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Oh. My. God!
The play/pause button has stopped working on my iPod! My constant companion is now disabled - must stop hyper ventilating - anyone got a paper bag?
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The Library Feeds My Addiction
It's wierd how sometimes the library yields great stuff and other times I can find nothing I want. Partly this is the luck of going when they have stuff in that's interesting and other times it's down to my mood. Sometimes I just can't be bothered getting stuff out, at least until I find one thing that really excites me and that may jolt may into getting other things.
Last night was a good visit and yielded a few CD's that I had almost bought at full whack on their release which is always nice...
Fleetwood Mac - Tusk (2CD re-release)
I have this anyway in it's unremastered form and it's not the best sounding CD in the world so it's nice to hear it cleaned up without shelling out for it twice. Also, as is the case with most extra CD's full of outtakes and demos, I'm really curious to hear it but will probably never listen to it more than once or twice so again it's nice not to have to pay £15 for it.
This is an odd and brave album. Fleetwood Mac had just come off the back of one of the most successful albums of the Seventies 'Rumours' and clearly this was going to be a difficult album to follow especially due to the messy relationships and drug intakes that characterised the sessions for that album. Rather than release Rumours Mark II they produced something much braver mainly due to Lindsay Buckinghams leadership. Although this contains the expected ballads and love songs from Stevie Nicks and Christine McVie (Sara, Over and Over etc), sprinkled through the album are about 8 songs by Buckingham clearly inspired by the punk and new wave sounds that would have been coming out around the time.
These songs sound off kilter due to Buckingham recording basic tracks at home before bringing them to the studio. There are guitars that sound like rubber bands, shoeboxes for drums and on, for example, The Ledge poorly edited vocal tracks. Yet it works. When people heard that FM were releasing a double album to follow Rumours and that it had taken more than a year to record they must have been expecting a gargantuan cocaine infused album of self indulgence, a path many have followed in such a situation. However, it's not that at all and instead is the sound of a man trying to stay relevant in a changed musical landscape, a man who didn't want to rest on his laurels and simply count the money and for that Buckingham and the band should be admired.
(Notes: Not to belittle the McVie/Nicks tracks but for me Buckingham is the reason this album is so interesting/ Fleetwood Mac, although they have tried, have never done anything interesting since without Buckingham's involvement/The title track features a 112 piece marching band recorded in a football stadium and is surely the most off the wall single released by a band of this size/It may not be gargantuan and self indulgent (not too much anyway), however it is cocaine infused/It cost more than $1million to make)
Simple Kid - 1
Imagine a Damon Albarn solo album mixed with some Badly Drawn Boy and maybe some Beck and you get fairly close to the sound of this. I've listened to some of this and though I'm glad I didn't buy it, there are some nice things here that I'll return to.
Dizzee Rascal - Boy In Da Corner
Another one that I'm glad I don't have to buy to hear. Won the Mercury Music Prize, not that that's any endorsement and I've been curious to hear it for a long while after hearing 'Fix Up, Look Sharp'. Haven't listened to it yet as I suspect it's far from a morning album. I suspect I'm going to be aurally assaulted by this.
Stereolab - Aluminium Tunes
Odds and sods collection of mid 90's tunes that's meant to be very good. Again something I've been on the verge of buying a few times. The packaging is so impractical for a library though so the CD's are pretty scratched. Hope they play/rip ok.
Del Amitri - Hatful Of Rain
A best of by a band that have never, ever been fashionable but have had some decent singles. Certainly worth the 50p to get out. Seem to remember liking Roll With Me and the Scotland football song 'Don't Come Home Too Soon'. Earliest memory of them was a performance of Nothing Ever Happens on Pebble Mill At One(!). They were singing live but were cracking up laughing half way through the performance which I quite liked them for. Here they were on live TV promoting their first single which you would have thought was a hugely important thing for them and they couldn't even keep straight faces.
Various - Sampled Volume 3
2 CD's of soul, R&B and instrumental tracks that have been sampled on rap and hip hop tracks. Looks like an excellent comp and i'm always curious to hear where the samples come from. Almost bought the best of this series a few months ago but this'll do for now. £1 well spent I think.
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Eric Idle - FCC song
Eric Idle sticks it to the FCC - FCC Song
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Napster
The Napster symbol and web address have appeared stencilled on Edinburgh pavements over the last couple of weeks.
Obviously they are trying to buy into the underground reputation that the original illegal Napster had which seems a bloody cheek really. It's not as though anyone is going to be fooled anyway.
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Sucker
I am such a sucker for the pre-release promo. Hence I now find myself in posession of a promo for the new Supergrass best of 'Supergrass is 10'. I had planned on buying it anyway when it comes out next week and it didn't cost me any more than the actual release will but having now seen the tracklisting I could simply have bought the one Supergrass album I don't have for £5 and constructed the tracklisting myself. It's not as though either of the two new songs are much cop.
Still it did come with an actual 'Supergrass is 10' badge stuck to the cover as featured on the artwork.
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