Music which you think is good and you reckon other people might not know about
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butchersapron
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You never heard of Neu! you gom!easy g said:
sherriff rosco
Mostly harmless unless catering is shut.
BC 400
Fantastic UK hip - hop , are awesome live and do a nice alter-ego in the Pistachios ( a 9 piece funk / fusion band?)!
They`re part of the Buttercuts collective.... http://www.buttercuts.co.uk/home/
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Fantastic UK hip - hop , are awesome live and do a nice alter-ego in the Pistachios ( a 9 piece funk / fusion band?)!
They`re part of the Buttercuts collective.... http://www.buttercuts.co.uk/home/
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butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Popol Vuh are the dirty german secret. The heart of the matter.
Brilliant music though - Aguirre has never been bettered.
Brilliant music though - Aguirre has never been bettered.
Larry O'Hara
Well-Known Member
everything by Laurie Anderson...
Michel Delalande 'De Profundis': more sublime than Couperin, truly evoking the sadness & grandeur of life
Michel Delalande 'De Profundis': more sublime than Couperin, truly evoking the sadness & grandeur of life
clandestino
no llevar papel
new pornographers are fantastic. mass romantic is brilliant, although i prefer the songs on the last album.
mccarthy are also fantastic. have to love them for a song title like 'keep an open mind or else'. great song too.
things i like:
saturday looks good to me, six piece from michigan, like jonathan richman into motown. glorious.
matala. from norway i think. probably not together any more. really beautiful thirties squeezebox electronica with a vaguely bjorkish singer. should have been huge, but weren't, alas.
sufjan stevens. i'd imagine you've all heard of him, but if not...wonderful elliott smith/flaming lips daydream storytelling. the new album is superb.
mccarthy are also fantastic. have to love them for a song title like 'keep an open mind or else'. great song too.
things i like:
saturday looks good to me, six piece from michigan, like jonathan richman into motown. glorious.
matala. from norway i think. probably not together any more. really beautiful thirties squeezebox electronica with a vaguely bjorkish singer. should have been huge, but weren't, alas.
sufjan stevens. i'd imagine you've all heard of him, but if not...wonderful elliott smith/flaming lips daydream storytelling. the new album is superb.
Tricky Skills
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Everyone has their 'own band' who they grew up with. Mine was Diesel Park West. I've bought the bootlegs, seen them live far too many times and followed the boys around the country to some obscure venues (The Oliver Twist in Colchester anyone?). And they've never disappointed.
DPW tried to escape the City of Death (Leicester) back in '88 with perhaps the best ever debut album. Released by a bunch of blokes with a Buffalo Springfield fixation that is.
Signed up to Food Records, an imprint of EMI. great expectations awaited. This was the barren musical period of post-punk and pre-acid house. Five young gunslingers with a West Coast guitar heritage and a love of small town England were courted by the music press and given the red carpet treatment by the big boys at EMI.
They were even elevated to star billing on the Food Christmas EP of '89, with Jesus Jones (US No. 1 less than a year away) and also featuring the second best band from Leicester, Crazyhead.
The Shakespeare Alabama debut sold in modest amounts and DPW then went for broke on the follow up with the Strings 'n All production of Decency. This didn't sit very well with the music press championing Madchester at the time.
And then the curse of Colchester struck with Blur coming up from behind as EMI priorities. Things all started to go a little baggy and the tight trousers of DPW were shafted and placed in the bargain bin.
But I still kept on believing, along with a small crowd of dedicated followers. DPW regrouped and returned with a wonderfully bitter tale of music biz excess on Diesel Park West Vs The Corporate Waltz. The title contained a bit of a clue to as what was contained with.
DPW had dug their own grave, and the next decade saw them being handed down the Food chain (boom boom) from minor indie label to bedroom based indie label with each release.
They even released an album called Thought for Food. See what they've done there? The bitter experience from the EMI episode still haunts the band today.
If it wasn't for some fake mockney geezers hitching a ride on Madchester back in '89, DPW would probably be selling out Wembley by now. This was the scale of their rock ambition.
John Butler and Rick Wilson are one of the great surviving songwriting partnerships. Coming up with a quality album a year is no mean feat. It must be even more difficult when hardly anyone is listening.
And... they're playing at The Borderline this Friday
DPW tried to escape the City of Death (Leicester) back in '88 with perhaps the best ever debut album. Released by a bunch of blokes with a Buffalo Springfield fixation that is.
Signed up to Food Records, an imprint of EMI. great expectations awaited. This was the barren musical period of post-punk and pre-acid house. Five young gunslingers with a West Coast guitar heritage and a love of small town England were courted by the music press and given the red carpet treatment by the big boys at EMI.
They were even elevated to star billing on the Food Christmas EP of '89, with Jesus Jones (US No. 1 less than a year away) and also featuring the second best band from Leicester, Crazyhead.
The Shakespeare Alabama debut sold in modest amounts and DPW then went for broke on the follow up with the Strings 'n All production of Decency. This didn't sit very well with the music press championing Madchester at the time.
And then the curse of Colchester struck with Blur coming up from behind as EMI priorities. Things all started to go a little baggy and the tight trousers of DPW were shafted and placed in the bargain bin.
But I still kept on believing, along with a small crowd of dedicated followers. DPW regrouped and returned with a wonderfully bitter tale of music biz excess on Diesel Park West Vs The Corporate Waltz. The title contained a bit of a clue to as what was contained with.
DPW had dug their own grave, and the next decade saw them being handed down the Food chain (boom boom) from minor indie label to bedroom based indie label with each release.
They even released an album called Thought for Food. See what they've done there? The bitter experience from the EMI episode still haunts the band today.
If it wasn't for some fake mockney geezers hitching a ride on Madchester back in '89, DPW would probably be selling out Wembley by now. This was the scale of their rock ambition.
John Butler and Rick Wilson are one of the great surviving songwriting partnerships. Coming up with a quality album a year is no mean feat. It must be even more difficult when hardly anyone is listening.
And... they're playing at The Borderline this Friday
hammerntongues
Well-Known Member
Sunhouse , as far as I know only 1 album release ` Crazy at the Weekend` which is pretty hard to come by but with a search you can get it , dissolved in late 90`s but vocalist and songwriter Gavin Clarke is now with Clayhill , who by the way are at Glasto this year and are also worth a look.
I know some on Urban already have discovered this great album because it was here that I first saw it raved about.
I know some on Urban already have discovered this great album because it was here that I first saw it raved about.
bluestreak
HomosexualityIsStalin’sAtomBombtoDestroyAmerica
Savage Henry said:
i think i saw them in new york.
they were ok.
Wood. I think they 'made it' because they were on the Dawson's Creek soundtrack, though they've never been well known over here. The (Neil Young v Tom Petty) album 'Songs from Stamford Hill' album was excellent for the five or six standout songs.
It's pretty old though. I don't know if they've done anything newer.
It's pretty old though. I don't know if they've done anything newer.
butchersapron
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Shane Meadows love them - almost ruined Romeo Brass by insisting that they were all over the soundtrack...hammerntongues said:
MysteryGuest
beyond boring and interesting
Organum/David Jackman
early Wim Mertens
btw I used to have the first McCarthy 12" - really liked it, fuck knows what I've done with it. *shrugs*
early Wim Mertens
btw I used to have the first McCarthy 12" - really liked it, fuck knows what I've done with it. *shrugs*
clandestino
no llevar papel
butchersapron said:
it's because he's friends with a couple of people who were in the band. people who've appeared in his films actually - stuff like smalltime and 24/7.
Bomber
The Oatcake Kid !!
Strange Steve Rosenberg
Surf music with a twist, you can find some of his tracks at Download.com or Soundclick
Surf music with a twist, you can find some of his tracks at Download.com or Soundclick
i found my thrill on blueberry hill @ richard white, great musician!!
oh and BLUEGRASS!
butchersapron
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Not always a bad thing...Sunspots said:They wish! Sounds more like The Shop Assistants...
butchersapron
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Damn! Exposed too muchSunspots said:I take it all back about your good music taste...
clandestino
no llevar papel
nowt wrong with the shop assistants in my book. but then my book is called "i love scottish indie from the eighties, me". available from all good fanzine sellers...
loads and loads of people rate that johnny boy single, but i just didn't get it. thought it was quite ordinary and rather mainstream sounding.
however, i'm veering close to contravening FM's no-pointing edict, so i'll say no more. i wish i did like it. then i could join in.
loads and loads of people rate that johnny boy single, but i just didn't get it. thought it was quite ordinary and rather mainstream sounding.
however, i'm veering close to contravening FM's no-pointing edict, so i'll say no more. i wish i did like it. then i could join in.
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