RE: (TV) End-of-year Review

["christopher hollow" <doughboy@netspace.net.au>]

Hello Keith, hello TV addicts, 
I've enjoyed this list since 1998, I was 26. 
As to albums I loved this year - my very favourite was Dean Wareham's debut solo.
I also enjoyed Damien Jurado's cosmic-mystic-seer persona on Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son. 
Stephen Malkmus' Wigout at Jagbags showed he's still writing great lines that stick eg. “I don’t have the stomach for your brandy, I can hardly sip your tea” [‘Independence Street’].  
William Tyler's instrumental EP, Lost Colony, includes a nice cover of Michael Rother’s ‘Karussell’
Also really taken with Blonde Redhead's Barragán. It got mixed reviews from people who have more history with this band than I do, but all I heard was great production, great songs like 'Dripping'. 
~  christopher 


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From: tv-owner@obbard.com [mailto:tv-owner@obbard.com] On Behalf Of Keith Allison
Sent: Saturday, 3 January 2015 4:59 AM
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Subject: (TV) End-of-year Review

As the people in this group all have impeccable taste I was wondering, looking back on 2014, what are the best things you heard which came out last year?

My particular favourites:
The War on Drugs' album "Lost in the Dream" (at the moment seems to be 
on a permanent loop) -     terrific feel and sound.
Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band - "Intensity Ghost" - guitar-led instrumentals, heavily TV-influenced.
Peter Hammill & Gary Lucas' "Other World"
Robert Plant & the Sensational Space Shifters' "Lullaby and... The Ceaseless Roar" - (Led Zep reunions? no time, this is much more
interesting.)
Scott Walker & Sunn 0))): "Soused" - you either love Scott Walker or you don't but each release certainly makes you question the relationship.
The Slits' guitarist Viv Albertine's "The Vermilion Border" - really enjoyed her book and this is a kind of soundtrack.
Lucinda Williams' "Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone"

Best TV-related listen - the recording of the June 3 Alcatraz, Milan, Italy show that I uploaded to Dime. Excellent sound quality.

Disappointment of the Year -  Bryan Ferry's "Avonmore" - as I said to Leo, "Why do we keep torturing ourselves with these things just because of what once was?"

Yours?

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