Well, I was listening to the supposedly recently leaked 10-minute version of Revolution 1 on YouTube, but by the time I'd finished listening, EMI's lawyers had been at it and it was no longer available! (kind of surprised it took them that long to get to it...)
Interesting stuff. Polished up, I think I might have preferred something along these lines on the White album, rather than branching the experimental part off into Revolution #9 as a separate track.
I've been listening to the new Neko Case album, Middle Cyclone, pretty endlessly for the last few days.
God, what an incredible voice that woman has.
"This Tornado Loves You" seems to be the song that has most taken hold of me. I find the whole idea of being loved by a tornado pretty darn cool.
God, what an incredible voice that woman has.
"This Tornado Loves You" seems to be the song that has most taken hold of me. I find the whole idea of being loved by a tornado pretty darn cool.
Out Of The Blue - ELO: This is close to becoming my favourite ELO album now. The remastering on the new edition is excellent
Who's Next - The Who: Rallying myself up for the forthcoming Oz tour by turning up one of rock music's most perfect albums
No Line On The Horizon - U2: Certainly their most impressive CD since Zooropa. Most reviews I've read so far have expressed surprise on how good it is. Of course this won't sway any anti-U2 fans to join the fan club!
Pet Sounds Live - Brian Wilson: Not the album, the DVD. A very good job on recreating this studio tour-de-force on stage.
Corroboree - Split and The Incredible Ends: You may know this one. Been comparing old and new mixes. Got to say I'm leaning towards the 2007 mixes on most tracks although I'm still bewildered why they changed the track sequence on the new edition (I just program the old sequence back in. Call me a traditionalist!)
Who's Next - The Who: Rallying myself up for the forthcoming Oz tour by turning up one of rock music's most perfect albums
No Line On The Horizon - U2: Certainly their most impressive CD since Zooropa. Most reviews I've read so far have expressed surprise on how good it is. Of course this won't sway any anti-U2 fans to join the fan club!
Pet Sounds Live - Brian Wilson: Not the album, the DVD. A very good job on recreating this studio tour-de-force on stage.
Corroboree - Split and The Incredible Ends: You may know this one. Been comparing old and new mixes. Got to say I'm leaning towards the 2007 mixes on most tracks although I'm still bewildered why they changed the track sequence on the new edition (I just program the old sequence back in. Call me a traditionalist!)
Yeah, ive been listening to the new U2 album.
All the songs are great! (excepting Get On Your Boots and Moment Of Surrender)
All the songs are great! (excepting Get On Your Boots and Moment Of Surrender)
I am going through a bit of a Bee Gees phase. The cafe my mum and I go to of the weekend always has the Bee Gees playing which has made me listen to them more. Also listening to Coldplay, only three days til the gig!!
quote:Originally posted by Chook:
I am going through a bit of a Bee Gees phase. The cafe my mum and I go to of the weekend always has the Bee Gees playing which has made me listen to them more. Also listening to Coldplay, only three days til the gig!!
Only 2 weeks till the Auckland COldplay gig
Your going to tell me all about it right?
Which era of the Bee Gees Chook? I love the first three albums, then it gets a bit patchy until the Main Course album (Jive Talkin', Night's on Broadway etc..) generally like the helium years, but don't like anything after Tragedy (which is a pretty bad song, but I still love it in a it's so bad it's great, it's like a self paraody).
Listening to this great Semi-acoustic version of the Radiohead song You http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CnCWAncnwE
quote:Originally posted by italianplastic2:
Only 2 weeks till the Auckland COldplay gig
Your going to tell me all about it right?
I sure will! Don't worry about that! I am so excited! My first gig! Who is supporting them in Auckland?
quote:Originally posted by Camus:
Which era of the Bee Gees Chook? I love the first three albums, then it gets a bit patchy until the Main Course album (Jive Talkin', Night's on Broadway etc..) generally like the helium years, but don't like anything after Tragedy (which is a pretty bad song, but I still love it in a it's so bad it's great, it's like a self paraody).
I don't have a specific era, more just the best of and a live cd. I just like their music, I don't know why...
quote:Originally posted by Chook:quote:Originally posted by italianplastic2:
Only 2 weeks till the Auckland COldplay gig
Your going to tell me all about it right?
I sure will! Don't worry about that! I am so excited! My first gig! Who is supporting them in Auckland?
I think its Mercury Rev and Hollie Smith.
I guess you get Mercury Rev and a local Oz act?
quote:Originally posted by italianplastic2:
I think its Mercury Rev and Hollie Smith.
I guess you get Mercury Rev and a local Oz act?
I have never heard of either of the groups supporting for Brissie. I think it is Decoder Ring (?) as well. So I will soon find out! I am very excited at the moment, it'll be so good!.
Currently listening to 'Brick' by Ben Folds Five and Coldplay as the gig is tonight!!
I am listening to Coldplay even more after last night, it was so fun. They were absolutly amazing. The best song of the evening was a tie between 'Yellow' and 'Politik' and 'The Scientist' I just can't stop going on about it!
Modest Mouse
We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank
Going through an indie and/or "anything but top 40 radio" phase...
We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank
Going through an indie and/or "anything but top 40 radio" phase...
Hank Williams
quote:Originally posted by Semi-Detached:
Modest Mouse
We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank
Going through an indie and/or "anything but top 40 radio" phase...
I am permanently in such a phase! Gav, there is an AMAZING radio station in my city (Seattle) that may be the cure for what ails you...you can stream it live online at kexp.org - it is the best station ever
speaking of Modest Mouse, I've been listening quite a lot lately to a really cool album by Sun Kil Moon - it is called Tiny Cities and it's all covers of Modest Mouse songs. good stuff.
I have Afterglow in the car, so it's on high rotation.
quote:Originally posted by italianplastic2:
Listening to this great Semi-acoustic version of the Radiohead song You http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CnCWAncnwE
I have a kid about 2 years older than you and all he listens to is choral music, classical, jazz and bigband and he plays the trombone.
I sometimes wonder if you are the child I should have had, IP2.
If ever your parents get sick of you, let me know and we'll arrange an adoption.
lots...
But today it's the new U2 Album
But today it's the new U2 Album
quote:I have a kid about 2 years older than you and all he listens to is choral music, classical, jazz and bigband and he plays the trombone.
Nothing wrong with that. They sound like they have good taste.
Recently:
Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd - Animals
Syd Barrett - Madcap Laughs
Syd Barrett - Barrett
Pink Floyd - Vegetable Man (what a fantastic song).
The Best of Marshall Crenshaw
Murmur - REM
Both inspired by an amazing show I saw last night that was really a rehearsal for a big REM tribute concert taking place at Carnegie Hall in NYC tonight.
Murmur - REM
Both inspired by an amazing show I saw last night that was really a rehearsal for a big REM tribute concert taking place at Carnegie Hall in NYC tonight.
"Bella's Lullabye" Lovely!
quote:Originally posted by brownie:
The Best of Marshall Crenshaw
Murmur - REM
Both inspired by an amazing show I saw last night that was really a rehearsal for a big REM tribute concert taking place at Carnegie Hall in NYC tonight.
Ohhh!, I heard about this!
How was Glen Hansard (or it might have been The Swell Season)
quote:Originally posted by Beajai:quote:Originally posted by italianplastic2:
Listening to this great Semi-acoustic version of the Radiohead song You http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CnCWAncnwE
I have a kid about 2 years older than you and all he listens to is choral music, classical, jazz and bigband and he plays the trombone.
I sometimes wonder if you are the child I should have had, IP2.
If ever your parents get sick of you, let me know and we'll arrange an adoption.
Teeehee Im lucky to have parents that love the same music
quote:Originally posted by sunset swimmer:quote:Originally posted by Semi-Detached:
Modest Mouse
We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank
Going through an indie and/or "anything but top 40 radio" phase...
I am permanently in such a phase! Gav, there is an AMAZING radio station in my city (Seattle) that may be the cure for what ails you...you can stream it live online at kexp.org - it is the best station ever
After the all-day Chinese water torture at work that is top 40 radio, I mostly listen to the local university radio station Radio One 91FM when I get home...oh what bliss it is to be unfamiliar with 80-85% of the music!!! Familiarity has bred strong contempt in this here music listener.
quote:Originally posted by Camus:
Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd - Animals
Syd Barrett - Madcap Laughs
Syd Barrett - Barrett
Pink Floyd - Vegetable Man (what a fantastic song).
Nice stuff, Joe. The Floyd really need to give us some rare and unreleased stuff, the hold-outs! Some BBC sessions would be nice.
quote:Originally posted by italianplastic2:
Ohhh!, I heard about this!
How was Glen Hansard (or it might have been The Swell Season)
Unfortunately, Glen Hansard was not at this particular show. It was nominally a show by the two guys in Calexico who were part of the 'house band' for the Carnegie Hall tribute, but the main part of this show was rehearsal of some of the REM songs for the following night. We got Darius Rucker, Rachel Yamagata, Rhett Miller, Marshall Crenshaw, and Keren Ann.
I didn't go the actual tribute show itself.
quote:Originally posted by Semi-Detached:
Nice stuff, Joe. The Floyd really need to give us some rare and unreleased stuff, the hold-outs! Some BBC sessions would be nice.
Yeah, I've never been a Floyd fan, but all I really knew were Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall (which after listening up to The Wall I'd say were their worst two albums IMO).
I can't believe they've continually blocked a release of Vegetable Man. It's such a good song. Luckily, like the Beatles there's a shed load of bootlegs out there if you know where to look.
Jugband Blues is one of the most harrowing songs I've heard.
Bike is currently my favourite Floyd song (as you can guess I much prefer the Syd Barrett era, Piper at the Gates of Dawn is genius).
quote:Originally posted by Camus:quote:Originally posted by Semi-Detached:
Nice stuff, Joe. The Floyd really need to give us some rare and unreleased stuff, the hold-outs! Some BBC sessions would be nice.
Yeah, I've never been a Floyd fan, but all I really knew were Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall (which after listening up to The Wall I'd say were their worst two albums IMO).
I can't believe they've continually blocked a release of Vegetable Man. It's such a good song. Luckily, like the Beatles there's a shed load of bootlegs out there if you know where to look.
Jugband Blues is one of the most harrowing songs I've heard.
Bike is currently my favourite Floyd song (as you can guess I much prefer the Syd Barrett era, Piper at the Gates of Dawn is genius).
Syd Floyd and post-Syd Floyd are pretty much two different bands. Piper is the definitive psychedelic album for me.
I get the impression that 'Vegetable Man' and 'Scream Thy Last Scream' remain unreleased out of respect to Syd. They're virtually studies of a mental breakdown in progress. You're right about 'Jugband Blues' though...it's like Syd knew he was falling apart, but couldn't stop it.
Going to see The Who next week so I've been listening to:
The Who Sell Out - 1967 vintage and shows softer sides to the band. It's very good and a concept album of it's time that a) works and b)not pretentious (in Townsend's case that's a minor miracle)
Quadrophenia - Finally got around to getting this! Heard lots of talk that this is their true masterpiece. After hearing it right through six times in this last week, I could be very much swayed to that arguement
Tommy - Still very much a wonderful thing
Who's Next - You can't understate how brilliant this album is
Live At Leeds - Often cited as the greatest live album ever made. I can't think of a better one myself.
Endless Wire - I may have slagged this off when I first got it but after a few more listens, I'm starting to warm to it. It's The Who c.2006 - something which the band knows but I have to get my head around the idea. It would be like Spilt Enz doing a new album and the listener expecting it to be like True Colours; they've moved on so we have to as well
So you can see I'm all geared up for the gig next Thursday
The Who Sell Out - 1967 vintage and shows softer sides to the band. It's very good and a concept album of it's time that a) works and b)not pretentious (in Townsend's case that's a minor miracle)
Quadrophenia - Finally got around to getting this! Heard lots of talk that this is their true masterpiece. After hearing it right through six times in this last week, I could be very much swayed to that arguement
Tommy - Still very much a wonderful thing
Who's Next - You can't understate how brilliant this album is
Live At Leeds - Often cited as the greatest live album ever made. I can't think of a better one myself.
Endless Wire - I may have slagged this off when I first got it but after a few more listens, I'm starting to warm to it. It's The Who c.2006 - something which the band knows but I have to get my head around the idea. It would be like Spilt Enz doing a new album and the listener expecting it to be like True Colours; they've moved on so we have to as well
So you can see I'm all geared up for the gig next Thursday
Green Eyes-Coldplay
Still buzzing from last night.
If you get the chance to see them live, even if you dont like them PLEASE GO SEE THEM!
It was an amazing show!!!
Still buzzing from last night.
If you get the chance to see them live, even if you dont like them PLEASE GO SEE THEM!
It was an amazing show!!!
quote:Originally posted by italianplastic2:
Green Eyes-Coldplay
Still buzzing from last night.
If you get the chance to see them live, even if you dont like them PLEASE GO SEE THEM!
It was an amazing show!!!
Sorry italianplastic, but after sound relief I never want to hear Viva La Vida again. ever.
quote:Originally posted by Greatfox:quote:Originally posted by italianplastic2:
Green Eyes-Coldplay
Still buzzing from last night.
If you get the chance to see them live, even if you dont like them PLEASE GO SEE THEM!
It was an amazing show!!!
Sorry italianplastic, but after sound relief I never want to hear Viva La Vida again. ever.
I actually agree with you...Its one of their worst songs...
"(F)lannigan's Ball" - Los Dropkick Murphys
Headless Chickens
Chickens Hits
Chickens Hits
I've been on a major country kick lately, so I've been playing the heck out of both of Kirsty Lee Akers's cds.
Loving the new Shane Nicholson album, as well as the cd he and Kasey put out together.
I'm also a really really big fan of the most recent Jimmy Barnes cd. It was funny, the first time I heard the Blue Hotel, I was like "Man does that sound like a Neil Finn song." Sure enough, The Man wrote it.
Also, "Universes" by Birds of Tokyo is amazing.
Loving the new Shane Nicholson album, as well as the cd he and Kasey put out together.
I'm also a really really big fan of the most recent Jimmy Barnes cd. It was funny, the first time I heard the Blue Hotel, I was like "Man does that sound like a Neil Finn song." Sure enough, The Man wrote it.
Also, "Universes" by Birds of Tokyo is amazing.
quote:Originally posted by Semi-Detached:
I get the impression that 'Vegetable Man' and 'Scream Thy Last Scream' remain unreleased out of respect to Syd. They're virtually studies of a mental breakdown in progress.
Have you heard Vegetable Man Gav? I think that's a bit of a copout if that is the reason. It's certainly nowhere near the place Jugband Blues is. And Vegetable Man is so catchy.
Mark Seymour's two acoustic albums, in light of seeing them at Sound Relief it's a good comparison to the original Hunnas songs. Great albums, very well produced, you can hear every instrument and overdub clear as day
quote:Originally posted by Camus:
Have you heard Vegetable Man Gav? I think that's a bit of a copout if that is the reason. It's certainly nowhere near the place Jugband Blues is. And Vegetable Man is so catchy.
Yeah Joe I have. I don't think an "official" reason has been given on why they haven't been released but that seems to be the assumption. There's so many gaps in the Floyd catalogue and that's just one of them.
quote:Originally posted by Greatfox:
Mark Seymour's two acoustic albums, in light of seeing them at Sound Relief it's a good comparison to the original Hunnas songs. Great albums, very well produced, you can hear every instrument and overdub clear as day
Have you got the H&C Horn Of Plenty box set, Foxy? What a stunning thing that is.
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