The Medusa Fora

Janelle Monae - The ArchAndroid. It's amazing.

'Double Live'- Cordelia's Dad.

Tom Waits: Bad As Me arrived in the post this morning. It is a thing of amazing beauty.

I noticed that my Boomtown Rats catalog was none existent other than a vinyl copy of Mondo Bongo I so picked up a couple or remastered CDs:

Mondo Bongo - The Boomtown Rats
The Fine Art Of Surfacing - The Boomtown Rats

Finally got to read the sleeve notes Philip wrote for the remastered Mondo Bongo which are featured prominently on the bottom of the fold out poster included with the CD. These notes alone are worth the cost of the CD... read more here

Mondo Bongo sleevenotes

Clash Cadillac wrote:I noticed that my Boomtown Rats catalog was none existent other than a vinyl copy of Mondo Bongo I so picked up a couple or remastered CDs:

Mondo Bongo - The Boomtown Rats
The Fine Art Of Surfacing - The Boomtown Rats

Finally got to read the sleeve notes Philip wrote for the remastered Mondo Bongo which are featured prominently on the bottom of the fold out poster included with the CD. These notes alone are worth the cost of the CD... read more here

Mondo Bongo sleevenotes

Or here:

http://www.cyberspace7.btinternet.co.uk ... -mondo.htm

philipchevron wrote:

Clash Cadillac wrote:I noticed that my Boomtown Rats catalog was none existent other than a vinyl copy of Mondo Bongo I so picked up a couple or remastered CDs:

Mondo Bongo - The Boomtown Rats
The Fine Art Of Surfacing - The Boomtown Rats

Finally got to read the sleeve notes Philip wrote for the remastered Mondo Bongo which are featured prominently on the bottom of the fold out poster included with the CD. These notes alone are worth the cost of the CD... read more here

Mondo Bongo sleevenotes

Or here:

http://www.cyberspace7.btinternet.co.uk ... -mondo.htm

You cost Mr. Geldof some royalties.

Clash Cadillac wrote:

philipchevron wrote:

Clash Cadillac wrote:I noticed that my Boomtown Rats catalog was none existent other than a vinyl copy of Mondo Bongo I so picked up a couple or remastered CDs:

Mondo Bongo - The Boomtown Rats
The Fine Art Of Surfacing - The Boomtown Rats

Finally got to read the sleeve notes Philip wrote for the remastered Mondo Bongo which are featured prominently on the bottom of the fold out poster included with the CD. These notes alone are worth the cost of the CD... read more here

Mondo Bongo sleevenotes

Or here:

http://www.cyberspace7.btinternet.co.uk ... -mondo.htm

You cost Mr. Geldof some royalties.

He'll live.

How do those remasters sound? I read some review at the time saying "hold on to your vinyl..."

I've just received Fred Eaglesmith's newest in the mail, "6 Volts".

I think it's my favourite since 2003's "Balin", though nothing like it (that was a bluegrass album). He went off in some very different directions on "Tinderbox" (gospel a la Tom Waits) and "Cha Cha Cha" (um... latin tinged folk-pop?), but he's taken those explorations and brought them back into what you might consider the classic Eaglesmith sound that was pumped out by him & band The Flying Squirrels on albums like 1997's classic "Lipstick, Lies and Gasoline". The songs tend toward mid tempo & slow, but have grit and attitude. He does rock out at times here, and whole album has a rough, edgy low-fi quality that i'm loving.

And if you order now, you get the "special edition" - same disc & booklet as will be distributed, but in a home-made cover pumped out with scrapbooking supplies on the bus between stops on the tour.

http://www.fredjeaglesmith.com/proddetail.php?prod=001VOLTS

I don't know who has been saying Mondo Bongo is one of the Boomtown Rats lesser albums, as I've always thought that title belonged to In The Long Grass and V Deep. Well written Phillip!

Interpol - Antics

TOM WAITS - BAD AS ME (cd and vinyl)
NEU - '75 (vinyl/reissue)
NEU - 2 (vinyl/original)
CAN - Tago Mago (vinyl/reissue)

Low D wrote:I've just received Fred Eaglesmith's newest in the mail, "6 Volts".

I think it's my favourite since 2003's "Balin", though nothing like it (that was a bluegrass album). He went off in some very different directions on "Tinderbox" (gospel a la Tom Waits) and "Cha Cha Cha" (um... latin tinged folk-pop?), but he's taken those explorations and brought them back into what you might consider the classic Eaglesmith sound that was pumped out by him & band The Flying Squirrels on albums like 1997's classic "Lipstick, Lies and Gasoline". The songs tend toward mid tempo & slow, but have grit and attitude. He does rock out at times here, and whole album has a rough, edgy low-fi quality that i'm loving.

And if you order now, you get the "special edition" - same disc & booklet as will be distributed, but in a home-made cover pumped out with scrapbooking supplies on the bus between stops on the tour.

http://www.fredjeaglesmith.com/proddetail.php?prod=001VOLTS

This is in heavy rotation in my car these days.
I like the 1 mic / live recording aspect.
'Stars' is a favorite - first time I heard that one was Fred solo, as an encore in Calgary last July.
A poignant nod to Willie P Bennett in there:
"He jumped around the stage / we thought that it would never end..."

Cdn Steve wrote:This is in heavy rotation in my car these days.
I like the 1 mic / live recording aspect.
'Stars' is a favorite - first time I heard that one was Fred solo, as an encore in Calgary last July.
A poignant nod to Willie P Bennett in there:
"He jumped around the stage / we thought that it would never end..."

I know, isn't that heartbreaking? And it's true, those shows with Fred, Willie, and Hank were unbelievable. I've never seen anything like it since. They WERE stars. Willie was my upstairs neighbour back east. I didn't know him very well (knew his roomate - Willie was almost always on tour with Fred), but i was already a fan of his stuff. But that's how I got turned on to Fred.

And, since this is the thread... I've just bought a copy of Willie P. Bennett's classic "Hobo's Taunt", which I actually never owned. One of the many Canadian records engineered by a young Daniel Lanois, with his brother Bob (David Essig produced). Cost me $30 for a clean LP, b/c all his stuff has gone out of print since he passed away. Which is fucking tragic. His website dissapeared too. I put everything about him I know onto wikipedia, 'cause it's a crime against Canadian culture that he should just dissapear.

Did you know he had a music video? Exactly one, for "Blue Valentine", from the unbeatable Heartstrings (his last, and one of the best folk albums of all goddamn time). Check it here, i think that's some guys from Prarie Oyster in it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YijWr1qQauw

Brian Eno - Drums Between the Bells (vinyl)