Entertainment For Lively Minds
What to buy right now?
Posted by Con Coleman on 30 January 2009 - 1:05pm.
Friends.
It's pay day and I'm off to my local Fopp later to spend some of the old hard-earned.
Simple question: what should I buy? Preferably something recent. All suggestions welcome.
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Solid Air
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Bon Iver
For Emma, Forever Ago - on the verge myself, having heard an interview and a track on the, ahem, Guardian music podcast.
Grace & Danger
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I got some Lambchop albums for £3 on Monday from Fopp.
Nice ambient country music. Almost every song sounds the same so if you're interested just get "When Another Man Spills".
Recent stuff? REM's "Accelerate" and CSS' under rated "Donkey" albums were only £3.
Donkey
£3? It may not have been quite the debut, but at that price we can show our favourite Brazilian sextet some support in these 'difficult times' and 'current climate' etc
Debut?
Donkey is second album. First album has about three pretty good tracks on it I think - Let's Make Love is one.
I meant it as
'not quite AS GOOD as the debut' darling. Sorry
Which one's not? Eh?
Anyway, it's not as good as the debut is it?
Fight!
The first album 'CSS' is half amazing, Donkey less so. If you disagree on this matter, pick a car park of your choice and we'll 'sort it'
The first album is borderline great.
The second sounds pretty much the same to me. I couldn't really pick which one is best. I have no idea why people really, really don't like "Donkey".
Actually neither do I
Perhaps the novelty factor wore off. Plus the first album knocked around for a fair bit while they built up their reputation at the festivals, and various tracks were picked up for edgy trailers and sound beds.
Actually, one thing I REALLY HATE is this:
ALBUM ONE
A band builds up a bit of interest. Limited editions, a series of early singles. Eventually an album comes out - maybe with two or three rerecorded versions of the early singles.
ALBUM TWO
Release a comeback single a week before the release of the second album and arrogantly assume the customer loyalty will pay off. It doesn't. You're lucky if you're remembered in a month
Can I predict...
...this will be Fleet Foxes in a year's time?
it's the name
Donkey is rotten name for anything even a mule .(except this is for a member of the leeds first eleven)
Confused.com
But that's what I meant as well lovely. If you insist on a fight don't forget to wear an all-in-one, multi-colured lycra body stocking affair as a homage.
HMV
Have several Martyn albums as part of their 2 fer £10 affair.
Failing that, get one of those box things. I got one in HMV Oxford Street last week. It's a battery operated ambience mood thing. It has various loops - a bit ching ching lala - but Brian Eno has seven of them apparently, and oh god if I could remember what the bloody thing was called I'd find it and put the link up. Anyway it's £17. It's amazing.
Buy the Franz album with the dub disc.
Bad Vibes by Luke Haines (caution: this is a book)
I like the new Rakes album too, but that's not out until March so Fopp may not have that. I also downloaded The Free Design's Best Of (COMPLETELY AMAZING) and would happily badger people in the street about its genius
One of these?
One of these? http://www.fm3buddhamachine.com/
Animal Collective
Merriweather Post Pavillion
Damian Durado
caught in the trees if you can find it.
The Blue Nile not new but always worth a punt
Or Jurado, even.
Nice, tho'
Depends how much you want to spend
Both 'Take Me To The River' and 'A Complete Introduction to Northern Soul' are excellent but on the pricey side and not exactly recent other than being released recently.
I'd also say Bon Iver's album but my favourite recent stuff is:
Midnight Organ Fight - Frightened Rabbit
Doo You Like Rock Music? - British Sea Power
Seldom Seen Kid - Elbow
or albums from Those Dancing Days, Department of Eagles, The Week That Was. All stuff I have recently enjoyed.
i've been watching the price of those soul comps
and you'd be better off online
I bought one from Amazon...
...and got the other at a 20% discount here in Holland which made it cheaper than online, even with the current exchange rate. Fopp doesn't knock them out cheaply then?
One day
someone will explain, and I will understand, the point of British Sea Power. My initial interest has waned. They seem a bit like a bird-watching Teardrop Explodes, but happy to be corrected
It's just a matter of taste, isn't it?
We can't all like the same stuff. For what it's worth I thought their second album was (mostly) garbage. The first still gets played regularly and last year's was one of my favourites of the year.
You may have persuaded me there
I don't actually get British Sea Power either, but a bird-watching Teardrop Explodes sound right up my street, so may have to give them another go after that description.
Don't buy Fleet Foxes...
...buy some John Martyn instead. You know it makes sense.
Calexico..
... Carried to Dust, Great album, good title too
go out on a limb
try some Ian Tyson,writer of the Canadian Anthem "Four Strong Winds" and the best writer of cowboy music ever!!
What to Buy..
I'm with Chasandmorph on Animal Collectives newie 'Merriweather Post Pavilion'. Although a big fan of Panda Bear Ive always struggled with them up until this album which I have to say is a sheer joy from beggining to end. Inventive, hypnotic and,in some places, just about the right side of absurd (a compliment believe me).
Im also with Chris G on Damien Jurado's 'Caught in the Trees', a fantastic, as always, album.
May I also suggest two others that I love and seem to have on constant loop at the moment....James Yorkstons - When the Haar Rolls in and Peter Brodericks 'Home', both exceptional long players.
I'm not normally one for soundtracks
and i'm terribly conservative in a lot of tastes, but the Soundtrack to Slumdog Millionaire is quite good. Count 'em, TWO songs nominated for best Original Song in the Oscars and TWO blinding versions of Paper Planes by MIA.
When I was in Fopp last week
I picked up the three bloomin marvellous Dylan 'Performing Artist' books by Paul Williams for z mate - total price 6 quid.
He hasn't stopped thanking me. Although his missis is pissed off with him playing the records as aural accompniament and reference.
Also picked up Giles Smith's 'Lost in Music', '1968 and all that' and 'Dylan on Dylan' all for 2 quid a throw.
apparently they sell cds and dvds too.