Recent CD Purchases
Felt like taking a break from my usual fare and picked up Danger Doom's The Mouse & The Mask. I've been meaning to check out Danger Mouse and/or MF Doom (I believe he has other aliases as well) so this was a perfect way for me to kill two birds with one stone. Wonderfully inventive and just more fun than the law should allow.
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Extreme Honey
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invisible Pole
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I know they do a lot of shows in and around town, but I haven't actually heard them yet. I think my friend (the other Adam who writes for Being There) digs 'em.Who Shot Sam? wrote:Got a copy of the new Great Lake Swimmers CD, Bodies And Minds in the local college radio fund drive. Blue, you know anything about these guys (I think they're from the Toronto area)? A wonderful surprise, because I wasn't even sure what they were going to send me.
This morning you've got time for a hot, home-cooked breakfast! Delicious and piping hot in only 3 microwave minutes.
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miss buenos aires
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Just ordered copies of:
The new Franz Ferdinand
The latest Architecture In Helsinki (going to see them this wednesday)
Springsteen's The River (only had a naughty, rather illegal copy previously)
Dylan's John Wesley Harding & Blonde On Blonde
The Band's self-titled album
Hope I'll get them this week :P
The new Franz Ferdinand
The latest Architecture In Helsinki (going to see them this wednesday)
Springsteen's The River (only had a naughty, rather illegal copy previously)
Dylan's John Wesley Harding & Blonde On Blonde
The Band's self-titled album
Hope I'll get them this week :P
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Extreme Honey
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Franz Ferdinand does nothing for me either, but you have to respect other people's tastes on this forum, Extreme. For the most part, you are surrounded by people with an impeccible sense of taste. Elvis fans tend to like a wide variety of music of quality. Many of us buy CDs based around other forum users suggestions and sometimes even end up finding a new favourite artist.Extreme Honey wrote:Why do you guys buy Franz Ferdinard? Buy Oasis if you feel like wasting your time, at least they do Beatles covers!
This morning you've got time for a hot, home-cooked breakfast! Delicious and piping hot in only 3 microwave minutes.
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Extreme Honey
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BlueChair wrote:Franz Ferdinand does nothing for me either, but you have to respect other people's tastes on this forum, Extreme. For the most part, you are surrounded by people with an impeccible sense of taste. Elvis fans tend to like a wide variety of music of quality. Many of us buy CDs based around other forum users suggestions and sometimes even end up finding a new favourite artist.Extreme Honey wrote:Why do you guys buy Franz Ferdinard? Buy Oasis if you feel like wasting your time, at least they do Beatles covers!
Ya that's why I said that, I mean I see all this music that I'm pretty sure is amazing and then out of nowhere I see Franz Ferdinard (and I'm like WTF???)!
Preacher was a talkin' there's a sermon he gave,
He said every man's conscience is vile and depraved,
You cannot depend on it to be your guide
When it's you who must keep it satisfied
He said every man's conscience is vile and depraved,
You cannot depend on it to be your guide
When it's you who must keep it satisfied
Picked up I Believe To My Soul, and it's really, really good. Ann Peebles' take on Bob Dylan's "Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You" is terrific, as are the new Allen Toussaint originals.
This morning you've got time for a hot, home-cooked breakfast! Delicious and piping hot in only 3 microwave minutes.
I dreamed about JimiHendrix
He came back for one day
Was born weepin’ out of an egg
The mid-wife said
And straight away began to pray
With lifted head
He spent the early hours
Communing with the morning stars
And then he came over to my house
Where he tried out my guitar
He was young and black and beautiful
Big eyed, perfect skin an’
He played my guitar like a lightning storm
Like twirlin’ feathers in the wind
He could make it sound like the end of the world
A fire, the flick of a knife
He could squeeze it slow and masterful
Like the hand that brought the world to life
Together we strolled in sculptured gardens
Passed the sleepy afternoon
Maids were dartin’ back and forth
From a window came a violin tune
Angels, dressed as nurses toyed with playin’ cards
Looters sprung from prisons filled the yard
A yellow sun hung low and yawned,
And as it dipped
Jimi stood up straight, grinned
And shook his velvet hips
Callin’ himself "King Electric"
In the evening he went wild
Played on a dozen stages
In the clubs of New York -
Lit the city end to end
Wired it up, fired it up
Scarved, bejewelled, long-legged, snake-limbed
Athletic, driven, dangerous
He made all Manhattan shake
And every street and sidewalk quake
His Stratocaster caused the mighty Empire State
To vibrate
His whammy bar caused shock-eyed punks from
Hackensack and Yonkers
Raised on speed-metal and rap
To enter trance and levitate
He played "Purple Haze" in Pyramid,
"Voodoo Chile" at Sin-E,
"Up From the Skies" and "Stone Free"
In King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut
He did a forty-two minute
karmic rising future shock
"Star Spangled Banner"
In the back of CBGB’s
He stopped every clock in New York state
And every heart that heard him
And Time itself was beaten and confused
And fell lamb-like under the spell of his fabulous flashing fingers
He played an encore at the Bitter End
A heartburst "Little Wing"
Even the waiters cried
And then we fell outside
And in the dusty dawn of Bleeker Street
A sweet rain fell
And Jimi died
He came back for one day
Was born weepin’ out of an egg
The mid-wife said
And straight away began to pray
With lifted head
He spent the early hours
Communing with the morning stars
And then he came over to my house
Where he tried out my guitar
He was young and black and beautiful
Big eyed, perfect skin an’
He played my guitar like a lightning storm
Like twirlin’ feathers in the wind
He could make it sound like the end of the world
A fire, the flick of a knife
He could squeeze it slow and masterful
Like the hand that brought the world to life
Together we strolled in sculptured gardens
Passed the sleepy afternoon
Maids were dartin’ back and forth
From a window came a violin tune
Angels, dressed as nurses toyed with playin’ cards
Looters sprung from prisons filled the yard
A yellow sun hung low and yawned,
And as it dipped
Jimi stood up straight, grinned
And shook his velvet hips
Callin’ himself "King Electric"
In the evening he went wild
Played on a dozen stages
In the clubs of New York -
Lit the city end to end
Wired it up, fired it up
Scarved, bejewelled, long-legged, snake-limbed
Athletic, driven, dangerous
He made all Manhattan shake
And every street and sidewalk quake
His Stratocaster caused the mighty Empire State
To vibrate
His whammy bar caused shock-eyed punks from
Hackensack and Yonkers
Raised on speed-metal and rap
To enter trance and levitate
He played "Purple Haze" in Pyramid,
"Voodoo Chile" at Sin-E,
"Up From the Skies" and "Stone Free"
In King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut
He did a forty-two minute
karmic rising future shock
"Star Spangled Banner"
In the back of CBGB’s
He stopped every clock in New York state
And every heart that heard him
And Time itself was beaten and confused
And fell lamb-like under the spell of his fabulous flashing fingers
He played an encore at the Bitter End
A heartburst "Little Wing"
Even the waiters cried
And then we fell outside
And in the dusty dawn of Bleeker Street
A sweet rain fell
And Jimi died
echos myron like a siren
with endurance like the liberty bell
and he tells you of the dreamers
but he's cracked up like the road
and he'd like to lift us up, but we're a very heavy load
with endurance like the liberty bell
and he tells you of the dreamers
but he's cracked up like the road
and he'd like to lift us up, but we're a very heavy load
The Magic Numbers - A wonderful collection of pop. I probably wouldn't have bought this CD if not for this board. (Seeing them perform one song on Conan is hard to judge by.) Thanks.
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think that you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt
- M. Twain
- M. Twain
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selfmademug
I recently had occasion to pick up the following, all second-hand:
Elbow - Asleep In the Back
Idlewild - 100 Broken Windows
Idlewild - The Remote Part
Luna - Rendezvous
Signed,
Self-Made Pop Whore
PS, are there other Luna/Galaxy 500 fans here? I've never heard anything by them I didn't like. Almost none of it is earth shattering but it is just so simply GOOD. Prolific buncha mofos, too, my Lord. Excellent Sunday morning and driving music.
Elbow - Asleep In the Back
Idlewild - 100 Broken Windows
Idlewild - The Remote Part
Luna - Rendezvous
Signed,
Self-Made Pop Whore
PS, are there other Luna/Galaxy 500 fans here? I've never heard anything by them I didn't like. Almost none of it is earth shattering but it is just so simply GOOD. Prolific buncha mofos, too, my Lord. Excellent Sunday morning and driving music.
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Otis Westinghouse
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Cor, some great purchases!
Asleep In The Back isn't as consistent of LOFTW, of course, but the high points (Newborn, Red) are as high as can be. Is the title track on it? Not on my version, was added later on.
Chrille: love your stash! Two Dylan classics, for sure.
On The Beach: an all-time classic. Had it on vinyl (still pristine) since the 70s.
Don't know that Waterboys song/LP, Mike. Rateable?
Extreme: I love FF because they are very in touch with the buzz of 1980 that made me a mad music fanatic aged 15/16, but also have all it takes to connect with my 12 year old son (as witnessed in London a week ago - see gig thread). They are very into being populist without being 'cocky twats', as Kapranos put it recently, and I can't think of a band I'd more like to see in the charts. I loved them from the off, but seeing them live made me realise how much energy, fun, passion, and songwriting class they are stuffed with. Their ability to appeal to such a broad audience is a wonderful thing. Dull, plodding Oasis have not even 100th of their class and quality.
Asleep In The Back isn't as consistent of LOFTW, of course, but the high points (Newborn, Red) are as high as can be. Is the title track on it? Not on my version, was added later on.
Chrille: love your stash! Two Dylan classics, for sure.
On The Beach: an all-time classic. Had it on vinyl (still pristine) since the 70s.
Don't know that Waterboys song/LP, Mike. Rateable?
Extreme: I love FF because they are very in touch with the buzz of 1980 that made me a mad music fanatic aged 15/16, but also have all it takes to connect with my 12 year old son (as witnessed in London a week ago - see gig thread). They are very into being populist without being 'cocky twats', as Kapranos put it recently, and I can't think of a band I'd more like to see in the charts. I loved them from the off, but seeing them live made me realise how much energy, fun, passion, and songwriting class they are stuffed with. Their ability to appeal to such a broad audience is a wonderful thing. Dull, plodding Oasis have not even 100th of their class and quality.
There's more to life than books, you know, but not much more
Otis - Tis a brand new Live Waterboys album - and its damn good - the song quoted above - "The Return of Jimi Hendrix" is from the "Dream Harder" record and Ive always loved the lyrics to it - its featured here with some amazing fuzz violin tho I think I prefer the "Dream Harder" version which features some incredible drumming by Jim Keltner.
"Karma to Burn" also has a great "Fishermans Blues" , "The Whole of the Moon", a 13 minute "Pan Within" and the wonderful "The Glastonbury Song".
"Karma to Burn" also has a great "Fishermans Blues" , "The Whole of the Moon", a 13 minute "Pan Within" and the wonderful "The Glastonbury Song".
echos myron like a siren
with endurance like the liberty bell
and he tells you of the dreamers
but he's cracked up like the road
and he'd like to lift us up, but we're a very heavy load
with endurance like the liberty bell
and he tells you of the dreamers
but he's cracked up like the road
and he'd like to lift us up, but we're a very heavy load
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Otis Westinghouse
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You bet.
Some gifts, and some from the library (so some money was involved here at some point!). You can never get too much new music in the house (not to mention the 28 Dime downloads I have yet to listen to):
Sufjan Stevens: Come On Feel The Illinoise! (somehow 'Illinois' just doesn't havee the same ring) - very nice
Richard Swift
The Name of This Band is Talking Heads - played CD1, stunningly good, better than I'd even dared epxect
Burnin' - The Wailers (I don't think I've ever heard this the whole way through)
Miles Davis - In A Silent Way (I hadn't realised the title track was credited to Joe Zawinul before)
Some gifts, and some from the library (so some money was involved here at some point!). You can never get too much new music in the house (not to mention the 28 Dime downloads I have yet to listen to):
Sufjan Stevens: Come On Feel The Illinoise! (somehow 'Illinois' just doesn't havee the same ring) - very nice
Richard Swift
The Name of This Band is Talking Heads - played CD1, stunningly good, better than I'd even dared epxect
Burnin' - The Wailers (I don't think I've ever heard this the whole way through)
Miles Davis - In A Silent Way (I hadn't realised the title track was credited to Joe Zawinul before)
There's more to life than books, you know, but not much more
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