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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6359 Registered: 05-2005 |
Justin Townes Earle - Can't Hardly Wait. A tremendous cover of the Replacements classic, which I heard in a bookshop in Melbourne a few hours ago. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6367 Registered: 05-2005 |
Lee Ranaldo And The Dust - Lecce, Leaving. It's Sonic Youth meets Steely Dan, and it's magnificent. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 951 Registered: 10-2006 |
Sergio Endrigo - Se le cose stanno cosi' The holiday afternoons are often for catching up with the delights of old, unknown films, in this case the 1963 black and white comedy "Il giovedi". Entertaining and sharp, and interesting for being set almost exclusively in the strange landscapes of boom-time suburban Rome, with huge blocks of flats rearing over acres of wasteland. This lovely ballad plays over the final, and perhaps best, scene. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6368 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights (the re-recorded version from the Whole Story compilation) | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 278 Registered: 11-2007 |
Happy new year to everyone on the board  Prefab Sprout - The best jewel thief in the world | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6371 Registered: 05-2005 |
Blur - The Puritan | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6382 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Triffids - Hell Of A Summer. I'd never previously noticed what a great bass line it has. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 864 Registered: 04-2005 |
The Everly Bothers - Down in the Willow Garden http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xp_ivMnp0 lM RIP Phil Everly | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6393 Registered: 05-2005 |
Cat Power - Islands. It's only 104 seconds long, but a better 104 seconds than most bands have ever produced. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 952 Registered: 10-2006 |
Minnie Riperton - Loving you Heard on the radio again five days ago and impossible to delete from brain.One of those occasions where the extraordinary flexibility of the voice is actually used wholly in service to the beauty of the song and not merely as tedious "look where I can go" ornamentation. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3328 Registered: 03-2005 |
Padraig, the Triffids--as a group--were fantastic. That's what makes "Calenture" and, much worse, "Black Swan" so frustrating. Recording on a shoe string served them well. It forced each player to make an effort to bring something special to the arrangement. Once they could throw the kitchen sink into the mix, they did, and all of those great little details provided by the band itself either disappeared or were overwhelmed. Andrew, the Everlys were expressly the absolute inspiration for my personal favorites of the 60s, the Hollies. Allan Clarke and Graham Nash originally modeled themselves on the Everlys under a series of naff names like the Guytones and Ricky & Dane. One of the things that seems a little sad to me is the way the Everlys' own career slid in the 1960s as so many of the newer (usually British) acts indebted to them blossomed. It's not a case of their records dropping in quality. The Everlys wrote and recorded a lot of great songs in the 60s. Here's an Everly original from 1965, covered by a number of other acts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4l1U23VK 4s There's no doubt that the Everlys were one of the main aesthetic building blocks for the Beatles. But it is always and forever the Hollies who were the greatest of the U.K. acolytes. The Everlys acknowledged this with their 1966 LP "Two Yanks in England" on which they recorded a bunch of Clarke/Hicks/Nash originals including this one with Tony Hicks on the guitar break: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnocXAoRa 0U The Everlys did manage one more hit in the U.S. in 1967 with "Bowling Green." They never stopped making quality music and attracting quality collaborators. This Ron Elliott (Beau Brummels) tune is undoubtedly too subtle to be a single but they released it as one in 1968: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FR7AF9dL xc Their influence was still lingering by the late 1970s and early 1980s. Chip & Tony Kinman's great cow punk band Rank & File were deeply indebted to them. The Everlys covered the Kinmans' "Amanda Ruth" in 1986: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edA_9q9lk Wo I love the fact that Phil Everly was living just over the hill from my house. I'd assumed that he had wandered back to some place in the South. RIP | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6396 Registered: 05-2005 |
Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros - Johnny Appleseed | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 865 Registered: 04-2005 |
Cheers for those links Randy ! I am incapable of defining my long held affection for the Everlys, although obviously the quality of those hits must be a factor and those two voices perfectly blending....Whereas for many of their 1950s contemporaries, I find their recordings are firmly of a certain era, for me the Everlys remain almost timeless. Maybe the strong country music roots are an element ? In that excellent BBC documentary from 1984 " Songs of Innocence and Experience", the brothers were clearly bitter about the 1960s treated them. Part of the problem may have been theirs in the sense that that they lost momentum in legal battles to get out of restrictive publishing deals. But as they say (for at least for a couple of years following the arrival of Beatlemania stateside), the fact that they were not English went again them, and by the time pyschedelia hit they were regarded as that fuddy-duddy duo from the 50s. Phil says that for him the 60s was the “phoney” decade. The program is on YouTube and well worth an hour and a half of anyone’s time. You are right that there are some real diamonds in the later recordings, but it is perhaps a shame that no Rick Rubin came along for them and did a back-to-the-roots recordings as for Johnny Cash. Lastly there is a clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3wzkQlPM h8 (from Shindig) where the Everlys are with Gerry and the Pacemakers and sing each others songs. About 2 mins 50 into the medley, Gerry Marsden bashes Don with his guitar and within a couple of seconds his nose is streaming blood. Much hilarity ensues as they say. Ah, the days of live TV. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6400 Registered: 05-2005 |
Prefab Sprout - The Devil Came A-Calling | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 953 Registered: 10-2006 |
Bob M and the Wailers - High tide or low tide | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 866 Registered: 04-2005 |
Karen Dalton - Something on your Mind Courtesy of the Nick Cave curated CD free with current Mojo magazine. I'd heard her name a lot but never actually listened to anything. This is excellent and the fiddle playing is perfect. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6402 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Drones - Nail It Down (played on my iPod on the flight from Sydney to Brisbane this afternoon). This is my sixth time in Brisbane, but only my second time in summer (the previous time being my first trip, exactly 15 years ago). I could feel Brisbane's sub-tropical climate as soon as I got off the plane. It's well after midnight here, but still 21 degrees, with 83% humidity. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6403 Registered: 05-2005 |
Lives Of Angels - Ascension http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sefWBCqsi ME | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 954 Registered: 10-2006 |
Gbs - Quiet heart (acoustic radio version). "Just when I'm feeling absolutely, permanently jaded," whimpers the announcer at the end, "The Go-Betweens come along with a new record..." Perhaps she overeggs the pudding, but you can see her point. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6405 Registered: 05-2005 |
Love that version, Stuart. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6407 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Go-Betweens - Clouds | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 956 Registered: 10-2006 |
Jam - Going underground A favourite at funerals, it seems. Irresistable, anyway. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 869 Registered: 05-2005 |
Steely Dan - Dirty Work heard this at start of American Hustle (which I thought was awful) and it sounded great, got me listening to Steely Dan in the car on the way to work | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 957 Registered: 10-2006 |
Julia Holter - Maxim's Lots of good stuff on the last Uncut "Best of 2013" CD, including this interesting piece, which skips along the edge of tune, pretension and noise and just manages to hold it all together - nice bit of angry brass noodling at the end. A name for me to investigate, cautiously. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6417 Registered: 05-2005 |
Revelino - Don't Bring Me Down | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 870 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Gentle Good - Holly Blue http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VsST7TjB Mc gorgeous Nick Drake like song from Tethered for a Storm (although nothing ever seems to possess the same melancholy ache as Nick) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6422 Registered: 05-2005 |
David Bowie - Shadow Man | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 961 Registered: 10-2006 |
Sandie Shaw - Jeane | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6433 Registered: 05-2005 |
Los Lobos - Jockey Full Of Bourbon | ||
| C Gull Member Username: C_gull Post Number: 232 Registered: 05-2005 |
Great choice Stuart. Must listen to that again I love both versions | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 962 Registered: 10-2006 |
The Moz autobiog sent me rushing back to a lot of stuff, CG. But one thing I can't help feeling after a lot of Youtube viewings is that his live band over the years really thrashes the soul out of a lot of great songs. God, I wish he'd get himself some musicians that could be as subtle and flexible as his own vocals. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 963 Registered: 10-2006 |
Mahler - 2nd symphony, 1st movement. Oh well, not exactly a song, I know, but still one of the most thrilling bits of music ever written. It was also the first classical record I ever bought as a teenager and I really didn't know what to expect - I'd just read a description of it in an encyclopedia. When the first crescendo blasted into the living room it was like a whole new world opening out. Although apparently a dead march, it's got about everything you need in there, huge whonking bits of brass contrasting with the most delicate little melodies, like a really dense novel. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 873 Registered: 05-2005 |
P J Harvey - Memphis | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3331 Registered: 03-2005 |
For this day and many days: Doctor Millar's "Wake Up Outside London." Padraig sent this to me a long time ago. Every time it pops up I am riveted. The most effective time was perhaps a month ago when I had fallen asleep in a chair at my still mostly-empty new house only to awake to this song playing on the iPod in the early morning hours. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6439 Registered: 05-2005 |
It's a haunting song Randy, particularly if you wake up outside LA to the strains of Wake Up Outside London, I imagine. Big Country - Winter Sky | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 967 Registered: 10-2006 |
Ty Segall - Gold on the shore Absolutely mystified how this ended up on the wife's i-pod, but there it is - nice wee chiming ballad with a melodic bass jinking through it. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6441 Registered: 05-2005 |
Georgia Fair - Someday Soon | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 348 Registered: 05-2005 |
Etienne Daho - En surface (with Dominique A). Best song on the new album of the french star. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6443 Registered: 05-2005 |
Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band - Newby Street. If only Scott Walker still made such Scott Walker-esque music as Mick Head does. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 874 Registered: 05-2005 |
Beck - Waking Light wow, this is a stunner, cant wait for the album | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 875 Registered: 05-2005 |
and I love the Michael Head EP Padraig |