Mojave 3 -- Out Of Tune

So after the UK shoegazing scene blew up, the two guys and one girl from Slowdive left Berkshire and the wall of fuzz behind and started making incredible and (to me) deeply American records full of Hammond organ and pedal steel guitars and alt-country tropes. Did I mention they're incredible? This one is as sunny and hazy as the day on the cover.

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Annie Lennox -- Diva

Tiny Vipers -- Life On Earth

Graeme Norgate & Grant Kirkhope - Goldeneye 007

Iron Maiden - Live After Death (EMI Japan first pressing)

Bjork -- Voltaic (Live)

We Were Promised Jetpacks -- These Four Walls

Like it. Spiky, fun.

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Donald Fagen -- The Nightfly

Nice. Though I prefer both of Walter Becker's solo albums, this is certainly Donald Fagen's best... and better than the last two SD albums as well, which I'm just not a big fan of...

Feist -- The Reminder

Nice. I prefer Let It Die but this is pretty good... being in Toronto presently, I've been spinning that, and these:

No excuse for this but for some reason I have yet to acquire Brendan Canning's recent effort... and while I like Kevin Drew's Spirit If, the aforementioned two BSS albums proper beat it fairly handily IMO.

Malcolm Middleton -- Into The Woods

This is lowish-fi, but I think some of you would probably dig it too.

mmm?

We Were Promised Jetpacks -- These Four Walls

Like it. Spiky, fun.

Nice! Great name too.

Today, a fair whack of the Smithereens:

Green Thoughts is definitely my fav overall, despite some FANTASTIC tracks on Especially For You ("Alone at Midnight" is three and a half minutes of absolute perfection in the genre, that bridge in the middle of the song after the guitarey bit... ugh!!! so simple but SO delicious!). Curiously of these first three Smithereens albums, it took me the longest to warm up to Green Thoughts. Can't figure out why now.

I find this one a little weak compared to the first two despite some high points... "Room Without a View" particularly. Great track.

All the stuff on Beck's website.

New Order - Substance

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So after the UK shoegazing scene blew up, the two guys and one girl from Slowdive left Berkshire and the wall of fuzz behind and started making incredible and (to me) deeply American records full of Hammond organ and pedal steel guitars and alt-country tropes. Did I mention they're incredible? This one is as sunny and hazy as the day on the cover.

check this one by Simon Scott

Televise - Songs to Sing in A and E

I feel like Craig Kilbourn in "Craig Kilbourn has a better idea" (a running gag in which he starts listening to a recent artist's current release [sting and Sade were two examples], and then stops it and plays one of their older releases [Police and her first album, respectively]) every time I play Mojave 3. Mojave 3 makes me miss Slowdive.

Neil Finn - Try Whistling This

Mojave 3 makes me miss Slowdive.

You can't go home again.

(Wanders off to try and find that Neil Finn album.)

The Doors -- L.A. Woman

DCC Gold.

Schubert piano trios, Haydn Trio Eisenstadt via SACD

You can't go home again.

(Wanders off to try and find that Neil Finn album.)

Note to self, borrow Try Whistling This from my father.

Note to self, borrow Try Whistling This from my father.

I enjoy the heck out of it.

onto:

White Zombie - La Sexorcisto-Devil Music Vol. 1

Brahms piano concerto no 2

needle drop from noisy vinyl. I have no idea who the conductor or orchestra is, and the sound quality isn't very good, but damn the performance is stunning.

Beck -- Modern Guilt

Pink Floyd -- Atom Heart Mother

Dvorak, Slavonic Dances

First OMG moment with JH13s in the opening track. Reem Kelani's voice just ripped through, like a hit to the chest. Real physical reaction, though almost scary.

Berlioz/Munch/BSO- Symphonie fantastique