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Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 7:18 pm

DJ Shadow - The Outsider

Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 9:11 pm

Any album with Dennis Hopper on it has to be good [mjeyds]

Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 1:40 pm

Silver Mt Zion Memorial Orchestra and the Tra-La-La Band With Choir - This Is Our Punk Rock, Thee Rusted Satellites Gather + Sing

Long name, flipping brilliant album - on a par, i reckon with GSYBE!

Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 2:01 pm

I'm listening to "Ziggy Stardust" and have decided that it's the best rock album ever made.

Don't even attempt to change my mind about it.

Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 2:13 pm

i wouldnt dare - Moonage Daydream is one of the best things i've ever heard.

Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 5:41 pm

DJ Shadow - Entroducing

More dope beats than you can shake a hommie's stick at

Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 3:10 pm

DJ Shadow - The Private Press

Great stuff, better than The Outsider but not up to the masterpiece level of Entroducing.

Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 10:38 pm

Excellent intro to the album; things vary after that with some seriously seriously brilliant tracks amidst the concept. I'm seeing The Australian Pink Floyd Show later in the year playing "The Best of The Wall + classic Pink Floyd", and the last time i saw them they played the live versions from the Pulse tour (urgh, that gives away some of my geekiness [sad5])

Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 9:24 am

Ironic wrote:

Excellent intro to the album; things vary after that with some seriously seriously brilliant tracks amidst the concept. I'm seeing The Australian Pink Floyd Show later in the year playing "The Best of The Wall + classic Pink Floyd", and the last time i saw them they played the live versions from the Pulse tour (urgh, that gives away some of my geekiness [sad5])

No shame in admitting you went to see Pink Floyd live. I went all the way to Wembley to see them around 1990 ('A Momentary Lapse...' kind of era), but couldn't get in.

I must have listened to The Wall a hundred times in my youth.
Best thing on the album - by some way - is Comfortably Numb, the Dave Gilmour one. Never mind all that Waters drear.

Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 10:42 am

CentaursFeast wrote:

No shame in admitting you went to see Pink Floyd live. I went all the way to Wembley to see them around 1990 ('A Momentary Lapse...' kind of era), but couldn't get in.

I must have listened to The Wall a hundred times in my youth.
Best thing on the album - by some way - is Comfortably Numb, the Dave Gilmour one. Never mind all that Waters drear.

Never seen PF live - just the Australian tribute band (TAPFS). I've seen Gilmour live; he played Sorrow instead of Comfortably Numb.

Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 10:46 am

CentaursFeast wrote:

Best thing on the album - by some way - is Comfortably Numb, the Dave Gilmour one. Never mind all that Waters drear.

The version of that song played at Earls Court on the Pulse dvd, with extended final guitar solo and weird shiny disco ball thing unfolding form the arena's ceiling is feckin unbelievable.

Speaking of The Wall, i dont think there's a word for The Wall: Live in Berlin (1990). It was a nice gesture, horrifically executed. Put me off Waters for life. [sad5]

Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 10:52 am

CentaursFeast wrote:

I went all the way to Wembley to see them around 1990 ('A Momentary Lapse...' kind of era), but couldn't get in.

A Momentary Lapse Of Reason: most ironically titled album ever? Probably my least favourite of the Floyd albums i've heard.

Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 12:36 pm

Ironic wrote:

CentaursFeast wrote:

I went all the way to Wembley to see them around 1990 ('A Momentary Lapse...' kind of era), but couldn't get in.

A Momentary Lapse Of Reason: most ironically titled album ever? Probably my least favourite of the Floyd albums i've heard.

well, I thin it's got more character than The Division Bell. And I like the opening instrumental. Apart from that, I have nothing to say for it.

Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 6:41 pm

CentaursFeast wrote:

Best thing on the album - by some way - is Comfortably Numb, the Dave Gilmour one. Never mind all that Waters drear.

and the best performance of the song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4nA_-PxeIo

Old Pro Joined: 29 Jul 2009 Posts: 289

Over the Rhine's "Ohio". Nice languorous folk-rock. A touch of Cat Power but less suicidal. The group is apparently a bit of a well-kept secret so I'd better not mention them.

Ohio residents might be able to tell me what this lyric means in the title track:
"It was summertime in '83
We were burnin' out at the rubber tree"

On the classical side, highlights include Arvo Part's minimalist piano works, and some stuff by Martinu, who strikes me as a kind of Czech Benjamin Britten. His Double Concerto for 2 String Orchestras is mighty.

Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 8:35 pm

Ottmar Liebert...creator of something he calls Nouveau Flamenco but is classified as new age. I got on a luthiers list 3 years ago for a new guitar and as luck would have it my name came up just as I discovered Ottmar who plays one like I'll get. Maybe I can imitate the Liebert sound.