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I also started sorting through my old tapes and found the absolute stonker New York by Lou Reed. I don't have a decent tape deck anymore so just rebought it on vinyl - not only is it an awesome record but its still incredibly contemporary despite being made in the late 80's - even mentions Trump and Rudi Guliani!
Neds Atomic Dustbin - God Fodder
Heard a track played on 6music the other day.
A true classic of the early nineties when the Stumpjumper ruled the trails.
Yeah, more people are now realising this fact of streaming services, a lot of more idiosyncratic stuff will not be available. There was a piece in the Guardian this week about classic films you can’t stream, soon it’ll be anything less popular just won’t be worth the server space. Many good records and films will be totally forgotten existed to death.
But that isn't an extra problem created by streaming services, it has always been the way. Films and music that weren't popular was always difficult to get, once the initial released stock was gone, that was it. We are still in the boat of searching online for a DVD in stock. And it isn't storage space that is the problem, it is the rights costs to stream or stock for download.
Just to keep this brilliant thread alive…just fished out Argus, Wishbone Ash.
Ah I have Live Dates. A brilliant album which demonstrates what a great live band they were.
I found this a few years ago when going through a bit of a hard time and for me it provided a welcome relaxing distraction for an hour. Just found it again recently and still enjoyed the whole sound and feel. Might not be to too many peoples taste on here, but if you enjoy folky harmonies like Kings of convenience, Simon and Garfunkel etc you may enjoy (on Spotify as a live album ) Music starts at 1:40
Rejoice! It’s finally made it to iTunes:
Maybe it’s a reference to a ‘Butlerian Jihad’?
Girdle your loins…
Queens of the Circulating Library by Coil
Now available on ITunes for £1.49
Monster, monster👍👍👍
Then Jericho. Electric.
Frikken awesome album but sequence is way off.
Play Reeling , it's track 9 or so . An absolute belter of an 80s tune, complete with violins which should be a single as it's a great song .
The The: Infected. It has aged well👍
Radioactivity by Radioactivity
Only 10 years old though so might not count.
Doolittle is my 12 year old sons favourite album of all time ( shortish exposure though) and also my wife's most hated. He only has 6 albums for his turntable and its on every night and attempts to be car DJ with it. I forgot how good it was.
Then Jericho. Electric
Great shout. Funnily enough Big Area popped up on Spotify for me the other day.
Shack - HMS Fable. Don’t remember buying it, cannot recall playing it, but got put on a few months back and stayed on for many weeks. Very good.
‘Kontiki’ by Cotton Mather
Found myself absentmindedly whistling a tune whilst pottering in the garden. Took a while to work out what it was, but realised it was Medicine Show 😄
Carl Craig - Landcruising
The Fire Theft - The Fire Theft
Ok I'll add Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. Smashing Pumpkins. Listening it tonight
Shack HMS fable . Someone mentioned it on twitter the other day and I hadn't listened to it in years . Didn't sound aged at all , just really good songs .
Gomez - Bring it on and Liquid skin. Played again this last week after listening to Ben Ottowell’s solo output. A fantastic bunch of talented musicians and in my opinion much better than a lot of their British peers from the same period.
I’ve just started listening to a podcast that celebrates 90s indie and it has brought back loads of memories.
currently ‘discovering’ and loving the Senseless Things, having missed them at the time.
Lichens – The Psychic Nature Of Being
Got it when it came out (2005), listened causally a few time, put it on the shelf, forgot about it for a decade and then randomly tuned in a few years back and was blown away…
I’ve now got 20+ his (Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe) other albums on the back of this.
If you are into odd electronic droney stuff, he’s highly recommended.
@funkmasterp - I’ve just seen that Gomez are touring again to mark 25 years since Bring It On was released. We went to the 20th anniversary tour at the Albert Halls and they were awesome!
HMS Fable by Shack is another absolute classic. They also released the Oscar EP about the same time, with what surely has to be the most Scouse song ever recorded and live versions of a few tracks off HMS Fable
I love this track!
Re-discovered ,and an instant time travel back to (for us) a most excellent year.
Doves - The Last Broadcast
Good call @fasthaggis. An absolute masterpiece. I think I saw them 4 times on that tour.
I recently had a drive to do so shoved Lost Souls on from start to finish. I got really emotional listening to the whole thing. If ever an album summed up the mood of the times, that was it. A decade of hedonism coming to an end and now facing up to the inevitable aftermath. The whole album feels like a come down, but still manages some weirdly uplifting moments in all the melancholy. A strange mix. Its something unique that could only ever have been recorded in Manchester
I came on here to mention Car Button Cloth by the Lemonheads. My daughter loves, "If I could talk I'd tell you". But noticed Shack in the comments. I don't think I had the album but I think I had one track on a free Mojo or Q cd. Will listen properly later.
Good and Gone - Screamin Blue Messiahs
Stop That Train - Clint Eastwood and General Saint
I came on here to mention Car Button Cloth by the Lemonheads.
A perfect Sunday afternoon album, so on it goes tomorrow. Bonus points for the mountain bike referencing lyric.
It won't be everyone's cup of tea but it was her birthday this week, and on Twitter someone had posted a video of them doing Birthday. Which in turn led me back to Life's Too Good. I still don't really know what they're about but thank Peel there was always space for bands like Sugarcubes
The Marlboro Men - It Ain't A Hunting Party Till Something Gets Broken
You can thank me later.
Nimrod.
I listened to it the other day for the first time in like 20years. Solid
The Marlboro Men – It Ain’t A Hunting Party Till Something Gets Broken
You can thank me later
Thanks.
Just listened on a ride. The exhilaration of Sabbath/Deep Purple riffs without the distraction of vocals. A nice change from my usual Drum n Bass riding playlist.
Not so much a forgotten album, but I'm ashamed to say that public school prejudice stopped me appreciating what a great band ACDC were until my mid-forties.
Quite often I'll Shazam something from a soundtrack and it'll be by The Cure.
Might start a thread on the back of this . Songs that you have to turn up to 11 .
Foo Fighters All my life
ACDC thunderstruck
Subways With You
Just been trying to organise my digital/physical music a bit and a noticed few things which slipped by the wayside -
'Millionaires and Teddy Bears' by Kevin Coyne
'The Road of Silk' by Pete Atkin/Clive James
Actually, anything by the above. Some on Spotify, but not all of it. 1970s stuff, what the more trendy grown ups were listening to when I were a lad. Coyne's "the World is Full of Fools" had a particular impact on me as a young man. And listening to it again, it is just as relevant to me now. (It is a personal, introspective song, not a song about the state of the world. Listen to it when you feel that nobody understands you.)
Pisco - Good man. It's the one of the best cycling / driving/ just crank up the volume albums out there IMO.
Signing off, UB40. If you know you know (if you don’t, get on it!)
Linkin Park, Hybrid Theory.
Hadn't listened to it for years- forgot how good they were 🤘
Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs