| Author | Message | ||
     spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1413 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Clientele - Bookshop Casanova Fuck*n excellent!!!!!!!! | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 42 Registered: 02-2007 |
Nowhere Without You- Bob Evans from Suburban Songbook. Whole album is bright shiney pop magic. Antedote for postmodern blues! | ||
| John B. Member Username: John_b Post Number: 106 Registered: 10-2006 |
The Crane Wife, pt. 1 and 2 - The Decemberists. beautifully sad | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 389 Registered: 09-2006 |
"Don't Fear the Reaper" - samba style by the Beautiful South | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1421 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Clientele - Losing Haringeygey I really love spoken word, this remonds me of Dave Couse, the way he narrates a story or a feeling, really beautiful, very English also. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1519 Registered: 05-2005 |
so have you bought Strange Geometry then Spence? | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1423 Registered: 05-2005 |
yeah i like it kev, want the new one but not on itunes yet, do you get al your stuuf from napster? its a good deal you got eh? which napster deal you on? cheers | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1520 Registered: 05-2005 |
yep, got it from Napster spence. £14.99 per month to download as much as you want, and copy to my MP3 player. If you dont want the MP3 player option its £9.99 to download as much as you want. Great value either way | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1425 Registered: 05-2005 |
cool, gonna take a look kev. by the way, did u get all the magazine reissues, any good? | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1522 Registered: 05-2005 |
So far just got them from Napster Spence, lots of good singles and b side extras. The first 3 albums are of course wonderful, Magic Murder and The Weather was one album too far, minus the McGeoch magic | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1427 Registered: 05-2005 |
hi kev napster only PC and i am MAC, no worries though. GLad u liking the magazine remasters, must get them, will buy the cd's for the real dirt on the sleeve I guess. Playing The Clienetele again!! Losing Haringeygey Its sends shivers down my spine. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 45 Registered: 10-2006 |
Revival, Mark Lanegan & Soulsavers, played massively loud, after a bit too much wine & a good lunch, over & over again till my neighbours begged for peace...if only the whole album was this good... | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 395 Registered: 09-2006 |
"Ain't it Straaaaayayaaaange" - Patti Smith | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1442 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Cowboy Junkies - Brand New World Its a really, really lovely piece of music, its got everything that i aspire to in a piece, laid back, nice sounding tube amplifiers, 'live' sounding tight simple drums, simple bass, beautiful voice, understated, like June Tabor, McGarrigle's 9thanx Randy) clever, sincere string section, it actually reminds me of Television, in its arrangement, the guitar at the end is like a homage to Marquee Moon, the drums help, they sound like Billy Ficca aged 60 (oh he probably is!, 70 then!). So, yes, I love this song, its soooooooong of the week and they are a great band! | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 401 Registered: 09-2006 |
"Can't Let Go" - Ms. Lucinder Williams | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1537 Registered: 05-2005 |
shake some action - flamin groovies. this lot sort of passed me by in the punk/new wave rush of the late 70s. just downloaded a double CD of the Sire years from the late 70s. Randy, I guess you like this kinda stuff - they started off as Beatlish British invasion kind of stuff didnt they? Does anybody rate this period in their back catalogue? | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1143 Registered: 03-2005 |
Kevin, the song "Shake Some Action" is excellent. I'm also keen on "You Tore Me Down" which was released as a single on music critic Greg Shaw's Bomp label in about 1976 or so. It's just about perfect as a pop song and especially remarkable for its era. But most of the "Shake Some Action" album suffers enormously from the "name that tune" crime and they desperately needed a real lead vocalist. It's this period when they copped the Beatles/Mersey sound shamelessly because that's what guitarist Cyril Jordan liked best. The earlier Groovies (before "Shake Some Action") were more like an idealized Beggars Banquet-era Rolling Stones. Jordan was in them at that time too, but the real force then was Roy Loney who actually had some vocal presence. Songs like "Teenage Head" (get your mind out of the gutter LK) and "Slow Death" are major trash rock classics. The Groovies' claim to fame is that they made music that ran counter to the weight of just about everything else people were doing from 1970 or so through about 1976. And they came from San Francisco, no less. It was a real relief in those dark years. As I recall they still did some worthwhile things as late as 1978 or '79 but by then they were sinking into pure nostalgia. Punk rendered them unnecessary. And looking back today, I'd say that you could put together one single disc of solid music leaving behind an awful lot of what they originally did. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1863 Registered: 03-2006 |
Time Is Tight - Booker T Jody's Got Your Girl And Gone - Johnny Taylor Mr. Big Stuff - Jean Knight Stax Uber Alles! | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 402 Registered: 09-2006 |
Ever since reading the above Flamin Groovies postings it's been "Laurie Did It," from the Supersnazz album. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1418 Registered: 05-2005 |
Husker Du's version of Eight Miles High. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 415 Registered: 09-2006 |
"I'd Like That" - Exteecee | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 586 Registered: 01-2005 |
Robyn Hitchcock and The Venus 3 - Eight Miles High. The Gov, Adelaide 14th October 2006 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PU7MPLhad J4 | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 419 Registered: 09-2006 |
"The Devil's Eye" a masterpiece of concision... |