So, are we not doing the Tuesday thingy?

[Dave_G]

Not me, no-sir-ree.

Dave

[ForeverAutumn]

Not me, no-sir-ree.

Dave

This Tuesday thing seems to be dying off lately.

I'll post, even though I don't usually. I hate to see it die.

Lots of prog for me this week....

Dream Theater - Train of Thought
Cryptic Vision - Moments of Clarity (I'm still loving this over and over and over again)
Yes - Relayer
Yes - 35th anniversay Ultimate Collection
A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step
Pallas - The Cross and the Crucible
Frameshift - Unweaving the Rainbow
Marillion - A Singles Collection
Sam Roberts - We Were Born In A Flame (this album just won Best Rock Album and Best Album at the Juno awards (Canadian Grammy's) on Sunday night). It's pretty good IMHO).

[nobody]

I'm always up for a Tuesday thread. Been listening to a bunch of different stuff lately…

Some oldies…

Chet Akins: A Session with Chet Atkins, and Guitar Genius
Excellent guitar work on both of these, first one is all instrumentals, mostly classics. The second features his brother James on vocals on half the tracks and features more then current tunes like an instrumental cover of Heartbreak Hotel. The less familiar tunes are stronger to my ears. Good stuff on both of ‘em.

Les Paul and Mary Ford: Warm & Wonderful
More classic guitar work. Pop songs across the board, nothing groundbreaking. But, the guitar work is again spectacular. There’s a reason everyone knows the name Les Paul, even if they haven’t actually heard the guy. His wife’s vocals compliment things nicely. If you like to hear Brian Setzer play Sleepwalk, this kind of thing would likely be right up your alley.

Some 80s stuff…

Love and Rockets: Express and Earth, Sun, Moon
These records seem to hold up well to me. Express is more upbeat than Earth, Sun, Moon. Both of them have swirling atmospheric guitars. For me, these are by far the best two Love and Rockets releases, although I do have songs that I like from most of their records.

New Order: Substance
Simply a wonderful compilation of their biggest hits up ‘til its 1987 release. I’ve got the vinyl version, which is the same as disc 1 of the 2 CD version. I still think of anything put out after this as “new” New Order. Along with Power, Corruption and Lies, this is my favorite New Order.

Prince: 1999
Still dragging out all my Prince stuff. This one is simply fantastic. Came out right before Purple Rain went through the roof. Starts out with the three hits all together on side one, the title track, Little Red Corvette, and delirious. The rest of the collection is a bit less focused but always funky set on tunes. Great stuff.

Jazz…

The Greatest Jazz Concert of All Time
2 LP set with a rather optimistic title to say the least. Still, they may just be right. This is the same stuff from the Jazz at Massey Hall recordings, featuring an all star band with Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Charles Mingus, Bud Powell, and Max Roach. With a lineup like that, it’s hard to imagine anything bad coming out of this event. Nice playing and they sound good together.

And some newer stuff…

Iron & Wine
Was recently hooked up with their whole catalog, and have been listening to it a lot. Country/folk tinged acoustic stuff. It’s been drawing me in over and over. I;ve seen quite a few people mention them and I can see why.

Bonnie “Prince” Billy: sings Greatest Palace Songs
I’ve seen reviewers having a cow over this thing. I guess these songs are sacred to some of these folks and were recorded like crap in a bathroom or something. Anyway, everything I’ve seen about this starts out with the whole mess of how could he record with good musicians in a good studio in Nashville and other such meandering. Bottom line, these are good songs, well done. OK, he sounds like he might crack a smile once in a while. If that’s a problem, stay away. Otherwise, this is a great LP. And for you vinyl fans, side 4 rocks.


Still listening to Savath & Savalas, Handsome Family and others. Put on Marvin Gaye: Superhits the other day. Actually really enjoyed listening to Elvis’s gospel record the name of which I forget. Others as well, but that’s plenty for now.

[mad rhetorik]

Listened to lots of dark, depressing stuff over the weekend:

Joy Division: Closer, Unknown Pleasures, and Substance
The Cure: Pornography
Pink Floyd: The Wall
Neil Young: Tonight's The Night
Nirvana: In Utero and Unplugged
Alice In Chains: Jar Of Flies
Opeth: Damnation
Slint: Spiderland
Massive Attack: Mezzanine

My mood has improved since, so I popped in some sunnier music:

The Stone Roses: self-titled
Weezer: Blue
Jon Spencer Blues Xplosion: Orange
Smashing Pumpkins: Siamese Dream

[-Jar-]

Listened to lots of dark, depressing stuff over the weekend:

Joy Division: Closer, Unknown Pleasures, and Substance
The Cure: Pornography
Pink Floyd: The Wall
Neil Young: Tonight's The Night
Nirvana: In Utero and Unplugged
Alice In Chains: Jar Of Flies
Opeth: Damnation
Slint: Spiderland
Massive Attack: Mezzanine

My mood has improved since, so I popped in some sunnier music:

The Stone Roses: self-titled
Weezer: Blue
Jon Spencer Blues Xplosion: Orange
Smashing Pumpkins: Siamese Dream

this could easily be my list on some other week... (back before I was a daddy and had the time to listen to this much music in a week..) basically you just listed several of my all-time favorites.. you didn't listen to LOVELESS and NEW DAY RISING too did you??



dude, I swear, I bet our collections overlap by at least 50%.. probably even more..

There was one other guy I met who's collection matched mine really closely.. he was over visiting and was looking at my cds.. and said.. dude! did you steal my collection??

-jar

[mad rhetorik]

this could easily be my list on some other week... (back before I was a daddy and had the time to listen to this much music in a week..) basically you just listed several of my all-time favorites.. you didn't listen to LOVELESS and NEW DAY RISING too did you??



dude, I swear, I bet our collections overlap by at least 50%.. probably even more..

There was one other guy I met who's collection matched mine really closely.. he was over visiting and was looking at my cds.. and said.. dude! did you steal my collection??

-jar

I do own Loveless and New Day Rising. I'll listen to them later.

I may have indeed stolen your collection. Check it again. ; p

[Dave_G]

I love that Pallas cd.

Actually I listened to the Yes TFTO Rhino remaster, some Sparks, some UFO, and the Neil Young comp, and Strawbs and Tr3nity.

Dave

[Dusty Chalk]

I been listening to a "Mr. Sunshine" and quite enjoying it. Nice unorthodox song structures and melodies, and the production is surprisingly good for a "bedroom boffin".

Amongst other things, of course. Lots of depressing stuff -- Diary of Dreams, The Devics, and that classical disc I mentioned the other day.

Love and Rockets: Express and Earth, Sun, Moon
These records seem to hold up well to me. Express is more upbeat than Earth, Sun, Moon. Both of them have swirling atmospheric guitars. For me, these are by far the best two Love and Rockets releases, although I do have songs that I like from most of their records.

Have you heard Lift -- released later than their "golden era", but still quite good. Actually fits in more well with post-rock/neo-psychedelic path that recent The Church recordings have trodden. Quite good -- I revisited it again, recently, and was surprised how much I enjoyed it.

[nobody]

Have you heard Lift -- released later than their "golden era", but still quite good. Actually fits in more well with post-rock/neo-psychedelic path that recent The Church recordings have trodden. Quite good -- I revisited it again, recently, and was surprised how much I enjoyed it.

Don't know if I've heard that one or not. I'll keeo an eye out and give it a listen if I get a chance. Thanks for the head's up.

[bobsticks]

I think this one would go over well with alot of the hipsters here...good sq with some solid backwoods, bluesy, bluegrass, punky-at-times pop...



Product Description:

Holly Golightly & the Brokeoffs, the London-based duo now relocated to the backwoods of Georgia, will release their new album Medicine County (Transdreamer Records) on March 30, 2010.

Regarding the move to Georgia, Holly says, 'It resembles Texas enough to keep Dave's gun collection. Future plans for the farm include moonshining, recording studio, miniature animal ranching, illegal architecture, and founding the one true church.'

Their music is a lo-fi stew of blues, country and rockabilly, at once avant-garde and old-timey. Playboy.com says, 'Golightly s songs are so fresh and timeless they could have been recorded yesterday or 40 years ago.' Entertainment Weekly called her 'a truly appealing tunesmith.'

Holly Golightly kicked off her musical career in Thee Headcoatees, the legendary all-girl garage band, closely affiliated with U.K. cult legend Billy Childish. She spent eight years as a Headcoatee, and during those years released her first solo record, The Good Things, in 1995. She has appeared on multiple collaborative albums, including the title track for the Jim Jarmusch movie Broken Flowers with The Greenhornes. Together with Billy Childish, where the two celebrate One Chord, One Sound, One Song on the album In Blood. Holly also guested on The White Stripes (Well It's True That) We Love One Another from their platinum selling Elephant. Holly Golightly's discography is a cacophony of albums (studio and live), EPs, singles and 10-inch LPs and iTunes-only releases, and of course, the critically-acclaimed album Dirt Don't Hurt.

[DarrenH]

Miles Davis - Pangaea
Zappa - Weasels Ripped My Flesh
Cryptic Vision - Moments of Clarity
Super Furry Animals - Rings Around The World (2CD version)
Radiohead - OK Computer
Tull - A Passion Play
Tull - Minstrel In The Gallery
Tull - Warchild
Tull - A. This is the remaster from Japan. Watched the Slipstream vid also.
Tull - Stormwatch. Again, the remaster from Japan.

Very cool Camel DVD titled Coming Of Age. I'm on the hunt for some more Camel CD's now.

Johnny Cash - American IV: The Man Comes Around
Waylon Jennings - Ultimate Waylon Jennings

Darren

[Stone]

I finally found some time for music, and had some driving time, so I listened to:

Jesus and Mary Chain - Pyschocandy

Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique

Kate Bush - Hounds of Love

The USAISAMONSTER -Tasheyana Compost (thanks to our old friend Rae, who was here yesterday)

John Vanderslice - Cellar Door

Blonde Redhead - Misery Is a Butterfly

Cool For August - Grand World

Electrelane - The Power Out

Barry Black - Tragic Animal Stories

Mekons - Me

The Hellhouse Sdtk.

And various tracks by Krokus, Triumph, The Make-Up, Wire, Bonnie "Prince" Billy.

[Ex Lion Tamer]

And various tracks by Krokus, Triumph, The Make-Up, Wire, Bonnie "Prince" Billy.

Triumph? I'm starting to think you might just be a closet Canadian.

Go Habs Go!

[Troy]

Pink Floyd- Animals. Toldja I'd listen to it. It's really good, eh?

A Clockwork Orange Soundtrack. Love that old Moog junk. About as close to classical as I get.

XTC- Nonsuch. Books ARE burning.

Blur- Modern Life is Rubbish. Their best album.

Peter Gabriel 1. The Burgermeister IS moribund. Undervalued album.

Flower Kings- Stardust disc 2. Yep. I like it, but I'm a candy ass.

Eric Matthews- It's Heavy in Here. Beatles based pop.

William Orbit- Strange Cargo- Sooooooooo 80s!

Elton John- Honkey Chateau. Love it.

Adventures of Jet- Muscle. Bought on FP's suggestion for a couple bucks. Sounds like The Cars and all the songs are about street racing and muscle cars. Silly.

Laika and the Cosmonauts- Local Warming. A new one from them. Their best album! The writing is much improved and that Ventures sound, more refined.

Robyn Hitchcock- Queen Elvis. Yes, he really sings "If I was man enough, I'd come on your stump". Very strange jangle pop.

Making more Garageband musics. It brings extreme pleasure into my day.

[-Jar-]

Triumph? I'm starting to think you might just be a closet Canadian.

Go Habs Go!

I still slap on THUNDER SEVEN every once in a while...

[Stone]

Triumph? I'm starting to think you might just be a closet Canadian.

I've been accused of having a Canadian accent, whateverthehell that means. I also got slapped a couple weeks ago by a Canadian woman,* so if that's what being a Canadian is all about, no thanks. I'm proud to be a kind, gentle, humble AMERICAN.

Oh yeah, Triumph. Rae was at my place and I was displaying my best music by playing some Krokus on vinyl ("Midnite Maniac" to be specific). He mentioned how he saw this Triumph DVD with cheesy videos, and on cue I pulled out my Allied Forces CD. I played "Fool For Your Love" and "Magic Power." I admit to really liking the former quite a bit, and have since the album came out.

Speaking of Canadian artists, have your heard of Controller.Controller?

EDIT: Also, speaking of "Lock up your hats!" I listened to part of A Bell Is a Cup ..., including "Boiling Boy" yesterday.

*Disclaimer: This is a woman I know and work with and we were both hammered. I (apparently - I don't remember) made a crude comment to someone else and got smacked.

[Ex Lion Tamer]

I've been accused of having a Canadian accent, whateverthehell that means.

That means that you say "eh" at the end of every sentence.

Funny, I've been accused of having an American accent, specifically, New York/Brooklyn, people have said the same thing about my daughters.

Oh yeah, Triumph. Rae was at my place and I was displaying my best music by playing some Krokus on vinyl ("Midnite Maniac" to be specific). He mentioned how he saw this Triumph DVD with cheesy videos, and on cue I pulled out my Allied Forces CD. I played "Fool For Your Love" and "Magic Power." I admit to really liking the former quite a bit, and have since the album came out.

Triumph falls into the same category for me as bands like Max Webster, April Wine, Helix, Honeymoon Suite, Aldo Nova, Glass Tiger...bands that were thrust on the Canadian public despite their lack of any meaningful songwriting talent, because of the CRTC (equivalent of the FCC), rules for Canadian content - sort of a musical affirmative action. These "rules" have created for me, a (perhaps false) perception, that most Canadian bands who get airplay in Canada, and not in the U.S. are utter crap, popular here only because of content rules. Given your and Jar's endorsement of Triumph, maybe I'm wrong, obn them anyway. Any other cheesy Canadian 80's bands that you think are wothwhile?

Speaking of Canadian artists, have your heard of Controller.Controller?

Nope, I'll check them out, but only if you think I should.

EDIT: Also, speaking of "Lock up your hats!" I listened to part of A Bell Is a Cup ..., including "Boiling Boy" yesterday.

A fine album, highly underrated (at least by me, up to now.)

[Stone]

Triumph falls into the same category for me as bands like Max Webster, April Wine, Helix, Honeymoon Suite, Aldo Nova, Glass Tiger...bands that were thrust on the Canadian public despite their lack of any meaningful songwriting talent, because of the CRTC (equivalent of the FCC), rules for Canadian content - sort of a musical affirmative action. These "rules" have created for me, a (perhaps false) perception, that most Canadian bands who get airplay in Canada, and not in the U.S. are utter crap, popular here only because of content rules. Given your and Jar's endorsement of Triumph, maybe I'm wrong, obn them anyway. Any other cheesy Canadian 80's bands that you think are wothwhile?

Not sure of any other "cheesy" Canadian 80s bands I think are worthwhile, but I think you should add Platinum Blonde to your list. Man, they were in constant rotation on MuchMusic in the mid-80s. Triumph did make a small splash in the states, as did April Wine, Aldo Nova and Glass Tiger. None of them were ever huge here, though. I do have a Honeymoon Suite album, but I don't think I've ever listened to it, and it's not at the top of my priority list.

Nope, I'll check them out, but only if you think I should.

I've never heard them, just read a few things about them (and that they're supposed to be the next hot thing outta Canada), so don't purchase it based on anything I say.

A fine album, highly underrated (at least by me, up to now.)

I like it a lot too. Do you have Manscape or any of the Wir stuff? If so, is it worth checking out?

Stone

P.S. How could you possibly call a song with lyrics like these "cheesy":

Just between you and me
Baby I know our love will be,
Just between you and me
Always I know our love will be,
Just between you and me

Lovers often seem to say
Hearts can be blind to love gone astray,
Always it's the same old song,
Someone's been hurt by love that's gone wrong.

[ForeverAutumn]

Triumph falls into the same category for me as bands like Max Webster, April Wine, Helix, Honeymoon Suite, Aldo Nova, Glass Tiger...bands that were thrust on the Canadian public despite their lack of any meaningful songwriting talent, because of the CRTC (equivalent of the FCC), rules for Canadian content - sort of a musical affirmative action. These "rules" have created for me, a (perhaps false) perception, that most Canadian bands who get airplay in Canada, and not in the U.S. are utter crap, popular here only because of content rules. Given your and Jar's endorsement of Triumph, maybe I'm wrong, obn them anyway. Any other cheesy Canadian 80's bands that you think are wothwhile?

Hey Mark, I really have to disagree with you on the Triumph front. I grew up listening to most of the bands that you mentioned above and would agree with you about the CRTC rules on some accounts, but I don't think that Triumph would be in that category. In fact, Triumph was successful in the US, not just in Canada.

I think that Triumph rocked in their day. They were good, clean, rock and roll fun. Their songs always had a positive note. Sure, that might have made some of the lyrics cheesy, but so what. I've heard a lot worse as far as lyrics go. And, while the talent levels of Levine and Moore were nothing to write home about, Rik Emmett was highly under-rated as a guitarist.

While you rate Triumph with the likes of Helix and Honeymoon Suite, I would put them up there with Rush and Saga.

Triumph may not have been your cup of tea, but you should give some of Rik Emmett's solo stuff a listen. I think that you'll be surprised at how good he is.

[Stone]

*Disclaimer: This is a woman I know and work with and we were both hammered. I (apparently - I don't remember) made a crude comment to someone else and got smacked.

Wow, this thread is a blast from the past.

I really wish I could remember the episode that is the subject of the disclaimer I posted back in 2004.

And hey Pat, how have you been?

[Davey]

Electrelane - The Power Out

Hey Stoney, whadya think about that Electrelane? That one has my curiosity peaked. Heard some very nice things about it. Seems like something JC might be all over, but one I might really like too. I know that Albini took them into his studio for this one and that they're on Too Pure now, past and present home of some of my other faves like Laika, Stereolab, PJ Harvey, etc. Anyway, if you feel like it I'd love to hear your first impressions. I can order it for under $10 so it's not a big risk, but might as well take advantage of your good taste when available BTW, nice review by Heather Phares at AMG- she's my favorite of their long time reviewers and we have pretty similar taste.

NP: Modest Mouse - the fun new one

[Stone]

Hey Stoney, whadya think about that Electrelane? That one has my curiosity peaked. Heard some very nice things about it. Seems like something JC might be all over, but one I might really like too.

I like it quite a bit. I haven't spent a ton of time with it, but I've spun it a few times and like it more with each listen. Stylistically it varies quite a bit throughout the album (sometimes sounding like 80s synth pop, sometimes straightforward indie rock, sometimes delving into a moody spacy feel, etc.), but it's all good, including a great number sung by a choir. Interesting stuff. I'm sure JC would like it and I bet you would too.

Electrelane track coming soon to a CRS comp near you.

[Slosh]

NP: Modest Mouse - the fun new one

Me too. Hey, what are the chances of that?

[Davey]

Me too. Hey, what are the chances of that?

You're kidding! Why, the odds must be astronomical! Just got your This Tainted Life crapilation and starting to give it a spin. Hey, this is kind of a cool sloshmix, my friend. Thanks. Not much new this time, but always an interesting mix of tunes and a nice listen. Did you make it for anyone in particular? Is that a new font you're using? Looks like it might be kinda like a recent spins type of thing. That BHP song that closes it is a good one...Three has a real nice sound. Nice touch with the Wilco track from that PBS concert. I was gonna see them down in Tucson at the end of the month, but guess that will probably be postponed now that Tweedy is in painkiller rehab. Hope they reschedule but I haven't heard anything yet about refunds or whatnot.

[Slosh]

Did you make it for anyone in particular?

Yes! Me!

Yeah, not much there you don't have but I think it's a pretty good listen so I figured why not? Just needed something different for my drive to work plus it gives you (and a few others) a chance to hear a bit of The Cansecos. Even cddb never heard of them