Rock - what are you listening to?

[tweber]

On this Sat afternoon I decided to finally sit down to listen to this mono collection of classic Creedence 7 inchers. All 15 of them :) Up and down. Down and up. Down on the Corner :)


Suddenly 1969 seems such a long time ago....


".....if you get lost come on home to Green River"

Cool looking collection of singles Dermot. And you get some exercise too :-)

[cybot]

On this Sat afternoon I decided to finally sit down to listen to this mono collection of classic Creedence 7 inchers. All 15 of them :) Up and down. Down and up. Down on the Corner :)


Suddenly 1969 seems such a long time ago....


".....if you get lost come on home to Green River"

Cool looking collection of singles Dermot. And you get some exercise too :-)

Exactly Shane :)

I completely forgot that today is the 4th of July!!!

"I can remember the 4th of July....."

[cybot]

My little tribute to the Dead's last performance starts here scattered on the 7 vinyl discs below from '68 and '69. The second 4 Lp set a stunning precursor to their Live Dead set and, in many ways, a much better offering with the possible exception of Dark Star.....

[cybot]

Another band I'd never heard of. Australian with obvious nods to the Go Betweens. Below is their first new album in 18 years. Ok it's the usual nostalgia card but it is rather beautiful.....

I hereby dedicate this song to one of our former members Jadarin who, I'm sure, would approve.....








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[fergus]

I like the image and indeed the title on that one Dermot.

[cybot]

I like the image and indeed the title on that one Dermot.

Some of the song titles are rather poignant too.....

[cybot]

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Quietus:

Palimpsest, by French vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Sylvain Chauveau and German sound artist Stephan Mathieu, sets some of Callahan's more notable lyrics to an instrumental backing of heavily processed zither, Farfisa organ and brass. Even allowing for their author's claim that Smog's words are essentially fictional, it immediately strikes the listener as odd that the texts Chauveau has selected for reinterpretation here are associated so heavily with such a forceful subjectivity. Detaching them from the grain of Callahan's baritone – albeit only to give them to Chauveau, who intones in a similar register – deprives them instantaneously of some of the extralinguistic significance they establish in their original contexts: there's a perceptible wrongness to the act of appropriation undertaken here.

Wrongness, though, doesn't necessarily equate with failure. In fact, one of the most impressive effects of Palimpsest is the way that, despite the superficial crossover between Callahan's voice and his own, Chauveau's singing is characterised by a hint of melodrama which contrasts deeply with the stylised world-weariness we recall from Smog records. At once, Callahan's ersatz saloon-bar Bukowskisms are forced into the Brecht-Brel-Bowie current of modernistic Euro-melancholy; more specifically, Mathieu's sound-worlds (particularly on an astounding, windblown 'Wild Love') make Palimpsest a cousin of David Sylvian's 1987 album Secrets of the Beehive. Generally, the collaborators effect a modal change from Smog's creepiness to a more profound eeriness, evacuating the lyrics of their conjugal realism and transforming them into figures of alienation and detachment.

[fergus]

[cybot]

It's a long time since we've had the Beatles in any shape or form here. Nice one Fergus :) Next time you're in a record shop near you have a look at the current price of the vinyl mono reissue of said album.....

[fergus]

It's a long time since we've had the Beatles in any shape or form here. Nice one Fergus :) Next time you're in a record shop near you have a look at the current price of the vinyl mono reissue of said album.....

So you are saying that I should bring the defibrillator with me Dermot?!?!