Name:
Fil
Email: mr.qwerty@bigfoot.com
Location: Fylde Coast, England
1. Gold Ryan Adams
2. Lost Together Rembrandts
3. Tsar Tsar
4. Life
On Planet Eartsnop Myracle Brah
5. Secrets
Human League
6. Waling Hours
Waking Hours
Comments:
In no particular order...
Gold Ryan Adams
Neil Young and Bob Dylan fans - wait no longer
- the new messiah is here in the shape and warranted hype about 'newcomer'
Ryan Adams. Already a veteran with 3 Whiskeytown and one
previous solo under his belt. Rescue Blues and Rosalie Come
And Go got me straight off, but it just gets better. It's a no nonsense
album, nothing superfluous here, and has classic written all over it.
Lost Together Rembrandts
These guys have been too long away. Danny
Wilde & Phil Solem back together again to give us perhaps
their strongest album since Untilted. Strong, solid and mature
songwriting from start to finish. Fave songs, too many - OK then: Some
Other World, St. Paul, Lost Together, One of Us
and Happiness - howzat? You'd better buy it then!
Tsar Tsar
Awesome, gargantuan - every thing
about this is big. The guitars, the drums, the harmonies and the hooks.
The first three tracks Calling All Destroyers, I Don't Wanna
Break-Up and Silver Shifter, totally make you sit up and take
notice from the beginning. Repeated plays makes others emerge, Kathy
Fong, MONoSTEReo, Ordinary Girl and more. If you like
your pop big like Cheap Trick, the Move, Shazam -
this is a must.
Life
On Planet Eartsnop Myracle Brah
Bringing up the rear again, for me, the first time
I heard this mindblower from 1998 was last year. Wow! Getting Over
Delusion - less than two minutes of utter pop perfection. I'm still
getting into this album as I write. You can't gorge yourself all at one
sitting - mucho chocca, it's cup runneth over. Andy Bopp is a new
genius to die for.
Secrets Human
League
Not Power Pop? - I don't think
so! Dare perhaps one of the greatest marriages of Abba and
Kraftwerk is recalled here. After years in the creative wilderness,
this is a thorough and magnificent return to form. The single All I
Ever Wanted, is a good a starting place as any - but it's all equally
fab!
Waling
Hours Waking Hours
Yes I know it's a 2
year old album - but new to me. This totally blew me away on first listen.
Everything good about Pop abounds on this album. Not one bum track. Only,
thing is, when the next one coming out?
Honorable Mentions
Super Furry Animals - Rings Around The World
Ben Folds - Rocking the Suburbs
Grip Weeds - Anything of the few tracks I've heard
David Grahme - ditto
Webb Brothers - Maroon
Teenage Fan Club - Howdy
Dandy Warhols - 13 Tales
Gay Dad - Joy (Single)
Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
Gold
Ryan Adams (2001)1. New York, New York
2. Firecracker
3. Answering bell
4. La Cienega just smiled
5. The rescue blue
6. Somehow, someday
7. When the stars go blue
8. Nobody girl
9. SYLVIA PLATH
10. Enemy fire
11. Gonna make you love me
12. Wild flowers
13. Harder now that it's over
14. Touch, feel and lose
15. Tina Toledo's street walkin' blues
16. Goodnight, Hollywood Blvd
17. Rosalie come and go
Lost Together Rembrandts (2001)
1. Lost Together
2. St. Paul
3. Too Late
4. You Are The One
5. One Of Us
6. The Way She Smiles
7. Another Day Down
8. Buddy Jo
9. Long Way To Go
10. Big Plans
11. Some Other World
12. Happiness
Tsar
Tsar (2000)1. Calling All Destroyers
2. I Don't Wanna Break-Up
3. Silver Shifter
4. Kathy Fong Is The Bomb
5. The Teen Wizards
6. Monostereo
7. Afradio, Pt. One & Pt. Two
8. Ordinary Gurl
9. Disappear
10. The Girl Who Wouldn't Die
Life On Planet Eartsnop
Myracle Brah(1998)1. Whisper Softly
2. Action Reaction
3. Someday Soon
4. Getting Over Delusion
5. I'm In Love
6. Good Day To The Night
7. Usual Request
8. Medicine Man
9. Photograph
10. She's Everything
11. Anything But This World
12. Loli La Letta
13. She's So Young
14. Talk To Me
15. Just Because
16. Bitter Thing
17. Carry On The Lie
18. Inside Of You
19. Machina
20. Love Is
Secrets Human League (2001)1. All I Ever Wanted
2. Nervous
3. Love Me Madly?
4. Shameless
5. 122.3 BPM
6. Never Give Your Heart
7. Ran
8. The Snake
9. Ringinglow
10. Liar
11. Lament
12. Reflections
13. Brute
14. Sin City
15. Release
16. You'll Be Sorry
Waling
Hours Waking Hours (1999)1. Picture Show
2. Dolores
3. Work It Out
4. Hurt
5. Nowhere
6. St. Peter
7. Caroline
8. Don't Fade Away