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So clearly some Newsom fans akimbo on this here forum.


I know there are quite a few smog/callahan fans on here too. In fact i reckon if were to venn it up there would be an awful lot of crosshatch going on.


So, for me it's bizarre that reviewers of the former's new release don't talk about the obvious, that it's primarily (though not remotely exclusively (frightened rabbit's penultimate it ain't)) a break-up album, and from what I can work out she just loved him and he buggered off "On a good day you can feel my love for you/ will you leave me be so that we can stay true/ to the path that you have chosen".


But listening to his last, there's huge regret, though we never get anything like her catharsis. But much regret and loss "last night i swear I felt your touch, gentle and warm, the hair stood on my arm, power, power, show me the way x3 to shake off memory...all these fine memories are fucking me down...love is the king of the beast/ a lion walking down city streets"


Is it just another example of the blame game?

If so, it's kind of beautifully dignified and poetic from both.

I did wonder if anyone would have the faintes idea what I was blithering on about (I do blither alot apparently).

It would seem not.


Yep. It's good and growing with each listen as the songs actually take form in my head. On the first few listens it's a bit like being stoned, sometimes your retinas pulse whilst your wabsnasm grasps at something, an ethereal sensation, a concrete idea; at other times a melody a riff wanders by, giving you somethig to hold on to albeit briefly.

Then the whole slowly but surely comes into focus but again it's an hour later and you realise it finished without you quite paying attention.

I'm playin it alot, but usually need some broken social scene or flowered up as the musical equivalent of an iron lung as I go through newsom decompression.


Or something

KidKruger Wrote:

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> What We Did On Our Holidays - Fairport Convention,

> and

> Back Country Blues LP - Sonny Terry & Brownie

> McGhee

>

> not at same time, just what I've heard so far...

> ;-)


excellent choices mr kruger ...... this evening we is listening to "Spoils" by Alasdair Roberts ...:))

mockney piers Wrote:

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> So clearly some Newsom fans akimbo on this here

> forum.

>

> I know there are quite a few smog/callahan fans on

> here too. In fact i reckon if were to venn it up

> there would be an awful lot of crosshatch going

> on.

>

> So, for me it's bizarre that reviewers of the

> former's new release don't talk about the obvious,

> that it's primarily (though not remotely

> exclusively (frightened rabbit's penultimate it

> ain't)) a break-up album, and from what I can work

> out she just loved him and he buggered off "On a

> good day you can feel my love for you/ will you

> leave me be so that we can stay true/ to the path

> that you have chosen".

>

> But listening to his last, there's huge regret,

> though we never get anything like her catharsis.

> But much regret and loss "last night i swear I

> felt your touch, gentle and warm, the hair stood

> on my arm, power, power, show me the way x3 to

> shake off memory...all these fine memories are

> @#$%& me down...love is the king of the beast/ a

> lion walking down city streets"

>

> Is it just another example of the blame game?

> If so, it's kind of beautifully dignified and

> poetic from both.



of course! i hadn't put 2 and 2 together- perhaps because there was quite a gap betwen both albums being released. I wonder when they actually broke up?


i love sometimes i wish....but still haven't devoted the necessary time to Have One on Me. I know i'll love it, and already do as a collection of songs, but haven't had the two hours quiet time to do it one go.

giggirl Wrote:

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> Today I'm mostly listening to:

>

> Paolo Nutini - he gets better all the time

>

> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mC_3FvA5x58

>

> Natalie Merchant - beautiful woman

>

> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RLJwCT7BDA&feature

> =related


I feel the opposite about P.N. He's grating on me. I used to like him a lot, but his voice has become so affected i can't understand a word he's singing, it's even worse live. Just sounds completely put on.

Somerset House July line up


Thur 8th Mystery Jets

Fri 9th Air

Sat 10th Noah and the Whale

Sun 11th N-Dubz

Mon 12th The Temper Trap

Tue 13th The xx

Wed 14th TBC

Thur 15th Florence and the Machine

Fri 16th Corinne Bailey Rae

Sat 17th TBC

Sun 18th Soul II Soul

KidKruger Wrote:

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> Why thank you FJD, your graciousness is

> outstanding, you may not be impressed with what

> I'm listening to right now !

>

> Sound of Silver - LCD SoundSystem


Iv'e not heard LCD Soundsystem .... I may like it , who's knows ? :))

Two new ones


Goldfrapp's Head First.

The first thing you notice is opener Rocket is Van Halen's Jump.

Then the rest bubbles nicely along in a highly polished and slick fashion.

It's actually easy listening in the guise of electronica.

I can't get rid of a sneaking suspicion that if in this day and age there is a flat full of neurotic, self/sex-obsessed lawyers in north london somewhere, that this would be the only CD they owned!


Laura Marling I Speak Because I Can.

Very, well....nice. She's casting her net wider and absorbing folk and americana influences, but then who isn't these days. It's a pleasant listen, but ultimately comes across as The Sundays with banjos and I was hoping for something with a little more bite; maybe a bit more Scout Niblett and a little less girl guide (baddam tish .. *gets coat*) :-$

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