What are you listening to? (V)Music 

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Wannadies - Friends. It's been too long since I listened to this album. I liked it much better than the previous one.

 
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Nice, did you like it? And you‘re right, the band has that typical shoegaze/dream pop feel!
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I sure did. It's great to hear modern bands making high quality music which captures the feel of the old albums so well right down to the unintelligible lyrics and ethereal soundscapes.

It's equally gratifying to hear the shoegaze scene is alive and well and that youngsters like Byron and Zack are listening to and absorbing the classics in the twenty-first century.

I'm guessing the recent shoegaze documentary has ignited interest amongst bands in NY and elsewhere. This gives me hope that pop hasn't quite completely eaten itself or at least digested some of the good bits instead.
 
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UKMikey
I sure did. It's great to hear modern bands making high quality music which captures the feel of the old albums so well right down to the unintelligible lyrics and ethereal soundscapes.

It's equally gratifying to hear the shoegaze scene is alive and well and that youngsters like Byron and Zack are listening to and absorbing the classics in the twenty-first century.

I'm guessing the recent shoegaze documentary has ignited interest amongst bands in NY and elsewhere. This gives me hope that pop hasn't quite completely eaten itself or at least digested some of the good bits instead.
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Exactly, this band definitely reminds me of Slowdive and MBV in some ways. There are actually a lot of really good modern shoegaze bands out there, I found many of them thanks to Spotify!
 
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No The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald? :indiff:
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I might have misinterpreted this post before.

Your track is on the seventh album mentioned above.
 
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Bought this Cannonball Adderley album in the nineties shortly after Miles Davis's Kind Of Blue and didn't like it at all despite having two of the same soloists playing on it. I just decided to give it another try and absolutely love it now. Guess my ears have grown up a little. The 1-bit half-speed mastering audiophile woo-woo on my SACD version doesn't hurt, either.

 
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Onto the Velvets' second album. Hearing this for the first time, it's remarkable to me that recording mishaps were responsible for its grungy sound that's evident in so many post-punk and shoegaze albums that were to follow after it.

The band reportedly hated it at the time and engineer Gary Kellgren was so agahast at the result he walked out on one of the sessions.

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UKMikey
Onto the Velvets' second album. Hearing this for the first time, it's remarkable to me that recording mishaps were responsible for its grungy sound that's evident in so many post-punk and shoegaze albums that were to follow after it.

The band reportedly hated it at the time and engineer Gary Kellgren was so agahast at the result he walked out on one of the sessions.

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I didn't expect to like the self-titled follow up LP since it was conceived as the anti-White Light/White Heat but it's still good if a lot more peaceful due to John Cale's absence. Lou Reed's songwriting style is still heavily in evidence. The Go-Betweens album I listened to a couple of weeks back just sounds like a carbon copy of this in places.

Not sure which of the various mixes of this album I'm listening to but since I can hear all the instruments and vocalists besides Reed I suspect it's not his one.

[EDIT] I'd add that Moe Tucker isn't the best singer amongst female drummers I've heard; that'd be Karen Carpenter. Granted, I've only heard Tipper Gore's vocals and not Honey Lantree or Gina Schock. Sheila E. is probably a close second.

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UKMikey
I didn't expect to like the self-titled follow up LP since it was conceived as the anti-White Light/White Heat but it's still good if a lot more peaceful due to John Cale's absence. Lou Reed's songwriting style is still heavily in evidence. The Go-Betweens album I listened to a couple of weeks back just sounds like a carbon copy of this in places.

Not sure which of the various mixes of this album I'm listening to but since I can hear all the instruments and vocalists besides Reed I suspect it's not his one.

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I never heard of that song before, I'll listen to it tomorrow...
 
The last Velvet Underground LP I'm listening to is 1970's Loaded. It doesn't sound the same without Moe Tucker's relentless drumming. The songs are fine but the production seems aimed squarely at radio play and the experimentalism of earlier albums seems to have all but disappeared.

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Next I'm going to try Reed's solo albums Transformer and Berlin.
 


Went vinyl shopping and found a 1980 pressing of A, by "Jethro Tull" - or rather, by Ian Anderson and some guys that were not Jethro Tull at the time this record came out. It is quite the departure from the classic sound of the band, but I can't say I mind.
 
Tom Jones- "What's New Pussycat"

I've heard this so many times I dream about it twice a month.
 
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"I've got flowers and lots of hours..."

Mulaney's story reminds me for some reason of when I was listening to Radio 1 DJ Dave Lee Travis claiming on air that as a boy he and his friends smuggled a live chicken into a showing of Alfred Hitchcock's movie The Birds.

Sitting in the balcony, he said, they released the hen into the stalls at the exact moment the killer flock attacks on screen and it bounces off the heads of several cinemagoers. According to DLT they were thrown out of the theatre but it was "worth it".

Shalamar - Over And Over

 
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