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@popvulture and truly “Impossible Germany” is easily one of the best live performances I’ve ever heard. I’ve seen it live multiple times and the guitar solo and crescendo that follows always knocks me out.
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@SKT YES! They've played that live every time I've seen em since SBS came out, and I think people pretty much demand it at this point. It's been so damn good every single time.
Slightly off topic, but couldn't let a pic of This Year's Model pass by without saying that Costello's another person I could talk about all day. Took this crappy pic of my records just to give a nod to the bandwidth that guy takes up on my shelves. I'm eternally obsessed.
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@popvulture Dude that’s an amazing collection! This Year’s Model has been one of my top five albums since I started listening to music as a kid. My copy is my dad’s from ‘78. I was basically brought up on that album. I need to fill in the gaps from the rest of his career though.
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@popvulture everytime I see his name on a record for production I can gauruntee I'm going to love it
Most recently Healing Potpourris album Paradise and Peel Dream Machines album Pad
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@popvulture Those Unwound boxes are A+++. Just saw them in NYC a month ago and it was fantastic. I hope they come around again with a new set of old songs.
If anyone's interested in some modern acid jazz from Brooklyn, check out Sunwatchers. I saw a note from them that they need gas money for their tour! https://sunwatchers.bandcamp.com/album/oh-yeah
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Ooh I’ll definitely check that out, always into that type of thing. Lotsa good stuff out there these days — Mildlife, L’eclair, Surprise Chef, Felbm some of the ones loosely in that zone that get a lot of spins around here. Checkin out Sunwatchers now.
Oh and re: Unwound, absolutely! Wish I could’ve seen one of those shows. Numero has been doing such a great job with that 90s stuff, particularly loved the Karate reissues. I’d been looking for a couple of those forever and they were just way too expensive before they put those out.
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@setandsetting the first sentence of the description of Sunwatchers I read is enough to sell me
"Inspired by Terry Riley, Ethiopian and Thai music and the outer limits of jazz...."
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@GraemeE Cool! They are awesome and very nice guys.
The bassist also plays with Chris Forsyth and the Solar Motel Band: https://chrisforsyth1.bandcamp.com/album/intensity-ghost
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@popvulture I don't know Karate at all but I saw Numero's reissues and they're on the list of things to look into.
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@setandsetting oh man you're in for a treat. The Bed is in the Ocean is my personal fave. I'd say they began in that sort of Unwound zone, but the lead singer/songwriter/guitarist is also very into jazz, so the records took on this almost indie/post-punk-meets-Steely-Dan sort of character. It's fantastic.
Dunno, Steely Dan are very polarizing and I know that sort of description can be an immediate turn-off for some, but they're one of my very favorite bands, so what can I say... Karate exist in a very cool cross-section of my tastes.
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Unwound meets Steely Dan? I could be really down with this.
