Synthesizer Patel

if you wait you might find that the same thing will happen that happened to those Moby Grape reissues - they sell out quick and then due to legal disputes they do not make any more, so then they go up massively in price. probably won't happen, but you never know. $30 sounds too much to me, but the proper album is fantastic, and the second disc has some really great songs on it too. basically it's better than most "new" albums out at the moment - and equally as modern sounding (in fact more so, in most cases). if you listen to the "noise" track on "farewell my friend" for example - it could h

seems a bit expensive. i got it for

the new 2 disc remaster. the fact that they did such a fantastic job on this makes up for how long it's been out of print (although, missing out the dennis wilson & rumbo single is a bit of a shame, i guess)

it might pay to buy the complete reprise sessions instead of the gp/grievous angel cd, just because you get all that plus a lot more - and i assume the sound is better, although i personally don't have it.

My favourite album from my favourite band! I also just looked at that other thread; good to see most of what I put before is the same, although it shows how difficult this sort of thing is in general.

don't know. i thought i read that compilations were ok, so i included it. someone else can make that decision about the rights and the wrongs of it all.

this might be a work in progress, it might not 20 tindersticks | simple pleasure 19 the incredible string band | the 5000 spirits or the layers of the onion 18 animal collective | feels 17 doris duke | i'm a loser 16 bob dylan | love & theft 15 the kinks | muswell hillbillies 14 the zombies | odessey & oracle 13 joanna newsom | ys 12 scott walker | scott 4 11 smithsonian folkways recordings | anthology of american folk music 10 wilco | a ghost is born 09 judee sill | heart food 08 randy newman | sail away 07 the band | the band 06 john cale | paris 1919 05 beach boys | holland 04 s

or god. ok, what do you, or any others, think it's about then?

now; i have to say i've never actually checked any of their lyrics on this album or their others, but i always thought they were pretty political (in a sense) and were in fact very religious. am i miles off the mark here? in that review when he talks about james singing "such a fine citizen" or whatever it was - i thought he was talking about jesus, like i thought he was on "what a wonderful man". i've never actually heard anyone else talk about the lyrics being religious, so i wanted to check if anyone can shed some light on this. i really like their lyrics; but, as i said, they might actu

and it still sounds like the best thing released, so far, this year.

yeah, they don't, but it does make sense on an emotional level - which is kind of what i feel a lot of his songs from the previous few years were trying to achieve at times. the words don't make sense literally, but work together to produce certain emotions when taken as a whole. only with this song it's taken to extremes due to the off-the-cuff nature (although that's probably how a lot of his songs started out anyway). sign on the cross is another great example from the basement tapes, as you say, but personally i find that drags on a little too long. that's one of the few songs i reall

it's not really written. my understanding of it (from reading Invisible Republic) was that he made it up as he went along - it was played one time, made up during that 'one time', and never played again. when i heard an mp3 of it there wasn't a huge amount of difference between the sound quality from The Basement Tapes and the soundtrack version, so i've never bothered to buy the new thing. i'm one of those people that didn't really like the soundtrack, though - there are one or two good songs, but generally it's not up to much, especially when you compare the songs to interpretations by bands

Levon Helm was in The Right Stuff ". . . and I do believe that is 'top-trump', gentlemen!" Edit: damn it, too slow!

eat the document - bob dylan. if only they'd cleaned this up and put it out instead of, or at least as well as, no direction home. it paints the exact same portrait of the tour as no direction home, but is far funnier and interesting to watch. the whole thing's on youtube if people wanna watch it - but the quality is not as good as the dvd version i've got, so it's a little hard to see what's going on at times.

i also just checked, and if you type "bonzo dog band" you'll be able to pick up "the doughnut in granny's greenhouse" which is, well i guess you'll either like it or hate it. but if you like the beatles/the kinks with more weirdness then you'll like it. still playing kevin coyne

yeah, it's great. i wish you could hear the other album cos it's even better. hopefully these'll get released on cd at some point. that blog is really great for out of print music. i've got loads of rare english folk/prog rock off of it. i don't knnow if you've ever heard of Heron, but if you search on that website they've got an album called Upon Reflection which is their first and second album on one. they are english, but, especially on their second album, they sound like The Band. they recorded their first release totally outside. anyway, i just saw them on there and thought you or someo

yeah, dennis linde's albums are well out of print - i don't even think they ever came out on cd. have a search on here and you'll find it ripped from vinyl into mp3: http://time-has-told-me.blogspot.com/ his best album is Under The Eye, but i've only got that on vinyl and am currently without a turntable, so can't rip it. maybe you'll find that online somewhere too, if you're lucky.

augurus, m_thomp, markosis and themaker for new music - i think. but, nobody for the old music i like.

i've never heard about that. i'm not really a massive fan of the small faces (not compared to the faces anyway - mainly cos of steve mariott's voice), but that album is good.

it's not finished yet. that part of it is going to take ages. and i'm not really involved so much in that side. i did write the scripts and am reguarly doing the music, but it's an ongoing venture. could be a year or so - cos it's going to be done well; well as well as we can do it.

i posted this in a tread on another music site that i write for, talking about personal music making, and i thought i'd post it here too seeing as i'd spent the time uploading the stuff for the other site. basically it's a bunch of music i've been recording recently to soundtrack an animated comedy set in medieval times. if anyone wants further explanation, i'll give it - but, be warned i might take a few hundred words. all the songs with lyrics are for a specific episode about apple picking (involving rod stewart as a nasty farmer, ronnie wood as one of his henchmen, and ronnie lane as a le

01 John Wesley Harding 02 Love And Theft 03 Desire 04 Highway 61 Revisited 05 Blood On The Tracks then; a mention for Self Portrait too - which I play more than no. 4 and 5 on that list above, but wouldn't exactly say you could call it his best work from a creative point of view. (I don't really like The Times They're A Changin' at all - I just never listen to it, although With God On Our Side, and a couple of the other songs are great - they're just a little heavy, and I also never listen to Planet Waves for some reason. And, as for Modern Times, it's got a few brilliant songs on it, but

yankee doodle and the dandy boys bush-bush mekush (i'm google image searching these as i make them up, and that ones a good one!) woody and the taints (you can be woody) harry, bell, & fonzy (depending on the ammount of people in the band) spoiler codebox (now i'm just reading stuff it says on the page!)