Zuma - Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Still ranks as my fave of his.
Still ranks as my fave of his.
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Live in Paris '79 - Supertramp
Having recently posted one of their songs in another thread it reminded me of this album. One of the best live albums I've come across and another example of a single album I have for a band I like but couldn't justify collecting all of.
Having recently posted one of their songs in another thread it reminded me of this album. One of the best live albums I've come across and another example of a single album I have for a band I like but couldn't justify collecting all of.
Red - King Crimson
This album ticked over its 50th anniversary last year, listen to this the title track and tell me how old it sounds. There'll be a number of Crimson's albums turning up in here.
This album ticked over its 50th anniversary last year, listen to this the title track and tell me how old it sounds. There'll be a number of Crimson's albums turning up in here.
The War Of The Worlds - Jeff Wayne
Musically brilliant and the closest adaption of the H.G. Wells novel anyone's done. Oddly enough the Martian's theme has always been one of the best bits of music I've came across for when playing pinball.
Musically brilliant and the closest adaption of the H.G. Wells novel anyone's done. Oddly enough the Martian's theme has always been one of the best bits of music I've came across for when playing pinball.
The Big Bubble (track Vinegar) - The Residents
The band who kept their anonymity in tact for well over 50 years and releasing approx 60 music titles, early CD-ROM and general experimental art in San Francisco since 1974. This is but one offering of a highly unique band, I was lucky to see them on their 13th Anniversary Tour in Sydney, amazing stuff. Well worth dropping a toe into, but be prepared to make some effort. Much is highly avant garde and not to many's taste, but there is sheer brilliance all through their catalog that will talk, whisper and haunt you.
The band who kept their anonymity in tact for well over 50 years and releasing approx 60 music titles, early CD-ROM and general experimental art in San Francisco since 1974. This is but one offering of a highly unique band, I was lucky to see them on their 13th Anniversary Tour in Sydney, amazing stuff. Well worth dropping a toe into, but be prepared to make some effort. Much is highly avant garde and not to many's taste, but there is sheer brilliance all through their catalog that will talk, whisper and haunt you.
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It's A Shame About Ray (track - My Drug Buddy) - The Lemonheads
This one is a time and place. Evan Dando’s scratched-honey tenor, the shuffling drums and jangly guitars, the casual brilliance of the lyrics (“people’s knees / and trunks of trees / smile at me”, “butterscotch streetlamps mark my path”, “she’s the puzzle piece behind the couch that makes the sky complete”, among others). The sum total conjuring the flanneled haze of those late-autumn college days watching dust motes dance in slants of light. Dedicating this pick to my own drug buddy, in memory of those post-dinner meanderings along the highway to the DQ, when our only care was if we had enough change to each get our own Peanut Buster Parfaits, rather than sharing.
This one is a time and place. Evan Dando’s scratched-honey tenor, the shuffling drums and jangly guitars, the casual brilliance of the lyrics (“people’s knees / and trunks of trees / smile at me”, “butterscotch streetlamps mark my path”, “she’s the puzzle piece behind the couch that makes the sky complete”, among others). The sum total conjuring the flanneled haze of those late-autumn college days watching dust motes dance in slants of light. Dedicating this pick to my own drug buddy, in memory of those post-dinner meanderings along the highway to the DQ, when our only care was if we had enough change to each get our own Peanut Buster Parfaits, rather than sharing.
Thick As A Brick - Jethro Tull
Expansive in scope and execution with another of the great (original vinyl) covers that folds out to form a newspaper featuring 'articles' on parts of the single track that was the album.
Expansive in scope and execution with another of the great (original vinyl) covers that folds out to form a newspaper featuring 'articles' on parts of the single track that was the album.
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Oh My Bag! - Stock, Hausen & Walkman
Imagine a book that acted as a dictionary to strange, odd and occasionally disturbing concepts. There would be under the entry 'insane musical deconreconstructivism that manages to work despite all the apparent effort', these guys. What was a passing fad of 'mash ups' just looks and sounds like a pile of cold soggy potatoes compared to these guys (and this was in the '90s). Their name is a triple pun for those with some decent musical knowledge to enjoy and which explains their approach perfectly.
Imagine a book that acted as a dictionary to strange, odd and occasionally disturbing concepts. There would be under the entry 'insane musical deconreconstructivism that manages to work despite all the apparent effort', these guys. What was a passing fad of 'mash ups' just looks and sounds like a pile of cold soggy potatoes compared to these guys (and this was in the '90s). Their name is a triple pun for those with some decent musical knowledge to enjoy and which explains their approach perfectly.
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Bixology (track Mississippi Mud) - Bix Beiderbecke
This a collection (14 LPs) of Beiderbecke's complete recordings. Still considered one of the greatest cornet players to have lived, he sadly was the epitome of the live hard and die young ethos. Trad and dixieland jazz may not be everyone's cup of tea, but in this collection you have not just Beiderbecke's outstanding playing but appearances (in varying degrees) of everyone who was of any distinction playing with him. Gene Krupa, Frankie Trumbauer, Jack Teagarden, Bud Freeman, Tommy Dorsey and Hoagy Carmichael are just a few of the greats that appear alongside Bix.
This a collection (14 LPs) of Beiderbecke's complete recordings. Still considered one of the greatest cornet players to have lived, he sadly was the epitome of the live hard and die young ethos. Trad and dixieland jazz may not be everyone's cup of tea, but in this collection you have not just Beiderbecke's outstanding playing but appearances (in varying degrees) of everyone who was of any distinction playing with him. Gene Krupa, Frankie Trumbauer, Jack Teagarden, Bud Freeman, Tommy Dorsey and Hoagy Carmichael are just a few of the greats that appear alongside Bix.
Sink - Foetus Inc.
I think by now you'll be getting the idea that I cover a fair range of music, of which all that I've posted here come from my collection. But #1 will always be JG Thirlwell in his various projects and this one is a great starting point for the curious (or wary) as it's not so much a 'best of' but rather a summation of the first phase of his Foetus project. Lots of phenomenal music and very sly lyrics, all from the brainbox of a very singular creative individual.
I think by now you'll be getting the idea that I cover a fair range of music, of which all that I've posted here come from my collection. But #1 will always be JG Thirlwell in his various projects and this one is a great starting point for the curious (or wary) as it's not so much a 'best of' but rather a summation of the first phase of his Foetus project. Lots of phenomenal music and very sly lyrics, all from the brainbox of a very singular creative individual.
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
My favourite Dylan album. Closely followed by Blood On The Tracks. Good call @Vanessa_Agogo
My favourite Dylan album. Closely followed by Blood On The Tracks. Good call @Vanessa_Agogo
This is my very close #2 fave Dylan album, damn good calling yourself.
Hoffnung: A Last Encore - Gerard Hoffnung
Working mainly for the BBC from the mid '50s to late '60s, he was a musician, artist, writer and broadcaster. During that time he was as well known in England (and Australia) as any other popular radio broadcaster, being most well known for his Oxford Union Address in 1958. Sadly like too many others from that golden era of radio he has fallen into obscurity and this is another of my small efforts to bring them back into the light of day. He was, as with my other fave (English) radio comedy stars like Spike Milligan and Ivor Cutler, unique and well worth being considered as the top of their field, even if now neglected.
This is a rip of the entire double LP, well worth your time to dip into and out of to hear yet another valuable aspect of what comedy can deliver.
Working mainly for the BBC from the mid '50s to late '60s, he was a musician, artist, writer and broadcaster. During that time he was as well known in England (and Australia) as any other popular radio broadcaster, being most well known for his Oxford Union Address in 1958. Sadly like too many others from that golden era of radio he has fallen into obscurity and this is another of my small efforts to bring them back into the light of day. He was, as with my other fave (English) radio comedy stars like Spike Milligan and Ivor Cutler, unique and well worth being considered as the top of their field, even if now neglected.
This is a rip of the entire double LP, well worth your time to dip into and out of to hear yet another valuable aspect of what comedy can deliver.
Television - Marquee Moon
I've played this album so many times since purchasing it in the late 70's. Still an all time favourite.
I've played this album so many times since purchasing it in the late 70's. Still an all time favourite.
I Giorni by Ludovico Einaudi.
An album which means a lot to me, some of my first musical memories relate to it. I remember when I was young my Mom played pieces by him and her telling me his Mom did the same for him when he was a child. I have always vowed to myself I would go and see him play, and next year I will finally get the chance in London.
An album which means a lot to me, some of my first musical memories relate to it. I remember when I was young my Mom played pieces by him and her telling me his Mom did the same for him when he was a child. I have always vowed to myself I would go and see him play, and next year I will finally get the chance in London.
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Such links across time and people are rare and to be cherished as you obviously do. Beautiful music for beautiful memories .