Fourth studio album from Blur (1995)

#1 UK

Scanned from the October 1995 Select Magazine.

This is absolutely fucking brilliant. I too was one of the doomed and this was my mantra.

Well I wonder
Do you hear me when you sleep ?
I hoarsely cry
Oh ...

And in a lovely piece of irony, the cover stars referred to who "will never mean that much" have an advert placed directly under the review. By accident or design?

Dirty Waters also posted an unreleased track that didn't make it onto the Dare Is A Darkside album called "How u get down?".  This track is classic Redman.  If you love some Redman as much as me and wish you could hear a track you haven't heard that sounds like that raw old Redman shhh, this is your joint.

For more Redman goodness check these links:

Dilla remixes with Redman & Mos Def

Philaflava.com’s 100 Greatest Obscure Tracks (free download)

Sadat X - Songs that weren’t on his albums, remixes, unreleased joint, etc.

New Red and Meth joint - “Broken Language 2008″ (free download)

Some Tony Touch Mix Tapes (free downloads)

New Pete Rock feat. Redman - “Best Believe”

Tha Top 20 Hip Hop Albums of 2007, According to DJ Premier

It's been a strange day. I spent the afternoon having tea in the Blue Peter garden laughing about those Valerie Singleton and Joan Armatrading rumours and the later part of the day in tears after reading this in Taylor Parkes Live Journal. Underneath which is this piece on Taylor's relationship with anti-depressants and the extended damage they do.

Both of these are quite old now but new to me. I don't know quite what to say except that I found both posts incredibly moving and emotive. I fervently hope that with the passing of time you're doing ok Taylor?

Posting this seems like the best response. It's going to have to be in a couple of parts I'm afraid because there's five more pages and I don't have time to scan it all tonight in one go - besides there's loads to read in the links. No doubt these days this sort of debate would exist as a podcast but I think you'll see in the coming posts that setting the discussion in print allows the reader to reflect more clearly on what has been said.

The Boo Radleys - Song from the Blueroom
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Now we're older, things are stranger
Than they've ever been
Now I'm scared of death
For the first time

And what goes up must come down
So I can't talk right now
And maybe it's easy to believe
That once once in your life, once your life
You'll find the love that you have always had
Realise that before you knew nothing at all

Om stedet: Vi bodde svært romslig på et gårdsbruk på landet med stor plass rundt oss. Selv om ungene fortsatt var små, var det på denne turen vi startet å spille fotball sammen. På den enorme plenen satte vi opp hagestoler som fotballmål. Det var ellers kort kjøreavstand til endeløse badestrender fra stedet der vi bodde.

Noen detaljer vi husker fra denne ferien:

• SUPERBRUGSEN ble et populært begrep
• Klypedyr i gangen
• Bare fint vært med daglige strandturer
• Petter var ingen strand-entusiast, og begynte til slutt å grine da vi skulle på stranda
• Fotball på plenen - mål: plaststoler - stor fin plen
• En millioner fluer - vi drepte over hundre per dag
• For første gang stiftet vi bekjentskap med økologiske pølser i pølsebod
• Post-dame hilste daglig med davs!
• Tur til Ålborg ZOO
• Tur til legoland
• Vindskjerm: situasjonskomikk da Brigt og AB skulle montere en slik i sterk vind på stranda
• Hjemtur: AI dro med fly fra Kristiansand til Oslo, og kom hjem til innbrudd på Rykkinn. Ikke særlig hyggelig!
• Halvor + Brigt & co overnattet i verdens mest motbydelige hus i Valle i Setesdal på vei til Bergen. Må ha vært veldig trøtte og uoppmerksomme da vi aksepterte dette huset etter forslag fra en campingplass-eier...

LOVE IT--A personal favorite...Production is killer and just by the album title I'm sure you can guess the nature of the album. Trip hop. yupIt started with a simple 'Who is this?' followed by a 'wow..' and later a 'holy shit'. The powerful baselines and smooth beats can lull me into a trance. I try to sing along even though it sounds ridiculous.

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Talk Talk Talk featuring Mr. Agreeable, 18th March 1995.

Oblivion, open thy jaws, here comes another f***ing sprat!

Unrelated to this post but great finds from the del.ic.ious account of http://www.diskant.net/ who also added this blog.

A selection of full and partial recordings of John Peel's BBC radio show from 2002 and 2003. Recorded direct to PC from digital radio, so in most cases the quality is reasonably good.

Extensive blog sourcing archived John Peel radio shows

Great post of rare MBV material including a 4 track Peel session from 1988

1. Intro
2. Scratchy Noise
3. Blomp
4. Styles
5. Interloodle
6. Bust A Nut
7. Herbalize It
8. Wrong Place
9. Little Groove
10. Da Trax
11. Up
12. Get Downs
13. K Doing
14. Chill
15. Real Killer (remix)
16. Repetitive Loop (remix)

ENJOYABLE--Herbaliser's DJ-friendly jazz/funk/hip-hop fusion is well stated on this debut. Not your standard hip hop, with the Ninja Tunes influence far more apparent in this album. A bit clever, in an undergraduate sort of way.

Still, great music and a must for lovers of UK hip hop history.

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Ploma / paper 14 x 12 cm

If any readers have music videos they love and would like to see on the blog, feel free to offer up suggestions via email at gaycondo@yahoo.com

Second album from Oasis

#1 in the UK and #4 in the Billboard 200, shifting a stunning 23 million units worldwide.

Scanned from the November 1995 Select issue

Arnold Dreyblatt

Animal Magnetism (Tzadik 1995)

http://www.mediafire.com/?njyjz1mn45n

I have spent an hour or two pondering life while listening to the rich drones of Arnold Dreyblatt. I first encountered the name while paging through an issue of Your Flesh where Jim O' Rourke listed his favorite albums of the year and christened Animal Magnetism the best of 1995. Being the bleating sheep that I am, there was an immediate order placed at the Wall to Wall Sound and Video in my godforsaken town. I expected something akin to the Scott Walker, Roy Montgomery and Rafael Toral listed in his love letter, but was pleasantly surprised to hear that it wasn't quite like anything else on that minimalist list.

There are many improbably combinations that our minds can conjure: Peanut butter and cauliflower puree, scallops and butterscotch or Kevin Spacey in a Bobby Darin biopic. Most of these flights of fancy are purely the result of narcotics. However, I cannot explain Kevin Spacey's unfortunate foray. However, if you had suggested that you could combine Steve Reich's Music for 18 Musicians with Tom Waits' Rain Dogs, I would accuse you of putting your mustard in my chutney.

Thankfully, Arnold Dreyblatt's Animal Magnetism does exactly that. It takes the textured waves of minimalist composition and the musician play like a band made out of junkyard instruments. This is somehow funky in its clunky and hypnotic sort of way. It is a strong, muscular album that removes minimalism from the realm of lanky miscreant and makes a dance party out of it. I haven't yet been so far gone to attempt an Arnold Dreyblatt dance party, but give me a ring and we shall see what we can muster up.

This is the sound of music hitting ecstatic peaks and mining mournful valleys. This is the sound of repetition taken to new places. This beats the pants off those moments where I pleasured myself with sounds of a single string. It is a joyful cacophony that makes me realize all that is wonderful about music.

Taylor Parkes interviews The Boo Radleys, 18th February 1995. Photos Tom Sheehan & Stephen Sweet.

Welcome to anyone joining from the When Saturday Comes forum link. Thanks to EIM for spreading the word.

A very amusing thread as it turns out. On the one hand you've got Taylor (Parkes) feeling like the last kid to be picked for a football kickabout while Spearmint Rhino, (Simon Price) pitches in with "I think the Boo Radleys cover story was by me, but he's only scanned the cover, not the story..." Well here's the story in all it's glory - take a bow Mr. Parkes. God it's like throwing meat to a couple of hungry lions although this probably still won't satisfy. I've moved my response to anyone feeling Taylor's confusion about the apparent random posts and lack of 'meat' into the About page on this site.

Oh and go and see Martin Carr play The Social on 12th August.

FlickFool says: "Borrow it"

Un classico dimenticato tra gli Oceani del Tempo

Unanimated
Ancient God Of Evil
1995, No Fashion Records
CD

Una tra le più valide e giustamente rimpiante etichette del panorama scandinavo diede alle stampe nel 1995 un disco che passò ingiustamente sotto silenzio e non ricevette le lodi che meritava. Il secondo full lenght degli Unanimated, gruppo in cui milita il noto Richard "Daemon" Cabeza (ex-Dark Funeral, ex-Dismember), è un disco che racchiude in sé tutti gli ingredienti tipici del death svedese, di impronta quindi notoriamente melodica. Tematiche oscure, claustrofobiche, che vanno a svelare e mettere a nudo i più reconditi angoli della personalità umana, la quale viene sempre sconfitta dalla malvagità che permea l'esistenza stessa, contornate da un riffing chitarristico sempre potente, ma mai lanciato a folli velocità, e lo stesso dicasi per la parte ritmica, nella fattispecie un drumming precisissimo e nei giusti momenti rimpolpato dall'uso del doppio pedale, che però mai sfocia nella noiosità del cronico blast-beating.

I nove pezzi che compongono Ancient God Of Evil, tralasciando l'ottimo interludio strumentale rappresentato da Mirielle, si muovono tutti sulle stesse coordinate, a riprova di come non sia necessario inventare qualcosa di nuovo per lasciare ai posteri un disco di una freschezza ed ispirazione raramente rintracciabili in una scena satura come quella svedese di metà anni '90.

Una nota di particolare merito va alle liriche, in grado di tratteggiare in modo inquietantemente profondo lo sconforto di cui può finire preda l'animo umano; pezzi come Dead Calm o Dying Emotion Domain potrebbero essere scambiati per rimembranze di una psiche turbata e tormentata.

Dall'opener Life Demise alla conclusiva Die Alone non c'è barlume di speranza, nessun possibile spiraglio di luce, soltanto un nero abisso di disperazione e di sconforto in cui far piombare la propria mente.

Piccola nota storica: l'anno successivo alla pubblicazione di questo piccolo monumento allo sconforto e alla decadenza della condizione umana, la band di Stoccolma si sciolse; è di fine 2007 l'insperata notizia di una reunion dei Nostri, con tanto di una vociferata lavorazione di nuovi pezzi in studio. Dopo tredici anni è impossibile prevedere cosa ne salterà fuori, ammesso e non concesso che le notizie siano attendibili. In aggiunta, proprio grazie ad una ripresa delle attività, la Regain Records ha ristampato nel Giugno 2008 entrambi i lavori del gruppo, ormai difficilmente reperibili.

Andrea Bosetti

RATING: 8/10

With Stanley Road Paul Weller has managed to prove to his fans and his critics that he is still an important musician even in his solo days. He hasn't just written 12 good songs, instead, he's written one great album. A factor in any great album is the overall feel that perpetuates each song, making them all feel as though they deserve their place and complimenting the songs that come before and after them.

A mostly guitar driven album, Weller fuses good solos and riffs with his usual effective lyrics, often ending a song with a long instrumental that gently ushers in the next song, which gladly and competently carries the album along. However, there is the occasional song that primarily uses the piano evoking another great feel. Though these songs are quite different from the guitar based ones, they seem to come at just the right points in the album so that, not only are they a nice change of direction, but also they effortlessly fit in.  To truly appreciate this fine album start at the beginning and just let it play on to the end. It far outweighs the sum of its parts, and as these parts are so good, you're in for a great journey.

The Changing Man- This was a hit in the UK and is a good indication into how this album will sound.  There are some great little examples of guitar work going on here, more will follow throughout the rest of the tracks. Listen to The Changing Man

Porcelain Gods- This songs brings the mellow vibe with its gentle electric guitar opening.  The highlights are the lyrics; 'How disappointed I was to turn out after all, just a porcelain god, that shatters when it falls'.

Walk On Guilded Splinters- Another slow bluesy track that follows on nicely from the previous.  Again, the lyrics shine above all in this song.  Wellar really does have a way of writing some interesting lyrics and his delivery of them are always great.  The track ends with a slow jam that trickles to the end.  Not a great tune, more of a little jam session that made it onto the album.

You Do Something To Me-From the beautiful piano intro we immediately know that we are going to hear something different in this song than wat was heard in the previous tracks.  Simple and effective lyrics and likewise in the piano and guitars make this song so beautiful.  A major standout on the album, absolutely heaven. Listen to You Do Something To Me

Woodcutter's Son-Back with a rocking guitar intro, a piano quickly joins in and we're back with a more upbeat tempo.  This tune is quite catchy, and Wellars gruff voice shines throughout.  Again, another track that ends with a long jam.

Time Passes-A lovely intro, great lyrics and a lovely mellow feel to it.  I always forget about this track whenever I think about this album, but when it comes on I just fall in love with it all over again.

Stanley Road-The intro will have you tappin your feat to the piano and drum, another catchy little number.  Despite the fact that this is the title song, it isn't anything too special.  There is nothing wrong with it but there isn't that certain somethin that makes it stand out.

Broken Stones-Broken Stones is another simple yet beautiful track.  Wellar can write great songs with great guitar parts that rock and groove but songs like this prove he can strip it all down and write a track that has the beauty and passion that other artists can.

Out Of The Sinking-A very bluesy song and once again some good lyrics.  This song really suits Wellar's style of singing, I find he has a really underrated voice.

Pink On White Walls-I really like this song, though it is by no means one of the best on this album.  It surely is underrated, it is borderline mediocre but i think it just manages to get on the right sode of the line.

Whirlpools' End-Overral I dont rate this song, but there are some good parts to it.  I find it really gets good about 2 minutes in.  I do love the jam that appears at the end for at least 4 minutes.  Would be nice to play along in the studio.

Wings Of Speed-The final song is a strange one to end with, it has a gospek feel and almost sounds like nothing else on the album, save for the piano that was present in some of the songs.  I really love this song, again simplistic and beautiful, Paul's voice holds it's own and the background singing is just fabulous.  This song is too short, it needs to have a few more minutes of it.  I just love it. Listen to Wings Of Speed

Greets to POSE, keep on rockin'!

va recomand albumul! si ca sa va conving am pus si o piesa spre ascultare si tracklistul albumului :

01. intro

02. watcha gonna do

03. chin check

04. evil dollars

05. vu-vu

06. freaky rendevous

07. fit of the fittest

08. mama

09. outro

10. watcha gonna do (radio)

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