What records did you listen to today? (1 Viewer)

[Milker]

Loada whozits covering the Madcap Laughs album....

Field Music - Terrapin
J Mascis - No Good Trying
The Besnard Lakes - Love You
Race Horses - No Man's Land
R.E.M. - Dark Globe
Hush Arbors - Here I Go
Captain Sensible - Octopus
Hope Sandoval & the Warm Intentions - Golden Hair
Hawkwind - Long Gone
Skygreen Leopards - She Took a Long Cold Look
Cate Le Bon - Feel
Jennifer Gentle - If It's In You
Marc Almond - Late Night
Robyn Hitchcock - Dark Globe (live bonus track)

a couple of decent reworkings/redoings
REM are as limp as ever

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

gavin bryars: jesus blood never failed me yet

Only listened to this for the first time yesterday, and it's amazing

Like I want to send it to everyone amazing

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

Only listened to this for the first time yesterday, and it's amazing

Like I want to send it to everyone amazing

Have you heard the story behind it? Bryan's had a recording of a tramp singing (I can't remember if he recorded it himself or found it in an archive) and wanted to make it loop. That being the days of making actual tape loops and recording it over and over again (as opposed to making a sample and sequencing it or copying and pasting it into a computer file), he made the loop and set it playing over and over again while recording it. He went off for lunch and came back to find everyone in the studio crying. He did another version of it years later with Tom Waits singing over the tramp and it's awful, Waits doing his fake hobo thing over the voice of an actual down and out is like some white guy in black face singing over Louis Armstrong.

Also, it was originally released on Brian Eno's label Obscure with another Bryars piece on the b-side, The Sinking of the Titanic, which is even more marvellous. It's worth reading about and having a listen to.
The Sinking of the Titanic - Wikipedia

I can't find the original 1975 version (which is only about 20 minutes) but this version from about ten years ago is something special:

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[chris d]

 

[Anthony]

I don't think I've ever seen this thread before. Weird.

Weezer : Death To False Metal

 

[Unknown Convict]

I don't think I've ever seen this thread before.

i thought it was locked in favour of posting single threads about whatever album you were listening to, then superseded by What you been listening to this week? which itself is dormant for 18 months.

 

[pete]

i thought it was locked in favour of posting single threads about whatever album you were listening to

me too. hrmm

 

[rettucs]

Only listened to this for the first time yesterday, and it's amazing

Like I want to send it to everyone amazing

look who's back!

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

me too. hrmm

It's called disruption, Pete

 

[pete]

It's called disruption, Pete

I live in a constant state of disruption.