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Last Post 1/4/2006 12:26 AM by Binokular

Your Favourite "new" old tunes of 2005

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Binokular

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1/4/2006 12:26 AM
It's customary to round of the year by coming up with our favourite lists of stuff released during the year. The thing is, a lot of us tend to discover som of our favorite music years, even decades after it's released. Just because it's not new, doesn't make it any less fresh or exciting when you first hear something great. So what are your fave new old tunes this year? That is stuff released pre-2005 but you din't actually discover until this year. Some I my faves: Bo Diddley - Gun Slinger (really getting hooked on Bo Diddley, rock and roll in it's purest form) Lorraine Silver - Lost Summer love(Northern Soul) Maurice and Mack - You Left The Water running(yet more soul!) Zongamin - Bongo Song (I've been meaning to get the album this is taken from for ages) Jimmy Cliff - Miss Jamaica (Trojan compilations are great aren't they?) The Bangles - Where were you when I needed you Ellen Allien - Statkind (clasic case of discovering an artist you like and workng through the back catalogue) Annie - not one song but the entire "Anniemal" album, soundtrack of my summer. Took me ages to discover this, had heard loads of good things about it, but not actually heard it (so annoying the way a lot of great music gets more press than airplay isn't it?), eventually bought it out of pure curiousity. It's now one of my all time favourite albums, no exaggeration. I could probably add a few more but that's all I can think of right now, feel free to go as far back as you like or right up to 2004 if you like with your choices. And don't worry if it seems obvious, world+dog was raving about the Arcade Fire before I paid attention.

Helmet

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1/4/2006 8:34 AM
I'd have to say Gang Of Four - At home he's a tourist was a bigun for me. Franz Ferdinand got some 'splaining to do!!!

Carlsberg

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1/4/2006 1:11 PM
Re-discovered Pink Floyds The Final Cut album which although I knew I loved had not played for about 8 years..Just one Floyd album I never played as much as the rest, so its still in the cd player and the track The Final Cut is now riding high in the Top of my all time charts.

Rev Jules

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1/4/2006 1:40 PM
This Is The Sea - The Waterboys Got re-acquainted with that old teenage anthem of mine when I saw 'Riding Giants' - stuck it on a mix cd and forgot about it until I was coming over the ridge and down the hill to a fav surfbreak of mine on the antrim coast before Xmas, As I caught my first sight of the curling waves, Scott's track began. Class synch, great song... "These things you keep You’d better throw them away You wanna turn your back On your soulless days Once you were tethered And now you are free Once you were tethered Well now you are free That was the river This is the sea!"

Super Nintendo Chalmers

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1/4/2006 1:50 PM
my favourite albums or just cds that i listened to in 2005 irrespective of when they were released were, in no particular order: Hal, Doves, josh rouse, kings of leon, iron and Wine, (Our Endless Numbered Days,) but also this year i got listening to interpol, having previously ignored them as Smiths rip-offs (rather lazy i know), i think their debut is possibly better, but its a tough one to call. i really got in to the Police again, Zenyatta Mondatta, especially Driven to tears, the intro is so good. i also bought their live double cd, unbelievable band. Finally got into ELO too, bill withers, realised just how many classics that guy wrote, unreal. Donovan Frankenreiter, Citizen Cope, perhaps even a little Spaceman came a traveling by Chris de Burgh, not a popular one i know, but a funny one enjoyed by numerous people on a two week piss up travelin around eastern Europe in september. also rjd2, got back into listening to Calexico again, Feast of Wire, brilliant album. joni mitchell Blue, also Waterboys A pagan Place, bought it ages ago and it never wrked properly on my disc man but now that i have an MP3 player i can remind myself why i bought it in the first place

stroller

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1/4/2006 2:18 PM
quote: Originally posted by Binokular So what are your fave new old tunes this year? That is stuff released pre-2005 but you din't actually discover until this year. Zongamin - Bongo Song (I've been meaning to get the album this is taken from for ages) Ah...correct me if I'm wrong but this track was only officially released five weeks ago (28 November 2005). I know 2 Many DJ's were playing it off an advanced promo CDR this time last year but then they tend to get a lot of tunes in advance of everybody else. The only album I know of by Zongamin is his self titled debut on XL Records from a few years ago and Bongo Song isn't on that. Incidently if you like Bongo Song than I'd reccommend the Zongamin track Spiral and his remix of Make It Happen by Playgroup.

amawaster

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1/4/2006 3:44 PM
They Might Be Giants - "Ana Ng", havent listened to them in years forgot how great that song is Been listening to bit of Townes Van Zandt, Billy Bragg and The Band. And also went through another tindersticks phase for a bit as well

Binokular

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1/4/2006 10:13 PM
quote: Originally posted by stroller quote: Originally posted by Binokular So what are your fave new old tunes this year? That is stuff released pre-2005 but you din't actually discover until this year. Zongamin - Bongo Song (I've been meaning to get the album this is taken from for ages) Ah...correct me if I'm wrong but this track was only officially released five weeks ago (28 November 2005). I know 2 Many DJ's were playing it off an advanced promo CDR this time last year but then they tend to get a lot of tunes in advance of everybody else. The only album I know of by Zongamin is his self titled debut on XL Records from a few years ago and Bongo Song isn't on that. Incidently if you like Bongo Song than I'd reccommend the Zongamin track Spiral and his remix of Make It Happen by Playgroup. Wow really? Heard it on Annies DJ Kicks compilation (which is mostly great, if patchy in parts) and just assumed it was from his debut album, my mistake, sorry! Really must get that debut Album, love the track "serious trouble" (I think that's what it's called, correct me if I'm wrong (again!)

stroller

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1/5/2006 4:04 PM
quote: Originally posted by Binokular Wow really? Heard it on Annies DJ Kicks compilation (which is mostly great, if patchy in parts) and just assumed it was from his debut album, my mistake, sorry! Really must get that debut Album, love the track "serious trouble" (I think that's what it's called, correct me if I'm wrong (again!) That Alan Braxe & Fred Falke remix of Death From Above 1979 off Annie's DJ Kicks album is a tune!

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