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― Jaap and roids (NickB), Tuesday, January 29, 2013 5:10 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark
hahaha!! <3
― this customer is a jerk (La Lechera), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 03:19 (eleven years ago) link
my favorite john martyn song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6Jvp3QBwgY
― cocktail onion (fennel cartwright), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 03:24 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, it's up there
― Number None, Wednesday, 30 January 2013 11:34 (eleven years ago) link
that's a really good one, agree
john martyn is some of my favorite road trippin music, no idea why
― this customer is a jerk (La Lechera), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 15:25 (eleven years ago) link
I only have/only know Solid Air. I should get Inside Out sometime since I vibe with shit like Starsailor/Lorca etc
― hibernaculum (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 16:24 (eleven years ago) link
Don't forget Bless the Weather - terrible cover, beautiful music
― this customer is a jerk (La Lechera), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 16:27 (eleven years ago) link
was listening to eibhli ghail (can't actually type out the whole title) from inside out on repeat yesterday. kozmiceltic.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 30 January 2013 16:28 (eleven years ago) link
which one has him wearing that crazy pointy hood on the front? That is an all time visual.
― hibernaculum (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 16:29 (eleven years ago) link
you should definitely hear glistening glyndebourne off bless the weather, jon
― Jaap and roids (NickB), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 16:32 (eleven years ago) link
i'm talking about the floating martynhead
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5f/Bless_the_weather.jpg/220px-Bless_the_weather.jpg
― this customer is a jerk (La Lechera), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 16:33 (eleven years ago) link
Martynhead sounds like one of the stations in 'I Often Dream of Trains'
― hibernaculum (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 16:46 (eleven years ago) link
This is great - it's You Can Discover but also the coda to Call Me Crazy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yz1RIwxYsCQ
― Keith, Wednesday, 30 January 2013 18:39 (eleven years ago) link
probably my OPO, although there's so many worthy contenders....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tz8uNRWsmFY
― Lee626, Wednesday, 30 January 2013 23:48 (eleven years ago) link
Indeed that one's definitely up there, although as you say, with about 50 others, but it is indeed a personal favourite.
One guy once described listening to John Martyn as though time stops when you do it and I think that's pretty much a perfect description.
― Keith, Thursday, 31 January 2013 00:02 (eleven years ago) link
huh. maybe that's why it's good road trippin music?
― this customer is a jerk (La Lechera), Thursday, 31 January 2013 00:16 (eleven years ago) link
that's true for me & "Small Hours", such a peaceful record, can just drift away
― Euler, Thursday, 31 January 2013 00:51 (eleven years ago) link
Bless The Weather is alltime. I got absolutely blitzed on Balvenie last night and night and it was perfect, sounding great with the hangover as well.
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Saturday, 16 February 2013 10:34 (eleven years ago) link
http://store.universal-music.co.uk/restofworld/folk/boxset-john-martyn-the-island-years-box-set-2013/invt/0602537422883/
The Island Years is the most exhaustive career retrospective from one of Britain’s most original and enduring singer/songwriters. Housed in an LP size hard-back slip case, this lavish box set contains 18 Discs including:
• 17 CDs featuring 12 key studio albums, recorded for Island between 1967 and 1987, now with previously unreleased mixes, Out-Takes, unheard songs and 2 complete, previously unreleased live solo concerts from 1972 and 1977 and the complete demos for The Apprentice, the last album Martyn delivered to Island.• 1 DVD containing rare television performances from the Old Grey Whistle Test, Sight and Sound – In Concert, A Little Night Music and first time on DVD for the VHS release, Foundations.• A hard-back book featuring a new essay by The Island Years compiler and researcher John Hillarby plus rare and previously unseen photographs and extensive memorabilia.
There is a strong selection of previously unreleased alternative takes from Martyn’s career defining 70s albums Stormbringer, The Road To Ruin, Bless The Weather, Solid Air, Inside Out, Sunday’s Child and One World; plus there are extensive outtakes and a number of unreleased songs from Martyn’s 80s Island releases: Grace And Danger, Sapphire and Piece By Piece.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 25 June 2013 17:31 (ten years ago) link
170 quid, haha!
― dschinghis kraan (NickB), Tuesday, 25 June 2013 17:54 (ten years ago) link
WANT
― brimstead, Tuesday, 25 June 2013 17:56 (ten years ago) link
yeah looks neato. $170 for 17 CDs + book + DVD doesn't sound insane.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 25 June 2013 18:11 (ten years ago) link
suppose it's only fitting that they want an arm and a leg for it
― dschinghis kraan (NickB), Tuesday, 25 June 2013 18:23 (ten years ago) link
eeeyowch
― tylerw, Tuesday, 25 June 2013 18:24 (ten years ago) link
Have still never listened to any JM later than Grace & Danger. Anyone know much about the stuff that came after? What am I missing out on?
― dschinghis kraan (NickB), Tuesday, 25 June 2013 19:55 (ten years ago) link
I have Piece by Piece and I think it's horrible (but am not sure I have even listened all the way through because it was so horrible). Maybe it's an undiscovered classic waiting to be given a second chance.
Grace and Danger, however, is another matter. For me, it's close to perfection and an album I'll never tire of. I took it to our club recently and wrote about it here:
http://devonrecordclub.com/2013/10/20/john-martyn-grace-and-danger-round-55-toms-selection/
― yugi ex, Sunday, 20 October 2013 19:00 (ten years ago) link
I was going to revive this thread, because I heard One World for the first time this week. Such an incredible record, totally out-there but also really warm and organic. It's totally balearic.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 20 October 2013 19:02 (ten years ago) link
the OGWT clip of that song is amazing
― buzza, Sunday, 20 October 2013 19:51 (ten years ago) link
Oh man, One World is such a great album! 'Dancing' is one of the all-time great morning-after comedown tunes
― Third Rate Zoo Keepers With Tenth Rate Minds (Windsor Davies), Sunday, 20 October 2013 19:56 (ten years ago) link
I did update a different thread about that boxset as an £8 dl, off amazon
Mistake, I guess, it's gone now
― Mark G, Sunday, 20 October 2013 20:06 (ten years ago) link
I bought it for £1.99 from play.com! But the download doesn't work at all and I reckon when I get in touch, they'll probably just give me a refund.
― gotta lol geir (NickB), Sunday, 20 October 2013 22:03 (ten years ago) link
wow @ One World
― ciderpress, Sunday, 13 November 2016 02:16 (seven years ago) link
The song "May you never" is really disturbing. It is quite clearly an incredibly tender song, but one that sounds like it was written by a serial abuser. Its so full of paranoia, its appeal to love is really a veiled threat. So much violence in the imagery, but pleading and pathetic. I've been gradually, increasingly troubled by this song since I started listening to Solid Air almost constantly last summer.
― plax (ico), Friday, 16 June 2017 17:39 (six years ago) link
Definitely feel what you're saying here. Martyn's alcohol consumption surely had a lot to do with the more, uhm, unsettling aspects of some his narratives.
'Make No Mistake' is another disturbing one.
― Austin, Friday, 16 June 2017 18:18 (six years ago) link
"Head and Heart" has made me pause before -- it's a really tender song but idk how healthy it is to want to be loved like a childguy had problems, news at 11
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 19 June 2017 13:38 (six years ago) link
The guy was an absolute horror but what can you do?
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Monday, 19 June 2017 13:42 (six years ago) link
Exactly. Martyn's lyrics are so slurred that I've rarely paid attention despite having listened to him for 30 years. I wouldn't care to read a biography of the man but I'll continue to return to a large number of his albums.
I also love Miles Davis' music despite his horrific character, which I'll admit is pretty much irrelevant to me.
― doug watson, Tuesday, 20 June 2017 16:45 (six years ago) link
I mean I think what's wonderful and terrible about May You Never is that it *is* so romantic. It is a very moving song, and there is a real appeal in it. For me I had loved it for a long time before I started to taste the poison in it. I was thinking about him when I was in Hastings at the weekend on the beach.
― plax (ico), Tuesday, 20 June 2017 16:52 (six years ago) link