| Author | Message | ||
     Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1624 Registered: 09-2006 |
Hold Tight - Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich Happy at Home - Royal Crescent Mob | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2105 Registered: 03-2005 |
I love Hold Tight, Allen! And if you're feeling REALLY trashy proceed on to "Legend of Xanadu." | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1625 Registered: 09-2006 |
I've got the former song on a soundtrack, so I'll have to proceed to a best-of CD if I do...which I just might. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3082 Registered: 05-2005 |
Buffalo Tom - Mountains Of Your Head | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 383 Registered: 10-2008 |
the associates - skipping. reshplendant with billy macs sean connery impresshhion half way through!! | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3320 Registered: 05-2005 |
awesome (sorry!) tune eh Kev? shaken, not schtirred! Bell Divers - Lucifer (beau tune reminds me of june brides, felt and blue orchids all rolled into one), from Randy some time ago. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2108 Registered: 03-2005 |
Colin Newman--Lorries | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 638 Registered: 01-2006 |
Strawberry Switchblade - Sunday Morning | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1746 Registered: 10-2004 |
Pale Fountains - These Are the Things | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3087 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Beatles - The Fool On The Hill | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3091 Registered: 05-2005 |
Son Volt - The Picture. Mr Farrar at his poptastic finest. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1631 Registered: 09-2006 |
Home Tonight - New Order That pretty ballad where Bernard clears his nose (or his throat, or something) halfway through. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1636 Registered: 09-2006 |
Tight Like That - Asylum Street Spankers | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1748 Registered: 10-2004 |
God Box - The Fall | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1749 Registered: 10-2004 |
Draygo's Guilt - The Fall | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1592 Registered: 01-2005 |
As Time Goes By: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uF_FJVTLX gw&feature=related | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3324 Registered: 05-2005 |
Euros Childs - Ali Day. He's fu*kin brilliant our ol Euros, a real great, unique class act of a songwriter, giving Wales the recognition it always deserved. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3326 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Blue Aeroplanes - World View Blue. Played really fuc*in loud, to celebrate my twins starting primary school today, very fitting. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2110 Registered: 03-2005 |
I love World View Blue. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3098 Registered: 05-2005 |
That's a nice choice there Spence. Something to remind them of when they're older. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3327 Registered: 05-2005 |
Grant McLennan - Comet scar | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1601 Registered: 01-2005 |
Robyn Hitchcock - Autumn Is Your Last Chance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjdXfNCeg Zg | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3101 Registered: 05-2005 |
Prefab Sprout - God Watch Over You. Just brilliant. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3102 Registered: 05-2005 |
Preston School of Industry - Make Her Day | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1644 Registered: 09-2006 |
Wammo - Hick Hop | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1645 Registered: 09-2006 |
And...Asylum Street Spankers - Stick Magnetic Ribbons on Your SUV | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1648 Registered: 09-2006 |
Permanent - Oh-OK | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1430 Registered: 08-2006 |
Good one, Allen. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1759 Registered: 10-2004 |
B-52s - Cake | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 221 Registered: 05-2005 |
David Sylvian - Wanderlust | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3335 Registered: 05-2005 |
Arab Strap - Who named the days. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3110 Registered: 05-2005 |
Justin Adams & Juldeh Camara - Kele Kele | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3338 Registered: 05-2005 |
Iron and Wine - Lovesong of the buzzard. Why am I not in this band? Why? Why? Why? | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 307 Registered: 10-2006 |
Trinity - Mario Biondi This just came blasting over the radio, a Morricone inspired theme song from an old spaghetti western film sung by an Italian big band singer with a gorgeous thrum of a voice...though I was disappointed to discover that the lyric I took for "He's as cool as a vest" is actually "Always cool, he's the best." Great fun. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 485 Registered: 04-2005 |
"Is this man too talented to live ?" was the headline of a Paul Morley review of Josef K way back in the early 1980s. The man in question was Paul Haig and 'Something Good' is certain proof that Morley was not completely crazy. Just a shame that Frank Sinatra never covered it. And back on YouTube in a sparkling new high quality version. My God the haircut was good! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UWuprgf7 4Y | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3340 Registered: 05-2005 |
Was a great haircut! Remember when it was peroxide blonde and he shave his sideburns way above his ears, he looked like some Bond film styled Germanic android spy trying to invade the pop charts!!!! | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1760 Registered: 10-2004 |
Oh my god, no! no! no! That haircut makes him look like the jocks that used to beat me up in junior high! Flat-tops are for marines and toe-head football players only! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2119 Registered: 03-2005 |
Or for homos in 1989. I had that very haircut for a number of years after I'd finished with the paintbrush hair (too much work making it stand up every morning) and before it started falling out. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 400 Registered: 10-2008 |
i still think the greatest haircut i ever saw was morrisseys around the time of "this charming man". that was a quiff and a half, and seemed to have a life of its own. mac from the bunnymen, and edwyn collins had a few corkers as well. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1761 Registered: 10-2004 |
I always liked Roddy Frame's hair from back in the day. And yeah, Morrissey has often had a nice quiff. Speaking of hair, mine's starting to fall out!!! In a couple years I will probably look totally different! | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1611 Registered: 01-2005 |
Jeff, try Nioxin hair care products. Lots of folks who have undergone chemo and lost their hair use Nioxin after chemo treatments to get their hair back. It works! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3114 Registered: 05-2005 |
That's a truly evil haircut. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 487 Registered: 04-2005 |
I used to go to the same barber in Edinburgh (Sandys in Broughton Street) as Paul Haig; he had cut out an article from a pop mag with Haig as 'haircut of the year' and stuck it in his window. It was still there years later. He also used a cut-throat razor on your neck, which he sharpened on a leather belt. It was frankly quite a scary experience having a haircut there. There is a lovely passage in Grace Maxwell's recent book about Edwyn and his illness. She recounts how important the quiff was to Edwyn and tells how one-time Steve Skinner asked him what it was he had just rubbed into his scalp. Turns out it was Grace's hair remover product and they had just enough time to get Edwyn's head in the shower and rinse it all off... It's an inspiring read by the way. I'm hoping to make it to Glasgow at the end of Oct as Malcolm Ross and the Low Miffs are the support for Edwyn's gig there. Could be a good night! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3116 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Waterboys - Forever Young | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1651 Registered: 09-2006 |
Rolling Stones - She Smiled Sweetly | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 308 Registered: 10-2006 |
Safesurfer - Julian Cope Awaiting the deluxe Peggy Suicide, a quick listen to the song that would have guaranteed him immortality had he done nothing else.Sublime. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3342 Registered: 05-2005 |
Cowboy junkies - My Little Basquiat Stuart I saw JC on the PS tour, he was at the peak I think, he still had the backing of the group that was with him on st juian period tour, donny ross skinner etc, except he was starting to rock out, safe surfer in particular, showed me what a great guitarist the cope is/was as unbeknown to me he executed the damn fine solo work. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2121 Registered: 03-2005 |
Allen, thanks to reading your song of the day entry I had that Stones song stuck in my head all day yesterday. And that's without even taking out the disc and playing it! I always love it when people go Dylanesque and Dylanesque Stones was really something. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1653 Registered: 09-2006 |
I also like it when Mick doesn't feel the compulsion to undercut the sensitivity by throwing in one or two snide/cold/callow remarks to prove his "honesty." For me today, its: The Immelman Turn - Al Stewart Have been listening to him a lot lately, from various stages of his career. He's got his weaknesses and his limitations, but his best is very good indeed...smart, warm, funny, literate. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 309 Registered: 10-2006 |
Yeah, I always thought it was Skinner double-tracked or something on that track, but googling informed me that JC himself handled most of the guitar parts, which is impressive, since the sound is so great there - maybe my favourite guitar sound bar none apart from Cortez the Killer and Country Feedback. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3343 Registered: 05-2005 |
Yeah he played it live on either a light sky blue metallic fender mustang/jazzmaster or a fender 12 string that maybe just had 6 strings. i can picture it now, from my memory bank, like it was yesterday, he just stood there effortlessly, looking at the audience whilst playing sometimes looking down at his neck in his usual fragile manner... | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1762 Registered: 10-2004 |
The Greatest Living Englishman - Martin Newell | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 158 Registered: 08-2005 |
Bed of Nails - Husker Du "Please don't drag your nails into this heart of mine/Please don't drag your nails into this heart of mine/Please don't drag your nails into this heart of mine/Please don't drag your nails into this heart of mine..." A cheery little number... | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 558 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jeez Stuart....I REALLY DO love Copes stuff but I have tried many times to get into Peggy Suicide and failed. I actually much prefer 20 Mothers. Beautiful Love was the best thing for me on that album by a LONG shot. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 310 Registered: 10-2006 |
Well, there you go Geoff, I on the other hand was always fairly cool towards a lot of his stuff before that, and then this just seemed a huge pulling together of all his gifts into one blissful work, much as Sign o the times was for Prince, and to which everyhing afterwards was just a gradual sliding away...to be honest my Peggy Suicide maxicassette gave up the ghost a long time ago, frayed with overuse, so I'm looking forward to the new reissue...perhaps the moment will have passed, but I hope not! | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3345 Registered: 05-2005 |
Geoff, must say I disagree with BL being the best thing on Peggy. Safe Surfer alone is an almighty epic of a track man!!!!! You prob wouldn;t have had 20 mothers etc if it were not for peggy. of course, IMHO!!!!! | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1614 Registered: 01-2005 |
New reissue of Peggy Suicide with 11 bonus cuts? I wonder if it will be picked up in the states at all or if I'll end up getting a UK copy? My 1991 cd is in great shape, so please Stuart and Geoff let us know what the resissue sounds like! I bought My Nation Underground a couple of years before Peggy was released, and MNU was the first solo JC I bought. I got into Teardrop a couple of years after they went up in smoke. Hard to say which solo JC is my favorite, however Julian not having a few stronger cuts at the end of MNU eliminates it from being my favorite. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 311 Registered: 10-2006 |
I've heard that the 11 bonus tracks are unfortunately rather dodgy remixes rather than lava chunks from a Mount Cope eruption, so perhaps not a hugely exciting prospect! | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1431 Registered: 08-2006 |
"... rather than lava chunks from a Mount Cope eruption..." This belongs on the Quote of the Day thread if anything does. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 159 Registered: 08-2005 |
I Scare Myself - Dan Hicks | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1616 Registered: 01-2005 |
Lights Are Changing - The Bevis Frond |