The Smashing Tunes Thread (Part 1)

myboyblue · October 12, 2019, 6:21am

Gobshite

Fagan_ODowd · October 12, 2019, 9:01pm

Listened to it there on my new Sony earbuds when I was out walking Bobby. Shades of early Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Scott Walker and forgotten American songwriter David Ackles and Kraftwerk in places. Very good.

Cc @Fitzy

Fitzy · October 13, 2019, 1:51am

You have to mentuon the genius of Warren Ellis when talking about Cave now as well.

PhattPike · October 15, 2019, 9:47am

Giving this Ghosteen a spin right now. It’s growing on me as the album wears on, the last track of Pt 1 is superb. I hadn’t heard about the tragedy with his son.

anon7035031 · October 15, 2019, 11:25am

That’s been the case since 1994 and Let Love In. The man’s output between the Bad Seeds, The Dirty Three, solo work and film score soundtracks with Cave is truly staggering.

myboyblue · October 15, 2019, 11:30am

The follow up from The Lost Messiahs

farmerinthecity · October 15, 2019, 12:55pm

Ellis and other members of the Dirty Three stayed in my brother’s gaff after a gig in Dublin in the late 90s.

Ellis was sound enough initially but got atrociously drunk and was then a bit of a nightmare apparently. It always seems to be the way with these talented arty types.

farmerinthecity · October 15, 2019, 12:57pm

Cave’s best stuff was prior to Let Love In in my opinion.

The Good Son and Henry’s Dream are two of the finest albums a fella could listen to.

anon7035031 · October 15, 2019, 3:26pm

I was referring to Warren Ellis’ contributions.

Cicero_Dandi · October 15, 2019, 9:31pm

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Jimmy_Mc_Nulty · October 16, 2019, 3:23pm

Stacks - Bon Iver

caulifloweredneanderthal · October 16, 2019, 9:24pm

Dirty Three do a good live show

Ellis has the appearance of a fella who could get fairly rat arsed alright

farmerinthecity · October 16, 2019, 9:42pm

I haven’t seen them but doesn’t Ellis have his back to the audience during the performance?

caulifloweredneanderthal · October 17, 2019, 6:42am

I saw them at Primavera about 13/14 years ago. They played outside in the sun at about 6pm. I think he might have played with his side to the audience now that you mention it. I did have a full bottle of rum drank at that stage. We briefly met him before the gig as he was wandering about and exchanged a few pleasantries. Seemed an alright sort

farmerinthecity · October 17, 2019, 7:02am

A monster of a tune.

PhattPike · October 17, 2019, 4:28pm

Giving this album a spin at the moment for the first time in about a year, jesus it’s only onrail.

Anyone see her in Dublin or Cork this year?

fenwaypark · October 17, 2019, 5:59pm

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glasagusban · October 17, 2019, 9:03pm

I saw a out half of her set in Lisbon. She’s very very good at all the things she does but jungle is the only song that really grabs me when I listened to the album, the others don’t quite so much. But she was very good live. She’s cool as fuck.