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Joe_Stax · Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 4:13 am Post subject: What are you spinning?

What's the latest on your turntable or playlist?

Right now I'm digging the first album by the Paupers, Magic People. It's an almost great lp...I think it just falls a bit short on a few of the songs.
My fave tracks are: Magic People, Black Thank You Package, It's Your Mind and Think I Care. The more raucous numbers, really.
Best song title: My Love Hides Your View--sounds like it should have been by Love!

Just can't get enough of Odessey & Oracle by the Zombies. It's a perfect album for the change of seasons, and fall has fallen in Pittsburgh. The weather the past couple of weeks has been steadily cooling, and we've just had some of the lowest overnight temps for the season.
It's supposed to warm up for a couple of days, but then back to autumn.

Any suggestions for Indian Summer listening?
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JimENight · Site Admin Joined: 16 Jul 2006 Posts: 183

Indeed, I had that Magic People lp on my turntable this summer for a while as well. Very exciting to be able to spin the mono copy!
Glad to hear you digging the Zombies Odessey & Oracle (yes folks, that's how they spelled it on the album cover - Odessey!) that's one of those albums that makes you wonder why you ever stop listening to it once it's on.
For Indian Summer, try the first album by The Insect Trust, or Rainbow Ffolly!

Maxicat · Joined: 13 Aug 2006 Posts: 3 Location: Keswick, Ontario

Ah yes The Paupers. A fine band and an excellent drummer too. I don't have that album as I couldn't afford to buy albums back then. I do have a couple of their 45's though. Still play them from time to time but have them on the 'puter as mp3's. Don't want to scratch that old vinyl any more than it is already. I missed the last 2 shows but I'll be back in the listening mode this saturday night.
Joe I have a friend who lived near Pittburgh. Just south of Apollo off Route 66 I think it is. Poke Run Church Road. He moved to Florida to fish and keep warm. Great motorbiking roads around there.

Mike
Downtown Keswick Ontario

Joe_Stax · Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 2:04 am Post subject:

This week's a real mixed bag--I'm all over the map with my listening.

Right now I'm listening to A Secret History by the Divine Comedy. My friend Keef turned me on to this urbane pop stuff from the UK. It kind of makes me think of Belle & Sebastian, which has also cropped up this week.

Turning the clock back to the 80's, another pop pick this week has been the Wild Giraffes, from the Cleveland area. They put out one album, Right Now, in 1981, and it's a gem of post-punk power-pop sounds. Some great originals, and wild covers of the Easybeats and Elvis.

I just picked up a comp cd of eps by Meic Stevens. How to describe this...the Welsh Dylan? Not quite. That doesn't do justice to the sounds. It's kinda a mix of folk with a jazzy swing. Sung in Welsh. A knockout on the first go round, but I need to dig deeper into this one.

Finally, back round to the early 70's, for the debut album by Tom Waits, Closing Time. This has been a favorite for many years, and is perhaps most fitting this week, with the news that the bookstore I work at is closing its doors for good on December 30. Alas.
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Joe_Stax · Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 6:26 pm Post subject: First week of April...

This week, I've been playing a lot of the Zal Yanovsky solo album, Alive and Well in Argentina. It's a hard record to explain, and I'm not sure that I like the whole thing. But there are enough songs that keep my interest that I keep listening.

My fave tracks: Raven in a Cage, Alive & Well in Argentina, Priscilla Millionaira, As Long as You're Here.

Also in rotation is the first album by British folk singer June Tabor, Airs & Graces (circa 1976). She has a gorgeous voice.

Let's not forget the Animals! Their MGM album Animalism is one of my favorites; it's been a while since I've listened to it though, and it's still a powerhouse of a record.
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JimENight · Site Admin Joined: 16 Jul 2006 Posts: 183

Hey, 2 weeks ago I picked up the soundtrack from "Revolution" a 1968 movie/documentary from the west-coast scene - I've not seen the movie nor had I heard of it when I ran into the LP.
What interested me is that it features songs by: Mother Earth, Quicksilver Messenger Service, & Steve Miller Band.
The songs (from what I can find from internet searches) appear to be unique to this soundtrack, which is not available on a CD reissue. The QSM songs are a stone groove! I have to admit that they are one band I have never listened to.. at all! Always heard them mentioned along with the San Fran scene of '67-'69, but never actually picked up any of their stuff.

But the real winner here are the songs from Mother Earth.
I came into a copy of their 2nd album "Living With The Animals" about 2 years ago (thanx to Chesty!) and was blown away! It's very exciting now to find 3 "lost" tracks by them on this vinyl soundtrack - including the title track "Revolution".
Mother Earth are highly recommended and require further investigation by yours truly.
Dig! Shocked

Joe_Stax · Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 2:55 pm Post subject: still spinning Zally...

I still can't explain the appeal--and maybe appeal is the wrong word for it--but I'm still into the Zal Yanovsky lp this week.

It was kind of off-putting on the first play, but there's something compelling about it. Maybe it's Zally having a big laugh at the label's expense?

Also rotating this week is the Insect Trust's second record, Hoboken Saturday Night. Again, this is one that didn't grab me on the first spin, but it is an album that reveals its pleasures with additional listening.
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JimENight · Site Admin Joined: 16 Jul 2006 Posts: 183

Our Sister The Sun! Idea

Rockin'_Art_Lewis · Joined: 23 Apr 2007 Posts: 119 Location: Gallup, NM.

Heaven (or maybe Hell Twisted Evil

) only knows why, but the record sitting on the turntable at the moment is Richard Harris; "MacArthur Park". Sheez! What a hideous piece of doody it is, too.
The MP3s I've been listening to have been a damn sight cooler. The Ugly Ducklings have been high on the rotation.
Anyone notice the similarity between "She Ain't No Use To Me" and the Guess Who's "No Sugar Tonight"?

Joe_Stax · Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 3:53 am Post subject:

It's time for the Memorial Day update--currently there's a lot of more mainstream stuff playing at chez Stax; it's as if I'm catching up on a few things I've missed lately.

The Kinks--Village Green Preservation Society. How did I miss this for the last 20 years?! I love the early Kinks, and turned on to the career reviving "Come Dancing" back in 1984, so how is it that I've never listened to this? Because it's amazing! I may have to take this over to the psych discussion, because I really want to talk about this at length...it's so perfectly of its time, but completely apart from anything that was happening.

The Beatles--Meet the Beatles. It's because of the next one...but I really had to listen to Please Please Me afterward, if only because I Saw Her Standing There is one of the great album openers.

The Smithereens--Meet the Smithereens. It's kind of like hearing a really good Beatles cover band that can't make the high notes anymore, but it's excellently played and sung and a neat tribute while avoiding the old cover album conundrum (which is: can a band/artist make an album of covers in mid-career without it just being a placeholder?). Made me want to listen to the early Beatles lps again.

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One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz.