| Author | Message | ||
     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5641 Registered: 05-2005 |
Paul Weller - The Olde Original | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5645 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Glass Canoe - Paradise | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 752 Registered: 05-2005 |
Stereolab - International Colouring Contest | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5663 Registered: 05-2005 |
Peter Case - Steel Strings (Acoustic Version). I mistakenly posted in the April thread earlier. The acoustic version is better anyway, and has never been released other than on a 12" 27 years ago. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5664 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Byrds - Turn! Turn! Turn! | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 758 Registered: 05-2005 |
Art Objects - Showing Off To Impress The Girls what a brilliant song from Gerard Langley's pre Blue Aeroplanes band, great lyrics and a classic guitar riff | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5665 Registered: 05-2005 |
U2 - Bullet The Blue Sky (live version) | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 832 Registered: 10-2006 |
Nice choice, Cosmo. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5666 Registered: 05-2005 |
Rockfour - Everyone | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 800 Registered: 04-2005 |
Grant McLennan - The Man Who Died in Rapture | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5668 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Beatles - Rain | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5673 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Church - Under The Milky Way | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5681 Registered: 05-2005 |
Dumptruck - Things Go Wrong. (Thanks Hugh. This reminds me a lot of Green On Red - a good thing). | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 870 Registered: 05-2005 |
Padraig, May 8 and 9!!!!!!! "Rain" one of my all time fave songs. The slowed down backing track, the backwards vocals at the end, Macca's Indianesque harmonies and bass sound and lines, Ringo's drumming - that's a band that was COOKING!!! I've also just been listening to one of my other faves again - Turn!Turn!Turn! How great is that song????!!!!!!! The double 12 string Ric attack, those harmonies, the stop start bits, those lyrics!!!!! Jingle jangle heaven. Sublime! | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 871 Registered: 05-2005 |
Just noticed the earlier entry too from May 5th! Play the 5th, the 8th and add 1000 Miles from Carnival of Light and you have my 3 favourite songs full stop. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5686 Registered: 05-2005 |
Glad to be channeling you Geoff! | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 761 Registered: 05-2005 |
Orchestral Manoeuvresin the Dark - Messages I have always loved this song, one of the best break-up pop songs ever, the intro with the backwards synthesiser is a total lift off too | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 762 Registered: 05-2005 |
or backwards whatever it is | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 763 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Blue Aeroplanes - Lover and Confidante another great break up song 'I cried for 14 days, 14 nights I cried, and she said nothing, and neither did her friend, this is how important things end' | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 837 Registered: 10-2006 |
Gary Puckett & the Union Gap - Lady Willpower | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5689 Registered: 05-2005 |
Rodriguez - Crucify Your Mind | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 838 Registered: 10-2006 |
Brett & Bernard - My dark star (acoustic version) Possibly my favourite worst lyricist. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5692 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Breeders - LSXX (disc 2) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5693 Registered: 05-2005 |
Wrong thread for the previous post, so for this thread I'll pick Do You Love Me Now (EP version from when Tanya Donnelly was still a Breeder). | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5696 Registered: 05-2005 |
Peter Case - A Pair Of Brown Eyes, from his self-titled 1986 album. How do you make a Pogues cover worthy of the original? By getting Roger McGuinn to play 12-string on it. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 840 Registered: 10-2006 |
Dinah Washington - A stranger on earth Written by Sid Feller & Rick Ward. Ray Charles said of the former: "If I'm a genius, this guy is Einstein." I imagine Sid felt sort of chuffed to hear that. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 804 Registered: 04-2005 |
The Kinks - See My Friends Leafing through Dave Davies autobiography (missing out bits about out-of-body experiences and UFOs !) made me play my one Kinks record (Pye's "File Series" compilation). Such brilliant songs. In the book he says that he was most amused by the whole "Indian"/drone thing that this song kicked off as it featured no sitars whatsoever and it was a cheap Framus 12 string that he played. Apparently McCartney told him at the time that he was envious of the song and wished that he had written it. Davies is very candid about his sexuality and there are several pages about the story behind "David Watts". Wonder if Paul Weller knew all that when the Jam covered it ? | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 330 Registered: 05-2005 |
Tim Burgess - The doors of then. Heard it nearly a thousand times during the last week. I also like the rest of the album. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5699 Registered: 05-2005 |
Chris Stamey - London | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3204 Registered: 03-2005 |
Andrew, do you mean Ray Davies? Dave is the younger brother/lead guitarist. And, yes, "See My Friends" is a great step in Davies' development into a serious songwriter. Like almost anyone lionized by the critics, Ray Davies fell into self-parody at times but he could also write some very stirring songs, the poignant "Days" and the beautiful ode to acceptance "This is Where I Belong" being great favorites of mine. I should probably read the book you're reading as I had no idea about Davies' sexuality at all. So many male pop stars of that era played the ambisexual game to get newspaper ink that I became pretty cynical about them all. Ray Davies presented himself as the Oscar Wilde of rock n roll at the time. I guess his deft touch for sketching outsiders must come from his own reality. "See My Friends" is an early example and "Waterloo Sunset" is the classic. A tiny little half-outtake, "Did You See His Name?", is a gem taken from the third-person view instead of the first-person view. Notice I'm fingering songs from the 1967 - 1968 period which, for me, is his peak. I remember you being irritated with a quote from David McComb about Ray Davies' music lacking "mystery." I do think McComb's observation was fair but obviously mystery isn't what everybody does or needs to do. Ray Davies sketched people, sometimes quite subtly and other times maybe more stereotypically. He wrote short stories as songs. Some of them were timeless. Ray Davies fueled and stoked the Anglophilic tendencies of a young kid in California in the 60s named Randy Adams. He painted the picture that I still carry with me when I visit London today, however much the ensuing decades have added so many decidedly different layers. On the other hand I bought a copy of his "Other People's Lives" and found it uninspiring. That's ok; he's already left a great legacy. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 841 Registered: 10-2006 |
I think Ray took care of the songwriting, and Dave of the ambisexuality! | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 805 Registered: 04-2005 |
Randy, No it is Dave's book. http://www.amazon.com/Kink-Autobiography -Dave-Davies/dp/0786861495 The description of the book is misleading as it makes it sound like it was Dave that had the "long affair" with Chrissie Hyde. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3205 Registered: 03-2005 |
Really. Does he claim to have written "David Watts"? Weird. He's not credited for it. Dave Davies wrote about one song for every ten that Ray wrote. Oh well, my tribute to Ray stands. Dave Davies provided a number of cool guitar moments in the early years ('64 to '66) but its Ray's songs that make the Kinks matter. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 809 Registered: 04-2005 |
Hi again Randy, Dave Davies does not claim to have written "David Watts": Ray wrote it after the whole group ended up at a wild party at the home of Major David Watts. There were no women present, but several police officers who got camper and camper as the drugs and alcohol kicked in. After some furtive discussion with Ray, Watts then propositioned Dave, saying that he wanted them to live together (in Watts' beautiful Georgian mansion) According to Dave, Ray was "ready to trade me for a bit of architecture" ! Song of the Day : Franck Roussel & Edwyn Collins - Time | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 767 Registered: 05-2005 |
Emily - Old Lace(To John) 1972 gem from 16 year old folk singer who moved to France and recorder a weird and wonderful album which I have been after for a few years and finally got today | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 842 Registered: 10-2006 |
Always a sucker for a bit of flute. Touch of the Buffy St Maries in the vibrato there. Nice. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 843 Registered: 10-2006 |
Primrose Hill - Loudon Wainwright 3 Primrose Hill - Madness Primrose Hill - Kathe Green Three different views from a part of London with a beautifully evocative name I've never been to. Kathe Green's is an airily romantic 60s orchestral pop confection with one of those splendidly vibrant arrangements that characterise the era. Madness and Loudon offer typically more dour perspectives from two outsiders - well, one outsider, one insider, really. Make a nice EP. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5705 Registered: 05-2005 |
Chris Stamey - You N Me N XTC | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 769 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kings of Convenience - Failure | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5715 Registered: 05-2005 |
R.E.M. - I Remember California (Live In Greensboro EP version) | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 564 Registered: 03-2007 |
Salmonella Dub - Slide http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hV-ugdRCu lY | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5719 Registered: 05-2005 |
Chris Stamey - London | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 812 Registered: 04-2005 |
Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino featuring Piers Faccini - La voce toa http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2fg3_4KM lk Heard this on the radio, an Italian group with guests Piers Faccini and Malian kora player Ballake Sissoko . Very nice indeed. Definite Nick Drake vibe. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 1066 Registered: 04-2006 |
supermax - love machine | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 565 Registered: 03-2007 |
The Apartments - Mr. Somewhere ( from Seven Songs Session ) | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 844 Registered: 10-2006 |
That's an interesting find, Andrew, right in my own backyard, give or take a few hundred kilometres. I wonder if this has had any plays on Italian radio? | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 813 Registered: 04-2005 |
Lisa Hannigan - Flowers Free download from https://soundcloud.com/lisa-hannigan | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5723 Registered: 05-2005 |
Josh Rouse - The Last Train | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5725 Registered: 05-2005 |
Thanks for the link Andrew. Great song. Reminds me of Australian singer Sarah Blasko. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5727 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Jesus And Mary Chain - Some Candy Talking (acoustic) | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 847 Registered: 10-2006 |
Songs: Ohio - Farewell transmission | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5732 Registered: 05-2005 |
Clannad - Caislean Oir. A beautifully haunting song. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2523 Registered: 01-2005 |
Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most - June Christy | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3207 Registered: 03-2005 |
The Far Out Corporation really never got much attention from me. The iPod pitched up their "Montreal" today. It was great to hear Grant doing something unfamiliar. This was the song of the day for me. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1733 Registered: 08-2006 |
"Pensacola" by Deerhunter. Love, love their latest, Monomania. This particular track is pure Stooges-esque dirt rock. Great driving-around-with-the-windows-down music. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 776 Registered: 05-2005 |
Unkle (with The Black Angels) - With You In My Head on a BLack Angels trip at the moment and this kraut rocky monster is the trippiest (man) |