SOFT CELL - GREAT GROUP !!! Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret is my fav!!!!! I like most of those 80's synth bands............. probably too many to start listing. Depeche Mode, OMD, Human League, Yazoo to name just a few !!! :thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by Mikeandvan
Mine all run on gas.Quote:
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Yes, I agree. Did some clever stuff.Quote:
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2002 digipack SACD remaster. Got the original too ofc.
Probably the last truly creative period in British pop, rock based anyway. Soft cell are a synth band with soul, which to me is a perfect mix.Quote:
Originally Posted by Us-&-Them
IMO The '80s were a terrible period for music! :doh:
I have to say that I think that's UTTER CRAP!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
Thought you might!
Extra sensory perception at its finest !!! :thumbsup: I have to add, I think the 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's and just into the early noughties were without doubt, the best eras for music and since 2010, in my estimation, popular music has mostly become drab, uninteresting SHIT !!!Quote:
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No complaint from me there.Quote:
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last couple of tracks of this excellent album. remember buying it on vinyl back in day. only got ccd nowQuote:
Originally Posted by struth
paul simon.. graceland.
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Currency of Man. Melody Gardot.
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Rhiannon Giddens - Factory Girl
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this was a vinyl ep
What about the 1880s?Quote:
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I think I'll leave that one with you; you'll probably know more about it than me !!!!! ;) :lol: :thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by Mikeandvan
A very good decade for Classical compositions by the following:Quote:
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Rossini
Verdi
Wagner
Schumann
Grieg
Brahms
Bizet
Tchikovsky
Dvorak
Mahler
Ravel
and
Sibelius.
Been listening to two (well three actually) CDs given to me as a gift from Steve (Pigmy Pony) of this parish. The first:
David Bowie – 'Nothing Has Changed'
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Label: Parlophone – 825646205745, Parlophone – DB64142
Format: 2 x CD, Compilation, Remastered
Country: Europe
Released: Nov 14, 2014
Genre: Electronic, Rock, Pop
Style: Experimental, Alternative Rock
This is an excellent compilation of the sadly late and great David Bowie's work. In fact it is all the Bowie I could ever want.
And the second:
Lou Reed – 'Berlin'
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Label: RCA – ND84388
Format: CD, Album, Reissue
Country: UK & Europe
Released: Jun 1986
Genre: Rock
Style: Art Rock
Starts off with a sort of Kurt Weil-esqe homage: 'Berlin', then reverts to the Lou reed I know and love. This album is darker than some of his others, and I'm still coming to terms with it. But that will be interesting and enjoyable task.
So once again thank you Steve for your generous gifts.
I like this from Brahms, from the 1860s though. String sextet no.1, first heard it from the Louis Malle film 'Les Amants', a bourgeois affair which would bore me nowadays. But from the actual 1880s, Eric Satie - Gynopodies, featured to great effect in Louis Malle's 'Le Feu follet', an utter classic.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
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Infamous Angel
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jackson browne
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Just glad they finally found you :) Post Office certainly dragged their heels this time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
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Duran Duran - Danse Macabre. New album from one of Birmingham's finest; featuring contributions from original guitarist Andy Taylor, (who is sadly fighting terminal prostate cancer) second guitarist Warren Cuccurullo, Nile Rogers and many other people. The album presents an unusual set of songs done in different ways and is quite listenable; nothing they do now or in the future will ever top the first album, Rio or The Wedding Album (IMHO) but this new album is OK................. still not the best but, an easy listen. :thumbsup:
So first up an album that you know is great but you forget just how great it is !
This, his third solo album, was released in 1995 and features collaborations with Steve Winwood and Noel Gallagher as well as long time collaborators Steve Cradock and Steve White.
In 1998 Q Magazine readers voted it the 46th greatest album of all time !
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Next up an artist discovered from a review of this very album in Hi-Fi News & Record Review.
Released in 1994, this is his second studio album and is often thought of as his debut album, although he had released his first album under his birth name Kevin Moore in 1980 so this album was hardly following hot on the heels of his debut album Rainmaker !
Described as Delta Blues and Country Blues the album is simply a joy from start to finish, great vocals and great playing with a mix of songs written by Keb on his own and some with Georgina Graper and a couple of others by the legendary Robert Johnson. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...adc9643f6e.jpg
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Tony Joe White
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top stuffQuote:
Originally Posted by Rush2112
Last up and vinyl this time. Not a great collector of compilation albums, this one from 1983 covers many of this artists most well know early pieces.
His famous composer father (Maurice Jarre) is quoted as saying of his sons music, "elevator music", they were estranged for most of the time up to his fathers death in 2009.
Jean-Michel was the first Western artist to officially be invited to play in the People's Republic of China and holds the world record for the largest ever audience at an outdoor event for his Moscow concert on the 6th of September in 1997 attended by 3.5 million people !
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Iris DeMent. Sing the Delta..
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Live in Europe. Melody Gardot..
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Needed something I'm well familiar with to try out a phono stage (EAT E Glo Petit) I have been loaned. I might be hearing slightly more detail than with my usual ProJect Tube Box, but it's subtle. What isn't so subtle is the difference in gain. I'm having to turn up the MF A5's wick to 12 o'clock, which would normally be just enough to blow the windows out. There are various gain settings on it, but I can't get them to do anything. A call to JacHawk later methinks.
Next up:
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Picked this up for a fiver at the weekend, and to describe it as NM would be an understatement. Looks and sounds like it's never been played, which is nice.
A seminal LP if there ever was one. Well done!Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
lol it's a good album but never top fifty or even top a hundred.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rush2112
Mind you with Q Magazine I bet the rest of the top 50 was crammed with U2, Springsteen and REM.
Only important if you want to restrict your collection to 50 or 100 titles.
As to the other performers you list, I could and do live with few titles from them all (though to my knowledge I have only one LP from "The Boss"). ;)
I don't have anything by Paul Weller, U2, Springsteen or REM. None of that music aligned with the way my brain worked, and still doesn't. Just not enough colour. Same with most stuff that could be described as 'Brit Pop'.
change of style along with coffee... ...tom joad
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