Another few bits of black vinyl in the collection :
Stereophonics - JEEP. Bought this one despite the bad reviews. Wish I hadn't bothered. Couple of nice tunes, but not a shade on performace and cocktails.
J Mascis & SMOG - Not listened to this yet.
Badlydrawnboy - Hour of the bewilderbeast. Read some really good reviews of this. Was very disappointed. Clever I guess, but I found it a little boring. Will give it a few more listens anyway.
Sebadoh - Bubble & Scrape. Classic 90's slacker lo-fi. Nuff said.
Neil Young - Reactor. Typical Mr Young.
ELO - Out of the Blue . Have to confess, I have most of the tracks on here, I bought it because it was in the original sleeve, with the cutout's for the spaceship still intact. Sad I know but it was only about 4 pounds.
Couple of Boomtown Rats albums, cant remember the titles. Both very good, muscially and recording wise.
Simon
Posted on: 23 April 2001 by Pete
I should've paid more attention here... I got the Goldfrapp/Felt Mountain CD having heard it at a pal's house Saturday night and felt impelled to buy on Sunday. Of course people have said nice things about it here before, but for others who haven't investigated, imagine a rather natty fusion of the better sort of 60s soundtrack (John Barry sort of thing) with ethereal pop like Air and the Cocteaus. Very catchy and easy to listen to as well, it's really great stuff. Been a while since I heard anything new I just
had to own the next day.
Also picked up the latest clutch of naim releases...
Foo Foo and the Boy/H2C is catchy accoustic pop in an Indigo Girls-ish vein, though a bit lighter. Rather suffered in player time because of the Goldfrapp, but is quite okay, if perhaps lacking in any killer tunes that'll drag it through force of personality back into the player.
Laurence Hobgood/Left to My Own Devices needs more time: I wasn't really in the mood to take it in, though the few tracks with vocals didn't really work at all for me, rather like the ones in the Charlie Haden/Capitol Sessions disc. Hey ho.
Ted Sirota's Rebel Souls/Vs. the Forces of Evil. Well, I don't rate the chances of the Forces of Evil in this encounter. Superb record, easily up to the quality of the previous Rebel Souls discs.
Pete.
Posted on: 23 April 2001 by ken c
i often buy records of artists i dont know just on the basis of the liner notes and reviews - success rate with this method has been around 50% -- toss of a coin sort of situation. so i am tending to do this less and less. with naim cd's success rate has been quite a bit higher.
do you guys go through your records systematically?? i tend to play whatever i fancy at the time whenever i want to hear music. this means there are albums i have bought and listened to once and put them away -- never to be listened to again - for a long time!! bad value for money... this strange hobby of ours...
enjoy...
ken
Posted on: 23 April 2001 by Simon Jenkins
Ken,
I'm tend to play what I feel like listening to at the time, so like you I have many records that I have bought, played once and never listened to again. I do occasionally make an effort to go through these rarely used records and play a few of them. I've been surprised a few times on finding things that I must have dismissed on first listen, only to find 2 years later WOW what at awesome album.
Simon
Posted on: 23 April 2001 by Peter Stockwell
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I've been surprised a few times on finding things that I must have dismissed on first listen, only to find 2 years later WOW what at awesome album.
This is true, It happens. It's also been happening with some jazz recordings I bought 20 years ago to see what the fusss was about, that I didn't really latch on to then, but I do now.
Of course there's the stuff we buy we play a lot and then years later we don't like any more. This would include Phil Collins, Bryan Ferry, a lot of Eric Clapton, Post 1980 Rolling Stones albums, anything by blind singers with macrame hats, Simply Red ... and the list could go on
Peter
Posted on: 24 April 2001 by Tony L
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Anyone heard the newly gone over Sade and Doors albums?
Whilst I am thankfully unable to comment on any Sade product, the Doors stuff is excellent. I am definitely a bit of a Doors fan.
I bought the CD box set of all the studio albums plus an album of outtakes in the HMV sale this new year, and I have seen it discounted elsewhere so look around. If you can pick it up at the right price it is well worth having.
The packaging is good - all albums are in card facsimiles of the original sleeves, right down to LA Woman having the transparent window, and the booklet is pretty good. The mastering sounds excellent, certainly miles better than anything other than mint original Electra vinyl (the 70s / 80s re-pressings are normally pretty crap. The original Electra CD issues were also quite horrible, and the new masters are definitely worth upgrading too. The only real competition sound wise comes from the recent DCC 180g vinyl, which whilst expensive are very good indeed.
Tony.
Posted on: 25 April 2001 by Allan Probin
I quite often buy an album, listen to it once and then file it amongst all the other CDs in my collection where it becomes buried and forgotten about.
So I've introduced this simple system. I have a small area of one of my shelves dedicated to just holding the last ten CD's I bought. This is on a rolling first-in-first-out basis. When a new CD goes in, the set shuffles along and the one on the other end falls out and is filed with all the rest.
When chosing a CD to play, I make a point of making sure I don't neglect my ten-most-recent.
Allan
