Yep. Announced in this very forum by spzretent in December:shalloboi wrote:nice! had no idea they had anything new coming out. lovely track, too.
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Yep. Announced in this very forum by spzretent in December:shalloboi wrote:nice! had no idea they had anything new coming out. lovely track, too.
I love this album. It is one of those special records that I have given to people as a gift.princeskinny wrote:David Crosby - 'If Only I Could Remember My Name'
yeah....woah 4 discs! i have 2...princeskinny wrote:Four CD's of outtakes?
Where did you get that??!!!! More details please!
It's a good, thorough study of the album. Four cd's worth of various alternate takes. A completists dream.princeskinny wrote:Four CD's of outtakes?
Where did you get that??!!!! More details please!
Sorry for my short reply yesterday...we have guests visiting so I didn't want to be rude and spend a lot of time on the computer.redcloud wrote:It's a good, thorough study of the album. Four cd's worth of various alternate takes. A completists dream.princeskinny wrote:Four CD's of outtakes?
Where did you get that??!!!! More details please!
i have 2 discs called 'if only i could remember...these sessions' and a great gig live at the Matrix: Crosby, Garcia, Lesh from'70redcloud wrote:
Spunder, is this what you have? If so, I guess I just have two more discs worth of material?
I had never heard this album until yesterday, and I feel like it already existed in my head as a composite of what I like best about Dennis Wilson and various singer-songwriters of the time. It's brilliant, so thanks to all for the recommendation!redcloud wrote:I love this album. It is one of those special records that I have given to people as a gift.princeskinny wrote:David Crosby - 'If Only I Could Remember My Name'
I also have four cd's of outtakes from its recording session.
Mine is called "If I Could Only Remember My Name-Sessions". 4 discs....alternate takes with some studio talking in between. I'm uploading now...skinny, I will share later today or tomorrow. I'm sure it is the same as yours I probably just have two extra discs.spunder wrote:
i have 2 discs called 'if only i could remember...these sessions' and a great gig live at the Matrix: Crosby, Garcia, Lesh from'70
How many tracks on this mini-LP?spzretent wrote: Asteroid No.4- Windmill Of The Autumn Sky test pressing(sorry couldn't help my self. I'm really excited!).
I've been curious about the new BRMC. I think I'm alone in thinking Baby 81 was a return to form from Howl (which had some tracks I liked, but felt contrived to me) but nothing on Devil's Tattoo grabbed me. I'll have to check it out.Shinesalight wrote:Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Specter At The Feast (double vinyl)
Having gone off them a bit with the release of the distinctly average Beat the Devils Tattoo, I think this is a return to form. Still not quite up to the brilliance of their first three offerings, but a pretty great album none-the-less. Keeping on the BRMC theme, I've been playing quite a lot of Baby 81 in the car recently and discovered I like that album a lot more than I initially did.
I have come to really appreciate First Impressions after an initially negative reaction. It doesn't have the concise perfection of the first two LPs, but it has both the strengths and weaknesses of a traditional double album. You Only Live Once, On The Other Side and a few others stand with the Strokes' best, but a lot of it is interesting ideas thrown at the wall to see what sticks. Even when some of the songs needed editing or don't entirely gel there's usually a compelling something that brings me back, and it's good to hear the band just play. Which makes First Impressions feel endlessly intriguing to me, like there's always something new to discover. I love the first two albums, and they are objectively better, but as a hardcore fan I may listen to First Impressions more often, in the same way that I now turn to the Ladies & Gents demos more often than the album itself.TheWarmth wrote:Strokes, The ~ Comedown Machine (streaming via Pitchfork): First song is really over-the-top 80's. It's a good tune, but I'm really tried of the 80's retro thing. The second track is the single, "All The Time," which is pretty average and back to the classic Is This It style Strokes sound. At least they're not ripping off Michael Jackson (see track one). I haven't been able to latch onto a Strokes album since they released the disastrous First Impressions Of Earth, although all of their records have excellent highlights. Not sure the new one will change that. I'll give it a chance, though and will keep listening throughout the day.
jadams501 wrote:I have come to really appreciate First Impressions after an initially negative reaction.TheWarmth wrote:Strokes, The ~ Comedown Machine (streaming via Pitchfork): First song is really over-the-top 80's. It's a good tune, but I'm really tried of the 80's retro thing. The second track is the single, "All The Time," which is pretty average and back to the classic Is This It style Strokes sound. At least they're not ripping off Michael Jackson (see track one). I haven't been able to latch onto a Strokes album since they released the disastrous First Impressions Of Earth, although all of their records have excellent highlights. Not sure the new one will change that. I'll give it a chance, though and will keep listening throughout the day.
What was it about Angles you disliked? Never understood the negative reaction, I thought it was a good record with catchy songs and diversity of material.jack white wrote:overall tho while i defo thought it was a step up from FIoE & Angles (which i'd completely, mercifully, forgotten about until seeing jdams' post). but that's p faint praise i concede.
I dunno, I think the Strokes just have a general type of material they do -- kind of a bleary and weary late night thing. Kind of like how Spaceman has the same archetypes and well of inspiration that returns to. It hasn't gotten old for me and they've changed up sonically as time has gone on. I always preferred Room On Fire to Is This It though.jack white wrote:it's just at this stage i'd have expected a bit more variety & ambition. it's like they're still running a race they finished a long fucking time ago, running around in circles.
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they just seem to go in & make, w/diminishing returns, the same album over & over again. the source they're tapped into post Is This It just really doesn't make it for me however. they do have some good hits since the debut but their albums haven't been for me.
Wow, that's great. Never knew this existed so I'll definitely seek out the LP based on that fantastic track.....redcloud wrote:Alvin Lee & Mylon LeFevre - "On The Road To Freedom" (Columbia Records)
This is really wonderful album from 1973. Alvin had left Ten Years After and joined this American country/gospel/soul boy from Mississippi. Alvin seems totally relaxed and at ease. No long blues standards just lovely country tinged songs that sound better and better with every play. Most of you can probably find this LP in a used record bin for under $5. Highly recommended. This gorgeous track kicks the whole LP off:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4YMmSvDz9w
Mylon, by the way, has since found Christ and has denounced and turned his back on his "rock and roll" lifestyle of the past. Thankfully, records are a slice of history and this LP lives to tell a wonderful story that he should be proud of.
It's well worth searching out. Sometimes solo stuff like this allows musicians of bands to be more creative and free of expectations or restraints. Jerry Garcia's solo stuff is similar in its sense of looseness and just having fun.princeskinny wrote: Wow, that's great. Never knew this existed so I'll definitely seek out the LP based on that fantastic track.....
Agreed on the first Funks album. It's brilliant. But, all three are superb. I start to drop off when they merged with Parliament as the sound seems to focus more on Bootsy's disco funk and less on Hazel's acid guitar, which is what I love. It also starts to sound more polished and less gritty. I also do not mind the production of "FYM&YAWF'. They were all tripping their balls off when they recorded and mixed it. So, the crazy, over the top, sonically fucked record kind of works and certainly captures the acid drenched vibe in that studio.In addition to that slice of brilliance, Funkadelic 'Funkadelic' has been in heavy rotation....In some ways 'Free Your Mind' and 'Maggot Brain have overshadowed it, but it certainly deserves equal billing. 'Free Your Mind' probably has better songs, but the production on that LP really let it down for me, it's sonically all over the place, and not always in a good way. Weird, as the production on the first LP is great, lovely balance between Eddie Hazel and the rest, especially. Plus, 'Mommy, What's A Funkadelic?' brings back nice memories from the 'Screamadelica' tour of course........
purespace wrote:A handful of Laz69 comps, #15 & #16 have been on repeat. Impeccable taste
Don't get me wrong, I still love that album, I just find it frustrating in places. Plenty of bands have been off their heads producing great records and still manage to mix the thing properly....In places the drums sound terrible, the levels are all over the place, and the fading from one channel to the other just sounds really amatuerish.redcloud wrote: Agreed on the first Funks album. It's brilliant. But, all three are superb. I start to drop off when they merged with Parliament as the sound seems to focus more on Bootsy's disco funk and less on Hazel's acid guitar, which is what I love. It also starts to sound more polished and less gritty. I also do not mind the production of "FYM&YAWF'. They were all tripping their balls off when they recorded and mixed it. So, the crazy, over the top, sonically fucked record kind of works and certainly captures the acid drenched vibe in that studio.
jadams501 wrote:What was it about Angles you disliked? Never understood the negative reaction, I thought it was a good record with catchy songs and diversity of material.jack white wrote:overall tho while i defo thought it was a step up from FIoE & Angles (which i'd completely, mercifully, forgotten about until seeing jdams' post). but that's p faint praise i concede.
I dunno, I think the Strokes just have a general type of material they do -- kind of a bleary and weary late night thing. Kind of like how Spaceman has the same archetypes and well of inspiration that returns to. It hasn't gotten old for me and they've changed up sonically as time has gone on. I always preferred Room On Fire to Is This It though.jack white wrote:it's just at this stage i'd have expected a bit more variety & ambition. it's like they're still running a race they finished a long fucking time ago, running around in circles.
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they just seem to go in & make, w/diminishing returns, the same album over & over again. the source they're tapped into post Is This It just really doesn't make it for me however. they do have some good hits since the debut but their albums haven't been for me.
I'm not a fan of the Strokes but I get the point you are making and actually think you state it well. I lived in the UK when they first came out and they immediately became poster boys and darlings of the NME and Melody Maker (maybe MM was defunct by then?). The massive hype the British music press placed on their heads certainly did them no favors and they were destined to not live up to it. I think the press wanted to present something fresh at the tail end of Brit Pop and what better than a handful of posh pretty boys from NYC wearing mod suits and trendy, expensive haircuts playing late 70's/80's rock that sounded a bit like The Cars mixed with a bit of The Jam? It was all too much of an image. I'm not saying the music wasn't there to back it up but the package and the hype is what turned me off. But, I don't think I was the audience they were aiming for anyway. They were shooting more for 16-24 year olds.jack white wrote: one of the key things that attracted me to the strokes initially was their vibrancy, not so much the weary late-night kind thing (which did exist, i agree). they just seemed to lose that roguish snotty punk groove & got very serious all of a sudden & very serious over a whole lot of nothing.
there was a promise of freedom on Is This It that really went unfulfilled. (i think it was maybe as early as when they swapped NYC Cops - still possibly their greatest moment - for some lame tune in the American release).
the whole thing seemed to quickly became a job for them rather than a journey. it's hard to explain.
Laz69 wrote:Peter Daltrey and The Asteroid #4: The Journey
Gorgeous!
Yeah, they are good. Highlighted via Optical Sounds i think originally, but are also heading to the UK later in the year i believe for some shows...davedecay wrote:digging these guys!
http://follakzoid.bandcamp.com/album/ii-2
"Föllakzoid is a chilean based cosmic music band."
they definitely captured a moment. whether it was fabricated or genuine i don't know or even think matters too much, but they definitely were there at the right time.redcloud wrote:I'm not a fan of the Strokes but I get the point you are making and actually think you state it well. I lived in the UK when they first came out and they immediately became poster boys and darlings of the NME and Melody Maker (maybe MM was defunct by then?). The massive hype the British music press placed on their heads certainly did them no favors and they were destined to not live up to it. I think the press wanted to present something fresh at the tail end of Brit Pop and what better than a handful of posh pretty boys from NYC wearing mod suits and trendy, expensive haircuts playing late 70's/80's rock that sounded a bit like The Cars mixed with a bit of The Jam? It was all too much of an image. I'm not saying the music wasn't there to back it up but the package and the hype is what turned me off. But, I don't think I was the audience they were aiming for anyway. They were shooting more for 16-24 year olds.jack white wrote: one of the key things that attracted me to the strokes initially was their vibrancy, not so much the weary late-night kind thing (which did exist, i agree). they just seemed to lose that roguish snotty punk groove & got very serious all of a sudden & very serious over a whole lot of nothing.
there was a promise of freedom on Is This It that really went unfulfilled. (i think it was maybe as early as when they swapped NYC Cops - still possibly their greatest moment - for some lame tune in the American release).
the whole thing seemed to quickly became a job for them rather than a journey. it's hard to explain.
redcloud wrote:Humble Pie - s/t (3rd LP)
As a Small Faces fan I also really like most of their stuff, however Humble Pie never seem to have got the recognition they deserve by comparison.redcloud wrote:Humble Pie - s/t (3rd LP)