Anorak Posted April 20, 2006 Report Posted April 20, 2006 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
Si82 Posted April 20, 2006 Report Posted April 20, 2006 "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
5_moves_of_doom Posted April 21, 2006 Report Posted April 21, 2006 And three more as I type up an essay.
Si82 Posted April 21, 2006 Report Posted April 21, 2006 (edited) "The College Dropout" - Kanye West "A Grand Don't Come for Free" - The Streets Edited April 21, 2006 by Si82
DCMaximo Posted April 29, 2006 Report Posted April 29, 2006 They Might Be Giants-Factory Showroom Jesse James-Punk Soul Brothers Manic Street Preachers-Generation Terrorists Natalie Merchant-Motherland Rocket From The Crypt-RFTC
Henry Spencer Posted May 31, 2006 Report Posted May 31, 2006 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
Henry Spencer Posted June 5, 2006 Report Posted June 5, 2006 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
godthedog Posted June 9, 2006 Report Posted June 9, 2006 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)
Guest Felonies! Posted June 9, 2006 Report Posted June 9, 2006 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.
Art Sandusky Posted June 13, 2006 Report Posted June 13, 2006 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
Giuseppe Zangara Posted June 18, 2006 Author Report Posted June 18, 2006 Smog - Dongs of Sevotion Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped Stuart Staples - Lucky Dog Recordings, '03-'04 Stuart Staples - Leaving Songs Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out of This Country
Art Sandusky Posted June 18, 2006 Report Posted June 18, 2006 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.
Copper Feel Posted June 18, 2006 Report Posted June 18, 2006 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.
Giuseppe Zangara Posted June 18, 2006 Author Report Posted June 18, 2006 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.
Art Sandusky Posted June 19, 2006 Report Posted June 19, 2006 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.
Giuseppe Zangara Posted June 19, 2006 Author Report Posted June 19, 2006 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.
Art Sandusky Posted June 19, 2006 Report Posted June 19, 2006 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."
Giuseppe Zangara Posted June 19, 2006 Author Report Posted June 19, 2006 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.
Art Sandusky Posted June 19, 2006 Report Posted June 19, 2006 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?
Giuseppe Zangara Posted June 19, 2006 Author Report Posted June 19, 2006 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.
Henry Spencer Posted June 19, 2006 Report Posted June 19, 2006 Trouble Every Day is about cannibals, not vampires.
Giuseppe Zangara Posted June 19, 2006 Author Report Posted June 19, 2006 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.
Henry Spencer Posted June 19, 2006 Report Posted June 19, 2006 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.
Art Sandusky Posted June 19, 2006 Report Posted June 19, 2006 Nenette et Boni is a pretty cool soundtrack, probably better than TED.
godthedog Posted June 22, 2006 Report Posted June 22, 2006 david bowie - 'low' iggy pop - 'lust for life' john cale - 'fear' 'lost highway' soundtrack today ended up being "david bowie friends network" day.
PLAGIARISM! Posted June 22, 2006 Report Posted June 22, 2006 And on Staples' recent effort missing something from Tindersticks, well of course it does, cos Dichon Hinchcliffe is the most important member.
PLAGIARISM! Posted June 26, 2006 Report Posted June 26, 2006 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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