I know its a bit lazy but I always enjoy looking at other folks’ purchases and I am feeling a bit brain dead too.
So, brace yourselves for a shocking revelation here, I have bought a few LPs recently. What can I say? it is totally out of character and I won’t do it again. Honest.
So apart from one ace 2023 release I’m in the process of reviewing, here are a few other recents.
Rolling Stones Hackney Diamonds
Hmm. Naively high hopes dented a bit. I really don’t rate the thudding production and Jagger sounds odd, kinda digitally de-aged. There are some okay songs here, I do like the last bluesy track and the grumpy Paul McCartney one too. Also, what was your art budget guys? and what the fuck did you spend it on? a gatefold with just the words Rolling Stones on it? Hmm.
Upchuck Bite The Hand That Feeds
Marginally less heralded than Hackney Diamonds this multi-racial Atlanta GA hardcore punk gang play it energetic and old school. Picked up on a total whim a couple of weeks ago this has been in high rotation. Contrary to lazy belief it really isn’t easy to make hardcore simultaneously this fast and this interesting.
Robert Finley Black Bayou
Septuagenarian swamp blues ably assisted by Dan Auerbach. I bought a fancy pants version of this following a good review and it really is all they promised. The track ‘Miss Kitty’ is about as libidinous as I can handle, which makes it pretty darned horny.
Bauhaus In the Flat Field
Apart from the inevitable I owned none until a mate at work leant me some. I had absolutely no idea how loud, dangerous and jagged Bauhaus were. You really could cut yourself on these tunes if you mishandled them.
High On Fire Surrounded By Thieves
Because occasionally you really need more shirtless battle-axe warrior music, especially when you work in an office. This is truly great music to listen to whilst laying waste to Minas Tirith, or tidying up some spreadsheets.
Artificial Intelligence
Reissue of the prohibitively expensive and (eew!) seminal Warp Records compilation from 1992 when people were saying ‘nobody would listen to techno at home’. These tracks are all evidence of mutant strains of the beats that were shaking the clubs at the time. This is a wonderful LP to play during a long night time car journey.
Funkadelic Cosmic Slop
I have a shrewd suspicion drugs may have been consumed by certain individuals during the making of this LP. This is a great LP, far better in fact than some of its more frequently championed P-funk family. If you can get beyond the cover art the playing occasionally reaches whole different planes of existence and bosstuneafunkisensibility.
Big Black Atomizer
One I’ve wanted for years and years and yearios. This is the coldest, bleakest LP I own, so thrillingly negative and unholy that it probably warps the space/time continuum around itself; just listen to ‘Kerosene’ and despair.
Just a smattering of the plattering I have been laying on here daddio.
1206 Down (still).
With you on that Andew Watt production… I feel it’s on everything he touches. I think that art budget was spent on creating the 187 different vinyl variants
Cheers Tony, the Ozzy LP he did felt the same to me too. I’m sorry but give me £200 and 2 days and I’d have done better artwork, I’m all cross about it again now.
Just be glad you didn’t see the email ‘teases’ that they sent out from their Hackney Diamonds website. It set every one of my marketing teeth on edge.
The Eddie Vedder album had the same sonic shiteness too and I’ll expect the next Pearl Jam album to suffer the same fate
Just out of polite interest how many marketing teeth are you packing these days?
just the three
Quite a selection there. For the Stones I had to get the Atlanta Braves baseball edition. Everyone was buying the normal one, so I had to be different. It is really sweet.
I like all the sports edition ones they did, clever stuff. But for a gatefold LP the standard sleeve is awful. A logo I could have drawn on an exercise book in 10 minutes and nothing in the middle? Not trying guys!
That is pretty lazy and expensive. They could’ve made a little more on the albums without that. I agree, If you are going to do a gatefold, go big or go home.
Good to see your restraint is operating at its customary levels.
“This is a wonderful LP to play during a long night time car journey.” You have a turntable in your car! We need photos!
Oh god, I wish Bruce!
Grumpy Paul lol…. Macca Gone Mad is going to be the title of his next solo album.
I like that one and the slightly country one, Dreamy Days (?) too.
I like grumpy Macca, he wrote Helter Skelter too. It wasn’t a Crue original!!
Whut?? I have been deceived this whole time by Trikky Sixx?? Next thing you’ll tell me is that Saxon is not a Canadian band!!!
Sorry to break it to you Deke! I don’t want you to hear it from anyone else, but you need to know that Def Leppard aren’t really from Calgary. Sorry.
BAHAHAHA……
Didn’t know Artificial Intelligence had been reissued. I think Eva would like that one. I don’t have that HoF either. Probe must rub their hands in glee every time you walk in.
It’s really excellent, if she likes that sort of thing, she’ll love it. That’s my hot take. Do you want to do a reaction video?
Absolutely! I was thinking of filming myself listening to it while I eat cornflakes. Occasionally I’ll say “mmm-hmm”
Smart move, the product placement royalties should bring in millions.
And yes to the Probe thing, after 20 years I’m now on nodding acquaintance with them.