SUNKYSPEAKS

My last selection was all about the ‘surf rock’ and I really enjoyed getting to enjoy music from bands like The Ventures and The Tornadoes. It was a really magical time in music.

I actually selected these albums below before heading out on some travel for work last week. When I know I have about 7 to 8 hours of travel in a day, I want to have albums that are epic landscapes to sit and listen too. So this is why I picked albums like The Fragile, Mellon Collie the Infinite Sadness, Bloodflowers (the live performance), Kid A, Frances the Mute and more.

The album I’m the most excited to have ‘dropped a dime’ on in the new record from Lee Rocker (The Stray Cats), Last Train to Memphis.

01. Architecture in Helsinki - Fingers Crossed
02. Ash - 1977
03. The Beatles - Rubber Soul
04. Bjork - Post
05. The Brian Setzer Orchestra - The Dirty Boogie
06. Chet Baker - Embraceable You
07. The Cure - Trilogy: Bloodflowers
08. Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse - Dark Night of the Soul
09. David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars
10. Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
11. Elvis Costello - The Very Best of Elvis Costello
12. Elvis Presley - Elvis Presley
13. Handsome Furs - Plague Park
14. James Iha - Look To The Sky
15. Jenny and Johnny - I’m Having Fun Now
16. Julie London - Julie Is Her Name
17. Lee Rocker - Night Train to Memphis
18. Manic Street Preachers - This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours
19. The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute
20. Mogwai - Come On Die Young
21. Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
22. Prince & The Revolution - Purple Rain
23. Radiohead - Kid A
24. The Rapture - Echoes
25. Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - I Learned The Hard Way
26. Silverchair - Diorama
27. The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and The Infinite Sadness
28. The Smiths - The Best of The Smiths
29. TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
30. Yeah Yeah Yeah’s - Show Your Bones

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Rockabilly Boogie

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Adore vinyl, mixed in mono and how it should be heard. This breaks my 3 month Smashing Pumpkins hiatus.

The Pumpkins have been a huge part of my life and I needed a break. I’ve collected thousands of dollars worth of material, spent a decade reporting news on my site Ozphoria, I’ve worked for the band (and survived), toured a number of times around Australia with them, I tweet daily lyrics, I’ve been one of ‘those’ fans, it consumed my life and I needed some time away. I needed to become a ‘fan’ again and want to listen to the music again. In the last week for the first time in years I’ve craved to listen to their music, and tonight I gave in with Adore. Full of layers of sound, beauty and love … I’m happy to be back in Pumpkinland.

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Ignition

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That moment you realise if you cover up Paul Simon’s face it looks like Art Garfunkel has a mean moustache.

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30 records, 1 iPhone.

For the last two weeks the few albums that stood out on the list were Anna Calvi’s self titled, The Cure’s - Wish (especially A Letter to Elise), The Day of the Dead - Kill or Be Killed (inspired this rounds theme), Beck - Sea Change (the record finally clicked with me) and it was great to revisit Rancid’s - Life Won’t Wait.

I did mention my concerns about The Living End’s last record … my concerns were right. Totally uninspiring, boring and just bland. I can’t believe how a band that still performs so well live can write music now that doesn’t capture that power. Few things that stuck out for me, you can’t hear Scott’s double bass at all, it may as well be a standard electric bass and Chris - play a guitar solo once in a while. There were a few songs I enjoyed, but nothing exciting to make me want to go back.

On to this round, I’m on a bit of a ‘surf rock’ kick - hence The Ventures, Santo & Johnny, The Sufaris and The Tornadoes. Also looking forward to going back to explore Binaural and The Information by Beck. Finally seeing Ryan Adams last Saturday (and blow my mind) has inspired both a Whiskeytown and Cardinals record to be added onto the list.

01. Melissa Auf Der Maur - Auf Der Maur
02. Beck - The Information
03. Brian Setzer Orchestra - Best of the Big Band
04. Cake - Motorcade of Generosity
05. David Bowie - Reality
06. Eels - Beautiful Freak
07. Elmore James - Dust My Broom
08. Gary Numan - The Pleasure Principle
09. Grandaddy - The Windfall Varietal
10. Hole - Celebrity Skin
11. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV
12. Morrissey - The Very Best Of (2011)
13. Neil Finn - Try Whistling This
14. New Order - Get Ready
15. Nine Inch Nails - [Halo_08] The Downward Spiral
16. Oasis - (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?
17. Pavement - Terror Twilight
18. Pearl Jam - Binaural
19. PJ Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
20. Radiohead - In Rainbows
21. Rocket Science - Welcome Aboard the 3c10
22. The Rolling Stones - Flowers
23. Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Cold Roses
24. Santo & Johnny - Sleepwalk
25. The Silents - 23
26. The Stray Cats - Rock This Town
27. The Sufaris - Wipe Out!
28. The Tornadoes - Bustin’ Surfboards
29. The Ventures - Surfing
30. Whiskeytown - Pneumonia

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