bickster Posted April 7, 2023 Moderator Share Posted April 7, 2023 A Jon Savage Punk Compilation - England's Dreaming 25 tracks, includes proto stuff like Iggy & the Stooges and the Electric Eels, lots of stuff I haven't heard, early Cabaret Voltaire, Brian Eno and Snatch, The Residents (with Beatles samples) as well as staples like Sioxsie, X-Ray Spex, Adverts etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted April 7, 2023 Share Posted April 7, 2023 4 hours ago, bickster said: Just bought this on CD, Count Ossie and the Mystic Revelation of Rastafari - Tales of Mozambique Count Ossie was the first artist to commit Nyahbinghi drumming to record and this is considered a classic. Definitely channeling Sun Ra here Pic is for the vinyl, I'm playing the CD There are about 6 Count Ossie tracks across this… But I dug it’s out for the Johnny Clarke contribution ‘None Shall Escape The Judgement’ because that’s just addictive. There’s a Johnny Clarke ‘Best Of’ coming out soon and I just know I’ll end up buying it for tracks I’ve already got across two or three other records. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted April 7, 2023 Author Share Posted April 7, 2023 Ennio Morricone - 'Le Foto Proibite Di Una Signora Per Bene' OST 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted April 8, 2023 Moderator Share Posted April 8, 2023 Inspired by @bickster 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted April 8, 2023 Share Posted April 8, 2023 The sublime Golden Fable, it’s been one of those albums I always pluck out of the rack and then something else shinier catches my eye and it stays in the shop. So I did the same today but asked how many were left as it was in the sale section. That’s it, that’s the one we’ve got. So it was finally time to actually buy it and it’s an absolute peach. Other than Blondie, I think I had next to no female vocalists in my collection for years. That’s being redressed more recently. Saw these live a couple of years back and they were so perfect, if you closed your eyes it was like listening to a recording, in a good way. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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bickster Posted April 8, 2023 Moderator Share Posted April 8, 2023 9 minutes ago, rjw63 said: Are you back in the shires now? Forgot to tell you that thee was a decent 2nd hand shop not too far away from Streatham in Crystal Palace Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted April 8, 2023 Share Posted April 8, 2023 Just now, bickster said: Are you back in the shires now? Forgot to tell you that thee was a decent 2nd hand shop not too far away from Streatham in Crystal Palace Yes, back home now to the sound of birdsong and pigs snorting. Remind me next time or PM me and I'll get the stepdaughter to have a mooch, she's a record collector too now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted April 8, 2023 Moderator Share Posted April 8, 2023 4 hours ago, chrisp65 said: Other than Blondie, I think I had next to no female vocalists in my collection for years. That’s being redressed more recently. I reckon I was the same, but maybe 10 years ago something changed. I’m guessing that since then about 75% of the stuff I’ve bought, or liked is female led. I think, clumsily, that it’s just that’s where the “new” lies, at least new to me in terms of different and interesting. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted April 9, 2023 Share Posted April 9, 2023 9 hours ago, blandy said: I reckon I was the same, but maybe 10 years ago something changed. I’m guessing that since then about 75% of the stuff I’ve bought, or liked is female led. I think, clumsily, that it’s just that’s where the “new” lies, at least new to me in terms of different and interesting. Yes, that’s a strong agree. It’s probably just me and my arc of discovery of music but I’d have started off very much with the ladz bandz but I guess that gets a bit samey after 30 or 40 years. There’s only so much dubbing on of electronic tricks turning straightforward drum and guitar in to drum guitar and synth space rock to sustain you. So yeah, all of a sudden you discover a bit of Cate Le Bon or 9bach and there’s something interesting going on. Then the record collection takes a swerve and the stuff that gets repeat plays is Georgia Ruth, Rogue Jones, Gwenno, Ani Glas. I’ve bought a couple of traditional blokes rock band records this year and they’re fine, perfectly good. But they didn’t exactly bring me anything ‘new’. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted April 9, 2023 Moderator Share Posted April 9, 2023 Not the same for me. There's always been women singers. I think it's a product of being a child of the punk era. Sure there weren't as many but Patti Smith, Poly Styrene, SIouxsie would have been a starting point, then Pauline Black and Clare Grogan through quite a few more to Tania Donnelly and the gang, Bjork and onwards. Sure there were more male singers in the collection but there just were more male singers at the time but it was never down in the 10% female percentile. In fact I think I was more prepared to listen if it was a female singer than a male 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted April 9, 2023 Moderator Share Posted April 9, 2023 1 minute ago, bickster said: Not the same for me. There's always been women singers. I think it's a product of being a child of the punk era. Sure there weren't as many but Patti Smith, Poly Styrene, SIouxsie would have been a starting point, then Pauline Black and Clare Grogan through quite a few more to Tania Donnelly and the gang, Bjork and onwards. Sure there were more male singers in the collection but there just were more male singers at the time but it was never down in the 10% female percentile. In fact I think I was more prepared to listen if it was a female singer than a male That’s all fair comment, but kind of a different tack to the conversation, at least to the comment I made, which is that a big majority of new music that has caught my liking this last decade or so has been by female artists and though I don’t know why that should be other than “this sounds new and I like it”, that’s a very different balance to previously, where much more of the stuff I bought was by male led acts. It’s not that I didn’t like music with female singers and now I do ( that would be completely wrong) it’s that nearly all the new music made that has caught my attention has been female created. I guess a big part of that might be because labels release more, promote more etc as a proportion of the total, or it might be exactly as @chrisp65says in that what they are making is new and different compared to all the stuff I already own and like Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted April 9, 2023 Moderator Share Posted April 9, 2023 Anyhow... currently on. All the hits on two CDs. Nothing you'll never have heard of but all in the one place Oddest thing about it, is that after all the usual Smooth FM fodder, it ends on 1969 by the Stooges Discogs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted April 9, 2023 Share Posted April 9, 2023 Some more Georgia Ruth, this is an EP, but who’s counting. Free postcards too, I’m a sucker for a little freebie sticker or postcard or whatever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted April 9, 2023 Moderator Share Posted April 9, 2023 Probe finally managed to source me Volume 4 of the Wizzz! series to complete the set Compilation series tend to tail off in quality but as their intended brush is so broad, that isn't the case here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted April 9, 2023 Moderator Share Posted April 9, 2023 I've posted it before but this album is superb both in concept and execution Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted April 10, 2023 Share Posted April 10, 2023 What an album, but damn 22 years old now! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted April 10, 2023 Author Share Posted April 10, 2023 Manu Dibango - 'African Voodoo' It's not that African or Voodoo really. It's instro, it could be a library album. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted April 10, 2023 Share Posted April 10, 2023 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted April 10, 2023 Author Share Posted April 10, 2023 Hugo Montenegro - 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.' OST 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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