From: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org (idealcopy-digest) To: idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Subject: idealcopy-digest V9 #4 Reply-To: idealcopy@smoe.org Sender: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk idealcopy-digest Thursday, January 5 2006 Volume 09 : Number 004 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [idealcopy] slits / pop group [PaulRabjohn@aol.com] Re: [idealcopy] slits / pop group [giluz ] [idealcopy] My End of Year Lists... ["Keith A" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 10:59:35 -0500 From: PaulRabjohn@aol.com Subject: [idealcopy] slits / pop group just having a browse on amazon and i see a whole pile of stuff available i'd not realised was out. some japanese company is doing vinyl represses , there's "we are time" , "in the beginning 12" and the slits "official bootleg" album. also i see a (very pricey ; #31) slits "live retrospective" and the "giant slits" album is available as a japanese import at normal cd price. there's a new ari up album out now (and tour in march) with tessa of the slits back on board. never got to see her as yet (she failed to turn up to her last brum gig , promoter highly underwhelmed). maybe worth a look , be nice to see her at least once. happy 2006 to you all. p ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 19:16:56 +0200 From: giluz Subject: Re: [idealcopy] slits / pop group On 1/4/06, PaulRabjohn@aol.com wrote: > > some japanese company is doing vinyl represses , there's "we are time" , > "in the beginning 12" and the slits "official bootleg" album. also i see a > (very pricey ; #31) slits "live retrospective" and the "giant slits" album > is available as a japanese import at normal cd price. I think the official bootleg and live retrospective overlap so you should carefully check them out before purchasing. there's a new ari up album out now (and tour in march) with tessa of the > slits back on board. never got to see her as yet (she failed to turn up to > her last brum gig , promoter highly underwhelmed). maybe worth a look , be > nice to see her at least once. It's a cool album - heavy Jamaican dub with mostly electronic instruments and Ari herself doing what she does best. There's a Clash sample in one of the songs.The bonus track I think is the way she would sound live, which is basically very much like the slits - punk & reggae interwined. And Ari, though her voice is much deeper and her accent now Jamaican, is basically the same hyper girl, still with those impossibly long dreadlocks and minimal clothing and the "let's make a terrible racket" girlish tendency. cheers giluz - -- Now playing: http://www.last.fm/user/giluz/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 16:43:33 -0000 From: "Keith A" Subject: [idealcopy] My End of Year Lists... A bit later in the day, but here's my end of year top tens... SINGLES OF THE YEAR 1. DEVIL IN THE DETAIL - The Nightingales Fourth and best 7" single released by this fine re-formed band in the past year or so, finding the band flexing their muscles and indulging in some incessant riffing over a ferocious, yet toe-tapping beat. In fact, it's almost as if Cook & Jones, that steamrolling Pistols duo, joined your favourite Krautrock band for an extended run through Paranoid - complete with searing feedback. There's also a driving, yet melodic bass line underpinning the excitement, whilst singer Robert Lloyd adopts an almost Iggy-like drawl on top of it all. Six and a half minutes of pure bliss and undoubtedly my single of the year. Get your copy now. 2. LOVE IN A TRASHCAN - The Raveonettes That modern day Sonny & Cher who play Psychocandy, continue to appeal to the part of me that loves a good tune with a great beat. 3. LOVE IS A DESERTER - The Kills A cracking single with a great mucky guitar sound. It's like a less poppy Raveonettes. 4. KING OF THE MOUNTAIN - Kate Bush Initially I thought this was a so-so song with a badly dated production and a horrible cod-reggae guitar bit in the middle that was waaaay too loud in the mix. But after some welly as they say in these parts (I played it loads!), I suddenly realised that this was a great song, the production fitted it like a glove and, most amazingly of all, the horrible cod-reggae bit worked. 5. YETI - Caribou There's something quite Can-like number about the way the instruments weave around each other over a repetitive beat, and I love the way the clattery drums burst in periodically to give a sense of urgency to things. 6. HOPPIPOLLA - Sigur Ros From its gorgeous piano intro to the big choral moment, this is a beauty which in a perfect world would have been the Christmas number one. Dream on. 7. FEEL GOOD INC - Gorillaz One of three great pop singles this year by Damon and his cartoon mates, but this comes out tops for me - for the classic Kinks-like chorus if nothing else. 8. ALL NIGHT DISCO PARTY - The Brakes This sounds like something that could have been released twenty five years ago, with its novelty-like feel and dead-pan vocals. It's like a daft Kraftwerk with guitars. 9. LIST OF DEMANDS (REPERATIONS) - Saul Williams This finds Williams sounding like a deranged Andre 3000 yelling that he's got a list of demands written in the palm of his hand over high searing notes and an I Wanna Be Your Dog-like riff - and that's before the mocking 'ner ners' come in. All in all, it's pretty intense stuff. 10. GALVANIZE - Chemical Brothers Usually I find the CB's stuff just a little too obvious, but this has a great rhythm and some nice eastern bits that bring Transglobal Underground to mind. Add some Kraftwerk-like robotic 'push the button' bits and you've got yourselves a fine dance single. LP's 1. CRIPPLE CROW - Devendra Banhart Choc full of Ty Rex era Bolanic warbling and melodies that worm their way in after just a few plays. Some of it moves me, some of disturbs me and some of it - especially the plain daft Chinese Children - brings a whopping big smile to my face. 2. OTHER VOICES - Angels of Light Acoustic, yet rhythmic despite the lack of percussion, there's a dark intensity to this, aided by that deep, meaningful growl. Dadrock it's not! 3. THE NEEDLE IS TRAVELLING - Tarwater Like all Tarwater records with those deep vocals and thinly disguised melodies, this has grown on me, and although I'm not for a moment suggesting this is a better album than Silur or Animals Suns And Atoms, if you like this band, you're sure to like this a lot . 4. THE BACK ROOM - Editors Describing it as sounding like Joy Division singing more conventional pop songs might sound off-putting, but there really are some good songs here, all sang in that low Curtis-style voice. Not the Interpol copy-cat band I first thought. 5. PRETTY IN BLACK - The Raveonettes The dynamic Danish duo aided and abetted by Ronnie Spector, Mo Tucker and Martin Rev - with the Love In A Trashcan single and the sneaky sounding You Say You Lie standing out. 6. THE GREAT DESTROYER - Low This album really is a grower, and is far from the disappointing Low Rock Out album it was made out to be. They're still making some beautiful stuff. 7. CITIZEN CAIN'D - Julian Cope I'm not totally convinced by all of disc one, as enjoyable as it is in a Raw Power kind of way, and like so many double albums there's a classic single album bursting to get out, but.Feels Like A Crying Shame is the best Cope track in a long time, and that's praise indeed from me - esp love the way Julian sings on it like he used to sing before he went all raawwk! 8. THE MILK OF HUMAN KINDNESS - Caribou Very Neu-like at times, even if one track does remind me of The Who's Pinball Wizard. There's also a mellowness that is a very different proposition from the altogether harder-hitting live experience, and which works well on record. 9. FALL HEADS ROLL - The Fall More evidence after The Unutterable and Country On The Click that Mark E Smith really is back on form. Get the rather disappointing opening track out of the way and there are some great stuff here, notably Proteinprotection, where Smiths vocals burst in vintage MES style, and latter day Fall classic Blindness. 10. PROFILE - Githead This was a real grower, with Colin Newman's melodies worming their way into my head (as they are prone to do!). I still feel that some of the percussion is a bit ploddy on a couple of tracks and that They Are is Newman's worst ever song, but overall it's now a definite thumbs-up with it's strong hooks and PIL-like basslines. Stand out track for me is still Raining Down. Keith ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 13:48:11 EST From: PaulRabjohn@aol.com Subject: Re: [idealcopy] slits / pop group In a message dated 04/01/2006 17:18:26 GMT Standard Time, giluzzz@gmail.com writes: I think the official bootleg and live retrospective overlap so you should carefully check them out before purchasing. /////you're probably right. the live retrospective looks cheaply packaged so maybe its just familiar stuff cobbled together. #31 is silly money. much as i love the slits , the official bootleg is a very hard lp to like. awful sound , none of the style of the peel sessions or "in the beginning" live set. p ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 21:28:21 +0100 From: "Mileta Okiljevic" Subject: [idealcopy] OT-Obojeni Program download Some people from lists like Ari from IdealCopy asked me about some music from our spaces. So, i finally decide to offer you music of band who existed from 1981 . It is OBOJENI PROGRAM ( Coloured Program)and they played in various line-up, only persistance member is Branislav Babic - Kebra, who is spiritus movens of this band. He wrote and several books, written in not so usual style. As you can guessthey was influenced by Wire, Fall, Magazine, Talking Heads, Gang Of Four... Near the end of last year they publish last album Da li je to covek ili je Masina (Is it Man or is It Machine? ) recorded in Holland and people on MTV Adria can watch their videos. They was laready in early 90's in MTV 120 Minutes, adn was on John Peel playlist and was one of bands played in Peel tributes.. On adress below there are few songs band offered for download for welcome..be free to use it.. and for Tuxedo Moon fans..they are from Novi Sad, city where Suba lived and they were friends. Kebra was because of their longevity and respect hailed as M.E.S from this spaces.. enjoy... http://www.obojeniprogram.com/final_pages/archive.html ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 15:58:38 EST From: RLynn9@aol.com Subject: Subject: [idealcopy] Black Sun Productions Subject: [idealcopy] Black Sun Productions Black Sun Productions' operettAmorale is one of the more interesting releases of last year - a reshuffling of Brecht & Weill's Three Penny Opera, it certainly sounds like the way they would have done it today - apart from great lyrical inpertertations, like Pimp Ballad where both Mackie and Jenny are gay men, there are also simply beautiful and haunting musical moments like "La canzone dei pendagli da forca". Dark and disturbing and very recommended. cheers giluz>>>>>>>> ****it IS a fantastic little album isn't it? and don't forget, it conatins a track with one of the last vocal performances by the late Jhonn Balance of Coil....speaking of Coil, their final album as a group; "The Ape of Naples" is a beautiful, haunting, and sad way to end Coil...kudos to Sleazy for a job well done..it must've been very difficult for him.... Best Wishes to ALL, Robert p.s....to those familiar with Black Sun Productions, have any of you heard draZen's "Visions of Anarcadia" ??? very much in the same vein as Coil's soundscape pieces...good stuff..still trying to get my hands on "Astral Walk" though ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 19:42:48 -0600 From: David McKenzie Subject: [idealcopy] 2005 top 10 9or so) uncalled for and uncommented in no particular order details upon request kate bush - aerial githead - profile ayumi hamasaki - my story fall - heads roll akiko yano - honto no himochi ryuichi sakamoto - /05 towa tei - flash a hundred bird - fly from the tree (for the first 60 seconds) john cale - black acetate miroque - siro cocoon metalchicks - metalchicks buffalo daughter - psychic (prog lives!) oldboy (movie) kung fu hustle (another movie) howl's moving castle (anime) rest in peace derek bailey rest in peace constitution of the united states good night and good luck ------------------------------ End of idealcopy-digest V9 #4 *****************************