| Author | Message | ||
     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6686 Registered: 05-2005 |
Joe Henry - Invisible Hour | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6690 Registered: 05-2005 |
My Bloody Valentine - Soon. It's 24 years old, but could have been recorded yesterday. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6697 Registered: 05-2005 |
TNT - 10,000 Lovers (In One). I was reintroduced to this brilliant pop metal song through the equally brilliant Norwegian film Jackpot (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A24dzO4Lx 6A). | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1027 Registered: 10-2006 |
Serge Gainsbourg - La noyée Gorgeous little ballad that SG apparently wanted to give Yves Montand as a sort of peace offering after years of mutual hostility. Montand said he'd get back to him, but never did. More fool him. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6706 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Wannadies - Love Is Dead | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6716 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Cure - Pictures Of You (Extended Dub Version - from The Balearic Sound Of The Cure bootleg 12") | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6719 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Specials - Ghost Town (12" version). The b-sides, Why? and Friday Night Saturday Morning, are both very good too. | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 293 Registered: 11-2007 |
Sigur Ros - The Rains Of Castamere Just having seen Game Of Thrones... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6721 Registered: 05-2005 |
Everything But The Girl - Time After Time | ||
| Greg Adams Member Username: Greg_adams Post Number: 50 Registered: 06-2005 |
Neighbors – "Long Time Gone" and "Outliers" | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 905 Registered: 04-2005 |
Hank Williams - Alone and Forsaken https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJHgeYSi 9yY Possibly the most miserable song ever written? Utterly chilling lyrics, even on a roasting hot June day! | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 912 Registered: 05-2005 |
HOLLIE COOK - 99 this is my summer barbecue soundtrack from her excellent new album 'Twice'. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzMTCR8Z1 ho | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 913 Registered: 05-2005 |
this gorgeous too, from her first album http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNGr2hDgX wY | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6728 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Zebras - Try. Pure pop perfection. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 734 Registered: 03-2007 |
Padraig, I have the album ( Siesta ) on pre-order with Jigsaw Records in the U.S. The Zebras - Fire Fire. More pop perfection. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYv0tMhVp n8 | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3374 Registered: 03-2005 |
Damn. The Zebras didn't do much for me but Youtube pitched me Pale Lights over in the margin while the Zebras played and they appealed a LOT. But I can only buy on vinyl or download. Someday I'm going to have to break down on this. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1030 Registered: 10-2006 |
This lot?? Not bad at all! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0MsVryq WKw | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1031 Registered: 10-2006 |
Even better! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ET3h1ot3 p6E | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 735 Registered: 03-2007 |
Pale Lights are led by Phil Sutton who was a member of Comet Gain and who is also in The Soft City. Interview by Roque of Cloudberry Records here :- http://www.cloudberryrecords.com/blog/?p =1790 | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3375 Registered: 03-2005 |
I saw that interview Hugh. I hate the idea of buying music without a solid object. I can buy the vinyl but the current state of affairs at my new house does not allow me to play any vinyl. Yes, I realize that the vinyl comes with a download. The thing that just about made me spit out my teeth was Sutton saying in the interview "I listen to a lot of Gene Clark." I can't think of the last time I heard a muso saying that. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3376 Registered: 03-2005 |
Then later, talking about the NYC music scene he says "There are some great bands (What Next?, Crystal Stilts, My Teenage Stride, Ladybug Transistor), but I’m out of the loop. I spend too much time listening to Francoise Hardy." I should meet this person. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 914 Registered: 05-2005 |
Loving Pale Lights, just ordered the EP, nice one Randy | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6734 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Sound - Heartland (BBC session version) | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 736 Registered: 03-2007 |
Randy, If I am given a choice then I will always purchase the physical object but, if the only way to acquire the music is to digitally download it, I will do so provided it is made available in a high quality format ( FLAC etc.) The Gits Drink Milk ( A Carton of Curiosities ) is a case in point. Several of the bands I follow are now only releasing their material on vinyl and digital download. I am not a fan of vinyl as you know so I am left with no alternative but to go with the digital release. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3377 Registered: 03-2005 |
Ok. I broke down and bought the Pale Lights EP and LP in vinyl. That way I have my physical object. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6739 Registered: 05-2005 |
Sparklehorse - Don't Take My Sunshine Away | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6742 Registered: 05-2005 |
Material Issue - Next Big Thing (acoustic) | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 906 Registered: 04-2005 |
The Shirelles - Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow RIP Gerry Goffin | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1032 Registered: 10-2006 |
I'll go for The Monkees - Take a giant step | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 916 Registered: 05-2005 |
Porpoise Song or Up On The Roof | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 908 Registered: 04-2005 |
There are so many great Goffin/King songs The Byrds : Goin' Back or Wasn't Born To Follow | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3378 Registered: 03-2005 |
Agree Andrew. That's why I cringed as I read the New York Times obit for Gerry Goffin which quoted excerpts of lyrics from songs like "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?" rather than his much better work like "Goin' Back." He later wrote the lyrics to "Do You Know Where You Are Going To?" but there was no excerpt from that either. It was not an article that would make younger readers want to explore his work. Instead they'd be thinking "God, Boomers! They lionize the most banal crap from their childhoods and expect me to care!" It was virtually artistic defamation. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6747 Registered: 05-2005 |
Bruce Springsteen - Hurry Up Sundown. Apart from Radio Nowhere, this is his most blatant, and brilliant, power pop song. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1033 Registered: 10-2006 |
For the past few weeks I've been singing along to a Broos song on the radio I thought was called "Just like Tiger Woods"...which turns out to be neither a Broos song nor about golf... shame... | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 909 Registered: 04-2005 |
Randy, I love "Will You Still Love me Tomorrow"! The lyrics are certainly of its time, but that doesn't diminish its beauty in any way for me. But yes, what was remarkable was the progression to something like "Wasn't Born to Follow". There are a series of photos (by Michael Ochs) of Goffin and King in the studio at the beginning of their career that I have always loved. They look so amazingly young. An example...http://p1cdn01.thewrap.com/images/2014/0 6/goffin-and-king-obit-617x400.jpg | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 910 Registered: 04-2005 |
I've always loved Mo Tucker's version too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xak1BQKt O3Y | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3379 Registered: 03-2005 |
Andrew, I don't dislike "Tomorrow." But it's not an example of Gerry Goffin's great lyric writing. Bear in mind that the music was always written by Carole King so it's probably really her part of the song that makes it work. But by the time you get to songs like "Take a Giant Step" mentioned by Stuart or "Goin' Back" his lyrics become a very big part of what makes the songs happen. In fact, for me, "Goin' Back" is all about Goffin's lyrics. I reject the notion that bad lyrics are an inevitable part of certain eras in music, btw. Great American lyricists were working throughout most of the 20th Century, certainly long before the late 50s/early 60s. I remember noticing quite a few years ago just how good Chuck Berry's lyrics often were. Mort Shuman of the late 50's era Pomus/Shuman writing partnership respected finely crafted lyrics enough to convert Jacques Brel's lyrics into English. But some songs were written by older writers down to a perceived stupid teenage audience. That's not cool in my book. I'm not accusing Goffin of writing down to his audience. I don't think he did that. He was young himself and was just learning his craft. So please, in an obit include examples of his great work so that younger readers see a reason to explore it. The irony in this discussion is that I willfully ignored the lyrics in songs for the first couple decades of my music listening because I had so many favorites with banal lyrics that I simply adapted by tuning out the forgettable part as an automatic function. I still have many favorites from the DIY 60s that fall into this category. But it was such a well-engrained habit that I even tuned out Dylan's lyrics most of the time! (Though he was human too; he did occasionally write songs that don't reward attention.) If I'm not mistaken, it was Howard Devoto who finally induced me to pay attention to lyrics. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1034 Registered: 10-2006 |
Up on the roof is a great little lyric – it just captures a piece of American big city life that had no equivalent in my own experience, building up a whole picture of release and escape for the city worker in a few neat scenes, and shows a willingness, I imagine, in 1962, to take on a slightly unexpected subject. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 911 Registered: 04-2005 |
King Creosote - Leslie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AjpNXDp mqo One of the comments says it all : "Sometimes an accordion and a strong voice is all it takes..." | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 205 Registered: 08-2005 |
Treason - Teardrop Explodes. Ah yes... | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1036 Registered: 10-2006 |
The Smiths - Ask Today's breakfast song in the bar. Always seems like a little heads-up from the universe when the first random thing you hear is something you love. And nice to see Tallulah as Sharon Van Etten's "album to start the day" in Uncut. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6758 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Undertones - Teenage Kicks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAtUw6lxc is | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 208 Registered: 08-2005 |
A fine choice - about 4 years ago the song was dedicated to me at an Undertones gig; I was there to interview the drummer, Billy Doherty, for the cycling magazine I work on (he's a keen cyclist). The band are still fantastic live, with the original lineup minus Feargal Sharkey. And I'd forgotten just how many great songs and riffs they (largely the O'Neill brothers) had come up with. If you get the chance, do go to see them, | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 210 Registered: 08-2005 |
Burned My Fingers. Ed Kuepper. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 6762 Registered: 05-2005 |
Metallica - Enter Sandman (live at Glastonbury) | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 741 Registered: 03-2007 |
Moriarty - Julie Gold's Candy Cane Tale http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1QbNIvGE 2s |