSO6d5ysH2Mmqz5I9rIw
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Post by: Tim Hall on 14 November, 2020, 03:14:52 pm
Emily Cappell's latest(?) album, Combat Frock.

I first heard her supporting Terry and Gerry and the Hundred Club in the days when we could go to gigs.  A bee hive sporting, guitar toting bundle of fantastic lyrics and attitude.

From some website somewhere:
Quote
Emily Capell is a singer/songwriter from North West London and has been affectionately described as the adopted daughter of Jamie T and Billy Bragg.

More please.
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Post by: Tim Hall on 14 November, 2020, 03:16:39 pm
Before I listened to that, I listened to my grate frend Nic's latest release.  Here it is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6yZYxv3NTM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6yZYxv3NTM)
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Post by: The_Mikey on 14 November, 2020, 03:43:52 pm
Sun Electric - Present

https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kJZngpy1F5_I-JZYLNkaQvdytzQKWBYEU (https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kJZngpy1F5_I-JZYLNkaQvdytzQKWBYEU)
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Post by: citoyen on 14 November, 2020, 08:01:34 pm
I've had Katy J Pearson's album on repeat since it was released (yesterday).
https://katyjpearson.bandcamp.com/album/return

Something gorgeously old-fashioned about it. Just great pop songwriting. And there's something about her singing voice - can't quite put my finger on what it is but I love it.

She also does lovely, uplifting videos:
https://youtu.be/WG0lKOKkb1I

Late contender for album of the year.
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Post by: hatler on 14 November, 2020, 08:16:31 pm
The Nick Turner Conspiracy.  Angry in Fremantle. Mildly topical.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7OJcUK0qHA
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Post by: andrewc on 14 November, 2020, 08:58:58 pm
Coleman Hawkins earlier , now it's Courtney Pine. 
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Post by: Legs on 25 November, 2020, 08:19:47 am
The 2020 album from Cornershop, England Is A Garden.  Thumbs up from here.  :thumbsup:
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Post by: CrazyEnglishTriathlete on 28 November, 2020, 10:04:49 pm
Russian Circles - Live at Dunkfest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qICEymUL0Vo&t=6s

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Post by: CommuteTooFar on 04 December, 2020, 06:44:11 pm
Sophie Menter - Concert in a Hungarian Style

Sophie Mentor was a 19th century pianist.  She was one of the last Liszt pupils.  He encouraged her to compose.  She in turn chose Hungarian style to please him.  Liszt told Sophie to take it her friend Tchaikovsky for orchestration. So we have a piece of music that is better than the Tchaikovsky concertos and is not Liszt. 
 
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 06 December, 2020, 06:51:13 pm
DJ Random seems determined to make me listen to “Embryonic Journey” by Hot Tuna today.
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Post by: Legs on 07 December, 2020, 01:34:28 pm
Today is five hours of Sufjan Stevens' festive music (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20D0zPiF654).
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Post by: pcolbeck on 10 December, 2020, 07:58:30 am
"Me & Magdalena" from The Monkee's 2016 album "Good Times!"

Vocals by Mike Nesmith and Micky Dolenz and it's lovely.  Ran into this after it was linked in a newspaper article. I might have to try the rest of the album now.

https://youtu.be/FNbNYA_rh_E
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Post by: woollypigs on 10 December, 2020, 10:12:39 am
Access Denied by Asian Dub Foundation

https://asiandubfoundation.bandcamp.com/album/access-denied
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Post by: tiermat on 10 December, 2020, 02:44:03 pm
Access Denied by Asian Dub Foundation

https://asiandubfoundation.bandcamp.com/album/access-denied

Cracking album and one that brought them back onto my radar.  They still haven't managed the tour de force that was "Rafi's Revenge" though.

Meanwhile I am listening to a retrospective of 2020 music, all the stuff I "missed".  Mostly I can see why I missed it
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Post by: woollypigs on 10 December, 2020, 03:10:02 pm
Just got up from the floor, Asian Dub Foundation just retweeted a tweet of mine ?!?!?!

Which makes me happy that I put an extra few coins in the tin when I ordered the CD well the .zip of the album :)

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Post by: pcolbeck on 17 December, 2020, 10:31:48 am
DBT - Quarantine Together

A song for the times.

https://youtu.be/j0D-UghxJU8
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Post by: woollypigs on 19 December, 2020, 06:24:11 pm
another (well a collection) song of our times https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Zi0MYQK5k8
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Post by: tiermat on 22 December, 2020, 02:12:30 pm
Having just watched "A Fat Wreck", a documentary about Fat Wreck Chords and Fat Mike, I have been listening to some of said label's output. Most surprising track is NoFX vs Frank Turner "Thatcher Fucked the Kids", I love it!

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Post by: fd3 on 24 December, 2020, 12:41:02 pm
Bowie’s Gouster.  Less eclectic than Young Americans (which it would eventually become).  The internet has really helped to explain this period which was a mystery to me when I first bought Young Americans in the early/mid 90s, with no internet to explain to me wtaf was going on.
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Post by: rafletcher on 24 December, 2020, 12:49:33 pm
His Bobness' "Desire", whci I realised I hadn't listed to for at least a decade. I do enjoy Scarlet Rivera's violin-ing.
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Post by: fd3 on 24 December, 2020, 02:16:15 pm
Interesting how you can have an absolutely awesome album and not listen to it for years - I think it’s down to both not having the time to sit down with an LP like what we did back in the days and having many more albums than what we did back in the days.
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Post by: nicknack on 24 December, 2020, 02:24:25 pm
Funke and the Two Tone Baby.
Here he is (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSumaFMdZr8) at one of my favourite boozers doing 'Bella's Kiss'  - which seems appropriate for what's coming on Boxing Day.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 25 December, 2020, 06:19:38 pm
Long Time Passing.  The Kronos Quartet does Pete Seeger.  Er, interesting…
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Post by: fd3 on 28 December, 2020, 12:02:34 pm
Blackstar by Bowie.
I will be contentious and say that it is his best album.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 31 December, 2020, 04:55:15 pm
"Black Man Ray" by China Crisis.  What a tune.
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Post by: fd3 on 08 January, 2021, 06:56:13 pm
Less favored Bowie albums:
Space Oddity aka David Bowie
The Next Day
... hours

Both of them really rather good.

Happy Bowie Day
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Post by: CrazyEnglishTriathlete on 12 January, 2021, 10:57:05 pm
Sorabji, Transcendental Studies 84 - 100, which arrived courtesy of an Amazon elf today.  Fredrik Ullen has completed his recording of the 100 Transcendental Studies, by one of the most reclusive and idiosyncratic composers in history.  The first set was recorded in 2005 and it has been a 5 year wait since the last.  Ullen, a Swedish pianist and neuroscientist, does a remarkable job in turning the incomprehensible into something that merely bewilders my poor brain and transports me to some other world where this bizarre music somehow makes sense.   It is brilliantly recorded and produced by BIS, and deserves to be a candidate for the recording project of this century, even if it will never enter the heady heights of the top 1000 albums in classical music. 
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Post by: TheLurker on 16 January, 2021, 08:21:59 am
UmmaGumma.  Which, according to the scribble on the liner, I bought at Sheffield in March 1980.
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Post by: fd3 on 17 January, 2021, 01:13:48 pm
So this year I plan to try and listen to more of the music I have on the ipod, as opposed to the same thing again and again.
Breeders - last splash : better than expected, not actually a one hit wonder.
New Model Army - no rest for the wicked : not quite sure what the point of this is.  I wasn't into them back in the day so only know them for "Vagabonds" and I don't think I will listen to them again.
PIL - album (live at Brixton) : Strop spitting you London Cunts.
Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars : makes the rest of my record collection shuffle their feet with embarrassment.  Most artists would retire after an album like that, how do you do better than this?  Potentially top five Bowie material.
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Post by: CrazyEnglishTriathlete on 17 January, 2021, 09:22:01 pm
So this year I plan to try and listen to more of the music I have on the ipod, as opposed to the same thing again and again.
Breeders - last splash : better than expected, not actually a one hit wonder.
New Model Army - no rest for the wicked : not quite sure what the point of this is.  I wasn't into them back in the day so only know them for "Vagabonds" and I don't think I will listen to them again.
PIL - album (live at Brixton) : Strop spitting you London Cunts.
Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars : makes the rest of my record collection shuffle their feet with embarrassment.  Most artists would retire after an album like that, how do you do better than this?  Potentially top five Bowie material.

I set it to shuffle in the car - so its like a radio station that only plays music I own.
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Post by: fd3 on 18 January, 2021, 12:54:39 pm
^ I want to avoid the kids' music though.  (Also, there's an uneven distribution of music and probably a 10% chance that the song will be "Rebel Rebel" by Bowie.)
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Post by: woollypigs on 18 January, 2021, 01:52:28 pm
Today I have mostly been listing to these two lads, nice angry music :) https://www.sleafordmods.com/videos
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 18 January, 2021, 06:09:09 pm
DJ Random's been in a Bonzos mood this afternoon  :thumbsup:
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Post by: fd3 on 18 January, 2021, 11:18:00 pm
I don't know why I bother, no one listens to me anyway; i might as well be a Leonard Cohen record!  You want it Darker.
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Post by: CrazyEnglishTriathlete on 28 January, 2021, 05:30:46 pm
Ivan "Booglaoo Joe" Jones - Pyschedelic Soul Jazz Guitar.  Does what is says on the tin.  Greatly appreciated just now.
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Post by: fd3 on 30 January, 2021, 11:55:59 pm
The Velvet Underground & Nico.  Up until now I knew the songs, but only as covers.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 31 January, 2021, 12:25:01 am
Now you have to go out and form a band.  Apparently it's compulsory, or so says Brian Eno.
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Post by: TheLurker on 31 January, 2021, 08:59:50 am
... this

(https://i.ibb.co/LRFgD97/Animals-Compilation01.jpg)
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Post by: fd3 on 31 January, 2021, 11:07:51 am
Now you have to go out and form a band.  Apparently it's compulsory, or so says Brian Eno.
Indeed, especially as I also listen to the Pixies and the Pistols.  I am continually amazed that not only am I not in a band, I don’t even own an instrument I can’t play.
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Post by: Steph on 01 February, 2021, 04:05:36 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf-eIgFJg4w

25 years after his last live performance, apparently
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Post by: hatler on 01 February, 2021, 04:36:12 pm
Glorious. There aren't enough people like that on the planet.
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Post by: fd3 on 02 February, 2021, 12:04:44 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf-eIgFJg4w

25 years after his last live performance, apparently
I was thinking about some of his lyrics just yesterday - immensely subversive, no way you'd let your kids listen to that these days (I must have been ... 6?).

Oh, and Pink Flag by Wire (it's before my time, but it just seems like paint by numbers punk) and PTF by VNV Nation (only 23 years old though).
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Post by: tiermat on 02 February, 2021, 07:56:51 am
Today I have mostly been listing to these two lads, nice angry music :) https://www.sleafordmods.com/videos

When you tire of the Post-punk angry, swearyness try these local lads.  Same style, just not as sweary and better tunes https://yardact.bandcamp.com/
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Post by: CrazyEnglishTriathlete on 03 February, 2021, 09:57:32 pm
Rock Candy Funk Party - does what it says on the tin. 
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Post by: woollypigs on 15 February, 2021, 01:40:30 pm
Might as well put this here, stream radio stations from all over the world

http://radio.garden/
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Post by: Steph on 15 February, 2021, 05:26:32 pm
DJ Random's been in a Bonzos mood this afternoon  :thumbsup:
"Do you like soul music?"
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Post by: woollypigs on 22 February, 2021, 04:24:30 pm
Today will be known as Daft Punk day - https://daftpunk.com/ :(

Thanks for the last nearly 30 years of TUNES
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Post by: Steph on 23 February, 2021, 09:55:27 am
Sandy Denny, and Oysterband.

Separately, of course.

Followed by Captain Beefheart explaining how he is going to zip up his guitar.

Sun zoom spark.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 24 February, 2021, 03:23:09 pm
An album of Gert Wilden's themes from 70s German pornos.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 25 February, 2021, 12:10:35 pm
An album of Gert Wilden's themes from 70s German pornos.

The fact that such a thing exists makes me smile.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 25 February, 2021, 03:39:45 pm
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Schulmadchen-Report-Gert-Wilden-Orchestra/dp/B000003SZL

COVER NSFW
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Post by: Pingu on 28 February, 2021, 10:59:56 pm
Croatian post rock, proggy, slightly metallic, East European folk influence: Daliborovo Granje (https://daliborovogranje.bandcamp.com/album/hainin)
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 01 March, 2021, 01:18:12 am
Croatian post rock, proggy, slightly metallic, East European folk influence: Daliborovo Granje (https://daliborovogranje.bandcamp.com/album/hainin)

Liek!
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Post by: Pingu on 01 March, 2021, 07:37:47 pm
Croatian post rock, proggy, slightly metallic, East European folk influence: Daliborovo Granje (https://daliborovogranje.bandcamp.com/album/hainin)

Liek!

H/t Scott ex-otp.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 01 March, 2021, 07:39:56 pm
Croatian post rock, proggy, slightly metallic, East European folk influence: Daliborovo Granje (https://daliborovogranje.bandcamp.com/album/hainin)

Liek!

H/t Scott ex-otp.

Ah, the æcellent Mr Clark.
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Post by: Steph on 02 March, 2021, 12:59:14 am
Completing online training at work on a dead night shift, and running YT audio as I work through the modules, and this came up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nt7-W-ARf6w

I have always had a love of John F's stuff, but he actually surprises me by his technical tricks in this. Some of his takes on songs don't work for me (Lodi in particular), but it is a solidly rocking performance.
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Post by: Peter on 02 March, 2021, 12:05:02 pm
Steph, I'll watch the concert later but you mentioned Lodi and it reminded me of this version.  I have it on an album by Freddie, produced by Don Nix and the incomparable Leon Russell (he's on keys, here).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fCbIl-PGSs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fCbIl-PGSs)

And this just came on next - Etta at her best, with an old country classic:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMjXmnfNUO8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMjXmnfNUO8)

You tube can shorten your life - but what a way to go!

peter
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Post by: Steph on 02 March, 2021, 09:00:01 pm
Steph, I'll watch the concert later but you mentioned Lodi and it reminded me of this version.  I have it on an album by Freddie, produced by Don Nix and the incomparable Leon Russell (he's on keys, here).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fCbIl-PGSs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fCbIl-PGSs)

And this just came on next - Etta at her best, with an old country classic:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMjXmnfNUO8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMjXmnfNUO8)

You tube can shorten your life - but what a way to go!

peter

Mmmmmm to both!
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Post by: Peter on 02 March, 2021, 09:46:17 pm
Good-o!

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Post by: pcolbeck on 03 March, 2021, 09:14:48 am
Steph, I'll watch the concert later but you mentioned Lodi and it reminded me of this version.  I have it on an album by Freddie, produced by Don Nix and the incomparable Leon Russell (he's on keys, here).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fCbIl-PGSs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fCbIl-PGSs)

And this just came on next - Etta at her best, with an old country classic:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMjXmnfNUO8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMjXmnfNUO8)

You tube can shorten your life - but what a way to go!

peter

That Etta James track is fantastic.
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Post by: Peter on 03 March, 2021, 10:22:19 am
I've tried a few off the album, P, and I can't wait for my local second-hand CD shop to re-open (call me old-fashioned)!

it's called "Love's Been Rough On Me" - which sadly is true (but fortunately not for me!).
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Post by: pcolbeck on 03 March, 2021, 11:14:24 am
Today is Alexa feeding me her random selection of John Coltrane tracks.

I am home alone (well bar the dog and the cat), jazz seems to be physically painful to Mrs Pcolbeck given her expression should I play it when she is around.
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Post by: fd3 on 03 March, 2021, 10:42:37 pm
^ It's tough when your other half doesn't like your favorite music.  In our house my wife doesn't like Siouxsie and the Banshees and I don't like musicals. (this is a rare case of me being righteous and her being wrong - I must be right because my daughter having a screaming fit whenever a musical comes up on the radio).

I have always had a love of John F's
I read this and assumed you were talking about Monopuff, John F's side project from they Might Be Giants.
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Post by: Pingu on 07 March, 2021, 01:25:23 am
...doesn't like Siouxsie and the Banshees...

Nope, does not compute  ???
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Post by: rogerzilla on 11 March, 2021, 11:32:52 am
The Beatles (White Album).  God, there's some shite on it.
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Post by: fd3 on 14 March, 2021, 12:48:14 am
I have no idea why it's viewed as one of their best albums.
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Post by: tiermat on 19 March, 2021, 07:23:06 am
Inspired by a Teams thread (that's what you get for working for a company that makes equipment for musicians), I am listening to this:

<iframe src="https://open.spotify.com/embed/album/7qlZpMib7D0riFPQ5JHDT8" width="300" height="380" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true" allow="encrypted-media"></iframe>
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Post by: woollypigs on 19 March, 2021, 07:24:20 am
That link is a bit Tricky :)
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Post by: rogerzilla on 22 March, 2021, 08:06:45 pm
Television - Marquee Moon.  Arrived s/h from eBay today.  Yes, I do have a CD player.
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Post by: andrewc on 23 March, 2021, 10:05:51 pm
My neighbours have been doing lots of renovations over the last few days.  Hammering, power tools, the lot. 


They'll be tired now, so I'm helping them to relax & unwind by playing The Cocteau Twins,  "BBC Sessions" at an appropriate volume.   :demon:
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Post by: rogerzilla on 24 March, 2021, 04:19:36 pm
10cc - I'm Mandy, Fly Me
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Post by: rogerzilla on 26 March, 2021, 11:43:08 am
Dandy Warhols - Not Your Bottle

A typically sotto-voce ditty about drink and drugs
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Post by: citoyen on 27 March, 2021, 10:28:47 am
The Bicep set from the 6music festival. This is awesome...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000tpy0

They remind me so much of Future Sound of London - Apricots in particular is an homage to Papua New Guinea. But that’s no bad thing.

Makes me feel very old though - PNG came out 30 years ago. 30 years! FFS!

Also: the sub-editor in me has to fight the urge to add an S to their name...
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Post by: rogerzilla on 27 March, 2021, 01:43:35 pm
Tubes - White Punks On Dope
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 27 March, 2021, 06:40:48 pm
DJ Random, what did I say that sounded like “play me drum solos”.  Toad followed immediately by The Mule.  Surprised he didn’t give me Moby Dick as an encore.
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Post by: woollypigs on 27 March, 2021, 08:24:11 pm
The Bicep set from the 6music festival. This is awesome...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000tpy0

They remind me so much of Future Sound of London - Apricots in particular is an homage to Papua New Guinea. But that’s no bad thing.

Makes me feel very old though - PNG came out 30 years ago. 30 years! FFS!

Also: the sub-editor in me has to fight the urge to add an S to their name...
Thanks for sharing this
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 02 April, 2021, 11:17:05 pm
We are belatedly listening to Gideon Coe's International Women's Day program and being pleasantly surprised that it's not wall to wall worthy guitar strumming breathy ladies.

Bit surprised he didn't manage to squeeze any Savages or The Breeders in there though.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 04 April, 2021, 08:42:50 pm
Bevis Frond seems to have caught DJ Random's attention today.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 08 April, 2021, 08:22:10 pm
Not music, but A. L. Kennedy casting a pod about Essex.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000h6wc

Very good indeed, although I don't think Billericay gets a mention.

The house she lives in, in Wivenhoe, she bought from my son and his partner. Her basement was their basement.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 09 April, 2021, 10:10:52 pm
Psychic Lemon -Freak Mammal.

This may be up your street, Mr Larrington.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 10 April, 2021, 12:25:50 am
 :thumbsup:

It rather is.

Edit: They haz lots of Stuffs on Bandcamp.  That will keep me busy tomorrow.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 10 April, 2021, 08:45:17 pm
Today I are mostly listening to Psychic Lemon.  Crap name, glorious racket.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 10 April, 2021, 10:44:00 pm
Jolly good :)

After a silly conversation with Pingu about asparagus wee (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=61324.msg2612351#msg2612351), we are listening to the fab Crowded House - Together Alone.
I've forgotten how much I love that album,  and miss a good harmony.
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Post by: fd3 on 10 April, 2021, 11:29:23 pm
Hello Radio - TMBG Covers
Where is my Mind - Tribute to the Pixies (SKA? version of Holiday song anyone?)
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 11 April, 2021, 10:09:12 pm
For a total change of stylee, the Mermaid Avenue Sessions by W. Guthrie arr. Wilco/W. Bragg.  From which I conclude that Bill's got the politics but Jeff Tweedy et al have the actual tunes.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 16 April, 2021, 11:17:15 pm
Peloton Pelican.  Post-rock?  Experimental metal?  Instrumental shoegaze?  New noise?  Sunn O))) with a recognisable beat?  I still ent decided.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 19 April, 2021, 08:59:55 pm
Angele - Balance Ton Quoi

https://youtu.be/Hi7Rx3En7-k

I love the dissonance between the delivery and the message.
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Post by: woollypigs on 19 April, 2021, 09:40:22 pm
Thanks for sharing that
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Post by: fd3 on 19 April, 2021, 10:55:23 pm
Bog Standard - Save Your Life
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 27 April, 2021, 06:12:56 pm
The Bevis Frond, for e.g. Preservation Hill (https://youtu.be/1UjCor2qDBM) in which Nick Saloman channels his inner Neil Young.
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Post by: andrewc on 27 April, 2021, 10:41:22 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK3NhVr0PV8    Judas Priest "Take On The World"


Dear Bog,  did the 12 year old AndrewC really buy this as a single. (Yes, yes you did  :-[  )
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Post by: andrewc on 27 April, 2021, 11:05:58 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK3NhVr0PV8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK3NhVr0PV8)    Judas Priest "Take On The World"


Dear Bog,  did the 12 year old AndrewC really buy this as a single. (Yes, yes you did  :-[  )


This led me to Robert Fripp & Toyah Wilcox,  Breaking The Law,  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzIz8utU1xU


Which segued into a version of a favourite song I'd not heard before.  Robert Fripp & Peter Gabriel "Here Comes The Flood" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weSQcz-UyDM
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Post by: Steph on 02 May, 2021, 03:17:15 pm
I read that last title and thought of the Oysterband's song of the same name.

We always know when Fripp is at my workplace, because we see Toyah. The man himself refuses to speak to anybody at all.

Meanwhile, I am listening to this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0ktxs43ezA&list=OLAK5uy_nH1tKPI9uxrsepRWzM9P5U6Zs-VjXOJwY

and this slow boiler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzxrmIwjI8M

then
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fEkYxRCl_chen
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Post by: citoyen on 02 May, 2021, 04:57:41 pm
So I gave DJ Random New!'s Hallogallo as a starting point and said: "Do your würst..."

And we've been on a fun voyage to the outer reaches of Krautrockistan. Lots of stuff I'm more or less familiar with - some fairly predictable offerings from Can, La Dusseldorf, Harmonia, Amon Düül II, Stereolab etc, and some slightly less expected ones from Soft Machine and Throbbing Gristle among others. Plus some nice post punk - Pere Ubu, This Heat, Magazine...

Most interesting was a track from Kosmischer Läufer, which is a new one on me. Supposedly composed to accompany training for the GDR athletes, which is a great story, even if it's not true. https://observer.com/2016/08/this-krautrock-olympics-soundtrack-will-blow-your-mind/

This was the track:
https://youtu.be/7YEtKa8ABwM

Another one I've never heard of before was Brainticket - a Belgian jazz-krautrock outfit from the early 70s, it says here. Intriguing.
https://youtu.be/_pfTNujvYUo

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Post by: Pingu on 03 May, 2021, 12:11:46 am
Most interesting was a track from Kosmischer Läufer, which is a new one on me. Supposedly composed to accompany training for the GDR athletes, which is a great story, even if it's not true. https://observer.com/2016/08/this-krautrock-olympics-soundtrack-will-blow-your-mind/

https://kosmischerlaufer.bandcamp.com  :thumbsup:
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Post by: citoyen on 03 May, 2021, 02:37:33 pm
Most interesting was a track from Kosmischer Läufer, which is a new one on me. Supposedly composed to accompany training for the GDR athletes, which is a great story, even if it's not true. https://observer.com/2016/08/this-krautrock-olympics-soundtrack-will-blow-your-mind/

https://kosmischerlaufer.bandcamp.com  :thumbsup:

I reckoned on a couple of yacfers being already in the know about Kosmischer Läufer - you were one of them. ;D
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Post by: ravenbait on 03 May, 2021, 02:47:51 pm
Most interesting was a track from Kosmischer Läufer, which is a new one on me. Supposedly composed to accompany training for the GDR athletes, which is a great story, even if it's not true. https://observer.com/2016/08/this-krautrock-olympics-soundtrack-will-blow-your-mind/

https://kosmischerlaufer.bandcamp.com  :thumbsup:

Relevant to my (fiction writing) interests, thank you!

Sam
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Post by: ravenbait on 03 May, 2021, 02:53:35 pm
So I gave DJ Random New!'s Hallogallo as a starting point and said: "Do your würst..."

And we've been on a fun voyage to the outer reaches of Krautrockistan. Lots of stuff I'm more or less familiar with - some fairly predictable offerings from Can, La Dusseldorf, Harmonia, Amon Düül II, Stereolab etc, and some slightly less expected ones from Soft Machine and Throbbing Gristle among others. Plus some nice post punk - Pere Ubu, This Heat, Magazine...

Most interesting was a track from Kosmischer Läufer, which is a new one on me. Supposedly composed to accompany training for the GDR athletes, which is a great story, even if it's not true. https://observer.com/2016/08/this-krautrock-olympics-soundtrack-will-blow-your-mind/

This was the track:
https://youtu.be/7YEtKa8ABwM

Another one I've never heard of before was Brainticket - a Belgian jazz-krautrock outfit from the early 70s, it says here. Intriguing.
https://youtu.be/_pfTNujvYUo

Thanks for this. I hadn't heard them before, but there's a sort of Neu, Vangelis, Jean Michel Jarre vibe I really like. I also love the fact that it#s 172bpm. My favourite Podrunner track is Velocity Angels at 172bpm, which is perfect for me, and it at least starts with some nice orchestral stuff before leaning into the psygoa trance. Most of the Podrunner output leans heavily on the percussion and doesn't do anything interesting in terms of melody and soundscape. This is going straight into my training mix for running away from zombies.

Sam
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Post by: citoyen on 04 May, 2021, 04:25:57 pm
Thanks for this. I hadn't heard them before, but there's a sort of Neu, Vangelis, Jean Michel Jarre vibe I really like.

Basically a Neu! pastiche, but a very accomplished one, so that's no bad thing.

Quote
I also love the fact that it#s 172bpm. My favourite Podrunner track is Velocity Angels at 172bpm, which is perfect for me, and it at least starts with some nice orchestral stuff before leaning into the psygoa trance. Most of the Podrunner output leans heavily on the percussion and doesn't do anything interesting in terms of melody and soundscape. This is going straight into my training mix for running away from zombies.

Excellent! I don't pay attention to that level of detail, but I know what you mean about running playlists - too much focus on the function rather than worrying about whether it's something you actually want to listen to.

Meanwhile, yesterday afternoon's random playlist to accompany making the dinner took me even further down the prog wormhole... featuring the likes of Steve Hillage, Ashra, Edgar Froese, Cluster, Faust... my wife was not impressed. Came into the kitchen, said "Are you listening to progressive rock?" and left.  ;D

Not entirely sure I liked it all, but I was in the right kind of mood to indulge it anyway.

Today I'm back to my current obsession - Squid - who are quite simply the most exciting new band out there right now, and part of the reason I've been delving into the prog archives - there are so many influences running through their music (they cite Neu! and This Heat in particular), and they sound like so many things that have gone before, you'd have to say there's nothing remotely original about their shtick and yet... they still sound new and fresh and genuinely thrilling.

This is a recent live performance of their current single, Paddling, which gives a pretty good impression of what they're about:
https://youtu.be/ZqLjqRUwsZw

And here's their last single, which is nothing short of breathtaking - the video is pretty cool, too:
https://youtu.be/__zmVSREvxY

They even do cool Robert Wyatt covers (I've mentioned this one previously in the covers thread)...
https://youtu.be/DktZtQbo-YU
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Post by: ravenbait on 04 May, 2021, 05:41:50 pm
Every so often I find something prog in our vast collection and stick it on, then yell, "WAS THIS YOU?" at Mr Bait. He always gives me the side-eye and tells me if it's prog, it's my fault. I don't remember acquiring half the stuff we've got. I would swear blind that Hemispheres is nothing to do with me.

I discovered Willowglass a few years ago. I really like their Book of Hours album, and The Dream Harbour is quite good, too.

Sam
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Post by: TimC on 04 May, 2021, 06:11:53 pm
Try Abel Ganz. Their latest (The Life of the Honey Bee and Other Moments of Clarity) is lovely. A good friend of mine joined them a year or two ago, and it seems he's been a positive influence!
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Post by: citoyen on 04 May, 2021, 06:28:49 pm
Every so often I find something prog in our vast collection and stick it on, then yell, "WAS THIS YOU?" at Mr Bait. He always gives me the side-eye and tells me if it's prog, it's my fault.

Own it! ;D

A friend just shared this link with me - a new Black Midi KEXP session, featuring a few tracks off their forthcoming new album. It's incredible. Also quite "progressive"...

https://youtu.be/ebrpRKUMcss

I can't get over the fact that they look so young though.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 09 May, 2021, 03:21:44 pm
Mr von Brandenburg's latest opus (https://youtu.be/Bb-NV4NKXH8).
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Post by: pcolbeck on 14 May, 2021, 02:18:46 pm
The late great Ronnie Lane

Debris - live:

https://youtu.be/ar3uIUv-874
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Post by: andrewc on 15 May, 2021, 01:18:38 pm
Just watched an old Whitesnake video for a rather sad reason.  https://variety.com/2021/film/news/tawny-kitaen-dead-whitesnake-video-bachelor-party-1234969193/
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Post by: rafletcher on 18 May, 2021, 08:50:17 pm
Live Peace in Toronto (side 1).
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Post by: tonycollinet on 22 May, 2021, 01:52:07 am
Real Musicians. Real Music, Superb voice, Self released Album.

What is not to like. I give you : When Rivers Meet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsZQ8iH6klo&list=PL5TCzoDtbtVpgNDHglap3JWJHF_rS2rUW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbgwjdRGA5M&list=PL5TCzoDtbtVpgNDHglap3JWJHF_rS2rUW

It is a long time since I've been this excited about new music. (New to me at least)

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Post by: MattH on 22 May, 2021, 01:04:16 pm
Just watched an old Whitesnake video for a rather sad reason.  https://variety.com/2021/film/news/tawny-kitaen-dead-whitesnake-video-bachelor-party-1234969193/

I'd let youtube just play random stuff as background music a couple of days ago whilst I was working. Here I go Again came on, I did wonder what she was up to now - but didn't read the comments  :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyF8RHM1OCg
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Post by: fd3 on 07 June, 2021, 06:49:00 pm
Factory Showroom by TMBG. 
I came across an outdated blog rating al ltheir albums and was utterly confused as to how this album got such high ratings, I barely listen to it.  On re-examination, yes all the tunes are independently solid - good to excellent even.  While not as disjointed as a compilation album it isn't as good as the sum of its parts.  If I listened to the tracks in random order I don't think there would be a significant difference - which is not how albums should be constructed.
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Post by: Jakob on 11 June, 2021, 08:18:01 am
The new Danny Elfman album

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=H8S223Mwlqc&list=OLAK5uy_k0vg100ZR4h4hKK3OllvoIeUUQ4AHDIVY

It's somewhat eclectic!.
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Post by: Genosse Brymbo on 15 June, 2021, 04:00:24 pm
Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake by the Small Faces.  A work colleague made a typo on a Microsoft Teams message - "in the Azurey cloud" and I immediately thought of Prof. Stanley Unwin, which led to aforesaid album.  Excellent.
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Post by: Legs on 15 June, 2021, 06:05:34 pm
The new Danny Elfman album

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=H8S223Mwlqc&list=OLAK5uy_k0vg100ZR4h4hKK3OllvoIeUUQ4AHDIVY

It's somewhat eclectic!.
I think the word you're looking for is 'shit'.  I lasted halfway through 'Sorry', and, since you'd said it was eclectic, thought I'd give 'True' a chance.  That was exactly the same sort of noisy, tuneless shit - not really eclectic in my book.

Still, variety's the spice of life and all, and I suppose it's got to float some people's boats...
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Post by: Andy W on 15 June, 2021, 06:32:28 pm
Boom radio. Suits a boomer like me.
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Post by: Mrs Pingu on 26 June, 2021, 10:47:39 pm
Pingu has put Pat Metheny - Imaginary Day on, which is the soundtrack to me doing my homework for my day release degree, about mmm 1997.
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Post by: Peter on 26 June, 2021, 11:30:43 pm
Resits?
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Post by: Peter on 26 June, 2021, 11:41:06 pm
This  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE1hf2nhi0s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE1hf2nhi0s)

then this (while Lou Rawls was getting the drinks!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYdX4_9VbBA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYdX4_9VbBA)

How to cover your own original!
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 03 July, 2021, 08:01:23 pm
Mono.  Japanese post-rock.  Although they, like Mogwai, claim they ent post-rock.  And, like Mogwai, they are this: wrong.
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Post by: Pingu on 04 July, 2021, 11:39:19 am
Mono.  Japanese post-rock.  Although they, like Mogwai, claim they ent post-rock.  And, like Mogwai, they are this: wrong.

I've heard them on Gideon Coe and keep meaning to check them out.
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Post by: fd3 on 06 July, 2021, 06:19:34 pm
Mono.  Japanese post-rock.  Although they, like Mogwai, claim they ent post-rock.  And, like Mogwai, they are this: wrong.
Sounds like Goff bands.  Never truly Goff until they deny being Goff.  ("We're not Goffs, just we dress like Goffs and all our fans are Goffs and ...").

Lots of live recordings of tmbg on the youtube, as this means much less ads.
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Post by: nicknack on 06 July, 2021, 07:19:46 pm
Every so often I find something prog in our vast collection and stick it on, then yell, "WAS THIS YOU?" at Mr Bait. He always gives me the side-eye and tells me if it's prog, it's my fault.

Own it! ;D

A friend just shared this link with me - a new Black Midi KEXP session, featuring a few tracks off their forthcoming new album. It's incredible. Also quite "progressive"...

https://youtu.be/ebrpRKUMcss

I can't get over the fact that they look so young though.
I obviously don't follow this thread enough. I watched that vid the other day (a friend alerted me) and on the strength of it I purchased their latest album, Cavalcade. It's jolly fine.
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Post by: Pingu on 10 July, 2021, 09:34:20 pm
Mono.  Japanese post-rock.  Although they, like Mogwai, claim they ent post-rock.  And, like Mogwai, they are this: wrong.

I've heard them on Gideon Coe and keep meaning to check them out.

So I bought an album and listened to it while making dinner tonight. If that's not post-rock then I don't know what is  :)
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Post by: woollypigs on 12 July, 2021, 01:47:34 pm
All Them Witches - ATW : https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kBTbgQb6iFXKX5GH0Vn5UIM_WRpRXkKLQ

Songboy Blues - Music In Exile : https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_l9XWaftoY_H1itPrCbRYzOiNhXe-I6VM4
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Post by: fd3 on 23 July, 2021, 12:13:38 am
Bowie: Blackstar/No Plan.  Still Fucking Awesome.
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Post by: StuAff on 23 July, 2021, 11:09:34 pm
Mono.  Japanese post-rock.  Although they, like Mogwai, claim they ent post-rock.  And, like Mogwai, they are this: wrong.

Remember seeing them supporting Neubauten some years back, they were excellent.
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Post by: ravenbait on 29 July, 2021, 12:43:57 pm
Hearken To The Witches Rune.

Sam
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Post by: citoyen on 29 July, 2021, 12:51:33 pm
I obviously don't follow this thread enough. I watched that vid the other day (a friend alerted me) and on the strength of it I purchased their latest album, Cavalcade. It's jolly fine.

Me neither - only just seen this reply. But yes, Cavalcade is superb. And surprisingly accessible.

If you followed the great cover versions thread too, you'd have seen my post about their live take on Hall & Oates' I Can't Go For That, which really is quite something:
https://youtu.be/4ZfEVqM7FVk
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Post by: tonycollinet on 10 August, 2021, 02:15:02 pm
I've just purchased a new record deck.

I am now seriously working my way through my back catalogue of vinyl. Some of it not played since at least the early 80's. This includes a lot of Beatles, Kate Bush, ELO, Supertramp (borrowed never returned), Eagles, Pink Floyd, Jeff Wayne (WOTW). I also have some new stuff.

At least one (I'm looking at you Altered Images) should have remained deeply buried where I last played them.

I have one Michael Jackson album that I can't bring myself to listen to.

I need more new (to me) music. I might browse my way through this thread for inspiration.
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Post by: tonycollinet on 10 August, 2021, 02:20:39 pm
Bowie: Blackstar/No Plan.  Still Fucking Awesome.

I've been thinking about that. How difficult is it to get into?
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Post by: fd3 on 10 August, 2021, 11:35:27 pm
I can't objectively answer that for a number of reasons
* My favorite Bowie albums (other than Blackstar) are Outside and Low
* I already heard a couple of the tracks before hearing the album, which makes a big change
* It's the best album ever made, anything that detracts from this or is in any way in disagreement is HERESY

If you haven't listened to Bowie since the 80s, I'd suggest "Buddha of Suburbia" is a better bet (as it's the closest to a sequel to his Berlin Triology and is why Eno got back to do Outside).  If you prefer his more straightforward rock albums then "The Next Day" or "Reality" are a safe bet (though "Heathen" is an order of magnitude better - it is less of a rock album though).  If you were happy with "Outside" then "Blackstar" isn't a challenge to get into.  (apologies if any of this is an excessive discussion about how to suck eggs).

IMO
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Post by: fd3 on 12 August, 2021, 12:22:02 am
Based on my previous outburst, I'm listening to a bootleg copy of what may well be "Leon" by Bowie.
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Post by: ravenbait on 12 August, 2021, 05:46:25 pm
Sumer Is Icumen In (The Pagan Sound Of British And Irish Folk 1966-75). A three disc compilation from Grapefruit that contains a few tracks I already have (Magnet's Corn Rigs is an example, Steeleye Span is well represented, there's some Fairport, Pentangle, Incredible String Band) and a whole bunch I don't. Well. Didn't. It's basically Acid Folk meets Folk Horror with that very British 70s sensibility that could be found underpinning many a pagan moot well into the late nineties. I ordered it from Red Cherry Records, as the MP3 version on Amazon doesn't have the full track listing -- clearly copyright issues prevented them releasing some of the tracks in digital format. I wouldn't have bothered with the MP3 version, although you can find it on Spotify or Amazon Unlimited if you have either of those.

Sam
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Post by: fd3 on 12 August, 2021, 07:39:54 pm
Brian Boru by Alan Stivell - not by choice, my wife got hold of the ipod (in bluetooth mode) and changed tracks on me. 
It's a bit dated.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 12 August, 2021, 10:44:25 pm
DJ Random is determined to make me listen to Iron Butterfly today.  There are only so many live versions of “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” one can take in a day, and I think I've exceeded the limit.
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Post by: CrazyEnglishTriathlete on 19 August, 2021, 02:24:02 pm
Erkki Melartin - the solo piano works - by the incomparable Maria Lettberg.  There are hours of them, which are keeping my sanity whilst I try to fill in the gaps in an internal audit file that needs to be closed out.
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Post by: Legs on 26 August, 2021, 03:04:02 pm
Genesis.  I'm super-excited about seeing them in Manchester next month.  Trying to teach myself how to love some of their proggy 70s stuff, with limited success.  I keep coming back to some of the classic album tracks from the 80s and 90s like The Brazilian, Fading Lights, Home By The Sea and Dreaming While You Sleep, though.
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Post by: L CC on 26 August, 2021, 09:15:23 pm
Genesis.  I'm super-excited about seeing them in Manchester next month.  Trying to teach myself how to love some of their proggy 70s stuff, with limited success.  I keep coming back to some of the classic album tracks from the 80s and 90s like The Brazilian, Fading Lights, Home By The Sea and Dreaming While You Sleep, though.
Mr Smith's no1 son is cheffing for them. Mr Smith is very looking forward to a freebie ticket at Newcastle. As he said to the lad "don't bother with one for fboab. I don't think she'll develop a prog interest by then"
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Post by: Pingu on 26 August, 2021, 09:51:52 pm
Is Peter Gabriel back with them then?
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Post by: Legs on 27 August, 2021, 08:54:14 am
Is Peter Gabriel back with them then?
Nah, I think the line-up is Collins/Banks/Rutherford/Collins/Stuermer.
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Post by: Pingu on 27 August, 2021, 09:11:00 am
Then I'm guessing there won't be much prog?
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Post by: Legs on 27 August, 2021, 10:08:26 am
I dunno, on their 2007 tour they did In The Cage, Carpet Crawlers, I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe) and Firth of Fifth...   But I suspect there will be quite a bias towards material from the '83 album, Invisible Touch and We Can't Dance.
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Post by: fd3 on 06 September, 2021, 10:31:57 pm
The Associates - Affectionate Punch
The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour

I may have to come to terms with not having a place for any more new (to me) music.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 11 September, 2021, 09:05:51 pm
Sheryl Crow live on Radio 2.

"If it makes you happy" is a completely different song live shorn of the production gloss of the single. Much much better and quite bitter.
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Post by: fd3 on 13 September, 2021, 06:41:51 pm
Sheryl Crow?  We can never be friends.

Wire 154; liked it much more than Pink Flag or Chairs Missing. Their latest album is really quite accessible.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 14 September, 2021, 08:40:43 am
Sheryl Crow?  We can never be friends.

Yeh, I don't really l like her records either but whenever she pops up live or singing with someone else she's brilliant. Probably those years working as a backing singer.
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Post by: fd3 on 23 September, 2021, 09:22:58 pm
Moar Wire.
How does one properly appraise a “new to you” band that has spanned 3-4 genres and has over a dozen albums?  I have been reading through a thread about their albums on stevehoffmanforums and following their discography on YouTube as I go.
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Post by: Pingu on 24 September, 2021, 12:11:44 am
...How does one properly appraise a “new to you” band that has spanned 3-4 genres and has over a dozen albums?...

It's new to you. That is all.
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Post by: fd3 on 24 September, 2021, 05:04:50 pm
Yeahbut, is it worth listening to?  Do you decide based on one album?  Two?  Three?
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Post by: rogerzilla on 25 September, 2021, 07:58:44 pm
Level 42 - It's Over, an uncommonly good (and very sad) song with absolutely no slap bass in it.
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 30 September, 2021, 08:28:41 pm
Discovered this via Ajax third kit and I love it:
https://youtu.be/1Sw2JJ5nSbM

No, I'm not jersey guy!
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Post by: Tim Hall on 14 October, 2021, 04:08:27 pm
Nobody's Hero by SLF on 6 Music. Well done that Lammo.
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Post by: rafletcher on 15 October, 2021, 09:49:31 pm
On a BBC 4 documentary, Bille Holliday singing Strange Fruit. Wow.
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Post by: fd3 on 29 October, 2021, 11:34:51 am
^ Biggest artist in the world, still had to use the servants' entrance in Southern States.  My first hearing of that song was the cover by S&tB, a point of discussion these days I suppose.

Listened to "Beyond Now" by Donny McCaslin (the band that did Blackstar with Bowie), a couple Bowie covers and some tracks that sound like Bowie/NiN played by a Jazz ensemble.
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Post by: Paul on 29 October, 2021, 10:40:22 pm
The BBC have just, on their Great Guitars Riffs (BBC4), followed ACDC’s Rock and Roll Damnation with The Smith’s Hand in Glove.
The change was so abrupt I have whiplash!
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 10 November, 2021, 11:46:58 pm
Sons Of Alpha Centauri.  A band whose gigging history makes Half Man Half Biscuit look like workaholics.  Instrumental (apart from their most recent offering, “Push”) space rock/stoner rock.
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Post by: IanDG on 12 November, 2021, 10:04:29 am
New Idles CD 'Crawler' just landed on the doormat :)
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Post by: rafletcher on 21 December, 2021, 09:38:43 pm
The Rolling Stones “Get your ya ya’s out”. Dirty.
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Post by: CrazyEnglishTriathlete on 22 December, 2021, 08:16:05 pm
An Australian radio show from 1978.   I heard it on the radio as a repeat in 1984 in someone else's car in the wilds of southern New South Wales, on a geology field trip, where I was particularly susceptible to its psychedelic influences.  The narrator, James Dibble, was the frontman for ABC news from 1957 to 1983 - so while I was there, he was the doyen of establishment newscasters, which makes it even more surreal.

https://abcmedia.akamaized.net/rn/podcast/2015/09/sof_20150911_2105.mp3

You may find the introduction helpful.
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Post by: slope on 22 December, 2021, 09:53:49 pm
Ace :thumbsup:

Best appreciated through two huge well spaced stereo speakers.

Made me feel young again
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Post by: fd3 on 22 December, 2021, 11:25:14 pm
SatB Live in Koln.  Great mix of early stuff through to Juju and some excellent heavy drumming.
this I think https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZvl1xbQ6mE
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Post by: rogerzilla on 24 December, 2021, 04:18:35 pm
A selection of Christmas music.  Currently Johnny Mathis.  "Black? White? Yellow? No-one knows."
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Post by: fd3 on 26 December, 2021, 12:27:45 am
Massive attack cover of Metal Postcard.  Who knew?
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Post by: rogerzilla on 26 December, 2021, 01:23:50 pm
TOTP 1984 has Jimmy Somerville singing Smalltown Boy live.  Bloody hell, he was good.
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Post by: sam on 26 December, 2021, 01:55:00 pm
Speaking of Jimmy, one of my favourites. (https://youtu.be/vclxb2EJ5JY)
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Post by: slope on 26 December, 2021, 02:37:25 pm
Speaking of Jimmy, one of my favourites. (https://youtu.be/vclxb2EJ5JY)

Ace :thumbsup:
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Post by: CrazyEnglishTriathlete on 27 December, 2021, 10:03:42 pm
Wreckmeister Harmonies
Wildlife
Whitesnake
White Stripes

Had my Apple Music sorted by reverse alphabetical artist order.  It sort of worked.

Oh, and there were some Beethoven Sonatas performed by Wilhelm Kempff in the middle.
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Post by: slope on 29 December, 2021, 03:54:56 pm
"Magnificent hurt"

Elvis is still at it

https://youtu.be/-s-K2_sFBos
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Post by: rafletcher on 30 December, 2021, 04:37:08 pm
Bruce Springsteen’s “The River”. The sort of thing that, in my youth, I’d have listened to in the dark on my headphones, only then it was Ziggy Stardust. Mind you, it’s 30 years old now.

ETA remarkable (for me) in that, despite it being a double album, there’s only 1 track that, thanks to the wonders of modern science, I routinely skip (I’m a Rocker).
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Post by: CrazyEnglishTriathlete on 30 December, 2021, 09:15:45 pm
Mareridt by Myrkur.  Helped whilst cleaning 200 miles of winter crud off the bike today.
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Post by: rafletcher on 31 December, 2021, 05:37:17 pm
Thin Lizzy.
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Post by: Snakehips on 31 December, 2021, 06:05:15 pm
The Kiffness  - Altai Throat Singing and some of his other works   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNJTNfWrZLs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNJTNfWrZLs)
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Post by: rogerzilla on 31 December, 2021, 07:44:08 pm
Ken Dodd - Where's Me Shirt?
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Post by: woollypigs on 31 December, 2021, 10:06:23 pm
white noise turned to 11, to hide the horrid fireworks, been going for an hour and we have at least 3 hours to go of this smash hit. With 136mill plays on the Tube, it must be a banger.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 31 December, 2021, 10:07:23 pm
Meat Puppets
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Post by: Wowbagger on 02 January, 2022, 11:37:42 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZHkkrgzaw8&ab_channel=AndieMusik

Daniel Barenboim at the Goldensaal in Vienna - the New Year's Day concert. Jan and I went to a concert there when we visited Vienna - lots of Mozart lollipops in that case. The concert hall adjoins the Bösendorfer showroom, where I spenta  very happy hour or so playing one of their Imperial grand pianos, with all of its 97 keys in place.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 06 January, 2022, 01:12:45 am
Johnny Winter at the Fillmore East in NYC from 1970.  By 'eck, the lad could play a bit!
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Post by: pcolbeck on 06 January, 2022, 08:17:33 am
Johnny Winter at the Fillmore East in NYC from 1970.  By 'eck, the lad could play a bit!

And so can his brother!
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Post by: CrazyEnglishTriathlete on 06 January, 2022, 08:16:49 pm
The Neptune Power Federation - Memoirs of a Rat Queen
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Post by: Steph on 08 January, 2022, 05:19:52 pm
Someone linked me to this. I am... I have no words.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=123&v=CbI79e5iZKs&feature=emb_logo
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Post by: nicknack on 09 January, 2022, 10:41:19 am
Someone linked me to this. I am... I have no words.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=123&v=CbI79e5iZKs&feature=emb_logo
:thumbsup:
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 09 January, 2022, 10:53:55 am
Someone linked me to this. I am... I have no words.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=123&v=CbI79e5iZKs&feature=emb_logo
:thumbsup:

This ^^^^  Wikinaccurate suggests they've been at it for more than thirty years and have released twenty-mumble* albums :jurek:

* I lost count
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Post by: rafletcher on 09 January, 2022, 01:06:08 pm
Vodafone hold music  ::-)
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Post by: fd3 on 09 January, 2022, 10:52:28 pm
Bowie's official release of "Toy".  Once I've listened to it I can listen to the "mostly unplugged version" then the "alternative mix" version and then see if I notice the difference from the bootleg I have from ~10 years ago.
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Post by: rafletcher on 13 January, 2022, 07:39:20 pm
Donovan’s Cosmic Wheels.
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Post by: CrazyEnglishTriathlete on 13 January, 2022, 10:05:46 pm
Yo Yo Ma - Bach Cello Suites.

Music that could have been lost if Pablo Casals hadn't found them in a second hand music store and then spent 13 years learning them and getting them to sufficient perfection to perform them live.
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Post by: slope on 13 January, 2022, 10:14:49 pm
Donovan’s Cosmic Wheels.

Now that's a crazy album ;D
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Post by: fd3 on 13 January, 2022, 11:01:33 pm
S&tB: Peepshow and The Rapture.  I remember thinking that Peepshow was a bit commercial back in 88ish, but it's frickn' awesome.
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Post by: rafletcher on 14 January, 2022, 11:14:51 am
Donovan’s Cosmic Wheels.

Now that's a crazy album ;D

Certainly is, particularly the somewhat sudden change in tone of "Intergalactic Laxative", then back again.  But the original album had a fantastic gatefold sleeve (sadly long gone, along with all my other LP's when my soon-to-be-ex first wife dumped them all in a charity shop!)
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 20 January, 2022, 09:49:43 pm
Someone linked me to this. I am... I have no words.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=123&v=CbI79e5iZKs&feature=emb_logo

Their track "Hari No Yama (https://youtu.be/96W3UZDJ4V4)" aka "針の山" aka "Hell's Mountain Of Needles" sounds suspiciously like Budgie's theme tune "Breadfan".
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Post by: jsabine on 22 January, 2022, 09:06:52 am
Someone linked me to this. I am... I have no words.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=123&v=CbI79e5iZKs&feature=emb_logo

Their track "Hari No Yama (https://youtu.be/96W3UZDJ4V4)" aka "針の山" aka "Hell's Mountain Of Needles" sounds suspiciously like Budgie's theme tune "Breadfan".

Monk rock
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 22 January, 2022, 12:52:58 pm
Someone linked me to this. I am... I have no words.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=123&v=CbI79e5iZKs&feature=emb_logo

Their track "Hari No Yama (https://youtu.be/96W3UZDJ4V4)" aka "針の山" aka "Hell's Mountain Of Needles" sounds suspiciously like Budgie's theme tune "Breadfan".

Monk rock

Nah, that was this lot:

(https://www.riffrelevant.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/The-Monks.jpg)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monks refers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monks).
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Post by: spesh on 22 January, 2022, 01:33:21 pm
I thought the implication was that the Budgie sound-a-likes are more Saffron* Sabbath, as it were.

* ref the colour of Buddhist monks' robes.

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Post by: Mr Larrington on 22 January, 2022, 01:50:12 pm
Wikinaccurate maintains that it's only bassist Ken-ichi Suzuki who dresses like a Buddhist monk; guitarist Shinji Wajima's “costume has motifs of literary master of Meiji era” and drummer Nobu Nakajima “looks like a Japanese gangster”.  You can sleep easy in your collective beds knowing this :D

Further investigation has revealed that someone called “B Shelley” gets a writing credit for “Hari No Yama”.
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Post by: rafletcher on 22 January, 2022, 09:30:36 pm
Suzanne Vega’s eponymous first album. Some great tracks, especially Small Blue Thing and The Soldier and the Queen.
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Post by: CrazyEnglishTriathlete on 27 January, 2022, 02:36:27 pm
The Siege and Investiture of Baron von Frankenstein's castle at Weisseria - which featured about 20 musicians, none of whom were actually in Blue Oyster Cult at the time. 
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Post by: rafletcher on 27 January, 2022, 07:45:11 pm
Molly Hatchet, “live”. Quite good for turbo work.
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Post by: slope on 27 January, 2022, 08:17:02 pm
Hello Mabel are you able . . .

https://youtu.be/P0yzs4ySajc

lovely harmonies
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Post by: nicknack on 05 February, 2022, 05:54:12 pm
Julie Driscoll and the Brian Auger Trinity. On loud. 60s goodness.
Every so often you need a bit of Hammond.
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Post by: slope on 05 February, 2022, 06:46:44 pm
Julie Driscoll and the Brian Auger Trinity. On loud. 60s goodness.
Every so often you need a bit of Hammond.

 :thumbsup:  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Pingu on 05 February, 2022, 09:47:22 pm
...Every so often you need a bit of Hammond.

Indeed, I had A Passion Play on this arvo  :thumbsup:
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Post by: Wowbagger on 11 February, 2022, 07:34:47 pm
https://www.medici.tv/en/concerts/simon-rattle-conducts-carmina-burana/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=20170710_carl%20orff&fbclid=IwAR1G005Qp6GAW4AR-ncTgCN2MDZK-_acEjKJqz9vERdr_PbbiSZkmKr4s00

This. Pretty impressive by Rattle & Friends!
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Post by: fd3 on 19 February, 2022, 11:57:37 pm
Bowie: Reality
I've never been that fussed, what with it being Heathen's droky kid brother (a bit like Earthling to Outside) - but it's really rather good.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 26 February, 2022, 08:33:46 pm
Led Zepplin - Ten Years Gone

My favourite Zepplin track I think.
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Post by: CrazyEnglishTriathlete on 26 February, 2022, 09:00:49 pm
I was listening to Beth Hart's album of Zeppelin covers but gave that up for the new album by Bourbon House.
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Post by: Slave To The Viking on 05 March, 2022, 12:58:06 am
Constance Amiot - Fairytale.

I'd heard "Clash dans le Tempo" years ago on a work playlist and loved it ever since, so - as I've listened to that one track so often - I wasn't sure if I'd now maybe ruined my chances of enjoying the whole album. Nope. Instant favourite. It was like falling in love. I got goosebumps and shivery tingles, and smiled uncontrollably.

Been a while since a first play through an album has done that to me!
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 05 March, 2022, 01:29:11 am
DJ Random is in a Steve Von Till phase atm.  Mr Von Till's day job is guitarist in shouty Bay Area post-metal outfit Neurosis with a side order of their experimental/ambient offshoot Tribes Of Neurot as well as under the moniker Harvestman and gloomy folk under his own name.  In his copious free time he’s apparently a primary school teacher somewhere up the Idaho Panhandle.  Busy lad.  It's the last-named that the DJ has been churning out of late.
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Post by: rafletcher on 05 March, 2022, 12:40:34 pm
A bit of nostalgia, Leftfield, although they apparently have a new offering completed.
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Post by: Steph on 06 March, 2022, 07:26:43 pm
As a lifelong Hawks fan, I looked up this spin-off for the first time this evening.

Talk about bass breaks...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pmp3-8n9NAM
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 06 March, 2022, 07:38:48 pm
Ah yes, the chap who managed to get away with calling himself “Dibs Hawkwind” on Farcebok…
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Post by: Steph on 06 March, 2022, 07:59:57 pm
Ah yes, the chap who managed to get away with calling himself “Dibs Hawkwind” on Farcebok…
Mr Darbyshire did actually play with Hawkwind for some time, as well as being a roadie/bass tech for them. I find his playing repetitive, but he has the mood just right.

Having met many of the band over the years, all I will say is that the ins and outs from the line-up can best be called 'messy'. I am still astonished at knowing that Dave Brock is 80 this year, while Nik is 81. The latter appears as embalmed as Keef, just with rather less life in him. He still lacks any sense of when to stop blowing his sax, though.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 07 March, 2022, 08:32:57 am
He still lacks any sense of when to stop blowing his sax, though.

He went on for bloody hours at Stonehenge 1984.

https://youtu.be/RDnxYkye3BQ

I'm in that crowd somewhere.
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Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 07 March, 2022, 09:57:02 am
Yungblud unplugged

Gut-wrenchingly sad songs.

I think that 'unplugged' sessions, for musicians who are heavy on electronics, really reveal the ability of the musician.  Cobain's sessions are damn good (even though he cheated on one song).
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 07 March, 2022, 11:03:49 am
He still lacks any sense of when to stop blowing his sax, though.

He went on for bloody hours at Stonehenge 1984.

https://youtu.be/RDnxYkye3BQ

I'm in that crowd somewhere.

I was supposed to be in that crowd but my mate's car underwent a near-terminal functionality event the day before we were due to set off.  Only to be expected from a Renault 6, I suppose.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 09 March, 2022, 07:59:15 am
More brass.

Some excellent Japanese funk soul from a Blue Note session in Tokyo.

https://youtu.be/nQufZEijRmc

Epic sound quality as well. The peeps who mic'ed and recorded this did good.
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Post by: Legs on 15 March, 2022, 12:21:10 pm
Topically...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXvegzWNIps (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXvegzWNIps)

Also a brilliant ringtone candidate...
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Post by: T42 on 15 March, 2022, 01:59:41 pm
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Tertiary Phase, with William Franklin as The Book and Simon Jones as Arthur Dent.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 15 March, 2022, 08:28:41 pm
Rammstein

They have a new single out - Zeit:

https://youtu.be/EbHGS_bVkXY

The video for it it is pretty dense with allegory and references.
Not as much so as the famously lavish video for Deutschland though which is outstanding:

https://youtu.be/NeQM1c-XCDc
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Post by: rafletcher on 22 March, 2022, 01:39:36 pm
Sash.  That brought a smile to my face.
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Post by: CrazyEnglishTriathlete on 22 March, 2022, 09:50:55 pm
Laura Cox Band - not sure why but its working.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 23 March, 2022, 10:45:46 am
Laura Cox Band - not sure why but its working.

Because unlike most of the YouTube guitar prodigies who can play a million notes a minute but have no feel Laura has groove or swing or whatever is the thing that makes a musician standout.
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Post by: Pingu on 29 March, 2022, 12:49:27 am
Ruddy Norah! How come I missed Steven Wilson and Porcupine Tree?  :o :thumbsup:
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Post by: ravenbait on 29 March, 2022, 05:05:24 pm
AU4 (https://au4music.bandcamp.com/).

A recent discovery, who appear to have released two albums then vanished.

Which is unfortunate, because I'm obsessed. Especially with And Down Goes The Sky.

It's kind of prog rock meets Faith No More, and every single track name I can imagine as a story title.

Sam
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Post by: CrazyEnglishTriathlete on 01 April, 2022, 09:38:12 pm
David Oistrakh.  Because I have a monster box set of his recordings and no one has ever played a violin quite like he did.  He did have a choice of at least 7 Stradivarius violins to play, but I guess that is a reflection of quite how good he was.  He was born in Odessa.
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Post by: CrazyEnglishTriathlete on 17 April, 2022, 09:36:17 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtIwhvSa7kw

Silly, but talented.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 17 April, 2022, 11:13:41 pm
The London Howlin' Wolf Sessions.  Wolf and Hubert Sumlin, natch, plus Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts and Ian Stewart off of them Stones and some bloke called “Eric Clapton” on guitar.  Plus the odd appearance from Stevie Winwood, Ringo Starr, harmonica prodigy Jeffrey Carp and Klaus Voorman.  With a cast like that, who needs a plot?
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 18 April, 2022, 06:58:12 pm
Nigerien guitarist Mdou Moctar.  If you don’t like Tinariwen you probably won’t like him either.  Just learned he was playing in London's famous London three days ago.  Fckles >:(

Edit: not sure about the over-auto-tuned vocals on the “Anar” album, mind. 
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Post by: rogerzilla on 20 April, 2022, 10:03:32 am
Convoy - C W McCall.  Before any long trip by bike or car, I always think to myself, "by golly, it's clean clear to Flagtown."
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 24 April, 2022, 06:36:25 pm
The problem with adding ~650 tracks of 60s garage rock to iTunes in one hit is that DJ Random is ODing on it :-\
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Post by: rogerzilla on 25 April, 2022, 09:19:41 pm
It's on the radio, but...

"If You Could Read My Mind" - Gordon Lightfoot.  Incredible lyrics.

Fsmously, Whitney Houston's songwriter had to pay royalties for nicking the second half of the chorus wholesale.
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Post by: rafletcher on 29 April, 2022, 08:34:20 am
Blue Boy's "Remember Me", prompted by a clip on the soundtrack of Derry Girls.   Also '90's dance anthems, just because (The Shamen, Prodigy, etc.)
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Post by: CrazyEnglishTriathlete on 30 April, 2022, 08:28:23 pm
Joe Satriani: The Elephants of Mars.  I like it when the virtuosity is hidden by the music making
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Post by: pcolbeck on 05 May, 2022, 12:47:40 pm
Papillon - Lara Fabian

An album that's a diversion into European electronica for the Belgian chanteuse.

Very laid back.
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Post by: fd3 on 07 May, 2022, 08:02:15 pm
S&tB - Through the Looking Glass.  I overlook it and it is so excellent, there are maybe two songs that haven't been claimed as theirs.
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Post by: Steph on 21 May, 2022, 08:04:16 am
Linda Thompson, 'Versatile Heart'. Stunningly beautiful, with contributions from Rufus Wainwright. I adore the song 'Go Home'/
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 03 June, 2022, 12:22:16 pm
Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell.  Thanks, spesh :thumbsup:

Edit: but a demerit for starting "Bean Stew" with seven bloody minutes of silence.  Just stop it, Beat Combos >:(
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Post by: ravenbait on 03 June, 2022, 03:22:15 pm
Shearwater's entire back catalogue. Only just discovered them thanks to Spotify's "Radio based on a particular song" -- in this case, "Over the Edge It Goes" by AU4.

Sam
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Post by: rafletcher on 14 June, 2022, 01:23:32 pm
Goats Head Soup.
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Post by: citoyen on 03 July, 2022, 02:18:16 pm
Black midi - Welcome To Hell

https://youtu.be/Efmq_uXt1Rk


Incredible drumming. Makes Keith Moon look a bit tame.
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Post by: andrewc on 17 August, 2022, 02:24:12 pm
https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/098519-011-A/cristian-macelaru-conducts-debussy-rachmaninov-and-saint-saens/


Rather nice.  Orchestre National de France.
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Post by: fd3 on 17 August, 2022, 06:49:39 pm
Bowie
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 17 August, 2022, 10:18:53 pm
Re-ripping a bunch of CD's which were originally done at a lower bit rate so's they'd fit on my iPod.  Which has led to listening to Monster Magnet.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 19 August, 2022, 11:24:43 pm
Disinclined to hobble upstairs with a wounded knee, it is instead Very Metal Night at Larrington Towers.  Swedish types Meshuggah are vying for top slot with Canadian outfit Strapping Young Lad.  Very noisy.  Very fast drumming.
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Post by: fd3 on 30 August, 2022, 11:47:45 pm
PIL: The Flowers of Romance.
I had listened to some of their other stuff and started to wonder why I bothered, then remembered this album.  Stupid grin on my face, must be their best album by a long long way.
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Post by: citoyen on 13 September, 2022, 07:51:25 am
Anyone fancy a bit of trippy krautrock?

Stereolab have recently released another one of their Switched On compilations of singles and rarities. It includes Simple Headphone Mind*, their rather brilliant 1997 collaboration with Nurse With Wound. It also includes the B-side of that single, which is essentially an extended 21-minute version of the same track with extra noodling. And it’s fucking awesome.

https://youtu.be/qgLgQHvhiSs


*Aficionados will note the title is borrowed from a track by Alcatraz from their Vampire State Building LP. If you need any hint as to the influences.
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Post by: Pingu on 15 September, 2022, 11:17:21 pm
Wobbler, Nog prog. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8Mub3OLSKY)
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Post by: CrazyEnglishTriathlete on 26 September, 2022, 01:46:47 pm
Scriabin's piano sonatas, the Maria Lettberg edition, which I prefer to most for their ability to capture Scriabin's neurotic and surreal synaesthetic sound world.  After initial ads they seem to be ad-free too.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a46FAc4d2ek

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Post by: Wowbagger on 30 October, 2022, 09:37:45 pm
Beethoven, Symphony no 6. Proms 2012. Conducted by Barenboim.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW-7CqxhnAQ&ab_channel=Mandetriens

I do find the Great Man an odd conductor to watch. His movements often seem to bear no relation to the music. There were occasions in the finale when he simply stopped conducting and mopped his brow. It didn't make any difference. No doubt his musicians know him so well it doesn't matter.
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Post by: matthew on 31 October, 2022, 01:41:45 pm
The Young'uns - Ballad of Johnny Longstaff

An album of folk ballads based on the life of Johnny Longstaff (b. 1919 in Stockton) present at the Jarrow hunger marches, Battle of Cable Street, Spanish Civil war (British Brigade). Inspired by his aural history recorded and held by the Imperial War Museum after Johnny's descendant approached the group with a synopsis of his life story at a gig.

I heard them on the final day at Greenbelt when we delayed our departure to listen to their set.
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Post by: rafletcher on 02 November, 2022, 02:00:54 pm
Garbage - Anthology
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Post by: pcolbeck on 18 November, 2022, 05:25:04 pm
Amanda Shire's latest album.

There is a real Burt Bacharach feel about this track:

https://youtu.be/Tat7BrjXZSA
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Post by: fd3 on 19 November, 2022, 05:11:37 pm
Alladdin Sane to Ziggy Stardust of Bowie (studio albums, not featuring the Deram stuff).  Followed by Tin Machine and the live albums.
The A to Z approach is because of how it stores in my MP3 player.  It does mean that I end on Rock n roll suicide” from “Ziggy, the motion picture”, with “this is the last show we will ever do”.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 19 November, 2022, 11:37:05 pm
Rachel Podger.
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Post by: Pingu on 09 December, 2022, 12:32:41 am
Anyone fancy a bit of trippy krautrock?

Stereolab have recently released another one of their Switched On compilations of singles and rarities. It includes Simple Headphone Mind*, their rather brilliant 1997 collaboration with Nurse With Wound. It also includes the B-side of that single, which is essentially an extended 21-minute version of the same track with extra noodling. And it’s fucking awesome.

https://youtu.be/qgLgQHvhiSs


*Aficionados will note the title is borrowed from a track by Alcatraz from their Vampire State Building LP. If you need any hint as to the influences.

Uh-oh  :P
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Post by: Hot Flatus on 16 December, 2022, 08:46:42 pm
In the car, I eschewed Gardener's Question Time in favour of Leftfield's new album.

Good choice. Its a banger.
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Post by: Peter on 16 December, 2022, 10:11:49 pm
A banger in a banger, then?
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Post by: pcolbeck on 19 December, 2022, 11:02:42 am
A new discovery for me - Rosalia.

She's a Spanish flamenco / pop crossover singer.

Flamenco:

https://youtu.be/En8UPy3GhmY

Pop:

https://youtu.be/_FmnC23ksKA

And mash the two styles together:

https://youtu.be/Rht7rBHuXW8
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Post by: TheLurker on 20 December, 2022, 07:12:44 am
This
(https://i.ibb.co/PDcRp9J/Specials.jpg)
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Post by: Steph on 20 December, 2022, 08:29:41 pm
Purely by chance I found this documentary about one of ,y all-time favourite musicians and wordsmiths. Tears were shed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k63p8Q72k0Y
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Post by: rafletcher on 30 December, 2022, 10:26:30 pm
Listening to, and watching, Simon & Garfunkel in Central Park. My, they were good together, and “The Boxer” still makes me cry.

Oh, and then “Bad Penny” and “Blister on the Moon” from Rory Gallagher to show how a Strat ought to be played.
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Post by: IanDG on 30 December, 2022, 10:47:00 pm
Had a Sinatra CD playing when I drove into Dumfries for a rheumatology check up. Listened to a "most played" Youtube play list whilst cooking supper. Got a "folky

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52596126452_d21f18b855_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2o8JTYq)2022-12-30 (1) (https://flic.kr/p/2o8JTYq) by ian (https://www.flickr.com/photos/acf_windy/), on Flickr-ish" thing going on at the moment
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Post by: CommuteTooFar on 31 December, 2022, 10:02:33 pm
At the moment

Liszt; Bellini Réminiscences de Norma de Bellini – Grande fantaisie, S394


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Post by: TimC on 01 January, 2023, 08:41:29 pm
My daughter: https://open.spotify.com/album/5LRPvJu3RRZJAE7nzX4r2O?si=pHQ8PceXTMK9lZ8n9IYkCg&nd=1
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Post by: Hot Flatus on 02 January, 2023, 06:55:34 pm
Track 1 of Motorway-Funk Porcini, on loop
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Post by: rafletcher on 04 January, 2023, 01:11:58 pm
Charlotte Church's Late Night Pop Dungeon. Some intersting cover versions!
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Post by: Hot Flatus on 06 January, 2023, 07:55:39 pm
Jurassic5- A day at the races
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Post by: Socks on 09 January, 2023, 07:06:44 pm
A folk music series on radio 2 might not sound like much. However this one is set in North East England, involves some of the best contemporary folk musicians in telling four individual stories of how extraordinary people have worked against the system.  I challenge you to listen without:

- needing a tissue in case of eye leakage
- swearing at any recent news items involving a Tory government
- thinking how much better things used to be

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlJ6mcpK7uj4FyFEZC7Rq1VI8Hx0OFFV5

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Post by: rogerzilla on 16 January, 2023, 06:16:01 pm
They're playing Placebo's "Nancy Boy" on the radio. What a gloriously wholesome song  ;D
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Post by: pcolbeck on 20 January, 2023, 02:26:47 pm
A bit of rockabilly:

https://youtu.be/vh6lwqsfqG4

Might have to get tickets for Samantha's gig at York Barbican in October.
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Post by: CrazyEnglishTriathlete on 23 January, 2023, 10:11:07 pm
Scriabin Symphony no 1.  A composer whose piano writing is so dazzling that it is easy to overlook his skills at orchestration.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 25 January, 2023, 11:44:30 pm
“Live at Frkanovec” by Croatian post-rock types Daliborovo Granje.  Very soothing.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 26 January, 2023, 04:00:49 pm
Well they are still in Kyiv but they have an original song out instead of a cover and it's dark and defiant as you might expect:

https://youtu.be/BIPUaokQOcA

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Post by: citoyen on 26 January, 2023, 05:54:17 pm
A bit late to the party, I know, but I have “discovered” Bitches Brew. My god, it’s astonishing. I’ve had it on repeat all week.
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Post by: TheLurker on 28 January, 2023, 03:49:14 pm
This, courtesy of Mr. Larrington learning a new anagram...

(https://i.ibb.co/9GM90Jj/DSCN9177.jpg)
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Post by: T42 on 28 January, 2023, 04:45:07 pm
Ledzep Stairway.
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Post by: sg37409 on 28 January, 2023, 07:53:04 pm
Sharon van Etten, Remind me tomorrow. 
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 28 January, 2023, 08:32:42 pm
Mountain Jam ~ The Allman Brothers, while I drink my post-prandial tea.
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Post by: Pingu on 28 January, 2023, 10:06:58 pm
This, courtesy of Mr. Larrington learning a new anagram...

(https://i.ibb.co/9GM90Jj/DSCN9177.jpg)

It's good you can play it on your laptop.
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Post by: Steph on 30 January, 2023, 03:35:21 am
This on random YT play. Harp playing is good... unsure about the rest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH-_9cwdLug&list=RDEMvf-CdtOmA4Qtv0KF6QeDqQ&index=27
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 03 February, 2023, 08:18:15 pm
Metamorphosis, the released-today product of South Yorkshire's neo-grungers DeadBlondeStars.  It's rather noisy :thumbsup:
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Post by: Pingu on 03 February, 2023, 11:20:14 pm
Kosmischer Läufer - Volume 5 (https://kosmischerlaufer.bandcamp.com/album/volume-five) released today.

H/T Ravenbait otp.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 06 February, 2023, 11:47:00 am
Tift Merrit

https://youtu.be/PqTvp3TTFxY

I really like the production on this, the chorus is nagging at me reminds me of something and I cant think what.
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Post by: rafletcher on 09 February, 2023, 01:03:42 pm
JJ Cale - 5. Sound of my youth(ish). So familiar, I must have played it to death back then!
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Post by: pcolbeck on 13 February, 2023, 01:07:15 pm
The Decemberists

This live version of "The Wanting Comes in Waves" is great. Shara Nova looks likes shes having a smashing time:

https://youtu.be/5--ZQMmkkV0

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Post by: CrazyEnglishTriathlete on 17 February, 2023, 03:05:24 pm
AA Williams  - As The Moon Rests
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Post by: Steph on 22 February, 2023, 12:00:02 am
I needed lifting up...

Grace Petrie, Trans-inclusive butch lesbian socialist.

Job done.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 24 February, 2023, 09:16:27 am
Rory Gallagher.  Because.
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Post by: rafletcher on 24 February, 2023, 10:23:52 am
Rory Gallagher.  Because.

 :thumbsup:
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Post by: Steph on 26 February, 2023, 05:17:17 pm
Dug out No More Heroes.

Forgotten how good those bass lines are. I am not bitching.
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Post by: Robh on 26 February, 2023, 11:25:06 pm
The wonderful Iris Dement - Going' Down To Sing In Texas:

https://youtu.be/KfwzAq_WHRE
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Post by: Legs on 02 March, 2023, 10:49:59 am
Paul Brady's first solo album, Hard Station (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRCA-GRMjxw&list=OLAK5uy_nneSbqXNoA-dSQ5hnWNorpAUkwwGmRqYQ).  I'd only heard Crazy Dreams before, but am loving the title track and Nothing But The Same Old Story.
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Post by: Snakehips on 02 March, 2023, 01:32:16 pm
Half of Mine by Frankie Stew and Harvey Gunn (featuring Tarian). Not heard of them? neither had I until recently but they are massive in Brighton apparently.
My intro to @fsandhg came via the aforementioned Tarian with whom I have a close family connection.
I really don't get this kind of music but that's probably not surprising as the target audience is around a third of my age or lower. If you read the comments on their social media postings their output seems to resonate with the doubts and anxieties that many young people experience.
This recent Instagram post gave me a fascinating insight into how some forms of modern music are developed.   https://www.instagram.com/p/CpDPZgJo3xY/ (https://www.instagram.com/p/CpDPZgJo3xY/)

 
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Post by: Robh on 15 March, 2023, 09:04:05 pm
Happy birthday to Ry Cooder, 76 today:

https://youtu.be/AszqfR6as8k
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Post by: Pingu on 31 March, 2023, 11:29:18 pm
Have we done Hi Ren?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_nc1IVoMxc
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Post by: CrazyEnglishTriathlete on 21 April, 2023, 09:48:16 pm
The Fourth Album - Bourbon House.  Their music just keeps getting better.
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Post by: T42 on 27 April, 2023, 07:02:51 am
The Garazi Philantropik(e) Orkestra's version of Besame Mucho. Phantastik(e)!

https://youtu.be/aS9FeUSNu9k

NB the solo on rubber balloon.
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Post by: CrazyEnglishTriathlete on 09 May, 2023, 10:29:20 am
Rosalie Cunningham
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 18 June, 2023, 08:21:38 pm
Somali disco.
https://soundcloud.com/jakarta-records/jakarta-radio-009-somali-disco-mix-au-revoir-mogadishu

Really really really enjoying it.
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Post by: Pingu on 19 June, 2023, 04:46:14 pm
New album by Sigur Rós.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 19 June, 2023, 05:06:38 pm
Oooh, didn’t know about that :thumbsup:
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Post by: nicknack on 09 July, 2023, 07:21:28 pm
Ten Years After Live at the Fillmore East.

I’d almost forgotten how good they were.

Despite my love of free improvised music that some call jazz, this really hits the spot.

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Post by: PeterM on 09 July, 2023, 07:33:02 pm
The new PJ Harvey: spooky, shimmery, Dorset-y
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Post by: rafletcher on 10 July, 2023, 01:05:27 pm
L7. Memories of Friday late night TV watching The Word.
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Post by: Von Broad on 14 July, 2023, 08:53:02 pm
Alladin Sane - David Bowie [again]
Takes me way back......always loved that album.
But...goodness me...released in 1973.......it is 50yrs old!!!!
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Post by: The Family Cyclist on 14 July, 2023, 08:58:56 pm
The new PJ Harvey: spooky, shimmery, Dorset-y

There was  a brilliant interview with her and a couple of people she works with on 6 music a few weeks back. Would have been mid morning I think so probably Lauren Laverne show
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Post by: Peter on 14 July, 2023, 10:11:13 pm
Lot of sadness in our family at the moment.  Possible funeral exit music:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlrGPgyF5Lo&list=RDzlrGPgyF5Lo&start_radio=1 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlrGPgyF5Lo&list=RDzlrGPgyF5Lo&start_radio=1)

But it works at any time
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Post by: fd3 on 15 July, 2023, 07:23:15 pm
Alladin Sane - David Bowie [again]
Takes me way back......always loved that album.
But...goodness me...released in 1973.......it is 50yrs old!!!!
Well, avant-guard "1. Outside" is nearly 30.
It is such a class album, I get a big  ;D that #2 son enjoys playing it (but he likes everything atm).

I recently returned to a couple album I thought were a bit meh at the time
"Book" by TMBG, which I am really digging
"Doggrel" by the Pixies, which is better this time round, but still a bit beige - struggling to pick out a song I would recommend as a single and as an album it brings nothing new to the table imo.
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Post by: rafletcher on 15 July, 2023, 07:55:00 pm
The “Never Strays Far” podcast
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Post by: rafletcher on 17 July, 2023, 01:22:53 pm
Today's helping of retro is The Human League. I'd forgottn quite how much I liked them.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 25 July, 2023, 12:45:10 pm
A load of Netherlands people singing & playing Mozart's mass in C minor.
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Post by: sam on 27 July, 2023, 07:31:44 pm
(https://i.imgur.com/iHnNzS6.jpg) (https://youtu.be/0_8-Fm1vfw0)

Romeo Had Juliet, Lou Reed

I'm in a New York state of mind.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 04 August, 2023, 06:09:10 pm
The Old Forge Sessions by the mighty Amplifier.  Re-recorded, extended and progged to the nth degree versions of various old songs.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 12 August, 2023, 11:48:51 pm
Bach's Well-Tempered Klavier, book 1, played by Sviatoslav Richter. He's using a Bösendorfer piano.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EnosoXeTWI&ab_channel=ClassicalMusic refers.

I'm trying to decide which of the 48 will be my next piano piece that I learn.
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 11 September, 2023, 08:48:32 pm
Steve Reich's Music for 18 Musicians: https://youtu.be/R36S3Kldj80?si=xCExPwMQQqChxkYy

I've never listened to any Steve Reich before but was led to this by Citoyen and Jurek quoting "Oh Superman" lyrics and then the mysterious algorithm of YouTube. It's really rather intriguing.
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 20 September, 2023, 10:04:23 am
Quote
In the rear, where four men argued in Spanish over glasses of beer, a juke box, lit up green and red, played "Media Luz".
So of course I had to look up "Media Luz" and of course it's on Youtube: https://youtu.be/TwEAF3clZys?si=qMwUtbqgBF278hX2
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Post by: T42 on 23 September, 2023, 10:58:21 am
Was listening to Jorge Salgueiro's Tuba Concerto (https://youtu.be/75jd5Mn--E8?si=blBNlmUbmer2Z7T1) but baled after a while. No harm to the bloke but it's a bit ordinary and his colour was alarming.

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Post by: Peter on 23 September, 2023, 12:49:12 pm
Ha!  Can't help thinking that the composer/conductor's silly little bum-freezer jacket merely emphasised the notes coming from the tuba.  The joke may have been on the audience!  Of course it may all be deadly serious, including the imminent demise of the "alarmingly coloured" virtuoso!
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 23 September, 2023, 01:31:04 pm
I managed the whole thing, in fact while I was listening the postie arrived and I didn't know until he rapped on the window (large parcel). It got less farty and more dramatic, even a bit clashing, towards the end. Not sure I'll be seeking out anything else by him. And his jacket is oddly shiny.
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Post by: Peter on 23 September, 2023, 01:34:16 pm
Cudzo and T42, following down the right hand side of the youtube video, I found this fabulous rendition of Mozart's Clarinet Concerto

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT_63UntRJE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT_63UntRJE)

It's almost too much to bear knowing that in 1791, Mozart not only wrote this, the defining work in the clarinet repertoire, The motet, Ave Verum Corpus, Symphonies 39,40 and 41 and most of his Requiem.  That he also somehow found time to die seems just too precocious.

"Amadeus" is a terrific film - but almost complete bollox!  Far from being a flibbertigibbett, he must have pretty much worked himself to death.
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Post by: Wowbagger on 23 September, 2023, 01:51:11 pm
I listened to about 5 minutes of the tuba concerto but that was enough for me. I wonder what a trombonist thinks when they are asked to play just using a mouthpiece without a trombone attached?

I'm now listening to Mozart's clarinet concerto. Some time in the last century, I attended a prom in which this was one of the works. The other was a Bruckner symphony. I find Bruckner quite an odd composer. I think his symphonies are dire, but he wrote some absolutely wonderful choral works, such as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfSKU3pvZwc&ab_channel=EugenJochum-Topic

A few years ago we performed the Mozart C minor mass and the clarinet concerto was the other half of the concert, in which the soloist was one William Knight (https://encoremusicians.com/William-Knight). Quite randomly, a few weeks ago I was swimming with a friend-of-a-friend and it turned out to be his older sister. I also found out that their mum, whom I knew was a talented violinist, sings alto in our choir.
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Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 23 September, 2023, 02:00:10 pm
I wonder what a trombonist thinks when they are asked to play just using a mouthpiece without a trombone attached?
Possibly a sequence along the lines of: What a load of tosh! > Have I got anything else on? > How much is he paying? > All right then. > No, I don't want royalties, I'll take cash up front.
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Post by: Peter on 24 September, 2023, 11:17:41 am
...> and lose the jacket!
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Post by: Peter on 24 September, 2023, 12:06:47 pm
I find Bruckner quite an odd composer. I think his symphonies are dire, but he wrote some absolutely wonderful choral works, such as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfSKU3pvZwc&ab_channel=EugenJochum-Topic


Yes, yes!  I was wondering if Locus Iste would be your reference!  I always think Bruckner was heavily influenced by Wolfie's Ave Verum.  How about you?

Here's a really nice "chamber" version, at least, I like it! :-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udZCjXbwkzk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udZCjXbwkzk)
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Post by: Afasoas on 13 October, 2023, 01:12:32 pm
Grian Chatten's Chaos for the Fly.

His vocals are oddly soothing.
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Post by: TheLurker on 22 October, 2023, 08:49:35 am
I am driving MrsL up the wall listening to Benny Goodman's interpretations of Mozart's K622 & K581 (the 1956 recordings on RCA Victor) on repeat.


Finally managed to get hold of a CD last week to replace the cassette tape that got stretched in '86 and which has kicked around my various accommodations since then as a reminder to replace it; so am making up for "lost" listens. :)
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Post by: Peter on 22 October, 2023, 06:26:04 pm
Lurker, I'm not sure where I came across the story of a group of young American music students (Julliard, maybe) who used to get together on occasional weekends to play from sight.  One day, they were tootling away at a clarinet piece when an elderly gent peeped over the fence and said something along the lines of, "I play a little, could I join you?"  Reluctantly, they humoured him (although I suppose they think they humored him) and, yes, it turned out to be Benny Goodman.  The lovely thing is that they tell the story against themselves.  I'll see if I can find it somewhere.
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Post by: fd3 on 22 October, 2023, 11:41:12 pm
Join Hands - much maligned and misunderstood - pretty damned good.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 23 October, 2023, 10:07:39 am
Charltans - North Country Boy.

Tim's vocal shows you what autotune has done to ruin the music industry since  ;D

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Post by: Afasoas on 27 October, 2023, 01:15:36 pm
Charltans - North Country Boy.

Tim's vocal shows you what autotune has done to ruin the music industry since  ;D

I had a listen to some Charlatans this morning.

Currently having a go at Anne Clark's "Borderline - Found Music for a Lost World".
It appears to be spoken word to a Tubular Bells meets Spa Music sound track. Seems very well produced thobut.
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Post by: sam on 01 November, 2023, 05:39:09 am
3 minutes of my morning was set aside for Rodeo, (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBC-_VqoY_k) by MacKenzie Porter, who’s a singer when she’s not time travelling. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lkAT5REXjI)

Make that 6 minutes. I listened to it twice, trying to remember any pickup lines I’ve ever used. Other than “How’s it going?”, which has resulted in 32 years of marriage and counting, nothing came to mind.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 02 November, 2023, 10:09:39 am
ELO - Discovery (or Disco Very, pun intended by Richard Tandy).
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Post by: ravenbait on 02 November, 2023, 12:26:59 pm
The Dark Side of the Moon Redux.

I know, he's an arsehole who does himself no favours. And yet.

Sam
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Post by: T42 on 02 November, 2023, 02:53:08 pm
Mason Williams' Classical Gas played by John O'Connell - one of the few videos I've seen of it where it's played at the right tempo.

https://youtu.be/ZSOUJbg6TAE?si=mEhA5OLv5UIokB26
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Post by: Afasoas on 04 November, 2023, 05:08:57 pm
Mogwai's "As the Love Continues"
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Post by: Snakehips on 04 November, 2023, 10:58:05 pm
Mason Williams' Classical Gas played by John O'Connell - one of the few videos I've seen of it where it's played at the right tempo.

https://youtu.be/ZSOUJbg6TAE?si=mEhA5OLv5UIokB26
I followed that link and got sucked in to Ring Out Solstice Bells  by Jethro Tull  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qcPS-J0HTg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qcPS-J0HTg) , first time this Christmas (season). What joy!
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Post by: fd3 on 12 November, 2023, 08:09:25 pm
Sungazer and snarky puppy.
#1 son's drum teacher recommended as good drum tunes, he does like him some jazz though.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 14 November, 2023, 05:36:42 pm
"Melodic terrorists" Snuff have released an acoustic album called Come And Have A Go If You Think You're Rachmaninoff.

Although this surprising venture proves they can play (fans already knew that) the original thrash recordings often have more pathos.  Anyway, I still want the loud version of Take Me Home (Piss Off) at my funeral, because it's one of only two songs that can make me cry.
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Post by: Von Broad on 18 November, 2023, 05:07:54 pm
Ozric Tentacles - Lotus Unfolding [2023]

And listening...clean

Love the Ozrics.
Keep on riffing.
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Post by: fd3 on 27 November, 2023, 07:53:17 pm
Backing up le highbrow jazz with Primus, seas of cheese.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 27 November, 2023, 08:54:14 pm
Had Bill Bruford's “One Of A Kind” album from 1979 played at us at dinner time.  Jazz-rock arse.  Not recommended.
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Post by: Pingu on 03 December, 2023, 02:18:39 pm
New Peter Gabriel album. Better than I expected.
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Post by: fd3 on 03 December, 2023, 03:45:27 pm
Goddaughter asked me where to start listening to Bowie.  Talk about Sophie's choice!
Currently listening to BTWN (no, I suggested Scary Monsters or Heathen).
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Post by: JefO on 04 December, 2023, 02:50:34 pm
Brand new vinyl Metallica - Metallica (Also known as the Black Album).
Love the other singles and a couple of the also rans, but... "Nothing Else Matters" just totally blew me away. The quality of this track, on this album, is amazing. To me it compares equally to Stairway to Heaven.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 09 December, 2023, 01:39:33 pm
Star Resistant - no fewer than thirty tracks of yummy stoner goodness from grizzled desert rock veterans Dali's Llama.
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Post by: Afasoas on 15 December, 2023, 01:15:54 pm
Blew the cobwebs away this morning with three classics, streamed:
I had a couple of new-to-me CDs to give their first listen:
Those were both lively and enjoyable.
Now lunchtime has finally arrived, I figured it's about time the phono stage on the new receiver was tested. Broken Machine by Nothing But Thieves is a good a test as any.  :)


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Post by: JefO on 15 December, 2023, 02:04:35 pm
Blew the cobwebs away this morning with three classics, streamed:
  • Stairway to Heaven (coincidental given JefOs mention above)
  • Paint It, Black
  • The House of the Rising Sun (The Animals version)
I had a couple of new-to-me CDs to give their first listen:
  • Who Killed The Zutons by The Zutons
  • The Vaccines by The Vaccines
Those were both lively and enjoyable.
Now lunchtime has finally arrived, I figured it's about time the phono stage on the new receiver was tested. Broken Machine by Nothing But Thieves is a good a test as any.  :)

 :thumbsup:    :thumbsup:    :thumbsup:    :thumbsup:


No More Heroes - The Stranglers
Stand By Me - Ben E King
Come Together - The Beatles
Seven Nation Army - The White Stripes
The Chain - Fleetwood Mac
Enter Sandman - Metallica
Kashmir - Led Zeppelin
Another One Bites The Dust - Queen
All Day and all of the Night - The Kinks

All the above played in my head while knocking the strings about a bit on my bass guitar, and trying to make sense of the bits of paper.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 15 December, 2023, 02:14:52 pm
Today I are mostly not listening to “just one more song before going off to Do Stuffs” because the next one DJ Random has cued up is the 27-minute version of Dazed And Confused off “The Song Remains The Same”.
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Post by: rogerzilla on 21 December, 2023, 09:21:59 am
Similar to Mr Larrington, I'm listening to Physical Graffiti.  The first half is rifftastic.  Not a big fan of the whimsical second half, except "Sick Again".
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Post by: JefO on 21 December, 2023, 01:00:47 pm
ZZ Top La Grange while singing the bass tabs 0030 030 03035  0030 030 03035  ;D
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Post by: rafletcher on 21 December, 2023, 02:32:31 pm
Plastic Letters. Blondie in their absolute pomp.
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Post by: Afasoas on 22 December, 2023, 10:12:23 am
Republica's self-titled album.
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Post by: fd3 on 23 December, 2023, 03:39:28 pm
Tolhurst/budgie/jacknife
Which lead to levinhurst
And then how to destroy angels
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Post by: Pingu on 23 December, 2023, 11:33:30 pm
Gideon Coe on BBC Sounds from a few days ago: Revolutionary Spirit by The Wild Swans  :thumbsup:
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Post by: rogerzilla on 24 December, 2023, 06:50:33 am
R4 currently has a feature on narwhals.

RAAAAWWWWWWRRRR
AINT NO HOOVES ON THAT BITCH
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Post by: Afasoas on 25 December, 2023, 02:08:30 pm
Republica's self-titled album.

^^ That really wasn't very good.

Got a few new CDs for Christmas.
"The World of Hans Zimmer" is first up.
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Post by: fd3 on 30 December, 2023, 06:33:05 pm
Zola jesus.
Been listening to curious creatures podcast and now listening to the music their guests did.
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Post by: pcolbeck on 02 January, 2024, 11:11:00 am
Olivia Dean

Saw her on Jules's Hootanany, didn't know who she was but what a voice.

https://youtu.be/GCfFxEg8BWo?si=I4vz6dIsOq362Z-j
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Post by: JefO on 02 January, 2024, 07:36:34 pm
Variations on a Theme - Andrew Lloyd Webber

Trying to work out the bass line for side two, track one.
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Post by: Pingu on 03 January, 2024, 12:14:12 am
One of These Days - Pink Floyd

So spacious on headphones  :o :thumbsup:
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Post by: JefO on 03 January, 2024, 09:15:00 am
One of These Days - Pink Floyd

So spacious on headphones  :o :thumbsup:


I really love Meddle. Might have to give it another spin later!
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Post by: IanDG on 19 January, 2024, 10:30:14 pm
 Heavy Weather - Weather Report

(wife's away so playing loud)  8)
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Post by: JefO on 19 January, 2024, 10:59:18 pm
Black Night - Deep Purple. It would appear that my brain can translate the sounds, into where my fingers should be, to reproduce the sound on my bass guitar. The main riff all felt natural just playing it, from memory, and consulting t'internet revealed the rest as quite easy to replicate too. Don't get me wrong, I could not play this on stage, but I could probably play along to the record and get 90% right (right notes, right order, not necessarily at the right time!) 
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Post by: Andy W on 20 January, 2024, 12:11:07 am
The Byrds. 8 Miles High. I love it but it's become an ear worm.
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Post by: rafletcher on 01 February, 2024, 01:38:35 pm
Bob Dyan's "Desire" with Scarlet Rivera's violin.
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Post by: Afasoas on 04 February, 2024, 10:39:53 am
The Last Dinner Party's 'Preclude to Ecstasy'

I'd forgotten I pre-ordered a signed copy. Nice surprise when it turned up yesterday. Great debut album. They remind me of both Queen and Lana Del Ray.
Also a shame I'd forgotten about the pre-order, as I'd streamed the album 3 times already.
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Post by: JefO on 04 February, 2024, 12:41:51 pm
Another ear worm developed Monday, and I ended up downloading the tabs and learning the bass line, then played along to the live version (which unbeknownst to me at the time, is played faster than the studio recording). I was absolutely buzzing with excitement at the time and for a long time afterwards. My wife came in from shopping halfway through the frenzy and (even*) she said it sounded really good.

The track? "On A Rope" by Rocket From The Crypt.

So yesterday during my ride, a CD of RFTC's album "Scream, Dracula, Scream!" dropped onto my doormat, and this morning it got played (without any preconceived expectations that the album would actually be any good (quite the opposite in fact) and to my surprise) it wasn't complete crap, and I enjoyed it. So much so that I played it and listened to it all the way through again!

* she doesn't dish out compliments willingly - least of all to me, and least of all to me when the bass amp is turned on.
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Post by: Regulator on 16 February, 2024, 02:12:15 pm
Faouzia...  I think she has a stunning voice.

Oh - and a bit of Nana Mouskouri (how's that for a blast from the past).
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Post by: citoyen on 16 February, 2024, 02:57:07 pm
New Beth Gibbons. She ate'nt dead.

https://youtu.be/ldrx0eSqV-E?si=Vfcu8uSXi45gKemT

Album coming in May.
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Post by: Deano on 17 February, 2024, 10:46:59 pm
Should I ever need walk-on music, it's a toss-up between this and Back in Black, and this edges it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm_9iTKbd2I
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Post by: rogerzilla on 28 February, 2024, 11:53:18 am
 Blur - Coffee and TV.  It's the best Blur song partly because mockney Damon Albarn doesn't sing on it.
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Post by: Regulator on 28 February, 2024, 02:18:54 pm
Today has been a Wagner day...  I'm doing detailed template work and I find Wagner helps concentrate the mind.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 28 February, 2024, 04:05:43 pm
Been seriously earwormed by Popol Vuh's “Take The Tention High”.  Nearly eighteen minutes of Krautrock goodness.  Yum.
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Post by: Afasoas on 28 February, 2024, 09:30:50 pm
Norah Jones released (https://www.discogs.com/release/29001586-Norah-Jones-Playing-Along) a Record Store Day LP[1] of collaborations from her 'Playing Along' podcast. Only available through independent record shops.

Managed to procure one, as a gift[2] for my beloved who is a big fan of Norah.
It's a really nice pressing. A really nice recording. And I find it very hard to disagree with Norah's lush vocals.

[1]: I did find MP3 download version available to buy via the rain forest website, but buying that really didn't seem to be in the spirit of supporting independent record shops. I also don't think MP3 files are much of a gift.
[2]: Technically she doesn't own a record player, so this might not have been the wisest choice of gift. At the moment my only option is to make a minidisc copy until I get the appropriate gubbins for digitising vinyl records.
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Post by: JefO on 17 March, 2024, 07:46:34 pm
This weekend I played in their entirety -
Guns N Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Genesis - Duke
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Genesis - Wind and Wuthering
Blondie - Parallel Lines,
Yes - Tormato
Yes - Going For The One
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Post by: Pingu on 17 March, 2024, 10:15:48 pm
Hey ho, maybe next weekend will be better  :)
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Post by: JefO on 18 March, 2024, 01:26:13 pm
 
Hey ho, maybe next weekend will be better  :)
;D ;D ;D
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Post by: fd3 on 19 March, 2024, 04:30:32 pm
Hey ho, maybe next weekend will be better  :)
You put it much better than I
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Post by: JefO on 19 March, 2024, 07:33:04 pm
Yesterday I listened to Pink Floyd "The Wall".

Today, Blondie "Autoamerican" got a spin.
Had forgotten what diverse styles Blondie recorded, uncharacteristically classy!

About to give the Metallica "Black Album" a quiet run through.
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Post by: Mr Larrington on 22 March, 2024, 12:58:50 pm
"Voyage Of The Dead Marauder", the latest EP from pirate metal bozos Alestorm.  Featuring paeans to piracy in such unlikely locations as Saskatchewan and Uzbekistan. Yarrr!
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Post by: Regulator on 22 March, 2024, 02:47:43 pm
The Kingston Trio...

The Merry Minuet always makes me smile.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bp6dsKleGpU
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Post by: JefO on 22 March, 2024, 08:08:13 pm
Today in recognition of the 50th anniversary of its release in November this year, I played The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway all the way through, only pausing to change sides/records. How can that be nearly 50???
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Post by: rogerzilla on 23 March, 2024, 07:09:15 pm
I watched Weezer's cover of Paranoid Android on YouTube.  I wonder if Weezer do weddings, since they seem to be able to cover anything at all.
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Post by: JefO on 24 March, 2024, 06:59:38 pm
Today listened to Genesis Collection Volume 1
This comprises of Trespass and Nursery Cryme.
The advances in sound production techniques are noticeable between the 1970 and 1971 albums.
As always, amazed at the longevity of 1970s vinyl.