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Really? You don't like that 'chainsaw-through-the-head' sound of "Nattens"? Kinda intense treble, swarm-of-bees sound? It's awesome. I'd agree on the acoustic one though, it's a bit boring. Yeah that would be great, I'll ask Andee what the deal is and get back to you. Ooooh I need to hear...

the acoustic one is okay... nothing too exciting: certainly not a patch on nattens madrigal how does all the electronic ulver sound - is it any good? nice list up there francesco though i would have picked anthems to the welkin at dusk for emperor; maybe some wigrid as well, or root. i'm a...

Oh yeah forgot about them, the first record is pretty neat isn't it. My bro bought a 4LP box of Tangerine Dream about a decade ago and we duly listened to it all, he loved it and I was just "oh God, doesn't this ever go on" (fast forward a decade and...) I reckon that stuff'd sound much better...

PS 'Day Tripper' genius tag, Matt you joker!

Matt was this the first thing (or maybe even the only thing) released on Dingerland? I read about this somewhere, maybe in one of Copey's Kraut pieces, that Dinger spent a fortune on it and it completely bombed, leaving him with thousands of unsold copies. So it's not much cop eh? I'm...

hey simon, you're a HUGE dylan fan aren't you? :D i daresay your position on dylan is similar to mine on the beatles (and you know how huge a dylan fanatic i am.) so given i like "odyssey and oracle" so much more than any beatles album, does that make me baal's nemesis? ;) no you're quite...

Actually Matt what do you reckon? What separates McCartney's 'intimacy' from Ray Davies' 'intimacy'? vis-a-vis performance tactics etc.. It's definitely a different kind isn't it.

cmon Si Yeah the one that got away, that's a great song. I'd forgotten that one. 'Tomorrow', 'Walrus' etc., they're okay I guess, I'd never ask to hear 'em, never put them on. 'Within You Without You' passable (Sonic Youth's cover of that was sweet. Lee's voice!) Kind of implies that the...

Jesus Derek that's harsh. OK I'm bristling because I'm one of those people that doesn't love them. At all. There's 6-7 great songs there, tops. (uh, "Rain", "Glass Onion", "Paperback Writer", "I'm Only Sleeping", "A Day in the Life" [how good was The Fall's cover of that btw?], I'm struggling...

hey jess yeah i bought "new clear child" when it came out (cue record clerk fascists, "why are you listening to that shit", they were busy wacking off to the wedding present, whatever) and thought it was a little 'wet' at first. glad i gave it some time. but yes, the vocals in particular, ayuli...

that's funny, 'cos when i played my mate james the 10-minute version of "let's go swimming", he turned to me and said "oh, now we know where a.r.kane stole all their ideas for 'i' from." if anything, "calling out of context" is a bit closer to "new clear child" (the much-underrated 3rd a.r.k album)

Oh I thought you lot were talking about an advert for HP Sauce! (I'm from the colonies remember?) I was sitting there wondering 'why the fuck do THEY have to advertise? Surely it's ubiquitous?' :D Why is there not more talk about the Kinks? Greatest band ever, folks!

for those who want to read the work of great man jay hinman on the kinks: http://agonyshorthand.blogspot.com/2004/09/kinks-face-to-face-cd.html http://agonyshorthand.blogspot.com/2004/06/kinks-arthur-or-decline-and-fall-of.html and if you're wanting to know more about the Great Lost Kinks...

I've been on a major Kinks kick of late thanks to the 3CD deluxe edition of Village Green Preservation Society (which is just about nudging Arthur Russell's World of Echo as the year's best reissue.) When people ask me "Beatles or Stones" my reply is always "Kinks and Byrds". As far as Kinks...

I felt that Monolake really lost something important after their "Interstate" CD - things became a lot more linear (in a bad way) and not nearly as gorgeous. So my suggestion is to pick up "Hong Kong" and "Interstate" (the two essentials), go for the Chain Reaction 12"'s as well, and then tread...

Yeah, this is easily one of the best covers ever, one of the few pieces of music that can reduce me to a blubbering wreck. "Fragments of A Rainy Season" is an exemplary live recording all round though. Buckley's version is nice but pales next to Cale. I seem to recall Jeff B. doing a great...

Much like Matt, I found myself pretty satiated after the prog-nosis of last year. These days prog seems to turn up as an element of certain things I listen to, but by no means an overarching concern. These days it's a bit too blustery and non-pleasurable for me. Having said that I still...

Young was in the Poppyheads, who released one of the early Sarah Records 7"'s ("Cremation Town") so I guess that's the connection. Also put out a zine called It All Sounded the Same. Oh, the irony. I remember a great story in his review of that Cavanagh Creation book where he talks about going...

Re: FourTet Matt! But what would you do if you saw Kieran Hebden busking 14th century ballads on London Bridge? ;) Come on now Derek, you praise Four Tet and diss Yo La Tengo? Hmmm. (Both of whom have done their "look mah we can dabble in jazz no hands!" records.)

Oh thanks for 'outing me' Simon ;) Couple of points: * Surely the 'index of influences' is just as much a function of access/increased knowledge base/sheer amount of music to draw from/listen to? Not that I'm going to say something like 'you know, now with the internet and downloading'. I...