Tuneful Tuesday

[Jim Clark]

Uhh, more boots. This time:

Chemical Bros.
Les Savy Fav
The Replacements
Soft Cell
The Clash
The Ramones
The Kills
The Killers
The Damned
The Stranglers
Air
Four Tet
The Furs
Tears For Fears
New Order
Depeche Mode
Idlewild
I Am Kloot
Arcade Fire
Dead Kennedy's
Morrissey
Stan Ridgway (really angling to get a 2004-2 disc show, and I think it's gonna work!)
Cocteau Twins

looking ahead to next week-Legendary Pink Dots, The Cramps, more from the Kills and BRMC.
jc

[richmon]

From the Library:
Sandy Denny ‘no more sad refrains’, an anthology, 12 gems out of 35 including most of the Fothingray stuff. Heavenly voice.
Richard Shindell ‘Somewhere near Patterson’
Warren Zevon ‘The wind’ – yawn.

New Purchases
Arena ‘Peppers Ghost’- Took a few listens to sink in, good working out music, metalish.
Hawkwind ‘Hall of the mountain grill’ – this potentially will become my fav Hawk disc.
A triggering myth ‘Forgiving Eden’ Jazzy, prog takes a few listens. Like about half of this.
Anathema ‘A fine day to exit’ –a big thanx to all that recommended this, I like it a lot.
---shades of King Black Acid, with the distorted guitar and vocals.

Trade stuff (thanx to Barry L)
Mainhorse – Early keyboard heavy prog, Patrick Moraz’s first band. I love this type of stuff.
Frogg Café ‘Creatures’- like about half of this, will watch out for the new album.
The Nice ‘Forget the title’ I’m a big fan of Emerson’s, but this live two disc set doesn’t have anything for me.

[-Jar-]

Uhh, more boots. This time:


Cocteau Twins

jc

When is the Cocteau Twins boot from? I hear they've gotten back together to play a few shows. That would be so cool if they toured.

BTW, I'm picking Kansas for my office pool. Wish me luck. This is the first time I've ever played.

-jar

[MindGoneHaywire]

What Replacements boot?

Listening to American Idiot right now. Outside of a couple of things new to me, mostly the same from the past few weeks--Madeleine Peyroux, Brazilian Girls, Ray LaMontagne, Miles-Seven Steps, Nick Cave, etc. etc.

Spun the And They Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead. Not bad, but kinda pretentious, I thought. But worthy of another listen. Went back & listened to the Gabin album. I wish more electronica was like this. And then I put on the 2-CD STYX compilation of their first four albums! Wow! Can't remember the last time I actually put on a Styx record. Early 80s? Anyway, I made it to about halfway through the second album. For what it is--commercial rock music with arty & prog conceits--I've heard worse, tune-wise. But what really made this unlistenable after awhile was the horrible lead guitar. I know the thing about Styx was that there was always this hard rock Young/Shaw vs. DeYoung tension, at least after Shaw joined. I have no use for DeYoung's work. But I do think he was a lot better at what he did than these other guitar hacks who mocked him for not being as 'hard rock' as they were, were at what they did. I'll be glad when this one's out of the house.

And I don't know why, but I tried to listen to a Michael Buble album. Mistake. I don't know why I thought it might actually be listenable, but...not being Josh Groban isn't enough. Half-baked arrangements, cheesy production...Jamie Cullum was way easier to stomach. Oh, well, it's not like I expected anything. But what does it mean when you're a second-rate Harry Connick?

[MomurdA]

Metamatics- Neo Ouija
Medeski Martin Wood- End of the World Party
Air-Moon Safari
Kraftwerk-Computer World (very old)
Boards of Canada-Music has the Right ot Children
Autechre-Amber
Many others as well.

[Jim Clark]

This is the info on the Replacements gig:

THE REPLACEMENTS
JULY 01, 1985
"SIMPLY UNACCEPTABLE"
7th St Entry, Minneapolis, MN, USA

Source: FM(?) Broadcast> ? >?
Conversion: CD-R> EAC (Ver. 0.95 prebeta 5)>WAV >FLAC Frontend (Ver. 1.7.1 Etree Edition)> FLAC Level 8
SOUND QUALITY: This is a professionally-recorded live show taken from a radio broadcast. It is in stereo, and the sound quality rates about a 7 out of 10.
Converted by: Jojo Batin

ARTWORKS INCLUDED
***************************
DO NOT CONVERT THIS TO MP3
***************************

1. Hear You Been to College
2. Bastards of Young
3. Gary's Got a Boner
4. Color Me Impressed
5. I'll Buy
6. Tommy Gets His Tonsils Out
7. Unsatisfied
8. Punk Poop (aka 1977)
9. Jean Genie
10. Can't Hardly Wait
11. Dose of Thunder
12. The Man who Invented Himself
13. I Wanna Destroy You
14. I Will Dare
15. Little Mascara
16. Left of the Dial
17. Take me Down to the Hospital
18. Takin' A Ride
19. I'm in Trouble
20. Rattlesnake
21. Hitchin' A Ride
22. Customer
23. Kids Don't Follow

This is the Cocteau Twins two shows that I've been listening to:

Cocteau Twins - Lovers are Mortal
Live at the Newcastle City Hall
April 29th, 1983



The source of all tracks is:

Original vinyl --> SoundForge --> CDR --> FLAC

The tracklist is as follows:

1. Hearsay please
2. Garlands
3. Alas dies laughing
4. Dear heart
5. Feathers oar blades
6. Hazel
7. Shallow then halo
8. Blind dumb deaf
9. Peppermint tree
10. Wax and wane
11. All but an ark lark
BONUS TRACKS (from "Unrealised dreams"):
12. In our angelhood (version)
13. Ivo (version)

and

COCTEAU TWINS

royal oak theatre, Detroit, Michigan - 11.24.1990

soundboard

01- blue bell knoll
02- from the flagstones
03- my love paramour
04- cico buff
05- pitch the baby
06- crushed
07- iceblink luck
08- orange appled
09- wolf in the breast
10- mizake the mizan
11- aikea-guinea
12- cherry_coloured funk
13- road, river & rail (skip 2'49)
14- a kissed out red floatboat
15- pink orange red
16- whales tails
17- heaven or las vegas

These boots are made for listen'

jc