What Album Are You Listening To Right Now?

[Xann]

Back To Basics - 'Cut The Crap'

[chrisp65]

[chrisp65]

 

[Seat68]

10 hours ago, Xann said:

Back To Basics - 'Cut The Crap'

Worked in virgin when this came out, a bitch to file in the racks.

[Xann]

1 hour ago, Seat68 said:

Worked in virgin when this came out, a bitch to file in the racks.

Paid £300 for it.

It was left by a former flatmate that had run up a large phone bill.

I did follow it up, but other bad karma had caught up with her and put her in hospital.

[Xann]

 

Quite excited for a minute there, but Neu! '75 had a different cover in Spain, apparently.

[Xann]

Brainticket - 'Psychonaut'

[Xann]

Vangelis Papathanassiou - 'Earth'

Early album, he's still trading under his full name.

[blandy]

Went to see her last week. Delving into the older CDs now.

[choffer]

[Xann]

One of the nice things about the internet is that albums like 'Tago Mago' ('Ege Bam Yasi' & 'Future Days') have risen to the surface to be loved by many.

A friend released a Damo Suzuki album on his tiny record label about 10 years ago.

Fortunately I wasn't drinking when he told me. Would have likely sprayed tea everywhere!

 

[Xann]

Sahib Shihab - 'Companionship'

[villa4europe]

Top 500 still...

PJ Harvey stories from the city

Shes someone whos name ive known for a long time and i know shes always highly rated and always up for some brit award but ive never listened to her, ive never stumbled across a good song by her on the radio or anything...its pretty good though to be fair 

[mjmooney]

[blandy]

9 minutes ago, mjmooney said:

Is that an old CD, or a recent one, Mike? ( I can see it's a 2004 CD, but I mean is it a CD of an old LP). Reason I ask is it seems kind of odd that anyone would buy it back in the day, given the range of different artists and styles. That's not a criticism of any of them, just that I wonder how much crossover there would be between fans of th Bonzos/Roger Ruskin Spear/ Neil Innes, say and Hawkwind / Motorhead / Bob Calvert..or Brinsley Schwarz and the Groundhogs. Surely people would buy the CD/LP by the artist they liked?

As a collectors thing nowadays, or in 2004 it has maybe more interest.

Still some good stuff on it.

[mjmooney]

23 minutes ago, blandy said:

Is that an old CD, or a recent one, Mike? ( I can see it's a 2004 CD, but I mean is it a CD of an old LP). Reason I ask is it seems kind of odd that anyone would buy it back in the day, given the range of different artists and styles. That's not a criticism of any of them, just that I wonder how much crossover there would be between fans of th Bonzos/Roger Ruskin Spear/ Neil Innes, say and Hawkwind / Motorhead / Bob Calvert..or Brinsley Schwarz and the Groundhogs. Surely people would buy the CD/LP by the artist they liked?

As a collectors thing nowadays, or in 2004 it has maybe more interest.

Still some good stuff on it.

From Wikipedia: 

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All Good Clean Fun – A Journey through the Underground of Liberty United Artists Records 1969–1975 was released by EMI (Liberty 8660902) in 2004. This is a triple CD with 39 tracks from 25 artists although many of the artists are inter-related (The Bonzo’s, Roger Ruskin Spear and Neil Innes: Hawkwind, Motörhead and Robert Calvert: Man, Deke Leonard, Clive John and The Neutrons). As with other EMI sampler re-issues, such as A Breath of Fresh Air, the CD release borrows the original title, albeit adding a long subtitle, and uses a variation on the cover art, but incorporates fewer than half the tracks included on the original album. These tracks are augmented by other artists and additional tracks from some of the original artists, so this is a retrospective compilation, rather than a re-issue of the original promotional sampler.

Original 1971 Release

 

Side 1

1. "Spill the Wine" – Eric Burdon & War (4:53)
2. "Street Songs" – Help Yourself (5:35)
3. "Chicken Reel" – Nitty Gritty Dirt Band(0:59)
4. "Take Me Away" – Colin Scot (3:15)
5. "Here Comes Mr Time" – If (4:47)
6. "Daughter of the Fireplace" – Man (5:11)

Side 2

1. "Home Again" – Cochise (3:41)
2. "Dirt Roads" – Morning (1:30)
3. "Let Me Take You Home" – Gypsy (4:10)
4. "Song for Kathy" – Allan Taylor (3:32)
5. "Don't Want Me Round You" – Ernie Graham(4:30)
6. "Boogie Chillen No.2" (excerpt) – Canned Heat & John Lee Hooker (6:10)

Side 3

1. "Cherry Red" – The Groundhogs (5:40)
2. "Hot Water" – Sugarloaf (4:10)
3. "Be Yourself" (excerpt) – Hawkwind (5:45)
4. "Race from Here to Your Ears" – Amon Düül II (5:18)
5. "Roll Em Down" – Morning (3:05)

Side 4

1. "That's All Right Mama" – Canned Heat (4:18)
2. "Funk Angel" – Brinsley Schwarz (4:16)
3. "Gone Away" – Reg King (2:35)
4. "Yukon Railroad" – Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (2:20)
5. "Joy" (excerpt) – Sweet Pain (4:25)
6. "The Seed" – B .B. Blunder (5:35)

2004 CD Re-Release

 Disc 1

1. "The Intro and the Outro" – Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band
2. "The Birthday" – The Idle Race
3. "Blue Narcissus" – Hapshash and the Coloured Coat
4. "Father Cannot Yell" – Can
5. "Mistreated" – The Groundhogs
6. "Futilist's Lament" – High Tide
7. "Hurry Up John" – The Idle Race
8. "Be Yourself" (excerpt) – Hawkwind
9. "Country Girl" – Brinsley Schwarz
10. "Daughter of the Fireplace" – Man
11. "Street Songs" – Help Yourself
12. "Blankman Cries Again" – High Tide
13. "Velvet Mountain" – Cochise
14. "Strange Town" – Groundhogs
15. "Take Me Away" – Colin Scot

Disc 2

1. "The Seed" – B. B. Blunder
2. "Here Comes Mr Time" – If
3. "You Shouldn't Do That" – Hawkwind
4. "Let Me Take You Home" – Gypsy
5. "Our Captain Cried All Hands" – Allan Taylor
6. "Little Boy" – Reg King
7. "Manillo" – Man
8. "Paperhouse" – Can
9. "Cherry Red" – The Groundhogs
10. "Eddie Waring" – Help Yourself, with Deke Leonard and B J Cole
11. "The Strain" – The Bonzo Dog Band

Disc 3

1. "Bananas" – Man
2. "You Had a Lesson" – The Groundhogs
3. "Home Again" – Cochise
4. "Reaffirmation" – Help Yourself
5. "How Sweet to Be an Idiot" – Neil Innes
6. "Razor Blade and Rattlesnake" – Deke Leonard
7. "Ejection (Single Version)" – Robert Calvert
8. "Living in the World Today" – Neutrons
9. "Iron Horse / Born to Lose" – Motörhead
10. "(What's so Funny 'Bout) Peace Love and Understanding" – Brinsley Schwarz
11. "The Psychedelic Warlords (Disappear In Smoke)" – Hawkwind
12. "Out of My Tree" – Clive John
13. "Unusual" – Roger Ruskin Spear

I bought the original LP at the time. Samplers were always good for trying out a variety of stuff, to see what you might like to investigate further - plus they often included a few rarities (singles and b-sides, etc.) - and it was a cheap way to get a lot of music. 

Within music from that 'progressive/underground' era of the late 60s and early 70s, I always had fairly catholic tastes, anyway - I enjoy most, if not all, of this comp. And I have similar ones for other labels - Island, Vertigo, Harvest, Deram, Dawn, Chrysalis, etc. Playing them is like listening to a random John Peel show from the era. 

Edited February 27, 2018 by mjmooney

[Xann]

You've never bought a label sampler? @blandy

[mjmooney]

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I wonder how much crossover there would be between fans of th Bonzos/Roger Ruskin Spear/ Neil Innes, say and Hawkwind / Motorhead / Bob Calvert..or Brinsley Schwarz and the Groundhogs. 

Loads. All part of the same subculture for me. There weren't the rigid genre divides then like there are today. Forget this idea that "prog" = only bands that sound like Yes, Genesis and ELP. 

Cream, Fairport Convention, Fleetwood Mac, Beefheart, Doors, Byrds, Floyd, ffs Melanie... all 'progressive'. 

Edited February 27, 2018 by mjmooney

[blandy]

45 minutes ago, Xann said:

You've never bought a label sampler? @blandy

No, never.

[blandy]

1 hour ago, mjmooney said:

Playing them is like listening to a random John Peel show from the era

That’s a good analogy

21 minutes ago, mjmooney said:

Loads. All part of the same subculture for me. There weren't the rigid genre divides then like there are today. Forget this idea that "prog" = only bands that sound like Yes, Genesis and ELP. 

Don’t get me wrong, I’ve never had that idea. Where I’m mistaken, perhaps is that what you say is the same subculture, I just wondered if it wasn’t so sub as to be minuscule and thus not commercially viable in the 70s. I didn’t think of it as being a sampler, more as a triple album that only makes sense as a collectors item released 30 years later, hence the question.  I’m now better informed. And I suppose to contradict myself a bit, there’s quite a chunk of it that I’d happily listen to.