Bruce Cockburn - Rumors of Glory - Disc's 1 - 3 and part of 4
This is from his newly-released box set. The man is a legendary player and lyricist. The re-mastering on this is quite excellent as well.
Sampling Kelly Joe Phelps "Brother Sinner & The Whale". I do enjoy the down-tempo numbers and his POV. |
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Tortoise - TNT
Marvin - Bone
Jon Butchter - Pictures from the Front |
Saturday
Justo Almario - Forever Friends
Explosions in the Sky - The Earth is not a Cold Dead Place |
+1 The Lord Dog Bird - A little gem of a record that GH told me about a few months ago.
Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase
T Bone Burnett - Twenty Twenty, The Essential T Bone Burnett |
Sunday
Hugh Masakela - Hope
Nils Logren - Acoustic Live
Odetta - Blues Everywhere I Go
Don Henry - Live at the Bluebird Café
Cibella - The Shine of Dried Electric Leaves |
Ghosthouse' last two entries are both great. Check out Matt Pond PA and Damien Jurado |
In regards to random play, Pandora is nice for that; especially since most of my CD collection is not ripped. It is kinda like Mapman's listening. And I'm finding that is a great new way to listen. Now on to CDs on my player:
Flim & the BB's - Tunnel
Benson & Klugh - Collaboration
James McMurty - Too Long in the Wastland
Bill & Bonnie Hearn - Watching Life Through a Windshield
Loudon Wainwright III - History |
Pinback - blue screen life
Pinback - Nautical Antiques
Pinback - Information Retrieved |
Nick Robertson - Bullet Proof Boy
Anne Richmond Boston - The Big House of Time |
The Police - Every Breath You Take - The Singles
Simple Minds - Glittering Prize |
Koinonia - Compact Favorites
Phil Keaggy - Beyond Nature
Pinback - Autumn of the Seraphs
Pinback - Blue Screen Life |
Ester Drang - Infinite Keys - GH recommended this one to me. I found the CD recently in a visit to my favorite record store in the whole world, Fingerprints in Long Beach CA. Bought it for a $1.84 nonetheless.
Day - Land of a Thousand Chances - from Fingerprints as well. |
The Notwist - Different Cars and Trains
Jack Johnson - Brushfire Fairy Tales
Shlohmo - Dark Red
Baths - Ocean Death
Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism
Marjorie Fair - Selfhelp Serenade
All the above are new titles (to me) that I picked up at Fingerprints Records in Long Beach CA |
Bruce Cockburn - Rumors of Glory / Disc 8 (unreleased/outtakes - the entire reason I bought this "best of" collection)
Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children |
Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
James Taylor - Live 1993 (both discs are great)
The Subdudes - Lucky |
Savath & Savalas - Apropa't (Scott Herren/Prefuse 73) The Notwist - Neon Golden Freaks and Geeks - Original Soundtrack (See Look Sharp!, No Language in our Lungs, The Spirit of Radio) - Excellent soundtrack both in artists and sound quality Keith Richards - Talk is Cheap Sensefield - Building The Wallflowers - (Breach) Television - Marquee Moon Ben Harper - The Will to Live Sugar - Besides |
Songs from: Grateful Dead - Built to Last Tortoise - TNT Deerhoof - Breakup Song Flim & the BB's - Tunnel Peter Frampton - Frampton Comes Alive! |
Pinback - Blue Screen Life Rush - Permanent Waves |
tomic901 - Pink Martini is a pretty great band. My wife turned me on to them. |
The Album Leaf - One Day I'll Be On Time Big Country - Come Up Screaming Jeff Buckley - Grace |
The Books - The Lemon of Pink Evax - Parking Lot Music Collections of Colonies of Bees - Customer Explosions in the Sky - The Earth is not a Cold Dead Place Baths - Ocean Death Shlohmo - Dark Red |
Gear Daddies - Billy's Live Bait (Their swan song) The I-10 Chronicles - Vol. 1 (many great performers on this one; Bill Hearn, Joe Ely, Adam Duritz, Willie Nelson) The I-10 Chronicles - Vol. 2 |
Lori Scacco - Circles Explosions in the Sky - The Earth is not a Cold Dead Place Icy Demons - Tears of a Clone |
Systems Officer - Self Entitled EP Systems Officer - Underslept
Two excellent well-recorded offerings from Pinback co-founder Zack |
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Justo Almario - Forever Friends Ahmad Szabo - This Book is About Words (Prefuse73) Mia Doi Todd - Cosmic Ocean Ship (She appears on a few Prefuse gigs) |
The Bottle Rockets - 24 Hours a Day Steve Earle - I Feel Alright Lyle Lovett - Joshua Judges Ruth LL again, Step Inside this House. |
Sneaking one more in: Wilco - Sky Blue Sky. Check out "Impossible Germany" and the brilliant guitar work of Nels Cline. |
F.S. Blumm - Lighten E*vax - Parking Lot Music |
Forgot one. Arturo Verocai - Self Entitled. |
Thanks for the kind words Ghosthouse. The Grays. What a great supergroup. Ro Sham Bo is an amazing compilation of songs by some of LAs great songwriters; a very solid record front to back. I had the opportunity to see them while I was in college and thought "I'll see them the next time the come around". Except they never did. Jason Falkner is another LA-area musician that is at the forefront of his trade. Author Unknown, for me, is his best effort and he just hits the nail on the head. I tried to like the Jellyfish, but Jason or no Jason, couldn't really warm up to the band. Another great LA band from that time period if Toy Matinee. They did a single record and the main guy, Kevin Gilbert, went on to do a number of albums. I never had the opportunity to see The Toy Matinee, but did see Kevin several times. He could sing and play beautifully. Unfortunately, he is no longer with us. The Grays and Toy Matinee got lots of local airplay on KLOS. But I don't think they every broke nation wide and none of these bands really made it. I'm glad that Jason Falkner has continued to release albums because I like the power pop beatlesque type of music for sure. The Rembrandts made several albums plus they have a couple of best of albums. They made it huge here in SoCal with "Just the way it is, Baby". They also had another hit, "New King". I find them a bit more art rock than power pop but I do see that they fit in with the other bands above. The hit from friends is "I'll be there for you". Apparently they charted a number of times according to Wikipedia. Jon Brion is a great musician and can really put on a show. His only album, Meaningless, is very good IMO. I've seen him at Largo in LA and the show was amazing. He is now very in demand as a producer. Another SoCal band not mentioned here is Matthew Sweet. His record "Girlfriend" is for me by far the best. He had several hits on that one and I'm not sure he made it nation wide but was very popular here and in Japan. Give this one a look. It is very good. I took a listen to Great Buildings. So it is apparent that the lead singer is from the Rembrandts. A little more poppy than artsy; certainly less refined than the Rembrandts. Glad this topic came up. Nice stroll down Memory Lane. |
I turned on my rig and I heard MUSIC! Systems Officer - Self Entitled Systems Office - Underslept Pinback - -offcell Ben Arnold - Almost Speechless
Happy Fathers Day to all. |
Stevie Wonder - Blue Note Plays (via an audiophile friend, the first track is both great in SQ and arrangement/playing)
Snarky Puppy - We Like it Here (Thank you GH)
Jon Butcher - Pictures from the Front
Nick Robertson - Bullet Proof Boy (go find this one, still great after 26 years)
Bob Mould - Black Sheets of Rain
Staind - Break the Cycle (amazing SQ for a heavy alternative record)
The Grays - Ro Sham Bo (very good SQ and amazing composition/playing) |
Pinback - Offcell
Sense Field - Building
Pete Townsend - The Iron Man (just listened to Dig and A friend is a friend)
The Big Dish - Satellites |
ruebent,
You said "I wore out "Dig" and "A Friend is a Friend"." I remember hearing Dig on the radio when the record came out and they played it allot and I was overjoyed to hear it each and every time. I found the CD used a number of years later and bought it for just that song. It's been some time since I last listened to the Iron Man but I'm glad I let it play to
"A Friend is a Friend". Another little gem on this record.
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Justo Almario - Forever Friends
Mike Knott - Strip Cycle
Steve Scott - Alts & Malts (thanks to Randy Layton) |
Jesus Culture - Your Love Never Fails |
Hey Nutty,
+1 on the Nils Lofgren - Live CD. That is a reference class CD.
Also, +1 to Son Volt. Have had the privilege of seeing them many times. Never got to see Uncle Tupelo though. |
Saturday:
Nils Lofgren - Live (reference quality)
Odetta - Blues Everywhere I Go
(also reference quality)
Pinback - Blue Screen Life
Motion City Soundtrack - I Am the Movie
Owsley - Self Entitled (RIP 2010) |
Nutty:
"Back Street Crawler". Found a gem of a track with Paul Rodgers on vocals. "Molton Gold". -What a great tune. Paul can sing like nobody's business and great guitar work as well.
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Sunday:
Snarky Puppy - We Like it Here (thanks as always GH) |
mewithoutyou - great band. Thanks for that recommendation sometime ago GH.
The Rembrandts - Self Entitled
Kevin Salem - Glimmer
Charlie Sexton Sextet - Under the Wishing Tree |
Steve Scott - More than a Dream (OOP for some time now) |
The Flaming Lips - The Soft Report (well worth the effort) |
Daniel Amos - Songs of the Heart |
Loomis
I too like Trace better than any other Son Volt effort. I've seen them plenty of times and the shows are fun. But I do also feel they are "monochromatic" and so though I have most all of their titles, I rarely listen to any of them anymore. And I was a die hard fan of the Alt Country movement; Uncle Tupelo another great band I loved at one time. I also think that Trace is much better than Wilco's first effort. But Wilco did indeed branch out and I do enjoy looking back at a number of their records.
I'm with Ghosthouse. I'm bored with a great deal of music I hear as of late. I did find one record I like a lot and it was in part due to Mr. GH. He recommended an internet radio station, which I listed to maybe a half dozen songs on and found Andrew Bird, Are You Serious in those few tracks. Was immediately taken by the title track. I really like the later half of the record from "Serious" on to the end. The record has "something new and something old" and it catches my fancy. Funny, GH isn't really into it. |
Loomis,
I think that J Farrar is all heart too. That maybe in part is what drove the duo apart. I sure wish I could have seen Uncle Tupelo.
I too like Richard Buckner. I have a few of his records and really like "Since"; still sounds pretty amazing after all these years. "Devotion & Doubt" is also pretty good as well.
Just got done listening to Andrew Birds "Are You Serious", the last five tracks. I'm doing it again now. This one is anything but boring to me. |
The Notwist - Neon Golden (spectacular sound quality)
Hugh Masekela - Hope (excellent sounding SACD, but not as good as the record above) |
On Spotify -
Matthew Sweet - Tomorrow Forever (just released this week) |
abucktwoeighty - Zero 7 - great band
reubent - great record. |
