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Grex > Music2 > #196: NP #4: Music to Conference By |  |
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krj
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response 67 of 503:
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Aug 20 01:23 UTC 1999 |
Ah! It sounds like it might be possible for you to share them with us,
since WCBN isn't publishing them?
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gnat
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response 68 of 503:
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Aug 20 02:17 UTC 1999 |
Well... I don't keep copies, and once a CD has its review sticker and
has been shelved, it doesn't leave the station. So it might be kind
of tricky...
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tpryan
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response 69 of 503:
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Aug 20 02:24 UTC 1999 |
A group called Thunder. Picked up their CD from the sample rack
at Borders HQ. Hard rock. Not too damaging to the ears. Musta taken a
buyer a while to clean out the cube, I just noted it's dated 1997.
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hematite
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response 70 of 503:
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Aug 20 03:21 UTC 1999 |
Speaking of Peter Gabriel (up there), did he sing a song something
along the lines of "I want to know, what you're thinking. Tell me
what's on your mind." Or if he didn't who did?
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bruin
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response 71 of 503:
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Aug 20 12:58 UTC 1999 |
RE #70 I believe the song whose lyrics you quoted, hematite, was from
Information Society (their one and only hit, BTW).
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gnat
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response 72 of 503:
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Aug 21 22:16 UTC 1999 |
The Magnetic Fields, "The Charm of the Highway Strip." Melancholy tunes
that were probably stitched together in someone's basement, with
sepulchural bass vocals that sound like if Ian Curtis from Joy Division
could sing in tune. I like.
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mcnally
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response 73 of 503:
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Aug 22 05:38 UTC 1999 |
I love that album.. Perhaps the only country-and-western album you'll
find that was played on beepy Casio keyboards.. (the music isn't C&W
at all, but the lyrics deal with very country-ish themes..)
That's still my favorite of the Magnetic Fields albums, but I also love
the combo disc of The Wayward Bus/Distant Plastic Trees. Both feature
female vocals, instead of Stephin Merritt's somewhat morose style.
"The Wayward Bus" is Merritt's fairly credible homage to the Phil Spector
"Wall of Sound"
Other related titles that're well-worth checking out:
the 6ths -- "Wasps' Nests"
Future Bible Heroes -- "Memories of Love"
the Magnetic Fields -- "Holiday"
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gnat
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response 74 of 503:
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Aug 22 13:35 UTC 1999 |
Thanks for the suggestions! I like the way he manages to get such an
idiosyncratic, unique sound from such lo-fi ingredients. (Considering
that a lot of lo-fi artists just sound like guys playing fuzzy guitars
accompanied by tape hiss.) And I'm a connosieur (sp) of weird singing
voices, so the morose vocals suit me just fine.
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gnat
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response 75 of 503:
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Aug 23 20:43 UTC 1999 |
Madder Rose, "Hello June Fool." Kinda like an edgier Cowboy Junkies,
with a wider sonic palette (elements of shoegazer, dance-y beats).
3.5 stars, probably.
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krj
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response 76 of 503:
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Aug 23 21:28 UTC 1999 |
I seem to keep collecting Madder Rose albums out of the $1 and $2 bins...
Garmarna, VITTRAD. The USA release had a different title; this is the
first release with Emma Hardelin as singer. Another of the spectacular
Scandinavian electro-trad bands, this one from Sweden. (And daggone
it, where did I mislay my copy of their new album, VENGEANCE?)
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gnat
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response 77 of 503:
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Aug 24 00:36 UTC 1999 |
I played the title track from that on my show a few weeks back. I'm
not sure if I care for those types of bands - I think I prefer my trad
without any electro.
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krj
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response 78 of 503:
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Aug 24 01:17 UTC 1999 |
(you've just dissed the last 25 years of my record-collecting life.
*sniff* )
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mcnally
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response 79 of 503:
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Aug 24 04:14 UTC 1999 |
Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young -- "Deja Vu"
I was seized with a powerful compulsion to play this album after having
gone through the rest of my Neil Young albums recently. It's astonishing
how much better Young's stuff has aged than that of Crosby, Stills, or
Nash..
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orinoco
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response 80 of 503:
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Aug 24 16:52 UTC 1999 |
Adrian Belew doing a live version of Three of a Perfect Pair. I saw a record
of his called Salad Days in the New Stuff bin at the library; it looks like
a bunch of acoustic versions of old songs of his. Regardless, it reaffirms
my dislike for anything he's done since King Crimson :P
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tpryan
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response 81 of 503:
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Aug 24 23:56 UTC 1999 |
Jimmy Buffet, Beachhouse on the Moon CD, his latest.
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mcnally
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response 82 of 503:
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Aug 25 00:51 UTC 1999 |
re #80: since *which* King Crimson?
I like the poppier of Belew's solo albums, particularly "Mr Music Head"
and "Young Lions"..
Neither is perfect, but both are pretty good (and "Young Lions" is
worth having just for the track with "the Prophet Omega")
I haven't been wild about anything he's done lately, nor have I been
thrilled with the latest incarnation of King Crimson..
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otaking
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response 83 of 503:
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Aug 25 15:18 UTC 1999 |
Re #80 and #82: I keep meaning to get some King Crimson CDs? Any
recommendations?
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orinoco
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response 84 of 503:
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Aug 25 19:10 UTC 1999 |
Good point, McNally. THat wasn't the clearest way I could've phrased that...
Howzabout "I don't like the stuff he's done away from K.C."?
My favorites-of-the-moment are "Larks' Tongues in Aspic" and "Discipline".
"Larks' Tongues" is probably a better introduction to the band, but it's
impossible to get any idea of what they're like from just one album
(especially since there are so #@&! many incarnations).
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tpryan
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response 85 of 503:
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Aug 25 23:14 UTC 1999 |
Running with Scissors, Weird Al's new album...the polka medley is
on now.
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gnat
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response 86 of 503:
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Aug 27 01:23 UTC 1999 |
Captain Beefheart, "Trout Mask Replica." The one and only...
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mcnally
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response 87 of 503:
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Aug 27 02:26 UTC 1999 |
(thank goodness.. I've *tried* to like Beefheart, really I have..
I tried "Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)", I tried "Safe as Milk",
I tried "Mirror Man".. Eventually I realized that I was simply
not ever going to like him no matter *how* terrific he was supposed
to be..)
Currently playing:
The Feelies -- "The Good Earth"
dug out my Feelies albums after their name came up in the Yo La Tengo
newsgroup.. fairly good stuff, but whoever recorded/mixed the vocals
on "The Good Earth" should be shot, unless, for some reason "inaudible
mumble" was the effect they were going for..
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katie
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response 88 of 503:
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Aug 27 03:29 UTC 1999 |
Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris, "Western Wall/The Tucson Sessions."
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krj
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response 89 of 503:
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Aug 27 21:47 UTC 1999 |
On The Feelies, I'm pretty sure that "inaudible mumble" was the intended
effect. I have the TwinTone/Coyote issue of "The Good Earth," and it
has a special place in my heart as one of the best-sounding rock CDs,
in audiophile terms, I've ever heard. The realization of the electric
guitar sounds, all the way down to the amp hum, is just exquisite.
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tpryan
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response 90 of 503:
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Aug 27 23:04 UTC 1999 |
The Tempst CD, The Gravel Walk is currently playing. the
Jim Delushi 4 song disk played ahead of that.
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orinoco
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response 91 of 503:
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Aug 27 23:05 UTC 1999 |
(What is the difference between exquisite realization of amp hum, and 'bad'
hum that leaked in someplace else in the process? This is not a sarcastic
question.)
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