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Any white smoke whirling out of Casa Noby yet?Quote:
Originally Posted by noby
Not that I'm impatient, just wondering. I'm up next then I believe. I'm thinking of confining mine to music from one (non-English-speaking) country. Might be a bit risky but sure what harm. :)
Sorry, I started but just didn't get back to it. I'll hopefully sort it out over the weekend.
I was able to get it off eMusic (as part of an unwanted subscription), haven't listened to it yet, must burn it onto a disc.Quote:
Originally Posted by stann
Anyway, I've given Another Hastily-Compiled Stanned In two or three listens and I've thoroughly enjoyed it each time. I think the (general) absence of loud guitars was welcome considering their prevalance in the opening three compilations. Apart from maybe the MBV track, I don't think I had heard any of the tracks. Highlights include The Turnaround, Wash Your Face In My Sink (really like this), Breath In, Pet's Superpet (another band I've to check out since I love 'Monza' as well [nothing to do with its similarity to my username, honest :D]), Watching The Detectives (shamefully, I've no Elvis Costello on my iTunes, apart from Oliver's Army), and Blues Music.
Goloka's Give Me Lovin would be the pick of the bunch though; top, top stuff.
Currently burning cds (finally!). Can someone pm me the addresses and I'll get them out tomorrow.
Ok, unless anyone has moved I have the addresses from the last time, with the exception of Park Lane and Davey.
Cheers Jebus!Quote:
Originally Posted by jebus
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart album (same name) really is well worth getting hold of, bit derivative maybe, but when the nods are going to the likes of MBV, Field Mice, Jesus & Mary Chain, Sundays and so on then that's no problem at all!
Ta Monzo, the MBV one is from Ecstasy & Wine, an album made up of a couple of EPs released just before they really hit form with Isn't Anything. The Pet stuff is all off the album Player One Ready which is another I'd wholeheartedly recommend. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by monzo
PM sent noby.
To mumblings of 'about time too', I finally dropped the cds into the postbox about half an hour ago.
Expect to receive 'An Animal Collective' in the next couple of days or so.
Got it today noby, hope to give it a spin or two over the weekend. Looks good, some fine selections on there. Interesting theme also! :D
Got it during the week noby; I forgot to bring it down to college with me though so it might be a while before I get to hear it.
I believe I'm next to submit a collection of music to make you go whay, whoo, yeuu and other assorted satisfied noises that may or may not suggest a spiritual metamorphosis is taking place somewhere deep inside you. Well, you know - believe and it might just happen.
Anyway, can someone please send me the addresses and I'll send mine out this week. Thanks.
pm sent, Kingdom Hoop.
Track list, by the way:
An Animal Collective
1 Elephants Mean Death - The Factory Owners 2006
2 Dogs Are Everywhere - Pulp 1986
3 Tiger Mountain Peasant Song - Fleet Foxes 2008
4 Plastic Bird - Galaxie 500 1989
5 Dragonflies - Red House Painters 1993
6 Octopus - Syd Barrett 1969
7 Surfin' Bird - The Trashmen 1964
8 Hungry Dog - Nick Gilroy Kombo 1999
9 Chicken Payback - The Bees 2004
10 Funny Little Frog - Belle & Sebastian 2006
11 Rock Lobster - The B-52's 1979
12 Orang outan - Jane Birkin / Serge Gainsbourg 1969
13 Elephant Stone - The Stone Roses 1988
14 Polar Bear - Charlatans 1990
15 Bring Down The Birds - Herbie Hancock 1966
16 Funky Mule - Ike Turner & The Kings Of Rhythm 1969
17 Superfly - Curtis Mayfield 1972
18 Bulldog - The Shangri-Las 1965
19 The Snake - Al Wilson 1968
20 Snake In The Grass - Jimmy Shondell (aka Eugene Paul) 1972
21 Monkey Man - The Maytals 1970
22 Sheep - The Housemartins 1986
23 Nellie The Elephant - Toy Dolls 1984
Haven't been on for a little while - time to post my verdict on last 2 offerings I think :)
Stann
Lot of new stuff here for me - virtually all of it worked. Have to say the tracks flowed very well, best yet in this regard. It really felt like it had a beginning, middle and end - 3 very different phases. My favourite part was the beginning phase, tracks 1 to about 7. Special shout to "Blues Music" - intoxicating mellowness. Adored Frou Frou effort too. Hebaliser is always a winner too. From the rest of this fine work, I'd highlight Pet,Rennie Pilgrim and The Pains of being Pure at Heart. Lot of new stuff to check out. Brilliant !
Noby
What can I say ? Definitely the funnest compilation so far. Great idea with the animal theme. I'd probably heard more of the tracks on this than other offerings but not in this context - weirdly made me think of them a bit differently. Never thought I'd see Red House Painters (huge fan myself) and Curtis Mayfield on the same CD ! This compilation probably made me smile more than any other.
Always hated Pink Floyd so never checked out any Syd Barrett but loved Octopus. Al Wilson's The Snake is a work of genius, put me in mind of OC Smiths Hickory Hollers Tramp. You've also had me dusting off my copy of "Now Thats what I Call Quite Good" - A fantastic album that I hadn't heard in maybe 15 years. Sheep is brilliant.
Can I repeat how good I think this whole idea is ? Looking forward to Kingdom Hoops work
Yeah, a lot of the tracks are probably familiar to most - I can't remember the last time I put the Stone Roses on a compilation - and a few others didn't make it for that same reason, e.g. the Pixies. Glad you liked it anyway.
Right, been busy with work so only getting to post on the last two offerings now. Here goes:
Another Hastily compiled stanned in
Really good compilation also loving the lack of guitars very chilled vibe about it and very beat heavy.
My favourites on this include
The Dream Warriors � Wash Your Face In My Sink this reminds me of De La soul/Tribe called quest, quality tune.
G Love & Special Sauce � Blues Music - Favourite song on this compliation love the double bass sound will definately be checking these out.
All in all a very interesting compilation loads of stuff i never heard before and an going to check out.
An Animal collective
I already knew The Bees, Shangri-La�s, Maytals, Curtis Mayfield,Roses, charlatans, Ike Turner all excellent tracks ang got me digging out some old stuff that I havent listened to in a while.
Highlights on this compilation for me are B52�s - I bought the bands first album on the back of hearing this track
galxie 5000 - Love the bassline on this
Syd Barrett- don�t know much material by him apart from early Floyd, but was pleasently surprised
Elephant stone with the extended intro � legendary makes the hairs stand up on the back of yer neck!!!!!!
Right well I finally got the chance (or gave myself the chance I suppose) to put mine together. So all songs are now selected, burnt, enumerated, typed and packaged. A few stamps and they'll be flying. Yep, Hoop There It Is: A Kingdom of Rhythm 'n' Beats will be going through a good letterbox near you soon.
I toyed with a few different themes but bottled them all in favour of songs and genres I've been enjoying the fcuk out of this past while. Other filter criteria included trying to keep away from mainstream (I'll be at once disappointed and delighted if anyone knows more than a few of the songs), and I tried to generally keep the vibe rhythmic and beat-y. It's all very much immediately pleasing anyway - something I won't apologise for. I do apologise for being late though. Maybe we'll do an exchange of time-keeping tips next.
Anyway, enjoy. And be sure to let me know how shit my taste is, before I then tell you how terrible your taste is, and then things start escalating to the stage where eventually I order Mikey Graham to start singing outside your house at 6am.
Cheers Davey and Park Lane, too kind. :)
On An Animal Collective, only just now got to listen to it a couple of times through, Noby, it was more than a little temperamental in my car CD player, happens a bit with CD-Rs, so it got chucked to the back seat a few times. :D
Great fun compo though, enjoyed it immensely! Knew more of them than previous ones of course, but all the better for revisiting a few old faves - Surfin' Bird, Chicken Payback (just put than on a comp myself), B-52s, Stone Roses, Herbie Hancock, Superfly, Sheep, all class, all highlights.
Surprisingly hadn't heard that Charlatans one before though, or Red House Painters, or Belle & Sebastian, shameful out of me on all counts! Like Park Lane was also pleasantly surprised by Syd Barratt. :)
Class of the lot for me though has to be Toots, what a tune that is, love it!
Took me an awful long time to play the mix (and an equally long time in submitting some feedback!) but I enjoyed An Animal Collective quite a bit in the two times I've listened to it. Anyway the following were the tracks I enjoyed a lot (with *indicating the ones I had heard before):
1 Elephants Mean Death - The Factory Owners 2006
2 Dogs Are Everywhere - Pulp 1986
3 Tiger Mountain Peasant Song - Fleet Foxes 2008*
5 Dragonflies - Red House Painters 1993
7 Surfin' Bird - The Trashmen 1964
8 Hungry Dog - Nick Gilroy Kombo 1999
10 Funny Little Frog - Belle & Sebastian 2006 *may have heard this before, sounds familiar
11 Rock Lobster - The B-52's 1979
15 Bring Down The Birds - Herbie Hancock 1966 *
16 Funky Mule - Ike Turner & The Kings Of Rhythm 1969
17 Superfly - Curtis Mayfield 1972
19 The Snake - Al Wilson 1968
20 Snake In The Grass - Jimmy Shondell (aka Eugene Paul) 1972
22 Sheep - The Housemartins 1986
23 Nellie The Elephant - Toy Dolls 1984
Love the B-52s track, hadn't heard it before, and I noticed it being played by Peter Griffin of Family Guy soon afterwards... which is odd considering my sister has been constantly replaying the clips of Peter singing Surfin' Bird...also included in the list! I dunno if I prefer it to the Ramones' version but it's always cool to hear originals.
In particular, Dogs Are Everywhere, Hungry Dog, Rock Lobster and The Snake are all excellent. Must check out some more Nick Gilroy.
The last song was a great closer btw!
Thanks for the comments, guys. Yeah I guessed most would be familiar, but went for it anyway.
Stann, the Charlatans one is from their debut, so really goes hand in hand with the Roses for me (their early t-shirts/fanzine quoted it: 'Looking fr the orange one')
A couple of personal favourites there too.Quote:
Originally Posted by monzo
The guitarist on Nick Gilroy Combo is none other than Boz Boorer, going back to his roots.
I spent a great weekend at a scooter rally in Tenby about five years ago where The Snake became the anthem for the weekend. It was in every Northern Soul set, and the crowd went mad every time it came on.
Looking forward to KH's effort.
KH, your cd arrived this morning. I think it's safe to say I'll be hearing a lot of new stuff when I throw this on.
Good man Noby. Hope you particularly enjoy my 'answer song' to your last collective, track 5 or thereabouts.Quote:
Originally Posted by noby
Great mix Hoop, really sorted myself a few friends out yesterday morning after an all nighter, which is about the best compliment I can give any CD really :)
I'll post a fuller review after a few more listens
I'm up next right?
Ha, nice one. If it passed that impatient test there's no telling what it could achieve. I'll send it to the Pope to see if we can get it played at churches so that ye're experience can be replicated across this dark world of sin. Well, who knows eh.
May as well throw up the playlist to preserve for posterity:
HOOP THERE IT IS: A KINGDOM OF RHYTHM 'N' BEATS
1. Portico Quartet – Zavadovski Island 2007
2. Bole 2 Harlem – Ensaralen Gojo 2006
3. Tony Allen – Kindness 2002
4. Dub Syndicate – Dubbing Psycho Thriller 1994
5. Adrian Sherwood – Animal Planet 2006
6. Chinese Man – Eight y Cinco 2007
7. Serge Gainsbourg – Marilou Sous La Neige 1976
8. Massilia Sound System – Joyeux Voyous 1992
9. Mikey Dread – Quest For Oneness 1982
10. Kíla – Leath Ina Dhiadh hOcht 2007
11. Roudoudou – Peace And Tranquility To Earth 2001
12. Joe Bataan – Rap-O Clap-O 1979
13. Pete Rodriguez – I Like It Like That 1966
14. Les Leopards – D'Leau Coco 1968
15. The Checkmates – Disco Groove 1975
16. Octave One – Black Water (vocal mix) 2002
17. Buraka Som Sistema – IC19 2008
18. Antena – Camino Del Sol (Joakim Remix) 2008
Noby, been listening to yours a good bit again this past week. Loads of quality, especially the latter half which is right up my alley. One track is really standing out though - "Snake In The Grass". Just wondering did you get it off a Trojan compilation or where? Harvesting a musical field of similar grain would reap me significant pleasure. Jeez, I hope that last sentence didn't sound too corny..... oh dear.
KH, yeah it's from the Trojan Suedehead box set. Any of those Trojan box sets are great - Suedehead, Skinhead Reggae and Rocksteady are particular favourites of mine.
Haven't listened to your cd yet, been up the walls again. As soon as I sort out music at work I'll be back on track.
Great mix indeed Hoop, very nice! Very rhythmy, and for that matter beaty. Been a constant soundtrack to my travels these last few days.
Such a high level maintained across the disc (just the single dip for me, the Checkmates one, didn't get it, sorry!) that there aren't as many stand-out tracks, but have to especially commend your selection of the Bole 2 Harlem tune, and the excellent I Like It Like That, which I'm appalled to say is the only one I knew before!
The other two real highlights are two bands I'm definitely off to check out. Roudoudou, at least on that tune, sound like Lemon Jelly were never away, which is A VERY GOOD thing, specially as the latter band are not the most prolific.
And top of the pile, the glorious Dubbing Psycho Thriller, tune! Lee Scratch Perry is a mad legend. :D
Remember reading lots about this lot, Adrian Sherwood, On-U Sound System, Tackhead and the like in the Melody Maker of the time, but never got into them then. Hopefully it's not too late.
Your mix has been a constant round my house since I've got it KH, excellent stuff altogether and I've even had to burn off a copy each for two friends :)
Highlights for me would the Portico Quartet track, the always excellent Kila, Les Leopards, Roudoudou and the Checkmates but it's constantly great all the way through
I have my list done so will burn off the CDs tonight and have them posted out to you lot on Monday
It took me ages to get round to it but I finally gave Hope It Is.. a listen last night. Hadn't heard any of the tracks before (indeed Kila and Serge Gainsbourg were the only two artists that I had heard of! And I'd only recently heard of the latter when he was given a good write up in this quite excellent blog) but I enjoyed the mix immensely. Disco Groove, Zavadovski Island, Marilou Sous La Neige, Rap-O Clap-O, and I Like It Like That were the tracks that I liked the most, but there's so much going on in most of the songs it's probable that I'll be back after my second and third listens praising several other titles.
Ahem... :want:
First time back in a while. Are we done ? I thought Jebus was to go? Don't know if he's around but loved all the CDs I received. What about a 4.0 ?!!:clap: