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TarTar
* Dog in the Sand *
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 Posted - 04/24/2021 : 12:51:20
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John Fahey
My life is dirt but you seem to make it cleaner... reduce my felony to a misdemeanor |
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Stevio10
* Dog in the Sand *
United Kingdom
1122 Posts |
Posted - 05/31/2021 : 01:26:14
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New Jonny Polonsky single, great title! People are Lonely, Horny, Angry and Depressed. Has an Elvis Costello vibe, I like it.
https://youtu.be/oCIoiNOKqbw |
Edited by - Stevio10 on 05/31/2021 01:28:04 |
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pot
> Teenager of the Year <
Iceland
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Troubles A Foot
= Cult of Ray =
USA
962 Posts |
Posted - 06/12/2021 : 22:15:00
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Enjoying the new Liz Phair album.
I also bought a bunch of random CDs on a road trip I recently took. The big winner is one called The Notwist - The Devil, You + Me. Really great moody sleepy indie rock stuff. |
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TarTar
* Dog in the Sand *
1965 Posts |
Posted - 06/16/2021 : 14:25:12
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Been listening to a lot of Carole King. I must be 40.
My life is dirt but you seem to make it cleaner... reduce my felony to a misdemeanor |
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Newo
~ Abstract Brain ~
Spain
2674 Posts |
Posted - 06/19/2021 : 11:37:45
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The best of whatever CDs wash up in the charity shops. This week particularly good:
NIN - The Fragile
Joy Division - Closer
The Essential Marlene Dietrich
My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything
Roy Orbison - King of Hearts
Asobi Seksu - Citrus
Beck - Mutations
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Allen Ginsberg says you got no soul. The ancient Egyptians say you got seven of these bastards, and Pharaohs got fourteen, what they get for being Pharaohs. |
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Newo
~ Abstract Brain ~
Spain
2674 Posts |
Posted - 06/19/2021 : 11:41:23
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Originally posted by TarTar
Been listening to a lot of Carole King. I must be 40.
My life is dirt but you seem to make it cleaner... reduce my felony to a misdemeanor
There was a Best of Fleetwood Mac album in the charity shop which I toyed with getting. 41 yo but thought I'm not ready for that yet.
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Allen Ginsberg says you got no soul. The ancient Egyptians say you got seven of these bastards, and Pharaohs got fourteen, what they get for being Pharaohs. |
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Stevio10
* Dog in the Sand *
United Kingdom
1122 Posts |
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darwin
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
USA
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Newo
~ Abstract Brain ~
Spain
2674 Posts |
Posted - 07/18/2021 : 14:22:37
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that is one killer riff opening the Wand song
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Allen Ginsberg says you got no soul. The ancient Egyptians say you got seven of these bastards, and Pharaohs got fourteen, what they get for being Pharaohs. |
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Bedbug
> Teenager of the Year <
3163 Posts |
Posted - 08/31/2021 : 17:18:03
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| Every now and then I'll drift over to the dead, and I gotta tell you, American Beauty is a terrific album. Box of Rain alone is an amazing song, and the live versions with the unusual vocalizations are great too. |
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Troubles A Foot
= Cult of Ray =
USA
962 Posts |
Posted - 09/01/2021 : 13:04:53
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After 38 years of ignoring the Rolling Stones, I've spent all week listening to albums.
Good band. |
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Bedbug
> Teenager of the Year <
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Posted - 09/02/2021 : 08:55:26
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quote:
Originally posted by Troubles A Foot
After 38 years of ignoring the Rolling Stones, I've spent all week listening to albums.
Good band.
I continue to ignore them, but let me know which album of theirs you like the best |
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pot
> Teenager of the Year <
Iceland
3910 Posts |
Posted - 09/02/2021 : 11:37:05
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| If you quantum leap into my body circa 2006/7 you can spend a lovely afternoon one summer listening to the Stones on Dutch radio, or help build the stage on their Bigger Bang tour and then take it down again and see them backstage leaving the stage from about 50 yards. That's about as far as my appreciation of the band goes, otherwise I agree - underwhelming. I honestly thought Keith Richards would have been the first to go - I think he went through half a pack of Lambert & Butler during the gig. |
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Stevio10
* Dog in the Sand *
United Kingdom
1122 Posts |
Posted - 09/04/2021 : 04:26:11
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Exile on Main Street, my favourite Rolling Stones album. I wouldn't consider myself a huge fan of them but I consider this album to be their best.
It's classic and iconic in the same way as London Calling, After the Goldrush or Pet Sounds.
It's solid start to finish and has a great variety of songs. It's not surprising the Catholics had this on repeat in the tour van during the Dog in the Sand era - I've Seen your Picture is the best non stones stones song I've heard!
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Brank_Flack
* Dog in the Sand *
Canada
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Posted - 09/08/2021 : 12:03:22
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| It took me a long time to get into the Stones as well (more of a Beatles partisan - Cohen, Dylan, Reed, and Lennon are my giants of the 60s) - Sticky Fingers is probably my favourite. Let It Bleed is also great. |
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Troubles A Foot
= Cult of Ray =
USA
962 Posts |
Posted - 09/10/2021 : 14:15:10
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| Yeah I've really been enjoying them so far. It's weird that I just never had any interest but for some reason it's finally clicking. Basically they are music to feel sexy and cool to, kind of like the characters in a Tarantino movie or something, people you want to be but can't be. Most of the music I like makes me feel unsexy and dorky so it's nice to put something on while driving around that makes me feel like a little bad ass. |
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Bedbug
> Teenager of the Year <
3163 Posts |
Posted - 09/11/2021 : 16:48:09
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Originally posted by Stevio10
Exile on Main Street, my favourite Rolling Stones album. I wouldn't consider myself a huge fan of them but I consider this album to be their best.
It's classic and iconic in the same way as London Calling, After the Goldrush or Pet Sounds.
It's solid start to finish and has a great variety of songs. It's not surprising the Catholics had this on repeat in the tour van during the Dog in the Sand era - I've Seen your Picture is the best non stones stones song I've heard!
That's interesting about I've Seen Your Picture as a Stones-y Frank song, never thought about that.
I did listen to Garbage Heap this week and it made me think of Sympathy for the Devil. |
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pot
> Teenager of the Year <
Iceland
3910 Posts |
Posted - 09/29/2021 : 13:57:39
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Pop music
Check out the intro to this one, might sound familiar? - Boring People by L Devine - you should check out some of her other stuff. Top notch production from the church of Lorde, and some decent songs. Who is this girl?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yB6n2GpiqL4
Spent the day rolling with Deezer's contemporary pop suggestions today, and there is some talent out there if you look behind the utter dross that gets all the promotion |
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danjersey
> Teenager of the Year <
USA
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danjersey
> Teenager of the Year <
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danjersey
> Teenager of the Year <
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pot
> Teenager of the Year <
Iceland
3910 Posts |
Posted - 10/09/2021 : 15:08:10
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| Deezer is the best streaming channel for recoms. New NTO album - Apnea. Very late 90's progressive minimal trance. Worth a spin if you're into that kind of thing. |
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pot
> Teenager of the Year <
Iceland
3910 Posts |
Posted - 10/29/2021 : 09:05:54
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New War On Drugs album is pretty good
Scratch that. This is Album of the year material, and maybe their best album?
Adam Granofsky is clearly very good at writing songs - mint production on this and credit to anyone else in the band who is involved in the song writing process. This is 80' synth rock Americana's finest hour this year.
I listened to this while walking along the side of a busy main road with 10T trucks speeding past me at 70 miles per hour, the sun was shining and it felt good. Positive and uplifting musical moments keep us happy and healthy, so why is the Scottish government attacking my right to go to a gig in Scotland these days?
All killer no filler, takes me back to Big Talk's debut album aka Ronnie Vanuci from The Killers on the guitar and vocals - epic Americana rock with a bit of 80's synth mixed in that seems to have gone under the you must check this out radar for most folk |
Edited by - pot on 10/30/2021 14:42:53 |
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Troubles A Foot
= Cult of Ray =
USA
962 Posts |
Posted - 10/31/2021 : 22:19:26
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Bedbug
> Teenager of the Year <
3163 Posts |
Posted - 11/01/2021 : 18:07:05
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| Listened to a bunch of B.B. King today. Good stuff. "Oh when the saints go marching in" |
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pot
> Teenager of the Year <
Iceland
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Troubles A Foot
= Cult of Ray =
USA
962 Posts |
Posted - 11/13/2021 : 18:50:34
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| He's a very dull vocalist, and without Morrissey's vocals, it's karaoke to me...Love the guitars though, of course. I've listened to every Marr solo album and besides one song I quite like, I find them all very boring. |
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pot
> Teenager of the Year <
Iceland
3910 Posts |
Posted - 11/13/2021 : 20:02:00
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There's probably a reason why I've never listened to any solo Marr albums. Morrissey is definetely the better vocalist, but honestly this video came on automatically on YouTube and as I was listening to it I thought it was The Smiths! even after Marr started singing - I thought it was Morrissey.
Some of Morrissey's solo work was very good, but lately? Songs are shite. Band's shite. Repetitive, formulaic humdrum.
Marr's band here are tight as fuck. Marr is obviously reponsible for the guitars in The Smiths and he is clearly the better songwriter. Based on Spiral Cities alone - it's better than anything Morrissey has written since 199?
Morrissey seems to have a massive fan base over the in the states, and he even earned a 3 minute nod in one of the episodes from The Mosquito Coast. A vinyl copy of The Queen Is Dead was produced and There Is A Light Never Goes Out was requested - but apparently (according to the characters in the film) his solo stuff is better. I guess there are people out there who like his solo stuff more than The Smiths, but not many |
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Troubles A Foot
= Cult of Ray =
USA
962 Posts |
Posted - 11/13/2021 : 20:12:36
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Originally posted by pot
Some of Morrissey's solo work was very good, but lately? Songs are shite. Band's shite. Repetitive, formulaic humdrum.
I couldn't disagree more. Dog On A Chain has many incredible songs. Not much has been repetitive, or formulaic (not going to say there hasn't been some), rather, his band and Morrissey seem absolutely determined to make each new album sound totally different than the last, and keep experimenting with new ways to do songs. Dog On A Chain has barely anything in common with Low In High School, which had barely anything in common with World Peace, which sounded absolutely nothing like Years of Refusal, which was a completely different sound and approach from Ringleaders (and etc, etc, etc.)
So genuinely unsure what you're referring to, to be honest.
As for solo being better than The Smiths, much of it is at least equal. Vauxhall is certainly a better album than maybe a few Smiths releases (I like it more than the debut, and Meat Is Murder, at least.)
Marr's solo output has been incredibly uninteresting compared to the work he did in The Smiths. I think Morrissey was his muse. |
Edited by - Troubles A Foot on 11/13/2021 20:27:42 |
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Bedbug
> Teenager of the Year <
3163 Posts |
Posted - 11/13/2021 : 20:20:30
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I thought of Arnold Layne today for some reason so I typed it into the music app and listened a few times.
What a great song. I love Syd so much and have since I was a lad.
Odd thing was after the song was over the app randomly suggested that I listen to About a Girl by Nirvana. I'm not sure how that works.
If you haven't listened to Arnold Layne in a while give it a go today I say. |
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pot
> Teenager of the Year <
Iceland
3910 Posts |
Posted - 11/14/2021 : 06:32:43
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Originally posted by Troubles A Foot
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Originally posted by pot
Some of Morrissey's solo work was very good, but lately? Songs are shite. Band's shite. Repetitive, formulaic humdrum.
I couldn't disagree more. Dog On A Chain has many incredible songs.
Fair enough. I just listened to Dog On A Chain - it's quite good aye. Better than some of his previous albums lately. Morrissey vs Marr - they're both The Smiths. Haven't really listened to that much solo Marr really though so I shall defer to your authority on the question of who is the better soloist. Wasn't Marr in The Cribs for a while? Suppose you have to factor that in too. I listened to them years ago, but can't really remember. One thing's for sure though Marr is a very good guitarist, whereas Morrissey can't play any instruments. OTOH Morrissey is better at prancing around the stage in a loosely fitting shirt waving a bunch of flowers in the air. |
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Troubles A Foot
= Cult of Ray =
USA
962 Posts |
Posted - 11/14/2021 : 09:20:51
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| On that we agree! |
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pot
> Teenager of the Year <
Iceland
3910 Posts |
Posted - 11/16/2021 : 04:42:52
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Dusky
Bit of house and techno - nice early 90's rave sound or maybe late 90's progressive house - Gus Gus, Underworld etc
Plenty of albums out there to work through, including the new one |
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Stevio10
* Dog in the Sand *
United Kingdom
1122 Posts |
Posted - 11/17/2021 : 03:15:33
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On the subject of Johnny Marr, he was very good on the Modest Mouse album We Were Dead Before the Boat Even Sank. Said he would like to work with them again. Reminds me I need to check out their new album.
Been listening to Steve Wynn (from The Dream Syndicate), the album Sweetness and Light is very good, has a great cover of This Strange Effect (originally written by Dave Davies - also covered for intro to 9 Perfect Strangers though can't remember name of artist). |
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what music is doing it for you lately?
