| Author | Message | ||
     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9106 Registered: 05-2005 |
Modern Nature - Turbulence. They remind me a lot of Yo La Tengo’s more bucolic moments. A very good thing. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1652 Registered: 10-2006 |
Lanterns On The Lake - Every Atom Fetching oneiric pop with a great voice and unhackneyed lyric. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 611 Registered: 08-2005 |
Dusty Springfield - her version of the theme tune to the Jenny Agutter-starring cinematic obscurity 'I Start Counting'. Not dissimilar to the original – and a great flavour of the late 60s (though this was recorded in '72). | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4294 Registered: 03-2005 |
I suppose it's song of the night for me: Newsletters -- Lucky Country I blundered onto this song via the CD16 compilation. It's the sort of simple but inimitable Oz folk rock that made me fall in love with Australia in the first place. Robert McComb (of the Triffids) plays violin. Lachlan Denton (of Ocean Party) plays drums. Vocals and song by Conor Hutchison. Bearing current conditions in mind, the lyrics to this 4 1/2 year old song are both intentionally and unintentionally tragic. In addition to this single, the Newsletters have an album available on not-cheap vinyl but also download via bandcamp. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7zsmXVv iQU | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9113 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jesse Malin - Shane. A beautiful tribute to Shane MacGowan. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9118 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jeff Whalen - The Alien Lanes. Some of his stuff is so bubblegum it hurts my teeth, but this is power pop with a twist. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1315 Registered: 04-2005 |
The Velvet Underground - I Found A Reason (demo) Always loved this, it's like a different song from the final "Loaded" version. According to the comments it has Mo on drums ? Last summer I did an 7 hour car drive, accompanied by only the Matrix live recordings. What a band they were ! Utterly unique. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1653 Registered: 10-2006 |
No argument there, Mr Kerr. Melodic songs laced with noise, lyrics both scathing and witty, a voice that could be seen-it-all sardonic and heartbreakingly romantic, sweet, almost discordant guitar solos. They were so ridiculously far ahead of their time. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1654 Registered: 10-2006 |
Baby You Know - I Love You Still Ha, nice to hear this finally! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnCmoNSu 3Rc | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1656 Registered: 10-2006 |
Bombay Bicycle Club - Everything Else Has Gone Wrong https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZF0LF1gQ ZKs Just heard on Radcliffe & Maconie, without knowing that it was BBC, who only popped up on my radar several posts back on this very board. Excellent. But trying to restructure my weekend mornings around this show (“The best one in Britain for folk our age,” advised my authoritative mate) is proving very difficult, since the scheduling cuts right through basic ablutions, dog-walking and local shopping. I suggested to the wife that she take over at least the last two chores just for Saturday and Sunday and she got very Latin on my ass. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1316 Registered: 04-2005 |
Stuart, Lovely wee résumé of the Velvets there ! Sterling Morrison never seems to have the recognition he deserved. Nothing flashy just the necessary notes. Economy but perfection. So for this day I'll take the long slow version of "Waiting For The Man". With Lou whistling. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p86QDW0- 2Wo PS Is getting "very Latin on my ass" a sexual euphemisme ? Just asking for a friend. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1657 Registered: 10-2006 |
Oh dear, Andrew, this is what happens when an elderly white Celto-Saxon, or whatever I am, tries to misappropriate black American slang. No, I meant kitchen appliances flying through the air, lots of shouting, mild epidermal bruising, that sort of thing. | ||
| Burgers Member Username: Burgers Post Number: 132 Registered: 05-2005 |
If you can, I’d record Radcliffe and Maconie and listen to it later. I listen after taking the dog out and get through the good parts of a three hour show in about 40 minutes. The best thing on 6 Music is Marc Riley’s show. He must have about 150 new sessions a year and most of them are very good. Last year’s highlights included Mammoth Penguins, Penelope Isles, The Stroppies, Dana Gavanski, Catenary Wires and Robert Forster. This week he has The Orielles who are arguably the best young British pop band. He also plays much more new music than Radmac. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1658 Registered: 10-2006 |
I sort of like the real-time authentic listening thing, plus all the cheery Northern banter about dark sheets of freezing rain and tram stops and prawn crackling and the phone in stuff and so on. Meanwhile, I shall check for Marc R in the schedules. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9121 Registered: 05-2005 |
Cheap Trick - Downed (Steve Albini mix) | ||
| Austin Member Username: Bruegelpie Post Number: 207 Registered: 09-2004 |
Beach Bunny - Cloud 9 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3vTWUeS 80Y What a great pop song from this new-ish Chicago band! | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1241 Registered: 03-2007 |
Burgers, I am a fan of Emma Kupa and have been since her days in Standard Fare. As well as Mammoth Penguins, she is also a member of Suggested Friends. Well worth checking out if you are not already familiar with them. Track from their first album :- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcx7S21c b0Q Track from their second album :- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRQxXn8T 5_I | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1973 Registered: 08-2006 |
Austin, no way do you know Beach Bunny! I've seen them many times live and tried to get them to play my street festival this summer (they were booked). Lili, the singer/songwriter, lives in my neighborhood. Great band whose recorded output has not - to date - done them justice. They'll be big, eventually. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9122 Registered: 05-2005 |
Wow, if Beach Bunny are better live than their recorded work, they must be very good indeed. Another video link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFco-KHX 4lA | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1659 Registered: 10-2006 |
Ray Lamontagne – Jolene The end-credit song to Ben Affleck’s so-so shoot-it-all-up thriller The Town (though Blake Lively really is wonderful) is a solid piece of traditional writing with sharp lyrics (“A man needs something he can hold onto/A nine pound hammer or a woman like you/Either one of them things will do”) and a decent tune, lifted by RL’s perfervid Steve Forbert-on-steroids voice. | ||
| Austin Member Username: Bruegelpie Post Number: 208 Registered: 09-2004 |
Rob, Your block parties sound like they are great! What bands are you having this year? I think this will be the year for Beach Bunny. Not only have I seen them several times this month on the reddit Indieheads group, but when I was telling my friend about them this weekend he said he heard them on SiriusXMU. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1974 Registered: 08-2006 |
Austin, I haven't started booking yet. I think Beach Bunny might be out of my budget at this point but I'll do my best — I'm not afraid to play the neighbor card. I've been lucky to bring in some pretty great artists through the years (Wussy, Amy Rigby), but we're an arts festival, not a music festival, so I make do with a thin budget and see what I can scare up. Fortunately, Chicago has some pretty good musicians and some who love the neighborhood vibe of the fest. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1661 Registered: 10-2006 |
Roomful of Teeth – Allemande This transfixing piece just wailed out of the radio at me, some of it reminding me of Majorcan folk song, “modern classical” I suppose. Turns out it’s the first movement of a work that won the Pulitzer in 2013, its composer (Caroline Shaw, third from the left in the video) going on to work with Kanye West amongst others. Amazing, anyway, what eight voices can get up to. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogu7Wfg1 MLY | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4299 Registered: 03-2005 |
Miracle Legion -- The Backyard Somebody sent me this song back in 2007. God bless whoever you were. I remember people recommending Miracle Legion on this board long ago and getting a copy of "Drenched" and thinking "meh!" Meanwhile this one single great song sat in the iTunes library of my 2006 laptop like an overlooked ground explosive from WWII just waiting for its moment which proved to be last night when my "smart playlist" designed to force the iPod to play overlooked songs in its 14,000 song library pitched it up for a listen. This is a great song, full stop. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1317 Registered: 04-2005 |
Randy, Try and find their '89 release "Me and Mr.Ray" Remains one of my all time favourite records. Very different to "Drenched". Stripped down (they lost their drummer and bass-player just before heading off to Paisley Park to record) and all the best for it. And talking of "All for the Best" (from "Surprise Surprise Surprise") https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRVJQB_I f4U | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9125 Registered: 05-2005 |
Mac Miller - Circles. I don't think I'd ever heard a single song by the late musician before being intrigued by this article about him in the New York Times, where the song is embedded. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/20/arts/ music/mac-miller-jon-brion-circles.html? nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_200121?ca mpaign_id=2&instance_id=15298&segment_id =20497&user_id=cbe1711fb1a9b330cf9b74a05 c3e7b1b®i_id=337950710121 | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4301 Registered: 03-2005 |
Thanks Andrew! Bandcamp has most of their material for download, but not all the early stuff. I can get a secondhand CD of "Me and Mr. Ray" for a reasonable sum. Unfortunately, a CD of "Surprise Surprise Surprise" is apparently rare and expensive. And "The Backyard"? Vinyl or download only. I do look forward to when somebody starts having nostalgic fits for CDs. If Miracle Legion had more of a following there'd obviously be an anthology of their stuff preceding "Surprise Surprise Surprise." Well, I do tend to like people who don't have much of a following. I didn't expect Miracle Legion to be one of them. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1662 Registered: 10-2006 |
Meanwhile, the rather excellent Juniore are back: http://www.beardedmagazine.com/news/arti cle/juniore-announce-new-album-un-deux-t rois-uk-tour | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4302 Registered: 03-2005 |
Ballboy -- I Hate Scotland Apparently from 2000, I just blundered on this while researching Gordon McIntyre. It's such a great distillation of youthful frustration. The line about parents raising their kids to be like themselves to validate their own lives makes me think of the number I've seen done by my siblings on some of my nephews and at least one niece. It came very near to killing my niece. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4303 Registered: 03-2005 |
Oops, sorry. I meant to attach a link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOJXT6UF hQI And, Stuart, glad to hear of the imminent new Juniore album. The test will be to see if they evolve. Their music can easily fall into the trap of becoming schtick. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4304 Registered: 03-2005 |
Another Ballboy: All the Records on the Radio are Shite. (" . . . except mine.") https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71CA54Ym Ouk Sorry if I'm boring people--particularly the Scots--but this is a rather exciting new find for me. Another interesting discovery: Avalanche Records in Edinburgh still survives as an online seller called Avalanche Waverly. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1664 Registered: 10-2006 |
As usual, this particular Scot-in-Exile has never heard of Ballboy before, but likes what he hears a lot. And as usual, not so easy to get a hold of. But will try. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1318 Registered: 04-2005 |
Any problems with obtaining Ballboy material then I'm your man First saw Gordon playing an open mic night that friends were running...think I saw their first ever gig too..they were awful...but got much better...I love them ! Gordon's a lovely man too...with a great line in stage patter. John Peel was a big fan. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1245 Registered: 03-2007 |
Another huge fan of the band here and, like Andrew, happy to help out if necessary. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVLQxsLq jp0 https://ballboy.bandcamp.com/track/jk-ro wling-changed-my-vote-from-no-to-yes Song of the day :- Still Corners - Fade Out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RU1iZpe NR8 | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1665 Registered: 10-2006 |
Surely Ballboy must have been mentioned on the board before?? Hard to believe they've been kept a secret all this time, despite the rather crap name. I've been playing "All the records..." every few minutes or so for the last 24 hrs, it's as if my fantasy musician self had gone astral to some distant studio and produced exactly the kind of song I would, given a ha'penny's worth of talent, always have loved to make. His voice is perfect. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9129 Registered: 05-2005 |
I've definitely mentioned Ballboy. Pay more attention, Randy. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1666 Registered: 10-2006 |
So, Andrew, where's Mr McIntyre from? An Edinburgh lad? And, with ref to the other thread, what about your trip, any interesting tales? | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4305 Registered: 03-2005 |
Actually a search reveals that Andrew has brought up Ballboy a few times, as long ago as 2007 and as recently as Spring 2019. | ||
| Burgers Member Username: Burgers Post Number: 133 Registered: 05-2005 |
By day, Gordon McIntyre is a primary school teacher here in Edinburgh. He’s head teacher in Clermiston (close to Corstorphine Hill for anyone who has read Kidnapped). He’s previously worked at Broughton School and I think at one point he was at Stenhouse or Broomhouse (home of Bay City Rollers’ Les McKeown). As for the music, I don’t listen to Ballboy often anymore but they recorded with the great Laura Cantrell on a Peel session and she has fine taste. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1320 Registered: 04-2005 |
When Ballboy’s first record came out, they played an in-store in Virgin on Princes Street. There were quite a lot of 10 year olds from Gordon’s primary class present to see their teacher. What was funny was that « Olympic Cyclist » contained a (terribly bad) swear word and at the last moment Gordon realised that he couldn’t possibly sing that and he completely fluffed the line. Bill Pritchard is also a teacher…of French in the Midlands somewhere…under several of his songs on YouTube his pupils have added comments…mainly polite ones ! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9132 Registered: 05-2005 |
Blue Öyster Cult - (Don't Fear) The Reaper. There are days when I think this is the greatest song ever written. Today is one of those days. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1667 Registered: 10-2006 |
Here's the session with Laura: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IgcSIWn wyk Lots of other Peel Ballboy stuff on youtube too. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1668 Registered: 10-2006 |
Padraig, I feel the same about this song (interestingly featuring the same negative imperative): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTd3PrTz SPY | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 1246 Registered: 03-2007 |
Thousand - Mon Dernier Voyage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo9NWbig 0aY Track from his fourth album ( Au Paradis ) that will be released by Talitres on 27th March, 2020. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9134 Registered: 05-2005 |
Stuart, I’d never even heard of that song before. I wish I’d heard it 40 years ago, or whenever it came out, then I might have liked it. Hearing it for the first time in 2020 just makes me think of #metoo, though I know that’s not what the song is about. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4307 Registered: 03-2005 |
Good to see Stephane's got another one coming, Hugh. And, also all thanks to Hugh, here's another slice of francophonia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4i-rUMTV B_w Requin Chagrin, a band picked up from the indies by a major. And not ruined. Yet, anyway. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1669 Registered: 10-2006 |
Nadine Shah - Stealing cars Sort of like a Smiths song played at the wrong speed. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9136 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Outfield - This Love Affair | ||
| Fred Tadrowski Member Username: Ftadrowski Post Number: 112 Registered: 03-2015 |
Robyn Hitchcock & Andy Partridge - Planet England |