Spiritualized

olan

Best thing about my iPod is that if I just hit play, it starts with the Aliens and plays all their material. Sometimes you just don't need to be bothered to select the band!!

PS: excuse my language earlier today - don't know what has come over me, but it was a 100% accurate discription....

olan

Ads wrote:
spzretent wrote:The Aliens- Luna
Is that album any good Spzretent? I loved Astronomy for Dogs but never bought this. Sure they had it on in my local once and I liked it but never got round to buying it.

It is FUCKING AWESOME.

olan

1. Jim Dickinson with Chuck Prophet and the Creatures of Habit: "Live at Slims June '92. A Thousand Footprints in the Sand". (On Corduroy Records from Kew in Melbourne - Just down the road from me. Awesome stuff!) 2. The Jesus and Mary Chain: "Peel Sessions" 2LP 3. Yo La Tengo: P...

olan

GRRRRR

I order and paid for this fucker in February. Still no sign of it..........

olan

Have pre-ordered this on vinyl with the extra CD of remixes. I'm not going to listen to leaks.....(must be strong)...looking forwaard to playing this on my turntable....(must be strong)....what about the Sonic remixes....(must be strong) Please don't post a link to the f*ckin' leak. The Moon Duo rel...

olan

Bought a new DAC today, a Benchmark, so I've listened to: New Order 16 June 1989 Irvine Meadows The Clash 21 September 1979 Palladium The Durutti Column 3 May 1995 Clapham Grand (last gig I went to before emigrating to Oz) Cabaret Voltaire 26 May 1982 Nottingham Rock City Dif Juz 11 January 1985 ULU...

olan

Sterling Roswell: The Psychedelic Ubik

olan

My 'wonderful' neighbours (they are on the other side of the back fence) were renovating/extending their house last year. Their builder took down the fence, without telling us. Our dog Max wandered past the builders and out of the neighbour's property. We never saw him again. I kid you not, but thes...

olan

I've got the Clash boot at #2 on this list. It is nowhere near the level that they reach on Kingston Advice, or the 1979 Aragon Ballroom gig to name but two. Having said this, for an NME "best of list" this is not too bad. Totall agree about the Dylan Boot being an all time classic. Half e...

olan

OK, thanks to the ever efficient Australia post, this arrived today. Many thanks to Dom at GPS - this is a beautiful thing and sounds fantastic thanks to ELBL. I'm chasing up the special offer that came with the single. Really nice track too.... If you are interested there is a photo of the thing pl...

olan

I've snagged nothing so nice recently as the RAH promo semisynthetic bought, but FWIW this is the recent buying (nearly all off ebay, and all bar one on vinyl). Brain Donor: Love, Peace and Fuck (2x Shrek Snot Green LPs) - nice! Durutti Column: Live at the Venue (LP 15 Swiss Francs, plus 10 SF posta...

olan

Thank fuck for this. At least we can get Ellsworth off the front page of the message board. Re-open the ticket zone now!!

Bugger, no album until October/November.....

olan

I've posted links to a video tour of the Mogwai live setup and a tour of the guitarists pedal boards in the instruments section. Quite interesting stuff.

olan

spazed99 wrote:Press announcement on Tuesday...3pm UK time.

Great news. Shame it is on at silly o'clock down here. (bet it gets delayed anyway).

olan

This might be of interest to some of you

http://www.musicradar.com/news/tech/vid ... led-391294

There is also a tour round the guitarist's effects peddles....

olan

scratch wrote:I donÂ´t think IÂ´ve seen Gent or SaarbrÃ¼cken.. at least not as lossless

(but IÂ´ve been lazy with sp3 shows the last year or two..)

I've never seen or heard of these shows in lossless circulation. It would be great to heaer them. Similarly the AUD of the performance show would be great.

olan

TheWarmth wrote:Average at best?

Yep.

olan

There is a review of a Beady Eye gig in The Grauniad: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/mar/04/beady-eye-live-review. (Written by Dave Simpson who I used to trade Joy Division and New Order bootlegs with in the early 1980's, by god). Poor Dave has clearly lost the plot. Oasis were (with the excep...

olan

I've been reading through "The Lives of John Lennon" by Albert Goldman, which I picked up in a second hand bookshop in Sydney recently. I cannot understand how anybody could pen an 846 page piece of non-fiction in such a negative fashion. It appears to me that Goldman dislikes his subject ...

olan

White Noise Sound; not bad but was surprised a how much it sounded like a mix of Alphastone and Black Rebel Motorcyle Club. Gotta love a bit of purple vinyl though....

olan

Moon Duo: Escape e.p, Killing Time e.p. Silver Bells 7 inch

Brilliant stuff....

olan

Godspeed! You Black Emperor: Lift your skinny fists like antennas to heaven

180g vinyl reissue, bought a while back but as yet unplayed. Quite enjoying it, but not sure I would want to sit through one of their gigs.

olan

http://www.theheadsrock.com/Devil%20Merch%20Page.html

Ordered, and much anticipated. Hopefully this will be even more raw and in yer face than the album itself. A bargain at twice the price...

olan

....And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead: Tao of the Dead Given to me along with "So Divided" by a mate as thanks for a favour. He reckoned I would like the music "judging by the artwork" ( :shock: ). Sad to admit that this mob completely passed me by up until now. Not my th...

olan

Durutti Column: Vini Reilly (Reissue) on Kooky Discs. This arrived in the post during the week. It is a strange one for me as I already own this (on CD, original and FACDO issues, cassette, DAT and vinyl - very sad, I must get out a bit more). The CD remaster is good, but as this is an analog record...

olan

I had a chance to sit down and listen to the vinyl boxset today. The disk of demos did not do much for me - I thought it would be raw and in-your-face but it simply sounded thin and unrealised. Having said that the LP itself is fantastic, although I have some sympathy for the view that the album get...

olan

Durutti Column - Vini Reilly remaster demo disk. Interesting stuff, but sadly these demos are not essential (unlike say Forged Perscriptions). However if ever there was a Durutti album to take a punt on, this is it as the remaster is very, very good. Buy it and help the artist out (not a trivial thi...

olan

It makes me really happy that so many people here are digging this! I thought for sure it'd be more divisive. When the "sounds like New Order singles" quote came out I was sure that, unless the quote was a joke, it would be shite. Thankfully the quote was a joke and the album is very, ver...

olan

Bought this today largely on the strength of the fact that I could d/l it as flacs to listen to while the CD enjoys the 'gentle touch' of Australia Post. Have to say that I'm very impressed even if I do prefer the instrumentals (IMHO the male vocal takes the music into Sigur Ros territory, while the...

olan

I'm sure Neil (They Transmit) and Dom from GPS are above advertising, so I'll do it for them (I am totally unconnected to all parties BTW). The next item off the GPS production line is an Eat Lights Become Lights / Silver Apples shared single. Being a huge Silver Apples fan (seeing he and Spirituali...

olan

second part here:

http://rocketrecordings.blogspot.com/20 ... art-2.html

olan

Earth - April :D Belle & Sebastian - June :) and most embarrassingly The Sisters Of Mercy - tomorrow (I'll get my coat). :shock: Nothing embarrassing about that IMHO. I saw them play regularly in the 1983-1985 period, although I've not seen them since. I used to love the covers they did; Abba, ...

olan

Spiritualized: Medication e.p. Found it at the bottom of a box of tapes today. I have not listened to it for years. I really love the way that Medication flows into Angel Sigh from the Peel session. I was also surprised at how much I enjoyed Space, which I've never really bothered with much before.

olan

I've lsitened to the new album regularly. Am enjoying it, but I can't quite get to grips with it all. I am really looking forward to getting my vinyl box set partly because I'm a sucker for that kind of thing and partly because I think Mogwai sound best on vinyl. Ads, you should enjoy Mogwai's live ...

olan

Watched the Everton Bolton "game" last night - don't know why I bothered, two hours of proper sleep I'll never catch up on. OK, so Bolton are much easier to watch now that Megson/Fat Sam aren't there, but that game was dire. On in the middle of the fucking night down here, so I was totally...

olan

Meo wrote:worth a dinner dance I hope Olan!

NO.IT.FUCKING.WAS.NOT!

On the other hand it is only once a year and it was an opportunity to sink a few beers so it was a total waste of time

olan

Mogwai: Hardcore will never die...but you will. My wife presented me with a copy on CD today. I've managed to listen to it twice - I quite enjoy some of it, but some of it has not really grabbed my attention yet. Hopefully I'll pick it up on vinyl in the next few days- the best way to appreciate thi...

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Meo wrote:Velvet Und. - A .Warhol Unripenend
aahhh Saturday Mornin'

My Bloody Valentine: Before Loveless.

I've had to go to a (cough, cough) dinner dance with the wife. To paraphrase Mr Lydon: No Fun. Am sulking...

olan

Meo wrote:gavshak have you got a moustache?

Niiiice! Made me laugh at 9:00 on a wet morning. Thanks for that!

olan

The Soup Dragons Aww c'mon... they were actually a good band. Its always the worst song that everyone remembers them by... a bit unfair! They were quite fun until they hit the "there's always been a dance element to our music" after which was the "worst song that everyone remembers t...

olan

A blog run by a friend of a friend:
http://tarquinlive.blogspot.com/search/ ... ritualized
Don't go there unless you have some bandwidth left this month......
The menu in side is very very useful. Enjoy!!

olan

I'm always surprised at how successful the MSP are, but then it takes all sorts to make the world....I (and others on here) might not enjoy their music, but clearly they have a huge following so good luck to them. Success doesn't equal quality any more. This brings us back to how many current big s...

olan

I didn't say they didn't "mean it," they seem stiflingly self-involved enough that I wouldn't expect too much active deception from them, but that the material that they put forward as bracing commentary is by objective standards shallow sloganeering. It says more about their high opinion...

olan

:lol: HAhahaha....that's quality! I keep meaning to get to one of their final/annual christmas shows... I went to a Paddy's day show at the Albert Hall (I think) in about 1988 (ish - might have been as early as 1986). I have vague recollections of enjoying it hugely, but as I was totally hammered (...

olan

The Allendale, Michigan gig from 23-Apr-1995 is a personal favourite. If it is not a SBD, then it is one of the all-time best AUDs I have ever heard. If it was recorded from the audience, the taper must hace been the only punter at the gig as there is almost no audience noise competing with the band...

olan

I know that a lot of people slag off Vini's singing but I don't have a big problem with it. he sounds a bit like Badly Drawn Boy (but with much better music!) wouldn't like a whole album of him singing though. maybe one or two songs per album (a bit like Mogwai!) Agreed. In fact I quite like a lot ...

olan

I have to admit that I never really got the White Stripes despite owning several of their albums, and seeing them play them live a few times. I enjoyed it all in a kind of superficial way, but could not really see what all the excitement was about. Having said all this, it is a bit of a pity they ha...

olan

Mogwai: Young Team

Always enjoy Mogwai Fear Satan off this. Nice and loud, just as it should be really. Warming up for the new album, which I have still managed not to hear, despite the temptations of leaks galore....

olan

Totally knackered today because (i) I had far, far too much red wine last night and (ii) I stayed up until stupid o'clock in the morning to watch the Everton-Blackpool game. What a game, I hope Blackpool stay up as they play decent football and are never less than entertaining. I could list plenty o...

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http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/15069-nowhere-20th-anniversary-edition/ Are they allowed to do this? Don't they know they're blowing The Pains of Being Pure at Heart's cover?!? eh? i dont get it :? never thought i'd say this about a pitchfork review but I agree with pretty much everything said ...

olan

After a bit of hassle with wrong stuff being sent to me, this lot arrived today: (1) Slowdive: Blue Day (2xLP, on dark blue, one sky blue; Really nice sound - it is playing as I type. First impression: Much more bass than the CD) (2) Spacemen 3: Perfect perscription reissue on vinyl - my original is...

olan

Slowdive: Blue Day on vinyl. Just arrived....happy memories.

olan

The final track, My Country, is as powerful a condemnation of the state of the UK now as it was in 1989. Its also a fucking awesome tune..... I like the DC I've heard quite a bit, but haven't usually thought of their lyrics as a strong point. With all due respect, I looked up the lines of "My ...

olan

Though this isn't my fave Bunnymen LP, it is Porcupine, this is a very close second. And I cant think of a better record for this audiophile release than Heaven Up Here. Hopefully mine is here today. FYI these new silver series LPs are a good $10 less than the usual MFSL releases. I absolutely love...

olan

Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon.

It get a spin once or twice a year every year at my place. Love the keyboard drones on this.....

olan

Not only is everything I've heard by them (admittedly only If You Tolerate This... and The Holy Bible) musically dull, but their lyrical content is arrogant, ignorant, and shockingly dim-witted. Terrible, terrible band. Big props to Pete for the oil pack incident. I can vouch for the fact that it i...

olan

I had an extra ticket for the first night of LAGWAFIS at the RFH. I couldn't sell it, and couldn't even give it away on the night of the gig. This annoyed me as I had flown all the way from Australia for those gigs (and a Durutti Column gig). At the time I couldn't understand why people weren't as i...

olan

This thread is turning into top class material for an episode of Grumpy Old Men. The last posts from Runcible and Spzretent nearly made me inhale my tea with laughter...... Sadly, I have to admit a deep seated dislike of the MSP. First there was the 4 REAL stuff in the NME, which I thought was simpl...

olan

Cheers for the suggestions, folks, appreciated :D I'll definitely seek out the collection of the first four albums, and on the vinyl front I'll have a proper look for a copy of Vini Reilly at some point! I picked up a backup copy of this on eBay recently for US $40 plus shipping. It included a copy...

olan

All the early albums are worth getting, they are all wonderfully packaged and remastered on 'Factory Once'. My absolute favourite is 'LC' the second album, it's superb from start to finish. this is very closely followed by the debut 'The Return Of' which is really minimal (no real drummer, LC might...

olan

There is an expert on this message board when it comes to Durutti Column. Olan, where are thou? I hope you're not being sarcastic! OK, all that follows is my opinion only, and is likely to wind up (both of the) other Durutti Column Fans. I would see if Kooky Discs has any copies of the Fo(u)r Facto...

olan

A Koko CD in the paper bag sold for about Â£120 on Ebay recently... Well that caused some minor panic at my house. I had put my paper bag "somewhere safe" and couldn't find it. Cue much disbelief from my wife, followed by laughter as my searching grew more frantic. Turns out I'ld put it i...

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The Heads and The Big Naturals "Rituals Vol.3" now on sale: http://www.theheadsrock.com/Devil%20Merch%20Page.html First 50 in brown paper bag with pagan symbol! Ordered! Cheers for the tip Sunray. February is shaping up to be a great month in terms of my favourite bands, Mogwai, The Heads...

olan

James T wrote:Don't know which pressing you got (matador or pias) but the PIAS one sounding absolutely awful and I gave it away.

Just checked, it is PIAS licenced to SPUNK, (bought in Melbourne on the day of release) which made me laugh as the CD is a load of WANK sound-wise.

olan

the Durutti Column must have one of the most voluminous discographys ever, if you count all the reissues, fanclub only discs, compilations etc. how near are you to complete on them Olan? Pretty close. I collected Factory issues from ACR, Joy Division, New Order, The Wake and The Durutti Column reli...

olan

i will agree that Mogwai have never made a truly disappointing album, its just that the first three albums were so great and so different to each other, everything since them seems to have been a variation on a theme. Mr Beast was really mediocre although it did have some great tracks on it. I boug...

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