Last Christmas and birthday (in January) I got quite a few CD vouchers for Mills Records in Freo. Nobody dares buy me a ‘thing’ type gift anymore because over the years I have developed, quite unfairly, a reputation for being fussy and ungrateful
So here are the CDs I bought and what I think of them (in no particular order). Incredibly I didn’t buy one single dud
Nick Cave and the Bad seeds: Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
Fantastic lyrics with an apocalyptic bent, the gloomy broody foreboding we have come to expect and love from Nick Cave somehow seems to skip along on this CD. The end of the world is pretty catchy (Nick would probably hate that). Love it!
Unkle: War Stories
When I ordered this, the guy in the shop said it’s not as good as their other albums. Wow in that case I need to get their other albums because I love almost every song on this one
Mandyleigh Storm: Fire and Snow
Mandyleigh Storm is a Perth based singer/songwriter who has produced this album with a number of internationally renowned music people. Mandyleigh has a beautiful voice that reminds me of the ocean. Wonderful debut
The Paper Scissors: Less Talk More Paper Scissors
What’s not to like about an album that has a pigeon you can colour in? I love Jai Daniel Pyne’s voice and I wish I’d been able to catch them when they performed with Bluejuice at the Newport
The Presets: Apocalypso
You can’t seem to turn the telly lately without seeing The Presets wrestling in milk, they are very now and happening at the minute. I’m not very electro house inclined but I still like this album, it has a mesmerising and ethereal effect, with This Boy’s in Love the standout for me
John Cooper Clarke: The Very Best Of
Most of JCC’s poems on this CD are set to music and I much prefer his poems without music. My fault for not checking into it before I bought it
That being said, the poems (especially the musicless ones) are still a delight from the long
“twin-wheeled existentialists steeped in the sterile excrements of a doomed democracy, whose post-nietzschean sensibilities reject the bovine gregariousness of a senile oligarchy” (Psycle Sluts)
to the short
‘Like a sucked and spat our smartie, you’re no use to anyone.’ (Twat)
JCC is simply superb. Would love it if a DVD was available, featuring in particular Ten Years in an Open Neck Shirt (not on this CD)
50 000 Fall Fans Can’t Be wrong: 39 Golden Greats
If you want a good Fall anthology then this is it. Love the Casio VL accompaniment (ah sweet memories) in The Man Who’s Head Expanded. Chuckle. Classic
The Gutter Twins: Saturnalia
This was another good buy and the last of my CD vouchers gone. Emotionally heavy sort of music but not to the point of being unbearable (with the exception of only one song Idle Hands which I don’t like at all). Gosh another one with apocalyptic undertones, doomsday is all the rage at the moment. I’m enjoying this one right now, especially Misery/Flowers
8 responses so far ↓
1 daiskmeliadorn // May 20, 2008 at 11:55 pm
nick!
and apocalypses! i blame jeannette winterson. whose name i can’t spell.
2 squib // May 21, 2008 at 10:23 am
I haven’t read it (The Stone Gods?). I’m looking for something to read, is it any good?
3 warthog // May 21, 2008 at 12:38 pm
Good choices. Don’t know the Aussie people with the exception of NC…of course.
I don’t buy CDs anymore, but if I did I would buy the NC album rather than have a collection of single track downloads and You Tube vids
JCC, first saw him supporting Elvis Costello [I think] back in 1978-9 when he first ‘broke’.
Stiff [or whoever] wanted to promote him as another Ian Dury but I don’t think JCC was ever really into it and he was right. His only accompliment when I first saw him was a scruffy piece of paper!
4 squib // May 21, 2008 at 2:39 pm
Hi Wart!
I had a lot of problems with digital music, the main problem being that often the tune I wanted was not available
JCC was at the Big Day Out the other year and I didn’t even know
Prolly the only chance I’d have had of seeing him
5 daiskmeliadorn // May 21, 2008 at 4:55 pm
I haven’t had a chance to read it either. I’d like to though. Developed a peculiar interest in all things apocalyptic last year when we did a bible study on the book of revelation and i read this crazy book by tina pippin and started watching mad max and that kind of thing
6 squib // May 21, 2008 at 6:05 pm
I think the people who wrote the dead sea scrolls were probably watching Mad Max as well Daisk
7 gary // May 26, 2008 at 12:15 pm
Hey Meredi! Thanks for buying and reviewing Mandyleigh’s album. Send me your postal address and I’ll send you a dvd as well. If we can meet up sometime I can get M to sign it if you want.
For anyone who wants digital or cd’s… http://www.mandyleigh.com for the link to the free mp3’s etc…
8 squib // May 26, 2008 at 1:09 pm
Hi Gary, will email you my address. It was a pleasure to review this album, Mandyleigh has such a beautiful voice
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