Secret Santa 2012

[cmuller]

Also, could discreet inquiries be made to see if my send cd has been received - think I sent it a couple of days before Xmas post cut off.

[Skidfingers McGonical]

I haven't received a CD and I haven't seen a review of mine. It should have got there by Christmas as I posted it in good time.

 

All a bit of a disappointment to be honest.

 

I feel exactly the same regarding this travesty Jim.

[Juniper]

I'm all over this thread later tonight

 

ALL OVER

[RedinSweden]

I'm all over this thread later tonight

 

ALL OVER

 

Good work lad. If you can discreetly find out if mine has been received and the receiver is just being a lazyarse, or if it has gone walkabout, in which case I can send a new copy. As for the sender of mine, if i had been assigned me, one of the elder statesmen of the forum, I would have sent the fucking thing using a courier escorted by armed guards.

[brucespanner]

Mine arrived, the recipient said as much, no review as yet though.

[Yozzer]

First of all I'd like to apologise to my SS for not delivering the CD review earlier, with Christmas being a busy period I only got round to listening to it around 5 days ago. Anyway, as far as I was aware there was no tack listing so I had to either use my own knowledge or use Shazam to find the names of the songs, correct me if any of them are incorrect. Without further ado, here is my review:

 

1 – Santa Baby – Eartha Kitt; I initially thought I’d received the wrong CD, thankfully it wasn’t and it was just a creepy way of saying Merry Christmas to me. Thankfully no-one else was in the house when I put this one quite loud.

 

2 – Debaser – Pixies; One of my all-time favourite bands and favourite songs. You can’t go wrong with any Pixies stuff to be honest. A bundle of pure energy and brilliance to get the album going.

 

3 – What’s the Altitude – Cut Chemist; Catchy song that I liked, never heard of the artist or the song so I was pleasantly surprised by it. May look into more of their stuff as it had me hooked.

 

4 – The Great Gig in the Sky – Pink Floyd; Quite possibly one of the greatest albums ever made and this song contributes to the brilliance of the album. Not much more to say really, just boss music from Pink Floyd.

 

5 – Chemical Beats – Chemical Brothers; Not something I’d tend to listen to but the intro had some funky 90s acid house beat to it. I’d imagine if I wasn’t nursing an illness and was ploughed with ale this song would seem better than it is currently making me feel.

 

6 – Mr Jones – Counting Crows; 90s classic right here and is impossible not to tap along to the beat and hum the chorus. Simple in its lyrics and composition yet still a very good choice of song for this album.

 

7 – Seat Yourself – Roots Manuva; As far as I could by his accent this guy was a British rapper, not really sure what to make of his song though. It was a solid beat but it never really gets going for me, not bad but not something I’d personally go out my way to listen to.

 

8 – Fake Plastic Trees – Radiohead; I’m going to be honest here; I don’t particularly like Radiohead as their music does nothing for me. It’s all a bit whiny and slow tempo, a song which illustrates this for me really.

 

9 – Violently Happy – Bjork; Pretty much similar to Radiohead for me, a musician who just never really does it for me. Don’t get me wrong, I can see why people like her but the music never really gets going. It’s all a bit mundane for me.

 

10 – Heroin – Velvet Underground; Back on track now with this track as there are one of the most influential bands of the 60s in my opinion. I could quite easily listen to this song on repeat for days on end, fairly sure this was on their debut album as well which is an all-time classic.

 

11 – Woo Hah – Busta Rhymes; I love me some 90s hip-hop and Busta Rhymes is a brilliant artist when he stuck to his original hip hop roots – his later work he did was pretty awful. Luckily this song was during his peak and I really enjoyed it.

 

12 – Sabres of Paradise – Smokebelch II; Intriguing song this, probably not something I’d listen to during everyday activities but it’s definitely something I could see myself listening to it on the beach or some other relaxing place.

 

13 – Devil Take My Soul – Son of Dave; Another artist I’d never heard of but thoroughly enjoyed the song. I’ve never really thoroughly appreciated the blues/folk scene but this will make me delve deeper and look for some other artists.

 

14 – Hell is Round the Corner – Tricky; Not quite sure what type of genre this music is to be honest and never heard of the artist but it’s another that never really gets going. It has the potential but the beat just seems to drone on and is a but dull. Not bad by any means, just not my thing.

 

15 – Do You Realise – Flaming Lips; I’ve always meant to listen to these but just never got round to it, after this it looks like I may have to delve deeper into their albums. A slightly uplifting song that reminds me somewhat of Elbow – you can take that a compliment or a criticism of them. Enjoyed it either way.

 

16 – I Got a Woman – Ray Charles; Ah, the song the Kanye West ripped off. His song and musical ability pales in comparison to the great Ray Charles. The creator of soul music has me hooked with this song.

 

17 – The Bare Necessities – Jungle Book; I was intrigued by the soft start to the song and had no idea what it was. When it broke out into the classic jolly tune of the Jungle Book it did make me chuckle, a song that fit perfectly with the movie. Anyone who doesn’t enjoy this song is a wrong’un.

 

Thanks very much to my SS as I thoroughly enjoyed the CD I received, now comes round to the guessing part. I may be cheating here but it said on the envelope I received that it had come from Nottingham so that narrows my search down although that doesn’t immediately spring anybody to mind. I vaguely remember Hand Shandy mentioning Nottingham so I’m going to guess it was him. Either way, reveal yourself Secret Santa.

[Stu Monty]

One review hot off the press. I never review until January. I always like to have a good listen whilst spending Xmas working and travelling around and that always leads a January review. So you know, if you are an impatient cunt then you're bang out of luck with me reviewing.

 

Heart of Gold – Neil Young: Classic stuff to start it off. Love a bit of Harvest, pretty much every track is gorgeous. Harmonica me along to track number two please.

 

Send his love to me – PJ Harvey: I got into Polly Harvey at about the time she brought out Stories from the City, Stories from the sea and haven’t really gone that far into her back catalogue so this was a new one to me. I Loved it. Great tune and it’ll give me a push to sort out going through her older stuff.

 

Pretty Penny – Stone Temple Pilots: This is new to me, as a lot of the stuff on the CD is. Plods along nicely with a bit of a kind of Celtic ballad type feel and has a little change up on the chorus. It feels a little bit “are you going to Scarborough fair” but I still think it’s decent enough without being something that would push me to go and investigate them too much further.

 

3 Libras – Perfect Circle: Good start with a deep guttural bass and some strings. The strings follow the theme of the last track nicely and the guitar feels like it’s a kind of “Right warm up over, shit’s getting serious now” feel to it. Really like the haunting strings (I’m a sucker for strings). Did a little reading and there’s Smashing Pumpkins, Tool and NIN influences in the band which makes sense. Very good; it’s new and interesting.

 

Shiloh Town - Mark Lanagen: The theme of a kind of moody acoustic feel is still running with this one. I know a little bit of Lanagen’s stuff from QOTSA and a few other things but don’t own any of his albums. Another that I really like and there’s not a single skipper yet on the disk, with most of it making me thinking of looking further when I hear it. Again, some lovely strings on this. Nice sort of miserable country/folky feel to it.

 

Auto Pilot – QOTSA: Well, speak of the devils and they shall appear. I’ve got loads of their stuff, and really like them (and use their stuff on my SS often too). This is very fresh to me though as even though I think I’ve got Rated R I have barely listened to it to be honest. Once again it prods me towards further investigation. Great tune with characteristic swagger.

 

To rid the disease – Opeth: I’ve heard of Opeth but not really knowingly heard any of their stuff. Another moody start with an interesting piano theme running through it, it maybe drags its feet a little bit but then it doesn’t seem to be in a rush to go anywhere. Probably the first temptation to skip, not through disliking it really, it’s just a bit “more of the same” from halfway.

 

20th century schitzoid man – King Crimson: Very much sounding like one of Lennon’s more leftfield vocal efforts for The Beatles, if he was thrown into a bit of a mental progressive music band. This is okay, not great but okay. I don’t mind a bit of self-indulgance from these progressive types when I’m in the mood but it’s going to be likely to get a skip on some occasions when I feel that I don’t want to listen to them meander along for a quarter of an hour. Decent enough but unlikely to be something I listen to a lot of.

 

Revolutionary Generation – Public Enemy: Who doesn’t love a little bit of Public Enemy? Quality stuff with the usual strong, thoughtful, prompting lyrics and a background of samples and interesting sound. Public enemy – it does what it says on the tin really.

 

C’Mon Girl – Red Hot Chilli Peppers: Great tune. Without ever being someone who has bought their whole back-catalogue I’ve always had respect for these. I don’t understand the shit they got just because everyone in the world bough By the way. Going to see them live a few years back brought home to me the quality of the musicianship in that band and I’m not having that they’e “sold out” because they’re not playing the same garage punk/funk they did as kids. This has prompted me to maybe get Stadium Arcadium though, as I don’t have it and it’ll probably have a few gems on it that have passed me by.

 

Too afraid to love you – The Black Keys: Great tune from a band I really, really like. I’d recommend that anyone gets Brothers and El Camino as they’re accessible and packed full of great stuff. Without being able to pin it down there’s a good theme on the CD of similar styles whilst having a good bit of variation on it.

 

The Spy – The Doors: I’ve never really been a big fan of The Doors but couldn’t say that I’ve listened to enough of their stuff to be able to back that up as an educated opinion. Mrs Stu loves a bit of them and we went to a cover band that was pretty decent last year. This is okay without being something that would make me any more likely to check them out any more. Not skipping it but maybe just switching off a little.

 

I have seen – Zero 7: Loved this album when it first came out, particularly, if I recall, the stuff they did with the Aussie vocalist Cia. Nice laid back tune. I’d venture that anyone that can’t just chill and appreciate this is probably wired a bit wrong.

 

Rosemary – The Deftones: This is new to me. I’ve heard little of the Deftones but have a mate who tells me I’d love them. Given he was also the one who put me onto Sigur Ros and Modest Mouse I’m not sure why I’ve not checked them out. Be quiet and drive is my only reference point for them. I like this a lot and so will have to follow that up with some action. Love the heavy guitars and mournful voice, it’s very much my thing. A great finale for the CD too.

 

All in all I’m well impressed with my CD. Without it being stuff I’ve heard before it’s packed with stuff that is of interest to me or by artists I like but haven’t got their full catalogues. I don’t know how tailored this was to me, I’d venture not too much and that it’s someone who likes slightly similar sounds to me but shifted off towards slightly different areas (that kind of dark, moody US guitar sound). This CD has, probably more than most got a real coherent sound to it that works together; that's interesting as I often like sounds to clash into each other for effect when making a compilation. This works equally well.

 

Very good. Thanks a lot. Lots to investigate. I haven’t got a fucking clue who it might be though. If there are any Scandos in it I might plump for one of them because those miserable 22hrs of darkness twats love those miserable US sounds.

 

Any ideas?

[Woo]

I'll have a review up either later today or tomorrow. As I'm confident I know who my SS is I offer absolutely no apology whatsoever.

[Stu Monty]

It's hardly fucking difficult is it? I might as well put my name on the CD.

 

Get it done.

 

Rich, you can do one too pal or you'll not get any more free music.

[Chocoholic]

Woo, did he do as he did last year when he sent mine, and recycle the envelope that his SS CD came in the previous year? And did he make ANY kind of effort with some artwork which was AWOL last time out?

[Stu Monty]

For Yozzer:

 

2xN-H5QTYWs

 

GoLJJRIWCLU

 

Some of it is slow tempo but lots isn't. There'll be Radiohead stuff you like, I'd be amazed if there weren't a few tracks for everyone, even people who don't like Thom's voice (the massive weirdos).

[Stu Monty]

I didn't join SS to draw art. What am I, a fucking girl?

 

Woo got some lovely artwork.

[Karl_b]

My review is coming this week. Apologies to my sender but like Stu I prefer to give it a while before reviewing and I just haven't had chance so far this year.

[The Golden Eel]

I'm not even in this year, so I can confirm that no CD is from me.

[Soleilrouge]

I ahve not received and neither have I sent - but the latter will be corrected tomorrow minus artwork - the music speaks for itself.

[Hand Shandy]

First of all I'd like to apologise to my SS for not delivering the CD review earlier, with Christmas being a busy period I only got round to listening to it around 5 days ago. Anyway, as far as I was aware there was no tack listing so I had to either use my own knowledge or use Shazam to find the names of the songs, correct me if any of them are incorrect. Without further ado, here is my review:

 

1 – Santa Baby – Eartha Kitt; I initially thought I’d received the wrong CD, thankfully it wasn’t and it was just a creepy way of saying Merry Christmas to me. Thankfully no-one else was in the house when I put this one quite loud.

 

2 – Debaser – Pixies; One of my all-time favourite bands and favourite songs. You can’t go wrong with any Pixies stuff to be honest. A bundle of pure energy and brilliance to get the album going.

 

3 – What’s the Altitude – Cut Chemist; Catchy song that I liked, never heard of the artist or the song so I was pleasantly surprised by it. May look into more of their stuff as it had me hooked.

 

4 – The Great Gig in the Sky – Pink Floyd; Quite possibly one of the greatest albums ever made and this song contributes to the brilliance of the album. Not much more to say really, just boss music from Pink Floyd.

 

5 – Chemical Beats – Chemical Brothers; Not something I’d tend to listen to but the intro had some funky 90s acid house beat to it. I’d imagine if I wasn’t nursing an illness and was ploughed with ale this song would seem better than it is currently making me feel.

 

6 – Mr Jones – Counting Crows; 90s classic right here and is impossible not to tap along to the beat and hum the chorus. Simple in its lyrics and composition yet still a very good choice of song for this album.

 

7 – Seat Yourself – Roots Manuva; As far as I could by his accent this guy was a British rapper, not really sure what to make of his song though. It was a solid beat but it never really gets going for me, not bad but not something I’d personally go out my way to listen to.

 

8 – Fake Plastic Trees – Radiohead; I’m going to be honest here; I don’t particularly like Radiohead as their music does nothing for me. It’s all a bit whiny and slow tempo, a song which illustrates this for me really.

 

9 – Violently Happy – Bjork; Pretty much similar to Radiohead for me, a musician who just never really does it for me. Don’t get me wrong, I can see why people like her but the music never really gets going. It’s all a bit mundane for me.

 

10 – Heroin – Velvet Underground; Back on track now with this track as there are one of the most influential bands of the 60s in my opinion. I could quite easily listen to this song on repeat for days on end, fairly sure this was on their debut album as well which is an all-time classic.

 

11 – Woo Hah – Busta Rhymes; I love me some 90s hip-hop and Busta Rhymes is a brilliant artist when he stuck to his original hip hop roots – his later work he did was pretty awful. Luckily this song was during his peak and I really enjoyed it.

 

12 – Sabres of Paradise – Smokebelch II; Intriguing song this, probably not something I’d listen to during everyday activities but it’s definitely something I could see myself listening to it on the beach or some other relaxing place.

 

13 – Devil Take My Soul – Son of Dave; Another artist I’d never heard of but thoroughly enjoyed the song. I’ve never really thoroughly appreciated the blues/folk scene but this will make me delve deeper and look for some other artists.

 

14 – Hell is Round the Corner – Tricky; Not quite sure what type of genre this music is to be honest and never heard of the artist but it’s another that never really gets going. It has the potential but the beat just seems to drone on and is a but dull. Not bad by any means, just not my thing.

 

15 – Do You Realise – Flaming Lips; I’ve always meant to listen to these but just never got round to it, after this it looks like I may have to delve deeper into their albums. A slightly uplifting song that reminds me somewhat of Elbow – you can take that a compliment or a criticism of them. Enjoyed it either way.

 

16 – I Got a Woman – Ray Charles; Ah, the song the Kanye West ripped off. His song and musical ability pales in comparison to the great Ray Charles. The creator of soul music has me hooked with this song.

 

17 – The Bare Necessities – Jungle Book; I was intrigued by the soft start to the song and had no idea what it was. When it broke out into the classic jolly tune of the Jungle Book it did make me chuckle, a song that fit perfectly with the movie. Anyone who doesn’t enjoy this song is a wrong’un.

 

Thanks very much to my SS as I thoroughly enjoyed the CD I received, now comes round to the guessing part. I may be cheating here but it said on the envelope I received that it had come from Nottingham so that narrows my search down although that doesn’t immediately spring anybody to mind. I vaguely remember Hand Shandy mentioning Nottingham so I’m going to guess it was him. Either way, reveal yourself Secret Santa.

 

Well done, it was me!

 

Glad you liked the majority of it, and yes 'Santa Baby' was supposed to weird you out...

 

Still haven't got a clue who mine was from, so if anyone wants to hold their hands up, feel free.

[Yozzer]

Shit, you've got my address now as well. We've got enough weirdos hanging around Newsham Park as it is, I don't want anymore!

[chauncey]

*slopes into thread*

 

Artwork:

 

Gotta say, this was clever:

 

 

Hmm, pretty unremarkable on first glance...

 

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IT'S A FUCKING LIVERBIRD YOU SONS OF BITCHES

 

Musics (click on the title for a play):

 

 

What to say about this? Every right-thinking person on this earth enjoys the music of New Order and this is one of their finest. Stone cold classic.

 

2. Pearl Jam - Rearviewmirror

 

Oh yes indeed. Still got Vs. and Ten on CD somewhere but the discography is now sitting on my hard drive, freshly torrented thanks to Santa. The song? All about the batshit outro for me.

 

3. Placebo - Teenage Angst

 

Hard band to love, Placebo. That said, the first album is a belter (they went properly to shit during and after Black Market Music imo) and this is its perfect cut. Even though the later albums were generally whiny toss, they're all worth a listen because there's usually at least one storming track on there.

 

 

Though I wrote this off as a novelty track at the time, it still stands up ten years later - especially in comparison to the nu-metal shite around back then. Reminds me being a spotty meff in school. So, yeah, thanks Santa.

 

 

 

A recent-ish one I know. The track is an MOR monster. Its chorus fucks dads.

 

 

6. Sahara Hotnights - Hot Night Crash

 

NEW NEW NEW. Kick-ass intro, Patti Smith vocals and hooky chorus. Great stuff; need more. They're from Sweden, apparently. *arches brow*

 

 

 

All quiet on the Eastern front save for keyboards, bass and percussion. I can forgive Santa for the lack of any meaningful guitar as The Stranglers are class. Sweden, eh? *raises second eyebrow*

 

 

 

New one to me. Impressive, these guys managed to travel forwards in time, steal The Horrors' schtick (2008-present), travel backwards in time and pass it off as their own, only better. Fuuuuuuu-

 

 

Not my favourite on Surfer Rosa but you could take almost any song off that record and I'd still be sitting here, fully erect.

 

 

Can't stand The Young Knives. Sorry Sants - I listened to it a couple of times out of politeness - but these chumps are AIDS on toast.

 

 

CD gets back on track in spectacular fashion - how the actual fuck have I never heard of Go Betty Go? Thrashing power pop and surprisingly sweet harmonies. Sold. Gotta admit I cheated on my first listen to the CD as I had to play this about six times in a row. Have since acquired their only EP and only album. The EP is punkier than C'mon hints at and the album has more diverse sound than you'd expect from a punk band. Boss to the power of boss.

ps make more music, cunts.

 

 

Cool-as-fuck intro and swirling reversed guitar goodness from one of the Great Lost Bands. Think I gave the album this is off a few plays when it came out and found it pretty dull (compared to what was around at the time)... might be due a revisit.

 

 

Good work Santa, this was the track which got me into Coxon (can take or leave Blur). What would a Fucking Guitar Flavoured compilation be without a virtuoso player or two?

 

 

Wow this song is a lot shorter than I remember. Everyone knows this one surely - it seems to hang on that riff but for me this is all about the bass guitar. And Courtney's sardonic lyric of course.

 

15. Jane's Addiction - Just Because

 

Never really dug Jane's Addiction but there's no denying Dave Navarro's got some mad skillz. Thanks for picking the only Jane's Addiction track I know, Santa, you fucking hero.

 

 

Classic track from a classic album.

 

 

Final confirmation this Santa has truly done his homework.

 

 

Well, to say I enjoyed this compilation would be a massive understatement - I've ripped it and lashed it on the Walkman to soundtrack my runs. Damn norovirus.

 

Seriously, this was a superb collection of songs (Young Knives excepted) - I'm made up to have finally found Go Betty Go and rediscovered some bands I've been overlooking for too long, in particular Pearl Jam.

 

Guess: this has gotta be that Swedish meatdog RiS.

[chauncey]

Well done, it was me!

 

Glad you liked the majority of it, and yes 'Santa Baby' was supposed to weird you out...

 

Still haven't got a clue who mine was from, so if anyone wants to hold their hands up, feel free.

 

'Twas I! 'Twas I!

[Skidfingers McGonical]

One review hot off the press. I never review until January. I always like to have a good listen whilst spending Xmas working and travelling around and that always leads a January review. So you know' date=' if you are an impatient cunt then you're bang out of luck with me reviewing.

 

Heart of Gold – Neil Young: Classic stuff to start it off. Love a bit of Harvest, pretty much every track is gorgeous. Harmonica me along to track number two please.

 

Send his love to me – PJ Harvey: I got into Polly Harvey at about the time she brought out Stories from the City, Stories from the sea and haven’t really gone that far into her back catalogue so this was a new one to me. I Loved it. Great tune and it’ll give me a push to sort out going through her older stuff.

 

Pretty Penny – Stone Temple Pilots: This is new to me, as a lot of the stuff on the CD is. Plods along nicely with a bit of a kind of Celtic ballad type feel and has a little change up on the chorus. It feels a little bit “are you going to Scarborough fair” but I still think it’s decent enough without being something that would push me to go and investigate them too much further.

 

3 Libras – Perfect Circle: Good start with a deep guttural bass and some strings. The strings follow the theme of the last track nicely and the guitar feels like it’s a kind of “Right warm up over, shit’s getting serious now” feel to it. Really like the haunting strings (I’m a sucker for strings). Did a little reading and there’s Smashing Pumpkins, Tool and NIN influences in the band which makes sense. Very good; it’s new and interesting.

 

Shiloh Town - Mark Lanagen: The theme of a kind of moody acoustic feel is still running with this one. I know a little bit of Lanagen’s stuff from QOTSA and a few other things but don’t own any of his albums. Another that I really like and there’s not a single skipper yet on the disk, with most of it making me thinking of looking further when I hear it. Again, some lovely strings on this. Nice sort of miserable country/folky feel to it.

 

Auto Pilot – QOTSA: Well, speak of the devils and they shall appear. I’ve got loads of their stuff, and really like them (and use their stuff on my SS often too). This is very fresh to me though as even though I think I’ve got Rated R I have barely listened to it to be honest. Once again it prods me towards further investigation. Great tune with characteristic swagger.

 

To rid the disease – Opeth: I’ve heard of Opeth but not really knowingly heard any of their stuff. Another moody start with an interesting piano theme running through it, it maybe drags its feet a little bit but then it doesn’t seem to be in a rush to go anywhere. Probably the first temptation to skip, not through disliking it really, it’s just a bit “more of the same” from halfway.

 

20th century schitzoid man – King Crimson: Very much sounding like one of Lennon’s more leftfield vocal efforts for The Beatles, if he was thrown into a bit of a mental progressive music band. This is okay, not great but okay. I don’t mind a bit of self-indulgance from these progressive types when I’m in the mood but it’s going to be likely to get a skip on some occasions when I feel that I don’t want to listen to them meander along for a quarter of an hour. Decent enough but unlikely to be something I listen to a lot of.

 

Revolutionary Generation – Public Enemy: Who doesn’t love a little bit of Public Enemy? Quality stuff with the usual strong, thoughtful, prompting lyrics and a background of samples and interesting sound. Public enemy – it does what it says on the tin really.

 

C’Mon Girl – Red Hot Chilli Peppers: Great tune. Without ever being someone who has bought their whole back-catalogue I’ve always had respect for these. I don’t understand the shit they got just because everyone in the world bough By the way. Going to see them live a few years back brought home to me the quality of the musicianship in that band and I’m not having that they’e “sold out” because they’re not playing the same garage punk/funk they did as kids. This has prompted me to maybe get Stadium Arcadium though, as I don’t have it and it’ll probably have a few gems on it that have passed me by.

 

Too afraid to love you – The Black Keys: Great tune from a band I really, really like. I’d recommend that anyone gets Brothers and El Camino as they’re accessible and packed full of great stuff. Without being able to pin it down there’s a good theme on the CD of similar styles whilst having a good bit of variation on it.

 

The Spy – The Doors: I’ve never really been a big fan of The Doors but couldn’t say that I’ve listened to enough of their stuff to be able to back that up as an educated opinion. Mrs Stu loves a bit of them and we went to a cover band that was pretty decent last year. This is okay without being something that would make me any more likely to check them out any more. Not skipping it but maybe just switching off a little.

 

I have seen – Zero 7: Loved this album when it first came out, particularly, if I recall, the stuff they did with the Aussie vocalist Cia. Nice laid back tune. I’d venture that anyone that can’t just chill and appreciate this is probably wired a bit wrong.

 

Rosemary – The Deftones: This is new to me. I’ve heard little of the Deftones but have a mate who tells me I’d love them. Given he was also the one who put me onto Sigur Ros and Modest Mouse I’m not sure why I’ve not checked them out. Be quiet and drive is my only reference point for them. I like this a lot and so will have to follow that up with some action. Love the heavy guitars and mournful voice, it’s very much my thing. A great finale for the CD too.

 

All in all I’m well impressed with my CD. Without it being stuff I’ve heard before it’s packed with stuff that is of interest to me or by artists I like but haven’t got their full catalogues. I don’t know how tailored this was to me, I’d venture not too much and that it’s someone who likes slightly similar sounds to me but shifted off towards slightly different areas (that kind of dark, moody US guitar sound). This CD has, probably more than most got a real coherent sound to it that works together; that's interesting as I often like sounds to clash into each other for effect when making a compilation. This works equally well.

 

Very good. Thanks a lot. Lots to investigate. I haven’t got a fucking clue who it might be though. If there are any Scandos in it I might plump for one of them because those miserable 22hrs of darkness twats love those miserable US sounds.

 

Any ideas?[/quote']

 

Glad you liked it Monty.

 

Surely the letter would have indicated it wasn't a Scandie who put that CD together?

[Juniper]

Alright people, lots more reviews to come. Get off your arses and get them up as we're well into the month now.

 

Please add your name to the below list once you get your review up

 

Received and Reviewed (aka the good list)

 

Paul

Yozzer

Bruce Spanner

CMuller

Chauncy

Monty

Thants

Hand Shandy

 

Received but not Reviewed (aka the lazy arse list)

 

RobbieOR

Karl_b

Ziggy Stardust

Redder Lurtz

Woo

Loadsoftrophies

AngryofTuebrook

 

 

 

Not Received (aka Missing in action)

 

joeyk

RedinSweden

Skidfingers McGonical

[chauncey]

Hand Shandy has reviewed mine.

[Hand Shandy]

 

'Twas I! 'Twas I!

 

Cheers chauncey - some good stuff on there...

 

And Jon, you need to read the thread more carefully before you go throwing round false accusations!

[Juniper]

Hand Shandy has reviewed mine.

 

Ta, list updated.

[Juniper]

Cheers chauncey - some good stuff on there...

 

And Jon, you need to read the thread more carefully before you go throwing round false accusations!

 

Some of you will have to put up with false accusations as I'm doing this for you bunch of bastards whilst working into my evening. Slightly sleepy and grumpy....Although as admin I can make changes to the list, like below

 

Loves the Cock-

Hand Shandy

 

Cheers guys, that earlier list should now be spot on.... :whistle: