What Are You Listening to? 2020

XP I thought White Heaven was interesting but not exactlky what I'd been lead to expect. It reminded me a lot more of Galxie 500 than the QMS/Sabbath hybrid the forcedexposure review that turned me onto it had suggested.
I think the live stuff from around teh time gets a lot closer to that FE review.
NOt sure what is available by them . Was there a box set released over the last couple of years?

Yeah I'd recommend Electric Cool Acid - live and louder versions of Out tracks but some of it is still in that G500 or Dream Syndicate vibe. I think the only thing available rn is the Out LP reissue, no box set that I know of (maybe you're thinking of the Overhang Party box?).

I don't really know the later WH stuff but there was a follow up band called The Stars that was even more alt-rocky but had some decent tunes.

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dang, og?

no sadly

fwiw the og pressing was not very good as I understand it, and I had a pretty terrible vinyl reissue that I traded back in for a CD version

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I was thinking I'd heard the original pressing of that Linda Perhacs wasn't very good.
I think I picked up the 2nd reissue cd after there had been a needledrop semi legit release sometime around the turn of the millenium.
Think that may have prompted Perhacs herself to turn up with her version of the master or as close to that as he got and I think that was the source for the copy i have which also had a few more tracks not on the original vinyl.
Also think Perhacs had been a dental secretary for the interim years but was prompted back into performing by hearing the response to the reissue of the lp.

jeff parker - suite for max brown

Blackalicious
dEUS (shoulda snuck out)
Ike Turner (but shld be listening to Acid Queen, got it in the mail today)

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New roisin murphy. Dayum it’s gooood

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Classic. I bought that when the blood and fire re-issue came out in the 90's. Yes I do love his music and feel it in my toes etc!

I found a Blood and Fire copy a few years back and have worn the bugger out. Magic.

oh yeah love that CD

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Watched a new ZZ Top documentary on Netflix, which was very entertaining in some aspects (learned a lot about their early days, some great footage of them playing together in an empty rehearsal studio in the present day) but also quite disappointing in that it glossed over a lot of stuff and basically ended in 1983, after Eliminator came out. This album, which I think is one of their best (weirdo psychedelic country boogie, very little hard blues-rock), was totally omitted, so I decided to listen to it.

Tejas rules, wall to wall deep cuts

Kanye. He used to be gooood.

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Circle Pit

Thinking back fondly to how mad everyone got about them "being a Royal Trux ripoff"

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we were on this:
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That was worth posting twice. Glorious album.

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Not sure if I'd taken in that this was a Bob Stanley cocompiled set. It's been sitting on a shelf here for a while.
Read BS mention it in his column in Record Collector this month so dug it out.Got some pretty sublime stuff on it.
1st disc which is the one I've been playing so far starts with a cover of Universal Soldier which is pretty liberal.
He has a great voice and the arrangements are pretty good

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Numero group release of heavy garage proggy stuff. Got some great guitar on it. & a pretty dark atmosphere.

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2cd compi of James Brown backing band both with and without him.
pretty funky.

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Previously unreleased recording. Great stuff.

Bowie lets dance
Trex elect warrior

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featuring lily may ledford, ola belle reed & elizabeth cotten

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Human Impact, s/t: debut album by a new group led by Chris Spencer of Unsane, with dudes from Cop Shoot Cop and Swans. Kinda sounds like a slightly more postpunk/industrial Unsane, with creepy atmospheric synths that add a surprising amount.

Was looking for that last week but wonder if its too obscure for local record shop to get in without ordering.
Would assume synth textures would be Jim Coleman who i know better for working samplers with C$C.

It's on Ipecac's Bandcamp page, if you're not a stickler for physical products.

https://577records.bandcamp.com/album/astroturf-noise

this glitchy no-wave bluegrass influenced debut from Astroturf is quite good fun.

ooh nice thx!

Elle varner - perfectly imperfect

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Was turned onto this guy from the yawnsomely literal album covers thread, pretty decent country-funk stuff.

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today/tonight:

miles davis - the complete in a silent way sessions (discs 1 & 2)
afelan - mdou moctar
moon b - iii
billy cobham - spectrum
eno - discreet music

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currently, all my reggae vinyl in alphabetical order (I am on the "Ds" - filed under D for "Dread at the Controls"/Mikey Dread)

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Andaolu Psych band from Turkey. Mixes very traditional sounding folk stuff with western influences. Does get pretty psychy in places.
I'm not 100% sure of teh sources for all of these tracks.
Think I might need to get the first actual lp and possibly the 2nd. Got this from somebody in Turkey on discogs last year I think.

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Nairobi based congolese band, infectious grooves and guitar. Sounds pretty danceable but rhythms are outside of funk tradition. Does have a bit of Latin in it as well as more traditional stuff. Songs are nice and longand instrumental breaks are great.

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3rd lp by country groove band. Just rediscovered this. Would have prefered a set of the 1st 2 lps but I think that never appeared at teh time this Lemon reissue did.THis is still pretty good.