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Alex Robertson · Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2023 5:52 am Post subject:

Fox. Images 74-84
A really brilliant little compilation

miss sparks · Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2023 2:42 pm Post subject:

Wall to wall jive - Andy Ellison 9/10

deadcalm · Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2023 6:48 am Post subject:

Come Oblivion - Gemma Ray 9-10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRC4VirhF9s

The new album Death Bell gang is a bit of a sonic adventure

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FlorMica · Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2023 10:41 pm Post subject:

Knickers - Bored

4/5

Definitely influenced by the CCTV wave of bands from the upper Midwest. Let's the distortion take care of simple guitar riffs. Very competent drummer. Dual vocals in a not annoying way. Favorite track is Bored In The Supermarket. I could visualize anyone from a young punk to a retiree from the USSR listening to it. Lyrics contain subject matter of living frugally in a post-industrial world.

https://youtu.be/9lxtzK_qV08

Toughest Girl In Town · Sparks Guru Joined: 15 Feb 2022 Posts: 4620

"Post" by Björk
7/10

I remember this was a good surprise when it first came out, this LP is full of very unexpected things (even to Björk fans), but always in a good way. I haven't listened to it for a long while, but it still doesn't sound "old" at all.

FlorMica · Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2023 8:56 am Post subject:

Altar of Eden - Chimeras

3/5

Favorite track 'Sacrilege.' Was doing a double time charleston in the kitchento it. Punchy fun drums. Genuinely seems like a revival of Goth sentiments as well as sound. Seems like the band was genuinely not enjoying themselves. Thoroughly unintelligible lyrics.

https://youtu.be/ZOAZHxTQi-U

FlorMica · Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2023 8:44 pm Post subject:

MSPAINT - s/t

11/10

Band from Hattiesburg, MS. Favorite track is "Post-American" and "Confidence (Consciousness)" short listen. Kind of like Korn had a baby with the B-52s
Dee Dee did an incredible job managing to sing (much like why I love Russell's voice) multiple words at once. Like, uh vocalized homonyms.

https://youtu.be/BGfJrzk4-iM
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Buckeye Randy · Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2023 7:20 am Post subject:

I'm generally against current artists playing with recordings of deceased artists.

However....the recent release of Johnny Thunders and The Courettes doing "You Can't Put Your Arms Around A Memory" seems to defy the odds and is really listenable.

For those that don't know, The Courettes are a band that sound like a Phil Spector produced girl group from the '60's that got their inspiration from the New York Dolls in some sort of time vortex.

This collaboration works because the finished product is just a hop, skip and a jump from what Johnny did off and on with Patti Palladin from 1978 through 1988.
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deadcalm · Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2023 9:15 am Post subject:

Short life - Teleman 8 - 10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYSlRfs7KoA
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Alex Robertson · Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2023 9:41 am Post subject:

miss sparks · Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2023 10:56 am Post subject:

The girl is crying in her latte - Sparks 8/10

Angus_Desire · Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2023 7:27 am Post subject:

Freefall - Funny Situations.

It's pedestrian cod reggae, and I'll give it 7/10. The trumpet player for the band Chris Dodemont ended up becoming the music director in my high school in 1982, and he's still there to this day.
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Alex Robertson · Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2023 10:42 am Post subject:

Shakin'Stevens...All You Need Is Greed.
A surprisingly rather good track, well worth a listen.

miss sparks · Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2023 1:11 pm Post subject:

Holy mountain - Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds 10/10

Ron = Geniuus · Groupie Joined: 24 Sep 2003 Posts: 100

John Otway - Scraps (2003)
3 disc compilation of lesser known material. A very funny lyricist 8/10

miss sparks · Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2023 6:13 pm Post subject:

Who built the moon? - Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds 9.5/10

Eric Murray · Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2023 7:08 pm Post subject:

The new Pink album 10/10

Toughest Girl In Town · Sparks Guru Joined: 15 Feb 2022 Posts: 4620

"Can't outrun the truth" by Pete Townshend: 4/10

I must say that I'm a bit disappointed by Pete's latest single, but I also know he didn't write this one so I still have hope for his next upcoming solo album...

Eric Murray · Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2023 12:09 pm Post subject:

Wire
154 - 10/10
Next will be Chairs Missing

miss sparks · Memento Mori - Depeche Mode 8.5/10

Memento Mori - Depeche Mode 8.5/10