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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Seat68 Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 32 minutes ago, Xann said: This is the best thing I will listen to today. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeyp102 Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 I think lockdown is doing things to my head, having not really liked the genre before (although knowing some of the songs), I’ve found myself really wanting to listen to garage this morning. I had a Sambuca, and it only took 21 seconds, before I was loving It loving it, and felt like I was in Ayia Napa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 Kaffe Matthews - Foreigner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 Collection of field recordings by Chris Watson, who does a lot of soundwork for the BBC on their natural history documentaries.. Chris Watson - Cima Verde Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted April 26, 2020 Share Posted April 26, 2020 I’m on the cassettes now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted April 26, 2020 Moderator Share Posted April 26, 2020 Still on the CDs, I'm down to Compilations now. I have a few in the pile that look to have surface wear and scratches, so I'm having to stick them in and play them. I was disappointed to see that this and Vol 2 looked to be in a bad way. Both play perfectly. This is staying on, it's tremendous even by On-U standards and I'd sort of forgotten about Vol 5 2badcard - Weed Specialist, absoultely outstanding. I'm going to have to source the album now 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted April 26, 2020 Share Posted April 26, 2020 Various Artists - 'Something Weird - Greatest Hits!' 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted April 26, 2020 Share Posted April 26, 2020 Bent - 'Programmed To Love' It seems I have the most potent noisemaker pointed at the back gardens for good few doors in each direction. Being kind to the barbecuing public. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theboyangel Posted April 26, 2020 Share Posted April 26, 2020 17 minutes ago, Xann said: Bent - 'Programmed To Love' It seems I have the most potent noisemaker pointed at the back gardens for good few doors in each direction. Being kind to the barbecuing public. Cracking album, may have to give this a spin later (probably followed by a Lemon Jelly album) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted April 26, 2020 Share Posted April 26, 2020 Innercity Boundries 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted April 26, 2020 Share Posted April 26, 2020 Various Artists - 'From Latin To Jazz Dance' Volume V 1 hour ago, theboyangel said: Cracking album, may have to give this a spin later (probably followed by a Lemon Jelly album) 'Everlasting Blink' is great too, then 'Aerials' sounds like it was made in a bedroom. There's a nice track or two, but it's not mixed well. There's some solo tunes from more recent times on Soundcloud, but they're totally forgettable. They really lost it and it's a real shame. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted April 26, 2020 Share Posted April 26, 2020 Alfredo Bandelli - Ballata Della Fiat (Ballad of Fiat) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted April 27, 2020 Share Posted April 27, 2020 (edited) 1972 Instrumental classic by Bo Hansson from Hansson & Karlsson inspired from TLOTR Edited April 27, 2020 by sne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
choffer Posted April 27, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted April 27, 2020 (edited) No idea how this found its way onto my phone (my guess it it's probably referenced 37 pages back in this thread) but it's bleak and dark - like the soundtrack to a post-apocalyptic world. I love it. Olivier Cong - City of Strange. Edited April 27, 2020 by choffer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted April 27, 2020 Share Posted April 27, 2020 Pylophon Disc Changing Music Box - "Washington post" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted April 27, 2020 Moderator Share Posted April 27, 2020 Best Neil Young album of the last 3 decades? I think so 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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