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Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 9234 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Thursday, April 02, 2020 - 07:14 am: | |
Fountains Of Wayne - Hackensack. RIP Adam Schlesinger. |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 9236 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Friday, April 03, 2020 - 09:56 am: | |
Fountains Of Wayne - Action Hero. The lyrics are especially poignant now. |
Stuart Wilson
Member Username: Stuart
Post Number: 1717 Registered: 10-2006
| Posted on Sunday, April 05, 2020 - 11:01 am: | |
Diabologum - 365 jours ouvrables Haven't heard much else by these lads that I like a lot, but this has a suitably appropriate air of desperation to it, chanted lyrics over a brain-cleansing Mary Chain grind. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EkEQecP tT8 |
Stuart Wilson
Member Username: Stuart
Post Number: 1718 Registered: 10-2006
| Posted on Sunday, April 05, 2020 - 11:52 am: | |
Bas Jan - King of the Holloway Road Well, this just passed on the wireless, so no way I'm not having this as well. Utterly brilliant. It was followed by the band's label owner, I think, a Scots bloke phoning in from Eigg, where I was meant to be in just 30 days, sigh. A wave from a more distance future maybe. https://vimeo.com/207783418 |
Burgers
Member Username: Burgers
Post Number: 144 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Sunday, April 05, 2020 - 05:27 pm: | |
That label boss is Johnny Lynch who records as The Pictish Trail. My neighbour’s a fan of his, I’m not. The best artist on the label is Clémentine March, a French musician who now lives in London. |
Simon Withers
Member Username: Sfwithers
Post Number: 621 Registered: 08-2005
| Posted on Monday, April 06, 2020 - 10:58 am: | |
Dolores O'Riordan singing Fleetwood Mac's Go Your Own Way https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qlw4NohB 678 I've started doing weights a couple of times a day. Very tiny dumbbells – I'm a cyclist, after all! – but I do my exercises while looking for music I haven't heard before on YouTube, and fortunately there's loads out there. |
TROU
Member Username: Trou
Post Number: 491 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Monday, April 06, 2020 - 11:16 am: | |
Simon, there was a virtual 'Tour des Flandres' yesterday. https://www.rtbf.be/auvio/detail_greg-va n-avermaet-remporte-le-1er-tour-des-flan dres-virtuel?id=2621278&reco=2621278_hom |
Simon Withers
Member Username: Sfwithers
Post Number: 622 Registered: 08-2005
| Posted on Monday, April 06, 2020 - 11:31 am: | |
TROU, thanks for that – I'll give it a look after work, which I'm doing somewhat half-heartedly! It's a lovely day and I'd rather be outside! |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 9240 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Monday, April 06, 2020 - 12:10 pm: | |
Hey Paulette - I Really Do Love Penelope. Such a joyous pop song. Thanks to Hugh, for reintroducing me to them about a decade ago. |
Andrew Kerr
Member Username: Andrew_k
Post Number: 1342 Registered: 04-2005
| Posted on Monday, April 06, 2020 - 03:14 pm: | |
Virtual cycling I was asked to get off my bike by the gendarmes Friday evening, as I hurtled round the center of my village. And yes I was by myself and yes I was respecting the maximum of 1km from my home and yes I had the form filled in correctly and honestly. Ah but the French government changed its mind between the 20 and 26th of March apparently and you can go to the shops with your bike but not exercise. Find the logic in that ! I was well pissed off but luckily didn't get a fine, as I think my temper was well in evidence. In these situations you never have the right answer at the time. The reply to "It's the law and you need to respect it" should have been "So what would you have done with the law telling you to round up the Jews in 1942 monsieur ?". Mind you then they would have probably beaten me to a pulp at the side of the road. I'm sorry I'm being ridiculous and flippant...we are being sensible about the confinement, but some of the rules are just ludicrous. |
Simon Withers
Member Username: Sfwithers
Post Number: 623 Registered: 08-2005
| Posted on Monday, April 06, 2020 - 03:39 pm: | |
Andrew, some good points given France's history. When the UK govt looked like banning all outdoor exercise yesterday my plan was that I would do all my shopping by bike. I'm absolute rigorous in my social distancing but I think banning cycling is bonkers. One of my colleagues rode 142km the other day - on an indoor smart trainer on a group ride linked by the internet. Now, of course, you can't buy a smart trainer for love nor money, so some companies will be doing well from the present circumstances. My local wine supplier's delivery business is running at 15 times its usual level! I am presently awaiting 11 chardonnays and a picpoul de pinet on its way... sometime! |
Randy Adams
Member Username: Randy_adams
Post Number: 4359 Registered: 03-2005
| Posted on Monday, April 06, 2020 - 04:22 pm: | |
Andrew, I know it's not the same--especially in light of climate change--but I have a 60 year old Lancia convertible that needs to be driven once every week or two to keep in good operational order. This is something I do unaccompanied and normally shortly before bed time on an unpopular night when there's comparatively little traffic. I'm not going to have any encounters with potential for transmitting even a very contagious disease. But under our rules I'm not supposed to just leave my house and drive around purposelessly. The rules are made for the idiots who can't seem to grasp how serious this is and how to act, and it's asking too much of the gendarmerie to spend their days making subtle judgment calls on this stuff. So, much like your bike I'll be using this impractical car for some of my store excursions. I just won't park it in any of the lots. On the subject of song of the day, my choice is this lovely illustration of the continuity of life by Scottish band The Felt Tips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqBrg3ys Dx8 |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 9244 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, April 07, 2020 - 09:02 am: | |
Rob Brookman - Letter To The Editor |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 9246 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Wednesday, April 08, 2020 - 03:25 am: | |
John Prine - Summer's End. RIP to a great songwriter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXbEFTv9 zr0 |
Randy Adams
Member Username: Randy_adams
Post Number: 4362 Registered: 03-2005
| Posted on Wednesday, April 08, 2020 - 04:02 am: | |
John Prine is one of those songwriters I've meant to explore forever. And I still haven't gotten around to it. Here are a couple of interpretations of his songs, one about Kentucky coal-mining sung by someone who grew up there, and another by a familiar friend of ours. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mozT6SGV dnY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OE8HkaBn NaQ I really need to stop procrastinating. |
Andrew Kerr
Member Username: Andrew_k
Post Number: 1343 Registered: 04-2005
| Posted on Wednesday, April 08, 2020 - 08:22 am: | |
I'm like Randy. John Prine was always a musician whose work I planned to investigate one day. And my introduction to his songs was this performance on a wet and cold Glasgow summer's day in 1990 (1990 !!!!) I was there in the bandstand by the Clyde and the emotion comes across even in the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csAp1Keu eUU |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 9247 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Wednesday, April 08, 2020 - 11:30 am: | |
What a great clip, Andrew. Billy Bragg looks about 12, though he was actually 32 then. |
Andrew Kerr
Member Username: Andrew_k
Post Number: 1345 Registered: 04-2005
| Posted on Wednesday, April 08, 2020 - 02:56 pm: | |
This is not a cheery period. RIP Hal Willner Always loved his Disney record. Here's Tom Waits' dark take on "Heigh Ho". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KISFemeH OC4 |
Rob Brookman
Member Username: Rob_b
Post Number: 1993 Registered: 08-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, April 08, 2020 - 03:38 pm: | |
Man, what a week. Hal Willner and now John Prine. Both giants. If anyone's interested, my little record label put out a John Prine tribute record several years back called "The Postman Delivers: A Chicago Musicians' Tribute to John Prine." It's on Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/album/1KYC5kslE DagqbwlA9ZvVs) and, yes, I have a track on there. Prine and his then-manager green lighted the project, were very generous with royalty arrangements and even gave us great tickets to a show he performed at his old high school. He was one of the very best, a kind and funny man, and a good Chicago boy. |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 9248 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Wednesday, April 08, 2020 - 06:51 pm: | |
Hal Willner was a genuine musical maverick and some kind of genius. This is very sad news. Paula Pell, who worked with Willner on Saturday Night Live for a decade tweeted: “Hal Willner was the gentlest genius at SNL. He bemoaned artists abandoning weirdness and authenticity but never gave up searching for it. We love you forever. Fuck off this disease and especially its enablers.” |
Randy Adams
Member Username: Randy_adams
Post Number: 4364 Registered: 03-2005
| Posted on Thursday, April 09, 2020 - 04:47 pm: | |
Los Mundos Posibles -- La Guerra del Japon This is from Argentina vintage 2018, the kickoff track on their elegant and mostly elegiac 7 song mini-album "Pintura de Guerra." Nope, I don't understand much Spanish either but I find that as necessary as understanding much French to enjoy Dominique A. Physically, you can only get it on vinyl but download is always available. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H83ubCcP kJM And for good measure, a couple more. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUvn-teq EqQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKuCcfV8 yFo The last of these is the closer. This little album is a keeper. |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 9250 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Friday, April 10, 2020 - 08:40 am: | |
Rob Brookman - Have A Nice Day. |
Jerry Clark
Member Username: Jerry
Post Number: 1297 Registered: 08-2004
| Posted on Friday, April 10, 2020 - 09:51 am: | |
All those folks that paid a fortune for Peloton bikes are laughing right now. Nick Cave - Let It Be |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 9253 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Saturday, April 11, 2020 - 09:20 am: | |
The Triffids - Holy Water. An absolutely joyous pop/soul/gospel song. A bit of an overlooked classic in the Triffids’s canon. |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 9256 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Sunday, April 12, 2020 - 01:31 pm: | |
Enuff Z'Nuff - There Goes My Heart. A brilliant, Beatlesesque power pop classic. |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 9258 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Monday, April 13, 2020 - 11:46 am: | |
Eno & Hyde - The Satellites |
Stuart Wilson
Member Username: Stuart
Post Number: 1726 Registered: 10-2006
| Posted on Saturday, April 18, 2020 - 08:30 am: | |
Shana Cleveland - Don't Let Me Sleep https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxUJYVBu Sks |
Stuart Wilson
Member Username: Stuart
Post Number: 1727 Registered: 10-2006
| Posted on Sunday, April 19, 2020 - 09:17 am: | |
The The - I want to b u Just a taster available at the moment: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=208686 310336533 I like the sound of this a lot, but MattJ has never really made much of an impact on me. Perhaps someone could suggest a spot where I could dip my toe into the water? |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 9261 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Sunday, April 19, 2020 - 11:37 am: | |
Cliff Richard - Wired For Sound |
Andreas Severins
Member Username: Andreas_severins
Post Number: 475 Registered: 11-2007
| Posted on Monday, April 20, 2020 - 06:52 am: | |
@Stuart: The The - This Is the Day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZYgKCbF bWY The The - Perfect (Soul Mining single) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ0T2zLa 4hM |
Stuart Wilson
Member Username: Stuart
Post Number: 1728 Registered: 10-2006
| Posted on Monday, April 20, 2020 - 08:09 am: | |
Cheers, Andreas! |
Andreas Severins
Member Username: Andreas_severins
Post Number: 476 Registered: 11-2007
| Posted on Monday, April 20, 2020 - 09:28 am: | |
Sneaky Feelings - Waiting For Touchdown |
Burgers
Member Username: Burgers
Post Number: 146 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Monday, April 20, 2020 - 11:48 am: | |
Emily Barker covering John Prine. About ten minutes in https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000hdc n |
Stuart Wilson
Member Username: Stuart
Post Number: 1729 Registered: 10-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, April 22, 2020 - 10:25 am: | |
Leonard Cohen - The Hills https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FesS3D-7 o1g |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 9264 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Thursday, April 23, 2020 - 06:59 am: | |
Isaac Hayes - Hung Up On My Baby |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 9267 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Saturday, April 25, 2020 - 09:58 am: | |
Big Star - Watch The Sunrise |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 9268 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Sunday, April 26, 2020 - 07:47 am: | |
Died Pretty - DC. The violinist/dancer/backing vocalist will be familiar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07oZHDgP iqo |
Randy Adams
Member Username: Randy_adams
Post Number: 4371 Registered: 03-2005
| Posted on Sunday, April 26, 2020 - 03:24 pm: | |
Great video Pádraig. And "DC" is a great song. |
Stuart Wilson
Member Username: Stuart
Post Number: 1730 Registered: 10-2006
| Posted on Monday, April 27, 2020 - 09:46 am: | |
Molly Drake – I remember Nick’s mum, singing a pretty & witty ballad about marital perspectives in a lovely poshish 1950s accent. One little section of the melody later used, possibly by happenstance, by Pete Atkin in the equally lovely “Canoe”. "We tramped the open moorland in the rainy April weather And came upon the little inn that we had found together The landlord gave us toast and tea and stopped to share a joke And I remember firelight I remember firelight I remember firelight And you remember smoke..." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYo2ryZ3 wUs |
Pádraig Collins
Member Username: Pádraig_collins
Post Number: 9272 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Thursday, April 30, 2020 - 08:28 am: | |
Oasis - Don't Stop... (demo). A song that Noel Gallagher thought was lost, but he found it on a CD while bored during the lockdown. And it's great. |
David Gagen
Member Username: David_g
Post Number: 456 Registered: 02-2007
| Posted on Thursday, April 30, 2020 - 10:09 am: | |
Lighthouse "One Fine Morning" |