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mostly i have been listening to...
Over the last couple of weeks I have discovered a whole slew of new and newish guitar bands. I guess if you like your music touched with a little melancholy then you will probably like this stuff. To be fair, B.C. Camplight is a little more than a guitar band. He is one of those lovely slightly eccentric singer/songwriters than we know and love. His stuff is in a similar vein as Badly Drawn Boy.
1 No Voice Was Raised Castanets
2 Wouldn't Mind The Sunshine B.C. Camplight
3 Since K Got Over Me The Clientele
4 Flashes and Cables Centro-Matic
5 Size Of Your Life The Promise Ring
6 We Were Wrong Audible
The biggest surprise for me recently has been my discovery of Galaxie 500. This is one of those groups that you hear about all the time in the music press. For some reason, even though I have heard them namechecked a hundred times, I have never listened to them until now. The hype really is deserved. This is one of those great undisovered bands, and I can hear the way in which they have influenced a whole load of bands that I have heard and liked over the years. This is It's it a pity from their 1989 album, On Fire. By the way, Dean Wareham went on to form Luna in 1992, and they made one of my favourite songs of all time, Bobby Peru.
mr mcmuffin on 27 Nov 2005 @ 08:06 PM ✲ Permalink
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B.C. Camplight - delicious. Galaxie 500-----surprised it took you so long, welcome.
Love centro-matic! They remind me of someone who's name escapes me at this hour....
Audible - deliciously low key
I do love it when you get in these musical moods....
Posted by: jo | 28 Nov 2005 01:27:01
Audible's 'Sunday Bell' was on heavy rotation in my car a couple of months back. I'm still in a Katamari Damacy phase right now and listen to that to the exclusion of all else.
It was, until now, the only Audible track I'd downloaded. I like your one too - there are hints of dis-harmony in it (can you tell I'm not in the slightest bit musical!?) and I like that in a song.
I have a copy of The Verve's 'She's a Superstar' on vinyl, which I bought for the spaced-out b-side 'Feel'. When I got it home and played it the vinyl was warped, but I didn't bother taking it back as I really liked the wobbly, out-of-tune edge it added to the track.
Posted by: Kirsty | 28 Nov 2005 19:06:01
That's a bit strange. I was just reminiscing with Mrs McMuffin yesterday about the good old days of warped vinyl. I truly can't remember if it ever improved a song though.
Posted by: mr mcmuffin | 28 Nov 2005 19:40:38
It's all a bit too laid back and a bit too retro for me. The Clientele sound like Beach Boys meet Mamas & Papas meet The Byrds (or something like that).
Posted by: Steve | 29 Nov 2005 17:47:58
I couldn't make up my mind if my old record player was slightly fast or if I have a knack for buying "slow" cd players -- until listening to golden oldies on the iPod and finding they sounded, for pacing at least, like what I remembered... I'd go back to vinyl in a minute, children, cost, and (perhaps most pertinently) sane wife notwithstanding. Reasonable? No. But where's the challenge in CDs and MP3 / AAC etc.?
Posted by: Colin | 30 Nov 2005 05:02:26
