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Biff · « **Reply #4100 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.

Juan Martín · « **Reply #4101 on:** 25 January, 2014, 08:39:33 pm »

From the sea to the land beyond - British Sea Power

interzen · « **Reply #4102 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.

andrewc · « **Reply #4103 on:** 27 January, 2014, 10:20:14 pm »

Presto were offering large reductions on box sets last week, so I ordered Clifford Curzon: The Complete Decca Recordings , 23CD's of masterful piano playing. It arrived this morning and I'm currently up to disc 4.

tiermat · « **Reply #4104 on:** 28 January, 2014, 10:29:05 am »

Quote from: interzen on 27 January, 2014, 09:37:33 pm

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".

interzen · « **Reply #4105 on:** 28 January, 2014, 10:34:37 am »

Quote from: tiermat on 28 January, 2014, 10:29:05 am

Quote from: interzen on 27 January, 2014, 09:37:33 pm
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.

pcolbeck · « **Reply #4106 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

tiermat · « **Reply #4107 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"

David Martin · « **Reply #4108 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.

Bledlow · « **Reply #4109 on:** 28 January, 2014, 11:28:11 pm »

Quote from: 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.

Somewhere, I have a cassette of June 1 1974, & Mrs B still has something that plays cassettes. I'll have to dig it out.

mattc · « **Reply #4110 on:** 29 January, 2014, 07:25:28 pm »

(slight threadcromancy ... )

Quote from: 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

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 ...

CrazyEnglishTriathlete · « **Reply #4111 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.

Ruth · « **Reply #4112 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.

marcusjb · « **Reply #4113 on:** 31 January, 2014, 10:01:41 pm »

Making the most of being home alone

Mogwai - Rave Tapes on the good system.

Belting stuff.

mcshroom · « **Reply #4114 on:** 01 February, 2014, 09:45:03 am »

New band to me, but London Grammar - impressed

http://youtu.be/6drfp_3823I

eck · « **Reply #4115 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:

jezzasnr · « **Reply #4116 on:** 04 February, 2014, 03:42:50 pm »

New Bombay Bicycle Club album. rather good.

CrazyEnglishTriathlete · « **Reply #4117 on:** 05 February, 2014, 09:50:33 pm »

Quote from: mcshroom on 01 February, 2014, 09:45:03 am

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.

clarion · « **Reply #4118 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

microphonie · « **Reply #4119 on:** 07 February, 2014, 07:24:10 pm »

This weekend I will be throwing myself at 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.

Tim Hall · « **Reply #4120 on:** 09 February, 2014, 08:40:28 pm »

Andy Twyman.

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.

CrinklyLion · « **Reply #4121 on:** 09 February, 2014, 08:51:24 pm »

The Low Anthem. I got a sudden fancy for hearing "Keep On The Sunny Side".

Dibdib · « **Reply #4122 on:** 09 February, 2014, 09:17:27 pm »

Rediscovered a passable-quality remaster 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.)

Deano · « **Reply #4123 on:** 09 February, 2014, 09:28:52 pm »

Quote from: CrinklyLion on 09 February, 2014, 08:51:24 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

interzen · « **Reply #4124 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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