From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V9 #133 Reply-To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sender: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk loud-fans-digest Friday, July 16 2010 Volume 09 : Number 133 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] At halftime (cue the sweet perfume...) [Richard Blatherwi] Re: [loud-fans] At halftime (cue the sweet perfume...) [treesprite@earthl] Re: [loud-fans] At halftime (cue the sweet perfume...) [truepantone293@ao] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:08:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Richard Blatherwick Subject: Re: [loud-fans] At halftime (cue the sweet perfume...) Thanks everyone, as usual for loads of recommendations and reminders of albums I'd forgotten I'd got! I'll just add my two penn'orth on some things I've heard for the first time in the last couple of weeks. Pernice Brothers' Goodbye Killer - as great as Pernice Bros albums always seem to be. Shame it is so short, but that just means that on repeat it takes less time to get back to my favourites! Teenage Fanclub's Shadows - loved the first 2 tracks from the off; repeated playing has allowed me to warm to much of the rest. Nothing earth-shatteringly new, but that isn't what most folk listen to them for. TNP's Together - on first few listens I loved Daughters of Sorrow and the rest kinda passed me by. Heavy rotation has enabled the detection of many other highlights (Silver Jenny..., Valkyrie..., etc). I don't know about anyone else here, but most TNP albums seem to work this way with me. Bluetones' New Athens - well written songs, well played and sung. I always reckoned they were rather cruelly under-rated given that their material is consistently strong to my ears. Coral's Butterfly House - lovely! As tuneful as ever, but this time there is a greater feel of light and space about it. Dangermouse & Spaeklehorse's Dark Night of the Soul - is rather the antithesis of the Butterfly House, but absolutely compelling. It's probably my top pick of the year so far. The smorgasbord of guest vocalists really works to its benefit. Stand out tracks for me being Jaykub, Little Girl and the title track. Richard - --- On Thu, 8/7/10, AWeiss4338@aol.com wrote: From: AWeiss4338@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] At halftime (cue the sweet perfume...) To: loud-fans@smoe.org Date: Thursday, 8 July, 2010, 7:59 Albums (Tie) Kathryn Calder, Are You My Mother. Vampire Weekend, Contra. TNP Together Liz Phair FunStyle Pavement, Quarantine the Past Natalie Merchant, Leave You Sleep Morning Benders Big Echo Holly Miranda. The Magician's Private Library The Unthanks, Here's the Tender Coming Tegan & Sara, Sainthood Renee Fleming, Dark Hope Songs Giving Up the Gun, Vampire Weekend Kathryn Calder, A Day Long Pat its Prime TNP, Crash Years Avi Buffalo, What's In It For... Free Energy, Bang Pop Sarah Harmer with Neko Case, Silverado Holly Miranda, Sweet Dreams Natalie Merchant, If No One Ever Marries Me The Unthanks There's Not Much Luck in Our House Tegan & Sara, Hell Andrea Andrea ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:46:01 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: treesprite@earthlink.net Subject: Re: [loud-fans] At halftime (cue the sweet perfume...) >Coral's Butterfly House - lovely! As tuneful as ever, but this time there is a >greater feel of light and space about it. I'm really looking forward to this. Their record, Invisible Invasion, was just phenomenal. That it got lost in the despicable XCP security code fiasco really was a shame. A couple new ones that have quickly joined the 2010 list are Crowded House's Intriguer and Jonsi's Go. The CH record is special. A grower, but once it sinks in it's really something special -- one of Finn's finest, I think. Jonsi was a surprise. I never dreamed that i'd want to hear a record by the singer from Sigur Ros (zzzzzz) but it's wonderful. Strangely enough, it sounds a bit like a finished version of the never-finished and unreleased solo record from the For Stars' frontman Carlos Forster. That was a record I was excited about and was given some rough mixes of, but it never did materialize. I also played a show with a woman the other day who was really great. Here name's Olivia Mancini and she put out a record in '09 called You Can See The Mountains From Here that I like a lot. I know there are a lot of folks here who are really digging Paula Carino's new one and this is a perfect compliment to that album. What we used to called RIYL in the record biz. http://www.myspace.com/oliviaandthehousemates xo, B ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:17:40 -0400 (EDT) From: truepantone293@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] At halftime (cue the sweet perfume...) Finally got my CD of this today, and man, it clocks in at only 32 minutes. But, it's good to have a new Pernice Brothers album. Been a long time. - --Mark, planning on going to see Belinda C. next week at a book signing at a Borders in L.A. Gonna get her to sign my Stiff Records 45 of "We Got the Beat" my Go-Go's picture disc, and my copy of VOILA Pernice Brothers' Goodbye Killer - as great as Pernice Bros albums always seem to be. Shame it is so short, but that just means that on repeat it takes less time to get back to my favourites! - -----Original Message----- From: Richard Blatherwick To: loud-fans Sent: Thu, Jul 15, 2010 2:12 pm Subject: Re: [loud-fans] At halftime (cue the sweet perfume...) Thanks everyone, as usual for loads of recommendations and reminders of albums I'd forgotten I'd got! I'll just add my two penn'orth on some things I've heard for the first time in the last couple of weeks. Pernice Brothers' Goodbye Killer - as great as Pernice Bros albums always seem to be. Shame it is so short, but that just means that on repeat it takes less time to get back to my favourites! Teenage Fanclub's Shadows - loved the first 2 tracks from the off; repeated playing has allowed me to warm to much of the rest. Nothing earth-shatteringly new, but that isn't what most folk listen to them for. TNP's Together - on first few listens I loved Daughters of Sorrow and the rest kinda passed me by. Heavy rotation has enabled the detection of many other highlights (Silver Jenny..., Valkyrie..., etc). I don't know about anyone else here, but most TNP albums seem to work this way with me. Bluetones' New Athens - well written songs, well played and sung. I always reckoned they were rather cruelly under-rated given that their material is consistently strong to my ears. Coral's Butterfly House - lovely! As tuneful as ever, but this time there is a greater feel of light and space about it. Dangermouse & Spaeklehorse's Dark Night of the Soul - is rather the antithesis of the Butterfly House, but absolutely compelling. It's probably my top pick of the year so far. The smorgasbord of guest vocalists really works to its benefit. Stand out tracks for me being Jaykub, Little Girl and the title track. Richard - --- On Thu, 8/7/10, AWeiss4338@aol.com wrote: From: AWeiss4338@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] At halftime (cue the sweet perfume...) To: loud-fans@smoe.org Date: Thursday, 8 July, 2010, 7:59 Albums (Tie) Kathryn Calder, Are You My Mother. Vampire Weekend, Contra. TNP Together Liz Phair FunStyle Pavement, Quarantine the Past Natalie Merchant, Leave You Sleep Morning Benders Big Echo Holly Miranda. The Magician's Private Library The Unthanks, Here's the Tender Coming Tegan & Sara, Sainthood Renee Fleming, Dark Hope Songs Giving Up the Gun, Vampire Weekend Kathryn Calder, A Day Long Pat its Prime TNP, Crash Years Avi Buffalo, What's In It For... Free Energy, Bang Pop Sarah Harmer with Neko Case, Silverado Holly Miranda, Sweet Dreams Natalie Merchant, If No One Ever Marries Me The Unthanks There's Not Much Luck in Our House Tegan & Sara, Hell Andrea Andrea ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V9 #133 *******************************