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I'm halfway through the Lightning Seeds "Cloudcuckooland," listening to it for the first time. So far, it's a wonderful collection of pure pop (rather appropriately, there's a song on it called "Pure".) It's so wonderful, I had to post about it right away.
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Now I'm listening to a Church compilation -- I've never heard anything of theirs other than the brilliant "Starfish" album. The compilation is titled after their biggest hit, "Under the Milky Way", and has great liner notes.
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^^The Church compilation turned out to be two-thirds excellent. Loved all the 10 pre-Starfish tracks, indifferent about the 5 post-Starfish tracks.
Will definitely try to track down all their pre-Starfish albums, especially Heyday, which was produced by Peter Walsh, who also produced Simple Minds' New Gold Dream, one of my favorite albums of all time.
In the meantime, I'm spinning Starfish for the first time since the beginning of this year, which I noted earlier in this thread. Still love it.
And up next: Bauhaus, 1979-83 Volume One and 1979-83 Volume Two.
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My re-reading of the Bronze Age Defenders (see the Gy'mll's forum) has inspired me to spin some of my favorite weird 70s rock music. So far, I've listened to two albums by T-Rex (Electric Warrior & The Slider) and one by David Bowie (The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust.)
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I've been listening to "Life's Rich Pageant" by R.E.M. like I was a high school junior again. It's never fallen out of my top ten albums in what, 25 years? It's never sunk to just nostalgia, it sounds better now than it did when it came out. A song like "Hyena" is maybe not a classic but they beat the tar out of it and made it better than it had any right to.
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Matlock, I love "Life's Rich Pageant." It's quite possibly my favorite R.E.M. album. My favorite songs on it are "Flowers of Guatemala", "Cuyahoga," and "Fall on Me."
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I think "Flowers of Guatemala" is a pretty under rated track and kind of a turning point toward a more direct political theme. "These Days" has sort of been my personal anthem lately. I could ramble on about R.E.M. for a long time - they really were the band I grew up with.
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or you can do the confusion 'til your head falls off
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I'm marathoning all my Was (Not Was) LPs and discs. Hence the new subheading under my icon.
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so I picked up Slash's apocolyptic love cd and decided that while I liked the song linked above, you're a lie, i like Bad Rain much better. Think its a song I could come closer to learning to play, simple, basic, powerful. that's how I like my hard rock.
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