Seat68 Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 1 minute ago, blandy said: I hate it when @Seat68 changes his avatar - one for the things that...thread Was thinking of going down a Blue Nile route but then that would be confusing. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted April 21, 2020 Moderator Share Posted April 21, 2020 2 minutes ago, Seat68 said: Was thinking of going down a Blue Nile route but then that would be confusing. god bless you kid 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted April 21, 2020 Moderator Share Posted April 21, 2020 Concept album... A tribute to the twelve male iterations of Doctor Who as told through British Pop & Rock styles of the appropriate period. Klaus Joynson & the Type 40 - New Adventures in Time and Space, 12 Songs for 12 Doctors Bob from Probe will be behind this, he makes me buy everything he's involved with, somehow... I only just realised this now (that its something to do with Bob) as it's on his label, I also realised that I'm now officially a label completist as I have everything on K Ultrax (It only amounts to 4 releases, 1 of which was given away free) Anyway this is quite amusing once you understand the concept Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 Japanese power pop. I have been listening to a lot of stuff from the very back of the cupboard. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted April 21, 2020 Moderator Share Posted April 21, 2020 11 minutes ago, chrisp65 said: I have been listening to a lot of stuff from the very back of the cupboard. Lockdown is making explore our collections rather more deeply than usual 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted April 21, 2020 Moderator Share Posted April 21, 2020 I first got into The Passage with the single XOYO off the album after this. After that album (Degenerates) I explored their previous work and really liked this album, their second, and even Pindrop their first. So fast forward 5 or so years and I'm in Liverpool and really liking a band called The Room, who ae sadly coming to the end of their life but I've seen them a few times and even went to the farewell gig. So far this is not extraordinary and the two bands are completely unconnected nd in my head one band is from Manchester, the other from Liverpool. I'd seen both bands a couple of times and that was it. A few months go by and Dave Jackson (singer in the Room) walks into my office with a bloke called Joe looking for a gig for his new band... Benny Profane, being a fan of The Room, I gave them a couple of supports to the main bands at the Uni and inadvertantly started hanging out with them and the rest is history as they say... it still took me another two years to realise Joe was in the Passage. (1st, 2nd and 4th albums) He's still my mate to this day (as is Dave, but Dave and Joe aren't mates anymore... bands!) and we often go to gigs together even now. It's wierd how these things work out. Anyway elctronic post-punk from Manchester (and Liverpool) The Passge - For all ... and None 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted April 22, 2020 Share Posted April 22, 2020 22 hours ago, bickster said: Concept album... A tribute to the twelve male iterations of Doctor Who as told through British Pop & Rock styles of the appropriate period. Klaus Joynson & the Type 40 - New Adventures in Time and Space, 12 Songs for 12 Doctors Bob from Probe will be behind this, he makes me buy everything he's involved with, somehow... I only just realised this now (that its something to do with Bob) as it's on his label, I also realised that I'm now officially a label completist as I have everything on K Ultrax (It only amounts to 4 releases, 1 of which was given away free) Anyway this is quite amusing once you understand the concept I emailed a friend yesterday, a friend I had lost touch with to tell him about this album as it hits many spots for him. I sent a rather glib email about hoping that the virus wasnt causing too much trouble. His father had died the previous day from it. Ouch. He thanked me for the recommendation though. So there is that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted April 22, 2020 Moderator Share Posted April 22, 2020 Christ I've listened to some shite today, charidee piles got bigger now Toots and the Maytals - Reggae Greats - an Australian import so I've just discovered. It was cheap (and great) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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bickster Posted April 23, 2020 Moderator Share Posted April 23, 2020 Hmmm, all my Talking Heads CDs must be in the same place, I've not come across a single one yet... their time will come... hopefully Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted April 23, 2020 Moderator Share Posted April 23, 2020 Today I've listened to:- Tricky - Maxinquaye Van Morrison - Into the Music Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree Elliot Smith - XO Gang of Four - A Brief History of the Twentieth Century (A Best of and even then it begins to bore half way through) Dub Syndicate - Stoned Immaculate and right now I'm re-confirming that Oasis are shit with Standing on the Shoulders of Giants (won't last long!) I've also realised I have far more Van Morrison and Bob Dylan albums that I thought I had (A product of HMV sales usually and me buying reference music at cheapo prices) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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chrisp65 Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 Every day, I find another one or two SFA CD’s. I’m pretty confident there can’t be many more lurking in grubby garage cupboards. Any normal bloke would have a ten year old copy of Razzle tucked away in the garage. There’s still one drawer I cannot get open. I’ve written ‘private, keep out’ on it, in the hope the kids will then manage to get it open. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 2 minutes ago, chrisp65 said: Every day, I find another one or two SFA CD’s. I’m pretty confident there can’t be many more lurking in grubby garage cupboards. Any normal bloke would have a ten year old copy of Razzle tucked away in the garage. There’s still one drawer I cannot get open. I’ve written ‘private, keep out’ on it, in the hope the kids will then manage to get it open. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 We found porn in the attic just after we’d moved in. Had to install a new shower, needed a chunky cable relayed from the switch box to the attic and back down, so I got a couple of guys to do the electrics. After they’d finished, I went up the attic for a look and where they’d lifted some insulation, they’d uncovered a stash of newsagent quality porn. They hadn’t mentioned it. I did very briefly think about somehow getting a message to them that it wasn’t mine! Then decided I’d look in to the matter more closely. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 My nan found my porn. Twice. As a kid I lived with her and stashed it once at the back of the immersion, I came home from school to find it on my bed. The second time was under the mattress, again returned from school and this time it ended up in the bin. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 I don’t imagine kids today have the whole ritual of casing out a newsagent or corner shop at the other end of town, then swooping in for a quick random purchase. With the bloke behind the counter taking an age to find the bloody price on Big Boobs Summer Special. It’s too easy nowadays. Ooh, I fancy some Asian Foot In Custard porn...click... and there it is. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted April 24, 2020 Moderator Share Posted April 24, 2020 Anyways... back to Albums From your neck of the woods @chrisp65. Young Marble Giants - Collosal Youth Another one of those, it'll always be with me albums... As evidenced by the fact I have the original vinyl and once bought 2 copies of the 3CD YMG anthology edition (gave one to @blandy - the Nick Cave / Ticket thing rminded me), essentailly all their recorded studio work, Peel Session, single tracks and the unreleased private recording of an album called Salad Days, which has many of the Collossal Youth tracks on it. So it's post-punk minimalism brought to you with a bass, rhythm guitar, organ, drum machine and the sweet unconventional voice of Alison Statton. It has elements of Can, Faust, early Kraftwerk, so yes Krautrock but the more experimental less rhythmical stuff. Very few "songs" are what you'd consider conventional but the single Final Day, is probably the most conventional song in their whole canon and its fantastic. I believe they also go into that pot of bands that can lay claim to the title of Curt Cobain's favourite band (which is a group far bigger than one) and it really shouldn't give you a clue as to the contents of the album, it's nothing like Nirvana. It has, however, been cited by many many bands down the years as an influence not just by Cobain The album, for me at least, is all about minimalism and textures in sound and rarely to do with songs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 Hmmm, I have heard of them but I can’t say they’ve ever registered. I see them come up when people try and list every known local band for some reason or another. I can’t say I’d know what they sound like. I’ve just done a quick wiki on them and their quoted influences were the likes of ENO, Roxy Music, David Bowie, Neil Young. In 1980 I wouldn’t have gone anywhere near that. Well, still wouldn’t actually. From memory, in 79/80 I probably thought I was the world’s first, and best, suedehead. I’d certainly have been one of very few kids in school with short hair, clean shoes and my tie done up properly. I know its not easy to imagine now, but turns out I might have been a bit of a dick back then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted April 24, 2020 Moderator Share Posted April 24, 2020 32 minutes ago, bickster said: Anyways... back to Albums From your neck of the woods @chrisp65. Young Marble Giants - Collosal Youth Another one of those, it'll always be with me albums... As evidenced by the fact I have the original vinyl and once bought 2 copies of the 3CD YMG anthology edition (gave one to @blandy - the Nick Cave / Ticket thing rminded me), essentailly all their recorded studio work, Peel Session, single tracks and the unreleased private recording of an album called Salad Days, which has many of the Collossal Youth tracks on it... I gave it a few listens, quite liked a few tracks, but being honest, most of it left me cold. The ones I liked were the bunny men- ish tracks 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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