Daughters - You Won't Get What You Want - LP
Bauhaus - In The Flat Field - LP
Wilco - A Ghost Is Born - LP

Bob Bucko Jr - When Will We Take Mercy On Ourselves arrived at my mailbox Friday. The hand painted artwork is something fierce and mine is 4/5

 

 

 

killer/ classic / essential

mewithoutYou
[Untitled]

I bought a physical copy of Travis Scot’s “Astroworld” because it grew on me. Arrived yesterday. Good album.

I buy one album a year at the current rate. Last year was Pornography. This year..

 

Remastered, but still the nice soothing sound of suicide note in audio.

Can’t fault either pick.

Don’t have remastered Closer yet.

Low. Things We Lost In The Fire and C'mon.

Those I Might Be Wrong live recordings are great.

Radiohead could be 20x the band they are if they recorded their albums in a similar fashion to their live sessions and live albums IMO

It's funny, in studio they sound very aloof and calculated, but live they sound different, closer to the reality that they're still just mates from school making a noise together.

Also, the rearrangement of Like Spinning Plates is incredible.

I agree in some ways and disagree in others.

They certainly are a hell of a live band, and the From the Basement version of “The King of Limbs” made me actually like that album, whereas before the release of the live alb/film, I thought it was crap...

But...

Studio precision can be awesome. I don’t know that I can imagine “Kid A” sounding any better if recorded live in studio throughout. And “OK Computer” seems to really kind of rely on the controlled environment.

But yeah, for, like, “A Moon Shaped Pool,” I think that one would have been far more interesting if recorded live.

And the IMBW: Life Recordings version of “True Love Waits” still kicks the unholy shit out of that ambient piano fuckery the band pulled for the “studio version” fucking 18 years later. Fuck that. That’s not “True Love Waits.”

I have never seen Radiohead (or anyone) live, but from the bootlegs I've heard they kick arse.

That said, I'm not that fond of A Moon Shaped Pool. Except for a few songs, it's mostly just fine and background.

And on 'True Love Waits' - I read an article where someone (who admittedly had too much time on their hands) was arguing that AMSP was going to be Radiohead's last album. They did make some interesting points (they now have exactly 100 songs on studio albums, the deluxe edition of AMSP included bits of master tape for previous albums, their most famous unreleased song has finally been released).
Of course, it could just be the conspiracy theory of an über-obsessive with too much time on their hands. (Which describes all Radiohead fans, come to think of it.)

I’m a non-obsessive Radiohead fan.
I could honestly take or leave a bunch of stuff from Amnesiac, In Rainbows and AMSP. I’ve been listening to them side 1995, and back then, sure, I was pretty fucking down. But I didn’t spent hours on the internet examining OKC lyrics on GreenPlasticRadiohead or AtEasewebnor anything after that album came out and brought the foaming superfans.

If AMSP is their last album, so be it. I’m ok with that. Best song was “Burn the Witch,” and the rest was pretty unremarkable after the initial “OMG NEW RADIOHEAD” passed.

Ha! I just wanted to write the exact same thing except less accurately worded than yours. Is that even proper grammar? I own that album too and always loved “True Love Waits”, but that other version is truly horrible. If that had been the original version I wouldn't have ever liked it.



You made me wanting to listen to Kid A again right now. Back in 2000 I was working as a software tester for Philips and we made those audio CD recordable players. My first proper job. At one point we went to buy a couple of CDs for testing purposes. I chose Kid A and one of the American Recording albums of Johnny Cash (probably III because it was released around the same time). No one of my colleagues (a group of 20 max) liked Kid A. And I totally bought it out of curiosity and at first preferred their previous ones. But after repeated listening I got into it. Then I thought it was quite extreme with the distorted effects, now not so much anymore, especially not compared to Double Negative. Kid A the song I still skipped though.









Is that R.E.M. CD a bootleg? Please note that when you pay for a bootleg silver disc or vinyl, you are not supporting the artist nor the person that actually recorded it. I understand it's cool to own the physical copy and I appreciate that in this age you're still buying albums instead of just paying for the digital copies. But if you like to hear bootlegs, join Dimeadozen (or traders den, does zomb still exist if you like smashing pumpkins? Or check out archive.org, I know you like godspeed and silver mt zion. Low is on it too. And that's the exact reason why I started taping myself, because I loved listening to those live sets. And it's great to revisit my own efforts once in a while. Some people take pictures during concerts. I never understand.

I have an irrational love of Amnesiac, even despite the knowledge that a good third of it is crap. In Rainbows just seems kinda plain to me.

I have spent embarrassing amounts of time on citizeninsane.eu, but that's just my autistic thirst for pointless information - I'm not going and microanalysing it.

I'm probably missing out on this due to my age - I don't know a time when the IMBW version was the only one.

Boo...

It is a bootleg, but I bought it secondhand. I have no idea where the money's going.
(And although this might be a bit dickish, I doubt R.E.M. need any more money.)

I've been thinking about Dimeadozen lately actually, I might need to give you a buzz to help me set shit up.
archive.org is so great, I have an account there too (most of my uploads are stuff that I couldn't find on there anyway, I'm trying to be better at crediting sources).

Hah. Yep. Critics praised the “studio” “True Love Waits” but fuck them, they are stupid for doing that.
The AMSP version is what it would sound like if you slowly tortured the IMBW version to death by feeding it increasingly harsh doses of hardcore laxatives until everything but the song’s BONES came flooding out of its asshole.

I was super into Radiohead when Kid A dropped. I picked it up right after school (I think I was a junior in high school at the time?) and sat and listened to it on headphones and chatted on AIM with my friends who were doing the same thing.

I remember typing out, “Yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon!!!” and sending it to my friend who hadn’t heard it yet.

“Idioteque” was the one that blew my mind most. That track was so far ahead of its time. And I dug the album, but I did miss the rockier elements a bit. I continued to kiss them until Hail to the Thief, which is my favorite Radiohead album.

Found this interesting, intimate r.e.m. show on archive.

https://archive.org/details/1987.05....pSantaMonicaCA

This is a pretty famous show. Govorner of West Virginia declares Rem day.

https://archive.org/details/1991.04....wan+Swan+H.mp3

Then ran into a few crappy sounding audience boots and left.

Lemme know if anyone comes across some gold.

I think it's my second-favourite track on that album ('How to Disappear Completely' or fuck off). It goes right to the edge, unlike the title track and 'Treefingers', which went past it.

It makes me sad that we'll never hear 'Electioneering' again, that one's awesome. It means that now we take notice whenever we get anything that's got bite to it (god bless 'I Might Be Wrong').

I say I love HTTT, but that's just skewed by how awesome 'Myxomatosis' is.

Well, up until the release of A Moon Shaped Pool, the IMBW live version was the only official version of the song. So... you probably do remember, because it was 2016. :D


You might be surprised about what parts of Amnesiac I think are crap. It’s not “Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors” because that song thumps. It’s not “Dollars and Cents” because that track is a dark, menacing discopunk gem. It’s not even “Packt like Sardines...” which appeals to my electronic palate like most of the sounds Radiohead brazenly ripped off from Aphex Twin and Squarepusher.

No.

It’s fucking “Pyramid Song,” which is a quest through the doldrums of absolute boredom where the only existing emotion is a deeply buried and repressed desire to end one’s own life... PERHAPS as a result of the ENDLESS boredom that go-nowhere track elicits.

I know... sacrilege, right? Wrong. Fuck that plod-along.

It’s also the wholly unnecessary retread of “Morning Bell” that lacks the subtle thump and mystique of the Kid A original.

And it’s “Life in a Glass House” because UGHHHHHH the tedium.

If the good, bizarro tracks from Amnesiac — “You and Whose Army?” and “I Might be Wrong” and the aforementioned “Dollars and Cents” and the logical “Videotape” precursor “Like Spinning Plates” had been put on an EP, THAT would have been cool.

But “Pyramid Song” and its PlayStation 1 Vector Man music video can piss off.
Blur’s “13” kicks the living shit out of “Amnesiac” and that’s the truth.

NOW... In Rainbows has some nice tracks.
“Weird Fishes/Arpeggi” is one of the band’s all-time best songs. No question. And “Videotape” is great and weird. And “All I Need” is like a grown-up version of “Climbing up the Walls.”

But what REALLY disappointed me about that album is this:
Every other Radiohead album after The Bends had one song that just seemed to blow the world apart and stand as a document in and of itself, pointing to the future — or to some weirdass other plane, never to be spoken of again — and away from the rest of the album. But In Rainbows has no such song.
Sure, you could argue “Videotape” but that’s not it.

On OKC it was “Electioneering” (or fucking “Paranoid Android,” for that matter, but I say “Electioneering” because it stood out, and people didn’t like it, but it rocked like hell and was almost preternaturally predictive of the political landscape 20 years later.
On Kid A it was “Idiotqeue”
On Amnesiac it was “I Might Be Wrong”
On Hail to the Thief it was the motherfucking KING of the bonkers Radiohead album outliers, “Myxomatosis,” which, to this day, is my single favorite Radiohead song because WHAT THE FUCK.

And then on In Rainbows had... nothing, really. No single song that says, “WE ARE BETTER THAN YOU AND THIS IS WHY.” No song bold enough to sound like it belonged on another album by another band. I LIKE it and RESPECT it when bands do this.

Modest Mouse did it with “The Stars are Projectors” in 2000. Just *leveled* the competition with one big fat fucking middle finger to the world.
Slint did it with “Good Morning Captain” and the rest is history.
(Kanye did it with “Runaway” and anyone who wants to fite can line the fuck up)

Radiohead decided to stop doing it, and I promptly lost interest and I haven’t been a hardcore fan since.

You are a good person.
Read my wankoff above.

“Myxomatosis,” like Darkseid in DC Comics, is beyond description.

Myxomatosis is.

I don't want to be 'that girl', but...I've only really been into them since about 2017.
I'm not that old...

As of a few weeks ago, my ranking of the songs on Amnesiac:
1. I Might Be Wrong
2. Pyramid Song
x. the live version of Like Spinning Plates
3. You and Whose Army?
4. Life in a Glasshouse
5. Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box
6. Dollars and Cents
7. Knives Out
8. Like Spinning Plates
9. Hunting Bears
10. Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors
11. Morning Bell/Amnesiac

I agree with you on stuff like Sardines, Morning Bell, and Whose Army?, but Pyramid Song is magnificent and Life in a Glasshouse is great. And, while Spinning Plates is a good song, the backwards piano studio version seems like a bit of style over substance. The live version destroys it.

Not disagreeing. You know my Blur opinions though.

Those are good ones. The issue is, when songs from IR come on shuffle, I skip over them usually.

All of those outliers are great. Myxomatosis probably makes my top ten RH songs, but please don't make me come up with a list because I couldn't.

Good for you!
See, I am kinda old, and it’s sad. So whatever.


Ok, deal.

But if I had to do mine, I guarantee “Myxomatosis” would be way up top, along with “There There.”

And “Idioteque,” “I Might Be Wrong,” “Airbag,” “Weird Fishes/Arpeggi” and some others.

Fuck it I felt like doing it anyway.

'Creep', 'Fake Plastic Trees', 'Street Spirit (Fade Out)','Paranoid Android', 'Exit Music (For a Film)', 'Let Down', 'Karma Police', 'Climbing up the Walls', 'How to Disappear Completely', 'Idioteque'.

Hm, only material from the first four makes it. Says something about how their recent stuff may just be reputation.

Over the winter holiday we went to El POaso TX to visit my in-laws, and I found a record store, (All That Music) which had so muc h vinyl! All types!


I bought 15 7" singles (after browsing through 1,000. There were about 5,000 on display, and the owner said he had 100,000 of them! ) and I bought some excellent vinyl LP's.


Cornelius - Fantasma (Reissue 2xLP)
REM - Can't Get There From Here 12" (original promo only)
Jane's Addiction - Been Caught Stealing 12" single (promo only)
Xiu Xiu - A Promise LP (RSD leftover, colored vinyl with an extra 7" inside)
Sigur Ros - Von 2xLP (came with a CD)
Buena Vista Social Club - Lost and Found LP(Live recordings from Cuban concert)

OH I forgot, I also got FUTURE - FUTURE 2 x LP!!!!!

This one features Natalie Merchant, right? Noice. I think a lossless version has been shared on Dime... I bought an incomplete vinyl edition of it in New York back in early 1994.

Record show last Friday in town

Pink Floyd - bootleg 10" with Syd era rarities, radio shows and the like
The Sisterhood - Gift
Swans - Children Of God
Standells - best of collection on Rhino

Birthday shopping. Three albums, zero words on the covers.

Also ran into my parents, shopping for stuff for me themselves. Convinced them to get Dookie on vinyl, so I'll get that on Wednesday.

Thanks to $60 of iTunes gift cards from my other grandparents, I was able to get these ones:

And this one too, because this forum only gives me four images per post. :fuckyou:

EA80 - "2 Takte Später" (1985) & "Licht!" (1989)

Bought them at their first ever gig in Vienna yesterday. Legends of German Punk. "Dr. Murkes Gesammeltes Schweigen" is such an amazing tune.

Here's a quote from the Most Anticipated Albums of 2018 thread, dated 3 May 2018






That very same day I ordered that Bunny Tylers album on CD. Guess how long it took to arrive at my house?




300 days !!

it arrived today. But it is numbered 167 out of 300. And it's cool.







To celebrate, I ordered the following:


• Callas With Lee Ranaldo - Trouble And Desire
• Low - Double Negative
• Mono (Jap) - Nowhere Now Here
• Rivulets - In Our Circle
• Lubomyr Melnyk - Fallen Trees
• Neil Young - Songs For Judy
• Neil Young - Roxy: Tonight's The Night Live
• Pink Floyd - The Wall (CD)
• Pink Floyd - The Wall (DVD movie)
• Roger Waters - The Wall Live In Berlin (DVD)

I feel you, _brother_tunic_. In order to avoid unbelievably fucked-up customs taxes, I have all my orders delivered to a buddy of mine in the U.S., who then ships them to me in a package marked as "gift", but only once they've reached critical weight mass. So it can took months. AIN'T complaining, though! :D


This is the shit. As you know from the Dime uploads, last year, after this album came out, Neil put together a Crazy Horse which looked more like the Stray Gators, since Nils Lofgren —the original Tonight's The Night lead guitar player— took Poncho's place. But now it looks like Sampedro's done ("farming in Hawaii", apparently) and Lofgren is an official Horse. You NEVER know with Neil, though...

Bell & Tom - Milk & Spilled Milk

Houston duo Bill Lambert and John Kennedy (Cyclops Joint)

Wolf Eyes & Universal Eyes split

I overspent my budget for this month for some stuff that should have been in my collection already:


Mark Hollis - Mark Hollis
Talk Talk - Colour Of Spring
Talk Talk - Spirit Of Eden
Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
Jacques Brel - Enregistrements Originaux - Intégrale 1953-1977 - Coffret 21 CD
Serge Gainsbourg - Intégrale - Coffret 20 CD
Serge Gainsbourg - D'Autres Nouvelles Des Étoiles (DVD)

Swans - What Is This?

Times New Viking
- Dig Yourself, LP
- The Paisley Reich, LP
- Rip It Off, LP