Recent CDs bought & your reviews

[mighty_west]

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Latest purchase, U2 360 Tour from The Rose Bowl DVD, Pasadena, recorded last year and broadcasted live over YouTube at the time, in front of 97,000 people.

Breathe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xmo0gaFrsU8

[The Pie Man]

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Ray LaMontagne's new album is predictably great (for anyone not familiar, like Ryan Adams - who I also love - but without the attitude)

Smashing Pumpkins new tracks available for free download (5 available so far) on their website and they're not bad too. A Song for a Son is very Zeppelin, weirdly (Widow make my Mind is a better song)

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

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It's good isn't it? Sleepy time in the Western World's a good opener - saw them down here at the Hi-Fi last year.

Their new album 'Destroyer of the Void' has just been released this week.

Really enjoyed Furr, just bought Destroyer of the Void, and it's okay but I don't think it's as good as Furr was.

I also bought an oldie I'd often thought of buying - Nick Drake's Bryter Layter. Very subdued folk. Drake was I guess in some ways a forerunner to my favourite musician/songwriter in Elliott Smith.

[azabob]

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Really enjoyed Furr, just bought Destroyer of the Void, and it's okay but I don't think it's as good as Furr was.

I also bought an oldie I'd often thought of buying - Nick Drake's Bryter Layter. Very subdued folk. Drake was I guess in some ways a forerunner to my favourite musician/songwriter in Elliott Smith.

For me I prefer Drake. His Pink Moon album is beyond words.

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

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For me I prefer Drake. His Pink Moon album is beyond words.

I've got Pink Moon as well, I definitely like it more than Bryter Layter, but Elliott's my man.

[azabob]

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I've got Pink Moon as well, I definitely like it more than Bryter Layter, but Elliott's my man.

Shame for whatever reason both were cut short well before their time.

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

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Shame for whatever reason both were cut short well before their time.

Agree. Both very sensitive & ultimately fragile souls, which was reflected as a gift in their musical creativity, but perhaps not so positive for their actual lives.

[LostDoggy]

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Just obtained:

Gone Bush! - The Warumpi Band (just for Island Home)
I will love you at all - Darren Hanlon (hmmm. worryingly Jack Johnson-ish at first listen but will give it time to match its hype0
Plantation Gold - Compilation. Sensational twisted country from 1967.

[chef]

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I'm pretty excited about getting the new Children Collide CD today.

[The Pie Man]

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I'm pretty excited about getting the new Children Collide CD today.

Is it good? I really liked the Long Now, but have only heard the 1st single off the new one (which sounded ok)

[The Pie Man]

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Agree. Both very sensitive & ultimately fragile souls, which was reflected as a gift in their musical creativity, but perhaps not so positive for their actual lives.

Listening to parts of Basement on a Hill gets a little tough - like Twilight, it's an asolutely gourgeous song, though I can't help but think how close to the end songs like that came out of him. Pretty (Ugly Before) sparks the same kind of thing for me (though I believe that was written around the Figure 8 era)

[chef]

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Is it good? I really liked the Long Now, but have only heard the 1st single off the new one (which sounded ok)

I've only listened to it once and it sounds OK so far(I'll let you know what I think of it after a few more listens). I doubt it will be as good as Long Now which is a cracker of a CD.

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

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Listening to parts of Basement on a Hill gets a little tough - like Twilight, it's an asolutely gourgeous song, though I can't help but think how close to the end songs like that came out of him. Pretty (Ugly Before) sparks the same kind of thing for me (though I believe that was written around the Figure 8 era)

Same with me TPM, a line in Strung Out Again sounds sums up his head space "I know my place, hate my face, and I know, how I began and how I will end...strung out again"

I found a repository a few years a go on the net that streamed a heap of his live shows.. and they were terrible to listen to, he would stop in middle of songs, forget chords, words and sounded as if he really didn't care.

[LostDoggy]

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I know some of you are going to be into this.

http://cloudkicker.bandcamp.com/

He self-records, releases and funds his own music.
And it's f***ing fantastic.
Best of all, it's free.
Although with his latest offering you can choose to donate if you think it's worthwhile.
Which I certainly did.
In fact, I'm going to donate more than I already have because it's so good.

Think Karnivool meets Meshuggah and Radiohead and drop all the vocals.
What a champ.

[chef]

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Is it good? I really liked the Long Now, but have only heard the 1st single off the new one (which sounded ok)

It's a very good album and I recommend it, if you liked their first one you'll like this too.