As a bit of a crate digger, I'm always buying old vinyl and occasionally CDs ... anyway my favourite (musical rather than £££) find of 2014 is Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism
never heard of them i dont think i have to find linkin park - hybrid theory that will be best album find of 2014 ....... no?
I was looking in a shop a couple of weeks ago and I nearly purchased Live at Leeds by The Who. Its one of them albums I had but have lost over the years so was very tempted to replace it. It is a hell of a lot more expensive now than it was when I bought it as a teenager.
Had my copy of Kinda Kinks rbbed a couple of years ago just bought it agin nd listening to it none stop mono crackles and all
Best part about moving was unearthing some long lost hidden gems. Nick Cave Murder Ballads, Tom Waits Bone Machine and Wedding Present George Best. Wife not too impressed mind.
It's fab when that happens though, isn't it, when you discover something 'new' that's actually old and opens up a whole back catalogue of stuff you've never heard. I got over my Hall and Oates prejudice a few years ago and found that, actually, they're ruddy fantastic. Daryl Hall was 68 a couple of days ago you know. I was very surprised by that. I suppose my 'new' old album find of the year was Edward Ball's Catholic Guilt, which I picked up on the back of recommendations from Jimmy and Tomi. I already knew the song Mill Hill Self Hate Club, being that I used to live in Mill Hill, but didn't know much else. Seems he had Nick Heyward playing on the album and I'm a fan of his. Heyward also did an album or two on Creation, which is the label that the Edward Ball album was released on. Alan McGee made his money off the back of Primal Scream and Oasis, but used some of this to fund albums by artists he personally liked, even though the chances were the albums wouldn't make much money. So people like Nick Heyward, Nick Laird-Clowes out of the Dream Academy (although his album may have been on Poptones, thinking about it), Bill Drummond out of the KLF and Stephen Duffy's Lilac Time all released albums on Creation, which is great, being that I am a fan of all those. McGee released one of my all time favourite albums on his Poptones label, Enjoy the Melodic Sunshine by Cosmic Rough Riders, and I remember seeing McGee giving the band all bear hugs after a fantastic gig at ULU (one of the best gigs I've been to), because surely they were set for world domination with such a fantastic album, yet it never happened, Daniel Wylie, the singer, quit the band and they were never the same again. Such a shame. But McGee did champion some good stuff over the years. Heck, a certain Mr C of this very parish also was given a recording contract with Creation at one point!
Sounds like he's gargling razor blades on Prozac which I can see could be something of an acquired taste. Black Rider album my other fave.
Vinyl will cost a few bob, but on CD (I know it's not the same) http://www.amazon.co.uk/Live-At-Leeds-Deluxe-Edition/dp/B00005NB0H
I'm a bit of a nostalgic sod and love my old 33's complete with crackle. I've got quite a few CD versions of my albums, for the car mainly, but albums remain my first love. Cheers though.
Agreed ... never in a million years would I have expected to have picked Neil Diamond Best of 4 disc vinyl box set http://eil.com/shop/moreinfo.asp?catalogid=248649 and enjoyed - paid £4 for a mint copy from a town center charity shop As Tom Hingley and the Lovers stated ... when I was a young 'un and a fair bit older - Abba are the enemy ..... bloody hell, i'll even listen to abba now !!!!
Mmm, Abba are very much a singles band as far as I am concerned. A very good singles band of course, but there's not much else on any of their albums that interests me. Actually, only a few of their singles interest me. I appreciate how good the songs are, but they're not really for me. Having said that,there is a mad album track that you could sneak on a Slade compilation and nobody would bat an eyelid. Can't remember which one it is, but it's from one of their early albums. Honestly, Benny or Bjorn, whichever is singing, channels Noddy Holder in a way that Liam Gallagher can only dream of! Neil Diamond, on the other hand, turned in a couple of damn fine albums a few years ago. They're quite stripped back and he did them with Rick Rubin, so there's obvious comparisons with the Johnny Cash ones, except Diamond wrote his albums, whereas Cash's are mainly covers. Mike Campbell and Benmont Tench out of Tom Petty's Heartbreakers play on the Diamond albums, just as they did on Cash's ones. In fact Rick Rubin produced a great Tom Petty album, Wildflowers, around the same time he started working with Johnny Cash. The two Neil Diamond albums, 12 Songs and Home Before Dark are well worth checking out.
