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Soft Machine: 5th
Blimey, another Softs fan.
Funnily I seldom play 5th. Usually Third, Six, Bundles and Live in Paris. With an occasional play of 1 and 2.
None, they all get an airing from time to time.
Played this recently for first time in many years.
Contemporaries of Scotland's best known soul band in 70s the Average White Band, not as well known, but this was a fine album, even if it sounds a little of its time now:
https://www.allmusic.com/album/cado-belle-mw0000704998
The Lemonheads - It's a Shame About Ray .
The Triffids - The Black Swan
Moby - Play
Son#2 dug them out my cd collection the other week.
👍
This popped up in my Instagram feed as I follow a number of post punk pages.
I remember seeing them on the Tube, Muriel Grey introduced them as the ugliest band in rock and roll.
I have seen mentioned a few times The The! Soul Mining if you haven't listened to you should!
Just tonight, Thank Christ for the Bomb, Groundhogs.
Ooh that's reminded me of Split. Must put it on later.
The Congos - Heart of the Congos
Echo and the Bunnymen - Heaven Up Here
2 LP's I recently picked out the cupboard after a very long absence and really enjoyed again.
Was browsing the listings for Record Day last week, saw there was a picture disc for Violent Femmes/Violent Femmes. Not many more incongruous selections for a picture disc imo, but never mind.
Can't remember the last time I heard the whole album, so pulled it out, dusted it down and played both sides. Not sure whether it was nostalgia or what, but still sounded fantastic to my ears.
@vinnyeh, love that album, it gets play regularly at ours. Blister in the sun was a floor filler at the local indie disco in the mid 80's.
Not that old, but I've been enjoying this since it turned up when unpacking recently...
I know they're reasonably big, but they should be more popular than Taylor Swift IMO.
especially since Mark Stewart died last week (and nobody seems that bothered), "Y" by the pop group. Dug it out in his honour the other day.
Not an easy listen but a mighty record.
(esp the re-release with the bonus of she is beyond good and evil - bought that album on CD when my single became unplayable)
(+1 for Spiritualized, and an added Longpigs - the sun is often out)
My somewhat eclectic choices include -
<span style="font-size: 0.8rem;">Ogden's Nutgone Flake by the Small Faces</span>
Simple Man by Klaus Nomi
Sheik Yerbouti by Frank Zappa
(The latter probably NSFW)
Sheik Yerbouti by Frank Zappa
Utterly brilliant.
Don't often listen to albums nowadays but have music playing all the time
Recently refound hawkwind.
Crikey. Just found Truth Jeff Beck. Rod Stewart on vocals. The vinyl is 3mm thick.
Not that it is an album anyone could forget t but it had been a while until I listened to it a couple of weeks ago…
Nevermind!
You know it’s good. Then you listen to it and remember… it is ****** incredible!
Burned by Elextrafixion (AKA half the Bunnymen).
Not as bad as you might expect for late period McCulloch
A few recent ones:
Black Crowes - Shake your money maker
Alice in Chains - Dirt
Seahorses - Do it yourself
Beck - Odelay
Chemical Brothers - Exit planet dust
Roni Size Reprazents - New forms
Manics - Generation terrorists
Ogden’s Nutgone Flake by the Small Faces
Ah yes, that gets a regular airing ofor me. Stanley Unwin FTW!
Stanley Unwin FTW!
"Are you all sitting comftybold two square on your botty"?
Until recently hadn't listened to the full album since the 90s:
Lot of tracks that make a lot more sense to an older, more disillusioned me..
Silverchair - Frogstomp.
I forgot just how good they were, and so young at the time as well.
+1 for Silverchair. My son got me into them, along with Live, Offspring and Tool.
Kids eh?
Not very hip or cool but I put old new borrowed and blue by Slade on the stereo the other night.
Must be because I grew up not far from wolvo but I still like them.
@martinhutch you're spot on with So. I bought the cassette (along with a Cutting Crew album) to take on French exchange trip in 1986 and I found myself on a remote farm with bugger all to do except listen to my walkman. Great album.
just amazing really. what a band.
Put "The Black Album" by The Damned on yesterday. Forgot what a complete masterpiece it is. Not a duff track on there.
Also gave "Metal Box" by PiL a run out a couple of weeks ago. Again, utter brilliance.
@wordnumb From memory, they were originally call Mindf*ck but the label made them change it. But yes, terrible name!
People Who Fell From the Sky was also a phenomenal album. That's one CD that I hold on to dearly as it's not on any streaming services. Possibly uploaded to YouTube. How they went from C*ck Rock Cheese to Sludgy Doomy goodness then disappear is a mystery.
Correction, it is! Oof! those first two tracks!
Spitspatspot sed> it’s not on any streaming service
Yeah, more people are now realising this fact of streaming services, a lot of more idiosyncratic stuff will not be available. There was a piece in the Guardian this week about classic films you can't stream, soon it'll be anything less popular just won't be worth the server space. Many good records and films will be totally forgotten existed to death.
Just to keep this brilliant thread alive...just fished out Argus, Wishbone Ash. The very first time a girl broke my heart. At 18 it took ages to get over her, all my fault, I was a ****, but hey. Yanks on my heart strings 50yrs later.
Following a conversation with a colleague this afternoon chatting about a school funk band I was in, I've managed to find a mate who had the mp3 of the album we recorded on an old computer. Still holds its weight! Had some very talented mates at school (a few of them are still musicians).
Coming up 20 years old now! Haven't heard it for at least 18...
Embrace -good will out
My vitriol-finelines
Wilt-medicine man
Editors-the black room
All got a play recently for the first time in over a decade
@chakaping there incredible live too mate and had Taylor come on for a song .
That's a great album
Not a well known album by any stretch, but I saw one of my favourite singer/songwriters the other evening, Gemma Hayes, and she played a song for the first time in fifteen years recently, and listening to it I realised the lyrics had a very strong personal connection, about loss and grief, which I mentioned to Gem afterwards. I checked in my Music Library after I got home and realised that it hadn’t shown up after I linked my iTunes library to iCloud, and I’d completely forgotten the album. It’s called Hollow Of Morning, from 2008, and I listened to it last night for what must be quite a few years.
I also started sorting through my old tapes and found the absolute stonker New York by Lou Reed. I don't have a decent tape deck anymore so just rebought it on vinyl - not only is it an awesome record but its still incredibly contemporary despite being made in the late 80's - even mentions Trump and Rudi Guliani!
Neds Atomic Dustbin - God Fodder
Heard a track played on 6music the other day.
A true classic of the early nineties when the Stumpjumper ruled the trails.
Yeah, more people are now realising this fact of streaming services, a lot of more idiosyncratic stuff will not be available. There was a piece in the Guardian this week about classic films you can’t stream, soon it’ll be anything less popular just won’t be worth the server space. Many good records and films will be totally forgotten existed to death.
But that isn't an extra problem created by streaming services, it has always been the way. Films and music that weren't popular was always difficult to get, once the initial released stock was gone, that was it. We are still in the boat of searching online for a DVD in stock. And it isn't storage space that is the problem, it is the rights costs to stream or stock for download.
Just to keep this brilliant thread alive…just fished out Argus, Wishbone Ash.
Ah I have Live Dates. A brilliant album which demonstrates what a great live band they were.
I found this a few years ago when going through a bit of a hard time and for me it provided a welcome relaxing distraction for an hour. Just found it again recently and still enjoyed the whole sound and feel. Might not be to too many peoples taste on here, but if you enjoy folky harmonies like Kings of convenience, Simon and Garfunkel etc you may enjoy (on Spotify as a live album ) Music starts at 1:40
Rejoice! It’s finally made it to iTunes:
Maybe it’s a reference to a ‘Butlerian Jihad’?
Girdle your loins…
Queens of the Circulating Library by Coil
Now available on ITunes for £1.49
Monster, monster👍👍👍
Then Jericho. Electric.
Frikken awesome album but sequence is way off.
Play Reeling , it's track 9 or so . An absolute belter of an 80s tune, complete with violins which should be a single as it's a great song .
The The: Infected. It has aged well👍
Radioactivity by Radioactivity
Only 10 years old though so might not count.
Doolittle is my 12 year old sons favourite album of all time ( shortish exposure though) and also my wife's most hated. He only has 6 albums for his turntable and its on every night and attempts to be car DJ with it. I forgot how good it was.