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Music Shit / Re: Best 2018 releases
« on: October 26, 2018, 05:48:26 PM »Hateman - Welcome to Neverland
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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 20, 2018, 10:03:25 AM »
"Bull & Cup Relax".
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Music Shit / Re: Best Live Album
« on: September 29, 2018, 11:28:07 AM »
Obviously too many to mention but Roy Brooks - The Free Slave is an awful lot of fun with some pretty great crowd involvement.
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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI
« on: September 25, 2018, 04:23:54 PM »
Tax Free - Tax Free - After The Outsiders Wally got down with some jazz albs and really indulged some smooth soft rock urges, to varying degrees of success. On the one hand he's got John Cale on viola somewhere or other which seems like a pretty smart idea but on the other hand there are some unapologetic flute-rock moves so you know. On the one hand a couple of the best songs he ever wrote are here but on the other hand he unleashes the kind of female background singing which only seem like a good idea after you've been on the schneef pretty hard. Anyhow, the Dutch!
Loudest Whisper - Children Of Lir - I hate this album but the CD was like 5 bucks so I bought it and played all 18 songs just in case something had changed but no, this still sucks a ton - next to only Of Wondrous Legends in the total shitbox folk rarity sweepstakes.
Don Covay & The Goodtimers - Mercy! - I kinda feel like a dummy saying anything about this record I mean if you want it it's all here.
Thelonious Monk - Thelonious Alone In San Francisco - I only listen to jazz now plus now I'm one of those guys who is like "man this record sounds like you are in the room".
Rayne - Rayne - I bought the Or reissue on accounta people claimed it wasn't all noise-reduced like the Shadoks version and it doesn't seem like an OG is likely any time soon. Anyhow I find it difficult to put my finger on why this record rules so much except to say that there's the kinda overarching feel to the whole thing which goes down really nice and I guess I'm gonna say is even more apparent here than on the other reissue but tbh I haven't a/b-ed it or anything.
Roy Montgomery - Suffuse - Roy plays guitar and a buncha other people sing. For some reason I'd thought this record was gonna be all Roy vocals and was pretty excited but now I feel kinda ganked.
Quiet Sun - Mainstream - I know it cuts into your garage turkey budget but if you're going to get this get the expanded version with the demo track for "Years Of The Quiet Sun". I can't remember why but it feels important. Plus it comes in one of those obnoxious oversized covers (which probably has a book inside saying some shit about This Heat and Roxy but I don't read liners anymore so who knows) so it won't fit on your CD shelves nicely and you'll have to make some weird incursion into your books and who doesn't like that.
Patois Counselors - A Proper Release - three stars.
Takashi Nishioka - Maninnoki - if you ever wondered hey which URC record with a really creepy cover really delivers the kinda zoned out folk-rock haze I'm looking for with a minimum of banjos, this is the one. NOT the Kenichi Nagira one where he's on the cover looking all doped out and deep as hell but then the entire album is just banjo music. This one. No banjo at all.
Loudest Whisper - Children Of Lir - I hate this album but the CD was like 5 bucks so I bought it and played all 18 songs just in case something had changed but no, this still sucks a ton - next to only Of Wondrous Legends in the total shitbox folk rarity sweepstakes.
Don Covay & The Goodtimers - Mercy! - I kinda feel like a dummy saying anything about this record I mean if you want it it's all here.
Thelonious Monk - Thelonious Alone In San Francisco - I only listen to jazz now plus now I'm one of those guys who is like "man this record sounds like you are in the room".
Rayne - Rayne - I bought the Or reissue on accounta people claimed it wasn't all noise-reduced like the Shadoks version and it doesn't seem like an OG is likely any time soon. Anyhow I find it difficult to put my finger on why this record rules so much except to say that there's the kinda overarching feel to the whole thing which goes down really nice and I guess I'm gonna say is even more apparent here than on the other reissue but tbh I haven't a/b-ed it or anything.
Roy Montgomery - Suffuse - Roy plays guitar and a buncha other people sing. For some reason I'd thought this record was gonna be all Roy vocals and was pretty excited but now I feel kinda ganked.
Quiet Sun - Mainstream - I know it cuts into your garage turkey budget but if you're going to get this get the expanded version with the demo track for "Years Of The Quiet Sun". I can't remember why but it feels important. Plus it comes in one of those obnoxious oversized covers (which probably has a book inside saying some shit about This Heat and Roxy but I don't read liners anymore so who knows) so it won't fit on your CD shelves nicely and you'll have to make some weird incursion into your books and who doesn't like that.
Patois Counselors - A Proper Release - three stars.
Takashi Nishioka - Maninnoki - if you ever wondered hey which URC record with a really creepy cover really delivers the kinda zoned out folk-rock haze I'm looking for with a minimum of banjos, this is the one. NOT the Kenichi Nagira one where he's on the cover looking all doped out and deep as hell but then the entire album is just banjo music. This one. No banjo at all.
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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI
« on: September 09, 2018, 04:10:51 PM »
Jackie McLean - New & Old Gospel - Ornette Coleman plays trumpet. Babette ate oatmeal.
Various Artists - Dangerous Doo-wop Volume 2 - A buncha weird-ish one-single wonders and ganked up also-rans mixed with bigger groups like the Robins and the Persuasions. Great series if you like vocal harmony and sometimes dudes with really deep voices.
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks - I only played the first two tracks and then I took it off and put the second Wipers album on instead 'cos sometimes a man can only venture into so many slipstreams. Anyhow the second Wipers record.
KLF - "Justified And Ancient (Stand By The Jams)" - RIP Ricardo Da Force.
Booker Little - for like 5 bucks you can get four of his records on a double CD and you can listen to a shitload of trumpet instead of wasting your money on eggpunk plus my man died when he was like 23 so even if you like it it's not like you gotta go scrounging around for a ton of other stuff (though you should get Far Cry if you do).
Akira Ishikawa & Count Buffaloes - Uganda - Akira dug Ugandan drums (I mean I guess) and Hendrix so he made a record that was Ugandan drumming and tons of Hendrix-y wah-wah guitar except that he mostly only did one thing at a time so if you like Ugandan drumming and THEN Hendrix-y wah-wah guitar then this is the record for you but if you like Ugandan drumming and Hendrix-y wah-wah guitar at the SAME TIME then probably you gotta look elsewhere, sorry.
Sensation - Sensation - new reissue from Folk Evaluation. Hype sticker sez it sounds like Lazy Smoke and there's definitely a similarity in the vocals but this is kinda more stripped-down and demo-ish and fewer/no psych moves. Not as immediate but two listens in and the songs are starting to stick around a little bit. Kinda reminds me of that Jimmer Glynn stuff you know just some gentle guys trying to pop/rock as best they can. Comes with a 7" but I keep forgetting to play it.
Smelly Feet - "Masterpieces" 7" - this is Brent from Kiwi Animal. There are some nice crayon drawings on the paper sleeve and it came in a ziploc bag that I hope wasn't part of the OG packaging 'cos I threw it out. Anyhow it kinda sucks but also checks a whole bunch of boxes for me plus I like tons of music that sucks so all-in-all a good purchase.
A buncha John Lee Hooker - played one of his comps until I hit the songs that made me think about George Thorogood.
Various Artists - Dangerous Doo-wop Volume 2 - A buncha weird-ish one-single wonders and ganked up also-rans mixed with bigger groups like the Robins and the Persuasions. Great series if you like vocal harmony and sometimes dudes with really deep voices.
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks - I only played the first two tracks and then I took it off and put the second Wipers album on instead 'cos sometimes a man can only venture into so many slipstreams. Anyhow the second Wipers record.
KLF - "Justified And Ancient (Stand By The Jams)" - RIP Ricardo Da Force.
Booker Little - for like 5 bucks you can get four of his records on a double CD and you can listen to a shitload of trumpet instead of wasting your money on eggpunk plus my man died when he was like 23 so even if you like it it's not like you gotta go scrounging around for a ton of other stuff (though you should get Far Cry if you do).
Akira Ishikawa & Count Buffaloes - Uganda - Akira dug Ugandan drums (I mean I guess) and Hendrix so he made a record that was Ugandan drumming and tons of Hendrix-y wah-wah guitar except that he mostly only did one thing at a time so if you like Ugandan drumming and THEN Hendrix-y wah-wah guitar then this is the record for you but if you like Ugandan drumming and Hendrix-y wah-wah guitar at the SAME TIME then probably you gotta look elsewhere, sorry.
Sensation - Sensation - new reissue from Folk Evaluation. Hype sticker sez it sounds like Lazy Smoke and there's definitely a similarity in the vocals but this is kinda more stripped-down and demo-ish and fewer/no psych moves. Not as immediate but two listens in and the songs are starting to stick around a little bit. Kinda reminds me of that Jimmer Glynn stuff you know just some gentle guys trying to pop/rock as best they can. Comes with a 7" but I keep forgetting to play it.
Smelly Feet - "Masterpieces" 7" - this is Brent from Kiwi Animal. There are some nice crayon drawings on the paper sleeve and it came in a ziploc bag that I hope wasn't part of the OG packaging 'cos I threw it out. Anyhow it kinda sucks but also checks a whole bunch of boxes for me plus I like tons of music that sucks so all-in-all a good purchase.
A buncha John Lee Hooker - played one of his comps until I hit the songs that made me think about George Thorogood.
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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 28, 2018, 03:18:25 PM »
Roland Kirk - Volunteered Slavery - kinda weird that someone thought this was a good idea for an album. Half live, a bit of Rollie talking up his boning abilities, a dash of "Hey Jude" and "A Love Supreme", then some Bacharach (who he messes with elsewhere in the discography as well, as I understand it). Maybe a piss take on Stevie Wonder and finally an almost side-long Coltrane tribute. Feels like contract obligation but nope. Maybe all his albums are like this, alls I know is that Please Don't You Cry, Beautiful Edith is a very tender name for a record.
Bud Powell - The Complete Amazing Bud Powell - one of the great things about the internet having ruined physical media is that CDs are dirt cheap and for a few bucks you can get a nice clamshell and listen to Bud Powell drink himself halfway to death over the course of 5 albums. I don't know shit about jazz and maybe you don't either but I dare you to listen to Time Waits and not squeeze out an involuntary "shit, cat" or two. Plus, no horns, just bass and drums absolutely rinsing it out while Bud turns the moaning up to extra and does his thing.
Barney Wilen - Moshi - RIYL: cultural appropriation, pygmies, frenchmen. Rules, and now available at your local annoying reissue store insteada for 300 bucks from some weird creep or Discogs goblin. Also comes with a DVD but you gotta ask Krapo what's on that 'cos I never watched it.
The Vulgar Boatmen - first two albums - being bad at writing to begin with I'm not gonna even try to tease out into words what makes these albums special. Nice to have 'em reissued with care esp. since the second side of my '89 copy of You And Your Sister is pressed so off-centre that it sounds like Dale fell down 3 or 4 flights of stairs before laying down his vocal tracks and I need my Gizmos covers/updates to be pristine thanks very much.
Courtyard Music Group - Our Way Of Saying Hello - I think that's what it's called. Anyhow this is hey-nonny-nonny kinda stuff and not in that good Shirley Collins kinda way but more like a few degrees worse than even your standard crummy hippie stuff, just really dire, like a patchouli suppository or something. Then in the middle of all that they drop in this extended druggy jam kinda like uh Trad, Gras or I dunno those guys in Amon Duul or whatever, and anyhow it's real nice if you like that sorta thing but you gotta stick a lot of patchouli up your ass to get there so y'know, proceed accordingly.
Human Switchboard - "Refrigerator Door" - I like it when the guy just gets so stuck on whatever his girl did he breaks out the Slovenian entreaties. Smooth.
Exit Out - Peruse Prankster - this is the guy from 39 Clocks and if you like what he does I'm gonna guess you'll like this but mostly I bought it because the cover is pretty sweet looking. RIYL: sweet looking covers.
Carlos Santana & John McLaughlin - Love Devotion Surrender - I'm 42 now and I'd way rather listen to this than those shitty Modern Lovers tracks where Jonathan gets all mad at girls 'cos they won't sleep with him and so he blames it on Santana instead of looking within or jamming out guitar-based interpretations of "A Love Supreme" with his guru and some Englishman in a turtleneck. Also these guys have some nice-ass white suits on the cover. RIYL: listening to Santana records and generally wasting your time.
Bud Powell - The Complete Amazing Bud Powell - one of the great things about the internet having ruined physical media is that CDs are dirt cheap and for a few bucks you can get a nice clamshell and listen to Bud Powell drink himself halfway to death over the course of 5 albums. I don't know shit about jazz and maybe you don't either but I dare you to listen to Time Waits and not squeeze out an involuntary "shit, cat" or two. Plus, no horns, just bass and drums absolutely rinsing it out while Bud turns the moaning up to extra and does his thing.
Barney Wilen - Moshi - RIYL: cultural appropriation, pygmies, frenchmen. Rules, and now available at your local annoying reissue store insteada for 300 bucks from some weird creep or Discogs goblin. Also comes with a DVD but you gotta ask Krapo what's on that 'cos I never watched it.
The Vulgar Boatmen - first two albums - being bad at writing to begin with I'm not gonna even try to tease out into words what makes these albums special. Nice to have 'em reissued with care esp. since the second side of my '89 copy of You And Your Sister is pressed so off-centre that it sounds like Dale fell down 3 or 4 flights of stairs before laying down his vocal tracks and I need my Gizmos covers/updates to be pristine thanks very much.
Courtyard Music Group - Our Way Of Saying Hello - I think that's what it's called. Anyhow this is hey-nonny-nonny kinda stuff and not in that good Shirley Collins kinda way but more like a few degrees worse than even your standard crummy hippie stuff, just really dire, like a patchouli suppository or something. Then in the middle of all that they drop in this extended druggy jam kinda like uh Trad, Gras or I dunno those guys in Amon Duul or whatever, and anyhow it's real nice if you like that sorta thing but you gotta stick a lot of patchouli up your ass to get there so y'know, proceed accordingly.
Human Switchboard - "Refrigerator Door" - I like it when the guy just gets so stuck on whatever his girl did he breaks out the Slovenian entreaties. Smooth.
Exit Out - Peruse Prankster - this is the guy from 39 Clocks and if you like what he does I'm gonna guess you'll like this but mostly I bought it because the cover is pretty sweet looking. RIYL: sweet looking covers.
Carlos Santana & John McLaughlin - Love Devotion Surrender - I'm 42 now and I'd way rather listen to this than those shitty Modern Lovers tracks where Jonathan gets all mad at girls 'cos they won't sleep with him and so he blames it on Santana instead of looking within or jamming out guitar-based interpretations of "A Love Supreme" with his guru and some Englishman in a turtleneck. Also these guys have some nice-ass white suits on the cover. RIYL: listening to Santana records and generally wasting your time.
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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI
« on: July 19, 2018, 02:03:30 PM »I'm digging the new Lavender Flu. Love the steel guitar on it.
Seconded. After the dream-like sprawl of Heavy Air, I was a bit taken aback by how focused and concise it is. I pre-ordered the record but haven't got it yet so am not sure how it's broken up, but streaming it just brings hit after hit. It seems like this might be a record that really gets a lot of attention. Regardless, I'm really stoked to see them next week.
Yeah, digging this quite a bit.
Enough that I feel like I should go back to that drag-ass first record and see if it hits me different in light of - I just could not deal the first time around but maybe time and space etc.
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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI
« on: July 14, 2018, 12:31:48 PM »
Van Duren - Are You Serious? - boy I mean this is nice and all and I play it once a year or so but it's tough not to just want to listen to Big Star (or even Prix or the Scruffs) instead but I mean keep rocking Van.
Sonny Sharrock - Ask The Ages - meanwhile this record (CD!) does not make me want to listen to Big Star. At all.
Horace Andy - Skylarking - gimme a high quavery tenor on pretty much anything, please. Dunno about the Massive Attack stuff but that's none of my business.
Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes ?- Paix - the only album on which Cathy isn't a little too much woman for me.
Eleventh Dream Day - Beet - settling into middle age I've had this weird urge to go back and deal with all the cheaply available mid-tier college rock kinda stuff that was just before my time. This came out when I was 13 and otherwise occupied by Public Enemy and The Cult. Nice guitar and sure, who doesn't like Janet Bean, but tbh not convinced I would have changed anything given the option I mean I bet Ian Astbury's hat game alone shits all over whatever Rick Rizzo was sporting bitd and that's without even getting into scarves/mic stand routines.
Crystalline - Axe Music - a buncha Brits try on Airplane/Kaukonen-style guitar heroics with high/clear femme vocals. Pretty sweet west coast influenced stuff unless you assign some kinda sanctity to "A House Is Not A Motel" in which case steer clear 'cos they handle it roughly here.
Highway - Highway - MN trio with a great songwriter, hot guitar leads, and three-part harmony throughout. Like stripped down first album Moby Grape on robitussin (hah) and one of the best reissues of the past few years, easily.
Sonny Sharrock - Ask The Ages - meanwhile this record (CD!) does not make me want to listen to Big Star. At all.
Horace Andy - Skylarking - gimme a high quavery tenor on pretty much anything, please. Dunno about the Massive Attack stuff but that's none of my business.
Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes ?- Paix - the only album on which Cathy isn't a little too much woman for me.
Eleventh Dream Day - Beet - settling into middle age I've had this weird urge to go back and deal with all the cheaply available mid-tier college rock kinda stuff that was just before my time. This came out when I was 13 and otherwise occupied by Public Enemy and The Cult. Nice guitar and sure, who doesn't like Janet Bean, but tbh not convinced I would have changed anything given the option I mean I bet Ian Astbury's hat game alone shits all over whatever Rick Rizzo was sporting bitd and that's without even getting into scarves/mic stand routines.
Crystalline - Axe Music - a buncha Brits try on Airplane/Kaukonen-style guitar heroics with high/clear femme vocals. Pretty sweet west coast influenced stuff unless you assign some kinda sanctity to "A House Is Not A Motel" in which case steer clear 'cos they handle it roughly here.
Highway - Highway - MN trio with a great songwriter, hot guitar leads, and three-part harmony throughout. Like stripped down first album Moby Grape on robitussin (hah) and one of the best reissues of the past few years, easily.
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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: The Vulgar Boatmen (post-Gizmos) vinyl reissues
« on: July 14, 2018, 10:02:28 AM »Mid-western pop at its finest. Seriously. Effortless, deceptive, and catchy as hell.
Absolutely - pop music does not get simpler or better than "Margaret Says".
And if anyone knows what the hell they're saying here, lemme know:
I'm supposed to be thinking about the rest of her life
I'm supposed to be thinking about the rest of her life
I see [?]'s farm
Windows down and we drive
And we drive
Have been trying to figure it out for years and years.
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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: Closet Mix "01EP" 12" vinyl, 45 rpm, limited edition of 200, US orders only
« on: June 23, 2018, 08:04:33 AM »
This is really, really nice.
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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: Yuzo Iwata Daylight Moon lp on Siltbreeze
« on: May 09, 2018, 12:37:38 PM »
Aye, got mine on the 17th.
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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI
« on: May 08, 2018, 04:48:01 PM »
Dion - "Sanctuary", a couple or more times in a row.
Gotta think that a guy named Dick Holler was already gonna cruise through life with a lot of built-in advantages and having written "Sanctuary" just added to whatever bounty he had coming to him in the final reckoning but in the balance I'm still not sure it made up for having perpetuated the war crime that is/was "Abraham Martin and John" (in which Dion was also complicit but hey man, he's really just a Dick vessel in this situation and can't be held responsible).
Gonna have to spend some time ruminating on it.
Gotta think that a guy named Dick Holler was already gonna cruise through life with a lot of built-in advantages and having written "Sanctuary" just added to whatever bounty he had coming to him in the final reckoning but in the balance I'm still not sure it made up for having perpetuated the war crime that is/was "Abraham Martin and John" (in which Dion was also complicit but hey man, he's really just a Dick vessel in this situation and can't be held responsible).
Gonna have to spend some time ruminating on it.
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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI
« on: May 07, 2018, 02:46:02 PM »Yardbirds '68SO FUCKIN' GREAT!!! Page is a complete samurai on this, just unbelievable. One of the coolest archival releases in years too...A+++.
Aye.
Can't believe how great it sounds.
Woulda liked that vocal on "Tangerine" tho, Mr. Page.
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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI
« on: May 07, 2018, 11:56:55 AM »
Yardbirds '68.
Holy shit.
Almost sounds like Rob Tyner on "Train Kept A Rollin'".
Holy shit.
Almost sounds like Rob Tyner on "Train Kept A Rollin'".
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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: Yuzo Iwata Daylight Moon lp on Siltbreeze
« on: April 06, 2018, 11:46:47 AM »He's pressing 100 more (identical to the first press), should be ready soon, and sent to the Bandcamp purchasers.
Shipping notice today, in fact!
