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East River Pipe - Mel

Howe Gelb - 'Sno Angel Like You

Belle And Sebastian - Push Barman To Open Old Wounds

The Kinks - Are The Village Green Preservation Society

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"Veneer" - Jose Gonzalez

"Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not" - Arctic Monkeys

"In Between Dreams" - Jack Johnson

"Greatest Hits" - Blink-182

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"The College Dropout" - Kanye West

"A Grand Don't Come for Free" - The Streets

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They Might Be Giants-Factory Showroom

Jesse James-Punk Soul Brothers

Manic Street Preachers-Generation Terrorists

Natalie Merchant-Motherland

Rocket From The Crypt-RFTC

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The Cure - Pornography

13th Floor Elevators - The Psychedelic Sounds Of The 13th Floor Elevators

The Subhumans - The Day The Country Died

 

Christian Death - Ashes

The Rolling Stones - Between The Buttons

Genius/GZA - Liquid Swords

 

Neil Young - On The Beach

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The Go! Team - Thunder Lightning Strike

Low - Things We Lost In The Fire

Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express

 

At The Drive-In - Relationship Of Command

Bright Eyes - Lifted

Brian Eno - Ambient 4: On Land

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today's at-work selection, in descending order of how well they kept me awake. and with my favorite song from each, instead of pictures.

 

 

 

sam cooke - live at the harlem square club (twisting the night away)

 

tom petty - wildflowers (wake up time)

 

beatles - past masters (day tripper)

 

ray charles - greatest hits (unchain my heart)

 

van morrison - astral weeks (the way young lovers do)

 

flaming lips - yoshimi battles the pink robots (are you a hypnotist)

 

franz ferdinand - you could have it so much better (whatever the first song is)

 

nas - illmatic (ny state of mind)

 

afghan whigs - gentlemen (fountain and fairfax)

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Guest Felonies!

Ambient 4 is pretty good, but I like 1 and 2 more. Haven't heard 3. Discreet Music is neat. I enjoy the algorithmic variations of Pachelbel's Canon.

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Brian Eno - Another Green World

Radiohead - Amnesiac

Tim Ries Septet - Alternate Side

Townes Van Zandt - For the Sake of the Song

Sparks - Kimono My House

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Is Leaving Songs recent? I wasn't really all that fond of Lucky Dog Recordings because it just felt like stuff that wasn't good enough to make the cut on previous Tindersticks albums, which in all likelihood was probably the case for more than a few tracks. Not that it was bad or anything, but it jsut didn't feel like any new ground was covered, or anything remarkable was done.

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Led Zeppelin - Houses Of The Holy

The Beatles - Revolver

Prince - Dirty Mind

Outkast - Stankonia

The Beatles - Abbey Road

 

Czech is sending me The Royal Tenenbaums by Devo.

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Is Leaving Songs recent? I wasn't really all that fond of Lucky Dog Recordings because it just felt like stuff that wasn't good enough to make the cut on previous Tindersticks albums, which in all likelihood was probably the case for more than a few tracks. Not that it was bad or anything, but it jsut didn't feel like any new ground was covered, or anything remarkable was done.

I feel almost the opposite you do re LDR; it had some similarities to Tindersticks, sure, but the arrangements were a lot more spare, minimal. I like it. Can't say the same for the just released Leaving Songs, sadly, which is basically a Tindersticks album without the Tindersticks. It only proves Stu alone did not make that band as good as they were.

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Wait, Devo? What? It's Mark Mothersbaugh, who was previously in Devo.

 

Maybe I'll warm up to the more minimal arrangements later, but it still just feels like a bunch of demo tapes that the band didn't run with.

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The only song on LDR that explicitly recalls Tindersticks is "Marseilles Sunshine," and then that's just their Gil Evans-ish Trouble Every Day stuff. If I were looking for similarities here, I'd say Stu was listening to a lot of old 4AD bands when writing these songs.

 

But jeez, Leaving Songs. There are even two male/female duets! And they both aren't as good as anything similar Tindersticks did.

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Which is your favorite duet? I don't know if I count "A Marriage Made In Heaven" as my favorite because I skip right to the trumpet part. I've always liked "Travelling Light."

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It's a three-way tie between that, "People Keep Comin' Around" and "Trouble Every Day."

 

"A Marriage Made in Heaven." Isabella Rossellini proves she's better suited for acting, but the song contains one of my favorite Stuart vocal performances.

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Ah, see, I didn't think of "People Keep Comin' Around." I thought we were just talking male/female. It's like a much cooler version of "Riders on the Storm." Probably one of their top five songs.

 

"Trouble Every Day" is good, the rest of that album is spotty, though. For example, why are the last two tracks almost identical?

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It was the score for a French vampire flick. It wasn't meant to be a "proper" album.

 

The full version of the song, on track 14, is broken up earlier across tracks 1 and 12. They were the parts played during the opening and closing credits (hence the titles for these particular tracks), respectively. At leats track 13 offers a piece of incidental music to help break up the repetition between 12 and 14.

 

Not that it bothers me. TED is nice, but, given the nature of the recording, not something I listen to very often. I play the title track a lot, though.

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Vampiric cannibals. The film contains elements of both, from all I've read. I've always been curious about seeing it—though, by most accounts, it's not very good—but it had a very limited theatrical release and has never been distributed on video at all.

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I've never seen it, although obviously that didn't stop me from spouting off on the subject.

 

I'm also curious to see it, mostly because of the involvement of Vincent Gallo.

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david bowie - 'low'

iggy pop - 'lust for life'

john cale - 'fear'

'lost highway' soundtrack

 

today ended up being "david bowie friends network" day.

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And on Staples' recent effort missing something from Tindersticks, well of course it does, cos Dichon Hinchcliffe is the most important member.

 

That said, I think it's still pretty good. Tindersticks released as much great stuff as anyone in the 90s, so it's not massively detrimental to say this doesn't quite hit those heights.

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