What Records do you keep playing?

The ones that I keep coming back to generally fit a certain mood when nothing but full volume trashy classics will do. It's usually odd tracks rather than full albums, which involves a certain amount of skittering between shelves and CDP, but when you're on an early evening gin high it doesn't really seem to matter.

Stooges: Fun House or 'I Wanna Be Your Dog'
Sisters of Mercy: 'Temple Of Love' or something from Floodland
Divine: The Cream of Divine - most tracks are winners, but 'I'm So Beautiful' usually hits the spot, or maybe 'Shoot Your Shot'.
Morrissey: 'Boy Racer'
Shampoo: Girl Power [don't snicker, you probably haven't heard it - every track a belter, especially 'Don't Call Me babe'].
T Rex: 'Beltane Walk' from eponymous album.
Army of Lovers: 'Israelism' [it's not my fault if nobody understood them].
Donna Summer: sides 1,2 & 4 from Once Upon A Time [side 3 is cringemaking].
Nirvana: 'Rainbow Chaser' [no, the other lot]
Rammstein: 'Du Hast'
Mark Wirtz: 'Weatherman' from the Teenage Opera album [sort of] that 'Excerpt from A ...' came from.

Partner & cat run and hide, but what do they know. Sadly, DSOTM & the works of messrs. Oldfield, Yes & Zep continue to gather dust. It's an old fart imagination thing.


throb

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Partner & cat run and hide, but what do they know. Sadly, DSOTM & the works of messrs. Oldfield, Yes & Zep continue to gather dust.

throb

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It's odd that Led Zep are arguably my favourite band yet I dont seem to play there stuff on a regular basis. I'll often have a theme night, 80's new wave at the moment ( Perfect Zebras, Flaming Mussolinis etc. ) or another recent one was 80's soul but I could then go ages without replaying them.

Most new purchases get a regular airing but the 3 titles at the begining of this thread are the ones that get played most regularly.

Agree with the choice of Donna Summer though. Has any "Disco" music aged so well?

Paul.

Donna Summer - The definite LP is 'Bad Girls', especially Side 4.

I remeber being driven in a Mk IV Cortina with this on the car audio, driving at night through neon lit streets, a perfect moment.

O.K, it hasn't got 'I feel love' on it, but Giorgio Moroder's production and the chuggin bass synths on Side 4 are just brilliant.

Where are they now eh?

DS

OTD - Donna Summer - Our Love

At the moment:

1. Sixtoo - Antagonist Survival Kit
2. Kid Acne - Council Pop
3. Mr Dibbs - 30th Song

Pink Floyd - Animals
Stone Roses - Stone Roses
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
Boards of Canada - Music has the right to children
Janes Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual
The Jesus Lizard - Goat
Aphex Twin - all of it

Dave Brubeck asked

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Stereolab (anybody know what they are up to now since the accident?)

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This from the official Stereolab website that promises a new EP in October. No word on whether they have replaced Mary Hansen, though.

The High Llamas are also worth a listen if you like Stereolab. The Sean O'Hagan connection makes for a very similarly laid back musical style at times.

Ed.

The ones that spring to mind are:

Sonic Youth - A Thousand Leaves
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance (and early singles)
Joni Mitchel - Blue
Nirvana - Unplugged
Art Ensemble of Chicago
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless


Best regards

Hans,

A man of taste, as I share several of your selections.

Have you tried the Datapanik in the Year Zero 5 CD box set? It contains the early singles and some proto Ubu and Rocket from the Tombs version sof the classic tracks like 30 seconds, Heart of Darkness etc, and the first few LPs.

Recommended.

DS

OTD - 1000 Homo DJs - Better Ways

1. Wishbone Ash - Argus
2. King Crimson - Lizard
3. UFO - Flying
4. Deep Purple - Made In Japan
5. The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
6. Savoy Brown - Raw Sienna
7. Premiata Forneria Maconi - Performance
8. John Mayall - Turning Point
9. It's A Beautiful Day - It's A Beautiful
Day And Marr. M.
10.Fleetwood Mac - P. Green Fleetwood Mac

Ozren

David

Thanks for the compliment.

Yes I do have the Pere Ubu five box set. I play the first CD often (the one with the ëarly singles and the first LP). I also have most of their early stuff on vinyl. The CD's sound great though.

Also purchased the Rocket from the Tombs album that was released about a year ago, not bad.

Hans

Hans,

Good stuff!

I got the RFTT album, but on CD - The vinyl version was v. limited, and was on offer at 28 pounds!

I have a couple of the Hearthen 7" singles to cherish. I think I saw a singles box set once, of the four / five 7" vinyls.

Do you follow David Thomas's solo work as well?

Did I imagine it, or did I see a recent release with Alan Ravenstein on?

Ds

OTD - Coburn - Ska Song

I have David Thomas's first solo album and a 12" 45 which are pretty good. Lost track after that.

Both his solo stuff and late Ubu started getting to silly for my taste.

The best concert I have been to was an Ubu gig in Zurich about 10-12 years ago. This was really Ubu past their peak but the concert was wonderfull. They had about half the original line-upo and played a mixture of old and new stuff. The atmosohere was fantastic.

After the usuall encore the audience kept applauding and shouting for the band to come back again. David Thomas came out twice to bow and say thet weren't allowed to play more. After more than 20 minutes they did come for two additional encores. The audiance was still not satisfied and kept applauding, whistling and shouting for more while the lights where turned on and the roadies started to dismantle the equipment. Unforgettable.

Pere Ubu really where my favourite band for a long time.


Hans

Top of the pile recently....

John Hiatt - Crossing Muddy Waters
Steve Tannen - Big Senorita
Deb Talan - A Bird Flies Out
Michael Stanley - Eighteen Down
Lucinda Williams - Sweet Old World
Massive Attack - Blue Lines

Duncan Sheik,Luce,and Soul Asylum FREE in downtown Portland tonight ... under the stars.

Good listenin'

Just listened to The Mutton Birds "Rain steam and speed". I must have played this album fifty times over the last 4 years and yet this listen still revealed new treasures. The e-bow guitar solo on "Jackies song" still gives me the chills. Wonderful.

Both Coldplay albums and also Moby Play.

Easily fine work by both artists.