― Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Friday, 1 July 2005 12:10 (twenty years ago)
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 1 July 2005 12:13 (twenty years ago)
― miccio (miccio), Friday, 1 July 2005 12:13 (twenty years ago)
― nathalie's post modern sleaze fest (stevie nixed), Friday, 1 July 2005 12:14 (twenty years ago)
― Michael B, Friday, 1 July 2005 12:26 (twenty years ago)
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 1 July 2005 12:30 (twenty years ago)
― Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Friday, 1 July 2005 12:47 (twenty years ago)
― willem (willem), Friday, 1 July 2005 13:11 (twenty years ago)
― jel -- (jel), Friday, 1 July 2005 16:15 (twenty years ago)
― shanecavanaugh (shanecavanaugh), Friday, 1 July 2005 17:47 (twenty years ago)
― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 1 July 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)
― keith m (keithmcl), Saturday, 2 July 2005 03:07 (twenty years ago)
― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 2 July 2005 03:13 (twenty years ago)
yesterday, the dave mason/cass elliot album, throwing muses' house tornado, and tuxedomoon's half mute.
― the underground homme (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 2 July 2005 03:13 (twenty years ago)
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Saturday, 2 July 2005 08:24 (twenty years ago)
― the underground homme (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 2 July 2005 08:39 (twenty years ago)
krfatwerk 'autobahn': dream music etc
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 2 July 2005 16:55 (twenty years ago)
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Saturday, 2 July 2005 17:16 (twenty years ago)
Teebee - April Dawn
― nathalie's post modern sleaze fest (stevie nixed), Saturday, 2 July 2005 17:54 (twenty years ago)
― Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 2 July 2005 18:01 (twenty years ago)
― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Saturday, 2 July 2005 18:42 (twenty years ago)
― hstencil (hstencil), Saturday, 2 July 2005 18:42 (twenty years ago)
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 2 July 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)
― hstencil (hstencil), Saturday, 2 July 2005 19:40 (twenty years ago)
― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Saturday, 2 July 2005 19:48 (twenty years ago)
Stanley Turrentine - Rough and Tumble*Grant Green - Iron City*Yusef Leteef with Doug Watkins(The Incredible) Jimmy Smith - Got My Mojo Workin'The Monks - Black Monk Time
*purchased chiefly because the cover art is awesome
― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Saturday, 2 July 2005 20:00 (twenty years ago)
http://www.dustygroove.com
― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Saturday, 2 July 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)
― RS LaRue (RSLaRue), Sunday, 3 July 2005 11:32 (twenty years ago)
― willem (willem), Sunday, 3 July 2005 14:49 (twenty years ago)
Sly & The Family Stone - I've been wondering how much working in a Folk Rock/Mainstream Pop setting as a producer bled into Sly's own music, cos it feels so much more whimsical (for lack of a better word) than most other Funk from that era. Like, I can imagine the occasional Sly track fitting in on "Come To The Sunshine" or whatever, which you could never say about James Brown or P-Funk.
The new Smog album. It's rewarding.
I listened to "One Thing" and "Signs" today to see if either of them have reached OMG Single Of The Year Summer Smash Time status for me yet. They haven't - they're both good, but not *that* good (yet.)
― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Sunday, 3 July 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)
― o. nate (onate), Sunday, 3 July 2005 19:52 (twenty years ago)
― dahlin (dahlin), Sunday, 3 July 2005 20:02 (twenty years ago)
also isolee, kirchin industrial north (these two go well together; a simpler, more harmonious idea of industry apropos repetition), simon finn (bloody hell!), roisin m (ingenious but not as good as dani's album), kano (8 good tracks out of 16 - not a bad bargain, i suppose).
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 4 July 2005 08:35 (twenty years ago)
i did intend to pick up some afrobeat at the weekend but there was the small matter of 200,000 marchers blocking my way to the shop
― leigh (leigh), Monday, 4 July 2005 08:41 (twenty years ago)
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 4 July 2005 08:42 (twenty years ago)
― leigh (leigh), Monday, 4 July 2005 09:08 (twenty years ago)
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 4 July 2005 09:11 (twenty years ago)
After about five listens, I realize that it's a good album, but it doesn't really move me very much. It's good, just not very emotional. :-(
― nathalie's post modern sleaze fest (stevie nixed), Monday, 4 July 2005 10:52 (twenty years ago)
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Monday, 4 July 2005 13:27 (twenty years ago)
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Monday, 4 July 2005 19:37 (twenty years ago)
― SHINE ON AMERICA (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 4 July 2005 21:27 (twenty years ago)
many jams but waiting on the one true summer jam to emerge
― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Monday, 4 July 2005 21:50 (twenty years ago)
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Monday, 4 July 2005 22:30 (twenty years ago)
― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Monday, 4 July 2005 23:36 (twenty years ago)
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Monday, 4 July 2005 23:37 (twenty years ago)
who knows, come five o'clock, i might be feeling 666, it seems now. funny old world. sorta.
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Monday, 4 July 2005 23:45 (twenty years ago)
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 00:54 (twenty years ago)
That was a couple hours ago, I guess. More recently: silence. Bracing myself for fireworks noises. I am defiantly going to go to bed before they begin.
― RS LaRue (RSLaRue), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 01:27 (twenty years ago)
― RS LaRue (RSLaRue), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 01:30 (twenty years ago)
― RS LaRue (RSLaRue), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 01:40 (twenty years ago)
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 23 September 2005 16:02 (nineteen years ago)
― youn, Saturday, 24 September 2005 02:54 (nineteen years ago)
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 24 September 2005 16:01 (nineteen years ago)
― willem (willem), Sunday, 25 September 2005 11:03 (nineteen years ago)
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Sunday, 25 September 2005 16:59 (nineteen years ago)
― nathalie, a bum like you (stevie nixed), Sunday, 25 September 2005 17:51 (nineteen years ago)
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 25 September 2005 19:57 (nineteen years ago)
― youn, Monday, 26 September 2005 00:20 (nineteen years ago)
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 26 September 2005 05:44 (nineteen years ago)
― nathalie, a bum like you (stevie nixed), Monday, 26 September 2005 06:41 (nineteen years ago)
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 26 September 2005 08:32 (nineteen years ago)
Richard Hawley 'Coles Corner' (on MC's recommendation, and I agree it's very good indeed. My brother compares his style to a cross between Roy Orbison and Johnny Cashthe last track is incredily haunting. The guitar on one track clearly alludes to Pulp's "Sunrise" - did he play on that track? I presume so)
Paul McCartney 'Chaos and Creation in the Back Yard' (especially "Riding to Vanity Fair", perhaps the one stand-out-classic piece, very much in the tradition of "McCartney II" as well as Robert Wyatt, as many have perceptively said.)
Relatedly:
Paul McCartney 'Flowers in the Dirt' (a mess really, due to their being 4 production teams producing different tracks; moments of greatness, mind: the bridge to "Motor of Love", with its pure Wilsonian harmonies - but then this evaporates into a dullard 'stadium-filling' chorus. Also, "My Brave Face" at least sounds invigorated, and the ambition of "Ou Est le Soleil" is to be applauded, even if it's hardly great work - Macca goes rave? Whilst sawing a piece of timber, reciting a French mantra and backed by Trevor Horn on keyboards? :)), 'Off the Ground' (frankly, a dismal record, without much to sugar the pill. I suppose "Golden Earth Girl" shows a classically McCartney melody given something like full wing, but there's little else but worthy 'diatribe' rockers), 'Flaming Pie' (better song-craft than the above, but really that itself shows: 'craft' and chore are interchangeable. The whole thing depends on how much you can stomach the retrograde 'back to basics' ethos; it's a shame some of the celebrity guest solos/jams etc. couldn't have been clipped, as it at least could have been a concise nostalgia record. Overall, not on the same planet as "Tug of War", his last great George Martin-produced album), 'Driving Rain' (certainly has more of a consistent feel than most of the above, and is an admirable attempt to return to slightly more experimental song textures, but... it's absurdly overlong and the roughness of the production is a major bane. Oh, and ahem "Freedom", need I say more about that abomination, which brings the record to a terrible conclusion? "Heather", "Your Loving Flame" and maybe another or so are fine melodies, mind)
Overall, the best material from these 4 could probably comprise a good album, if given consistent production.
Kitchens of Distinction 'Strange Free World' (first thing I have ever heard by them, and it does entice me to want to hear more: "Gorgeous Love" is particularly fine, a kind of viscous barnstormer. They do sound somewhere in the hinterlands between Smiths/Orange Juice and AR Kane/4AD/MBV/Cocteaus. Also rather like Chameleons, with the balance of guitar/vocals in the mix, and the specific guitar style)
SOS Band 'The Best of SOS Band'
Pram 'Helium'
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark 'Architecture & Morality' (great record this, esp. "Sealand", though singling things out is almost missing the point)
Al Bowlly with Ray Noble & His Orchestra 'The Dance Band Years' (*excellent* 2-CD compilation; 50 of the more sedate 1931-6 Noble period. Can anything be more sublime than "By the Fireside"? Or indeed the whole style of this music?)
― Tom May (Tom May), Monday, 26 September 2005 12:46 (nineteen years ago)
― Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Monday, 26 September 2005 12:55 (nineteen years ago)
I am not sure whether I like 'Fine Line'. I quite like Flowers in the Dirt, though.
― the pinefox, Monday, 26 September 2005 13:41 (nineteen years ago)
― the bellefox, Monday, 26 September 2005 13:42 (nineteen years ago)
― youn, Tuesday, 27 September 2005 01:31 (nineteen years ago)
― Sundar (sundar), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 01:32 (nineteen years ago)
― Sundar (sundar), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 04:56 (nineteen years ago)
been playing a few things by kagel, some other orchestral works and 'glissees' by isang yun for solo cello.
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 09:56 (nineteen years ago)
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 10:00 (nineteen years ago)
THE USUAL SHIT
― Ian John50n (orion), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 01:25 (nineteen years ago)
I think I've listened to this album at least once every few months for the past ten-plus years.
I guess I'm listening to:New PornographersA bunch of Northern Soul compsDevin Davis (not the hip hip guy, the other one)BroadcastThe MekonsThe Fruit Bats
― mikef (mfleming), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 04:16 (nineteen years ago)
― nutrasweet glider, Wednesday, 28 September 2005 04:22 (nineteen years ago)
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 09:29 (nineteen years ago)
Today :
Monsoon - Ever So Lonely 12" has been on repeat play on my i-pod all morning!
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 10:29 (nineteen years ago)
― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 15:37 (nineteen years ago)
― Douglas (Douglas), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 15:50 (nineteen years ago)
scarface the fix
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 21:41 (nineteen years ago)
― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 21:50 (nineteen years ago)
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 21:52 (nineteen years ago)
Also, Stravinsky - L'Histoire du SoldatMax Morath Plays the Best of Scott Joplin and Other Classic RagsDisc 1 of The Tatrai Quartet's recording of Haydn's Six SQs.
― Sundar (sundar), Thursday, 29 September 2005 05:25 (nineteen years ago)
― Sundar (sundar), Thursday, 29 September 2005 05:53 (nineteen years ago)
― the bellefox, Thursday, 29 September 2005 13:22 (nineteen years ago)
― the bellefox, Thursday, 29 September 2005 13:23 (nineteen years ago)
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 29 September 2005 17:22 (nineteen years ago)
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 29 September 2005 19:28 (nineteen years ago)
-- milton parker (milton.parke...), September 21st, 2005.
I did watch 'the bitter tears...' on thur. I haven't seen the film but the story was set up all thrashy-like. the music was made up of these repetitive brass figures at its core which I thought mirrored the main character that feels too much (pain, love, success... its all in excess). I was also looking at the ways in which this could have been an anti-opera (after all barry did study w/kagel) and so I wondered whether the libretto was just lifted straight from the film because there are a lot of lines, quite a bit that's said but I haven't heard that much eng-speaking opera but I think this could've worked better as a musical!! I like to see more composers having a go at these.
I had a gd time.
this ws broadcast today (i didn't hear it). radio 3 archive many of their programmes for a week so try to find it (had a quick look but couldn't).
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 1 October 2005 21:35 (nineteen years ago)
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 1 October 2005 21:49 (nineteen years ago)
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 3 October 2005 07:13 (nineteen years ago)
Dave Godin's Deep Soul Treasures Vol 1
On my pile here to listen to while working today are :
Comsat Angels - 7 Day Weekend12" 80's Vol 2DI Go PopPink Floyd - EchoesUpsetters - Double Seven
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Monday, 3 October 2005 07:48 (nineteen years ago)
― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 3 October 2005 08:10 (nineteen years ago)
― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Monday, 3 October 2005 10:00 (nineteen years ago)
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 14:51 (nineteen years ago)
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 17:56 (nineteen years ago)
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 6 October 2005 14:18 (nineteen years ago)
Bob Dylan & The Band: A Tree With Roots: The Basement Tapes Originals
No-one else seems worth listening to: it's like 1990 all over again!
― the bellefox, Thursday, 6 October 2005 14:47 (nineteen years ago)
― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 6 October 2005 15:10 (nineteen years ago)
― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Thursday, 6 October 2005 22:19 (nineteen years ago)
(Also the 14th C pop song at the bottom of this mass is 43 seconds of grebtness!)
― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Thursday, 6 October 2005 22:31 (nineteen years ago)