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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI

« on: March 07, 2016, 09:55:36 AM »

Whet Bull, it's my favourite record of last year and I love the vocals and everything else. It's a real accomplishment. Come and play in Finland, please.

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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI

« on: February 29, 2016, 01:32:58 PM »

Big ups to LSD March - check out 突然炎のごとく (Totsuzen Hon? No Gotoku) which I fell in love with a few years ago. I found some "box set" on soulseek years ago but never been able to figure out what it actually is, if it's ever been legitimately released or was maybe a collection of their other albums. But one of the more underrated Japanese bands in my opinion (along with Overhang Party).

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Music Shit / Re: Christmas Songs

« on: December 24, 2015, 12:30:03 PM »

Richard Youngs - 'The Sea is Madness' (from Festival)

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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI

« on: December 18, 2015, 12:08:40 PM »

Try Youngsbower's Relayer, I like it much more.

A friend of mine brags that he was the soundman at INXS's last ever show, which is cool, sort of.

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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI

« on: December 18, 2015, 11:40:20 AM »

Most of us could only dream of making a pop album as brilliant as INXS's Kick.

(this from a guy who bought their live album Live Baby Live on cassette from BMG music club)

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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI

« on: November 06, 2015, 10:58:19 AM »

Early Sebadoh holds up so well! I came of age during the Bakesale era (I'm 35 now) and thus liked all the wussy indie anthems at first, but when I dug into the back catalogue I started discovering true hardcore. I think The Freed Man is a masterpiece of outsider psych and all of Gaffney's songs on III are just stunning. Feel like I've said this before on here though.

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Music Shit / Re: Sifting through Bevis Frond records

« on: October 29, 2015, 12:49:03 AM »

I second Any Gas Faster and New River Head - they're the only ones you really need. I saw him live in '97 or so and he closed the set with 'Godspeed You To Earth', which is just a breathtaking song - and has this great teenage part where they stomp on the distortion pedals and do a wall of heavy strumming.

Anyone ever listened through all 3 LPs of North Circular? I remember that sitting in my local record shop forever, continually bring priced lower and lower. Someone must have actually bought it; I should have.

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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI

« on: October 22, 2015, 10:39:08 AM »

MALIGNUS YOUTH!!!! Totally amazing band. So amazingly fast.

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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI

« on: August 18, 2015, 10:18:19 PM »

Nick Lowe - Pure Pop for Now People
Superchunk - Here's Where the Strings Come In - I think side one of this is perfect; the ultimate balance between the fun early sound and their 'mature' later stuff. Too bad the vinyl has always sounded so terrible; I saw that it has been remastered and I might actually pick up a copy.
Drab Majesty - Careless
Coneheads LP - just downloaded it after reading about it here, but, yeah, this is pretty great.
Game Theory - Blaze of Glory - Miller is a fully formed songwriter already at this point.
Loud Family - Days for Days

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Music Shit / Re: Scientist reissues on Numero

« on: August 18, 2015, 11:08:35 AM »

I'm a fan - they did those Shoes reissues and the Bedhead vinyl (though I haven't actually picked it up yet). Trust fund or not, how else is someone going to afford to produce shit like this in the post-capitalist blah blah blah era??

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Music Shit / Re: School me on Sparks

« on: August 18, 2015, 11:06:36 AM »

I shit myself when 'How Are You Getting Home' started playing in that film. I adore that song, even though it's a deep cut - it was perfect and I actually thought I was hallucinating it, because I had been listening to Indiscreet extra much around then, and that film is pretty hallucinatory anyway.

Actually, the best intro is probably the Profile 2xCD that Rhino put out some time ago. It's a greatest hits but has a few non-album tracks like 'Barbecutie'.

Terminal Jive would probably be a pretty good record if I wasn't constantly comparing it to its predecessor. I'm impressed someone likes Big Beat so much - I've thought that one of their weaker efforts, though 'I Bought the Mississippi River' is genius. If you see this weird 70s disaster film called Rollercoaster (you can guess the plot), Sparks turn up halfway through and perform 'Big Boy' in the amusement park.

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Music Shit / Re: School me on Sparks

« on: August 15, 2015, 10:45:01 PM »

I think the first five albums are infallible. Indiscreet is my favourite of those, and my favourite Sparks album overall except for maybe Number One in Heaven which is their first Giorgio Moroeder 'disco' record. In the 80s they got the Gleaming Spires as a backup band and started to move from strange, brilliant clever songwriting towards more overtly 'novelty' ha-ha stuff, but there are still some great great songs ('All You Ever Think About is Sex', 'Angst in my Pants'). They made a sort of comeback about ten years ago with a few albums that had some brilliant moments but a bit too much failed ha-ha stuff. And then the album now with Franz Ferdinand which you've probably heard.

The first, self-titled album (sometime called Halfnelson, or at least my copy) is really a work of genius, for a debut album. I try to think about what the context of Sparks in 1971 must have been compared to other music in record stores at the time but I don't really understand it.

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Cities / Re: Lithuania,Latvia, Finland!

« on: May 21, 2015, 02:56:17 PM »

Dammit I could show you cool stuff in Helsinki but I'm home visiting my parents til 14 June. If you're still around after then hit me up.

Glad you are skipping Estonia, there is literally nothing of TermBo interest there but some cheap bars and the depressing post-Soviet psychology.

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Cities / Re: Nashville Record Stores

« on: May 21, 2015, 02:55:30 PM »

Bump, I'm here --- with my parents though. Will check out Grimey's; anything else going on? I saw To Live and Shave in LA is playing here Sunday so I'll hit that, but let me know if there's anything else essential.

I'm vegetarian so no hot chicken for me unless they have a seitan one or something.

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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI

« on: April 09, 2015, 12:31:15 PM »

Camper Van Beethoven - El Camino Real
Joel RL Phelps/Downer Trio - 3
The Work - Slow Crimes
a few of those Soul Jazz Punk 45 comps on shuffle