Jinnistan wrote:

Ok you stingy bitches.  Here's this year's Solid Ghost Soul mix.  Come and get it!  It'll make you wish you were alive!

Rampop II wrote:

Sinnerman: Wow, interesting choice. I would never have thought to try that one. And it really works. Nice version, too. Can't tell if that's Tosh or somebody else.

I have no idea who "Tosh" is supposed to be, but definitely somebody else.

Rampop II wrote:

Bill Gates: I'd forgotten all about this track. I'm sure it must have been on one of the mixtapes you made back in the day.

I thought of it recently when I saw that the Critters Buggin' album is being released on vinyl for the first time.

Rampop II wrote:

I'm Deranged: Never heard this song. Reminds me of Bauhaus at this tempo.

It's the opening theme for Lynch's Lost Highway.

Is that it?  Didn't you download both volumes?  You're only halfway through!!!




 

By the way, I did forget to mention: all those ladies graduated university in 2013. So rest easy. 

Jinnistan wrote:

But on the other hand....Nina SImone?

Being the first listener in history to mistake Nina Simone's voice for that of a male must have been awkward for whomever that was. Mistaking Nina Simone's voice, slowed down, for that of a male, however... just might be novel enough to put on a resumé.

Zombie Wolf and Night of the Vampire are a couple of my favorites from Vol. II but I'm still only halfway through.

Jinnistan wrote:

 

great but overlooked live album.

For me, when compiling a short short list of the greatest musical performers of the 20th century, Nina Simone should probably be on everyone's, but I feel she probably gets slightly overlooked.

I haven't gone super deep into her discography, but I have trouble imagining her putting anything out that wasn't at the very least 'very good'. She has an aura that appears immune to any kind of mediocrity.

I've considered buying an earlier live album a few times, I think one of her more famous ones, which I also assume is fantastic. Because how could it not be. That piano, that voice, those interpretive skills, the nearly violent greatness of her personality. She's got it all.
 

There aren't a lot of artists who I would not only welcome all of their work into my collection, but almost feel like my collection could never be considered complete without getting everything.

It's not a big list

Nina Simone
Bob Dylan
Van Morrison
The Fall
Joni Mitchell (maybe...I'm a little daunted by her 80's output)
Captain Beefheart
Ennio Morricone (although I will admit, the more of these I've gotten, the more it becomes clear he recycles a lot of ideas)
Miles Davis
Fleetwood Mac (although, this really has more to do with my fascination of how much their sound changed over the years....the Bob Welch stuff is all pretty crappy)
Scott Walker

Weirdly, I don't put Neil Young on this list, even though he is exactly the kind of guy I should want to follow down every detour. I kind of check out around that Rocking in the Free World era (Freedom?), but everything prior to it is on my radar (probably have almost all of it by now, excluding Trans and Country Road)

I also start losing interst in Tom Waits around Mule Variations (which has never been a favourite)

I didn't put Beatles, because that goes without saying (plus, I've never owned and have never really desired owning a copy of Beatles For Sale)

 

Jinnistan wrote:

Eh, I could live without some of those '80s records, and I'm fine having never picked up that Triplicate set.

I know it's not all good. But he's someone whose failures and missteps to me are interesting simply as part of a larger narrative. It's not like I'm busting out Empire Burlesque anytime soon.

I'm admittedly interested in Triplicate, but I doubt I'll ever shell out the money for it. I've grown to appreciate Frank Sinatra and just standards in general fairly recently

Ditto on the '80s, and most after that as well.  In fact, I think I might be pretty set on the Van I have.

I'm actually a fan of the 80's albums I have. He actually might be the only artist who I like every album by him I own. That said, I did forget he's been releasing a lot of not great looking things that last ten or so years but....I'm still even vaguely curious about his anti lockdown tirades. He is a cunt, of course.

I know you've been going hard for Shift-work and Are You Missing Winner lately, but I'm still trepidatious.

Once he loses his proper band (really mostly Scanlon and Hanley) the magic quality of them definitely dips. It really becomes more of a story of an obstinate man who will not pack it in, no matter what kind of hungover juice fumes he's running low on, but still has interesting things to say and acts like he has something to prove. There is an energy in this, even if the quality isn't as good.

Now all of these later records always have a handful of unbelievably embarrassing tracks on them. I at least hate one or two songs on every one of them (and I rarely hate any songs). But like Dylan, it's about the story he made from his life, for better or worse, because there is an argument to be made about Mark E Smith that there is very little about his existence that wasn't on his records. It was his sole reason for being, and I can't help but admire that, especially considering how wild and silly so much of the output is.

Shift Work is probably a favorite of the later records, even though it is probably one of the least liked by fans. Missing Winner is more interesting than good, but again, the highlights are wonderful, and the lowlights are at least....not complacent.

Ha.  I don't have anything after Hejira.

Neither do I. Mostly because whenever I come across one of her 80's records, used, it is stupidly over priced. I need dollar bin prices before I take the plung

Hey, good luck!  Do you have a spare room just for these?

I must admit I've kind of given up on this one. There are too many. They are too expensive. The ones I really want I can't find. And, like said, a lot of it gets repetitive. I'm pretty sure there are a couple I have that might even be the same. I've never listened to them back to back to be entirely sure though.

crumbsroom wrote:

Miles Davis

You know I love Miles.  But I've never owned a copy of Man With The Horn, and I'm OK with that.

I think I have those middle albums on digital, and again, after Mirage I have no interest.  I once had a tape copy of Tango in the Night.  Never again.

I love Tango in the Night. There are a couple of dopey Buckingham tracks on it, but it's one of my favorites.

I love the early Peter Green stuff.

I don't have any Scott Walker.  Don't shoot, but I'm not a fan of the voice.

First unacceptable opinion. I sort of get it on his later more experimental albums (even though his voice on Bish Bosch is particularly good to my ears), but those first four Walker solo records are magnificent. The voice, the arragements, the song selections. I probably don't listen to them enough (whereas, I understand why I rarely played Drift when I used to have it)

Funny you mention it, because he's just now putting out his Achives III, and I'm seriously not excited because it covers all that '80s stuff.  But it also covers the Rust, Comes a Time, Reactor period that I do like.  Which means I'll probably get a curated digital version.  There's definitely Neil that I don't like.  I think he seriously fucked up American Stars and Bars.  And one of the good things about previous Archives releases is that it allows us to see just how badly he judged what material to release and what to sit on, and gives an opportunity for us to reconstruct some LPs as they probably should have been.  Having said all of that, I hated pretty much all of Young's releases in the '00s.

I've just simply disliked everything I've heard from 90's up (although I do have a nostalgic soft spot for the song Harvest Moon, even though I hated it at the time

Bah!  Both Alice and Blood Money are good to great, and his last one, Bad as Me as some great stuff on it.

I thought Alice and Blood Money came before Mule. I do like these, particularly Alice, even though its been years since I owned a copy.

I don't recall if I've ever heard Bad as Me. I feel I've heard chunks and didn't like what I heard....or maybe I'm thinking of Real Gone. There was one record where I thought "I'm tired of this schtick", and I became bored of the whole thing. Unsurprisingly to me, he stopped recording shortly after (yes, I'm sure he's consulting my brain for career advice)

I just listened to that one recently, as it's turning 60.  I think it's merely a four-star record compared to their others, but it's not bad.  I already mentioned "No Reply" - a classic - and that alone is worth the price of admission.

I would argue against being a Beatles completist soley on the grounds of whether you want to pick up that Tony Sheridan stuff or not.  (Of course I have it....)

I think all the songs from Sale that I like were on the American release '65, therefore negating my need to slog through all of those covers (I've rarely like any Beatles covers, other than the Ringo Starr Buck Owens ones (I think there are two of those?)

Back in the day, I definitely wanted the Sheridan stuff. But that was back when I only liked the Beatles and thought every other band was a waste of my time, so I needed to find as much to listen to as possible.

I never did find it though.

 

crumbsroom wrote:

I must admit I've kind of given up on this one. There are too many. They are too expensive. The ones I really want I can't find. And, like said, a lot of it gets repetitive. I'm pretty sure there are a couple I have that might even be the same. I've never listened to them back to back to be entirely sure though.

All of these new pressings of not just Morricone but any giallo soundtracks are always way too expensive.

At a certain point, it might be better to try some of the compilations.  There's a good one that was curated by Mike Patton, Crime and Dissonance, that did a good job of finding some obscurities.

crumbsroom wrote:

I love Tango in the Night. There are a couple of dopey Buckingham tracks on it, but it's one of my favorites.

"Favorites" of what?  Are you going to try and compare this with Tusk?  I'll throw all of the Scott Walkers at you.

crumbsroom wrote:

I love the early Peter Green stuff.

I don't know about "love", but they're all pretty great.  His solo End of the Game is also terrific.

crumbsroom wrote:

I've just simply disliked everything I've heard from 90's up (although I do have a nostalgic soft spot for the song Harvest Moon, even though I hated it at the time

I liked that one...A Letter Home, I think...that he recorded in Jack White's phone booth studio.

crumbsroom wrote:

I don't recall if I've ever heard Bad as Me....

Let me see if I can stimulate the juices...

crumbsroom wrote:

I think all the songs from Sale that I like were on the American release '65

That's a good point.  I've always preferred Beatles '65, even if For Sale had the superior cover.  Among the stuff it left off, I think really only Paul's "What You're Doing" is very interesting.  And...

crumbsroom wrote:

therefore negating my need to slog through all of those covers (I've rarely like any Beatles covers, other than the Ringo Starr Buck Owens ones (I think there are two of those?)

Urgh!  "Kansas City"!  That's a great track.  Some of the others aren't so good.  The big problem with "Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby" is that they put so much echo on George's vocal mic, and they were playing live, that all of the other instruments got echo'd as well, making it sound very muddy.  Ringo's track was Carl Perkins' "Honey Don't", which is fine, for Ringo.

crumbsroom wrote:

Back in the day, I definitely wanted the Sheridan stuff. But that was back when I only liked the Beatles and thought every other band was a waste of my time, so I needed to find as much to listen to as possible.

The problem is that these releases only had so much material, about 6 tracks, so half of what you bought didn't have any Beatles at all, but some other group called the Beat Brothers backing Sheridan.  They were total rip-offs.

crumbsroom wrote:

I never did find it though.

Amazing.  Those things were like daisies around these parts.  You could always find them cheap.  Or like the other big rip-offs, some label which split the 30 minute Decca audition into 2 volumes, called The Silver Beatles.  They weren't boots, due to the complicated copyright situation, and they were everywhere in the bins during the late '80s.  Maybe they're worth something now...