Circle 26
Name Artist Album
Cream and Bastards Rise Harvey Danger Little by Little
Classical Gas Mason Williams This Is Easy (Disc 1)
That Teenage Feeling Neko Case Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
elizabeth Roy Harper Elizabeth
Freakin' Out Graham Coxon Happiness In Magazines
Soft Hand Willard Grant Conspiracy Regard the End
The Way We Get By Spoon Kill The Moonlight
Scaffold / Lily The Pink Various Artists Mega Beat Box (8-10)
You're So Vain The Black Neon Estuary English
She's a Woman The Beatles Past Masters, Volume 1
Across The Bridge Great Lakes Myth Society Great Lakes Myth Society
Ren And Stimpy - Log Seven months
Marconi's Radio Secret Machines September 000
Empire of Light Tin Hat Trio Book of Silk
Lose Yourself Eminem Curtain Call: The Hits [Disc 1]
The Blues Are Still Blue Belle and Sebastian The Life Pursuit
Crow Ralfe Band Swords
I'll Come Running (To Tie Your Shoe) Brian Eno Desert Island Selection
Kicks In The Schoolyard The Rosebuds The Rosebuds Makeout
The Greatest Cat Power The Greatest
16 Military Wives The Decemberists Picaresque
There’s no particular theme, but it does reflect a change in the way I
buy music. Simply put, I very rarely buy new CDs. I pick up a lot of
music from Oxfam, and I buy tracks online through iTunes and eMusic,
then a couple of times a year I raid the CD sales on Oxford St. The net
effect is probably more of an emphasis on American bands, since they
seem to have a bigger presence online. And this time we seem to be much
more guitar based. And whiter.
The Prelude is from Kate Bush’s Aerial - if you don’t have it, you
should.
Harvey Danger have been around for a while, and like a few bands
with a reasonable live following they have decided to ditch the record
label and do it themselves. You can download the whole album free from
their website, and it is a piano-driven rocker in the style of Ben Folds.
Classical Gas is one of my favourite tracks. I heard it once as a child
and never forgot it. Years later I bought a whole double album just to get it.
Neko Case is a Canadian chanteuse and the whole
album is a delight, and this is a representative track.
Nasty eighties drums and guitar, plus an obligatory eighties reference
to holocaust, ought to count against Roy Harper, but then again I
really like the name.
Graham Coxon’s post-Blur work is full of pop-punk greatness, and raises
the question: Damon who? Then we have the necessary French track.
Willard Grant have been around for ages and, like Lambchop, combine
lots of players to produce a quiet sound. But there’s a real emotional
depth and no weak tracks on the album. Spoon are good.
Lily the Pink was one of the records Sophie and I used to love as very
small children. Now that we each have a small child of our own, it is
offered here as a resource.
Black Neon are from the same label that brought us the superb Go! Team,
and this is from a label comp. Mike McCartney of the Scaffold, who we
just heard, had a brother James who was also in a band - here’s one of
their early B-sides.
The Great Lakes Myth Society are from the Great Lakes region and seem
obsessed with myths. Luckily they chose to express this in melodic pop
rather than a website with too much flash. The Secret Machines are 21st
century prog, and bloody good it is too. If you like the Doves and
Elbow, then you’re already halfway there.
I am fairly sure that there are more than three members of the Tin Hat
Trio, and a lot of the music is less structured that this cut. We have
probably seen the best of Mr Mathers, and we certainly got the Greatest
Hits for Christmas. But his best stuff still packs a punch, and Lose
Yourself more than most.
You all know Belle and Sebastian by now. The Ralfe Band are the fave
combo of Noel from the Mighty Boosh - it all sounds like this. It is a
little known fact that in between inventing sampling with David Byrne,
and reinventing rock with U2, Brian Eno worked as a footwear-themed
lounge act.
The Rosebuds are a slight disappointment given some of the laudatory
reviews I read before buying, but that’s the risk of the Internet.
Putting on Cat Power is kind of cheating since I know Ed already has
this album, but it is remarkable. A whole album of the singer of the
Decemberists is a bit much, especially given his obsession with sea
shanties, but I love this track. Ace video too.
Cream and Bastards Rise Harvey Danger Little by Little
Classical Gas Mason Williams This Is Easy (Disc 1)
That Teenage Feeling Neko Case Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
elizabeth Roy Harper Elizabeth
Freakin' Out Graham Coxon Happiness In Magazines
Soft Hand Willard Grant Conspiracy Regard the End
The Way We Get By Spoon Kill The Moonlight
Scaffold / Lily The Pink Various Artists Mega Beat Box (8-10)
You're So Vain The Black Neon Estuary English
She's a Woman The Beatles Past Masters, Volume 1
Across The Bridge Great Lakes Myth Society Great Lakes Myth Society
Ren And Stimpy - Log Seven months
Marconi's Radio Secret Machines September 000
Empire of Light Tin Hat Trio Book of Silk
Lose Yourself Eminem Curtain Call: The Hits [Disc 1]
The Blues Are Still Blue Belle and Sebastian The Life Pursuit
Crow Ralfe Band Swords
I'll Come Running (To Tie Your Shoe) Brian Eno Desert Island Selection
Kicks In The Schoolyard The Rosebuds The Rosebuds Makeout
The Greatest Cat Power The Greatest
16 Military Wives The Decemberists Picaresque
There’s no particular theme, but it does reflect a change in the way I
buy music. Simply put, I very rarely buy new CDs. I pick up a lot of
music from Oxfam, and I buy tracks online through iTunes and eMusic,
then a couple of times a year I raid the CD sales on Oxford St. The net
effect is probably more of an emphasis on American bands, since they
seem to have a bigger presence online. And this time we seem to be much
more guitar based. And whiter.
The Prelude is from Kate Bush’s Aerial - if you don’t have it, you
should.
Harvey Danger have been around for a while, and like a few bands
with a reasonable live following they have decided to ditch the record
label and do it themselves. You can download the whole album free from
their website, and it is a piano-driven rocker in the style of Ben Folds.
Classical Gas is one of my favourite tracks. I heard it once as a child
and never forgot it. Years later I bought a whole double album just to get it.
Neko Case is a Canadian chanteuse and the whole
album is a delight, and this is a representative track.
Nasty eighties drums and guitar, plus an obligatory eighties reference
to holocaust, ought to count against Roy Harper, but then again I
really like the name.
Graham Coxon’s post-Blur work is full of pop-punk greatness, and raises
the question: Damon who? Then we have the necessary French track.
Willard Grant have been around for ages and, like Lambchop, combine
lots of players to produce a quiet sound. But there’s a real emotional
depth and no weak tracks on the album. Spoon are good.
Lily the Pink was one of the records Sophie and I used to love as very
small children. Now that we each have a small child of our own, it is
offered here as a resource.
Black Neon are from the same label that brought us the superb Go! Team,
and this is from a label comp. Mike McCartney of the Scaffold, who we
just heard, had a brother James who was also in a band - here’s one of
their early B-sides.
The Great Lakes Myth Society are from the Great Lakes region and seem
obsessed with myths. Luckily they chose to express this in melodic pop
rather than a website with too much flash. The Secret Machines are 21st
century prog, and bloody good it is too. If you like the Doves and
Elbow, then you’re already halfway there.
I am fairly sure that there are more than three members of the Tin Hat
Trio, and a lot of the music is less structured that this cut. We have
probably seen the best of Mr Mathers, and we certainly got the Greatest
Hits for Christmas. But his best stuff still packs a punch, and Lose
Yourself more than most.
You all know Belle and Sebastian by now. The Ralfe Band are the fave
combo of Noel from the Mighty Boosh - it all sounds like this. It is a
little known fact that in between inventing sampling with David Byrne,
and reinventing rock with U2, Brian Eno worked as a footwear-themed
lounge act.
The Rosebuds are a slight disappointment given some of the laudatory
reviews I read before buying, but that’s the risk of the Internet.
Putting on Cat Power is kind of cheating since I know Ed already has
this album, but it is remarkable. A whole album of the singer of the
Decemberists is a bit much, especially given his obsession with sea
shanties, but I love this track. Ace video too.
posted by Toby Scott at 7/26/2006 10:27:00 AM
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