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Grex > Music2 > #196: NP #4: Music to Conference By |  |
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gnat
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response 312 of 503:
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Nov 8 22:21 UTC 1999 |
"Arrogant Worms"? What a great band name.
"I Don't Believe in the Sun," Magnetic Fields
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mcnally
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response 313 of 503:
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Nov 8 23:12 UTC 1999 |
(I take it "I Don't Believe in the Sun" is on 69 Love Songs?
Merritt must be branching out -- formerly he's concentrated
on "moon" songs -- I think there's at least one on every album,
e.g. "You Have the Sun, I Have the Moon", "Sad Little Moon",
"You and the Moon", "The Dreaming Moon", "Lovers From the Moon",
"You Pretend to be the Moon" (FBH), etc..)
now playing: Massive Attack v Mad Professor -- "No Protection"
I don't think I'm exaggerating when I claim tht this is the best dub
album in 20 years, since the years of King Tubby's, Scientist's, and
Augustus Pablo's heydays. The amazing work done on this album is
all the more surprising because I usually think that Mad Professor's
dubs are pretty lame.. It *must* be the strength of the Massive Attack
material he gets to work with, which constitutes a classic album in
its own right.. It's amazing, though, that it works so well in its
original form *and* so well in dub -- most of my favorite classic dub
comes from reworkings of pretty unexceptional source material.
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gnat
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response 314 of 503:
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Nov 9 02:13 UTC 1999 |
Yeah, the MF song is from "69 Love Songs" - the sampler, actually.
Robyn Hitchcock, "The Dust" - a folk song about fallout.
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scott
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response 315 of 503:
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Nov 9 19:29 UTC 1999 |
Earlier I was listening to Pete Townsend's "Psychoderelict".
Right now the "Six String Samurai" soundtrack yet again. "They were my best
bowlers. The four-eyed one will be hard to defeat".
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mcnally
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response 316 of 503:
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Nov 10 10:00 UTC 1999 |
Lush -- "Split"
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gnat
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response 317 of 503:
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Nov 10 22:39 UTC 1999 |
The Minders, "Frida" - I saw these guys in Bowling Green last week
and they rocked. *Incredibly* sweet people, too (though the singer
could talk the hind legs off a herd of donkeys).
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orinoco
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response 318 of 503:
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Nov 11 00:12 UTC 1999 |
Lamb, "Fear of Fours" - one of the more original trip-hop groups I've heard.
The title apparently comes from their reluctance to write straight 4/4 beats.
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mcnally
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response 319 of 503:
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Nov 11 01:27 UTC 1999 |
hmmm.. any good? I've been pretty frustrated in my efforts to locate
good trip-hop..
now playing: Dukes of Stratosphear -- "Chips From the Chocolate Fireball"
(XTC goofing around doing a variety of psychedelic 60-ish songs.. fun..)
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gypsi
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response 320 of 503:
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Nov 11 01:34 UTC 1999 |
Ooh...neat. I'll have to check that out.
"Blood Makes Noise" - Suzanne Vega
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orinoco
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response 321 of 503:
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Nov 11 03:25 UTC 1999 |
Well, I like them, but I like a lot of trip-hop. I can send you a tape if
you want.
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mcnally
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response 322 of 503:
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Nov 11 03:37 UTC 1999 |
I was kind of surprised to find that the Dukes of Stratosphear stuff
is still available because I haven't seen this album in a store in a
long time, but several on-line retailers carry it and it's apparently
a budget- line CD at this point. I guess the popularity of the rest
of the XTC catalog has kept it in print.
Basically the band did two projects as the Dukes, "25 O'Clock" and
"Psonic Psunspot". The album veers between homage and parody but
whatever the mood it's quite fun trying to pick out which band is
receiving the treatment in each song. Some songs are obvious --
"Mole From the Ministry" is clearly inspired by "Sgt. Pepper's"-era
Beatles, and it's not hard to find the Beach Boys influence on "Pale
and Precious" (rather, it would be hard *not* to..)
What's cool, though, is that many (not all) of the songs stand on their
own merits as psychedelic-pop songs, even after the novelty value has
worn off.
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mcnally
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response 323 of 503:
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Nov 11 03:45 UTC 1999 |
re #321: I appreciate the offer but I almost never listen to tapes
any more, I only have one device left which plays them and don't use
it much.. (In fact, I should give away the bunch of tapes I recently
found packed away in a box in the closet.)
I'd be interested in hearing about other trip-hop bands you like.
Why don't you enter a new item? I'm wild about Massive Attack,
less-so about Portishead (though I quite liked their debut album)
but aside from them, other than a few isolated tracks I haven't had
much luck finding other stuff of that quality -- most of my trip-hop
impulse-buys have been severe disappointments..
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krj
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response 324 of 503:
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Nov 11 20:51 UTC 1999 |
((thanks for the new item start, orinoco! ))
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tpryan
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response 325 of 503:
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Nov 12 00:15 UTC 1999 |
A CD by Mr. Wright, something from England, I think.
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orinoco
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response 326 of 503:
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Nov 12 01:18 UTC 1999 |
Rickie Lee Jones, "Piirates"
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gypsi
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response 327 of 503:
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Nov 12 01:20 UTC 1999 |
"Isolation" - Joy Division
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omni
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response 328 of 503:
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Nov 12 08:55 UTC 1999 |
Tracy Chapman A New Beginning
"Give Me One Reason"
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tpryan
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response 329 of 503:
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Nov 12 23:03 UTC 1999 |
A sample disk of the Isley Brothers new Boxed Set. "Shout"
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mcnally
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response 330 of 503:
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Nov 14 04:44 UTC 1999 |
The Magnetic Fields -- "69 Love Songs" (finally!)
Wow! Just wow..
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gnat
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response 331 of 503:
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Nov 14 18:52 UTC 1999 |
Is that available now??
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carson
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response 332 of 503:
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Nov 14 21:24 UTC 1999 |
(Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg, "Tha Next Episode," six years after the fact.
it was listed as being included on Snoop's debut album, but didn't
actually appear. it's on Dre's new release.)
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tpryan
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response 333 of 503:
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Nov 14 22:33 UTC 1999 |
Someone doing symphonic Frank Zappa.
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mcnally
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response 334 of 503:
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Nov 14 22:40 UTC 1999 |
re #331: apparently.. the copy I had on backorder finally arrived.
it's way too overwhelming to digest at one go, especially
since I haven't yet made it straight through an entire disc -
I keep having to go back and listen to things repeatedly.
it covers an *amazing* variety of styles, and reveals a
humorous side that's been less apparent in Stephin Merritt's
earlier work.
you have to love an album where the songwriter goes out of his
way to end lines with things like "boa constrictor", "Nino Rota",
"Charo and GWAR", and "Ferdinand de Saussure" just so he can
set up unlikely rhymes..
the 69 songs are witty, cynical, deeply sentimental, hilarious,
and dead serious, sometimes all at the same time..
the only problem is that 69 songs over three CDs seems virtually
guaranteed to scare off the customer with a casual curiosity,
which is a damn shame, because this really is a pop masterwork..
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gypsi
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response 335 of 503:
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Nov 14 22:47 UTC 1999 |
"Shake the Disease" - Depeche Mode
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orinoco
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response 336 of 503:
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Nov 15 01:32 UTC 1999 |
"Best of the Flock"
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