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16 Comments Published by Tom on Monday, December 31, 2007 at 12:12.
Cloudberry Records has been one of my highlights of 2007. Quality release after quality release via limited edition of three track 3" CD's has raised the standard just that bit higher. Are there any others to take up the Cloudberry gauntlet in 2008? I hope so!Cloudberry also post one mp3 from each release which by my reckoning means there are over seventy free mp3s on the site. Today indie mp3 and Skatterbrain have compiled their favourite 10 tracks from those freely available. My ten (volume two) present 28 minutes of glorious indie pop & shoegazing tagged and replay-gained for your listening pleasure.
But hold on! Anyone who leaves a comment for this post (how about posting your favourite ten from those available?) will have their name put into a hat and the first two drawn out at random will win a copy of the Nothing Matters When We're Dancing EP (Cloud 502) which features tracks from Komon, The Jealous Sea, Soda Fountain Rag, Sunny Summer Day and The Pristines. For an increased chance of winning visit Skatterbrain and comment on the Cloudberry post over there too. Closing date is 4th January 2008. COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED
Track-listing with links to the bands My Space pages.
Horowitz - Pop Kids Of The World Unite (taken from Cloud 005)
Summer Cats - Discothéque (taken from Cloud 006)
Soda Fountain Rag - Walking With My Angel (taken from Cloud 012)
Hari and Aino - Second Song (taken from Cloud 021)
The Felt Tips - Treat Me Gently (taken from Cloud 028)
The San Marinos - Can it Get Better Than This (taken from Cloud 038)
The Bridal Shop - Marine Thing (taken from Cloud 040)
The April Skies - A Lifetime in the Sun (taken from Cloud 046)
The Faintest Ideas - Skip the Bridge (taken from Cloud 064)
The Margarets - Someone Heavenly (taken from Cloud 067)
Download here (zip file, 29 MB)
Lost Music, the gig promotion partner of indie mp3 will be putting on a Cloudberry Records gig on at the end of February 2008. Confirmed to date are Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, Strawberry Story, Manhattan Love Suicides and one more to be confirmed. DJ's will be spinning Cloudberry releases only. More details will be posted once the line up is confirmed.
Happy new year from all of us at indie mp3 and here's looking forward to 2008!
ooooooooh, sweet.
My top ten songs from Cloudberries would probably look a little like this:
The Pains of Being Pure At Heart - This Love Is Fucking Right (Cloudberry 13)
Summercats - Discotheque (Cloudberry 06)
The Manhattan Love Suicides - Sycamore Peripheral (Cloudberry 62)
Bye Bye Bicycle - Footsteps (Cloudberry 63)
The Felt Tips - Boyfriend Devoted (Cloudberry 28)
Slow Down Tallahassee - So Much For Love (Cloudberry 10)
Soda Fountain Rag - Driving In Your Car (Cloudberry 12)
The Pristines - All Washed Out (Cloudberry 59)
Safety Matches - Comet Song (Cloudberry 32)
Strawberry Story - Boys (from the story) (Cloudberry 65)
Hari and Aino are probably my favourite new band this year. Cloudberry is ace!
kennie
tweeturtle@gmail.com
1. 012 soda fountain rag - "walking with my angel"
2. 013 the pains of being pure at heart - "orchard of my eye"
3. 021 hari and aino - "second song"
4. 029 the medalist - "less is more but i'm not sure"
5. 035 the hi-life companion - "you're the greatest"
6. 046 the april skies - "a lifetime in the sun"
7. 049 the lost homeboys - "don't say you don't know"
8. 058 blind terry - "the subtle art of how to break a heart"
9. 060 the soft city - "wallflower"
10. 063 bye bye bicycle - "westside"
Ahhh...picking 10 Cloudberry songs is hard. It would have been harder if we had to include any tracks we wanted so I just picked from the freebie mp3s. I did ask Roque (several times) to take a vacation for a month or three so I can catch up to all the releases but there's just no stopping him! hahaha! my top ten (so far...) Starting off with the sound of blaring Sirens and ending up with Disco Dancing up to New Year's Eve with a whole lot of pop goodies inbetween...cheers to Roque and if you haven't been hooked yet with 3" CDs, well, it's not too late...
Jessel
jbsolo@gmail.com
http://www.myspace.com/jesselbaltazar
1. Sirens - Bye Bye Bicycle (063)
2. Steve - Robert Church and the Holy community (018)
3. 4am in the Morning - Basil (069)
4. These Terrible Things - Fanstastic Day (051)
5. Good Things Never Come Despite The Wait - The Pristines (059)
6. Less Is More But I'm Not Sure - The Medalist (029)
7. Before You KNow It - The Shining Hour (026)
8. Helen of Troy - Twig (017)
9. Someone Heavenly - The Margarets (067)
10. Let's Go Disco Dancing - Davey Strange (066)
Cloudberry is the best thing to happen in music in 2007, but more: I believe it will acquire legendary status after some time, almost like Sarah records.
And I was listening to indie-pop Christmas compilation “Fantasia de Navidad” (2002) from Siesta records during these days. Most of the songs there are covers. I started looking for originals, and – guess what – one song - “The flowers are calling” from British indie-folk band Number 4 Joystreet – was re-released just recently on Cloudberry (048). It’s a nice coincidence.
apl
aplfrommoscow_gmail.com
(1) Stars in Coma - Revanche
(2) The San Marinos - Can it Get Better Than This
(3) Celestial - Hope, You Know
(4) The April Skies - A Lifetime in the Sun
(5) Peace in our Time - That Same Old Phrase
(6) The Manhattan Love Suicides - Last Stand
(7) The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Orchard of My Eye
(8) Hari and Aino - Second Song
(9) Indurain - The Trip
(10) The Pristines - Good Things Never Come Despite the Wait
e.
klienicum@yahoo.de
CLOUDBERRY!!!!!
i vote for (in no particular order):
1. Celestial
2. Pristines
3. Number 4 Joystreet
4. Shining Hour
5. Morrisons
6. Strawberry Story
7. The Pains of Being Pure At Heart
8. Soda Fountain Rag
9. Waving Tree
10. Silver Screen
bobsyd@gmail.com
01. The Airfields ... Yr So Wonderful [047]
02. The Margarets ... Someone Heavenly [067]
03. Bye Bye Bicycle ... Sirens [063]
04. Parker Lewis ... Dirty Dancing [042]
05. Indurain ... The Trip [031]
06. Blind Terry ... The Subtle Art of How to Break a Heart [058]
07. The Manhattan Love Suicides ... Last Stand [062]
08. Bonnie and Clyde ... First Fall [068]
09. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart ... Orchard of My Eye [013]
10. Bedroom Eyes ... Motorcycle Daydream [019]
benjamin.holzwarth@gmail.com
o1 * the airfields * yr so wonderful (o47)
o2 * blind terry * when prefab sprout wrecked my mind (o58)
o3 * the pains of being pure at heart * this love is fucking right! (o13)
o4 * astrolab * when the leaf is not green (oo7)
o5 * the manhattan love suicides * last stand (o62)
o6 * the margarets * sally (o67)
o7 * parker lewis * dirty dancing (o42)
o8 * the hi-life companion * you're the greatest (o35)
o9 * the april skies * a lifetime in the sun (o46)
1o * the mare * didn't see you (o23)
nana
findthatfeeling@gmail.com
The sheer number of excellent tracks makes this a Mission Impossible, but here are my current favorites (without any order):
Celestial – Somedays we are (CLOUDBERRY 001)
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - This Love is Fucking Right (CLOUDBERRY 013)
Charlie Big Time – Lipstick and Bravado (CLOUDBERRY 014)
Signed Papercups – Only Fools rush in (CLOUDBERRY 027)
The April Skies – A Picnic in Heaven (CLOUDBERRY 046)
The Jealous Sea – Past the grey (CLOUDBERRY 057)
The Manhattan Love Suicides - Last Stand (CLOUDBERRY 062)
Stars in Coma – Radio (The Star Has Wept Red Rose EP CLOUDBERRY 401)
Thirst for Threasures –Shoplift your heart (The Star Has Wept Red Rose EP CLOUDBERRY 401)
The Morning Paper – Sidewalks (The Star Has Wept Red Rose EP CLOUDBERRY 401)
DJ Mqt (e.pericoloso@gmail.com)
My C-Berry favs (in chronological order):
Summer Cats - "Discotheque" (006)
Slow Down Tallahassee - "Candy" (010)
Bedroom Eyes - "Motorcycle Daydream" (019)
Scottish Polis Inspector - "Fallen" (020)
The Morrisons - "Cranberry Street" (030)
The High-Life Companion - "You're the Greatest" (035)
Caroline Soul - "In Good Time" (044)
The Jealous Sea - "Past the Grey" (057)
Blind Terry - "The Subtle Art of How to Break a Heart" (058)
The Margarets - "Someone Heavenly" (067)
Ct.
ilovepnutbutter[at]hotmail[dot]com
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Stephen
iconoclastic.wanker@gmail.com
Louise.
thesweetestchild@gmail.com (as in the Fat Tulips song) and my favorite Cloudberry songs look like this:
Top ten:
1. Swimming by Strawb Story
2. Last stand by Manhattan Love Suicides
3. Hopeless is the Venue by the Deirdres
4. You're the Greatest (Which is true of Cloudberry. Shameless flatter.) by the Hi-Life Companion
5. Blue Ring by Safety Matches
6. Motorcycle Daydreams by Bedroom Eyes
7. Orchard of my Eye by the Pains of Being Pure at Heart
8. Clean Bill of Health by Afternoon Naps
9. 4am in the Morning by Basil
10. Skip the Bridge by the Faintest Ideas.
My Cloudberry top 10.
Neri (Brazil)
1 - SLOW DOWN TALLAHASSE - Candy
2 - HOROWITZ - Tracyanne
3 - ZIPPER - A Good Man
4 - SCOTTISH POLIS INSPECTORS - Fallen
5 - APPLE ORCHARD - That Happy Glow
6 - CELESTIAL - Hope, You Know
7 - THE HI-LIFE COMPANION - Night Comes Down
8 - ASTROLAB - When The Leaf Is Not Grees
9 - CHARLIE BIG TIME - Charlie Big Time
10 - STARS IN COMA - Transformation
neri@ultimovolume.com.br
www.ultimovolume.com.br
My Faves are:
1: Strawberry Story - Swimming
2: Strawberry Story - Boys From the Story
These two are so different but so lovely!
3: Hari & Aino - Your Heartache & Mine
4: The Pains of Being Pure At Heart - This Love Is Fucking Right
5: The April Skies – A Picnic in Heaven
6: Horowitz - Traceyanne
7: The Margarets - Sally
8: Helen of Troy - Twig
9: Bye Bye Bicycle - Sirens
10: Signed Papercups – Only Fools rush in
Too many good ones to choose from though!