Music Thread / What Are You Listening To?

[robste]

My favorite TD album is the 1975 live album Ricochet, but really, everything they released between 1974-1979 are essential IMO.

Have anyone heard Green Desert? Apparently it was recorded in 1973, but not released until 1986.

Robert

[MarcMorris]

I actually also really like their earlier recordings, Alpha Centauri (1971), Zeit (1972) and Atem (1973).

I'm currently listening to their excellent Rubycon album.

[robste]

Those early albums aren't bad at all, but you have to be in the right mood. Dark and electronic landscapes. I'd say that TD found they own sound after they signed Virgin though.

Robert

[cloud]

Stepping away from the '70s and '80s and moving forward to the 2000s. I was looking through some of my metal magazines from like 2000/01/02/03 and that earlier today and a name came up which I had completely forgotten about. The name is Earthtone9. Anyone remember them? They were a British metal band that were making headlines at the time but later split up. They started two different bands, one is The Blueprint and the other is Twin Zero. Anyway I'm having a listen to the song 'Amnesia', I remember getting that free with Metal Hammer a few years ago and what a corker of a song it is too, absolutely fantastic. I never did buy their albums but will put that right in a bit .

Have a listen:

Earthtone9 - Amnesia

I bet only Jack will know of this band.

The Blueprint - Sans Chorus

Twin Zero - Outstayed

[CJ34]

I actually also really like their earlier recordings, Alpha Centauri (1971), Zeit (1972) and Atem (1973).

I'm currently listening to their excellent Rubycon album.

Very experimental - and whilst interesting in their own right, I find them a tad tedious.

[CJ34]

The name is Earthtone9. Anyone remember them?

Yes, very well - their guitarist is the brother of a friend of ours. We got on the guest list at one of their gigs and went and saw them live. Superb.

[Vaughan]

My favorite TD album is the 1975 live album Ricochet, but really, everything they released between 1974-1979 are essential IMO.

Have anyone heard Green Desert? Apparently it was recorded in 1973, but not released until 1986.

Robert

Green Desert is great and highly recommended. If you like that era TD, then you'll enjoy it.

Everything TD did up till mid to late 80's was good. After that it's one long road downhill. If you enjoy the early stuff you might want to check out Stockhausen, Gorecki, and some of the Kronos Quartet albums. Classical composers who took the whole thing to much greater depths.

[CJ34]

Everything TD did up till mid to late 80's was good. After that it's one long road downhill. If you enjoy the early stuff you might want to check out Stockhausen, Gorecki, and some of the Kronos Quartet albums.

I agree - once TD went the Cubase route, I lost interest. But up until that point, they were great. I feel similarly about Kraftwerk.

Interestingly, I'm currently digging the German outfit Can, who were guided by Stockhausen himself.

[robste]

I have two Can albums, Tago Mago and Ege Bamyasi, and both are classics of the German krautrock scene of the 70's. For people who want to get in to this (weird) music, I always recommend Tago Mago as a start.

Robert

[CJ34]

Tago Mago is a good album, for sure - but Monster Movie is their finest hour. The track Yoo Doo Right is a masterpiece.

[Silent Voice]

Coldplay's fourth album Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends is set to become both the fastest- and biggest-selling album of the year.

While it only hit the shelves on Thursday June 12th, it is estimated the foursome's new effort could sell almost 200,000 copies within a matter of days.

Duffy's Rockferry is currently the fastest-selling album of the year, with 183,874 copies sold in its first week on release in March, but the new effort from Chris Martin and co is likely to smash that record, according to HMV spokesman Gennaro Castaldo.

"Any Coldplay release is now a major event, and the band are one of the few truly global acts that can drive huge numbers of music fans into record stores and online."



I am listening to this at the moment and it is great.

Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends: amazon.co.uk

Rockferry: amazon.co.uk

[Vaughan]

Stereotomy, by Alan Parsons Project, wasn't one of their albums I bought at the time of release. So playing this reissue was my first time through it. First impressions were...... bad. Very bad.

But then I got stuck in traffic going into Birmingham last week, and I put it on, and over the hour (!) I was stuck, it began to wind its way into my head, and now I enjoy it quite a bit.

This is MOR crap, to be sure. What's worse, it's got a nice disco beat on most of it too. Ah, a product of its time.

The thing is though, Wolfssen really knew how to write a pop tune, and Parsons production work is peerless, and really gets to shine on these reissues.

It's not like I can recommend these to anyone, modern audiences will likely find them problematic, but you could do a lot worse, and they're all available for a penny or so under 6 quid these days. I like them to sing along too. Fun.

Stereotomy: amazon.co.uk

[Ade]

Duffy's Rockferry is currently the fastest-selling album of the year, with 183,874 copies sold in its first week on release in March,

I really like that Duffy album - Warwick Avenue and Holding On Too Long are spellbinding. I'm sorry to say that I'm completely and utterly prejudiced against anything that Coldplay have released or will ever release.

[MarcMorris]

Me too. A great album. It's odd that the sixties are so back in vogue now, with both Duffy and Amy Winehouse who are both obvously very 60s influenced.

Duffy is very much like Dusty Springfield, Nancy Sinatra (who I also love) and even Petula Clark, and Winehouse is influenced by the girl bands of the era, The Ronettes and Diana Ross etc.

[Ade]

Duffy is very much like Dusty Springfield, Nancy Sinatra (who I also love) and even Petula Clark, and Winehouse is influenced by the girl bands of the era, The Ronettes and Diana Ross etc.

Not that familiar with Nancy but I like that track Some Velvet Morning she sang with Lee Hazelwood.

I can appreciate Amy Winehouse, and Rehab was a bit of a modern pop classic, but Duffy has that beguling sense of vulnerability that Amy lacks. Duffy has that delicate soulful tone that sends shivers down my spine on certain tracks.

[MarcMorris]

Duffy has that delicate soulful tone that sends shivers down my spine on certain tracks.

Amy's track Back in Black has that very same effect on me Bloody marvelous.

YouTube: Back in Black

Even the beginning few bars are from "Baby Love"..

Amy Winehouse: Back to Black

[CJ34]

I've been spinning Because of the Times by The Kings of Leon. What a fabulous album - every track is a winner. Recommended.

[Wynter]

not quite on topic but I couldn't be bothered to start a new thread...

Does anyone else feel as disappointed as I do when you hear the opening of Werewolves Of London on the radio only for it to be that bloomin' terrible Kid Rock nostalgia trip?

[mrb]

Tucking into the Velvet Underground Peel Slowly and See boxed set at the mo.

Mo Tuckering?

eighteen minute long demos of All Tomorrows Parties etc.

Peel Slowly & See: amazon.co.uk

[jacksmith1983]

Having picked up their first and only album Mary Star Of The Sea quite cheaply recently I have finally managed to give Billy Corgan's supergroup Zwan a proper listen.

Despite being a moderate Smashing Pumpkins fan I had never actually paid much heed to Zwan due to the fairly unfavourable press they got during their brief existence (2001 - 2003) which largely dismissed them as a way for Corgan to kill time.

However, I have to say I was very impressed with Mary Star Of The Sea. Whilst some may view Zwan's brand of uncomplicated, upbeat pop-rock to be beneath Corgan's abilities I really don't think this record has a bad track. I'd even go so far as to say its the best thing to bear his name since Melon Collie And The Infinite Sadness.

Standout tracks... Honestly, Lyric, Settle Down, Ride a Black Swan.

Mary Star Of The Sea (amazon.co.uk)