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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5737 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Milk Carton Kids - The Ash & Clay | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5746 Registered: 05-2005 |
Augie March - Heartbeat And Sails (Alternate Mix) | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 851 Registered: 10-2006 |
Dillard & Clark Out on the side or Train leaves here this morning or Why not your baby Just can't make up my mind. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3210 Registered: 03-2005 |
Oh, it's definitely "Out on the Side" Stuart. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5753 Registered: 05-2005 |
Idlewild - Scottish Fiction | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 852 Registered: 10-2006 |
Let it be so, then, Randy. Featuring the late, great Edwin Morgan on vocals, Padraig! His Collected Poems just arrived here a few days ago. Can't make much of this one, mind, but it certainly sounds good in context. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 777 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Cramps - Naked Girl Falling Down the Stairs | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5754 Registered: 05-2005 |
I didn't know he had died Stuart. That album is so great. I thought Idlewild would break huge with it, but it didn't happen. I saw them play in a Sydney pub on that tour. They were great. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 854 Registered: 10-2006 |
Leonard Cohen - A singer must die | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5756 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Celibate Rifles - Jesus On TV (acoustic version) | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 856 Registered: 10-2006 |
Judy Collins - The coming of the roads | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 815 Registered: 04-2005 |
Dom La Nena - No Meu País http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1_dRAmnx FA Extremely talented young Brazilian cellist (worked with Jane Birkin, Camille and Piers Faccini amongst others...). First solo record ("Ela") was released earlier this year and sounds very promising... | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 778 Registered: 05-2005 |
Tunng - By This | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3213 Registered: 03-2005 |
Meadowsong -- Moffs. Don't know if it was Part I or Part II. The iPod pitched this up. Geoff Holmes turned me onto the Moffs years ago. They are the gift that keeps on giving. Perfect cheesy psychedelia, with this particular instrumental track also perhaps an homage to the likes of the Atlantics. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5766 Registered: 05-2005 |
Azure Ray - If You Fall. I just hit play on this without realising what it was. It's like being reunited with an old friend after many years. What a brilliant song. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5769 Registered: 05-2005 |
OMD - Metroland. Sounds like a cross between early-80s Simple Minds and mid-70s Kraftwerk. Brilliant, in other words. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5780 Registered: 05-2005 |
Simple Minds - Life In A Day | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5793 Registered: 05-2005 |
Peter Case - Echo Wars | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5807 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5811 Registered: 05-2005 |
Atlas Genius - Trojans | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5818 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Soft Pack - Mexico. Nuggets meets Pavement. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5821 Registered: 05-2005 |
Cold Water Flat - Magnetic North Pole | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 782 Registered: 05-2005 |
Ebbot Lundberg - Drowning in a Wishing Well gorgeous song and the sound of the summer for me | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 859 Registered: 10-2006 |
Neil Young - You never call Neil dunks his harmonica in a wee plastic jug before playing, I see. I guess Van Morrison uses a bucket of Vim. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 580 Registered: 03-2007 |
Rio Grande - So Good To Be Free / Me And My Wife Two tracks from the sole album released by the band back in 1971. I have the vinyl but it has never been released on cd / digital. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw1J3Va6P xs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR3BF7kZ- Hg | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 861 Registered: 10-2006 |
RF - Let your light in babe How nice for this one to pop out of the ether at me and remind why I love them so damn much. And oh for a clutch of sweet new songs... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5829 Registered: 05-2005 |
Luna - Bonnie And Clyde (The Clyde Barrow Version) | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2530 Registered: 01-2005 |
I wonder why their hasn't been a new Bonnie and Clyde movie? The 1967 Warren B/Faye D movie was over the top and only about half factual. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5836 Registered: 05-2005 |
Blur - Tender | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5838 Registered: 05-2005 |
Beady Eye - Flick Of The Finger | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5846 Registered: 05-2005 |
Ivy - This Is The Day. Best power pop song sung by a Frenchwoman ever. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5850 Registered: 05-2005 |
Smith Westerns - All Die Young | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2531 Registered: 01-2005 |
Double thumbs up for: Dillard & Clark Out on the side But a double thumbs up and a wink for: Why not your baby | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5857 Registered: 05-2005 |
Blues Traveler - But Anyway. I know nothing else about this band other than this one song from the soundtrack to Kingpin. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3229 Registered: 03-2005 |
Chocolate Watch Band -- Expo 2000 My iPod has a pronounced bias against the often brilliant mid-60s Los Angeles productions by Ed Cobb who brought us both the Chocolate Watch Band and the Standells. I'd totally forgotten that I'd loaded the best of the Watch Band onto iTunes last summer when I was first building a new library for the new device. If you love the Moffs--and I really truly do--you'll love this. It reminded me of another even more esoteric group who never got further than club popularity in London and also in France: East of Eden. I picked up their first album "Mercator Projected" way back when it was new and I was 12 years old. I haven't had that record for decades. Might youtube? Yes!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjP0Tgpb 7Aw It's weird how old memories remain intact. I found myself singing along, knowing most of the lyrics, and I haven't heard this in at least 40 years. If you'd asked me to recall it before I found the video I would have drawn a perfect blank but the music started and so did the memory track. East of Eden are a missing link between psychedelia and prog-rock. Make no mistake, they did a lot of hideous dreck but I decided to order a CD version of the first album on the theory that I'll probably be very happy to have about 50% of it. Their lineup was unstable and they produced a couple more albums which are not remotely in the same league. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5861 Registered: 05-2005 |
Nice memories there Randy. I'd never before heard of them. Matthew Sweet - Evangeline | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 589 Registered: 03-2007 |
Padraig, I thought you might have been familiar with them due to this track which was a top ten hit in the U.K. in 1971. Strange choice of single as it bore no resemblence to their sound / style of music. I am guessing Randy will be pleased to hear that it appears on their third album. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baIMbA7Mc ok | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3230 Registered: 03-2005 |
Yes, Hugh, by then I think the only original member was Dave Arbus on violin. Since "Expo 2000" was the song of the day I should have posted its youtube link. Inspiration to Hawkwind as well as Moffs. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeoKAuF91 XI | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 590 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy,I have been meaning to pick up something by the Chocolate Watch Band for some time. I take it 'Melts In Your Brain Not On Your Wrist' is the one to go for? Song Of The Day :- The Strawbs - The Man Who Called Himself Jesus Released around the time of East Of Eden's debut, I think I first heard the the track ( performed live in the studio ) on the John Peel show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzt5fydr N9A | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3231 Registered: 03-2005 |
Hugh, I only have the Rhino anthology on CD. (I had more Watch Band on vinyl but as with most of my vinyl I gave it away long ago.) I never looked to see if another later better release came out but it's not surprising that one did. Yes, I'd say that the Big Beat one is the one to get. Like Rhino, Big Beat use proper master tape sources. I've never encountered a bad Big Beat anthology. In fact I'll get it myself. Do be aware that Chocolate Watchband, like Electric Prunes, started out as a real band and then morphed into a producer creation. The real band was a Stones/Yardbirds inspired band which I personally love but clearly it's not the same thing as the later psychedelia which was more often Ed Cobb's session musician creation. For me, it's all good but just be aware of that. Thank you for the Strawbs link. I've never explored them. It sounds like the first thing for me to go running after is the earlier Sandy Denny-sung material. Which I've now just ordered. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5869 Registered: 05-2005 |
Hugh, I'm not so old that I remember anything from 1971, unless I first encountered it a decade later (eg Yes and Led Zeppelin). I meant East Of Eden are new to me by the way; I'm aware of The Chocolate Watch Band from Nuggets. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 592 Registered: 03-2007 |
Sorry about that Padraig. I keep forgetting that not everyone on this board is as old as me. :-) | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 593 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, Thank you for the warning regarding the Chocolate Watch Band. I don't see it being a problem. I take it you have gone for 'All Our Own Work' by Sandy Denny & The Strawbs? If so then please note that Denny and Dave Cousins share the vocal duties on the album. The record contains the earliest known recorded version of 'Who Knows Where The Time Goes' which is probably Denny's best known song. The Strawbs re-recorded three of the songs on the album for their debut ( Tell Me What You See In Me; Poor Jimmy Wilson; Pieces of 79 and 15.) They recorded their first two albums as a three piece ( Dave Cousins - Guitar and Vocals; Tony Hooper - Guitar and Vocals; and Ron Chesterman - Double Bass ) and used session musicians to supplement their sound. Chesterman departed after the second album. Cousins and Hooper added Rick Wakeman on Keyboards, Richard Hudson on Drums and John Ford on Bass. This resulted in subsequent albums being less folk tinged than the first two. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 797 Registered: 05-2005 |
I have been blasting Grave New World by the Strawbs this week, amazing gorgeous mellotron soaked masterpiece | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 594 Registered: 03-2007 |
Cosmo, I played 'Strawbs' earlier this afternoon and have just finished listening to 'Dragonfly.' Next up will be 'From The Witchwood' followed by 'Grave New World.' I think Rick Wakeman had departed the band by the time of 'Grave New World' so it is probably Blue Weaver on Mellotron. I ordered copies of the Live At The BBC Sessions ( Volumes 1 and 2 ) earlier this afternoon. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 863 Registered: 10-2006 |
I'm glad to see the Strawbs getting decent treatment here, anyway - my mates tend to titter when they come across my Halcyon Days compilation. Dave's voice is not always the loveliest of things, and his lyrics can cross over to the pretentious, even more so later on around Hero & Heroine when it all gets rather too proggy, but he often created some beautiful tunes and arrangements. |