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Then try The National: Boxer. Picked this up from some Best of 07 lists and it is very good, dark, rich and unusual but lightened with piano and orchestration. A harder edged 'Trials Of Van Occupanther' is the best I can explain!BrucePitchforkmedia review
I want to purchase a Camel Album (or 3) very soon and i'm not at all familier with this band so which album/s on cd should i buy for starters?Many Camel albums are available digitally remastered for a few bucks more, are these worth buying instead of...
ROTF was dreaming in another thread about free music and a site I had used before came to mind and because he thought it was a great site I thought I should share with the rest of you cheapskates.The site is Magnatune to help you understand what...
Hi, i am a child of the 80s and so seemed to miss out on a lot of good, female vocalists (too busy with electronica!). I listen to Katie Melua, Norah Jones and Bic Runga a lot now to relax but would love to discover other good female vocalists. What...
Xmas day at our house started as tradition dictates with 'Fairytale of New York' on repeat play for a while. One thing leads to another and we ended up having most of Kirsty Maccoll's back catalogue through the morning. Some wonderful bittersweet...
For admirers of Stanko's "backing band", the trio have a new CD out in a couple of weeks: Really looking forward to this one!
Great for us night owls : > Early hours of tomorrow morning, channel 4, Sunday 13th Jan 03:10hr...The making of the Buena Vista Social Club Album:The Film that spawned a phenomenon, Buena Vista Social Club is a delight regradless of wheather you...
Any recommendations for places to buy vinyl in New York?
This was maybe the toughest list for me to compile. But anyway here it is:1. Egberto Gismonti/Nana Vasconcelos – Duas Vozes2. Steve Tibbets – Exploded View3. Old and New Dreams – Playing4. Art Ensemble of Chicago – the third...
Enjoyed most of the BBC4 music evening - especially TOTP 1968, not so keen on Juke Box Jury (they all liked Frank Sinatra singing Old MacDonald Had A Farm and I get criticised for liking Chas n Dave). Would have preferred the JBJ episode where Katie...
There is now an Irish HMHB tribute band please click here for their web siteThey've even got the Dukla Prague away kit here. and hear their version of Outbreak of Vitus Gerulitus by clicking here Whose afraidOf Virginia Wade They are not bad at all.
For anyone interested see sofa sound.I'm going to the QEH gig on 3rd April.New album due out late March.
Well it's a New Year and theres a couple of excellent Blues releases due out this month. Firstly the new Guy Davis- On Air Music, Rbt Cray- Live at the BBC and perhaps the one I am looking forward to most of all The Black Banjo Project. They consist...
Came across this set and the owner is asking US$800 for it.Condition good but the asking price Sonically, how does it sound compared to what's on the market?
Tonight at 21.00 looks like it is about the album and fleetwood Mac's personal issues at the time.
I was listening to a radio programme yesterday and they were discussing weepy films and which were the favourites for inducing tearfulness. It was discussed how people 'liked a good cry' and it is clearly a cathartic experience for some people.Now I...
We had our family get together yesterday (Sunday) and did a secret Santa up to £20.I got:- Raising Sand - Plant and KraussREM - Live CD + DVD
I recently requested Digital Improvements in Thornhill to transfer an old lp onto CD . I had no idea if it was good enough to transfer, but they went ahead with it, charged me 6.95 additional for each track that was Enhanced by using their Wonderful...
Difficult one this. I restricted myself to only 1 release per person – hardest with Miles Davis – I could have picked at least 5. OK I cheated by including John McLaughlin and Mahavishnu Orchestra 1.Mahavishnu Orchestra – Inner...
I was blown away by Bartoli singing Vivaldi's Sposa son dizprezzata in an episiode of 'The Soprano's'. The emotion, the piano in the background - sublime.Any other recommendations for her music?RegardsDiccus
Two recent CDs (RCA) of Beethoven symphonies (3 and 8,4 and 7)by the Deutsche Kammerorchester Bremen conducted by Paavo Jarvi have rekindled my interest in Beethoven symphonies. Wonderful, crisp performances that convey not only the grandure but the...
HiWould like to get some new music in the style of Levon Helm, Arlo Guthrie, Sam Baker, John Prine...Like very much guitars, banjo, steel guitar.I am looking forward for any recommendations.regardsurs
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Listening to this classic album by the Duke, last night. Forgot what a hard driving tune the opening title cut is! Absolutely killin'!!"I never heard so musical a discord, such sweet thunder." Taken from one of the lines of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer...