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Yes I watched Synth Britannia last night.

^^^ anybody lucky enough to have copped some of the Kraftwerk reissues? They have omitted Kraftwerk 1, Kraftwerk 2 and Ralf und Florian but i understand these are due at a later date. New artwork and all

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Doc At the Radar Station

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^ I love getting back to Beefheart after going yonks without listening to a peep out of him. It's that kind of relationship I have with his work - I go weeks, sometimes months without hearing him wondering why he's in my top scrobbled artists in LastFM, then comes that moment when I need to remind myself and I get hooked all over again. This album in particular's such a coherent unit which quite simply never falters, and given the kind of music he made that's quite an achievement. Might even have taken over the 'favourite Beefheart album' mantle from Trout Mask Replica and Decals just now.

good idea, you realise that would be all their albums except for Anchor? their last record was released by Hydra Head too =P
I say just review them all. Go Cave In mad. I was listening to 'Jupiter' in a state of semi-consciousness last night and it was even better. That album has a funny logic to it

let's not get carried away now... there's always room for Ice Cream

Actually, I hadn't realized. I knew that Antenna was released by HH - after that I lost track..
But what I meant was reviews of albums released in the early years of the label. Early releases by Cave In, Botch, drowningman, Coalesce, etc.

damn yeah i meant Antenna. Antenna was the RCA one, then they got dropped, did a record on HH in 2005 and not a peep from them until a couple of months ago, when they released an EP.
Why not, could do with some schooling on classic metal/mathcore, all the names you mentioned keep cropping up for me

Haha - I actually pulled out my copy of the Antenna cd to check the spelling of the word and then went on to fail to remember/see that this was their big 'sellout on a major label' album. Oops. It's weird that I even own the thing (and I only do because I found it very cheap somewhere at one point) because I really only like their first stuff. I haven't even listened to Jupiter in years. But, yea, some the early Hydra Head albums are important to me - especially the first Botch one.

Machina II... ya know, The Pumpkins shoulda just taken the plunge and put out another double album... so much stellar material going on here! They could have easily bested themselves with a double Machina... people might have even welcomed it, they knew the Pumpkins were a band that didn't do things by halves...

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Right Away, Great Captain - Bitter End

Can't get enough of this album right now, I love it

The label wouldn't let them put out a double due to how weakly Adore had done.

Siamese Dream-Smashing Pumpkins.
Feels like I'm 15 again.

Whipping Boy-Heartworm.One of the best records ever made.
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If this song dosn't send a Proustian rush down your spine then I dunno.

I love that album :D The opening track Twinkle blows my head every time i hear it. When We Were Young is such a great song, i don't like the video for it though. Overall it's the 2nd best Irish rock album of the 90's :)

What,pray tell is number 1?It better not be the cliched Achtung Baby or Loveless.

Loveless ;)

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There are some real gems on here but also some average tunes. If you like The Kinks give this a listen but lyrically it is far behind the masters.
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I love the beguiling simplicity of this album.

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Can't stop listening to the third track "Love You". Great album all in all.

I had a blast of this on Friday on the regular Hi Fi. Tremendous album.

Listening to that album, I hear the evolution of Pink Floyd from Piper till the end. When listening to "Dark Globe", the influence Barett had on the others was so important.

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smooth jazz flavoured dubstep

So many latter day fans of Floyd can't get on with Barett era Floyd but his influence can never be underestimated in their sound. Piper blows my balls off!

I used to be really into that album.
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Ive been listening to Owen a lot again lately.

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Bahamas - Pink Strat has a ton of reaal great tunes...real happy I can across them not too long ago.

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Tenant are an unreal band who Ive been lucky enough to see Live a couple times now. Real unique, technical sound. Recommend to anyone who likes The Fall of Troy, Red Museum, The Sound of Silence etc.

Been feeling patriotic.
Fatima Mansions-Viva Dead Ponies
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(1981)

Kraftwerk's last great accomplishment (not counting 'the Mix'), an album that Juan Atkins (one of the inventors of techno, his partner Derrick May unforgettably described techno as 'like Kraftwerk and Parliament stuck in a lift') admits having been a huge influence on him, listening from the outer suburbs of Detroit.

Not that every Kraftwerk album isn't full of signature tunes but this record has the best ones, their delivery is liquid and it's a huge step forward technologically. It sounds like they are rising to meet the new challenges of Japan's prodigious electropop upstarts (and electronic innovators in their own right) Yellow Magic Orchestra, not to mention the many synth-pop followers who learned their trade through Kraftwerk albums and at this time were dominating the charts.

hardcore. hardcore in the best, classic sense. raw. love the track titles. the beats. golden era hip-hop. For some reason i keep judging this against the first Mobb Deep record, and this comes out on top

tell me about it, one of the hidden gems of 90s NYC hip hop. their later remix of I Got Cha Opin is brilliant too.

I'm with you. I really like most of Pink Floyd's stuff, but Piper is absolutely amazing. One of my favorite albums of all time. For me, it's the diamond among the gems of their collection.

As for what I've been digging, I've been listening to a lot of a remix of Fascination Street by The Cure and In & Out of Control by the Raveonettes - picked it up at the show Friday.

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harDCore

^ I've been meaning to check them out for a long time. Which record is that?

This one's a trip down memory lane - I used to play the hell out of it when I was 15 and I still enjoy it now. Edge Hill is fantastic!

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The notion of solo albums by drummers doesn't tend to excite me (Robert Wyatt excluded), but this sure is an interesting piece of work.
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Haven't had my ass kicked by thrash in quite a while, so this has been refreshing.
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I haven't stopped listening to this... Brompton Oratory is one of my fave Cave tracks.
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It's half of a split LP with another early DC hardcore band, Faith, from, I think, 1983.
It was also reissued in 2002.
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I was obsessed withthe album as well recently. A bit painful to listen to now unfortunately :(

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Ripped out this 2007 classic again recently. Tis still a top album. Still probably my favourite hip hop album of the year.

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Yeah so this is pretty much one of the best albums of 2009. Guy Clark's voice and song writing ability is on that level of Johnny Cash.

Ah i was thinking thats what it was but i couldnt find the cover you posted on the net. Makes sense now thanks.

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Much as you'd expect.

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^ Much better than you'd expect from an 80s Iggy album, and has a few of his best songs on it with Isolation, Shades and Real Wild Child.

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^ And this here's Starfish's longer, darker and ultimately hotter cousin.

There's a gig floating around online of a special radio broadcast gig he did for the release of this album in some small club. The material off that album really stands up well played live against his older stuff.

Hmm, I'll have to have a look out for that one. The album on the whole's good enough, but a bit on the dated side (as I'm sure you know) - I'd imagine it sounds even better with all the studio polish taken away by the live environment. Cheers for the heads-up.