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XTC: Drums and Wires.

Listened to it after a long, long time but realised again how good it is. Will listen to Go2 next ...

My Last.fm page lists what I'm listening to. Jx

New stuff:

Portishead "Third"
Tindersticks "The Hungry Saw"
The Notwist "The Devil, You + Me"

I can feel three classics in there. The first ("Third") is confirmed.

And fast forward into the past for:

Underworld "Beaucoup Fish"
Morrissey "Rare Tracks" (actually the "Maladjusted" B sides)
David Sylvian "Gone to Earth" (disc 1)
Ultrafox "Ice Skating"
Scott Walker "The Drift"

Also "Trout Mask Replica" - it might be the first time I made it all the way through. I like the first few tracks but it gets too long very quickly and I could live without the skits, although "fast and bool bus" always raises a smile. Ivor Cutler crossed with Tom Waits, before either of them.

Otherwise, I like a lot of Captain Beefheart, even the much-maligned "Blue Jeans and Moonbeams", which I like a lot.

Trout Mask Replica is a fantastic album - but agree it's not to everyones tastes. I think my favourite Beefheart album has to be Lick My Decals Off, Baby - which is one of those albums in the strange position of being widely available on vinyl but unavailable at present on CD!

Currently listening to Comicopera by Robert Wyatt and Music Has The Right To Children by Boards of Canada.

I've still not got round to picking up Third from Portishead, must correct that soon.

Am having a couple of Doves days.
Last Broadcast and Lost Souls. What fantastic albums they are.

Today's its been Sequentia and their beautiful interpretation of Hildegard von Bingen's Ordo Virtutum (Play of the virtues)

Incidentally, this is on the Harmonia Mundi label.

Takes all sorts

An absolutely gorgeous day today, so I'm soundtracking it with Heaven or Las Vegas by the Cocteau Twins with 'Ice Blink Luck' getting heavy rotation.

An excellent choice Garry - and I'm also another big fan of Trout Mask Replica.

Regarding comicopera - what are your thoughts on it?
Cuckooland was my 'album of the year' in 2003 and I still play it repeatedly. It features 'one note' by Eno, I think...

How does the latest album compare/differ?

I've been off work today, after a Long and Sleepless NIght, during which I have enjoyed listening to:

Tom Waits- Asylum Years
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Dig Lazarus Dig
Barbara - a l'Atelier, Bruxelles 1954
and
Scott Walker - Scott

Sting - 'Nothing Like The Sun'.