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<b>Lili Boniche & Bill Laswell: Boniche Dub</b>
Taking as its source the album Alger, Alger by Arab-Occidental-Jewish singer-guitarist Lili Boniche (discovered playing in a Paris café at age 78), Boniche Dub is producer Bill Laswell's ambient pastiche of pan-Andalusian-Algerian textures and beats. Excellent if you have a need for something spacey and bass heavy. particularly good for late night listening.
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<b>60 Greatest of Dion & The Belmonts</b>
Well yeah, I do need a three album vinyl box set with 60 songs by Dion, including the Wanderer, Runaround Sue, Little Diane and much much more. This **** is great.
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I like Dion (what I've heard) but, really? Many of the 60 songs are worth listening to?
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Strange, the only Dion & the Belmonts that I have is a 3XLP anthology. I guess they're a hard group to whittle down.
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Actually the 3 LP set here is a bit of overkill. None of it is really bad, but a lot of it is covers and there is not a lot of variation to it as it is all the early stuff on Laurie. Really, any early hits collection would suffice. I just happened to happen along the vinyl here cheap and it's a fun listen. If you want to find something a bit different in the Dion catalog, look to an album he did in the mid 70s with Phil Spector. Spector is in fine form with the arrangements and Dion's voice is very good. Album is quite a bit more on the downer side than what was expected of either of them and it was shelved upon release and only released in England initially. People wanted to remix it but Spector was adamant it shoudl remain as is. A really interesting listen:
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My kid has got it on endless loop. I may be starting to enjoy it. Send help...
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Today has been a dark punk-rock/post-punk kinda day.
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Anybody have any other suggestions along the lines of this stuff (particularly Killing Joke-esque stuff)? My knowledge of proto-goth-punk is pretty shallow...
~Rae
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You might like UK Decay or maybe Southern Death Cult (before they turned into The Cult).
I'd suggest checking out some American death rock stuff, 45 Grave, first Christian Death album (the one where Rik Agnew from The Adolescents played guitar). A bit more raw and rough but as far as walking the line between punk and goth they fit the bill.
There's also Birthday Party stuff.
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Hey, thanks. Save the Birthday Party, I don't know any of the bands you mentioned.
~Rae
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This has some good stuff on it in that vein, including the already-mentioned 45 Grave:
Also, you probably already know this, but tread carefully into the catalogs of the three bands you mentioned. They all changed direction dramatically after the albums you posted.
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And while they don't really have any goth leanings, that Damned album, one I really love by the way, sorta musically reminds me of the first UK Subs album, Another Kind of Blues.
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This has some good stuff on it in that vein, including the already-mentioned 45 Grave:
Rewatched that movie not long ago, still funny.
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Also, you probably already know this, but tread carefully into the catalogs of the three bands you mentioned. They all changed direction dramatically after the albums you posted.
Oh yeah, no doubt. I actually like some 80s stuff from all three of those groups, but yeah, The Damned and The Stranglers are probably two of the prime examples of bands whose punk legacies can be really confusing if you start at a random point in their discographies.
~Rae
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Ha, Signal to Trust. I should send you their later, much better one.
And I haven't thought about that Petra Hayden disc in a while... I remember thinking it was pretty awesome.
~Rae
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This one?
I have it, thanks to you.
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Oh yeah! I think I'm gonna queue that up right now.
~Rae
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this is def growing on me
Sufjan Steve's The Age of Adz is definitely growing on me.
I've probably spun this record about 10 times in total since I got it - and I just keep liking it more and more. It helps now that I have speakers that will go low enough to really give the electronic low end its due.
This album is very different than anything I've heard in a while. A great combination of electronic, acoustic, and just plain creativity.
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Maria Muldaur & her Garden of Joy
Maria returns to her jug band days. Very enjoyable.
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[QUOTE=noddin0ff] Wish I'd known about them in the 80's. Coulda spared me a lot of time listening to Ratt and the likes.
Speaking of Ratt...are there some great sounding 80's hair band albums? Most of the CD stuff is too treble heavy and just sounds awful. I grew up with cassettes, but wonder if vinyl is superior and if any really stand out on quality.
To this day I've never heard a song off Van Halen's OU812 that sounds even decent quality.
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I <3 Deerhoof
They're on tour right now... are they coming to yr neck of the woods?
~Rae
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Detroit area is the closest. New album just dropped too, but I haven't heard it.
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I guess Nervous Cop was going to tour as the opening act but Zach Hill had to drop off (maybe because he's still on tour with Marnie Stern?). Would've been interesting to see. I was planning to go to the show here but I decided to go to Chicago to see the Dismemberment Plan instead.
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That Ghost album is amazingly stupid. A real life Spinal Tap.
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I'm trying to listen to music more often. Currently spinning a home made cd with tracks from Dark Night of the Soul and Admiral Radley's I Heart California; Deer Hunter's Halcyon Digest; Decemberists' The King is Dead; Circulatory System's Signal Morning. I've had the Signal Morning for a while but didn't appreciate it until I set up a headphone system in the corner of my son's empty bedroom. (I'm not taking over his room mind you. He'll be thrilled to use the system when he comes home for a visit.)
Oh, I moved on from the new Iron and Wine after about 3 listens. I'm sure I'll return to it though.
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That Ghost album is amazingly stupid. A real life Spinal Tap.
Yep. I just don't get it.
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Some recent pickups
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William Parker - The Inside Songs of Curtis Mayfield Live in Rome
Kind of an interesting concept. Not pulled off too well. There's real good songs, a real good band, and some good vocalists. Lots of moments of inspiration but not so many at the same time. Still, its a decent listen. Parker is amazing the more I hear him the more I'm impressed. I'm trying to pick up other albums and have a few in my Amazon queue waiting to arrive. I'll have to report back.
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Eric Dolphy - At the Five Spot, Vols 1 & 2
A lot to take in. I immediately liked it. Just need more time to fully appreciate it. 2 Disks of Dolphy is a lot.
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Listening to PJ Harvey's new release on NPR first listen - and I have to ask - so far - 1 min into track 1 - WTF?
Ok - I'm on track 3 (I think) and I'm still wondering WTF? The bugle sample isn't even on beat or in tune with the track! WTF? This is a bunch of crap.
I can't listen to any more of this - whoever the @#$% allowed this to be made should be shot. What a @#$%^^ waste.
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Harold Land's West Coast Blues!
Jazzland, a somewhat later offspring of Riverside, did not compete with the parent label as a long term developer of major artists. It's strength was often in taking advantage of one-time circumstances to assemble intriguing combinations of players for "blowing" sessions.This was one classic example: in the spring of 1960, rising star Wes Montgomery was living in San Fransisco and the Cannonball Adderly Quintet--with its Barry Harris/Sam Jones/Louis Hayes rhythm section--was there on a working trip. Harold Land and Joe Gordon, residents of the not too-distant Los Angeles, were imported by visiting producer Orrin Keepnews. The result was the instant meshing of compatible jazz talents.
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I have this on vinyl and really, really enjoy it.
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I have this on vinyl and really, really enjoy it.
Really?...really and truly?
I would've expected something more like...:
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