Oh my god I just bought a 7" off ebay of an obscure band from 1981 that Martin Hannett produced and I got it for a much better price than I thought I'd have to pay!!!!!!! I think they are French or at least the record seems to have been released in France and they have a French name.
That Martin Hannett site I thought it was lost forever until recently, I really thought that beautiful site was gone forever but LOOK HERE IT IS BACK HERE ON THE WEB! GOD LOVES US! and a TONY WILSON TO YOU MATE! BELIEVE IN MIRACLES. THAT DEAD MARTIN HANNETT SITES CAN LIVE AGAIN!
I'm listening to Unkown Pleasures right now.
(New) Martin Hannett compilation
OH MY GOD HANNETT MANIA HANNETT MANIA HANNETT MANIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That French named band I was talking about was called Orchestre Rouge and I found their entire album online for download! IT WAS PRODUCED BY MARTIN HANNETT it's from 1982! WOW! It's actually really really good! I am so fucking excited. I mean you know not all the bands he worked with were great, but wow. I am dying here. It's not even available on CD and to get it on vinyl you have to pay upwards of $40!
I also found some other rare Hannett goodies available for sale online! I'm spending all my money I can't control myself this is Hannett and I thought that site was gone forever, I mean, really the last time I saw that site was like over 2 years ago. I gave up trying to go to it. So anyway I found this other French LP by an artist he produced called Armande Altai and I found a fucking record shop in France that has it!!!!! FINGERS CROSSED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Very rare!
What else? Oh yeah there was this other record he did by some band called Cathy Le Creme and The Cro-Tones and they make fun of John Cooper Clarke on it (because it's called I Married a Cult Figure from Salford, just like the Clarke song "I Married A Monster From Outer Space"), it's supposed to have John Cooper Clarke on it, too. So I got that, too, at a pretty good price. I feel terribly lucky. These are like probably the only copies left of these records!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I thought I'd never find that one at all. One day ebay will be all we have left for things like this.
And I am so fucking excited to hear his versions of the Kitchens of Distinction song and of the New Fast Automatic Daffodils!!!!!!! The way they describe the version of Kitchens of Distinction on that website I get so excited it says it has more bass than the other version and I've never heard it before! /AARRRRGH!
That French named band I was talking about was called Orchestre Rouge and I found their entire album online for download! IT WAS PRODUCED BY MARTIN HANNETT it's from 1982! WOW! It's actually really really good! I am so fucking excited. I mean you know not all the bands he worked with were great, but wow. I am dying here. It's not even available on CD and to get it on vinyl you have to pay upwards of $40!
I also found some other rare Hannett goodies available for sale online! I'm spending all my money I can't control myself this is Hannett and I thought that site was gone forever, I mean, really the last time I saw that site was like over 2 years ago. I gave up trying to go to it. So anyway I found this other French LP by an artist he produced called Armande Altai and I found a fucking record shop in France that has it!!!!! FINGERS CROSSED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Very rare!
What else? Oh yeah there was this other record he did by some band called Cathy Le Creme and The Cro-Tones and they make fun of John Cooper Clarke on it (because it's called I Married a Cult Figure from Salford, just like the Clarke song "I Married A Monster From Outer Space"), it's supposed to have John Cooper Clarke on it, too. So I got that, too, at a pretty good price. I feel terribly lucky. These are like probably the only copies left of these records!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I thought I'd never find that one at all. One day ebay will be all we have left for things like this.
And I am so fucking excited to hear his versions of the Kitchens of Distinction song and of the New Fast Automatic Daffodils!!!!!!! The way they describe the version of Kitchens of Distinction on that website I get so excited it says it has more bass than the other version and I've never heard it before! /AARRRRGH!
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Also I recently found the very first fucking Durutti Column tracks ever on the very first Factory record ever called "A Factory Sampler". There was only 5000 copies pressed. And these two Durutti Column tracks were not only produced by Hannett, but they had a male vocalist on them! ISn't that fucking wild???????????????????????????? I can't believe I never heard those fucking tracks before. I thought I was a Factory fan! Hell, I thought I was a Durutti Column fan and I can't believe those tracks have never crossed my path ever out of all the folks I met with rare Factory records...yikes. I even heard the Cabaret Voltaire song on that same first Factory record but never those Durruti Column tracks with some male vocalist I can't identify. I mean a male vocalist on a Durutti Column track is just unheard of, and usually vocals of any kind are simply not present on Durutti Column music.
It's a piece of Factory trivia - who was that guy singing?
Here's the complete Factory discography, god bless Manchester.
http://home.dialix.com/~u3336/factory/index2.html
Click on Fac 1 to Fac 50 to get started.
I'm just playing some very nice and beautiful Nico to try to calm myself down. Last night I pulled out two very key Donovan CD's and enjoyed them immensely. The album "The Hurdy Gurdy Man" is still kindof new to me, but I love it as much as I do the other CD "A Gift From a Flower To A Garden" (I know, it's hippie, but too bad) which is actually a quadruple LP put on disc, that is, two LPs put on one disc. But yeah that is one of my main fave Donovan CD's. The second LP is written especially for children, and god, it's just amazing.
Speaking of Scottish music, I just heard two tracks from the new ex-Beta Band project King Biscuit Time and WOW THAT MOTHER FUCKER IS GOING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION! He borrows from reggae and has electronics too! I am so excited but it doesn't come out until May. And I can't seem to d/l it.
Right, sorry, this is a Hannett thread. god bless Nico.
Harmonium is I think what that "european" instrument is called that I was trying to think of before but all I could manage was "accordion".
It's a piece of Factory trivia - who was that guy singing?
Here's the complete Factory discography, god bless Manchester.
http://home.dialix.com/~u3336/factory/index2.html
Click on Fac 1 to Fac 50 to get started.
I'm just playing some very nice and beautiful Nico to try to calm myself down. Last night I pulled out two very key Donovan CD's and enjoyed them immensely. The album "The Hurdy Gurdy Man" is still kindof new to me, but I love it as much as I do the other CD "A Gift From a Flower To A Garden" (I know, it's hippie, but too bad) which is actually a quadruple LP put on disc, that is, two LPs put on one disc. But yeah that is one of my main fave Donovan CD's. The second LP is written especially for children, and god, it's just amazing.
Speaking of Scottish music, I just heard two tracks from the new ex-Beta Band project King Biscuit Time and WOW THAT MOTHER FUCKER IS GOING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION! He borrows from reggae and has electronics too! I am so excited but it doesn't come out until May. And I can't seem to d/l it.
Right, sorry, this is a Hannett thread. god bless Nico.
Harmonium is I think what that "european" instrument is called that I was trying to think of before but all I could manage was "accordion".
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I want people to know that one day I am going to do the ultimate Manchester compilation and I will distribute it free to anyone on this website.
I showed I had the self-discipline necessary to compile an 8 disc set of songs from 1979, so I can surely do a Manchester comp. of some kind, though not that many discs, of course.
I showed I had the self-discipline necessary to compile an 8 disc set of songs from 1979, so I can surely do a Manchester comp. of some kind, though not that many discs, of course.
I CAN'T FUCKING BELIEVE IT I FOUND THIS ULTRA RARE 12" RECORD ON EBAY THAT MARTIN HANNETT PRODUCED - THERE WERE ONLY 500 COPIES AND I PAID $100 TO GET ONE I AM SO EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I NEVER THOUGHT I'D FIND IT. THE SELLER IS IN MANCHESTER, SO THAT MAKES SENSE I GUESS.
ARRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHH!
IT WAS THIS BAND FROM TENNESSEE CALLED DESSAU, THEY COVERED JOY DIVISION'S ISOLATION SOME YEARS LATER, LIKE '89. I BOUGHT THEIR COVER OF ISOLATION WHEN IT CAME OUT BUT I DIDN'T KNOW THEN THAT THEY HAD A RECORD PRODUCED BY MARTIN HANNETT.
THERE ARE STILL A FEW THINGS ON MY HANNETT LIST TO GET, THOUGH. I REALLY JUST WANT THEM ALL SO I CAN GET IT OVERWITH.
ARRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHH!
IT WAS THIS BAND FROM TENNESSEE CALLED DESSAU, THEY COVERED JOY DIVISION'S ISOLATION SOME YEARS LATER, LIKE '89. I BOUGHT THEIR COVER OF ISOLATION WHEN IT CAME OUT BUT I DIDN'T KNOW THEN THAT THEY HAD A RECORD PRODUCED BY MARTIN HANNETT.
THERE ARE STILL A FEW THINGS ON MY HANNETT LIST TO GET, THOUGH. I REALLY JUST WANT THEM ALL SO I CAN GET IT OVERWITH.