Author |
Message |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 7558 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, December 01, 2015 - 03:38 am: | |
A Tribe Called Quest - I Left My Wallet In El Segundo |
C Gull
Member Username: C_gull
Post Number: 304 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Thursday, December 03, 2015 - 05:30 pm: | |
Elves The Fall. It may be a blatant Stooges rip off but it's great. |
Andrew Kerr
Member Username: Andrew_k
Post Number: 1043 Registered: 04-2005
| Posted on Thursday, December 03, 2015 - 06:09 pm: | |
Mark Eitzel - Proclaim Your Joy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pymsMhQ 280 Always liked this track...bit like a cousin (twice removed) of REM's "Its the End of the World..." !? |
Stuart Wilson
Member Username: Stuart
Post Number: 1224 Registered: 10-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, December 08, 2015 - 12:46 pm: | |
Mauri Mines - Annalisa Hilarious but also rather nifty tune by a friend of a friend... the chorus basically goes: "Won't you give me a hand-job, Annalisa...oh c'mon, just a hand-job... and please don't say I'm vulgar..." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsSmTh5y Ds8&feature=youtu.be |
Simon Withers
Member Username: Sfwithers
Post Number: 314 Registered: 08-2005
| Posted on Wednesday, December 09, 2015 - 12:46 pm: | |
"Dominick the Donkey" - I work in an office where it's being played. If you've never heard it, DO NOT try to find it - it's an insidious earworm of a song! |
Simon Withers
Member Username: Sfwithers
Post Number: 315 Registered: 08-2005
| Posted on Thursday, December 10, 2015 - 09:16 pm: | |
Wednesday's Child - John Barry (I'm watching the 1966 film The Quiller Memorandum in which it features; great, understated Cold War thriller). |
Stuart Wilson
Member Username: Stuart
Post Number: 1225 Registered: 10-2006
| Posted on Friday, December 11, 2015 - 06:59 am: | |
Not a bad film, though Quiller has not been very well-served by either the big or small screens, what with two powder-puffs like George Segal - and a Yank to boot! - and Michael Jayston taking on the role, when what is needed is the hardest, coldest human killing machine you can imagine: Daniel Craig would have been perfect, in fact. A fine series of books, anyway, with some of the best-written action sequences in British spy-lit. |
Simon Withers
Member Username: Sfwithers
Post Number: 316 Registered: 08-2005
| Posted on Friday, December 11, 2015 - 08:55 am: | |
I've read a lot of the Quiller books, a series which seems largely forgotten. Agree that Daniel Craig would have been good casting. Unkind description of Messrs Segal and Jayston! |
Stuart Wilson
Member Username: Stuart
Post Number: 1226 Registered: 10-2006
| Posted on Friday, December 11, 2015 - 02:16 pm: | |
Both excellent actors in their own way, but hardly cut out to be rough and tumble action heroes. I think as a lad I moved on to Quiller from Bond, but had trouble at first with Adam Hall's dashes of narrative trickery and his agent's coldly analytical attitude towards his own physical reactions and the situations he found himself in. Later, of course, this made him seem all the more interesting. |
Stuart Wilson
Member Username: Stuart
Post Number: 1228 Registered: 10-2006
| Posted on Friday, December 18, 2015 - 01:02 pm: | |
Trembling Blue Stars - Cold Colours Curses, who even knew there was a post-Field Mice era?? Many, doubtless, but not me. |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 7561 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Friday, December 18, 2015 - 05:27 pm: | |
The Blades - All Fall Down |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 7565 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Saturday, December 19, 2015 - 06:08 pm: | |
Peter Bjorn And John - Let's Call It Off. It could have been on Spring Hill Fair. |
Hugh Nimmo
Member Username: Hugh_nimmo
Post Number: 876 Registered: 03-2007
| Posted on Monday, December 21, 2015 - 09:56 pm: | |
The Bitter Springs - Not Now Mummy's Jogging Dear This year's festive offering from the band. A track from their latest album 'Cuttlefish & Love's Remains.' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1doSuZF tJE |
Stuart Wilson
Member Username: Stuart
Post Number: 1229 Registered: 10-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, December 23, 2015 - 01:35 pm: | |
Alan Hull - One more bottle of wine My favourite Christmas song. |
Stuart Wilson
Member Username: Stuart
Post Number: 1230 Registered: 10-2006
| Posted on Thursday, December 24, 2015 - 10:56 am: | |
Alan Hull - A walk in the sea Hull, on form, was as good a songwriter as it gets and this is a gorgeous little sliver of melancholy, perfect for those seasonal moments when the drink is just wearing off, the clouds are coming over and the dog needs a walk on the beach... |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 7570 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Friday, December 25, 2015 - 02:05 am: | |
Jona Lewie - Stop The Cavalry |
Stuart Wilson
Member Username: Stuart
Post Number: 1231 Registered: 10-2006
| Posted on Friday, December 25, 2015 - 08:00 am: | |
Alan Hull - Winter song More seasonal cheer from the wonderful Mr Hull. Cited, somewhere, I seem to remember, as Bob Dylan's favourite song. |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 7575 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Saturday, December 26, 2015 - 01:25 am: | |
Sufjan Stevens – Hey Guys! It's Christmas Time! |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 7580 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Sunday, December 27, 2015 - 08:33 am: | |
Stone Temple Pilots – Cinnamon. A mostly terrible band who had one moment of power pop genius. RIP Scott Weiland. |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 7583 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Monday, December 28, 2015 - 09:01 am: | |
The Easybeats - Friday On My Mind. RIP Stevie Wright. |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 7584 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, December 29, 2015 - 09:30 am: | |
Motorhead - The Ace Of Spades. RIP Lemmy. |
Stuart Wilson
Member Username: Stuart
Post Number: 1233 Registered: 10-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, December 30, 2015 - 11:26 am: | |
The Cure - Inbetween days "Oh great!" I said to the wife as this came on the car radio this morning, "New Order! Brilliant band!" Then the vocal kicked in. Ooooops. |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 7586 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Thursday, December 31, 2015 - 07:55 am: | |
Sandy Gaye – Watch The Dog That Bring The Bone |