what was the last cd you bought?

New York Tendaberry by Laura Nyro. Found it by chance in a sale rack for £4. Didn't have anything by her but I'd read that she was in some ways a precurser of Cat Power angst and awkward female songwriter. A good record - sounds in places like Joni Mitchell, Nina Simone, Carole King.

Kevin

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The Fiery Furnaces: Gallowsbird's Park
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What's this like? Their new one is a Top 5 '04 Ludwig sort of album.

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Ludwig,

It's rather good, IMO, with moments of excellence. Mostly acoustic music with tape loops and the woman singing over the top, etc. I'll probably find their latest, based on this.

Eric

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. I played a few clips of the "The dirty south" on the web recently which seemed pretty good to me so might invest in a copy. In fact I saw Southern rock opera in the shops today, but at £18.99 had to decline.

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This is available for £5.99 in my local MusicZone (Stockport).

Greeny

Worth buying it at that price even if you don't like em.

Spock

As a result of the 2nd riders evening the following arrived via Amazom and Audiostreet...
Jimmy Smith: The cat...The Incredible Jimmy Smith. ( I have to say that anyone into good music and also swing jazz will love this to bits!)
Winter Chill 3: Various
The best of Tony Joe White
J.J. Cale: To Tulsa and Back

further awaited.. Roger P and Roger40... Its all your fault...LOL

andy c!

From second hand shop in Guildford:-
ABBA - Arrival for Sally (Mrs Bigh).
Runrig - The Gaelic Collection '73-'98.
Foreplay - Eponymous first album. V good it is too.

Howard

Devendra Banhart- Nino Rojo (second '04 release from trippy hippy folkster god)

V/A- Zen; Zen Remixes (Ninjatune retrospectives)

Ok,
the 1st of the lorry load of DC's as a result of the 2nd Riders arrived over the weekend:

J.J. Cale - To Tulsa and Back*
Winter Chill 3 - various**
Best of Tony Joe White*
Dave Matthews - Some Devil
Elaine Elias - Dreamer*
Beachlife - Various**
The cat...The incredible Jimmy Smith**

*courtesy of Roger Poll
** courtesy of Roger40

andy c!

several more still on order...ker chink!

My new batch

The Essential Fripp and Eno
Chris Potter Lift Live at the Village Vanguard
Evan Parker - Memory Vision
Charlie Haden - Land of the Sun
Patricia Barber - Live a Fortnight in France
Pat Martino - Think Tank
David Darling - Cycles
Ralph Towner - Sounds and Shadows
Jan Garbarek - Eventyr
Keith Jarrett - Eyes of the Heart
Glass - Fool of Hearts (A local Sydney Jazzy/French type band I listened to whilst having lunch by the opera house on Saturday - pretty good)

Cheers

Nightwish
Once
Bless the child

MY system : Naim Nait 5 amplifier,Naim cd 5 ,Epos M 15 speakers,Naca5,FC2

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Dave Matthews - Some Devil
andy c!

several more still on order...ker chink!

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Andy,

can you expand on the "Some Devil" album when you've heard it ? It was used as the closing track on the film "21 Grams" (really good rental, very bleak, excellent performance from Penn / Benicio del Toro / Naomi Watts).

Surely not of The Dave Mathews Band?

Brian OReilly

Hi Brian,
yes it is he from the Dave matthews Band that you mention in your post.

I was put onto this Cd by David Boshell - he uses it for a test CD, and I really liked the songs. Matthews seems to have a 'chesty' sound to his vocals, but the production is first rate. My copy is an IMport from Amazon market place via caiman.com. I haveh as several CD's from this company all have been delivered undamaged etc etc.

At the riders evening one of the discussions was of better quality sound from US discs, although I have been unable to comare...

hope this helps - I'll listen to it more after I have got bored with Jimmy Smith - i am flogging that for all its worth at the moment - it's brill.

andy c!

Thanx Andy,

I only heard the track once, but it was quite haunting. Still in my head,in fact !

Brian OReilly

Brian,
That's how I'd probably describe the Cd - 'moody'. Only played it twice so i need to get into it a little more...

andy c!

Feeder - Picture of Perfect Youth double CD.
(collection of singles & B-sides)

HI,
Via ebay and through the post today:
Head kandi 06.02 (tracks 6 & 7 on CD2 are HDCD by the way!)
Ginny Owens: Blueprint (HDCD)

Both as a result of the bloody riders evening (thanx Nigel R and Roger H)!

andy c!

Purple Hearts - "Beat That": mod revivalists from the late 70s, incredibly fresh sounding, like the Buzzcocks with attitude

Pink Floyd - "The Division Bell" - HMV knocking out Floyd CDs for £7.99, I could not resist.

Regards

Mike

Spending money I don't have on things I don't need.

Talk Talk- Spirit of Eden - Been meaning to buy this for years.

Jam - Sound affects - Remaster to update older version


Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque. Only had on tape before. Now I can hear why they were accused of plagarising Big Star !!


Elvis Costello - New album - The Delivery Man- sounds pretty good on first hearing . On this he performs with the Imposters ( two thirds of the Attractions ). A rock/blues/soul/country set .


Regards,


Rod

AG said "Nick Cave - Lyre of Orpheus/Abbatoir Blues

Haven't heard it yet"

You should, ASAP. It's ace.

Matthew

In today's mail-

V/A- The Golden Apples Of The Sun (Folk comp by Devendra Banhart. I keep thinking of the hippy commune scene from Easy Rider. Dunno why. )

The Thrills - Let's Bottle Bohemia.
You know when you have a bath, and your body gets saturated by the water and you get prune like fingers? Well, this album is like having a shower. It does the same job, but you don't get soaked and water-logged. In fact you could do it again immediately and you stay nice and refreshed rather than heavy and sluggish.
Great for sunny mornings.

Went out and bought "Some Devil" by Dave Matthews based on comments above. Played it in the car this past few days and it pretty damm good.

I have now gone out and bought

Dave Matthews Band - Busted Stuff
Dave Matthews Band - Live at Red Rocks 8.15.95
Dave Matthews Band - Everyday

All sound very enjoyable - will road test them the next few days.

Cheers

On The Sunday of Life - Porcupine Tree

Just re-issued by Snapper. PT's first album although as Steven Wilson says on the sleeve notes it was never reallly intended as an album much of it consisted of things he produced in his bedroom and mixed down to cassette with many of the master tapes now missing so quality may be an issue (I'm listening on the portable so I'm not going to pass comment on that).

What is clear is that SW is an incredibly talented musician with plenty of ideas.

For anyone who has only heard recent PT this is quite different and has been compared elsewhere with early Pink Floyd (Syd Barrett era) which on first listening is fair I suppose. Its very whimsical, using fractured structures, strange, non-sensical lyrics and found sounds.

I also recently tracked down one of the few remaining copies of Yellow Hedgerow Dreamscape on yellow vinyl (my first ever coloured vinyl disks! I always avoided them in the late 70's/early 80's and went for boring old black) which was put together from the same source so I knew what kind of thing to expect.

Maybe one for the real fans (Garyi try the more recent stuff first) but a worthwhile purchase. I've yet to find a duff PT album and that includes the ones they've released composed of the floor sweepings from other albums (e.g. Recordings which is superb).

Look out for more PT re-releases on Snapper, coming ... eventually.

Hangover You Don't Deserve by Bowling for Soup

According to my students it is 'Punk Pop'.

I am now slightly frightened that I may become contaminated by Young People's Music

From Sonic Boom last night:

Amon Tobin- Permutation (Electro jazzy thumpy thumpy shaky shaky stuff- I've been into this lately)
Arcade Fire- Funeral ($9.99 and I was previously told they were sold out! Haven't listened though...)