Conrad Schnitzler : Grun
Grateful Dead : Birth of the Dead
Grateful Dead : Dick's Pick's Vol. 22 (Lake Tahoe CA 8-23/24 1968)
Grateful Dead : Live Dead
Grateful Dead : History of the Grateful Dead (Bear's Choice)
Parallel Worlds : existence
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band : Alt. Strictly Personal
Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band : Flavor Bud Living
(custom comp of instro's)
Sonny Boy Williamson : His Best
Right now I'm playing Rhythm & Sound W/ The Artists. Despite its forgettable name, I'd say this is one of the best dub albums I've ever heard and I'm kicking myself for not mentioning it in Sea Cat's thread a few weeks ago.
I'll list the rest tomorrow or something... All this talk of Kevin Ayers lately has got me on an Ayers kick, though. Lazily warped perfection (well, apart from one or two not so interesting tracks).
• John Coltrane - Sun Ship
• Moris Tepper - A Singer Named Shotgun Throat
• Rough Church - The White Dove Of The Desert
• Bob Dylan - Together Through Life
• Henry Threadgill Sextet - When Was That?
• Henry Threadgill - Zooid
• Roky Erickson - True Love Cast Out All Evil
• Captain Beefheart - Ice Cream For Crow
• (some live tape of Thurston Moore with Rashied Ali)
• Alice Coltrane - Eternity
• Tom Waits - Bone Machine
• The Grateful Dead - Blues For Allah
• Albert Ayler - Music Is The Healing Force Of The Universe
vinyl -
Kevin Ayers -
BBC Sessions 70-72
Odd Ditties
Confessions of Dr Dream
June 1 1974
Pink Floyd -
Projected Sounds (lavender color vinyl, Syd-era outtakes)
Santana -
Santana 3
Brian Jonestown Massacre
Bravery Repetition & Noise
Bowie -
An Evening with David Bowie (US 1978 westwood one radio promo lp...interviews, cues, 'Stage' live cuts)
cd
Infant Sorrow - get him to the greek.
dvd
Curb Your Enthusiasm season 7
Mike Oldfield/ Hergest Ridge and Ommadawn
The Enid/ Something Wicked This Way Comes
Pharoah Sanders/ Karma
Sun Araw/ On Patrol
Supersilent/ 8
Elephant9/ Walk the Nile
Tangerine Dream/ Bootleg Box 1
Psychatrone Rhonedakk & Cotton Casino/ Baron Von Rhonedakk and the Crystal Sun
Alex/ That's the Deal
Burzum/ Belus
Aeolian Race/ Landlocked Nation
Grails/ Burning Off Impurities
Gun/ ST
Orange Peel/ ST
The Amazing/ Wait for a Light to Come
Espers/ II
Groundhogs/ Hogwash
Et Cetra/ ST
Back Door/ ST
Tobruk/ ST
F. G. Experimental Laboratory/ Journey Into a Dream
LSD March/ Constellation of Tragedy
Lift/ The Moment of Hearing
The Pretty Things/ Philippe DeBarge
Fuzz Beloved/ ST
Bob Catley/ Legends
Bevis Frond/ New River Head
Bubble Puppy/ A Gathering of Promises
Jukka Tolonen/ The Hook
Captain Beyond/ ST
Pandit D.K. Datar/ Tone and Rhythm. (Indian classical violin)
Matthew Shipp Quartet/ The Flow of X
IEM/ Box Set
Electric Orange/ Morbus
Anekdoten/ Nucleus
Sinkadus/ Cirkus
AR and Machine/ Erholung
Steamhammer/ MK II
Terry Riley/ Shri Camel
Mythos/ Dreamlab
Brendan Pollard/ Expansion
Soft Machine: 1 & 2
Kevin Ayers: Joy Of A Toy/Whatevershebringswesing/Bananamour/Shooting At The Moon/Confessions Of Dr Dream/The Unfairground
Grateful Dead: GD/Aoxomoxoa/Anthem Of The Sun/Live Dead/Live At The Filmore '69
Howling Wolf: Anthology
Leadbelly: Anthology
Pharoah Sanders: Karma
Ravi Shankar & Yehudi Menuhin: West Meets East
Can: Monster Movie/Egge Bamyasi/Tago Mago
George Harrison: All Things Must Pass
Holst: Planet Suite
ps: thanks for the Dub tip Sin Agog. I'm onto it.
The Style Council 'Modernism - A New Decade' - a bit of a guilty pleasure, this, but it don't half make my woofers throb;
Cope 'Fried' - well, you know all about this one. Sounds great on vinyl, even if my copy is barely thicker than a flexidisc. 80's vinyl, doncha just love it;
Dave Brubeck Quartet 'Jazz Impressions Of New York' - still my all-time favourite jazz LP, cool and sophisticated almost to a fault;
Caravan 'Caravan' - eight perfect slices of psychedelic pop glory, sounding especially good in mono. Getting me nicely in the mood for my annual Canterbury trip;
Spooky Tooth 'You Broke My Heart So I Busted Your Jaw' and 'Witness' - fine, gospel-tinged, bluesy rock and roll featuring the great (and sorely underrated) Mike Harrison in his vocal prime;
Talking Heads 'Fear Of Music' - the third, and last IMHO, great Heads album, though it sounds tinny and lifeless in its current CD edition: I'm keeping my fingers crossed for a decent vinyl edition as good as '77';
The Jolt 'The Jolt' - played this for the first time in years, and really enjoyed it. Much better than the eternal Jam comparisons suggest.
Plus a bit of classical as usual: Arnold Cooke's excellent Third Symphony, Giulini's magisterial reading of Beethoven's Sixth (soon to be reissued as part of a tempting box set of that maestro's Los Angeles Philharmonic recordings - and I rate the Beethoven 5 therein in the top five all-time interpretations of that work, it being a bit of an obsession of mine, to say the least*), Kubelik's wonderful Mahler 5 and live 'Ma Vlast', and some elegant Haydn quartets from the great Tatrai Quartet: the Op.54 & 55 sets, to be exact.
(* 135 recordings and counting...sad but true)
Long may your lums reek with sonic splendour, dear friends.
Dave
Albums
Kele - The Boxer
Wovenhand - The Threshingfloor (recommended!)
Wovenhand - Mosaic
Wovenhand - Ten Stones
Wovenhand - Woven Hand
Wovenhand - Blush Music
Wovenhand - Consider The Birds
Haight Ashbury - Favourite Song EP
Sweetwater - Sweetwater
Black Carrot - Milking Scarabs for Dough
MGMT - Congratulations
Dom Thomas - The Exploding Disco Inevitable (excellent!)
Detroit Social Club - Existence
Amorphous Androgynous - The Peppermint Tree
GAM - Eiszeit
Tracks
The Dovers - She's Gone (tune!)
The Bluetones - A New Athens
Plank - La Luna
Tame Impala - Solitude is Bliss
+Lots of random stuff for DJing
+Lots of 6Music
Have a great week tune sniffers.
Factory Floor - Lying/A Wooden Box 10" & Stephen Morris remix 12"... Sound like Section 25 from the days of old. Really liking these noise merchants.
Al Green - The Very Best Of... Loving this. £3 from Sainbury's in with the weekly shopping; surprised at how much of it I recognise, How Can You Mend A Broken Heart? is quite simply sublime!
NEU! - '86... Downloaded this after liking the Record Store Day 12"; not much of a departure from the previous 3 albums, but that's a good thing.
Public Image Ltd - The greatest hits, so far...
Neil Diamond - Jonathan Livingston Seagull... Powerful voice, great orchestration.
Spacemonkeyz versus Gorillaz - Laika Come Home... A great album, classic dub reworkings of the 1st Gorillaz album. Love it.
:o)
Julian Cope You Gotta Problem With Me
SunnO))) – Black One
West Side Story – Ost
Uriah Heep – Look At Yourself
Deep Purple – Denmark 72, Machinehead, Fireball
Danzig – 4
V/A – Gold Leafed Branches
Blade Runner - Ost
System Of A Down – Hypnotise
Fuzztones – Lysergic Emnations
Om – Pilgrimage
Iggy Pop – Brick By Brick
Free – Tons Of Sobs, Free, Live
Hawkwind – Doremi Fasol Latido
Spacemen 3 – Dreamweapon
Spectrum – Live Chronicles 2
Boris – Dronevil
Black Tempest – Ancient Chrome
Supertramp – Crime Of The Century
Led Zeppelin – live 69
Voice Of The seven Thunders, Six Organs Of Admittance live at Miss Peapods
Iron Maiden - Best Of
Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance
We've Got A Fuzzbox And We're Gonna Use It - Bostin' Steve Austin!
Freestyle Fellowship - Innercity Griots
Family - Music In a Doll's House
Th' Faith Healers - Peel Sessions
The Junipers - Cut Your Key
Julian Cope - Autogeddon
Peggy Lee - Mirrors
Kurt Weill, Lotte Lenya etc. - The Threepenny Opera (1929)
Donovan - HMS Donovan
Joyce & Nelson Angelo - Nelson Angelo e Joyce
Charley Patton - Complete Recordings
Gunter Schickert - Uberfallig
Gam - Eiszeit
Red Krayola - Singles
Tone Dogs - The Early Middle Years
V.A. - Cowabunga! The Surf Box (Reading Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice gave me a serious need for some surf music)
Kousokya - First
Rhythm & Sound W/ The Artists
Blue Orchids - A Darker Bloom
Popol Vuh - Tantric Songs
Royal Trux - Cats & Dogs
The Ventures - Live in Japan
The Fall - Your Future Our Clutter
Keith Hudson - Flesh of my Flesh, Blood of my Blood
Neil Gaiman - The Graveyard Book (audiobook)
& those Kevin Ayers albums I mentioned
Adam & The Antz - "Zerox" 7"
Crispy Ambulance - The Plateau Phase
Madness - The Rise & Fall double CD reissue
The Art of Noise - Into Battle With The Art of Noise
Madness - Keep Moving double CD
The Durutti Column - Piccadilly Radio Session 1987
Vermorel - "Stereo Porno" 7"
Cranes - "Adoration" CD single
Steve Martland - Glad Day EP
Julian Cope - Floored Genius 2 double CD reissue
The Fatima Mansions - "1,000%" 2 x CD single
PJ Harvey - Four Track Demos
Aphex Twin - Ventolin EP
The Flaming Stars - Hospital, Heaven or Hell EP
The Jesus & Mary Chain - "I Hate Rock'n'Roll" CD single
Morrissey - "The Boy Racer" 2 x CD singles
The Fall - "The Chiselers" CD single
Underworld - "Beautiful Burnout" mixes
Wild Billy Childish & The MBEs - "He's Making A Tape" 7"
Those Dancing Days - "Hitten" CD single
School of Seven Bells - Alpinisms
Suzanne Vega - Close Up Vol 1: Love Songs
Gold Panda - "You" mixes
School of Seven Bells - "Windstorm"
Rowland S Howard - Pop Crimes. Very likely to make the end of year lists, a terrific album.
CROSSING THE RED SEA - The Adverts
A genuinely great punk LP IMO, with No Time To Be 21 sounding particularly fine this week.
BIRTHDAY – The Association
Anyone else think that The Bus Song sounds like Decca-era Bowie?
DARK ORGASM –Julian Cope
As mentioned I think Zoroaster and I Don’t Want To Grow Back are two of Cope’s best tracks in recent years. I have to be in the mood for the lengthy Death & Resurrection Show Pt 1 and I guess I wasn’t at ten to nine on a Tuesday morning.
CASTE – Dual
Featuring a certain ‘Julian Coope’ on a couple of tracks.
PLASTIC BEACH – Gorillaz
This just keeps getting better. Top pop LP!
RAW POWER AT THE HAMMERSMITH APOLLO – Iggy & the Stooges
Pretty good recording of a fine night out!
THE VERY BEST OF... – Mott The Hoople
I love those MTH singles, but honestly, I've tried to like the LP tracks at various times over the years and they’ve never done that much for me. And hearing them again here does nothing to change that view. Call me an old pop tart if you like but whilst the singles are lovely sparkly things that shine in your heart, I tend to find the album tracks to be workman-like rock that basically consists of a yobbish sounding Dylan fan hollering over some tired old Stones riffs. But All The Young Dudes, Honaloochie Boogie, etc are class 45’s that I’ll love till the day I die.
AND ANOTHER THING – The Nightingales
New live album. The opening track, Bang Out Of Order, is an absolute cracker!
THE COLLECTION – Teardrop Explodes
A bit of an odd collection really. If it’s meant to be a Greatest Hits, it’s strange that some of the singles are missing (and I’m not taking the Zoo 45’s or the withdrawn Ha Ha I’m Drowning into consideration either). There’s no When I Dream, Tiny Children or You Disappear From View, but there are lots of my all-time favourites here. The Great Dominions is one of the greatest tracks ever IMO! Incidentally, i-tunes showed the following titles being here... Like Leila Khaked Said and Serious Dancer, which I think is a great title!
A LITTLE BLISS FOREVER – White Hills
A big thanks is in order for this lovely piece of vinyl. Especially taken with side 1 on 1st play.
ALSO...
NAKED FRIENDS – Cabinessence
THE COLLECTION – Julian Cope
WERK - Electrolad
FAUST IS LAST – Faust
CHASING AFTER SHADOWS – Hammock
KOYO – Junkboy
THE SONGS WE SANG FOR AUNTIE – The Kinks
HYDE PARK 2010 – Paul McCartney
POWER CORRUPTION & LIES – New Order
WHAT’S NOT TO LOVE – The Nightingales
SPECULATION – To Rococo Rot
THE ESSENTIAL CUBAN ANTHOLOGY – V/A
ACETATES – Velvet Underground
Sun Ra - My Brother The Wind Vol. I & II, Disco 3000
Sun Araw - On Patrol
Lots of PARLIAMENT (I have the Funkadelic records mostly memorized, but still find forgotten gems on those Parliament records.)
Some cool LP's I bought recently (did I mention these last week?):
Wand - Born Bad
MV & EE - Drone Trailer
Meat Puppets - Sewn Together
Black Mountain - In The Future
The last two are almost absurdly well manufactured - great thick slabs of vinyl (pukespray orange for M'uppets) in big fat thick carboard gatefolds!
But damndamndamn!!! my turntable has to go into the shop. Nasty hum and one channel out.
LIVE: Already reported on BLACK MOUNTAIN this week. Les Sans Coulottes (sic) this week, LIARS next week!
TAPE IN THE CAR: best of Miles 1970-74 (about 6 of my fave tracks on a c90. "SPANISH KEY" baby!!!!)
Marc Bolan - The Words & Music Of...
Genesis - Seconds Out
Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother
Beulah - When Your Heartstrings Break
Wishbone Ash - Argus
Madness - One Step Beyond
Mike & Lal Waterson - Bright Phoebus
Deep Purple - In Rock
Wizzard - Eddie & The Falcons
The Beach Boys - Surfin' Safari
HAIL! \m/
Been listening to...
Furyon - Underdog EP. new Brit metal band mixing rock classicism with C21 production. Riffy and heavy. I like.
Tudor Acid - Merri Portland. Like this! Kinda like a more accessable Squarepusher mix of mad beats with early Orbital tech-minimalism.
Orbital - Insides. Poss my fave Orbital album.
Pentangle - Solomon's Seal. Lost album found. Great.
Muse - The Resistance. BIG!
Robyn - Body Talk pt 1. Parts 2 & 3 to follow later this year I'm told. Pop Pixie does her thing once more. A couple of ballads on here remind you that she's got a lovely voice.
Black Tempest - Proxima. Excellent Tangy Squid fully realised to amazing effect. Well done that man/cephalopod! Top 1
Aliens - Astronomy For Dogs. Now that's what I call the psyche 60's as reimagined to joyous effect by former Beta people. Tis v good.
Holderlein Express - s/t. German folk-electronica melange. I like.
Audioslave - Revelations. The band that never overcame the sum of it's parts but this is more varied than earlier stuff and Chris Cornell has such a great rock voice.
Chick Corea - Early Days. Niiice
Worm Ouroboros - s/t Ace mix of mid-doom, earthy prog and folk elements with a female singer. Like it muchly! V good!
Have a nice week melody munchers x
British Seapower- Man of Aran (with the accompanying DVD, watched in the company of my 74-year old Dad)
David Crosby- If I Could Only Remember My Name
Tim Buckley- Happy Sad
Tim Buckley- Blue Afternoon
Elvis Costello- Mighty Like A Rose
Black Box Recorder- The Worst Of
Donovan- Essence To Essence
These New Puritans- Hidden
Van Morrison- New York Sessions '67
Van Morrison- Saint Dominic's Preview
Aphrodite's Child- Singles Plus
Sandy Denny- No more Sad Refrains (comp)
Mudhoney- Since We Became Translucent
The Make Up- Sound Verite
Of note, the new Ariel Pink.
Not even 'a bit psychedelic' can begin to descrine the bizarreness he creates.
Kind of reminds me of some of the sublime frequencies stuff.
The more radio-station oriented recordings.
The tune 'Fright Night' send shivers.
Has something like a 'contained euphoria'.
A nod to the movie?
Probably.
Anyroad, best he's done.
Love it.
x
Fox - Fox (lovely Noosha ooh la la as Goldfrapp would say)
T Rex - Tanx
David Bowie - Aladin Sane
Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure
The Sweet - Sweet Fanny Adams
Cockney Rebel - Psychomodo
Mount Vernon Arts Lab - Seance at Hobbs Lane
Broadcast and the Focus Group - Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age
Xenis Emputae Travelling Band - Stella & Astrophel
English Heretic - Wyrd Tales
Stone Breath - The Shepherdess and the Bone White Bird (waited nearly eight years for a new album and it was well worth it)
Forest Beggars - Virgo Mater Domina
The Wipers: Youth of America (title track, album, Weird System)
Man: Many are Called..(Live at the Padget Rooms, album, Esoteric Recordings)
Alice Cooper: Sing Low, Sweet Cherrio (Pretties for You, album, Rhino)
Komputer: Bill Gates (The World of Tomorrow, album, Mute)
Sleeping Dogs Wake: Walk On (Sugar Kisses, album, Hyperium)
Syntetika: Levitation (100%, album, Shaped Harmonics)
Nature and Organisation: Bonewhiteglory (Beauty Reaps the Blood of Solitude, album, WSD) ...I will listen to this forever
Gilbert/Hampson/Kendall: Source II (orr, album, Mute)
a;GRUMH: Ayatollah Jackson (single, PIAS)
The Anti Group: Morpheus Baby (Audiophile, album, Anterior Research Recs)
