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**Thu Nov 27, 2008 4:20 am**

Another great ebay steal, 12 inches of Philip Chevron, Songs from Bill's Dancehall. Now i'll just have to wait six weeks or so for it to arrive...

**Thu Dec 04, 2008 4:31 am**

Usually I don't find much vinyl worth having at the thrift shops these days, not the big ones like Value Village, too picked over. But last night i lucked out, for $2 a piece:

Mary O'Hara - Scent of Roses
Makem & Clancy - Makem & Clancy
Makem & Clancy - Two for the Early Dew
Bara McNeils - Rock in the Stream

The may not all be good, or may none be good at all, but for 8 bucks i'm willing to try.

**Sun Dec 07, 2008 4:14 pm**

Margaret Burke Sheridan Un Bel Di (RTE Lyric FM, 2008)

Margherita Sheridan (1889-1958), Ireland's first and greatest opera diva, finally gets the memorial treatment 50 years after her death, but this CD is a worthy commemoration of the Mayo-born/Dublin-raised artist. Like Maria Callas, Sheridan had a flawed delivery that actually helped, rather than hindered, her communication skills as a singing actor. At times, as the vibrato threatens to break her, and your, heart, you are reminded how comparatively little passion is in the voices of today's equivalent opera stars. Puccini thought so highly of Sheridan that he personally coached her in the title role of Manon Lescaut. In 1929, she made the first full electrical recording of Madama Butterfly. This CD is generous in its selections from Puccini but also includes arias from Verdi. Of almost equal interest are her recordings of Irish popular parlor songs, made mainly in her later days when she had given up the opera stage. She delivers exquisite versions of "I Dreamt that I dwelt in Marble Halls", "Danny Boy", "Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms" and the alternative version of "Galway Bay". A delight. File next to John McCormack.

**Sun Dec 07, 2008 4:42 pm**

the sound track to the film Basquiat.... including a few pogues numbers in it

**Sun Dec 07, 2008 7:57 pm**

The Complete Motown Singles Volume 10

I thought I was going to stop after this one but now I've seen the tracklisting for volume 11 :roll:

**Sun Dec 07, 2008 8:16 pm**

The Urban Voodoo Machine "Bourbon Soaked Gypsy Blues Bop 'n' Stroll".

Picked it up at the King's Hall last night and listened to the whole album on the drive home. It's fecking class! Not a bad song on it. Met lead singer/writer, PR Angel after the gig and he signed it. Don't think it's released till March though.

**Mon Dec 08, 2008 10:28 pm**

I just picked up The Best Of Lee "Scratch" Perry yesterday, at the local supermarket for... £1.96. Okay, it's not exactly a boxset (ten tracks hardly constitutes a "BEST OF", does it??!!) but for less than £2? Bargain I say.

Oh, and recently in a charity shop I picked up (for 20 pence), "Truly Irish" by The Ormonde Folk (on vinyl, naturally), which I guessed was probably going to be a pile of shit, but is actually not bloody bad at all - certainly worth 20 pence!!

**Tue Dec 16, 2008 1:07 am**

"Accelerate"
REM

Very good!

**Fri Jan 09, 2009 3:04 pm**

I just today bought a 3-CD box set called Pléaráca An Riadaigh (Gael Linn ORIADACD 04, about 20 Euros) which collects together three of O'Riada's albums Reacaireacht an Riadaigh (1962), Ceol na nUasal (1967) and Ding Dong (1967). All three albums were classics - the aforemtioned "The Rights Of Man" is on Ding Dong - and I can think of no better starting place for any O'Riada student.

http://www.gael-linn.ie/GLinn/AlbumInfo ... ORIADACD04

**Sun Jan 11, 2009 9:41 pm**

philipchevron wrote:I just today bought a 3-CD box set called Pléaráca An Riadaigh (Gael Linn ORIADACD 04, about 20 Euros) which collects together three of O'Riada's albums Reacaireacht an Riadaigh (1962), Ceol na nUasal (1967) and Ding Dong (1967). All three albums were classics - the aforemtioned "The Rights Of Man" is on Ding Dong - and I can think of no better starting place for any O'Riada student.

http://www.gael-linn.ie/GLinn/AlbumInfo ... ORIADACD04

Oh thanks, just what i needed to see. As if i'm not in debt enough already to my Lord & Mastercard. Though to be fair, that's a great price for 3 discs of music, even in Canadian dollars, that's only $11.33 a disc!

**Mon Jan 12, 2009 3:18 am**

philipchevron wrote:I just today bought a 3-CD box set called Pléaráca An Riadaigh (Gael Linn ORIADACD 04, about 20 Euros) which collects together three of O'Riada's albums Reacaireacht an Riadaigh (1962), Ceol na nUasal (1967) and Ding Dong (1967). All three albums were classics - the aforemtioned "The Rights Of Man" is on Ding Dong - and I can think of no better starting place for any O'Riada student.

http://www.gael-linn.ie/GLinn/AlbumInfo ... ORIADACD04

Thanks for all the information.

I have acquired Mise Eire, Reacaireacht an Riadaigh and Ding Dong so far but have not had the chance to listen to them.

**Wed Jan 14, 2009 2:14 pm**

picked up a double cd -sublime gold...it was under 10 dollars and has 44 songs. Alot of it is very raw and edgy. Never had any of Sublimes music or albums. I am really enjoying it.

**Sun Jan 18, 2009 2:20 am**

"Tinderbox"

Fred Eaglesmith

CdnSteve made me do it.

**Sun Jan 18, 2009 6:52 pm**

Low D wrote:Another great ebay steal, 12 inches of Philip Chevron, Songs from Bill's Dancehall. Now i'll just have to wait six weeks or so for it to arrive...

This sounds considerably better on the Japan-only CD released a couple of years ago. It´s not strictly an album, of course, more a 5-track EP.

**Sun Jan 18, 2009 9:06 pm**

Ronnie Drew "The Last Session- A Fond Farewell"

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