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Post by Tosh on Jul 5, 2008 15:16:12 GMT -5
"Cleopatra Jones" by Mark Eitzel from the "60 Watt Silver Lining" album.
Hadn't heard it in ages!
"It's named after a 1970s black cinema heroine. Uptempo, and sung at a fast pace, it starts, “The people I was with said you were nothing but a fag hag and a dope fiend/ but the song of your eyes/ was of the loneliest woman I’ve ever seen./ We talked drunkenly at the bar./ I thought, there’s a sweetness here the world is missing./ You just got fired and now you’re out high and drunk and celebrating.” What a great opening scene! Mark Eitzel creates a sense of a character that is confident and watchful, strong and vulnerable; and the listener is convinced when Eitzel sings, “Cleopatra Jones, if they don’t see her then they’re blind.” Eitzel even alludes to the film legend: “Cleopatra Jones, Kung Fu just like Hercules./ Cleopatra Jones, teach me how to leave evil men on their knees.” The song adds something eccentric, even heroic, to the collection. “Cleopatra Jones” is a song of imagination and sympathy and some wit. Daniel Garrett
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Post by Tosh on Jul 8, 2008 16:09:04 GMT -5
"Flat Top" by Goo Goo Dolls Flat top intervention Bringin' home the new invention See it there in pieces on the ground A television war between the cynics and the saints Flip the dial and that's whose side you're on Sleeping on the White House lawn ain't never changed a thing Look at all the washed out Hippie dreams And it's fallin' all around us Is this some kind of joke they're trying to pull on us? Fallin' all around us I'll turn my head off for a while The tabloid generation's lost Choking on it's fear Used to be that's all we had to fear And conscience keeps us quiet while the crooked love to speak There's knowledge wrapped in blankets on the street. A visionary coward says that anger can be power As long as there's a victim on TV
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Post by Tosh on Jul 20, 2008 16:02:12 GMT -5
The Replacements - "Achin' To Be"
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Post by Chunderman on Jul 22, 2008 12:16:26 GMT -5
'Firefight' by JEW. What a great album as well. Found it after tidying up the flat, but still not found the Nova Mob White Label. ;D
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Post by Tosh on Jul 22, 2008 15:10:44 GMT -5
but still not found the Nova Mob White Label. ;D mmm sounds like a thinly disguised hint that someone has your vinyl??? I can categorically state is wisnae me - never had it, never kept it, I am innocent m'lud. Anyway man, vinyl takes up too much space - sell it and catch the information superhighway to the 21st Century Digital Boy Sets Fire!!
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Post by Chunderman on Jul 28, 2008 16:23:44 GMT -5
but still not found the Nova Mob White Label. ;D mmm sounds like a thinly disguised hint that someone has your vinyl??? I can categorically state is wisnae me - never had it, never kept it, I am innocent m'lud. Anyway man, vinyl takes up too much space - sell it and catch the information superhighway to the 21st Century Digital Boy Sets Fire!! ;D Yeah, I know its not you who has it. Digital Sucks, thats why we're having to buy the same releases again and again, cos of the cheap and shoddy transfers from vinyl. Has anyone noticed even releases from years ago are being repackaged with different sleeves, in order to con the consumer into thinking they are new releases. Is this the record companies attempt to fight back as a result of digital downloading I wonder. Read an article the other day where Neil Young is now stating that the Itunes/Ipod revolution is killing audio quality, despite him making his songs readily available on Itunes. His next release apparently is a Blu-ray only release. Anyway, the best song I listened to today was 'When We Two Parted' by The Afghan Whigs www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqj2eL1QbQA
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Post by Tosh on Jul 28, 2008 18:01:09 GMT -5
mmm sounds like a thinly disguised hint that someone has your vinyl??? I can categorically state is wisnae me - never had it, never kept it, I am innocent m'lud. Anyway man, vinyl takes up too much space - sell it and catch the information superhighway to the 21st Century Digital Boy Sets Fire!! ;D Yeah, I know its not you who has it. Digital Sucks, thats why we're having to buy the same releases again and again, cos of the cheap and shoddy transfers from vinyl. Has anyone noticed even releases from years ago are being repackaged with different sleeves, in order to con the consumer into thinking they are new releases. Is this the record companies attempt to fight back as a result of digital downloading I wonder. Read an article the other day where Neil Young is now stating that the Itunes/Ipod revolution is killing audio quality, despite him making his songs readily available on Itunes. His next release apparently is a Blu-ray only release. Anyway, the best song I listened to today was 'When We Two Parted' by The Afghan Whigs www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqj2eL1QbQAworst ever remastering job - "The Scream" by siouxsie and the banshees, if I were the band I would have sued the record company. It wouldnae be bad if they employed people to remaster CD releases from the original tapes who actually had a fuckin clue what they are doin, but you are right, some attempts are a best woeful!! Repackaging an unchanged product is a time served capitalist wet fuckin dream and I wonder if you are right that they are ripping the pish! Long Live SACD - ha ha oooooh the whigs, nice one - mmmm..... might put on some Twilight Singers
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Post by Chunderman on Jul 31, 2008 15:46:03 GMT -5
'Rise' by American Music Club
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Post by Dave on Aug 10, 2008 20:09:41 GMT -5
Last Days Of April - Live The End
A random LDOA playlist was floatin thru the air. hittin the spot and then this one came on and reminded me why I fuckin love music so much - it's that good. Nothin else to say really, if you know the song you'll know what i mean ;D
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Post by Chunderman on Aug 11, 2008 2:49:23 GMT -5
'Mary Rose' by Milloy.
Take me to the doctors, I can't stop listening to this ;D
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Post by Tosh on Aug 11, 2008 9:37:15 GMT -5
Last Days Of April - Live The End A random LDOA playlist was floatin thru the air. hittin the spot and then this one came on and reminded me why I fuckin love music so much - it's that good. Nothin else to say really, if you know the song you'll know what i mean ;D This is definitley one band that can do that to ya. Tracks that's have slipped by previously can suddenly just grab ye and make ye all "goosebumps" and that song is a fine choice!! I have an urge to get home and fire up some LDOA asap now
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Post by Chunderman on Aug 19, 2008 5:39:56 GMT -5
'Give In' by Armchair Martian ;D
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Post by Tosh on Aug 19, 2008 13:02:55 GMT -5
RISE AGAINST - "Re-Education (Through Labour)"
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Post by Chunderman on Aug 21, 2008 13:44:25 GMT -5
'Hughes' by The New Amsterdams www.dailymotion.com/video/x3s2ms_the-new-amsterdams-hughes_music'The song Hughes, which sounds like its being played on a ramshackle veranda as the sun sets and the fireflies rise, takes to task the director of such classics as Sixteen Candles and Pretty in Pink, lamenting, Hughes, you ruined me/ You promised me make-believe.' - Pure Volume
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Post by Chunderman on Sept 14, 2008 12:19:19 GMT -5
'When I Was Alive:Walden III' by A Wilhelm Scream
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