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Post by lolabella on Mar 10, 2009 9:30:29 GMT
Dark Star the Grateful Dead, picked the LP up for 50p, ex library, cover a bit mashed, music amazing. Meddle by Pink Floyd, New York Dolls first LP on repress, Led Zeppelin Song Remains The Same, Close To The Edge by Yes, Phaedra by Tangerine Dream, Ariel Ballet by Harry Nilson, The Sensual World by Kate Bush, a double LP of Yardbirds and Bluesbreakers era Clapton... all picked up last weekend at record fair and charity shops. Reggae on the back burner for now, just discovering and rediscovering rock music in my old age.
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Post by dubbindub on Mar 10, 2009 10:20:51 GMT
Yo Lolabella, my son bought me a creative zen (kind of ipod) for my birthday as I had casually mentioned that I wouldn,t mind one when out walking. I was over in a mates house the other day and he transferred lots of old stuff onto it that I had not listened to in years. This included the first 3 Roxy albums, The first 3 Steely Dan albums, Aqualung, London Calling and Sandinista, Meddle, Kick out the Jams, Live in Europe and Against the Grain by Rory Gallagher and more that I just cannot remember. So its down memory lane for walking and reggae in the car.
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Post by lolabella on Mar 10, 2009 12:44:38 GMT
I listened to almost nothing but reggae music and a bit of soul for near on 30 years, scorning rock music as the work of the devil. The demise of Sid Vicious was the last straw. Reggae, which I had been buying alongside rock music seemed like a light going on rather than off. Over the last couple of years I've got back into rock music through digging around in charity shops, the odd record fair and car boot sales. The prices are low and the music sounds just fine. A lot of the records I had before, they all went down the Record & Tape Exchange to swap for reggae. It's nice to get 'em back and investigate stuff I never had, cheaply. I don't care too much for condition as long as it plays.
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Post by Rob on Mar 10, 2009 12:57:46 GMT
Much as I love reggae, ever since I worked in a record shop I've always preferred to listen to a mix of stuff - why eat one thing all the time? I've got a Creative Zen too, and putting it on random play and never knowing what's coming next is exhilarating - Beefheart, Perry, Stax, congolese, Aphex, Can, funk, Stones... Sounds just like a certain radio programme... hahhhrummphh... even, maybe, www.rob-walsh.co.uk Innit? Rob
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Post by mm56 on Mar 10, 2009 20:06:10 GMT
With Rob on this one, Sooo many musical nuggets out there does not matter what era/ genre - if you don¡¦t like switch off the button or your ears. C'ept don't have it one of these/ those Creative Zens?, never worked in a disc shop either. Super Mama Djombo - Same -CD Fleet Foxes - 2CD vers. Grooves n more Peace Gpaneer Gujarat soon come Nov-Dec.09
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Post by al on Mar 10, 2009 20:55:00 GMT
agreed, rob...that's how i roll (listen) as well!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2009 10:16:08 GMT
Couldn't agree more! I'm currently ploughing through a pile of Gene Vincent,Carl Perkins,Louis Armstrong,Fats Domino,Eddie Cochran & Jerry Lee Lewis LP's & some Rockabilly compilations I picked up in a charity shop.Not the sort stuff I'd normally look out for but they were 4 for £1!! I'm also starting to get pretty excited about the oncoming Car Boot season,I'm like a kid on Xmas Eve every Saturday night in the summer knowing the next crack of dawn is going to involve some crate digging.My best find to date was a collection of mint Meic Stevens LP's & a USA original Bad Brains 'Pay To Cum' 7" that I would have loved to have kept but the £600 I sold it for was impossible to refuse. A few years ago,in an Alan Partridge Monkey Tennis stylee,I came up with an idea for a game show that I sent to S4C (Welsh Channel 4) entitled 'I've Got 27 Copies Of The Sound Of Music - Is It A Record ?'. The idea was that 2 teams went to a different car boot sale each week & had to buy as many copies of the most often seen bootie fodder,the scoring system went - Sound Of Music - 1 point Kylie's debut - 2 points Paul Young - No Parlez 3 points Terence Trent D'Arby - 1st LP 4 points Souvenir From Benidorm - 5 points On top of this each team was allowed to buy 1 copy each of the Top Of The Pops LP's & Now That's What I Call Music & scored the equivilant points to whatever volume it was, ie Now 4 = 4 points etc etc. I'm still waiting to hear back.
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Post by dubbindub on Mar 11, 2009 12:06:53 GMT
Must admit Lolabella the mere sight of a Yes album made me want to vomit, but to each his own as they say.
Right now am listening to "King of the Fairies" massive tune from Horslips who for years were the biggest draw in Ireland. Any international fans out there?
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Post by bugman on Mar 11, 2009 12:23:41 GMT
Right now am listening to "King of the Fairies" massive tune from Horslips who for years were the biggest draw in Ireland. Any international fans out there? i used to listen to them a bit, 30 years ago cannot remember what the sound was anymore though... i am trying and the only song that will come up from the depths is 'tie your boots tight' by a santa cruz band called $27 snap on face any international fans out there?
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Post by bugman on Mar 11, 2009 12:29:04 GMT
non-reggae of the day:
i'll go with from francis boloyyi and shangaan band--'flore lakusaseka' ['musique populaire africaine 1926-1952']
beginning of which always makes me think of 'love the one you're with' and is always such a relief to be not...
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Post by lolabella on Mar 12, 2009 9:31:28 GMT
Yes Taffy, I know of what you speak! The big car boot near me starts again in May, I think. It makes me feel like I did when I was younger and spent all my money on records. Those rock n roll LP's you bought were a touch. I got to best of Gene Vincents, Best of Little Richard, the elvis Sun sessions, a two volume rock n roll hits collection, Eddie Cochran etc. Need to locate some Jerry Lee, Bo Diddley, Chuck etc. I pick up loads of singles too. Mick, I know what you mean about Yes. I bought Johnny Rotten's I Hate Pink Floyd T shirt hook, line and sinker back in '76, it was necessary back then, but now, so what maaaan! I'm a bit wary on the eighties up to now, but Talk Talk's Spirit Of Eden is awesome, anything by Prefab Sprout, Coctuea Twins, Nirvana, Pixies has an appeal. Need to find some Birthday Party, especially Junkyard.
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Post by dubbindub on Mar 12, 2009 9:44:09 GMT
Nothing to do with the Punk ethic Lol, I always despised Yes could not get into the pretentious musical ramblings. On the other hand, I likes Genesis when Peter Gabriel was on Vocals. Selling England by the Pound is a classic. Loved Swoon by Prefab Sprout but was mightily disappointed by the Steve McQueen album. Have been listenign to the mighty Cockney Rebel, Bad Company and of course Free with Paul Kossoff. Like you I bought the first New York Dolls album recently , what a gem that is. Kick out the Jams has been rotated quite freuently by the MC5 and of course some Titties and Beer from Frank Zappa.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2009 10:53:26 GMT
You're right Lol they were a touch & there's still a load more there,I only had a tenner on me at the time so could only afford 40!! What's torturing me is that there's 2 huge crates of LP's in the back of the shop that they won't let me look through until their 'expert' has been through them as there's some 'rare stuff' in there,I went back yesterday but was told I'd have to come back next week,I told my wife I was going to have to break in at night if they didn't put me out of my misery soon then I remembered I was 42 & probably too fat to get through a skylight. I have a spare copy of the Birthday Party Bad Seed 12" EP that plays but is too ropey to ebay,if you want it pm me your address & you're welcome to it.
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Post by lolabella on Mar 12, 2009 12:38:22 GMT
That's hilarious Taffy. I was walking past some shops down my road last year and noticed, in a closed down shop, boxes of records, LP's and singles. The only one that I could see, at the front of a pile on the floor, was Free's Fire & Rain. There was a handwritten notice on the door saying there would be a record sale that weekend. I went but nutt'n a gwaan! I stood around in the street, asked the neighbouring shop keepers if they knew anything, then gave up and went home. It was very hard not to think about a smash and grab. I suppose I should have put a note with muy phone number through the door. Torment!
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Post by steverice on Mar 12, 2009 13:08:51 GMT
When it came out and i forget which album it's on we used to play "Long distance run around" by Yes at our parties alongside 90% reggae and soul also Steve Millers "Going to Mexico" and of course Layla...
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Post by lolabella on Mar 13, 2009 12:22:11 GMT
Taffy, big up yourself! Looking forward to getting home tonight and playing it... flame on!
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Post by I on Mar 13, 2009 13:22:30 GMT
Johnny Duncan, 'Last Train To San Fernando'.
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Post by mm56 on Mar 13, 2009 14:48:15 GMT
Full CD really, Dave Edmunds - The EMI Years - CD Forgotten what a great guitar player he is House Of Love - At The Beeb - CD More Grooves n Peace Gpaneer
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Post by lankou2 on Mar 14, 2009 10:18:05 GMT
FulL Cd : Cumbia Cumbia !
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Post by azaria on Apr 1, 2009 22:57:29 GMT
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Post by aka_richie on Apr 2, 2009 13:39:47 GMT
courstesy of jah reel, i'm feeling bo didley hard at the moment. 'who do you love', 'pretty thing', 'the story of bo didley' are blasting in the car and on cleaning duty ...huey smith and the clowns 'don't you just know it' and 'high blood pressure' coming in a close second
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Post by soulselector on Apr 3, 2009 14:13:11 GMT
In my current non-reggae Top Rotation:
1. 'Love Bandit' Lee Rogers 2. 'Sure Hope You Mean It' Raphael Saadiq 3. 'I Want To Ta Ta You' Johnny Guitar Watson 4. 'Clean Getaway' Curtis Salgado
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Post by lankou2 on Apr 3, 2009 16:23:11 GMT
The Epsilons : Mad At the World.
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Post by mmike56 on Apr 4, 2009 19:37:14 GMT
Some biscuits to revive mi synapses, all..thank you
Bill Withers World Keeps Going Around & the MIGHTY Who is He? [And What Is He To You] CD – track Larry Wallis – Police Car – track Fleetwood Mac – Drifting & A Fool No More – CD track Peace, more soothe to the grooves
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Post by themusicologist on Apr 5, 2009 15:08:17 GMT
John Coltrane - India
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Post by lolabella on Apr 6, 2009 16:24:52 GMT
Mel Britt - She'll Come Running Back... wow!
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Post by finbar on Apr 6, 2009 18:32:27 GMT
The Spiders - Imperial Sessions Sublime songs and harmonies to die for: www.louisianamusicfactory.com/showoneprod.asp?ProductID=1152The other was Bob Dylan's show in Germany the other night (an internet download) - Bob & band are firing on all cylanders on this tour, I believe they will be in the U.K later this month.
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Post by bugman on Apr 15, 2009 17:04:51 GMT
nusrat fateh ali khan - allah hoo [dam mast qalandar]
back on a sufi kick again . . .
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Post by kas on Apr 15, 2009 17:54:23 GMT
Been listening to the mighty qawwali master myself lately.
But today's top tune has to be Calypso Rose's Israel By Bus. A calypso they say, but the song could easily slip into a Ska Cubano album. A magnificient calypso ska jump up thing.
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Post by Ekki on Apr 27, 2009 11:20:57 GMT
Art Brut - DC Comics & Chocolate Milkshake Now that's my kind of tune
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